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A program about Great White Sharks on BBC 2 right now....bye

No, seriously, i admit the first one was MUCH fun. EXCELLENT pop-corn cinema kinda flick. But the 2nd one is immensely forgettable.

Actually, I felt there were a few storytelling decisions that were missed opportunities myself.

The current approach of watching Benjamin's life float by in music-and-voiceover driven montages suits a performance of the calibre Pitt gives, but if they'd wanted to suggest something of the (mostly unshown) inner life of Button, they needed a much stronger performer at the centre.

It does feel like for 3 hours of time that there should have been more of that inner life. To me, not enough was added by having Daisy's character reflect from the perspective 2005 that demanded devoting so much screentime to that story strand. I would have stripped away the 2005 hospital room sequence, told the story either linearly or from the perspective of Benjamin as a (mentally) old man in a young boy's body, and found another way to motivate the narration (which is too much the easy kind of narration at the moment - narrative summary) and show the ultimate fate of the clock.

Also, for a film with this one's epic scale and budget, there should have been one major ballet setpiece with Daisy before a Parisian crowd at the height of her fame.

One directorial touch I thought was a bit much: the sound of crows as Benjamin and Daisy search the house in the lead-up to the reveal of **** the death of a character. ****** A bit on the nose for me. I knew what was coming the moment I heard the first crow.

^ I've been wanting to see that, but never actually got to do so. Thanks for the review but please, tell me something know; is it a torture porn kind of flick? 'Cause i absolutely hate those and definitely don't want to watch something like that, the thought that it might actually be such, is what kept me away from it.

THE EDGE OF LOVE

A Greatly passionate and realistic tale of growing up, loosing your childhood innocence, maturing and facing life portrayed through the world war II England and Wales. Amazing photography and strong acting make that a very well-shot and paced movie about life i whole-heartedly agree. In many ways it reminded me of Atonement, only THE EDGE OF LOVE was dressed in a way more romantic veil of nostalgia and sprinkled the odor of past eras.

The music of Badalamenti finds him at his most mature and down to earth mode to date, deeply romantic and emotional.

Recommended.

Some gruesome scenes to be honest, but IMO are totally justified (for the purposes of the film). I mean, it´s not like Hostel (or Saw, etc), where the only goal is to watch the torture of the characters. It´s what the film requires and it never goes too far. You really care about the characters, so no need to go over the top.

Never heard of it but it sounds like my kind of film.

I'll check it out.

Yeah, I guess I can just about handle ol' lollipop head.

Thanks! I wanted to check this out because I liked Kelly Reilly in L'Auberge Espagnole but wasn't too sure if this was going to be gory.

Probably later than most people here I eventually got around to watching Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

I did see it on my flight back from Malta earlier in the year as it was the movie playing on the overhead screens. But I only saw bits and pieces - and I didn't fork out the £4.00 for the crappy headphones so I didn't even hear any dialogue.

Seeing it in the comfort of my own home didn't really improve the experience much. I thought that it was a pretty poor effort; for me, the poorest of the 4 movies. For large periods of time it didn't feel like an Indiana Jones movie: there was plenty going on but it just didn't seem to have the youthful essence that the previous 3 films had. And all the fight scenes just went on and on and on.

One of the comments my other (better?) half mentioned was that she could take the subject matter of E.T.s just as much as the Ark of the Covenant, etc but when it came to the "supernatural" episodes with the monkeys and ants...well, that was just daft.

Luckily I only paid £20 for this and the other Indy 3 movies.

I can barely remember it? Walken is some kind of avenging angel ( the supernatural kind ) in a direct to DVD release, I vaguely remember enjoying it for what it was.

THE MAKING OF INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL.

I was amazed. really amazed.

I thought a lot of things was CGI and they was real!!!!

The Area 51 doors, the truck collisioning with the boxes, the snake from the "snake pit" scene, the hat in the Antz scene, a lot of the jungle chase scene.... They are all real!!! why Kaminsly did with the cinomatography to make this real things looks like CGI!

Anyway, I was surprised because Ford did a lot, and I mean A LOT of his stunts.

About the movie??? You know, It's always a very entertaining movie. And there are two movies here : a really, really good one. And a really , really bad one. But It's indiana Jones in the times of Pirates of Carribeean generation.

My Top Indy Movies:
1-The Last Crusade
2-Raider of the lost Ark
3-Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
4-Temple of the Doom ( The final 40 minuts of sublime action, can't solve the annoying parts with "willie" )

I would put them in this order....

1) Raiders of The Lost Ark

2) The Last Crusade ( definitely the most fun )

3) Temple of Doom



































4) Kingdom of The Crystal Skull

I couldn't have said it any better

Stop using nothing!

Lame is pretty much the word that comes to mind when i think of the IRON MAN score indeed. Spot-on.