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Yet another flop for Witherspoon. Good to see TPM dropping hard.

*shrugs* what can I say - my theatre laughed. Whether that reaction was intentional or not I don't know, but I still think that Lucas completely missed the point of Yoda in having him fight like that. I won't pretend to be SW fan, but the prequels made me appreciate the relative strengths of the originals A LOT more.

Me. Yoda should be beyond the lightsaber bullshit, that's the point of his relationship with The Force. It was a lot worse in Clones though - his duel in that was comical. Everyone just laughed.

Agreed. TPM's performance this weekend should definitely quell a few Titanic predictions around here. I think it'd very lucky to even do 40m OW.

I went into this film a while back having heard it was 'really slow'. I then realised that its critics must have attention deficit disorder, it isn't slow at all.The whole enterprise may be little more than an aesthetic experience, but boy is it an arresting one. Only Shame topped it last year for me. Carey Mulligan picks good films.

The pod racing sequence is far, far too long. It's like Lucas waited for all the tension to dissipate before bringing to an end.

Juno was terrible but I've heard this is quite good. May check it out on DVD.

Safe House still shocks me. This is what happens when you don't live in the US and have no idea what the blanket marketing is like in the fortnight prior to a film's release.

Chalk up another TDK guy here. I had been conscious of what had done well or badly a lot earlier, but that film definitely instigated a more acute interest.

I'd call anyone that pays to see 3D a bitch. Only kidding!(But not really.)

^ 7/10 = 'love it'?

Safe House's trailer was awful so the tv spots must have saved it. Good timing for Reynolds, he badly needed a hit. Clearly it was Denzel people were going to see though.

Haywire had really drab, soporific colours. Which is odd since Soderberg is normally one for good looking films.

TWIB takes the moral victory for me. Yes it stars Radcliffe, but that opening's about double (or more) of what I'd thought it'd get after seeing trailer.

The trailer was totally underwhelming, but WOM has been good. May have to check it out.

If it uses a ton of blue screen all the magic will disappear. There's a reason the look of Blade Runner is one of the most referenced in film history: it feels real.

This was one of the first film I ever saw at the cinema. As a 5 year old I loved it, of course, but I imagine the wildly uneven tone of silly humour and really rather dark aesthetics wouldn't play well to me now.

My biggest issue with this movie is that you have to assume Anakin is a complete moron to take the actions he does. And why should I care about the fate of a moron?

Flawless. The tone, pacing and acting are masterful. Even McDowell comes off well.

The problem with the prequels is summed up in the 3 way lightsaber duel. We're supposed to care about it because we know from the OT that the duels at the end are massively significant. But this isn't. It's 2 personality-vacuum Jedis fighting some guy they never met before (and we know next to nothing about ourselves) just because he's a Sith. He could be any bad guy, it diesnt matter. Lucas doesn't even try to earn any drama. Any tension is derived (and then squandered) because of OT prior knowledge. There's no build up whatsoever, like all the prequels it's just another thing happening in the middle of a bunch of boring things happening. Why Lucas thought the character of qui gon jin was a good idea is anyone's guess.

Disagree totally. A film as atmospheric as Seven never gets old.I think Fincher gets the respect he deserves. He isn't talked of in the same terms as Nolan or Cameron because he's yet to make a film that has massively exploded at the box office. And he isn't infallible - I still need to watch Ben Button but trusted friends say it's pretty bad.

Old. I still Seven is his best film.

The underwhelming villain didn't bother me per se, but it was a bit silly that after beating up dozens of guys without breaking a sweat Hunt suddenly met his match with a middle-aged diplomat in the parking lot.

Finally saw this at the IMAX yesterday. A hell of a lot of fun, and the Dubai scenes looked great on the format. I liked the way the film didn't pretend to be anything more than set piece after set piece.That said, it was 20 minutes too long - you can't have a pace that frantic and be over two hours. The villain was utterly forgettable and the nuclear bomb plot was derivative even by Bond standards. Renner's okay, but I'm not sure why he's the next action hero. He was fine in this but I wouldn't have given him a second thought otherwise.4/5

I've watched this movie twice and failed to really like it. There's something about Hughes' direction that's way too stylised for what should be a silly, fun story.