The Shawshank Redemption was a good film. same director (Frank Dara-something) that done The Green Mile, a great film. the 1st time i seen any of TGM was only from half way through, and i still pronounced it the best film i'd ever seen.

it's probably still up there.

Finally got round to watching 'Cypher'. Great film, lots of twists and turns that felt natural to the plot. Reminded me a little of 'Gattaca' in places. Totally different film but coming from the same train of thought.

Now for 'The Warriors' I saw bits of this a while back but didn't take much notice of it (I think I was flicking between two different channels at the time).

I generally don't like British films as most of them fall under either the romatic comedy (almost always starring Hugh Grant), or the typical laaandan gangster drivel. Occasionally, the odd film will appear like Dog Soldiers, 28 Days and Shaun Of The Dead and break the mould. Don't know whether this is down to smaller budgets and having to appeal to the mainstream to recuperate expendeture, but it is a shame there aren't more films with a bit of an edge to them.

Watched 'The Warriors' last night and it was really good. No reliance of super-duper special effects. Simple plot premise with lots of characterisation (you really root for the protagonists...even if they're not exactly on the right side of the law). Locations were all captured well on film and I reckon it still stands up to more modern films.

I'm also looking forward to seeing how 'Rockstar' turn it into a game. I can see great potential but at the same time they could easily fluff it up and turn it into a second outing for 'Manhunt' which was quite average.

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My mum dragged me along to see that with her.... Seriousely Orph... Its sucks

I genuinely enjoyed it..

Bagged me the first season of Millenium today so that'll keep me busy for a few weeks I kinda lost touch with the series after season 1 as British TV has a habit of fluffling up the schedules and it ended up being shown at something ridiculous like 3am.

Second season is out soon so I thought i'd better bring myself back up to speed!

I'm surprised to see that I made not comment on Collateral throughout the course of this thread. Really great movie, definitely one of my favorites from the summer. Favorite non-comedy easily and I've found myself recommending it to everyone.

Another thing I feel like mentioning is the local newspaper film critic seemed to really let loose with his standards this summer. There were far too many four star reviews. It seemed like every other movie that wasn't intrinsically terrible got a four star. The summer movies weren't that good.