This is the best film I've seen this year. I don't usually rate Colin Farrell but he's really good at this. If you like a bit of black comedy then you'll love this.
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The 'motion capture' is utterly pointless. Why not just use the actors as usual; you've filmed them anyway! It just proves a distraction in what is a very dull film. The miscasting and modern dialect ensure that the film comes over as a complete mess.
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28 Days Later was a great film and was a cute reminder of how basic we could be; Creme De Menthe and candles, Budgens booze counter, say no more. As for the film, great! To film London deserted was a feat in itself. The storyline was conventional (zombies/virus), but the way it was portrayed was exceptional. As for 28 Weeks Later, well, it was definitely a follow-on, but with it's own twist. The ending being the destruction of Europe by those saved at all costs was good. Will we see a third film..? Watch this space.
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Wo put the Egyptian temple on the beach in front of the so called city of Troy? And who got the such stupid idea to put belly dancers in Sparta????? seeing such stuff i turn off the movie... Realy silly movie. The director of that movie must have been on lsd all the time...
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LOVED THE CINEMA VERSION ,BOUGHT THE DVD AND THEN LATER FOUND (only at
amazon)THE 4 DISC VERSION , WHICH BECOMES IN THE 2ND HALF OF THE FILM
(second dvd )a totally different film with a personage i won't reveal -
not to be seen in the other versions,MUCH MORE ENTERTAINING WHEN YOU LOVE
THIS KIND OF FILMS LIKE I DO,BEST VERSION OFF ALL AND NOT SO PREDICTABLE
AS THE CINEMA VERSION , WELL WORTH THE MONEY !!
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Even before I viewed this film I sensed that the representation of the reason for the Crusades would likely be distorted. My suspicions were proved correct right from the outset. The viewer is quickly led to believe that the Crusaders seized Jerusalem. In fact they had re-captured the city from Islamic conquest. As expected too, the Crusaders including the Christian religion are presented in a totally negative light. Saladin is portrayed as benevolent, magnanimous and religiously pure. Of course, the Crusading hero is neither religious or politically minded. His attitude enables him to misguidedly define the earthly Jerusalem as the 'kingdom of heaven' thus leaving the viewer with that impression too. Nowhere in the bible is the city described in this way.
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Breakfast On Pluto is a heart-warming, heart-string-tugging, intelligent and funny film.
Despite it being a bit slow in parts (the reason for which I didn't give it 5*s) it follows the life and happenings of Patrick 'Kitten' Brady, a loveable character portrayed by the even more loveable Cillian Murphy.
Who would ever have thought he could play a 'woman' so well!?!
4/5 stars; 9/10!
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Martin Cahill was a real person. He didn't drink or smoke, had a loving if unconventional family life with his wife, her sister and their kids, didn't womanize. He also was clever, funny, charismatic, ruthless, and, up until the end, a successful Dublin criminal. He didn't see his crimes as vice, just as an occupation. In addition to hundreds of burglaries and thefts beginning when he was scarcely a teen, he was smart enough to pull off two immense robberies, the first involving a large number of gold bars and jewels, the other of extremely valuable paintings. He wound up on the bad side of the cops, of the IRA, of the Unionists and even of one of his gang members.
John Boorman has written and directed a fascinating life of Martin Cahill, and in Brendan Gleeson he found an actor ... Read More:
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Being a Noggin the Nog fan at 6, I naturally warmed to the Beowulf saga as a teen. Plus I enjoyed John Gardner's 'Grendel' novel as a student, where the Beowulf story is retold from Grendel's perspective: "His mother is totally incommunicative. In fact, his only real friends are the Danes he kills. Still, he knows he is dependent on Hrothgar's survival. If I murdered the last of the Scyldings, he muses, what would I live for?".
When I found out the writer of the book 'Stardust' was helping to produce two movies, 'Stardust' and 'Beowulf', I knew I had to see them at the cinema. I took my son (11) to see both ('Stardust' was great). However, although my son enjoyed the film (well the two main action bits anyway), I did feel Beowulf was rather violent for just a 12 rating - this is one ... Read More:
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