Look if you are looking up this movie chances are you know what you like and that is plenty of gore, sometimes a small plot and lots or set peices. Well the thai film industry rarely fails to deliver these points and this movie is no different. This is a shocking movie with many moments that have to be seen to be beleived but thats what you want is just by looking at the cover you havent closed the page. So for a good time with one of the best horror movies of the last 5 years then just buy it now.
This is definitely not one for the kids. Meat Grinder is about is a female psychopath who grinds her victims into meatballs for noodle soup and eventually eats them.
This is an intense cult Asian horror film. The woman goes about her killing spree with such resolve that he story becomes more alarming. Since this basically a torture movie, the storytelling and tone is impossible to define, but completely watchable.
FAB
No complaints here true horror at its best. Filmed in its true glory of special effects gory and bloody. At times a little too over the top. Story line is simple but puts together a good film.Looking for bodies couldnt have got any better and soon everyone is a victim! A film not to be missed and unlike some films you cant depict the ending. Filmed and directed in Thailand makes this a watchable film at its very best!
A Brilliant Horror Movie
I watched from the perspective of a 40 something dad with a 16 year old daughter and believe any parent struggling to encourage their daughter to revise for GCSEs or A levels should let them watch An Education. An insightful look at what might happen if a seemingly perfect 30 something man was to fall in love with a 16 year old girl. Great film.
a great film with great special effects bringing to life a bit of chinas history which brought some peoples rating of this film down but its still a good film
great special effects but losing some of the magic
this film has everything fast action bullets flying hookers dirty politicians and jokes all coming together with a great cast to make a great film
brilliant fast action film
With echoes of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Mrs Lovett's pies anyone?), this film is set up for stomach churning scenes which will make you think twice before eating your next meal.
That said, its compelling storyline and intelligent dialogue makes it a movie well worth seeing if you can move above the squeamish inducing plotline. It raises the question of what happens when right and wrong blurr together and how someone who isn't sure of each would cope when faced with the decision to cross a line they can't see. This is the story of someone trying to make a living and unable to stop when the ball of success starts rolling.
(Just don't eat whilst watching it!)
This is horror at it's best, similar storyline to Sweeney Todd in that people are murdered and put in food. A bizarre story which puts you off noodle soup. A woman finds a man who is dying and decides to finish him off and put him in her noodle soup, it is a hit on her stall and you can guess what happens from there on. Very gruesome and uncut on dvd
I differ completely to the other review. I can't claim to be a Dahl addict, but did enjoy the books as a child. The film is quite charming, the animation style is unique and although they have played with Dahl's world it still has a very quirky, endearing feel to it. Saw it in the cinema and thoroughly enjoyed it. It could well be a bit of a Marmite film, you either get it and love it or you look at the odd animation and poetic license with the book and hate it!
There are the occasional films that get panned by critics and bomb at the cinema which i really like. The Chronicles of Riddick for example. I really enjoyed that movie and was dissapointed that a 3rd was not going to be made. The Bounty Hunter though is basically rubbish.
The plot is a typical rom com set up. Gerrard Bulter is an ex cop who is now a bounty hunter. Jeniffer Aniston is a reporter who skips bail. Guess who has to catch her.... and bring her butt back to jail? The premise has the potential for a few standard laughs but somewhere in the writing process the funny set pieces or lines for that matter got left out. The 'jokes' are so forced and predictable you end up with a bruised head from all the face palm moments. An example of the film trying too hard is a joke about a sex change. Not funny and totally pointless and has no relevance.
Along the way you get the 'ja ja binks' character played by Jason Sudelkis. By no way is this a compliment but he was the only character that made me smirk. He plays a reporter slightly obsessed with J Anniston because they made out once. (yawn)
Is there anything funny about this movie or anything i can recommend?
Short answer: NO
From the rubbish jokes to the terrible script. The wooden acting to Gerrard Butlers stupid american accent (why Leonidis why?) this film is utter poop and should never be watched.
I can not recommend anything about this film. Quite frankly the worst film i have seen this year.
First off there is a lot of reasons not to like this movie, but somehow wedged between the plot holes and wooden acting is an above average popcorn action flick.
The plot is all about God giving up on Humans and sending his angels down to exterminate us. One angel amongst his Legion (see what i did there) does not agree with the man upstairs and decides to defend mankind. This is played in the form of Michael ( Paul Bettany - the Da Vinci code) as a rogue angel who cuts off his wings and makes an entrance not to dissimilar to Kyle Reese in the Terminator. So far, so good. Then the film takes us to a road diner where the mother of the saviour of mankind is a waitress. Things start going wrong when a granny goes bananas and crawls over the ceiling being shot at. From here the cast get picked off one by one by the possessed humans try to take out the diner and its inhabitants.
The plot is so thin and not a lot is explained. This is a shame because the subject matter to me is intriguing ( being an avid fan of Supernatural the TV series) and with a little more depth could of been something special.
So what you get is a dumb action movie that will mildly excite but frustrate you more due to the unanswered questions and stupid plot holes.
A shame really
So a movie about God giving up on us.....
Some people would call 'True Blood' the anti-'Twilight' - at the heart, there's a love story between a human and a vampire, but this certainly isn't a show for younger viewers like 'Twilight' often is.
Based on The Southern Vampire Mysteries books by Charlaine Harris (again, another similarity to 'Twilight' and the books by Stephenie Meyer), 'True Blood' has the benefit of being a weekly show that is able to develop deep character relationships. Also, with it airing on cable in the US, it is free to push the boundaries - more skin, more sex, and more blood than you would ever expect. And Season 2 raises the bar in that aspect in every way possible.
This second season kicks into a higher gear, thrusting the town of Bon Temps deeper into the world of vampires and monsters. Sookie Stackhouse (played tone-perfect by Anna Paquin) struggles to cope with everything that unfolds around her - from her relationship with Bill (Stephen Moyer), her friendship with her mysterious boss Sam (Sam Trammell), and her brother Jason (Ryan Kwanten) who goes off the rails. Each character has their own conflicts which all come together to make 'True Blood' one of the must-see shows in recent years.
Eric (Alexander Skarsgård) gets a bigger role, as well as new characters being introduced like the main villain Maryann (Michelle Forbes) who aims to turn Bon Temps into a disgusting and dirty hedonistic town to serve her own needs. She is the driving force through this season, and certainly makes it a show that you don't want to show your children! So if they are into 'Twilight' and think they may like this, I would certainly suggest this isn't appropriate for younger vampire fans, and they would be better off trying 'The Vampire Diaries.'
Overall, the second season of 'True Blood' is even better than the first. The characters really hit their stride, and there is a much more gripping storyline this time around. I certainly recommend this to anyone who enjoys a succint 13 episode season show, rather than the typical 22 episodes of some others. 'True Blood' never falters, and always leaves you wanting more. It is smartly written - in some places hilarious, and in others heartbreaking. Not many shows get that balance right, but this is one of them.
A telepathic waitress struggles to juggle her normal life with her love for a vampire.
If you like the Die Hard films then you'll love this one. Clyde appears to be your average family guy but takes revenge on everyone involved in the murder case of his wife and daughter. Plenty of action, a few explosions and a handfull of deaths should keep you engaged even if the plot is a little predictable.
Clyde appears on the surface to be a normal, caring family man but when a killer slaughters his family he decides to take revenge his past experience helps him achieve a complex plan in the most grusome way.
This Life is a series that I unfortunately missed first time around. As a recent convert I was pleasantly surprised to see just how relevant this 14 year old drama is today. It is clear that the situations and dramas that unfold were intended to provide some sort of shock value to a society that was just beginning to understand certain aspects of British sub-culture. Trailblazing through issues that were taboo back then such as drugs, repressed homosexuality, casual sex and cottaging allowed this series a place as a cult favourite. Watching it in today's context allows us a fresh look at the trials and tribulations faced by those pushing past their twenties and into their thirties dealing with subversive issues that were becoming more and more prevalent in an unforgiving world.
A raw, gritty look at the ups and downs of young lawyers in the 90's breaks barriers at a time when it wasn't quite so fashionable to do so and brought us such talent as Andrew Lincoln (Teachers, Love Actually) and Jack Devenport (Coupling, Pirates of the Carribean). A wonderful show that was well before it's time.
Providing a message of hope in a hopeless, and savage post-apocalyptic world, Eli is a man on a quest, not seeking answers but ironically, he is seeking to provide an answer or message, of possible salvation. He walks alone and lives by his principles without compromise. The taciturn Eli holds life dear yet conversely, with no other option he takes same in an almost Zen-like way as of a peaceful warrior. The twist at the end is ironic and eye-opening. Well worth more than one viewing.
Daybreakers combines explosive action, blood and gore at a high level and a fantastic story into one action packed sci fi thriller. A strong cast each delivering great performances makes Daybreakers the one to watch!
Daybreakers combines explosive action, blood and gore at a high level and a fantastic story into one action packed sci fi thriller. A strong cast each delivering great performances makes Daybreakers the one to watch
In the pantheon of great directors, a certain few would come to dominate the decade in which their finest work was released. In the seventies, it was Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorcese; the fifties had a triumvirate composed of Akira Kurosawa, Billy Wilder and Alfred Hitchcock. But one director dominated a decade like none other before or since; Frank Capra in the thirties. Starting with It Happened One Night in 1934, Capra released a string of subsequent masterpieces which not only found financial and critical success with the theater going public, but also garnered the accolades accorded to films of such quality. No director has ever matched Capra in regards to Academy Awards given to so many films in such a short span of time. It Happened One Night received statues for Best Actor, Actress, Writing, Director and Picture, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town from 1936, won Capra another Best Director Oscar. 1937's Lost Horizon took home Oscars for Best Art Direction and Film Editing. Once again, the following year, he was rewarded for the film I'm reviewing here; You Can't Take It with You with honors for both Best Director and Picture. That's three Best Director awards in just five years, a feat that has never been even remotely challenged in the eighty plus years of Oscar history. Oh, and to top it off, his next film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington would win for Best Writing in 1939, a feat that defies description when you think of the plethora of outstanding films that were released in Hollywood's greatest year.
Mired in the Great Depression, movie fans were looking to Hollywood for the escapist, optimistic and good natured kind of films that would help them to forget their personal woes. And nothing fit that bill greater than You Can't Take It with You. Based upon a very successful Broadway play by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart, the film introduces us to what appears to be a very odd and eccentric group of individuals; the Vanderhof clan. Their home, located in Manhattan, is a sort of sanctuary in the middle of the money mad metropolis, where the inhabitants are free to pursue what ever personal dreams they desire. As the world around them frets upon finding financial fortune, they live by the most simple of means. The patriarch of this family is Grandpa (Lionel Barrymore), a septuagenarian who we learn during the course of the film, was a stock broker in his youth, but who turned his back on this most pressure laden profession when he realized that life was passing him by. He holds court, so to speak, over an array of amateur artisans whom he has also instilled in, a desire for individualism. His daughter Penny (Spring Byington) is a writer of mystery novels and also paints. Her husband Paul (Samuel S. Hinds) makes fireworks in the basement with Mr. DePinna (Halliwell Hobbes), an iceman who made a delivery five years earlier and never left, when he found personal freedom at the Vanderhof house.
Penny and Paul have two daughters; Essie (Anne Miller) wants to be a ballerina, but she's not very talented or coordinated. Her true talent is baking sweets, be it candy or cookies. She is married to Ed (Dub Taylor), an ex-college football player who plays the xylophone and helps to distribute his wife's delicious delectables on the street. Her sister Alice (Jean Arthur) is probably the sanest appearing character in the film. But because Alice straddles the fence between the Vanderhof haven and the business world; she is the one who will find her life's course in disarray during the film. Alice is the secretary of Tony Kirby (James Stewart), the son of wealthy financial magnate A.P. Kirby (Edward Arnold). A.P. Kirby is a man always on the move, and that movement is always up. Up to the top of the financial world, up to the precipice of political power and up as a leader of community cultural caretaking. He's attained this prominent powerful position by being ruthless and aggressive in his actions. And anyone who stands in his way is either destroyed or left quivering in his wake.
The Kirbys move amongst the finest families in New York society and to uphold their prominent stature, they desire their son to marry a girl who also has their proper societal standing. But Tony loves Alice, and when the two polar opposite families come into contact; a maelstrom of madcap misadventures ensues. It is through this juxtaposition of two divergent personal philosophies that the message of the film rings loud and clear. A. P. Kirby's pursuit of all that power comes with a hefty price tag; he is dyspeptic, has no close friends and is surrounded by yes men who only feed upon A. P.'s table scraps, in hopes of riding his wave of success. Tony wants to marry Alice, but Alice is hesitant. She knows that she and her family don't move in the same circles as his family. And to that end, she wants to make sure that Tony's family will accept not only her, but her family too. They decide to invite Tony's parents to dinner at the Vanderhof home so that the two families can get acquainted. But Tony knows that with a set day and time, the Vanderhofs will probably be reserved and restrained in their personal eccentricities in hopes of putting on a favorable front for his parents. He decides to throw a monkey wrench into the mix by arriving a day earlier, when they are not expected, hoping to show his parents the true nature of Alice's family. But the plan backfires literally when the stodgy Mrs. Kirby (Mary Forbes) is aghast at what appears to be the insane level of absurdity permeating the home and A.P. is body slammed to the floor by Essie's Russian dance instructor Kolenkhov (Mischa Auer). As they are about to remove themselves from what they deem is a nuthouse, all Hell breaks loose when the hoard of fireworks in the cellar are set off by an unguarded flame. As the rockets and firecrackers erupt through the neighborhood, the police arrive and arrest everyone in the house.
While awaiting their appearance before a judge in night court, it is revealed to both Grandpa and A. P., that Grandpa is the lone holdout of a real estate grab by Kirby to purchase all the homes in the Vanderhof's neighborhood. By securing this neighborhood, Kirby will destroy his main competitor in the armaments industry and corner the market in military contracts. When Kirby accuses Grandpa of using Alice to woo Tony in the hopes of getting a higher price for his home, Grandpa unleashes a torrent of verbal abuse in his direction. His words cut deep into the fabric of Kirby's façade and sets a seed of disillusion in A. P.'s mind. That seed will sprout into a mighty tree of humility when both families appear before the judge in the following scene. On one side are the Kirbys with their amalgam of attorneys who quickly get their patron's verdict set aside when Grandpa, for Alice's sake, admits that Kirby was only at his home to discuss the possible sale of his home. On the other side are the Vanderhof clan, who are represented by Grandpa, but are supported by a crammed courtroom gallery of neighborhood friends. When the judge imparts a hefty fine to Grandpa for making fireworks without a license, Kirby offers to pay the penalty for him. But in a groundswell of fraternal support, the friends in the gallery consternate Kirby for his grandiose gesture and they pass a hat around to collect the fine. Realizing that Grandpa's personal philosophy has a reward which cannot be factored in financial terms, A. P. has an epiphany. A man is wealthier when his fortune is flushed with friends as opposed to an isolated and lonely mountain of monetary wealth.
I've read many reviews of this film over the years and the gist of many of those readings has pigeonholed this film as an antiquated and anachronistic offering, that didn't deserve its Best Picture award. Oh how wrong all those people are! From beginning to end, Capra has taken a brilliant philosophical play and forged a mighty film that unequivocally extols all the virtues that make a human being's life so important. Its message transcends time as every bit of wisdom imparted throughout the course of the film, could be transported directly to the modern day woes of a beleaguered society that is drowning in its depressed financial situation. Sure, it's a film that appears naïve and overly optimistic, but if you can see your way through what appears to be a sea of syrupy sentimentalism, you'll be rewarded with a film that makes you feel good in the end. And that is what films and filmmaking should always be about; a hopeful and escapist form of storytelling. Give this outstanding film a chance; you'll can only better yourself personally if its message sets it seed in your mind too.
great dvds a must have to anyones collection
This movie, from the pen of David Baddiel, is best described as an interfaith body swap buddy movie.
With moments reminiscent of the movies Big and Vice Versa we find Muslim cabbie (Omid Djalili) 'awakening' to find a new Jewish self looking back at him in the mirror. With an 'oy' and a 'vey', an incredible rubber face and a few hats, Djalili manages the interfaith transformation effortlessly - think American Werewolf in London meets Fiddler on the Roof.
Where this movie excels is the great pairing of Djalili and Richard Schiff . Schiff plays the Jewish best buddy and mentor and together they deliver some great lines and brilliant observations that will have you snorting into your popcorn. It tackles the Israeli 'elephant in the room' head-on but ultimately it doesn't aim to preach a message but simply rewards with some great laughs. Highly recommended.
If you are a supernatural fan, this is the best season yet, it gets back to the original with the two brothers fighting anything supernatural they come across, the back story is still extremely good as sam and dean try to fight their destiny. Original characters are back like jo and ellen and bobby makes his best performace yet. They could charge three times the price and it would still be worth every penny.
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