It felt like it didn't know whether to be a "Starsky and Hutch"/ "Anchorman" 70s satire (however awkward and not-all-that-funny), a "Goodfellas" /"Casino" drama (nowhere near) or a Boogie Nights/Argo almost historical indie flick (nah).

The characters (especially Christian Bale's) were dull and one-tone. The storyline relied on one big twist which wasn't all that big and fairly well foreshadowed for the slow ones in the audience (they're all conmen after all *wink*). Jennifer Lawrence is well fit but she was acting a character as if she'd seen someone else act that character and wanted to do it like them. The dialogue was pretty dumbed down.

Overall pretty comprehensively overrated by the media.

The best bit was De Niro being a bad ass, but his character did not mesh AT ALL with the tone of the rest of the film, indeed it's as if they filmed the De Niro scene and thought, [LIFTED] guys we should have made the whole film like this, that was gold. But nah, it's pretty naff.

The trailer for American hustle didn't seem to provide much information. It flashes each character and then shows them dancing or something. I had to google what the hell it was about.

Yeah, plays rather more on 'look how hot our cast are!' than 'this is a great film you should want to see!'. Which, unless it's a porn movie, is never a good sign.

Seven Psychopaths - Just wasn't as funny as I thought it would be, gave up halfway through . In Bruges from pretty much the same team has more laughs.

I'm going to Bruges in March. Might watch In Bruges while I'm there lol

In Bruges and indeed Bruges itself are both really very good.
I also quite enjoyed Seven Psychopaths - certainly nothing in it that would want me to turn it off half way through.
Ernie, you must've seen worse films all the way through, so why turn this one off and not those? (8+\

Mark

At the moment I've got both Lovefilm and Netflix, plus iPlayer. If it's not cutting it for me I'm likely to move onto something else, even if it's a TV series. I've watched a silly amount of complete TV runs recently

This. But so much more as well.
I don't work in a photographic based job. I don't normally dream of what other job I might otherwise be doing.
I do appreciate a really good film, told intelligently, with beautiful cinematography.
This film spoke to me on so many different levels.

Mark

I'll admit it really affected me for the rest of the day. Caught the first showing of the day, with a friend who'd just come home from working in Lapland for the winter and was about to leave to train huskeys in Austria for a month.
And yeah, it's beautifully shot. Lovely film. Best I've seen in the last 12 months I think.

In Time - It's well made but I really hated the central concept! Money has been replaced by time and you've got a countdown on your wrist, once you hit 25 you've only got a year left. You work or whatever to top up your clock. This results in endless scenes of people looking at their wrist, touching each others' wrists... Not for me.

12 Years a Slave.

Forgive its slowness, this is the best film I've seen in a long time.

9/10

It suffers in places from being too familiar, but this was on the whole a beautiful film.

The next one I want to see at the cinema.

Mark

I was meant to go and see it today, but it's a film I think I'm going to have to be in the right mood for, and with the right people.
These people aren't the people who didn't like Gravity because "there wasn't enough explosions and stuff."

I think the last time I went to the pictures with someone was last summer. Before then? No idea.
If you wanna see a film, it doesn't have to be with others.
Just saying.

Mark

I regret not going to see Thor 2 in that sense, though I've gone on my own before.