Have your say & ask the experts

Big Chris:

Big Chris:

al7478:

Big Chris:

al7478:

Jamie Ewbank:

I've just reviewed the Blu-ray of Max Payne and it's amazingly bad. It's like watching someone conducting an experiment to see if it's possible to suck all the life out of traditionally exciting action movie staples. Huge gunfights, half-naked supermodels and howling valkyries all make appearances, and each time they're about as engaging as an accountancy seminar. I've watched documentaries on Norwegian fish farming that were more exciting.

 Credit where its due, it does sound goood, and occasionally look very good too,  but that isn't enough to save it. There's a Max Payne Review here that condenses the few good bits into a tidy three minutes.

Ill rent it soon just for the heck of it.

Indeed. "Huge gunfights and half-naked supermodels". How bad can it be?

Have you seen it yet? I forgot. Ill rent it in the next couple days and report back.

Me? Nah, not seen it yet. Day off today so may drive into Gravesend see if Blockbusters has a copy.

Well. nearly 6 weeks after my last post, we finally watched Max Payne the other night (Nothing on the box, so we checked the latest films on the BT Vision PPV. Max Payne was about the only thing there which took our fancy).

Agree with your sentiments about having all the right ingredients but combining to make a dog's dinner. Final groans came when Beau Bridges did a classic Bond, and started monologing the whole plan to Max on the way to his execution. Classic mistake Beau!!

Olga What's-er-name from Quantum Of Solace was drool-worthy and there were lots of explosions, but that's about it.


I'll stick with 'Die Hard' in future. Even as shallow as I am, I'll forego the scantily clad hotties for a bit of a story and a sprinkling of acting.

Awful isn't it? No matter how much the black polo-neck crowd sneer at action movies, films like Max Payne really do remind you how much talent it takes to make one, and how badly wrong things can go if you don't have that talent.

I cant find the "Best Film..." thread. I felt sure there was one.

 Anyway, just saw gran torino. Restored my faith a bit, especially as i was no fan of million dollar baby.

M. Night Shyamalan, and all others involved in The Happening: this is how we make a film...

Any and I mean any film with Sly Stallone, Who, I ask who, ever told that man he could act?

Rocky, all rubbish for starters.

Oh and any films by Woody Allen, drivel, absolute cods wallop

Stallone was nominated for best actor and screenplay oscars for the first Rocky, and he was entertaining in Deathrace 2000!

I really have to disagree, Woody Allen is largely a talentless uninspiring, tedious little individual who has very suspect tendencies toward female members of his own family, which is particularly disturbing in my book.I have yet to sit through one of his "Epics" and be either amused or entertained.

As for Stallone, drivel for the masses there, "Grunt, grunt, *** etc"

I haven't enjoyed a Woody Allen film for years, but he is also, reputedly, a fine jazz musician.  

I don't think bringing up his 'tendencies' is particularly helpful (and is possibly libellous) - if you don't like him or his films, fine.   On the basis of private lives, all awful lot of artists of every type were not very pleasant people, but sometimes their art transcends that.

Still, you have one thing in common with him - he never watches his own films either!

Oooooh, tricky.  It's down to two for me though...

1. Dead Rising - Which is utter clap trap but veers in to "so bad it's good" teritory now and again.  A rubbish film but you CAN enjoy it.

2. X Files: I Want To Believe.  GARBAGE, nothing remotley "xfiles" about it witha terrible script, rubbish directing, sub par acting and a hokum, uninteresting plot.

 Actually... Xfiles wins hands down....

Not sure about worst film of all time, but probably the worst film I've seen this year was Shrooms.

I didn't quite catch the end as my friend and I had begun chatting, completely forgetting we were even watching it - that's how bad it was.

hammill:

Woody Allen at his peak was the greatest talent in film making. Many regard Annie Hall as on of the best films ever made. Manahttan, Midsummer Nights Sex Comedy, Everything you ever wanted to know about sex and the hysterical Love and Death are all brilliant.

Gerrardasnails:

hammill:

Woody Allen at his peak was the greatest talent in film making. Many regard Annie Hall as on of the best films ever made. Manahttan, Midsummer Nights Sex Comedy, Everything you ever wanted to know about sex and the hysterical Love and Death are all brilliant.

Yep, agreed.

hammill:

Gerrardasnails:

hammill:

Woody Allen at his peak was the greatest talent in film making. Many regard Annie Hall as on of the best films ever made. Manahttan, Midsummer Nights Sex Comedy, Everything you ever wanted to know about sex and the hysterical Love and Death are all brilliant.

Yep, agreed.

Good man. I will add you to my mental "trustworthy opinions" list