Paul

[Sydney_Bristow]

Yeah, sad film starring Susan Sarandon. I remember it.

[TheOnes]

Ahhh. Showing my youth there a bit. Thanks Beate and Syd, I'll seek it out. Although kinda weird to include it in a comedy. Meh

[kevinknapman]

Saw this at the Odeon West End too. Not as busy as I thought it would be and as I expected an undersubscribed press screening.

I quite enjoyed this. Not as good as the Pegg/Frost/Wright films and it could have been a lot funnier. There was also a tendency to fall back on crude humour a little too readily. Despite that it stays watchable thanks to Paul himself (well-voiced by Seth Rogen) as before his arrival it was a tiny bit flat. His introduction gives the film the energy and fun it needs. The Pegg and Frost characters were a little underdeveloped but amiable enough. The supporting cast of US comedians are pretty good too, especially Kristen Wiig as Pegg's love interest.

Some nice genre movie references (including a priceless Steven Spielberg voice cameo) and not nearly as many stolen quotes from other movies as has been suggested elsewhere (I thought Blythe Danner's Aliens line was very amusing actually).

So not a great movie and not the laugh riot I would have hoped for but definitely worth a watch.

[TheOnes]

I quite enjoyed this. Not as good as the Pegg/Frost/Wright films and it could have been a lot funnier. There was also a tendency to fall back on crude humour a little too readily.

I would agree but the character's also felt a bit uncomfortable with that aswell. Especially when Paul mention's she's going overboard with it at times. So it was a nice nudge to the audience saying: "Yeah we know", which i thought made it not detract as it would normally do

[prettyxcool]

I was there this morning too, thanks to andrews. Not a UFO hunter but I do like Sci Fi.

I arrived at Odeon West End to be greeted by two security guards at the door and asked, "Are you press?". "No, I have a ticket." "Straight up the stairs, screen 1" No one checked my ticket. So I needn't have bothered printing it (I had run out of ink) and wasting my paper!

What a grotty screening room, the panel in front of my seat was threadbare presumably years of damage by people putting their feet on it! A couple was immediately told off by a very assertive woman behind me for putting their feet up. But then she proceeded to kick my seat at the beginning of the film! I turned to my right to see who was doing it, as it was really annoying and the row was empty except her to the left of my seat. I had to think whether to confront her, and when it started again I looked round to my right directly at her but did not say anything. The rest of the film was fine until a large woman, arriving late, sat right next to me, and started to giggle and laugh, and the whole row of seats shook. In a half empty cinema, oh why oh why?

Anyway, I liked the film. It kept my interest and there were some funny bits. 7/10

[valda]

I was there this morning too, thanks to andrews. Not a UFO hunter but I do like Sci Fi.

I arrived at Odeon West End to be greeted by two security guards at the door and asked, "Are you press?". "No, I have a ticket." "Straight up the stairs, screen 1" No one checked my ticket. So I needn't have bothered printing it (I had run out of ink) and wasting my paper!

What a grotty screening room, the panel in front of my seat was threadbare presumably years of damage by people putting their feet on it! A couple was immediately told off by a very assertive woman behind me for putting their feet up. But then she proceeded to kick my seat at the beginning of the film! I turned to my right to see who was doing it, as it was really annoying and the row was empty except her to the left of my seat. I had to think whether to confront her, and when it started again I looked round to my right directly at her but did not say anything. The rest of the film was fine until a large woman, arriving late, sat right next to me, and started to giggle and laugh, and the whole row of seats shook. In a half empty cinema, oh why oh why?

Anyway, I liked the film. It kept my interest and there were some funny bits. 7/10

hehe that was like the man next to me for The Fighter, totally ruined it by his laughing (at what?) and shaking the row

[TheDude]

Well after staying up very late to watch the Super Bowl last night, I only had few hours of sleep, so was bound to be seeing aliens one way or another this morning...

Did the zombie shuffle into the cinema just after 10, to be sternly directed away from coffee and pastries for the press, and straight up to screen 1.

So, a handful of press people and a lot of empty seats then! Anyway... I loved the film. From that opening sequence at the comic-con (with "Another Girl Another Planet" playing in the background!) to the closing credits, I was grinning from ear to ear. Simon Pegg is kind of hit and miss for me, but this was definitely a hit. Near-perfect sci-fi road trip action comedy, excellent cast (including Sigourney Weaver, when she eventually appears) and lines you will want to quote back to your friends again and again.

So I think I'll have to see it again when it comes out, if only to look at the little details in the background... like when they're walking down the street in that little town, there's a cinema behind them - it's showing Spielberg's "Duel"! Great stuff.

Overall then... EXCELLENT, in capital letters!

[prettyxcool]

I tried to get the free coffee and pastries too went up to the table, told the woman I was there for the screening, and was promptly told to go up stairs to screen 1. I tried!

[TheDude]

It's not like they were gonna run out of coffee! I was interested in flicking through the production notes, but no, couldn't have those either...

[prettyxcool]

Overhead the assertive lady behind saying they had run out of notes...