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Title: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on June 01, 2009, 03:27:42 AM
I recently saw both Drag Me To Hell and Up (back to back) and they are both great.

Drag Me to Hell is exactly what you want from a horror movie: entertainment. There are some jumpy parts, but there is nothing in there that will haunt your dreams. I really have only one complaint with the movie, but otherwise it was overall funny, scary, and entertaining. A perfect date movie.

8/10

Up is fantastic. Everything about it; from the art direction, scripting, and animation is well done and sophisticated. I found myself laughing out loud more than a couple times. And likewise, I found myself moved more than a couple times. It's a great story.

10/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on June 01, 2009, 05:35:41 AM
12 Rounds. I knew when i saw that when it was produced by WWE Studios i knew this was going to be a train wreck. Massive plot holes, highly episodic (meaning the events that happen right before mean almost nothing), and there was almost no humour at all.

EDIT: And the director seemed to have a fetish with car crashes. I counted at least a dozen!

3/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on June 01, 2009, 05:53:43 AM
star trek 8.75/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on June 01, 2009, 05:57:54 AM
You could do better than that.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on June 01, 2009, 09:47:53 AM
Terminator Salvation 8.5/10
I'm sure the extended, unrated Blu Ray version will get a 10/10.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on June 01, 2009, 10:29:31 AM
Terminator Salvation 8.5/10
I'm sure the extended, unrated Blu Ray version will get a 10/10.

I'd rate it about the same. Besides a few throwback one-liners from the previous films, there was nothing cheesey in this movie which made it a nice departure from the T3 trainwreck. Although you can see the story's "twist" a mile away I know some people who didn't realize Marcus was going to be a cyborg it was still an entertaining story and actually made me look forward to a new trilogy of Terminator films.

The Arnold CGI was pretty damn good too, my gf didn't realize he wasn't actually in the film until i told her. Wasn't there supposed to be a joke scene where they explain why all the T-8000's (or whatever their numbers were) look like Arnold? I stayed thru the credits to see it and NOTHING, that was my only dissapointment with the movie to be honest. Oh ooh, and it took me until the credits to realize that Kyle Reese was that dude in Star Trek. The whole movie, it was bugging me why this kid looked familiar.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on June 01, 2009, 10:53:09 AM
Deliverance: 10/10 for Hot Man Rape.

I made my wife watch this after finding it in the $5 bin at Walmart.  She was disturbed and now hates me.

By the way, EC... Kyle Reese was not played by Simon Pegg.  You have your Star Trek characters mixed up. ;)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: D_Average on June 01, 2009, 11:09:57 AM
Ghost Town 5/10 
Predictable, bland, unfunny.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on June 01, 2009, 11:15:31 AM
Deliverance: 10/10 for Hot Man Rape.

I made my wife watch this after finding it in the $5 bin at Walmart.  She was disturbed and now hates me.

By the way, EC... Kyle Reese was not played by Simon Pegg.  You have your Star Trek characters mixed up. ;)

Ok you got me there, who the hell was that other one with the accent thats NOT simon pegg! :p

You coulda at least given me the proper info so i could correct my post.

temp. fixed it!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Dasmos on June 01, 2009, 11:18:05 AM
Ghost Town 5/5
Predictable, bland, unfunny.

So you have it full marks?

Last movie I saw was 17 Again, which I enjoyed way more than I should have. Damn that Zac Efron is a hawty.

6.5/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on June 01, 2009, 11:18:47 AM
Ghost Town 5/5
Predictable, bland, unfunny.

So you have it full marks?

Last movie I saw was 17 Again, which I enjoyed way more than I should have. Damn that Zac Efron is a hawty.

6.5/10

Get the Jam ready!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Dasmos on June 01, 2009, 11:32:11 AM
i'd jam with him anytime

(http://weblogs.amny.com/entertainment/stage/blog/zac_efron.jpg)

c'mon you wouldn't say no.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: D_Average on June 01, 2009, 11:41:01 AM
Ghost Town 5/5
Predictable, bland, unfunny.

So you have it full marks?

Last movie I saw was 17 Again, which I enjoyed way more than I should have. Damn that Zac Efron is a hawty.

6.5/10
5/10   8)
fixed
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: KnowsNothing on June 01, 2009, 12:11:57 PM
Up.  9.5/10.

I had to take SOME points off for having a weak villain and god damn talking dogs.  Plus for me it started to drag the second they made it into the wilderness...but the portion from the opening credits until he took off in his house was so breathtaking it more than made up for the rest of the film (which was in no way bad, just a little more generic than I would have liked).  Seriously the first half hour is one of the most emotional and incredible pieces of animation I have ever seen.

A triumph!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: vudu on June 01, 2009, 01:40:04 PM
Rope (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rope_(movie))

7 / 10

Enjoyable movie, but definitely a product of its time.  Not the most suspenseful Hitchcock movie.  Would have been better if they didn't show the actual murder in the first 10 seconds of the movie (to leave the audience guessing if the victim was in the box).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on June 01, 2009, 03:18:38 PM
Up.  9.5/10.

I had to take SOME points off for having a weak villain and god damn talking dogs.  Plus for me it started to drag the second they made it into the wilderness...but the portion from the opening credits until he took off in his house was so breathtaking it more than made up for the rest of the film (which was in no way bad, just a little more generic than I would have liked).  Seriously the first half hour is one of the most emotional and incredible pieces of animation I have ever seen.

A triumph!

Glad to hear its really good. It looks like a cute/funny film and i might have to see this twice with two different dates
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on June 01, 2009, 04:22:27 PM
I forgot I just saw Up 2 days ago. Lemme change mine...
Up 5/10
My 3 year old daughter hated it. It's a kid's movie made for old people. I know, it's a cartoon, but the explorer guy should have been dead for many years before they ever got to Paradise Falls.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: DAaaMan64 on June 01, 2009, 06:39:24 PM


Wrist Cutters: A Love Story
8/10

Not to bad of a movie really.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on June 01, 2009, 07:38:00 PM
The last movie I saw was "Anastasia" on Hulu, I forgot how much I loved this as a kid. I won't even say it's good for a family movie, it's good for any movie. The last movie I saw in theatres was "The Simpsons Movie" (I rarely ever go to a movie theatre).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on June 01, 2009, 07:40:20 PM
the joke scene was in the special features of T3, they should not have cut it out of the movie(t3) since its hilarious.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on June 01, 2009, 07:40:43 PM
wall street 9/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Dasmos on June 02, 2009, 02:55:57 AM
Just saw The Boy With The Striped Pyjamas.

This is one of the more heart-wrenching movies I've seen in a while and defintely one of the most powerful. Showing the Holocaust from the perspective of a wide-eyed young German boy, who is as naive as can be about the situation he's thrust into. It gives the audience a very unique perspective that makes the ending all the more impossible to watch.

9/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: GoldenPhoenix on June 02, 2009, 03:13:38 AM
Up 8/10. A truly beautiful movie both visually and emotionally. It also had some great humor (I loved the talking dogs, the parody was great). Not as great as Wall-E but few movies, IMO, can even close to matching Wall-E.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on June 02, 2009, 03:42:40 AM
Agreed. Wall-E was better than Up; but that's more of a testament to Wall-E.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: GoldenPhoenix on June 02, 2009, 03:52:15 AM
Agreed. Wall-E was better than Up; but that's more of a testament to Wall-E.

It still amazes me how Pixar keeps their magic. Even their worse movies are quite good IMO, and have a HEART especially compared to about any other CGI animation. In many ways I feel really blessed to be living in a time where Pixar is still on top with classic after classic.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on June 02, 2009, 04:23:26 PM
the joke scene was in the special features of T3, they should not have cut it out of the movie(t3) since its hilarious.

Ah so thats where i heard it from, i was just confused about it. Thanks for clearing that up.


Up 8/10. A truly beautiful movie both visually and emotionally. It also had some great humor (I loved the talking dogs, the parody was great). Not as great as Wall-E but few movies, IMO, can even close to matching Wall-E.

I'd rate it the same. I just saw it a few hours ago and i loved it. Never did see Wall-E though... so i cant compare the two.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on June 30, 2009, 04:33:02 PM
Transformers 2 - 6.5

If you want to see big fucking robots break each other's neck, then this is the movie to watch. However, if you like stories with your movies, this movie isn't for you.

P.S. Megan Fox is hot. That is all.

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on June 30, 2009, 05:55:35 PM
Transformers 2: 7.

A film by Michael Bay. Lots of big boom. End.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: D_Average on June 30, 2009, 07:10:49 PM
Going The Distance
3/5
Caught it on Comedy Central the other day.  I usually hate these teen movies, but there was something oddly compelling about watching a group of idiots with Finish chicks in an RV traveling to Canada while being stalked by a stereotypical Indian man.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on July 03, 2009, 11:45:35 PM
Here is a site that might interest you guys
http://www.flickchart.com/

It pits movies up against each other 1  vs 1 and you choose which one you like better. Then you can create you favorites/all -time best/movie of the forever list and compare it with others. They are even hoping to integrate Netflix into it so you can add movies you haven't seen directly into your queue.

If you want more info you can look here (http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=366745).

I haven't signed up yet, but if they get the Netflix part working, then I will probably get on it right away.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: grantimus on July 05, 2009, 09:04:44 PM
I watched a couple of movies today.

Gran Torino: 9/10 Great story, lovable racist old prick main character, a great ending.  Not "Dirty Harry in retirement" like so many people said, and that's a good thing.

The Usual Suspects: 7.5/10  Never really drew me in, and I could guess the end halfway through, but still a decent movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: kraken613 on July 05, 2009, 09:29:28 PM
Transformers 2- 6

Good for what it was, explosions.... Then some parts with Megan Fox bumped it up a few points too.... You get to see her change in one part for no reason. But I didn't complain about that.....

But what the hell, they walked into the Air and Space museum in Washington DC and they walk out the back door into an air field surrounded by mountains??!!?!?!?! Seriously....
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: D_Average on July 06, 2009, 02:52:08 AM
I watched a couple of movies today.

Gran Torino: 9/10 Great story, lovable racist old prick main character, a great ending.  Not "Dirty Harry in retirement" like so many people said, and that's a good thing.

The Usual Suspects: 7.5/10  Never really drew me in, and I could guess the end halfway through, but still a decent movie.

LOVED Gran Torino
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: GoldenPhoenix on July 06, 2009, 03:27:38 AM
Transformers 2: 8.5

As a fan of the first I loved the second as well because you had much more bantor amongst the Transformers, not to mention Megatron and Starscream at each other's necks was classic stuff (especially the last dialogue from the two was classic G1 stuff). Very enjoyable movie all around, it is what I expected from the sequel. While I loved the first I felt there was too much humans and not enough transformer dialogue or interaction, this made up for that. IMO, you don't get much better when it comes to a flat out action movie.

Grand Torino: 9

Even though I don't like Clint Eastwood much this was a pretty powerful movie all around.

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Caliban on July 06, 2009, 10:55:25 AM
Gran Torino: 10

Dirty Harry: 8

Magnum Force: 8

The Enforcer: 7

Sudden Impact: 6

The Dead Pool: 8
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Patchkid15 on July 06, 2009, 11:00:45 AM
Night at The Museum 2:  6
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on July 06, 2009, 12:02:22 PM
Dante 01: three and half stars

French "Sci-Fi" film, more of a Christian Allegory than Sci-Fi though. Ends abruptly.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on July 08, 2009, 11:46:35 AM
Batman & Robin en español. 9/10.  Way better than watching it in English.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on July 08, 2009, 11:56:30 AM
Look: 7/10

This movie actually surprised me and turned out to be alot more interesting than I thought it would be, considering that it is shot entirely from cameras that would capture you on a daily basis. ie Security camera, ATM camera, someone elses cellphone, etc. etc..
At first it seemingly had no real plot, as it just seem to make you aware of how many times a you are actually caught on camera everyday, but in the end it tied it all together nicely.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on July 08, 2009, 01:31:15 PM
Batman & Robin en español. 9/10.  Way better than watching it in English.

haha i saw that too! I watched the whole poison ivy scene (her entrance at that ball) and couldn't stop laughing.. its one long scene where she's coming outta that stupid looking gorilla suit and strips down, falls of stage to get caught by her man-slaves and walks aaaalll the way to batman & robin, then introduces herself and then... LAFFO
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on July 08, 2009, 02:48:05 PM
Knowing: 8.9999999999

The plot of knowing is contrived, but the way the movie goes about it is excellent. It isn't the smartest movie, but it is enjoyable to watch.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on July 08, 2009, 02:57:36 PM
Batman & Robin en español. 9/10.  Way better than watching it in English.

haha i saw that too! I watched the whole poison ivy scene (her entrance at that ball) and couldn't stop laughing.. its one long scene where she's coming outta that stupid looking gorilla suit and strips down, falls of stage to get caught by her man-slaves and walks aaaalll the way to batman & robin, then introduces herself and then... LAFFO

It's such a horrible movie.  At least it's amusing in Spanish.  I wonder if Mexicans watch it in English to be amused...
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on July 08, 2009, 03:10:47 PM
Look: 7/10

This movie actually surprised me and turned out to be alot more interesting than I thought it would be, considering that it is shot entirely from cameras that would capture you on a daily basis. ie Security camera, ATM camera, someone elses cellphone, etc. etc..
At first it seemingly had no real plot, as it just seem to make you aware of how many times a you are actually caught on camera everyday, but in the end it tied it all together nicely.

Just wanted to add that I 1st heard about this movie when someone was interviewing the director. There is a cop scene in the movie that almost got everyone arrested.

There is a scene where a CHP (California Highway Patrol) pulls over this car on the freeway, the cop ask for license and registration and the guy insist that it is in his trunk. A fight breaks out between the cop and the guy on the side of the freeway, and ultimately ends with the cop being shot.

During the filming, a passerbyer saw the cop getting beat up (remember that this is filmed only using existing cameras<no film crew>, so this scene is done through the dash cam on the cop car) and called 911 so that the cop could get some assistance. The police helicopter was on the scene within minutes, shining its spot light on the scene. They tried to edit out the spot light, but you can still see it in some of the quick cuts of the scene.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on July 08, 2009, 03:25:17 PM
Look: 7/10

This movie actually surprised me and turned out to be alot more interesting than I thought it would be, considering that it is shot entirely from cameras that would capture you on a daily basis. ie Security camera, ATM camera, someone elses cellphone, etc. etc..
At first it seemingly had no real plot, as it just seem to make you aware of how many times a you are actually caught on camera everyday, but in the end it tied it all together nicely.

Just wanted to add that I 1st heard about this movie when someone was interviewing the director. There is a cop scene in the movie that almost got everyone arrested.

There is a scene where a CHP (California Highway Patrol) pulls over this car on the freeway, the cop ask for license and registration and the guy insist that it is in his trunk. A fight breaks out between the cop and the guy on the side of the freeway, and ultimately ends with the cop being shot.

During the filming, a passerbyer saw the cop getting beat up (remember that this is filmed only using existing cameras<no film crew>, so this scene is done through the dash cam on the cop car) and called 911 so that the cop could get some assistance. The police helicopter was on the scene within minutes, shining its spot light on the scene. They tried to edit out the spot light, but you can still see it in some of the quick cuts of the scene.


Sounds really interesting, i'll have to check it out.

Batman & Robin en español. 9/10.  Way better than watching it in English.

haha i saw that too! I watched the whole poison ivy scene (her entrance at that ball) and couldn't stop laughing.. its one long scene where she's coming outta that stupid looking gorilla suit and strips down, falls of stage to get caught by her man-slaves and walks aaaalll the way to batman & robin, then introduces herself and then... LAFFO

It's such a horrible movie.  At least it's amusing in Spanish.  I wonder if Mexicans watch it in English to be amused...

just mexicans?

Last movie i saw was:

The Heartbreak Kid (which is appearantly a remake)
i'd say 7/10

I found it pretty cheap at a best buy, its something i've been looking for for some time now.. i remembered it being funny when i saw it in theatres and felt like i had to watch it again.

It wasn't as hysterical as i remembered it being, but i think i'm just used to a different style comedy now (I recently purchased a sweet Judd Apatow boxset for $20 containing 40yo Virgin, Knocked up, Forgetting Sarah Marshall), and the movie felt really slow paced compared to the other comedies i've been watching. Still though, its not the kind of movie i see myself rewatching very often.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Peachylala on July 10, 2009, 12:28:53 AM
Last movie I saw was...

Up: 9.5

UP.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on July 10, 2009, 12:41:32 AM
S. Darko...... 3.5/10

Just as bad as the first, only predictable since the same thing happened the 1st time.
Just like the 1st movie 70% of this movie never happened.
If it wasn't for netflix, I would be demanding some sort of money back, but now I just tell all the rest of you, don't bother.
Even if you like the first one.... don't bother.

p.s. Elizabeth Berkeley is in it, Jessie from Saved by the Bell. 3 scenes 2 lines... how her career has fallen.... showgirls ::smh::
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on July 10, 2009, 09:05:00 AM
This is completely unrelated, and excuse me for possibly derailing the thread but while we're on the subject of Saved By The Bell cast members and their lackluster career's...

Did anyone see the clip of Mark Paul Gossler (sp?) aka Zack Morris on, i believe it was the letterman show? I didn't get to see it myself because video wasn't working at the time and it was one of those yahoo links that dissappears after a day.. but appearantly he was on Dave's show and did the whole interview AS Zach Morris.. He cut his hair (maybe it was a wig?) to his bleach blonde Zach atyle, wore the classic blue jeans and brightly colored tee. I wish i saw it cuz that woulda been awesome/weird to see. Anyone else catch it?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on July 10, 2009, 10:56:42 AM
I found this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awxXPSQ5E0k

Zack Morris on Jimmy Fallon. & Jimmy is trying to put together a Saved by the Bell Class reunion (just missing Lisa Turtle & Screech).
The sketch had potential, but unfortunately Jimmy isn't funny. He just seems so awkward & uncomfortable as a host.
His comedic timing & delivery isn't really there. This clip might have been much funnier on Conan though.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Dasmos on July 10, 2009, 11:13:01 AM
Anyone giving Transfromers over a 2 obviously wasn't watching the same movie as I was.

Anyway I saw The Hangover recently, and I was completely surprised by how much I enjoyed it. From the commercials showing I was expecting the worst and I only saw it because someone else was paying. Luckily in a situation that is almost the complete reverse of any other film, the showed all the worst bits in the commercials. It's like they were trying to lure all the retards in with the horribly broad jokes on the odds then educate them with good comedy in the film.

It's the same thing that happened with Knocked Up and The 40 Year Old Virgin. While The Hangover is no where near as good as either of these movies, it is a good laugh. 7/10.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on July 10, 2009, 11:16:18 AM
I found this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awxXPSQ5E0k

Zack Morris on Jimmy Fallon. & Jimmy is trying to put together a Saved by the Bell Class reunion (just missing Lisa Turtle & Screech).
The sketch had potential, but unfortunately Jimmy isn't funny. He just seems so awkward & uncomfortable as a host.
His comedic timing & delivery isn't really there. This clip might have been much funnier on Conan though.

Yeah that was it, not sure why i thought Letterman.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on July 14, 2009, 04:11:21 AM
Quantum of Solace 4.5/10

Rubbish. Boring, confusing action scenes. Most insulting was final sequence and coming in at second was the retarded aircraft fight. Good thing I didn't pay money to see this.

Taken 8.5/10

Everything QoS isn't. Straight forward, well cut and choreographed fight scenes. Interrogation scenes which make Jack Bauer as effective as the idiots from Harry and Kumar go to Gitmo. I wished I paid money to go to the movies to watch this.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: GoldenPhoenix on July 14, 2009, 04:17:37 AM
Quantum of Solace 4.5/10

Rubbish. Boring, confusing action scenes. Most insulting was final sequence and coming in at second was the retarded aircraft fight. Good thing I didn't pay money to see this.

Taken 8.5/10

Everything QoS isn't. Straight forward, well cut and choreographed fight scenes. Interrogation scenes which make Jack Bauer as effective as the idiots from Harry and Kumar go to Gitmo. I wished I paid money to go to the movies to watch this.

What I loved about Taken is that it avoided many cliches, when in most movies he would let them live this one he would just kill them.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on July 14, 2009, 10:47:14 AM
The icing on the cake is that the bad guys always try to negotiate.

A good thriller/action movie are hard to come by these days. Everybody's trying so hard to out Bay, Micheal Bay without realizing Bay doesn't know WTF he's doing. If all I wanted to see was some big explosions, I would go and watch Mythbusters which has bonus science content.

This Bond "trilogy" is starting following the same damn pattern as the Brosnan era. Starts off amazing, then goes into lamesville, improves slightly before entering WTH zone of Star Trek.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on July 14, 2009, 10:53:54 AM
Quantum of Solace 4.5/10

Rubbish. Boring, confusing action scenes. Most insulting was final sequence and coming in at second was the retarded aircraft fight. Good thing I didn't pay money to see this.

Taken 8.5/10

Everything QoS isn't. Straight forward, well cut and choreographed fight scenes. Interrogation scenes which make Jack Bauer as effective as the idiots from Harry and Kumar go to Gitmo. I wished I paid money to go to the movies to watch this.

I agree with these reviews. But I like the Bond character, but the script and directing for QoS was just horrible. I think I wrote my opinion in the thread on that movie. It wasn't even really a bond movie which was really disappointing and to compare it to the Dalton Era is making me lose more hope for it recovering in the future.

Taken on the other hand was great. It was good from beginning to end with striaght forward action and badassery all around. The man was ready to die if it meant getting his daughter back & no friend or foe shall stand in his way. As much as I'd want to see a "sequel" I really hope thay they don't do it even though the movie was decently successful at the box office.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on July 14, 2009, 10:54:25 AM
Quantum of Solace 4.5/10

Rubbish. Boring, confusing action scenes. Most insulting was final sequence and coming in at second was the retarded aircraft fight. Good thing I didn't pay money to see this.

Taken 8.5/10

Everything QoS isn't. Straight forward, well cut and choreographed fight scenes. Interrogation scenes which make Jack Bauer as effective as the idiots from Harry and Kumar go to Gitmo. I wished I paid money to go to the movies to watch this.

What I loved about Taken is that it avoided many cliches, when in most movies he would let them live this one he would just kill them.

Exactly, and other unexpected things like when he shot his friends wife!! I didn't see that coming at all, cuz you never see that sorta thing in these movies.


Last movie i saw, well rewatched:

Knocked Up: 7/10

It's one of those movies i can watch from time to time and not really get too sick of it, but its not ROFPYPLMAO* funny. The thing is, i was bored and watched the bonus disc features over the weekend and i gotta give the second disc a 10/10 lol...

There was a mini documentary showing the different actors they went through for the lead role before they got Seth Rogen and my god.. it was the funniest/most intense dvd extra i've ever seen! First they had Michael Serra doing his usual stuff, you know that weird delivery he gives. He couldn't take directions for **** though and showed one of the worst performances i've ever seen, then got into a huge fight with the director, Judd Apatow, and threw the biggest hissy fit i've ever seen..  yet Judd was the one who walked off set cursing up a storm and even breaking a wine glass lol I thought to myself "man, now i know why all [you guys] call him a lil bitch"

It gets better though, they then showed Orlando Bloom and his massive ego! They show him doing a scene and the director is upset because he's not doing an American accent like they had appearantly discussed. The directer wanted the American accent and felt Bloom probably just couldn't do one but lied about it to get the role. He tries using his "star power" on the guy too, saying **** like "Listen, Judd, people love the accent. Pirates of the Carribean, Lord of the Rings.. do you even know how big my demographic is? You're the one losing out if you don't let me do my thing here" lmao.. wow, just wow

There's even more still! James Franco (spiderman 1-3) tries stealing a scene away from some new actor and her first role in a feature film, with an improv that Apatow wasn't feeling and felt was distracting from the story. They get into this huge fight, but it was more personal than just ego's clashing. Franco basically came out and admited he was bitter at Apatow for not letting him "shine" or whatever back when they worked on "Freaks & Geeks" together. It was a very WTF? moment for me cuz i've never even heard of "Freaks & Geeks". I found it strange though that even though they had this huge fight with Franco as the lead role, he still made a cameo in the movie, being interviewed as himself.. guess they patched things up? Figured they wouldn't after Judd walks away from him saying "Sam Raimi told me not to hire you" lol..

There were a few other people who had the role, but none of them were as explosive as those 3.. geez. The other guys that had the part are all people i've seen in film before, but they're always small roles. One guy i've seen in 10 things i hate about you (i think that was him) and Harold & Kumar 1. Another is some guy i've seen in a lot of Adam Sandler movies, and he got pissy when everyone could improvise but him lol that was pretty funny. Who else.. eh doesnt matter, this post is long enough.
The extras were VERY entertaining and i just had to score it higher than the film lol
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on July 14, 2009, 11:10:03 AM
Quantum of Solace 4.5/10

Rubbish. Boring, confusing action scenes. Most insulting was final sequence and coming in at second was the retarded aircraft fight. Good thing I didn't pay money to see this.

Taken 8.5/10

Everything QoS isn't. Straight forward, well cut and choreographed fight scenes. Interrogation scenes which make Jack Bauer as effective as the idiots from Harry and Kumar go to Gitmo. I wished I paid money to go to the movies to watch this.

I agree with these reviews. But I like the Bond character, but the script and directing for QoS was just horrible. I think I wrote my opinion in the thread on that movie. It wasn't even really a bond movie which was really disappointing and to compare it to the Dalton Era is making me lose more hope for it recovering in the future.

Taken on the other hand was great. It was good from beginning to end with striaght forward action and badassery all around. The man was ready to die if it meant getting his daughter back & no friend or foe shall stand in his way. As much as I'd want to see a "sequel" I really hope thay they don't do it even though the movie was decently successful at the box office.

If you say his name, he will come..
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Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Patchkid15 on July 14, 2009, 11:11:41 AM
Whos going to Harry Potter tonight at Midnight... I am looking forward to all opinions of those who are :)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on July 14, 2009, 12:46:16 PM
Don't wail on the Dalton. At least they had the decency back then to hang actual people out of real flying planes. Hell Moore threw real people out of real planes and that was just the opening sequence.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: GoldenPhoenix on July 14, 2009, 12:51:07 PM
Whos going to Harry Potter tonight at Midnight... I am looking forward to all opinions of those who are :)

Hmmm it is tempting!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on July 14, 2009, 01:39:41 PM
Don't wail on the Dalton. At least they had the decency back then to hang actual people out of real flying planes. Hell Moore threw real people out of real planes and that was just the opening sequence.

THIS! most MOIST statement i've read all day.

Just look at his eyes in the picture i posted.. those are the eyes of a man who throws actual people out of actual airplains FOR FUNSIES. Hell, he's so secure in his manliness he even says the word "funsies"!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: jay-z on July 15, 2009, 01:17:04 AM
i just watched "i still know what you did last summer" lolol

i give it a 0.0 overall but a 10.0 in lulz
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on July 15, 2009, 01:28:20 AM
Doubt
Sucked Ass/10

My wife is no longer allowed to pick movies.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: KnowsNothing on July 15, 2009, 01:29:58 AM
I <3 Knocked Up so very much, I must watch those extras.

I'm not seeing Harry Potter at midnight but I am seeing it at some point tomorrow.  I'm not the biggest Potter fan you'll ever meet, but strangely I've been hyped for this movie for a very long time...which is made even more strange by the fact that none of the movies so far have been spectacular...but THIS ONE WILL BE GREAT I CAN FEEL IT.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Patchkid15 on July 15, 2009, 09:25:12 AM
Harry Potter 6 : 8.5/10

A Short Review:

The movie felt choppy at times, the scenes were short and jumped between characters quickly. On the bright side, all of the important moments were spot on. David Yates, the director, invited comedy back into the series whether it be in the form of Dumbledore asking Harry about his personal life, or a love-sick Ron after being poisoned by a love potion. Jim Broadbent put on a spectacular role as Professor Slughorn. If you have ever read the books you know that Slughorn is a very important character in the story, and you will not forget it, his face gets lots of screen time during the 150 min. movie. The movie in general wasn't bad, it just could have been better. The acting was spot on but it lacked the epic feel which gave all of the movies a personality.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on July 15, 2009, 10:34:40 AM
I <3 Knocked Up so very much, I must watch those extras.

Just to clarify, so you're not dissapointed, the version i have was a two disc and the bonus features i described are on the second, bonus, disc (ie seperate from the dvd the movie is on. Most of the extras were good, on both discs actually. Hell i even recommend watching the movie with commentary.

One of the funnest commentary tracks i've ever heard was on another Judd Apatow movie, Forgetting Sarah Marshall. The majority of the cast was there just joking around, having a good time.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: vudu on July 15, 2009, 01:37:28 PM
Doubt
Sucked Ass/10

My wife is no longer allowed to pick movies.

I liked doubt.  :(
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on July 15, 2009, 07:59:22 PM
Bruno is on the list next. However i'm expecting an assault of weewee and tatty bo jangles (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnJW-dx56oA) with this film..

Don't wail on the Dalton. At least they had the decency back then to hang actual people out of real flying planes. Hell Moore threw real people out of real planes and that was just the opening sequence.

THIS! most MOIST statement i've read all day.


Someone called for me?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on July 15, 2009, 08:35:37 PM
Public Enemies: 5/10

I'm being very generous here.  Too long, too much camera movement, too many more things to complain about.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on July 16, 2009, 01:02:32 AM
Public Enemies: 8.5/10

Good story, even better acting, but overall it is too slow and drawn out.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on July 16, 2009, 10:03:40 AM
Public Enemies: 5/10

Public Enemies: 8.5/10

This is why scores are meaningless :)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on July 16, 2009, 12:44:18 PM
Public Enemies: 5/10

Public Enemies: 8.5/10

This is why scores are meaningless :)

No. This is a call to take sides. Now everyone must go see this movie and see who we agree with most.
the loser shall be shamed for making such an off base review and none of his future reviews(or opinions) will ever matter again.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on July 16, 2009, 02:26:55 PM
Public Enemies: 5/10

Public Enemies: 8.5/10

This is why scores are meaningless :)

No. This is a call to take sides. Now everyone must go see this movie and see who we agree with most.
the loser shall be shamed for making such an off base review and none of his future reviews(or opinions) will ever matter again.

Nope, i'm one of these hardcore elitist gamer movie goers that would rather spend time bashing a movie for a bad score (bad = <8.0) than ever trying to play see it myself and form my own opinions. I am sheep, and the first review won me over. Doubt is a POS in my mind now.

;)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on July 16, 2009, 02:38:19 PM
Public Enemies: 5/10

I won't watch this movie till it hits Netflix
Public Enemies: 8.5/10

This is why scores are meaningless :)

No. This is a call to take sides. Now everyone must go see this movie and see who we agree with most.
the loser shall be shamed for making such an off base review and none of his future reviews(or opinions) will ever matter again.

Nope, i'm one of these hardcore elitist gamer movie goers that would rather spend time bashing a movie for a bad score (bad = <8.0) than ever trying to play see it myself and form my own opinions. I am sheep, and the first review won me over. Doubt is a POS in my mind now.

;)

So you're siding with Nickmitch?
The line in the sand has been drawn... which side does everyone else choose?

Nickmitch - 2

Stogi - 1
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on July 16, 2009, 02:58:27 PM
Note: I'm only siding with nickmitch because i never planned on seeing doubt anyway. Doesn't look like my type of movie, despite how criticaly acclaimed it was. Being able to say "i heard it sucked (from a friend* of mine)" gets me out of ever being guilt tripped into watching it.

*i use the term friend loosely in this scenario, obviously.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: KnowsNothing on July 16, 2009, 03:13:26 PM
Harry Potter:

Spoilers, I guess.

Not sure what to think about this one.  It's probably my favorite of the HP movies, but that's not saying too much since I wasn't enthralled with any of them.  I realize a lot needs to be cut from the books to fit a time slot, but some of the things omitted really bothered me...The scene in the cave was very cool if not a little too short, but the ending on top of the astronomy tower was just terrible.  First of all I was really looking forward to the epic battle in the castle and extremely disappointed that the entire thing was just ignored.  Plus in the book Dumbledore immobilizes Harry during that scene, but in the movie Harry just watches from below...which I guess is nitpicking slightly, but it does change the scene's meaning quite a bit.  Plus the whole scene should have been more tense and emotional, and just felt...flat, and boring.  Including the funeral would have helped things out quite a bit, that was a stupid thing to leave out.  I don't really care about the omission of the new Minister of Magic though, they really had to leave all that out or else the film would have been way too long.

The pacing was horrible too, especially at the beginning; why even include the fact that the Muggle world is being attacked if there's only going to be one (two minute) scene mentioning it?  THOSE ATTACKS ARE SIGNIFICANT.  The entire point is that the entire world, both wizard and muggle communities, is at stake and it's up to Harry to save it.  The movies lack that epic atmosphere; it all seems too claustrophobic.  It's all about Harry and Hogwarts.  That was fine at first but we're coming up on the end of the series, it's time to move past that.

That said, the movie had a lot of personality and was quite funny at times.  The special effects were spectacular was well; the Quidditch match was incredible, as was the aforementioned scene in the cave.  The art direction and cinematography were also top notch (I loved some of the outdoor shots of the castle), and the acting has improved.  Like I said above, despite my complaints it is one of the better HP movies and worth seeing for fans.

So....uhhh....7/10?  I guess.  Needed much more Luna Lovegood though, seriously.

God I am such a nerd.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on July 16, 2009, 03:35:09 PM
Note: I'm only siding with nickmitch because i never planned on seeing doubt anyway. Doesn't look like my type of movie, despite how criticaly acclaimed it was. Being able to say "i heard it sucked (from a friend* of mine)" gets me out of ever being guilt tripped into watching it.

*i use the term friend loosely in this scenario, obviously.

I'm actually going to watch it this week.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: DAaaMan64 on July 16, 2009, 08:31:09 PM
The Unborn

3/10. Awful, its a my first thriller movie.  Not even any good scenes with the girl.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: jrlibrarian on July 16, 2009, 10:07:11 PM
Super Mario Bros. 7/10

Actually a pretty good representation of what the Mario games would be like if set in New York. And if Peach never existed and Daisy was the princess.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Patchkid15 on July 16, 2009, 10:13:46 PM
Super Mario Bros. 7/10

Actually a pretty good representation of what the Mario games would be like if set in New York. And if Peach never existed and Daisy was the princess.

I would give it a similar rating...being a fan of Nintendo i just found the movie enjoyable. Now saying it is a good representation is taking it a little too far. I just looked at the movie as a comedy.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: jrlibrarian on July 17, 2009, 12:21:39 AM
Oops. All I meant by that was that many of the items and enemies were in there. They even put in the Koopa Kids I think.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: kraken613 on July 17, 2009, 12:36:42 AM
Harry Potter:


I have never seen a HP movie or read the books..... That's about to change because I just put them all on my Netflix Q.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on July 17, 2009, 03:17:57 AM
Brüno 9/10

Brüno = Funny

i definitely laughed at the talking parts :P
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Dasmos on July 17, 2009, 03:51:39 AM
oh wow, bruno really really sucked. and i was looking forward to it because borat was really really good.

i'd rate it a 5/10. borat was a 8.5/10 in my books just for reference.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on July 17, 2009, 04:41:45 AM
Bruno is very very gay, but it's also very very funny. Comparative to Borat, Bruno isn't as funny, but it's as awkward as ever. There are some very clever moments, with some that I had to laugh out loud to, but mostly I was shaking my head, wondering if he really just did that.

As far as the message goes, Sacha proves once again that there is a lot of intolerance; but really...even a gay guy should be offended by this movie.

I'd give it a 7.5
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on July 17, 2009, 04:42:52 AM
Love Actually, Actually good.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: NWR_DrewMG on July 17, 2009, 07:36:52 AM
Harry Potter:


I have never seen a HP movie or read the books..... That's about to change because I just put them all on my Netflix Q.

I don't know anyone who's ever only watched the movies before.  I'll be kind of curious to see how much you like it, only experiencing it through the movies. 

I just saw the new Harry Potter and I liked it quite a bit.  Great cinematography, and the acting is top notch in this one.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: D_Average on July 17, 2009, 02:10:26 PM
Hangover
5/5

17 Again (in flight movie)
3/5 (Thomas Lennon bumped it up 2 points)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on July 17, 2009, 02:14:29 PM
Harry Potter:


I have never seen a HP movie or read the books..... That's about to change because I just put them all on my Netflix Q.

I don't know anyone who's ever only watched the movies before.  I'll be kind of curious to see how much you like it, only experiencing it through the movies. 

I just saw the new Harry Potter and I liked it quite a bit.  Great cinematography, and the acting is top notch in this one.

I've never read any of the books and I am not enthusiastic about the new movie nor am I a fan of any of the past ones.

Netflix for the new one just like all the old ones.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on July 18, 2009, 02:20:36 PM
I just realised that Up is going to be released here IN OCTOBER.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on July 18, 2009, 02:38:57 PM
Haunting in Connecticut:

7.9/10

Scary movies don't scare me and this one is no different, but I like horror movies and this one tells a pretty good story that is supposedly "true".
For those that are frightened by ghost stories, then I'm sure this one won't disappoint. The acting is good, the special effects are good and the story for the most part is believable (if you believe in ghost).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on July 18, 2009, 03:32:06 PM
Public Enemies: 8.5/10

Good story, even better acting, but overall it is too slow and drawn out.

The acting was actually pretty great.  But, the story never got anywhere for me because in like 60% of the movie, the camera moved too damn much for me to figure out what was going on.  It started giving me a headache (like, Cloverfield but without the excuse).  That alone took out 3 points.  Being slow and mismanaging scene time alone would've given it an 8, but misuse of time and not utilizing the time it could get me to follow made it not worth seeing.


Sorry, just wanted to explain my score a bit more.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BwrJim! on July 18, 2009, 03:34:16 PM
hp 6

full of story and character development.
7 out of 10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on July 18, 2009, 05:48:01 PM
Public Enemies: 8.5/10

Good story, even better acting, but overall it is too slow and drawn out.

The acting was actually pretty great.  But, the story never got anywhere for me because in like 60% of the movie, the camera moved too damn much for me to figure out what was going on.  It started giving me a headache (like, Cloverfield but without the excuse).  That alone took out 3 points.  Being slow and mismanaging scene time alone would've given it an 8, but misuse of time and not utilizing the time it could get me to follow made it not worth seeing.


Sorry, just wanted to explain my score a bit more.

Well I guess we differ on yet another thing. I thought the movie was directed very well; on par with some Scorsese movies.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Caterkiller on July 19, 2009, 02:07:26 AM
Transformers - 6/10 and for me thats bad. Ghetto Robots, too many adult jokes that were lame, not enough of the autobots, and the decepticons look to freakin similiar.

And one huge complaint I think I am alone on, I think the robots themselves are waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay to detailed! When they fight I have to look at their outlines to figure out whats going on. Way too many pieces that just confuse me, I hate it!

I loved the transformers lore though, thought it was cool. But robot balls jokes, weed jokes, sex jokes = lame and appeals to the losers who dont know any better.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: D_Average on July 19, 2009, 01:13:20 PM
1408
Interesting, trippy, suspenseful, but ultimately a dissapointing ending.  8.14/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on July 20, 2009, 10:53:42 AM
Haunting in Connecticut:

7.9/10

Scary movies don't scare me and this one is no different, but I like horror movies and this one tells a pretty good story that is supposedly "true".

It was weird, when i first saw the trailers for that movie i remember sitting in the theatre with my girlfriend thinking "wait a minute.. i know this!" and thinking it was another remake of an older film. Turns out I just recognized the story from a special i saw on the Discovery Channel. It was one of those shows where they talk about a specific haunting event for an hour or so, and re-enact moments that supposedly happened to this family. It was weird because i realized it early on in the trailer, so i was guessing what scenes they would show and I nailed em..

Then i thought it wasn't worth my time because i'd already "seen" it in a way. All the special effects and good (or at least better) acting in the world wouldn't of made me feel like watching that story over again. It was interesting enough to experience the story on cable.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: D_Average on July 20, 2009, 12:03:37 PM
Role Models
6.5/10

As a big fan of the State, it was cool to see David Wain write/direct this and bring in a lot of the old crew.  In the end though, too many jokes fell flat with a predictable story ark.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on July 20, 2009, 12:44:27 PM
Be Kind, Rewind - Major Disappointment/10

To be fair, I shouldn't have expected so much out of a Jack Black movie, but the idea behind it sounded awesome.  Unfortunately, it falls flat when they try to tie it all together with some crappy plot that the movie itself doesn't care enough about to finish at the end.  Some funny parts, to be sure, but let's just say I'm glad I picked this up out of the $5 dump bin instead of paying to see it in theaters like I almost did.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on July 20, 2009, 01:24:45 PM
Nothing in that movie looked funny and i'm actually upset you even reminded me of it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Dasmos on July 20, 2009, 11:15:10 PM
1408
Interesting, trippy, suspenseful, but ultimately a dissapointing ending.  8.14/10

Eh, I though the ending was cool.

Looking at the wikipedia page, it seems the ending I saw was the alternate ending. So I'm not sure which one you're referring to.

Just saw Ratatouille, finally. A lot of people I know say this is still their favourite Pixar film, while I really liked it I'd have to disagree. Finding Nemo is still my favourite, almost overtaken by Wall-E. Up looks promising, but it still hasn't been released here.

Oh right, Ratatouille gets an 8.5/10.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on July 21, 2009, 04:23:17 AM
The Boondock Saints

10/10

It's the only the movie I've seen more than the Lion King.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on July 21, 2009, 07:30:13 AM
Phone Booth: Very tense up until the end when it kinda unravelled with that weak ending. 7/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Spak-Spang on July 21, 2009, 09:39:17 AM
Harry Potter and the Half Blooded Prince:  Completely and Utterly Luke Warm. 
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: vudu on July 21, 2009, 02:33:48 PM
The Boondock Saints

5/10

Utterly mediocre, and completely over-hyped by people like Stogi.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on July 21, 2009, 03:37:12 PM
What is there not to like about that movie? The plot, the characters, the directing? It's all top-notch.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on July 21, 2009, 03:42:43 PM
The Boondock Saints

5/10

Utterly mediocre, and completely over-hyped by people like Stogi.

one of the reasons i've yet to see said film
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on July 21, 2009, 03:52:54 PM
Collateral. The best Tom Cruise movie. Four stars.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on July 21, 2009, 03:58:26 PM
The Boondock Saints

5/10

Utterly mediocre, and completely over-hyped by people like Stogi.

one of the reasons i've yet to see said film

Your going to trust Vudu; the guy that hates everything?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: vudu on July 21, 2009, 04:07:00 PM
Two guys take out the Irish mafia while spewing cliche Biblical phrases while a good cop chases them but has second thoughts about if they're really on the wrong side of the law?  It's a typical action flick, not much better than The Fast & The Furious or Wanted.

Everything is so over the top that it's funny.  But it's hardly a great movie.

FUN FACT:  There's a sequel coming out later this year called The Boondock Saints 2:  All Saints Day.  I wish I was making this up.

(Disclaimer:  I saw the movie once like 5 years ago, so my plot summary may be a bit off.)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on July 21, 2009, 04:21:02 PM
The Boondock Saints

5/10

Utterly mediocre, and completely over-hyped by people like Stogi.

one of the reasons i've yet to see said film

Your going to trust Vudu; the guy that hates everything?

No, i was just stating the fact that this is one of those movies people have tried to hype me up to see, and i probably won't enjoy it becuase it'll never live up to expectations. I'll still give it a shot, eventually, and who knows i might even like it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on July 21, 2009, 05:51:06 PM
Two guys take out the Irish mafia while spewing cliche Biblical phrases while a good cop chases them but has second thoughts about if they're really on the wrong side of the law?  It's a typical action flick, not much better than The Fast & The Furious or Wanted.

Everything is so over the top that it's funny.  But it's hardly a great movie.

FUN FACT:  There's a sequel coming out later this year called The Boondock Saints 2:  All Saints Day.  I wish I was making this up.

(Disclaimer:  I saw the movie once like 5 years ago, so my plot summary may be a bit off.)

It's the ITALIAN MAFIA you twat, and they're Irish. It's badass. It's also really really funny. It isn't suppose to be a typical action flick and it's not. Your comparisons to Wanted and Fast and the Furious couldn't be any farther off. Those movies sucked balls, with action scenes that are so stupid and over the top that no one believes them. BDS on the other hand is very believable, and that's what makes it great. Furthermore the characters in the movie are way better than those found in even great drama movies. I'd say if any comparison was needed, it is the most like V for Vendetta (which is a great movie).

And there is a reason it's hyped; it's hyped because it's really good; it's hyped because those that see it, end up rewatching it several times.

P.S. The movie makes a fun drinking game too. Just drink everytime they say "****".
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on July 21, 2009, 07:11:34 PM
Everyone hyped up a ton of other movies for me that i either hated or just plain bored me to death. No one movie can satisfy everyone, so you can't say its hyped because its good.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on July 21, 2009, 07:58:48 PM
"No one movie can satisfy everyone, so you can't say its hyped because its good."

Ok maybe, but it's ultimately up to you. I'm just saying it's a damn good movie; one of my favorites. We seem to have more than a few things in common, so I'd figure you'd like it.

Watch or not, I really don't care anymore.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: D_Average on July 21, 2009, 08:07:49 PM
Hmmmm, I haven't seen B Saints in 10 years or so, but I loved it back then.  If I re-watched it, I don't see any way it could slip below a 7/10 due to the impressive toilet drop KO.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on July 22, 2009, 11:14:45 AM
"No one movie can satisfy everyone, so you can't say its hyped because its good."

Ok maybe, but it's ultimately up to you. I'm just saying it's a damn good movie; one of my favorites. We seem to have more than a few things in common, so I'd figure you'd like it.

Watch or not, I really don't care anymore.


You shouldn't of cared in the first place, thats your problem ;)
Don't get me wrong, I appreciate the consideration (thinking i'd enjoy a movie you enjoy because we have a few things in common) but this is something trivial and neither side had to push the issue. My girlfriends sister has netflix now, maybe i'll see if she can rent us BS and i'll give it a shot, see if i like it.

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Just One of the Guys: 6/10

Cheesey 80s flick about a girl in high school that tries living the life of a teenage boy for a week in order to write a winning article that will be submitted for print in her local news paper. Why a 6? Well the acting is pretty bad all around, but nothing TOO cringe worthy. There is enough entertainment here to keep you from changing the channel, and the main character is pretty cute too! The film basically starts with her in a bikini by her pool, and she doesn't have the body or look of your typical 80s film girls (ie, she doesn't have a flat ass ;)). It's nothing too gratuitis (by any standards) but it's enough to draw you in and think "maybe they'll show off her body again later?" but no, she's dressed up like a dude pretty much the rest of the film and with her hair cut, she kinda ends up looking like a (more?) feminine Ralph Maccio.

This isn't your typical 80s teen sex romp, probably because the lead role is a girl, Sso its not too outrageous (or hilarious like Revenge of the Nerds 8)) but it has its moments, even if the plot doesn't come across as well as it should. This is a movie you'll spend the same time laughing at as you do laughing with, oh and it has William Zapka (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0951420/) so you KNOW its good! ;)

Quote from: Quote of the film
Where do you get off having titts!?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on July 23, 2009, 01:00:43 AM
Watchmen: Need to read the comic/10.

I really wanted to like this.  The whole time I was watching the movie, I kept thinking "This would be really good, if I knew what was going on."
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on July 23, 2009, 01:20:22 AM
Watchmen: Need to read the comic/10.

I really wanted to like this.  The whole time I was watching the movie, I kept thinking "This would be really good, if I knew what was going on."

I was gonna type up pretty much the same thing this morning. I held off as I watched the movie a second time(because I slept through half of it the first time) and then skipped back to scenes of explanation...

I was gonna rate it as :)/10
and state that I didn't really get it, but it seemed like if I did, I would really like it.

p.s. This is a long movie 2hr43min and most of the 1st hr& 20min is about stuff that didn't seem to needed in the movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: D_Average on July 23, 2009, 05:43:06 PM
"No one movie can satisfy everyone, so you can't say its hyped because its good."

Ok maybe, but it's ultimately up to you. I'm just saying it's a damn good movie; one of my favorites. We seem to have more than a few things in common, so I'd figure you'd like it.

Watch or not, I really don't care anymore.


You shouldn't of cared in the first place, thats your problem ;)
Don't get me wrong, I appreciate the consideration (thinking i'd enjoy a movie you enjoy because we have a few things in common) but this is something trivial and neither side had to push the issue. My girlfriends sister has netflix now, maybe i'll see if she can rent us BS and i'll give it a shot, see if i like it.

=================================================

Just One of the Guys: 6/10

Cheesey 80s flick about a girl in high school that tries living the life of a teenage boy for a week in order to write a winning article that will be submitted for print in her local news paper. Why a 6? Well the acting is pretty bad all around, but nothing TOO cringe worthy. There is enough entertainment here to keep you from changing the channel, and the main character is pretty cute too! The film basically starts with her in a bikini by her pool, and she doesn't have the body or look of your typical 80s film girls (ie, she doesn't have a flat ass ;)). It's nothing too gratuitis (by any standards) but it's enough to draw you in and think "maybe they'll show off her body again later?" but no, she's dressed up like a dude pretty much the rest of the film and with her hair cut, she kinda ends up looking like a (more?) feminine Ralph Maccio.

This isn't your typical 80s teen sex romp, probably because the lead role is a girl, Sso its not too outrageous (or hilarious like Revenge of the Nerds 8)) but it has its moments, even if the plot doesn't come across as well as it should. This is a movie you'll spend the same time laughing at as you do laughing with, oh and it has William Zapka (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0951420/) so you KNOW its good! ;)

Quote from: Quote of the film
Where do you get off having titts!?


Wow.  Totally forgot about that movie.  Another plus is it has Johnny from Karate Kid.  Just found this clip (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7CqP6YXtH4&feature=related).  A classic lunchroom seem that 17 Again pretty much ripped off, minus the laughs.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: kraken613 on July 23, 2009, 05:57:57 PM
I watched all the Harry Potters in one night then saw the 6th earlier this week. I give the series a 9.3 out of 10. They are really good and I went from not caring about HP and never seeing or reading them to wanting to know and sucked into the story of it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on July 23, 2009, 06:07:25 PM
Coraline: 7/10

This movie may be rated PG but its not exactly for little kids. Its a dark story disguised behind 3-D claymation. It even had an almost nude woman who was showing 95% more skin than clothing. It was entertaining, but a little twisted, and seems to hit kind of a middle ground between the parents bringing their kids to watch it and the kids that wanted to see it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: D_Average on July 23, 2009, 09:02:31 PM
Coraline: 7/10

This movie may be rated PG but its not exactly for little kids. Its a dark story disguised behind 3-D claymation. It even had an almost nude woman who was showing 95% more skin than clothing. It was entertaining, but a little twisted, and seems to hit kind of a middle ground between the parents bringing their kids to watch it and the kids that wanted to see it.

I'd give it the same rating, unless you have the 3D glasses, which I'd then raise it to an 8/10.  The theater I was at pulled it off really well, and the animation went perfect with it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on July 23, 2009, 09:47:31 PM
I didn't see it in 3-D unfortunately, but saw many scenes that I thought would have looked really good in 3-D.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: D_Average on July 23, 2009, 10:33:07 PM
I didn't see it in 3-D unfortunately, but saw many scenes that I thought would have looked really good in 3-D.

It was pretty trippy, especially the rain and foliage.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on July 24, 2009, 09:48:55 AM
D Average: I mentioned the movie featuring "Johnny" from the karate kid, i was just hoping people would be curious enough to click the link to his IMDB page. He was the quintessential asshole/bully in 80s movies, VH1's I Love the 80's even had to devote a minute or two of their show(s) just to him!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on July 24, 2009, 11:26:10 AM
Bruno. WTF out of 10. I was bored stiff, and if i wanted an assault of bums and willy i'd go on the internet. I walked out about half way through.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: DAaaMan64 on July 24, 2009, 11:53:57 AM
Hellraiser 5.0 / 10

Maybe it was better when it came out.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on July 24, 2009, 12:25:53 PM
Hellraiser 5.0 / 10

Maybe it was better when it came out.

It wasn't


House Party: 8/10

This movie was just as entertaining today as it was back in 1990. It's on Comedy Central again right now, and if you haven't seen it before, its a fun movie to watch.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on July 25, 2009, 12:45:37 PM
HP6: 7/10

Climatic moments seemed a little down played to look more dramatic.  Effects were good.  Story was good. Ending was ok.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on July 25, 2009, 03:19:37 PM
I'm a little embarassed to say this but...

The ugly truth: 7/10

It wasn't as big a "chick flick" as I thought, in fact if it weren't for the audience it could've even passed for a "romantic comedy" ;)
The reason I scored it so high is simple:

Catherine Heigle having a hilarious orgasm, and a cute "spazz" dance that just makes her character likeable. Gerard butler was good too, since the only otherfilm I've seen him in is 300 and thank god he only has one scene with his shirt off. I finally got to see his acting ability and NOT his chest.
Overall, despite its flaws the movie is enjoyable without being too girly (but be warned it def has its moments!) So fellas, if you have a lady friend that wants to see it: suck it up, you might actually enjoy it.

No more girl flicks tho, at least not in a theatre. All the women in the audience laughed annoyingly and talked way too much. I felt really uncomfortable being 1 of like 6 guys there...
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on July 25, 2009, 03:27:05 PM
If you like Gerard Butler, you should watch RocknRolla. Other than chick flicks, that is the only movie he's done since 300. It's kinda like "Lock stock and two smoking barrells".
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on July 27, 2009, 01:22:48 AM
Coraline: WTF/10.

It looked great - don't get me wrong.  But it was all so very weird.  I didn't dislike it, but I don't see myself going out of my way to watch it again anytime soon.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on July 28, 2009, 12:52:22 AM
V for Vendetta 10/10*

Between it's beautifully crafted dialogue, its moral structure, and acting; there's much to like in V. All in all, it feels good to watch a movie of such caliber and still find subtleties you hadn't noticed before.

*a 10 is a movie I could throw on at anytime and no matter how recently I've seen it or how miserable a mood I'm in, and can still enjoy it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on July 28, 2009, 01:39:23 AM
Have you read the book?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on July 28, 2009, 01:44:35 AM
No I have not. I thought it came from a comic book.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: bustin98 on July 28, 2009, 11:03:28 AM
It did come from a comic book. Whats wrong with you? Can't you accept a comic book in the same regard as a novel? Is prose not prose no matter the form?

:p
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on July 28, 2009, 12:30:51 PM
Transporter 3

This movie comes in two distinctive parts. One where Frank, once again played by the one and one only Jason Statham comes spades.

The second part is this random Russian named Natalya Rudakova who quite frankly, couldn't act out of a wet paper bag. She is so bad in fact, that when ever she tries to act sexy, I am repulsed and become increasingly so with each addition exposure. By the half way mark, I am more attracted to Jason than this women. Which is weird because I think I finally know what it might be like to be "the gay". That said she does look nice, but only once in a picture that shows up for all of 2 seconds. She is no Izabella Scorupco who plays a Russian but is actually Polish.

I know this is a Transporter movie, but why did I get transported down the rainbow road to Gaysville?

Rated YMCA/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on July 28, 2009, 02:08:10 PM
Transporter 3

This movie comes in two distinctive parts. One where Frank, once again played by the one and one only Jason Statham comes spades.

The second part is this random Russian named Natalya Rudakova who quite frankly, couldn't act out of a wet paper bag. She is so bad in fact, that when ever she tries to act sexy, I am repulsed and become increasingly so with each addition exposure. By the half way mark, I am more attracted to Jason than this women. Which is weird because I think I finally know what it might be like to be "the gay". That said she does look nice, but only once in a picture that shows up for all of 2 seconds. She is no Izabella Scorupco who plays a Russian but is actually Polish.

I know this is a Transporter movie, but why did I get transported down the rainbow road to Gaysville?

Rated YMCA/10

Gives us a little insight to what "ooohboy" really means ;)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on July 28, 2009, 08:25:32 PM
Oh I forgot to mention the effect is fortunately, temporary. I chalk it dow to a learning experience. It's like getting mauled by a really fat and/or ugly chick and it gets to the point your willing to say anything to get away no matter how much alcohol you might have consumed.

I like transporter movies but this really was terrible.

oohhboy is a link back to Quantum Leap if you haven't guessed and i see it as a polite version of oohhshit.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Dasmos on July 29, 2009, 01:19:02 AM
Drag Me To Hell: 8.5/10.

Sam Raimi sure knows how to make a fun horror film.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on July 30, 2009, 02:07:55 PM
The Golden Compass. 6/10. Like Hancock, it would have been a better film if the tone was darker and not blatantly watered down to reach a PG rating.

Drag Me To Hell: 8.5/10.

Sam Raimi sure knows how to make a fun horror film.

This film had me in FITS! I laughed the whole way through it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on August 01, 2009, 01:16:48 AM
500 days of Summer: 10/10

Soundtrack was superb, acting talent was incredible/believable, cinematography was beautifully done. Extremely entertaining.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on August 04, 2009, 06:42:36 AM
The Number 23: 5/10

Interesting premise that unravelled by that weak ending.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: NWR_DrewMG on August 04, 2009, 08:42:04 AM
Funny People

Went into this with an altered set of expectations, as reviews seem to have knocked Apatow down a peg after the last three years of "Apatow-do-no-wrong" film-making in Hollywood.

Despite lowering my expectations, I came out of the movie having seen exactly the film I expected to see based on the trailers, with maybe a few minor criticisms that didn't particularly bother me very much.

For one, people who left this movie surprised at how much of the film was drama vs. comedy, I have to wonder if they never saw the trailer for the film.  It was clearly billed as a dramedy with an emphasis on dramatic moments.  This is exactly what the film was.  Sure, it was even less of a straight balls-out comedy than even I expected, but I was certainly not surprised with what I saw.  The ratio of jokes to dramatic scenes mirrored that of the trailers.

Secondly, the complaints about the scene with Leslie Mann's character (namely that it's too long, and doesn't have nearly enough to do with the main crux of the film - Simmons' illness and subsequent recovery) are valid, but the scene was entertaining enough that it didn't damper my enjoyment of the movie. 

At the end of the day, most of the characters were kind of hard to like, but Rogen's character was pretty great throughout, and did a wonderful job of being a dude who knew he was out of his element, but couldn't quite bring himself to do anything about it because he was having the time of his life.

9/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on August 04, 2009, 10:12:14 AM
Good to hear, I haven't seen this one yet. I read a scathing review of it in a copy of People magazine I happen to come across and I knew it couldn't of been that bad. I don't normally listen to reviews anyway, I was just curious to see what they had to say and at first i thought "wow, really?" That is, until s/he lost ALL credibility when they dropped the F bomb in their little article. I've never once read People magazine before but i never thought it the type to throw f bombs around. Sure this reviewer said it ONCE but if you read it, you'd come away with the same impressions as i did:

This guy just seems angry at the film, its characters or the people behind it. Complete bias.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on August 04, 2009, 11:49:47 AM
Hitman

There are a lot of similarities between this and Transporter 3. One you have a driver/merc and on the other, you have a special agent trained from birth in a Dark Angle rip-off. They are both bald and both get attached to a female interest. They kill people and both are after whoever set them up.

Two enter, one exits. Guess which?

Hitman is superior alone simply because it handled the female situation far better. Sure the chick starts coming on to him, but deals with it with far more class and this female can actually act.

The action is generic and barely makes much use of ideas from the games. Timothy Olyphant is adequate for the job. He lacks Jason's charisma, but agent 47 didn't have any to begin with.

Rated 5.5/10

Die Hard 4.0 Extended and Uncut.

Today we have a 2 for 1 special on Timothy Olyphant. Bruce Willis is back for some more Yippie Kiyay minus the wife beater which for once would have been pretty funny in one scene.

It's Die Hard, yet it's not. It could have been any action movie, but this just happens to be Die Hard flavored. It's got all sorts of references back to the pervious movies and the like, however it's just not Die Hard for the simple reason that any sense of reality goes off the rails around the half way mark. Every Die Hard before this has always had pretty sound grounding in reality for an action movie.

On the flip side there was a surprising amount of character development for McClane and his sidekick. The characters were pretty believable, the acting was good around.

It would have been a pretty good Die Hard movie if the computers were less magical, the action toned down more towards the plausible, removed the retarded aircraft fight and if McClane did some police work outside of the first quarter of the movie.

Rated 7.5
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on August 04, 2009, 08:52:25 PM
Dragonball: Evolution 6/10 It wasn't an intelligent movie by any means, but hey even with all the bad press i ended up watching it anyway. too bad fox made it instead of Warner, if warner had made it...it would have been good.

Dragonball: the magic begins 6/10: I watched this years ago actually, but it is way lower budget and bad, but the setting and plot is better. bonus points for including oolong.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on August 04, 2009, 10:30:59 PM
Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog: OH-MY-FUCKING-GOD/10

How the hell have I missed this piece of awesome for so long?

It starts off a little slow, but as soon as Captain Hammer shows up, it picks up like a speeding train.

Watch this if you haven't yet.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: NWR_insanolord on August 04, 2009, 11:14:50 PM
Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog: OH-MY-FUCKING-GOD/10

How the hell have I missed this piece of awesome for so long?

It starts off a little slow, but as soon as Captain Hammer shows up, it picks up like a speeding train.

Watch this if you haven't yet.

I actually bought that on iTunes when it was cheap months ago and haven't watched it. I'm backlogged in every single form of media.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on August 04, 2009, 11:19:24 PM
I just watched it for free on Hulu. ;)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: NWR_insanolord on August 04, 2009, 11:24:23 PM
I just watched it for free on Hulu. ;)

Yeah, well my Wii didn't get reset. :P
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on August 05, 2009, 11:16:08 AM
I just watched it for free on Hulu. ;)

Yeah, well my Wii didn't get reset. :P

Thats harsh...I lol'd
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Athena Asamiya on August 05, 2009, 11:54:20 AM
Brave Little Toaster, 8/10

Netflix enables my childhood.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: allisonls90 on August 05, 2009, 04:30:40 PM
Orphan. It was good, I'd give it a 7 out of 10. Some pretty brutal kills but nothing too gory. Could've been scarier but the creepy factor was there.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on August 05, 2009, 04:38:43 PM
Is it anything like the Orphanage? I really liked that movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on August 05, 2009, 04:41:56 PM
Is it anything like the Orphanage? I really liked that movie.

Going by the description, The Orphan is nothing like The Orphanage.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on August 05, 2009, 04:43:15 PM
So the only thing they have in common is that they involve orphans?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on August 05, 2009, 04:44:29 PM
So the only thing they have in common is that they involve orphans?

not exactly. but I don't want to say anymore.
Just know that they two movies are nothing alike.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on August 05, 2009, 07:27:31 PM
I just watched it for free on Hulu. ;)

Yeah, well my Wii didn't get reset. :P

Thats harsh...I lol'd

I cried. :(
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on August 06, 2009, 12:27:55 AM
Speakaing of The Orphanage

The Orphanage is being remade in English (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3if7a4852b0435babdef55c253b8604514)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: NWR_pap64 on August 06, 2009, 12:32:29 AM
Coraline: 7/10

Great animation and visual style. The story was good with some well written characters but not that engaging.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: NWR_insanolord on August 06, 2009, 12:54:49 AM
National Lampoon's Animal House: 7.5/10

I'd never seen it before today but since I'm going to college Sunday I figured I had to watch it. I liked it, it was a solid movie but not really something I think I'd want to watch again. It was pretty funny but dragged in parts. I finally get why all the old people praise John Belushi, though, he put in a truly amazing performance.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on August 06, 2009, 10:26:39 AM
Serenity:  Better than the series/10

I recently watched through the series (on Hulu!).  It was good.  Not GREAT, as some people think, but good.  I'd watch it if it was on the air, but I'm not upset that it isn't.

Now, I'd really like to see a second movie.  I really liked the movie.  Can't believe what they did though... like, wow.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on August 06, 2009, 01:23:58 PM
Serenity:  Better than the series/10

I recently watched through the series (on Hulu!).  It was good.  Not GREAT, as some people think, but good.  I'd watch it if it was on the air, but I'm not upset that it isn't.

Now, I'd really like to see a second movie.  I really liked the movie.  Can't believe what they did though... like, wow.

I agree with this poast. except I didn't watch more than 4 episodes of the series after watching the movie. A second movie would be really nice.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on August 06, 2009, 07:27:55 PM
as most of you know I love post apocalyptic dystopian fiction, but i didn't watch the max mad trilogy till today. Tey were awesome. Its kinda strange, some of my ideas for movies spring out of Akira, which itself draws inspiration from Mad Max

Madmax 8/10 - a good movie

Road Warrior 9/10 - a great movie

Thunderdome 9/10 - another great movie, i guess thunderdome is a mixed reaction mvoie, youeither consider it a high point or a low point in the series. I spent the last 25 years of my life having never seen these movie, and it was too long because they were awesome!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Caliban on August 06, 2009, 10:13:11 PM
The Mad Max movies are great, indeed.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: NWR_pap64 on August 07, 2009, 01:26:27 AM
Serenity:  Better than the series/10

I recently watched through the series (on Hulu!).  It was good.  Not GREAT, as some people think, but good.  I'd watch it if it was on the air, but I'm not upset that it isn't.

Now, I'd really like to see a second movie.  I really liked the movie.  Can't believe what they did though... like, wow.

I confess that I watched the entire series and while I thought it was a good series it was overrated by my group of friends.

The movie, however, was fantastic. It solved all the loose ties the series left (except for the shepherd's true identity) and had a very surprising and dramatic ending.

EDIT: Actually scratch that. I started to remember some episodes and realized that I really enjoyed the series. I liked Jayne the best. "The man ape thing gone wrong" thing amuses me XD .
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on August 07, 2009, 01:34:07 AM
The movie, however, was fantastic. It solved all the loose ties the series left (except for the shepherd's true identity) and had a very surprising and dramatic ending.

My friend, who is a FireFly/Serenity freak (owns three versions of the movie and two versions of the TV series...) has a theory that Book worked for the Alliance in a role similar to the un-named Agent.  Works for me.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: NWR_pap64 on August 07, 2009, 02:06:20 AM
Yeah that makes sense. Its likely he repented and became a shepherd by the time the series started.

One of my favorite episodes is the one where they return to a mud town which hails Jayne as a hero, complete with his own folk song, and Simon is eating his guts out!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on August 07, 2009, 05:00:24 AM
Bruno

Crass is an understatement. It's more pornographic. It defies my ability to rate it. You are either like me, laughing till you choke on popcorn or too busy throwing up that popcorn in your mouth. There is no middle ground.

That said, I like Borat better. It contains a quiet innocence that Bruno sold to induce emotional seizures.

Zero to OMGWTFBBQ / 10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on August 07, 2009, 10:17:27 AM
Speakaing of The Orphanage

The Orphanage is being remade in English (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3if7a4852b0435babdef55c253b8604514)

I've been catching up on threads i missed in my slight absence yesterday, and was about to post this same thing when Stogi mentioned The Orphanage but i'm glad i finished reading the thread. I heard about that news not long after i saw The Orphanage in theatres, and i was a bit dissapointed to be honest. I don't think it'll be as good.. i just get the feeling it'll not only be remade in English, but remade for American audiences and full with dumb scares.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on August 07, 2009, 01:40:46 PM
GI Joe: 7/10. This film set the record for blowing up 175 cars in production. This shows the whole way through the film. Extreme destruction and boom. Thin plot. And several ex-Lost cast members (with shitty accents!).

If you liked Transformers' assault on your senses, this is for you.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on August 07, 2009, 07:04:11 PM
i never got that awkward feeling watching Brueno, maybe because nothing could top the awkwardness i felt watching the hotel scene on Borat with my dad. I watched Brueno with a bunch of friends.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on August 08, 2009, 12:51:53 PM
Funny People: 7/10

Good, not great. Very enjoyable film, and a pretty good balance of the comedy with the drama but it did feel a little too long. Really, thats probably my only complaint.

Bonus: Judd Apatows kids are adooorable, and its weird to see how much they've grown since their appearance in Knocked Up. It was especially awesome to hear Adam Sandler make a menstraul joke, cuz i was thinking the same thing lmao... oh and while i'm at it:

[rant]God, I'm sick of being the only person in the theatre to laugh at half the jokes in films. Is everyone else really so slow or dumb? No one laughed at Rza's comment about Michael Richards which i found hilarious, or (i believe it was Seth Rogens) joke about not being able to have two daughters in China.. really, I was the only one who found those funny? On top of that, it pisses me off that people were walking out of the theatre becuase they thought it would be funnier. People that go to movies and don't know what the **** they're getting themselves into drive me nuts. You go see a movie about someone facing a a life threatening illness and expect it to be ALL laughs? Whatever, I'm not the one wasting my money like an idiot.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on August 08, 2009, 01:21:58 PM
Taking of Pelham 123: 7/10. Two very good lead actors who bounce well off each other. It helped to keep the story entertaining and tight. I liked it all the same.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on August 08, 2009, 01:55:14 PM
Funny People was good, more serious in places than you would expect. I liked that it didn't have an ending that tied everything up in a neat little bow.

The Searchers John Wayne is fantastic as a bitter old racist veteran who searches for his niece for five years. When he finally finds her, he tries to kill her.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on August 08, 2009, 06:55:00 PM
Moon. 8/10. I like sci-fi generally, but this was a small tight story where one actor virtually did all the work. The story itself has already been done in some fashion by both Stargate and Star Trek Voyager but it's still a good watch.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Athena Asamiya on August 08, 2009, 06:59:44 PM
(http://brandonbird.com/radar.gif)
The Evolution of Hollywood's leading men.

I like old movies best, anyhow.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on August 09, 2009, 03:12:59 AM
gi joe 6/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: NWR_pap64 on August 09, 2009, 03:56:41 AM
That picture depresses me, though I do have a soft spot for Seth Rogen...

Who is that supposed to be at the start of the line?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on August 09, 2009, 04:22:34 AM
my guess would be Sean Connery
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Dasmos on August 09, 2009, 08:36:40 AM
Clark Gable?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Athena Asamiya on August 09, 2009, 09:30:23 AM
*sigh* Cary Grant.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on August 09, 2009, 01:38:29 PM
Cary Grant, Rock Hudson, Hugh Grant, Ben Stiller, Seth Rogen?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on August 09, 2009, 01:45:27 PM
GI Joe: I give it an "It was ok" out of a possible "Wow, I'm actually impressed."
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Caliban on August 09, 2009, 08:37:34 PM
(http://brandonbird.com/radar.gif)
The Evolution of Hollywood's leading men.

Where's one for the women?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on August 10, 2009, 12:28:37 AM
GI Joe: I give it an "It was ok" out of a possible "Wow, I'm actually impressed."

my rating scale seems totally verified by the position of both dragon ball and gi joe in the same rating, they are both based off of the same type of source material, but they both have the same downfall. Imagine what Gi Joe's Dark Knight could be to Rise of Cobra's Batman Forever
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: NWR_pap64 on August 10, 2009, 01:50:02 AM
(http://brandonbird.com/radar.gif)
The Evolution of Hollywood's leading men.

Where's one for the women?

Yeah. If the leaving men are bad, the leading women are much worse.

To be honest, though, the caricatures are drawn in such a way that it took me a while to recognize most of the leading men. Seth Rogen was the only one I could pin point right away considering he is very different.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on August 10, 2009, 12:32:59 PM
I knew Ben Stiller and Seth Rogen as soon as I saw it.
I thought the first one was Connery as bond and had no idea about the other 2.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on August 10, 2009, 03:37:07 PM
I thought the same about the first guy being Connery, and had the last 3 right actually. It was the second guy i didn't know.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on August 10, 2009, 08:57:33 PM
maybe because the pictures is so damn small, when did hugh grant have red hair?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on August 11, 2009, 12:00:11 AM
The Getaway starring Steve McQueen. Man, this was a weird movie. Not weird in a strange hallucigenic or Pan's Labrynth kind of way. Weird as in I don't get why people did what they did or what the point of certain things was. And yet, I'm going to give an 7.5 out of 10.

The movie starts off fine enough with McQueen shown in prison life and then getting out and starting on a heist. The heist and the aftermath are alright as well since you're unsure how things are going to go. But during this time, you begin to wonder why some people act the way they do or where the movie is heading or how it hopes to resolve itself. And that feeling never really leaves you. Nor do I think the movie every really does resolve itself well. There were still too many questions in my mind. Plus, the way they try to put a bit of a spin on the main characters and try for a bit of a happy ending is laughable.

I guess the best way to describe the movie is that it is a bit like a modern Bonnie and Clyde. Still, the movie is such a mixed bag of things that I feel it did right and things that I feel it could have done better.

At the end of the day, I still have to recommend this movie for the sheer fact that it stars Steve McQueen. Anything with him in it is must-see. He truly is the King of Cool. Just watching him on screen, you feel a part of that cool as well. Watching him chase down a con artist who stole his suitcase of money or walking down the street with a shotgun and blasting a police cruiser help cement that reputation. Although, I did think he lost a bit of that cool in one scene where he slaps up MacGraws character in anger a bit. But he soon redeems himself and goes back into full swagger mode soon thereafter.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: GoldenPhoenix on August 11, 2009, 03:55:58 AM
I just got back from GI Joe and I have to say that I was impressed. It stayed truer to the cartoon/comic then I originally thought it would be. It was a fun action movie all around. I really hope they make a sequel because it could be tons of fun as well. Now I'll admit I still prefer Transformers 2 to it, but overall I can see myself watching the movie again. So I'd give it a 7/10. For what it is, a popcorn action flick, it was very good.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on August 11, 2009, 04:38:18 AM
Julie & Julia: Someone please pull the fire alarm/10.

guh.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on August 11, 2009, 09:33:43 AM
maybe because the pictures is so damn small, when did hugh grant have red hair?

I don't know but somehow i was able to tell that messed up face was his lol




Julie & Julia: Someone please pull the fire alarm/10.

guh.

I take it you didn't see this willingly? Poor bob :P
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on August 11, 2009, 11:20:38 AM
Julie & Julia: Someone please pull the fire alarm/10.

guh.

I hope you went kicking and screaming because your wife had a "Saw" trap attached to you with a threat to activate it if you didn't go.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on August 11, 2009, 04:13:24 PM
I reeeally want to see District 9. Comes out this weekend, doesn't it?

Anyway, last movie I saw was Ghostbusters (the first one). 9/10. There is very little about this movie I dislike. Not enough backstory is my one complaint.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: NWR_pap64 on August 11, 2009, 04:26:08 PM
For some reason, District 9 reminds me of a game...
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on August 11, 2009, 04:28:25 PM
THE MIST

best ending ever/10

Saw this for the second time. Wow. This movie is like any other horror title. Instead of trying to make you fear the unknown, it makes you scared of the known; posing questions of humanity, religion and morals while asking you to survive. It does a great job portraying our faults as a society, and the characters that rip open our faults, while attacking our ability to work together and problem solve.

Plus, the ending is one of the greatest in film history with Stephen King admitting it was better and later changing his own book to fit the movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: GoldenPhoenix on August 11, 2009, 04:39:46 PM
THE MIST

best ending ever/10

Saw this for the second time. Wow. This movie is like any other horror title. Instead of trying to make you fear the unknown, it makes you scared of the known; posing questions of humanity, religion and morals while asking you to survive. It does a great job portraying our faults as a society, and the characters that rip open our faults, while attacking our ability to work together and problem solve.

Plus, the ending is one of the greatest in film history with Stephen King admitting it was better and later changing his own book to fit the movie.

Wow Stogi. You are one of the few people I know that loved the movie, I did too. I'm a big fan of Darabont's work, not to mention a fan of Stephen King because of things like you described. What I found most brilliant about the movie is that the true monsters weren't the creatures outside but the people in the store.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on August 11, 2009, 05:10:52 PM
GI Joe: 7/10. This film set the record for blowing up 175 cars in production. This shows the whole way through the film. Extreme destruction and boom. Thin plot. And several ex-Lost cast members (with shitty accents!).

If you liked Transformers' assault on your senses, this is for you.

I just got back from GI Joe and I have to say that I was impressed. It stayed truer to the cartoon/comic then I originally thought it would be. It was a fun action movie all around. I really hope they make a sequel because it could be tons of fun as well. Now I'll admit I still prefer Transformers 2 to it, but overall I can see myself watching the movie again. So I'd give it a 7/10. For what it is, a popcorn action flick, it was very good.

Funny how we had virtually opposing views yet rated it the same? I walked out with a headache because of his assault on my eyes and ears. A spoon would have done the job better.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on August 11, 2009, 05:38:03 PM
What if you thought Transformers 2 sucked?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on August 11, 2009, 05:42:27 PM
What if you thought Transformers 2 sucked?

Then this film is for you.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on August 12, 2009, 09:10:24 AM
Wow GP and Stogi have something in common...

Is the sky falling?

(The ending of) Meatballs 2: WTF IS THAT!?/10

I've only ever heard of the Meatballs movies (80s comedies) but i've never seen one. Yesterday was the second time i caught the last few minutes of the movie after coming home to eat dinner after work, and each time i reacted the same. WTF IS THAT!? to some weird alien character they called Meathead who wore a buckethat at summercamp... that thing is fucking creepy. Ugh.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: NWR_DrewMG on August 12, 2009, 10:15:15 AM
(500) Days of Summer

I bought into this movie hard, hook, line and sinker.  It was a real rollercoaster of emotions as the film jumps back and forth to different points in a doomed relationship.  Zooey Deschenal is at her most adorable for most of this movie, which makes it hard to watch as she toys with the emotions of Joseph Gordon-Levitt who feels like a very real character.

The movie is funny, moving, and a joy to watch.

A-
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on August 12, 2009, 10:34:37 AM
(500) Days of Summer

I bought into this movie hard, hook, line and sinker.  It was a real rollercoaster of emotions as the film jumps back and forth to different points in a doomed relationship.  Zooey Deschenal is at her most adorable for most of this movie, which makes it hard to watch as she toys with the emotions of Joseph Gordon-Levitt who feels like a very real character.

The movie is funny, moving, and a joy to watch.

A-

And here I thought I was the only person to watch (or admit they watched) this film. It was a great movie, and as I mentioned earlier the soundtrack compliments it very VERY well.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: NWR_DrewMG on August 12, 2009, 10:46:49 AM
Nah, I'm really into indie (or pseudo-indie) comedies.  I also saw and really really enjoyed Away We Go.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on August 12, 2009, 11:01:28 AM
You know, I almost saw a free screening for Away We Go back in the Winter but the screening was on a Thursday night and I had to be up very early the next day. It sounded like it'd be a good story so I was dissapointed we didn't get to see it.
It would've been nice to see the advanced screening, then the theatrical release to catch the differences but it seems I've missed my chance; no theatres near me are playing it anymore.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: NWR_DrewMG on August 12, 2009, 11:14:32 AM
When it hits DVD, I'll be sure to pick it up.  I'd recommend the same to you, even for a rental.  It's less quirky and indie than Juno and (500) Days Of Summer.  It feels more grounded than both of those movies, while at the same time delivers very believable, likable characters.  I think I actually enjoyed it a bit more than (500) Days of Summer, but maybe that's because I'm still angry at Zooey's character that movie. 
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on August 12, 2009, 11:40:20 AM
Wow GP and Stogi have something in common...

Is the sky falling?

This isn't the first time this has happened you know. We also like collecting weapons. Though I like collecting Japanese swords while she likes collecting fantasy swords.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: vudu on August 12, 2009, 02:01:18 PM
Joseph Gordon-Levitt is the indie darling of the decade. Both Brick and The Lookout were fantastic.  I look forward to 500 Days of Summer.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on August 12, 2009, 02:25:28 PM
I think I actually enjoyed it a bit more than (500) Days of Summer, but maybe that's because I'm still angry at Zooey's character that movie. 

I'll give it a rent first, definately. Havent seen Juno yet to be honest, and I can't hate or be angry at Zooey's character, she's just too damn pretty. And that singing voice... <3

Wow GP and Stogi have something in common...

Is the sky falling?

This isn't the first time this has happened you know. We also like collecting weapons. Though I like collecting Japanese swords while she likes collecting fantasy swords.

I know, the fact that it KEEPS happening is whats scary.. To think, one day she'll realize you have enough in common for her to call you her friend.

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on August 12, 2009, 03:32:37 PM
Ya, but unless the feelings mutual it won't matter much. 8)

EDIT:

The Last House on the Left.

(http://www.cinecultist.com/archives/culkin.jpg) / 10

This movie wasn't your normal horror flick. It's not about being scared, but rather working up the balls to do what you gotta do; in this case, kill some evil motherfuckers.

It started off slow but got real interesting once the **** hit the fan...but then it got boring again...during the climax mind you. I would have screenplayed it differently with more dramatic dialog.

The ending is straight fucked up. O G status. No cops, no bullshit. Still pretty twisted though, almost Dexter status.

Overall, it was alright to watch but I could live my life happily without watching it again.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on August 17, 2009, 10:45:50 AM
I heard it was.. intense, but i still want to watch the original version first.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on August 17, 2009, 08:15:08 PM
District 9

Holy balls, this is a great movie. Defies any and all expectations you have going in. Perhaps the best special effects I've ever seen--you will believe these aliens are real.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: bustin98 on August 18, 2009, 02:13:52 AM
Yes, District 9 is awesome. I love these movies where I have no idea what to expect going in. I thought it was going to be some Planet of the Apes/Alien Nation story clone. Nope. Totally different direction. The effects are full of win. I was worried a bit about the hand cam, but it grows on you and just becomes part of the experience.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on August 18, 2009, 11:30:34 AM
^good to hear, i'll be seeing it this weekend.

The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard 6/10

Not a great movie, but just slightly above average. Some of the dialogue was raunchier than i would've expected, which made it funnier in that "wow i can't believe they went there" type of way. The storyline wasn't great either but geez.. they still somehow managed to let it fall thru. Lots of cliche storytelling moments that were used for run-on gags that felt stale very early on.

All in all it was a decent movie to see with friends or whoever, perhaps you might enjoy it even more if you were to have a few drinks beforehand, but I doubt it's the kind of movie you'll want to see over and over again.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on August 18, 2009, 12:42:20 PM
The Mist

Involves Thomas "Frank Castle" Jane, so it wins by default. Adapted from an old Stephen King novel, The Mist is about a bunch of small townsfolk stuck in a grocery store while horrible creatures bandy about outside. The creature effects are AWESOME. I loved the designs, especially Cthulhu (at the end!). Very Lovecraftian.

The story itself is just as good, basically showing how all the rules go out the window when fear sets in.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on August 18, 2009, 02:57:15 PM
The Mist

Involves Thomas "Frank Castle" Jane, so it wins by default. Adapted from an old Stephen King novel, The Mist is about a bunch of small townsfolk stuck in a grocery store while horrible creatures bandy about outside. The creature effects are AWESOME. I loved the designs, especially Cthulhu (at the end!). Very Lovecraftian.

The story itself is just as good, basically showing how all the rules go out the window when fear sets in.

I hear Stephen King later changed the ending of his book to match the ending of the movie because he like it so much more.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on August 18, 2009, 03:21:18 PM
Maybe it's because I mentioned it earlier...
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on August 18, 2009, 04:47:43 PM
Maybe it's because I mentioned it earlier...

Is that where I heard that? I thought it might have been in this thread, but I thought it was from somewhere else. Must have been a few pages back..... not that I looked.  :-[
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: D_Average on August 18, 2009, 10:56:52 PM
^good to hear, i'll be seeing it this weekend.

The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard 6/10

Not a great movie, but just slightly above average. Some of the dialogue was raunchier than i would've expected, which made it funnier in that "wow i can't believe they went there" type of way. The storyline wasn't great either but geez.. they still somehow managed to let it fall thru. Lots of cliche storytelling moments that were used for run-on gags that felt stale very early on.

All in all it was a decent movie to see with friends or whoever, perhaps you might enjoy it even more if you were to have a few drinks beforehand, but I doubt it's the kind of movie you'll want to see over and over again.

Better or worse than The Hangover IYO?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: RABicle on August 19, 2009, 01:47:55 AM
District 9
To steal and old Maddox joke; cancel the Academy Awards, the contest is over.

District 9 has everything and will become a true Sci Fi classic along the lines of Blade Runner, Alien, Terminator 2 and The Matrix. People have been talking about the effects, **** the effects the story was incredible and so original.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on August 19, 2009, 02:37:35 AM
The Goods: 8/10

Loved it, but it followed the typical formula for comedies.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on August 19, 2009, 03:06:05 AM
Race to Witch Mountain- 2/10 bad science fiction, Rock is great though. **** I need to look up the writers....fucking idiots
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on August 19, 2009, 10:01:56 AM
^good to hear, i'll be seeing it this weekend.

The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard 6/10

Not a great movie, but just slightly above average. Some of the dialogue was raunchier than i would've expected, which made it funnier in that "wow i can't believe they went there" type of way. The storyline wasn't great either but geez.. they still somehow managed to let it fall thru. Lots of cliche storytelling moments that were used for run-on gags that felt stale very early on.

All in all it was a decent movie to see with friends or whoever, perhaps you might enjoy it even more if you were to have a few drinks beforehand, but I doubt it's the kind of movie you'll want to see over and over again.

Better or worse than The Hangover IYO?

Worse.

The Goods: 8/10

Loved it, but it followed the typical formula for comedies.

Lol i agree, but i just felt wrong give it that high of a score.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Dasmos on August 19, 2009, 12:27:11 PM
The creature effects are AWESOME. I loved the designs, especially Cthulhu (at the end!). Very Lovecraftian.

Really? I remember walking away from the movie thinking they were amongst some of the worst looking effects I have seen in a modern film.

Also yeah D9 is goooood. It deserves all the hype and recognition it gets, unlike films like Trashfarmers Poo.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on August 19, 2009, 11:42:52 PM
the myst has cthulhu in it? That alone warrants a watch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxScTbIUvoA
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on August 20, 2009, 07:54:13 AM
the myst has cthulhu in it? That alone warrants a watch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxScTbIUvoA

Thats what gotten me interested in seeing it actually.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on August 21, 2009, 06:03:07 PM
District 9

An apartheid metaphor with all the movie fixings; conspiracies, action, heroism and remorse. It's even more impressive by how well directed it was considering it is from a new comer on a tight a budget. Go see this movie.

9/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on August 22, 2009, 02:21:57 AM
The Haunting in Connecticut 7.5/10. I normally hate these type of movies, but i found the plot a little better developed than the usual fair. points taken away for jump points that don't make you jump.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on August 22, 2009, 04:12:25 PM
Inglorious Bastards: 9.5/10

Quentin Tarantino does is again.  Gorey, graphic and generally awesome.  Well written characters, involved plots and surprise twists make this a must see.  Also, the acting was great.

Could've used more Nazi killing, though.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on August 22, 2009, 04:24:37 PM
^good to hear, i'll be seeing it this weekend.

The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard 6/10

Not a great movie, but just slightly above average. Some of the dialogue was raunchier than i would've expected, which made it funnier in that "wow i can't believe they went there" type of way. The storyline wasn't great either but geez.. they still somehow managed to let it fall thru. Lots of cliche storytelling moments that were used for run-on gags that felt stale very early on.

All in all it was a decent movie to see with friends or whoever, perhaps you might enjoy it even more if you were to have a few drinks beforehand, but I doubt it's the kind of movie you'll want to see over and over again.

Better or worse than The Hangover IYO?

Worse.

The Goods: 8/10

Loved it, but it followed the typical formula for comedies.

Lol i agree, but i just felt wrong give it that high of a score.

I give it an 8 because it's one of those movies I can watch over and over on DVD just for the dialogue.  Definitely not as good as the Hangover, but I still feel that an 8 was appropriate for replay value.  You can have it on and do other things since it's not at all plot heavy.  Plus, it was exactly what I expected.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on August 23, 2009, 02:20:23 PM
Thats where we differ, i probably wouldn't jump at the chance to own this on dvd. If it starts playing on basic cable a few years from now, I'd rewatch it but its not worth owning for me. Not sure why though, because usually I like these types of comedies (not too plot heavy, let it play in the background and enjoy the dialogue).


District 9 = 10/What the Fook man!

So good. Can't say anything that hasn't already been said already in this thread.

Next movie i'll be seeing: Inglorious Basterds
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on August 23, 2009, 07:42:37 PM
Casablanca. One the best movies of all time five stars.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on August 24, 2009, 02:10:16 AM
Coraline 6:10. I watched it with my daughter. It's fun, the animation is absolutely amazing, and the voicework is done well. The bad things are then ending is too short and seems like it was either over-edited, or possibly rushed. Oh well, it's a kid's movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: bustin98 on August 24, 2009, 09:51:05 AM
Brandogg = older than I thought
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on August 24, 2009, 01:12:30 PM
He's still younger, and better at the drums than you.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on August 24, 2009, 04:47:47 PM
Coraline 6:10. I watched it with my daughter. It's fun, the animation is absolutely amazing, and the voicework is done well. The bad things are then ending is too short and seems like it was either over-edited, or possibly rushed. Oh well, it's a kid's movie.

That's kind of an insult to the genre. Just because it's animated doesn't mean it's a kid's movie. I mean, I understand where the cliche came from (pre-Pixar Disney), but the genre has grown. There are some dark themes in Coraline that are better understood by adults. Anything by Neil Gaiman has something for everyone.

The Fantastic Mr. Fox is coming out later this year (or early next year). It's also stop-motion animation and will be directed by (shudder) Wes Anderson. I expect the man will turn the original Roald Dahl storybook into a dysfunctional family soap opera. Boy, I wonder if Jason Schwartzman and Owen Wilson will be involved somehow...

OH WAIT YES THEY WILL. /facepalm
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on August 24, 2009, 05:05:47 PM
Van Wilder: Freshman Year - 5.5/10

Average comedy following the average comedy outline. It is a prequel to the original Van Wilder movie starring Ryan Reynolds[:thumbsup;] and the actor that tries to play a young Ryan Reynolds, wasn't as bad as he could have been. He actually had alot of the mannerisms down, but his dialog delivery was far more Ace Ventura then Van Wilder. This movie had a few lol moments, but nothing making it worth watching, unless you're watching it for teh boobs(still not worth it).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: bustin98 on August 24, 2009, 11:25:21 PM
I think we can thank the 80s for turning cartoons into fodder for kids instead of entertainment for the family. Before the Simpsons, the Flinstones was the longest running prime time cartoon. Bugs Bunny and Tom and Jerry were very much meant for adults along with children. I would say that animated films still struggle to find an adult audience in the US, Pixar created or otherwise.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on August 25, 2009, 12:35:49 AM
I'm 28. I know, I know. That's my daughter in my avatar, from a couple years ago, she's 3-1/2 now.

I'm not saying it's a kid's movie because it's animated, but it *is* a kid's movie. I'm not saying it's for 3 year old kids, maybe the 9-12 year old range.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on August 25, 2009, 03:03:36 AM
The Mist 9/10
just got done watching it, great movie, a little much for Mom who watched it with me, but I like stories that don't hold back. This is Horror at its best, you should feel a little disgusted.

good recommendation guys, its the type of movie I like
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: GoldenPhoenix on August 25, 2009, 05:23:43 AM
The creature effects are AWESOME. I loved the designs, especially Cthulhu (at the end!). Very Lovecraftian.

Really? I remember walking away from the movie thinking they were amongst some of the worst looking effects I have seen in a modern film.

Also yeah D9 is goooood. It deserves all the hype and recognition it gets, unlike films like Trashfarmers Poo.

The special effects were quite good in the Myst, especially considering it had a budget of less then 20 million I believe. They weren't abused so each time the creature showed up it was quite terrifying (I still remember those spider creatures in the pharmacy! Beyond creepy).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on August 26, 2009, 08:37:04 AM
Idiocracy: sad-but-true/10

Idiocracy is a rare and astounding film - if nothing else, simply because they used actual filmed video from the future to make this movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on August 26, 2009, 10:53:33 AM
Idiocracy: sad-but-true/10

Idiocracy is a rare and astounding film - if nothing else, simply because they used actual filmed video from the future to make this movie.

Only recently seen this movie (couple months ago) and I have to agree with this rating.

"But it has blast processing" = "But its in HD/Hardcore" = "But its got electrolytes/what plants crave"
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: NWR_DrewMG on August 26, 2009, 11:25:43 AM
Yeah... but HD actually is something.  Something tangible that most people understand.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on August 26, 2009, 11:56:32 AM
Yeah... but HD actually is something.  Something tangible that most people understand.

Most people THINK they understand. I'm not gonna front and say I know the difference between 1080p or i or whatever, cuz I don't. I'm just not part of the group of people that see's HD and automatically thinks better. It's almost like a fad, the way HD is marketed in some innapropriate ways.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on August 26, 2009, 12:55:23 PM
What I love is BluRay advertisements on DVDs.

"Buy Blu Ray, get superior resolution."
::shows clips from movies in whatever resolution my tv has been displaying it::
"Get superior clarity and picture quality"
::shows more clips from movies in the same resolution my tv has been displaying::
"It's in 1080p!"
::shows more movie clips in my tv's resolution::


I know they can't temporarily increase my screen resolution to show the difference, but thats whats funny about the advertising. talking points, talking points, talking points.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: vudu on August 26, 2009, 02:26:19 PM
I always found that funny, too.  If I were in charge, I'd "downscale" the an image so it's the same difference between 1080P and 420P and show that in a side-by-side comparison with a 420p picture to illustrate the difference.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on August 26, 2009, 02:46:02 PM
I didn't like Idiocracy. I understood the message after ten minutes. After that, it was just beating you over the head with it. Can't carry that joke for an hour and a half.

I just saw Adventureland. Hated it. Went in expecting a comedy, turned out it was a weepy drama. At least the music was good.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on August 26, 2009, 03:02:41 PM
I didn't like Idiocracy. I understood the message after ten minutes. After that, it was just beating you over the head with it. Can't carry that joke for an hour and a half.

Idiocracy, like many comedies, is good until they get to the part where they need to start wrapping up the movie and things start to take a turn towards more serious. In Idiocracy's case that was somewhere around when he got made Secretary of whatever it was he was made secretary of. Everything before that was great, everything after that was just...
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on August 26, 2009, 03:13:06 PM
I didn't like Idiocracy. I understood the message after ten minutes. After that, it was just beating you over the head with it. Can't carry that joke for an hour and a half.

I just saw Adventureland. Hated it. Went in expecting a comedy, turned out it was a weepy drama. At least the music was good.

Tricked me too, but i still enjoyed it. It was a believable story at least. Soundtrack did rock, and the main character in this film is doing a movie called Zombie Land that looks pretty funny.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on August 26, 2009, 03:17:24 PM
I didn't like Idiocracy. I understood the message after ten minutes. After that, it was just beating you over the head with it. Can't carry that joke for an hour and a half.

I just saw Adventureland. Hated it. Went in expecting a comedy, turned out it was a weepy drama. At least the music was good.

Tricked me too, but i still enjoyed it. It was a believable story at least. Soundtrack did rock, and the main character in this film is doing a movie called Zombie Land that looks pretty funny.

link to Zombieland trailer
http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/forums/index.php?topic=29034.0
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on August 26, 2009, 03:20:54 PM
I didn't like Idiocracy. I understood the message after ten minutes. After that, it was just beating you over the head with it. Can't carry that joke for an hour and a half.

I just saw Adventureland. Hated it. Went in expecting a comedy, turned out it was a weepy drama. At least the music was good.

Tricked me too, but i still enjoyed it. It was a believable story at least. Soundtrack did rock, and the main character in this film is doing a movie called Zombie Land that looks pretty funny.

link to Zombieland trailer
http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/forums/index.php?topic=29034.0

For some reason i've been ignoring that thread, save for one moment where I browsed thru it thinking it was THIS thread. Might've even posted in there too..
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: stevey on August 27, 2009, 02:28:30 AM
Idiocracy: sad-but-true/10

Idiocracy is a rare and astounding film - if nothing else, simply because they used actual filmed video from the future to make this movie.

Only recently seen this movie (couple months ago) and I have to agree with this rating.

"But it has blast processing" = "But its in HD/Hardcore" = "But its got electrolytes/what plants crave"

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 (http://xkcd.com/603/)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on August 27, 2009, 07:28:20 AM
Hitman. It was very silly and blatantly skipped bits in plot to make it coherent. I loved the chemistry between the male/female leads (i cant be bothered to type their names!).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: GoldenPhoenix on August 27, 2009, 09:56:03 PM
I don't recall the thread where Galaxy Quest was talked about, but it was just announced it is coming to Blu-ray November 17th.

http://bluray.ign.com/articles/101/1019092p1.html (http://bluray.ign.com/articles/101/1019092p1.html)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: GoldenPhoenix on August 28, 2009, 03:56:35 AM
Just got back from District 9. Wow I was super impressed, definitely one of my favorite movies. What i found most amazing is how stunning the special effects were, better then many super big budget movies, it shows how much waste is put into so many films when District 9 can pull off some of the best visuals I've seen.

I really don't have any complaints about the movie. It was well paced, never dragged its feet, and it was realistically acted. Not to mention it was emotionally engaging and smart.

10/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: NWR_DrewMG on August 28, 2009, 09:13:54 AM
I'm the only person I know who didn't love District 9.  I'm not generally a nitpicker, but I ended up nitpicking that one to death.

Saw Semi Pro last night.  It was what it was, a really bad Will Ferrel comedy.  Too bad, lots of talent in the cast, but the writing was really lazy.  5/10.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on August 30, 2009, 01:42:44 AM
Marty = 7.5/10

Maybe you've heard of it, maybe you haven't. Best picture of 1955 or 1956, not going to bother too much on that detail. A pretty decent film about two lesser-attractive-people falling in love. However, it seems too unfinished. It also depicts life in an Italian family and there are a bunch of other subplots going on but in the end, the movie leaves you wondering what was going to happen with everyone. So, the movie ends up feeling like all set-up and no payoff. Except for with Marty and his finding a woman. That plot is settled but the rest of the secondary characters are left in the wind. I was surprised that the movie just ended. This movie is really just about a first date in a way but it's an awfully sweet first date and I was happy along with the main characters. There is also one hilarious side character that I thought was awesome because of his voice. If you ever see the movie, it's the guy who talks about a writer Mickey Spillane. Recommended if you want an idealized view of 1955 romance and life.


Shadow of a Doubt  8.5/10

One of the last big Alfred Hitchcock movies I haven't seen yet. It's a shame that the audience is left with no doubt right away as to whether the Uncle is guilty or not. I think it would have been better to keep toying with the audience's suspicion or doubt longer. That said, Joesph Cotton is awesome. It's worth watching the movie for his performance. Plus, once things are finally laid bare between the two main characters, it sets up an interesting finale and then we get to some real suspense. I'm surprised Hitchcock calls it his favorite film. There are others I like far more although I do admit that the ending to this would rank pretty high when it comes to Hitchcock movies. The ending is pretty darn good. And once again, there is another side character who I think is awesome. The character's name is Herb and the actor who plays him reminds me a lot of Rick Moranis. Seriously, you'd think Rick Moranis went back in time. He and the father of the family spend most of the movie talking about the ways they would kill one another. It's a concept that's a little out there but it keeps you entertained.


It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World - 9/10

Sure, The Simpson summerized and lampooned this movie in about 5 minutes compared to the 161 minutes this movie runs at but I still recommend seeing the whole thing. It's the greatest comedy epic of all time. I say that because I don't think any other comedy runs this long and has an intermission break making it the only comedy epic. If you've ever seen Rat Race, that's close enough to the same plot here. A bunch of people learn about a buried treasure and the race is on as they rush to beat each other to the prize. The thing that sets this movie apart is that they tried to bring in as many famous comedians as they could at that time. Buster Keaton and the 3 Stooges make appearances. Some cameos I have no clue who the people were which now make the scenes they are in totally random.

The funny thing about this movie is that you probably aren't going to laugh out loud a lot. It might seem strange to recommend a comedy so highly then but it comes from the spirit of things. You just sort of grin along at the mayhem unfolding. There are a couple characters who you do make you laugh everytime they come on the screen. One is Sylvester Marcus who plays a thickheaded momma's boy and the other is Otto Meyer, a real weasel. If you see the movie, chances are you'll recognize Otto Meyer from The Simpsons episode: "Homer the Vigilante" when there is a cat burgler in town. At the end of the episode there is a mad dash through town for his hidden loot. That's the lampoon of this movie. One scene has a man in a fedora shaking his fist at Bart as his car goes down a river. That's Otto Meyer. Appearantly, even The Simpson writers thought he was hilarious enough to include one of his scenes in that episode.

The other thing that surprises me about this move is the stuntwork in it. I was amazed at the amount of stuntwork done in this movie as I watched it again. They did some spectacular camera work and driving stunts for this movie. The best thing is that since this is 1963, you know that most of that was actually done in real life. I think it would be worth watching just for those scenes alone. Great stuff, great movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BeautifulShy on August 30, 2009, 04:21:28 AM
I rented It's a Mad,Mad,Mad, World many years ago and I loved the movie alot. What Khushrenada says is spot on. Excellent Movie!!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Mop it up on August 30, 2009, 04:14:17 PM
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World - 9/10
That actually sounds like something I might like, I'll have to check it out.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on August 30, 2009, 07:48:44 PM
District 9: 8.5/10

Like everyone said, the movie was really good, very well done.  I just didn't get completely blown away.  However, I was very impressed.  It was exactly like my friend described it to me: "Like, Emperor's New Groove, but with more violence."
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on August 30, 2009, 07:56:46 PM
when I watched Rat Race, i was like hey....this reminds me of a movie i saw years ago!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on August 31, 2009, 02:53:20 AM
when I watched Rat Race, i was like hey....this reminds me of a movie i saw years ago!

I loved Rat Race when it came out. When reading reviews for Rat Race, I learned that it was inspired from this movie which caused me to check it out the first time. Glad I did. I should watch Rat Race again to see how it holds up. It's been quite a few years now since I last saw it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on August 31, 2009, 12:44:28 PM
Taking Woodstock: 7.5/10

(explanation to come, I have to take a lunch break)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: NWR_insanolord on August 31, 2009, 06:18:23 PM
Somebody here a long time ago (maybe 2-3 weeks) mentioned The Boondock Saints. I was hanging out with some guys last night not going to some big party on campus and we watched it. The parts that I was actually paying attention to and we weren't talking over were pretty cool. I'd give it at least an 8 or an 8.5 out of 10. The problem is I didn't catch a lot of it, but I caught enough of it that I don't feel like watching it again, at least not any time soon.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on August 31, 2009, 06:39:39 PM
It Happened One Night The first romantic comedy 4.5 stars

I'm going through the AFI top 100 films list in a race with a friend of mine. Loser has to buy dinner. If I lose, it's going to be a $300+ meal at the top of the Space Needle. I got 55 movies to go, so I better win!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on August 31, 2009, 08:28:12 PM
It Happened One Night The first romantic comedy 4.5 stars

I'm going through the AFI top 100 films list in a race with a friend of mine. Loser has to buy dinner. If I lose, it's going to be a $300+ meal at the top of the Space Needle. I got 55 movies to go, so I better win!

We expect a rating on each and every single one. ;D
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on September 01, 2009, 12:04:46 AM
You know, I keep meaning to see that movie but I always end up choosing something else. I should take a look at that list again and see how many titles there are I still haven't watched.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: King of Twitch on September 01, 2009, 01:25:18 AM
Riff Trax Mystery Science Theater: Plan 9 from Outer Space

The riff was broadcast live into theaters from Nashville, TN and was tape delayed on the west coast, which was probably better since the weather didn't interfere for us. After a brief introduction the 50s "instructional" video called Flying Stewardess started, and they tore right into the opening credits like the old days--no holds barred.

After the short, there was an intermission with an ipod giveaway, some commercial spoofs, and a guy that sang 2 sci-fi themed songs on guitar, one about zombies and another about the future. While I wanted to get on with the movie, I was amused. The gang also had a song about the other 8 Plans, which was also ok.

Plan 9 is classic B-movie sci-fi infamy... it's the movie Seinfeld wanted to see while waiting around at the Chinese Restaurant. While I don't agree that it's "the worst movie ever made" (I've seen far worse on MST), it is full of sheer incompetence that, oddly enough, doesn't start off too terribly: a ufo lands in a cemetery and starts doing bad stuff. Little by little though, the stupid adds up: the scenes repeatedly jump from day to night, the characters point their guns around at stuff like they were toy gun props, the...antagonists wander around on screen for no apparent reason, and the last 15 minutes is a clusterfark of people rambling on about the danger over in the distance and arguing with alien-people.

A joke about the car 'face', a fake soliloquy (TIME FOR GO TO BEDDDD), [Servo] going overboard with details, and [Crow] pretending to read the credits toooo slowwwly was all very reminiscent of the show. Actually, they did hold back the absurdly obscure references which is alright by me; more stuff to laugh at. And laugh I did, more than any other time at the movie theater bar none. Well worth the extra $3 or so.

10/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on September 01, 2009, 03:11:38 AM
To Kill a Mockingbird 4.5 stars. Gregory Peck is fantastic as a man who keeps losing but perseveres.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: bustin98 on September 01, 2009, 08:53:12 AM
when I watched Rat Race, i was like hey....this reminds me of a movie i saw years ago!
This is awesome. I'm teaching my kids to let me know when they are prarie-dogging.

No, not really
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on September 01, 2009, 10:45:13 AM
Taking Woodstock: 7.5/10

(explanation to come, I have to take a lunch break)

So i forgot to update this after i took lunch yesterday...

This film while very enjoyable, suffered from its shitty marketing that made it look more like a movie about woodstock, as opposed to a movie that happens to take place during woodstock. Its the same shitty marketing that has one of our forum members upset at Adventureland being billed as a comedy (and its okay, it happened to me too but i still enjoyed that film.)

The film was more about Elliot, played by Dimitri Martin (who was excellent by the way) and his trouble with his family basically holding him back. Their efforts in housing thousands of people that are attending the festival is what moves the plot and both brings the family together and drives them apart. So for those of you thinking you'd see a movie about hippies dropping acid, dancing naked, smoking weed, groovin to tunes and sliding in mud.. well this movie has that, but in small doses (save for the nudity, so if you're not up for a lot of male and female full frontal, this movie isn't for you). Aslo, for the fact that the majority of this movie takes place during woodstock.. the lack of tunes was a little dissapointing. Every now and again you might of heard someone like Joplin playing faintly in the background, but that was it..

Aside from the nitpicking though, it was still a fun movie to watch and one I might even watch again. Maybe not a dvd purchase, but a rental or such.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: vudu on September 01, 2009, 01:39:53 PM
I'm going through the AFI top 100 films list in a race with a friend of mine. Loser has to buy dinner. If I lose, it's going to be a $300+ meal at the top of the Space Needle. I got 55 movies to go, so I better win!

I tried something similar a few years ago.  Unfortunately, I was a little too ambitious and went with the top 1,000 films.  I got a couple hundred into it but a lot of the movies were very old and either hard to find at the video store (this was before Netflix) or I had simply never heard of.  I really should try again some day.

You know, I keep meaning to see that movie but I always end up choosing something else.

Eh, I didn't like it that much.  The story was trite and doesn't hold up well by today's standards.  That, and I don't really care for Clark Gable and the woman in the movie was just plain annoying.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on September 01, 2009, 03:35:45 PM
Don't listen to vudu He's mafia It Happened One Night is very good. It creates a lot of conventions of modern day romantic comedies. If you watch it in that context it really is groundbreaking. Things like the two leads disliking each other, being forced to spend time together and getting into wacky adventures is cliche now, but back then it was fresh and new.

It's like complaining that those Lord of the Rings movies ripped off Dungeons and Dragons...
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: vudu on September 01, 2009, 03:54:05 PM
I didn't say it wasn't a historically important movie.  I said it hasn't aged well.  For all its influence, it's really just not very much fun to watch.

Maybe I just don't like romantic comedies.  You can make a unique, mouth-watering extreme sandwich, but if you use **** instead of mayo it's not going to taste very good.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on September 01, 2009, 04:48:15 PM
Two... opinions! ...Each..... polor opposites! What.... would Kirk do?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: GoldenPhoenix on September 01, 2009, 04:49:11 PM
Two... opinions! ...Each..... polor opposites! What.... would Kirk do?

Rip his shirt off and beat both into submission.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on September 01, 2009, 06:31:20 PM
I didn't say it wasn't a historically important movie.  I said it hasn't aged well.  For all its influence, it's really just not very much fun to watch.

Maybe I just don't like romantic comedies.  You can make a unique, mouth-watering extreme sandwich, but if you use **** instead of mayo it's not going to taste very good.

Ugh... remind me not to check the extreme sandwhich thread next time its updated.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on September 01, 2009, 10:30:17 PM
Do you like When Harry Met Sally?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on September 02, 2009, 02:05:48 AM
Taking Woodstock: 7.5/10

(explanation to come, I have to take a lunch break)

So i forgot to update this after i took lunch yesterday...

This film while very enjoyable, suffered from its shitty marketing that made it look more like a movie about woodstock, as opposed to a movie that happens to take place during woodstock. Its the same shitty marketing that has one of our forum members upset at Adventureland being billed as a comedy (and its okay, it happened to me too but i still enjoyed that film.)

The film was more about Elliot, played by Dimitri Martin (who was excellent by the way) and his trouble with his family basically holding him back. Their efforts in housing thousands of people that are attending the festival is what moves the plot and both brings the family together and drives them apart. So for those of you thinking you'd see a movie about hippies dropping acid, dancing naked, smoking weed, groovin to tunes and sliding in mud.. well this movie has that, but in small doses (save for the nudity, so if you're not up for a lot of male and female full frontal, this movie isn't for you). Aslo, for the fact that the majority of this movie takes place during woodstock.. the lack of tunes was a little dissapointing. Every now and again you might of heard someone like Joplin playing faintly in the background, but that was it..

Aside from the nitpicking though, it was still a fun movie to watch and one I might even watch again. Maybe not a dvd purchase, but a rental or such.

Yeah, I haven't seen that movie yet, but thats basically what Ang Lee said on the Colbert Report. He mentioned its not really a concert movie, and that the stage while in the background, was not focused on.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on September 02, 2009, 03:52:58 AM
Singin' in the Rain Four stars. Gene Kelly is a ninja with his feet.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on September 02, 2009, 11:50:12 AM
Sorta wish I saw him on the Colbert Report than, I like knowing what i'm getting myself into before seeing a movie. Luckily this was one of those rare pleasant surprises, it's really a good movie but only slightly above average. There's a lot of characters or moments that leave you wondering at the end, and while sometimes a little wondering can be a good thing it wasn't in this case because those characters or moments never really developed.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: vudu on September 02, 2009, 01:35:43 PM
Do you like When Harry Met Sally?

It was okay.  Billy Crystal is the man.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on September 03, 2009, 12:56:59 AM
The Thin Man = 6.5/10

Old 1934 detective movie. The difference is that unlike a lot of noir thrillers or detective mysteries during this time, this one is given more humor. The mystery itself is alright but watching this movie, the mystery is just there to give us a purpose so we can watch the detective and his wife and glimps the great banter between them. It's hard to figure out how best to describe the characters. The detective, Nick Charles, is a man who seems bored with all detective work as though he's seen it all. In fact, he hasn't even done detective work in 4 years. He loves alcohol and parties. But most especially, he seems to love being around his wife as they give each other a hard time. Nora Charles, the wife, wants to see her husband actually take on a case for once. She is able to hold her own with Nick and loves the unrespectability Nick brings into their life. You see, she comes from a rich family and is respectable wheres Nick comes from a background of being a detective and meeting all kinds of unscrupulous people.

I feel that I haven't done this film enough justice in reviewing it which is a shame. This movie was so good, it inspired 5 more sequels creating the "Thin Man" series. This movie itself was nominated for a best picture back in 1934. I have to say, I've seen a lot of older films from the 30's and 40's and this one holds up remarkably well. The characters of Nick and Nora I think would be welcomed by a movie audience today. The actors who played them did a great job and the reason you watch this movie is to be in their company really. The only problem with this movie is that they spend too much time with other characters and trying to build a mystery when I'd rather just watch Nick and Nora interact. Plus, the mystery is rather lackluster in the end. For that, I feel this movie ends up being rather average. It's like The Pink Panther. The movie is ok but you'd rather it focused more on Inspecter Clouseau which is what the sequels did making them better than the original. Speaking of which:


Another Thin Man - 9/10

The first sequel in the series. This movie starts up right where the first movie left off. In fact, the first movie had the mystery being solved around Christmas time and this one is solved around New Years. It also more funny than the first movie. There are a lot of great laughs in this movie. One of the best comes from when they couple finally get home and their pet dog Asta goes to see his wife, Mrs. Asta. That reunion scene is hilarious and my brother and I couldn't believe that they were making such a joke back in 1936. This movie even has a young James Stewart. I can never get enough of that accent.

In this movie, less time is spent with the mystery than the first one which is great. In fact, one isn't even sure what the mystery is at first. It appears it might have something to do with a disappearance but that is wrapped up fast. There is some kind of a job being pulled but one isn't sure what it is. It isn't until a character is killed that we finally get the mystery underway. And unlike the first movie, this mystery has a few twists to it to keep me guessing until the very end. My only problem is the actual solution of the mystery but I'll let you see it for yourself. While you probably don't have to see the first movie to enjoy this film, I will admit that having seen the first movie did help add a bit more to the enjoyment of this film, so you may want to make it a two-parter.


One last thing I want to mention about these two films is how they hilariously blow your suspension of disbelief at the end. In both movies, all the suspects are gathered in a room where the killer is at last identified. But there is absolutely no way such an event could take place in real life. If you watch the films, you'll know what I mean. Both times this happened at the end, I just shook my head as all kinds of different reasons came into my head as to why this could never occur. I will also admit that the first movie did the gathering of suspects in a much funnier way than the second movie. That might be the one case where the sequel didn't match the original.


Now I want to seek out the rest of the movies in this series. Great, great stuff.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on September 03, 2009, 01:34:00 AM
Oh man, the Thin Man is a great series. I enjoyed the novel too.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on September 03, 2009, 03:52:03 AM
All About Eve Actresses covet each other. Four Stars
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on September 03, 2009, 09:12:04 AM
For all the people who watched District 9. Have any of you watched Moon?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on September 03, 2009, 12:52:59 PM
For all the people who watched District 9. Have any of you watched Moon?

I'm sorry, I don't like cheesey movies (http://www.instantrimshot.com)

I know, i know.. (http://www.instantcrickets.com)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: vudu on September 03, 2009, 02:35:40 PM
6.5 for The Thin Man sounds about right.

All About Eve is fantastic.  That better be 4 out of 4, ShyGuy!

Have you gotten to Sunset Blvd yet?  It's another great one.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on September 04, 2009, 02:01:01 AM
I employ a four star rating system that goes up to five stars.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BeautifulShy on September 04, 2009, 03:12:59 AM
I saw Outbreak on TV tonight.
I would give it a 4 out of 5.

It is a movie that is about 1 man that has seen all types of Viruses and there is a new strand and he tries to stop it from spreading across the US. Dustin Hoffman, Renee Ruso, Morgan Freeman, Cuba Gooden Jr star in the movie. They play their parts well.
Also has a bit of 1 small group standing up against a large group.

Great movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on September 04, 2009, 04:06:10 AM
Vertigo Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece. Very twisted in places. 4.5 stars.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on September 04, 2009, 11:25:59 AM
Ah Vertigo. I love that movie. I watch it every year if not more than that. One thing that truly elevates the film is the score by Bernard Herrman. I sometimes feel I'm watching the movie just to listen to the music. It is such a sad longing sound yet it also gives an air of inevability to it, of having to move ever forward with sadness. And it's a good thing Mr. Herrman got it right since this movie doesn't have a lot of dialogue. The music puts the viewer in the right mood for the story. Of course, it has James Stewart which adds to the greatness. I love his speech at the end of the movie. "You were a very apt pupil!" And the ending. What a film.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on September 04, 2009, 01:53:19 PM
"Outbreak" is based on a book called "The Hot Zone" about the brief, very scary outbreak of the Ebola virus in the United States.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on September 04, 2009, 10:55:02 PM
For all the people who watched District 9. Have any of you watched Moon?

No.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on September 05, 2009, 12:42:33 AM
Hey, Shyguy, what movies do you still have left to see on the list?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on September 05, 2009, 03:19:42 AM
About half of them vudu. It's a big list.

Spartacus The most awesome chin in history demonstrates the importance of freedom. Four stars.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on September 05, 2009, 12:22:19 PM
Man behind the sun .....WTF/10                 sometimes referred to as Men behind the Sun

You can see the whole movie in pieces on youtube, but I'm not sure if you want to(I saw it on DVD). This movie is like the Japanese version of the Nazi Concentration Camps, only instead of Jews, its Chinese people. For 1988 the special effects are top-notch, but it was absolutely disgusting. I believe it took place during WWII and human torture experiments were taking place. It was all about coming up with the most effective (and inventive?) way of dismembering/disfiguring/killing another human being. I'm not sure if it's based on true events or not, but I sure as hell hope not. Anyway, I can't recommend this movie to anyone, but if your into gross out horror/drama & asian explotation.....
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on September 05, 2009, 08:49:07 PM
District 9 9/10

The main character....this is his first acting gig aside from a short....wow.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: GoldenPhoenix on September 05, 2009, 08:59:06 PM
District 9 9/10

The main character....this is his first acting gig aside from a short....wow.

I believe he adlibed most everything as well.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on September 06, 2009, 04:05:37 PM
Sunset Boulevard Older Actress get a boy toy. Four Stars
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on September 06, 2009, 07:07:49 PM
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas 10/10

all i can say is WOW
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: D_Average on September 06, 2009, 11:32:31 PM
Bring it On!
4/5 - Had it not been for the casting of Eliza Dushku, it would have landed a 1/5.  She is my Megan Fox.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Dasmos on September 07, 2009, 12:02:16 AM
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas 10/10

all i can say is WOW

Ya. I know, right?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on September 07, 2009, 12:09:59 AM
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas 10/10

all i can say is WOW

Ya. I know, right?

I just added it to my Netflix Instant Watch list.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: kraken613 on September 07, 2009, 01:40:02 AM
The Soloist - 8.5/10

Duplicity- 6/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on September 07, 2009, 03:15:01 AM
Lethal Weapon 2 DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY!!! 3 Stars.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: D_Average on September 07, 2009, 03:18:24 AM
Disclosure
3/5 - Predictable.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on September 08, 2009, 02:42:52 AM
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington Jimmy Stewart brings me to tears. Five stars.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on September 08, 2009, 02:54:15 AM
Clash of the Titans (http://www.netflix.com/WiPlayer?movieid=60000844&trkid=1211018) - 7.5/10

I love Greek Mythology and I'm looking forward to the remake (http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/forums/index.php?topic=29034.msg547687#msg547687) of this coming out soon just because some of the special effects really don't hold up too well and this movie deserves a quality remake.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: GoldenPhoenix on September 08, 2009, 02:59:34 AM
Clash of the Titans (http://www.netflix.com/WiPlayer?movieid=60000844&trkid=1211018) - 7.5/10

I love Greek Mythology and I'm looking forward to the remake of this coming out soon just because some of the special effects really don't hold up too well and this movie deserves a quality remake.

I love Greek Mythology as well (Wish there were more video games set in it! Heck I'd like more movies based on Greek Mythology) and I'm really looking forward to the remake.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on September 08, 2009, 09:25:38 AM
My Boss' Daughter (on comedy central) 1/10

I hate this movie, its so stupid. It was on in the background and I didn't bother to change it, and happened to catch a scene/joke I never saw before (I've never actually seen the whole movie in one sitting, its just on so much that I've caught most of it).

(Scene) Ashton's character is outside his boss' house after his pet owl flies away, and the rest of the cast tries to calm him down.

(Ashton, with 3 random blondes walking past him, his back turned) "This is no time to relax, OJ is on the loose!"

(Blondes) Look of panic is on their eyes as they scatter

The joke actually made me chuckle so I gave it a pity point. Aside from that this movie is terrible, then again what do you expect from Ashton Kutcher and Tara Reid? Poor Andy Richter though.. he deserves better crap than this.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on September 08, 2009, 01:37:58 PM
The special effects don't hold up?!? There is more heart and soul in each one of those stop-motion maquettes than any CG monstrosity. I love old-school Harryhousen/Tippet effects. I'm excited about the remake too, but I hope they use SOME stop-motion as an homage.

Anyway...

Re-watched "Mimic." Doesn't quite hold up today. The effects are Sci-Fi channel quality. The bugs kill everybody except Mira Sorvina? Com'on.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: vudu on September 08, 2009, 01:55:50 PM
Sunset Boulevard Older Actress get a boy toy. Four Stars

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington Jimmy Stewart brings me to tears. Five stars.

Apparently ShyGuy doesn't know that five is a bigger number than 4.  No way is Mr. Smith better than Sunset Blvd!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on September 08, 2009, 02:38:49 PM
The special effects don't hold up?!? There is more heart and soul in each one of those stop-motion maquettes than any CG monstrosity. I love old-school Harryhousen/Tippet effects. I'm excited about the remake too, but I hope they use SOME stop-motion as an homage.


I said some of the effects didn't hold up too well. Like Posieden turning the crank under water, when claymation was in the foreground and video was highly degraded running in the back. All the claymation was top notch and I had no issue with any of that. It was the video layering where most of the problems lay.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: GoldenPhoenix on September 08, 2009, 03:20:06 PM
Hate stop motion. So I'll include all stop motion effects as well. Also did I mention I hate elitist crap bashing CGI? A lot of work goes into good CGI as well. Like stop motion there are some that are OK (Never good IMO, I hated stop motion before CGI was even thought of) and some that is terrible.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on September 08, 2009, 03:29:42 PM
The Stop-motion was top notch for when it took place, and stop motion was a painstakingly slow process up until the last 10 years or so. But modern big budget CGI will do wonders for a movie like this if the movie is handled properly. With the people involved, I have confidence they will do this movie justice and hopefully make it many times better than the original.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: GoldenPhoenix on September 08, 2009, 03:34:38 PM
The Stop-motion was top notch for when it took place, and stop motion was a painstakingly slow process up until the last 10 years or so. But modern big budget CGI will do wonders for a movie like this if the movie is handled properly. With the people involved, I have confidence they will do this movie justice and hopefully make it many times better than the original.

I know stop-motion takes a lot of work doesn't mean I have to like watching it. The trouble with Stop-motion is that it was kind of limited in what you could do with it. Personally my favorite types of movies are with a good mix of CGI and traditional special effects such as animatronics. Hopefully they do spend a lot of time on the CGI in the Titan movie, the technology is definitely there, it just needs a lot of work to put together some good visuals.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on September 08, 2009, 05:20:15 PM
It's not for everybody, although another big plus to SM effects is that because each maquette is very expensive to build, the effects are used fairly sparingly, which forces directors and writers to build suspense in other ways. You don't see that very much anymore.

Advances in maquette building (which is molded now, not individually sculpted), cheaper production costs, and digital cameras have made SM much more practical today. I mean, there's been a comeback: Nightmare Before Christmas, Corpse Bride, Wallace & Gromit, Coraline, and The Fantastic Mr. Fox (coming soon). There are things you can do with SM that you can't do in CG and vice versa. They both have their place.

What I really miss is traditional 2D animated movies. What makes me happy is that every since John Lassater took over Disney, he's been making strides in bringing it back. Look for a new traditional Disney movie...complete with a new princess...soon.

FUN FACT!

Jurassic Park was going to be done, originally, with SM maquettes. If you have the DVD, you can watch Phil Tippet's original "raptors in the kitchen" sequence with SM raptors. Aside from the silly varanid tongues, it looks pretty cool. And that's just test footage!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on September 08, 2009, 05:32:41 PM
How can you leave out Robot Chicken!?

&  dont believe there is anything you can do with SM that you can't do with CG and do it better. You can make CG look like SM if you want. With CG, time, tech & imagination is the only barriers you have.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on September 08, 2009, 05:57:10 PM
Well, okay, here's an assignment:

Go watch "Wallance & Gromit and the Curse of the Were-Rabbit," then watch "Flushed Away," which is CG trying imitate SM, including by using different mouths instead of a single ever-changing mouth.

There's a "sheen" to the CG look that's not present in SM.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on September 08, 2009, 06:18:15 PM
that sounds like they didn't have enough time to get the effect they wanted, or maybe it was exactly as they wanted it. Either way, with enough time & talent on the right equipment with a big enough budget, there is nothing they can't do with CG today.

Which is probably why they went with CG on Jurrasic Park over the not as impressive or lifelike Claymation.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on September 08, 2009, 06:37:24 PM
Sunset Boulevard Older Actress get a boy toy. Four Stars

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington Jimmy Stewart brings me to tears. Five stars.

Apparently ShyGuy doesn't know that five is a bigger number than 4.  No way is Mr. Smith better than Sunset Blvd!

Mr Smith Goes to Washington was the better movie. But they were both spectacular. I have a four star scale but occasionaly a movie exceeds that scale and gets higher than four stars. Think of it this way: Resident Evil Four would be Four Stars. Super Mario Bros 3 would be Five Stars.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on September 08, 2009, 07:28:37 PM
The special effects don't hold up?!? There is more heart and soul in each one of those stop-motion maquettes than any CG monstrosity. I love old-school Harryhousen/Tippet effects. I'm excited about the remake too, but I hope they use SOME stop-motion as an homage.

Anyway...
Re-watched "Mimic." Doesn't quite hold up today. The effects are Sci-Fi channel quality. The bugs kill everybody except Mira Sorvina? Com'on.

haha the first time I watched Mimic was in theaters, we walked out.

I didn't know about how they(movie theaters) do things though...i mean. The theater had cropped the film wrong, so we could see the microphone bobbing at the top of the screen for the 66% of the movie we watched. I couldn't take the film seriously. Out of nowhere microphone just came in as a character all comically. It was there like the whole time. The audience was laughing at it.

At the time i thought the movie was just poorly made, but now i know that they always leave the microphone in and it was the theater's doing for not adjusting the projector right.  I eventually watched it later on home video.

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on September 09, 2009, 01:53:21 AM
Sunset Boulevard Older Actress get a boy toy. Four Stars

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington Jimmy Stewart brings me to tears. Five stars.

Apparently ShyGuy doesn't know that five is a bigger number than 4.  No way is Mr. Smith better than Sunset Blvd!


I have to agree with Shyguy on this one. Except for the crying part. That would be It's A Wonderful Life. I still choke up at the end of that movie. Of course, I am more familiar with Mr. Smith vs Sunset Blvd. I only just saw Sunset Blvd about a year or so ago whereas I have seen Mr. Smith about 4 times so I can remember it more.

That said, I'd like to go back and make a comment about a couple of films. All About Eve and Sunset Blvd. I recently saw All About Eve around the start of the year. What I took away from that movie was a contrast between actors that had come before and actors that were coming. Bette Davis is an actress because she likes it. Eve is an actress because she wants to be like Bette Davis. At the end of the movie with the young school girl looking in the mirror, that cycle is being repeated a thousandfold.

I remember thinking about Micheal Jackson after Sunset Blvd. Him and a few other famous figures who were no longer at the heights they were before. It seemed to be a tale of how people like that can never seem to let go off their past when they were big. They still desire attention and will do much to get it. In fact, a scandal is welcome since it brings them back to the front of the cameras. In fact, there were many other things about celebrity it seemed to comment on but that was the idea that stuck with me the most after seeing it.



If I may make some movie suggestions, I would like to hear Shyguy's thoughts on Patton and Amadeus. If you watch Lawrence of Arabia, make sure it is on a widescreen. I also watched that again earlier in the year and this time on a nice widescreen tv and it was much better experience. That's why I was asking which movies you had left to see. I was curious what to expect. Also, are you going by the original 100 list or the updated version?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on September 09, 2009, 02:16:10 AM
This is the list the contest is taking place over. http://connect.afi.com/site/DocServer/100Movies.pdf?docID=301

It's too much work for me to list the 50+ movies I've already seen.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on September 09, 2009, 02:28:17 AM
actually I watched Lawrence of Arabia right before I watched the boy in the striped pyjamas, I don't know how i forgot to mention it

Lawrence of Arabia 10/10 good in a Citizen Kane sort of way

speaking of..

Citizen Kane 10/10 good in a Citizen Kane sort of way

right after I watched the boy in striped pyjamas I watch Kubriks The Shining
Now I had seen the shining a dozen times, but often times I was distracted doing other things like cleaning and organizing..it was just sort of running in the background. This time I decided to do nothing, but sit and watch it the whole way through. i did intermission though in the middle of the movie to make a sandwich, but i didn't miss 1 instant. I even noticed the helicopter blades in the intro.  Shining 8.8/10

While I'm reviewing Kubrik movies A Clockwork Orange 10/10..good stuff

2001: Space Odyssey... I'll have to rewatch it, I fell asleep during the movie and woke up realizing that I had to take it back immediately since it was late. I had spent the whole day cleaning

Dr. Strange Love... 8/10 hillarious movie

Full Metal Jacket 9/10 I should watch it again.


--------
Capricorn One 8/10 some of the monologues are pretty good, a little aged of a movie, but I liked it

"Defcon 4"   8/10         I don't want to give it an 8 because its so cheap/cheesy at the same time it had some pretty cool post apocalyptic scenarios. When I was reading walking dead the President character totally reminded me of the villian dude from defcon 4

Night of the Comet 8/10 for quality 10/10 for Nostalgia

Delicatessen 8/10 another great post apocalyptic..its funny i was looking at a website where this artist drew various pictures of characters from various movies, and I noticed the main character from Delicatessen, If I hadn't watched the movie the day before I wouldn't have noticed and laughed. It was on a completely unrelated google search too. Funny how things you filtered out pop up so frequently once they become known.





Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on September 09, 2009, 03:09:03 AM
West Side Story Whites and Puerto Ricans try to kill each other with dance, then move on to more effective means. Two stars.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on September 09, 2009, 04:27:11 AM
Garbage Pail Kids: The Movie (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joKXSRuZJuQ) - WTF/10

I owe myself some time back for sitting through most of it, but it had about 1 or 2 lulz out of it.
One of those movies you question why it was ever made. One of those movies you question why you ever watched.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on September 09, 2009, 08:10:12 AM
Garbage Pail Kids: The Movie (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joKXSRuZJuQ) - WTF/10

I owe myself some time back for sitting through most of it, but it had about 1 or 2 lulz out of it.
One of those movies you question why it was ever made. One of those movies you question why you ever watched.

One of those movies I question why I own..

Oh thats right, it was a gag gift for my brother who used to collect those cards almost religiously. We watched it together but he never took it home with him, so its sitting in my room collecting dust.

Definately agree with your score.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on September 09, 2009, 08:18:15 AM
An American Werewolf in Paris (http://www.netflix.com/WiPlayer?movieid=1181695&trkid=1211024) - 7.5/10

I could have sworn I've seen this movie before a long time ago, and I might have, but I don't remember it being so funny. Not unintentional funny like some horror movies are, but this one is like a comedy that revolves around werewolves. It was a fun movie to watch. Now I have to put the original on my Netflix list since I can't Instant Watch it like I did this one, even though I've seen the original before..
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: vudu on September 09, 2009, 01:58:40 PM
Do The Right Thing

Worst opening credit sequence ever out of OMG Spike Lee's wearing spandex bicycle shorts throughout the entire film (roughly translates to a 3.5)

I enjoyed the movie but it definitely has its roots firmly planted in the 80s.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: vudu on September 09, 2009, 02:09:21 PM
This is the list the contest is taking place over. http://connect.afi.com/site/DocServer/100Movies.pdf?docID=301

I've seen 67 of these movies.

Funny enough, there's a span of 10 of them--from 56 to 65--that I missed.  I found it weird that they lined up that way.

Also, Sunset Blvd. is listed at #16; Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is #26.  I was right.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on September 09, 2009, 03:02:16 PM
I haven't seen any of those movies that fall before 1970 with the exceptions of
Psycho(1960), Wizard of Oz(1939), In the Heat of the Night(1967), Snow White(1937), High Noon(1952), 2001: ASO(1968),

I didn't count how many of the movies I have seen altogether yet though.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on September 09, 2009, 03:06:04 PM
Also, Sunset Blvd. is listed at #16; Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is #26.  I was right.

Not to be political, but I think this makes you a communist, vudu. You're going to be blacklisted. By me. Around the head and neck area.

Tonight is either in the Heat of the Night or Sophie's Choice. Stay tuned!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on September 09, 2009, 03:07:05 PM
Also, Sunset Blvd. is listed at #16; Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is #26.  I was right.

Not to be political, but I think this makes you a communist, vudu. You're going to be blacklisted. By me. Around the head and neck area.

Tonight is either in the Heat of the Night or Sophie's Choice. Stay tuned!

Let Sophie choose for you.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on September 09, 2009, 04:23:29 PM
Also, Sunset Blvd. is listed at #16; Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is #26.  I was right.

Not to be political, but I think this makes you a communist, vudu. You're going to be blacklisted. By me. Around the head and neck area.

Tonight is either in the Heat of the Night or Sophie's Choice. Stay tuned!

Bah! I like the original list better. Now you won't see Dr. Zhivago.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: D_Average on September 09, 2009, 10:08:27 PM
Mallrats --> 5/5 - Still fresh.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on September 10, 2009, 02:45:35 AM
Sophie's Choice Sophie chooses Coke over Pepsi. Four Stars.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on September 10, 2009, 04:06:43 AM
she should have chosen RC, or DR. Pepper
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on September 11, 2009, 01:30:12 AM
Rambo - 673/10
Ok, more like a 7/10, but it was pretty gripping to watch. Could have been a little longer, at least they're making another one.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on September 11, 2009, 02:39:50 AM
In the Heat of the Night Riggs and Murtaugh solve a murder. Four Stars.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on September 11, 2009, 09:18:11 AM
Rambo - 673/10
Ok, more like a 7/10, but it was pretty gripping to watch. Could have been a little longer, at least they're making another one.

You mean its the newest Rambo you watched? Just making sure. That movie was pretty decent, I wouldn't mind seeing its sequel.. But god Stallone is so old.. yeesh.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on September 11, 2009, 01:19:10 PM
Rambo - 673/10
Ok, more like a 7/10, but it was pretty gripping to watch. Could have been a little longer, at least they're making another one.

You mean its the newest Rambo you watched? Just making sure. That movie was pretty decent, I wouldn't mind seeing its sequel.. But god Stallone is so old.. yeesh.

I would rate the last Rambo movie higher than a 7, but I have to re-watch it to score it. It was well made, it built up the tension before exploding it with a .50 cal machine gun. Sure Stallone didn't take his shirt off, but he did us a favor.

I am pretty mixed on the sequel though since 4 ended, well, it ended. He finally went home. He did something special with 4 and it feels like this will end up as a Diehard 4.0. Sure he's in it and he says his lines, but it's just not Diehard/Rambo.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on September 11, 2009, 01:38:34 PM
Crank 2: High Voltage - Fun/10

If you completely dismiss the ridiculousness of what is happening and just go with it, thisis a very enjoyable movie. If you like the first one :thumbsup; this one literally picks up where the last one left off and turns up the WTFLOL meter to 11. movie spoilers ahead*There is a UltraMan scene for crying out loud.* and it was hilariously ridiculous right down to *the little clay people and their giant deformed faces*. This whole movie was really an exercise to see how many different ways Chev Chelios could electrocute himself, but it was a really fun movie to watch the entire time.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Caliban on September 11, 2009, 02:19:10 PM
WTF BnM? I just watched my copy of Crank 2 also. Watched all the extras too. Can'twaitforCrank3/10.

movie spoilers ahead*There is a UltraMan scene for crying out loud.*

No, it's not. It's in reference to kaiju battles, and not just the one you mentioned.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on September 11, 2009, 02:29:17 PM
its a ultraman like scene. Giants in low budget props like godzilla movies. I have no idea what kaiju battles are.

Either way. a very fun movie that obviously doesn't take itself seriously.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on September 11, 2009, 02:50:01 PM
Agree with the Crank 2 scores. I never saw the first one until literally the day part 2 came out. I went out, bought the DVD and watched it, then headed off to the theatre to watch the sequel. It was pretty fucking awesome. Favorite moments: Full body turrets
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on September 11, 2009, 03:00:44 PM
Agree with the Crank 2 scores. I never saw the first one until literally the day part 2 came out. I went out, bought the DVD and watched it, then headed off to the theatre to watch the sequel. It was pretty fucking awesome. Favorite moments: Full body turrets

Full body turrets after the nunchuck fight, now that part got me.


tonites movie is Dance Flick (with the wayans).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Caliban on September 11, 2009, 03:19:16 PM
Giants in low budget props = kaiju

You do now. :)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on September 11, 2009, 03:44:21 PM
Daikaiju: the lost art of giant rubber-suit monsters fighting each other.

Kaiju: Giant rubber-suit monsters.

Notable franchises: Ultraman, Power Rangers (which is basically Ultraman), Godzilla, Gamera, the 1980's version of King Kong.
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Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on September 11, 2009, 03:50:32 PM
So you're saying that I was right in my description?
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Post by: Caliban on September 11, 2009, 04:01:16 PM
Yes, but there is no Ultraman scene in the movie. It's its own awesome kaiju scene, and we're just telling you that there is a proper name, and now you know and knowing is half the battle GI JOE!
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Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on September 11, 2009, 04:46:57 PM
Thanks for the clarification, but I didn't literally mean Ultraman was in the movie, and I think everyone would know what I was talking about when they saw it, but now I think we both know where we were coming from now. Go Joe!!!
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Post by: ThePerm on September 11, 2009, 11:40:59 PM
Run Fat Boy Run 8/10  Wasn't at all as bad as everyone said it would be, not as good as Shawn of the Dead, or Hot Fuzz, but this isn't an Edgar Wright movie is it?

edit: after checking Rottentomatoes it seems clear, all the negative reviews seem to be a form of anti-schwimmertism. They seem to not hate the movie on its merit, but rather because David Schwimmer directed it. It wasn't hysterical, but i didn't think it was mediocre either. I thought some parts were quite sweet.
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Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on September 12, 2009, 12:30:53 AM
Run Fat Boy Run 8/10  Wasn't at all as bad as everyone said it would be, not as good as Shawn of the Dead, or Hot Fuzz, but this isn't an Edgar Wright movie is it?

edit: after checking Rottentomatoes it seems clear, all the negative reviews seem to be a form of anti-schwimmertism. They seem to not hate the movie on its merit, but rather because David Schwimmer directed it. It wasn't hysterical, but i didn't think it was mediocre either. I thought some parts were quite sweet.

It didn't suck, it was just nothing special.
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Post by: ShyGuy on September 12, 2009, 05:24:45 AM
Crank 2 Much sillier than the first one, it crosses the line really. It's about as nutritious as cotton candy. One and a Half Stars
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Post by: EasyCure on September 12, 2009, 11:11:09 AM
Extract: 6/10

The score seems a little harsh, in this day and age where 7's and 8's are given to mediocre games, but I don't mean it to be. Extract was an enjoyable movie, but very average IMO. All the characters were great, good performences all around, but the one thing that bothered me was that Mila Kunis' character not only had a much smaller role (weighed in screen time) than I expected, but by the end of the film felt like an afterthought in the storyline. The main plot could've done without her, or at least relagated her a more important part in a subplot or such. Be warned though, if you can't stand it when a movie ties up EVERYTHING in a nice little package.. then this one isnt for you.

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Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on September 12, 2009, 11:52:14 AM
I have a love hate relationship with Mila Kunis.
On one hand she is beautiful, i love her face, her body is cool, and her acting is good enough.
On the other hand, I can't stand her voice. Voicing Meg for Family Guy has made her voice irritating since that's what Meg is. Everytime she opens her mouth, all I hear is Meg whining about something, then I just picture something messed up happneing to her just to shut her up.

I really want to like all of Mila, but Meg just stands out too much.
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Post by: EasyCure on September 12, 2009, 12:13:50 PM
I have a love hate relationship with Mila Kunis.
On one hand she is beautiful, i love her face, her body is cool, and her acting is good enough.
On the other hand, I can't stand her voice. Voicing Meg for Family Guy has made her voice irritating since that's what Meg is. Everytime she opens her mouth, all I hear is Meg whining about something, then I just picture something messed up happneing to her just to shut her up.

I really want to like all of Mila, but Meg just stands out too much.

I felt that way until I saw Forgetting Sarah Marshall. She was really good in that, and not once did I think of Meg and became annoyed. Because she has surprisingly little screen time, i'm sure she wont bug you much in Extract.
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Post by: Halbred on September 12, 2009, 06:24:22 PM
Mila Kunis is gorgeous, and I say that after being totally unimpressed with her in That 70's Show, which poisoned the waters for me in regards to ANY of those cast members. But just like EasyCure, after Sarah Marshall, I was all about that girl.
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Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on September 12, 2009, 06:30:23 PM
I've seen sarah marshall, and she is good in that. She doesn't really get that loud, so the Meg in her doesn't come clawing at my ears. But the last movie I saw with her in it was Max Payne a few weeks ago. She was looking good, but I kept hearing Meg. Maybe it was because I wasn't really into the movie (i never did watch the last 20 minutes).
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Post by: BranDonk Kong on September 13, 2009, 01:14:22 AM
Resident Evil Degeneration - 6/10
I wouldn't recommend it for anyone who isn't a (big) fan of the video games, or at least who hasn't played through the Umbrella Chronicles-era games. I will say that the G-Virus mutant is completely badass, however. The movie would have made for an awesome game, and due to it being actually based on the games, I'd have to say it's easily still the best Resident Evil movie.
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Post by: ShyGuy on September 13, 2009, 03:17:22 AM
Lawrence of Arabia British office T.E. Lawrence is traveling in the desert. It is dry. Very dry. A long and difficult journey. I speak of the movie, not the desert. Heyooo! Three Stars.
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Post by: ThePerm on September 13, 2009, 05:36:11 AM
When i hear Meg i think of Jackie from That 70s Show, not the other way around. On the other hand the constant verbal abuse of Meg is hilarious, I had an ex named Meg..hhehehehehe Come to think of it my ex resembles Meg too
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Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on September 13, 2009, 05:41:06 AM
When i hear Meg i think of Jackie from That 70s Show, not the other way around. On the other hand the constant verbal abuse of Meg is hilarious, I had an ex named Meg..hhehehehehe Come to think of it my ex resembles Meg too

Kinda boyish and unattractive?

p.s. I never really watched that 70's show.
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Post by: ShyGuy on September 13, 2009, 04:39:41 PM
Shane Shane gets pulled back into fighting and shooting. Four stars
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Post by: NWR_insanolord on September 13, 2009, 06:00:38 PM
Monty Python's Life of Brian Not as consistent as Holy Grail but has some really funny parts and a great ending. 32/40
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Post by: ShyGuy on September 14, 2009, 02:23:39 AM
Gone With the Wind A spoiled brat ruins the lives of three husbands. Also, the Civil War. Four Stars.
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Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on September 14, 2009, 04:45:46 AM
Dance Flick - L/LOL

This movie start off pretty funny but quickly turns to stupid, then back to stupid funny, then back to just stupid, then ends on stupid funny again. Problem is that it rest on the side of just stupid for far too long in the movie, but a mood enhancer might have changed my whole outlook on the movie. A good watch for when you are with people that like to laugh and their laugh makes you laugh.
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Post by: Plugabugz on September 14, 2009, 07:54:20 AM
Dorian Gray. 6/10. It perfectly recaptured the World War 2 theme and art style, but that story was just weird. It didn't seem to grab me with what it was trying to do.
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Post by: EasyCure on September 14, 2009, 10:41:23 AM
Mila Kunis is gorgeous, and I say that after being totally unimpressed with her in That 70's Show, which poisoned the waters for me in regards to ANY of those cast members. But just like EasyCure, after Sarah Marshall, I was all about that girl.

^Same way regarding that 70s show, thats why I can't stand seeing Ashton Kutcher as anything but Michael Kelso; he's just not good at NOT being a 'tard.

I've seen sarah marshall, and she is good in that. She doesn't really get that loud, so the Meg in her doesn't come clawing at my ears.

There is one scene.. but instead of cringing at "Meg's" voice, I actually laugh at it.. After she jumps off the cliff into the ocean, and Peter (or whatever his name is. Oh god, did the voice of meg really have to have a character named Peter in the movie?) is just standing there. There's a line she has, while off camera, where she shouts "I can see your hoo-ha" or something along those lines, and its totally Meg Griffin coming out. I find it funny though, not sure why!

Dance Flick - L/LOL

A good watch for when you are with people that like to laugh and their laugh makes you laugh.

So I should just call Seth Rogen over than?
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Post by: nickmitch on September 14, 2009, 11:38:26 AM
As far as Mila Kunis goes, That 70s Show gave me my first impression of her, so that's what stuck.  I've been doing a good job of actively disconnecting her voice from her, so the Meg effect doesn't happen.

Also, anyone see 9 yet? I heard it was win.
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Post by: EasyCure on September 14, 2009, 12:53:09 PM
Also, anyone see 9 yet? I heard it was win.

Funny, I heard the opposite. The night I saw Extract, I was waiting for my girlfriend to come outta the bathroom, which was right next to the theatre that was playing 9 and heard a handful of people express their dissapointment. I heard everything from "It wasn't as good as i thought" and "I expected better" to a flat out "That sucked balls." Honestly, I forgot the movie was even out, and those quotes plus the dissapointed look everyone had that was leaving made me doubt wanting to see it any time soon. Another complaint i heard was that it was very short, is that true? How short was it?
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Post by: vudu on September 14, 2009, 01:25:39 PM
Dance Flick - L/LOL

This movie start off pretty funny but quickly turns to stupid, then back to stupid funny, then back to just stupid, then ends on stupid funny again. Problem is that it rest on the side of just stupid for far too long in the movie, but a mood enhancer might have changed my whole outlook on the movie. A good watch for when you are with people that like to laugh and their laugh makes you laugh.

I maintain that "Insemble" is the funniest line that I've heard in years.

Oh yeah, and I saw I Love You, Man.  Funny, but not a classic by any means.  There are a few really laugh-out-loud moments but it will be completely forgotten in a few years.
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Post by: Stogi on September 14, 2009, 01:28:53 PM
9 is that CG movie about a post apocalypic world where 9 things created by some scientist come to life or something weird like that. I want to see it because I'm a die hard Burton fan and it looks to be full of action.
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Post by: EasyCure on September 14, 2009, 03:02:43 PM
Dance Flick - L/LOL

This movie start off pretty funny but quickly turns to stupid, then back to stupid funny, then back to just stupid, then ends on stupid funny again. Problem is that it rest on the side of just stupid for far too long in the movie, but a mood enhancer might have changed my whole outlook on the movie. A good watch for when you are with people that like to laugh and their laugh makes you laugh.

I maintain that "Insemble" is the funniest line that I've heard in years.

Oh yeah, and I saw I Love You, Man.  Funny, but not a classic by any means.  There are a few really laugh-out-loud moments but it will be completely forgotten in a few years.

Ever since I saw I Love You, Man I've started saying "slap-ah da bass" when i see someone playing air-bass. Oddly enough, Paul Rudd is seen slappin an air bass in Knocked Up too!
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Post by: ShyGuy on September 15, 2009, 04:09:28 AM
Bonnie and Clyde Criminals waste their lives. Two Stars
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Post by: GoldenPhoenix on September 15, 2009, 06:05:27 AM
9 is that CG movie about a post apocalypic world where 9 things created by some scientist come to life or something weird like that. I want to see it because I'm a die hard Burton fan and it looks to be full of action.

Well Burton only produced it, he did not direct it. Still looks like an interesting movie.
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Post by: Stogi on September 15, 2009, 06:53:18 PM
What?

Nevermind then.
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Post by: GoldenPhoenix on September 15, 2009, 06:54:36 PM
What?

Nevermind then.

Yeah it is misleading when they advertise it. Now if it was Peter Jackson producing I'd have more confidence in the movie, but as it stands it looks interesting but I'm not sure. Alice in Wonderland should be amazing though.
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Post by: Stogi on September 15, 2009, 06:57:04 PM
Yeah, I can't wait for that one.
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Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on September 15, 2009, 07:02:21 PM
Alice in Wonderland looks wierd. I'll add it to the list though.
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Post by: GoldenPhoenix on September 15, 2009, 07:03:14 PM
Alice in Wonderland looks wierd. I'll add it to the list though.

A Tim Burton movie looking weird? OMG megaton. :)
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Post by: Stogi on September 15, 2009, 07:34:25 PM
Alice in Wonderland looks wierd.

(http://images.encyclopediadramatica.com/images/3/33/Futurama_Fry_Looking_Squint.jpg)
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Post by: ThePerm on September 15, 2009, 08:13:49 PM
Directors go on decline too. PeeWee < Beatlejuice < Batman = Edward Scissorhands > Batman returns << Ed Wood = Mars Attacks ?  Sleepy Hollow ?  Big Fish > Planet of the Apes > Charlie in the Chocalate Factory < The Corpse Bride > Sweeney Todd. Everything he's done since Mars Attacks hasn't been his best effort. Ed Wood is his best movie. I haven't seen Sleepy Hollow.

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Post by: Stogi on September 15, 2009, 08:20:39 PM
Sleepy Hollow's great and so is Charlie and the Chocolate factory; it's definitely better than The Corpse Bride.
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Post by: GoldenPhoenix on September 15, 2009, 09:10:49 PM
Charlie was awesome. Sleep Hollow was also a good movie, Big Fish was pretty good (and different), and Sweeney Todd was my favorite movie of that year, it was a fantastic musical.
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Post by: ShyGuy on September 16, 2009, 01:48:15 AM
The Graduate Horrible people ruin lives. Two and a Half Stars.
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Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on September 16, 2009, 01:52:18 AM
You seem kinda jaded by this movie marathon of less than stellar "Top 100" movies.
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Post by: ShyGuy on September 16, 2009, 02:47:05 AM
Some are great movies. fantastic. Some aren't. E.T. is the worst movie on the list that I've seen so far.
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Post by: GoldenPhoenix on September 16, 2009, 12:50:29 PM
Some are great movies. fantastic. Some aren't. E.T. is the worst movie on the list that I've seen so far.

I refuse to watch ET, it traumatized me as a kid when ET was found in the corn field. Give me any other horror movie but keep ET far FAR away from me.
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Post by: EasyCure on September 16, 2009, 12:56:10 PM
Some are great movies. fantastic. Some aren't. E.T. is the worst movie on the list that I've seen so far.

I refuse to watch ET, it traumatized me as a kid when ET was found in the corn field. Give me any other horror movie but keep ET far FAR away from me.

This makes me wish i had good video editing skills (see: ANY video editing skills at all) so i could burn you a copy of M. Night Shamalamadingdong's "Signs" and replace his aliens with ET, and watch your reaction..
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Post by: vudu on September 16, 2009, 01:46:29 PM
9 is that CG movie about a post apocalypic world where 9 things created by some scientist come to life or something weird like that. I want to see it because I'm a die hard Burton fan and it looks to be full of action.

Well Burton only produced it, he did not direct it. Still looks like an interesting movie.

To be fair, Burton didn't direct Nightmare Before Christmas or James & The Giant Peach either, and he only co-directed The Corpse Bride.  He's a producer on all these films because he's not that proficient with stop-animation.
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Post by: ShyGuy on September 16, 2009, 02:27:53 PM
Some are great movies. fantastic. Some aren't. E.T. is the worst movie on the list that I've seen so far.

I refuse to watch ET, it traumatized me as a kid when ET was found in the corn field. Give me any other horror movie but keep ET far FAR away from me.

I saw E.T. In the theaters when I was a little kid. People thought he was cute, but I thought he was grotesque. Even at the time, I thought the movie was annoying.
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Post by: Khushrenada on September 16, 2009, 05:10:42 PM
I have never seen E.T. either. I've seen bits and pieces but I was never interested in seeing the whole movie. I agree. He was kind of creepy. For an alien that is supposed to appeal to kids, he's kind of a failure. I was bringing up the fact that I had never seen E.T. with some friends of mine the other day and they couldn't believe. They were going on about how it is such a good movie and I should see it. Good to know there are other E.T. haters out there. Stay strong, compadres.


Although, I do agree with the sentiment that you might be getting jaded with all the movie watching. Lawrence of Arabia 3 stars? Although to be fair, I can see why you might feel that way. I wasn't too eager to see the movie again the first time I watched it. But, after some time passed, it began to grow on me and I finally watched it again and I liked it a whole lot more than that first viewing. Although, I find I like the movie more up to the intermission. After the intermission, the movie seems to meander and isn't as focused as before. Plus, it is just nothing but trouble for Lawrence. After rooting for him to succeed in the first part of the movie, it isn't that fun to watch the hero suffer for a long time. Once the march for Damascus begins, the movie picks up once more and the ending is good. I love that shot of him riding home.

Oh well. To each his own. I should really start rating movies again. I've fallen behind so much. Not that it really matters.
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Post by: ThePerm on September 16, 2009, 08:56:51 PM
There are shorter version of Lawrence of Arabia, im bettign they meander less. I watched the really long ass version though. It was really damn good though. The beginning was kinda..eh, but as soon as they got into the desert the movie became awesome. Keep in mind I also rented Legend of the Bog, I was going to watch it first, but after seeing 10 minutes of it I was like **** that, Vinnie Jones anin't carrying this thing and slipped in LOA. I never finished Legends of the Bog, and I don't think I care.
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Post by: ShyGuy on September 16, 2009, 10:00:31 PM
Arab Larry was beautifully filmed, but the script was slow and had no point. Peter OToole was a great actor, but the character he played was unlikeable
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Post by: ShyGuy on September 20, 2009, 04:49:26 AM
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Man, have I been getting the likeable movies or what? Sociopaths on screen display a level of wickedness to rival The Exorcist. Kids, be careful who you marry. Three and a Half Stars
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Post by: ThePerm on September 20, 2009, 05:52:58 AM
Watch "The house on the edge of the Park" if you want to see some sociopaths display some wickedness

9/10 stars
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Post by: vudu on September 20, 2009, 09:48:11 AM
The Manchurian Candidate (original version)

1962 rating:  4.5 stars
2009 rating:  3.5 stars

Very good moving.  I'm amazed it came out in 1962--both the story and filming techniques are way ahead of their time.  Holds up reasonably well, although the fight sequence w/ Frank Sinatra is pretty funny and there are a couple plot points revolving around women falling in love that don't quite make sense.
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Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on September 20, 2009, 12:05:25 PM
don't you mean 2004 for the 2nd one?
There was no Manchurian Candidate in 2009
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Post by: vudu on September 20, 2009, 12:33:59 PM
No, I mean my rating was 3.5 stars because I watched the moving in 2009.  If I had watched it in 1962 I would have rated it 4.5 stars.
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Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on September 20, 2009, 12:38:28 PM
o i c.

I thought it was a comparison between the 2 versions.
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Post by: oohhboy on September 21, 2009, 10:12:58 AM
28 weeks later

Rubbish. The first movie was pretty alright, but this is something different. People in this movie are frankly, Retarded. With a capital R. You are dealing with a virus that annihilated a country and the only thing that saved your ass was that zombies couldn't swim. So your security boils down to an unguarded mobile construction office.

Stupid / 10
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Post by: ThePerm on September 22, 2009, 04:54:10 PM
Boogie Nights 7/10

it was good, but not great, there are some stuff worth quoting though.
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Post by: UncleBob on September 24, 2009, 10:26:57 AM
The Wizard of Oz: >Insert Something Clever</10.

Man, it's been *years* since I've seen this movie.  Last night, they did a one-night only nationwide showing of The Wizard of Oz in HD to celebrate its 70th (yeah, it's that old) anniversary and its release in HD on Blu-Ray.

Between not being 12 or so, the moving being shown on the big screen and the high definition features, I'm amazed at all the little things I never picked up on before.  Did you know the Scarecrow carried a a small hand gun?

It was fun.  I took my mother out for dinner and a movie as a late birthday present (it was planned to be late, since I couldn't exactly move up the date of the one-night showing) and we enjoyed ourselves.  The showing was packed (I kinda wondered how well it would sell) with people dressed up (several little girls and a couple of older kids were dressed up as Dorothy.  Should have got my mom a Wicked Witch hat... ;))

On a slightly-related note, during the special feature before the film, they had some projector problems.  While fixing it all, it was revealed that the show was being played back via a Dish Network DVR.  Very interesting...
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Post by: EasyCure on September 24, 2009, 10:31:19 AM
Did they remove the hanging dwarf?
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Post by: UncleBob on September 24, 2009, 10:32:44 AM
No, the bird was still in the background.
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Post by: vudu on September 24, 2009, 01:40:15 PM
Did you know the Scarecrow carried a a small hand gun?

What?
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Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on September 24, 2009, 01:48:56 PM
Did you know the Scarecrow carried a a small hand gun?

What?

seconded.... WHAT!?

we needs pics.
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Post by: BranDonk Kong on September 24, 2009, 02:05:39 PM
The rumored "munchkin" suicide is actually a peacock simply turning, far in the distance.
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Post by: EasyCure on September 24, 2009, 04:08:48 PM
The rumored "munchkin" suicide is actually a peacock simply turning, far in the distance.

That's even creepier!
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Post by: Stogi on September 24, 2009, 04:24:34 PM
Did you know the Scarecrow carried a a small hand gun?

What?

seconded.... WHAT!?

we needs pics.

For a dude without brains, he sure knows when to be strapped.

"Look at this random bitttttttttttttttch. I haven't gotten pussy in over a month....better get my strap."

Yes I'm implying the scarecrow was in fact going to rape dorthy.
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Post by: UncleBob on September 24, 2009, 09:57:21 PM
http://home.earthlink.net/~jinxo/ozgun.html
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Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on September 24, 2009, 11:20:21 PM
http://home.earthlink.net/~jinxo/ozgun.html

mind = blown

now I have to watch this movie again.
How could I have missed that?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on September 25, 2009, 02:22:33 AM
The Day After 8/10

scared the **** out of Reagan...heheheh at the end of the movie its like "in reality an event such as this is more likely to be worse" nothing gets worse than that. The movie assumes the Russians  back in the 80s would try to nuke everywhere in the country, their more likely to only hit state capitals and the 3 largest cities. Luckily, I live in Arizona, im in the fallout zone of phoenix, but unless Tucson is bombed too than I can just head back to Yuma. I got plenty of food for several days, but I wish i had a basement.
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Post by: NWR_DrewMG on September 25, 2009, 09:42:03 AM
The Wizard of Oz: >Insert Something Clever</10.

Man, it's been *years* since I've seen this movie.  Last night, they did a one-night only nationwide showing of The Wizard of Oz in HD to celebrate its 70th (yeah, it's that old) anniversary and its release in HD on Blu-Ray.

Between not being 12 or so, the moving being shown on the big screen and the high definition features, I'm amazed at all the little things I never picked up on before.  Did you know the Scarecrow carried a a small hand gun?

It was fun.  I took my mother out for dinner and a movie as a late birthday present (it was planned to be late, since I couldn't exactly move up the date of the one-night showing) and we enjoyed ourselves.  The showing was packed (I kinda wondered how well it would sell) with people dressed up (several little girls and a couple of older kids were dressed up as Dorothy.  Should have got my mom a Wicked Witch hat... ;))

On a slightly-related note, during the special feature before the film, they had some projector problems.  While fixing it all, it was revealed that the show was being played back via a Dish Network DVR.  Very interesting...

We went to the same showing, in Ames IA.  They also had projecter issues.  I think it was a problem with the nationwide feed.

It was fun to watch that movie again, I hadn't seen it in so many years, and I noticed a lot of new things as well.  For instance, I remember the movie as being chock full of physical humor, but I'd forgotten all about the written humor in the movie.  It's a much funnier movie than I remember.

My wife (who is a huge Oz fan) and I had a great time.

Also, we followed that up last night with a showing of the musical Wicked which I had no expectations for going in, but enjoyed the hell out of it.  It's been an Oz kind of week for me.
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Post by: UncleBob on September 25, 2009, 09:52:43 AM
Our problems was during the post-show feature where they were talking about the munchkins... you?
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Post by: NWR_DrewMG on September 25, 2009, 10:03:59 AM
Hmm... we had a pre show feature.  I wonder if it was the same feature?  It was just sort of a special, hosted by Angela Landsbury, about the casting of the movie. 

I don't remember when the video feed went out, but the audio stayed on the entire time.  It lasted from about 80% of the way through the feature up until the opening bars of Over the Rainbow.  People were pretty upset, but oh well.  It wasn't the theater's fault, it was the feed's fault.
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Post by: UncleBob on September 25, 2009, 01:23:06 PM
Whoops. I meant Pre-show.
Same thing happened - no video, but we had audio. It didn't last as long - the theater stopped it before the feature was over and was kind enough to rewind and start over from where we lost video. It was at this time I noticed the entire interface was the Dish network DVR set-up.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: NWR_DrewMG on September 25, 2009, 03:48:02 PM
It might have been back up before Over the Rainbow started, but that's when I came back from the snack bar and saw it was working. :)

They didn't start the movie over, which didn't sit well with some (understandably).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: D_Average on September 26, 2009, 04:02:34 AM
BaseketBall
Shoot me in the face/5


Full disclosure - I could only take 7 minutes before changing the channel.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on September 26, 2009, 04:19:50 AM
haha, Baseketball was hillarious, i think its a requirement to watch orgasmo, and Cannibal! The musical first.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: vudu on September 26, 2009, 10:02:19 AM
I'm sorry to admit this, but I have to agree with Perm on this one--Basketball is stupidly hilarious.  Granted, I saw it like a decade ago, so maybe it hasn't held up as well as in my mind.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on September 26, 2009, 10:27:22 AM
I'm sorry to admit this, but I have to agree with Perm on this one--Basketball is stupidly hilarious.  Granted, I saw it like a decade ago, so maybe it hasn't held up as well as in my mind.

It still holds up welll, trust me. I've watched it so many times I can practically recite the whole fucking thing from beginning to end and i STILL think its hilarious. I have to ask if D_Average ever enjoyed the comedy stylings of the Naked Gun series... Basketball is by the same producers and it has the same comedy style (just raunchier language) where almost every line or physical joke is a "wtf" moment. I know some people just don't get it and dislike these types of comedies, but not me man I love those movies.

Speaking Basketball, appearantly the producer hand picked Matt and Trey for the parts, basically wrote the movie with them in mind. I just think thats pretty cool. Orgasmo is another great movie their in, but admittedly I've never fully seen Cannibal! The musical. I think I fell asleep through it (i stayed up trying to watch it online) and just forgot about ever trying to finish it.

Fun Fact: Treys horse in Cannibal! The Musical was named Leanne after his ex-fiance who had cheated on him. He also named Cartmans whore of a mother Leanne after her too.
Damn she musta been a bitch, huh?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BeautifulShy on September 26, 2009, 07:15:28 PM
Just finished United 93 it is a good movie. I give it 4 out of 5 stars.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on September 26, 2009, 10:22:29 PM
It's BasEketball.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: D_Average on September 27, 2009, 12:22:01 AM
Hmmm, I caught it somewhere in the middle and I was real out of it.  I'll give it another shot sometime from the beginning if I catch it on as I do love the Naked Gun series.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on September 27, 2009, 04:37:12 AM
Star Trek: Again/10

Saw Star Trek on the opening night some time ago.  Wanted to see it in our local mini-Imax, but they weren't showing it.
Whadda know, they're showing it now?  And at a reduced price ($8.50 vs. $12.50!).  Some friends and I went to see it.

Now, I know there are some die-hard trekkies out there who hated this film, but I liked it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on September 27, 2009, 09:10:20 AM
Hmmm, I caught it somewhere in the middle and I was real out of it.  I'll give it another shot sometime from the beginning if I catch it on as I do love the Naked Gun series.

'at a boy! hope you enjoy it this time.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on October 01, 2009, 11:27:39 AM
Surrogates: 7/10

While a good sci-fi movie with some decent action, it doesn't compare to something like District 9 where you instantly want to see it again. The movie starts off pretty strong, and you think you're in for a mysterious plot too, but eventually you can see the plot twist coming a mile away, and even if you didn't its not very well worth it.

Also: Beware of uncanny valley.. a "pretty" bruce willis is a truley ugly thing.


Also (again!): And, i can't believe i almost forgot this... They stole "jacking-on" from futurama in this film!!! I couldn't stop laughing, but I was the only one..
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on October 01, 2009, 12:49:03 PM
He hasn't been"pretty" since Die hard and Hudson Hawk unless you are talking about him switching to a female body....
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on October 01, 2009, 02:05:29 PM
He hasn't been"pretty" since Die hard and Hudson Hawk unless you are talking about him switching to a female body....

Thats not what i meant but... well, lemme not ruin anything ;)

Aaaanyway, what i meant by a "pretty" bruce willis is, well his surrogate (as well as pretty much everyone elses) was meant to look like him but a few years younger and much more "beauty enhanced" than what the user actually looks like. So in this case, they used a similar technique to what they did to Prof. X and Magneto in X-men 3 to make a rosey cheeked bruce willis with long blonde hair. Its not a spoiler, if you look carefully at the movie poster..
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on October 01, 2009, 06:04:45 PM
I saw Surrogates and agree with Vudu completely. 7/10

I also saw District 9 last week. 8/10. Moon was miles better.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on October 02, 2009, 01:57:16 AM
i give Surrogates a 7/10 too, it was good, but not great. If surrogates is a 7/10 im switching Boogie Nights to a 7.3/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on October 02, 2009, 12:57:15 PM
I saw Surrogates and agree with Vudu completely. 7/10

I also saw District 9 last week. 8/10. Moon was miles better.

I should kick your "arse" for that remark...
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on October 02, 2009, 01:16:52 PM
Deadgirl (http://www.netflix.com/WiPlayer?movieid=70108200&trkid=1211017) - OMG/WTF

The premise of this movie is disturbing, but the movie I think was pretty well done except for one incident that was used to move the plot forward. It was disgusting in a way way that could make some people a little sick, but has it's funny parts to balance things out a little. I really didn't expect this movie to be so entertaining, as I expected a sick & twisted gorror movie, and that's basically what it is, but it was fun to watch. 3.5/5
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on October 02, 2009, 02:41:35 PM
I saw Surrogates and agree with Vudu completely. 7/10

I also saw District 9 last week. 8/10. Moon was miles better.

I should kick your "arse" for that remark...

But have you seen Moon yet?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on October 02, 2009, 07:28:34 PM
Zombieland 8.8/10

Yeah its good, you will laugh, and cringe. There was one scene that made me jump. Scared the bejesus out of me really. It wasn't what you'd expect...no it was much worse!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on October 03, 2009, 12:04:21 AM
I saw Surrogates and agree with Vudu completely. 7/10

I also saw District 9 last week. 8/10. Moon was miles better.

I should kick your "arse" for that remark...

But have you seen Moon yet?

I'M NOT VUDU!

Zombieland 8.8/10

Yeah its good, you will laugh, and cringe. There was one scene that made me jump. Scared the bejesus out of me really. It wasn't what you'd expect...no it was much worse!

Just saw it and i gotta give it a 10/10 cuz it was aaaaawwwwwwwwwwesome. Had everything; sweet zombie kills, a hot chick, humour and a sweet cameo by THE MAN!. Definately wanna see this one again.

Perm, PM me the part that made you jump just to verify what i THINK it is..
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on October 03, 2009, 03:30:16 PM
I saw Surrogates and agree with Vudu completely. 7/10

I also saw District 9 last week. 8/10. Moon was miles better.

I should kick your "arse" for that remark...

But have you seen Moon yet?

I'M NOT VUDU!


Irrelevant. You haven't seen it have you HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on October 04, 2009, 07:20:50 PM
Ben-Hur[ The chariot race is one of the most intense things ever filmed. no CGI, just real people getting trampled by real horses. Four and Half Stars.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on October 07, 2009, 01:06:27 AM
Invention of Lying

While hilarious, really really hilarious at some points, I couldn't help but wish that someone who was more of an asshole had this gift. I loved Gervais in it. I thought he did a really good job. I just wish he was more of a prick like he was in his last movie. I imagined so many ridiculous situations that you could create and while the movie did touch up on most, there was a lot of potential wasted. I also had a problem with it being a love story. A love story limited the scope and progression of the movie. It's too bad really, there is literally everyone in this movie, fuckin' everyone, and I would have loved to see more of them. It literally had the setup to be the funniest movie of all time, but it ended up just being a self-deprecating love story.

6.5/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: IceCold on October 08, 2009, 04:40:49 AM
Good summer for movies. Up's "Married Life" montage was beyond incredible. Hurt Locker was intense. Hangover was pretty funny ("...almost bankrupted the casino, and he was a ri-TARD!"). District 9 was a pleasant surprise. Inglourious Basterd's is Tarantino's third best movie.

Funny People was **** though. Transformers 2 was mongoose ****. Public Enemies was almost EXACTLY THE SAME as Heat. Come on Michael Mann.

Retro pick: Watched Sunset Blvd again and it's still amazing. I can't believe how well it aged. WATCH IT PEOPLE.

Want to watch Zombieland, 500 Days of Summer, and Ponyo.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on October 08, 2009, 08:28:20 AM
Invention of Lying

While hilarious, really really hilarious at some points, I couldn't help but wish that someone who was more of an asshole had this gift. I loved Gervais in it. I thought he did a really good job. I just wish he was more of a prick like he was in his last movie. I imagined so many ridiculous situations that you could create and while the movie did touch up on most, there was a lot of potential wasted. I also had a problem with it being a love story. A love story limited the scope and progression of the movie. It's too bad really, there is literally everyone in this movie, fuckin' everyone, and I would have loved to see more of them. It literally had the setup to be the funniest movie of all time, but it ended up just being a self-deprecating love story.

6.5/10

I agree, tho i'd give it a 7. It has so much potential but they kinda boxed themselves in with what happened from "that" lie he told.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on October 08, 2009, 08:56:02 AM
Good summer for movies. Up's "Married Life" montage was beyond incredible. Hurt Locker was intense. Hangover was pretty funny ("...almost bankrupted the casino, and he was a ri-TARD!"). District 9 was a pleasant surprise. Inglourious Basterd's is Tarantino's third best movie.

Funny People was **** though. Transformers 2 was mongoose ****. Public Enemies was almost EXACTLY THE SAME as Heat. Come on Michael Mann.

Retro pick: Watched Sunset Blvd again and it's still amazing. I can't believe how well it aged. WATCH IT PEOPLE.

Want to watch Zombieland, 500 Days of Summer, and Ponyo.

Icecold has decent taste in movies.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: vudu on October 08, 2009, 01:41:14 PM
Public Enemies was almost EXACTLY THE SAME as Heat. Come on Michael Mann.

We've already determined that Michael Mann is the worst director ever. (http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/forums/index.php?topic=19981.0)

Retro pick: Watched Sunset Blvd again and it's still amazing. I can't believe how well it aged. WATCH IT PEOPLE.

THIS
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on October 08, 2009, 05:48:32 PM
heat was pretty good 7.8/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on October 08, 2009, 06:19:18 PM
The Informant! 5.5/10

I'd give it a five, because the first half of the movie is gold, while the second half is a complete 180, thusly being a good HALF of a movie.  However, the first half was really good. Spoiler added comment: As the main character's life deteriorated, so did the quality of the movie.

9 7.5/10

Not really a kids movie just because it's CG.  I doubt most kids would get it, but I liked it.  Some parts had me questioning on screen events, but I felt mentally stimulated.  A good thing.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: IceCold on October 08, 2009, 06:23:03 PM
Good summer for movies. Up's "Married Life" montage was beyond incredible. Hurt Locker was intense. Hangover was pretty funny ("...almost bankrupted the casino, and he was a ri-TARD!"). District 9 was a pleasant surprise. Inglourious Basterd's is Tarantino's third best movie.

Funny People was **** though. Transformers 2 was mongoose ****. Public Enemies was almost EXACTLY THE SAME as Heat. Come on Michael Mann.

Retro pick: Watched Sunset Blvd again and it's still amazing. I can't believe how well it aged. WATCH IT PEOPLE.

Want to watch Zombieland, 500 Days of Summer, and Ponyo.

Icecold has decent taste in movies.

Yeah, I don't like Transformers 3 ;)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on October 08, 2009, 06:55:13 PM
Trick 'r Treat - 7/10

Nothing special, but it is an interesting movie told in a out of order fashion.
Some things are unexpected, and other things you might see coming, but it was all pretty entertaining.
Was there a scary moment? Nope. Not even one.


Laid to Rest - 6/10

If you like horror movies, this is worth a watch, but if you need absolute continuity in that movie and lead characters that aren't complete and utter fucking morons, then you should look elsewhere. THe lead character is a lady that awakes in a coffin and has apparently forgotten who she is and what some things are called. i.e. She awoke in a "dead box". Also the first escape scene left me wondering how she just escaped the killer, but overall it was enjoyable movie to watch and make fun of. The SFX were pretty good to for what it was, and its available on Netflix Instant Watch. Did I mention every character in this movie is a complete and utter fucking moron and there is no way anybody would let this play out the way the movie played out in real life.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on October 09, 2009, 05:01:35 AM
Inglorious Bastards 9/10

Yes it's bullshit. Yes it is historically inaccurate. but I don't give a **** and neither does this film. The violence is short and brutal. No one is safe. While I would have liked more Nazi killing, what you do get is satisfying.

Oppose to popular misconception, this isn't a Brad Pitt movie and there is nothing wrong with him.

Lots of clever dialogue. For those who hate Subtitles, about half the movie is Subbed. If you want to complain about it, I will tell you to shove it.

Highly entertaining and easily some of Quentin's best work that destroys the boorish Kill Bill. Highly recommended, but not for the squeamish.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BeautifulShy on October 10, 2009, 06:22:28 PM
Just watched Man on the Moon.Excellent movie. 5/5
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on October 12, 2009, 02:39:08 AM
Zombieland

Cult Classic/10

This movie had me laughing almost the entire time, even up until the very end. Man, the look on Florida's face we he finds out what Ohio shot....priceless. I'm going to watch this again as soon as the DVD comes out.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: GoldenPhoenix on October 12, 2009, 03:51:13 AM
Mulholland Drive- 10/10

Can't say I enjoyed the movie on an emotional level, it was far too depressing but wow what a ride. I understood (or think I do) what it was all about, but even then there is so much to find in this movie. It was far scarier then pretty much any horror movie I've seen in quite some time without relying on boo scares, it just had me creeped out from beginning to end which made even more of an impact because of Lynch's claustrophobic camera work (that is thankfully a STABLE camera, not Greengrass's motion sickness style that I despise, which seems to be something "artistic" directors go for).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on October 12, 2009, 09:38:55 AM
Zombieland

Cult Classic/10

This movie had me laughing almost the entire time, even up until the very end. Man, the look on Florida's face we he finds out what Ohio shot....priceless. I'm going to watch this again as soon as the DVD comes out.

Ditto. You Know Who's cameo alone had me ROFLMFAO and every scene with him in it.. oh man, epic ****. Even You Know Who's dying words.. that **** was just plain funny. Definately be adding this to my tiny dvd collection of must-owns.

On a side-note; I was playing some RE4 (WE) a few days after i saw Zombieland (the rollercoaster scene made me want to revisit the mines) and I was constantly giving los Ganados a double-tap and laughing to myself.

Whip It: 7/10

Cute flick, had some suprisingly funny moments. I expected it to be a chick-flick but it wasn't all emotional or filled with teen angst, just a bunch of chicks beating up on eachother in skates. Nice. I was surprised that Drew Barrymore was the producer, but I was more surprised that she's not so self indulged that she gave herself a huge part in the movie. In fact, she had maybe like 5 lines in the whole thing and very little screen time compared to that newcomer Kristen Wiig (who seems to be in everything lately).

Oh and for you pedophiles out there, the main character has an almost nude scene that made me feel very uncomfortable to watch because she looks like she's 12 years old so.. yeah you  might get a kick outta that.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on October 12, 2009, 10:08:44 AM
if your talking about Ellen Page (Juno), she is 22 yrs old.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Dasmos on October 12, 2009, 10:24:51 AM
I was surprised that Drew Barrymore was the producer

Director?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on October 12, 2009, 11:07:52 AM
if your talking about Ellen Page (Juno), she is 22 yrs old.

Oh, i know that, but she LOOKS 12 which is what makes it very creepy to see her undress.

I was surprised that Drew Barrymore was the producer

Director?

Does it matter?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on October 12, 2009, 04:09:23 PM
An American Werewolf in London - 6.5/10

I know this movie is considered a werewolf great, and it does still probably hold the title for best transformation scene, but this movie could have been better. I know it was 1981 when it was made and special effects weren't what they were today, but it would have been nice to see the wolf more often and not just a screen flash of a wolf face close up. It also seemed to just end all of a sudden, no real closure. I personally like the sequel better, it was a much more fun movie.


The Thirst (http://www.netflix.com/WiPlayer?movieid=70067885&trkid=1211017) - 5.5/10

It was entertaining for a low budget vampire flick that replaces fangs with drool. This was a movie that I watched following a recommendation from GP in the Halloween "scary" movie (http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/forums/index.php?topic=29590.msg555294#new) thread, and I don't regret watching it. It did some things wrong, and other things poorly, but it managed to hold my interest all the way to the end. Take into account that most of the budget was probably spent on fake blood and it's really not that bad of a movie all things considered.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: GoldenPhoenix on October 12, 2009, 04:19:15 PM
An American Werewolf in London - 6.5/10

I know this movie is considered a werewolf great, and it does still probably hold the title for best transformation scene, but this movie could have been better. I know it was 1981 when it was made and special effects weren't what they were today, but it would have been nice to see the wolf more often and not just a screen flash of a wolf face close up. It also seemed to just end all of a sudden, no real closure. I personally like the sequel better, it was a much more fun movie.


The Thirst - 5.5/10

It was entertaining for a low budget vampire flick that replaces fangs with drool. This was a movie that I watched following a recommendation from GP in the Halloween "scary" movie (http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/forums/index.php?topic=29590.msg555294#new) thread, and I don't regret watching it. It did some things wrong, and other things poorly, but it managed to hold my interest all the way to the end. Take into account that most of the budget was probably spent on fake blood and it's really not that bad of a movie all things considered.

I agree with what you said, I enjoyed it more because it was a unique twist on things, but it was obviously hampered by budget. The acting was average at best.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on October 12, 2009, 04:58:45 PM
Gangs of the dead : LOL THIS IS SO BAD/10

LOL THIS IS SO BAD! budget priced movie i bought from Circuit City back during the liquidation of assets.. cost me like $2 and was still too expensive for how crappy it is. Very LOL-worthy though, since I like to make fun of budget movies like this. I got it as a gag gift for my brother but he never took it, its been in my posession ever since.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on October 12, 2009, 06:25:38 PM
GP, Mullholland Drive is a great movie. Absolutely fantastic, and you're right, it's a little freaky too, especially when the girls find a certain corpse...

I watched the original Die Hard last night. It hasn't stood up well (very few 80's action movies have), certainly not as well as I thought it would. Seeing Bruce Willis with hair is a trip. I'm going to watch the second one in the next few days. I hope it's better.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on October 12, 2009, 07:47:49 PM
You will find Die Hard stands up very well, especially when you compare it to Die Hard 4.0 which quite frankly, isn't Die Hard. You could have Owen Wilson playing the lead in 4 and the results would have been the same.

While the stunts aren't as big or flashy as they are now, for most of it they had to do it for real. All those conventions and cliches started here. None of that PG-13 violence throttling.

I would rate the second movie near the first, but a touch lower. It's still good, but it suffers a little by being a sequel and needing to be a bigger movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on October 12, 2009, 09:39:34 PM
as far as low budget zombie movies go Gangs of the Dead isn't that bad. Now watch Zombiez

Gangs of the Dead C+/A++

Zombies F-/A++
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on October 13, 2009, 10:47:16 AM
Is it the italian "zombie" you're referring to?
cuz at least that had an epic zombie vs shark fight!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on October 13, 2009, 12:50:21 PM
Three... Extremes - 5.5/10

This has been on my Netflix list forever and a day, but I just got around to watching it thanks to Stogi's glowing recommendation (http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/forums/index.php?topic=29590.msg555237#msg555237). 3 stories, 3 different directors. I kept hearing that the last one was the best, Stogi says the 1st 2 were the best. Personally I think the 1st one was good, the 2nd one I don't really get and the 3rd one was boring until the "what a twist" moment at the very end, which upon reflection made the whole story kinda sick.

But on a related side note, it's entirely possible that I have become completely desensitized.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on October 13, 2009, 01:12:29 PM
"glowing"? I beg to differ.

The first one is great. The second one is the best. The third one I can't even remember; something about a box. I might need to rewatch it though.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on October 13, 2009, 01:29:22 PM
The 1st one was good, even though I guessed what she was using the minute I first saw her making it.

I not sure I got the second one.
He gets kidnapped by the extra, who cuts off his wife's fingers and tried to get him(the director) to suffocate his(the extra's) son? But why does the Director then strangle out his own wife... "I ned to do this for my wife, because I love her" who was he talking to? was that not his wife he stangled out at the end? He made it sound like it was really his mistress.

The 3rd one was about the twins and the box.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on October 13, 2009, 02:15:20 PM
If I remember right, it's because the son swears revenge on his "wife" (who is actually his mistress). So he kills her in order to save his wife in the long run.

I liked it a lot, not because of the plot (the first one had the best plot), but because of how weird and psycho it was. That director definitely did the best job; it was brilliantly shot.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on October 13, 2009, 06:53:12 PM
no Zombi was great, Zombiez is another gang related zombie movie, and its terrible. Gangs of the Dead has at least a little going for it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on October 14, 2009, 08:22:31 AM
Drag Me To Hell - Must/Watch

What a great movie. Sam Raimi(Evil Dead, Spiderman) hit a homerun with this movie. A little cartoonish at times, but what would you expect from the man that brought you the Evil Dead series? A girl comes across a Gypsy curse and everything is all bad from there on out. Can she beat it or remove it? Well you gotta watch and find out for yourself, but this is pure entertainment from beginning to end. Also getting added to the Halloween "Scary" Movie thread (http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/forums/index.php?topic=29590.0).


p.s. The girl starring in this(Alison Lohman) should replace Kirsten Dunst in Spiderman.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on October 16, 2009, 06:26:08 AM
The Proposal - 4/5 stars

I admit that I'm a Ryan Reynolds fan and am automatically biased toward any movie that lets him be him. He gets to be his usual witty wise cracking self in this movie and it doesn't disappoint. RR is on point, Sandra Bullock brought the LOLs and Betty White delivers exactly like you would expect her to. It's a romantic comedy with out all the romance and has actual comedy. If that isn't enough to convince you, Sandra Bullock has a nude scene (beautiful woman beautiful body). If you thought the previews were even slightly interesting, you will enjoy it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on October 16, 2009, 10:31:08 AM
The Proposal - 4/5 stars

I admit that I'm a Ryan Reynolds fan and am automatically biased toward any movie that lets him be him. He gets to be his usual witty wise cracking self in this movie and it doesn't disappoint. RR is on point, Sandra Bullock brought the LOLs and Betty White delivers exactly like you would expect her to. It's a romantic comedy with out all the romance and has actual comedy. If that isn't enough to convince you, Sandra Bullock has a nude scene (beautiful woman beautiful body).

I was always curious to see this just cuz RR is ace and SB does have her moments. Throw BW in to the mix and it had to be a golden egg, right? Glad i turned out to be right, i'll have to watch this eventually then.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on October 16, 2009, 03:55:33 PM
Last comment on page 19: a goddamn ROCK could replace Kirsten Dunst as Mary Jane and I'd be happier.

Anyway.

Trick 'r Treat: 5/10

I didn't really get the point. There was no overarching plot, just a bunch of disjointed half-hearted stories that ultimately didn't make any sense. Clearly made a shoestring, with some downright horrible practical effects. The most interesting stories were the kids on the bus and the pumpkin boy. I didn't expect to see Rogue in there, but...there she was.

Next up: Drag Me to Hell and the new Friday the 13th.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on October 16, 2009, 04:02:27 PM
that must be the reason it took so long to release, im getting it in the mail today. According to all the talk iv'e heard it sounds tv movie quality at best they should have just done that.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on October 16, 2009, 04:10:03 PM
Trick r Treat was a ok movie, entertaining for what it was.
It did some things well but the Rogue story was the only one that really had me going WTF since it was so unexpected and kinda out of place.
Pumpkin Boy was like the Ghost of Halloween and all he wanted was to make sure that you did right by the holiday. I can't explain the teacher storyline as far as him out on the streets pretending to be a vampire though, and then him getting taken care of by Sookie (aka Rogue) at their party in the woods. As for the rest of it, I though it was pretty good for a movie that would never make it to the theater.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on October 17, 2009, 03:04:14 AM
trick r Treat 7/10 I thought it was quite all right, it wasn't great, but it was a pretty fun movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: NWR_Lindy on October 17, 2009, 10:47:13 AM
Adventureland - Tries to be clever like "Juno" or something along those lines, and falls short.  Ryan Reynolds is pretty much wasted, and seems to be tossed in just to add some star power.  Kristen Stewart is her usual weepy self...no idea what the big deal is with the buzz around her (I guess it's her waifishness and how well she can do "angsty teenager").  It's set in the 80's but doesn't take advantage of any of the comedic eccentricities of the time period (I'm not asking for Wedding Singer, but do something).  Bill Hader and Kristin Wiig, who are hilarious, really do nothing.  Story doesn't really do anything special, make any statement, or leave any lasting impression.

MEH 6/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on October 17, 2009, 11:55:22 AM
Law Abiding Citizen: FTW/ EPICNESS

Really good. Pretty suspenseful but I'm not sure i'd call it a thriller, but it definetly keeps you guessing in a fun way. Acting was great by the two leads; Jamie Fox is perfect for the arrogant lawyer while Gerard Butler shows his acting chops by taking on this interesting role of a father who loses everything turned maniacle genious, with an interesting plot point rrevealed later explaining his "talent".

I'm recommending this to you guys with my thumbs-up gaurantee. It has a cleverness about it that's been lacking from the Saw series since the first film (you'll see what I mean) and overalll a fun movie to experience. You might even walking out feeling like I did that the wrong person "won"

Personal note: its still hard for me to believe that the guy from In Living Color who played that ugly Latifa or whatever character is such an amazing actor in serious roles. Its also nice to see that the 300 star isn't afraid to take on these interesting roles and not be typecast as Mr. Macho Shinyabs. After 300 I expected this guy to be a lame vin deisel type with nothing but action underr his belt but I've been pleasantly surprised. Hell, I'm even curious about checking out PS. I Love You to see how he did that.

Oh and Mr. BUTTler shows his ass off again in this film in a seemingly random scene, so fair warning to you homophobes out there and a heads-up to you ladies.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on October 17, 2009, 05:00:06 PM
Land of the Lost - 3/5

Its a stupid movie that was funny. If you go in thinking it's anything like the old school Land of the Lost, you would come out highly disappointed. But if you take it for what it is, a Will Ferrel comedy, then you would realize that there are laughs to be had. The sleestak costumes are really bad(obviously men rubbery suits) and the T-Rex CG mixed with live actors was done pretty poorly(the actors go through the dinosaur at times)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on October 17, 2009, 08:35:05 PM
land of the lost 8/10

when i watched it I thought it was hilarious, not for Will Ferrel, but for Danny McBride.
"i made a good choice"

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on October 18, 2009, 05:53:36 AM
The Fly

It has been years since I have seen the Fly and age has not made the final scene any less disgusting. Still gets me grimacing. The special effects are still top notch. Good acting all round.

8/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BeautifulShy on October 18, 2009, 11:43:26 AM
Couldn't find my copy of The Ring.So I watched it on youtube. Still pretty creepy. It gets in your head alot. Now I fully expect to not post anymore in 7 days.

10/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on October 18, 2009, 12:32:20 PM
Couldn't find my copy of The Ring.So I watched it on youtube. Still pretty creepy. It gets in your head alot. Now I fully expect to not post anymore in 7 days.

10/10

Mind sending me back pikmin on the 6th day? or putting it in your will or something?

Oh, and you'll be missed bro, seriously.

<3
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BeautifulShy on October 18, 2009, 12:45:18 PM
I really should finish the game...
Thank you for the kind words.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on October 18, 2009, 12:47:13 PM
I really should finish the game...
Thank you for the kind words.

haha relax, you'll still be here and i'll still be here to give you a friendly punch in the arm. :)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BeautifulShy on October 18, 2009, 01:49:50 PM
I know I'll be around. I was kidding around.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on October 18, 2009, 02:39:27 PM
The Running Man - 8/10

Classic Arnold Cheesy lines like "I'll Be Back" & "He had to Split" wrapped into a good action movie. It happen to come on last night coincidentally after a conversation about using Death Row inmates as gladiators for Pay-Per-View TV so that the prison system could pay for itself and executions could be used as a source of deterrent and entertainment. I know I would watch it, but it would have to take place in international waters since that kind of human sport would be heavily frowned upon.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on October 19, 2009, 03:49:35 AM
damn what channel was it on, iv been trying to catch that movie for a while?

The proposal 8/10, pretty good for all the above listed reasons.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on October 19, 2009, 03:58:36 AM
The Running Man was on Encore, but last I checked though, it wasn't listed in it's On Demand section.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on October 19, 2009, 02:21:25 PM
Lindy, I COMPLETELY AGREE with you on Adventureland. SO much wasted potential.

As for me...

Frailty: If you've never seen this movie, you should. It's obscure, but very good. Stars Bill Paxton as an axe-murderin' soldier of god. One of those few movies that actually manages to surprise you with the "twist" at the end, too. Well, back when I first saw it, anyway. Still holds up today, there are scenes that are kind of disturbing, but not in a "Jacob's Ladder" kind of way. More a "this is uncomfortable" kind of way.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on October 20, 2009, 04:19:25 PM
the ring 10/10 yeah, scared the crap out of me. I got pretty bad insomnia after it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on October 20, 2009, 10:48:19 PM
transformers 2   2/10, thats some of the most well special effect incoherent piece of garbage i ever watched, i couldn't even finish it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on October 20, 2009, 10:53:18 PM
I got it through Netflix today. Gonna watch it tonite. I will turn off my brain and be sure to enjoy it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on October 20, 2009, 11:56:01 PM
Frailty was an awesome movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on October 21, 2009, 02:07:29 PM
Drag Me to Hell

Awesome/10

Old-school horror right here. I think it was pretty obvious that she didn't pick up the button, though.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on October 21, 2009, 02:55:02 PM
Transformers 2
(brain off) - 8.5/10
(brain on) - 4.5/10

IF you take this movie for what it was, make a quite a few assumption about whats going on and ignore some obviously bad cuts, this movie is a great action flick with some bad-ass fighting scenes between robots and funny dialog from both the robots and humans. Reasons you need to shut off the brain and just enjoy it: (*spoilers*)Right from the beginning in the first 2minutes you have no idea what the hell is going on because there are some overcomplicated robot transformations going on and things are moving too fast to really see anything. Lots of things that happen in the movie leave it up to you to assume this or assume that because they sure didn't show it(bad cuts); like one scene where Shia & Co. are dropped through a roof in a car, a robot lands looking at them in the car but when he(the robot) stands up Megan and the other guy are upstairs. how did they get up there so quickly. There is also a scene where a hot girl is a Decepticon and seduces Shia but apparently her skin is soft even though it's made of cold hard steel. Or when Shia is standing on Optimus' chest, who suddenly jumps to his feet but Shia is safely on the ground next to him, I assume he jumped off, but it didn't look like he had time. There are plenty of things (some big, mostly small) & I could probably go on about them but I was trying to just enjoy the movie, which I did.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: GoldenPhoenix on October 21, 2009, 02:56:34 PM
BlackNMild and I agree on Transformers 2? Amazing.

Also the canon comics that came out add quite a bit to the experience IMO. Explains a lot of the things that appears to have been cut. Though I really enjoyed the movie before I even read them, the comics added more to it though.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: GearBoxClock on October 21, 2009, 03:03:07 PM
Transformers 2
(brain off) - 8.5/10
(brain on) - 4.5/10

IF you take this movie for what it was, make a quite a few assumption about whats going on and ignore some obviously bad cuts, this movie is a great action flick with some bad-ass fighting scenes between robots and funny dialog from both the robots and humans. Reasons you need to shut off the brain and just enjoy it: (*spoilers*)Right from the beginning in the first 2minutes you have no idea what the hell is going on because there are some overcomplicated robot transformations going on and things are moving too fast to really see anything. Lots of things that happen in the movie leave it up to you to assume this or assume that because they sure didn't show it(bad cuts); like one scene where Shia & Co. are dropped through a roof in a car, a robot lands looking at them in the car but when he(the robot) stands up Megan and the other guy are upstairs. how did they get up there so quickly. There is also a scene where a hot girl is a Decepticon and seduces Shia but apparently her skin is soft even though it's made of cold hard steel. Or when Shia is standing on Optimus' chest, who suddenly jumps to his feet but Shia is safely on the ground next to him, I assume he jumped off, but it didn't look like he had time. There are plenty of things (some big, mostly small) & I could probably go on about them but I was trying to just enjoy the movie, which I did.

Repeat after me. "It's just a show, I should really just relax."
You're overthinking a summer action movie
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on October 21, 2009, 03:26:21 PM
Transformers 2
(brain off) - 8.5/10
(brain on) - 4.5/10

IF you take this movie for what it was, make a quite a few assumption about whats going on and ignore some obviously bad cuts, this movie is a great action flick with some bad-ass fighting scenes between robots and funny dialog from both the robots and humans. Reasons you need to shut off the brain and just enjoy it: (*spoilers*)Right from the beginning in the first 2minutes you have no idea what the hell is going on because there are some overcomplicated robot transformations going on and things are moving too fast to really see anything. Lots of things that happen in the movie leave it up to you to assume this or assume that because they sure didn't show it(bad cuts); like one scene where Shia & Co. are dropped through a roof in a car, a robot lands looking at them in the car but when he(the robot) stands up Megan and the other guy are upstairs. how did they get up there so quickly. There is also a scene where a hot girl is a Decepticon and seduces Shia but apparently her skin is soft even though it's made of cold hard steel. Or when Shia is standing on Optimus' chest, who suddenly jumps to his feet but Shia is safely on the ground next to him, I assume he jumped off, but it didn't look like he had time. There are plenty of things (some big, mostly small) & I could probably go on about them but I was trying to just enjoy the movie, which I did.

Repeat after me. "It's just a show, I should really just relax."
You're overthinking a summer action movie

That's why I gave it 2 ratings. There were obvious flaws that me & my girl would point out while the movie was playing. If you are the type to nit pick you are not gonna enjoy the movie. The robot transformations are WAY TOO COMPLICATED for something I used to be able to do relatively easy with the transformer toys. Half the time you can't even tell what is going on. Transforming is one of the cool things about the transformers and I can't see how they are doing it. There are bad edits where people seemingly teleport and for a $100million movie I expect better editing. Not to mention that it just seemed a little long, and looking at the Netflix envelope, it's a 2hr 27min movie, it coulda been about 30 minutes shorter. IF you ignore all that, it's a very enjoyable even if a little on the long side.

(spoiler)There are 3 other obvious things I just remembered. One is when The Fallen knew that the boy absorbed the info from the rock even though no one(outside of the audience) knew that yet. The other is when Megan somehow got on a plane with a living talking robot in her toolbox and then showed up at Shia's dorm without him ever telling her what dorm he was in or what room number was his. We just have to assumed he would tell her all that info even though he wasn't expecting her to ever show up at the campus and he hadn't even talked to her since he moved in. Then there was when they teleported to Egypt and Shia hurt his hand(I know he broke his hand in real life) but somehow had a roll of gauze to wrap his hand in*that is over thinking a summer action movie*
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on October 21, 2009, 04:12:38 PM
this was a movie where "whats my motivation?" was never even thought about. I do agree, alot of it was probably terrible editing. Like all those explosions and **** didn't make any noise. Its like a deaf person did the sound.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: GoldenPhoenix on October 21, 2009, 04:28:37 PM
this was a movie where "whats my motivation?" was never even thought about. I do agree, alot of it was probably terrible editing. Like all those explosions and **** didn't make any noise. Its like a deaf person did the sound.

Michael Bay's style is to make it appear action is at ground level most of the time like you are right there, after a big explosion you are going to have trouble hearing. It is his style, you can like it or not, personally I like it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on October 21, 2009, 07:26:54 PM
Only read if you've already seen the movie or have no intention of watching it and are incapable of turning your brainoff to do so.

Transformers 2 FAQ (http://www.toplessrobot.com/2009/06/bonus_robs_transformers_2_faqs.php?page=1[/url)

This goes through the entire movie and makes it very obvious why you have to overlook alot to enjoy this movie for what it is. Funny to read though.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on October 21, 2009, 07:29:51 PM
Only read if you've already seen the movie or have no intention of watching it and are incapable of turning your brainoff to do so.

Transformers 2 FAQ (http://www.toplessrobot.com/2009/06/bonus_robs_transformers_2_faqs.php?page=1[/url)

This goes through the entire movie and makes it very obvious why you have to overlook alot to enjoy this movie for what it is. Funny to read though.

The thought of it hurts my head. Is it as fun to read as the "10 things you learn from watching 'Wanted'" on IMDB?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: GoldenPhoenix on October 21, 2009, 07:33:10 PM
Only read if you've already seen the movie or have no intention of watching it and are incapable of turning your brainoff to do so.

Transformers 2 FAQ (http://www.toplessrobot.com/2009/06/bonus_robs_transformers_2_faqs.php?page=1[/url)

This goes through the entire movie and makes it very obvious why you have to overlook alot to enjoy this movie for what it is. Funny to read though.

The comic explains things perfectly not to mention most of that stuff could be figured out without much thought. But it is cool to hate Transformers 2 so that is fine.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on October 21, 2009, 07:35:06 PM
see, i liked the last transformers and other Michael Bay movies, its just this one was incoherent. I don't need to turn my brain off. I liked the first one even..this one just didn't have anything to make me care


hahaha jesus christ reading that faq, im glad i didnt watch the rest of the movie
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on October 21, 2009, 07:38:14 PM
I don't hate TF2, I actually liked it. But there are so many things in that movie to laugh at.... so bad it's good, and funny. I just watched it for the second time this afternoon.

Here is a excerpt from the FAQ

Quote
If you had to pick a single scene that exemplifies Michael Bay's utter disdain for story and continuity, what would it be?
When five Decepticons sink to the bottom of the ocean to retrieve Megatron's corpse. A submarine tracks five "subjects" going down, and when they get there, one of the Decepticons is killed to give parts to Megatron. 5 -1 +1 = 5, right? No, because the sub somehow tracks "six" subjects coming up. Not only is this very basic math, this is the simplest of script errors. It could not possibly have been more than one page apart in the script. And yet  Michael Bay either didn't care to notice or didn't give a ****. "Math? Math is for pussies. My movies are about **** blowing up, man."

All kinds of stuff like that throughout the movie. Just read the faq, it points out alot of it, but misses some that I pointed out myself.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: GoldenPhoenix on October 21, 2009, 07:40:05 PM
Never any flaws in movies. That seems like a real nitpick right there perhaps one of the things I disdain the most when people criticize movies. Virtually every movie out there has inconsistencies multiple ones at that. It is funny but honestly a pretty lame inconsistency to pick out.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on October 21, 2009, 08:05:56 PM
but there are lots of them, like they had re-written it so many times that some things just slipped and editing got so long, they just said "**** it" at some point.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on October 22, 2009, 01:41:52 AM
yeah, i would rather watch batman and robin than watch transformers 2. Its at the same level of writing as Ulli Lommel's Zombie Nation
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on October 22, 2009, 01:55:24 PM
Com'on, GP, that's a VERY BASIC error that should've been caught many many times during drafting. I agree that the the movie is a "turn your brain off and have fun" kind of feature, but that one really stuck out to me.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on October 23, 2009, 06:57:48 PM
I didn't notice any of these flaws because stuff was moving so far and so quickly and so loudly it hurt to look at the screen by the end.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: GoldenPhoenix on October 23, 2009, 07:33:25 PM
Com'on, GP, that's a VERY BASIC error that should've been caught many many times during drafting. I agree that the the movie is a "turn your brain off and have fun" kind of feature, but that one really stuck out to me.

Maybe they were followed  by a curious whale. There, end of OMG so HUGE plot discrepancy. Not to mention if the error was made it was because the doctor robot was released by Ravage to repair megatron. Though he was swallowed again, who knows if that was in the original script or edits, it could have been a later addition and the dialogue wasn't changed, maybe the Doctor robot being swallowed was added after filming. Seriously that is one of the lamest nitpicks I've heard in quite sometime.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on October 23, 2009, 07:53:53 PM
Why are you such the TF2 defender?

I stated it as a nit pick and an example of what was in the nitpicking summary. So who are you arguing with?
No one expects all movies to be perfect, we are just having fun pointing out flaws in this one.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on October 23, 2009, 07:55:57 PM
Why are you such the TF2 defender?

I stated it as a nit pick and an example of what was in the nitpicking summary. So who are you arguing with?
No one expects all movies to be perfect, we are just having fun pointing out flaws in this one.

Of which there are many. ;-)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: GoldenPhoenix on October 23, 2009, 08:01:08 PM
Why are you such the TF2 defender?

I stated it as a nit pick and an example of what was in the nitpicking summary. So who are you arguing with?
No one expects all movies to be perfect, we are just having fun pointing out flaws in this one.

Because some are completely silly. It is snobbish and I can't stand it when people pick apart extremely minor things in movies and it has gotten far worse with the internet. The fun is sapped out of movies when people are so nitpicky and snobbish, whether it is about CGI, popcorn flicks, or other things they deem to be beneath them. Makes me wonder if there are any people left that go to a movie to have a good time, not nitpick how many robots are mentioned as coming out of the water.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: NWR_Lindy on October 23, 2009, 09:05:19 PM
Here is something I wrote last summer that pretty much sums up how I feel on this topic.

SUNDAY, JUNE 1, 2008

Implausibility vs. Impossibility in the Movies
Amy and I went to see Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull last night. It was good, but not great. I never thought I'd say this about an Indiana Jones movie, but there were some parts of it that were downright slow. I kept saying to myself, "OK, the big action sequence that you've been waiting for is right around the corner," but that corner never arrived. I thought the movie was cool from the standpoint of continuing (and tying up some loose ends about) the Indiana Jones story, but from the standpoint of an action movie I've seen much better. Heck, people pan the bejeezus out of Temple of Doom, but I think it blows away Crystal Skull despite its fair share of near-impossible exploits on the part of Dr. Jones.

Which brings me to the point of this entry. It occurred to me last night that in order for me to fully enjoy any reality-based action movie (and by "reality-based" I mean something set on earth, with humans being subject to earthly physics...no superhero movies or sci-fi stuff), I require the actions performed by characters to be implausible at the most. Impossible just doesn't cut it.

Temple of Doom has a great illustration of my theory. There's a point early in the movie when Indy and Short Round get ejected out of a mountain while riding in a dinghy, and survive a fall down a several-hundred-foot waterfall to the lake below. What makes this ridiculous is that no human could ever survive such a plunge. Yes, I realize that I'm watching an Indiana Jones movie, but I simply cannot suspend my disbelief in the face of such an absolutely impossible feat. I mean, it's impossible. IMPOSSIBLE. It would be like having a character fall off of a 100-storey building, and then get up and dust himself off hardly the worse for wear. You never see that because it'd be ridiculous, right? But somehow when a character's falling into water, it's suddenly possible. Amazing.

My biggest issue with Crystal Skull is that it contains not just one, but several of these moments. Stuff that makes you groan and say, "As if!". It's almost as if the screenwriters read back the scene and then say to themselves, "That's physically impossible, but our audience won't care! They just want to be entertained!" Well guess what guys, some of us actually like some cleverness injected into the stunts we see on celluloid. I'll suspend my disbelief if you extend your imagination, OK? Deal.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on October 23, 2009, 09:29:56 PM
Yeah don't even remind me about the part where he hid in a refrigerator to protect himself from a nuclear blast! I mean, what the ****? Really...REALLLY>!?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on October 23, 2009, 09:43:01 PM
I really think that movie producers put those kind of things into the movies on purpose. they want to create a moment that is gonna make someone say "OMG blah blah blah part was so ridiculous. who would believe that!!?" and thats gonna mke someone who probably had no real intention of seeing the movie say "Well that scene sounds so crazy, now I gotta go see it!"

Thats how it works for me atleast. If someone is talking about it and having fun nit picking it to death, it must be so bad that it's actually good. It's like a easter egg hunt for flaws and that in itself can make a mediocre movie more entertaining.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: NWR_Lindy on October 23, 2009, 09:51:09 PM
Yeah don't even remind me about the part where he hid in a refrigerator to protect himself from a nuclear blast! I mean, what the ****? Really...REALLLY>!?

EXACTLY.  I'm sorry, I'm not a movie nitpicker, but that **** is RIDICULOUS.  I mean seriously, tell me again how the refrigerator stayed closed as it was falling out of the sky?  For crying out loud.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on October 24, 2009, 12:00:05 AM
a refrigerator would be sturdy enough to survive a nuclear blast, he might be roast like a duck depending on how close he was to the blast though. If he was in 300 ft of the blast he would be fucked.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on October 24, 2009, 12:16:36 AM
I think its extremely snobbish when people put down other people for finding something to nitpick in a movie, especially when it was made clear that it was all in fun anyway and in the end the person nitpicking admits to enjoying the film to some extent. I mean seriously, it's gotten so much worse on the internet when someone can make a post and someone else just decides its beneath them because it doesn't fall in line with their way of thinking. Makes me wonder if there's any people that actually still go onto forums to express their opinions, share ideas and information and have fun while doing it, not just to troll.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on October 24, 2009, 04:52:00 AM
Why are you such the TF2 defender?

I stated it as a nit pick and an example of what was in the nitpicking summary. So who are you arguing with?
No one expects all movies to be perfect, we are just having fun pointing out flaws in this one.

Because some are completely silly. It is snobbish and I can't stand it when people pick apart extremely minor things in movies and it has gotten far worse with the internet. The fun is sapped out of movies when people are so nitpicky and snobbish, whether it is about CGI, popcorn flicks, or other things they deem to be beneath them. Makes me wonder if there are any people left that go to a movie to have a good time, not nitpick how many robots are mentioned as coming out of the water.

Worst. Post. Ever.

It's a stupid ass movie. No nitpicking; just reality. Michael Bay will and forever be a jackass.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on October 24, 2009, 05:06:18 AM
Why are you such the TF2 defender?

I stated it as a nit pick and an example of what was in the nitpicking summary. So who are you arguing with?
No one expects all movies to be perfect, we are just having fun pointing out flaws in this one.

Because some are completely silly. It is snobbish and I can't stand it when people pick apart extremely minor things in movies and it has gotten far worse with the internet. The fun is sapped out of movies when people are so nitpicky and snobbish, whether it is about CGI, popcorn flicks, or other things they deem to be beneath them. Makes me wonder if there are any people left that go to a movie to have a good time, not nitpick how many robots are mentioned as coming out of the water.

Worst. Post. Ever.

It's a stupid ass movie. No nitpicking; just reality. Michael Bay will and forever be a jackass.

i mean the last movie was a good popcorn flick, its just this one was just bad. I would watch scenes from the movie if they were broken up and not put into THIS  narrative, i thought it visually was really good. From Megan fox to exploding robots....its just that the plot was horrendous. I remember going into the movie thinking "well i heard some people didnt like it, but i think im going to enjoy it anyways", and i was starting to until it became irredeemably stupid. Im betting though it would be wicked good on sort of drug. I can't follow storylines when im fucked up. I tried watching Ron Burgendy and Narnia, and i still WTF happened in Narnia. Transformers 2 as a visual movie proably works in that respect.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on October 24, 2009, 05:23:44 AM
Paranormal Activity

I've been hearing rave reviews and some hype here around the forums so I was excited to see the screener pop out on the internet. Like all scary movies that have the potential to actually scare me, I watched this at home, alone, with all the lights turned off. I definitely couldn't help myself with a tagline like "Don't watch this alone." So after hooking up the labby to the projector and washing up some grapes, I finally sat down and pressed play.

Let me first say that I could have made this movie. There is nothing in this film that takes any amount of budget, but honestly, that's where it gets its charm. Too many scary movies rely on overzealous kills or crazy effects, but this one was straight forward the entire time. I'm positive this isn't real, but it felt  real. It's like the Blair Witch Project (which I liked) but done alot better.

Now for a little back story. This dude named Mikah and his girlfriend Katie have been experiencing some freaky **** lately. Katie has been experiencing this her entire life but it only just started again. Mikah decides to get a video camera and setup shop to document what happens. And this is the "footage" we see.

I'd like to admit something: this movie at times has some of the greatest scares I've seen in a long while. I'm not talking about "jumpy" scared, nor was it a clever trick in editing or sound or nothing like that. It is just really fucked up. Now I love being scared. Horror movies are my favorite genre. So when I see something crazy to the point where my hair stands up, I am highly entertained. And this movie was very entertaining. I found myself looking forward to the scares. There is a Day/Night aspect to the film that becomes more and more blurred as the movie goes on and I was on the edge of my seat every time night came around; giggling in anticipation.

This movie is pretty funny too. Mikah is a man after my own heart, saying things like "Your too cute to talk" and egging the "spirit" on. There's also this one part with a psychic that had me laughing my ass off.

I guess my only complaint would be the ending. But I won't delve into that.

I suggest you download it and watch it at home. Theaters tend to break the atmosphere.

9/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on October 24, 2009, 11:38:39 AM
I told you it was good. But I hear the Paramount changed the ending from the one they had over 1.5yrs ago when I saw it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on October 24, 2009, 02:14:00 PM
Really? The ending is the only reason I docked a point. Compared to the rest of the movie, it wasn't clever at all. It was too convenient.

I didn't look too deeply into it though since it is hard to end a horror movie. Not all movies can end like the "The Mist."

EDIT: So I guess what I watched was the original ending. What I've been reading around the internet was that there was an even better ending (of which I've read, and yes it is better) that is not in either version (original or theater). In terms of the differences between the endings, supposedly the original is more frightening and overall just better. So I would again suggest downloading it over watching the theater version.

I can't wait for the DVD release. Supposedly there's a bunch of different endings that will be included. Maybe after some of you watch it we can discuss how we would have shot the ending.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on October 24, 2009, 03:05:50 PM
Can you refresh me on the ending?
I don't remember exactly what happened, but I do remember slight disappointment with how it ended.
I think I even said the same thing you did right after watching it.

complaint, dismissal, acceptance, but I couldn't knock it "since it is hard to end a horror movie."
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: GoldenPhoenix on October 24, 2009, 03:32:56 PM
I think its extremely snobbish when people put down other people for finding something to nitpick in a movie, especially when it was made clear that it was all in fun anyway and in the end the person nitpicking admits to enjoying the film to some extent. I mean seriously, it's gotten so much worse on the internet when someone can make a post and someone else just decides its beneath them because it doesn't fall in line with their way of thinking. Makes me wonder if there's any people that actually still go onto forums to express their opinions, share ideas and information and have fun while doing it, not just to troll.

You is funny. Especially considering my post was directed at a common practice I see on the internet, go to IMDB if you don't believe me. Even Citizen Kane which many consider one of the best movies of all time has goofs and inconsistencies. Pretty much every movie out there has their share of mistakes both big and small. Transformers 2 gets special attention because it is cool to bash Michael Bay, and Transformers 2. Personally I found it better then the first in about every way. At least though most enjoyed the film and it made a ton of money, so the "better then thou" haters didn't win the fight like they sometimes do.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on October 24, 2009, 03:52:58 PM
Only read if you've already seen the movie or have no intention of watching it and are incapable of turning your brainoff to do so.

Transformers 2 FAQ (http://www.toplessrobot.com/2009/06/bonus_robs_transformers_2_faqs.php?page=1[/url)

This goes through the entire movie and makes it very obvious why you have to overlook alot to enjoy this movie for what it is. Funny to read though.

Awesome. That was one of the funniest things I've read all month.

I think its extremely snobbish when people put down other people for finding something to nitpick in a movie, especially when it was made clear that it was all in fun anyway and in the end the person nitpicking admits to enjoying the film to some extent. I mean seriously, it's gotten so much worse on the internet when someone can make a post and someone else just decides its beneath them because it doesn't fall in line with their way of thinking. Makes me wonder if there's any people that actually still go onto forums to express their opinions, share ideas and information and have fun while doing it, not just to troll.

You is funny. Especially considering my post was directed at a common practice I see on the internet, go to IMDB if you don't believe me. Even Citizen Kane which many consider one of the best movies of all time has goofs and inconsistencies. Pretty much every movie out there has their share of mistakes both big and small. Transformers 2 gets special attention because it is cool to bash Michael Bay, and Transformers 2. Personally I found it better then the first in about every way. At least though most enjoyed the film and it made a ton of money, so the "better then thou" haters didn't win the fight like they sometimes do.

I think we only bash because of two reasons:

One -- It doesn't make any sense

and Two -- It's Transformers. I don't know about you, but I fuckin' love transformers and to see it, well, raped in such a fashion is beyond distrubing. Like Lindy said, it's like Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull. Spielberg raped Indi in that movie and it's honestly really really sad.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on October 24, 2009, 03:59:31 PM
Only read if you've already seen the movie or have no intention of watching it and are incapable of turning your brainoff to do so.

Transformers 2 FAQ (http://www.toplessrobot.com/2009/06/bonus_robs_transformers_2_faqs.php?page=1[/url)

This goes through the entire movie and makes it very obvious why you have to overlook alot to enjoy this movie for what it is. Funny to read though.

Awesome. That was one of the funniest things I've read all month.

But like I said, it didn't even cover everything, look at the example in my initial review.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on October 24, 2009, 07:24:45 PM
No need to cover it all. Just the most ridiculous stupid plot points will suffice; especially since there are a lot of them.

Ughh...I hope they don't **** up Beast Wars.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on October 25, 2009, 04:41:50 AM
Paranormal activity - 8/10 I should have watched it alone. My mom kept complaining about how it isn't scary

nothing scares me more than ghosts! So this will make me think for days! Its already bad enough trying to get to sleep! Now i got this **** to think about.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: GoldenPhoenix on October 25, 2009, 05:07:55 AM
Quote
and Two -- It's Transformers. I don't know about you, but I fuckin' love transformers and to see it, well, raped in such a fashion is beyond distrubing. Like Lindy said, it's like Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull. Spielberg raped Indi in that movie and it's honestly really really sad.

Considering I liked Transformers I found Transformers 2 to be a pretty good adaptation with its own twist. I especially loved the classic Megatron and STarscream banter. With that said though, Beast Wars, IMO, is leaps and bounds better then G1 transformers which is very one dimensional. For Transformers or Transformers 2 to be better written then G1 (which I think they were, easily) even I would have to admit isn't a major task.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Mop it up on October 25, 2009, 05:50:22 PM
Toy Story Double Feature

Awesome/10

Enough said.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on October 25, 2009, 09:13:46 PM
Transformers > in every possible way than Transformers 2.

Transformers was about the characters and, to some extent, the backstory.

Transformers 2 was about blowing sh*t up.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on October 31, 2009, 05:45:51 PM
Ravenous - 7/10 (recommended by Stogi)

This was a pretty good movie, but never before for this type of movie have I seen every other actor in the movie have more on screen spoken lines than the lead character. That might be a little over exaggerated, but you'll probably agree once you see it. This movie has a few part that leave you wondering how, but nothing beats the silly fight at the end. Just badly choreographed.


Near Dark - 7/10 (recommended by GP)

this movie plays a little loose on vampires and what time of day it is, but it's still entertaining. It's staring Nathan Petrelli from Heroes 20 years ago & he looks pretty much the same now as he did then.
Man picks up a woman, she turns out to not be exactly who he thought she was, learning to cope with his mistake is now his biggest struggle.


Cannibal Holocaust - ....Crazy Movie/Definitely not for everyone (or most people)

It's filmed like a documentary about a crew that goes into a remote jungle to film a cannibal tribe that has never been seen before. The film crew goes missing, so another film crew goes looking for them. All they find is the film that is left behind, that is the movie that you are now watching. Some scenes not for the faint at heart, and for being an older movie, it's crazy how realistic some of the grosser scenes are. *WARNING* actual animals are killed on film in this movie, not so sure about the humans *WARNING*


Diary of the Dead - 7.5/10

After the last 2 zombie movies I watched, I didn't have high hopes for this one. Zombie Diaries and Day of the Dead were horrible. Having said that, this one is much better and is also filmed in documentary style with everything you are seeing being filmed from 1 of the 2 camera that the group has when the outbreak starts.


Blood: The Last Vampire - 5/10

Not sure what I expected out of this movie since (it's based of the anime of the same name) I found the anime of it quite boring, but this movie was no different. There was action on the screen and things were happening, but none of it was really capturing and holding my interest for very long.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: NWR_insanolord on October 31, 2009, 08:42:18 PM
The Matrix - 35/40

I'd never seen this before, but last night a friend of mine made me watch it and I really enjoyed it despite it not really being the kind of thing I'd usually be into. It's too bad the sequels suck, I'd have liked to see where they went with them.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on October 31, 2009, 10:36:42 PM
BNM I'm actually going to watch Cannibal Holocaust tonight. Brain Dead is a pretty good horror movie (that's the original name, in the US I think it was originally called Dead Alive), but I haven't seen it in probably 10 years. The Matrix was good, but they should have never made it a trilogy. You can listen to the Warkasaihsinsdosksdi brothers say it was always meant to be a trilogy, but no, it wasn't. The first one made a **** ton of money, so they made one 4-hour-long sequel, cut it in half to make more money, and called it a trilogy.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on October 31, 2009, 10:56:08 PM
Well you gotta remember that Aaliyah was originally cast and filming the Matrix sequels when she died. they had to write her out and cut all of her scenes then write in Jada to make up some plot holes. the 2 sequels were not done as envisioned but completed within the allowed budget.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on November 01, 2009, 01:48:48 AM
I just watched Cannibal Holocaust. It's a pretty fucked up movie. None of the human actors were actually killed (though "The Last Road To Hell" footage did feature actual human executions), but Jesus Christ it sure looked like they did. The director was originally arrested and charged with murder, and had to prove that the four actors (and the girl from the impalement scene) were actually alive. The actors had originally signed contracts to keep them out of the media for one year after the film's release, but he voided those contracts to prove his innocence, and explained how they filmed the impalement scene, along with providing photos. Pretty fucked up movie indeed.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on November 01, 2009, 01:00:37 AM
BTW, if anyone has any interest in watching it, you can, uncut, for free, legally...on Google video (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8139367795876917425#).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on November 01, 2009, 03:28:15 PM
Diary of the Dead - 7.5/10

After the last 2 zombie movies I watched, I didn't have high hopes for this one. Zombie Diaries and Day of the Dead were horrible. Having said that, this one is much better and is also filmed in documentary style with everything you are seeing being filmed from 1 of the 2 camera that the group has when the outbreak starts.

I've yet to see this one.. i should really get around to that.
May i ask which version of Day of the Dead you saw? I never saw the remake but I always did like the original day of the Dead. I hated it at first, but it grew on me in an odd way.. 
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on November 01, 2009, 04:59:08 PM
The remake (2008). It was really bad.
never saw the original
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on November 01, 2009, 05:15:38 PM
The remake (2008). It was really bad.
never saw the original

Ah i see. I'm sure I mentioned never having seen the remake, in fact I didn't even know it was remade since as far as i know it never had a theatrical release.

It's hard to to be able to suggest the original or assume its better than the remake you saw.. but i'd say check it out if you ever had the chance.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on November 02, 2009, 03:49:54 PM
The Thing from Another World: Great script, but it's kind of Frankenstein in Antarctica.

The Thing (1982): My favorite horror movie. Ever-watchable.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on November 03, 2009, 12:28:48 AM
yeah there is a remake of day of the dead which is terrible and a sort of "sequel" called Day of the Dead 2 contagium..neither are good..but the remake is a lot better than the shitty sequel.

the deal is romero sold the rights to his movies for money(not the wisest thing to do...i would argue Romero is a terrbile business man) so that he could make more stuff.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on November 04, 2009, 01:54:58 PM
G.I. Joe - 7.9/10

This is a great summer popcorn action flick. There are of course a few things you need to overlook* to not ruin your enjoyment of the movie, but I honestly can't wait to see how they follow it up with a sequel. Marlon Wayans had a few funny lines and 3rd Rock from the sun guy did a really good job at his character too.

*There is scene where the Baroness shoots down an over hanging platform so she can slide down tot the bottom floor. When they switch camera angles, the platform she just slid down and is walking away from are now stairs. Also Baroness and Duke have a love story, if it weren't for that both idiots wouldn't have seemed like such liabilities throughout the entire movie. I wanted to slap some sense into Joe for being so distracted during his world saving mission. and I could go on, but most of it was so minor that I don't even really remember most of it right now anyway.

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on November 04, 2009, 03:21:47 PM
yeah gi joe was a strange bad movie in that it wasn't that bad, but it wasn't terrible in a Transformers 2 way. At least I cared about the characters. It had some ridiculously stupid parts, but they could easily be overlooked. I could probably watch the movie again a few times. Actually, it really seemed like a sequel would be a really good movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on November 04, 2009, 06:18:05 PM
The Room - :(

I can't really say I've seen it as I was only able to sit through about 20 minutes of it before I had to turn it off. I only knew about the movie because some people on another forum were sorta praising it and then [Adult Swim] actually aired it one time one night only but I missed it. The acting is horrible, the sound is horrible, the script is horrible, the visual quality looks like it's a Hallmark channel movie and the actors are not all that attractive. It's basically a soft-core porno (how was it aired on adult swim?) without any sexyness attached. The guy who stars in this movie Tomy Wiseau wrote and directed himself, and I wouldn't be surprised to find out that he also financed it. Do not waste your time on this movie. It's listed as comedy, but there was not one thing funny about it. It was so bad it was just bad.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on November 08, 2009, 11:13:19 AM
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story   8/10

i dunno why i didn't like this movie much when i first saw it, maybe it was because I saw it before Walk the Line and Ray so the bio-pic parodies weren't as evident as they couldve been but geez is this movie funny now. there's just so much outlandish **** going on its hard to believe theres even an actual story in there. The Beatles scene was probably one of the funniest things i've ever seen. Aside from Jack Black looking a little too chubby to portray Paul McCartney, the rest of the cameos as the beatles looked perfect. Also jack white of the white stripes as Elvis was hilarious. Some of the best cameos ever are in this movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on November 08, 2009, 01:42:27 PM
Hot Fuzz  10/10

Don't know why it took me this long to buy the dvd but this movie is even better the second time around.

aside from being incredibly funny, and having some sweet action...

(http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l28/ThreeImaginaryBoys/dalton.jpg)

the casting is top notch.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on November 08, 2009, 05:12:22 PM
the funniest part of Walk the Line was when he ripped off the sink, i was like thats why Dewey Cox does it!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on November 08, 2009, 05:53:57 PM
the funniest part of Walk the Line was when he ripped off the sink, i was like thats why Dewey Cox does it!

I had the same reaction haha They kept doing it over and over in Walk Hard so when i finally saw Walk the Line i couldn't help but laugh and think "oh... i get it now"
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on November 09, 2009, 12:54:37 AM
BLACK DYNAMITE

Best movie ever?/10

Man, this movie is too epic!

EDIT: I don't think I have to say any more but here is one of my favorite lines from the movie:

*Interrupts girl talking* See here, mama. Now you can hit the sheets or the streets, it don't make me no nevermind. Now that's your bag baby, so you can go or you can come. Can you dig it?

I'm definitely using that some time.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on November 09, 2009, 01:16:54 PM
I love love LOVE Dewey Cox. The songs are great, the acting is funny, and Pam from the Office is hawt.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Caterkiller on November 09, 2009, 05:14:55 PM
Precious 10/10

Its about a 16 or 17 year old black girl living in Harlem in 1987. She has a really hard life and it's just the kind of life better off people may not even realize can exist.

Some parts were really really intense. Can't imagine that this type of movie would be anyones cup of tea here. But I think the girls could really get into it. Except for the extremely horrible things I couldn't help but see some of my life in this movie. Just a tiny tiny bit, I had a great life so far. I can't really pin point it, but somethings were just way to familiar. Made me cry a couple of times, and pretty funny as well. The audience I saw it with gasped, shouted, laughed,  cried and just went on an emotional roller coaster.

Just wish there was a little more closure at the end. 
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on November 09, 2009, 05:57:56 PM
I Love You, Beth Cooper: Dog sh*t/10

Turned it off halfway through. Awful, AWFUL film.

Awful.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on November 09, 2009, 06:03:29 PM
I Love You, Beth Cooper: Dog sh*t/10

Turned it off halfway through. Awful, AWFUL film.

Awful.

I'll admit, at the time this came out either nothing else out interested me or i'd seen everything good at the time, so i was interested in this one. Figured it might be decent for a pg13 movie. Well we couldn't head out to the theatres that friday (our one definaate date night) and when my gf and I tried to go back the following week, they weren't even showing it. Guess it really was just that shitty.

As for your comments on Walk Hard: AGREED! I'm actually putting the soundtrack on my ipod as we speak, but before i started syncing it i put on their cover of "thats amore" and almost pissed my pants.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on November 10, 2009, 04:45:35 AM
Ong Bak 2

This movie makes no sense whatsoever. It doesn't even end well either. In fact, any scene that didn't involve fighting was merely a waste of time.

That said, Ong Bak 2 has froth worthy fight scenes that made me rewind the movie more than a few times. Tony Jaa is the ****. Hands down, the ****. Seeing him do even more crazy **** at a break neck speed makes all the nonsensical story beats and characters irrelevant.

See this movie if you love seeing motherfuckers get kneed in the face, kicked in the chest, and thrown off buildings. Oh and there's one scene where he does a back-flip off an elephants face and knees a dude right on the crown of his head.

As a martial arts movie, it deserves a 10/10
As a movie-movie, 6/10

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on November 10, 2009, 06:46:52 PM
on the beth cooper movie..geeze, its directed by Chris Columbus, who usually directs good movies...i wonder what went wrong?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on November 10, 2009, 07:58:51 PM
on the beth cooper movie..geeze, its directed by Chris Columbus, who usually directs good movies...i wonder what went wrong?

the guy casted to play a high school nerd looks like he's clearly 30 or at least been binge smoking for 20 years?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on November 11, 2009, 07:22:35 PM
He also has a deviated septum or something and a giant beak for a nose and is just NOT LIKABLE.

Also, much has been made of Hayden Panettiere's side-boob scene. Trust me on this: I have bigger boobs than she does. It is nothing special. In fact, it was sort of detrimental to my opinion of her hottness.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on November 11, 2009, 07:53:36 PM
Spartan (2004)

Val Kilmer? Kristen Bell when she was an unknown? I am in! Actually this is a pretty good movie and it is ruthless. In a lot of ways it's like the recent movie Taken, but there is nothing happy about it. Solid.

8/10

Rising Sun (1993)

Connery and Snipes? Hell yeah. Not a bad movie but hasn't aged well primary due to some of the plot points being heavily reliant on technology which in 1993 would have been cutting edge, but photoshop weekends/weekdays now. Not much action, but most of the dialogue is top notch and Connery really puts his best foot forward and sells the movie.

7/10
He also has a deviated septum or something and a giant beak for a nose and is just NOT LIKABLE.

Also, much has been made of Hayden Panettiere's side-boob scene. Trust me on this: I have bigger boobs than she does. It is nothing special. In fact, it was sort of detrimental to my opinion of her hottness.

There are a lot better people to think about stalking than a cheerleader in a one season hit show. Like say Cobie Smulders from How I met your Mother as Robin.

Actually, if you really do have bigger tits than she does you should get them looked at. Unless you work out and have hypnotic chest muscles, in that case, carry on.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on November 11, 2009, 08:32:55 PM
hayden panettiere is like the little girl from Remember the Titans, idk..i know she is 20, but she still looks like a little girl
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on November 15, 2009, 08:36:24 PM
2012: 10/10

(Really an 8/10)
+2 Points for showing the NSMBW ad before the previews. it was my first time seeing the ad and it was epicly epic on the big screen.

Actually, make that a 7/10.

Definately a popcorn movie, some great action/destruction sequences and one of the few movies that had me on the edge of my seat. Not because of suspense, but because the sequences (mainly the escape from pasedena had SO much **** going on that I couldnt help but lean in and keep my eyes from blinking so i didn't miss a damn thing.
What docks it a single point from my original non-jokey score is that even for a disaster movie where you know the protagonist are going to survive.. theres just TOO much insane **** going on that its hard to suspend belief before so long before thinking "oh come on they shoulda been dead by now!" lol
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on November 15, 2009, 08:53:37 PM
Up - Not as gripping as I had hoped(8/10)

I'm not gonna explain. It was good, but not Nemo or Wall-E good.


Zerophilia (http://www.netflix.com/WiPlayer?movieid=70057104&trkid=1211017) - 7.5/10

This was a very entertaining movie about someone that is not like the rest of us. they have a very rare condition (Zerophilia) and they have to come to terms with it and it's possibly permanent side effect. Think Ranma 1/2 but for reals. The ending was a little predictable, but it was all good up until that point.

I think this sums it up pretty nicely
Quote
A young man who remains decidedly insecure about his masculinity attempts to uncover the mystery of his rare genetic disorder before it transforms him into a female in a sci fi flavored romantic comedy directed by Martin Curland and inspired by the studies of renowned Neuromorphologists Professor Czierny Ptolemy and Eva Szantova. Slowly immersed in a world where some change gender at will and others seem to make the transformation despite how hard they try not to, Luke (Taylor Handley) is forced to abandon all of his assumptions on sexual identity to focus on the one person he truly loves. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

discovered it last nite looking for a random movie to watch on Netflix. It was on the first page, top center. A good watch.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on November 16, 2009, 04:32:16 PM
Heartbreakers: Never gets old/10

One of my favorite comedies. JLH is at her hottest, and Sigorney Weaver does a perfect Russian broken-english accent. I love Gene Hackman, too, he's so over-the-top.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Dasmos on November 16, 2009, 08:08:35 PM
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus - 7/10

I love Terry Gilliam movies, but this one didn't take me as much as his others. It's still good, but I don't know.

2012 - Worst thing I have seen in the last 12 months/10

hurrrrr durrrrr. i knew i'd hate it, i don't even know why i went.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on November 16, 2009, 08:42:32 PM
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus - 7/10

I love Terry Gilliam movies, but this one didn't take me as much as his others. It's still good, but I don't know.

2012 - Worst thing I have seen in the last 12 months/10

hurrrrr durrrrr. i knew i'd hate it, i don't even know why i went.

geez i went in knowing it was one of those movies you'd have to turn you brain off to enjoy but you turned your brain off prematurely and paid to see something you knew you'd hate and rant on?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Dasmos on November 16, 2009, 11:01:31 PM
I didn't pay. All my friends wanted to see it, so I got one of them to pay for me.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on November 16, 2009, 11:04:31 PM
INGLORIOUS BASTERDS

GRITTY, VIOLENT, TENSE, HILARIOUS.

9/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on November 17, 2009, 06:20:44 PM
I didn't pay. All my friends wanted to see it, so I got one of them to pay for me.

so shut yer trap? Nah thats too harsh, and i actually have some respect for ya (why? beats me).

Are we gonna have to have the "nothing beats free" talk again?

(on second thought, your avatar alone is respect worthy)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Dasmos on November 18, 2009, 01:15:27 AM
The Box - Worse than "2012"/10.

Man, this Richard Kelly guy needs to get his head out of his arse. Donnie Darko was okay, but way overrated, Southland Tales was horrible and The Box was worse. The guy's too worried about maintaining his "artistic sensibilities" to make a film that's actually interesting and not full of itself.

I won't be seeing his next film, if they let him make another that is.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on November 18, 2009, 10:26:06 AM
The box never looked the leaast bit interesting to me.

Walk hard (again) 10/10

For some reason this movie keeps growing on me and getting funnier! I just noticed last night that dewey wore two wedding rings... HAHAHA
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Dasmos on November 18, 2009, 10:43:17 AM
The box never looked the leaast bit interesting to me.

I thought it looke ridiculous from the previews, but I didn't realise how ridiculous it could actually be. Honestly man just thinking about it shits me off, I want to punch Richard kelly more than M. Night. Shyamalalalan.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on November 18, 2009, 01:09:57 PM
complete speculation here, but I thought I had figured out the plot of the box and decided to wait for DVD. I personally would have hit the button before he even finished his sentence and took my money and kicked him out, but here is how I think the movie goes.

speculation: the guy shows up and says "if you hit this buttton you get 1 million dollars, but someone else you don't know will die"
they hit the button and you join the pool of random people that will get killed if someone else hits the button.
The guy that presents you the offer was probably one of those people at one point (and survived) abd thats how he lost a chink of his face.


But I tried to watch Bruno late last nite (got caught up in a 2player NSMBW game). Is this movie a gay porno or something? It wasn't really funny but more of a "can I trick you into looking at my penis? HAHA isn't this scene more shocking than the last!?" movie. I will try and finish it (i made it about 30 minutes in b4 falling asleep) but WTF is up with this movie?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on November 18, 2009, 04:10:44 PM
the next movie you should put on your queue is "Short Bus" blacknmild
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on November 18, 2009, 04:26:35 PM
Bruno 2/10

the only really funny part of this movie was the part with the baby. the rest of it was just gay. literally and figuratively.


Perm - Short Bus is on my list (somewhere near the bottom of the middle where it is easily skipped over) since someone on a different forum recommended it. I will get around to it eventually.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Dasmos on November 18, 2009, 08:34:46 PM
speculation: the guy shows up and says "if you hit this buttton you get 1 million dollars, but someone else you don't know will die"
they hit the button and you join the pool of random people that will get killed if someone else hits the button.
The guy that presents you the offer was probably one of those people at one point (and survived) abd thats how he lost a chink of his face.

That's what I thought it was too, after seeing it I wish it was.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on November 18, 2009, 09:02:49 PM
Bruno 2/10

the only really funny part of this movie was the part with the baby. the rest of it was just gay. literally and figuratively.


Perm - Short Bus is on my list (somewhere near the bottom of the middle where it is easily skipped over) since someone on a different forum recommended it. I will get around to it eventually.

Looks like someones a homophobe
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on November 18, 2009, 09:35:11 PM
I have nothing against gays or "gay" things. Bruno is trying to be the "gay" Borat and it failed at being funny. It was too much "gay" in your face and failed to achieve the humor that was present throughout most of Borat. The first 30 minutes were just a gay porno and the the next 30 minutes contained some moderately funny scenes(like the baby stuff) but the last 30 minutes devolved back into a porno only of the softcore variety this time.

It wasn't sexy, it wasn't all that funny and some parts were obviously forced. Its a failed attempt at replicating the Borat formula of a 2hr "you got punked" episode with a plot.


As far as Short Bus, I have a lot of movies in my Netflix queue. All new releases or things I'm really looking forward to are in the top 3rd, the middle 3rd are movies that will serve as filler for when I can't receive something in the top 3rd and the bottom 3rd are movies that are either about to go into "instant watch"availability or are purposely on hold(like a tv series or sequels to a movie I haven't watched yet) because I don't want to forget about them. Short bus is near the bottom of that middle 3rd along with lots of other movies that I plan on getting around to eventually.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on November 18, 2009, 09:43:28 PM
i do pretty much the same thing as BnM does with my netflix queue, except I sometimes take off the stuff at the top to rent it out of the red box
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on November 19, 2009, 11:33:33 AM
I have nothing against gays or "gay" things. Bruno is trying to be the "gay" Borat and it failed at being funny. It was too much "gay" in your face and failed to achieve the humor that was present throughout most of Borat. The first 30 minutes were just a gay porno and the the next 30 minutes contained some moderately funny scenes(like the baby stuff) but the last 30 minutes devolved back into a porno only of the softcore variety this time.

It wasn't sexy, it wasn't all that funny and some parts were obviously forced. Its a failed attempt at replicating the Borat formula of a 2hr "you got punked" episode with a plot.


As far as Short Bus, I have a lot of movies in my Netflix queue. All new releases or things I'm really looking forward to are in the top 3rd, the middle 3rd are movies that will serve as filler for when I can't receive something in the top 3rd and the bottom 3rd are movies that are either about to go into "instant watch"availability or are purposely on hold(like a tv series or sequels to a movie I haven't watched yet) because I don't want to forget about them. Short bus is near the bottom of that middle 3rd along with lots of other movies that I plan on getting around to eventually.

Relax, bro. I was just playin' around. Maybe I should have put a wink or something.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on November 19, 2009, 01:30:30 PM
He woulda thought you were coming on to him ;)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Caliban on November 19, 2009, 06:04:56 PM
Tropic Thunder (Director's Cut): 8/10

It was quite enjoyable to watch.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on November 19, 2009, 06:36:14 PM
"Careful, boy. That man's a national treasure."

Fun fact: I have the book that Matthew McConnahey is flipping through toward the beginning of the movie. It's fantastic.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on November 19, 2009, 06:44:42 PM
Fun Fact: Matthew McConnahey's part was actually going to go to Owen Wilson before his attempted suicide.

wait, thats not fun..

hell that "m-m-makes my eyes raaaaaiin"
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on November 19, 2009, 06:46:07 PM
The Thirst

A Korean vampire flick. It's a bit long, but it definitely has it's moments once the story gets going. The story doesn't really get going until about 45 minutes in though. The girl in movie is pretty hot but she is missing more than few screws.

7/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on November 19, 2009, 06:48:12 PM
is Jack Blacks character based on Owen's?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on November 19, 2009, 06:50:50 PM
that i can't answer.

i'm more curious if Brandon T. Jackson's character was based on anyone specific..
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Caliban on November 20, 2009, 04:18:40 PM
Rocknrolla: 8/10. I enjoyed watching it, but I expected more action out of it.

Dead Snow: 7/10. Hmmm, well the zombie costumes and makeup are suberb, and so are the gore events. The rest is just boring.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on November 20, 2009, 04:23:28 PM
dead snow is out?
isn't that the nazi zombie flick?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on November 20, 2009, 04:31:19 PM
i will also give Rocknrolla an 8/10

i like guy richie films but this wasn't as good as Snatch
Snatch 9/10
lockstock and 2 smoking barrels 8.2/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Caliban on November 20, 2009, 06:09:52 PM
dead snow is out?
isn't that the nazi zombie flick?

It's out on Blu-ray, and yes it is that nazi zombie flick... in Norwegian, and with a lot of snow.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Caliban on November 21, 2009, 12:27:26 AM
Star Trek (by J. J. Abrams): 9/10. It's a great Star Trek movie. I loved it.
I actually got the limited edition from amazon.com. The Enterprise model is fantastic, it's made of metal too.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on November 21, 2009, 01:32:27 AM
pirate radio: initial rating walking out of the theatre was 10/10

but on second thought].. its hard to put a number on it. It was very entertaining but pretty slow at times; it lacked story, but pulled you in anyway.. very odd...

phillip seymour hoffman = the man
bill nighy = the man
nick frost = the man

the whole cast was great, all the characters helped pull you in to the movie despite the limited plot and by the end of it you wish there was more, cuz they were all just so fun.

i also have to mention that the music was fantastic, and actually made me wish i grew up in an era where music had such an impact on society.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on November 21, 2009, 02:37:29 PM
Turtles Forever - 9/10

1980's Turtles meet up with the 2000's Turtles and together fight The Shredder(s).
This brought back such memories and pointed out how ridiculous the old turtles cartoon was back in the 80's.
It was great. It also puts all the animation & character differences side by side which also reminds you of how enjoyable and memorable the 80's turtles really were. If you are a fan watch it.

TheCW will be re-airing it in half hour episodes over the next 3 saturdays.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on November 21, 2009, 08:17:21 PM
I just watched it too, BlackNMild. I loved it. The word "epic" nicely describes it. There were SO many hat-tips to the 80's show and the old Mirage comic that I was having geekgasms every few minutes. There were even a few line-for-line homages that I loved. There's a DVD coming out, and I'm going to buy it on Day One.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on November 22, 2009, 04:17:46 PM
i gotta watch this, i used to loooove 80s turtles back in the day.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: vudu on November 23, 2009, 01:38:53 PM
Double Indemnity - 3.5 stars

Classic film noir.  Some of the dialog comes off as a bit cheesy and forced but it's just the style.  Once you stop thinking about it too much it almost becomes second nature.

But the plot to kill the husband is just silly--no wonder they got caught!  (This isn't a spoiler--the main character tells you in the first couple minutes of the movie how it ends--the bulk of the movie is a flashback.)

Really makes me want to watch Sunset Blvd again.  :)

Which reminds me ...

Ben-Hur[ The chariot race is one of the most intense things ever filmed. no CGI, just real people getting trampled by real horses. Four and Half Stars.

What happened to ShyGuy's classic movie reviews?  Did his Netflix subscription run out?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on November 23, 2009, 02:48:00 PM
I love Double Indemnity especially because of the awesome dialogue. It's always baby. "Shut up, baby."

I miss Shyguy's movie captions as well. I had watched a bunch of movies and got behind making comments on them so I kind of stopped. Maybe that's what happened with him as well.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: vudu on November 23, 2009, 02:53:26 PM
I love Double Indemnity especially because of the awesome dialogue. It's always baby. "Shut up, baby."

This made me laugh.  Mainly because it's true.  ;D

As I said, it sounds forced at first, but once you accept that it's the style of the film it works remarkably well.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: IceCold on November 24, 2009, 07:19:36 PM
:O I was just on a noir kick recently. Watch The Maltese Falcon guys.. and Chinatown of course.

Last movie I watched (finally): 500 Days of Summer. Surprisingly good (and funny)!

Best line: "I think you know what I need ........... uh, toner."
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on November 24, 2009, 07:21:05 PM
Last movie I watched (finally): 500 Days of Summer. Surprisingly good (and funny)!

Best line: "I think you know what I need ........... uh, toner."

finally someone else that saw and enjoyed the movie!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BeautifulShy on November 25, 2009, 08:30:13 AM
Turtles Forever - 9/10

1980's Turtles meet up with the 2000's Turtles and together fight The Shredder(s).
This brought back such memories and pointed out how ridiculous the old turtles cartoon was back in the 80's.
It was great. It also puts all the animation & character differences side by side which also reminds you of how enjoyable and memorable the 80's turtles really were. If you are a fan watch it.

TheCW will be re-airing it in half hour episodes over the next 3 saturdays.
What time is it going to show on Saturday?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on November 25, 2009, 10:39:40 AM
:O I was just on a noir kick recently. Watch The Maltese Falcon guys.. and Chinatown of course.

Who do you think you are talking to? Of course I've watched that. The Maltese Falcon that is. Vudu didn't think highly of Chinatown and I trust his opinion.

Some other good Noir picks off the top of my head. The Big Sleep, The Big Heat, and Out of the Past.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: vudu on November 25, 2009, 12:13:07 PM
Anyone have any recommendations for good cheesy sci-fi movies from the 50s or 60s?  I say good because I recently saw It Came From Outerspace, and--while cheesy--I cannot say that it was good.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on November 25, 2009, 12:51:19 PM
Fantastic Voyage? Forbidden Planet? Is that the kind of cheese you're looking for? Is that good good or good bad?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on November 25, 2009, 01:32:16 PM
Turtles Forever - 9/10

1980's Turtles meet up with the 2000's Turtles and together fight The Shredder(s).
This brought back such memories and pointed out how ridiculous the old turtles cartoon was back in the 80's.
It was great. It also puts all the animation & character differences side by side which also reminds you of how enjoyable and memorable the 80's turtles really were. If you are a fan watch it.

TheCW will be re-airing it in half hour episodes over the next 3 saturdays.
What time is it going to show on Saturday?

I think it airs at 10am, but you might want to check your local TV guide.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BeautifulShy on November 25, 2009, 01:36:43 PM
Thanks BlackNMild. I'll probably just wake up early.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on November 25, 2009, 02:44:18 PM
forbidden planet 8/10 - that monster was badassed..they should have used cartoons as monsters in movies instead of clay stop motion, cus it looked fantastic
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on November 29, 2009, 01:37:33 AM
ninja assassin:

action: 7/10
plot:    2/10

oh well.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on November 29, 2009, 12:35:19 PM
ninja assassin 8/10

it gets points for reminding me of 70s Italian Giallo movies, never seen a Giallo movie?

Check out Tenebrae 9/10

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on November 29, 2009, 03:13:18 PM
I'm should deduct points for finding out that the seemingly badass Rain (main character) is a pop singer.. lol

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on November 29, 2009, 06:23:38 PM
I think there's something you should watch. (http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/156555/may-05-2008/rain-dance-off)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on November 29, 2009, 06:33:42 PM
hahah yeah i heard about that. But still ;)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: NWR_Lindy on November 29, 2009, 06:46:53 PM
Blood Work - One of those movies that happened to come on HBO while I'm drinking coffee in bed on a Sunday.  Directed by and starring Clint Eastwood in what can best be described as a poor man's Dirty Harry, if DH was an elderly heart transplant patient.  Terrible dialogue, overacting galore, and if you want cop-movie cliches they're all here.  Watchable if you're just looking for something to pass the time (and feel like laughing at cop movie cliches), but still pretty awful. 4/10

Gran Torino - Seems like it's Clint Eastwood week for some reason.  Eastwood does his best "crusty old man" here, which is good for a laugh (especially the racist one-liners - Kashogi should watch this movie with a pad and pen).  Predictable ending, but entirely not the movie I thought it would be (in a good way).  Not great, but good.  If you're an Eastwood fan (I'd say I'm a casual Eastwood fan, he's had a LOT of **** movies but I like him in general) you'll enjoy it, but some may think it's utterly average and predictable.  7/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on November 29, 2009, 06:52:42 PM
^I've seen it twice. Thanks.

Also, I don't think you know, but that "racial slurs" thread was a trap -- an unsprung trap, but a trap none-the-less.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: D_Average on November 29, 2009, 09:55:30 PM
Nanny Diaries 4/5.  Had Scarlett not been in it, 2/5.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on November 29, 2009, 11:13:40 PM
I love Gran Torino and the racial slurs was the icing on the cake. Without them I would have given the movie a 6 instead of a 9. His casual racism gave his character charm and depth without being insulting. Most of his slurs are archahic and born out of a real, but expired need to use them. I was laughing out loud from the unintentional comedy of it all.

I never felt that the ending was predicable unless you are meaning that you figured it out 5 minutes before it happened. You knew the situtaion was going to be resolved, but you didn't know what the body count would be until that last 5 minutes.

I did see Blood Work although I almost forgot that I watched it in the first place. You are right, hence why I almost forgot about the movie, seeing that it was so forgetable. He must have been learning the ropes seeing that his later movies have been good to excellent.

And to my un-look forward too and promised review of

Behind Enemy lines 2: Axis of Evil

If you haven't figured out by now, the title is based off the quote GWB made regarding Iran, Iraq and North Korea. This movie is set in NK seeing that is one country we can freely insult without harm.

If you ever seen the first movie staring Owen Wilson and Gene Hackman. It's a pretty good war movie about Owen going off mission in a recon flight over Bosnia and getting shot down for his troubles. It had a good budget, charm, characters, action and most importantly military support allowing them to "rent" military hardware for their movie making one kick ass package with an ending that screams USAUSAUSA.

This movie has none of that. It's low budget, dry, boring, at points stupid and has stock footage military support. The script is written by hacks, it's directed by hacks, it's acted by hacks and some good actors who needed the money who then phoned it in because they weren't given enough money.

The plot and ending is based on this event http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3648794.stm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3648794.stm)

Made for TV mini series are better than this, which somehow made a thearatrical release. This aborted messed should have never been made.

I did rent this for a 1 dollar with expectations low enough to wipe floors with, but it's so poor that I feel that I have a moral imperative to warn poeple away from this red, white and blue colored turd of the movie that fails even to be an effective right-wing propaganda movie.

Just fraking terrible/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on December 01, 2009, 03:30:13 PM
So a forum moderator is begging me to come back.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on December 01, 2009, 03:43:04 PM
The General A classic silent movie by Buster Keaton. It's amazing how well the humor holds up Four Stars
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: vudu on December 01, 2009, 03:47:49 PM
The Birds

The pacing is terrific.  The special effects are a mixed bag--some of the things they do with actual birds is really impressive; some of the fake birds ... not so much.

Three and a half stars
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on December 01, 2009, 05:22:18 PM
the birds 9/10

classic Hitchcock, the creepiness of the last scene of post apocalyptic bird world is just terrifying.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on December 01, 2009, 05:28:27 PM
Skills Like This - 7/10

indie comedy film about a guy who realizes that he is no good at something he has spent his entire life trying to be good at. Now he wants to be good at something and that something happens to be robbing places. But he isn't doing it for the money he doing just because he is good at it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on December 01, 2009, 05:39:41 PM
that movie sounds awesome
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on December 01, 2009, 05:48:31 PM
It's pretty cool. The guy has such a nonchalant attitude to everything going on once he decides to start his new hobby and I am so jealous of his awesome Afro(he is a white guy but I was never able to grow one, you will love it). I really think you might like it.

I don't remember how I came across it, but I just added it to my netflix list like a week ago and it came in the mail on saturday.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on December 01, 2009, 06:41:35 PM
gotta watch that movie, sounds like the kinda **** i'd do.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on December 02, 2009, 12:43:02 AM
i can grow a pretty good Afro. I'll have to add it to my queue, sounds like my bag.

edit: LOL AT THE COVER
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on December 02, 2009, 05:15:33 AM
High Noon A town full of cowards. I wish they all died. Sheriff was a good sort though. 3 stars
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: IceCold on December 02, 2009, 05:23:41 AM
Just watched "Go" (1999). I'm fascinated whenever movies do the whole intersecting paths of characters thing, and it was done well in this movie. Recommended.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on December 02, 2009, 11:47:10 AM
BLACK DYNAMITE: 10 out of motherfuckin 10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on December 02, 2009, 12:00:48 PM
Yeah that movies great. I still can't figure out what's my favorite part.

It's either that line I posted earlier or I threw that **** before I walked in the room!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on December 02, 2009, 12:19:45 PM
that **** was great! He said it so excited and giddy, like he was so proud he thought of doing it lol.

I think my favorite part was when he had his team do the lil richard "OOOOOH" a few times, it was silly but cracked me up.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on December 02, 2009, 12:38:25 PM
Ahhhh!!! It makes me sooo mad that Black Dynamite isn't playing anywhere within driving range of my house.

I'm gonna be forced to view it through other means unless I want to wait for the DVD.

and it has a 4.1 star rating on Netflix after 867 reviews.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on December 02, 2009, 01:03:55 PM
Ahhhh!!! It makes me sooo mad that Black Dynamite isn't playing anywhere within driving range of my house.

I'm gonna be forced to view it through other means unless I want to wait for the DVD.

and it has a 4.1 star rating on Netflix after 867 reviews.

i watched it by other means, it was awesome.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on December 02, 2009, 07:18:18 PM
I Love You, Man - 3/10
I heard good things about this movie, and I was *extremely* disappointed. I laughed maybe two times, and the movie in general, was a heaping pile of ****. it had such a great cast, but the script was horrible, and the conflicts were always settled way too easily. It sucks. Don't watch it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on December 02, 2009, 08:08:06 PM
I'm gonna have to agree with that.. first time i saw it, i said i liked it but i think i was just trying really hard to like it to justify spending the money on two tix + popcorn/drink
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on December 02, 2009, 10:25:33 PM
I Love You, Man - 3/10
I heard good things about this movie, and I was *extremely* disappointed. I laughed maybe two times, and the movie in general, was a heaping pile of ****. it had such a great cast, but the script was horrible, and the conflicts were always settled way too easily. It sucks. Don't watch it.

you must have been over hyped, thats kinda harsh, it wasn't groundhogs day greatness, but it wasn't terrible
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on December 03, 2009, 12:27:23 PM
i dunno man, looking back.. i can't of a single thing that was memorable enough to keep me laughing. Well, except for the fact that once, watching Knocked Up after seeing I Love You, Man i noticed Paul Rudd "slappen de bass" in that movie as well.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on December 03, 2009, 10:40:49 PM
No, it was an absolutely horrible movie. Even my wife said it was ****.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on December 04, 2009, 12:20:58 AM
i liked it

ROCK N' ROLLA - Guy Richie at it again/10

Let's just say I'm looking forward to the sequel (which is a first for him).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on December 04, 2009, 12:50:03 PM
rock n' rolla 7.9/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Caliban on December 04, 2009, 11:31:26 PM
Gojira - 8/10

THX 1138 - 7/10

Tron - 9/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on December 05, 2009, 01:20:06 AM
Night at the Museum 2 - 6.5/10

I wanted to go to sleep during part of it, but I'm really not a fan of Ben Stiller. This movie just wasn't that funny and not all that interesting. the first one was better if that counts for much.

edit: The main issue with this movie was that it was so heavily over advertised, that if you've seen the trailers on TV, you've seen almost every scene that you might have found funny if it had snuck up on you in the movie.
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Post by: EasyCure on December 05, 2009, 06:13:57 AM
Gojira - 8/10

isn't there an enemy in Zelda II named Gojira?
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Post by: vudu on December 05, 2009, 10:13:29 AM
You're thinking of Goryia.  Gojira is another name for Godzilla.
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Post by: NWR_Lindy on December 05, 2009, 11:02:39 AM
Swingers 9/10

I've seen it probably a half-dozen times now, but it never disappoints.  I'm probably the most annoying person to watch it with because I can't help but say the lines as they're spoken.
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Post by: EasyCure on December 05, 2009, 01:57:12 PM
You're thinking of Goryia.  Gojira is another name for Godzilla.

Ah thanks for clearing that up. I feel llike i knew Gojira was another name for Godzilla too.

Swingers 9/10

I've seen it probably a half-dozen times now, but it never disappoints.  I'm probably the most annoying person to watch it with because I can't help but say the lines as they're spoken.

Not the last movie i've seen but since we're on the subject:

Swingers 0/10

Didn't find it humerous at all, in annoyed the **** outta me... plus a young vince vaughn looks sorta alien-like.
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Post by: BeautifulShy on December 05, 2009, 03:46:08 PM
Well I watched part 2 of Turtles Forever and I liked it so I checked on youtube because I missed part 1 and can't wait till next week for part 3.

It is a Turtles fan's dream. Seriously when the 2000 Turtles started this movie is what I though would be nice to see. It has a pretty nice ending too.
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Post by: BranDonk Kong on December 05, 2009, 04:55:14 PM
Gojira actually is *the* name for Godzilla, is it not?
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Post by: Stogi on December 05, 2009, 05:33:56 PM
*Imagines a Japanese man pronouncing Godzilla; laughs my ass off*
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Post by: NWR_Lindy on December 06, 2009, 11:57:09 AM
Not the last movie i've seen but since we're on the subject:

Swingers 0/10

Didn't find it humerous at all, in annoyed the **** outta me... plus a young vince vaughn looks sorta alien-like.

Probably not your style of humor then.  It's totally classic from where I stand, pretty much laid the foundation for the character Vince Vaughn would play in every comedy he's been in since then.  The scene with them playing NHL '93 (and talking about the removal of fighting in NHL '94) on the Genesis is legendary.

As for Vince Vaughn's looks, the guy seriously needs to drop about 30 pounds nowadays.  Doughnut Vince looks totally ridiculous.
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Post by: ThePerm on December 06, 2009, 12:17:47 PM
swingers 9/10

half of this thread is score argument, i agree with Lindy on every point. What happened to Thin Vince?
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Post by: EasyCure on December 06, 2009, 03:20:50 PM
While I agree vince would look better if he lost a few lbs, I still think that the young vince looks creepy cuz his head is as big as it is now but his body looks sickly. He really did look like an alien.

When I saw it I tried to like it cuz I like vince vaughn and could totally see what you mean about it laying the foundation for the type of characters he'd play, but it couldn't draw me in like a more experienced vaughn could. Maybe if I saw the movie when it was released i'd be able to appreciate it some more but where it stands now, it just wasn't funny to me.

Don't get me wrong, there were some moments, like the NHL scene you mentioned or when vince thought the women was flirting with him but she was playing with her infant child, that made me chuckle. The rest of the movie though just felt like overuse of the term "you're so money", "baby", and that other character being annoyingly emo. Then again, that creepy scene when he left 100 messages on on that chicks phone was slightly funny in a disturbing way. Just goes to show how good ajob he did because I truly felt like "wow this guys a pathetic creep" ;)

Aaanyway...

Brothers: 5/10

Completely average movie. Its odd to me that Toby had the best performance considering the rest of the cast.. then again, his stll wasn't that great. At least Natalie Portman looked as beautiful as always.
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Post by: vudu on December 07, 2009, 01:41:42 PM
Funny People

Apparently everyone hates this movie but I rather enjoyed it.  It's a little dark and it's out as laugh-out-loud as other Apatow movies, but still enjoyable.

3.5 stars
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Post by: EasyCure on December 07, 2009, 06:33:29 PM
I guess vudu and i are in the elite group of people that got the movie and enjoyed it.
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Post by: broodwars on December 08, 2009, 12:08:45 AM
Armored - 7/10 - First things first, I didn't watch this movie by choice (mostly).  It was my dad's birthday, we were at the theaters, and he gave me a choice of seeing "Old Dogs" or "Armored".  I chose what I perceived to be the lesser of 2 Evils, and it seems I chose wisely. Armored is pretty average, with a decent cast, decent action, a decent premise, and an average script.  So why the above-average score?  As much as I thought it would, the movie didn't bore me and actually did a good job ratcheting the tension.  I had a modestly entertaining time with a decent caper movie.  It is pretty throwaway, though, and the script has more holes than the Utah Jazz defense.  If you have to see it, you'll enjoy it but you aren't missing anything if you don't.
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Post by: broodwars on December 08, 2009, 05:33:09 AM
Note: Pardon the double-post, but since it was you guys who even let me know this movie existed I felt I might as well give you a shout-out.

TMNT: Turtles Forever - 9.5/10 -
This movie is such a love letter to anyone who's ever enjoyed the Ninja Turtles.  It's epic, it's extremely funny, and in the end it's a fitting tribute to the franchise and a great way to end an era.  Watching it, I'm actually kind of sad that Nickelodeon's making a new TMNT series in the coming years, because it just feels superfluous.  It was just utter joy seeing the old 1980s Ninja Turtle designs again and even hearing good impersonations at the old voices, especially in contrast to the utterly generic designs of the 2000s series.  My only complaint is that I felt they took a few too many digs at the 1980s Turtles without giving them some sort of redeeming value, something to show that for all the goofiness they're still Ninja Turtles.  As much as I now find the 1980s show stupid and extremely poorly written (and honestly, the 2000s show isn't much better), it certainly had its moments and I was a little annoyed with how stupid everyone from that era acted.  They even took digs at the 1980s April and her silly yellow jumpsuit, but what do we see the next time we see the "right" April from the 2000s show?  She's in a silly yellow jumpsuit, of course.  I don't know, maybe that was supposed to be ironic.  Still, great movie.
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Post by: vudu on December 10, 2009, 10:39:53 AM
Torn Curtain

Cool Hand Luke and Mary Poppins defect to Cold War-era East Berlin to steal nuclear secrets.  Alfred Hitchcock directs.

Not a bad movie.  The plot is very straight-forward and it's easy to guess what's going to happen next.  My biggest complaint is there is zero chemistry between two actors.  They're supposed to be in love but they act more like two strangers who happen to be seated next to each other.  Julie Andrews is not sexy.

Two stars.
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Post by: ShyGuy on December 10, 2009, 11:25:42 AM
You are so money and you don't even know it. Swingers is awesome. So is Made. Subsequent Favs and Vince collaborations have been good by not as strong.
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Post by: IceCold on December 10, 2009, 07:30:11 PM
I guess vudu and i are in the elite group of people that got the movie and enjoyed it.

Haha. Yeah right :P
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Post by: EasyCure on December 10, 2009, 10:26:22 PM
I guess vudu and i are in the elite group of people that got the movie and enjoyed it.

Haha. Yeah right :P

Hey, i have no beef with you. You also enjoyed [500] Days of Summer
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Post by: Stogi on December 11, 2009, 03:52:36 AM
Groundhog's Day

You know those movies that you've watched over and over again but never make it to the end? This was one of those movies....until tonight.

Man...This movie was so great it damn near changed my life. It's perfect in so many ways. I just wish I saw it sooner (well finished it sooner).

10/10
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Post by: ThePerm on December 11, 2009, 04:37:26 AM
haha, it came on right after the FX block, i was watching it till Damn commercials broke my mood

10/10 as well. My sister in law was like "what movie is this" and i was like "only the greatest comedy ever made"
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Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on December 11, 2009, 08:22:06 AM
I used to recommend that movie to my ex all the time.
She would constantly do the exact same stupid **** and I always told her that she made me feel like I was Bill Murray and this was my Groundhog Day.

To this day I think she has avoided the movie, since I don't think she wants to fully understand what I was saying about her. One of the few reasons why she is an ex.
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Post by: BeautifulShy on December 13, 2009, 02:01:41 AM
Well I just finished "It's a Wonderful Life"

I haven't watched it for many years and it is just as great as when I first saw it.

10/10
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Post by: Dasmos on December 14, 2009, 09:41:59 AM
Saw Where The Wild Things Are today. It definitely wasn't what I was expecting, but then again, I wasn't sure what to expect going in. It was amazing to see what Spike Jonze created out of a book with 48 pages, many of which didn't even have any words. I went to see it with friends, some we whining because it was a "children's movie", which it absolutely isn't. I guess it's more of a movie about children, or at least a movie about childhood.

It was intruiging, imaginative and interesting. Soundtrack was pretty ace too.

8/10.

I also saw Zombieland last week.

I'd probably describe this movie as the American version of "Shaun of the Dead", not as good mind you. The movie is a lot of fun, just not as witty as SotD, although the Bill Murray stuff is among the greatest film I have ever witnessed. One of the best comedies of the year and Emma Stone is a fox.

8/10.
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Post by: EasyCure on December 14, 2009, 09:49:04 AM
Agreed, emma is a hotty-hotty-yum-yum and i'd let her take a hummer from me any day (pun intended). You're not far from you American Shawn of the Dead comparison, I think I've read interviews stating that was the goal they had in mind. Between bills cameo and Emmas beauty, that movies a10/10
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Post by: broodwars on December 14, 2009, 10:04:54 AM
Currently trying to catch up (via the internet) a bunch of old(ish) Disney movies I've been meaning to see for a while, starting with Atlantis: the Lost Empire.  Surprisingly decent, though watching it it's hard to deny the accusations that this movie royally ripped off the 1980s Japanese anime Nadia: the Secret of Blue Water because there's a very anime-ish feeling to the whole movie.  The animation, though, feels cheap by Disney standards (much as Lilo & Stitch did) as if it were made to be Direct-to-DVD.  The plot is, well...typical and predictable with tacked-on side characters, and the voice acting is very average.  Some very good storyboarding towards the end, though, that makes for a very striking last 1/3 of the movie.  8/10

Next up on my docket, Treasure Planet and Atlantis 2: the Search for More Money.  In case you're wondering, the whole reason I'm watching these movies now is because I ignored anything out of Disney after Mulan, Pocahantas, and especially Hercules showed me the company was growing incapable of engaging animated material.  I happened to finally see The Emperor's New Groove and Tarzan a few years back, and it seemed that maybe I missed a few gems along the way so now I'm trying to catch up on what I missed.
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Post by: BranDonk Kong on December 15, 2009, 11:49:03 PM
The Holy Mountain - 10/10
Fucking epic movie. You'll think it's all nonsense if you can't follow along, but the end makes everything else make sense. Also, if you know anything about tarot cards it helps, I guess. Watch it, then thank me. Lots of nudity, male and female, and some pretty disturbing scenes, so watch it only with people that can handle **** like that (or watch alone).
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Post by: broodwars on December 16, 2009, 08:15:30 AM
Treasure Planet - 8.5/10 - Wow, this was a surprise.  I'm really of two minds about this movie: on the one hand, the animation in this movie is gorgeous (though still not up to par with the glory of the Holy Disney Trinity); the writing is really quite good and sticks surprisingly closer to the core themes of the original Treasure Island than any previous adaptation; and there are moments of the movie that are genuinely exciting.  On the other hand, I really wish Disney had made up their mind whether they were going to do a futuristic take or a traditional animated take on "Treasure Island."  Instead, the movie tries to do both and so you have two extremes that just don't mesh together very well.  For example, the movie portrays space as this fantastical and dangerous frontier...yet characters can breathe in space.  It's "the future", but we still have buildings made of wood.  And after Mrs. Hawking's family inn gets burned down, apparently Hawkings and the professor leave her behind to apparently suffer in destitution (and probably prostitution) while they go adventuring off for fame and fortune.  Minor stuff like that, not to mention the entire existence of the "funny robot" at the end of the movie, just nagged at me the entire time.  The movie presented some truly fantastic concepts (I love the "book" that holographically projected its story with that famous British Voice Actor narrating it), but it just felt like the creativity was restrained by being shackled to the original Treasure Island story.  Still a good movie, though.

Atlantis 2: Milo's Return - 1/10 - I have absolutely nothing good to say about this Disney direct-to-DVD sequel to Atlantis.  This "movie" is more like a pilot to an Atlantis cartoon series, yet the animation is actually worse than Disney cartoon series of the 1990s.  The voice acting is also uniformly bad, and I didn't give a damn about any of the Scooby Doo-esque stories.
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Post by: ThePerm on December 19, 2009, 01:28:16 AM
Avatar = Starship Troopers + Ferngully + Apocalypto +Last Samurai

9/10
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Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on December 19, 2009, 04:34:28 AM
Inglorius Basterds - 9/10

I went in expecting more action, violence and out right carnage after seeing all the previews, but after an hour or so I remembered that this was a Quentin Tarantino film and the dialog is where the real action is at, even though there still was a fair amount of action in the movie.
It may seem to start off a little slow, but every scene has it's purpose in drawing you further into the story of the movie. Very well done.
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Post by: Stratos on December 19, 2009, 04:49:13 AM
Next up on my docket, Treasure Planet and Atlantis 2: the Search for More Money.  In case you're wondering, the whole reason I'm watching these movies now is because I ignored anything out of Disney after Mulan, Pocahantas, and especially Hercules showed me the company was growing incapable of engaging animated material.  I happened to finally see The Emperor's New Groove and Tarzan a few years back, and it seemed that maybe I missed a few gems along the way so now I'm trying to catch up on what I missed.

I want to do a similar thing but focus on all of the D2DVD and TV series that I missed. Though I realize now I missed a few more of the major movies than I thought. I'll be watching your reviews for good ones I missed.

PS-What do you mean by Disney Holly Trinity? Is that a widely used term or are those your favorite three?
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Post by: broodwars on December 19, 2009, 06:41:45 AM
Next up on my docket, Treasure Planet and Atlantis 2: the Search for More Money.  In case you're wondering, the whole reason I'm watching these movies now is because I ignored anything out of Disney after Mulan, Pocahantas, and especially Hercules showed me the company was growing incapable of engaging animated material.  I happened to finally see The Emperor's New Groove and Tarzan a few years back, and it seemed that maybe I missed a few gems along the way so now I'm trying to catch up on what I missed.

I want to do a similar thing but focus on all of the D2DVD and TV series that I missed. Though I realize now I missed a few more of the major movies than I thought. I'll be watching your reviews for good ones I missed.

PS-What do you mean by Disney Holly Trinity? Is that a widely used term or are those your favorite three?

I generally refer to the run of Beauty & the Beast, Lion King, and Aladdin as "the Holy Disney Trinity."  As far as I know, it's just my pet name for those 3 fantastic movies.  Yeah, I know I should probably make it a 4-some and add Little Mermaid in there, but I hate that movie.

And to recap for you, I'm all caught up now on the Disney animated movies that made it to theaters during the years I was ignoring Disney:

Atlantis - Good, but not great.  Also doesn't look all that great for a Disney theatrical release, but at least looks leagues better than its' D2DVD sequel.

Treasure Planet - Very good, but I wish they had just taken the concept of Treasure Island and done a futuristic take rather than have "Treasure Island...in...Spaaaaaaace!"  Very good animation, though, and (aside from one completely obnoxious and superfluous robot at the end of the movie) pretty decent writing.

Atlantis 2 - Avoid like the plague this D2DVD wannabe-TV pilot.

And just for good measure, some other movies in that time period you may have missed...

The Emperor's New Groove - Surprisingly good, and David Spade for once is actually funny while being annoying.  Very 4th Wall-breaking.

Tarzan - This movie gets a lot of crap for the Phil Collins music, but you know what?  I like Phil Collins, and I like this movie.  It's beautiful and has a decent story.  In fact its only flaws are having Rosie O' Donnell (a flaw the universe itself has yet to correct) and an incredibly weak villain.
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Post by: EasyCure on December 19, 2009, 10:31:20 AM
Avatar= the first reak "epic" movie I've seen. It was amazing from start to finish. Cameron created such a beautiful world... it was actually a shame that the movie ended because I just wanted to marvel at more of the environment and its people.

Simply amazing.
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Post by: Stogi on December 19, 2009, 11:34:07 AM
The Emperor's New Groove is one of my favorite movies! You don't understand how much I love that movie.

Man my favortie part is at an 1:03:00
http://quicksilverscreen.com/watch?video=52254
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Post by: kraken613 on December 19, 2009, 02:28:55 PM
I want to go to Avatar but there is 10 inches of snow here! And in the mountains 10 inches is death! I will go sometime next week!
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Post by: ShyGuy on December 19, 2009, 03:32:10 PM
G.I.Joe - Bad on multiple levels. Two Stars
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on December 19, 2009, 06:32:23 PM
Avatar:  While the run time seems daunting at the very least, the story is ok enough to not put you to sleep until the awesomeness that is the 3D effects battle scene.  If you don't see it in 3D, you're wasting your money. 8/10
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Post by: D_Average on December 20, 2009, 12:13:57 PM
Avatar:  While the run time seems daunting at the very least, the story is ok enough to not put you to sleep until the awesomeness that is the 3D effects battle scene.  If you don't see it in 3D, you're wasting your money. 8/10

Agreed.  Saw it in 3D last night.  Though many of the diaglogue lines had me laughing and I could see the resolution of the story a mile away, the setting and characters were simply spell binding.  I actually want to watch it again.
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Post by: Caterkiller on December 21, 2009, 02:19:50 AM
For those of you who have had enough HD grey and brown, Avatar is the movie to see. The neon colors and magical world just blew me away.
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Post by: ThePerm on December 21, 2009, 02:35:01 AM
yeah, my sister and law traveled all the way over to phx to watch it on imax, but when we got there the IMAX theater was sold out, we just drove 30 miles or so, so we went to the Harkins in the same mall. Has i known it was the first night I would have got tickets online. Still saw it in 3d, but man i still haven't seen an IMAX movie. I kinda want to watch it again.
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Post by: Plugabugz on December 23, 2009, 05:47:27 PM
I watched Avatar earlier. Really? We waited 12 years for this? It's a visually brilliant film (only Mario Galaxy stands up to it in terms of style), but True Lies is still James Camerons' best written work.
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Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on December 23, 2009, 05:54:29 PM
it was 14 years in the making.....
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on December 23, 2009, 05:54:38 PM
it gave me googly eyes for 2 hours :P
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Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on December 23, 2009, 05:55:44 PM
So if I were to go watch this, would I be missing out if I didn't watch it in 3D?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on December 23, 2009, 05:56:46 PM
well the first half of the movie is like 3d in your face everything, then it tones down the 3d, and then it kicks back up around the end with the action
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: kraken613 on December 23, 2009, 08:09:50 PM
Avatar in 3D- 9.5/10

Your a damn fool to see this in 2D! It was amazing! The most beautiful visuals in a movie ever I think.
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Post by: D_Average on December 23, 2009, 08:42:40 PM
At most theaters, seeing it in 3D isn't much more.  To see it in 2D is just a waste.
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Post by: kraken613 on December 23, 2009, 10:07:33 PM
It was $10.50 where I went.
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Post by: Dasmos on December 24, 2009, 01:38:24 AM
I wouldn't bother watching the film if it wasn't in 3D. In 3D it's a fucking experience.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on December 24, 2009, 02:39:14 AM
You might as well go watch Rosanne give a 3 hour lecture on erectile dysfunction.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Dasmos on December 24, 2009, 06:19:12 AM
I think a 3 hour lecture from Roseanne would give me erectile dysfunction.
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Post by: Plugabugz on December 24, 2009, 06:29:50 PM
I think a 3 hour lecture on erectile dysfunction would give me Roseanne.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on December 24, 2009, 06:50:12 PM
(500) Days of Summer - 8/10

I liked it. I went in thinking it was gonna be a romantic love-story drama with some slight comedic elements despite what the narrator at the beginning of the movie had to say, and overall it kinda was, but without all that sappy romantic stuff. It had it's funny moments and I like the way the story was told. I also like how it ended, changing of the seasons.
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Post by: Caterkiller on December 25, 2009, 06:50:52 PM
Never mind! i'll fix that later!
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Post by: NWR_Lindy on December 26, 2009, 06:30:21 PM
I Love You, Man - 9/10 - I'm a big fan of Paul Rudd, so this was an instant favorite of mine.  It actually gets funnier with multiple viewings, because much like something like Anchorman, you pick out the more ridiculous finer points of the dialogue and characters the second and third time around.  What I like is that all of the characters seem like real people, not the over-the-top caricatures of personality types that you see in most comedies.

The Hangover - 4/10 - I know people that think this movie is a laugh riot, but to me it's barely funny at all.  The characters aren't very interesting or likeable, and the plot seems to set itself up for a hilarious payoff, but that payoff never materializes.  Supposedly this movie is really quotable, but the quotes are all just characters saying stuff in a stupid voice instead of saying anything clever, IMHO.  Only about two or three scenes made me chuckle...for the rest of the movie I was surfing the web on my iPhone.  I'll never understand the appeal of this movie.
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Post by: BranDonk Kong on December 26, 2009, 07:53:07 PM
I would completely reverse those two scores.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on December 26, 2009, 10:14:18 PM
Up in the Air

Great movie. George Cloony has endless appeal. Vera Farmiga ain't bad either. And the younger girl is a hoooooottie!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on December 27, 2009, 02:27:35 AM
Happy Feet - 5/10 - Yeah...ummm...wow.  I got this for Christmas from my sister, who apparently is a big fan of this movie despite not really being a fan of animation.  I just finished watching it for the first time, and for the life of me I can't understand how people can love this movie.  This is the shining example of why over time I've learned to only watch Pixar CG Movies, because all the others suck: the story is lifeless and un-engaging, the message is delivered with all the subtlety of a nuclear missile (sorry, but when I sit down to watch an animated film about dancing penguins, I don't want to be lectured on how "evil humans are destroying the environment" (TM)), and the near-constant bombardment of pop music just destroys the illusion of the movie for me.  The animation is great for its time, but that's about it.
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Post by: NWR_Lindy on December 27, 2009, 09:48:43 AM
I would completely reverse those two scores.

Just goes to show that these movies have two very different types of comedy.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on December 27, 2009, 10:14:34 AM
Well that's true. Odd thing is, Paul Rudd is one of my favorite actors. I just thought the script was horrible and every issue in the movie was resolved way too easily.
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Post by: GearBoxClock on December 27, 2009, 11:15:31 AM
Countdown to Liquor Day: If you like the Trailer Park boys, this is a great comedy.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on December 27, 2009, 02:43:16 PM
Up Sometimes I wonder if Walt Disney actually owned a Sorcerer's hat that imbued the holder with the power to make great animated movies. Around 1990, Disney sold some old boxes out of their attic and Pixar gained possession of Yensid's hat. There hasn't been a near twenty year run of such animated magic since the glory days of the Disney studios. Up gets Four Stars
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Post by: vudu on December 27, 2009, 04:50:37 PM
Up

I loved the first half of the movie, but once the talking dogs start flying around in WWII-era biplanes it got a bit too silly for its own good. 

3 stars
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on December 27, 2009, 09:08:16 PM
WHERE IS YOUR SPIRIT OF ADVENTURE?

Four Christmases I like Vince Vaughn. I like Jon Favreau. I like Robert Duvall. I like Jon Voight. I like Mary Steenburgen, I like Kristin Chenoweth. I don't really care for Reese Witherspoon. Three Stars
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Post by: broodwars on December 27, 2009, 09:20:14 PM
WHERE IS YOUR SPIRIT OF ADVENTURE?

Four Christmases I like Vince Vaughn. I like Jon Favreau. I like Robert Duvall. I like Jon Voight. I like Mary Steenburgen, I like Kristin Chenoweth. I don't really care for Reese Witherspoon. Three Stars

I saw that movie over Thanksgiving thanks to my crap-loving parents, and I really didn't like it.  It's formulaic and fond of tired LCD jokes and stereotypes.

As for UP, I had the same issue with it that Vudu has (and, for that matter, the same issue I had with Wall-E): it starts strong, but runs out of steam and into cliche and silliness around the halfway point (plus, I really hate Russel).  Compared to stuff like my recently-watched Happy Feet, it is a work of art though.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: bustin98 on December 28, 2009, 01:53:55 AM
Saw GI Joe for the first time. I'll give it a 7.5 out of 10. Love the kung fu grip line. Hated the ending, almost as bad as Vader screaming Noooooooo.... The efffects were decent, the action kept the story moving, even if the story was lame. Happy I saw it.

Also saw Ice Age 3. Pretty funny, decent animation even if not Pixar. It gets a 7 out of 10.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on December 29, 2009, 02:27:42 PM
The Hangover - 7.9
Slightly over rated but still a good comedy. I would have enjoyed it more if I didn't go in expecting anything.

Welcome to the Dollhouse - 5
Sad to see that the lead actress (the girl that was hung upside down and drained in Hostel 2/DJ's girlfriend in Roseanne) is not only very unattractive now but wasn't even cute as a little girl. This movie also wasn't funny at all.

Blazing Saddles - 7
I didn't find it as funny today as I did many years ago when I first watched it, but it still had some choice quote and is still one of Mel Brooks funnier films
"They said you was hung"
"And they was right"

Ice Pirates - 7
Enjoyable 80's action/adventure flick. Lots of funny little things throughout, mostly involving the robots, but the Passion Storm scene is pretty hot and the final fight scene is pretty funny.

-last 3 movies is me clearing out my Instant Watch queue since movies are about to expire-
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on December 29, 2009, 02:42:58 PM
I think my wife has Four Christmases in the Netflix...list. I'll watch it ONLY for Kristin Chenoweth, for whom I have a secret crush. She's adorable and funny, and has a habit of wearing incredibly low-cut tops.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: DAaaMan64 on December 29, 2009, 08:54:51 PM
Avatar  I freakin' loved it. So it was a Disney story, biiiggg deal. I like Disney stories. I thought Pandora is where the meat of the awesome was. Basically the creative portion of the movie, and the only portion with any interesting depth. Pandora was definitely more interesting than Middle Earth.

At least they tied in everything I can think of that they mentioned, and I appreciate that for a 3 hour movie.  Also, unfortunately I think I fell in love with Neytiri which sucks, I hate it when that happens >.> It should be illegal to make fake people that beautiful.

9.5 / 10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on December 29, 2009, 08:59:45 PM
if anybody should make a Zelda movie, it should be James Cameron. Imagine the Zoras!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: D_Average on December 29, 2009, 09:41:05 PM
Welcome to the Dollhouse - 5
Sad to see that the lead actress (the girl that was hung upside down and drained in Hostel 2/DJ's girlfriend in Roseanne) is not only very unattractive now but wasn't even cute as a little girl. This movie also wasn't funny at all.

I saw that a long time ago.  I remember feeling just gross after wards.  The same girl though is kinda cute in Princess Diaries.  Kind of.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: DAaaMan64 on December 30, 2009, 03:44:41 AM
if anybody should make a Zelda movie, it should be James Cameron. Imagine the Zoras!

Oh gawd plz no. I seriously HATE it when I fall in love with a character in a movie. HATE IT. I really avoid movies where I hear that can happen. Its no annoying, it brings me down for the next 24+ hrs.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on December 30, 2009, 08:07:02 AM
Sherlock Holmes - 8. Robert Downey Jr OWNED this movie. Everything else just didn't stand up to his brilliance.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on December 30, 2009, 10:05:46 AM
Sherlock Holmes - 8. Robert Downey Jr OWNED this movie. Everything else just didn't stand up to his brilliance.

Do you think a fan of the classic Sherlock Holmes stories can enjoy this movie?  I grew up with the books and Basil Rathhbone (via the 1930s-1940s Sherlock Holmes Radio Dramas) as my Sherlock, and the moment I saw the trailer for this movie I didn't like it.  It just looked like they tried to turn Holmes into more of an action hero with silly jokes, but maybe it was just a bad trailer?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on December 30, 2009, 01:59:52 PM
Hehehe...no better version of Sherlock than "The Great Mouse Detective." FACT.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on December 30, 2009, 02:11:21 PM
Hehehe...no better version of Sherlock than "The Great Mouse Detective." FACT.

A great adaptation of Sherlock Holmes to be sure, but to me "The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" is probably the best version of the character I've ever [heard].  You should look it up sometime and hear Rathbone's (who also played Holmes in the movies at the time) classic take on the character.  Nigel Bruce's take on Watson is very soothing as well.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: bustin98 on December 30, 2009, 02:38:41 PM
I prefer Brent Spiner as Sherlock Holmes and LaVar Burton as Watson...
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on December 30, 2009, 03:48:28 PM
Sherlock Holmes - 8. Robert Downey Jr OWNED this movie. Everything else just didn't stand up to his brilliance.

Do you think a fan of the classic Sherlock Holmes stories can enjoy this movie?  I grew up with the books and Basil Rathhbone (via the 1930s-1940s Sherlock Holmes Radio Dramas) as my Sherlock, and the moment I saw the trailer for this movie I didn't like it.  It just looked like they tried to turn Holmes into more of an action hero with silly jokes, but maybe it was just a bad trailer?

It was probably a bad trailer. But the film stands up for it's strong chemistry between the characters. I paid far more attention to their interactions then the plot itself.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on December 30, 2009, 03:57:01 PM
Duplicity - Better than I thought it would be

I expected horrible stuff from this movie, especially since this gif came from the movie
(http://i48.tinypic.com/x5c8sp.gif)

But it was better than expected and it didn't even have the ending that you might suspect.
to sum up this movie without giving too much away, How Players Get Played
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: vudu on December 31, 2009, 01:35:02 PM
-last 3 movies is me clearing out my Instant Watch queue since movies are about to expire-

What?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on December 31, 2009, 02:08:41 PM
Instant Watch movies on Netflix at some point have an expiration date where you can't Instant Watch them anymore(some become available again at a later date).

The last 3 movies I rated were just me getting rid of movies that were about to expire on my list.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on December 31, 2009, 03:35:16 PM
A Perfect Getaway - 8.5/10

I really liked this movie. You think you know whats going on, you might be right, but then again, you might be wrong. You think you know who;s telling the truth and who is bullshitting, but once again, you might have it all wrong, or partially wrong. Either way, this movie was very entertaining and the location was very beautiful.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on December 31, 2009, 06:13:36 PM
i haven't watched many sherlock holmes movies, but i read the case of the bohemian something or other, and the one about the club of red haired men..from the trailer it seems pretty true to the books rather then the movie versions.

Reading the books, Sherlock holmes seems like more of a house type of character, a guy whos incredably intelligent, but is falling apart. Wheres the Hugh Lorry version(though, i guess Downey plays the same type of parts as of recent)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: NWR_Lindy on December 31, 2009, 07:45:09 PM
To me, The Hangover was a poor man's version of Very Bad Things (which is awesome).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on December 31, 2009, 11:25:07 PM
Inglorious Basterds 9/10
I wasn't sure if i was going to like this one, but I was wrong to even think that. One could complain there is not much action, and thats its mostly dialog, but what little action there is over the top, and the dialog is some of the most clever stuff to ever come out of anybodies mouth in a movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on December 31, 2009, 11:51:08 PM
^ almost like my review ;)
Inglorius Basterds - 9/10

I went in expecting more action, violence and out right carnage after seeing all the previews, but after an hour or so I remembered that this was a Quentin Tarantino film and the dialog is where the real action is at, even though there still was a fair amount of action in the movie.
It may seem to start off a little slow, but every scene has it's purpose in drawing you further into the story of the movie. Very well done.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: RABicle on January 01, 2010, 02:24:13 AM
District 9 is on iTunes and DVD now. I give it 5/5. It's the best movie of 09
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Peachylala on January 01, 2010, 01:02:24 PM
Cinderella: 4/5

I don't know why, but Cinderella is one of my Disney favorites. The heroine doesn't suck, the mice are awesome (Jaq and Gus of course), the dramatic scenes are great (the dress scene and the key scene), and Lady Tremaine is an awesome villain.

Cinderella 2: -100/5

Why?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on January 01, 2010, 03:14:35 PM
Jennifers Body - 7.25

Megan Fox was lookin soooo good in this movie, but I can't say the same for the blonde chick (the dumb blonde from Mean Girls). This movie really would have benefited if they had actually showed more of Jennifer's Body, but I guess we'll have to wait a little bit more for that to happen. But the movie itself wasn't bad and was actually quite entertaining. Some minor issues wit how certain situations where handled (like most horror movies) but they are easily over looked.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: D_Average on January 01, 2010, 03:36:29 PM
Up 3/5

Looked awesome on me new plasma, but the movie takes a bizarre turn once the dogs enter the picture.  The whole fight over the weird bird is a bit far fetched too.  The character of the old man seems more like the type to hand the bird over to his life long hero rather than fight him.  Also, the old man waited until after his wife died to go to Paradise Falls.  Fail.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on January 01, 2010, 07:00:50 PM
It's Complicated

Better than I thought it would be, let's put it that way.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on January 01, 2010, 07:48:48 PM
...The whole fight over the weird bird is a bit far fetched too..
And the part where he floated his entire house to South America using helium balloons wasn't?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on January 01, 2010, 09:31:05 PM
Also, the old man waited until after his wife died to go to Paradise Falls.  Fail.

Actually, if you watch the opening montage, you'll see that he managed to scrape together the funds to buy plane tickets to South America late in life.  He was about to present them to her when she fell sick and died.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on January 01, 2010, 10:45:19 PM
Sherlock Holmes Stuck closer to the Conan Doyle stories than I suspected. Downey is excellent as always. Guy Ritchie displays surprising talent. 3.5 Stars

Oh, here are spoilers for how the inevitable sequel ends:
Holmes and Moriarty plunge to their deaths over a waterfall
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on January 01, 2010, 10:56:30 PM
Oh, here are spoilers for how the inevitable sequel ends:
Holmes and Moriarty plunge to their deaths over a waterfall

Until Holmes is revived and Moriarty cloned centuries later in a surprisingly decent TV series.  ;)

Seriously, the stories should have ended with that event you named, and Conan Doyle himself wanted them to.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on January 02, 2010, 04:29:40 AM
...The whole fight over the weird bird is a bit far fetched too..
And the part where he floated his entire house to South America using helium balloons wasn't?

In only 24-hours too. Quite impressive.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on January 02, 2010, 05:38:10 AM
9 - WTF is the point of this movie!?

Seriously. They create an issue, and spend the rest of the movie trying to solve it, but ultimately in the end, everything is the same as before. they try to explain some background for the story, but even that is lacking. This movie fails really hard in making you give a crap about any of the characters or giving anyone any sort of motivation to make an interesting plot.

I'm just gonna spoil the movie so you don't waste your time bothering to watch it.
Scientist creates machine that is like a brain. Army uses the machine to win a war. Machines turn on humans and destroy everyone except for it's creator. Brain Machine deactivates(no more humans to kill?). Creator (the scientist) captures pieces of his soul inside of a bunch of burlap sack puppets who then come to life(this is where the movie starts). They are the last hope for humanity(huh?). They wander around without purpose avoiding the last active machine(small cat like machine). the last puppet created(#9) re-activates the big brain machine on accident. Big Brain Machine tries to collect all their souls. They shut the machine down after losing 5 burlap puppets. he frees their souls and now they are free to live their lives. the end.

They were pretty much free to do what they did in the end in the beginning. So I'm really not sure what was the point of this movie. What was the Brain Machines motivation for capturing all the souls, what happens when it does? How are these burlap puppets the last hope for humanity? Why was this movie made when even though the movie short story it was based off of didn't make much sense but basically told the exact same story?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on January 02, 2010, 03:08:18 PM
They were pretty much free to do what they did in the end in the beginning. So I'm really not sure what was the point of this movie. What was the Brain Machines motivation for capturing all the souls, what happens when it does? How are these burlap puppets the last hope for humanity? Why was this movie made when even though the movie short story it was based off of didn't make much sense but basically told the exact same story?

The brain machine killed everyone because it didn't have a soul or some ****.  The scientist used some kind of black magic (lol) to put his soul in to the puppets so that the machine could have a soul and restore life on Earth (somehow).  The puppets figured this out (I think) but were all like "**** that" because they didn't want to "die" just to try and bring humans back. So, then they decide to control their own destiny and do with the Earth as they wanted.  Humans aren't worth it, is the point.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on January 02, 2010, 04:49:15 PM
Was that explained in the movie, how the machine would somehow restore humanity(after it killed all the humans) once it got a soul or is that just the reasoning that you came up with? How would a machine make humans?

I remember the part where they give the background on what happened and why and I don't remember them saying that specifically. I understand that the machine had no soul and he gave his soul to the 9 puppets, but why would the talisman work against the machine if it was designed to put the souls inside the machine? Why is everything all better now that the machine is gone when the machine wasn't a threat to them before 9 showed up?


You don't have to answer those questions. This movie just wasn't worth the time regardless of whatever the underlying message was.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on January 02, 2010, 09:21:50 PM
Yeah, I totally read those spoilers because I've heard such on-the-fence opinions about the movie. I'm not really sure I want to see it now.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on January 02, 2010, 09:23:09 PM
Was that explained in the movie, how the machine would somehow restore humanity(after it killed all the humans) once it got a soul or is that just the reasoning that you came up with? How would a machine make humans?

I remember the part where they give the background on what happened and why and I don't remember them saying that specifically. I understand that the machine had no soul and he gave his soul to the 9 puppets, but why would the talisman work against the machine if it was designed to put the souls inside the machine? Why is everything all better now that the machine is gone when the machine wasn't a threat to them before 9 showed up?


You don't have to answer those questions. This movie just wasn't worth the time regardless of whatever the underlying message was.

I will do so anyway!

The part about him wanting to put his soul in to the machine was "explained" but in parts.  He said that the machine was like a human brain but failed because it lacked a soul.  And if you'll remember, the machine was programed (at some point) to capture the dolls and take their souls (or piece of his soul).  Once it had all 9 parts of the scientist's soul something would happen hence 9 being humanity's last hope.  What exactly that was was not explained.

The remaining dolls are better off now because at least the first monster is dead, and there aren't any threats (that they know of) out there, leaving them free to explore and rule the Earth.

I don't really recall the talisman working against the machine, but I'm pretty sure it was the piece of the big one that ultimately allowed it to take the souls.  That's how the scientist used it, IIRC.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on January 02, 2010, 09:46:02 PM
But it still doesn't make sense unless the machine was gonna start making humans.
why not program the doll to goto the machine and surrender the soul or just go put the soul in the machine himself. He(the scientist) was the last human, so in reality, he himself was humanities last hope.

and it only took one doll to handle that catbot, so they could've been safe long before 9 showed up(since he had no part in dismembering the bot) if hey had wanted to.

As far as the talisman, 9 had played back that video that the scientist had left him just before he dumped that last part of his soul in the doll and somehow 9 knew exactly what the symbols meant even though no explanation was given. He pried the talisman away from the brain bot and then hit the symbols on it in a specific order(that was never explained and he had a epiphany about), turned it towards the brain bot and then it sucked the souls back from it.

Another thing is, why didn't they try to put the souls back in the lifeless dolls that they came from? Only one body was lost for good down the deep dark hole under the bridge.


either way, that's enough about this movie.

I'm about to go back to my 'Chuck' marathon in preparation for season 3. Gotta get my girl into the show so she'll know whats going on next Sunday when Chuck returns.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on January 03, 2010, 07:47:13 AM
BnM: I felt the same way. Confused, bewildered....what the **** did I just watch? What the hell was the point?

Was I entertained? Yes. But do I ever want to see it again? Hell no. Actually, I think it would piss me off if I ever saw it again; kinda like Transformers 2.

AVATAR

Movie of the year? As much as I love Inglorious Basterds and District 9, I'm going to have to give Avatar the nod here. It was literally one of those movies that after you finished seeing it, you immediately wanted to see it again. It was one of those movies that put you in such a great mood afterwards. I can't lie. I clapped once it showed the credits...and the thing is, I wasn't alone.

When he first uses his avatar up until after he captures his dragon, I swear I was all smiles. It was the greatest adventure ever. Who didn't want to be him?

Oh and did anyone catch this funny observation. After he has sex with that alien chick (which was kinda weird by the way...i mean, he would have to aroused by her to begin with....not saying she wasn't a "hot" alien chick in comparison to her species, but she was still a fuckin' blue monster cat thing)...but anyway. After he has sex with her, did you notice that his Avatar was still cuddled with her? How fucked up was that lol?! I mean think about it, she's basically cuddled up with a puppet and she doesn't even know it. He's back at the base eating, probably had to wash hjs pants and smoke a cig, and most likely took a shower all the while this chick is butt-ass-naked in the woods with his puppet. I thought that **** was hilarious.


And man...Imax 3D has come a long way. I remember seeing some underwater video and thinking it was cool but just a gimmick. This time it was perfect. I'm honestly contemplating NOT buying the blu-ray because of how severely disappointing it'll be with no giant screen and 3D.

Anyways, I'm probably going to see it again before it leaves the theater.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on January 04, 2010, 03:54:48 AM
The Mask of Zorro - 8/10 - If you've been following my more recent posts you've probably noticed a general theme of late.  ;)   Well, I finally got around to seeing this movie and...it's ok but nothing spectacular.  My chief complaint (and I recognize that this is an unfair one born of personal bias) is that neither Anthony Hopkins nor Antonio Banderas sell me that they are worthy successors to Guy Williams as Zorro.  There just isn't that almost Spider-man level of playfulness to their portrayal of the character, not to mention Williams was a natural fencer taught by legends in the business.  Getting to actual flaws of the movie, though, this movie reminds me a lot of Star Trek Generations: Hopkins completely steals the show as Diego De La Vega, and Banderas' character just isn't interesting enough to care about when he's on screen.  Maybe it's just that level of class that Hopkins brought to his role, but I would frequently wish that Banderas would just get off the screen so we could see more of what "Diego" was up to.  It doesn't help that the movie also never does a great job of selling why exactly we should care about "Alejandro" and better still why he deserves to be the new "Zorro."  He's a dirty thief who got caught, lost his brother in the process, and then decided to seek revenge.  Yes, "hero of the people" this one is.   ::)   At least this gives the movie a great opportunity to mock him in the process as he is completely schooled by De La Vega, including a incredibly funny sequence where Alejandro decides to show off and starts whipping his sword around in a frenzy to look impressive, followed by a casual single swing disarm from De La Vega.  I could have done without the somewhat excessive sexual undertones throughout the movie as well, though I suppose it's understandable considering the leads.

On the upside, the action is competently staged and the story overall is good and flows well.  I also appreciated the nods to previous Zorro works, particularly when De La Vega in disguise assumes the name of "Bernado."  Of course, they could have taken that joke even further by having him pretend to be deaf & dumb and speaking in pantomime, but that's just a fanboy request.   :P: : : :

I've been forewarned about "Legend of Zorro" and so won't be seeing that film, but this is a competent "pass the torch" movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on January 04, 2010, 04:07:36 AM
Yeah, Legend of Zorro was quite disappointing to me compared to Mask of Zorro. My friends liked it oddly enough but it just felt cheesy. Too much cliche with the whole 'Wow! My dad is really a superhero!' storyline.

Also I think they changed the story a bit in the sequel because I could have sworn Alejandro had a daughter at the end of the first movie but he only has a son in the sequel. Though it has been a while. Can you confirm this, Broodwars?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on January 04, 2010, 04:18:41 AM
Also I think they changed the story a bit in the sequel because I could have sworn Alejandro had a daughter at the end of the first movie but he only has a son in the sequel. Though it has been a while. Can you confirm this, Broodwars?

I'm pretty sure it's a girl as well.  If not, those are the girl-iest baby clothes I've ever seen on a boy.  Besides, that whole ending is meant to be a callback to the beginning of the movie with Hopkins, so it would only make sense that it would be that way.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on January 04, 2010, 04:42:31 AM
Agreed, which was why it felt so jarring in the sequel when it was different. I think that nagging thought just set a poor initial tone for the entire film in my head. Granted, the rest of then movie wasn't terribly impressive to me, but I might have viewed it in a slightly better light had they not thrown in that change.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on January 04, 2010, 04:50:21 AM
It was totally a girl at the end.  I give Mask an 8/10 as well. I thought it was pretty good, i don't have the same complaints about Alejandro though, i thought he was interesting. He was a ruffian, and he had to work at the elegance of Zorro. I also liked watching From G to Gents :p
Plus he had to do things like fake his accent to not stick out amongst the nobility.
and I agree the Sequel was lame 2 points deducted 6/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on January 04, 2010, 05:00:57 AM
I give Mask an 8/10 as well. I thought it was pretty good, i don't have the same complaints about Alejandro though, i thought he was interesting. He was a ruffian, and he had to work at the elegance of Zorro. I also liked watching From G to Gents :p
Plus he had to do things like fake his accent to not stick out amongst the nobility.
and I agree the Sequel was lame 2 points deducted 6/10

Like I said, most of my problems with Alejandro have to do with the problem that Diego just completely overshadows him as a more interesting character played by a more compelling actor.  Alejandro just needed more time to develop as a character and come into his own as Zorro than a 2-hour movie with two ongoing stories can support.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: bustin98 on January 04, 2010, 02:17:58 PM
Next you'll have to watch Zorro, the Gay Blade. George Hamilton at his best.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on January 05, 2010, 07:50:31 PM
To All Those That Have Seen AVATAR, is this accurate?

(http://i47.tinypic.com/6puxi1.jpg)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: D_Average on January 05, 2010, 08:31:37 PM
I Love You Man - 2/5
This movie draaaags.  The awkward moments between Rudd and Seagal just aren't aren't enough. 
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on January 05, 2010, 09:07:59 PM
That's too funny, BlacknMild. "Unobtanium" sounds like something you collect in Ratchet & Clank (Raritanium).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: GearBoxClock on January 05, 2010, 09:52:50 PM
That's too funny, BlacknMild. "Unobtanium" sounds like something you collect in Ratchet & Clank (Raritanium).


They actually called it Unobtainium in the film. No joke.


Also,
Avatar- 8/10
Eh. Writing was predictable, but okay. the CGI is the main draw really.


Star Wars: The Clone Wars- 7/10
Meh. Not too horrid. Not as good as the Clone Wars cartoon or the films, but it isn't bad


Trailer Park Boys: Countdown to Liquor Day- 8/10
If you like the Trail Park Boys, see this. It is very, very funny.

Total Recall- 8.5/10
Makes me remember how Ahnold managed to keep a career. He was a surprisingly good actor in the right roles
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on January 05, 2010, 10:23:41 PM
yeah, when i heard unobtainium in the movie...i thought "that is a really unoriginal name"
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: GearBoxClock on January 05, 2010, 10:38:48 PM
Maybe it's a TvTropes reference?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: DAaaMan64 on January 06, 2010, 01:27:37 AM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unobtainium

And yes thats mostly accurate. The only thing that bothers me about it is they NEVER in the movie go into the relationship with Neytiri and Tsu'tey. Which bothers me because they imply the same story line in an interview I saw. But we never learn what Neytiri really things of Tsu'tey, just that they were supposed to hook up.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on January 06, 2010, 04:37:33 AM
The Princess and the Frog - I think I looked like a pedophile seeing this by myself today.  Good movie.  Liked most of the characters.  Songs were ok but not memorable (which was disappointing).  I didn't like the fact that they consistently have to remind you that's it's in New Orleans at the most unnecessary times in similar ways.  Occasionally, they showed how much they studied the cit but simultaneously didn't really get it.  It's hard to explain. 7/10 Good for the kids.

Village au Panique (A Town Called Panic) - Crazy, hilarious, French. 9/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on January 07, 2010, 11:53:26 AM
Next you'll have to watch Zorro, the Gay Blade. George Hamilton at his best.

*looks up a summary of the movie's premise*

No.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on January 07, 2010, 04:11:25 PM
Nine - I haven't seen 9, but judging on the fact that some people don't like it above. But Nine is great.

I did not know Dame Judy Dench could sing.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: NWR_Lindy on January 08, 2010, 12:47:53 AM
(500) Days of Summer - 9/10.  Great flick.  I love relationship movies that are actually realistic instead of overly hokey, overly comedic, or overly dramatic.  I though the movie would be one way at the beginning, but it turned out to be an entirely different kind of film at the end.  Probably my favorite of the 2009 movie year that I've seen.

District 9 is next in my Netflix queue.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on January 09, 2010, 04:14:37 AM
Sherlock Holmes 8.5/10

This is a strong movie. The casting is perfect. The action bloody fun. The writing witty, but not quite as good as Inglorious Bastards. The plot surprisingly clever as it should be for a show about Holmes. This movie has the potential to be the Lethal Weapon for these hard times.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: D_Average on January 09, 2010, 01:48:15 PM
Gigantic - 3/5
Strange movie.  Its filmed like a romantic comedy, but it takes some weird, and some time hilarious diversions.  Zoey is cute enough, but overall the movie leaves a bit to be desired.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: RABicle on January 09, 2010, 11:18:05 PM
The Lovely Bones 3/5
chilling. You could **** yourself.
Story about some girl named Ruth who one day walking home from school feels the spiritual presence of a recently deceased classmate.

District 9 5/5
Watched it again recently, amazing.
Story is about this guy called Christopher, he and his son are collecting minerals to escape a refugee camp.

Inglourios Basterds 4/5
Funny.
Story of a cinema owner in Paris who is given the opportunity to host a gala German film festival.

Starship Troopers 3/5
Shoddy acting lets down funny and slick scifi action.
Tragic tale about the survivors of Buenos Aires.

Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation 1/5
Shitty slasher flick.
A moving tale about a woman who succumbs to mental illness.

Starship Troopers 3: Marauder 3/5
More like the original, better acting, worse directing, lowest budget yet.
A exploratory documentary exploring the connections between church and state.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: IceCold on January 10, 2010, 02:53:58 AM
Up 3/5
Also, the old man waited until after his wife died to go to Paradise Falls.  Fail.

Wow, way to completely miss the point of the movie (and a major plot cue too).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: IceCold on January 10, 2010, 03:00:25 AM
Right, recent movies..

Avatar was great visually and the world was enthralling, but the story and characters were simple and archetypal. Movie of the year? Not by a long shot - that goes to either The Hurt Locker or Up in the Air.

Sherlock Holmes
was better than I expected but not brilliant. Robert Downey is incredible of course.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: D_Average on January 10, 2010, 12:08:37 PM
Up 3/5
Also, the old man waited until after his wife died to go to Paradise Falls.  Fail.

Wow, way to completely miss the point of the movie (and a major plot cue too).

Sheesh.  It was a joke.  Anyways, the movie is highly overrated.  The 50 mins spent with the explorer and his dogs was a complete snooze fest.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: NWR_Lindy on January 10, 2010, 05:11:20 PM
District 9 - 8.5/10.  What a great movie.  A little more action at the end than I thought was necessary, but it was exceptionally well-written.  I'd consider it to be a very real portrayal of what I could see happening if aliens became stranded on our planet.  What I liked the most was that it explored issues of racism (speciesism?) without being moralizing or heavy-handed.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Dasmos on January 10, 2010, 09:02:05 PM
District 9 - So yeah I rented District 9, after seeing it a couple of times at the cinema. Being a South African movie it definitely has an obvious arpatheid reference. Also I read somewhere that the most of Wikus' lines were improvised which is pretty amazing. But yeah a great film. I probably reviewed it earlier in the thread, but I'm doing it again and giving it a: 9/10.

Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist - I'm getting pretty sick of Michael Cera playing George Michael in every movie, because the writing is never as good as Arrested Development. Anyway not an entirely unlikable film, it had a good soundtrack. Also what ever the main chick's name is pretty hawt. 6/10.

Adventureland - I thought is was funny that the only movies I have seen this Jesse Eisenberg character in were called Zombieland and Adventureland, none of my friends thought so. Well I enjoyed this film, it wasn't what I expected, but in a good way. Kristen Stewart was also surprisingly good in it, so I guess it's just that the suckiness of Twilight made me think she was ****.

Soundtrack was good in this too. 7.75/10.

Push - ****. Also Dakota Fanning's skirt was too short and it made me feel like a perv. 3/10.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on January 11, 2010, 02:07:54 AM
Kat Dennings. Hot as hell.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on January 11, 2010, 07:41:08 PM
Not sure when i last posted but..

Avatar (second time) still 10/10

Paranormal Activity: ****/10
but i will give one of the alt. endings credit, where she slits her throat, that was kinda creepy to watch. Then again, after hearing about the 2nd alt. ending i deduced points

Youth In Revolt: Wished it was funnier/10
Thats about a 6.5/10 for those who like to keep score. It had its moments but it wasnt what i expected. The two main characters personalities grew to be rather annoying by the end of the film, which i wished DIDNT have a happy ending.

Daybreakers (i think its one word) 7/10 at first thought, 6/10 after consideration.

This movie was cool until the ending which left you kinda 'meh'. You'd probably forget about it the second you walked out the theatre (like i did). It starts off cool and sorta stylized but ends very VERY bland.. the gore was nice though, but i'm afraid its what kept me watching.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on January 12, 2010, 01:39:10 AM
District 9 What a weird movie. Not sure if I liked it or not.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on January 12, 2010, 01:04:06 PM
District 9 What a great movie. Not sure if I like it this much... its kinda scaring me.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: vudu on January 12, 2010, 01:41:16 PM
District 9 is over-rated.  There; I said it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on January 12, 2010, 05:19:14 PM
How the aliens and the humans acted in the movie didn't ring true to me.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: GearBoxClock on January 12, 2010, 05:22:25 PM
I loved District 9

Question. Why are there so many 9 movies this year?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Peachylala on January 12, 2010, 08:29:24 PM
Princess And The Frog Really enjoyable movie. Best tear jerker scene in a Disney movie ever.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on January 13, 2010, 04:42:32 AM
Continuing my current trend of catching up on big movies I ignored years ago...

The Incredible Hulk - 9/10 - I've never been the biggest fan of the Hulk.  Like Superman, I think he's an incredibly dull character just because he is so ridiculously overpowered and when you get right down to it there's not much to him.  His alter-ego is an interesting character, sure, but when things heat up the boring character steps in.  My last exposure to this character outside random appearances in various one-off Avengers animated movies and appearances on Marvel animated series like Wolverine & the X-Men was Aang Lee's pretentious travesty of a Live Action movie many years ago.  Happily, this movie is everything that that POS was not: well-paced, well-shot (none of that "multiple camera angles at once" BS that Lee did), well-written, well-acted (outside Lib Tyler), and well-animated.  Much like Bruce Timm's take on Superman (which is the only take on Superman I actually like), this movie takes the Hulk and strips his abilities down to a level that's actually fun and interesting to watch.  When Banner's on screen the movie still manages to be interesting, always a problem in series with characters bearing dual personas.  The villain is a bit silly and I think he has rather a lot of access to classified US Government secret projects for a British Officer only on-loan to the US Army, but whatever.

This movie also manages to make a big production of the one thing just about everyone complained was missing in the Lee movie, making it easily the best moment of this movie:

Abomination:  "ANY LAST WORDS?!"

Hulk: "HULK....SMAAAAASH!"

*Hulk destroys the ground out from underneath Abomination.*


Next on the docket: the Iron Man movie from the same year, which I have seen before but not since it came out.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on January 13, 2010, 11:42:11 AM
yeah...the incredible hulk is a good drink; especially when it's an army green.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on January 13, 2010, 03:43:59 PM
Yeah, I loved the new Incredible Hulk, minus horse woman.

Something Something Something Dark Side

Ehhhhh hard to say whether I liked it as much as Blue Harvest. There seemed to be more tangential stuff and less attention paid to the original material. Funny overall, but there are a few too many long jokes.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: GearBoxClock on January 13, 2010, 03:50:22 PM
I am not a fan of Family Guy.
They rarely have new jokes
With Something Something Something Darkside, I'd heard most of the jokes before, on other, better Star Wars specials
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on January 13, 2010, 03:58:00 PM
I am not a fan of Family Guy.
They rarely have new jokes
With Something Something Something Darkside, I'd heard most of the jokes before, on other, better Star Wars specials

glad i'm not the only one that feels that way. I stopped watching Family Guy after the show went back on the air and I realized that the first episode wasn't just borrowing jokes from seasons prior to say "we're back!" but that that whole season turned out to say "we're back, and with all that time off we didn't think up ****"

Plus their types of jokes don't lend themselves well to being running gags. "Cool W-hip" will never be the simpsons "ha-ha"
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on January 13, 2010, 09:05:16 PM
Family Guy is easily the worst show on television. The South Park where they make fun of Family Guy is funnier than any real FG episode ever made.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on January 13, 2010, 09:10:07 PM
"you think THAT'S bad.."

they really nailed the feel of the show with that one.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on January 13, 2010, 09:17:19 PM
Family Guy is usually only funny in short spurts, but overall, I think it's a pretty good show. I remember the first time I watched it over 5 years ago, I almost **** my pants when the kool-aid man bursts into the court room. Now, it seems like that's all that ever happens.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on January 13, 2010, 10:11:48 PM
The show's problem (now) is that it's become far too self-referencial. I mean, the same thing happened with Simpsons but it was never as blatant.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on January 13, 2010, 11:09:11 PM
thank god, after how long its been running.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on January 14, 2010, 01:30:15 AM
Terminator Salvation 7.8/10 It wasn't terminator 2 good, but it wasn't like the mcshit fest everyone said it would be. I liked it, i did like miss 15 minutes to take a dump, but i didn't miss much i guess.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on January 14, 2010, 11:21:46 AM
Why didn't you just pause the movie?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on January 14, 2010, 03:05:02 PM
My dad was watching it, and knowing him he wouldn't finish the movie, he would just get up and do something else and never finish it, i still have it rented..i could watch that part over again...
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on January 14, 2010, 07:01:20 PM
i'm still pissed i seemed to be the only one who chuckled at past terminator references during the movie. Maybe i'm just easily amused OH A BALL OF YARN! *plays*
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on January 15, 2010, 06:53:37 PM
Obsessed - Meh.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on January 16, 2010, 04:20:18 AM
Just watched Timeline. It was OK. An alright action movie with a little bit of ridiculousness thrown in. I'd say 7/10.
I read the book before and had similar feelings about it. Both had parts I liked better. It did make me want to reread the book to compare the two since it's been a long while since I read it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on January 16, 2010, 02:01:48 PM
after watching it 4 times Inglorious Basterds score  goes up it was 9/10 now its 10/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on January 16, 2010, 03:01:40 PM
Finally got around to seeing Sherlock Holmes, good movie, lots of fun. I knew very little about the character going in so I didn't have any expectations going in. Aside from that chick (can't think of her name) from wedding crashers, good performances all around and I like how its set up for a sequel and which I'm excited for. This is one of those movies where the characters are so good, you wanna see more when its all over with.

8/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on January 16, 2010, 04:09:31 PM
Rachel McAdams. I've never seen what the big deal is. She was good in Mean Girls, that's about it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on January 16, 2010, 05:29:56 PM
Rachel McAdams. I've never seen what the big deal is. She was good in Mean Girls, that's about it.

There was a big deal made about her?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on January 16, 2010, 06:06:30 PM
i think she is hot, thats a big deal, like she seems like she should be like in some pub or tavern somewhere in Scotland, and some old dude comes out of nowhere, and he's like want to date my daughter...she's a fine lass!, and then out pops Rachel McAdams wearing a flanel tartan skirt and a white low cut halter top, and then you reply "is this heaven?"

eye of the beholder i guess
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on January 16, 2010, 09:50:13 PM
Indeed.

I just watched "9." Like most of you, I didn't get it either. Where was THE MACHINE getting all it's scrap parts to build robots? What the eff was it going to do with all those souls (actually, parts of one soul)? Why was the cat-bot even still around? What powers the machines? What's with the alchemical circles of power? A visual treat, but I totally didn't care about the plot.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on January 17, 2010, 01:23:02 AM
Moon, that movie was made of awesome 9/10. Its like a twilight zone episode thats really fleshed out. I was also reminded of portal not because of the Hal/GlaDOS like robot, but some other stuff....

Goya's Ghost 8/10 that was pretty damn good.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: D_Average on January 18, 2010, 10:45:32 AM
Sunshine Cleaning 4/5
Uhhhhhh...What?

I give it an extra 2 stars for Amy Adams.  So wholesome.  So cute.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: bustin98 on January 19, 2010, 02:02:52 AM
I just got the Watchmen on Bluray, the Ultimate Cut. The movie, I love. Added scenes and the mixed in Black Freighter storyline. Awesome. The box the set comes in: makes it even better. It has a magnetic seal on it similar to the X-Files collection. And the blood on the Comedian's pin is raised on the cover of the box. For $40 you can't go wrong. Love it love it love it. 10/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on January 19, 2010, 04:22:31 AM
does it have squid?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: bustin98 on January 19, 2010, 06:39:06 PM
I think we're just going to have to get over the squid. The set includes a 5 hour motion comic, so there's your squid.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on January 19, 2010, 10:53:35 PM
The squid didn't ever make any goddamn sense anyway.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on January 19, 2010, 11:12:14 PM
The squid didn't ever make any goddamn sense anyway.

(http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/forums/index.php?action=dlattach;attach=999;type=avatar)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on January 19, 2010, 11:26:32 PM
The squid didn't ever make any goddamn sense anyway.

(http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/forums/index.php?action=dlattach;attach=999;type=avatar)

(http://i47.tinypic.com/hweosl.jpg) :zoid:
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on January 20, 2010, 12:58:05 AM
oh the movie was real good, but yeah if i were Schneider i would have put the squid in specual features!

and Tom sellick would haveplayed the comedian

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b188/DTrent/The%20Beauty%20Of%20Man/ab0b4303.jpg
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on January 20, 2010, 01:02:50 AM
Tom Selleck is the coolest man alive.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on January 21, 2010, 05:43:13 PM
not since he lost the mustache.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on January 21, 2010, 10:58:45 PM
it takes Tom Selleck 20 minutes to grow a mustace
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on January 21, 2010, 11:41:39 PM
Gamera the Brave

Awful movie, especially for somebody like me who loves the Heisei Trilogy. This newest and lone Millenium entry absolutely sucks by comparison. There are even a few Showa entries I'd rather have watched. Half the script consists of a little boy screaming "TOTO!" because that's what he named Gamera. The movie's opening five minutes is the best, showing what happened to the old Gamera. Otherwise, this movie is a waste of time.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on January 23, 2010, 06:34:07 AM
Death Note

Japanese film about a note book where if you write a name in it, the person whose name was written will die. It has English Dubbing and is clever enough to make some rules and actually stick to them. I kept thinking about what I would do with a book like that and how out of control things would get if someone had a common name or something else that would just mess with the actual usefulness of such a book, but they came up with some pretty good boundaries that make sense. I was into it and there is also a sequel that they advertise at the end of the movie, so that has just been bumped up my Netflix list.

3.75/5 stars
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on January 23, 2010, 06:55:59 AM
Death Note

Japanese film about a note book where if you write a name in it, the person whose name was written will die. It has English Dubbing and is clever enough to make some rules and actually stick to them. I kept thinking about what I would do with a book like that and how out of control things would get if someone had a common name or something else that would just mess with the actual usefulness of such a book, but they came up with some pretty good boundaries that make sense. I was into it and there is also a sequel that they advertise at the end of the movie, so that has just been bumped up my Netflix list.

3.75/5 stars

You're really doing yourself a disservice not seeing the TV series instead, which is very good (if a bit pretentious in places and goofy in others).  I haven't heard great things about the three compilation movies they made from it (which are what you're watching now).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on January 23, 2010, 06:57:53 AM
didnt know there was a tv show.

edit: you were referring to the anime.
I just went back and read the reviews on Netflix and it seems that they made the movie a 2 parter and did a really good job of capturing the anime, even using the same voice actors for the english dubbing.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on January 23, 2010, 06:59:58 AM
didnt know there was a tv show.

Not exactly the best way to watch it (I think the episodes available streamed there are subbed, and Death Note has a stellar dub), but here:

http://www.hulu.com/death-note (http://www.hulu.com/death-note)

If you end up interested in the TV series dubbed, the whole series has been out on DVD for a while now.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on January 23, 2010, 07:05:42 AM
didnt know there was a tv show.

edit: you were referring to the anime.
I just went back and read the reviews on Netflix and it seems that they made the movie a 2 parter and did a really good job of capturing the anime, even using the same voice actors for the english dubbing.
Not exactly the best way to watch it (I think the episodes available streamed there are subbed, and Death Note has a stellar dub), but here:

http://www.hulu.com/death-note (http://www.hulu.com/death-note)

If you end up interested in the TV series dubbed, the whole series has been out on DVD for a while now.

can't sleep, about to start watching now.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on January 26, 2010, 05:23:49 PM
Gamer - 7/10

I kinda like this movie since it uses what I think is a realistic approach to where current technology may be headed. Games like Home/The Sims where portrayed and tech like Natal/Minority Report where also in play. The main concept that I liked was The Running Man/Death Race like entertainment/prison system that was in place only they used nanotech in the general populace to allow remote control of the subject as if playing a video game. It was all handled well and was pretty believable for what it was (like the fat guy sits in chair at home playing as female character in Home). The only thing I didn't like was the very end. Literally the last 10 seconds or so.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: hartnsoul88 on January 26, 2010, 11:12:31 PM
Watched Avatar in 3D a few weeks ago and loved it!! Triggers all sorts of emotions and the effects are amazing. Would give it 9/10 for me!!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on January 27, 2010, 08:19:31 PM
(like the fat guy sits in chair at home playing as female character in Surrogates).

Fixed? That part of that movie made me laugh.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on January 30, 2010, 09:03:31 PM
I've been watching a lot of stuff lately, so I'll try to keep this brief:

Iron Man - 9/10 - A movie I didn't care much for when I first saw it a few years ago, but watching it now after I have a much better appreciation for the character I really like this movie now.  Looking forward to the sequel.

Next Avengers: Heroes of Tommorow - 3/10 - "Ugh".  That best sums up this bland movie with its bland characters and TV animation production values.  It's funny, but the more I explore the Marvel Universe the less I like it.  After Spider-Man; the X-Men; Iron Man; and (to some extent) the Hulk, there's a real drop-off in quality in the Marvel Universe with increasingly uninteresting characters and even worse villains.  The Avengers seem largely made-up of the rejects of the Marvel Universe, and this movie stars the children of those rejects in a story that's hard to give a damn about.  So yeah, this movie's bad.

The Lord of the Rings (Trilogy - Extended Editions) - 10/10 - I've been meaning to rewatch these movies for a while now, as I hadn't sat through them pretty much since they first released.  Well, the better part of a decade later I finally got around to it, and the movies are still awesome (particularly these Extended Editions).  I'm still not thrilled with some of the changes Jackson made in Two Towers (Faramir in particular) and that movie in particular drags in places, but the overall quality shines through.  Watching these movies in SD DVD really makes me long for HD Blu-Ray versions, so long as all the extras in these mammoth sets get ported over.

Next up on the docket: the Evil Dead trilogy, a series of horror comedy movies that up till now I've never seen.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on January 30, 2010, 09:48:29 PM
The Ex: Don't Know, Didn't Care/10
Hated it. Turned it off halfway through. The story never goes anywhere, and Michael Bluth is just an ass the whole time. Zach Braff is unable to play anybody other than John Dorian, too.
 
The Ladies' Man: Tiffani Amber Thiesen/10
Simplistic comedy. Then TAT walks onscreen and you're all like DAYAM THAT'S what a woman looks like!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on January 31, 2010, 05:31:21 AM
The Lord of the Rings (Trilogy - Extended Editions) - 10/10 - I've been meaning to rewatch these movies for a while now, as I hadn't sat through them pretty much since they first released.  Well, the better part of a decade later I finally got around to it, and the movies are still awesome (particularly these Extended Editions).  I'm still not thrilled with some of the changes Jackson made in Two Towers (Faramir in particular) and that movie in particular drags in places, but the overall quality shines through.  Watching these movies in SD DVD really makes me long for HD Blu-Ray versions, so long as all the extras in these mammoth sets get ported over.

That's funny, I didn't mind the changes in TT as much as the ones in Fellowship and TT is actually my favorite of the three. I was very upset that they didn't include Glorfindel and replaced his role with boring Arwen.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on February 01, 2010, 12:04:00 PM
The Lord of the Rings (Trilogy - Extended Editions) - 10/10 - I've been meaning to rewatch these movies for a while now, as I hadn't sat through them pretty much since they first released.  Well, the better part of a decade later I finally got around to it, and the movies are still awesome (particularly these Extended Editions).  I'm still not thrilled with some of the changes Jackson made in Two Towers (Faramir in particular) and that movie in particular drags in places, but the overall quality shines through.  Watching these movies in SD DVD really makes me long for HD Blu-Ray versions, so long as all the extras in these mammoth sets get ported over.

That's funny, I didn't mind the changes in TT as much as the ones in Fellowship and TT is actually my favorite of the three. I was very upset that they didn't include Glorfindel and replaced his role with boring Arwen.

Sadly, Glorfindel and his 2 seconds in the entirety of the Lord of the Rings books simply had no place in the movies, as as Tom Bombadil didn't.  They had to replace him with someone who the audience might actually care about over the course of a 3 hour movie.

My problem with Two Towers is that the theatrical cut of the movie is relatively abysmal.  You have to see the Extended Edition for that movie to become as great as the other two, as the scenes added do more to add character to that movie and explain the changes than any other movie in the trilogy.  Even understanding why they did what they did with Faramir, I still don't care much for it.  Jackson basically took Faramir's role in the books (to be the one person who shows that there's still strength and honor in Man) and gave it to Aragorn, making Faramir almost a pointless character.  The Ents came out sigificantly worse in Two Towers as well, coming off as cowards.

Like I said, though, most of my problems with Two Towers are with the theatrical cut, though I still find what happens to Aragorn during the Warg attack to be inane and filler when Jackson already had a mammoth book to adapt.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on February 01, 2010, 12:08:05 PM
Alright, with that out of the way it's time for Evil Dead!

The Evil Dead - 5/10 - A fairly average straight-up horror flick, which is certainly what I wasn't expecting based on the reputation this series supposedly has.  This movie reeks of "Late 70s" in pacing, seemingly taking forever for the movie to get anywhere.

Evil Dead 2 - 8/10 - Now this is what I was expecting when I decided to check out these 3 movies.  Cheesy as hell with silly one-liners and Bruce Campbell getting the crap beaten out of him every other second, this movie is so stupid it's awesome.

Army of Darkness - 3/10 - No, on second thought let's not talk about Army of Darkness...'Tis a silly movie.  ;)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on February 01, 2010, 12:33:14 PM
So you give The Evil Dead Trilogy a 16/30 or a 2.5/5 stars average.
Not Bad. Not Great.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on February 01, 2010, 12:35:02 PM
So you give The Evil Dead Trilogy a 16/30 or a 2.5/5 stars average.
Not Bad. Not Great.

Pretty much.  Moderately entertaining, but I'll never understand how all 3 of these movies became cult classics.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on February 01, 2010, 04:58:46 PM
Alright, with that out of the way it's time for Evil Dead!

Army of Darkness - 3/10 - No, on second thought let's not talk about Army of Darkness...'Tis a silly movie.  ;)

Broodwars is dead to me...not really

Army of Darkness 10/10 - yes i have watched it recently.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: RABicle on February 01, 2010, 11:34:13 PM
Some porno - 2 erections everyhalf hour
I wanted to have sex afterwards.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Dasmos on February 02, 2010, 12:20:44 AM
ahahaha

Just watched the first 3 Star Wars again.

Star Wars - 9/10. Don't really need to explain this score.
Empire Strike Back - 9/10. Probably like it a little more than the first one, just because Yoda is actually in this film.
Jedi Strikes Back - 5/10. Going into this film I completely forgot how much of the film is taken up by those goddamn Ewoks. Luke is a ****** in this film too.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on February 02, 2010, 12:26:35 AM
Jedi Strikes Back - 5/10. Going into this film I completely forgot how much of the film is taken up by those goddamn Ewoks. Luke is a ***got in this film too.

You know, I've never understood the hatred for the Ewoks.  Maybe I'm just one big softy (I did grow up in a family that constantly owned 1-2 Shih Tzus), but I always found them adorable and their role in the film kind of inspiring in a "little oppressed people take on a mighty Empire and pull out an impossible win" sort of way.  For me, the most painful part of Jedi is all that stuff on Tatooine with Jabba the Hutt.  The movie runs really slowly during that half of the film, and it's brown as far as the eye can see.  Hooray.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on February 02, 2010, 01:03:50 AM
Remember the Wicket movies? Hell yeah, those were so awesome.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on February 02, 2010, 01:12:20 AM
Remember the Wicket movies? Hell yeah, those were so awesome.

Ugh, yes I do remember the Ewok movies...and now I wish I didn't.  ::)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on February 02, 2010, 04:45:39 AM
I thought the first Ewok movie was great when I was a kid. It started out like a nature documentary with a narrator explaining what the Ewoks were doing. It was an enjoyable cheesy adventure movie with a slight Star Wars flavor.

The second was ridiculous and depressing considering almost everyone of importance died in the first 10 minutes of the movie and then the film warped from Star Wars to a generic medieval film with tiny fuzzy bears.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on February 02, 2010, 08:01:57 PM
Legion: 4/10

This is one of those movies i just KNEW was gonna be stupid but just interesting enough to put up with, but still mad I paid to watch it. There could've been a more interesting story in there, but it fell thru the cracks pretty early on. The hot "rebelious goth teenager" was worth it, if anything, but she died at the end. Sad :(
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on February 02, 2010, 09:40:51 PM
update: Army of Darkness came on HBO last night, still 10/10. Don't agree? Come get some!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on February 02, 2010, 11:42:12 PM
Zombieland: 7/10

I liked that it was a zombie movie that largely lacked zombies. I'm so fracking sick of zombie movies. The cast had a great chemistry, and Bill Murrey was, as always, superb.

What's the name of the girl in this movie (THE OLDER ONE)? Hottie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: me11ss on February 02, 2010, 11:47:38 PM
I just finished watching The Departed...10 out of 10!
Now I am watching [the] Traitor...def. a 'diamond in the rough'...8 out of 10...[so far...1/2 hour left...]
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Dasmos on February 02, 2010, 11:53:34 PM
Emma Stone. Yeah, she's huge steaming piles of attractive.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on February 04, 2010, 02:03:18 AM
I just finished watching The Departed...10 out of 10!
Now I am watching [the] Traitor...def. a 'diamond in the rough'...8 out of 10...[so far...1/2 hour left...]

agreed The Departed 10/10 I hope Nicholson does another movie some time soon, its been a couple of years.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on February 04, 2010, 02:34:39 AM
I just finished watching The Departed...10 out of 10!
Now I am watching [the] Traitor...def. a 'diamond in the rough'...8 out of 10...[so far...1/2 hour left...]

agreed The Departed 10/10 I hope Nicholson does another movie some time soon, its been a couple of years.
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Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on February 04, 2010, 02:51:57 AM
guy with pen - What a dick
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on February 05, 2010, 07:27:10 PM
Planet Hulk - 7.75/10

I gotta say that I'm a little impressed with the efforts that Marvel Animations has been making. Hulk Vs Wolverine was great and Hulk vs Thor was pretty good too. So I gave this one a chance and i enjoyed it. The animation could us a little work, but given the budget that went into it, I would still give it an B. The story made sense, but I haven't picked up a comic book in 15 years, so I don't know what was going on right before this movie started.

This movie starts off with the Hulk being restrained in a space ship with a message from Iron man that he was no longer welcome on Earth and they were sending him somewhere where there was no one he could hurt and there was nothing for him to get mad and then destroy everything. Let's just say that Hulk got mad and destroyed his ship sending it off course and landing on an entirely different planet with lots of inhabitants. What will Hulk Smash first?

EDIT: I forgot to mention that this movie was more violent and brutal than I had expected.
Pleasant Surprise
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on February 05, 2010, 07:32:42 PM
Hulk has anger issues.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on February 05, 2010, 08:01:52 PM
Planet Hulk - 7.75/10

I gotta say that I'm a little impressed with the efforts that Marvel Animations has been making. Hulk Vs Wolverine was great and Hulk vs Thor was pretty good too. So I gave this one a chance and i enjoyed it. The animation could us a little work, but given the budget that went into it, I would still give it an B. The story made sense, but I haven't picked up a comic book in 15 years, so I don't know what was going on right before this movie started.

This movie starts off with the Hulk being restrained in a space ship with a message from Iron man that he was no longer welcome on Earth and they were sending him somewhere where there was no one he could hurt and there was nothing for him to get mad and then destroy everything. Let's just say that Hulk got mad and destroyed his ship sending it off course and landing on an entirely different planet with lots of inhabitants. What will Hulk Smash first?

EDIT: I forgot to mention that this movie was more violent and brutal than I had expected.
Pleasant Surprise

What a coincidence, because I just watched that movie as well yesterday.  Can't say I agree with you, though: 3/10.  This movie was just awful to me, bland in every conceivable way and it didn't feel true at all to the Hulk character.  When I throw in a Hulk movie, I expect to see the Jekyll & Hide drama of Bruce Banner trying to contain the Hulk and trying to find an inner peace, with the Hulk being an incarnation of total primitive rage.  Not only do we never see Banner in this movie, but the brooding and strangely intelligent Hulk in this movie could hold a decent conversation with him.  In fact, Hulk is so calm and collected in this movie that you have to wonder why the Avengers exiled him from Earth as a menace in the first place.  The animation would be passable for a TV animated series, the movie is staffed with generic characters left and right (gotta love apparently Evil red-skinned Aang from Avatar being the main villain) I couldn't care less about, and the story largely takes place inside a giant gladiatorial arena.  Joy, because that has always led to compelling stories in superhero animation (*glares at Justice League's "War World"*).  It's movies like this that make the Hulk an easy character to ignore in the Marvel Universe.

Oh, and what was the ****ing point of creating a Direct-to-DVD Hulk movie if you're just going to have him slaughter generic robots most of the time, the poster children for TV animation writers wanting to get around censorship?

So yeah, we disagree a bit.   ;)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on February 05, 2010, 08:31:48 PM
From things I've seen in the comic-verse, Bruce Banner and The Hulk have become one with each other and the whole Dr. J/Mr. H aspect is long gone.

Although I do remember the hulk best when he was struggling with himself and the beast, but I also remember that the brain conquered the beast and could communicate through him and even control him up to a certain extent.

The movie was mostly gladitorial and I did wonder why The Hulk was holding a sword, but the beating that are delivered later on put The Hulk using what he uses best. His fist and hands. That is what I was watching for.

It wasn't the best movie ever, but it a definite step up from some much older Marvel Animation and better story telling than some of the stuff that was happening over at DC.
Hulk vs Wolverine is still by far the best of their current offerings.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on February 05, 2010, 08:40:26 PM
Yup. Bruce can basically morph into and out of Hulk form whenver he wants now. Over the years, his strength has grown by leaps and bounds. He was exiled from Earth because of this--he had such immense destructive power that he was causing geologic events or something. So he's got Banner's smarts and Hulk's strength. I think the conflict now is that he's got multiple personalities or something, one of which wants to take over the world...? Does that sound right?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on February 05, 2010, 08:49:00 PM
That sounds like right where the movie picks up, but I wouldn't know.
All I do know is that Hulk never transforms back into Bruce banner at any point in this movie. Is he permaHulk now?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on February 05, 2010, 09:04:12 PM
Yup. Bruce can basically morph into and out of Hulk form whenver he wants now. Over the years, his strength has grown by leaps and bounds. He was exiled from Earth because of this--he had such immense destructive power that he was causing geologic events or something. So he's got Banner's smarts and Hulk's strength. I think the conflict now is that he's got multiple personalities or something, one of which wants to take over the world...? Does that sound right?

Alright, let me get this straight: Marvel created a movie based strongly in comic continuity in a time when comic readership isn't particularly good, including a major character deviation that the vast majority of interested viewers will not understand because most people don't read comics and none of the other Marvel Direct-to-DVD specials set it up.  Brilliant!  ::)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: bustin98 on February 05, 2010, 09:34:25 PM
Ok, first of all: almost all of the DC direct to dvd animation films have been excellent. The worse one was Superman Doomsday. I have yet to see this Hulk movie, but I'd think calling this Gladiator rip-off better than 'some' of those movies seems a bit blind-sided.

I was seriously rooting for this movie to be good. But the reviews are causing me to think that I should have known better. I have haved on to waiting for the Halo Legends effort. The Justice League movie at the end of the month has me salvating.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on February 05, 2010, 09:59:06 PM
Well "some" of the DC things I've seen weren't all that good, but I was never into the DC Universe, so I might be a little biased. I was always a Marvel fan but enjoyed lots of the JL/U cartoons that came on, B:TAS and even some of the new Batman cartoon.

There are also some bad Marvel Animations out there too, and if you throw in the "Stan Lee" collection, some turns into too many.

As far as Hulk Planet goes, they narrate whats going on at the very beginning  of the movie. I don't think you need any real back story if you just know that Bruce IS the Hulk.
Although you might be a little turned off by the fact that Bruce is not in this movie at all.

Bottom line is that it wasn't a great movie, but it was pretty good and enjoyable. It made sense, and the animation wasn't half bad. Lots of action, violence and gore and you can really do a body count during the movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on February 05, 2010, 10:06:53 PM
Something I really appreciate about the DC Direct-to-DVD movies (and the DC AU for that matter) is that while they give a lot of fanservice to longtime fans of the comics, they also do a really good job of making their stories approachable to people who don't read the comics.  Not all the movies are hits (Superman Doomsday bored me, and I still haven't cared enough to check out Green Lantern), but I always know when I pop in one of those movies that even though my only DC experience has come with the DC AU and the various Live Action movies I can enjoy them.

IMO, the only good movie to come out of Marvel's D2DVD stable so far is Dr. Strange, though I'm watching Hulk Vs. right now and I'm quite enjoying it (I just finished Hulk vs. Wolverine).  Iron Man was a step in the right direction, but was ultimately too generic in places to really enjoy and we've since seen much better Iron Man stuff since.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on February 05, 2010, 10:13:10 PM
Is Dr. Strange good? I was gonna rent it, but it looked a bit on the dull side.
I guess I'll add it to the Netflix list.

Green Lantern: First Flight is ok, but the only thing I know of Green Lantern is from JLA/U
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on February 05, 2010, 10:24:41 PM
Is Dr. Strange good? I was gonna rent it, but it looked a bit on the dull side.
I guess I'll add it to the Netflix list.

Green Lantern: First Flight is ok, but the only thing I know of Green Lantern is from JLA/U

Dr. Strange is good, but it's a little rushed towards the end.  The first half, where Strange is learning to become Sorcerer Supreme, is well-paced and interesting (and very similar to how Batman Begins handled Bruce Wayne's training to become Batman), but the second half where all the fighting happens isn't quite so strong.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on February 06, 2010, 11:37:39 AM
Zombieland: Bill Murray! 3.5 out of 4 stars.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on February 07, 2010, 12:59:03 AM
Continuing my current binge of Marvel movies I've ignored over the years...

Hulk Vs. - 5/10 for Wolverine Vs. and 9/10 for Thor Vs., so an average of 7/10 for the set as a whole - As you might figure, I found Wolverine Vs. to be ok.  It had some decent fight sequences, but the film seemed only to exist to gush Wolverine fanservice.  That's all well and good, but that fanservice got in the way of what could have been a very entertaining Wolverine/Hulk fight.  This episode film also marks the animated debut of the legendary Deadpool (played by Nolan North, the voice of everything these days)...and he doesn't come off as all that memorable.  The film also ends extremely abruptly.  Thor Vs. is very well-done, though.  I don't know Thor very well, but I felt the film did an excellent job introducing the characters and world of the Thor universe and made it interesting.  There were both good character moments and excellent fight scenes.  Good animation all around in both films as well.

The Fantastic Four (live action) - 6/10 - Eeesh....well, in all fairness I had a decent enough time with this film, more than I expected given my best friend warned me that this movie was crap.  My big problem with the movie is that it's just...adequate.  The acting is pretty unremarkable in general (with Reed, Doom, and Sue Storm coming off particularly poorly), the quality of the special effects are all over the map (The Thing really should have been CG, because his rubber suit just looks silly), the costumes just come off silly (especially Doom's), and the story is just...unremarkable.  The Human Torch looked pretty cool, though.  These people were granted extraordinary powers, and the movie never takes the shackles off them and just lets the creativity fly in ways you can only do in a movie.  I'm going to check out the sequel, but I don't have high hopes for it.  So far, that 2006 animated series is looking like the definitive version of this franchise, which is kind of sad considering it has Paul Doooooooooom Dobson.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on February 07, 2010, 08:59:54 AM
The Cottage - WTF? I got confused 30 minutes in then got bored. 4/10.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on February 07, 2010, 03:54:16 PM
guy with pen - has a real big set

fixed. that was hilarious.

Edge of Darkness: original rating (after leaving the theatre) 10/10
After giving it some thought: 8/10

Much slower paced than the trailers make it seem, and not as much action either but thats okay because I knew that going in. This a pretty good conspiracy flick that actually had me tense at times wondering what was going to happen next. Some of the cons are minor issues, like being not being able to understand an englishman in the film who seemed pretty damn important to the overall story, as well as some muffled dialogue leaving me feeling as if I missed something important. The ending was a bit cheesey, but this was overall a good movie and I'd love to watch it again some time.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on February 07, 2010, 05:09:33 PM
Have you seen the original series that the movie is based on?

Edge of Darkness (1986)
6 episode mini series or something.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on February 07, 2010, 06:17:58 PM
Have you seen the original series that the movie is based on?

Edge of Darkness (1986)
6 episode mini series or something.

Hm.. i did not, but i know for a fact that was a very good year. It led to the sexual act that created yours truley ;)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on February 07, 2010, 11:34:24 PM
Fantastic Four 2: Rise of the Silver Surfer - 7/10 - I was actually kind of surprised how much more I liked this movie over the first.  Character relationships seem to be better handled, the characters better acted (with the exception of Doom and Sue Storm, who are actually far worse this time around), the special effects are better (with the exception of the Silver Surfer once he's off his surfboard), and the story's marginally better.  My major complaint this time around is that Doom is even in this movie.  He doesn't belong there, he distracts from the main story, and he eats valuable time that could have been given to the Surfer and Galactus.  On the subject of Galactus, it's been a long time since I've seen the 90s Silver Surfer animated series but despite all the ****ing about Galactus being turned into a giant cloud in this movie I'm actually pretty ok with it.  The movie depicts him as a force of nature, quite fitting for one who brings about the End of the World.  Sometimes what you don't see is leagues better than what you do.  I mean, c'mon, did you really want to see a giant purple man with a silly helmet stomping around the world?

I'm nearly done catching up on Marvel movies I've skipped over the years.  The only one I've missed now is the Director's Cut of Daredevil (which from all accounts is the only version of that movie anyone should watch, and I'm going to pretend that Electra movie doesn't even exist so I don't have to watch it), which is proving difficult to find.  Oh yeah, and there are those Punisher and Blade movies I don't care enough to see.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on February 08, 2010, 12:28:32 AM
Blade 1 was good, 2 was all right, and 3 was watchable.

I liked the 1st Punisher(2004) (unless you mean the one starring Dolph Lundgren(1989)). It was entertaining, and I don't see why Marvel didn't just pick up where that one left off.

I never finished the reboot(2008), but my girl really liked it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on February 08, 2010, 01:07:47 AM
Punisher War Zone is actually pretty good. It's a little over-the-top, but for the most part, it's pretty true to the comics, at least style-wise. There is one scene that completely rapes the comic book series, and really has no place in the movie, if you watch it, you'll figure it out.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on February 08, 2010, 02:46:59 AM
Punisher 89' 7.8 /10 Cheezy but 80s goodness

Punisher 04' 8.4/10 Pretty decent when i watched it, but id have to watch it again because now after Mist Thomas Jane gets extra points just for being there.

Punisher Warzone 6/10 This movie was very low budget, and some Jigsaw scene were ripped right out of Batman 89' "give me the mirror!", Speaking of Jigsaw, this movie had a Lionsgate vibe, and not in a good way...but sort of yes a good way, because some of the kills in the movie were awesome, but Punisher went too Cowboy Boondocks saints a couple of times..lame
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: HamptonEdwards on February 09, 2010, 12:42:39 AM
Well I have seen avatar..9.5/10
Really an awesome movie..And one awesome thing related avatar is that..
'Avatar' replacing 'Titanic' in record books
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on February 10, 2010, 03:09:02 AM
which counts for nothing since their both James Cameron movies, i still haven't seen Titanic, after like 13 years, i wanna see what all the fuss is about.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on February 10, 2010, 04:32:06 AM
I still think that Dark Knight should have gotten the honors of dethroning Titanic.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Dasmos on February 10, 2010, 10:09:53 AM
I still think that Dark Knight should have gotten the honors of dethroning Titanic.

I think it should have been a good movie. Maybe something like Lord of the Rings, but I guess that ship has sailed.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on February 10, 2010, 02:17:26 PM
which counts for nothing since their both James Cameron movies, i still haven't seen Titanic, after like 13 years, i wanna see what all the fuss is about.

I haven't seen it either. I use to hate LeoDeCap, but recently he's been turning into one of my favorite actors.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on February 10, 2010, 10:17:07 PM
which counts for nothing since their both James Cameron movies, i still haven't seen Titanic, after like 13 years, i wanna see what all the fuss is about.

Neither have I and I still don't care what the fuss was about. Once in.. 7th grade? our spanish teacher wanted to show us a dubbed version of the film, which I slept thru for 2 of the 3 days it took to watch it. The one day I wasn't in class was the day they showed boobs, appearantly.

which counts for nothing since their both James Cameron movies, i still haven't seen Titanic, after like 13 years, i wanna see what all the fuss is about.

I haven't seen it either. I use to hate LeoDeCap, but recently he's been turning into one of my favorite actors.

Similar feelings, but I wouldn't say he's becoming a favorite actor. I'd say I'm able to tolerate the fact that he's in a movie now, and its because his Titanic fame has subsided. I'm actually curious about Shutter Island, and if I end up seeing it it'll be the first DeCaprio starring movie I'll have ever seen. Only other movie I can remember seeing with him in it is Whats Eating Gilbert Grape, but I barely paid attention to that one because Depp was in it. Thats another story for another day.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on February 11, 2010, 02:34:44 AM
then you need to watch Catch me if you Can, The Departed, Blood Diamond, The Aviator, Gangs of New York, and the Beach.

I wasn't a fan till I watched Catch me if you Can - he plays a con-artist and a womanizer

Then he did Aviator, which was pretty decent, you won't like it unless you like Bio-pics, this is where he goes under Martin Scorsese's wing

Gangs of New York was pretty good, but DiCaprio isn't the draw, its Daniel Day Lewis. Another Scorsese flick

The Departed is a fuckin Phoenomenal movie, Again Scorcese

Blood Diamond was pretty good

Watch the Beach, its a Danny Boyle film.

and my bet who the next Batman villain (if Nolan continues)is going to be or replacement of a deceased Batman actors then I would pick DiCaprio, because after seeing the Departed he has the skills, plus he's working with Nolan on Inception.

Sure he had his hearththrob teen magazine days back in 97, but those days are long gone, he's been a character actor for a while, and I don't think i've seen a movie he's in recently that has him with his actual accent. If i could pick any actor he reminds me of its Christopher Walken, i don't know what happened during Catch me if you Can, but the dude rubbed off on him. He totally is the younger version, albeit he is getting better roles younger.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on February 11, 2010, 04:31:14 AM
There was that one movie DeCaprio was in recently where he was a betrayed secret agent seeking revenge or something. That looked interesting. Do you know what film that was?

I don't know if he would be a good Batman villain, but I've not seen any of his newer films so I've not seen how he has progressed as an actor.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on February 11, 2010, 01:45:42 PM
Body of Lies?

Wiggles, you should definitely watch the Beach. I took a date to go see it a long ass time ago (junior high?) and I hated it, but I've watched it recently and realized it's a pretty damn good movie. The sense of adventure is very well done.

But if you haven't seen the Departed, watch that movie now!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on February 11, 2010, 02:51:29 PM
Thanks for the recommendations guys. Funny thing is out of all those movies, I've never heard of the Beach at all! I remember wanting to see the Departed but never got around to it and ever since have only ever heard how amazing it is. I'll definately check that one out some day.

FUN FACT: Parts of Catch Me If You Can were filmed in my hometown of Yonkers, NY and only a few blocks from my home. In High School, at the time,  a classmate claimed that DiCaprio came into his fathers bodega to buy a pack of smokes.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on February 11, 2010, 03:02:27 PM
Yonkers is where the US Army had its first failed assault against the zombie apocolypse, according to "World War Z."
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on February 11, 2010, 03:12:06 PM
Yonkers is where the US Army had its first failed assault against the zombie apocolypse, according to "World War Z."

NICE! sort of... lol
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: GearBoxClock on February 11, 2010, 03:19:14 PM
Total Recall- 8.5/10
Predator- 8/10

I now know why AHNOLD was so popular for so long.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on February 11, 2010, 11:20:14 PM
Hells Yeah, Schwarzenegger in Predator is amazing. He had a good run of awesome movies if you don't count the comedies he did between those good movies. I need to grab The Running Man since I haven't seen it. Total Recall, Predator, Terminator 1 & 2, Commando are just man films.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on February 11, 2010, 11:24:02 PM
Was Eraser any good? (I think thats what it was called..) I'm sure my stepfather has it somewhere in his dvd collection, maybe I can dig it up for the weekend. I know it was one of his later films, which came after so many bad ones like Kindergarten Cop, that i stopped caring.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: King of Twitch on February 11, 2010, 11:30:29 PM
If you stopped there, then you've missed out on Jingle All the Way!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on February 11, 2010, 11:55:40 PM
Eraser's not bad, but it's kind of standard blowy-upy fare.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on February 12, 2010, 12:06:46 AM
Jingle all the Way is pretty entertaining
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on February 12, 2010, 12:11:15 AM
Where would you guys put The Last Action Hero?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on February 12, 2010, 12:20:22 AM
Even the worse of Arnold's films have something redeeming about them. Even Junior just for being a step up from mind blowing Japanese commercial weird.

That being said, Batman and Robin isn't an Arnold film, that's just terrible.

Last Action Hero improves slightly after viewing it a second time once your get your head around what it is trying to achieve. Then become disappointed to the lost potential of what it could have become.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on February 13, 2010, 01:33:45 AM
If you stopped there, then you've missed out on Jingle All the Way!

Actually I was stuck watching that once at a younger cousins house one holiday. It was sweet that he dressed up as his sons favorite super hero (somehow) but the movie was still meh.

I don't think i want to rewatch Last Action Hero.. but maybe i'll understand it this time. I'd actually much rather watch the AC/DC video with Aaaaahnold in it.

anyway:

The Wolfman (2010) 7/10 (give or take)

Never did see the original, but have seen images of the wolfman enough to know that they stayed truthfull to its appearance in this film which i had mixed feelings about. The film had some nice surprising, but sometimes cheesey, first wolf enounter moments that were entertaining. After that there are some cool psychological elements with Del Toro's character that I wish were explored more. Anthony Hopkins was bad-ass in it, and what he does at the end is worh price of admission alone.

The ending was kinda stupid.. why would they of let this happen!? you'll know what i mean when you see it but i guess it leaves room for a direct sequel.

Oh and Agent Smith is in it! This is the first thing I've seen him in since The Matrix movies.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on February 13, 2010, 03:02:28 AM
Oh and Agent Smith is in it! This is the first thing I've seen him in since The Matrix movies.

Agent Smith was Elrond the in the Lord of the Rings movies. I couldn't adjust to him being elrond until the third movie came out because I kept expecting Neo to crash the party or something.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on February 13, 2010, 09:35:57 AM
There isn't too much to understand about Last Action Hero other than it being a weak parody of 80's action films (PG-13ed into mildness). However it would have much better movie had they make it more of a dark comedy about an 80's action hero while parodying it.

The scene that really plays to this is when Arnold and the kid reach the safe house. The first thing Arnold does is shoot the wardrobe a couple of times, resulting in a dead ninja falling out. The kid asks how did he know he was there, with which Arnold replies "There is always a guy in there, and it's costing me a fortune in closet doors".

From our perspective it seems like that being an 80's action hero would be kick ass. However it could be the farthest thing from the truth. It's a complete hell. Attacked day and night. I pain a lot of the time from flesh wounds. Getting chewed out by the chief day in, day out since everything you shoot at explodes. Bystanders hurt and killed all around. Being immortal through implausible luck to the point even suicide isn't possible. The conclusion is that he either gets true free will or he drives off into the sunset to a non-existent sequel.

But the movie does give us this balls out awesome scene of Arnold in Hamlet. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z9Ismh1elM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z9Ismh1elM)


Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Shorty McNostril on February 15, 2010, 04:45:59 AM
Oh and Agent Smith is in it! This is the first thing I've seen him in since The Matrix movies.

Agent Smith was Elrond the in the Lord of the Rings movies. I couldn't adjust to him being elrond until the third movie came out because I kept expecting Neo to crash the party or something.

Hugo Weaving has been in a few things since then.  He was in V for Vendetta and he is the voice of Megatron in the 2 transformers movies.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on February 15, 2010, 04:47:15 AM
Oh and Agent Smith is in it! This is the first thing I've seen him in since The Matrix movies.

Agent Smith was Elrond the in the Lord of the Rings movies. I couldn't adjust to him being elrond until the third movie came out because I kept expecting Neo to crash the party or something.

Hugo Weaving has been in a few things since then.  He was in V for Vendetta and he is the voice of Megatron in the 2 transformers movies.

Wait, what did he play in V? I don't recall him. Totally awesome he was in Transformers.

*A GOOGLE SEARCH LATER*
OGM! He was V?!?

How did I not know this even though I adore that movie?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Dasmos on February 15, 2010, 11:06:58 AM
It was ridiculous that in V for Vendetta they never made V take off his mask (I don't care if this somehow contradicts the graphic novel or whatever). Hugo Weaving could have just been a voice over for all we know.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on February 15, 2010, 11:57:56 AM
Last Action Hero has something very appealing about it. I've watched it several times.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on February 15, 2010, 06:21:03 PM
Well, it looks like I've let all this Ah-nold discussion go on long enough before posting some necessary links courtesy of the Nostalgia Critic's recent "Arnold month":

Batman & Robin (http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/234-batman-and-robin)
Jingle All the Way (http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/3353-jingle-all-the-way)
Last Action Hero (http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/9999-lah)
Commando (http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/15593-arnold01)
Junior (http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/15937-junior)
Conan the Barbarian (http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/16231-conan-01)
Conan the Destroyer (http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/16300-conan-part-02)
End of Days (http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/16502-end-of-days)

And remember...Put that Cookier Down Now! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyZ6WTDxv8s)  ;)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: bustin98 on February 17, 2010, 12:07:45 AM
Caveman - 6 out of 10. Ringo Star, Shelly Long, Denis Quaid, among others. Silly little movie with stop motion dinosaurs. The story is quick to the point and in doing so leaves out a reason to care about these people. But the sight gags and tom foolery incite some laughs for the little kid looking for a way out.

Planet Hulk - 5 out of 10. The opening sequence was lame. What was the point? To show that the Hulk was arriving to fullfil a prophecy? Oh, what a coincidence. And the dude just happened to be drawing a radioactive symbol. Whatever. It would have been better to replace Beta Ray's apperance with the Hulk's, make the rock creatures come across Hulk on Earth and he follow them through the portal. Because Beta Ray was completely useless. I did find the action entertaining. I also enjoyed the episode of Xmen that can be found elsewhere on the disk.

3:10 To Yuma - 8 out of 10. Christian Bale and Russel Crowe. I don't have the original to compare to, but as a little western flick, I enjoyed it. The chemistry between the characters was there. The little plot twists are there. I didn't have anything to complain about while watching and even shed a tear at the ending. Its not perfect because the story drags at points and it can be rather cliche. I didn't mind, but some things didn't need to be there, kinda like the writers wanted to remind the audience they are indeed watching a western. But who knows, maybe the original helped create those cliche moments.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on February 18, 2010, 12:14:28 AM
I love Caveman. It's so campy. The T.rex looks like a frog.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on February 21, 2010, 12:22:34 AM
yeah its hard for me to rate Caveman since its always entertaining

Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever 8/10 this movie sat on the shelf for a long time with no release, i was told it was going to be abysmal compared to the first movie, which was a B movie, but in a cult classic sort of way. As much as i liked the first movie, i was sort of dreading how bad this could be. However, this one ended up being pretty entertaining, and I would probably watch it again.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on February 21, 2010, 12:58:58 AM
Surrogates Bruce Willis is always watchable. Interesting premise, wish it was explored a bit more. Felt somewhat dumbed down. 2 point 5 stars
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: vudu on February 28, 2010, 04:30:23 PM
Twin Peaks:  Fire Walk With Me

1 star

What a shitty movie.  Doesn't answer any questions left open after the demise of the television show.  Worse, it isn't even interesting.  Complete fan service and yet somehow manages to be a complete waste of time.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on February 28, 2010, 07:18:17 PM
Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths - 8/10 - Quite possibly the best of the DC Animated movies so far and it's quite fun, but it's ultimately forgettable and the Justice League TV series did this story better (and, amusingly, this movie is quite blatantly based on an unused script for a Justice League TV movie that takes place between Justice League and Unlimited).

The Princess and the Frog - 6/10 - Well, it's nice to see Disney doing traditional cel-style animation again.  Pity they couldn't have chosen a better script for their first project, because this movie's story is cringe-inducing.  Getting the good stuff out of the way first, I really enjoyed Keith David's Shadow Man.  He steals every scene he's in (along with the movie's budget, seemingly), has one of the two good songs in the movie, feels very original for a Disney villain (he's a schemer who manipulates his enemies rather than outright fighting them), and he's fracking Keith David!  The animation's also very good and occasionally spectacular (usually during the 2 aforementioned "good songs").

Unfortunately, this movie has a mediocre story with forgettable (and racially-insulting...seriously, Disney will release this movie, but not Song of the South?) characters; horrible music (aside from "Friends on the Other Side" and "Dig a Little Deeper"); is full of Big Lipped Alligator Moments (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJRBPlnBg24); and the Shadow Man (despite being an awesome villain) is barely in the movie.  Also, by the end of the movie I have to ask just what the message of this movie is?  For most of the movie, the message seems to be "you can accomplish whatever your heart desires, but you have to be willing to work your ass off for it to come true".  By the end of the movie, though, all the characters' problems are literally solved by marriage.  It's the Cookie-cutter Disney Princess ending.  Meh.  Decent movie, but falls far short of its potential.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on February 28, 2010, 10:16:36 PM
I saw both recently and I'd agree with both of those reviews, especially The Princess and The Frog.

Very concise, Broodwars.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on February 28, 2010, 10:21:14 PM
If I might ask, where did you watch JL: Co2E since it comes out on DVD 3/23?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on February 28, 2010, 10:26:00 PM
If I might ask, where did you watch JL: Co2E since it comes out on DVD 3/23?

*cough* Let's just say I have certain sources where these movies pop up, which is rather handy when you're forced to live off unemployment (till tomorrow!  Yay!).  Wow, that movie did get leaked early.  Princess and the Frog as well.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Caliban on February 28, 2010, 10:55:16 PM
District 9  9.5/10 It's a fucking awesome movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Caliban on March 01, 2010, 06:13:19 PM
Inglourious Basterds

8/10

Well it seems there isn't one single Tarantino movie that I like a lot. It's just my taste in movies though.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: bustin98 on March 02, 2010, 11:14:40 PM
If I might ask, where did you watch JL: Co2E since it comes out on DVD 3/23?

Umm, that release date is 2/23...

And I agree that Crisis on Two Earths is ultimately forgetable. I had such high hopes after seeing the previews. Its more like the Justice League Vs Superwoman. Ulitmate Man was such a wuss. The included episodes are more entertaining, especially The Spectre 'toon. Thats worth the price of admission alone.

And they admit the script was based on the bridge between Justice League and Unlimited, so nothing really amusing about it.

There is a preview for Batman Under the Red Hood, mostly talk and rough sketches and talk of the death of Jason Todd.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 02, 2010, 11:56:28 PM
If I might ask, where did you watch JL: Co2E since it comes out on DVD 3/23?

Umm, that release date is 2/23...
Not according to Netflix....
(http://i50.tinypic.com/2rmmu78.jpg)

but honestly that wouldn't be the first time that something came out 1 month late on Netflix that showed up sooner on Blockbuster.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on March 03, 2010, 12:01:15 AM
Yeah, I'm sure that is just the date it is available on Netflix and not it's national release date.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 03, 2010, 12:26:50 AM
Year One - Who the **** decided to release this piece of garbage.

I will admit that I didn't make it that far into this movie, but all the opening jokes ere not even humorous in the slightest. I fell asleep somewhere around the 20-25 minute mark since the movie just couldn't hold my interest. But my girl suffered through the entire thing an said she didn't even crack a smile. She is the easy to make laugh type and it's kinda sad if a comedy can't even make her smile. I can see why this was a straight to instant watch release for Netflix, probably not worth buying too many disc for.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 04, 2010, 04:02:03 AM
Where The Wild Things Are.

I haven't seen it yet, but I just noticed that it is out on DVD/BRD since yesterday but it's not available on Blockbuster.com or Netflix.com (I have access to both).

I remember a while back that Major Movie Studios where trying to make a move towards delayed rental copies of movies to spur movie sales. This is the 3rd movie that I've noticed has been delayed for release on Netflix and the 1st that I've noticed for Blockbuster. The movie listed above comes out on 3/30 on Netflix and BB doesn't actually list a date.

Does anyone know anything about this?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: bustin98 on March 04, 2010, 10:14:24 AM
This happened with Hancock, at least on Netflix. I went all over town to rent the movie the Friday after release and it was all out. So I hopped on Netflix to see if I could stream it, and it wasn't even available to be sent out.

I bet Vudu has some answers.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 04, 2010, 01:20:59 PM
Well Redbox was the only one mentioned by name in the story I had seen, so I would hope vudu has some answers.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: vudu on March 04, 2010, 01:34:51 PM
Movie studios are delaying rental releases on a lot of major movies by up to a month (sometimes more) for Redbox, Netflix and Blockbuster.com (not sure if it affects Blockbuster stores).  It's for all the reasons you'd expect--movie studios don't like that people are choosing to rent brand new releases for ~ $1 instead of buying them for ~$20 - $30.  It's just going to start happening more and more frequently so get used to it.

But hey, it beats the alternative.  For a while some studios were talking about pulling support from Redbox completely (and it would only be a matter of time until Netflix and Blockbuster.com followed).  This seems like a decent-enough compromise.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 04, 2010, 01:47:20 PM
I can wait, so no big deal for me.
If I was in no rush to go see it in the theater, and I had enough patience to just add it to my saved queue and wait for a DVD release.... then getting it a week to 1 month after it as released in stores isn't really gonna bother me if that's the way it has to be.

I will have to check on the availability at BB for Where the Wild Things are and let everyone know. I have a mail in movie to return there and I can exchange it for a new release in store, so I can check and see if delayed mail(/redbox) rentals are also delayed in-store too.

I do know that my sister picked up The Box from Hollywood Video a week ago and it doesn't release till 3/23 on Netflix, so that also says something.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: vudu on March 04, 2010, 02:06:15 PM
I do know that my sister picked up The Box from Hollywood Video a week ago and it doesn't release till 3/23 on Netflix, so that also says something.
That your sister has bad taste in movies?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 04, 2010, 02:14:42 PM
We watch all the major New Releases.

And even bad movies can be fun to watch.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 04, 2010, 02:59:24 PM
And since we happen to be talking about Blockbuster, it looks like they brought back late fees.

http://finance.yahoo.com/career-work/article/108961/blockbuster-bringing-back-late-fees?mod=career-leadership (http://finance.yahoo.com/career-work/article/108961/blockbuster-bringing-back-late-fees?mod=career-leadership)
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Here's how the new late-fee structure breaks down:

• Starting this week, customers will be charged $5 for a five-day movie rental. Previously, customers were allowed to keep each rental for seven days.

• If the customer returns the movie late, they'll be charged $1 per day until it's returned, up to a maximum of 10 days.

• If the customer still hasn't returned the movie by the 15th day, they'll be charged the full price of the DVD, which could range from $29.99 on the high end for newly released Blu-ray discs, to just a few bucks on the low end for a DVD on the clearance rack.

• If the movie is returned within 30 days, the customer will receive a store credit equal to the price of the movie they were charged for, minus $10 in late fees. So if the customer was charged $19.99 for a replacement DVD, they'll have $9.99 credited to their Blockbuster account.


I hope that doesn't apply to BB online customers when trading in mail-ins for in-store copies.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on March 04, 2010, 06:19:33 PM
Hollywood Video had the best store-only based late fee scheme I thought. Keep movie for week and if you keep it longer than that you get charged for a second week. It was then only like you checked it out twice. Though now with Netflix I don't think I'll ever be entering a rental store again except to browse used DVDs. If I really want it sooner than 24 hours by mail and/or can't get it streamed then it's probably a movie I would want to buy. Netflix FTW.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on March 04, 2010, 06:30:29 PM
Yeah, I'm not really sure how ANY brick-and-morter store can complete with Netflix at this point.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on March 04, 2010, 06:34:24 PM
Robocop - 6/10.

Good for its time, but i wish i had that limited unraded edition because the violence (which pretty much makes this movie) seems pretty damn tame. Oh and the effects on the ED-(Variable) are god awful but its kinda funny.. why would you make a law enforcement droid that sounds like a trex and can't walk up/down steps!? LOL

Makes me kinda curious of what they'll do if that supposed 2011 remake pans out...
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 04, 2010, 06:42:22 PM
Yeah, I'm not really sure how ANY brick-and-morter store can complete with Netflix at this point.
Getting the movie near retail release vs 1 month late for Netflix (as current events seems to be leading to)?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on March 04, 2010, 06:46:22 PM
That's what you call an oligopoly.

If netflix put the movie up on stream as soon as it came out, then it might shut down movie stores, but that 1 month delay is crucial because people still have to ask for it by mail or simply wait, thus eliminating spontaneous movie renting which is like a third of the market.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 04, 2010, 06:56:34 PM
If you're like me, you don't really keep up with retail release as I just go by what Netflix says the release date is*. I also have such a huge backlog of By Mail and Instant Watch that I almost wouldn't have noticed if I someone didn't post here about it and if I didn't have Netflix, my girl didn't have BB and my sister didn't constantly rent from Hollywood video.


*I put movies in my queue from Theater previews, DVD previews and Movie Trailers/Announcements. A lot of time goes by from the point i put them in queue and they are released on DVD.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on March 04, 2010, 07:14:26 PM
Robocop - 6/10.

Good for its time, but i wish i had that limited unraded edition because the violence (which pretty much makes this movie) seems pretty damn tame. Oh and the effects on the ED-(Variable) are god awful but its kinda funny.. why would you make a law enforcement droid that sounds like a trex and can't walk up/down steps!? LOL

Makes me kinda curious of what they'll do if that supposed 2011 remake pans out...

The ED 209 was never meant as a Law Enforcement droid. I was an "Urban Pacification Unit" (Walking Tank) that never worked as intended. In the Directors cut this becomes even more clear. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrXfh4hENKs (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrXfh4hENKs)

As much as Robocop is an action movie, it was also a statement to the corporate BS in America. It starts with the privatisation of the police department in Detroit and ends with OCP owning the city In Robocop 2. The underlying message still rings true today, even more strongly than before. It shows where full suto capitialism ends.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on March 04, 2010, 07:19:40 PM
Robocop 2 is awful. They just changed scripts halfway through. Also, ED 209 = consumer-grade Metal Gear REX.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on March 04, 2010, 07:20:51 PM
Robocop - 6/10.

Good for its time, but i wish i had that limited unraded edition because the violence (which pretty much makes this movie) seems pretty damn tame. Oh and the effects on the ED-(Variable) are god awful but its kinda funny.. why would you make a law enforcement droid that sounds like a trex and can't walk up/down steps!? LOL

Makes me kinda curious of what they'll do if that supposed 2011 remake pans out...

The ED 209 was never meant as a Law Enforcement droid. I was an "Urban Pacification Unit" (Walking Tank) that never worked as intended. In the Directors cut this becomes even more clear. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrXfh4hENKs (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrXfh4hENKs)

As much as Robocop is an action movie, it was also a statement to the corporate BS in America. It starts with the privatisation of the police department in Detroit and ends with OCP owning the city In Robocop 2. The underlying message still rings true today, even more strongly than before. It shows where full suto capitialism ends.

I noticed all that serious stuff too, and because gentrification seems to be happening in parts of my hometown it really resonates with me but.. i just wanted to watch a movie i remember being bad ass as a kid and it wasn't that great. In fact i started to get pissed when i felt for Murphy when he tried to visit his old home.
Robocop 2 is awful. They just changed scripts halfway through. Also, ED 209 = consumer-grade Metal Gear REX.

And Robocop 3 is even worse..
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: bustin98 on March 05, 2010, 01:04:23 AM
Ahhh, man. Robocop2 is my favorite of the series. Nothing like big robots duking it out. Plus: Frank Miller. Robocop 3 was terrible though. The original is great as far as a social commentary on not only the corruption of capitalism and greed, and where government stands in basic security functions, but at the time it was crossing a line with the amount of violence and gore that was acceptable without moving into territory beyond 'Rated R'.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on March 05, 2010, 05:14:14 AM
I so wanted to slap that punk kid in Robocop 2.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on March 05, 2010, 07:47:14 AM
I want to both slap and respect that kid just for having the balls restart the drugs business by paying off the city. No doubt he was an absolute asswipe that needed to get his ass kicked. He should have stuck to selling lemonade and garrotting cops.

1 and 2 is fantastic, but I like to pretend that 3 doesn't exist. Classic lines like "Bitches leave" and "Behave yourselves". The 6000SUX. The "Robocop 2 experiments".

It's a shame they missed the mark so badly with Robocop the series. Woefully insufficient amount of violence (Pretty much none), poor stories and general mediocrity just didn't work out. Hints of a love interest between Robo and the city computer? That would have been amusing assuming they were ever going anywhere with it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 05, 2010, 07:39:06 PM
2012 - Now that was a Summer Blockbuster

Bigger than life special effects and a world wide crisis adventure.
There were of course some parts that were just kinda stupid, but you have to overlook somethings sometimes and just enjoy the overall movie for what it is.
the mom's boyfriend is a fukkin moron. "I can' fly" "I'm no pilot" "Stop telling everyone I'm a pilot" .... :@ we are gonna die if you don't figure it out, it's understandable to be a little hesitant the first time, but when the russian guy said he needed a co-pilot in Vegas, he should have jumped on that and played along, this is no time to be honest. would you rather stay here and die? fukkin idiot.
But once you get past the first flying part that they show over and over again in the previews, then it's not so bad.

This movie makes me wonder though if we are really that prepared for something as cataclysmic as this when/if it happens. And why does there always have to be a black president when there is an Earth ending event about to take place?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on March 05, 2010, 11:52:53 PM
Because that's the last sign of the apocalypse.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on March 06, 2010, 12:16:24 AM
ID$ had Bill Pullman, but we kicked some alien ass. I was watching Chelsea lately and she said to be original you have to have the president be a Gay Chinese guy.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Archangel Michael on March 06, 2010, 03:57:35 AM
The last movie I've seen? It's "Avatar." I went to see it not because everyone was talking about it. The reason I went was because it was directed by James Cameron. I've been his fan since I was young.. the day I saw Terminator 2. Many of his movies are awesome... I would rate 10/10 for Avatar though the story does not seem original. Oscar Awards going to happen soon and it's having plenty of nominations. :)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on March 06, 2010, 04:57:35 AM
ID$ had Bill Pullman, but we kicked some alien ass. I was watching Chelsea lately and she said to be original you have to have the president be a Gay Chinese guy.

It also feels like any time the president is portrayed as female they have to give off a Hillary Clinton vibe. Though the President of the United States in Space Station Silicone Valley was a female with a serious mustache growing.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on March 06, 2010, 05:56:15 AM
...And why does there always have to be a black president when there is an Earth ending event about to take place?

Because that's the last sign of the apocalypse.

If Morgan Freeman as President was the first sign of the apocalypse, I hope I'm alive to see it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on March 07, 2010, 07:26:47 PM
he's already played two presidents, its someone elses turn!

Saw Shutter Island the other night; it was good although i saw the ending coming right away. There's something about the ending that doesnt sit right with me, and I'd like to discuss it with anyone who has seen the movie, so please PM me.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on March 07, 2010, 07:48:51 PM
I'm hoping to go see it soon with my GF so I'll hit up up with a PM as soon as that happens. I might just end up going with another friend because she found out it is a 'scary movie' and is disinclined to go now. :P
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: kraken613 on March 07, 2010, 07:55:48 PM
(500) Days of Summer - Was in my Netflix queue and I heard it was good so I bumped it up to 1 and invited a friend over to watch it with. I had heard it was good but it was really good. It wasn't just the same old plot points in every movie like this and felt really fresh.

9/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on March 07, 2010, 08:02:04 PM
I'm hoping to go see it soon with my GF so I'll hit up up with a PM as soon as that happens. I might just end up going with another friend because she found out it is a 'scary movie' and is disinclined to go now. :P

Shutter Island is hardly scary. Sure there are some parts that may make you jump, but the majority of it plays out more like a thriller.

I'd give it a 8/10. Not Scorsese best, but it's better than most thrillers I've seen.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on March 07, 2010, 08:24:51 PM
I'm hoping to go see it soon with my GF so I'll hit up up with a PM as soon as that happens. I might just end up going with another friend because she found out it is a 'scary movie' and is disinclined to go now. :P

Shutter Island is hardly scary. Sure there are some parts that may make you jump, but the majority of it plays out more like a thriller.

I'd give it a 8/10. Not Scorsese best, but it's better than most thrillers I've seen.

I forgot to score it, but 8/10 sounds about right.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on March 08, 2010, 01:21:40 AM
Mr. Brooks

This was the third time I've seen it and its just as good as when I first saw it. Excellent plot, excellent development, and a damn good lead performance. Watch it now if you've never seen it.

10/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: bilalamjad3 on March 08, 2010, 04:02:20 AM
terminator 10/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Dasmos on March 08, 2010, 09:35:46 AM
lol Terminator 1? Are you crazy, that's like the most boring movie of all-time.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on March 09, 2010, 02:17:42 PM
lol Terminator 1? Are you crazy, that's like the most boring movie of all-time.

Yeah, I'm not going to go that far, but Terminator 2 blows that movie out of the water so hard and so easily that I can't possibly go higher than an 8/10 for the first movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on March 09, 2010, 05:25:36 PM
2012 was a pretty fun watch, it reminded me of transformers 2, but it didn't absolutely suck because the characters were more fleshed out
I pull out alphabetical grades for this one. I give it a B
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Caliban on March 10, 2010, 01:46:42 AM
Black Dynamite

8.5/10

Why the .5? Because they left out the scene with the kid that was going to be President... well they did have the scene in the deleted scenes extras, but it's just not the same.

Otherwise, I really liked this movie. It came out quite good for a satire.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BeautifulShy on March 10, 2010, 08:00:38 AM
I have been on a Baseball movie kick lately.
I saw Major League and The Sandlot.

Major League I would give a 4 out of 5 because the second one is better. Funny and inspirational.

The Sandlot I would give a 5 out of 5. Excellent movie.

There was another Baseball Movie that I wanted to watch but I don't recall the name of it but I remember this.

There was a kid that had a super fast throw. The team was the Chicago Cubs that he was on. Daniel Stern was one of the actors. Anybody know what movie I am talking about?

Edit:Nevermind I found out. Rookie of the Year was the movie.

Edit 2: Just finished Angels in the Outfield(The Disney version not the black and white version)
Excellent Movie and enjoyable to watch.5 out of 5.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on March 11, 2010, 01:08:46 AM
Evangelion 1.11 - You are (Not) Alone - Alright, this is going to get wordy, but I have to get this out of the way: I have a pretty big love/hate relationship with the original Neon Genesis Evangelion TV series.  For everything I love about what it brought to anime (thought-provoking writing; extremely striking visual sequences; and a fearless embrace of flawed characters and the risque), I have things I equally despise that it brought to anime (soul-less, objectified women [read: Rei]; whiny, emo main characters; and a love for random and meaningless religious symbolism that would unfortunately get utterly embraced by video games).  I liked the original series enough to buy all the original DVDs and their remastered incarnations, but I've never thought it was the masterpiece that apparently 99.9% of anime fans think it is.  If you're unfamiliar with Evangelion somehow and want a video game equivalent, think Final Fantasy VII and its impact on the industry and you have a fair idea what I'm talking about.

That said, why did I buy right on the spot this Blu-Ray release of the first of 4 theatrical remakes of the Evangelion TV series?  Well, honestly it's because I'd read reviews of the second Evangelion movie (2.0 - You Can [Not] Advance), and I saw that these remakes seem determined to strip everything I don't like about the series right out.  Having just finished my viewing of the movie, I can say that the creators fell into a very unfortunate trap: most of this movie was made for the die-hard Evangelion fans who would have a fit if this weren't a shot-for-shot remake of the original series.  The first 1 hr. 10 minutes of this movie is pretty much exactly (including the goofy **** like Shinji accidentally groping naked Rei) what you've already seen in the first 6 episodes of the TV series.  It's reanimated to current animation standards and the new English dub tends to say things a little differently, but for the most part there's nothing new here.

Then something amazing happens in those last 30-40 minutes: the creators threw everything but the basic plot out the window and start diverging.  Plot elements that don't show up till nearly the end of the series get brought full center, interesting foreshadowing starts getting dropped, and the movie goes from moderately entertaining to outright amazing.  The pinnacle of this achievement is what they've done with Angel #6: what was a wierd and lame diamond-shaped Angel in the original series has become a CG incarnation made of pure awesome, constantly shape-shifting and contorting itself as it blasts the **** out of anything it sees.  The attack on the Angel is significantly different now, with an emphasis on Shinji standing up and being a ****ing man, which if you know anything about the original series is a dramatic improvement.  This entire sequence is visually stunning and a strong reminder of days gone by when I was much less cynical about anime than I am now.

As for the Blu-Ray itself, it is flawless from a visual standpoint, and the new dub is a big improvement over the old one (and a strong reminder just how far we've come in anime voice acting in 15 years).  Sure, most of the old actors have been replaced but the performances are largely (with the exception of Gendo Ikari, whose replacement is nowhere near as good) much better with much more subtle delivery.  I'm definitely waiting with great anticipation for the second Evangelion movie as it enters the Licensing Hell that its Japanese creators have deemed it deserves.

Rating:

1st Hour: 5/10
Finale: 10/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Caliban on March 11, 2010, 10:12:41 AM
I'm surprised people are buying these Evangelion remakes. It's just the same thing over and over, with a few little changes to please the whining fans. Anyway...


I watched Up. It was great. 8.5/10 in my opinion, and I didn't even mind the talking dogs.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Caliban on March 12, 2010, 01:27:14 AM
The Big Boss (AKA Fists of Fury) 6/10

This movie is from 1971. Bruce Lee's in it. This movie's so bad it's fucking hilarious. The fight scenes are really poor. The last fight was ok, but nothing special.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Caliban on March 12, 2010, 05:19:50 PM
Fist of Fury (AKA The Chinese Connection) 7/10

I liked this movie a lot more than The Big Boss. There was more of Bruce Lee fighting in this movie than in The Big Boss which was quite pleasing to see, but the nunchaku moments were the best. The story was so much better too.

The one interesting note I took from this DVD was from the interview they had with Bruce Lee's stunt. Apparently, or so I figure, Bruce Lee's acrobatic skills weren't that developed. That's why they used a stunt, duh. However because of his excellent physical condition in both strength and flexibility, I thought that acrobatic skills would be a no brainer.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Spinnzilla on March 13, 2010, 02:24:11 PM
I saw the Alice in Wonderland movie. Fantastic art style and I liked the whole idea of doing something different with the familar characters, but the movie was slow. Very, very slow. And the 3D lost it cool-factor after 20 or so minutes.  Also, did they have to call in "Alice in Wonderland"?
 
Oh, 6.5/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on March 13, 2010, 02:28:09 PM
Would you rate it higher if you didn't have to pay for it? As in, the imax ticket being paid for you?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on March 13, 2010, 02:36:12 PM
The Crazies: 5/10

dull, but not boring enough to walk out on (especially not at these ticket prices..)

She's Out Of My Leage: 7.5/10

Entertaining, cute date movie for sure. Had some pretty funny moments, but i don't think it's "the funniest movie since the Hangover" as tv spots are claiming (and I'm one of the people that thinks the Hangover was WAY overrated). Oh and the lead acctress in it isn't even that hot in my eyes.. when she undresses, sure the bodies kicken but whats up with her face? The bitchy friend, now SHE was attractive. Too bad she doesnt undress in the movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Spinnzilla on March 13, 2010, 02:44:29 PM
Would you rate it higher if you didn't have to pay for it? As in, the imax ticket being paid for you?

If I hadn't paid for the movie at all, or I had went to see the 2D print of the film instead?

Either way I don't think it wouldn't have affected how I rated it. The movie still had pacing issues.  I love the Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking glass lore, but the movie was just too slow during the middle to keep my attention.

Also, I had a hard time believing Crispin Glover was in the movie because he had such a large part. :P
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 13, 2010, 02:45:24 PM
Alice in Wonderland looks so damn ugly. All the character designs are horrible and I'm surprised Disney didn't scrap the whole thing and go with a different director once they saw the twisted abortion that Tim Burton was committing to their treasured franchise visually.

I can't speak for the actual content of the film since I haven't seen it, but how can you take the actors that you have and make them just look so unappealing from a visual standpoint and then expect this movie to attract families when Johnny Depp looks worse than most of the clowns that already give kids nightmares.


The Crazies: 5/5

dull, but not boring enough to walk out on (especially not at these ticket prices..)

? Dull..... but what? 5 out of 5? I'm confused.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on March 13, 2010, 07:27:25 PM
5/10 maybe?

I wanted to go see Alice in Wonderland with my GF and finally convinced her we should see it but now it sounds like she'll hate it. Maybe I'll go see it with a friend and go see something else with her like 'She's out of my league'.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on March 13, 2010, 08:48:41 PM
The Crazies: 5/5

dull, but not boring enough to walk out on (especially not at these ticket prices..)

? Dull..... but what? 5 out of 5? I'm confused.

Ooops. I was so caught in my mediocre rage, all i could hit was the 5 key...
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on March 14, 2010, 12:16:45 AM
Alice in Wonderland: HATED IT. I will say no more.

Shutter Island: DIDN'T LIKE IT. Too much that didn't have anything to do with the main story, and the ending wasn't practical or satisfying.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on March 14, 2010, 01:34:45 AM
The Box 7/10, it starts off fine, but tailends after it passes the end of the twilight zone episode.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on March 14, 2010, 04:44:07 AM
Let the Right One In.

Creepy Swedish horror movie that is not really horror. Very interesting, still processing it. Unscored
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 14, 2010, 05:08:38 AM
Did you watch the original release or the english DVD rerelease?

I ask because one has the correct translation(Theatrical) and the other (US DVD release) doesn't. (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&hs=Tz4&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=let+the+right+one+in+translation&aq=0&aqi=g3&aql=&oq=Let+the+Right+One+In+tran)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on March 14, 2010, 08:26:39 AM
I think I watched the original release because that was the dialog when I looked at the screen caps online.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on March 14, 2010, 11:07:43 PM
Percy Jackson

Gay/10

If it wasn't for the black fawn dude, I wouldn't have enjoyed this movie in the slightest. Rosario Dawson is still banging though...

Ninja Assassin

5/10

Plot SUCKED --- Action AWESOME
Acting SUCKED --- Action AWESOME
Police SUCK --- NINJAS AWESOME
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on March 14, 2010, 11:28:30 PM
Se7en - 7/10 (really, did you think I could give it anything else?  ;) ) - I've heard a lot about this movie in various discussions of Heavy Rain, so I thought I'd check it out.  Hey, it has Morgan Freeman, one of my favorite actors of All Time and the owner of a voice I could listen to for hours!  Hey, it has Brad Pitt and Gweneth Paltrow, two actors I generally like!  Hey, it's a mystery thriller about a serial killer with especially elaborate ways of killing his victims and a Noir style!  By all rights, I should adore this movie...but I can't.  The movie takes ages to go anywhere, Brad Pitt's acting ranges from passable to laughably poor (especially at the end), there are numerous plot tangents that don't seem to lead anywhere (anything involving Gweneth Paltrow), the villain is a total stereotype that never gets fleshed-out beyond his base motivations, and the ending is total ****.  I understand the point the ending's trying to make, but it just ends up leaving me incredibly unsatisfied.  Worth seeing for Morgan Freeman alone, though.

And, yes, Heavy Rain did indeed take quite a few ideas from this movie.  And, incidentally, what's up with the stupid way the movie's title is spelled?  It makes it a royal pain in the ass to google, as some sites leave it as "Se7en" and others as "Seven".
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Caliban on March 14, 2010, 11:30:33 PM
Way of the Dragon (AKA Return of the Dragon) 8/10

The last fight? Bruce Lee (you can see in this movie how defined his muscles are... good lord, and he's crazy fast) Vs Chuck Norris (what a hairy chest he has hahahaha) Vs kitten (lol cats started in 1973).

One thing to note that I find hilarious, yet quite efficient for the takedown, is that Bruce Lee sure goes for the nuts lol, and he's done so too in the first 2 movies.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on March 15, 2010, 03:28:57 AM
Sherlock Holmes - 8/10 - Well, this movie was something of a surprise.  I had nothing but contempt for this movie when I saw the original trailer, as it looked like a betrayal of everything about the Sherlock Holmes character I had grown fond of over the years.  The trailer made it look like this was going to be an action movie, with Sherlock being something of a James Bond/Indiana Jones-type character.  Well, after seeing  the movie I can safely say that of my problems with this movie, Robert Downey Jr.'s take on Holmes is not among them.  He's arrogant, intelligent, borderline-insane, socially inept, and has a natural comradery with (a strangely young & fit) Dr. Watson.  In other words, he's Sherlock Holmes, though a more-blunt form of the character.  My only problem with his performance is that he tends to speak many of his lines just under his breath, which makes him very difficult to understand at times and making me think I needed subtitles.  Up until the end, I had serious issues with the plot (especially the way it pretends to be "science vs. the supernatural", a growing trend with modern Holmes stories), but those got resolved to my satisfaction in the final 10 minutes of the movie in a very Holmes-ian way.

My big problem with this movie is that this is a fairly straightforward story that is hard to follow only because it is edited in a confusing way.   In fact, the movie in general seems to be constantly at war with its cinematographer.  The story is clearly slow, methodical, and reliant on the audience paying attention to small details...but the cinematography is fond of randomly speeding up to portray it as a much-faster movie, which makes catching those small details and dialog difficult.  This is especially annoying in the fight scenes where the movie likes to slow down and speed up time at random intervals that remind me irritatingly of that POS Watchmen movie.  The movie is also somewhat inconsistent in how much familiarity it seems to assume we have with the character.  For instance, it assumes we know who Holmes, Watson, and Lestrade are and directly references previous Holmes adventures in places, but for some bizarre reason thinks we need to see the same lengthy sequence twice just to "let us in" on the rather obvious fact that Holmes in one scene is in disguise.

The movie does get a gold star for an excellent set-up for the next movie, though.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on March 15, 2010, 06:49:45 AM
I too was worried that the Sherlock movie was betraying the roots. Nice to hear otherwise. I'll have to check it out.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on March 15, 2010, 01:16:40 PM
Ponyo
Well, that was different. Not your typical Miazaki movie. The backgrounds are crazy, and the "flooding" sequence is mind-blowing in its attention to detail. Great movie overall, though.

PONYO LOVES SUSKAE!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on March 15, 2010, 05:53:02 PM
Black Dynamite gets an A
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Caliban on March 15, 2010, 10:59:35 PM
Game of Death 2/10

Yes, that's right. It is horrible... horrible. Like OMFG what were they thinking. I understand that they tried to make a movie out of the remnant footage of Bruce Lee before his death, but come on this is just ridiculous. I can't even imagine how bad Game of Death 2 is going to be. The only reason I rated this game 2 points is because there is at most 20 minutes of footage with the real Bruce Lee near the end of the movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on March 16, 2010, 12:18:59 AM
There's a movie that I want to review for this thread, but I would probably get banned for even posting the name of it. So i won't.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on March 16, 2010, 03:27:33 AM
censor the name? just provide an IMDB link and review it on here.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on March 16, 2010, 08:54:41 AM
There's a movie that I want to review for this thread, but I would probably get banned for even posting the name of it. So i won't.

It's one of those Michael Moore films or something, isn't it. What else could get you banned here? That or Broke Back Mountain.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 16, 2010, 12:25:20 PM
It's most likely a porn with a very descriptive name like:
*Do not make a mental picture of this NSFW*
An*l C*m Bucket Munch Monsters 5: A** to Mouth Marathon 3: The Casting Couch: Directors N*t Special Edition in 3D with multi-angle DVD support. Part of Vivid Videos Allstar Amatuer Collection.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on March 16, 2010, 01:55:30 PM
Alice in Wonderland 3D - It was pretty good.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on March 16, 2010, 02:36:05 PM
It's not porn or a Michael Moore movie, surprisingly, it is on IMDB though, but I think they slightly altered the name on the title.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on March 16, 2010, 02:49:44 PM
It's not porn or a Michael Moore movie, surprisingly, it is on IMDB though, but I think they slightly altered the name on the title.

So if it's not political or about homosexuality, then it must be a religious film like Jesus Camp or something? If it's not religious, political or sexual then I have no idea what it could be.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on March 16, 2010, 08:09:43 PM
It's not porn or a Michael Moore movie, surprisingly, it is on IMDB though, but I think they slightly altered the name on the title.

So if it's not political or about homosexuality, then it must be a religious film like Jesus Camp or something? If it's not religious, political or sexual then I have no idea what it could be.

Donkey punch? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donkey_Punch_(film)) *safe link!*
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 16, 2010, 08:48:01 PM
movie added, but did wiki need to spoil the entire movie without warning?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on March 16, 2010, 08:53:38 PM
movie added, but did wiki need to spoil the entire movie without warning?

Wiki does that.. lol
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on March 16, 2010, 09:00:50 PM
Such unneeded prudishness. If that is the movie, it sounds a joke. Quite frankly, you don't have anything to worry about.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 16, 2010, 09:09:39 PM
I didn't read the whole thing, I stopped about 2-3 words into the 5 sentence on the 2nd paragraph and then skipped to the bottom and realized they plotted the whole movie when it said "something something as the film ends"

It's a watch it now movie on Netflix, so it might make an interesting late nite movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on March 16, 2010, 09:30:34 PM
pretty good plotline if you ask me
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on March 16, 2010, 10:06:58 PM
Not religious at all. I'm just saying if I typed the actual name of the title, I'd probably get banned (for several offenses).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: NWR_insanolord on March 16, 2010, 10:18:53 PM
You've got me really curious; why don't you PM it to me.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 16, 2010, 10:21:23 PM
You've got me really curious; why don't you PM it to me.
and then I'll probably post it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on March 16, 2010, 10:31:19 PM
i google most offensive title name for a movie and this is what i got

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0274518/
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on March 17, 2010, 06:35:21 AM
i google most offensive title name for a movie and this is what i got

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0274518/ (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0274518/)

LOL
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: RABicle on March 17, 2010, 09:03:02 AM
The attack on the Angel is significantly different now, with an emphasis on Shinji standing up and being a ****ing man, which if you know anything about the original series is a dramatic improvement.
What was the original again? Shinji shoots, misses, Rei then takes a bullet for him, Shinji shoots again, doesn't **** up for a change.

Sunshine
Inspired homage to cult hit Dark Star. 3/5
^
loses two poinst for completely ridiculous premise. Gains a point for an Australian character saving the world.

Stardust
Hilarious parody of The Village; a witch searchs for the fountain of youth. 4/5
^ gains a point for Claire Danes looking utterly fucking amazing (http://"http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3372914688/tt0486655") holy ****. I pretty much had an erection the entire time.

Evan Almighty
Gay 1/5
^
Gains a point for Steve Carrol, loses a point for pro Christian message.

I Am Legend
The last dog on Manhattan island struggles to avoid catching an airbourne virus causing ultraviolet sensitivity and psychosis. 2/5
^
Loses a point for Will Smith insisting on yet another unnessesary scene where he takes his shirt off. Yes William, you are muscly and paid to be so, we don't care.

The Departed
A psychologist grapples with the identity of her unborn child's father while an FBI informant finds himself tagged by local police. 6/5
^ Gains a point for Jack Nicholson.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on March 17, 2010, 10:05:26 AM
The attack on the Angel is significantly different now, with an emphasis on Shinji standing up and being a ****ing man, which if you know anything about the original series is a dramatic improvement.
What was the original again? Shinji shoots, misses, Rei then takes a bullet for him, Shinji shoots again, doesn't **** up for a change.

Sounds about right.  In this new version Shinji takes the shot, as normal.  The shot looks for a moment like it's killed the Angel, but then the Angel gets back up and shoots back.  Shinji takes a direct hit and falls to the ground.  After a few moments paralyzed on the ground in pain, Gendo orders Rei to take over for him and that (since he says Shinji is useless) he has no further use for Shinji.  Misato tells him to have faith in his son, as meanwhile Shinji gets back up and takes up position again.  The Angel fires a second shot while he's doing this, which Rei blocks with her Eva's shield.  While the attack's burning through Rei's shield, Shinji takes the shot and kills the Angel.
 
As you can see, it's just a bit different now but it makes a big difference.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on March 18, 2010, 03:06:32 AM
Beware Children at Play. A badly made horror movie from the 80s. I was turned on to it by an animated gif from SUPER in the funhouse. If you search the title on youtube you can see the finale scene. 0 stars due to offensive violence.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 18, 2010, 03:09:27 AM
Beware Children at Play. A badly made horror movie from the 80s. I was turned on to it by an animated gif from SUPER in the funhouse. If you search the title on youtube you can see the finale scene. 0 stars due to offensive violence.
Instant Watch on Netflix.
Maybe I'll watch it later tonite.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on March 18, 2010, 04:53:43 PM
I don't know if I (or anyone else) reviewed this previously, but there's this one Canadian movie called Y.P.F. that I'd highly recommend.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on March 18, 2010, 08:46:06 PM
oh Beware! Children at Play! is a Troma film, that explains everything.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 18, 2010, 10:24:22 PM
That means it's gonna be terrible yet mildly entertaining at the same time.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BeautifulShy on March 20, 2010, 01:26:08 AM
Cinderella Man:5 out of 5

This movie takes place in the Great Depression Era. It is about a story of 1 man living in this era with his wife and 3 kids.He is a Boxer and after some bad luck early on in his job.Had a few injurys.He is given a second chance. It was a one time deal and he thinks that was it but he gets more fights.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on March 20, 2010, 01:58:08 AM
Avatar I liked this better when it was called Dances with Wolves. 2 stars
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on March 20, 2010, 02:02:43 AM
Haven't been on the forums for a while, but ThePerm nailed it - only the first word is actually two words in the real title of the movie. I should have a review soon.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 20, 2010, 02:13:16 AM
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Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on March 20, 2010, 03:55:18 PM
Repo Men: 6/10

Wouldn't be as entertaining without all the violence, but at the same time the voilence is a little distracting because it can be incredibly brutal; especially the films last big action scene (and the immidiate scene after, that borders sadomasochism).

Anyone can see the ending coming a mile away, but its still a decent popcorn flick. The crowd i saw it with was disgusting though, ugh. I should really stop watching films on opening day.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on March 20, 2010, 07:39:51 PM
the ending is a logan's run type thing?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 20, 2010, 08:48:50 PM
An American Tale & The Secret of NIMH

Both better in memory and I should have left that fond childhood memory alone. Neither of them was bad (some of the songs in An American Tale were) but neither of them lived up memory I was trying to pass on to other children. They both liked An American tale, but they both (and myself) found Secret of NIMH to be a little bit boring, and that was disappointing, since I told them NIMH was the better movie of the 2.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on March 20, 2010, 09:19:15 PM
An American Tale & The Secret of NIMH

Both better in memory and I should have left that fond childhood memory alone. Neither of them was bad (some of the songs in An American Tale were) but neither of them lived up memory I was trying to pass on to other children. They both liked An American tale, but they both (and myself) found Secret of NIMH to be a little bit boring, and that was disappointing, since I told them NIMH was the better movie of the 2.

I have to admit I found NIMH rather boring (and strangely violent) as well when I last saw it, which was probably around 15 or so years ago.  I've been meaning to rewatch it for years, though.  As for An American Tale, I have seen that much more recently (probably around 5 years ago) and I still liked it...but found it incredibly depressing and Fieval's version of "Somewhere out there" makes me cringe and my ears bleed.  Once again, people: nothing good come of having children sing songs with high notes in them.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Caliban on March 20, 2010, 10:03:20 PM
Game of Death II 2/10

Meh.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on March 20, 2010, 10:10:45 PM
yeah, i remember watching the movie and then reading the book, but actually i had forgotten all about the movie by the time i got to the book, and then somewhere in the middle of the Nimh book i was like...hey this is like that movie. I was in 4th grade....
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on March 21, 2010, 12:42:59 PM
the ending is a logan's run type thing?

pm for details?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on March 23, 2010, 06:50:22 AM
An American Tale & The Secret of NIMH

Both better in memory and I should have left that fond childhood memory alone. Neither of them was bad (some of the songs in An American Tale were) but neither of them lived up memory I was trying to pass on to other children. They both liked An American tale, but they both (and myself) found Secret of NIMH to be a little bit boring, and that was disappointing, since I told them NIMH was the better movie of the 2.

I have to admit I found NIMH rather boring (and strangely violent) as well when I last saw it, which was probably around 15 or so years ago.  I've been meaning to rewatch it for years, though.  As for An American Tale, I have seen that much more recently (probably around 5 years ago) and I still liked it...but found it incredibly depressing and Fieval's version of "Somewhere out there" makes me cringe and my ears bleed.  Once again, people: nothing good come of having children sing songs with high notes in them.

I rewatched American Tale and the 'Fieval Goes West' Sequel with my 11 year old sister recently and she seemed to enjoy both of them. I have yet to go back and watch NIHM but I do remember it being a lot more frightening and creepy when I was young. Didn't they make a sequel years later?

Don Bluth has some talent but most of his films seem to have one minor thing or another slightly off that keeps them from being truly amazing. Land Before Time was good and Anastasia is probably my favorite of his films. Too bad he doesn't continue to make films.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 23, 2010, 11:05:45 AM
I completely forgot about Fivel Goes West, so I just looked it up on Netflix. Did you know there was a 3rd movie? An American Tail: The Treasures of Manhattan Island, it was made in the year 2000.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on March 23, 2010, 01:07:11 PM
I knew there was a cartoon series but I don't ever recall hearing about the 3rd movie. Now I'm curious even though I doubt it's nearly as good as the previous ones.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 23, 2010, 01:09:46 PM
It doesn't look that good (watched the preview on Netflix) but it was rated the same as the 1st two.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on March 23, 2010, 01:11:40 PM
Probably worth a watch with the sis next time she visits.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: vudu on March 23, 2010, 01:52:19 PM
When are you going to break out The Land Before Time?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on March 23, 2010, 06:59:28 PM
When are you going to break out The Land Before Time?

Indeed.  It might just be nostalgia talking because I haven't seen the movie in ages, but the original Land Before Time is a classic.  The movie's theme song is also one of my All Time favorites.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on March 23, 2010, 10:13:02 PM
law abiding citizen 8.5/10 it was pretty good.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: King of Twitch on March 23, 2010, 10:49:35 PM
Miracle Mile 8/10

I missed a lot of the beginning, but was still sucked into this movie just from the DTV guide description: a man picks up a call at a phone booth and learns a nuclear attack is imminent. The movie follows Harry and his girlfriend as he first tries to keep the secret from her, then must find a way to escape.

It starts off calm and the chaos slowly ramps up, just like Majora's Mask. In fact, the final hours music of MM is very similar to this movie's end credits music... and hey, they also share the same initials?!

The whole thing takes place in more or less real time and the slowly rising sun adds to the tension. The ending is not what you'll expect, but inevitable.....and also very similar to the Anju/blue hair guy 'ending' of MM. Not that well liked on IMDB for some dumb character decisions and 80s weirdness, but I liked it and was rooting for them the whole time.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Kytim89 on March 23, 2010, 11:45:31 PM
I watched a horro film the other night called Return of the Living Dead 3. It was a very gory, kind of scary B-movie with a plot that was kind of weird. One of the scariest parts of the movies was at the beggining when a couple of technicians were experimenting on a zombie and it broke loose on the guys. That part of the movie had my heart pounding.
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jamKhHWetYk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jamKhHWetYk)
 
 
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on March 24, 2010, 12:21:06 AM
oh jeez part 3

the last one had a hillarious ending

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7EoW0o7sHw

don't worry it doesn't spoil the movie, its just funny, random
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 24, 2010, 12:24:59 AM
I didn't realize that there were 5 RotLD movies.

Are they all hilariously bad?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on March 24, 2010, 12:32:50 AM
the first one is just hilarious, but not bad, the second one begins the bad trend
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on March 24, 2010, 04:42:51 AM
When are you going to break out The Land Before Time?

Indeed.  It might just be nostalgia talking because I haven't seen the movie in ages, but the original Land Before Time is a classic.  The movie's theme song is also one of my All Time favorites.

I've tried but the old VHS tape for it is missing from my folks house. I'm going to check if I can Netflix it. I might just pick it up on DVD if I can for cheap.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 24, 2010, 10:50:03 AM
You can Instant Watch The Land Before Time VII, IX & X, but the series goes up to XV of what looks like a bunch of made for wednesday morning cartoons for 6 year olds.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on March 24, 2010, 10:55:04 AM
It went to 'made for Wednesday morning cartoons' when the first cheesy sing-a-long song started playing in the second film and I was like "...wut?" Even as a kid I could tell that crap was getting dumped on me in a sequel.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Kytim89 on March 24, 2010, 11:29:30 PM
I didn't realize that there were 5 RotLD movies.

Are they all hilariously bad?

Part three actually had me scared. My hearts was pounding during some scenes.  :confused;
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Mop it up on March 24, 2010, 11:56:04 PM
Paranormal Activity: 4/10
My sister wanted me to watch this with her. It was pretty boring, not much really happened. The end was okay though, I'm glad that she kills her boyfriend. He was a real twat.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on March 25, 2010, 12:05:12 AM
you have a sister :p?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on March 25, 2010, 12:13:38 AM
Paranormal Activity: 4/10
My sister wanted me to watch this with her. It was pretty boring, not much really happened. The end was okay though, I'm glad that she kills her boyfriend. He was a real twat.

I thought the chick was a twat. I would have left her ass a long time ago. I related to the guy because I like to go to haunted houses (read: REAL haunted houses...or at least as real as they can get) in the middle of fucking bondoggle and see some crazy ****.

by the way, for such a 'clean' girl, I'm surprised you used the word twat lol
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on March 25, 2010, 12:20:51 AM
AKIRA

I haven't seen this movie in years and yet its still as good if not better than what I remembered. The ending still confuses me a bit Did Tut suo or whatever turn into another universe or did he turn into a God?, but the action and animation is still top notch. I like to say "Holy ****!" during movies and other surprises and this movie had me saying it alot.

9/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on March 25, 2010, 02:06:23 AM
AKIRA

I haven't seen this movie in years and yet its still as good if not better than what I remembered. The ending still confuses me a bit Did Tut suo or whatever turn into another universe or did he turn into a God?, but the action and animation is still top notch. I like to say "Holy ****!" during movies and other surprises and this movie had me saying it alot.

9/10

I tried Akira once with my best friend back in the early 2000s when I was first really getting into anime.  Granted, the DVD we had rented was using the old Streamline dub from the 1980s, but the sheer stupidity of that movie had us laughing for probably a good half hour after the movie was finished.  I'm actually pretty amazed we managed to hold it all in until the credits rolled, actually.  Like Ghost in the Shell, I know there are a lot of people that just love those movies but I just can't stand them.

Incidentally, I do highly recommend Perfect Blue if you've never seen it.  The animation is pretty so-so, but the plot is one colossal mind-**** in a very Hitchcockian manner.  The only thing I don't like about it is that it's probably the only anime I've ever seen that I actually prefer in its edited form, which removes the "rape" scene (that scene is much better left to the imagination).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on March 25, 2010, 03:17:20 AM
Ghost in the shell has an excellent plot but presented in the most boring manner ever. Really nothing happens the entire time. And to make it worse, the english dub is like nails on chalk board.

Akira on the other hand has amazing action throughout brought to life with some of the best animation ever created. So even if you don't know what the **** is going on or don't care, you can at least have fun. And yeah, the streamline dub sucks but the new one isn't as good either, but I would still recommend it.

And honestly, the plot of the movie is also amazing but just really damn confusing. There's revolutionary parts, totalitarian parts, religious parts, and yes, science fiction parts. I know the movie was based a manga, but it seems incredibly condensed. Hell, I still don't know what the hell happens at the end.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 25, 2010, 04:39:34 AM
Brothers -  5.5/10

I wasn't even looking forward to seeing this movie and I was disappointed. You are just left with the feeling of "is that it?". The previews made it seems like there was more of a conflict over something more than there was..... it would have been much more interesting had the conflict been what it was accused of being after we had already known that it wasn't, he was told that it wasn't yet still goes on believing that it is. On the plus side though, Natalie Portman was looking good in this movie, and that means a lot coming from me since I never really found her all that attractive before.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 26, 2010, 06:02:05 PM
The Informant - LOL

This has to be a true story because it would just be stupid (in a silly way) if they had made it up. I don't want to ruin anything, but oh what a tangled web was woven in this movie. Once things didn't go as planned, someone can't seems to just let it go and has to see it all the way through to the end. Matt Damon did a fantastic job in this though, I actually believed he was the guy who happens to be the smartest idiot of all freakin time. Seriously, this guy was scamming people left and right(Nigerian money scandal) and making a HUGE freakin salary but just couldn't stop lying to save his own ass. even in the very end the lies/misinformation don't stop.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on March 26, 2010, 08:15:14 PM
lol Natlie Portman, Winona Rider, and Kiera Knightly are like the triforce godesses of goodlookingness. Portman even looks hot bald IMO
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 26, 2010, 08:28:51 PM
Winona & Kiera are twins separated at birth(Kiera being the hotter twin).
Natalie is ok, but I don't feel she is worthy of the praise for her looks that she gets.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Kytim89 on March 26, 2010, 10:46:10 PM
lol Natlie Portman, Winona Rider, and Kiera Knightly are like the triforce godesses of goodlookingness. Portman even looks hot bald IMO

I have always wanted to have a four way with the three of them. :cool; ;D :D
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on March 26, 2010, 11:15:35 PM
its kinda funny, since all the girls are all nearly identical that one could really rate one lower than any other

(http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r259/theultimateperm/winona-ryder_keira-knightley.jpg)
(http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r259/theultimateperm/winonakiera.jpg)
(http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r259/theultimateperm/15557__keira_l.jpg)
(http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r259/theultimateperm/natalie_portman-keira_knighley2_0.jpg)
(http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r259/theultimateperm/natalie_keira_400.jpg)
(http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r259/theultimateperm/keira-knightly-queen-amidala.jpg)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKT35rzdc7A&feature=related

A SERIOUS MAN i can't rate it, it hasn't even sunk in yet
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on March 27, 2010, 01:58:08 PM
Paranormal Activity: 4/10
My sister wanted me to watch this with her. It was pretty boring, not much really happened. The end was okay though, I'm glad that she kills her boyfriend. He was a real twat.

Yay more people that didn't care for this overhyped movie!

by the way, for such a 'clean' girl, I'm surprised you used the word twat lol

MY FUCKING THOUGHTS EXACTLY! LOL!!

Hot Tub Time Machine = 10/10

This movie was filmed on location in the glorious land of HILARIDAD! What I loved about it was that it didn't ham up the 80s so much that it was full of incredibly cheesey/cheap laughs. Hell, you coulda taken these four guys and made them go into the future and it woulda been hilarious because of the rapport they have with eachother and the scenarios they got put in.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 27, 2010, 02:00:08 PM
Hot Tub Time Machine = 10/10

This movie was filmed on location in the glorious land of HILARIDAD! What I loved about it was that it didn't ham up the 80s so much that it was full of incredibly cheesey/cheap laughs. Hell, you coulda taken these four guys and made them go into the future and it woulda been hilarious because of the rapport they have with eachother and the scenarios they got put in.

Exactly what I wanted to hear about this movie. I'm still not gonna go watch it in the theater, but it will be anticipated in my mailbox in hopefully the near future.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on March 27, 2010, 02:15:24 PM
You'll enjoy it. Besides the fat kid, everyone was great (although he did have his moments). Chevy Chase seemed... odd.. and fat. I dunno, I'm not much of a Chase fan, never have been. The fact that John C. was going to do an "80's" movie again is what reeally had me excited for this since I saw the trailer (only a few weeks ago), but when i found out he was the producer; my mind was BLOWN.

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Kytim89 on March 27, 2010, 08:36:04 PM
I watched the movie Akira and I consider it to be one of my favorite anime movies, but I do not understand the plot, especially the ending. can anyone explain the plot and ending to me? I do not mind spoilers.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on March 27, 2010, 09:34:55 PM
that kid from httm was on sex drive which i give 8/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on March 28, 2010, 12:01:10 AM
He's also on Greek.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on March 28, 2010, 01:06:06 AM
that kid from httm was on sex drive which i give 8/10

the chubby dude with glasses that ruined Seth's slightly slow-mo party shot in Superbad?

I almost took points off HTTM because he was in it, but it was just THAT good that it made up for his annoying voice/appearance.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on March 28, 2010, 02:30:55 AM
i think the dude is hilarious, but he's sort of a poor man's jonah hill

Repo-Men B I liked it but it wasn't spectacular. I remembered the hint for the ending, and i knew something was coming with the saccharine vista at the end. The movie could have ended 5 minutes before it ended. I thought the sadomasochist part was fun i thought. I guess im pretty unphased by the violence, the only thing that ever gets me is pulsing blood.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on March 28, 2010, 05:48:31 AM
First Blood 9.5/10 This movie is beyond badass
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 28, 2010, 05:11:07 PM
First Blood 9.5/10 This movie is beyond badass
Rambo?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on March 28, 2010, 05:27:56 PM
yeah the naming schemes for Rambo movies are as follows

First Blood
Rambo: First Blood PART II
Rambo III
Rambo
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on March 28, 2010, 08:16:16 PM
Hot Tub Time Machine - Awesome/10

Rob Cordry got old quick, but the rest of the movie holds together very well. Also had two unbelievably good-looking women in it (albeit briefly): Jessica Parr (hottub girl) and Diora Baird (wife of the dude with the gun).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: vudu on April 02, 2010, 01:11:50 PM
Clash of the Titans (1981)

Not as good as I remembered / 10

Man, this movie takes a long time to get going.  The first hour is dull, dull, DULL.  Second half picks up, but man, is this thing ever cheesy.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on April 02, 2010, 01:36:46 PM
I'm really looking forward to seeing the "remake" this weekend.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Manthony Chopkins on April 02, 2010, 04:53:55 PM
Fantastic Mr. Fox 9/10
 
Fantastic Mr. Fox is a stop motion animated movie which is based off the children's novel written by Roald Dahl. Wes Anderson (The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou) is the writer and director of the movie. This was one of the best movies I have seen in a while. The animation, humor and soundtrack were all top notch.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on April 02, 2010, 05:16:29 PM
I'm really looking forward to seeing the "remake" this weekend.

I saw the trailer for it Wednesday night during an ESPN commercial break, and I couldn't help but think "wow, it's God of War: The Movie."  :-\
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on April 02, 2010, 06:12:46 PM
I'm really looking forward to seeing the "remake" this weekend.

I saw the trailer for it Wednesday night during an ESPN commercial break, and I couldn't help but think "wow, it's God of War: The Movie."  :-\

that sounds so backwards.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on April 02, 2010, 06:19:43 PM
yeah, i remember watching Clash of the titans in my 7th grade English class because we were studying the Iliad and making up our own Mytholoogy/Religion. Looking at my project, i like totally made something that ended up looking like Sumerian mythology without ever knowing about sumerian mythology. I thought clash of the titans was awesome, but when i went to re-watch it it was not as cool.

Jason and The Argonauts though gets a 9/10, thgis movie is older than clash of the Titans, but has really aged alot better.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on April 02, 2010, 06:46:59 PM
Ohhh, I haven't watched Jason and the Argonauts in a really long time. It's up on Netflix streaming, so maybe I'll watch it soon.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on April 02, 2010, 08:23:00 PM
I'm really looking forward to seeing the "remake" this weekend.

I saw the trailer for it Wednesday night during an ESPN commercial break, and I couldn't help but think "wow, it's God of War: The Movie."  :-\

that sounds so backwards.

I know, but watching that trailer just reminded me so much of God of War III's trailers and intro.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on April 02, 2010, 11:02:20 PM
lol, you guys should see video of the Clash of the Titans game
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Shorty McNostril on April 03, 2010, 12:14:06 AM
Clash  7/10

Not too bad.  The 3D was a bit dodgy though.  It was an afterthought and it shows.  Some scenes are only half done.  But the awesomeness of Liam Neeson bumps the rating up a point.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on April 03, 2010, 01:28:30 AM
i just wanna watch Clash of the titans regular
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on April 03, 2010, 02:09:40 AM
i just wanna watch Clash of the titans regular
You mean the non-3D version?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on April 03, 2010, 02:15:10 AM
im not interested in watching every movie in 3D, I see people taking points off for it not being very good 3d, but even avatar I dont think 3d really improved it a lot.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on April 03, 2010, 01:09:38 PM
With Avatar, was it a lot of POP out 3D, a lot of Depth 3D or a combination of both?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on April 03, 2010, 01:44:17 PM
Clash of the titans (3d) 5/10?

it was pretty meh actually and the 3d wasnt even great either. In fact it made some of the more action packed sceneds super blury. Oh well.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on April 03, 2010, 02:39:49 PM
With Avatar, was it a lot of POP out 3D, a lot of Depth 3D or a combination of both?

Well the problem with 3d is if your eyes adjust, you forget its 3d for a while. I didn't watch the movie twice, but i think in the middle of the movie they cranked the 3d pop and depth down only to bring it up at the end. I really remember noticing 3d alot at first, and then that lessening during the movie, and then at the end there were some good 3d bits.

So, people universally dislike the new Clash?! HA !
http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/forums/index.php?topic=29034.msg547847#msg547847
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on April 03, 2010, 03:03:44 PM
With Avatar, was it a lot of POP out 3D, a lot of Depth 3D or a combination of both?

Avatar only had a few instances that I can clearly remember seeing the image pop.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on April 04, 2010, 01:28:06 AM
I haven't seen it yet, but I just rented Ninja Assassin from RedBox and as a first time rental experience, it was rather quick and painless.

Total trip time was 5 minutes. that leaving, arriving, signing up, renting and then returning home. 5 freaking minutes.

No wonder Blockbuster is going under. I didn't have to walk around a store looking for a movie, I didn't have to wait in line and it only cost a dollar.

Blockbuster subscription was canceled just a few hours ago too. Looks like it was a good move as the nearest Blockbuster is about a 10-15 minute drive out of the way since teh one down the street closed down. Red Box is literally everywhere, and combined with a Netflix subscription....... I'll never have to worry about not having what I want to watch ready to watch when I want to watch it.
 :thumbsup; :thumbsup; (for a 1st time experience)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on April 04, 2010, 03:22:51 AM
if blockbuster would just lower their new release price to $1.00 or 80c then they would have nothing to worry about. Compete yo!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on April 04, 2010, 01:15:00 PM
Hot Tub Time Machine (with a buzz going): Still 10/10 :D
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on April 04, 2010, 09:36:10 PM
Netflix On-Demand (PS3) 9/10

What a phenomenal service....nuff' said.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on April 04, 2010, 09:43:02 PM
Did you just sign up or did you use someone else's account?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on April 04, 2010, 09:55:29 PM
I used a friends.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on April 05, 2010, 01:58:21 PM
Paranormal Activity - Loved it/10

Great little horror movie. There's a plausability you don't normally see, even in Blair Witch, even though Blair Witch obviously provided a lot of inspiration. The movie had good pacing and a believable progression of supernatural spookiness. The only part I didn't like was the psychic doctor, who came off as sort of hammy. Good effects and a pretty surprising ending. I didn't watch the "Alternate ending," and after reading about it on Wikipedia today, I'm glad I didn't.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on April 05, 2010, 05:32:48 PM
Paranormal Activity - Loved it/10

Great little horror movie. There's a plausability you don't normally see, even in Blair Witch, even though Blair Witch obviously provided a lot of inspiration. The movie had good pacing and a believable progression of supernatural spookiness. The only part I didn't like was the psychic doctor, who came off as sort of hammy. Good effects and a pretty surprising ending. I didn't watch the "Alternate ending," and after reading about it on Wikipedia today, I'm glad I didn't.

Which alternate did you read about? I saw one of the alternates and actually liked it better than the theatrical ending, but I've heard about a second alternate that just seems horribly bad.
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Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on April 05, 2010, 06:06:48 PM
Well, there is the Original ending, the theatrical ending and an alternate ending.

At this point, I don't remember which is which, but the original ending was less shock horror than the theatrical and the alternate was sorta like the theatrical.
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Post by: Halbred on April 05, 2010, 06:32:41 PM
Ending I saw:

Katie, possessed, wakes up and leaves the bedroom. She screams, waking Micah up. He leaves too. A struggle can be heard, then silence. Suddenly, Micah's body is thrown violently into the camera. Katie appears in the doorway, covered in blood. She kneels by Micah's corpe and snarls at the camera before attacking it.

The ending I read about:

Katie wakes up and leaves the bedroom. She screams, Micah wakes up and follows her. A struggle is heard, and more screaming. Katie, in a state of shock and covered in blood, wanders into the bedroom with a knife in her hand. She closes and locks the door, then kneels in front of the camera and slits her own throat.

I don't like crap like that, so I'm glad I didn't watch it.
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Post by: EasyCure on April 05, 2010, 06:33:11 PM
eh all i know is i like the one that WASN'T shown in all the tv spots for the movie where the haunted girl stares into the camera and her face turns demonic, that was just dumb.

the one i saw originally, where she stares at the camera and slices her throat was a little more unsettlin for me, and considering how lame i thought the movie was, that was more than enough to be mildly enjoyable. I haven't seen that third ending where she supposedly gets gunned down by cops or whatever but that seems like the most retarded way to end this type of movie that i can't imagine who even considered filming it (unless it was meant to be a fake ending in order to not spoil the REAL ending).

lol halbred might wanna check your spoiler tags..

edit 2: Well guess we have diff taste. I didn't think either ending was surprising at all, but at least the one I liked was disturbing and not cheesy.
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Post by: Stogi on April 05, 2010, 07:18:49 PM
I thought the one where she gets gunned down by cops was the best
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Post by: EasyCure on April 05, 2010, 07:28:14 PM
honestly, i haven't seen it but the way its described to me (by different sources) it just sounds uninteresting and boring. Maybe i'll have to see it for myself though, but i think I'll still like the one i mentioned best of all three.
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Post by: Halbred on April 05, 2010, 07:32:26 PM
Hey, why aren't my spoiler tags working?!?
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Post by: EasyCure on April 05, 2010, 07:35:00 PM
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Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on April 05, 2010, 07:40:15 PM
Hey, why aren't my spoiler tags working?!?

NWR "How To" Guide To Posting (http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/forums/index.php?topic=30575.0) ;)
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Post by: Halbred on April 05, 2010, 08:25:23 PM
Har de har har. I corrected the tags and I hate you all!

*runs away crying*
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Post by: EasyCure on April 05, 2010, 08:26:11 PM
Har de har har. I corrected the tags and I hate you all!

*runs away crying*

nee ner nee ner nee ner?

*squashes you dino toys!* hehehe
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Post by: Halbred on April 05, 2010, 08:53:55 PM
*shriek*

Not my Spinophorosaurus!!!
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Post by: EasyCure on April 05, 2010, 09:20:00 PM
MORE LIKE STOMPASAURUS!
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Post by: Spinnzilla on April 06, 2010, 01:23:09 AM
Clash of the Titans 3Dmake.  Kind of dumb, kind of entertaining.  A lot of the designs of thingies were cool but I felt like it wasn't executed well enough to be completely engaging. 

I give it 6D out of 10D.  Meh.
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Post by: ThePerm on April 06, 2010, 04:15:58 AM
lol universally not loved, i was right...don't mess with the classic!
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Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on April 06, 2010, 12:29:31 PM
Is it the poor execution of 3D that kills it or does the movie really just lack something special?
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Post by: EasyCure on April 06, 2010, 06:48:39 PM
Is it the poor execution of 3D that kills it or does the movie really just lack something special?

Both. I felt ripped off paying the extra $ for 3d because the effects were LAME*. Even if I didn't spend the extra dough, the movie itself was only mildly entertaining. There were 3 main action sequences that were the best parts of the movie, but even those were "meh".



*what made Avatar awesome in 3d was that the worlds colors were so vibrant and the 3d brough i to life. In CT everything but Mt. Olympus is a dull "hd gray/brown", including the characters armours and even the creatures so nothing stands out as much. At one point the main character dives into the ocean and bubbles are popping out of the screen and I thought "this is the most '3d' I've seen yet.."

Edit: Colbert just said it best:

Quote
The movie was filmed in 2D, then converted to 3D, but amazingly all the characters are 1D!
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Post by: Stogi on April 06, 2010, 10:31:14 PM
^^^^

My brother saw it last Thursday and couldn't wait to till me how disappointed he was with it. He then saw "How To Train Your Dragon" and said it was like "Avatar" all over again....so I'm going to see that one soon enough.

The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus

It was entertaining but the plot never really grabbed me. It was nice to see Heath Ledger again, especially along side Johnny Depp. Other than that, it was just an interesting expenditure rather than an engrossing title.

7/10
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Post by: Dasmos on April 06, 2010, 11:58:07 PM
Martyrs - I'm not sure I could really reccommend this, it's pretty brutal. Without giving too much away (as the more you know, the lesser the impact) it's about a girl who's trying to take her revenge on the people who kidnapped and tortured her as young girl.

It's really hard to watch, but you really want to keep watching. I guess, if you don't mind brutal, disturbing films, I'd reccommend this. It's brutal with violence, and not in a torture-porn sort of way, the story is probably the most fucked up part about this movie.

8.5/10

Primer -
Some overly-complex indie time travel film. It might have been more interesting if it wasn't so boring. Characters always talking over each other, barely coherent plot and nothing overly exciting happens. An interesting concept ruined by a ****-boring presentation.

4.5/10
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Post by: Stratos on April 07, 2010, 03:22:08 AM
I just saw Frog Princess for the first time and I still can't peg a rating for it. As I watched I kept wavering between a 6 and 8 range. There was a point early on (I think the first song scene with the dark voodoo man in it) that gave me a 'non-Disney-movie-trying-to-be-as-good-as-a-Disney-movie' vibe and it went up from there but parts of it near the end seemed to go too fast for me in their resolution.

I'll settle at a 7.5/10 I really wanted to love it as I had high hopes for Disney's return to traditional 2D animation but parts of it felt rather off though the whole movie was still a pleasant watch.
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Post by: ThePerm on April 07, 2010, 04:22:49 AM
so did you already give it an extra half point for you not being 5 years old? I loved the little mermaid when i first saw it, but if it came out now, im not sure i would like it that much cause i'm 26.
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Post by: Stratos on April 07, 2010, 05:34:42 AM
The half point was more because I felt torn on what to give it. I'm actually still not sure if a 7.5 is right. I might like it more or less after a second play through. And I really do think I'd have enjoyed a number of the Disney Renaissance films today a lot as well. The songs might not have been quite as memorable but I think they would have been very enjoyable films.
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Post by: Plugabugz on April 07, 2010, 09:19:52 AM
Kick Ass - 9 out of 10.

OMG. It's just so stupidly fun and really make syou feel like THAT COULD BE ME in all the fight scenes. Don't watch it if flashing lights causes you issues as there's a 5-7 minute segment of exclusively that towards the end.
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Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on April 07, 2010, 11:50:04 AM
Kick Ass - 9 out of 10.

OMG. It's just so stupidly fun and really make syou feel like THAT COULD BE ME in all the fight scenes. Don't watch it if flashing lights causes you issues as there's a 5-7 minute segment of exclusively that towards the end.

I really want to see this, but it doesn't come out till the 16th :(
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Post by: Plugabugz on April 07, 2010, 03:08:26 PM
Kick Ass - 9 out of 10.

OMG. It's just so stupidly fun and really make syou feel like THAT COULD BE ME in all the fight scenes. Don't watch it if flashing lights causes you issues as there's a 5-7 minute segment of exclusively that towards the end.

I really want to see this, but it doesn't come out till the 16th :(

WE WINS!
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Post by: EasyCure on April 07, 2010, 05:35:37 PM
Kick Ass - 9 out of 10.

OMG. It's just so stupidly fun and really make syou feel like THAT COULD BE ME in all the fight scenes. Don't watch it if flashing lights causes you issues as there's a 5-7 minute segment of exclusively that towards the end.

I really want to see this, but it doesn't come out till the 16th :(

WE WINS!

can i buy a bootleg off you?
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Post by: ShyGuy on April 09, 2010, 03:34:02 AM
Time Bandits A young boy goes on an adventure with six midgets who obtain a map of the Universe and use it rob treasures throughout history. Satan tricks them into releasing himself from Hell and God steps in to clean up the mess. At then end of the movie, the young boy's parent's die in an explosion.
Four Stars, but man was this a messed up movie! I hadn't watched it since I was a kid.
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Post by: Stratos on April 09, 2010, 03:45:59 AM
I remember Time Bandits! I hated it. The ending was just depressing. Though now I want to watch it again to see how it stacks up to my memories.
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Post by: ShyGuy on April 09, 2010, 03:55:57 AM
Why did Sean Connery smile and wink at the young boy after his parents exploded? Was he just being a jerk?
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Post by: Stogi on April 09, 2010, 11:19:22 AM
He was being Sean Connery.
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Post by: EasyCure on April 09, 2010, 11:23:16 AM
He was just being a bad ass motherfucking pimp.

Aka sean connery ;)
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Post by: Plugabugz on April 09, 2010, 04:46:39 PM
Kick Ass - 9 out of 10.

OMG. It's just so stupidly fun and really make syou feel like THAT COULD BE ME in all the fight scenes. Don't watch it if flashing lights causes you issues as there's a 5-7 minute segment of exclusively that towards the end.

I really want to see this, but it doesn't come out till the 16th :(

WE WINS!

can i buy a bootleg off you?

sure, but you may find me looking down at my phone having a very inappropriate conversation on my blackberry...
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Post by: ShyGuy on April 10, 2010, 02:10:14 PM
For those who haven't seen Time Bandits here is almost literally the last three minutes of the movie:

(http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k302/shyguy70/timebandits.gif)

Double You Tee Eff.
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Post by: ThePerm on April 10, 2010, 07:00:19 PM
Manhunter 8
Red Dragon 8

It would be funny to edit these movies together since they are the same, I like Edward Norton better than William Peterson, but I like Tom Noonan better than Ralph Feinnes. Still even so, they are still damn good in the movie. I like that
Ken Leung(miles-lost) makes an appearance.
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Post by: EasyCure on April 11, 2010, 01:28:17 PM
Kick Ass - 9 out of 10.

OMG. It's just so stupidly fun and really make syou feel like THAT COULD BE ME in all the fight scenes. Don't watch it if flashing lights causes you issues as there's a 5-7 minute segment of exclusively that towards the end.

I really want to see this, but it doesn't come out till the 16th :(

WE WINS!

can i buy a bootleg off you?

sure, but you may find me looking down at my phone having a very inappropriate conversation on my blackberry...

sounds like a kinky phone..

Nightmare On Elms St 3:  6/10

Haven't seen this since I was a kid, but it held up better than i thought. Some of the effects were decent, where I expected utter cheese. What bugged me was the lack of plot, and I know i know.. its a slasher flick, but they could of at least tried giving us some back story aside from "oh we're dying cuz we're the last of the Elms Street Kids. I dunno, maybe i'm just trying to justify NOT giving this movie a 10/10 for being so bad its good.
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Post by: ThePerm on April 11, 2010, 06:05:30 PM
Orphan 8.9/10

Its funny how many Batman: TAS story lines make great horror movies
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Post by: stevey on April 11, 2010, 06:23:52 PM
Disappearance ∞/10

Nothing will top it.
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Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on April 11, 2010, 09:12:49 PM
Disappearance ∞/10

Nothing will top it.

Is it the Ghost Town movie? I just looked it up on netflix and wanted to be sure.
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Post by: EasyCure on April 12, 2010, 12:26:19 PM
freddys dead: 4/10

Breckin Meyer is a tiny prepubescent pothead. I said wow?

I never saw this movie in theatres as a kid, so i had no idea it was in 3-d until my brother mentioned it while watching the dvd. Not that he had to as the ending was full of scenes  where characters were pointing **** at the camera hat looked super awkward.. lol
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Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on April 17, 2010, 12:58:15 AM
Kick Ass was Kick Ass and i enjoyed watching people getting their Asses Kicked.

Nic Cage was was a Bad Ass
Hit Girl was a Bad Ass
Kick Ass was.... ummmm The Peter Parker of Super Heroes
and this movie was Awesome.

Hope their is a sequel, or even better a Big Daddy/Hit Girl Prequel.
Big Daddy is the Batman minus the no killing conscience, and it was crazy to watch him go from Batman to the Joker
That whole scene was fucking intense.
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Post by: EasyCure on April 18, 2010, 01:44:29 PM
I couldn't of said it better myself (about kick ass) that movie OWNED. I did walk away thinking it would've been better titled "hit girl" since she was the best part of it.

Oh and the cute girlfriend in this was also the cute chick from HTTM. she's.. cute! and has somewhat of a nude scene. Wasn't expecting that, and considering there were only 10 women in the entire theatre (yes, i counted.. it was weird) you could hear every other guys collective erections stretching out their jeans.
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Post by: ThePerm on April 19, 2010, 04:25:33 AM
Primal Fear 9/10
Edward Norton yo.
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Post by: RABicle on April 19, 2010, 01:25:18 PM
I'm always up to date with the latest in films.

Mars Attacks
Tom Jones leads a group of survivors out of crime ravaged Las Vegas. Meanwhile a reporter contracts Parkinson's Disease 6/5
^TWO bonus points for featuring not only Natalie Portman but Jack Nicholson as well.

Casablanca
Corrupt cop exchanges sex for freedom. Film served as inspiration for The Usual Suspects5/5

V for Vendetta
Documentary on the cult of personality in contemporary London. 4/5
^
Bonus point for Natalie Portman.
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Post by: Halbred on April 19, 2010, 01:42:07 PM
Natalie Portman looks like a 12 year old boy.

Tenure - Beardface/10

Enjoyable comedy with Luke Wilson and that dude from...Anchorman, Waiting, and Michael's friend on The Office. Involves the struggle to get tenure at a small university. Lots of funny moments and good character development.
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Post by: EasyCure on April 19, 2010, 06:01:51 PM
i forgot to mention that Kick-Ass had a kick ass first person scene that was muuuch better than the one in the DOOM movie
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Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on April 19, 2010, 06:30:08 PM
AntiChrist & The Fourth Kind - WTF did I just watch in either of those movies!?

The former, it took me 4 times to make it through. Brief but really graphic(actual?) sex in the beginning and then some very twisted boner killing (no pun intended) scenes in the end that makes me wonder why I ever started watching that movie in the first place
::recalls looking for gross out movies a while back, but decides to keep that to myself::

The latter..... who's bright idea was it to make this movie. Am I supposed to believe it's real becayuse there are supposed "real" audio/video tapes to accompany the re-enactment with the actors? Sometimes they even go through the trouble of overlaying the audio on the actors and/or putting the video and movie side by side to.... break the illusion?? or is it supposed to re-enforce the whats going on? I have no idea, but either way it wasn't that good and probably should have just been a documentary since that's kinda how they started it in the beginning with Milla Jovovich's intro to the movie.

AntiChrist - 4/10
The Fourth Kind - 5/10
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The Slammin' Salmon

Another Broken Lizard movie (Super Troopers, Beer Fest) that just seems to miss the mark. You'll recognize some of the usuals from their other movies and the comedy in this is similar to all their other movies that aren't Super Troopers(their only "good" movie). M.C. Duncan was probably the highlight of this film, and comedy isn't really his thing..... that says a lot about this movie, even though it is watchable and there are a few good moments.

The Slammin' Salmon - 6/10
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Post by: ThePerm on April 19, 2010, 11:41:19 PM
pshhh
Beer Fest 8.5/10 i love this movie!

Club Dread 6/10 not so much

Monty Python and the Holy Grail ...i need to watch it again to decide
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Post by: NWR_insanolord on April 19, 2010, 11:54:55 PM
Holy Grail is an unqualified 10/10, one of the greatest movies ever made, and more or less perfect.
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Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on April 20, 2010, 12:07:25 AM
pshhh
Beer Fest 8.5/10 i love this movie!

Club Dread 6/10 not so much

Monty Python and the Holy Grail ...i need to watch it again to decide

Beerfest is a 7.5 at best. Super Troopers is an 8.5/10
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Post by: ThePerm on April 20, 2010, 12:53:54 AM
well i give them both an 8.5 :P
I think I could give Monty Python.... a 10/10

it actually made me rethink how i would go about making a few of my movies ideas in some ways.
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Post by: ThePerm on April 26, 2010, 10:20:05 PM
Easy Rider 7/10 meh, i get its message but the characters proved to be annoying.
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Post by: NWR_insanolord on April 26, 2010, 10:32:56 PM
Zombieland - 8.5/10

I watched this with a friend over the weekend after his continued insistence that it was amazing. I didn't like it as much as he does, but I thought it was really good. More of a serious movie than I expected, but still had some funny parts. The Bill Murray scene was fantastic, and proves that sometimes a joke is way funnier when you see it coming a mile away.
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Post by: Stogi on April 26, 2010, 10:48:40 PM
I actually really liked the Slammin' Salmon.

I'd probably rank it side by side to Beerfest (a movie I've watched over 30 times) and below Super Troopers (one of the best comedies ever made).
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Post by: ThePerm on April 26, 2010, 10:54:19 PM
i rank Slammin Salmon below Super Troopers and Beerfest but well above Club Dread i give Slammin Salmon a B

i really liked how it other than one far shot of a hotel all takes place inside the restaurant, obviously your going to be reminded of Waiting, but I have a feeling that it was written about the same time and not made because Waiting did.
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Post by: Stogi on April 26, 2010, 10:57:14 PM
For Perm: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o52clsoKW8g
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Post by: ThePerm on April 26, 2010, 11:03:19 PM
LOL
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Post by: Shorty McNostril on April 27, 2010, 04:13:37 AM
I'm off to Iron Man 2 on friday.  I'll let you know how it is.  I can't wait. 


Can someone get me a suitcase suit?   PLEASE!!!!
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Post by: Shorty McNostril on April 30, 2010, 07:57:53 AM
Iron Man 2

9.999999999/10

All kinds of awesome. 
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Post by: Shorty McNostril on April 30, 2010, 04:44:00 PM
Make sure you stick around after the credits (as with all marvel movies).  There is a little tidbit there.  And keep an eye out for the Captain America, Thor and Avengers referances. 
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Post by: vudu on May 01, 2010, 10:06:08 AM
Lost Highway           Bizzar / 10

Somehow I've gone the past 13 years without seeing this movie.  I liked it even though I haven't the faintest fucking idea what happened in it.  I'm a bit disappointed that it shares so much in common with Mulholland Drive.

Good soundtrack.
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Post by: ThePerm on May 01, 2010, 06:40:36 PM
lol David Lynch movie...hehehe Its funny that i'm aware of David Lynch, but outside the beginning of Eraserhead I still havent seen any of his movies
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Post by: Halbred on May 01, 2010, 11:50:51 PM
The Blind Side: Not Bad/10

Good movie. Don't know if Sandra Bullock deserved an Oscar for it, though.

The movie singlehandedly gave broke any respect I once had for the NCAA, though. That woman sounded like a conspiracy theorist, and if that woman (in real life) was ACTUALLY QUESTIONING HIS SUCCESS instead of being happy about it, then...I mean, JEEZ.
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Post by: Kytim89 on May 02, 2010, 12:04:29 AM
The Blind Side: Not Bad/10

Good movie. Don't know if Sandra Bullock deserved an Oscar for it, though.

The movie singlehandedly gave broke any respect I once had for the NCAA, though. That woman sounded like a conspiracy theorist, and if that woman (in real life) was ACTUALLY QUESTIONING HIS SUCCESS instead of being happy about it, then...I mean, JEEZ.

Considering what is going on in her marriage she should get an oscar. ;D
 
I just watched a movie called Children of Men and it was fairly good(8/10). The film was very dreary and depressing, but it had good visuals and conveyed its idea of a world gone to hell very nicely. It was kind of scary and it stood out to me more than any movie I have watched recently.
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Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on May 02, 2010, 12:55:36 AM
Sherlock Holmes 8/10

Very enjoyable even if it was a little hard to understand some of the things they were saying.
I know this is gonna sound all sorts of wrong and backwards, but it was like Scooby Doo for adults. I only say this because it was like Velma in that he had already solved the case but let it play out till the end just so that he could do his reveal and explanation. I had to do a backwards comparison like that because and Sherlock Holmes story I've ever read was so long ago that I barely remember it...(The Hound of the Baskervilles was Sherlock Holmes right?).

Anyway, it was good, funny and realistic. I will definitely keep an eye out for the sequel.
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Post by: vudu on May 03, 2010, 01:47:41 PM
Very enjoyable even if it was a little hard to understand some of the things they were saying.

I turned on subtitles about 10 minutes into the movie.  Made it much more enjoyable.
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Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on May 03, 2010, 01:54:53 PM
Very enjoyable even if it was a little hard to understand some of the things they were saying.

I turned on subtitles about 10 minutes into the movie.  Made it much more enjoyable.

I thought about that, but I've watched it about 2.5 times now and figured the few things I didn't really understand weren't important to the story and I could guess what they are when you put them into context of the conversation.
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Post by: Stogi on May 03, 2010, 02:22:11 PM
Very enjoyable even if it was a little hard to understand some of the things they were saying.

I turned on subtitles about 10 minutes into the movie.  Made it much more enjoyable.

Same here. Not only were the accents a little jarring, but Holmes especially mumbled and spoke quickly. It was much better after the subtitles. It was like Brad Pitt in Snatch (well not that bad).

Ink

Worst fucking movie/10

I don't even want to explain myself because there really is no need. Avoid it at all costs.

Avatar: Bluray

I miss 3D/10

It still is a wonderful movie, but the world that seemed so real on the big screen seems so fake now.
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Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on May 03, 2010, 02:31:05 PM
Avatar: Bluray

I miss 3D/10

It still is a wonderful movie, but the world that seemed so real on the big screen seems so fake now.

I hear there is a special edition coming out in Nov. (possibly to the theaters first?) and it should be in 3D with special features on the disc too.
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Post by: Stogi on May 03, 2010, 02:38:48 PM
I'd be interested in the special features and also if there's a directors cut (the only part of the movie I didn't like was when they cut away from Jake about to tame the giant dragon; I hope they shot that). 3D on a bluray though....I'm not about to buy a 4000 tv and sunglasses for Avatar. Besides I heard a directors cut of it was coming back to IMAX 3D this summer.

And I also heard they were making a sequel which pisses me off, cuz I don't see the need but I undestand why they would make one (to make another billion dollars I'm sure).
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Post by: Halbred on May 03, 2010, 02:41:27 PM
Two things:

1) I never saw Avatar on the big screen. I kept waiting for it to come to the dollar theater but it never did. *sigh*

2) There WILL be a sequel. James Cameron has said that it's going to focus on the oceans of Pandora. I assume this is because James Cameron has a boner for sealife, but also because he's curious about what kinds of creatures live beneath the waves.

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on May 03, 2010, 02:42:42 PM
It could be the movie was hitting again in the summer and the DVD release would be in Nov., I didn't really pay that much attention since I still haven't seen Avatar. But if it's coming back to the theater this summer, maybe I'll just go see it in 3D and skip the DVD release.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on May 03, 2010, 03:01:47 PM
It's unbelievable how much of a difference there is between Bluray and IMAX. I really recommend you see it in IMAX 3D. Do yourself a favor and pay the extra 3 bucks. There's really been nothing like it before. Hell I watched it three times in IMAX. I was forced to act like I've never seen it before, but that wasn't a big deal. It's a lot of fun.

And it's going to focus on sealife huh? That's interesting since you never see them. I figured the plot would be that the humans return to conquer the planet.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Shorty McNostril on May 03, 2010, 04:17:00 PM
Apparently the Nov release is all the special features with the movie.  The release last week was the movies only.  Even the Bluray has no special features whatsoever. 

The 3D release is coming next year apparently.  But stuffed if I'm paying another $6000 for a 3D set up.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on May 03, 2010, 10:12:43 PM
"oceans of pandora" sounds like a badass title in itself
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on May 03, 2010, 10:31:31 PM
I just watched the first Back to the Future movie. I loved it! I don't think I had ever seen the whole thing or had forgotten most of it. 9/10 for me. Hopefully the second one comes in the mail soon and I can continue the series.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on May 03, 2010, 10:35:36 PM
Are you the one that asked where the HYPE TRAIN gif came from?

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on May 03, 2010, 10:38:57 PM
"oceans of pandora" sounds like a badass title in itself

agreed.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on May 04, 2010, 10:43:31 PM
I don't remember the last time i posted in this thread and am too lazy to check so i'm gonna give quick reviews here of the last few movies i remember seeing:

kick-ass: 7/10, coulda been better. his gf was HAWT

the losers: 6/10 never read the comics so i might be missing some stuff, but it felt like it just ended to abruptly. wasn't a satisfying ending (for me)

nightmare on elm st redux: 6/10 better than i thought but still ****. much better than the Friday the 13th redux

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on May 05, 2010, 10:37:23 PM
I just watched The Dark Knight, it was better than I expected (I didn't like Batman Begins). It does start to drag on near the end though, they really would have been better off chopping 15 minutes from the movie. The movie also re-affirmed my opinion that Christian Bale is a horrible Batman. I give the movie 4/5.

I also watched the bonus disc, which was obviously just BS so they could market it as a two-disc set (I have seen plenty of movies with bonus discs that were well worth it). You get to watch the IMAX scenes from Disc 1 (lazy), the 3 trailers for the movie (meh), production stills (which are always boring), a piss-poor feature on audio, a somewhat decent 16 minute video on the tech upgrades (like the improvements made to the Batsuit and how they explained the changes in the movie using the same reasons they really did it). The only extras I did like were the Gotham Tonight webisodes. These extras were not good enough to warrant their own disc. For anyone thinking about renting it through something like Netflix, get the movie and skip the bonus disc.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on May 05, 2010, 11:19:59 PM
SWEAR TO ME
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on May 06, 2010, 12:52:42 AM
You on something TJ? Because what ever it is you're taking, I don't want none of it.

I would agree that he does go hard out with the whole cement truck Batman voice, but to say that he is a horrible Batman?

It is demanded that you explain yourself to a jury of your peers.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on May 06, 2010, 04:25:33 AM
Are you the one that asked where the HYPE TRAIN gif came from?

Yes. Yes I was. And I just got #2 today.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on May 06, 2010, 11:38:46 AM
You on something TJ? Because what ever it is you're taking, I don't want none of it.

I would agree that he does go hard out with the whole cement truck Batman voice, but to say that he is a horrible Batman?

It is demanded that you explain yourself to a jury of your peers.

Maybe I should have been more specific. The fighting and movement is fine. His Batman voice is horrible and I don't buy him as Bruce Wayne either.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: vudu on May 06, 2010, 01:25:09 PM
I don't think Christopher Nolan is good at directing fight scenes.  There are too many quick cuts that make it difficult to follow along.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on May 06, 2010, 07:07:02 PM
i thought Bale was better as Wayne in Batman Begins, but even better as Patrick Bateman..if Patrick Bateman wasn't a murderer and was a vigilante who dressed up as a bat and went by the name of Bruce Wayne than he would be Batman. Bateman drop the E. Wayne is best played as a yuppie Playboy, its a front for something much darker, however in The Dark Knight you see more of Wayne's Private side, not his public Wayne face. Robert Downey's Stark is starting to make Bale's Wayne look bad. I think however Stark is 70% playboy 20% Superhero, but he manages because he has a more bad-assed suit.

I agree on the Nolan fight scene thing, I've watched too many kung fu movies to be satisfied with closeup quick cuts. Thats totally 80's VHS Full screen crap. I was going to say maybe Bale isn't that good at following fight scene directions, but then i remembered how awesome a movie Equilibrium was.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on May 06, 2010, 07:49:51 PM
Nightmare on Elm Street - 7/10

It was alright, but I really like the fond memories I have of the old series. I haven't watched a NoES movie in a really long time, but the 1st one was the only movie to ever give me nightmares (where I would wake up with scratches... but eventually I killed Freddy. so the scratches stopped *I'm 100% serious BTW*). This new version was alright, but I'll wait to see what direction the sequel takes before I write this one off. I love how the older series turned into a parody of itself after awhile. New Freddy lacks the charm & wit of old Freddy, but a sequel could show him being a little more playful with his victims now that he has embedded his fear factor into them.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on May 06, 2010, 10:43:56 PM
I was surprised he had some one liners at the end of the film, it was the only time it really felt like Freddy.
I don't want him to be incredibly cheesey like he was in the later films, but this Freddy lacked personality until the end.

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on May 06, 2010, 10:48:35 PM
^ I agree. It doesn't need to be 80's cheesy, but they have to ramp-up the Freddy fun factor while keeping the horror intact.

Maybe in a sequel they can also do more false sense of security by not immediately changing the scenery and let the victim and the audience not know right away when they are in dream land.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on May 07, 2010, 05:45:00 AM
Iron Man 2 - As good as the 1st if not better.

If you liked the first you will like the second.
I only have 2 complaints.
How did Rhodey know which suit was his and that it would work for him? Did I miss something? I remember a scene in the trailer where Start told Rhodey that he made a suit for him, but it wasn't in this movie.... was it from the first movie?
&
The whole new element scene was very rushed. Seemed like if it was something that easy he would have atleast been onto it before hand. I don't mind that they skipped through it for time reasons, but it just seems like there should have been more to it.

9/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Shorty McNostril on May 07, 2010, 06:07:16 PM
Q1.

That suit wasn't built for him.  That was the mark 2 suit from the first movie.  But presumably both men are identically dimensioned.  But I was under the impression that the suit was powered from Tony's chest piece, so I don't know how it was working for Rhodey.  So yeah, a bit more explaining would have been nice.


Q2.

I must admit it didn't even notice this.  I thought it was fine personally.  Plus I liked the Captain America reference in that scene and the little gag at the end of it.


Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on May 07, 2010, 08:18:59 PM
Q1.

That suit wasn't built for him.  That was the mark 2 suit from the first movie.  But presumably both men are identically dimensioned.  But I was under the impression that the suit was powered from Tony's chest piece, so I don't know how it was working for Rhodey.  So yeah, a bit more explaining would have been nice.


Q2.

I must admit it didn't even notice this.  I thought it was fine personally.  Plus I liked the Captain America reference in that scene and the little gag at the end of it.

the thing about Q1 is Pepper Pots mentions that the suits have a built in safety mechanism that prevents unauthorized usage of the suits... which were built to fit Tony Stark while using the energy core in his chest. That would have made for an uncomfortable fit for Rhodes considering he doesn't have a 4 inch hole in his chest to house the energy core so that the chest of the suit could fit him.

But like i said, I remember a scene(from a trailer?) where Stark told Rhodey that he made a suit for him.... it just wasn't in the movie though.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on May 08, 2010, 05:01:38 AM
Ravenous 8/10 I always liked this movie
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on May 09, 2010, 08:20:45 PM
Iron Man 2 gets an A

I wasn't sure it was going to be good or not, because they way things were going from the first one it couldn't go anywhere but downhill. This was every bit as good as the first one. I LOLed a couple of times when I saw him building the particle accelerator I knew what he was doing, building a mini CERN[/b]
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on May 10, 2010, 03:22:12 PM
Batman/Superman: Public Enemies  Power Girl FTW/10

I have no idea what continuity this takes place in. Why would the American people elect Lex freaking Luthor as President? That didn't make any sense. However, the ensuing partnership between Bats and Supes was pretty cool. The fight scenes were great, although the Toymaker's final solution was a little...silly (how long did it take you to build that, exactly?).

The big news is that my favorite superheroine, Power Girl, makes her debut animated appearance. I'm torn about her design here. Power Girl will always be the artistic property of Amanda Conner for me, but this isn't terrible, just...a little too loose. I'm glad this movie strayed from the usual DC Animated Universe look (Batman: Animated/Superman Animated/JLA Animated), although most of the characters looked too beefy.

If you're a fan of the DC Animated Universe, this is a decent rental.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on May 10, 2010, 03:52:51 PM
I am a fan of the real DC Animated Universe that shared the same continuity (i.e. Batman: The Animated Series, Batman Beyond, Superman: The Animated Series, Static Shock, Justice League), now the label is used to describe any animated DC movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on May 10, 2010, 05:58:57 PM
Iron Man 2: equal to the first one 3.5 stars
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on May 11, 2010, 02:47:51 AM
I really despise holidays when my folks are in town (which is sadly nearly all of them), because they always mean one thing: having to endure "family time" watching a usually thoroughly-dreadful piece of cinematic garbage that "looked interesting" to my folks in the Redbox machine.  It's usually pure torture for the better part of a day, especially since it usually takes my family an average of 2 hours to get through every 1 hour of a movie due to constant stops (and in the case of Mothers' day, having to sit through the tedium that is my mom forcing me through page after Facebook page of wedding photos of childhood friends I haven't seen since I was a child).  Just a couple movies here from the last few gatherings (Mothers' Day and Easter):

Marley & Me - 7/10 - Honestly, this one wasn't too bad, and it's based on a true story.  It's also probably the only decent movie I've ever seen Owen Wilson in.  Where it suffers is that....well...it's a Hollywood dog movie that doesn't involve a dog saving the day.  It sadly ends just about how you'd expect, which is hard for me to sit through (especially since the movie telegraphs it coming long before the end).  The movie also suffers from some painfully slow pacing.

Mean Girls - 5/10 - A perfectly average and formulaic movie starring Lindsay Lohan and the painfully unfunny comedians "stars" of the most recent crop of Saturday Night Live rejects comedians.  Lohan is alright, and apparently this movie was her last role as a decent person.  The person, oddly enough, who stands out is Tina Fey, probably the only member of the most recent cast of SNL comedians I actually like, in a quiet role as a simple mathematics teacher.  I don't know, I suppose you'd have to have been a petty teenage girl at some point to really "get" this movie, but my biggest problem with it is that it follows the oh-so-typical narrative arc of "nerd joins popular kids, becomes a jerk herself, and then redeems herself once she learns the power of friendship; love; the Heart of the Cards; etc."  It's not a bad movie, just nothing special.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on May 11, 2010, 02:56:54 AM
Thanks for giving birth to me, Mom!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Sessha on May 11, 2010, 03:06:16 AM
You created me mom so I guess your to blame from the love that I hear just from hearing your name your tender as cornbeef and warm as pastrami, I Wuv my mommy
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on May 11, 2010, 11:07:18 AM
I liked Mean Girls. It get an automatic bonus point because if Lindsey Lohan had still looked like that today, she wouldn't be the hot mess that she is now. that was the last time she looked good and 1 of the only 2 movies I've ever seen her in that were watchable(Specifically to stare at her.... what happened to you Lindsey!??).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on May 11, 2010, 12:59:41 PM
Four Christmases Meh/10

Forgettable. Kristin Chenoweth, as usual, is the high point. The film is otherwise dominated by Vince Vaughn (who is genuinely funny) and Reese Witherspoon's chin.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on May 11, 2010, 01:06:04 PM
Four Christmases Meh/10

Forgettable. Kristin Chenoweth, as usual, is the high point. The film is otherwise dominated by Vince Vaughn (who is genuinely funny) and Reese Witherspoon's chin.

Ugh, that was the "family time" movie I had to sit through last Christmas, and it is truly horrible.  It's a shame, too, because the cast is fantastic.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Caliban on May 13, 2010, 12:05:09 AM
I don't consider it a movie, but I watched "Zeitgeist - The Movie". It was interesting. Yup.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on May 13, 2010, 04:55:05 AM
Four Christmases Meh/10

Forgettable. Kristin Chenoweth, as usual, is the high point. The film is otherwise dominated by Vince Vaughn (who is genuinely funny) and Reese Witherspoon's chin.

Ugh, that was the "family time" movie I had to sit through last Christmas, and it is truly horrible.  It's a shame, too, because the cast is fantastic.

I'm glad my folks have much better tastes in movies than your folks. Dad just picked up Avatar. Even on holidays the movie choices tend to be of higher quality.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on May 13, 2010, 05:05:00 AM
Starship Troopers 8/10

its funny because this movie works on multiple levels. On one hand its a b-movie filled with gore, and bug blasting. On the other hand its like a summer blockbuster type movie. On another hand its about desensitization to violence, and fascism. So, i bought it for 99cents on vhs at a thrift store, but today i just noticed it on hulu.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on May 13, 2010, 07:51:36 PM
Kick-Ass

FUCKING EPIC/10

Who directed this movie? Is was masterfully done. Nolan could take a few pointers from the fight scenes because I could see everything at all times. I swear I must have rewound one scene ten times. Fucking epic.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on May 13, 2010, 07:53:30 PM
so you have your own personal movie theater or do you wear an eye patch Unagi? :P
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on May 13, 2010, 07:59:05 PM
Kick-Ass

FUCKING EPIC/10

Who directed this movie? Is was masterfully done. Nolan could take a few pointers from the fight scenes because I could see everything at all times. I swear I must have rewound one scene ten times. Fucking epic.

The guy who directed that movie is the same director currently signed on for directing Xmen: First Class

which is the same guy that was signed on to direct Xmen III(after current director left to abort Superman Returns for us) until he backed out at the last minute and left us with Bret Ratner to butcher and then stitch back together the 3rd Xmen movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Shorty McNostril on May 14, 2010, 04:59:34 PM
Bryan Singer is not directing First Class.  He was initially going to but stood down to producer instead for other (forgotten) reasons.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on May 14, 2010, 05:13:47 PM
I didn't say Brian Singer was directing Xmen: First Class. reread the post.

I said the Kick Ass director is signed on to direct Xmen 1st Class. He was also signed on to direct Xmen III (after current direct [B. Singer] left to abort Superman Refunds [my ticket price]) until he backed out at the last minute and left us with Bret Ratner to butcher and then stitch back together the 3rd Xmen movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on May 14, 2010, 06:52:09 PM
Chaplin 8.8/10 **** J. Edgar Hoover, that guy ruined so many lives...

its on Hulu
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on May 14, 2010, 10:36:10 PM
Legion - 7/10

This movie was better than I thought it would be. It was a holy war type of scenario with an angel coming to earth to protect the innocent. Special effects were surprisingly good and one scene made me think HawkMan or ArchAngel. I expected something mildly entertaining enough to sit through, but it was better than that.


Daybreakers - 6.5/10

I was sorta excited to see this since I like Vampire movies, but this was disappointing.The effect were good and the resolution was actually kinda funny if you think about it, but I just don't like the way the "fix" for the movies main problem is handled. It's about a world were just about everyone has become a Vampire and they farm humans for blood. But they are running low on humans so they need a "TrueBlood" substitute otherwise the Vampire race is doomed to starve. spoiler  on how they solve the problem and why it's kinda funny they "cure" to vampirism is to survive a sunlite bath basically burning the vampire out of you. you are instantly cured and there is no burn marks or scars or damage of any type. Once you are cured and turned back into a human, your blood is now the cure. Why is this kinda funny? Near the end, the Vampires surround the cured human who now has cure blood and the nearest Vampires attack him since human blood is so scarce, they can't pass up the opportunity to get it when they can. Problem is that once you drink the blood, moments later you become a human too, so all the Vampires behind them noticed that they turned human, and attacked them, so on and so on and so on until there where just a few cured humans standing around wondering what the hell just happened to them.
Unfortunately I found that to be the only thing I liked about how they handled the "fix" for the situation. Vampire fanatics might like, everyone probably not.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on May 14, 2010, 10:43:36 PM
I don't consider it a movie, but I watched "Zeitgeist - The Movie". It was interesting. Yup.

I just recently saw it too! it was pretty interesting, but not as interesting as my brother hyped it up to be. Scary part is, i had a dream about it a few days later..

Ironman 2 - 8/10

I liked it. I wanna party with Stark, that scene was the best haha. It did feel a lil lacking in story however, but whatever I wasn't expecting much from it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on May 14, 2010, 11:20:52 PM
isolated from the rest of the movie, that scene is an 11/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Caliban on May 15, 2010, 12:10:57 AM
I don't consider it a movie, but I watched "Zeitgeist - The Movie". It was interesting. Yup.

I just recently saw it too! it was pretty interesting, but not as interesting as my brother hyped it up to be. Scary part is, i had a dream about it a few days later..

There's a second Zeitgeist movie by the way, Zeitgeist 2 Addendum, which I just watched and I liked it a lot more than the first one.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on May 15, 2010, 09:20:26 PM
Saw (I) - 9/10 - I was over at my best friend's house today, helping him hook up and get used to his new PS3, when I noticed his brother had quite a collection of movies I had never seen, but had at one time been vaguely interested in.  So while I was there, I borrowed a number of them to take a small break from my recent 3D Dot Game Heroes binges, and this was the first movie.  Honestly, I've heard really terrible things about the Saw series, namely that it's yet another in a long line of extremely popular, relatively low-budget horrible horror movies that managed to take what little creative spark it had and run it into the ground.  However, watching this first movie, I can definitely understand how this series gained traction, because this movie is excellent.  I really like how slowly the movie builds to its climax, yet it never succumbs to losing its tension thanks to a very well-integrated cuts between multiple timelines and an interesting premise.  The acting is also excellent, though it tends to ramp up into almost cartoonish levels of cheesy overacting by the end.  In fact, the ending was really my only problem with this movie, as it's a blatant tease for a long line of sequels.  I plan on checking out the second movie, but from what I've heard I'd better stop there.

I was almost tempted to drop it a few points due to the presence of multiple Lost cast members, but that would just be silly.  ;)

In case you're curious, the other two movies I borrowed were The Last Samurai and Constantine.  I'll be getting to those shortly.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on May 15, 2010, 11:26:40 PM
yep no point in watching past saw 2...the thing is though, that they all integrate together..so theres like a huge continuum, but it gets way too complex. By the 4th movie I don't see how anyone could care whats going on anymore.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on May 15, 2010, 11:49:43 PM
I've seen them all.... I've lost track of what was going on and can not comment on the continuum of the story sense I obviously didn't follow it all that well (too long of a break between watching sequels mixed with watching too many movies in general).

After the 3rd one it just started to seem very forced and I just wasn't buying it anymore. Yet I'll probably watch the next one and the one after that, if there is one.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on May 15, 2010, 11:57:56 PM
exactly. i can't comment on the continuum either because it went over my head for the reasons you listed. Not only that but the saw series is one that throws about 20 red herrings at you per movie. By the time youve seen x number of movies you've seen 20 * x amount of red herrings.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on May 16, 2010, 12:09:24 AM
You know what we should all do is have a NWR Critics Theater 3000 (only it'll have a much more clever name :P) where we all pick a movie once every week, or every other week* and we all watch it, then we all comment on the parts of the movie worth commenting about** while also rating the movie.

It might work best if some of us could time the start of the movie as if it were on TV, but an ongoing discussion about one particular movie at a time could be interesting.


*we pick a movie on a schedule that works for the majority that wants to participate, I'm only making a suggestion at this point.
**nit-picking movies to death could be pretty fun especially when we all shred parts of the movie that the rest of us might not have noticed anything wrong with.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on May 16, 2010, 12:17:05 AM
its like imdb but better

I was watching this movie called Funhouse today 6/10, and I was thinking about how Id love to Mystery Science Theater it. It starts off so well, but then it gets dumb as **** and i begin to hope people die.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on May 16, 2010, 12:20:02 AM
2 couples in a Funhouse overnite?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on May 16, 2010, 12:24:12 AM
You know what we should all do is have a NWR Critics Theater 3000 (only it'll have a much more clever name :P: : ) where we all pick a movie once every week, or every other week* and we all watch it, then we all comment on the parts of the movie worth commenting about** while also rating the movie.

It might work best if some of us could time the start of the movie as if it were on TV, but an ongoing discussion about one particular movie at a time could be interesting.


*we pick a movie on a schedule that works for the majority that wants to participate, I'm only making a suggestion at this point.
**nit-picking movies to death could be pretty fun especially when we all shred parts of the movie that the rest of us might not have noticed anything wrong with.

Sounds kind of fun.  I'm in, if you all decide to do it.  Anyway...

Constantine - 7/10 - Wow, I was expecting a dumb Keanu Reeves action movie and I got...actually, I'm not quite sure what I got.  Apparently, this movie is based on a DC Comics character, which from the looks of the movie is some kind of Noir series about an antihero fighting off the minions of Heaven and Hell.  Interesting premise, but man I can't help but feel that this movie wasn't written for me, the average viewer.  Going by the constant unexplained story elements; large cast of characters; and abilities and symbols seemingly made up as the story goes along; and a story seemingly told in media res, this movie was only made for the die-hard comic book geeks.  I actually kind of liked the movie and especially liked the world they created here, but there's a lot to take in with this movie and it can be very hard to follow (I still don't understand the significance of the 2 sisters, as well as how the Spear of Destiny's apparently the only thing capable of opening the doorway).  It's also kind of a hard movie to watch because the pacing's all over the place.  The special effects are very nice, though, and some of the casting's very inspired (I especially liked they guy who plays Lucifer).  At times, though, I'm not sure whether the movie wants me to take it seriously or not, such as when Constantine pulls out that ridiculous cross-shaped Tommy Gun (a gun that wishes it were as awesome as this (http://home.fuse.net/Sweikata/MikeMidTerm/Cross2.jpg)) that fires golden bullets that apparently instant-kills demons.  This is just a very odd movie, one that takes itself too seriously to be enjoyed as a fun, dumb action movie and one that's not cohesive enough to enjoyed as a serious noir adventure story.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: NWR_insanolord on May 16, 2010, 06:38:10 AM
its like imdb but better

I was watching this movie called Funhouse today 6/10, and I was thinking about how Id love to Mystery Science Theater it. It starts off so well, but then it gets dumb as **** and i begin to hope people die.

Someone made a movie out of the NWR Funhouse?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on May 16, 2010, 05:20:58 PM
its like imdb but better

I was watching this movie called Funhouse today 6/10, and I was thinking about how Id love to Mystery Science Theater it. It starts off so well, but then it gets dumb as **** and i begin to hope people die.

Someone made a movie out of the NWR Funhouse?

I'd wait in line for the opening of that movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on May 16, 2010, 06:42:29 PM
Iron Man 2: Stuffed with Content/10

The focus is coming off individual characters. It's clear that Marvel has a series of movies in mind here. Way too much setting-up for the next few movies. Robert Downey Dr. is always a hoot, and I really liked how he and ... Rhodes were shown basically in the suit this time.

How'd Rhodes learn to use that suit so well?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on May 16, 2010, 07:27:55 PM
there are a couple of B movies on Hulu..so that could be a start
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on May 16, 2010, 08:04:27 PM
You know what we should all do is have a NWR Critics Theater 3000 (only it'll have a much more clever name :P) where we all pick a movie once every week, or every other week* and we all watch it, then we all comment on the parts of the movie worth commenting about** while also rating the movie.

It might work best if some of us could time the start of the movie as if it were on TV, but an ongoing discussion about one particular movie at a time could be interesting.


*we pick a movie on a schedule that works for the majority that wants to participate, I'm only making a suggestion at this point.
**nit-picking movies to death could be pretty fun especially when we all shred parts of the movie that the rest of us might not have noticed anything wrong with.

I'd actually be down with that since I watch at least a couple movies a week.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on May 16, 2010, 08:24:57 PM
I do too. Sounds fun. I recommend Puppet Master for our first edition. It's on Netflix Instant, and it's an 80's horror movie with bad puppet work. How bad can it be?

*very bad*
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on May 16, 2010, 08:36:41 PM
its on hulu too, so im definitely down for puppet master..not to be confused with the puppet masters
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on May 16, 2010, 11:02:04 PM
I suggest "The Labryinth"

1. cuz it was directed by Jim Henson
2. cuz it has muppets
3. cuz David Bowies in it

And 4. cuz I've never seen it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on May 17, 2010, 12:00:40 AM
So we've got 2 movie suggestions, the 1st - Puppet Master (which I've never actually watched) is on Hulu & Netflix, which means everyone could watch it

and we have Labyrinth, which is only on Netflix.

So when does everyone want to start and what should we call the thread?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on May 17, 2010, 12:21:20 AM
So we've got 2 movie suggestions, the 1st - Puppet Master (which I've never actually watched) is on Hulu & Netflix, which means everyone could watch it

and we have Labyrinth, which is only on Netflix.

So when does everyone want to start and what should we call the thread?

I'm for Labyrinth, a movie I've never seen as well and shouldn't be that hard to acquire.  I have some unfinished business in 3D Dot Game Heroes I'd like to attend to the next few days (damn you, Moonblade and your ridiculous unlock requirements!), so how's Tuesday/Wednesday?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on May 17, 2010, 02:09:05 AM
i own Labyrinth, and that would be on my list..but its like a nostalgic favorite. On the flip side there is Dark Crystal which is similar to Labyrinth except I didn't watch it as a kid..so i don't get all nostalgic over it, and when I did watch it...I thought it was weird as ****. On the David Bowie issue...aside from his music...my love of David Bowie comes from Labyrinth. On the other hand, last time I watched it..it wasn't as good as I remember.

Another suggestion is a Schumacher Batman movie.. Batman and Robin is terrible. On the other hand its kinda interesting in how bad it is. If you look hard enough you can get a 4 pack of the 89-97 series of Batman for 13.99+ tax at Wal-mart. Speaking of which, Batman Returns sucks alot more than I remembered too. Danny Devito is still great. Pfeifer is cheesey hammy ****.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on May 17, 2010, 02:17:45 AM
i own Labyrinth, and that would be on my list..but its like a nostalgic favorite. On the flip side there is Dark Crystal which is similar to Labyrinth except I didn't watch it as a kid..so i don't get all nostalgic over it, and when I did watch it...I thought it was weird as ****. On the David Bowie issue...aside from his music...my love of David Bowie comes from Labyrinth. On the other hand, last time I watched it..it wasn't as good as I remember.

Another suggestion is a Schumacher Batman movie.. Batman and Robin is terrible. On the other hand its kinda interesting in how bad it is. If you look hard enough you can get a 4 pack of the 89-97 series of Batman for 13.99+ tax at Wal-mart. Speaking of which, Batman Returns sucks alot more than I remembered too. Danny Devito is still great. Pfeifer is cheesey hammy ****.

The problem with going with Batman & Robin is that the bar on mocking that movie has already been set here (http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/234-batman-and-robin), and no one's going to top that so it's pointless to even try.  ;)

I'd be open to either Labyrinth or Dark Crystal since I haven't seen either, more the latter than the former because not even the Nostalgia Critic/Chick has tackled Dark Crystal yet, so I'd pretty much be going into that fresh.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on May 17, 2010, 02:35:26 AM
I liked The Dark Crystal when I was a kid, but I watched it not too long ago and that movie was so boring. One of those movies I wish I had left to the semi-fond memories of my childhood.

I'm up for either movie (Labyrinth or Puppet Master) since they are both on Netflix.
The Dark Crystal is on Netflix too BTW, but I'd prefer many other movies before we got to that one.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on May 17, 2010, 04:17:54 AM
Labyrinth would be fun. Never seen Dark Crystal but it is in my Netflix queue.

When my friends and I were watching Labyrinth there was a part where the girl is running through the labyrinth and the background music had a familiar bass beat like an NES game I knew. I spontaneously started singing the Super Mario Brothers level 1-2 music 'da-da-du-du-da-da' and it fit in perfectly with the beat. Everyone quickly joined in and we all sang a few rounds of the song together. Hilarity ensued.

You could call the thread 'Mystery Funhouse Theater'.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on May 17, 2010, 10:58:24 AM
I don't consider it a movie, but I watched "Zeitgeist - The Movie". It was interesting. Yup.

I just recently saw it too! it was pretty interesting, but not as interesting as my brother hyped it up to be. Scary part is, i had a dream about it a few days later..

There's a second Zeitgeist movie by the way, Zeitgeist 2 Addendum, which I just watched and I liked it a lot more than the first one.

Yeah, funny you mention that because my brother just recently informed me. I can't remember which one we saw though, I feel like he made us watch the 2nd part before the first. I'll probably check them both out again soon.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UltimatePartyBear on May 17, 2010, 01:48:09 PM
The Deal - 8/10  William H. Macy plays a man suicidally bored with his pathetic Hollywood Z-list existence, which is so terrible that his car won't even run long enough to kill him.  He only staves off further attempts by entertaining himself by playing the entire Hollywood machine for a bunch of suckers.  Every scene in which he plays someone is a perfect 10, but part way through the first half I found myself starting to grow bored.  Fortunately, there's a big plot turn (that the blurb in my onscreen guide spoiled), and things got moving again.  The blurb in the guide made it sound like a different kind of movie, so it benefited from being a more intelligent comedy than I expected, too.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on May 17, 2010, 01:58:23 PM
Having recently seen Labyrinth, I can assure you all that it is a terrible film.

David Bowie is a plus.
You'd THINK that Jennifer Connelly would be a plus, too, but she spends the entire movie being whiney.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on May 17, 2010, 02:08:35 PM
Having recently seen Labyrinth, I can assure you all that it is a terrible film.

David Bowie is a plus.
You'd THINK that Jennifer Connelly would be a plus, too, but she spends the entire movie being whiney.

I too have recently watched this one again.
It falls under the same category as Dark Crystal, only this movie was more entertaining but still should have stayed a fond memory of my childhood. That said, it would be a good candidate for being picked apart and made fun of.

I'm gonna make the thread in the Funhouse(using Stratos' suggested name) and link to it here.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UltimatePartyBear on May 17, 2010, 02:38:39 PM
My dad tried taking me to see Labyrinth when I was little.  The goblins in the intro scared me so much I refused to watch any more, so the manager let us go into the next theater.  I think they were showing Hot Shots in there.

I finally watched Labyrinth a few years ago, and I kind of liked it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on May 17, 2010, 03:01:40 PM
Sooo...when is this new movie critic thread starting? Or should I start singing 'Dance Magic Dance' until someone starts it?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on May 17, 2010, 04:06:58 PM
Soon. I was about to make it earlier, but I was trying to do something special with it.
(I obviously am procrstinating far too much and need to be more productive)

1st movie will be Puppet Master though and the start watching date will be Wed. or Thursday with commentary throughout the following week or two.

How should we format it? 1 movie a week?
a set time for every to start watching and commenting?

I'll start on it right now though so we can get this going.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on May 17, 2010, 06:59:17 PM
Yes. Watch the movie one week, comment on it for a week, start the next movie the following week.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on May 17, 2010, 09:50:51 PM
MYSTERY FUNHOUSE THEATER!!!  (http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/forums/index.php?topic=31343.msg609333#msg609333)

I made this thread about 6 times, but the stupid laptop I'm using keeps shutting off in the middle of typing.
I finally started typing in WordPad and saving after every batch of text, and after several restart..... here we are.

I'm tossing this laptop off the roof of the tallest building I can find as son as I get a replacement.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on May 17, 2010, 10:32:29 PM
Oh god.. Labyrinth..

Even as a kid I felt embarrased watching Bowie prance around like that. Still, it had some scenes I liked, disturbing or not (like when she's falling and all those hands are reaching at her.. yeesh)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on May 17, 2010, 10:42:22 PM
Make some other suggestions in the thread, we need more than one option in the poll.

Also on Wed. I'm gonna put up the Boxshot and summary for the movie we will be watching.
so everyone go make suggestions.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on May 19, 2010, 10:58:48 PM
(http://i42.tinypic.com/24oyttk.jpg) (http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/forums/index.php?topic=31343.0)


The 1st movie up  for the Mystery Funhouse Theater is
Puppet  Master
Mystery Funhouse Theater has already begun

MYSTERY  FUNHOUSE THEATER!!! (http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/forums/index.php?topic=31343.0)
 Now Playing: Puppet Master (http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/forums/index.php?topic=31343.0)


There are 2  ways that you can join us for Puppet Master;
Hulu (http://www.hulu.com/watch/103126/puppet-master) & Netflix (http://www.netflix.com/WiPlayer?movieid=70118014&trkid=438381&strackid=e4ebb011faabc93_0_srl&strkid=607003694_0_0)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: GoldenPhoenix on May 20, 2010, 04:35:00 AM
Gothic Vampires from Hell - 4/10

Loved the music, but the movie was pretty low budget. The score would have been lower if I hadn't seen


Twilight - 2/10

Atrocious, not only how it rapes and pillages vampire mythos, but that it was a terrible movie with horrendous acting and story. Made me appreciate Gothic Vampires from Hell even more, and made my wait for True Blood to come back to turn into torture.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on May 20, 2010, 01:01:11 PM
Wonder Woman (new animated movie): Not bad/10
 
Hey, it's the first respectable treatment of the character I've seen in a long time. Also, Alfred Molina, so hey.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on May 20, 2010, 01:16:40 PM
I thought Twilight was pretty good (aside from making vampires sparkle in sunlight, what the hell was that?).

Hal, did you not like how Wonder Woman was treated in the Justice League/Justice League Unlimited shows?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on May 20, 2010, 01:40:54 PM
I don't have much experience with that show, but I've heard good things, yeah.

I don't know how--if at all--this new movie hooks up with the established DC Animated Universe continuity. The animation style is similar, but a bit more dynamic.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on May 20, 2010, 02:14:59 PM
I don't know how--if at all--this new movie hooks up with the established DC Animated Universe continuity. The animation style is similar, but a bit more dynamic.

While there's really nothing preventing it from being part of the DCAU continuity, officially that continuity ended with Justice League Unlimited.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on May 20, 2010, 03:04:51 PM
Yep. Now Time Warner calls any animated movie with DC characters as part of the DC Animated Universe, even if it contradicts something else in it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on May 22, 2010, 05:31:52 AM
Baby Blues- 7/10 holy **** another actual horror movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: MaryJane on May 22, 2010, 12:11:34 PM
Kick-Ass 8.5/10

Nothing like what I expected or was advertised, one scene in particular is beautifully directed, full of powerful imagery it is shockingly appropriate for the situation and simultaneously out of place in the movie. Great movie I might have rated it higher if it actually tried to be a little less funny--some of it seemed forced.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on May 22, 2010, 03:28:02 PM
Shrek 4: much better than shrek 3, but not all that great. Its kinda dark compared to the other shrek movies..

Oh and rumple is badass. He's insane, my 2nd favorite movie villain, right after Dark Knights Joker!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: GoldenPhoenix on May 22, 2010, 11:44:32 PM
The Toxic Avenger: 7/10

Not sure what I just watched but I could take my eyes away from it. Had some really gruesome scenes in it, including seeing a kid crawling for his life and a car running over his skull, crushing it. The movie never took itself seriously though, so that added a bit levity to gross.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on May 22, 2010, 11:49:03 PM
That movie is HORRIBLE and the 2 of 3 sequels that I've seen are even worse.

I would not have given the 1st one a 7, I would have given it a 5 with a * next to it stating that it was a campy, cheap, 'B' movie that was so bad that you just might enjoy it.... sorta.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on May 22, 2010, 11:55:59 PM
The Toxic Avenger is awesome. The sequels are horse ****, but the original is a pretty cool movie if you ask me. The scene GP mentioned absolutely makes me sick, but other than that it's quite fun to watch.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on May 22, 2010, 11:58:21 PM
The Animated Series is pure awesome. ;)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: GoldenPhoenix on May 23, 2010, 12:06:22 AM
That movie is HORRIBLE and the 2 of 3 sequels that I've seen are even worse.

I would not have given the 1st one a 7, I would have given it a 5 with a * next to it stating that it was a campy, cheap, 'B' movie that was so bad that you just might enjoy it.... sorta.

Still far better then Twilight.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on May 23, 2010, 01:43:27 AM
Better off Dead My personal favorite of all the 80s teen comedies. John Cusack loses his girlfriend to the hotshot head of the high school ski team and must get his life together to win her back. That's what he wants... right? Four stars
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on May 25, 2010, 12:17:07 AM
Saw II - 8/10 - Huh.  Even knowing ahead of time what kind of antagonists would be the focus of the later Saw movies, I didn't see the ending for this movie coming.  Overall, I enjoyed this movie, as it repeated themes of the first movie while still going down its own path.  What brought this one down for me was the artificial stupidity of several of the victims this time (seriously, the girl with the glass box was truly worthy of a Darwin Award).  Even knowing that this series has essentially hits its peak, I'm kind of curious now to see the rest of the movies.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: NWR_insanolord on May 25, 2010, 05:04:06 AM
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan - 10/10

One of my favorite movies, I just watched for the first time on Blu Ray, 1080p. It made an already great movie even better. Great all the way through, but the last third of it is just perfect; the greatest third of any movie ever. No matter how many times I see it, I always begin to cry at the end, which shows just how much of a crazy Trekkie nerd I am.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on May 25, 2010, 06:04:52 AM
I've actually been meaning to go back and watch all the Trek movies. I saw 4 on Netflix instant and watched it out of order. Now it seems 3 and 2 on on it as well. I just need the first one on there and I can get underway.

I recall 6 was my favorite when I was younger. I'm interested to see how my tastes have changes now that I am much older.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on May 25, 2010, 06:29:38 AM
What's Eating Gilbert Grape 8/10 it was pretty good, i can relate on a lot of levels.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: NWR_insanolord on May 25, 2010, 06:52:41 AM
I've actually been meaning to go back and watch all the Trek movies. I saw 4 on Netflix instant and watched it out of order. Now it seems 3 and 2 on on it as well. I just need the first one on there and I can get underway.

I recall 6 was my favorite when I was younger. I'm interested to see how my tastes have changes now that I am much older.

There's no reason to ever watch 1, 5, Insurrection, or Nemesis. 2's fantastic, 6 is fantastic, 4 and First Contact are really good. 3 and Generations are decent enough, and worth watching. 2-3-4 is a bit of a trilogy, but it doesn't really hurt that much to watch them out of order, although watching 3 before 2 could hurt the experience.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on May 25, 2010, 10:27:35 PM
The Animated Series is pure awesome. ;)

I remember this more than the movie, but i remember liking the movie as a kid..
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: King of Twitch on May 26, 2010, 01:56:00 AM
I've actually been meaning to go back and watch all the Trek movies. I saw 4 on Netflix instant and watched it out of order. Now it seems 3 and 2 on on it as well. I just need the first one on there and I can get underway.

I recall 6 was my favorite when I was younger. I'm interested to see how my tastes have changes now that I am much older.

There's no reason to ever watch 1, 5, Insurrection, or Nemesis. 2's fantastic, 6 is fantastic, 4 and First Contact are really good. 3 and Generations are decent enough, and worth watching. 2-3-4 is a bit of a trilogy, but it doesn't really hurt that much to watch them out of order, although watching 3 before 2 could hurt the experience.

I'm pretty much in agreement but I would put 4 as also fantastic instead of really good; fun fact: I think there's even a bluray trilogy bundle of 2-4.

You really have to shut your brain off in order to watch the TNG movies, and avoid the Redlettermedia reviews if you want to have any enjoyment of them.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on May 26, 2010, 09:40:07 AM
Most of the TNG movies are really good, better than most of the TOS movies for sure. I think several of the TOS movies are overrated (although I do like IV and VI). I don't really like Generations though, that was pretty boring.

Last night I watched Ratatouille from Netflix. It started a little slow and for the first five minutes I thought this was going to be the first Pixar movie I hate, but then it picked up. I have to admit that I cared more about Linguini's story than Remy's. Overall I would give it 5/5, although I was surprised to see no audio commentary and only a few bonus features.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on May 26, 2010, 11:26:32 PM
Last night I watched Ratatouille from Netflix. It started a little slow and for the first five minutes I thought this was going to be the first Pixar movie I hate, but then it picked up. I have to admit that I cared more about Linguini's story than Remy's.  Overall I would give it 5/5, although I was surprised to see no audio commentary and only a few bonus features.

Yeah, that's what the Blu-Ray's for, apparently.  I have it, and they extremely gimped the standard DVD release on the bonus features in favor of the Blu-Ray, which has hours of them.  As for the movie itself, it's alright though far from my favorite Pixar effort (that being The Incredibles).  Having been in Paris, though, their depiction of what Paris streets are like is shockingly accurate considering all the caricature.  They give in to the temptation to glamorize the buildings, though, as Paris in real life is falling apart really badly and is kind of ugly outside of the historical buildings.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on May 27, 2010, 02:53:11 AM
Saws 3-5 - 7/10, 4/10, and 4/10 respectively - Yeah, I've actually finished watching all 6 Saw movies while playing Resonance of Fate's optional content (i.e. "grinding"), and frankly at times it's been difficult to discern which is the more painful experience.  Saw 3 is actually a decent movie, still having a little of the wit that drove the first two movies and having a nice bookend that finishes the Jigsaw trilogy.  The second trilogy, however, is just bad.  It's confusing (movies 3-6 take place in overlapping timelines), the traps are increasingly ridiculous, the stories are vapid, the characters are either amazingly brilliant (I guess Jigsaw left behind copies of the script considering how quickly they figure out exactly how the traps work) or amazingly stupid, and it's obvious after a while that the cast and crew are just phoning it in now.

You might have noticed I left Saw 6 mostly out of that discussion, and for good reason: that movie inspired just seething anger that I feel a rant coming on (one that hopefully the mods allow me a little leeway with because it skirts one of Linus Van Pelt's big taboos), and if you've seen the movie you might have a good idea why.  I'm going to sleep on the matter on post my thoughts on that movie later, when I can better channel my disgust into something relatively short and understandable.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on May 29, 2010, 04:14:57 AM
MacGruber 8/10    One particular scene made me laugh my ass off, while I was laughing my ass off some old people left the theater, the old man muttered to his wife "this is sick!"
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on May 30, 2010, 09:11:37 AM
the Outlaw Josie Wales 8/10 pretty good

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: RABicle on May 30, 2010, 11:04:43 AM
Prince of Persia: Sands of Time
3/5
Solid, better than Avatar.

Toy Story 2
4/5
Too many lame pop culture references to be perfect.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on May 30, 2010, 11:21:01 AM
Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder: 5/5. Easily tied with the first Futurama movie in terms of quality. They were making this movie under the impression that it would be the end of Futurama (this was before they announced the deal with Comedy Central), so they wrapped up several of the story arcs, including at the very end. I love that they killed 2 members of the Waterfall family.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: 3/5. Maybe it was the DVD copy I got, but the movie was almost unwatchable in the night scenes because almost the whole screen would be pitch black (day scenes were fine and I know it's not my TV). The story was pretty good, even if the basic formula that every Harry Potter movie follows is getting old, and I don't get why Hermione would be attracted to Ron (I haven't read any of the books).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on May 30, 2010, 11:53:59 AM
hmm weird when I saw half-blood prince in theaters i remember it being dark, but not so dark that it was a bother to watch the night scenes..screwy DVD transfer? Maybe some guy didn't know what the **** he was doing over at Warner :P I hate bad transfers.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on May 30, 2010, 12:20:09 PM
I've seen bad transfers in other movies, it is pretty annoying. It is especially annoying when it is the Blu-ray Disc version of a movie, they are charging a premium for the discs and are too lazy to get it right (not to mention the Blu-ray movies that look like a VHS copy).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: RABicle on May 30, 2010, 01:02:51 PM
I don't get why Hermione would be attracted to Ron (I haven't read any of the books).
It's just the old, they're mean to each other because they like each other. If it sounds childish it's because they're kids.

Jaded fans claim that the Ron / Hermione thing was inserted into the later books because of the success of the funny little moments in the third film (see the first Buckbeak scene). Those fans are idiots and will all die sad, lonely deaths.

And yeah, sounds like a **** transfer, it was very watchable in theatres.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: NWR_insanolord on May 30, 2010, 10:47:01 PM
Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder: 5/5. Easily tied with the first Futurama movie in terms of quality. They were making this movie under the impression that it would be the end of Futurama (this was before they announced the deal with Comedy Central), so they wrapped up several of the story arcs, including at the very end. I love that they killed 2 members of the Waterfall family.


That reminds me, I bought that movie when it came out and haven't yet watched it. It doesn't surprise me that it's great; it was written by Ken Keeler, who also wrote Bender's Big Score and was, in my opinion, the best writer the show ever had.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on May 31, 2010, 11:37:45 AM
Keeler also wrote the original series finale "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings", which I thought was a great episode. He was a great writer and I hope he is one of the writers they brought back (I think so since he was also a producer).

The movie was filled with references to past Futurama episodes, the whole plot (this is not a spoiler) is based on the fact that Fry doesn't have any delta brain waves (due to the fact that Fry went back in time and became his own grandfather).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on May 31, 2010, 11:17:37 PM
Episode 1: The Phantom Menace OHMYGODITSSOAWFUL/10

It was on TV. I got about halfway through it before I couldn't take it anymore. I forgot how George Lucas betrayed The Force.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on May 31, 2010, 11:21:24 PM
Episode 1: The Phantom Menace OHMYGODITSSOAWFUL/10

It was on TV. I got about halfway through it before I couldn't take it anymore. I forgot how George Lucas betrayed The Force.

Are you saying he betrayed the law (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6cyDsuNx_U)?   ;)   Yeah, I remember kind of liking Phantom Menace when I saw it in theaters on opening night, but like Episode 2 it's just a movie I can't bring myself to watch anymore.  At least Episode 3 is bearable and we got an awesome CG Star Wars prequel series out of it in Clone Wars.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on June 01, 2010, 12:41:46 AM
well if you take out Jar Jar and Anikin, Phantom Menace is pretty good. Then the movie is just Jedis kicking ass.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: RABicle on June 01, 2010, 01:45:18 AM
It's not Perm. It's all awful.
HOw wold you describe Qui Gon as a character? You can't. "Qui Gon? Oh he's, he's jedi like, he's a jedi"
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on June 01, 2010, 01:55:33 AM
HOw wold you describe Qui Gon as a character? You can't. "Qui Gon? Oh he's, he's jedi like, he's a jedi"

Unfortunately, he's played by Liam Neeson, so he kind of falls under the same category for me as Morgan Freeman: I really don't care how bad their characters are, because as far as I'm concerned the two of them could just sit there and read a phone book for 2 hours (also known as the extent of Neeson's character in Fallout 3) and I'd be satisfied.  The two of them just have that certain character to their voices and stage aura on-screen.

Honestly, Qui Gon was probably the least problem that Phantom Menace had, anyway.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on June 01, 2010, 02:42:31 AM
It's not Perm. It's all awful.
HOw wold you describe Qui Gon as a character? You can't. "Qui Gon? Oh he's, he's jedi like, he's a jedi"

and Jedis are awesome, especially if they are played by Liam Neeson, actually to be honest he wasn't a big star in my eyes until he did The Phantom Menace, I had watched him in other movies, but he didn't stick in my head till then.

now lets discuss the Attack of the Clones
the clone wars was a wooden acted movie about how Anakin and Padmé are about to get together, that is, unless its scenes where Obi Wan is investigating the clones and Jango and Boba Fett, those are the best parts of the movie.

I enjoyed Revenge of the Sith, and I waited in line forever to watch it, but I don't remember a damn thing about the movie except "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
the other thing about it I remember is DS had just came out, and I got to test it in the 1 hour wait inside the plex while I waited for the previews to start. Pictochat was awesome, obviously it went from darth vader drawings to penis and boobs. We played some games too.

Heartbreak Ridge 8/10 anything with Clint Eastwood automatically gets an 8 just for having him.





Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: GoldenPhoenix on June 01, 2010, 03:29:46 AM
HOw wold you describe Qui Gon as a character? You can't. "Qui Gon? Oh he's, he's jedi like, he's a jedi"

Unfortunately, he's played by Liam Neeson, so he kind of falls under the same category for me as Morgan Freeman: I really don't care how bad their characters are, because as far as I'm concerned the two of them could just sit there and read a phone book for 2 hours (also known as the extent of Neeson's character in Fallout 3) and I'd be satisfied.  The two of them just have that certain character to their voices and stage aura on-screen.

Honestly, Qui Gon was probably the least problem that Phantom Menace had, anyway.


I actually agree, Morgan and Liam are amazing!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on June 01, 2010, 05:16:05 AM
I actually felt Qui-Gon was one of the more interesting characters in the prequels. Granted, a lot of it was merely alluded to, but the implications of the whole 'Grey Jedi' and how he was one was always interesting to me as a Star Wars nerd.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on June 01, 2010, 12:11:38 PM
No need to MFT Phantom menace now.
You guys have already handled that movie here.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on June 02, 2010, 03:44:35 AM
No need to MFT Phantom menace now.
You guys have already handled that movie here.

Nah, we should just put the Star Wars Holiday Special on MFT rotation. The second Ewoks live action movie could have some potential as well. That was was crazy bizarre from what I recall. Medieval monsters and witches on Endor in a castle = lol.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on June 05, 2010, 05:53:08 AM
Alice in HeyThisPlaceLooksFamiliarLand

Did she just Crip Walk at the end!? Seriously?
This was the continuation of the original Disney movie? I wasn't feelin' it at all. It wasn't the worst movie ever, but I just have to ask why? I know it made a lot of money for Disney and all, but seriously, WHY?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on June 05, 2010, 06:04:21 AM
Burn After Reading - 9/0. In a word: WTF! Just quirky oddly brilliance.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on June 06, 2010, 03:18:04 AM
Shutter Island A well made, well shot film, but it feels like it betrays its audience in the end. I need to see it a second time to rate it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on June 06, 2010, 04:23:26 AM
Alice in HeyThisPlaceLooksFamiliarLand

Did she just Crip Walk at the end!? Seriously?
This was the continuation of the original Disney movie? I wasn't feelin' it at all. It wasn't the worst movie ever, but I just have to ask why? I know it made a lot of money for Disney and all, but seriously, WHY?

Dude, just watched it today as well. And I feel so disappointed in it. I'm glad I didn't go to the theaters for it. I wanted to love it, I really did. But it just never clicked. The whole Crip Walk part was really... disturbing as well. Johnny Depp sold this movie. The music was really nice, thought it felt out of place for the film at times I felt. It's Alice in Wonderland, not Pirates of the Caribbean, Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on June 06, 2010, 09:46:27 AM
I am not surprised, it seems stupid even just going by the trailers and commercials. Tim Burton is just not that good of a director in my opinion. He got lucky with Edward Scissorhands, but most of his movies suck (I thought The nightmare Before Christmas was vastly overrated, Charlie ad the Chocolate Factory was nowhere close to as good as the original movie, and so on).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on June 06, 2010, 04:49:11 PM
And by saying Depp sold the movie I mean to the masses, not for me.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BeautifulShy on June 06, 2010, 05:09:05 PM
Well I just saw the Directors Cut of The Butterfly Effect. It is basically the same movie as the one in the theaters except for the ending.
It took a few times of watching the theater release to get all of the nuances of the film but it is very enjoyable.

5/5
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on June 07, 2010, 03:07:03 AM
Year One Charming but only mildy funny. Two Stars for lack of historical accuracy.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: GoldenPhoenix on June 07, 2010, 03:08:32 AM
Year One Charming but only mildy funny. Two Stars for lack of historical accuracy.

 I seen that, I would agree with the score.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on June 07, 2010, 11:42:27 AM
Safe House (1998)
 
  Starring Patrick Stewart and Kimberly Williams.
 
  Seeing that Patrick had got himself knighted inspired me to look for a  movie that had him I have never seen yet. It lead me to Safe House.
 
  Mace Sowell (Patrick) is an retired spy who lives in paranoia and early  stage Alzheimer's in a heavily wired up house, never going out without  a disguise. His daily routine is an all encompassing and designed to  keep him safe. It is played brilliantly and convincingly showing that  Patrick never phones in a performance no matter the job or budget.
 
  His supporting cast while not the same calibre as Stewart are well  played. Stewart who easily could have destroyed them on screen is the  ever aware actor, helps improves everybody around him. Andi Travers  (Kimberly) plays her usual (Smoking hot) smart ass chick as seen in According to Jim but with class. It is Stewart who is rude and to the outside observer insane.

The directing is adequate along with the sound design. There aren't many sets, but the house where most of the movie takes place contains it's share of surprises. The odd prop are noticeably cheap.

The script isn't bad but could have gone in a really bad direction had another cast been selected. It contains several arcs where you are shown different points of view from other characters that doesn't move the plot forward, but are there to enhance the main characters. What is really surprising though is how deep, for a fairly low budget movie it looks at Alzheimer's. It could have played out as a straight comedy, but instead it plays out as a dark comedy with far better results instead of Pink Panther. Alzheimer's can be funny, but having lived with somebody with it for a short period of time myself, the real thing is nothing to laugh at.

One additional note, if you have some sort of revulsion to seeing Patrick naked with only shadows and a bit of soap bubbles covering him, yeah, well it's in here.

A gem of a movie, abet a small one polished into a winner with some good actors.

8/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on June 07, 2010, 03:09:49 PM
Captain Picard was knighted? NICE?

I think I already said this awhile back, but the wife and I saw "Alice in Wonderland" in theaters. I hated every second of it. I didn't agree with ONE IOTA of the art direction, and the entire movie was art direction. Always nice to see Ann Hathaway, but Helena Bonham Carter was obnoxious, the Knave of Hearts was out-of-place, and the Mad Hatter is not supposed to HAVE a backstory.

In fact, Wonderland is not supposed to BE cohesive. It is a dreamscape, not a PLACE. The old Disney cartoon version is still the definitive version, although it has WAY too much filler.

Anyway. I just put "Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood" on my Netflix queue. Seeing as I love the original anime, I'm excited to see how this one differs from it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on June 07, 2010, 03:27:14 PM
Anyway. I just put "Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood" on my Netflix queue. Seeing as I love the original anime, I'm excited to see how this one differs from it.

It doesn't aside from a few minor plot points, at least in the first 13 episodes available in that set (yeah, I own it).  From a storytelling perspective, it puts the plot on warp drive and speeds through the first 30 episodes or so of the first series in the space of only 13.  As a result, I just don't find the story as compelling because it assumes you've seen the first series, as lovely as the visuals look.  From what I hear, the divergence from the first series doesn't start until episode 15 or so. 
 
Even still, this show has a lot to live up to, since I'm a big fan of the first series and am rather annoyed that Bones listened to all the whiners complaining that the first series wasn't a carbon copy of the manga (the first series caught up with the manga around episode 30 or so and had to make its own path from there on out).  This show is just...superfluous, but at least it isn't another moe show like 90% of the trash out of Japan these days (yeah, I'm just a little jaded about the direction anime's gone over the years).
 
EDIT:  Much like the Hellsing Ultimate series, this new series also has a problem being so slavishly loyal to the manga that it has these annoying "Manga-ism" moments where the characters just suddenly look all goofy with childish pencil sketching and whatnot.  Unlike the first series, which tended to use its comedic moments well, these moments in the new series just come off as "HEY,  LOOK AT US!  WE'RE LIKE THE MANGA!  YOU LOVE THE MANGA!  LOOK AT US, WE'RE LIKE THE MANGA!".  All the subtlety of an atomic bomb.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on June 08, 2010, 11:38:49 PM
I finally got a chance to watch
Fantastic 4 7.9/10

I had attempted to watch it, but it was always on TBS or FX which have these annoying DVD on TV stuff, which take a regular movie and make it 4 hours long making it unbearable to watch. Not to mention if I ever meet the hosts of that show, I will punch them in the face.

Fantastic 4 is nowhere near as bad as I thought it was going to be, I think Reed Richards was miscast. Thing's look could have been better executed. I mainly watched this movie to see how Captain America did as the Human Torch, and I have to say that he's good enough at being a scene stealer that when he actually is the star he may command some presence which is a good thing. Overall the movie was pretty good, but not GREAT. I give it nearly an 8, but not quite.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on June 13, 2010, 01:52:16 AM
Shutter Island 8.3/10 It was pretty well made, but it was too predictable. Someone told me that when they saw it that it was nothing like the previews. It was exactly what I thought was going to happen in the movie based off of the previews...still well made.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on June 13, 2010, 11:41:32 PM
Be Kind, Rewind: Pretty good/10

Even though it's only an hour and a half long, it feels like a lot could've been cut. I thought Jack Black was miscast, maybe because he was the only white guy in the movie, and he didn't have a Jersey accent, and his conspiracy theory thing just kind of disappeared after a half hour.

But the movie's core was good, the remakes were funny, and I liked the ending.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Caterkiller on June 14, 2010, 02:56:07 AM
Karate Kid 9.5/10

I loved it and not because I'm a kung fu guy. It was a great retailing of an old story. That little boy had me going, and it was a surprising serious role out of Jacky Chan. The hits looked hard and brutal to, especialy since it was mostly kids getting beat up.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Spinnzilla on June 14, 2010, 03:52:18 AM
A-Team.

so f**king awesome/10

I went in with really low expectations and pretty much blown away at just how good the movie turned out.  The acting is what really wins in this film, which Rampage Jackson does a surprisingly good job.  The action is way, way over the top and captures the spirit of 80's action films very well.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UltimatePartyBear on June 17, 2010, 05:14:52 PM
Anyway. I just put "Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood" on my Netflix queue. Seeing as I love the original anime, I'm excited to see how this one differs from it.

It doesn't aside from a few minor plot points, at least in the first 13 episodes available in that set (yeah, I own it).  From a storytelling perspective, it puts the plot on warp drive and speeds through the first 30 episodes or so of the first series in the space of only 13.  As a result, I just don't find the story as compelling because it assumes you've seen the first series, as lovely as the visuals look.  From what I hear, the divergence from the first series doesn't start until episode 15 or so.

It was some kind of crazy cross between drudging and drag racing getting through the recap, and now that the new stuff is here, I hate it.  To be fair, I only hate the new characters from Xing (some kind of fantasy cross of China [pandas] and Japan [ninjas]).  It feels like "You got your Ranma in my FMA!"  "You got your FMA in my Ranma!" only when you go to taste it you retch and change the channel.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on June 17, 2010, 08:02:58 PM
Get Him to the Greek: 7/10

It wasn't as funny as I had hoped, and some parts of the movie felt a little slow and went without laughs or were funny enough to make me chuckle, then again there were some really HUGE laughs scattered around, and just enough to give this movie an above average rating.

I should deduct a point for showing male ass (and I won't spoil which character for you). I'm not a homophobe and male nudity in comedies is usually pretty funny (Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story) as long as its not overdone (Bruno), but this one was just gross and not very funny.

For those that don't know this is a spin-off of "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" but you won't be missing anything from GHttG if you miss the other one, save for one joke that refers to a character from the other movie. Fair warning though, the Russel B. might be a little hard to understand from time to time if you're not good with accents.

I'd love to watch this movie again with a "Jeffrey" though.. it'd be twice as funny I bet.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on June 17, 2010, 08:13:53 PM
Is there any female rackage to balance out the dude-butt?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Caterkiller on June 20, 2010, 03:37:50 AM
Toy Story 3 - 10 out of a freakin 10!

Man toy world is scary and dark in my opinion. You live to get tossed out! I have never been so emotionaly invested in ANY type of media. There was one scene that had my fiance embarrased to be next to me. I wasn't making noises or anything but I just couldn't help but cry the way I did! I mean I really felt like crying like the world was going to end. Sorry to over hype it for the rest of you. MAN I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE IT AGAIN!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: AV on June 20, 2010, 10:58:14 AM
Toy Story 3 - 10 out of a freakin 10!

Man toy world is scary and dark in my opinion. You live to get tossed out! I have never been so emotionaly invested in ANY type of media. There was one scene that had my fiance embarrased to be next to me. I wasn't making noises or anything but I just couldn't help but cry the way I did! I mean I really felt like crying like the world was going to end. Sorry to over hype it for the rest of you. MAN I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE IT AGAIN!


I really loved the movie too.


It would have been awesome if they had Optimus Prime Transformers Toy voiced by Peter Cullen in the movie.


Here is my review:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ISWEeCx57E (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ISWEeCx57E)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: MaryJane on June 20, 2010, 01:23:22 PM
The Secret of Kells - 8.9/10

The visuals in this movie were amazing, sort of Samurai Jack but done with more finesse, color, and dimension. The story was also top-notch and based on a true story about the writing of the 'Book of Kells'. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Kells (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Kells)

I was disappointed in the ending, but after finding out the true story part I understand, but I wish the writer or director would have taken the liberty of having Brendan come back with the book and defeating the army that destroyed Kells , if they had done that, I would give this a 10/10.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: kraken613 on June 21, 2010, 01:14:48 AM
Toy Story 3 10/10

It's Pixar I don't expect any less.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on June 21, 2010, 01:21:42 AM
one day i had to do a report on the book of kells...i had to go look at this

i had to be watched and wear gloves

http://www.library.arizona.edu/exhibits/illuman/pre9_07.html
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: MaryJane on June 21, 2010, 09:09:41 PM
Just fyi the movie is not religiously motivated, I should have put that in 1st post.
one day i had to do a report on the book of kells...i had to go look at this

i had to be watched and wear gloves

http://www.library.arizona.edu/exhibits/illuman/pre9_07.html

I would love to see something like that...
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on June 23, 2010, 02:15:36 PM
Toy Story 3

Short cartoon before the movie: Crap
Movie itself: 11/10

Has The Incredibles been uprooted as my favorite Pixar movie? Yes. One of the key reasons? Toy Story 3 has a Totoro in it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on June 25, 2010, 01:29:26 PM
Karate Kid (2010) 8/10

A lot more enjoyable than i thought it would be, and Jaden Smith was pretty decent in it for the most part. Jackie Chan had a surprising emotional scene, albeit feeling a little out of place as there was no precursor for it.

I don't remember much of the any of the Karate Kid movies to be honest, but there was one part that I thought they'd do the "wax on, wax off" gag and didn't. There was also a moment where I was hoping for a "sweep the leg!" but it didn't happen either. Damn. They probably should have paid those tributes considering they did borrow a few other things from the series..

I was about to be dissapointed when the ending looked like it would copy the same crane-stance kick as the original, but to my surprise the finishing move was completely unexpected and simply awesome to see!

And just to nitpick, the movie should get deduced a few points for not actually having any karate in it :P
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: AV on June 25, 2010, 06:01:53 PM

Short cartoon before the movie: Crap


How can you say that? It was such a clever use of hand drawn animation and digital animation to make a very unique story come alive. It's the kind of movie that Walt Disney would make, it was so magical and simple and universal in appeal.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on June 27, 2010, 12:25:31 AM
A Team 9/10

action packed, this is more like it

Funny People 9/10 was a really good movie
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: MaryJane on June 27, 2010, 05:53:35 PM
Robin Hood: 6.5/10 meh
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on June 27, 2010, 09:55:47 PM
Up: 4/5 stars. It was a little slow to start and I wasn't that interested in the antagonist, but the movie is a LOT better than I expected. I love Pixar, but I thought I was gonna hate the movie based on the trailers. It was touching seeing Carl eventually bond with Russell, including the ending.

Even though i've seen the movie before, I watched Ghostbusters on TV today and it's still a good movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on June 27, 2010, 11:03:29 PM
Raptor Island: 0.00001/10

Wow. It's almost too bad to mock with friends. Don't worry, we'll have the audio up before long.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: MaryJane on June 29, 2010, 06:56:37 PM
City Island: Indie flick with Andy Garcia 8/10. It's one of those 'normal life with a believable twist' indie flicks, but it is really good and Andy Garcia delivers a great performance.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on June 29, 2010, 07:43:17 PM
Where the Wild Things Are: Intolerable/10

My wife and I turned the movie off about twenty minutes in, because we both HATED Max. We hated him with a passion matched only by our hatred of Nazis.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on June 29, 2010, 08:57:51 PM
wasn't Max August Rush?

August Rush 7.8/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: jrlibrarian on June 30, 2010, 01:11:30 PM
wasn't Max August Rush?

August Rush 7.8/10

No, August was Freddie Highmore, while Max was played by Max Records.
 
Bicentennial Man: Another good movie with Robin Williams in it (AR). 8/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on June 30, 2010, 01:17:47 PM
Here is my review:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ISWEeCx57E (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ISWEeCx57E)

Question -where'd that "Coming Soon" poster from the beginning of the review come from?  I ask because it features a character not in the movie.  A character they make a point to mention that's not in the movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: jrlibrarian on June 30, 2010, 04:11:40 PM
Here is my review:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ISWEeCx57E (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ISWEeCx57E)

Question -where'd that "Coming Soon" poster from the beginning of the review come from?  I ask because it features a character not in the movie.  A character they make a point to mention that's not in the movie.

I'm pretty sure that it was a fake poster made from images from Toy Story 2. Still a great third movie, however.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: SilverGrey on June 30, 2010, 05:28:27 PM
Here is my review:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ISWEeCx57E (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ISWEeCx57E)

Question -where'd that "Coming Soon" poster from the beginning of the review come from?  I ask because it features a character not in the movie.  A character they make a point to mention that's not in the movie.

I'm pretty sure that it was a fake poster made from images from Toy Story 2. Still a great third movie, however.

I've seen it twice, and both times my experience was interrupted by the children in the theater screaming in terror.  I think Toy Story 3 was made mostly for people who grew up on the series, as opposed to the children of today.  I wish more parents did research before taking kids to movies that may cause meltdowns.  I felt the same way when 2 kids were taken out of the theater when I saw Pirates of the Caribbean and heard the mom muttering 'this is supposed to be a DISNEY film!!'
I really liked Toy Story 3 though, excellent, but I still really love Toy Story 2.
I also loved the short at the beginning of the film, but not as much as I loved the one with the magician pulling the rabbit out of the hat.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: jrlibrarian on June 30, 2010, 10:01:02 PM
Here is my review:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ISWEeCx57E (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ISWEeCx57E)

Question -where'd that "Coming Soon" poster from the beginning of the review come from?  I ask because it features a character not in the movie.  A character they make a point to mention that's not in the movie.

I'm pretty sure that it was a fake poster made from images from Toy Story 2. Still a great third movie, however.

I've seen it twice, and both times my experience was interrupted by the children in the theater screaming in terror.  I think Toy Story 3 was made mostly for people who grew up on the series, as opposed to the children of today.  I wish more parents did research before taking kids to movies that may cause meltdowns.  I felt the same way when 2 kids were taken out of the theater when I saw Pirates of the Caribbean and heard the mom muttering 'this is supposed to be a DISNEY film!!'
I really liked Toy Story 3 though, excellent, but I still really love Toy Story 2.
I also loved the short at the beginning of the film, but not as much as I loved the one with the magician pulling the rabbit out of the hat.

I was expecting to have TS3 interrupted by screaming kids, but for some reason, there were only about twenty people in the theater last friday, and none were below the age of 15.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on July 01, 2010, 06:14:44 AM
Here is my review:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ISWEeCx57E (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ISWEeCx57E)

Question -where'd that "Coming Soon" poster from the beginning of the review come from?  I ask because it features a character not in the movie.  A character they make a point to mention that's not in the movie.

I'm pretty sure that it was a fake poster made from images from Toy Story 2. Still a great third movie, however.

I've seen it twice, and both times my experience was interrupted by the children in the theater screaming in terror.  I think Toy Story 3 was made mostly for people who grew up on the series, as opposed to the children of today.  I wish more parents did research before taking kids to movies that may cause meltdowns.  I felt the same way when 2 kids were taken out of the theater when I saw Pirates of the Caribbean and heard the mom muttering 'this is supposed to be a DISNEY film!!'
I really liked Toy Story 3 though, excellent, but I still really love Toy Story 2.
I also loved the short at the beginning of the film, but not as much as I loved the one with the magician pulling the rabbit out of the hat.

That lady complaining about how it is supposed to be a Disney movie is probably the same one who bought Conker's Bad Fur Day for her kids because it was a 'Nintendo game'. LOL, the ratings are there for a reason. Are people really that daft or are they just naive in thinking that in spite of a higher rating that it will still be kid friendly miraculously just because "it's Disney"?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on July 01, 2010, 10:31:24 AM
Toy Story 3 got the same rating as Toy Story 1 & 2.

Rated G
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Dasmos on July 01, 2010, 10:52:19 AM
I saw most of Fantastic Mr Fox: 8.5/10

I can't help but really like Wes Anderson films.

Toy Story 3 got the same rating as Toy Story 1 & 2.

Rated G

Which was? Or do I have to hunt for it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on July 01, 2010, 10:57:40 AM
"G", for General. It means the MPAA considers the movie to be appropriate for people of all ages (I assume that is what you were asking). That means they consider is OK for anyone from 1-100 to see it, even by themselves (PG is what they use when they think little kids should have an adult with them).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on July 01, 2010, 10:58:53 AM
Toy Story 3 got the same rating as Toy Story 1 & 2.

Rated G

Which was? Or do I have to hunt for it.

It's in the post you quoted. I can bold it for you if you like...
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Dasmos on July 01, 2010, 11:06:08 AM
Oh wow, I didn't read the posts above. I thought the "rating" was what you thought of the movie. My bad...
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on July 01, 2010, 12:06:59 PM
G is for good, although i still haven't seen it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: SilverGrey on July 01, 2010, 03:05:39 PM
Here is my review:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ISWEeCx57E (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ISWEeCx57E)

Question -where'd that "Coming Soon" poster from the beginning of the review come from?  I ask because it features a character not in the movie.  A character they make a point to mention that's not in the movie.

I'm pretty sure that it was a fake poster made from images from Toy Story 2. Still a great third movie, however.

I've seen it twice, and both times my experience was interrupted by the children in the theater screaming in terror.  I think Toy Story 3 was made mostly for people who grew up on the series, as opposed to the children of today.  I wish more parents did research before taking kids to movies that may cause meltdowns.  I felt the same way when 2 kids were taken out of the theater when I saw Pirates of the Caribbean and heard the mom muttering 'this is supposed to be a DISNEY film!!'
I really liked Toy Story 3 though, excellent, but I still really love Toy Story 2.
I also loved the short at the beginning of the film, but not as much as I loved the one with the magician pulling the rabbit out of the hat.

That lady complaining about how it is supposed to be a Disney movie is probably the same one who bought Conker's Bad Fur Day for her kids because it was a 'Nintendo game'. LOL, the ratings are there for a reason. Are people really that daft or are they just naive in thinking that in spite of a higher rating that it will still be kid friendly miraculously just because "it's Disney"?

I think it's a little of both.  Pirates was unique in that it was released as a PG-13 'Disney' film, the first one actually, instead of one of the other film companies that people don't realize actually ARE Disney, but release films not aimed at children and families.  I guess in a way it's like Nintendo releasing M games?  It's just unusual.  But yeah, then you get people like that family who think Disney means light-hearted fun, and not undead pirates.

And in keeping with the theme of the thread, yesterday I watched Meet Joe Black for the first time.  Odd film, not sure how I feel about it, but overall enjoyable, if you like to cry.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Sarail on July 01, 2010, 03:26:59 PM
Watched Office Space for the first time last night...

8/10.  Quite funny.  Strange, but funny.  Favorite part?

"... PC load letter!? What the $^&# does that mean?!..."  Hehehehe...
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on July 01, 2010, 04:55:30 PM
Watched Office Space for the first time last night...

8/10.  Quite funny.  Strange, but funny.  Favorite part?

"... PC load letter!? What the $^&# does that mean?!..."  Hehehehe...

That movie is an instant modern classic and a must watch for anyone that has ever worked in a cubicled office environment.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on July 03, 2010, 02:56:21 AM
The Crazies
pretty good, not nearly as exciting as playing Lef 4 Dead 2, but it was good for what it was.

The Wolfman
I can't make it through this movie for the life of me. How long is this movie? 4 attempts and I think I almost made it to the end.

Shes Out Of My League
This movie was also pretty good. There were a few decent laughs in this one. Good date movie.

Youth in Revolt
Not nearly as bad as I thought it would be. or should I say better than expected.

Valentines Day
Another not as bad as I expected movie. Taylor Swift was.... embarrassing would be one way to put it, but the scene was kinda funny.

Smokin Aces 2
Forgettable. That about sums it up.

Shutter Island
Not as good as I was hoping, but that's probably because I figured out what was going on early in the movie. but still a good movie.

From Paris With Love
This is no rush hour, but it had it's moments.... a few of them actually. Some where kinda funny. There was even a throw back to Pulp Fiction in there somewhere, you;ll know it when you see it. You can probably guess it already.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on July 03, 2010, 10:31:47 AM
From Paris With Love
This is no rush hour, but it had it's moments.... a few of them actually. Some where kinda funny. There was even a throw back to Pulp Fiction in there somewhere, you;ll know it when you see it. You can probably guess it already.

I think that was even in the trailer for the movie, so not a surprise.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on July 03, 2010, 02:27:35 PM
The Last Airbender - 5/10 (2D version)- Well, this wasn't the utter raping of my neo-childhood like I thought it would be, merely the equivalent of M. Night beating it half to death with a baseball bat.  I haven't seen such a perfect example of a spectacularly average movie in a long time, but let's get the good stuff out of the way: the music is good, the costumes (aside from the Fire Nation's, which are hideous) are excellent, the sets are good, and 3 actors were good-to-pretty decent (Katara, Zuko, and Iroh).  Some of the effects were also pretty decent, as was the bending choreography.   Everything else, though, was mediocre to awful. 

The thing that's most frustrating about the movie, though, is that it's often one step away from being awesome but never moves beyond that.  Every time it approaches that the threshold of being incredible, the movie suddenly turns skittish and backs down as if it's afraid that it was being presumptuous.  The bending itself is odd, because while the movement looks great (except for Fire Bending, which isn't kick-centric like it is in the TV series despite being based on the Northern Shaolin fighting style) the effects are so minimal it's ridiculous.  For example, early in this movie there's a bunch of Earthbenders staging a revolt.  They'll do this extremely complex movement that takes 5-10 seconds to execute, and a frickin' pebble will get thrown at someone.  And there's always a considerable delay in the character movements and the actual elemental bending, which is very distracting since it was fairly 1:1 in the TV series.  It's so frustrating in an action-centric movie like this that there isn't a single good action sequence in the entire movie.

The pacing is all over the place as well, with the first half tripping over itself to establish some sort of cohesive narrative.  As you might expect, the movie's full of plot holes, some of which the movie's kind enough to point out for us ahead of time.   :confused;   While Zuko' story and characterization is handled fairly well, no one else's is.  Katara and Sokka don't do a damn thing in this movie, either, and the movie conveniently overlooks that Katara always is a better bender than Aang the entire series.  Then you have the casting...man, the casting is this movie is incredibly hit-or-miss.  By far the worst actor is Aang himself, followed by that travesty of a little girl they apparently casted to play Azula (Azula's supposed to look evil and crazy, damnit!  Not a sweet little girl!).

This movie perplexes me.  It's not as horrible as I feared, yet not as good as I hoped.  Maybe it's just due to incredibly low standards after seeing all the reviews, but I can't bring myself to hate this movie.  It's just so...average.  On the upside, M. Night did the impossible and managed not to cast himself in a main role in this movie, which surprises me because the guy they have playing commander Zshao looks just like him.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on July 03, 2010, 06:04:28 PM
so instead of just throwing the pebbles first they do a dance to make the pebbles move? Its like kung fu idiocracy?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on July 03, 2010, 06:05:48 PM
so instead of just throwing the pebbles first they do a dance to make the pebbles move? Its like kung fu idiocracy?

In the movie, that's what it looks like.  In the TV series, it's much more organic (pun not intended) and powerful.  The complication of the movements in the TV series is proportional to the size of the attack, but in the movie it's just completely random.

EDIT: Link (http://www.youtube.com/watch#%21v=FHgftzFpWQk&feature=related) to fairly spoiler-free Avatar TV fight scenes so you get the general idea what the ones in the TV series are like (ignore the silly "Mortal Kombat" music.  It's hard to find Avatar compilation footage that doesn't use it).  As you can see, the movement is so fast in the TV series I have to wonder why they decided a Live Action movie was a good idea.   :confused;
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on July 03, 2010, 11:54:54 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2NKQZNMAO0

all Americans should watch this movie before they try to make a kung fu movie  2:28
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on July 04, 2010, 04:32:01 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2NKQZNMAO0 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2NKQZNMAO0)

all Americans should watch this movie before they try to make a kung fu movie  2:28

The above is normal.

With Americans you end up crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon which is a very meh, kung fu movie. It funny that they almost, always restrain themselves when making Kung Fu movies, but are happy to go Michael Bay at a drop of a coin.

A lot of those old HK Kung Fu movies are based off folk tales, of which a number are converted to comic books first or direct to movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on July 04, 2010, 05:52:26 AM
Prince of Persia - Yes i'm a little late but i did enjoy this film. It reminded me heavily of The Mummy 1/2.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on July 04, 2010, 11:26:24 PM
Date Night: Not as bad as you think going in/10

First off, it was my wife and my anniversary today. July 4th, easy to remember! Seemed like a fitting movie to see.

Certainly not a bad movie. Tiny Fey and Steve Carrell are both hilarious, and I find the former oddly attractive. It's one big running gag, but it's pretty well done.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: GoldenPhoenix on July 05, 2010, 02:29:27 AM
Prince of Persia - Yes i'm a little late but i did enjoy this film. It reminded me heavily of The Mummy 1/2.

Interesting, I loved both of those movies.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BeautifulShy on July 07, 2010, 12:06:25 AM
Karate Kid part 3.
4 out of 5.
Enjoyable movie. Ties up some loose ends from the first movie. Entertaining to watch.

Was the one where Daniel went to Japan part 2?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: SixthAngel on July 07, 2010, 02:35:34 AM
so instead of just throwing the pebbles first they do a dance to make the pebbles move? Its like kung fu idiocracy?

While the show has a flow between the kung fu move and the attack, there is no thrown punch that doesn't attack with something and the movement and the element movement fit together the movie is often nothing like that.

The movie attacks can often best be described as casting a spell by dancing.  After they finish their moves they complete the "spell" and the attack begins.  Considering that I fell in love with the show because of the amazing way they did the element bending this pretty much destroys the movie for me.

It is terrible.  I can't believe Night even changed how you say Avatar to (ovatar) because he says thats how they do it in the original sanskrit or something.  This is an american english movie, using american english.  I didn't hear anybody bitching about James Cameron's Avatar saying it the American way.  Kung Fu is english taking the word Gong Fu.  That doesn't mean I can change it back, its an english word now.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on July 07, 2010, 05:30:58 AM
The Last Airbender - 5/10 (2D version)- Well, this wasn't the utter raping of my neo-childhood like I thought it would be, merely the equivalent of M. Night beating it half to death with a baseball bat.  I haven't seen such a perfect example of a spectacularly average movie in a long time, but let's get the good stuff out of the way: the music is good, the costumes (aside from the Fire Nation's, which are hideous) are excellent, the sets are good, and 3 actors were good-to-pretty decent (Katara, Zuko, and Iroh).  Some of the effects were also pretty decent, as was the bending choreography.   Everything else, though, was mediocre to awful. 

The thing that's most frustrating about the movie, though, is that it's often one step away from being awesome but never moves beyond that.  Every time it approaches that the threshold of being incredible, the movie suddenly turns skittish and backs down as if it's afraid that it was being presumptuous.  The bending itself is odd, because while the movement looks great (except for Fire Bending, which isn't kick-centric like it is in the TV series despite being based on the Northern Shaolin fighting style) the effects are so minimal it's ridiculous.  For example, early in this movie there's a bunch of Earthbenders staging a revolt.  They'll do this extremely complex movement that takes 5-10 seconds to execute, and a frickin' pebble will get thrown at someone.  And there's always a considerable delay in the character movements and the actual elemental bending, which is very distracting since it was fairly 1:1 in the TV series.  It's so frustrating in an action-centric movie like this that there isn't a single good action sequence in the entire movie.

The pacing is all over the place as well, with the first half tripping over itself to establish some sort of cohesive narrative.  As you might expect, the movie's full of plot holes, some of which the movie's kind enough to point out for us ahead of time.   :confused;   While Zuko' story and characterization is handled fairly well, no one else's is.  Katara and Sokka don't do a damn thing in this movie, either, and the movie conveniently overlooks that Katara always is a better bender than Aang the entire series.  Then you have the casting...man, the casting is this movie is incredibly hit-or-miss.  By far the worst actor is Aang himself, followed by that travesty of a little girl they apparently casted to play Azula (Azula's supposed to look evil and crazy, damnit!  Not a sweet little girl!).

This movie perplexes me.  It's not as horrible as I feared, yet not as good as I hoped.  Maybe it's just due to incredibly low standards after seeing all the reviews, but I can't bring myself to hate this movie.  It's just so...average.  On the upside, M. Night did the impossible and managed not to cast himself in a main role in this movie, which surprises me because the guy they have playing commander Zshao looks just like him.

so instead of just throwing the pebbles first they do a dance to make the pebbles move? Its like kung fu idiocracy?

While the show has a flow between the kung fu move and the attack, there is no thrown punch that doesn't attack with something and the movement and the element movement fit together the movie is often nothing like that.

The movie attacks can often best be described as casting a spell by dancing.  After they finish their moves they complete the "spell" and the attack begins.  Considering that I fell in love with the show because of the amazing way they did the element bending this pretty much destroys the movie for me.

It is terrible.  I can't believe Night even changed how you say Avatar to (ovatar) because he says thats how they do it in the original sanskrit or something.  This is an american english movie, using american english.  I didn't hear anybody bitching about James Cameron's Avatar saying it the American way.  Kung Fu is english taking the word Gong Fu.  That doesn't mean I can change it back, its an english word now.

Wow. You two just totally shat on my hopes and dreams. I've been so hyped about this movie for two years. TWO YEARS! I really hope it's not as bad as you say it is.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on July 07, 2010, 10:21:49 AM
Wow. You two just totally shat on my hopes and dreams. I've been so hyped about this movie for two years. TWO YEARS! I really hope it's not as bad as you say it is.

Dude, my review is probably as objective and kindly as you're going to find, considering this movie is already being widely hailed as a candidate for the worst film this year so far.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: SixthAngel on July 07, 2010, 12:02:48 PM
Wow. You two just totally shat on my hopes and dreams. I've been so hyped about this movie for two years. TWO YEARS! I really hope it's not as bad as you say it is.

Abandon all hope.  I was a big fan of the show so I had a lot complaints like the bending being different and I don't like the all white main characters and pretty much all asian extras.  Katara is basically a background character.  The acting is terrible, Iroh is the only one who stood out as doing a good job to me.  (though in the movie they say Eeroh).

If you weren't a fan I think the movie will be worse.  There were times when I wasn't barely sure what was going on because they jump from place to place with almost no explanation.  Without the show to help you know the different scenes it has to be really weird.  They even tell a ****load of stuff through exposition.  I'm watching the movie, don't tell me "Sokka loves Yue," don't tell me "Aang is having trouble with waterbending" show me!

Something I would have overlooked if the movie was good but since its not I couldn't get it out of my head is Noah Ringer's (Aang) jowls.  Every close up, and theres a lot show me this kid with an inexplicably (seriously he is really skinny) fat face and looks like he is always really sad because of it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: SixthAngel on July 07, 2010, 12:08:38 PM
The movie is so bad I accidently posted twice.  Dev Patel was ok and I really hope this movie doesn't kill his career.  I really liked Slumdog and would like to see him around some more.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on July 07, 2010, 01:31:45 PM
M. Night needs to stop making movies.
or atleast stop getting big studio movies and go independent.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on July 07, 2010, 03:39:48 PM
The Last Airbender (3D): Basically everything Broodwars said except I hated Katara's acting. It's like she was always crying for no reason. Aang looked like iCarly with her hair shaved off. The narration was over done at times. A lot of people said there weren't concerned with the casting of the extras (being too "white"), but it really just seemed all over the place (which was bad and confusing).

One major thing was how almost everything was pronounced wrong. This can work with a book, where pronunciation is up in the air, but with a TV that actually has sound, you can't mess that up. Both As are pronounced in "Aang," "Avatar" is AH-VAH-TAR, and the list goes on.

On to the 3D: It was barely used out side of the opening credits (company logos and such) and those little subtitles to tell you where the characters are. In fact, there was more 3D in the trailers before the movie than in the entire movie.

Overall, I give The Last Failbender a 3/10. It's still not a bad as Dragon Ball Evolution. As a general movie it was bad. As an adaptation it was worse.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on July 07, 2010, 03:43:13 PM
yeah, i think he needs to go independent for a while. I think he has the capability to be a good director, its just that when you look at things to macroscopically it is easy to screw up.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on July 07, 2010, 10:24:54 PM
Last Failbender????

*weeps*
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on July 08, 2010, 12:04:09 AM
Meet The Hollowheads WTF/WTF???
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on July 08, 2010, 12:07:23 AM
Last Failbender? :confused;

*weeps*

I'm kind of obligated to post this.  I saw this over at the Toonzone.net forums and no...I don't know who drew it, but it's pretty hilarious and sums the movie up well.  It's the Avatar "Gaang" reacting to seeing the movie!   :P:

(http://i26.tinypic.com/t00vg1.jpg)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on July 08, 2010, 12:54:31 AM
Haha that's pretty good. I had to look for more.

Check this one out!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfDk3I6di5E
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on July 08, 2010, 01:00:45 AM
Haha that's pretty good. I had to look for more.

Check this one out!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfDk3I6di5E (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfDk3I6di5E)

Yeah, there's been a lot of speculation that "The Ember Island Players" episode near the end of Season 3 was made pretty much to address the creators' opinions of the Last Airbender movie script.  I'm inclined to believe it was, considering just how out of completely nowhere that episode pops up right before the Series Finale.  Regardless, there's been a lot of referencing that episode from the fans in reacting to that movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on July 08, 2010, 01:04:05 AM
But the episode premiered before the M. Night signed on. How is that possible?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on July 08, 2010, 01:07:04 AM
But the episode premiered before the M. Night signed on. How is that possible?

The announcement that there was going to be an Avatar Live Action movie came out not too long after the Series Finale aired, so it isn't unreasonable to suspect that the producers saw which was the wind was blowing and decided to write their own commentary on the matter beforehand (remember, animation on that scale takes half a year or more to complete from the time the script is submitted to the animators and the lines are recorded).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on July 08, 2010, 01:11:41 AM
Maybe they heard it might become a movie, but there is no way they saw a script. I think they made that episode to make fun of the idea of a movie and not the actual movie that came out. That's why it's so funny how well it worked out.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on July 08, 2010, 09:29:23 AM
I should be seieng Predators in the next few days.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: SixthAngel on July 08, 2010, 11:16:05 AM
I should be seieng Predators in the next few days.

You don't see Predators, Predators see you.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Arbok on July 08, 2010, 12:59:33 PM
Reviews for Last Airbender should not be told in words, but in pictures:


(http://i.imgur.com/SL93L.gif)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on July 08, 2010, 01:38:39 PM
Reviews for Last Airbender should not be told in words, but in pictures:


(http://i.imgur.com/SL93L.gif)

That looks like a Kung Fu Dance Fight Music Video.
It looks like it's choreographed to that Soulja Boy Tell'Em song "Crank That (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UFIYGkROII)"
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on July 08, 2010, 02:11:43 PM
Reviews for Last Airbender should not be told in words, but in pictures:


(http://i.imgur.com/SL93L.gif)

That looks like a Kung Fu Dance Fight Music Video.
It looks like it's choreographed to that Soulja Boy Tell'Em song "Crank That (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UFIYGkROII)"

Yeah, that's seriously the worst sequence in the entire movie.  Just compare that with this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=541gq0qAlx8) and you'll get the full grasp of the sheer scope of Epic FAIL there.  Considering Toph is my favorite character in Avatar, I shudder to imagine how M. Night would butcher her awesomness if he was somehow granted clearance to make a movie covering Book 2.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on July 08, 2010, 03:02:06 PM
Oh, I've seen the cartoon and loved it, but I tempered my enthusiasm for the movie after remembering how I didn't like the last few M. Night movies.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: SixthAngel on July 09, 2010, 06:03:32 AM
Terrible scene.  I don't even know why those guys were even captured.  The prison isn't an oil rig like the show.  Aang comes in and gives Katara's speech and then basically says "There's earth all around you!" because everyone forgot.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on July 09, 2010, 02:52:34 PM
yes yes, it is idiocracy of kung fu... just pick up the rocks and throw them....
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on July 09, 2010, 03:02:16 PM
Hey, "Predators" came out today. I'll have to see that with some friends and report on its awesomeness.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: noname2200 on July 09, 2010, 06:32:48 PM
Terrible scene.  I don't even know why those guys were even captured.  The prison isn't an oil rig like the show.  Aang comes in and gives Katara's speech and then basically says "There's earth all around you!" because everyone forgot.

Wow...
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on July 10, 2010, 06:25:34 AM
Oh, I've seen the cartoon and loved it, but I tempered my enthusiasm for the movie after remembering how I didn't like the last few M. Night movies.

Looks like he wants to do some more: http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/movies/news/a241089/shyamalan-to-make-airbender-sequels.html
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TheBlackCat on July 11, 2010, 12:40:22 AM
I just got back from Predators.  For this who liked the others, particularly the first one, it is highly recommended.  It is definitely in the same vein (haha) as the first one, with several nice references to it.  Having a whole bunch of people who don't know each other, have completely different roles in life and personalities, and don't necessarily get along lends to more interesting character interaction a wider variety of fights.  There are also a couple good twists at the end (all painfully obvious, but cool to see in action nonetheless). 

My friends who aren't familiar with the predator movies found it fairly scary and had a lot of surprises.  Me, having watched the predator movies a few dozen times each and having read practically all of the comics, there weren't much in the way of surprises but the action was still cool.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on July 11, 2010, 12:57:45 AM
Does it make you a sexual Tyrannosaurus for seeing it like the first Predator? Be cause damn if I want to see what happened to Hopper's team.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TheBlackCat on July 11, 2010, 02:17:17 AM
I'm afraid there is only a brief explicit discussion of the first movie, more or less the same as the discussion about it in the second movie.  The references I was mentioning are similar lines or similar events.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Caterkiller on July 11, 2010, 01:23:20 PM
The Last Air Bender was the worst movie I have seen in a long time. The special affects were terrible! Momu and Apa looked terrible in certain scenes. Any time Ang ran up walls or did head springs it was laughable! The bending looked just as bad! Much of it was traditional chinese martial arts and it just made the actual bending during battles appear so slow! Ang swinging his lame glider/staff around was absolutely pathetic! Except for the Tai Chi, most of the martial arts was laughable.

I like how it did follow the actual tv series as far as story went, but since it is all condensed in less than 2 hours, you can't care about anyone! When the so called sad parts happen, who the heck would care? Even if you do watch the animation? The acting was god aweful most of the time. Except for most of the fire nation guys, I found them enjoyable to listen to.  The story went too fast, and it hardly had any epic scale to it.

Oh and how about the "epic money shots"? Did there have to be a slow motion shot of every fight scene? Everytime something like that happened I could only pick out the flaws in how bad everything looked.

HATE HATE HATE! 3/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on July 11, 2010, 05:13:18 PM
I love you beth cooper this wasn't as bad as everyone said it was/10

i didn't make the mistake of watching it at the theaters. I watched it on cinemax and was making hamburgers while watching it. It had some legitimately funny scenes like the towel fight. Pretty cliché teen movie, but not the worst thing I ever saw.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on July 11, 2010, 10:53:42 PM
ThePerm is wrong. "I Love You Beth Cooper" is a crime against the media form.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on July 11, 2010, 11:20:15 PM
Sorta related, I hate any movie Michael Cera is in. He was good on Arrested Development, but all of his movies are the crap that teenagers high on drugs think are somehow funny.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on July 17, 2010, 06:11:53 PM
Tron 8/10, i would like to give it a lower score, but its score would only be lower because i am too used to better graphics. If the same movie i just watched had the upcoming sequels graphics then that would be awesome.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on July 17, 2010, 07:46:55 PM
Tron 8/10, i would like to give it a lower score, but its score would only be lower because i am too used to better graphics. If the same movie i just watched had the upcoming sequels graphics then that would be awesome.

Don't say that too loud...they may hear you and do a remake...
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on July 19, 2010, 06:25:00 PM
Predators: GET TO THE CHOPPA/10

So awesome. Watched the first movie the night before, and I'm glad I did. Predators makes several awesome references to it. There's a pretty cool swordfight between a Yakuza dude and a predator, but the final fight between Adriann "Sexual Tyrannosaurus" Brody and the "spider-faced" Predator (it's hard to explain) takes the cake.

I will say that Topher Grace's "twist" toward the end is really, really stupid. Totally out of left field, and doesn't make any sense in the context of the story. If the Predators want able prey, they wouldn't cheat like that.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: kraken613 on July 19, 2010, 11:13:15 PM
Inception 10 out of fucking 10.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on July 20, 2010, 02:41:20 PM
Back to the Future: Apathetic Meh/10

Having not seen this film for the better part of two decades, I was interested to see if I'd like it. I sort of did, and sort of didn't.

Back to the Future 2: Let's Reuse Footage/10
ARE YOU SERIOUS? Insta-fail.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: jrlibrarian on July 21, 2010, 11:40:16 AM
Back to the Future: Apathetic Meh/10

Having not seen this film for the better part of two decades, I was interested to see if I'd like it. I sort of did, and sort of didn't.

Back to the Future 2: Let's Reuse Footage/10
ARE YOU SERIOUS? Insta-fail.


Now just watch part 3. You will find that for some reason, all the grandparents of those who lived in 1985 look exactly like their grandkids. Spooky...  :D
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on July 21, 2010, 02:27:49 PM
Part II wasn't that bad IMO; it was nowhere near as good as the first, but it was not all that bad. Part III gets too much hate, it's a pretty decent movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on July 21, 2010, 02:32:25 PM
Part II wasn't that bad IMO; it was nowhere near as good as the first, but it was not all that bad. Part III gets too much hate, it's a pretty decent movie.

I know I'm in the minority here, but Part II is probably my favorite of the trilogy.  I just love the spin it puts on Time Travel (specifically pointing out the dangers in it), as well as how it dove-tails into the first movie.  The first movie is a close second, though.
 
As for Part III, it's a movie I didn't care all that much for the first time I saw it.  Having grown up in a state that's largely made up of desert, Westerns with their abundance of sand and lack of technology just turn me off.  Over the years, though, I've developed an appreciation for the third movie and how it nicely wraps up the trilogy...
 
...Until Telltale Games came by to muck it all up with a new game.   ;)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on July 21, 2010, 02:53:14 PM
I just don't think I've ever seen a movie that actually takes place in ITS OWN PREQUEL. Maybe the two films were spaced like half a decade apart, and the audience was happy because of the nostalgia? I watched the two movies back-to-back and it felts like an ENORMOUS cop-out.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on July 21, 2010, 03:19:04 PM
Part II came out 4 years after the first, and Part III came out six months later (they filmed Parts II and III at the same time).

As brood said, I like how they actually explained the dangers of time travel. I remember the scene where Doc Brown explained to Marty that they couldn't just go back to the future to stop future Biff from stealing the De Lorean because they would be traveling to the future of that alternate timeline instead of the future of the normal timeline. I love how the trilogy has little jokes that they keep consistent (like how each time period has Biff or his ancestors/son getting manure poured on them). I can't blame Marty, I would have taken that sports almanac and done what Biff did.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on July 21, 2010, 03:47:06 PM
I would've, too. Where did the "chicken" thing come from?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on July 21, 2010, 03:57:36 PM
I would've, too. Where did the "chicken" thing come from?

It was invented in Part II to give Marty some kind of character arc to pay off in the ending to Part III.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: noname2200 on July 21, 2010, 07:14:41 PM
I just don't think I've ever seen a movie that actually takes place in ITS OWN PREQUEL. Maybe the two films were spaced like half a decade apart, and the audience was happy because of the nostalgia? I watched the two movies back-to-back and it felts like an ENORMOUS cop-out.

I have the opposite reaction:  I'm not sure if they planned it this way from the beginning, but the two movies tied so neatly together, and the scenes where Marty had to stop anyone from hurting him or Other Him, with none being the wiser, felt great to me.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: MegaByte on July 21, 2010, 07:32:36 PM
Inception 10 out of ****ing 10.
10s all the way down.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Shaymin on July 21, 2010, 11:48:17 PM
I'm always amazed when someone hates on Back to the Future 2 and they don't mention that they have to stop the movie halfway through and explain just what the hell is going on.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on July 21, 2010, 11:53:24 PM
Westworld 9/10

that movie was awesome. Yul Brynner was the original Terminator.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: AV on July 22, 2010, 12:35:50 PM
Inception 10 out of ****ing 10.
10s all the way down.


I couldn't disagree more. 11/10


10 scale can not contain the awesome factor of this movie.


my youtube review: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZwxfNEe0mM
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on July 22, 2010, 04:56:32 PM
Agreed. Inception was brilliant and nuts all at once.

You can tell this film and the very concept took years to create, unlike Avatar which was more about the universe.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on July 22, 2010, 04:59:44 PM
You can tell this film and the very concept took years to create, unlike Avatar which was more about the universe.

I get the feeling that fans of Paprika (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0851578/) would say otherwise.   ;)   I haven't seen Inception yet, but hopefully it's at least entertaining to watch, which Paprika certainly wasn't.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on July 22, 2010, 05:55:14 PM
I wanna give Inception a 10/10, but I just gotta ask one thing: Why does Leonardo DiCaprio's wife have to be dead in all his movies? Well, she was dead in the last one, and I don't remember the one before, but still!
Other than that, it was pretty much good in every way a movie could be good. Sort of like the opposite of how Failbender was. I could seriously go on and on about how good it was.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on July 22, 2010, 08:16:03 PM
the whole idea of tapping into peoples dreams is a really old idea. I've always thought about it, but never really thought about a movie on the subject. There was a Sliders episode.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on July 22, 2010, 10:15:27 PM
Batman: Under the Red Hood - 9/10 - Well this was a pleasant surprise.  After so many misfires and near-misses, Warner Bros. animation finally turned out a really awesome animated movie.  As a fan of Batman: The Animated Series and all its successors, there's a lot to love in this movie.  Gotham sports the familiar art deco look; there are giant, impractical police blimps flying everywhere with searchlights; the new Batman is doing a pretty fair Kevin Conroy impression; the new Alfred is doing a pretty good impression of his predecessor; the new Joker is somewhere between Mark Hamill and Heath Ledger (and he nails Mark Hamill's laughter, which is disconcerting); the writing is pretty solid and puts the focus on non-metahuman characters like the Black Mask and standard gangsters instead of supervillains; the animation is pretty decent (if nothing exceptional); and hell...they even pronounced "Ra's Al Ghul" correctly ("Ray-sh").   ;D   This may not be an official part of the DC Animated Universe, but it certainly feels like it could be in it.  Make no mistake, though: this movie is dark and violent with some disturbing imagery, although I'd say it's still psychologically less disturbing than Return of the Joker.  The thing I really liked about this movie, though, is that it feels like a movie and not an extended Justice League episode, a trap most of these DC animated movies fall into.  I'll definitely be picking up the Blu-Ray on Tuesday, and if you're a Batman fan, I suggest you do so as well.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TheBlackCat on July 22, 2010, 11:10:22 PM
I wanna give Inception a 10/10, but I just gotta ask one thing: Why does Leonardo DiCaprio's wife have to be dead in all his movies? Well, she was dead in the last one, and I don't remember the one before, but still!
In the movie before that she doesn't start out that way, but she ends up that way.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on July 23, 2010, 02:18:46 AM
I wanna give Inception a 10/10, but I just gotta ask one thing: Why does Leonardo DiCaprio's wife have to be dead in all his movies? Well, she was dead in the last one, and I don't remember the one before, but still!
In the movie before that she doesn't start out that way, but she ends up that way.
If it happens again, I'm gonna start worrying about that guy.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: bustin98 on July 23, 2010, 02:26:40 AM
Everyone who likes Inception should take a gander at the movie Dreamscape. Its available for streaming on Netflix. Not so great special effects, but some very similar themes going on.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on July 23, 2010, 01:21:26 PM
Batman: Under the Red Hood - 9/10 - Jibber Jabber

I didn't realize it was out so soon. I'll definately be watching it--I liked Public Enemies (Power Girl!) and Wonder Woman, and I've heard that Green Lantern: First Flight is similarly awesome.

It's hard to believe there will be a time where Kevin Conroy is NOT animated Batman.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: bustin98 on July 23, 2010, 01:38:00 PM
Under the Red Hood is officially out on Tuesday...
 
And the Green Lantern film is full of awesome, but it helps to go into these things willing to let go of what is known from the comics. I thought Wonder Woman was pretty faithful, but, for instance, Superman/Doomsday (Doomsday talks?) liberties were taken.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on July 24, 2010, 09:03:12 PM
Superman/Doomsday was awful. Doomsday was barely in the movie.

Inception: Russian Egg Doll/10

Great stuff, though DiCapprio is starting to take too many "crazy guy" roles.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: greybrick on July 25, 2010, 12:39:02 PM
Dune: 3/10
What a crappy movie, I loved every second!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on July 25, 2010, 12:48:23 PM
I watched The Game Plan, starring The Rock, last night on ABC. I really liked the movie, I thought the girl who played his daughter Peyton was especially good. Since it is a Disney movie you know how it will end, but that doesn't make it any less enjoyable. The Rock just seems perfect as a cocky, egotistical athlete who thinks the world revolves around them.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on July 26, 2010, 04:50:42 AM
All that Back tot he Future talk reminds me I have a Netflix disc of 2 sitting on my TV I need to watch.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on July 26, 2010, 10:56:53 AM
Just saw The Drawn Together Movie: The Movie!. Awesome movie, anybody who liked the show should see this to get a true conclusion (the series ended with a clip show). This is NOT something you want to see with your kids or your parents though; they take full advantage of the fact that they don't have to worry about TV censors by having liberal use of profanity and tons of nudity (including seeing Foxxy's breasts multiple times, Waldoor having a huge "member" that belongs to a black guy, a three-way sex scene involving Foxxy, Toot, and a random bar chick, and other similar scenes). They also poke fun at the fact that they made parts of the movie 3D but Comedy Central was too cheap to include glasses with the movie (even though it is a 70-minute movie, Comedy Central gave them half the budget of a normal episode, which is why they had to use flash animation company Six Point Harness Studios instead of Rough Draft Studios), to make up for this they include a special feature on the DVD where a topless woman shows you how to make your own 3D glasses at home. One of the 3D scenes involves being in Foxxy's mouth as Toot's tongue enters it and then Foxxy's vagina as Toot's finger enters (although not in a way you actually would finger a woman, it looked like someone pressing a elevator button).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on July 26, 2010, 02:58:57 PM
The Prestige: Are you watching closely?/10

Such a great effing movie.

On a side note, I'm starting to realize that ScarJo has some bizarre facial geometry going on.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: kraken613 on July 26, 2010, 07:42:00 PM
Salt 6.5/10

I probably might have thought more of it if I had not seen Inception the week before but Inception has my views skewed right now. The movie just didn't click with me.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Killer_Man_Jaro on July 27, 2010, 06:02:42 PM
I found District 9 on DVD for very cheap the other week and finally got round to watching it today.


A very interesting film. It is initially presented as a documentary that follows the story of a population of aliens who became stranded over Johannesburg and were forced to live in a shanty town called District 9 for 20 years before the government launched a harsh eviction scheme. The detail put into these sequences to make them feel authentic is impressive - the acting is surprisingly believable, as is the diverse range of cinematography styles, which really gives it the feel of a genuine documentary. Even as this documentary presentation is gradually scaled back to make way for a tighter plot focus on the actions of one man, it is still used to good effect.


The overall theme of the plot also played against my expectations. I mean, come on, gruesome-looking creatures arrive on Earth all of a sudden; it would be easy to jump to conclusions about where this might be heading. In fact, these extraterrestrial visitors simply wish to return home and are trying to have the best life they can in a horrible situation. Meanwhile, as the film progresses, it is evident that the organisation in charge of the eviction project are cruelly exploiting the aliens and their real intentions of this eviction are actually far more sinister. One of the most striking things with regard to this is how the sole human protagonist changes after the major plot development (he is slowly mutating into an alien due to exposure to "the fluid"), especially as his friendship with one of the persecuted aliens grows. I was a bit perplexed as to how they were able to communicate, because they spoke in completely different dialects and yet understood each other perfectly, something that was never properly explained.


Effects elsewhere are strong, although the combat scenes are shockingly violent, almost too macabre for my tastes -- I've never seen a film where this many people are killed by literally being ripped apart in a shower of blood by brutal sci-fi weaponry. The soundtrack seemed more appropriate, using an intense form of South African folk music that really set the tone whilst fitting in with the environment.


Recommended
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on July 27, 2010, 06:51:25 PM
I think the protagonist had been studying their language somehow before he got the job. I'm not sure how the alien understood him, but I think it's probably the same way The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy works.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on July 27, 2010, 08:24:06 PM
500 days of Summer 8.8/10

good Annie Hall-esque movie
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: D_Average on July 27, 2010, 08:56:44 PM
8 Mile
4/5

Fun, heavy, uplifting.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Caliban on July 27, 2010, 09:54:20 PM
One Piece: Strong World
AWESOME/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on July 27, 2010, 11:05:30 PM
Am I the only person on earth that just really didn't care for Inception?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: jrlibrarian on July 28, 2010, 12:13:11 AM
Am I the only person on earth that just really didn't care for Inception?

Yes.
 
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: kraken613 on July 28, 2010, 11:52:52 AM
Am I the only person on earth that just really didn't care for Inception?
Yes... Why did you not like it? Could you not follow it?

I fucking love that movie! Seen it twice already and am going to see it in Imax this weekend.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on July 28, 2010, 12:09:05 PM
Yes, I followed it.  The movie went far out of it's way to explain itself.

There were just things about the movie that bugged me.  For example, they set up the entire idea that if you die in the dream, you wake up in real life.  But then, suddenly, no, that doesn't apply because we used this deus ex machina sedative that makes you sleep really well.

Also, the entire totem aspect.  If I hold my totem, then I know how much it weighs, how it acts, etc., etc...  How do I know when I'm in my own dream?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on July 28, 2010, 01:19:57 PM
The totem thing did bother me. I actually didn't like how much the movie explained itself. When you think about it, almost every piece of dialogue in the movie is toward the central thesis of: "this is how it works." They were even doling things out two hours in.

I would't preferred less "how stuff works" exchanges, more character development, and more faith that the audience will intepret it themselves walking away.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: SixthAngel on July 28, 2010, 01:47:43 PM
I think the protagonist had been studying their language somehow before he got the job. I'm not sure how the alien understood him, but I think it's probably the same way The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy works.

I think they both simply new the other language.

Just like if I know Chinese and a Chinese guy knows English.  We can both speak in our native languages and understand each other.  The only difference seems to be that while they can understand neither one seems to have the mouth to actually speak the other's language.

And Fooking prawns are cool .
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: bustin98 on July 28, 2010, 03:40:05 PM
Batman: Under the Red Hood - 9/10 - Well this was a pleasant surprise.  After so many misfires and near-misses, Warner Bros. animation finally turned out a really awesome animated movie.  As a fan of Batman: The Animated Series and all its successors, there's a lot to love in this movie.  Gotham sports the familiar art deco look; there are giant, impractical police blimps flying everywhere with searchlights; the new Batman is doing a pretty fair Kevin Conroy impression; the new Alfred is doing a pretty good impression of his predecessor; the new Joker is somewhere between Mark Hamill and Heath Ledger (and he nails Mark Hamill's laughter, which is disconcerting); the writing is pretty solid and puts the focus on non-metahuman characters like the Black Mask and standard gangsters instead of supervillains; the animation is pretty decent (if nothing exceptional); and hell...they even pronounced "Ra's Al Ghul" correctly ("Ray-sh").   ;D   This may not be an official part of the DC Animated Universe, but it certainly feels like it could be in it.  Make no mistake, though: this movie is dark and violent with some disturbing imagery, although I'd say it's still psychologically less disturbing than Return of the Joker.  The thing I really liked about this movie, though, is that it feels like a movie and not an extended Justice League episode, a trap most of these DC animated movies fall into.  I'll definitely be picking up the Blu-Ray on Tuesday, and if you're a Batman fan, I suggest you do so as well.

I pretty much agree with this. A great film, better if you are a long time Batman fan. I can say that I voted to have Jason killed in the comic...
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on July 28, 2010, 04:34:11 PM
Ip Man - 8/10

Movie about a Martial Arts Master named Ip Man (real person) just before and during the Japanese/Chinese war (real event) and how badass at WingChun he was. There were some major beatdown delivered by Ip Man in this movie. There was one scene where he delivered such a flurry of punches so quickly that I swear he hit some guy about 10 pr more times before he could even hit the ground. He also tried to make hamburger meat out of someone's head. I found myself saying "Oh ****!" atleast once during every fight scene. So nice I rewound it twice.

p.s. it's dubbed in English.

p.p.s. He is one of Bruce Lee's 1st Martial Art teachers.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on July 28, 2010, 06:08:28 PM
The Karate Kid (yes it JUST came out here): What was the point of the remake?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Caliban on July 28, 2010, 10:27:03 PM
Ip Man - 8/10

Movie about a Martial Arts Master named Ip Man (real person) just before and during the Japanese/Chinese war (real event) and how badass at WingChun he was. There were some major beatdown delivered by Ip Man in this movie. There was one scene where he delivered such a flurry of punches so quickly that I swear he hit some guy about 10 pr more times before he could even hit the ground. He also tried to make hamburger meat out of someone's head. I found myself saying "Oh ****!" atleast once during every fight scene. So nice I rewound it twice.

p.s. it's dubbed in English.

p.p.s. He is one of Bruce Lee's 1st Martial Art teachers.

Would you be so kind as to post a link for the movie, or a trailer?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on July 29, 2010, 12:08:03 AM
The totem thing did bother me. I actually didn't like how much the movie explained itself. When you think about it, almost every piece of dialogue in the movie is toward the central thesis of: "this is how it works." They were even doling things out two hours in.

I would't preferred less "how stuff works" exchanges, more character development, and more faith that the audience will intepret it themselves walking away.

I think this goes a long way to sum up the main reason I didn't like the movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on July 29, 2010, 12:59:05 AM
Ip Man - 8/10

Movie about a Martial Arts Master named Ip Man (real person) just before and during the Japanese/Chinese war (real event) and how badass at WingChun he was. There were some major beatdown delivered by Ip Man in this movie. There was one scene where he delivered such a flurry of punches so quickly that I swear he hit some guy about 10 pr more times before he could even hit the ground. He also tried to make hamburger meat out of someone's head. I found myself saying "Oh ****!" atleast once during every fight scene. So nice I rewound it twice.

p.s. it's dubbed in English.

p.p.s. He is one of Bruce Lee's 1st Martial Art teachers.

Would you be so kind as to post a link for the movie, or a trailer?

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=959h-GXfeNc

1 vs 10 scene: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qhPDEOYbx4

The entire movie on Youtube(In Cantonese but subtitled): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqrKlsVUfFQ (Pt 1 of 11)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on July 29, 2010, 02:07:19 AM
Robinson Crusoe 8/10

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on July 29, 2010, 03:54:46 AM
Also, the entire totem aspect.  If I hold my totem, then I know how much it weighs, how it acts, etc., etc...  How do I know when I'm in my own dream?

If you go in to a dream, there's something different about the totem. That was the whole point. If you had it, you know you entered a dream. Knowing things about it means you know how it'll act in a dream (spin forever) and how it'll act in real life (it falls eventually).
Also, if someone brought you in to a dream (like guy they were doing the whole Inception thing on), they wouldn't have their totem.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on July 29, 2010, 05:46:25 AM
Also, the entire totem aspect.  If I hold my totem, then I know how much it weighs, how it acts, etc., etc...  How do I know when I'm in my own dream?

If you go in to a dream, there's something different about the totem. That was the whole point. If you had it, you know you entered a dream. Knowing things about it means you know how it'll act in a dream (spin forever) and how it'll act in real life (it falls eventually).
Also, if someone brought you in to a dream (like guy they were doing the whole Inception thing on), they wouldn't have their totem.

But with the spinning totem, how does being in a dream change how physics interact on it? The architect don't know about your totems and neither does the person whose dream you're entering, so how can it just spin indefinitely? What determines that?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on July 29, 2010, 08:42:40 AM
If you go in to a dream, there's something different about the totem. That was the whole point. If you had it, you know you entered a dream. Knowing things about it means you know how it'll act in a dream (spin forever) and how it'll act in real life (it falls eventually).
Also, if someone brought you in to a dream (like guy they were doing the whole Inception thing on), they wouldn't have their totem.

Why not?  The dreamer fills the dream with people from their subconscious.  What's stopping them from having things?  Also, when Cobb was in Saito's limbo, he had his totem with him.

But with the spinning totem, how does being in a dream change how physics interact on it? The architect don't know about your totems and neither does the person whose dream you're entering, so how can it just spin indefinitely? What determines that?

Exactly.  I'll buy that the architect wouldn't know the weight/mass of the item - but not knowing "Hey, that top should fall over." is also a bit of a reach.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on July 29, 2010, 09:49:25 AM
Quote from: UncleBob link=topic=28364.msg626643#msg626643

Exactly.  I'll buy that the architect wouldn't know the weight/mass of the item - but not knowing "Hey, that top should fall over." is also a bit of a reach.

I think the totems ultimate point was as an audience hook, so WE would know whether they're in a dream or not.

In that universe the totem would only do as the owner intended (fall over onto one side etc) in a woken state or in their own dreams or as they told us.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Dasmos on July 29, 2010, 09:56:57 AM
I always find with Nolan's films that it's all very literal. His films are made very well, the pacing, editing, staging etc. are all spot on, but they always lack any sort of passion or emotion. His movies are explained by those in the film, everyone is always stating their motives and intentions (this is the main problem with Inception, he spends most of the film explaining what happens and it still doesn't make sense). It's all at surface level and rarely does he get any deeper with his characters and you're never left to figure out anything by yourself (unless of course it doesn't make sense, i.e. Inception). That said, I did enjoy Inception. It's not winning any awards in my book, but I have no issue with paying the price of admission to see it. 7.5/10 Also: (http://i.imgur.com/qrwRq.png)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Dasmos on July 29, 2010, 10:00:20 AM
What the ****, why can't I edit my post? Why the **** is the formatting fucked up? ****?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: SixthAngel on July 29, 2010, 11:30:23 AM
Ip Man - 8/10

I loved the 10 on one fight.  He has this whole punching style where he never puts all his effort in one punch so instead he just punches the guys like 10 times a second.  The speed is ridiculous.

If you enjoyed it their is second one you might be interested in.  I don't know if it has English yet but it has been out for months, I have only seen a little bit of it though.  The setting it quite a bit different and involves him fighting a western boxer.  Now we both probably picture him kicking the **** out of the boxer in 10 seconds but they keep forcing him to fight with more and more boxing rules.  It also has a cameo of a young Bruce Lee.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Caliban on July 29, 2010, 01:02:07 PM
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=959h-GXfeNc

1 vs 10 scene: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qhPDEOYbx4

The entire movie on Youtube(In Cantonese but subtitled): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqrKlsVUfFQ (Pt 1 of 11)

Thank you.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on July 29, 2010, 01:52:48 PM
Ip Man - 8/10

I loved the 10 on one fight.  He has this whole punching style where he never puts all his effort in one punch so instead he just punches the guys like 10 times a second.  The speed is ridiculous.

If you enjoyed it their is second one you might be interested in.  I don't know if it has English yet but it has been out for months, I have only seen a little bit of it though.  The setting it quite a bit different and involves him fighting a western boxer.  Now we both probably picture him kicking the **** out of the boxer in 10 seconds but they keep forcing him to fight with more and more boxing rules.  It also has a cameo of a young Bruce Lee.
I'm waiting on the English dubbed DVD Release to hit Netflix.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on July 29, 2010, 04:24:39 PM
If you go in to a dream, there's something different about the totem. That was the whole point. If you had it, you know you entered a dream. Knowing things about it means you know how it'll act in a dream (spin forever) and how it'll act in real life (it falls eventually).
Also, if someone brought you in to a dream (like guy they were doing the whole Inception thing on), they wouldn't have their totem.

Why not?  The dreamer fills the dream with people from their subconscious.  What's stopping them from having things?  Also, when Cobb was in Saito's limbo, he had his totem with him.

Because I don't know you have it, so you don't have it. If you put it there after the fact, you change the dream the projections start attacking you. If you'll remember in the first layer of the inception job, that one guy pulled a grenade launcher out of nowhere. But, you'll also remember that as the girl built things in Cobb's dream (when he was showing her the ropes) the projections started attacking her.

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But with the spinning totem, how does being in a dream change how physics interact on it? The architect don't know about your totems and neither does the person whose dream you're entering, so how can it just spin indefinitely? What determines that?

Exactly.  I'll buy that the architect wouldn't know the weight/mass of the item - but not knowing "Hey, that top should fall over." is also a bit of a reach.

Because in dream world physics doesn't work like normal. A spinning top that spins forever would seem normal in a dream, so the dreamer wouldn't think to make it fall.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on July 29, 2010, 04:52:24 PM
i thought that guy on Ip Man looked familiar, it is the same dude from Drunken Tai Chi..which is GREAT
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on July 29, 2010, 06:12:05 PM
Because in dream world physics doesn't work like normal. A spinning top that spins forever would seem normal in a dream, so the dreamer wouldn't think to make it fall.

But what determines that? It's not the dreamer and its not those who entered it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on July 29, 2010, 07:28:44 PM
Because I don't know you have it, so you don't have it. If you put it there after the fact, you change the dream the projections start attacking you. If you'll remember in the first layer of the inception job, that one guy pulled a grenade launcher out of nowhere. But, you'll also remember that as the girl built things in Cobb's dream (when he was showing her the ropes) the projections started attacking her.

However, as they showed, the heist-men studied their marks beforehand.  It's not like anyone seemed to keep their totems secret.  If you know me or studied me, you'll probably know what my totem is.  And, again, when Cobb was in Saito's limbo, Cobb had his totem with him - why would Saito have created his totem?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on July 29, 2010, 08:21:00 PM
Ip Man 8.8/10 - a good kung fu master movie, reminds me of Fearless...similar era



Drunken Tai Chi 8.5/10
I bought it for a dollar, but it is great. It is directed by Wu Ping Yuen, and is comedic. Its kinda like Drunken Master.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IJYikokCOU
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: kraken613 on July 30, 2010, 12:14:09 AM
Because I don't know you have it, so you don't have it. If you put it there after the fact, you change the dream the projections start attacking you. If you'll remember in the first layer of the inception job, that one guy pulled a grenade launcher out of nowhere. But, you'll also remember that as the girl built things in Cobb's dream (when he was showing her the ropes) the projections started attacking her.

However, as they showed, the heist-men studied their marks beforehand.  It's not like anyone seemed to keep their totems secret.  If you know me or studied me, you'll probably know what my totem is.  And, again, when Cobb was in Saito's limbo, Cobb had his totem with him - why would Saito have created his totem?

Saito was in Cobbs Limbo I thought. When they went and Mal was there that was Cobbs Limbo and then Cobb said he was going to find Saito.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Dasmos on July 30, 2010, 01:16:25 AM
Inception deson't have to make sense. It's all a dream.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on July 30, 2010, 01:39:01 AM
Because in dream world physics doesn't work like normal. A spinning top that spins forever would seem normal in a dream, so the dreamer wouldn't think to make it fall.
But what determines that? It's not the dreamer and its not those who entered it.

It's the sole fact that you're in a dream.

Because I don't know you have it, so you don't have it. If you put it there after the fact, you change the dream the projections start attacking you. If you'll remember in the first layer of the inception job, that one guy pulled a grenade launcher out of nowhere. But, you'll also remember that as the girl built things in Cobb's dream (when he was showing her the ropes) the projections started attacking her.

However, as they showed, the heist-men studied their marks beforehand.  It's not like anyone seemed to keep their totems secret.  If you know me or studied me, you'll probably know what my totem is.  And, again, when Cobb was in Saito's limbo, Cobb had his totem with him - why would Saito have created his totem?

Saito was in Cobbs Limbo I thought. When they went and Mal was there that was Cobbs Limbo and then Cobb said he was going to find Saito.

I was under the impression that limbo was just an infinite expanse that was shared by anyone who entered it and Cobb just spent time exploring it until he found Saito.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Caliban on July 30, 2010, 02:15:27 AM
The Yes Men Fix The World

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

AWESOME/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BeautifulShy on July 31, 2010, 01:28:52 AM
I just got back from seeing Inception and yes it can be very confusing. I missed like the first 10 mins of it so I might have missed something important.

Anyways what I'm wondering about is is at the end did Cobbs totem fall down at the end? They never really show if it does or not. It looks like it is slowing but it doesn't show for certainty.

I really liked the fight scenes at the end of the movie. There is lots of symbolism in the movie I'm told and will have to get it on DVD to delve deeper into it.

I'd give it a 4/5 because it was somewhat had to follow.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: bustin98 on July 31, 2010, 02:18:45 AM
I saw Inception tonight too. I though didn't find it hard to follow or be confused by anything. I wasn't surprised at all that the spinning top wasn't shown. Completely leaves it open to a sequel one way or the other. Did Cobb create the ultimate dream in limbo? Or is he really in reality? Is the fact that he saw his children's faces an indicator that he is in the real world, or was it a sign that he finally forgave himself over his wife's death? Oh, so many questions, eh? Good flick. Makes you question what reality is as much as the first Matrix.

As for why Cobb's totem was with him and who created it, it probably was Cobb no matter who's dream he was in. If you recall when they wanted to get out of the warehouse in the van and the guy on the roof had them pinned down, [that one guy] was using a rifle, and [the other guy] says he's thinking too small and pulls out a grenade launcher... Where'd that come from? These items must be a construct of their creation. Same with the train running through downtown. Another word about Cobb's totem, the top spins and teeters in a specific way. Someone can watch him and see he has a top, but Cobb is the only one who knows how it feels and spins. I would say that as part of his training, he never brings his totem with him in a dream, unless there is a reason, such as the one to convince Saito who he is.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on July 31, 2010, 04:33:56 AM
Hot Tub Time Machine - We need more comedies like this/10

that's all I'm gonna say about the movie, but where the F*** are all the special features on the DVD?
I only check the special features on  movies I like, and I was very disappointed to find none on this one.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: kraken613 on July 31, 2010, 11:46:28 AM
Going to see Inception again in Imax!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on July 31, 2010, 05:33:50 PM
Hot Tub Time Machine     George MacFly is in it/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on August 04, 2010, 03:31:00 AM
Kick-Ass   8.8/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on August 04, 2010, 05:20:41 PM
I want to see The Human Centipede, but I think I'm too flat-out disturbed by the premise.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on August 04, 2010, 07:29:37 PM
I want to see The Human Centipede, but I think I'm too flat-out disturbed by the premise.

"100% Medically Accurate"???

And what does it mean by 1st sequence? Will it be a trilogy or something and the second one has the victims on a killing rampage?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on August 04, 2010, 08:05:02 PM
In the 2nd sequence he feed them corn to see if it does infact survive multiple digestive tracts.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on August 04, 2010, 08:20:03 PM
In the first movie the doctor had three people linked together ass-to-mouth, the director has said the sequel (coming out next year) will have 12 people linked together as a centipede and will be even more graphic and disturbing. He is thinking about doing a third movie depending on how people react to the second one.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on August 04, 2010, 08:22:11 PM
In the 2nd sequence he feed them corn to see if it does infact survive multiple digestive tracts.

I half wonder if that was part of the purpose of the scene where they are tied together on the floor centipede style. I'm sure they were not actually sugically made into the centipede at that point but the mad doc more 'helping them get used to how they will be'.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on August 05, 2010, 04:08:20 AM
Read the Wikipedia article. The whole thing. Not gonna see it. Not sober, anyway.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Caterkiller on August 06, 2010, 01:56:45 AM
Read the Wikipedia article. The whole thing. Not gonna see it. Not sober, anyway.

Oh man, you got me curious. But I'm a bit afraid to even read about it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on August 06, 2010, 03:20:47 AM
Book of Eli  8/10

that was pretty badassed
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on August 06, 2010, 01:28:54 PM
Get Him to the Greek: Look, it's Chief O'Brian!/10

Great, hilarious movie with a good emotional core. Peggy from "Mad Men" is in it, and she can look pretty cute when she wants to. Rose Byrn is also in it, so there's that. Also, it's hilarious!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Sarail on August 14, 2010, 01:59:37 AM
Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World

EleventybajillionGILLION Out of 10

I don't even need to say anything in a review to justify why you should go see this movie.  Seriously.  GO SEE IT NOW.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on August 14, 2010, 08:41:20 PM
Up in the Air: 4/5

Great movie, George Clooney still is a great actor. His job in the movie seems really depressing, I don't think I could do it (especially after what that one woman does that causes Natalie to quit).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Armak88 on August 15, 2010, 12:10:20 AM
Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World

EleventybajillionGILLION Out of 10

I don't even need to say anything in a review to justify why you should go see this movie.  Seriously.  GO SEE IT NOW.

Did you ever read the manga? I got turned onto it because a friend of mine played in a band with the sister of the guy who wrote it. The name of their band was even on some posters and stuff in the manga. I'm worried about seeing it because I'm not really a michael sera fan, but I'll give it a chance because I enjoyed the books.
Title: Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World
Post by: draggingalake on August 17, 2010, 01:44:26 AM
Who saw it, and what did you think?!?
Title: Re: Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World
Post by: ThePerm on August 17, 2010, 02:54:58 AM
does this need a whole thread?

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/forums/index.php?topic=28364.1450
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on August 17, 2010, 02:37:26 PM
Up in the Air: 4/5

Great movie, George Clooney still is a great actor. His job in the movie seems really depressing, I don't think I could do it (especially after what that one woman does that causes Natalie to quit).

Saw this in theaters when it first came out. I really liked it, and it ends in a way I didn't expect. Also, Natalie is ADORABLE.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on August 17, 2010, 07:29:54 PM
I like listening to audio commentaries (most movie ones suck though), the director explained that Clooney's character did what he did because he started to basically see himself as a father figure to Natalie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on August 17, 2010, 08:08:38 PM
You can see that, too, in his performance. Really just a bang-up job from everybody in that movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Dasmos on August 18, 2010, 12:50:04 PM
Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World

EleventybajillionGILLION Out of 10

I don't even need to say anything in a review to justify why you should go see this movie.  Seriously.  GO SEE IT NOW.

Did you ever read the manga? I got turned onto it because a friend of mine played in a band with the sister of the guy who wrote it. The name of their band was even on some posters and stuff in the manga. I'm worried about seeing it because I'm not really a michael sera fan, but I'll give it a chance because I enjoyed the books.

lol manga

yeah, the graphic novel's great, movie's great and the game's great.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on August 25, 2010, 07:49:11 PM
Batman: Gotham Knight: 2.5/5

I was extremely disappointed with it. Only a couple of the stories were any good, and the animation quality varied from story to story (the first was especially poor, half the time the characters mouths didn't even move when they talked).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on August 25, 2010, 07:54:49 PM
Batman: Gotham Knight: 2.5/5

I was extremely disappointed with it. Only a couple of the stories were any good, and the animation quality varied from story to story (the first was especially poor, half the time the characters mouths didn't even move when they talked).

Each of the stories were animated by a different Japanese studio, aside from a couple where the studios doubled-up.  That first short was created by Studio 4C, a production studio whose animation style I've never cared for.  As for the movie itself, yeah I didn't like it either.  What little plot the overall story had was very poorly told, though at least the final short with the battle against Deadshot was pretty cool.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: greybrick on August 25, 2010, 10:32:28 PM
In preparation for my exams I went on a movie watching spree. Under scrutiny you can see the recommendation path that Netflix streaming lead me along.


 Terminator 2: 3/5

Die Hard: 5/5

Die Hard 2: 3/5

Die Hard 3: 4/5

Heat: 5/5

Dirty Harry: 4/5

The last is per RFN recommendation:

The Big Lebowski: 4/5



Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on August 25, 2010, 10:37:34 PM
Terminator 2: 3/5

Ok, I have to ask: why the average score for that movie and was that your first time seeing it?  To me, that's quite possibly the most perfect Action movie I've ever seen.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Dasmos on August 26, 2010, 12:09:22 AM
Yeah under no circumstances should Terminator 2 get less than 6/5.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: greybrick on August 26, 2010, 12:42:51 AM
Chalk it up to taste. Edward Furlong as John Connor really annoyed me in this movie, and I found most of the action sequences when fighting the T-1000 to be frustrating.

It felt like they just had the T-1000 behave however it chose physically and explained it away with "science." Not like I expect them to fully explain something obviously out of our reach technologically- I do enjoy Star Trek- I just like things with rules.

Lame reasons to not like like the movie a full 6/5? Yes, but they are my reasons.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on August 26, 2010, 12:48:11 AM
In preparation for my exams I went on a movie watching spree. Under scrutiny you can see the recommendation path that Netflix streaming lead me along.

Netflix gives you recommendations? I haven't gotten a recommendation from Netflix in about 2 years.
It could be that I've seen just about everything over the last 5 years, but there should still be something that they can recommend me.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: greybrick on August 26, 2010, 12:50:04 AM
In preparation for my exams I went on a movie watching spree. Under scrutiny you can see the recommendation path that Netflix streaming lead me along.

Netflix gives you recommendations? I haven't gotten a recommendation from Netflix in about 2 years.
It could be that I've seen just about everything over the last 5 years, but there should still be something that they can recommend me.

Usually there is a category under each section titled "Recommended for You."
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on August 26, 2010, 01:19:39 PM
FYI, Labowoski gets better and better over multiple viewings.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on August 26, 2010, 01:36:13 PM
It felt like they just had the T-1000 behave however it chose physically and explained it away with "science." Not like I expect them to fully explain something obviously out of our reach technologically- I do enjoy Star Trek- I just like things with rules.

I thought they explained the T-1000's limits very clearly: it can transform into any object of equal mass and simple structure (which is why it can form simple objects like knives but not complex objects like guns), and it can only take on the likeness of creatures or people it samples first by touch.  Given those limits, I thought they handled the fight scenes with the T-1000 particularly well, especially the big fight scene at the end where Arnold throws him into a wall and he just morphs so he's facing away from the wall.  The only goofy thing with it is something that Cameron openly admits to putting in just because he wanted it, and that's the scene at the end where the T-1000 does something very un-computer-like and wags its finger at Sarah to taunt her.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: vudu on August 26, 2010, 02:05:21 PM
Die Hard: 5/5
Die Hard 2: 3/5
Die Hard 3: 4/5

Why no Die Hard 4?  It's surprisingly totally sweet.

Yeah under no circumstances should Terminator 2 get less than 6/5.

Have you seen the director's cut?  It deserves less than a 6/5.  The dream scene with Sarah and Reece OMG SO BAD.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: jrlibrarian on August 26, 2010, 03:24:34 PM
Matinee: 4/5
 
I really like John Goodman and B horror movies, so it was not a surprise that I enjoyed this movie.
I put all the movies from the first episode of BOP on my Netflix queue, and this was on Instant Watch. Might get around to watching The Book of Eli later tonight, it came in the mail yesterday.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: greybrick on August 27, 2010, 01:57:04 AM
FYI, Labowoski gets better and better over multiple viewings.

I can imagine so, I cracked up when I realized how Lebowski's "dream" reflected what was actually happening to him during the rug scene.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on August 27, 2010, 07:14:29 AM
I haven't seen Scott Pilgrim versus The World yet, but judging by the description isn't it basically No More Heroes in movie form?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: FZeroBoyo on August 30, 2010, 10:24:13 AM
Yeah, Scott Pilgrim's structure is kind of like NMH, only not as violent. =D

Speaking of which, I have two scores here...

Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: 4/5 (A lot of awesome action and the video game influences were what made the movie for me.)

Despicable Me: 4/5 (A rather late movie, but it was still quite good. Some say it's better than the "vastly overrated" Toy Story 3 but I'm unsure of that.)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: D_Average on August 30, 2010, 10:38:43 AM
Have you guys ever felt trapped in a movie?  I feel like I'm trapped in Momento.  Anyway, the only movie that makes sense right now, is Whatever Works.  5/5
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on August 30, 2010, 03:10:30 PM
I'm hopping on the Scott Pilgrim train. It was very true to the source. It reminded me of how much I hated the movie version of V for Vendetta.

Anyway SPvtW gets an over 9000 out of 10.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on August 30, 2010, 08:23:10 PM
That's too bad for the V for Vendetta train. As a movie I really liked it, but I hadn't read the comic, but now I have access to the comic and its harder to read. Watchmen was pretty true to the comic, but still wasn't as good. Wasn't bad either, it also doesn't fare as well after repeat views.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on August 30, 2010, 09:55:49 PM
I think the length is was hurt Watchmen. There are a lot of dry parts in the comic, but there are subtleties that make it readable.

V for Vendetta totally misses the point of the source material. Like, the government was evil Just because. There was no back story. Almost all of the characters completely lost their complexities.
It would've been better as an HBO miniseries than a movie, IMO.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ponch on August 30, 2010, 10:19:23 PM
Toy Story 3 - 4/5

I'm late to this one but I got to see it at an awesome $3 theater where the sound wasn't working for the first 30 minutes. Win-win. Anyways, I didn't find Woody's portrayal of a western sheriff that convincing. Did someone poison the water hole or not? An offense that serious should've been investigated; it was criminally negligent.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: KnowsNothing on August 31, 2010, 12:21:50 AM
I agree with almost everything nickmitch said about V for Vendetta...that said, if I'm being honest with myself I still think the movie is better.  I was not the biggest fan of the graphic novel, although I think a lot of that had to do with the art style.  Not my cup of tea.

On the subject of HBO series, I really hope they do George RR Martin justice with Game of Thrones.  I know nothing about the show other than that it is being made but the book is just fantastic.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on August 31, 2010, 04:17:49 AM
I saw V for Vendetta before reading the graphic novel. I prefer the movie more myself, but I am led to believe that they had a different message and goal in mind for the movie than the message that the graphic novel intended to send out.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on September 01, 2010, 03:39:51 AM
the big lebowski 8.5/10

Coen Bros Movies :)

i wish i had seen it sooner, but every time I went to go watch it, it was some censored television version.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on September 02, 2010, 07:58:55 AM
Salt 3/10 - My dislike of shakycam is known and acknowledged, but there is a time and place for it. In Stargate Universe its used for stylistic effect only and is subtle. The camera wobbles a little bit then suddenly zooms in on the character or object. That's fine. It works because SGUs editing is calm and is paced to be slow. It's a production "touch" that adds to the overall feel of the show.

Salt is the total opposite. It's fast, frenetic and cut together so messily its completely unwatchable. There's a car chase sequence fairly early on in which the camera is wobbling around while Angelina is jumping from truck to truck and then having 2-5 second shots of her doing something, in a moving wobbly shot before it cuts to the next one. This pattern repeated constantly for about 4 minutes in which everything cut from shot to shot so quickly you can't see or process anything. It was literally the movie version of "flash an object in front of your nose really quickly".

That alone makes the film a waste of time because if i can't see it, then how can i tell if its good or not?

The plot continues to run with an air of ambiguity from start to finish, even with the mid-way twist and the final third twist. They didn't bother to answer why until the final few mins of the film. Lastly, Chiwetel Ejiofor (who played Peabody) is a very talented English actor. His american accent was convincing but this role just wasn't suited for him. Fails.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on September 02, 2010, 12:27:12 PM
Funny. Salt is the first Angelina Jolie film I've ever enjoyed. That said, I'm in no hurry to see it again. Once is probably enough. But it kept me entertained which is all that movie is aiming for.

Finally saw Scott Pilgrim a couple days ago. It was even more awesome than I was expecting. It wasn't perfect. I don't think the part with the twins was necessary. But the movie seemed like a big tribute to video games. For instance, when Scott uses his extra life and wastes no time confronting Gideon. That's so true. The first time you confront a boss, you take your time, watch the cutscenes, marvel at your surroundings. But if you die, the next time, you just cut to the chase and get to the fight knowing what you have to do.

Chicken Parmigiana isn't vegan?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on September 02, 2010, 09:45:27 PM
I wish i could rate all the movies I've seen since the last time I posted (around page 52 or so) but I don't have time to remember all of 'em, or go through the thread to see if you guys have already rated them but I wanted to make a point to score this movie...

The Exorcist (Original version) 2/10.

This was my first time seeing it, believe it or not (though I've had enough background knowledge to know what I was getting into). Maybe there was too much hype building this movie up for all those years I haven't seen it, but I was VERY let down. In fact, I'll even go as far as to say this movie SUCKED. I actually saw that POS PG-13 "The Last Exorcism" and found it more suspenseful and interesting than this movie.

Waste of my time.

On a special note, while SPVTW wasn't as good as I hoped (never actually read the source material, only had the trailers to go by) I'm STILL going to give it a 10/10 solely because of the usage of Zelda tunes. When I read the filmmakers asked Nintendo permission for use of the songs, well more importantly HOW they asked, I decided to give it an extra point. "like nursery rhymes to a generation" indeed.

And yes, I too had the same thought of SPVTW feeling like NMH, so did the Crank films.

why isn't there a NMH movies being made dammit!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on September 02, 2010, 10:51:35 PM
isn't rating a derivative work higher kinda backwards?

on Salt
Ii didn't find the camera in Salt to be that shaky...where did you sit in the theater?

Salt 8/10


Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: apdude on September 03, 2010, 02:01:53 AM
Just went to see the movie "The Other Guys"

I was pleasantly surprised since I've been getting pretty sick of Will Farrel's movies.  He still plays a ridiculous character but the movie doesn't revolve around that one character so it's acceptable.  It has good laughs through out the whole thing and the action sequences are fun as well.  Best comparison I can make is to Hot Fuzz since they are both buddy cop comedy films.

Overall 8/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on September 03, 2010, 05:21:09 AM
Funny. Salt is the first Angelina Jolie film I've ever enjoyed. That said, I'm in no hurry to see it again. Once is probably enough. But it kept me entertained which is all that movie is aiming for.

Finally saw Scott Pilgrim a couple days ago. It was even more awesome than I was expecting. It wasn't perfect. I don't think the part with the twins was necessary. But the movie seemed like a big tribute to video games. For instance, when Scott uses his extra life and wastes no time confronting Gideon. That's so true. The first time you confront a boss, you take your time, watch the cutscenes, marvel at your surroundings. But if you die, the next time, you just cut to the chase and get to the fight knowing what you have to do.

Chicken Parmigiana isn't vegan?

The other big thing i noticed, and forgot to mention, was Angelina herself the whole way through the film... punching men above her weight and knocking them over.
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Post by: broodwars on September 03, 2010, 02:52:24 PM
I'm going to go and see Scott Pilgrim tonight with my best friend.  Hopefully, it lives up to the rather insane amount of hype it has generated, because I don't care for seeing movies in the theaters and I've never read the graphic novels.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on September 03, 2010, 04:18:21 PM
I've seen no hype for it. in fact, it tanked in my area. sad.
now I have to wait for the dvd to watch it with an altered state of mind.

speaking if the Other Guys, the explosion scene was shot somewhat locally. it was right up the street from the IHOP I go to and only a few miles from the theatre I saw the movie in. we sat there sand thought " wait isn't that.." and took that road home. sure enough, we were right.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on September 03, 2010, 04:21:04 PM
I've seen no hype for it. in fact, it tanked in my area. sad.
now I have to wait for the dvd to watch it with an altered state of mind.

I should have been more specific and said "internet hype."  Nearly all of the sites I regularly go to can't shut up about this movie between VLogs of thoughts on the movie and videos/articles as to why the movie failed to sell well.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on September 03, 2010, 08:07:30 PM
I don't think the shaky cam was bad in enough in Salt to ruin the picture, like it was in Public Enemies. There was too much general plot confusion for scenes to be messed up to the point of "I don't know what's going on anymore because the camera is making me nauseous."
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on September 03, 2010, 08:40:33 PM
I've seen no hype for it. in fact, it tanked in my area. sad.
now I have to wait for the dvd to watch it with an altered state of mind.

I should have been more specific and said "internet hype."  Nearly all of the sites I regularly go to can't shut up about this movie between VLogs of thoughts on the movie and videos/articles as to why the movie failed to sell well.

Ah, well I've pretty much been on an internet blackout for awhile. My statement still stands; *I* haven't seen any hype ;)

For old times sake:

Black Dynamite - 10/10

Killer Klowns from Outerspace - 6/10 (not as good as when i was a kid, but campy enough to still be fun all these years later)

Innerspace - 7/10 still holds up!

Eurotrip - 5/10 not as funny as it was back in high school.. "Mika" and Michelle Trachtenberg are still smokin' hot though

Swamp Thing - 2/10 no where near as interesting as I remember. I kept fast forwarding to the good parts, which ended up being the credits.

El Orfenato (The Orphanage) 8/10. Only thing keeping this from being a 10 is their spanish. I hate it.

Pee-wee's Big Adventure - 7/10 (Danny Elfman, I love you!)

Who's Harry Crumb - 8/10 Fucking miss you John Candy!

Batman Returns - 6/10 Not as good as a kid, looks SO cheesey compared to the reboot and its sequel, and it was kinda perverted for what in a way was a kids movie ("kids movie" in the sense that, as a child I only wanted to watch it cuz batman is batman, I had the toys and thought it was cool. Whereas Batman Begins/Dark Knight were good films, period.)

Super High Me - 8/10 Super Interested Me

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on September 03, 2010, 10:08:45 PM
Funny. Salt is the first Angelina Jolie film I've ever enjoyed. That said, I'm in no hurry to see it again. Once is probably enough. But it kept me entertained which is all that movie is aiming for.

Finally saw Scott Pilgrim a couple days ago. It was even more awesome than I was expecting. It wasn't perfect. I don't think the part with the twins was necessary. But the movie seemed like a big tribute to video games. For instance, when Scott uses his extra life and wastes no time confronting Gideon. That's so true. The first time you confront a boss, you take your time, watch the cutscenes, marvel at your surroundings. But if you die, the next time, you just cut to the chase and get to the fight knowing what you have to do.

Chicken Parmigiana isn't vegan?

The other big thing i noticed, and forgot to mention, was Angelina herself the whole way through the film... punching men above her weight and knocking them over.

its possible to knock someone larger than you down, the key is using the ground which is infinitely more weighty than you as your force. A very strong human punch is 730 pounds.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on September 03, 2010, 10:12:37 PM
So...Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World.  Yeah...that has to be one of the strangest movies I've ever seen, and my big problem with it is that it's basically two movies in one: a really lousy and slow 30-minute movie focusing on an unlikeable loser (seriously, this guy could give Shinji from Evangelion a run for his money in sheer wussiness) and his friends just lounging around, and then a really awesome 75+-minute movie/video game spectacle focusing on that loser learning to grow a pair and fight for what he believes in without screwing over his friends.  The visual style of this movie took a lot of getting used to, but in the end I really enjoyed it and I really enjoyed the writing in general.  No movie has ever "gotten" video game culture like this one has, and the movie is all the better for it with the respect and love it shows to the language of video games.  Sadly, this is a movie that is seemingly designed to be a cult classic, and it was one that was never likely to sell well in theaters.  I think it'll do well on DVD and Blu-Ray, and I hope it does.  It's just a pity that it moves so frickin' slowly and lamely for the first 1/3 of the movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on September 04, 2010, 12:24:36 AM
so the movie has a range of 1/3 intro  2/3 climax and conclusion? Isn't that the golden ratio?
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Post by: TJ Spyke on September 04, 2010, 01:04:48 AM
It's just a pity that it moves so frickin' slowly and lamely for the first 1/3 of the movie.

Same thing happened with Batman Begins, the first 45 minutes were terrible but the rest was pretty good.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on September 04, 2010, 01:33:56 PM
It's just a pity that it moves so frickin' slowly and lamely for the first 1/3 of the movie.

Same thing happened with Batman Begins, the first 45 minutes were terrible but the rest was pretty good.

Huh, I actually liked the first 45 minutes of that movie (in fact, post-Dark Knight I feel like Batman Begins suddenly gets a lot of unwarranted criticism).  They established the backstory and theme of the movie (fear, its effect on people, and how to make it your weapon), and set the stage for the action-based rest of the movie.  Scott Pilgrim just kind of wanders for the first 30 minutes or so.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on September 04, 2010, 05:57:39 PM
That's your opinion, I was just bored out of my mind until he actually became Batman. I didn't like the fact that Scarecrow was only in the movie for about 10 minutes combined even though he was the main villain.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on September 04, 2010, 06:41:01 PM
i thought the introduction period of batman was great
and if you put this into words it sounds even more awesome

Parents are murdered, murderer goes to trial, wayne dissapears, goes to the orient, gets put in asian prison, gets into prison fights, gets out of prison to become a  ninja, sets the ninja clans house on fire

the thing thats great about that story, is it kinda establishes that Wayne is not a crazy, he's not just some schmo running around wearing a suit "wearing hockey armor" he is actually a highly trained combatant trained by Ninja assassins. Not to mention he is already fucking loaded so he can afford to own his own industrial weapons tech.

I remember walking out of Batman Begins thinking Wow, that is so much more awesome than I could have imagined. It wasn't your standard Batman movie, it was a serious character development piece that grounds what Batman is in reality. If it wasn't a Batman movie it would still be a pretty interesting film to watch. I remember waiting for The Dark Knight to come out, knowing full well that it would be very difficult to continue
on the story with the same type of realism. I knew that the way they would have to approach the joker would be very difficult, but i pretty much knew what they were going to do. Even so they exceeded my expectations.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on September 05, 2010, 01:12:03 PM
machete 10/10   this movie doesn't **** around. plus L-Lohan is topless. sure she looks like s crack whore, but still.

oh and if Logan doesn't do it for you, the Crazy Babysitter Twins from Planet Terror are back..
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on September 05, 2010, 01:39:47 PM
Lohan looks terrible, how would her being topless be a good thing?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on September 05, 2010, 05:02:03 PM
It's a body double anyway.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on September 05, 2010, 06:26:16 PM
Lohan looks a lot healthier recently, unfortunately they shot her scenes before she gained the weight back.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on September 05, 2010, 07:20:46 PM
It's a body double anyway.

not in her last nude scene. they try to cover her goods up with her hair but fail. the pool screen is obviously a double.

yeah she doesn't look that great but it was worth mentioning for anyone who odd a fan..

I miss the rat
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on September 05, 2010, 08:13:36 PM
yeah, they'll probably catch Rat in a theater pulling a peewee
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on September 05, 2010, 09:54:28 PM
That's your opinion, I was just bored out of my mind until he actually became Batman. I didn't like the fact that Scarecrow was only in the movie for about 10 minutes combined even though he was the main villain.

This.

Batman Begins was boring. They tried to be high minded about it and use fear as the theme, but didn't explore nor utilize the villain which personified said theme. Instead of giving the Scarecrow his time to shine, they instead opted for a boring, over-the-top plot about ninjas trying to take over the world. Stupid. If it weren't for the remake of Insomnia, I'd say Batman Begins was Christopher Nolan's worst film.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: greybrick on September 05, 2010, 11:33:57 PM
The Godfather 5/5, thanks Netflix
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on September 06, 2010, 04:25:01 AM
How would a scarecrow plot pan out as movie anyhow? Believe it or not even despite leaving a terrible taste in everyone's mouth Batman and Robin was a box office successful movie. There were plans on making the next movie with scarecrow, where Robin was in college and Crane was Robin's professor. Which sounds like a Spider-man plot. Harlequin was going to be in the movie and be Joker's daughter, and joker was going to be a hallucination.

Luckily, the bad taste put this film in development hell for years. What they did have of Scarecrow in the Batman Begins was I thought pretty awesome. Not to mention Scarecrow hasn't even been eliminated yet as a villain, so he can still pan out. The thing that just amazes me was that Ra's al guhl was even a villain at all. He's essentially batmans equivelent to Iron Man's Mandarin, and The Shadow's Shiwan Khan. I thought they pulled him off quite well. It also helps if your a fan of the villain, which it would seem most people aren't. I've been a fan of him since TOS. I think though, he was a great change of pace from previous Zany Riddler type villains.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on September 06, 2010, 06:01:22 AM
Ra's al guhl was a great initial villain for the new Batman series I thought. It set a great tone for the new series. No more zany characters for Batman please.
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Post by: TJ Spyke on September 06, 2010, 10:50:08 AM
Some of the best Batman villains could be considered "zany" though. For example, I love the Riddler and the Mad Hatter (don't get me wrong, I don't want "camp" villains like in the 60s show). They made several good episodes with Scarecrow in Batman: The Animated Series, so I am sure they could have made a plot where Scarecrow was more than just afterthought.
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Post by: broodwars on September 06, 2010, 02:17:26 PM
Luckily, the bad taste put this film in development hell for years. What they did have of Scarecrow in the Batman Begins was I thought pretty awesome. Not to mention Scarecrow hasn't even been eliminated yet as a villain, so he can still pan out. The thing that just amazes me was that Ra's al guhl was even a villain at all. He's essentially batmans equivelent to Iron Man's Mandarin, and The Shadow's Shiwan Khan. I thought they pulled him off quite well. It also helps if your a fan of the villain, which it would seem most people aren't. I've been a fan of him since TOS. I think though, he was a great change of pace from previous Zany Riddler type villains.

Wow, a reference to The Shadow.  Applaud!   ;)

Yeah, I thought the Scarecrow was in Batman Begins just enough.  If you look at the Batman: TAS episodes he's in, he's really not in them very much and goes down quickly.  He's only really there to give Batman something to punch once he's fought through the hallucinations.  As for Ra's Al Ghul, I only had two problems with his portrayal in the movie and they both stem from Batman: TAS:

1.  He never calls Batman "Detective".
2.  It's pronounced "Race-sh", not "Rah-s"  Only Terry McGinnis can call him the latter.   :P:
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on September 06, 2010, 04:14:19 PM
The first problem has more to do with the direction the series is going in than the way the character was written. This Batman just isn't really emphasizing the "World's Greatest Dective" part. Your second point bothered me as well, though.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on September 06, 2010, 07:01:37 PM
I just saw "Batman: Under the Red Hood" and could tell exactly where it was going within about five minutes. I knew the character's story already, but was interested to see if the DCAU did something different with it. Nope.

Is Joker voiced by Bender in this movie? He didn't do an awful job, but animated Joker just seems wrong without Mark Hamill, I'm sorry.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on September 07, 2010, 02:19:37 AM
I just saw "Batman: Under the Red Hood" and could tell exactly where it was going within about five minutes. I knew the character's story already, but was interested to see if the DCAU did something different with it. Nope.

Generally, Bruce Timm project tends to stick fairly close to the original source material, with only minor changes made for the sake of pacing and approachability.  He did make some changes with Under the Red Hood from the comics, though, such as removing all references to Final Crisis and just focusing the plot as a story about the Bat-family.  He also added some additional scenes with the Joker that I thought worked particular well.  From what I've heard of the comic origin for Red Hood (Superboy Prime punching the barrier between dimensions, causing all these effects?  Please...), I greatly approve of these changes.  I actually wish this was a formal part of the DCAU, because aside a few plot details this movie could have released alongside Return of the Joker and fit in just fine in the DCAU mythos.

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Is Joker voiced by Bender in this movie? He didn't do an awful job, but animated Joker just seems wrong without Mark Hamill, I'm sorry.

Yes, he is voiced by the same voice actor, and I thought he did a fine job as the Joker.  If Hamill sticks to what he's been saying and Arkham Asylum 2 is his final role as the Joker, I wouldn't mind seeing this voice actor return to voice him in later DC animated projects.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: greybrick on September 07, 2010, 02:45:41 AM
The Godfather: Part II 4/5

Scarface: Surprisingly preachy/5
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on September 07, 2010, 02:51:40 AM
Brood, the movies aren't part of the DCAU cannon? I always assumed they were, but I guess that's why they say that thing about assuming.
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Post by: broodwars on September 07, 2010, 02:55:45 AM
Brood, the movies aren't part of the DCAU cannon? I always assumed they were, but I guess that's why they say that thing about assuming.

No, the DCAU officially ended with the last season of Justice League Unlimited.  All the post JLU movies are in their own continuities, based on their own comics (and associated art styles).  They'll bring in the voice actors from the DCAU occasionally to reprise their roles, but that's just for the purpose of fanservice because they know we like those actors so much.

The only DC animated movies that are part of the DCAU canon are as follows:

Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
Batman & Mr. Freeze: Subzero
Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman
Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker

There's also a Superman movie involving Brainiac, though it's supposedly crappy and I don't think it's officially part of the canon.  Note that although there is fanservice to the DCAU in places, Teen Titans is also not canon to the DCAU.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on September 07, 2010, 02:59:21 AM
That's really a shame. I loved the way the DCAU became it's own cannon with characters being featured in eachother's shows (Static Shock, JL:Unlimited, Batman Beyond). I had read somewhere that the AU was cannon for like Earth 3 or something in the comics. It's a shame it's no longer being built upon.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on September 07, 2010, 07:36:33 AM
2012: Equally as depressing as Knowing and frustrating as hell. Once again Chiwetel Ejiofor is a fantastic actor and deserves better than this!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on September 07, 2010, 12:35:34 PM
The Haunting in Connecticut: 2/10. I can't really put into words how much I thought this sucked.

I actually liked the SciFi special about it (which aired waaay before the movie came out) better than this POS. I knew from the get-go that hey'd ruin the original story by adding nonsensical plot to it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on September 07, 2010, 01:54:28 PM
Mystery of the Batwomen was surprisingly bad.

Revenge of the Nerds: WOW This is an 80's Movie/10

It wasn't great. Good, sure, but not something I'd ever watch again.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on September 07, 2010, 02:57:08 PM
on the contrary,I could watch revenge of the nerds on a loop and still love it. the sequels though...
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on September 07, 2010, 03:01:09 PM
Mystery of the Batwomen was surprisingly bad.

Just as a change of pace from the usual brooding Batman stories, I enjoyed the movie and thought they did a pretty good job of hiding the plot twist.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on September 07, 2010, 06:34:38 PM
EasyCure, I thought II and IV were good movies. III is not so much, although the courtroom scene when all of the original nerd show up was pretty cool.

I got the four-pack of the movies, and one of the extras was the pilot episode for the failed Nerds TV show, painfully bad even by 80s standards.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on September 07, 2010, 06:41:39 PM
I don't hate pt II myself, I can just enjoy the original SO much better. 3 I only saw once and it was pretty bad but pt 4, "nerds in love" wtf!?
Speaking of which, isn't it part 4 you're referring to? At the end there's a court scene where all the original nerds show up, all old and ****.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on September 07, 2010, 07:05:48 PM
Nah, that's in III.  Lewis was framed for stealing money from the college and was being defended by Booger (who had become a lawyer in the years between II and III, albeit one of those ambulance chasing ones). Things were looking bad for him as the lawyer was clear in his anti-nerd views, then all of his old Tri-Lamb buddies show up to support him (the first time he had seen them in years since he had tried to distance himself from his nerd past) and even Stan Gable realized he was wrong and admitted that he had been forced to frame Lewis and the current Tri-Lambs by Orrin Price (played by Morton Downey, Jr.). IV ends with Booger and Jeannie getting married, and Lewis's wife Betty giving birth to their daughter. There isn't a court room scene in it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on September 07, 2010, 09:15:59 PM
odd, I really remember the courtroom scene happening in part IV because I've only ever seen it once ever, so it should have stood out to me. Oh well, you sound like you know what you're talking about, so I'll admit  you're right.

Pineapple Express: 10/10 ;)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on September 07, 2010, 10:17:35 PM
Only because i've watched all four movies more times than i'm willing to admit.

I don't know if I would like Pineapple Express. I generally don't like movies that are mainly about drug addicts and are designed to be watched while high. I did like Half Baked though.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Dasmos on September 08, 2010, 12:43:54 AM
Pineapple Express is just badass, whether you're high or not.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on September 08, 2010, 03:38:59 AM
Undisputed III - Better than expected and held my interest all the way through/10
it's on Netflix Instant Watch.

There are some issues with slo-mo on some parts of the fights revealing flaws which break the suspension of disbelief, but once you ignore those moments, you have a solid fighter that's heavy on the fighting. Lots of cool moves get executed and only enough story is told to move towards the next fight with only a little bit of character dev going on. Worth the watch if you have the time and like fighting movies.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on September 08, 2010, 01:41:20 PM
I can say honestly I've never seen Pineapple Express while high and I enjoy it every time. its just an action comedy mainly about pot. Cheech and Chong movies.. now those are ones you have to be high for. I've tried watching so many of them but they always have their moments where I just can't get into it.

also, Pineapple Express Commentary Track - 10/10.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TheBlackCat on September 08, 2010, 11:37:15 PM
I just watched Police Academy 4.  During the movie they had a scene where two of the actors and and a bunch of random kids (youngish teenagers) were skateboarding around town.  During the credits, they mentioned the names of the kids.  I don't know much about skateboarding, but I do recognize one of the names: Tony Hawk.  He looks about 14.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on September 09, 2010, 03:49:52 AM
Expendables

Christ this movie is loud. This is essentially a collection of action clichés in a technically proficient package of violence. It has some good comedic moments that aren't half bad. Some well used cameos.

*Arnold walks away*
Willis: What the hell is his problem?
Sly: He wants to be president.


The characters are pretty non-existent when examined within the movie, but if you super-impose your expectation as to who each person is from his past work as an actor as their "background" you end up with fuller character as each person plays a cliché of themselves.

None of that really matters as your really here to see **** blow up and boy is there a pay off at the end of the movie. There are a couple of scenes where your just can't believe what you just saw.

Sly is still taking too many cuts during actions scenes, shaking the camera a little too much and shooting far too close. It's ruining some very nicely choreographed fights. Too much obvious CG. If he wanted to make an 80's action movie he should have used older action style instead today's more "modern" and messy shots they few people can actually do well.

**** blows up, eat popcorn. Have a laugh. Go back to watching Rambo 3 as that is a better movie.

Rated

Colourful, but need improvement, see me after class.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: greybrick on September 09, 2010, 09:39:22 PM
Zardoz: ?/?

I'm not quite sure what I just watched.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on September 10, 2010, 12:24:12 AM
Yeah the Expendables was so much better than I expected it's not even funny. Sure it wasn't a perfect action flick, but it really got the job done. I went in with my big bag of popcorn 'n' drink, and enjoyed the ride for what it was.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: greybrick on September 10, 2010, 12:29:57 AM
Oh God, it is bad when Netflix recommends something, "based on your interest in Serial Killers."

I don't even think I've watched anything with a serial killer in it, outside of Dirty Harry, and maybe Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on September 10, 2010, 12:43:55 AM
Oh God, it is bad when Netflix recommends something, "based on your interest in Serial Killers."

I don't even think I've watched anything with a serial killer in it, outside of Dirty Harry, and maybe Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

thats effin' hilarious! I only recently got netflix so I haven't seen anything like that yet. Then again, my girlfriend, cousin and brothers all use my account to stream movies whenever they please and all have different taste in movies.. I haven't really used it to watch anything for myself, yet, but I can't wait to see what kind of recommendations i get.

Actually, on second though, the first time I booted up the Netflix Wii streaming disc, one of the categories i could choose from are "goofy 80s comedies" so..
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on September 10, 2010, 04:14:32 AM
Yeah the Expendables was so much better than I expected it's not even funny. Sure it wasn't a perfect action flick, but it really got the job done. I went in with my big bag of popcorn 'n' drink, and enjoyed the ride for what it was.

Not saying that I didn't enjoy the **** out of the movie, but Sly has some real learning to do. The one thing I really admire out of Sly and his movies is that he's really organised. He can get things together and then get them done even with all the changes in casting. He just doesn't have the film making skills to match at this time.

Rambo 4 was a pretty good showing of his skills and while he did use shaky cam, he didn't use it at the same time with quick cuts and extreme close ups as he did in Expendables. It feels like he is covering up for something that doesn't need covering up. Hell most of the time there was no reason for the cam to be shaky.

He also has an over reliance on CG blood and CG. Maybe because it's cheaper and easier, but it just isn't as good as squibs and a blood pack. Hell, most of the people dying in the Rambo movies just fall over.

Maybe he just doesn't have it in him, but I hope with the sequel he can go old school properly with not just the actors, but the techniques used in old action movies with modern equipment.

All that said, his action movies are still better than most action movies out there in the last 5 hell, 10 years in the entertainment department.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on September 10, 2010, 05:05:46 AM
my netflix was always based on your interest in the occult and serial killers we recommend these movie
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on September 10, 2010, 10:33:43 AM
grey, you can turn off certain genres (i.e. if you don't like horror films, you can make it so they will not recommend horror movies). Their recommendations have been alright for me, although I usually just put stuff I already want to watch into my que.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on September 10, 2010, 10:51:13 AM
*Superman/Batman: Public Enemies

Good movie. It's about Lex Luthor somehow being elected president of the United States. He basically forces superheroes to start working for him, and he is actually doing a good job. When a kryptonite meteor the size of a small country is heading towards Earth, he plans to use missiles on it despite all his advisers saying it won't work and that they should ask Superman to help (Superman had been reduced to stuff like stopping car chases due to lack of crime). When Luthor finally agrees, he frames Superman for the death of Metallo and offers a $1 billion bounty on him (which brings out tons of DC villains to try and collect it) and Superman and Batman have to try and fight them off (and some of the superheroes went to work for the government) and also prove Superman's innocence. Very good movie, almost as good as the DCAU stuff.

*Justice League:Crisis on Two Earths:
This was on the opposite spectrum. First, they decided to go with celeb voices instead of the familiar ones. Batman especially sounds way off. This was originally supposed to be part of the DCAU before they changed their minds, which may be why they went with Hal Jordan instead of John Stewart as Green Lantern (Jordan is a Green Lantern in the DCAU too, but Stewart is the member of the Justice League). The animation seems a bit off too. The plot is based on a 1960s comic series. This Lex Luthor from a alternate Earth comes to the main Earth of the comics. He explains that he is the last surviving member of his Justice League and that his Earth is basically run by the Crime Syndicate (governments let them do almost anything they want, but keep them in check with threats of nuclear weapons). Crime Syndicate member Owlman (their version of Batman) eventually figures out what Luthor did and go to get him. Basically Owlman secretly comes up with a plan to destroy Earth Prime (our Earth, where they are just comic characters) because he figures that all alternate realities are created from Earth Prime and that if he destroys it then he will destroy all Earths in every reality.

I give 5/5 to the first and 3/5 to the second.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on September 10, 2010, 12:59:30 PM
I liked Public Enemies a LOT. The plot was great, and it had Power Girl.

I recently saw Crisis on Two Earths on Netflix and I didn't like it much. It felt like a terrible fanfic, especially the stilted romance between Owlman and Superwoman. Celebrity voices were totally unnecessary, too. I don't consider this film part of DCAU canon.

I started watching Justice League: Secret Origins but turned it off after 20 minutes. Bad animation.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on September 10, 2010, 04:37:45 PM
Crisis isn't part of the DCAU canon, they changed their minds while still making it. The last canon entry of the DCAU was the series finale of Justice League Unlimited.

I have thought about watching Secret Origins, but the art on the box (front and back) look terrible. If it is available for instant streaming (Public Enemies isn't, so not all DC animated movies are), I might check it out.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on September 10, 2010, 06:49:47 PM
oohboy, we are on the same page, somewhat. I thought the movie was so bad ass I didn't even notice the shaky cam, etc.

why must you torture me with WORDS!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Kytim89 on September 10, 2010, 06:54:25 PM
I just went and saw Resident Evil: Afterlife. I have never seen a 3D movie and was sceptical at first, but I liked what I saw and refuse to ruin the movie for anyone. Everyone, go see the movie as quickly as possible.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on September 10, 2010, 07:03:20 PM
no thanks, never been a fan of the RE movies, and 3D has been a huge let down in so many movies I no longer care for it.

tonight is date night, and I think my gf wants to see that drew Barrymore movie..
I'll rate it later I suppose.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Kytim89 on September 10, 2010, 07:33:15 PM
no thanks, never been a fan of the RE movies, and 3D has been a huge let down in so many movies I no longer care for it.

tonight is date night, and I think my gf wants to see that drew Barrymore movie..
I'll rate it later I suppose.

Resident Evil is a more manly movie than a Drew Berrymore flick.  ;D
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on September 10, 2010, 07:54:37 PM
But Drew Barrymore is adorable.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Kytim89 on September 10, 2010, 08:08:11 PM
But Drew Barrymore is adorable.

Mila Jovovich and Ali Larter are even more adorable. ;)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on September 10, 2010, 08:44:27 PM
Brandon St Randy<3

... I mean..

Justin Long<3
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on September 10, 2010, 10:51:20 PM
oohboy, we are on the same page, somewhat. I thought the movie was so bad ass I didn't even notice the shaky cam, etc.

why must you torture me with WORDS!

It's just a little maddening. With the invention of steady cam you could do shots never done before. Take long perfect shots. Take steady shots where it was once not possible.

They then takes those shots and shake the crap out of them in a computer. What the hell is the point. Shaky cam has been used a long time, but used very selectively.

Toss in caffeine induced shaky cam, close ups and quick cuts into the one shot and it renders anything on the shown worthless. Then do this not for individual shots and extend it for entire scenes and sequences with complete disregard for appropriateness, just outright pisses me off. I want to SEE the action, not what my imagination fills in. I didn't pay money just to make me do the hard work.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: greybrick on September 11, 2010, 02:03:15 AM
Troll 2:

How well the movie works as a horror film: 1/5

How entertained I was: 5/5

I honestly laughed during just about the entirety of this film. The acting, makeup, and filming are all terrible. It seems like everyone in this movie was genuinely trying, but they managed to find a cast that was universally horrible.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on September 11, 2010, 10:38:40 AM
Troll 2:

How well the movie works as a horror film: 1/5

How entertained I was: 5/5

I honestly laughed during just about the entirety of this film. The acting, makeup, and filming are all terrible. It seems like everyone in this movie was genuinely trying, but they managed to find a cast that was universally horrible.
This was one of the MFT movies, but unfortunately, one that everyone sat out on;
http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/forums/index.php?topic=31343.msg622961#msg622961

Perhaps you were entertained enough to go back and MFT it for us?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on September 11, 2010, 12:36:29 PM
Paul Blart: Mall Cop

What can I say? I really enjoyed it. It's a nice film that you can just sit back and enjoy. I thought Kevin James was actually pretty good here. If I had to give it a rating, 4.5/5
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on September 11, 2010, 02:14:46 PM
I've been knocking foreign movies off my Instant Watch list, so I guess I'll give a few mentions here.

Chocolate (Taiwanese)
Martial arts movie about an autistic kid that learns just by watching. You can tell the main star is not the greatest martial artist and that there were many, many, many takes with all the quick cuts, but the editing was done ok so it doesn't take away from the movie too much. Overall it was entertaining.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Swedish)
Actually a pretty interesting movie about a journalist that supposedly gets framed and then takes a private job researching the death/disappearance of some rich old guys favorite niece with the help of a computer hacking chick with a dragon tattoo. It's based off some series of books and got high praises at one of the movie festivals.

The Chaser (Korean)
Ex Cop turned pimp is losing girls(he thinks their being sold) and decides to track down the guy he believes is responsible down when he realizes that his last available girl is off to see that "client" right now. He runs into a major problem when his girl doesn't check in like she's supposed to. What he doesn't know is that the missing girls weren't being sold to work for someone else, they weren't doing anything anymore. All he knows is that he has a chance to confront this guy and get his girl back, and he won't stop looking until he does. I was actually really into this one and it was all good up until right before the end where there is a pretty big hole in the story Killer was tailed to a shop by a cop where he ends up killing 2 more people and apparently walked home afterwards covered in blood

Ong Bak 2 (???)
WTF was this ****? I liked the first movie with all the crazy stunts, but this movie made almost no sense and almost all the fight scenes were so over scripted that people were standing around waiting for their cues to react/attack. I almost turned it off several times, but kept waiting for the awesome fight scenes that just had to be in here somewhere. I guess I went in to this movie expecting too much, but all this movie had to offer was scripted fighting demonstrations of many varied styles. Not worth the watch.

Red Riding Trilogy: Pt 1 - 1974
Some British film that I really tried to watch on several occasions but could not understand WTF they were saying for 90% of the movie i watched. I'm almost positive I would have enjoyed this 3 part made for TV movie if there were some sub titles, but sadly Netflix hasn't gotten that tech up and running yet. The accents are thick and the slang is unfamiliar, so making sense out what I did understand was not really possible.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on September 11, 2010, 02:19:36 PM
The lack of subtitles on Instant Streaming is a little annoying sometimes, I would recommend just getting movies you think you need subtitles for through their mail service.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on September 11, 2010, 02:28:59 PM
If I waited for the disc I would probably never get around to watching the movie.

My disc list is about 150+ titles if you include the saved (not yet released) list.
my IW list is about 60 titles long.

Besides, Netflix is working on adding subtitles to streaming movies, but HD I think takes priority at the moment.
it should be coming along sooner or later.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on September 11, 2010, 02:55:28 PM
Wow, I thought I had a long que list. I haven't added any new titles in weeks because of it. Subtitles aren't a big deal I guess, it would be nice if there was a way to get bonus features working for Instant Streaming (some movies have really good special features).

Through IS, I just watched The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers. It was a little too boring to me. I would have been disappointed more if I had gotten this in the mail.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on September 12, 2010, 01:17:12 AM
watched 2 more today....

Deep Star 6
This movie could really use a remake or something. It was pretty good up until the "monster". Modern special effects could really do this movie wonders. And for as fucked up as things were for this crew, it's amazing how one guy can really make things infinitely worse.

Tokyo Gore Police (Japanese)
I guess you could say a well funded B-movie that turned into more than I expected. I was expecting kung-fu violence with lots and lots of blood, but when they say Gore, they meant lots and lots of gore. They went through enough blood spray to fill an olympic sized swimming pool and things took a twist into a very perverted way that was not expected. Let's just say they mix a little sex, with lots of violence, tons of blood, bits of perversion and a few ounces of "oh that's just gross". Take all that and wrap it around a "monster/mutant movie, and you have Tokyo Gore Police.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: greybrick on September 12, 2010, 01:56:18 AM
Troll 2:

How well the movie works as a horror film: 1/5

How entertained I was: 5/5

I honestly laughed during just about the entirety of this film. The acting, makeup, and filming are all terrible. It seems like everyone in this movie was genuinely trying, but they managed to find a cast that was universally horrible.
This was one of the MFT movies, but unfortunately, one that everyone sat out on;
http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/forums/index.php?topic=31343.msg622961#msg622961 (http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/forums/index.php?topic=31343.msg622961#msg622961)

Perhaps you were entertained enough to go back and MFT it for us?

Well I was certainly entertained, right now my mouse is hovering over the "buy" button on iTunes- I want to be able to take this everywhere with me!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on September 12, 2010, 03:20:24 PM
Zardoz: ?/?

I'm not quite sure what I just watched.

ummm..... I agree. WTF was that?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on September 12, 2010, 05:00:07 PM
Aladdin
The Return of Jafar
Aladdin and the King of Thieves

ABC Family had a marathon of them today and I had nothing else to watch. I really enjoyed the three movies, although you can tell that they didn't put much money into the second movie. It was direct-to-video, they didn't pay Robin Williams to come back (they replaced him with Dan Castellaneta), and the animation wasn't as good. The third movie is the weakest of the three, but I would still recommend all three to people who enjoy traditional animated movies and ones that are good for the whole family.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on September 12, 2010, 07:44:10 PM
There are parts of Jafar that I like more than the original movie (his villainy, for one). I hated the third movie. It didn't even need to be made. Aladdin remains one of my favorite Disney movies, and one of the best Disney platformers ever made (SNES/Genesis).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on September 12, 2010, 11:53:00 PM
Paul Blart: Mall Cop

What can I say? I really enjoyed it. It's a nice film that you can just sit back and enjoy. I thought Kevin James was actually pretty good here. If I had to give it a rating, 4.5/5

I really enjoyed two songs off that film so much I went home and downloaded them asap.

Going the Distance 7/10.
I was surprised I enjoyed this movie as much as I did. It was The Ugly Truth all over again, but much better. By that I mean, I went in thinking it'd be a super-duper chick-flick my girlfriend would enjoy more than I would, but walked out satisfied. It wasn't perfect, it had some slow or cheesey parts and some of the chemistry between characters felt forced (which was odd considering I later found out Drew Barrymore and Justin Long are a couple IRL).

The comedy was awesome, Charlie Day didn't have as much screen time as I had hoped but all his scenes were priceless especially the Charlie Chaplin bit. Drew Barrymore had a surprising character, too, which I enjoyed. I'm so used to to her cute, goofy characters but she's far from that here. A vulgar DB is a MUCH cuter DB in my opinion.

-----------------------------

Born In East LA 2/10 Still as good as I remember from when I was younger, but there was an issue with the movie..

Apearantly, home releases omit THE FUCKING ENDING OF THE GOD DAMN MOVIE! In the home release, Cheech Marin & co cross the border into the US, arrive at the Cinco De Mayo parade, then credits role. They omit a whole scene where Cheech goes home, gets his papers, his girlfriend and him get abducted by Immigration officers, escape to the parade (their first time arriving there) and get married by a priest on a float, making his new wife a naturalized citizen, thus keeping her from being deported back to Mexico.

According to wikipedia/IMDB, the ending is intact for tv versions of the film (such as the version shown on Comedy Central) because it replaces scenes cut out "for content and time." Meanwhile, there's hardly anything worthy of being cut for content because the movie (aside from one masturbatory gesture) is pretty tame.

I'm scoring so low because I was pissed that such a big scene is cut. It's fucking mind boggling why they would omit such a thing, because otherwise the movie would be a pretty damn good comedy.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: greybrick on September 14, 2010, 01:22:42 AM
The Godfather III: 4/5

I do feel that I enjoyed this a bit more than the second, but the ending would have been so much better if certain people weren't cast as Mary Corleone.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on September 14, 2010, 01:48:18 AM
The Joneses -

The premise of the movie I give a 9, but the ending is a 5, so it drops the total down to a 7 at best. I wanted to live the life in this movie. David Duchovny & Demi Moore had it made in this movie, and it made me wonder if stuff like this actually happen in real life. I really don't want to talk too much about it because I don't want to give away what it is about even though you find out fairly early in the movie, but I liked trying to guess what was going on in the beginning before it was actually revealed.
verdict: Worth the watch till a point where the drama starts. It's all down hill from there. This could have been a much better movie if they had just scrapped the ending and continued the movie with the way it started.

my personal alternate ending
David takes the offer in the limo and the movie moves forward from there. Would have made this movie much much better IMO.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on September 14, 2010, 06:57:48 AM
oohboy, we are on the same page, somewhat. I thought the movie was so bad ass I didn't even notice the shaky cam, etc.

why must you torture me with WORDS!

It's just a little maddening. With the invention of steady cam you could do shots never done before. Take long perfect shots. Take steady shots where it was once not possible.

They then takes those shots and shake the crap out of them in a computer. What the hell is the point. Shaky cam has been used a long time, but used very selectively.

Toss in caffeine induced shaky cam, close ups and quick cuts into the one shot and it renders anything on the shown worthless. Then do this not for individual shots and extend it for entire scenes and sequences with complete disregard for appropriateness, just outright pisses me off. I want to SEE the action, not what my imagination fills in. I didn't pay money just to make me do the hard work.

Episode 6 of Stargate Universe "Water" has a great use of shakycam in there fairly early on where Rush and Young are arguing about Destiny now being fully recharged and they should just dial the gate to go back to Earth, Rush says how they're up to about "probably 40% of design capacity" Young challenges him how "i know when someone is pulling a number out of their ass", the camera is deliberately wobblng slightly behind objects to partly obscure their faces and zooms in a touch before Eli retorts "actually i pulled that number, out of my ass", before the camera sharply pans over to him but misses him completely and pulls back then zooms in on his face.

I missed the camera work the first time around but i just caught it over the weekend. THAT is how you do shakycam properly. No dizzyness, not over the top, no headaches and added a real "documentary" touch.


In Salt, however, it was just shake for the sake of shakeyshake.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on September 14, 2010, 08:07:14 AM
Here's something awesome on the opposite end of the spectrum, I present the opening of Breaking News (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1jl6bC6K5c). It is approximately 6:40 uncut steady cam work of which half is action. It's so awesome in fact, the rest of the movie is a let down because it started such a high note. From memory, this was done in ONE take.

Of course another great scene and this one is pure action is from the Protector (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXIGP6_fNZk), the Tony Jaa movie. Real stunts, no wires, uncut. They also had to do a second take to get it right.

Enjoy.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on September 15, 2010, 01:14:24 AM
See No Evil, Hear No Evil: Comedy Gold/10

This was actually my first time seeing this movie completely unedited and uninterrupted. All I can say is they just don't make comedies like this anymore, and its a damn shame. Damn shame.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on September 15, 2010, 07:33:25 PM
Yeah that's a classic.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on September 16, 2010, 01:10:19 AM
Smokin' Aces 6/10

Decent popcorn flick. Could of used a little more action than that free-for-all at the end. The ending was a decent twist, but it could have been so much better. Wait, could it? I don't know any more.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nintendo1945 on September 16, 2010, 07:51:01 PM
I saw Scott Pilgrim vs. the World back in August. If someone couldv'e looked into my brain and taken that info to make a movie, it would have been this movie. It made a misstep here and there, but as a whole those small discrepancies can certainly be looked over. The humor was great and the pop culture and video game references were spot on. To give it a rating, I say A+
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: FZeroBoyo on September 17, 2010, 07:31:21 PM
So I just saw Alpha & Omega, despite the flood of CGI animated films we've had this year, I thought this one had some good dialogue and action to make it worth watching to the end. My rating: 8/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on September 18, 2010, 12:12:40 AM
The Time Travelers Wife 8.5/10

It was a good movie in the same way Benjamin Button was a good movie. I initially thought it was going to be a big chick flick, but because its kinda twisted in a way it stays interesting. Its a pretty decent scifi movie as well.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on September 18, 2010, 11:04:25 AM
Easy A 7/10

Decent movie, had some pretty funny moments but not the greatest teen comedy out there. The only thing that kept me interested to the end was Emma Stone and some of the ridiculously sexy outfits she wears. Even when she's not wearing bustiers or corsettes, she looks amazing though that last outfit makes me wish she was in that new Cher/Christina Aguilera burlesque movie[/spoier]. Oh and her acting is definately top notch, this girls got talent. Smart, young, beautiful; she keeps her nose clean and she can go places.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on September 18, 2010, 11:28:04 AM
Visitor Q - WTFOMGLOLThat's Gross

I don't if something is wrong with me because I found parts of this movie funny when I assume it was supposed to be grossing me out.
I can't really go into any details without ruining some f the shock value, but since I doubt any of you will want to watch this anyway I'll just say it involves incest, necrophelia, murder, abuse, milking, rigor mortis, voyuerism, scat, attempted rape and a very very sick mind(not all in that order). Most of this doesn't happen until the final stretch of the movie (last 20-30 minutes) but for some reason I couldn't help but LOL because of what was happening in combination of the dialog that went along with it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on September 18, 2010, 09:23:31 PM
well i'll have to watch that then
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BeautifulShy on September 18, 2010, 09:34:13 PM
Well at the moment I am watching the Back to the Future trilogy on TV. Nearing the end of the first one and it stands as one of my favorite trilogys.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on September 18, 2010, 09:41:20 PM
i was watching it on TV for a bit, but then Curb your Enthusiasm came on
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on September 19, 2010, 02:24:17 AM
G.I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra = crap

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on September 19, 2010, 10:28:46 AM
G.I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra = crap

I say better than expected*, but nearly as good as I had hoped.


*expectation were very very low
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on September 19, 2010, 11:47:58 AM
G.I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra = crap

I say better than expected*, but nearly as good as I had hoped.

*expectation were very very low

As were mine, and it still didn't meet them. I knew it was a BANG BANG KABOOM popcorn flick which is why I even suggested it to my friends (none of us have ever seen it). None of us were ever really in to GI Joes as kids, but I did chuckle at the "kung-fu" grip line, as well as the "knowing is half the battle" bit but the movie still didn't deliver. Maybe I was in a pissy mood so I'm judging it harshly, but I'm not taking back my rating now. I have no interested in rewatching and re-reviewing it again, it was just too stupid.

I will say, I really wished there was a joke PSA during the credits, because that would've turned it around and made it passible.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: vudu on September 20, 2010, 01:46:55 PM
I watched the first 10 minutes of GI Joe on Netflix Instant View and turned it off because it was laughably bad.  Does it get any better or can I just delete this from my queue?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on September 20, 2010, 02:01:39 PM
It gets worse as it goes on.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on September 20, 2010, 03:27:04 PM
It gets worse as it goes on.

The accent from Mr. Eko is laughably bad, which is ironic considering it's meant to be English and he's from Islington in NORTH LONDON!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on September 20, 2010, 03:29:12 PM
Scott Pilgrim - WTF! What the hell did i watch? That was amazing and extremely limited in its appeal all at once. It's shamelessly aimed at the mid-20's Nintendo Game Arcader generation and its so much better for it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on September 24, 2010, 11:33:33 AM
Watched Iron Man 2 and Superman/Batman: Apocalypse (yes, it isn't out yet.  It'll be out next week) last night.  I was really looking forward to both since I was a big fan of their predecessors (Iron Man 1 and Batman: Under the Red Hood), and both disappointed me.  I found Iron Man 2 to be a really uneven movie, with a decent beginning and a decent conclusion but a middle that's a little dull.  Iron Man 2's story felt really loose and a bit impenetrable compared to its predecessor and the jokes largely weren't that funny (the best material was when Tony and Pepper were together and that didn't occur that often).  The action scenes were ok, but I never really cared about any of the villains.  The movie in general felt more like a setup for the Avengers movie than an Iron Man movie.
 
As for Superman/Batman, I don't know why Batman's name is even in the title: aside from a nice little scene between him and Darkseid late in the movie, he doesn't really do anything in this movie and he's even more of a jerk than usual.  Neither does Supergirl, for that matter, until the end and this is supposed to be her story.  I really didn't expect to see Wonder Woman in this movie, but I felt that she really fit well.  Unfortunately, like most Superman/Batman team-ups outside of the Justice League series, Superman tends to dominate the show since the writers feel the need to have a threat worthy of his ridiculous array of powers that get boring quickly (there's only so many times you can see Superman using his heat vision or punching a guy before it gets old).  Superman is a boring character IMO outside of the Bruce Timm animated series, and he's not terribly interesting here either despite dominating the show.  And no Michael Ironside playing Darkseid=FAIL.  The artwork in the movie can also get a little poor at times, especially the lips on the characters that make their faces look really goofy.  Overall, the movie's ok but it pales in comparison to the high standard set by Under the Red Hood.
 
To make matters worse, the next DC animated movie's going to be another Superman movie.  *yawn*  Guess I'll put that up there with Green Lantern: First Flight on the list of DC animated movies I can safely ignore.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on September 24, 2010, 01:38:24 PM
To be fair, they were trying to bogart the art of "Superman/Batman: The Girl from Krypton" or whatever that story arc is called. The art style in that comic looks kind of bizarre, especially Superman, who's got this uber-jawline. I'm surprised you didn't see Princess Diana coming a mile away--she has a huge part in the comic arc, basically training Supergirl on Themyscera to be an amazon warrior.

I've still got the movie on my Netflix queue, but I'm really psyched to see it. The farther these movies get away from the DCAU continuity (and art style) the more I dislike them. I need to just get all the Superman cartoons and call it good.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on September 24, 2010, 01:58:37 PM
To be fair, they were trying to bogart the art of "Superman/Batman: The Girl from Krypton" or whatever that story arc is called. The art style in that comic looks kind of bizarre, especially Superman, who's got this uber-jawline. I'm surprised you didn't see Princess Diana coming a mile away--she has a huge part in the comic arc, basically training Supergirl on Themyscera to be an amazon warrior.

I never read the comics.   I only recently (as in "a few weeks ago") got into comics, and I've only read a few (Scott Pilgrim and Spider-Man Noir).  My experience with these characters is limited to their appearances in the various animated series and movies, which I prefer over reading still images.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on September 24, 2010, 05:49:22 PM
you know during the sam rockwell scene on iron man 2 where he's making sells with Rhodes I went to the bathroom and came back and the scene still wasn't over. All he was talking about was the weapons that were going to be on War-Machine. Thats a scene that could have been cut, I can imagine that would have dragged on. I really had to go to the bathroom so I had to pick my unessential scene wisely.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on September 24, 2010, 07:30:49 PM
The Town: 8/10 It was really good; although I thought Ben Affleck's character fell in love with the witness chick way too quickly, and the 4th guy in the group had ZERO lines, yet I'm supposed to be shocked when he gets shot in the head.

The American: How Much You Like George Cloney/10 It was kinda slow, without too much payoff, but the level intrigue was was tip top.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on September 24, 2010, 08:16:20 PM
would you say he fell in love with her or just enjoyed sleeping with her? Because if i had good source of tang, i would protect it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on September 24, 2010, 09:42:15 PM
Thanks to Netflix Instant Streaming, I just watched Bicentennial Man. From what i've read, part of the reason it didn't do that well in theatres in because Disney basically made it look like a comedy in trailers and commercials. It's not a comedy, it's a sci-fi movie. I enjoyed it, I like watching Andrew grow over the 200 years and become more human (more externally and internally) and wanting companionship as he was basically an anomaly and there are no other robots like him.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on September 25, 2010, 01:29:10 AM
would you say he fell in love with her or just enjoyed sleeping with her? Because if i had good source of tang, i would protect it.

He already had a good source of tang. He had sex with his friend's sister, who was clearly in love with him. His friend was practically trying force him to be with her. The only thing stopping him there was the kid because it wasn't his. He obviously loved the girl since he left her all that money. He could've just run off, killed her, had the friend kill her or even just leave her the hell alone. He cared what she thought about him, which you could see in the scene where they talk after she finds out about his involvement in the robbery. He definitely loved that girl, he just shouldn't have.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on October 02, 2010, 07:23:32 AM
Harry Brown Excellent vigilante flick. Michael is watchable in everything he does. Four Stars.
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Post by: nickmitch on October 03, 2010, 12:04:19 AM
Takers: 6/10 It would've been a 7 if I hadn't just seen a better heist movie. Overall, it was ok. Nothing to write home about, but definately not a bad choice if you have nothing else to watch.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: greybrick on October 03, 2010, 01:42:07 AM
Robocop 2: I started watching this one and Netflix took it down the very next day. Cheers, guys! 1 hour/ 2
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on October 04, 2010, 04:05:42 AM
How To Train Your Dragon

10/10

Saw this movie again in Blu-ray. I missed the 3D (which was amazingly done), but it's still is breathtaking to watch. The story is simple, but great. Watch it if you haven't seen it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on October 06, 2010, 02:28:49 AM
Beauty & the Beast (via Blu-Ray) - 9/10 - This is probably my second-favorite Disney animated movie of all time, but I hadn't seen it in years.  As my folks didn't let me take their copy of the DVD with me when I left home, I eagerly scooped up the Blu-Ray of this movie today and it didn't disappoint.  Disney is quite possibly the best studio currently producing Blu-Ray movies, and this set seems to be up to their usual standards.  Simply put, there isn't a single flaw in this movie's Blu-Ray transfer.  I don't think the movie looked this lush, this detailed in the theaters.  It gives me a great deal of hope for the inevitable (hopefully soon) Blu-Ray for Lion King, my favorite Disney animated movie.

So where does the movie go wrong?  Well, it doesn't really.  This is one of those rare Disney movies I would truly describe with the cheesy description of "magical."  The music's great, the animation (particularly on the Beast) is amazing even by modern standards, and the pacing's pretty tight...or at least it would be if Disney didn't feel the need to keep shoving the Imax extended cut down our throats.  There are a lot of weird lighting, coloring, and detail changes made for the Imax version that crop up on both the theatrical and Special Edition cuts of the film on this disc.  It's fine in general, but there are scenes where you just "remember" scenes being a lot darker by intention that are now substantially brighter and more colorful.  My chief bone of contention with this cut of the film is the song "Human Again."  I subscribe to the notion that deleted scenes are cut for a reason, and "Human Again" is one song too many in a movie that is so stuffed with vocal numbers I'm not sure there's more than 5 minutes of actual dialogue in the whole film (it's really more of a Broadway musical that just happens to be animated than an animated movie).  Dialog in "Human Again" also makes the timeline of the movie even more alarmingly short than it seemed already (if you believe "Human Again", at most this entire movie took place over maybe a week).  Sure, if you want you can just watch the theatrical cut and the song won't be there, but the aftermath of that scene (where the castle is bright and shiny for the rest of the movie) is intact in both versions of the film.  So you can either watch a version that slams into a wall with a mediocre song, or you can watch a version with an annoying continuity error.  Huh.

Overall, a great movie that's among the best that Disney ever did, but of course you already knew that.  Now, if Disney will ever get around to releasing Lion King and Aladdin on Blu-Ray, I'll finally have all 3 of what I call the Holy Disney Trinity (yes yes...I know...I don't care much for Little Mermaid, though I respect what it did for Disney animation).

Oh, and Disney: thanks for having Lumiere babble at me incessantly while I'm trying to navigate yet another of your needlessly-complicated Blu-Ray menus.  Why can't you just put all your extras under one big "Extras" menu and call it a day rather than scattering them all around the frickin' place?   :@
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on October 06, 2010, 03:56:08 AM
If I had a Blu-Ray player I would get this version of Beauty and the Beast.

'Human Again' is probably one of my least favorite deleted scenes from the Disney movies. 'Morning Report' in Lion King is also close up there as well.

Pocahontas had one of my favorite deleted scenes with the 'If I Never Knew You' love song.

Strange that they insist on using the modified version of the film. Theatrical should mean just that.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on October 06, 2010, 10:04:09 AM
Oh, and Disney: thanks for having Lumiere babble at me incessantly while I'm trying to navigate yet another of your needlessly-complicated Blu-Ray menus.  Why can't you just put all your extras under one big "Extras" menu and call it a day rather than scattering them all around the frickin' place?   :@

This annoyed me with the Blu-ray Disc version of Cars. They had the extras split up into all these different menus, then made it hard to even figure out where stuff was by having unhelpful menu names and making it hard to even figure out where the different options were (by having stuff like license plates be menu options rather than just presenting them in a list). It's not enough to ruin the movie, but it does make me not want to watch the extras.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on October 06, 2010, 10:11:23 AM
'Human Again' is probably one of my least favorite deleted scenes from the Disney movies. 'Morning Report' in Lion King is also close up there as well.

Ugh..."Morning Report"...man, I hate that song.  You can at least make an argument for why "Human Again" needs to be in the movie (it does explain how we suddenly have a spotless ballroom for the "Beauty & the Beast" music number.  "Morning Report" was just thrown into the movie "because", as it's just a collection of really terrible puns that feels really out-of-place in an otherwise well-paced movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on October 06, 2010, 01:32:22 PM
You mean the Blu-Ray of Beauty and the Best doesn't even have the OPTION of watching the version we all know and love?
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Post by: TJ Spyke on October 06, 2010, 01:37:56 PM
You mean the Blu-Ray of Beauty and the Best doesn't even have the OPTION of watching the version we all know and love?

You do have the option. Both the theatrical version (at 85 minutes) and the special extended version (at 92 minutes) are available in the Classic Bonus Features section and both are in HD. Here is a review that also mentions the extras: http://bluray.highdefdigest.com/569/beautyandthebeast1992.html (http://bluray.highdefdigest.com/569/beautyandthebeast1992.html)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on October 06, 2010, 01:39:01 PM
You mean the Blu-Ray of Beauty and the Best doesn't even have the OPTION of watching the version we all know and love?

You have the ability to watch a version with "Human Again" that they call the "Special Edition" and a version without it that they call the "Theatrical Version".  Other than that, the two versions are identical as far as I know.  So yeah, if you didn't like the changes made for the Imax version, you can't get the original version of the film here.  My guess is that Disney didn't want to spend the money to fully restore both cuts of the film, so they picked one and just gave you the option to skip "Human Again" to approximate the original experience.  This review (http://www.dvdizzy.com/beautyandthebeast.html) sums up the changes better than I could, so give it a read.
 
On the plus side, apparently Disney restored Beast's audio stutter when he says "You wanna-wanna stay in the Tower?".  In previous DVD versions, they had corrected this stutter.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on October 07, 2010, 12:17:45 AM
The Wild Bunch One of the most cynical, violent movies I've ever seen. Very sad too. Two Stars
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on October 07, 2010, 07:02:34 PM
You mean the Blu-Ray of Beauty and the Best doesn't even have the OPTION of watching the version we all know and love?

You have the ability to watch a version with "Human Again" that they call the "Special Edition" and a version without it that they call the "Theatrical Version".  Other than that, the two versions are identical as far as I know.  So yeah, if you didn't like the changes made for the Imax version, you can't get the original version of the film here.  My guess is that Disney didn't want to spend the money to fully restore both cuts of the film, so they picked one and just gave you the option to skip "Human Again" to approximate the original experience.  This review (http://www.dvdizzy.com/beautyandthebeast.html) sums up the changes better than I could, so give it a read.
 
On the plus side, apparently Disney restored Beast's audio stutter when he says "You wanna-wanna stay in the Tower?".  In previous DVD versions, they had corrected this stutter.

I've always been surprised that was altered. It fits better the original way. Disney's 'Han Shot First' moment? ;)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on October 09, 2010, 05:48:05 PM
The Fearless Vampire Killers A fun Vampire movie spoof made in the 60s. Great Gothic architecture. Three Stars

(On a sidenote, this film is oddly and sadly prescient of the future of its stars, Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on October 10, 2010, 01:50:26 PM
Buried - Easily one of the best films of 2010 alongside Inception. Only this got NONE of the hype that Inception did.

A man, wakes up buried in a coffin underground. That's all i'll say. Go watch it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on October 10, 2010, 02:14:13 PM
The Social Network: 8/10 Good movie. I liked the way it was structured. Justin Timberlake was great in it. He made a good foil to the CFO guy. The twins were hilarious.

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps: 8/10 It was an interesting sequel. There was a little bit trouble filling in the gap between the two movies, but it worked out. The movies are very different, and this one moves a little faster, maybe too fast at times. Kept me interested the entire time.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on October 10, 2010, 09:07:31 PM
Let Me In: 8/10 Trailers are a lil misleading, making the movie seem like it'll fit more in a horror/suspense genre than it should be. It's actually a story about love/friendship w/vampires that doesn't only appeal to horny tweens. The actors were all great, especially the female lead (watch out for her, if she keeps her nose clean she'll be huge some day soon). The score was amazing, and something that made this version of the film much better than..

Låt den rätte komma in or "Let the right one in": 5/10. Appearantly follows the original book much more closely, but after reading the books synopsis its still lacking some intriguing parts that I felt would of given this original film version the edge over the American version. I won't get into it hear, just wikipedia it. Maybe something was lost in translation but the acting didn't wasn't as good as the American version. Maybe I just couldn't get passed the language (which sounded like mumbles) or the fact that both of the lead actors were fugly as sin, but I just wasn't feeling it. If I wasn't so hyped at what a good movie Let Me In was, I wouldn't of bothered watching this version and would've been so bored I wouldn't of bothered reading the subtitles, even if I had a basic idea of what they were saying.

On a side note, from my wikipedia readings, there's some controversy over the translations on certain dvd versions of the film. I'm not sure which version Netflix has up so I can't really judge either way, but I will say some of the lines were exactly the same as the American version of the film, so it very well may be the "dumbed down" translation ;) Whatever, they're 12-year olds, I wasn't expecting either of them to recite Shakespeare (in either version of the film). Incidentally.. what I found MUCH more controversial than simplified translations was a quick nude scene in this version of the film, absent from the American version, involving the main female character. I'm really hoping I didn't just see a minors pubic area and someone of age was used instead, but I don't feel like doing the research and getting in Pete Townshend type trouble..

The Omega Man 4/10 While interesting to see a different take on the I Am Legend story, this version felt extremely campy and not at all creepy. Yeah, Albino's can be creepy but those Halloween costumes they ran around in were way too cheesy. This flick made me want to check out some more of Charlton Heston's work and see how often he has these flamboyant mannerisms..


Thanks to Netflix Instant Streaming, I just watched Bicentennial Man. From what i've read, part of the reason it didn't do that well in theatres in because Disney basically made it look like a comedy in trailers and commercials. It's not a comedy, it's a sci-fi movie. I enjoyed it, I like watching Andrew grow over the 200 years and become more human (more externally and internally) and wanting companionship as he was basically an anomaly and there are no other robots like him.

Yeah, I thought it was so odd when I finally caught this movie on tv that it WASN'T a comedy based on the trailers I remembered for it. I really should go back and watch it without commercial interruption. Thanks for the reminder.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on October 12, 2010, 03:38:02 AM
its not a charlton heston movie until his shirts off ;)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on October 12, 2010, 05:44:45 PM
The Omega Man 4/10 While interesting to see a different take on the I Am Legend story, this version felt extremely campy and not at all creepy. Yeah, Albino's can be creepy but those Halloween costumes they ran around in were way too cheesy. This flick made me want to check out some more of Charlton Heston's work and see how often he has these flamboyant mannerisms.

I always thought that The Omega Man was a pretty good attempt at an adaptation. However, The Last Man on Earth is the easily best film version available. At least Richard Matheson actually had a hand in its screenplay at one time. Really though, you can't go wrong with either Charlton Heston nor Vincent Price. :)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on October 13, 2010, 10:52:01 AM
With no computer access at home, i've been watching a lot of Netflix on my PS3.

Zombieland: A interesting popcorn movie. Woody Harelson was great as Tallahassee, including going nuts when he found out the Hostess truck had snowballs, not Twinkies on it. If I were him in the mansion (for those who haven't seen the movie, I won't ruin who makes a surprise cameo in the movie as the owner of the mansion), I wouldn't have wasted bullets shooting the stuff there.

Pokemon 4Ever: Celebi: The Voice of the Forrest - The Pokemon movies are never as good as I hope they will be (although I did like the trilogy that made up the 9th, 10th, and 11th movies with them having their own storyline that connects them). This one is pretty good, and I liked the twist at the end when we find out who the kid was.

Beavis and Butt-head Do America: Very good movie, with the boys eventually making their way across America in the hopes of scoring with women and finding a new TV (after some guys broke into their house and stole theirs while they were sleeping).

Bio-Dome: I think this movie gets too much hate. It's not a great movie by any means, but it's a nice movie when you just want something to watch that doesn't require you to think (although you will wonder how the hell Bud and Doyle managed to get such hot girlfriends).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on October 13, 2010, 01:43:29 PM
Mila Jovavich regrets doing that movie

I agree Bio Dome does get too much hate. The fact that Safety Dance is on the soundtrack and yes the dwarf does appear gives it an extra 3+ points. I'm not going to give it an actual rating,  but since i was 11 or so when it came out I'm going to file it under classics of the 90s with Batman Forever. Oh, and apparently the movie was originally written as a Bill and Ted sequel, that wouldn't have worked out after the awesomeness of Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey which is also filed under awesome for being an excellent version of Dante's Inferno with some 7th seal thrown in for good measure.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: noname2200 on October 14, 2010, 03:17:16 PM
Case 39: 2/10.  Slow paced, not at all scary, and nothing more than a series of wind-ups with absolutely no pitch.  I literally fell asleep towards the end...
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on October 15, 2010, 01:58:06 AM
The Other Guys

This movie is some fucked up surreal action comedy. There is not a single normal person in this movie. Everybody is insane one way or another. Jokes get milked in increasingly fucked up ways. Time and time again I would be left screaming WTF to what I just saw.

If you liked Talladega Nights, you will LOVE this.

8.5/10 Laughs
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on October 15, 2010, 03:44:54 AM
My sister and baby nephew came over and so we watched a movie on netflix together (though it was more background noise while we ate and played with Hotwheels)...Thomas & Friends: Hero of the Rails.

4/10 is my rating of it. From a the perspective of it being a kids movie it was probably more a 6/10

It had a more active premise than the Thomas shows I remember as a kid. There was a rivaly between the engines and an old engine they were trying to secretly fix before he was found and scrapped. Not a terrible story but the lack of many human characters made their anonymous engineers seem out of place since they were only mentioned by the narrator randomly and never spoke. It was CGI instead of showing actual model trains for the characters like the classic shows. I started talking to my sister about how all of these modern kids shows and even some movies done in CGI just feel soulless. Studios like Pixar and others can make there be magic in CGI films, but pretty much every TV show done in CGI feels flat and lifeless. I remember the first CGI animated Disney Christmas special was so dull and cliched that I couldn't even watch the old thing. Especially when you compare it to the old Disney Christmas specials.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on October 18, 2010, 06:47:04 AM
The Other Guys

This movie is some fucked up surreal action comedy. There is not a single normal person in this movie. Everybody is insane one way or another. Jokes get milked in increasingly fucked up ways. Time and time again I would be left screaming WTF to what I just saw.

If you liked Talladega Nights, you will LOVE this.

8.5/10 Laughs

I have to agree with this.

I'M GONNA BREAK YOUR HIP had me in fits. It didn't feel so much like blatantly milking a joke into the ground but just taking it "out there" and running with it for a bit without making it boring.

On that same note, what did you think of Cop Out?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen Non-Euclidean geometry
Post by: oohhboy on October 18, 2010, 09:29:03 AM
I haven't had the chance to see Cop Out. Neither did I want to go out of my way to see it when it came out like I did with The Other Guys. I love Kevin Smith Movies, but this just doesn't grab me on first impressions as some thing I must see.

A lot of it probably due to the fact I don't really like Tracy Morgan. I don't find him funny and his brand of comedy is very singular. The best way to describe it is that he does "Full Retard" comedy in reference to Tropic Thunder.

I love 30 Rock but not Morgan. That and I love Tina Fey.

Will Ferrel collapses reality with his comedy. There are so many moments that are insanely funny, but so fucked up that I was too stunned to laugh, it's so funny it goes off the mental scale. Everything insane is normal and normal is insane. His world is built upon this normal insanity.

I used milked in a positive fashion in that they keep bringing out the same joke but mess with it each time they do. At it's core it is the same joke most of the time, but it is non-Euclidean in direction.

The Other Guy does end on a little bit of a downer though. Both our world and theirs, the little guy/heroes wins those small victories, but the war was still lost.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on October 18, 2010, 11:05:34 AM
Some more movies i've watched in the last few days:

Left Behind: World at War: Mediocre at best. If you didn't know this was based on a religious book series, you will after watching the first movie in the series. Basically millions of people vanished from Earth, which led to all the countries of the world basically electing a world leader (who has a Russian accent) and gives all of their weapons to him, one of the first things he does is outlaw religion. The President of the US finds out that guy was putting a anthrax-esque disease on Bible's and then letting this Christian group steal them so that their members would be killed. The President also finds out that the guy is planning to attack the United States and attempts to stop him, only to find out that shooting him point-blank did nothing (Kirk Cameron's character had been trying to warn him that the guy was the anti-Christ and that weapons wouldn't stop him). Even if you get past the religious theme being shoved down your throat, and the movie's open attack against any world government, it's still not a good movie.

Angels & Demons: Pretty good movie, and I didn't have to worry about it not living up to the book (like I did when I watched The Da Vinci Code after reading the book). Robert Langdon is called by the Vatican Police to uncover a plot to kill the four cardinals expected to be elected Pope and then detonating a anti-matter device that would destroy all of Vatican City (effectively destroying the Roman Catholic Church). I think it may be better than the first movie, but it's been a few years since i've seen that one and Netflix doesn't have it for Instant Streaming.

2012: Really good action movie. Jackson has to be the luckiest man in the world considering how many times he almost died in the movie. I question the President's decision to stay in the White House instead of evacuating to one of the Arks though, and I would like to know how much of the world would end up being usable again (since the west coast would not be usable again).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: vudu on October 19, 2010, 02:07:51 PM
Angels & Demons: Pretty good movie, and I didn't have to worry about it not living up to the book (like I did when I watched The Da Vinci Code after reading the book). Robert Langdon is called by the Vatican Police to uncover a plot to kill the four cardinals expected to be elected Pope and then detonating a anti-matter device that would destroy all of Vatican City (effectively destroying the Roman Catholic Church). I think it may be better than the first movie, but it's been a few years since i've seen that one and Netflix doesn't have it for Instant Streaming.

I saw Angels & Demons recently (also in Netflix Instant) and it was unquestionably better than the first movie.

The Da Vinci Code didn't work well as a movie because they tried to keep too many of the puzzles that were from the book.  A puzzle doesn't work if you tell me the answer 15 seconds later (which you have to do to keep the movie going).  When reading the book I could stop and think about the puzzle for a bit before reading the answer and the author often gave a lot of background info so you could understand why the answer made sense.  The movie just had Tom Hanks jumping from one mystery to another and it wasn't all that interesting.

In Angels & Demons they decided to drop all that crap and just turn it into a pretty good action flick/thriller.  It didn't deserve to win any awards, but it was entertaining enough.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on October 20, 2010, 10:43:01 AM
The Da Vince Code: I checked it out from the library. It was better than I remember, but I still like Angels & Demons more. Not as good as the book (vudu stated one of the reasons), but still a movie worth watching if you like thrillers.

Star Trek: Flawed, but better than I expected. I do have some MAJOR problems with it (like Kirk being promoted to Captain even though he was just a third year cadet, or a 17-year old Chekov serving on the bridge of Enterprise). At least the movie is set in a alternate reality (which the characters even realize after finding out Nero was from the future and changed the timeline). The only thing it did to the prime timeline (an unofficial fan term based on the credits listing Leonard Nimoy as "Prime Spock") was have Romulus destroyed, although that is a major event that I would like to see re-visited.

UHF: I am not gonna lie, I like this movie. Maybe part of it is because i've been a Weird Al fan my whole life, but I had a lot of fun watching it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on October 20, 2010, 11:08:34 AM
Star Trek: Flawed, but better than I expected. I do have some MAJOR problems with it (like Kirk being promoted to Captain even though he was just a third year cadet, or a 17-year old Chekov serving on the bridge of Enterprise). At least the movie is set in a alternate reality (which the characters even realize after finding out Nero was from the future and changed the timeline). The only thing it did to the prime timeline (an unofficial fan term based on the credits listing Leonard Nimoy as "Prime Spock") was have Romulus destroyed, although that is a major event that I would like to see re-visited.

Don't forget Vulcan was destroyed as well, which is kind of a major event in the Star Trek universe.  Incidentally, I do find it amusing that all of the Star Trek series were nullified by that movie except the one I was a huge fan of (and most hate): Enterprise.   :P:
 
As for the movie itself, I have no interest in it.  The creators made it clear that the movie wasn't made for me, and I don't have any problems ignoring it.
 
Finally got around to watching The Thing and the original Nightmare on Elm Street over the weekend.  The former was good, but the latter wasn't all that good IMO.  More on those later.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on October 20, 2010, 11:21:55 AM
Vulcan was only destroyed in this alternate timeline, it still exists in the normal timeline. At least J.J. Abrams made it clear that this movie does not re-boot the continuity of the series, it instead exists in it's own continuity. Like you said also, the events of Star Trek: Enterprise remain the same in both timelines as they didn't split until the birth of James Kirk (which is when Nero came back in time and destroyed the ship that Kirk's father served on). This also leads to an interesting situation regarding Uhura's first name. The 11th movie finally gave her a first name, but can it really count as canon since it takes place in this alternate timeline? I guess it depends on whether she is older or younger than Kirk.

The only reason I watched the movie was because Netflix had it for instant streaming, I had no interest in buying it or wasting a que spot on it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on October 20, 2010, 11:38:32 AM
Jesus christ...it's just a movie. Enjoy it for what it is.

JJ made Star Trek popular to the masses, which imo is very hard to do.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on October 20, 2010, 11:53:10 AM
Jesus christ...it's just a movie. Enjoy it for what it is.

JJ made Star Trek popular to the masses, which imo is very hard to do.

BINGO. My friend who has never watched ANY Star Trek watched the movie with me In return i had to go see Sex and The City with him and he asked me after "what's the best Star Trek series to watch?". That question alone to me makes the movie a success.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on October 20, 2010, 12:05:36 PM
I enjoyed the movie, that doesn't mean I can't have problems with it. Star Trek has been popular with the masses before, it had just declined in past years. Abrams could have done the same thing while sticking with canon since I have no doubt that the average Joe went to the movie because of how impressive it looked thanks to the huge budget.. For example, in the past Paramount has considered making a Trek movie set far into the future (like 200 years after the events of Star Trek Nemesis), the basic plot was the a huge disaster caused the Federation to be split in two. Vulcan left the Federation and was trying for re-unification with Romulus.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on October 20, 2010, 01:36:17 PM
I liked Star Trek overall, but I had one giant problem with it: Wow, what are the chances that Kirk would end up in the same galaxy, on the same planet, within like a mile of the cave that Spock made camp in? And then FELL IN?! Boy, it's a good thing that happened!

And yeah, Kirk gets promoted to Captain like a year into his career? Please.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: NWR_insanolord on October 20, 2010, 03:37:39 PM
UHF: I am not gonna lie, I like this movie. Maybe part of it is because i've been a Weird Al fan my whole life, but I had a lot of fun watching it.

I love UHF. The overall plot is decent, and the TV parodies are fantastic.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on October 21, 2010, 03:16:16 PM
I liked Star Trek overall, but I had one giant problem with it: Wow, what are the chances that Kirk would end up in the same galaxy, on the same planet, within like a mile of the cave that Spock made camp in? And then FELL IN?! Boy, it's a good thing that happened!

And yeah, Kirk gets promoted to Captain like a year into his career? Please.

the spock thing,the chances are very low, but stranger things have happened in real life.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on October 21, 2010, 03:51:52 PM
Angels & Demons: Pretty good movie, and I didn't have to worry about it not living up to the book (like I did when I watched The Da Vinci Code after reading the book). Robert Langdon is called by the Vatican Police to uncover a plot to kill the four cardinals expected to be elected Pope and then detonating a anti-matter device that would destroy all of Vatican City (effectively destroying the Roman Catholic Church). I think it may be better than the first movie, but it's been a few years since i've seen that one and Netflix doesn't have it for Instant Streaming.

I saw Angels & Demons recently (also in Netflix Instant) and it was unquestionably better than the first movie.

The Da Vinci Code didn't work well as a movie because they tried to keep too many of the puzzles that were from the book.  A puzzle doesn't work if you tell me the answer 15 seconds later (which you have to do to keep the movie going).  When reading the book I could stop and think about the puzzle for a bit before reading the answer and the author often gave a lot of background info so you could understand why the answer made sense.  The movie just had Tom Hanks jumping from one mystery to another and it wasn't all that interesting.

In Angels & Demons they decided to drop all that crap and just turn it into a pretty good action flick/thriller.  It didn't deserve to win any awards, but it was entertaining enough.

I've said from the very beginning that I always though A&D would make a much better movie than DaVinci's Code. I understand why they made DVC first, but I'm sure everyone that read the books knew that A&D would fare better as a 2 hour movie. DVC might have made for an interesting 4 part mini series though, something they could draw out a little more.... or maybe not.

Did Dan Brown do a 3rd book in that series that would warrant a 3rd movie? was there a book after DVC that follows the same guy?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on October 21, 2010, 05:14:09 PM
yeah, i never really watched the DaVinci code, mainly because everyone loathed it. However, Angels and Demons was pretty interesting. It was like a bad Bond/Indianna jones plotted movie though...bad, but not absolutely terrible
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on October 22, 2010, 04:30:37 AM
Did Dan Brown do a 3rd book in that series that would warrant a 3rd movie? was there a book after DVC that follows the same guy?

Last I heard he was planning on writing one. Don't know if it has materialized yet.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on October 22, 2010, 10:00:00 AM
Jesus christ...it's just a movie. Enjoy it for what it is.

JJ made Star Trek popular to the masses, which imo is very hard to do.

It was a terrible thing to do though. Popular for the masses resulted in a mediocre action film that couldn't even produce a memorable villain. Lets leave the action/fantasy cliches fr Star Wars. The best moments of Star Trek always came about because it explored some facet of human nature, like any good sci-fi should. Science fiction writers have been using such settings for decades to mask social commentary, to remove it from our preconceived environments and make it easier to see objectively. This film though? Spotty action sequences and little more.

Of course, stuff like DS9 and Enterprise really didn't ever feel much like Star Trek either and they seem to be popular enough with people. :\
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: NWR_insanolord on October 22, 2010, 06:09:03 PM
How exactly did DS9 and Enterprise not feel like Trek?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on October 23, 2010, 06:09:03 AM
Enterprise just felt laughable throughout. It held to a lot of the basic principles that we've come to expect from the series though, I suppose.

Deep Space Nine on the other hand? It's primary themes were of a corrupt Federation, glorified Ferengi capitalism, and ridiculous Bajoran mysticism. Those things don't really sit well when the other series describe an almost utopian atmosphere that's free of currency and superstitious religions. Never mind the fact that there really is no actual "trekking" through the stars, as the show is set largely on a space station. For me, DS9 was made "darker" in tone simply in a effort to try to be more edgy. It was always popular enough, so it must have succeeded on some level. It never really felt like Star Trek to me however.

Besides, I always thought that most of the cast felt wooden (specially Sisko). About the only character I ever thought was interesting was Bashir... not counting any TNG transplants. Of course, Voyager's crew started out being pretty cheesy themselves, but at least they shake a lot of that off after the first season or two and settle into more complex personalities.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on October 23, 2010, 02:48:21 PM
I don't know I would say DS9 explored the different cultures in some ways better than some other treks. They didn't physically go anywhere, but they went places. TOS is probably the best at creating alegory,  but it was made in the 60s when people were backwards.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: jrlibrarian on October 24, 2010, 12:22:58 PM
All the Friday the 13th Movies: High Body Count/10
 
Having never seen any of the movies before, last night's marathon was interesting. The first four were the best in my opinion, with The Final Chapter being the pinacle of their achievement. However, once they made A New Beginning, everything went downhill. Part 7, A New Blood, turned into a science fiction movie, with the main character having telekinetic powers. And of course, Part 9, Jason Goes to Hell, makes absolutely no sense and should not even really be considered part of the series, since it was the first one not to be made by Paramount.
 
Freddy vs. Jason: Welcome to my world/10
 
Great climax to the storyline of Friday the 13th, pitting two of the greatest slasher villains against each other in a battle to the death.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on October 24, 2010, 02:32:46 PM
I love Freddy vs. Jason. So campy, but so great.

The Oxford Murders: Frodo in Britain/10
I'm sorry. I just can't take Elija Wood as a serious actor. He kind of accidentally weaves in and out of a British accent here, which would be understandable if he wasn't playing an American character. So good job on that, Frodo. This is a good mystery, although the crime's wrap-up is kind of disappointing (THAT GUY? SERIOUSLY?). There is a nice twist at the end, though. Also, Leonor Watling. Damn. 
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on October 24, 2010, 07:45:58 PM
Jackass 3D - 8=====D/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on October 24, 2010, 08:51:04 PM
Runaway: Kanye West really put something together here. Very artsy. Made you think. Well, forced you to if you wanted to follow the plot and consider the meaning or whatever. But yeah, 9/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on October 24, 2010, 09:18:28 PM
Runaway: Kanye West really put something together here. Very artsy. Made you think. Well, forced you to if you wanted to follow the plot and consider the meaning or whatever. But yeah, 9/10

Really!? I linked to the explicit version in the Hip Hop thread (not sure if that's where you watched it), but the entire time I kept thinking that I must just not get it and I know I'm not the only one, and I know for sure that Kanye will not be getting any acting gigs EVER based on his performance in this overly artsy nonsensical "movie" new album sampler. I don't even think the songs are all that great to be honest and I've enjoyed just about every Kanye album I've heard to this day.

But to each his own, I guess you got the point that apparently soared way above my head.
2.5/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on October 25, 2010, 10:50:22 AM
Did Dan Brown do a 3rd book in that series that would warrant a 3rd movie? was there a book after DVC that follows the same guy?

Last I heard he was planning on writing one. Don't know if it has materialized yet.

It came out last year and is called The Lost Symbol. I am actually reading it right now. It's set in Washington, D.C. and has Robert Langdon trying to track down his missing mentor Peter Solomon and figuring out this Masonic Pyramid that the villain of the book wants. It deals with stuff like Noetic Science (like most concepts in Brown's books, this is actually a real thing). I bet Ron Howard can't wait to film the movie as the book is set in places like the Smithsonian Museum Support Center, the U.S. Capitol and it's crypts, and other places in the D.C. Area. I love the book so far.

Some more movies i've seen since my last update:
Child's Play - It's been years since i've seen it. I have all the other movies in a box set, which doesn't include the original since MGM released it while Universal Studios released the others. Good movie, although I like the second one better. Like the good horror movies, it's like 75% through the movie before you actually see Chuckie come alive (although it's implied earlier).

Black Hawk Down - For those who don't know, the movie is based on a real life event from 1993. Great movie, you naturally find yourself hoping for the good guys (the US) to win even though you already know what happened in real life.

Demolition Man - By far a popcorn movie. You will feel like Stallone's character (John Spartan) does with how annoying that future is (no sex, no kissing, no salt, no meat, no contact sports, no cursing, nothing that is considered "bad"). Wesley Snipes does a great job as deranged killer Simon Phoenix.

The Running Man - If you didn't know, you will quickly find out that this was a 80s movie. It doesn't age as well as you would hope, but I still enjoyed it and think it's worth watching through a streaming service since I don't think I would watch it again (I don't buy movies that I expect to only watch once).

Also, how did DS9 have a corrupt Federation? Are you talking about the Starfleet Admiral who attempted a coup? He was stopped after Sisko convinced his followers that he was misguided. If you meant Section 31, they are basically a rogue organization that operates without the support of Starfleet or the Federation. I won't even get into how Sisko could be considered wooen (especially later seasons when he showed more passion and emotion than anyone in TOS or TNG).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: NWR_insanolord on October 25, 2010, 01:17:24 PM
Enterprise just felt laughable throughout. It held to a lot of the basic principles that we've come to expect from the series though, I suppose.

Deep Space Nine on the other hand? It's primary themes were of a corrupt Federation, glorified Ferengi capitalism, and ridiculous Bajoran mysticism. Those things don't really sit well when the other series describe an almost utopian atmosphere that's free of currency and superstitious religions. Never mind the fact that there really is no actual "trekking" through the stars, as the show is set largely on a space station. For me, DS9 was made "darker" in tone simply in a effort to try to be more edgy. It was always popular enough, so it must have succeeded on some level. It never really felt like Star Trek to me however.

Besides, I always thought that most of the cast felt wooden (specially Sisko). About the only character I ever thought was interesting was Bashir... not counting any TNG transplants. Of course, Voyager's crew started out being pretty cheesy themselves, but at least they shake a lot of that off after the first season or two and settle into more complex personalities.

I'm with TJ Spyke, I don't know what you mean by a corrupt Federation. The Bajoran mysticism was far from ridiculous, considering it turned out to be true, and the Ferengi capitalism was so obviously satirical (don't you remember what happened with it at the end of the series?). As for the characters, I completely disagree; I felt that DS9 had easily the best set of characters in any Trek series. I can't think of a character I didn't like, which is impressive considering how many more regular characters DS9 had than any other series.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on October 25, 2010, 01:27:49 PM
Same here about the regular characters (there were one off characters I didn't like, ones that would appear in one episode).

To address other points. It had been established in TOS and TNG that things are not as perfect as stated. You also have to remember that DS9 is set on a Bajoran space station (not Federation) orbiting a Bajoran wormhole. Even TOS made it clear that other species still used currency, it was just that the Federation doesn't. Also, DS9 is about the Bajoran's religious beliefs, if you watched the show you would also know that they were true since the wormhole aliens are real. There was also true trekking in the show as they did a lot of exploration in the Gamma Quadrant, being set on a space station also let them develop the characters more.

As insanolord pointed out, but the time DS9 ended the Ferengi society had been massively changed and Zek (and after he retired, Rom) putting in changes that  gave more rights to people and made things more fair. Besides, the Ferengis were supposed to be over the top and sattire anyways.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: vudu on October 25, 2010, 02:12:41 PM
Did Dan Brown do a 3rd book in that series that would warrant a 3rd movie? was there a book after DVC that follows the same guy?

Last I heard he was planning on writing one. Don't know if it has materialized yet.

It came out last year and is called The Lost Symbol. I am actually reading it right now. It's set in Washington, D.C. and has Robert Langdon trying to track down his missing mentor Peter Solomon and figuring out this Masonic Pyramid that the villain of the book wants. It deals with stuff like Noetic Science (like most concepts in Brown's books, this is actually a real thing). I bet Ron Howard can't wait to film the movie as the book is set in places like the Smithsonian Museum Support Center, the U.S. Capitol and it's crypts, and other places in the D.C. Area. I love the book so far.

I literally heard nothing but bad things about it.  I might have to check it out when it comes to paperback.

We need a Rate the last book you've read thread.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on October 25, 2010, 02:29:44 PM
I'll check it out sooner or later. And if it's anywhere near as interesting a read as the previous 2 books, I would probably plow though it in about 2-3 days.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on October 25, 2010, 07:57:44 PM
Ip Man

Dramatic, exciting, and awe-inspiring. This is hands down the best MA movie I have seen in a long time. The main actor has the subtleties to become a great actor one day and his MA is top notch.

10/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on October 26, 2010, 12:53:27 AM
Back to the Future 88/10

Whoo-hoo!  Back to the Future, on the big screen, to celebrate its 25th anniversary.
Loved it.  Was highly amused by the guy who showed up dressed as Marty McFly, with the life preserver and all.

Theaters should show more old movies.  They're better than most the crap that's released now.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on October 26, 2010, 01:05:49 AM
Runaway: Kanye West really put something together here. Very artsy. Made you think. Well, forced you to if you wanted to follow the plot and consider the meaning or whatever. But yeah, 9/10

Really!? I linked to the explicit version in the Hip Hop thread (not sure if that's where you watched it), but the entire time I kept thinking that I must just not get it and I know I'm not the only one, and I know for sure that Kanye will not be getting any acting gigs EVER based on his performance in this overly artsy nonsensical "movie" new album sampler. I don't even think the songs are all that great to be honest and I've enjoyed just about every Kanye album I've heard to this day.

But to each his own, I guess you got the point that apparently soared way above my head.
2.5/10

I saw the premier on TV. I actually like the artsy fartsy-ness of it, and I love the songs. It was creative and different. Yeah, Kanye's acting was horrible, but that's probably one of the reasons there wasn't much dialogue. Most people who make videos don't even try anymore, and those that do "try" only add a few scenes where something (usually something pointless) is happening and then call it "a film by [some jerk]." I just appreciate the fact that he's trying to make art. Not hits, art. That's all I really ask for in "artists" in any genre.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on October 26, 2010, 02:24:59 AM
Ip Man

Dramatic, exciting, and awe-inspiring. This is hands down the best MA movie I have seen in a long time. The main actor has the subtitles to become a great actor one day and his MA is top notch.

10/10

I'm glad someone else enjoyed that movie too (I rated it somewhere in this thread). I'm waiting on the sequel to hit Netflix which is still inspired by the true story.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on October 26, 2010, 08:40:33 AM
[size=78%]Runaway: Kanye West really put something together here. Very artsy. Made you think. Well, forced you to if you wanted to follow the plot and consider the meaning or whatever. But yeah, 9/10[/size]

I got through 15 seconds of this and stopped. I'm sorry but Nicki Minaj desperately needs to give up this faux-english accent of hers. Her voice literally tore a hole through what Kanye wanted to do as far as i'm concerned. I won't watch the rest.

If Kanye got in someone credible like Stephen Fry or even Jonny Metts with an approachable speaking voice i would have got much farther.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on October 27, 2010, 01:56:40 AM
I've been watching some old (and new) horror movies lately, including John Carpenter's The Thing (slow to get started, but awesome once it does), the original Nightmare on Elm Street (pretty dull), and the new Nightmare on Elm Street (cool-ish and icky, but Freddy talks to much and is never really scary).  I'm not going to talk about them, though.

What I would like to talk about is the movie I just finished watching on Blu-Ray via a disc a co-worker lent me, Terminator Salvation.  After the insulting; disastrous; utter cash-grab that was Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, I completely avoided this movie when it was in the theaters last year.  Terminator 2 is one of my favorite movies of all time (and perhaps the most perfectly-executed action movie of all time, IMO), Terminator 3 had already dumped all over it, and I didn't want to subject myself to seeing that movie defecated on again.  It also doesn't help that the same co-worker also recently loaned me the PS3 movie tie-in game saying it was kind of decent, which...suffice to say I thought it made Terminator 3 look like fine art.  Having just finished the movie, though, I'm sad that I avoided this movie on the assumption that it would be terrible.  It's well-shot with plenty of good action moments and a story that feels like something that's part of Cameron's Terminator universe, with a plot that boils down to the age old question of "What is a man?"  It's an action movie with a soul, at least compared to most of the crap we get in the theaters these days (*glares at Transformers 2*).  And it's pretty obvious that the production staff are huge fans of Terminators 1 and 2, from making what looks like an absolutely perfect T-800 replica of the Arnold model, to throwing in callbacks to the first two films, to showing how older John Conner got those scars on his face, to having audio recordings of "Sarah Conner" that sound remarkably like Linda Hamilton, to even having the T-800 model move like it was done in stop-motion like the original Terminator movie.  And these callbacks feel natural, not exploitative like you would expect.

Setting aside my continual irritation that this movie exists at all (Terminator 2 seemed to wrap up the overall storyline quite well and didn't leave much room for sequels), my main complaint with this movie is the Goddamn Batman himself, Christian Bale.  Simply put, he doesn't really do much in this movie, and he's not particularly interesting when he is on screen.  He's just kind of...there, as is "Central Command" with its assortment of scenery-chewers (complete with Michael Ironside, naturally).  The Resistance is also surprisingly well-armed and organized for an army that previous movies have depicted as living underground and fighting at night with trucks, laser rifles, and rocket launchers.   :Q   There's also some portions of the movie that feel extremely rushed and contrived, particularly as the movie reaches its conclusion.

Overall, I was pleasantly surprised and satisfied with Terminator Salvation, though I'll be perfectly happy if the relatively poor showing for this movie means the intended "trilogy" never comes to pass.  The movie stands just fine on its own and ends just fine, sliding neatly alongside Terminators 1 and 2 in the overall storyline.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on October 27, 2010, 08:40:13 AM
You might have just gotten me to actually watch Salvation. I've been avoiding it like the plague as well after I saw number 3.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on October 27, 2010, 10:04:04 AM
Salvation is an adequate movie. It doesn't have the cheese factor T3 had, which becomes a better movie is viewed as a self parody, instead say, a follow up to a masterpiece at the peak of JC's action movies.

T4 full of retard moments and John Conner needs to stay the hell away from helicopters. The plot is nonsensical near the end. Christian Bale strangely only has one emotion in this movie which is "Intense". There is nothing else there. I don't know what happened.

It's a technically proficient film. It has some good action, especially with the opening battle. The effects are top notch. If viewed as a tribute, more than a follow up, then yeah it's alright viewing. It will be an act of God before we ever see a terminator movie that can equal the forst two.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on October 27, 2010, 10:46:23 AM
Did Dan Brown do a 3rd book in that series that would warrant a 3rd movie? was there a book after DVC that follows the same guy?

Last I heard he was planning on writing one. Don't know if it has materialized yet.

It came out last year and is called The Lost Symbol. I am actually reading it right now. It's set in Washington, D.C. and has Robert Langdon trying to track down his missing mentor Peter Solomon and figuring out this Masonic Pyramid that the villain of the book wants. It deals with stuff like Noetic Science (like most concepts in Brown's books, this is actually a real thing). I bet Ron Howard can't wait to film the movie as the book is set in places like the Smithsonian Museum Support Center, the U.S. Capitol and it's crypts, and other places in the D.C. Area. I love the book so far.

I literally heard nothing but bad things about it.  I might have to check it out when it comes to paperback.

I can't imagine why anyone wouldn't like it. I love it. I am about 60% through (it's 508 pages, I am on page 298) and it's one of my favorite books in years. Anybody who liked either of the first two should read it.

Anyways, only one new movie (been watching TV shows mostly):

Green Lantern: First Flight - I still prefer John Stewart as Earth's GL, but I really liked the movie (and was surprised to see that Christopher Meloni of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit voicing Hal Jordan). It's about Jordan being chosen as the first Human to join the Green Lantern Corps. but the other Lanterns and the Guardians not approving of it, as well as Sinestro turning on the Corps. and using the yellow power (or whatever ridiculous name they called it). One of the better straight-to-DVD movies from DC Animation.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on October 27, 2010, 11:07:47 AM
Terminator 4
 
*Stuff*

Totally agree with this. I was avoiding it till my brother rented it on blu-ray. That's why I decided to say "**** it."

Not a bad movie by any means. Not a great one either.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on October 27, 2010, 03:10:26 PM
I didn't really care for Salvation. It had some cool parts, no doubt, but overall I didn't like it. My biggest problem was that it was almost TOO fanboyish. Every other line or scene had an homage to the first two movies. After awhile, that got old. I had several problems with the plot overall:

1) Did Helena Bonham-Carter-Burton work for SkyNet? My assumption is that she was in charge of building the first humanoid Terminators by melding a metal skeleton with human organs? And that after several failed experiments, Avatar guy was the first success?

2) The movie takes place BEFORE the the original Arnold Terminator is sent back to kill Sarah Conner, yes? I mean, that hasn't happened yet. So how would SkyNet have any awareness that they will be doing that in the future and it's failed multiple times? SkyNet's central intelligence explains that to Avatar dude when he uplinks to the system, but it totally destroys the chronology set up in the first two movies.

3) The Machines are looking for Kyle Reese the whole time with the intent to kill him (again, how would they know at that point?) and when they find him, THEY DON'T KILL HIM. They stick him in a holding cell instead. WHERE HE IS RESCUED. The Machines can't do **** right.

So yeah.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on October 27, 2010, 03:40:09 PM
It's almost been a couple years since I saw it, but wasn't it based on prophecy? Also, I'm pretty sure any survivors from the first 2 films (or news reports, Sarah Connor's diary, evidence, etc...) would be enough to let SkyNet figure out their past (future) mistakes.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on October 27, 2010, 03:57:47 PM
I didn't really care for Salvation. It had some cool parts, no doubt, but overall I didn't like it. My biggest problem was that it was almost TOO fanboyish. Every other line or scene had an homage to the first two movies. After awhile, that got old. I had several problems with the plot overall:

1) Did Helena Bonham-Carter-Burton work for SkyNet? My assumption is that she was in charge of building the first humanoid Terminators by melding a metal skeleton with human organs? And that after several failed experiments, Avatar guy was the first success?

2) The movie takes place BEFORE the the original Arnold Terminator is sent back to kill Sarah Conner, yes? I mean, that hasn't happened yet. So how would SkyNet have any awareness that they will be doing that in the future and it's failed multiple times? SkyNet's central intelligence explains that to Avatar dude when he uplinks to the system, but it totally destroys the chronology set up in the first two movies.

3) The Machines are looking for Kyle Reese the whole time with the intent to kill him (again, how would they know at that point?) and when they find him, THEY DON'T KILL HIM. They stick him in a holding cell instead. WHERE HE IS RESCUED. The Machines can't do **** right.

So yeah.

1.  Yeah, it bugged me the whole movie why he was released from wherever he was when he was.  That never made sense to me, not when Skynet had much more capable machines (the Arnold T-800 model) already at least in the Prototype stages.
 
2.  Actually, this is not IMO a plot hole.  Terminator 4 (and its predecessors) is going with the idea that the events of Terminators 1 and 2 were pre-destination paroxes, that they were meant to happen.  Christian Bale's John Conner clearly remembers the events of Terminator 2 because he recognizes the T-800 blueprints, and he has cassette tapes from his mother telling him about her experiences with Kyle Reese and what he needs to do.  Remember that Kyle Reese was arrested in the first Terminator movie and was interrogated likely multiple times about what he said would happen in the future.  Sarah also was institutionalized in a mental hospital where she repeatedly was on record about the things that she was told and what she saw in Terminator 1.  Those are records that would likely end up in a computer database some day before Judgement Day, so all Skynet had to do when it was brought online was to locate that data (as well as reports on the Sarah Conner murders and news reports about the destruction of Cyberdyne systems) and make the logical conclusions.
 
3.  This really bothered me as well, and it's a major hole in the movie (especially with how methodical we've seen Skynet is).  The movie tries to dodge the issue by using him as bait for John, but unless Skynet somehow doesn't know Reese's true connection to John this makes no sense.  You don't need to bait John into a trap if you just kill Reese.
 
The thing about movies like this is that you can find plot holes all over the place if you look for them.  I was pretty amused by the fact that the computer interface used to release the prisoners at the Skynet facility was clearly designed around humanoid use, despite this being a Skynet facility where the computer should be linked with everything.  You don't NEED a humanoid interface unless you plan on putting humans in charge of the prisoners, and why would you have that interface controlling the doors?
 
And I'm still bothered by the fact that apparently Skynet needs to set a trap to find the Resistance when their bases aren't exactly hard to find and Skynet could just nuke them from orbit (which is, iirc, exactly what happens at the beginning of the movie).  Still, this is a silly action movie where time travel is the crux of the storytelling.  The various details didn't really detract from the experience for me.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on October 27, 2010, 07:09:16 PM
Superman/Batman: Apocalypse
*POSSIBLE SPOILERS AHEAD*

The fight at the end was great, Batman surviving bone crushing blows just because he is batman I still don't understand.
Superman had the power to stop a different battle before it even started, yet waited until numerous people were possibly killed before he just said enough is enough and disintegrated all enemy combatants in a wide ray laser eye fury.
They also joked about Wonder Woman having an invisible jet.... is her being able to fly a relatively new power because I remember the old school invisible jet, but why would she need one if she could fly?
and if Superman had shown even half of the speed and fury that he did in the fight against Darkseid at the end of the movie during the fight alongside the Amazonians during he middle of the movie, he could have taken on the entire army by himself anyway and no one would have needed to die.

Superman is such an inconsistently over/under powered super hero that he just doesn't make any sense. Same goes for Batman since he ends up taking punches that knock down people like Wonder Woman and Superman, yet he gets up and brushes it off like it wasn't nothing... and Batman is just a normal human.

there are just so many more things that could be nitpicked, but I won't get into all that.

but putting all that aside, this was actually sort of enjoyable, specifically the ending.
the whole start and end to the Smallville scene was great from an action and comedy aspect.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on October 27, 2010, 07:17:13 PM
Batman can take hits like that because he's The Godddamn Batman. Also, body armor.

I've got this movie in my Netflix Queue. I wish they'd just do a new season of Justice League already, as these one-shot movies are getting old. You're certainly right about Superman in that he's very inconsistent. His powers are dictated by the situation and how far along in the story we are. ;-)

As for Wonder Woman, she originally had the invisible jet, but nowadays in the comics (and JL/U) she can fly. What's wierd to me is that she's the only Amazon with that power. Nobody else on Thymescera can fly.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: noname2200 on October 27, 2010, 09:54:41 PM

They also joked about Wonder Woman having an invisible jet.... is her being able to fly a relatively new power because I remember the old school invisible jet, but why would she need one if she could fly?


Imagine how tiring it is to fly around the world, and how freezing it is up there.  Now compare that to the chance to fly on autopilot in a heated jet, one that probably has television, bathrooms, and leather seats...
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on October 27, 2010, 10:00:36 PM

They also joked about Wonder Woman having an invisible jet.... is her being able to fly a relatively new power because I remember the old school invisible jet, but why would she need one if she could fly?


Imagine how tiring it is to fly around the world, and how freezing it is up there.  Now compare that to the chance to fly on autopilot in a heated jet, one that probably has television, bathrooms, and leather seats...

but how do you watch an invisible television?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: noname2200 on October 27, 2010, 10:04:22 PM

They also joked about Wonder Woman having an invisible jet.... is her being able to fly a relatively new power because I remember the old school invisible jet, but why would she need one if she could fly?


Imagine how tiring it is to fly around the world, and how freezing it is up there.  Now compare that to the chance to fly on autopilot in a heated jet, one that probably has television, bathrooms, and leather seats...

but how do you watch an invisible television?

With her telepathy, of course; she just reads the mind of whoever's sitting down at a perfectly-visible television someplace in the world and sees what they see!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on October 27, 2010, 10:07:04 PM

They also joked about Wonder Woman having an invisible jet.... is her being able to fly a relatively new power because I remember the old school invisible jet, but why would she need one if she could fly?


Imagine how tiring it is to fly around the world, and how freezing it is up there.  Now compare that to the chance to fly on autopilot in a heated jet, one that probably has television, bathrooms, and leather seats...

but how do you watch an invisible television?

Ridiculously expensive glasses?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on October 28, 2010, 12:05:41 AM

They also joked about Wonder Woman having an invisible jet.... is her being able to fly a relatively new power because I remember the old school invisible jet, but why would she need one if she could fly?


Imagine how tiring it is to fly around the world, and how freezing it is up there.  Now compare that to the chance to fly on autopilot in a heated jet, one that probably has television, bathrooms, and leather seats...

but how do you watch an invisible television?

Ridiculously expensive glasses?

Invisible glasses.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on October 28, 2010, 12:29:41 AM

They also joked about Wonder Woman having an invisible jet.... is her being able to fly a relatively new power because I remember the old school invisible jet, but why would she need one if she could fly?


Imagine how tiring it is to fly around the world, and how freezing it is up there.  Now compare that to the chance to fly on autopilot in a heated jet, one that probably has television, bathrooms, and leather seats...

but how do you watch an invisible television?

Ridiculously expensive glasses?

Invisible glasses.

God forbid you drop those. Will make hunts for dropped contacts look like a joke.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on October 28, 2010, 04:41:20 AM
[size=78%]Runaway: Kanye West really put something together here. Very artsy. Made you think. Well, forced you to if you wanted to follow the plot and consider the meaning or whatever. But yeah, 9/10[/size]

I got through 15 seconds of this and stopped. I'm sorry but Nicki Minaj desperately needs to give up this faux-english accent of hers. Her voice literally tore a hole through what Kanye wanted to do as far as i'm concerned. I won't watch the rest.

If Kanye got in someone credible like Stephen Fry or even Jonny Metts with an approachable speaking voice i would have got much farther.

I'm hoping to hear what nickmitch/stogi/BNM think about the Kanye
movie, and my own thoughts about it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on October 28, 2010, 10:43:47 AM
[size=78%]Runaway: Kanye West really put something together here. Very artsy. Made you think. Well, forced you to if you wanted to follow the plot and consider the meaning or whatever. But yeah, 9/10[/size]

[size=78%]I got through 15 seconds of this and stopped. I'm sorry but Nicki Minaj desperately needs to give up this faux-english accent of hers. Her voice literally tore a hole through what Kanye wanted to do as far as i'm concerned. I won't watch the rest.[/size][/color]

[size=78%]If Kanye got in [/size][/color]someone[size=78%] credible like Stephen Fry or even Jonny Metts with an approachable speaking voice i would have got much farther.[/size][/color]



I'm hoping to hear what nickmitch/stogi/BNM think about the Kanye
movie, and my own thoughts about it.



[/size]2 of the 3 you were wiating on has commented on it already
[/size]
[/size]
[/size]Runaway: Kanye West really put something together here. Very artsy. Made you think. Well, forced you to if you wanted to follow the plot and consider the meaning or whatever. But yeah, 9/10
[/size]
[/size]
[/size]Really!? I linked to the explicit version in the Hip Hop thread (not sure if that's where you watched it), but the entire time I kept thinking that I must just not get it and I know I'm not the only one, and I know for sure that Kanye will not be getting any acting gigs EVER based on his performance in this overly artsy nonsensical "movie" new album sampler. I don't even think the songs are all that great to be honest and I've enjoyed just about every Kanye album I've heard to this day.
[/size]
[/size]But to each his own, I guess you got the point that apparently soared way above my head.
[/size]2.5/10
[/size]

Looking back, I commented the post after nickmitch, and if that was Nicki Minaj, then she went uncredited, because I didn't see her name in the credits afterwards, and I watched the credits ONLY to see if that was her in the beginning or not.




EDIT: WTF is with this {size=78% bullshit}
normally i would clean all this up but I want Megabyte to see what is happening. I quoted the post above and it happened, then I edited in a quote from this earlier in this thread and it did it to every single line.... i didn't add a single {size} tag to this thread post.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on October 29, 2010, 04:41:57 AM
A tag must not be printing right. 78% must be the size of text in quote boxes.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Toruresu on October 31, 2010, 11:58:56 PM
Saw "Life as we know it" today. Total meh comedy, had some laughs, some. That's it, it sucks.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: MaryJane on November 01, 2010, 09:55:39 AM
Amelia

Very, very, MEH! It seemed like they filmed a three hour movie and cut it down to an hour and 45 minutes. There was no back story on Amelia, her marriage and affair were mostly glossed over (though the marriage becomes more significant toward the end) and even a lot of her flights were glossed over, and I still felt they focused too much on her flights and not her person, perhaps she was jus that boring? The final flight and ending were the only things that prevented me from hating this movie, and my goodness is Hilary Swank fugly or is she ridiculously fugly? In the movie they make a point to say a couple time that Amelia herself wasn't so pretty, and they show some pictures of her at the end that double down on that point, but ****! I understand not using Scarlett Johansen but they couldv'e usef someone who looked less like a man. Hilary Swank's best roles have been where she played a man, or a woman who did manly things, and I suppose that's why she was cast (flying, like most other things, was not for women back then) but I had a hard time getting past the fact that she looked a boy the whole movie. Anyway, it was an overall MEH with some redeeming scenes in the beginning, and a solid ending. The acting was fairly good, except some miscues by Hilary Swank, or the director's editing (she purposely stalls her plane, then looks nervous about it?) good for a history lesson, not so much a movie, would have been a lot better with more focus on the title character in the beginning.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on November 01, 2010, 10:30:52 AM
Now compare that to the chance to fly on autopilot in a heated jet, one that probably has television, bathrooms, and leather seats...

Unless Family Guy has it right. Why would you use the bathroom on a plane that is invisible but you are still visible?

Since my last update I watched The Rocky Horror Picture Show for the first time (after watching the Glee tribute episode "The Rocky Horror Glee Show", which even featured Barry Bostwick guest starring). I would probably give it 4/5. It was designed to be campy and satire, so it holds up pretty well after 35 years. After seeing what a freak Dr. Frank-N-Furter is (plus the way he abuses Riff Raff and murdered Eddy), you don't feel sorry for him at the end of the movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on November 01, 2010, 08:22:28 PM
paranormal activity 2; crap.

ugh
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on November 01, 2010, 08:45:53 PM
Alien 9/10  yeah, totally awesome.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: MaryJane on November 02, 2010, 09:46:17 PM
My Sister's Keeper: 8.5/10.

Very good movie about a family who has one daughter sick with cancer, another who is the only match for her, and the decisions they make as a family. Unfortunately, this movie had two things wrong.

1. I don't understand this new trend in movies where they break up the timeline and don't tell you where the pieces fit in. It worked for Saw, not so much in this movie. There was one scene where the mom shaved her head to make the daughter feel better, but in no other scene is she bald or wearing hair any different than what she has in the rest of movie, except the very end.

2. Beside the wonky timeline, there were other scenes that just didn't seem to make sense with the rest of the movie. Either characters did things that seemed out of character, or did things without any explanation, that made them out of character.

Anyway, this was a very good movie despite those problems. Very human, very good acting, very emotional and not just because the one daughter is dying, but because all the characters are relatable.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on November 04, 2010, 02:18:04 PM
Batman: Under the Red Hood.

I liked it. Even though I kinda figured out the "twist/reveal" at the beginning of the movie, I didn't have most of details. Anyway, there was plenty of action and things for the most part made sense except I didn't get why he would visit Rahs Al Ghul, but you kinda have to let a few things go like Batman getting hit hard enough to fly 100ft away and dent the side of a shipping container or The Red Hod being able to back flip up to a third story fire escape from the ground. among many other things. It's an entertaining watch though so I would give it a 6.5/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on November 04, 2010, 10:29:22 PM
Saw Black Dynamite and it gets a 10/10. 1) it was awesome 2) describing its awesomeness has become redundant 3) pornstar cameo and 4) "I threw that before I came in the room!"

Also saw Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths. Had to get over the voices. They kind of pussified Batman and he was only REALLY Batman for maybe like 2 scenes. There were some hilarious moments in the fight scenes, but the story was overall not that great. Still very watchable. 7/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on November 05, 2010, 06:11:56 PM
Superman/Batman: Apokolypse: Meh/10

Didn't like the art style. They were clearly trying to bogart the book, which I also don't like. The movie felt very uneven. Supergirl lands on Earth and is almost immediately captured by Darkseid (I HATE APOKOLYPSE STORYLINES) and the three heroes go after her and **** goes down. The only thing I liked was the big fight at the very end of the movie, because it was pretty epic. Batman and Wonder Woman seemed completely unnecessary the whole time. Why did Batman put on the guard's armor? I haven't liked the last few DCAU movies (Red Hood, this one, Crisis on Two Earths), but I did enjoy Public Enemies.

I've said before, and I'll say it again: I wish they'd just make another season of JLU already.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on November 05, 2010, 07:24:52 PM
The Karate Kid (2010)

I have to admit that this movie was better than I expected but not quite as good as it was hyped up to be. Jaden Smith was actually kinda funny(the faces lol) and not too bad as an actor. I don't remember the original movie all that much, but I can assume they have alot of similarities.
One thing that I didn't like though was that his character seemed to perfect Kung Fu awfully quick considering most of his on screen training was putting his jacket on and taking it off again. another thing thing that was a surprise was near the end. He gets his leg fucked up and has 2 minutes to start the next fight or forfeit to the other team. in those 2 minutes, Jackie Chan pulled some glass bottles, cotton balls, alcohol, a lighter and some chopsticks out of his ass, used his ancient Chinese pain relieving technique and got lil Jaden back in the ring ready to fight. then they replaced the Crane kick from the original (a move that was practiced at some point in the original film) with some Level 12 black belt one legged backflip skull crusher to win the match that seemed impossible for someone of his skill level to pull off, especially on the first attempt ever(it was a very very impressive move BTW). what made the ending even worse was Jaden Smith rapping with Justin Beiber during the end credits.

It's a good watch, but the improbability of him beating all these multi-year students after only training for a few months(?) and the fact that the rival Dojo master would intentionally sabotage his student's chance to legitimately win while still accomplishing the same goal (of not just beating Jaden, but breaking him) is rather stupid, especially when it didn't even work. He could have had hos own 2 students in the finals and guaranteed himself and his dojo a win which I'm sure was much more important to him than crippling some little black kid from Detroit(and he probably could have done both).

Damn, I didn't think I had that much to vent about this movie. :D
But this movie suffers from the same thing so many other movies do; we've told the story, but now how do we wrap this up properly in the next 20 minutes while still making as much sense as possible and leaving it open for a possible sequel?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on November 05, 2010, 08:30:19 PM
Catch Me If You Can

10/10

I don't know what took me so long to see this, but I finally did and damn, this movie was a perfect fit for me. A great story with quite a few moments that hand me dying laughing ("Hey Shawn, want to hear a joke?" "KNOCK! KNOCK!"), and parts that had me wishing I had the balls to pull something like that off (basically everything LDC did). Best of all, the pacing and direction of the movie never dies; it's always going somewhere. Simply a great movie all around. I recommend it to everyone.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on November 07, 2010, 01:36:37 AM
yeah, bascially. If you were a LDC hater, and you saw this you should instantly be converted to an LDC fan.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on November 07, 2010, 02:50:09 AM
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)

Wow, definitely not the childhood movie I remembered it as. A hard boiled detective story set in a world where Toons are as real as you or I, an America, starting it's golden age.

Behind the laughs is some serious social commentary on greed, "Progress", personal demons and exploitation. A reminder of the time when L.A. had the worlds best public transport system before it was demolish in order to sell cars. Whole communities and workforces scraped for highways. Toons working for peanuts. Lessons still relevant today.

Supported by some the best pre-computer, hand drawn effects and stunt work, you could believe Toons lived. Perfect voice work and brilliant actors. An amazing crossover in franchises between rivals never to be repeated.

A singularly unique movie. Space Jam can't touch this.

9.5/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on November 07, 2010, 08:48:26 AM
Synecdoche New York Nihilistic self indulgent crap. One star.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: MaryJane on November 07, 2010, 11:22:29 AM
Synecdoche New York Nihilistic self indulgent crap. One star.

True, but I thought the blending of reality and fiction was unique and interesting. And the 'nihilistic self indulgence' was the pretty much the point of the movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on November 07, 2010, 11:51:37 AM
Inception

(http://www.stickergiant.com/Merchant2/imgs/450/him2087_450.jpeg)

This movie was so overly hyped, from what I saw, for no good reason. The plot was extremely convoluted and unnecessary. Even worse, the "novice" of the group went from knowing nothing to knowing more than the person stuck in a false reality for a lifetime. Da **** was with that? I hated how nosy she was. Everytime she spoke I wanted to slap her like I was trying to wake her up. And this was LDC's worst acting job since...ever? Completely unbelievable even during his crem de la crem trademark emotional scenes. This film had so much promise. The beginning was so unique, so interesting. And then the setup to the rest of the movie was so enticing, so mysterious. Then to my surprise, the plot went up its own asshole with unneeded complexity just to be "cool". So much so, in fact, that the last 20 or so minutes made no fucking sense at all. None. Seriously, none of it it made sense. To make matters worse. NONE OF IT WAS EXPLAINED. So you had to fill in incomprehensible blanks with what everyone seemed to use....bullshit. Everyone I've asked in a Socratic way became stumped when trying to explain the fucking end of the movie. It's because there is no logic in the end...it just happens and your suppose to lap it up like a fucking dog. To make matters worse, none of it needed to happen. It all boiled down to manipulation and people are manipulated without the use of dreams every single day. And if he wanted to see his kids again so badly, why didn't he have them stay with his Father? Whom he can contact for some reason.

So much bullshit. I've never been so disappointed with a movie. I will say this though..I'm glad I watched it. It makes South Park's spoof that much funnier.

Oh and the soundtrack was great.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on November 07, 2010, 08:19:48 PM
After some extensive time with the new Goldeneye, I thought it was finally time to see the two Daniel Craig Bond films I had passed up on.  I just completed Casino Royale, and I'm sorry but if you looked up the words "blah" and "meh" in the dictionary, you'd find a link to Craig's Casino Royale.  I haven't been this thoroughly bored by a Bond film since I tried to watch some of the older ones pre-Brosnan.  Maybe it's because Brosnan was my Bond (though I thought Brosnan's films peaked with Goldeneye and steadily got worse), but Daniel Craig just isn't "Bond" to me.  He's needlessly violent, not particularly interesting to watch, and doesn't come off as particularly clever or skillful.  I know that's what this film was going for with the whole "blunt instrument" thing, but I just found him and this movie hard to watch.  It's like a movie made in the 60s -70s before filmmakers discovered pacing: slow and deliberate to the point of irritation, fond of dwelling on things that aren't altogether important like "picturesque scenery", and a plot that can be hard to follow simply because the movie doesn't make me care.  I did like the scenes between Vesper and Bond, but those were really this movie's only saving grace (well, that and the lack of the traditionally horrible Bond puns).

The ending to Casino Royale makes me somewhat hopeful that Quantum of Solace is at least moderately interesting and that Bond is reasonably more like his traditional incarnation, but I never want to watch this film again.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on November 07, 2010, 08:58:57 PM
If you didn't like Casino Royale, then things aren't looking so hot for Quantum of Solace.
Actually, QoS might as well not even apply.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on November 07, 2010, 10:23:58 PM
I couldn't disagree with you harder BroodWars. CR was a welcomed reboot of a joke of a franchise Bond had become with Die Another Day. During DAD, Bond jumped the shark making Roger Moore's Moonraker look sane. Later the director gets arrested in LA dressed as a transexual prostitute only adds powdered rat poison on a **** cake.

CR was a return to real stunts, a more normal pacing that isn't snorting Jason Bourne brand government issued speed and camera work that wasn't done by someone with end stage Parkinson's. Martin Campbell's signature brutal fist fights make a return. Return of the strong classy Bond girl as Goldeneye had with Natalya.

If you didn't like CR, you will hate QoS. QoS is a meandering pointless waste of a movie, let alone a Bond one. The plot just sits there floating in whatever toilet happens to be flushing. The car chases and fights are poorly thought out and equally poorly edited with absolutely no thought as to time, place or people. The airplane sequence is some of the most mindless things I have seen since Stealth. Miscast villains and Bond girls. Needless homages.

QoS wasted everything good to come out of CR.

Goldeneye is still a classic and brought Bond into the 90's and beyond. Send Spike.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on November 07, 2010, 11:21:25 PM
CR was amazing. That first on foot chase scene is one of my favorite chase scenes to this date.

QoS sucks but it was needed in terms of the story line (though they still managed to make it almost incomprehensible even though its about revenge).

The next one, which I've gladly noticed they are taking their sweet time with, promises to be much better with a new story arc.

Paranormal Activity 2

Lack of creativity / 10

Don't bother seeing this movie if you've seen the first. And, don't bother seeing this movie if you haven't seen the first. The first is all you need. Honestly, they rehashed everything that made the first refreshing leaving out some **** that I would have actually liked to see return miraculous fire. There was nothing new brought to the table. The first inoculated me for every scare.  That's why I yawned when I saw a door open or someone get dragged.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on November 07, 2010, 11:32:09 PM
The unfortunate thing about Pierce Brosnan is that he was the perfect Bond IMO, but he was cast in some really crappy movies after GoldenEye (with Die Another Day being the worst).  I was always disappointed that the writers never followed up on the concept introduced in GoldenEye that Bond was becoming world-weary after all the missions/deaths/whatnot and was looking for meaning in life.  I'm curious how Brosnan's Bond film career would have shaped out if MGM hadn't seemingly been taken over by Joel Shoemaker.

Incidentally, it's almost criminal that GoldenEye (one of the best and most popular Bond movies) isn't on Blu-Ray yet, and may not be with MGM in the midst of bankruptcy at the moment.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on November 08, 2010, 12:04:30 AM
Actually MGM has worked it's issues out and the next Bond film is in preparation along with The Hobbit.
I think it was taken over by the guys over at Lions Gate and things are supposedly moving along smoothly at this point.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on November 08, 2010, 12:13:16 AM
LOL, Lions Gate. I could imagine them turning Bond 23 into Crank 3.

Have they even got a director yet? If it's Martin Campbell, we have hope.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on November 08, 2010, 12:37:36 AM
i'm sorry, I got it confused, the Lions Gate deal was laughed at and then quickly thrown in the trash.

They are getting taken over by Spyglass Ent.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/lenders-approve-mgm-spyglass-reorganization-33720
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The bankruptcy court’s review of the “prepackaged” MGM-Spyglass reorganization plan is expected to take 30-60 days. Assuming Barber and Birnbaum win court approval for their operating mandate, the studio’s first two priorities will be to firm up a 50% interest in the upcoming production of a two-part movie based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s book The Hobbit and to restart development of the next James Bond film.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on November 08, 2010, 03:56:16 AM
Surely it's not too late to bring back Brosnan in the next Bond if they wanted. Weren't they talking about reworking the series again to make it more like it originally was?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on November 08, 2010, 12:42:03 PM
It's not too late to bring back Sean Connery... again!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on November 08, 2010, 03:39:13 PM
completely computer generated bond, with like the newest MRI technology for getting a perfect images
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on November 08, 2010, 07:26:14 PM
Toy Story 3. Amazing. Sentimental but not grossly overdone. I thought Pixar's last 2 films, Wall*E and Up, were more emotionally resonant. Especially Up. I almost turned the movie off when Ellie died in the beginning. Still, Toy Story 3 definitely had moments that melted my heart. Anyway, the ending was predictable. As soon as Bonnie showed up, I turned to my brother and told him I knew what was going to happen. Still, predictable doesn't necessarily mean bad. Most of the time it does, but on a few rare occasions, it works because it was the only logical way to go. I couldn't think of a better way to end the movie or the series. The attic is worse than the toy box. Sure, they don't get thrown away, but they're forgotten and maybe Andy's kids plays with them in like 15-20 years. The daycare, specifically the Butterfly Room, isn't ideal either. They're never outgrown, but they never get the same attachment that they had with Andy. Bonnie inheriting the toys and playing with them give them want they wanted, even if it's ultimately short-lived. Andy playing with his toys one last time before giving them to Bonnie was a fitting, bittersweet end. Sure, they'll have to go through all of that again when Bonnie gets older, but for the purposes of ending the series, the ending they went with was absolutely perfect. I loved this movie. My favorite of the 3.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on November 08, 2010, 07:56:04 PM
Toy Story 3 completely made up for the underwhelming second installment. In fact, I'm on the fence as to whether or not I liked it more than even the original film!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: NWR_insanolord on November 08, 2010, 08:19:19 PM
It's not too late to bring back Sean Connery... again!

If there are any studio executives reading the forums, I want you to know that I would totally pay to see a movie based on this idea.


EDIT: Or better yet, bring back all of them: Connery, Moore, Lazenby, Dalton, Brosnan, and Craig. Maybe there's a villain with some sort of time portal and he makes all the different Bonds fight to the death on an island somewhere.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on November 08, 2010, 08:45:21 PM
Maybe we could see Connery as the villain? Remember the old 60's parody version of Casino Royale, with Peter Sellers? It was suggested that James Bond was simply a codename to go with the 007 designation. That way their top agent could live on forever, like the Dread Pirate Robinson! Anyway... perhaps Connery returns, full of knowledge of MI6, to undo the latest Bond? After all, he's already been brought back twice (Diamonds Are Forever and Never Say Never Again), what's to stop for a third outing?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on November 08, 2010, 09:22:54 PM
Heh. I've always thought it would be awesome to do a last James Bond adventure with either Connery in the lead role or else someone else who faces off against a villianous organization run by all the previous Bonds. Think of it in a sort of Kill Bill idea of Bond facing off against each one seperately as he climbs to the top (Connery). But I just can't decide whether Bond or Connery should win.


As for the previous Bond comments in this thread, while I was also disappointed that Brosnan didn't get better films to use his talents in, once I saw Casino Royale, I've never once felt the need for Brosnan to return. One of the best Bond films ever. You want a world-weary Bond? Craig is more world-weary in that movie than Brosnan was in all of his. Of course, the ultimate world-weary Bond is Timothy Dalton. Thanks to Craig's Bond, I've found myself enjoying Dalton's portrayal more and more. They're actually sort of similiar.

As for the comment about the movie having no pacing, wow! You want no pacing, watch Thunderball. Frankly though, I wish movies would slow down more. I loves me classic films. 30's-60's with some silent movies thrown in for good measure. If Casino Royale is too slow for you, you will never be able to enjoy some really great movies.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: King of Twitch on November 08, 2010, 09:37:10 PM
What if there's like a retirement home hidden deep in Mi6 full of the old James Bonds?

Elderly Bond chick: Weren't you James Bond?

Sean Connery: Depends.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on November 08, 2010, 11:28:21 PM
What if there's like a retirement home hidden deep in Mi6 full of the old James Bonds?

Elderly Bond chick: Weren't you James Bond?

Sean Connery: Weren't you beautiful before?

Elderly Bond chick: Question withdrawn.

Sean Connery: [censored but it involves something else withdrawing]

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: King of Twitch on November 09, 2010, 12:25:00 PM
What if there's like a retirement home hidden deep in Mi6 full of the old James Bonds?

Elderly Bond chick: New around here?

Sean Connery: Sort of. Martini, please.

*vending machine dispenses a diet shasta*

*drink sloshes out all over his hands*

Sean Connery: Shaken, not stirred.

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ejamer on November 09, 2010, 03:14:41 PM
Curse of the Golden Flower


This was my second time watching this movie, and it was better than I remembered.


The plot develops slowly and feels forced at times, but carries the movie well enough.  Acting is strong despite flat characters and some limited roles.  It's always a pleasure to watch Gong Li, even when she isn't doing her best work.  The cinematography was disappointing - with so many gorgeous costumes and temendous sets, you rarely felt that camera work did justice to the film.


The biggest disappointment stemming from Curse of the Golden Flower is that is simply doesn't reach the heights (visually or emotionally) that some of Yimou Zhang's other films achieve.


Recommended for fans of drama and foreign film.
7/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on November 09, 2010, 03:23:24 PM
haha Ejamer...Curse of the Golden Flower, the thing that sticks out in my mind from that movie is the scene where the ninja is running around the ridiculously colored palace wearing all black and sticking out like a soar thumb....and not getting noticed.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on November 10, 2010, 10:01:12 AM
Just saw Rocky Balboa. Good way to end the franchise, and I guess they made the right decision in the ending. They filmed two different endings, one with Rocky winning and one with Mason winning, both are included on the DVD/Blu-ray Disc release. It's nice seeing how Rocky and Paulie deal with Adrian's death and how the first half of the film is Rocky being stuck in the past and struggling to move on without his wife, and then realizing how much boxing meant to him (in the audio commentary by Stallone, he mentions that he had Rocky leave the ring before the winner was announced since the fight was never about winning or losing for him).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: MaryJane on November 10, 2010, 10:10:03 AM
The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus 7.5/10.

Much better concept than execution, but it was interesting nonetheless.

 The ending was rather unexpected which I liked, but I didn't really like the Devil.

The concept of the Devil in the movie was good, but the actual execution of the character was near terrible imo.

Good movie overall, acting was mostly solid with a few 'misses', but I felt the telling of the story was a little weak, especially considering that it was a movie about a story teller of sorts.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: MaryJane on November 11, 2010, 05:32:28 PM
Pirate Radio 7/10

Very very funny, but not much of a story. Most of the movie was spent on the people aboard the ship, and the struggling of playing rock music in the U.K during the time seemed like an after-thought.

Despite that, the characters are very likeable/memorable and there are even some serious moments (surrounded by comedy) of examining humanity.

Would have rated it higher if it was about 30mins longer and had a little more depth both on and off the boat, but mostly off. It seemed like they cut out A LOT of what was filmed off the boat which from the parts they kept, seemed rather interesting.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on November 12, 2010, 12:15:48 PM
Finished Quantum of Solace the other night, and aside from a spectacularly awful opening music number (seriously, rap/hip-hop for a James Bond opener?) I liked the movie better than I thought I would.  There's some good continuity from Casino Royale, some genuinely-well done emotional scenes with Bond, and Daniel Craig actually seems comfortable as James Bond now.  I liked the increased screentime for M, though I'm starting to wonder if they'll ever introduce Q.  The pacing was a little better than Casino Royale, though the plot was simiarly hard to follow and tried so hard to be a social commentary on the modern political scene that it forgot to be fun.  At least the villain got a suitable end that fit the movie well.  And yeah, the cinematography was wretched, fond of just cuts and camera shaking that just made the action scenes either dull or confusing to watch.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: bustin98 on November 12, 2010, 03:10:08 PM
The idea behind these two films with Craig was to re-introduce Bond as an action hero. There was a plan to integrate Bond's womanizing and his various sidekicks, Q included, into new movies.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on November 12, 2010, 03:42:17 PM
Felix was introduced right away, despite not being nearly as entertaining as he was in the old films.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on November 13, 2010, 04:19:00 AM
Got to see Saw 3D today. It was mostly good, I guess. The acting in some of the characters was absoultely terrible. Jigsaw's widow and the main detective were particularly bad. The ongoing retcon that's been the span of sequels continued in full force with the movie's (and series') being based on a retcon. What I liked was the gore. Everything was filmed (sometimes without even the need for it) in 3D. It didn't feel like a cheap gimmick. Depth was used more than breaking the 4th wall, which I prefer in my 3D movies. The deaths were good. Some looked a little fake. Most occured with me wanting the person to die, but not always. There were some deaths that the main "victim" of Jigsaw seemed to be unable to prevent in his game. Also, 3 people died in the game and were there because they were jerks, but his wife was there and died because he himself didn't know how strong human biceps were. She did nothing wrong and got burned alive, while the guy gets to live (though, miserably). This bothered me a good deal.
I'll give it a 6/10. Not as polished as other entries in the series. Good use of 3D. Mostly good effects.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on November 13, 2010, 04:45:17 AM
The Fantastic Mr. Fox I didn't think I would like this movie, but it was suprisingly good! Lots of humor Three stars
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on November 13, 2010, 02:25:24 PM
i saw a clip on IGN and it looked like the apple fell miles from the tree
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on November 13, 2010, 06:10:06 PM
Naw, perm. It's a good movie.

Scott Pilgrim vs The World 8/10

This movie is surprisingly funny and awkward. Great action scenes. I'm impressed.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on November 13, 2010, 06:13:29 PM
no, i mean it just looked like really cheap....like I know the first movie was just 2 guys in a room, but what I saw looked like a low budget in the way that caterpillar man looks low budget. Not saying that makes it a bad movie, but the suspension of disbelief totally was taken away.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on November 13, 2010, 06:34:47 PM
It works well. Something's are hysterical because it's stop motion.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on November 13, 2010, 06:42:18 PM
for Saw or Caterpillar man?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on November 13, 2010, 07:01:04 PM
Oh snap, I was talking about Fantastic Mr. Fox.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on November 13, 2010, 07:51:03 PM
Oh snap, I was talking about Fantastic Mr. Fox.

I thought he was talking about Fantastic Mr. Fox too since he didn't respond directly after the saw post and didn't quote it or anything.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on November 13, 2010, 10:34:05 PM
Splice

Increasingly bizarre and messed up, but still great.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on November 15, 2010, 09:59:13 AM
The Karate Kid (the real one, not the kung-fu remake), The Karate Kid Part II, The Karate Kid Part III. Really good movies, the first two are better IMO but even the third was good. For some reason it sticks out that Daniel had to pay $2.50 for his school lunch. I realize he was attending a rich kids school, but that is a damn expensive lunch.

Not really movies, but I saw the comedy specials Bill Engvall: Here's Your Sign, Bill Engvall: 15 Degrees Off Cool, and Bill Engvall: Aged & Confused. I think the guy is really funny.

Animaniacs: Wakko's Wish. I was a Animaniacs fan as a kid but never saw this direct to video movie. The Warner Brothers and Warner Sister go on a trek to touch a wishing star that will grant the wish of whoever touches it first, a secret that they blab and leads to everyone in the village going after it.

Batman: Under the Red Hood - One of the best animated DC Comics movies that is not part of the DC Animated Universe. It was pretty obvious to me who the Red Hood really was, although the real story was about Batman trying to make up for the past. I like John DiMaggio, but I don't think he did a good job as Joker. He just seemed dry and boring when he wasn't laughing, Mark Hamill really perfected how Joker should sound.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on November 16, 2010, 01:47:08 AM
The Name of the Rose Medieval Sean Connery solves the murder of the creepy monks. three and half stars
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on November 16, 2010, 03:41:35 PM
im betting those movies can use stop motion, nothing adds creepiness like unfluid jerky motion
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on November 16, 2010, 06:27:10 PM
Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant  8/10, it was a pretty fresh take on vampires. Except the name Vampirenese sounds lame...go for nosferatu
like the connotation shift between Ninja and Shinobi. Also, a bit slow paced.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on November 17, 2010, 10:15:09 PM
The Goods

Pretty good movie, very funny at times. Nice cameo from Will Ferrell.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on November 17, 2010, 10:51:42 PM
That's the only part of that movie I've ever seen...and it was hilarious.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on November 18, 2010, 08:37:40 AM
Skyline. I will provide my review in one word:

BULLSHIT

Good thing i watched this film on Orange Wednesday (2 cinema tickets for price of one on wednesdays) and i have an unlimited cinema card thus we didn't pay. I would be very pissed to have paid £10 for this.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Caliban on November 18, 2010, 12:45:39 PM
The latest trailers for that movie made it seem like it was going to suck. "Battle: Los Angeles" looks to be way better.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on November 18, 2010, 03:36:35 PM
The latest trailers for that movie made it seem like it was going to suck. "Battle: Los Angeles" looks to be way better.

I thought it seemed interesting and it might be good, right up until i found out the writers are the two that did the second Alien versus Predator. Then my interest DIED. I still went to see it because my friend wanted to, and because i can get in for free there was no loss to me. Except a few hours.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on November 18, 2010, 11:14:28 PM
hehe, the same special effects studio for Skyline is making Battlefield: L.A
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on November 19, 2010, 01:04:55 PM
I saw the new Harry Potter last night against my will. I don't know whats going on in the HP story line so I wasn't in to it at all and was actually falling asleep at some parts. There were some parts that were kinda funny and then there was one part that I suppose was sad, but since I'm not invested in the movies and don't really know the characters outside of the main 3 or 4, I didn't care about what had happened. Overall the movie seemed alright, but it was a bit boring at times... but I think they knew that because there was always a very very loud noise near the end of an extremely boring part of the movie. I also guess that it ended right when things were about to get exciting. And there is nothing after the credits, so if you get dragged to this movie, don't get forced to sit through the credit because there is nothing after them.

This is definitely a movie for fans and I was not one of them, so I'm not gonna assign a rating or anything.

But I had alot of fun making fun of all the Harry Potter geeks that started having a quiz-off back and forth. I did it quietly so that only my girl (who forced me to go) and the guy next to her (a HP fan but no where near the level of some of these other people) could hear. I wasn't trying to rain on their parade as I know they were all like minded people who have been anticipating that premiere, I just wanted to keep my self awake during the long ass wait for the movie to start.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on November 19, 2010, 03:04:05 PM
haha who told you to sit through the credits? It's a two part movie, i wouldn't expect there to be a thing at the end. Your preview for the next movie was this movie. Really, only comedies and marvel movies have those segments at the end.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on November 19, 2010, 03:11:02 PM
That's exactly what I told my girl, but she forced me to also sit through the damn credits.

I said " This is a 2 part movie, they don't need a teaser to hype you for a possible sequel because this movie isn't even over yet."
but did she listen? of course not, she actually got upset with me for not wanting to even watch the movie in the first place and constantly asking questions so that I could atleast know what was going on. She didn't seem to mind when I kept cracking jokes to keep myself entertained though.


and then as we were leaving the theater and she was mad that I was right again(as usual), I said "what were you expecting? Next time on Harry Potter... this ain't a TV show. The first movie is a teaser for the second."
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on November 19, 2010, 03:29:22 PM
not to mention movies with lots of special effect have the most ridiculously long credits. Iron Man 2 credits were a chore, at least i knew there was going to be something at the end...was it worth it..not at all. I mean when they list the credits for the "tissue purchaser for the secondary lead cg hair artist" its worth total ridicule.

to fill you in on the plotline for the last 2 or so movies
Snape killed Dumbledoor because bitchass Malfoy didn't have the balls, Harry Potter started thinking about how he should bang Ron's Little Sister. Death Eaters pop up, they are a bunch of dicks, burnt down Ron's House if i remember correctly, Harry and some other Wizards found a justice league of Wizards called The order of the Phoenix, Serious Black gets killed by Queen Morgana from the Merlin tv movie..err i mean Bellatrix Lestrange.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on November 19, 2010, 05:29:20 PM
Prince of Persia: Surprisingly good/10

Feels like an old-school adventure movie. Also, Gemma Whatshername is one of the most attractive people on the planet.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on November 19, 2010, 05:38:39 PM
Predators

Not bad at all and definitely set up for a sequel. A few things didn't really make sense, but it was a decent action flick that even referenced the original.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: MaryJane on November 20, 2010, 11:39:38 AM
Legion: 1.5/10
I give it a 1 for Adrianne Palicki, and a .5 for a few interesting characters, other than that it was the very definition of crap.

The Proposal: 7/10
Predictable RomCom ending, but the progression was a little surprising/not typical and it was very freaking funny.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on November 21, 2010, 04:21:01 AM
The Last Airbender - WTF was this ****/10

I knew they already fucked this movie up before I saw it, but come the **** on M. Night. Written, Produced and Directed by is obviously too much work for you to handle. This movie lacked all the personality and charm that makes the cartoon good. All the little things that they decided they didn't have time for in the movie are what made the cartoon good. This was like the bastardized abridged version of something I liked and it made it rather painful to watch at times. They skip over everything to the point that you wonder "why should I care?". There is ZERO character development and very poor story telling. The acting in some parts were absolutely horrible too. The scene in the first Earth Tribe they went in "I have to tell you something!!!!!!" "OMG Aaang what is it!!!!" "I left before they taught me anything about being an Avatar!!!!!!!" "Why would you do that!!!!!"
did they really need that much excitement/shock/surprise in the delivery of those lines? it was completely misplaced and badly delivered.

Sokka was a throw away character since he didn't deliver on line of comedic relief, Aang showed no frustration with not being able to bend water, and they basically skipped over most of everything that would make you connect with any character. They even messed up Appa<sp?> as he wasn't grumpy or playful or anything really. They even failed to convincingly show the motivations behind Prince Zuko.

The one thing that could have saved some of the story telling in this movie is some sort of overlayed imagery of what the characters are doing while Katara does a voice over explaining it. Show Aang failing at water bending while Katara is improving. Show Appa licking Sokka as he's trying to feed him, show anything that gives anybody in the movie some damn character besides just hurrying along story that they just forcefully shove in your face up till the very end. Where was the hints of the secret crush Aang had on Katara, or the relationship building scenes between Sokka and the Princess of the N. Water Tribe? So much of this story is missing, that I don't know how Nikelodeon approved this movie to get made as written.

This was a big disappointment and they probably should have aimed at a 2+ hour movie to flush things out a bit because an extra 30 ir so minutes of character building would go a long way for this movie. Some better casting of just about everyone would help too. Katara was alright (except for that Earth Tribe scene) but Sokka was wrong, Aang could have been better and Uncle Iro surprisingly wasn't as far off as you would think at first glance, but where was my jolly old out of shape Uncle Iro from the cartoon. So many things with this movie went wrong and all of it was M. Night Shayamalan's fault. I seriously hope he is shunned from any future big studio movies that are not based on his own crappy concepts partially funded by himself. I was genuinely looking forward to this movie and he really let me down.

2.5/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on November 21, 2010, 05:51:56 PM
Nightmare on Elm Street (the new one)

I...didn't...hate it. Didn't really feel like Nightmare on Elm Street to me. Too serious, Freddy didn't really look or sound like Freddy, and there was too much backstory. I eventually stopped caring.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Shorty McNostril on November 22, 2010, 06:08:51 AM
A team.   Unparalleled awesomeness/10.

The movie was just made of stupidity, but damn they did it well.  As far as I'm concerned, the plane and tank falling scene is the best movie sequence of all time. I couldnt stop laughing.  And anything with liam neeson is always good.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on November 22, 2010, 10:28:32 AM
Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Prices - I am not trying to say Walmart is great, but this was nothing more than a propaganda video from people who are against Walmart (for example, they talk about how small stores can't compete and close down, but ignore the hundreds of new jobs each one brings). Pretty much the opposite of what a documentary is supposed to be (which is unbiased).

Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker - Great animated movie. The Joker is seemingly back and terrorizing Gotham City despite the fact that he would be in his 80s and that Bruce Wayne said Joker was dead. It turns out that after Joker and Harley Quinn turned Tim Drake (the 3rd Robin) into "Joker Jr." through weeks of electro-shocks and serum, Drake ends up shooting Joker instead of Batman. However, Joker had implanted a microchip in Drake that contained his DNA and over time he could control Drake more and more.

1984 - Yeah, maybe the book was better because I thought the movie was crap and boring. Also, what is up with Julia's bush? Are women in that time just not allowed to shave at all down there? Geez, you almost need a map to navigate there.

Alice in Wonderland (the Tim Burton version) - Much better than I anticipated. For those who don't know, it's more of a sequel to the original story. I question why so many of the women are mediocre looking (even Alice has a so-so face).

Pee-Wee's Big Adventure - After 25 years, it is still a good family comedy. Pee-Wee sets out for the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas after his iconic bike is stolen. Pee-Wee even helps a escaped criminal evade the police (although since this is Pee-Wee Herman, the guy's crime was cutting off that "Do Not Tear" label from a mattress).

Wes Craven's New Nightmare - Very meta movie, and done well. Not the most loved Nightmare movie, but I liked it and consider it worth watching.

Paranormal Activity - Zzzzzz, huh? Sorry, but how did this make so much money in theatres? I was bored out of my mind during the entire movie, by the end I was hoping a demon would kill both of them so the movie would just end.

Blue Collar Comedy Tour: The Movie - A combination of skits and stand-up from Jeff Foxworthy, Bill Engvall, Larry the Cable Guy, and Ron White. Very funny.

Fritz the Cat - Almost no plot, obvious that it was just trying to push the limits to get a reaction. Unless you want to watch a bunch of cartoon animals smoking weed and having sex (although you never see the actual penetration), not worth watching. Maybe even a little racist in some parts.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on November 22, 2010, 11:27:28 AM
Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Prices - I am not trying to say Walmart is great, but this was nothing more than a propaganda video from people who are against Walmart (for example, they talk about how small stores can't compete and close down, but ignore the hundreds of new jobs each one brings). Pretty much the opposite of what a documentary is supposed to be (which is unbiased).

The documentary was definitely biased. That said, I think it's more agreeable than not. The kind of jobs that Wal-Mart brings in only put people (both employees and not) at the mercy of Wal-Mart. They don't pay well, they offer little in the way of benefits, and are notorious for outright abusing their employees. I personally don't shop at Wal-Mart, but I don't like the atmosphere. I can get better products for lower pricers (with better service) at smaller, more specialized stores. The traffic problems caused by people flocking to Wal-Mart is enough to turn me off though. ;)

Pee-Wee's Big Adventure - After 25 years, it is still a good family comedy. Pee-Wee sets out for the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas after his iconic bike is stolen. Pee-Wee even helps a escaped criminal evade the police (although since this is Pee-Wee Herman, the guy's crime was cutting off that "Do Not Tear" label from a mattress).

One of my favorite films of all time. I always liked Pee-Wee though, and this initial adventure showed a lot of promise for Time Burton as well... Too bad he has resigned himself to lame remakes. :\

1984 - Yeah, maybe the book was better because I thought the movie was crap and boring. Also, what is up with Julia's bush? Are women in that time just not allowed to shave at all down there? Geez, you almost need a map to navigate there.

It's been a looong time since I watched the film adaptation of 1984. I really only recall the Eurythmics' soundtrack being kind of an odd fit for it. If you haven't read the book, I'd greatly recommend it. It's more insightful now than it ever has been. You might also consider Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World".

Fritz the Cat - Almost no plot, obvious that it was just trying to push the limits to get a reaction. Unless you want to watch a bunch of cartoon animals smoking weed and having sex (although you never see the actual penetration), not worth watching. Maybe even a little racist in some parts.

I don't think that R. Crumb was even ever really happy with the Fritz films. They're good to watch once to better understand the underground comics of the time, but they're pretty niche beyond that. The animation itself still holds up fairly well though.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ejamer on November 22, 2010, 11:41:07 AM
Shortbus - This movie created a lot of controversy around here when it came out because of graphic sex scenes.  Maybe that controversy was just because it isn't all (or even mostly) about straight sex?
 
While sex is what thrusts the story forward, those scenes weren't as erotic as you might expect and probably aren't what most people are interested in watching.  Luckily, the graphic nature didn't outweigh what the movie is really about: relationships, desire, frustration, and disappointment...  Really surprised how well the movie turned out with lots of laughs and a few genuinely touching moments.
 
If you like indie flicks and aren't put off by mature content, then give it a watch.  (On the other hand: if you are thinking about watching this movie just for the sex scenes or as a cheap turn on, don't waste your time.)
 

Tokyo Gore Police - Wow, another movie that easily exceeded my expectations.  Tokyo Gore Police (TGP) revels in the odd and the obscene, but never loses it's sense of humor or irreverence.  The faux ads and propagana shorts spliced into the film are funny, the storyline just convoluted enough to meet the Z-grade standards I was hoping for, and the gore effects are solidly over-the-top.  Most people won't like this movie... but a certain twisted subset will love it.  You know who you are.
 
As a sidenote, this movie is infinitely better than The Machine Girl.  Now that was a disappointment!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on November 22, 2010, 01:08:46 PM
I don't think that R. Crumb was even ever really happy with the Fritz films.

You weren't kidding. I just looked it up and apparently Crumb disagreed so much with the people who made the first film that he ended the comic strip (and had nothing to do with the sequel).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on November 22, 2010, 05:04:07 PM
Shortbus - This movie created a lot of controversy around here when it came out because of graphic sex scenes.  Maybe that controversy was just because it isn't all (or even mostly) about straight sex?
 
While sex is what thrusts the story forward, those scenes weren't as erotic as you might expect and probably aren't what most people are interested in watching.  Luckily, the graphic nature didn't outweigh what the movie is really about: relationships, desire, frustration, and disappointment...  Really surprised how well the movie turned out with lots of laughs and a few genuinely touching moments.
 
If you like indie flicks and aren't put off by mature content, then give it a watch.  (On the other hand: if you are thinking about watching this movie just for the sex scenes or as a cheap turn on, don't waste your time.)

I'll agree. Shortbus was worth the watch. I was only initially interested in it due to Mitchell's previous work, Hedwig and the Angry Inch. I'll admit to loving that one, and rank it among the top of my list of musicals. :)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on November 22, 2010, 10:42:19 PM

1984 - Yeah, maybe the book was better because I thought the movie was crap and boring. Also, what is up with Julia's bush? Are women in that time just not allowed to shave at all down there? Geez, you almost need a map to navigate there.


The movie was made before the bush was considered a bad thing.

Harry Potter wow that was dark/10. I liked it. I wish i could see more of what goes on in Ron's Imagination.

Predators Finally, a good sequel to a great movie.

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: greybrick on November 23, 2010, 12:19:17 AM
Ustoppable: Self-righteous and annoyingly justified Denzel Washington on a train/10.

Gotta love the /10 meme.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on November 25, 2010, 09:21:47 PM
Just got back from seeing Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Pt. 1) as part of a family outing, and it was surprisingly good.  I can't stand most of the Harry Potter movies as they tend to suffer from bad pacing, questionable casting, and problems in the writing due to large sections being omitted from the books.  This movie, though, was surprisingly well-shot; well acted; well paced; and was generally very true to the spirit of the book (and the last book is probably my favorite of the 7).

Unfortunately, my experience watching the  movie also reinforced exactly why I do not see movies in theaters anymore.  The movie kicked off with trailers for several godawful-looking 3D movies (damn you, James Cameron, for reviving this nonsense), and I had to spend the entire movie with a lady and her 5-8 year old kids constantly talking the entire movie.  Seriously, those little brats never shut up, constantly asking questions.  And what the hell was that moron of a lady doing bringing these young children to a movie this violent?  And she probably saw this movie already, because she took them out of the theater before the sequence at Godric's Hollow, and she brought them back in afterwards.  People like her and her children are why I avoid the theaters and perhaps look forward to the day when they no longer exist.  Home video all the way.  At least I can watch my movies with as much peace or whatnot as I like in my own home without having to suffer from the wanton stupidity of some of these people who come to the movies.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on November 26, 2010, 01:08:25 AM
ugh, yeah people should rarely bring their kids to theaters, unless its a kids movie. They invented the BluRay/DVD/VHS/Beta for a reason...so you could watch stuff at home, and not only that..it is cheaper. You could pay 70 bucks to take your kids and their friends or whatever to a theater, or you could drop by a redbox or a rental store spend a dollar 4 months later and not bother people on dates/enjoying cinema.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on November 26, 2010, 06:25:27 PM
With my old PS3 out-of-commission (and the new one in the shop importing my original PS3's data, which is annoyingly more complicated than it should be), I'm trying to make an effort to catch up on my backlog of movies.  Well, I just finished my first one (if you're curious, the other 3 are Toy Story 3, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, and X-Men Origins: Wolverine.  And yes, I know the last one is supposed to be pretty bad), The Prince of Egypt, which came highly recommended by Doug Walker, the Nostalgia Critic.  Just as a disclaimer, I am not a religious person, having spent most of my time in Sunday school reading whatever book I brought in with me at the time, so I was only familiar with the basic outline of the Moses storyline.  That said, I thought this was a pretty decent movie with some amazing animation (especially the parting of the Red Sea.  Wow.).  The focus the movie puts on the relationship between Moses and Ramises serves the story very well and makes you really feel for the plight of even the villain.  However, the big reason I avoided these films when they originally appeared in theaters cropped up here: Dreamworks, if you can't hire talent to write and sing your songs on par with what Disney offers, you shouldn't make your movies musicals.  The songs in this movie are pretty uniformly terrible, and the singing is all over the place.  Ditto for the voice acting, which is excellent in some areas and pretty mediocre/terrible in others.  The writing can also be sickeningly preachy, but I guess that's to be expected from a movie based on a story from the Bible.  Recommended, but skip the songs.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on November 27, 2010, 05:36:02 PM
I loved the 'Let My People Go' song from Prince of Egypt. But yeah, some songs were pretty terrible. I was surprised how NC favored the animated one in that video. He tends to favor the older shows I've noticed.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on November 27, 2010, 05:58:34 PM
X-Men Origins: Wolverine - Not as bad as people have told me.  It's not great; has some terrible acting; a mediocre script; an especially mind-numbingly stupid ending; and laughably bad effects, but it's a decent popcorn action movie.

Toy Story 3 - Not as great as people have told me.  I'm not a huge fan of the first two Toy Story movies, but this one was pretty decent.  The problem is that after Incredibles; Wall-E; and Up, I've come to expect better than "decent" from Pixar.  There are some genuinely humorous moments (particularly Buzz's "Spanish mode"), but some humor gets way overused (like Ken's effeminate nature) and the middle 1/3 tends to drag (the movie feels like it's wrapping up 1/2 hour before it's over).  The movie does end well, though.  I hope that Pixar and Disney have the artistic integrity to let this be the final Toy Story movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on November 27, 2010, 09:42:56 PM
The problem is that after Incredibles; Wall-E; and Up, I've come to expect better than "decent" from Pixar.

Really? I haven't seen Up, but I thought that Wall-E and the Incredibles both suffered from the same issue: they sucked after the halfway point. Wall-E was awesome until he went onto the ship, then everything became very boring and predicable. More so, the ship's sterile interior and the cartoon-ish humans weren't nearly as impressive visually as the Earthen wasteland. The Incredibles on the other hand started out quite humorously, but eventually fell into the same superhero cliches that it was initially mocking. Both seemed like great foundations, but the execution felt phoned in.

I thought that Toy Story 3 was much more even throughout. It may not have had the charm of the first film, but its story was arguably better. I wasn't a big fan of the second film in the series though.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on November 28, 2010, 04:19:50 PM
a nightmare on elmstreet remake 7.2/10, Not as bad as Freddy's Dead or part 2, but not as good as others, it  gets 0.2 pts extra for some nice bits and pieces

House of the Devil 8/10 this movie was great, i love the retro styling. It has some pacing problems though.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on November 28, 2010, 05:23:41 PM
Avatar Surprisingly a whole lot better than I thought it would be(9)/10

I finally watched this and found the whole movie to be very enjoyable. Yeah, a there were a few plot holes and cliches and the plot was predictable but it was a fun ride and the visuals were great. I'm glad I watched it on my dad's HDTV because it's probably the best justice the visuals are gonna get without 3D.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on November 28, 2010, 06:46:53 PM
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time - yeah, it doesn't bear that much resemblance to the original game, but I still found this to be a fairly enjoyable film with some really inspired casting for Dastun and the princess (who had some pretty good chemistry).  True, the Dagger didn't get used all that much, but the movie made it pretty clear that the sand in the dagger was very limited.  There was enough parkour in the movie to satisfy me, and the action was pretty decent.  There were some strange additions to the movie like the illegal ostrich racing (I still don't understand why the writers threw that in), but I enjoyed the movie overall.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on November 28, 2010, 07:12:56 PM
My folks watched the PoP movie and then kept asking me "Is this in the game? Is that? Is there ostrich racing?"

They seemed to like it. I hated the ending. Just felt poorly thought out.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on November 28, 2010, 07:17:12 PM
My folks watched the PoP movie and then kept asking me "Is this in the game? Is that? Is there ostrich racing?"

They seemed to like it. I hated the ending. Just felt poorly thought out.

Eh, the ending was more or less the same as it was in the original game with one massive rewind, though I honestly expected they'd roll back even further to before those particular events.  I expected that ending and thought it was alright.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on November 29, 2010, 06:34:37 AM
I meant the final conflict/reveal of the enemy after the rewind

Course, that last fight in the game felt a bit anti-climactic for me as well. I was very glad that the movie followed the rewind like the game as that is the best part of the story for me.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on November 29, 2010, 10:04:25 AM
Saw VI - 6/10 - I had already seen the first 5 movies, so I figured I'd watch the last two. It amazes me that they continue to make these movies, but the surprising part is how they kind of make sense in how they work out.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on November 29, 2010, 11:19:45 AM
Batman: The Movie - It boils down to this: if you liked the campy 1960s show you will like this movie, if you didn't then you will not like this since it is basically just a extra long episode. I thought it was OK, but I can't get into the campy stuff of the 60s show (like the shark biting on Batman's leg for almost a full minute and having no damage, the corny puns, etc.).

Batman - Does not age well, and Prince does not seem like a good fit (especially during the art scene). I also wish Burton hadn't decided to make Joker be the guy who killed Batman's parents (the comics always had it be some random thug named Joe Chiller).

Batman Returns - Better, but I am not a big fan of Tim Burton's Batman movies.

Batman Forever - I really like the movie, especially Jim Carey as The Riddler. Val Kilmer is OK as Bruce Wayne/Batman, but not the worst (IMO, that would be Christian Bale).

Batman & Robin - The nipples on the suits didn't bother me. I was puzzled by the decision to make Barbara be Alfred's niece rather than Commissioner Gordon's daughter. Arnold as Mr. Freeze was a little odd, and I wish Bane had a bigger role considering that in the comics he became famous for breaking Batman's back and putting him out of commission for a long time.

Batman & Mr. Freeze: Sub-Zero - OK movie. The story was a little boring.

Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman - Overall I like it, not much else to say.

Batman: Mask of the Phantasm - Good movie, I was surprised a little at who the Phantasm was when I first saw the movie.

Superman: Doomsday - Good movie, but the defeat of Doomsday was anti-climatic as we never got to see what happened to him after Superman slammed him into the ground.

Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog - I am counting this as a movie. I love it and thought Neil Patrick Haris was great and he really gets you to like him and root for him against Captain Hammer.

Cool World - I enjoyed it, but it does not have the same charm as Who Framed Roger Rabbit (which also blended live action and cartoons and had a similar time period). Also, kind of disappointing that when Holly Would became human her breasts became a lot smaller (she looked like a E cup as a cartoon, but Kim Basinger is like a B or C up).

Orgazmo - Based on the plot, you would expect more raunchy stuff. There is almost no nudity: no male or female genitals, no bare female butts, and total nude female breasts is like 1 second (one of the female porn stars takes off her top but the view is quickly blocked). The only nudity really are male buts (which was obviously on purpose). The actual movie was not that bad.

Maxed Out - A documentary about the rising debt of Americans and how devastating it can be (two of the people interviewed talked about how their college-age kids committed suicide after racking up thousands of dollars in cred card bills and having no way to pay them back). Good and well worth watching, even if the actual info is a little dated since it was released in 2005.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: MaryJane on November 29, 2010, 01:24:03 PM
@Morari

Let me start by saying that I hated Toy Story 3, and you can see the reason for that in my question to you:

How do you say that the story was better in 3 than 1 when they are basically the same story: The toys get taken away from owner, Woody and Buzz rally them together and bring them back. Was it better because Buzz's identity crisis was better in part 3? Or was it because this time when they had to reset him he turned Spanish instead of into an asshole?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: MaryJane on November 30, 2010, 05:24:10 PM
Six Degrees of Separation: 9.5/10
Great movie about self-examination inside the pretense of opening your eyes to the world.
Would have gotten a 10/10 but I hated the part where the parents were talking to the kids. I know what they what they were trying to show, but it was overdone and under-acted.

China 9, Liberty 37: 6.8/10
Typical western; lots of gunfights and a quick flame romance. But, it was interesting because it was a little difficult in the begining to see which choices the main male character would make. I found the title interesting (and to my knowledge it was never explained in the movie) and I also found it interesting that both the lead male and female had heavy eastern-European accents in a western flick.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on November 30, 2010, 07:34:45 PM
The Departed Facepalm/1 :Q

Having seen the original (Infernal Affairs), I have no idea why the hell this movie got an Oscar. Was Scorsese "due" for an award or something? Hell why was this made? Americans can't read subtitles or something?

The cast is good except for casting both Marky Mark and Matt Damon in the same movie, because they confuse the hell out of me. Mark puts out a good performance, but Matt, seriously, no. Otherwise good work all round from the actors given it's all star nature and terrible script.

Scorsese's directorship was questionable at best. There are a number of what is effectively shot for shot remake of the original which isn't the problem. It's more to do with the narrative and characters themselves. Maybe Scorsese had no control over this, but I do not understand why he feel it was necessary to "Up the Ante" by adding subplots, a higher body count, wanton violence and changing the crime from dealing drugs to a nation security matter. All these additions turn the narrative into a train wreak. There's no subtlety especially when it comes to whole communications subplot. The ending is mind blowingly abrupt. The character, while acted well by everyone except for Matt, just doesn't have any of the depth they are suppose to have. Gone are the shades of grey, everything is a simplified American Black and White world moral understanding with it's equally antiqued cowboy justice.

While I did not expect them to transferre the Eastern themes from the original, there are no real themes at all. Just events. There is no moral conflict about ones fate or identity, just people killing each other. The character motivation for their actions draw heavily from these themes. It was never about money or fame.

Pacing is shot to hell. Geography and time feels all over the place.

While this movie is profitable, it's an artistic failure. Scorsese failed with a $90 Million dollar budget and a all star cast at 151 minutes. A HK production, at a tiny fraction of the budget, at an hour and a half, set a new high water mark for crime thrillers. I won't review Infernal affairs other than say watch it. But  if I was to score it on this scale, it would have gotten 15/10.

I wish I could unwatch this mess.

**** off Hollywood, **** the hell off.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on November 30, 2010, 09:59:18 PM
i liked departed better than infernal affairs, they were both good....hmm i wrote like a review on imdb comparing the pros and cons in both movies. However, damnit it was a couple of years ago and imdb stuff disappears after a couple of years. Of course Infernal Affairs is the original material, but i feel like something is missing. Best advice, don't watch the other before the other. I liked both movies, but any harsh criticism is just harsh. Its not like it is Gus Van Zant's Psycho remake which deserves all the harshness it can get. I liked a lot of the stuff Scrosese added. He changed a lot of things to make it fit in the different setting. It would also help to know about "Whitey" Bulger which Scorsese based the Irish mob boss off of.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitey_Bulger
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on December 01, 2010, 03:36:12 AM
The Crow - Yet another movie I've been meaning to see for ages, and now that I've seen it I wish I hadn't waited so long because the movie just could not live up to my built-up expectations.  For one thing, this movie hasn't aged well.  It was made in 1994, and the movie looks like it was shot 10 years prior to even that.  The special effects only kind of work, the footage is so dark and muddy it can sometimes be hard to make out certain scenes, and the acting vacillates between being fairly earnest (usually scenes with Eric) and being extremely 1980s-style corny (usually scenes with the villains).  The movie's storytelling is serviceable (if filled with plot holes), though it seems to take ages for the movie to get through the few narrative beats it hits.  There are a few attempts to play off some Noir style, but they just felt flat to me.  Honestly, this feels like a movie that probably should get a remake, because while there are some good ideas in here and the atmosphere can sometimes be excellent, the movie as a whole just didn't come together very well for me.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ejamer on December 01, 2010, 02:40:41 PM
i liked departed better than infernal affairs, they were both good....


Have to disagree.  Infernal Affairs was quite a bit better than The Departed and is the better choice for anyone who doesn't mind subtitles.  The remake added chaff and rewrote scenes to appeal to a certain target market, but did nothing to actually improve the movie.  Sometimes bigger budgets and famous actors actually detract from the final effect.


That said, Infernal Affairs had some issues too... a movie worth watching, but not perfect by any means.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on December 01, 2010, 05:53:16 PM
The Crow - Yet another movie I've been meaning to see for ages, and now that I've seen it I wish I hadn't waited so long because the movie just could not live up to my built-up expectations.  For one thing, this movie hasn't aged well.  It was made in 1994, and the movie looks like it was shot 10 years prior to even that.  The special effects only kind of work, the footage is so dark and muddy it can sometimes be hard to make out certain scenes, and the acting vacillates between being fairly earnest (usually scenes with Eric) and being extremely 1980s-style corny (usually scenes with the villains).  The movie's storytelling is serviceable (if filled with plot holes), though it seems to take ages for the movie to get through the few narrative beats it hits.  There are a few attempts to play off some Noir style, but they just felt flat to me.  Honestly, this feels like a movie that probably should get a remake, because while there are some good ideas in here and the atmosphere can sometimes be excellent, the movie as a whole just didn't come together very well for me.

It certainly does not need a remake. Period.

It's a fine film for what it is. If anything, Eric's encounters with the various thugs should have been extended a made a little more individually memorable.

The second film, City of Angels, might appeal to you more. It's a good film in its own right, but it did try a lot harder to be mainstream. It's only big downfall is a boring villain (of course, Iggy Pop almost makes up for it). Just stay away from any of the other films... sadly, both Salvation and Wicked Prayer were terrible films. The television series, Stairway to Heaven, is worth watching if you're a fan of the comics or the films.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on December 06, 2010, 10:35:19 AM
Wall Street - Other than the outdated tech (like those brick cell phones), this still holds up today. Makes me somewhat interested in the sequel. Very good movie.

The Batman vs. Dracula - This was the only Batman movie I haven't seen before. It's good, although I wasn't a big fan of The Batman show (mainly some of the villian character designs, like Joker having a Rastafarian haircut).

Roger & Me - One of Michael Moore's earlier documentaries (released in 1989), Moore tries to get into contact with then-chairman of General Motors Roger Smith and why GM was firing tens of thousands of workers in Flint, Michigan (Moore's hometown) despite record profits.

Showgirls - One of the most famous bombs of all time, but also the highest grossing NC-17 movie ever (which may be why it bombed, even with an adult kids can't get into NC-17 movies). Not a great movie, but passable.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ejamer on December 06, 2010, 03:11:08 PM
Showgirls - One of the most famous bombs of all time, but also the highest grossing NC-17 movie ever (which may be why it bombed, even with an adult kids can't get into NC-17 movies). Not a great movie, but passable.


I still don't "get" this movie.  It's bad but never quite bad enough to draw me in.  When a movie leaves you bored with watching topless women, you know something is wrong.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: MaryJane on December 06, 2010, 07:08:52 PM
Les Miserables: 8.5/10
Story of redemption, forgiveness, and benevolence set in pre-revolutionary France. All the characters are great, and the acting is superb, really giving off a sense of time and familiarity. There were a couple of scenes I could have done without, but overall a great movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: k.anderson3454 on December 06, 2010, 07:32:00 PM
Harry Potter 7 part 1 :) The movie was great. although some parts may be dragging.I was really emotional watching the movie.:)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Shorty McNostril on December 08, 2010, 06:14:07 AM
Killers: 7/10.

Not a bad evenings viewing. A few laughs throughout. And the first time I have seen Mr Seleck in action.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on December 08, 2010, 07:02:20 AM
Inception          I have to watch this again/10

i went to the cheapie 2 dollar movies to watch it while it was still in theaters the other day. Don't bring a date to watch it. I finally got to see a movie i'v been wanting to watch all year, except my date kept me pre-occupied.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on December 08, 2010, 12:35:54 PM
Inception          I have to watch this again/10

i went to the cheapie 2 dollar movies to watch it while it was still in theaters the other day. Don't bring a date to watch it. I finally got to see a movie i'v been wanting to watch all year, except my date kept me pre-occupied.

You still messin with Palmela Handerson? She can be so touchy feely sometimes, can't stop putting her hand all over everything. ;)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on December 08, 2010, 07:14:10 PM
LOL

That's hilarious
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on December 08, 2010, 08:22:58 PM
even i laughed at that one

thanks to Dasmos, I'll always associate Inception with xzibit

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/forums/index.php?topic=28364.msg626651#msg626651
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on December 08, 2010, 10:43:25 PM
.. I can't believe I haven't been in this thread since page 68...

I have watched countless movies and can't begin to rate, or remember them all.. (thanks netflix) so here goes a few standout ones;


Scott Pilgrim vs the World (3rd time watching now that i own the dvd): 10/10

The 13th Floor: 5/10 but to be fair, i didn't pay attention

127 Hours: 10/10 (plus you can't beat $6 movie nights!) Go see it, it's awesome even if you know how its gonna end.

Sin City: 10/10 much better than I remember

Mafia! 4/10 much worse than i remember

The 41 Year-old Virgin Who Knocked Up Sarah Marshall & Felt Superbad About it: 2/10 utter garbage, I can't even remember any of it but god was it low grade and just.. bad. However, I did discover Sancho (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQciqODSd-s) & Pancho's (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onnMVtgYljY&feature=related) awesome music because of it, so it was worth a mention.

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Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: NWR_insanolord on December 08, 2010, 10:55:31 PM
Get Him to the Greek: 8/10

I think I put this on my Netflix queue because of this thread, and I'm glad I did. Not as laugh-out-loud funny as I expected, but I wasn't really disappointed by that because it made up for it in other ways.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on December 08, 2010, 11:10:23 PM
I'm still meaning to check out the bonus features on the dvd (yes, I bought the dvd) as I did enjoy the movie very much. I've seen it a few times since the purchase, and I still find it funny.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: MaryJane on December 09, 2010, 10:25:30 AM
Cadillac Records: 8/10
Very good movie about music and race. All the actors are on point, and Beyonce is ridiculously hot as always. Also very informative, as I knew that the Beach Boys stole music from Chuck Berry, but I had no idea that Led Zeppelin (one of my favorite classic rock bands) stole music from famed writer Willie Dixon.

Raging Bull: 7.8/10
Good movie about boxer Jake Lamotta, but for me, they didn't spend enough time on the boxing, and too much showing his character, especially since they did it through the matches as well.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on December 09, 2010, 10:16:37 PM
I finished watching all of the original Star Trek movies. And, yeah, 5 was terrible. It's funny to read some of the reviews on Netflix regarding the film as some folks actually try and defend it. "Star Trek explores the human condition and religion and deity is part of that". But there was very little of that in the movie. There was only a line or two that covered those thoughts at all in close to a meaningful way and the 'deity' turns out to just be a trapped being posing as god.

The plot holes were laughable and I actually yelled "Explain, movie! Explain!" once because things were just happening for no logical reason. T

As for ranking them all; 6, 4, 2, 3 with 1 & 5 tied for last.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: NWR_insanolord on December 09, 2010, 10:25:37 PM
There are a couple good parts in that movie, but by and large it is terrible. I only bought the DVD to have the complete set; I doubt I'll ever watch it again.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Caliban on December 09, 2010, 10:41:11 PM
Enter the Dragon. I didn't like it as much as Way of the Dragon, so it's 8.5/10. I was actually expecting a bit more action, but oh well.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on December 10, 2010, 02:40:36 AM
The Rage in Placid Lake
A friend of mine that I met on a Nintendo message board some 9 years ago and kept in touch with through Gmail and Facebook recommended this movie to me roughly 5 years ago. I'm glad I remembered. It's good, Rose Byrne is hot, and Ben Lee (known in the US for his mildly successful single "Catch My Disease" which you may have heard on Scrubs) is surprisingly not a bad actor. This is his only acting role. I'd like to thank Netflix for making this possible as I couldn't find this movie anywhere without just buying the DVD online.

The ending is a bit rushed and is pretty obvious right off the bat. That's probably my only real complaint.

Little Sweethearts
I found it browsing Netflix. It's based off some obscure, out of print British novel published in 1972. The film came out in 1989 and stars John Hurt. Besides Hurt, there's questionable acting all around. I'll probably only remember this movie for this one very not-okay shot of one of the young female actors. File it under: once you see it, you can't un-see it. In the scene, the 2 girls steal some money. The one girl lifts her dress and shows the other girl the envelope tucked in her underwear. That scene would never fly in 2010 and I'm surprised it was okay even 21 years ago. The movie itself isn't terribly good, outside of Hurt's performance which isn't fantastic by any means. In fact, it's flat-out boring sometimes and you'll probably want to punch Thelma (main character, one of the 2 girls) in the face within the first 5 minutes of the movie. I suppose that's the point since she is supposed to be evil...
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on December 10, 2010, 08:32:49 AM
Well ST5 did give us that excellent Kirk/Shatner moment "What does god need with a starship?". That alone ranks it above the sleeping pills in movie form that is Star Trek the Motion Picture, but that's a race to the bottom.

I am surprised that you ranked Voyage Home over Warth of Khan. I can see why you like Undiscovered better than Khan. WoK with Spock's death scene always gets my eyes wet. It's a truly beautiful near perfect scene only weakened by flimsy set/porps.

You moving on to the Next Gen movies Stratos? or is it some where you have gone before?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on December 10, 2010, 09:45:09 AM
Definitely continue on with TNG films. First Contact is one of my favorites, even if Generations is fairly boring. Still nothing can be as lame as J.J. Abrams interpretation. :\
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Sundoulos on December 10, 2010, 10:18:25 AM
I kind of have a soft spot for Generations...I'll agree that it's almost like a glorified episode of ST:TNG, though.  First Contact is the most entertaining, but the TNG movies go downhill quickly after that.

On another note, I watched Scott Pilgrim for the first time last night.  Kind of funny, but also surprisingly 'meh' for me.  I enjoyed the references, but it definitely isn't something that I think I'll feel compelled to watch again.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on December 10, 2010, 01:48:20 PM
Scott Pilgrim - 9.75/10

I've never read the comic book but this is movie was literally like a slapstick comic come to life that slowly turned into a video game.
Some many moments where I LOL'd  and had to say outloud "OMG this is so stupid!! HAHAHAHAHA". M. Cera was excellent in this movie, he fit the comical ADD nature of a comic character so perfectly and most of the action was great George Michael & Ann back together again ;D. There was also some nice VG references and hearing Saria's Song? was a nice touch too.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on December 10, 2010, 03:56:37 PM
oh yeah forgot to rate scott pilgrim 9/10!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: KisakiProject on December 10, 2010, 04:57:43 PM
I just saw Tommy Wiseau's THE ROOM.  Who else has seen this cinematic masterpiece?  The "citizen cane" of bad movies.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on December 10, 2010, 06:07:09 PM
that "movie" was so bad that I shot my TV screen with a shotgun.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on December 10, 2010, 06:16:41 PM
I just saw Tommy Wiseau's THE ROOM.  Who else has seen this cinematic masterpiece?  The "citizen cane" of bad movies.

I've only seen the movie as shown (http://www.blip.tv/file/3878344) by the Nostalgia Critic, and that's just about all I care to see.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Caliban on December 10, 2010, 06:38:20 PM
Hot Fuzz. Damn was I surprised by how good it is. 9.5/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on December 11, 2010, 07:49:29 AM
Well ST5 did give us that excellent Kirk/Shatner moment "What does god need with a starship?". That alone ranks it above the sleeping pills in movie form that is Star Trek the Motion Picture, but that's a race to the bottom.

I am surprised that you ranked Voyage Home over Warth of Khan. I can see why you like Undiscovered better than Khan. WoK with Spock's death scene always gets my eyes wet. It's a truly beautiful near perfect scene only weakened by flimsy set/porps.

You moving on to the Next Gen movies Stratos? or is it some where you have gone before?

Suppose you are right that 5 is better than 1. At least 5 is a complete film even if it is a bad one. The original was so dull I almost stopped my Trek marathon all together. It probably also didn't help that I watched 2-4 before that thanks to the way Netflix released them to streaming. The first I watched was 4 because it was the first and only one I could find for streaming. I then discovered the others we on. Since I knew 2-4 were a trilogy I then watched 2 & 3. Then I went on to watch number 1 and 5. So I watched most of the good ones before the worst ones. Really accentuated the suck. Nice to close it out with 6.

I probably will watch the new ones too for completions sake. Plus I think there might be one in there I missed. I think all of them are available on Netflix streaming and I will close the whole thing out by watching the new Star Trek movie for the first time. Though reading some of the film info on Wikipedia it sounds like there was almost one more original cast movie but the poorness of 5 pretty much shot the chances of that. Pity because I always preferred the original cast over the newer ones.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on December 11, 2010, 10:11:41 AM
I'm fond of TNG's crew, personally. I did just get the remastered original series not too long ago however. All redone with new effects, backdrops, ships, etc. It's pretty impressive, actually. Some of the new CGI shots of the ships' exteriors is no match for the realness of models, but it doesn't ruin it by any means. I'm just glad they didn't **** it up like George Lucas would have. :P
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on December 11, 2010, 06:30:03 PM
The Expendables
Disappointed. I expected more mayhem. There was a whole lot of boring throughout. Randy Couture is pretty f-ing awful.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on December 11, 2010, 06:36:56 PM
@morari, yeah Lucas would have turned all the Klingons into Klingons
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on December 11, 2010, 06:55:06 PM
The Expendables
Disappointed. I expected more mayhem. There was a whole lot of boring throughout. Randy Couture is pretty f-ing awful.

Go watch Machete. It's everything that Sly tried to make, sans the disappointment and aweful editing.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on December 11, 2010, 09:29:32 PM
I thought Expendables was alright, but way too many quick cuts during ALL the fight scenes. Even during the Jet Li ones where we know he shouldn't need quick cuts to mask a lack of fighting skills. But I'm not trying to defend that movie.

I'm eagerly anticipating Machete though.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on December 12, 2010, 11:22:17 PM
I watched The Sorcerer's Apprentice today, and I actually found it to be a pretty entertaining movie.  Nicholas Cage was pretty fun to watch as usual (and he was obviously having fun with the role), the special effects were pretty decent, and the story was...not terrible.  My big problem with the movie was actually the main character, who I constantly wanted to throttle the entire movie (it didn't help that his voice was incredibly obnoxious, and he wasn't a particularly decent actor).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on December 13, 2010, 04:37:27 AM
Yeah, that actor nearly killed the movie for me. And the fake death of Cage at the end of the film was too predictable. Other than that it was alright.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on December 13, 2010, 11:24:52 AM
I finished watching all of the original Star Trek movies. And, yeah, 5 was terrible. It's funny to read some of the reviews on Netflix regarding the film as some folks actually try and defend it. "Star Trek explores the human condition and religion and deity is part of that". But there was very little of that in the movie. There was only a line or two that covered those thoughts at all in close to a meaningful way and the 'deity' turns out to just be a trapped being posing as god.

The plot holes were laughable and I actually yelled "Explain, movie! Explain!" once because things were just happening for no logical reason. T

As for ranking them all; 6, 4, 2, 3 with 1 & 5 tied for last.

There is a reason why V is unofficially non-canon by Paramount (they have made multiple episodes that contradict stuff in the movie, which is on purpose because they are always careful not to retcon stuff). I hate it. The only Trek movie I haven't seen is the first, the TOS movies are better than than the TOS episodes.

I watched Get Him to the Greek. I was pissed that the disc Netflix has won't let you watch any of the extras though (if you click on the extras, you get a message saying you have to buy the movie to get access to them), I have never seen this on any other rental disc from Netflix. As for the movie, I loved it and don't get the hate on it from Netflix reviewers. Russell Brand was great and it was nice to see Colm Meaney after Star Trek. I thought Jonah Hill was lackluster though. Diddy really surprised me at how good he was, especially in the scene where he went nuts in that Vegas strip club.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on December 13, 2010, 07:45:52 PM
I thought Expendables was alright, but way too many quick cuts during ALL the fight scenes. Even during the Jet Li ones where we know he shouldn't need quick cuts to mask a lack of fighting skills. But I'm not trying to defend that movie.

I'm eagerly anticipating Machete though.

You will NOT be disappointed.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on December 13, 2010, 07:57:56 PM
I thought Expendables was alright, but way too many quick cuts during ALL the fight scenes. Even during the Jet Li ones where we know he shouldn't need quick cuts to mask a lack of fighting skills. But I'm not trying to defend that movie.

I'm eagerly anticipating Machete though.

You will NOT be disappointed.

Machete will return in "Machete Kills" and "Machete Kills Again"
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ejamer on December 14, 2010, 09:42:26 AM
King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters


This documentary got a lot of press from gaming sites, for obvious reasons.  It was really well done, and enjoyable to watch... but somehow didn't live up to the hype that had been built up.  I guess that I was hoping for something more from the "villian" of the picture, Billy Mitchell.  Additionally there are some points where the documentary seems to take sides or push an agenda.  That's not a bad thing though, and makes the film more watchable.  What I enjoyed most about the film is seeing the interesting relationships and quirky personalities - or at least as much as the editing allows you to see.  Even the bit parts in this real-life drama are played by characters that (at times) seem bigger than life.


I'd definitely recommend this movie to anyone interested in classic games, gaming personalities, or even the natural drive people have to accomplish something... to be recognized as the "best".
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on December 15, 2010, 12:49:17 AM
I thought Expendables was alright, but way too many quick cuts during ALL the fight scenes. Even during the Jet Li ones where we know he shouldn't need quick cuts to mask a lack of fighting skills. But I'm not trying to defend that movie.

I'm eagerly anticipating Machete though.

You will NOT be disappointed.

Machete will return in "Machete Kills" and "Machete Kills Again"

And SPY KIDS 3D-2
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on December 15, 2010, 11:45:17 AM
I have seen the movies many times before, but I just picked up the Back to the Future 25th Anniversary Collection. It features all three films re-mastered (nothing added or removed, they just went back to the masters and improved the visual quality), along with tons of extras. Some of them are from the original DVD release, others are new and created specifically for this release. The collection also features digital copies of each movie so you can watch it on the go with your iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad, etc. I love all three movies, although I will admit that the first one is best. One of the facts that I didn't know before watching the extras, Sid Sheinberg (the head of Universal Studios at the time) wanted to call the movie "Spaceman from Pluto" and it took Steven Spielberg to convince him not to do it since everyone else liked the name "Back to the Future".
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on December 15, 2010, 11:49:18 AM
I have seen the movies many times before, but I just picked up the Back to the Future 25th Anniversary Collection. It features all three films re-mastered (nothing added or removed, they just went back to the masters and improved the visual quality), along with tons of extras. Some of them are from the original DVD release, others are new and created specifically for this release. The collection also features digital copies of each movie so you can watch it on the go with your iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad, etc. I love all three movies, although I will admit that the first one is best. One of the facts that I didn't know before watching the extras, Sid Sheinberg (the head of Universal Studios at the time) wanted to call the movie "Spaceman from Pluto" and it took Steven Spielberg to convince him not to do it since everyone else liked the name "Back to the Future".

Yeah, I picked up that Blu-Ray a while back, but have only had the chance to watch the original Back to the Future from it (once I removed all the useless Digital Copy discs and threw them in the trash so the movie discs fit nicely in their holders and were easy to get out).  The remastering is very well done on the first movie at least, with only a couple of shots (like when Marty's hand starts to vanish late in the movie) that betray how old the movie is.  Take those away, and that movie looks like it could have been shot this year.  Very well-done.  Lousy packaging, though.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on December 15, 2010, 11:55:39 AM
I have the DVD version and not the Blu-ray Disc version, but the DVD box is just fine. The digital discs are not in the way and I personally like the package. I don't know what the Blu-ray package looks like though. When I pick up my new computer in a few days, I plan to transfer all three digital copies so I can watch them on my iPod Touch.

Have you had a chance to watch any of the extras on that first disc? I thought the Making Of interviews were nicely done and pretty lengthy, and it was interesting to hear what a egomaniac Crispin Glover was (he didn't appear in the sequels because he basically wanted more stuff than even Michael J. Fox was getting).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Caliban on December 15, 2010, 12:00:16 PM
Rambo.
An awesome action movie.

9.5/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on December 15, 2010, 12:02:32 PM
I have the DVD version and not the Blu-ray Disc version, but the DVD box is just fine. The digital discs are not in the way and I personally like the package. I don't know what the Blu-ray package looks like though. When I pick up my new computer in a few days, I plan to transfer all three digital copies so I can watch them on my iPod Touch.

Have you had a chance to watch any of the extras on that first disc? I thought the Making Of interviews were nicely done and pretty lengthy, and it was interesting to hear what a egomaniac Crispin Glover was (he didn't appear in the sequels because he basically wanted more stuff than even Michael J. Fox was getting).

Haven't really had a chance to dive into the special features (I'm constantly buried by a mountain of podcasts and games I'm playing where I want to hear the audio), though I did watch part of the first documentary on the first movie and liked it.  As for the packaging on the Blu-Ray package, it's a 3-page digipack holding 2 discs per page.  The discs, though, are held in the package by this weird plastic spring system instead of normal plastic trays with hubs keeping the disc in.  It makes the discs "float" in the package, which in actuallity means when I opened the digipack for the first time 2 of my Blu-Rays (BttF 1 and 3) fell right out of the packaging.  It's a good thing Blu-Ray Discs don't scratch easily.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on December 15, 2010, 12:31:58 PM
House (1977)

What a weird lil Japanese Horror flick. The special effects are so bad it makes it kinda funny to watch, but it mostly seems like a live action anime. Japanese School Girls, Old house, ghost story, crazy (for the time) special effects and a creepy white cat.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on December 15, 2010, 04:32:15 PM
Yeah, I picked up that Blu-Ray a while back, but have only had the chance to watch the original Back to the Future from it (once I removed all the useless Digital Copy discs and threw them in the trash so the movie discs fit nicely in their holders and were easy to get out). 

I'd have sold them online or given them away instead of throwing them out.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on December 15, 2010, 05:08:36 PM
Yeah, I picked up that Blu-Ray a while back, but have only had the chance to watch the original Back to the Future from it (once I removed all the useless Digital Copy discs and threw them in the trash so the movie discs fit nicely in their holders and were easy to get out). 

I'd have sold them online or given them away instead of throwing them out.

I tried to give the discs away first, but no one wanted them.  Honestly, I wish companies would stop putting the things in my disc-based sets.  They're just an added cost for me and take up a spot on the packaging I also doubtlessly have to pay for...all for a feature I never have a use for and wasn't the reason I purchased the disc.  If I wanted to own a digital copy of my movies, I'd purchase the digital copies.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on December 16, 2010, 02:14:46 AM
Scrooged: 10/10

Bill Murray - phenomenal as always

Danny Elfman's score - epic as always

This is one of the few movies from the 80's that I saw a ton as a kid and can enjoy much MUCH more as an adult.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on December 16, 2010, 12:19:58 PM
If I wanted to own a digital copy of my movies, I'd purchase the digital copies.

But the point here is that you still have the physical discs, but you also have the option of having digital copies.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on December 16, 2010, 12:33:05 PM
If I wanted to own a digital copy of my movies, I'd purchase the digital copies.

But the point here is that you still have the physical discs, but you also have the option of having digital copies.

Which is fine and all, but like I said it forces me to pay for something I'm not going to use, and (at least in the case of Back to the Future's set) it hampers/jeopardizes the useability of the more important contents in the set because there is one more piece of added fluff within to account for.  At least if they're going to do digital copies, have them be internet links with one-use passwords where you download the film and be done with it.  I've seen sets that do this already.  I don't want to have to pay for the manufacture of (to me) a useless disc that the rest of the set also has to be designed around.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on December 16, 2010, 03:33:38 PM
how much does the price of a bluray without a digital copy cost compared to one with one? If they are the same then its a lame argument not to include one. Remember Bluray will be obsolete faster then DVD was, so plan ahead.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on December 16, 2010, 06:56:30 PM
At least if they're going to do digital copies, have them be internet links with one-use passwords where you download the film and be done with it.

Or, you know, let people have control over their own media. Then you could just rip the film to whatever format you wanted and be done with it. ;)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: NWR_insanolord on December 16, 2010, 09:30:53 PM
At least if they're going to do digital copies, have them be internet links with one-use passwords where you download the film and be done with it.

Or, you know, let people have control over their own media. Then you could just rip the film to whatever format you wanted and be done with it. ;)

That's the thing, even if I'm given a Digital Copy with a movie I won't use it, and will instead rip my own file from the disc if I want it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on December 17, 2010, 04:34:45 AM
I love that a lot of Blu-Rays these days include:

1) The Blu-Ray
2) The DVD
3) A digital copy

I can understand (3), because frankly I like having lots of movies on my iPod. However, if you buy the Blu-Ray version of a movie, YOU DON'T NEED THE DVD. It's like buying the DVD and they throw in the VHS which you'll never watch BECAUSE YOU HAVE A DVD PLAYER.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: NWR_insanolord on December 17, 2010, 12:54:39 PM
There are definitely times when I'd use the DVD even if I had the Blu-ray. I only have one Blu-ray player, so if I wanted to watch the movie in another room I could do so without moving my PS3. It would also be handy if I wanted to take the movie to go watch at a friend's house who didn't have a Blu-ray player. It's not enough for me to buy both, but it's nice if they're throwing it in for free.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on December 17, 2010, 01:02:53 PM
I love that a lot of Blu-Rays these days include:

1) The Blu-Ray
2) The DVD
3) A digital copy

I can understand (3), because frankly I like having lots of movies on my iPod. However, if you buy the Blu-Ray version of a movie, YOU DON'T NEED THE DVD. It's like buying the DVD and they throw in the VHS which you'll never watch BECAUSE YOU HAVE A DVD PLAYER.

I don't mind companies throwing the DVD copy in there, because it encourages people who don't own a Blu-Ray player to buy the Blu-Ray version.  More people buying the Blu-Ray version = more Blu-Ray releases for me, so it's an acceptable compromise from my perspective.  People who want primarily a digital copy won't buy the Blu-Ray version for it, though.  They'll just pirate the movie, or purchase it off one of the many digital video stores like PSN or whatnot.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on December 17, 2010, 01:52:12 PM
DVD copy is for those that own mostly DVD players (everyone has like 3-4 in their house whether they realize it or not) but want to grow a Bluray collection for when they eventually upgrade. Or like Brood said, only have 1 BRD player at the moment.

Digital copies are to combat piracy by making it easy to just put a copy on another device. They must figure it's just a cheap to give it away in the package instead of people just downloading the whole thing for free online. It's an added value that I don't believe they are charging you any extra for in comparison to a standalone Bluray version.

But I still find the normal price of Blurays to be too expensive regardless of the extra perceived value of the included DVD and digital copy.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on December 17, 2010, 05:45:52 PM
hey theres a movie out called House of the Devil, theres a special edition that comes with a VHS, which is sweet because the movie is made in a retro style.

http://www.amazon.com/House-Devil-VHS-DVD-Bundle/dp/B003360JKY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1292625971&sr=8-1
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on December 17, 2010, 05:55:26 PM
The combo packs help sell Blu-ray copies to people who may not have a BD player yet but plan to eventually (and don't want to re-buy the title). They can also be for families where the BD copy can be for the parents and the DVD copy can be given to the kids for there room, etc.

I have not bought that many BD titles because of their cost. Why should I, for example, pay $50 for the BD version of The Simpsons season 13 when I can get the DVD version for $40?

More movies i've watched:

Josie and the Pussycats: Darker than the comics (so i'm told, i've never read them). Basically a dark look at the commercialism of the music industry and how music acts are basically created by corporations and they decide who is big.

Knucklehead: Pretty good family comedy. Stars WWE wrestler The Big Show who becomes a MMA fighter to help save the orphanage he lives at. The movie also has the great line of "Nun Up!" (instead of "Man Up").
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Shorty McNostril on December 17, 2010, 07:52:32 PM
If you want to be a bit cheeky, you can sell the Disc that you don't use, and get a better deal on yours.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on December 17, 2010, 08:17:02 PM
thoeretically you may visit a relatives house and not want to bring your bluray player, but then have a dvd to watch it on their player. I still don't have a bluray player.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on December 17, 2010, 08:31:01 PM
The only reason I have one is because of my PS3. Well, technically I have two now since my new laptop has a Blu-ray Disc drive.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on December 18, 2010, 01:02:36 AM
Finally got around to seeing Inception via a Blu-Ray loaned to me by a co-worker, and in general I liked it but I can't really say that I "loved" it like most people seem to.  It's good, but nowhere near as great as the hype led me to be believed.  It's a very carefully crafted movie, but strangely enough (considering my main criticism of the arthouse movie is that there's usually too much time spent on the mundane and not enough forward momentum) I thought that the action in the movie really felt forced and got in the way of the story.  It tended to make the worlds that were being created feel fairly random, and I don't think that the writers did enough to play with the idea of being inside a dream.  Plus, the way the movie ends on a rather blatant bit of sequel baiting felt pretty tacky to me.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on December 18, 2010, 02:03:39 AM
The entire last hour was about having a dream within a dream. Hell, the entire movie starts from that. The action and story was one and the same. Full of show, not tell. The dream worlds are meant to feel a little contrived and clean as they are constructed, artificial, not too disimilar to a level in a videogame.

There are no writers, just the one, Nolan.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on December 18, 2010, 10:41:43 AM
The entire last hour was about having a dream within a dream. Hell, the entire movie starts from that. The action and story was one and the same. Full of show, not tell. The dream worlds are meant to feel a little contrived and clean as they are constructed, artificial, not too disimilar to a level in a videogame.

There are no writers, just the one, Nolan.

Go watch Paprika (and I don't even like that movie) and then tell me that Nolan really did a lot with the concept of being inside a dream.   :P:   Perhaps I just imagined there being more surreal imagery, but I just found the various worlds kind of "meh" and in some cases (like the "hospital" world) I found the steady increase in action movie tropes to be kind of annoying.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on December 18, 2010, 11:05:21 AM
It tended to make the worlds that were being created feel fairly random, and I don't think that the writers did enough to play with the idea of being inside a dream.

The idea wasn't played with nearly as much as it should have been. The entire plot was pretty linear, in fact. Never was there a point where you actively questioned whether or not they were in a dream. That was the film's major downfall... that and the Ariadne character worked as a very poor device for explaining things to the audience. It's still worth watching, but the lack of any real confusion was a letdown, especially from Nolan. You'd think after Memento and (to a lesser extent) The Prestige, he could have pulled it off better.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on December 18, 2010, 01:37:23 PM
The Other Guys
Pleasantly surprised. I heard this was terrible so I had low expectations. Not great, but far from terrible. I died during the "aim for the bushes" scene. Will Ferrell wasn't typical Will Ferrell which I liked. Mark Wahlberg had some great lines and played the "straight-man" well. On a completely unrelated note, I still can't see him as Nathan Drake, especially since Nathan Fillion lobbied for the role.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on December 18, 2010, 01:45:17 PM
Planet of the Apes (1968 version) - Good movie, holds up better than I remember. Taylor really is an asshole and given up on his fellow humans.

Beneath the Planet of the Apes - Terrible movie. Obvious that they were just trying to make a cheap sequel to cash in on the popularity of the first movie. Charleton Heston had to basically be begged to return, and that was only for like the last 10 minutes of the movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on December 18, 2010, 05:10:10 PM
I never thought that Beneath the Planet of the Apes was that bad. It certainly doesn't stand on its own, nor stand the test of time the way the original did, but it was an alright sequel. There are several other films that follow that as well... they vary greatly in quality.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: NWR_insanolord on December 18, 2010, 05:34:34 PM
I like all 5 Planet of the Apes movies, but wouldn't consider the last 3 to be particularly good. Beneath, however, I thought was pretty good. This discussion made me remember that I bought the original and Beneath on Blu-ray when I found them really cheap and I have yet to watch them.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on December 18, 2010, 05:48:37 PM
I re-watched all 5 today (as well as the documentary Behind the Planet of the Apes. If I had to rank the original five:

Escape from the Planet of the Apes
Battle for the Planet of the Apes
Planet of the Apes
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
Beneath the Planet of the Apes

The problem with the second is that it is basically a re-hash of the first movie, but not as good. It's not a terrible movie, but I do think it is the worst of the 5.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: NWR_insanolord on December 18, 2010, 06:04:42 PM
Any list ranking the Planet of the Apes movies that doesn't have the original as the best is objectively wrong. It's an all-time classic with a fantastic (albeit well-known) twist ending.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on December 18, 2010, 06:14:57 PM
Haha. It may be classic (I do enjoy it), but I thought both Escape and Battle improved on it and were even more obvious with their social commentary (like how the original dealt with like race issues, political issues, etc.).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on December 18, 2010, 06:28:26 PM
And of course, Time Burton's piss-poor remake falls somewhere in the negative numbers on that list. ;)

It's been a long time since I read the book, but I recall the twist ending being a tad more accurate in the remake. Even still, it wasn't as impactful, and certainly not as iconic as the blown-apart Statue of Liberty. :)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on December 18, 2010, 06:33:05 PM
Same thing with Burton's other re-make. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory may have been more faithful to the book than Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, but it sucked.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: NWR_insanolord on December 18, 2010, 07:03:29 PM
Both of those go to show that you shouldn't remake great movies.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on December 18, 2010, 07:19:04 PM
Same thing with Burton's other re-make. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory may have been more faithful to the book than Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, but it sucked.

I sometimes wonder just what happened to Time Burton... He started out making such creative, visually striking films, but now only makes absolute garbage.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on December 18, 2010, 08:30:27 PM
It's because he's started placing visual design on a higher pedastal than story or writing. I think his last good film was Sleepy Hollow, which balanced both.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on December 18, 2010, 08:33:31 PM
Family Guy: It's a Trap! - I had a chance to see this a few days in advance and Good Lord, this "movie" is terrible.  It suffers from a combination of the worst problems of the previous Star Wars spoof specials and the show in general.  It's just not funny, and it's frequently little more than Return of the Jedi with slightly different dialogue.  It's just not funny, alternating between Lowest Common Denominator-style fart jokes and jokes that could have been funny but just get stretched out for 10x longer than they needed to be.  And as usual, a great deal of the "humor" is just completely random.  The special isn't entirely without redeeming moments (the mockery of Jedi's Special Edition additions was hilarious), but there's way too little time spent poking fun at the original movie itself and way too much time spent on just random crap.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on December 18, 2010, 08:49:20 PM
I think you just descibed the first two movies, too.

I mean, I really liked Blue Harvest, and I mostly liked Revenge. I'm looking forward to this new one just because I liked the first two, but...I don't know if they should parody the new trilogy.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on December 18, 2010, 08:57:27 PM
I question calling them movies, they are just hour long episodes. A lot of shows have done longer than normal episodes. But anyways, I will probably rent the DVD through Netflix since the episode won't air on TV until May.

Hal, what is that "Revenge" episode you are referring to? I couldn't find any episode with that name. Are you referring to the second Star Wars parody "Something, Something, Something, Dark Side"?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on December 18, 2010, 09:19:21 PM
Yup, brain fart.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on December 18, 2010, 10:04:29 PM
No problem, I was just confused and thought maybe I missed something.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on December 19, 2010, 04:08:58 AM
I also have a drinking problem.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on December 19, 2010, 05:59:18 PM
maybe the third starwars spoof is supposed to be the worst in the way the third star wars chapter was the worst(although its not really bad at all)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on December 19, 2010, 08:22:35 PM
maybe the third starwars spoof is supposed to be the worst in the way the third star wars chapter was the worst(although its not really bad at all)

Only of the original trilogy...

If that's the case, all of the prequel spoofs will be unwatchable! :P



It's because he's started placing visual design on a higher pedastal than story or writing. I think his last good film was Sleepy Hollow, which balanced both.

Agreed, with the exception of Big Fish... I did enjoy that one.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ejamer on December 21, 2010, 03:28:37 PM
Went to see Tron: Legacy on a massive 3D screen.


First, the movie.  I've heard people bombing the plot and saying that the movie isn't worth watching.  Tron: Legacy won't change your world, but it's nowhere near as bad as the haters are making it out to be.  A simple movie that follows all the expected conventions, Tron never exceeds expectations but doesn't really fall below them either.  The acting has me a bit baffled... it's almost bad enough to have that wink-and-nod type of effect, with Quorra's over-expressive eyes and snug smiles and the Big L ready to take a puff of virtual smoke, but just serious enough that I think kids will overlook some of the subtle (hopefully intentional) jokes and references for adults.


Second, comments on 3D in general.  Having been exposed to 3D content (games and movies) several times this year, I sincerely hope this is a fad and not something about to become an accepted standard.  There are rare cases where it's cool and novel, but expecting me to watch TV and play games and go to movies that are all pushing 3D content isn't reasonable.  The cost simply isn't justified... and the more I see the less interested I am in seeing more.  At this point my interest for 3DS couldn't be lower.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on December 21, 2010, 03:53:50 PM
I've been trying to find time to go see Tron: Legacy. It's not often that I go out to the theatre, but I'm a huge fan of the original film. I just hope that the emphasis on CGI and 3D hasn't diluted the long-awaited sequel. I may end up still thinking of Tron 2.0 as the real sequel... who knows. :P
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on December 21, 2010, 09:27:39 PM
i think Tron legacy will probably please me on a fanboy level when i go to watch it
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on December 21, 2010, 09:53:50 PM
From the reviews i've read, the movie has good special effects but the story is lackluster. However, that was pretty much the same with the first movie. I have zero interest in it, but since I liked the original I will check the sequel out on Netflix in a couple of months.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on December 21, 2010, 10:27:54 PM
The Other Guys: Awesome/10. I think Will Ferrall's at his best when he's not carrying the entire movie.

Grown Ups: Surprisingly good. Salma Hayek is in it but has obviously lost a ton of weight since having her kid (last time I saw her was on 30 Rock). Parts of it are very funny but some of the characters (like the...blonde guy) are dead weight.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: GearBoxClock on December 21, 2010, 10:29:36 PM
Tron Legacy- 8/10
The story works and provides a good reason for the effects to happen. Just about every aspect of the film is a massive improvement over the original except for Tron himself. I would recomend that everyone who likes Tron, Cyberpunk or special effects should see it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on December 21, 2010, 10:58:26 PM
Yeah I just got back from Tron: Legacy myself and I agree ejamer; not as bad as people are making it seem. I didn't have high expectations for this movie, and honestly I felt like there wasn't much hype for it so that helped me keep my expectations reasonable. I went in knowing it'd be a good on visuals and decent at best with plot, and thats what it was so I was content with it.

This second paragraph is where I would complain about the 3d being unnecessary or a waste of money but honestly, ever since I started making $6 Tuesdays my movie nights, I really can't complain. I honestly forgot the stupid thing was supposed to be in 3d, and it was okay but the movie was still visually pleasing. Yeah, the 3D was bad (in that it felt non-existant) but since I didn't feel forced to pay the surcharge, it just doesn't bother me, at all. Hell, I could of seen it in IMAX 3d for $7, you can't beat that price no matter how shitty the 3d was done!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on December 21, 2010, 11:28:39 PM
I figure this is a good time to give the original Tron a once over.

An awkward movie. Visually a stunning movie when release date is taken into account. But honestly, that is pretty much all it has going for it.

The sound design was poor. The script forced and obsolete even back then. The acting was hammy. The editing was inconsistant, full of weird pauses as if it was trying to extend running time. The writers had no real idea how computers work or how to incorporate computer concepts into the story in a natural fashion. A dorky thrown in broken love triangle.

If it was released now, even with visual upgrades, it would have been ripped to pieces. As a complete movie, it's not that good, sub par even, but as a visual blockbuster and nothing else, it generally succeeds.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: bustin98 on December 22, 2010, 12:46:15 AM
The only reason Tron got a sequel is because the geeky adults of today were dorky kids when it released and they have rose tinted glasses when it comes to their memories of it. I had that with the Black Cauldron movie. Then I bought the VHS of it a number of years ago. Holy crap its the boring version of Dungeons and Dragons. Its like the Sword and the Stone only without any character, but with enough violence to earn the dreaded PG rating. Meh. I'm jaded and have no interest in the new Tron movie. What's next, a Black Hole sequel?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on December 23, 2010, 12:08:47 AM
I saw the original Tron 1 day before they released the the second teaser trailer for the new one which is when the hype fest really started. Which means i got to experience the hype from a different perspective. I had been wanting to see the first one for a while, but hadnt gotten around to it. I give the movie an 8/10. It was decent, it was more style than substance. It was no original Matrix as far as story line. It was a Disney live action Movie, but a really good one.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on December 23, 2010, 12:25:36 AM
I figure this is a good time to give the original Tron a once over.

An awkward movie. Visually a stunning movie when release date is taken into account. But honestly, that is pretty much all it has going for it.

The sound design was poor. The script forced and obsolete even back then. The acting was hammy. The editing was inconsistant, full of weird pauses as if it was trying to extend running time. The writers had no real idea how computers work or how to incorporate computer concepts into the story in a natural fashion. A dorky thrown in broken love triangle.

If it was released now, even with visual upgrades, it would have been ripped to pieces. As a complete movie, it's not that good, sub par even, but as a visual blockbuster and nothing else, it generally succeeds.

Yeah, I rewatched the original Tron as well last week, and I still don't like that movie.  Even setting aside the goofiness of 1980s computer imagery, that movie is boring and doesn't really make any sense if you think about it.  Not that you have any choice but to think about the movie's flaws, because it takes seemingly an eternity for anything to actually happen.  I can deal with further goofiness with Tron Legacy (when I get around to seeing it) so long as the movie is much more watchable than its predecessor, because the concept is cool (though already thoroughly explored by Reboot by now) and the style still looks good.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on December 27, 2010, 12:00:04 PM
I finally got around to watching Tron Legacy last Saturday. I rarely see films in the theater, and I feel that overall Legacy was worth it.

The graphics were very well done, especially when competing against the original's hand done rotoscoping. The stylistic cues were updated and streamlined to be quite pleasing. CLU didn't look too out of place... there were only a few point where I couldn't not think CGI! Even then, it could be considered fitting, given that he is a compute prrogram. The 3D effects were just a gimmick, as always. They didn't add anything to the experience. It was an interesting choice to only use them while in the Grid however, forcing the real world to be 2D and flat. It reminded me of the use of color film in the Wizard of Oz, actually.

The music stood out as being very well done. I had only heard of Daft Punk by name before.

Now as for the plot... It felt pretty generic for what it was. It wasn't bad, but it didn't feel as though it was really trying to cater to the first film's fanbase. Ideas were skimped over or shied away from to obviously keep a more casual appeal to the entire thing. There was no real manifestations or analogies to modern technology on the grid, and the religious aspects of the Users were barely touched. The plot device of the ISOs could have been intriguing, but wasn't given enough time or attention to make it worthwhile. To really have had worked, it would have had to be a central plot element throughout and it simply wasn't. CLU didn't make for nearly as interesting of an antagonist as Sark or the MCP, and I never really understood why him getting out into the real world would have been so catastrophic.

I would have much rather seen the film take a few cues from Tron 2.0 instead. Having ENCOM under fire from a hostile takeover and a virus quickly spreading through the Grid. This could have solved a lot of the problems I had with the film... It would have given CLU a better reason for being even more evil, and given him true intent to get out into the real world to take over all systems, such as missile silos and carrier ships. It would have allowed Tron to have a more plausible battle with his infection. It would have allowed for obvious Grid-based parallels to modern technology, such as physical firewalls or even making Quorra an anti-virus program.

Despite my complaining, I liked the film. It was worth watching. They did a great job of updating the visuals without loosing their charm, but the story was obviously watered down so as to not scare off the typical movie-going crowd. Disney was already disappointed enough with the original film for alienating entire audiences... it's obvious they didn't want it to happen again.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ejamer on December 27, 2010, 12:37:16 PM
...
The music stood out as being very well done. I had only heard of Daft Punk by name before.
...


I wish the theater we saw the film in had better sound.  Sometimes louder isn't always better, as actually being able to hear the music instead of "feeling" the beat would have been a better option.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on December 27, 2010, 07:33:30 PM
I got the DVD for Despicable Me for Christmas and I just finished watching it.  Eh, it was OK.  It tries to straddle the line between Pixar and Dreamworks, and as an effort from a Rookie studio it's a pretty decent movie.  The animation has a good sense of movement, the music isn't cringe-worthy, the voice acting is competent, and the writing is passable.  The big problem is that the movie only exceeds my expectations in that it didn't suck.  There is no depth to the movie, and the story goes exactly as you would think it would.  I'm on the fence about the Minions, which can be fun to watch but also feel somewhat fake, like they were focus-grouped into existence for the purpose of selling a spin-off property.  There are certainly worse CG movies you could see this year, though, and for a first attempt from a new studio it's certainly watchable.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on December 31, 2010, 07:47:08 PM
Death of a President - Mediocre (not good, but not bad either) mockumentary about George W. Bush being assassinated and Dick Cheney becoming president. It's about how Cheney further expanded the USA PATRIOT Act to take away even more of our civil liberties than the original PATRIOT Act did. The government frames a Syrian for the murder and continues to keep him on death row even after it is proven that someone else did it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on December 31, 2010, 09:25:18 PM
The King's Speech: SEE THIS MOVIE/10. Colin Firth is an incredibly gifted actor, and this movie is fantastic.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on January 01, 2011, 06:41:11 PM
The Fighter - Pretty Great/10

Wow! Those accents! Man, they were thick. The charaters were all pretty interesting. The boxing matches were good. I heard they used actual HBO stuff to do it. Somebody REALLY wants an oscar, and you can tell the whole time.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on January 01, 2011, 06:48:37 PM
The HBO stuff wasn't that noteworthy to me since Rocky Balboa did the same thing several years ago. I still like that they presented it like something you might actually see though.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on January 01, 2011, 06:53:34 PM
Nearly at the end of The Expendables now, and man I hate this movie.  I can admire any movie that's this open about how stupid and action-focused it is, but the movie's just so...boring.  The action is pretty average outside of some gore and one set piece involving a plane and a dock, the acting is pretty so-so, and the dialogue isn't even lovably cheesy in the way that the great action films of the 80s were.  If you're going to make a movie that is this earnest about being over-the-top, the movie actually needs to be over-the-top: over-acting, cheesy dialogue, wild explosions, the whole works.  This movie is just surprisingly...tame, and the camera work makes me feel ill.  Meh.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: vudu on January 01, 2011, 11:58:44 PM
The Fighter - Pretty Great/10

Wow! Those accents! Man, they were thick. The charaters were all pretty interesting. The boxing matches were good. I heard they used actual HBO stuff to do it. Somebody REALLY wants an oscar, and you can tell the whole time.

If Christian Bale doesn't win an Oscar for best supporting actor I'd be shocked--he did an amazing job.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on January 02, 2011, 02:12:00 AM
Drop Dead Sexy
Pretty lame. I watched this because Jason Lee and Crispin Glover were in it. The a few decent scenes, but on a whole this was weak. On a side note for Nintendo fans, Melissa Keller, the model from the Metroid Prime 2: Echoes Who Are You? commercial, is in this. She's super attractive but attractive models/actresses never made a mediocre movie into a good one.

Superman: Doomsday
Oh Jeez, facepalm. It's obviously an adaptation of "The Death of Superman" arc was pretty lame itself and they managed to make it worse here. The animation is terrible and Anne Heche as Lois Lane made me wish I didn't have eardrums.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on January 02, 2011, 03:10:08 AM
Yeah, Superman: Doomsday was definately the worst DCAU movie made so far. Yesterday I bought Superman/Batman: Public Enemies for $6. Fair price, I think. I bought it largely thanks to the presence of Power Girl but I also liked the fight sequences.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on January 02, 2011, 10:26:11 AM
I have to disagree. I didn't like the ending, but the rest of the movie wasn't that bad. Superman/Batman: Apocalypse is terrible (although at least they got Kevin Conroy to do Batman and Tim Daly as Superman.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on January 02, 2011, 05:34:15 PM
Apocalpyse was certainly uneven, and I didn't like the art style.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: bustin98 on January 02, 2011, 09:08:27 PM
What? Apocalypse was great, I thought. The art was a decent job of translating Michael Turner's (rest in peace) work, and the story was pretty much non-stop action. I didn't like Superman's big brother act, but I liked the fights with the Fatal Furies, and the show down at the end with Darkseid.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on January 02, 2011, 11:03:28 PM
Inglorious Basterds - 10/10
Seriously, this has to be one of the best movies I've ever seen in my life. I wish I saw it sooner, but I'm glad I finally did.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on January 02, 2011, 11:56:00 PM
i need to watch that again
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on January 03, 2011, 04:54:14 PM
True Grit

8/10

Need subtitles. Still I laughed multiple times and even yelled out in excitement a few times. Which is just like any other Coen Brothers movies I've seen.

Black Swan

10/10

My movie of the year. Darren Aronofsky's fast becoming my new favorite director.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on January 03, 2011, 05:23:35 PM
the town 8/10, pretty good crime film
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: kraken613 on January 03, 2011, 10:13:17 PM
Black Swan

10/10

My movie of the year. Darren Aronofsky's fast becoming my new favorite director.

Good to hear I think I am going to see it later this week.  I was asked by a friend and thought I would but after coming home and looking up a bit more about it I have to call her and tell her I will definitely go.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on January 03, 2011, 10:43:41 PM
Darren Aronofsky's fast becoming my new favorite director.

Only just now? He had me with Pi.

I'm still trying to get around to see Black Swan.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: kraken613 on January 04, 2011, 10:56:05 PM
The Fighter 10/10

Just amazing acting the whole way through and a great movie overall!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Shorty McNostril on January 05, 2011, 12:56:17 AM
Tomorrow When the War Began.  7/10.

I don't know if this movie came outside Australia.  But I can honestly say it is the ONLY piece of Australian cinema that I have ever completely watched enjoyed.  While I didn't think it was Oscar worthy or anything like that, it was an enjoyable way to spend 2 hrs.  Hopefully they continue with the rest of the series.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on January 05, 2011, 03:45:57 AM
That Australian horror movie about sharks is pretty good.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Shorty McNostril on January 05, 2011, 06:40:58 AM
I'm afraid I don't ever remember hearing about it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: MaryJane on January 05, 2011, 06:48:12 AM
Indecent Proposal: 7/10
Somehow I missed seeing this movie over the last seventeen years, but I saw it yesterday. It started out good, got pretty boring and somewhat inconsistent in the middle, then redeemed itself with a decent ending. The story, acting, and directing are all pretty good and hold up to modern standards, and the story in particular is still relevant.

Paper Heart: 8/10
Documentary with Charlyne(sp?) Yi (the stoned Asian chick from Knocked Up) about true love. The actress herself doesn't believe in love, interviews people on it, and even finds some romance herself with Michael Cera which is affected by her disbelief in love. I didn't think I would enjoy this documentary at all, but it was surprisingly good, well thought out, and very engaging.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ejamer on January 05, 2011, 10:33:05 AM
The Sleeping Dictionary
 
Fairly typical date movie that probably could've been worse.  Surely having Jessica Alba in a prominent role has to be worth something..?  But don't be fooled.  Even my wife agrees that it wasn't worth watching.
 
Best moment of the movie: When my wife laughed and pointed out that the main character was sleeping with sisters, and got both of them pregnant. She wondered if he was going to hit on the mom next.
 
Worst moment of the movie: Pretty much everything else.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on January 05, 2011, 10:45:46 AM
Paper Heart: 8/10
Documentary with Charlyne(sp?) Yi

Correct on her name. I would just like to point out though that it is a romantic comedy designed like a documentary with Yi and Cera playing fictional versions of themselves (think of it like Jerry Seinfeld playing a character with the same name on his sitcom). I don't like Cera (he has never been funny to me), so I am reluctant to watch it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on January 05, 2011, 11:34:55 AM
think of it like Jerry Seinfeld playing a character with the same name on his sitcom

I just thought he did that because he wasn't very creative, and it got his name out there. :P
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on January 05, 2011, 11:43:30 AM
There's a joke about Tony Danza not being able to remember to anything but his own name since he played characters named Tony on 3 different TV shows and a TV movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on January 05, 2011, 02:39:21 PM
The Last Exorcism - Not what I expected, but interesting throughout anyway.

I expected a horror movie along the lines of the infamous The Exorcism, but what I got instead was a Documentary style setup of a Pastor who has lost his faith and sets out to show on camera how fake "exorcisms" really are. You see how he sets everything up and and performs his act of "Exorcising" the "demon" from the last exorcising case he plans on ever taking again. After he puts on his show though, things begin to happen that he wasn't expecting.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: MaryJane on January 05, 2011, 04:48:14 PM
@TJ
Wait, what??
I was kind of not paying attention at points during the movie, but I didn't catch on to that at all.
Well done on their part I guess.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on January 05, 2011, 05:19:39 PM
I'm afraid I don't ever remember hearing about it.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1320291/

Make sure you have a broad with you.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on January 05, 2011, 07:14:28 PM
@TJ
Wait, what??
I was kind of not paying attention at points during the movie, but I didn't catch on to that at all.
Well done on their part I guess.

It's a blend of reality and fantasy. My guess is that the interviews are real and the romance was fantasy. Borat was an over the top similarity where the people Cohen interacted with were real.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on January 05, 2011, 11:29:07 PM
Black Swan - whoa
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on January 06, 2011, 12:13:05 AM
The Fifth Element - HowDidThisPassThroughProduction/10

Not a good movie. It tried too hard to be Sci-Fi. Actually, it felt like a 'SyFy' movie but with better acting and special effects. The art style was just terrible. Too much orange and bright colors. The people who created the art and vibe are like those parents who try to be hip and cool by dressing and talking like their kids but it's awkward for everyone present due to how terrible it is.

 The plot made little sense to me and was filled with more plot holes than swiss cheese. No one seemed to have enough motivation for anything and most of the characters -especially Tucker- were very annoying. Chris Tucker's character was unnecessary. Plus the whole 'moral of the story' akin to The Abyss with the man-is-too-destructive-too-save routine was *ROLLSEYES* to the extreme. It took me several days to go through because I got tired of it but hate leaving movies unfinished. And the whole 'I love you' part just fell flat as the characters had not grabbed on to me and I couldn't believe anything remotely close to love was in the air.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Dasmos on January 06, 2011, 02:33:59 AM
But I can honestly say it is the ONLY piece of Australian cinema that I have ever completely watched enjoyed. 

Animal Kingdom was by far the best film I saw in 2010, and that's Australian. I would reccommend that highly.

The Fifth Element - HowDidThisPassThroughProduction/10

[smite]'d
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on January 06, 2011, 04:12:15 AM
Black Swan - 9/10

Ballerina goes insane. Hot lezbo scene. Ballet. All around very well done.

The King's Speech - 9/10

King can't speek. Guy helps with unorthidox methods. English accents. Dry, subtle humour. Also, some of the regular kind.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on January 07, 2011, 12:30:20 AM
Adam
Starring Hugh Dancy and Rose Byrne (still trying to figure out a way to marry her, not currently succeeding). I liked it, excellent acting all around, and had a fitting ending even if it's probably not really what most people would have wanted. The movie didn't reach me as much as (500) Days of Summer did, but that's not really any reason to fault a movie. It was super-depressing 95% of the time. Take THAT, lonely people with Asperger's Syndrome. You'll never find true love. Alright, going to cut my wrists now. BRB.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: RABicle on January 07, 2011, 02:05:57 AM
Every movie my housemate's boyfriend has subjected to us
0/5
THis arsehole has no brains or taste.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: MaryJane on January 07, 2011, 03:53:16 AM
@Dasmos
Smite at the meme or the movie attacked by it.

The Fifth Element is not a movie to be taken completely serious. It is supposed to be over the top sillyness like Chris Tucker's absurd character, which he did a great job playing because of its intentional absurdity. It's a comedy with a serious ending. Just like Observe and Report, and Kick-Ass to a certain degree.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: RABicle on January 07, 2011, 06:12:45 AM
Tomorrow When the War Began.  7/10.

I don't know if this movie came outside Australia.  But I can honestly say it is the ONLY piece of Australian cinema that I have ever completely watched enjoyed.  While I didn't think it was Oscar worthy or anything like that, it was an enjoyable way to spend 2 hrs.  Hopefully they continue with the rest of the series.
YOU UNPATRIOTIC COW!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on January 07, 2011, 02:42:48 PM
The Fifth Element - HowDidThisPassThroughProduction/10

Seriously?! Despite the obvious influence that the first Heavy Metal film had on it, the Fifth Element is ridiculously entertaining.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on January 07, 2011, 04:02:43 PM
im not a fan of 5th element either, its just an artistic mess, but I like a few OTHER artistic mess movies myself

anyways today I watched
Raising Arizona 9/10, still a great movie. Reminds me why I should make a dash to the theatres to watch true grit.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Shorty McNostril on January 07, 2011, 06:40:22 PM
Tomorrow When the War Began.  7/10.

I don't know if this movie came outside Australia.  But I can honestly say it is the ONLY piece of Australian cinema that I have ever completely watched enjoyed.  While I didn't think it was Oscar worthy or anything like that, it was an enjoyable way to spend 2 hrs.  Hopefully they continue with the rest of the series.
YOU UNPATRIOTIC COW!

lol.  Are saying that because it's an Australian movie, or because you like other Australian movies/tv?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on January 07, 2011, 07:04:02 PM
I remember not hating it back when it first came out. But now I just can't stand it. My tastes in Sci-Fi have certainly changed over the years.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on January 08, 2011, 12:37:44 AM
Showdown in Little Tokyo
This is both one of the best and worst movies I've ever seen. It fails even as a simple early 90s action film (using that term lightly here), but it's pure comedy gold, mostly because you can't be this funny on purpose. The movie just kept topping itself. Bad acting? Check. Corny dialogue? Check. Terribly choreographed fight scenes? Check. Pointless nudity? Check. Red Shirts randomly shooting into the air instead of at or around someone? Check. Bath house fight scene in sumo thongs? Check. Japanese dudes eating sushi off of bare vaginas? Check. Tatsu from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie? Check! Unnecessarily elaborate death scene for the villain (played by Shang Tsung, Cary Tagawa)? Double Check! There was just so much going on and it's only like 70 minutes long. And seriously, this has one of the best lines ever uttered in an action movie:

Kenner, just incase we get killed, I wanted to tell you that you have the biggest dick I've ever seen on a man.

And all Dolph Lundgren does is nod and say, "Thanks." Can I buy this on Blu-Ray? PLEASE!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on January 08, 2011, 01:16:43 AM
lol i give your description of the movie a 9/10 adrock
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on January 08, 2011, 02:14:14 AM
I agree and added to the Netflix IW list.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: RABicle on January 08, 2011, 02:44:42 AM
Tomorrow When the War Began.  7/10.

I don't know if this movie came outside Australia.  But I can honestly say it is the ONLY piece of Australian cinema that I have ever completely watched enjoyed.  While I didn't think it was Oscar worthy or anything like that, it was an enjoyable way to spend 2 hrs.  Hopefully they continue with the rest of the series.
YOU UNPATRIOTIC COW!

lol.  Are saying that because it's an Australian movie, or because you like other Australian movies/tv?
Because you're an Australian who hates Australian movies. Unless said Australian movie involves Australia being invaded.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Shorty McNostril on January 08, 2011, 06:46:14 AM
I don't hate Australian movies because they are Australian.  It's because 99% of them are junk imo.  The acting suck and everything looks so forced.  I will be the first in line to see an Aussie movie if it's good.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on January 08, 2011, 01:48:13 PM
Because of the recommendation by Dasmos, I watched Animal Kingdom.

I'd give it a Meh/10

The pacing was so slow. I know the director was trying to build tension, but it didn't work. There was only one real part that had me on the edge of my seat, but it was resolved so quickly and meaninglessly.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on January 08, 2011, 10:59:18 PM
Inception - Best Movie I've seen this year ;).

I have a few questions, but I didn't see what all the controversy about this movie was all about when it came to the ending. It was kinda left for the viewer to decipher what actually happened at the end, and to me it looked like Leo never actually made it out of Limbo since his kids were wearing the exact same thing he's been imagining for the entire movie. It looked like his new "reality" was life after his wife. Some may make an argument otherwise because of the top almost toppling over, but I think the kids give away what happened. If that is not what people were on about when arguing over this move (I didn't want to spoil it for myself so I never read much about it), then I don't know what could have been the big controversial issue.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on January 09, 2011, 02:50:14 AM
Dinner with Schmuks - Avoid at all costs/10

This movie is terrible on so many levels.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on January 09, 2011, 04:43:05 AM
Dinner with Schmuks - Avoid at all costs/10

This movie is terrible on so many levels.

It has it's moments, but IT IS NOTHING LIKE THE PREVIEWS SUGGEST.
they didn't get to the actual dinner until the last 20 minutes of the 1.5hr movie and it didn't make sense that the analyst guy would let his situation continue to get worse in the ways that it did.

5/10 (bonus point for the mice collages)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: vudu on January 09, 2011, 11:50:25 AM
INCEPTION SPOILERS

to me it looked like Leo never actually made it out of Limbo since his kids were wearing the exact same thing he's been imagining for the entire movie.

Actually, they're wearing slightly different clothes than in his memory.  They look very similar but they're not identical.

Something else interesting:  Two sets of child actors are listed on IMDb as playing Cobb's children.  The ages listed for the children are 2 years apart from each other.  I haven't yet determined whether the older kids were used in the last shot or if they were just the voices Cobb was talking to on the phone at the beginning of the movie--the children on the phone certainly sounded older than the kids in Cobb's memory.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on January 09, 2011, 01:07:51 PM
Superman/Batman: Apocalypse
Based on "The Supergirl from Krypton" which is part of one of my favorite comic books (and, coincidentally, the last one I read that was new at the time). I stopped reading once Jeff Loeb stopped writing. Anyway, I liked it. Significantly better than Doomsday. I liked the art; they at least attempted to keep Michael Turner's style intact. The voice acting is pretty strong as well and they were able to retain Tim Daly as Superman, Kevin Conroy as Batman (the movie could have used more Batman even though Supergirl is basically the star), and Susan Eisenberg as Wonder Woman. Summer Glau did a good job as Supergirl though I would have preferred that they brought back Nicholle Tom, who voiced Supergirl in the Superman: The Animated Series and Justice League/Unlimited. I guess that Supergirl design was Linda Danvers rather than Kara Zor-El but still...

Anyway, this could have used more character development and probably at least an extra 15 minutes to its run time to make it work. The action scenes were generally pretty strong including the badass final fight scene. It's not perfect or even close to it, but not every animated comic book movie can be The Mask of the Phantasm. I'm probably going to check out Public Enemies next.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: bustin98 on January 09, 2011, 03:42:21 PM
I don't think Public Enemies was as strong as Apocalypse, but its still cool to see a wide assortment of characters. I don't think the style captured Ed McGuinness' art very well, but certainly better than Doomsday.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on January 09, 2011, 03:51:16 PM
Dead Alive - They don't make em like this anymore..... but did they ever really?

Would be a perfect movie for MFT if that was still alive. Gory as hell, the effects still hold up pretty good and a great Horredy considering it's not actually scary, just gross and funny.


The Priest in the cemetery = gold
The Baby in general = gold
The Mom @ the end = gold
The lawnmower scene = gold
Internals Organs = gold


if you haven't watched this move a decade or longer ago, or even at all, it's on FearNet.com (& On Demand) & streaming for free
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on January 09, 2011, 04:12:29 PM
pudding
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on January 09, 2011, 07:49:09 PM
I don't think Public Enemies was as strong as Apocalypse, but its still cool to see a wide assortment of characters. I don't think the style captured Ed McGuinness' art very well, but certainly better than Doomsday.

No, they certainly didn't capture McGuinness' art. They clearly tried, but didn't really succeed. I like the storyline and some of the fight sequences were pretty epic. Bonus points for Power Girl.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on January 09, 2011, 10:56:46 PM
Woke up Dead 7.2/10.

Apparently this was supposed to be a web series, but they threw it in the red-box and packaged it like a movie.  It is lame at times, but it has a lot of possible potential. It ends suddenly and your like WTF leading to a web search to confirm suspicions. The pacing was weird and this is obviously because its meant to be a web series. Hope it finishes and doesn't end on a never ending cliffhanger, because that would be really lame....and very Shenmue
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on January 10, 2011, 12:20:41 AM
The Fifth Element as I see is the sci fi 90's equivalent on the 80's Big Trouble in Little China. An irrelevantly themed action movie full of fun, with great music that no one else has the guts to use and a collection of don't give a **** that collasse into something that is greater than the sum of it's parts.

Family Guy Star Wars movie part 3, episode 6 : It's a Trap!

If all shows are based on first impressions, then, this is a terrible episode of anything. The first 20 minutes of of this has very little in the way of redeeming features. There are some nice recreations of some classic shots an what not, but this **** an't funny. This isn't much of a spolier, but Christ at one point during the first half you get the **** trolled out of you not too disimilar manner to the "Have you heard about the Bird" episode of repeated punch line. For a 55 minute parody of Star Wars, that is a lot of time wasted having the audience imitating imitating a discombobulated Captain Picard.

Then the remaining 35 minutes roll in and the getting finally gets good. The "speeder bike" sequence is something to behold. The cartoon recreations of the battle of Endor in space is excellent (My fondness for the space scenes in ROTJ stop be from declaring Empire as the best ever despite Ewoks). 90% of the jokes are funny oppose to the 5% hit rate the first 20 minutes boast openning roll disclaimer or otherwise. They correct a bunch of scenes, point out more absurdities and bring back the Yub Nub ending!.

If it wasn't for the first 20 minutes, this would join the classics as some of the of best Family Guy. That said, that 35 minutes beats the pants off the menadering Somthing, Something Darkside which is more of a charater replacement than an actual parody.

Put up or skip the first 20 minutes and you will be rewarded.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Dasmos on January 10, 2011, 04:45:54 PM
Because of the recommendation by Dasmos, I watched Animal Kingdom.

I'd give it a Meh/10

The pacing was so slow. I know the director was trying to build tension, but it didn't work. There was only one real part that had me on the edge of my seat, but it was resolved so quickly and meaninglessly.

Each to his own, I guess. I didn't find the film slow, I think it was paced perfectly to generate time to completely flesh out these characters. Normally crime films rush past with a car-chase here or a gun-fight there. Animal Kingdom isn't an action film.

The film had me gripped from the start, and it barely let go. I also found this movie in a weird way refreshing, it's real and uncompromising. It's not trying to romanticise these character like a lot of crime-dramas try and do these days. It's a crime drama that takes the focus of the crime, it's about family. It's about blind loyalty within family despite how fast everything seems to be unravelling. It's unsettling and dark, and it contains a plethora of understated performances from some great actors.

I'd honestly give this film a 10/10.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on January 10, 2011, 11:22:29 PM
Jackie Brown 8.9/10

finally got to watch it, unfortunately after the delay i have to compare it to Inglorious basterds.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on January 11, 2011, 02:31:34 AM
Saw VII - I despised Saw VI, and view it as one of the most despicable movies I have ever seen.  I always meant to get into it here, but I never got around to it.  Simply put, it's a torture porn movie that has the unmitigated gall to be "about something", namely a heavy criticism/indictment of the medical insurance industry.  Because a movie franchise that glorifies the many different ways to slowly kill someone has the right to do that.  Saw VII is not as disgustingly offensive, but it is definitely disgusting and devoid of the few redeeming qualities the first few installments had.  To be honest, I don't know why I watched this movie.  Maybe I just wanted to give it some closure, but this is a hard movie to watch.  It's so gory that watching it made me feel physically ill, so I just took to seeing the setup for the various traps and then skipping ahead to their resolution rather than watch them.  The plot is incredibly convoluted, but this is a Saw movie so that should come as no surprise.  And personally, I don't understand Jigsaw's beef with the main character of the movie: regardless of the truth, he was spreading Jigsaw's message.  And unlike most Saw protagonists, he actually makes an attempt to save the other victims.

Overall, a pitiful and sad end to what early on promised to be an interesting horror franchise.  Hopefully, it will indeed be the end of it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on January 11, 2011, 04:33:24 PM
I just watched Toy Story 3. I don't think it is as good as the first two movies, but I still enjoyed it. Lotso was a decent villain, and I am glad they left open the possibility of doing another movie if Pixar wants to do one. The songs in the movie are nowhere near as good as the first. Some of the scenes were darker than any in the first two, like when they almost had the toys burn in the incinerator.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on January 11, 2011, 05:53:14 PM
The Fighter

A funny, deep, emotional movie about the struggles of a boxer dealing with a family that weighs him down and inspires him at the same time. Not a lot of flaws with this one. Acting was superb, the plot was entertaining all the way through, and there were some pretty emotional scenes.

9/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on January 13, 2011, 03:35:34 PM
Piranha - I loved it. 4/5 stars

Gratuitous Nudity? check
Excessive Blood and Gore? check
Drugs & Alcohol Usage? check
Lots of Celebrity Cameos? check
Prehistoric Creature wreaking havok on unsuspecting humans? double check
Stupid People doing stupid things which eventually leads to the death of others and themselves? check

I didn't watch this in 3D like it was meant to be, but I still found myself yelling at the characters on the screen (Ving Rhames WHY!!!? Why do you have to be the stupid selfless hero? you could have done that from inside the boat damnit. Atleast you weren't the first to die... just the only one to die on purpose). This is your summer creature feature of 2010. It has everything you want out of a late night date movie (except for that Jerry O'connel scene where they ate his dick... OMG and then spit it back out all chewed up). But yo have scenes that get you in the mood to wanna party and drink, and then the gratuitous nudity scenes to get you in the mood, and the then gory scenes to get your date to want to get closer, lots and lots of actively gory scenes to keep her closer and an ending that keeps you from getting bored unexpected? maybe, but definitely very sudden.

If you like not so serious creature feature gory slasher stupid teen getting killed for being stupid and lots of toplessness with a little bit of full frontal (all female), then you probably want to check this movie out.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nintendo1945 on January 13, 2011, 08:34:20 PM
I just rewatched Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. Even though it strays away from the original story line I still love it. I dunno what to say score wise. Ill gice it a 9.5/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on January 14, 2011, 01:18:52 AM
I have to do a little venting real quick.

So I pop in the A-Team DVD and I willingly sit through the previews which are mostly for TV shows and I'm not really paying attention since I'm reading stuff online while they play, but at about the 4th or 5th preview they play A 3 MINUTE A-TEAM TRAILER showing all the bits and pieces of the movie and then tell me it's coming to DVD in 2011..... Are you fucking serious? This has to be a joke? Did Netflix send me the wrong damn movie that had A-Team mistakenly printed on the disc?

If it's 2011, and I have the A-Team DVD and it's currently playing in my DVD player, then why the **** do you feel the need to advertise the A-Team to me with a spoilerific 3 minute preview to hype me up for it's 2011 DVD release that I currently have in my fuckin DVD player!!!!? This makes no F'n sense at all.
Why advertise the DVD I am currently watching on the DVD that I am currently watching? This kind of stupidity gets me all worked up and I just had to vent it somewhere. You would figure a semi-big well recieved release like the A-Team would have gotten some interesting previews before the movie advertising lots of other movies and shows you want me to check out.

pre-post edit: I thought I must be crazy that they would advertise the DVD in my DVD player on the DVD in my DVD player.... I was wrong. They were actually advertising the Theater release of the movie from 6 months ago. THE THEATER RELEASE FROM SIX MONTHS AGO "There is no Plan B.... June 11" WTFisthisshitpicard.jpg 1000facepalms.gif

That is so absurd, that I'm not even mad anymore, now I'm just laughing. That mixup actually actually put me in a better mood than when I first saw it and now I'm ready to watch the movie again.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on January 14, 2011, 01:25:35 AM
wtf that is really really stupid...was it a netflix version of the movie? Sounds like the company who made it just shoved their generic commercial list into the movie without thinking "oh hey?"
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on January 14, 2011, 01:27:04 AM
Wow, they had it playing before the movie? Usually they include the trailer in the extras section, but not in the previews before the movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on January 14, 2011, 03:03:42 AM
Why would you even be sitting through the trailers at the beginning of the film? Press skip forward and get on with the show already! :P
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on January 14, 2011, 03:22:33 AM
I use the preview to keep the filler on my Netflix list long and plentiful.


But the The A-Team gets an A in my book.

It's like Ocean's 11 meets The Expendables and I eagerly, and I mean EAGERLY await a sequel. Take everything you expected to like abut The Expendables and add in the plotting an scheming from Ocean's 11 and you have everything The Expendables wishes it was. You want action with likeable characters that story that keeps you engaged in everything that's going on on screen, then this was that movie. Just remember that there is a little clip after the credits too. I don't know if everything that happened in this movie is even technically possible, but they kept it fun and entertaining and that's all that really matters. I now wish I had supported this movie with a ticket purchase because I realize that I wouldn't have walked away disappointed.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on January 14, 2011, 08:27:46 PM
Just watched Donnie Darko. Um, that was something. Very good movie. Dunno what to give it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on January 14, 2011, 09:04:08 PM
Donnie Darko is really only worth watching as the Director's Cut. It's a good film, but is powered entirely by it's own internal logic.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on January 14, 2011, 11:18:24 PM
@BlackNmild

yeah i didn't get all the A-team hate either, i thought it was a fun movie. I never watched the tv show much when i was 4 and it was on the air..so im not in that camp, but yeah I liked the characters, i liked the setups and stunts. Good stuff.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: MaryJane on January 15, 2011, 08:42:17 PM
Two animated films;

Stan Lee Presents: Mosaic 7/10

Decent movie with a somewhat annoying main charcter. Without revealing anything about the movie, the main character is a girl (voiced by Anna Paquin) who gets cool powers. The enemy is intriguing, as well as is his plan to take over the world, which if explained a little more thoroughly (especially in place of a few horrible 'jokes') would have been even better. There are a few plot holes throughout, namely at the villains defeat, but overall the movie was decently good.

Rob Zombie Presents: The Haunted World of El Superbeasto 7.5/10

Very funny movie that gets in the way of its own plot by trying not to take itself too serious. There is A LOT of nudity in this movie, and they make jokes about that as well, like saying it's okay to masturbate to animated pornography because Japanes men do it all the time... I found the story to be rather good, but it is often lost in the flurry of jokes and nudity that are (a little too) constant throughout the movie. Despite its problems, it's still a good movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: bustin98 on January 16, 2011, 12:32:34 AM
I was entertained by Mosaic. Its a step above the Dead Space movie, though not as well done as the Saturday morning cartoons I grew up with. I think there was supposed to be a 'twist' but its so obvious that it fell on its face.

Clash of the Titans (remake) - 7/10
This movie is a metaphor for how Hollywood prefers fake over real and the loss of heart as the result. Its a fine action film. A couple of good decisions with the story to make it fresh, and a slew of bad ones to make it mediocre. A beautiful Medussa? Really? And we need some tag alongs to explain the secrets of the world? Please. I like how the Fates were handled. I liked the inclusion of the Majin (but riding giant scorpions? no thanks). And why only 2 talking Gods? I thought the Krakin was Poseidon's beast, as well as being one of the original 3. Where was he? I like the movie more than the Planet of the Apes remake, but it falls short of the original.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: MaryJane on January 16, 2011, 11:58:33 AM
I agree with you on both movies, but Medusa was beautiful in the original legend, in fact, as I beleieve they mention in the movie, it was the very reason she was cursed. Any man who looked on her beauty would be turned to stone, making her beauty worthless.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on January 16, 2011, 12:36:57 PM
I have no interest in seeing Hollywood butcher a great film like Clash of the Titan, so I don't know what reasons they give for anything. Being a mythology buff however, the commonly accepted legend is that Medusa was a beautiful attendant in Athena's temple. She was however seduced by Poseidon and slept with him in Athena's temple. As punishment, Athena cursed her with serpentine hair which turn men into stone. But that's just how Ovid wrote it many generations later.

That said, Medusa is originally believed to have been the daughter of two ancient sea gods (not Olympians, but not Titans either) and was in fact always a horrific monster. ;)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on January 16, 2011, 01:14:07 PM
I love Greek/Roman Mythology & would love to see more Movies/Shows based on it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on January 16, 2011, 01:30:44 PM
I was entertained by Mosaic. Its a step above the Dead Space movie, though not as well done as the Saturday morning cartoons I grew up with. I think there was supposed to be a 'twist' but its so obvious that it fell on its face.

Clash of the Titans (remake) - 7/10
This movie is a metaphor for how Hollywood prefers fake over real and the loss of heart as the result. Its a fine action film. A couple of good decisions with the story to make it fresh, and a slew of bad ones to make it mediocre. A beautiful Medussa? Really? And we need some tag alongs to explain the secrets of the world? Please. I like how the Fates were handled. I liked the inclusion of the Majin (but riding giant scorpions? no thanks). And why only 2 talking Gods? I thought the Krakin was Poseidon's beast, as well as being one of the original 3. Where was he? I like the movie more than the Planet of the Apes remake, but it falls short of the original.

I can't even bother to your write-up, because this was easily one of the wost movies I've seen in my entire life. Honestly, I would give it a 2 or 3 out of 10. It's the worst movie I've seen since The Mummy Curse of the Dragon Emporer.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: bustin98 on January 16, 2011, 10:14:15 PM
As the description of the curse was described in the movie, Athena was said to have cursed her so no man would want her, leading me to believe an ugly visage would be a giant turn-off. A head full of snakes would be one too, though.

I haven't seen The Mummy Curse of the Dragon Emporer, so I can't comment on that. But I have definately seen worse movies than Clash of the Titans. Like, Date Night. Or, the Replacement Killers. And the already mentioned Tim Burton Planet of the Apes. Though Sam Worthington doesn't bring anything to the film. He plays the same guy in every movie. His IMDB listing says he's filming Wrath of the Titans... and Avatar 3 ?!? I like the guy and I hear he's a big sci fi geek, but he doesn't seem to have a range of mannerisms.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on January 16, 2011, 11:15:41 PM
On the plus side, Gemma Whatshername is one of the most beautiful women on the goddamn planet.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ejamer on January 17, 2011, 10:46:14 AM

I enjoy bad movies far more than anyone should, but even I couldn't sit through The Mummy: Curse of the Dragon Emperor.  It was beyond terrible.  Even if the comparison to Clash of the Titans isn't accurate, the possibility is enough to scare me away from watching this film.




Latest movie watched: Super High Me.  Quick summary: poorly made and pointless.  It was actually my wife's idea to watch, since she thought it would either be humorous or educational.  It didn't manage either, and felt totally aimless for the majority of the movie.  You get the feeling that people making the movie thought that it was so crazy that they could film someone smoking pot, they didn't need to bother doing anything else.  Can't remember the last time that both of us regretted watching a movie this much... our time would've been better spent sitting silently in front of a blank TV screen than watching this trash.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on January 17, 2011, 10:55:27 AM
I wasn't going to say anything, but several people have gotten the name wrong now. It is The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (not "Curse").
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Toruresu on January 17, 2011, 11:08:57 AM
Alright, I saw Little Fockers and oh my, did it suck. It had it's moments, but it's not as good as the first two movies. 6/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on January 17, 2011, 11:57:00 AM
I don't think it matters what it's called TJ, the Mummy 3 is a horrid abortion of a movie. I have to wonder how much Jet Li got paid for what was essentially 5 minutes of "work". Even Brandon Frasier who is normally a pretty charming guy has the charisma of a corpse. Throw in the fact they couldn't even get Rachel Wise back just nails that coffin shut. This is so bad it almost makes the first 2 movies worthy of a Oscar Nomination in the category of cheesy enjoyable films.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on January 17, 2011, 03:03:38 PM
I haven't seen the movie, so I can't comment on the quality of it. I was just pointing out the name.

I have never been a fan of Jet Li. I don't hate him, but I have never gotten interested in his acting or movies.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Dasmos on January 17, 2011, 03:21:20 PM
I was just pointing out the name.

Do you ever get tired of being such a smarmy, self-important wanker?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: bustin98 on January 17, 2011, 05:00:00 PM
That wasn't nice, Dasmos. Hopefully you said that out of the side of your mouth.

I for one wasn't sure what movie was brandogg was talking about since he didn't use punctuation. I had to google it and took a sec to realize he was referring to The Mummy 3.

I liked Let Li in The One, but it has some pretty cheesy acting. Goes along with Time Cop and Soldier (Kurt Russel) and Fortress. 90s B sci-fi with kinda big names. Demolition Man was one of the best of those.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on January 17, 2011, 06:54:14 PM
its very easy to go after foreign actors for their lack of acting ability...mainly because english isnt their first language...Jet Li however has shown the ability to nuance. That being said Mummy 3 looked like a **** movie. I always liked the first mummy movie, and never got the hate. I think most of the hate was directed at it being a remake, but I always saw the newer mummy series as an indianna jones type series and the original as a horror movie. They share plot points, but I just saw them as totally different movie franchises.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on January 17, 2011, 07:03:54 PM
I was super disappointed in Mummy 3. I knew it was going down hill when the female lead was switched out. So sad as it did have the potential to be a new Indiana Jones type of film series. I loved the first and the second was alright but not amazing. I'm pretty sure they had hoped to set up the son as the new lead in future movies and pull Fraser.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on January 17, 2011, 07:51:49 PM
yeah, with the mummy they should have focused on Brendan Frasers character and had him unlocking all sorts of temple curses and stuff. The sequel was just kinda pointless, and the third one was like "ugh, ok so we did Egyptian mummies...so Chinese mummies?" Should have done Aztec mummies, or just some temple magic bullshit. Giving the main character a kid was also stupid as hell. If you have a badass archaeologist don't give him a kid. Also, don't have his ass be married in the sequel. Give him a new hot chick and pull a James Bond. Nobody, wants a tied down archaeologist..if i want that I would just take more classic courses at my University. Hey Doctor Soren? Oh you met George Lucas in Tunisia when he was scouting out locations for Star Wars..i totally believe that because your a flippin archaeologist and thats badass.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on January 20, 2011, 07:16:25 PM
Black Swan   pretty good/10

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: MaryJane on January 21, 2011, 10:58:45 AM
Extraordinary Measures: 8/10

I'm actually not entirely sure how I feel about this movie.

I stayed away from it because I thought Brendan Fraser would be terrible in a movie of this sort, but I was wrong he was only slighty bad.

Then there's the misleading title and description; there are only two or three moments of extraordinary measures, and it supposed to be about his two sick kids. However, they mainly focus on the daughter, and for the first 20 minutes or so I forgot it was supposed to be about two sick kids because they only showed the sick daughter and healthy son, with only a glimpse of the sick son.

Harrison Ford saved this movie imo. If a lesser actor had played the doctor there would be no point to this movie; it would have been another generic, feelgood, story of hope. Harrison Ford's character added the driving dynamic to the whole movie and it might have even been more interesting if it was told from his point of view.
Overall, a decent, if plebian, movie that I gave an extra point for Harrison Ford.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on January 21, 2011, 02:56:09 PM
Despicable Me - Blatant Rip off of everything Rabbids Go Home yet still enjoyable on it own even knowing that.

Seriously, it's like they weren't even hiding the fact that they ripped it off and were counting on the majority of people to have just never played a rabbids game, and especially not RGH (which is true, sadly the majority missed out on an entertaining game).
This movie is about a bunch of Rabbids Minions (sorry I get them confused since they look alike<minus the ears>, sound alike<identical laugh> and act alike<every mannerism, interaction and movement>) who are helping this mad scientist get to the moon so he outdo a rival "evil villain" and and earn the respect of his community back.

Everything these Minions do lives and breathes Rabbids. It's almost as if they were originally making a Rabbids movie and somewhere in the middle of development they changed their minds and had to slightly alter things to not infringe on copyrights. They removed the rabbid ears and added more teeth and game some of them only one eye, but they are still rabbids. They needed to get to the moon, but the Evil Bank wouldn't fund them anymore so they had to collect all the random things they could find to build a rocket (instead of just stacking it to get to the moon). There was even a dance scene on a multi-colored dance floor just like in the original Rayman Raving Rabbids game.

Overall the movie had charm, had it's funny moments and was fun to watch, but the similarities are so obvious that it was a little distracting throughout the entire movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on January 22, 2011, 08:00:02 PM
Whip It
I liked it a lot and I don't even like Ellen Page. Just an all around good movie. Highly recommended.


Also, the soundtrack is excellent.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on January 22, 2011, 08:15:13 PM
Buried

I like this move. If I remember right, it was based on a true story and that story fuckin sucks. I can't imagine being trapped in a coffin with only a lighter, a cellphone, a knife and a pen then have to not only figure out where I am, but how the hell I'm supposed to get out of there.RR did an excellent job up displaying the frustration that I can only imagine everyone would go through waking up in that situation. Everything about it is fucked up from beginning to end.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: MaryJane on January 22, 2011, 09:21:03 PM
Tenderness: 8.5/10

Really good movie about a teenager who killed his parents being released from jail and meeting a girl who isn't scared of him despite knowing his past. This is in NO WAY a love story, but I like to go onto a movie as fresh as possible and thus I give my reviews that way.

The only thing I didn't like about this movie is that I would have liked some more depth to Russel Crowe's character. The movie also moved slowly in the beginning but the ending made up for that in a huge way.

To give a little more info about the movie it basically boils down to two kids being fucked up by the actions of their mothers. Also a quote from the movie that furthers that point; "There are two kinds of people in this world, those who are seeking pleasure, and those who are running from pain." Not an exact quote btw.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on January 23, 2011, 12:24:34 AM
Buried

I like this move. If I remember right, it was based on a true story and that story fuckin sucks. I can't imagine being trapped in a coffin with only a lighter, a cellphone, a knife and a pen then have to not only figure out where I am, but how the hell I'm supposed to get out of there.RR did an excellent job up displaying the frustration that I can only imagine everyone would go through waking up in that situation. Everything about it is fucked up from beginning to end.

How very odd.  My wife and I just watched this one today.

It was a pretty good movie.  I love the fact that the budget for the movie was probably about $500 + Ryan's salary.  As BnM said, RR did a great job of carrying this entire movie virtually completely by himself.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on January 23, 2011, 01:08:51 AM
Buried

I like this move. If I remember right, it was based on a true story and that story fuckin sucks. I can't imagine being trapped in a coffin with only a lighter, a cellphone, a knife and a pen then have to not only figure out where I am, but how the hell I'm supposed to get out of there.RR did an excellent job up displaying the frustration that I can only imagine everyone would go through waking up in that situation. Everything about it is fucked up from beginning to end.

How very odd.  My wife and I just watched this one today.

It was a pretty good movie.  I love the fact that the budget for the movie was probably about $500 + Ryan's salary.  As BnM said, RR did a great job of carrying this entire movie virtually completely by himself.

I was thinking the same thing about the budget since the entire movie pretty much takes place in a box.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on January 23, 2011, 12:59:55 PM
"Pretty much"?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on January 23, 2011, 01:01:24 PM
well I didn't want to give anything away..... ;D
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: noname2200 on January 24, 2011, 11:23:16 AM
Green Hornet: 8/10

It's a dumb action/comedy romp, but it never pretends to be anything else.  The hand-to-hand fighting sequences are pretty lame, but the car chases are fun, and the movie has chuckles spread evenly throughout: there aren't a whole lot of laugh-out-loud moments, but I had a smile on my face through most of it.  But as you'd expect, skip the 3D: we went to the wrong theater, and wound up blowing an extra $5 for not a whole lot of product.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on January 24, 2011, 06:11:34 PM
People should really do their research on any 3D movie they wanna see. (Not that I'm saying noname2200 didn't, just a general warning for others). GH wasn't shot in 3d, but was converted to 3d in post production (and the release was pushed back because of it too). When this is the case, definitely DON'T spend extra money on the 3d because it'll never be worth it (well, I haven't been proven wrong on this yet).

As for me, I know I say this a lot but DAMN I can't help but get excited when I say I only spent $6 to see this in IMAX 3D :D. I give it the same score as noname2200 actually, for all the same reasons. I wasn't expecting much and I left delighted because of it. As said before, there weren't many LOL moments but the laughs were consistent enough. In fact, there was one part of the movie where I actually did LOL all by myself, too bad I can't remember what it was.

Oh, the bruce lee references were a nice homage to the original GH tv show. Nice touch.

Hancock 5/10 I literally thought this movie was just "okay"

Grandma's Boy 7/10 el-oh-effin-el movie, but far from great.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on January 25, 2011, 08:37:02 PM
Ok, I didn't just watch this, but I've been thinking about it for a while now (seen it several times)...

The Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy - 10/10
Ok, I might be rating it a little too highly, but this is probably the funniest movie I have ever seen. If you haven't seen it, you need to do so, immediately - especially if you were a fan of the series, and also especially if you are not a fan of the series.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on January 25, 2011, 08:39:02 PM
Also, I thought Grandma's Boy was pretty horrible, which is disappointing because Nick Swardson is hilarious. The only funny parts are when Nick talks, and when the dude jerks off all over Nick's mom.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on January 25, 2011, 10:26:16 PM
haha well Grandma's Boy was my introduction to Nick Swardson....maybe thats why I like it so much.  Its good and bad, i find it to be a terrible unrealistic representation of video game companies...at the same time it introduced me to Nick Swardson and Jonah Hill so I'll always have a good opinion of it. Plus Allen Covert as a leading mas works, and I have that shirt he wears the whole movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on January 25, 2011, 10:28:02 PM
I think you guys need to partake in their herbal activities in order to enjoy that movie, cuz I think it's hysterical.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on January 26, 2011, 01:06:10 AM
I think the whole video game development company thing was the worst part. It was like one of those commercials you see on TV for some bullshit school that teaches "game design" (which, by the way, is a waste of time), and some attractive female comes into a room where two douchebags are playing some pre-rendered 1980s 3D animation and asks, "Hey guys, how are those graphics coming along?" and **** like that. Makes me want to cry. Anyway...watch Brain Candy.

BTW, I am in no way promoting drugs (I assume people already know that they exist, and that weed makes things funnier), but I watched the movie Orange County in the theaters and thought it was horrible, and a few years later I watched it when I was high, and thought it was hilarious, so The Unagi has a point.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on January 26, 2011, 02:00:25 AM
hey weed is semi-legal in 30% of the country
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on January 26, 2011, 09:55:13 AM
Ok, I didn't just watch this, but I've been thinking about it for a while now (seen it several times)...

The Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy - 10/10
Ok, I might be rating it a little too highly, but this is probably the funniest movie I have ever seen. If you haven't seen it, you need to do so, immediately - especially if you were a fan of the series, and also especially if you are not a fan of the series.

I've always loved the series, but don't recall really liking the film that much. The newer mini-series, Death Comes to Town was worth watching however.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on January 26, 2011, 10:45:16 AM
I think you guys need to partake in their herbal activities in order to enjoy that movie, cuz I think it's hysterical.

To be honest, a movie is terrible if you have to be high to enjoy it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on January 26, 2011, 11:19:39 AM
Ok, I didn't just watch this, but I've been thinking about it for a while now (seen it several times)...

The Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy - 10/10
Ok, I might be rating it a little too highly, but this is probably the funniest movie I have ever seen. If you haven't seen it, you need to do so, immediately - especially if you were a fan of the series, and also especially if you are not a fan of the series.

I didn't realize they put out a movie, I MUST watch that as I loved the series.


I think you guys need to partake in their herbal activities in order to enjoy that movie, cuz I think it's hysterical.

(http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k151/Altanon/OnTheNose.jpg)


BTW, I am in no way promoting CANDY (I assume people already know that they exist, and that CANDY makes things funnier), but I watched the movie Orange County in the theaters and thought it was horrible, and a few years later I watched it when I was SUGARhigh, and thought it was hilarious, so The Unagi has a point.


I recall not liking Orange County (the one with Jack Black and that scrawny dude right?)... (http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a74/canadianmomof2/lightbulb.gif)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on January 26, 2011, 11:57:28 AM
I think you guys need to partake in their herbal activities in order to enjoy that movie, cuz I think it's hysterical.

To be honest, a movie is terrible if you have to be high to enjoy it.

Shut up, narc.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on January 26, 2011, 12:05:32 PM
I didn't say it can't make you enjoy the movie more, just that it must not be very good if you need it to even enjoy the movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on January 26, 2011, 03:03:38 PM
Stop bringing me down! You're a total bummer, dude.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on January 26, 2011, 03:30:36 PM
Stop bringing me down! You're a total bummer, dude.

seriously killing my buzz here, just when i thought i found away to find the forums enjoyable again ;)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on January 26, 2011, 03:45:23 PM
The Virginity Hit

It's about a group of friends who deem a specific bong only usable when one of the group loses their virginity. One of the boys in the group has is 2yr anniversary coming up and he plans on losing his V to his long time GF who is also a V, but ofcourse things are not gonna ago as planned, continue to not go as planned and become more conflicted for him as he goes on. The entire movie is shot from the perspective of someone's camera, and the main camera used is from his best friend who is like a better Jonah Hill. It has it's moments and most of the comedic value comes from the Jonah Hill-like guy.

I would suggest a little expletive before hand, but it's not necessary if you are in a good mood already when watching the movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on January 26, 2011, 06:46:31 PM
I think you guys need to partake in their herbal activities in order to enjoy that movie, cuz I think it's hysterical.

To be honest, a movie is terrible if you have to be high to enjoy it.

Yeah you maybe right cuz I saw the Pirates of the Caribbean 2 on shrooms and I thought it was the best my I've ever seen hahaha
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on January 27, 2011, 03:15:44 AM
So I'm starting to watch Stone (at this very moment) and they pull a FUCKIN A-TEAM on me AGAIN!!!!

WTF? Why do I need a 5 minute preview and actor mini documentary on the movie just before I'm gonna watch the fucking movie? what is this trend. STOP IT HOLLYWOOD!! It's NOT funny and I am NOT amused.

....back to my movie now.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on January 27, 2011, 01:31:43 PM
Maybe you should invest in AnyDVD? Rip all of those annoying adverts right out! ;)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on January 27, 2011, 01:37:47 PM
What can I say about Stone?

Edward Norton did a very convincing job and looked pretty good with cornrows.
Milla Jovovich is skinny as a crack whore and has tiny tits with tootsie roll nipples. Her body looked like a creature from Species. You could see her all of her ribs and every single detail of her spinal cord. I was really turned off when she would twist and contort in an attempt to be sexy. It wasn't.
Edward Norton's character wasn't joking when he said "She is like an ALIEN... I mean she is from another planet". She really reminded me of that movie Species only not sexy in the slightest.

maybe I can make a .gif out of it.
edit: a gif is too much work. google it or something if you wanna see for yourself.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on January 27, 2011, 02:06:03 PM
Hahaha Stone?

That movie is terrible. 3 actors that I like in a terribly slow and boring movie. The only good part is the first convo between Norton and DeNiro (especially the bit about cummin on his chicks face...that had me rollin')

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on January 27, 2011, 03:13:02 PM
I watched S. Darko recently. It's not nearly as good a Donnie Darko. The characters aren't as interesting, and the plot makes a little less sense. Still pretty decent.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on January 31, 2011, 02:28:25 PM
Enter the Void - Epileptic Seizure Warning!!!

Holy ****. I don't know really what this movie was about, but it looks like it was made to be in 3D and there are constantly flashing colors all over the screen. It was so bright and almost hypnotizing that I had to look away. There seriously need to be a seizure warning before this movie starts. WTF.

The entire move is shot from a first person perspective, complete with blinks and mind trips. The main character is an individual who lives with his sister, who is a stripper, in Tokyo. They both obviously have some deep sexual issues that stem from their relationship with their mother and a bunch of other issued that come from their parents death.

The movie starts of in the perspective of the brother, where it stays for the whole movie, who is about to get high on some crack like drug that is actually the same stuff you body releases when you die. Let his trip begin. and you experience the entire thing (I would suggest you be on your own trip at this point, I imagine it would be really fucking trippy while watching this ****). At some point after lots of events involving his sister and flashbacks involving his parents and then him with his mom and his sister, this movie devolves into a softcore porno complete with a penii in vag cam ending with a shot load. I don't think it gets anymore graphic than that.
I will admit that I misses about 30 minutes of the movie (my girl was inspired ;) ) but I wasn't really following what was going on because you literally are in about 2:20 of this guys life as he is on the last trip of his life.*
His sister is a whore stripper who gets an abortion on camera, the brother is a drug dealing addict who gets shot & killed in the first 20 minutes of the movie and he took baths with his your sister and mom till he was probably 11 when his parents dies. They have mommy and daddy issues.


*This guys is smoking the same drug that you body releases when you die. It provides an intense high that only last about 6 minutes but feels like an eternity. He starts the movie smoking this and the movie is a complete psychedelic trip. Seizure Warning once again.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on February 03, 2011, 09:03:50 AM
I watched The Green Hornet.... what was the point of it?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on February 03, 2011, 11:12:40 PM
Dead Space: Aftermath - Dead Space: Downfall is one of the worst animated movies I've ever seen, though sadly not the worst product to come out of the Dead Space franchise (that "honor" belongs to Dead Space Ignition).  Aftermath is not as bad, though that doesn't mean it's actually "good".  For what I can only assume are budgetary and deadline reasons, once again we have an eastern-animated/western-financed anthology movie composed of short stories all animated by different studios.  Hoo-fracking-Rah.  And just like every other attempt to do this (outside of Dante's Inferno), the movie is somewhat hard to get into because character designs and even the staging of scenes are radically different from one short to another.  Each of the 4 flashback-based animated shorts is bookended by a framing story set in the present and animated in...quite possibly the worst and most unconvincing CG I've seen since the late 90s.  The story is lame and doesn't really add anything to the Dead Space universe except explaining how a certain plot device made it to the environment of Dead Space 2, the animation is decent but wildly inconsistent, the action isn't terribly interesting, and there's not really any atmosphere of any kind (which is kind of an issue in a horror movie).  There was the potential for an interesting movie showcasing a horror-based disaster from multiple viewpoints, but the execution is just bland.

In short, skip Aftermath and put that money towards purchasing Dead Space 2 instead, a product that's actually awesome.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on February 04, 2011, 02:38:36 AM
Monsters - ....../10

*Spoilers Ahead - but really who cares, you're not gonna watch this movie*
Did I really just sit through this entire movie? I seriously can't figure out why. It's a movie that started production sometime after Cloverfield became a hit.
Aliens have crashed onto Earth occupying the northern parts of Mexico which are now called the Infected Zone. 1.5~2hrs of build up to get a good look at these aliens all for an alien mating scene in the last 2 minutes where you still don't get all that good a look at them. From what I can tell it looks like these aliens are 200ft Giant Octopuses that swim through the air like earth octopus swim in the oceans. But at the same time you can hear them walking even though you can't really make out if they have legs, so maybe they are like giant elephant bodied octopus headed aliens that only appear to be swimming in the air. and their tentacles can maybe either sense light and/or watch TV, but they can definitely hear and definitely communicate with light and touch.

This movie was a waste of my time. While it wasn't horrible, it just had little point and no pay off.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on February 04, 2011, 07:23:15 AM
Monsters 8/10

**spoilers as well

I got this movie for free with my Dish Network before it was in theaters. I saw it in september, it came out in october :). I was actually watching it a second time an hour ago. We kept it on our DVR. IDK I thought it was pretty good, pretty nifty actually. Not an incredible movie like Cloverfield, but interesting world building. Also, in my opinion if it has squids than automatically it is awesome. This was a low budget movie(under $500,000), but out of the many low budget movies I've seen this was one of the best uses of a budget ever. The other thing to remember is this is more a story about the 2 people traveling than the monsters in the background. I liked the scene where they are sitting on the pyramids looking at the even more impressive U.S built quarantine walls.  Studios have taken note of it, and the director Gareth Edwards is the new Godzilla director. If he made this movie for 500,000 what could he do with 100 million dollars?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on February 04, 2011, 11:28:13 AM
Studios have taken note of it, and the director Gareth Edwards is the new Godzilla director. If he made this movie for 500,000 what could he do with 100 million dollars?

Another shitty American Godzilla, perhaps? Tons of CGI and a pathetically dead creature at the end. No thanks...

Do yourself a favor. Forget about anything Godzilla related that comes out of Hollywood. Go watch "Godzilla, Mothra, and King Gidorah: Giant Monsters All Out Attack". It's part of the newer Millennium Series, and easily one of the best Godzilla films of all time.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on February 04, 2011, 05:43:36 PM
Theres like a new American Godzilla movie ever 10 years, I'm all for it. Most people didn't like the last Godzilla, it had that 1997 feel to it. I wasn't a big fan of Godzilla final wars or should i say power rangers and Godzilla by Ryuhei Kitamura. I like the original, and I like some of the 60s Godzilla and daikaiju movies. This is a decade where I think we can make a Godzilla movie right. I think modern directors have the right sensibilities to pull it off. If Godzilla 98 was Batman and Robin this would be The Dark Knight.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on February 05, 2011, 02:20:26 AM
Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire
Phenomenal acting, especially by Mo'Nique. I never thought I'd say that. She was a comedienne I didn't think was funny in the slightest and starred in movies like Phat Girlz (think about the spelling of that title for more than 7 seconds and you won't remember the next 2 days) and Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins, but she totally killed it in this movie. She won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for this. I don't know or care who else was nominated.

Anyway, I had 2 problems with this movie though the filmmakers are only really responsible for one. First, this novel "Push" by Sapphire should have been renamed "Kill Yourself: Based on One of the Most Depressing Novels Ever Written." Claireece Precious Jones begins the film 16 years old, illiterate, physically and verbally abused by her mother, parent to a child with Down's Syndrome, preggo with a second child... oh, and her father raped repeatedly since she was 3 and is the father of her 2 children. Also, the filmmakers cut out the part in the novel where Claireece's mother forces Claireece to give her oral sex. Apparently, that was deemed too much. What. The. ****.

Second, there's too much voice over. I got the feeling that screenwriter Geoffrey S. Fletcher just couldn't let go of some of Sapphire's best lines which work in prose but felt forced in the film. They're nicely written lines. However, voice over does make the movie suffer. Not all movies with voice over narration suffer from it. Or maybe they just need to be narrated by Morgan Freeman in order to work. That's a joke though honestly, I thought it worked in Shawshank Redemption and Million Dollar Baby.

Overall, I liked it. Probably won't ever watch it again, but I'd recommend seeing it once.

Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World
I liked it. Pretty funny and the fight scenes were cool. I loved all the videogame references. Mary Elizabeth Winstead is totally hot. I was surprised that Nintendo let them use some Zelda sound effects/music considering they recently cockblocked the Justin Beiber movie from using the Mario theme. I guess that makes sense. Scott Pilgrim is a pretty decent film for what it was while Justin Beiber is a total abortion of pop culture and America's taste in music. Anyway, Michael Cera plays every character exactly the same way: as Michael Cera. Even if he was told to be something entirely different, he'd still play the role as nervous, socially awkward and mumbly Michael Cera. To his credit, it worked in this movie.

These Girls
It starred Caroline Dhavernas. She was the lead in my favorite show of all time, Wonderfalls. This movie wasn't terrible, but not great. Also had very heavy voice over narration and it didn't work here. Show don't tell. Things that should be given and shown through dialogue or action is just plainly told. Bah. That's the first thing they teach you in any writing class. This movie was also made in Canada so we can just blame it on that.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on February 06, 2011, 06:15:03 PM
Studios have taken note of it, and the director Gareth Edwards is the new Godzilla director. If he made this movie for 500,000 what could he do with 100 million dollars?

Another shitty American Godzilla, perhaps? Tons of CGI and a pathetically dead creature at the end. No thanks...

Do yourself a favor. Forget about anything Godzilla related that comes out of Hollywood. Go watch "Godzilla, Mothra, and King Gidorah: Giant Monsters All Out Attack". It's part of the newer Millennium Series, and easily one of the best Godzilla films of all time.

That is a good one. I'd actually say that the entire Millenium series is damn fine. The only one I don't like is Final Wars, because it's so terrible for so many reasons. My favorite Godzilla movies are Godzilla 1985 (HURRY UP AND RELEASE IT ON DVD, SONY!) and Godzilla 2000. The former has a great sense of atmosphere, and the latter is just so balls-out awesome it's hard to describe. In fact, I think I might have to watch it after the Super Bowl.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on February 06, 2011, 08:47:09 PM
The Social Network 8.5/10 Pretty good movie

as much as everyone says it paints Zuckerberg as a villain, i just don't see it. It seems the movie is pretty neutral actually. Have you ever tried to start things with someone and the other people are not passionate about it? I have an its frustrating.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on February 06, 2011, 10:37:17 PM
Well, it's because he became a douche and later tried to claim he did it all (even trying to say he was the sole founder and creator of the site, the other guy had to actually sue to force Facebook to list him again as co-founder).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on February 07, 2011, 06:37:31 AM
eh, paying for something is one thing, actually taking care of the baby is the other. Its like Zuckerberg was the Nurturing mother, and Eduardo Saverin was the father who was out of the house alot, and what happened..the mother found a new man(Sean Parker). I don't think Saverin would have been screwed over if he had started focusing on what was real and not all that bullshit college stuff he was doing. If he had been around more he'd have more control and more credit, but when you try to control something like a colony theres king george and then theres george washington. It was a petty power move to suspend the account, CFO reports to CEO not the other way around. 19,000 dollars is the wage of a 1 year McDonald's employee. Had he of been working anywhere else with his time and talent he would have made much more then that investment.  He must have been scrapping for quite a while longer than a year. In the movie Zuckerberg taught him a lesson. The movie is from Saverin's perspective as he was the key consultant for the writing. Of course its all a dramatization, but theres a grain of truth somewhere.

another similar movie to watch is the The Pirates of Silicon Valley..which is great, both Bill Gates and Steve Jobbs are portrayed as dicks...sometime or another
8.5/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on February 07, 2011, 10:29:43 AM
Studios have taken note of it, and the director Gareth Edwards is the new Godzilla director. If he made this movie for 500,000 what could he do with 100 million dollars?

Another shitty American Godzilla, perhaps? Tons of CGI and a pathetically dead creature at the end. No thanks...

Do yourself a favor. Forget about anything Godzilla related that comes out of Hollywood. Go watch "Godzilla, Mothra, and King Gidorah: Giant Monsters All Out Attack". It's part of the newer Millennium Series, and easily one of the best Godzilla films of all time.

That is a good one. I'd actually say that the entire Millenium series is damn fine. The only one I don't like is Final Wars, because it's so terrible for so many reasons. My favorite Godzilla movies are Godzilla 1985 (HURRY UP AND RELEASE IT ON DVD, SONY!) and Godzilla 2000. The former has a great sense of atmosphere, and the latter is just so balls-out awesome it's hard to describe. In fact, I think I might have to watch it after the Super Bowl.

Definitely. The entire Millennium Series is well worth the watch if you're even a little bit of a fan of the franchise. I just think that Giant Monsters All-Out Attack is easily one of the best, for anyone. Godzilla is almost the villain again... he's an unstoppable force of nature, like he used to be. Of course, all of the films being direct sequels to the original Gojira makes for a lot of interesting possibilities anyway. I just wish they hadn't hampered Final Wars with all of those Matrix-esque human/alien fight scenes.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on February 07, 2011, 12:06:46 PM
I went to go see The Roommate on Saturday with my girlfriend (there wasn't much else playing and we didn't want to wait an hour for something good). It was OK, I enjoyed it more than her though. I do wish they had explained some more stuff (like what exactly Rebecca did to that other girl in high school), or why she was able to convince Sara's ex-boyfriend that she was Sara on the phone. Everybody in the theatre cringed though when she took the kitten that Sara had adopted and put it in the dryer.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on February 07, 2011, 12:11:57 PM
Is the Roommate a 2011 version of Single White Female?
Because that's exactly what it looks like.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on February 07, 2011, 12:33:34 PM
I haven't actually seen SWF before, but from what I have read on SWF they are sorta similar. Rebecca quickly becomes obsessed with Sara, wearing the necklace that belonged to Sara's dead sister, stalking the friend who was spending time with Sara, covering their dorm room with stuff like a poster for The Devil Wears Prada (which was Sara's favorite movie), and Rebecca being killed at the end.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on February 07, 2011, 01:20:49 PM
SWF was a woman looks for a roommate after catching her BF cheating, girl moves in and becomes attached to the woman. Girl had a twin sister, wants to reestablish that relationship with woman, buys clothes that math hers and even cuts her hair to look like her. Tricks the womans BF into thinking it her and sleeps with him, kills their dog out of jealousy and the BF, all in an attempt to win complete and total attention & devotion from the woman. Turns out the girl was crazy and the woman killed her in the end.

Minus a few details switched around, sounds like the new SWF.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on February 07, 2011, 01:29:02 PM
Resident Evil: Afterlife

......... Why did I watch this movie? It was bad from beginning to end. Parts of it just don't make sense and the fight scenes are horrible. They also left it open to another sequel which I really hope never gets made.

Note to Milla: you are severely lowering your stock price (which is already pretty damn low) with these movies, so just stop making them unless you can get some sort of approval on script or something. The 1st 1 was alright, the second was watchable but I think this is even worse than the Vegas one. You have to make decent movies every once in a while to break the string of horrible ones. Find a new agent.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on February 07, 2011, 05:43:24 PM
yeah roomate looked exactly like SWF
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: bustin98 on February 07, 2011, 10:20:54 PM
Seeing how Milla is married to Anderson, I think she'll be supporting his movies for as long as he's making them and they're together.

Afterlife was really meant to be seen in 3D. You miss a lot by not having that extra dimension, or at least some scenes make more sense when things are popping out at you. And I don't know if you have played RE5, but there is a ton of fan service towards that game. Really, I feel its the closest to any of the games any RE movie has gotten. Not that its all that close to the story of RE5... just the references and the way the characters look.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on February 07, 2011, 10:28:45 PM
bustin, you are thinking of Resident Evil: Afterlife (released last year and heavily marketed as a 3D movie). Resident Evil: Apocalypse (from 2004) was not in 3D.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on February 07, 2011, 11:06:12 PM
Hahaha The Roommate has been the butt of a couple jokes this past week, even though I haven't seen.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on February 08, 2011, 12:09:21 AM
bustin, you are thinking of Resident Evil: Afterlife (released last year and heavily marketed as a 3D movie). Resident Evil: Apocalypse (from 2004) was not in 3D.

You are right, I miss-labled the movie. I just watched the new Afterlife one.


But 3D or no 3D, it was stupid, and no I haven't played RE5.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: bustin98 on February 08, 2011, 11:30:25 AM
LOL. All I had to do was walk over to my movies and take a look at what they were...

Still, I liked Afterlife more than Apocolypse. I was actually surprised that all the clones at the end of Apocolypse was used in Afterlife. They totally missed out on Milla on Milla action though...
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on February 08, 2011, 03:01:28 PM
LOL. All I had to do was walk over to my movies and take a look at what they were...

I wouldn't admit to owning those...
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: bustin98 on February 08, 2011, 04:00:24 PM
We all have our guilty pleasures... :p
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on February 08, 2011, 04:10:51 PM
wow W.S. Anderson scored Milla?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on February 08, 2011, 04:16:59 PM
wow W.S. Anderson scored Milla?
Have you seen her in Stone....?

that is no score. more like a penalty.


That movie ruined her for me (not that I was a big fan to begin with), just like that Hilary Swank movie where she played a girl pretending to be a guy has ruined Hilary Swank in my eyes forever (not that I was ever a fan of hers either, but now everytime I see her, she looks like a guy).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on February 08, 2011, 04:43:48 PM
 Hilary Swank has always looked like a guy. There is no escaping it.

Milla on the other hand is more like a werewolf. There are just some days she just doesn't look good. It's usually when she loses too much weight and starts doing skeleton impressions in tight leather or wearing light leather/plastic in general. I swear she never looks good in that kind of get up.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on February 08, 2011, 06:32:51 PM
She looked good in The Fifth Element.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Dasmos on February 08, 2011, 06:41:10 PM
Monsters - ....../10

*Spoilers Ahead - but really who cares, you're not gonna watch this movie*
Did I really just sit through this entire movie? I seriously can't figure out why. It's a movie that started production sometime after Cloverfield became a hit.
Aliens have crashed onto Earth occupying the northern parts of Mexico which are now called the Infected Zone. 1.5~2hrs of build up to get a good look at these aliens all for an alien mating scene in the last 2 minutes where you still don't get all that good a look at them. From what I can tell it looks like these aliens are 200ft Giant Octopuses that swim through the air like earth octopus swim in the oceans. But at the same time you can hear them walking even though you can't really make out if they have legs, so maybe they are like giant elephant bodied octopus headed aliens that only appear to be swimming in the air. and their tentacles can maybe either sense light and/or watch TV, but they can definitely hear and definitely communicate with light and touch.

This movie was a waste of my time. While it wasn't horrible, it just had little point and no pay off.

Monsters is a very misleading title. It's not a monster flick at all, it's a love story. The "monsters" were more of a backdrop than a focus point. I really liked it, the dialogue and chemistry between the main characters was very believable, despite Andrew seeming like a dick throughout most the movie. I was even sort of hoping you didn't get to see any "monsters" at all, but the last part was pretty great so I'm glad it was included.

The movie also made more impressive considering how of an effort Gareth Edwards undertook by himself. Wrote, directed, edited and did the CGI all by himself. Pretty fanstastic stuff.

8.8/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: MaryJane on February 08, 2011, 06:41:40 PM
Yeah, Hilary Swank has always been fugly, which is why she was picked to play Amelia Earhart.

For me, Boys Don't Cry (had to look that up) where she played a boy made me respect her as actress because she did a phenomenal job in that role, as did Chloe Sevigny alongside her. That was alsoa great movie because was based on a true story.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on February 08, 2011, 06:44:44 PM
Monsters - ....../10

*Spoilers Ahead - but really who cares, you're not gonna watch this movie*
Did I really just sit through this entire movie? I seriously can't figure out why. It's a movie that started production sometime after Cloverfield became a hit.
Aliens have crashed onto Earth occupying the northern parts of Mexico which are now called the Infected Zone. 1.5~2hrs of build up to get a good look at these aliens all for an alien mating scene in the last 2 minutes where you still don't get all that good a look at them. From what I can tell it looks like these aliens are 200ft Giant Octopuses that swim through the air like earth octopus swim in the oceans. But at the same time you can hear them walking even though you can't really make out if they have legs, so maybe they are like giant elephant bodied octopus headed aliens that only appear to be swimming in the air. and their tentacles can maybe either sense light and/or watch TV, but they can definitely hear and definitely communicate with light and touch.

This movie was a waste of my time. While it wasn't horrible, it just had little point and no pay off.

Monsters is a very misleading title. It's not a monster flick at all, it's a love story. The "monsters" were more of a backdrop than a focus point. I really liked it, the dialogue and chemistry between the main characters was very believable, despite Andrew seeming like a dick throughout most the movie. I was even sort of hoping you didn't get to see any "monsters" at all, but the last part was pretty great so I'm glad it was included.

The movie also made more impressive considering how of an effort Gareth Edwards undertook by himself. Wrote, directed, edited and did the CGI all by himself. Pretty fanstastic stuff.

8.8/10

Love story my ass. It was just some dude trying to get some and some girl who had reservations about getting married. I've been there and done that. There is nothing "romantic" about it.

I came to see at least an explanation of the monsters. Especially, why they fed on electricity or light.

It wasn't a bad movie, per se, just a movie that ended without any real need to. There wasn't a climax.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on February 09, 2011, 04:59:04 AM
i'd tap hilary swank. Sometimes she comes off boyish, other times she's extra tappable.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on February 09, 2011, 05:25:47 AM
Speaking of boyish, I just seen a recent bikini pic of Cameron Diaz..... I didn't think it was possible to be less attracted to her than I was before.




http://cdn.buzznet.com/media/jj1/2011/02/diaz-bikini/cameron-diaz-alex-rodriguez-bikini-shirtless-01.jpg (http://cdn.buzznet.com/media/jj1/2011/02/diaz-bikini/cameron-diaz-alex-rodriguez-bikini-shirtless-01.jpg)
She might as well take off the top and stuff it in her bottoms, because at this point I don't think we wouldn't be able to tell the difference.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Dasmos on February 10, 2011, 07:19:50 AM
Monsters - ....../10

*Spoilers Ahead - but really who cares, you're not gonna watch this movie*
Did I really just sit through this entire movie? I seriously can't figure out why. It's a movie that started production sometime after Cloverfield became a hit.
Aliens have crashed onto Earth occupying the northern parts of Mexico which are now called the Infected Zone. 1.5~2hrs of build up to get a good look at these aliens all for an alien mating scene in the last 2 minutes where you still don't get all that good a look at them. From what I can tell it looks like these aliens are 200ft Giant Octopuses that swim through the air like earth octopus swim in the oceans. But at the same time you can hear them walking even though you can't really make out if they have legs, so maybe they are like giant elephant bodied octopus headed aliens that only appear to be swimming in the air. and their tentacles can maybe either sense light and/or watch TV, but they can definitely hear and definitely communicate with light and touch.

This movie was a waste of my time. While it wasn't horrible, it just had little point and no pay off.

Monsters is a very misleading title. It's not a monster flick at all, it's a love story. The "monsters" were more of a backdrop than a focus point. I really liked it, the dialogue and chemistry between the main characters was very believable, despite Andrew seeming like a dick throughout most the movie. I was even sort of hoping you didn't get to see any "monsters" at all, but the last part was pretty great so I'm glad it was included.

The movie also made more impressive considering how of an effort Gareth Edwards undertook by himself. Wrote, directed, edited and did the CGI all by himself. Pretty fanstastic stuff.

8.8/10

Love story my ass. It was just some dude trying to get some and some girl who had reservations about getting married. I've been there and done that. There is nothing "romantic" about it.

I came to see at least an explanation of the monsters. Especially, why they fed on electricity or light.

It wasn't a bad movie, per se, just a movie that ended without any real need to. There wasn't a climax.

That's a pretty cynical view to have, especially seeing as how many "romantic" films can be boiled down to something very similar to how you described. Also I guess the difference to me was that it felt more realistic between the two. I guess it helped that they were a real-life couple and that just about everything was ad-libbed.

I also saw The Fighter last week. Coming from a country that's not really pre-occupied with boxing at all, it's surprising how much I seem to enjoy boxing films. Rocky(s), Ali, Million Dollar Baby, Raging Bull, Cinderella Man etc. The Fighter is no exception.

Great acting (Bale was especially great), great story (despite not knowing any of the story behind I not sure how much was creative liberties) and great action (the fights really looked pretty realistic). I dunno, I guess I like under-dog stories and I came out of The Fighter pumped up (which sucked because I had to go straight to sleep in order to get up early for work.)

8.5/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: MaryJane on February 10, 2011, 10:41:02 AM
I've only ever seen the first Rocky all the way through and that's because imo it isn't really a boxing movie. There's one or two(?) boxing matches, and the rest of the movie is about him trying to win over Adrian. It's a love story under the guise of a boxing one, can't say anything about the other films, but that turned me off from the rest of the series. Oh, and it was only last year that I saw the first Rocky. I had avoided them over the years thinking that their overwhelming popularity would mean that I wouldn't like them, and it turned out I was right.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on February 10, 2011, 11:23:27 AM
Dasmos: Sure it's cynical, but let's not forget he wouldn't have been there if he didn't have to.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Dasmos on February 10, 2011, 04:46:07 PM
I've only ever seen the first Rocky all the way through and that's because imo it isn't really a boxing movie. There's one or two(?) boxing matches, and the rest of the movie is about him trying to win over Adrian. It's a love story under the guise of a boxing one, can't say anything about the other films, but that turned me off from the rest of the series. Oh, and it was only last year that I saw the first Rocky. I had avoided them over the years thinking that their overwhelming popularity would mean that I wouldn't like them, and it turned out I was right.

The Rocky films get steadily more campy and less serious as they go along, and essentially turn into a different beast altogether. It peaks at Rocky IV, which is probably my favourite, just because how many montages and matching 80's power rock anthems they seem to cram into a 90 minute movie. Also Rocky basically singlehandedly brings down communism.

Dasmos: Sure it's cynical, but let's not forget he wouldn't have been there if he didn't have to.

So you don't like the plot device that brings them together?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on February 10, 2011, 05:38:29 PM
Her father trusting some employee to bring her home was completely unrealistic. No father, however busy, would trust someone who he threw in the lion's den to bring his daughter back to him. That was beyond unbelievable. Then you have their motives to want to be together post-smashing develop abruptly. When she finds another girl in his apartment and runs away pissed, my first thought was "Why does she even care? She's engaged and turned him down already. This bitch is crazy." Lo and behold another plot device arises from the completely bullshit situation, making them travel through the infected zone all at the cost of her engagement ring. No girl could ever find you attractive after that. There's no way.

Then you got these monsters which you never see even though the movie is called MONSTERS. And when you do see them they look more majestic then life threatening. They also seem easy to fool. So in fact, they aren't scary at all. Despite them killing people, I never felt like I would be endangered. Hell, as a journalist, he should have been popping off photos like crazy. The only time you actually see them at all is when two of them decide to bone, which for some reason these two find fascinating like "Why haven't we done that yet?" It completely came out of nowhere and was almost facepalm worthy for how terrible the symbolism was.

Then the end has this chick whining about how she doesn't want to go home. Why the **** not? You just went through some traumatic ****. Don't you want to shower? Don't you want a decent meal? Don't you want the love of your soon to be husband? The **** is wrong with you?

The only person I found to actually portray a real person was the guy that took her engagement ring. That's it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on February 10, 2011, 06:08:33 PM
yep. I agree with that.

waste of time.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on February 12, 2011, 04:23:42 PM
I've only ever seen the first Rocky all the way through and that's because imo it isn't really a boxing movie. There's one or two(?) boxing matches, and the rest of the movie is about him trying to win over Adrian. It's a love story under the guise of a boxing one, can't say anything about the other films, but that turned me off from the rest of the series. Oh, and it was only last year that I saw the first Rocky. I had avoided them over the years thinking that their overwhelming popularity would mean that I wouldn't like them, and it turned out I was right.

The Rocky films get steadily more campy and less serious as they go along, and essentially turn into a different beast altogether. It peaks at Rocky IV, which is probably my favourite, just because how many montages and matching 80's power rock anthems they seem to cram into a 90 minute movie. Also Rocky basically singlehandedly brings down communism.

ROBOT BUTLER ROFFLMFAO (http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://daily.likeme.net/lm/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Rocky-Robot.jpg&imgrefurl=http://daily.likeme.net/2011/01/11/10-things-we-were-supposed-to-have-by-2011/&usg=__7Lfj9TKb8u0UY2eXbeEindCGf0U=&h=214&w=400&sz=43&hl=en&start=0&zoom=1&tbnid=Z16VIHuhFROdzM:&tbnh=164&tbnw=193&ei=M_pWTeHPH4jDgQfTjYWPDQ&prev=/images%3Fq%3Drockys%2Brobot%2Bbutler%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DN%26biw%3D1024%26bih%3D667%26tbs%3Disch:1&um=1&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=300&vpy=154&dur=445&hovh=164&hovw=307&tx=187&ty=102&oei=I_pWTdjSCcKBlAez6uDnBg&page=1&ndsp=14&ved=1t:429,r:1,s:0)

Aaaanyway..

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Film) - 8/10

I wen't into this thinking, after not seeing it in so many years, I'd get to laugh at how bad it is with my cousins. I was pleasantly surprised. Sure it was cornier than I remember, but there were plenty of laughs in there that still got to me after all these years.

Oh and the fact that it has Hilliary Swank, Ben Affleck, and (I can't believe I didn't know after all these years) Paul Fucking Reubens gives it some bonus points. On a side note, I had to wikipedia Kristy Swanson to see what else she was in that I might of seen, cuz she was looking good in this, and it wasn't much. Shame.

Child's Play: 8/10

Again, another movie I haven't seen in a decade or so and held up much better than I thought. Too bad Netflix didn't have the sequels on instant play, I don't feel like waiting for the dvds..
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on February 12, 2011, 06:17:20 PM
Machete
It was okay, not Robert Rodriguez's best by a long shot.  I remember someone here saying that this was the movie I was looking for if I wanted pure screen mayhem after my disappointment with The Expendables. Yes and no. It was more absurd than The Expendables but still lacking. The first scene was the best one of the movie which was a shame. The last fight was a total let down. As hot as Jessica Alba is, she's still a terribly actress. I'm glad Danny Trejo finally got a starring role though. He's one of those "movie guys" who just pops up in tons of films for usually small or bit parts so it's nice to see him headlining a movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on February 12, 2011, 06:52:59 PM
The A-Team is what you should watch to overcome the disappointment left behind by The Expendables.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on February 13, 2011, 11:00:57 AM
I'm glad you brought that up, I've yet to see the A-team and I'd like a good popcorn flick.

Unlike Adrock, I absolutely adored Machete. Now, I don't know your ethnicity, Adrock, but maybe there were some cultural things that just didn't click with you? It was a predominately Hispanic audience when I went and everyone walked out satisfied. There were a handful of moments where I thought "man, I'm glad I know what that Mexican slang meant or else I would of missed the joke" so if you were in that boat, I can see how the movie could feel a little subpar. I felt this movie was supposed to me an even mix of comedy with RR's usual over the top violence. I really feel as if he set out on making a movie specifically for his people and said **** everyone else. You should of seen how empowered the Mexican portion of the audience looked upon leaving haha.

Then again, maybe you do get it and just didn't enjoy it, and thats cool. I thought it was 10/10 though and I can't believe I haven't picked up the dvd yet.

Taken 8/10 - Second viewing since originally release; just as good as the first time around, maybe better because I could get passed Liam's initial performance. I felt that the his character at the films start is a bit too.. hokey? I dunno, I just don't really see him as an overly sensitive father who would keep a scrap book of his daughter's life with a single photo per page.. It just didn't seem to fit. Don't get me wrong, it was awesome seeing him go from Mr. Sensitive to full on bad-ass, because it made the movie, but actually watching those initial scenes was just off putting.

Still on this second time around, it was forgivable because I knew what was to come, and I still felt that sense of intensity that came from him being a father stopping at nothing to get his daughter back, that **** was just real. I still couldn't believe it was just a pg13 movie because it felt way too intense for what I normally considered a scaled back movie, but that's just a testament to how good it is.

With that said though, I watched the unrated version last night and didn't notice anything different or extended from the original film. If I had the time to watch each version back to back, I would, so I felt only slightly disappointed by the end.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on February 13, 2011, 11:15:21 PM
It had nothing to do with the Mexican-ness of the movie. In fact, I stated in my last post exactly why I thought the movie was merely okay. As an action movie, it's not that great. I tend to enjoy movies more based on my expectations of them. I thought the action scenes were generally weaker than what Robert Rodriguez has done before. They weren't terribly inventive. This is the same guy that gave Johnny Depp a fake 3rd arm and had him kill 2 guys.... without eyes.

Kingdom of Heaven Director's Cut
I actually liked the theatrical cut for what it was. This version is significantly better because they reinserted very extremely minor things like character development, motives and exposition. Eva Green's character, Sybilla, actually made sense with her added scenes. Same with Liam Neeson's character, Godfrey, who was in the original for roughly 5 minutes. At the same time, the movie is now like 3 hours long. I won't be watching this again for a while.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on February 14, 2011, 04:22:28 AM
There's a director's cut? A friend and I watched the original while studying and found it too disjointed and uninspiring. I'd be willing to check out the extended cut if it improves half of the confusing nonsense there was. Cut scenes would definitely explain why some things were never fully explained.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on February 14, 2011, 04:29:08 AM
To Catch a Thief Alfred Hitchcock directs Cary Grant and Grace Kelly in the South of France. Grace Kelly is the most beautiful woman of all time. Four Stars
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on February 15, 2011, 04:45:30 AM
The beginning of Taken is there to fill out and estabish Liam's character in a show, not tell fashion. Make space for character development. You can see the same thing even in the Rambo films. You just can't start with Paris getting exploded without something to start from.

The photo book is a nice easy, blunt symbol of his relationship with his daughter and who he is. Bryan is first and formost a protector who has a very particular set of skills that are worthless to any normal father or a normal person. He felt the only way he could help his daughter was to pay evil men visits at night, hence why he was always away. He even treats the singer he protects like his daughter during the time she is under his protection.

As for him being sensitive? Hell no. He is very good at extracting information and reading people, but he is very clinical with his family a massive blind spot because he is either unwilling or unable to connect since the human interactions with the greatest impact to him are all negative, dealing with the scum. So looking at his family is not too unlike looking at the sun.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: RABicle on February 15, 2011, 09:12:01 PM
The Social Network - 4/5
The creator of Napster tries to escape his troublesome past

Very entertaining but almost too well written, people just aren't that witty and cool in real life. Only an Oscar chance for adapted screenplay.


The Green Hornet - 2/5
A dark look at organised crime in Los Angeles.

It's like Seth Rogan ad libbed all his lines and they just took the first cut. Really poorly written and worthless use of 3D.


Election - 4/5
Story of a young lesbian and how she tricks her way into a Catholic school

I really liked it, one of those films that has you silently chuckling away. The cameo from Ferris Bueller was cool too.


Aww man you guys were tlaking about Monsters. I wanted to see that but all my friends were faggots. I've deided I'm not taking their **** anymore, if I wanna see an arthouse film with a limited release I'll go on my own.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: MaryJane on February 16, 2011, 04:56:06 PM
An American Affair: 8/10

Interesting movie that takes a side view of JFK's assination by focusing on a woman he is having an affair with, and her young neighbor. The movie was well paced, and well acted, and overall just very enjoyable.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on February 20, 2011, 01:32:12 PM
I'm using a hotel computer at the moment so I'll make this brief: I recently watched the latest DC Animated movie, All-Star Superman, and it's pretty terrible.  The problem with the movie is that the creators tried to take an entire 12-episode story arc (as opposed to the 5-6 episode story arcs they have done previously) and try to tell it in one relatively-short movie.  The movie feels like a series of vignettes very loosly and badly strung together, none of them bad on their own but confusing and seemingly random when merged together.  The voice cast was ok, but nothing special.  Ditto for the animation, though Parasite had some excellent animation.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on February 20, 2011, 04:30:48 PM
I was wondering exactly what that was, but I think I'll avoid it. I struggle to find Superman interesting anyway.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on February 20, 2011, 04:32:49 PM
Case 39

Much better than I thought it would be. I called the ending though (but I said it as a joke).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: MaryJane on February 22, 2011, 01:14:24 PM
The Losers: Crap!
I managed to get through it, but the best part was Zoe Saldana, yeah she's skinny, no chest, blah blah blah, but I like skinny girls.

Gattaca: 8/10
I think this was the third, fourth, or fifth time I watched this movie and its still great, and still relevant.

Battle for Marjah: 8/10
HBO documentary about an offensive in Afghanistan. I actually did not like the way this movie was directed/edited, but it was eye opening, and informational, and for that I rank it highly. I watch a lot of documentaries about WWI, WWII, Vietnam, etc. and this documentary was very unique in its presentation, very personal with the soldiers, and frankly unflattering to the American soldiers and everything they're doing, but we can't discuss poiltics so I'll leave it there.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on February 24, 2011, 08:53:04 PM
Who Framed Roger Rabbit: 10/10

Falling Down: 10/10

Unknown 8/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on February 24, 2011, 09:08:18 PM
EasyCure, do you have the DVD of Roger Rabbit? It has a ton of bonus features.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on February 24, 2011, 09:29:44 PM
Paranormal Activity 2 8/10  Didn't scare the **** out of me like the last one, but was pretty entertaining.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on February 24, 2011, 09:44:43 PM
I thought the first one was terrible. I wasn't scared, I was bored out of my mind and honestly wonder how it did so well (same thing with Wedding Crashers, it was a huge hit but I hated it).

Not really a movie since it's just a 1 hour episode, but I just watched "It's a Trap!" (the Family Guy parody of Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, which airs on TV in May). Why has this gotten so much hate online? I loved it and found it better than most of the normal episodes of the show. The DVD also has some pretty cool features, like a 31-minute long video of four FG executives playing Trivial Pursuit Star Wars. I guess I would rate it 9/10.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on February 24, 2011, 09:47:59 PM
I just watched Blue Harvest. It was enjoyable. It made me look forward to seeing the next ones. Though the Star Wars nerd in me felt some stuff was done poorly. I was hoping for a larger joke revolving around 'Han shooting first'. I am continually impressed with the animation of the show. Are they rendering a Wind Waker style cel-shading in some scenes?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on February 24, 2011, 11:50:18 PM
I know alot of us have watched Inception and some of us may even think it was mind blowing and truly original (other think it was neither), but have any of you ever though that Inception may have been ripped right from the pages of an old ass Donald Duck Comic(if if it was done subconsciously)?

(http://i.imgur.com/XEk2z.jpg)




Now read how similar it sounds to the Donald Duck Comic in question.
Cracked.Com: 5 Amazing Things Invented By Donald Duck (http://www.cracked.com/article_19021_5-amazing-things-invented-by-donald-duck-seriously.html)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: MaryJane on February 25, 2011, 05:09:23 PM
The Corn is Green(1945): 9/10

TCM is having 31 days of Oscar and showing movies that either won or were nominated for best picture, and this movie was definitely worthy of a win.

The Corn is Green is about an unmarried woman in 1869 Wales teaching a brilliant young man who was born into a mining town, and whose entire family died in a mining accident. He's working in the coal mines when she arrives, then she sets up a school, discovers him, and takes him through his education. Within all that was a funny, and moving story about five people (the teacher, student, two helpers who become teachers, and a young girl) living within the confines of English society.

All in all, a very good and memorable movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on February 27, 2011, 05:49:39 PM
I'm in the middle of Roger Rabbit, too. The older I get, the more blown away I am at that movie. The incredible skill of choreography and animations that went into that, to mesh it with the live actors so well is...I mean, you just don't see that anymore. THERE WERE NO GREENSCREENS (except IN Toontown at the end, I suspect).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on February 28, 2011, 10:12:05 PM
[REC]

9/10

This is the best horror flick I've seen since "The Mist". Not only is the cinematography great, but it's put to such good use. There are so many different types of scares; the jumpy scare, the long intense OMG "what's going to happen?" scare, the final reveal and sinking in the gut scare. It's all there. But not only are they all there, they are all so well done that towards the end of the movie, I was only inches away from my TV. That's right. I got up and moved closer. I couldn't help it.

Now the movie is originally from Spain and so is in spanish, but there is a dub version. I didn't watch the dub and instead went with the subtitles. I think that was the right choice.

As usual with scary movies, I watch them first by myself in the middle of night with every light off. Fucked up thing was, there were tornado sirens outside during a good 20 minutes of it, making it even more intense. Watchin it with a chick this thursday. We'll see if it holds up like "The Mist".
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on February 28, 2011, 10:14:00 PM
I'm in the middle of Roger Rabbit, too. The older I get, the more blown away I am at that movie. The incredible skill of choreography and animations that went into that, to mesh it with the live actors so well is...I mean, you just don't see that anymore. THERE WERE NO GREENSCREENS (except IN Toontown at the end, I suspect).

I still can't fathom why we don't have that movie on Blu-Ray by now.  It's a fantastic movie, and one that just deserves to be on the format given the potential for really rich colors in the transfer.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on March 01, 2011, 12:00:17 AM
yeah i wanted to check out [REC], i saw quarantine, the american version. That was pretty decent.

I also need to check out Let the Right One In, and the Gril with the Dragon Tattoo.

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on March 01, 2011, 12:18:11 AM
Pluse you get to see a cartoon vagina in HD.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on March 01, 2011, 12:48:49 AM
I don't recall any vaginas in Roger Rabbit, just a lot of patty cake going around.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on March 01, 2011, 12:54:52 AM
I think I know what he is talking about (if you don't, check out snopes.com where they talk about a scene where you supposedly can see Jessica Rabbit's vagina for 1 frame).

I was bored yesterday, so I watched Good Burger on ABC Family. By no means is it a classic, but I enjoyed it and don't think it's that bad (and I used to love the Good Burger segments on All That).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on March 01, 2011, 06:50:05 AM
Had no idea Quarantine was a remake. I can't believe REC was only a year old when Quarantine was released. Talk about a money grab.

Well I read a few reviews and people say Quarantine is one of the best remakes they've seen, but REC takes the cake hands down.

Anyway, REC is still fucking with me. I'm doing some more research into what I should watch next (I'm thinking the original "Shutter"), but sometimes I find myself thinking about the end of that damn movie and I get creeped out.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on March 06, 2011, 07:00:40 PM
Hard Candy 9/10 Good fucking movie. Never have I ever gone back in forth so much on who i should sympathize with.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: MaryJane on March 06, 2011, 08:05:59 PM
Tenure: 7/10
Pretty good, often funny, strong characters.

Domestic Disturbance: 6.8/10
Despite Vince Vaughn giving a good non-comedic performance, the movie was very average.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on March 06, 2011, 08:23:07 PM
The Importance of Being Earnest 8/10 its hard to enjoy a Victorian piece, but i read the play in high school and always thought it was pretty funny. It makes me wonder how I would do in different time periods. 
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on March 06, 2011, 09:28:30 PM
I watched a couple of films today, both of which I thought were pretty "meh", Red Dawn and Tron Legacy.  I watched the former because the upcoming "Homefront" game intrigued me to see the previous movie that that writer had done.  Overall, it's a pretty long and dull 80s movie, with effects that border on the laughable; characters I really didn't care about; and a plot that just seemed to take forever to not really go anywhere.  I often joke that mankind hadn't discovered cinematic pacing until Star Wars came out, but this movie feels like something stolen from the 1970s.  At least I now know this is the movie referenced whenever something like Modern Warfare 2 screams "WOLVERINES!"  Hopefully, Homefront will be a better game than Red Dawn is a movie.

As for Tron Legacy, it is a wondrous achievement in art design and boasts a wonderful soundtrack by Daft Punk.  As a popcorn flick, it is sufficient and it is a far more entertaining movie than its predecessor.  Despite this, the movie never really blew me away.  There are plot holes all over the place, and the Grid now feels nothing like a world inside a computer (there are so many things in this world I want to know what their function is, as everything is supposed to be a program).  And then there's CLU, one of the biggest leaps into the uncanny valley that I've ever seen (his smile especially creeps me out, and not in the way that the animators intended).  It's an entertaining movie, but I wouldn't be altogether bothered if this never got a sequel.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: noname2200 on March 07, 2011, 01:56:30 PM
I watched a couple of films today, both of which I thought were pretty "meh", Red Dawn and Tron Legacy.  I watched the former because the upcoming "Homefront" game intrigued me to see the previous movie that that writer had done.  Overall, it's a pretty long and dull 80s movie, with effects that border on the laughable; characters I really didn't care about; and a plot that just seemed to take forever to not really go anywhere. 

Show some respect, sir; you speak of the Most Violent Film of all time (http://aaronfulkerson.com/2009/05/03/the-most-violent-film-evar/), with an act of violence occurring every 2.23 minutes!

But seriously, it sucked.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on March 07, 2011, 02:32:21 PM
WOLVERINES!

I mean.. *ahem*

EasyCure, do you have the DVD of Roger Rabbit? It has a ton of bonus features.

I did, from netflix. I've since returned it without watching the special features because I plan on purchasing the movie now.

Newest rating:

Drive Angry: 7/10

..and that's that I watched it of altered mind! I went in expecting it to be cheesy as all hell and thats exactly what I got. Nick's performance didn't have anything as laughably bad as the Wickerman, which honestly.. made me a little sad. My only regret with this movie is I paid full price for it (x4...ugh) because another movie won out for my usual $6 Tuesday Movie Night, and I didn't want to wait until tomorrow because it only had 2 showings all of Saturday, so I didn't want to miss it.

Next review: Take Me Home Tonight
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on March 07, 2011, 02:43:44 PM
idk...i think Piranha 3d has red dawn beat. That or Brain Dead.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on March 07, 2011, 04:17:14 PM
What about Rambo 4? I think the ROD (Rate of Death) is something like every 5 seconds.


EDIT:

The Next Three Days  8/10

Honestly, much better than I was expecting. I love movies were the innocent have no other options but to do something daring and illegal because of the circumstance. I also like when people out smart cops. This had both in spades. See it if you get the chance. It starts out a bit slow but really ramps of the intensity half way into the film.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 07, 2011, 04:57:53 PM
Added to netflix, but it sounds sorta like that Gerard Butler & Jamie Foxx movie.
It sounds like the plots have similarities is what I mean.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on March 07, 2011, 04:59:27 PM
They are completely different. The similarities are only skin deep.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: noname2200 on March 07, 2011, 09:08:40 PM
idk...i think Piranha 3d has red dawn beat. That or Brain Dead.

What about Rambo 4? I think the ROD (Rate of Death) is something like every 5 seconds.

 
 Nah, you guys are thinking of the quality of violence rather than the quantity, which is how Guiness measured "most violent." Shoot, Red Dawn is PG-13.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: MaryJane on March 08, 2011, 07:44:14 AM
Date Movie: 7/10
Pretty stupid, but very funny. I thought Steve Carrell and Tina Fey were great together, especially their "what's the story" imitations of other couples at dinner.

Youth in Revolt:  8.8/10

At first I was very disappointed that Michael Cera was playing the same character AGAIN, but things really pick up when his alter ego enters the picture. The alter ego is deliberate, dangerous, and funny, not dry face typical Michael Cera, but in your face provocative funny. The girl he is going after is somewhat of a bitch, but a very interesting bitch, and there is a lot about this movie that keeps you guessing.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Silenced on March 08, 2011, 09:55:21 AM
The Green Hornet: 8/10
 
Combining the seriousness of gang wars with comedy, this movie is a pretty good serious-ish comedy that not many people can get right.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on March 08, 2011, 05:45:33 PM
I just finished watching my new Blu-Ray of...

Summer Wars - I'm a big fan of this director's previous movie, The Girl Who Leaped Through Time (if you haven't seen that lovely little movie, check it out!), so I picked up the Blu-Ray of this one today.  I just finished it and...overall, I'm pretty conflicted about how I'd rate this movie.  I liked it, but man this movie has problems.  It's biggest problem is that it doesn't know what kind of movie it wants to be, as it's 3 movies in one: a story about some kids' first teenage romance, a story about the importance of family, and a story about a world run by an evolved version of World of WarCraft that's suddenly under attack from a rampaging virus.  One of these 3 does not belong.  Can YOU figure out which that is?  Yeah, I thought you could, and it's a major distraction in a movie that didn't need a fantastical element.  It doesn't  help that this aspect of the story ends on a total Deus Ex Machina that feels cheesy and not very satisfying.  The main character of the story also doesn't really get to do much until the end of the film, making me wonder for most of the film why he needed to exist.  The main female lead also seems to disappear halfway through the movie, not emerging until the very end when it comes time for her to actually do something in the cyber-punk storyline.

When the movie isn't playing with being a surprisingly-not-pretentious cyber-punk story about mankind's growing dependency on the internet, it's a pretty good movie and reminds me a lot of Girl Who Leaped Through Time.  A large focus of the movie is on this ridiculously large family coming together to celebrate their great-grandmother's birthday, and the movie does a phenomenal job of characterizing the family.  If you've ever attended a massive family reunion (as I have), the family depicted here will see all too familiar.  The animation is fantastic (even if it bears that "flat" look common in Japanese feature films due to their relatively low budget), but I really do expect nothing less from Studio Madhouse (though this is more cartoony than most of Madhouse's usual work).  As for the English dub, it's well-done (especially considering the huge cast probably had Funimation scrounging through every studio they could find to get voices to fill the roles).  I enjoyed my time with this surprisingly-long film (nearly 2 hours), but the director should have picked either the family story or the cyber-punk story and stuck with it rather than try to cram several different movies together.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on March 08, 2011, 09:10:48 PM
Paper Heart 8/10 was decent
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 08, 2011, 09:27:05 PM
8/10 was decent?

what's a 7/10? or a 9/10?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on March 08, 2011, 09:53:39 PM
Decent is a 6/10 in my book.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on March 08, 2011, 09:59:40 PM
The Hurt Locker - 6/10
It just wasn't that good. It wasn't exactly what I thought it was going to be, and I enjoyed it, but it just wasn't that great.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on March 08, 2011, 10:00:56 PM
Date Movie: 7/10
Pretty stupid, but very funny. I thought Steve Carrell and Tina Fey were great together, especially their "what's the story" imitations of other couples at dinner.
You're thinking of Date Night.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 08, 2011, 11:05:06 PM
Decent is a 6/10 in my book.
exactly. that's why so many movies on my netflix get a 3 out of 5 stars (mostly because I can't do half stars).

0.............1.............2.............3.............4.............5..........6..........7..........8..........9..........10
Total ****-----PicardWTFisthisShit.jpg----Meh-------Decent-------Good---Great---Awesome

Hopefully that stays formatted right


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Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on March 08, 2011, 11:48:00 PM
lol decent probably stretches from 6-8 for me. Decency used to be considered a good thing. Its like when someone asks you how you are and you say "im fine" to which they reply "whats bothering you?"

but to answer BNM question

10 is awesome
9 is great
8 could be decent or good
7 is mediocre
6 is passable
5 is failing
4 I want my money back even if i downladed it
3 I will vow to humiliate the director in his lifetime, but never actual do it
2 I will do it
1 I hope i never see a 1, even pornos get a default 2
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: King of Twitch on March 09, 2011, 12:20:05 AM
Ooh, look at the movie critics in this thread, with their fancy number scales.

Two thumbs up your butts
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on March 09, 2011, 12:24:06 AM
Oxford Dictionary:
Quote
mediocre |ˌmēdēˈōkər|
adjective
of only moderate quality; not very good : a mediocre actor.

The real problem is that ThePerm has skewered his scale to the point where 7 is his passing grade, not 5. This problem permeates a lot of reviews, but is especially bad with videogames leading to a lot of inflated scores and lack of critical examination of flaws. The game Oblivion was praised as GOTY even though contained numerous serious flaws that would have killed any other game without it's hype.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on March 09, 2011, 04:59:02 AM
Oxford Dictionary:
Quote
mediocre |ˌmēdēˈōkər|
adjective
of only moderate quality; not very good : a mediocre actor.

The real problem is that ThePerm has skewered his scale to the point where 7 is his passing grade, not 5. This problem permeates a lot of reviews, but is especially bad with videogames leading to a lot of inflated scores and lack of critical examination of flaws. The game Oblivion was praised as GOTY even though contained numerous serious flaws that would have killed any other game without it's hype.

I think it's because a lot of people look at them like the grade on their paper. Teachers and schools have slightly variant scales but they all are pretty close to this:

90-100: A
80-89:B
70-79:C
60-69:D
Below 60: Failing

Our review standards seem to reflect this on average. 'A' is mega hit must-see, B is great, C is OK for most but if you are a fan of the art/style/genre you will appreciate if despite some flaws, D means poor overall but with one or two redeeming qualities; less than that and you hit parody/mockery territory. At the lower levels they all tend to blend together. Bad is bad in most people's books.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on March 09, 2011, 08:33:02 AM
If bad is bad, then why do you need half the scale to define it?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on March 09, 2011, 08:42:56 AM
Because there exists "it's so bad it's good".
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: MaryJane on March 09, 2011, 11:16:50 AM
@Brandogg

Lol, yeah I did mean Date Night.

While I personally think that 8/10 is better than decent, the fact that he explained that it means decent for him should settle all arguments. Numbers are arbitrary, sentiment is everything, at least in the case of rating movies.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on March 09, 2011, 02:45:41 PM
well BNM was asking me how 8/10 could be decent. IDK, i tend to rely more on a qualitative scale then the quantitative one. Most movies wouldn't go below a 5 anyhow...below 5 then they are just an abysmal mess. I don't remember how I rated Troll 2, but its in the 5 territory. I wouldn't go as far as to say its that bad. There was this clown doll horror movie I got in the bargain bin at wal-mart thats is well in the 3 territory, luckily it was part of a 4 pack and the other 3 movies weren't so bad. Yes they were campy, but not a piece of **** like that terd.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on March 09, 2011, 08:20:49 PM
Youth in Revolt:  8.8/10

At first I was very disappointed that Michael Cera was playing the same character AGAIN, but things really pick up when his alter ego enters the picture. The alter ego is deliberate, dangerous, and funny, not dry face typical Michael Cera, but in your face provocative funny. The girl he is going after is somewhat of a bitch, but a very interesting bitch, and there is a lot about this movie that keeps you guessing.

I thought there wasn't enough of his alter ego, and while I don't remember what score I gave it (assuming I posted my two cents about it) I would probably rate it lower than this. Not much, but definitely lower..

Decent is a 6/10 in my book.

Same here, which is why I'm sad to say it but..

Take Me Home Tonight: 5/10

Wasn't a LOL comedy like I thought/hoped it would be, but did have its funny moments. I actually like Topher Grace and the usual wise-ass character he portrays, but he wasn't it in this film so it was kind of disappointing. He was still a loveable-loser-type but it wasn't the same. I didn't feel like any of the characters were stand-out, which is sad because while Topher's character was relatable, it was in a pretty generic way.

Very few laughs and a pretty cookie cutter story of boy gets girl just left a sour taste in my mouth, not enough to hate on the movie because it was enjoyable, but not enough to think it above average as a movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on March 10, 2011, 04:41:56 PM
The Thing 8/10

I'm surprised by how well the SFX hold up. Honestly, in some scenes, I was more impressed by them then any CGI. Maybe we should go back to old school SFX sometimes instead relying on CGI?

Anyway, the plot of the movie is outstanding. But it's weird. Having not read the book, I can tell from watching this movie that the suspense is way better in literature form. The movie had suspense, but not in an extremely gripping way. I'm guessing because the characters aren't fleshed out. Books have more time to round out characters to the point where you're second guessing yourself not because of anything logical, but because you feel like this person wouldn't do that. During the movie though, the only person my intuition was betting on was the main character, and that was because... well, he was the main character. Everyone else I was never less than 50-50 about.

But yeah, besides that...I loved how it ended. It so hard to end scary movies (especially these days where most horror plots are simply "SOMETHINGS GOING TO GETCHA"). I feel like unless there is an incredibly satisfying ending, the whole movie falls apart. I'm glad to say the movie didn't fall apart.

Check it out. It's old, but good.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on March 10, 2011, 05:26:30 PM
CSA: Confederate States of America  7/10 interesting mockumentary

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 10, 2011, 06:25:01 PM
The Thing 8/10

Check it out. It's old, but good.

Just in time, the remake/sequel/prequel is supposed to be coming out this year (I think). Now you have something to base your criticism on.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on March 10, 2011, 06:32:19 PM
I'm surprised by how well the SFX hold up. Honestly, in some scenes, I was more impressed by them then any CGI. Maybe we should go back to old school SFX sometimes instead relying on CGI?

Yes, yes, and yes! CGI never looks very impressive. Traditional F/X will stand the test of time.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: MaryJane on March 10, 2011, 07:06:57 PM
@ThePerm

My favorite part of CSA was the commercials, I thought it was a great movie overall. I'm a big fan of history, and alternate history done right is always great in my book.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on March 10, 2011, 07:46:38 PM
The Thing 8/10

Check it out. It's old, but good.

Just in time, the remake/sequel/prequel is supposed to be coming out this year (I think). Now you have something to base your criticism on.

the good thing about The Thing is that they can always set the events parallel to the other events.

@Maryjane, it was interesting to find out at the end that some of the products had actually been real products at one point.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: SixthAngel on March 10, 2011, 09:11:28 PM
The Thing 8/10
Check it out. It's old, but good.

The Thing is my favorite horror movie.  The concept and the amazing puppet sfx are excellent.  I am a huge John Carpenter fan and can't wait to see the new movie that he is making.  He stumbled (into pit of giant spikes covered with poison snakes) with his last movie but after I saw Absolute Fin de la Monde (Masters of Horror) I knew he still had it.


I recently saw the movie Monsters.  It's pretty good and unusual for an alien invasion/giant monster movie because you are brought in long after the monsters arrived and society has gotten used to them.  It wasn't what I expected at all and I was pleasantly surpised with the relationship between the two main characters.

The monsters themselves are really freaky looking.  You don't get to too many clear shots of them but  they are basically Cthulu heads on giant spider bodies giving them the freakyness of a spider and the otherworldly horror or Cthulu I know they look beautiful at the end but thats just because you can only really see the glowing lights.  If it was daytime those two would have ran back into that convenience store before they could blink.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on March 11, 2011, 12:36:10 PM
Absolute Fin de la Monde..err Cigarette Burns was a pretty good episode, so was Pro-Life.

Actually, as an assignment I want someone to watch Pro-Life and then watch House of the Devil
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on March 11, 2011, 01:51:02 PM
Pro-Life was better than a lot of the other episodes, but that's not saying much. Cigarette Burns was one of the best, however.

Actually, I was very surprised by Stuart Gordan's entries. Dreams in the Witch House and The Black Cat were easily among my favorite, despite never really liking a lot of his previous works (outside of Re-Animator and From Beyond).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: MaryJane on March 11, 2011, 04:14:51 PM
The Karate Kid(2010) 7.5/10
Pretty good, but the begining was slow, (minor spoiler alert) and I didn't like how quickly his girlfriend's father changed his mind. I understand not breaking a promise but he could have been a little more stern or disappointed about it.

The Ghost Writer: 8/10
Interesting movie that was kind of a slap in the face to Tony Blair. The ending was the best part, and the movie kept a good pace despite having two oddly obvious parts that took too long develop considering how obvious they were.

In the Line of Fire 7/10
Decent movie that was too long. The character building was too obvious, but the meat of the movie was good, and makes some of the movie's weaker moments bearable.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on March 11, 2011, 05:02:47 PM
Dreams in the Witch house is the Lovecraft one right? That one was pretty good
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: MaryJane on March 12, 2011, 11:53:38 AM
Next Avengers: Heroes of Tomorrow 7.9/10

Just watched this at a friend's house. He DVR'd it last night, and I'm glad he did. I never heard it of before, and I thought because it was about the children of the Avengers, it would be corny, but it was actually quite good. There were some things I didn't like, which is why I gave it a 7.9, but overall it was good. A lot of good action, and a pretty good story.



 ***Spoiler Alert***
The story is that Ultron killed all the Avengers except for Thor, the Hulk, and Iron Man, who is protecting the kids before they fight Ultron. The children are the son of Black Panther and Storm (from X-Men), the daughter of Thor (Thor went back to Asgard, but makes an appearance in the movie), the son of Captain America and Black Widow, and the son of Giant-Man and the Wasp. The son of Hawkeye comes in later as well.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on March 12, 2011, 07:56:52 PM
The Thing 8/10
Check it out. It's old, but good.

The Thing is my favorite horror movie.  The concept and the amazing puppet sfx are excellent.  I am a huge John Carpenter fan and can't wait to see the new movie that he is making.  He stumbled (into pit of giant spikes covered with poison snakes) with his last movie but after I saw Absolute Fin de la Monde (Masters of Horror) I knew he still had it.

It's not just my favorite horror movie, it's one of my favorite movies, period. It's such a standout story from the perspective of a bunch of guys stuck in a small facility and none of them can trust each other. The effects are beyond effective, especially when you realize that they are all mechanical or stop-motion. I will ALWAYS appreciate traditional special effects more than CG effects. I bought the PS2 "sequel" game, and it's quite good too. The story takes a turn, and it's not clear why there are so many new Things, and the "trust" system is half-assed, BUT for fans of the film, it's a nice trip down memory lane, and most of the Thing creatures are pretty awesome.

The prequel to the film, which should come out in October, will be about the Norwegian camp. I'm effing stoked.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: RABicle on March 13, 2011, 01:13:41 AM
Catfish 3/5
So I watched it thinking it was a fake documentary and it came off as a bit underwhelming with an ending that sort of fizzled out. And then the credits rolled and I thought "wait a minute, the movie was real!!" So I check some online things and yeah, according to the creators it is all true. It just seems too impossible though, the way they picked up the mail and ****.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on March 13, 2011, 01:21:01 AM
They claim it is true, but there are a lot of skeptics. Remember that the creators of The Blair Witch Project claimed that was true too.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on March 13, 2011, 02:06:01 PM
I recently watched two movies I didn't expect to be good, but were surprisingly decent: Tangled and How to Train Your Dragon.  I get the feeling that Disney Animation was under heavy pressure to finally keep pace with Pixar, because Tangled is a gorgeous movie.  The backgrounds are fantastically rendered, and the human characters are designed in a very Pixar-esque style.  Unfortunately, the movie is bogged down with a fairly lame main villain; pretty terrible songs (at least there's only about 3-4 of them); and some odd design decisions (like having a horse that pretty clearly has the personality of a dog).  One odd thing as well is that Rapunzel's hair seems to grow and shrink over the course of the movie, which really bugged me in terms of continuity.  It's not a great movie, but it's far better than I expected and would have been a great deal better if Disney hadn't insisted on it being a musical.

As for How to Train your Dragon, it's the first good CG movie I've seen out of Dreamworks (no, I didn't like the Shrek movies and I haven't seen Kung Fu Panda).  It doesn't look as good as Tangled, but it has a unique art design of its own.  No one in this movie breaks out in singing, something I greatly appreciate after decades of Disney's animated musicals.  There's some really unappealing monster design in the dragons and I really did not care for the voice of the main character (it's the same obnoxious guy from Sorcerer's Apprentice using the same obnoxious voice), but really my only big problem with this movie is that it's extremely by-the-books.  The movie goes exactly where you think it's going to go based on the general story concept, and it doesn't really do much to surprise.  That said, I was very happy with the fact that the overly-sappy ending was still somewhat bittersweet, as for once there actually is a negative consequence for the hero's actions in the story.

I don't think I'd watch either of these movies again, but both are fine movies in their own right despite not being particularly memorable.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on March 13, 2011, 02:27:13 PM
Battle: Los Angeles. I had a friend who rated it poorly, i didn't agree. I'd give it an 8/10. Its a very difficult film to rate though. Im sure it wont be as good on repeat viewings. Good Popcorn movie.

After.life 8.5/10 pretty good movie, plus Christina Ricci is like naked most of it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 13, 2011, 02:59:25 PM
After.life 8.5/10 pretty good movie, plus Christina Ricci is like naked most of it.

So was she alive the whole time or was it all in his imagination(or possibly communicating with the dead)?
I'm pretty sure I've mentioned this movie on here somewhere. It wasn't too long ago that I watched it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on March 13, 2011, 03:53:58 PM
Brüno - Great movie, even better than Borat (not gonna type out the full title). Really funny and pushes the envelope, I could have done without the scene where he does the focus group (those who saw the movie know what is problem). The audio commentary was pretty interesting and they share stories of how they had to do things like sneak out the fire escape of a hotel to avoid police (because of Cohen got arrested he could lose his tour visa) and how the army soldiers knew who he was for 4 hours but didn't tell their CO's because they aren't allowed to talk.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on March 13, 2011, 04:20:31 PM


After.life 8.5/10 pretty good movie, plus Christina Ricci is like naked most of it.


So was she alive the whole time or was it all in his imagination(or possibly communicating with the dead)?
I'm pretty sure I've mentioned this movie on here somewhere. It wasn't too long ago that I watched it.




lol way to spoil the movie....

The Mortician is a Serial Killer
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 13, 2011, 04:25:20 PM
I didn't spoil anything?

I asked what everyone is wondering the entire time of the movie. I didn't answer it.
I thought the same thing as you, but then I wasn't so sure. And I think that's exactly how they wanted the movie to be.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on March 13, 2011, 04:33:33 PM

i think its pretty clear when you see the kid putting the living chick into the ground

They take the stand that the people are living meaningless worthless lives, and are just wasting air, plus the mortician keeps injecting the girl as soon as she starts to get out of her funk. The reason why she has these weird visions is because she's psychotic to begin with and is off her meds. Had the people tried to live less shallow boring lives than they wouldn't have targeted them. Its sorta like the misanthropic philosophy of jigsaw from saw. Those people weren't living life to the fullest, so his strategy was to see if people would do anything to survive. Or when Tyler Durdan pours lye on the hand of the narrator, and he's telling the narrator that he should rather feel the pain rather than zone out. There's living, and then there's existing. Two different things.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 13, 2011, 04:51:04 PM
I don't remember the details of the movie as I watched it in 3 separate sessions (late late nite watching), so I might have missed a few things. But that scene with the boy was at the end right?

But I saw everytime he would inject her, and then there were times when she was walking around and she never really tried to escape. There was even a moment when her BF was on the other side of the door and she was standing right there and didn't call out to him. So it made me wonder if maybe she was actually dead and her spirit could communicate with the mortician or he was keeping her in some sort of comatose state where she was having an out-of-body experience or some sort of astral projection, but if she was actually conscious, moving around and had the ability to speak, then why wouldn't she let her BF know she was alright and to save her from this lunatic?

Either it was poorly written or they were trying to make me second guess on whether she was alive or not.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on March 13, 2011, 05:28:51 PM

originally, i had thought he was a psychic as well. That he just talked to the dead, but then it becomes clear as day that he's just some sick bastard who preys on people. He pulls a Dexter thing and keeps photographs on the wall, much similar to how Dexter keeps blood samples of his victims. The girl probably could have escaped, but the point of it was she just didn't have the will to. She was just sort of a hazy depressed life of a person. He plays with his victims and slowly breaks their will. At first he says that the people are dead, but then he tells everyone that they are not living. In his eyes if they are not living than they might as well be dead. In the end of the movie Ricci wakes up and is gasping for air and trying to get out of her coffin. The drugs have worn off. Long is on his way to save her, but Neeson creates another car crash scenario. Now long is the next victim. I could see it being second guessed, but the mortician says some things that are straight up serial killer. The hallucinations also make the second guess even easier. I've seen it twice, and on second viewing it seems even more obvious he's a serial killer. and yeah the scene with the boy is at the end. Its during the funeral reception, he tells the little chicken "its better this way" Neeson is training this kid to be his serial killing apprentice. Then again im not really saying it still can't be looked at in both ways. Its definately not as weird as American Psycho though....
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on March 13, 2011, 06:50:08 PM
Did she (Christina Ricci) gain all her weight back? Because she's effing skinny now. Has been ever since Black Snake Moan. Remember when she had meat on her bones? She was sooooo hawt.

Anyway.

The wife and I watched Paranormal Activity 2 last night. We both enjoyed the first one, but the second one is a prequel that screws up the continuity established in the first movie. In the first movie, Katie kept emphasizing how haunted SHE was as a kid, but in this prequel, she keeps saying how much her sister (the subject of the film) was haunted. Makes no sense. Also, the movie has a sort of "Nightmare in Metroid Fusion/Other M" feeling about it. Given that all this was happening at the sister's house before the first movie, shouldn't Katie have been like "boy, this is just like what happened at my sister's house" DURING the first movie?

However, the film does establish the demon's intentions (sort of) and it goes into what happened after the ending of the first movie.

The only thing that really distracts this time around is that the sister is played by Sprague Grayden (that's her real name), who is an established actress--most notably from the TV show Jericho.

Some good scares, though. Like the first movie, it's best when viewed in a dark room with the sound up and a roomfull of people.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 13, 2011, 07:14:30 PM
Did she (Christina Ricci) gain all her weight back? Because she's effing skinny now. Has been ever since Black Snake Moan. Remember when she had meat on her bones? She was sooooo hawt.

(http://i.imgur.com/gCEyL.png)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on March 13, 2011, 11:07:30 PM
Sorry but dead chicks just doesn't do anything for me.  :-\
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 13, 2011, 11:25:41 PM
She is just laying on a table.... that's from the first 20 minutes of the movie.

Here is a pic from twice as far into the movie.
(http://i.imgur.com/4QYsk.png)

It's up on Netflix Instant Watch, for those wondering where I'm getting the screen shots from.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on March 14, 2011, 03:58:05 AM
Devil. The first of the Night Chronicles written and produced by M. Knight Shyamalan. First decent movie he has done in awhile. Three Stars
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on March 14, 2011, 01:17:23 PM
Devil 7.8/10 pretty good people stuck in an elevator movie

Blackout 6.5/10 pretty decent people stuck in an elevator movie

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on March 14, 2011, 01:29:54 PM
I hated Devil. That movie blew. The SHYAMALAN twist sucked.

I think I know why Avatar sucked. It was because he was focused on making this as well.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on March 16, 2011, 01:46:46 AM
Battle: LA 9/10

I was very surprised at how much I liked this movie, considering I thought it would blow hard; and I'm not even sure why. The action was pretty fucking good and the whole film was surprisingly emotional which gave it a bonus point because it wasn't all about the action.

I wouldn't say it's a day one dvd purchase, but it's definitely a purchase.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on March 16, 2011, 02:21:05 AM
Theres a lot of negative press on Battle: LA, I think sure the plot is pretty Cliché, but **** it. I enjoyed it, and I want to see sequels!!!! I suppose the biggest complaint is you see a lot of people shooting at nothing and getting shot at by nothing, well its an alien invasion movie critics. The less you see of the aliens the better. Use your imagination. Also, I think it helps to have seen Black Hawk Down, which i saw right before suddenly there were previews for this movie everywhere. Very clever whoever set that up.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: RagnaBlade on March 16, 2011, 11:59:52 AM
The King's Speech was excellent. 10!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: MaryJane on March 17, 2011, 12:26:15 PM
Women in Trouble: 8/10
Should've been called Women in Bras. Good movie that showed a few different stories about different women struggling through different life situations (pregnancy, cheating husband, forbidden love, and estranged (sort of) daughter). All of the women except one, including Adrienne Palicki (sp?), Carla Gugino, and the girl from Entourage who plays Eric's girlfriend, ended up in their bras. Sounds generic and purely sexual and I only watched because Carla Gugino was in it, and I was wondering why an actress of her caliber would do such a movie, but it turned out to be a good movie. It was very well acted, and the stories were all authentic, relatable (made so by the acting), and touching. The bra'd up boobs were icing on a what was already a pretty good cake.


War Don Don: 8.8/10
HBO documentary about the atrocities that took place in Sierra Leon from 1991-2002 and the trials that took place afterwards. The best thing about this documentary is that they interviewed the defense lawyers, the prosecutors, some key witnesses, and one of the highest ranked accused commanders of the RUF. I'm not going to get into the issues, but I definitely see those issues in a new light because of this documentary.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 20, 2011, 12:50:36 AM
I'm currently in the middle of a movie theater marathon. About to start movie #3.

#1: Battle Los Angeles -i enjoyed it and look forward to a sequel if they make one. Battle Tokyo anyone? I'd give it a 8/10. I had to minus half a Point for a stupid decision made by a commanding officer get on the freeway!? Really. Any idiot would know not to do that, especially on an LA freeway.

#2: Limitless - I would kill for some of what he's taking. To hell with the side effects. Decent movie overall. About a 7.5/10; the endless zoom fx they kept using was really trying to make me sick though.

#3: Red Riding Hood - I'll let you know when its over. Its about to start any minute now.
I wasn't sure what to expect from this movie, but it turned into to whodunit clue murder mystery pretty damn quick. I was really hoping that this movie would be one of those that tries to blatantly mislead you the entire time only to have it be the most obvious person that you were hoping it would be. I'm obviously not gonna say if this movie was that or not, but lets just say that it was better than expected and pretty enjoyable overall. Kinda a love story, but much more murder mystery monster movie stuffed into the dressing of an old fairy tale for name recognitions sake. They actually really tried to sell this as a new spin on Red Riding Hood and even threw in a few direct references to the fairytale story, actually forced in would be more appropriate in some cases.  Now that I'm thinking about it, it's quite obvious that the original concept of this movie had nothing to do with the title and the connection was for nothing more than name recognition. But over all it was a decent werewolf movie.
My main gripe, besides the shoe horning of Red Riding Hood story lines into the movie, was the fact that a bunch of villagers would leave town to hunt down a wolf that came to them on any night that they left a sacrifice out for it. Why go to him when he already comes to you? ou already have the advantage of home turf and surprise attack. stupid villagers.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on March 20, 2011, 12:54:01 AM
i haven't seen limitless yet, but id give the trailer a 9/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on March 20, 2011, 03:28:42 PM
Tales from Earthsea - I'm not the biggest fan of either Gibli or Miyazaki.  Sure, they've made films I've enjoyed, some I've ever loved (Porco Rosso, Kiki's Delivery Service).  However, over time I've grown to dislike Hayao Miyazaki's work since his movies are so predictable in setup once you understand a few things about him:

1.  He hates technology.
2.  He loves nature.
3.  He loves flight.

As a result, his movies often becomes monotonous and increasingly tedious animated lectures on how MAN now longer "lives in balance with nature" since, you know, we have the audacity to advance technologically.  The "Walt Disney of Japan", indeed.   ::)

This is the first movie directed by Miyazaki's son Goro and if there's one good thing I can say about it, it's that he doesn't sink into the pro-environmental rants his father does.  That still doesn't make this movie "good", but at least I don't feel like the director is using the movie as a platform to rant at me.  This movie's a narrative mess, a combination of bits and pieces of the first 4 Earthsea novels.  The characters aren't very likeable, especially the "main" character (and I use that term loosly) as he just spends nearly the entire movie in Emo mode moping.  The villain...exists, but it's astonishing how both he and the men he commands are so incredibly dim.  The plotting and pacing of the movie is pretty poor and full of nonsensical plot twists and holes, taking far too long for any of the protagonists to take notable action and making the movie hard to sit through.  The animation is decent, though there aren't any particular moments in the movie where it stands out.  There's some pretty decent Celtic music, though.

On a final note, I see that Gibli is still woefully incapable of drawing any more than the 3-4 male and female designs they've been using since Nausicaa (their first movie).  Before this movie, I thought perhaps that was just a Hayao Miyazaki thing.  Gibli really needs to get a new character designer, because this is just embarassing now.

Overall, Tales from Earthsea isn't "terrible", but it's just filled with problems and not a terribly interesting movie once you look past the meta story of the son trying to live up to his legendary father.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on March 20, 2011, 05:00:36 PM
The Last Exorcism 8.5/10 I think I forgot to rate this when I watched it, but this was pretty awesome. I watched it 2.5 times so I got a pretty good look at it.

Piranah 3D 7/10 Entertaining, i wish i saw it in 3d
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: MaryJane on March 20, 2011, 06:41:27 PM
MacGruber: 8.7/10
Extremely funny movie that I liked despite never having seen the SNL skit. I honestly think like 98% of the jokes actually made me laugh. But even though I've never seen the skit before, the movie still had the feeling of being done before.

Old Dogs: 8/10
Pretty funny movie that suffered only from one terrible CGI scene. I avoided watching this because I assumed it was a  typical 'I discover I'm a parent comedy' but it was made original by the bromance between Robin Williams and John Travolta, and their over arching story.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on March 20, 2011, 06:46:34 PM
haha MacGruber, i remember watching that and old people walking out. Made the movie 2000% better.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on March 21, 2011, 11:04:53 AM
LIMITLESS 7/10

Pretty good movie that reminds me of the first time I did molly hahaha. Seriously though I was sharp, focused, and had the exemplary ability to deduct. But onto the movie, I feel like it kinda withered out with no real enemy and no real ultimate goal. The main problem was that he was addicted and couldn't find more. That's it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on March 23, 2011, 01:56:55 AM
Paul: 7/10

Better than I thought. It was a cute movie, not drop dead hilarious but funnier than I expected it to be. There were a few people in the audience who annoyed me, which took me out of the movie; the type that think anything shown in the trailers is comedy gold and laugh the hardest, yet miss some subtle stuff which to me is gold. I end up laughing at some stuff and being the only one laughing making me feel like an idiot. (Jane Lynch insinuating using sex toys was funny dammit!)

For being the title character, Seth Rogen didn't really shine much. He has such a distinct and animated tone yet as an animated character, he felt a little dull. Nick Frost and Simon Peg didn't do much for me either, and their "bromance" was a little annoying. Christen Wiig was ace though, and I was getting tired of seeing her quirky ass on screen so that's saying something.

All in all, this movie was just a little better than average.

Oh and the best part of the movie, by far, was this one specific bar scene. Not because it was funny, but the reaction from 3 guys in the audience - from completely different sides of the theater - were priceless. If you see it, you'll be able to tell who the real nerds are. If you don't notice, you're either not that nerdy to get the reference (good for you!) or you probably are the nerd and way too busy laughing to realize you're the only one.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on March 23, 2011, 02:26:02 AM
I've been playing a lot of games lately, and to be honest I'm kind of burned out at the moment so it seemed like a good time to catch up on my video backlog a bit.  That said, I picked up the Blu-Ray of the Back to the Future Trilogy last year, but I only ever got around to rewatching the first movie.  Now that I have a little free time, now seemed as good a time as any to rewatch my favorite movie in the trilogy: Back to the Future Part 2.  Yeah, it's a bit of the Black Sheep of the 3, something that's very much reflected both in the transfer and the number of new bonus features on the Blu-Ray (the first movie has 3 new documentaries detailing early concepts to box office returns, whereas the second film has one and it's pretty flimsy).  While never as well received as perhaps the other two movies (though I've seen some vocal opposition to Part 3, a movie I've warmed to over the years), I always found the ideas and ambition of the second movie the most interesting in the trilogy.

So how does the HD restoration of Part 2 look on my LCD TV?  Well, I thought the first movie looked fantastic, so utterly clear and vibrant you would think it was just filmed last year.  The second movie has not transitioned so well to HD.  Maybe it's the increase in special effects shots that is the main culprit.  You can clean a print as much as you like, but 1980s video compositing tricks (particularly on the Hoverboards, which up-close look just as fake as that compositing shot from the first movie with Marty and Doc standing in the middle of the flame trails) are just not going to hold up under the cruel scrutiny of the HD lens.  The movie also looks a little desaturated and dim/soft in some areas, though that could be just how the film was shot (or perhaps the masters have degraded worse than the first's).  For the most part, the film looks great, and like the first movie it also looks like it could have been filmed 2 years ago instead of over 20.  There is something to be said for the power of practical effects, so for the most part the movie still holds up quite well.  I do suspect, though, that the first movie got the lion's share of the restoration budget.

I'll be watching Back to the Future Part 3 probably tomorrow.  Also, I have to admit I splurged a little and scooped up a good deal on Amazon: $65 for the Blu-Ray set of the first 6 Star Trek movies.  I haven't seen any of these movies in at least a decade, so I'll be rewatching all 6 sometime in the next week or so.  And yes, that includes the first movie and Star Trek 5.  I want to see if maybe I can appreciate them a bit more now that I'm much older, or if they truly are utter garbage like I remember.  Sadly, the Next Generation movies Blu-Ray set has not seen the kind of discounts I've seen for the original 6, so those movies will have to be on the backburner for a while (yes, I know only Generations and especially First Contact were any good, but I like having all the movies).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on March 23, 2011, 02:38:55 AM
actually i thought the general consensus was that 2 was more liked than 3, or were you talking about as in terms of bonus features. I actually like them all pretty equally.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on March 23, 2011, 02:47:39 AM
actually i thought the general consensus was that 2 was more liked than 3, or were you talking about as in terms of bonus features. I actually like them all pretty equally.

I've seen contrasting opinions on Part 2 and Part 3, but the view I've seen more is that Part 2 is "too dark" and "loses the spirit of the first movie."  Even Zemekis laments that it's the movie he wishes he could have spent more time on, when most of his attention was on Part 3 by the time Part 2 was wrapping up.  By contrast, people seem to view the 3rd movie as "going back to what made the first movie so good" and whatnot.  I'm guessing the big polarizing thing is that movies 1 and 3 are romantic comedies whereas movie 2 is a dark comedy, where the emphasis is on just how screwed-up and twisted things can become. 

Personally, I didn't like the 3rd movie so much as a kid.  I grew up in Utah, a state that's pretty much one big desert and assorted farm land.  I'm pretty much predisposed to hate Westerns, especially because of the lack of technology; dirt; and the color brown in general.  Over time, I've grown to appreciate the levity and balance that the 3rd movie brings to trilogy: the first movie focuses on Marty's parents, the second film on Marty himself, and the third film on the Doc.  So now while it's still my least-favorite movie in the trilogy, I like the third one just fine now.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: NWR_insanolord on March 23, 2011, 10:04:56 AM
Except for Wrath of Khan, the Star Trek movies aren't especially great looking on Bluray. They only fully remastered Star Trek II; they used a different method for the others. Still better than SD, but not that huge of an improvement. Also, they're the theatrical cuts, meaning the original lacks the changes from the DVD release that really improved it (by cutting certain things that didn't add anything and made the movie longer for no reason), Wrath of Khan doesn't have the scene with Scotty's nephew, and Undiscovered Country doesn't have a few small things they added to make the conspiracy plot easier to follow.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on March 23, 2011, 10:10:43 AM
Am I the only person alive who liked Insurrection?  Granted, it could have been done as a two-part episode and all... but, overall, I felt it was a good story.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: NWR_insanolord on March 23, 2011, 10:20:51 AM
It's probably my third- or fourth-least favorite Trek movie, but it's a far cry from TMP and Final Frontier. It certainly had its moments, and I like that it came up with a new villain instead of rehashing someone we'd seen before.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ejamer on March 23, 2011, 12:11:01 PM
In the Mood for Love - Very strong film.  Well worth watching if you are patient and enjoy character studies.  Ending suited the film perfectly.  My wife fell asleep early on but I'm glad I spent the time to watch the rest anyway.
8 out of 10



7 Samurai - Well-deserved classic status.  This movie hits all the right notes and is surprisingly watchable even today, despite being 3.5 hours long.  Anyone who hasn't watched it should; anyone who has should consider revisiting.
9 out of 10


Babel - My wife liked this movie more than I did, and was still thinking about the themes of communication and love and loss the next day.  I enjoyed the film and thought it was worth watching, but probably wouldn't care to watch it again.
7 out of 10


Barney: Let's Go to the Zoo - Well... it's Barney, and there are animals, and singing.  Not going to win any awards, but my baby girl danced and laughed so I guess this gets a passing grade.  Not really recommended for audiences over 5 though.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on March 23, 2011, 12:26:13 PM
Insurrection is 3rd worse and is lucky not to get any lower due to the sheer number of groan inducing line of humour. It's full of shoehorned, boring, convoluted "Action". Making this a 2 part episode would have been a stretch given how weak the script is. It has barely enough bone to fill one episode, let alone any meat. I would elevate this to 4th worse above the wasted opportunity that was Generations if they had enough guts to give Picard hair.

I can not fault Jonathan Frakes for this movie. He gave us First Contact and he is a proven director. I don't believe anyone could have saved this without throwing the entire movie out the window.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 23, 2011, 03:06:27 PM
I Spit On Your Grave (2010) - Better than I expected

It starts off really similar to the original and then takes loses the cheese factor and gets a little more gruesome than I remember the original being, might have also changed a little bit of the offending cast, but I can say it is not a shot for shot type of remake. At times the main chick made me think "that's what I imagined Kristen Stewart would have looked like if she didn't get.... unattractive". Also the gay guy from Mean Girls was in this movie too. I enjoyed it... more so because I think my girl is turned on by socially unacceptable movies (that's partially why I keep on watching them), but it was pretty good for what it was.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 23, 2011, 07:45:34 PM
All-Star Superman - Well that's about 1.5 hrs of my life I will be billing WB/DC Animations for.

Lame. there really isn't much more to say about it and I think someone else pretty much covered it in this thread already. I won't waste anymore breath on it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on March 23, 2011, 08:19:50 PM
All-Star Superman - Well that's about 1.5 hrs of my life I will be billing WB/DC Animations for.

Lame. there really isn't much more to say about it and I think someone else pretty much covered it in this thread already. I won't waste anymore breath on it.

Well, you can't say I didn't already warn you about it.  Did you see the same problem that I did: the issue wasn't with the individual stories of the movie but how they're all rushedly mashed together?  This should have been 2-3 movies, not one.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 23, 2011, 10:01:41 PM
I could have done without certain elements of a few stories.


The WHOLE sun thing (sun poisoner, sun eater and sun unpoisoning), Luther having anything to do with it (knowing Superman could take a lethal overdose of yellow sun radiation was a stretch as it was, knowing an creature from somewhere so far out into space that you would have never known it existed, and then having a way to communicate with it and having something that it wants is beyond the limit of disbelief I was willing to lend towards this "movie"), and a loyal robot being able to betray and then redeem it's self through sacrifice when no one had any access to it in the first place. I thought no one, including the robots could get in or out of the fortress since they would need a key that only the 4X stronger SUPER Radiated Superman was able to lift, but I might have over assumed that point even though he made a point of being 4x stronger and now only he can lift the key. I'm still not sure why Jimmy Olsens watch signal would cause the female Krypotian to fall ill immediately and the other male Kryptonian to fall ill afterwards yet Superman was still alive and healthy or why The Phantom Zone was a sick free zone and why Superman wouldn't go there himself if it could prevent him from dying. How would LL get the syrum when it was made specifically for Lois Lane's DNA and no one at the prison could have delivered it for his last request. I also didn't care for the overly sappy love story behind all of it. I almost turned it off when Lois got all paranoid in the fortress, but then they explained it on side effects and what not, so I kept watching... but i should have turned it off and just assumed that was the worst of it. I didn't even get into Samson and his buddy.


there are you happy, now I've wasted more breath on it :P:
It was overall very uninteresting, very rushed and shouldn't have been made.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on March 24, 2011, 12:30:30 AM
Paul

I'd give it the same score as EC did, but I was severely disappointed. Considering it's from the same people that made Shaun of the Dead with Seth Rogen, I was expecting at least Hot Fuzz level of funny. Instead, I got a kinda funny, satirical version of E.T.

I only laughed twice. Once when the agent yelled "MOTHER FUCKING TITTY SUCKING SON OF A BITCH!" and when someone was dying "I really liked this shirt."

That's it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on March 24, 2011, 12:34:50 AM
I finished-up Back to the Future Part 3 earlier today.  I've already given my opinion on the movie, so I'll just focus on the Blu-Ray.  As I expected, being the newest of the 3 movies it also has the best transfer.  There are some minor issues when the Hoverboard is on-screen, but overall the movie looks quite lovely with all the warm colors and clear details.  This movie got one new documentary that's as flimsy as the one for Part 2, but there's one last documentary looking at the Trilogy as a whole that works nicely enough.  It even briefly looks at the Back to the Future ride (all the footage of which is also on the Blu-Ray, with the ride footage composited behind an animated version of the ride's dashboard, to simulate the feel of the ride), though oddly enough does not even mention the then-upcoming Telltale game.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on March 24, 2011, 02:22:40 AM
Insurrection is 3rd worse and is lucky not to get any lower due to the sheer number of groan inducing line of humour. It's full of shoehorned, boring, convoluted "Action". Making this a 2 part episode would have been a stretch given how weak the script is. It has barely enough bone to fill one episode, let alone any meat. I would elevate this to 4th worse above the wasted opportunity that was Generations if they had enough guts to give Picard hair.

I can not fault Jonathan Frakes for this movie. He gave us First Contact and he is a proven director. I don't believe anyone could have saved this without throwing the entire movie out the window.

Insurrection is terrible, but to its credit it at least feels like a Star Trek product.  Watching Nemesis was just such a bizarre experience.  It's one of the few movies where I've felt compelled in the theater to say something to the movie ("Well so much for the Prime Directive!" at the idiotic Dune Buggy scene).  Usually, I reserve the commentary for the DVD or Blu-Ray.  Then you have the oh-so-subtle half-assed rip-off of Wrath of Khan and...yeah...terrible movie.  It's a pity that Nemesis torpedoed the Star Trek franchise as much as it did, as I would have liked to see them do something with Enterprise outside of the TV series.  And then we got the new movie, which looks like such a different experience than Star Trek that I still can't bring myself to check it out.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on March 24, 2011, 05:12:56 AM
Nemesis got me shouting in the theater "Motherfuckers killed Data!". A much of a low blow as it was, it elected a far stronger emotional response than Insurrection or Generations. It contained numerous cool scenes and some well done stunts. It had the actors chewing scenery. A lot of the themes were pretty Star Treky with both Picard and Data facing their darker/inferior selves. The script was far closer to Undiscovered Country than WOK, but had blended elements from both.

The problem was the Director, Stuart Baird, who is normally a pretty good editor, but as far as I could tell had not director experience and in the commentary was Proud over knowing nothing about Star Trek. It had a far better script than Generations or Insurrection and had if being given to a director who gave a damn, TNG could have gotten it swan song it deserved.

I feel Nemesis gets judged overly harsh as it followed Insurrection which lost a lot of good will and quite frankly by that time Star Trek had gotten tired. While Enterprise was the nail in the coffin, you can blame the state of Star Trek on the people who conceived and crashed Voyager, so you can blame Star Treks demise on Janeway. Even Kate Mulgrew felt her character had gone insane and played her as such.

TNG only came away with one excellent film, First Contact. Everything else ranged from Mediocre (Nemesis) to Terrible (Insurrection).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: NWR_insanolord on March 24, 2011, 09:14:52 AM
Nicholas Meyer knew nothing about Star Trek when he was hired to make Wrath of Khan, but he had the sense to go back and watch it before making the movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on March 24, 2011, 12:29:03 PM
Legion 7/10 pretty entertaining
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 27, 2011, 02:44:32 PM
Ahhh!!! Zombies!!! - 6/10

The original premise for this movie is kinda funny and the first 30 minutes or so handled it well, but then it just got really cheesy as they had to progress the story and have some sort of ending. The idea behind this movie is that we see the stuff from the perspective of the zombies, only the zombies don't know that they are zombies, they think everyone else is infected with something. It's a decent watch if you're looking for a different kind of zombie flick and you're into B-movies that don't have million dollar budgets. I just ran across this last nite as I was looking for something to stream on Netflix Instant watch.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on March 27, 2011, 02:56:38 PM
Hall Pass - 7.5/10
After seeing Steven Merchant on Conan show a clip, I changed all of my pre-conceptions about this film and went to see it with my wife last night. It was actually quite hilarious and pretty original compared to many comedies from the last several years. It's not a chick flick by any means, but it should be enjoyable for women (my wife liked it), also it shows a black dude's shlong, so that's always win-win.

Paranormal Activity - 7/10
Pretty creepy movie, I watched it on Netflix with the "theatrical ending" I believe, which was actually kind of stupid, but the rest of the movie was freaky as Hell.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on March 28, 2011, 12:22:02 PM
I feel Nemesis gets judged overly harsh as it followed Insurrection which lost a lot of good will and quite frankly by that time Star Trek had gotten tired. While Enterprise was the nail in the coffin, you can blame the state of Star Trek on the people who conceived and crashed Voyager, so you can blame Star Treks demise on Janeway. Even Kate Mulgrew felt her character had gone insane and played her as such.

Nemesis was more of a Star Trek film that that latest crap from JJ Abrams, at least. :P

I liked Voyager all the way through. It had its problems, but was pretty consistent. Sure, the characters started out cheesy, but so did TNG. Really, the only issues I have with Voyager when looking back on it are twofold: Janeway knew everything. She was a jack-of-all-trades, instead of relying on her crew as other captains would have. Also, they kind of watered down the Borg by the end of the series. There were some pretty awesome Borg episodes, but they were practically declawed after so many loosing encounters with Voyager.

For me, I felt Star Trek started to slip towards the end of Deep Space Nine. I always felt that the characters and situations were a little dull on that series, but the last two or three seasons were ridiculously boring. Far-reaching war story arch? Switching out Dax at the last second? Going hogwild with Sisko's whacky cult status? Turning Dukat into Satan-incarnate? ...Yeah.

Likewise, I thought Enterprise was good until they again introduced a serialized war story. It immediately became boring at that point. I could complain about the inconsistencies in continuity, but the "temporal cold war" explains that away easily enough, I suppose.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on March 28, 2011, 02:05:47 PM
Has anyone seen Sucker Punch yet? I'm seriously debating going to see it in IMAX 3D, but I do not want to be disappointed. I don't mind if the story takes a backseat to the draw dropping visuals (the reason I would go in the first place), but I don't want to be bored before and after each action sequence.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 28, 2011, 02:18:19 PM
reviews have been pretty rotten, but according to the previews, it looks like my type of movie.
But no, I haven't seen it yet, although it has been on my Netflix list since atleast 6 months ago
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on March 29, 2011, 05:09:46 AM
The final season of DS9 did slip up, but it was a given considering how fantastic the previous seasons were, I doubt they could keep up with themselves. The writes had no choice regarding Dax. Terry wanted out and they couldn't convince her otherwise. What the real tragedy to that story is that she left DS9 for Becker and DS9 couldn't use her even in flashbacks! Unlike Babylon 5 which was almost single handedly written by J. Michael Straczynski, he planned an "Out" for each and every character and also an "In" for a possible return, so no one person were ever indispensable or completely expendable.

JJ Trek really falls over on repeated viewings. It has plot holes large enough to shove a planet through. The fucking lights makes me feel like Picard in the episode with the four lights. Camera SHAKE! Terrible villain. Most of the movie had more similarities to Mission Impossible 3 than Star Trek.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: NWR_insanolord on March 29, 2011, 06:56:08 AM
I thought DS9 did a great job of tying things up at the end, way better than most shows. Jadzia leaving sucked, but as you said, there was nothing they could do, and bringing in Ezri worked a hell of a lot better than I expected it to.

My one real issue with the DS9 finale is Sisko's ending. Unless I'm remembering wrong, it said he wouldn't be with the Prophets forever and that he would be back, but if that's true he should have been back immediately given that they exist outside of linear time. He could spend all the time he needed with them, and then they could put him back in his office on the station five minutes after he left.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on March 29, 2011, 12:49:07 PM
yeah, i always wanted to get into Babylon 5.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on March 29, 2011, 03:57:53 PM
District B13 and B13 U

8/10

Both movies feature some awesome Parkour, but may favorite scenes always revolved in someway someone being slammed into the ground from a story high. Both plots are of the decent, nothing special affair. But they get the job done. All in all pretty entertaining martial arts movies.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on March 29, 2011, 06:03:21 PM
The writes had no choice regarding Dax. Terry wanted out and they couldn't convince her otherwise.

Oh, I know. I don't fault them for getting rid of Jadzia. It was clearly beyond their control. I think they should have let the character rest however, instead of immediately introducing Ezri. I thought that Ezri was actually pretty interesting, but she wasn't given enough time due to the show itself coming to an end. Besides, it seemed a little weird that the Symbiosis Commission would have allowed Ezri to go right back to DS9 to work. It seems like it would have been toeing the line on living a new, unique life.


Most of [JJ Abram's Star Trek] had more similarities to Mission Impossible 3 than Star Trek.

That's kind of ironic, given that Brannon Braga was one of the primary writers for Mission Impossible 2.

For me, Abram's Star Trek was just too generic. It was all action and flashy effects with practically no substance. It also had one of the weakest villains I've ever seen in any film, Star Trek or otherwise. The only real plus I can think of is that it had Leonard Nimoy in it, and that the Klingons looked pretty damn awesome in the deleted scenes.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on March 29, 2011, 06:04:29 PM
yeah, i always wanted to get into Babylon 5.

It's a decent show, but honestly if you're looking for that kind of show I'd just stick with Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.  My best friend had me see the entirety of Babylon 5, and honestly it's not that great.  The CG's aged extremely poorly (at the time, DS9 was still using models), the acting is often pretty campy, the sets and costumes/makeup are somewhat weak, and the writing's kind of goofy at times (example: "What's going on here?" "BOOM!  BOOM!  BOOM!BOOM!BOOM!").  I give the show credit for having story arcs that span multiple seasons, but oftentimes I didn't find the resolution of those arcs that satisfying.  There are also visible seams in the show where you can see that something didn't go according to plan (like the original head of the station leaving the show after season 1 or the show getting an extra season that wasn't planned for), and the writing doesn't quite make it work.

I picked up Evangelion 2.22 today and my Star Trek Motion Picture Collection arrived yesterday.  I've been watching the "Captain's Summit" roundtable interview and it's pretty cool.  It's just William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frankes, and Whoopie Goldberg sitting around shooting the breeze.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: King of Twitch on March 29, 2011, 08:34:39 PM
That roundtable sounds great ^

I'm still trying to figure out why the Romulans in the last 2 ST movies are bald tattooed guys in leather. That really broke the believability for me.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on March 29, 2011, 08:54:35 PM
TI'm still trying to figure out why the Romulans in the last 2 ST movies are bald tattooed guys in leather. That really broke the believability for me.

They've only been that way in JJ Abrams' film.

Perhaps you've confused the Reman from Nemesis with the Romulans?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: King of Twitch on March 29, 2011, 09:00:12 PM
They all look the same to me.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on March 29, 2011, 09:02:15 PM
They all look the same to me.

Racist.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on March 30, 2011, 01:31:48 AM
While I was in picking up my Evangelion 2.22 Blu-Ray (which is next on my watch list), I noticed my local MovieStop was selling quite a few Blu-Rays for $10.  I ended up walking out with the Blu-Ray Skynet Edition of Terminator 2 (which I now read has video issues.  Joy.) and the Blu-Ray of the two animated Ultimate Avengers movies.

I actually saw the two Avengers animated movies years ago when they first released.  At the time, I had never heard of the Avengers, let alone their Ultimates counterparts.  At the time, I couldn't really get into the movies, as I was and am a big Spider-man fan and I couldn't understand why I should care about a team that has superficially lame members like Giant Man and The Wasp when you could have ass-kickers like Spider-man.  I also remember finding the animation and villains pretty underwhelming.

Well, it's been quite a few years later and I am much more knowledgeable about these characters (and have actually read a good 6 or so issues of the Ultimates comic book).  Watching these movies now, I do enjoy them more now for what they are, but objectively they are pretty weak.  The main villains of both movies are Nazi aliens (yes, seriously), and as Film Brain would say "when you need to add substance to your ****ty movie, just add Nazis!"  Their motivations are weak and nonsensical (why do they need vibranium when their entire race seems to be made of it?), and the parts of the original comic changed to accommodate them are nowhere near as strong or interesting as in the original comics.  So yeah...no attempted superhero manslaughter or sex-crazed Hulk now.  I can't say I miss the latter, but the conflict introduced by the former was interesting in the original story.

It doesn't help as well that the animation is very weak.  Marvel in general seems to have a problem in these direct-to-DVD "movies" where the animation is drawn extremely flat, with very little shading or shadows to add depth to a shot.  This animation is poor even by 2006 standards, looking like low-budget Korean-drawn television animation.  The Blu-Ray transfer looks decent enough, but this animation is so flat I don't really see a noticeable quality increase over the original DVD transfer.

Still, for its flaws, the movies are enjoyable enough in having some respectable action sequences and decent characterization.  Pity Marvel never continued down this path and actually did more Ultimates movies that go into how severely messed-up that book is.  Oh well, at least we got the pretty-good Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes TV series, which blow these out of the water quite easily.

So...yeah.  On to Evangelion 2.22.  I've been really looking forward to that movie since I was pretty blown-away by the surprisingly awesome 1.11 movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on March 30, 2011, 02:22:13 PM
L.A. Confidential

9/10

God I love movies like this. The acting is top notch; the characters appropriate and well rounded; the nudity, never overtly sexual, but always classy; and the plot intriguing and plausible.

We need more of these types of films.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on March 30, 2011, 04:36:28 PM
Evangelion 2.22 - These Subtitles Are (Not) Silly & Pretentious - Last year, I was pleasantly surprised by the first Evangelion 1.11 movie.  Despite being more than a little too faithful to the original TV series (Gainax literally redrew animation frames from the original series for shot-by-shot identical sequences), I found 1.11 increasingly awesome as it approached its conclusion, slowly changing elements minor and major to set the stage for a seemingly major departure from the original series.  So now comes the highly-hyped Evangelion 2.22, based on sections of probably my favorite period of the TV series (roughly episodes 8-18) and...well, I can't help but feel a little disappointed.  Don't get me wrong: this is definitely a much more enjoyable and much tighter-written film than the TV series often was, with its cast feeling much more like fleshed-out characters than the archetypes they were previously.  And the film is a visual marvel, beautifully drawn and awe-inspiring in the sheer amount of crazy **** thrown up on-screen.

That said, despite the addition of a new EVA pilot and some tonal changes between battles, this film really isn't that different from the TV series its based on.  Characters might be in different places during major events with slightly different roles and the overall story is much tighter, better told, and more interesting, but the movie still hits the same basic story beats and doesn't diverge as much as I had hoped.  I was hoping this newer, more optimistic film series might be shying away from some of the half-assed (literally, they're just there to "look cool") biblical undertones and technobabble in favor of a more character-based story.  But no, we're still on a collision course with Instrumentality and the ensuing insanity that is remaking the COMPLETELY nonsensical End of Evangelion movie.  The new pilot character certainly had potential to shake things up, but she just flits her way in and out of the movie and in the end we don't really know much about her except that she's a more psychotic version of Asuka.  There's also some really odd musical choices, such as playing this happy little song about friendship while incredibly violent things are happening on-screen, which I suppose is meant to be ironic.

Overall, it's a good movie and a visual spectacle to watch (with an excellent dub that certainly puts the original to shame), but if you've already seen the TV series there just isn't that much new here that really changes the overall story.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Caliban on March 30, 2011, 10:24:45 PM
Why don't they just make a prequel series. This is just milking it too far, and it's all because the fanboys weren't happy with how the TV series ended.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on March 30, 2011, 10:40:19 PM
Why don't they just make a prequel series. This is just milking it too far, and it's all because the fanboys weren't happy with how the TV series ended.

Well, what I don't understand is why, if the whole goal of this project is to create a new Evangelion, why they don't just go all the way and make a new Evangelion?  The new movies are great, but they still cling more or less to the same story as the TV series with very few major changes, just with a happier dynamic between the characters and some revelations rearranged so they occur earlier or slightly differently than they did before.  As for a prequel series, if they were to do that they'd lose their major marketing element in the Evangelions themselves, since the things were in the prototype stages when both the series and movies begin.

I hesitate to call these movies "milking the franchise too far."  Sure, I have issues with the lack of entirely new material in the story, but these are genuinely better experiences than the TV series and they don't feel like a cheap cash-in with the lavish animation and changes to character relationships.  And considering all the crap in anime these days, I don't mind a decade-old franchise returning with a fresh dose of what used to make anime awesome.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Caliban on March 30, 2011, 11:33:02 PM
Quote from: broodwars
Well, what I don't understand is why, if the whole goal of this project is to create a new Evangelion, why they don't just go all the way and make a new Evangelion?

That's why I said that it's milking it too far. It's not new, nor is it just adding some new elements such as animation or plot. It's pure rehash.

Quote from: broodwars
As for a prequel series, if they were to do that they'd lose their major marketing element in the Evangelions themselves, since the things were in the prototype stages when both the series and movies begin.

Well they could focus solely on the Second Impact.

Then they could mention the First Impact, and make a prequel to a prequel. lol I'm kidding.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on March 31, 2011, 12:02:11 AM
Didn't know

Wow...They edited "The King's Speech", i.e. the best picture of 2010, so that it can be re-released under a PG-13 rating. Has this ever happened before? To make matters worse, the funniest part of the movie is when he is egged on to cuss. What the ****!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on March 31, 2011, 12:53:13 AM
I haven't seen Evangelion 2.22 yet, but I hope they are playing chicken with it veering off at the last second from the cliff that is the End of Evangelion. That ending kills(second impact), cremates, launches into the sun any idea for a sequel. They can't make a prequel because they don't have any pilots before that. The first angel was killed via conventional means. You would have a repeat of what we saw in 1.11 opening expect for the dead angel.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Caliban on March 31, 2011, 10:21:32 AM
They can't make a prequel because they don't have any pilots before that.

You don't really need pilots, or EVAs for a prequel.

I'm sticking with the manga to see where it goes. It's done by Yoshiyuki Sadamoto, and there's only 12 volumes so far.
The volumes come out at a really slow pace. The 12th volume took 3 years to be done. VIZ publishes them.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 31, 2011, 12:36:53 PM
127 Hours - 8.5/10

This movie was good and it was based off a true story that I'm sure we all remember. The build up to the moment was good and the actual moment was cringe worthy. I honestly hope that I'm never in a situation like he was, but if it happened, I'd like to think that I could have handled it as well as he did. I thought the whole thing was handled very well.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ejamer on March 31, 2011, 01:27:36 PM
L.A. Confidential

9/10

God I love movies like this. The acting is top notch; the characters appropriate and well rounded; the nudity, never overtly sexual, but always classy; and the plot intriguing and plausible.

We need more of these types of films.


Totally agree, LA Confidential was a great movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 31, 2011, 08:27:31 PM
Sucker Punch - 7.5/10

This is an action movie filled with hotchicks that I think covered most if not all sci-fi/fantasy genres. I'm still not sure what all the details are about what happened because this was some inception fantasy sci-fi action ****, but I was into it the whole entire way.

lots of sfx and the action can be a little hard to follow at time, but its mostly because the slow mo, angle changing and craziness that's going on.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on March 31, 2011, 09:24:39 PM
7.5 isn't bad, but not good enough to shell out IMAX 3D monies.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on March 31, 2011, 09:30:47 PM
Limitless - eh out of 10.

I don't really have much to say about it.. it wasn't bad, it just wasn't that great. I'd like to have some of what he's having though.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on March 31, 2011, 09:34:10 PM
While I've been playing through Infamous (Open World game that barely uses music, so I've been catching up on my podcasts while playing), I watched some movies in the background:

The Truman Show - Much better than I remember it.  Maybe I was just too young to appreciate it before, but the story clicks with me now and it's now quite possibly my favorite Jim Carrey movie (followed by The Mask and Bruce Almighty).  It helps that this is one of those rare "movies with a message" that doesn't beat you over the head with "the message".

Death Becomes Her - Yeah I know...an odd choice for a movie to watch, but it was mentioned on one of the podcasts I listen to and I never had seen the movie.  This is one very strange movie, and sadly it's one that takes too long to get to the truly enjoyable parts (almost an hour in).  When it does, it's a very twisted dark comedy.  The story and its "message" feels like they were ripped from a Twilight Zone episode and stretched out too far, but I suppose it's enjoyable enough.  It has an almost Beetlejuice-esque quality to it I found amusing.  That reminds me...I still need to get that movie on Blu-Ray...
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on March 31, 2011, 09:54:44 PM
My favorite Jim Carey movie is "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind". Truman show is dope though.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on March 31, 2011, 10:06:35 PM
My favorite Jim Carey movie is "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind". Truman show is dope though.

Meh, I never really got into Eternal Sunshine.  Unlike The Truman Show, Eternal Sunshine just feels pretentious, like a movie made for the explicit purpose of being Oscar bait.  Plus, although I think Carrey was excellent in The Truman Show, I don't really like him in dramatic roles (or Bill Murrey, either).  I can understand why people would like the movie, but I just don't enjoy it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on March 31, 2011, 10:09:44 PM
Well Truman Show is much more mainstream.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 31, 2011, 11:05:15 PM
7.5 isn't bad, but not good enough to shell out IMAX 3D monies.

This movie might actually be even better in IMAX 3D to be honest. There are a lot of fantasy fighting moments with slow-mo and objects passing the screen and cameras rotating around the scene. 3D could add to the scenes if 3D is your thing.

I've never watched a IMAX movie, but the visuals in this movie were good, so a little EXPLETIVE and some 3D could really add to it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on March 31, 2011, 11:33:55 PM
Hmm...perhaps your right.

IMAX is the ****, especially in 3D. It's like an old school rollercoaster ride at Universal Studios. Avatar isn't my favorite movie or anything, but during that first few seconds where the movie opens up to a shot flying past a forest, I couldn't help but say "This is the best movie ever" and that was like 10 seconds into the movie.

Try it sometime. Just make sure to pick a winner.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on March 31, 2011, 11:53:50 PM
Currently watching Star Trek: The Motion Picture.  It's adorable that the production team at Paramount thought these effects were convincing (yes, I know the film was rushed and made it to theaters IIRC hours after it was finished), and man they look pretty bad in HD.  I'm pretty unimpressed with this transfer overall.  This looks like a movie from the 70s (and man does it feel like a movie in the 70s, before man discovered pacing.  It's amazing that a film made to ride the coattails of Star Wars apparently learned nothing from it).  Given the film's age, I wouldn't harp on that too much, but when we have seemingly pristine picture quality for the DVDs/Blu-Rays of The Twilight Zone and I Love Lucy (which are over 20 years older), this picture quality from such a repeatedly-milked film is just sad. The live action sequences look fine, if more than a bit blurry in a few shots, but boy do those special effects outer space sequences love their grain and cheesy-looking late-70s video compositing.  Something I'm actually surprised is bothering me right now is Jerry Goldsmith's score.  I love the Next Generation/Motion Picture theme, but I'm 16 minutes into the movie and I've already heard that fanfare something like 3-4 times now.  Please, Jerry...knock it off, I beg of you!  And that VGER electric guitar "TWANG!" makes me smirk every time I hear it in its total cheesiness.

Something I hadn't noticed before but kind of bugs me now: why is the Starfleet insignia turned on its side on the Enterprise nacells?   :Q   And what's with that 1 minute and 30 seconds of total black screen with just a musical interlude before even the Paramount logo (this isn't the Sound of Music, so I don't know why we have a pre-show musical interlude)?  I also had to laugh at the fact that the Enterprise in this movie is coming off of an 18 month overhaul considering the argument will be made in Star Trek 3 that the ship is "too old" to be worth repairing.  Well why even bother with that massive overhaul in the first place?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on April 01, 2011, 11:14:20 AM
Star Trek: The Motion Picture is really only worth watching if it's the Director's Cut.

Paramount would have been better off going with Phase II instead of converting it over into that film. :P
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: NWR_insanolord on April 01, 2011, 01:17:09 PM
I really don't understand why the Blu-Ray version of TMP isn't the Director's Cut. I wish Wrath of Khan and Undiscovered Country were the DVD cuts too, but with TMP it's inexcusable.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on April 01, 2011, 03:09:19 PM
The director's cut aren't nearly as dramatic or necessary with Wrath of Khan or Undiscovered Country. In fact, about the only change I recall from Wrath of Khan was a little more extrapolation with Scottie's nephew. Still, I don't see any reason why the director's cuts shouldn't become the standard, especially with TMP.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on April 03, 2011, 06:28:45 PM
i just watched 2 movies

127 hours > Buried



Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: NWR_insanolord on April 03, 2011, 07:08:23 PM
I caught most of Dr. Strangelove on BBC America this afternoon. That is a truly fantastic movie. 10/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on April 03, 2011, 10:44:09 PM
I caught most of Dr. Strangelove on BBC America this afternoon. That is a truly fantastic movie. 10/10

Agreed... MY FUHRER!!!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on April 06, 2011, 04:02:30 PM
Kopps 6/10

Kopps is a swedish movie where that gif of a cop shooting "from the hip" is from. The plot is about a small town police station being shutdown because there's no need for them. The town they survey is perfect. So to keep their jobs, the cops stage events to boost the statistics. It's not a bad setup, but it doesn't go anywhere. And when it finally does, I'm wasn't laughing, I was bored.

I literally laughed 6 times. Twice was during that scene where the cop plays hacky sac with his gun, once during a convo between that same cop and kid over the word "FOCK", again with that same cop discussing his best guess of what happened to a small hot dog stand, and twice during another awesomely ridiculous scene with that same cop. That's it though.

I suggest you try and find the other awesome scene of ridiculousness on the youtube and skip the movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on April 06, 2011, 05:01:48 PM
Mystery Team - 7/10

Stupid but funny. A group of teens, who have refused to grow up, are still running their Mystery Team Stand where they solve mysteries from around the neighborhood as if they were the Scooby Doo crew. It stars Donald Glover (Childish Gambino & Troy from Community on NBC) as the "leader" of this virgin squad of "12yr old" young adults in their senior year of High School. Lots of moments so stupid you can't help but laugh as they obviously draw influence from not only the scooby doo crew with their own mystery team, but Charlie Brown with their curbside wooden "advice" stand. If you are in a laughing mood and looking for some light hearted comedy, this may be a good movie to stream from your Netflix account. I enjoyed it for what it was.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: MaryJane on April 07, 2011, 09:07:21 AM
Faster: 5/10

Generic, generic, generic. How many more times should I say it? My brother-in-law insisted we watch this movie, and knowing how his taste in movies differs from mine, I still watched it. It was entertaining, but **** on a stick was it generic. I knew the entire plot in the first twenty minutes except for the part where he visits his mother, which was stupid anyway
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on April 07, 2011, 09:34:15 PM
Sucker Punch (IMAX)*: 10/10

Keep in mind I was of altered mind.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on April 07, 2011, 10:22:25 PM
Sucker Punch (IMAX)*: 10/10

Keep in mind I was of altered mind.
Was it also in 3D?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: SixthAngel on April 07, 2011, 10:27:08 PM
Faster: 5/10

Generic, generic, generic. How many more times should I say it? My brother-in-law insisted we watch this movie, and knowing how his taste in movies differs from mine, I still watched it. It was entertaining, but **** on a stick was it generic. I knew the entire plot in the first twenty minutes except for the part where he visits his mother, which was stupid anyway

If you expected anything more than the Rock hunting people down you went to the wrong movie.  It never pretended to be anything else and I liked it because it is exactly the kind of action movie I expected.  I've wanted the Rock to make action movies like this for ages but he did all those shitty Disney movies instead.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: MaryJane on April 08, 2011, 07:37:25 AM
You're right of course, but from the way it was advertised I thought they were at least going to try and be original by bringing out how fast (the movie was called Faster) the Rock was, or make it more about driving (like why couldn't he have chased someone down in his car and killed them?). But it was just an average movie with cool cars in the background.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on April 09, 2011, 12:39:01 AM
Well, I've watched a bunch of Star Trek movies lately, so I guess I might as well talk about them.  First off, I finished watching the Blu-Ray theatrical versions of Star Treks 1-3, and overall my impression of these movies hasn't really changed.  Star Trek 1 is still ludicrously dull and filled with goofy music (I may hate it even more than Star Trek 5 now), Star Trek 2 is still my 4th-favorite Trek movie (behind First Contact; Star Trek 6; and Star Trek 4; respectively) with great music and great action, and I'm still somewhat indifferent about Star Trek 3.  What surprises me, though, is how the Blu-Ray transfers worked out in my opinion: oddly enough, I think Star Trek 2 is the worst-looking of these 3 movies, and it's the only one that got a proper restoration.  Wrath of Khan just looks dark and a little muddy in sections, whereas the DVD upscale transfers for Treks 1 and 3 still look pretty good (though the scenes on the Genesis Planet towards the end of the film look hilariously fake now).  I'm looking forward to seeing how Treks 4 and 6 look.

But I suppose the big movie I just finished watching (my dad wanted me to watch it with him) was J.J. Abrams' 2009 Star Trek reboot film.  And good God, this film is horrible.  No, I'm not even going to give it the benefit of the doubt by saying that it's just "bad for a Star Trek film".  No, it's just bad in general.  The movie has a lousy script and the set designs are horrible

Forget just not looking like Star Trek sets, you can't tell what anything in this movie IS.  Every set in the movie either has so many shining lights you can't see anything, or it's so dark you can't see anything (or we have the beloved shaky cam).  And even when you can see what's going on, nothing in this movie makes sense from a design perspective.  What is the utility of anything in this movie?  The bridge of the Enterprise is so garishly bright I refuse to believe anyone can see what they're doing, while meanwhile the ship's Engineering deck looks like a frickin' factory with so many tubes and pipes anywhere you can't even tell what the area does.  Sadly, this lack of design sensibility extends to both Spock's and Nero's ships (seriously, why does a mining ship look like a giant squid with all those tentacles, let alone nothing inside the ship looking the least bit practical?), as well as the Federation ship at the beginning of the movie.  Argh!  Look, I can deal with artistic interpretation and the need for Abrams to do his own thing (heaven knows the original Trek movies saw quite a few Enterprise redesigns), but there's just nothing distinctive in this movie except for the exterior design of the Enterprise.  Everything's overcomplicated in an attempt to look "edgy" (which, honestly, was a problem with some of the later Next Generation movies as well, especially Nemesis).  It's hard to comment on the special-effects being good or bad when you can't see a lot of it, and even when you can see it you can't make out what the effects are supposed to be.

And like I said, I really found the script lacking.  I found Kirk completely unlikeable almost the entirety of the movie, which is a problem when he's the main character.  Uhura was just kind of...there, being even less important or interesting than she was in the original movies, despite having substantially more screen time.  I wouldn't even mind the romance angle they did with her if it was even set-up properly earlier in the movie.  Instead, it just feels tossed in for the hell of it and makes no sense.  And what was Checkov' role on the ship, anyway?  I could have sworn in the original series and movies he was a weapons' officer, yet here both the role of Navigator and Weapons Officer seems to have been given to Sulu.  The overarching story relies on a lot of contrivance (such as how Star Fleet Academy students just somehow become bridge officers on the Federation's flagship through plot convenience), and the time travel aspect of the movie is really forced and not very well told.  And yeah, I don't appreciate how everything I love about Trek (except the TV series Enterprise) basically got dumped on by this movie.

That isn't to say there aren't any good aspects to the movie.  I thought the actors did excellent impersonations of their older counterparts, especially Spock.  It took a while for the actor who plays Dr. McCoy to grow on me, but he did eventually.  By far the best part of the movie, though, was Leonard Nimoy reprising his role as the older Spock.  In his usual way, he was warm; inviting; and the time with him felt like a Star Trek movie should.

Ugh, it disgusts me that this movie is getting a sequel, but hey...the original Star Trek movie was horrible, and it got a stellar sequel that righted all the wrongs of its predecessor.  Maybe this Trek's sequel will do the same?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on April 09, 2011, 12:48:10 PM
Ugh, it disgusts me that this movie is getting a sequel, but hey...the original Star Trek movie was horrible, and it got a stellar sequel that righted all the wrongs of its predecessor.  Maybe this Trek's sequel will do the same?

I'd rather see a high-budget Klingon miniseries, all subtitles! :)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on April 09, 2011, 05:59:01 PM
It's been discussed somewhere, bu the New Star Trek was only partially for old Trek Fans, it was actually for everyone else that was afraid of actual Trek Fans with some homage to the originals so that they would leave a convention and meet some normal people for once.


I kid, I kid, but seriously, it was a Trek movies to recruit new blood from a new generation into the world of Star Trek and those that have never gotten into it before. It was a fresh start for those of us that didn't feel like playing catch up or just never had an interest in all the other previous material. So if you didn't like it, it was probably because it wasn't made for you.


In other words, it was a action movie designed to attract the masses, not just the fans of the previous series.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Caliban on April 09, 2011, 06:17:14 PM
I like it. It could have been a lot worse as a Star Trek movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on April 09, 2011, 09:47:32 PM
In other words, it was a action movie designed to attract the masses, not just the fans of the previous series.

They already have Star Wars for that. They should have left Star Trek well alone.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on April 09, 2011, 11:35:02 PM
See, I liked the Star Trek movie with several caveats:

1) You're right about the ship designs. No utility whatsoever.
2) The alien on the ice planet was awesome, but onscreen for about fifteen seconds. I blame Cloverfield.
3) The water tubes in engineering. WTF?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on April 09, 2011, 11:48:24 PM
[quote author=Halbred link=topic=28364.msg665961#msg665961 date=1302406502
3) The water tubes in engineering. WTF?

Actually, I think I may know what's up with that, besides "to look cool?"  You can see in a few shots in engineering a few giant containers with the nuclear symbol on them.  Maybe they are nuclear reactors, and the giant tubes of water are used to keep the reactor cooled?  Of course, considering I could have sworn I heard them mention having Dilithium crystals at the end of the movie, it doesn't make sense that the Enterprise would still be using Nuclear power.

And I reiterate: sure, I didn't much care for this movie as a Star Trek fan, but even looking beyond my bias as a fan of the franchise, I just didn't see a good movie there.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: NWR_insanolord on April 10, 2011, 09:20:08 AM
[strartreknerd]Dilithium powers the warp core, which isn't the primary source of electrical power on a starship. Other Trek iterations used Fusion generators, which, seeing as they haven't been invented yet, I'm not sure whether would need extensive cooling systems.[/startreknerd]
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on April 12, 2011, 01:46:09 PM
Stag Night 5/10 terrible and predictably stupid
Life as We know it a chick flick but i kinda liked it/10
Let Me In 9/10 now i have to see the other version
Jackass 3   7/10 not the best Jackass movie
Due Date  7.8/10 not the funniest movie, but still good
It's kinda a funny Story 7.8/10 title is pretty accurate
Spread       I wish my life was like that/10 Ashton Kutcher bangs hot cougars so that he can live in their mansions and drive their sports cars...based on a true story?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on April 12, 2011, 09:40:04 PM
Well, time for something different, as I indulged in a bit of nostalgia and picked up the Blu-Ray for Don Bluth's Anastasia, a movie I had some fond memories of but hadn't seen in probably well over a decade.  Watching it now, I think it holds up pretty well, and might quite possibly be the best non-Disney Western animated movie (not named The Iron Giant) from that Golden Age of animation that was the 90s.  OK, I kid a little but the movie's still pretty entertaining.  The animation is excellent and looks quite nice in this HD transfer, though you can definitely tell that the animators weren't quite as talented as those working for the Mouse and the budget wasn't quite as lavish, as there are noticeable shortcuts here and there.  The story is serviceable, if more than a little derivative of Disney and goofy in places.  Rasputin (and by extension his Voice Actor Christopher Lloyd and singing voice Jim Cummings) is also completely wasted as a villain.  He spends 90% of the movie just sitting at his pad in Limbo sending the occasional green demon spirit after the heroes.  You could literally take him out of the movie and it wouldn't really change the story much.  I will give props to the writers, though, for making Anya/Anastasia a pretty believable and strong character, something that comes off as a little forced in other "Princess" movies like this.  Sadly, the Blu-Ray is a pretty lazy effort, with seemingly all the studios' attention being on the audio/visual transfer.  All the extras are imported from the DVD sets, and they're pretty flimsy and directed squarely at under-aged children.  There's also the film's Direct-to-Video "sequel" "Bartok the Magnificent" on here, but the less said about that the better.  It looks like a VHS transfer, and the movie's quality lives up the lofty standards of the Disney Direct-to-Video sequels.  The menus are surprisingly confusing to navigate, as it isn't immediately clear when you select something on the menu that it's only displaying one of a list of features under that heading, and you have to tab over to see the others.

What I would really like to single-out, though, is the music.  At times I may be more than a little jaded about animated musicals, and the big reason is a simple one: after the 90s, the music often isn't good or worked into the film well.  What, did all the good composers; lyricists; and singers die after the 90s, let alone the writers who could make the songs not sound forced into the narrative?  I'm especially reminded of that after watching this movie, which has an excellent score with quite a few catchy tunes and only a few clunky ones (the song about Paris comes to mind).  It helps as well that, in Fox's rush to copy Disney in every way possible, they drafted the singing voice for Jasmine and Angela Lansbury to sing a good share of the songs.  Jim Cummings has an especially fun villain song called "In the Dark of the Night", and I'm pretty fond of the main theme "Journey to the Past."

Well, I have my shiny new Incredibles Blu-Ray to watch now.  Why Disney took so long to put my favorite Pixar movie on Blu-Ray when relatively-low quality Pixar trash like Cars has been on the format for ages I'll never know.  Speaking of which, the movie came with a coupon for a free ticket to see the Cars sequel coming out this year, so I guess I might as well see that now despite being pretty indifferent to the original.  :-\
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on April 12, 2011, 10:21:17 PM
Huh, I thought that was a Disney movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on April 12, 2011, 10:34:17 PM
Huh, I thought that was a Disney movie.

Then Fox Animation succeeded then, because making "animated movies that rival Disney's" was their founding goal.  :P:
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Dasmos on April 13, 2011, 02:12:42 AM
Sucker Punch: What the hell did I just watch?/10

I knew it was going to be suck, anything Zack Snyder touches does, but I wasn't expecting it to be unwatchable. I mean how does a director turn a movie with both Emily Browning and Abbie Cornish into something I didn't want to watch? It truly takes talent to mess something like that up.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on April 13, 2011, 02:58:28 AM
so the general consensus of Sucker Punch is the trailer is better than the movie?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on April 13, 2011, 10:05:11 AM
no, I don't think you got a general consensus at all. From what I remember, only 3 of us have seen the movie here and Dasmos is the only one that didn't like it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on April 13, 2011, 01:11:01 PM
so the general consensus of Sucker Punch is the trailer is better than the movie?

That's pretty bad. The trailer looks awfully lame. :P
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on April 13, 2011, 08:58:12 PM
The Social Network
It was great. Funny and just plain entertaining. I doubt Mark Zuckerberg is 1) that witty in real life 2) that much of a douchebag. The movie forced the audience to sympathize with Eduardo Saverin and I believe the real Saverin was a consultant on the novel the film was based on so no surprise here. Andrew Garfield sounds like Anakin Skywalker and that's going to be really distracting in The Amazing Spider-Man, but he's a much better actor than Hayden Christensen so I'm not worried.

The Bourne Trilogy
I only finished Identity when it first came out and and saw bits of Supremacy and I refused to watch Ultimatum without seeing the first 2. Well, I finally got around to seeing everything. I was blown away. Besides The Lord of the Rings, this is the only trilogy where each installment is better than one before. I'm upset that they're continuing the series without Matt Damon. What the hell is the point?

Sucker Punch
Everyone bitches about the story not making sense. That wasn't necessarily my issue with it. I got it, but there's so much of it and not that interesting. It's too simplistic to spend that much screen time on it. It took like 10 minutes to get Baby Doll into the asylum and 10 more minutes to get her to do something there. The action scenes are cool; I just wanted more of them. And I don't know how Zack Snyder did it, but somehow he made Jena Malone super hot instead of merely pretty. She also had the coolest action sequence in the movie which no easy feat. Also, Emily Browning shouldn't be allowed by law to not wear a school girl outfit.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on April 13, 2011, 10:35:56 PM
Did you see it in IMAX?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: RABicle on April 14, 2011, 01:39:01 AM
The Social Network
It was great. Funny and just plain entertaining. I doubt Mark Zuckerberg is 1) that witty in real life 2) that much of a douchebag.
This was the problem I guess I had with this movie and it's the same issue I had with Juno. It's overwritten. People just aren't that cool all the time. Line after line of insightful, memorable quotes. People just don't talk like that. And it makes me hate real people like my housemate who always falls into "it's just like... you know what I mean?"
I say it was a problem I had with the films, I love them both, it's just the only real flaw they both have, they're too cool.
Also, Emily Browning shouldn't be allowed by law to not wear a school girl outfit.
I reckon she could go back to fishnets on her arms any time she likes
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-NhlDPFa_0g/S8PFVA9hX4I/AAAAAAAABsY/kftVpj2s-Vw/s1600/Lemony.jpg)
It's cool guys, she might be playing a 13 year old, but she was 17 here
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on April 16, 2011, 07:58:54 AM
No, I didn't see it in IMAX. I just wanted to see the movie so I went to a matinee with my brother. $5 per ticket.

I'm more willing to accept the witty dialogue in The Social Network than in Juno. In Juno, the character of Juno is portrayed as unique, snarky; smart but not particularly gifted though the entire plot revolves around Juno making a very ill-advised decision. I had a hard time believing a 16 year old could talk like that, especially when there's no explicable reason for her to. While I don't believe the real life counterparts in The Social Network were anywhere near as quick-witted, I was able to suspend my disbelief considering the characterization is far better here. The Winklevii are so-called "Harvard gentleman" so they have that air about them. Zuckerberg is portrayed as a total d-bag and someone who is too smart for his own good which alienates him from others. Sean Parker is portrayed in much the same way, except given no positive attributes and made slimier and far more underhanded and arrogant. Erica Albright has only 1 significant scene but she's supposed to be Zuckerberg's intellectual equal in everything but computers; a representation of intelligence existing outside of the Harvard bubble. All dialogue in every movie is not indicative of real life conversation. However, I'm willing accept it in The Social Network because it's done better and serves more of a purpose than to just make the characters sound cool.

By the way, I hated Juno so I admit I'm biased though part of the reason was the dialogue.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on April 18, 2011, 04:10:18 PM
Scream 4 - I enjoyed it. Not the film to make me sit up but i enjoyed it all the same. Funny and witty. And Hayden.

Sucker Punch - I have no clue what was going on. Not a clue. It was, pretty much, two separate storylines. Treat it as that and you have two films to watch.

Source Code - This is a VERY sci-fi film, directed by the guy who directed Moon (another very good sci-fi!), about a person who can travel 8 minutes into the past to try and prevent a terrorist event. Unlike sucker punch which would have benefited from spending time on establishing its universe, Source Code did this very nicely and even played with it. Well worth watching.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on April 20, 2011, 02:02:36 AM
The Adjustment Bureau - Overall, I liked it. It explored the consequences of certain religious beliefs in an interesting way. Matt Damon's acting was good, Emily Blunt not so much. This movie kinda suffered from "how the hell do you fall in love so damn fast over nothing" syndrome, but the premise kind of covers it, if you really think about. This would definitely be a good topic of conversation over late drinks. 8/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on April 20, 2011, 10:58:48 AM
After Anastasia, I was in a bit of a mood for Don Bluth films I might not have seen (though it turns out I had seen this one before and just forgotten it) so I decided to watch the one that allegedly destroyed his career and the Fox Animation studio: 2000's Titan A.E.

Funny thing, though: the movie is pretty entertaining.  Sure, it's a shallow Space Odyssey filled with archetypal characters really lacking in character development (and, sure, I spent a fair amount of the movie mocking it with Star Wars references), but hey we let Star Wars get away with that and this is pretty solid Science Fiction.  Despite some plot holes that show up near the end of the movie, I thought this film just worked.  The movie is very well-animated and colorful (I'd really like to see this movie on Blu-Ray), the primitive CG is integrated better than usual (certain better than it was in Anastasia), the story has a nice flow to it, and there's a nice sense of "wonder" to the journey.

Unfortunately, Don Bluth films like Secret of Nimh; All Dogs Go to Heaven; and especially An American Tale tended to be rather dark and have a bleak view on life, and Titan A.E. follows the mold of these older films.  This, I think, is why the movie bombed: it takes the medium a lot more seriously than probably American audiences were ready for.  The only "singing" in the movie comes from some extremely 90s background pop musical montages; there are no cute animal sidekicks; and characters in this movie die fairly graphically (one character gets his neck snapped on-screen).  The motives for the villains are also extremely vague, which makes it hard to see them as more than just things that exist to be shot at.

Overall, a pretty decent film that probably just came out at the wrong time and in the wrong country (I'm curious how this movie did in Japan, where they take animation more seriously).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on April 20, 2011, 12:18:25 PM
After Anastasia, I was in a bit of a mood for Don Bluth films I might not have seen (though it turns out I had seen this one before and just forgotten it) so I decided to watch the one that allegedly destroyed his career and the Fox Animation studio: 2000's Titan A.E.

Funny thing, though: the movie is pretty entertaining.  Sure, it's a shallow Space Odyssey filled with archetypal characters really lacking in character development (and, sure, I spent a fair amount of the movie mocking it with Star Wars references), but hey we let Star Wars get away with that and this is pretty solid Science Fiction.  Despite some plot holes that show up near the end of the movie, I thought this film just worked.  The movie is very well-animated and colorful (I'd really like to see this movie on Blu-Ray), the primitive CG is integrated better than usual (certain better than it was in Anastasia), the story has a nice flow to it, and there's a nice sense of "wonder" to the journey.

Unfortunately, Don Bluth films like Secret of Nimh; All Dogs Go to Heaven; and especially An American Tale tended to be rather dark and have a bleak view on life, and Titan A.E. follows the mold of these older films.  This, I think, is why the movie bombed: it takes the medium a lot more seriously than probably American audiences were ready for.  The only "singing" in the movie comes from some extremely 90s background pop musical montages; there are no cute animal sidekicks; and characters in this movie die fairly graphically (one character gets his neck snapped on-screen).  The motives for the villains are also extremely vague, which makes it hard to see them as more than just things that exist to be shot at.

Overall, a pretty decent film that probably just came out at the wrong time and in the wrong country (I'm curious how this movie did in Japan, where they take animation more seriously).

I also think it was after Don Bluth time, if thats the right way to say it.  Take any of the films you listed and swap Titan AE with it and I don't think they be nearly what they are now.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on April 22, 2011, 08:58:36 PM
I meant to mention this in my earlier Titan A.E. post, but I also recently rewatched my favorite Pixar movie, The Incredibles, via the recently-released Blu-Ray.  There's really not much I can say about The Incredibles except that it is IMO the most fundamentally perfect movie Pixar has created.  It's the only one they've done where I can say there is no major flaw, no "disappointing ending/climax" or whatnot that tarnishes the movie.  Like my favorite animated movie of all time (The Lion King, which happily will also be seeing Blu-Ray release this year), Incredibles is bold and set out to do things that hadn't been done in the medium before.  And most importantly, unlike earlier Pixar movies like Nemo it feels like a Pixar movie with its own style, not a traditional Disney film that just happened to be made by someone else.  The film is just full of a pure barely-controlled energy that makes the movie exciting and fun to watch from start to end.  Highly recommended.

As for the Blu-Ray, it's a typical Pixar Blu-Ray: a near-flawless video/audio transfer and loads of extras both new and old.  The most notable new feature, though, is a disappointingly-short 22 minute roundtable discussion between key members of the creative staff discussing the production of the film.  Now this is the kind of experience I want in roundtable interviews like this: it's extremely casual and full of behind-the-scenes inside jokes and stories you wouldn't hear or see otherwise.  In fact, I was surprised to see a section of the discussion where they talked about "a key Disney executive" who flat-out hated the movie when it was pitched to him (to the extent that the Pixar guys thought Brad Bird was going to punch him, so Bird asked Pixar head John Lassetter to go to bat for them), especially since he didn't think they could do it and didn't understand why it wasn't live-action.  Now, they don't name names (my money's on Michael Eisner), but it's an interesting story as it brings to light another similarity with Lion King: it was an underdog project staffed by people determined to prove themselves, and it ended up being extremely successful.  And let's just say that there was some friction between the Pixar staff and Bird's staff when he joined up with Pixar, which coincidentally probably led to the big villain Syndrome looking exactly like Brad Bird.   :P:
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Despicable on April 22, 2011, 09:10:18 PM
Last one I watched was 8 Mile, not the first time I've watched it though. Anyway 10/10.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on April 23, 2011, 06:05:19 AM
Tron Classic film, amazing effects for when it came out.

Tron Legacy Decent sequel, I wish they had kept more with the original art style.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on April 23, 2011, 01:05:36 PM
Tron Legacy Decent sequel, I wish they had kept more with the original art style.

The updated visuals weren't the problem. They were surprisingly good, if not different. The real problem was the generic, dumbed-down story. They should have taken a few pages from Tron 2.0's book instead of trying to cater to Facebook's "we can barely even turn a computer on" crowd.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on April 23, 2011, 03:09:21 PM
For me, everything up to the Disc Wars and the subsequent light cycle battle was the ****. After that though, the story started to come into play and it got boring, well until the trippy airplane battle (which was drawn out too long). Still, it easily had the best soundtrack and visual production of any movie last year.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on April 23, 2011, 03:14:05 PM
Tron Legacy Decent sequel, I wish they had kept more with the original art style.

The updated visuals weren't the problem. They were surprisingly good, if not different. The real problem was the generic, dumbed-down story. They should have taken a few pages from Tron 2.0's book instead of trying to cater to Facebook's "we can barely even turn a computer on" crowd.

While I have lamented the extreme downplaying that Legacy does on the whole "world inside a computer" concept, I still prefer its story and execution over that of the original Tron.  I find the original Tron a painfully dull movie, like watching Star Trek: The Motion Picture.  Legacy, for all its faults, is at least entertaining.

Besides, we have Reboot for all our "world inside a computer" needs!   ;)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: bustin98 on April 24, 2011, 12:28:41 AM
The late 70s - early 80s were pretty weird with the consistency of spacey sci-fi films. You have Star Wars, which is pretty entertaining. And then you have Star Trek, Tron (not really spacey but it's in another world...), Black Hole, 2001, Dune and several others that while have a decent premise tend to get a bit long and boring. Blade Runner falls into the same trap here and there. Alien/Aliens avoid it pretty much, but they seem to be more horror/suspense just set in outer space. Star Trek 2 breaks out, and when do we see another decent sci fi film? I like many, but can be regarded as B movies. I guess the next best space oriented program would be Star Trek: TNG.

Has there been any good space opera type film since Star Wars? I'm racking my brain and not really coming up with anything. With all the amazing books, you'd think there would be more.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on April 24, 2011, 01:00:58 AM
Did you seriously just say that 2001 and Dune are boring? Wow.

Star Wars is simply a high fantasy styled story set in space. It's pretty far from what I'd generally consider science fiction. Besides, it is boring. Most people just have a lot of nostalgia for it that clouds their ability to see it for what it is. ;)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: NWR_insanolord on April 24, 2011, 01:10:14 AM
2001 is a fantastic movie (though it's a better book), and is one of the few things I've bought on Blu-ray. I haven't seen all of Dune, or read the book, but the parts I saw were pretty interesting. However, I will not sit here and allow you to insult the original Star Wars trilogy. Your're right that it's not really science fiction, it's just set in space, but the same could be said about Battlestar Galactica (the recent one), and it doesn't make that any less awesome either. It's by no means deep, but it's highly entertaining, and I think the movies hold up really well, especially the first one and The Empire Strikes Back.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on April 24, 2011, 02:50:17 AM
I've not watched the new Battlestar Galactica, so I can't comment there. Star Wars never really did it for me the way it seems to for everyone else though. It does some things right, and has a lot of good ideas, but is truly overrated. The first film is sloppy on a multitude of accounts. It's definitely worth watching once or twice, but I've always felt that it receives a lot of undue credit and accolades. The Empire Strikes Back holds up much better and is technically a superior film. It doesn't feel nearly as generic plot wise, and greatly benefits from it. Return of the Jedi doesn't really go anywhere... it just wraps things up neatly. I've only caught bits of the prequels and was never impressed enough to follow up on them.

Dune really must be watched in it's entirety. There are a lot of different edits out there, as Lynch was never completely happy with the end result. The longer the edit, the better experience you're likely to have. The books are also some of the best fiction ever written. It has everything you'd want in good sci-fi: epic scope, political intrigue, religious allegories, etc. I haven't been overly impressed with the way Brian Herbert has continued the series. He's definitely not his father. Still, at least "Hunters of Dune" and "Sandworms of Dune" provide the closure that we've all needed from the mainline series.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on April 24, 2011, 06:50:27 AM
2001 is a fantastic movie (though it's a better book), and is one of the few things I've bought on Blu-ray. I haven't seen all of Dune, or read the book, but the parts I saw were pretty interesting. However, I will not sit here and allow you to insult the original Star Wars trilogy. Your're right that it's not really science fiction, it's just set in space, but the same could be said about Battlestar Galactica (the recent one), and it doesn't make that any less awesome either. It's by no means deep, but it's highly entertaining, and I think the movies hold up really well, especially the first one and The Empire Strikes Back.

And I, sir, will not sit here and allow you to insult the new Battlestar Galactica on that issue (that show is flawed in so many ways, but not on that one).  It's a series about humanity in the future fleeing genocide by cybernetic beings, with episodes focusing on stories centered around the human condition (with parallels to modern life) and how the war and space travel effects it.  If that's not Science Fiction, nothing is.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: bustin98 on April 24, 2011, 02:26:15 PM
Dune the movie drones on and on. It prattles about the connection of spice to the rest of the world and takes forever to make a point when if you were paying attention you saw it coming a mile away. Though I'm sure its one of the problems of converting a book to a movie. And why I think 2001 is boring.

Don't misunderstand me. Boring != terrible. I love Blade Runner. I actually love Dune. (I haven't been able to find any personality in 2001, sorry). But it seems to me that many movies of a particular era fall into a pattern of sorts in their storytelling.

I never watched the new Battlestar Galactica either. If the first couple of episodes don't catch me, I don't bother.

Though, I did forget about my love of Stargate SG-1. Great tv ruined by the invasion of Farscape.

I did think of a fantastic spacey sci-fi film - Fifth Element. Bruce Willis adds to about any movie he is in (but Chris Tucker takes away half of what Bruce gives)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: SixthAngel on April 25, 2011, 03:42:32 AM
You guys have to be huge Lynch fans.

Dune has so much that is ridiculous and is one of those movies that assumes you've read the books.  Many of those effects looked terrible even in the 80's and were obviously a bad idea even then.  Polygonal fuzzy force field armor!  The costumes were atrocious and of course Sting!


After someone mentioned Titan AE I decided to give it a shot since I like animation in general.  It has a weird mix of cartoony/realisitic that was offputting.  The bug guy dies in the beginning but has a Loony Toons syle death where his disembodied mouth says a one liner before falling to rest with his exploded body and yet later we have necks getting snapped and guns actually leaving holes.  The bad guy aliens have a pretty terrible design in general although I liked the pure energy idea.  They also have quite a few moments that are there to pretty much show the CG (like the ship flying scene) and the CG outside of the icefield just isn't very good.  The lack of motive for the bad guys that was mentioned I also didn't like.  I never understood why making a new planet was such a big deal anyway.  The old planet was blown up so it's not like a new completely undefended one wouldn't be an even easier target when most humans are dead.  The whole idea of it saving them never made sense to me.  I wouldn't recommend the movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on April 25, 2011, 10:57:05 AM
Dune the movie drones on and on. It prattles about the connection of spice to the rest of the world and takes forever to make a point when if you were paying attention you saw it coming a mile away. Though I'm sure its one of the problems of converting a book to a movie. And why I think 2001 is boring.

Don't misunderstand me. Boring != terrible. I love Blade Runner. I actually love Dune. (I haven't been able to find any personality in 2001, sorry). But it seems to me that many movies of a particular era fall into a pattern of sorts in their storytelling.

I never watched the new Battlestar Galactica either. If the first couple of episodes don't catch me, I don't bother.

Though, I did forget about my love of Stargate SG-1. Great tv ruined by the invasion of Farscape.

I did think of a fantastic spacey sci-fi film - Fifth Element. Bruce Willis adds to about any movie he is in (but Chris Tucker takes away half of what Bruce gives)

While I enjoyed SG-1 and Agree that it did start taking itself too serious later and become a refuge of Sci-Fi actors, I can't stand for you slandering Farscape.  I enjoy Farscape and am Currently rewatching the whole series.
Did I do it right :P: :


While I'm typing and all 2001 gets my vote for boringest movie of all time.  Tron and Star Wars is something I believe everyone should watch at least once for their relevance and some of the items they bring up.  Beyonde once I leave that to personally preference.  I'm actually not a huge Star Wars fan but, I get lumped into it because of my field and hobby.

The original Dune has the Slowness of that time period.  Conan the Barbarian is another good example of that.  I'm not very much into that style of pacing.

I Believe the original Star Trek movies, after the first one, are vastly superioir to the TNG ones, even though TNG was the better series.  Though I enjoyed the new one except I hated what they did with the Spock character.  They made him into one of those whiney emotional Enterprise Vulcans.  I'll still go to see a new one of those movies.

Last movie I fully watched was Hop and Tangled.  I enjoyed both.  Hop has some great graphics in it.  Though its your pretty typical escape from responsibility film. Tangle was very clever and poked fun at itself.  The movie has self referencing layers and everything seems to be just so for a reason.  I recommend seeing it at least once, its a fun ride.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on April 25, 2011, 11:24:24 AM
You guys have to be huge Lynche fans.

Dune has so much that is ridiculous and is one of those movies that assumes you've read the books.

Maybe that's the problem then? I'm biased. I love just about everything Lynch has ever done, and I was already a huge fan of Frank Herbert's books when the Dune film came out. Outside of a few discrepancies like the voice modulator, the film is so stylishly done that it's inconceivable to me that anyone would dislike it.

I'm starting to think that maybe you guys just all have ADD... Dune boring?! 2001 boring?! Star Wars = Awesome?! Sad, sad world. :P
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on April 27, 2011, 03:01:16 AM
I Believe the original Star Trek movies, after the first one, are vastly superioir to the TNG ones, even though TNG was the better series.  Though I enjoyed the new one except I hated what they did with the Spock character.  They made him into one of those whiney emotional Enterprise Vulcans.  I'll still go to see a new one of those movies.

I would agree with a few exceptions:

1.  Star Trek 5 is crap.  It's not as bad as Star Trek 1, but it's still worse than even Insurrection.

2.  I will argue that Star Trek Generations is at least as good as Star Trek 3, and is certainly better than Star Trek 5.

3.  First Contact is IMO as good as the best of the Original Series movies (2, 4, and 6).  It's probably my favorite Trek movie, and it alone makes up for the massive amounts of disappointment that were the TNG movies.

I recently sat down and watched the Beetlejuice Blu-Ray.  That movie gets stranger every time I see it.  Some aspects of the movie come off a little too goofy or cheesy now than I remember it, but I still really enjoy the movie.  The acting's solid, the story has a good flow to it, the production design is still amazing in its sheer oddity (it's probably the purest expression of Tim Burton's art style), and the special effects are...well, ok they look like crap now, but I get the feeling that like Ghostbusters the effects were never really intended to look "good", exactly.

Something that's always bugged me, though: why is the movie called "Beetlejuice", and why do characters in the movie call him that?  Whenever we see the name written out during the movie, it's written as "Betelgeuse".  The Maitlands even pronounce it "Beetle-gice", and then all of a sudden they use the more familiar pronunciation.  Weird.

As for the Blu-Ray, it's one of the laziest I've seen so far.  The transfer is decent, though dark scenes seem to suffer a bit.  The real culprit is the appalling lack of extras of any sort outside a few assorted episodes of the cartoon series (which hasn't aged well and I don't find very good now) and a music-only audio track.  And that's it.  We don't even get a commentary track from Tim Burton.  This movie deserves a lot better than this.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TrueNerd on April 28, 2011, 01:13:32 AM
I saw Kurosawa's Ran recently. Not as awesome as his Mifune classics, but I really loved how horribly bleak it is. The film is gorgeous and has the best clouds ever. An odd compliment, but they play probably the most important role in the film. Kurosawa can compose a shot better than anyone.

I also saw African Cats. Afterwards I thought, "It'd be worth the inevitable face mauling to own a cheetah."
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on April 29, 2011, 08:55:14 PM
Three movies up on the docket:

Eden of the East: The King of Eden - My general thought after finishing the Eden of the East anime series earlier this year can basically be summed up as "wait, that's it?"  I was willing to give the lack of resolution a bit of a pass since I knew 2 movies were on their way to wrap up the story.  Unfortunately, literally the first thing I said when the credits rolled at the 1:20:00 mark (which is really short for an anime movie) was still "wait, that's it?!"  While things do happen in this movie and we finally meet another of the 12 Selecao, there's probably only about 20 minutes of actual plot advancement in this movie.  The rest of that time is spent looking for the main character, and then convincing him that there's stuff that needs to be done.  And when the credits hit, there's no sign the movie is about to end.  The characters just enter a jet like in any other scene, and the credits roll.  Like the TV series, this movie is all build-up and little else.  The second movie, Paradise Lost, has a lot to wrap-up now, and I have little faith it will satisfactorily.

The Prestige - I watched this on the recommendation of a friend of mine.  Unfortunately, my copy had audio problems so it was hard to hear a lot of the dialogue, but the movie overall was pretty decent.  My main gripe is that the editing is needlessly complicated, with the movie constantly skipping forward and back in time.  I don't generally have a problem with framed storytelling, but this editing is just artsy self-indulgence and doesn't really do the film any favors.  The movie's biggest magical trick is also a fatal flaw, as it basically breaks the rules set by the movie and requires a phenomenal leap of faith to take seriously.

Source Code - Just saw this one in the theaters (something I rarely do), and I liked this movie quite a bit.  There's a lot of high-concept science fiction going on in this film, and I think the writers did an excellent job of conveying it in an understandable manner.  The caveat is that you have to be willing to suspend your disbelief a lot with this story, as the moment you start poking at plot elements the entire movie falls apart.  The movie also ends on a really unnecessary epilogue that muddles what was otherwise a rather well-done ending.  It's problematic when this movie is built on a very well-established list of rules, and then the writers throw all those rules right out the door in literally the final minute.  Still, I really recommend this movie.  It's artsy without being pretentious, something quite a few movies could learn from.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Shorty McNostril on April 30, 2011, 01:55:08 AM
Thor:  Very good watch.  Pretty much what one would expect from the Marvel movies.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on April 30, 2011, 03:05:42 AM
Thor:  Very good watch.  Pretty much what one would expect from the Marvel movies.

I have free pases to watch this one tomorrow morning. You impression raises my anticipation level from "flat" to "slightly peaked".
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Shorty McNostril on April 30, 2011, 03:11:19 AM
You must of course stay till after the credits.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on April 30, 2011, 03:29:36 AM
You must of course stay till after the credits.
That is the Marvel way. Are the credits atleast interesting?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Shorty McNostril on April 30, 2011, 05:03:10 AM
I'll put it this way.  Take your 3DS.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: FZeroBoyo on May 01, 2011, 12:58:45 AM
Rio - Very lyrical and colorful. Surprisingly charming and funny as well. 9/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on May 01, 2011, 12:59:17 AM
Thor - 8/10

Thor was good. Much better than I expected. I almost got pissed at the "extra" after the credit until I realized that that wasn't the actual extra at the end. I'm talking about the part where is said "Thor will be back in The Avengers".

I have to say though that the 3D was **** and it's obvious that it was an after thought as not every scene was even in 3D. I would have much preferred it in not 3D, but whatever. Movie was still a good watch.

regarding the extra at the end
was that cube a piece of the portal energy bridge? My first thought was an energon cube (lol), but that's Transformers. Also was Loki possessing that guy or just influencing him from an alternate dimension?


Fast Five - 7.9/10

I don't know where this fits in the timeline for the "story" but it appears that Tokyo Drift takes place after this movie. The chase scene in this was intense though. To hell with the realism of it all, I was in to it and level of disbelief was intact. I wasn't feeling The Rocks goatee and I also think a few of his lines could have been a little wittier, but this movie was interesting from beginning to end.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on May 01, 2011, 08:36:19 PM
Red Planet - Better than I expected

Remember Red Planet? Batman, Trinity, Tom Sizemore, and Martian bugs? Yeah, that movie. Good for some laughs, especially when Sizemore (a geneticist in the film) gets the four amino acids of DNA wrong.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: gregmde7 on May 02, 2011, 11:49:42 PM
Unagi, i also loved Drag Me To Hell - I have seen it like 10 times on showtime, lol.

I give it a 8.5, I think it was a good horror flick.

I'm actually watching "Orphan" right now. I think I have seen it before, but so far I give it a 6 - it's pretty predictable. They adopt this girl and she is basically a little psycho - definitely can already tell what's going to happen.

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on May 03, 2011, 12:54:38 AM
You should check out "The Orphanage". A much, much better film.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on May 03, 2011, 09:58:40 AM
Could a 3 year old see Thor?  He's seen Ironman, wasn't very interested, and watched different cartoons.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on May 03, 2011, 10:10:10 AM
Yes. Thor is appropriate for anyone who you feel is capable of watching Ironman.

There is some violence, but it's nothing over the top. In fact, it could use some more violence if you ask me.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TrueNerd on May 04, 2011, 05:04:41 AM
I also love Drag Me To Hell. Just throwin that out there.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on May 04, 2011, 08:02:47 AM
Drag Me to Hell was pretty fun for what it was: an Evil Dead 2 clone. :P
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on May 04, 2011, 08:44:35 PM
Orphan rocked my socks, i knew what was going to happen...Batman plotline, but that little girls acting is phenomenal.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Kallis on May 06, 2011, 07:02:21 AM
Hello there , I have the worth watching movie of  The Boy With The Striped Pyjamas.As some other member also gave the comments about this movie.Its a very nice movie hanging on to passion and classic story .
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on May 08, 2011, 05:38:59 PM
Rambo
I bought Rambo (2008 film, the series has the most messed up naming structure) on Blu-Ray for like $8 yesterday. I haven't seen this since it first came out in theatres. It won't win any acting awards, but it got the job done. There was so much mayhem in this movie and that was all I wanted. Making the villain a pedophile was perhaps unnecessary. I mean, do audiences need any more reason to hate him? He's the head of a military regime that rapes women, kills children, and kidnaps teenage boys and forces them to become soldiers. I guess I just didn't see the point but it is what it is. The movie wasn't really about that. It was about the atrocities in Burma and the justification of trying to change the world despite mouting odds. It was also about mayhem and chaos and there's more than enough of that.

Charlie Bartlett
I really enjoyed this even if the message of alienated teens was so blatant. I felt like the filmmakers didn't trust audiences enough to figure that out on their own. Robert Downey Jr. is just an incredible actor and Hope Davis is horribly underrated. I'm glad Kat Dennings was covered up for the most part. We all know she has huge boobs and that's great and everything, but it wouldn't have matched her character or the purpose of the movie (despite some minor nudity). I have to give the director credit for not trying to appeal to the lowest common denominator. This is a movie about teens, but not a teen movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: jrlibrarian on May 14, 2011, 08:48:10 PM
The Evil Dead: You are so fucking stupid that you deserved to become zombie/monsters/10
 
I really enjoyed it, because it was a nice way to relax after all my AP Tests. Extremely over the top, but that's what I expected going into it, so it wasn't that surprising.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on May 14, 2011, 11:07:51 PM
Now you need to go download the Evil Dead Trilogy fanedit, that combines all three films into one long, seamless experience! :)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on May 14, 2011, 11:18:58 PM
In a bit of an amusing stroke of luck, remember when I picked up that Blu-Ray copy of the first Eden of the East movie about a month ago?  I got a phone call the other day, and it turns out that the moron who was running the store that day never recorded that I picked up my pre-order.  So I ended up with $22 in credit I could use on whatever I want.  My first 3 choices not being available (The Girl Who Leapt through Time, Sherlock Holmes, and The Incredible Hulk Blu-Rays), I ended up picking up the Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl Blu-Ray (which is a movie I've been meaning to pick up on its own, but haven't cared enough to get until now), which is what I am watching now and am nearing the end of.

I haven't seen this film in a few years and the transfer is darker than I remember the film being, but the picture quality is perfect and I have no complaints about the extras.  As for the movie itself, as far as I'm concerned this is the only Pirates film currently in existence (at least until I see the one that's releasing later this month).  The two sequels that "allegedly" exist were total crap IMO, but this movie was and is great.  It's (mostly) well-paced, well-acted, the special effects still look very good, the story is well-written for a summer blockbuster, and the movie (and Blu-Ray) pays just the right amount of homage to the original ride.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: jrlibrarian on May 15, 2011, 01:15:25 PM
Now you need to go download the Evil Dead Trilogy fanedit, that combines all three films into one long, seamless experience! :)


Is it worth taking the time to watch the two sequels before watching the fanedit? I would assume so, so I actually understand what's going on.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on May 15, 2011, 03:30:50 PM
The films each have their own charm as stand alone entities. Heck, they're even different genres (Horror, Slapstick, Action/Adventure). The fanedit really only takes out the recaps and credits however. The films already run into one another pretty well.

Army of Darkness is one of the greatest films ever made though. You might want to digest it on its own before sitting through a marathon fanedit. ;)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on May 15, 2011, 03:46:04 PM
I watched Army of Darkness when I was like 10 at my friend's house, and his older brother and friend were drinking Goldschlager. Almost right at the second when it was the pit scene where the blood was spraying straight up into the air, his friend tilted his head back and projectile vomited a good 2 feet or so straight up, just like in the movie. It was pretty awesome.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on May 15, 2011, 03:57:44 PM
I've had a friend do that, but it was while we were playing UFC on Dreamcast and we were drinking tequila.

Fountain of Puke. it was nasty.

anyway. I've want to watch the fan edit and just sit through all 3 as one movie, but I can't find it anywhere.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on May 15, 2011, 09:17:12 PM
UFC for Dreamcast is awesome.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on May 17, 2011, 10:34:11 AM
i watched army of darkness before i watched the 2 evil dead movies...really you dont need to watch them to watch army of darkness. Its a New York Yankee in King Arthur's Court plot...

now you should watch evil dead before evil dead II, Evil Dead II is more like a remake to evil dead 1, evil dead is serious, evil dead 2 is more slapstick. Evil dead 2 is basically the same thing as evil dead...but self parody.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on May 17, 2011, 12:27:22 PM
I wouldn't call Dead By Dawn a remake of the first film. It does recap a bit, but beyond that picks up where the first ended and continues onward.

Army of Darkness can stand on its own easily enough, however. Especially since it too has a brief recap.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on May 17, 2011, 12:56:55 PM
I watched the trilogy compliation last nite. I think that was the first time I had seem EDII.

It's kinda funny how all 3 movies covers 3 different genres with the last 2 having an overlap.
EDI was a horror, EDII was more of a Horredy and AoD was more of an Adventure Comedy.

The fan edit is really seemless though and I tried to figure out where the splicing takes place, I had not seen all 3 movies and none of them except AoD all the way through, I just assume there were scenes from a sequel placed sometime before the end of the prequel to set up the introduction of new characters and set pieces. It took me 3 different watching though (kinda ironic) as it was really long and I was distracted by other stuff at the time or sleeping, but it was enjoyable.


About the endings I saw the original ending where he sleeps through time and wakes up about a century or 2 too late. what was the theatrical ending?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on May 17, 2011, 01:17:50 PM
I watched the trilogy compliation last nite. I think that was the first time I had seem EDII.

It's kinda funny how all 3 movies covers 3 different genres with the last 2 having an overlap.
EDI was a horror, EDII was more of a Horredy and AoD was more of an Adventure Comedy.

The fan edit is really seemless though and I tried to figure out where the splicing takes place, I had not seen all 3 movies and none of them except AoD all the way through, I just assume there were scenes from a sequel placed sometime before the end of the prequel to set up the introduction of new characters and set pieces. It took me 3 different watching though (kinda ironic) as it was really long and I was distracted by other stuff at the time or sleeping, but it was enjoyable.


About the endings I saw the original ending where he sleeps through time and wakes up about a century or 2 too late. what was the theatrical ending?
If memory serves he goes back to his time and He's in s-mart and the evil thingies invade and he goes "Shop Smart, Shop S-Mart" blasts them all away but its been a while.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on May 17, 2011, 03:05:23 PM
Finally got around to watching Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country Blu-Ray, and yeah...it's still an excellent movie.  It drags in a few places (Rura Pente) and there are some plot holes with the conspiracy (at least one of the conspirators was informed of necessary information too late to be believably part of the conspiracy), but it's still a fine send-off to the Original Series cast.  I'm not sure now that I'd rank the movie higher than Wrath of Khan as my 3rd favorite Original Series Trek movie, but I did like the movie's conspiracy theme so perhaps I still would.  The transfer is a bit hit-or-miss, even for a DVD upscale.  There's a ton of grain in shots where it is dark (the scene late in the movie in sickbay is a fine example), and some special effects shots don't look quite right.  Still, it looks fine enough.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on May 17, 2011, 06:24:46 PM
About the endings I saw the original ending where he sleeps through time and wakes up about a century or 2 too late. what was the theatrical ending?

The theatrical ending flashes to Ash retelling his story at S-Mart, when he is attacked by one final Deadite. It ends with him killing the Deadite and getting the girl.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: NWR_insanolord on May 17, 2011, 06:45:10 PM
Undiscovered Country is easily my second-favorite Trek movie, right behind (and I mean right behind) Wrath of Khan. I actually wrote a paper about it in high school, regarding the end of the cold war allegory in the plot.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on May 17, 2011, 08:52:18 PM
Undiscovered Country is easily my second-favorite Trek movie, right behind (and I mean right behind) Wrath of Khan. I actually wrote a paper about it in high school, regarding the end of the cold war allegory in the plot.

My order (Top 5) is probably:

1.  Star Trek: First Contact
2.  Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
3.  Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
4.  Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan
5.  Star Trek: Generations
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: NWR_insanolord on May 17, 2011, 10:41:59 PM
For me it's

1. Wrath of Khan
2. Undiscovered Country
3. First Contact
4. The one with the whales I know it's called The Voyage Home, that's just what everyone I know calls it.

I don't think any of the other ones are worthy of being in a top 5, so I'll just leave it at 4.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on May 18, 2011, 11:55:16 AM
I'm sorry but their isn't a Generations Star Trek movie that belongs on anyone top anything list.  This is from someone who really loved TNG.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on May 18, 2011, 03:20:29 PM
I'm sorry but their isn't a Generations Star Trek movie that belongs on anyone top anything list.  This is from someone who really loved TNG.

Sorry, but I can't rate Star Treks 1, 3, 5, Insurrection, Nemesis, or especially the new Star Trek in my Top 5.  Generations gets the 5th Spot pretty much by default.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on May 18, 2011, 03:26:17 PM
I'm sorry but their isn't a Generations Star Trek movie that belongs on anyone top anything list.  This is from someone who really loved TNG.

Sorry, but I can't rate Star Treks 1, 3, 5, Insurrection, Nemesis, or especially the new Star Trek in my Top 5.  Generations gets the 5th Spot pretty much by default.
3 and 5 weren't that bad.  The new one I thought was really good for what it is but, I could live without the casting they did for Spock.  I think that ruined the movie.  The rest I thought where good. (I just don't like the emotional Enterprise style Vulcans.)  The first Star Trek movie was pretty bad.  I just need to rewatch all of them methinks.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on May 18, 2011, 05:11:44 PM
The new one I thought was really good for what it is but, I could live without the casting they did for Spock.

Turn into a brainless Star Wars derivative? :(
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on May 18, 2011, 05:26:13 PM
The new one I thought was really good for what it is but, I could live without the casting they did for Spock.
Turn into a brainless Star Wars derivative? :(
Thought it was better than Star Wars but, then again I'm not really a Star Wars fan.
 
Though I am interested in your reasoning for that.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on May 18, 2011, 06:47:38 PM
They essentially turned Star Trek in a mindless action flick. There was barely any plot to speak of, and they entire thing was driven by over-the-top emotions and a weak villain. They were very clearly aiming for the "Star Wars crowd" while entirely ignoring Star Trek's pre-existing fanbase. If it weren't for Leonard Nimoy's presence, there wouldn't be a single point of interest for the true Star Trek fan.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on May 19, 2011, 05:18:01 PM
They essentially turned Star Trek in a mindless action flick. There was barely any plot to speak of, and they entire thing was driven by over-the-top emotions and a weak villain. They were very clearly aiming for the "Star Wars crowd" while entirely ignoring Star Trek's pre-existing fanbase. If it weren't for Leonard Nimoy's presence, there wouldn't be a single point of interest for the true Star Trek fan.
I don't think that's a Star War Problem as much as current movies.  Think Fifth element and the like.  Not to mention that movie seemed to have a lot of an Enterprise Vibe to it, not a fan of Enterprise Which is a shame.  I like Scott Bakula..  I'm going to have to just rewatch the older ones again because I remember some of them being very much like that as well.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TrueNerd on May 20, 2011, 10:13:02 PM
I saw Unforgiven at a theater last night. It was awesome. It looks gorgeous, Clint's a badass, the acting is great, the script is a marvel, but I was most surprised at the thematic similarities between this and No Country For Old Men. They have different things to say about consequences and go about them completely differently but the similarities are still there. Another similarity between Unforgiven and No Country is that they're both Best Picture winners that I wholeheartedly agree with.

I also recently saw Evil Dead II which is joy embodied in film.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on May 20, 2011, 10:18:01 PM
They essentially turned Star Trek in a mindless action flick. There was barely any plot to speak of, and they entire thing was driven by over-the-top emotions and a weak villain. They were very clearly aiming for the "Star Wars crowd" while entirely ignoring Star Trek's pre-existing fanbase. If it weren't for Leonard Nimoy's presence, there wouldn't be a single point of interest for the true Star Trek fan.
I don't think that's a Star War Problem as much as current movies.  Think Fifth element and the like.  Not to mention that movie seemed to have a lot of an Enterprise Vibe to it, not a fan of Enterprise Which is a shame.  I like Scott Bakula..  I'm going to have to just rewatch the older ones again because I remember some of them being very much like that as well.

Hey, don't insult Enterprise by comparing it to that lens flare-d, brain-dead P.O.S.   ;)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on May 20, 2011, 10:34:16 PM
I just watched "The Tunnel (http://www.thetunnelmovie.net/)" last night. I've been following its development for a long time now. Not because the early trailers looked particularly awesome, but because of the unique way it's been funded and distributed. The film was largely financed by people "purchasing" frames as it was filmed. Now that it's finished, it's been released in torrent form for widespread distribution, with the option of buying a DVD copy to support the crew. It's a bold move, one which Hollywood would never be intelligent enough to take (in any way, shape or form).

Anyway... The film itself is of the horror/suspense genre, but is presented as a documentary of sorts. It's not too different than other "found footage" type flicks. Think of it in line with The Blair Witch Project or Paranormal Activity. I'm not usually a fan of the style (with exception to The Last Broadcast), but if you are you'll find plenty to like. The production value are pretty good, though nothing to rave about simply due to the handheld style. There were some legitimately creepy scenes, and the pacing was general suspenseful. That said, the creature ultimately wasn't given enough context to be scary. I appreciate them going subscribing to the "less is more" school of horror, but I think they might have taken it a bit too far. Also, you know exactly which two characters are going to survive because they give post-incident interviews throughout the entire film. One or two scenes of the creature quickly swooping past or towards the camera looked kind of cheesy.

It's not a perfect film. It's not a revolutionary film. I don't regret having watched it though, and I applaud the filmmakers insightful approach to financing and distribution.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on May 22, 2011, 12:07:56 PM
no, I don't think you got a general consensus at all. From what I remember, only 3 of us have seen the movie here and Dasmos is the only one that didn't like it.

(I know I'm late but) definitely not the consensus; I saw this movie, in IMAX, and of altered mind knowing full well what I was getting into. OK, so thats a lie; I had no idea what I was getting into, story wise, but I knew it was more flash than substance and I made the choice of paying my $6 and was FAR from disappointed. Oh and the soundtrack was almost 10/10.

There are so many movies I've seen since my last post here but I'm taking some special time out to advise anyone who hasn't to see this movie:

Ip Man 10/10;

My cousin told me about it on friday, he's a huge fan of martial arts movies. He tried to hype up the movie for about 20 minutes but the first sentence out of his mouth was enough to get me interested, and I watched the movie that same night and called him afterwards to tell him how right he was. Oh, that line i mentioned:

"it's based on Bruce Lee's wang-chun master"
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on May 22, 2011, 12:13:52 PM
IP Man 2 is out on DVD. I haven't seen it yet, but you might want to check it out too.

Ip Man: BNM's review (http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/forums/index.php?topic=28364.msg626490;topicseen#msg626490) / Stogi's Review (http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/forums/index.php?topic=28364.msg640467#msg640467)


In retrospect, I would probably give it a 9, but I don't tend to review movies right after I watch them most of the time, so excitement tends to fade like my recollection of specific events in the movie. The fight scenes are bad ass though and make you want to go study some martial arts just so you can publicly annihilate someone like that when the time comes.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on May 22, 2011, 12:21:30 PM
IP Man 2 is out on DVD. I haven't seen it yet, but you might want to check it out too.

Ip Man: BNM's review (http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/forums/index.php?topic=28364.msg626490;topicseen#msg626490) / Stogi's Review (http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/forums/index.php?topic=28364.msg640467#msg640467)

He (my cousin) told me he saw the prequel (Ip Man 2) but wasn't feeling it. I'll definitely check it out eventually and form my own opinion, but still; anyone else who hasn't seen Ip Man NEEDS to watch it.

Edit: you saw an english dub!? Lol i saw it with subtitles, which I normally hate, and STILL loved the movie enough to give it a 10/10.

I almost pissed myself when my dude, Ip Man, gave that flury of punches to one of the 10 japanese guys to the point that the dude was convulsing for the rest of the scene
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on May 22, 2011, 02:46:44 PM
Yeah that scene makes the movie. I still watch it occasionally on youtube.

I'm glad you watched it with subtitles. Foreign movies lose a lot of authenticity when dubs are used.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on May 23, 2011, 12:58:07 AM
I just finished the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo trilogy. I would rank them in the order they came out.

1. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
2. The Girl Who Played With Fire
3. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

Average score: Four Stars
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on May 26, 2011, 09:48:03 PM
Yeah that scene makes the movie. I still watch it occasionally on youtube.

I'm glad you watched it with subtitles. Foreign movies lose a lot of authenticity when dubs are used.

I don't watch enough foreign films to judge either way, but I am biased against sub-titles for the most part.

With that said, I'd still like to see this one again, dubbed, just for the heck of it - even if it won't compare.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on May 26, 2011, 10:34:54 PM
hate subtitles?

idk i barely even notice subtitles, i guess ive trained my brain for subtitles
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on May 26, 2011, 10:56:25 PM
I've watched so many horror films from across the sea that I couldn't help but get to where Big Werm is at. I hardly notice them now. I even use them for movies in english if they speak too fast or use a horrible accent (think Snatch).

I actually wish I could pop them on for shows on TV too. Shows where every word is important but the actors like to mumble. I find it funny, but also annoying. Like this. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqWeQNbXUlQ)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on May 27, 2011, 12:26:32 AM
subtitles are great for learning langauges too i picked up like 20 words watching Let the Right One in

which reminds me

Let Me In 9/10
Let the Right one in 8.5/10

the remake gets the higher score because some characters are better developed/have better scenes, or exist at all.

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on May 27, 2011, 10:17:27 AM
Last Movie I saw was the last Harry Potter movie.  Having read the books I think a Montage would have done justice to the majority of the material and it could have been 1 movie easily.  Especially since 3 and 4, the more dense books, were 1 movie when they really should have been 2 each easily.

Now I also watch Dawn Treader the Narnia movie.  It has the Narnia feel but a Teacher will know if you read the book or not if you did a book report with it.  It changes a lot while getting the general gist of it.  I think its still a good movie but out of all the Narnia books I think this was the one that could have been adapting pretty pure and make a good movie.  The First ones on the other had should have gotten the treatment Dawn Treader did.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on May 27, 2011, 04:00:42 PM
Samurai Jack 9/10

Stumbled upon this the other day and I forgot how awesome this show was. Takes me right back to the Toonami era of my childhood.

I always thought this show was great but it is really incredible what each episode can do with 24 minutes. Most do more with that time than movies can with 90. I especially like the pacing of the show. Its very methodical for a cartoon and really makes for a unique experience. But if there was one thing I had to point to as the shows greatest attribute, it would be its sound design. When absent of music, the sounds play a huge roll when telling the story. Every little sound effect is meticulously placed. It's wonderful to hear. But just as good is when music is apart of the show. It's always original and perfectly sets the mood. And sometimes, I can't help but sing to it. It's that good. If you watch this show, do yourself a favor and make sure to wear some nice head phones or plug it in to your stereo.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on May 27, 2011, 04:35:05 PM
...
but it is really incredible what each episode can do with 24 minutes. Most do more with that time than movies can with 90.
...
I feel that way in general about good American Cartoon shows.  Japanese tend to like to have an arch that takes a while to tell.  Good American ones the episodes are self contained but their is an arc that spans all of them.  Also Cartoons everything has to have a purpose are it be a waste of time aka Money.  Anything in the Batman: The Animated Series Lineage falls under that.

I'm glad I'm not alone.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on May 27, 2011, 09:48:03 PM
The Lost World: Jurassic Park

The original Jurassic Park is my favorite movie of all time. Even though I recognize the film's flaws (some of which are huge) it is overall a masterpiece--one of Spielberg's best films and THE best dinosaur movie ever made. A few years later, Crichton went back to the Mesozoic well and Spielberg came right along for the ride. David Koepp took Crichton's book and basically re-wrote it, made it more of a family picture, more of a survival story. He made it a lot worse.

The Lost World is an incredibly bad movie. It has  pacing problems, casting problems, effects problems, plotting and scripting problems, etc. The whole gammut of "bad movie problems" are here. The movie is promising for about twenty minutes between the opening scene and the call to action by John Hammond. After that, **** gets shitty. The effects scenes are...THERE, but everything looks muddy and out-of-focus. Part of this is because of the increased focus on pure CGI effects, whereas the first movie balanced CGI and animatronics. The most effective CGI is at the very beginning of the movie, with the family of Stegosaurus. Everything else is a muddy mess, even the tyrannosaurs and ESPECIALLY the raptors.

I'm not saying the book ("The Lost World") was a good book by any means (really...read it) but it's plot was better than the movie, more coherent, and had a lot more to do with the darker backstory of Jurassic Park. While the book provides Michael Crichton with an avenue to espout everything New he's learned about Dinosaurs since the first book, it also gives an interesting side of the geneticists and manufacturing of Jurassic Park and how the park came to be. The film, however, boils it all down into a "humans vs. people" chase story where everyone lands on one side of the island (crashes) and is trying to escape from the other side. Then, at the end, they ship a tyrannosaur to L.A. and Spielberg gets to film a Godzilla movie.

It's just a terrible movie all the way through. It's not worse than Jurassic Park 3, mind you, but JP3 is a whole different beast. It's a theme park ride where science was deliberately swept far, FAR funder the rug. But we'll get to that movie another day. The point here is that I hadn't seen The Lost World in at least six years and I finally did--by accident--on TV, and decided to suffer through. I can't recommend it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: MaryJane on May 28, 2011, 06:10:03 PM
The Fighter: 7.5/10

Pretty good, but I did not like the way they did the fights, and how do they not do the fights with Gatti? The beginning was too slow, and took too long to develop; I understood the family dynamic after the first twenty minutes, and they should have moved on from there. Anyway, it was still pretty good because the acting was top notch, and it's a good story, I was just underwhelmed.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on May 29, 2011, 02:30:11 PM
subtitles are great for learning langauges too i picked up like 20 words watching Let the Right One in

which reminds me

Let Me In 9/10
Let the Right one in 8.5/10

the remake gets the higher score because some characters are better developed/have better scenes, or exist at all.



Agreed, the remake was more enjoyable because of the very points you mentioned; it actually made me wish I saw the original first instead of checking it out after seeing the US remake, I might not have been as disappointed otherwise.

Kung-Fu Panda 2:  7/10

Almost an 8/10 but something about Po's personality kept getting on my nerves. I felt he was dumber than the original but I haven't seen that since I saw it in theaters so who knows. I liked it, it was a cute movie just as the last one, had more touching moments than (from what I remember of) the first one.

I didn't mother seeing it in 3d as my experience with 3D animated movies tells me there's only 2 or 3 good stand-out scenes in 3d (no pun intended) and the rest is worthless but you can't take the glasses off or else everything will be blurry, blah.

I liked the ending; kinda cements the fact that Po was destined to be the Dragon Warrior and really wasn't just dumb luck, plus makes you wonder what they'll do in a 2nd sequel.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on June 01, 2011, 03:04:23 AM
Goemon - 7.8/10

Movie I just found on Netflix streaming. They described it as having a sort of Robin Hood story with stealing from the rich to give to the poor, but that's mostly just in the beginning. How I would describe it, or atleast what came to mind as soon as I started watching it was Ninja Scroll meets Sin City (for the first 1/3) and Ninja Gaiden meets Sucker Punch at the end(last 1/3). The middle third is filled with story elements and slows down quite a bit, but over all I liked it alot.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on June 01, 2011, 04:07:54 PM
I just finished the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo trilogy. I would rank them in the order they came out.

1. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
2. The Girl Who Played With Fire
3. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

Average score: Four Stars

i give them somewhere between a 7.5 and an 8. Then again my dumbass watched them in the wrong order. My biggest complaint is they are too long, and could use some editing. the story is great, but yeah...long.

And Goemon...i want to check that out, because Goemon is Mystical Ninja
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on June 01, 2011, 10:17:20 PM
X-Men Origins: Wolverine - 5.5/10
The original X-Men movie basically fucked up the storyline for this one (when compared to the comics), but at least they went along with what X-Men 1 and 2 had laid out, so it makes sense for movie goers. I thought Dead Pool was pretty cool, but there was no need to make the blades come out of his hands, give him Cyclops' powers, or take away his most powerful weapon (his mouth). Also they made Sabertooth his brother...which isn't right...oh well. Actually the whole storyline was retarded now that I think about it. As far as in relation to the comic book series, I'd give it a 2/10, but for a movie it gets a 5.5/10.

Edit - thinking back, I rated it way too highly. It pretty much sucked, but it was still fun to watch. You really either need to be a non-comic fan, or just try to forget everything that you've ever seen in any X-Men or Wolverine comics for the movie to make any sense.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on June 02, 2011, 12:14:43 AM
God, I hated it. Nothing about the movie was well thought-out, especially how they grafted adamantium to his bones. There were some truly awful special-effects moments in that movie too, including Wolverine slashing down the ladder, Deadpool falling down the cooling tower, and just some of the WORST green-screen backgrounds I've ever seen. Bar none.

Makes me really not want to see Xmen First Class, even though it's obviously a different movie. It just effs with the comics and the established movie timeline even more. I have more (but not much more) interest in the upcoming The Wolverine, where our boy goes to Japan to train with the samurai.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on June 02, 2011, 12:20:13 AM
Hahaha

You know I saw Origins without the CG (pre-post-production...you heard me) and it was terribly awesome. It was horrible how fake it makes you realize Hollywood is, but it was awesome how dumb the actors looked. If I was anywhere on set, I wouldn't be able to keep a straight face.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Dasmos on June 02, 2011, 12:48:05 AM
Hahaha

You know I saw Origins without the CG (pre-post-production...you heard me) and it was terribly awesome. It was horrible how fake it makes you realize Hollywood is, but it was awesome how dumb the actors looked. If I was anywhere on set, I wouldn't be able to keep a straight face.

Ahaha yeah I saw that version too. It was hilarious. It ruined the movie for me, but it was hilarious.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on June 02, 2011, 12:49:34 AM
The more I see of Xmen First Class, the more I'm interested in seeing it.

And that BB deal is temping to go watch it in theater too instead of waiting for Netflixs
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on June 02, 2011, 01:26:19 AM
The Town
I liked it a lot. Normally, I cringe when Ben Affleck is on screen but he did a good job in this movie, even though he managed to include that goofy smile of his that somehow makes it into every one of his movies. Blake Lively also did a great job, despite her lack of screen time.

Pirates of Silicon Valley
Not bad, just not that great. I feel like there's a better way to tell the story of Apple/Steve Jobs and Microsoft/Bill Gates. This definitely played out like a made for TV movie. So much has happened since this as made, I think much better filmmakers with a bigger budget could make a really interesting film.

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Nothing new here. Jack Sparrow didn't seem as smart. In the first 3, you never knew if Jack was just rolling with the punches or if he had a grand plan, but he always seemed to be outwitting everyone. Not so much here. You basically just get Johnny Depp walking around funny and making weird faces which is what the Jack Sparrow character is known for, but not what makes him interesting and fun to watch.

The Hangover Part II
I definitely lol'd, but it's like the screenwriters wrote a summary of the first film, removed some nouns and adjectives and made a Mad Libs to write Part II. For example, instead of a baby and a missing tooth, you get a chainsmoking monkey and a tattoo. I read that they're planning a Part III. I don't think the concept can last another go around.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on June 02, 2011, 01:36:34 AM
Yes the effects were horrible in X-M O: Wolverine, and the 45-second Adamantium skeleton surgery was completely retarded, but it was entertaining. Actually thinking back, I probably need to edit my score. It was more like a 5.5/10, I'm remembering more of the latter half and how stupid the storyline got.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on June 02, 2011, 04:36:19 AM
i saw origins without cg too thanks to unagi, and i have to say it was better without effects

also pirates of silicon valley, it was better when it was new.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on June 02, 2011, 11:28:22 AM
Hahaha

You know I saw Origins without the CG (pre-post-production...you heard me) and it was terribly awesome. It was horrible how fake it makes you realize Hollywood is, but it was awesome how dumb the actors looked. If I was anywhere on set, I wouldn't be able to keep a straight face.

Ahaha yeah I saw that version too. It was hilarious. It ruined the movie for me, but it was hilarious.

No, I think the movie ruined the movie for you... just like it did for everyone else. :P
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on June 02, 2011, 11:29:35 AM
...
also pirates of silicon valley, it was better when it was new.
Definitely.  I ran the Computer Club at my High School at the time and we watched it on the Big projector.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Shorty McNostril on June 04, 2011, 07:06:21 AM
Go and see first class. 

Oh, and there is nothing after the credits.  Trust me, I know.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on June 05, 2011, 01:19:37 AM
Bridesmaids - Don't see this movie.

You'll go in thinking it's about some crazy bachelorette party, but it's...not at all. Instead, it's about how Kristin Wiig's life is a trainwreck and she goes around destroying her friend's lives (and her maybe new boyfriend). There are some funny moments, but this is not a FUNNY movie. It's kind of a chick flick, at the end of the day.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on June 05, 2011, 02:02:07 AM
Bridesmaids - Don't see this movie.

You'll go in thinking it's about some crazy bachelorette party, but it's...not at all. Instead, it's about how Kristin Wiig's life is a trainwreck and she goes around destroying her friend's lives (and her maybe new boyfriend). There are some funny moments, but this is not a FUNNY movie. It's kind of a chick flick, at the end of the day.

But... but.... I heard it was the female Hangover but funnier.

I've been lied to!? How disappointing.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on June 05, 2011, 04:25:47 AM
Remember that Adam Sandler/Seth Rogan movie, "Funny People," that was titled ironically? This is like that. The previews make it look like an entirely different movie in order to get people in the theaters, then they force-feed you some crappy chick flick.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Caterkiller on June 06, 2011, 12:05:22 AM
X-Men First Class 9/10. Didn't like X3 too much and was about to walk out of Wolverine Origins, but I found this to be great! There was so much less flashy super abilities shown but man the characters played their roles well!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on June 07, 2011, 09:23:58 AM
Troll 2 - 5/10

One of those b-horror movies thats SO BAD IT'S GOOD! Trust me, get some friends, get ready to mock the **** out of how bad this movie is and you'll be in for a good night. Drinks will help get you through it. By that, I mean have more than a couple of drinks before you even ATTEMPT to start watching, otherwise the first five minutes will be so bad you won't bother with it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on June 07, 2011, 09:48:01 AM
Wasn't that a MFT movie or did we quit that before we got to it?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on June 07, 2011, 09:49:51 AM
No idea, I unfortunately didn't follow the thread all that closely. I'm up for it if other people are!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on June 07, 2011, 10:43:14 AM
No idea, I unfortunately didn't follow the thread all that closely. I'm up for it if other people are!

That's what everyone said the first time....

But I had fun doing it. I'm sure I'll be down to do it again pretty soon.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on June 07, 2011, 11:05:42 AM
hm, i'd say lets hold off until winter. Staying in and watching a movie is a more wintery thing in my eyes. I'll definitely do it this time, I've been showing my netflix a lot of love lately.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on June 07, 2011, 11:12:12 AM
hm, i'd say lets hold off until winter. Staying in and watching a movie is a more wintery thing in my eyes. I'll definitely do it this time, I've been showing my netflix a lot of love lately.
My Netflix thinks my family is needy and really into Frog Twins by now.  It gets a lot of use.  In fact I think my wife interacts with it more than my Son on a nightly basis...or me for that matter...
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on June 12, 2011, 03:45:39 AM
The Roommate - 4/10

This is Single White Female 2011
If you've seen that movie, then everything in this movie is 100% predictable and probably in the same exact order. They changed alot of the details, but it's like they took the original SWF script and played Mad-Lib with it.
In my opinion, go watch SWF instead. It was by far a better movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on June 12, 2011, 06:42:48 PM
hm, i'd say lets hold off until winter. Staying in and watching a movie is a more wintery thing in my eyes. I'll definitely do it this time, I've been showing my netflix a lot of love lately.
My Netflix thinks my family is needy and really into Frog Twins by now.  It gets a lot of use.  In fact I think my wife interacts with it more than my Son on a nightly basis...or me for that matter...

Samsies; The original idea behind getting netflix was to share it between my girlfriend, brother, cousins and myself since we usually get together and have 'movie night' anyway, and that we'd split the ridiculously low cost among us to make it even lower; about a year in and i'm the only one paying for the service but the one who uses it the least.


Hangover 2 - utter ****, needs no explanation.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on June 12, 2011, 07:56:31 PM
Maybe you should, y'know, cancel the service then?

Really though. Netflix is all the entertainment you need. Cancel the cable/satellite instead.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on June 12, 2011, 08:55:10 PM
lol I'm not really complaining about the price, it's only $9/month, I'm just not able to use it much on my own (save for an Ancient Aliens marathon recently). It was meant as more of a passive complaint that can be said about many things;  I have a car I use more for work than say.. taking a road trip, but that doesn't mean I'll get rid of the car :P

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Sundoulos on June 13, 2011, 07:51:12 AM
Just saw X-Men FC and Super 8 last weekend; loved both of them.  9/10, 8/10 respectively.

I was probably more pumped for Super 8 than any other summer movie; it's well done and does invoke a lot of nostalgia, but the last 20 minutes of the movie feels like it's really missing something to resolve the main character arcs.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on June 13, 2011, 08:54:01 PM
i liked most of super 8, but it felt like it was in the middle of the movie when it ended. It was like some amazing sex, but someone was done and rolled over.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on June 15, 2011, 02:10:25 AM
Mr. Hulot's Holiday. 3.5 out of 10.

This was a tough film to slog through. Maybe I had high expectations for it but I think it wouldn't even meet low expectations. There were only two moments that I laughed. Another handful that got a slight chuckle. The rest of the movie is.... well, it seems to be all set-up and no punchline. It's very odd. The editing seems to be off. Scenes are shown that don't seem to have any relevance to anything, the movie just seems to want to hop to another scene before any sort of pay-off is reached in the preceding scene. I didn't mind the movie's main score but it just seemed to be one theme played over in various iterations.

Just thinking about it brings out a frustration of expectation unmet. The movies keeps establishing things over and over and you expect them to lead to something but that something never comes. Like the man who is always running to the phone because of business or the old man and lady out strolling everywhere or the young man always spouting Communist Manifestos. The weird thing is, thinking back I can think of all kinds of gags and bits that are sort of funny on their own but in the movie with the way it unfolds and the pace, it just seems to kill any humor.

What struck me as I was nearing the end of the movie was that this was like a real life Harvest Moon or Animal Crossing. You have all these defined characters in this little villiage and they all act the same every day as the wander about the villiage each day. After conversing to them for a little while, they all say the same thing over and over and do the same things over and over. Trust me. If you ever watch this movie, you'll know exactly what I mean and you'll find this comparison genius. And it is only for that, I recommend checking out this movie.

On a final side note though, as I was watching it and saw Mr. Hulot pop his head through a roof window I instantly recognized the scene as the avatar for our dearly departed Movie Critic and Pretty Awesome Guy Evan "Svevan" Birchfield. You can see the avatar in question here: http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/forums/index.php?action=profile;u=8492 (http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/forums/index.php?action=profile;u=8492). He hasn't changed it since he left 2 years ago. I always thought the avatar looked like Jimmy Stewart. So mystery solved.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on June 15, 2011, 08:35:43 PM
X-men First Class - 8/10

My first thoughts, when the trailer was first out, was this movie was going to be cheesy and "teh g@y".

Eventually I'd hear critics and viewers say how good it is, so I had to see it for myself.

Wow. So much better than I thought, I was impressed. Had dips in quality in some parts, as most movies do, but god damn I loved the portrayal of these characters, brings a whole new side on it and.. I'd hate to use the phrase but.. a whole "fresh" new taste to it all.

The cameos were awesome but where was stan lee??

I've read this might be part of a new trilogy, which I'm sure will happen of this does well (has it? i don't really follow that stuff), but I don't think they should. I'd like them to explore other eras.. Days of Future Past anyone!?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Sundoulos on June 15, 2011, 10:22:11 PM
I think at least domestically X-Men: FC has earned as much as TPTB had expected.   I heard that of all the X-Men movies (Wolverine Origins included), FC only outperformed one of them.  Word is that even if it doesn't do as well overall, Fox may keep making movies along these lines to keep the movie rights from reverting to Marvel.

I do wonder if we're really starting to reach our saturation point on comic book movies this summer.  Still, I want to see Captain America and Cowboys & Aliens.

Early reviews on the Green Lantern are even worse than I expected.  Currently 20% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on June 15, 2011, 10:30:36 PM
Was Thor good?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on June 15, 2011, 10:32:13 PM
Early reviews on the Green Lantern are even worse than I expected.  Currently 20% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Even the previews looked bad, so I'm not surprised.
They still haven't fixed the CG suit that looks like it was done in photoshop after the movie was complete. That is a wait till DVD watch for sure.

Captain America and XmenFC are on my theater list though. I have 4 AMD movie tickets just waiting to be used. I might go watch XMFC this weekend.

Was Thor good?

Yes. Thor was pretty good.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on June 15, 2011, 10:34:23 PM
Was it Iron Man 1 and The Dark Knight good?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on June 15, 2011, 10:42:24 PM
Was it Iron Man 1 and The Dark Knight good?

lol
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on June 15, 2011, 11:10:02 PM
Is that sarcasm? If not, yes, both are excellent.

Sadly, Iron Man 2 is not nearly as good. It shouldn't be called "Iron Man 2" as much as "The Avengers Prequel."
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on June 16, 2011, 02:56:15 PM
It was only sarcastic if you think that Thor was good. I'll certainly agree that Iron Man and The Dark Knight was great superhero films. Iron Man 2 was a worthwhile followup, but as you pointed out, included too many lead-ins to the Avengers. We'll see if Rise of the Dark Knight follows suit, or if it ends up being as lame as Batman Beings was.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on June 16, 2011, 03:00:35 PM
So you don't think Thor was good?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on June 16, 2011, 03:24:55 PM
It was only sarcastic if you think that Thor was good. I'll certainly agree that Iron Man and The Dark Knight was great superhero films. Iron Man 2 was a worthwhile followup, but as you pointed out, included too many lead-ins to the Avengers. We'll see if Rise of the Dark Knight follows suit, or if it ends up being as lame as Batman Beings was.

Hey, I really liked Iron Man, Dark Knight, and Batman Begins.  Batman Begins gets so much hate these days in this post-Dark Knight world, and it really doesn't deserve it.  Yes, Kattie Holmes is terrible, but that's really the only bad mark against the movie.  As for Iron Man 2: "bleh".  I really disliked that movie.  Too much focus on building up an Avengers movie, too little focus on the actual Iron Man/Tony Starke story, and the movie seemed determined to undo any good character development established in the first movie.

That reminds me, I really need to get around to watching my Blu-Ray copy of the Incredible Hulk movie.  Alice: Madness Returns got me in the mood to rewatch the original Disney Alice in Wonderland on Blu-Ray first, but I still need to get around to Hulk.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on June 16, 2011, 06:42:22 PM
well you cast an actress, its just easier to fire her for the next movie
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on June 16, 2011, 07:12:30 PM
Batman Begins gets so much hate these days in this post-Dark Knight world, and it really doesn't deserve it.

I hated it the moment I saw it, Dark Knight has nothing to do with it. Batman Begins was booooring. Instead of making Scarecrow front and center, only further reinforcing the themes of fear, Nolan instead shifted all focus to Batman fighting a cult of ninjas hellbent on taking over the world. It was ridiculous, especially when knowing what Nolan was capable of (Following, Memento, Prestige). Sure, it was the best Batman film to come along since Tim Burton left the franchise, but that's not saying much.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on June 16, 2011, 11:52:56 PM
So yeah...Disney's 1951 Alice in Wonderland animated film on Blu-Ray.  I watched that and while it feels wrong to heap a lot of hate on a movie this old and (I guess?) beloved, I didn't like this movie when I was a kid and I still don't like it now.  The transfer's probably the best a film this old can look (there isn't a spec of grain, color issues, or compression issues anywhere) and the animation's gorgeous for its time (and the character designs of the main characters are really iconic), but the story is just...bland.  This was one of a number of old Disney movies I didn't like as a kid that I wanted to give a second chance with more experienced eyes (other such movies include the Fox & the Hound, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and The Little Mermaid), and my problems with it haven't changed.  The sheer insanity of the books (which I haven't read in ages and may go back and check out now) is toned way down.  There are some elements of the original stories that still shine through (I don't care how much Disney tried to downplay it, the Walrus & the Carpenter is still a pretty frickin' dark tale) as well as a few notable set piece moments like the Mad Tea Party, but the movie just meanders through it all.  In fact, my biggest sticking point with the movie has always been when the movie hits the 50 minute mark and hits a sheer 6-minute wall of pointlessness with some anthropomorphic objects in a forest.

On the upside, like I said the character designs in this movie are incredibly iconic, and the Cheshire Cat (always my favorite aspect of the books, the games, and the movies) totally steals the show even in his probably total of 5 minutes in the movie.  This movie's just too boring to appreciate being its artistic appeal.

Incidentally, I watched the trailer for the Blu-Ray restoration of Bambi and...wow, that movie looks ugly in those trailers.  Time has not been kind to those masters, and unless Disney really ups the color saturation time won't be kind to the restoration either.

Well, I'm going to take a bit of a risk here.  As I'm playing Alice: Madness Returns (a game about a dark and twisted Alice), I'm in the mood for a suitable movie and I've always loved Tim Burton's aesthetics.  I know it's widely-panned as a terrible movie, but I'm going to try watching Tim Burton's 2010 Alice in Wonderland.  It'll probably be crap, but will probably at least look fantastic.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on June 17, 2011, 12:37:44 AM
Batman Begins was (is) awesome. Yes the fight scenes were typically too close up to actually see what was going on, but it was an awesome movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on June 17, 2011, 01:36:20 AM
Well, I'm going to take a bit of a risk here.  As I'm playing Alice: Madness Returns (a game about a dark and twisted Alice), I'm in the mood for a suitable movie and I've always loved Tim Burton's aesthetics.  I know it's widely-panned as a terrible movie, but I'm going to try watching Tim Burton's 2010 Alice in Wonderland.  It'll probably be crap, but will probably at least look fantastic.

If you couldn't find it in you to enjoy the old Disney version, you're going to hate that pile of **** Tim Burton pushed out of his ass. I honestly don't think that man is even capable of making a good film anymore. :(

Ironically, American McGee's Alice is probably the closest adaption as far as tone goes.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on June 17, 2011, 01:38:59 AM
Ironically, American McGee's Alice is probably the closest adaption as far as tone goes.

Indeed, and by extension the new Alice: Madness Returns as well, which is an excellent if severely flawed game.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on June 17, 2011, 05:17:14 PM
I was so let down by Burton's Alice. The movie felt like a Lord of the Ring's themed glorified hand job to Depp. He's a great actor but the film revolved around him too much.

What happened to Burton? His classics are amazing yet a lot of his recent stuff is awful.

I've been on a Burton kick because I finally got around to watching Nightmare Before Christmas. I never got to watch it back in the day thanks to a protective mother. I adore that movie now. I know I would have loved it back then too. So I've been watching his other classic movies again.

Really he seems to be in a terrible decline. I find him to be akin to Don Bluth in the talent decline area. Both made amazing films back in the day but slowly lost the edge. I don't know why. Perhaps they sold out, or lost some key people under them that made their ideas truly come to life. Both were also kings of their media forms (traditional hand drawn animation and stop motion) which also experienced declines so perhaps as those art forms came down so did their will to put out quality work.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on June 17, 2011, 05:22:21 PM
Kevin Smith is retiring, and Tarantino wants to retire at 60. Sometimes directors go through a decline where they just can't be awesome anymore. Tarantino thinks his movies will suck at some point, so he's quitting ahead. Kevin Smith would rather talk about dildos online than direct.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on June 17, 2011, 07:25:46 PM
One reason Nightmare Before Christmas doesn't such: Tim Burton didn't direct it. He produced.

The Burton version of Alice in Wonderland is so gawdawful that I couldn't believe it was made. It does turn very LotR at the end for no good reason. If you want an interesting and unique take on Alice in Wonderland, the SyFy miniseries (now on DVD) "Alice" is at least a different take on the classic tale.

The wife and I watched the old Disney version before we saw the Jonny Depp one, and you're right, it's hard to watch now. It just seems like an hour and twenty minutes of filler, especially the scene in the forest with the bird-instruments. Everything just feels glossed-over. The one good thing about the film is Alice's voice actress, who is believable and provides a good character. I don't like much else about it, though.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on June 17, 2011, 09:29:11 PM
X-Men: First Class

Real quick review. I'll shy away from spoilers.

This is a pretty solid movie, that goes a long way in redeeming the series. It's unquestionably superior to X3: The Last Stand, and leagues beyond Origins: Wolverine. It doesn't come close to surpassing the original film (which is one of the best superhero films to have been made), but it easily stands alongside X2 in terms of quality. I'd say First Class and X2: X-Men United are fairly on par with one another, though perhaps excelling in different ways. First Class doesn't focus so much on action or super powers, instead highlighting Magneto and what made him who he is (will be?).

Did I mention Magneto?! He's always been a favorite of mine, even from the comics. Rarely does he ever come across as the true villain, seeing how he's generally on the right side of the humans versus mutants argument. The character really steals the show in First Class, and is given a considerable amount of depth and motive that can be felt into the earlier films. The actor did a wonderful job at bringing the young anti-hero to life, and his recurring theme music was appropriately highlighted through the film. Actually, all of the main players were generally well cast and portrayed (Magneto, Xavier, Shaw, Mystique, White Queen). The Cold War back drop was a neat change of place, and the alternate history made for a fun thought bubble.

Nitpicks? Hmmm... A lot of the side characters felt like C-List mutants. Of course, this is an inevitable problem given the time frame and the fact that the series has already blown its load by putting so many faces in X3. Angel was laughable, Banshee was silly, and Darwin was completely underused. Beast's makeup was horrible. There were a few cheesy looking special effects. Too many inside jokes, alluding to the future that we all know. Not one, but two montages. Xavier and Erik's relationship was very short-lived, not really giving them the time to develop the kind of mutual respect we see later in the series.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on June 18, 2011, 01:20:35 AM
^Really? That's unexpected. After X3 and Origins, I kinda lost faith in the X-Men series.

Black Swan: SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS

"Gooooood what the **** is going on" <--- My thoughts while watching that damn movie.

I have to admit, Portman's acting was superb. And the cinematography (Yes I know I spelt it wrong) was brilliant. The climax was perfect, too.

But I couldn't get over how unclear everything was. Is she dead? Did she imagine herself dying? Did or did she not kill that one chick? Or is that whole damn movie a fucking dream and she wakes up as soon as the movie ends? WHO KNOWS, I SURE DON'T!

As you can see, that movie pissed me off immensely.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BeautifulShy on June 18, 2011, 02:19:40 AM
I was reading through this topic earlier to get some idea of what movie I wanted to watch and The MIST came up in the early pages in this thread. Well I finished it just now and I have got to tell you that that is the most messed up movie I have ever seen.Typically whenever a lot of people are in an enclosed area and there is a major crisis in movies they tend to agitate each other but well by the end of the movie it was just to depressing.It just got way out of hand. Also the ending to the movie was just more depressing then the rest of the movie. I think if I were in the situation of the main character I would have been more optimistic.Since basically that is just how I am.
One other thing one character in peticular in the movie was just, how should I put this, the person brought out the worst in people by trying to have others act and think like her.
Few lessons to take away from the movie. Never give up. Try to be level headed and try to work together with others.

I'm going to rate this movie in 4 ways. If you are into depressing movies it is a 10.
If you are into social and intelectual movies.Then it is a 9.
If you are like me and depressing movies are not your thing then well I would give it a 5.

If none of the above jives with you then I would give it a 4. It is okay for what it is but well it isn't for everyone.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on June 18, 2011, 01:16:34 PM
The Green Lantern - RYAN REYNOLDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I like when he does action movies because he doesn't do them normally. But this time i enjoyed all of his actiony scenes and not anything in front of a green screen (which was nearly all of them).
Angela Bassett is a wonderful actress and she's pointlessly underused in this film. The script seemed simple and very plain,
and seeing it in 3D is a waste of time because the 3D is so soft in about 80% of the film it doesn't have anything unique to bring to it. Although for the first time ever i didn't get a headache.

If you want to see Ryan Reynolds actually ACT, go see "Buried".
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: bustin98 on June 18, 2011, 04:43:17 PM
Nitpicks? Hmmm... A lot of the side characters felt like C-List mutants. Of course, this is an inevitable problem given the time frame and the fact that the series has already blown its load by putting so many faces in X3. Angel was laughable, Banshee was silly, and Darwin was completely underused. Beast's makeup was horrible. There were a few cheesy looking special effects. Too many inside jokes, alluding to the future that we all know. Not one, but two montages. Xavier and Erik's relationship was very short-lived, not really giving them the time to develop the kind of mutual respect we see later in the series.

It was Havoc, not Angel. Angel should have been in it as he was part of the original team, along with Iceman (Snowballman). But it seems the filmmakers didn't want to re-use some of the characters.

I really enjoyed the one cameo that shouldn't be mentioned. Total surprise by it.

Banshee was the biggest joke. I don't know the character all that well, but I think I assumed his flight was generated by some other means than directing sound waves at the ground. I mean, how does that work anyway?

I think the amount of time Charles and Erik spend together was compressed for the film. They did after all spend a great deal of time travelling the world. Too bad we didn't get to see any quiet moments between the two of them, just hanging out and talking about life as they know it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on June 18, 2011, 05:14:43 PM
It was Havoc, not Angel. Angel should have been in it as he was part of the original team, along with Iceman (Snowballman). But it seems the filmmakers didn't want to re-use some of the characters.

Angel/Archangel was poorly utilized in X3, just like every other character from that installment. Iceman was developed well enough throughout the series, but was obviously too young in the movie's continuity to have been included in First Class. It is simply a prequel after all, not a reboot. Still, it's far from the original lineup we all know from the comics.

To alleviate any confusion, the Angel found in First Class is actually this one (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_Salvadore) and not Warren Worthington's alter-ego.


But I couldn't get over how unclear everything was. Is she dead? Did she imagine herself dying? Did or did she not kill that one chick? Or is that whole damn movie a fucking dream and she wakes up as soon as the movie ends? WHO KNOWS, I SURE DON'T!

Black Swan may be hard to follow as you watch, but the ending does make everything pretty clear if you've been paying attention. It's good enough to not force-feed you want you want to hear via a series of flashbacks to footage that happened only twenty minutes earlier. Don't take things at face value and don't think about it too literally. The gist? The entire film is about duality and the battle happening within Nina as she prepares for the role of the Black Swan. She uses Lily as a catalyst of sorts, pushing her desires into what she sees as a more likely candidate than herself. Lily seems to actually exists, but her physical presence becomes just another hallucination as the film continues. By the end of the film, the mirror is broken (literally) and the White Swan dies. Along with it goes Nina's old life. She has fully embraced the Black Swan, no longer fearing what it could mean for her... no longer needing to push those thoughts into another character.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on June 18, 2011, 05:35:01 PM
Just watched Super 8.

Can't type much since X-Men first class is about to start, but all I have to say is, if he had saved the doctor he could have saved everyone!!!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on June 18, 2011, 06:17:01 PM
Fast Five: Turn your brain off and it's fun/10.

I can't help but like these movies... although you can't put too much thought into them or you're be yelling at the screen about how stupid it all is. :D
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on June 18, 2011, 07:54:42 PM
X-Men: First Class

If this is the start of a new trilogy, them sign me up.
The Hangover II is starting now, so I will report back later.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on June 18, 2011, 08:51:55 PM
Three in a row, aye BlackNMild? You must spend a fortune at the theater.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on June 18, 2011, 09:34:51 PM
Pay for one, then theater hop.

Hangover II was entertaining, I laughed.
About to watch Green Lantern now. Final movie of the day.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on June 18, 2011, 11:38:32 PM
I wanna know how bad it is.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on June 19, 2011, 12:11:29 AM
Just finished Green Lantern.

I'm not a tough critic unless it's really bad, but i was surprised at how not terrible this movie was.
I'm not saying it was good, but it wasn't as bad as some may lead you to believe. Or maybe it's just that I went in with the lowest of expectations, but it wasn't that bad. For some reason though, they kept playing a modified Superman theme for GL. I was almost as annoyed by that as I was by the stupid mask.
It's definitely a rental.

The highlight of today was X-Men First Class. Followed at a safe distance by Super 8 which was being tailgated by The Hangover II.

If the next First Class movie can follow-up to this, then I will be excited for a sequel.
Nothing else seen today needs a sequel... if if GL was set-up for one.

Ryan Reynolds needs to just go do the Dead Pool movie instead.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on June 19, 2011, 01:38:13 AM
Halfway through The Scorpion King (I was always curious).

It's pretty terrible, but not in a "I can't watch this anymore" terrible, more like "I can't wait to see how much more terrible this terrible movie will get." Kelly Hu is totally miscast here. Actually, EVERYBODY is. I'm not sure what this movie's supposed to BE, and there's no plot. The Rock just goes around killing people in non-bloody ways. I do appreciate the near-total lack of CG, though. It's refreshing.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on June 19, 2011, 03:56:47 AM
True Grit. 2010 four stars.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on June 23, 2011, 02:52:54 AM
A while back after finishing L.A. Noire, I picked up a bunch of similarly-styled movies to watch (Dick Tracy and The Shadow being 2 of them), and I've finally gotten around to watching L.A. Confidential.  This is the game that "heavily inspired" L.A. Noire, and by that I mean that L.A. Noire rips it off almost completely (in some places hilariously so).  That said, although this is a well-renowned movie, I can't say it entirely appealed to me.  I thought it had strong 1st and 3rd Acts, but that middle Act was kind of weak and nebulous.  The movie juggles too many plot threads that end up being intertwined down the road, so I found it a bit difficult to follow the story in places.  Still, the acting's very solid, the production values are good, the characterization is strong, and the few action sequences are very well staged.  It's a good movie, but I hesitate to call it a great movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on June 23, 2011, 09:56:06 AM
I saw the Green Lantern Sunday.  Its not ground breaking movie but it is well down and moves pretty fast.  I enjoyed it.  Their is a sort of companion cartoon that goes with it you can get pretty cheap.  If you are a fan of Green Lantern you might actually like that more then the movie because it is a series of short stories about the Corp.  As I said the movie is good and if you are thinking of bringing your child to it their is nothing really that bad in their if they are not scared of the dark and over the whole boogie man thing.  The main villain is a shadow type monster and a deformed human.  Now that Cartoon I was talking about has Lanterns being dismembered.

You get the not so secret secret about halfway through the credit and the whole thing ends with a spiel to got by the comic collections.  During the credits they have some pretty fantastic space views in the background so I enjoyed watching those.  I do think Hal could have been written a little tougher and the ring being used more creatively by Non-Earth Lanterns but the last is a common complaint I have with Green Lantern.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on June 23, 2011, 06:22:34 PM
I finished watching the 1994 version of The Shadow, and...wow, what a goofy movie.  The original 1930s radio Shadow that I grew up with (via recordings) was voiced by the legendary Orson Welles.  Does Alec Baldwin match up with his performance?  Ha ha...no.  No. No. No, he doesn't, but he's definitely one of the better actors in the movie, despite being extremely corny and almost self-parody.  Of course, I thought I'd seen some really cheesy acting when the Godfather of Cheesy Acting himself walked on stage: Tim Curry, and he's just as hammy as ever.  The special effects (outside of a neat smoke effect they use when The Shadow punches someone while invisible) look extremely fake, the plot is incredibly dumb and full of plot holes...and yet, I can't call this a bad movie.  It's silly and campy, but it's certainly watcheable and Alec Baldwin does have The Shadow's patented maniacal laughter down cold.  I hear that they're trying to put out a remake of this in the near future, and I look forward to seeing a much better take on the franchise.

Of course, as silly as this movie is, I'm sure that's nothing compared to my next one: Dick Tracy.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on June 23, 2011, 06:35:24 PM
The Shadow and Dick Tracy are kissing cousins.  I enjoyed both of them and I saw them in theatre so I was 12 for that one. Honestly then watch Who Framed Roger Rabbit and the Grey Ghost episode of Batman the Animated Series.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on June 23, 2011, 08:40:26 PM
speaking of movies in that vain, go watch China Town.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on June 24, 2011, 01:39:34 AM
Just finished watching Dick Tracy, and it's interesting how it contrasts with The Shadow.  Whereas The Shadow took place in a comparatively dark and gritty world where the characters spent most of the movie over-acting, Dick Tracy takes place in a technicolor world inhabited by whimsical characters that play the movie (outside of the main villain) surprisingly straight.  The special effects look equally as fake as those in The Shadow (I loved the metal lamp post that bent like it was made of rubber), but seemingly deliberately so.  The Shadow degenerated towards the end to a silly battle between psychic superpowers battling to see who could chew the most scenery.  In many ways, Dick Tracy comes off to me as a much more successful pulp detective story with some underplayed yet surprisingly dark moments, despite being much more visually fanciful.  It reminds me in many ways of Who Framed Roger Rabbit, though that executed its concepts much better.

So yeah, Dick Tracy's a pretty fun little movie with a very striking and consistent visual design, some memorable characters, and some solid acting (especially from the intentionally hammy, but not so much that he becomes annoying, Big Boy).  The movie can feel a bit lost at times with how much camera time is spent on the filler musical numbers, but overall the film seems to know what it wants to be and sticks to it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on June 24, 2011, 09:14:06 AM
Dick Tracy did get almost twice the Budget of The Shadow.  I wanted to see who made all of those but I can't find it in the profiles in IMDB.  Dick Tracy should remind you of Who Framed Roger Rabbit because that is what that movie takes a lot of inspiration from.  I thought of another movie that should be in this list but now it slipped my mind.  Oh Rocketeer for some reason.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on June 25, 2011, 04:02:10 PM
Just finished watching Cars 2.  If you like Action Spy movies you'll like this movie.  It is adult.  They kill a car in the first 5 minutes.  I enjoyed it but it will definitely not appeal to little kids like Cars did.  I think they will enjoy parts of this movie but, if your little one likes to watch Cars on almost a loop this will probably not make it into the rotation but, you'll probably enjoy even if just as a piece of art.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on June 25, 2011, 04:27:36 PM
Cars 2 is the first Pixar movie to get rated Rotten. (44% I think)
I think it is the first Pixar movie to have below an 85% (I think almost all of them are above 90%).

I was not a fan of the first Cars and I think it was the worst of all the Pixar movies so far, so I'm not surprised to see a majority of people that reviewed it review it lower than the original.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on June 25, 2011, 04:45:38 PM
Cars 2 is the first Pixar movie to get rated Rotten. (44% I think)
I think it is the first Pixar movie to have below an 85% (I think almost all of them are above 90%).

I was not a fan of the first Cars and I think it was the worst of all the Pixar movies so far, so I'm not surprised to see a majority of people that reviewed it review it lower than the original.
Than you may like this one.

That's the problem.  Its like Zelda 2 on its own without the brand name it would probably be considered a better game.  As a said its not a bad movie.  I enjoyed it  but, its not Cars.  It be like playing a Mario game but, instead of getting your family friendly Mario you got modern GTA even though its just as polished as the best Mario games and plays by the Rules of the Mario universe.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on June 25, 2011, 04:56:38 PM
While I thought Cars was the worst Pixar movie, it was still a great movie. That's a testament to how good Pixar is. I'm a little disappointed to here the Rotten Tomatoes score. I guess, like always, I'll watch it and make my own decision cuz there are some 90% movies that I can't stand.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on June 25, 2011, 05:04:48 PM
The first Cars surprised me in that I expected it to be abysmal (I loathe NASCAR and don't care for the audience this franchise targets), and it was only completely average.  Seeing the previews for the new Cars, I have absolutely no interest in that movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on June 25, 2011, 06:51:28 PM
I'm curious to hear the opinion of someone who went in expecting a more adult movie that is different then Cars.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: jamesfriedman on June 25, 2011, 09:57:18 PM
I would rate the new Cars 2 movie an 8 /10. It was good but not great. It didn't quite meet my expectations.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on June 28, 2011, 02:24:48 AM
Green Lantern, I liked the movie, but I thought it was pretty lopsided, A slow buildup and a too quick climax. The special effects looked much better in 3d then it did in the trailers. Its one of those movies that had mostly soft 3d, but at the same time benefited from the 3d because there was added depth to the colors. The greens and purples looked rather blah in the trailers, but looked very very nice in the movie. If i were to sum this up. It was Superman 1. Lots of backstory and buildup, very quick ending. I guess this is the blunder a lot of origin movies have. Even though this has been rated a commercial flop, im still hoping they go along with the sequel because it could be the Superman 2 to Superman 1.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: bustin98 on June 28, 2011, 03:46:04 PM
Except the flying was more convincing in Superman than in Green Lantern. In some cases it was like they pasted Ryan's head on a CG body, and then couldn't fly him straight through a window. I was so disappointed with the movie. They fucked up Parallax, fucked up Hal Jordan, fucked up Sinestro, fucked up Kilowog. They didn't even get the Guardians right. And I'm not talking looks. Its the 'I want to appeal to kids, but I have to worry a little bit about the fans' version of a film. Like TF1, only at least Transformers has big robots fighting to bring in the money.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on June 28, 2011, 04:02:38 PM
I thought Sinestro was sort of close.  I mean you have to remember he didn't become the super-jerk he is until he sheds pretense totally and becomes a Yellow Lantern.  He's still just a jerk at this point.  Also the flying with any of the Ring Bearers has always looked goofy.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: mac<censored> on June 28, 2011, 04:23:25 PM
Like TF1, only at least Transformers has big robots fighting to bring in the money.

Transformers is a stupid series, with cringe-inducing acting, and ludicrous plots apparently written by an 8-year-old suffering from terminal ritalin withdrawal, directed by one of the biggest douchebags in the industry.

... but I see 'em all, in the biggest theater I can, because the damn robot SFX are so insanely jaw-dropping.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: jrlibrarian on June 28, 2011, 07:34:44 PM
I was considering watching Limitless, but after reading the book and then hearing how much they changed it in the film adaptation, I'm not so sure anymore.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Shorty McNostril on June 28, 2011, 07:57:13 PM
Transformers 3. I don't care what you are doing, go and see it right now/10.

All I can say is that as far as I am concerned, this movie is Gods gift to mankind. 

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on June 28, 2011, 08:28:22 PM
idk it just seems that with super hero movies, that if they dont get it perfect then the fans will trash it as absolute ****. I would put this in the B Super hero movie category..which like i said is where most origin stories go. Its not perfect, its decent. Its flawed, but not absolute crap. It probably also helps that im not a big Green Lantern fan to begin with. I had an action figure when I was 4, and John Stewart was on the Justice League show. There were 2 scenes that could have been cut out, and they were the ones where the cg was bad, and they were both the scenes with Hal's Friend. One of them i just took a glimpse of and knew it would be a pointless scene, basically Hal info dumping on his friends. So, I went to the bathroom to take a piss, the other one is in the trailer and is the part that seems to appeal to kids and the cg looks really shitty there. Other than that I was pleased that It looked much better than I had expected based on the trailer. There was another scene, the fight with killowog, that just looked like green screen bullshit and the movie almost lost me there, but it moved on pretty quickly from there.  I make the comparison to Superman because in the first superman movie it has a lot of back story and origins and bullshit like that, but no real villains. Lois Lane dies and superman runs real fast and stops it, end of movie. A very lopsided story structure. Also, I really loved Tomar-re.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on June 28, 2011, 09:49:33 PM
Transformers 3. I don't care what you are doing, go and see it right now/10.

All I can say is that as far as I am concerned, this movie is Gods gift to mankind. 



Your opinion is tainted since you love Transformers 2; the movie that God forsook.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on June 28, 2011, 10:06:20 PM
Transformers 3. I don't care what you are doing, go and see it right now/10.

All I can say is that as far as I am concerned, this movie is Gods gift to mankind. 

Best joke I've heard all day! XD
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on June 28, 2011, 11:46:23 PM
Like TF1, only at least Transformers has big robots fighting to bring in the money.

Transformers is a stupid series, with cringe-inducing acting, and ludicrous plots apparently written by an 8-year-old suffering from terminal ritalin withdrawal, directed by one of the biggest douchebags in the industry.

... but I see 'em all, in the biggest theater I can, because the damn robot SFX are so insanely jaw-dropping.

Hey, I'll deride and mock Transformers 2 for being an utter P.O.S., but I did really enjoy the first Transformers movie despite not really liking the original Transformers cartoon (I'm a Beast Wars guy).  Maybe it was just something about the musical score and the battle sequences, but I thought the first movie really captured the epic feel a Transformers movie should have.  And then Bay went off the deep end with the second Transformers movie, and I'm highly skeptical that he truly learned his lesson for the 3rd movie.  But yeah, I'll probably end up seeing it anyway.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Shorty McNostril on June 29, 2011, 03:01:40 AM
Transformers 3. I don't care what you are doing, go and see it right now/10.

All I can say is that as far as I am concerned, this movie is Gods gift to mankind. 



Your opinion is tainted since you love Transformers 2; the movie that God forsook.

Quite true.  But go see it anyway.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on June 29, 2011, 03:12:12 AM
I'm planning another "Day @ the Movies" for the end of July.
Transformers 3 is one of the main reason's for that. I hope it will still be in the theaters at that time.
I'm also going to watch Capt. America + Cowboys & Aliens. If I'm not burnt out, or it just fits into the schedule, I'll probably go see Attack the Block since I missed the free viewing a month or so ago.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on June 29, 2011, 10:01:21 AM
At least you'll be able to appreciate Captain America a bit more after watching Transformers 3. :P
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on July 02, 2011, 11:51:05 PM
Super 8. See this movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: SixthAngel on July 03, 2011, 12:56:43 AM
Like TF1, only at least Transformers has big robots fighting to bring in the money.

Transformers is a stupid series, with cringe-inducing acting, and ludicrous plots apparently written by an 8-year-old suffering from terminal ritalin withdrawal, directed by one of the biggest douchebags in the industry.

... but I see 'em all, in the biggest theater I can, because the damn robot SFX are so insanely jaw-dropping.


I stand by my belief that Transformers is basically Twilight for boys.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: mac<censored> on July 03, 2011, 01:38:08 AM
Transformers is a stupid series, with cringe-inducing acting, and ludicrous plots apparently written by an 8-year-old suffering from terminal ritalin withdrawal, directed by one of the biggest douchebags in the industry.

... but I see 'em all, in the biggest theater I can, because the damn robot SFX are so insanely jaw-dropping.

I stand by my belief that Transformers is basically Twilight for boys.

Hmm, I suppose the acting in Twilight could be pretty accurately described as "jaw-dropping robot effects"...
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on July 03, 2011, 11:26:25 AM
I also suppose that would have had to watch Twilight to accurately describe anything about it...
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on July 03, 2011, 05:46:36 PM
Limitless- I don't know which version of the movie I saw, but i remember wanting to see the movie real bad because of the trailer. The movie didn't disappoint. Two thumbs up.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: MaryJane on July 04, 2011, 11:58:20 AM
X-Men: First Class: 9/10

Everything was brilliantly done, my only gripe being that I wish they had developed the friendship between Xavier and Magneto a little bit more.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on July 04, 2011, 09:41:26 PM
I wish they had developed the friendship between Xavier and Magneto a little bit more.

Agreed. That was easily my biggest beef with the film. The mutual respect going forward really doesn't seem to have much of a basis given what little time is spent on building it up in these origin stories.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on July 06, 2011, 02:29:01 AM
Pirates 4- back to being good
I saw this movie before it was called Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade...i kid i kid.


Transformers 3, still not good...but better. I was thinking 2 hours in i could have skipped the first 2 hours, but then every other good scene was followed by a dumb scene. I was rooting for the Decepticons by the end.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: MaryJane on July 09, 2011, 08:28:44 AM
Thor: 6/10
Generic as hell. The best part of the movie was the clip after the credits.

The Adjustment Bureau: 9.6/10
Probably the best movie I've seen so far this year. The premise was good, and I really liked how they showed the story from the point of view of both Matt Damon and The Adjustment Bureau. Very interesting! The beginning of this movie was spectacularly funny, the middle was tense and intriguing (even if it did get a little too slow at some points), and the ending was succinct and inspiring.
I thought tying the story to the history of humanity's ups and downs was brilliant, as was having one 'angel' be more human than the rest, and one less emotional than all others. I wish Matt Damon would have asked the obvious question of, why can't I do both now that I have the knowledge that I need to, but the rest of the movie makes up for that.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on July 12, 2011, 08:39:04 PM
In theatres:
Transformers: Dark of the Moon - Great movie, one of the best of the year. I recommend seeing it in 3D if you can because it is just great. The storyling between Shia's character and generic blond actress seemed forced (and I don't buy that he could get her, she was way out of his league), but otherwise good movie. I wonder how they would do a fourth movie considering Megatron, Sentinel Prime, and Soundwave were all killed in the movie. Perm, why would you root for the Decepticons? They wanted to turn the Human race into slaves on Cybertron. The only characters I hated were Shia and the guy who was working to help the Decepticons.

At home:
Hotel Rwanda - Dragged on in a few places, but very interesting. The Hutu and Tutsi are basically the same (they did touch on this in the movie) with the Belgians sorting them based on stuff like how many cows they owned, so they actually had to check the ID's and names of people to know who to massacre.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on July 12, 2011, 08:55:42 PM
I think i can answer that for Perm. Not enough movies have the enemy win. That's what made 'The Empire Strikes Back' the greatest of all the Star Wars movies. That's what made the 'Devil's Advocate' great. That's what made 'The Mist' incredibly memorable. That's what makes 'Fight Club' one of the greatest movies ever made.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on July 12, 2011, 09:04:46 PM
Transformers: Dark of the Moon - Great movie, one of the best of the year. I recommend seeing it in 3D if you can because it is just great. The storyling between Shia's character and generic blond actress seemed forced (and I don't buy that he could get her, she was way out of his league), but otherwise good movie. I wonder how they would do a fourth movie considering Megatron, Sentinel Prime, and Soundwave were all killed in the movie.

I get the feeling the sanctity of the Beast Wars and Beast Machines series are about to be violated.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on July 12, 2011, 10:33:44 PM
That's what made 'The Mist' incredibly memorable.

I'll give you the others... but The Mist, really? That film was so utterly predictable, ending included. The only thing it accomplished was showing what whack jobs religious folk are. :P
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on July 12, 2011, 10:41:02 PM
That's what made 'The Mist' incredibly memorable.

I'll give you the others... but The Mist, really? That film was so utterly predictable, ending included. The only thing it accomplished was showing what whack jobs religious folk are. :P:

I'm sure what you meant to say was "showing what whack jobs religious folks can be", right?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: MaryJane on July 13, 2011, 09:36:51 AM
I wish they had developed the friendship between Xavier and Magneto a little bit more.

Agreed. That was easily my biggest beef with the film. The mutual respect going forward really doesn't seem to have much of a basis given what little time is spent on building it up in these origin stories.

I missed this somehow last time, but it's that's so true. I'm hoping that in the sequel Xavier's team and Magneto's team aren't wholly against each other just yet, and they have to work together again, giving the two leaders a chance to grow closer and understand each other better.


Inception: 7/10
Pretty good, I liked the premise, but what ruined this movie for me was everyone talking about how weird and confusing it was, and then I didn't find it confusing at all. There were some things I didn't get completely and was corrected on them by my smart-ass 16yr old niece, but the movie itself wasn't so great. I didn't like where it started from, I didn't really like the wife, the architect, or the stretching of the plot to make it all come together in the end.

True Grit: 8/10
I was surprised by how good this was. I was expecting the typical man and small female child on a long journey movie, it was somewhat like that with her needing to be rescued toward the end but this is a very good movie about the way people live. The characters are all unique and beneficial to the story, it has a good pace with never a forced moment imo, and the acting was top-notch.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on July 13, 2011, 10:15:24 AM
Inception: 7/10
Pretty good, I liked the premise, but what ruined this movie for me was everyone talking about how weird and confusing it was, and then I didn't find it confusing at all. There were some things I didn't get completely and was corrected on them by my smart-ass 16yr old niece, but the movie itself wasn't so great. I didn't like where it started from, I didn't really like the wife, the architect, or the stretching of the plot to make it all come together in the end.

I thought it was very well done. It's nice to see films still using traditional special effects and just enhancing them through CGI. The film really wasn't confusing though, as the entire story arch could been seen pretty easily once the rules of the universe were established. I thought that DiCaprio's acting felt pretty forced... but then, it always does. Likewise, I really didn't like the Ariadne character. Her ability to perceive and point out everything in such a short period of working time was rather annoying. I realize her character was essential to explain things to the audience, but it felt like a sloppy way to go. Still, it was one of two or three films I paid to go see in theaters that year and it was well worth the time and money. :P
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on July 13, 2011, 04:22:43 PM
I think i can answer that for Perm. Not enough movies have the enemy win. That's what made 'The Empire Strikes Back' the greatest of all the Star Wars movies. That's what made the 'Devil's Advocate' great. That's what made 'The Mist' incredibly memorable. That's what makes 'Fight Club' one of the greatest movies ever made.

Also, i dont want to pick a stupid kids movie apart, but why the **** would giant robots need human slaves? Robots don't get tired, they don't get hungry, the don't **** and piss, and if they get bored they can always make drone workers that don't.

Also, Why not keep those teleportation pillars on the moon. Wouldn't it be a risk to leave them on an active planet where they can be attacked?

Why earth anyways? Don't say water. These are robots with intergalactic ability, they might as well mine Jupiter and its moons for hydrogen if they needed water.
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Post by: Ceric on July 13, 2011, 05:31:10 PM
I think i can answer that for Perm. Not enough movies have the enemy win. That's what made 'The Empire Strikes Back' the greatest of all the Star Wars movies. That's what made the 'Devil's Advocate' great. That's what made 'The Mist' incredibly memorable. That's what makes 'Fight Club' one of the greatest movies ever made.

Also, i dont want to pick a stupid kids movie apart, but why the **** would giant robots need human slaves? Robots don't get tired, they don't get hungry, the don't **** and piss, and if they get bored they can always make drone workers that don't.

Also, Why not keep those teleportation pillars on the moon. Wouldn't it be a risk to leave them on an active planet where they can be attacked?

Why earth anyways? Don't say water. These are robots with intergalactic ability, they might as well mine Jupiter and its moons for hydrogen if they needed water.
I'm assuming your talking about Transformers.

Shortpacked has an interesting link that explains some of that. (http://www.shortpacked.com/2011/blog/megatrons-plans-unabridged/)
It involves the extended lore.

Though a robot would use Human slaves because their there and probably easier to use till their dead then building new robots.  Then they build the new robots.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on July 14, 2011, 12:12:37 AM
im not going to pick it apart anymore than it has been
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Post by: oohhboy on July 14, 2011, 03:34:40 AM

Also, i dont want to pick a stupid kids movie apart, but why the **** would giant robots need human slaves? Robots don't get tired, they don't get hungry, the don't **** and piss, and if they get bored they can always make drone workers that don't.

I am sorry, but I have to point out Transformers does take a piss, the piss and a steaming dump in cinemas across the world. A movie has issues when the original cartoon made more sense.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: SixthAngel on July 14, 2011, 10:19:21 PM
The Sting

A classic movie with Robert Redford and Paul Newman.  Every grifting or conning movie or tv show has borrowed something from this at some point in time.  Definitely recommend it.

I really liked the few scenes that involve the assassins going after Redford.  They aren't some high octane chase scenes like you have today and it really seems to give them a much greater sense of danger.  Particularly when He returns to his apartment to see that the paper fell off the door.  He simply dives down the stairs in one leap and the assassin jumps out and takes a far away shot.  Done.

I also really want the suit Redford buys when he steals the money in the beginning.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on July 15, 2011, 02:42:13 AM

Also, i dont want to pick a stupid kids movie apart, but why the **** would giant robots need human slaves? Robots don't get tired, they don't get hungry, the don't **** and piss, and if they get bored they can always make drone workers that don't.

I am sorry, but I have to point out Transformers does take a piss, the piss and a steaming dump in cinemas across the world. A movie has issues when the original cartoon made more sense.

well obviously metaphorical pisses are duly noted
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on July 15, 2011, 11:19:36 PM
I rarely go to the movies these days, but I just got back from seeing Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows - Part 2.  I've been very critical of the movies for trying to do too little from the books in too short a time, but like Part 1 this movie is excellent.  There are sections of the original book that were seemingly written to be a movie script, and they lived up to my expectations.  I have a few minor nitpicks here and there with some elements from the book that are either changed or summarily dropped (such as the fate of Harry's wand, and how stretched-out the final battle is), but the movie is overall very faithful to the book.  I'm actually impressed that they managed to make that wonky epilogue from the book work in the movie as a fitting finale.  It helps, of course, that they split this final book into two halves so the script actually had room to breathe.  I especially liked the nice touch that despite the many crew changes that have occurred over the course of these movies, when characters return to locations from previous movies they look pretty much how you remember them.

It's amazing how much the quality of these Potter movies increased once they finally again picked a consistent director to helm them starting with Order of the Phoenix, rather than the nonsense of having a new director every movie that plagued Movies 3 and 4.  I just wish this guy had helmed those movies as well.  The books are still leagues better than these movies IMO, but the movies have become a decent substitute if you're not inclined to read them.  Highly recommended, though only if you've seen Part 1 or have read the books.
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Post by: TJ Spyke on July 16, 2011, 12:55:34 AM
There haven't really been that many major casting changes. Among the main characters, only Dumbledore changed (and that was because the actor died). The changes were among the minor characters who had little to no lines in the movies anyways (like Pansy Parkinson and Angelina).
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Post by: broodwars on July 16, 2011, 01:06:16 AM
There haven't really been that many major casting changes. Among the main characters, only Dumbledore changed (and that was because the actor died). The changes were among the minor characters who had little to no lines in the movies anyways (like Pansy Parkinson and Angelina).

There's more to a crew than the cast.  There's the director and all the people behind the sets, the script, the artistic design, etc.
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Post by: Morari on July 16, 2011, 02:30:28 AM
Usually far more important than a cast at that.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: mac<censored> on July 16, 2011, 02:24:34 PM
The books are still leagues better than these movies IMO, but the movies have become a decent substitute if you're not inclined to read them.  Highly recommended, though only if you've seen Part 1 or have read the books.

So... do the books improve after #3?  I've only read the first three, but they were all basically "meh" -- a fun setting but despite some nice bits of humor in the first book, and some appealing supporting characters, seemed very mechanically written.

Harry as a lead character was even worse; he seemed to have utterly no personality at all, nor even really ever do anything .. the basic plotline was "Harry gets caught up in some awful supernatural mess, does nothing ... whoops, saved by deus ex machina!   The end."
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Post by: TJ Spyke on July 16, 2011, 02:28:34 PM
Really? I think the books are really good, but they they improve as they go along. And I don't agree with your opinions that Harry has no personality or that they seemed mechanically written.
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Post by: broodwars on July 16, 2011, 03:43:34 PM
The books are still leagues better than these movies IMO, but the movies have become a decent substitute if you're not inclined to read them.  Highly recommended, though only if you've seen Part 1 or have read the books.

So... do the books improve after #3?  I've only read the first three, but they were all basically "meh" -- a fun setting but despite some nice bits of humor in the first book, and some appealing supporting characters, seemed very mechanically written.

Prisoner of Azkaban's one of my favorite books in the series, but yes starting with Book 3 the stories become much more complex and interesting.  I'm not that big a fan of Book 6 (it pretty much exists to spout exposition, explore Love Triangles, and make Book 2 relevant), but Books 4 5, and 7 are all excellent reads.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on July 17, 2011, 01:05:37 AM
I've only read the first three, but they were all basically "meh" -- a fun setting but despite some nice bits of humor in the first book, and some appealing supporting characters, seemed very mechanically written.

They are children's books. You can't expect too much out of them or the films. I've always been surprised by the number of adults that are truly engaged by the series. Though I suppose Twilight also achieved a similar status.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on July 17, 2011, 01:23:47 AM
I've only read the first three, but they were all basically "meh" -- a fun setting but despite some nice bits of humor in the first book, and some appealing supporting characters, seemed very mechanically written.

They are children's books. You can't expect too much out of them or the films. I've always been surprised by the number of adults that are truly engaged by the series. Though I suppose Twilight also achieved a similar status.

They're childrens' books the same way books like The Hobbit are.  They're well-written, enjoyable adventure stories people of all ages can enjoy.  They just happen to be written in a manner that children can easily understand, and the novels certainly mature in style and subject matter as the series progresses.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: mac<censored> on July 17, 2011, 11:28:55 AM
I've only read the first three, but they were all basically "meh" -- a fun setting but despite some nice bits of humor in the first book, and some appealing supporting characters, seemed very mechanically written.

They are children's books. You can't expect too much out of them or the films. I've always been surprised by the number of adults that are truly engaged by the series. Though I suppose Twilight also achieved a similar status.

They're childrens' books the same way books like The Hobbit are.  They're well-written, enjoyable adventure stories people of all ages can enjoy.

Er, I can only speak for the first three, obviously, but they are certainly a grade or two below The Hobbit on the "well written" scale...

The HP books seem to go out of their way to throw in themes that are clearly intended to appeal to typical childrens' insecurities -- "even if you feel unloved by your family, and are not successful at school or very popular, you might be a legendary wizard...!"  That likely explains some of the popularity amongst kids, but it also makes them a bit painful to slog through sometimes (though JKR tries to use humor to make it go down more smoothly).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on July 18, 2011, 11:08:12 AM
I've only read the first three, but they were all basically "meh" -- a fun setting but despite some nice bits of humor in the first book, and some appealing supporting characters, seemed very mechanically written.

They are children's books. You can't expect too much out of them or the films. I've always been surprised by the number of adults that are truly engaged by the series. Though I suppose Twilight also achieved a similar status.

They're childrens' books the same way books like The Hobbit are.  They're well-written, enjoyable adventure stories people of all ages can enjoy.

Er, I can only speak for the first three, obviously, but they are certainly a grade or two below The Hobbit on the "well written" scale...

The HP books seem to go out of their way to throw in themes that are clearly intended to appeal to typical childrens' insecurities -- "even if you feel unloved by your family, and are not successful at school or very popular, you might be a legendary wizard...!"  That likely explains some of the popularity amongst kids, but it also makes them a bit painful to slog through sometimes (though JKR tries to use humor to make it go down more smoothly).
Really what isn't a step or too below The Hobbit?  That is a very well written dense book.
I put Harry Potter first three books where I put something like "A Wrinkle in Time".

On the Books.  I think they Peak at 3 personally.  That's the one with the best balance between Harry's story and the Wizarding world and side stories.  Every book after that becomes more and more Harry oriented to the point that she starts some side stories but never explores them since the book has Harry Blinders on it.  So if you really like the Harry story specific parts the book get better.  If you like having the side stories and exploring bits of the world more then you won't like them as much.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on July 19, 2011, 02:15:37 AM
So, with my dad out of town, I got roped into spending "Happy Family Time, damnit!" (yes, that's really what we call it) with my mother as she decided to show me the Blockbuster Blue Box rental experience.  The problem is that my mother is really terrible at picking movies, though at least I got to pick one halfway-decent movie.  So it was that we ended up watching Hall Pass, Just Go With It, and The Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader (which was my pick).  I really don't have much to say about Hall Pass and Just Go With It.  I expected neither a funny nor good movie out of an Adam Sandler film, and Just Go With It didn't exceed my expectations.  Hall Pass could have been good, but the writers decided to take a decent premise and possibly a good message and utterly destroy it with raunchy humor and explicit jokes/imagery (really, does anyone want to see several guys' junk when they go to the movies?).

As for Voyage of the Dawn Treader, that is my second-favorite of the Narnia books (my favorite being The Magician's Nephew) so I was really looking forward to seeing this movie.  Unfortunately, the book doesn't seem to translate really well to the Big Screen in this script.  There's nothing seriously wrong with the movie, though I didn't appreciate that they rewrote the plot to have a completely unnecessary "villain" in the green "mist".  The movie just comes off to me as pretty bland, even compared to the Lord of the Rings-inspired Lion, Witch, and the Wardrobe.  The movie just seems to drag in places and neither the characters (with the exception of Reepicheep, who is still awesome) nor the situations feel altogether memorable.  I had a good laugh as well at seeing that while the writers cut the hilariously goofy "baptism" of Eustace from the books, they still left in the eye-rolling "Well, you can know me in your world by ANOTHER NAME!" line.  The special effects and set design are decent, but the movie just didn't feel like anything special and I think it loses that "light swashbuckling adventure!" feeling the original book has.  Considering my favorite Narnia book is likely next (there's seriously nothing worth filming in The Silver Chair or A Horse And His Boy), I'm concerned with how they could botch that movie as well.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on July 19, 2011, 09:41:41 AM
I still like Dawn Treader better then the other Narnia movies because it flowed better.  Though of all the books that is the one where you could have stayed dead faithful to the book and made a good movie out of it.

So... I saw Cars 2 again but this time in 3D.  We had Free Tickets to it so my Son and I went but the only showing put us out right after my Wife went into Harry Potter so we went immediately from  Cars 2 to Winnie the Pooh

So Cars 2  I still enjoyed it the second time.  I wasn't in the really nice theater this time so the sound wasn't as intensive.  Still present but I did miss the better speakers during the race scenes.  So now that I've seen the 3D and the 2D version  what do I think of the 3D?  I think that the 3D is done really well.  I can't think of a scene off the top of my head where it was gimmicky.  I do think it enhanced the Movie so, if you have the option and its a $1-2 then I say opt for it but, I wouldn't go out of my way.

Winnie the Pooh  This movie is about Pooh's search for Hunny, Eeyore's Search for a Tail, and the Hundred Acres Woods lack of Reading Comprehension and Spelling ability.  In the end if you liked the Winnie the Pooh cartoon you'll like this movie.  It is essentially a movie length episode with all the charm of the cartoon.  Including an interactive narrator.  Interaction with the book they are in.  The biggest thing that breaks it from feeling always like a normal episode is the Hunny fantasy sequences with Pooh.  If you have kids this is an enjoyable movie for them.  You'll get a few laughs and general good time by being able to read different parts of it.  Definitely worth a rent at least when the time comes for Families.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on July 19, 2011, 01:03:28 PM
I actually really want to see that Winnie the Pooh movie, as I've always had a soft spot for that franchise and it's been getting good reviews.  I might wait until it hits home video, though.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on July 19, 2011, 01:48:24 PM
I actually really want to see that Winnie the Pooh movie, as I've always had a soft spot for that franchise and it's been getting good reviews.  I might wait until it hits home video, though.
If you really like the franchise you'll like this movie.  Catch it at the dollar or something to do with small children your affiliated with.  If you had a bad day this would be a good movie to see as well because their is not a heavy theme on it or anything unlike say Toy Story which has abandonment and growing out of things which is very sad from a toy perspective but they make the best out of it.
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Post by: broodwars on July 19, 2011, 10:31:22 PM
I've been on something of a kick lately rewatching older anime, so I've recently rewatched the fantastic 2008 movie The Girl Who Leapt Through Time via DVD.  This movie is a little on the slow side and is very "slice of life", but the concept is just so fresh and original: "what if you gained the ability to travel through time, and you just used it to screw around with minor things of everyday life?"  It's a great little "coming of age" story as the main character gradually comes to understand how her actions both big and small affect the people around her, as well as how much the people in her life mean to her.  The ending's a bit goofy; the artwork isn't among the best I've seen in theatrical anime; and unlike this director's most recent Summer Wars movie there is no big bad villain or a point where the Fate of the World is at stake (which IMO is a good thing since that didn't really work well in Summer Wars, but for some that may be a turn-off), but I still highly recommend it if you've grown a little tired of the crappy trend of modern anime.  The movie just recently got re-released on Blu-Ray as well, which at some point I'll have to pick up.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on July 19, 2011, 10:49:39 PM
Just watched Milk. It was good, but not spectacular. Sean Penn was pretty good as Harvey Milk, and you get a good look at how much this country lacked civil rights back in the 1970s (its gotten better, but still a long way to go before everything has the same rights).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on July 20, 2011, 07:42:56 AM
Just watched Milk. It was good, but not spectacular. Sean Penn was pretty good as Harvey Milk, and you get a good look at how much this country lacked civil rights back in the 1970s (its gotten better, but still a long way to go before everything has the same rights).
Stop Abusing your Toaster!  They are not Second Hand Citizens!  Proper Channel of Immigration for Foreign Toasters!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on July 20, 2011, 02:56:12 PM
LOL, I meant everyone, I wasn't paying attention.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on July 22, 2011, 03:15:23 AM
Adjustment Bureau ....5.5/10

An interesting concept wasted on a love story.
I spent the entire movie waiting for the actiony scenes.
I spent the entire movie waiting for it to get interesting.
I spent the entire movie waiting for it to become the movie I thought it would've been based on the previews.
I spent the entire movie waiting for it to end so that I could go to bed.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on July 22, 2011, 11:12:43 AM
Adjustment Bureau ....5.5/10

I stopped trying to watch films based on PKD's work a long time ago. "Blade Runner" was great as a film, but totally sidelined so much of what was in the book. On the other hand, "Through a Scanner Darkly" worked with a more amusing tone and yet quickly squandered it with a recap at the end. Few things irk me more in films than recaps leading up to the finale. Catering to stupid and inattentive people is a no-no in my book, film or otherwise.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on July 22, 2011, 11:33:51 AM
So you probably hate Sherlock Holmes books then?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on July 22, 2011, 11:58:16 AM
Adjustment Bureau ....5.5/10

I stopped trying to watch films based on PKD's work a long time ago. "Blade Runner" was great as a film, but totally sidelined so much of what was in the book. On the other hand, "Through a Scanner Darkly" worked with a more amusing tone and yet quickly squandered it with a recap at the end. Few things irk me more in films than recaps leading up to the finale. Catering to stupid and inattentive people is a no-no in my book, film or otherwise.
So you like Columbo where you see the murder and the rest of the time your watching Columbo put it together?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on July 22, 2011, 11:58:33 AM
Few things irk me more in films than recaps leading up to the finale. Catering to stupid and inattentive people is a no-no in my book, film or otherwise.

Some movies really need that, though, like the first Mission Impossible film (which is still my favorite in that franchise) and the last Sherlock Holmes film.  You can't expect the audience to all pick up extremely small details that complicated movies just glaze over when they originally come up, and then remember them all at the crucial moment.  When they're done well, I really appreciate those sequences, actually, because it's like watching a puzzle fall into place.
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Post by: Khushrenada on July 22, 2011, 02:45:31 PM
What about Minority Report? I think that might be Spielberg's best film in the past decade. That was PKD story also.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on July 22, 2011, 03:36:34 PM
What about Minority Report? I think that might be Spielberg's best film in the past decade. That was PKD story also.

I'm partial to Catch Me If You Can when it comes to Spielburg films in the last decade.
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Post by: broodwars on July 22, 2011, 11:25:52 PM
I had a friend over who had never seen it before, so I finally got around to watching Big Trouble in Little China from the beginning for the first time ever (previously, I had only ever caught it on TV, and I'd always missed the first 30-45 minutes or so).  I'm sad to say, though, that despite its status as a cult classic it really feels like most of the movie kind of sucks.  Like a lot of 80s movies, it seems to take a good 45-60 minutes to get going, and by then the movie's almost over.  The last half hour (which is the part I remember the most) is hilariously campy and Kurt Russell is great in that period with some really funny lines, but up until that point the movie's not very interesting; funny; or even altogether weird.  Not a bad premise, but it feels like a lot of wasted potential when the movie's best character, Kurt Russell's, barely gets to do anything interesting until nearly the end of the film.
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Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on July 23, 2011, 01:09:52 AM
That is the movie MFT ended on and probably the same movie it will restart on.... if it ever restarts.
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Post by: oohhboy on July 23, 2011, 04:35:21 AM
You missed the point a little Broodwars, Kurt Russell is a main character, but he isn't the Hero, Wang Chi is. Jack Burton(Kurt) is the comedy relief, he isn't meant to do anything interesting action wise. He gets to tags along while everyone else does the heavy lifting, hence he only gets to be truly badass once in the movie, at the very end.

Without the build up (Something few movies these days do properly) from real to unreal, there would be no contrast, no understanding of the reality that is the BTiLC universe. You have to remember most of the "culture*" seen would be foreign to most of the audience, so you need to lead into it.

*Most of the "Culture" is hilariously BS, itself based on pulp fiction out of Hong Kong which is itself based on folktales.
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Post by: broodwars on July 23, 2011, 01:59:01 PM
No, I definitely got the joke: Jack Burton is the guy who thinks he's the 80s action hero, but he's actually somewhat useless.  My problem is that he isn't really given the chance to be funny until very late in the movie, and none of the other characters are interesting enough to carry the movie.  The movie just takes itself too seriously for too long.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on July 23, 2011, 03:20:41 PM
You are kidding right. It takes itself too seriously? There is no way the film takes itself seriously when the villain's primary goal is to get laid and has spent the last 1000 years trying to do it. He forgoes immortality to achieve this and the good guys do everything in their power to cock block him.

It's a self parody and a deconstruction of 80's wire fu action, I figure you wanted more of a straight comedy, but taking itself seriously is not something it does. It's a product of a different time, with slower pacing, more build up, more context, which means it might not mesh well with today's audiences.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on July 24, 2011, 01:28:36 AM
What about Minority Report? I think that might be Spielberg's best film in the past decade. That was PKD story also.

I'm partial to Catch Me If You Can when it comes to Spielburg films in the last decade.

That would be my number two choice and my number three choice would be The Terminal.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on July 25, 2011, 12:12:33 AM
Captain America: The First Avenger - 8.5/10
Just saw this movie (in 3D). I've got to say, it was pretty awesome - it may not have been 100% comic book cannon, but it was the movie that it needed to be. The special effects were probably the best I've ever seen, there's not a single point in the movie where something looks fake or it looks like someone is being superimposed on a green screen. I need to finish watching Iron Man 2 tomorrow and then soon I'll see Thor. If they do it right, The Avengers could end up being the best comic book movie ever.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on July 25, 2011, 09:48:32 AM
Captain America: The First Avenger - 8.5/10
Just saw this movie (in 3D). I've got to say, it was pretty awesome - it may not have been 100% comic book cannon, but it was the movie that it needed to be. The special effects were probably the best I've ever seen, there's not a single point in the movie where something looks fake or it looks like someone is being superimposed on a green screen. I need to finish watching Iron Man 2 tomorrow and then soon I'll see Thor. If they do it right, The Avengers could end up being the best comic book movie ever.
I agree.  I saw it in 2D yesterday.  The only point I could really tell was CG was the plane when it was diving down the lighting was off.  I have to say my biggest gripe is that a guy gets chopped up by and airplane propeller.  That's the bloodiest thing in it and it feels like the only reason its even in the movie was to get the movie to PG-13.  That scene should have been cut.  Beyond that very good movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on July 25, 2011, 10:04:58 AM
I have to say my biggest gripe is that a guy gets chopped up by and airplane propeller.  That's the bloodiest thing in it and it feels like the only reason its even in the movie was to get the movie to PG-13.  That scene should have been cut.

Or more similar scenes added! Captain America could have teamed up with the Inglourious Basterds. :P
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Post by: BranDonk Kong on July 25, 2011, 01:19:39 PM
That scene was awesome. I wasn't expecting it at all.
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Post by: Ceric on July 25, 2011, 01:35:55 PM
It felt tacted on. 
I mean what where the little planes even suppose to do?  Be bombs?  I didn't see any weapons.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on July 25, 2011, 03:59:58 PM
The planes were the bombs, all of the Hydra agents committed suicide when captured, so the pilots would kill themselves too, since they all saw Red Skull as a god.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on July 25, 2011, 04:03:51 PM
The planes were the bombs, all of the Hydra agents committed suicide when captured, so the pilots would kill themselves too, since they all saw Red Skull as a god.
I thought that was the case but, its still sort of complicated for something you could just drop.  That much power your playing Horseshoe rules.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on July 27, 2011, 10:26:23 PM
Finally got around to watching Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland Underland, and I'm really not sure what to think about this movie.  On the one hand, maybe it's just lower expectations after well over a year of everyone saying it's crap, but just looking at the movie objectively I can't call it a terrible movie.  I wasn't bored watching it, there's a reasonably coherent (if uninteresting) story in play, and Tim Burton brings his twisted artistic look to the film like he hasn't in a long time.  And yet, I had a lot of trouble actually watching the movie, and I don't want to watch it ever again.

Maybe the problem starts with Tim Burton's look for the film.  The thing that always fascinates me about the best Tim Burton movies is that they make the Strange look Normal and the Normal look Strange, and regardless of whichever it is I always find myself interested in what's on-screen.  But in this movie, something just looks...off...about the look of the film, and it makes me increasingly annoyed to keep seeing it.  For instance, one of the central designs of the film is the Red Queen, who is extremely short but with a big head.  In another Tim Burton film, that contrast would be interesting, but there's just something about it here that makes me want to look away.  Ann Hathaway's White Queen is supposed to be a shining beauty, but her design is incredibly unappealing in this movie.  I dunno.  While some elements of the film look great (the Red Queen's castle), the film overall is just very grim and lacking in visual appeal.  There's also some weird continuity errors, like how the Red Queen's personal guard's heart-shaped eyepatch keeps changing colors between scenes.

Then there's Johnny Depp's Mad Hatter.  Man, I thought his Willy Wonka performance was terrible, but this is just on a whole other level.  For one thing, I'd really like to know what accent he's supposed to be using for this film, because he keeps changing it.  In some dialogue scenes, he's doing this quasi-Jack Sparrow voice, while in others he's doing this weird Scottish/Irish hybrid for no apparent reason.  I can't understand half the words he's saying because he half-mumbles them, but even when he is coherent he's just not interesting to see on-screen.  And like the others, he's just not visually interesting to look at, and his story's not exactly fascinating either.  That's just a bit of a problem for a character who's probably on-screen more than Alice herself once he's introduced.

The movie overall isn't a bad movie per say IMO, but it's a very unpleasant one.  It's very mean-spirited and never allows itself to bask in the epic splendor you'd think would be a GIVEN in a fantasy movie.  And what's with going to all the trouble to bring in Christopher Lee to voice a character who literally has TWO LINES in the entire movie?  At least the special effects are nice.  Amusingly, near the end of the movie we're shown a "flashback" to Alice's original adventures in Wonderland.  Why didn't they just make that movie, because that actually looked a lot more interesting?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: MaryJane on July 28, 2011, 10:10:51 PM
I thought incongruity was intentional and added an unexpected layer to the movie. I really liked this film, the story itself was a little uninteresting, but I thought the presentation and the characters made up for that. But then again, I can also fully appreciate your take on the movie so, idk.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on July 29, 2011, 02:06:05 AM
@Broodwars

I think I said it before, but I didn't like one...single...art design decision in the entire film. I also don't agree, philosophically, with bringing any version of Alice in Wonderland and/or Through the Looking Glass onto the big screen and try to give it a coherent story or, God forbid, CONNECT the two books--which are entirely different books. Both are certainly meant to be noncohesive dream sequences, so when you try and get a big central narrative going, it's going to fail, at least for me.

Also for those of you who have fond rememberances of the ancient Disney movie, go back and watch it. You'll find that 90% is needless filler.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on July 30, 2011, 10:26:17 PM
I'm on my 4th movie at the theater today.

1. Transformers 3
It was good, but there were some details that right make sense. I'll edit that in later.

2. Captain America
Marvel is on a roll if you ask me. I have full faith that The Avengers will turn out good.
This one ran longer than expected, so it threw my schedule off and I watched Horrible Bosses instead of Cowboys & Aliens.

3. Horrible Bosses
Entertaining, but not as funny i hoped. I was shocked to find out that Colin farrel was in the movie.

4. Cowboys & Aliens
Its about to start...... Hopefully soon, I can only watch the same ads and previews so many times.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on July 30, 2011, 10:28:24 PM
Colin Farrell is in all of the previews...not sure why you spoiler'd that.
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Post by: TJ Spyke on July 30, 2011, 10:36:03 PM
He's even in the theatrical poster: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Horrible_Bosses.jpg

I plan to see Captain America eventually, but I thought Thor was pretty bad TBH.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: MaryJane on July 31, 2011, 01:01:33 AM
Captain America: 7/10

Lots of action in this one. Mind-numbing, totally pointless, action of **** blowing up in the too often used montage. The story was terribly generic and they didn't go beneath the surface on anything they did. Didn't the serum they used to create Captain America actually have a name and not just 'the serum'? What about that box to Oden's Gate or whatever it was, they barely spoke of it. His shield, that took like two seconds, but him being a show-boy for an inconsequential senator took like ten minutes. To me, this movie, like Thor, was just terribly generic. It brought nothing new to the table, didn't even attempt to challenge you mentally, and lives off of action instead of substance. I don't regret seeing the movie, and I'd probably watch again (for free this time) but it was just so bland to me.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on July 31, 2011, 01:13:47 AM
Colin Farrell is in all of the previews...not sure why you spoiler'd that.

I didn't watch the previews & I didn't recognize him until the credits. Thats why.

Edit: Cowboys and Aliens was.... ehhh
I font know what I was expecting, but it was easily my least favorite of the 4 movies today.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on July 31, 2011, 09:19:27 AM
Calling Captain America's story generic doesn't make any sense. After all, the story that it is based on started 70 years ago (when Captain America debuted in 1941), so lots of things have probably borrowed from it since then (though I can't exactly think of anything), but it's a little unfair to call it generic.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on July 31, 2011, 09:51:21 AM
As Brandogg said.  Its Captian America.  Everybody and their Brother have borrowed from it.  Its literally called the Super Soldier Serum.  Capt. is mostly action.  He's a soldier.  The comic rarely digs into the deeper why at the time.  At its heart Capt. is a piece of Morale Boosting Patriotism Media.  Capt. is another version of Uncle Sam. 

If your looking for a movie to focus on developing Depth of Character as a highlight instead of a side feature your looking at the wrong Genre in general.  Action first Character Second.  I won't say that Comic Movie don't have character development but its normally of the over time variety unless its absolutely necessary. 

Comic book Cartoons and Movies can be basically broken done to:

1. Introduce General Problem
2. Introduce Character Specific Problem
3. Triumph over Character Specific Problem
4.  Triumph over General Problem
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on July 31, 2011, 09:58:07 AM
At its heart Capt. is a piece of Morale Boosting Patriotism Media

It's a lot quicker to just say propaganda.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: MaryJane on July 31, 2011, 11:31:20 AM
What made the story generic in my mind was the lack of depth. It's like the Hans Christian Anderson versions of the Brother's Grimm stories. Except that the only thing I liked about the movie was the amount of people who died/Cap. Am. killed.
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Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on July 31, 2011, 01:40:15 PM
Capt. America did everything it needed to do and it did it well.
It was, I think, the best out of the 4 I saw yesterday.

Most of the CG was done really well, and I didn't really even notice it at all until the hangar scene where it was obvious that nothing was real as the giant rubber tires and the smooth grey metal rims gave it away.

My only gripe with this movie is the same gripe I have with every Marvel Studios movie. Why do we have to wai ttill the very end of the credits for the teaser? No one, and I mean NO ONE reads the damn credits, so it's not like it's necessary to focus our attention on it for a solid 5-7 minutes when none of us care who the 75 3D effect artist were or the 42 3D depth affect artist were and the other 51 3D sound engineers are. Atleast play some movie clips during the credits or the actual teaser during the credits. i's a very very long wait for the 45second trailer at end of the movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: SixthAngel on July 31, 2011, 09:48:22 PM
I think there are a few reasons to wait, the biggest being that if there isn't the seperation it stops being a teaser and becomes the end of the movie.  The teaser is a bonus for fans and the general public would just be confused that the movie ended with something like  Thor's hammer crashing in the desert. The gap really needs to be  there to keep it seperate from the movie itself.  I also think its kind of their way to reward the "dedication" of fans and make them feel special.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on July 31, 2011, 10:34:40 PM
It's annoying if you don't know there is a teaser though. Like I missed the teaser at the end of Fast Five because I didn't see any reviews mention it and most movies don't do it (so I had no reason to expect it).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on August 01, 2011, 01:25:43 AM
Das Feurzeug is good, and i like the east german movie versions produced by DEFA.

also, as far as movies that borrow from captain america....

Hulk-same super serum idea...just adapted for the 60s
Hunk-an 80s movie about a scrawny guy becoming a big dude...even has a penis enlarging scene.

austin powers-the end

you can't say Captain America is generic, the truth in that genre its the real deal.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on August 01, 2011, 01:35:56 AM
I just want to jump in and say something that I forgot to say earlier.

Horrible Bosses: Jennifer Aniston was fucking sooooo hot in that movie. I wish J. Aniston could be my horrible boss. I would love to have his problem because it wouldn't be a problem at all in my eye. She was seriously the hottest I've ever seen her in this movie, especially and most specifically during the iPad photo scenes. No sympathy for Charlie in that movie at all..... not from me and not from my girl either. We both would love to have that "horrible boss".
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on August 01, 2011, 02:13:32 AM
yeah sometimes she pulls out the hot
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on August 03, 2011, 12:56:48 AM
SAW: The Final Chapter - 5/10
The movie was basically half random traps and half poorly acted continuation of the original story. While the acting and cinematography gets worse with each movie, I must say that the way they continue the franchise is actually pretty clever. It's definitely the most gruesome of any of the SAW movies, so at least it has that going for it. I was genuinely surprised by the ending (though there was a little bit of foreshadowing earlier in the film), but again, it was pretty clever and actually made sense. One good thing about the series is that they've always been able to get actors from the other films to do new scenes to give you a "behind the scenes" look at how the traps were set up. Anyway, as a movie in general, it sucked, but I've seen all the other ones and I got the Blu Ray for free.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: MaryJane on August 03, 2011, 03:25:57 PM
Your Highness: 7.5/10

This movie wasn't very funny, and the plot was nothing original, but for a reason I can't explain, I liked it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on August 06, 2011, 09:54:53 PM
Your Highness Liked it, i probably already reviewed it but **** it.
The Adjustment Bureau liked it
Season of the Witch ok what the **** is up with everyone else, cus i thought this one was pretty good, there was some bad cg in the end, but not enough to hate the movie. If this was 1996 nobody would say a damn thing about it, and would probably praise it for being good.   If i was in 8th grade this would be my favorite movie. Screw Nicolas Cage haters. I'm surprised at how non hammy he was. Kinda wish there was a Sam Raimi version though.
Hall Pass Eh, not the greatest comedy movie. Still funny with some LOL moments. Rental
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on August 06, 2011, 11:46:40 PM
The best part of Hall Pass was Steven Merchant, he even made Tooth Fairy watchable...and funny.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on August 07, 2011, 02:43:28 AM
In response to that, I give you Cars and Cars 2.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: MaryJane on August 08, 2011, 08:19:24 AM
So this weekend my niece and I did a Movie Marathon Madness. She's 16 and quoted Gone With the Wind, and I was like what the hell do you know about that? And she's like, not much but I'd like to see it, and I was like, oh well I have the movie on DVD. We started with that then just started watching some downloaded movies:

Gone With the Wind: 9.8/10 Still one of my favorites of all time. Jeebuz is it long, but it's still good, and I've never seen another movie with such amazing cinematography.

Transformers 3: 8/10 Pretty good, I like the history tie in, and the battles were cool. The girl that replaced Megan Fox is smoking freaking hot, and a better actress.

Horrible Bosses: 8.2/10 Very funny, good plot twists for a comedy, and a non-typical resolution. Oh, and as BnM said Jennifer Aniston was super hot in this.

Cold Prey: 6.6/10 Pretty typical horror movie, but it was okay. It's about snowboarders boarding up in an old hotel and then being hunted and killed by someone or thing...

Insidious: 6.9/10 Meh. I liked the idea, and some of the scenes were as cool as they were creepy, but the acting was rather second rate, as was the writing.

The Conspirator: 8.1/10 I'm a big fan of history, and I'm glad they shone a little light on this part of our country's history because it seems to be happening again. But I'll leave it at that for the sake of not walking the political line.

Unknown: 7.9/10 Very confusing at first, but it has a good pace, and Liam Neeson is a good actor and pulls the story along by keeping you interested in his plight.

Water for Elephants: 8/10 Robert Paterson's Keauno Reeves (sp? on both names) like acting annoys the **** out of me, but this was a very good story. I didn't like the flashback, storytelling aspect of it, (ala the old lady in Titanic) but the rest of it was good. I also found it interesting that the guy with carnival in Heroes is the guy with the Circus in this movie.

Sucker Punch: 8.1/10 Really cool movie. I loved the three worlds it presented and the overlaying trouble that the stress of her first created fantasy was still to much to bear, and she needed the third completely over the top level to actually survive and do what needed to be done. I didn't like the ending because not only did I want her to get away, it was sad that she got the lobotomy, but that doctor did say she looked at him like she wanted him to do it. That might have been because of what happened after she kicked that guy in the balls

Hall Pass: 6.8/10 Meh. I didn't find it all that funny, but there were some really funny moments, and the ending wasn't typical.

Bad Teacher: 7.2/10 Funny, had a few lessons to learn, but pretty shallow story.

I Am Number Four: 8.3/10 I liked this one a lot, but I just wish it would have been fleshed out a little more. There'll likely be a sequel or two (although the movie's title doesn't lend itself well to sequeling) that will hopefully explain more and be deeper. There was a good amount of action in this movie, coupled with suspense, and an evolving story, one of my favorites of the weekend.

So there it is, three days, thirteen movies, and a lot of Maryjane (for me, not my niece).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on August 08, 2011, 11:16:53 AM
Sounds like it was all down hill after Gone With the Wind...
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on August 08, 2011, 11:35:29 AM
I recently watched both X-Men First Class and Ed Wood.  Both movies were alright, though neither were movies I'd really want to watch again.  I think my problem with X-Men is that I just didn't care about the vast majority of the characters, not helped by most being fairly new to me even as someone who has watched most of the X-Men cartoons.  As for Ed Wood, it's a strange movie and well-made, but maybe not as amusing as I expected from a film about one of the Worst Film Directors of All Time?  Great performances, though.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: MaryJane on August 08, 2011, 02:41:22 PM
Sounds like it was all down hill after Gone With the Wind...

Yeah, if I could do it over again that would be the last one we watched.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on August 08, 2011, 05:26:56 PM
I loved Ed Wood, probably Tim Burton's best. Wish he'd go back to making stuff like that instead of his big budget remakery bullshit. I'm betting he'll return to greatness with Dark Shadows.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on August 08, 2011, 06:38:02 PM
Too bad Dark Shadows is a remake too...
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on August 08, 2011, 09:47:28 PM
I really liked Big Fish.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on August 09, 2011, 05:40:46 AM
Too bad Dark Shadows is a remake too...

of a TV show though, plus its all gothicy and stuff. So it kinda falls under his own thing. Also, Ed Wood was a remake of Ed Woods life. But yeah Planet of the Apes, Willy Wonka, Alice in Wonderland are all things that should never have been touched. I am ambivalent about Sweeney Todd mainly because it was a mixed bag.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on August 09, 2011, 04:35:24 PM
Sweeney Todd was well directed, but fell flat because it was pretty boring as far as musicals go.

I really don't think Tim Burton "has it" anymore. Likewise, I don't think Johnny Depp does either. They've both been doing crap so long at this point that another collaboration probably won't help.

That atrocious Will Wonka adaptation should have been done in the creepy, gothic style that Burton worked so hard to establish for himself. The original adaptation will Gene Wilder was already pretty friggin' creepy. Going all out would have been about the only way to conceivably justify the existence of a new version.

Actually, come to think of it... Alice in Wonderland should have been creepy instead of silly and childish. Maybe we should let American McGee put his vision on film instead?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on August 09, 2011, 04:46:04 PM
There are a lot of stories that are a lot darker then there original Movie Debut.  Return to Oz is darker than Wizard of Oz.  And from what I understand the books are more like Return to Oz.  I think I got to make more references to this movie this month than I have for ... well ever.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on August 09, 2011, 06:35:35 PM
That is of course true. The point I was trying to make though, is that if you just have to create a new adaptation, it should bring something fresh to the property. Tim Burton doesn't do that, even though historically we know he would be capable of it.

It's like bands that get famous on the radio because their one single is an uninspired cover of a song that was already a hit. If you're going to remake something, put a fresh spin on it. Justify its existence somehow instead of just retreading past paths.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on August 09, 2011, 06:48:38 PM
true, its been like 10 years or so since he's made something thats great. He may not have his it factor anymore. From all indications from Kevin smith he's become an eccentric Hollywood type. You know who went to animation school with Tim Burton? John Lasseter, creator of a number of awesome Pixar things. I'd hate to totally abandon Tim Burton though, he's created classic great movies. He was younger though. Quinton Tarantino was talking about how he wants to retire when he turns 60 because he doesn't want to become one of those old directors that direct horrible movies in their later years. That totally saddens me because he takes 3 years between movies and he's already 48 and his last movie was awesome in so many ways.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: MaryJane on August 09, 2011, 07:25:16 PM
Too bad Dark Shadows is a remake too...

of a TV show though, plus its all gothicy and stuff. So it kinda falls under his own thing. Also, Ed Wood was a remake of Ed Woods life. But yeah Planet of the Apes, Willy Wonka, Alice in Wonderland are all things that should never have been touched. I am ambivalent about Sweeney Todd mainly because it was a mixed bag.

The new Alice in Wonderland was a sequel, so they did leave the original alone. The new Willy Wonka was good, but it was no where near as good as the original and that's where it failed so maybe they shouldn't have touched it, but they did make a good movie. Planet of the Apes, I thought it was better than the original, I know I'm in a very small minority on that one, but there it is. And I loved Sweeney Todd, and there's been like 4 different movie versions of it over the years.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on August 09, 2011, 07:47:36 PM
I liked Burton's Apes movie (so I am in that minority too), though I will disagree that it was better than any of the originals (except maybe Beneath the Planet of the Apes, which I thought sucked). I didn't like his Wonka movie, in particular the extended focus on Wonka's backstory.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Fatty The Hutt on August 09, 2011, 07:56:29 PM
Watched Citizen Kane last night on the TCM (seen it before, about 11 times or so)
That's a pretty fuckin good movie, eh what? 10/10
Also caught about half of Touch of Evil, the follow up on the TCM (it was Welles night). That's pretty fuckin good too, yo. 10/10
That Welles dood, he pretty aces. 11/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on August 09, 2011, 11:04:57 PM
Aw damn, are they doing encores? I love those movies.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Fatty The Hutt on August 09, 2011, 11:19:55 PM
Not sure but I don't think they'll be doing an encore right away. It was a 24 hours of one guy (Welles in this case). Its a summer series. They move on to aother star now.
 
But I'm sure you'll catch them soon-ish. Kane has been on quite a bit recently.
 
They should just have a channel running Welles movies 24-7. Like that Sinatra channel what they got in Vegas.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on August 10, 2011, 12:53:29 AM
yeah Citizen Kane is a great movie, I would love to see other Welles movies.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on August 10, 2011, 01:00:31 AM
Don't get me wrong, i enjoyed Planet of the Apes, but it wasn't a great movie like the original. It was good though. I also enjoyed Charlie and he Chocolate factory, but again no candle held to the earlier version. Also, i have no desire to rewatch Charlie and the Chocolate factory, but i can watch Willy Wonka repeatedly. I say he shouldn't have touched it, but  mainly because it hurts his career more than those movie franchises. They could have been better. I myself have a vision of a version of Willy Wonka, with Dave Chapelle as Willy Wonka. Not called Willy Wonka of course. More like some twisted parody somewhere between the Rocky Horror Picture Show, and Young Frankenstein.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on August 10, 2011, 01:10:48 AM
true, its been like 10 years or so since he's made something thats great. He may not have his it factor anymore. From all indications from Kevin smith he's become an eccentric Hollywood type. You know who went to animation school with Tim Burton? John Lasseter, creator of a number of awesome Pixar things. I'd hate to totally abandon Tim Burton though, he's created classic great movies. He was younger though. Quinton Tarantino was talking about how he wants to retire when he turns 60 because he doesn't want to become one of those old directors that direct horrible movies in their later years. That totally saddens me because he takes 3 years between movies and he's already 48 and his last movie was awesome in so many ways.

I think Clint Eastwood has proven that's not necessarily true.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on August 10, 2011, 03:10:23 AM
i know Clint Eastwood makes badass movies, but he stopped acting.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: bustin98 on August 10, 2011, 03:00:01 PM
So.... Clint Eastwood wasn't acting in Gran Torino? That's how he is in every day life... Good to know if I ever decide to move next door to that grumpy ass old man... :P
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on August 11, 2011, 12:23:10 AM
lol in real life Clint Eastwood is a baller with a big house.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on August 12, 2011, 01:22:44 AM
i know Clint Eastwood makes badass movies, but he stopped acting.

The discussion was on directors. Clint Eastwood has been mostly directing for the past two decades and has proven that directors in their 60's or older can still make awesome films.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on August 12, 2011, 01:45:44 AM
Clint Eastwood is a damn good director. Gran Torino, Flags of our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima are some of his best work. Watch the two latter films thinking it was a Spielbergian War film and was happy to find I was wrong. It was something a lot more deeper and personal than Saving Private Ryan. Matching Spielberg is an achievement in itself and if that doesn't make him awesome, I don't know what would beside him running around killing serial killers with a .44 Magnum.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on August 12, 2011, 04:51:26 AM
i know Clint Eastwood makes badass movies, but he stopped acting.

The discussion was on directors. Clint Eastwood has been mostly directing for the past two decades and has proven that directors in their 60's or older can still make awesome films.

yeah he makes movies, as in he directed them, but he is no longer in them. He was in Gran Torino, and Million dollar Baby, but no Invictus which was really good.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on August 12, 2011, 10:49:33 AM
I think that it generally holds true that earnestly great directors can only keep the momentum up for a handful of films. I thought that Christopher Nolan had fallen into mediocrity after seeing Batman Begins, but he pulled himself back out of it quickly. I'm just waiting to see if Daren Aronofsky can keep going at the rate he does. That guy had me at Pi.

Of course, in both of those cases, the director's also did the majority of the writing for their projects.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on August 12, 2011, 08:25:19 PM
Rise of the Planet of the Apes- 9/10 oh **** that was awesome!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on August 12, 2011, 08:56:02 PM
-9/10?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on August 12, 2011, 11:38:32 PM
Limitless - 7.5/10
Very entertaining movie, but it's one that you'll never want to watch again. Still, it's easily worth a rental.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on August 13, 2011, 01:37:24 AM
The Hangover 2/10

This movie is so poor considering the concept. It really needs alcohol/weed/roofies consumption to be enjoyed. The movie takes 40 minutes to even get started. Sure we need to know the characters, but everyone of them are such abnormal losers, it's nearly impossible to relate to them. Not to mention even after establishing the characters, they are so wildly inconsistant to be considered insane. Even worse, the writers played this inconsistency as "Character development" further alienating the idea these are in anyway remotely real people.

They then break the narrative in order to produce this massive "Twist" that is simply not worth the pay off considering the movie they should have made was shown in the slide show along side the credits. The entire narrative is driven by how idiotic a bunch of guys can be while sober. Drive a stolen cop car? Why not, what not stupid enough? Drive on the sidewalk while pretending to be the cops, yeah we are getting stupid. Score Heather Graham and you are still attached to your man eatting hater of a girlfriend? Why the **** not because you're the only real character development in this entire movie.

The jokes are just not funny and everytime Mr Chow shows up he steals the show, but even that isn't too hard considering how low the comedy value is. It's all made worse by how predicable the jokes are. My first laugh came in at 50 Fucking minutes.

This is a bad movie. This is the anti-Superbad.

**** this waste of 90 Minutes.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on August 13, 2011, 01:40:03 AM
This is a bad movie. This is the anti-Superbad.

That is a contradiction, I thought Superbad was a HORRIBLE movie and thought it was nice the writers described the quality of the movie in its title.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on August 13, 2011, 03:27:14 AM
-   9/10

dash
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Post by: ShyGuy on August 13, 2011, 04:47:29 AM
Tonights Double Feature

Super - Three Stars Dwight from the office in a twisted Super Hero comedy. Despite it's dark parts, I enjoyed it quite a bit. Ellen Page was crazy.

Paul - One and a half Stars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost were unfunny, and I've enjoyed everything they did since Spaced. Movie had bad comedic timing and was too long. Kristen Wiig was miscast.  Super was actually funnier.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on August 13, 2011, 04:49:07 AM
I actually love Paul, much better than the other movie from them I saw (Shaun of the Dead). And for once I actually liked Seth Rogen.
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Post by: NWR_insanolord on August 13, 2011, 03:13:07 PM
Shaun of the Dead is fucking awesome.
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Post by: TJ Spyke on August 13, 2011, 03:50:29 PM
Meh, I was bored out of my mind when I watched it. But people can have different opinions.
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Post by: ThePerm on August 13, 2011, 04:44:41 PM
what made Shawn of the Dead boring for you TJ Spike?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on August 13, 2011, 04:56:37 PM
It's been a few years since I saw it, so I don't really remember much about it to be honest (just that I was bored from it).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on August 13, 2011, 05:37:26 PM
well the movie came out in 2004, and if that was when you saw it. Than you would have seen it then you were about 17, maybe you didn't get it?
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Post by: TJ Spyke on August 13, 2011, 05:51:47 PM
Maybe. I have thought about watching it again and seeing if my opinion has changed.
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Post by: Stratos on August 13, 2011, 07:02:41 PM
Shawn of the Dead was a huge disappointment. I had high hopes for that movie and you I found it thoroughly unfunny.
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Post by: Dasmos on August 14, 2011, 01:13:21 AM
Shaun of the Dead is about as funny as a film can get.
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Post by: TJ Spyke on August 14, 2011, 01:17:36 AM
Hahahahahahaha. Thanks for the laugh Dasmos. I should applaud you for telling the funniest joke I have heard all day.
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Post by: Dasmos on August 14, 2011, 01:24:29 AM
I live to give.
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Post by: Morari on August 14, 2011, 11:40:17 AM
Shaun of the Dead was pretty damn boring. Typical comedy fair, but with much more annoying characters. Sadly, it seems to be about the best thing the duo will ever muster up. If I want a zombie comedy, I'll go watch Dead Alive.
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Post by: Oblivion on August 14, 2011, 12:16:11 PM
Rise of the Planet of the Apes - I could care less about James Franco's character, but Cesar's plight was fucking awesome.
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Post by: Stogi on August 14, 2011, 03:36:50 PM
Hot Fuzz is probably their best movie. Shaun of the Dead is great though.
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Post by: ThePerm on August 14, 2011, 07:37:48 PM
Rise of the Planet of the Apes - I could care less about James Franco's character, but Cesar's plight was fucking awesome.

i think that was the idea, he was more of a supporting character. Caesar was the star. Although in the intro of the movie that how they made it seem. Great Frankenstein meets Spartacus story.
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Post by: TJ Spyke on August 14, 2011, 08:58:15 PM
I don't know about the new Apes movie. I hated the idea of it when it was announced, and thought the trailer that aired before Transformers: Dark of the Moon was terrible too, so I am surprised with people saying they liked it. I might check it out online or when it comes out on DVD.
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Post by: Oblivion on August 14, 2011, 09:38:01 PM
I don't know about the new Apes movie. I hated the idea of it when it was announced, and thought the trailer that aired before Transformers: Dark of the Moon was terrible too, so I am surprised with people saying they liked it. I might check it out online or when it comes out on DVD.


Believe me, try to get an early cheap matinee. It's worth it.
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Post by: ShyGuy on August 14, 2011, 11:55:44 PM
The Princess and the Frog Three and a half stars Disney still has it. I really miss hand drawn animation.
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Post by: ThePerm on August 15, 2011, 03:13:10 AM
also, those dissing the CG idea. I wouldn't totally hold out that they won't use makeup again at some point in the future of the franchise. The apes in rise aren't evolved to the point of say Tim Burtons version which had good makeup. They are basically non evolved yet smart apes, i think they look great. It would take several generations of selective breeding to get to the point where they look almost human. I always loved the original movie, and I watched it a couple hours after Rise, and while the plot of the original is still great the makeup looks like ****. The makeup was great in the Tim Burton version, but it pulled some stupid **** towards the end and ultimately that killed the story. The story in Rise is great. Andy Serkis needs Awards.
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Post by: Morari on August 15, 2011, 11:18:18 AM
I literally laughed out loud when I caught the trailer. The CGI looked terrible (doesn't it all?), James Franco looked stoned, and there are already a couple of "prequels" within the original Planet of the Apes franchise. There is really no reason for this to exist. There are plenty of people out there with new and interesting ideas... maybe Hollywood should hire some of them instead of retreading the same stuff over and over and over and over and over and over and over again?

If you're interested in the story and for some reason just can't bring yourself to watch the original film (which is great)... then go read the book. Skip the crap that's in the theaters today.
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Post by: Oblivion on August 15, 2011, 12:05:58 PM
I literally laughed out loud when I caught the trailer. The CGI looked terrible (doesn't it all?), James Franco looked stoned, and there are already a couple of "prequels" within the original Planet of the Apes franchise. There is really no reason for this to exist. There are plenty of people out there with new and interesting ideas... maybe Hollywood should hire some of them instead of retreading the same stuff over and over and over and over and over and over and over again?

If you're interested in the story and for some reason just can't bring yourself to watch the original film (which is great)... then go read the book. Skip the crap that's in the theaters today.


I think the lesson here is don't judge a book by its cover. Everyone is saying it's a great movie, yet you keep insisting on dissing something you've only seen two minutes of.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on August 15, 2011, 12:26:35 PM
It's funny you say that about PatF, I thought the animation was pretty bad for a Disney movie and reminded me nothing at all of the I past movies. The voice acting was pretty bad and way too exaggerated, and the character designs were pretty uninspired. It seemed like an episode of a TV show on the Disney Channel or something, but was nowhere near the quality you'd usually expect from them. Enchanted had better animation if you ask me...then again I'm no Disney fan in general, but I have kids and nephews so I've seen them all.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: MaryJane on August 15, 2011, 12:37:36 PM
Splice: 8/10 Not a great movie, but weird and creepy, which fulfilled my enjoyment at the time.

Iron Man 2: 8.9/10 Wow, why did I wait so long to see this? I'm probably going to watch it again I liked it so much. Scarlett Johansen was incredibly hot, but I didn't like her fight scene too much. Everything about this movie rocked except the deus ex machina of his father's element provided by shield.
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Post by: Stogi on August 15, 2011, 04:14:58 PM
Iron Man 2 sucks only because the first movie was so great.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on August 15, 2011, 05:43:33 PM
I literally laughed out loud when I caught the trailer. The CGI looked terrible (doesn't it all?), James Franco looked stoned, and there are already a couple of "prequels" within the original Planet of the Apes franchise. There is really no reason for this to exist. There are plenty of people out there with new and interesting ideas... maybe Hollywood should hire some of them instead of retreading the same stuff over and over and over and over and over and over and over again?

If you're interested in the story and for some reason just can't bring yourself to watch the original film (which is great)... then go read the book. Skip the crap that's in the theaters today.


I think the lesson here is don't judge a book by its cover. Everyone is saying it's a great movie, yet you keep insisting on dissing something you've only seen two minutes of.

yeah seriously, I've seen ALL of the planet of the apes movies, so its not like im ignorant of the others. I think the CG looks great. The only places where I see CG that looks wrong is the apes that have less hair. A couple of them are older, and older apes lose hair just like we do, and they look off. The orangutan character looks amazing.

 Its not perfect, but if you ever seen the original then you'll know they have rubber glued to their face and none of them can talk right and thats way more off-putting than this is. There is a thing called suspension of disbelief, but you know you have to suspend disbelief to enjoy any movie, and if you spend too much time picking things apart than you're fucked on every movie. None of its real its all fake. Imagine some new person to our culture watches their second movie and it has the same actors as the first movie and a totally different plot and just can't get over that
Tom Cruise was an airline pilot in top gun and now he's a Vampire living before the American Revolution. Do you know how many movies we watch that have the same person in it? Why does Dick Miller get killed in every movie he's in? How can he get attacked by Gremlins if the Termanator killed him? I thought robots killed him in chopping mall...this is terrible!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: King of Twitch on August 15, 2011, 07:18:52 PM
If you want to watch a bunch of hairy, feral cavemen wreak havoc and take over, why not save your $9 and watch the nightly news from the UK?
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Post by: Oblivion on August 15, 2011, 07:29:46 PM
If you want to watch a bunch of hairy, feral cavemen wreak havoc and take over, why not save your $9 and watch the nightly news from the UK?
They didn't even take over. They beat up and killed a couple policemen and managed to head over to a national park for sanctuary. While it hints that humanity has unleashed a disease on itself.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UltimatePartyBear on August 15, 2011, 07:39:02 PM
Try something like this, only take out the spaces:
[ spoiler ] stuff [ /spoiler ]
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on August 15, 2011, 07:46:18 PM
Oh lol thanks. That would've been much easier.
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Post by: Morari on August 15, 2011, 08:46:21 PM
Its not perfect, but if you ever seen the original then you'll know they have rubber glued to their face and none of them can talk right and thats way more off-putting than this is. There is a thing called suspension of disbelief, but you know you have to suspend disbelief to enjoy any movie, and if you spend too much time picking things apart than you're fucked on every movie. None of its real its all fake.

But practical effects are real. CGI is not. The lightning and texturing looks wrong on these CGI apes and immediately kills the suspension of disbelief. Well done facial make-up does not. Suspension of disbelief is the problem. Full CG scenes just don't cut it. It looks like Roger Rabbit.

Actually, watching high-profile actors over and over is often a buzz kill. Usually they just end up playing "that character". I'd usually prefer decent no-names that fill a role than A-listers pandering the audience.
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Post by: Oblivion on August 15, 2011, 09:18:16 PM
Its not perfect, but if you ever seen the original then you'll know they have rubber glued to their face and none of them can talk right and thats way more off-putting than this is. There is a thing called suspension of disbelief, but you know you have to suspend disbelief to enjoy any movie, and if you spend too much time picking things apart than you're fucked on every movie. None of its real its all fake.

But practical effects are real. CGI is not. The lightning and texturing looks wrong on these CGI apes and immediately kills the suspension of disbelief. Well done facial make-up does not. Suspension of disbelief is the problem. Full CG scenes just don't cut it. It looks like Roger Rabbit.

Actually, watching high-profile actors over and over is often a buzz kill. Usually they just end up playing "that character". I'd usually prefer decent no-names that fill a role than A-listers pandering the audience.


Does motion capturing do anything to sway you? Because people ARE there. The "real" actors do have a point of reference to look at. They may look wrong to you, but I saw the movie on a 60 foot thetre screen. I didn't see anything wrong with them. You're killing the movie before you even give it a chance.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on August 15, 2011, 09:19:35 PM
Say what you want about CGI but it's here to stay. Avatar cemented that fact.
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Post by: TJ Spyke on August 15, 2011, 09:23:27 PM
Unagi, I think you mean motion-capture. CGI was already a staple of the film industry before Avatar. I don't mind the use of motion-capture when it's done right. I won't comment on the quality in Rise of the Planet of the Apes because I have only seen trailers and commercials, and it would be unfair to judge based on those.
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Post by: Oblivion on August 15, 2011, 09:28:18 PM
I won't comment on the quality in Rise of the Planet of the Apes because I have only seen trailers and commercials, and it would be unfair to judge based on those.


The lightning and texturing looks wrong on these CGI apes and immediately kills the suspension of disbelief.


I literally laughed out loud when I caught the trailer. The CGI looked terrible (doesn't it all?), James Franco looked stoned, and there are already a couple of "prequels" within the original Planet of the Apes franchise. There is really no reason for this to exist. There are plenty of people out there with new and interesting ideas... maybe Hollywood should hire some of them instead of retreading the same stuff over and over and over and over and over and over and over again?

If you're interested in the story and for some reason just can't bring yourself to watch the original film (which is great)... then go read the book. Skip the crap that's in the theaters today.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on August 15, 2011, 09:31:39 PM
practical effects are no more real than CG, watching any film is not even real. You're watching a series of pictures at 24 framers per second. The trailer doesn't even do the movie justice, most of the movie takes place inside an Ape "sanctuary" where the CG is better, not on the San Francisco streets where it would be hell for even the best special effects team to get the lighting right. 

Still, I'd love to see a bunch of guys in ape suits climbing around the Golden Gate Bridge at high speed, but it just isn't possible.

whats silly is when someone avoids a movie when everyone who has seen it is telling them its good, and is already bashing the movie because they saw a trailer and they think that's the movie. Its like the opposite of Cowboys and Aliens.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on August 15, 2011, 11:31:30 PM
whats silly is when someone avoids a movie when everyone who has seen it is telling them its good, and is already bashing the movie because they saw a trailer and they think that's the movie.

Not really. Most people have terrible taste in entertainment. That's why movies like this continue to exist, after all. I know from experience what can generally be expected. I don't watch American Idol of listen to Britney Spears because everyone tells me they're great.

practical effects are real. They are lit properly because they exist in some plane or another. They move properly (if not realistically) because they are governed by the laws of reality. There are bad effects, sure. But even the best CGI is only applicable in very narrow circumstances.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on August 15, 2011, 11:56:46 PM
It's subective. You may think they have terrible tastes but you aren't any better than anyone else.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on August 16, 2011, 01:34:11 AM
practical effects are never real, unless someone genetically engineers a monkey and this monkey leads a revolution and news crews happen to catch every single event then its not real. Its just a guy in makeup. I get what your trying to say, but your missing the point of suspension of disbelief.

I don't see makeup as any more real than CGI, and I honestly don't care how good or bad the CGI or makeup is as long as the story works. I can pick out make-up and it never looks real to me and its the same with CGI. Does the movie have to be made by Pixar to have CGI?  Does a movie have to be totally CGI for it to be believable? Or can they integrate CGI and live action?  This very thinking means I could never watch an old movie like Nosferatu and enjoy it, because I have to have the expectation that everything has to be photo-real and perfect for it to be good, and any instance of fakeness means its automatically bad. That movie doesn't even have sound, and I can't even get the original soundtrack (originally played by a guy with a piano in the background of the theatre) so I have to get some dollar dvd of it with some forward by David Caradine with weird cover goth band music,  but i can suspend disbelief for 94 minutes and get into the story. Why, because I don't take everything so unbelievably serious that I cannot enjoy myself.

I could never watch Metropolis, Wizard of oz, ghost busters, original King Kong, Star Wars, and Jason and the Argonauts!, having the assumption that everything had to be perfect all the time.  I'm not under the assumption that everything film makers do must be perfect, and I think it's really disrespectful to discount what they do as **** because its isn't perfect. What I do however, is grade them on how they compare to others and everything I've seen before, and more specifically grade them against whats been on screen in the last 5 years and I think that is much more fair. As far as it goes, because I've been watching a lot of movies, I would say it compares favorably. They put in a good effort.

You want to generalize and say everyone has bad taste, and this could be subjective, but that's a terrible blanket argument. Not everyone likes American Idol, or Britney Spears. The foolish thing to do is the be willfully ignorant. If I was willfully ignorant of food I'd never try Menudo because its cow intestines.  I'm aware **** goes through it, but I'm also aware they clean it out and it tastes fantastic, but I guess I have bad taste. Apparently, so do millions of Latinos who eat it all the time. At least the can say for sure what appeals to their tastes because they tried it.
With this logic you're combining the logical fallacies of Ad Hominem Abusive and Hasty Generalization at the same time.

 The addage goes "Don't knock it, till you tried it". You saw 2 minutes of a 105 minute movie. Unless you watch the other 103 minutes your opinion on the movie is meaningless. Its a prejudice opinion. However, I'd figure by now you wouldn't be able to watch the movie with the proper objectivity.  I can however say in my opinion, and opinions are like assholes and everyone has one, that this movie has the best story of any in the franchise since the first one. Also, because it has such a good story, even if it we're called World of the Simians with no ties to the franchise it could stand up on its own because it is a totally different movie.
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Post by: Oblivion on August 16, 2011, 01:59:13 AM
Speaking of Metropolis, I fucking love that movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on August 16, 2011, 02:54:17 AM
I just watched Hot Rod. It was awesome!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on August 16, 2011, 11:44:28 AM
practical effects are never real, unless someone genetically engineers a monkey and this monkey leads a revolution and news crews happen to catch every single event then its not real. Its just a guy in makeup. I get what your trying to say, but your missing the point of suspension of disbelief.

I think you're taking this out of context. Practical effects are real. They physically exist within reality. You can physically touch an animatronic dinosaur. Actors can interact with it and around it. It casts real shadows. It absorbs and reflects lights as you would expect, because light is actually hitting it. None of that can not be done with CGI because it does not exist within reality. Full CGI scenes and entities always look fake because of these very reasons. It kills my suspension of disbelief immediately because it doesn't just look fake, it looks impossibly out of place given the scene. At least bad make-up and practical effects simply look cheesy, as opposed to unreal. Lighting is the worst with CGI. That's why cars and spaceships get more leadway as CGI. they just have to reflect light and nothing more. :P


It's subective. You may think they have terrible tastes but you aren't any better than anyone else.

Yes, I am. :P
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: MaryJane on August 16, 2011, 11:57:30 AM
Super 8: Super 8/10

Only thing that kept this from being a 9 was that it was a kid's movie, and thus the kills were muted. Otherwise, very well done.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on August 16, 2011, 08:27:49 PM
Superman and Clark Kent are the same person, it is impossibly stupid that the only difference is that one wears glasses and the other one doesn't, the flimsiest disguise ever. I guess i'll call the police every time someone gets killed in a horror movie. The idea is you're supposed to make believe. Its bad when someone can't make believe just because its CGI,

basically there's no such thing as x kills suspension of belief, both x and y are not real, you must ignore not just one thing, but everything is fake for it to work. After all you cannot touch the people in a movie; its just projected light. Its superficial to do anything less then that. Its like a guy who dates the hottest supermodel who is as stiff as a corpse in bed, when there's a chick with a big nose who give amazing head down the street that he's been ignoring. 

i mean they try to make it look real as possible, they take photographs of the scene, they record where the light sources are, sometimes they reconstruct the rooms in the computer just so they can get the light sources and reflections just right, not to mention most people doing lighting in movies just do 3 light sources. Then you have people spending 80+ hours molding polygons so that they can stretch in all the right ways, sometimes they use a laser scanner on real objects, rigging up physics, sometimes you have different modelers for doing the hair, the eyes, the textures etc, the textures are taken from real objects, they even take the time to add glistening to the eyes just so their convincing. Its not even fair in especially in this case to say that theres nothing physical there when in this case there actually is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7n8XTBVGLD8&feature=player_embedded.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM9Pvfq1KhE&NR=1

I remember a couple months back I made the assertion that cgi is just modern stop motion. Then someone said well at least there is something physically there, but that doesnt hold up because the lighting always looks worse in stop motion then the lighting in CGI, and CGI always has more fluid motion. Thought i've seen some great stop motion recently.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ywu1DeqXTg4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asBTY34YMp4&feature=channel_video_title

The only thing you can really knock it for is the speed in which it was put together. It could have been 100% believable if the had spent another 6 months on it, but then it would have cost 50 million dollars more. Still, it was worth it to see the experiment. This will have ramifications in the future for media people tend to be more forgiving on like television.

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on August 16, 2011, 09:00:13 PM
The only thing you can really knock it for is the speed in which it was put together. It could have been 100% believable if the had spent another 6 months on it, but then it would have cost 50 million dollars more. Still, it was worth it to see the experiment. This will have ramifications in the future for media people tend to be more forgiving on like television.

And that's ultimately what it comes down to, isn't it? Stop motion generally looked great because it was a craft that people took pride in. CGI is used because it is cheap and quick. Good CGI is neither, so no one uses it. I still think that 99% of the special effects in Jurassic Park are better than what you generally get today. A lot of it was full CGI, but most was CGI enhancement atop physical props. That's where CGI belongs, touching up and perfecting time-tested techniques... not replacing them.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on August 16, 2011, 09:28:06 PM
I have rarely like stop motion stuff, it almost always looks like crap and I can't get sucked into it because it just looks so fake. When CGI is done well, it looks great and even better than real life actors.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on August 16, 2011, 09:56:06 PM
yeah, i was going to mention Jurassic Park the other day on one of the other posts. I was watching it the other day, and it really is an amazing movie. The parts that are cg are perfect, but its easier to do featherless dinosaurs than hairy monkeys. Also, the motions of the 10 seconds you see a running t-rex, and the 8 seconds of cg raptors is much simpler. You can't however make the assertion that those CGI artists don't take pride in their work. Thats asinine. I'm sure if there was still a market for stop motion it would be equally expensive, and CGI is not quick. It takes less time to build armatures and prosthetic makeup and film them then it does to build CGI models. The only thing they've done in recent years made animation easier.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on August 17, 2011, 09:13:24 AM
Hereafter
I liked it though I will probably never watch it again. There were some good performances here. I'm a fan of Cecile de France and she didn't disappoint. The scene where she takes off her robe and changed seemed pandering which was odd in a movie like this. Some plot threads felt stunted and were subsequently abandoned. Not Eastwood's best, but I didn't hate myself for watching it.

Tangled
Great. Highly recommended. I only had 2 major issues. The first: Mother Gothel was a pretty tame villain though she got the typical horrifying Disney villain death. The second: the songs were pretty weak. It doesn't hold a candle to the music in late-80s/early-90s animated Disney films that I still know by heart to this day. I've read that some people found the humor too slapstick but I was okay with it. Disney changing the title from "Rapunzel" to "Tangled" is a minor gripe.

Red Riding Hood
Eww... Pretty much everything about this movie sucked. Gary Oldman should have known better. Even Amanda Seyfried should have known better. Shame on them. The Twilight reject had a bit too much hair product for the time period. I'm surprised that in such a primitive society, they still had hair gel. This movie was so bad that I wanted to slap my friend for insisting we watch it and especially since she saw it before and admittedly enjoyed it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on August 17, 2011, 04:01:59 PM
same director as twilight, i might forgive sparkling vampires if the rest of he movie was decent. I Still haven't seen the movies, but non 14 year old non females say it sucks so im not a total hypocrite.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: SixthAngel on August 17, 2011, 11:07:16 PM
I also had the unfortunate experience of watching that movie.  It makes the Twilight movies look great.  Reading the box the basic idea had at least some potential and Gary Oldman was there so I listened to someone else and gave it a try. Big mistake.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on August 18, 2011, 07:50:27 PM
Every once in a while, my mother gets a terrible movie and I get roped into watching it with the folks as part of "Happy Family Time, Damnit!"  Today's selection was a donation from one of her online friends, a Danny DeVito movie I had never heard of called Other People's Money.  Long story short, it's about a Wall Street investor (DeVito) who decides to liquidate a small-town company because he wants more money as a shareholder.  Did it uphold the tradition of terrible movies when the family gets together?  Oh yeah.  It's quite possibly one of the worst movies I've ever seen.  It's slow, it's boring, the characters are almost uniformly unlikeable, the writing is terrible, there's no chemistry between the two leads , and the ending is a wild Hail Mary that might have worked had the movie set up the characters' motivations properly...but it didn't, so it sucks.

The worst thing about the movie, though, is that this movie is billed as a comedy, yet there isn't a single funny moment in the entire film.  If anything, the film is a trashy romance with pseudo-drama about the decay of American values.  I usually find Danny DeVito hilarious (or at least amusing) and this is a pretty good cast that includes the likes of Gregory Peck. But this movie is just painfully un-funny and I don't recommend it to anyone.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on August 20, 2011, 06:09:32 PM
You should have watched See No Evil, Hear No Evil.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on August 23, 2011, 04:20:15 AM
Hall Pass - ::crickets::

I bet it seemed funny on paper, but it most certainly did not transfer to the screen.
The only part that was kinda funny was the last scene before the credits. Everything else was like a joke that would've been funny, had the person told it right.
4.5/10

& did i forget to mention that it is completely predictable?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: MaryJane on August 23, 2011, 08:08:56 AM
Hall Pass - ::crickets::

I bet it seemed funny on paper, but it most certainly did not transfer to the screen.
The only part that was kinda funny was the last scene before the credits. Everything else was like a joke that would've been funny, had the person told it right.
4.5/10

& did i forget to mention that it is completely predictable?

As a comedy it failed, but as a movie it was decent, and predictable? You didn't think everyone was going to have sex, and then only one on them did?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on August 23, 2011, 11:08:10 AM
I knew the message right from the start and I knew that Owen Wilson wouldn't be able to go through it with. After all that chasing, once he got what he thought he wanted, he would realize he already had everything he wanted. I also figured that his wife just wanted to know that she could if she wanted to, but wouldn't actually do anything stupid.

There was something just wrong with this movie, and it sux because I was kinda lookin forward to it. It was kinda entertaining, and it should've been funny, but it just fell really really flat. Some parts that you would think should have been hilarious, just came across as sad and pathetic some times.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Dasmos on August 23, 2011, 11:16:38 AM
Nikki Whelan was pretty hot though.

I just came back from Cowboys & Aliens and I thought it was pretty ****. Well not ****, just boring. Nothing interesting really happened. I never really liked any of the characters and the whole reason for Aliens being there was pretty ****. At least the Alien designs weren't completely horrible and Harrison Ford being in it automatically gives it bonus points. 4/10

ps Daniel Craig had the worst hat in the world. Someone needs to fire that costume designer. I just wanted to punch him in the face the entire movie because of how ridiculous it looked.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: MaryJane on August 23, 2011, 01:08:17 PM
@BnM
I guess that's the difference, I went in with low expectations and was pleasantly surprised by it being a complete movie and not the jackass fest I was expecting.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on August 23, 2011, 06:10:12 PM
RED - One completely underused Morgan Freeman and 4 "Mehs" out of 10.  You'd really think that a movie that contains the likes of Morgan Freeman and Bruce Willis going around shooting and blowing stuff up would be awesome.  But it's certainly not here.  The plot is nebulous for far too long, and I just found the movie pretty dull overall.  It's obviously trying to be spectacularly over-the-top with tongue firmly in cheek, but I didn't think either aspect of the movie really pulled its fair share of the load.  The humor isn't particularly funny, and the action scenes just aren't anything altogether remarkable.  This movie has a great cast, but they're just not given anything compelling to do.

I picked up the second (and last) Eden of the East movie today on Blu-Ray: Paradise Lost.  Hopefully, it can make up for not only the pretty underwhelming King of Eden movie but end the TV series on the right note.  I won't give my hopes up on that, given anime's track record on satisfying endings.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: MaryJane on August 23, 2011, 07:39:40 PM
Superheroes: 9/10

It's a documentary about real life superheroes. People who (like in the movie Super which I will review next) dress up in costume, armor, and non lethal weapons and combat local crime. Well, that's their purpose, but the only things they do are (I don't know if this should be spoiler tagged or not, but just in case: ) one group baits muggers with a flamboyant gay man and a woman who are part of their group, and then make a citizens arrest. While filming, they caught a drunk driver, called the police, who did not respond, so they took the guys keys and let him sleep it off. The other groups mostly help homeless people, but one of them patrols a park in NYC discouraging drug dealers. I would recommend this movie, this movie did affect me, and while I don't want to dress up in costume and patrol my suburban neighborhood, I do think I will be trying to help people more often in some way and be less apathetic.

Super: 9/10
I think it was BnM who reviewed this movie, and I watched it and loved it. As he, or whoever reviewed it said, Ellen Page was great in it. It's a movie about a guy who's wife gets into drugs and in order to save her he becomes a super hero. Before saving his wife he does take on smaller criminals and it's hilarious, absolutely hilarious. I thought most of the violent funny parts of Kick-Ass weren't funny (btw I loved that movie and think it was better than Super despite what I just said) but they were great in Super.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on August 23, 2011, 08:46:46 PM
30 Minutes or Less: 7/10

It was funny. Not side splitting, but still very funny. I was expecting it to be funnier considering the cast, but it I guess they didn't all mesh to well together. Danny McBride and Nick Swardson just don't make the best comedic duo, and Aziz Ansari just seemed muted.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on August 23, 2011, 09:06:01 PM
Super: 9/10
I think it was BnM who reviewed this movie, and I watched it and loved it. As he, or whoever reviewed it said, Ellen Page was great in it. It's a movie about a guy who's wife gets into drugs and in order to save her he becomes a super hero. Before saving his wife he does take on smaller criminals and it's hilarious, absolutely hilarious. I thought most of the violent funny parts of Kick-Ass weren't funny (btw I loved that movie and think it was better than Super despite what I just said) but they were great in Super.

I just watched Super last night, actually. I felt it was generally on par with Kick-Ass. The violence in Super isn't really glamorized at all, which makes it far less exciting though not necessarily less entertaining. They both explore the same idea, but go at it from different angles and with different motives. That said, I never got to liking the motive in Super. Frank's wife, Sarah, wasn't really worth the effort. She was a step away from being strung out when they first met and quickly fell back into that as people do. Was it because she was working at a less-than-reputable establishment? Was it that atmosphere and social circle that allowed Jacques to lure here away? Once a junkie, always a junkie. The fact that she up and left Frank again at the end only further removed any satisfaction from the initial motives. I know that Frank is a loser and all, but sitting through a "triumphant" film about someone with absolutely no self respect was a little painful.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on August 23, 2011, 09:56:41 PM
Eden of the East: Paradise Lost - 1 Double Facepalm, 4 sad shakes of the head, and 1 "WHY?!!"/10.  Damnit, sometimes I hate it when I turn out to be right.  So, this is the glorious ending to your epic 12-episode TV series + 2 movies is it, Production I.G.?  Ugh...

Alright, let's get this over with.  This movie is...not terrible, but as I've come to expect over the years it is a terrible ending to the story begun with the TV series.  The hook of the TV series was this massive mystery based around a deadly game between these "chosen" Japanese citizens known as Selicao.  They're each handed 10 billion yen, and then told to "save Japan"...or die.  The most interesting charm of it was that each Selicao had what amounted to a magic cellphone that could do practically anything assuming they had the funds to pay for it.  As the main character slowly built his own plan to win, the audience is gradually shown the plans of some of the other Selicao, occasionally even leading to entertaining celllphone "battles" where each would try to outwit the other.  Even the first movie followed through on this idea with interesting personalities constantly in variable states of conflict, and sometimes characters would be removed from the game to build intrigue.

So given that build-up, you'd ASSUME that the finale movie would finally bring a great-deal of payoff, action, and drama to send this story off with a bang.  YOU'D BE DEAD WRONG.  Instead of focusing on the strengths of the series (the mystery, the phones, the eccentric personalities), we have a movie that spends almost its entire 1.5 hour running time answering a question no one asked in previous movies: "Is Takizawa the Prime Minister's bastard son?"  It then spends 5 minutes closing the game with one of the most B.S. endings I've ever seen: EVERYONE wins!  That's right, Mr. Outside declares EVERYONE a winner and just stops the game!  And pretty much every character in the end is right where they were when the series began, with only minor changes happening in the show's world, making this entire story almost completely pointless!  ARGH!

When I finished the TV series, I wrote that I was giving the ending a pass conditional upon the 2 follow-up movies delivering a satisfactory ending.  Well, you can kiss that goodbye.  What's really annoying, though, is that a lot of these issues might have been ironed out if the TV series was just 26 episodes instead of a 12-episode series and 2 movies.  There's a lot of sloppy to terrible writing in the movies due to their abbreviated nature.  I lost count of the number of plot points that occur off-screen that had to be told later in sloppy exposition, when they could have been told in real-time in a TV series.  And because this is a direct continuation of the TV series, it casts a bad light on what was generally a good series.

Overall, the animation is good, the dubbing is good, the writing is abysmal.  If you're looking for closure to the TV series, I guess you get it but it's handled very badly.  It's like the writers forgot what made their story fun to begin with and just made things up as they went along towards the end.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on August 24, 2011, 07:53:39 PM
Summer Rental A classic 80's comedy starring John Candy. The plot is typical but I have a nostalgia for movies like this. Three Stars

Actually, I have a question. In this movie there is a scene where the family can't get in to a restaurant and so they end up going to a run down seafood place, they order the special and they cut to a shot of the cook pulling frozen fish sticks out of the freezer. I COULD ALMOST SWEAR that I have seen a similar scene in another movie. Any idea what movie it was?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on August 24, 2011, 07:56:36 PM
The Bourne Ultimatum

Great action sequences, awesome car chase, and a fitting ending for the trilogy.

Battle: Los Angeles

It was good, I guess. More intense than anything.

The Departed

Holy ****, did they curse a lot in that movie. I lost count after 100.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on August 31, 2011, 01:54:45 AM
Midnight in Paris: 10/10

Owen Wilson does a very good job (for him) in this one. The humor is very subtle in places but is still enough to make one burst with laughter. One plot line was kinda written off cheaply, but the rest of the script is brilliant. Even the one plot line I mentioned is concluded in probably the most hilarious way possible. The character development is great, and the story genuinely had me interested to see what was going to happen next. I highly recommend this one.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on August 31, 2011, 02:07:24 AM
Finally got around to watching Sucker Punch the other night, and yeah...it's complete and total crap.  It's surprisingly boring (there's no drama to make the action scenes interesting), the story isn't executed well at all, and the acting is pretty bland all around.  The movie might have been saved in the editing room if some of the Alternate Reality stuff had been spliced with what was going on in the "real world" (and if the Whorehouse world was removed altogether), but as it is the movie is just a terrible execution of a potentially interesting idea.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on August 31, 2011, 09:06:06 AM
Agreed. Suckerpunch was little more than a bunch of extended music videos, framed by an otherwise boring dream sequence.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on September 02, 2011, 03:19:38 AM
I've been trying to catch up on movies I missed this summer, and now I've seen Thor.  Overall, a good movie that falls just short of being a great movie on par with Marvel's first Iron Man movie.  One of my complaints with last summer's Iron Man 2 was that so much of the movie was devoted to setting up the Avengers film that there wasn't enough of an actual Iron Man story in the film.  He felt like a guest star in his own film.  Thor does not have that problem.  There is some setting-up for the Avengers, but the vast majority of the film is Thor's story and it's a decent and pleasantly-operatic story at that.  The acting is also pretty good, with the actor playing Thor turning in a surprisingly likeable performance as a character I don't usually like in other interpretations (he's kind of boring in the Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes TV show, for example).

There are two big issues I had with the movie, though: first, the fight scenes are kind of bland, especially since Thor seems uncharacteristically unwilling to actually use his Lightning in battle.  I actually had to laugh a bit at how the opening of the movie is staged, with the Frost Giant army and the Asgardian army standing in formation.  I couldn't help but mutter "A last alliance of elves and men marched on the Bifrost Bridge.  And on the slopes of Jotenheim, they fought for the Freedom of the Nine Realms."   ;)   And a lot of the fight scenes seem to be shot either so close-up you can't see what's going on, or the action moves so fast you can barely tell what's going on (which is what seems to happen every time Thor flings himself at something).

My second problem with the movie, which is somewhat linked to my first, is that it feels like the film keeps building for a climax it never quite pays off on.  There's just something not altogether satisfying about the film's 3rd act, leaving me with a bit of a "wait, that's it?" feeling to it.

Despite a few hiccups, though, I found Thor to be a much more entertaining movie than I would ordinarily expect from this character, and I look forward to seeing how he is handled in the Avengers film.  I look forward to finally seeing Captain America as well sometime in the next month or so as well.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on September 02, 2011, 05:12:02 PM
30 Minutes or Less 6/10

Not as funny as I'd expect with guys like Danny McBride, Aziz Ansari and Nick Swardson (Jessie Eisenberg is okay..) but still enjoyable to watch..

until I found out its (somewhat) based on a true story! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_deaths#21st_century)
ctrl+f "Brian Douglas Wells"
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on September 02, 2011, 05:33:41 PM
Yeah, I already knew they took the basic plot from a real story. I remember seeing it covered on America's Most Wanted years ago. I may see the movie eventually, though probably on DVD.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on September 02, 2011, 05:39:32 PM
30 Minutes or Less

 (somewhat) based on a true story! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_deaths#21st_century)

I had read about that as soon as I had heard about the movie. It was a pretty entertaining story in itself. I thought I posted about it here on NWR, but I guess not...
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: apdude on September 02, 2011, 05:40:21 PM
I got dragged to see Our Idiot Brother last night.  Didn't really have any expectations but it turned out to be decent enough.  Theres some good laughs in it and has somewhat of a Big Lebowski feel to the main character.  I'd say you could do worse for a date movie.  (6 or 7)/10 range.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on September 03, 2011, 01:06:10 AM
I got dragged to see Our Idiot Brother last night.  Didn't really have any expectations but it turned out to be decent enough.  Theres some good laughs in it and has somewhat of a Big Lebowski feel to the main character.  I'd say you could do worse for a date movie.  (6 or 7)/10 range.

Agree with everything except getting dragged to it. I wanted to see it, why?

Zooey Deschanel.

Bonus: Elizabeth Banks as a saucey brunette. **** yeah.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on September 04, 2011, 02:13:47 AM
Just got back from a day at the movies again. Only watched 3 this time.

1st up was Apollo 18
At first I was like WTF is this **** and thought I had got roped into some documentary on the Apollo 18 space flight, but then I recognized one of the actors from Alphas and was also wondering how a space doc could be PG13/R rated. A lot of the movie was from onboard camera angles and is sorta Blair Witch meets Moon. My girl was scared the entire 2nd half once things started to pick up, and overall, I would say that it wasn't bad. DVD rental though.
p.s. They also try to pass it off as actual footage and a real government conspiracy.I think that's half the reason my girl was scared while watching it.

Next up was Rise of the Apes.
Easily the best movie of the 3 watched. Ceasar was a BADASS and looked it at every moment he got to put his mean mug on.The movie could've been longer and I wouldn't even have minded. I don't remember too many details from the original series of movies, but this was a damn good reboot/make and very deserving of a sequel ASAP. I would love to see where they take it next.

Last but not least was Fright Night
Very entertaining. I couldn't help but think that the GF in this movie was a young Sarah from Chuck. She just looked so much like her from so many different angles, right down to her teeth and smile. Anyway, everything was decent in this movie up until a face they show at the very end. I assume it was some sort of attempt at a cheap scare just before the end, but it was cheap CG and looked really bad. Other than that, it was some decent Vampire action and worth a Saturday Redbox rental when it releases on DVD.


as a bonus I watched a DVD called Dylan Dog the other nite.....
OMG what a waste of time that was. I thought it was gonna be a fun & cheesy modern monster flick, but damn was I wrong. It stared Brandon Routh and co-starred that werewolf guy from Being Human.... This movie was terrible. Vampires, Werewolves, Zombies, gargoyles, Monsters and things of that sort and yet nothing about this movie was worth watching for someone that is a fan of all those things.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on September 04, 2011, 02:53:21 PM
Rise of the Planet of the Apes is intended to be a series reboot so direct sequels are a definite, especially considering how well this movie has been doing (last I heard anyway)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on September 07, 2011, 01:10:03 AM
The Perfect Host - 7.5/10

What a CRAZY movie.... ok maybe the movie wasn't crazy, but the people in it were..... ok, maybe not people, but one person in particular. and I don't mean crazy like he's doing things I would do crazy, I mean certifiable insane crazy. Should be locked away crazy and I'm not sure how he is still loose in society crazy. Interesting movie over all.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on September 07, 2011, 03:02:22 AM
What is this crap?? I need to talk to my lawyer.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on September 07, 2011, 09:04:50 PM
I *almost* **** my pants because I thought my account got hacked or something, then I saw the name over my avatar...
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on September 07, 2011, 09:10:44 PM
This account is hacked. It can no longer be held responsible for political statements or endorsing software piracy.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on September 09, 2011, 03:11:14 AM
Just got back from what was supposed to be yet another 3-peat movie marathon.
Only got to watch 2 of the movies though since the 3rd didn't end up being played since no one bought a ticket to it.

Started off with Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark
This is the latest from Guillermo Del Torro before he finishes up The Hobbit. I wouldn't say it was scary, so much as it is pretty intense throughout, but I don't really find anything scary. Honestly, I watch so many "horror" movies, that I think they did a good job if they keep you wanting to see what happens next vs just waiting for it to be over. Some things didn't make sense like how no one ever bothered to look at the dozens of pictures she took with the polaroid and some some other things were kinda predictable.... or atleast I called it long before it was revealed, but it was a pretty good movie. Would make a nice rental.

Next up was Shark Night 3D (in 2D)
It was exactly what I expected minus any female nudity at all. Seriously, there was none. They teased it, but they never actually show anything. There was a naked guy in there though. Full body shot for a good 10 or so seconds (back turned pose). Everything was pretty predictable, but I'm sure some 3D would have made for some of the visuals to stand out a little better. It was kinda like a high quality SyFy movie or something you would've seen on late night USA back in the day. Entertaining, but lacking.

The last movie would have been Conan 3D, but sadly no one bought a ticket, so they didn't play the movie. It's ok though, since I wasn't really looking forward to it anyway. My girl was really bummed about it though. That's the 2nd time we didn't get to watch it, so I just take it as a sign that it should just wait for netflix.


edit: I have to ask though. It's 2011, when are these theaters gonna start showing movies in HD? It's like a vaseline filter is on every projector. Some better than others, but none where crisp and clear like HDTV/movie at home.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on September 09, 2011, 11:36:21 AM
Only got to watch 2 of the movies though since the 3rd didn't end up being played since no one bought a ticket to it.

That should tell you something. :P
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: NWR_insanolord on September 10, 2011, 11:48:38 PM
30 Minutes or Less 6/10

Not as funny as I'd expect with guys like Danny McBride, Aziz Ansari and Nick Swardson (Jessie Eisenberg is okay..) but still enjoyable to watch..

until I found out its (somewhat) based on a true story! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_deaths#21st_century)
ctrl+f "Brian Douglas Wells"

That happened in my hometown. The woman who did it went to the college I go to. I'm kind of shocked this movie didn't get more press locally.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on September 11, 2011, 02:55:59 AM
Hobo with a Shotgun ....

I'm not sure what to say about this movie. I tried to MFT it.... can't say I was happy with the results. It hit a certain cheese factor late in the movie that made it MFT-worthy, but even that wasn't enough to save it. It was just sick in some parts and WTF in others but stupid all around in USA "Up All Nite" with Rhonda kinda way (not sure how many know what I'm talking about). Of all the movies that could have been made from the Grindhouse Trailers, this is certainly not one that I would have picked and definitely fails in comparison to Machete.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on September 11, 2011, 04:56:23 AM
HOBO WITH A SHOTGUN!!!! I didnt review this before, but I loved it. Watch Troma movies, and then watch this, and then you'll probably understand. Over the Top, kinda goofy. Violent, silly. Yep. In fact if I were making an exploitation film, this is what I would aim for. Think about it in Black Dynamite terms, Black Dynamite was a parody of blackspolitation movies, but this was a parody of "USA up all night type" movies IE Toxic Avenger., which is a Troma film. When netflix on-demand first came out i caught up big time on those cus there was nothing else to watch.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on September 11, 2011, 05:03:01 AM
Honestly the Toxic Avenger movies crossed my mind when typing that, and to keep it 100%, those movies are horrible.

I have yet to watch the 4th movie, but the first 2 were not good, and I didn't even finish the 3rd.
I remember them being more entertaining when I was younger and probably just in it for the eventual almost nudity (a big reason for lots that probably watched USA Up All Nite).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on September 11, 2011, 10:27:35 AM
I rather enjoyed Hobo with a Shotgun. It did what it set out to do wonderfully, with a good handful of creative scenes throughout. It was a helluva lot more fun to watch than the original "Grind House" duo. Then again, so was Machete.

It's better than any Troma film. As much as I personally admire Lloyd Kaufman, most of Troma's films are damn near unwatchable due to how bad they are.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on September 11, 2011, 10:52:12 AM
30 Minutes or Less 6/10

Not as funny as I'd expect with guys like Danny McBride, Aziz Ansari and Nick Swardson (Jessie Eisenberg is okay..) but still enjoyable to watch..

until I found out its (somewhat) based on a true story! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_deaths#21st_century)
ctrl+f "Brian Douglas Wells"

That happened in my hometown. The woman who did it went to the college I go to. I'm kind of shocked this movie didn't get more press locally.


I just saw the man's death online. Fucked up ****.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on September 11, 2011, 04:23:44 PM
I rather enjoyed Hobo with a Shotgun. It did what it set out to do wonderfully, with a good handful of creative scenes throughout. It was a helluva lot more fun to watch than the original "Grind House" duo. Then again, so was Machete.

It's better than any Troma film. As much as I personally admire Lloyd Kaufman, most of Troma's films are damn near unwatchable due to how bad they are.

oh yeah definately better than any Troma film, its like one as if it was done right it feels. Most Troma films suck ass, and watching all the Toxic adventures you get annoyed that Lloyd Kaufman's constant message is "**** corperations", after so many movies it gets old. I was watching Lloyd Kaufman's documentary "make your own damn movie", and Eli Roth was giving him **** being like "I just want to see a movie where Lloyd Kaufman tries" He's capable of great things, but is stuck in the early 80s. On the other hand that Documentary was pretty good aside from some stupid parts.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on September 12, 2011, 12:15:14 AM
Contagion 8/10

Science done right. It was interesting, intriguing, and intelligent. The director did a good job of pasting several different story lines together, but did an even better job of ramping up the tension. I don't know if it is theater quality (I know I wouldn't have gone to see it unless someone paid for me), but it is worth seeing at least once.

This isn't 'Outbreak'. It's more of a realistic look at how the world deals with epidemics and I found that fascinating.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on September 13, 2011, 10:10:30 AM
Watched Back to the Future Part 2 with my Son last night.  It was his first time seeing it and I hadn't seen it since I was young.  I started there because I thought he like the flying cars.  I had forgotten how connected all the movies were or I would have started with the first one anyways.  From when I was young I remember them being in the future more than they were.  I remember the hype that went with the movies like the Collector Sunglasses from Pizza Hut.  I had the Yellow ones with the sort of ball cap like overhanging.  I could probably still find them at my Mom's house.

It's sort of fun looking at what in the 80's now was suppose to start looking at and what really happened.  Technology hasn't progressed as far or quickly as predicted for the most part.  Thought it was funny seeing pay phones.  That is something that did progress more then predicted.  All in all I still think these are good movies in context.  I don't think  Back to the Future could be produced now.  It is very much a product of the early 80's/90's and I don't think if it was done now that the series would be nearly as good.  Think about what happened to Star Wars with Episode 1-3
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on September 13, 2011, 11:19:45 AM
I don't think  Back to the Future could be produced now.  It is very much a product of the early 80's/90's and I don't think if it was done now that the series would be nearly as good.

I agree with that sentiment. It's sad too. The 80's were generally a great time for film and you'll never see that type of style again. Ironic, given that pretty much every other form of entertainment during the time was terrible
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on September 13, 2011, 11:44:41 AM
I don't think  Back to the Future could be produced now.  It is very much a product of the early 80's/90's and I don't think if it was done now that the series would be nearly as good.

I agree with that sentiment. It's sad too. The 80's were generally a great time for film and you'll never see that type of style again. Ironic, given that pretty much every other form of entertainment during the time was terrible
Cartoons had good ideas at that point in time.  That are now being refined. (Beast Wars, new Thundercats, new MLP, etc.)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on September 13, 2011, 03:31:13 PM
I don't think  Back to the Future could be produced now.  It is very much a product of the early 80's/90's and I don't think if it was done now that the series would be nearly as good.

I agree with that sentiment. It's sad too. The 80's were generally a great time for film and you'll never see that type of style again. Ironic, given that pretty much every other form of entertainment during the time was terrible

It's funny you say that because both Back to the Future and Star Wars are franchises that i feel (like the F-Zero series) would benefit for being produced now. If nothing in them changed, except for being produced to modern techniques, they would be better films.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on September 13, 2011, 03:34:23 PM
I don't think  Back to the Future could be produced now.  It is very much a product of the early 80's/90's and I don't think if it was done now that the series would be nearly as good.

I agree with that sentiment. It's sad too. The 80's were generally a great time for film and you'll never see that type of style again. Ironic, given that pretty much every other form of entertainment during the time was terrible

It's funny you say that because both Back to the Future and Star Wars are franchises that i feel (like the F-Zero series) would benefit for being produced now. If nothing in them changed, except for being produced to modern techniques, they would be better films.
Maybe and just used today's technology for a cleaner picture and better flying cars.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on September 13, 2011, 03:55:21 PM
I don't think  Back to the Future could be produced now.  It is very much a product of the early 80's/90's and I don't think if it was done now that the series would be nearly as good.

I agree with that sentiment. It's sad too. The 80's were generally a great time for film and you'll never see that type of style again. Ironic, given that pretty much every other form of entertainment during the time was terrible

It's funny you say that because both Back to the Future and Star Wars are franchises that i feel (like the F-Zero series) would benefit for being produced now. If nothing in them changed, except for being produced to modern techniques, they would be better films.

I'm not sure what you mean, exactly. If nothing changed, the techniques would obviously remain the same. Do you mean keep the same story and actors, but use more modern concepts of directing, editing, and special effects? Is so, I'll have to pass. Practical and in-camera effects beat any fully CGI today. Of course, there have been huge advances in things like compositing and chroma keying, which would help those traditional effects tremendously.

Likewise, today's typical director has very little sense of pace. It's all quick cuts to keep up with the attention span of an increasingly ignorant audience. I don't want that. I would, however, take the purely technical improvements that have been made since the film's release. Sharper images and brighter colors are never a bad thing when the film is planned around them. :)

Of course, I'm only talking about Back to the Future. I was never a big Star Wars fan, and can't say that their continued "improvements" over the years have swayed me otherwise.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on September 13, 2011, 04:03:54 PM
I don't think  Back to the Future could be produced now.  It is very much a product of the early 80's/90's and I don't think if it was done now that the series would be nearly as good.

I agree with that sentiment. It's sad too. The 80's were generally a great time for film and you'll never see that type of style again. Ironic, given that pretty much every other form of entertainment during the time was terrible

It's funny you say that because both Back to the Future and Star Wars are franchises that i feel (like the F-Zero series) would benefit for being produced now. If nothing in them changed, except for being produced to modern techniques, they would be better films.

I'm not sure what you mean, exactly. If nothing changed, the techniques would obviously remain the same. Do you mean keep the same story and actors, but use more modern concepts of directing, editing, and special effects? Is so, I'll have to pass. Practical and in-camera effects beat any fully CGI today. Of course, there have been huge advances in things like composting and chroma keying, which would help those traditional effects tremendously.

Likewise, today's typical director has very little sense of pace. It's all quick cuts to keep up with the attention span of an increasingly ignorant audience. I don't want that. I would, however, take the purely technical improvements that have been made since the film's release. Sharper images and brighter colors are never a bad thing when the film is planned around them. :)

Of course, I'm only talking about Back to the Future. I was never a big Star Wars fan, and can't say that their continued "improvements" over the years have swayed me otherwise.
You know what stinks is when your not a huge Star Wars fan but you in a profession that is stereotyped to be full of nothing but huge Star Wars fans.  I'm like its ok and has some neat concepts but lets watch Last Starfighter or Tron instead.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on September 13, 2011, 04:29:59 PM
I don't think  Back to the Future could be produced now.  It is very much a product of the early 80's/90's and I don't think if it was done now that the series would be nearly as good.

I agree with that sentiment. It's sad too. The 80's were generally a great time for film and you'll never see that type of style again. Ironic, given that pretty much every other form of entertainment during the time was terrible

It's funny you say that because both Back to the Future and Star Wars are franchises that i feel (like the F-Zero series) would benefit for being produced now. If nothing in them changed, except for being produced to modern techniques, they would be better films.

I'm not sure what you mean, exactly. If nothing changed, the techniques would obviously remain the same. Do you mean keep the same story and actors, but use more modern concepts of directing, editing, and special effects? Is so, I'll have to pass. Practical and in-camera effects beat any fully CGI today. Of course, there have been huge advances in things like composting and chroma keying, which would help those traditional effects tremendously.

Likewise, today's typical director has very little sense of pace. It's all quick cuts to keep up with the attention span of an increasingly ignorant audience. I don't want that. I would, however, take the purely technical improvements that have been made since the film's release. Sharper images and brighter colors are never a bad thing when the film is planned around them. :)

Of course, I'm only talking about Back to the Future. I was never a big Star Wars fan, and can't say that their continued "improvements" over the years have swayed me otherwise.

I mean purely in the visual aspects. the pacing, editing, script, actors and sets themselves shouldn't change. But any CGI, and equipment used to film should be brought up to scratch. I'd love a much crisper look.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on September 13, 2011, 11:22:15 PM
Plugabugz I think you should watch this. (http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/153556/re-release-of-episode-1-south-park)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: SixthAngel on September 13, 2011, 11:40:49 PM
Dirty Dancing.

This is a movie that I don't think could be made now.  The entire plot centers around getting someone an abortion.  They never question the right or wrong of it, in fact the main character is seen as doing good by helping them pay for it because the guy who knocked her up is too much of a prick to shell out the cash.   Imagine if a movie came out today with this as the driving plot point.
Ending It also doesn't have a happily ever after ending, just a happy ending.  Swayze and Baby both have to leave the next day better people for having met each other.  If someone wants to believe it they could see them staying together now that he has her fathers "approval" but it's a big, big stretch.  If you like romantic movies or have a girl to watch one with it definitely holds up to the test of time.


HOBO WITH A SHOTGUN!!!!

I enjoyed it as well but if Rutger Hauer wasn't the star I think it would have been a big let down.  It really needed somebody with talent like him to keep the ridiculousness in sight of the rails. 

After watching the movie I get the feeling that the last line was actually the first line they thought of and they spent the rest of their time just looking for the perfect place to put it. You and me are going on a car ride to Hell. You're riding shotgun.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: bustin98 on September 13, 2011, 11:47:10 PM
Plugabugz I think you should watch this. (http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/153556/re-release-of-episode-1-south-park)

George Lucas needs to watch that every night before he goes to bed.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: King of Twitch on September 14, 2011, 12:27:30 AM
Only thing that could be better with BttF2 are a few of the gang hoverboard shots and that is it. Ceric are you going to have him watch the first one and then the second again?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: SixthAngel on September 14, 2011, 12:32:53 AM
While I don't think the BttF movies should be changed at all, a positive would be updating the future to actually be the future again.  The future just didn't turn out that way outside of the shoes (http://jandan.net/2011/09/10/nike-mag.html).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: King of Twitch on September 14, 2011, 01:04:17 AM
But why?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on September 14, 2011, 10:17:55 AM
While I don't think the BttF movies should be changed at all, a positive would be updating the future to actually be the future again.  The future just didn't turn out that way outside of the shoes (http://jandan.net/2011/09/10/nike-mag.html).
But they don't Powerlace.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on September 14, 2011, 10:21:57 AM
While I don't think the BttF movies should be changed at all, a positive would be updating the future to actually be the future again.  The future just didn't turn out that way outside of the shoes (http://jandan.net/2011/09/10/nike-mag.html).

Only because everyone is too sidetracked with producing and consuming smartphones. It's stunted all technology! :P
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on September 14, 2011, 10:33:55 AM
While I don't think the BttF movies should be changed at all, a positive would be updating the future to actually be the future again.  The future just didn't turn out that way outside of the shoes (http://jandan.net/2011/09/10/nike-mag.html).

Only because everyone is too sidetracked with producing and consuming smartphones. It's stunted all technology! :P
Personally blame Congress. and the big corporations they work for.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on September 14, 2011, 11:03:23 PM
Thor

I'm not going to go into this one too much. Let's just say that it was pretty mediocre overall.

Asgard looked ridiculously cartoony, whereas everything that took place in Midgard was boring (visually and story wise). However, there was some humor to be found in the initial "fish out of water" sequences upon Thor's arrival in Midgard. Natalie Portman was annoying and the romantic subplot involving her and Thor was terrible. I really wish big budget films would stop shoehorning love stories into films. Loki made for a pretty lame villain, especially given how much more cunning he is in actual mythology.

That said, Anthony Hopkins made for a great Odin. Chris Hemsworth actually made for a pretty good Thor, too. I still would have preferred to see Alexander Skarsgard in the role, but I guess his name wouldn't have sold tickets. :rolleyes:
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Fatty The Hutt on September 19, 2011, 01:24:34 PM
Watched Rising Sun again (been about 10 years)
 
It is silly and uneven.
That said, I enjoyed it as a guilty pleasure. It has some particularly hilarious commentary on so-called "Japanese culture"
6.5/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on September 19, 2011, 01:33:26 PM
Saw The Lion King in theatres.  Unlike George Lucas Disney really didn't do anything but add 3D.  Its still a good movie and hearing it on a good sound system was a treat.  Since the movie theatre I saw it at charged less then the normal average ticket price to see it in 3D I can say I don't feel bad about seeing it that way.  If someone sat me down and asked if I wanted to watch the 2D or the 3D version I watch the 3D one but I wouldn't go out of my way to seek it out.  Just like Real life the 3D was subtle.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on September 19, 2011, 01:45:17 PM
I'm about to go watch in IMAX. Should be awesome.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on September 19, 2011, 02:11:10 PM
My girl went and watched it in 3D about a week before it hit theaters and said the 3D was really well done. She actually wants to go watch it again.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on September 19, 2011, 02:13:29 PM
My girl went and watched it in 3D about a week before it hit theaters and said the 3D was really well done. She actually wants to go watch it again.
I go with her then.  As I said the 3D isn't "wow, 3D"  its more "hey this looks like how I see the real world".  Which fits this movie very well.  Another movie I think that this would really work for would be Alladin.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Fatty The Hutt on September 19, 2011, 06:23:52 PM
My girl went and watched it in 3D about a week before it hit theaters and said the 3D was really well done. She actually wants to go watch it again.
I go with her then.  As I said the 3D isn't "wow, 3D"  its more "hey this looks like how I see the real world".  Which fits this movie very well.  Another movie I think that this would really work for would be Alladin.

I was really underwhelmed by the whole Lion King 3D presentation:
 
Picture: it is necessarily dimmer because you have to wear 3D glasses. This holds true for all current 3D presentations at theatres so I won't hold this one specifically against Lion King
 
3D: I noticed a curious effect from the conversion process: some foreground images that are clearly supposed to be in-focus were rendered blurry. I first noticed this in the scene near the beginning where young Simba excitedly tries to wakes up his parents. When the three are still inside the cave and the sleepy parents are complaining to each other, Mustafa is blurry while Simba and the mom lion are not. This effect repeated at various times in the movie. Did any of you notice this?
 
Sound: I was shocked how unimpressive it was. Right from the beginning, it seemed as if the levels were set too low and the mix was wrong. As an example, when the monkey guy first hold up Simba so the animals can greet him, the music should swell so much that it blows you away. It didn't. It was flat and the animal whoops of greeting under the music were so muted s to be almost gone. The thump at the end of the beginning song when the title first appears was a dull thud. The elephant footsteps were also dull thuds. The bird-twets and ambient savannah sounds were flat. Etc etc. I know the htheatre I went to has an excellent sound system. I think the locked didgital print from Disney just had inaadequately set sound levels. I don't think the theatre is permitted to adjust them either. Also, the sound mix itself was flat and lifeless. Really really poor, in my opinion. I had a better time watching the DVD.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on September 19, 2011, 07:58:06 PM
Fatty to be frank you had a terrible theater.  Because my sound was much better then that.  I call the theater and ask them to fire whoever dropped the ball on that movie because they did.
Also if you get a good theater they'll have the brightness set correctly for 3D movies and they don't look any different then 2D.  Unfortunately the bulbs are more expensive and most theaters turn them down to extend there life to non-recommended but accepted qualities.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on September 19, 2011, 09:15:23 PM
I saw it too, and the sound was great. One of the best parts was the hippo stomping during "I just can't wait to be king."

I thought the 3D was pretty good. Considering it was a 2D film, I half expected to see everything looking like cardboard cut-outs. In stead, you get the occasional character that looks a bit elongated or otherwise oddly shaped. Other than that, it was probably the best 3D effects you can get with 2D animation.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on September 19, 2011, 09:21:00 PM
I watched it in 2D since I was worried the post-production 3D effect would ruin the movie. Also, since The Lion King is my favorite movie of all time, I wanted to feel like I was watching it as if it was '94. The sound was IMPRESSIVE by the way. A million times better than at home.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on September 19, 2011, 09:52:48 PM
Saw The Lion King in theatres.  Unlike George Lucas Disney really didn't do anything but add 3D.  Its still a good movie and hearing it on a good sound system was a treat.  Since the movie theatre I saw it at charged less then the normal average ticket price to see it in 3D I can say I don't feel bad about seeing it that way.  If someone sat me down and asked if I wanted to watch the 2D or the 3D version I watch the 3D one but I wouldn't go out of my way to seek it out.  Just like Real life the 3D was subtle.

Out of curiosity, are they showing the original Theatrical Cut in theaters or the "Special Edition" with the spectacularly crappy and unnecessary "Morning Report" song shoe-horned in?

The Lion King is probably my favorite animated movie of all time, certainly my favorite Disney movie.  Things have been looking rather favorable that I'm going to be working again soon, and if so I'm totally buying the 2D Blu-Ray.  **** 3D.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on September 19, 2011, 10:37:58 PM
It would have to be the Theatrical Cut because I don't remember any song that I didn't know and I haven't seen the "Special Edition". 

Ok I just looked it up on Youtube.  That is definitely not in the 3D version.  During that time it was pouncing lessons.  Your right that is bad.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on September 19, 2011, 10:56:51 PM
It would have to be the Theatrical Cut because I don't remember any song that I didn't know and I haven't seen the "Special Edition". 

Ok I just looked it up on Youtube.  That is definitely not in the 3D version.  During that time it was pouncing lessons.  Your right that is bad.

Good.  I'm hoping the Blu-Ray version keeps that song only as a deleted scene in the Extras, where it belongs (unlike "Human Again" in the Beauty & the Beast Special Edition, which we're stuck with on the Blu-Ray).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Fatty The Hutt on September 20, 2011, 11:16:22 AM
Fatty to be frank you had a terrible theater.  Because my sound was much better then that.  I call the theater and ask them to fire whoever dropped the ball on that movie because they did.
Also if you get a good theater they'll have the brightness set correctly for 3D movies and they don't look any different then 2D.  Unfortunately the bulbs are more expensive and most theaters turn them down to extend there life to non-recommended but accepted qualities.
I hope you are right. Probably you are. My only hesitation is that I actually caught the first 15 minutes at two different theatres (long story) and the situation wa the same at both. But, the theatres are part of the same chain so maybe that explains it.
 
Jacking up the brightness on the projector does not solve the 3D glasses dimming problem (to my knowledge). All it does is wash out the picture. I am not aware this is a projection practice. The sad fact is that post-filming 3D conversion just dims the originally shot picture. If the feature was filmed digitally in 3D in the first place (a la Avatar) this is less of an issue. (Again, this is just my understanding. I am prepared to be shown incorrect).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: bustin98 on September 20, 2011, 12:16:39 PM
From what I've noticed, the picture is noticably darker just by putting on the 3D glasses. If you cover the sensor while wearing them you can see the effect turn on and off.

A good bulb will brighten all colors across the spectrum. Increasing the 'brightness' will washout the colors with white light, so a good technician on the camera will have all the settings at optimal. I think its safe to say about every theater is now using a digital projector instead of the old reel type (in which case there isn't really any settings to adjust except how close the lamp is to the film).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on September 20, 2011, 01:09:32 PM
I probably already did a review on this but damn...

'The Fountain' 10/10

Something about this movie really gets to me. Maybe its the obsession or the devotion or the love or just the whimsical nature of it all, but every time I see it, it ends up sticking with me; giving me a feeling I can't shake for at least a day.

Maybe it is the score, which is Clint Mansell's best since 'Requiem for a Dream'. It is smooth and melodic when it needs to be and ready to give you goosebumps in a seconds notice. The end theme ('Death is the Road to Awe' (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihF_aXi-Huk)) especially is by far one of the best compositions I have ever heard, soundtrack or otherwise. It's beautiful and tense, and ready to explode, yet thoroughly uplifting and tragic.

Aronofsky's directing is no slouch either. His use of imagery is simply breathtaking in this movie. Every single frame is shot with purpose, leaving you as the viewer, searching thoroughly through each piece for clues. His directing skills become an integral part in understanding the underlying story. And that's an important point to recognize early on because this is not an easy movie to understand. I have seen it three or four times and each time I have a different theory of what message he is trying to portray. There are not many movies like this.

This hardest thing to enjoy about this movie is simply how sad it is. It may not be as terrifyingly depressing as 'Requiem', but it is really really sad. Some of it plays on cliche heart strings, while others you'd have to genuinely be a robot (Bender) to not find harrowing. The conclusion though....My God the 10 or so minute scene when the song I linked to plays over, isn't sad or tragic yet it is so incredibly emotional that I have yet to see anyone, including myself, hold back a tear. This isn't a "Mufasa dying" kind of tear. You know the one that you would hide from your lady friend if she's watching it with you. This is definitely not that. It's more like an outpouring of emotion from watching such a brilliant conclusion brought to life by impeccable music and imagery. It's a tear produced from the sheer fact that you've had goosebumps for the last 5 minutes straight.


Though I gave it a high rating, this isn't my favorite movie. 'The Boondock Saints' takes the cake in that respect. But it is a mandatory film in my collection. If you haven't seen it, I suggest you watch it by yourself and really get in to it. Don't be afraid to turn up the volume either. You won't be disappointed.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on September 20, 2011, 02:55:28 PM
'The Fountain' 10/10

Yes, yes, yes... YES!!!

Easily one of my favorite films of all time. From the themes to the visual effects, it's almost akin to a modern 2001: A Space Odyssey. I really don't think that Aronofsky is capable of making a bad film. Here however, the sorrow is a little more personal for the audience. Whereas in Requiem for a Dream, all of the characters brought on (and even deserved) their suffering.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on September 20, 2011, 06:10:03 PM
Yes you're right and I think that's because all of Aronofsky's films deal with obsession, unhealthy obsession that finally breaks the character. It makes for a remarkable story. In 'Requiem for a Dream', their obsession brought on the breaking of their characters but did not release them from the improsiment of their obsession. In 'The Fountain', the exact opposite happened, with the breaking of a character finally leading to what the character wanted all along. And that's why I think this movie's message is more beautiful and personal.

Speaking of characters, Hugh Jackman's portrayal of a Conquistador is perfect. I never thought of him as much of an actor until this movie. Actually the whole past setting is remarkably well done.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on September 20, 2011, 07:28:33 PM
Speaking of characters, Hugh Jackman's portrayal of a Conquistador is perfect. I never thought of him as much of an actor until this movie. Actually the whole past setting is remarkably well done.

Agreed. I always thought he was fairly average until viewing The Fountain.

That said, I don't think that the Conquistador scenes actually account for the past. It was always my understanding that those sequences were overtly fictional within the confines of the film. It is, in fact, the modern or present-day setting that is portrayed as being the past. The seemingly futuristic sequences are actually the present. At least... those are my thoughts.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on September 20, 2011, 08:07:16 PM
I didn't want to spoil anything so I just said 'past'.

If you want to get down to it, this is how I think all three existences tie in to each other.

The past is Izzy's story, with the Inquisitor playing the part of her cancer and the Conquistador playing the part of her husband and her savior.

The present, aka the actual past, is his recollection of how Izzy died. It is shows his deepest regret...not spending more time with her, not walking with her on the first snow. Also it is how we are linked to the book and thus to the "past" as well as explaining how he is alive in the future.

The future is the present, and it's him as an astronaut after finding the "cure for death" still trying to find a way to bring Izzy back. The tree is Izzy and all he wants is her to stay alive once again until he can bring her back to life with Xbibalba, but all she wants him to do is finish the book. Finish the book. But throughout the film he has no idea how to.

Once his character breaks and he realizes what she has been asking of him all along and more importantly how to be back with her as a part of the universe, he finally accepts 'Death as the road to Awe'. He turns to stardust and flows into Izzy as she blooms one last time before they both become one with the universe, ending an amazing and deeply complex story.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on September 20, 2011, 11:51:31 PM
Transformers 3

Shitty.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on September 21, 2011, 02:23:34 AM
Great posting by Halbred. I haven't seen the movie. Or the second one for that matter. The first one was bad enough. But I was really enjoying the conversation between Morari and The Unagi as they delve into The Fountainhead and it's meanings and emotional ties to the movies and then the Halbred post. Greatly timed.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: bustin98 on September 22, 2011, 01:54:50 AM
I thought TF3 was a great improvement over 2. More action, more robots, no lame generic stereotypes infused into robot personalities. Was the story great? Hmm, what was the last great Transformers story you watched on TV? The comics are probably more successful with story-telling, but I'm not sure. But the robots merged with the environment so well that I never said 'That looks pasted on'. Too bad I can't say the same about Green Lantern.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on September 22, 2011, 02:46:21 AM
Hmm, what was the last great Transformers story you watched on TV?

Beast Wars. That's also pretty much my only knowledge of the Transformers series. Never saw the orginal or anything after this series. But I did like a lot of the story on this show.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on September 22, 2011, 03:00:37 AM
Hmm, what was the last great Transformers story you watched on TV?

Beast Wars. That's also pretty much my only knowledge of the Transformers series. Never saw the orginal or anything after this series. But I did like a lot of the story on this show.

Indeed, Beast Wars was awesome, easily the best Transformers series.  I also have to put in a good word for its successor Beast Machines.  It's nowhere near as good and it's more than a bit of a slow burn, but when it finally ramps up it's quite a decent series in its own right with a pretty epic finale.

I also thought Transformers Armada was pretty decent once they stopped focusing on the "Gotta Catch 'em All" MiniCon aspect of the show.  I've also heard very good things about Transformers Animated, though I've only seen the pilot.  I haven't seen Transformers Prime, but I've heard some good things about it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on September 22, 2011, 03:38:11 AM
Beast Wars is definitely awesome. I'll watch TF3 at some point but I'm not paying for it....oh no, i'm not making that mistake again.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: bustin98 on September 22, 2011, 02:01:30 PM
Oh yeah, I forgot about the Beast Wars and Beast Machines. Personally, I prefer Machines over Wars but the amount of production values is what taints my view. And better toys.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on September 22, 2011, 02:27:22 PM
Oh yeah, I forgot about the Beast Wars and Beast Machines. Personally, I prefer Machines over Wars but the amount of production values is what taints my view. And better toys.
Personally think Fox limited Beast Machines to much and it lost the fun of Beast Wars.  Though I still need to watch the last few episodes.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on September 22, 2011, 04:04:23 PM
I never much cared for the animation style of Beast Wars (or Beast Machines, for that matter). I'll just stick to my faithful Gen One stuff.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on September 22, 2011, 04:13:27 PM
I never much cared for the animation style of Beast Wars (or Beast Machines, for that matter). I'll just stick to my faithful Gen One stuff.
I have the First Season, the First part of the Second Season, and the Movie.  I need to pick up the rest but I got those back when it was really expensive with Rhino.  I saw them in a smaller package for cheaper and it was the whole seasons in on go.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: pearlsparrow21 on September 22, 2011, 05:01:22 PM
The Last Movie I have seen is  X-Men: First Class . Before Charles Xavier and Erik took the names Lensherr Prof. X and Magnetothey were two young people men are discovering powers the first time. i rate this movie 9.03 out of 10.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on September 22, 2011, 05:24:33 PM
I never much cared for the animation style of Beast Wars (or Beast Machines, for that matter). I'll just stick to my faithful Gen One stuff.

Yeah, Season 1 of Beast Wars hasn't aged very well.  Mainframe went with much more stylized models for the second and third seasons, though, and those have aged MUCH better in the animation department.  Beast Machines has a pretty unique art style that has aged very well IMO.

I do have to agree that Beast Machines lost a lot of the fun of Beast Wars, and honestly it committed some pretty major character assassination on characters I really liked in Beast Wars.  I do think the series being one 26-episode arc does make up for that, though.  The writing in both series is pretty good, leagues beyond the shitty writing of the original Transformers (which was so terrible it made the writing in the original Thundercats look good by comparison).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on September 22, 2011, 05:25:17 PM
hahahahahahaha greatest review ever
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on September 22, 2011, 05:49:01 PM
I've seen all the episodes of Transformer Animated.  It is pretty darn good.  Should have had a longer run but, the toys are really great.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on September 23, 2011, 11:04:46 PM
I've started watching some old 80s movies I've either not seen in a while or haven't seen at all, starting with The Running Man and Escape from New York.

I actually really enjoyed The Running Man.  The dialogue is silly and dumb; the acting is vintage Schwartzenegger cheese; and the effects are at best hilarious, but the movie's obviously supposed to be a tongue-in-cheek satire and it really succeeds at that.  While watching the movie, I had to wonder in places if this movie might have inspired Hideo Kojima a bit with the Metal Gear Solid bosses, since the "bosses" in this movie are so over-the-top and ridiculous.  Despite coming from the 1980s, the movie is pretty well-paced and consistently entertaining.  I might pick it up again on Blu-Ray sometime.

Incidentally, I have some other Ah-nold films on the stack I'll be watching as well, including the two Predator films (which I've never seen) and Total Recall (which I haven't seen in well over a decade).

As for Escape from New York, that movie bored me pretty badly, despite some good moments here and there.  Kurt Russell just doesn't seem to have much to do in this movie, something I remember being rectified in the 90s with Escape from L.A., a movie I remember liking a lot more.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on September 23, 2011, 11:14:43 PM
i love Predator, i need to re-watch Total-Recall. Running Man is great in a Hobo with a shotgun sort of way, probably a source of inspiration for Hobo. Escape from New York is decent, but it didn't live up to my expectations.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on September 24, 2011, 03:21:59 AM
I just finished watching Green Lantern.  I've been hearing all summer all across the internet how bad this movie supposedly was, but I unexpectedly enjoyed it.  I didn't think it was anywhere near as good or consistent as the Christopher Nolan Batman movies or the first Iron Man movie, but I would put it about on par with a B-class Superhero movie like Thor or The Incredible Hulk.  The story was reasonably coherent, the constructs were fun to watch, the acting was pretty solid, and I got a good sense of what Green Lantern was capable of (which is not something that can be said about Thor in his movie).  The pacing's pretty rushed and it feels like some major content was left on the cutting room floor (which I suppose is why there's an extended director's cut being released).  Probably my biggest problem with the movie is that there's a lot of emphasis in the story on the Green Lantern "Corp", yet the "Corp" doesn't show up in a single action scene in the movie (which is especially egregious in the final battle).  That's just odd.

Now, it's worth noting that a lot of the complaints I've heard about this movie lie in the special effects, namely how bad Green Lantern's costume supposedly looks with the actor's head floating over a CG body.  Now, it possibly could have been due to video compression, but I honestly didn't see this effect so it didn't diminish my experience.  If I ever watch the movie again in higher definition and see that effect, it probably would but for now the special effects looked fine to me....with one exception: I can see where they were going with Parallax's look, but they really didn't pull it off.  He does look like a giant oozing space turd.

So yeah, I enjoyed Green Lantern, apparently the "worst" superhero movie in years (with apparently everyone forgetting Iron Man 2).  Go figure.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on September 24, 2011, 06:45:08 AM
there was only one scene that he had the floating head look, and that was when he was talking to his stupid sidekick friend in his apartment, the scene that was in the trailer. Other than that he looked just fine, and I dug the suit design really. Actually, I also watched it in 3d and I thought the special effects looked great, not the most 3d movie, but the 3d made things seem even higher resolution.

Speaking of 3d, i found out something interesting the other day. Laser holograms still look 3d if you cover one eye, which is weird because usually if you close one eye the effect is ruined. I was at wal-mart the other day looking at dvd cases, and I was like thats kinda interesting.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on September 24, 2011, 11:51:21 AM
I'm not a fan of The Green Lantern and not really familiar with him outside of cartoons, but
The Green Lantern was just not good. The acting was alright and I'm a fan of RR, but the special effects of the costume just kept getting your attention to much and it breaks the suspension of disbelief repeatedly taking you out of the movie. The worst part was that stupid mask he was wearing. Everytime it was on, it was obvious that it was CGI and it was really distracting.

As far as the plot is concerned... it wasn't horrible, and it made sense I guess, but as part of the general audience who isn't really familiar with The Green Lantern and how he works, it was all kinda stupid. His powers are only limited by his imagination and his will to fight.... not to mention the battery power left in his ring. All these aliens and another giant cloud monster yet he is fighting this thing all alone. I think in my my I have fused details from the cartoon movie that came out recently with the live action one, but I'm just not a fan of the character.

Maybe they could do better in a sequel, but after seeing it bomb in theaters, I don't think it's gonna get one, nor do I think I would be all that interested in watching it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: bustin98 on September 24, 2011, 02:12:32 PM
I have heard that a sequel to GL is in the works, may possibly be a reboot of sorts, kinda like the 2 Hulk films, the second ignoring that the first exists. But both Batman and Superman are receiving the same treatment. DC is trying to catch up to Marvel in all areas that it lacks in, and they are trying to focus on the mainstream outlets available to them.

I have said before what I think of the film. I don't think its the worse hero movie ever. I do like Iron Man 2 more though.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on September 24, 2011, 04:19:39 PM
thats the thing about GL though, even if it wasn't that popular, its a movie where they should move on. A sequel to green lantern would be much more interesting than the first movie. Also, they have some feedback, so they know what to change. Drop the stupid one liners, go full on space, make a live action suit.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on September 24, 2011, 04:24:29 PM
Yeah GL was pretty decent. Even though they had an enemy and a message that could kill the universe, it lacked being epic.

Even at the very end, it seemed stupid and not epic at all. I would have RR's fear played up much stronger, I would have also had more GL's die. I also would have SHOWN paralax destroying the world the red GL was talking about. All that would have helped the feeling of helplessness, making defeating him more epic.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on September 24, 2011, 04:27:54 PM
I didn't hate Green Lantern. There was just so much lost potential and so many missed opportunities. There were a lot of pointless scenes. It needed more OA and the Green Lantern Corp. Also, use the ring more! The power ring pretty much the coolest item in all of comics (and I'm including Wolverine's adamantium claws and Cap's shield) because it can literally make anything a reality.

Anyway...

Mouchette
This was my last Netflix DVD. It's an old French film that many consider to be one of Robert Bresson's best. It was good, not great. There were some odd choices in terms of direction. I didn't understand some of symbolism whether due to the time period or cultural differences. I watched some of the commentary by a film scholar which cleared some things up.

Bresson apparently liked to cast non-actors. Mouchette was played by Nadine Nortier who, according to imdb, never appeared in another film. She did a good job of playing a quietly rebellious adolescent trying to escape her poor circumstances.

The ending has Kate Chopin "The Awakening" vibe to it. I felt that it seemed too sudden though maybe that's because the film is roughly 80 minutes. The story ended like many adolescent stories end: on a down note.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on September 24, 2011, 04:43:22 PM
Yeah, I'm not a big fan of Green Lantern either.  My first exposure to him was in the Superman: The Animated Series episode that introduced Kyle Raynor (comic artist) as a new Green Lantern, and I enjoyed the episode and thought his powers were cool.  However, the more and more stories that focused on the enigmatic "Green Lantern Corps" out in the cosmos, the less I liked the character.  Once these comic stories leave the Earth, they have a lot of trouble making me care about the fate of random people on random planets I don't know.  Plus, it's hard to see the Green Lantern as "special" when there are hundreds of thousands of other individuals in the universe with the exact same powers.

That's why I had a lot of problems with how the Green Lantern Corps were used in this movie.  I can enjoy a story where there's only one Green Lantern of interest and he's protecting Earth, but don't show so much of the Corps if you have no intention of using it.  Pick one or the other if you're going to do a Green Lantern story, because otherwise it just demeans the character.

As for the effects, maybe it's just my years upon years of watching animated TV shows and movies, but they really didn't bother me.  I've seen far worse CG and live-action integration than this.  Try watching Gundam G-Savior sometime.  Hell, thanks to Linkara and Nash (http://blip.tv/radio-dead-air/justice-league-of-america-1997-a-review-5334143), I've seen far worse Green Lantern CG and live-action integration than this.  And since Ryan Renold's face is usually the only "real" asset in any given scene Green Lantern's in, my suspension of disbelief wasn't broken more than a couple of times.  It was just CG characters talking and interacting with CG characters in a CG world.  The scenes I had major issues with were usually ones where the camera did a close-up on Hal's face, where you could see those horrible CG eyes behind the Green Lantern mask.

As for Parallax, I know this is going to sound blasphemous but I was fine with the whole "evil cloud" concept, just as I was for Galactus in the 2nd Fantastic Four movie.  I'm sorry, but THIS (http://www.marveldirectory.com/pictures/individuals/g_1d/galactus.gif) is not intimidating, and I'm not sure a giant yellow tick (http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Zzfgs8VTa74/TOr6wvgO3lI/AAAAAAAAHiM/TnlOotXA4Fs/s1600/parallaxcomigbook.jpg) would look all that threatening on the big screen either.  A storm cloud is formless and impenetrable.  It represents a powerful force of nature, and it gives the impression that somewhere within that cloud is an evil whose appearance is up to the imagination of the viewer.  Do I think that either movie really delivered on that idea?  No, but I can see what they were driving at.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on September 24, 2011, 06:01:02 PM
Trollhunter

Awesome. The special effects were used sparingly, but nicely integrated into the scenes when they did appear. This is saying something too, as the panoramic scenes through Norway are simply beautiful. The camera work was actually very tolerable... perhaps the first-ever "found footage" type of film to not lapse in that regard. Otto Jespersen pretty much steals the show as the titular troll hunter.

My gripe? A little too much time was spent simply driving around. I would have preferred to hear more about the underlying biological reasons for trolls to exist. We're given some pretty interesting insight into them as is, but more would have been better given the scenario.

I'd recommend watching the film before Hollywood remakes it for an American audience, dumbing-down and destroying everything good in the process.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on September 24, 2011, 06:07:00 PM
so much good stuff comes out of northern europe right now, its kinda amazing. Its like a new Scandinavian renaissance.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on September 24, 2011, 08:20:50 PM
Trollhunter

Awesome. The special effects were used sparingly, but nicely integrated into the scenes when they did appear. This is saying something too, as the panoramic scenes through Norway are simply beautiful. The camera work was actually very tolerable... perhaps the first-ever "found footage" type of film to not lapse in that regard. Otto Jespersen pretty much steals the show as the titular troll hunter.

My gripe? A little too much time was spent simply driving around. I would have preferred to hear more about the underlying biological reasons for trolls to exist. We're given some pretty interesting insight into them as is, but more would have been better given the scenario.

I'd recommend watching the film before Hollywood remakes it for an American audience, dumbing-down and destroying everything good in the process.

I liked it too, but I was similarly disappointed about the lack of information ABOUT trolls. I also didn't really understand why they went from troll to troll. But it was pretty awesome--the three-headed troll was the best one, IMO.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on September 24, 2011, 08:23:37 PM
i have that movie and started to watch it twice.... fell asleep both times. Maybe I should revisit it... one of the 31 movies in 31 days perhaps.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on September 26, 2011, 11:35:34 PM
Recently finished two more movies, and they couldn't be more different...

Total Recall - To be honest, this movie was pretty average, and I don't think it ever made up its mind whether it wanted to be a serious Sci-Fi story, some sort of weird satire, or a flat-out Arnold shoot 'em up.  If it was supposed to be the first, casting Arnold Schwartzenegger was a bad move, since he's never really been a great "serious actor".  If it was supposed to be the second, having Arnold play the lead role so straight was a bad move, since it doesn't take advantage of his natural skills at cheesy acting.  I can see why this movie got a cult following, but it just feels a bit loose and not fully realized to me.  Being on Blu-Ray doesn't do the film any favors, either, since it makes the sets and props look pretty cheap and fake.

I'll be interested to see how the coming remake of that film turns out, since I think there's a genuinely good Phillip K. Dick Sci-Fi story hidden in there.

As for the other movie, I've been playing a lot of Prince of Persia lately on the Sands of Time Trilogy disc.  Fittingly, it got me in the mood to revisit a movie I hadn't seen in a while: Aladdin & the King of Thieves, the 3rd movie in the Aladdin "trilogy" and the 2nd direct-to-video one.

While the music is pretty mediocre (I think Disney lost its touch for original songs after the Golden Age of Disney Animation in the 90s) and the animation is likewise average...for an episode of the Aladdin TV series, I still like this film pretty well overall.  The story is well-written for this source material, and it's well-told.  Having all the original actors from the first movie (including Robin Williams as the Genie) certainly helped sell the material, and John Rhy-Davies as the King of Thieves was a great addition to the cast.  And the ending bookends the franchise nicely.

The Disney direct-to-video animated sequels deservedly get a lot of criticism for being pretty terrible cash-ins, but Aladdin & the King of Thieves is one of the few good ones.  Check it out sometime if you haven't and had a fondness for the original movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on September 27, 2011, 12:57:15 AM
Total Recall is a Paul Verhoeven movie, which means it does all 3 at the same time. You made the mistake of trying to peg it into one category. His best movies don't work like that. The remake will be bollocks. See what happened last time someone remade an Arnold movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on September 27, 2011, 10:02:01 AM
Total Recall is a Paul Verhoeven movie, which means it does all 3 at the same time. You made the mistake of trying to peg it into one category. His best movies don't work like that. The remake will be bollocks. See what happened last time someone remade an Arnold movie.
What was the last time someone tried to remake an Arnold movie?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on September 27, 2011, 10:14:51 AM
Conan the Barbarian?

In both cases though, neither the original film nor the remake were anything close to the great source material.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on September 27, 2011, 07:40:43 PM
Trigun: Badlands Rumble - A few months back, I rewatched (and reviewed) the original Trigun anime TV series and still really liked it, so naturally I picked up the Blu-Ray for the new Trigun movie today.  90 minutes later, I can say that I enjoyed the movie, but there was nothing about it that surprised me.

Honestly, there really isn't much to say about this film.  It's a Shounen Jump-style anime filler movie: it takes place early in the Trigun series, involves several completely new characters, and nothing of consequence occurs in relation to the main series.  There are a few amusing call-backs to the original series (especially in the music) and the U.S. fandom (who this movie was pretty much made for given that the Trigun anime was never popular in Japan like it is in NA); the animation is very good (but not great) as I expect from a Studio Madhouse production; and the action scenes are generally well-done.  I have a major gripe with one of the film's major plot twist, which is something that fans of the TV series will immediately call B.S. on and it's something the film drags on for WAY too long.

As for the Blu-Ray, the transfer is pretty much flawless so no complaints there.  Sadly, Funimation could only get Jonny Yong Bosch to reprise his premier role as Vash in the dub, but the replacement actors they've cast for the other returning characters are high-pedigree veterans.  They even do a pretty good job at mimicking the tone of the original dub actors.  That's why it's all the more baffling that pretty much ALL the extras are related to the original Japanese production, with not even a commentary track with the dub cast.  Chances are, if you care about Trigun at all, you got into the show with the English dub, so why not have something in the extras related to the movie's dub?  I'm never going to watch all these interviews with the Japanese actors, because I will never listen to their performances.

 The movie's a fun 90 minutes, but it's ultimately pretty forgettable.  I'm willing to excuse it because we haven't had new Trigun animation in well over a decade, but IMO Studio Madhouse only gets to do a movie like this once.  If they do another movie or a new TV series, it needs to be something actually substantial.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: MaryJane on September 27, 2011, 10:13:13 PM
The Kids Are Alright: 8/10

Really good movie about two kids birthed through artificial insemination (separately by a lesbian couple) seeking out their shared biological father. The movie is fairly predictable with some things, but unique in its presentation, and development. I liked it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on September 27, 2011, 10:40:17 PM
Thor 8.5/10 Exceeded expectations...a lot
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on September 28, 2011, 12:28:02 AM
You must have had rock bottom expectations...
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on September 28, 2011, 08:19:40 AM
yeah, i honestly didn't know what to expect. I like the idea of Thor, but never was into the comics, also from my experiences with Thor he never seemed like he could be a great character, the trailer made it look like some shitty sets in the desert and some golden Asgard. Also, i didnt think Chris Hemsworth looked like Thor, he's a big dude, but doesn't look right to me. However, Chris Hemsworth's interpretation seems like a cooler character than I pictured. Not at all what I had pictured, but such a different take that it was appealing. Also, I saw this movie years ago, it was called Masters of the Universe with Dolph Lungren and Frank Langella, this was however a much better version of that story. Also, the bridges reminded me of that Rainbow bridge the sages in Zelda make to get into Ganon's castle. A couple of things reminded me of Zelda, in a good way. Though, i have to say sitting through a movie in a theater I'm extra harsh on a movie, because it requires my whole attention, however i'm very lenient watching movies at home on DVD.  So, yeah maybe if I watched it at a theater i'd be in a shitty i payed 10 dollars for it mood, but I used a promo code and got it for free in redbox so, yeah.  There was one seen in Yodenheim where it looked like it was on a blue screen, but I can forgive that. Now, my problem is I really want to watch Masters of the Universe. On the other hand I know why im so forgiving on Thor, and thats because I have seen Masters of the Universe. Speaking of Fish our of Water movies, theres another one with these people from the middle ages i wanted to see, but forgot what its called. Which reminds me

12 Monkeys 8.897 out of 10, totally unscientific numbers.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: MaryJane on September 28, 2011, 10:32:48 AM
Contagion: 5/10

The worst well-acted movie I've ever seen. They tried to be a non-typical epidemic movie by focusing on unusual aspects of the events, but they in turn made a boring movie. 
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on September 28, 2011, 10:40:15 AM
I actually liked that movie. It was great to get a realistic vision of what happens during outbreaks. It was also fascinating how chance could make such a terrible disease.

Also the pacing was fantastic. It went from relatively calm to full on anarchy.

I'd have to give it at least an 8.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on September 28, 2011, 10:58:15 AM
yeah, i honestly didn't know what to expect. I like the idea of Thor, but never was into the comics, also from my experiences with Thor he never seemed like he could be a great character, the trailer made it look like some shitty sets in the desert and some golden Asgard. Also, i didnt think Chris Hemsworth looked like Thor, he's a big dude, but doesn't look right to me. However, Chris Hemsworth's interpretation seems like a cooler character than I pictured. Not at all what I had pictured, but such a different take that it was appealing. Also, I saw this movie years ago, it was called Masters of the Universe with Dolph Lungren and Frank Langella, this was however a much better version of that story. Also, the bridges reminded me of that Rainbow bridge the sages in Zelda make to get into Ganon's castle. A couple of things reminded me of Zelda, in a good way. Though, i have to say sitting through a movie in a theater I'm extra harsh on a movie, because it requires my whole attention, however i'm very lenient watching movies at home on DVD.  So, yeah maybe if I watched it at a theater i'd be in a shitty i payed 10 dollars for it mood, but I used a promo code and got it for free in redbox so, yeah.  There was one seen in Yodenheim where it looked like it was on a blue screen, but I can forgive that. Now, my problem is I really want to watch Masters of the Universe. On the other hand I know why im so forgiving on Thor, and thats because I have seen Masters of the Universe. Speaking of Fish our of Water movies, theres another one with these people from the middle ages i wanted to see, but forgot what its called. Which reminds me

12 Monkeys 8.897 out of 10, totally unscientific numbers.
lol, The He-Man live action from 1987?  We had a copy of that on Beta-Max that I watched when I was little at one point.  Got to love Fried Chicken.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on September 28, 2011, 11:52:56 AM
Masters of the Universe

Now that should be a MFT movie for sure.
We gotta all get on skype and sync our movies and watch them together.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on September 28, 2011, 12:12:01 PM
Masters of the Universe

Now that should be a MFT movie for sure.
We gotta all get on skype and sync our movies and watch them together.
I be game but I have to get it from Netflix I don't have a copy anymore.  Also if you search "Masters of the Universe" on Netflix Courtney Cox shows up.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on September 28, 2011, 12:41:14 PM
I saw that, but that's because she is the only relevant actor today that was in that movie.
Quote from: Netflix
The supporting cast includes Billy Barty and Courteney Cox in her feature debut.
^I didn't know she was in that movie until I had just re-read the description again right now.

But I also didn't know that they tried to revive He-Man back in 1990, but I do remember when they brought him back in 2002 (vs the Snake Men).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on September 28, 2011, 12:42:41 PM
I've got the newest He-Man cartoon on DVD that my Mom got me by mistake.  Its not bad.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on September 28, 2011, 12:50:00 PM
Also even though Master of the Universe isn't a "Horror" movie, you can MFT it next month since it's full of costumes and that should be very Halloween appropriate. So go ahead and drop it onto your Netlfix list.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: MaryJane on September 28, 2011, 02:17:22 PM
I actually liked that movie. It was great to get a realistic vision of what happens during outbreaks. It was also fascinating how chance could make such a terrible disease.

Also the pacing was fantastic. It went from relatively calm to full on anarchy.

I'd have to give it at least an 8.

That total anarchy last for about twenty minutes before they found the vaccine
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on September 28, 2011, 04:36:30 PM
Well yeah, but every part of cycle seemed to last that long.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on October 01, 2011, 04:50:14 PM
Just watched contagion. seemed more educational than entertaining. It was completely predictable and not a surprise at all. No suspense & no climax.

DVD rental at best.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on October 01, 2011, 09:14:24 PM
Just got out of Killer Elite  & Drive.

Just not a very exciting day at the movies for me today.
I wasn't actually looking forward to any of the movies playing, but since it's sorta become a monthly tradition, I went anyway.

Both movies were decent, nothing I'd go to the theater for... I got a little sleepy during Killer Elite, but it had some good moments, and I was trying to take advantage of the empty theater for Drive, but that didn't work out as planned either.

Might hop one more movie in an attempt to see a fourth that doesn't come on for another hour and a half.


edit: 4th movie didn't happen.


Drive is a really slow paced monotone movie with very short burst of action. Ryan Goselin probably only had about 20-30 lines in the whole movie and there are lots of almost awkward silence scenes. Overall it was interesting, but not a theater movie for me.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on October 01, 2011, 10:22:37 PM
Recently (re)watched Escape from L.A., and it was a lot more enjoyable than Escape from New York was.  The biggest differences I see between the two movies is that it feels like the creators finally let the writers and the cast have fun with sequel (I loved the shot of Snake in the sub underwater nearly getting snapped in half by a fake shark while passing over Universal Studios), and Snake actually gets to do things that show why he has this legendary badass reputation.  The movie isn't the most polished or the best-paced (and Bruce Campbell plays a completely thankless role in a 2-second cameo where you can't even tell it's him), but it is at least fun.  It was also amusing seeing Kurt Russel perfect his Snake voice, considering David Hayter (and Hideo Kojima) completely ripped his character's name and voice off for Metal Gear Solid.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on October 02, 2011, 10:05:58 PM
The Kids Are Alright: 8/10

Really good movie about two kids birthed through artificial insemination (separately by a lesbian couple) seeking out their shared biological father. The movie is fairly predictable with some things, but unique in its presentation, and development. I liked it.

This movie convinced me that the Golden Globes are rigged. This is not a comedy AT ALL, BY ANY MEANS. I didn't even chuckle during the film, it's not MEANT to be a comedy.

But guess what award it won? Best Muthafukin' Comedy. So I figure some kind of deal was made where the movie had to win SOMETHING because it was progressive and featured lesbians or something, but it clearly wasn't going to win Best Drama, so they shoehorned it into Best Comedy, and it won. And I got really effing angry.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on October 05, 2011, 02:45:02 AM
Reviews have started coming out for the Lion King Blu-Ray, and I thought a few things I've seen in them were worth mentioning here since we were talking about the movie a little while back:

1.  On the upside, the horrible "Morning Report" song does not play during the regular sequence of the movie, unlike the previous DVD release.  It is relegated to the Extras, where it belongs and good riddance.

2. On the downside, apparently there was controversy with the original theatrical version of the film I wasn't aware of.  If you want to read more about it (including pictures), you can do so here (http://www.snopes.com/disney/films/lionking.asp), but suffice to say a 4 year old apparently discovered the word "SEX" written in a dust cloud during a pivotal portion of the movie.  The boy's parents complained to some consumer watch group, and the matter was taken up with Disney.  As a result, the Blu-Ray is now missing 2 seconds of footage to remove the "offensive" image, one that despite having seen this movie probably a dozen times I had never seen until now.

I wonder if this means Aladdin will be edited as well when it finally hits Blu-Ray, as there is definitely a sequence in the film where Raja is growling at him and you can hear Aladdin muttering what sounds like "all good teenagers...take off their clothes!" (though apparently the actual line is much more harmless, him saying "all good 'tee-gers' take off and go!")  That got a good laugh whenever it was shown in school, so I have a feeling that's going to be struck out of the audio mix next time if this Blu-Ray is any indication.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on October 05, 2011, 09:54:48 AM
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2. On the downside, apparently there was controversy with the original theatrical version of the film I wasn't aware of.  If you want to read more about it (including pictures), you can do so here (http://www.snopes.com/disney/films/lionking.asp), but suffice to say a 4 year old apparently discovered the word "SEX" written in a dust cloud during a pivotal portion of the movie.  The boy's parents complained to some consumer watch group, and the matter was taken up with Disney.  As a result, the Blu-Ray is now missing 2 seconds of footage to remove the "offensive" image, one that despite having seen this movie probably a dozen times I had never seen until now.
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Wow, that is really old news.  They had changed/removed that scene with the VHS releases once it was found in the Lion King.

Another one of those type of things is that the original VHS cover for the Little Mermaid there was suppose to be a Dildo in the background. 

I figure on Alladin they just record a new sound to put in its place.  Like, "All Good Tigers would scat."
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on October 05, 2011, 09:58:51 AM
Wow, that is really old news.  They had changed/removed that scene with the VHS releases once it was found of the Lion King.

*shrugs*

Well, the DVDTalk review I read treated it like it was a new edit to the movie, so go figure.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: MaryJane on October 05, 2011, 11:36:14 AM
Drive is a really slow paced monotone movie with very short burst of action. Ryan Goselin probably only had about 20-30 lines in the whole movie and there are lots of almost awkward silence scenes. Overall it was interesting, but not a theater movie for me.

I watched the first 30mins of this and then stopped. Too much silence, but the story was interesting just took way too long to get there, and did so very quietly
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on October 07, 2011, 02:40:13 AM
Trollhunter

Awesome. The special effects were used sparingly, but nicely integrated into the scenes when they did appear. This is saying something too, as the panoramic scenes through Norway are simply beautiful. The camera work was actually very tolerable... perhaps the first-ever "found footage" type of film to not lapse in that regard. Otto Jespersen pretty much steals the show as the titular troll hunter.

My gripe? A little too much time was spent simply driving around. I would have preferred to hear more about the underlying biological reasons for trolls to exist. We're given some pretty interesting insight into them as is, but more would have been better given the scenario.

I'd recommend watching the film before Hollywood remakes it for an American audience, dumbing-down and destroying everything good in the process.

I liked it too, but I was similarly disappointed about the lack of information ABOUT trolls. I also didn't really understand why they went from troll to troll. But it was pretty awesome--the three-headed troll was the best one, IMO.

I just watched this one, and it was better than expected (especially since that was my 4th time trying to watch it), but I just had one question that was answered and then re-emerged at the end of the film again.

Where does the 200ft Troll sleep to avoid the sun? Where does the majority of Trolls sleep to avoid the sun? The adult ones are the size of trees, and even though the forest provides alot of cover, sunlight still gets through.

But overall, much better than expected. I was thinking about going back an MFT-ing the movie, but really the worst I could do is show off the trolls... unless I make fun of the cave scene (which was hilarious BTW)a proper fart joke is always funny. And that troll fart was soooo bad and sooo long that not only could you sense how bad it was from the look on their faces, but you could see the fog/smoke as it passed by that little camera. I'm lmao just thinking about it. But really, there was nothing wrong with the movie to really make fun of it, other than the Troll Hunter guy sounding like a Native American in the English Dubbing.

I give it a 3.7/5
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: MaryJane on October 07, 2011, 10:43:09 AM
Arena: 7.5/10

Low budget movie that somehow got Samuel L. Jackson to play the villain. SLJ is a guy who sets up these 'barbaric' arena battles and broadcasts them online, while hiding from the world's governments who want to shut him down. The protagonist becomes his best and most unruly fighter and things go from there. I liked it, kind of cheesy, some plot holes, but it was way more than I expected it to be.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on October 07, 2011, 03:23:51 PM
The Darjeeling Limited 9/10

Where has this movie been all my life? Wes Anderson you sneaking bastard.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on October 07, 2011, 08:47:48 PM
I don't know if it's here or back on the GameInformer forums (BAAACK in the day), but I continue to voice my absolute hatred for all Wes Anderson movies.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on October 07, 2011, 08:54:41 PM
Well, I finally got around to watching Transformers: Dark of the Moon, and yeah it's crap.  I liked the first Transformers movie, but man have these last two been terrible.  What strikes me most about this movie besides how terrible the writing is is how boring this entire movie is, for different reasons at different points.  The first half of the movie focusing on the humans was boring because I didn't care about any of them (especially "Shia Le Butt****" as Spoony calls him).  The second half of the movie focusing on Transformers battle sequences was boring because the scenes just drag on and on and on without end; it gets near-impossible to tell what's a Deceptacon and what's an Autobot (especially once the Autobots start commandeering the Deceptacons' nonsensical fighter jets); and the end I just....don't....care about any of them.  And the whole story thread with Sentinel Prime makes no g-damn sense how it plays out, let alone the Deceptacons' "plan" for the humans (something that isn't hinted at in the slightest in previous movies).

It's kind of sad that the episode of the Clone Wars I watched afterwards featuring Gungan Ninjas was more interesting and better staged than this multi-million dollar blockbuster.  Please let this be the last Transformers movie, because this is getting depressing.  I've heard opinions that maybe Bay "should" do Unicron next, and he hasn't earned the right to do Unicron with how bad these last few films were.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on October 07, 2011, 09:06:17 PM
I don't know if it's here or back on the GameInformer forums (BAAACK in the day), but I continue to voice my absolute hatred for all Wes Anderson movies.

How can you hate Fantastic Mr. Fox? I understand some people don't like The Life Aquatic, but Fantastic Mr. Fox can't be hated.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on October 07, 2011, 09:13:03 PM
Yes it can.

Read the book, then watch the movie. Then realize that Wes Anderson basically Wes Anderson-ized a wonderful children's story with his obsession with dysfunctional relationships.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on October 07, 2011, 10:09:11 PM
I've read the book and I love it. I've read Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and loved Disney's version. I've also read To Kill a Mocking Bird and loved the movie. There are plenty of great stories that turned into great movies. It's not such an uncommon thing.

Wes Anderson did what only Wes Anderson could, provided the wit that have made his movies cult classics and paired it with 'Fantastic's charm . Mr. Fox's son is enough reason to like to movie on its own. The lines he wrote for him were fantastic (no pun intended).

Also the stop-motion was incredibly well done and a feat to his directorial prowess. In fact, it's one of the best usages of stop-motion I have seen in a long time (but that could be mainly because there haven't been many made). Still, it could have been much easier for him to go with CGI or animation.

I suggest you watch The Darjeeling Limited (with the opening short film 'Hotel Chevaliar' where Natalie Portman gets completely naked). It's a sad, wonderful movie that had me rolling with laughter.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on October 08, 2011, 07:35:44 PM
I've read the book and I love it. I've read Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and loved Disney's version. I've also read To Kill a Mocking Bird and loved the movie. There are plenty of great stories that turned into great movies. It's not such an uncommon thing.

Wes Anderson did what only Wes Anderson could, provided the wit that have made his movies cult classics and paired it with 'Fantastic's charm . Mr. Fox's son is enough reason to like to movie on its own. The lines he wrote for him were fantastic (no pun intended).

Also the stop-motion was incredibly well done and a feat to his directorial prowess. In fact, it's one of the best usages of stop-motion I have seen in a long time (but that could be mainly because there haven't been many made). Still, it could have been much easier for him to go with CGI or animation.

I suggest you watch The Darjeeling Limited (with the opening short film 'Hotel Chevaliar' where Natalie Portman gets completely naked). It's a sad, wonderful movie that had me rolling with laughter.

Meh. I think you overestimate the appeal of a nekkid Natalie Portman, who appears to have never hit puberty. There's actually a term for that--paedomorphosis, where adult features don't "kick in" and, sometimes, this results in the evolution of a new group of animals. Sauropods, for instance, are probably "juvenile" prosauropods, as are most maniraptors. Hell, humans are basically juvenile chimpanzees.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on October 08, 2011, 08:00:17 PM
She gets totally naked but the best you get to see is a side shot of her butt. The photos of her at the beach from several years ago show more than she ever has in any movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Dasmos on October 09, 2011, 08:54:23 AM
Meh. I think you overestimate the appeal of a nekkid Natalie Portman

are you a gay? natalie portman is amazing. i would watch a movie just to see her in a tank top.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on October 09, 2011, 09:47:47 AM
Let Me In
It's alright. I haven't seen Let the Right One In since 2009 but they're about the same movie. This one just happens to be in English. From what I remember, they really only cut one thing and it doesn't change much. The end of Let Me In seemed rushed. That was probably the only thing I disliked about it. All in all, it was worth watching though I probably won't go out of my way to watch it again.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on October 09, 2011, 10:46:11 AM
Meh. I think you overestimate the appeal of a nekkid Natalie Portman

are you a gay? natalie portman is amazing. i would watch a movie just to see her in a tank top.

Are you gay? You like women that have the body of little boys? :P
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on October 09, 2011, 12:08:35 PM
Meh. I think you overestimate the appeal of a nekkid Natalie Portman

are you a gay? natalie portman is amazing. i would watch a movie just to see her in a tank top.

Are you gay? You like women that have the body of little boys? :P

But you like women that have the cock & balls of a man....

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on October 09, 2011, 12:21:16 PM
Scre4m

Better than expected. I wasn't terribly shocked to find out who Ghostface was this time, but it wasn't who I expected. The motivation behind it was understandable within the confines of the series, but the execution (pun intended) was questionable.

The movie plays off the deeper understanding of horror movies like it's prequels, but they forgot 2 very important things, never stop and tell the good guy your plan just before you plan to kill them. Just kill them and be done with it. And make sure they are dead, never assume the person you thought you killed is dead. be certain about it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on October 09, 2011, 02:48:33 PM
Meh. I think you overestimate the appeal of a nekkid Natalie Portman

are you a gay? natalie portman is amazing. i would watch a movie just to see her in a tank top.

Are you gay? You like women that have the body of little boys? :P

But you like women that have the cock & balls of a man....

I like my women to look like women, regardless of plumbing. ;)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on October 09, 2011, 06:59:31 PM
We live in a world populated by Sofia Vergara, Christina Hendricks, Salma Hayek, and (at one time) Marilyn Monroe. I'm really unsure of how stick-thin waifs like Natalie Portman, Kristin Stewart, and that Gossip Girl chick are considered remotely attractive by comparison.

Maybe it's just me.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Dasmos on October 09, 2011, 08:39:43 PM
Ahhh so you like fatties?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on October 10, 2011, 02:33:32 AM
We live in a world populated by Sofia Vergara, Christina Hendricks, Salma Hayek, and (at one time) Marilyn Monroe. I'm really unsure of how stick-thin waifs like Natalie Portman, Kristin Stewart, and that Gossip Girl chick are considered remotely attractive by comparison.

Maybe it's just me.

those girls have really pretty eyes, and Salma Hayak and Kristin Stewart look kinda alike, except Salma Hayak has amazing tits.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on October 10, 2011, 11:25:38 AM
We live in a world populated by Sofia Vergara, Christina Hendricks, Salma Hayek, and (at one time) Marilyn Monroe. I'm really unsure of how stick-thin waifs like Natalie Portman, Kristin Stewart, and that Gossip Girl chick are considered remotely attractive by comparison.

Maybe it's just me.

those girls have really pretty eyes, and Salma Hayak and Kristin Stewart look kinda alike, except Salma Hayak has amazing tits.

(http://i54.tinypic.com/2nlda9u.jpg)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on October 13, 2011, 04:20:23 PM
Dear 'Insidious',

Your movie watches like the greatest hits of Asian Horror but without the pacing, tension, and overall directorial prowess. You squandered your main premise by making what could have been a completely awesome freaky scene into a dull house of horrors. Your characters, including your scary ones, were either bland or outright goofy, and your climax played out more like a sci-fi channel original instead of a big hollywood movie. At least you ended it decently (though who didn't see that coming).

Never watching you again,
Stogi
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: MaryJane on October 13, 2011, 06:54:42 PM
Dear 'Insidious',

Your movie watches like the greatest hits of Asian Horror but without the pacing, tension, and overall directorial prowess. You squandered your main premise by making what could have been a completely awesome freaky scene into a dull house of horrors. Your characters, including your scary ones, were either bland or outright goofy, and your climax played out more like a sci-fi channel original instead of a big hollywood movie. At least you ended it decently (though who didn't see that coming).

Never watching you again,
Stogi

I disagree with you, but that was great.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on October 14, 2011, 05:56:26 AM
(http://images.cheezburger.com/completestore/2011/8/6/fcbdd829-49a7-498b-874e-096ac26b60ca.jpg)
they have similar jaw structures, and their eyebrows are the same

heres what happens when you merge their faces

(http://www.morphthing.com/showimage/2/0/0/37852687/Salma-Hayek--Kristen-Stewart.jpeg)

this website is cool as ****

http://www.morphthing.com/celebrity/10108598

(http://www.morphthing.com/showimage/2/0/0/41073372/Michelle-Pfeiffer--Charlize-Theron--Brooke-Shields--Jessica-Alba--Salma-Hayek--Kristen-Stewart--Natalie-Portman--Winona-Ryder-and-Keira-Knightley--Kristin-Kreuk--Lucy-Lui--Megan-Fox--Michelle-Pfeiffer--Charlize-Theron--Brooke-Shields--Jessica-Alba--Salma-.jpeg)


Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on October 14, 2011, 10:33:22 AM
Except they left out a very important detail. Kristen Stewart loks dead 100% of the time, even when she moves. Every movie she looks dead.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on October 14, 2011, 10:53:06 AM
I think that I prefer that second morphed face over all the other ones in that post.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on October 14, 2011, 11:13:43 AM
the second morphed face is like 15 chicks put together

Michelle-Pfeiffer--Charlize-Theron--Brooke-Shields--Jessica-Alba--Salma-Hayek--Kristen-Stewart--Natalie-Portman--Winona-Ryder-and-Keira-Knightley--Kristin-Kreuk--Lucy-Lui--Megan-Fox--Michelle-Pfeiffer--Charlize-Theron--Brooke-Shields--Jessica-Alba--Salma Hayek, sometimes they are repeated

im thinking about just starting a thread about mixing celebrities
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on October 14, 2011, 03:58:40 PM
Batman: Year One - I had a lot of hopes for this one after the last Batman animated movie, Under the Red Hood, turned out so well.  Sadly, this movie is crap.  The artwork is mediocre (and weird, like Catwoman being extremely butch), the animation is average, the voice acting is terrible (especially Batman/Bruce Wayne's), and the film is just boring.  They should have called this film "Jim Gordon: Year One", given that Batman/Bruce Wayne is only in this movie for all of about 15 minutes.  Anything remotely interesting about this movie has been done better in other Batman stories, particularly Batman Begins and Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, so go watch them instead.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: bustin98 on October 14, 2011, 04:27:59 PM
I'm sorry, but go read Batman Year One before watching Batman Year One. Yes, Selina is a man-hating butch prostitute. Yes, Jim Gordon is in the story more than Batman.

The thing I love about the DC Animated films is they try to emulate the artist that did the original story. Makes each one unique. I have found that I need a level of exposure to some artists before I appreciate their work. Keith Giffens is one, Mike Mignola is another. David Mazzucchelli falls in there too. But after reading 4 issues of Year One, you may find that his style works with the story.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on October 14, 2011, 09:14:15 PM
I'm sorry, but go read Batman Year One before watching Batman Year One. Yes, Selina is a man-hating butch prostitute. Yes, Jim Gordon is in the story more than Batman.

If I wanted to read a comic book, I'd read a comic book.  A movie should be able to stand on its own, and I wanted to see a good Batman movie.  Instead, I got a mediocre Jim Gordon movie where a not terribly interesting Batman occasionally appears.  And man, the writing is terrible, but I suppose I should have expected that having been penned by Frank Miller.  Listening to the dialogue, I can hear where his monologues in The Spirit come from.

Just finished finally watching Captain America, and it is certainly an excellent movie that's well-paced and has well-staged action sequences.  Aside from some corny writing in places (and a painfully bad final line before the credits roll), I really don't have any major issues with the movie.  I especially like that it's its own movie with a self-contained story, rather than a 2-hour Avengers trailer.

One thing that did kind of bug me, though, is that they never explain why Cap's shield always returns to him when he throws it.  I know it's a comic book thing, and it's something that doesn't really bother me in Cap's various animated and video game incarnations.  But for some reason, in a fairly-grounded live action movie like this, I do want to know why the shield will almost always return to the user when thrown.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on October 15, 2011, 11:40:50 PM
Just saw The Thing today.
The original (and by original, I mean the 1982 version) is by far and away one of my favorite movies, so I was both excited and apprehensive about this prequel. And I should comment here that, despite what the newspaper reviews might say, it really is a PREQUEL, and not a remake. Now then...

What made the 1982 movie so damn good was its sense of atmosphere and cabin fever. The music really helped set a tone throughout, and the special effects were great mostly for their practical nature (they didn't have CG in 1982) but also because you never really saw the whole Thing. A lot was left to your imagination, which, I think, is very important for a creature feature. I knew going in that the Pre-Thing would rely heavily on CG effects, so I was open to it.

I just didn't realize how much.

There are really only two, maybe three scenes in the original Thing where you really get a good look at the bloody, messy nature of the creature (the dog scene, the "head" scene, and the end). In this movie, the Thing is basically a supporting cast member. It's everywhere, and apparently there are multiple Things because they keep on killing Things and others come back. That bugged me--there were few places where you got an idea of when or how the Thing was absorbing these people, or how it was splitting off into multiple Things.
It looked great--don't get me wrong. The CG effects are horrific and bloody, and yeah, there's a practical effect or two thrown in for good measure, but the Thing is in the movie TOO MUCH, and you see TOO MUCH of it.

The Pre-Thing also follows many of the same beats as the 1982 movie. On one hand, how could it not? They play with the formula, though: instead of checking for blood, the team tries something else (ingenous) to see who's human and who's not. Ramona Flowers tries her hardest to be R.J. MacReady minus the beard and succeeds for the most part. The other actors seem like throwaway characters, though--most don't even get names, and are basically "Red Shirts" to be eaten by the Thing.

As a prequel, the movie does an admirable job of setting up key shots that will later be seen in the original film (stay for the credits--thank god they added that), with one BIG exception that I suspect everybody just forgot about. Can you figure it out?

The movie's final act is kind of silly (why didn't the Thing just do this in the first place?) and probably unnecessary. It's obvious they were going for the same "big moment" for the final confrontation as the original, but without Ramona Flowers yelling, "Yeah, well f*ck you, too!" it wasn't complete.
Still a good movie, though. I went into with perhaps too-high expectations, and I was basically looking for flaws the whole time. Despite a few, it's well worth seeing.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on October 16, 2011, 06:52:39 PM
I have to concur with Halbred.  My dad and I were out at the movies tonight, and basically I had a choice between The Thing and Real Steel/Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots.  Interestingly, despite being nearly twice my age, my father had never seen the original John Carpenter's "The Thing", so I thought it would interesting comparing what I thought of it (who had seen the original) with his impressions.

Overall, I walked out of the theater entertained.  Yes, there are plot holes everywhere.  Yes, the CG is mediocre.  Yes, I couldn't tell the difference between half the cast if you asked me to.  Yes, the movie goes for a more standard "monster movie"-type film than John Carpenter's more deliberate original.  That said, the movie certainly didn't bore me, and for what it was I enjoyed it.  I thought the pacing was good, and the movie did an excellent job of building tension and atmosphere.  It didn't seem to know what to do with that once it had it, but there's definitely an element of quality to this movie that you don't generally see in these horror remakes.

This movie was neither the best nor the worst I've seen this year, and honestly you can do far worse than this film.  Don't go in with overblown expectations of the original John Carpenter movie (which I've only seen once, so I don't have special attachment to), and you might just enjoy it.

And yes, I am going to rectify my dad's lack of having seen the original Thing very soon.  I'll be curious to see how he views the original film now having seen the Prequel first.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on October 16, 2011, 07:43:33 PM
Lucky him.... he gets to watch them in order... the way they were meant to be seen ;)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on October 16, 2011, 09:16:14 PM
yeah, that is going to be a huge thing after MFTing it, im set to go with my mom later this week whose a The Thing fan. Right now though, iv watched the John Carpenter version so closely I know it inside and out. I watched the movie with commentary, i watched all the special features, i watched it about 3 times in a weeks period. I've seen the original Thing From Another Planet too which still holds up really damn well. I have to go into the theater and not be hyped at all and thats going to be difficult, but I think I can do it.  A bunch of movies have a bunch of shitty sequels and remakes, but hey there's an audience for them. This looks like a pretty good derivative product though.

you know what else im excited for? fucking Prometheus! So we have an alien prequel in the works, a thing prequel that looks decent, and they made a proper predator sequel. Shits pretty good for horror/sci-fi. Hope to get my contributions into the genre within the next 5 years.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on October 16, 2011, 09:33:26 PM
I was hoping someone did watch Real Steel.  I like Teleroboxer so I'll probably see this movie when it gets on Blu-Ray.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on October 16, 2011, 10:03:22 PM
So I just finished showing my father the original 1980s The Thing, and he liked it.  Actually, he thought that the new "prequel" helped some things in the original movie "make more sense".  As for me, I think the movies actually work together pretty well, especially since the ending credits of the prequel shift right into the beginning of the original movie.  There are definitely some incongruities between the two movies (mostly things involving the alien spaceship, which does not have the same design in the prequel and is still covered by ice in the prequel), but overall the two movies don't clash as much as you'd think they would.

Watching the two movies together, it's almost like there's an actual arc to the Thing's behavior: going all-out and obvious in the "prequel" didn't work, so it goes manipulation and subterfuge in the original movie.  Sure, that's definitely ret-con in play, but that's my impression watching the two movies on the same day.  There was an aspect to the original movie I'd forgotten, though, which for some reason doesn't pop up in the prequel: the Thing can infect victims with bodily fluids.  For some reason, the prequel ignored that.  Weird.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on October 16, 2011, 11:40:16 PM
Yes, the biggest incongruity for me was that in the original movie, the Americans watched a video of the Swedes ("Norwegions, Mac!") blowing up the ice cap, all standing in a row with the Norwegion flag. That didn't happen in the prequel, and it was a strange hiccup. I just figure they forgot about it.

Also, if Das Thing can just start up his spaceship to get the f*ck out, why didn't he do that 100,000 years ago? Just sayin'.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on October 16, 2011, 11:45:44 PM
Also, if Das Thing can just start up his spaceship to get the f*ck out, why didn't he do that 100,000 years ago? Just sayin'.

Indeed.  And for that matter, why...

...In the prequel does no one think of looking inside the Alien Spacecraft until the end of the movie?
...In the prequel does the Dog-Thing (which the movie sets up as the first thing the Thing infects) wait around the Norwegian base until the very end of the movie before attempting to leave for the American base?  What, did Campbell tell it that if it left it would create a Time Paradox?   ;)   For that matter, why does the Thing even bother with the Norwegian base when no one would have stopped it from taking the spacecraft before all the bloodshed started?
...In the original does no one look inside the Alien Spacecraft at all?

I also have issues with how utterly easy that spacecraft is dealt with in the prequel, too.  C'mon, there's no way that is going to do that, even when it's used there.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on October 17, 2011, 12:37:07 AM
I always figured that in John Carpenter's The Thing, why no one went into the spacecraft was because they were going to try and contact help before tempting to go in what could be a death trap. Also, The Thing made itself pretty well known early on, thus making it the priority.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on October 17, 2011, 01:16:10 AM
Also, if Das Thing can just start up his spaceship to get the f*ck out, why didn't he do that 100,000 years ago? Just sayin'.

Indeed.  And for that matter, why...

...In the prequel does no one think of looking inside the Alien Spacecraft until the end of the movie?
...In the prequel does the Dog-Thing (which the movie sets up as the first thing the Thing infects) wait around the Norwegian base until the very end of the movie before attempting to leave for the American base?  What, did Campbell tell it that if it left it would create a Time Paradox?   ;)   For that matter, why does the Thing even bother with the Norwegian base when no one would have stopped it from taking the spacecraft before all the bloodshed started?
...In the original does no one look inside the Alien Spacecraft at all?

I also have issues with how utterly easy that spacecraft is dealt with in the prequel, too.  C'mon, there's no way that is going to do that, even when it's used there.

We already saw the yield on those grenades in the original movie at the very beginning, when Lars was chasing the Thing-Dog. It's basically a cherry bomb.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on October 17, 2011, 10:44:17 PM
Return of the Living Dead 5: Rave to the Grave

This is ALMOST one of those "so bad, it's good" movies but isn't. I knew going in that the "Return of the Living Dead" series are always cheesy zombie flicks, but this one.. wow. I can still watch the original RofLD and laugh my ass off, perhaps it's nostalgia, perhaps it's just more comical because it's from the '80s. Rave to the Grave, however, doesn't have this luxury as it came out in 2005.

There are a few good laughs in it, but the rest of the time I'm just fuming mad at how not one but two Interpol agents who are specifically meant to bring down the zombie threat don't seem to know a thing about zombies. In the very start of the movie, they serve up nothing but body shots to multiple zombies, and there's no follow up to show the threat has actually been eliminated (ie. no double-tap). Later on they seem to be perfect marksmen, nailing ghouls right between the eye. It's actually kind of pathetic considering they fall into the zombie movie cliche of untrained individuals becoming aces when it come's to headshots. Actually, it IS pathetic because unlike other films, when someone gollege punk who presumably has never handled a gun before is handed a firearm, he's pulling off single-fire headshots from yards away.

Ah well, in the end it was still somewhat fun; got to laugh my ass off at someone having their ass bit off (and yes the zombies yelled "brains!" before tossing that salad), or (for those not interested in watching) the scene when a zombie starts giving guy head. Oh and Tarman returned! That was nice to see, even though he did NOTHING at all.. besides ad some comic relief to an already cheesy movie (see: my new avatar).

Recommendation: If you like the FIRST Return of the Living Dead (because 2 sucked and 3 felt like an attempt to make it a more traditional horror movie, haven't seen 4 yet) then you may want to check this one out. Same premise really; stupid teens get wasted, then get laid to waste. This one just has a funnier set-up in that the drugs they're doing is what is turning them into zombies. If you're looking for a serious zombie flick, look elsewhere.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: bustin98 on October 18, 2011, 09:21:25 PM
Just watched Batman Year One and I give it a thumbs up as a comic book fan, you know, where Batman came from to begin with. This is an adaption of a book so you'll have to realize it has source material to stay true to. Selina Kyle is a prostitute with a cat fetish. Bruce Wayne is coming to terms of what it takes to do his job, and Jim Gordon is rocking the police ranks and its corruption. Its more a story of the crime in Gotham than a story of Gordon or Wayne.

There are little touches like a store advertising VHS and Betamax rentals. And bits of the original comic art displayed through out. I found it entertaining and a bit surprising of what they kept in.

Also surprising is the Catwoman story in the extras. Holy cow, very... titilating for a DC animation.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on October 18, 2011, 09:59:23 PM
Also surprising is the Catwoman story in the extras. Holy cow, very... titilating for a DC animation.

INSTA-BUY.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: bustin98 on October 19, 2011, 12:40:39 AM
You, for sure, would love it. Seriously, if they made a vinyl of a particular scene, you'd jump on it like a... well, bring tissues.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on October 19, 2011, 12:45:31 AM
Moneyball - Brad Pitt is awesome. Sports movies are usually good. Jonah Hill is good in it too. Highly recommended.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on October 19, 2011, 02:29:02 AM
Just saw The Thing
As a prequel, the movie does an admirable job of setting up key shots that will later be seen in the original film (stay for the credits--thank god they added that), with one BIG exception that I suspect everybody just forgot about. Can you figure it out?

No. Tell me!

Actually I just returned from seeing The Thing (2011) not realizing it was a prequel (damn media telling me it's a remake!) so I'm pretty interested in The Thing (1982) now and I'm loving the discussion that was going on here..

This is what I have to say about it:

On CGI: Normally I like monsters/creatures being left to the imagination. Signs went downhill fast with that closeup of the alien. Don't be Afraid of the Dark had the same problem with the dark fairies/goblins. The Thing though.. not soo much. I felt that most of the shots of it were quick cuts that, while showing detail, didn't show you for long, so for a good chunk of the movie the creature still felt very abstract and hard to comprehend, which I feel still leaves something to the imagination. It's ever changing, so even if you get a good shot of it on film, you can just imagine what it will look like after it assimilates more beings. Also, it reminded me of so many of those Resident Evil creatures, so much so, that I kept thinking "this would make a good survival horror game," then I read this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(video_game))

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There are definitely some incongruities between the two movies (mostly things involving the alien spaceship, which does not have the same design in the prequel and is still covered by ice in the prequel)

Because I haven't seen The Thing (1982), I'm going to assume what you mean here is that the ship is NOT covered in ice, yet remains covered in the prequel..? Well at the end of the prequel, it doesn't appear to be covered. it's still buried but it isn't completely covered. (Just in case spoiler tag here: )when 'Ramona Flowers' and the American pilot are exiting the ice cavern, you can see an opening in the background with flashing lights, presumably from the explosion, that die off before they get to the vehicle

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There was an aspect to the original movie I'd forgotten, though, which for some reason doesn't pop up in the prequel: the Thing can infect victims with bodily fluids.  For some reason, the prequel ignored that.  Weird.

Actually I think they do touch on it.. Now, I may be mistaken on this first example (because as someone said earlier, it was hard to differentiate between most of the characters) but.. After The Thing is found underneath one of the cabins, a limb reaches out and impales one of the Norwegian crew members as a second crew member watches. That second crew member has the firsts blood splattered all over his face. Now this can go one of two ways, again it's hard to tell who these people were half the time so bare with me here..

1. That crew member was the one who became ill and was going to be transported to the hospital via helicopter before it crashed.

2. That crew member was infected by The Thing and was the crew member that attacked from within that very same helicopter
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either way, I was under the impression that it could infect via bodily fluids.

Another example of this is actually hinted at by Ramona Flowers when she and the American Pilot are out on the hunt. She has the flamethrower, he has a axe. After he slices the Arm Thing ? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thing_(The_Addams_Family)) in two he's about to grab the axe embedded into the wall and covered in its blood before Romana sternly tells him not to grab it.

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Also, if Das Thing can just start up his spaceship to get the f*ck out, why didn't he do that 100,000 years ago? Just sayin'.

True! Thought the same thing; why would it leave the ship to get frozen in ice if it could just start it up and leave? I was discussing this with my girl on the way home from the movie though, and in a fan-fiction esque way, I came up with an explanation..

(WARNING: retarded conjecture ahead)

At the start of the prequel, the head scientist states something along the lines of "we've discovered a structure [...] and a survivor" which can imply a few things. Did they go inside the ship and find other creatures? If so why were those bodies not studied? Perhaps they were too badly mangled thus making the frozen creature a prime candidate for research.

If they didn't discover other bodies, or couldn't access the ship to discover others, living or dead, it makes you wonder if the Thing we see, thawed from the ice, really was the only creature aboard. Did you see the size of the ship? That thing is massive, so is it wrong to assume one creature alone could pilot it? Even if it could, why would it need such a massive vessel for itself? You'd think no matter what it's purpose, there had to be even a small crew of some kind.

Then I started to think about the aesthetics of both the creature and the ship itself. The ship looks.. and you may not understand how I'm trying to describe it here, but.. it looks too clean cut for a creature of that nature. It obviously has some intelligence, being able to copy a human and speak the language with ease, but the look of that ship didn't fit with the look of the creature. I picture it in a ship that looks more, for the lack of better words, 'organic' looking.. picture the Cetan ship from Perfect Dark 64, or the Skedar weapons from the same game, even the Drudge weopons of the conduit. I picture the Thing having this type of technology.

Instead we have a ship that looks, inside and out, to be your classic Grey's vessel. Very sterile, very beyond your imagination high tech (what exactly was that pixelated-panel thing? Ramona got distracted by?). That's what got me thinking even more.. what would the prequel to this prequel be like;

What if there was a race of aliens, that fit the Grey's description, who had recently discovered a type of virus or parasie (the Thing) that started off small but grew exponentially as it infected/copied/assimilated the crew of the ship, causing it to crash land in our Antarctic, and in an attempt to feed/assimilate and grow, left the confines of the ship only to be frozen for thousands of years until found.. leading us to this prequel film?

Yeah.. think about THAT!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on October 19, 2011, 02:53:02 AM
Because I haven't seen The Thing (1982), I'm going to assume what you mean here is that the ship is NOT covered in ice, yet remains covered in the prequel..? Well at the end of the prequel, it doesn't appear to be covered. it's still buried but it isn't completely covered. (Just in case spoiler tag here: )when 'Ramona Flowers' and the American pilot are exiting the ice cavern, you can see an opening in the background with flashing lights, presumably from the explosion, that die off before they get to the vehicle

In the original movie, the Americans find VHS tapes showing the Norwegians using Thermite charges to obliterate the ice covering the spaceship.  There are group poses and everything.  In the prequel, that never happens and instead the movie insinuates that some movement of the ship caused a cave-in or something that uncovered it.

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Also, it reminded me of so many of those Resident Evil creatures, so much so, that I kept thinking "this would make a good survival horror game," then I read this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_%28video_game%29)

Oh, I can link you to something much better (http://spoonyexperiment.com/2007/02/25/the-thing-review/) than that Wiki entry when it comes to that PS2 Thing game.  ;)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on October 19, 2011, 03:05:42 AM
Because I haven't seen The Thing (1982), I'm going to assume what you mean here is that the ship is NOT covered in ice, yet remains covered in the prequel..? Well at the end of the prequel, it doesn't appear to be covered. it's still buried but it isn't completely covered. (Just in case spoiler tag here: )when 'Ramona Flowers' and the American pilot are exiting the ice cavern, you can see an opening in the background with flashing lights, presumably from the explosion, that die off before they get to the vehicle

In the original movie, the Americans find VHS tapes showing the Norwegians using Thermite charges to obliterate the ice covering the spaceship.  There are group poses and everything.  In the prequel, that never happens and instead the movie insinuates that some movement of the ship caused a cave-in or something that uncovered it.

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Also, it reminded me of so many of those Resident Evil creatures, so much so, that I kept thinking "this would make a good survival horror game," then I read this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_%28video_game%29)

Oh, I can link you to something much better (http://spoonyexperiment.com/2007/02/25/the-thing-review/) than that Wiki entry when it comes to that PS2 Thing game.  ;)

Gotcha! Again, haven't seen the original film (yet) so I wasn't aware. Too bad they didn't include that, from everything I've read here it sounds like this was a good preceding story. Shame it would have such a big oversight.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on October 19, 2011, 03:13:50 AM
Just watched Batman Year One and I give it a thumbs up as a comic book fan, you know, where Batman came from to begin with. This is an adaption of a book so you'll have to realize it has source material to stay true to. Selina Kyle is a prostitute with a cat fetish. Bruce Wayne is coming to terms of what it takes to do his job, and Jim Gordon is rocking the police ranks and its corruption. Its more a story of the crime in Gotham than a story of Gordon or Wayne.

That's fine and all, but it doesn't excuse the major problem of the movie: there isn't a single shred of life to that film.  It's dull, it's plodding, and the way the story is told is extremely flat.  It's like the folks in charge were so afraid of pissing off Frank Miller's die-hard fanboys that they forgot that just transposing the comic into animated form isn't inherently interesting.  Compare this movie to the previous Batman animated film, Under the Red Hood, and there's a world of difference in emotion; pacing; editing; etc.  Batman: Year One is a collection of events and dates, and that's it.  There's no soul to the movie, no reason to care about the characters and want them to succeed.

This is probably a story that played better in the original comic because that's what that story was written and drawn for, and the events weren't compressed into just over an hour.  But as a movie, it's horribly boring to me as someone that never read and never will read the original comic.  And apparently (http://bluray.ign.com/articles/120/1200038p1.html), I'm not the only person who thought so.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on October 19, 2011, 08:42:07 AM
50/50
Great movie. It was funny and endearing. This is the second movie with Bryce Dallas Howard in it where I wanted to backhand the **** out of her. Cobra Commander was a joy to watch as usual and Seth Rogen knew well enough to back off when necessary. Highly recommended.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on October 19, 2011, 09:58:58 AM
I watched Lion King 1 1/2  last night.  I went in thinking it would probably be pretty bad.  I was delightfully surprised when they start by MST3King there own Movie to begin with.  This movie is the Lion King told from the perspective of Timon and Pumba.  Sort of.  Its really Timon's story throughout the whole thing.

It has different key scenes from Lion King that have had more context put into them.  Overall if you like Lion King even a little you'll probably get a kick out of this movie.  My family did. Oh and...

"Dig a Tunnel Dig Dig a Tunnel.  Dig a Tunnel Dig Dig a Tunnel. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_H8q73JrjzY)"
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on October 19, 2011, 10:26:29 AM
I watched Lion King 1 1/2  last night.  I went in thinking it would probably be pretty bad.  I was delightfully surprised when they start by MST3King there own Movie to begin with.  This movie is the Lion King told from the perspective of Timon and Pumba.  Sort of.  Its really Timon's story throughout the whole thing.

It has different key scenes from Lion King that have had more context put into them.  Overall if you like Lion King even a little you'll probably get a kick out of this movie.  My family did. Oh and...

"Dig a Tunnel Dig Dig a Tunnel.  Dig a Tunnel Dig Dig a Tunnel."

Yeah, I've been meaning to see that movie for a while now.  Lion King 2 was pretty decent as well IMO.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on October 19, 2011, 10:53:40 AM
I watched Lion King 1 1/2  last night.  I went in thinking it would probably be pretty bad.  I was delightfully surprised when they start by MST3King there own Movie to begin with.  This movie is the Lion King told from the perspective of Timon and Pumba.  Sort of.  Its really Timon's story throughout the whole thing.

It has different key scenes from Lion King that have had more context put into them.  Overall if you like Lion King even a little you'll probably get a kick out of this movie.  My family did. Oh and...

"Dig a Tunnel Dig Dig a Tunnel.  Dig a Tunnel Dig Dig a Tunnel."

Yeah, I've been meaning to see that movie for a while now.  Lion King 2 was pretty decent as well IMO.
Good to hear.  I'll probably be watching that today or tomorrow.  My Wife got us the Lion King 3D Blu-ray pack that looks like a Drum.  So know I have a Blu-Ray copy of 1, 1.5, and 2.  With a 3D copy of Lion King.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on October 19, 2011, 11:19:31 AM
50/50
Great movie. It was funny and endearing. This is the second movie with Bryce Dallas Howard in it where I wanted to backhand the **** out of her. Cobra Commander was a joy to watch as usual and Seth Rogen knew well enough to back off when necessary. Highly recommended.

This, also Anna Kendrick <3 (http://www.google.com/search?q=anna+kendrick&hl=en&safe=off&prmd=imvnso&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=ZeqeToToDebr0gH79KGnCQ&ved=0CEkQsAQ&biw=1024&bih=667)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: MaryJane on October 19, 2011, 11:24:34 AM
Battle: Los Angeles 9/10

I went into this movie expecting an action movie with a little suspense, but this movie seriously had it all. It was funny, emotional, inspiring, and real. There were only two scenes in the entire movie that I didn't like, and one overarching story (of the staff sgt.) that I thought could've and should've been dealt with earlier in the movie, but even that was well done when it was settled. This was just an overall excellent movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on October 19, 2011, 12:49:24 PM
Battle: Los Angeles 9/10

I went into this movie expecting an action movie with a little suspense, but this movie seriously had it all. It was funny, emotional, inspiring, and real. There were only two scenes in the entire movie that I didn't like, and one overarching story (of the staff sgt.) that I thought could've and should've been dealt with earlier in the movie, but even that was well done when it was settled. This was just an overall excellent movie.

That's how I felt about it, I don't know why so many people gave it so much ****.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on October 19, 2011, 12:51:09 PM
Battle: Los Angeles 9/10

I went into this movie expecting an action movie with a little suspense, but this movie seriously had it all. It was funny, emotional, inspiring, and real. There were only two scenes in the entire movie that I didn't like, and one overarching story (of the staff sgt.) that I thought could've and should've been dealt with earlier in the movie, but even that was well done when it was settled. This was just an overall excellent movie.

That's how I felt about it, I don't know why so many people gave it so much ****.
Probably its naming, Battle: <Geographical Region>,  normally means a bad movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on October 19, 2011, 12:53:34 PM
Battle: Los Angeles 9/10

I went into this movie expecting an action movie with a little suspense, but this movie seriously had it all. It was funny, emotional, inspiring, and real. There were only two scenes in the entire movie that I didn't like, and one overarching story (of the staff sgt.) that I thought could've and should've been dealt with earlier in the movie, but even that was well done when it was settled. This was just an overall excellent movie.

That's how I felt about it, I don't know why so many people gave it so much ****.
Probably its naming, Battle: <Geographical Region>, Normally means Total: Crap.

But who really basis opinions on movies from their titles? Some give you an idea of what the movie is about, other's don't, but if the movie is good, it's good.

Is Battle: LA worty of awards? Probably not but it's an entertaining movie from start to finish.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on October 19, 2011, 01:48:42 PM
Well a lot do partially.  Take Transformers for example.  Lots of people saw Transformers 2 and 3 even though they were generally panned hard because of the Transformer brand.  Batman, stick Batman on about anything and someone will get it.  I disagree with a lot of reviewers in general.  I feel there out of touch with the everyman but, I saw Shrek and now I'm wary of anything with Shrek in it.  People watching the Picard and Data Show I mean Star Trek: TNG Movies mostly because of them being Star Trek.  Captain America I didn't even read or follow any of the details except that it was in theaters because I knew I see it.

It can have an effect.  Even in Gaming.  Doki Doki Panic VS Mario 2 prime example.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Dasmos on October 19, 2011, 03:26:03 PM
I think you missed the point, Ceric. A movie's quality isn't based on its title. Titles can shape your preconceptions, but anyone who lets a title affect their final opinion of a film is just being silly.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on October 19, 2011, 03:26:18 PM
Ceric, I like Lion King 1 1/2 for one reason. This song...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSUkCCTCqF8 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSUkCCTCqF8)

I still listen to that song on a regular basis. Easily the best version ever made.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on October 19, 2011, 03:27:12 PM
But that doesn't explain why a title like "Battle: Los Angeles" would make someone instantly think "****-bomb" or something.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on October 19, 2011, 03:29:52 PM
Ceric, I like Lion King 1 1/2 for one reason. This song...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSUkCCTCqF8 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSUkCCTCqF8)

I still listen to that song on a regular basis. Easily the best version ever made.
Are you sure its not this song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_H8q73JrjzY) really?

I have a pretty good version of that song that is down acapella.

But that doesn't explain why a title like "Battle: Los Angeles" would make someone instantly think "****-bomb" or something.
I would put it in the category of "not worth the time to investigate."  Like if I see a Halo in a game, I instantly skip over it because I'm sure its for the 360 that I don't own.  Now the game could really be "Halo of the Angel King" for Wii.  Probably even good.  I figure if something like that is good or I messed up etc. that I'm plugged in enough that someone I trust would comment on it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Dasmos on October 19, 2011, 03:40:13 PM
If you don't instantly understand while a title like that might put people off, then there's no explaining it to you.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on October 19, 2011, 04:30:26 PM
Battle: Los Angeles sounds like a direct to DVD, low budget, bad actor, cheap props and bad SFX movie. The title is generic and sounds reminiscent of something that has a "SyFy Original" label attached to it.

the sequel ("Battle: Tokyo" I think) sounds just as cheap and made for TV.

But I enjoyed the first and am more than willing to check out the sequel.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: MaryJane on October 19, 2011, 04:38:22 PM
It is a bad name, but it's a great movie. I actually think it should be worthy of awards, maybe it was just me, but I felt it when they were losing people and also felt their desperation in certain scenes. It was great cinematography, great writing, good acting, and amazing execution. What more do you want from a movie? I guess a good title...
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on October 19, 2011, 04:45:35 PM
Maryjane....real question, how high were you when you saw that movie? Cuz I said the same thing about Shrek 2. It's a good movie, a great movie even, but I was a bit over enthusiastic with my review of it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on October 19, 2011, 05:38:53 PM
It is a bad name, but it's a great movie. I actually think it should be worthy of awards, maybe it was just me, but I felt it when they were losing people and also felt their desperation in certain scenes. It was great cinematography, great writing, good acting, and amazing execution. What more do you want from a movie? I guess a good title...
I've felt that way about a lot of movies just see the critics pan them and the rewards skip them and given to an art flick I wouldn't touch with a 10ft pole that is so bad the MST3K or RiffTraks couldn't save it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on October 19, 2011, 08:17:45 PM
By and far Lion King 2 is the Worst of the Three Movies by far.  Think about The Lion King with more singing but the songs aren't as good as 1 or 1 1/2.  The animation and scenes really aren't as good as either one of the others.  Character progression for the last movie, which would be Lion King, is not really that great.  Lots of missed opportunities.  It was just not as good.  Its a real shame too.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on October 19, 2011, 08:24:12 PM
We all know Aladdin had the best sequels of any Disney movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on October 19, 2011, 08:25:56 PM
I still haven't watched that and I really like Aladdin.  I think my Wife even has a copy.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on October 19, 2011, 08:43:05 PM
Maybe because Aladdin centered on Aladdin and not the princess. Aladdin had a Tv show and that was awesome too. The little mermaid TV show wasn't bad either.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on October 19, 2011, 08:46:30 PM
Buzz Lightyears Show was ok.  Also Hercules wasn't to bad either.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on October 19, 2011, 08:46:45 PM
By and far Lion King 2 is the Worst of the Three Movies by far.  Think about The Lion King with more singing but the songs aren't as good as 1 or 1 1/2.  The animation and scenes really aren't as good as either one of the others.  Character progression for the last movie, which would be Lion King, is not really that great.  Lots of missed opportunities.  It was just not as good.  Its a real shame too.

Granted, I haven't seen the movie since it originally released on home video, but I remember generally liking the movie.  If the original movie was blatantly based on Hamlet, its sequel was based on Romeo & Juliet.  I remember liking Simba actually having to own up to things he would have had to do after dealing with Scar in the first movie, as well as deal with the same kind of problems his own father did.  Still, it has been more than a few years, so maybe it doesn't hold up to my recollection.  By the standards of the Disney direct-to-video sequels, though, it has to be one of the better ones (the best being Aladdin & the King of Thieves).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on October 19, 2011, 09:13:54 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdWiXvCOLoI

Doug is out of place because it started out as a nicktoon, that wasn't its original intro, and that intro isnt till like 1997, and the Aladdin Intros are reversed.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on October 20, 2011, 09:34:31 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdWiXvCOLoI (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdWiXvCOLoI)

Doug is out of place because it started out as a nicktoon, that wasn't its original intro, and that intro isnt till like 1997, and the Aladdin Intros are reversed.
I like the part of gummi bears where it says "The Fight for Whats Right, is whatever they Do!"  So the Gummi bears could literally raze the castle and slaughter all the citizens and they be in the right.

This just reminds me how many American Cartoons are no longer made these days.  We went through a real dry spell and its getting a little better but man...
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: MaryJane on October 20, 2011, 03:27:01 PM
Maryjane....real question, how high were you when you saw that movie? Cuz I said the same thing about Shrek 2. It's a good movie, a great movie even, but I was a bit over enthusiastic with my review of it.

Lol I actually ran out of stuff during the beginning of the movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on October 20, 2011, 10:32:56 PM
Speaking of being high at movies..

Some people lit up at 50/50 and had some GREAT laughs in that one scene with Joseph Gordon Levitt but were practically crying the rest of the movie. Made me LOL
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on October 20, 2011, 11:27:45 PM
Saw Tim Burton's Corpse Bride for the first time today, one of many movies in my first-time backlog.  Eh, it was ok.  At least I liked it a lot more than the Nightmare Before Christmas (a movie I've never gotten into for some reason).  It's the closest I've seen from Tim Burton of his earlier work, though I'll still take a Beetlejuice; Batman; or Sleepy Hollow any day.

I'm not sure why Burton decided to make it a musical, as there's only a handful of (not spectacularly good) songs and the strongest parts of the movie are outside the songs anyway.  And while the art style he chose is interesting (crudely-animating CG models to make them move like puppets), I'm not sure it was the right one.  The strength of puppets is that they actually exist in the physical world, and the strength of CG is the ease of broad movements and ultimate camera control.  Animating this movie as it is doesn't feel like the best use of either medium, but it's still a good looking movie.

Ultimately, my biggest problem with this movie is that the story and characters aren't particularly memorable.  The movie as a whole probably could have used another 20-30 minutes to flesh it out (pun not intended).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on October 22, 2011, 05:00:51 AM
Last of the Living 7.9/10, pretty good use of 40 cents. This was low budget, not super low budget, but then again even a low budget goes far in New Zealand. Funny mostly, still ends nihilistically like most Zombie movies. Had some cheesey moments, but i liked it. I would give it a higher score, but eh. I'd say its worth watching. I got it for 5 bucks in the bargain bin at Wal-mart as part of a horror 8 pack. I should MFT the other ones, they all sound bad. Then again sometimes you think a movie is bad and then it turns out to be a diamond in the rough. Like Drunken Tai Chi

Drunken Tai Chi 8.8/10 Low budget as ****, old, youll most likely see a degraded version, but **** that some kung fu. See Ip mans first movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on October 22, 2011, 07:38:17 PM
Buried
Surprisingly good for a movie set entirely in a wooden box........... until the ending happened.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on October 23, 2011, 03:01:16 AM
Fieval Goes West > American Tail

Aladdin 2 > Aladdin

Rescuers Down Under > Rescuers
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on October 23, 2011, 12:08:11 PM
I can't remember either of the Rescuers very well, but I highly question the validity of placing Return of Jafar over Aladdin.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on October 23, 2011, 02:16:46 PM
I highly question the validity of placing Return of Jafar over Aladdin.

As do I, especially since Return of Jafar was intended to be the first 3 or so episodes of the Aladdin TV series and Robin Williams doesn't voice the Genie.  The movie's...passable and one of the better Disney direct-to-video sequels, but it doesn't hold a candle to either the original or its sequel Aladdin & the King of Thieves.

As for American Tale vs. Fieval Goes West, I remember generally liking the sequel but not finding it particularly memorable.  An American Tale may be one of the most depressing movies I've ever seen, but it's also one of my all-time favorites (a pity that, with the exception of Anastasia, John Bluth films always look like crap on home video because no one gives enough of a damn to restore them).

As for Rescuers Down Under vs. the original Rescuers, there's no contest: Rescuers Down Under is a far, far, FAR better film in every conceivable way than its predecessor (though the original isn't a bad movie, either).  Along with The Great Mouse Detective and Oliver & Company, it's probably my favorite overlooked Disney animated film.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on October 23, 2011, 02:32:13 PM
The best direct-to-video Disney sequel is Lion King 2. Without a doubt.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on October 23, 2011, 02:49:04 PM
The best direct-to-video Disney sequel is Lion King 2. Without a doubt.

It's probably between that and Aladdin & the King of Thieves.  Which reminds me...I still have to watch Lion King 1 1/2 and rewatch Lion King 2 in the near future.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on October 23, 2011, 06:07:54 PM
speaking of overlooked disney movies

Anyone get a Brave Little Toaster vibe from watching Toy Story 3? When watching Toy Story 3 I had almost felt id seen the movie before, then I was like Brave little Toaster, turns out one of the writers is the same.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: MaryJane on October 23, 2011, 07:43:45 PM
speaking of overlooked disney movies

Anyone get a Brave Little Toaster vibe from watching Toy Story 3? When watching Toy Story 3 I had almost felt id seen the movie before, then I was like Brave little Toaster, turns out one of the writers is the same.

That feeling of familiarity you got from watching Toy Story 3 was most likely from having seen Toy Story 1 and 2.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on October 23, 2011, 09:28:43 PM
I highly question the validity of placing Return of Jafar over Aladdin.

As do I, especially since Return of Jafar was intended to be the first 3 or so episodes of the Aladdin TV series and Robin Williams doesn't voice the Genie.  The movie's...passable and one of the better Disney direct-to-video sequels, but it doesn't hold a candle to either the original or its sequel Aladdin & the King of Thieves.

As for American Tale vs. Fieval Goes West, I remember generally liking the sequel but not finding it particularly memorable.  An American Tale may be one of the most depressing movies I've ever seen, but it's also one of my all-time favorites (a pity that, with the exception of Anastasia, John Bluth films always look like crap on home video because no one gives enough of a damn to restore them).

As for Rescuers Down Under vs. the original Rescuers, there's no contest: Rescuers Down Under is a far, far, FAR better film in every conceivable way than its predecessor (though the original isn't a bad movie, either).  Along with The Great Mouse Detective and Oliver & Company, it's probably my favorite overlooked Disney animated film.
Watch Grave of the Fireflies...  That is depressing.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on October 23, 2011, 09:30:26 PM
Watch Grave of the Fireflies...  That is depressing.

I have, and it is.  Too much so, actually.  I've only been able to watch it once.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on October 24, 2011, 11:25:26 AM
Watch Grave of the Fireflies...  That is depressing.
I have, and it is.  Too much so, actually.  I've only been able to watch it once.
I've seen it twice.  Just happened that way.  Its a movie I recommend people watch exactly once.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on October 26, 2011, 02:49:01 PM
Attack the Block - 8.75/10

Unexpectedly a much better movie than I would have thought. I was supposed to go see this back in the spring or summer when it had limited US release, but couldn't make it. Luckily it came to DVD rather quickly and did not disappoint.

Alien falls to earth and attacks a teenage South London local... he hunts the creature down , which this leads to an invasion where the local & his crew retreats back to their building "The Block" to try and protect themselves from the vicious alien creatures hunting them down.

This movie didn't have a $60million budget, but everything was handled well. There was humor, action, violence, gore, aliens, fireworks and more. All the effects were handled very well and the aliens were pretty creepy. I would love to see a sequel or just know what happens next since the movie ends at a point where I just wanted to see more.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on October 26, 2011, 08:06:39 PM
TheThing'11  Thumbs up from someone who watched the first one EXTENSIVELY


now 2 weeks ago i did a detailed watching of TheThing'82, and I was already a fan. I got to know the movie pretty tightly, and this movie was a joy to watch. Its aimed at specifically The Thing nerds though, so unless you watched the first one like a hawk and dissected the **** out of it much of the information is lost on you.  I mean I was wondering when the axe on the wall was going to show up, and I wanted to know how it got there. As far as quality goes it was missing some elements the first one had, and it had some things going for it that the first one didn't.

From previews I had expected them to play up the language barrier a bit more, but they didn't. Which was too bad. The paranoia factor didn't reach '88 levels. It wasn't like Inglorious Bastards which really did play up languages. Also, from what other reviewers in this thread were saying they said the thing was much more visible more often, but really no the creatures only appeared about as many times as the 88 movie from the way I was counting. I thought the special effects were allright, they weren't top notch, but they were passable. There were 2 shots that looked particularly bad. Also, I couldn't tell where the practical effects were because they must have been CG altered to the point they just looked like CG. Im not a CG hater though, so that type of thing isn't going to take me out of the story for very long.

 I also re-watched the first half of the thing'82  again, and it changes how you feel about the beginning. Now I feel really sad for the Norwegian at the beginning of Thing'82, i know who he is, as he is filled out now. Now its really easy to hate on this movie, but what I really want to know is how does John Carpenter feel about it. He had said in commentary he felt really bad when the director of The Thing from Another Planet dissed his work, and he also said the problem with filming a movie is you can't enjoy it from the same perspective as the audience. This is a movie I will definitely buy on DVD or Blu Ray. Its funny it seems like its going to have exactly the same fate as the 82 version, poor reviews, poor box office. The Thing however has been known to just grow some legs long after you thought it was dead and continue to keep on existing.

 Now I want to know what happens to Kate in her snowcat, and whats going to happen when she gets to the Russian camp. Also, funny thing John Carpenter had planned on making a sequel, and he was going to use Frostbite as the reason Childs and MacReady looked older. it would be great if that coalesced.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on October 27, 2011, 12:24:28 AM
Paragraphs.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on October 27, 2011, 02:00:52 AM
So I just finished watching the theatrical Winnie the Pooh "movie" that came out this year.  This may be a little surprising since I'm sure I can come off as quite cynical and jaded, but (after Donald Duck and Goofy) Winnie the Pooh is probably my favorite old-time Disney character.  There's just something very comforting and lovable about his original film and the interactions between the various characters.  It's "child-like" without being "childish": it's a kid's movie that didn't talk down to its audience, and so it remains perfectly watchable all these years later.  And the TV series from my recollection was the same way.

This Pooh movie, however, is not in the same league.  Don't get me wrong, as it's certainly not a bad movie and it's very evident that a lot of people who really cared about this property came together to try to make a great Pooh movie in the spirit of the original film.  I just don't think this movie comes together right, as a lot of the simple charm of these characters and their situations is not nearly as prevalent.  In many ways, this almost feels like a toned-down Looney Tunes short, especially since Rabbit seems pretty clearly modeled after Daffy Duck in his mannerisms and expressions.

And there's singing now.  Why Disney felt the need to shoe-horn the cast singing some pretty terrible songs every 5 minutes I'll never understand.  The original movie was fine with the few singing numbers it had, and it just comes off as tacky and forced.  And a 50 minute run time?  Really?  Is that what we're calling "movies" these days, especially when the original Winnie the Pooh movie ran 24 minutes longer without credits?

That said, there is a lot to like about this movie, and it's obvious that Walt Disney Animation was trying so hard to do this right.  For as much grief as I'd give the tone of this movie, there are some pretty clever and well-timed comedic bits.  And there's a lot of fun had with the "storybook" concept of the series in ways that haven't been done before.  They also did an excellent job of making the film look like it was animated in the 1970s, though the occasional 3D models (mostly cel-shaded) thrown in every once in a while are a bit jarring.  The 2D animation is really fantastic as well with respect to the movie's budget.

Overall, the movie's pretty harmless, and it's a good first step for Disney in bringing this franchise back where it should be (rather than the preschool babysitter it's been for a while now).  It doesn't really appeal to me that much, but as a children's movie you can do far worse.  After the generally favorable reception this movie had, I'll be interested to see what the next Pooh movie is like.  And please, Disney....for the love of all that is holy, can we please not make this franchise about cookie-cutter musicals?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on October 27, 2011, 03:56:59 AM
better halbred?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on October 29, 2011, 02:36:39 AM
Hanna Awesomesauce/10. Great music too.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on October 29, 2011, 05:21:02 PM
better halbred?

Much better. ;-)

Also, two things: John Carpenter has gone on record as saying that the PS2 game is a sequel, and I wonder if an actual film sequel will be made since Kate's off to a third Russian camp. Who knows, maybe there are TWO survivors of the ship crash?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on October 29, 2011, 05:36:02 PM
Never played the PS2 game. Surely it's the same thing as the PC say though? The story made enough sense for the context of a game. Actually, due to it's more militarized approach, it was an almost "Aliens" like sequel. Horror to action. It isn't an upgrade by any means, but is sometimes the best route for a good sequel.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on October 30, 2011, 04:17:52 PM
Speaking of John Carpenter..

They Live 7/10

Watching it in full (and fully paying attention) for the first time today, I have to say..

With the world the way it is currently, I actually WISH this was the reason behind all of it because it would make me feel a lot better about the situation than I currently do.

grumble grumble.. let me stop now before I start ranting about how I'll be losing my job soon because it can lead into current political issues

Just remember folks; "they live, we sleep" means if we went them to die, we need to wake up.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on October 30, 2011, 06:50:24 PM
They Live 7.9.10. Fun movie. I always thought it was weird that they cast Roddy Piper. It is obvious that Kurt Russel was meant to play the main character and that he was either unavailable or to expensive for the movie. Still Roddy Piper works out pretty well as a poor mans Kurt Russel. The Message of the Day: Watch out for messages, "they" are brainwashing you!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on November 01, 2011, 05:23:21 PM
They Live 7.9.10. Fun movie. I always thought it was weird that they cast Roddy Piper. It is obvious that Kurt Russel was meant to play the main character and that he was either unavailable or to expensive for the movie. Still Roddy Piper works out pretty well as a poor mans Kurt Russel. The Message of the Day: Watch out for messages, "they" are brainwashing you!

You know, I saw this movie later in life (since I was either not born yet or too young to experience this when it came out) and because I was old enough to seek out who this "Rowdy" Roddy Piper (was never into the WWF) I was able to appreciate - albeit many, many, many years later - that one joke from the Simpsons..

You know the one ;)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on November 01, 2011, 06:12:33 PM
They Live 7.9.10. Fun movie. I always thought it was weird that they cast Roddy Piper. It is obvious that Kurt Russel was meant to play the main character and that he was either unavailable or to expensive for the movie. Still Roddy Piper works out pretty well as a poor mans Kurt Russel. The Message of the Day: Watch out for messages, "they" are brainwashing you!

You know, I saw this movie later in life (since I was either not born yet or too young to experience this when it came out) and because I was old enough to seek out who this "Rowdy" Roddy Piper (was never into the WWF) I was able to appreciate - albeit many, many, many years later - that one joke from the Simpsons..

You know the one ;)

actually whats the joke? Its it Bart Vs The Space Mutants? That game has the magic sunglasses.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on November 01, 2011, 11:15:35 PM
They Live 7.9.10. Fun movie. I always thought it was weird that they cast Roddy Piper. It is obvious that Kurt Russel was meant to play the main character and that he was either unavailable or to expensive for the movie. Still Roddy Piper works out pretty well as a poor mans Kurt Russel. The Message of the Day: Watch out for messages, "they" are brainwashing you!

You know, I saw this movie later in life (since I was either not born yet or too young to experience this when it came out) and because I was old enough to seek out who this "Rowdy" Roddy Piper (was never into the WWF) I was able to appreciate - albeit many, many, many years later - that one joke from the Simpsons..

You know the one ;)

actually whats the joke? Its it Bart Vs The Space Mutants? That game has the magic sunglasses.

Actually no, but that's a great find! That has to be a reference to They Live!!

I was referring to this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjvnRM554lw). Classic ;)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on November 02, 2011, 12:28:13 AM
Hobo with a Shotgun
Goddammit... I don't know where to begin. I know it was supposed to be cheesy, but it still sucked. And it took too long for the hobo to get the shotgun.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on November 02, 2011, 12:37:52 AM
Hobo with a Shotgun
Goddammit... I don't know where to begin. I know it was supposed to be cheesy, but it still sucked. And it took too long for the hobo to get the shotgun.

MFT Movie 18: Hobo With A Shotgun (http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/forums/index.php?topic=31343.msg696072#msg696072)

I see I wasn't the only one that thought that, but I still tried to make the best of it.
The "Terror Squad" at the end was just way over the top though.


and I wouldn't exactly recommend this movie to anyone. There is no redeeming qualities to it whatsoever.
It wasn't good, but at the same time it wasn't so bad that I could MFT it... it was just plain bad.


with 1 or 2 scenes that should be on youtube, but not worth sitting through the movie for.
I already suffered it so that none of you had to.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on November 02, 2011, 02:30:21 AM
I didn't think it was so bad. I mean, yeah, it was terrible, but it was meant to be one of those 70's exploitation/gore movies, which it was. In spades.

I'm currently watching Machette, which is a much better MOVIE, but also full of over-the-top violence and gore.

Danny Trejo FTW.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on November 02, 2011, 02:43:43 AM
I prefer Hobo with a Shotgun to Machete, they are in the same genre though. Same lineage. What would be more awesome would be Machete vs Hobo. My friend was talking about how they should make a 2nd hobo with a shotgun, this time having Gary Busey as Rutger Hauer's sidekick. I said they should just say Rutger Hauer is the previous Hobos twin brother, my friend then said they should just not explain it, which works out well too considering it worked for Return of the Living Dead 2

more importantly, Where the **** is Thanksgiving?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on November 02, 2011, 10:59:26 AM
I thought that Machete played out much better, with the exception of the big, boring (and stupid) finale.

Hobo was a letdown in that Rutger Hauer played a meek wimp throughout the whole thing. He should have been truly kicking ass instead.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on November 02, 2011, 05:37:36 PM
it took too long for the hobo to get the shotgun.

Guess I'll be taking Hobo w/a Shotgun off my netflix que..
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on November 02, 2011, 06:11:03 PM
Don't!

They need to make that move too


and just for fun here are....
The Original Grindhouse Trailers

Thanksgiving
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZE7tyW8CYXs

Original Fake Machete trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1GTPwMN2qg

Original Fake Hobo with a Shotgun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LlazPgxKrA

Don't
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7W_sMFoyMs

Werewolf Women of the S.S.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlTjMzowSig&feature=related

not part of the group, but more than deserves to be

Black Dynamite
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96Y24a0cyCE

Kung Pow: Enter the Fist, the proto-exploitation parody
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXrAYdSeWY8

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on November 02, 2011, 10:27:13 PM
I've always thought that the Thanksgiving trailer was among the best. I doubt a full movie would be as entertaining, but the preview definitely accomplished what it set out to do.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on November 02, 2011, 11:32:12 PM
years ago there was supposed to be a "trailer trash" movie filled with fake trailers, and id rather see that.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on November 03, 2011, 02:18:00 AM
I don't remember Hobo w/a Shotgun being part of the Grindhouse trailers.. but man I wish Thanksgiving would be a real movie haha. Anyone seen Thankskilling? That's been on my queue since last year but I haven't brought myself to watch it yet.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on November 03, 2011, 03:59:04 AM
it only showed up in the Canadian release, it was the contest winner for SXSW festival.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on November 07, 2011, 03:16:34 AM
Dear 'Conan The Barbarian',

I don't even know where to begin. Well how about the beginning? I loved how you open the story with Morgan Freeman narrating. I loved how in the very next scene, a woman was giving birth to Conan....in the middle of a battle field. I loved how after he is born, his father raises him up in a 'Roots' like manner (Behold, the only thing greater than yourself), while his buddies were dying all around him. I also love that in the span of 20 minutes or so after that, I saw about a hundred people die and maybe 40 different pairs of breasesests. That's one hell of a death to tit ratio; 'Rambo' (even 'Rambo 4') ain't got **** on that. I like how after those 20 minutes you bring back Morgan Freeman to explain absolutely nothing critical to the story. I had no idea what the hell he was talking about, but it sounded like the truth.

From that point on though, your movie suuuuuuuucks. You were all over the place. A strange place to be in considering this is a revenge story line. From having Tibetan monks protect a harem of white American girls whose pimp is an Italian dude who looks like a sheep, to having Arabic-ish names for cities but no one there speaks arabic, or having a lesser character act so terribly that his accent changes when he yells or having him say **** that only Mr. T would say ("Calm down FOOLS!"), but probably most egregiously is having a black dude be captain of a giant ship -- I was willing to suspend my disbelief until then. In the words of Rocco from 'Boondock Saints', "This mix and match **** gots to go."  At one point you had Conan sneak into a fortress only to find out that the girl and guy he's looking for left. No seriously, they got to the main hall and were like "Where the **** is everyone?" only to look out a window and see a caravan of people leaving. Sloppy storytelling.

This wouldn't have mattered so much if your main character was likeable. I thought he did a fantastic job in 'Game of Thrones' but here...man...at best he's hilarious and at worst he's ridiculous; never is he serious. It's pretty messed up when the child actor playing the same part is better than you. Halfway through the movie I thought to myself, "This would be a lot better if Morgan Freeman narrated his lines instead." Like when he was about to say something clever or say goodbye to a friend, Morgan Freeman's voice would appear and be like "And then he said 'I want your head' to his enemy....maybe...it was never written down or anything, but he probably said it."


When he let his sword do the talking, your film flowed much better. But enough about him, what the hell did you do to Rachel Nichols? In the words of the reporter from South Park "She's pretty hot, Tom." But you did something to make her look shitty. Every scene it seemed like someone just got done raping her, but in a bad way. You know what I mean.

Here's a promotional photo of her from her last movie, 'G.I. Joe':

(http://cache.reelz.com/assets/content/article/comic-chicks-Rachel-Nichols-1.jpg)

Hot, right? Now here's a promotional photo from 'Conan':

(http://www.moviesoffice.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Conan-the-Barbarian.jpg)

Now you may be saying to yourself....But Stogi, that's a shitty picture of her. Regardless of that fact, that's how she looks throughout the movie; old and witch like. At least her body didn't suffer from the terrible make-up decisions.

But most disappointing of all is your climax. You don't seem to have one. It's like a mixture of when the bad guy gets 'The Mask' and when Dr. Jones has to save his chick from 'The Temple of Doom', but nowhere near as exciting, hilarious or intense. I had so many questions during those last few vital scenes. For instance, where did the bad dude's army go? At one point they where there giving high-fives, like "Yeah...Finally, we're about to see this bitch get cut up." Then Conan walked RIGHT THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF THEM and the next moment they were gone. Also, as soon as the villain got the mask and powered it up, what powers did he possess? There was so much hype about him becoming a God or Shadow Lord or something cool but the only real tangible power I saw (or should I say heard) was his ability to make his voice louder. What kind of **** is that? You're telling me this guy went around the world collecting pieces to form a mask, killing thousands on the way, then spent 20 years finding a pure breed chick in order to make his voice louder. Lame. So so so very lame. Then after he dies from falling into the deepest trench on earth I guess, Conan just takes the bitch he just saved back to her crib and then dips. What is he, bashful? He already beat on a rock in a dark, dank cave...that doesn't sound like bashfulness to me.

The only thing that kept me watching the entire movie was the halfway decent set pieces of violence and the hopes that Morgan Freeman would return to make a terrible movie better. Hell, I was hoping it would skip to the future and Morgan Freeman turned out to be the black dude commanding the ship. How great that would have been....

Never Watching You Again,
Stogi
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on November 07, 2011, 03:30:44 AM
So glad I didn't fit that into my "day at the movies" schedule even though my girl heavily insisted on it. I take it upon myself to protect us from watching horrible movies, especially when they are lined up 3-4 in a row, and other movies just seemed more interesting than what I had seen of Conan.

Thanks for validating my choice on that day.
I will let her see for herself why it was a good decision on the day it arrives in a red envelope in the mail.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on November 07, 2011, 05:13:16 PM
But...but...Rachel Nichols...
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on November 07, 2011, 05:38:39 PM
A damn shame. I know.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on November 07, 2011, 09:10:09 PM
Every scene it seemed like someone just got done raping her, but in a bad way. You know what I mean.

You mean like actual rape?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on November 07, 2011, 09:34:31 PM
Despicable Me - Even better than I hoped. The Minions were so funny and wish they were featured more, and I laughed when I saw that the 3 minions were still in their family disguises later. And the the way Gru changed by the end was nice.

Battle Royale - I will admit that most of the students were inter-changeable, and it seems very odd that these were apparently supposed to be 9th graders (i.e. 14 years old) when they seemed to all be about 19 or 20. And their former teacher had an abnormal obsession with that one girl. The one transfer student was a complete psycho, and wish we had found out why since he never actually talks.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on November 08, 2011, 11:06:02 AM
Despicable Me - Even better than I hoped. The Minions were so funny and wish they were featured more, and I laughed when I saw that the 3 minions were still in their family disguises later. And the the way Gru changed by the end was nice.
...
I was surprised by how good Despicable Me was.  My Family and I went to a Car Show at opening on Family Day to get a free copy of the movie.  When it  came in the mail and we put it in for watching it the first time my son insisted on watching it again right afterwards.  Its fairly good.  Also if you watch any of the recent movies made by the same studio the Minions shows up the beginning acknowledgements doing something with there logo.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on November 09, 2011, 01:01:57 AM
In Time - 6/10

Justin Timberlake isn't good enough to carry a movie. The premise dictated that the cast be young, but that also meant the movie was filled with b-listers. The film, while watchable, wasn't enough to distract you from some of the more obvious plot holes (one character death in particular comes to mind). The plot isn't nearly as thick as the premise, which actually gets more intriguing as you're more exposed to the world. Also, the time puns at times seems unintentional, but some of the writing might suggest otherwise.

I'd go with people who don't mind talking during the movie. . .and maybe while under the influence.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on November 09, 2011, 12:52:50 PM
In Time, I think I'll wait till the Logan's Run remake, or rental whilst very bored at best. I've seen enough dystopian future movies with a similar enough premise to know what it is. Conan sounds like Transformers 2 in the middle ages.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Lithium on November 09, 2011, 03:51:31 PM

Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva (http://www.anime-planet.com/anime/professor-layton-and-the-eternal-diva)


I just finished playing professor layton and the unwound future (http://www.gametrailers.com/video/review-pod-prof-layton/705817) and loved the animation and artstyle so i decided i would check out the movie as well. I recomend this movie to people who havent played any layton games and aren't sure whether they should buy the game or not or like professor layton but arent fond of puzzle games. This gives you a pretty good idea of how Layton games are like.


As a movie by itself though it's pretty whimsical like a movie based on Layton should be. They managed to work in things from the game such as the puzzle solving and puzzle music (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkRBb5IAvKQ&feature=related) pretty cleverly. However the last 1/3 of the movie gets extremely wacky. It's around here where the movie will either fall apart for you or make you smile at the over the top sillyness of it all (more than usual), that too stays true to the Layton games as well.


Similar to Studio Ghibli (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_Ghibli) movies this is a light hearted, escapist popcorn movie where you can turn your brain off and enjoy the world the animators created, just don't expect a masterpiece story line.

3.5/5

Funny thing is just after i finished this i decided to listen to the newest ep of RFN where they talked about it lol

Dear 'Conan The Barbarian....

Never Watching You Again,
Stogi

Yeah i was forced to watch that because i was the only one in my group of friends who didnt want to see it and i basically just ended up walking out of the theatre XD
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on November 16, 2011, 08:35:29 PM
Immortals 8/10

Great popcorn film; ie.plot is eh, action is really good, visuals are very well done IMO (the costume designers were some bad ass MOFO's, seriously) and above all Mmmm Freida Pinto (https://www.google.com/search?q=Freida+Pinto&hl=en&safe=off&prmd=imvnsuo&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=22PETq_pC-r20gH57o2gDw&ved=0CDAQsAQ&biw=1024&bih=667&sei=3WPETovSGLPJ0AGK1bilDw)

does anyone know if that's an actual nude scene with her, or did she use a body double?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on November 16, 2011, 10:30:36 PM
She would be run out of her home country for doing an actual nude scene (no, seriously), so I can almost guarantee she used a body double. If you didn't see her FACE in a full frame shot, it's probably a body double.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on November 16, 2011, 11:07:57 PM
Immortals 8/10

Is that the film "about" Theseus and the Minotaur? Looked like another 300 to me. :-\
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on November 16, 2011, 11:13:42 PM
I thought it was hilarious that the Immortals trailer makes it even seem like a knockoff to 300.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on November 17, 2011, 12:04:44 AM
The movie is much better than the trailer, and better than 300. The end of the movie was especially bloody.

Hal, in that same scene we did see her face and one boob in the same shot.

It's not about the Minotaur at all, he pretty much just appears on one scene for about 3 or 4 minutes. The main antagonist is King Leonidas.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on November 17, 2011, 12:32:25 AM
the main Antagonist is king Leonidas...sold...not much  minotaur though..thats too bad. Leonidas II ?


edit:
ok I looked it up, it says King Hyperion. The only person with a name close to Leonidas is a character called Lysander ....
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on November 17, 2011, 12:47:00 AM
Saw J Edgar the other night. It's a great film. Leonardo DiCaprio was phenomenal. I could see why some people wouldn't like it due to some of the themes and especially the way they depict the character's mental stability. Thought I was gonna say homosexuality, didn't you? Because they only kinda half do it. And it's kinda of a weird thing for someone a large part of the film's audience would've known and (probably) respected.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on November 17, 2011, 01:05:19 AM
the main Antagonist is king Leonidas...sold...not much  minotaur though..thats too bad. Leonidas II ?


edit:
ok I looked it up, it says King Hyperion. The only person with a name close to Leonidas is a character called Lysander ....

Whoops, got it mixed up with 300 (watched 300 right after I got back from the theatre). The minotaur in the movie is pretty badass though, even if he was only briefly in the movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on November 17, 2011, 04:15:32 PM
The movie is much better than the trailer, and better than 300.

That's not exactly saying much...
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on November 20, 2011, 04:49:29 PM
Attack the Block 7.5/10 That was pretty cool, I like how they made the aliens both cool looking and ridiculously cheap.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on November 20, 2011, 04:59:41 PM
This is one of my Avatar candidates for next Halloween

(http://i42.tinypic.com/35a1w91.jpg)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on November 26, 2011, 08:49:28 PM
Due to the recent deluge of games these past few weeks, I haven't watched much in the way of movies.  However, after finishing Telltale's new Jurassic Park game, I was suddenly in the mood to watch Jurassic Park 3 and then Jurassic Park ("why did I watch the 3rd movie first", you may ask.  The simple answer is that I didn't want Jurassic Park 3 to be my most recent memory of the series).  No, I didn't watch the second one because...well, **** that crappy movie.

I remember really coming away from Jurassic Park 3 in the theaters disgusted and angry, but watching it now it really isn't that bad.  It's a decent little movie whose biggest crimes are being completely unnecessary and being thoroughly surpassed by the first film.  Having Alan Grant back as the main character did a lot to make the film more enjoyable than the second film, as well as ditching the second film's preachy environmentalist message.  It's not a film I really ever want to watch again, but I was reasonably entertained watching it.

As for the original Jurassic Park, we all know it's a classic and it's one of Spielberg's best works despite only somewhat following the original novel.  The effects still hold up rather well, the pacing is really good, and the film only suffers from a couple of really sappy "Spielberg"-ian moments (mostly involving Grant and the kids).  What surprised me rewatching it, though, is that I forgot how often the movie goes for the laugh, sometimes to its detriment.  There are a couple of scenes where I felt that a particular joke was funny but really didn't fit the scene (in particular the "Disneyland/pirates" line).  It's still a great movie, and I'm very annoyed that to get it on Blu-Ray in its latest form you have to buy the other two movies.  I don't want the other two Jurassic Park movies.  No one does.

Now, in celebration of the new Muppet movie (which I still haven't seen, and I'm having trouble trying to coax some of my other family members to see it with me), I am going to be watching some of my favorite old Muppet movies over the next week or so: The Great Muppet Caper (which tends to get really overlooked), The Muppet Christmas Carol (perhaps my favorite version of that story), and Muppet Treasure Island (Tim Curry + Kermit the Frog. Enough said).  Somehow, I also never got around to watching The Muppets Take Manhatten, so I'll be checking that out for the first time as well.  It should be fun.   :D
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on November 27, 2011, 03:43:37 AM
I saw the Muppets yesterday. It's great. How could anyone NOT want to see it? Christ, it's amazing.

As for JP3, it commits far too many "big summer blockbuster" sins against science for me to even be watchable. I should actually write a nice big list of reasons that movies fails on a scientific level. It could be pretty funny (example: Spinosaurus and Deinonychus both know how to break a neck for the kill). The first movie does feel a little too "Spielberg" at times, yeah, with the damn kids. My one big enduring complaint about the original film is that the T.rex's enclosure goes from "enclosure" to "bottomless pit." Where, exactly, was the poor tyrannosaur standing five minutes ago? On the top of a palm tree?

I'm going to do the Jurassic Park 3 critique. Tonight. It's gonna be great.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on November 27, 2011, 03:49:36 AM
Jurassic Park 3 was an abomination. Piss-poor story aside, the special effects actually look worse than the original film. At least The Lost World was watchable.

The Muppets was great. Not the best, but far from the worse in the series. :)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on November 27, 2011, 05:45:50 AM
Zach Eviscerates Jurassic Park 3 with Extreme Prejudice

'Round town here, my hatred for Jurassic Park 3 is legendary. I spit on this film, and the filmmakers, and Jack Horner for attaching his name to it and calling himself their "paleontology consultant." He collected a paycheck is what he did. He called Spinosaurus a "super-predator" in interviews. I don't think the lot of you have been exposed to my wrath regarding this film, which is a heap of scientific inaccuracy the likes of which the world has never seen. What's that, you say? Older films made worse mistakes? Sure, The Valley of Gwangi and Carnosaur made errors too, but they were, in fact, working with the best science had to offer at the time. Most of the inaccuracies of Jurassic Park 3 can be chalked up to stupidity, completely lack of knowledge (about the subject), or a failure to read Wikipedia. Let's get on with it...this will be fun.

The Dog Brain

(http://msnbcmedia2.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/110412-science-birds-8p.grid-6x2.jpg)

The film starts at a score of less than zero: Dr. Grant's idiot grad student produces a 3D-printed model of a dromaeosaur brain. Grant seems surprised--ain't technology grand? Well, technology is stupid, because you're holding a dog brain, Alan. Yes, Canis familiarus, the one you feed every morning and pick up after. It shits on your lawn. You'd think the filmmakers would have picked a bird brain, since birds are theropod dinosaurs, but NO--you had to go with a dog brain. What's a raptor brain look like? Well, the image up top shows Bambiraptor's brain in blue. Not very big, is it? And it doesn't look much like a mammal brain, either. So good job, morons, you made the public think that raptors have dog brains.

Oh, and that's not even the worst part. The worst part is that Dr. Grant and his colleagues use the brain like a duck call, blowing into one end to produce a trumpeting noise. This is not how brains work--brains don't have random hollow spaces in them. It'd be a different story if they were holding up a 3D model of sinus passages, but they're holding up a DOG BRAIN. My god. MY GOD. And even blowing into a brain ( :confused; ) produced any sort of noise comparable to the natural sound made by that animal, it would apparently be a barking noise, because it's a DOG BRAIN. YOU IDIOTS.

Spinosaurus vs. Tyrannosaurus

(http://images.wikia.com/dinosaurtypes/images/a/a9/Spino_vs_Rex_2.jpg)

Fun fact: Tyrannosaurus rex's bite force has been estimated to be between 185,000 and 235,000 pounds per square inch. The closest modern animal to that is the great white shark, and the next best is the crocodile. But they both orders of magnitude less than Tyrannosaurus rex. The image above is where the fight should have ended--Tyrannosaurus would have crushed Spinosaurus' neck like a dried-out twig, but somehow neither party even bled during the battle (a massive failure of CGI that was repeated in King Kong) and the Spinosaurus even apparently made T.rex hurt with its own bite, something that is laughable given the fact that spinosaurs consistently have the weakest bite forces among theropods. These were fish-eating animals that didn't need strong bite forces. Their bites have been compared to gharials, whose snouts will actually break if their prey struggles or they bite something that's too hard.

And then Spinosaurus won because of my next complaint.

Neck-Breaking Theropods


You'll recall that Spinosaurus won the fight because it managed to break Tyrannosaurus' neck. Later, an unusually large Velociraptor (actually Deinonychus) breaks some dude's neck instead of disembowling him or something. Gonna tell you right now: theropods had (and have) no concept of how skeletal systems or nervous sytems work. Go figure. Also, Tyrannosaurus' neck was bathed in muscle--it had the most powerful neck of any theropod. The muscle mass alone would've made breaking Tyrannosaurus' neck basically impossible. Goddamnit, I hate this movie.

Spinosaurus in General

(http://images.wikia.com/jurassicparkcarnivores/images/e/e9/11461SPINOSAURUS.jpg)

They made this dinosaur up. I'm not kidding. It is a composite animal made from the undead remains all known spinosaur material known at the time (probably 1999-2000) which wasn't much. The group remains a bit mysterious to this day. In the late 90's, the best known spinosaurs were Baryonyx from England and Suchomimus from Niger. Spinosaurus is a real dinosaur--it was based on a dentary and several dorsal vertebrae unearthed in the 1930's. But nobody really knew what it looked like. These scant remains were destroyed in a bombing raid during WWII. Thankfully, the bones were exquisitely monographed prior to their destruction. In 2006, a large portion of Spinosaurus' snout was described. This indicated that Spinosaurus (and South America's Irritator) were significantly different than the more basal Baryonyx and Suchomimus. But hey, it really did have that big dorsal sail.

(http://the_dinosauria.tripod.com/suchomimus.jpg)

That picture is actually MINE (that is, I drew it) and I was surprised to see it on a website I'd never heard of, and I wasn't given the image credit. Wonderful. Anyway, this is Suchomimus, and it's clearly where we got the Jurassic Park 3 Spinosaurus. Minus the awesome central crest, that is. The film's Spinosaurus also has massive bear mits, which spinosaurs did not have, though they did get the enlarged thumb claws right (I know, I was surprised too). And yes, while Spinosaurus was an enormous theropod (a bit longer than Tyrannosaurus), it wasn't the size of Godzilla.

"Pteranodon?" Seriously?

(http://pterosaur.net/popular_culture/pteranodon_jplw.jpg)

So that's an excellent version of Kansas' Pteranodon. It's from the very end of The Lost World. This is what it looks like in reality, basically. A big, toothless, long-winged animal that probably weighed about 80 pounds. Now...here's what the Jurassic Park 3 "Pteranodon" looks like.

(http://www.icollector.com/images/1202/14989/14989_0894_5_lg.jpg)

I have no words. People are often surprised to learn that pterosaurs were incredibly lightweight. I find this surprise puzzling--birds have hollow bones to allow flight. Pterosaurs got pretty huge, so they'd also need to be very lightweight. There is no WAY it would be carrying a small child who probably weighed as much if not more than itself. There's also no evidence of parental care in pterosaurs--all evidence points to hatchlings being flight-capable and basically being miniature versions of the adults--like lizards. Oh, and remember how I said Pteranodon didn't have teeth (it's name actually manes "winged and toothless"), the abominations in Jurassic Park 3 actually do have conical, Pterodacylus-like teeth.

Also gotta love that final pterosaur shot, of the one Pteranodon suddenly looking at the survivors as if to say "You're next, humans."

Raptors had Feathers. They had Feathers in 2001. They had feathers in 2000. Ceolurosaurs had feathers in 1999.

(http://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/Sinornithosaurus_Dave_NGMC91-Jan-2011-resized.jpg)

This is Dave, a juvenile Sinornithosaurus, a small raptor from China. It's a smaller cousin of Velociraptor. And Deinonychus. It was discovered in the late 90's and described in 2000 (hence the species name "milleni"), so it was known during the production of the film. Fully covered in feathers. Head to tail. But the filmmakers pussed out and only tossed some..."things" on top of the male Deinonychus heads. Looks a little like this guy, actually:

(http://www.vgmuseum.com/end/arcade/d/primtalon-3.png)

Yup. Primal Rage got exactly that much right in 1994.

The Other Dinosaurs


There are some "new" dinosaurs in Jurassic Park 3. The most surprising one was Ceratosaurus nasicornis, a basal theropod from the Late Jurassic of North America. It was handled with some modicom of respect, although it certainly didn't have binocular vision. The ankylosaurs, seen briefly when everybody is sleeping in a tree, conform to the unfortunate "Ankyloplocephalus" syndrome: ankylosaurs in virtually every media form are called Ankylosaurus because it's popular, but they always end up being based on Euoplocephalus, a large ankylosaur who was radically different in terms of body armor, but far better known. Finally, we've got the World's Fattest Brachiosaurs standing on the riverfront, displaying jiggling fat rolls that would have been completely unknown on the real animal.

So, in closing, I hate Jurassic Park 3. Questions?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on November 27, 2011, 06:02:05 AM
Riff track? You can educate me and make a movie watchable at the same time.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: NWR_insanolord on November 27, 2011, 06:09:21 AM
Zach Eviscerates Jurassic Park 3 with Extreme Prejudice

'Round town here, my hatred for Jurassic Park 3 is legendary. I spit on this film, and the filmmakers, and Jack Horner for attaching his name to it and calling himself their "paleontology consultant." He collected a paycheck is what he did. He called Spinosaurus a "super-predator" in interviews.

So you're telling me if someone offered you a bunch of money to be called a paleontology consultant and say stupid **** about the movie and help create crazy CG models of dinosaurs you wouldn't do it just because the movie wasn't realistic?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Lithium on November 27, 2011, 10:51:17 AM
that rant was actually really entertaining XD

If i ever for whatever reason in the future need a paleontology consultant I'm giving Zach a call.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on November 27, 2011, 11:41:20 AM
Pirahna - 6/10
Let me just say that as a movie, Pirahna was absolutely terrible...but for some reason it was quite enjoyable to watch. The CGI was SyFi Channel quality at best, but the makeup-type and prop special effects were gruesome and nicely done. The people being dragged out of the water indeed looked like they had been mutilated by man eating fish. The all-too-predictable last scene was actually sown in commercials, which was pretty lame and ruined the "shock" but I must say that the gratuitous nudity made up for many of the movie's shortcomings. Is the movie worth watching? No. Should you watch it anyway? Yes.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on November 27, 2011, 11:45:27 AM
Zach Eviscerates Jurassic Park 3 with Extreme Prejudice

(http://the_dinosauria.tripod.com/suchomimus.jpg)

(http://www.vgmuseum.com/end/arcade/d/primtalon-3.png)

So, in closing, I hate Jurassic Park 3. Questions?
but you apparently love hotlinking...

You should have posted this in MFT ;)
and you should also use imgur to host all your images
(there is an extension for both FF & Chrome so all you have to do is right click to upload - see the "How To" thread for a link)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on November 27, 2011, 12:40:05 PM
So I've watched two of the Muppet movies now: The Great Muppet Caper and The Muppets Take Manhattan.

I found Great Muppet Caper to still be a very fun little film to watch, which is why I'm surprised that the film seems to be strangely overlooked and less available than the other Muppet films.  Let's get one thing straight from the beginning: This is a stupid movie, with plot holes and wanton silliness as far as the eyes can see.  But here's the other thing: the movie knows it.  The entire premise of this very self-aware film is that the Muppets are putting on this movie for you.  The film starts with them mocking the opening credits, and the intro song is about how they're making a movie.  There is no 4th wall in this film, as characters are fond of stopping the movie to comment on the absurdity of certain situations or to chastise the acting of another character.

To me, Great Muppet Caper is exactly what a Muppet movie should be: more than a little weird with the dry satire that the Muppets were originally created for.  The movie is just fun to watch, the songs are pretty good, and the Muppeteering is as good as the Jim Henson-era Muppets always were.  Just don't expect a deep narrative or some statement on the human condition, and it's a fun ride.

What wasn't a fun ride was The Muppets Take Manhattan.  It's ironic that I picked this as the follow-up film to Great Muppet Caper, because it is the exact opposite sort of experience.  There are no winking nods to the audience, no satire, no comedy.  It's your standard issue "kids from the small town go to the Big City to make it big!" story played completely straight, and I found the end result spectacularly dull.  This movie has its fans, probably the same ones who liked the original Muppet movie (another film I don't enjoy), but I'm certainly not one of them.  To me, if you're not going to have even a hint of comedy in your film (which even The Muppet Christmas Carol has, and that's a pretty serious film), why are you making a Muppet movie, especially with a script this bland?  The Muppets were created to be comedic characters, often fond of satire or dry humor.  This type of movie doesn't suit them.

I went through those movies quicker than I expected.  I would add more Muppet movies to the stack, but I've heard nothing good about "Muppets from Space" or "Muppets' Wizard of Oz."

As for Jurassic Park 3, I just enjoyed it as a simple popcorn action movie.  It's not a great movie and Halbred has pointed out many scientific errors it made with the dinosaurs, but I found it enjoyable enough for a single watch.  I'm actually surprised it took me almost half the movie to figure out that I knew the mother character in the film from Silent Hill.   :D
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: NWR_insanolord on November 27, 2011, 01:12:38 PM
I really like the original Muppet Movie, but don't care for Muppets Take Manhattan. I haven't seen The Great Muppet Caper in a while (though your talk of it has made me want to), but your description makes it sound like they took all the great things about The Muppet Movie and just ratcheted up the ridiculousness.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on November 27, 2011, 05:05:15 PM
I've actually considered trying to rewatch the original Muppet movie during this run, as I haven't tried to watch it in probably well over a decade.  I don't think I've ever gotten through the entire movie without having to skip large sections because of some (IMO) less-than-pleasing musical numbers.  I might like it better now, but it's just very hard for me to get into that movie (and many others from the 70s).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on November 27, 2011, 05:18:16 PM
As for Jurassic Park 3, I just enjoyed it as a simple popcorn action movie.  It's not a great movie and Halbred has pointed out many scientific errors it made with the dinosaurs, but I found it enjoyable enough for a single watch.  I'm actually surprised it took me almost half the movie to figure out that I knew the mother character in the film from Silent Hill.   :D

You're confusing Tea Leoni with Radha Mitchell.

Also, @insanolord: Jack Horner is an ACTUAL paleontologist. He should know better.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on November 27, 2011, 06:20:06 PM

You're confusing Tea Leoni with Radha Mitchell.

So it seems. But the way that Tea Leoni looks in some scenes in Jurassic Park 3, there's a remarkable resemblance.  Not so much anymore, though, judging by her IMDB photo.

It figures, though.  I've watched so many animated series, I can pick a voice actor out in a few seconds.  But I have a lot of trouble distinguishing live actors/actresses from one another by appearance.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on November 27, 2011, 06:32:07 PM
Also, @insanolord: Jack Horner is an ACTUAL paleontologist. He should know better.

You gotta excuse Insanolord. Ever since he became a mod, the concept of integrity has been all but lost to him.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on November 27, 2011, 07:36:23 PM
little jack horner sat in the corner collecting his paycheck from jurassic park 3
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Lithium on November 27, 2011, 10:37:47 PM

You're confusing Tea Leoni with Radha Mitchell.
It figures, though.  I've watched so many animated series, I can pick a voice actor out in a few seconds.  But I have a lot of trouble distinguishing live actors/actresses from one another by appearance.


the only voice actor i can recognize is Steve Blum. That guy is is everything.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on November 27, 2011, 10:40:10 PM
little jack horner sat in the corner collecting his paycheck from jurassic park 3

Man, how long have you been sitting on that joke?   :P: :

Well, another day, another long period of tedious lawn work followed by another Muppet movie, this time being Muppet Treasure Island.  I liked this movie back when I first saw it, and I still had a good time watching it now.  The storytelling is fairly solid (I haven't read Treasure Island in nearly 2 decades, but this version feels true to the beats of that story), the Muppeteering is as good as ever, and the two main live actors for Hawkins and Long John Silver are superbly well-cast to be in a Muppet movie.  Then-young Kevin Bishop has just the right amount of emotion and whimsy to play this Jim Hawkins, and if that is him singing in the movie I have to applaud his seeming perfect pitch considering how high up the scale his part is.

The real star of the show, of course, is Tim Curry as Long John Silver.  As the undisputed King of hammy acting and hilarious facial contortions, you couldn't have picked a better actor to play the villain in a Muppet movie.  And he's obviously having the time of his life trying to over-act a collection of felt puppets.  But to his credit, when he's not hamming it up and randomly laughing like a mad man, he has some genuinely good scenes with Kevin Bishop.  He's just pure fun to watch on-screen in a movie where he's supposed to be incredibly cheesy.

As for the humor, it's definitely downplayed a bit compared to something like Great Muppet Caper, but I think the comedy is still very much prevalent.  It is very odd to hear Muppets utter the word "kill", though.  And the music is overall surprisingly good, with the opening "Shiver My Timbers!" song being one of the catchier songs I've heard in a long time.

Now, I'm going to put Muppet Christmas Carol on hold for a while until we're closer to Christmas, as I just don't feel in the spirit for Christmas movies or music just yet.  I'm still on the fence on whether I'll watch the original Muppet Movie.  No, watching an old Nostalgia Critic video got me in the mood to to watch more of a goofy movie.  I might even be in the mood for an extremely goofy movie I've never seen before, if you will.   ;)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on November 27, 2011, 10:42:23 PM

You're confusing Tea Leoni with Radha Mitchell.
It figures, though.  I've watched so many animated series, I can pick a voice actor out in a few seconds.  But I have a lot of trouble distinguishing live actors/actresses from one another by appearance.


the only voice actor i can recognize is Steve Blum. That guy is is everything.

Along with Crispin Freeman (though not so much anymore now that Geneon is gone), Wendee Lee, Yuri Lowenthal, Johnny Yong Bosch, and Nolan North.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on November 27, 2011, 11:12:05 PM
little jack horner sat in the corner collecting his paycheck from jurassic park 3

Man, how long have you been sitting on that joke?   :P: :

its obvious i put no thought in that joke, move along.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on November 28, 2011, 03:19:22 AM
Jurassic Park 3. I still enjoy parts of that movie but other parts I can't stand. But one of the dumbest things of all in that movie and bugs me every time I see it, is in the middle of the movie, when Grant and the kid meet up with the other people on the island and are seperated by a massive iron fence. And then Grant realizes he's trapped on the same side of the fence as the Spinosaurus.

The Spinosaurus then charges after Grant and the Kid but the escape at the last second through a small hole in the fence. The Spinosaurus walks away in defeat and everyone is relieved at this near miss. Except the Spinosaurus suddenly makes a running charge at the fence and busts through it. That was actually an awesome twist. So, the humans run to a small building just up ahead. The run inside the building and close the wooden doors and put a plank across them.

There is some bumping against the doors. Presumably the Spinosaurus trying to get them. But then it stops and they are safe. WHAT?! We just saw the Spinosaurus had the power to break through iron, steel and concrete not less than two minutes ago but suddenly wood is it's Kryptonite? There's absolutely no way those doors would have held against the size and charge of that dinosaur given what we were just shown.

It's stupidity like this that hurts the movie more than its dinosaur factual inaccuracies. I can let that stuff slide. But when the movie can't even be consistent with the dinosaurs it has created, that's just bad filmmaking.

And I also hate how they made the dinosaurs more multicolored. The green skin from before was fine. The purple shading just makes everything look faker.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: NWR_insanolord on November 28, 2011, 10:41:49 AM
I resent that. I have never had any concept of integrity, before or after joining the staff.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on November 28, 2011, 10:57:28 AM
I saw The Muppet Movie.  Everyone on the forums should see it so we can make in Jokes.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on November 28, 2011, 02:40:24 PM
I saw The Muppet Movie.  Everyone on the forums should see it so we can make in Jokes.

Maniacal laughter...
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on November 28, 2011, 03:12:31 PM
I saw The Muppet Movie.  Everyone on the forums should see it so we can make in Jokes.
Maniacal laughter...
Ha Ha Ha Ha *looks around uncomfortably*
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Shaymin on November 28, 2011, 07:22:11 PM
"Hey, it's a Hollywood movie! You going to see it?"
"How can I? I'm blind!"
"Oh, so you're the lucky one!"
"DO-HO-HO-HO!"
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on December 02, 2011, 09:39:58 PM
Dear 'Pom Poko',

You kick ass.

Your friend,
Stogi
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on December 05, 2011, 12:30:03 AM
Batman Year One

It should have been better.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on December 05, 2011, 09:35:20 PM
It was terrible.

I said this on Twitter while I was watching it: It's like they went out and found the WORST POSSIBLE voice actor for Bruce Wayne. They actively seeked him out.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on December 05, 2011, 09:46:14 PM
It's nice to see people agreeing with my original view a few months back that Batman: Year One is a terrible movie, ironically by being a very literal translation of the comics.  Of course, Frank Miller's fans are all over the internet gushing over the movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on December 05, 2011, 09:49:18 PM
Commissioner Gordon sounded like Batman.

It should have been better.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on December 05, 2011, 10:05:35 PM
The commissioner sounded like Walter White
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on December 05, 2011, 10:23:48 PM
The commissioner was Walter White talking like Batman.

There was a moment near the end where Gordon was talking, but I thought it was Batman when I wasn't looking at the screen. I think either Gordon sounded that way the entire episode and it took me that long to notice, or there was an accidental voice swap at the end.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on December 05, 2011, 10:30:28 PM
oh no i haven't seen it, i just thought it was funny Bryan Cranston is the voice of Gordon.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Shorty McNostril on December 06, 2011, 10:37:28 PM
I actually just picked up Green Lantern in 3D.  I know it is globally hated but I didn't mind it in a mindless way.  And I've always liked Ryan Reynolds. (Will they ever bring 2 Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place to DVD?) 

The only real reason I bought it was because it was $24 brand new in 3D.  I have had a 3D TV for about 3 or 4 months now and have not yet watched any 3D media on it.  I think it was worth the $24, and I think the 3D effects are quite good in it.

The real 3D movie I want though is Transformers 3.  There is no way in hell I am paying $50 to $60 for 1 damn movie, I don't care what it is.  Oh that wingsuit scene......
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on December 06, 2011, 11:16:19 PM
As I promised, I did watch two very Goofy Movies:

A Goofy Movie - I remember really liking this film when it originally released, and it surprised me to see that it has such a mediocre Rotten Tomatoes ranking.  Why do people seem to dislike this film?  It's fun, it's a great "Father and Son" story (which really adds some great dimensions to Goofy's character), it has more than decent animation (with really great lighting) considering it wasn't a major Disney animated feature, and there's some decent music in there.  There are some really striking visuals in this movie, like the scene where Goofy walks into a room after discovering something important about Max, and you can just see the shock and betrayal all over his face.  It's a very moving film in places.  And what's funny now about this movie to me is that I've now essentially been on this movie's roadtrip, considering my dad and I recently spent a week traveling cross-country and back to deliver a car to my sister.  It just feels funnier to me now.

Yeah, I know that it's a little weird and funny seeing the Disney of that time try to do a "hip" modern story with things like cars and hot tubs and whatnot, but I still really enjoy this film.  And it feels like a fitting continuation of the Goof Troop TV series, despite some strange omissions like Pete's wife and daughter.

An Extremely Goofy Movie - Up until now, I hadn't seen this film.  I didn't even know it existed until recently.  Being a Disney direct-to-video sequel, I expected it to completely suck but I was pleasantly surprised at how decent it is.  It's not as good as the first movie, but the story it tells is a logical extension of the original movie and the situation that results from that feels believable as a modern story: Max is going to college, and Goofy finds himself going through "Empty Nest" syndrome with no one else in his life.  You really have to feel for Goofy as he spends the early parts of this movie in obvious pain, leading to him destroying his life and finding out that he doesn't have a future anymore because he never completed college.

So Goofy goes to college all 70s-style, which produces the sort of situations with his son that you would expect and some great moments.  There's also a really strange sidestory involving Max and his friends trying to win a campus Extreme Sports competition that I feel the movie could have done without.  Overall, though, it was pretty harmless and had some good "Goofy" moments.

The animation's pretty decent for a direct-to-video Disney film, though not as striking as that of the original movie.  The music's pretty mediocre in this one, but it's not a focal point of the story this time and no one sings, so it's ok.  And I thought the story the movie told was a fitting bookend to the original Goof Troop series, with Goofy and Max parting ways on good terms, both off to live new lives.  It's not a terribly great movie, but by the standards of Disney direct-to-video sequels it's easily one of the best.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on December 07, 2011, 02:06:35 AM
I have I2I as my ringtone. Just sayin'
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on December 07, 2011, 02:14:14 AM
I have I2I as my ringtone. Just sayin'

So that's what that song is called.  Yeah, I liked that song in all its 80s/early 90s-ness.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on December 07, 2011, 12:15:57 PM
I actually just picked up Green Lantern in 3D.  I know it is globally hated but I didn't mind it in a mindless way.  And I've always liked Ryan Reynolds.

I watched it the other week and was surprised by how average it was. I was expecting a complete train wreck. The CGI certainly lived up (down?) to the bad press, but the story overall was fairly mediocre. It was certainly more entertaining than Thor, which is really sad. I've never liked Ryan Reynolds, I find him to be excruciatingly annoying. He was alright this time around, at least once the movie really got rolling.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on December 07, 2011, 12:32:16 PM
Ryan Reynolds is hilarious and that's exactly why he should stick to comedies. I can't take him seriously.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Lithium on December 07, 2011, 01:47:24 PM
Dear 'Pom Poko',

You kick ass.

Your friend,
Stogi


Transforming ballsacks.
that is all.


Japanese mythology is so awesome XD
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on December 07, 2011, 02:16:12 PM
I didn't think Green Lantern was bad but, the thing about Green Lantern is that the Mythos are what you really get into GL for.  The companion DVD Cartoon they did for the movie was the Corp facing a current problem but, also telling stories of past deeds.  A movie like that be interesting.

Though some things don't translate well.  Take Watchmen, the movie is not nearly as good as the comic but, I honestly believe that Watchmen leveraged the medium so well that you couldn't really do it in any other medium correctly.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on December 07, 2011, 09:30:02 PM
Ryan Reynolds is hilarious and that's exactly why he should stick to comedies. I can't take him seriously.

Which is why they need to fast track that Deadpool movie ASAP.
He can have his action, his "Superhero" and his comedy all in one.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on December 07, 2011, 09:35:27 PM
Ryan Reynolds is hilarious and that's exactly why he should stick to comedies. I can't take him seriously.

I would normally agree but Smokin' Aces wasn't that bad, and the new movie he'll be in with Denzel looks decent..
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on December 08, 2011, 12:34:14 AM
I didn't think Green Lantern was bad but, the thing about Green Lantern is that the Mythos are what you really get into GL for.  The companion DVD Cartoon they did for the movie was the Corp facing a current problem but, also telling stories of past deeds.  A movie like that be interesting.

Though some things don't translate well.  Take Watchmen, the movie is not nearly as good as the comic but, I honestly believe that Watchmen leveraged the medium so well that you couldn't really do it in any other medium correctly.

I was disappointed in it somewhat. I loved the comics, but it wasn't a disgrace. I could see Watchmen being made differently. It tried to be frame for frame the same as the comic except the ending. It was good in the comics, but that's not the way to make a movie. If I did it I would change how the story is told without changing the story. I would have the squid/plant monster thing too. Someone like Paul Veerhoven would do it justice.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on December 08, 2011, 09:48:45 AM
I didn't think Green Lantern was bad but, the thing about Green Lantern is that the Mythos are what you really get into GL for.  The companion DVD Cartoon they did for the movie was the Corp facing a current problem but, also telling stories of past deeds.  A movie like that be interesting.

Though some things don't translate well.  Take Watchmen, the movie is not nearly as good as the comic but, I honestly believe that Watchmen leveraged the medium so well that you couldn't really do it in any other medium correctly.

I was disappointed in it somewhat. I loved the comics, but it wasn't a disgrace. I could see Watchmen being made differently. It tried to be frame for frame the same as the comic except the ending. It was good in the comics, but that's not the way to make a movie. If I did it I would change how the story is told without changing the story. I would have the squid/plant monster thing too. Someone like Paul Veerhoven would do it justice.
The movie can stand in its own right but, the layering that really makes Watchmen trying to squeeze that into a movie...  I could see it possiblly done in a TV Series because it could go longer and could have specific episodes dedicated to say the Comic in the Comic which is really about the Comic.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on December 08, 2011, 04:56:36 PM
Dear Studio Ghibli films,

I've been watching your movies over the past two months. And though I haven't watched all your movies (I have not scene 'Ocean Waves', 'My Neighbors the Yamadas', and 'The Cat Returns'), I feel like I have seen enough to write you this note.

Your animation is excellent. Let me get this out of the way now. The scenery you put your characters in are masterpieces. 'Princess Mononoke' comes to mind; there are so many instances where I wanted to pause the image to simply appreciate the art. As for your characters, no matter how fantastic, they have weight. It's really impressive. The portrayal of their emotions is also amazing. It's almost as good as Pixar who I think with 'Wall-e' has barely out done you. Still, your art style is what I enjoyed the most.

The settings in which the story takes place is also wonderful. One movie will be a simple farm, while the other will be in a make believe world with magic, dragons, and cursed beings. While very different, most of your movies had a familiar thread of concept no matter how whimsical or tempered. And I appreciated that.

Now to talk about the story of your movies. You start them off so wonderfully. Every movie I saw grabbed my attention within the first minute and made me say 'Wow' several times in the next 30. During the second act, you either focused on the story or the character relations, but had trouble doing both. Still, it was good and I was more than willing to see them through. Then came your third act where you almost always drop the ball. The story never convincingly ends in an appropriate way. It's either love this or love that, or a dues ex machina, or it just simply ends (as 'Porco Russo' did). Out of the 14 movies I've watched, the only movies I feel that actually ended well are 'Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind', 'Pom Poko', 'Grave of the Fireflies', 'Princess Mononoke', 'Castle in the Sky', and 'Only Yesterday'. (I would like to give special attention to the ending of 'Grave of the Fireflies' because it ended the most convincingly. There were no special tricks or mythology needed. It was perfect.)

So less than half of your movies left me walking away satisfied. It is a shame because as I said before, your characters, art and settings are so well crafted. If only the story could be to.

Still, I can't wait to see what you come up with next.

Your friend,
Stogi
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on December 08, 2011, 05:02:37 PM
I've gradually started finding the Studio Gibli titles increasingly tiring to watch.  Their animation may be good, but the animators only know how to draw maybe half a dozen different characters.  I swear half their movies star the same girl with a slightly different hair style. 

And just about every Gibli film that involves Miyazaki has an overbearing environmental message.  Yes, Miyazaki, we get it.  You think mankind is evil, and the planet would be better off with them having as little an involvement as possible.  Guess what?  I don't care anymore.  I'm sick of every movie you do being about the evils of MAN!!! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTg5Ldqm8ME)

And I actually thought Kiki's Delivery Service had a good ending, too.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: bustin98 on December 09, 2011, 02:54:31 PM
I don't think the message is mankind is evil, more like mankind doesn't stop to consider the consequences of their actions.

I love when hair kinda raises up when someone gets frustrated or iritated...

I kinda agree with people looking similar, but I think its part of the art style. How many other animation studios have put out so many feature length movies that feature so many people? I think the number of people they draw far out-strip even Disney.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on December 10, 2011, 12:12:03 AM
its like lloyd kaufman and corperate evil, can one of his movies not be about it?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on December 10, 2011, 12:29:32 AM
its like lloyd kaufman and corperate evil, can one of his movies not be about it?

Something like that, I guess.  I have no problem with Miyazaki deciding to make an environmental movie.  He has beliefs he wants to get across, and that's fine.  The problem is that he just keeps doing it (without having anything new to add to his message in every subsequent movie), and with the exception of arguably Princess Mononoke it's all about how perfect nature is and how evil MAN is.  Mononoke's the only film I can think of that viewed MAN with a sympathetic (if still not accepting) light.  And with every new movie, he finds new ways to beat you over the head with the issue, often to the exclusion of fun.  We get it, Miyazaki.  You believe man despoils nature and is destroying the planet, which is terribly ironic when you manufacture movies made from materials from the planet that then fill landfills in later years.  Enough.  Can we just have a movie from you that's actually fun and not your personal environmental soapbox for the same preaching you've been doing since the 80s?

Then there's Howl's Moving Castle, of course, which decided to be a condemnation of the Iraq War at literally the last minute, but that's another bizarre story.   :Q

There's good reason why my three favorite Gibli movies are Kiki's Delivery Service, The Cat Returns, and Porko Rosso: they're the only Gibli movies that aren't about anything special in particular other than having fun.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: SixthAngel on December 10, 2011, 02:00:51 AM
I didn't think Green Lantern was bad but, the thing about Green Lantern is that the Mythos are what you really get into GL for.  The companion DVD Cartoon they did for the movie was the Corp facing a current problem but, also telling stories of past deeds.  A movie like that be interesting.

I really like Ryan Reynolds so I was looking forward to watching it.  I also know a lot of stuff about GL but don't read the comics.

I started it and the first 10 minutes was a voiceover telling me the entire backstory and this other bullshit.  I stopped right after that.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on December 10, 2011, 03:13:18 AM
@Broodwars:

Totoro! Don't forget Totoro! It doesn't really have an anti-man/technology, it's just a simple story about a two girls who are going through a rough patch and are befriended by adorable forest creatures. Also, the umbrella scene!!! Seriously, Totoro is one of my favorite movies ever. It just makes me so happy.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on December 10, 2011, 04:48:49 AM
@Broodwars:

Totoro! Don't forget Totoro! It doesn't really have an anti-man/technology, it's just a simple story about a two girls who are going through a rough patch and are befriended by adorable forest creatures. Also, the umbrella scene!!! Seriously, Totoro is one of my favorite movies ever. It just makes me so happy.

I've actually never seen My Neighbor Totoro, or Pom Poko for that matter.  I have to be in a very specific mood to watch a Studio Gibli film (the sameness in the art style and Miyazaki in general just deters me), and I just never got around to see those two films.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on December 12, 2011, 06:30:12 PM
The Help - Heard it was a good movie, it exceeded my expectations. Great story, looks good, and I learned a new way to get revenge on someone. LOL
Mr. Hollander's Opus - About a struggling musician who takes a job as a teacher to save some money to let him concentrate full time on writing music, and ends up teaching at the school for about 30 years. Deals with a son who becomes 90% deaf and spends more time with the kids at his school than his own family. Very well done.
Dead Poet's Society - Slightly less good than everyone seems to say, but still worth watching. One of Robin Williams' better non-comedic roles, though the ending is so-so.
The Emperor's Club - Never heard of it before, but I liked it. It showed that some people are douche's all their life and never change.
Pleasentville - I like these throwback movies, and a nice showing for how some people are stuck in the past and will do whatever they can to stop society from progressing.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on December 14, 2011, 04:04:26 AM
Fright Night(remake)-when I saw the trailer I face palmed, but $1.00 redbox at midnight when your bored makes things not seem so bad. This actually turned out to be pretty good, the beginning starts off pretty much the same, but it takes a left turn and gets good. 7.5/10. Its no Let the right one in, but its no Sub Species either.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on December 14, 2011, 05:28:41 AM
All except for the face at the end... that was just horrible. You have to subtract .5 just because they thought that was good enough to not leave on the cutting room floor.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on December 14, 2011, 05:34:16 AM
oh stupid new vampire face? Isn't it weird old style vampires on Peter Vincents stage are more pleasing to look at than knockoff Dusk till Dawn Fred Williamson face. Old style vampire fangs are something that ain't broke, so thus shouldn't be fixed.

(http://www.emory.edu/LIVING_LINKS/uploaded_images/canines-774231.jpg)
(http://www.thewolfmountainnaturecenter.org/mama-wolf.jpg)

if it works for nature it works for fiction, overdoing it wrong

a fucking sharks mouth will not fit in a human head.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on December 14, 2011, 06:12:47 AM
Drive

A really surprising and a very enjoyable old school movie. While this movie doesn't undo that stain that is the Fast movie franchise and the countless stupid car movies, along with the equally stupid "culture" that spawned from it, it shows that yes, Hollywood can make a bloody good movie without CGI overload, tensionless car chases. The damn thing is that the trailer is full of complete lies and sells this movie as if it were a transporter movie.

The only thing I do have a minor issue with this movie is that the director was a little too heavy handed when it came to Ryan Gosling's character especially with those really pregnant pauses. They serve a really important function, but it's a little too much.

That said, this movie is golden. It has all the hallmarks of a Michael Mann without the ridiculous length, pretentiousness, sub-glacial pacing or the unnecessarily convoluted story lines. It's full of tension that knows when to release it and it hits like a truck to the face. It is a tight 100 minutes that always deliver. It plays with your expectations and bitch slaps you every time.

On a slight tangent, this is probably the first time that Christina Hendricks has ever been in an unappealing outfit. I mean sure you know that is her and she is still smoking, just ready to explode out with that amazing bodacious body of hers, but white trash is white trash, no body can make that work.

Sleeper Hit of the year.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Lithium on December 14, 2011, 07:08:00 AM
I've gradually started finding the Studio Gibli titles increasingly tiring to watch.  Their animation may be good, but the animators only know how to draw maybe half a dozen different characters.  I swear half their movies star the same girl with a slightly different hair style. 

And just about every Gibli film that involves Miyazaki has an overbearing environmental message.  Yes, Miyazaki, we get it.  You think mankind is evil, and the planet would be better off with them having as little an involvement as possible.  Guess what?  I don't care anymore.  I'm sick of every movie you do being about the evils of MAN!!! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTg5Ldqm8ME)

And I actually thought Kiki's Delivery Service had a good ending, too.


Agreed. especially about the character design.  They're great for shutting your brain off and looking at the pretty animation or when you just want somthing light hearted that wont challenge you but ultimately you only need to watch a handfull of Ghibli movies to get the gist of it. Although Grave of the fireflies (http://www.anime-planet.com/anime/grave-of-the-fireflies) was pretty awesome.  (I dont think Miyazaki was involved it this so go figure)


also you should watch pom poko. It beats you over the head with an environmental message but it does it with such class. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sd5YNZKBI0Q) It's worth sitting through just for the Culture shock value XD



@Broodwars:

Totoro! Don't forget Totoro! It doesn't really have an anti-man/technology, it's just a simple story about a two girls who are going through a rough patch and are befriended by adorable forest creatures. Also, the umbrella scene!!! Seriously, Totoro is one of my favorite movies ever. It just makes me so happy.


don't click this link unless you want your childhood ruined. (http://my.opera.com/sukekomashi-gaijin/blog/tonari-no-totoro) It's a pretty creepy urban legend about this movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on December 14, 2011, 12:19:04 PM
Lithium. That makes me like Totoro more. I need to watch it again.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on December 14, 2011, 01:48:07 PM
That doesn't surprise me really in the least.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on December 14, 2011, 02:53:02 PM
Drive

I tried watching this a couple of months ago, and found it one of the most boring movies I ever saw. Not something I was into.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on December 14, 2011, 04:40:17 PM
it sounds like TJ can't take slower paced movies, lay off the caffeine.

The Devils Double 8/10. This movie was cool. It could have been a 9 if it had less 1 dimensional characterization and better editing/transitioning. Its loosely based on an autobiography that was loosely based on real life. Its like the Prince and the Pauper, but more realistic and gangster. The acting was good, but the writing lacked motivation. The good guy was good the whole time, the bad guy was bad. You'd think he'd give into temptation a bit to keep it interesting, but no.

Holy Rollers 7.9/10 This was a good movie, not as cool. Similar themes. More realistic characters, less gratuitousness.

Good Neighboors 8/10. This was fun to watch.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on December 14, 2011, 04:57:50 PM
I have The Devil's Double and Good Neighbors.

Been meaning to watch both of them. I guess they both just moved up the list.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on December 14, 2011, 05:04:12 PM
I like plenty of slow paced movies. I just don't like movies with dull plots, uninteresting characters, and pacing that is slower than a iceberg.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on December 14, 2011, 05:36:17 PM
Glacier?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on December 14, 2011, 05:47:55 PM
I'll admit. Drive was good but it was kinda slow for absolutely no reason at times. It could have used one more heist before the climax to keep it interesting and show us his skills. Better yet, why didn't they show us him racing?

Still a good movie, but it starts out so well you think it's going to be amazing.

Devil's Double is a much better movie. It has it all except for a less than well done ending. I was expecting something smarter. Still a great movie and I'd watch it over Drive every day of the week.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on December 14, 2011, 06:21:38 PM
Icebergs are fast you know! I have seen them run down ships.

Most of the slowness of Drive was due mostly from how conversations are based more on how real conversations are done, opposed to how hollywood normally does it where everybody is always ready with something to say. Except for the Driver, while his pauses did go on a little long, there is something wrong with that man and what he does and how he does it is the only thing keeping it in check. Evidence: the elevator scene. While it was disappointing not to see the Driver race, it was done so you would share the grief the characters go through. The movie constantly builds your expectations before demolishing them. A movie that is faster couldn't do that level of subtly, it would be too busy moving on to the next set piece.

Really slows films, and I mean Bose–Einstein condensate (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bose%C3%A2%C2%80%C2%93Einstein_condensate) slow, go watch a Michael Mann film. They have some great set pieces, especially the climax to Heat, but they are ungodly slow, unnecessary to the point of indulgence. By the time you get to the famous scene, you have forgotten what half the movie is about. That movie ran for 170 minutes, OVER 3 HOURS for a heist movie. Drive is comparatively greased lighting. I dare you to watch Heat TJ, then you will understand what slow paced means, assuming don't die from DVT.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on December 14, 2011, 11:29:17 PM
heat is slow
so is manhunter
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on December 15, 2011, 01:23:50 AM
Well, I put off getting this for a long time due to money problems lately, but life's been sucking and I've been more depressed recently than not so it seemed the time was right to get it: the "Diamond Edition" Blu-Ray of The Lion King, my favorite Disney animated film.

Of all the Disney movies I've ever seen (and at this point I've seen just about all of them), it is the one that has always had the most emotional resonance to me.  It's Disney at the top of their game, which is amusing considering this was considered by Disney during its development as the lesser project behind the eventually-mediocre Pocahontas.

It's certainly not a perfect movie, though.  When I was a kid, I hated "I just can't wait to be King" for the way it shatters the tone of the movie, though I can understand now why it's there.  I still alternate, though, from viewing to viewing whether I dislike that song or Timon & Pumbaa more for the way they clash with the rest of the movie.  This time, I have to go with the duo.  I can certainly understand why they're there: to provide the movie a much-needed injection of cheer after an incredibly dark and emotional scene.  Despite the necessity of their role in the film, though, the two of them just bug me (pun intended) because of how they suddenly introduce pop culture and comedy elements into a pretty self-contained and dramatic universe.  In many ways, they're the harbingers of the glut of mediocrity that this style of comedy would bring in the Disney films to come.

Of course, those few irritations are nothing compared to what this film does right.  To me, no other Disney animated film can even begin to touch the Lion King when it comes to use of color, animation, cinematography (outside one just plain bad-looking CG shot during the Hyena march), and drama.  This movie easily has 3 of the most incredible sequences Disney ever made: the still stunning opening sequence with the Circle of Life; the most emotionally impacting death scene I think Disney's done yet (and the sequence that precedes it); and the "ghost" scene later in the movie.  This movie is the gold standard by which I judge all other Disney films, and sadly this film was the end of the Disney Renaissance that began with Oliver & Company (Hah! You thought I'd say "The Little Mermaid", didn't you?  ;) ).  Disney never has made a movie of its caliber ever since, though Pixar's put forth several worthy attempts.

As for the Blu-Ray, it's what I expect of Disney's animated Blu-Rays: the picture quality is pristine, the audio sounds great, and the extras are...plentiful, but kind of confusing to find.  Many of the older features are only available through the online BD-Live feature, and I give that only a few years before they're taken down.

The upside, though?  Not only is the horrid "Morning Report" song not in the movie anymore (unlike the previous DVD release), but although it's apparently on the disc I can't find it.   :P: : : :
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on December 15, 2011, 01:44:41 AM
I wouldn't call Pocahontas mediocre (I really like it), but I will agree that The Lion King is better (there is a reason it's the top grossing 2D animated movie of all time).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on December 15, 2011, 01:54:30 AM
I wouldn't call Pocahontas mediocre (I really like it)

Pocahontas is a very weird movie for me, in that the more I think about it the less I like it.  I remember liking it when I saw it as a kid in theaters.  However, when I think back on it now, the only thing about the movie I find memorable/exceptional is the soundtrack (which I do really like).  I haven't seen the movie in years, but I remember the rest of the movie being...ok.  It just never really struck an emotional chord with me, as hard as it tried to do so.

Now a Disney movie I need to get around to watching again for the first time since its theatrical release is The Hunchback of Notre Dame.  I really did not like that movie when I originally saw it (though, once again, I was a kid and maybe couldn't really appreciate what it tried to do) outside, once again, the soundtrack.  I remember REALLY hating those g-damn gargoyles, though.  However, that movie is pretty far down the queue, as I have a few other (largely overlooked) Disney films I like much better in mind to watch over the next few weeks.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on December 15, 2011, 01:58:02 AM
I haven't seen it in like 10 years, but I love the soundtrack (I still listen to some of the songs now, especially "Colors of the Wind").
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on December 15, 2011, 02:12:34 AM
i have problems with Pocahontas and Hercules.

John Smith was a pirate and a scoundrel  and Pocahantis married John Rolfe
Hades is not Satan. And Hera is the proper villain to Hercules because Hercules is the bastard son of Zeus.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on December 15, 2011, 02:31:47 AM
Pocahontas did marry John Rolfe in the direct-to-video sequel Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World. Besides, it's not a biopic.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on December 15, 2011, 03:14:50 AM
Disney movies are Disney movies because they do stuff like that. You can't end a children's movie with say the main character cuddling up with his girlfriend's corpse until he dies.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on December 15, 2011, 03:18:10 AM
I hated Pocahontas 2. I didn't care that the first one wasn't a bio-pic. It told it's version of the story well and I enjoyed it overall. Direct-to-video sequels for Disney in general are horrid (only exception I can think of being the Aladdin ones) but Pocahontas 2 just felt like they were bowing to those complaining about the first film's "historical inaccuracies".

Hunchback is probably one of my top three favorite Disney films. You just have to pretend the gargoyle statues aren't there most of the time (though I did think their names were clever being named after the story's author and his sister).

I sometimes wish that Disney had gone the route Don Bluth took with his (earlier and better) animated films. Too bad there wasn't a market for more mature animated features that were not comedies.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on December 15, 2011, 03:50:34 AM
Disney should stay the hell away from real people, fairy tales are alright because they are made up out of thin air.

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on December 15, 2011, 10:21:24 AM
Pocahontas is a terrible movie full of bullshit. I don't expect Disney to teach history lessons - but stay the **** away from real life events. The movie is just plain disrespectful if you ask me.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: bustin98 on December 15, 2011, 02:00:56 PM
I believe if real events are turned to movies, there is a responsibility to represent the events in a factual manner. Disney fucking up Hans Christian Anderson is one thing, screwing with history is another.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on December 15, 2011, 02:21:47 PM
Pocahontas is a terrible movie full of bullshit. I don't expect Disney to teach history lessons - but stay the **** away from real life events. The movie is just plain disrespectful if you ask me.

How is it disrespectful? If anything, they go out of their way to be overly respectful. Do you complain when other movies use real people as characters? Hate the Ice Age movies because they are historically inaccurate? Schindler's List? The Passion of the Christ? I could name others too.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on December 15, 2011, 02:23:29 PM
The Passion of the Christ?

I thought were were talking about real people?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on December 15, 2011, 02:27:05 PM
Jesus Christ man, what the hell do you think you are doing... *facepalm*
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on December 15, 2011, 02:29:36 PM
Let's not get this thread locked, you guys.

Anyone seen the new Pokemon movies?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on December 15, 2011, 03:07:24 PM
The Passion of the Christ?

I thought were were talking about real people?

Whether or not you believe in religion, it's confirmed that there was a person named Jesus who lived in that area (that is not disputed, even among those who are not religious). Whether you think he was the son of god (or if there is even a god) is a different story.

The last Pokemon movie I watched was Pokémon: Arceus and the Jewel of Life, I have been meaning to watch the last 3 though.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on December 15, 2011, 03:23:17 PM
Pocahontas is a terrible movie full of bullshit. I don't expect Disney to teach history lessons - but stay the **** away from real life events. The movie is just plain disrespectful if you ask me.

How is it disrespectful? If anything, they go out of their way to be overly respectful. Do you complain when other movies use real people as characters? Hate the Ice Age movies because they are historically inaccurate? Schindler's List? The Passion of the Christ? I could name others too.

If they are childrens movies. Hey lets teach our kids false history! Also, when dealing with native American and African American issues Hollywood fucks up 99% of the time. When I saw the preview for The Help I cringed and facepalmed.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on December 15, 2011, 04:20:47 PM
The Help is a good movie, anyone who likes good movies should see it.

Again, Pocahontas was a fictional movie. The kids who think it's based on facts are the same stupid kids who do stuff like jump of roofs thinking they can fly like Superman.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on December 15, 2011, 04:43:03 PM
My big problem with Pocahontas is that it's a movie full of mixed messages.  It's a film that seems to have something it wants to say about colonial America, but it's completely toothless and apologetic about it.  The writers clearly either did not have, or (more likely) were not allowed by the Studio Execs, strength in their convictions.  It's a very safe movie, which comes in stark contrast to just how many risks the Lion King (its immediate predecessor) and The Hunchback of Notre Dame (its immediate successor) took.

Say what you will about Miyazaki, and I have.  However, as much as I dislike the way he beats his audience over the head with his pro-environmentalist B.S., I can at least respect that he's willing to take a stand for what he believes in and is totally unapologetic about it.

Pocahontas, though, is just so wishy-washy.  The film seems to be setting up a message about how colonists from England invaded North America and then subjugated the local people and stole their land, and it is fond in dialogue of trying to reinforce that message.  But in doing so it does its damnest to make sure it can't offend anyone in any conceivable way.  John Smith is only a somewhat-ignorant pretty boy who wants to make out with a now-fully-adult native fashion model.  The colonists aren't really bad people who want to enslave the local populace and convert them to their culture.  They're just following a vaguely homosexual and murderous leader!

Not to go into politics, but it's like if our president gave a speech on an enemy nation and said "This is the most fundamentally evil country that ever existed, and its people are barbarians.  But they're really pretty decent people,  honest!"  It's weak and toothless, and it undermines anything you might have to say.

Let's not show how much of an issue the language barrier would have been in those times towards developing some mutual understanding!  Let's just resolve it all with magic wind that makes everyone speak English!  Let's make sure the few acts of violence are based more around misunderstandings than massive culture differences, and let's make sure they play out in the vaguest possible way (like how that one dude gets shot to death when the bullet hits his...soul, I guess).

At least the music and animation were good, though.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: kraken613 on December 15, 2011, 05:07:00 PM
I saw The Muppet Movie.  Everyone on the forums should see it so we can make in Jokes.

I went and saw it with my good friend last weekend. The first 5 minutes both of us had huge smiles plastered across our faces for the next two hours.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on December 17, 2011, 11:45:28 AM
despite its flaws, i really liked the new thing movie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2bsXC-uhXQ&feature=related

this is really screwed up though....this is what was cut out.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on December 17, 2011, 05:16:58 PM
What do you mean? The majority of those creatures were in the film--and I'm really impressed by how much of it was practical effects! The last critter, though, I didn't recognize that one.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on December 18, 2011, 01:27:59 AM
They built most of the creatures with practical effects creatures, but they didn't use them. I'm sure it was some weird studio bullshit going on.  I defended this movie to death, but seeing the practical effects versions of the monsters makes you face palm. I would say only 40% practical effects made it in the movie, when it should have been 80%. Though while having a better realistic fidelity their movement is jerky. This is bizarre. Still a great prequel despite its flaws.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on December 18, 2011, 02:55:14 AM
I would bet money that the practical monsters were used as bases for the CGI models. It's also possible that the practical monsters were in long shots or close-ups. It's ALSO possible that the practical models were used a lot, but with lots of post-production CGI touch-up. Like the dude on the helicopter? Maybe?

But wouldn't that be an awesome job?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on December 23, 2011, 06:20:12 PM
I've been watching some Christmas-related movies lately, but I'm going to wait on posting about them until I've seen all 3 (Scrooged, Die Hard, and The Muppets Christmas Carol).  Notably, it's the first time I've ever seen Die Hard.

Considering some of you have been telling me to watch My Neighbor Totoro, though, it's really coincidental that today my sister (who knows next to nothing about the anime I watch) actually gave me the DVD of that movie today as a Christmas present.  So yeah, it looks like I'll be sitting down to watch that soon after all.   :P:
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on December 23, 2011, 10:13:22 PM
I've been watching some Christmas-related movies lately [...]

Go no further than Batman (1989]) and Gremlins (1984). Bar none the best holiday themed films ever.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on December 23, 2011, 10:20:59 PM
I would bet money that the practical monsters were used as bases for the CGI models. It's also possible that the practical monsters were in long shots or close-ups. It's ALSO possible that the practical models were used a lot, but with lots of post-production CGI touch-up. Like the dude on the helicopter? Maybe?

But wouldn't that be an awesome job?

yeah, it sounds like a pretty neat job, It actually should be much less time consuming than it was in the 80s. Theres innovations that make mold making that much easier. IDK, hopefully when I get a camera soon I'll be able to make a low budget movie that looks like a million dollar movie. I spent most of my last 2 years of art school researching new materials to see how I could get things cheaper and I think If i had a big enough garage I could make something that looks just as good as Alien. The real balance is what you make practical, what you do digitally, what you you use models for. For low budget practical is the way to go, the cost of CGI has just skyrocketed and its no longer feasable. Im a proponent of CGI, but you know I just think its easier to do it for real. I'm not going to be able to get Weta or Pixar to do stuff for me, and anything less than that is going to be shitty on arrival.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on December 25, 2011, 02:32:54 AM
Alright, some brief impressions of some holiday-themed movies I've seen lately (some for the first time):

Scrooged - Man, I hated this movie.  I know it seems to be considered a "holiday classic", but I just can't understand why.  It doesn't come across as "funny", just mean-spirited and so desperate to try to make the audience laugh that it isn't actually funny.  I'm starting to wonder if I even like Bill Murray anymore, because the only movies he's in that I like are the two Ghostbusters films; Groundhog Day; and the seemingly-overlooked "What About Bob?"

The Muppet Christmas Carol - Still my favorite version of this story.  The music is pretty decent, and Muppeteering is great (as always), Michael Caine is great (as always) as Scrooge, and the film is very well-paced and fun to watch.  I was surprised to not see the "When Love is Gone" musical sequence during the film, though.  It must have appeared in some earlier home video release I've seen before, because apparently it was cut from the theatrical version and it wasn't in this version either.  It wasn't a great song and I can understand why it was cut, but it's weird that they left in the reprise of the song (where the lyrics are reversed) at the end of the movie.  Not my favorite Muppet movie, but it's up there.

Die Hard - This was a really fun movie, though in true 80s fashion it took a good 20 minutes to get there.  The dialogue was great 80s cheese, the villains' plot was fun to watch unfold (and it felt pretty original and clever), the action sequences were very well-staged (and reasonably believable), and Bruce Willis had some really good moments as the lead.  I didn't enjoy it perhaps as much as something like Terminator 2, but it does feel a good deal more clever than most action flicks.  Definitely recommended.

Die Hard 2: Die Hard-er - This was another fun movie, and I think it was slightly better paced than its predecessor due to not needing time to establish Bruce Willis' character.  The action sequences were just as enjoyable as the first movie's, though definitely not as believable.  The "ticking clock" scenario worked a lot better than I thought it would, as well.  The villains this time around were a disappointment, though, as their plot is pretty straight-forward and doesn't really have much depth to it.  The main villain was definitely a poor substitute for Alan Rickman.  I also have to take major issue with the movie's Big Twist towards the end, as it makes absolutely no sense (why would Bruce Willis still be alive by the point the twist was revealed?) and feels tacked-on.

I did have to laugh at how Die Hard 2 seemed to openly mock the implausibility of these events happening to the same guy around the same time of year as the first movie.  It's like the filmmakers were begging through the dialogue to let Die Hard 2 be the last in the franchise.  Unfortunately (given how "meh" I was on Live Free or Die Hard), they didn't get their wish.  I still recommend this movie, though.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on December 25, 2011, 03:29:57 AM
Another good Bill Murray film you missed out on: Stripes (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083131/). A classic comedy. It's absurd, it knows it, no scenery gets left unchewed. To be honest though, most, if not all, of Bill's truly funny films have been Harold Ramis written films so he really should get the credit.

Die Hard 2 was a patch job. They had a movie that had nothing to do with Die Hard before mashing them together. That's why Die Hard 2 makes no sense. Die Hard 3 is a much better film mostly because of Jeremy Irons. Unfortunately, the ending is terrible. There is an ending (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSVwuFsiZv4) on the dvd that is so much better, the physics of it is a bit dumb, but the characters are spot on. 3 like 2, was also begging to end the franchise. Die Hard 4 , well less said about that movie the better.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on December 25, 2011, 03:34:30 AM
Another good Bill Murray film you missed out on: Stripes (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083131/). A classic comedy. It's absurd, it knows it, no scenery gets left unchewed. To be honest though, most, if not all, of Bill's truly funny films have been Harold Ramis written films so he really should get the credit.

Hmm...I'll consider it.  I'd forgotten that that movie existed, and I've never seen it.  Sadly, it looks right now like Bill Murray peaked with Groundhog Day, and I don't have much hope for him in the supposed Ghostbusters 3.  He was easily the worst voice actor in that Ghostbusters game, and allegedly he recently vetoed the latest version of the Ghostbusters 3 script.

As for Die Hard 3, as I liked the first two films I'll probably check it out in the near future.  Jeremy Irons should be fun to watch, as fond of scenery-chewing as he is.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on December 25, 2011, 03:13:24 PM
Bill Murrays humor is dry as ****, its not supposed to be outright hilarious. Its supposed to be cynical.

Scrooged is probably my favorite Christmas Carol version, but only because of the visuals. Groundhog Day is Murrays best movie, and i hear because of it Harold Ramis and Murray haven't got along since. This is probably why he doesn't want to do another ghost busters.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on December 25, 2011, 07:18:37 PM
Caddy Shack anyone?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: NWR_insanolord on December 26, 2011, 01:47:55 PM
I don't think Caddyshack as a whole is a very good movie, but Bill Murray is great in it. All the parts with him or Chevy Chase or Rodney Dangerfield are great, and the rest of it is largely awful.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on December 28, 2011, 12:01:58 AM
I've never seen Caddyshack, but it's intrigued me for a while now.  I might check that one out as well.

Well, first things first.  Let's get a few family-related Christmas movies out of the way:The Santa Clause and The Family Stone (both of which I watched with the folks over Christmas).  However crappy the sequels got, the original The Santa Clause is a holiday favorite of mine.  It's cheesy and a bit campy, but juuuuust to the right amount so it comes off as sincere and charming (especially with how well the music is used in certain sequences).  It's also an original Christmas story with an interesting concept, something that seems rather rare with these kind of movies.  It's just an enjoyable, (dare I say) "magical" and harmless family movie that you can sit down and watch with whole family.  It's a pity that Disney ruined it all with the two horrible sequels.

As for The Family Stone, it's a movie with some serious problems that I felt was merely ok.  The ensemble cast seems very well-cast, but most of the characters don't really have anything to do in the story.  And the main male lead is a jerk that I never empathized with, no matter how hard the movie tried to make me.  The movie overall is like watching a less-crude version of Meet the Parents, and on that level it's alright.  It's certainly not a Christmas classic IMO, though.

The big movie I want to talk about, though, is one that I've been wanting to see for the better part of a month now.  Yep, it only took my evil sister from L.A. nearly destroying the family Christmas, but I finally managed to get the family out to see The Muppets.  Does it live up to the hype?  Oh hell yes.  I loved this movie.  It's a strong contender for my favorite movie I've seen this year.

I really only have two big problems with it: the first 5 minutes or so of the movie are very hard to get into, because it demands the audience to invest themselves in a bunch of characters new to the Muppet universe, and it relies WAY too much on the nostalgia of the original Muppet Show TV series.  Thankfully, the ice gets successfully broken 5 minutes into the movie after an increasingly cheesy (but good!) music number immediately ends with a well-timed 4th Wall Joke, and the movie never sags after that.  My other problem is that although I really liked the girlfriend character and thought she was really good in her song and dance numbers, she really didn't have a whole lot to do in this movie.  She just appears every now and then and kicks off an impromptu musical number.

Those minor issues, though, pale in comparison to what this movie gets right.  There is probably more sheer energy in the pacing, presentation, and acting of this movie than any movie I've seen in a long time.  The script is unapologetic in its pure joy, its love/respect for the Muppets (and Muppet history) and the golden age of Hollywood musicals.  The performances are excellent, the songs are great (if a bit random at times), the jokes are great if not altogether hilarious, and the way the scenes are staged feels so big and epic.  It's a movie that never feels like it's compromising or talking down to its audience.  It is very much aimed at older fans of the characters while still being very inviting to newcomers, which is very refreshing and frankly very bold of both the creative team behind it and Disney themselves.

The Muppets is a movie that knows its story is stupid and a bit silly with a strong influence by 1950s-style big-budget musicals, but it really doesn't care.  The movie feels very heartfelt in its message to not forget these Muppet characters, and it does so with obvious love for the franchise that doesn't come off like it's mainly concerned about the commercial implications of that.  There are few movies I would say are based on pure joy and enthusiasm, but this is one of them.  It may not appeal to you if you don't have some love for this franchise since it does play to nostalgia so strongly, but I don't see how anyone can walk out of this movie not happy.  Highly recommended, and I'd better be seeing some Academy Award love for this film come February.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on December 28, 2011, 12:40:15 AM
Faster - 6.5/10
I almost bought this BluRay a couple weeks ago and I'm glad I didn't (only $5 though). It was entertaining, but seemed to get worse as it progressed. The ending was mostly predictable, but I really think it would have been about 10 minutes longer, and finished the story. Meh. At least it started the Rock's return to kicking ass in movies.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: jrlibrarian on December 28, 2011, 01:52:31 PM
Carrie: 7/10


The video quality isn't that great, but from what I remember, it sticks pretty well to the Stephen King book. I was also watching it on my Kindle Fire with the shitty wifi we have here, so that might be part of it. Ah well. Just remember kids: if you think your life sucks, at least you don't have to deal with the total assholes that Carrie had to go to school with.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on December 28, 2011, 02:07:04 PM
I just watched The Spy Next Door.  Its a Jackie Chan movie.  You get what you expect from a Jackie Chan Movie.  What makes this one sort stand out more is that there are a lot of jokes going on in the background and everything all the time.  There is almost always something going on.  I was delightfully surprised by this movie.

 :-\ :) :D ;D ::) :-* ;D

8/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on January 01, 2012, 05:58:14 PM
Tucker & Dale vs Evil

I've only seen the 1st 1/3 of the movie so far but LOF'nL
They take the campy teen in the woods horror flick and reverse it. It's stupid fun at this point.
*spoiler* roughly the 1st 25 minutes of the movie *spoiler*

Several College kids head to the woods for a long weekend camping trip. Along the way they run across some creepy country bumpkins who are headed the same way. The College kids mistake them for creepy locals who are out to kill them when they run into them at the local gas stop (Dale tried to engage them in conversation... it went horribly wrong) and flee off to their camping site.
After telling horror stories around a camp fire, they (college klids) decide to go skinny dipping in the lake nearby, where the "creepy locals" (Tucker & Dale) just happen to be fishing next to their "vacation" cabin that they bought to fix up (that's the whole reason they were out there). One of the college girls see them, freaks out, slips his her head on a rock and then fell in the water where Dale dove in after her, saved her life and then tried to notify her friends that he saved her. Her friends freaked out ran away and then band back to together to go rescue her.


*This is where the hilarity begins*


Tucker is out behind the cabin trying to cut logs into smaller pieces to be fed into the wood chipper while Dale is inside having breakfast with the college girl (they've become friends). The college kids fins the cabin and try to send one person up to go know on the door. At that moment, Tucker accidentally chainsawed into a bees nest and was widly running and swinging the chainsaw in an attempt to escape the bees. He turns the corner on the cabin and the college kid screams out ot run and flees for his life.
While being distracted by Tucker swinging the chiansaw like a lunatic and both of them running for his life (Tucker from the bees, College kid from Tucker), the college kid runs straight into a fallen tree branch and impales himself... RIP


The college kids think that the "Creepy Locals" murdered him and exact a plan of revenge..... hilarity continues.


I didn't get to finish it because I have to leave, but I thought I would share really quick before I go.

It's streaming on Netflix BTW
http://movies.netflix.com/WiPlayer?movieid=70129463&trkid=496624&t=Tucker+%26+Dale+vs.+Evil (http://movies.netflix.com/WiPlayer?movieid=70129463&trkid=496624&t=Tucker+%26+Dale+vs.+Evil)

Probably one of the few horror movies to be rated at almost 4 stars (3.75) that's streaming on Netflix.
I'll let you know how the last 2/3 are when I get a chance to finish it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on January 01, 2012, 06:13:18 PM
I just watched Tucker & Dale vs. Evil the other day. If you're a fan of horror flicks, then it's a hilarious must see.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Glad0s on January 01, 2012, 09:07:21 PM
Mission Impossible 4
9/10
 
Surprisingly good. Brad Bird did a fantastic job with the directing, and the acting was also really good for a movie of this type. The special effects and set pieces were amazing, and Michael Giacchino's score was great too. And yes, since Bird and Giacchino were involved, there was a bit of The Incredibles deja vu. Highly reccomended. Oh, and if you're a fan of Nolan's Batman films, it's worth seeing the movie in IMAX just to see the trailer on that massive screen. Holy crap, is it awesome.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on January 04, 2012, 03:38:12 PM
So by forum request, I have now watched two old Bill Murray movies I'd missed: Caddyshack and Stripes.

Caddyshack was a reasonably entertaining movie, though I have issues with the movie's pacing.  The first 40 minutes and the last 20-30 minutes are fun to watch and decently paced, but unfortunately the movie is 98 minutes long.  That middle 3rd of the movie is aimless and wandering (not to mention somewhat boring), and it leads to the film overall not having a very cohesive plot.  The film has a great cast, though, including a good performance by Rodney Dangerfield playing...basically himself.  I love Chevy Chase's performances when he was in his Comedic Prime, and he's likewise very good in this movie with his trademark understated sense of humor (often slipping in subtle wordplay or insults into normal dialogue).  As for Bill Murray, I thought he had a good performance as the lazy and somewhat-psychotic grounds-keeper assistant in a one-man war against a gopher.  Bill Murray works well when he's contrasting the personalities of the other characters in a given movie, and such is the case here.  A decent movie overall, though definitely not Harold Ramis' best work as a writer.

As for Stripes, I can concede that it's a much-better written movie than Caddyshack was, with a far more cohesive story, and that it's overall probably a better film.  However, I've seen this story about "a ragtag group of misfit soldiers who somehow come together to become the heroes that save the day" many times before and frankly done in a much more entertaining manner.  Maybe that's not fair to Stripes since it was one of the earlier films of that type, but I just didn't enjoy it that much.  It's decent, but it just didn't appeal to me.

As for the movies I'm thinking about covering next, I have to somehow force myself to get through My Neighbor Totoro.  I'm not going to sugarcoat this: I tried to sit down and watch that movie with my anime-loving best friend, and we both agreed that we hated the film after it's first 5-10 minutes.  That time is just little girls running around a house "squee"-ing at "mystical" Studio Gibli tropes, and that really doesn't appeal to me.  It was like when I tried to watch Ponyo a few years back.  We immediately stopped watching it, so now it's up to me to sit through it and see if it gets any more tolerable.

I also have some overlooked Disney films to rewatch (somewhat thanks to the Nostalgia Critic's Disneycember retrospectives), like The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Rescuers Down Under, Mulan, and Tarzan.  I can say this about Hunchback: I rewatched the opening 5 or so minutes, and it's reminding me how much I really liked certain aspects of that film when I originally saw it in theaters (which is the only time I've seen it).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on January 05, 2012, 04:25:13 AM
Given Sherlock is back on British TV, i'm going to go watch the Guy Ritchie movie this weekend. See how that is.
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Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on January 05, 2012, 04:31:48 AM
Tucker & Dale vs Evil

I forgot to mention that I finished this movie later that day. Good stuff.
I gave it a 4/5 stars
 :D ;D :P: ;D ;D
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on January 05, 2012, 10:01:29 AM
Given Sherlock is back on British TV, i'm going to go watch the Guy Ritchie movie this weekend. See how that is.

I'm sorry.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Fatty The Hutt on January 06, 2012, 01:53:43 PM
Saxondale 8/10. It's a British TV comedy with Steve Coogan as a former rock band roadie who is now in his fifties and running a pest control business. Not hilariously funny and sometimes a weird mix of broad and witty comedy but overall I really liked it. I think it's because I like the main character of Tommy Saxondale. He is charming in his own flawed way. I feel for him so I like the show. He is not a dick like so many main characters in TV comedies these days. He is actually a decent guy.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on January 18, 2012, 12:28:14 AM
Tucker and Dale Vs Evil
I liked it. Nice reversal of horror movie cliches. The plot twist was unnecessary. Katrina Bowden showed incredible range as an actress in this movie. In 30 Rock, she pays a hot, naive secretary. Here, she plays a hot, mildy naive college student. It's nice to see her expand her horizons.

Tron Legacy
Having never seen the original Tron, I was surprised that I was able to keep up in this movie. I didn't know was that Tron was a character (I had always thought Tron was the computer world). That doesn't really matter because he was such a pointless character here and his sudden change of computer-heart came out of no where and with the worst line of the movie to boot ("I fight for the users!" /facepalm). I appreciated the movie for what it was. CG Jeff Bridges looked fine except when he spoke. A friend of mine considered Quorra in the real world a plot-twist. I didn't. I was more surprised that she made it out of the room and outside without Alan asking any questions.

True Grit (2010)
I thoroughly enjoyed this movie. I've never seen the original adaptation though I discovered that it's on Netflix so I saved it to my queue. Brilliant acting from Jeff Bridges (and the entire cast, really) but that's not surprise. Hailee Steinfeld, in particular, was exceptionally good. The horse trading scene stood out as especially excellent. I didn't know Matt Damon was in the movie until he showed up. The only fault I found with the movie was that the ending seemed rushed but that's usually how I feel about Coen Bros. movies.

The Assassin Next Door
Not bad, but nothing special. The ending is kind of a bummer. Olga Kurylenko was hot as usual.

Run Fatboy Run
I liked it even though it's one of those everything-works-out-for-the-best-in-the-end kind of movies. It worked out too perfectly even for a comedy though I'm glad the reunion was suggested instead of shown. I was wondering how they were going to explain how Dennis was going to run an entire marathon despite being a horribly out of shape smoker who only trained for 3 weeks since training for a marathon is like having a full-time job and it takes months to prepare for. The explanation made sense despite being a total cop-out.

Trade
Re-watched this movie a couple hours ago. I still like it. The events of the movie are a little too coincidental which shook my suspension of disbelief though it didn't take me completely out of the experience even the second time around. I suppose stranger things have happened. I became invested in the characters so I was a bit forgiving. This scene (http://youtu.be/Gtqv3VFERXg) gets me every time. It's far more powerful in context so if you haven't seen the movie, I recommend doing so (it flat-out makes no sense otherwise). Trade isn't an exceptional movie by any means, but that scene has stuck with me for some 4 years and probably will for the rest of my life.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on January 18, 2012, 01:08:00 AM
Tron Legacy
Having never seen the original Tron, I was surprised that I was able to keep up in this movie. I didn't know was that Tron was a character (I had always thought Tron was the computer world). That doesn't really matter because he was such a pointless character here and his sudden change of computer-heart came out of no where and with the worst line of the movie to boot ("I fight for the users!" /facepalm). I appreciated the movie for what it was. CG Jeff Bridges looked fine except when he spoke. A friend of mine considered Quorra in the real world a plot-twist. I didn't. I was more surprised that she made it out of the room and outside without Alan asking any questions.

I liked Tron legacy as well despite its many, many writing problems and the slight creepiness of CG Bridges.  As for the line you find so awful, it's awful for a reason: it's a callback to the original awful Tron movie, where I believe it was something Tron said.

I've been watching some movies as well:

The Hunchback of Notre Dame - This was the first time I'd seen the movie since its original theatrical release.  I remember really coming away from the movie back then pretty indifferent, largely because of the incredibly obnoxious and unnecessary gargoyle characters.  Watching it now, knowing what I was in for, I actually really liked the movie.  Tony Jay gave one of his best performances in his long career as Judge Claude Frollo, and he really is the one piece that makes that movie work.  He's easily one of the best Disney Villains.  The animation is just great as well (it's really a shame how much thunder live action films have stolen from animated films through the use of CG, because the camera work in this film is fantastic and couldn't have been done in live action films of its time).  Finally, I loved this epic soundtrack when I was a kid and I still really like it now.  It's one of the few Disney musicals that actually feels natural in that format, with the only song that felt forced being...yes...the one that has the ****ing gargoyles singing, and even that song's not that bad.  It just doesn't belong in this movie.

As for the gargoyles, they didn't bother me as much this time around, but I still feel they really only have one good moment in the entire movie (that being the reference to the Wizard of Oz during the big battle sequence).  They feel like something forced on the movie by Michael Eisner because Quasimodo wouldn't be marketable as a Happy Meal toy.  Overall, though, I loved this movie and it's probably up in my top 5 Disney animated films (along with The Lion King, Beauty & the Beast, The Great Mouse Detective, and The Rescuers Down Under).  It's a pity this movie underperformed as badly as it did, because I'd love to have this movie on Blu-Ray, but that'll probably never happen. It didn't even get a good DVD release.

I also watched the Direct to Video "sequel" as well, and...yeah, the less said about it, the better.  It's not horrible IMO, but just spectacularly lazy and cheesy.  It looks like a long-lost episode of Gummi Bears, except nowhere near as good.

Somewhat under protest (I wanted to see The Adventures of Tintin, but the show times weren't cooperating with our schedule), I also saw Sherlock Holmes 2: Game of Shadows and it's...ok.  Most of what I found good about the first movie is still good in the sequel (Watson, Mrs. Watson, the action sequences, Holmes when he's not stoned, etc.), and everything I found bad about the first movie is still bad in the sequel (the frequent homosexual jokes, despite the fact that Holmes and Watson clearly aren't in any incarnation of the franchise.  Why can't Hollywood just let a good friendship be a good friendship? It's the reaction to Frodo and Sam all over again...).  I thought the writing was significantly weaker, but I'll gladly take this movie's Moriarty over the one in the recent Sherlock Holmes TV series .  Not a great movie and weaker than the first, but still enjoyable IMO.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on January 18, 2012, 01:24:50 AM
Finally, I also finally managed to sit through My Neighbor Totoro in its entirety, and I'm glad I managed to get past the utterly horrible first half hour because I thought the movie did improve over time.  Unfortunately, my big sticking point with this movie remains: this movie doesn't have a story, and most of the characters are completely pointless (was there any reason the obnoxious little boy that got so much screen time had to be in this movie?).  I don't mean that the story is bad.  I mean it simply doesn't exist.  The movie is just two girls going about their daily life and occasionally squeeeing at various Japanese mystical creatures and spirits.  To some extent, I'm fine with that because creatures like the Cat Bus and Totoro are very memorable and fun to watch on-screen (though the soot spirits were rather blatantly re-used in Spirited Away, but hey...Gibli recycles character designs every single movie, so why not creatures as well?).  I especially loved watching Totoro's exaggerated reactions to things, and how the movie would permit the slightest bit of wonder when he was on-screen.

Unfortunately, though, the movie waits 75 minutes (of a 90 minute movie) to attempt to tell a story with a sudden total tonal shift about the girls having a fight and thinking their mother is about to die of some mysterious illness.  That gets cleared up exceptionally easily, though, and the movie just...stops.  I suppose it was going for some message about the importance of family, but that feels really badly implemented because the characters are so bland and their interactions even more so.  When I want the main characters to get off the screen so I can see a giant blue raccoon do a butt stomp to test out a new umbrella, I think there are problems with this movie's writing.

As much as I think the movie totally failed about 2/3 of its running time, I do think there are things to like about this film.  That middle 1/3 where the kids discover Totoro and get a peek at the magic of the forest spirits is really cool.  I wanted to see more of that, because I really liked seeing those creatures interacting on-screen.  Like nearly all Studio Gibli movies, there's also a definite environmental message, but here I think it plays just fine because it's delivered in a very subtle manner.  Man isn't denounced as evil, and nature isn't sanctified as perfect.  The movie shows this family being respectful to the forest, and the forest in turn is protective and respectful back to the family.  That's subtlety sorely lacking in the other Gibli environmental movies.

Finally, as much as I make fun of Studio Gibli's criminal lack of creativity when it comes to character designs, they have always done one thing exceptionally well: child animation.  These are some of the most realistic-moving children I've ever seen in an animated movie.  They're clumsy, they have trouble shifting their weight as they move, they tend to climb over things more than casually walk or run over them, and when they find out that doing something obnoxious to other characters triggers a funny response they keep doing it.  The rest of the animation is only kind of "ok" IMO, and unfortunately this DVD transfer on the official Disney release looks like **** with all the film grain and color flickers, but the child animation looks great.

So I didn't like Totoro, but I think it has some redeeming values.  I just wish the writers had written an actual story to go with the interesting creatures.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on January 18, 2012, 01:40:53 AM
As for the line you find so awful, it's awful for a reason: it's a callback to the original awful Tron movie, where I believe it was something Tron said.
I figured as much... It's probably terrible in the original as well.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on January 18, 2012, 10:22:25 AM
As for the line you find so awful, it's awful for a reason: it's a callback to the original awful Tron movie, where I believe it was something Tron said.
I figured as much... It's probably terrible in the original as well.

It's much better in context. The religious overtones of those who believe in and worship the Users, versus the authoritarian forces of the MCP is really what makes it memorable. You have to take into consideration just how large of a part Tron plays in the first film. He's not a throwaway villain like in Legacy, he's the secondary protagonist.

Legacy was alright. It did a nice job of updating the visual style, along with an awesome soundtrack. The writing was lazy and piss-poor though. It was largely a rehash of a better movie (Tron) with the idiotic gimmick of ISOs thrown in. You could feel just how dumbed down is was, how they avoided actually making parallels to technology. After all, it was that kind of high mindedness that made the original film such a failure. Given how much of a part of everyone's lives computers are nowadays, I don't think it should have been a worry.

I would have rather seen a plot gleamed from Tron 2.0 and the comic books. Make the antagonist a computer virus, who's slowing infecting and turning the inhabitants of the Grid into violent monstrosities. Hell, you could even make Clu the source of the infection if that's what you wanted. And if you really need Quorra, then make her an anti-virus... not some made up techno-Buddhist tripe.

The movie was a huge letdown. It was a great deal of style with very little substance. Perhaps the third film will be better, now that everyone has been caught up on the story with that Legacy rehash. :P
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Post by: Halbred on January 18, 2012, 09:27:43 PM
Doesn't the chick in Hunchback have a huge rack (for a Disney movie)?
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Post by: TJ Spyke on January 18, 2012, 10:02:56 PM
Indeed:

(http://www.google.com/url?source=imglanding&ct=img&q=http://www.collegefashion.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/disneys-esmerelda.jpg&sa=X&ei=mIcXT-yGDOWLsQLm-dyoAg&ved=0CAwQ8wc4GQ&usg=AFQjCNHn2o81-vAsDsI5mSeHcXYbAG_4nw)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on January 18, 2012, 10:19:34 PM
She's no Princess Jasmine...
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on January 18, 2012, 11:18:13 PM
I dunno, they're pretty comparable:
(http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m74/nickmitch889/th_Jasmine.jpg)

Could be the age difference.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on January 19, 2012, 11:36:10 AM
As for the line you find so awful, it's awful for a reason: it's a callback to the original awful Tron movie, where I believe it was something Tron said.
I figured as much... It's probably terrible in the original as well.
To put that line into perpective to Tron "The User" = God.  He's from the old system not the new one developed by Flynn where the movie takes place.  That line in Context is actuallly the equivalent of:  "I fight for God."  Its just as cheesy as when Religious Fighter say it.  If Tron was in our world he would be a devote <insert religion here>.  The change of heart is really him coming back to his religion that he has strayed from.

The original Tron has a very prevalent theme of religion in it.  The movie when viewed from that light is God being stranded in the Land of Man.  A theme that many movies have explored before.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: bustin98 on January 19, 2012, 12:14:11 PM
Tron Legacy has so many references to religion you can make a case for about any way to look at it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: jrlibrarian on January 19, 2012, 04:06:20 PM
It might be a coincidence (don't quote me on this), but according to my friends, Tron: Legacy absolutes apes the Mormon story of creation. Odd, huh?


The Perfect Score: 4/10
Yeah, what to say about this wreck? Cliched stereotypes (slutty hacker, stoner, dumb jock, semi-average guy, slightly better-than average guy, valedictorian), ludicrous plot, ridiculously forced messages (Don't do drugs! Don't steal! Be yourself!), all mixed together in an Ocean's Eleven style rip-off. The only thing saving this movie from being absolutely worthless is Scarlett Johannsen's performance, but even she can't help this one. Give it a failing grade.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on January 21, 2012, 12:41:32 AM
Paranormal Activity 3

First one was good. Second one blew. Third one delivers.

The story is the same except that the main girls throughout the series are just that...young girls. Some freaky **** starts happening when one of the girls starts talking to an 'imaginary friend'. The girls' step-dad just happens to be a video editor and sets up cameras all over the house. Enter the same **** we've come to expect.

Except this one delivers the fear. Despite the slow ramp up of doors slamming shut and things being knocked over, there is a genuine creepiness that unlike the others delivers in the end. I'm not talking about the story, I'm talking about finally sustaining that pinnacle of fear where all you can think is "This is great" or you feel uncomfortable enough that you can't help but pause it or at least think "I want to watch something else." There's plenty of jump scares (one of which is amazingly creative) and I honestly thought that would be it, so much so I almost turned it off early, but this one is the only one out of the series that finally brings the fear in the end. Unfortunately, it doesn't end with a bang but a whimper, but the journey there is fantastic. The last 20 minutes are awesome up until that last 30 seconds.

Is it a perfect movie? Not at all. There are questions that are left unanswered and things that don't make sense. Also, it seems a bit sloppy, even for a found footage type movie. Still I recommend it. Watch by yourself or with your girl - all lights off, sound turned up.

 :-\ :confused; :D ;D :cool; :(
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on January 21, 2012, 01:21:16 AM
A Very Harold and Kumar Christmas

I thought there was no way it could be as funny as Guantanamo Bay and I was right. Maybe I need to see it again completely obliterated, but I rarely found myself laughing, if at all. Disappointing.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on January 21, 2012, 01:48:48 AM
Midnight in Paris 8/10 a totally enjoyable movie. One time I went to the theater to watch "Taxi to the Dark Side" thinking it would be like this movie. I hadn't watched any trailers so I didn't know I would be completely wrong. Its also a theater where you can drink, so I was like damn it. This movie was good though.

Don't be Afraid of the Dark 8/10, and it only gets that high because it totally reminds me of Eternal Darkness. The mansion layout while a typical movie mansion bears a striking resemblance to the one on ED. Oh Guillermo Del Toro your love of lord Cthulhu shines through this.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on January 23, 2012, 03:52:16 AM
Had another Day @ the Movies tonite. It was pretty horrible....

Mission Impossible 4: Ghost Protocol
Easily the best movie of the day and the first one we watched...
I've enjoyed all the MI movies so far so this delivered exactly what I expected from it.
No complaints.

Devil Inside Me
I would have said this was the boringest movie of the night.... but I might be lying. It's hard to say. Let's just say I fell asleep multiple times during all the slooow build up to amounted to a movie I feel like I've already watched. It's shot like a documentary and my girl was scared the entire time, but I just couldn't make it through it. But I also never made it through The Exorcist in one sitting either so I'm not surprised I didn't make it though this one either.

Underworld: Awakening
I am under the impression that this movie series would do much better as a TV series than a set of movies. I like the content and the world and Kate Bekinsale is as hot as ever, but you can tell they are gonna drag this out over as many movies as we will pay to go see. They should just strike a deal with FX or HBO and do an hour long episodes miniseries and run that for a few seasons. I would watch it. As far as the movie goes.... it an unlimited ammo frag fest. She had dual fully auto rapid firing pistols that never seem to run out of ammo... except this one time where it did... but then magically had unlimited ammo again mere seconds later.
I had no choice but to rank this the second best movie of the night.

Haywire
I watched this because it was getting some pretty good reviews and Gina Carino is pretty hot and can kick ass, so we gave it shot.... YAAAAAAWN. That was a mistake, we should have went and watched Contraband instead (Sherlock Holmes didn't fit into the schedule). Most of the movie didn't really make sense and they didn't really explain it till the very end, but that wasn't the issue. It was BOOOOORIIIIIIING!!! I actually busted out my phone in the middle of the movie and started playing Words With Friends. There are so many scenes where you are just watching the character on screen doing nothing special. Like a scene where Gina was walking down a street... no dialog, just walking.... they spent 2 minutes on this walking scene to set up that she was being followed by the guy across the street when it wasn't necessary. They could have handled that in 20 seconds and not 2 minutes. And I understand why they gave her a not so chatty character (she have a very masculine tone to her voice) but there didn't need to be so much silence. They did the same thing in Drive, but in drive it was still fun to watch and made sense for the character since he hardly ever talked.
Gina also fights like a sav in this movie, but the fights are also not all that exciting either.
I blame the director for most of this movies shortcomings and this movie tied with Devil Inside for the worst movie of the night.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on January 23, 2012, 06:17:12 AM
You do realise Underworld is a vehicle to deliver Kate Beckensale's ass with a British accent in body suits to men of taste everywhere. Complaining about it is like being Adam Sandler in Click. The only reason he could complain about having her as his wife is that he is a closet gay, never mind that movie is **** anyway despite Walken.

Might be watch Sherlock or MI4 tomorrow. Don't know which, since we will be flipping a coin.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on January 23, 2012, 06:56:12 AM
I must be the only one who doesn't dig her look in Underworld. Pale, with short black hair and blue eyes isn't doin it for me. She looks much better as her normal self, with brown long wavy hair and brown eyes.

(http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/MMPH/C56349.jpg)
(http://www.exposay.com/celebrity-photos/kate-beckinsale-underworld-movie-premiere-0iCJWG.jpg)
(http://www.imbez.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Kate-Beckinsale-Underworld.jpg)
(http://static.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/images/4932-1-1325398434.jpg)

Can't hate on what she's wearing though.
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Post by: oohhboy on January 23, 2012, 07:06:37 AM
The third picture is brokenish and isn't very good representation of her since it's filtered/photoshopped to hell.

I like the pale, it looks a **** load more natural than the first 2 pictures which look comically orange. I have to ask who spray painted that.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on January 24, 2012, 03:56:39 PM
idk, i see an underworld trailer and its like "yeah, i've seen this Matrix vampire **** before", the series needs a facelift, it just has a dated look. It just looks like more of the same, thin plot, predictable action, style over substance, tired style.
I kinda hate that it is nearly faux black and white bluish chroma keying. They might as well grow some balls and go black and white.

(http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r259/theultimateperm/underworld.jpg)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on January 25, 2012, 07:59:11 AM
I have given myself a day to think about the new Sherlock Holmes movie to cool off.

It's a good movie but it will not win any new fans. It's a little dumber, bigger, "more", even a little excessive compared to the first movie and they go a little too far with Holmes by giving him what is essentially a super power. The characters, the bromance, the cinematography, all excellent. The plot is little weak at times and that mostly related to Holme's superpower. The ending is something amazing that shouldn't have worked, but works so well.

While I wish the movie as a whole is more grounded, it is a thoroughly enjoyable watch. If you liked the first movie, go see this one, it's "More", if not, skip it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TrueNerd on January 25, 2012, 11:13:44 PM
Haywire - Highly derivative (It's Bourne without amnesia), but Soderbergh shoots everything in such a steady, well composed manner that I didn't care all that much. There's not much going for it other than those action scenes, but there's enough of them where that's okay. It's also crazy that Soderbergh got the actors he did for this movie, (Hey look, Bill Paxton!) but I'm guessing it was quite a bit of fun for everyone involved. Fun fluff, I say.

Also a technical sidenote, but you can clearly tell this movie was shot on the Red camera, in a bad way. Soderbergh went digital years ago and maybe he likes how it looks all the time, but there were some shots in the daylight that just looked cheap. But again, it could have been an intentional choice on his part.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Lithium on January 26, 2012, 06:30:11 AM
Black Swan

This movie is really fucked, but awesome.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on January 26, 2012, 12:13:09 PM
I could not disagree more, I tried giving the movie a chance but hated it. I don't see why it got so much praise. I was bored to death by it, found the story to be horrendous, and just did not enjoy it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Fatty The Hutt on January 26, 2012, 12:24:29 PM
I wanted to love Black Swan but I thought it wasn't messed up enough. They explained too much.
 
I wanted her to ACTUALLY turn into the Black Swan. I was in for some Magic Realism to invade the story, or at least some ambiguity. Instead they copped out and made sure you knew that it was all just in her head.
 
Some good bits but overall, not satisfying.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on January 26, 2012, 07:24:07 PM
I agree that the narrative did become far too straight forward. That's a pretty minor flaw though, specially given how amazing it was otherwise. I'm still waiting for the day when Aronofsky makes a genuinely bad film. I was concerned with The Wrestler, but even that pulled through well enough.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on January 26, 2012, 09:33:07 PM
I thought Black Swan was effed up to be effed up. I don't appreciate that sort of movie.

Also, maybe it's just me, but doesn't it seem like Kate Beckensale's head is too big for her body?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Lithium on January 26, 2012, 11:09:55 PM
oh well, different tastes i guess. I liked it because i was really engaged with it right from the begining, most movies dont really do that for me. As for the plot yeah it was straight forward but im not sure the director was trying do anything otherwise. While some people don't like watching movies that are fucked up I loved that part of it. I think it would have been a really boring movie without it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on January 27, 2012, 12:28:43 AM
lol Black Swan = Bitch is gone crazy!/10

exactly the type of movie I like to watch. I think I already reviewed it though. So, whats going on with the Wolverine movie now....it sounded so good when Aranofsky was attached, now idk.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: S-U-P-E-R on January 27, 2012, 04:11:15 AM
Somebody asked me what I thought of Napoleon Dynamite. I just watched it and I liked it :faust:
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on February 06, 2012, 01:45:59 AM
Chronicle

This is half of an alright movie half of a terrible movie. There are a bunch of action scene and what not, but none of them are really important. At it's core this is a character movie and it fails. It starts off with some fairly believable characters, for the first half of the movie, it is a fairly amusing. Then the half way point hits like a retarded brick wall and the movie pulls a Hancock. They had to shoehorn in some massive super hero type battle for one reason or another, but the characters and the lead up to it is so ham fisted and retarded, I was shouting "YOU RETARD" in the theater. It was soo bad. The main Character moves from Loser -> better almost normal person -> retard jerkass dick asshole who is a deep as Darth Vadar at the end of the Prequel trilogy NNNNOOOOOOOOO. It wasn't cool a decade ago, it isn't cool now.

3/10
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Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on February 06, 2012, 02:21:56 AM
wow.... I was looking forward to that one too.

So bad that in some ways it becomes amusing?
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Post by: oohhboy on February 06, 2012, 02:51:29 AM
I am afraid it's just plain bad. There are some amusing teenage messing around BS, but you will be far too pissed off with how poorly it all goes down in the second half.

It has the same problem Hancock has, it's got a cool idea (Homeless superman/Loser teenager and friends get superpowers), things happen to develop character towards a pretty normall direction. Then at half way you're not watch the same movie anymore. Had it continued towards what it should have been, Chronicle would have been a 5/10, a serviceable movie.

But, no, it does a Geoger Lucas kick the dog moment where in the prequels Anakin just turns(Kills kids younglings), there isn't any real build up towards it, if fact in Chronicle, it's builds towards the opposite direction completely undoing everything the first half of the movie was doing leading to mindless Dragon Ball Z battle. The character who "falls" just decides he's evil now and he goes about it in the most retarded fashion.
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Post by: Stogi on February 06, 2012, 03:38:05 PM
That's genuinely disappointing. I wasn't going to go to the theater to see it anyways (Safe House is my next theater movie), but I was looking forward to a documentary style action flick.
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Post by: leroypantweather on February 07, 2012, 02:04:15 PM
Secret World of Arietty.    by Studio Ghibli.......8.5


This one falls right below Spirited Away and Grave of Fireflies for me.  The relationship between the two main characters is heartwarming, and Arietty is soooo cute.   The dubbed english versions hits US theaters this month I believe so if you cant stand subbed movies or dont know Japanese there is that to look forward too.
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Post by: Ceric on February 07, 2012, 02:30:05 PM
I liked the title the Borrowers better.
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Post by: TJ Spyke on February 08, 2012, 06:40:44 PM
The Woman in Black. I thought it was OK, not great. Me and my GF both think it could have been better though. The scares were rare but effective when they happened. I wish they would have explained why the villagers wouldn't just move since the woman in black only kills kids in that village. Also, I am not a fan of movies with bad endings. Arther and his son get killed, and the woman makes it clear she will keep killing even though she got her son's body back.
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Post by: BranDonk Kong on February 11, 2012, 12:23:58 AM
Paranormal Activity 3 - 8.5/10

I **** you not, I thought the movie was terrifying. The effects are done so perfectly that you forget that no one had 1080p camcorders in 1988 and believe what you are seeing. It was pretty weird that many of the scenes that were in trailers were not in the actual film though (at least not in the "standard" film). But watching this movie in the dark, whenever something truly freaky would happen, made me feel like I was having one of those bad dreams where you are just frozen in place. The ending does raise a lot of questions though, but they are making a fourth one (which hopefully answers these questions, but ends the series). Good stuff though. I really liked all three of them so far.
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Post by: TJ Spyke on February 11, 2012, 04:47:57 PM
I thought the first one was one of the most boring movies I have ever seen, and I don't see how ANYONE could be scared by it. Yes, I watched it in the dark and at night, and there was nothing scary or spooky about it (I started to fall asleep from the boringness.
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Post by: ThePerm on February 12, 2012, 02:19:56 AM
Paranormal Activity 3 - 8.5/10

I **** you not, I thought the movie was terrifying. The effects are done so perfectly that you forget that no one had 1080p camcorders in 1988 and believe what you are seeing. It was pretty weird that many of the scenes that were in trailers were not in the actual film though (at least not in the "standard" film). But watching this movie in the dark, whenever something truly freaky would happen, made me feel like I was having one of those bad dreams where you are just frozen in place. The ending does raise a lot of questions though, but they are making a fourth one (which hopefully answers these questions, but ends the series). Good stuff though. I really liked all three of them so far.

i need to watch it, but do they mention what type of cameras they use? Is it like video, super 8, something else?
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Post by: Dasmos on February 12, 2012, 07:50:46 AM
I thought the first one was one of the most boring movies I have ever seen, and I don't see how ANYONE could be scared by it. Yes, I watched it in the dark and at night, and there was nothing scary or spooky about it (I started to fall asleep from the boringness.

The third one is not much better.
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Post by: Ceric on February 12, 2012, 10:10:37 AM
Saw Star Wars: Episode 1: The Phantom Menace  3D doesn't add anything really.  The Movie theater showing really makes it easy to pick out the CG.  The CG looks better than the real stuff. 
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Post by: Oblivion on February 12, 2012, 07:05:17 PM
Oohhboy, that's the first completely negative review I've seen of the movie. I saw it yesterday and I thought it was great, myself.
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Post by: Ceric on February 12, 2012, 08:33:18 PM
Oohhboy, that's the first completely negative review I've seen of the movie. I saw it yesterday and I thought it was great, myself.
I would put it as Ambivalent.

The movie was no better than the first time I saw it in the theater.

In contrast I saw Chitty Chitty Bang Bang in the theaters just about a month ago.  The cleanup work they did on that movie was superb.  I can honestly say it looked better than the Non-CG portions of Phantom Menace.

Honestly I was expecting a little bit more out of this then was provided.  Especially since the podcasts and space scenes where all digitally done and many parts of those would have really lend  themselves to 3D.  The 3D just wasn't there.

I enjoyed the movie less than the original airing I saw because I've seen how Movies have progressed.
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Post by: Oblivion on February 12, 2012, 09:01:57 PM
I was talking about his Chronicle review.
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Post by: Morari on February 12, 2012, 10:51:26 PM
Quickies...

The Thing (2011)
Mediocre with no reason to exist. The movie actually contained a lot of practical effects, but they were almost all covered up by a ton of ugly CGI. The movie is almost a shot-for-shot rehash throughout most of its run time. There was absolutely no suspense or paranoia amongst the characters, as the creature is exposed almost right away. If this film didn't try to attach itself to one of the best horror flicks ever made, it would have been mediocre. As it stands though, it's little more than a terrible imposter than needs to be incinerated.

Conan the Barbarian (2011)
Lame and boring. The only reason I even watched this was because Jason Momoa really impressed me in Game of Thrones. Unfortunately, he just couldn't manage to channel that Khal Drogo attitude within this terrible plot. He didn't even look as buff in this. Rose McGowan was alright.

Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)
I was actually surprised that this was as good as it was. I really wish it hadn't been a reboot of such a great franchise though, because it simply doesn't stand up. The tone is all wrong and the social commentary non-existent. That aside, it was good for what it was... y'know, aside from the terrible CG apes running around everywhere. The animations seemed off in almost every scene involving an ape. Likewise, the lighting was terrible on just about every one of them, making them look plastic and fake. It's hard to fight your suspension of disbelief when you're looking at stuff like this. It's especially laughable given just how great the make-up in the original film looked. Caesar speaking lessened what could have otherwise been two very impactful moments. He knew a full array of sign language but didn't seem to utilize it very often. His keeper quoting Charlton Heston was terrible. It was laugh out loud terrible.

Anonymous (2011)
It was interesting, if not far-fetched. I've always been of the persuasion that the person we know as William Shakespeare was not truly the author of all the works attributed to him. That said, there is so many factual routes that could have been taken to create an interesting film, that I have to wonder why they decided to go the route of political intrigue instead. The acting was all top-notch, with a few very well known Shakespearean thespians turning in great performances. The film kept me pretty well entertained once I realized that it wasn't trying to be a serious historical picture.
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Post by: Ceric on February 13, 2012, 09:47:17 AM
I was talking about his Chronicle review.
I was tired when I wrote that so I just read it wrong.  I needed to expand what I said anyways.

To that Note:  Watched Spider-Man because my son wanted to.  I remember it being a much better movie when it first came out and it feels like it was in the 80's to me know instead of 2002.  A lot of things have changed much more then I thought since that movie was made.  Plus movies themselves have changed.  I think that's going to be a theme of re-watching movies in the 1999-2003 time period.

Its an OK movie.  Though I have to say if it was released now I probably put it below Green Lantern in the current crop of Superhero movies.


 :-\ :D :D :-\ :confused; ;D :-\ :)
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Post by: Adrock on February 13, 2012, 11:54:04 AM
I felt the same way about Spider-Man back when I watched it again a few years ago. It felt so dated despite only being like 7 years old at the time. I'm really looking forward to The Amazing Spider-Man though.
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Post by: Ceric on February 13, 2012, 12:22:30 PM
I felt the same way about Spider-Man back when I watched it again a few years ago. It felt so dated despite only being like 7 years old at the time. I'm really looking forward to The Amazing Spider-Man though.
The more I see of the Movie the more I prefer the budget went to extending the Spectacular Spider-Man Cartoon.
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Post by: TJ Spyke on February 13, 2012, 03:35:40 PM
Hearts in Atlantis - Girlfriend made me watched it, but I enjoyed it. I hate it when things are not explained in a movie because they expect you to have seen or read other things first (for example, you need to have read King's other books to know what the "low men" are or where Ted was going to at the end of the movie). Really good though and pretty touching.


I also watched the remake of Footloose. I never saw the original, but I have heard many people say the remake is better. I loved the movie, and I heard that they added the car accident (where 5 teenage kids get drunk and drive off a bridge) as an explanation for why dancing for kids is banned in the town. I guess all those teens must love to sneak off and dance since most of them are great dancers. LOL
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Post by: UncleBob on February 15, 2012, 01:54:07 AM
Informal Human Centipede 2 Review: 'Meh.  It delivered on every promise - More blood, more gore, more centipede... 100% medically inaccurate...  A very disturbing piece of work all around - but it's sorely missing something the first moving had... I could barely keep interested in this one.  Dieter Laser gave an amazing performance in the first one that, even if you hated the movie, you had to admit he played his part well.  Well enough that I wouldn't want to ever be left alone in a room with him.  The "doctor" in this movie just doesn't have the same charm.  I still recommend the first one - I'd suggest passing on this one... though those of you who had any interest in watching it will still want to watch it anyway...
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Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on February 15, 2012, 01:58:45 AM
Netflix skipped over this one for me this week and instead sent my 2nd & 3rd choices from the list.... first time that's happened in atleast a year, and it had to be with a movie I was really anticipating too. Just about any other movie over the past 6 months (other than Paranormal Activity 3) and I might not have really cared.
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Post by: Halbred on February 15, 2012, 03:27:09 AM
Moneyball -- great movie, with lots of soul. True story, too. Incredible acting from everyone involved.
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Post by: noname2200 on February 15, 2012, 07:23:15 PM
Moneyball -- great movie, with lots of soul. True story, too. Incredible acting from everyone involved.

Well, "true" story. It took some pretty big liberties, and hand-waves over a bunch of stuff. I'm blown away by how they decided to turn Art Howe, of all people, into The Grinch That Stole Baseball... but I guess every movie needs it villain, and that the Yankees aren't enough.

Still, I really enjoyed it, even though the narrative needed more focus, and as more people chime in it looks like I enjoyed it because it's actually good, and not because it focuses on my team.
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Post by: TJ Spyke on February 15, 2012, 07:42:57 PM
Moneyball -- great movie, with lots of soul. True story, too. Incredible acting from everyone involved.

Well, "true" story. It took some pretty big liberties, and hand-waves over a bunch of stuff. I'm blown away by how they decided to turn Art Howe, of all people, into The Grinch That Stole Baseball... but I guess every movie needs it villain, and that the Yankees aren't enough.

Still, I really enjoyed it, even though the narrative needed more focus, and as more people chime in it looks like I enjoyed it because it's actually good, and not because it focuses on my team.

Apparently Howe was treated the same in the book that the movie was based on. So I wouldn't blame the people who made the movie.
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Post by: noname2200 on February 15, 2012, 07:49:11 PM

Apparently Howe was treated the same in the book that the movie was based on. So I wouldn't blame the people who made the movie.

That's true. Michael Lewis is a great writer and good journalist, but he's apparently not above taking liberties to make his subject more interesting. I guess I can't blame him, especially when he's writing about statistical analysis, but it does mean that his subjects are far more grey than he makes them appear.

For the record though, the movie did add the part about Howe being upset about his contract lasting only a year, which formed the movie's basis for the antagonism between him and Billy. In reality, his contract was for multiple years, and extended past the year shown in the movie.

Bah, I'll shut up now, before I start babbling too much. Fun movie! Not accurate!
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Post by: Stogi on February 15, 2012, 07:57:14 PM
So I just saw a movie where Paul Walker had a dog named "Dog."

It was terrible.
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Post by: Fatty The Hutt on February 17, 2012, 10:50:06 AM
The Woman In Black
 
Saw the stage play years ago and loved it. Very scary and atmosphereic, good use of stage resources and techniques.
 
The translation to film is...not good. Oh, it looks OK and Julius Caesar and Harry Potter do serviceable acting. Its just boring. And not scary. They resort to cliched movie "jump scares" as the biggest moments of "fright". But there are long, long sequences of Harry Potter checking out "unusual" noises and glimpses of shadows in the haunted house, over and over again. We get it, there's a ghost. Move on. Just poorly paced and lacks any creepiness or tension at all.
 
5/10
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Post by: broodwars on February 18, 2012, 12:28:38 AM
Cats Don't Dance - An entertaining little animated movie with an amusing and memorable villain (though sadly also a somewhat-bland main character, voiced by the incredibly underrated Scott Bakula), as well as some fairly strong character animation and posing.  Unfortunately, the music was composed by Randy Newman, and as a result is fairly bland; lacking in melody; and forgettable.  The story is simple, and after a slow start it moves along nicely to a fitting conclusion.  It's no Iron Giant or Lion King, but I'll gladly take it over the crap Pixar has produced the last few years (hopefully Brave changes that).

I also recently finally got around to watching both Predator and Predator 2, and neither movie really impressed me.  The first movie has major pacing issues leading to a boring first half, and the second movie often just feels random and pointless.  To their credit, though, both Arnie and Danny Glover turn in surprisingly strong performances in their respective leading roles, though I thought Glover was much better in his movie than Arnie was in his.  I hesitate to call either movie "bad" (both have entertaining action sequences and pretty effective Special Effects), but I just don't see what the big deal of these films is.  I prefer the first two Alien films, despite the glacial pacing of the first half of the original Alien film.

Finally, I also watched the anime film Highlander: The Search for Vengeance, which surprisingly (given the incredibly low standards of the Highlander franchise, with the exception of the excellent first film) does not suck.  It's violent with plenty of blood, some gore, and nudity both tasteful and tasteless, but it's a Manga Entertainment film.  I expected that when I started watching it.  Madhouse's animation isn't fantastic, but it gets the job done.  The character designs seem deliberately 1980s with the poofy hair, odd muscle proportions, and ugly facial designs, but they're serviceable enough.

The story is too reliant on flashbacks (which sometimes seemed to me to contradict each other with continuity errors), but I suppose that comes with the territory of being a Highlander film.  The story is fairly solid as a whole, though, with easily-understood character motivations and a small cast of characters.  Scott McNeil's performance (using a voice I've never heard from him) as a smart-ass ghostly druid was particularly memorable.  It's not a fantastic film, but it's surprisingly watcheable.
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Post by: Oblivion on February 18, 2012, 01:22:11 AM
Broodwars, it Cats Don't Dance worth watching? It's my girlfriend's favorite movie and she wants me to watch it, with or without her. It just doesn't seem that interesting. And funny you should mention The Lion King, considering it's MY favorite movie.
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Post by: broodwars on February 18, 2012, 01:38:58 AM
Broodwars, it Cats Don't Dance worth watching? It's my girlfriend's favorite movie and she wants me to watch it, with or without her. It just doesn't seem that interesting. And funny you should mention The Lion King, considering it's MY favorite movie.

Cats Don't Dance is a pretty average movie (and, surprisingly, Gene Kelly's last, as he helped the animators choreograph the dance numbers), but I think it's worth watching for the main villain alone (who is practically a lost Looney Toons character).  Just be prepared for a slow start, a somewhat bland protagonist, and some very poor Randy Newman songs.  It's decently entertaining, probably one of the more underrated animated films.
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Post by: Oblivion on February 18, 2012, 02:02:40 AM
Alright. I think I'll check it out this weekend on Netflix.
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Post by: oohhboy on February 18, 2012, 03:13:12 AM
I also recently finally got around to watching both Predator and Predator 2, and neither movie really impressed me.  The first movie has major pacing issues leading to a boring first half, and the second movie often just feels random and pointless.  To their credit, though, both Arnie and Danny Glover turn in surprisingly strong performances in their respective leading roles, though I thought Glover was much better in his movie than Arnie was in his.  I hesitate to call either movie "bad" (both have entertaining action sequences and pretty effective Special Effects), but I just don't see what the big deal of these films is.  I prefer the first two Alien films, despite the glacial pacing of the first half of the original Alien film.

I am definitely sure that we didn't see the same movie. I can't believe you said predator has serious pacing issues. Half of the first half has the team kill a couple dozen people with rambo knifes, machineguns, miniguns, explosives, corny Arnie one liners and they kill a decent chunk of forest unloading thousands of rounds of ammo into it all without one post effect until the predator shows up. The first quarter is to set up the team dynamic, the characters so you know them and care a little when they get killed not to mention it's there to setup the whole terror aspect.

Third quarter is the team getting hunted down like Bambi's mother despite their best effort. Final quarter is Arnie's now very personal battle with the titular character.

Films like this is what classic 80's action is about and it contains everything that is lacking in action movies these days that includes modern movies like Rambo and Expendables which were made to follow these movies. Far too many movies these days especially action movies are relient of post-film effects, which is almost never convincing. Then they add shaky-cam to hide the unconvincing effects resulting in an almost unwatchable mess no matter how well paced or edited it maybe.
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Post by: BranDonk Kong on February 18, 2012, 08:21:16 AM
Agreed. Predator is a true classic.
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Post by: broodwars on February 18, 2012, 12:14:43 PM
Here's my problem with the "action" in the first half of Predator 1: I don't throw in a "Predator" movie to watch Arnie and a bunch of red shirts shooting a bunch of generic South American guerrillas in the jungle.  I watch it to see the frickin' Predator, who doesn't do anything for the first half of the film so it felt really dull to me.  It's generic 80s action I just didn't care about, which (coincidentally) is also a problem I have with movies like the Expendables (which I know isn't an 80s movie, but is meant to feel like one).

That's actually what I liked a lot better about Predator 2: the Predator enters the story very early on, but he's worked in in a way where he still doesn't fight Danny Glover for most of the film.  It works.  I just wish the movie was better.
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Post by: ThePerm on February 18, 2012, 06:13:47 PM
im going to go with oohboy on this, Predator has great pacing. A true classic. There really is no dull points. Its a war movie, a horror movie, and an epic battle movie. Its creative on so many levels.
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Post by: bustin98 on February 19, 2012, 12:15:11 AM
In a way, I like predator 2 more than 1. But to call the cast of predator 'red shirts' is really a disservice to what was done in the context of history.  Their chemistry works so well.

I saw This Means War. 6/10 it was irrelevant and brainless yet entertaining. I probably won't want to see it again.
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Post by: oohhboy on February 19, 2012, 08:24:12 AM
The first half of Predator is essential as to why it is a classic, not it's sequel. The title predator has multiple meanings which is the "Name" of the unnamed Alien and it refers to man themselves as predators of each other and other "lower" animals, but it's main concern was hunting of each other. At the start of the movie man is no longer the predator, he is the hunted, he just doesn't know it, just like the animals we hunt. Mid film they gain awareness and by the end, neither are the predator or both are depending on how you see it.

The Predator is active during the first half, stalking the humans running around in the Jungle, you get to see it's aftermath with the skinned corpses, Billy's statement about the first team firing in all directions and hitting nothing with parallels to their own team's actions later, then his growing unease when his teammate flaks him off by saying that Billy is afraid of no man. The Predator is shown to be so good at what it does, it leaves nothing to find except for what it wants us to find.

The first half is to establish that Arnie's team are the top "Predators" and what better way to do it that show them blowing away dozens of guys while remarking "I haven't got time to bleed". Or would you have preferred it if they just talked about how badass they are. Arnie's team are the furtherest thing from red shirts you can get. Each are shown to have a unique personality, histories, relationships with each other, differing motivations. Without this properly done buildup, it's no better than a slasher flick or those terrible AVP films.

You just wanted the Predator to dance around killing people, but you can't have that. The Predator is an alien, not even that in a way, it's more than a concept, there is no way for you to relate to it, what are it's motivations? To hunt and nothing else? It would be no different than having a camera follow Jason Vorhese, a bunch of people die, but then what?. If you just want to watch a bunch of people get killed in sadistic ways, go watch Final Destination.

The problem with Expendables is that it does none of what Predator does. Stallone's team are not shown to be remotely a cohesive group, the guy with the most personality happens to be the guy who stays behind and most of what he said is nonsensical. Jet Li's comedy routine gives him more personality than Stallone has. Terry Crews character doesn't exists until the shotgun scene. Even when something is real like Stallone himself getting pile driven and actually getting hurt doesn't come out right with everything cut to shreds, shaking in a poorly lit, rubbish angle. Throw in the poorly shot, shaky cam, lazy CGI, awful editing that is the rest of the film, makes Expendables an object lesson in how not to make an action movie of any sort.



This is a bit late, but I had to pin down exactly why I didn't like Chronicle. The key is that I didn't believe Andrew's fall or that he ever fell at all. Andrew was barely a character as everything he does is prompted by external factors, he never does anything for himself, not to mention he is an idiot. The writer hands him an idiot ball and Andrew never lets go. People rob convenience stores all the time out of desperation with nothing more than guts and maybe a gun. Andrew has super powers and he utterly fails. He embarrass himself shouting "Come on COME ON" to himself while taking the money out of the till. The super hero battle in the end is a complete disconnect in tone with the rest of the movie and the found footage camera angles become a liability.

If I was to write Andrew's character, I would have written him starting off as a normal person who gets an increasing amount of **** happen to him with the only real sense of agency he has is from his super powers. I would keep his relationship with his mother since that is the one thing that works, but they never really used it. Keep her sick, but have Andrew not only discover he has the power of death, but believe he has the power of life. So you have him reading and preforming medical experiments on animals with his powers, trying "Fix" them. Eventually he tries to "Fix" his mother and utterly fails, but only after he goes on a crime spree robbing banks and drug dispensaries for supplies and equipment.

After he kills his mother he is pissed, angry, but not raging like the hulk. He heads downtown systemically destroying the society that has let him down. Insurance companies, banks, even hospitals.

You don't kill Steve. It was unnecessary. Force them to have a 2 on 1 fight, with the only thing holding them back is that they believe they can bring him from the brink. But this is misguided as he has gone too far to come back. None of that Apex Predator BS. Andrew is tired of the lack of control in his life, he wants to play God, and he has the power to do it. Now you have a proper reason to have a city wide battle not because Andrew "Hulks" out. Andrew sees Matt and Steve as part of the society trying to oppress him.

Who wins and how no longer matter, Villain wins if they want a sequel hook, heroes win for closure with heroic sacrifice for extra points. The point of the movie is to test the characters not by giving them adversity, but power. Chronicle was mostly style There is a massive disconnect mid movie and it utterly fails during the transition. It not that they could have a transition, but it's done poorly enough that you think George Lucas wrote it.

There were some genuinely good points like the progression of their powers which really worked well with the found footage angle. The flight section is great in general, but missing some minor details. The magic show should have been the turning point where he wants and can seize control. Instead in the after party they revert him back to form as a loser from which he never progresses away from. Andrew dies as a unsympathetic loser and is all he ever was.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on February 19, 2012, 05:20:03 PM
Keep in mind that nobody KNEW what the Predator was in 1986 or whenever that movie was made. We all know what it is now, of course, but you can't go into the FIRST movie in a series expecting to see the titular Predator running all over the place. I'm happy the film builds the tension, frankly. It's an amazing film, one of my Top 10 (see Frozen North Dinnercast for the rest of it).

I saw Paranormal Activity 3 and ended up hating it. The end completely screws up the other two movies. It's a little bit like Metroid: Other M. They made Fusion before knowing a prequel would be made, so when Samus fights the Nightmare in Fusion, she doesn't say "This guy again?" But now that Other M is here, and she DOES fight the Nightmare, you go into Fusion wondering if she has amnesia.

Same thing happens with the Paranormal movies. The end of Paranormal Activity 3 clearly establishes a lot of things, including how the girl's parents wound up. YOU WOULD THINK that these events would have been mentioned IN SOME FASHION during Paranormal Activity 1 or 2. That bothered me about Paranormal Activity 2, too: You would THINK that in the first movie, Katie would be all like "Boy oh boy, this exact same crap was happening to my sister like two weeks ago, remember?"

Argh. I hate it when people make movies without the INTENTION of making a prequel, but then they make a prequel, and that screws up the original.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on February 20, 2012, 05:48:27 PM
eh, for all the retconning that happened in pa3, i still thought it was decent. They still got the scares coming. Poor babysitters.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on February 20, 2012, 07:47:42 PM
I think they did well enough on establishing the how and why going in reverse with the PA movies. The simple explanation of "ignoring it" works well enough. The whole time I was watching the second one I was like, "where do I know this girl from?" Then when they switched two the boyfriend's camera when the sister pulls up in her driveway, I was like, "oh, duh."
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: bustin98 on February 29, 2012, 07:31:08 PM
Justice League - Doom:

I'm just going to say I kinda liked it. It starts strong, and finishes like WTF? It could have ended 10 minutes earlier.

The art style is very generic. It doesn't look anything like the source material. Star Sapphire looks like an anime chick, while Green Lantern is soft and boyish. Nathan's voice doesn't convince me that he makes a good Green Lantern, at least one that looks like he's in his early 20s.

Despite the flaws, I enjoyed the brief return of the Hall of Doom, the heroes pushing through their particular battles, and I liked how Flash got out of his problem. Very nice. You also have to wonder how long DC has been planning on making Cyborg part of the Justice League. I'm surprised they didn't resurrect Steele from the 80s Justice League, leaving Cyborg as a familiar face in Teen Titans.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on February 29, 2012, 07:39:32 PM
Cyborg has been in the Justice League before (at least in the comics). He was in it for like 12 issues following the "Blackest Night" story arc of 2009-2010. He was also one of the starting members in the newly re-launched Justice League comic when DC canceled all their titles and re-launched them in 2011.

Since I don't read the comics, I can't accept Cyborg as anything but the goof that he was in the Teen Titans show.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: bustin98 on February 29, 2012, 07:45:34 PM
Go read the Judas Contract trade paperback. That's how I see Cyborg.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on February 29, 2012, 10:48:04 PM
I've been watching Justice League: Doom myself, and I really like the movie.  It's easily DC's best effort since Batman: Under the Red Hood (which is my favorite of their Direct-to-Video films.  I thought the voice casting was superb, and the film looks great on Blu-Ray (though oddly soft and dark for one of these films).  I really only have 3 major issues with it:

1.  Like all these Direct-to-Video animated movies, I don't understand why management won't let them be at least 80-90 minutes long.  This movie could have used the extra time to better handle smaller/more personal scenes.  That leads me into...

2.  Green Lantern/Star Sapphire.  It was nice of the writers to not at all explain the deal with Carol Farris (who, the last time I saw her, was Hal Jordan's would-be-girlfriend) becoming Star Sapphire.  That subplot is just really badly handled, and I felt very little for the emotional beats in it because the film never sets it up.  Sorry, but if I'm watching these films, there's a pretty good chance I don't read the comics and probably never will.  I shouldn't need to look this stuff up on Wikipedia for it to make sense.

3.  The ending.  I actually think the movie ends just fine (though I had to roll my eyes at just how long it took Superman to finally break out the Heat Vision), but once again I would have liked more time devoted to the league actually explaining their various positions on what Batman did.  As it is, I'm not entirely certain what happened in that ending regarding Batman's status in the league.  All I can tell is that apparently Superman and Green Lantern are grudgingly ok with it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on March 01, 2012, 09:34:30 PM
Yeah, I'm not sure why those movies can't crack the 70-minute barrier.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on March 10, 2012, 08:06:53 PM
Here's a list of movies I've seen over the past month or so

Me And You And Everyone We Know
I love this movie. I haven't seen it in almost 7 years so once I saw it on Netflix, I absolutely had to watch it again. It's just endearing  and charming and funny. I can't recommend this movie enough. ))<>((

Cashback
Another movie I haven't seen in years. I actually own this on DVD but I didn't watch it again until Netflix recommended it to me. Netflix is starting to know me very well. I'm going to be honest. I first heard about this movie because I found out Keeley Hazell (look her up, you won't be disappointed) had a bit part in it. I really like this movie. I think it's artsy without being pretentious. The climax and falling action are rushed and the ending is a bit too clean. None of those things ruin the movie but if I had to fish for marks against the movie, I'd start with those things.

Hollow Man
Ugh... The only reason this movie exists is so Rhona Mitra could brush her hair topless and then get invisible raped off-screen. I feel like I missed the part where the invisibility compound gave Kevin Bacon superhuman strength. In the 20 minute mayhem part of the movie, there were way too many completely implausible moments, even for a movie. Then, the protagonists would get these sudden fits of retardation. For example, it took Elizabeth Shue's character seeing almost her entire team get killed before she triggered the sprinkler system so she could FUCKING SEE HER INVISIBLE ENEMY. Why the **** didn't an entire group of scientists think of that sooner? I can't suspend my disbelief enough to buy that level of stupidity.

Ironclad
I didn't even know this movie existed before I came across it on Netflix. It wasn't bad. It was bloody for the sake of being so but it didn't aspire for more. Ironclad was a popcorn flick through and through. I enjoyed it for what it was and it didn't insult my intelligence.

From Dusk Till Dawn
I feel like this is one of those movies that you really have to watch without knowing anything about it which is almost impossible even for a movie that came out in 1996. The first half of the movie is decidedly not a vampire movie. This was the second time I've watched it but I knew it was a horror movie when I saw it way back when. The horror part comes out of no where then the movie becomes this weird, campy B-movie. It's not Quentin Tarantino's or Robert Rodriguez's best but I don't think this movie could have been done correctly written and directed by anyone else.

Season of the Witch
Goddammit... Why do I watch Nicolas Cage movies? I should have known better. I've only liked 2 movies in the last 10 years with Nicolas Cage in it: Matchstick Men (which I hated the first time because of the ending) and Kick Ass. It's not even about a witch. Face + palm. The only positive thing I can really say about the movie is that Claire Foy is pretty and that's not even about the movie. Thanks Mr. and Mrs. Foy for that.

Red State
There's a 15 minute anti-gay sermon in the middle of the movie. I get it (in terms of plot and characterization) but it was still 15 MINUTES LONG. Red State does a little switcheroo a little over half way through and becomes an action movie with a giant shootout capped off by killing Kevin Pollack's character who I didn't even know was in the movie until he showed up then got shot in the eye 3.286 seconds later. I have nothing against a filmmaker trying to expand his horizons. It's still odd that Kevin Smith even attempted to make a movie like this considering he built his career on dick and fart jokes. He didn't do too bad here but it takes a really skilled filmmaker to pull this off. Smith isn't bad necessarily; he's just not good or experienced enough to make this work completely. And he clearly saw No Country For Old Men and decided to steal heavily borrow from the ending. I wish he stuck with the original ending which had an angel literally coming down from heaven and killing everyone then the apocalypse starting. That would take balls. If he was willing to pull a Kansas City Shuffle and change genres midway through the movie, might as well go the extra mile.

And finally...

Bitch Slap
This has been in my Netflix queue for over a year.  I saved it because the I laughed at the title. I decided to actually watch it because I recently found out Julia Voth got top billing. Julia who? Her likeness was used for Jill Valentine's redesign in the Gamecube remake of the original Resident Evil. Most regulars of this message board probably know that I'm a fan of all things Jill Valentine. I even named my new car after her. Yeah, I know... /looks down in shame

Anyway, Bitch Slap is actually not terrible. It's not good but it's not terrible. It's clearly following in the footsteps of Tarantino/Rodriguez's Grindhouse but Rick Jacobson is no where near as talented. Bitch Slap is something of a throwback to old grindhouse exploitation films and a parody of that genre but it commits to neither and that's where it suffers most. It edges closer to the former which I thought was a big mistake because it doesn't want to be that; it doesn't want to be that sleazy. Oh, it's still sleazy. There's tons of boob grabbing and chicks kissing. In one scene, the girls inexplicably just start splashing water on each other followed by a lesbian sex scene. There's also sexy shoveling. If anyone legitimately tried to dig a hole that way, it would take hours. Anyway, if they were aiming for parody, they didn't quite get there. However, parody is one of the most difficult forms of comedy to do correctly. One hopes for Young Frankenstein but usually gets Epic Movie.

The special effects are cheesy but intentional so, in a way, they're actually quite good. I think they achieved the look they were going for. There's a lot of green screen use when they could have easily filmed on location. The story isn't particularly strong but I don't think it aspired for depth. There are A LOT of flashbacks which I feel should be used sparingly in movies because most movies don't do reverse storytelling as well as Memento. Additionally, I thought the ending was predictable. The Usual Suspects didn't invent the twist ending but it's definitely responsible for numerous twist endings over the past 15 or so years that are neither as clever nor as well done. So, the ending here makes sense and it fits but it's also inexplicable due to a certain character's age.

The acting is probably the most interesting part of this movie and what spurred me to write this fairly extensive review. At first, I thought a lot of the acting was way too over the top, particularly America Olivo and Julia Voth. Until the end. I couldn't decide if Voth's acting was really terrible or borderline brilliant, depending on whether my prediction of the ending was correct. She plays up the ditzy, naive, weak, vulnerable tart to the point where you suspect she either sucks at acting or her character is up to something. In a parody or even one struggling to be a parody, one should expect the acting to be over-exaggerated. You can't fake good acting, but good acting allows you to fake bad acting. In retrospect, Voth's performance won't win any awards but she did a fairly good job of intentionally playing the part over the top. In the scene that called for her to be serious, she toned it down and her inflection is spot on. And good Lord, she is gorgeous.

Also, for a movie called "Bitch Slap," there wasn't a lot of bitch slapping. It could have used more.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on March 10, 2012, 08:46:14 PM
Adrock, you need to watch the director's cut where the Rhona Mitra scene is not off screen. It's pretty creepy, but at the same time, a boner's a boner.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on March 12, 2012, 12:09:37 AM
Halloween 2 (2009) - 2/10
This was just pretty terrible, and basically seemed like and excuse for Rob Zombie to put his wife in another movie. The remake of Halloween was pretty fantastic, but this was just plain stupid (and predictable, for the most part). It almost seems as if they made half of a movie, then their deadline got moved up to the next day, so they just ended it as quickly as possible. If you have seen the 2007 remake, but not the sequel, then do yourself a favor and never watch it, or it will ruin the first one as well.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on March 13, 2012, 03:38:55 AM
I saw John Carter literally 30 minutes after i left work on Friday and it was exactly what i thought it would be. It's a $200 million big-budget blockbuster by Disney.

Want to know what its like? See their last big-budget movie The Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, the set design and even clothing felt like it came from there. I liked the film in some spots but the writing felt pretty weak in places.. i took particular issue to how he gets to mars. they say that he's literally copied there, so if thats the case then how is his host body surviving? When he was sent back the other person had already died and decomposed. Placing him into a locked-from-inside room doesn't solve that either.

It's good for what it does, and little else.


Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on March 13, 2012, 09:55:27 AM
It's good for what it does, and little else.

Ruin a beloved franchise? Yeah, it looks like it does that pretty darn well.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on March 13, 2012, 11:50:30 AM
It's good for what it does, and little else.

Ruin a beloved franchise? Yeah, it looks like it does that pretty darn well.

Well, apparently it's such a beloved franchise that before this movie came out, I'd never heard of it.

I recently finally got around to seeing The Adventures of Tintin, and it's damn good adventure movie.  It's probably the best-looking CGI-based animated film I've ever seen, with great use of color and pretty much perfect lighting.  The action scenes are really well-staged and the movie overall is extremely well-edited, though the car chase near the end of the movie practically screamed that this film was made with 3D in mind.

Unfortunately, this movie's big weak link is the lead character himself, Tintin.  I haven't seen such a Mary Sue/Gary Stu character in a movie in a long time.  While he's pretty decent in a fight and reasonably intelligent, he just seems to have almost no character and no agency in his own story.  His dog does more in this movie than he does.  Finally, although they're really well-staged, towards the end of the movie it does feel like perhaps there's 1 or 2 action scenes too many and the movie seems to drag a little.  The movie also dedicates an absurd amount of time to the annoying Detective Thompsons, who do nothing in this movie but waste time acting stupid with a case that's only peripherally related to the main plot.  Overall, it's a really fun movie to watch, though.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on March 13, 2012, 02:44:39 PM
It's good for what it does, and little else.

Ruin a beloved franchise? Yeah, it looks like it does that pretty darn well.

Well, apparently it's such a beloved franchise that before this movie came out, I'd never heard of it.

You must have went to a public school. :P
It's no wonder Hollywood can continuously crap all over stolen material... no one is informed enough to even know that it is stolen to begin with. Edgar Rice Burroughs is pretty standard reading for anyone even slightly interested in science fiction. It may be pulpy, but that was the style of the time. The only pieces of his catalog that overshadow the Barsoom series is Tarzan himself.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on March 13, 2012, 03:25:44 PM
I haven't read the book either but as a self-contained movie (clearly aiming to push to a franchise of its own) its not doing much.

I didn't walk out of the movie pondering the endless possibilities of what they can do and play with (like Inception did, for instance).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on March 13, 2012, 03:30:00 PM
You must have went to a public school. :P: : : :
It's no wonder Hollywood can continuously crap all over stolen material... no one is informed enough to even know that it is stolen to begin with. Edgar Rice Burroughs is pretty standard reading for anyone even slightly interested in science fiction. It may be pulpy, but that was the style of the time. The only pieces of his catalog that overshadow the Barsoom series is Tarzan himself.

We never read Tarzan either, though as least I was familiar with that one through various movie adaptations.  Our required reading list was weird growing-up in the 80s & 90s: in my dad's day, he had to read The Lord of the Rings.  In mine, only The Hobbit was required.   ;)   And let's not get into all the politically-correct snore-fests I had to read in Middle & High School.

My point, though, is that the John Carter books are frickin' obscure in the modern era.  I love pulp-type fiction stories, especially when they were converted into radio dramas in the 30s and 40s (which you can still find these days, one of the miracles of the internet).  But these stories haven't received a previous film or TV adaptation (that I'm aware of) that would put them in the public consciousness.  You see a trailer for a seemingly (emphasis on appearances)-StarGate rip-off with a guy who jumps like Mario, and it's kind of obvious why this movie isn't doing well.  People just aren't widely familiar with the source material these days, even if you are the audience for it.

It's actually kind of the same thing that happened to Tintin here in NA.  It did alright here in NA because of the Spielberg attachment, but it made most of its money in Europe and elsewhere where the Tintin name is much better known.  I love pulp adventure storytelling, and I just wasn't aware of Tintin before the movie released.  We had Jonny Quest here instead.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on March 13, 2012, 03:37:08 PM
Princess of Mars 4/10 Ok i didnt watch the whole movie, but I saw it was on the syfy channel and I was like haha its the syfy version of john carter. terrible.

I still havent seen TinTin, I used to watch the cartoon on HBO and nick though.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on March 14, 2012, 08:44:00 AM
Resident Evil: Apocalypse - 4/10
So I've only seen the first RE movie besides this one, and it was pretty bad, but this was just downright awful. The video games are basically perfect for someone to make a live action film based on them, but they always have to go and make them...not Resident Evil. It probably didn't help that I watched it on SyFy, which made the movie about 70 minutes long after skipping through the commercials, but it probably would have been worse now that I think about it...

I did see a few minutes of the one with Ali Larter in it, and it seemed like it was probably a million times better than these two just based on those few minutes.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Kairon on March 17, 2012, 02:07:19 AM
Season of the Witch
Goddammit... Why do I watch Nicolas Cage movies? I should have known better. I've only liked 2 movies in the last 10 years with Nicolas Cage in it: Matchstick Men (which I hated the first time because of the ending) and Kick Ass. It's not even about a witch. Face + palm. The only positive thing I can really say about the movie is that Claire Foy is pretty and that's not even about the movie. Thanks Mr. and Mrs. Foy for that.

Hehe, I have the same problem. I can't help it, Nicolas Cage, Denzel Washington... I watch their movies even if I know they'll be bad!

I think the best thing about Season of the Witch (Which I give a "watchable" 3/5 to) is the British cast, and yeah, especially Claire Foy. Man, now I want to watch Little Dorritt again.

Anyways...

Three Blind Mice
A techie guy in London accidentally witnesses a murder on a webcam page he's a fan of, thus getting caught up in the police investigation and eventual international conspiracy. Honestly, I was a little bit surprised, I was expecting more of a "Hackers" vibe to it, but it's really not a tech movie and more about them trying to figure out the purpose behind such a random crime, even as the police stop official investigation. I'll have to admit, I threw this on my queue because of Emilia Fox, who I have a passing interest in as she played Georgiana Darcy in the 1995 Pride and Prejudice. I was actually second-guessing everyone's intentions and roles very early on, but the movie definitely lulled me into a sense of complacency before it had expended all of its twists and surprises. An interesting movie, but just a tad on the mundance side in the first half... 3/5.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: jrlibrarian on March 17, 2012, 04:00:52 PM
The Village: Another of M. Night's movies that was marketed as a horror movie despite the fact that it's anything but. Set in the 1800s, there is a village surrounded by woods, haunted by Those We Do Not Speak Of.  This is a movie created for people who know how to watch movies, if you know what I mean. Ignore Roger Ebert's review of it (he gave it a measly 1 star), and find a copy of this movie. But whatever you do, don't look up ANYTHING about the plot or the ending before you watch it. Amazing movie, in my opinion. I'm working on tracking down a copy of Unbreakable at  the moment.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on March 17, 2012, 05:08:00 PM
i figured out the ending of the village long before the end

i noticed some pretty obvious anachronous things, iv only seen it once though, at the theaters
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on March 17, 2012, 05:22:13 PM
I saw it in theatres and I figured out the ending in the first scene. The gravestone gave it away. I was hoping I was wrong but when I saw everything unfolding, I kept saying in my head, "Don't be modern day. Don't be modern day. Don't be modern day. Gahhhh, it's modern day." I was actually kind of hoping that the truce was real and there would actually be real monsters when Ivy was walking through the woods.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Kairon on March 17, 2012, 05:46:28 PM
I'm working on tracking down a copy of Unbreakable at  the moment.

I really liked Unbreakable, I hope you do too! I know it's not fashionable to like Shyamalan's work anymore, but I still have a soft spot for his films. I like how they each seem to be based around some sort of theme or concept, like archetypal fairytale roles in The Lady in the Water. No one seems to like The Happening, but I was absolutely tickled how the whole movie was some sort of applied Scientific Process, and with Mark Wahlberg as a science teacher no less!

As for The Village, I became a big fan of Bryce Dallas Howard after that, but unfortunately I can't say I ultimately enjoyed the movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: MysticGohan on March 17, 2012, 06:06:06 PM
You must have went to a public school. :P: : : :
It's no wonder Hollywood can continuously crap all over stolen material... no one is informed enough to even know that it is stolen to begin with. Edgar Rice Burroughs is pretty standard reading for anyone even slightly interested in science fiction. It may be pulpy, but that was the style of the time. The only pieces of his catalog that overshadow the Barsoom series is Tarzan himself.

We never read Tarzan either, though as least I was familiar with that one through various movie adaptations.  Our required reading list was weird growing-up in the 80s & 90s: in my dad's day, he had to read The Lord of the Rings.  In mine, only The Hobbit was required.   ;)   And let's not get into all the politically-correct snore-fests I had to read in Middle & High School.

My point, though, is that the John Carter books are frickin' obscure in the modern era.  I love pulp-type fiction stories, especially when they were converted into radio dramas in the 30s and 40s (which you can still find these days, one of the miracles of the internet).  But these stories haven't received a previous film or TV adaptation (that I'm aware of) that would put them in the public consciousness.  You see a trailer for a seemingly (emphasis on appearances)-StarGate rip-off with a guy who jumps like Mario, and it's kind of obvious why this movie isn't doing well.  People just aren't widely familiar with the source material these days, even if you are the audience for it.

It's actually kind of the same thing that happened to Tintin here in NA.  It did alright here in NA because of the Spielberg attachment, but it made most of its money in Europe and elsewhere where the Tintin name is much better known.  I love pulp adventure storytelling, and I just wasn't aware of Tintin before the movie released.  We had Jonny Quest here instead.

Hehe, funny...... I was aware of TinTin 20+yrs before this movie was a twinkle in some director's eye. There was a TinTin animated series after all, during the early 90's if memory serves me.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Kairon on March 17, 2012, 06:36:31 PM
It's true that TinTin's flat character is a bit of one of the negatives about the movie version, but let me tell you, in the comics it's absolutely no problem whatsoever-at-all.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: MysticGohan on March 17, 2012, 08:36:23 PM
U.S. Citizen who knows and watched Tin Tin  the animated series based on the comics. So it is known here, not because of the movie hehe.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 17, 2012, 08:52:30 PM
I watched Tintin the other day. The CG was pretty amazing. the only thing that gave it away to be an animation was the faces. all the inanimate objects looked so real in the beginning that you could have been fooled until they showed a face.

Couple of funny moments (like the plane burp) and I'm not really familiar with the source material, but overall I thought it was a pretty good action/adventure movie
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on March 17, 2012, 09:52:19 PM
I loved the Tintin books growing up, so I was excited to see the film. Unfortunately, I found it exhausting. It's all action, all the time. No character development or investigative moments that the books had. I thought the most "Tintin" moments in the movie didn't involve Tintin at all, but Tompson & Thompson investigating the wallet thief.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 20, 2012, 02:44:15 AM
to all those John Carter fans out there
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118051647
don't expect a sequel.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Kairon on March 20, 2012, 02:55:15 AM
Can us Avatar: The Last Airbender fans expect a sequel?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on March 20, 2012, 03:02:56 AM
Can us Avatar: The Last Airbender fans expect a sequel?

Yes, it's called The Legend of Korra, and it'll be airing next month.   ;)

Now, if you're talking about a sequel to that intensely mediocre (at best) M. Night The Last Airbender (note the lack of the "Avatar" name), I really hope we don't see one if the sequel would just be more of that.  I just know M. Night would find a way to screw-up my favorite Avatar character: Toph, whose awesomeness can't be described by mere words.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 20, 2012, 03:07:58 AM
Can us Avatar: The Last Airbender fans expect a sequel?

Yes, it's called Korra, and I have it on my computer waiting to be watched as we speak.

They should think about making a movie about the original trilogy someday. I would totally watch it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Kairon on March 20, 2012, 03:23:47 AM
*pouts*
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Lithium on March 20, 2012, 01:15:29 PM
Can us Avatar: The Last Airbender fans expect a sequel?

 I just know M. Night would find a way to screw-up my favorite Avatar character: Toph, whose awesomeness can't be described by mere words.


**** yes Toph is the **** motherfucking metal bending! also why isn't "motherfucking" censored?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on March 20, 2012, 05:44:43 PM
...why isn't "motherfucking" censored?

Beats me.  I've never really tested the swear filter. It may come as a shock to a few of you, but whenever you see me swear, I put the asterisks in myself.  :cool;

But yes, Toph is awesome, and not just because of that.  I just love her worldview, her sense of humor (often in a self-deprecating way), and the way she doesn't take **** from anyone.  She's also arguably the most powerful character in the entire series despite her disability.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on March 20, 2012, 11:24:46 PM
No, there won't be a sequel. I'm too lazy to explain why, but you could go to any Avatar fansite and get a much better explanation.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on March 20, 2012, 11:26:53 PM
I was aware of TinTin 20+yrs before this movie was a twinkle in some director's eye.


Bullshit. Have you seen the history of this movie production. I bet it spans much longer than you've known of the movie. Stop being a hipster and appreciate the movie.


EDIT: Sorry, double post.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on March 20, 2012, 11:35:00 PM
She's also arguably the most powerful character in the entire series despite her disability.

More powerful than a character that can remove your ability to bend?
More powerful than a character that can control you by bending your blood?
More powerful than a character that wields the mighty boomerang?

I think not.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 20, 2012, 11:37:29 PM
Blood Bending is evil. Metal Bending is cool.

that being said, Toph was my favorite character by far.
The the water bender could kill instantly if they decided to go that route.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on March 20, 2012, 11:38:43 PM
I agree with Unclebob. She certainly isn't the strongest character in the series. She isn't even the Avatar. Sure, she might be one of the most power earthbenders in the series...but not out of everyone.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on March 20, 2012, 11:38:51 PM
I was aware of TinTin 20+yrs before this movie was a twinkle in some director's eye.


Bullshit. Have you seen the history of this movie production. I bet it spans much longer than you've known of the movie. Stop being a hipster and appreciate the movie.


EDIT: Sorry, double post.

And calling Stephen Spielberg "some director" is a bit insulting to the man's legacy, almost as much as Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

If we wanna make this a pissing contest, I read all of the books in the original French when I was a kid and have a framed poster of the cover for "L'Etoile Mysterieuse" at my dad's house. I was in an immersion program as a boy.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on March 20, 2012, 11:40:28 PM
She's also arguably the most powerful character in the entire series despite her disability.

More powerful than a character that can remove your ability to bend?
More powerful than a character that can control you by bending your blood?
More powerful than a character that wields the mighty boomerang?

I think not.

Ty Lee is a wild-card. If she can be hit before she gets too close, she can be taken down.  Aang's version of that technique is extremely unstable. He nearly died using it once.  Katarra needs the Full Moon to do Blood Bending.  Sokka lost his boomerang at the end of season 3.   ;)

And as powerful as Aang was with the various elements, I never got the sense towards the end of the series that he was more skilled in any one of them as his specialized friends.  Hell, he needed to get bailed-out by the Avatar State just to take down one master Firebender (in a scenario where both characters should have been boosted by the Comet).
 
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on March 20, 2012, 11:42:05 PM
Aang can still bend all four elements and now control the Avatar State at will. And there's no telling whether or not he can use Energybending in a more effective way.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on March 20, 2012, 11:51:29 PM
For the record, I wasn't even considering Ty Lee. :D

Toph's biggest weakness is her need to use that sonic scream of her's to see anything.  She'll never be able to sneak up on her enemies like that.

As for Katara's blood bending - now, I'm just making this up, but the old woman who taught her how to do it very strongly implied that she knew Katara is more powerful than she is.  I can't imagine any reason why it'd be harder for Katara to blood bend without a full moon than it was for Yew to bend the water inside of plants.  But, going on established cannon, nothing is shown that Katara can bloodbend without the aid of a full moon.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on March 20, 2012, 11:53:54 PM
I was aware of TinTin 20+yrs before this movie was a twinkle in some director's eye.
Bullshit. Have you seen the history of this movie production. I bet it spans much longer than you've known of the movie. Stop being a hipster and appreciate the movie.

Oblivion is right. Spielberg originally got the film rights to Tintin way back in 1983 but didn't get around to making it for a long time.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on March 20, 2012, 11:59:48 PM
I was aware of TinTin 20+yrs before this movie was a twinkle in some director's eye.


Bullshit. Have you seen the history of this movie production. I bet it spans much longer than you've known of the movie series. Stop being a hipster and appreciate the movie.



I meant to say series. I'm sure you knew what I meant.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Kairon on March 21, 2012, 04:04:21 AM
I was aware of TinTin 20+yrs before this movie was a twinkle in some director's eye.
Bullshit. Have you seen the history of this movie production. I bet it spans much longer than you've known of the movie. Stop being a hipster and appreciate the movie.

Oblivion is right. Spielberg originally got the film rights to Tintin way back in 1983 but didn't get around to making it for a long time.

Wow MysticGohan is oooooold.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on March 21, 2012, 04:24:37 AM
Apparently John Carter is expected to be the biggest flop of 2012.

Not surprised given how they renamed it from John Carter of Mars to John Carter, started marketing 2 weeks before its release with "Who is John Carter?" how would i know?? and then continued to forget to tell people it existed. Never mind the content of the film itself.

I stand by my opinion that the rise of vampires, zombies and Lost you can't out-lost Lost, so stop trying! has caused the death of sci-fi.
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Post by: oohhboy on March 21, 2012, 04:36:38 AM
I whole heartedly agree with you about Sci-fi. I am coming up to the end of SGU with 2 episodes to go and it wasn't until second season till it found it's real voice. It really didn't help there were a number of episodes that were pulling some BS Lost style garbage.

I can't remember when I last watched some good sci-fi movie that was recent. Chronicle doesn't count. That was ****. Avatar bored me to tears and it doesn't help that Sam Worthington is easily the world's most over-rated "Actor". Fucker makes Keanu Reeves look good. Unless Batman counts as Sci-Fi, the last good SF movie I watch must have been Serenity.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Sundoulos on March 21, 2012, 08:21:59 AM
Blood Bending is evil. Metal Bending is cool.

that being said, Toph was my favorite character by far.
The the water bender could kill instantly if they decided to go that route.

I had wondered if they were going to reveal other "super-powers" for the other forms of bending.  For instance, could an Air Bending conceivably take all of the air out of another person's lungs or prevent them from breathing?  I guess that would have been too dark, but, really, the blood-bending stuff was pretty dark.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on March 21, 2012, 09:40:21 AM
Inception? That may not be high on sci-fi but i do enjoy the film for many other reasons (music, filming style, Chris Nolan's preference of "crisp" shots over 3D and other junk etc).

Every show that's attempted to beat Lost at its own formula directly has died: SGU, Flashforward, The Event and Alcatraz (i expect) now. All of them have started the series by throwing a long ball (the series arc), and the idea of breadcrumbs along that path until we reach the end when the big questions are answered.

Flashforward in particular had a moment in the series finale when the end game was expected in December 2015.

Movie wise there's been little of that sort and flops like John Carter will simply put them off doing/marketing it better.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Caliban on March 21, 2012, 09:44:27 AM
Hopefully Prometheus is successful enough to give the genre a well deserved reboot.
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Post by: Stogi on March 21, 2012, 11:17:25 AM
Toph is my favorite character by far. Fire is my favorite element.

As for super powers:

Earth - Metal Bending (and maybe at some point, alchemy)
Water - Blood Bending and/or ripping water out of any living thing.
Fire - Flying/Lightning (also, you could conceivable suck the heat out of anything, thus freezing it)
Air - Flying/Super speed. (Also, Vacuum. You could literally make someone's blood boil.)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on March 21, 2012, 07:33:44 PM
Wouldn't lightening already count as fire bending's super power? Not many could do it as I recall.

Every show that's attempted to beat Lost at its own formula directly has died: SGU, Flashforward, The Event and Alcatraz (i expect) now. All of them have started the series by throwing a long ball (the series arc), and the idea of breadcrumbs along that path until we reach the end when the big questions are answered.

OMG, did The Event fucking suck. Every freaking episode it was "Crazy **** happens, but that's not the EVENT!!!" By the 3rd time, I couldn't care anymore. I tried to watch FlashForward too, but I thought the premise was too stupid, and they seemed to kill off seemingly major characters for fun.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on March 23, 2012, 09:58:59 AM
Saw Hunger Games last night.  It was good.  My friend who went that hadn't read the books, didn't know much about it (basically, the previews) and wasn't even sure if he wanted to go ended up loving it.

Seriously, if you don't have a stick up your butt about it being for kiddahs (which, if you're on a Nintendo forum, you shouldn't), go see it.  It's good.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on March 23, 2012, 10:18:44 AM
Hi five Unclebob! I thought it was intense. I went with about ten other guys (and one chica) and only about half of them had read the books. Everyone loved the movie. I was pleasantly surprised.
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Post by: Ceric on March 23, 2012, 10:52:45 AM
I'm glad to hear that people liked Hunger  Games.  I'll probably rent it.  I hear it being compared to Battle Royale concept wise and while I have a morbid curiousity about that movie I haven't brought myself to watch that movie either  I'm just not big into kids fighting to the death.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on March 23, 2012, 11:47:23 AM
Even though I've read the books, I was surprised how much violence they kept in the movie. Yes, they made it hard to see clearly because of the shaky camera at some points but i was still jarring to see a young boy get his neck snapped and the knife-chick getting broken by the scary black name whose name I can't remember.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on March 23, 2012, 12:04:15 PM
Spoilers, my good man.  Spoilers.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on March 23, 2012, 06:20:40 PM
Sorry.
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Post by: UncleBob on March 23, 2012, 06:39:06 PM
Yeah, but you don't know how they die.  I mean, obviously, the main character isn't likely to be killed, but when she's getting attacked by psycho knife lady and the District 11 guy comes up behind her and saves Katniss, that kind of comes out of nowhere and is a good moment.  No need to risk spoiling it. :D
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on March 23, 2012, 06:58:47 PM
Oh ****, that was a close one. Thanks for the spoiler tags. The Hunger Games is on my list of books to read. I have them after Let's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson (The Bloggess) which comes out next month.

Anyway, I hear the movie is jawesome. My Facebook newsfeed blew up with good reviews this morning. I'm going hold off until I read the books. Then again, that's what I said when Memoirs of a Geisha came out. /fail
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on March 23, 2012, 09:31:02 PM
Actually, you know, I don't think it'd be too bad to watch the movie before reading the book.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Kairon on March 24, 2012, 02:02:52 PM
I personally have no problem with watching movies before I read the book. Frankly, that's how I discover a ton of books I've really enjoyed reading.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on March 25, 2012, 01:30:20 AM
Just watched "Game Change." It was really great, although Ed Harris used his left arm too much and didn't look like a corpse, but he gave an excellent performance. And the movie made me feel genuine sympathy for Sarah Palin, something I didn't think was possible.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on March 25, 2012, 02:20:28 PM
And the movie made me feel genuine sympathy for Sarah Palin, something I didn't think was possible.

It's kind of like when you feel sorry that handicapped person at the store...
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on March 25, 2012, 05:39:16 PM
I saw The Hunger Games last night. I thought the story and characters were great. I had a few problems with the film though. For one, I can't stand shakey cam. It drives me nuts. I really didn't like Public Enemies (an otherwise great movie) because of it. That being said, it wasn't as bad as the camera constantly shifting, especially during the first half of the movie. I found the ADD camera angles to be incredibly distracting while the story was being set up.
Other than that, it was exciting; there was LOTS of tension; and the movie sets itself up for a sequel while wrapping up the current story very well. Only two "plot points" bothered me. The whole thing with the sponsors seemed absolutely pointless. I was wondering what the point of it all was for the first part of the actual games until the main character actually got some burn cream or whatever it was. The other thing was towards the end with the berries. It took me a while to figure out the the berries were poisonous and that the dude was about to eat 'em.
I didn't read the book, so I can't speak on it as an adaptation. But by itself, it was great.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on March 25, 2012, 09:23:53 PM
Dude, they needed the shakey camera to maintain a PG-13 rating. No one wants to see 13 year old children getting their necks slit open by a huge knife with no sort of discretion shot. The best way to do this was through shakey camera.


You answered your own question with the sponsors. And it was established that the berries were poisonous when that one girl (Foxface) had accidently eaten them.


You should probably just pay more attention.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on March 25, 2012, 10:57:47 PM
Yeah - to be honest, I'm rather surprised at the PG-13 rating with the violence that was in the film.  The footage of the past game where the one kid is bashing the other kid's skull in with a brick seemed especially graphic.

As per the two plot points, the book made much, much better use of the sponsors bit.  I think they would have glossed over it completely for this movie except (mega-spoilers) the second book - and thus movie - uses it as kind of a pivotal plot device, so it was necessary to set it up.

As for the second - I thought they did a pretty good job explaining that entire thing.  They didn't do much to set up that Katness was fairly knowledgeable regarding native plants and such, but it was a minor thing.
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Post by: Stogi on March 26, 2012, 12:22:34 AM
I saw it tonight and while a good to great movie, I didn't think it was amazing. I'm not even sure I'd watch it again. I will say this however, the acting was superb. I was really shocked by how well 'Katness' performed. Some scenes you could tell the director wanted to say cut because of time but decided to just keep rolling. She deserves some kind of award.

Also, the scene where Rue dies...I couldn't help but think what her father was doing at that very moment, and the movie answered it for me, with genuine emotion and passion. I thought when Katness gave the symbol of the oppressed (that's at least what I called it) after she covered Rue with flowers and then the riot scene that started immediately afterward were the greatest 5 minutes of the film. Everything else seemed like a ploy to stay alive or let someone else live, but that moment -- where the father didn't give a **** -- was easily the most genuine emotion in the film. It stuck with me.

And yeah, shaky cam sucks ass. There are ways to show people dying without shaking up the camera. Just ask James Cameron.

EDIT: Oh and BTW, it's pretty unrealistic. We all know if it really came down to it, the black guy would win. Good luck finding a black dude at night in a jungle. Just sayin'.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on March 26, 2012, 12:28:04 AM
And yeah, shaky cam sucks ass. There are ways to show people dying without shaking up the camera. Just ask James Cameron.

True... but there's something to be said about kids killing kids.  And the way some of them are killed - just brutal (like the aforementioned kid bashing the other kid's skull in with a brick as blood splattered everywhere, then he stood above him, clutching the bloodied brick).  My boss asked me if the movie was "kid friendly".  I said I wouldn't think so (his kids are like 5 and 7) and told him some of the scenes.  He was surprised, he hadn't heard any of that... and to be honest, I'm surprised I haven't seen anything about parental groups being in uprisings over the violence in the movie...
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on March 26, 2012, 12:29:39 AM
He died from the Mutts, dude. It wasn't unrealistic.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on March 26, 2012, 12:33:17 AM
He died from the Mutts, dude. It wasn't unrealistic.

First of all, it was a joke (not really). Second of all, mutts are possibly the stupidest animal they could have sicked on the kids other than penguins. They are surrounded by trees. Dogs can't climb. Do the math.

And yeah, shaky cam sucks ass. There are ways to show people dying without shaking up the camera. Just ask James Cameron.

True... but there's something to be said about kids killing kids.

True, I guess. But again, that has nothing to do with shaking up the camera. We all know those kids died, despite the shakiness.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on March 26, 2012, 12:36:41 AM
http://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/hunger-games

Interesting - they seem to take a bit of issue with the violence, tend to be forgiving expressly because of the camera work, but then praise the film for the lack of sex, consumerism, and the fact that the lead is a pretty strong "role model".

I wonder if the movie had been more graphic with each death if they would have given it as much of a pass.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on March 26, 2012, 12:37:50 AM
He died from the Mutts, dude. It wasn't unrealistic.

First of all, it was a joke (not really). Second of all, mutts are possibly the stupidest animal they could have sicked on the kids other than penguins. They are surrounded by trees. Dogs can't climb. Do the math.


I just have to say that they were worse in the books. Sorry.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on March 26, 2012, 12:42:47 AM
If we're taking the books into consideration, then Thresh wasn't killed by the mutts..
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on March 26, 2012, 12:50:02 AM
I know. I think he was killed by Cato in the books.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on March 26, 2012, 12:52:44 AM
There's some debate on that.  I agree that's what we're lead to believe though, but the author wasn't 100% clear on that.  And since the movie switched his and Foxface's death scenes, I'm reluctant to consider the movie death scene the authority.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Kairon on March 26, 2012, 12:55:46 AM
This is great. I don't expect to watch the movie for a good long while, so all this Hunger Games talk is one long conversation of black bars for me.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on March 26, 2012, 12:57:57 AM
Well, there's a lot of spoilers.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on March 26, 2012, 12:58:38 AM
Well, now we all know how we can talk about Kairon behind his back.  He'll never suspect a thing..
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on March 26, 2012, 12:59:35 AM
Kairon is such a cool guy!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 26, 2012, 01:00:43 AM
I did another Day @ the Movies for March 2012

4 movies this time.

1st up
Hunger Games - First I just want to say that I was surprised at how many people were in the theater for this on @ 10:45am on a Sunday. It was good. and there was nothing graphic in it the brick scene was not graphic as they didn't really show anything. which I guess was also the purpose of the quick cuts during the fight scenes. but I look forward to a sequel. THis was probably my favorite movie of the day.

Project X - now I admit that I got this one mixed up with the super hero movie where the kids accidentally get super powers, but I actually enjoyed this one for several different reasons. 1) what a crazy fuckin party. I wish I was 12-15 years younger just so I could have attended. With what I know know being applied to back then... just know that it could have been a really great nite. 2) I know everyone in the movie... it was very sad, creepy and odd. I have a friend that could take the place of just about every character in the movie, it made the movie very surreal at times. 3) What a fuckin party!! Did I say that already?
it got a little carried away and I have been to parties that on some level began to head in that direction, but this movie cranked it up to 11 at the end. I see a few direct to DVD sequels in the near future. Probably college focused.

John Carter - I slept through a large portion of the 1st hour of this one. It's not that it was boring, I just didn't get much sleep, just finished some taco bell and the 3D glasses were making my head feel weird. But from what I did watch of it it seemed alright. Not much to say since I didn't see the whole thing, but I could see a sequel coming for this one too.... if it weren't for that massive bomb in ticket sales that it suffered.

21 Jump Street - This movie was hilarious in the stupidest of ways and was my #2 movie of the day. If you are looking for a good comedy, this is the one to go see. But there was something a little worrying about it. lots of sexual advances involving underage girls from 2 guys that are supposed to be in their mid to late 20's. Outside of that, Sequel incoming for sure. *SPOILER ALERT*cameo by original 21 Jump Street cast was good too. JD surprised me and then what happened to him right afterwards was crazy.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on March 26, 2012, 01:04:53 AM
I want to go see John Carter ever since I found out that the director of Wall-E and Finding Nemo is in charge. It's also nice to know that the author that wrote the book it was based off of inspired some of the greatest directors and movies of all time (Aliens, Terminator, Indiana Jones, Star Wars, etc.).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on March 26, 2012, 01:08:13 AM
Hunger Games - [...] It was good. and there was nothing graphic in it the brick scene was not graphic as they didn't really show anything. which I guess was also the purpose of the quick cuts during the fight scenes.

... which has been my argument all along.  :D

Now, if anyone wants to discuss the quick-cuts during the first half of the film, I might be more open to complaining about those.

On one hand, it's distracting to me and I hate it.  It was really unnecessary during the first half.

On the other hand, I could see how if it the first half was smooth as butter, then, suddenly, during the second half, the camera starts skipping around, it could make the entire film feel disjointed.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 26, 2012, 01:09:39 AM
I saw it tonight and while a good to great movie, I didn't think it was amazing. I'm not even sure I'd watch it again. I will say this however, the acting was superb. I was really shocked by how well 'Katness' performed. Some scenes you could tell the director wanted to say cut because of time but decided to just keep rolling. She deserves some kind of award.

Also, the scene where Rue dies...I couldn't help but think what her father was doing at that very moment, and the movie answered it for me, with genuine emotion and passion. I thought when Katness gave the symbol of the oppressed (that's at least what I called it) after she covered Rue with flowers and then the riot scene that started immediately afterward were the greatest 5 minutes of the film. Everything else seemed like a ploy to stay alive or let someone else live, but that moment -- where the father didn't give a **** -- was easily the most genuine emotion in the film. It stuck with me.

And yeah, shaky cam sucks ass. There are ways to show people dying without shaking up the camera. Just ask James Cameron.

EDIT: Oh and BTW, it's pretty unrealistic. We all know if it really came down to it, the black guy would win. Good luck finding a black dude at night in a jungle. Just sayin'.

1st of all Katness is a really retarded name. 2nd, she did a wonderful job acting and I look forward to the sequel. 3rd, Rue....I admit to shedding a tear. that whole scene was handled really well and the cutback to her district was really powerful and now I see why the peace keepers are there so sad to see her go. 4th who didn't crack up at Katness almost stepping on that dudes head when he had his rock face make-up on? He looked ridiculous... and where did he get the materials to do that? crazy
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on March 26, 2012, 01:14:37 AM
1st of all Katness is a really retarded name.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagittaria

Might help a little.  Doesn't really roll off the tongue though.  After watching the movie, my wife complained that there would be an uptick in the number of kids named Katniss now.
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Post by: TJ Spyke on March 26, 2012, 01:17:31 AM
Wouldn't surprise me, records show that "Isabella" saw a big increase after the Twilight movies started coming out.
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Post by: Stogi on March 26, 2012, 01:29:34 AM
BnM, along with a lot of other things, I think that was just to add humor to the film. Honestly, it was because of the humor that turned a good story into a better one. - H
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on March 26, 2012, 03:22:20 AM
I had significant problems with the movie when i saw it on Friday. I wasn't too comfortable with the plot (but then that was kind of its intention?) and wasn't really feeling how pompous the Capitol was in comparison to everything else. But thinking about it, i guess that's what the atmosphere was meant to be.

Shakycam and high speed moving-camera shots actually makes me dizzy if watched for more than a few second at a time and this movie had far too many of those. I had to look down the whole time to avoid them. Stargate Universe, so far, is the only thing i've seen that's done shakycam properly so i can actually watch it.

The Dark Knight managed to cover over the tense scenes really well you wanna know how i got these scars? so The Hunger Games could have too without shaking the camera violently.

A personal issue for me: i didn't like how racially unbalanced the movie was. You telling me that there is no non-white people AT ALL in District 12?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on March 27, 2012, 12:28:06 AM
Dude, they needed the shakey camera to maintain a PG-13 rating. No one wants to see 13 year old children getting their necks slit open by a huge knife with no sort of discretion shot. The best way to do this was through shakey camera.

The shakey cam was used in about 90% of the movie. Even while characters are sitting on a train having a conversation or sitting in a presumably unmoving building while having a dinner conversation. The shakey cam was mild, but constant throughout the movie. Coupled with the quick cuts, it was very distracting.

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You answered your own question with the sponsors. And it was established that the berries were poisonous when that one girl (Foxface) had accidently eaten them.


You should probably just pay more attention.

My problem was that the sponsor system was never really explained. And there was a huge amount of time from the "earn sponsorship" plot point and the actual sponsor saving the character's life. And the girl eating the berries wasn't super obvious to me. Sorry if I wasn't paying enough attention, but this was another scene where the shakey cam was distracting, especially since it was a somewhat important plot point occurring in a very fast scene. And Catnip (or w/e the **** her name is) just says, "Dude!" and the guy just looks at her and says "I'm sorry, I didn't know!" He needed three words to make that clear. The movie took the time to explain the **** out of the hallucinogenic bees, but zero seconds on poisonous berries that the characters almost used to kill themselves and are again used to imply the death sentence put on the king of games beard guy.
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Post by: Oblivion on March 27, 2012, 12:58:56 AM
Has anyone seen this?


http://jezebel.com/5896408/racist-hunger-games-fans-dont-care-how-much-money-the-movie-made


It disgusts me. Damn racist bastards. THIS is what modern racism looks like.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on March 27, 2012, 01:05:37 AM
Yeah, THAT is the face of modern racism. That one thing. And nothing else going on in the press. Nothing at all.


Not trying to start it. Please don't ban me.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 27, 2012, 01:24:55 AM
My problem was that the sponsor system was never really explained. And there was a huge amount of time from the "earn sponsorship" plot point and the actual sponsor saving the character's life. And the girl eating the berries wasn't super obvious to me. Sorry if I wasn't paying enough attention, but this was another scene where the shakey cam was distracting, especially since it was a somewhat important plot point occurring in a very fast scene. And Catnip (or w/e the **** her name is) just says, "Dude!" and the guy just looks at her and says "I'm sorry, I didn't know!" He needed three words to make that clear. The movie took the time to explain the **** out of the hallucinogenic bees, but zero seconds on poisonous berries that the characters almost used to kill themselves and are again used to imply the death sentence put on the king of games beard guy.

actually the scene with the berries was spelled out (iirc). Dude was grabbing berries and she said "those are something something berries. eat those and you'll be dead in minutes". to which he replied "oh, I didn't know." and that all coincided with fox face having a hand and face full of berries.
of course that is all paraphrased as I don't remember the exact phrasing, but I'm pretty sure that's how it went down in the movie... but I could be remembering it wrong.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Kairon on March 27, 2012, 02:24:55 AM
I hope all you newly minted Jennifer Lawrence fans find some time to watch the actress in her oscar-nominated breakout role as the lead in 2010's Winter's Bone.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on March 27, 2012, 03:30:10 AM
Hunger Games was a mix of 1984, Death Race, Battle Royale, and The Running Man blended pretty well. I can't complain except to say i've seen all those movies. The fights sucked though, that upclose **** never flies with me. Being that it was based on a dystopian book it kinda reminded me of the Giver, which im still waiting to get made into movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on March 27, 2012, 10:29:38 AM
Yeah, THAT is the face of modern racism. That one thing. And nothing else going on in the press. Nothing at all.


Not trying to start it. Please don't ban me.


Can you not act like a douche for like 5 seconds? I break out in hives when people like you talk to me.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Dasmos on March 27, 2012, 01:41:09 PM
You're the lousiest poster on this site, Oblivion. You'd be perfect for a staff role.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: NWR_insanolord on March 27, 2012, 03:12:25 PM
He's nowhere near our league.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on March 27, 2012, 03:31:31 PM
Not insidious enough.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on March 27, 2012, 04:06:50 PM
You're the lousiest poster on this site, Oblivion. You'd be perfect for a staff role.


yay
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on March 27, 2012, 05:51:03 PM
I hope all you newly minted Jennifer Lawrence fans find some time to watch the actress in her oscar-nominated breakout role as the lead in 2010's Winter's Bone.

That's where I've seen her before! But yeah...I fell asleep during that movie. It's a terrible movie (the parts that I saw).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Dasmos on March 27, 2012, 06:01:23 PM
That was the one about the meth-dealers wasn't it? I remember really liking it, but I've only seen it the once.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TrueNerd on March 27, 2012, 11:13:34 PM
Saw the Hungry Hungry Hippos Games movie.

I liked it, with reservations.

PROS:

- No exposition. A big fan of how they never sit you down and explain exactly what is going on in this world. I never read the book so it was great to discover new things about the world as the movie went on. Hell, they never even say the name of Elizabeth Banks' character.
- Jennifer Lawrence. Loved her in Winter's Bone, loved her in this. She's a bonafide leading woman. Also the character she played is an actual character and does stuff and is active as opposed to the total passive blank slate that Bella is in the Twilight series. Makes it so everything about the story isn't inherently broken.
- Kid on kid brutal violence is always a plus.

CONS:

- Some of the WORST shaky cam I've ever seen. When done well, it can be great like in the Bourne sequels and The Hurt Locker, but this was just sloppy and terrible.
- I couldn't tell if the love story stuff was supposed to be genuine or if it was just an attempt for the characters to be more crowd pleasing. I was told afterwards by people who read the book it was supposed to be the latter and thinking back on it it certainly makes more sense that way, but in the theater I was baffled.
- I knew, I think, immediately when Rue started following Katniss around that she was gonna die. I mean of course she had to, that's the point of the Hunger Games. The predictability didn't bother me as much as the execution did. We barely spend any time with Rue before she takes a spear to the gut and I didn't really care on any level other than, "It's sad because she was a young girl." Could have done more with her before offing her and making that moment really painful. Instead she just feels like a plot device.

So yeah. Not great, but a solid "good." Considering how I feel about most cultural phenomenons, I look at this one as a huge win.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on March 27, 2012, 11:33:55 PM
The shakey cam was used in about 90% of the movie. Even while characters are sitting on a train having a conversation or sitting in a presumably unmoving building while having a dinner conversation. The shakey cam was mild, but constant throughout the movie. Coupled with the quick cuts, it was very distracting.

I think I posted this here - it might have been another site... but I do agree - too much shakey/ADHD cam...  but I also think that it might have made the movie feel a little disjointed if one style of camera was used for half the movie, then switched over for the other half...

I knew, I think, immediately when Rue started following Katniss around that she was gonna die. I mean of course she had to, that's the point of the Hunger Games. The predictability didn't bother me as much as the execution did. We barely spend any time with Rue before she takes a spear to the gut and I didn't really care on any level other than, "It's sad because she was a young girl." Could have done more with her before offing her and making that moment really painful. Instead she just feels like a plot device.

Agreed, so far as the movie goes.  The book expands on this character quite a bit.  It's one of the pitfalls of trying to cram an entire book into a 2-hour movie. :(
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Post by: TrueNerd on March 27, 2012, 11:56:27 PM
Sure, and it's understandable. But still annoying.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on March 28, 2012, 12:04:52 AM
I always feel that books really should be made into series, similar to 'Game of Thrones'. Now most books won't have the depth 'Game of Throne' does, but there is a reasonable amount that eventually becomes constrained due to time.

The only movie that does a decent job with its time contraints is LOTR, and those Director Cuts are 4 1/2 hours long.

Hunger Games did a good job in the build up. It was patient, methodical, and to echo TrueNerd, dropped us into the world instead of trying to explain it (see 'The Last Airbender' the movie). Where the movie kinda loses itself is during the actual games. It's not patient anymore. Things get glossed over and the real world is barely touched upon, other than a character we've met reacting to what they are seeing.

Still, I think they did a good job, but you could tell it would be much better if they had 6 hour long episodes instead of 2 hours.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on March 28, 2012, 12:08:59 AM
Agreed.  They made her a much more likeable character in the book.  Also, the book, written in first person - drew a lot of comparisons between her character and and Prim, thus cementing Katniss' desire to protect/love her.  The movie didn't really share that.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on March 28, 2012, 02:08:26 AM
I saw the anime film The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya a few weeks back, and if it seems that I waited a long time to talk about it...that's because I honestly forgot that I had seen it until a recent podcast reminded me of it.  It's that memorable.

I have very mixed feelings about the original Melancholoy of Haruhi Suzumiya TV series, mainly because it's a mediocre series that constantly threatens to become awesome with moments of brilliance...until it quickly counters those with episode upon episode of characters just talking to each other (usually about absolutely nothing).  For every episode where Haruhi's subconscious god-powers are destroying the fabric of reality with Miyazaki-esque giant monsters, there's an episode devoted to scrounging around town looking for a heater in the winter while characters complain about being bored.

The show's fallen on hard times over the years due to a spectacularly awful 2nd season (just Google the phrase "Endless Eight" if you want to know why), so this film was made to placate the fans of the original novels. Unfortunately, that's just about all this film will appeal to, because this is one of the most inaccessible films I've ever seen, one that not only references events in the series but also requires that you have near-photographic recollection of certain past events.  I also can't state enough how ****ING LOOOOOONG this animated film is, clocking in at over 2 hours 45 minutes in length with a story that could easily be told in 1 1/2 hours.  In case you're keeping score, that makes this the 2nd longest film in animation history behind one of the Captain Harlock movies.  It's largely boring, redundant (I think the characters spend a good 15 minuted discussing dimensional/temporal theory in regards to time travel), it wastes fantastic animation on the most trivial of motions while withholding it most scenes, and the movie ends in a total plot hole that the movie openly admits exists and doesn't really care to close.

Worst of all, though, is that the movie is just completely pointless.  There is a very important character development that sets the events of this film in motion and finally moves the overall Haruhi storyline forward, and by the end of the film that character development is rendered null and void.  I mean that literally: The character development is removed via time travel.  It just makes this incredibly-bloated film even more aggravating to watch, since it's like the film is openly throwing in your face that you just wasted nearly 3 hours of your life on boring trash.  And the only reason it's 3 hours long is because they transcribed the original novel page-by-page so as to not piss off the die-hard Japanese Haruhi fanbase.  This could have been a decent movie if it had an editor, but as it is it's just disappointing (like most of Haruhi).

At least the English dub is good, as usual, and those moments of great animation are pretty fantastic.  It's just a pity that a movie with an idea this interesting had to approach it in such a boring manner.  Back to the Future this is not.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on March 28, 2012, 04:53:32 AM
I really liked Disappearance. I hated the endless eight, but the second season does drop in some very important/good episodes into the overall series. The series as a whole becomes a lot better if viewed chronologically, not by release date. The endless Eight BS is skippable as nothing but the last episode of that arc mean anything. The only episodes outside of the endless eight I honestly dislike are the 2 part arc on the island.

I view Disappearance as more of a proper 2nd season. While I agree it is quite demanding on the viewer, it's rewarding for the observant. Also this movie isn't about Haruhi, it's about Nagato and Kyon. The Haruhi series isn't directly about Haruhi, it's about the characters that surround her maintaining the masquerade. If it means they have to hump around town after a heater, that's what has to be done. Wiping out Haruhi's development was a necessity and only exists for Kyon/the viewer.

The attention to detail and the adherence to the novels is both a blessing and a curse. Even with just the first season , the Haruhi Universe has become extremely intricate. Diversion from the novels would require more work than sticking to them. That said, it's no excuse for the endless eight which only occupied a handful of paragraphs sucking down 5-7 episodes of time, effort and money only because the "second" season had out ran the books that is contained within the first season. They couldn't move forward as it would have stepped into Disappearance. The length was a necessity without cutting it in two kill bill style making it an even slower movie or applying western style pacing which would have destroyed the movie. The pacing is consistant with the TV series.

I really like how even they were with the animation. Virtually every show out there cheap out on the quite moments stacking the action scenes, which makes sense for budgetary reasons, but does produce a more uneven film. If nothing else, it makes the talk scenes a lot more interesting since it breaks aways from talking heads.

As for the plot holes, I am not too sure what you are referring to, but Disappearance isn't the end of the series. I haven't read the novels, but if the series hold true, they will come back to that one way or another. New/more Haruhi has been in flux since endless eight and the Lead VA daling with a brain tumour (http://www.forevergeek.com/2011/06/rumours-abound-for-haruhi-season-3/) and a scandal. She appears to be alright and back at work.

Personally, not making more Haruhi is leaving money on the table. As long as they don't pull another endless eight, they should be able to pick right up from where Disappearance ends. I fully expect more in the future.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on March 28, 2012, 01:24:50 PM
You're the lousiest poster on this site, Oblivion. You'd be perfect for a staff role.

upgrade!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Miyamoto on March 28, 2012, 06:25:35 PM
Game Change. 9.5/10.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on March 28, 2012, 07:22:21 PM
Agreed.  They made her a much more likeable character in the book.  Also, the book, written in first person - drew a lot of comparisons between her character and and Prim, thus cementing Katniss' desire to protect/love her.  The movie didn't really share that.

I was actually thinking how the movie might've been better had Katniss been narrating the whole thing. I was frequently wondering what was going through her mind. The intensity of the situation had to be much more stressing than her face was showing.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on March 28, 2012, 07:34:16 PM
My problem was that the sponsor system was never really explained. And there was a huge amount of time from the "earn sponsorship" plot point and the actual sponsor saving the character's life. And the girl eating the berries wasn't super obvious to me. Sorry if I wasn't paying enough attention, but this was another scene where the shakey cam was distracting, especially since it was a somewhat important plot point occurring in a very fast scene. And Catnip (or w/e the **** her name is) just says, "Dude!" and the guy just looks at her and says "I'm sorry, I didn't know!" He needed three words to make that clear. The movie took the time to explain the **** out of the hallucinogenic bees, but zero seconds on poisonous berries that the characters almost used to kill themselves and are again used to imply the death sentence put on the king of games beard guy.

actually the scene with the berries was spelled out (iirc). Dude was grabbing berries and she said "those are something something berries. eat those and you'll be dead in minutes". to which he replied "oh, I didn't know." and that all coincided with fox face having a hand and face full of berries.
of course that is all paraphrased as I don't remember the exact phrasing, but I'm pretty sure that's how it went down in the movie... but I could be remembering it wrong.


I really don't remember the dialogue from that scene at all. I remember she said the name of the berries and was yelling at him or whatever. And when I saw the body, I was thinking, "the hell happened to her?" I dunno. I hadn't brought a date to the movies in a while, so maybe I was a little more distracted than usual.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: noname2200 on March 29, 2012, 10:53:48 PM
I hope all you newly minted Jennifer Lawrence fans find some time to watch the actress in her oscar-nominated breakout role as the lead in 2010's Winter's Bone.

That's where I've seen her before! But yeah...I fell asleep during that movie. It's a terrible movie (the parts that I saw).

The parts that you didn't weren't much better, unfortunately. She's an awesome actress, but her breakout movie left a lot to be desired.

Anyways, also saw The Hunger Games, chipping in my two cents. It was good. Hardly a perfect movie, and the chemistry between the two protagonists was completely lacking (apparently that's intentional?), but I liked it nonetheless. Basically a better version of Battle Royale. Although if they go off to fight the evil repressive government in the sequel, I'm calling total plaigarism, instead of run of the mill plaigarism!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on March 29, 2012, 11:23:51 PM
It wasn't explained well in the movie, but the "chemistry" between the two leads is supposed to be a show for the people watching the Games. They later fall in love for real, of course.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: noname2200 on March 29, 2012, 11:35:19 PM
It wasn't explained well in the movie, but the "chemistry" between the two leads is supposed to be a show for the people watching the Games. They later fall in love for real, of course.

I kind of guessed the first part, judging from the importance placed on playing to the crowd, but it's good to have it confirmed. Did the book ever explain the limits of the sponsoring system, by the by? Because otherwise the game seems unbalanced.

Erm, more unbalanced than having 18 year olds fighting 12 year olds to the death, that is.

Okay, I probably just answered my own question.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on March 30, 2012, 12:40:21 AM
I kind of guessed the first part, judging from the importance placed on playing to the crowd, but it's good to have it confirmed. Did the book ever explain the limits of the sponsoring system, by the by? Because otherwise the game seems unbalanced.

Yes and no.  It's mentioned that stuff gets more expensive as the games go on, but I'm not sure if that means it's more expensive to send stuff or if the mentor can only choose to buy items from a particular selection to send in.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on March 30, 2012, 03:23:01 AM
So whats to stop people simply sending in rocket launchers, grenades and flamethrowers?

That would massively unbalance the game to anyone who got those.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on March 31, 2012, 11:39:56 PM
Tucker & Dale vs. Evil: Good, but it got old pretty quickly. Not enough Turdyk.

Win/Win: Paul Giamatti is one of my favorite actors, and this movie re-enforces that idea.

Melancholia: Did I already talk about this movie? Very slow-moving. I ended up not liking it.

Martha Marcy May Marlene: Goddamn, what a movie. VERY good, but disturbing at times. Elizabeth Olsen's FIRST ROLE. She's gonna have an incredible career.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on March 31, 2012, 11:55:47 PM
It wasn't explained well in the movie, but the "chemistry" between the two leads is supposed to be a show for the people watching the Games. They later fall in love for real, of course.

Actually, I thought they made it quite clear in the movie. Katniss even seemed shocked and opposed to the idea and only did it because it would help get more sponsors.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on April 05, 2012, 08:14:38 PM
I recently rewatched the first Mortal Kombat movie, via the digital version I acquired from the recent game's "Komplete Edition."  It's silly and more than a little bit cheesy, but I was surprised at how well it holds up.  It's a shame this director went on to completely destroy the Resident Evil franchise, because this movie was quite good.  It's not my favorite game-based movie (that would probably be Silent Hill), but it's easily in the Top 3.

Now to deal with an earlier post I've been putting off replying to because I have to break it down:

The Haruhi series isn't directly about Haruhi, it's about the characters that surround her maintaining the masquerade. If it means they have to hump around town after a heater, that's what has to be done. Wiping out Haruhi's development was a necessity and only exists for Kyon/the viewer.

First, the character development I alluded to earlier was Yuki's, not Haruhi.  She has a major character development chronologically at the beginning of the story, and by the end it's completely wiped out to return the series to status quo.  Second, the story being focused on the characters around Haruhi would be great if these characters were the slightest bit interesting.  Even Kyon isn't fun to watch without Haruhi around to provide him wacky scenarios and absurd speeches for him to mock in his inner monologue.

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The length was a necessity without cutting it in two kill bill style making it an even slower movie or applying western style pacing which would have destroyed the movie. The pacing is consistant with the TV series.

There is so much needless filler in the movie that you could easily cut this story down to fit a 90 minutes movie and lose nothing.  For instance, was it really necessary to have Kyon slumping around asking around for the missing Haruhi and freaking out for what at least felt (if it wasn't so long in reality) 30 minutes of screen time?  The movie goes to extreme lengths to depict every single interaction in the movie when it really isn't necessary, like when it spends 5 or so minutes on Haruhi looking for ways to get some school clothes so they wouldn't be bothered by the staff while in the school.  Was that really necessary?  Did all the characters really need to spend what had to be 10 minutes debating quantum causality in the most dry and boring way possible?  This movie could have edited out all the needless redundancy and come out a better movie.  If you want all the details, read the book.

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If nothing else, it makes the talk scenes a lot more interesting since it breaks aways from talking heads.

"break away from talking heads?"  Are you kidding?  Half the movie must be characters just standing or sitting next to each other talking with their arms crossed.

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As for the plot holes, I am not too sure what you are referring to

There are a couple that crop-up towards the end of the movie:

1.  The one girl (I don't remember her name) is apparently still an android associated with Yuki in the new timeline, despite Haruhi no longer being a god in that timeline and therefor there being no reason for the Universal Thought Entity to deploy observers to watch Haruhi.

2.  That battle sequence at the end ends with Kyon falling unconscious after being stabbed, with his future self and future others resolving the situation off-screen and presumably fixing Yuki.  Not only is that bad writing, but then the movie ends without the characters traveling back in time to commit those actions.  The movie acknowledges that this is a plot hole through Kyon's monologue, but it's really bad writing and feels unsatisfying.


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Personally, not making more Haruhi is leaving money on the table. As long as they don't pull another endless eight, they should be able to pick right up from where Disappearance ends. I fully expect more in the future.

Well, I'd heard that the Haruhi franchise had waned so much in Japan thanks to Endless Eight that this movie was probably going to be the last Haruhi story animated.  They could make more, but as far as a I know so far they haven't announced that they will, and that's what I meant.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Kairon on April 05, 2012, 10:02:08 PM
Win/Win: Paul Giamatti is one of my favorite actors, and this movie re-enforces that idea.

100% agreed. This is the movie that finally got my Mom to like Paul Giamatti too so... Mission Accomplished.

Martha Marcy May Marlene: Goddamn, what a movie. VERY good, but disturbing at times. Elizabeth Olsen's FIRST ROLE. She's gonna have an incredible career.

I need to see this movie.

Recently I watched Immortals, which I expected to be a bad movie, but OMG the HATS that Mickey Rourke gets to wear! ROFL! And his lines! "The gods... the gods... the gods..." &D And then Zeus as the most severe "old wise man" ever when he starts deliberately making things HARDER for the hero! The story had interesting underpinnings but was ultimately confusing, non-sensical, and had very little meaningful character depth. I feel a little bit sorry for Frieda Pinto, who I had only ever seen before in Slumdog Millionaire. {Netflix Rating: 2/5)

Compared to Immortals, Wrath of the Titans was a GREAT movie! ... Okay, that's not saying much. But since this sequel wasn't directly mutilating my memories of the original claymation movie, I felt that it wasn't slaughtering as many of my sacred cows. (Thank GOD they killed off IO, Andromeda is the woman for Perseus and ain't nothing ever gonna change that) I think the sad thing is that they had some really capable talent in this movie, but the screen writers took pains to NOT spend ANY time on any sort of character development I guess. I mean, even extending the somewhat short-feeling movie just 10-15 more minutes would've done worlds of good for a character like Andromeda, especially with Rosamund Pike. Just ONE or TWO more scenes spent making us identify with the characters would've made this an honest to god "okay" movie. I have to say though, that I am personally giving this movie a bit of a pass because after the hatred I generated for its predecessor, this one had a very low bar to surpass and it did it handily. (Netflix Rating: 3/5)

Oh, and I'm still sad Alexa Davalos didn't get a chance to reprise her role. The modern day Titans movie are just INTENT on underutilizing their acting talent. (Netflix Rating: 3/5)

Speaking of Alexa Davalos, she's one of the actors in the ensemble drama/romance/comedy Feast of Love. @_@ I thought the movie was going to be a nice relaxing romance with Morgan Freeman dispensing sage advice to the rest of the ensemble cast, but Davalos is half of a whirlwind Romeo+Juliet couple who have several love-making scenes in the first half of the movie which ultimately caused me to close the blinds in the house. But the real center of the story is Greg Kinnear's character, who gets his heart stomped on MULTIPLE times. And then Morgan Freeman's character, instead of being self-assured, is wrestling with his own sense of guilt and loss when not watching all the young'uns make fools of themselves through love.

It's ultimately an uplifting piece, but thinking about it none of the characters get a get-out-of-jail-free card when it comes to the dangers and complexity of love. Not the movie I expected, still a movie I'm glad to have watched. (Netflix Rating: 3/5)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on April 06, 2012, 08:00:38 AM
Silent Hill
It's been a few years since I watched Silent Hill. It holds up pretty well and it's still my favorite videogame adaptation. The movie isn't without some issues. A few things are a bit confusing, namely the timeline. 30 years have passed since the failed sacrifice of Alessa and the events of the film but no one looks like they aged. Also, the movie doesn't really delve into the metaphorical Silent Hill which I suppose may have been too heavy for the average moviegoer.

Still, it's entertaining despite some cringe worthy lines and occasional lack of direction (at times, Rose insists on doing things or going places just because, not because something leads her there). There's isn't a lot of info on the sequel but I'm a little curious how they plan to bring Radha Mitchell and Sean Bean back without Jodelle Ferland, the character of Sharon Da Silva isn't even in it.

Lucky Number Slevin
Excellent movie. I feel like saying too much about this movie could potentially something. Highly recommended.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on April 06, 2012, 08:27:44 AM
Silent Hill
It's been a few years since I watched Silent Hill. It holds up pretty well and it's still my favorite videogame adaptation. The movie isn't without some issues. A few things are a bit confusing, namely the timeline. 30 years have passed since the failed sacrifice of Alessa and the events of the film but no one looks like they aged. Also, the movie doesn't really delve into the metaphorical Silent Hill which I suppose may have been too heavy for the average moviegoer.

Considering that the average movie-goer and critic apparently didn't understand the movie's story despite the lengthy exposition dump near the end that explained everything they need to know....yeah, I think the SH2-style metaphors would have lost them.  Apart from Sean Bean's character (who seems to exist merely as a point of reference and backstory) and some corny lines, I really like Silent Hill and it's my favorite video game film as well.  I really don't have a good feeling about the sequel, though, given that Christopher Gans isn't returning as the director and it's being hyped as a 3D movie.  Ugh.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on April 06, 2012, 09:50:47 AM
I remember reading that Sean Bean's character was added because studio executives balked at the mostly female cast. I'm not really sure why Christophe Gans and Roger Avery insisted on making the Harry Mason character from the original game female. Sean Bean could have easily played that role. Not that Radha Mitchell did a bad job; just seems like an odd change. It felt like they really just wanted the comparison between Rose/Sharon and Dahlia/Alessa to be more obvious.

I was a bit worried when I read that Christophe Gans wasn't returning but I hadn't heard of Gans before Silent Hill (Brotherhood of the Wolf is apparently good but I've only seen the 1st 15 minutes) so I'm willing to give Michael J. Bassett a chance. Gans did a good job but the aforementioned expository dump at the end is evidence of questionable writing and direction, the former being mostly Roger Avery's fault. A story shouldn't need that to make sense, especially narrated which is doubly cheating. If anything, I'm worried that Bassett tries to make the sequel too accessible, forgoing much of the mystery that makes Silent Hill such a cool franchise.

I don't mind the inclusion of 3D. It just seems like one of those things lesser known directors have thrust upon them by studio executives. Christopher Nolan can tell WB to suck it and make The Dark Knight Rises the way he wants because he earned that right and conceding 3D is worth more to WB than the backlash of dismissing Nolan for not complying. Bassett doesn't have that luxury but as long as he's more focused on making a good film and not throwing in 3D tricks, Revelations should be fine with or without it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on April 06, 2012, 01:58:17 PM
Martha Marcy May Marlene: Goddamn, what a movie. VERY good, but disturbing at times. Elizabeth Olsen's FIRST ROLE. She's gonna have an incredible career.

Boring. Nothing happens and there is no ending. Am I supposed to feel sorry for someone stupid enough to allow themselves to be brainwashed? No thanks.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on April 06, 2012, 03:35:59 PM
The Cold Light of Day - I'm not sure how this is Henry Cavill in an action movie when he didnt actually do any action. Bruce Willis did. Lots of running and shooting with a gun with infinite bullets and driving around, often badly.

Still worth watching to get an idea for Man of Steel next year.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on April 06, 2012, 11:05:29 PM
Martha Marcy May Marlene: Goddamn, what a movie. VERY good, but disturbing at times. Elizabeth Olsen's FIRST ROLE. She's gonna have an incredible career.

Boring. Nothing happens and there is no ending. Am I supposed to feel sorry for someone stupid enough to allow themselves to be brainwashed? No thanks.

I mean, I questioned that too. But seriously, cults EXIST. Certain kinds of people are drawn to them. I think that's one of the movie's big questions: who IS Martha (Marcy May)? I don't think SHE knows. That's the point.

Re: Silent Hill

I haven't seen it in a long time, but I really liked it when I did see it. I was really bothered by the ending. It wasn't clear at all what happened (were they in the Otherworld and never got out? Did they die? Does Sean Bean even care anymore?). I also hated the exposition at the end, almost as much as the exposition in "Shutter Island" (which literally has a chalkboard). But the creature effects were fantastic, and the use of music from SH3 was appreciated. As for a sequel, I've heard it's going to be similar to SH3, although, given the end of the first movie, HOW?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on April 07, 2012, 12:07:33 AM
My understanding of the ending is that Dark Alessa and Sharon merged at the end and Alessa was made whole again. The movie wasn't terrible clear on this but I think Alessa actually had powers which were magnified by her hatred after Christabella and the cult tried to burn her (rather than gaining powers after surviving the burning ritual). Anyway, Rose and the newly reborn Alessa (under the guise of Sharon) seem to still be in Silent Hill at the end of the film and that's the part I don't get. I have my theories (one being that Alessa chooses to stay in Silent Hill, a place where her power is most potent, and she remains there with Rose because, ultimately, she still wants a mother). I don't mind endings left to interpretations but it's hard to make a sequel that way. A sequel forces a single interpretation on an open ending which makes the open ending no longer left to interpretation.

Silent Hill Revelations stars Adelaide Clemens as Heather Mason who I'm assuming is just Sharon/Alessa. I don't really like when roles are recast but Jodelle Ferland still isn't old enough to play an 18 years old Heather. Like Silent Hill 3, The Order is the catalyst for the plot in Revelations and according to Christophe Gans, the cult in the first film was not The Order so, in the film series, there are 2 cults in the town of Silent Hill. The circumstances for Heather/Alessa leaving Silent Hill are unclear but it seems like Heather doesn't know she's Alessa though we can count on her finding out. Did Alessa/Sharon split herself in 2 (again) to evade The Order? Did she wipe her own memory? In any case, once she left Silent Hill, it seems like she found her adoptive father, Christopher Da Silva, and he raised her in the real world. That would explain how Sean Bean returns anyway. While on the run from The Order, Christopher changed their names to Harry and Heather Mason. That's my theory anyway.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TrueNerd on April 12, 2012, 07:39:52 PM
I saw an advance screening of CABIN IN THE WOODS a couple weeks ago. I bring it up now because it comes out tomorrow and I'm guessing there's a good chance a majority of the people on this forum will enjoy it.

I dunno if you've seen the commercial for this movie that sells it as a completely generic, cliched, straight horror movie, but know that it is not any of those things. This is a deconstruction of the genre, done with the utmost of respect and love. It is also hilarious. The basic set up (and this isn't a spoiler as it's more or less laid out in the very first scene ) is that there's this group of college kids going to a cabin for the weekend. Bad things are going to happen to them but there's also this group of scientists that are pulling the strings on the bad things happening at the cabin. Again, this is laid out in the first scene. First shot, even. I won't share more as the movie is constantly going to delightful places from this premise. There aren't really any twists, but I rarely knew where it was headed which was great. The final act is insane.

In short, CABIN is a ton of fun. If you like horror movies at all, you should watch this immediately.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on April 13, 2012, 03:33:04 AM
I'm tempted to watch either Cabin or Battleship today. Not sure yet.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on April 13, 2012, 04:00:48 AM
Pick Battleship.

Your tears of anguish will sustain me for weeks.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on April 13, 2012, 04:30:23 AM
I'm seeing it first thing tomorrow afternoon, so prepare to be sustained.

Cabin is later today.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Kairon on April 13, 2012, 02:54:08 PM
I'm doubling my efficiency and cross-posting my movie ratings from Facebook. So sue me. &P

Cherish has a real quirky feel to it, but in an awesome way since Robin Tunney totally rises to the occasion and delivers on her crazy character, and of course it's always a joy to watch Tim Blake Nelson. I also finally know the subtle delight in watching a movie based in a city that you know: San Francisco. Netflix Rating: 4/5
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on April 13, 2012, 05:20:02 PM
Battleship has Brooklyn Decker in it, from what I understand. So that's something.

But I do want to see Cabin in the Woods.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on April 15, 2012, 02:00:11 PM
Thanks to the DLR being suspended i didn't see anything. Seeing either tomorrow.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Kairon on April 15, 2012, 03:31:52 PM
Warhorse: Steven Speilberg did a pretty good job, and the cast was also filled with a lot of lesser known, but really enjoyable actors. (What can I say? The Brits have a lot of good ones!) But wow, the cinematographer on this worked magic, all the farm scenes were so utterly beautiful in lighting and color I couldn't believe they really were shot on location instead of on a film set... I swear, some scenes were like real life Gone With The Wind... Netflix Rating: 4/5
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: tendoboy1984 on April 15, 2012, 07:29:34 PM
Martha Marcy May Marlene: Goddamn, what a movie. VERY good, but disturbing at times. Elizabeth Olsen's FIRST ROLE. She's gonna have an incredible career.


How ironic, considering Mary Kate and Ashley became bottom-feeding trashy losers once they became teenagers. (I was going for a more explicit term, but my conscience got the better of me)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on April 15, 2012, 11:12:43 PM
American Reunion

I felt like this movie didn't really need to be made. Comedies have moved past the American Pie mold now. It was bad, it just wasn't worthwhile. There is a particularly awesome sequence (for me, personally) that made the whole movie wortwhile.

The funniest part is that when I started watching "How I Met Your Mother," Alyson Hannigan was "that girl from American Pie." After watching Reunion, she's "That girl from HIMYM." Plays the same character, actually.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on April 15, 2012, 11:18:58 PM
Alyson Hannigan plays Alyson Hannigan who always plays Alyson Hannigan.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on April 15, 2012, 11:40:37 PM
Just like how Vince Vaughn always plays Vince Vaughn.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: bustin98 on April 15, 2012, 11:55:07 PM
Watch The Cell and let me know if you think Vince Vaughn is playing Vince Vaughn. You don't have to give commentary on the rest of the film, I happen to like it. First time I've seen a horse dissected in that manner...
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on April 15, 2012, 11:58:01 PM
Watched Mirror, Mirror last weekend. Much better than I thought. The seven dwarves were funny. and watching the prince get whupped by everyone was interesting. Interesting change on the queen giving Snow White the poison apple.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on April 16, 2012, 01:50:46 AM
Rubber (2010)

I went in expecting a fairly low budget film. I was really only interested by the ridiculous plot synopsis. What I ended up getting was a hilariously fulfilled amount of camp, backed by a surprisingly intelligent commentary on the entire film industry. The only downside is that the pacing suffers a bit toward the end. Highly recommended.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on April 17, 2012, 06:05:40 AM
I went to see Cabin in the Woods yesterday. I did enjoy how blatantly mocking it was about the genre as a whole, but for me the film nearly fell apart at the end with the system purge button, which might as well have been labelled FINISH THE MOVIE!.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Shorty McNostril on April 25, 2012, 05:01:51 AM
Avengers.

GO AND SEE THIS MOVIE. 

If you have not yet booked tickets, stop whatever you are doing right now and do so.  To the first showing.   Do it right now. 
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on April 25, 2012, 08:44:08 AM
Will do.

I thought Rubber was stupid...I don't know, I kind of liked it, but at the same time...I don't know. I guess I did like it, but it was stupid.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: tendoboy1984 on April 25, 2012, 03:55:09 PM
My girlfriend and I rented "In Time" (the movie with Justin Timberlake). It was actually pretty decent, though the last half hour was ridiculously stupid.


We also rented "What's Your Number", cause my girlfriend wanted to see a comedy. Sadly, there were very few funny parts in that movie. The plot was pretty bare-bones: A sex-obsessed girl desperately tries to find a guy who will appreciate her for who she is, a whore that has slept with 19 different guys in her lifetime (she's supposedly in her late 20's).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: SixthAngel on April 25, 2012, 08:22:23 PM
I also rented "What's Your Number", cause my girlfriend wanted to see a comedy. Sadly, there were very few funny parts in that movie. The plot was pretty bare-bones: A sex-obsessed girl desperately tries to find a guy who will appreciate her for who she is, a whore that has slept with 19 different guys in her lifetime (she's supposedly in her late 20's).

You are kidding right?  A sex obsessed whore because she slept with 19 guys before she is 30?

And yes, I saw this movie.  It didn't do it for me but what you said is freaking ridiculous.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on April 25, 2012, 08:25:05 PM
19 guys before she is 30 is quite a lot. Maybe not whore levels, but close to it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on April 25, 2012, 09:57:37 PM
Like it's been said (by Jesus I think), saying a man is awesome for sleeping with a lot of girls, and saying a girl is a whore for sleeping with a lot of men, is not a double standard. There's a standard for men, and a standard for girls. Two distinct standards, not a double standard.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: tendoboy1984 on April 25, 2012, 10:48:47 PM
I also rented "What's Your Number", cause my girlfriend wanted to see a comedy. Sadly, there were very few funny parts in that movie. The plot was pretty bare-bones: A sex-obsessed girl desperately tries to find a guy who will appreciate her for who she is, a whore that has slept with 19 different guys in her lifetime (she's supposedly in her late 20's).

You are kidding right?  A sex obsessed whore because she slept with 19 guys before she is 30?

And yes, I saw this movie.  It didn't do it for me but what you said is freaking ridiculous.


Yeah, that is quite a lot. If people weren't so obsessed with casual sex and one night stands, maybe this world would be a better place. Whatever happened to actually forming a committed relationship with someone? Having sex with someone you barely know is the lowest of lows.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: NWR_insanolord on April 25, 2012, 10:59:37 PM
That's your opinion.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on April 25, 2012, 11:08:20 PM
We should before this gets any worse.


Captain America - 7/10

Pretty good movie. Is it just me, or was that Cosmic Cube the same one from the end of Thor and the one teased in Iron Man 2? And since Loki seems to take it for himself at the end of Thor, will this be a big part of[/spoilers] The Avengers?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on April 26, 2012, 12:58:35 AM
At the risk of this getting any worse, I always think of sluttiness as more of a speed than a physical count. A total number guys isn't always fair for someone's who's changed their ways. I just think of it as number of guys over time. If 19 guys in maybe 12 years is a lot to you, then that's you, friend.

(I got 12 because I assume she became active around 18 and is around 30. 30 - 12 = 18.)

But yeah, movies.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on April 26, 2012, 01:16:09 AM
Irrelevant. It's the double standard. If it was a guy we would fist bumping and giving high fives like candy. Besides, what is this? The Bible belt?

I do believe Tendoboy1984 is in need for another round of smiting for bad postings.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: tendoboy1984 on April 26, 2012, 01:23:35 AM
Irrelevant. It's the double standard. If it was a guy we would fist bumping and giving high fives like candy. Besides, what is this? The Bible belt?

I do believe Tendoboy1984 is in need for another round of smiting for bad postings.


Heh, I'm a guy, and I have something called "self control". I don't go prowling for unsuspecting women at bars and clubs. I have a girlfriend who I love very much.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on April 26, 2012, 01:29:38 AM
19 guys in Highschool = slut

19 guys during that summer in Paris = whore

19 guys during that bachelor party = barf

19 guys in her 16-20 years of sexual activity = not so bad *cough*slut*cough*
But seriously, that's like a bf a year. maybe less maybe more.

But I like my girls to keep the count down to 1 hand.... maybe 2.
and being 1st (v-card) isn't all it's cracked up to be (most of the time).

edit: About the Double Standard
****If a key opens a lot of locks then its a master key. But if a lock is opened by a lot of keys then it’s a shitty lock.****


But to stay on topic, I watched The Darkest Hour the other day.
it was stupid. special effects were horrible, the logic patterns of the people didn't make any sense half of the time...

Don't waste your time.

Also watched The Change Up, the one with Michael Bluth and Ryan Reynolds where they switched lives. It was entertaining. Had some funny moments. Good for a few laughs.
I couldn't imagine switching lives with one of my boys and then having to hear about how much he sucked at my job and how much I sucked at his. But I guarantee you that I would get to nail his wife repeatedly, and she would have loved every second of it.... she actually would have been sad that we eventually had to change back ;)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: tendoboy1984 on April 26, 2012, 01:40:51 AM
But to stay on topic, I watched The Darkest Hour the other day.
it was stupid. special effects were horrible, the logic patterns of the people didn't make any sense half of the time...


God that movie was terrible. It should have been a direct-to-DVD release.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on April 26, 2012, 02:45:33 AM
Avengers.

GO AND SEE THIS MOVIE. 

If you have not yet booked tickets, stop whatever you are doing right now and do so.  To the first showing.   Do it right now. 

It opens here today. I'm seeing it at 6pm, SAVE THE ECONOMY, SEE IT IN 2D! and am making a rush there at lunch to buy the tickets.

I would get to nail his wife repeatedly, and she would have loved every second of it.... she actually would have been sad that we eventually had to change back ;)

The major problem with that kind of film is it's always like for like. What if the person you swapped with was gay, lesbian or transgendered? Would you be saying "(s)he loved every second of it" then?

*derailed.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on April 26, 2012, 07:24:54 AM
****If a key opens a lot of locks then its a master key. But if a lock is opened by a lot of keys then it’s a shitty lock.****


*Applauds*
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on April 26, 2012, 09:41:13 AM
Dear "The Protector" (2005),

So I watched your movie late last night and until the 1:23:00 mark, you are pretty much exactly what I was expecting; a mix of badly written lines, decent stunts and great martial arts. Then 1:23:00 happens and you turn into the BEST MOVIE I HAVE EVER SEEN. And how could you not be? At that very moment, your protagonist walks into a press conference with a baby elephant screaming "Where the hell is my elephant?!" Everyone kinda looks at him dumbfounded until he elbows someone right in the face, starting a panic. Like a crazy person, he delivers a few hard hits to the screaming innocent, then he's off as quickly as he came in, following his little elephant (named 'Korn') through the building.

Korn leads him into an ambush and to the remains of his other fully grown elephant. Your protagonist decides this is the best time to mourn, which equates to three or four different takes of him hugging an elephant, even though it's at the worst possible time: when 30 or so dudes are kicking him in his sob-ridden face...repeatedly.

Then you have him get stabbed dead center of his liver (I'm no doctor, but that was definitely his liver and that was definitely the center). I know why you did this, you needed him to snap back from his fetish-like fantasy of being half-naked in a jungle hugging elephants, but...Ouch. Kinda brutal, no? I mean the guys knife went in like 6 inches. But for some reason, instead of our hero being like "Oww...blood?...WTF?...where's my ele...phant?" and passing out, you have him proceed to literally break more than a hundred bones in a row (I counted) in the most creative ways I've ever seen. This scene is so great, the sound effects alone are cringe-worthy. My favorite part is when he Million Dollar Baby's a dude with his knees.

Then to take your movie to new heights (read: lows), he uses the bones of his dead elephant to beat the living **** out of the villains' top body guards. Wasn't he just mourning? Didn't he love his elephant? Where's the respect to the dead? He used his elephant's femur to give a guy brain-damage!

Best part though is when Korn busts through the door looking for some action or to help or something (I don't know he's an elephant -- his intentions are hard to read). After the "oh look an elephant" moment wears off, he is immediately picked by his trunk and swung around into a wall. This scene is so unnecessary but is probably the greatest thing I've ever seen. Thank you for not leaving this on the cutting floor.

You definitely saved the best for last though when your hero chases down the villains for a final confrontation. He finds them attempting to escape from the roof by helicopter. One of them decided to leave earlier than the other, but lowers a rope so they can hang on as they make their get-away. Our protagonist doesn't like this and proceeds to SUPER JUMP KICK the pilot in the jaw, knocking him out of the helicopter and back onto the roof, probably killing him. The other villain, just having watched her partner probably die, still thinks it's a good idea to hang on to the rope as the helicopter careens off the building's roof without a pilot. Our hero doesn't like the odds of the villain's survival (which is literally like .0005%) so he decides to take matters into his own hands and do the most epic thing he can't think of: SUPER JUMP off the building and KNEE her in the face. They then both fall to their presumptive deaths; which is the best ending to a movie, period.

I know he loved his elephants, but good God. This dude reallllllllllyyyy loved his elephants.

Anyway, I know I didn't need to recap it, since you are the movie, but do the world a favor and release the 'STOGI Cut' of just those 15-20 minutes. I promise you the world will love it as much as I did.

Watching you again I'm sure,
Stogi
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on April 26, 2012, 11:46:12 AM
You missed the amazing one continuous shot fight scene earlier in the brothel/hotel/restaurant @ 59:45. Tony Jaa has unbelievable action skills, but he can't act his way out of thin air let alone a wet paper bag. Asking him to act is like getting a cat to fly a plane. Not happening. The action works because he isn't acting. The fighting is the only thing that literally holds up the entire film. He is very lucky he got a competent action director that shot and edited the action serviceably that had some balls to do some seriously advanced work that should have been outside his ability. Hollywood would have quick cut and shaken everything utterly destroying the action.

Unfortunately they had absolutely no idea how to do music, story, dialogue, sound design, comedy or anything not related to action. Ong Bak was a better movie overall, between the two The Protector had the better action, but they literally threw away everything for the action. Unfortunately Tony Jaa is too much of a one trick Pony and his movies just get worse and worse. There was a "Pass the torch" moment between Tony and Jackie Chan in The Protector, but it is undeserved despite Tony's asskicking resumé. Tony might be higher Octane than Jackie, however Jackie has passable acting and language skills. Until Tony expands his skill set outside of fighting, he will never be as great as he should be. People do need a little be more than "Where's my elephant!".

Also a quick correction, he doesn't kick the pilot, he kicks the passenger. A helicopter without a pilot would crash immediately without an auto hover. Thee villain was going to get away without his intervention hence the insane flying double knees.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: tendoboy1984 on April 26, 2012, 04:05:47 PM
Dear "The Protector" (2005),

So I watched your movie late last night and until the 1:23:00 mark, you are pretty much exactly what I was expecting; a mix of badly written lines, decent stunts and great martial arts. Then 1:23:00 happens and you turn into the BEST MOVIE I HAVE EVER SEEN. And how could you not be? At that very moment, your protagonist walks into a press conference with a baby elephant screaming "Where the hell is my elephant?!" Everyone kinda looks at him dumbfounded until he elbows someone right in the face, starting a panic. Like a crazy person, he delivers a few hard hits to the screaming innocent, then he's off as quickly as he came in, following his little elephant (named 'Korn') through the building.

Korn leads him into an ambush and to the remains of his other fully grown elephant. Your protagonist decides this is the best time to mourn, which equates to three or four different takes of him hugging an elephant, even though it's at the worst possible time: when 30 or so dudes are kicking him in his sob-ridden face...repeatedly.

Then you have him get stabbed dead center of his liver (I'm no doctor, but that was definitely his liver and that was definitely the center). I know why you did this, you needed him to snap back from his fetish-like fantasy of being half-naked in a jungle hugging elephants, but...Ouch. Kinda brutal, no? I mean the guys knife went in like 6 inches. But for some reason, instead of our hero being like "Oww...blood?...WTF?...where's my ele...phant?" and passing out, you have him proceed to literally break more than a hundred bones in a row (I counted) in the most creative ways I've ever seen. This scene is so great, the sound effects alone are cringe-worthy. My favorite part is when he Million Dollar Baby's a dude with his knees.

Then to take your movie to new heights (read: lows), he uses the bones of his dead elephant to beat the living **** out of the villains' top body guards. Wasn't he just mourning? Didn't he love his elephant? Where's the respect to the dead? He used his elephant's femur to give a guy brain-damage!

Best part though is when Korn busts through the door looking for some action or to help or something (I don't know he's an elephant -- his intentions are hard to read). After the "oh look an elephant" moment wears off, he is immediately picked by his trunk and swung around into a wall. This scene is so unnecessary but is probably the greatest thing I've ever seen. Thank you for not leaving this on the cutting floor.

You definitely saved the best for last though when your hero chases down the villains for a final confrontation. He finds them attempting to escape from the roof by helicopter. One of them decided to leave earlier than the other, but lowers a rope so they can hang on as they make their get-away. Our protagonist doesn't like this and proceeds to SUPER JUMP KICK the pilot in the jaw, knocking him out of the helicopter and back onto the roof, probably killing him. The other villain, just having watched her partner probably die, still thinks it's a good idea to hang on to the rope as the helicopter careens off the building's roof without a pilot. Our hero doesn't like the odds of the villain's survival (which is literally like .0005%) so he decides to take matters into his own hands and do the most epic thing he can't think of: SUPER JUMP off the building and KNEE her in the face. They then both fall to their presumptive deaths; which is the best ending to a movie, period.

I know he loved his elephants, but good God. This dude reallllllllllyyyy loved his elephants.

Anyway, I know I didn't need to recap it, since you are the movie, but do the world a favor and release the 'STOGI Cut' of just those 15-20 minutes. I promise you the world will love it as much as I did.

Watching you again I'm sure,
Stogi


That is the best thing I have ever read. You should become a professional writer.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on April 27, 2012, 12:17:19 AM
Quit spamming posts to get to a thousand.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on April 27, 2012, 12:19:04 AM
He only has 235 posts. He's gonna have to post a lot more spam than that.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Caliban on April 28, 2012, 04:00:06 PM
I watched Black Dynamite... again. I will probably watch again soon. It still gets me laughing a few times.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on April 28, 2012, 04:27:38 PM
Krull (1983, Netlifx Instant)

From every objective standpoint, this is a terrible film. The word "Krull" isn't even in the script. It's a fantasy film that was, perhaps at one time, meant to be a D&D movie. Despite its MANY shortcomings, it still manages to be watchable, due largely to the musical score and very nice scenery.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: tendoboy1984 on April 30, 2012, 04:52:45 PM
Quit spamming posts to get to a thousand.


Hey kid, I come here to have conversations with other members. If you don't like it, then oh well. Grow up.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Fatty The Hutt on April 30, 2012, 05:30:22 PM
Krull (1983, Netlifx Instant)

From every objective standpoint, this is a terrible film. The word "Krull" isn't even in the script. It's a fantasy film that was, perhaps at one time, meant to be a D&D movie. Despite its MANY shortcomings, it still manages to be watchable, due largely to the musical score and very nice scenery.
All Hail The Glaive! Bad-Ass weapon of the 80's
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on May 04, 2012, 04:23:37 AM
The Avengers
It's a 2 and a half hour action scene interrupted by extremely brief exchanges of dialog. I enjoyed it a lot because I didn't expect it to be any more than a comic book erection.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on May 04, 2012, 04:53:57 AM
Everytime I come in to this thread, I applaud BNM for that quote.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on May 04, 2012, 06:27:25 AM
It was more than just a comic book erection. It was a fucking super boner.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Shorty McNostril on May 04, 2012, 05:54:04 PM
It was more than just a comic book erection. It was a fucking super boner.

I did mention this a week ago.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on May 04, 2012, 07:05:57 PM
Avengers was good.  Seeing the new Batman trailer on the big screen just reminds me how much I dislike the new DC logo though.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on May 04, 2012, 08:44:29 PM
Yeah. The new DC logo is f*cking stupid.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on May 04, 2012, 08:52:55 PM
I thought the last DC logo was stupid too, but it grew on me. Maybe this one will too
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on May 04, 2012, 09:09:45 PM
I wasn't a huge fan of the previous swooshy DC logo... much prefer the one before... but I really dislike this logo because it highlights the thing I hate about their name...  The whole "Detective Comics Comics" thing annoys me.  If the logo was just the "DC" part, I'd survive.  It's the text below... not only is the word "Comics" redundant (even if it is what DC calls themself, but now the logo says "DC DC Comics"... grr.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on May 04, 2012, 09:30:07 PM
Oh, right, movies we saw.

Fellow Frozen North Dinnercast co-hosts Marcus, Courtney and I all sat down to watch "We're Back!" which is based on a children's picture book. In it, dinosaurs are given "brain grain" by an enterprising alien and are sent to 20th century New York to live in the Natural History Museum. To get there, they hide in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. It's pretty awesome (the book).

The movie is almost completely different. While there are dinosaurs involved, they are all stupid. The T.rex is voiced by John "Walter Sobchak" Goodman. Nobody else is important. THIS time, the dinosaurs are fed brain grain by a spaceship/time traveling old man who wants to fulfill children's wishes. Good gawd, you can see where this is going. He tells the dinosaurs to go to the Natural History Museum too, but STAY AWAY from my evil brother, Professor Screweyes.

Guess what happens.

The dinosaurs meet a street tough ten-year-old and a younger debutante girl who's voiced by Lisa Simpson. For whatever reason, the boy wants to run off to the circus, the dinosaurs sing a song in a parade then get chased by the cops and end up in Central Park where...you'll never believe this...Professor Screweyes' circus is! He trades the kids for the dinosaurs and turns them back into feral beasts (this radically changes their appearance).* With the help of a down-on-his-luck clown who is NOT voiced by Dom DeLouise--and should have been--they kids rescue the dinosaurs using The Power of Love** and, with a little deus ex machina, escape the circus and go to the museum where a little old lady voiced by Julia Childs helps them fulfill children's wishes (to see real dinosaurs).

It is a terrible film. The animation is crappy, too. The one funny part is that it was in theaters around the same time as Jurassic Park, and in fact that film is playing in a theater during the parade scene. You want dinosaurs? Go see THAT movie.

*I'm fairly certain that Rex's animalistic form IS Sharptooth, only brown. There are tons of similarities, and the movie even opens with a shot-for-shot reproduction of one of the early Sharptooth chase sequences in Land Before Time. Since Spielberg's name is attached to LBT, We're Back, AND Jurassic Park, it wouldn't surprise me if Rex is meant to be a reformed Sharptooth.

**This was NOT what Huey Lewis had in mind.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on May 05, 2012, 10:31:28 AM
The new DC logo sucks.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on May 05, 2012, 01:22:31 PM
Why new DC logo is this? I've yet to see it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on May 05, 2012, 01:49:09 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dclogo2012.png

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on May 05, 2012, 08:51:01 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dclogo2012.png



Wow, that looks like some generic graphic design logo.

The previous logo was much better. They should switch back before anyone notices they changed it at all.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: lolmonade on May 05, 2012, 10:06:49 PM
Our wife and I finally got a babysitter so we could have a date night.  My hopes to see the Avengers have been postponed so we could see the more neutral "The Five-Year Engagement".

What starts off as a fairly funny, unique, and endearing romantic comedy deviates in the middle of the movie to cliche story devices for this genre (cheat on each other, date other people, realize they just miss each other since breaking up.).  Worse yet, this deviation lasts for a good half hour of the movie before the last 1/3 of the movie where they slowly trudge their way back to the originally funny and enjoyable pacing/conclusion.

This movie was a disappointment, only because it could have been a rare romantic comedy that delved into some interesting new ideas/struggles between the couple (Segel's character being an accomplished chef who sacrifices his dreams and home for his fiancee's opportunity to work in collegiate research, how well-laid plans change in the face of relationship struggles, the strain of learning to compromise with their fiancee when both have ambitious aspirations), but decided to use a cheap storytelling device for this genre, effectively adding a useless chunk of time where most people will probably be frustrated watching it.

This movie runs approx 2 hrs 15 mins.  It deserves to be re-cut to run 1 hr 30 - 1 hr 45 mins.

7/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on May 05, 2012, 10:13:56 PM
Avengers

If you only like Artsy film.  Don't see this movie.  The overall quality of this movie will offend you because it is excellent without being a weighty piece trying to be angsty or ram a message home.  All that is dropped because there is a threat and the are going to fix it. 
 
Another way to put this is that this movie may have fixed the karma balance that Transformers and X-Men Trilogy set eskew.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on May 06, 2012, 05:08:36 AM
Avengers.... AWESOME!!!

The Hulk needs a new movie, because The Hulk was fuckin' HILARIOUS!!!
seriously made the movie for me. On numerous occasions.


Ohhhh and the tease for Avengers 2 do you guys remember The Infinity Gauntlet? I'm gonna have to go read that comic again to refresh myself for what's in store.

But I'm about to petition for The Hulk 2 and Joss Whedon needs to be involved.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Shorty McNostril on May 06, 2012, 08:52:32 AM
Joss Whedon needs to be involved in all Marvel projects here on out.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Shorty McNostril on May 06, 2012, 08:54:11 AM
Sorry for the double post, but BnM, your wish may well be a reality. Apparently Mark Ruffalo has signed a 6yr contract as the hulk for future projects.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on May 06, 2012, 11:15:03 AM
But they haven't announced any sequels for the hulk yet. afaik

I know there is an IM3, CA2, Thor 2 & Av2 all planned
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on May 06, 2012, 11:36:38 AM
I didn't know a Cap sequel was announced.  It'd be awesome if they managed to place it in the original time fame, but I know they probably won't. :(
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on May 06, 2012, 12:24:39 PM
I didn't know a Cap sequel was announced.  It'd be awesome if they managed to place it in the original time fame, but I know they probably won't. :(
Confused by this.

Do you mean WW2?  If so I do not want to see that movie.  The first one pretty much played all that material out.  Anything would only work as Flashback material.

Avengers pretty much picks up right after the Captian America movie so him being an agent for Shield would be right were it needs to be.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on May 06, 2012, 12:34:32 PM
Obviously, the movie universe is different, but Cap was around for quite a while in WWiI era.  Seems like there could be a lot of untold stories from that time frame.

I can't help it - I loved everything about the first movie... and I'm not even a huge Captain America fan.

Sadly, for the next movie, I see some kind of cybernetic Bucky coming back or some crap.

If we're going with a modern-time frame movie, I'd like to see him leaving SHIELD (the whole building WMDs thing), giving up the Captain America identity after seeing what America has become, etc., etc.  Sure, it's cliché...

I could see this as a window to introduce John Walker's character, but I'd hate for this to turn into an Iron Man 2-rip off.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on May 06, 2012, 03:14:55 PM
Haven't seen it yet...but Avengers had the biggest opening ever - $200 million, which beat the last Harry Potter's $169 million. Pretty impressive. They also said the audience was 60/40 male to female, and 50/50 under 25 and over 25...very impressive.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Shorty McNostril on May 06, 2012, 05:46:19 PM
I'm seeing it again today. Cant wait.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on May 06, 2012, 07:30:31 PM
Obviously, the movie universe is different, but Cap was around for quite a while in WWiI era.  Seems like there could be a lot of untold stories from that time frame.

I can't help it - I loved everything about the first movie... and I'm not even a huge Captain America fan.

Sadly, for the next movie, I see some kind of cybernetic Bucky coming back or some crap.

If we're going with a modern-time frame movie, I'd like to see him leaving SHIELD (the whole building WMDs thing), giving up the Captain America identity after seeing what America has become, etc., etc.  Sure, it's cliché...

They couldn't go back to WWII the way the Cap movie ended. I think they'll likely explore the Winter Soldier story line. They don't have t make Bucky a cyborg, but they can make him a killer.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on May 06, 2012, 11:03:55 PM
Obviously, the movie universe is different, but Cap was around for quite a while in WWiI era.  Seems like there could be a lot of untold stories from that time frame.

I can't help it - I loved everything about the first movie... and I'm not even a huge Captain America fan.

Sadly, for the next movie, I see some kind of cybernetic Bucky coming back or some crap.

If we're going with a modern-time frame movie, I'd like to see him leaving SHIELD (the whole building WMDs thing), giving up the Captain America identity after seeing what America has become, etc., etc.  Sure, it's cliché...

I could see this as a window to introduce John Walker's character, but I'd hate for this to turn into an Iron Man 2-rip off.
You be happy to know that as Nickmitch said Bucky never has been anything but full human if memory serves.  Cap has left shield.  Cap has even been a different hero.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on May 07, 2012, 01:41:28 AM
They should play up the story line where he falls in love with his WWII love interest's granddaughter. That's a good one.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on May 07, 2012, 02:28:11 AM
Didn't Bucky come back with a cyborg arm?

Can't say I've been a big Cap fan, but I seem to remember that...
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on May 07, 2012, 02:33:11 AM
Yes he does, Bucky has a cybernetic left arm.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: tendoboy1984 on May 07, 2012, 07:27:48 PM
Haven't seen it yet...but Avengers had the biggest opening ever - $200 million, which beat the last Harry Potter's $169 million. Pretty impressive. They also said the audience was 60/40 male to female, and 50/50 under 25 and over 25...very impressive.


A good majority of Marvel movies have been huge hits, both commercially and critically. There have been a few stinkers, but overall, Marvel really knows how to pick the right director and actors for the job.


If only Warner Bros./DC Comics did the same thing with their comic book movies. Christopher Nolan's Batman films have been the only DC Comics movies I truly liked (aside from the Tim Burton versions, but that was decades ago). Superman Returns was ok, but Kevin Spacey didn't make a convincing Lex Luthor at all, he's too soft.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on May 07, 2012, 11:03:43 PM
Yes he does, Bucky has a cybernetic left arm.

Yeah, but considering the liberties they've already taken with the continuity, I'm sure no one will mind if they leave that out. I know I wouldn't.

I just hope they don't miss this opportunity like Iron Man 2 missed using the "Demon in a Bottle" story line fully. Tony was an implied drunk, but he could've been more of a self-destructing alchy.

As for DC, they're trying over there, at least. It's just that not every book can fit in to Nolan's Bat-verse. Also, it's hard to tell which superhero franchise will really take off. Thor probably wouldn't stand on its own, but being designed as a tie-in to the Avenger's movie from the start, really helped it. (Admittedly, it was a good movie in its own right. Edward Norton made The Incredible Hulk great (as well as it being loosely based on the TV show). And everything just went right for the Iron Man franchise. There's an upcoming Superman movie that should pretty much set the tone for any other DC films.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on May 07, 2012, 11:48:42 PM
I don't see a Justice League fitting into the Nolan-verse.

As for Thor - it was the one Avengers movie I never bothered to see.  After watching it in the marathon, I have to say, I really liked it.  Probably my least favorite out of the bunch, but still a good movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on May 08, 2012, 12:20:20 AM
I don't see a Justice League fitting into the Nolan-verse.

As for Thor - it was the one Avengers movie I never bothered to see.  After watching it in the marathon, I have to say, I really liked it.  Probably my least favorite out of the bunch, but still a good movie.
I thought Thor was good for the source material.  I enjoy Thor more as a suddenly showing up hero.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on May 08, 2012, 01:17:10 AM
I want HULK SMASH for 1:45 minutes.

and I want it before IM3. and definitely before Avenger 2.
Directed by Joss Whedon.

I just really want to watch the last 30-40 minutes of the movie again.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TrueNerd on May 08, 2012, 01:54:56 AM
THE AVENGERS

Yeah, it was great. The best part was the heroes hanging out with each other and fighting each other. I want to see the three hour version where there's 45 minutes more of that. (Apparently that exists somewhere.) So many great moments, so many laughs, so much awesome. It's not perfect, but the fact it's as good as it is is shocking. I'm super happy for Whedon for finally getting the success that he's deserved.

JURASSIC PARK

I haven't seen this movie in at least a decade so this was kind of like watching it for the first time. And it's pretty damn good. I had completely forgotten how much this plays like a horror movie. The first T-Rex attack scene is terrifying and awesome. Nothing beats a good Spielberg set piece. But the whole movie has a horror movie structure. I mean, it's ALIEN in a more family friendly package. And for a movie that is known for being a CGI breakthrough, it's the animatronic dinos that blow me away. The CGI, which should be horribly dated by now, still holds up because it's only used as a supplement to some of the best animatronics ever used and also a ton of practical effects. This is a lesson Hollywood still hasn't learned. I also love the time the movie takes to embrace the wonder of the dinosaurs. Magical stuff. So yeah, sometimes mega blockbusters hold up.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on May 08, 2012, 11:22:29 PM
The CGI, which should be horribly dated by now, still holds up because it's only used as a supplement to some of the best animatronics ever used and also a ton of practical effects. This is a lesson Hollywood still hasn't learned.

THIS. This is exactly why the next two Jurassic Park films do NOT hold up as well (they're also f*cking stupid). Man, I should rewatch that movie. I mean, I probably have RECENTLY but hey, it's my #1, so what's the harm?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on May 09, 2012, 09:39:09 AM
The CGI, which should be horribly dated by now, still holds up because it's only used as a supplement to some of the best animatronics ever used and also a ton of practical effects. This is a lesson Hollywood still hasn't learned.

THIS. This is exactly why the next two Jurassic Park films do NOT hold up as well (they're also f*cking stupid). Man, I should rewatch that movie. I mean, I probably have RECENTLY but hey, it's my #1, so what's the harm?
I can verify that you have.  You've tweeted about it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: lolmonade on May 09, 2012, 11:28:07 AM
I know it's not a recently released movie, but I finally brought myself to watch The Muppets (I was skeptical of how good it would be).
 
...I was wrong.  The most fun i've had watching a movie in a long, long time.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on May 09, 2012, 10:52:10 PM
I know it's not a recently released movie, but I finally brought myself to watch The Muppets (I was skeptical of how good it would be).
 
...I was wrong.  The most fun i've had watching a movie in a long, long time.

So you haven't seen the Avengers yet? You should probably fix that this weekend.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on May 09, 2012, 11:34:13 PM
Saw The Avengers in IMAX 3D. My review: Yes.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: lolmonade on May 10, 2012, 08:16:40 AM
I know it's not a recently released movie, but I finally brought myself to watch The Muppets (I was skeptical of how good it would be).
 
...I was wrong.  The most fun i've had watching a movie in a long, long time.

So you haven't seen the Avengers yet? You should probably fix that this weekend.

Probably.  Waiting for the fervor to die down so I can see it in a theater that isn't completely packed.  I prefer to have leg room while watching movies.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on May 10, 2012, 09:03:01 AM
I know it's not a recently released movie, but I finally brought myself to watch The Muppets (I was skeptical of how good it would be).
 
...I was wrong.  The most fun i've had watching a movie in a long, long time.

So you haven't seen the Avengers yet? You should probably fix that this weekend.

Probably.  Waiting for the fervor to die down so I can see it in a theater that isn't completely packed.  I prefer to have leg room while watching movies.
I'll be surprised if thats any time soon.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on May 10, 2012, 11:50:22 AM
I'm about to see it IMAX. Even though I had reservations, the hype makes it seem worthy to do so.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: lolmonade on May 10, 2012, 01:07:24 PM
I know it's not a recently released movie, but I finally brought myself to watch The Muppets (I was skeptical of how good it would be).
 
...I was wrong.  The most fun i've had watching a movie in a long, long time.

So you haven't seen the Avengers yet? You should probably fix that this weekend.

Probably.  Waiting for the fervor to die down so I can see it in a theater that isn't completely packed.  I prefer to have leg room while watching movies.
I'll be surprised if thats any time soon.

That's fine.  I'm patient, and while I love a good action movie, i'm not the biggest comic book fan (most of my exposure of comic book heroes comes from Saturday morning cartoons, movies, and video games from the 90s).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on May 10, 2012, 06:20:06 PM
It helps if you go at some time like 2PM on a Thursday. Might still be a lot of people, but more than likely you will at least have empty seats next to you.

At the advice of a female "friend", I watched The Vow last night. Liked it, not the typical romantic comedy I expected, which was nice.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Louieturkey on May 10, 2012, 07:16:02 PM
I know it's not a recently released movie, but I finally brought myself to watch The Muppets (I was skeptical of how good it would be).
 
...I was wrong.  The most fun i've had watching a movie in a long, long time.
I loved the Muppets too.  It may have been my favorite movie from last year. And I also recommend seeing the Avengers.  It gets an A+ from me. :)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Louieturkey on May 10, 2012, 07:18:22 PM
I last watched Underworld Awakening and The Thing (2011).  Underworld was more of the same of the first two, only better I think.  They just did everything well for this series.  It's not a great story, but I just enjoyed it all.

The Thing was interesting.  The reveals were kind of obvious but it was still enjoyable.  I never saw the Kurt Russell version so I can't comment on how good it is comparably.  It was worth the free rental.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on May 10, 2012, 09:54:06 PM
It's kind of the best horror movie ever made (the Snake Pliskin version).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: tendoboy1984 on May 13, 2012, 05:13:21 PM
It's kind of the best horror movie ever made (the Snake Pliskin version).


That, and The Fly (Jeff Goldblum) are the best horror movies ever made. Too bad John Carpenter or David Cronenberg haven't made anything worthwhile in the last decade and a half.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on May 14, 2012, 05:14:44 PM
Went to see The Avengers on Saturday, one of the best movies I have seen this year. Starts a little slow, but it's alright. Hulk is easily the best part of the movie, the funniest parts of the movie were the interactions between him and Captain America, and especially him and Loki. I am not a huge comic fan, so I have not idea who that tease during the credits was. I think Black Widow was not that good though.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: bustin98 on May 14, 2012, 05:19:22 PM
Went to see The Avengers on Saturday, one of the best movies I have seen this year. Starts a little slow, but it's alright. Hulk is easily the best part of the movie, the funniest parts of the movie were the interactions between him and Captain America, and especially him and Loki. I am not a huge comic fan, so I have not idea who that tease during the credits was. I think Black Widow was not that good though.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinity_Gauntlet
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on May 14, 2012, 05:24:09 PM
Went to see The Avengers on Saturday, one of the best movies I have seen this year. Starts a little slow, but it's alright. Hulk is easily the best part of the movie, the funniest parts of the movie were the interactions between him and Captain America, and especially him and Loki. I am not a huge comic fan, so I have not idea who that tease during the credits was. I think Black Widow was not that good though.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinity_Gauntlet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinity_Gauntlet)
I counter you another spin off from that. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Super_Hero_Squad_Show)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Fatty The Hutt on May 14, 2012, 06:43:08 PM
Too bad John Carpenter or David Cronenberg haven't made anything worthwhile in the last decade and a half.
Please tell me this is sarcasm.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: King of Twitch on May 14, 2012, 09:11:19 PM
*batteries not included. It was alright/so-so at best. Every time I see a Steven Spielberg movie I wonder what makes/made him such a renowned director. The characters in this movie are an interesting spectrum (old man who owns a restaurant and his senile wife, beardy artist guy, hispanic preggers woman, mute african-american) but for the whole movie are going "ooohh aahhh wowww" at the spaceships all the while having almost no impact on the plot. That's not totally true; they fight against eviction and having their apartment complex/50s diner from being demolished in favor of a skyscraper. Old vs. new, small town vs. big business, man and machine working together to save a relic of the past; they're not bad ideas, but at 1hr 45, the slowww revelations about the spaceships (they exist; they can repair stuff; they plug into power outlets, and on and on) and cutesyness was dragged out beyond tolerable limits.

 :reggie: :reggie: / :reggie: :reggie: :reggie: :reggie: :reggie:
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on May 14, 2012, 10:20:56 PM
It's kind of the best horror movie ever made (the Snake Pliskin version).


That, and The Fly (Jeff Goldblum) are the best horror movies ever made. Too bad John Carpenter or David Cronenberg haven't made anything worthwhile in the last decade and a half.

God yes. I love The Fly. My wife hates it--thinks it's too gross. That's the POINT! And it's so tragic!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Fatty The Hutt on May 14, 2012, 11:46:05 PM
*batteries not included. It was alright/so-so at best. Every time I see a Steven Spielberg movie I wonder what makes/made him such a renowned director. The characters in this movie are an interesting spectrum (old man who owns a restaurant and his senile wife, beardy artist guy, hispanic preggers woman, mute african-american) but for the whole movie are going "ooohh aahhh wowww" at the spaceships all the while having almost no impact on the plot. That's not totally true; they fight against eviction and having their apartment complex/50s diner from being demolished in favor of a skyscraper. Old vs. new, small town vs. big business, man and machine working together to save a relic of the past; they're not bad ideas, but at 1hr 45, the slowww revelations about the spaceships (they exist; they can repair stuff; they plug into power outlets, and on and on) and cutesyness was dragged out beyond tolerable limits.

 :reggie: :reggie: / :reggie: :reggie: :reggie: :reggie: :reggie:
Batteries not included is not a Spielberg movie. I wasn't sure from tis post whether you realized that. Don't judge the  mans work based on this pos flick.


Or we're you saying that compared to Spielberg, this movie was not as good?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: bustin98 on May 14, 2012, 11:47:05 PM
I have to make sure I'm not eating when I think of how the Fly eats...

Not really, but it is gross. Special effects people did a good job.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on May 15, 2012, 01:22:58 AM
*batteries not included. It was alright/so-so at best. Every time I see a Steven Spielberg movie I wonder what makes/made him such a renowned director. The characters in this movie are an interesting spectrum (old man who owns a restaurant and his senile wife, beardy artist guy, hispanic preggers woman, mute african-american) but for the whole movie are going "ooohh aahhh wowww" at the spaceships all the while having almost no impact on the plot. That's not totally true; they fight against eviction and having their apartment complex/50s diner from being demolished in favor of a skyscraper. Old vs. new, small town vs. big business, man and machine working together to save a relic of the past; they're not bad ideas, but at 1hr 45, the slowww revelations about the spaceships (they exist; they can repair stuff; they plug into power outlets, and on and on) and cutesyness was dragged out beyond tolerable limits.

 :reggie: :reggie: / :reggie: :reggie: :reggie: :reggie: :reggie:

when i was a kid i loved watching it, it recently became crack for my nephew.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on May 15, 2012, 02:59:29 AM
I saw How i Spent My Summer Vacation (or Get The Gringo as it's called in America).

It's good seeing Mel Gibson do an action movie again. Even if he's too old for this ****. Felt almost like a parody of action movies he's done before.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: King of Twitch on May 15, 2012, 11:10:34 AM
He was one of 3(?) executive producers, so he can take some of the blame. Me too Perm, I liked it when I was younger.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: tendoboy1984 on May 15, 2012, 06:09:26 PM
I have to make sure I'm not eating when I think of how the Fly eats...

Not really, but it is gross. Special effects people did a good job.


It's amazing what they could do with makeup effects in an era before CG took off. Then Terminaor 2 comes along and shows how CG can greatly enhance special effects, but still not be too overbearing. These days pretty much every major action movie is crammed to the walls with overblown CG effects, and that's what I hate about modern movies.


Bring back practical effects!


And movies like The Fly and The Thing are very good examples of how horror movies can both scare us and be tragic at the same time. They shouldn't just be about cheap scares just for the hell of it. Those movies had good plots, and character development. And The Fly also had heart and emotion, you actually felt Jeff Goldblum's pain and suffering, you felt sorry for him (I did, anyways).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on May 15, 2012, 06:22:29 PM
The Fly is a masterpiece.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: tendoboy1984 on May 15, 2012, 08:05:22 PM
The Fly is a masterpiece.


Quoted for truth
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on May 18, 2012, 03:13:01 AM
This week i'm going to see The Raid (it's called The Raid: Redemption elsewhere).

I promised i'm going to milk unlimited movies card (£220 a year for as many as i want) and i think i'm making good on that promise.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on May 18, 2012, 03:58:13 AM
Where is my Battleship?! I was promised a Battleship.

I need your pain.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on May 18, 2012, 10:29:13 AM
Battleship released 2 weeks before Avengers (bad move) and disappeared a week later, there was other movies i wanted to see in that time. So it just got put down the list again and again.

Then it disappeared from the cinema.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on May 18, 2012, 10:40:19 AM
So Battleship got sunk?

I finally did get to see Mission Impossible 4: Ghost Protocol. Spectacular action, the character interaction is nice, plenty of gags, great direction, a healthy dose of Tom Cruise running™ and good gadgets. Weak sauce villain, jumbo size plot holes, missing actors, weak overall plot. Better than MI3 in most ways, MI1 remains the classic.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on May 18, 2012, 10:42:18 AM
Here in the US, Battleship opens today. It just looks so bad from the trailers though (and Prometheus TBH).

Nearly $350 for a movie pass? That is expensive. I would need to see about 35 movies just to break even on that. For that much money, I would make sure to watch at least 2 or 3 movies a weekend, even if I had no interest in the movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on May 18, 2012, 12:01:45 PM
Here in the US, Battleship opens today. It just looks so bad from the trailers though (and Prometheus TBH).

Nearly $350 for a movie pass? That is expensive. I would need to see about 35 movies just to break even on that. For that much money, I would make sure to watch at least 2 or 3 movies a weekend, even if I had no interest in the movie.
Wait $350 for unlimited movies in a year.  That be ~32 showings at the cheapest regular price ($11 2D not the good theater) Take 3D and/or the Good theater into account then it be ~23 showings.  If I were single that be doable in a year of ok-good movies if it was for the whole family that number goes down by a factor of 3 so it only take ~11-8 Showings to make it worth it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on May 18, 2012, 10:01:19 PM
I do about 40+ movies @ about $5 a month ($60 for the whole year and about 3-5 movies a month). that sounds like a horrible deal to me. I like my movie plan much better.

for 4 people I spend much less than that ($60x4=$240)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on May 18, 2012, 11:05:57 PM
I do about 40+ movies @ about $5 a month ($60 for the whole year and about 3-5 movies a month). that sounds like a horrible deal to me. I like my movie plan much better.

for 4 people I spend much less than that ($60x4=$240)

Where do you get that plan? I would see more movies with an unlimited plan.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Dasmos on May 18, 2012, 11:42:36 PM
If I remember correctly, BnM pays for one movie then just hops into another theatre to see the next movie?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on May 18, 2012, 11:50:21 PM
It's the "I pay to get into the theater, not to see the movie" plan.

After unlimited popcorn and soda though (usually for 4 people), I think we settle on even every trip.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on May 18, 2012, 11:53:36 PM
LOL, I thought it was a legal plan you had. I suppose that can work since they don't actually check for tickets.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on May 19, 2012, 12:10:49 AM
Scream 4...err Scre4m - 7/10
I was actually pretty surprised by this one. I was expecting it to be terrible...and it was actually quite enjoyable. It's actually pretty nice that they waited so long to make the fourth film (instead of shitting them out every year like Saw did). Anything I say would be a spoiler...so, I actually recommend watching it if you haven't, but it won't make any sense if you haven't seen at least the first one.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on May 19, 2012, 12:16:01 PM
It's the "I pay to get into the theater, not to see the movie" plan.

After unlimited popcorn and soda though (usually for 4 people), I think we settle on even every trip.

That's worse than piracy!!!!!!!! You're actually costing the theater money!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on May 19, 2012, 09:44:20 PM
It's the "I pay to get into the theater, not to see the movie" plan.

After unlimited popcorn and soda though (usually for 4 people), I think we settle on even every trip.

That's worse than piracy!!!!!!!! You're actually costing the theater money!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I assume you are joking, but all I am doing is sitting into the near empty theaters that would be playing the movies regardless of whether I was there to watch it or not. and with the price of popcorn and soda...... it's only worth it if you stick around for more than 1 movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on May 19, 2012, 10:55:33 PM
there are some theaters that adopt that policy now though. I had thought about the idea of the "movie membership pass" idea a while ago , but im not in the theatre business so its not like i could put it to use.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on May 20, 2012, 01:47:19 AM
It's the "I pay to get into the theater, not to see the movie" plan.

After unlimited popcorn and soda though (usually for 4 people), I think we settle on even every trip.

That's worse than piracy!!!!!!!! You're actually costing the theater money!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I assume you are joking, but all I am doing is sitting into the near empty theaters that would be playing the movies regardless of whether I was there to watch it or not. and with the price of popcorn and soda...... it's only worth it if you stick around for more than 1 movie.
How do you get away with it, though? I'm pictureing my theater and I doubt they would notice a guy walking from out one theater to another one.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Dasmos on May 20, 2012, 02:53:14 AM
It's the "I pay to get into the theater, not to see the movie" plan.

After unlimited popcorn and soda though (usually for 4 people), I think we settle on even every trip.

That's worse than piracy!!!!!!!! You're actually costing the theater money!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I assume you are joking, but all I am doing is sitting into the near empty theaters that would be playing the movies regardless of whether I was there to watch it or not. and with the price of popcorn and soda...... it's only worth it if you stick around for more than 1 movie.

Theatres inflate the prices of popcorn/drinks/lollies because that's the only area of the operation that turns a decent profit. Theatres have to give a huge percentage of ticket sales to movie studios in the first couple weeks of release, like in the order of 85% (studios got 100% of the ticket price from the first week of release of The Attack of the Clones. 100%!). Theatres only start to make a chunk of ticket sales after four or five weeks, and by that time as you say there's no-one in the place.

So basically BnM, you're the worst type of movie patron. :P
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on May 20, 2012, 04:17:45 AM
So basically BnM, you're the worst type of movie patron. :P: :

One who actually shows up and pays over inflated prices for their food, and then stays to make sure the theater isn't just wasting electricity running the movies for no one?

I'll be sure to keep that in mind while I'm watching my 4 pack of movies tomorrow. ;)


How do you get away with it, though? I'm pictureing my theater and I doubt they would notice a guy walking from out one theater to another one.

Whether they notice me or not, I don't think they get paid enough to care. And like I said, I make trips to the concession stand throughout the day. and like Dasmos said, that is where they make their money. And like I also said, the movies will run regardless of if someone is in there to watch it or not.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on May 20, 2012, 07:41:14 AM
£220 is kind of expensive, but most showings is £9 at the cinema i go to. So i need to go 25 times in 12 months to break even. They also give me 10% off any food/drink, which i skip every time.

In 10 weeks i've seen 10 movies, so i'm doing good.

Plus seeing 3D movies adds another £1.50 on top even WITH my unlimited pass (plus another 80p to buy glasses). So i don't see them.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on May 20, 2012, 11:52:18 AM
Whether they notice me or not, I don't think they get paid enough to care. And like I said, I make trips to the concession stand throughout the day. and like Dasmos said, that is where they make their money. And like I also said, the movies will run regardless of if someone is in there to watch it or not.


Alright, then I try this today and get caught and kicked out, I'll be sure to tell them that a random guy on the internet said it was okay. ;)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on May 21, 2012, 01:23:15 AM
Woooooo

Another day a the Movies... and this had to be the longest one yet.

Safe, Battleship, The Dictator, Cabin in the Woods, What to Expect (& The Avengers again... sorta)

Real quick;

Safe - good, not great, but one of the better movies of the day. Fight scenes were pretty good. I really really wanted to see the one at the end, it's a shame it didn't happen

Battleship - better than expected, actually good for a popcorn summer movie. I enjoyed it. It was kinda Independence Day meets Transformers.
*more people showed up to see this early in the day than I had expected. I wouldn't be surprised if this has a decent opening weekend.*

The Dictator - Offensive to be offensive, and not even in a funny way. If you thought the previews were funny, you've seen all you need to see. I wanted to walk out. It was stupid, and the most offensive thing about the movie was that they thought it was funny.

Cabin in the Woods - It was not what I was expecting, especially towards the end. I like how it sorta ties into all horror movies ever made though.

What to Expect When Expecting - a couple of small chuckles, but overall I was bored. My girl picked this one and The Dictator.... she is no longer allowed to choose the movies we watch. :P: This movie is definitely for mothers and mothers to be. I had an excuse to be there, but I couldn't explain the father son combo that came it to watch it and sat a few rows behind us.

The Avengers - I only popped in at the end to watch the fight scenes again. The Hulk, you need another movie. Best scenes in the whole movie.
*still strong in the theater. was playing on 4 different screens still. I need to check Box Office #'s for this one.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: tendoboy1984 on May 21, 2012, 02:05:57 AM
The Dictator - Offensive to be offensive, and not even in a funny way. If you thought the previews were funny, you've seen all you need to see. I wanted to walk out. It was stupid, and the most offensive thing about the movie was that they thought it was funny.



That's Sascha Baron Cohen for you. If you've seen Borat or Bruno, then you'd know that's just his style of humor.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on May 21, 2012, 02:22:24 AM
Borat was funny and unexpected.

Bruno was predictable and too much trying to replicate Borat with a different character.

The Dictator should not have happened.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on May 23, 2012, 04:59:36 PM
the dictator even from the previews seems to be trying too hard. I saw the trailer and thought pass in my head. Still everyone else i know was like "oh lets go watch that" If the Trailer is indeed all the good parts i need to see, then theres nothing for me to watch, because I thought that looked dumb.

a better movie is The Devils Double, its not meant to be a comedy at all. It deals with a similar subject though. Either way its a better movie.

Still want to see the Freddy Mercury movie if that materializes.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on May 23, 2012, 10:35:20 PM
Perm, are you serious? The commercials look hilarious.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on May 23, 2012, 11:09:17 PM
It looks terrible to me, like some bad austin powers/the guru type movie. On the other hand I can appreciate some movies that are like that like say Hot Rod or Ron Burgandy, but this just comes off as negative stereotyping. Im not offended by much really to be honest, but this just seems cheesy. It reminds me of a bad racist joke stretched into a movie. Borat handled this, but Borat handled this in a very intelligent way.

The Falling 6/10 has some lame 80s moments, but it gets out of the abysmal 5.0 zone because of good special effects. Theres a great scene with a Camper. The scene first allows you to use your imagination which some would say is classier, but then gives you a second look which is worse than your imagination.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on May 23, 2012, 11:43:38 PM
The Dictator looked bad even in the previews.

Not to say that you might not laugh at some parts, but it will be more of a "heh" than a "haha"

Most of the jokes were really lame, the setups were equally bad and almost all of it was predictably offensive just to get some sort of reaction out of you (since laughter obviously wasn't going to the reaction they got).

Maybe some EXPLETIVE before, during and after the movie may "enhance" it, but it was pretty bad. I definitely don't recommend even wasting the time to find out.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on May 24, 2012, 09:55:46 AM
The first previews made it look like it will be really funny (Borat was great, Bruno was not as good but still pretty funny). The most recent trailer makes it less so, but I will give it a chance.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on May 24, 2012, 11:36:15 AM
The Dictator looked bad even in the previews.

What?! I nearly spit up my drink when he asked for a trash can to throw a newly born baby girl away. "I'm sorry. It's a girl. Where's the trash can?"

Not to mention, his character was hysterical on Jon Stewart the night before it released.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on May 26, 2012, 09:02:29 PM
Men in Black 3: First of all, has there ever been a time where Tommy Lee Jones has NOT looked incredibly old? This movie was okay, better than I expected, but I had no expectations. I was pleasantly surprised to see Alice Eve show up for all of five minutes (as a young Emma Thompson). Overall the movie was competant, but not as funny or exciting as the first movie, which still rocks. Will Smith is still a capable funnyman--I wish he'd do more roles like this.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on May 26, 2012, 10:05:24 PM
Sorry, I had to smite you for that.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on May 27, 2012, 01:47:39 AM
For what it's worth, Roger Ebert says he thinks the movie is even better than the first one. It looks good to me, so I plan to see it eventually.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on May 27, 2012, 08:36:50 AM
They made up the script for the movie literally as it was being filmed.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on May 27, 2012, 12:57:05 PM
I find it funny that they use Mr. Garrison's 'IT' as the vehicle.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: tendoboy1984 on May 27, 2012, 03:10:55 PM
Agreed. Wall-E was better than Up; but that's more of a testament to Wall-E.

It still amazes me how Pixar keeps their magic. Even their worse movies are quite good IMO, and have a HEART especially compared to about any other CGI animation. In many ways I feel really blessed to be living in a time where Pixar is still on top with classic after classic.

I love Pixar, but you can't count out DreamWorks. Kung Fu Panda was one of their best movies. Blue Sky's movies have been meh (Ice Age got old after the 2nd movie). And Sony Pictures Animation is terrible (who thought Open Season was a good idea?). I haven't Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs yet, but I heard it was better than their previous stuff (one decent movie does not make up for a string of crappy ones).

1. Pixar
2. DreamWorks
3. Blue Sky Studios
4. Sony Pictures Animation

Sometimes I wonder why Sony even decided to get into the animation industry. Pixar and DreamWorks are much more popular, and 3 major animation studios (Pixar, DreamWorks, Blue Sky) is enough.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on May 27, 2012, 05:14:56 PM
Planet 51 is from Sony and that was a pretty good movie.

As for Pixar, Up was their worst movie I have seen (have not seen Cars 2 yet, though I loved the first one). I saw a trailer for Brave when I went to see The Avengers, and the trailer made me think "meh" for the movie.

Had to watch Sleepover because of my lady friend, and was pleasantly surprised. Yes it's a typical teen romance movie, but it's not too bad (though obviously that stuff wouldn't happen in real life, and it's a little hard to believe that a 16/17 year old guy who just became prom king is gonna be attracted to a 14 year old 8th grader).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: tendoboy1984 on May 27, 2012, 05:35:56 PM
it's a little hard to believe that a 16/17 year old guy who just became prom king is gonna be attracted to a 14 year old 8th grader).


I'm pretty sure most 14 year olds are in 9th grade (the Freshman year of high school).




Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on May 27, 2012, 05:41:33 PM
I know, but not all are. Part of it depends on stuff like when you are born. In the school district I went to, if you were born after December 1, you had to wait a year before starting kindergarten. So if you birthday was January 3, then in 8th grade you would be 13 for like half, then 14 the rest. There is also the case of students being held back.
In the movie she is just about to graduate junior high school (which is middle school for most of the country) and in 8th grade.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on May 27, 2012, 05:48:43 PM
This is way too serious of a discussion for something so stupid. Reminds me of NASCAR.

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on May 27, 2012, 06:04:58 PM
SONY made Surf's Up which probably has the best animation I've ever seen.

And more people graduate at 18 than 17...
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: tendoboy1984 on May 27, 2012, 06:12:42 PM
SONY made Surf's Up which probably has the best animation I've ever seen.




The reason why some of Sony's animated movies have such good animation is because much of the work is done by teams at Sony Imageworks, which is a CG special effects company like ILM. In my opnion, Sony Pictures Animation is more like a brand than an actual animation unit.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on May 27, 2012, 10:42:18 PM
And it looked amazing, so what's the problem?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: tendoboy1984 on May 27, 2012, 10:56:11 PM
And it looked amazing, so what's the problem?


How was the story of Surfs Up?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on May 28, 2012, 01:20:07 AM
Considering it was made for children, I'd say it was pretty decent.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on May 28, 2012, 03:22:17 PM
MIB3. Exactly what i hoped from the movie. The right balance between sci-fi and comedy (and TLJ's straight-faced humour).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: tendoboy1984 on May 31, 2012, 04:30:13 PM
MIB3. Exactly what i hoped from the movie. The right balance between sci-fi and comedy (and TLJ's straight-faced humour).


Was it better than MIB2? That was a horrible movie.


My girlfriend and I just saw Battleship a few days ago. It was pretty good, but good God that Rhianna chick can't act.


The dialogue was full of cheesy lines and there was hardly any decent character interaction. The plot was, of course, nonsensical. The special effects were amazing, and I liked the grid-based battle that paid homage to the board game.


My score: 7/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on May 31, 2012, 04:38:43 PM
MiB3 is better than MiB2.  It obviously had less of a budget and really is a Will Smith solo act.  Not as good as MiB and the Cartoon Series though.  Sort of wish the either bring back the cartoon or make a TV series.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Shorty McNostril on June 01, 2012, 12:01:14 AM
Is Francis the Pug in MIB3?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on June 01, 2012, 12:11:16 AM
Is Francis the Pug in MIB3?

I'm going to say yes.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: tendoboy1984 on June 01, 2012, 01:06:21 AM
Is Francis the Pug in MIB3?

I'm going to say yes.


Isn't his name "Frank" the Pug?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Shorty McNostril on June 01, 2012, 02:20:51 AM
Yeah, but I thought I would put a more "Upper class" spin on it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on June 01, 2012, 04:14:51 AM
No he's not in the movie, i've seen it last week.

This week i saw Snow White and the Huntsman  - The first 2 thirds just setup to the third. All i can say is Charlize Theron looks STUNNING. And Kristen Stewart needs a slap because for an "action" movie she did very little, again.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on June 01, 2012, 05:24:34 AM
Charlize Theron ALWAYS looks like a million bucks. Have you seen her Sex Tape (http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/c5e03765ed/charlize-therons-kinky-sex-tape)? Not surprised about Kristen Stewart since she is legally dead.

Next movie to be viewed, The Raid: Redemption. This is going to be good.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on June 01, 2012, 11:45:19 AM
No he's not in the movie, i've seen it last week.
You missed it then.  The Scene in J's apartment look whats behind him.  That's why "I'm going to say yes."
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on June 06, 2012, 12:53:42 AM
The Avengers - 10/10

Saw The Avengers just now. Life is complete. Goodbye cruel world.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: tendoboy1984 on June 06, 2012, 02:51:38 AM
My girlfriend and I had a double movie night the other day. We saw The Avengers and Snow White and the Huntsman.

Snow White was pretty good. The special effects were breathtaking at times, but I hated the way they digitally grafted the head of Bob Hoskins on a dwarf body. It looks really weird and creepy. And his acting was terrible, he can't act anymore. :(

8/10
-------------------------------------

The Avengers was spectacular. The beginning was a bit confusing, but the movie just got better and better. The main villain Loki, a Norse god was great, and he was certainly a major threat to Earth. I loved the character interaction, especially between Iron Man and Captain America. Rober Downey Jr. is a great actor. His scenes were perfect, and he really fits the character of Tony Stark.

I didn't like the new actor playing Bruce Banner. He was too quiet throughout the whole movie. Meh.

9.5/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on June 06, 2012, 03:39:17 AM
based on how people view Charlize Theron and Kristen Stewart, can we all agree that mirror is a fucking liar?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on June 06, 2012, 03:01:19 PM
To Perm: Yes

To ooohBoy: I saw The Raid and it's the best action movie period.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on June 06, 2012, 04:14:02 PM
The Raid: Redemption. Two words: Action Porn.

It's like they took the combat system from the Batman games and made it real with none of Batman's hang ups. People get shot, knifed, defenestrated, burned and killed in brutal, equally creative ways. The plot is minimal, straight forward affair, serving to funnel the viewer to the next scene like a videogame. Dialodge is equally minimal, completely lacking in one liners which is fitting with tone where the only one liners needed are bodies hitting the floor.

The acting is quite effective. If there were any weaknesses, it didn't show.

This is a true action movie, something Hollywood has forgotten how to make since the mid 90's. Completely shits and destroys their efforts like the Expendables. Go watch this.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: tendoboy1984 on June 06, 2012, 05:45:51 PM
I just looked up The Raid on Wikipedia, and apparently now Hollywood wants to make an American version. Why can't they leave good foreign films alone?


You don't see EA trying to remake Mega Man into a more Western-style game.


At least the film's orignal creator has plans for a sequel or two. Hopefully Hollywood will leave those alone.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on June 06, 2012, 06:59:31 PM
tendoboy, I don't think you need to spoiler tag the villain in The Avengers, Marvel and Disney have not tried to hide it. I have to disagree on Banner being meek in the movie. He seemed calm and collected, and trying to keep the Hulk under control.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on June 06, 2012, 10:36:37 PM
Spoiler tags would be more appropriate for Thanos being shown after the first part of the credits...and possibly the scene after all of the credits where The Avengers finally get their Shawarma on.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on June 11, 2012, 09:25:13 AM
Prometheus
Saw this last night with a friend who is a HUGE Alien fan. I have no such attachment. The only Alien movie I previously saw was Alien Resurrection because my mom rented it way back when. I don't count Alien vs. Predator because it's, well... Alien vs. Predator.

My understanding is that Prometheus is not a prequel to Alien but exists in the same universe (meaning the events of the movie don't lead up to Alien or really change the Alien movies) which is the main reason I watched this. I didn't want to feel lost for not knowing too much of the mythos and I can honestly say that I didn't feel lost at all even of I missed some of the references. My friend pointed out some references and was relieved when something at the very end happened, namely the Xenomorph-like creature popping out of the Engineer's chest.

Overall, I enjoyed the movie. There is one scene involving a machine that had my jaw dropped the whole time and I really believed that every single one of those characters stood a good chance of dying no matter how big a name the actor portraying them is. That's sadly pretty hard to pull off these days because of how sequel conscious studio executives are. It often ruins suspension of disbelief. I'm glad Fox, in a rare case of good judgement, just let Ridley Scott, Jon Spaihts, and Damon Lindelof tell a story without too much interference because a good storyteller will make a story work. They will do what's best for the story, rather than what will necessarily make more money. Some things were predictable but for the most part, I didn't really know what was going to happen.

There are some issues here and there but nothing that ruins the movie. It's a bit slow in the beginning with so many scenes that make no sense until given context way later. Sometimes, I felt like they waited too long to explain just why the F this or that meant. By the end of the movie, some things weren't resolved but it works with the understanding that some things don't need to be explained and some things may be explained in a sequel. However, the movie works as a self-contained story.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on June 11, 2012, 10:22:15 AM
Don't expect all those loose ends to be tied up in any potential sequel, Ridley Scott says he did those on purpose because he wants fans to debate what they mean (which I hate when writers do that, it's a sign of laziness to me). I am seeing a lot of reviews that say the movie goes downhill after the beginning.

I saw Snow White and the Huntsman. I like it, the bathing scene between the queen and her brother was a little disturbing. Kristen Stewart is much better in the role of Snow White than she was as Bella. The big fight scene was pretty cool. I wish they had clarified the ending of the movie though.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on June 11, 2012, 11:01:42 AM
Don't expect all those loose ends to be tied up in any potential sequel, Ridley Scott says he did those on purpose because he wants fans to debate what they mean (which I hate when writers do that, it's a sign of laziness to me). I am seeing a lot of reviews that say the movie goes downhill after the beginning.
Depends on what it is. I do like the debates and discussions posed by open-ended questions. I don't mind it as long as the story itself can stand on its own and addressing a loose end would be simply for enrichment rather than filling a plot hole that unravelled the validity of the plot. I only saw Prometheus once, but I didn't feel like there was anything that flat-out didn't make sense. Some things don't need an explanation even if people want one.

For example, the thing I put in spoiler tags in my previous post. What happens there doesn't really matter. The writers can address it in a sequel but they don't have to. It serves a purpose in the grander scheme of the universe presented here even of it doesn't directly affect the plot the movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on June 11, 2012, 12:15:35 PM
By my understanding Alien series had a history of leaving some things unanswered because it would be cool to know but not relevant to this story.  Like what is The Pilot and its relationship to the Xenomorphs?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: bustin98 on June 11, 2012, 04:02:53 PM
I saw Prometheus, and I don't feel like I have any unanswered questions. Ok, there is one. Why for fucks sake couldn't they hire an actual old dude to play Weyland instead of Guy Pierce in the worse 'old guy' make-up kits I have seen since Stargate SG1. It drove me crazy because I figured they did it because he was going to get turned young and we'd all see who it was behind the make-up.

The movie was just a sci-fi movie, and I was expecting a horror sci-fi. I don't think Hollywood knows how to do horror like they did in the 70s. But I liked it. My one comment at the end was 'watch they turn it into a cartoon series. She'll be known as the scourge of the universe'.
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Post by: Morari on June 11, 2012, 07:48:35 PM
Prometheus was good, even if a few things fell flat toward the end. It was gorgeous, and Michael Fassbender's channeling of Peter O'Toole was almost eerie. It wasn't an Alien film by any stretch. The plot lines weren't strong enough, and in fact almost felt tacked on in some points. The tone was not the sci-fi gothic horror that was expected. It was much more reminisce of Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. In that way, I almost wish they hadn't tied it to Alien at all beyond the Weyland Corporation and the Jockey/Engineers themselves. It could have worked much better focusing soley on the questions of purpose and place that it asked, as opposed to leaning into the suspense of Alien going into the second act.

Nothing was really left unanswered. Not every little thing had an on-screen explanation, but the reasons were always apparent. Even if not, leaving some things ambiguous can be good. It's not simply lazy writing. Quite the contrary, wanting everything spelled out for you is lazy thinking. Not every movie needs to end with a recap of the plot twists leading up to that point. Not every movie needs to be watered down so that the average movie viewer can easily digest it without every risking a single thought process.

The Alien franchise now has three films officially worth watching. ;)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on June 12, 2012, 04:48:54 AM
Prometheus felt like 2 thirds of a movie specifically set to tell the final third.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Eman55 on June 13, 2012, 02:12:40 PM
This isn't technically a move, but I just watched the DVD of Videogames Live again, and enjoyed very much.  The whole concert seems to have really high production values and well put together.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on June 14, 2012, 02:12:51 AM
I've recently taken a small break from gaming to see a few animated movies on Blu-Ray:

The Secret World of Arrietty - Yeah, every once in a while I set aside my borderline dislike for Hayao Miyazaki and watch a Studio Ghibli film.  The way I saw it, after Ponyo and Tales From Earthsea, Studio Ghibli could only go up from there with their adaptation of the "The Borrowers" series of books.  And "hey", I figured: "it's Studio Ghibli, so the animation should be amazing even if their character designers still haven't learned how to draw more than 3 different people in various hair and clothing styles."

Well, I was "technically" right with the former, and disappointingly wrong on the latter.  The Secret World of Arrietty is a pretty average film overall with some major pacing, acting, and characterization issues.  It's a movie where not a great deal actually happens, the film pays a great deal of attention to the fine details of nothing happening, and when something finally does happen the movie ends.  And by that, I don't mean "the movie is over" because that implies that there's some sense of closure or resolution to the film.  The film just...stops and cuts to credits just as the story seems to be getting interesting.  And the animation is just...average, by Studio Ghibli standards.  There's just no life to it and barely any movement, making the film look more than a very expensive OVA with outstanding backgrounds but little actual movement.  It's missing all the "little touches" that Studio Ghibli is known for, the attention to fine details in movement.

Not helping the meager story at all are the particularly dry and wooden performances in the English dub by the voice actors for all the men in the cast: "Shawn", a human boy dying of a mysterious heart condition (who I don't believe the film ever makes clear if he survives or not); Arrietty's father; and this tribal borrower who has about 2 minutes of screen time and doesn't do a single notable thing in the movie.  On the bright side, all the women voice actors in the English dub turn in good->great (and, most importantly, lively) performances, particularly Carol Burnett as the eccentric housekeeper.

I know I sound extremely down on the movie, but I was just expecting so much more than...this.  It's a serviceable film with a few stand-out moments that's never dull (just...slow), but it's a pretty mediocre adaptation and a disappointing film from one of Japan's premier animation studios.  On the plus side, despite Miyazaki producing this film, there is no obnoxious environmental message in the film for him to shove down your throats.  That raised my opinion of the film considerably all on its own.
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Post by: broodwars on June 14, 2012, 02:53:24 AM
Superman vs. The Elite - I believe I've said this before, but it bears repeating: I don't like Superman.  He's boring, he's so ridiculously overpowered there's no drama whatsoever in his fight scenes, and he's often just a really corny character.  That said, I liked Bruce Timm's Superman animated series where he was toned down quite a bit, and I've been hoping that maybe lightning could strike twice and Timm & DC might finally be able to make a good Superman film.  Hey, 5th try (Superman Doomsday, the two Batman/Superman movies, All-Star Superman, and this film) just had to be the charm this time, right?.....Right?  :-\

Yes.   :cool;   It took Bruce Timm and Co. 5 tries, but they finally managed to make a good Superman animated film despite starring Superman.   ;)   Based on a circa-2001 story from the comics titled "What's So Funny about Truth, Justice, and the American way?", Superman vs. the Elite tackles a question that's always been a problem for me with the character: is Superman and his black & white ideals relevant in the modern morally-gray world?  Considering all the people these villains (both human and metahuman alike) kill on a regular basis as they escape incarceration also on a regular basis, shouldn't someone with as much power as Superman use it to rid our society of the undesirables...permanently?  Lethally?  And if not him, who?

You can draw your own parallels in this setup to current events, but this film is very much a character study of Superman and why he is not willing to "cross that line" when dealing with criminals.  And that is why this movie works, rather than the standard "superhero-supervillain battle" films we've had so far.  The film isn't particularly deep or subtle with its message, but it works in its simplicity.  And while the film could stand to be considerably longer than it is (at only 75 or so minutes w/ credits) to flesh out more of the backstory on The Elite (a group of vigilante meta-humans who rise up to do what Superman will not, who serve as this film's villains), I think the film is paced very well and the story is well-told.  As usual with these Andrea Romano voice-directed DC animated movies, the casting and voice acting is excellent, particularly George Newbern as Superman (not surprisingly, considering he played him in Justice League) and Robin Atkin Downes as Manchester Black.

Besides the short running time leading to the story probably being more simple than it was in the original comics, I really only have two big complaints with the movie: the first is Superman's character design.  Now, these DC animated films have had a tradition of attempting to emulate the art style of whatever artists drew the original story, but Superman in this film just looks...weird and chubby.  The animation's about on par with the other DC animated films (and that art style looks fine on the other characters) so it's not a big deal, but it's just a very odd-looking Superman.  Finally, the way the film ends is a total cheat, and I think it undermines the debate the film was trying to have.  It's kind of understandable that it ends that way because...hey, it's a Superman movie, but it's unfortunate that the ending discards the interesting morality debate the rest of the movie sets up by making things extremely simplistic.

So yeah, DC managed to make a good Superman animated film.  What were the odds?  It's not the greatest DC animated film I've ever seen since it is a bit too simplistic and the details of the story could be better fleshed-out, but I thought it was a pretty enjoyable film.  The sequence at the end of the film where Superman finally "deals" with the Elite is worth it almost all on its own, just in terms of sheer awesome creepiness.   :P: : :

Oh yeah, and it looks great on Blu-Ray.  So did Arrietty, for that matter.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on June 16, 2012, 12:46:16 AM
Well, I recently won 2 tickets to see Brave on Tuesday night at an Advance Screening down at Downtown Disney, so I'm looking forward to that next week.  Unfortunately, the tickets are for a 3D showing.  I hope the theater has "2D glasses" for this movie like they apparently had for Avengers.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on June 16, 2012, 12:55:17 AM
Don't like 3D?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on June 16, 2012, 12:59:52 AM
Don't like 3D?

No.  I really don't.  I'm finding over the years that my physical tolerance for it is steadily getting worse, with increasingly worse headaches from even short experiences with it (like when I recently rode the new Star Tours at MGM, which is now a 3D ride.  And before you bring it up, I love motion simulators and Star Tours is a pretty tame ride.).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on June 16, 2012, 01:02:24 AM
You may not want to get a 3DS then.


I used to hate 3D but ever since I got my 3DS I barely even notice it anymore.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on June 16, 2012, 01:07:27 AM
You may not want to get a 3DS then.

I used to hate 3D but ever since I got my 3DS I barely even notice it anymore.

Yeah, I've said this before but I had a really bad experience with a 3DS demo unit with the 3D enabled, and it's soured me on the handheld ever since (and yes, I know you can disable it. It just seems to defeat the purpose of a large part of the 3DS cost).  As a gimmick, 3D is neat and all (though I still don't think it's as great as the entertainment industry wants me to), but it just physically causes me problems.  Maybe it's this newer type of 3D that's the problem, because the older 3D rides at Disney like Mickey's Phillarmagic and Muppetvision 3D don't give me any problems at all.
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Post by: Oblivion on June 16, 2012, 01:09:59 AM
Was it that red and blue 3D?
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Post by: broodwars on June 16, 2012, 01:12:39 AM
Was it that red and blue 3D?

No, just a much older form of the clear-lens 3D (1991 and 2003).  For that matter, The Amazing Spider-Man at Islands of Adventure uses that as well, and I feel fine after riding it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Sundoulos on June 16, 2012, 02:03:18 PM
You may not want to get a 3DS then.

I used to hate 3D but ever since I got my 3DS I barely even notice it anymore.

Yeah, I've said this before but I had a really bad experience with a 3DS demo unit with the 3D enabled, and it's soured me on the handheld ever since (and yes, I know you can disable it. It just seems to defeat the purpose of a large part of the 3DS cost).  As a gimmick, 3D is neat and all (though I still don't think it's as great as the entertainment industry wants me to), but it just physically causes me problems.  Maybe it's this newer type of 3D that's the problem, because the older 3D rides at Disney like Mickey's Phillarmagic and Muppetvision 3D don't give me any problems at all.

I rarely, if ever, use the 3D function on my 3DS.  I suspect that many people are in the same boat.  The one exception might be certain levels of Kid Icarus Uprising and StarFox 64 3DS, just because the flight levels look so pretty.  Most of the time, I find that the 3D isn't worth the eye fatigue and battery life drain.

Man, what I wouldn't give for Factor 5 to make a return and release a Rouge Leader remake on 3DS.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on June 16, 2012, 02:44:26 PM
i just don't like the effect of 3D...on my wallet, other than that im fine with it. I watched Transformers 3 in IMAX 3D, big fucking whoopty doo.  The movie sucked too.
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Post by: BranDonk Kong on June 16, 2012, 02:48:43 PM
Spider-Man at Universal was recently changed...I think it might use stereoscopic 3D now.
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Post by: broodwars on June 16, 2012, 03:03:34 PM
Spider-Man at Universal was recently changed...I think it might use stereoscopic 3D now.

Yeah, I rode that ride on the last day of my seasonal pass before it expired (I have Disney passes again, now).  The visuals are a lot clearer now, and they've made a few adjustments to certain character designs and special effects.  For example, Doc Oc now has a character design similar to his Spider-Man 2 version (with the black jacket and more normal haircut), though oddly his pre-show animated version is still the goofy yellow & green design with the Rock Lee haircut.  The "drop" at the end is much better now, too.  I did come away from the ride a bit dizzy, but the ride is still good.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on June 16, 2012, 10:42:14 PM
Chop  that was a pretty entertaining movie, great ending too.

Why did the Chicken cross the road? To get to the other side!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Sundoulos on June 17, 2012, 01:39:36 AM
It's been out for several years, but I finally just watched the theatrical release version of Red Cliff on Netflix.  It's based on a battle that took place just before the Three Kingdoms period in China.  I'm not overly-familiar with Chinese history, so I had a hard time keeping the large number of characters straight at first.  That being said, the movie itself was pretty awesome, lots of great action, music and cinematography.  It's pretty great if you happen to like both martial arts movies and war epics, even though I'm fairly certain aspects of the history were dramatically embellished.   


Highly recommended.
 
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on June 17, 2012, 03:09:05 AM
Chronicle 8/10 i went in to it with the expectation that it would fall apart during the end, but it wasn't as bad as people said. I rented it for a dollar, though. So, i didnt have any problems. It was American Akira, but again i haven't watched Akira in 10 years.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on June 17, 2012, 09:47:06 AM
Chronicle 8/10 i went in to it with the expectation that it would fall apart during the end, but it wasn't as bad as people said. I rented it for a dollar, though. So, i didnt have any problems. It was American Akira, but again i haven't watched Akira in 10 years.

My thought exactly.


Ghost Rider: Vengeance
..... This franchise has been forever ruined. Marvel needs to put a ban on a third one ever seeing production. Marvel needs to take some of that Avengers money and buy back Ghost Rider, The Punisher, Fantastic 4, X-Men & Spiderman back from everyone that has them, or amend the contracts that the movies made using their properties must be good, profitable and not aimed at ruining the properties, otherwise you forfeit the property rights.
The amount of bad gifs i could make of this movie are so high, you would have practically seen the entire movie by the time i was done.  I'm not really familiar with Ghost Rider in the comics other than a few basics from some appearances in other comics, but I'm pretty sure that getting blown up doesn't allow him to hover 5 ft off the ground in a flat back spin that he can control enough to stop the spin (yet still hover in mid air) and look at you as if this was the exorcist. Everything about this movie is horrible and I wish I followed my instincts and didn't waste 45 minutes watching it (I didn't finish it) and I don't recommend you watch it either... Unless it's for MFT purposes.

Rating:  :-\ :-\ :confused; :Q :-[


edit: Nic Cage is the worst part of this movie, and that says alot, because all of it was bad.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: SixthAngel on June 17, 2012, 05:43:07 PM
It's pretty great if you happen to like both martial arts movies and war epics, even though I'm fairly certain aspects of the history were dramatically embellished.

Compared to the Romance of the Three Kingdoms(三国) it is based off of it isn't embellished.  That has (historical) characters creating storms and fighting thousands, a combination of myth, legend and history.

I enjoyed Red Cliff quite a bit too and I would recommend it.  Since watching it I have been burned out on Three Kingdoms movies though since China keeps pushing different ones out.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on June 18, 2012, 02:09:39 PM
Prometheus It didnt revolutionize me, it didn't bore me. Far from mediocre it was pretty dazzling, everyone left the theatre with questions. Not me that is, because I don't spend my time on dumb questions. The problem Prometheus has is the problem that most all space scifi has is that its in the shadow of Alien, which is an awesome movie. It was nice seeing zero suit Samus make an appearance. I kid. But yeah definitely know who I would have play Samus if i could. I have 3-4 choices as of now.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on June 18, 2012, 02:14:05 PM
Watched Robocop finally.  I have to say its very typical 80's.  Getting hit by a gun in that universe is less deadly but more gruesome.  I see the potential for a good movie there and see why all the spin-offs.  This is not that good movie.  An ok movie.  Though it is nice to see what happens to Red after the 70's. :P
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on June 18, 2012, 02:18:01 PM
i hope you're watching Robocop through the lens of Paul Veerhoven, that is look at it on another level than the level it presents itself. That is its a satirical critique on things, its not just what it is on face value.

like for instance its hilarious when people take star ship troopers on face value, when you get into what its actually saying its nothing what it seems.
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Post by: Ceric on June 18, 2012, 03:08:40 PM
i hope you're watching Robocop through the lens of Paul Veerhoven, that is look at it on another level than the level it presents itself. That is its a satirical critique on things, its not just what it is on face value.

like for instance its hilarious when people take star ship troopers on face value, when you get into what its actually saying its nothing what it seems.
Yes, that's why I put in that it has a potential to be a good movie the foundation is solidly there.  The actors among other things were not.  I would go to a modern remake.  There some good messages there.  Especially about technology and corruption.  Ironically enough a lot of the same themes are explored in The Cape which just went on Nexflix streaming it seems.  I would go as far to say if you like Robocop then definitely watch the Cape.  It feels very much the same thinking about it.
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Post by: BranDonk Kong on June 18, 2012, 04:58:11 PM
Starship Troopers is my favorite movie, despite the fact that I now hate Robocop, it's still one of my favorites too.
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Post by: broodwars on June 19, 2012, 11:20:40 PM
Well, I just got back from seeing Brave in 3D and...I have very mixed feelings about this movie.  It's a very solid, enjoyable fantasy film that's never boring; has incredibly detailed and fluid animation; and has several very well-voiced and memorable characters.  If all you're looking for is some light entertainment for 1 1/2 hours, I don't see why you wouldn't enjoy Brave.

However, at this point I really expect a lot more from a Pixar film, especially after the safe mediocrity of Toy Story 3 and the LCD garbage of Cars 2.  Make no mistake: this is a far better film than those two were, but unfortunately if I had to sum this movie up in a single word it would be "safe".  The film hits its marks and guides the audience coherently from scene to scene, but there's just nothing "daring" or "risky" about the film in the way I'd describe Pixar's earlier films.  There is nothing in this film that you haven't seen before in one form or another in a previous Disney film, and it often feels like the writers are pulling their punches.

I'm going to be putting out some spoilers from here on out.  They'll be spoiler-tagged, but in case you don't want to accidentally read them, you've been warned.

Unfortunately, where I think the movie really goes wrong is around the 1/3 portion of the film where a heavy magical element comes into play.  To be more specific, the main character accidentally turns her mother into a bear, suddenly giving the film a suddenly very jarring and silly feel out-of-place with the tone of the film up until that point.  This is where Brave somewhat lost me, because the moment I saw that, I just couldn't get images out of my head of the terrible Disney animated film Brother Bear.  While the animation on that character is really well-done and outright hilarious for the rest of the film, I just wasn't interested because I'd seen that trick done before and there just had to be another way to convey the character development desired that would have had more of a dramatic punch to it.  The ending overall just feels "too easy" and wrapped-up too neatly, as well.

And to be honest, I'm kind of indifferent on the main character, who at the beginning of the film is such a "Disney Princess" I expected her to break out her "I Want" song at any moment.  She's certainly spunky and fun to watch, but she's more than a little bit of a selfish brat for most of the movie, and in the end she pretty much gets what she wants without really having to sacrifice anything or grow as a character.  Her mother is the one who has the most character growth.  Sure, she comes to appreciate how her mother is willing to sacrifice for her, but she never acknowledges that just maybe her line of thinking wasn't the one true path.  The movie reminds me a lot of Eden of the East in a way in that there's this overall tone of "adults are stupid and usually the problem, and we young people know what's best for our future!"  I don't think that's what the writers meant, but that's the tone the film seems to set.

It's also kind of odd just how much time the movie devotes to showing that the main character is a superb archer, and yet there's never really a payoff for this throughout the film outside of a single shot at the end of the film.  And in that case, she fires the arrow from off-screen during a close-up so the audience can't really appreciate the difficulty of the shot.  There's also some really weird implementation of what sounded like Scottish pop music throughout the film, which just felt a little mis-timed and out-of-place (but not bad).

End Spoilers

Brave is a good film with some incredible animation (particularly hair and grass).  I enjoyed seeing it, and I'll probably buy the 2D Blu-Ray when it inevitably releases later this year.  But the film just feels fairly toothless and lacking in that wild creativity I've come to expect from a Pixar film.   As for the 3D, the theater did not have 2D glasses so I had to watch the film in 3D.  Thankfully, because the film uses very gentle camera movement and not terribly rapid character animation, I only had a minimal amount of dizziness by the ending credits (and that was mostly as a result of some fast camera panning or the cinematographer getting cute with Depth of Field).  The 3D was very nice and subtle.  Despite this being a movie with archery, I don't think there was a single shot in the movie where an object was hurled into the camera.  Instead, the object is hurled at an angle so it goes past the camera off to the side, and that worked really well.  However, I didn't appreciate how dim the picture was with the glasses on.  This is a movie with some fantastic lighting and coloring, and that's just...wasted in 3D with the dimmed lighting of the 3D glasses.  If you can, I'd suggest you see the film in 2D and enjoy the visual splendor.

By the way, Pixar's next movie is "Monsters University", because the incredibly lame (IMO) "Monsters Inc." really needed a prequel.  Yeah, that trailer with the main characters in college did absolutely nothing for me.  And how is it that we've gotten sequels or prequels for Toy Story; Cars; and now Monsters Inc., but we still haven't gotten a sequel for the one Pixar movie that set itself up for a sequel: The Incredibles?   :Q
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on June 19, 2012, 11:24:33 PM
the safe mediocrity of Toy Story 3


The ****
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Post by: broodwars on June 19, 2012, 11:29:19 PM
the safe mediocrity of Toy Story 3


The ****

Yeah, I said it.  Toy Story 3 was by-the-numbers Toy Story from beginning to end.  There was a single moment in that film where I thought the writers were breaking out and doing something potentially daring (the scene where the toys are having a touching moment in the incinerator), but there just wasn't anything altogether impressive about that movie to me.  Granted, though, I've never really been the biggest Toy Story fan.

And Randy Newman can take his seemingly-infinite variations on the same folksy piano ditty (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHfM1Xf6B7E) and **** off.  Seriously.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on June 20, 2012, 02:15:43 AM
Toys Story 3 is the brave little toaster
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on June 20, 2012, 10:16:49 AM
I loved TS3, possibly the best one.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: bustin98 on June 20, 2012, 10:23:48 AM
Watched Robocop finally.  I have to say its very typical 80's.  Getting hit by a gun in that universe is less deadly but more gruesome.  I see the potential for a good movie there and see why all the spin-offs.  This is not that good movie.  An ok movie.  Though it is nice to see what happens to Red after the 70's. :P:

Geez, I remember watching this in the theater when I was 14 or so. And reading about the controversy about the film and the comic that followed. I had the NES game too. There's so much to be said about the ideas of the story, though the over-the-top antics overshadow most of the interesting ones. Dude getting splattered after being doused with acid - is that really necessary? Part of the 'we need more unique ways to kill people' part of the movie.

I really like Robocop 2 over the first. Still has Peter Weller, Frank Miller has a cameo, robot fighting robot action (stop motion not computer animation)... very entertaining. Though Paul Verhoeven does add a certain something that can't be duplicated.
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Post by: Kairon on June 21, 2012, 01:56:08 AM
Yeah, it's awesome how you watch Robocop 2 and he's already doing those satire/spoof commercials that he did later for Starship Troopers.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Kairon on June 21, 2012, 02:01:01 AM
Toys Story 3 is the brave little toaster

But the Brave Little Toaster was better.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on June 21, 2012, 02:48:50 AM
There's nothing in the cinemas i want to see last week or this week so i haven't gone.

No i will not see Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on June 21, 2012, 10:22:44 PM
There's nothing in the cinemas i want to see last week or this week so i haven't gone.

No i will not see Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.

But that movie looks awesome, just from the title alone I will end up watching this one.
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Post by: Stogi on June 21, 2012, 10:41:37 PM
Agreed.

He wields an axe with melted silver on its blade. Bad ass.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on June 21, 2012, 11:58:58 PM
Historical Fantasy Fiction is a genre that will be popular in the future, Abraham Lincoln Vampire hunter is just the one of the first of many people.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on June 22, 2012, 03:24:50 AM
I'm completely over vampires as it is, so it's just another to skip.

I do want to see Red Lights though.

I will wait for the inevitable sequel. George W Bush: Gardening Warrior.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Lithium on June 22, 2012, 03:49:53 AM
watched 2 movies on my bucket list this past week

Blade runner (final cut)

I'm surprised at how well these practical effects hold up over time, looks about as good as all of the fancy CG modern movies use, gotta love the set/world design which is obviously influential on the sci-fi genre, i can retroactively see all kinds of games, movies and anime that takes their world design straight from blade runner. That said, the world may be awesome but i wasn't really a big fan of the characters in this movie, the pacing was fairly slow but that wasn't a big deal since it allowed for lots of scenery shots (although i probably got up to pee like 5 times during the movie since its raining 24/7 in that world apparently).

Apocalypse now (redux)

not much i can think of to say about this movie other than i really really liked it. I was a bit worried about the length of the movie at first but those 3 hours just zoomed by pretty quickly. probably the gold standard for war fiction
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on June 22, 2012, 09:12:23 AM
Yeah I watched Blade Runner about 3 years ago because my Boss was really into it.  I may eventually read the book, but the movie I got what it was going for I just didn't find it an entertaining movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on June 22, 2012, 09:44:12 AM
I'm surprised at how well these practical effects hold up over time, looks about as good as all of the fancy CG modern movies use,

Am I the only one who would like to see a new, big-budget action flick made without the use of computers (w/r/t the graphics, of course)?

Seeing the behind-the-scenes of what they used to do in movies, it seems to me a modern take on this could be pretty awesome. :D
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Lithium on June 22, 2012, 01:46:03 PM
Yeah I watched Blade Runner about 3 years ago because my Boss was really into it.  I may eventually read the book, but the movie I got what it was going for I just didn't find it an entertaining movie.


yeah as a story it isn't that mindblowing but it was really the world itself that sucked me in.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on June 22, 2012, 08:42:07 PM
I'm surprised at how well these practical effects hold up over time, looks about as good as all of the fancy CG modern movies use,

Am I the only one who would like to see a new, big-budget action flick made without the use of computers (w/r/t the graphics, of course)?

Seeing the behind-the-scenes of what they used to do in movies, it seems to me a modern take on this could be pretty awesome. :D

I agree, i think i could do a super low budget movie that looks every bit as good as promethius, but then again, i might want to use computers somewhere. I would just like to flip the use of CG vs practical in reverse. To me it almost seems like why do it in CG if you can sculpt it with better results?

and nowadays, practical might be the cheaper choice again.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on June 22, 2012, 09:55:58 PM
Prometheus.

The movie was really weird. I'll have to write something longer later. For now, I'll say that I believe it's actually a REBOOT of the Alien movies.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on June 22, 2012, 09:58:26 PM
Why would you think that it's a reboot? There was like 50 references to the first Alien film.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on June 22, 2012, 11:38:34 PM
Prometheus is weird, but im still thinking about it constantly, but mostly because I want to make a low budget scifi movie. As far as matte stuff go, they didn't have a whole lot. Most of it was big budget caverns and im sure the actors were expensive as ****.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Eman55 on June 23, 2012, 12:03:19 AM
I just watched Tron Legacy for the first time and really liked it. The special effects were one of the main reasons it was great and looking forward to playing its bit in Kingdome Hearts Dream Drop Distance.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on June 23, 2012, 01:50:32 PM
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

Completely mediocre. The directing was over-stylized to a painful point. The action was nothing but ugly 300-esque velocity shifts. The story was somehow really, really boring. Despite covering literally decades of Lincoln's life, nothing ever seems to happen. His thirst for vengeance is quenched before the film is even halfway over. There are one or two things that I assume are supposed to be twists, but everyone saw them coming from a mile away.

The film suffers greatly from the tone it decided to take. It's not campy enough to be as fun as the title would lead you to believe. However, it doesn't take itself seriously to make any actual commentary on the world or events surrounding the story. Slavery should be a very central theme to Lincoln's beliefs, the American Civil War, and hungry plantation-owning vampires. Yet it's barely even touched upon in the film.

This was just one huge miss after another. The trailer for the book (http://youtu.be/X58RPS665V0) showed so much more promise than this trite.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on June 24, 2012, 10:06:08 PM
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

Completely mediocre. The directing was over-stylized to a painful point. The action was nothing but ugly 300-esque velocity shifts. The story was somehow really, really boring. Despite covering literally decades of Lincoln's life, nothing ever seems to happen. His thirst for vengeance is quenched before the film is even halfway over. There are one or two things that I assume are supposed to be twists, but everyone saw them coming from a mile away.

The film suffers greatly from the tone it decided to take. It's not campy enough to be as fun as the title would lead you to believe. However, it doesn't take itself seriously to make any actual commentary on the world or events surrounding the story. Slavery should be a very central theme to Lincoln's beliefs, the American Civil War, and hungry plantation-owning vampires. Yet it's barely even touched upon in the film./

This was just one huge miss after another. The trailer for the book (http://youtu.be/X58RPS665V0) showed so much more promise than this trite.

It's a periodic Vampire action flick centered around Abraham Lincoln. It's not meant to be a polictical or topical movie trying to bury a deeper point behind gory bloody civil war action.

It was an ok movie. It did all I expected it to and nothing more. I was satisfied with it.
Lots of Axe swinging Vampire killin' action. That's what I came to see and that's what I got.

and they may have set up a sequel George Bush: Saudi Vamp Hunter!?  not really. but they did setup for a sequel.

I also watched Snow White and the Huntsman and Prometheus (& the last 45 minutes if MIB3).
maybe I'll say something about those later.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on June 25, 2012, 08:33:52 AM

and they may have set up a sequel George Bush: Saudi Vamp Hunter!?  not really. but they did setup for a sequel.

I still think the title should be George W Bush: Gardening Warrior
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on June 25, 2012, 09:36:38 AM
Iron Sky

An very cheesy entertaining watch. Basically Moon Nazi attack Earth and Not Sarah Palin is the president. A lot of people went into this expecting some sort of grand satire of current affairs, but it's not that deep and is never meant to be. It favors cheese and crazy awesome over the message which quite frankly obvious to anybody with half a brain that the current state of political affairs blows.

The damn thing is, throughout the whole movie I wasn't ever rooting for any one side to win. I just wanted the awesomeness to keep rolling in. The characters in general are fairly shallow, but the acting is effective. Some of the dialogue is just insane. The problem with a lot of the jokes is that you can see them coming from way, way too far away, so by the time it arrives, it has lost most of it's impact.

What is really great about this movie is the special effects and the art design. It is all sorts of 1940-1950 retro near steampunk with 5 minutes in the future designs. The battles are just spectacular as short as they are. It's really refreshing to see someone not use shaky cam and that puts the action up a notch or two over other action movies. Seriously, Shaky cam and orange/teal is plague that needs to die a horrific death, preferably with fire.

I recommend this to people with a sense of humour and want some cheesy sci-fi with Nazis on top. About 40% of American need not apply, this movie is going to go over your heads. Rest of the world, enjoy.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on June 25, 2012, 09:48:43 AM
Went and saw Brave this weekend.  It was a good movie that stuck with its theme and main story and didn't follow off onto some of the hooks into other areas.  Brave was a Novella/Short Story rather than a Novel. As I said it was good and kept with its theme with very little fluff.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on June 25, 2012, 12:15:28 PM
I recommend Safe House, Madagascar 3, and MIB 3 for immediate viewing. They are all good, if not great.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on June 25, 2012, 12:48:16 PM
Brave is out? That's going to be a flop. Not because its a bad movie, but because I have to ask.

edit: nevermind it came out this weekened...not the 10th
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: bustin98 on June 25, 2012, 02:37:43 PM
Brave is out? That's going to be a flop. Not because its a bad movie, but because I have to ask.

edit: nevermind it came out this weekened...not the 10th

http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/25/showbiz/movies/box-office-brave-ew/index.html?hpt=hp_bn9
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on June 25, 2012, 02:58:55 PM
Brave - 4/10

Yeah it's a kid movie, but I took my two kids. It was  mostly entertaining, but essentially pointless. The animation was top-notch, of course, but it just seemed like a Pixar Short that got stretched out for too long, which is weird because it's also pretty short. My kids didn't like it either.

Also a big opening doesn't really mean it's a good movie, or will hold up. I don't think too many people will be recommending it to others and it'll probably do like 10-15 million this coming weekend.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on June 25, 2012, 03:01:45 PM
Brave - 4/10

Yeah it's a kid movie, but I took my two kids. It was  mostly entertaining, but essentially pointless. The animation was top-notch, of course, but it just seemed like a Pixar Short that got stretched out for too long, which is weird because it's also pretty short. My kids didn't like it either.
4 out of 10 is pretty harsh.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on June 25, 2012, 03:02:57 PM
I'm being honest, it wasn't good.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on June 25, 2012, 03:06:17 PM
Brave is out? That's going to be a flop. Not because its a bad movie, but because I have to ask.

edit: nevermind it came out this weekened...not the 10th

http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/25/showbiz/movies/box-office-brave-ew/index.html?hpt=hp_bn9

I had read it came out on the 10th originally, and if it had only made 86 million by now it would be considered a flop with a budget of twice that much, but then i re-read that was just the premiere and that it came out last weekend in which case those are good numbers. Either way i haven't really seen any advertisement. Thats one of those things that annoys me about Hollywood where they bitch about how poorly something does when they didn't fucking advertise, mostly a caveat about tv networks.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on June 25, 2012, 03:09:57 PM
*shrug*I honestly don't know what is in theaters most times because there isn't any commercials I see for it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on June 25, 2012, 04:11:36 PM
Maybe we're all just watching the wrong shows. I see commercials for Brave fairly frequently. On the other hand, I almost missed Midnight in Paris because I never saw a commercial for it. Luckily, I saw a trailer in an actual theatre.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on June 25, 2012, 04:27:30 PM
I don't watch much live TV so if they don't advertise on the Internet form of TV I probably didn't see it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on June 25, 2012, 04:29:13 PM
Live TV takes it in the ass. If I want to watch something and it's on right now, I'll typically go do something else for 15-20 minutes so I can skip all the ads.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on June 25, 2012, 04:43:08 PM
I just bypass the hassle of setting up recordings altogether on my DVR and just torrent the TV shows I'm currently watching.  I think the only TV I watch live these days are televised sports games, and that's only because there's significantly less entertainment to be had watching those after the fact.

 :-X

What?  ;)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on June 25, 2012, 10:51:49 PM
I just bypass the hassle of setting up recordings altogether on my DVR and just torrent the TV shows I'm currently watching.  I think the only TV I watch live these days are televised sports games, and that's only because there's significantly less entertainment to be had watching those after the fact.

 :-X

What?  ;)

+2


as a bonus, I sometimes watch what you are waiting to record, an hour or two before it even airs. with no commercials. it doesn't get better than that.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on June 26, 2012, 12:38:01 AM
that is true, i theoretically just skipped the commercial. So that means advertisers either need to advertise on must watch shows: the type you record and watch at the same time, and advertise on the internet. All else is a useless and costly waste because people skip it anyways. Very good point Broodwars.

but back to network television shows..how many shows that are great survive past their first or second season? Many shows im picking up on netflix are great but sadly are only 2 seasons long. If I had known about them I would have watched them. Examples Jericho, Better off Ted, Reaper, The Riches, Defying Gravity. I also liked Outsourced, but I actually was on the other side of that where I was one of few watching it, while others were either clueless about it, or were told it was bad. However, For a one season show; it did have a proper ending.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on June 26, 2012, 01:39:16 AM
that is true, i theoretically just skipped the commercial. So that means advertisers either need to advertise on must watch shows: the type you record and watch at the same time, and advertise on the internet. All else is a useless and costly waste because people skip it anyways. Very good point Broodwars.

but back to network television shows..how many shows that are great survive past their first or second season? Many shows im picking up on netflix are great but sadly are only 2 seasons long. If I had known about them I would have watched them. Examples Jericho, Better off Ted, Reaper, The Riches, Defying Gravity. I also liked Outsourced, but I actually was on the other side of that where I was one of few watching it, while others were either clueless about it, or were told it was bad. However, For a one season show; it did have a proper ending.

How ironic....

maybe if you weren't skipping the commercials, you would have known about some of those shows :P
same goes for me too though...
if it weren't for the internet, lots of shows would have been lost, never to be discovered by me. And if it weren't for Netflix, even more of them probably never would have been watched.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on June 26, 2012, 03:01:55 AM
I recently took up a policy of not watching shows until I can torrent the whole season. I bucked the trend with Korra and the last episodes of Game of Thrones, but I'm going to try it with my favorite show of all - Breaking Bad. It's going to be hell for a while, but I know it'll be worth it if I can watch them all back to back.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: emceeamg on June 26, 2012, 01:33:33 PM
woman in black, harry potter edition. 4/10. rubbish
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on June 26, 2012, 06:17:33 PM
It's a periodic Vampire action flick centered around Abraham Lincoln. It's not meant to be a polictical or topical movie trying to bury a deeper point behind gory bloody civil war action.

The general idea is a good one though. Not that of Lincoln as a vampire slayer, but the South's slavery all being a front for vampire livestock supplies. The movie barely even touched upon that. In lieu of such a plot, the film should have tried to be funny instead. That's where it really failed. It wasn't a super fun, campy b-movie. It took itself way too serious, while not going far enough to make any kind of point or parallels to the time to justify it.

Quite frankly, the film was a complete dud. I'm glad I didn't pay to see it. I can only imagine that the book is pretty terrible as well, given the the author is who penned the screenplay.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on June 28, 2012, 11:54:49 AM
Or the author is great at writing books, not screen plays. I've heard the book was good and may check it out once I finish my current read.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on June 29, 2012, 01:23:32 AM
Perhaps... though I kind of doubt it after becoming bored with the gimmick that was Sense and Sensibility and Zombies. :\
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on June 29, 2012, 02:48:16 PM
isn't it pride and prejudice and zombies?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Pixelated Pixies on June 29, 2012, 04:00:14 PM
The Visitor
 
After seeing Thomas McCarthy's 'Win Win' a few weeks back, and having enjoyed it very much, I decided to check out another of his films called 'The Visitor'. Much like his more recent film, 'The Visitor' deals with family (or lack there of); but whereas 'Win Win' looked at parental responsibility and the little victories that make life worth living, 'The Visitor' puts more of a focus on Genealogy, immigration and the need for companionship.
 
Tonally, it's my kind of film, being introspective without being insubstantial. If you can appreciate quiet but affecting indie films I'd definitely recommend it.
 
3/5
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on June 30, 2012, 01:39:31 PM
isn't it pride and prejudice and zombies?

It is, you're correct. I was getting it confused with Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters... which was also pretty boring. :P
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on July 01, 2012, 12:18:19 AM
Seriously? There's a Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters? Now this spin has worn out it's welcome.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: jrlibrarian on July 01, 2012, 04:12:40 PM
Android Karenina and  The Meowmorphosis as well. The Pride and Prejudice and Zombies thing turned into a trilogy as well. It's ridiculous.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on July 04, 2012, 02:03:32 PM
The Amazing Spider-Man (spoilers)
It was good, not great. I would put it on par with Spider-Man 2 which was my favorite of Sam Raimi's Spider-Man films. In terms of comic book movies, it doesn't touch The Dark Knight or Captain America. Yes, I liked Captain America a lot.

It's an interesting take on Spider-Man's origin story though Spider-Man is 1 of 3 comic book origin stories that really don't need to be retold (the others being Batman and Superman). Everyone kind of knows how that goes down. Using Richard and Mary Parker is a departure though there's no payoff... in this film. That plot thread looks like it will be explored in a sequel. I was hoping against hope that the mid-after credits scene would feature Agent Coulson or Nick Fury (since in the comics Peter's parents are both SHIELD agents) and Marvel/Disney secretly negotiated a cross-over. No dice.

The film nixed Uncle Ben's famous line. A small part of me as a Spider-Man fan died a little inside, but the film handles the subtext of that line well. Uncle Ben says it without actually saying it. I tend to avoid reading fan comments on comic book movies, but I'm sure this is one of the things people are complaining about. A friend who does follow fanboy comments (mostly from comicbookmovie.com) was annoyed that The Lizard doesn't have a "proper snout." He's not alone either. Apparently, that was also a big thing. I didn't really care, nor did I care that Connors didn't always wear his lab coat. Seriously, this is what people are bitching about.

The action was good, as was the pacing and characterization (though one seemingly important character played by Irrfan Khan completely disappears midway through the film). It loses points for not really bringing anything new to the table except maybe the short 1st person segments which I didn't think were necessary though I didn't knock them for existing. They didn't make the movie worse. If I absolutely had to nitpick the film for anything, I would have wanted more Spider-Man. Overall, it was a fun movie though considerably less fun than The Avengers but that was a straight action movie. This was the film I was looking forward to the most this summer and I'm not disappointed. I still think The Dark Knight Rises will be the best one.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on July 04, 2012, 02:37:02 PM
Sounds to me like they did a live action version of the Fox Kids Spiderman Origin.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on July 04, 2012, 03:12:17 PM
Sounds to me like they did a live action version of the Fox Kids Spiderman Origin.

Actually, from what little I've heard of the new movie, there seems to be a fair amount inspired by Ultimate Spider-Man: the backstory of the parents; the way Peter deals with his dual identity issue; etc.  As someone who was never really that into the Raimi Spider-Man movies (2 was decent, but it was really the only one of the 3), I want to see this movie sometime in the next few weeks.  But as I dislike seeing movies in the theaters, I may just wait for the Blu-Ray.  Besides, I'll be lucky to drag my family out to see the Dark Knight Rises in a few weeks.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on July 04, 2012, 03:35:27 PM
Prometheus:

(http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m74/nickmitch889/jay_sherman_it_stinks_xlarge1.jpg)

Everything Must Go:

This movie was really good. I watched it on Netflix, so check it out if you've got a subscription. The story and the character felt very genuine. Will Ferrell does a very good job here. I highly recommend it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on July 04, 2012, 03:44:36 PM
Going back to an earlier off-topic discussion, I just wanted to say that one of the reasons I always liked Siskel and Ebert & Roeper and at the Movies was because it always kept me up to date with movies that were out and soon to be released. Recently, I subscribed to a newspaper again and every Friday there is a movie reviews section so that has helped me get back in the loop.

I actually try to avoid commercials as much as I can these days so as not to spoil a movie I'm going to see or get tired of seeing the same scenes over and over.

For instance, I've haven't seen any of the trailers for The Dark Knight Rises yet. Nor have I seen any commercials. I either skip through real fast or change the channel. That said, I still know a few details of the film because often tidbits get revealed in headlines of articles or there are images of the film shown. Still aside from a few basic facts, I'm completely in the dark about most of this movie and I hope I can keep it that way a little bit longer although it's getting tougher since the movie is about 2 weeks away and they are really starting to roll out the advertising now.

Anyways, my thinking these days is, if I'm know I'm going to see a movie, I'm not going to obsess over it like I use to and kill myself in anticipation like I use to when I was younger. If I'm unsure about a movie, I may watch a trailer or some clips then to see if that sways my thinking but otherwise, I try to avoid spoiling things. It often seems that movies I've enjoyed the most recently are ones where I go in with no idea what it is about and it's always better to keep your expectations a bit lowered.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on July 06, 2012, 11:34:27 PM
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Not sure why I did this to myself. Curiosity maybe? For completion's sake? I watched the 1st 2. The best part about watching this movie was trolling my friend afterwards. I texted him saying that The Avengers copied the city battle from Dark of the Moon.

Most of this was incomprehensible, especially as part 3 of a (so far) trilogy. For example, if the whole plan was to use Earth to rebuild Cybertron, what was the point of Revenge of the Fallen which would have destroyed Earth by harvesting the Sun to create Energon? Was it just a back-up plan to the back-up plan? Like, the Decepticons would resurrect Sentinel Prime if resurrecting The Fallen failed? Also, Megatron doesn't do anything... again. He was just sitting there while the Autobots took down his whole army.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TrueNerd on July 07, 2012, 01:59:35 AM
Those Transformers sequels, Revenge of the Fallen especially, are the most pain I've ever been in watching a movie. They are extremely self indulgent, plot-less, incomprehensible, and painfully unfunny movies with no characters with arcs or really anything redeeming about them. The fact that they made so much money and have any fans at all is absolutely mind boggling to me. I don't hate Michael Bay by any means, the guy is capable of doing big dumb blockbusters better than anyone else, but those sequels are STUPID and sadly justify a lot of what his detractors say about him.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on July 07, 2012, 02:59:24 AM
iv mentioned a few times that I like the first Transformers and hate the second 2 and it seems the culprit is the bad writing of the second 2. The writing teams changed on each movie

part 1   
    John Rogers
    Roberto Orci
    Alex Kurtzman

part 2
    Ehren Kruger
    Roberto Orci
    Alex Kurtzman
part 3
    Ehren Kruger

So if Transofrmers is to recover they just need a good writer.  In fact I thought part 3 was stupid, but I did however notice a visual similarity between The Avengers and Dark of the Moon and it would be very cool if someone were to edit them together. Plot similarity too. 

edit: Or maybe it is Michael Bay...apparently Orci and Kurtzman created Fringe.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on July 07, 2012, 02:58:15 PM
The 3rd one was pretty good, the best of the three and a good movie on its own.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on July 07, 2012, 08:34:09 PM
Disagree. The first one was shockingly good, and holds up very well. The third one disavows the second movie entirely and is filled with its own plot holes and things that make no sense at all. They replaced Megan Fox with somebody who is somehow LESS good looking, too, which is mind-boggling.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: bustin98 on July 08, 2012, 11:35:35 AM
Anytime you have Optimus Prime saying 'My bad' is not a sign of a good movie. :|

I would have thought that the Star Wars prequels taught movie-makers that alien racial stereotypes are not good, yet somehow we still have to suffer through Skids and Mudflap.

The third was the best from the perspective of an old school TF fan. The robots were finally the main attraction of the film, even if Shia LaBafoon had too much screen time.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on July 08, 2012, 12:54:32 PM
Mimic 8/10 --The first time i watched this, when it was new, i watched it in a theater where the projectionist didnt calibrate the film right, and as such the microphone kept dipping down for hilarity and killing all suspension of disbelief, making the movie unwatchable. I finally got around to watching it on netflix. Since years have passed I could look at it more freshly. Some of the locations reminded me of the first Ninja Turtles movie, which was odd because the next day it was on this morning, so i had to watch it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on July 08, 2012, 06:18:30 PM
The Amazing Spider-Man - 9/10

I highly recommend this movie. Dare I say, it's the best Spider-Man movie ever. It does not follow the original story as much as the 2002 movie, and that's actually a very good thing. Remaking a 10 year old movie would be pointless. This film is more like the Peter Parker Spider-Man or even Ultimate Spider-Man comic book series. One of the best parts of the movie is the fact that Peter doesn't actually shoot webs from his wrists, which was the most ridiculous part of the Raimi trilogy (especially since real spiders basically shoot webs out of their ass). The cast is great, The Lizard actually looks awesome, and while you still need to suspend belief it's not nearly as unbelievable as The Sandman. It is *not* the "Twilight" type story that old reports were saying it would be.

Some shortcomings were that there were obviously some scenes cut from the movie (that can be seen in trailers), and that nothing ever happened with the police officers while they were turned into Lizards, but I imagine the missing scenes will either appear on the Blu Ray (if you still watch DVDs you're dead to me) or in the sequel especially since Curt Connors/The Lizard is still alive and well, though incarcerated.

I'm pretty terrible at these movie reviews, but the movie was great.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on July 08, 2012, 06:30:51 PM
Is it better than Spiderman 2?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on July 08, 2012, 06:49:50 PM
It's hard to say that (even though I did), since Spider-Man 2 gets the benefit of not having to tell the origin story...but if you ask me, yes, it is better than Spider-Man 2. There were too many cheesy parts of Spider-Man 2 featuring Aunt May that always make me cringe.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on July 08, 2012, 07:02:48 PM
I doubt Conners will show up for a major role in another movie, considering he plays a major role in the Amazing Spider-Man video game (which takes place after the events of the film).  With all the hoops that Beenox probably had to jump through to get anything into the game, I doubt anything that showed up in the game will appear again in either of the upcoming sequels (so no Rhino, Scorpion, Vermin, Allister Smythe, or more Lizard).  The game hints at Sandman; Vulture; Mr. Negative; Eddie Brock/Venom; and Hydro-Man, so they may not be out of the realm of possibility for film inclusion.  The only villain in the game I can think of who might appear in the films at some point is Black Cat/Felicia Hardy.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on July 08, 2012, 07:37:06 PM
It's hard to say that (even though I did), since Spider-Man 2 gets the benefit of not having to tell the origin story...but if you ask me, yes, it is better than Spider-Man 2. There were too many cheesy parts of Spider-Man 2 featuring Aunt May that always make me cringe.


But...but, I love those parts!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on July 08, 2012, 07:54:19 PM
The video game can hardly be considered canon.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on July 08, 2012, 08:12:12 PM
The video game can hardly be considered canon.

We won't know that until the next film arrives.  In any case, playing the game there were obviously a great number of restrictions on what villains the developers could and could not use.  Otherwise, they would have you fight more interesting villains than those I listed.  But they didn't, which tells me that they were told not to use any villains the filmmakers were considering using in future films.  Even Norman Osborn's "appearance" in the game is only his voice (and none of the characters in the game are voiced by their movie counterparts) with a shadowy outline, as he has not been cast in the films yet.

The game may not be "canon" in terms of story, but I think what characters it does and doesn't use could be an indicator of what ones the future films might have.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on July 08, 2012, 10:07:24 PM
Rhino, Shocker, Chameleon, Black Cat are in the Spider-Man 2 video game...don't remember them in Spider-Man 3.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on July 09, 2012, 12:48:16 AM
Rhino, Shocker, Chameleon, Black Cat are in the Spider-Man 2 video game...don't remember them in Spider-Man 3.

Mysterio was also in the Spider-Man 2 game, & The Vulture; Kraven; Shocker; and Scorpion were in the Spider-Man 1 game as well.  None of them made it into a Spider-Man movie, and Doc Ock; Sandman; and Venom all appeared in the Raimi films without being in the previous movie tie-in games.  So yeah, I think we have a pretty good track record for villains not being in the movie tie-in games being more likely to show up in the films and those that were to not be.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on July 09, 2012, 10:13:57 AM
I really liked this movie. To me, "canon" is derived from the 1994 cartoon (and not the comics; the cartoon came first!) and this movie more accurately tied to it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on July 09, 2012, 12:38:46 PM
I enjoyed the new Spiderman movie but I still think that 2 is the better film.

One thing I disliked about the new Spiderman movie is how unrealistic so many things were though. Which I know sounds silly since the premise of Spider powers and a man turning into a lizard is not realistic but it's not the fantasy elements I had a problem with.

Rather, take the scenes where he gets his bitten by the spider. First, he shows up at Oscorp and is just given an intern badge without having to show any identification. Then when the real person shows up, security just throws him out. Uh, nobody would check on his story and make sure the first person they let in is the correct person? Then, Parker leaves the study group and is able to wander the whole building appearantly with nobody questioning what he's doing there. I guess an internship card gives you unlimited access to everything. Then he gets into the spiderlab but I guess there are no security cameras anywhere monitoring the labs since no guards are alerted to this intrusion. He affects the spiders rotation but that doesn't set off any alarm bells that something is off in the spider lab. For such a cutting edge tech research and development building, security seems very, very lax. Later, he can appearantly come and go as he pleases as well since he is now friends of Dr. Connors. No security pass required.

Again, I know it's just a fantasy movie but I just hate the lazy effort shown. Clearly, the writers/director just wanted to get him bit as fast as possible and didn't want anything to impede Parker on his way.


Anyways, that was my big complaint of the film.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on July 09, 2012, 01:32:31 PM
Him getting into/out of Oscorp after the first trip probably has a little bit to do with the fact that he's now Spider-Man.
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Post by: Khushrenada on July 09, 2012, 02:08:26 PM
Him getting into/out of Oscorp after the first trip probably has a little bit to do with the fact that he's now Spider-Man.

Maybe but then Connors didn't seem shocked or surprised to see him in the lab when it was empty after his first lizard transformation and Connors said he had given everyone the day off. Plus Parker worked with him earlier on the rat/mouse DNA test so he clearly was allowed to come into the building without always having to sneak in.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on July 14, 2012, 02:14:44 AM
The Simpsons: The Longest Daycare: Worth the price of admission into Ice Age.

Ice Age: Continental Drift - Worth leaving after the Maggie Simpson short.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on July 14, 2012, 02:16:20 AM
I might sneak in to see that one.
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Post by: ThePerm on July 14, 2012, 07:30:11 PM
The Amazing Spiderman 8/10 - That was pretty good. Some things are missing. The origin story isn't overdone, and because there are new characters it makes it good....and the bits are funny, so its totally forgivable. some scenes seem a little rushed, but they aren't a big deal. The Lizard looks better in the movie then he does in the promotional material. This movie I made sure to watch it in 3D. My only annoyance with 3d is my eyes adjust, but thats my problem i guess.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on July 14, 2012, 09:38:42 PM
I just saw Spider-Man, too. I thought it was pretty meh, but the Lizard was a good villain. I actually felt like the movie went on too long.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on July 14, 2012, 10:21:19 PM
i thought the approach to the story was good, but the pacing was messed up. I thought it was kinda long, but thats because the intro was so long. Though as i said even though the intro is the origin story, which i was apprehensive about, but wasn't overdone. It just felt like they skimped on things. Like there isn't necessarily the "this follows this" sort of thing.

like parker doesn't really seem all to amazed he's got powers

Well before this movie was under production I always wanted to see lizard as a villain, i had expected a "the fly" style transformation, but it all happened in a hurry

Parker jumps to the conclusion that Connors is the lizard and he's about to do something evil...when theres not real evidence of that...maybe it was his spider senses?

the thing about this version of the universe is it has more room for expansion, which was the only reason i see a reboot as happening. This movie has room for a 6 movie arch.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on July 15, 2012, 02:19:17 PM
Connors was working on cross-species mutations, specifically with lizards and their ability to regrow limbs...and Peter saw how strange Connors was acting the night after the Lizard appeared.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on July 15, 2012, 10:49:17 PM
Connors was working on cross-species mutations, specifically with lizards and their ability to regrow limbs...and Peter saw how strange Connors was acting the night after the Lizard appeared.

still, even despite his outing as the lizard, how would he automatically jump to the conclusion of mad scientist? He was yelling at the police station already, and that scene too was a little weird. I'm guessing a scene between was cut and thats why it seems disjointed. I mean he was right about his conclusion, but he sure arrived at it damn fast
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on July 30, 2012, 12:52:45 AM
After seeing Dark Knight rises, I've obviously rated Amazing Spider-Man too high. It should be an 8.

The Dark Knight Rises - 9.5/10

This is the perfect ending to the Nolan/Bale Batman trilogy. It wraps things up in a way that is sure to please just about everyone who is a fan of the other two films. Do you need to see the other two films first? Yes, but if you haven't seen them already, then there is something wrong with you. Is it as good or even better than The Dark Knight? I would have to say that it as at least as good. Some people say that the movie had slow parts and may be too long, but I completely disagree, and it could have gone at least another half hour (mainly to beef up some of the content) and still be 100% enjoyable. The acting is terrific, the fight scenes are great, and the special effects are essentially perfect. There are some good surprises in the movie, and some characters from the other films besides the obvious ones you'd expect to see(like Cillian Murphy as Jonathan Crane/Scarecrow, who has been in all three films now, or Senator Patrick Leahy, who was held at knife point by The Joker in The Dark Knight). I can't believe I'm the first person to actually review this on here (not counting the spoiler thread). If you've seen the other two and are too scared to go to the theater, grow some balls and go watch it. If you haven't seen the other two, then go watch them and then go see this, because you're missing out on arguably the greatest movie trilogy since the original Star Wars films.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on July 30, 2012, 01:38:38 AM
The Nolan trilogy for me has always been a series that has always strived to be more than a super hero movie. He didn't quite do it with Begins. Dark Knight finally broke that barrier, But it wasn't till Rises that it became a Great film. It wonderfully ties all three films together as a journey not only for Batman, but for the characters like Gordon, Alfred, and the city of Gotham itself. Films rarely has an emotional attachment to the proceedings for me, one of these film was Shindler's List which drew tears once at the end, Dark Knight Rises managed this twice. This is what separate a merely good movie from a great one, and it did it twice with a fictional character.

Here is a excellent tip for watching this movie, when you go in there forget everything you know about Batman and just focus on what the Nolan films have presented. Forget or avoid the marketing. Run away from your friends if you have to. It is the best way to see this movie.

I have to fully agree with Brandogg when he said "This is a greastest Trilogy since the Original Star Wars". Seriourly, if there is one movie you will ever go to the the cinema to watch all year, this is it. TDKR has fundamentally shifted me expectations of superhero movies to somewhere that may never be matched ever again.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on July 30, 2012, 01:50:40 AM
Day @ the Movies July 2012

quick review:

Ted - Funny. Almost like a live version Family Guy Episode. flashbacks and randomness incluided

Batman: TDKR - Amazing movie. best of the trilogy and as a trilogy ender, will obviously be very, very hard to beat. I almost want a sequel, but I'm sure it just wouldn't be the same.

Amazing Spiderman: Good Movie. few very minor inconsistencies, but overall, it was pretty good and I look forward to a sequel.

Overall, I'm very pleased with all 3 movies watched today. If it had lined up better, I would have also squeezed in either Savages or The Watch, but I'm sure either of those moved would have dragged down a great triple feature.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: tendoboy1984 on July 30, 2012, 01:52:49 AM
So it's even better than Sam Raimi's Spider-Man films (not counting the 3rd one, cause that sucked)?


I guess Christopher Nolan is the new "Steven Spielberg" or "Oliver Stone", considering all the praise he's been getting with his Batman films. The weird thing is, you never see this much praise given to TV show directors.


And if you haven't seen it yet, District 9 is an amazing film. It's made by Neil Blomkamp, the same director that was going to make the Halo movie (and he actually made a few short films set in the Halo universe).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on July 30, 2012, 12:52:27 PM
idk, the TV directors/writers that get the most praise are also the ones that make movies too like J.J. Abrams and Damon Lindeloff. That being said, i think as auteurs film directors have more creative control than tv directors. The producer credit in tv shows is more like the director credit. I would have to say to some extant the TV system for production is probably more efficient, though it has some flaws.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on August 01, 2012, 01:40:44 AM
PiranahDD hilarious/10... it's really sad when I know something is coming, and its morbid and twisted.

Lockout 6.6/10 somewhere between meh and fair. It could have been great if done right. Guy Pearce is great though.

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on August 01, 2012, 03:50:56 AM
I've past out twice trying to finish Lockout.

I thought Guy Pearce was good as an actor but way too flat as a character. His one-liners-all-the-time character was hit or miss throughout the movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on August 01, 2012, 04:51:49 AM
its just a lame ass movie, its not outright terrible though. I wish he punched the presidents daughter in the face more. It seems like a movie I would have liked had it came out in like 1998. Its funny, because I've been planning out a movie taking place in space I was looking at the set design, and it looks cheap as ****.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on August 01, 2012, 04:54:57 AM
The bike chase scene at the beginning was just plain bad. Terrible.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on August 01, 2012, 05:01:36 AM
the movie cost 20 million, obviously the 20 million was spent on the actors. All the actors were great except Maggie Grace.

Super I love Ellen Page/10

it was by a newbie director though, so that's worth noting.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on August 26, 2012, 04:57:58 PM
The Expendable 2

Can you say forced 80`s references crammed in as much as possible.
Chuck Norris is the most non-intimidating "bad-ass" and bad actor. He made me think of Tim the tool man Taylor and Al Borland from tool time. Not the vibe i should have gotten from him... he sounded more like a clerk at your local home depot. And so many plot holes, especially in the beginning. But I'll get into that later, still at the theater.

Overall, 7/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on August 26, 2012, 05:36:16 PM
Chuck Norris was good in Breaker! Breaker!, I'm also thinking all the Chuck Norris jokes started  after the movie Sidekicks.

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on August 27, 2012, 12:37:16 AM
ok, so another Day @ the Movies has concluded.
The roster of movies for the day were:

The Expendable 2
Premium Rush
The Campaign
Hit and Run


I liked Expendables 2, but it has some very obvious flaws starting with some minor plot holes in the beginning and ending with forced dialog from aged action stars cramming in references to movies from yesteryears. Some delivery was very bad, especially from Arnold and Chuck Norris (horrible Chuck Norris joke made by Sly and finished by Chuck). both of them were too old to actually do anything but talk and shoot, although Arnold did have a good moment with a car ;)
This was a pure action movie, only taking breaks from the action to set up the next action scene.
Good mindless violent bloody action. Homage to old action flicks was a little heavy, but they managed to pull it off.
p.s. Dolph Lundgren is a fool. he had us laughing.

Premium Rush - a movie about a bike messenger in New York City.... better than I expected. It's told slightly out of order, but it all makes sense in the end. Some pretty good action/chase scenes and a fair amount of humor spread throughout.

The Campaign - I don't remember where I heard that this movie was funny.... but  I was falling asleep somewhere in the first 5 minutes. There is humor and it is a comedy, it just wasn't really funny. I suggested walking out about 30 minutes before the end just so that we could squeeze in 1 more movie.... but unfortunately we stayed till the credits started rolling.... and then they tried to play another scene during the credits, but we kept walking, we didn't care, it was time to move on.
p.s. Zack Galifinakis looked like the guy from Office Space that just wanted his stapler back during the whole movie. He needs his beard back.

Hit and Run - I missed the first 20 or so minutes thanks to The Campaign, but I still enjoyed this movie from the moment we came in till the moment it was over. It had some action, some comedy and Kristen Bell (in the shower). This one was worth sticking around for even if it was just to get the bad taste of the previous movie out of our minds, and it did.


I'm not sure which one I liked more, Premium Rush or Hit and Run, but those 2 and The Expendables 2 made today a pretty decent run at the movies today.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on August 27, 2012, 02:20:42 AM
The Campaign - How do I get back at you? I **** your wife/10. I thought it was hilarious. I would elaborate why its hilarious, but I would have to get into politics.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on August 27, 2012, 09:28:39 AM
This shower scene. Elaborate.
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Post by: Ceric on August 27, 2012, 10:22:56 AM
This shower scene. Elaborate.
With Pictures.
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Post by: Sarail on August 27, 2012, 05:51:33 PM
This shower scene. Elaborate.
With Pictures.
In high resolution.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on August 27, 2012, 10:30:41 PM
Well, now that I've finally seen the Avengers, I've seen all 3 of the Summer's Superhero movies.  Honestly, The Avengers underwhelmed me, especially after how the internet has hyped it up as "TEH BE$T THANG EVAR!"  Sure, Stark and Banner had some great dialogue and the fight scenes (especially in the final battle) were very well-done, but you strip away the action and there's nothing there.  There's almost no story to speak of, making the whole movie just one long string of loosely-connected fight scenes involving characters I strangely didn't find myself caring about despite liking them in their original movies.  Maybe it's due to having seen this all already (and done better) in the Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes animated series, but the movie just didn't feel like anything special to me.

I really didn't think I would, but I have to side with Dark Knight Rises as the best of the 3 superhero movies this Summer (with Amazing Spider-Man behind it).  Sure, it doesn't have the flash, some of the dialogue wit, or the stakes riding on it that The Avengers does, but it does actually have a pretty good story and that story is pretty well-told.  I cared about the characters in DKR, and the film does feel like it took risks (such as making Batman largely a secondary character to the city itself).

Hopefully, this Avengers movie will springboard into better Avengers films in the future that are more than just watching people's favorite action figures hit each other for 2 1/2 hours.  As it is, I thought The Avengers was "merely" a good movie...not an amazing one.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on August 28, 2012, 01:55:20 AM
DKR made Batman a secondary character to Bruce Wayne. Sure watching Batman punching people is fun, but this has a solid emotional core that elevates it beyond being a Super hero or action movie.

On the other hand, there is Battleship. Of all the ways to spend a two hundred million dollars, burning it and filming the results would have provided more entertainment and proved far less insulting. I spent virtually the entire running time of this movie wishing death for anyone and everyone on screen, especially the "Main Protagonist". **** the people who worked on this "movie". May they never work on another movie ever again, except Liam Neeson. What the **** man... I can't believe I would recommend any Michael Bay film over this.

On the other end of the scale there is The Men Who Stare at Goats. It's a surreal, reality bending movie. It's funny, it has likeable characters, the dialodge is sharp, with plenty of laughs, satire, bits of action. A good watch.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on September 02, 2012, 12:41:04 AM
DKR made Batman a secondary character to Bruce Wayne. Sure watching Batman punching people is fun, but this has a solid emotional core that elevates it beyond being a Super hero or action movie.

On the other hand, there is Battleship. Of all the ways to spend a two hundred million dollars, burning it and filming the results would have provided more entertainment and proved far less insulting. I spent virtually the entire running time of this movie wishing death for anyone and everyone on screen, especially the "Main Protagonist". **** the people who worked on this "movie". May they never work on another movie ever again, except Liam Neeson. What the **** man... I can't believe I would recommend any Michael Bay film over this.

On the other end of the scale there is The Men Who Stare at Goats. It's a surreal, reality bending movie. It's funny, it has likeable characters, the dialogue is sharp, with plenty of laughs, satire, bits of action. A good watch.

i was going to make a near identical post just now

I kinda wished when they got on the battleship and drove off into the ocean that it automatically started sinking because it was old, and then one of the old guys moans "oh, you sunk my battleship!" Then a big "The End" card rolls up with some disgruntled horns and it abruptly ends.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on September 02, 2012, 01:56:26 AM
The Bourne Legacy - Le sigh.

So, surprised no one else has mentioned seeing this yet. Finally took the plunge myself. Was excited when I saw the trailer since it seemed like the direction they seemed to show indicated that it had good potential to work as a follow-up. I've had my own ideas as to how I would have continued the franchise but the trailer looked like the film might be alright.

That said, I'd have to say the film was best summed up when, as I got up to leave during the credits, two girls walked by me and one said to the other, "Well, that was underwhelming." And I have to agree. And I even came in with guarded, lowered expectations.

As I walked out of the theatre, in my head, I was going through all the faults the film made and what the writers must have been thinking as making the script. They just seemed so clear when watching this and even more after it ended.

I'll get into them more in a little bit but as I type this a wave of sleepiness as hit me so I'm just going to call it a night.
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Post by: ShyGuy on September 02, 2012, 02:54:06 AM
Drive Come back Shane! Come back!
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Post by: oohhboy on September 02, 2012, 03:21:35 AM
I had watched Universal Soldiers (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1023347/) to lower my expectations before watching Battleship. It didn't work. No that isn't the JCVD (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105698/) movie, it's something entirely wrong. Note the extra "s" on the end. It's an Asylum movie so I was expecting something awful and I got exactly that. Watch this if you want a prime example of how to fail at basic film making. Between this abortion and Battleship, it is a surprisingly fair fight as which one is the worse movie. They both contain horrifically miscast "Actors" playing hateful "Characters" in a plot that is to be generous to be called stupid. Despite US many, many failures on a very basic level like having the mic exposed in the wind rendering entire sections of the movie inaudible, nonsense cam usage, gratuitous use of computer filters, disconnected plot. But I have to say that Battleship is the worse movie for spending 200 million freaking dollars to be such a failure. And yes, both movies have a sequel hook to something nobody sane would want.
At least US gives new meaning to the word "Logged".
Yes this happens repeatedly to half the cast members.

Jeremy Renner isn't an action star, but they keep miscasting him as one. He is best as a low key, but very intense character in a dramatic role like in Hurt Locker.
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Post by: Plugabugz on September 02, 2012, 05:40:52 AM
The Bourne Legacy - Le sigh.

So, surprised no one else has mentioned seeing this yet. Finally took the plunge myself. Was excited when I saw the trailer since it seemed like the direction they seemed to show indicated that it had good potential to work as a follow-up. I've had my own ideas as to how I would have continued the franchise but the trailer looked like the film might be alright.

That said, I'd have to say the film was best summed up when, as I got up to leave during the credits, two girls walked by me and one said to the other, "Well, that was underwhelming." And I have to agree. And I even came in with guarded, lowered expectations.

As I walked out of the theatre, in my head, I was going through all the faults the film made and what the writers must have been thinking as making the script. They just seemed so clear when watching this and even more after it ended.

I'll get into them more in a little bit but as I type this a wave of sleepiness as hit me so I'm just going to call it a night.

I saw it last week but forgot to mention it. The film is ultimately a setup to make more.

That's all i can say.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on September 02, 2012, 01:00:45 PM
Saw it Friday, I feel the same way. The first half of the movie felt like two things happening at the same time that had little to do with eachother. The plot just felt so "blah."
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Post by: Oblivion on September 02, 2012, 02:37:13 PM
What a shame.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on September 02, 2012, 06:09:39 PM
Total Recall - I need oohhboy to see this.

I won't spoil the film but i did enjoy:



1 -The film being set in London, yet they board a blatantly NYC Subway train with London Underground stickers on it. There's a reason why its called "the tube". We don't even have stations like that.
2 - The trip in "the fall" is announced to be 17 minutes, yet Hauser sets the bomb to 15. But it doesn't detonate BEFORE the journey is finished.
3 - A couple of scenes where clothes appear and disappear.


Hilarious. So glad i have my unlimited card, otherwise i'd want a refund.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on September 02, 2012, 06:36:35 PM
Looks like a movie I won't be paying money to see. Either way, it looks like a movie that will make you pay for watching it.

I watched bits and pieces of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. **** this movie is stupid, not Battleship stupid, but watching Ben Kingsley once again shame himself on screen is both pleasing and sad. $200000000 clearly dosn't go far in Hollywood. Not too sure where the money went. Forgettable drivel.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on September 02, 2012, 08:55:06 PM
The Prestige. Awesome movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on September 04, 2012, 04:53:24 AM
Looks like a movie I won't be paying money to see. Either way, it looks like a movie that will make you pay for watching it.

I watched bits and pieces of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. **** this movie is stupid, not Battleship stupid, but watching Ben Kingsley once again shame himself on screen is both pleasing and sad. $200000000 clearly dosn't go far in Hollywood. Not too sure where the money went. Forgettable drivel.

Did you notice how the "feel" and some of the set design between Prince of Persia and John Carter was very similar?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on September 04, 2012, 05:53:03 AM
I haven't seen John Carter, but from what I saw in the trailers it's unmistakeable. Of course only one of them had completed bombed and became the "New Ishtar".
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Post by: S-U-P-E-R on September 04, 2012, 07:29:50 AM
The Prestige. Awesome movie.

A friend sold me on this movie by telling me it's about "like, these two magician guys and they just troll the **** out of each other."
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on September 04, 2012, 07:38:13 AM
I believe "Two magicians having a stupid yet Epic cock fight and Nikola Tesla is the real magician" is a more accurate description.

Pretty good movie all the same.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on September 05, 2012, 02:59:10 AM
Today i'm seeing The Possession. Will get back to you all on that.

Here one of the mobile/cell phone networks does something called Orange Wednesday. You need to text a number to get a code, but two people can go for the price of one (and get 2 for 1 at a Pizza Restaurant too). Because i have that unlimited card i count as the "paying" customer, the other person sees the movie for free.

So what usually happens is i get a massive rush of people usually asking if they can see a film with me because they won't pay.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on September 06, 2012, 07:50:56 AM
Just watched the Avengers.

It's an adequate movie. The action is pretty good and thankfully well shot, but the cuts are still a hair too fast for you to properly appreciate an action in it's full entirety. When it finally gets enough breathing room some of the dialogue is good like between Stark and Loki. Visually nice except when Samuel L Jackson first steps out of that helicopter, wow that was just bad.

Then there are a lot of issues that drag this movie down. Each one are individually small, but taken as a whole is a real anchor. Outside of those special moments, the dialogue is shallow, cliched, almost robotic in a way that it's forcing its way through in order to reach the next action scene. You could almost put a stop watch to the "Jokes" with them arrive at predicable intervals. While none of the "Jokes" were outright groaners, it felt held back or focus grouped.

The plot was basically "Something happening so we can have some sort of fight", functional, predictable. The pacing was goose stepping to a metronome, just moving on because it's "time".

Accents and language use was all over the place. Romanov couldn't decide whether to have a Russian accent or an American one. Thor was switching between modern English and some generic variant of "Ye olden timey English" mid sentence. Pick one damn it or just go full on Shakespearean assuming the actor was up to the task.

Samuel L Jackson was playing a director of a military spy agency who is Samuel L Jackson. Captain America was a wooden robot with an eternal boo boo. Thor is physically there, but he should either stop thinking altogether or stop and think because whatever he is doing right now isn't working for him. Stark is toned down and held back. Black Widow and Hawkeye were the same character with different weapons. I like Cobie Smulders but she was horribly mis-casted. Banner was the only character that "worked".

The worse thing about this movie was that the whole team infighting thing just doesn't work. There isn't enough history between the characters. They are just openly belligerent to each other with no reason. There is just not enough time for everybody even with the simple plot.


It is an adequate entertaining, unemotional superhero movie with some very blatant ploys to emulate a emotional connection.7/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: S-U-P-E-R on September 08, 2012, 07:25:41 AM
I just saw the Phoenix Wright movie. It's pretty good but it's a bit different from the game. Spoiler ahead: [spoiler[Maya dies[/spoiler]
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on September 08, 2012, 10:37:20 PM
"Planet of the Dinosaurs," a horrible 1978 sci-fi movie with stop-motion dinosaurs. The stop-motion dinosaurs are...okay, but not great. The most notable thing about the film is that the producer is Steven Czerkas, who's a fairly well-known paleoartist.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on September 08, 2012, 10:41:31 PM
That reminds me of some dinosaur and caveman themed softcore porn that showed on Cinemax a long time ago. It was awesome.


Edit - Cave Girl Island. Find a torrent, and enjoy. Dinosaur Island looks pretty great too.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on September 08, 2012, 11:54:46 PM
TO THE GOOGLEMOBILE!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on September 09, 2012, 12:14:22 AM
I am amused some of you had to actually watch Battleship to know it was crappy super-ultra-mega-crappy.

I mean, I try to keep an open mind about movies, but there's no way I'd waste the time watching this movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on September 09, 2012, 12:46:39 PM
One more thing I didn't like about the Bourne Legacy: the constant switch from a scene in a dark room to a bright white blanket of snow in the first 3rd of the movie. I really dislike it when movies do that. That **** hurts my eyes.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: bustin98 on September 09, 2012, 08:57:47 PM

The worse thing about this movie was that the whole team infighting thing just doesn't work. There isn't enough history between the characters. They are just openly belligerent to each other with no reason. There is just not enough time for everybody even with the simple plot.


I took it that Loki was messing with them to cause this to happen.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on September 09, 2012, 09:15:51 PM

The worse thing about this movie was that the whole team infighting thing just doesn't work. There isn't enough history between the characters. They are just openly belligerent to each other with no reason. There is just not enough time for everybody even with the simple plot.


I took it that Loki was messing with them to cause this to happen.

I didn't gleam that from the film's subtext at all. That could have been a decent enough excuse to explain it away though. Those tricky, chaotic gods...
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on September 09, 2012, 10:08:36 PM
Um, to me it was very obvious that Loki was causing it. I did not expect anyone to not see it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on September 09, 2012, 10:55:32 PM
I am amused some of you had to actually watch Battleship to know it was crappy super-ultra-mega-crappy.

I mean, I try to keep an open mind about movies, but there's no way I'd waste the time watching this movie.
I knew it was bad going in, I just had no concept of something this bad that had cost $200 Million dollars to make. Before Battleship, the bad movies I have watched had something notable about the that was positive, Even Transformers 2 with Jetfire's mad ramblings. I have nothing but outright hatred for Battleship.

Well, of course it was Loki. It's just such transparent ploy that having the Heros fall for it was laughable. Then you had Banner's anger revelation later that makes it even more stupid.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on September 09, 2012, 11:08:10 PM
American Psycho - What the ****? What a pointless stupid movie. I can't believe this movie is critically acclaimed.
Kung Fu Panda 2 - While not as brilliant as the first one, it's a very solid movie. I can't wait to see what they do with the third one.
The Incredibles - Still my second favorite Pixar movie.
Ratatouille - My other favorite Pixar movie.
Se7en - Kevin Spacey was fucking brilliant.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on September 10, 2012, 03:05:12 AM
The Possession - I normally don't watch horror movies but i quite enjoyed this. It was tense and nicely paced.

I was going to see Dredd, but the 2D showings are limited release while the 3D ones are normal release. Therefore i'm not going to watch it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on September 10, 2012, 03:21:39 PM
Well, the movie's name IS Dredd 3D for a reason. I don't mind, I prefer watching them in 3D (although I don't like paying an extra $2.50 for it).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on September 10, 2012, 03:26:50 PM
American Psycho - What the ****? What a pointless stupid movie. I can't believe this movie is critically acclaimed.
Kung Fu Panda 2 - While not as brilliant as the first one, it's a very solid movie. I can't wait to see what they do with the third one.
The Incredibles - Still my second favorite Pixar movie.
Ratatouille - My other favorite Pixar movie.
Se7en - Kevin Spacey was fucking brilliant.

Seriously? American Psycho pointless and stupid? Did you even watch it? I'm disgusted by your comment.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Fatty The Hutt on September 10, 2012, 04:22:39 PM
American Psycho - What the ****? What a pointless stupid movie. I can't believe this movie is critically acclaimed.
Kung Fu Panda 2 - While not as brilliant as the first one, it's a very solid movie. I can't wait to see what they do with the third one.
The Incredibles - Still my second favorite Pixar movie.
Ratatouille - My other favorite Pixar movie.
Se7en - Kevin Spacey was fucking brilliant.

Seriously? American Psycho pointless and stupid? Did you even watch it? I'm disgusted by your comment.
Yeah, gotta agree, American Psycho is fantastic. Such a great, extremely dark comedy. Such a great comment on American excess and vapid culture (in the '80s in particular). Such a great comment on shitty men's attitudes to women. I think that the director really brought out that aspect particularly well. I have seen interviews with her where she focusses on this aspect and the fact that the script really struck her in this way (intentionally or not).
 
I think the business card scene is my favourite. That and "Sussudio".
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on September 10, 2012, 05:31:58 PM
Well, the movie's name IS Dredd 3D for a reason. I don't mind, I prefer watching them in 3D (although I don't like paying an extra $2.50 for it).

All 3D films give me headaches. It's not worth the money for a headache.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on September 10, 2012, 06:36:48 PM
They make anti-3D glasses too, don't they?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Sarail on September 10, 2012, 06:45:14 PM
What I think is surprising is how Dredd has a 95% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Wow.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on September 10, 2012, 07:04:36 PM
I am hearing a lot of good things about Dredd. I might actually go to the trouble of seeing it in the cinemas when it gets here. It's a turn around from the pessimism early on and the apparently mistaken parallels drawn to The Raid.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on September 10, 2012, 07:32:48 PM
American Psycho - What the ****? What a pointless stupid movie. I can't believe this movie is critically acclaimed.
Kung Fu Panda 2 - While not as brilliant as the first one, it's a very solid movie. I can't wait to see what they do with the third one.
The Incredibles - Still my second favorite Pixar movie.
Ratatouille - My other favorite Pixar movie.
Se7en - Kevin Spacey was fucking brilliant.

Seriously? American Psycho pointless and stupid? Did you even watch it? I'm disgusted by your comment.


No, I didn't fucking watch it at all.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: S-U-P-E-R on September 10, 2012, 07:51:38 PM
Seconding that American Psycho owns. I'm sure it's filled with clever allegories and such, but what I mostly took from it were the funny catchphrases like "do you like Huey Lewis & The News?" and "FEED ME A STRAY CAT."
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on September 10, 2012, 08:14:11 PM
i thought American Psycho is great. However, I'm still totally baffled by its Ambiguous ending. You could read it 2 ways.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: tendoboy1984 on September 10, 2012, 08:19:28 PM
Why is everyone (Chozo Ghost, ThePerm, Oblivion) now using the same Kirby avatar? Did you guys all lose a bet or something?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on September 10, 2012, 08:20:21 PM
read the funhouse
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on September 10, 2012, 08:20:56 PM
It started as a joke after a new member of the forum started using it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on September 10, 2012, 08:39:14 PM
I tried turning it into a new "Lettuce Cat is so last week. Mock me for being behind the times." thing and it really hasn't worked yet. I got Caterpillar to think I was Chozo, though.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on September 11, 2012, 03:25:12 AM
They make anti-3D glasses too, don't they?

I never knew they existed. It's extremely stupid though. I have to pay more to see it, only to pay again for glasses to cancel out the 3D effect.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: MisterE13 on September 11, 2012, 12:04:34 PM
They make anti-3D glasses too, don't they?

I never knew they existed. It's extremely stupid though. I have to pay more to see it, only to pay again for glasses to cancel out the 3D effect.

They're really easy to make yourself if you can get your hands on 2 pairs of 3D glasses.  Of course it really would be a waste to pay for the movie in 3D then cancel it out for yourself.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Louieturkey on September 13, 2012, 06:01:39 PM
American Psycho - What the ****? What a pointless stupid movie. I can't believe this movie is critically acclaimed.
Kung Fu Panda 2 - While not as brilliant as the first one, it's a very solid movie. I can't wait to see what they do with the third one.
The Incredibles - Still my second favorite Pixar movie.
Ratatouille - My other favorite Pixar movie.
Se7en - Kevin Spacey was fucking brilliant.
Please tell me you have seen The Iron Giant. It is another Brad Bird animated film.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Louieturkey on September 13, 2012, 06:06:55 PM
I just saw Sherlock Holmes Game of Shadows last night.  I really enjoyed it, though it felt like it didn't know who its audience was.  It was first trying to be extremely smart with the dialogue and making everything intertwine.  But then it would constantly telegraph what was going to happen next so people who didn't "get" the first movie could "get" this one.  I feel like it made less money (in the US) because it didn't know who its audience was.

I did very much enjoy it though.

I also went and saw the Bourne Legacy.  I honestly thought it was my favorite Bourne movie so far and I'm a big fan of Matt Damon.  I just thought they worked this one right.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TrueNerd on September 13, 2012, 11:49:19 PM
RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK - Saw this on fake IMAX at the local AMC. I was really disappointed by the quality of the projection. When they announced this was being put back into theaters, Spielberg was talking about good the new print and restoration they just did for the blurays looked. And the fake IMAX was just a 2K projection. Couldn't even get a 4K. Some shots were simply ugly. Total let down.

However, it doesn't matter because the movie is FUCKING AWESOME. The pacing, the set pieces, the way the characters are introduced, the cinematography, the score, holy **** this is one of my favorite movies ever. I had never seen it on the big screen, so even a shitty projection was mindblowing to me. One of the best.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on September 15, 2012, 06:06:49 PM
Advent Children: WTF/10

Even in the context of a sequel to FFVII, this movie makes NO sense, and its Japanese anime sensibilities really bite it in the ass. The bad guy characters are just plain stupid, it's not at all clear where their particular McGuffin came from or even WHO OR WHAT THEY ARE. The whole movie is a poorly-paced leadup to a five minute battle between Cloud and You-Know-Who. The most impressive fight in the scene is between the FFVII team and Bahumut, but even that is a little silly, because WHERE DID THEY ALL COME FROM?

Also, Cloud being a self-pitying sadsack really made me dislike him, and they made Tifa look complete different. She doesn't even have the whale-tail ponytail anymore. Just play FFVII instead.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on September 16, 2012, 10:55:48 PM
Did you watch the original or Complete? The latter makes a little more sense and adds some character development.

I believe Kadaj and the other 2 (who, honestly, don't really matter) were created because Sephiroth's will was so strong that he refused to be absorbed into the Lifestream. They each represent a part of Sephiroth, but only Kadaj is important (which is mostly poor writing). I'm not defending it; just trying to offer an explanation. They didn't make any of that especially clear. It's vaguely inferred.

I liked the movie for the eye-candy, but it was a little too convoluted and emo.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on September 17, 2012, 12:28:15 AM
If memory serves (and it doesn't always), Sephiroth's ultimate goal was to become a part of the Lifestream so he could take control of the planet. Or something. It's been fifteen years.

Anyway.

I watched Piranha DD. I liked the original. It was SyFy-level camp with some bewbs. Piranha DD is one of the worst movies ever made--I recommend avoiding it hardcore.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on September 17, 2012, 12:42:32 AM
In VII, I thought Sephiroth wanted to merge with the Lifestream to become a god which he can't do if he's dead. On that planet, when you die, your energy is recycled to create new life or something and that's the part that Sephiroth rejected according to Advent Children which spawned Kadaj and co. I'm not sure of that's correct. Just my interpretation. I've watched the movie a couple times, but I only completed VII once 11 years ago.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on September 17, 2012, 01:05:03 AM
I watched Piranha DD. I liked the original. It was SyFy-level camp with some bewbs. Piranha DD is one of the worst movies ever made--I recommend avoiding it hardcore.

But I just added to my Netflix list a few days ago....

I remember the director as the one from that show Project Greenlight, which produced a decent for what it was horror flick called "Feast" (it wasn't good, just not nearly as bad as you thought it would be).

I figured Piranha DD would be the perfect movie to revive MFT in the Funhouse with.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on September 17, 2012, 01:59:12 AM
I liked Feast. Never saw the sequels. I heard they were terrible.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Fatty The Hutt on September 17, 2012, 10:01:41 AM
Just watched Piranha DD. One of the funniest, OTP camp-horror films I have seen in awhile. Lots of it is pure self-referntial gold. And it is gloriously gory. And yeah, bewbs.
So, give it a try and prepare for goofy, gory fun.
 
And Ving Rhames steals it. Close second place for the Hoff.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on September 17, 2012, 10:23:04 PM
I liked Feast. Never saw the sequels. I heard they were terrible.

I sorta enjoyed it myself, but I can't call it a good movie.

The first sequel was so bad I had to turn it off. I didn't know there was more than one.
And I LOVE bad movies, well, movies that are so bad that they are good again.

Feast 2 was trash. It wasn't even entertaining enough to make fun of.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on September 21, 2012, 09:12:54 AM
Wild Target
This was the last movie I had on my Netflix DVD queue before they changed the plans and I downgraded to the streaming only plan. It only took a year to get around to watching this. It got mixed to negative reviews, but I enjoyed it. I consider Bill Nighy to be extremely underrated. Emily Blunt was hot as usual, but more importantly, she played a perfect foil to Nighy's character. Rupert Grint was kind of just there. This movie isn't terribly original, but I didn't feel like I wasted my time. My only real complaint about this is that there's a pretty big unresolved plot thread though I suppose you can infer that with a certain character's fate at the end and no leads, there's nothing more for to be said about it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on September 30, 2012, 11:44:42 AM
Killers (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1103153/)

Katherine Heigl and Ashton Kutcher continue to prove to the world that they can waste more oxygen than anyone else in the world. Knight and Day had Tom Cruise Charm spoofing himself and his own movies. Killers has Tom Selleck for 5 minutes. I rather watch 100 minutes of whatever the below came from than to spend another minute talking about Killers. Stay the hell away.

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TrueNerd on September 30, 2012, 03:47:02 PM
LOOPER - One of my favorite movies of the year. I'm not going to say anything else, just go see it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on September 30, 2012, 07:14:22 PM
Just finished watching it. Good movie.

Also watched End of Watch. Another good movie.

2 for 2 so far.
Next up is the Possession.... and then maybe Lawless, if I'm up for one more.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on September 30, 2012, 09:17:53 PM
End of Watch would've been better if it hadn't been a "found footage" type movie because some parts left me confused. The story and characters are otherwise great.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on September 30, 2012, 10:03:21 PM
The Possession was also pretty good for a "based on a true story" demon possession flick. Sam Raimi did a pretty good job.

Now I'm waiting for lawless to begin.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: tendoboy1984 on September 30, 2012, 10:20:10 PM
The Possession was also pretty good for a "based on a true story" demon possession flick. Sam Raimi did a pretty good job.

Now I'm waiting for lawless to begin.


Sam Raimi didn't direct that movie. According to IMDB, a guy named "Ole Bornedal (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0097079/)" directed it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on September 30, 2012, 10:30:00 PM
The Possession was also pretty good for a "based on a true story" demon possession flick. Sam Raimi did a pretty good job.

Now I'm waiting for lawless to begin.


Sam Raimi didn't direct that movie. According to IMDB, a guy named "Ole Bornedal (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0097079/)" directed it.

He didn't say Raimi directed it. And Raimi did produce it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: tendoboy1984 on September 30, 2012, 10:52:13 PM
The Possession was also pretty good for a "based on a true story" demon possession flick. Sam Raimi did a pretty good job.

Now I'm waiting for lawless to begin.


Sam Raimi didn't direct that movie. According to IMDB, a guy named "Ole Bornedal (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0097079/)" directed it.

He didn't say Raimi directed it. And Raimi did produce it.


People usually associate movies with their directors. So I just assumed that's what he meant.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on September 30, 2012, 11:03:41 PM
Not always though. For example, everyone associates The Empire Strikes Back with George Lucas even though he didn't direct it. Obviously every situation is different, but sometimes a producer can have more influence on a movie than its director.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: tendoboy1984 on September 30, 2012, 11:07:27 PM
Not always though. For example, everyone associates The Empire Strikes Back with George Lucas even though he didn't direct it. Obviously every situation is different, but sometimes a producer can have more influence on a movie than its director.


But George Lucas created the Star Wars series, it's his baby. Therefore it's only right that people associate all the movies with him.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on September 30, 2012, 11:29:54 PM
It didn't make George any less resentful that the best movie out of the original Trilogy isn't really his baby.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on September 30, 2012, 11:43:48 PM
He gets rich from it, and most people associate the movie with him (only hardcore Star Wars fans even know who the director was), so I don't think he could care less.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: tendoboy1984 on October 01, 2012, 12:02:54 AM
It didn't make George any less resentful that the best movie out of the entire series isn't really his baby.


Fixed. :)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on October 01, 2012, 12:26:11 AM
LOL, no.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on October 01, 2012, 12:38:41 AM
Wait, how is The Empire Strikes Back not the best in the series?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on October 01, 2012, 12:42:08 AM
It's good, but I think part of why people say it is the best is because of when they grew up.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on October 01, 2012, 01:15:08 AM
You know how old I am right? If that were true, my favorite would be The Phantom Menace or Attack of the Clones.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on October 01, 2012, 01:18:03 AM
Dark Knight Returns - Exceeded my expectation/10

And here I was worried they were gonna cock it up, but this movie is GREAT. Shot-for-shot with the comic sometimes. Just brilliant. I didn't think I'd like Peter Weller, but he pulls it off.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on October 01, 2012, 02:02:42 AM
Lawless was also a good movie.

we were 4 out of 4 today.


I would recommend all these movies on your Netflix/DVD rental list.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: King of Twitch on October 01, 2012, 02:49:08 AM
Odd Life of Timothy Green. Some well known actors must've lost a bet on this one.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on October 01, 2012, 09:27:49 PM
Wait, how is The Empire Strikes Back not the best in the series?

I dunno. I always liked Return of the Jedi better.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on October 01, 2012, 10:07:50 PM
Well, your opinion is wrong. Empire Strikes Back is the best. Return of the Jedi is a great movie, until the end - especially the newest update with Hayden Christensen's ghost.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on October 01, 2012, 10:22:54 PM
It was certainly the most exciting (with Luke's whole world going all to ****). But I think it's understood that the revisions only made the movies the worse.
Still though, three great movies out of that original trilogy. About 1 1/2 good movies out of the prequels.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on October 01, 2012, 10:55:05 PM
Meh, I am not a big fan of the original trilogy in their original versions. They are much better with the special effects (not commenting on the other changes, like having Greedo shoot first, just on the actual special effects).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on October 01, 2012, 10:55:24 PM
I still can't stand any of the movies other than Empire Strikes Back. I blame James Earl Jones for that.

But I did like the cartoon/CG show for a while. It wasn't amazing, but it was a fun watch every once and a while.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TrueNerd on October 02, 2012, 03:17:47 AM
Meh, I am not a big fan of the original trilogy in their original versions. They are much better with the special effects (not commenting on the other changes, like having Greedo shoot first, just on the actual special effects).


It depends on what you're talking about. If you're talking about a general cleaning up like removing the matte boxes from around all the ships in space, fixing the lightsaber colors, stuff like that, yes, that's an improvement. If you're talking about throwing in a bunch of CGI robots/locations/creatures/ships/singers in Jabba's palace/sarlacc pits because hey why not then I vehemently disagree with you. All of that **** sticks out like a sore thumb and ruins the aesthetic of what I think is still a good looking film. I really wish Criterion would storm Skywalker Ranch and take the prints of the original cuts of the original trilogy by force and give them the restoration jobs they deserve.

And EMPIRE STRIKES BACK is the best, but I accept arguments for the original STAR WARS as well. RETURN OF THE JEDI is not the best and anyone who says it is is clouded by nostalgia. **** the prequels.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: tendoboy1984 on October 02, 2012, 11:16:30 AM
Revenge of the Sith was amazing
Attack of the Clones was terrible and overdone
The Phantom Menace was okay

Don't complain about Hayden Christenson's bad acting, because the original trilogy had worse acting (like a majority of movies from the 1970's and early 1980's).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on October 02, 2012, 11:27:01 AM
You're so funny Tendoboy, I can't stop laughing. Stop hurting me.

Go here (http://redlettermedia.com/plinkett/star-wars/) and educate yourself as to why the prequels are so bad. I guarantee that the reviews are far, far more entertaining than the movies. It will take you couple hours to watch them all, but you will get some real insights from people who actually know how to make something entertaining on a budget nearing Zero dollars.

GL might have given birth to Star Wars, but he was the one who made it bad.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: tendoboy1984 on October 02, 2012, 11:34:17 AM
Revenge of the Sith was the closest the prequels got to the original trilogy, in terms of tone, plot, and story progression.

And every single Star Wars movie is filled with bad acting. Lucas can afford big budgets for special effects and sets, but then he has C-list actors starring in his movies for some reason. (I know Samuel L Jackson was in the prequels, but his role was pretty insignificant)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on October 02, 2012, 11:36:29 AM
I'll just say that Ultimate Power Corrupts Ultimately.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on October 02, 2012, 04:39:23 PM
ooohboy, Revenge of the Sith was a good movie. For once I actually agree with tendo, his assessment of the prequel movies is spot-on.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on October 02, 2012, 05:40:02 PM
You must have a very very low opinion of the OT if either of you think ST:RotS was remotely close to it. RotS was the "Closest", but there is a massive difference between that and actually being "Close". The OT and prequals are not remotely close to each other when it comes to quality.

As for the C-list comment. Natalie Portman, Ewin McGreger, Liam Nesson, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill and more. All these people can act, they know their craft. That can't be said of Christian Hayden who has continued to show that he is worthless in his chosen profession. Tom Hardy who played Shinzo in the bomb that was Star Trek Nemesis has turned around and proven himself as a high caliber actor.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on October 02, 2012, 05:54:16 PM
ROTS was a good movie, period. Not "close", I would rank it as one of the better SW movies (and better than ROTJ).

C-list doesn't refer to quality, just star-power.
Mark Hamill was a nobody before Star Wars, he only had bit appearances in TV shows and a made-for-TV movie. Harrison Ford wasn't a big star before SW either, he was maybe B-list though as his only big role before it was American Graffiti. Carrie Fisher was practically a nobody as her ONLY acting role before SW was a movie called Shampoo (which she was barely in). Natalie Portman had only been in very minor roles before the SW movies, so she was def a c-lister. Liam Neeson is one of the few exceptions, but the majority of SW actors (even the stars) was virtual nobodies/c-listers before being cast.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on October 02, 2012, 06:17:46 PM
I don't like the Ewoks as much as the next person, but to consider RotS better than RotJ is either a joke or insanity. The final confrontation between Luke and Vader alone makes it better than any of the Prequels. RotJ did suffer from Ewoks and having too many concurrent plot threads. But there is a lot of gravity and tension in RotJ that the prequels never have.

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Post by: Adrock on October 02, 2012, 06:23:50 PM
Natalie Portman had only been in very minor roles before the SW movies, so she was def a c-lister.
Before The Phantom Menace, Natalie Portman had already been cast by Luc Besson, Michael Mann, Woody Allen, and Tim Burton. Her film debut as Mathilda in Leon: the Professional was anything but a minor role. She was getting noticed before her turn as Padme. There are only so many quality roles for teenage girls. She would have made it without George Lucas.

Speaking of Leon: the Professional, I really wish the stars would align and whatever differences Besson and Gaumont Film Company have would get resolved and Mathilda: The Professional would be made.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TrueNerd on October 02, 2012, 06:48:26 PM
Good God. REVENGE OF THE SITH is a terrible movie. It is less terrible than ATTACK OF THE CLONES, but it is still ridiculous bullshit. Terrible writing, way too much terrible CGI, and yes, Hayden sucks at acting in both of those movies, as do all of the actors in these movies. No, STAR WARS was never about great, paramount acting but at least the actors in the original trilogy convincingly portrayed human beings. Hayden does not. I'd argue Lucas is more to blame than Hayden, but the point still stands.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on October 02, 2012, 06:59:02 PM
LOL, what? TrueNerd, you are the ONLY person I have ever seen that thinks ROTS is a terrible movie. It is at least the 3rd best Star Wars movie. Hayden is annoying, but the rest of the movie is really enjoyable. The CGI is good, and the story is interesting.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: NWR_insanolord on October 02, 2012, 07:47:02 PM
Return of the Jedi has its problems, but to even for a second consider putting any of the prequels ahead of it is insanity. RotJ looks bad compared to the other two in the original trilogy, but RotS is helped immensely by being compared to the absolute garbage that came before it. I would take Ewoks over Hayden Christiansen every time.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on October 02, 2012, 09:00:14 PM
Everyone needs to go watch Looper.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: tendoboy1984 on October 02, 2012, 09:18:40 PM
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Shia Lebouf is too cocky, the plot is mundane and drags on for way too long. And there are too many explosions and overdone slow-motion sequences.

Another movie I saw recently was Super 8. One of the best movies I've seen all year. J J Abrams is the new Spielberg. He seamlessly combines good character development, a tight script, and plenty of action sequences to create movies that are genuinely enjoyable.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on October 02, 2012, 09:20:28 PM
LOL at the thought Abrams could even be mentioned in the same breath as Spielberg. Abrams sometimes gets lucky.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: tendoboy1984 on October 02, 2012, 09:27:36 PM
LOL at the thought Abrams could even be mentioned in the same breath as Spielberg. Abrams sometimes gets lucky.

Well I would say Peter Jackson is the next Spielberg, but you'd probably disagree again.

I like Abrams' movies. At least he tries to tell a story in his movies. Super 8 was like a mix of The Goonies and Cloverfield.

Steven Spielberg hasn't had a hit summer blockbuster in a long time. He's been surpassed by younger filmmakers, like Joss Whedon.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on October 02, 2012, 09:40:47 PM
I eventually hated Super 8. The Final Confrontation between Kid and Alien comes down to the Alien not slaughtering the kids because the main kid FEELS BAD BECAUSE HIS MOM DIED? ARE YOU KIDDING ME? Bullsh*t.


This is not a spoiler. You know it's coming THE ENTIRE MOVIE.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on October 02, 2012, 09:41:06 PM
How does Joss Whedon surpass Speilberg? Speilberg can make action movies, dramas, etc.

Whether you liked the movie or not, 2008's Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull made $786 million and that more than qualifies as blockbuster status. Then he didn't direct any movies for 3 years. His last 2 movies came out in November and December of 2011, so they aren't summer anything and his next movie is in November. I should also point out that Spielberg produced Super 8. He was executive producer of Men in Black III, which made $624 million (blockbuster). He was executive producer of Transformers: Dark of the Moon, which made $1.1 BILLION. To say he hasn't had a summer blockbuster in a long time is laughable as he has 2 this year alone.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: tendoboy1984 on October 02, 2012, 09:48:24 PM
Hardly any of those were "his" movies. He didn't direct Transformers or Super 8. He's been more of a producer lately. If Spielberg can DIRECT a new movie that can surpass Jurassic Park, Schindler's List, or Saving Private Ryan (in terms of quality and financial/critical success), then okay.

And Lucas really needs to break out if his Star Wars shell. He should direct more varied movies to diversify his portfolio.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on October 02, 2012, 09:57:55 PM
He had big influence as executive producer. Even just as a director, he last summer blockbuster was just 4 years ago (and even his more recent movies were not summer movies but still big hits).

George Lucas has only directed 6 movies in his whole career, 4 of tem Star Wars (the other 2 were THX 1138 and American Graffiti).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on October 02, 2012, 10:23:31 PM
Puppets always beat CGI. Revenge of the Sith was a good movie. (my opinions)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on October 03, 2012, 03:22:02 AM
LOL at the thought Abrams could even be mentioned in the same breath as Spielberg. Abrams sometimes gets lucky.

This and this. He's a good producer - his studio has a lot of talent within it (look at Fringe!) - But overall he has been very hit and miss.
The only TV shows to be successful from his stable is Lost (massive megahit, wrecked TV in the years that followed), Person of Interest (has higher ratings than Lost by averages, but its "procedural looking" so nobody cares!), and Fringe (the show that just will not die despite being in the friday death slot for 3 years).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Sarail on October 03, 2012, 09:38:24 AM
I just finished Super 8 for the first time last night. Very enjoyable, and VERY reminiscent of 80s sci-fi/adventure flicks. GREAT JORB.

Also, I think Abrams has a gem on his hands with Revolution. I've been trying for several years now since Lost ended to find a show that's incredibly captivating for my friends and I to watch together (just as we did with Lost), and I think Revolution is finally filling that spot. My brother made the same comment that I made above after finishing the third episode last night. And a friend of mine gasped after she saw those pendant things react that caused the walkman and iPhone to turn on for a few seconds. That kind of thing hasn't happened for us since Lost.

I realise that Revolution isn't a movie (and thusly shouldn't go in this thread), but I just wanted to add my two cents since Abrams was being discussed.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TrueNerd on October 06, 2012, 03:11:46 AM
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA - Saw this in theaters last night for its 50th anniversary. It's amazing. Despite coming out in the same period as BEN HUR and SPARTACUS, it feels much more modern than those epics. It also has the best character arc of any of the epics. Going further, this is also the best execution of the Hearts of Darkness/Gone Native story that has been done many times in movies like DANCES WITH WOLVES and AVATAR, to name a couple. Those movies stop with their character arcs basically before the halfway point of LAWRENCE. This one goes much further and is just much better. It starts a little slow, yes, but it moves really quick after the intermission. A true classic.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on October 06, 2012, 12:03:26 PM
Lawrence of Arabia is easily one of my favorite films of all time. Some historical inaccuracies notwithstanding, it's well worth the watch even today.

Iron Sky - Pretty darn entertaining. The pacing was a little odd though, and the quality of the special effects was uneven in places. It wasn't as great as I had hoped, but humorous enough to recommend. Sadly, it was less of a fish-out-of-water story than I had expected. The angle its humor took instead was still appreciated, though will probably turn off a lot of Americans.

Dark Shadows - Terribly mediocre, and probably rage inducing to anyone who grew up watching the show. I'm not even sure how I ended up watching this one. I haven't enjoyed anything either Burton or Depp has done in years. I was never a fan of the television show that it's based off of either. Though I suppose that's a good thing, since the film takes on more of a silly vibe than anything even resembling its brooding soap opera origins.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on October 06, 2012, 01:45:10 PM
I intend to watch it SPECIFICALLY for Eva Green.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Dasmos on October 07, 2012, 09:37:29 AM
So I watched 7 films yesterday. A friend of mine stayed over and we had one hell of a hangover from Friday night so her and I decided to as little as we could.

Iron Sky: A friend wanted to really see this so I decided to watch without him out of spite. I don't know what Morari saw in this film that I didn't. It seemed like it was intentionally going for the "so bad, it's good" angle but just completely missed the mark. Not funny and just plain boring.

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: I haven't seen this film in about 5 years, but it used to be my favourite film. Luckily it still holds up. Fantasically filmed, edited and choreographed. I couldn't recommend this more highly to anyone who for some reason hasn't seen this.

Tomorrow, When The War Began: Based on an well-loved Australian novel. The film focuses on the efforts of a group of teenagers who wage a guerilla war after the invasion and occupation of Australia. Nowhere near as dark as I remember the book being it suffers from being aimed at a teenage audience. Acting and special effects aren't great and the film is pretty poorly paced. As it's also based on the first book in a series of seven, it's left very open-ended with a lot of loose ends. I really feel this would have worked better as a TV series, so I'd have a little more time to character development and motivation.

The Green Lantern: I'm not a massive fan of The Green Lantern, but I have read enough to know that the film was a huge missed opportunity. The casting was let down by the horribly derivative script.

Kiss Kiss bang Bang: Another great movie that I haven't watched in a while. Robert Downey Jr. is fantastic as always and KKBB is the only film I can remember liking Val Kilmer in. The great dialogue is still as sharp and clever as ever. Highly enjoyable.

Army of Darkness: A classic. Maybe not quite as good as the first two Evil Dead films, but it's till a bunch of fun. No-one does comedy horror quite like Sam Raimi.

The Number 23: I really don't like this film. Too much style over substance. It seems like a movie that thinks it's more clever than it actually is.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on October 07, 2012, 11:27:58 AM
So I watched 7 films yesterday. A friend of mine stayed over and we had one hell of a hangover from Friday night so her and I decided to as little as we could.

Don't tell me you actually watched all 7 movies.

I'm hopin you were casually watching while getting some "tang in your lollies" instead.

and that being said, I've read between the lines and this is what I saw:

You were making her scream to the Iron Sky as you performed your Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. You really didn't want to wait till Tomorrow, When the War Began to try out your colored trojans and show her the power of The Green Lantern while you Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang, through her Army of Darkness. And after all was said and done, and you asked her how it was, The Number 23 is what she kept repeating.


p.s. look for meaning in the text, not between the lines, but behind them ;)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on October 07, 2012, 02:22:01 PM
Maybe he's taking it slow? Maybe she's taken? Maybe he's gay? :P
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on October 07, 2012, 03:39:09 PM
I dunno. Seven movies is a lot to say you're not getting any. Six is the limit.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on October 07, 2012, 04:02:50 PM
So I watched 7 films yesterday. A friend of mine stayed over and we had one hell of a hangover from Friday night so her and I decided to as little as we could.

Don't tell me you actually watched all 7 movies.

I'm hopin you were casually watching while getting some "tang in your lollies" instead.

and that being said, I've read between the lines and this is what I saw:

You were making her scream to the Iron Sky as you performed your Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. You really didn't want to wait till Tomorrow, When the War Began to try out your colored trojans and show her the power of The Green Lantern while you Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang, through her Army of Darkness. And after all was said and done, and you asked her how it was, The Number 23 is what she kept repeating.


p.s. look for meaning in the text, not between the lines, but behind them ;)

+1
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Dasmos on October 08, 2012, 01:09:03 AM
Maybe he's taking it slow? Maybe she's taken? Maybe he's gay? :P

Haha I'm not gay, but she is! I showed her BnM's post and she thought it was hilarious. Made me laugh heartily as well.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on October 08, 2012, 01:21:14 AM
Myth: Busted!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on October 08, 2012, 07:13:17 AM
Looper - A time travelling mess of brilliance. The debate after watching this film is probably worth the film alone.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on October 08, 2012, 04:13:11 PM
I saw Looper on Saturday with my ex, we both love it. I think Joe made a mistake at the end, and I don't like it because they did not make it clear that the psycho kid will not still become the Rain Maker since he is already a little demon kid Both in our theatre and the theatre that some friends went to, everyone was silent at the end because the movie just suddenly ends with no indication it was over or a resolution to it. Is that the debate you are referring to Plug? And a friend brought up a point, why wouldn't they kill the people in the future, then send them back rather than having the loopers do the killing?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on October 08, 2012, 05:31:30 PM
Actually, they did resolve it. I'm taking a film class in college, and according (at least to my professor) a fade to white has a much more "good ending" feel to it than a fade to black. Considering that Looper faded to white...you can assume that Cid did not become the Rainmaker.


Also, this image really explains a lot: (SPOILERS) http://i.imgur.com/9qTKe.jpg (http://i.imgur.com/9qTKe.jpg)


And a friend brought up a point, why wouldn't they kill the people in the future, then send them back rather than having the loopers do the killing?



Because it's still messy. Killing would mean evidence. Better to kidnap the person, send them back in time with no evidence whatsoever. Time travel is supposed to be completely secret, right?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on October 08, 2012, 05:43:59 PM
I saw Looper on Saturday with my ex, we both love it. I think Joe made a mistake at the end, and I don't like it because they did not make it clear that the psycho kid will not still become the Rain Maker since he is already a little demon kid Both in our theatre and the theatre that some friends went to, everyone was silent at the end because the movie just suddenly ends with no indication it was over or a resolution to it. Is that the debate you are referring to Plug? And a friend brought up a point, why wouldn't they kill the people in the future, then send them back rather than having the loopers do the killing?

The loopers did the killing as it ultimately circled them out and removes all proof: no body, no murder weapon in the future and no killer (as he ultimately will shoot his future self) therefore nobody can be tied to it.

The most obvious is that both the Rain Maker and Old Joe are predetermined events, so in a possible future the rainmaker exists, but not "our" present in which young joe kills the old one. By old joe going back in time it's all changed. The movie doesnt settle on whether its a single universe or several, and bounces back and forth to make the plot work.

For instance, when old seth appears he should have appeared mutilated already as that had already happened to him in the future (if it was a single timeline), but only does when it happens in the present (suggesting multi) and so on.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on October 08, 2012, 05:59:49 PM
Oblivion, they did not resolve it at all. Frankly, your professor is a idiot at best and a artsty-full of it at worst. How something fades out is not a way to resolve it. And based on what had already happened in the movie, there is no way to assume Joe's actions would make a difference. With that image, whoever made it even says that that HOPEFULLY Cid doesn't still become the Rain Maker. But the kid already "accidentally" killed his aunt, and that thug, and almost killed his mom when he flipped the truck. Who is to say he wont still become a dangerous criminal just because his mom is alive? Maybe they should have flashed forward to the future to show him becoming a super hero since Joe had that line about everyone expecting super heroes to exist once TK became discovered..
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: NWR_insanolord on October 08, 2012, 06:18:43 PM
I love that for TJ Spyke being an idiot is better than being artsy and full of it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on October 08, 2012, 06:24:49 PM
Oblivion, they did not resolve it at all. Frankly, your professor is a idiot at best and a artsty-full of it at worst


Jesus man, it's just a movie. There's multiple universes, simple as that. Even Old!Joe said that same thing. This isn't Primer; it isn't hard to grasp. Every time travel movie has a plot hole or two, and it's pointless to debate about it. Sorry man, but my explanation makes perfect sense to me.



Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on October 08, 2012, 06:28:10 PM
Maybe I worded that wrong. But being an idiot means someone can get smarter and realize they are wrong, People who are full of it are less likely to change

Oblivion, I meant your professor is full of it thinking that the screen fading to white resolves the movie. It doesn't, and it's a terrible explanation. It's like saying a character moving their left leg first means they were born in the morning, that is just as logical. The movie ended with no resolution.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on October 08, 2012, 06:31:55 PM
I never said that he was talking about Looper. He just said that a filmmaker will use a fade to white in films as a more hopeful ending rather than the (literally and figuratively) fade to black. I'm the one that said that a fade to white in Looper means that (most likely) Cid did not become the Rainmaker, and John finally broke the cycle.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TrueNerd on October 09, 2012, 08:34:28 PM
The ending to LOOPER is not resolved, purposely so. Maybe Cid becomes the Rainmaker even though Young Joe believed he prevented that from happening. It's left for you to decide. But yeah, I too interpreted the fade to white as a sign that things turned out for the better. The movie could have ended a few seconds earlier on the shot where Sara closes Young Joe's watch, mirroring the opening shot of the film. But instead the movie ends on a shot of Cid when you're wondering what lies in store for him and then it fades to white. I don't think it's crazy to take that as a subtle visual clue that things are going to turn out well. Does that mean that's what definitely happens or even that's what Rian Johnson intended? Nope. But I don't think that's an insane interpretation either.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: King of Twitch on October 30, 2012, 02:26:11 PM
The Terminal - 7/10? Interesting premise ruined by failed "heartfelt" moments that make no sense. You're supposed to root for Victor getting with Catherine ZJ even though she's already cheating with a married man. Victor helps an airport kitchen worker learn more and more about passport stamp girl, then gives her a ring, then they marry-even though they've never met! There's one point where he becomes a hero with the airport store workers for helping a guy smuggle drugs to his dying father in Canada. they're all yeaah! Victor! And post his photocopied handprints on their walls. Very strange man, this Spielberg.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on October 30, 2012, 10:35:04 PM
Primer-Watch this alone, because if you have a friend and they talk you'll have to watch it again. I'm not sure if I would have got it though. So, watch it a second time anyway.

it was good when i watched it the second time.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: toddra on November 01, 2012, 03:57:14 PM
The last movie I watched was Adventureland, I liked it a lot. The last new movie I watched was Avengers, I liked it so-so, um best part was seeing the hotness of Scarlett Johansson on the big screen and in 3D. I was a 3D hater up to that very moment.


To be honest I don't keep up with current movies much any more. I don't keep up with current anything actually.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on November 01, 2012, 09:50:23 PM
There's nothing 3D about Scarlett Johansson.

I watched Green Lantern, largely because it was on TV. God, what a terrible, terrible movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on November 01, 2012, 10:48:11 PM
Dredd 3D. Go fucking see this if you like violence, Dredd and action done right. Don't see this if you're a Fascist or libertarian.

The 3D on the other hand was more distraction than an addition. Film makers just aren't 3D ready. If you can go see it in 2D.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Glad0s on November 01, 2012, 11:25:50 PM
Casino Royale. Absolutely aces. Not so sure how I feel about it as a Bond film, but as a regular ol' spy thriller....fantastic. The ball-thwacking was wonderfully gruesome, and Eva Green was wonderfully hot. Fantastic. Is Quantam of Solace worth seeing?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on November 01, 2012, 11:30:10 PM
No, just No. QoS is terrible. Even the other bad Bond films(Moonraker, Die anther day) had some sort of cheese factor or good opening to redeem watching it. QoS is just nonsensical rubbish.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Glad0s on November 01, 2012, 11:32:11 PM
Alright. I was really wanting to see Skyfall, and I was hoping that not seeing QoS wouldn't leave me completely confused.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on November 01, 2012, 11:38:41 PM
I wouldn't worry about it. QoS is barely connected to CR. There is little point suffering that movie to get the scant "Character development" that Bond undergoes. Go watch it if you must, but do it after Skyfall so QoS doesn't taint it. QoS is mostly filler.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on November 02, 2012, 01:52:21 AM
What? In my opinion, QoS is like the real second half to CR. I don't even consider them two separate movies.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on November 02, 2012, 02:46:14 AM
It's connected to CR in that it begins pretty much straight after it, but everything between that and the ending is just filler. Not to mention QoS fails on the most basic level as a film. It's so bad you can't even call it boring. When you're not wondering the **** is going on, you're too busy screaming bullshit at the movie screen as things disconnect from the universe that CR established(The Real World) as increasingly absurd things "happen". It's just a bad movie that needs it's empty guts pulled out and something of substance put in.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on November 02, 2012, 04:40:48 AM
Hopefully i will go see Skyfall today.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Pixelated Pixies on November 03, 2012, 03:24:14 AM
I'm with oohhboy (http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/forums/index.php?action=profile;u=175). QoS certainly isn't the worst Bond movie but it's still a bad one. The plot is stupid, the characters dispensable, and the villain boring. After the Casino Royale (one of my favourite Bond films) QOS was a huge letdown.
 
Fortunately Skyfall is a fantastic Bond film. It's still somewhat removed from Royale's focus on realism, but it's an infinitely more successful sequel than QOS. The villain is suitably insane, the plot is actually pretty engaging and (with the exception of one instance in which a CGI creature is used) all the set pieces look great.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: toddra on November 04, 2012, 08:14:57 AM
I tried to get into 007 but never could. I have the first six all on VHS but beyond that I never cared for them. My mom seems to like the old ones but my dad hates anything remotely British so we never watched them growing up. I did like the Casino Royal it was good, but I didn't watch the one that came after.

I have a sister whose favorite movies are those Bourne movies and they always reminded me of 007 so I kept trying to get her to watch one to see if maybe she would like them, she started with Casino Royal and now is a fan.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Fatty The Hutt on November 05, 2012, 10:43:27 AM
but my dad hates anything remotely British
Oh dear. That's a shame.
 
Saw Wreck It Ralph on thw weekend and enjoyed. Lots of good VG cameos. Mostly forgettable kid fluff, but looks good, has decent sense of humour. I recommend catching up with it at your leisure.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on November 05, 2012, 11:15:38 AM
I saw it on Saturday too, great movie and one I recommend everyone here see. I hoped that the real video game characters would have more than just cameos, but it's fine. And the other people in the Fix-It Felix, Jr. video game are assholes towards Ralph.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on November 06, 2012, 03:19:28 AM
Skyfall was surprisingly good. The writing was witty and well paced, and i appreciated the blatanly Central London feel of it at times. A few of the scenes were filmed behind my office.

It was very much an M story, but i am mad at how they killed off Judi Dench. To me 007 has not been about whether who will be the next Bond but if Judi Dench will be in it. She is really the star of the series, not Bond.

If Judi Dench can fire a gun and do some light action scenes (and helen mirren can too!) then there's no excuse why Sarah Jessica Parker (and the like) can't do it.

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on November 08, 2012, 09:59:08 PM
Well, for one thing, nobody should have to be exposed to Sarah Jessica Parker.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on November 09, 2012, 12:12:05 AM
except on hocus pocus...that was ages ago, she USED to be kinda hot
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: azeke on November 09, 2012, 12:42:38 AM
Saw Wreck It Ralph on thw weekend and enjoyed. Lots of good VG cameos. Mostly forgettable kid fluff, but looks good, has decent sense of humour. I recommend catching up with it at your leisure.
Best movie i've seen this year. Everyone should go and see it.

Videogame stuff is mostly shallow cameos.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on November 09, 2012, 05:07:05 AM
Well, for one thing, nobody should have to be exposed to Sarah Jessica Parker.

True, but Helen Mirren with a machine gun wearing a wedding dress is one of the most beautiful shots i've seen in a movie in some time. If she can do THAT then i would love to see other actresses do stuff.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on November 09, 2012, 07:50:03 AM
Helen Mirren firing a Heavy Machine Gun was strangely engrossing. Then you have her firing MP5Ks without flinching is just pure style.

That said, I will have to agree with Halbred. Sarah Jessica Parker has never ever been more than a 3/10.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: toddra on November 09, 2012, 08:21:15 AM
I don't get out much obviously so I don't see a lot of new movies but I did just buy Captain America on blu ray. I gotta say it was much better than that Avengers flick. Avengers was okay for a while but I started to get dizzy towards the end. Actually I was kidding about the 3D, I still hate it.

As for Captain America, I was surprised at how much I did like it. I was expecting it to be mediocre but it was actually  a very good film. My parents who hate comic book movies even liked it.
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Post by: tendoboy1984 on November 09, 2012, 10:21:10 AM
What's weird is the main villain in Uncharted 3 bears an uncanny resemblance to Helen Mirren. Coincidence?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on November 09, 2012, 11:12:56 AM
Helen Mirren firing a Heavy Machine Gun was strangely engrossing. Then you have her firing MP5Ks without flinching is just pure style.

That said, I will have to agree with Halbred. Sarah Jessica Parker has never ever been more than a 3/10.
I give her more then a 3/10.  She has some good covers.  I put her 5/10 average.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on November 09, 2012, 01:06:20 PM
to put it in numbers

I'd give her an 8/10 on hocus pocus and a 2/10 now.

Reverse that for Kathy Najimy
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on November 09, 2012, 01:45:19 PM
I wasn't referring to SJP's looks at all (because i wouldn't look twice). I was referring to how all of her roles involve "dainty" by some degree. Whereas Helen Mirren can be firing machine guns and can make assassinating someone look strangely sexy.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on November 09, 2012, 03:29:05 PM
I use to think SJP was hot in Hocus Pocus until I saw it again recently. It's the best example of the group effect. She only seemed cute because her boobs were popping out a boustiea and she was surrounded by the other two ugly witches.

But here is what she looks like from the head up.

(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltuqvzdSbv1qd22hho1_500.gif)


yeah...she'd make a handsome man haaha
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on November 10, 2012, 12:00:59 AM
I didn't know Thora Birch was the little girl in Hocus Pocus until a couple years ago. She was pretty amazing as Enid in Ghost World, one of my favorite films and much better than the graphic novel.

I thought the same thing about Sarah Jessica Parker in Hocus Pocus which I saw again a few years ago then promptly changed my mind. And good God, Lemon... SJP is annoying as shiz in that movie...
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Phil on November 10, 2012, 12:29:37 AM
I went to the movies for the first time in almost a decade just to see Skyfall. Would not and could not wait till that one came out on DVD.

Loved the opening sequence before the opening title credits (which were also something I loved).

The main villain reminded me a bit of The Joker in The Dark Knight with regard to how things rolled out.

The way the movie came together at the end made me really giddy as a Bond fan.

I don't want to say any more. I don't want to spoil the movie for anyone.

My rating is for you guys to go see it. :)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on November 10, 2012, 02:09:50 AM
They were talking about it on the radio this morning.

Said it was one of if not the BEST Bond movie yet and that Daniel Craig signed on for 2 more.

Also mentioned that the audience was applauding the movie after just the opening sequence.
I can't wait till my next movie day.... so many weeks away still at this point.








speaking of which....
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Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on November 10, 2012, 02:25:24 AM
My Movie day from last weekend: quick reviews


Flight:
Good movie. Flight section contained lots of tense dramatic action. There was some good humor in there too. But Denzel always sucking on his bottom lip in a weird way bothers me to this day. Fortunately John Goodman busts in and makes you forget all about it ;)


Man with the Iron Fist:
Go into this with the expectations of an old-school late 70's/early 80's kung-fu action flick with actual special effects and you might enjoy this obviously niche movie aimed at a very specific audience. Rza was not the best fit for his role as he didn't quite sell the pain and anger associated with his character. so if there is a sequel, hopefully someone else directs (and acts).
p.s. Bronze Lion looks like an asian Brad Pitt, and the head of the Gemini looks like an asian Jimmy Smits. There was even a super skinny asian Dolph Lundgren in there too.


Argo:
Another good movie. I went in thinking it was going to be kinda boring, but it wasn't. The fact that  it was based on a true story made it just that much better. I can't say that it had me on the edge of my seat, but i was definitely into the movie. one of the better ones of the day.


Pitch Perfect:
Not as bad as you think, not as good as I hoped. The male lead had a perfect amount of sarcasm where I couldn't tell if his character was for or against anything he comments against/for. Fat Amy was amusing at times. Song selection could have been better. basically this was no Sister Act, but it was watchable, and there will probably be a sequel.
p.s. my girl picked this one, and it was the last weekend it was playing, so I agreed to sit in.


Overall I would rate it:
Flight
Argo
Iron Fist/Pitch Perfect


I wanted to slide in Sinister or Silent Hill, but the schedule just wouldn't allow it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Phil on November 10, 2012, 04:39:35 AM
I wouldn't call it the best Bond movie by any stretch of the imagination. It's not even the best Daniel Craig Bond, imo -- Casino Royale still takes that crown.

I'm always partial to Goldfinger, GoldenEye, and Dr. No. :)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: azeke on November 10, 2012, 04:42:17 AM
Skyfall is pretty mediocre.

Pretty much the only thing saving it is fanservice: Moneypenny, car, new M's room in the end

I wouldn't recommend it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: toddra on November 10, 2012, 08:58:26 AM
I didn't know Thora Birch was the little girl in Hocus Pocus until a couple years ago. She was pretty amazing as Enid in Ghost World, one of my favorite films and much better than the graphic novel.

I thought the same thing about Sarah Jessica Parker in Hocus Pocus which I saw again a few years ago then promptly changed my mind. And good God, Lemon... SJP is annoying as shiz in that movie...


I did, when I was a kid I developed a crush on her first time I watched Hocus Pocus and followed her ever since. I also loved Ghost World it is one of my top ten favorite movies, largely thanks to Miss Birch, but also for being an amazing movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TrueNerd on November 11, 2012, 01:39:57 AM
THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN

I think the complete bullshit involving the crane operators at the end of the movie is the perfect personification of the movie as a whole. Very hollow, very unearned, and very redundant. Raimi did this **** infinitely better.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on November 11, 2012, 05:09:41 PM
I use to think SJP was hot in Hocus Pocus until I saw it again recently. It's the best example of the group effect. She only seemed cute because her boobs were popping out a boustiea and she was surrounded by the other two ugly witches.

But here is what she looks like from the head up.

picture removed because two in the thread would be much

yeah...she'd make a handsome man haaha

You're probably right about the Group Effect. By comparison she looks better. On the other hand she is meatier then she is in every other role. She is normally super thin, and she usually looks like one of the witches from the Evil Dead series. Poor Mathew Broderick, in an alternate universe he never married her, and he is the highest paid A-list actor in Hollywood.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on November 12, 2012, 12:44:59 AM
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on November 18, 2012, 04:23:37 AM
Goats-This movie takes place in Tucson, which is weird because im in Tucson, and to some extant am from Tucson. Its always weird when they portray the place you live, and its some weird warped perspective. Then again I also don't live out in the boonies. This is an unusual movie because it ultimately seems pointless, though i got the point(its not a sharp point) The characters are more Sedonan than Tucsonan, but this is still a hippy town. Overall, I enjoyed the movie. My hometown is Yuma though, so if there's ever a movie to take place in modern Yuma, I could critique the **** out of it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on November 18, 2012, 05:31:38 PM
Anyone have a suggestion for the most visually stunning movie? I'm talking about real life and no CGI. I want to test out a new TV and my phone.

Right now I'm thinking about Planet Earth or Blue Planet or Life or some **** like that.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TrueNerd on November 18, 2012, 05:49:25 PM
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA is pretty damn visually stunning. And no CGI.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: tendoboy1984 on November 18, 2012, 08:24:18 PM
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA is pretty damn visually stunning. And no CGI.


That's because there was no CGI back in the 1960's. :)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: tendoboy1984 on November 18, 2012, 08:25:30 PM
Anyone have a suggestion for the most visually stunning movie? I'm talking about real life and no CGI. I want to test out a new TV and my phone.

Right now I'm thinking about Planet Earth or Blue Planet or Life or some **** like that.


Who Framed Roger Rabbit. The animated characters were all hand-drawn frame-by-frame and composited over the live scenes. Ah, the good old days when animation wasn't ruined by Flash.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: azeke on November 18, 2012, 11:42:37 PM
Right now I'm thinking about Planet Earth or Blue Planet or Life or some **** like that.
I think those all these documentaries are chock full of CGI. They're still gorgeous.

About visually stunning movies with little to no CGI, look into Tarsem Singh's movies: The Cell and The Fall.

As to animated movies, look for Don Bluth's Secret Of NIMH (pretty amazing lightning and colouring there).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on November 22, 2012, 12:37:38 PM
Looper 8/10

I have a nicer pocket watch. ;)

This is a good movie with an interesting concept. It's also concise in its storytelling so even the slow scenes still have weight because you are learning something new about the plot. Speaking of which, the plot is great if a tad predictable. My only problem with the movie is that there are far more interesting stories to tell. But maybe that's left alone for a sequel.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: azeke on November 22, 2012, 01:36:19 PM
Looper 8/10

I have a nicer pocket watch. ;)
I really like how in recent years we have steady flow of hard sci fi movies.

District 9, Source Code, Moon were all brilliant.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TrueNerd on November 22, 2012, 01:57:26 PM
Looper 8/10
 Speaking of which, the plot is great if a tad predictable.

Maybe I'm just stupid, but I never once knew where that movie was going, let alone who I was rooting for. It totally shifts gears each act!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on November 22, 2012, 01:59:59 PM
I think the ending was a mistake, I would not have done Joseph Gordon-Levitt's character did. And I hate how the director left the movie ending with it not really resolved since there is nothing stopping the events from happening anyways.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Lithium on November 22, 2012, 02:18:30 PM
Anyone have a suggestion for the most visually stunning movie? I'm talking about real life and no CGI. I want to test out a new TV and my phone.

Right now I'm thinking about Planet Earth or Blue Planet or Life or some **** like that.


you could probably try 2001: a space Odyssey, as far as i know, there's only practical effects (except at the end)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TrueNerd on November 22, 2012, 03:00:37 PM
I think the ending was a mistake, I would not have done Joseph Gordon-Levitt's character did. And I hate how the director left the movie ending with it not really resolved since there is nothing stopping the events from happening anyways.

I read the ending as resolved, but I've already discussed this in this thread.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on November 22, 2012, 03:05:38 PM
I remember the discussion, and why I saw it as not resolved because the events that led to the situation could still happen.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TrueNerd on November 22, 2012, 03:30:49 PM
Yes, they could still happen. But if JGL's character didn't do what he did, I think they definitely would have happened. His decision at least makes it possible if not likely that they don't happen.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on November 22, 2012, 03:56:59 PM
Without spoiling it for those who haven't seen it, there was another action he could have done to make sure it didn't happen, and I was disappointed he didn't do it. It's not like it would have been a morally bad decision.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: azeke on November 22, 2012, 10:52:01 PM
Use spoiler  tags, guys.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on November 22, 2012, 10:53:09 PM
We haven't posted any spoilers, we have been very vague.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: azeke on November 22, 2012, 10:58:29 PM
We haven't posted any spoilers, we have been very vague.
Just the notion of that Young Joe does something drastic in the ending is enough of a spoiler for me. But that's just me.

Also Kid Blue is definitely Abe.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on November 22, 2012, 11:01:21 PM
OK, I think what his character SHOULD have done is kill the kid, since the kid already was a killer and could still become that boss in the future if someone besides Joe kills his mom.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: NWR_insanolord on November 22, 2012, 11:06:16 PM
Also, if you're going to use spoiler tags, please be sure to spell "spoiler" correctly.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on November 22, 2012, 11:09:00 PM
LOL, I usually check my spelling before posting. Must have slipped my mind that time.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TrueNerd on November 23, 2012, 12:44:03 AM
OK, I think what his character SHOULD have done is kill the kid, since the kid already was a killer and could still become that boss in the future if someone besides Joe kills his mom.

I think a big question is CAN you kill Cid? Old Joe shot the side of his face and then he went all Super Saiyan. You'd have to do it when he was asleep or do it sneakily because he's at his most dangerous and unstable when he's afraid or angry. Also, I do think that decision would be immoral. The movie subscribes to the multiple timeline theory so just because he became Hitler + TK powers in other timelines, that doesn't mean it's happening in this one. Killing a kid who might end up being just an average guy or even a good guy is immoral. I certainly couldn't do it. Plus I just think that's a much less interesting movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on November 23, 2012, 12:50:22 AM
But the thing is, Cid ALREADY has killed at least 2 people, his aunt and that gang member that cam looking for him. In the future timeline he became that boss when he saw his mother killed. How do we know he wouldn't still become that? Or at least kill more people when he was afraid or angry? I don't think Joe's sacrifice did anything except maybe delay things.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TrueNerd on November 23, 2012, 03:58:43 AM
That future timeline was the one that Young Joe saw happening when Old Joe was prepared to kill Cid's mom. None of that actually happened in any timeline. The thing is, we don't know any of the variables in those timelines. We don't know if Cid's mom was present in his life and it's also pretty unlikely that he witnessed anyone sacrifice themselves for his sake. And leaving this logic behind, Young Joe killing Cid and probably Old Joe just isn't as good an ending. It's not thematically interesting, it's not really narratively interesting. It also isn't the ending the rest of the movie is setting up for.
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Post by: Plugabugz on November 23, 2012, 07:56:20 AM
I don't think that would have worked, mainly because of the film jumps constantly between a "single timeline" and a multiple timelines. By killing Cid, all you'd do is create a new timeline where Cid is dead but the existing one in the future where he is already alive (and hence Old Joe comes back) happens anyway... hence the film.

This makes me wonder how many times the sequence of events about that film ACTUALLY happened.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Lithium on November 25, 2012, 12:19:36 PM
watched no country for old men
I was really surprised by this (I basically don't know anything about movies so I usually go into them without knowing a thing about them). I really loved how they conveyed all the story details clearly without even saying much --which is surprising seeing how its based off a book; now that's skills.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on November 25, 2012, 01:26:30 PM
I thought that movie was really over-rated, I literally fell asleep (in the middle of the day) while watching it. THAT is how bored I was. I just can't think of anything good about it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on November 25, 2012, 03:26:33 PM
you must not have been paying attention. Theres a guy with an air tank that puts holes in peoples forheads, that should keep you up for days. The beginning of the move the guy accidentally stumbles onto a drug deal massacre...

did you just not interpret what was going on? Did you not employ empathy? If you were in that situation, wouldn't you be shitting your pants?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on November 25, 2012, 03:41:10 PM
It was OK, at best. I just did not get drawn into the movie and I am baffled how it won 4 Academy Awards. Not that that Oscars mean anything because they always give awards to Oscar type films, not movies that actually are the best. Maybe I will give it another chance sometime.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on November 25, 2012, 04:22:26 PM
First time and only time I saw No Country For Old Men, I thought it was the most intense movie ever. I still remember damn near every scene, but two scenes in particular stand out: the motel and the spilt milk. I remember being so anxious watching those two scenes play out. Amazing film but one I will probably not watch again.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on November 25, 2012, 04:27:47 PM
Double Post.

Skyfall 7/10

I'd love to go in depth, but I feel like I would just be regurgitating what I have already said in discussions with friends and family. But if there's one idea I'd like to get across is that this movie told me a lot of things, but rarely showed me. A good story was there, a great one even, but the emotional intensity was lacking in almost every scene due to a lack of context.

Other than that, the directing was phenomenal. Some parts, including the opening credits, blew my mind.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on November 25, 2012, 05:39:25 PM
TJ, who falls asleep during a damn movie? Even the most boring films in the world don't put me to sleep.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on November 25, 2012, 05:46:45 PM
Then you must have not seen some of the bad movies I have. It was just boring, not at all intense. In the past, I have sometimes just stopped the movie (like Wedding Crashers, which was so bad I stopped it after 30 mins and sent it right back to Netflix).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TrueNerd on November 25, 2012, 06:06:30 PM
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN is one of my all time favorites. It is also not a typical "Oscar-type" movie. And that scene where Chigur is chasing Moss in the hotel and the streets? You have to be insane to call that boring or not intense.

Speaking of Oscar-type movies, I watched THE ARTIST last night. I really did not like it. Copy and paste the exact plot from SINGIN IN THE RAIN except switch out all the lighthearted fun for tons of moping. I think there may be something there about how the artifice of Hollywood affects the actual humans that are part of it, but I found the character of Valentin to not be sympathetic at all which kind of ruins that potential theme. He makes his last ditch silent film and literally mopes from that point on until the last two short scenes. More than half the movie is Valentin moping. Even when other characters for some reason remain completely loyal to him, Valentin continues moping. The actors playing the leads (and the dog) are charming enough, but that wasn't enough for me. In terms of 2011 movies that were nostalgic for the past, both WAR HORSE and HUGO were much better than THE ARTIST. And seriously, just watch SINGIN IN THE RAIN again.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on November 25, 2012, 06:21:29 PM
War Horse was a piece of ****. Hugo did a better job of being "nostalgic" of old movies.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TrueNerd on November 25, 2012, 06:33:04 PM
Yeah, me liking WAR HORSE more than THE ARTIST is more a knock against THE ARTIST than it is praise for WAR HORSE.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: azeke on November 25, 2012, 08:57:32 PM
First time and only time I saw No Country For Old Men, I thought it was the most intense movie ever.
It is actually extremely hilarious.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on November 26, 2012, 12:37:13 AM
Fahrenheit 9/11 - 9.5/10
I can't believe it took me so long to watch this movie. Easily one of the most important films of our time. Not much else I can say without violating most of the forum rules...but you owe it to yourself to watch this if you haven't seen it. You can argue that it's one sided, no doubt - but the media and the government provided the other side.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on November 26, 2012, 03:52:44 AM
it has been a while since I saw Fahrenheit 9/11. I watched it at theaters when it came out, and I didn't care for it. I'd have to watch it again, being that I'm far more older/wiser/informed to see how I feel now.

Bowling For Colombine 6/10 - I find this "doc" misleading, and pretty invalid.
Sicko! 9.5/10 - This move, however was great
Capitalism a Love Story 8.9/10 again good, but it loses points because I liked Inside Job better
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TrueNerd on November 27, 2012, 01:09:08 AM
The problem with Michael Moore is that too often his films are actually editorials, not documentaries. FAHRENHEIT 9/11 is the worst offender of this practice, at least of his movies that I've seen. Moore's personality in his movies can be a good thing because he's entertaining, but when his opinion runs rampant over facts and objectivity, then you have problems. And I probably agree with Moore's politics more than I disagree with them.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Lithium on November 27, 2012, 01:21:51 AM
Torra Torra Torra (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066473/)
Part Japanese and part English, this is a pretty interesting docudrama about the events leading up to pearl harbour, showing the Japanese formulating it's attack plan and the internal power struggle between the Japanese navy, army and emperor but also how the attack was made possible due to politicians in Washington tieing the navy's arms behind it's back and a series of blunders on the part of the military top brass. Ironically, the only boring part of the film, in my opinion, was the actual attack on pearl harbour.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TrueNerd on November 27, 2012, 04:23:25 PM
But is it better than the Michael Bay classic PEARL HARBOR?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on November 27, 2012, 06:52:16 PM
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN is one of my all time favorites. It is also not a typical "Oscar-type" movie. And that scene where Chigur is chasing Moss in the hotel and the streets? You have to be insane to call that boring or not intense.

Speaking of Oscar-type movies, I watched THE ARTIST last night. I really did not like it. Copy and paste the exact plot from SINGIN IN THE RAIN except switch out all the lighthearted fun for tons of moping. I think there may be something there about how the artifice of Hollywood affects the actual humans that are part of it, but I found the character of Valentin to not be sympathetic at all which kind of ruins that potential theme. He makes his last ditch silent film and literally mopes from that point on until the last two short scenes. More than half the movie is Valentin moping. Even when other characters for some reason remain completely loyal to him, Valentin continues moping. The actors playing the leads (and the dog) are charming enough, but that wasn't enough for me. In terms of 2011 movies that were nostalgic for the past, both WAR HORSE and HUGO were much better than THE ARTIST. And seriously, just watch SINGIN IN THE RAIN again.

I actually thought The Artist was a cross between Singing in the Rain and A Star is Born. That said, for me, it is the best Silent movie I've ever seen. Better than the Chaplin's and Battleship Potemkin and Sunrise which I had at the top before seeing it. I was really excited to see it last year when I first heard about it from news about the Cannes film festival. It was such an interesting experience to be in a theatre like that when it finally got wide release. The opening when it is just silent and you suddenly feel self-concious chewing popcorn because it seems so loud. I enjoyed it but I was disappointed because the story did seem so familiar and not that fresh. The main actor did remind me quite a bit of Gene Kelly which didn't help the Singing in the Rain comparison. That said, I do like that it is a bit more of a realistic presentation of what the introduction of sound was like to the silent movie stars. They were basically forgotten and let go incredibly fast.

I actually ended up watching all the Best picture nominated films before the Oscars which was the first time I'd ever done that. My ranking of them is as follows, from best - worst:

The Artist
The Descendents
The Tree of Life
Midnight in Paris
Warhorse
The Help
Moneyball
Hugo
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Personally, if The Descendents or The Tree of Life had won best picture, I'd have been fine with either of those choices. For me, The Descendents was the more emotional and moving picture yet something about it seemed a bit lacking. To give it a title of Best Picture compared with others that have come before, it just didn't feel like it had that caliber. The Tree of Life really impressed me for the first hour or so and I was literally thinking that this is one of the best movies I've ever seen but then I lost that enthusaism in the second half and the ending really just left me a bit bewildered to try and sort out what the final theme or message was supposed to be. In the end, I think I was also pulling for The Artist to win as a sort of message to Hollywood in response to big dumb films like Transformers 3 and to maybe get studios back on track to making movies of the style of the 30's, 40's, 50's and 60's. Plus, it still felt unique and a bit special compared to the other movies released that year which I think helped it also.

Let's face it. Some years are just weaker than others. Some years, you get an On the Waterfront and some years you get a Gentleman's Agreement. It's timing. That said, I happened to see The Artist playing on one of the movie channels and started watching it about 20 minutes in and found myself liking and appreciating it more than the first time I saw it so I'm still happy it won.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TrueNerd on November 28, 2012, 01:37:59 AM
You say THE ARTIST is your favorite silent movie and then you say you were disappointed the story was familiar and the actor was a lot like Gene Kelly? All of the silents you listed are revolutionary, creative, and very influential films. Even if you think THE ARTIST is good, which I do not, it is none of those things.

Also, as much as I wish movies like TRANSFORMERS 3 would stop being made, a quick look at its box office totals tell me that's not going to happen anytime soon. TRANS4MERS starring Mark Wahlberg is coming in 2014. Get hype.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on November 28, 2012, 04:52:38 AM
I havent seen The Artist

but my 4 top silent movies are
1. A Trip to the moon
2. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
3 Metropolis
4. Nosferatu

this would pretty much be most people's stereotypical favorite silent film list.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on November 28, 2012, 09:27:53 AM
Total Recall (2012)

There is absolutely no reason for this movie to exist. It's a worse movie in every way with blatantly blasé homages that aren't remotely clever. It's humourless, PG-13 bloodless violence, cg rendered, non characters performing actions with general apathy reserved for brushing teeth. The actors are capable of so much more, but the script gives them nothing to work with.

Almost nothing works properly in this movie, right down to the world the characters inhabit. It just doesn't make any sense. Full of missed opportunities and of the ones that are exploited results in backfires. The film is way too long. Many of the classic scenes from the original are mangled and stretched out like jerky in ever increasingly misguided attempts to try to one up the original. The only thing in this movie that does work is Kate Beckinsale's character who is a fusion of two characters from the original and part of it is because I like her very much.

Do yourself a favor and just head down to the nearest video rental or online and just watch the original Total Recall instead. Arnold is fucking awesome and is a far better movie.

SkyFall

I found it immensely enjoyable. The action is great, well shot, plenty of tension. The homages to the previous Bond films are generally well used and some of them are straight up clever. The villain has to be seen to be enjoyed. The themes running through it are strong and in many ways not your usual Bond films, but make no mistake, it is Bond. It's deeper, more character driven Bond, no space lasers or villains trying to corner the water market, great Bond girl, the camera work is gorgeous with some slight over use of colour filters at times. Most of the dialogue is witty and well written, although is marred by the odd face palm moment usually driven by product placement or forced by computer hacking magic.

The stunt work is phenomenal and the stunt people definitely didn't risk their lives in vain.

I managed to avoid the internet in regards to information about this film and if the internet told you this is a bad film, you were told lies. A lot of the criticism is of the same kind that Dark Knight Rises got, but for these two films this is definitely one of those situations where if you hated the film, you never understood it in the first place or you never watched it. I would understand if you were apathetic towards it, but to hate it is absurd and unwarranted.

For those who haven't seen any Bond films or even the Craig Bonds, don't worry, it is pretty much a standalone movie, but if you have seen the other Bonds especially the ones with Judy Dench in it, you will get a lot more out of it. That said, still feel free to skip Die another Day and Quantum of Solace, both retched movies that make most of the Roger Moore movies look like Oscar Gold.

Go watch this.

For Perfect Dark fans this is most likely a coincidence There is an elevator scene where the architecture is extremely reminiscent of the Datadyne elevators that run through the above gound levels of the building.
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Post by: Oblivion on November 28, 2012, 09:40:50 AM
I haven't seen anything bad being said about Skyfall, yet.
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Post by: bustin98 on December 03, 2012, 02:11:48 PM
Something bad about Skyfall... hmmm, I almost cried there near the end. Damn movies trying to make me cry, shame on them!

Really, I was a tad disappointed by the villain. Reminiscent of Goldeneye.
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Post by: Khushrenada on December 03, 2012, 05:14:53 PM
You say THE ARTIST is your favorite silent movie and then you say you were disappointed the story was familiar and the actor was a lot like Gene Kelly? All of the silents you listed are revolutionary, creative, and very influential films. Even if you think THE ARTIST is good, which I do not, it is none of those things.

Also, as much as I wish movies like TRANSFORMERS 3 would stop being made, a quick look at its box office totals tell me that's not going to happen anytime soon. TRANS4MERS starring Mark Wahlberg is coming in 2014. Get hype.

Heh yeah. But that is because The Artist has decades of technology and film-making expertise to use to make it a solid movie. Earlier in this thread, some people made some comments about falling asleep watching movies. The only time I have that problem is watching old silent movies. They can lull me to sleep. I never had the problem with The Artist. It kept me entertained throughout and, while there were times the filmmakers might have been showing off their technical ability in some scenes, those still helped keep me engaged. The sound effects and music were much tighter and better integrated in this film than in early silent films. Chaplin came closest to this with movies like City Lights and Modern Times but I don't have those soundtracks on my iPod yet I do have some of The Artist's.

I guess you could say, I appreciated the artistry of it all. Plus, SPOILER ALERT, I did like the ending. First of all, I recognized the Love Music from Vertigo playing which is one of the top 5 greatest peices of music ever written for the movies. Funny enough, at the time, I was disappointed that the composer used this to help increase the emotional intensity of that finale instead of making something original but after thinking about, it is such a great peice of music, why not use if it is available? A lot of times when I think of movies to make in my head, I often think of scenes with an already written peice of music playing in my head with it, so if I do that, why fault the composer from doing it? I like the misdirection of the BANG and that in the end, he becomes a star again, not with his voice or by talking, but with his feet and dancing which it established he could do early in the movie. It's perfect because by that point, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers would soon be appearing so it just felt a bit more clever to me. Plus, I like a good feel good tap-dancing routine. Each time I see, it makes me a little joyous.

So, yes, I still say the The Artist is a better film than those other revolutionary films.
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Post by: S-U-P-E-R on December 04, 2012, 08:20:36 AM
I just rewatched Space Jam, the best movie ever made. It's also canon (http://www.talesofgames.com/related_game/barkley-shut-up-jam-gaiden/).
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Post by: Stogi on December 04, 2012, 08:55:13 AM
Space Jam is such a good movie that I'd even watch it as a Broadway Musical.
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Post by: Ceric on December 04, 2012, 09:09:46 AM
Shame about Total Recall (2012)
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Post by: TrueNerd on December 04, 2012, 11:08:49 PM
STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN

I am not a Star Trek fan, but honestly and seriously, WRATH OF KHAN is everything I want from a film. It's a terrific popcorn movie that's brilliantly structured, funny, suspenseful, has great character arcs, and thematic depth! It really does it all. I just love how the Genesis Project, David, Kirk feeling old, the young crew on board the enterprise and Spock's death all fit together thematically. Khan himself is a fantastic villain and watching him and Kirk trying to outsmart each other is great. I'm also a fan of how the space battles are played like submarine warfare. A smart choice. I first saw this after seeing JJ Abrams' reboot and I didn't like it, but I was very wrong. WRATH OF KHAN is a masterpiece. Everyone should watch it.
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Post by: shinyray01 on December 04, 2012, 11:34:42 PM
Seven Psychopaths 9/10
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Post by: Fatty The Hutt on December 04, 2012, 11:48:08 PM
Lol @ TrueNerd spoiler-tagging a movie from 1982!


(shhh, E.T. isn't really dead. Watch the flowerpot!)
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Post by: TrueNerd on December 05, 2012, 12:05:14 AM
Hey man, I would have been upset had that been spoiled for me before I saw it. It's one of the most powerful moments of the film. I hesitated writing it in my post at all. Just because movies are old classics doesn't mean everyone's seen them.
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Post by: Fatty The Hutt on December 05, 2012, 12:25:07 AM
wasn't trying to be a dick, just struck me funny
In fairness, that part of the film is pretty famous, especially among the online forum/geek crowd.
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Post by: TrueNerd on December 05, 2012, 12:55:24 AM
I did not perceive any dickishness, I was just sayin. You're all good. And yes, it is a pretty famous part, but it's not on the level of Vader being Luke's father or Bruce Willis being dead the whole time which I obviously feel is okay to bring up in random conversations without any warning.
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Post by: Fatty The Hutt on December 05, 2012, 01:09:51 AM
Har!
I actually do think its on the "Vader" level and waaaaaay above the I See Dead People level, which was more of a flash in the pan.


Now, The Crying Game....in the words of Billy Crystal "That's not what I ordered!"


And don't get us started on Keyser Soze.
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Post by: nickmitch on December 05, 2012, 09:40:59 AM
I have never seen the Sixth Sense because that spoiler became so famous.
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Post by: Stratos on December 05, 2012, 10:55:38 AM
I walked into a room where they were watching that movie and it was RIGHT when he discovered he was dead. Didn't need no spoilerrific innernets to ruin that one for me.
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Post by: bustin98 on December 06, 2012, 01:49:19 AM
Soylent Green is people.
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Post by: Oblivion on December 06, 2012, 02:35:55 AM
Rosebud was his sled.
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Post by: Halbred on December 06, 2012, 03:03:08 AM
Jesus DIES.
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Post by: Stogi on December 06, 2012, 03:17:30 AM
There is no Tyler Durden.
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Post by: nickmitch on December 06, 2012, 10:45:03 AM
It was Earth all along.
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Post by: BranDonk Kong on December 06, 2012, 01:51:28 PM
Darth Vader is Luke Skywalker's dad.
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Post by: TrueNerd on December 06, 2012, 06:42:40 PM
Jesus DIES.

BUT THEN HE COMES BACK OMG
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Post by: BranDonk Kong on December 06, 2012, 06:48:04 PM
Only in the movies and books.
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Post by: Fatty The Hutt on December 06, 2012, 08:06:55 PM
I shot J.R.
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Post by: TrueNerd on December 06, 2012, 08:48:04 PM
(http://springfieldfiles.com/albums/clothing/0055.JPG)
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Post by: azeke on December 07, 2012, 12:16:57 AM
Watched Rise of the Guardians last night.

Tad childish, but everything else make up for it. Sandman was awesome. Character designs were amazing.

Recommended if you can get past slightly sappy story.

Worse than "How to train your Dragon" but better than "Kung Fu Panda" (not that it is an achievement of any kind).
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Post by: Oblivion on December 07, 2012, 12:32:42 AM
Kung Fu Panda was freaking brilliant, don't even kid yourself.
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Post by: azeke on December 07, 2012, 12:37:56 AM
Kung Fu Panda was freaking brilliant, don't even kid yourself.
Don't work and don't study, kids, be your usual fat slobs and you will succeed over other actually hard working people: the movie.
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Post by: Stratos on December 07, 2012, 12:47:51 AM
I thought it showed that working in your strengths allowed you could overcome great odds.
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Post by: TrueNerd on December 07, 2012, 02:01:17 AM
Kung Fu Panda was freaking brilliant, don't even kid yourself.
Don't work and don't study, kids, be your usual fat slobs and you will succeed over other actually hard working people: the movie.
I mean, that's the Hero's Journey. Luke is destined to bring balance to the Force, Harry is the Boy Who Lived, Aang is the Avatar, etc. It's all the same thing. None of these characters earned their lofty designations through hard work. They were "chosen," or born into it, for whatever reason. I would argue that Po does put forth a lot of effort in his training once he is chosen. He just had to figure out the HOW of his abilities to reach his potential, which is a good lesson for kids. And c'mon, that chopstick fight scene is awesome.
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Post by: Oblivion on December 07, 2012, 02:13:23 AM
Kung Fu Panda was freaking brilliant, don't even kid yourself.
Don't work and don't study, kids, be your usual fat slobs and you will succeed over other actually hard working people: the movie.


Stratos is right. And in any case, who cares about a message to the kids? The action was great, the animation was top-notch, I thought it was hilarious, with a likable cast... do you seriously hate the movie because your interpretation is a cynical one?
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Post by: Stratos on December 07, 2012, 02:58:13 AM
I actually think I liked the second film as much as, if not more than, the first one. Pleasantly surprised with  how it came out.
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Post by: tendoboy1984 on December 07, 2012, 08:42:22 AM
Pixar vs Dreamworks vs Sony Animation vs Blue Sky (Fox Animation)...

FIGHT!
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Post by: Oblivion on December 07, 2012, 11:14:40 AM
I also loved the second film, but that whole "inner peace" thing got a little heavy handed near the end. And I wish the villain had been a better fighter on his own like Tai Lung was.
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Post by: nickmitch on December 07, 2012, 01:11:37 PM
Kung Fu Panda was freaking brilliant, don't even kid yourself.
Don't work and don't study, kids, be your usual fat slobs and you will succeed over other actually hard working people: the movie.
I mean, that's the Hero's Journey. Luke is destined to bring balance to the Force, Harry is the Boy Who Lived, Aang is the Avatar, etc. It's all the same thing. None of these characters earned their lofty designations through hard work. They were "chosen," or born into it, for whatever reason. I would argue that Po does put forth a lot of effort in his training once he is chosen. He just had to figure out the HOW of his abilities to reach his potential, which is a good lesson for kids. And c'mon, that chopstick fight scene is awesome.

Bullshit.

Luke has to learn to use the Force, and doesn't defeat the emperor without help from Vader. He ultimately balances the Force by swaying Vader emotionally and getting him to throw Palpatine down a hole or w/e.

Ang can't fulfill his destiny without first mastering all four elements, which he goes through a lot of hardships to do. Sure, the bending masters who teach him just fall in to his lap, but he still struggles with each one. Growing and changing as a person along with his fighting style.

And Harry Potter had to go to class? I dunno. Not the biggest HP fan.

/nerd rage

Side note: I liked Kung-Fu Panda.
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Post by: Oblivion on December 07, 2012, 01:26:36 PM
His name is Aang.


/nerdrage
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Post by: azeke on December 07, 2012, 01:33:18 PM
His name is Aang.


/nerdrage
No, his name is Ong.
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Post by: nickmitch on December 07, 2012, 03:48:45 PM
His name is "Typo."

And let's not mention how shitty that movie was.
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Post by: Halbred on December 12, 2012, 01:19:29 AM
I loved both Kung Fu Panda movies. The first one edges out the sequel, just because Tao Lung is such an awesome villain.
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Post by: azeke on December 12, 2012, 03:07:12 AM
Don't work and don't study, kids, be your usual fat slobs and you will succeed over other actually hard working people: the movie.
Stratos is right. And in any case, who cares about a message to the kids? The action was great, the animation was top-notch, I thought it was hilarious, with a likable cast... do you seriously hate the movie because your interpretation is a cynical one?
I just want to finish this up, because i will start to sound like waaay overthinking crazy person raging over a kids movie, but ah well...

It's not only about the message for kids, it's about message for me. Yes, production values were good, but for me it was all undone by shitty main character made worse by plot bending to make him win.

The point is there was no progression for MC. He hadn't learned anything new, in fact he didn't even try. Or he did and gave up instantly cause it's "too hard" for him. He just gave up right away and chose not to work on himself, not to broaden his horizons and do the same thing he always did his entire life. Stuff his face.

But "he was himself!" "That his nature!" His nature is to stay the same and always choosing easiest way out? To never learn new skills? To not even try to work on himself? To give up instantly at the face of the lightest challenge? This is not one's nature or character, it's called laziness and stagnation as an individual.

Even the main mcguffin of the movie spells it out by showing empty manuscript, saying: "There is nothing to learn out there for you. Don't even try. You are a perfect magical snowflake and you're fine as it is".

I have major gripes with this kind attitude and seeing it being preached through this movie simply riles me up.

I fully realize it might sound ridiculous for someone and i am VERY far to being overzealous about my beliefs (i actually laugh at those crazy people protesting against disney/hollywood/whatever it is this month), but it's one thing i just can't, i am physically unable to support.

...

In other news i watched Paranorman. A good puppet animated movie and pretty dark too. The plot is more or less Silent Hill of all things.
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Post by: Fatty The Hutt on December 12, 2012, 03:17:24 PM
(http://springfieldfiles.com/albums/clothing/0055.JPG)
You probably know this but The Simpsons didn't make that up. Those shirts were hugely popular during that stretch between the Dallas episode where J.R. got shot and the eventual reveal which, I think, was a few months into the next season. I recall they seemed to drag out that storyline for ever.
I remember seeing those shirts all the time on sale at the K-Marts and Jafcos my folks would drag me to as a kid, circa 1980, or '81, I think? We used to go there and I would hang around the electronics department salivating over the latest Commodore 64 or T.I. 99. Good times.


Anyway, saw Skyfall lat night. I liked it. My wife was lukewarm on it.
I will never forgive her for whispering her dead-on comparison to Home Alone during the last battle. Pretty much ruined the entire ending for me. But, gotta give her props: the comparison was spot-on.

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Post by: Pixelated Pixies on December 12, 2012, 04:32:25 PM
It's actually been a pretty interesting season for films this Fall.
 
In recent weeks I've watched The Master (which was incredible), Killing Them Softly (which was so-so), End of Watch (which was an interesting take on the buddy-cop movie), and more recently Seven Psychopaths (which was fun, but as a huge fan of the McDonagh brothers slightly disappointing).
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Post by: Disco Stu on December 12, 2012, 06:14:39 PM
It's actually been a pretty interesting season for films this Fall.
 
In recent weeks I've watched The Master (which was incredible), Killing Them Softly (which was so-so), End of Watch (which was an interesting take on the buddy-cop movie), and more recently Seven Psychopaths (which was fun, but as a huge fan of the McDonagh brothers slightly disappointing).


Yeah, I'm reluctant to see Seven Psychopaths.  In Bruges was just such a freakin' masterpiece, I don't want to be disappointed.
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Post by: Pixelated Pixies on December 12, 2012, 06:25:34 PM
Yeah, I'm reluctant to see Seven Psychopaths.  In Bruges was just such a freakin' masterpiece, I don't want to be disappointed.

Agreed. In Bruges was hilarious. Have you seen 'The Guard' by any chance? I'm not sure how wide that release was elsewhere in the world?
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Post by: Dasmos on December 12, 2012, 07:00:09 PM
Anyway, saw Skyfall lat night. I liked it. My wife was lukewarm on it.
I will never forgive her for whispering her dead-on comparison to Home Alone during the last battle. Pretty much ruined the entire ending for me. But, gotta give her props: the comparison was spot-on.

Haha my friends and I made that comparison as well, but it hardly matter because Home Alone is an awesome film.
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Post by: Disco Stu on December 12, 2012, 09:10:34 PM
Yeah, I'm reluctant to see Seven Psychopaths.  In Bruges was just such a freakin' masterpiece, I don't want to be disappointed.

Agreed. In Bruges was hilarious. Have you seen 'The Guard' by any chance? I'm not sure how wide that release was elsewhere in the world?


I have not seen it, sadly.  I remember it getting an incredibly limited theater release in America, so I've just been hoping for it to show up on Netflix.
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Post by: tendoboy1984 on December 12, 2012, 11:20:51 PM
My dear mother is taking me to see The Hobbit on opening night! It's an early birthday gift. (I'll be 28 on December 18)
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Post by: ThePerm on December 15, 2012, 02:52:23 PM
Vanilla Sky - Pretty good, I knew where it was going, but actually it set itself up to go other directions as well. Not sure if they were red herrings, or the writer forgot where he was going.
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Post by: Morari on December 15, 2012, 04:03:19 PM
Don't forget to watch Open Your Eyes, the Spanish film that Vanilla Sky was based on. It even shares some of the same cast.
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Post by: Stratos on December 16, 2012, 12:22:40 AM
Surprised no one has mentioned anything about Hobbit yet.

I was a little underwhelmed with it. Don't get me wrong, it was enjoyable. I just think that a few of the directions Jackson chose were not the best for telling the story. It's a great 'Lord of the Rings' prequel, but not the best telling of Hobbit.

Part of this may just be that Hobbit is very near and dear to my heart. My father read it to me as a small child with great story telling voices. I also had influence from the Mind's Eye audio recordings of it along with the animated version. So mostly I think I latched on to certain lines and scenes in the book that were altered or had lines dropped in the Jackson version.

I was also a lot more nitpick-y about book-to-film differences than with any of the Rings films. Probably due to the nostalgia I have for Hobbit versus the nostalgia for Rings. As a kid I grew to appreciate both Hobbit and Rings in different ways and I think Jackson's Hobbit suffers a bit from being in the same art style of Jackson's Ring's. He tried and got very close to breaking what I feared would be a negative impact in the art style. But something about it in a few areas just missed where I had hoped it would be.

I did watch the 3D/48fps version but I do not think that impacted my ability to enjoy the film. I actually wish that Rings could be done over in the same way as I enjoyed both the higher film rate and the 3D. This is the first live action film I would watch again in 3D and I believe that it is in part due to the higher frame rate.

My opinion of the film may change once the rest of the story is released. Throughout the film I kept arguing with myself over how the story, even with the appendices, could work out in three separate films.

So, I give it a solid 4 Out Of 5 Awkward Belching Dwarf Stars as a telling of The Hobbit.
As a prequel to Jackson's Lord of the Rings it is a 5 Out Of 5 Epic Stars
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Post by: tendoboy1984 on December 16, 2012, 02:46:31 PM
So why are most movies stuck in 24 frames-per-second when video games strive for higher frame rates (30 to 60 frames)?
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Post by: ThePerm on December 16, 2012, 04:13:58 PM
because 24fps has an epic feel. When you up the framerate you start to see that its just a bunch of people acting on a set. Though I watched Blue Crush on a Sony tv where the frame rate was artificially upped, and it made the movie that much cooler.
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Post by: Pixelated Pixies on December 16, 2012, 04:45:00 PM
because 24fps has an epic feel. When you up the framerate you start to see that its just a bunch of people acting on a set. Though I watched Blue Crush on a Sony tv where the frame rate was artificially upped, and it made the movie that much cooler.

It has also been argued by some that having less frames can make the experience more immersive. My understanding of the argument is that by having fewer frames the image on screen is less realistic and more dream like, and as a result audiences supposedly find it easier to suspend their disbelief and give themselves over to the story. I'm not sure how much of that I accept though.
 
As to why films were originally, and continue to be, shown at 24FPS, I read somewhere that it's merely arbitrary. 24 FPS happened to be the median frame output for projectors.
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Post by: NWR_insanolord on December 16, 2012, 04:49:07 PM
It seems like the more realistic nature of higher frame rates would make it preferable for things like live sports and nature documentaries, even though it's not ideal for most movies.
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Post by: BranDonk Kong on December 16, 2012, 05:09:23 PM
The problem with high frame rates in movies is that it makes everything look so real, that it looks fake, if that makes any sense. Watching a Blu Ray on my PS3 where the TV actually switches to 24FPS native is by far the best movie viewing experience. The only things high frame rates are good for are live sports, video games, and 3D video.
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Post by: ThePerm on December 16, 2012, 09:24:32 PM
im thinking one of the issues is on set piece movies. On location I can imagine it being more natural. The problem is when using higher frames it resembles video like a news cast. As I said Blue Crush looked great, and that all takes place on a beach. Pirates of the Caribbean looked like I was watching a play and standing on stage with them, which is terrible. It probably has more to do with lighting then anything else.

Here's my theory: Generally, in the past movies had to be lit ultra high inside buildings to look right. If you didnt light inside it would look too dark. Outside this wasn't important unless you were getting night shots. At a higher frame rate it is probably better to use natural light. The extra movement information would allow us to see darker scenes better. Also, with digital it's possible to capture a greater contrast at lower light levels.
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Post by: nickmitch on December 16, 2012, 09:44:39 PM
I always thought 24 fps was the minimum the frame rate had to be for you eyes to see movement and not a series of pictures. I think I heard that in school, but don't remember too well. I could be wrong.

Don't forget to watch Open Your Eyes, the Spanish film that Vanilla Sky was based on. It even shares some of the same cast.

The guys on Box Office Poison had it as their movie of the month and said it was mostly a shot for shot remake, with little difference between the two.
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Post by: broodwars on December 16, 2012, 10:19:40 PM
Well, I saw the Hobbit -part 1 (*sigh*) today, and overall I really enjoyed it. There were a few places where I feel Jackson added some elements that really didn't make the movie better (such as Thorin's pale white orc nemesis, or when Jackson pretty much shot-for-shot references Frodo's "ring fall" from Fellowship), but overall I think it's a pretty good adaptation.  Plus, I enjoyed how the new scenes working in background information from the Appendices gave me content I hadn't seen acted out before in other mediums.

I could have done with a LOT less shaky cam, though.  Some scenes were pretty hard to watch since the camera jumps so much it's hard to tell what you're looking at.
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Post by: nickmitch on December 16, 2012, 11:12:48 PM
UGH! I hate shakey cam. It really hurt my experience watching The Hunger Games (before the actual games started) and made me flat out not like Public Enemies.
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Post by: ThePerm on December 16, 2012, 11:19:50 PM
I always thought 24 fps was the minimum the frame rate had to be for you eyes to see movement and not a series of pictures. I think I heard that in school, but don't remember too well. I could be wrong.

Don't forget to watch Open Your Eyes, the Spanish film that Vanilla Sky was based on. It even shares some of the same cast.

The guys on Box Office Poison had it as their movie of the month and said it was mostly a shot for shot remake, with little difference between the two.

its about 60frames for the average person, some people see at higher rates. Thats why tv's are often made at 60hz
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Post by: broodwars on December 16, 2012, 11:24:22 PM
UGH! I hate shakey cam. It really hurt my experience watching The Hunger Games (before the actual games started) and made me flat out not like Public Enemies.

Thankfully, the shaky cam only appears a few times in the movies during some of the action sequences, and it's more "extremely quick pans" than a true "shaky cam".
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Post by: nickmitch on December 16, 2012, 11:32:12 PM
Well, that I can certainly live with.

@Perm, that's interesting. I googled it a little and didn't really come up with a satisfying answer.
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Post by: ThePerm on December 16, 2012, 11:50:23 PM
yeah, i googled it looking for a better source. Couldn't find one. Its something to note that you see much more stuff then you're allowed to perceive as well. Your brain filters a lot of stuff out, and can alter your perception of things.


http://www.simonslab.com/videos.html
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: tendoboy1984 on December 17, 2012, 11:32:48 AM
because 24fps has an epic feel. When you up the framerate you start to see that its just a bunch of people acting on a set. Though I watched Blue Crush on a Sony tv where the frame rate was artificially upped, and it made the movie that much cooler.

It has also been argued by some that having less frames can make the experience more immersive. My understanding of the argument is that by having fewer frames the image on screen is less realistic and more dream like, and as a result audiences supposedly find it easier to suspend their disbelief and give themselves over to the story. I'm not sure how much of that I accept though.
 
As to why films were originally, and continue to be, shown at 24FPS, I read somewhere that it's merely arbitrary. 24 FPS happened to be the median frame output for projectors.

People bitch and complain about their video games not being "OMG 60 FPS!", but it's perfectly acceptable for movies to be less than 30 FPS? What's with the double standard? I find 30 frames to be perfectly fine for video games.

And the other thing I don't get is... Why are movies and TV shows still shot with film when home media has transitioned to digital formats and optical discs? If the rest of the world moved on from film, then can't the movie/TV industries make that transition too? You don't see music still being recorded on cassettes...
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on December 17, 2012, 11:40:35 AM
Many films are digital. There is a different film though, many movies look better on film and many directors prefer it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on December 17, 2012, 11:44:32 AM
Movies and video games couldn't be any more different, tendoboy. There is no double standard, there are two, completely different, unrelated standards.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on December 17, 2012, 11:44:59 AM
yeah, i googled it looking for a better source. Couldn't find one. Its something to note that you see much more stuff then you're allowed to perceive as well. Your brain filters a lot of stuff out, and can alter your perception of things.

http://www.simonslab.com/videos.html (http://www.simonslab.com/videos.html)
I feel accomplished.  I counted 15 passes and I saw the gorilla.
Now I couldn't tell you if the people in black even passed the ball.  I assumed they did.

@Tendoboy:
The real difference is that movie watching is passive and videogame playing is active.  I can judge how long it take for my button press to animation to happen.  Movie watching you just let flow over like a river going over a rock.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: tendoboy1984 on December 17, 2012, 11:46:46 AM
You don't see us using VHS tapes to watch movies at homes anymorel. Home media is transitioning to a digital format (DVD, MP4, WMV, etc.) so it's kind of ironic that movie studios still cling to film while the rest of the world has moved on. Even photography has moved on from film.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: gbuell on December 17, 2012, 11:49:56 AM
The problem with high frame rates in movies is that it makes everything look so real, that it looks fake, if that makes any sense.

I had the exact same thought while watching The Hobbit at 48 FPS. It was very strange. Somehow the "realness" of the motion made the fact that the actors were wearing makeup and wigs much more noticeable and distracting. Maybe it has to do with the mental association of high frame rates with low-budget soap operas. Whatever it is, it felt incredibly bizarre. I will say that the high frame rate actually seemed to benefit the many full-CGI characters. I really got the sense that they were inhabiting the same space as the real actors.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on December 17, 2012, 11:54:35 AM
You don't see us using VHS tapes to watch movies at homes anymorel. Home media is transitioning to a digital format (DVD, MP4, WMV, etc.) so it's kind of ironic that movie studios still cling to film while the rest of the world has moved on. Even photography has moved on from film.

tendo, things are not as simple as you think they are. Here is a good article to start with: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_versus_film_photography
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Pixelated Pixies on December 17, 2012, 12:19:06 PM
I don't think I'm perceptive enough to tell the difference (or perhaps I just don't care), but you could argue that there's a warmth to film that you don't get from digital. I guess it's the equivalent of preferring to read an actual book as oppose to reading it on a brightly lit high resolution screen. The content overall might not change that much, but often the manner in which something is consumed can be just as enjoyable as the content itself. I for instance still enjoy listening to vinyl.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on December 17, 2012, 07:37:43 PM
The warmth of film isn't an accurate way to describe it.

Until recently with the REDcam, Flm had a higher resolution than digital. Different films have different feels. Film will always have its place. A good example of film vs digital is grindhouse. Planet Terror was shot digitally and then fake grain was added, and Death Proof was shot on film. Tarantino and Rodriguez have similar directing styles, but Rodriguez advocates Digital and Tarantino advocates film. Black Dynamite was shot on actual old school film for an old school look.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TrueNerd on December 17, 2012, 07:51:05 PM
Look out y'allz I'm about to drop some SCIENCE.


http://movieline.com/2012/12/14/hobbit-high-frame-rate-science-48-frames-per-second/ (http://movieline.com/2012/12/14/hobbit-high-frame-rate-science-48-frames-per-second/)


tl;dr: While our eyes can perceive 66 frames per second, our brains only perceive 40 moments per second and any motion (or frame rate) higher than that looks off.


Personally, I have no interest in EVER seeing film in any other frame rate than 24fps. It looks the best to me.


Oh and I saw THE HOBBIT. The first half was booooooooooring. The second half got better but never really came close to reaching the heights of the LotR trilogy. I dunno what happened to Jackson. He did an AMAZING job adapting LotR and cutting/streamlining all the bloat and lore that works in novels and just being economical with storytelling. And then KING KONG happened and he seems to now think that being indulgent is the way to go. We could have gotten one awesome Hobbit movie or even two, two-hour movies. Instead we're getting another nine hour trilogy and I'm still not convinced the material supports it. I reserve the right to re-evaluate this opinion in a year and a half when all three are out.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Sarail on December 17, 2012, 07:54:37 PM
Year and a half?

I was under the assumption that Jackson was releasing each subsequent Hobbit film each holiday season in December. Is this not right?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on December 17, 2012, 07:57:37 PM
The thing with The Hobbit is that there is really only enough material for 1 movie, but he is stretching it out to 3 movies originally 2, but even 2 was pushing it), so of course there will be bloat and filler.


Racht is right. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug will be December 2013 and The Hobbit: There and Back Again will be December 2014.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TrueNerd on December 17, 2012, 08:01:05 PM


Bullshit.

Luke has to learn to use the Force, and doesn't defeat the emperor without help from Vader. He ultimately balances the Force by swaying Vader emotionally and getting him to throw Palpatine down a hole or w/e.

Ang can't fulfill his destiny without first mastering all four elements, which he goes through a lot of hardships to do. Sure, the bending masters who teach him just fall in to his lap, but he still struggles with each one. Growing and changing as a person along with his fighting style.

And Harry Potter had to go to class? I dunno. Not the biggest HP fan.

/nerd rage

Side note: I liked Kung-Fu Panda.

Okay yes they all still do hard work (and I would argue Po does too in KUNG FU PANDA) but all of those characters are still "the chosen one" and none of them did anything to be "the chosen one." Han couldn't learn to use the force. Katara couldn't master all four elements. Ron couldn't kill Voldemort. Well, maybe he could, Harry Potter is a little less strict on this stuff. The point still stands.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TrueNerd on December 17, 2012, 08:01:28 PM
Year and a half?

I was under the assumption that Jackson was releasing each subsequent Hobbit film each holiday season in December. Is this not right?
The third one comes out Summer 2014.


EDIT: Link for proof that I'm right.


http://blog.zap2it.com/pop2it/2012/08/the-hobbit-third-film-gets-a-release-date-while-part-2-gets-a-new-title.html (http://blog.zap2it.com/pop2it/2012/08/the-hobbit-third-film-gets-a-release-date-while-part-2-gets-a-new-title.html)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: NWR_insanolord on December 17, 2012, 08:40:27 PM


Bullshit.

Luke has to learn to use the Force, and doesn't defeat the emperor without help from Vader. He ultimately balances the Force by swaying Vader emotionally and getting him to throw Palpatine down a hole or w/e.

Ang can't fulfill his destiny without first mastering all four elements, which he goes through a lot of hardships to do. Sure, the bending masters who teach him just fall in to his lap, but he still struggles with each one. Growing and changing as a person along with his fighting style.

And Harry Potter had to go to class? I dunno. Not the biggest HP fan.

/nerd rage

Side note: I liked Kung-Fu Panda.

Okay yes they all still do hard work (and I would argue Po does too in KUNG FU PANDA) but all of those characters are still "the chosen one" and none of them did anything to be "the chosen one." Han couldn't learn to use the force. Katara couldn't master all four elements. Ron couldn't kill Voldemort. Well, maybe he could, Harry Potter is a little less strict on this stuff. The point still stands.

The entire point of the whole "chosen one" thing is that they were, well, chosen. If they did something to be there they wouldn't be the chosen one, they'd be the guy who showed up and did stuff.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on December 17, 2012, 09:36:40 PM
In Harry Potter, he wasn't really chosen. Voldemart basically flipped a coin since Neville met the same criteria as Harry.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on December 17, 2012, 09:38:46 PM


Bullshit.

Luke has to learn to use the Force, and doesn't defeat the emperor without help from Vader. He ultimately balances the Force by swaying Vader emotionally and getting him to throw Palpatine down a hole or w/e.

Ang can't fulfill his destiny without first mastering all four elements, which he goes through a lot of hardships to do. Sure, the bending masters who teach him just fall in to his lap, but he still struggles with each one. Growing and changing as a person along with his fighting style.

And Harry Potter had to go to class? I dunno. Not the biggest HP fan.

/nerd rage

Side note: I liked Kung-Fu Panda.

Okay yes they all still do hard work (and I would argue Po does too in KUNG FU PANDA) but all of those characters are still "the chosen one" and none of them did anything to be "the chosen one." Han couldn't learn to use the force. Katara couldn't master all four elements. Ron couldn't kill Voldemort. Well, maybe he could, Harry Potter is a little less strict on this stuff. The point still stands.

The entire point of the whole "chosen one" thing is that they were, well, chosen. If they did something to be there they wouldn't be the chosen one, they'd be the guy who showed up and did stuff.

Which is the title you'd see in some sort of parody movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: tendoboy1984 on December 17, 2012, 11:21:33 PM
@TrueNerd -- Peter Jackson is the new Spielberg, and King Kong was amazing. I can't believe it took him 30 years to finally get recognition in the movie industry. From Dead Alive to The Hobbit, the man certainly has a varied career.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on December 17, 2012, 11:24:27 PM
In Harry Potter, he wasn't really chosen. Voldemart basically flipped a coin since Neville met the same criteria as Harry.

Which by "choosing" him and deciding his Destiny, Voldemort made him "The Chosen". Game. Set. Match. :P:
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on December 18, 2012, 12:39:29 AM
I disagree with TrueNerd. Jackson is still amazing, and King Kong was a breathtaking remake of the original. Your name points out your bias, and is the reason Star Trek Into Darkness is getting so much hate despite looking amazing.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TrueNerd on December 18, 2012, 01:32:34 AM
Who was talking about STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS? I hope that movie is good and not just a half-assed KHAN remake.

As for Jackson, first off, you all seem to be conveniently skipping over the abomination that was THE LOVELY BONES. Secondly, I do kind of like KING KONG, but you could easily cut at least an hour from that movie and it would be better for it. You could do the same with THE HOBBIT. I know I was negative in my initial assessment, but I wouldn't call THE HOBBIT a bad movie. Just a very messy one.

Regardless of how you feel about the guy, there is no debate that he has become more indulgent. The LotR trilogy is around 1300 pages. Jackson turned that into 9.5 hours of film. The Hobbit is a 300 page book that he's also turning into 8-9 hours of film. This is the definition of indulgent.


In other news, I just remembered how much I loved Ancel's King Kong video game. I should get my hands on that guy again.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on December 18, 2012, 02:05:26 AM
Regardless of how you feel about the guy, there is no debate that he has become more indulgent. The LotR trilogy is around 1300 pages. Jackson turned that into 9.5 hours of film. The Hobbit is a 300 page book that he's also turning into 8-9 hours of film. This is the definition of indulgent.

While I don't necessarily disagree with you on that, bear in mind that these Hobbit movies aren't just an adaptation of the Hobbit novel, but also incorporate a sizeable chunk of the LoTR Appendices as well detailing Gandalf's mission with the White Council to drive out the Necromancer/Sauron from Mirkwood.  So there's plenty of material to do 2-3 movies.

I'd have personally preferred 2 films at most, but given the quality of what I've seen so far in The Hobbit, I'm not going to complain too much about Jackson overindulging on fan service.  I like seeing the little things like the songs and whatnot incorporated more into the films, as Tolkien often seemed to care more about showing the culture of Middle Earth through song than anything else.

I'm seeing a lot of complaints about the film being too long, and to be honest it is.  You could have probably chopped at least half of the White Council's "Wizard Intervention" with Gandalf and lost nothing.  The addition of Thorin's pale-skinned orc "nemesis" seemed extremely tacked-on and reeked of padding.  But throughout the entirety of my time with the film, I was never bored.  So long as Jackson can keep me engaged in the film experience, he can make his films as long as he wants as far as I'm concerned.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TrueNerd on December 18, 2012, 02:29:09 AM
Yeah. Everyone's tolerance for that stuff will vary. Mine wasn't that high.

And yes, Jackson is throwing more stuff into these movies from the appendices. But again, he is adding things here where with LotR, he was cutting things and turned in some of the best book adaptations ever. (I would argue in a couple instances he improved upon the books.) It's an interesting decision, but one that kind of feels like it's serving two different masters. It's tough to know how this will turn out in the end, but as you say, right now it feels like some of it wasn't seamlessly put in. If I had my druthers, I would have loved to see one pure, svelte three-hour Hobbit adaptation and then go ahead and make two or three or seventeen movies dedicated to the appendices. Maybe one day the Tolkien estate will give up the rights to The Silmarillion and then we can keep getting Middle Earth movies from here to eternity. Anyway, the jury is still out whether or not grafting The Hobbit with appendices material was a good idea.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on December 18, 2012, 03:46:26 AM
Has anybody watch The Man With The Iron Fists?

I should be seeing this tomorrow. Lucy Liu in a role where the trailers reminds me, of her, in Kill Bill. That's all i need.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on December 18, 2012, 09:29:45 AM
Who was talking about STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS? I hope that movie is good and not just a half-assed KHAN remake.

Khan isn't the villain in it, so no worry. The current reports are that it is Gary Mitchell (though not confirmed).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TrueNerd on December 18, 2012, 12:32:53 PM
Who was talking about STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS? I hope that movie is good and not just a half-assed KHAN remake.

Khan isn't the villain in it, so no worry. The current reports are that it is Gary Mitchell (though not confirmed).


True, but they still might be doing a riff on WRATH OF KHAN even if Cumberbatch isn't playing Khan. Mostly the shot of Kirk and Spock touching through the glass has me worried. Also there's a shot of what appears to be cryo tubes in the trailer which could easily be the Botany Bay, the ship Khan was on. I hope they avoid all KHAN story points/imagery as that will be just inviting comparisons that Abrams cannot win. Plus, they went out of their way in the last movie to let the audience know that this is a brand new timeline and anything can happen. Why do that if all you're gonna do is rehash the old movies? Hopefully all my concerns are unfounded. It sure looks pretty!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Pixelated Pixies on December 18, 2012, 12:49:46 PM
Just got back from seeing the HFR version of The Hobbit. The film overall wasn't offensively bad, but man digital at 48 frames per second looks terrible! I actually laughed out loud when I seen the Shire, which looked like the set of the Teletubies. It's perhaps very subjective, but to my eye it just looked terrible.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on December 18, 2012, 07:14:13 PM
I disagree completely. I loved the HFR version, and it actually pulls me into Middle Earth more so than the normal 3D version.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on December 19, 2012, 02:15:54 AM
Has anybody watch The Man With The Iron Fists?

I should be seeing this tomorrow. Lucy Liu in a role where the trailers reminds me, of her, in Kill Bill. That's all i need.


http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/forums/index.php?topic=28364.msg766293#msg766293
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on December 19, 2012, 12:05:45 PM
Why is no one talking about Life of Pi? Probably the best movie of the year. I actually don't feel like going to the theater to see anymore movies this year since I just don't see any other films being this good.

That said, it's not a perfect movie and the final message seems contrary to what the movie was setting up the whole time. But the main story of the film, the survival/adventure aspect, is fantastic and more than outweighs the philisophical stuff that doesn't quite make sense.

When I first saw the posters and the trailer for the movie, I had no interest in seeing it. But then the I started seeing all these reviews come in and positive reviews from sources I wasn't expecting so I figured I'd give the movie chance and I'm so glad I did.

You have to see this movie in 3D. There is no other way to experience it. As the credits were playing, I was thinking to myself that I can never see this movie again because there is no way it would ever be the same experience watching it in 2D on a small screen. Much of this movie would be lost in such a format. I may have to see this movie again once more before it stops playing in theaters as I feel a sadness at losing it so soon after being acquainted with it. There are times when watching a movie that certain images will come on and just instantly ingrain themselves in my memory with their majesty.

For instance, for whatever reason, last year when I saw Shrelock Holmes 2, the close-up image of Sherlock and Moriarty's faces as they plunge down the falls with Moriarty screaming and Sherlock calm just sticks in my mind. As I watched it, something about it, the colors, the size, the moment it encapsulated between these classic figures just struck me as perfect and I can still recall that feeling and moment in my mind. Anyways, this movie has tons of those images and moments. I'd love to get into them but I really don't want to spoil anything or hype things up to much. I'd just like people to go in with not much knowledge of the story and some anticipation and let if lead you on its journey.

Just wow.

4 stars out of 5.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on December 19, 2012, 12:42:18 PM
If you hype it up this much, I'm going to feel disappointed.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on December 19, 2012, 02:21:53 PM
Well, I'll have to put it on my list since you feel so strongly about it. I was gonna wait for home viewing originally.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Pixelated Pixies on December 19, 2012, 02:30:25 PM
Why is no one talking about Life of Pi? Probably the best movie of the year.

I've been looking forward to it for months now, but it's not out until the 20th over here.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on December 19, 2012, 04:04:31 PM
If you hype it up this much, I'm going to feel disappointed.

I hyped it up like this to other people and they still came away liking it after. Plus, as I do warn in the second paragraph, it's not completely perfect. But I don't think my hype will do anything to detract from the experience which is what I'm trying to sell the most. This is one of the few movies where the 3D effects help to create a memorable experience and it is for the film's ability to create this experience that I think can survive any hype and praise I put on it.

Let me qualify it in this way. I would say The Dark Knight Rises is still the most fun movie I've seen this year. But it and Life of Pi are two different types of films with different purposes. But for the master class on film making and imagery that Life of Pi is, I think anyone can appreciate it no matter the hype. However, only if they see it on the big screen in 3D. After that, all bets are off.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on December 19, 2012, 04:08:48 PM
It looks terrible from the trailer, so that is why I haven't seen it. And I had more fun watching The Avengers than The Dark Knight Rises.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Pixelated Pixies on December 19, 2012, 04:18:53 PM
The most fun I've had at the cinema this year has been between 'The Avengers' and 'The Master'. Very different films, but both were hugely entertaining.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: NWR_insanolord on December 19, 2012, 04:27:51 PM
I wasn't planning on seeing Life of Pi, but if TJ Spyke says it looks terrible I guess I'll give it a shot.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on December 19, 2012, 04:30:09 PM
I didn't say the movie is terrible, I said the trailer makes it look terrible.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on December 19, 2012, 04:51:51 PM
On a different note, quick review of Anna Karenina which I saw last night. It's a rental if that. Personally, I like period peice dramas / adaptations of famous works like Dickens and Austin. The Pride and Prejudice film starring Keira Knightley a few years ago is one of my top favorite films from the last decade. Not really knowing the story of Anna Karenina either I was intrigued to see it.

Never have I wanted to walk out of a film more in the first 20 minutes than this movie. I was ready to just give up on the 8.00 bucks I spent and do something far better than watch this movie. The reason is for a completely horrible decision to start the movie as if all the characters inhabit a theater and move around on stage. Characters walk down stage hallways on to a new stage and have a little scene. Backdrops get changed and moved and just keep the viewer very disoriented. This is even worse as the movie tries to introduce all the players but you are left bewildered at first as to who's with whom or what is real or where this is all going. I then began to wonder if maybe the director was trying to mimic Hitchcock's Rope by having what looks like a continuous unbroken shot yet finding a way to switch scenes by having people and backdrops move around in such manner but no, the movie still cuts to different scenes.

Fortunately, I'd say about 40 minutes in, the movie finally gives up this technique or at least uses it far, far more sparingly and we finally get a more traditional movie which helps improve the movie so much more. I was so glad and yet so frustrated when I think about how much better things could have been without this odd, bizarre choice.

If you can't figure out what I'm describing, I don't blame you. It's hard to explain without actually seeing it. So, in a way, it's worth checking out to see what it is all about but it drove me mad. I'm not the only one. After the movie was over, two dames sitting behind me started talking about the movie and seemingly agreeing with each other that they both liked it. One then commented to the other that they were worried at the start that this movie was going to be too artsy for them and was lost in the beginning and the other agreed and I agree.

Which is a shame because in the end, there are some good performances here and it is still a strong story although not one I find as emotionally moving as say Pride and Prejudice. I find I sympathize more with Jude Law's character than Anna herself. There's also a secondary love story running through the movie involving a character called Kitty and her rejected would-be-suitor which I also ended up finding more interesting in the end. Even wierder is the R rating this move gets which seem to come about because a man is killed by a train and you see some of his intestines after yet there is no other violence aside from say the ending since Anna kills herself and a horse gets shot. There is no full frontal nudity or anything. The language is very tame so I don't get that. Here in Canada, it has PG rating which makes perfect sense.

In the end and to wrap up this lengthy post, if you like this type of movie, it might be worth checking out one night if you feel like seeing something abit more experimental and a bit of a downer. Unfortunately, this movie shoots itself in the foot in the beginning and works hard to lose the audience that a solid second half cannot overcome that opening hurdle. Also, I really did like the ballroom dancing with all the arm movements.

2.5 stars out of 5.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on December 19, 2012, 04:53:35 PM
It looks terrible from the trailer, so that is why I haven't seen it. And I had more fun watching The Avengers than The Dark Knight Rises.

I said the same thing in my post. The trailer does nothing to convey why you should see this movie. Can't comment on The Avengers since I haven't seen it yet.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on December 19, 2012, 07:17:18 PM
given TJ's opionion on CG, he can't enjoy it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Dasmos on December 19, 2012, 07:43:46 PM
The book Life of Pi has been one of my favourites since high school, so I've been looking forward to the film since it was first announced, especially seeing as Ang Lee is directing.

It unfortuntately doesn't come out until New Years day here.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on December 24, 2012, 12:59:42 AM
Devil - 3/10

M. Night Shyamalan would be better off just not ending his movies. I think the only other movie of his that I saw was Signs, and it was good...until the ending. Just like this, it was at least pretty decent...until the end. Then it just turns into complete ****. I will admit the reveal towards the end kind of caught me off guard, but then it just went down the toilet. It's basically Spider-Man 3 with the devil and blood.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TrueNerd on December 24, 2012, 01:04:56 AM
That's an odd comparison to make. How are those two movies similar at all? One is a giant, overstuffed superhero movie and the other takes place mostly in an elevator.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on December 24, 2012, 01:40:26 AM
Devil was not directed by M. Night Shymalan. He just shoved his name on it with money.

I can see the Spider-man 3 comparison.


I also saw the ending coming miles away. I tend to be able to pick out twist endings from a mile away because im good at picking out foreshadowing or just really observant. Or maybe because i read goosebump books and nearly every one of them has a twist ending. 6th sense had the plotline of an Are you Afraid of the Dark episode. I figured out the Village just because one character had a tie that didn't belong to the time period. The Saw series is hard to follow because it throws one dozen red herrings. when the dead body got up at the end that was a shock...which is why I expected the end of Devil
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on December 24, 2012, 03:55:55 AM
The Man With The Iron Fists - I love that it pays homage to older kung fu movies but RZA was the wrong person to basically the (at the end) central role to that film.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on December 24, 2012, 10:32:05 AM
That's an odd comparison to make. How are those two movies similar at all? One is a giant, overstuffed superhero movie and the other takes place mostly in an elevator.

The "bad guy" killed the protagonist's family by accident, the antagonist doesn't find out for several years, and then forgives the guy who killed the family. That's Spider-man 3. The other thing they have in common is they both suck.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on December 24, 2012, 01:42:18 PM
Spider-Man 3 was not that bad, def better than Spider-Man 2 (which is far too over-rated). I will say that it was a terrible decision to have Venom be such a minor villian when he he much better and much cooler than the lame Sandman. Venom should have been the focus of the movie (they could have even put in teases for Carnage in-case they did Spider-Man 4). Also, Peter forgave Flint because the experience with the Venom symbiote made him realize you can't hang onto hate and bitterness..
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on December 24, 2012, 02:48:09 PM
Did you actually just say that Spider-Man 3 was better than the second one?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on December 24, 2012, 02:52:26 PM
It's true. Parts of SM2 was good, but they screwed up Dr. Octopus and the movie was just not that entertaining to me. SM3 improved on it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: tendoboy1984 on December 24, 2012, 05:24:47 PM
No no no. Spider-Man 3 was completely overdone. Sam Raimi tried to cram it full of a nonsensical plot, too many characters and villains doing their stuff, and a pointless "emo Peter" subplot ruined the whole thing for me. J K Simmons saved the movie for me. Topher Grace as Venom was a terrible casting choice. The guy's a nerdy comedian (in real life), not super-villain material at all.


I'm guessing this is why Sony decided to completely reboot the series, though they could have done without another origin story. We've seen that done so many times already. Why couldn't they just turn "The Amazing Spider-Man" into a proper "Spider-Man 4"? Continue where Spider-Man 2 left off, and disregard the 3rd movie...
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on December 24, 2012, 05:47:17 PM
The 3rd one was still better than the 2nd. The only real complain I have is with Venom being so minor (he should have been the main focus) and Topher Grace being picked to play Eddie Brock (who is pretty big in  muscles).

Sony re-booted the series because it was cheaper than keeping the same cast. Andrew Garfield was a lot cheaper to hire (his only real role was in The Social Connection) than Tobey Maguire. And the new film was better than any of the Sam Raimi films.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on December 24, 2012, 08:49:33 PM
TJ you're probably the only person that thinks Spider-Man 3 was better than Spider-Man 2.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on December 24, 2012, 10:16:26 PM
The Social Network, not Connection. And no, they made another one so Disney couldn't get the rights for The Avengers.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on December 24, 2012, 10:22:20 PM
I know why they made the movie (and Disney has the rights to The Avengers, I think you meant to say so they couldn't get back the film fights to Spider-Man), I said why they made it a re-boot rather than a continuation of the existing series. As for The Social Network, that was a slip of the mind. The funny thing is that Disney CAN use Spider-Man on the upcoming S.H.I.E.L.D. TV show since Disney did get back the TV rights to Spider-Man.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: NWR_insanolord on December 24, 2012, 10:26:45 PM
The Muppet Christmas Carol is the best Christmas movie ever made and I will fight anyone who says otherwise.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on December 24, 2012, 11:00:05 PM
They rebooted Spoder-Man because organic web shooters are dumb.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on December 24, 2012, 11:06:49 PM
Why? I like it better than him inventing the ****.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on December 24, 2012, 11:10:30 PM
But it makes no sense for them to come out of his wrists.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on December 24, 2012, 11:29:41 PM
Why? I like it better than him inventing the ****.

As a fan of the 90s cartoon (which I still hold as the best version of the character), I 100% disagree.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on December 24, 2012, 11:30:53 PM
Just as much as someone becoming a superhero after being bit from a spider. And TJ, considering your opinion on the trilogy already, I don't listen to what you have to say on the subject.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on December 24, 2012, 11:31:48 PM
Just as much as someone becoming a superhero after being bit from a spider.

Don't get into that, because then you can say that about any superhero. Getting the ability to turn into fire and fly? Or stretch every part of your body?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on December 24, 2012, 11:33:40 PM
I will get into that. You can't say that, because it doesn't have to make sense in our world. Just theirs. And I say shooting web from the wrists works in that context.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on December 24, 2012, 11:39:02 PM
From 1962 (Spider-Man's first appearance) until 2007, the comics version never had organic spider-webs. And shortly after that, it gone away. The whole creating webs from his body thing was a Sam Raimi idea and it has thankfully gone away. Part of his character is that he is so smart that he figured out a way to create these webs.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: azeke on December 24, 2012, 11:42:51 PM
The whole creating webs from his body thing was a Sam Raimi idea
NOPE.

It's James Cameron's idea from his version of the script that was never made into a movie. The one where he rapes MJ or something.

I like organic version, it makes more sense.

Also, SSM >>>>>>>>> SM:TAS. SM:TAS had it's moments though.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on December 24, 2012, 11:45:15 PM
TJ spikes says they screwed up Doc Ock? makes no sense. It seems if anything Doc Ock was pretty lame before Raimi got to him and made him cool.

Spider-man 2> The Amazing Spider-Man> Spider-man 1 > Spider-Man 3

Personally my favorite villains are Hobgoblin and Venom. Which themselves are warped versions of other characters.

I'm excited to see Electro. I also do not give a **** about the race change, because all but Electro's mouth has been covered by the most ridiculous costume behind Mysterio. I didn't mind sandman at all. Had they focused on Sandman instead of throwing so much into 3 then there wouldn't have been a problem. The Spider-man series should have been handled like the Harry Potter series, as there is such a diverse rogues gallery..ultimately concluding with a sinister six battle. Trying to make every series into a trilogy might not serve the series well. There is so much story to tell with spider-man.

Please do enlighten us on how they screwed up Doctor Octopus?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on December 24, 2012, 11:49:39 PM
I meant idea as in actually happening. PLANNED does not mean it actually happened. It was Sam Raimi who first did Spider-Man with organic web.

SSM better than TAS? Hahahahahahahaha. That is the funniest thing I heard all day.


Perm, the main thing that bothered me is that I grew up with Doc Ock have a German accent. That Doc Ock was far more interesting than Raimi's version.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: tendoboy1984 on December 24, 2012, 11:56:35 PM
They rebooted Spider-Man because organic web shooters are dumb.


It's a more practical way to showcase Peter Parker's spider powers than by saying: "I can only climb walls? Why can't I shoot webs like a real spider? ****, guess I'd better invent some web shooter device to complete the whole spider get-up."

If Peter Parker only inherited the wall-climbing abilities of a spider, then he'd only be half a Spider-Man. The organic web shooters complete the transformation.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: tendoboy1984 on December 25, 2012, 12:00:07 AM
The whole creating webs from his body thing was a Sam Raimi idea
NOPE.

It's James Cameron's idea from his version of the script that was never made into a movie. The one where he rapes MJ or something.

I like organic version, it makes more sense.

Also, SSM >>>>>>>>> SM:TAS. SM:TAS had it's moments though.


James Cameron wrote a Spider-Man script?


Why don't more directors write their own movie scripts? The whole point of being a director is unleashing your creativity on the audience. If you are simply filming another person's written work, it is no longer your movie.


That's like having a publisher write the entire novel you pitched to them.


Thank goodness the indie scene exists, since it allows people to be in complete control of their creative work (whether it's movies, video games, books, Hulu original shows, etc.).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on December 25, 2012, 12:07:29 AM
Watch The Amazing Spider-Man, they handle the abilities fine. And in the comics he developed the knowledge of how to make the artificial webbing after being bitten.

tendo, you do realize Cameron wrote The Terminator, Rambo: First Blood Part II, Aliens, The Abyss, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, True Lies, Titanic, and Avatar? So he is a very prolific screen writer. Most writers do not have the talent to direct a film (and vice-versa, many directors do not have the talent to write).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on December 25, 2012, 12:15:01 AM
Doc Ock having a German accent would make sense in the 1960s but not now. I'm an intermediate German speaker, I know many Germans...their accents are 90% subtile and barely noticeable. The Era of silly Nazi accents is over(unless its a period movie)

I kinda want to see Raimi take a crack at a Batman movie with Mr. Freeze as the villain.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TrueNerd on December 25, 2012, 01:46:58 AM
I am a card carrying defender of SPIDER-MAN 3 and I think it gets a lot of undeserved hate (those emo scenes are meant to be hilarious and they ARE hilarious) but I am also of the opinion that SPIDER-MAN 2 is the best superhero movie the genre has offered us thus far. Yes, I've seen THE DARK KNIGHT. That's probably number two or three. THE INCREDIBLES is up there too. I love everything about SPIDER-MAN 2 and could probably watch it every day for the rest of my life.

THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN is deceptive. You think it's good because it's never unwatchable or anything but actually it's a terrible, awful, incomplete piece of **** that has little redeeming about it except its cast. All of this on top of being a complete waste of time as it hits the same beats as Raimi's wildly superior SPIDER-MAN. TASM also has a terrible habit of dropping plot threads for seemingly no reason. That **** about his parents? Finding Uncle Ben's killer? Where did that SWAT team go after they were turned into lizard people? And the ending of TASM. UGH. Compare the final scenes of SM and TASM. The former shows our hero being a hero by being selfless. The latter shows our "hero" being a selfish douche and going back on the promise he made Gwen's dying cop sergeant father. Cool bro. You're so cool. I will say there was a single fight scene that I liked, the one in the high school. It was the only time where I felt like I was seeing something cool that I hadn't in Raimi's trilogy. Oh and those fucking crane operators were the WORST.


EDIT: I love it when people downvote me instead of dispute my opinions.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on December 25, 2012, 10:30:01 AM
Otto is a German name, but Octavius is Roman, so he doesn't necessarily need a German accent. Typically a last name has more bearing on where someone came from than their first name.

And shoot webs out of their ass, so having (two of) them appear magically on his wrists makes no sense.


Amazing Spider-Man was far better than Spider-Man 3.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on December 25, 2012, 10:43:35 AM
DNA mutations can have unpredictable results. The webs coming out of his hand makes sense with that logic. You have the function of a spider-ass being taken from an 8 limb arthropod/arachnid going onto a 24 limb mammal.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on December 25, 2012, 12:14:57 PM
Too convenient. He didn't get any more eyes or fangs or anything either.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on December 25, 2012, 12:23:53 PM
Too convenient. He didn't get any more eyes or fangs or anything either.

Well, when he try mutating himself further (to get rid of his powers), he did turn into an actual spider complete with fangs and multiple eyes. I do agree with you on ASM being better than SP3.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on December 25, 2012, 12:53:33 PM
Yeah, they still haven't ever gotten into Spider-Man's Man-Spider incarnation. At some points in the comics and TV show Spider-MAn undergoes a very Lizardesque/Flyesque full creature transportation. Luckily its never a permanent thing.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: azeke on December 25, 2012, 01:13:42 PM
Octavius is Roman
I'll just make my final note that Octavius sounds like swedish name and i'm out of this.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on December 25, 2012, 01:18:50 PM
It is Roman though, like Gaius Octavius (Roman Emperor who married the niece of Julius Caesar).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on December 25, 2012, 05:40:03 PM
The Muppet Christmas Carol is the best Christmas movie ever made and I will fight anyone who says otherwise.

Just finished watching Scrooged.. bring it.

I also watched Batman: Under the Red Hood today after it being on my netflix que for ages. All I can say is..


DAAAAAAAAAAAaaaammmnnn I didn't expect it to be that good, especially after watching it immediately after Year One (which wasn't as boring as I heard you guys say it was).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: azeke on December 25, 2012, 10:16:03 PM
You should check out Wonder Woman, it is the best by far in entire DC Animated series.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: tendoboy1984 on December 25, 2012, 10:37:49 PM
I find it sad that Warner Bros. treats their DC animated shows with more respect than their other cartoons.


Where are those same high standards for all their other cartoons?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Caliban on December 25, 2012, 10:53:49 PM
About Cherry.

Nothing special of a movie, but that Ashley Hinshaw is just friggin gorgeous. Even when she's not naked.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on December 26, 2012, 12:57:18 AM
I had to google Ashley and I can see why. She is the new Heather Graham.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: bustin98 on December 26, 2012, 01:39:14 AM
The Muppet Christmas Carol is the best Christmas movie ever made and I will fight anyone who says otherwise.

Patrick Stewart in A Christmas Carol and National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation are worth fighting for. George C Scott does an excellent Scrooge as well.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Caliban on December 26, 2012, 10:23:52 AM
I had to google Ashley and I can see why. She is the new Heather Graham.

They're both in the same movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on December 27, 2012, 09:37:33 PM
I just watched the movie called Pitch Perfect, i really didn't care for the film, but I thought Anna Kendrick was dreamy
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Pixelated Pixies on December 28, 2012, 01:08:18 AM
Over Christmas I (re)watched 'Up' and 'How to train your Dragon'. Those films are just incredible. So much character and charm have been packed into every frame. Sometimes I wonder why I bother watching stuff like 'Killer Joe' when I could be watching something as joyous as 'Up'.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on December 28, 2012, 02:35:31 PM
I saw Jack Reacher on boxing day. Nothing to shout home about.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on December 28, 2012, 03:48:16 PM
Scrooged is still my favorite xmas movie. I wish Bill Murray was immortal.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Fatty The Hutt on December 31, 2012, 01:27:58 PM
Anyone catch The Hobbit yet? Saw it in the 48FPS which was neat but weird. It was like watching a BBC video drama mini series from the 70s but with awesome resolution. Elizabeth Rex came to mind. Not sure I am ready for this to be the new standard.


As for the film itself, oh dear dear dear. Peter Jackson needs people to say no to him sometimes. Many parts were very good but I am sour on the whole product as it hangs together. Yes, too long, to many meaningless, low staes battles. And, Radagast the Brown? Oh my. Just awful.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on December 31, 2012, 01:29:55 PM
Radagast wasn't bad, I liked him.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on December 31, 2012, 07:21:35 PM
Radagast wasn't bad, I liked him.

ah so thats his name. I kept referring to him as The Hobo Wizard
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on December 31, 2012, 10:49:04 PM
As for the film itself, oh dear dear dear. Peter Jackson needs people to say no to him sometimes. Many parts were very good but I am sour on the whole product as it hangs together. Yes, too long, to many meaningless, low staes battles. And, Radagast the Brown? Oh my. Just awful.

So it was just like the previous three films? Boring and pointless. Sounds like the fans are getting what they wanted!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Caliban on December 31, 2012, 11:50:40 PM
Love - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1541874/

Boring. The description on Netflix was a bit misleading, so my enjoyment of watching this movie went downhill after the first oh I don't know 30 minutes. Although I did enjoy the beginning with the civil war scenes.
I would recommend it to those that enjoy Stanley Kubrick's 2001 A Space Odyssey, but it doesn't even touch its heels in terms of epicness, and I'm not much of a fan for 2001.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on January 01, 2013, 11:15:50 AM
I've owned that movie for a while know simply because it came with an angels and airwaves album, but I've had no interest in watching it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Do_What on January 02, 2013, 09:32:20 AM
Both Hobbit and Django Unchained had the same problems for me. Overly long and overly violent. Django Unchained glories way too much in it's violence. It does unnecessary things to be brutal without having a point. It doesn't make any points about slavery or anything, especially when undercut by jonah hill and funny buffoonish clansmen and the like. But so many scenes were like "look how totally gross we can be."
The hobbit just was a mess. Too much CG and too many beheadings. It clashes with itself in terms of tone way too much. At times they'd remember it was based on a kids book, but then they tried so hard to make it Lord Of The Rings: Episode I and it doesn't work. What's with all the dark portents? I get it. Lord of the Rings is coming. I get it, but can we just have a fun adventure movie with little dwarves and a hobbit? Why everyone so damn angsty?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TrueNerd on January 02, 2013, 03:06:50 PM
I saw that DJANGO movie. I loved it. Not as much as I loved BASTERDS, but that one was going to be impossible to top. What I love about Tarantino's last two films is that the man has assumed complete control of his skills and what he's trying to do. Yes, PULP FICTION is still probably his best, but BASTERDS and DJANGO live in a more heightened reality than PULP. Tarantino is able to switch tone better (and less jarring) than probably anyone maybe ever. The way both of those films can go from stupid, goofy humor to incredibly tense is an impressive feat that doesn't seem to be getting old.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on January 02, 2013, 05:52:32 PM
Django Unchained/10

I actually read thescript a week before i watched it. I had the script on my hard drive for like a year and a half, i think when Will Smith was for the role. Anyhow, i only read the first bit, but thought it was good. Right before the movie came out i spent a saturday night reading Django. I watched the movie last night and it was great. Very few changes from the script, and about how I pictured in my head.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on January 02, 2013, 07:37:14 PM
Jack Reacher: 6/10

I went for some Tom Cruise sassiness and only wish I would've gotten more of it. There's a huge plot hole towards the end that they throw right in your face and leave unresolved. There's another one too that didn't make sense. In fact, the entire plot kinda fall apart at the last second. Otherwise, it's very solid during the rest of the movie.

Django Unchained: 9/10

There are too many things I liked about that movie to count. One or two things were maybe a little too over the top, but the rest of it was amazing.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: tendoboy1984 on January 02, 2013, 09:02:11 PM
Anyone catch The Hobbit yet? Saw it in the 48FPS which was neat but weird. It was like watching a BBC video drama mini series from the 70s but with awesome resolution. Elizabeth Rex came to mind. Not sure I am ready for this to be the new standard.



High framerates work for video games, which require high-precision controls, yet everyone is still content with their 24 FPS movies?


I thought movies becoming more lifelike was a good thing?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on January 02, 2013, 09:08:46 PM
Django Unchained was one of those eh movies. It was fun, for the most part, but I'd of enjoyed it more if I hadn't paid close to $18 to watch it. I'd watch it again just to count how many times the N word is dropped, then again to count how many times it was uttered by just white folk vs black folk. Then I want to spread false info on the internet just to see how many people believe it.

Kidding aside, my friend felt really uncomfortable with the movie so we joked that Tarantino must of made a bet with someone that he could get away with saying the N word 1000 times in one movie as long as it had a strong black character killing white people. That made him feel better :)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on January 02, 2013, 10:22:26 PM
close to $18, come to arizona. I flashed my student discount and it went from $9.50 to $8.50. Never count your popcorn and drinks as part of your ticket, you dont need them.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on January 02, 2013, 10:30:04 PM
close to $18, come to arizona. I flashed my student discount and it went from $9.50 to $8.50. Never count your popcorn and drinks as part of your ticket, you dont need them.

who said I bought popcorn or a drink? I never pay for that stuff, I either get snacks like candy and drinks at the target on the basement floor of the same plaza, or I have a big dinner before the movie and don't need snacks. This chain of theaters has a $7 Tuesday deal that I usually do but it was a Friday night and a friend was in for the holidays from out of town, so I had to bite the bullet and pay full price.

Adult admission price is at least $14 in NY but this particular chain offers a "directors hall" theater where the seats are cushier and you can choose your seat at the time of buying your ticket, a nice perk when you're as picky as I am, but unfortunately it was all last minute and we were both pressed for time, so we got the first tickets we could, at the premium price, and had to sit in the second row - I've never seen nuts so big :( ugh
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Lithium on January 02, 2013, 11:01:54 PM
Watched Minecraft: the story of mojang

it was pretty interesting even though I've never actually played minecraft before. The documentary starts off when Notch starts his company, so if you want an origin story about the game itself this isnt really it. It's less about the making of the game and more about the people behind it and the impact the game has had.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on January 02, 2013, 11:28:39 PM
close to $18, come to arizona. I flashed my student discount and it went from $9.50 to $8.50. Never count your popcorn and drinks as part of your ticket, you dont need them.

who said I bought popcorn or a drink? I never pay for that stuff, I either get snacks like candy and drinks at the target on the basement floor of the same plaza, or I have a big dinner before the movie and don't need snacks. This chain of theaters has a $7 Tuesday deal that I usually do but it was a Friday night and a friend was in for the holidays from out of town, so I had to bite the bullet and pay full price.

Adult admission price is at least $14 in NY but this particular chain offers a "directors hall" theater where the seats are cushier and you can choose your seat at the time of buying your ticket, a nice perk when you're as picky as I am, but unfortunately it was all last minute and we were both pressed for time, so we got the first tickets we could, at the premium price, and had to sit in the second row - I've never seen nuts so big :( ugh

i should of phrased that differently. I figured you're north east coast where the ticket prices are twice as much. We also have dollar theaters here where a slightly older movie could be 1 or 2 dollars.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on January 03, 2013, 10:07:13 PM
i hate you.. :-(
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on January 03, 2013, 10:31:02 PM
They have dollar theatres here in western New York too. Yes the movies are usually ones that have been out for 2 months already, but tickets are only $1-$2.50 (depending on the day of the week and time of day). Of course the seats suck (all on the floor) and not the best quality screens (those older ones where you see black cracks flash sometimes).

The good theatres here usually charge about $8.50 before 6pm and $10 after 6pm. I rarely buy snacks because $6.50 for a small soda is a rip-off. Regal does offer a reward program though, so sometimes I get a free small soda or popcorn.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on January 03, 2013, 11:17:13 PM
I hate you too now, TJ. Although, if your price for a small drink really is $6.50 I can't loathe you as much as Perm when it comes to these things. I can get a jumbo drink for $5.50, I'd hate to see what you'd pay :P
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on January 04, 2013, 01:21:17 AM
It's called 20oz bottle in your pocket.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on January 04, 2013, 04:44:04 AM
My unlimited card got a "premium upgrade" for free so now i get to see 3D movies with it and 25% off food and drink. Still worth it for what i pay for it.  Even though the food/drink is still overpriced.

I think i've seen about 25 movies in 2012 so far.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on January 04, 2013, 12:41:09 PM
My unlimited card got a "premium upgrade" for free so now i get to see 3D movies with it and 25% off food and drink. Still worth it for what i pay for it.  Even though the food/drink is still overpriced.

I think i've seen about 25 movies in 2012 so far.
Are you talking about Movie Pass?  I got invited to that and considered it if I could use it to bring my whole family to a movie but... Their are no movie theater in the Nashville area that support it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Pixelated Pixies on January 04, 2013, 01:46:14 PM
Safety Not Guaranteed - Touching, hilarious and filled with odd twists and surpises, this film from the producers of Little Miss Sunshine is exactly what I needed on a lazy, rainy Sunday afternoon. Highly recommended.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ian Sane on January 04, 2013, 03:29:12 PM
I saw The Hobbit on New Year's with my family.  My youngest brother and I thought it was good but not nearly as good as the Lord of the Rings.  My middle brother thought it just outright sucked, making comparisons to the Star Wars prequels, mostly because it was not as good as Lord of the Rings.

The thing is that he lists off why he doesn't like it and I also don't like the same things he doesn't like.  Too much CG, too many cameos of LotR characters that drags the movie's pacing, and the general inferiority of The Hobbit source material compared to LotR's.  He'll point these out and say "Am I wrong about these things?  Can you defend them?" and I can't because I agree.  But I left the theatre wanting more and looking forward to the next film while he now thinks Peter Jackson is some Lucasesque hack that fluked out with a great trilogy.  Of course in his mind I'm wrong and delusional because he can't comprehend that I can see the exact same flaws as him yet not have them be significant enough to outright hate the film.

My youngest brother says that he enjoys the film as a visual representation of The Hobbit and that's all he wanted in the first place so he's quite content.  I agree with that and I found that The Hobbit was a much less accessible film.  My middle brother loved Lord of the Rings because it was big epic fantasy battle.  This film is more of a nerdgasm for Tolkien geeks so I liked it but he was bored.  If you just like LotR because you like to see Aragorn kicking orc ass, you won't like the Hobbit.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on January 04, 2013, 03:33:23 PM
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the general inferiority of The Hobbit source material compared to LotR's.
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I have to disagree here.  I personally think The Hobbit is a better package then LotR.
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Post by: ThePerm on January 04, 2013, 06:09:09 PM
for drinks here the way it works is you can buy a loyalty cup for $4 and then its only a dollar per refill. Regular drinks are $3.00. $3.50 you get a large drink with one free refill. Popcorn's largest is $6.50; its still a small container, and it has similar loyalty pricing structures.
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Post by: Pixelated Pixies on January 04, 2013, 06:30:33 PM
But I left the theatre wanting more and looking forward to the next film while he now thinks Peter Jackson is some Lucasesque hack that fluked out with a great trilogy.

Overall I disliked the hobbit, but perhaps because I don't have a fondness for the source material I'm not very agitated about it (I'm far more disconcerted about the new technology that Jackson, with this film, has sought to herald).

While I think the comparison to Lucas is a lazy one, there is one respect in which it is accurate, which is that Jackson (like Lucas) has seemingly now reached the level at which no one is willing to call him on his s***. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey was from an acting and aesthetic standpoint beautifully crafted, but it was also bloated and felt extraneous. I suspect it's the sort of film that would have been greatly improved had the director been forced to make difficult decisions and been placed under some actual limitations.

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on January 04, 2013, 07:38:13 PM
It's called 20oz bottle in your pocket.

don't forget the $.99 candy from anywhere else in every other pocket, or if this one dwarf employee isn't there - just walk in with take-out from anywhere else because everyone else doesn't give a **** about their job.
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Post by: EasyCure on January 05, 2013, 12:19:42 AM
Batman (1989)

wow last time I saw this movie I was probably 8 years old, and it was probably only the second time I had seen it. After watching the Dark Knight triology soooo many times, I couldn't help but feel that some parts were waaay too campy.

Overall it was good, but my favorite scene (the ending) just started to skimp so I'm more than a little disappointed, and I'll just rant for a bit:

What took Batman forever (pun intended) to do something about those damn blimps? somehow he gets to Gotham City super fast in the batmobile, which doesn't look as cool as I remember it (not that I prefer the tumblr thingy), but taking the batplane is such a long commute. Was it his first time piloting it? was he just joyriding before getting to the Joker? Then, after he disposes of the balloons, he decides to ascend above the clouds and then nosedive back down, as if he needed the extra speed because he finally decided to handle the Joker - yet, the Joker was on foot at that point. ****, even if Batman had went back immediately after expelling the balloons, Joker would've still been on a float. A FUCKING FLOAT! Where was he gonna go? Oh I get it, Bruce is smarter enough to know Joker wasn't gonna get far so he decided to have fun with his plane a bit more. Gotcha.

Alfred, while seeming like a sweet old man, I can't help but feel bad for him. He was in all of the Batman movies released (after 1989) before TDK trilogy, but because of how cheesy those last two were, he feels like a poor man's Q from the 007 series.

Imagine if Tim Burton directed the 3rd Batman film and brought back Billy Dee Williams as Harvey Dent.. how COOL would Two-face have been. The thought of it cracks me up :)

Final thought: there were some scenes that, as a kid didn't feel memorable, but from watching The Dark Knight (and probably remembering it terribly incorrectly right now) seem cooler because it looks like Nolan or Ledger paid a small tribute that only diehard fans would of probably noticed. I know I'm probably remembering TDK incorrectly and making it up in my head, but I still can't help but feel a tiny little nerdgasm at the thought of it.

edit: Yay! The dvd was dual sided, so I got to watch the ending on the tiny sized version! Just as great as I remember. Once Batman starts pummeling him, that's when Nicholson REALLY looks and feels like the Joker. Before then, he's just kind of odd, not psychotic. Not knocking his performance though, he's great.

Oh, and I almost forgot one point I wanted to make. Batman clearly kills people in this film. First he blows up "Axis" Chemicals by laying a bomb within feet of at least a dozen of Jokers henchmen that are shooting at his shielded car. Then while he' soaring towards the Joker, his monitor appears to be locking on to him while she shoots and fires missiles at Mr. J. Later, just before he finally faces off with him, there's the last black guy who appears in the film (the second one to appear in the film??) who is TOTALLY wearing his sun glasses at night (/iheartthe80s), anyway - Batman throws him down the bell tower. I won't count the Jokers death as that could've been unintentional though..

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Post by: ThePerm on January 05, 2013, 12:21:04 PM
in an alternate dimension the Billy D Williams two-face exists
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Post by: EasyCure on January 05, 2013, 01:05:10 PM
in an alternate dimension the Billy D Williams two-face exists

That is comforting<3
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Post by: tendoboy1984 on January 06, 2013, 09:01:55 AM
Now what did you think of Batman Returns? Dat Catwoman! (meow!)

Honestly, Tim Burton's films are much better than the crap we got from Joel Schumacher. Why Tim Burton decided to produce his 2 Batman movies is beyond me.

I have to give credit to Tommy Lee Jones for his terrific (yet eccentric) performance as Two-Face. He really delves deep into his characters, like any great actor does.
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Post by: Plugabugz on January 06, 2013, 09:32:37 AM
My unlimited card got a "premium upgrade" for free so now i get to see 3D movies with it and 25% off food and drink. Still worth it for what i pay for it.  Even though the food/drink is still overpriced.

I think i've seen about 25 movies in 2012 so far.
Are you talking about Movie Pass?  I got invited to that and considered it if I could use it to bring my whole family to a movie but... Their are no movie theater in the Nashville area that support it.

No, it's called Cineworld Unlimited. It's UK/Northern Ireland only. Only applies to the card holder.
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Post by: EasyCure on January 06, 2013, 11:58:23 AM
Now what did you think of Batman Returns? Dat Catwoman! (meow!)

Honestly, Tim Burton's films are much better than the crap we got from Joel Schumacher. Why Tim Burton decided to produce his 2 Batman movies is beyond me.

I have to give credit to Tommy Lee Jones for his terrific (yet eccentric) performance as Two-Face. He really delves deep into his characters, like any great actor does.

Actually that's up next on my netflix dvd queue since it's not available for streaming. I've seen Batman Returns a few more times than Batman so I'm sure my recollection of it is stronger than the first, and based on just that.. I'll go as far as to say its the better of the 2 Tim Burton feels. I feel it as a little less campy and much more brooding.. but we'll see if I still feel that way later this week.
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Post by: TJ Spyke on January 06, 2013, 12:18:30 PM
Honestly, Tim Burton's films are much better than the crap we got from Joel Schumacher. Why Tim Burton decided to produce his 2 Batman movies is beyond me.

Schumacher gets too much crap, they were not bad movies (Batman Forever was pretty good). Batman Returns is hard to watch now.
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Post by: EasyCure on January 06, 2013, 01:36:06 PM
I dunno man.. I was still a kid when I watched those and even then, some of those scenes were cringe worthy. and not just Batnipples
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Post by: ThePerm on January 06, 2013, 01:54:55 PM
I don't know if it was even Schumacher's fault. All his batman movies are nothing like his regular movies. This is the director of Lost Boys, Falling Down, and 8mm. He has said he's taken responsibility, but was on a lot of pressure from the studio's to make them marketable. I feel like writing him a letter saying he needs to make some director's cuts. I liked Forever but Batman and Robin is terrible.
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Post by: EasyCure on January 06, 2013, 02:52:20 PM
I didn't know Schumacher was behind the films until only a few years ago, and like I said; when I saw them as a child, I thought they were pretty bad. I'm not looking to put blame on anyone, I just disliked the movie.

I'm still going to watch them after Batman Returns though :D and then end it on The Dark Knight Returns animated feature.
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Post by: tendoboy1984 on January 06, 2013, 10:12:56 PM
I didn't know Schumacher was behind the films until only a few years ago, and like I said; when I saw them as a child, I thought they were pretty bad. I'm not looking to put blame on anyone, I just disliked the movie.

I'm still going to watch them after Batman Returns though :D and then end it on The Dark Knight Returns animated feature.

Tim Burton made Batman (1989) and Batman Returns (both starring Michael Keaton).

Joel Shumacher made Batman Forever (starring Val Kilmer) and Batman & Robin (starring George Clooney).

Christopher Nolan made the current Dark Knight trilogy (starring Christian Bale).


Which actor played the best Batman? Michael Keaton, Val Kilmer, George Clooney, or Christian Bale? Adam West doesn't count.
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Post by: TJ Spyke on January 06, 2013, 10:57:31 PM
Adam West does count, because he was in a theatrical Batman movie too (1966's Batman: The Movie).

I thought Clooney was the best, he had the appeal that Bruce Wayne has, and the cred as Batman. Bale does not pull it off.
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Post by: ThePerm on January 07, 2013, 12:35:05 AM
here is a compilation of Batman Actors

(http://media.comicbookmovie.com/images/users/gallerypictures/51246L.png)

i wish it had more Clooney chin though.

http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/NIFOSITE/news/?a=71960

clooney agrees he was the worse batman


Joel Schumacher Apologizes  for Batman and Robin

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Post by: gbuell on January 07, 2013, 10:29:49 AM
Adam West was great and he totally counts and people who discount the 60's Batman stuff need to check themselves lest they wreck themselves. Also Jim Carrey was really good as The Riddler.
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Post by: BranDonk Kong on January 07, 2013, 10:55:27 AM
Adam West does count, because he was in a theatrical Batman movie too (1966's Batman: The Movie).

I thought Clooney was the best, he had the appeal that Bruce Wayne has, and the cred as Batman. Bale does not pull it off.
You have problems, Spyke.
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Post by: Ceric on January 07, 2013, 12:57:02 PM
I have to agree.  You have to count Adam West.  He really brought Batman back into the general Consciousness.
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Post by: Plugabugz on January 07, 2013, 03:02:08 PM
Tyler Perry as Batman.

and maybe catwoman too?
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Post by: Pixelated Pixies on January 07, 2013, 05:49:13 PM
I finally got around to watching 'The Grey' today. I ignored this film when it was released because it had Liam Neeson and the marketing and trailers made it look like crap. How wrong I was.
 
Rather than being 'Wolves on a Plane' as the marketing and trailers would suggest (Neeson sticking broken bottles to his hands and then running at a Wolf clearly with the intention of starting a fist fight?! 'That film looks stupid' was my thought), it turns out that this film is actually pretty damn good.

This film is nothing like what I expected. It's actually surprisingly introspective and examines such heady issues as suicide, family break-up, belief in an afterlife, and the power of nature. Luckily the film only dips it's toes into these topics and doesn't go so far as to cram them down the audience's throat.
 
In fact, despite it's sometimes brooding nature the film manages to string it all together with some great action set-pieces and a few characters who you actually care about. That was another surprsing thing; the film does a very economical job of making you care about the characters. It does a lot with a little. Small scenes, 2 -3 minutes long, are often all we get in terms of building up these characters, but they are handled wilth such deftness that they really work.
 
The thing that this film does best, however, is that it constantly surprises. Without going into too much detail, I don't think it's a spoiler to say that in this man vs nature story some people die. What's surprising though is the way in which this familiar story unfolds; with characters you would expect to survive being killed off unceremoniously, while characters who would normally be dog food in similar films actually go on to have an actual arc to their character.
 
'The Grey' is the sort of action film you can feel good about. It might even make you think a little.

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on January 07, 2013, 08:24:10 PM
The Grey was the worst film I've watched in a long time. It was self absorbed, predictable, and so far outside of the realm of possibility that it was hard to do anything but laugh. Not a single one of the characters was even likable.
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Post by: EasyCure on January 07, 2013, 09:00:48 PM
Such differing opinions, can't wait to check it out for myself.
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Post by: BranDonk Kong on January 07, 2013, 09:30:39 PM
I know this is getting to be a bit of a cliché, but if Spyke says it sucks, it's probably pretty good, and vice-versa. Case in point - Batman Forever...Nickelback...
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Post by: Shaymin on January 07, 2013, 09:56:31 PM
Adam West does count, because he was in a theatrical Batman movie too (1966's Batman: The Movie).

I thought Clooney was the best, he had the appeal that Bruce Wayne has, and the cred as Batman. Bale does not pull it off.

(http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a328/dragonmick/whats-wrong-with-you-Reggie-Fils-Aime-my-body-is-ready-other-eccbc87e4b5ce2fe28308fd9f2a7baf3-1290.gif)
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Post by: Pixelated Pixies on January 08, 2013, 01:55:27 AM
The Grey was the worst film I've watched in a long time. It was self absorbed, predictable, and so far outside of the realm of possibility that it was hard to do anything but laugh. Not a single one of the characters was even likable.

Self absorbed? I can maybe see why someone might think that (although I don't agree). Predictable? Absolutely not. Outside the realm of possiblity? Probably, but then again if you're looking for realism then don't watch a film about Liam Neeson punching wolves in the face.
 
You're opinion actually matches up quite well with what my expectatons had been. I'm happy to report, however, that 'The Grey' was thoroughly enjoyable from start to finish
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Post by: TrueNerd on January 08, 2013, 11:09:28 AM
THE GREY is really good. On top of being everything Pixies said it was, it's also possibly the most masculine movie ever. And not in a cheesy 80s Rambo way (which, don't get me wrong, is tons of fun), in a real way. The movie has a lot on its mind, which was genuinely surprising to me.
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Post by: Morari on January 08, 2013, 10:23:01 PM
Predictable? Absolutely not.

I called both of the "twists" at the end before the first act of the film was even over. It was about as predictable as one can get. Besides, the suspension of disbelief required to watch the film was far too much. I don't expect films to be super realistic, but I do go in assuming that they'll at least adhere to some kind of logic.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on January 08, 2013, 10:36:43 PM
The Perks of Being a Wallflower at the dollar theatre. Much better than I expected. I don't buy for one second that Charlie is a freshman since he looks like he is 17 (not 14 or 15). Pretty messed up what happened to him when he was younger. My favorite character was Patrick (Sam's gay step-brother), he was so funny and interesting.
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Post by: tendoboy1984 on January 08, 2013, 11:17:16 PM
I finally got around to watching 'The Grey' today. I ignored this film when it was released because it had Liam Neeson and the marketing and trailers made it look like crap. How wrong I was.
 
Rather than being 'Wolves on a Plane' as the marketing and trailers would suggest (Neeson sticking broken bottles to his hands and then running at a Wolf clearly with the intention of starting a fist fight?! 'That film looks stupid' was my thought), it turns out that this film is actually pretty damn good.

This film is nothing like what I expected. It's actually surprisingly introspective and examines such heady issues as suicide, family break-up, belief in an afterlife, and the power of nature. Luckily the film only dips it's toes into these topics and doesn't go so far as to cram them down the audience's throat.
 
In fact, despite it's sometimes brooding nature the film manages to string it all together with some great action set-pieces and a few characters who you actually care about. That was another surprsing thing; the film does a very economical job of making you care about the characters. It does a lot with a little. Small scenes, 2 -3 minutes long, are often all we get in terms of building up these characters, but they are handled wilth such deftness that they really work.
 
The thing that this film does best, however, is that it constantly surprises. Without going into too much detail, I don't think it's a spoiler to say that in this man vs nature story some people die. What's surprising though is the way in which this familiar story unfolds; with characters you would expect to survive being killed off unceremoniously, while characters who would normally be dog food in similar films actually go on to have an actual arc to their character.
 
'The Grey' is the sort of action film you can feel good about. It might even make you think a little.


I agree 100%. The Grey was a fantastic movie, and having Liam Neeson in it was just icing on the cake. He is one of my favorite actors.*


*Even though every character he plays as has that same brooding, monotone personality, the way he gets so immersed in his roles just works. He makes his characters believable.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on January 14, 2013, 01:40:45 AM
Django Unchained - 9.5/10

Easily Tarantino's second best film, if not tied for his best (which would be Inglrious Basterds). I don't know that it's a movie that you can watch over and over, but it's pretty damn great. Even at nearly two and a half hours, you never feel like it's a chore to sit through it, it just keeps getting better and better as it goes along. Jamie Foxx and Christoph Waltz are both excellent, it's really hard to find any faults with the movie.
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Post by: azeke on January 14, 2013, 02:03:39 AM
Django's ending is super anticlimactic, pointless and very WHYish for me.
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Post by: Pixelated Pixies on January 14, 2013, 02:04:55 AM
Django Unchained - 9.5/10

Easily Tarantino's second best film, if not tied for his best (which would be Inglrious Basterds). I don't know that it's a movie that you can watch over and over, but it's pretty damn great. Even at nearly two and a half hours, you never feel like it's a chore to sit through it, it just keeps getting better and better as it goes along. Jamie Foxx and Christoph Waltz are both excellent, it's really hard to find any faults with the movie.

That's reassuring. I'm a big fan of Tarantino, but I've been hearing mixed things about Django. I'm looking forward to finally seeing it for myself when it releases here.
 
P.S. Pulp is his best.
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Post by: TJ Spyke on January 14, 2013, 02:10:37 AM
Pretty much the only person i've seen hate on Django is Spike Lee, and I think he is just jealous TBH. I started watching it but haven't finished yet, I do like it though.
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Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on January 14, 2013, 03:11:52 AM
Pretty much the only person i've seen hate on Django is Spike Lee, and I think he is just jealous TBH. I started watching it but haven't finished yet, I do like it though.

got that bootleg version huh?
how's the quality? ;)
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Post by: BranDonk Kong on January 14, 2013, 07:56:58 AM
It's Oscar season, DVD screeners of all the big names are available...or so I've heard.

The ending is anti-climactic I guess, but it doesn't hurt the movie. The scene that leads to the ending is pretty great, and I'm glad they don't **** up Tarantino's cameo.

Spike Lee was saying he wouldn't watch it because of the language that gets used so much, but it's never for humor or anything. That's kind of just the way that people talked back then.
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Post by: Adrock on January 14, 2013, 09:31:56 AM
Cat Ladies
I watched this documentary on YouTube. I think it was originally shown on Animal Planet. Not sure it counts as a movie, but I'll include it here. It was too short (less than 45 minutes) to follow 4 different cat ladies. They could have gone further with all of them. Margo only had 3, but her home was covered in cat memorabilia. Her story ends with 1 of her cats dying and the people in her life offering support. Jenny is a pretty real estate agent in her mid-30s who has 16 cats. Her story had the 2nd most disappointing ending. She decides that she has to make more of an effort in her interpersonal relationships with others. Great, but you kind of get the feeling she has already come to that conclusion several times over so really, there is no real resolution there. They barely dip into an abusive childhood and a strained relationship with her sister (she also has a brother she mentions once). Jenny, at one point, calls her sister and asks, "Is asshole there?" which I assume was referring to her sister's husband. These are holes in a story that would make it more complete and interesting.

Diane (pronounced Dee-ahn) has an addiction to rescuing cats and had over 130 (I think). She ended up reaching her breaking point and reducing her number to 95 by holding an adoption drive. They barely touch on the financial hardship of having so many cats (she had overdraft her debit account nearly $3000). Sigi kept hoarding cats to the point where family and friends stopped talking to her. She got to the point where she considered them excess and not the ridiculous amount of cats she continues to rescue while practically living in squalor. I was most disappointed with her story because they barely touch on the war she has with her new neighbors (a couple who moved in during the winter and no one told them of the crazy cat lady next door) and when Spring came, the gaggle of cats became a real problem. They gloss over a lot in this documentary. Each of them could have been the documentary alone.

Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol
I enjoyed it despite the plot getting a bit confusing in the middle, something I felt MI3 avoided. I watched this on Netflix, but I wouldn't be surprised if one of the scenes on the DVD was titled "Paula Patton's Boobs" because it was full of close-up shots of Paula Patton's boobs. Just an observation.

Anyway, the action sequences were really good which is the whole reason I watched this movie. They were the best in the series, in my opinion. That was kind of a letdown in the previous one. I liked that they not only explained away Ethan not being married anymore (which was boring in MI3), but used it in the plot of Ghost Protocol, even of it was kind of contrived.

Looper
I liked it, maybe not enough to have spent $20 on the Blu Ray. The time travel is a bit tricky, as it often is in other movies. One plot device has characters' in the present having their bodies changed to affect their future selves, but almost anything in the changed present should affect whether their future selves even get any back in time. The problem is basically that the movie can't decide whether there is 1 or multiple timelines. It changes it's mind to fit the plot. I get it even if I kept trying to reconcile it in my mind.

Old Joe getting erased from existence kind of bothered me. I'm not saying it makes the movie bad or worse. Rather, I just kept thinking, "Man, that's shitty." He just doesn't get to be. Additionally, the ending doesn't ensure that the Rainmaker doesn't become the Rainmaker. The audience is led to that conclusion. I felt that not specifically telling you is the point. Rian Johnson wants you to think about it and talk with others. I'm in the "Joe saves the future" camp. Just the way I interpreted the ending.
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Post by: EasyCure on January 14, 2013, 12:06:32 PM
It's Oscar season, DVD screeners of all the big names are available...or so I've heard.

The ending is anti-climactic I guess, but it doesn't hurt the movie. The scene that leads to the ending is pretty great, and I'm glad they don't **** up Tarantino's cameo.

Spike Lee was saying he wouldn't watch it because of the language that gets used so much, but it's never for humor or anything. That's kind of just the way that people talked back then.

It was pretty humorous to the audience when Samuel L. Jackson used that kind of language.
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Post by: Pixelated Pixies on January 14, 2013, 12:50:49 PM
I finally got around to watching 'Searching for Sugarman' this weekend. I cannot recommend this documentary enough. It concerns a muscian called Sixto Rodriguez who released two albums in the '70s that made no impact in his home country, the US, and fell into obscurity. He wasn't even a footnote in the annals of music. He was left out of the book altogether.
 
However, Rodriguez's songs inexplicably made their way to South Africa where they hit a nerve and became a soundtrack for a whole new generation. Hundreds of thousands of his records were sold (most of which are likely to have been bootleg copies) and Rodriguez (in South Africa at least) was elevated to the heights of such luminaries as Bob Dylan, Simon & Garfunkel, and Elvis Presley.
 
The documentary examines why this happened. How did such a seemingly talented muscian not receive recognition in his home country? Who was Rodriguez? And what happened to him? Stories abounded in South Africa about what had become of the artist himself, flames no doubt fanned by the fact that no real information existed about this mysterious muscian. Stories of Rodriguez performing a horrific on stage suicide became common knowledge in South Africa, but little was actually known about the man.
 
If you already know the story of Rodriguez then this will no doubt be an interesting watch, but if you go in knowing nothing about his story (as I did) then you will walk away amazed that something like this could happen. It truely is uplifting.
 
Plus, it doesn't hurt that the music is great.
 
 
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Post by: nickmitch on January 14, 2013, 01:32:23 PM
Looper
I liked it, maybe not enough to have spent $20 on the Blu Ray. The time travel is a bit tricky, as it often is in other movies. One plot device has characters' in the present having their bodies changed to affect their future selves, but almost anything in the changed present should affect whether their future selves even get any back in time. The problem is basically that the movie can't decide whether there is 1 or multiple timelines. It changes it's mind to fit the plot. I get it even if I kept trying to reconcile it in my mind.

Old Joe getting erased from existence kind of bothered me. I'm not saying it makes the movie bad or worse. Rather, I just kept thinking, "Man, that's shitty." He just doesn't get to be. Additionally, the ending doesn't ensure that the Rainmaker doesn't become the Rainmaker. The audience is led to that conclusion. I felt that not specifically telling you is the point. Rian Johnson wants you to think about it and talk with others. I'm in the "Joe saves the future" camp. Just the way I interpreted the ending.

I just saw Looper as well. The funny thing about the time travel is that movie tells you not to think about it by having one of the characters literally say, "Don't think too hard about all this time travel bullshit. It'll fry your brain like an egg." I found that line to be funny. I tried to think of the timeline as constant, but self correcting. I guess meaning that certain things can happen to characters to affect them in the future but only as they already happened. So, if say future me cuts present me's leg off, he'll lose his leg, but still be in the present because present me hasn't yet been hindered from going back in time.

That probably didn't make sense.

Anyway, Looper 7.5/10 for me.
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Post by: gbuell on January 14, 2013, 01:41:39 PM
The rules of time travel are very different in Looper than in most other time travel movies, and I definitely appreciated that.
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Post by: Caliban on January 14, 2013, 01:53:54 PM
Super 8. I enjoyed this movie from beginning to end, including the short at the credits. I think it ended as it should have.
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Post by: Fatty The Hutt on January 14, 2013, 03:11:58 PM
Saw a sneak preview of Warm Bodies last week. It was OK. Neat premise and the film is well made. It just meanders too much in the middle. There are some great "gem" moments that feel fresh but not enough of them. And I got pretty tired of the protagonist's "Zombie Speak". He should have developed faster.


All in all, not bad. 7/10
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Post by: jvgsjeff on January 14, 2013, 10:52:04 PM
I recently saw The Avengers, which I got for Christmas. It started out a bit slow, but I enjoyed it quite a bit once it got going. 8/10
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Post by: tendoboy1984 on January 15, 2013, 10:20:53 AM
MIB 3 9/10
Much better than I expected. Josh Brolin is a dead-ringer as young Tommy Lee Jones. He got the accent, mannerisms, and facial expressions down perfectly.

Speaking of Tommy Lee Jones, he looked hideously old in this movie. I don't know if it was makeup or severe aging, but he looked like a walking corpse.

The films plot was simple and paced well, but it felt rather rushed. Boris was a great villain, much better than that female alien from MIB 2. Actually, the whole film was better than MIB 2.

Frankenweenie 7/10
I'm a huge Tim Burton fan, especially of his stop-motion films. Frankenweenie is a return to Tim's roots, a project he's been dreaming of for over 20 years. The film is Tim at his best, making movies that tell a simplistic story with bizarre, yet charming characters.

That being said, he could have done more with the plot. The whole thing could have been done in a 1-hour TV special. There were a few "filler" moments that needlessly extended the film's length.

The overall parody of Frankenstein and his monster was well-done, filled with clever ideas and likable characters. The whole film was a nice nod to the classic monster movies of the 1950's. The animation was incredible, and the set design was perfect (that graveyard!).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on January 15, 2013, 10:25:48 AM
I actually saw Coraline, Frankenweenie, and ParaNorman yesterday. I give Frankenweenie a 6/10 for being pretty mediocre compared to the other two films.
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Post by: tendoboy1984 on January 15, 2013, 10:54:51 AM
I actually saw Coraline, Frankenweenie, and ParaNorman yesterday. I give Frankenweenie a 6/10 for being pretty mediocre compared to the other two films.

Did Henry Sellick (James and the Giant Peach, Coraline) make ParaNorman?
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Post by: Ceric on January 15, 2013, 11:33:11 AM
MIB 3 9/10
Much better than I expected. Josh Brolin is a dead-ringer as young Tommy Lee Jones. He got the accent, mannerisms, and facial expressions down perfectly.

Speaking of Tommy Lee Jones, he looked hideously old in this movie. I don't know if it was makeup or severe aging, but he looked like a walking corpse.

The films plot was simple and paced well, but it felt rather rushed. Boris was a great villain, much better than that female alien from MIB 2. Actually, the whole film was better than MIB 2.
...

Your being generous to MIB3.  It is better than MIB2 but not as good as MIB1 and none of the movies can compare to MIB:The Cartoon Series.  I like the franchise but I wish they just take the scripts from the Cartoon Series and make a Live Action version of an hour and a half story arc or just do mini-episodes.  The whole Alpha ark would make a good movie...
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on January 15, 2013, 12:39:41 PM
I actually saw Coraline, Frankenweenie, and ParaNorman yesterday. I give Frankenweenie a 6/10 for being pretty mediocre compared to the other two films.

Did Henry Sellick (James and the Giant Peach, Coraline) make ParaNorman?

No. In 2010, he signed a contract to make films exclusively for Disney. He has nothing to do with ParaNorman.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on January 15, 2013, 10:15:20 PM
The time travel in looper contained huge amounts of causality and feedback. So in effect. The time stream corrects itself. A paradox wouldn't cause the universe to end, but it would go from soft probability to hard probability through constant loops.

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on January 15, 2013, 10:22:21 PM
I still think the ending was BS. Id didn't need to go down that way, and the events of the future could still play out the way they did (whereas if young Joe had killed the kid, it would guarantee that future would never happen).
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Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on January 15, 2013, 10:53:18 PM
I still think the ending was BS. Id didn't need to go down that way, and the events of the future could still play out the way they did (whereas if young Joe had killed the kid, it would guarantee that future would never happen).

But he was just a kid, and the future of that kid was shaped by the events that happened to him in the present and the near future....

and they leave you hanging with the thought that what he did in the end may not have even mattered, on purpose. He made the ultimate sacrifice to do what he thought was right at the time, and that was to hopefully preserve the innocence of kid who may one day grow up to change the world, in favor of saving himself so that he can go on killing people from the future till the day when he must once again kill himself (which was about to be right at that moment).
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Post by: TJ Spyke on January 15, 2013, 10:57:35 PM
Innocent? LOL. The kid had already killed at least 2 people when he became scared. There is nothing to say he won't still get scared/angry and becoming a warlord just because his mom didn't get killed at that time. The best solution would be to kill the kid, which stops him from becoming a warlord, then he can kill himself. Instead, there is the very likely possibility that the kid will kill AGAIN. His mom being alive didn't stop him from killing before..
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Post by: nickmitch on January 15, 2013, 11:00:10 PM
Did anyone else feel that the girl was from the future? Because she knew about loopers, and said that maybe if the kid had a mother, he wouldn't grow up to evil. Further, her TK powers were a huge step over normal people at the time, and maybe that's so because the powers get stronger for people in the future.

Under that theory, the ending is less BS because the future wouldn't necessarily play out the same way.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on January 15, 2013, 11:07:40 PM
I forgot how loopy I was at looper that I barely remember the movie and have no idea what you guys are talking about.. I should probably watch it again soon.

On a side note, Netflix doesn't want me to continue with my Batman movie 'marathon'. It was bad enough that Batman was scratched and almost didn't finish watching it, but TWICE now I've gotten a very damaged disk for Batman Returns.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on January 15, 2013, 11:30:13 PM
One thing is for sure though. If the young hero is dead then he can't travel from the future to start all the havok
that will lead him to kill himself and also effect countless other events in the future that will invariably affect the past. So, after this all plays through none of this will happen and the young hero will be back a live, and there will be some new unseen tangeant. After all time travel happens before this time period



another tangeant, somewhat related to the movie

This is an interesting concept, because I thought about a similar scenario. I never thought of the idea of hitman, but i thought of the idea of a permanent loop of time. The time when time travel is invented would become the beginning of a new era. Travel before the start date should be prohibited, but people would be able to manage their time much more efficiently, and actually would be scheduled to live in alternate Time Shares. Say for instance you work Monday through Friday and have the weekend off. You would then relax for an entire week at an alternate location. You would return saturday and work till Wednesday and then take another week off at an alternate time and location. That way even if it appears as though you're constantly working, you are actually spending your time half at leisure. Not only that you would be able to affect progress moving forward from the future to the past. So it would be a loop of development as well. Through alternate timelines you would end up doing less work. Eventually everyone would have leisure lifestyles with super long lives with robot slaves with mansions on planets.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on January 16, 2013, 08:19:25 AM
Instead, there is the very likely possibility that the kid will kill AGAIN. His mom being alive didn't stop him from killing before..
I don't know about "very likely." The possibility is certainly still there, but the entire climax of the film showed that he can control his powers, especially with his mother's help. That may not have stopped him before, but that's the point of teaching a child.

I viewed the ending as a best case scenario. Cid shows he can control himself and in a roundabout way, Joe saves Old Joe's wife since she won't die the way she did if she never meets him. The mafia in the future doesn't exist as it originally would have since Old Joe killed Abe and all the Gat Men which renders the Loopers pointless. Maybe the future mafia tries to start over, but then you have Not-Rainmaker Cid who could stop them. Ultimately, time travel as a plot device sucks if you think too much about it. There will always be infinite possibilities. And you can look at any ending negatively. Happily ever after? Nope, end in divorce or murder-suicide.
Did anyone else feel that the girl was from the future? Because she knew about loopers, and said that maybe if the kid had a mother, he wouldn't grow up to evil. Further, her TK powers were a huge step over normal people at the time, and maybe that's so because the powers get stronger for people in the future.
I remember thinking that was going to be a major plot point, but it was just abandoned entirely. She was the only person besides the mob who knew about Loopers. I was thinking maybe Cid's father was a Looper who abandoned Sara after they closed his loop.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on January 16, 2013, 09:19:07 AM
That's a good possibility, but I still think they hinted at that and dropped it on purpose. Young Joe said that the kid watching his mother get killed is what would make the kid grow up to be evil. The kid already saw his mother get killed. He was already going down the path to evil, and the "mom" was trying to prevent that from happening.

As for the other thing you mentioned, the movie takes place in Kansas. I'm sure there's more mob in actual major cities.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: gbuell on January 16, 2013, 09:55:54 AM
Kansas City has major historical connections to the mob.
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Post by: nickmitch on January 16, 2013, 10:24:49 AM
That's true, but I'd just think that crime would still happen elsewhere. Even JGL down plays that one future guy taking over the local mob by down playing the location.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on January 16, 2013, 10:08:07 PM
Watched quite a few movies on vacation:

LOOPER - Didn't like it. Started out with a lot of promise, but then the whole thing comes crashing to a halt when Joseph gets to what's-her-name's farmhouse. The movie just STOPS. And the conclusion was pretty...predictable. I was expecting a mind-blowing twist that never came.

MEN IN BLACK 3 - Loved it. Returns to the camaraderie of the first movie. Good villain, too.

PARANORMAN - Stopped watching it 45 minutes in. I appreciated the stop-motion animation (I always do), but the story just wasn't doing anything for me. I don't like zombies. I'm kinda over them.

10 YEARS - Just don't watch this.

LIBERAL ARTS - One of the most pretentious movies I've seen in a very long time. It's one of those "college movies" that tries to be "deep" and "reflective." Unfortunately written, produced, and directed by Ted from How I Met Your Mother. I now think much less of him.

BRING IT ON - Holds up surprisingly well.

THE LION KING - Has anyone else realized that Nala is actually Simba's half-sister? THINK ABOUT IT.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: NWR_insanolord on January 16, 2013, 10:23:01 PM
It sounds like I'll be going to see Zero Dark Thirty sometime soon since my dad wants to see it and doesn't want to go alone. I really don't know how I'll suspend my disbelief, though; there's no way bin Laden would have been able to stay hidden as long as he did with Bert Macklin on the case.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on January 16, 2013, 10:44:11 PM
Bert Macklin is dead. That's his brother, Kip Hackman.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on January 16, 2013, 11:17:33 PM
LIBERAL ARTS - One of the most pretentious movies I've seen in a very long time. It's one of those "college movies" that tries to be "deep" and "reflective." Unfortunately written, produced, and directed by Ted from How I Met Your Mother. I now think much less of him.
Ted is a douche nozzle and I am not at all surprised that the character he plays actually reflects the actual person. If it wasn't for Barney/NPH counter acting Ted, I would have given up on HIMYM years ago.

There will be blood-
Not my kind of movie, I couldn't finish watching it. I know it is a moral story about one man's slow corruption, but it's too slow and his opposite number is so creepy and unlikeable I just couldn't connect with the movie.

Conan The Barbarian (2011)-
Watched it out of morbid curiosity and it killed the cat. Watch a **** movie. The bloody Hercules and Xena TV show is better than this. I think Scorpion King is better than this. **** I wasted my life.

Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter (2012)-
Messy film. Very uneven. It can't decide whether to be a serious documentary on AL's vampire hunting or a fun pulp fiction movie. the lack of focus meant that there were a lot of scenes there that exists only to fill out Lincoln's real history for no gain. If they had went full on Inglorious Bastards instead and **** history, it could have been a pretty good. Still, the effects in general were subpar and had far to heavy use colour filter use.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TrueNerd on January 17, 2013, 12:57:23 AM
Watched quite a few movies on vacation:

PARANORMAN - Stopped watching it 45 minutes in. I appreciated the stop-motion animation (I always do), but the story just wasn't doing anything for me. I don't like zombies. I'm kinda over them.

Finish this movie. It's great. It's so much more than just a zombie movie.

ZERO DARK THIRTY - Just got outta this one. It's somethin'. I suspect Jennifer Lawrence (and everything else SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK-related) will win best actress at the Oscars because the Oscars are the Weinstein show, but Jessica Chastain deserves it. She does a perfect job personifying Maya with minimal "character" moments given to her in the film. ZDT is a sometimes dry, usually intense and fascinating procedural with its humanity entirely provided by Chastain. This movie is far worse without Chastain. ZDT is a lot like ZODIAC, but instead of an ambiguous ending, we get a super intense final act even though you know how it ends. I really liked it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on January 17, 2013, 08:11:18 PM
Quote
Conan The Barbarian (2011)-
Watched it out of morbid curiosity and it killed the cat. Watch a **** movie. The bloody Hercules and Xena TV show is better than this. I think Scorpion King is better than this. **** I wasted my life.

seriously? ouch. I was curious too, figured it'd be a decent popcorn action flick but after reading this I'm scared to bother with it..

also, the reason I came to this thread:

3 TIMES IN A ROW NETFLIX HAS SENT ME A BROKEN BATMAN DVD. WHY DO PEOPLE HATE BATMAN!

:(
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on January 17, 2013, 09:23:15 PM
You don't remember reading my review of Conan? Let me jog your memory.

Every scene it seemed like someone just got done raping her, but in a bad way. You know what I mean.

You mean like actual rape?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on January 17, 2013, 09:59:40 PM
hahahaaha that's twice now you guys have done this to me.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: bustin98 on January 18, 2013, 10:54:28 AM
I liked Conan. Not as much as Arnold, but I've liked Jason Momoa in Stargate Atlantis and am comfortable with his acting (non-acting action sequences). It's a shame you feel The Scorpion King is better, that was a throw-away movie. And I like The Rock in most movies he's done.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on January 19, 2013, 10:53:43 AM
I liked Conan. Not as much as Arnold, but I've liked Jason Momoa in Stargate Atlantis and am comfortable with his acting (non-acting action sequences). It's a shame you feel The Scorpion King is better, that was a throw-away movie. And I like The Rock in most movies he's done.

how was that Tooth Fairy movie?

I don't think I've seen too many movies with him, but the ones I have been were enjoyable; even The Scorpion King. His best role IMO was The Other Guys hahaha..
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on January 19, 2013, 12:49:41 PM
The Campaign - Much better than the trailer makes it seem. Funny movie, even if you don't care about politics (they make some realistic observations, like how people like the Koch brothers think they can use their money to buy the results they want). The ending is kinda sweet.

Little Miss Sunshine - I wonder why I waited so long to see it. So funny. Olive is adorable in a geeky way and I love how she is happy with who she is. That grampa holds nothing back and is so foul mouthed. It really is a must-see movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on January 19, 2013, 03:06:33 PM
The Scorpion King is a half ass self parody on the whole sub genere. It's like Arnold doing Shakespeare in Last Action Hero. The final result was no doubt accidental as the tone is wildly inconsistent throughout the movie.

I feel sorry for Jason Momoa. Conan could have sunk his career. Luckily he has Game of Thrones which no doubt saved it along with his Stargate following.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on January 19, 2013, 04:42:40 PM
but what if I saw Scorpion King because I knew it was a half assed self parody?

Little Miss Sunshin is a fantaaastic movie and makes me wish Abigail whatever would stay that age forever, it was odd seeing her in Zombieland slightly grown up.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on January 19, 2013, 06:37:46 PM
Conan with Mamoa is best viewed with a friend making fun of it. At which point it's kinda entertaining. Kinda a movie that can be watched in the background at parties, and for some reason its better that way.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Fatty The Hutt on January 19, 2013, 09:14:40 PM
Les Miserables 7.5/10


Looks nice. Lotsa singing, mostly well done. A bit long.


I think you have to already be familiar with and enjoy the source material to get the most out of it. I wasn't personally really invested in any particular character's story.
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Post by: Pixelated Pixies on January 19, 2013, 09:34:32 PM
Little Miss Sunshine - I wonder why I waited so long to see it. So funny. Olive is adorable in a geeky way and I love how she is happy with who she is. That grampa holds nothing back and is so foul mouthed. It really is a must-see movie.

The producers of 'Litte Miss Sunshine' also put out 'Safety not Guaranteed' (although saying 'the producers of' probably doesn't mean much). If you liked LMS you might like SNG. It's whimsical in a similar way.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on January 19, 2013, 11:50:23 PM
I liked Conan. Not as much as Arnold, but I've liked Jason Momoa in Stargate Atlantis and am comfortable with his acting (non-acting action sequences). It's a shame you feel The Scorpion King is better, that was a throw-away movie. And I like The Rock in most movies he's done.

how was that Tooth Fairy movie?

I don't think I've seen too many movies with him, but the ones I have been were enjoyable; even The Scorpion King. His best role IMO was The Other Guys hahaha..

Kind of ashamed to admit this, but The Tooth Fairy is actually pretty good, for a family comedy.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on January 20, 2013, 11:27:21 AM
I liked Conan. Not as much as Arnold, but I've liked Jason Momoa in Stargate Atlantis and am comfortable with his acting (non-acting action sequences). It's a shame you feel The Scorpion King is better, that was a throw-away movie. And I like The Rock in most movies he's done.

how was that Tooth Fairy movie?

I don't think I've seen too many movies with him, but the ones I have been were enjoyable; even The Scorpion King. His best role IMO was The Other Guys hahaha..

Kind of ashamed to admit this, but The Tooth Fairy is actually pretty good, for a family comedy.

Since most of the regs on here know you have kids (too many kids..?) there is no reason to be ashamed. I don't have kids of my own but I like taking nieces and nephews off their parents hands every now and again - I'm sure if I saw it with the kids it'd be enjoyable. Too bad I couldn't say the same Vin Diesel's The Pacifier. /smh
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Fatty The Hutt on January 20, 2013, 11:58:59 AM
Steven Merchant is pretty funny in Tooth Fairy. It's not bad but probably a better experience seeing it with kids.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: gbuell on January 21, 2013, 11:08:59 AM
The Impossible. This movie drops you in the middle of the 2004 Asian tsunami REALLY effectively. It's pretty terrifying. A very intense and harrowing experience. I felt a little shell-shocked after watching. Also, I love Naomi Watts.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on January 21, 2013, 10:21:39 PM
Dear Django Unchained,

You show in hilarious fashion the reason why random strangers come up to me and say they hate white people. Who's next on the chopping block, Tarantino? General Mao? I'm sure a lot of Chinese people would love to see that. I suggest using Ip Man as your lead actor.

Watching you several times I'm sure,
Stogi
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Caliban on January 21, 2013, 11:37:06 PM
Transformers Dark of the Moon... except for the battle scenes with Optimus Prime there was nothing else of importance to retain my attention.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on January 22, 2013, 11:12:16 PM
Batman Returns

Finally after 4 fucking tires I get a non-damaged netflix disc. While leagues better than Batman, I still can't help but feel it's it's completely outclassed by the Dark Knight trilogy. Guess I like my batman a little more serious.

Oh it didn't help that the second you see the Penguin in full figure, all I heard in my head was Mac and Dennis yelling "Jesus, Frank why do you smell like ****?!" hahaha
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on January 22, 2013, 11:26:05 PM
hahaha nice

Life of Pi

Takes a few liberties from the book but adds the most compelling imagery I have seen in a movie to date. Like Khush, there are quite a few moments that I will never forget. Amazing.

If I had to pick which medium to enjoy it in, I would still pick the book. It's more complete. But man, they did a great job with the movie. Probably my favorite of last year.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on January 23, 2013, 12:15:06 PM
speaking of compelling imagery, did anyone see that last tom  hanks movie to come out? it looked interesting but it didn't seem to last in my theaters very long.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on January 23, 2013, 12:21:50 PM
The movie lost major money for the studio. It cost $102 million to make and only grossed $71 million in theatres (which means the studio only actually got about $35 million since movie theatres get about half of it).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on January 23, 2013, 12:51:08 PM
When a studio has a slow gros for a movie, you'd think they would try to keep it in theaters longer
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on January 23, 2013, 12:59:29 PM
whats it called???
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: gbuell on January 23, 2013, 01:07:44 PM
Cloud Atlas.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on January 23, 2013, 01:15:18 PM
Thanks!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on January 23, 2013, 01:31:08 PM
When a studio has a slow gros for a movie, you'd think they would try to keep it in theaters longer

But if the movie is not doing well, it's hard to convince theatres to keep airing the movie instead of replacing it with another one.
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Post by: TrueNerd on January 23, 2013, 01:52:22 PM
I quite liked CLOUD ATLAS. Even if it was heavy handed and messy.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on January 23, 2013, 02:19:16 PM
I haven't see Cloud Atlas either, but with all movies like that, I want to enjoy the book first.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on January 23, 2013, 02:34:00 PM
I'm too lazy to create it but, since it seems to be a popular meme, I'll say this:

Turning pages? Aint nobody got time for that!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on January 23, 2013, 02:38:53 PM
(http://slacktory.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Aint-nobody-got-time-for-that-remix.jpg)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on January 23, 2013, 03:21:24 PM
Time well spent, kudos
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on January 24, 2013, 01:10:55 AM
Pitch Perfect: Surprisingly good. Also, Anna Kendrick.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Pixelated Pixies on January 24, 2013, 01:49:55 AM
Finally seen Django yesterday. I had a blast, it was thoroughly enjoyable. I do have some criticisms; there was a point at which the film could have came to a natural conclusion, but Tarrantino drags it out for another 30 minutes with no real purpose, the central character of Django doesn't actually have much of a character until the final scenes, and certain scenes go on longer than they should. Despite those quibbles though, I thought it was a really good film. It's not up to the standards of Inglorious in my opinion, but it's still really well made and surprisingly funny.
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Post by: Plugabugz on January 24, 2013, 05:37:40 AM
Finally seen Django yesterday. I had a blast, it was thoroughly enjoyable. I do have some criticisms; there was a point at which the film could have came to a natural conclusion, but Tarrantino drags it out for another 30 minutes with no real purpose, the central character of Django doesn't actually have much of a character until the final scenes, and certain scenes go on longer than they should. Despite those quibbles though, I thought it was a really good film. It's not up to the standards of Inglorious in my opinion, but it's still really well made and surprisingly funny.

I saw it yesterday too. Was it the point when Schultz shoots Candie simply because he cannot shake his hand to complete the transaction and said "I can't do it!" followed by being shot himself? If it was, that was the point when the film basically said WE DONT NEED YOU ANYMORE! and dumped the character but didn't have a way to do it without breaking what the character had established.
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Post by: Pixelated Pixies on January 24, 2013, 08:33:46 AM
I saw it yesterday too. Was it the point when Schultz shoots Candie simply because he cannot shake his hand to complete the transaction and said "I can't do it!" followed by being shot himself? If it was, that was the point when the film basically said WE DONT NEED YOU ANYMORE! and dumped the character but didn't have a way to do it without breaking what the character had established.

Indeed. It was right after that scene that I got the impression that Tarrantino did not know how to end it.
 

It's almost as if the only thing he could think of was to have the plantation house be blown up, but then he realised that neither Django or Dr Shultz had brought any dynamite. So he haphazardly delays the movie for 30 minutes so that Django can get free, come into posession of some dynamite, and then return to the house to finish off what remained of those who survived.
 
That might be me reading too much into it, but everything after Dr Shultz' death seemed aimless to me. Django gives himself up, get's threatened with torture but ultimately gets sent off to work to death in a mine, but manages to talk his way out of it, and returns to the house to kill everyone he hadn't already killed. Narratively, it's just lazy. The film reached a natural conclusion with the death of Candie and Shultz. Instead of breaking up the gun fight into two parts, they should have just given Django his hero moment and ended the film there in my opinion.

 
Still really enjoyed it though. Christoph Waltz was amazing as ususal.
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Post by: Plugabugz on January 24, 2013, 11:44:55 AM
Christoph Waltz, Samuel L Jackson and Leonardo di Caprio totally nailed their roles.

But i do agree: the film felt like it was going to end with him being re-captured and a sharp cut-to-black, but it didnt and went off on a tangent to get back to the house and put him "on top".
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: tendoboy1984 on January 26, 2013, 01:52:28 PM
Total Recall (2012) - 7/10

The Words - 8/10

Dark Shadows - 5/10

The Apparition - 3/10

Ted - 10/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on January 26, 2013, 04:32:46 PM
Django

in the script the ending goes down a little bit different. Django gets hauled off by the aussies. Then he kills them then grabs tnt. Blows up the house and then kills everyone at the funeral. Also, theres a scene with django and stephen cut out. In this scene it further illustrates the adversarial relation between django and stephen. Django beats up stephen for talking back to him in private. theres another scene  where candy wins broomhilda in a card bet.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on January 26, 2013, 08:12:48 PM
Beasts of the Southern Crap Wild: Turned it off a half-hour in/10


Screw this movie. I hated every character. EVERY character. The father a jerk who shouldn't be a father, the daughter is...I don't even know how to describe her, but I couldn't stand her. When her daddy yelled at her that one time, her immediate reaction was TO SET FIRE TO HER HOUSE, (highlight to read) which is when I said "eff you, kid, and eff this movie."


The other thing that irritated the sh*t out of me was the constant invoking of the fearsome "Aurochs."


The aurochs is a real animal, and it IS prehistoric. However, it's a bovine that formed the base of the modern domestic cattle. In fact, many "primitive" breeds of cattle, like the Spanish Fighting Bulls, still largely resemble aurochs. You know what an aurochs is NOT? A tusked, pig-like nightmare beast that hunted cavemen. God LORD that part of the movie made me mad. Why even BRING UP an aurochs is you're not going to use it correctly? Why not go with a goddamn saber-tooth tiger or short-faced bear?


WHY ARE YOU LYING ABOUT AN ANIMAL YOU THINK HAS A COOL-SOUNDING NAME?


Anyway, I turned the movie off not long after Honeybear (or whatever her backcountry bayou name was) cut her hand while trying to smack a bullhead. "This isn't going to get any better," I said.
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Post by: TJ Spyke on January 26, 2013, 08:18:16 PM
LOL, somehow it was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture. I think it only got nominated because it's the typical crap that the older base who are members of the Academy like (the nominations and winners are usually jokes). No chance of winning, I had never heard of it before it was nominated and it looks bad.
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Post by: Pixelated Pixies on January 26, 2013, 09:25:15 PM
I really enjoyed BotSW. The acting was superb, particularly that of the young actress who played Hushpuppy, and the cinematography was beautiful. I also thought that the fictional post-apocalyptic setting gave a unique mood to what was effectively a tale of growing up.
 
My only real criticism of the film is that I found it's ecological message to be a little trite. However, watched as a character study with an interesting framing device (I'd be interested to hear whether or not you accepted the Aurochs as anything more than a young girl's imagination) I think it's a fantastic film.
 
The fact that BotSW received Oscar recognition at least takes the sting out of the fact that The Master was largely ignored in all the big categories.
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Post by: TJ Spyke on January 26, 2013, 09:31:52 PM
Well, The Master was also a commercial flop in theatres (budget was $35 million, it only made $20 million).
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Post by: Pixelated Pixies on January 26, 2013, 09:42:00 PM
That really surprises me. The Master might not be as substantive as There Will Be Blood, or as refreshing as Punch-Drunk Love, but Hoffman, Adams and Phoenix absolutely nailed their roles and it was perhaps one of the most visually appealing films I've ever seen. For me that goes a long way.
 
I wonder how it done internationally.
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Post by: TJ Spyke on January 26, 2013, 09:45:56 PM
Pretty poorly. I looked up the officially numbers, it made $16,057,745 domestically and $7,647,215 internationally. To be fair though, the movie never got to be in more than 864 theatres.
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Post by: Pixelated Pixies on January 26, 2013, 09:48:46 PM
Bummer.
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Post by: gbuell on January 28, 2013, 12:58:21 AM
Zach, you are a fucking psychopath. You know the aurochs in the movie weren't meant to be real, right?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TrueNerd on January 28, 2013, 05:49:27 PM
Beasts of the Southern Crap Wild: Turned it off a half-hour in/10

I hate kids in movies and was expecting a prehistoric nature documentary.

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on January 28, 2013, 06:09:09 PM
The Theives (a korean movie): 8/10

This movies runs a little long for its own good, but it's well worth the ride. It's a hybrid of Ocean's Eleven, Snatch and a Korean movie. I recommend it to anyone looking for a good foreign film.

There is one scene in particular that stands out where this man and woman are trying to get away from a casino. Bad ass.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on January 28, 2013, 07:39:09 PM
Has anyone seen either: Mama, Movie 43 or A Haunted House?

The not really interested in any of them but I have a date tonight and want to know what I'm getting into with either of these. I've either seen everything else currently out or have absolutely zero interest in the rest, so these are my options.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on January 28, 2013, 07:48:30 PM
Movie 43 has a 4% rating on Rotten Tomatoes (maybe the fact that it has 12 different storylines, each directed by a different director, has something to do with it. Roger Ebert even said "Movie 43 is the new Citizen Kane of awful".

A Haunted House is not much higher, it has a average of 6%.
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Post by: oohhboy on January 28, 2013, 07:50:58 PM
Short version. Going on a date with any of those movies will not get you laid.
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Post by: TJ Spyke on January 28, 2013, 07:52:17 PM
Mama is getting decent reviews (63% average), and it's a horror film (so you might get her holding onto you).
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Post by: EasyCure on January 28, 2013, 07:59:22 PM
Movie 43 has a 4% rating on Rotten Tomatoes (maybe the fact that it has 12 different storylines, each directed by a different director, has something to do with it. Roger Ebert even said "Movie 43 is the new Citizen Kane of awful".

A Haunted House is not much higher, it has a average of 6%.

Actually, I knew that about Movie 43 and its interesting enough to check out but not my choice of a date flick but between the two of us, we've seen everything else currently out (besides the ones indicated).

A Haunted House seems like terrible terrible trash in my eyes but she's the kind of person that might like it...

Short version. Going on a date with any of those movies will not get you laid.

I'm not worried about that part, trust me.

Mama is getting decent reviews (63% average), and it's a horror film (so you might get her holding onto you).

That would be my top pick since I generally like Guillermo del Toro's films. She's already holding on to my arm when we go out so I'm not really trying to progress the relationship from square one or anything, I just don't want to be bored out of my mind during a movie. Horror movies usually bore me because I find them predictable which is the only thing I have against this one, but out of the other choices this would be my top pick; I just don't know how she feels about horror movies. It hasn't really come up in conversation but she seems like she'd be a baby and refuse to see it all together.

Thanks though, to both of you. This forum really does deliver! haha
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Post by: BranDonk Kong on January 28, 2013, 08:55:10 PM
Movie 43 looks like a Hollywood copy of The Underground Comedy Movie starring the Sham-wow guy.
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Post by: Halbred on January 28, 2013, 09:43:08 PM
I saw Mama this last weekend. Very good, but very predictable scares. Pretty standard for a post-The Ring horror movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on January 28, 2013, 09:45:05 PM
Zach, you are a fucking psychopath. You know the aurochs in the movie weren't meant to be real, right?

It's a filmmaker issue. Whoever made the movie could've put a saber-tooth tiger or an entelodont or any other ACTUAL DANGEROUS ANIMAL on that woman's leg. And she could've been yapping about how marsupial lions almost caused our extinction. But no, the filmmaker went with CATTLE. THAT'S the part that annoys me. It's irresponsible and there's no reason to do it that way.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Pixelated Pixies on January 29, 2013, 07:43:24 AM
Just to reiterate. You do realise the Aurochs were a metaphor right? They're not supposed to be taken literally. They were a young girl's imagined threat in the face of the much larger threat of global warming. It's completely immaterial what Aurochs actually looked or behaved like, it's irrelevant. Hushpuppy imagines them as they're shown in the film.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Pixelated Pixies on January 29, 2013, 08:08:53 AM
I just saw Lincoln last night.
 
I'm not sure what to make of it just yet. Not being an American, my understanding of the person of Lincoln and the events surrounding the 13th amendment are pretty limited, but I do feel like the film managed to strike a good balance between showing the machinery of politics while still managing to convey the ideals that motivated the man himself.
 
My big issue with the film, however, was the amount of times Lincoln sermonised throughout the movie. I found myself in agreement with one character in the film (the secretary of war I believe) who stated something to the effect that he could not bare to stand another one of Lincoln's stories. At a certain point in the film I too became weary of both Lincoln's grandiose oratory and his incessent parables.
 
Although the film was attempting to make a point about the need to be pragmatic, often as not I found myself more in agreement with Tommy Lee Jone's character.
 
Still, it's a good film with some great performances.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Do_What on January 29, 2013, 10:12:30 AM
As a film, removed from actual history, Lincoln didn't really do it for me.


I saw Men in Black 3 for the first time last weekend and thought it was awesome. I was surprised since I thought MiB2 was regrettable.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on January 29, 2013, 12:45:50 PM
Movie 43 looks like a Hollywood copy of The Underground Comedy Movie starring the Sham-wow guy.

wow I didn't even think about that, never seem it though.

my only interest in the movie is to see how it comes together as a whole. i read somewhere that it was multiple stories but couldn't conform if they were pieced together in an over arching manor. Of its like that one episode of the simpsons, I'd be interested.

we didn't end up seeing a movie.
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Post by: TJ Spyke on January 29, 2013, 02:25:25 PM
my only interest in the movie is to see how it comes together as a whole. i read somewhere that it was multiple stories but couldn't conform if they were pieced together in an over arching manor. Of its like that one episode of the simpsons, I'd be interested.

You mean like the episode "22 Short Films About Springfield"?
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Post by: EasyCure on January 29, 2013, 03:56:58 PM
yes, exactly.
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Post by: TJ Spyke on January 29, 2013, 03:59:48 PM
Well, Wikipedia says that the main version of the film is presented as someone trying to pitch different films to a studio executive, then the executive hating them and forcing him to watch different films. An alternate version shown in countries like the UK though has it set up as 3 teens searching the world for the most banned movies.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on January 29, 2013, 04:07:22 PM
I'll wait for netflix.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on January 29, 2013, 04:09:38 PM
Anyone seen Seveen Psychopaths? Is it good?
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Post by: Pixelated Pixies on January 29, 2013, 04:33:42 PM
Anyone seen Seveen Psychopaths? Is it good?

I thought it was enjoyable, but it was nowhere near as funny or as rebellious as In Bruges.
 
Arguably, it also manages to fall into the same traps as the Tarrantino-inspired gangster movies that it's ridiculing (the disregard for female characters, the fact that characters are defined by a quirk be it in their personality or their physical appearance, the disappointing deflated ending etc). Some might say that these things were intentional, or that McDonagh was being satirical, but it didn't really work for me.
 
The mechanics of the narrative aside though, the film can be hilarious. Walken, Rockwell and Waits are particularly good.

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on January 29, 2013, 08:21:25 PM
Decided to see The Liability instead.

It was a decent to good movie with an interesting subject matter. I don't want to ruin it but there is a scene where a guy is getting choked out in a car with some wire. Now I've seen this sort of scene a lot, but I haven't ever seen someone do what I would do in that situation: LEAN THE SEAT BACK. Pansies.
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Post by: ThePerm on January 29, 2013, 08:23:44 PM
Anyone seen Seveen Psychopaths? Is it good?

i watched 7 psychopaths, but i was very hammered.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on January 29, 2013, 08:23:49 PM
Not all cars have seats that do that. Plus, in that situation you don't have time to think.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on January 29, 2013, 08:30:32 PM
Not all cars have seats that lean back on the drivers side? Maybe not in the Democratic Republic of North Korea.
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Post by: TJ Spyke on January 29, 2013, 08:34:06 PM
Do you mean push the seat back (i.e. just move it back toward the back) or lean it back (i.e. it basically becomes more horizontal?). Because it you mean lean it more horizontal, it's really common for seats not to do that.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on January 29, 2013, 08:40:11 PM
Every car I've ever been in can lean the seat back so it's horizontal. Maybe not all the way, but definitely enough to save your life in that situation.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on January 29, 2013, 08:44:17 PM
Well, most cars I have been in have not.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on January 29, 2013, 09:04:43 PM
In Russia, car drives you.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on January 29, 2013, 09:12:03 PM
I've never seen a car where both front seats don't lean and move back.

Please share with us what kind of car doesn't have an adjustable driver seat, and instead positions it in a "one position fits all"

And the cars that Kytim and his family drive at the trailer park that use plastic lawn chairs as driver seats does not count. :P
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on January 29, 2013, 09:13:24 PM
I think all cars have the seats move back, but not all let it lean back. Leaning back is really of no use unless you just want to lay down, it has no function for making it easier to drive.
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Post by: NWR_insanolord on January 29, 2013, 10:08:31 PM
Every car I've been in in my life has allowed the two front seats to lean back.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Shaymin on January 29, 2013, 10:22:01 PM
Last car I was in that didn't have reclining seats was a 1987 Chevrolet Celebrity.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on January 30, 2013, 09:03:13 AM
Station Wagon. Bench Seats for the Win...
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Pixelated Pixies on January 30, 2013, 11:25:25 AM
I saw 'Zero Dark 30' yesterday.
 
Skip this section if you don't care about my assessment of the debate surrounding this film.
 
***
 
There has been much debate among critics as to whether or not this film does or does not endorse torture as a legitimate means of extracting information. That debate frankly is bogus. Zero Dark 30 does not take a political stance as far as the legitmacy of the tactics involved are concerned. It merely presents these methods to the audience; Methods that were employed to extract information, useful or otherwise.
 
Where the film does take a stance I feel is in the usefulness of such information. Without going into spoilers, in the film a crucial piece of information is extracted through torture and misinformation. What the film does go on to show, however, is that this piece of 'intelligence' had already been given to the intelligence services. Zero Dark 30 does not indict torture on moral grounds (as I say, it remains largely apolitical), but rather indicts torture on the grounds that such intelligence is rarely trustworthy and often merely stands to corroborate what is already known.
 
The question that the film does leave you with in it's very final scene, but does not answer, is whether or not such information is worth the cost, both to those whose human rights are fettered by such military practices but also the cost to those who dole out such punishment.
 
***
 
I love the perspective this film takes on the 'War on Terror'. It's from the vantage point of those who actually cultivate leads, gather intelligence and package them up into a presentable case, which is then floated up the chain to those who take the decisions. It was all very interesting.
 
The first half of the movie, therefore, feels very much like a thriller. There's an intense feeling of dread and danger throughout this first section of the film, so when it does eventually switch gears to the military raid on the complex itself it almost feels cathartic. The raid is executed in what seems like real-time and the effect is that it truely feels like a calculated and deliberate assault. It portrays a restained forcefullness that I've not seen in many other military sequences.
 
In terms of performances, they're universally great. Jessica Chastain, Mark Strong, Mark Duplass, and James Gandolfini being particularly noteworthy.
 
This film is highly recommended. Be wary though, it will leave you feeling drained.

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Post by: EasyCure on January 30, 2013, 10:03:06 PM
Continuing my Batman trip..

Batman Forever 

Honestly.. wasn't as bad as I was expecting it to be. I only saw it once, when it first released, and I was a kid, and growing up all you remember is the hate it gets when it comes up on the internet. While I'm not saying it was better than Batman or Batman Returns, it just wasn't garbage like everyone seems to think these days.

If you think about it in the context of it being more like a live action cartoon/comic, then the movie is pretty well made. However, the reason it still remains a bad movie overall is all the DUMB LITTLE **** they seem to overlook that is so blatantly TERRIBLE that it drags the rest of the movie down with it.

Example:

seriously... there were SO many god awful soundbits like that, and they stay in your head driving you mad so that you grow to hate it and have the urge to shout about it on the internet lol.

On the bright side, Nicole Kidman had one of the hottest characters ever, in Chase "psychology makes me hot" Meridian. Oh and Drew Barrymore?? Man there was so many good things I didn't appreciate enough when I was a kid.

Overall rating: betterthanexpected.jpeg
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Post by: TJ Spyke on January 30, 2013, 10:19:23 PM
Calling it bad because of ONE line? That was a throwaway line meant to be a throwback to the live actions 60s series. And it is better than the original Batman movie.
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Post by: EasyCure on January 30, 2013, 11:19:29 PM
Calling it bad because of ONE line? That was a throwaway line meant to be a throwback to the live actions 60s series. And it is better than the original Batman movie.

No, it isn't ONE line, that was just an example. Watch the movie and tell me "IT'S ACID!" and "MY SHOE IS MELTING!" don't make you cringe. Robin's line is great, I like the throwback to the 60's series; what I find terrible is Batman's responses. There is so much randomly odd grumbling and moaning in the film that sticks with you and drags down the already horrible dialogue.

And while the bat-suit was 10x better than what they had in the prior two batman films (minus the nipples.. and that ass-shot.. wtf?), Val Kilmer had way too many awkward close-ups with this dumb confused look in his eyes, as well as a gaping mouth hole.. He must not of been able to breathe in that thing because every other close up has his mouth wide open as if he's gasping for breath.

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And it is better than the original Batman movie.

If you're talking about the 1966 film (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_(1966_film)) then yes, much better. It was a great action flick but with some campy scenes here and there but nothing as cheesy as Batman '66. Better than the 1989 film (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_(1989_film)).. honestly, an argument can be made because BF did certain things well (and probably better than people give it credit) but over-all my vote goes for Batman '89 as the better of the two.
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Post by: Khushrenada on January 31, 2013, 01:13:17 AM
I think the biggest thing working against Batman Forever is that Batman: TAS had been on the air for a couple years by that point and it was so good that it pretty much became the de facto standard of what the Batman villains and characters and world should be like. Batman and Batman Returns had the good fortune to be released before that series and a couple things from those movies even carried over to the animated show like the Penguins design or the episode where the Penguin controls the Batmobile.

So, seeing Batman Forever, things about it always seemed off with Two-Face killing the Graysons, the giant statues all over the city or all the neon, it just struck me as wrong when watching it. That said, I still enjoyed it and watched it a few other times growing up. For some reason, I always use to think that Val Kilmer made a good Bruce Wayne. I didn't care for him in the costume but I thought he looked right as the Billioniare playboy. I also really liked the scene where Two-Face and Riddler invade the mansion and shoot Bruce in the head and his unconcious body slides down the stairs. There's something about that scene/moment I've always liked. And at the end as well, when Batman defeats Two-Face by throwing up a bunch of coins at the same time was something I hadn't seen before and thought was clever. It never caused the pain and constant eye-rolling that Batman and Robin did when I saw that sorry excuse for a movie.
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Post by: Plugabugz on January 31, 2013, 04:52:38 AM
Gangster Squad - This film felt like a series of pieces that moved form one to the next. How did Mickey Cohen realise they're cops because they took nothing (as opposed to anarchists or kids?!), then work out which cops it is if nobody in the police force except one person knows of its existence?

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Post by: S-U-P-E-R on January 31, 2013, 07:15:25 AM
Saw Dark Knight Rises, was confused as to why the good guy died. Bane
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Post by: Adrock on January 31, 2013, 08:50:20 AM
Bruno
Awful.

It had some decent jokes, but the rest was very trite. Borat was better (though I didn't think it was amazing like most people I know), it had more memorable lines and moments. Maybe it's unfair to compare the 2. Harrison Ford's brief cameo was simple, but excellent. That was probably the only scene in Bruno I thought was really funny.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on January 31, 2013, 08:10:04 PM
I think the biggest thing working against Batman Forever is that Batman: TAS had been on the air for a couple years by that point and it was so good that it pretty much became the de facto standard of what the Batman villains and characters and world should be like. Batman and Batman Returns had the good fortune to be released before that series and a couple things from those movies even carried over to the animated show like the Penguins design or the episode where the Penguin controls the Batmobile.

So, seeing Batman Forever, things about it always seemed off with Two-Face killing the Graysons, the giant statues all over the city or all the neon, it just struck me as wrong when watching it. That said, I still enjoyed it and watched it a few other times growing up. For some reason, I always use to think that Val Kilmer made a good Bruce Wayne. I didn't care for him in the costume but I thought he looked right as the Billioniare playboy. I also really liked the scene where Two-Face and Riddler invade the mansion and shoot Bruce in the head and his unconcious body slides down the stairs. There's something about that scene/moment I've always liked. And at the end as well, when Batman defeats Two-Face by throwing up a bunch of coins at the same time was something I hadn't seen before and thought was clever. It never caused the pain and constant eye-rolling that Batman and Robin did when I saw that sorry excuse for a movie.

I honestly can't remember if I was really into Batman: TAS back then so I can't say I agree with you but I will say you make a very good point.

Honestly, there are some things Batman Forever did better than Batman or Batman Returns, but has just as many shitty parts that drag it all down. The fight scenes felt more like Batman than what we see in Batman or Batman Returns; in the latter two films, you barely see anything and what you do see is so stiff because of how restricting the costume was on Keaton. They did a good job of fixing that stiffness when it came to the fight scenes, but still couldn't figure out how to let Kilmer move his neck BUT they avoided that as much as possible so you don't really notice. The villains however.. ugh.

TLJ as Two-face.. I wasn't feeling him. I like TLJ but his take on the character just didn't work for me and I honestly can't pin-point why, aside from a strictly aesthetic issue I have. Meanwhile, Jim Carrey had some good moments, he's a believable psycho, but the rest was just way too over-the top. Maybe I'm just tired of his loud zany antics because I'm an old fart, who knows. All I know is most of his scenes I had to lower the volume down because it was too much for me to handle.

I'm too sick to continue further, i'm going to bed.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on January 31, 2013, 08:26:53 PM
of the old Batman movies the first one is the best, it holds up the most. Batman Returns doesn't hold up as well as i remember. Batman Forever is weird, but enjoyable. Batman and Robin is terrible. Though i've had this conversation a ton of times before.

TLJ as two-face i thought was good, but unlike twoface he was one dimensional. They skipped the character development in favor of a quick flashback. I've mentioned a few times, id like to see a special directors cut with deleted scenes and possibly additions., a new sound track...etc.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on January 31, 2013, 08:58:05 PM
of the old Batman movies the first one is the best, it holds up the most. Batman Returns doesn't hold up as well as i remember. Batman Forever is weird, but enjoyable. Batman and Robin is terrible. Though i've had this conversation a ton of times before.

TLJ as two-face i thought was good, but unlike twoface he was one dimensional. They skipped the character development in favor of a quick flashback. I've mentioned a few times, id like to see a special directors cut with deleted scenes and possibly additions., a new sound track...etc.

Couldn't sleep, just wanted to chime in and say some of the aesthetics of Batman didn't hold up as well as I expected but they did for Batman Returns, with my only gripes being how campy that first gang scene is. Michelle Pfeiffer was 10x hotter than I remember, then again I was 6 when the movie came out. Holy crap it's been 20 years..

Up next on my netflix dvd queue is, reluctantly, Batman & Robin.. we'll see how that goes...
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on January 31, 2013, 09:07:19 PM
The worst thing about Two-Face in Batman Forever is that he keeps flipping the coin until he gets the result he wants.

Batman Returns didn't hold up well at all. I caught the middle of it a few years ago and the second Batman says, "Eat floor. High in fiber" or something, the rose colored glasses came off.

Batman and Robin is pure, comedic gold. If you go in expecting a good Batman movie, you're setting yourself up for disappointment. Lower your expectations and it's a much better experience. "What killed the dinosaurs? The Ice Age!" Awesome.
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Post by: nickmitch on January 31, 2013, 10:19:29 PM
Gangster Squad - This film felt like a series of pieces that moved form one to the next. How did Mickey Cohen realise they're cops because they took nothing (as opposed to anarchists or kids?!), then work out which cops it is if nobody in the police force except one person knows of its existence?

Cohen wasn't the governornment, so why would anarchists be after him? And kids wouldn't be able to out gun a bunch of dudes. Or probably get in to most of those establishments. Plus, there's only one good cop who's been up his ass and he seems to hang around with a handful of guys publicly, so it couldn't have been that hard.


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Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on January 31, 2013, 10:34:43 PM
The worst thing about Two-Face in Batman Forever is that he keeps flipping the coin until he gets the result he wants.

Batman Returns didn't hold up well at all. I caught the middle of it a few years ago and the second Batman says, "Eat floor. High in fiber" or something, the rose colored glasses came off.

Batman and Robin is pure, comedic gold. If you go in expecting a good Batman movie, you're setting yourself up for disappointment. Lower your expectations and it's a much better experience. "What killed the dinosaurs? The Ice Age!" Awesome.

Actually.. I believe Val Kilmer said that in BF. I cringed. At least the "It's the car right? Chicks love the car" came off rather clever this time around.
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Post by: azeke on January 31, 2013, 11:02:41 PM
You may like Tommy Lee Jones as Two Face or not, but he is still the best (only) live action representation of the character.

TDK's Two Face has absolutely nothing to do with comic book or cartoon character apart from "half of his face scarred" thing.

I never understood hate towards Shoemacher movies. Also, crazy architecture was probably my favourite part of old Batman movies. Like, they have observatory on palms of a huge colossus in the middle of a city and then batman rides bike right on his hand or something. How cool is that?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on January 31, 2013, 11:41:38 PM
Actually.. I believe Val Kilmer said that in BF.
Batman says it to Catwoman.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TrueNerd on February 01, 2013, 04:51:46 AM
Catching up on Oscar noms.

SILVER LINING'S PLAYBOOK - The first two thirds of this movie are pretty great. David O. Russell brings the same chaotic and dangerous energy to this film that he did with THE FIGHTER and I liked that just as much here. The movie isn't afraid to go to some dark, real places and the actors do a good job selling this. I liked Bradley Cooper! That's never happened before! Jennifer Lawrence is also great, but that was less of a surprise. Unfortunately, the final act of the film ditches all of this great reality and turns into a fluffy fairy tale rom com. It turned what could have been a great movie into just a highly entertaining okay movie.

ARGO - It's a solid, straightforward, intense political thriller. I don't have any complaints about it except it pales in comparison to ZERO DARK THIRTY. ARGO always feels like a Hollywood retelling of a true story while ZERO DARK THIRTY feels like the truth, regardless if it is or not. Still, ARGO is good.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Pixelated Pixies on February 01, 2013, 06:00:07 AM


ARGO - It's a solid, straightforward, intense political thriller. I don't have any complaints about it except it pales in comparison to ZERO DARK THIRTY. ARGO always feels like a Hollywood retelling of a true story while ZERO DARK THIRTY feels like the truth, regardless if it is or not. Still, ARGO is good.

Totally agree. My main criticism of Argo was that while the true story is fascinating, as a movie narrative it ended up being a little too straight forward. Towards the end it really felt like the filmmakers were throwing up makeshift road blocks to create artificial tension (artificial in the sense that the contrivance was obvious).
 
The interesting comparison between Argo and Zero Dark 30 is that both are based on true stories, and therefore the outcome of both films is known. Zero Dark 30, however, did a more successful job of instilling tension. Which is surprising given that the conclusion of Zero Dark 30's story is actually more widely known. Argo's story, by comparison, is less well known and you'd think, therefore, that film would have more opportunity to create anxiety in the audience. In the end though, once Argo had established the goal and the method, things played out pretty much as you'd expect.
 
I still really enjoyed Argo and would definitely recommend it. Zero Dark 30, however, is on a completely different level, and had I seen it in 2012 it would definitely have been my film of that year.

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on February 01, 2013, 09:35:55 AM
Actually.. I believe Val Kilmer said that in BF.
Batman says it to Catwoman.

you're right, I was getting the two confused. maybe I should lay off the batman movies and cough syrup.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: bustin98 on February 01, 2013, 12:37:46 PM
I still think Robin Williams would have made a better Riddler, and Patrick Stewart a better Mister Freeze, and Aaron Eckhart made an excellent Harvey Dent/almost Two Face.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on February 01, 2013, 12:58:27 PM
Patrick Stewart a better Mister Freeze

Yes!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: gbuell on February 01, 2013, 01:08:32 PM
I thought Carrey was inspired casting as Riddler, the best part of that movie for sure.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on February 01, 2013, 01:53:18 PM
his hair bothered me. I know its nitpicking but it really bothered me. After he went red, it was like 5 different shades through the rest if the movie, and even went back to dirty blonde at the party scene. Even as a kid, the inconsistency bothered me.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on February 01, 2013, 02:25:05 PM
his hair bothered me. I know its nitpicking but it really bothered me. After he went red, it was like 5 different shades through the rest if the movie, and even went back to dirty blonde at the party scene. Even as a kid, the inconsistency bothered me.
I always thought they actually did that on purpose so it would.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on February 01, 2013, 02:52:13 PM
odd choice if you ask me, but if it was in purpose, it totally worked.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on February 01, 2013, 05:22:29 PM
Dear 'The Loved Ones',


How many times did I have to pause you? I lost count. The tension, the build, the horrific subject matter made this horror fan cringe. So many times I yelled something to the effect of "DAMMN!" What I liked the most though was how everything introduced had a point, a use, a vision. There were no new characters introduced just to save someone. There was no new plot device or instrument brought in. And this made your movie sing. It's a marvel that this is your director's first movie. While you are probably the best horror film I've seen since 'The Cabin in the Woods', there is no way I'm watching you again.

You Aussies are crazy,
Stogi
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on February 01, 2013, 06:56:02 PM
Couldn't finish Cosmopolis

Premium Rush was good.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on February 01, 2013, 06:59:01 PM
You may like Tommy Lee Jones as Two Face or not, but he is still the best (only) live action representation of the character.

TDK's Two Face has absolutely nothing to do with comic book or cartoon character apart from "half of his face scarred" thing.

I never understood hate towards Shoemacher movies. Also, crazy architecture was probably my favourite part of old Batman movies. Like, they have observatory on palms of a huge colossus in the middle of a city and then batman rides bike right on his hand or something. How cool is that?

he's a district attourney with a dark side thats presented as a do-goody only to be scarred and go maniacal? That sounds like 2Face to me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dslipXaezGk
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: azeke on February 01, 2013, 09:39:53 PM
his hair bothered me. I know its nitpicking but it really bothered me. After he went red, it was like 5 different shades through the rest if the movie, and even went back to dirty blonde at the party scene. Even as a kid, the inconsistency bothered me.
You should see Eternal Sunshine of Spotless Mind.

And not just you, everyone should.

he's a district attourney
Not part of the character. Is Riddler's green bowl hat part of his character? Well, kinda yes cause cool costumes are big parts of comic book characters, but it's not part of his character character.

with a dark side
There were no dark side in Harvey Dent in TDK. There were incredibly slight hints that he's relying on his luck way to much (foreshadowing to coin thing), but that's it.

thats presented as a do-goody
Yes, he's presented as do goody in TDK. Problem is, he's not in everything else. In cartoon even before the scar, he had major anger issues. In comic books he was just a regular dude.

only to be scarred and go maniacal? That sounds like 2Face to me.
In TDK, he's basically Punisher -- he's avenging everyone who killed his loved one (well, except for Joker, because coin told him so).
In comic books and cartoon he's really chaotic and from time to time becomes good (i think he was even Batman at one time).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on February 01, 2013, 09:55:51 PM
his hair bothered me. I know its nitpicking but it really bothered me. After he went red, it was like 5 different shades through the rest if the movie, and even went back to dirty blonde at the party scene. Even as a kid, the inconsistency bothered me.
You should see Eternal Sunshine of Spotless Mind.

And not just you, everyone should.


Seen it, loved it. They actually filmed a scene or two in my hometown. Lotta good memories tied to that movie, the kind I wouldn't want erased from my brain - know what I mean? :)

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on February 02, 2013, 01:28:05 AM
Pupl Fiction: not even half way through and its still the 10/10 I remember.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on February 02, 2013, 10:13:42 AM
Bullet To The Head - Sylvester Stallone spent a good two thirds of the movie looking like he smelt something frowsy. It was hilarious in its own right. It's short at 90 minutes too.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on February 02, 2013, 10:50:23 AM
I'll still watch it, he's like the grandpa you wish you had, that took you out to get laid and beat up dudes with
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Pixelated Pixies on February 02, 2013, 11:20:58 AM
I'll still watch it, he's like the grandpa you wish you had, that took you out to get laid and beat up dudes with

I don't know, that grandpa sounds eerily like Duke Nukem. I don't think I like the idea of Grandpa Nukem.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on February 02, 2013, 11:31:41 AM
I'll still watch it, he's like the grandpa you wish you had, that took you out to get laid and beat up dudes with

I don't know, that grandpa sounds eerily like Duke Nukem. I don't think I like the idea of Grandpa Nukem.

DUKE NUKEM FOREVER
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on February 02, 2013, 12:37:22 PM
I'll still watch it, he's like the grandpa you wish you had, that took you out to get laid and beat up dudes with

It's not bad - i enjoyed it for how direct and shameless it was to driving its story forward.

Need to see The Last Stand next.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on February 02, 2013, 04:43:56 PM
Silver Lining's Playbook - 9/10

I felt like I was immediately involved with the characters from the very beginning. The acting was amazing. The story tried to end in what looked like a cheesy 80s movie plot, but it worked since that whole set up mostly just ended the side plots. It's not your conventional love story, but that's what makes it great.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on February 02, 2013, 08:08:34 PM
@azeke

Quote from: azeke
with a dark side
There were no dark side in Harvey Dent in TDK. There were incredibly slight hints that he's relying on his luck way to much (foreshadowing to coin thing), but that's it.

thats presented as a do-goody
Yes, he's presented as do goody in TDK. Problem is, he's not in everything else. In cartoon even before the scar, he had major anger issues. In comic books he was just a regular dude.
did you miss this scene?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=7ZEQQeN3pdI#t=106s
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: azeke on February 02, 2013, 11:38:18 PM
did you miss this scene?
Nope.
1) He was angry cause you know, Joker kidnapped his gf
2) His coin is double sided -- so even when he's angry, he's still in control.
3) He's standing right beside a guy dressed in latex with little cute ears on his head, who just beat that guy (or broke something in him, don't remember), and HE is the one with the dark side?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Dasmos on February 05, 2013, 09:39:39 AM
I reckon they should rename Django Unchained to Django Off Da Chain!

I really liked it. One guy in the cinema almost vomited during one scene. I also thought the "Australians" were pretty hilarious as well.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Pixelated Pixies on February 05, 2013, 12:00:50 PM
I also thought the "Australians" were pretty hilarious as well.

 :confused;
 
Weird. I thought that was the weakest part of the film.
 
Those scenes with Django in transit to the mine didn't really go anywhere, and needlessly dragged the film beyond what would have (IMO) been a far more natural conclusion (the death of Candy and Shultz, and the amazing bloodbath that followed). Admittedly, when he does return to the estate it's from a position of power (which I assume was the point) but nothing much has really changed other than the fact that they weren't expecting him. I can't help but feel that there must have been a more adroit way to have written that ending.
 
There's also the fact that those scenes with Australians include one of the worst cameos I've ever seen. It was excruciating to watch him try to act and do an accent at that same time, lol. Truely terrible.
 
It doesn't really matter though, because the rest of that film is so well made.

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on February 05, 2013, 02:02:23 PM
Yeah I would have ended it with the death of Django, but then followed his wife into the next act where she avenges Django through clever play and escapes to freedom.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on February 05, 2013, 02:03:23 PM
I reckon they should rename Django Unchained to Django Off Da Chain!

Really?

I hope that sounded funnier in your head.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on February 05, 2013, 07:54:20 PM
give it an Australian accent.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on February 05, 2013, 08:12:02 PM
give it an Australian accent.

Django; Australian for "off da chain"

Ok guys, wish me luck.. I'm about to watch Batman & Robin... something tells me not to be sober for this..

edit: I don't think I can make it through this whole movie..

It just started, with 16 close-up shots, that zoom in even closer only to do a quick cut away to another close-up shot that zooms in closer before cutting away to.. you get it? Sixteen times. SIXTEEN FUCKING TIMES CONSECUTIVELY! haha

Something about Batman's cowl seems off, it doesn't look like batman. Plus CLooney's chin is so well known, that's all you can picture. It even sounds like George Clooney over Bruce Wayne.Robin looks ok. Doesn't look much like the Robin I know, but looks better than batman. Still, was it really necessary to double up the ass close-ups?

LOL Mr: Freeze: "KILL THE HEROES" HAHAHAhaha

and shortly after "What killed the dinosaurs? THE ICE AGE!"

one of those freeze ray fx were so bad and took up so much space on the screen, I couldn't tell if he was actually hitting batman until it cut to his hands indeed being frozen against a wall. I had no idea what was going on for those few seconds, I thought I had epilepsy. I felt like Ian Curtis' face sorry, I respect the man but it had to be said.

So.. Batman has had at least one scene in every movie prior to this one where he base jumps and uses his cape to either slow his decent or full on glide.. yet in this one, when having to dive out of some.. space tube.. he chooses to air-board toward a gliding Mr. Freeze; which honestly looks way too heavy for that..

Speaking of Freeze; it's strange to look back to a movie from my childhood and realize how much the movie was engineered to sell me those damn toys. There's really no other excuse for all these damn one-liners like "thanks for playing" and "stay cool, bird brain" other than to have some toy utter that **** in such low quality that you questioned whether it was even taken from the movie or re-recorded by some shitty actor hired by Mattel or something.

Speaking of shitty actor, Uma Thurman... is not a shitty actor. But it felt like they told her to just act shitty. Like the director must of said "you know that stuff that you do and win awards for? Do the opposite of that." and why is it that most villains act like such dorks before something happens and they become evil. Michelle Pfeifer was guilty of this too. A nerdy ditz in one second and BOOMP knock on the head, sexy and smart for a deadly combo.

Ok, now she's Poison Ivy and talks like she's from the '50s. I dig it though.

How is batman so tan? lol

Mmmm Alicia Silverstone..<3

haha how does Batman apply for an American Express? Damn, poison ivy sounds like a dirty slut.

It might be the expletive talking, but all these glow-light-gangs are awesome. Thing is, their outfits give then no advantage over GPD. They can't run and hide in alleys cuz GPD would just flash a giant ass blacklight making you standout, dipshits.

Aw.. the scene with the ice sculpture is the only scene that I feel really shows off Mr. Freeze as a real character.

Why does that giant plant just decide to eat Poison Ivy right then and there? Did that plant not tolerate defeat? Ivy failed so it ate her?? Too many questions..

Batgirl to Batman: "Bruce, it's me.. Barbara!" no ****! This always bothered me about Robin too, tiny little mask is supposed to hide your identity. Batman gets a new sidekick at the same time Bruce Wayne adopts some punk kid. At the very least, Robin would have to be at some sort of event with Bruce at SOME point, and be photographed.. and I'm sure at some point the news would photograph Robin.. hell in this movie they held a fundraiser and came for the show (a trap for Freeze, yes, but press was still around covering the event). No one would once say "hey that Dick Grayson looks like Robin..."

Is their a meme for Arnold eating things? There should be. Thanks for reading folks!

The End.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on February 05, 2013, 09:58:51 PM
Just enjoy it like a B movie from Mystery Science Theater.  You could just play the Genesis game which is much better.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Dasmos on February 05, 2013, 11:58:56 PM
I reckon they should rename Django Unchained to Django Off Da Chain!

Really?

I hope that sounded funnier in your head.

I'd like to see you come up with a better comment that conveys my enjoyment of the movie that is also a pun on the movie title, mate. That's A-Grade quality!

I also thought the "Australians" were pretty hilarious as well.

 :confused;
 
Weird. I thought that was the weakest part of the film.
 
Those scenes with Django in transit to the mine didn't really go anywhere, and needlessly dragged the film beyond what would have (IMO) been a far more natural conclusion (the death of Candy and Shultz, and the amazing bloodbath that followed). Admittedly, when he does return to the estate it's from a position of power (which I assume was the point) but nothing much has really changed other than the fact that they weren't expecting him. I can't help but feel that there must have been a more adroit way to have written that ending.
 
There's also the fact that those scenes with Australians include one of the worst cameos I've ever seen. It was excruciating to watch him try to act and do an accent at that same time, lol. Truely terrible.
 
It doesn't really matter though, because the rest of that film is so well made.

I didn't really enjoy that part. I liked when Tarantino got blown up, but the rest was pretty cringe worthy. I also doubt that Australians would have an accent that thick after being settled by the British only 70 years prior to when the film was set. It is pretty cool that the other Australian was Jon Jarrett, who is the star of Wolf Creek. Tarantino has said that Wolf Creek was his favourite horror film of the 25 years, and has claimed that Jon Jarrett is his favourite Australian actor. It was a bit of a pleasant surprise to see him.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on February 06, 2013, 11:26:19 AM
When i read the script i didn't know Tarantino would be one of the Australians, that being said that made it all the more funny. The scene was kinda goofy and weak. Theres a similar scene in Army of Darkness that holds up a lot more.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TrueNerd on February 06, 2013, 04:50:12 PM
... What scene in ARMY OF DARKNESS?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on February 06, 2013, 08:51:37 PM
where the knights are dragging ash in bondage, thats about all the similarity though.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TrueNerd on February 06, 2013, 09:40:41 PM
Well, that's also the opening of the film as opposed to the end. Way different stakes going on.

I had no problem with the Australian scene in DJANGO. Sure it was goofy, but there's lots of goofy stuff in that movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on February 07, 2013, 03:02:17 AM
So i watched Zero Dark 30. The film's relentless focus by focussing on Maya (and her quest) alone for me nearly ruined it, mainly as it didn't answer other questions that stuck up during those 10 years.

What else did she sacrifice?
She has no friends because she's trying to find him, or because she can't make friends because of her personality? Does she want to be distracted? Has she tried?
Do her family know where she is? Has she tried to keep in contact?
Was the tears in the final shot to say "i dont know where to go now?"

Also, stick a camera on the shoulder of one of the children on the third floor and film it shaky-cam/24-style as they all cower and hide from the military blowing stuff up downstairs, while we see split-screen what the military does. That would have racked the tension up higher.

I found the character opportunities far more interesting than the actual main plot.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Pixelated Pixies on February 07, 2013, 07:51:00 AM
What else did she sacrifice?
She has no friends because she's trying to find
him, or because she can't make friends because of her personality? Does she want
to be distracted? Has she tried?
Do her family know where she is? Has she
tried to keep in contact?

I'm not sure those questions really fall within the remit of what the film was trying to accomplish. I do, however, feel that enough of Chastin's character (in particular her obsession) was shown for the audience to infer what her social and family life would have been like. On another level, you might even argue that friends and family were simply not important to her character during this period of her life, and that's reflected by the absence of both throughout the film.
 
I can only speak for myself, but those weren't the primary questions that this film left me with. I was far more intrigued by the machinations within the CIA and the justifications the various characters employed to justify their actions. It was absolutely fascinating.
 
Was the tears in the final shot to say "i dont know where to go now?"

This was the real question for me. You can check out my impressions of the film a few pages back, but I took those tears to mean two things. Firstly, it was an outpouring of relief. Secondly, it was the final realisation of what she had done in pursuit of her aim. She had performed some atrocious acts throughout the film (torture being foremost, but let's not forget that she was also the person pushing most forcefully for the compound to be bombed despite the presence of children), and her crying at the end was more a question to the audience. Is the termination of one evil person a justifiable reason to suspend our own codes of conduct or morals? In pursuit of fighting evil, do we ourselves become evil?

It's not a question that the film answers, but rather one that the film poses.

As you can probably tell, I thought this film was exceptional.

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on February 07, 2013, 10:19:43 AM
What else did she sacrifice?
She has no friends because she's trying to find
him, or because she can't make friends because of her personality? Does she want
to be distracted? Has she tried?
Do her family know where she is? Has she
tried to keep in contact?

I'm not sure those questions really fall within the remit of what the film was trying to accomplish. I do, however, feel that enough of Chastin's character (in particular her obsession) was shown for the audience to infer what her social and family life would have been like. On another level, you might even argue that friends and family were simply not important to her character during this period of her life, and that's reflected by the absence of both throughout the film.
 
I can only speak for myself, but those weren't the primary questions that this film left me with. I was far more intrigued by the machinations within the CIA and the justifications the various characters employed to justify their actions. It was absolutely fascinating.
 
Was the tears in the final shot to say "i dont know where to go now?"

This was the real question for me. You can check out my impressions of the film a few pages back, but I took those tears to mean two things. Firstly, it was an outpouring of relief. Secondly, it was the final realisation of what she had done in pursuit of her aim. She had performed some atrocious acts throughout the film (torture being foremost, but let's not forget that she was also the person pushing most forcefully for the compound to be bombed despite the presence of children), and her crying at the end was more a question to the audience. Is the termination of one evil person a justifiable reason to suspend our own codes of conduct or morals? In pursuit of fighting evil, do we ourselves become evil?

It's not a question that the film answers, but rather one that the film poses.

As you can probably tell, I thought this film was exceptional.



Maybe it's me. I preferred when the film began to look at her damage to her personal life that quest did. It only literally fluttered at it for a moment about half way in and only began to hit home when she wrote 100 DAYS!!!! on the window. Then it disappeared again.

The personal toll of quests like this is something that will live with HER indefinitely (remember she basically sacrificed her entire 20s to do this) even if her quest had benefits for the country/countries over the world.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on February 08, 2013, 05:33:19 PM
did you miss this scene?
Nope.
1) He was angry cause you know, Joker kidnapped his gf
2) His coin is double sided -- so even when he's angry, he's still in control.
3) He's standing right beside a guy dressed in latex with little cute ears on his head, who just beat that guy (or broke something in him, don't remember), and HE is the one with the dark side?

Dent doesnt know batmans there. H'es just scaring the **** out of a schizo with his hand gun and batman shows up and is all like "hey maybe if someone saw you do this **** it would look bad, cus you know this is mel gibson type ****"
District attourney's usually arent that crazy. He's still in control, but he's still being extreme. Also at that point Joker has not kidnapped Rachel yet. He supposedly shot Gordon, but thats no excuse to pull mel gibson stuff.

and by mel gibson stuff i mean the crazy rants with his ex wives and the police..not this

http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi2499150105/
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Fatty The Hutt on February 08, 2013, 05:47:13 PM
and by mel gibson stuff i mean the crazy rants with his ex wives and the police..not this

http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi2499150105/ (http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi2499150105/)
That's awesome. It's Mel Gibson's feel-good Twoface movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on February 09, 2013, 09:19:37 AM
What all those other Batman movies were leading up to...

I'm about to watch The Dark Knight Returns (pt 1) for the first time!

edit: Ok so it just ended, and my first impression is WOW. My second impression is "okay, I need to go order this and pt 2 on amazon right now"

The animation was great except that once scene at the start where bruce is in that race and the vehicles just didn't move that fluidly. That's just me being nitpicky though, and I probably shouldn't of even brought it up :P I just want my opinion of it to be fair.

Also, I don't normally like the giant hulking steroid-looking Batman design (not just in this, in other versions as well) but I must say for the amount of brutality displayed in this film, this style did fit much better than the more scaled down version of Batman that I prefer. Oh same sort of disappointment turned to joy happened with Batman's voice. I grew up more on Batman: TAS than the comics or films, so Kevin Conroy will always be THE batman vocally; however Peter Weller's voice grew on me by the end of the film, especially when I read the name in the credits and after 10 minutes of thinking really hard realized why I know the name and voice of Peter Weller; IT WAS FUCKING ROBOCOP THE WHOLE TIME! haha I think it made the brutality that much more enjoyable because now I can picture some strange crossover where elderly batman refuses to retire and becomes robobatman, with peter weller's voice (naturally).

Overall, 10/10 will watch again :D

edit 2: BOOOoo I thought part 2 was out already :( I wanted to buy it noowwwwwww
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Do_What on February 09, 2013, 01:15:48 PM
Starship Troopers: Invasion. The graphics are decent but the animation feels like claymation a lot. I'm not big into it. The story is bad as well, but that's to be expected. Lots of scenes of four space marines standing in a line firing and alien bugs.
I hope the animation in Captain Harlock ends up being a lot better.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: bustin98 on February 09, 2013, 03:15:00 PM
Part 2 is out now. I have it.

These were amazing in their dedication to portraying the original series panel for panel.

Joker's voice actor was all wrong for him. But then only Mark Hamill will ever do.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: azeke on February 09, 2013, 04:02:58 PM
The Dark Knight Returns adaptation was very faithful and transfered the comic to animation letter to letter.

That's why it's a bad animated movie.

The original book is just Frank Miller screaming at everyone who he thinks are everything that is wrong with the world. In this book he outrightly claims that liberals, feminists or whatever are worse than rapists and murderers. Most of the book (and the movie) is a tv footage with talking heads who are strawmen for Miller to make shots at. I don't even care about politics but it still annoys me -- that's how clumsily and in your face it's executed.

Faithful adaptations like these basically use original comic book almost as storyboards, basically the only thing they add is music. DKR pt.1 had awesome sounding 80s electronic music -- easily the best part of both movies (pt.2 lost it for some reason).

DKR pt. 1-2 is one of the very few movies from DC Animated i didn't buy. Just get "Wonder Woman" or "Under the Red Hood" if you insist on your Batman. Even "Year One" will do, cause it's another faithful adaptation but of a good book for change.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on February 09, 2013, 07:20:46 PM
Part 2 is out now. I have it.

These were amazing in their dedication to portraying the original series panel for panel.

Joker's voice actor was all wrong for him. But then only Mark Hamill will ever do.

I went to amazon and the bluray is listed as pre-order only..

Just get "Wonder Woman" or "Under the Red Hood" if you insist on your Batman. Even "Year One" will do, cause it's another faithful adaptation but of a good book for change.

The reason I started this batman movie kick was because I was sick on my weekend off of work and started making a  dent in my netflix queue starting with Batman: Year One and immediately followed by Under the Red Hood.
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Post by: Do_What on February 10, 2013, 08:53:06 AM
Yeah, I haven't seen the DKR movies, but faithful adaptations of those stories sounds horrendously unappealing. I've been lukewarm on DC's animated movie effort of late, though. I think All-Star Superman is the last one I actually liked.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on February 11, 2013, 10:59:32 PM
Lots of movies lately.

FLIGHT

Great movie, but not happy by any means. Not really about the plane crash--that's just what frames the larger story of one man's struggle with alcoholism. Kelly Reilly, who played Watson's fiance in those gawdawful Sherlock Holmes movies, is a similarly-addled drug addict here. I definitely recommend seeing it.

THE DINOSAUR PROJECT

One of the worst movies I've had the displeasure of seeing. No, seriously. And there's only one kind of dinosaur in the entire movie. Giganotosaurus-sized waste of time. Found-camera movies are not my bag anyway, but the promise of dinosaurs lured me in. Don't fall for it!

HERE COMES THE BOOM

Surprisingly hilarious and touching. I watch UFC fights with some regularity, so it was interesting seeing Paul Blart get into a fight with an actual UFC fighter towards the end. Salma Hayek was a bonus, too. She's my "get out of marriage free" card, so anything with her is gold. But even without her, it would be a great movie. Kevin James is really growing on me as a comedic actor.

ATLANTIS (the Disney movie)

At the behest of former staffer Pedro Hernandez, I gave this movie a shot. It was good, and not at all what you'd expect from a Disney film. There's no singing (huge plus), very different art direction (supposedly inspired by Mike Mignola's style) (which isn't clear at all), and a great hodgepodge of voice actors including Michael J. Fox, Spock, and Jim Varney in his final role. There's a bizarre turn toward the 2/3rds mark that...doesn't make a lot of sense, but whatever. I wish some more time had been spent on the few interesting vertebrates that barely make an appearance. The tiger-thing looked cool.

SPAWN (1997)

Caught the last half on TV. Holy crap, people. Remember when we thought this movie looked GOOD? Go back and rewatch it, seriously. The battle scene in Hell is ABYSMAL. The movie's only redeeming quality is John Leguizamo as Clown, chewing scenery in every shot he's in. Violator was cool in 1997, but looks terrible now. Like most of the film. I do wonder why it never got a sequel, though. I remember it doing well at the box office.
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Post by: azeke on February 11, 2013, 11:15:15 PM
FLIGHT

Great movie, but not happy by any means. Not really about the plane crash
Yeah i also went into it thinking it was boomtastic disaster movie.
It's actually very similar to "Cast away" starts with plane crash and two hours after that is all about the hero, who is almost alone with his own problems (of course there are redhaired girl, his friend and Don Cheadle but you get the point).
Also i don't get it how if he really wanted to come clean in the end why he only admitted alcoholism and not drug abuse. Makes the ending kinda hypocritical.

ATLANTIS (the Disney movie)
Great movie. One of the first uses cell shaded CGI i saw in feature movies. They blended it with hand-drawn animation flawlessly.

SPAWN (1997)

Caught the last half on TV. Holy crap, people. Remember when we thought this movie looked GOOD?
Haha, yes. I remember how description on the back of VHS box talked up how they used special effects technology by Silicon Graphics for that as a major point.

Go back and rewatch it, seriously.
 The battle scene in Hell is ABYSMAL.
Nah, it always looked abysmal. There is a moment in Hell when Spawn is thrown away and flies right through few floating platforms. Even back then, as a teenager i could tell how bad that looked. It's like they took one Spawn sprite and dragged him through those platforms in Flash.
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Post by: Oblivion on February 12, 2013, 12:49:54 AM
FLIGHT

Great movie, but not happy by any means. Not really about the plane crash
Yeah i also went into it thinking it was boomtastic disaster movie.
It's actually very similar to "Cast away" starts with plane crash and two hours after that is all about the hero, who is almost alone with his own problems (of course there are redhaired girl, his friend and Don Cheadle but you get the point).
Also i don't get it how if he really wanted to come clean in the end why he only admitted alcoholism and not drug abuse. Makes the ending kinda hypocritical.
Because the cocaine really didn't impair him. The alcohol sure did, but not the drugs.
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Post by: bustin98 on February 12, 2013, 12:27:45 PM
I never liked the Spawn movie or thought it looked good, though the soundtrack is kickass.
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Post by: ThePerm on February 12, 2013, 02:08:43 PM
I never liked the Spawn movie or thought it looked good, though the soundtrack is kickass.
QFT. I saw it in 7th grade and it was something a 7th grader would like, but it hasn't aged well. I would rather watch Black Dynamite. Todd Macfarlane has talked about directing his own version, and judging by his toys if he used mostly practical effects it would be awesome.
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Post by: Morari on February 13, 2013, 12:55:34 PM
I just watched Spawn the other night as well. Thankfully it was the Director's Cut, so it wasn't quite as terrible as it could have been. Still, it wasn't the film that I remembered it being. Just about every line spoken was cringe worthy, with John Leguizamo being the only redeeming (violating?) quality. None of the effects really hold up at all, but the actual Spawn suit still looked nasty and cool.

I need to dig out the old animated series that HBO ran instead.
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Post by: BranDonk Kong on February 13, 2013, 10:07:31 PM
Kirk Hammet and DJ Orbital's "Satan" is pretty awesome, even if it's only two guitar riffs.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on February 16, 2013, 02:34:51 PM
Batman: The Movie (1966)

Batman to Robin: "Our job is done. Let's leave inconspicuously.. Through the window, we'll use our Batropes."

I guess going through the door while world leaders are arguing and seem to have no recollection that they were recently dehydrated into tiny piles of pixie dust would be too conspicuous, for Batman & Robin that is.

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Post by: Fatty The Hutt on February 19, 2013, 05:06:49 PM
L.A. Confidential - watched it again on the weekend on Blu. Damn, that is a very fine film. Some of the best performances of their careers out of Crowe and Spacey in that film, which I think is saying a lot. All the performances are really terrific. Blu Ray has some pretty great supplemental features too.

Beautifully photographed and designed film too which you mostly don't notice because the pace, dialogue  and performances are so spot-on.
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Post by: EasyCure on February 20, 2013, 12:42:51 PM
warm bodies: a better than expected date movie that was tolerable because I like zombies anyway. It wasn't as hourly as expected either, had some decent funny moments too.

with that said, there were a few things that bothered me but I don't feel its enough to get into it right now. If anyone else has seen it and wants to discuss, lets.
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Post by: Stratos on February 20, 2013, 03:16:14 PM
Glad to hear it was enjoyable. The Wife and I are waiting for it to hit the dollar theater.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on February 20, 2013, 03:23:10 PM
if i had to rate it I would say 5/10 simply because it wasn't horrible but was far from a great zombie movie.

it also wasn't overly violent nor overly chick-flicky. the theater wasn't packed but a few teens behind me were audibly swooning, but only on a few occasions.

oh I forgot to mention in my original post  I did like who the real villains were in the film, to an extent, but at the same time they severely down play the chicks dad who is made out to seem like zombie hater #1. Basically, don't expect this to be a zombie movie with a love story because it isn't, its a love story witty zombies. I hadn't seen many previews for this and I went in thinking it was more of a teen comedy with zombies, not exactly a teen ”rom-com”. oh well, didn't hate it.
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Post by: ThePerm on February 20, 2013, 08:10:24 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KP1NKXXEuvA
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Post by: EasyCure on February 20, 2013, 09:31:11 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KP1NKXXEuvA

lol I only saw this once, I was very young.
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Post by: S-U-P-E-R on February 21, 2013, 12:56:51 AM
I saw Johnny Got His Gun. I hope they one day adapt this into an exciting fps game. Just make sure you play it with force feedback on.
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Post by: BranDonk Kong on February 21, 2013, 08:58:12 AM
Is that the movie used in Metallica's One video?
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Post by: TJ Spyke on February 21, 2013, 02:03:08 PM
Is that the movie used in Metallica's One video?

Yes
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Do_What on February 23, 2013, 02:29:54 PM
Paprika. It's super awesome.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on February 24, 2013, 02:09:20 PM
A Good Day to Die Hard - Really, really stupid. The last one was average at best but this one was totally stupid. I mean, they go to Chernobyl - you can see the famous abandoned ferris wheel - and everyone runs around the place with no suits or checks for radiation.

Then John McClane jumps into a pool that had, presumably, been still since the accident.

Walks away fine.

REALLY?
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Post by: Pixelated Pixies on February 24, 2013, 03:14:32 PM

Then John McClane jumps into a pool that had, presumably, been still since the
accident.

Walks away fine.


REALLY?

Or did he walk away fine? Maybe the next film will be called 'Die Hardest' in which McClane takes on his toughest opponent yet. Radiation induced Cancer.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on February 24, 2013, 03:32:15 PM
Batman: The Movie (1966)

Batman to Robin: "Our job is done. Let's leave inconspicuously.. Through the window, we'll use our Batropes."

I guess going through the door while world leaders are arguing and seem to have no recollection that they were recently dehydrated into tiny piles of pixie dust would be too conspicuous, for Batman & Robin that is.



This movie is more amazing if you watch the DVD with the commentary on.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nitsu niflheim on February 24, 2013, 04:09:23 PM
The last movie I watched was License to Drive (1988)

It's probably been 20 years since I last saw it, and after looking it up on Wikipedia, saw that it was Heather Graham's first her first high-profile starring role.

I enjoyed it now just as much as when I was younger. Not the best movie, but a fun one from my childhood.
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Post by: Halbred on February 24, 2013, 04:12:44 PM
Seven Psychopaths -- Awesome.

A little involved, but still very funny. Christopher Walken, as always, is amazing.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on February 24, 2013, 07:41:01 PM
Batman: The Movie (1966)

Batman to Robin: "Our job is done. Let's leave inconspicuously.. Through the window, we'll use our Batropes."

I guess going through the door while world leaders are arguing and seem to have no recollection that they were recently dehydrated into tiny piles of pixie dust would be too conspicuous, for Batman & Robin that is.



This movie is more amazing if you watch the DVD with the commentary on.

I don't believe Netflix has that option. I do enjoy listening to commentary on films though, usually very interesting.


The last movie I watched was License to Drive (1988)

It's probably been 20 years since I last saw it, and after looking it up on Wikipedia, saw that it was Heather Graham's first her first high-profile starring role.

I enjoyed it now just as much as when I was younger. Not the best movie, but a fun one from my childhood.

Great movie!
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Post by: Plugabugz on February 25, 2013, 09:14:26 AM
Looking at the Oscars (and the Golden Globes), it's amazing how repeatedly science fiction is snubbed.
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Post by: UncleBob on February 26, 2013, 12:01:08 AM
Watching Demolition Man right now.

Man, this movie is horrible.  But awesome.

With Doritos Locos Tacos, it's no surprise that Taco Bell won the restaurant wars.

Batman: The Movie (1966)

Batman to Robin: "Our job is done. Let's leave inconspicuously.. Through the window, we'll use our Batropes."

I guess going through the door while world leaders are arguing and seem to have no recollection that they were recently dehydrated into tiny piles of pixie dust would be too conspicuous, for Batman & Robin that is.



This movie is more amazing if you watch the DVD with the commentary on.

I don't believe Netflix has that option. I do enjoy listening to commentary on films though, usually very interesting.

http://www.walmart.com/ip/10268704

You might be able to find it a bit cheaper elsewhere, but it's well worth it. :D
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Post by: bustin98 on February 26, 2013, 12:17:05 AM
Demolition Man is awesome.
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Post by: Pixelated Pixies on February 26, 2013, 02:11:20 AM
Looking at the Oscars (and the Golden Globes), it's amazing how repeatedly science fiction is snubbed.

True, but then again the Oscars very rarely gives out nominations or awards based on merit. Here are a few other things about this year's nominations and winners that irked me.
 
The Master not even receiving a nomination for Cinematography when it was quite clearly the best looking film of the year.
 
Best Original Screenplay going to the fun but sloppy and indulgent script that was Django.
 
Chastain not winning Best Actress.
 
Life of Pi (a life affirming, uplifting, faith inspiring parable) wins Best Picture over the far more challenging but qualitatively better film Zero Dark Thirty, for what can only be reactionary reasons.
 
 
The winners I was happy to see though were 'Searching for Sugarman' for Best Documentary, Day-Lewis for Best Actor, 'Amour' for Foreign Language, 'Paperman' for Short Film, 'ZD30 and Skyfall' for Sound Editing, and 'Argo' for adapted screenplay.
 
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Post by: Dasmos on February 26, 2013, 04:33:37 AM
Life of Pi (a life affirming, uplifting, faith inspiring parable) wins Best Picture over the far more challenging but qualitatively better film Zero Dark Thirty, for what can only be reactionary reasons.

I hate to go all TJ Spyke on you, but Life of Pi didn't win Best Picture; Argo did.

Ang Lee won Best Director, which I am pleased with. I'm so glad Spielberg didn't win it.
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Post by: oohhboy on February 26, 2013, 06:36:55 AM
Demolition Man is an awesome movie. It is one of last fun action movies to be made before the world went all grim dark and Borne BS on everyone. PhoenixXXXXXXXXX!
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Post by: Pixelated Pixies on February 26, 2013, 07:40:01 AM
Life of Pi (a life affirming, uplifting, faith inspiring parable) wins Best Picture over the far more challenging but qualitatively better film Zero Dark Thirty, for what can only be reactionary reasons.

I hate to go all TJ Spyke on you, but Life of Pi didn't win Best Picture; Argo did.

Ang Lee won Best Director, which I am pleased with. I'm so glad Spielberg didn't win it.

I stand corrected. I meant to say Director, not sure why I said Picture.
 
I'm glad Spielberg didn't win either. I of course think Bigelow should have been nominated and should have won, but of those nominated I would have preferred for Haneke to win. Armour has really stuck with me.
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Post by: Plugabugz on February 26, 2013, 09:06:40 AM
Referring to the Golden Globes, it's jaw-dropping that John Noble wasn't nominated for Best Actor over all 5 years of Fringe, Avery Brooks wasn't nominated for the same over DS9 (especially Far Beyond the Stars), and Stargate Universe wasn't nominated for anything (set-design and special effects in particular) at all.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on March 05, 2013, 11:07:30 AM
The Hobbit

I enjoyed The Hobbit the book because it was from the point of view of Bilbo. It was his growth throughout the story that made it so interesting. It would have been difficult to make the movie as such, but it definitely loses a certain quality because it.

The movie is great. If I hadn't read the book beforehand, I would have thought it fit perfectly with LOTR as a prequel and is geniunely interesting. The pacing is top notch, the cinematography is amazing, but it does feel a bit jumbled and loose. What I mean is, characters appear and disappear without regard, events are brought up out of whim instead of story.

I guess what I'm trying to say is, it's a damn shame that this book is being split up into three, three hour movies. I'm sure everything will have a nice flow if seen back to back to back, but as pieces, it really doesn't do it any favors.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 05, 2013, 03:13:13 PM
Compliance

I would rate this as the stupidest movie I've seen in a long while had it not been based on true event as.
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Post by: gbuell on March 05, 2013, 05:52:30 PM
I saw that. Awfully depressing, in multiple ways.
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Post by: Oblivion on March 05, 2013, 06:04:17 PM
What the hell? Who could be so stupid as to believe a random caller not providing any sort of proof? Call me skeptical, but I would never believe such an idiotic phone call.
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Post by: oohhboy on March 05, 2013, 06:26:46 PM
Not necessarily stupid. More like blind or learned obedience to authority figures and systems. Fear of losing ones job especially in America no doubt had an influence. I could go on, but it would get awefully political and make America look bad worse.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on March 05, 2013, 06:47:22 PM
Milgram.  Look it up. :D
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on March 05, 2013, 07:55:26 PM
Why is that experiment considered so immoral? I've always wondered this.
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Post by: nickmitch on March 05, 2013, 08:15:12 PM
Because you're pretty much traumatizing people for science, and some people don't understand the nobility of that.

Anyway, I saw Argo. Great movie. Best picture worthy? Well, I didn't see all of the nominees, but in a year where the best movies aren't "Oscar" movies, I'd say Ben Afflack got a good break. Most of the movie is a set up for the end scene, but it works because you get a good performance from Goodman (as if you'd ever get a bad one) as well as the rest of the cast. The hostages were fun to watch. Ending scenes were super suspenseful and worth it, provided you hadn't studied the night before.

8.5/10
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Post by: oohhboy on March 05, 2013, 08:16:42 PM
That is cold. Real cold Oblivion.

It isn't the only authority experiment done, but it explains how terrible thingstm can happen on a small or grand scale. It certainly explains you and TJ.
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Post by: Oblivion on March 05, 2013, 08:19:27 PM
Hey, now, don't put me in the same group as TJ. I just think that if the person they were "hurting" wasn't even real, who cares? They're the sheep for following what the scientist told them to do.
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Post by: nickmitch on March 05, 2013, 08:20:19 PM
Well, even after being told the whole thing was fake (they were told, right?), they still had to live knowing that they WOULD hurt a dude (who begged for mercy) because another dude told them to.

I honestly wonder how a similar experiment would go today.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on March 05, 2013, 08:25:09 PM
Yeah, Argo is a great movie but I still think Life of Pi was better. The end of that movie was devastatingly real; one that stays with you longer than Argo could ever hope.

I didn't any other nominees other than Django, but Django wasn't going to win it because of the weak third act.


As for Milgram, I don't see how that experiment was immoral either. It's terrible, but not immoral in the eyes of science. Finding our flaws is never immoral.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on March 05, 2013, 08:29:07 PM
I think Life of Pi will better the next time I watch it and can really focus on the overall metaphor.

And I don't think the 3rd act was all of what held Django back.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on March 05, 2013, 08:34:08 PM
It seems all too clean, despite the blood. But I've already said my piece about that.

And do yourself a favor and read the book. It's pretty short.
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Post by: Oblivion on March 05, 2013, 08:35:09 PM
Speaking of Life of Pi, does anyone think that the movie would've have been better or worse if they had made it in the style of the book?
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Post by: oohhboy on March 05, 2013, 08:52:52 PM
Science is neither moral or immoral. It's not a factor. Any morals that does exist for science is the ones we place upon it. Science is there to discover the underlying laws and facts about our universe, what we do with it is another question.

The truly horrifying thing about the Milgram experiments is the ease as to how you can get normal people to hurt another or even kill with only a little prompting. I doubt the result would be any different today. Milgram is bad, but there are worse experiments like the prison experiment that lead to straight up criminal abuses.

Django does have a weak final act and you are right that it wasn't it's only weakness. Django himself was largely a nonentity throughout the film with Fritz being the actual lead. It is understandable why it didn't win and I would have found it odd if it did. That said, the use of violence was masterful. When the violence was for "Good" it is almost cartoonish, cheerful even, but the opposite was just horrific.
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Post by: Plugabugz on March 06, 2013, 03:37:35 AM
Stoker - What was the complete point of this movie? I don't get it. I walked out in a confused stunned silence but not really seeing why.

Going to see Broken City hopefully this week.
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Post by: Halbred on March 09, 2013, 12:27:42 AM
Bob's Burgers (first episode): I'm gonna like this show.
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Post by: TJ Spyke on March 09, 2013, 12:28:25 AM
Wrong thread. LOL. The first season starts to go down a little, but is still good.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on March 11, 2013, 03:51:00 AM
I never got to see Broken City (hopefully today). Never got to see Cloud Atlas either as it's showing twice a day and was sold out completely. Saw Oz the Great and Powerful instead.

Rename the movie as "Family Guy: The Makings of Meg" and its better (and funnier) for it.
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Post by: Dasmos on March 11, 2013, 06:41:17 AM
I saw Cloud Atlas last week. It was an abortion.
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Post by: BranDonk Kong on March 11, 2013, 10:46:08 PM
Oz the Great and Powerful - 7.5/10

I really liked this movie. For a prequel that comes out 74 years after the original, I think they did a really great job. Not sure what to say about it...it's obviously much more involved than the original given today's technology and movie audience. The only real disappointment was Mila Kunis after she turned into the Wicked Witch. Sure this takes places 33 years before the original, but she didn't look anything like Margaret Hamilton's version, aside from the skin color, her head looked too big and wide fr starters. Some of the CGI is pretty weak, but some of it is really good. The flying baboons also don't look like the flying monkeys in the original, but they do look like...baboons. Still, I highly recommend it if you like the 1939 movie. Never read the book so I can't say how it relates, but for a 3/4 century prequel, it's a good movie.
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Post by: Sarail on March 12, 2013, 08:57:15 AM
I thought Michelle Williams was absolutely dreamy. Made the movie for me.
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Post by: nickmitch on March 12, 2013, 09:31:33 AM
I'm glad you guys liked it. It's got a 45 on Metacritic and one of my friends HATED it. I still wanna see it though. I think people were expecting it to be the movie from 1939, and not anything modern.
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Post by: Pixelated Pixies on March 12, 2013, 01:35:45 PM
What's putting me off watching it (apart from the CGI, which in the trailers at least looks terrible) is that I've never seen a film in which James Franco demonstrated any aptitude for acting.
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Post by: TJ Spyke on March 12, 2013, 01:42:58 PM
I disagree on the CGI, it looks really good in the trailers. I intend to see the movie, even though it's gotten lukewarm reviews.
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Post by: Pixelated Pixies on March 12, 2013, 05:38:23 PM
Just back from watching Side Effects. I don't even want to talk about it. People should just see this film as I did, with no context whatsoever. I will say, however, that I loved this film. If this does end up being Soderberg's last film (which I doubt) then it's a great one to go out on. Highly recommended.
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Post by: azeke on March 12, 2013, 09:38:55 PM
What's putting me off watching it (apart from the CGI, which in the trailers at least looks terrible) is that I've never seen a film in which James Franco demonstrated any aptitude for acting.
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Post by: BranDonk Kong on March 12, 2013, 11:16:22 PM
James Franco > Everyone else
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Post by: gbuell on March 14, 2013, 01:03:51 PM
What's putting me off watching it (apart from the CGI, which in the trailers at least looks terrible) is that I've never seen a film in which James Franco demonstrated any aptitude for acting.

See Milk and Freaks and Geeks and get back to me.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Pixelated Pixies on March 14, 2013, 05:43:47 PM
See Milk and Freaks and Geeks and get back to me.

Is Franco in it?
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Post by: BranDonk Kong on March 14, 2013, 06:04:54 PM
Yes.
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Post by: Pixelated Pixies on March 14, 2013, 10:57:57 PM
Yes.

Pass.
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Post by: gbuell on March 14, 2013, 11:22:44 PM
Ha.
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Post by: BranDonk Kong on March 14, 2013, 11:25:04 PM
I voted Franco for Pope.
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Post by: Shaymin on March 14, 2013, 11:32:22 PM
Don't blame me: I voted for the old guy.
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Post by: ShyGuy on March 15, 2013, 01:10:20 AM
Wreck-It Ralph is really good!
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Post by: azeke on March 15, 2013, 09:10:14 AM
Wreck-It Ralph is really good!
Best movie of 2012.
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Post by: noname2200 on March 15, 2013, 07:16:11 PM
Yes.

Pass.

Franco's a great actor when he's playing a stoner/loser. Haven't seen Milk, but it's why he played his role in Freaks and Geeks so very well.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on March 15, 2013, 11:02:31 PM
So, I saw Oz. I feel kinda mixed about it. Overall, I think it was a good movie. I should note that I saw it in IMAX 3D. Good decision as Oz is beautiful. I think a lot of people went in expecting it to be something it wasn't. I think I made the same mistake but in another direction. Either way, it was a good movie. This was clearly not a good fit for James Franco, but he acted his ass off. The writing was good, in spite of Franco's believability. I wish more characters had a full arc.

In the end, I don't think it tried hard enough to be its own thing, and it would've better with some more mature themes. Still a colorful and fun experience that I didn't find lacking in charm. Definitely a good watch.

7/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Pixelated Pixies on March 16, 2013, 03:17:09 AM
Did anyone else see Return to Oz as a kid? That film was awesome. Disturbing, but still awesome.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on March 16, 2013, 03:56:13 AM
Was that the one with the wheel handed people/things?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Pixelated Pixies on March 16, 2013, 08:48:13 AM
Sure was.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on March 16, 2013, 11:42:26 AM
Saw that as a kid and it creeped me right the **** out.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on March 16, 2013, 08:17:51 PM
Did anyone else see Return to Oz as a kid? That film was awesome. Disturbing, but still awesome.
Yes, I think.
I read the Movie book with Pictures multiple times and that is disturbing in its own right.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on March 17, 2013, 04:05:59 PM
Welcome to the Punch - A gorgeous movie that shows up London pretty well (second to Skyfall), but the ending just stops. Dead.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on March 18, 2013, 12:47:30 AM
Unstoppable

This is schlock, nothing more, nothing less. The plot is beyond contrived as are the solutions. This is dumb beyond words. But is somewhat entertaining as you get to see a train demolish some stuff and have Denziel Washington ham it up.

As for Chris Pine, **** off and never return you hack. Denziel knew he was in a **** movie, but he still put in 100%.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on March 18, 2013, 06:33:19 PM
John Carter - While not a great movie, I don't see the hate it gets. I can understand it maybe bombing because Disney advertised it the wrong way (not the first time a movie did poorly because the studio marketed it the wrong way). A shame that no sequels will be made because it lends itself to future movies.

Green Lantern - Another movie not as bad as what I heard. I do think they could have done a better job casting Hal Jordan than Ryan Reynolds, and I was a little disappointed that Sinestro did not turn evil in the movie, though they clearly set it up for that to happen in a sequel that will probably not be made.. The CGI suit was done pretty well, as was the CGI overall.

X-Men: First Class - Not as good as the first 3 X-Men movies, but still good. I disagree with some of the decisions they made, but I liked the cameo of Wolverine. I didnt care about some of the mutants though.

The Other End of the Line - Pretty standard rom-com that my lady friend wanted me to watch with her. Essentially a Indian woman working at a call center in Mumbai falls in love with a guy that owns his own advertising agency after they start talking because somebody was making false charges to his credit card (he thinks she is an American woman in San Francisco, not knowing the bank outsourced the job to India). Anybody who has seen a romantic comedy probably knows how the movie ends, but it's still touching and Shriya Saran is beautiful.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on March 19, 2013, 01:02:15 AM
You... you like X-3 better than First Class? o_O
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on March 19, 2013, 01:07:53 AM
Other than the ending, X-Men: The Last Stand was really good. I don't think the bad ending should cause opinions of the entire movie to suffer.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on March 19, 2013, 01:26:52 AM
I thought the movie was a piece of **** because they fucked up Jean.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Fatty The Hutt on March 19, 2013, 01:25:29 PM
Rebecca (1941) 9/10
Not a typical "Hitchcock" film but still so good. Beautifully photographed, terrific performances all around. Especially Judith Anderson as the uber-creepy Mrs. Danvers. The housekeeper from Hell!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on March 20, 2013, 03:40:57 AM
Unstoppable

This is schlock, nothing more, nothing less. The plot is beyond contrived as are the solutions. This is dumb beyond words. But is somewhat entertaining as you get to see a train demolish some stuff and have Denziel Washington ham it up.

As for Chris Pine, **** off and never return you hack. Denziel knew he was in a **** movie, but he still put in 100%.

an unstoppable train, how to stop it? Either:


1 - Take your hands off the dead mans handle. Train calls for you to hit that switch, you don't, emergency brakes stop the train.
2 - Signaller puts all signals ahead to red. Depending on the signalling system in place (which is commonplace across Europe, not sure elsewhere) the train will try to emergency stop before reaching that red signal or the next one.


Those two alone would make the film pretty boring, but that's what would happen in real life.

John Carter - While not a great movie, I don't see the hate it gets. I can understand it maybe bombing because Disney advertised it the wrong way (not the first time a movie did poorly because the studio marketed it the wrong way). A shame that no sequels will be made because it lends itself to future movies.


John Carter was marketed extremely badly from the change of name to adverts asking "who is John Carter?" - you're supposed to tell me that.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Glad0s on March 21, 2013, 12:09:35 AM
The Usual Suspects
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It's pretty much as good as you would expect it to be. Kevin Spacey is UNBELIEVABLY awesome as the main character, Gabriel Bryne's great, and Del Toro is a major badass with wicked fashion sense. It's essentially a crime thriller with the narrative structure of something like Citizen Kane and a KILLER ending that I...kinda guessed right before it happened. Still though, it's brilliant, and it seems like one that'll be just as fun to rewatch as it was to see it the first time. Check it out, definitely -- one of the best movies of the 90s.


The Silence of the Lambs
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So I finally saw this, and....am I the only one who thinks it's a bit overrated? Sure, it's a fine movie, but it feels more like a really good one than an all-time GREAT one. I was never really *that* freaked out by it, and that's saying something -- it doesn't take much for a movie to scare me, and this one didn't really hit me at all. With the obvious exception of any moment when Anthony Hopkins was onscreen, it just kinda came off as a decent, well-made FBI thriller -- nothing too special, but definitely enjoyable. However, Hopkins' performance is truly dynamite, albeit a little weakened by its massive level of public awareness. It's sort of like how in The Godfather, the line "I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse" doesn't hold nearly the same amount of potency now that it did at its release, simply because it's so cliche. That's how I felt about a good deal of Hopkins' work here. But nevertheless -- a fine movie, just not one of my personal favorites.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Glad0s on March 21, 2013, 12:19:25 AM
Oh, and I watched 65 minutes of Primer today as well. I realize I only had 5 minutes left, but I was so fucking lost at that point I didn't even care. I respect it, I admire it, I think it's well done all things considered, and hell, I might even attempt to rewatch it someday, but damn....I don't think I've ever felt that lost in a movie before. Maybe I'm an idiot or something but just....yikes.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on March 21, 2013, 12:34:43 AM
I don't think I've ever felt that lost in a movie before. Maybe I'm an idiot or something but just....yikes.

You are not alone, a reviewer for Esquire said "anybody who claims he fully understands what's going on in Primer after seeing it just once is either a savant or a liar".
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: azeke on March 21, 2013, 02:59:15 AM
Primer reminded me of "Seventh Voyage of Ijon Tichy" by Lem (which everyone should read of course). Only short story was funny, comprehensible and much more time paradoxy.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Fatty The Hutt on March 21, 2013, 08:23:18 AM
I don't think I've ever felt that lost in a movie before. Maybe I'm an idiot or something but just....yikes.

You are not alone, a reviewer for Esquire said "anybody who claims he fully understands what's going on in Primer after seeing it just once is either a savant or a liar".
I felt that way about Inception. But I still loved it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on March 22, 2013, 01:20:33 AM
lolwut


Inception is extremely easy to understand. Everything is very plainly explained on screen. The only thing that isn't is the ending, which has been debated about countlessly since the release of the movie. Primer, on the other hand, is completely devoid of any in-story explanation. Whether or not that is a good thing is a matter of opinion.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Fatty The Hutt on March 22, 2013, 08:56:17 AM
lolwut
I lost the thread in Inception about 3/4 of the way through, all 3 times I saw it. But then, I didn't care. I was in it for the fun.
Remionds me of The Big Sleep. Don't bother to try to solve the mystery, just enjoy the process.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on March 22, 2013, 02:03:16 PM
When did you lose it? Because I can explain it to you in an easy to understand manner. I'm not trying to be condescending or anything, I just freaking love the movie and I try and spread awareness for what happened so others can fully enjoy it too.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Fatty The Hutt on March 22, 2013, 02:20:15 PM
Maybe I'll go watch it again, which will be a pleasure, so I can be specific because I can't quite remember now. I have the Blu Ray but its been over a year since I have popped it in.


I think it was around the time JGL was floating around hallways or maybe a bit later when LdiC was in his special crazy-wife world. I just remember some hastily delivered exposition dialogue that explained the new developments in the logical progression of dream worlds that went by so fast I didn't quite catch it and couldn't be bothered to rewind because, much like with The Big Sleep, I was more interested in and enthralled by the immediate on-screen action than with piecing together the overall logic (or lack thereof in the case of The Big Sleep.)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Glad0s on March 22, 2013, 04:11:32 PM
Yeah, Fatty, thats a bit like how I felt in Inception. But during that exact part, I paused the movie and thought it all through -- eventually I got to the point where I was confident I knew what was going on. But that last third can be a doozy if you're not paying close attention.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on March 22, 2013, 04:34:06 PM
RE: Unstoppable

They slowed it down by having Denzel move from the locomotive they attached from the rear to apply the freight breaks and then Chris with a mangled foot jumped from the loco to a truck then back to the run away train to finally stop it.

They had other "Solutions" but they were all equally as retarded as the next. I can't believe this schlock fest got 86% on Rotten Tomatoes. It's a Vodka night movie at best with a lot of booing and hissing. Those with any cognitive ablity should not watch this.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on March 29, 2013, 12:22:47 AM
Saw 5 Minutes of Red Tails. It instantly caused rage with the sheer inaccuraccy of the flying, awful skills, a complete lack of awareness time and distance. Hell, even the CG planes look like ****. I only saw 5 minutes of this **** and I was already tearing it apart. If I was represented in this movie, I would be loading up and heading out to hunt down George Lucas to this insult to history and the genere in general.

The Company you Keep (2012)

Robert Redford made a movie. While it doesn't suck, it's not that good either. While completely grounded in reality, it still managed to show some tension without some dramatic high speed chase explosion fest. In fact, it makes it through the entire movie without a single shot being fired besides a 30 year old grainy video.

The casting chocie of Shai LaBeouf was either a stroke of genius or madness since even in this movie he comes off as a huge unlikable douche. Redford unfortunately spends way too much time on his character leaving Susan Sarandon's character twisting in the wind, unfinished, nothing more than an interesting plot device.

The biggest flaw in this movie is the lack of why. The characters do some seriously profound things, but why they did it is never explained or even implied. the how is clever, but if you have been hiding from the FBI for 30 years, the how has to be clever. there are a bunch of morality lessions in this film, but without a lot of the contect that comes from the Why, it loses it's meaning.

This is a real actors movie, almost like a play. If you want to see these Veterans act, it's a fine movie to watch, otherwise pass.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on April 05, 2013, 09:46:09 AM
The Host

A little preamble, this movie is based on a book that was written by the same lady who wrote the Twilight Series.  My Wife had me listen to this book on a long trip we had so, I knew what I was getting into when I agreed to go to the movie.  Also I was falling asleep all day yesterday so I figured if the pacing was like the book, the writer has a tendency to take about 5 times longer to do anything then she needs to, I be out in the first 15 minutes.

I didn't fall asleep.  Let's get that out of the way.  I have to say I'm really impressed with Andrew Niccol (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0629272/) work.  I didn't realize this going in but he is the same person who did Gattaca so that makes part of the movie make more sense.  Though its clear he's gotten a lot better in the last 6 years.  While Gattaca and the book this movie is based off of was drawn out, this movie took its 2 hours and 5 minutes and pretty much trimmed all the fat.  This movie has some really good pacing.  Much better then the book.

Their is a clear difference between the contrasting worlds but, their really not that different.  The lead actress it was easy to tell between her two roles.  Unlike a lot of these style of movies I didn't feel like their were parts that were just there to be their to check a box.  The world in its own way is interesting.  They made good use of the limited set of backdrops the story allowed for.

I have to say that I enjoyed the movie.  Though not like laugh out loud enjoy but more like Respect and not disliking enjoy.  This is a chick flick but doesn't go as emo as it easily could have with the source material. 

Though I do have to say the last actress they introduce, and I can't find a name for, their is something physically wrong with her.  If you see the movie you'll understand.

This is not a bad movie.  I think movie classes will probably watch this movie to learn from it but, I don't think its worth seeing at full movie price.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on April 05, 2013, 02:14:08 PM
EVIL DEAD 2013. That movie was fucking awesome.

Now lets preface. My favorite 2 films in the series are Evil Dead and Army of Darkness. Evil Dead 2 is great, but its just a comedy remake of the first movie.

So lets get into the details without spoilers. The movie starts off insane in a way I wasn't expecting. Then it moves on to the teenagers. This movie isn't a movie about Teenagers going into the woods to party and have sex. They have a different reason. So they make you care about most of the characters. The acting at the beginning is jilted and forced, but once they get away with the character introductions the movie picks up and never relents. It just becomes balls to the wall Evil Dead.

To some extant THIS IS NOT A REMAKE. Its more of a Reboot, and could have easily been called Evil Dead 4.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on April 07, 2013, 07:17:08 PM
I just watched not one, but two The Rock movies in a row.

Snitch was good. I was pissed at this being based on a true story.
The war on drugs is a failure, so we really need to reevaluate the approach we take to the problem.
I don't want to get into details, but I commend the son on his decision to not pay it forward as was being suggested. Absolutely disgusting what the justice system is willing to do to justify their inflated budgets to support this failure of a war.


G.I. Joe 2
Very entertaining,  and they were not afraid to cycle through the character roster it appears Duke dies in the first 10 minutes . Not a perfect movie, but I'm interested in seeing who is part of the sequel in this series.

 At this pace, The Rock will have earned his way into The Expandables 4 along with Wesley Snipes (who just got out of jail for tax evasion last week)
 

Next up is EVIL DEAD
 movie I came to see today :)
Can't wait. 20 minutes left till movie start.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on April 07, 2013, 07:36:39 PM
Oh, and this ad made me laugh. mostly because we didn't know what it was for until the end.



unfortunately the title of the video will give it away, but it's still amusing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9Y_naTHPsY (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9Y_naTHPsY)
I'll fix it later, NWR and my phone browser are not very compatible.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on April 07, 2013, 10:40:44 PM
Evil Dead was great BTW
even though you have to ignore a few inconsistencies, starting with the lit candle illuminating the book of the dead in the basement.

But my girl was TERRIFIED almost the entire time.
Highly recommended for horror fans looking for something entertaining this year.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on April 08, 2013, 03:46:46 AM
G.I. Joe 2
Very entertaining,  and they were not afraid to cycle through the character roster it appears Duke dies in the first 10 minutes . Not a perfect movie, but I'm interested in seeing who is part of the sequel in this series.

 

It cycled through the character roster by abandoning nearly all of the original lot. All they said was "the group now consists of A B C D". Nothing was said about the original group and where they are.

Side Effects - Probably the best movie of 2013. No spoilers at all, go watch.

Trance - If you liked Inception i would recommend to see this, it is another "of the mind" type of film like Inception but is more introvert rather than blowing everything up in scale.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on April 11, 2013, 04:42:10 PM
Oblivion - this was a good, expensive, sci-fi movie. Just what i needed. Although it was worse off without (at the very least) the voice of GlaDOS and the turrets in the Portal series
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on April 26, 2013, 03:30:36 AM
Iron Man 3 - I quite enjoyed this. Robert Downey Jr nailed this. Perfectly.

It's quite heavy on the comedy, admittedly.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Pixelated Pixies on April 26, 2013, 03:06:04 PM
I also saw Iron Man 3 today.
 
I thought it was pretty good (certainly better than the second one). The set-pieces perhaps rely a little too much on Stark getting into and out of his various suits, but these sequences do service the story which focuses on the question of who Stark is without his mechanical guardian angels. The film is also surprisingly...surprising. I wouldn't dare spoil anything, but the script manages to give enough direction to all the cast while also introducing one or two neat twists.
 
I do have a few issues with some of the story beats towards the end and the tone can sometimes be a little scattershot, but overall I thought it was one of the better entries in the Marvel film universe.
 
I never remain behind for the post-credits scenes (I also always show up 15 minutes late to avoid trailers - so that probably tells you something about me), but I'd be interested to hear whether or not there was an Avengers 2 teaser at the end?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: gbuell on April 26, 2013, 03:22:26 PM
Contagion. Pretty good and fairly realistic, though I'm not sure a disease that kills less than 1% of the population would lead to widespread looting and lawlessness.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Pixelated Pixies on April 26, 2013, 03:37:28 PM
Contagion. Pretty good and fairly realistic, though I'm not sure a disease that kills less than 1% of the population would lead to widespread looting and lawlessness.

You don't think the deaths of over 71,000,000 people could lead to lawlessness? Riots and looting have been instigated over much less. Just look at the 2011 London riots for example.
 
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: gbuell on April 26, 2013, 05:36:01 PM
maybe. i don't see GLOBAL lawlessness ensuing, but now that i think of it, that's not really what the movie portrayed.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on April 26, 2013, 05:42:47 PM
If there is a global virus that is spreading at a rate of 1:2 (meaning that every new victim will infect 2 others) and then mutates to 1:4 (so very new victim infects 4 more) and there is no treatment for it, people will riot and resort to violence (especially if, like in the movie, there is a right-wing nutjob telling millions of his brainwashed followers that it's all a government conspiracy). Remember that within 29 days of the viruses introduction, 26 million people had died and the first vaccine would not be ready for another 90 days at the earliest (and even then, it would take months for everyone in the world to get the vaccination).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: pokepal148 on April 26, 2013, 05:45:27 PM
Torchwood: Children of Earth goes into a similar theme...
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on April 26, 2013, 07:28:18 PM
I never remain behind for the post-credits scenes (I also always show up 15 minutes late to avoid trailers - so that probably tells you something about me), but I'd be interested to hear whether or not there was an Avengers 2 teaser at the end?


You're weird. :P
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Pixelated Pixies on April 26, 2013, 09:35:00 PM
You're weird. :P:

I guess that is a little weird , huh?
 
But hey, in my defence I don't think I should have to sit through a bunch of adverts. I paid for the damn movie! It's the principle!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on April 26, 2013, 09:37:43 PM
Those previews have gotten me interested in movies I had never even heard of before.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on April 26, 2013, 10:01:23 PM
Previews are how I keep my Netflix disc list stacked with interesting new releases.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on April 27, 2013, 02:25:56 AM
I once went to a movie, saw the trailer for a movie playing down the hall, got up and saw the other movie.

The first movie was 28 weeks later,  the second movie was Mr. Brooks. We made the right decision.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: azeke on April 27, 2013, 03:06:54 AM
Mr. Brooks is an amazing movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Pixelated Pixies on April 27, 2013, 06:01:49 AM
Not to sound like a pretentious A hole, but I tend to source my own info as far as films go. I usually know about films I might be interested in before a trailer has even been put out. I think I can trace that mentality back to when I was a kid and I seen films like Flubber and Good Burger largely because I saw the trailers for those films. I vowed 'Never again!'.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: azeke on April 27, 2013, 06:04:43 AM
Flubber is an amazing movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on April 27, 2013, 09:59:13 AM
I also saw Iron Man 3 today.
 
I thought it was pretty good (certainly better than the second one). The set-pieces perhaps rely a little too much on Stark getting into and out of his various suits, but these sequences do service the story which focuses on the question of who Stark is without his mechanical guardian angels. The film is also surprisingly...surprising. I wouldn't dare spoil anything, but the script manages to give enough direction to all the cast while also introducing one or two neat twists.
 
I do have a few issues with some of the story beats towards the end and the tone can sometimes be a little scattershot, but overall I thought it was one of the better entries in the Marvel film universe.
 
I never remain behind for the post-credits scenes (I also always show up 15 minutes late to avoid trailers - so that probably tells you something about me), but I'd be interested to hear whether or not there was an Avengers 2 teaser at the end?

ANSWER: No. There was a single scene where Bruce Banner was talking to Stark while he was lying in a psychiatrists chair. Banner fell asleep.

Contagion. Pretty good and fairly realistic, though I'm not sure a disease that kills less than 1% of the population would lead to widespread looting and lawlessness.

You don't think the deaths of over 71,000,000 people could lead to lawlessness? Riots and looting have been instigated over much less. Just look at the 2011 London riots for example.
 

Agreed. All the Riots took was one person being shot. The fire damage from a car being set on fire outside my home (despite being on the other side of London where the incident happened) is still visible.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: S-U-P-E-R on April 27, 2013, 09:59:30 AM
Finally watched Indie Game: The Movie. The Super Meat Boy guys seem like cool dudes. Jonathan Blow seems like a weird psycho. The movie was... okay.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on April 27, 2013, 09:45:32 PM
Everyone needs to see Upstream Color. It's a bit easier to understand than Primer.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on April 28, 2013, 09:31:57 AM
I just Finished watching Django.

near the end the first thought that came to mind was Pop's version of the Catcher Freeman story from Boondocks. This was the Quentin Tarantino version, the prequel even.

DiCaprio played his part a little too well & I always love S.L Jackson regardless, so even thought the
ending was pretty cheesy, I liked the movie overall.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Pixelated Pixies on April 28, 2013, 11:28:20 AM
Everyone needs to see Upstream Color. It's a bit easier to understand than Primer.

I'm glad to hear that. While I was able to follow what was happening in Primer, I still don't understand the significance of it. I'm not sure what it's message was.
 
I'm looking forward to checking out Upstream Colour though. I've heard some interesting things.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on April 29, 2013, 09:46:26 PM
I'll censor the title, but it's a real movie (and has been mentioned here before).
Gayniggers from Outer Space - 0/10
Might as well just read the description on Wikipedia. I thought maybe it would be funny (just based on the title), but it was just stupid (but the internet trolling that has followed it's release online has been pretty good). I saw it listed on vcdq.com like 8 years ago and always wanted to watch it but finally just did. The group that released it had been putting out some really weird stuff at the time (I think they always do actually). Stupid.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on April 30, 2013, 03:11:17 AM
I'll censor the title, but it's a real movie (and has been mentioned here before).
Gayniggers from Outer Space - 0/10
Might as well just read the description on Wikipedia. I thought maybe it would be funny (just based on the title), but it was just stupid (but the internet trolling that has followed it's release online has been pretty good). I saw it listed on vcdq.com like 8 years ago and always wanted to watch it but finally just did. The group that released it had been putting out some really weird stuff at the time (I think they always do actually). Stupid.

That sounds like the kind of movie a guy who engages in public gay sex for Google would enjoy!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Glad0s on April 30, 2013, 09:55:03 AM
Finally watched Indie Game: The Movie. The Super Meat Boy guys seem like cool dudes. Jonathan Blow seems like a weird psycho. The movie was... okay.


I disagree. Blow may be weird, but he does seem passionate about his work. The Meat Boy guys just act like the ultimate negative stereotype of hardcore gamers -- unprofessional, nerdy weirdos with mental problems and anger issues. Of course, I still love their game, but I just wasn't crazy about them personally.


And as for the movie...meh. A decent way to spend 90 minutes, I guess.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Pixelated Pixies on April 30, 2013, 12:21:02 PM
I thought 'Indie Game' was a fascinating study. I don't think any of the interviewees came across as particularly unlikeable. They seemed to me to be earnest, sometimes prideful, and (like anyone else in this world) affected by their own particular neurosis. Documentaries like 'Indie Game', that focus intently on characters and allow them to speak for themselves, are always the most interesting to me. I thought it was thoroughly enjoyable.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on May 02, 2013, 11:58:30 AM
Watching the Indie Game movie right now. I don't think I will finish watching it which for me is an automatic fail as for as movies/docos go. None of them are very charmastic, some have negative charisma. There is a lot of needless rambling on with their life stories as filler and lots of repetition. A lot of it was an ego inflating trip since we already know what happens. It would have been a lot more interesting if they had some outright failures in the movie and if the whole thing was a more focused case study than a rambling video diary with forced camera work in an attempt to make it more interesting.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on May 05, 2013, 08:23:20 PM
Director's Cut of Dark City.

Love this movie. Still not sure how it was made. The Director's Cut is infinitely better than the standard release thanks to the removal of the forced voiceover at the beginning.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on May 06, 2013, 02:35:31 AM
Justice League: Doom
Ehh. The animation was great (the character designs was blah), but good God, Lemon... the dialog is so dry and the story isn't great either. I decided to watch it because I've been marathoning Justice League and Justice League Unlimited since I only caught a few episodes back when they first aired. The writing in those shows is quite good, filled with humor (and a lot of innuendo). I know Doom isn't DCAU-related, but many of the same actors were cast which was nice except their talent isn't used effectively with the sub-par writing. Michael Rosembaum was brought back as Flash except he's Barry Allen in Doom while he voiced Wally West in the DCAU shows (I suppose, in addition to the writing, we can use that as the reason why Flash isn't funny in Doom). Odd that they made a point of changing that while casting an actor who previously voiced a different Flash. Even stranger is that Wally West is the Flash used in the story that Doom is loosely based on. Hal Jordan takes Kyle Rayner's place as well. The change to Hal Jordan makes a sense since Carol Ferris/Star Sapphire is one of the villains.

Also, no Hawkgirl. Boo/hiss
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on May 06, 2013, 09:31:15 AM
Saw Iron Man 3

It was good.  Now that that is out of the way.  I have to real complaint about their portayal of Tennessee.  For one their was snow and people were reacting to it like Northerners.  I live near where they placed that city.  If their was snow everyone be at home and the stores be raided of Milk and Bread.  More than likely though is that their is not snow.  Then they had him go to Chattanooga of all places and they had the Miss Chattanooga in a High School.  That be like Miss New York being in a High School.  Not to mention only 9Mb internet.  Chattanooga is wired for 1Gb Internet.  *shrug*  If you are going to my Backward state at least portray it right.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on May 06, 2013, 11:51:29 AM
It is always jarring when a show mentions or shows your locale and it is wrong. I remember an episode of Bones where they warn of 'mosquitoes the size of your fist' when going to the Pacific Northwest. My question... where? Never seen one that big. Basic research could avoid a lot of these bumps.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on May 07, 2013, 08:59:07 AM
Saw Iron Man 3

It was good.  Now that that is out of the way.  I have to real complaint about their portayal of Tennessee.  For one their was snow and people were reacting to it like Northerners.  I live near where they placed that city.  If their was snow everyone be at home and the stores be raided of Milk and Bread.  More than likely though is that their is not snow.  Then they had him go to Chattanooga of all places and they had the Miss Chattanooga in a High School.  That be like Miss New York being in a High School.  Not to mention only 9Mb internet.  Chattanooga is wired for 1Gb Internet.  *shrug*  If you are going to my Backward state at least portray it right.

The bit that got to me was his technobabble line about ISDN in the reporters truck. Yeah sure, i'll just climb up on top and fiddle with the satellite dish (which usually has nothing to do with connectivity) and boost the speed significantly.

Technobabble in "harder scifi" like Star Trek and Stargate and Doctor Who is acceptable given its nature, but Iron Man is based on a present-day Earth.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on May 07, 2013, 09:03:42 AM
Saw Iron Man 3

It was good.  Now that that is out of the way.  I have to real complaint about their portayal of Tennessee.  For one their was snow and people were reacting to it like Northerners.  I live near where they placed that city.  If their was snow everyone be at home and the stores be raided of Milk and Bread.  More than likely though is that their is not snow.  Then they had him go to Chattanooga of all places and they had the Miss Chattanooga in a High School.  That be like Miss New York being in a High School.  Not to mention only 9Mb internet.  Chattanooga is wired for 1Gb Internet.  *shrug*  If you are going to my Backward state at least portray it right.

The bit that got to me was his technobabble line about ISDN in the reporters truck. Yeah sure, i'll just climb up on top and fiddle with the satellite dish (which usually has nothing to do with connectivity) and boost the speed significantly.

Technobabble in "harder scifi" like Star Trek and Stargate and Doctor Who is acceptable given its nature, but Iron Man is based on a present-day Earth.
Agree.  That got me too and you know what the ironic part was?  He could have either had the satellite dish pointed to one of his satellite with better speeds or connected to a 4g network.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on May 11, 2013, 09:25:31 AM
I saw Iron Man 3 as well, it was pretty good with lots of humor.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Pixelated Pixies on May 11, 2013, 10:44:58 AM
Good Vibrations - This is definitely my film of the year so far. Set during height of 'The Troubles' in the 1970s, this film takes a comical look at the so-called 'Godfather of Belfast Punk' Terri Hooley, whose dream of opening a record shop helped create and promote some of Punk Rock's most enduring bands.
 
Beautifully shot and with a real sense of the era and the place, Good Vibrations is highly recommended to those of you who have even a passing appreciation for Punk, or for those that simply enjoy intelligent comedies.
 
I urge you to check it out!
 

 
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on May 16, 2013, 04:09:57 AM
Star Trek Into Darkness.

This film covers plot points seen over all of the live action series. It is a little denser compared to the previous but the chemistry of the actors and the set design was on point. The music was fantastic. The 3D was soft, nearly missing in placed, but appropriately done. Given i dont pay the "uplift charges" for 3D movies (i pay £200/year for unlimited movies including 3D now lolz) it didn't bother me.

Despite the title being "Into Darkness" this does not hold a patch to some of the darkest episodes DS9 put out over its run. It's not "old trek" where the pacing was slower, and i admit i would prefer slower pacing but it connects very well to the existing mythology and ensures new people watch it - which ultimately is more important. I went with two total Trek-newbies last night and both liked it.

There is a small homage to TNG with the engine room and the warp core chamber, and the episode where people jumped into the beam and disintegrated themselves. I don't remember that eps title though
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on May 16, 2013, 07:05:33 AM
Just watched that a couple hours ago myself. It's better than than Star Trek 2009, but that's not hard to do considering what a bloody mess that was. It is an entertaining action movie, but it's not really sci-fi or Trek. I would have to disagree on the music, outside of the main theme, it felt nonexistent and paled next to James Horner. The GFX was quite good, but there was a disturbing lack of color made worse by the Star Wars Imperial uniforms Star Fleet were wearing. Thankfully they cut back greatly on the lens flares. Camera and editing work is disappointingly still shaky and cut up. It's almost like they couldn't get everybody together long enough to remember more then 2 lines before they had to cut to another angle.

The plot was serviceable and wasn't too predictable but utterly retarded at times. The pacing was crazy frantic, never letting up to it's own determint. But in the end it was really a massive collection of Star Trek references arranged into a movie. In a way it is not too different to how Family Guy is written to be a collection of references. The Chekhov's Guns were far too transparent, ruining any attempt at tension. This Kirk is a very bad Captain, he is absolutely terrible at his job. He literally lucks his way through this movie. Also **** Chris Pine, the guy can't act. The other characters in general weren't much better devolving into cartoons of themselves swinging their personalities like baseball bats. Karl Urban, Peter Weller and Cumberbatch stole every scene they were in so there is actual acting in this movie.

Being a collection a Star Trek reference it tries to ape the scenes they are based off, but utterly fail because they never understood why it worked so well in the first place, it comes off as a parody in this movie. I actually laughed out loud when they reversed the Wrath of Khan warp drive scene both during the exchange and when Spock breaks out a KHAANNNNN because the combonation of atmosphere, music and the fact that the actors just weren't up to the job. Considering that original scene makes me shed a tear almost everytime even now, it's embarrassing how badly they messed this scene. It didn't help the pacing was so impatient to move on to the next plot point or action scene. There just wasn't anytime for emotion, just lots of unintentional comedy.

I have to agree with Plugbugz regarding "Into Darkness". The films colors are dark, almost black and white, but that is pretty much it as "Darkness goes". What was there was pretty hamfisted.

There are a bunch of plotholes and WTF moments, but I am not going to poke at them since the movie would completely fall apart otherwise. I rather plaster over it at this point rather than to distroy what entertainment value I got out of it.

It's a perfectly serviceable action flick and it is quite enjoyable in that respect, but it's definitely not Trek and barely Sci-fi despite having spaceships. Go with that in mind and you will have a bit of fun. For a Trekkie, it's a great exercise in spot the reference. Just don't go in there expecting it to be better than the classics, not even close.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Pixelated Pixies on May 16, 2013, 08:24:13 AM
I also saw Star Trek this week. 'Into Darkness is undoubtedly entertaining in terms of the spectcle, but in a bid to appeal to as many people as possible it is also incredibly prosaic. It's what I would call a 'Vanilla flick'. Nothing surprising or interesting happens, but it all looks so pretty and the spectcle is such that you enjoy it anyway.
 
There are some attempted twists, but they were all so obvious that I didn't think they were particularly effective. If you have an awareness of some of the more memorable events from the original Star Trek, and if you saw what Abrams did with his first Trek film, then you can pretty much surmise how events will unfold. An example of how Abrams plays with the history of Star Trek would be the fact that in the first film Uhura hooks up with Spock instead of Kirk, right? Well, without going into spoilers, It's safe to say that that same methodology continues with 'Into Darkness'. It's all rather predictable.
 
There was one reference, however, that made me laugh, which was the appearance of a Tribble.
 
 
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on May 16, 2013, 09:03:31 AM
I really should be ripping Into The Darkness a new one, but I am just in a far too good of a mood to let this movie get me down. As a Trek movie it should really **** off.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on May 16, 2013, 09:07:53 AM
So this movie is as bad as if a Star Trek hater made it?  Oh Wait...
Their is a large group of people that would be eunuchs for the chance to direct a Star Trek reboot.  Then they give it to this clown who thinks the series is Star Wars...
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on May 19, 2013, 01:23:40 AM
Oblivion:

It's a good movie. There are plot holes, yeah. But they don't distract from the film while you're watching it. Yes, the trailers gave away a large part of the film, but there's still something in it to make it interesting. Good popcorn flick as the plot reveals itself at what I'd call a good pace (maybe a tad slow early on).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on May 19, 2013, 01:42:42 AM
My mood on Oblivion improves with time compared to Into The Darkness. The more I poke Darkness, the more it falls apart. I think at this point it has crossed over and I see Oblivion as the better movie. I believe this is relevant (http://vanityismyonlychild.tumblr.com/post/50521552966/wilwheaton-jenniferdeguzman-he-said-star).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on May 19, 2013, 01:47:35 AM
The Great Gatsby was... interesting. Despite what it appears to be on the outside, it actually is very true to the novel and I didn't realize how so until I was leaving the theater.


EDIT: LOL, ohhhboy, if you think Star Trek is "deep" and "philisophical", then you need to up your game. Star Trek is just as flimsy as all the other mainstream sci-fi shows/movies out there. The majority of the original show was awful, and same with the first three or four seasons of The Next Generation. And do I honestly need to say more about the other shows?
Who gives a **** if they weren't fans? Being a fan certainly didn't help M. Night Shamafuckhead when he directed The Last Airbender, so why is that such a big deal with Star Trek? Fan Wank (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FanWank) at its finest.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on May 19, 2013, 03:46:54 AM
It's not just that Darkness doesn't have any depth. It's one thing to say that you didn't watch any of the episodes before writing and directing the movie as Nicholas Meyer did. But to openly dislike it is what I consider a conflict of interest. The characters and plot make no sense even within it's own timeline.

Even as an action movie it loses it's luster really quickly. Darkness is just like Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol where Ethan Hunt is a terrible at his job and simply fails upwards. Kirk is the same, he spends most of his time failing upwards right from the very first scene. In the very first sequence the "Plan" makes absolutely no sense unless you are trying to make the mission as dangerous as possible for absolutely no addition benefit and even he doesn't know what the entire plan is.

This repeats until you reach the end of the movie. It's asinine. Micheal Bay made a more cohesive movie with The Rock.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on May 19, 2013, 12:27:24 PM
You didn't like MI4? That wasn't even directed by JJA.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on May 19, 2013, 09:42:22 PM
I didn't really like MI4, but the directing was spot on. I think that was Brad Bird's first directing job for a non-CGI movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: NWR_insanolord on May 19, 2013, 10:15:20 PM
Nicholas Meyer found the success he did because he had no nostalgia or attachment to the franchise, but was still open to it. It allowed him to keep what was good and cut what was bad without letting his feelings get in the way, and he made the two best Star Trek movies that way.

J.J. Abrams is no Nicholas Meyer.


if you think Star Trek is "deep" and "philisophical", then you need to up your game. Star Trek is just as flimsy as all the other mainstream sci-fi shows/movies out there. The majority of the original show was awful, and same with the first three or four seasons of The Next Generation. And do I honestly need to say more about the other shows?

Multiple aspects of this post suggest you haven't watched Deep Space Nine, something I suggest you rectify immediately.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Caliban on May 20, 2013, 12:21:33 AM
Star Trek into Darkness - It was fucking awesome.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on May 20, 2013, 01:48:53 AM
I've seen a few episodes of DS9, but it felt like a cheaper, lamer version of TNG. Hell, the only Star Trek show I liked was TNG, and not even all of it. As I said earlier, I pretty much only like about 80% of TNG. I'm not a Trekkie whatsoever. :P
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: azeke on May 20, 2013, 02:38:56 AM
I pretty much only like about 80% of TNG. I'm not a Trekkie whatsoever. :P
80% of something being good is an extremely good quotient. I wish half of the thing i'm a fan of could claim those rare 80% percents.

I'm still slow burning through TOS and went to watch "Into Darkness" with a friend yesterday.

Into Darkness is an okay action movie, but yeah the plot is retarded. You know it's bad when people say first movie made more sense and that movie had parallel realities and time-travel.

It felt like they first decided on how they're gonna pander to fans, and THEN decided on plot to wrap fanservice around. No, guys. You're supposed to make a good movie first and foremost and secondmost and thirdmost and so on. Once you have that, THEN you include nods and references and winks. Do it the other way around and you turn into Family Guy.

I didn't hated it though. I'm not a fan about Star Trek enough to spew bile on internet how they raped my childhood and "not muh star trek" and stuff. It's an okayish, stupid romp, i guess.

On TOS, i think i started liking the show after early episode where Kirk had that speech to atomic non aging kids who wouldn't listen to him. That was really good. Also around that time they found their thing with trinity dynamic and started employing it and show became much more enjoyable overall. I'm on the last half second season, watched mafia episode (eh), private little war (ending was very good and that whole non-interference thing resonated nicely in the movie), and that space amoeba episode (also good).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on May 20, 2013, 09:46:07 AM
I've seen a few episodes of DS9, but it felt like a cheaper, lamer version of TNG. Hell, the only Star Trek show I liked was TNG, and not even all of it. As I said earlier, I pretty much only like about 80% of TNG. I'm not a Trekkie whatsoever. :P
DS9 is the most Political of all the Star Treks.  Their is stark social commentary throughout and some episodes they don't even try to hide it later on.  Its not surprising that Voyager is sort of a swing the other way.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: NWR_insanolord on May 20, 2013, 12:59:43 PM
I've seen a few episodes of DS9, but it felt like a cheaper, lamer version of TNG. Hell, the only Star Trek show I liked was TNG, and not even all of it. As I said earlier, I pretty much only like about 80% of TNG. I'm not a Trekkie whatsoever. :P

You should give it another shot. It's slow to start, but once it gets rolling it's easily the best written Star Trek series. It can pull off emotional depth like "The Visitor," political suspense and intrigue like "In the Pale Moonlight," and legitimately funny comedy like "Little Green Men."
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on May 20, 2013, 01:54:01 PM
I've seen a few episodes of DS9, but it felt like a cheaper, lamer version of TNG. Hell, the only Star Trek show I liked was TNG, and not even all of it. As I said earlier, I pretty much only like about 80% of TNG. I'm not a Trekkie whatsoever. :P

You should give it another shot. It's slow to start, but once it gets rolling it's easily the best written Star Trek series. It can pull off emotional depth like "The Visitor," political suspense and intrigue like "In the Pale Moonlight," and legitimately funny comedy like "Little Green Men."
In general I agree but, their are some episodes that are trying their hardest to tank that.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on May 21, 2013, 08:05:32 PM
Every Trek show starts off slow, but DS9 picks up a lot faster than TNG. TNG season 1 just blows, and a large chunk of season 2 is bad as well. The Dominion War arc is easily one of my favorite storylines in any sci fi show.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on May 22, 2013, 03:28:16 AM
Fast & Furious 6 - yes this film has a lot going against it in the realism department but the bit that got me was the final action scene where they are chasing the plane down the runway. 1 - The plane would have accelerated so hard it would have outstripped the cars and possibly thrown them off. 2 - There is no way the runway would be THAT long. 3 - they conveniently reach the end of the runway as the plane blows up?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TrueNerd on May 23, 2013, 12:45:52 AM
STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS - So, not a Star Trek movie. Feels more like a mission or two in Mass Effect 2. I was into that! It was dumb, and full of of Roberto Orci's awful 9/11 truther bullshit, but it was fun despite all of these things. UNTIL THE LAST TWENTY MINUTES.

So, in STAR TREK 09, when they had Zachary Quinto basically look at the camera and say, "This is a new timeline. We can do whatever we want," I took that to mean that this reboot series wasn't going to bother with the past of Star Trek and just do their own thing. And I was fine with that. But, based on this sequel, what it really meant was "We're going to take a bunch of elements/characters/scenes from your favorite Trek moments and rearrange em and throw em all in and hope they all work together!" And I am NOT fine with that. The WRATH OF KHAN ending redux was the worst. What was even worse than that was that I knew the second Scotty said something about the warp coil being busted that they weren't even gonna let Kirk stay dead and they were gonna cop out with the Magical Khan Blood. AND SURE ENOUGH. I do think Kirk sacrificing himself works in terms of his arc in this movie, but I really have no interest in seeing the exact same self sacrifice scene just played out with a different character. I don't want to see scenes, ICONIC SCNES, again just played out slightly differently. That is the opposite of interesting to me. That is the opposite of dramatic to me. This scene is obviously meant for fans, but do fans really want that? I love WRATH OF KHAN more than some of my family members and that scene had me rolling my eyes and sighing heavily. And the Magical Khan Blood is one of the dumbest plot devices ever.

I'm going to put this in spoiler tags even though I don't think it's a spoiler, but the "reveal" that Cumberbatch is Khan is retarded. None of the characters care that John Harrison is Khan because they've never met him before. It's a reveal meant to excite the fans, which is the wrong motivation for reveals. This is more of an issue with the marketing/JJ Abrams mystery box bullshit than it is with the movie though.


In the end, this movie left me really unexcited about EPISODE VII. Based on this movie and SUPER 8, it appears Abrams is only capable of making cool looking but ultimately hollow re-appropriations of past classics without doing anything new with them. Or, to be mean about it, really expensive fanfic. The only thing I take solace in is Kathleen Kennedy is an excellent producer and, based on Michael Arndt's past work, the EPISODE VII script will very easily be the best script Abrams has worked with. So hopefully they do a good job.

PS - I realized the other day that it was barely more than three years ago that I loved Damon Lindelof. Now? I don't think that guy could write his way out of a paper bag. THAT GUY WROTE "THE CONSTANT", AKA ONE OF THE BEST EPISODES OF ANY TV SHOW IVE EVER SEEN. What the hell happened?! Was it all Carlton Cuse?!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on May 23, 2013, 02:07:44 AM
**** yeah, "The Constant" was brilliant. Should've almost been its own movie.


Just got done with Children of Men. Probably one of the best movies of seen all year. Don't even look up what the movie is about: just go into it blind.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: azeke on May 23, 2013, 02:54:33 AM
Alfonso Cuaron is amazing.

Hyped for his next movie, Gravity.

This year promises to be amazing for sci-fi movies.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on May 23, 2013, 03:05:57 AM
imagine if he did a wii u panorama video?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: EasyCure on June 17, 2013, 11:10:44 AM
My gf dragged me to see Fast and Furious 6 and while I knew I wouldn't like it because I've never been a fan of the series, I couldn't believe how bad it really was. I was hoping it would at least have decent action but it was all so dull to me.

The worst part is they "hint" at yet another sequel which means if I'm still with this girl and she still has a crush on Vin Diesel, I'll have to sit through that garbage too.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: bustin98 on June 17, 2013, 11:35:09 AM
So.... Man of Steel...

I guess it's a thing to remake sequels. First, Star Trek II, now Superman II.

It made $130 million over the weekend, everyone loves it. Woo. Not me, though. Its a summer blockbuster, not a story of the character. So, if you see the film, leave your fanboy shirt at the door.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: gbuell on June 17, 2013, 12:15:13 PM
Its a summer blockbuster

As opposed to all those superhero movies that aren't summer blockbusters... ?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on June 17, 2013, 12:32:17 PM
gbuell is right, being a summer blockbuster has nothing to do with quality. It's like assuming all indie movies are good. There are good indie movies, but MANY bad ones. "Summer blockbuster" just refers to a movie with a big budget that is released in summer.

And I loved Fast Five (great theatre type movie), but a friend who saw it with me says she didn't like Fast & Furious 6 because it didn't have anywhere near as much action.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on June 17, 2013, 07:50:54 PM
I liked Fast 6. As one of several movies I've seen recently, it was one of the best. Gave me everything I wanted. Was it dumb? Yes. But **** you, anyway.

Man of Steel: Yeah, leave the fanboy **** at the door. BUT there were so many moments in the film that I hated. The script was a bit too heavy handed. One thing that irked me on both a movie and fanboy level: It was flat out stated that Earth's yellow sun gave Superman his powers, but the "atmosphere" also did? Like, he lost his powers because of the atmosphere on the ship, and Zod (et al.) gained some when they started breathing Earth's air? But they already had the super strength? What? Also, after all the marketing around it, they don't tell you how he shaves. He just does.

Now You See Me: They get away without explaining a lot of the tricks by only explaining the big ones. The characters are good. Very fun movie.

Star Trek: I liked this too. But Kirk's character had some changes to develop, but they just decided to gloss over all of them. And that bothered me.

After Earth: Jaden Smith wasn't good enough for this role. The script seemed like it was made to make it easy for him, but he couldn't do it. The accents probably didn't help.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: bustin98 on June 17, 2013, 10:06:25 PM
You kids and your superhero movies. I don't think of the original Superman as a 'summer blockbuster' film, and that's the bar I hold for all future Superman films. I also didn't say it was good or bad. Instead of being a masterpiece of storytelling or whatever, it's "just" a summer blockbuster.

Superman doesn't kill, at least not with his bare hands.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on June 18, 2013, 01:19:33 AM
I sat through 5 movies at the theater yesterday (Happy Fathers Day to me!!... 11hours at the theater)

Star Trek - Once again, a Trek Movie for new people to the series, as I can only imagine how actual Trekkies must hate these new versions. It has a few call backs for fans of old, but I enjoy this new series.


Fast 6 - LONGEST RUNWAY EVER!!!! seriously. 15 minutes down a runway at almost flight speeds and still didn't run out of room... Enjoyable movie otherwise.
and not to ruin it, but it looks like they have made a list of what order the movies go in:
Fast & the Furious; 2Fast & 2Furious; Fast & The Furious 4; Fast 5; Furious 6; F&F3: Tokyo Drift
and then the upcoming Fast 7


Man of Steel - better than I expected but still not as good as I hoped. and as pointed out before, some things just didn't seem right. but it was enjoyable. I'm interested to see where they go next.
even more interested to see if the success of this movie leads to the rumored Justice League movie.
edit: Can I just say that after watching Smallville for all 10 seasons and that being what I picture when you say Clark Kent, Hencry Cavill very much looked like Clark Kent.
BUT... his Superman should have kept the beard.


Now You See Me - Not as good of a movie as The Prestige & (what was that other magic movie that came out around the same time?) but was very entertaining. Some of it was CG Magic and not "OOOhhh how did they do that" magic, but I enjoyed it overall.


The Purge - I kinda fell asleep trough this one, it was the 10th & 11th hour of movies for the day. But WTF is wrong with people. I'm not sure how or why some of the things in this movie were supposed to make sense, but it wasn't a horrible movie. It was actually pretty entertaining (for the parts I was awake for).
edit: there is a part where an older boy wants to date the teenage daughter but the dad won't let them, so on the night of the purge, he holds up in the house, surprises his "girlfriend" in her room, turns down sex, and then proceed to attempted murder her dad so that he can final be with the daughter...
I'm not sure what made him think that's the best way to win the affections of your GF... not very well thought out at all.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on June 18, 2013, 01:38:41 AM
and not to ruin it, but it looks like they have made a list of what order the movies go in:

Not really ruining, the timeline has been out there for a long time:
The Fast and the Furious
Turbo-Charged Prelude (a series of shorts totaling 6 minutes)
2 Fast 2 Furious
Fast & Furious
Los Bandoleros (a 20 minute short film released for free)
Fast Five
Fast & Furious 6
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
Fast & Furious 7
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on June 18, 2013, 02:01:53 AM
I didn't know about the short, but I was just basing it off the clips form teh beginning and end of the movie leading into the teaser for Fast 7 starring Jason Statham
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on June 18, 2013, 02:37:05 AM
You kids and your superhero movies. I don't think of the original Superman as a 'summer blockbuster' film, and that's the bar I hold for all future Superman films. I also didn't say it was good or bad. Instead of being a masterpiece of storytelling or whatever, it's "just" a summer blockbuster.

Superman doesn't kill, at least not with his bare hands.

superman used to throw random somewhat innocent people around in the 40s. Superman's decision was tough. Superman felt like an outsider, alone. When Zod came to his planet his first message was "you are not alone", Zod could have been another father. He was a man who lost 2 fathers, and had to kill this one in order to save some random innocent people. Superman had an even tougher choice, Genocide of humans or Genocide of his own people, he picked killing off his own people. By murdering Zod he did exactly the opposite of what Jor-El would have wanted. Either way the bloodline of Jor El is the one bloodline in a twisted way
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Post by: Oblivion on June 18, 2013, 02:57:43 AM
Henry Cavill's beard was magnificent.
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Post by: Ceric on June 18, 2013, 09:54:11 AM
I'm waiting to see Man of Steel to help support the Special Effects people.  Still don't know if I'll see the Star Trek movie as a Light-Core Trekkie I find the movies to similar to Star Wars for me to really care.   The Purge I'm never going to see simply because I rather not think of a World where that is considered a good idea.
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Post by: bustin98 on June 18, 2013, 10:45:31 AM
Yes, they should have had Henry keep the beard for the whole movie. If he went shirtless, the ladies would have seen it multiple times.
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Post by: Khushrenada on June 18, 2013, 11:31:04 AM
Now You See Me - Not as good of a movie as The Prestige & (what was that other magic movie that came out around the same time?) but was very entertaining. Some of it was CG Magic and not "OOOhhh how did they do that" magic, but I enjoyed it overall.

Probably thinking of The Illusionist.
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Post by: Halbred on June 22, 2013, 01:39:53 AM
Side Effects (the new one, with Jude Law)

Good movie, although I was led to believe it was a "what is reality" kind of movie. The last act seems a little weird, but...maybe it makes sense? I'd have to rewatch it to be sure. It was good, though, definitely worth seeing.

Star Trek: The Wrath of Cumberbatch

From the opening sequence to the credit roll, this movie is WALL TO WALL ACTION SEQUENCES, which bothered me, because that's not what Star Trek has ever been. The first movie struck a good balance, but this one is nothing but explosions and uppercuts. HOWEVER, Alice Eve's mere presence basically makes up for any shortcomings, and Peter Weller is, as usual, awesome.

This is the End

Dude, just see it. You will laugh SO HARD.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on June 23, 2013, 05:49:30 AM
Ooga Booga

10 out of perfectly racist 10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on June 23, 2013, 09:15:42 AM
World War Z

Went in expecting a shitfest. Got an alright generic zombie movie. I haven't read the source material, but know enough of it to know this would piss the fans off. The first quarter or so pisses me off with fucking useless kids. The rest of movie is an ok somewhat different take on zombies acting like a literal force of nature. Had some laughs and watched a bit of ridiculous product placement.
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Post by: azeke on June 23, 2013, 09:17:51 AM
Just came back from Man of Steel.

I was expecting something really bad and stupid, and i got more than i expected. A good action movie.

Normal viewers will like action, comic fans like me will also enjoy seeing numerous Superman characters and cameos: Pete Ross (the character is kinda not here nor there though), Lana, Steve Lombard (could have picked a more beefier guy, but whatever), professor Hamilton, i think i also heard general Eiling's name (?), Wayne Tech, LexCorp truck.

I also noticed how close, almost word to word, this movie was to Byrne's Man of Steel series. Krypton is the same scientific, rotten from inside society from Byrne's reboot, they kept those flying robots and some designs in clothing.

Man of Steel shows what Superman movies actually never actually had: complete no holds barred fight between superpowered combatants in the city. Okay, Superman: Doomsday had that and so did few episodes of JLU but you know general public doesn't care about cartoons. I'm thankful that many people will see and enjoy amazing Superman action.

My friend thought Pa Kent's death was stupid, i thought it was okay. In general Costner's scenes were very well done, it's sappy, even corny stuff but you need it to make a good Superman story.

Farm scenes reminded me of "For All Seasons (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman_for_All_Seasons)" (which is my favourite Superman book), they had just right dose of Americana which i enjoyed a lot in that book.

Micheal Shannon was great, and did a great job as always (loved Shelter, and he is absolutely amazing in Boardwalk Empire, my favorite character by far), but i still think he was miscast.

I liked how they dodged the whole Clark Kent glasses dilemma. I still preferred if they went "For All Seasons"/"All Star Superman" where Superman was kinda beefy and Kent looked fat by wearing shirts and pants size too big, which is the most working explanation to the whole disguise thing.

I enjoyed the movie, first half kinda drags too much with the whole explanations (even though i loved seeing Superman mythos on a screen) and but the latter half is almost all action.
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Post by: nickmitch on June 23, 2013, 04:10:44 PM
My friend thought Pa Kent's death was stupid, i thought it was okay. In general Costner's scenes were very well done, it's sappy, even corny stuff but you need it to make a good Superman story.

I thought that scen was so fucking stupid. He died over a fucking dog. That bit alone killed any significance of the scene for me.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on June 23, 2013, 08:18:40 PM
So being the Manly Man that I am I can admit that today I saw Equestria Girls

When 12 o'clock hit BAM Ponies.  No Theme.  No Previews.  Insta-Pony.  This movie was an Hour 12 My Little Pony episode.  Even had the Cutie Mark Crusaders.  They re-did the theme in Techno and if you watch the show you could catch a lot of little in-jokes and the human analogs for a lot of ponies.  It has did a good job of setting up and re-iterating some points for next season.

In the end this movie was made for the MLP Fans.  If you don't like watching an Episode of MLP there are a few moments you may still like, like Transformers sounds when Pinkie Pie unfolds herself near the beginning, in general though this movie isn't for you.  If you only watch the show casual and get a kick out of it when its on, you'll probably like this movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on June 24, 2013, 05:48:06 PM
Upstream Color not as good as primer/10

kinda an art film, and not in the good way like Primer was. Its like s hipster movie thats trying to seem cool by being vague, but I can see right through it.

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on June 25, 2013, 04:08:42 PM
I did not do what is now my favorite movie of 2013 so far with my review from earlier. Ahem...

Dear 'Ooga Booga',

If racism were poetry, you'd be put along side T.S. Eliot and Sir Walter Raleigh. You'd be cherish for all time. If not for all time, then at least by Oprah. There is a point in your movie where you have a white neighbor barge into a black neighbor's house, and the ensuing diatribe is something that I like to call "perfect racism." I laughed so hard I had to immediately re-watch it again. There are in fact several parts of this movie I needed to re-watch again, either for the terrible acting or brilliant writing. If you were meant to be taken seriously, I didn't. Hell, I couldn't. You made sure of that in the first minute of your movie when you had a wasted children's show star throw up on set in front of all the little kids. And really, your better off for it. Everything about your movie is awful. And that's why I'll probably watch you again.

Your innocent African American friend,
Stogi

10 out of 10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on June 25, 2013, 04:29:20 PM
Christ of Steel
I liked it despite the heavy handed Jesus imagery. I'm not trying to make this into a religious discussion. It's just the most overused trope in movies and Zach Snyder was not subtle about it at all. I kind of feel like it cheapens the movie when the filmmakers are so overt with symbolism. I'm not against symbolism so long as you're not beating me over the head with it.

The final battle was totally Goku vs. Vegeta. I actually thought the Faora fight in Smallville was the best action scene of the film, probably because it was easier to follow. In fact, I think Faora upstaged General Zod as the villain (Michael Shannon was awesome) and not just because everything Antje Traue said and did was the sexiest thing ever. I felt like Zach Snyder made it a point to technically not to kill her off. Ultimately, I got what I wanted from it: a solid comic book action movie.

This Is The End
Hilarious. I've read reviews stating that people might not enjoy it if they weren't already fans of this group, but I feel like that goes without saying. If you didn't like past collaborations with these dudes, why would you give this movie a second thought?

They spend a little too much time in the house. I wonder if Danny McBride will ever not be a ****-up. Michael Cera was awesome. I have no idea what happened to Paul Rudd.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on June 25, 2013, 04:40:46 PM
I keep hearing good things about TITE. However, the ONLY movie I ever like Seth Rogen in was Guilt Trip, and the only thing I found Michael Cera funny in was Arrested Development, so I am not sure I would enjoy it.
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Post by: Adrock on June 25, 2013, 05:13:09 PM
Michael Cera plays the opposite of every role he's had, including and especially George Michael Bluth, which is what was so entertaining about his part. He's barely in This Is The End though.

If you're not a fan of Seth Rogen, I can't recommend this movie to you. I like most of his work I've seen (going all the way back to Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared), but I admit he's polarizing. If this shows up on Netflix in the future, you may want to check it out. Otherwise, there's a lot of Seth Rogen being Seth Rogen so it's probably not worth the price of admission.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on June 25, 2013, 11:24:16 PM
I did not do what is now my favorite movie of 2013 so far with my review from earlier. Ahem...

Dear 'Ooga Booga',

If racism were poetry, you'd be put along side T.S. Eliot and Sir Walter Raleigh. You'd be cherish for all time. If not for all time, then at least by Oprah. There is a point in your movie where you have a white neighbor barge into a black neighbor's house, and the ensuing diatribe is something that I like to call "perfect racism." I laughed so hard I had to immediately re-watch it again. There are in fact several parts of this movie I needed to re-watch again, either for the terrible acting or brilliant writing. If you were meant to be taken seriously, I didn't. Hell, I couldn't. You made sure of that in the first minute of your movie when you had a wasted children's show star throw up on set in front of all the little kids. And really, your better off for it. Everything about your movie is awful. And that's why I'll probably watch you again.

Your innocent African American friend,
Stogi

10 out of 10
(http://i.imgur.com/TMEfgU1.jpg)

?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Pixelated Pixies on June 26, 2013, 02:17:52 AM
Man of Steel
 
While not as bad as some people have suggested, Man of Steel, like it's protagonist, is a big, bulky, thudding, self-serious mess of an action film. The writing is terrible, the visuals are stunning and the characters exist simply to push exposition.
 
I must say though, that scene where the camera trails Superman as he flies through Metropolis at great speed looked amazing.

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on June 26, 2013, 03:04:11 AM
My friend thought Pa Kent's death was stupid, i thought it was okay. In general Costner's scenes were very well done, it's sappy, even corny stuff but you need it to make a good Superman story.

I thought that scen was so fucking stupid. He died over a fucking dog. That bit alone killed any significance of the scene for me.

Exactly. Over a dog that you never see again!.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Pixelated Pixies on June 26, 2013, 07:44:11 AM

Exactly. Over a dog that you never see again!.

Maybe it's Krypto the Superdog?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: azeke on June 26, 2013, 12:54:50 PM
There were two dogs.

One from Clark's childhood (Hank) which died i guess and then they got a new one.

It's both a reference to Krypto and Shelby from "Superman: For All Seasons". Shelby was also in Smallville because Jeph Loeb, author of the book was also a producer and he made first season of that show as close to his book as he could.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on June 26, 2013, 09:09:25 PM
I did not do what is now my favorite movie of 2013 so far with my review from earlier. Ahem...

Dear 'Ooga Booga',

If racism were poetry, you'd be put along side T.S. Eliot and Sir Walter Raleigh. You'd be cherish for all time. If not for all time, then at least by Oprah. There is a point in your movie where you have a white neighbor barge into a black neighbor's house, and the ensuing diatribe is something that I like to call "perfect racism." I laughed so hard I had to immediately re-watch it again. There are in fact several parts of this movie I needed to re-watch again, either for the terrible acting or brilliant writing. If you were meant to be taken seriously, I didn't. Hell, I couldn't. You made sure of that in the first minute of your movie when you had a wasted children's show star throw up on set in front of all the little kids. And really, your better off for it. Everything about your movie is awful. And that's why I'll probably watch you again.

Your innocent African American friend,
Stogi

10 out of 10
(http://i.imgur.com/TMEfgU1.jpg)

?

Just watch it. You'll thank me.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on June 26, 2013, 11:32:35 PM
I haven't posted the other movies I have seen recently, but I want to say I just watched Spring Breakers. How the HELL does this have 65% on Rotten Tomatoes? The movie is a piece of trash, one of the worst movies I have EVER seen. The movie actually got worse as it went along, and now even the copious amounts of bare tits made the movie worth watching. I almost think that staring at a blank wall for 90 minutes would have been more entertaining. This movie HAS to sweep the Razzies, there is nothing redeeming about the movie as it has bad acting, writing, directing, producing, and cinematography.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on June 27, 2013, 12:45:20 PM
I haven't posted the other movies I have seen recently, but I want to say I just watched Spring Breakers. How the HELL does this have 65% on Rotten Tomatoes? The movie is a piece of trash, one of the worst movies I have EVER seen. The movie actually got worse as it went along, and now even the copious amounts of bare tits made the movie worth watching. I almost think that staring at a blank wall for 90 minutes would have been more entertaining. This movie HAS to sweep the Razzies, there is nothing redeeming about the movie as it has bad acting, writing, directing, producing, and cinematography.
I bet you wish you were one of these Pinkie Pies instead of watching that movie now.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: lolmonade on June 27, 2013, 01:25:42 PM
With a 15 month old and not having that much disposable income, I've been avoiding going to the theaters for the past few years unless my wife really, really wants to see something.  This of couse makes my last few theater viewings a bit disappointing, to say the least (Oz: The Great and Powerful, and The Five Year Engagement were my last two theater viewings...very mediocre).
 
So once I saw The Avengers on Netflix, it was exciting to me, because that was a movie that I was genuinely interested in seenig, despite my comic bock knowledge being limited to 90s cartoon versions of the characters, as well as The Avengers arcade game.
 
I have to say, for someone who just has general knowlege of these superheros, it's a surprisingly approachable and fun movie.  Admittedly, I hadn't seen the Thor or Captian America movies, but they provide just enough detail to where they aren't that necessary to enjoy this one.
 
One thing I will mention: This movie definitely focuses more around Iron Man than anyone else, which works for me since I've seen both movies, but I'll be curious to see if they focus on any of the Avengers better in the sequel, given how underdeveloped they seem in comparison.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on June 27, 2013, 01:40:56 PM
You hit the nail on the head about why Ironman was the focus.  Thor is a good movie for setting up Shield in a way but, Captain America you should see and there both up on Netflix last I checked.
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Post by: BranDonk Kong on June 30, 2013, 01:39:16 AM
Man of Steel was fucking great I don't see what there is too complain about. This is the way a Superman movie should be made, and it wasn't possible to make such a movie until recent years.

Yes, there was quite a bit of Christ parallels, but like the source material, this movie is a work of fiction, so whatever.

The special effects were simply amazing. Amazing. Aside from the basis that nothing like what happens in the movie can ever really happen, there isn't one split second where you can say "that looks fake," because it simply doesn't.

Would I put it up there with Iron Man or Dark Knight/Rises? Probably pretty close in my book. Is it better than all of the other Superman movies? Yes. You can argue that it's not, but that's just nostalgia talking.
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Post by: Oblivion on June 30, 2013, 01:49:09 AM
Brandogg I fucking love you. Man of Steel was freaking awesome and it upsets me how much hate it is getting.
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Post by: azeke on June 30, 2013, 04:01:52 AM
Hey, i liked the movie too.

Despite that (or maybe because) i'm a huge Superman fan.
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Post by: nickmitch on June 30, 2013, 12:30:59 PM
Nobody complained about the special effects in Man of Steel (I don't think). And you're right: they're amazing. Maybe they're not getting much praise, but I think the rest of the movie is what makes it fall a flat. There were more than a few things that just bothered me about the film that had nothing to do with how good it looked.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: bustin98 on July 01, 2013, 12:12:40 AM
Superman would have done all that he could to take the fight away from populated areas. The special effects are awesome. The story is not Superman. He's supposed to be a boy scout, instead he comes off as barely self aware, and absolutely oblivious to everything else around him, EXCEPT THAT ONE HELICOPTER. Thank god he at least saved the dude from CSI.

And I still strongly disagree that Supes would kill with his bare hands.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on July 08, 2013, 08:51:09 PM
Silent Hill Revelation
I has initially (cautiously) excited about this movie because I liked the first one and Adelaide Clemens looked good as Heather. I would go through all the pros and cons, but pretty much Adelaide Clemens looking like Heather from Silent Hill 3 was the only positive though it would have been nice if they got Jodelle Ferland to come back. Honestly, since this was such a train wreck, I'm surprised they got pretty much everyone else from the original, even Radha Mitchell for like 10 seconds of screen time (and 2 more seconds in a deleted scene).
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Post by: tendoboy1984 on July 08, 2013, 10:57:55 PM
Nobody complained about the special effects in Man of Steel (I don't think). And you're right: they're amazing. Maybe they're not getting much praise, but I think the rest of the movie is what makes it fall a flat. There were more than a few things that just bothered me about the film that had nothing to do with how good it looked.

Sounds like a typical Zach Snyder film; all flash, no substance (though his Dawn of the Dead remake was awesome).
 
With David S Goyer penning the script, and Christopher Nolan producing, you'd think the film would have turned out better.
 
And how can people still be impressed by CG effects? I'd be more impressed if it was all practical effects (like The Thing, and the T-Rex head in Jurassic Park).
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Post by: TJ Spyke on July 08, 2013, 11:01:24 PM
Because when the CG effects are done well, they are more impressive than any "practical" effect and can do more.
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Post by: Oblivion on July 08, 2013, 11:28:04 PM
Good CGI is so good that you don't realize that it is CG. That's the point.
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Post by: TrueNerd on July 09, 2013, 02:19:18 AM
Because when the CG effects are done well, they are more impressive than any "practical" effect and can do more.


Disagree 100%. No CG effect looks as good/believable as anything in 2001, original Star Wars trilogy, ALIEN, BLADE RUNNER, CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND, THE THING, etc. EVIL DEAD 2 wouldn't have half the charm it does with computer effects. 1982 puppet ET works a hell of a lot better than 2002 CGI ET. CG effects, while getting better and certainly not without their place, are still very obvious to me. Practical may not be as "technically" perfect as CG, but that's kind of what makes it great. Its flaws and limits are what make it more believable and give the effects life. Personally, on a fundamental level, I don't think I'll ever be as impressed with something made in a computer as I am with an awesome miniature, puppet, actually shooting on location instead of in front of a green screen, or just doing the effect for real.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on July 09, 2013, 02:24:16 AM
Once again, it's because all you know is the bad CGI, which is easy and cheap to make these days. You haven;t seen the good stuff because you don't know it exists. Don't insult the hardworking VFX guys like that.
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Post by: Plugabugz on July 09, 2013, 03:25:03 AM
I should be seeing Despicable Me 2 today. Debating that or go and enjoy the nice weather.

Once again, it's because all you know is the bad CGI, which is easy and cheap to make these days. You haven;t seen the good stuff because you don't know it exists. Don't insult the hardworking VFX guys like that.

I always use this example, but look at Stargate Universe in HD. That show has some of the best CGI i've ever seen and it was made by a movie VFX studio, not a TV one.

Some things like Man of Steel, Inception, F-Zero and so on all work better now because the technology has finally caught up to the ideas.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on July 09, 2013, 10:22:58 AM
CG, while awesome in the present, never stands the test of time. Look at anything made two years ago. Hell, look at AVATAR, the most technological film in the past decade. It looks dated now.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Morari on July 09, 2013, 10:26:47 AM
Because when the CG effects are done well, they are more impressive than any "practical" effect and can do more.

No, they're not. Even the best CGI is still a pale imitation of the most mediocre practical effect. Films with great practical effects will always look great. Films with great CGI will look dated by next year. Practical effects actually exist on some plane, and don't suffer from all of the tiny problems that a functioning brain picks CGI apart for. The way lighting bounces, absorbs, and reflects for example. CGI is really only fit to touch-up practical effects, not replace them.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on July 09, 2013, 11:49:46 AM
I should be seeing Despicable Me 2 today. Debating that or go and enjoy the nice weather.
...
If you like the original Despicable Me then you'll Enjoy Despicable Me 2.  I saw it on the 4th.  I didn't pay for the first film, got it on a promotion, enjoyed it, and so I thought I give back with this one.

On the whole CGI thing.  If its an animated feature its debatable w/ where the tech has gotten.  For Real life thing where their blended in how tech moves to the next and techniques got better things get dated really fast.  Practical effects don't suffer from that fidelity problem.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on July 09, 2013, 12:16:39 PM
Morris, you must be watching the wrong films because good cgi looks much better than good practical effects. And good cgi can make something look real, practical effects age terribly too.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on July 09, 2013, 02:26:05 PM
All I see here are a bunch of old farts ignoring the simple facts and holding on to idiotic nostalgia.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on July 09, 2013, 10:10:08 PM
Lone Ranger - Not as bad as you'd think. Too long, and a little too much action, but...serviceable.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on July 09, 2013, 10:12:04 PM
But Jurassic Park holds up and the "remastered" Star Wars set looks "off".
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on July 10, 2013, 02:52:29 AM
I never saw Despicable Me. The weather was too good to pass up.
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Post by: oohhboy on July 10, 2013, 04:26:16 PM
Babylon AD. What in the hell did I just watch? I swear this was made to make the Fast series look good.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on July 10, 2013, 04:44:15 PM
Fast Five was a good movie, so don't be hating on that one. Haven't seen the others besides the first one though (and wasn't a big fan of the first one).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on July 10, 2013, 05:07:29 PM
Fast Five was a good movie,


what is this i don't even
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on July 10, 2013, 05:37:16 PM
It was. One of the best of all time? Not even close. But if you like action movies, it's definitely very good and more than worth watching (at least in theatres, I haven't watched it at home).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: pokepal148 on July 10, 2013, 07:19:52 PM
CG, while awesome in the present, never stands the test of time. Look at anything made two years ago. Hell, look at AVATAR, the most technological film in the past decade. It looks dated now.
I disagree...  this was made in 2005 in the first season of the revived series of doctor who(with not that much money  to spare on CGI)... and it still looks impressive to this day...
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on July 10, 2013, 09:12:12 PM
Fast Five was great if you like that sort of thing.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Shaymin on July 10, 2013, 09:19:41 PM
Pay it Forward

Only watched it because of work. Should not have laughed when Sora ate it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: bustin98 on July 11, 2013, 01:28:08 AM
Pay it Forward

Only watched it because of work. Should not have laughed when Sora ate it.


That movie made me cry. Haley always makes me cry.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: pokepal148 on July 11, 2013, 02:14:25 AM
I recently saw the movie 'Monsieur Lazhar', which despite not having been re-dubbed in any way for the English speaking audience(although subtitles aren't that bad honestly) still carrys my full recommendation for its powerful character and subject matter
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: gbuell on July 12, 2013, 12:42:48 PM
CG, while awesome in the present, never stands the test of time. Look at anything made two years ago. Hell, look at AVATAR, the most technological film in the past decade. It looks dated now.

Counterexample: Look at Zodiac, which has tons of CG that you probably didn't even realize was CG.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: pokepal148 on July 12, 2013, 02:39:38 PM
yeah... that entire two part episode of doctor who takes place during a bombing run at the height the London Blitz and the cgi of things like barrage balloons and German bombers passing along  becomes very believable as well (partially because even during indoor scenes you can hear them whizzing along their merry way)

while many studios have dabbled in CGI
very few seem to be able to handle CGI well...

IMO the first rule of CGI is that it needs to blend with everything else in the film...
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on July 12, 2013, 06:55:59 PM
Well, I just got out of Pacific Rim and well...yeah, go see it.  I really ****ing loved that movie, as a fan of giant robot animation and action movies in general. I have precisely one major problem with the film, which is a major subplot that isn't very well-written, but overall it's just a smart, fun movie that manages to merge together so many influences (Evangelion is ALL OVER this movie) and a very international cast into a near-perfect blend. It's certainly not a perfect movie, but it's easily the best one I've seen this year and I'll be shocked if the 2nd Hobbit movie or the Thor sequel tops it.  In the words of Angry Joe, it gets a "BADASS Seal of Approval".

I really hope that movie does well.  After all these years of Transformers films written for the lowest of the lowest common denominators, we needed an action film like this to set the new standard.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Shaymin on July 12, 2013, 09:50:45 PM
Sharknado.

Move over, Citizen Kane.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on July 12, 2013, 10:01:26 PM
Sharknado.

Move over, Citizen Kane.


you can't not post the trailer for it.


I think I'm gonna need to revive Mystery Funhouse Theater for this movie.
It looks Terrifically Horrible.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Shaymin on July 12, 2013, 10:55:02 PM
This is all you need to know:

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on July 13, 2013, 12:49:22 AM
That movie might just be stupid enough to work.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Shorty McNostril on July 14, 2013, 01:37:42 AM
Well, I just got out of Pacific Rim and well...yeah, go see it. 

Hell yes.  I went in to the movie expecting nothing more than mechs fighting monsters and that is exactly what I got.  Mindless awesomeness.  I just wish they did the Australian accents better.  Those fake ones made me cringe. 

I was surprised however that the Aussie mech (Striker Eureka) didn't get killed off in the first 5 minutes of the movie like I thought it would. 

And whoever had the idea for Gyspy Danger to beat a monster with a cargo ship should be knighted.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on July 14, 2013, 02:01:17 AM
I actually though the fight with the flying monster was a better fight than the ending, but besides that, it was fucking awesome. Brilliant **** it was.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: azeke on July 14, 2013, 03:37:00 AM
Loved Pacific Rim.

Scientists plotline was kinda unnecessary but i guess you needed it to see the impact of giant monster battles in the city from ground perspective.

Loved it, i wanted to see giant robots duking it out with giant monster and i got it.

The very last battle with three monsters went a bit faster than i wanted, but whatever.

Stringer Bell was awesome.

Music kinda bugged me with how basic and generic it sounded. During the credits i saw that it was Ramin Djavadi. I guess he simply reused six notes (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sH_6iFYiryY&t=23s) from his "Game of Thrones" opening (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNpUnUBhURY) and made it a main theme for entire movie.

Highly recommended.

And yeah that "category 4" monster was just a beast: swims very fast, can spit acid, and it can even fricking fly, in fricking SPACE, and there is more -- it was pregnant all this time!.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on July 14, 2013, 05:08:26 AM
Pacific Rim was a bit too long for me. It was approaching The Dark Knight Rises level of *get on with it*

At least it avoided the Transformers 2/3 sin of not knowing who is smashing up what.


Music kinda bugged me with how basic and generic it sounded. During the credits i saw that it was Ramin Djavadi. I guess he simply reused six notes (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sH_6iFYiryY&t=23s) from his "Game of Thrones" opening (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNpUnUBhURY) and made it a main theme for entire movie.


He used THE EXACT SAME 6 notes in Person of Interest.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBMfUzxp4n4 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBMfUzxp4n4) - jump to about one minute and 8:20.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on July 14, 2013, 06:08:56 AM
I disagree. It felt just right. Not too long, not too short.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: azeke on July 14, 2013, 07:37:39 AM
He used THE EXACT SAME 6 notes in Person of Interest.
Oh wow, you're right. Talk about lazy.

At least it avoided the Transformers 2/3 sin of not knowing who is smashing up what.
There were definitely a few moments where i was lost.

Also another minor nitpick -- i didn't liked how robots kept throwing monsters -- what's the point in that? Especially if they're just throwing them in the water.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on July 14, 2013, 12:36:36 PM
Wait, you got lost in the fights? That's definitely subjective, because I was able to follow it through all the fight scenes.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on July 14, 2013, 03:24:46 PM
Although this is the second time after Prometheus in which Idris Elba has died towards the end of the film in a big machine to stop advancing enemies.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on July 16, 2013, 01:38:02 AM
Watched Planet Hulk for the second time via Netflix.  Damn, that's a good movie.
Watched Hulk Vs. for the first time via Netflix.  Damn, that's a bad movie. (or is it two bad movies?)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on July 16, 2013, 01:55:00 AM
Hulk vs Wolverine was entertaining. mostly for the Deadpool parts.
Hulk vs Thor was sooooo boring.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: azeke on July 16, 2013, 02:04:29 AM
Watched Planet Hulk for the second time via Netflix.  Damn, that's a good movie.
I own it on DVD. On of these days i will rewatch it with second commentary track (first commentary track was with animators and writers, second one is with then Marvel Animation producers).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on July 16, 2013, 02:13:54 AM
Hulk vs Wolverine was entertaining. mostly for the Deadpool parts.
Hulk vs Thor was sooooo boring.

I would mostly agree with this.  I really dislike Wolverine as a character, so it just didn't do anything for me.  Deadpool was a welcome addition though.

vs. Thor was just awful.  It was such a mess.  I mean, I know it's hard to have two "good" guys fight each other, but it wasn't even like it was Hulk fighting Thor.  Guh.

I've watched pretty much all of the DC animated movies (haven't watched Dark Knight Returns yet)... I've only sat through a handful of the Marvel animated movies.  Frankly, more of a DC fanboy... and I just haven't been that impressed with the Marvel movies that I've seen, outside of Planet Hulk (which is AMAZING).  Suggestions on any other of the Marvel animated movies I should see?

It's funny to me how Marvel does such a bang-up job bringing the characters to film, but the animated flicks seem to fall short - but DC seems to do about the opposite (although their animated efforts aren't on-par with Marvel's film efforts).  I do have to give them credit for Man of Steel though.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on July 16, 2013, 02:41:41 AM
Outside of Planet Hulk.... there isn't really anything I would recommend as far as actual movies go.
except maybe The Avenger movie that was focused in part on The Hulk, but I can't find it in their catalog.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: azeke on July 16, 2013, 03:35:08 AM
and I just haven't been that impressed with the Marvel movies that I've seen, outside of Planet Hulk (which is AMAZING).
The reason because Planet Hulk is so much better than usual Marvel Animated stuff is because it was actually made by DC animation guys (Sam Liu, Phil Bourassa and others).
Apart from usually very poor to mediocre quality of their animated movies and shows (outside of Spectacular and EMH) another problem with Marvel is how much they delay stuff. Thor animated movie was shelved for almost four years i think, to coincide it with respective movie premier. Later episodes of Avengers: EMH show have aired so late, that by the time it was shown director of these episodes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyd_Kirkland#The_Avengers:_Earth.27s_Mightiest_Heroes.21) passed away a full year before.

It boggles my mind how much they keep mistreating their animation division.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Pixelated Pixies on July 16, 2013, 05:34:19 PM
I watched Pacific Rim earlier today and had an absolute blast. It's definitely my blockbuster of the year (as distinct from my film of the year - which is still 'Good Vibrations' for those that are keeping tab).

As you would expect from a Del Toro film the attention to detail and commitment to the premise really allow the audience to suspend disbelief and sink into the world. Pacific Rim also manages to avoid the pitfall that many blockbusters have fallen into this year whereby the characters' motivations are poorly defined. It's true that none of the principal characters are particularly memorable or interesting, but when it comes to blockbusters there is definitely something to be said for simple and consistent character motivations.
 
Pacific Rim certainly isn't complex, and neither is it overtly normative or cynical (other than making a light ecological point at the beginning of the movie, it really doesn't seem to make any big analogies). It's just a whole lot of fun.
 
It looks fantastic! I cannot stress this enough. The use of colour and light during the battle for Hong Kong looked glorious. I actually thought the soundtrack was quite good (particularly during those moments when the style of music changed to reflect the nationalities of those piloting the various Jaegers). The action was also successful in giving a feeling of heft and force, which oh so many other GCI focused films completely fail at. The set pieces also managed to be both epic and comprehensible (i.e. it's better than Transformers).
 
I wish I had a time machine just so that I could bring 12 year old me to the present and show them this film. It would blow young PixPix's mind! I can imagine Pacific Rim being for 12 years olds today, what Jurassic Park was for me as a kid.
 
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on July 16, 2013, 10:00:13 PM
All of Superman's best stories (and DC in general) are better as animated movies with a contained cannon as DC can't help but convolute or alter with their major stories.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on July 17, 2013, 12:02:16 AM
Outside of Planet Hulk.... there isn't really anything I would recommend as far as actual movies go.
except maybe The Avenger movie that was focused in part on The Hulk, but I can't find it in their catalog.

Direct Netflix Link: Ultimate Avengers: The Movie (http://movies.netflix.com/WiPlayer?movieid=70044063&trkid=496682)

I don't remember how the majority of the movie goes, but this is a much better Hulk vs Thor (and the rest of The Avengers) movie. Skip to about the 50:00 minute mark for the good stuff.

edit: This also ties in with your Thor's Hammer thread perfectly, so I suggest you check it out.
I'll cross quote it so you don't miss it. :D
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: bustin98 on July 17, 2013, 12:19:04 AM
In the 80s Marvel Animation was so awesome. But that's thanks to Sunbow. And awesome toys. GI Joe, Transformers, Spiderman and His Amazing Friends, Inhumaniods, Muppet Babies, Visionaries, Jem, probably others. Dungeons and Dragons, can't forget that one
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on July 17, 2013, 12:29:36 AM
Outside of Planet Hulk.... there isn't really anything I would recommend as far as actual movies go.
except maybe The Avenger movie that was focused in part on The Hulk, but I can't find it in their catalog.

Direct Netflix Link: Ultimate Avengers: The Movie (http://movies.netflix.com/WiPlayer?movieid=70044063&trkid=496682)

I don't remember how the majority of the movie goes, but this is a much better Hulk vs Thor (and the rest of The Avengers) movie. Skip to about the 50:00 minute mark for the good stuff.

edit: This also ties in with your Thor's Hammer thread perfectly, so I suggest you check it out.
I'll cross quote it so you don't miss it. :D

I bought that DVD when it came out.  I don't remember it being very good... ;)
Loaded it up just now and went to the 50 min mark, just for you...
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on July 17, 2013, 12:42:00 AM
Outside of Planet Hulk.... there isn't really anything I would recommend as far as actual movies go.
except maybe The Avenger movie that was focused in part on The Hulk, but I can't find it in their catalog.

Direct Netflix Link: Ultimate Avengers: The Movie (http://movies.netflix.com/WiPlayer?movieid=70044063&trkid=496682)

I don't remember how the majority of the movie goes, but this is a much better Hulk vs Thor (and the rest of The Avengers) movie. Skip to about the 50:00 minute mark for the good stuff.

edit: This also ties in with your Thor's Hammer thread perfectly, so I suggest you check it out.
I'll cross quote it so you don't miss it. :D

I bought that DVD when it came out.  I don't remember it being very good... ;)
Loaded it up just now and went to the 50 min mark, just for you...

The part where Hulk beats Thor with his own hammer and then proceeds to choke out Giant Man with what can only be considered a hug were my favorite parts.

I don't remember the rest of the movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Fatty The Hutt on July 18, 2013, 12:47:30 PM
Chiming in on Pacific Rim: my favourite movie of the summer thus far. Go see it. Lots of fun.


Also saw Man of Steel awhile back. Was very disappointed by much of it. It started well then, when it got to Earth, it just seemed to fall apart. The last 2 minutes perked up a bit when it looked like Superman might actually be fun again. I have hopes for the sequel.


Speaking of Pacific Rim, I think McDonalds missed a major marketing tie-in opportunity:
The Pacific McRib! (or the Pacif-McRib, if you prefer).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on July 18, 2013, 01:33:49 PM
Chiming in on Pacific Rim: my favourite movie of the summer thus far. Go see it. Lots of fun.


Also saw Man of Steel awhile back. Was very disappointed by much of it. It started well then, when it got to Earth, it just seemed to fall apart. The last 2 minutes perked up a bit when it looked like Superman might actually be fun again. I have hopes for the sequel.


Speaking of Pacific Rim, I think McDonalds missed a major marketing tie-in opportunity:
The Pacific McRib! (or the Pacif-McRib, if you prefer).
If Despicable Me 2 and Lone Ranger wasn't up against Pacific Rim I but we would see McDonald's promoting it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on July 18, 2013, 11:29:24 PM
Masters of Horror: Pro-Life

So far I've watched two Masters of Horror movies (this one and some other one about dead soldiers coming back to life to vote), and they were both fucking garbage. This is a John Carpenter movie, too. It's retarded. They should rename the series Masters of Horse ****, because that's what it seems to be.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on July 18, 2013, 11:32:47 PM
Masters of Horror: Pro-Life

So far I've watched two Masters of Horror movies (this one and some other one about dead soldiers coming back to life to vote), and they were both fucking garbage. This is a John Carpenter movie, too. It's retarded. They should rename the series Masters of Horse ****, because that's what it seems to be.

You might find one in 20 that was actually worth watching. If I remember the 1 or 2 I thought was decent, I'll try to remember to post them here.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on July 18, 2013, 11:51:58 PM
Please do if you can (no pressure). I like good horror movies, but these have been total crap. I also hate the stupid 5-minute intro where you can't start watching the movie right away.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on July 19, 2013, 02:11:18 AM
Thanks for the Planet Hulk Referral. Really enjoyed it. I see one called the Invincible Iron Man. Is that any good? Planning to watch that next.


I'm going through the Batman Beyond series and also played catch-up with all the Marvel Movies available on Netflix. So I saw Avengers recently as well.


Any other superhero movies to look out for on Netflix? Animated or live action?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on July 19, 2013, 02:16:50 AM
All of the DC animated movies are worth watching.  That's not to say they're all amazing, but they're worth the investment.  All Star Superman, Doom, Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker and Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo are my favs.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on July 19, 2013, 02:19:45 AM
I'll re-watch Return of the Joker once I finish with the series. Not gotten too far into the Netflix offered DC animated fare outside of Batman. I'll branch out and try those other films after Iron Man and Batman Beyond are wrapped up.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on July 19, 2013, 02:28:56 AM
Marvel really does need to step up their animated movie game.

After watching quite a few DC movies (mostly Batman and Superman related), I have to say that the majority of the DC films are atleast enjoyable.

With Marvel being owned by Disney now, maybe there is hope at turning the Marvel Animation studio around, but at this point picking a random DC movie out of a hat will net you much much better luck than anything Marvel Animation.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: azeke on July 19, 2013, 02:51:40 AM
Any other superhero movies to look out for on Netflix? Animated or live action?
Wonder Woman is my favorite in DC animated series.

It's very, very good. Cannot recommend this movie enough.

Superman: Doomsday, Crisis on Two Earths, Superman vs Elite are also very solid. Superman/Batman: Public Enemies is very stupid and very entertaining.

Their latest movie JL: Flashpoint is also exceptional (too bad it has absolutely horrible art at times), but it'll be a while till it'll be on Netflix.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on July 19, 2013, 02:58:02 AM
Can I also recommend Batman: The Brave and The Bold?  I know the series isn't for *everyone*, but in my humble opinion, it's pretty freaking sweet.

Just skip to watching these five episodes (no real need to watch them all in order).  If you don't like these, you won't care for the series at all.

Deep Cover for Batman!/Game Over for Owlman! (two part episode)
Journey to the Center of the Bat!
Chill of the Night!
Mayhem of the Music Meister!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on July 19, 2013, 03:10:14 AM
I should be catching The World's End tomorrow morning.

Given how incredibly brilliant Shaun of the Dead is (and i am incredibly bored of zombies!) i'm looking forward to it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on July 19, 2013, 10:15:38 AM
Can I also recommend Batman: The Brave and The Bold?  I know the series isn't for *everyone*, but in my humble opinion, it's pretty freaking sweet.

Just skip to watching these five episodes (no real need to watch them all in order).  If you don't like these, you won't care for the series at all.

Deep Cover for Batman!/Game Over for Owlman! (two part episode)
Journey to the Center of the Bat!
Chill of the Night!
Mayhem of the Music Meister!
In the second season the one with Super-Batman is very entertaining as well.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on July 19, 2013, 02:38:01 PM
Brave and Bold is already in my queue. I went and added some of those other films you mentioned as well.


Invincible Iron Man was alright. I enjoyed it overall but it just felt off to me. The animation was strange in some parts but the story was an enjoyable origin story.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on July 19, 2013, 03:31:43 PM
Iron Man Armored Adventures isn't bad.  Has a great theme song in its own way but its different then regular Iron Man.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on July 21, 2013, 04:19:55 PM
The World's End - Edgar Wright's hyperactive directing style really works well against Pegg and Frost, but rather unusally it slows its pace down quite significantly towards the end to give the Cornetto trilogy a "closure" kind of feel.

Still very funny.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on July 21, 2013, 05:41:51 PM
Side By Side - If I told you Keanu Reeves was doing a documentary, you'd probably not get excited. But he interviews the biggest directors and asks great questions on their feeling between digital and film, allowing them to make the case for both all while giving a great history of film, telling the story of digital's rise, and giving great insight. 9/10

Snow on tha Bluff - This movie might be hard to watch if you're unfamiliar with the Atlanta accent. This documentary follows Curtis Snow, street thug, through several "adventures". There's violence, drug use, and all sorts or gangster ****. Not really for the weak at heart. 8/10

John Hodgman: Ragnarok - If you like his bits on The Daily Show, you'll like this. 7/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on July 22, 2013, 09:56:16 AM
Saw Pacific Rim in 3D Imax.  Its a good movie but, a bit loud.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on July 25, 2013, 07:25:17 PM
MAN OF STEEL 6/10

Other than the action and Micheal Shannon's acting, this movie is actually pretty dumb.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Wah on July 25, 2013, 10:33:10 PM
I recently saw both Drag Me To Hell and Up (back to back) and they are both great.

Drag Me to Hell is exactly what you want from a horror movie: entertainment. There are some jumpy parts, but there is nothing in there that will haunt your dreams. I really have only one complaint with the movie, but otherwise it was overall funny, scary, and entertaining. A perfect date movie.

8/10

Up is fantastic. Everything about it; from the art direction, scripting, and animation is well done and sophisticated. I found myself laughing out loud more than a couple times. And likewise, I found myself moved more than a couple times. It's a great story.

10/10
Iron man 3! it was awesome 10/10!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on July 28, 2013, 05:06:46 PM
Just watched the Wolverine.

Much much better than the previous outing. It's a little predictable, but it's entertaining and makes sense.
You also have to stay past the pre credits. So don't leave ad soon as they start. It's not like Marvel movies where you stay till the end, post credits, so it's quick.

p.s. Mariko is hot.

Now I'm about to go watch World War Z.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on July 28, 2013, 05:40:43 PM
Meh. I definitely didn't like it as much as you did. It was certainly better than Origins, but that isn't saying much. After getting out of this movie I realized that I think most of the X-Men movies suck. Including X-1.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on July 28, 2013, 07:35:49 PM
World War Z was actually better than expected too.
I was expecting a complete train wreck Jeremy about all the production issues, but it was actually quite tense at times. The human hordes that don't give a damn and will step on, run over and claw each other to get at their next victim was pretty crazy.

But Pacific Rim is about to start soon, and this is the movie I came to see.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Wah on July 28, 2013, 09:10:16 PM
Just watched the Wolverine.

Much much better than the previous outing. It's a little predictable, but it's entertaining and makes sense.
You also have to stay past the pre credits. So don't leave ad soon as they start. It's not like Marvel movies where you stay till the end, post credits, so it's quick.

p.s. Mariko is hot.

Now I'm about to go watch World War Z.
Does he join the Avengers? :confused;
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on July 28, 2013, 09:14:51 PM
I'm hoping it's his son, Daken.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on July 28, 2013, 09:17:20 PM
Just watched the Wolverine.

Much much better than the previous outing. It's a little predictable, but it's entertaining and makes sense.
You also have to stay past the pre credits. So don't leave ad soon as they start. It's not like Marvel movies where you stay till the end, post credits, so it's quick.

p.s. Mariko is hot.

Now I'm about to go watch World War Z.
Does he join the Avengers? :confused;


Considering that Avengers and X-men is owned by two completely different companies, this will never happen.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Wah on July 28, 2013, 09:22:36 PM
Just watched the Wolverine.

Much much better than the previous outing. It's a little predictable, but it's entertaining and makes sense.
You also have to stay past the pre credits. So don't leave ad soon as they start. It's not like Marvel movies where you stay till the end, post credits, so it's quick.

p.s. Mariko is hot.

Now I'm about to go watch World War Z.
Does he join the Avengers? :confused;


Considering that Avengers and X-men is owned by two completely different companies, this will never happen.
They're both marvel!? :confused;
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on July 28, 2013, 09:24:41 PM

The Avengers is owned by Disney. X-Men is owned by 20th Century Fox.

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on July 28, 2013, 09:48:05 PM
Um, Both are owned by Disney.  Fox just has the licensing rights to X-Men (and "Mutants") for theatrical films.  Huge difference. :D
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on July 28, 2013, 09:53:27 PM
They own the rights to the film series. Similar to how Sony Pictures owns the rights to the Spiderman film franchise and also why Spidey won't be in The Avengers. Simply put, X-men won't be on an Avengers movies for a very long time, if ever.


(I know, you just love nit-picking everything I say, don't you? You're worse than TJ Spyke.)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on July 28, 2013, 10:42:02 PM
To be fair, you didn't clarify that you were talking specifically about movie rights, so someone had to correct you lest we allow the misinformation to spread.

But now Pacific Rim
I think I was expecting a little too much (damn internet HYPE), and the plot was ultimately predictable (I called it somewhere around half way in) but this was my favorite movie if the day. Besides, it's good to see Jax in something other than Sons of Anarchy.
Oh, and whoever cut Idris Elbas hair for this movie needs to be drawn out back and quartered. Either do a proper fade or leave it be, but DO NOT give the man a bowl cut. WTF was up with that.

p.s. no one told me Charlie Day was in this, that crazy little bastard.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on July 29, 2013, 12:19:27 AM
To be fair, you didn't clarify that you were talking specifically about movie rights, so someone had to correct you lest we allow the misinformation to spread.

So much this.

What was said was in no way correct.  FOX doesn't "own" the X-Men and FOX doesn't "own" the film rights to the X-Men.  They currently hold the theatrical film license for the franchise - although they may currently hold the complete live-action rights altogether.  I know the live-action television rights for Spider-Man are back in Marvel/Disney's control (http://collider.com/disney-and-marvel-web-up-spider-man-tv-rights/) (last I recall reading on it, at least).

Which means Spider-Man *could* appear in the SHIELD TV series.  In theory.  Not sure if X-Men is held by FOX for live-action.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on July 29, 2013, 09:49:05 AM
Saw Epic This weekend.  It was pretty good.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on July 30, 2013, 11:55:21 PM
So I'm 38 minutes into Sharknado (XBMC is amazing), and somehow it's both better and far, far worse than I imagined it would have been.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on July 31, 2013, 12:42:03 AM
Yep, that's the worst thing I've ever seen.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on July 31, 2013, 01:04:27 AM
So I'm 38 minutes into Sharknado (XBMC is amazing), and somehow it's both better and far, far worse than I imagined it would have been.
Yep, that's the worst thing I've ever seen.

I've had it on my computer waiting to be MFT'd should I decide to resurrect that thread.
Just saving it for a bored saturday or sunday night.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Pixelated Pixies on July 31, 2013, 02:08:51 AM
I watched Monsters University yesterday with my sister. While certainly not as well-realised as the original, just being able to spend more time with Mike and Sully again (this time before they became life long friends) made this film worth watching for me. There are some good gags, the visuals are top notch and the casting (Helen Mirren and Nathan Fillion were cool additions) is great.
 
The soundtrack in spots sounded a little too much like Toy Story for my liking, but otherwise it was a very enjoyable film.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on July 31, 2013, 03:33:13 AM
I should be seeing The Heat and Red 2 this week.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TalesOfFan on July 31, 2013, 07:18:42 AM
Pacific Rim - 10/10

I'm a huge mecha fan, and Pacific Rim delivered on everything I hoped it would. It had plenty of over-the-top Jaeger on Kaiju action; there were several subtle references to other mecha series, such as Mazinger Z (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyRoF689VRE) and Armored Trooper Votoms (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8hwDQJRU7E); and, the characters were fairly likable, especially Ron Perlman as Hannibal Chow.


I went in to the theater hyped and came out hyped to see it again. I've already seen it twice, and I can't wait for it to come to Blu-ray.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: azeke on August 01, 2013, 02:40:35 AM
Saw Wolverine two days ago, didn't post cause i forgot -- that's how meh this movie was.

When you have stupid plot movie at least has to deliver some action. Apart from train fight there wasn't any.

Mid-credits scene with Picard and Gandalf was the best thing from the movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on August 04, 2013, 12:40:34 AM
The Wolverine was awesome, you're out of your mind. Not the best super hero movie ever made, but definitely better than X-Men Origins: Wolverine or X-Men 3. The train fight scene was simply awesome, but I thought the whole movie was quite enjoyable. I liked the post-credits scene too, if anyone is confused by it (I don't think you are), then they probably never watched the post-credits scene from X-Men 3 (after ALL of the credits). A lot of people don't even realize that it had one...probably could have used spoiler tags though.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on August 04, 2013, 01:44:59 AM
Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox

Wow.  This awesome movie, featuring Flash Gordon, is amazing.  I haven't read the comics it's based off of (although I did just watch the Justice League DCAU episodes that feature a somewhat similar concept, but totally different *everything* else).

Time and time again, Warner Bros. knows how to make a great animated DC movie.

It's not perfect, and there are a few issues with the storyline (like, what was really the point of the entire Superman subplot.  Oh, and Barry, you probably shouldn't call him "Clark"... why the heck would he have that name in this timeline?), but seeing Cyborg kick some ass again (FYI: Justice League: DOOM is awesome as well) was a plus.  The Batman reveal was handled nicely... The hinting of The Joker lit up every happy part of my brain...  second/third tier heroes and villains making minor cameo appearances was spiffy (although the Kaldur'ahm version of Aqualad made me sad for no Young Justice).

Overall, fun movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on August 04, 2013, 02:02:57 AM
Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox

Wow.  This awesome movie, featuring Flash Gordon, is amazing.  I haven't read the comics it's based off of (although I did just watch the Justice League DCAU episodes that feature a somewhat similar concept, but totally different *everything* else).

Time and time again, Warner Bros. knows how to make a great animated DC movie.

It's a damn shame they won't let the animation guys anywhere near the hollywood movie guys.
They could probably do something really special. I'm very reserved on excitement for the Man of Steel 2/Sups vs Bats seeing as they don't really seem to have a forward moving goal that has been planned out ahead of time.

And I recently watched Return of the Dark Knight, and i enjoyed pt1 more than pt 2, but damn, old Bats was savage in this one. Using that "Old Man Strength" to stay in the game, wasn't sure he would make it to the end. Pretty good movie overall though.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on August 04, 2013, 02:10:25 AM
Yeah, I haven't watched Dark Knight yet.  I need to - it's one I'm waiting to catch on sale though.  I PM'd Flashpoint at Best Buy with Amazon's $13.99 - I really, really wanted to watch it.

I get the impression that the only idea that they have for Man of Steel 2 is Superman vs. Batman.  Beyond that, I don't really think they have much of a game plan.  "Fans want it, let's make it happen."
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on August 04, 2013, 03:35:58 AM
It does kinda seem that they are trying to get to the Avengers money in as few movies as possible.

They are rushing their play because Marvel has successfully done what WB & DC could have done with a full catalog had they just decided to get their **** together and take the risk.

Of course Green Lantern bombed hard (But RR should have been too busy with Deadpool anyway)
Wonder Woman has been in limbo for over a decade complete with a cancelled pilot for TV
The Flash hasn't been mentioned since his early 90's TV show (lasted almost 1 season I think) and is getting a new show launched off of Arrow on CW (not sure if this means TV Green Arrow and TV Flash will tie in to the Sups/Bats JL movie)
Superman & Batman are the only go to's in the DC catalog, and I guess it will take them both to setup enough crazy to bring in the rest of the Justice League.
Just not sure how well it's gonna work.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on August 04, 2013, 12:37:22 PM
The Heat - Nothing special about it. It dragged in places. Soon as it loosened up about 30 minutes from the end it improved.

Red 2 - Helen Mirren with a sniper rifle. That's all i ever wanted. Can we have Ian Mckellen with grenades for Red 3 please?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on August 04, 2013, 08:14:03 PM
Pacific Rim - 10/10 (IMAX 3D)

Man, this movie was good. There's a lot of cheese, but it's whatever. You're getting everything you asked for out of this movie. Giant robots punch giant monsters, and the plot carries it. Characters are good too. All the while it just feels like a movie that couldn't have been made before now.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on August 04, 2013, 08:26:19 PM
it really couldn't have, atleast not in a way that would have looked anywhere near as good as it did.

It's doing really good overseas right now ($45Mill opening in China this weekend) and has yet to open in Japan, Brazil & Spain, so here's to hoping for that sequel to get greenlighted soon.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on August 04, 2013, 08:47:42 PM
I want this movie to do well and I be interested in a sequel during the jumps they made in the movie.  I would not be interested in one after the fact.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on August 04, 2013, 08:49:45 PM
I would so much rather someone just start making the Gundam franchise in to a series of movies, starting from the beginning.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on August 10, 2013, 08:35:28 PM
The Wolverine. Wow, I never thought a movie starring Wolverine could be so BAD. It's beyond boring, and the few "action" scenes are brief and not that good. Let's just pretend this crap never happened.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on August 10, 2013, 08:42:24 PM
I think I gave it a 7 on twitter. Thinking about it now, it probably deserves a 6, but I'll stick to the 7 I gave it. I liked The Wolverine but mostly because it avoided things that made the last Wolverine movie terrible. It was weird how they avoided the word "Mutant" until the end of the film. I'll disagree about the action scenes being boring. They weren't that violent, but they were interesting, for the most part.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on August 10, 2013, 09:41:35 PM
The Wolverine. Wow, I never thought a movie starring Wolverine could be so BAD. It's beyond boring, and the few "action" scenes are brief and not that good. Let's just pretend this crap never happened.

Obviously you haven't seen Xmen Origins: Wolverine.

The Wolverine was fine. It wasn't great, but it was good enough for what it was.
Considering how poorly Fox treated the last wolverine movie, I'm surprised it turned out as good as it did.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: TJ Spyke on August 10, 2013, 09:43:38 PM
At most I would consider it a "meh" movie, the kind I would say MAYBE watch if it's playing on TV and you have nothing else to do.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: azeke on August 10, 2013, 11:26:22 PM
Elysium

It's a good sci-fi movie. Too bad it's made by director whose previous movie was absolutely mindblowing and literally life-changing.

It retreads the plot and even setting of District 9 but lacks something that made D9 so amazing. Even if main character of D9 was uberjerk in the beginning you still found yourself rooting for him by the end. It was a wonderful journey for the character. Damon can't evoke even the echo of that feeling.

Action scenes in Elysium were good and gory just like in D9, but shaky camera i think wasted some of them.

It's still a good movie, but a kind disappointing after D9.

Still, i LOVE how sci-fi movies are making a full on comeback these last years. Even if you exclude superhero genre, we still had lots good-to-great sci-fi movies: Source Code, Pacific Rim, Platen of the Apes, Oblivion. And there will be more: Gravity, Interstellar.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on August 11, 2013, 09:26:10 AM
The fact that Wolverine says "****" in The Wolverine automatically adds 1-2 points to whatever score you plan on giving it, though he said it in the first one too...
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on August 11, 2013, 04:32:14 PM
Still, i LOVE how sci-fi movies are making a full on comeback these last years. Even if you exclude superhero genre, we still had lots good-to-great sci-fi movies: Source Code, Pacific Rim, Platen of the Apes, Oblivion. And there will be more: Gravity, Interstellar.

Don't forget Enders Game. I have some high hopes for that film.

By the way, how's Jodi Foster in Elysium? She's one of my favorite actresses (not to mention, she tends to pick relatively smart movies to be in) and pretty much the one reason I'd want to see that movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on August 11, 2013, 07:02:46 PM
I don't think Ender's Game is going to translate as well as everyone thinks it will.  I peg that movie as being pretty darn slow.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: azeke on August 11, 2013, 11:11:06 PM
Don't care about Ender's game. It's a bad book. Though for some reason i read one of it's many sequels. They're even worse. So much whining, like i couldn't believe.

By the way, how's Jodi Foster in Elysium? She's one of my favorite actresses (not to mention, she tends to pick relatively smart movies to be in) and pretty much the one reason I'd want to see that movie.
Foster was fine. Charlto Kopley's character steals everything that movie has going for it. His villain is just so... villain-y. He really overshadows everyone in that flick.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: toddra on August 18, 2013, 12:42:50 PM
I just had a Resident Evil marathon and I gotta say those movies are just dragging things on. I liked the first two okay but by the third it was just getting ridiculous and the fourth was too much. I haven't seen the fifth yet and I still can't believe they already greenlit a sixth and seventh.

New movies the only ones I seen this year are Avengers, and GI Joe. I liked Avengers a lot but it took multiple viewings because there was too much going on to follow it the first time. GI Joe was no where near as good as the first awesome one.

It isn't new but I did finally finish the Running Man recently, I always started it but for some reason or another never could get to the end, and I gotta say I really liked it a lot.


I just watched Empire Strikes Back on Blu Ray for the first time since I got the boxed set, well it was sorta Empire Strikes Back but apparently Lucas had to tinker some more so it is only like 75% the same movie now.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on August 19, 2013, 05:58:19 AM
Last week i binged pretty hard and saw:

RED 2 (again)
Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters - i've not read the book(s) but this was a OK film. Didn't go in expecting much.
The Lone Ranger (for the love of Helen Mirren do not see this movie if you're expecting a swift plot!)
The Wolverine (again)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on August 22, 2013, 03:04:59 AM
...and the binging continues!

Elysium: Jodie Foster very nearly stole every scene she was in with her general presence and nature. Sharlto Copley DID steal every scene however. In as almost as good a way as Heath Ledger did in The Dark Knight. It didn't have the character development as District 9, but it felt shorter overall so i think it was better for leaving it out.

Today i'm seeing Kick Ass 2 and hopefully Friday i'm seeing 2 Guns.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: toddra on August 22, 2013, 01:16:06 PM
I forgot Kick Ass 2 was coming out already. I was planning on seeing it for my birthday but that's a couple weeks away I hope it stays in theaters long enough for me to get to see it. I loved the first one. On fact it is only one of three Nick Cage movies I can stand, cuz of how much I hate Nick Cage.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on August 27, 2013, 09:41:11 AM
Even more binging!

2 Guns - Mark Wahlberg and Denzel Washington have good chemistry together. Cyclops from the X-Men films is in this, and soon as i recognised him i couldn't un-see it either

The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones Twilight, basically. There was nothing particularly special about it - except Robert Sheehan (who played Nathan in Misfits), i was expecting to burst into profanity and foul language at any moment.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on August 27, 2013, 09:29:19 PM
The World's End

This will sadly be compared to "This is the End," which just came out, and is much MUCH funnier. The World's End tries to have it all three ways--comedy, action movie, and character drama (sort of)--and then butchers the execution (especially the gawdawful ending). Aside from "Run, Fat Boy, Run" I can say I've enjoyed all of these guys's movies. Chalk this one up to the "don't like" list.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Fatty The Hutt on August 28, 2013, 01:12:57 PM
Don't care about Ender's game. It's a bad book.
I disagree with you, sir!
Though I am no fan of the author as a person, I do like the book quite a bit, along with a few of the sequels/spin-offs.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Fatty The Hutt on August 28, 2013, 01:14:29 PM
Now You See Me


What a dumb, fun movie. Loved it. Pure entertainment, executed well. 8.5/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on August 29, 2013, 12:32:45 AM
A Haunted House - an unexpected OMG HAHAHA LOL
especially towards the beginning, but there were moments all throughout.

JL: Flashpoint Paradox - OMG FLASH MADE BATMAN CRY!!!
LMAO HAHA @ Supaman (?) skinny ass twig was almost afraid of his own shadow. he also had a cyclops moment there for a second. "close your eyes Supaman"!
Anime style animation was also unexpected.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: lolmonade on August 29, 2013, 10:17:48 PM
Robin Hood - Men in Tights.


Wonderful.  I haven't had any opportunity to watch any Mel Brooks movies, and this one was nice and easy to delve into given the familiar source material.  The jokes are certainly a bit dated at this point, but given that i recall what they're referencing, I still find it incredibly funny.


Blinkin is spectacular, especially the fight scene with him vs. the support beam.


Spectacular parody movie.  I'd suggest it to anyone.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Wah on August 29, 2013, 11:30:05 PM
Monty python and the holy grail! Funny as! 9.5/10!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: toddra on August 29, 2013, 11:50:31 PM
Monty python and the holy grail! Funny as! 9.5/10!


Well it is official we have nothing in common and must now become enemies.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: azeke on August 30, 2013, 02:29:02 AM
Book of Eli

Yet another subpar post-apocalypse movie written by Gary Whitta.

The other one was "The Walking Dead: so called game", of course.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Shaymin on August 30, 2013, 07:49:43 AM
Careful, being honest about that "game" is a capital offense in some areas.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Wah on September 01, 2013, 09:35:48 PM
Monty python and the holy grail! Funny as! 9.5/10!


Well it is official we have nothing in common and must now become enemies.
we have love of sega and nintendo in common!? :-[
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: RABicle on September 02, 2013, 10:50:00 AM
Don't worry about him Lucariofan. Monty Python is the highest form of humour on the planet. There are so many layers to almost every joke on screen. Now that I'm doing some critical theory and philosophy units at university I'm discovering that Holy Grail even has jokes about THAT.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Wah on September 02, 2013, 09:31:42 PM
Still like ted and ace ventura better though!
But still a great movie!
And i now invite you to my forums!
Lucario's thread
The marvel fanclub
halo
the Jontron fanclub
Ice cream and i can not think of the others!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on September 02, 2013, 09:47:41 PM
That means you've been starting too many.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Wah on September 02, 2013, 09:49:12 PM
Why do u think i haven't made one today?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on September 02, 2013, 09:52:50 PM
I was hoping you reached some kind of limit.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Wah on September 02, 2013, 09:54:36 PM
I think i'll just include everything in my thread from now on!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on September 02, 2013, 09:54:59 PM
That would be better.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on September 07, 2013, 09:42:05 PM
Olympus has Fallen

I'm sure there is a very robust list out there with all the things wrong with this movie.
but I'll just name a few glaring issues that make the whole movie not make any damn sense.

1) There is an armed unidentified foreign plane from somewhere over the Atlantic flying into restricted airspace above DC and they only confront it a few moments before it reaches the white house. It should have been confronted long before it reached the restricted airspace above the Nations Capital.... like somewhere over the atlantic and as soon as it reached US airspace.
For some reason they waited till they were over downtown DC to send to fighter planes, which were both shot down over the downtown area. it took another 3-4 minutes before another one got within missle range and shot it down on the white house lawn.
.

2) They didn't swarm the White House with tactical units because there were 4 armed men on the roof.... even though they had clear line of sight on these 4 men, and could sneak 2 of their own men all the way to the wall of the building to gran the presidents son from a vent that leads to basement, they chose to stay back and wait it out looking for a way to get in. Even after the men on the roof were eliminate from the equation, they still maintained a perimeter and left the White house, which was empty with no front doors, wide open and unoccupied by neither friendly nor enemy soldiers. Instead they let the one man army, who was not in active duty with the Secret Service, Military or police, continue to do all of their recon and surveillance and roam the empty white house halls all by his lonesome, except for the few occasions where he ran into small groups of terrorist that he would single handedly dismantle.

3) apparently just anyone can use the bunker elevator even though they showed that it took a secret service code... the same goes with presidential laptops kept in the oval office. That old code that might have worked when you were secret service months ago is likely still active because... well... why not!? go ahead and delete confidential files and capture control of the video conferencing from the bunker. Also freely enter and exit the underground bunker at will without anyone (inside or outside of the bunker) knowing.

I hope the other movie that seems eerily similar to this one starring Jaime Foxx as president is much better than this one. what was that called? White House Down?
it even has the same title, since Olympus is the code name for the White house in this movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on September 08, 2013, 10:12:55 PM
Another Movie Day

3 Movies:
2 Guns, Kick Ass 2 & Riddick

2 Guns was pretty good. probably my favorite movie if the day but I wasn't really crazy about any of them.

Kick Ass 2.... not enough Big Daddy/Hit Girl action.

Riddick - the flying cycle moment from the movie looked like it was inspired by Flash Gordon.

(http://i.imgur.com/GkzYazc.gif)
low budget CGI is the culprit, but it looked really bad in comparison to all the other CGI which was not all that bad.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: bustin98 on September 08, 2013, 11:07:36 PM
Riddick on a cycle, having a pet, being the last of his race, damn near impossible to kill, he's starting to remind me of Lobo from DC Comics.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on September 08, 2013, 11:18:30 PM
Actually, Vin Diesel and Ron Perlman would both make great Lobos.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Wah on September 09, 2013, 12:10:37 AM
Flash Gordan in Ted is funny as!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on September 09, 2013, 10:07:06 PM
As what?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Wah on September 10, 2013, 11:31:00 PM
flash gordan
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on September 10, 2013, 11:35:59 PM
Can't wait to see him in the Justice League!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Wah on September 10, 2013, 11:40:29 PM
He was horrilble in everything!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on September 11, 2013, 08:42:13 PM
Can't wait to see him in the Justice League!

lol.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on September 16, 2013, 12:05:35 AM
A Serbian Movie - well, wasn't that twisted...

Quick synopsis of the plot: Ex-porn star gets enticed to rejoin the industry for one last film by an offer he couldn't refuse from a benefactor that I'm not sure ever revealed himself.

2nd half of this movie is fucked up. I'm far too desensitized for it to really effect me (damn internet) but wow, I see why this movie was banned practically everywhere.

Why was it banned you ask!? well, if you want me to ruin the movie for you, I won't.
Just know that you won't (and shouldn't) be prepared to see what you will see, and it's probably best to go in blind if you don't think that will bother you.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Pixelated Pixies on September 16, 2013, 01:43:28 AM
The Place Beyond the Pines -  Derek Cianfrance's epic The Place Beyond the Pines (TPBTP) tells a sweeping story of the cyclical nature of crime, and while not quite as focused as his previous film, Blue Valentine, TPBTP manages to retain that movie's feeling of intimacy despite the grander scale.
 
I particularly liked this film's act structure, which really appealed to me. Without delving into spoilers, TPYTP is essentially comprised of three related stories, each of which feed into the next sequential act. Cianfrance takes a couple of bold decisions (and uses a number of recognisable, and quite frankly, very obvious techniques) to wrangle the story to where it needs to go. It's pretty obvious by the third act where the story is heading, but I still found it enjoyable to watch it unfold.
 
It's certainly not a subtle film, but it is one which manages to tell an epic tale of fathers and sons, has a really quite interesting structure, and features some great performances from it's actors. It's probably not to everyone's tastes, but it's certainly a film that's well worth watching.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on September 16, 2013, 05:12:38 AM
White House Down - what a ludicrously stupid film that knows its stupid.

I couldn't un-see, after about 10 minutes in, that all the scenes directly in front of the white house was just a set and green screened the surrounding areas in. I know that's the case in productions but i could see it on-screen and it spoiled the "feeling" for me. Olympus Has Fallen never had this problem.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on September 16, 2013, 11:09:01 PM
Can 2 movies with the same general premise and almost identical names (in meaning), that came to theaters relatively close to each other, both be absolutely horrible?

I guess so...
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: IceCold on September 17, 2013, 03:58:48 AM
From Up on Poppy Hill - 7/10


The most recent Ghibli movie (though I think the new one about the plane designer is already out in Japan and should be out in North America soon). This one was made by Hayao Miyazaki's son, Goro Miyazaki. I've always thought there was a bit of parallelism between Miyazaki and Miyamoto.. two geniuses at what they do, innovators and artists, but now they're getting older and are trying to train the new generation (in Miyamoto's case, Aonuma etc).


But I digress. The movie itself was contemplative and methodically paced, which I liked a lot. There was lots of time to admire the beautiful visuals, and there were some striking contrasts in scenery which made the visual style quite appealing. The plot itself was alright though. It was a coming-of-age story, but not one in the Kiki's Delivery Service style; rather more grounded in reality.


My main problem with the story is similar to my complaints with Ponyo, which to me was an abomination of the worst kind. In that movie, the entire conflict was resolved by the boy making a promise to love the girl, and there was never even a doubt that he did. In "From Up on Poppy Hill" they tease at both adultery and incestuous feelings, but both of those issues (the central conflict, really) are resolved in the neatest (and therefore least convincing) of manners.


Overall worth watching but I hope Miyazaki's own next movie is up to his old standards. I feel like with the recent Pixar and Ghibli movies, it's indicative of the quality slipping at the two best animation studios in the world, which is a shame.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on September 17, 2013, 09:09:42 AM
Can 2 movies with the same general premise and almost identical names (in meaning), that came to theaters relatively close to each other, both be absolutely horrible?

I guess so...

The only difference between the two is Olympus Has Fallen showed violence as much as possible where WHD didn't - by blocking views of wounds with shoulders, hands and camera angles.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: gbuell on September 17, 2013, 12:37:57 PM
Deep Impact/Armageddon?
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Post by: Do_What on September 18, 2013, 11:27:27 AM
DBZ Battle of Gods.
It's a nostalgia piece and works as that. The animation is absolutely gorgeous, though.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on September 21, 2013, 10:47:52 PM
Riddick was enjoyable--basically exactly what I wanted from the movie. I liked how it was divided roughly into thirds:

1) A series of Edgar Rice Burroughs book covers (especially when Riddick is nekkid) with a brief apology for Chronicles of Riddick;

2) Introduction of, and suspense-laden killing off of, various mercenaries, plus the "big reveal;"

3) Pitch Black 2, culminating in what amounts to another Edgar Rice Burroughs book cover.

Only thing I didn't like about the movie was Riddick's dog, which was A COMPLETELY TERRAN DOG. But that whole opening third is what I imagine Riddick does in his spare time, so I really liked it. ****, I liked the whole movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on September 22, 2013, 10:17:33 PM
Prisoners: Currently my pick for best movie this year out of a possible 10.

Great performances from everyone. It feels a little long, but it's a great ride with a swell ending. It's all around pretty damn great.
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Post by: Plugabugz on September 26, 2013, 04:45:55 AM
Diana - I was dragged to see this because my friend wanted to see this and not pay*. I didn't care for the story except to see Naveen Andrews use his "Sayid from Lost" accent. Which he did.

*anyone in the UK, if you have a Cineworld Unlimited card and use an Orange Wednesday code, the other person goes free to 2D films
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Post by: tendoboy1984 on September 26, 2013, 11:36:24 AM
Stargate (1994) - Meh. Roland Emmerich is a lousy director, as proven by his Godzilla reboot. He didn't do much better with Stargate. I'm glad the SciFi Channel series was so successful, but the original movie was bleh.
 
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Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on October 03, 2013, 01:16:16 AM
This is the End

I just started it but OMG LAWL @ Michael Cera.
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Post by: Oblivion on October 03, 2013, 02:03:29 AM
This is the End

I just started it but OMG LAWL @ Michael Cera.


Prepare to be disappointed with the rest of the movie.
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Post by: azeke on October 05, 2013, 06:11:49 AM
We truly live in a wonderful times. Sci-fi movies are back and are stronger than ever.


Gravity
Outstanding, stunning, nerve-wrecking, incredibly tense, fantastically written...  In a year filled with good to great sci-fi movies this takes the crown not just for the best sci-fi, but as the best movie in general.


 Loved every second.
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Post by: Oblivion on October 05, 2013, 07:18:29 PM
WATCH GRAVITY
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Post by: Adrock on October 05, 2013, 08:53:11 PM
I bought The Little Mermaid and Inglorious Basterds on Blu Ray. I also bought a tin The Little Mermaid lunch box as well because it was discounted with the purchase of the Blu Ray. Being a four year old girl with an adult's bank account is finally paying off.
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Post by: azeke on October 05, 2013, 09:46:20 PM
Inglorious Basterds aren't THAT kiddy. It's adolescent, yes, like most Tarantino movies.
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Post by: BranDonk Kong on October 06, 2013, 12:36:45 AM
Inglorious Basterds is one of my favorite movies. Anyway...

Machete - 6/10

I've had this DVD for years, never got around to watching it. Meh. There were some funny scenes and lots of creative gore, but the story was pretty weak (how did he survive in the opening scene?). Bonus points for the nudity though.
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Post by: tendoboy1984 on October 06, 2013, 02:54:48 AM
So who's the better director? Guellermo del Toro, Robert Rodrigues, or Quentin Tarantino?
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Post by: ThePerm on October 06, 2013, 03:02:54 AM
Tough question. The answer is John Carpenter.
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Post by: Oblivion on October 06, 2013, 06:13:01 AM
So who's the better director? Guellermo del Toro, Robert Rodrigues, or Quentin Tarantino?


Alfonso Cuaron.
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Post by: BranDonk Kong on October 06, 2013, 10:02:19 AM
John Carpenter allegedly directed "Pro-Life" which is one of the stupidest thing I've ever seen in my life.
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Post by: shingi_70 on October 06, 2013, 05:35:00 PM
(http://wac.450f.edgecastcdn.net/80450F/screencrush.com/files/2013/08/transformers-4-photo.jpg)

The Michael Bay swag.
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Post by: Plugabugz on October 07, 2013, 03:10:06 PM
Filth. This is, by some mile, the most fucked up film of 2013.

And this is NOT a horror. Absolutely worth watching. Warning: trailer is NSFW. Or the train. Or anywhere in public.

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Post by: oohhboy on October 07, 2013, 06:51:19 PM
I love a good accent and it is chock full of sexy.
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Post by: Wah on October 07, 2013, 07:04:35 PM
r.i.p.d, its watchable but nothing to rave about... 6/10
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Post by: oohhboy on October 12, 2013, 03:49:43 AM
WATCH GRAVITY
THIS.

Stunningly beautiful long cuts with amazing 360 camera work which is an almost completely forgotten art. Some liberties are taken with the science, but it's still pretty hard on the science scale. It really won't have worked otherwise.

It's could have done without the music. For a movie like this it was distracting.

There was one bit I outright hated because it was fucking stupid compared to how relatively smarter the rest of the movie is. I won't post it right now because WATCH GRAVITY.

A near perfect movie Johnny's space chat.
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Post by: nickmitch on October 13, 2013, 01:37:58 AM
Gravity 9/10

See other comments about this.

Rush 9/10

This movie is great too.
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Post by: oohhboy on October 13, 2013, 02:08:52 AM
Buzz approves GRAVITY (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/gravity-review-by-astronaut-buzz-639883?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+thr%2Fnews+%28The+Hollywood+Reporter+-+Top+Stories%29), watch it or get punched. Side note, for the love of all that is sane, don't read the comments.

For those who have watched it, and excellent behind the scenes (http://www.fxguide.com/featured/gravity/) look. Will contain spoilers.
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Post by: Plugabugz on October 13, 2013, 06:25:32 AM
Gravity doesn't get released here to November.

So go see Filth instead.
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Post by: Pixelated Pixies on October 14, 2013, 06:39:36 PM
Rush - More of a character study than a traditional sports film, I really enjoyed Howard's latest. I have admired  Brühl's work since Goodbye Lenin (a great film by the way) and thought he was fantastic in Inglorious Basterds, but I actually think this might be his best role yet. Hemsworth also does well as the likeable rogue, but as with their real life counterparts it's the duality of the two very different actors which make it such a fascinating watch.
 
Senna - This film has been on my 'Must Watch' list for years but I just never got around to it. Having enjoyed Rush so much, however, I began to feel guilty for having never watched this highly regarded documentary based on F1 Driver Ayrton Senna.
 
I was not at all familiar with the man's life, those that are might have a different experience, but I was absolutely blown away by this film. I will not go into specifics for those that wish to watch the documentary fresh as I did, but I was particularly intrigued by certain questions the film raised about nationalism and it's ability to include and exclude, and the importance of national heroes.
 
Highly recommended.
 
Undefeated - Again, this was a documentary that I had been meaning to watch for quite some time, but I always seem to find it more difficult to make time for documentaries than I do for Movies or TV. In any case, I managed to catch this on TV just a few hours ago and thought it was engrossing.
 
As with Rush and Senna, the topic itself (in this case Football of the American kind) was of no interest to me. Having said that, I found myself being carried away by the story of an underdog Football team, a team in every way affected by the school's history and the socioeconomic circumstances of the area.
 
There were, however, certain segments of the film in which I felt the presence of the camera more than I would have liked. On more than one occasion I had considerable doubts that the reactions and statements from those participating in the film would have been the same had the camera not been on them at that moment. To a certain extent that is unavoidable, but in those moments (which tended to be highly dramaticised) I began to consider how this documentary had been constructed rather than focusing on the people themselves, which is never a good sign.
 
It is, however, a story with plenty of heart and some genuinely admirable people that is well worth watching.

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Post by: Plugabugz on October 19, 2013, 06:49:06 AM
Runner Runner - This film (like the trailer tells you) says that a guy who is struggling to pay his university fees gambles all his money away. All $17,000.

Then, despite that, he flies to Costa Rica to try to get it back. I thought he just gambled all his money away?

He actually says "all my savings". And on screen you see him transfer it all into the gambling account.

The entire rest of the film is hinged on that, and shouldn't have worked. Don't watch.
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Post by: UncleBob on October 19, 2013, 10:54:33 AM
The Warriors (the first half)... What?  This movie is supposed to be a highly regarded film... and I fell asleep about halfway through.  I don't get it.  Should I go back and watch the second half, or, if I didn't get it by the halfway point, is it just not for me?
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Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on October 19, 2013, 02:09:33 PM
The Warriors (the first half)... What?  This movie is supposed to be a highly regarded film... and I fell asleep about halfway through.  I don't get it.  Should I go back and watch the second half, or, if I didn't get it by the halfway point, is it just not for me?

I've tried to watch that movie 3 times now....
Not sure how far I've made it, but I gave up a long time ago.
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Post by: UncleBob on October 19, 2013, 02:20:02 PM
Well then, at least it's not just me.

After watching it (I did read a plot synopsis later, I made it through much more than half the move...), it's weird to see all this stuff that has been referenced in other media that I never knew the origin of until now.
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Post by: nickmitch on October 19, 2013, 02:22:16 PM
Showing someone Ferris Bueller's Day Off to someone who's never seen it before is a fun experience. Especially if they like Family Guy.
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Post by: UncleBob on October 19, 2013, 02:29:06 PM
There are people who have never seen FBDO?

Like, hermits?  Amish?  Tibetan Monks?
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Post by: nickmitch on October 19, 2013, 09:19:14 PM
Nah, just people who weren't living right. You gotta reach out to kids.
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Post by: UncleBob on October 20, 2013, 12:32:30 AM
Even then - that movie runs on basic cable seven times a day or so. :D
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Post by: nickmitch on October 20, 2013, 01:12:54 AM
This is true.
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Post by: Plugabugz on October 20, 2013, 09:07:13 AM
Escape Plan - I only watched this to see Jim Caviezel and i got exactly what i wanted.
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Post by: ShyGuy on October 20, 2013, 01:09:59 PM
Sabotuer - One of Hitchcock's earlier films, centers around a man falsely accused of being a sabotuer at a airplane factory during World War 2. Has a clever tense scene involving using a car to break a pair of handcuffs.
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Post by: ThePerm on October 20, 2013, 05:18:32 PM
Sabotuer - watched it in a film class years ago. It's a really good movie. If you want to pay close attention to the movie...pay attention to the fire extinguisher....
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Post by: nickmitch on October 20, 2013, 07:06:28 PM
Captain Phillips - I really enjoyed Tom Hanks' accent for some reason. The movie itself is actually great. The pirates actually make interesting characters. Watching the scenes play out of the Pirates boarding the ship and trying to take control are pretty thrilling, even if the trailer spoils what happens. The US Navy shows up, and they're pretty badass. Only gripe is that the movie starts out on land, and the camera is already shaky. The extra shaky cam on top of what I was expecting with the ocean made me a little motion sick (though, I was partially hung over at the time of viewing)

8.5/10
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Post by: azeke on October 21, 2013, 12:26:24 AM
Sabotuer - One of Hitchcock's earlier films, centers around a man falsely accused of being a sabotuer at a airplane factory during World War 2. Has a clever tense scene involving using a car to break a pair of handcuffs.
Oh man, what a great film. I remember watching a lot Hitchcock movies a year ago and getting my mind blown at how great they all were (well except Vertigo probably).

Even his old black and white stuff still gives most latest Hollywood movies run for their money. It helps that his movies basically codified lots if not the majority of today's movie genres: spy movies, serial killer flicks, thrillers and so on.

They're still trying to ape him by remaking one of his movies every two years or so.
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Post by: Fatty The Hutt on October 21, 2013, 11:38:16 AM
The Fifth Estate
8.9/10
I don't care how much of it is "true" or not, this is a terrific film. Truly engrossing, mainly as character study. The two main characters are beautifully acted, their relationship and actions utterly convincing and it all takes place against a very interesting story. Pacing is mostly good, maybe a bit sluggish in one or two spots. But definitely worth your time.
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Post by: Ceric on October 21, 2013, 01:23:39 PM
Sabotuer - One of Hitchcock's earlier films, centers around a man falsely accused of being a sabotuer at a airplane factory during World War 2. Has a clever tense scene involving using a car to break a pair of handcuffs.
Oh man, what a great film. I remember watching a lot Hitchcock movies a year ago and getting my mind blown at how great they all were (well except Vertigo probably).

Even his old black and white stuff still gives most latest Hollywood movies run for their money. It helps that his movies basically codified lots if not the majority of today's movie genres: spy movies, serial killer flicks, thrillers and so on.

They're still trying to ape him by remaking one of his movies every two years or so.
I use to read Hitchcock's short stories and books of his movies some in Elementary School.  I really enjoyed those but, the movies themselves I never got really into.
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Post by: Khushrenada on October 21, 2013, 02:12:00 PM
Sabotuer - One of Hitchcock's earlier films, centers around a man falsely accused of being a sabotuer at a airplane factory during World War 2. Has a clever tense scene involving using a car to break a pair of handcuffs.
Oh man, what a great film. I remember watching a lot Hitchcock movies a year ago and getting my mind blown at how great they all were (well except Vertigo probably).

Really? I find Vertigo an awesome experience. It's so different. I showed it to a friend of mine and he said it felt as though he were watching a book in that it was the same experience as reading a novel but he was watching it instead.

I think the biggest thing is Bernard Herrmann's score. It's such a hypnotic melody of great sadness and longing. Without it, than I think the movie is probably a disaster. Although, considering the movie Obsession, maybe not. But that music just puts you in a trance for what unfolds. And when it swells up at the end of the movie after James Stewart has recreated Judy into Madeline and she enters the hotel room and they embrace with the camera whirling around them, utter perfection. It's a movie that always leaves me feeling very blue after it is over.

Interestingly enough, years later, Brian De Palma made a movie called Obsession, with the sort of same idea of a man who loses a woman he loves and years later finds someone else who looks just like her. He had even stated it was made because of his love of Vertigo. He actually got Bernard Herrmann to score the movie. It was the last great hurrah of his career and the score was nominated for an Acadamy Award after he died. Despite having that plus to the movie, the rest of it just doesn't compare to Vertigo. If you've seen Vertigo, then you sort of suspect right away what you think is going on and the movie doesn't seem to be trying to hide it at all. But then, nothing happens for a long time. And so I began to think that maybe this movie would be Vertigo but without the twist. A different examination of the theme of just trying to reduplicate a past love in one's life. Unfortunately, the movie does have a bit of the Vertigo solution although with its own twist that is frankly, so wrong, which is a shame because the first hour and 10 minutes were actually ok but it just shoots itself in the foot in those last 20 minutes. And then it seemed like it might go for the really tragic ending as which might have kind of bouyed my opinion back up but it went for the happy ending of which I did not feel happy about.

In the end, I still can't help but feel it is an ok and interesting enough movie to see. To me, it's Herrmann's show because once again, his score works so well with the dreamy, sort of etheral images on the screen and it's his score that carries the movie but man, it's just such a shame that movie stumbles so much at the end.

After seeing Obsession, it just further illustrates how well Hitchcock knew his craft. Even a movie like Marnie which has so many things about it that seem-outdated or just goofy (like Sean Connery playing the son of a wealthy American family despite his clearly scotish accent) you just gloss over those things because of how compelling and enjoyable he makes the picture.
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Post by: shingi_70 on October 25, 2013, 06:30:57 PM
I'm watching Scream. Randy is the best. (I wonder what happened to Jaime Kennedy). Next up Scream 2 and than Cabin in the Woods
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Post by: Stratos on October 25, 2013, 06:36:15 PM
I need to rewatch Vertigo. I remember enjoying the movie when it first came out. I didn't know that was a Hitchcock film. Most of his films I've seen were not all that impressive. Did I just get the bad ones? What hare considered his best films?
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Post by: Khushrenada on October 25, 2013, 07:00:01 PM
Well, the short list of great Hitchcock films would be: Rear Window, Vertigo, North by Northwest, Psycho and The Birds are regarded as his top five works. At least I'm pretty sure. Also, highly regarded and I think worth a viewing: Notorious, Dial M for Murder, Rebecca, Strangers on a Train and The Wrong Man. Pretty solid viewing list right there. The other good movies but with this list, you've pretty much seen the masterworks.
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Post by: azeke on October 26, 2013, 01:01:55 AM
I've yet to see all his movies, but Frenzy is my favotrite one so far. It's kinda like Columbo episode where serial killer is the main character for the most of the film. And i realy liked how that movie changed moods from funny to gruesome to extremely tense and then back to funny.


I also really liked Rope. Amazing technical achievement - entire movie made in 3 (i think) shots, and it becomes just as tense as any other thriller even if all characters do is just sit and talk.


The Boat is also really good. Again mostly just theater play like talks. I must have i thing for enclosed settings.


Unfortunately most of his movies got remade (sometimes even more than once) and shamefully i've spoiled quite a few of them for me by watching inferior modern remakes first.
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Post by: Stratos on October 26, 2013, 11:11:27 AM
Those are a lot of movies I have never heard of before. Psycho is the only other one I have seen. Have to check them out some time.
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Post by: Plugabugz on October 26, 2013, 06:00:31 PM
Ender's Game - i became bored pretty quickly with this. The first reason was i went in knowing Gavin Hood (who directed Xmen Origins Wolverine) also directed this. Then in the movie itself i wasn't seeing any particular reason, except in the zero gravity battle arena, why he should advance to a higher rank. And so quickly.

Where The Hunger Games carries the tension of kids literally fighting each other to survive, this felt like kids doing the work of adults except it sidestepped the mental toll it would take on any of them to do a task like this at a young age. Then it brushes off going Ender killing off an entire species (as well as the other human ships he abandoned in the process) at a very quick pace, just to finish the story and set up the next movie.

I'm sure the books would have explored the moral aspects more, but the movie spent far too long in the training exercises and didn't look at the human cost anywhere nearly enough


I realised about half way through i'm watching a movie of a person who is essentially playing strategy games. And that is not really fun when you think about it.
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Post by: Stratos on October 26, 2013, 06:35:17 PM
Watched Chitty Chitty Bang Bang with my wife. I knew this movie was long but it definitely could have used a trimming. But despite some pacing issues most of the songs were very fun and memorable. My wife thought it was a very fun and humorous film as she had never seen it before. It was intended for children but all the actors seem so into their work you can't help but appreciate all the effort. Dick Van Dyke was hilarious as he usually is and everyone gave a great performance. You just don't see such total passion and commitment to craft in many modern non-Disney/Dreamworks family productions.


Also watched Thor. My wife was interested in watching Avengers and I advised that we watch the movies leading up to it so we started with Thor since it is back on Netflix. I enjoyed it much more this second time and my wife enjoyed it as well. She especially enjoyed the humor and how it blended history with sci-fi.


Any suggestions on the order of watching the Marvel movies? Is it worth it to watch the Hulk film despite the change in actors?
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Post by: shingi_70 on October 27, 2013, 12:07:00 AM
The order to watch them are


Captain America
Iron Man
Iron Man 2
Hulk
Thor
Avengers


Its worth it watching hulk since its still in contunity and the film is based upon an ever changing medum with different interpretations of charcaters.

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Post by: UncleBob on October 27, 2013, 12:16:27 AM
Make sure you watch The Incredible Hulk, not just Hulk.  The movie called "Hulk" isn't part of the Avengers storyline and... well... it's not horrible.  You *could* watch it.  Just don't get them confused. :D
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Post by: Stratos on October 27, 2013, 01:16:12 AM
You mean the Edward Norton Hulk, right?
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Post by: UncleBob on October 27, 2013, 01:37:26 AM
Yes, watch the Edward Norton movie, not the Eric Bana movie.
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Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on October 27, 2013, 05:33:17 AM
technically, isn't the Incredible Hulk a spiritual sequel that more or less picks up where Hulk left off?

Not that I'm saying he should watch Hulk (it's kinda dull and Hulk doesn't show up till almost half the movie is over) but doesn't the events in Norton Hulk happen after the Bana Hulk? as in it's not exactly a reboot, just doesn't directly reference the movie before it even though it just carries on like a sequel.
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Post by: ThePerm on October 27, 2013, 08:43:49 AM
its interesting watching the parallel characters for hulk and the incredible hulk. I have trouble staying up during hulk. Skipping through it there are some cool scenes. Never watched it all the way through though.

I find Warriors awesome, but its probably just me. I dug everything about that movie. I've been told by people its both great and not that great, so i guess its one of those movies with a pretty solid split.
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Post by: UncleBob on October 27, 2013, 12:21:55 PM
Bana's Hulk tells the origin story of the Hulk.

Norton's Hulk re-tells the origin story of the Hulk in the first few minutes of the movie, but tells it in flashbacks and cutscenes.

If you were to remove the first part of Norton's Hulk, then there probably wouldn't be much that would conflict with Bana's movie, but the way that they tell the origin in Norton's is completely different than Bana's entire movie.

It's my understanding that Norton's movie was supposed to be a direct sequel to Bana's, but somewhere along the line, they decided they wanted to make some changes, so they just decided to reboot the franchise instead of calling it a sequel.  I don't really follow the behind-the-scenes much, so someone can correct me on this.
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Post by: shingi_70 on October 27, 2013, 01:38:01 PM
I remember reading that at the time the Incredible Hulk movie was made they weren't sure that the MCU was even going to be a thing and as a parachute the production decided to film the movie in such a way that it didn't contradict the first film, but it didn't try to reference it explicitly. The Stark and Shield logos were thew in as references.


But Now I think the first Hulk movie is out of continuity with the Avengers. In the original film Bruce has already mutated DNA and the gamma radiation turns him into the hulk by accident. In the new Origin they take from the Ultimates where Banner hits himself with gamma radation trying to recreate the super solider serum.
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Post by: BranDonk Kong on October 27, 2013, 01:41:01 PM
I wouldn't call it Bana's movie, it's not his fault it sucks, it's Ang Lee's fault. The comic book transitions were pretty rad, but it was way too long, and the Hulk-cloud crap at the end was simply retarded. This came out at the same time as Terminator 3, and I heard someone say that they should have swapped directors, which probably would have made both movies better. Now that I think about it, Hulk was just a terrible, horrible movie. It's really bad, especially thinking back about it, with the dogs, and somehow Hulk could like hide behind trees. Really bad. The Incredible Hulk was great.
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Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on October 27, 2013, 04:00:16 PM
So what it comes down to is it's not exactly a reboot, but not quite a sequel.
More of a revised spiritual succession to the 1st movie.


I'm gonna pop it in just to watch the beginning again. I don't have the 1st HULK, so I can't chore through that one again (it had some cool scenes from what I remember though), but at least I will have a refresher on MCU Hulk.
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Post by: Ceric on October 28, 2013, 09:51:15 AM
I was excited to see the Hulk.  About Half way through I wished I would have went to see Charlie's Angels instead and it was like the 3rd one.  It was so bad that I didn't even attempt to give Incredible Hulk a chance knowing that it was suppose to be somehow related to the first movie.
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Post by: Stratos on October 28, 2013, 04:14:55 PM
I thought they made it quite clear it was a reboot. Didn't people make a big deal about the reboot being too soon after the first one and weren't some of the creators of the original butt-hurt about people pretending it didn't exist?
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Post by: BranDonk Kong on October 29, 2013, 01:01:26 AM
X-Men: First Class - 8/10

I can't believe it took me two years to see this, but college keeps you busy I guess. Anyway, it was very enjoyable. A lot of the plot happens way too quickly, and characters "evolve" in the blink of an eye, but it's better than having to tell back stories for everyone in the movie. Seeing the "retro" Magneto costume at the end is almost like seeing Darth Vader for the first(?) time in Star Wars Episode 3 (in a good way). I forgot to turn on subtitles, so all of the German/French/Portuguese (is that what they speak in Argentina?) stuff I have no idea what they said, but it almost made it better in that way.
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Post by: tendoboy1984 on October 29, 2013, 05:51:45 PM
Paranormal Activity 3 (8/10)
Good performances from all the cast, and the story was actually intriguing.


Paranormal Activity 4 (6/10)
Not really scary at all. The whole "cult" thing they discovered jives with the realism the series tries to portray. And the whole movie was basically an advertisement for Kinect.


The Awakening (7/10)
Boring. The twist near the end was surprising, but the whole movie was just boring. It wasn't even a real horror movie, more like a suspenseful thriller/mystery.



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Post by: Halbred on November 01, 2013, 09:45:36 PM
I couldn't stand Paranormal Activity 3. You'd think one of the girls would've brought up all that crap during the first two movies. "Boy, remember what happened to Dad?"
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Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on November 01, 2013, 09:52:54 PM
aren't they all prequels? or just the second one?

I fell asleep during all but the 1st one.... so excuse my ignorance on the series.
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Post by: BranDonk Kong on November 01, 2013, 10:04:08 PM
The second is a prequel to the first, the third is a prequel to the second.
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Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on November 01, 2013, 10:14:34 PM
So the order to watch is PA3 > PA2 > PA1 > PA4?

and my original statement was supposed to say:
aren't all the sequels actually prequels? or just the second one?

But I assume you understood that. So I'll just clarify for the next person to come along and read it.
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Post by: BranDonk Kong on November 01, 2013, 11:22:05 PM
No, you still watch them in order.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: azeke on November 02, 2013, 03:31:41 AM
Thor 2:

Great movie. Almost as great as Avengers. Everything was just right. Kat Dennings was super hot.

3D was a waste of money though. There was no 3d whatsoever.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: tendoboy1984 on November 02, 2013, 11:00:41 AM
3D is dead; it was just a fad, like I predicted. HD is real progress because it actually enhances image quality, while 3D was just a gimmick
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on November 02, 2013, 11:04:04 AM
Uhhh... 3D Avatar is the only way to see that movie.

Is it overused? Sure, but should we do away with it? I don't think so.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on November 02, 2013, 12:50:45 PM
The problem with 99% of 3D movies is that none of them were filmed in 3D and only added the post processing 3D to charge the extra ticket price.

When 3D is done right, it can be a nice effect.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on November 02, 2013, 02:40:33 PM
Right now, the movies that are worth seeing in 3D are:

Avatar
Hugo
Life of Pi
Gravity

Those are the ones in which it is worth it. Animated movies like Pixar and DreamWorks are ok but I've never found any of them to yet be recommended as must see in 3D.

One other partial recommendation might be Pacific Rim. The first half hour to maybe hour, I really enjoyed the 3D effect of it but then it seemed to fade away to the point where I couldn't remember if there was even any 3D by the end of it. I just remember if feeling very strong and good at the start.

Other than that short list, no other movies have integrated 3D in such a way that it affects the viewing experience than that. Maybe I should have seen Man of Steel a second time because I was super impressed by its effects but don't know if that was because of the 3D experience or not. I never had a moment where I thought about how great the 3D usage was like those other films. I guess I'll see what I think if I watch it again on DVD.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on November 03, 2013, 07:40:54 PM
Gravity I would pass on the 3D, unless you were going to an IMAX.

I think Alice in Wonderland had nice 3D.

Also, Pacific Rim is definitely on the 3D (IMAX) list.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on November 03, 2013, 07:45:35 PM
Gravity I would pass on the 3D, unless you were going to an IMAX.

I think Alice in Wonderland had nice 3D.

Also, Pacific Rim is definitely on the 3D (IMAX) list.

Have you seen Gravity in 3D? Doubtful, or else you'd be singing its praises.


3D is dead; it was just a fad, like I predicted. HD is real progress because it actually enhances image quality, while 3D was just a gimmick


3D is dead; it was just a fad, like I predicted.



Yes, because you're a special unique snowflake that was the lone rational voice in the 3D crowd. It isn't dead. Sure, it may suck most of the the time but if it was dead they wouldn't be pushing it so damn hard if it wasn't profitable. Which, you know, it is. Which, you know, doesn't mean it is dead.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on November 03, 2013, 07:47:55 PM
I saw it in IMAX 3D. The movie looked amazing. I just didn't think the 3D was super necessary. I peeked over the glasses a few times to see not much difference. Though the part where Clooney grabs the screw --or whatever it was-- at the beginning was neat.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: azeke on November 03, 2013, 11:00:11 PM
Right now, the movies that are worth seeing in 3D are:
Life of Pi
Gravity
Fixed.

I'd say Avatar isn't worth seeing no matter how many dimensions. Hugo was okayish.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on November 04, 2013, 04:18:02 AM
Avatar is an absolute bore of a movie. Easily the worse of Cameron's films.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: azeke on November 04, 2013, 04:26:53 AM
Abyss and Terminator 2 are two of my favorite movies ever.

It's so heartbreaking to see JC turned to basically romcoms ever since Titanic.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on November 04, 2013, 08:04:41 AM
Avatar may have a trite narrative but the sense of adventure is clearly nailed down. I laughed during portions of the movie that simply had to play out; the loudest when he banged an alien then went comatose. Still, wandering jungles that would give the greatest dmt/lsd trips a run for their money and flying on the back of dragons? That was gripping because who wouldn't want to do that, especially if all that happened if you were to fall to your doom and die would be to wake up? This is a video game forum right?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on November 04, 2013, 11:07:28 AM
Right now, the movies that are worth seeing in 3D are:
Life of Pi
Gravity
Fixed.

I'd say Avatar isn't worth seeing no matter how many dimensions. Hugo was okayish.

Oh. I'm with you in that Avatar and Hugo aren't in the same level as Gravity and Life of Pi.

Hugo annoyed me greatly when watching it because there were so many things about the movie that could have been solved very easily if the kid would just speak up instead of always running away like an idiot. Yes, Avatar was a bit cliche and melodramatic and I've had no interest in seeing it again. That said, it still had some great moments of action and wonder and I was satisfied enough after having seen it at the time.

Despite those flaws, however, I'd still recommend watching those movies to people as long as they saw them in 3D. In both cases, those movies demonstrate a high technical achievement of what can be done with this new medium and how it should be used. Not every movie is going to be perfect in acting, screenplay, directing, cinematography, or technical merits. Most films are good in some regards and lacking in others. In this case, both of those movies are very strong achievements in the technical field and that is why I say they are part of the few movies that 3D is worth it and makes a difference.

As for the movies that do not shoot in 3D but add it afterwards, I've always remembered the Colbert quip when talking about this process for the movie Clash of the Titans: The filmmakers were able to take the 2D images and convert them to 3D while still keeping the characters 1D. Brilliant.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Caliban on November 04, 2013, 05:29:21 PM
I would have to agree with nickmitch, the 3D in Gravity wasn't entirely necessary. Watched it in IMAX 3D too.

I recently watched Looper, and Kick-Ass on bluray. Since I never watched them at the movies, but they're fucking awesome movies. I liked Looper a bit more though.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on November 04, 2013, 11:41:18 PM
The screen size is what makes the IMAX experience essential for Gravity by he vastness of space is so much more vast when you have to turn your head to see all of it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on November 05, 2013, 01:13:59 PM
The narrative wasn't the only thing wrong with Avatar. At no time did I ever believe in the world. I was visually bored knowing everything on screen is computer generated. It felt no different from watching a very long videogame cutscene from the 90's with people "Acting" in it. One of the reasons Gravity blew me away because despite being virtually almost all CGI, I didn't spot it. I knew it had to be CGI but it was so convincing it felt real. For sections of it I thought they did an Apollo 13 with the Vomit Comet. Nope so wrong. That is why Gravity is an amazing piece of work. Gravity has interesting camera work that Avatar with all it's technical wizardry and money didn't have. Gravity had passion. Avatar felt like JC was bored with with film making and ended up pulling a George Lucas Lite.

Also Sam Worthington is useless hack of an "actor". He along with a large crop of current white, slightly overbuild, charisma-less, almost clones should be banished from the screen and the idiots who hired them a swift kick in the teeth.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on November 05, 2013, 01:41:01 PM
Also Sam Worthington is useless hack of an "actor". He along with a large crop of current white, slightly overbuild, charisma-less, almost clones should be banished from the screen and the idiots who hired them a swift kick in the teeth.

And in steps Benedict Cumberbatch and Tom Hiddleston.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on November 05, 2013, 02:00:20 PM
If ST: Into Darkness is any indication, the Americans have no idea how to use Cumberbatch. But that might be a side effect of them no knowing how to make a Star Trek movie anymore. While I am not fond of the Avengers movie, Tom made for an excellent villain for a mostly boring cast of super heroes to fight. Even if it only gave us this.

(http://www.google.co.nz/url?sa=i&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&docid=BGLsSZHapejdGM&tbnid=bDYGF43LxCQizM:&ved=0CAUQjBwwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FUsSKjDg.gif&ei=JUB5UoXyHcnolAXPzoD4DQ&psig=AFQjCNGKdvff2NDR7UvKUaOOLJ0mzwVA1A&ust=1383764389528549)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on November 05, 2013, 05:51:16 PM
I forgot Tom Hardy too.

But its very true in how Cumberbatch was misused. It was great to see him in a high budget movie but the guy can act. Let him.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: azeke on November 09, 2013, 01:44:58 AM
Ender's Game:

Eh. Rather boring, outside of training battles (the ones in the sphere, not the CG ones).

I hoped they'd make adaptation better than rather mediocre book. Nope, they did it to the letter.

Training scenes made me want to rewatch better space sci-fi movies that had better training montages, namely Starship Troopers and Soldier (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120157/) (love that movie).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on November 09, 2013, 09:57:53 AM
Ender's Game:

Eh. Rather boring, outside of training battles (the ones in the sphere, not the CG ones).

I hoped they'd make adaptation better than rather mediocre book. Nope, they did it to the letter.

Training scenes made me want to rewatch better space sci-fi movies that had better training montages, namely Starship Troopers and Soldier (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120157/) (love that movie).
So what your telling me is that they made the Ender's game movie that everyone wanted.  Because that sounds like the book with switching training out for the game.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on November 10, 2013, 10:10:58 PM
Movie Day again. Some quick impressions from my phone, in the order seen.

Gravity (A+)
-what an intense movie, but I couldn't help but think of how UN physical Sanda Bullocks character was. nothing going her way, unable to get a grip or hold on.

Thor: The Dark World (B++)
-Good, but not Great. I Really liked it, and Loki was humorous. My second favorite movie of the day.

Carrie (B-)
-It was good, and it may even be better than the original, but Chloe Moretz kept flaring her nostrils and it was kinda distracting.

Escape Plan (C+)
It was entertaining for what it was, but Sly & Arnold are old. They need to accept it and stop trying so hard to relive their movie careers from 20+ years ago.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on November 23, 2013, 07:15:14 PM
So i just saw the Doctor Who anniversary today. I caught it live. In the cinema, in 3D.

This was a great way to really break free from some of the Russell T Davies crutches, and allow for some new enemies to potentially reappear and extend the 13 regeneration limit .
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on November 25, 2013, 05:24:28 PM
I just watched the original ending of The Little Shop of Horror

10/10


such a better ending than the theatrical released version.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Caliban on November 26, 2013, 09:01:06 PM
That is an awesome ending for a movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on November 27, 2013, 02:43:10 PM
Far more expensive! Ironically one of the best kaiju scenes ever was kept from us.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: NWR_insanolord on November 28, 2013, 12:58:22 AM
I don't usually care about the Oscars at all, but this year I'm really rooting for Stringer Bell.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on December 09, 2013, 07:48:49 PM
Last 3 movies I saw:

Thor 2: Better than the first. Less time on Earth (Midgard), less Natalie Portman, good ending.  Loki still kinda steals the show.  7.5/10

Hunger Games 2: Again, an improved sequel. There was so much less shaky-cam than I remember from the first.  The film is really good at making characters I hate, but sometimes falls flat with making me like Katniss (certainly not always, especially at the end).  Saw it in IMAX (2D), and thought it looked great.  Looking forward to next one.  9/10

Out of the Furnace: This wasn't a bad movie per se, it's just hard to recommend.  It takes the movie so long to get to the actual plot.  Many scenes feel drawn out or pointless, and half the movie seems focused on portraying Christian Bale's character, who I was still kinda "meh" on.  5.5/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on December 09, 2013, 07:57:30 PM
Have you read the Hunger Games books?

I enjoyed them, but I'll be honest - I didn't always like Katniss in the books either.  She doesn't come off as a likable character sometimes.

Maybe it's because I'm male and therefore genetically inclined towards disliking strong women portrayed in media... but she occasionally seems whiney and wishy-washy and often seems to be wondering what to do when she needs to be taking action.  Which is at odds with her character at other times, when she jumps into action without forethought.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on December 09, 2013, 09:37:24 PM
I haven't read the books (lazy), but I too feel she's pretty wishy-washy.  I can appreciate the dilemma she's in: forced to be a symbol/leader in a revolution she'd rather not be apart of and even how she initially doesn't like Peeta, who now seems to be the only one she can relate to, whereas Gale (who she loves?) keeps being cold towards her.  It's just that, there are awkward moments she's in which would be funnier if not for the overall gravity of their situation.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on December 10, 2013, 03:43:02 AM
I watched the hunger games a few weeks back and noticed two major points:

1 - The film felt like it was treading water until it get can get to book three (and films three and four).
2 - Jeffrey Wright's character was 100% exposition. He doesn't appear until very late in the film, and the first thing he says telegraphs his use and general purpose as to "finding the flaws". He has absolutely no other use beyond that. Soon as he said his first line i knew to ignore everything else except for scenes with him in it prominently.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: jrlibrarian on December 15, 2013, 01:01:52 AM
I meant to get it watched before the Crosstawk episode came out, but I just got around to watching Eyes Wide Shut tonight. I loved it, definitely echo everything the guys brought up.


I've watched a few of Kubrick's movies in the past (Shining, 2001, Full Metal Jacket, Dr. Strangelove), but not for a while. I might have to make a point of going through his filmography here soon.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on December 15, 2013, 12:16:22 PM
I watched it last night too. Gonna listen to the episode of BOP on the drive to work tomorrow.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on December 23, 2013, 12:59:46 AM
Anchorman 2 - not as good as the first...almost a complete rehash. It has some funny scenes, but a lot of them are in the TV commercials. It does get pretty ridiculous towards the end. I would still recommend it if you liked the first one, but just lower your expectations first.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Shaymin on December 23, 2013, 11:41:30 PM
The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug

As someone whose entire history with the Lord of the Rings universe is seeing Return of the King in theatres... I didn't expect this much action. Also, nice job breaking it heroes.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: azeke on December 24, 2013, 12:24:30 AM
^ i think first Hobbit movie was better.

Desolation of Smaug just felt pointless -- lots of wandering about and a million of side-plots that of course are all left unresolved because Peter Jackson somehow made three movies out of the book that will take less time to read than either of his movies.

Gandalf's quest and Kate+handsome dwarf+Legolas sideplot felt especially extraneous and stupid.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on December 24, 2013, 02:24:42 AM
Parker I enjoy most Jason Statham movies on some level, but this was complete misstep in an adaptation of one of Richard Stark's Parker novels.

The characterization was completely off, the motivations made no sense, and the writing tone was completely off.

Payback with Mel Gibson is a better Parker movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on December 24, 2013, 09:34:36 AM
The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug

As someone whose entire history with the Lord of the Rings universe is seeing Return of the King in theatres... I didn't expect this much action. Also, nice job breaking it heroes.

How was Anchorman 2?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: tendoboy1984 on December 26, 2013, 02:30:41 AM
Anchorman 2 was funny, but the plot was terrible and much of the humor was just racism and sex jokes.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on December 26, 2013, 08:51:26 AM
^ i think first Hobbit movie was better.

Desolation of Smaug just felt pointless -- lots of wandering about and a million of side-plots that of course are all left unresolved because Peter Jackson somehow made three movies out of the book that will take less time to read than either of his movies.

Gandalf's quest and Kate+handsome dwarf+Legolas sideplot felt especially extraneous and stupid.

I got the impression that those massive tangents were to setup LOTR.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: jrlibrarian on December 26, 2013, 02:43:41 PM
Caught the Wolf of Wall Street last night. Leonardo DiCaprio delivers a fantastic performance, and the three-hour runtime feels just about right. On a side note, it is now the leader in uses of the word ****, with 506 separate instances.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: jrlibrarian on December 26, 2013, 04:06:08 PM
Caught the Wolf of Wall Street last night. Leonardo DiCaprio delivers a fantastic performance, and the three-hour runtime feels just about right. On a side note, it is now the leader in uses of the word **** (in a non-documentary film), with 506 separate instances.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on December 26, 2013, 04:21:15 PM
Sounds like a good movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on December 26, 2013, 04:21:20 PM
Sounds like a good movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: NWR_insanolord on December 26, 2013, 04:35:27 PM
I'm pretty sure there were episodes of The Wire with more than 506 instances of the word ****.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: tendoboy1984 on December 27, 2013, 12:23:03 AM
3 hours eh? I wonder why movies are getting longer these days? Back in the 1980's and 1990's most movies were under 2 hours.


I remember when those 1960's Bible epics were over 3 hours long (Ben Hur, The Ten Commandments), and musicals like The Sound of Music and The King & I were really long too.


Are we going to see the return of intermissions next?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on December 27, 2013, 12:28:57 AM
Anything Peter Jackson touches should have intermissions.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on December 27, 2013, 12:34:44 AM
Disney gave me a ticket through its rewards program, so I went and saw Frozen today. My thoughts? You'd have a perfect movie if you cut 3 painfully out-of-place and pointless padding songs (Love is an Open Door, Summertime, and Fixer Upper) and fleshed out one particular character's role (the "villain").  As it stands, it's "merely" a ****ing awesome movie and a true sign that Disney's finally found that middle ground again between their young and older audiences (and yes, I liked Tangled and Wreck It Ralph). I look forward to the Blu Ray.

More to come on the next NFR.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: tendoboy1984 on December 27, 2013, 12:39:02 AM
Wreck-It Ralph was amazing. I really hope there is a sequel, or maybe even a new version of Roger Rabbit. :)


The whole reason Disney found their mojo is because John Lasseter is now in charge of their entire animation division (instead of just Pixar).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: azeke on December 27, 2013, 12:49:17 AM
Wreck it Ralph was the best movie of 2012. So good. Tangled was also return to form.

I'm very glad animated Disney seemingly got their **** together. Though Pixar has instead lost it's way it seems.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on December 27, 2013, 02:57:35 PM
47 Ronin: meh. It felt almost entirely by the numbers. I liked The Wolverine because of how it showed Japan (both modern and traditional) with colour and beauty, and 47 Ronin just made it all into a lifeless place.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on December 28, 2013, 11:05:46 PM
Just watched the Machinist again, such a great movie. Christian Bale has to be the most devoted actor of all time. Tom Hanks' weight fluctuations have nothing on the change from Trevor Reznik to Batman.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on December 30, 2013, 04:32:45 PM
Saw Anchorman 2. Brandogg is right. Movie is good if you lower your expectations. I'll add that it's even better if you have a few cocktails beforehand. (score for Anchorman minus one)/10

Also saw Grudge Match. It was good. Not too much Kevin Hart. Really fun cameo at the end. 6.5/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on January 02, 2014, 09:29:50 AM
The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug

So yeah... Between this and The Home Depot closing before 9 my New Year's Eve was ruined.  This is a terrible movie.  I was having a pretty good day till I went to see this movie.  Made up stuff that didn't need to be there.  Shortened stuff they could have actually been used for the movie.  At minimum an hour and a half to long.  The best I could say is that putting all the locations they went to into a dome as a park that let you explore them would be awesome.

I was ok with the first Hobbit movie.  Even defended parts of it but this one...  I will see the third movie when it goes to Netflix and maybe even just wait for it to ever get to Streaming simply because I'm a fan of the books.  I have no desire whats so ever to see The Hobbit 3 Back to the Shire MoFo's in theaters.  A real shame that they made it a point not to have a showing of Frozen during Matinee times around here on Tuesday.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on January 02, 2014, 10:17:38 AM
Oscar season is the best time for DVD screeners.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Pixelated Pixies on January 02, 2014, 07:06:16 PM
Ain't them bodies Saints - Although largely predictable, the poetry of each scene in this film really clicked with me. The Cinematography arguably steals the show here, but the film also boasts some great muted performances from it's key actors, the foreboding soundtrack is great, and the whole tone of the film is pitch-perfect.

It's probably not going to be to everyone's tastes, but if you enjoy poetic, moody cinema, then I'd say this is definitely worth watching (Don't let the Malick similarities dissuade you, ATBS could be described as ponderous but 'The tree of life' this is not).



This is the End - Got 40 mins in and had to turn it off.


Anchorman 2 - Neither as disappointing as it could of been or as good as it should have been, Anchorman 2 is a perfectly serviceable sequel to a cult classic. I do, however, really wish they hadn't reused 'THAT' scene...you know the one.

I will say, however, the line 'I'M BLIIIIND' has already found it's way into my lexicon. I messed up a chord change on guitar the other day and immediately used that line as an excuse.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on January 02, 2014, 07:34:41 PM
I bet the DVD BluRay will be a lot better, there's a ton of stuff you see brief seconds of in the commercials that wasn't in the movie. Maybe they'll include another completely different movie like they did with the original (Wake Up, Ron Burgundy on the Anchorman special edition DVD).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on January 03, 2014, 11:57:47 AM
The Other Guys - 8/10

This movie is hilarious. I really didn't think it was going to be as funny as it is, but there's so much strange humor and random stuff that you don't expect. If you haven't seen it, do yourself a favor and watch it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on January 04, 2014, 10:49:44 AM
American Hustle - This was a great slow burning film. Jennifer Lawrence was incredible.

Amazing performances all around.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on January 16, 2014, 04:53:35 AM
You're Next

That was a surprisingly good horror movie, especially since I flew into it blind.

Recommended.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Pixelated Pixies on January 16, 2014, 07:45:19 PM
@Plugabugz

I've been a fan of Lawrence since Winter's Bone, but I honestly thought she was the weakest player amongst the five primary actors. I'm not ruling out the possibility that the character was written poorly or that the role  was simply miscast, but in several scenes I found her delivery of lines to be really quite poor. The majority of the time she was on screen it pulled me right out of the film, which is saying a lot when you have Bale and Cooper dressed like they were in a children's school play.

Overall I thought American Hustle was a very enjoyable film, but Lawrence's character completely fell flat for me. The only time her character really resonated for me was when she tried to turn what was a Mafia hit on Bale's Irving character into some elaborate ploy to instigate an epiphany. That scene really brought home her insanity, but most everything else with that character felt callow.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Pixelated Pixies on January 16, 2014, 07:56:10 PM
12 Years a Slave - As a huge proponent of McQueen's debut film 'Hunger' I've been anticipating this film for quite some time. I want to take a little time to digest '12 years a slave', but my immediate impression is that this film is an exceptional piece of filmmaking. Some critics might argue that it's manipulative or that it tells a very singular version of the story of the slave trade in America, but the fact of the matter is that it brings to the surface certain crucial truths that are all too easily forgotten, and it does so through some haunting images, great performances and is instilled with a sense of genuine humanity (both good and bad).

As with a film like 'There will be a blood' I suspect that '12 years' is one which I will have to spend time with, but, having seen it only the once, I would have to say that I think it's an outstanding film.

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on January 17, 2014, 08:05:14 AM
@Plugabugz
Overall I thought American Hustle was a very enjoyable film, but Lawrence's character completely fell flat for me. The only time her character really resonated for me was when she tried to turn what was a Mafia hit on Bale's Irving character into some elaborate ploy to instigate an epiphany. That scene really brought home her insanity, but most everything else with that character felt callow.

I just enjoyed how she was such a bumbling idiot (bearing in mind she nearly set fire to the house twice) and that came out in her acting.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on January 18, 2014, 12:42:51 PM
Her

I liked the world Spike Jonze set up for this movie.  It's futuristic enough for the premise, but without getting into Sci-Fi territory.  You're shown a world very much like ours where there's bumped up versions of Siri and then the new breakthrough is the AI that becomes the female lead.  Joaquin Phoenix is literally in every scene and almost almost always on camera.  He's really good in it though and makes for a very sympathetic character.  The ending felt a bit "meh", but you knew something was gonna happen.  There were more opportunities for comedy that the film didn't take, but that's ok.  The film also seemed like it was trying too hard to earn its 'R' Rating in a few scenes.

10/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on January 19, 2014, 03:48:11 AM
2 Guns.

What? It really can't decide what kind of movie it wants to be. Buddy cop? Heist? Batman Gambit? A custerfuck of an ending. A serviceable summer movie.

Dragon Wars.

The **** is this? Perfect for a bad movie night.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on January 25, 2014, 07:12:17 PM
Walking With Dinosaurs 3D

You'd think I'd have loved this movie, but I...didn't. It was poorly paced, and ended up being more akin to Disney's Dinosaur, Land Before Time, and other "migration" dinosaur stories that are all basically the same thing. The dinosaurs looked okay, but bizarrely rubbery. The sound effects and musical cues were drowned out by the terrible last-second voiceovers of Lohn Leguizamo and Justin Long. And two dinosaurs (Chirostenotes and Hesperonychus) aren't even in Alaska. The most impressive saurians were the edmontosaurs who didn't get enough screen time.

Best part of the movie was the intro framing sequence with Karl Urban, who we later find out is named "Uncle Zach." Pretty exciting stuff. But the movie itself was a huge disappointment.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on January 26, 2014, 07:55:39 AM
Jack Ryan: A competent reboot, but nothing really spectacular that sticks out for me.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on January 27, 2014, 01:38:30 PM
Frozen
I thought it was a good movie.  Songs were good enough.  Its no Alladin or Beauty and the Beast but still good.

My biggest issue with it is that the movie tries to be different at different points but then turns around and runs smack dab into a major cliche that with a slight tweak in the story could have easily been left out and make for a more interesting story in the end while still arriving at the same place.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on January 27, 2014, 03:39:20 PM
Frozen was enjoyable but really fell apart at the end and there was literally no decent build up before the swerve.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on January 27, 2014, 03:40:16 PM
BTW, I just re-watched Conan the Barbarian (1982) - it's been a long time since I've watched it from beginning to end. I forgot how awesome and terrible it is at the same time.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on January 27, 2014, 03:48:25 PM
Have you seen the new one? My wife and I are planning to watch one of them and we might watch both to compare. Wondering if it is worth it to watch both like that.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on January 27, 2014, 03:54:32 PM
The new one is not good. The old one is classic bad in a good way.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on January 27, 2014, 04:05:49 PM
I'm pretty sure I reviewed that movie here...

Pre-Edit: here it is http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/forums/index.php?topic=28364.msg704382#msg704382
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on January 27, 2014, 05:30:04 PM
Please don't watch the new Conan. It is time you will never get back. Your wife deserves better.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on January 27, 2014, 06:16:26 PM
The problem is that my wife is in love with Jason Momoa so I may have little choice in whether we can watch it or not.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on January 28, 2014, 09:30:03 PM
Nebraska

I've seen 7 of the 9 nominees for Best Picture this year, and I gotta say that this one was my least favorite.  It's just been that good of a year for movies.  Characters are funny, in the way that old people can be funny.  The story ends up being pretty touching.  I really liked the ending.  The black and white gave it a really rural feel, which complement the story and setting even if it's a modern film.

7.5/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on January 29, 2014, 12:06:30 AM
Hmmm. I'd rank Nebraska as one of my top 5 favorite movies of the year. I really loved it and I've been recommending it to a lot of people. Maybe it is because I can relate growing up in a small rural town and having some relatives very similar to the characters portrayed so it really came across as totally believable and as a perfect snapshot of that life. I laughed a lot and like you, I liked the ending and found it an endearing picture. The black and white cinematography may have been the best way to shoot that movie.

When I saw it at the theatre, it was 1:15 in the afternoon on Christmas Eve. When I entered the auditorium, it was just myself and 3 other people in it. 3 more showed up by the time it began and that was it. 7 of us in this big room. Plenty of space around you. It was interesting because you could gauge the reactions around you. At one point, when the mother, June Squibb's character, lays down the law at the end, one woman sitting a few rows back from me starting applauding. You could tell who was laughing at what and it just gave me a funny sense of speciality. Like the few of us were lucky enough to stumble on this great gem of a film and experience it before many other people found out about it. Like a secret we were privileged to share in.

I definitely think that my feelings about the way I saw it had an impact in me viewing it more favorably but at the same time, I try not to go around recommending a lot of movies to people if I know their taste in films but this was one movie where I was telling everyone to see it regardless of what they may like and am still hounding some people to see it.

Actually, you've inspired me to make another thread. Just what this forum needs from me, am I right?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Pixelated Pixies on January 29, 2014, 07:20:22 AM
Inside Llewyn Davis

Like some of the Coens' other films 'Inside Llewyn Davis' is at once both tantalising and inscrutable. The film, which is set in the Greenwich Village folk scene of the early 60's, is essentially comprised of a collection of scenes in which friends, family and acquaintances of the titular folk musician Llewyn proceed to put him down at every opportunity. All the while Llewyn passively floats between his family, his musician friends, his intelligentsia benefactors, and his aging ineffectual manager.

The themes of the film are very much open to interpretation but the general story revolves around Llewyn's passivity and his fear of change. Being a folk musician seems to be the only decision that Llewyn has ever made, and as a particularly unassertive character he is not inclined to change course. Not only does he fail to acknowledge the other options available to him, he also seems unwilling to take actions in pursuit of his own chosen goal of being a musician. The result? A talented musician who is heading no where.

Which is where the cat comes in.


Early on in the film Llewyn, after having spent the night in his benefactor's uptown new York apartment, unwittingly let's free a domestic house cat. For me this story became the through thread of the film. Ulysses (a male cat with a scrotum) represents several themes throughout the film; in escaping Ulysses abandons the comfort of the apartment for the cold winter of New York, which is nicely contrasted with Llewyn's own fear of change and his hesitance to leave the comfort of the familiar behind. At one point Llewyn asks a fellow musician to leave the window open in case the cat returns, again betraying his own tendencies to return to where he has been rather than move on. Later on in the film it is revealed that Llewyn has in fact being looking after a similar looking but different cat, which culminates with Llewyn locking Ulysses' imposter in a car by the side of the road. Not only does Llewyn seemingly resent this new cat (did I mention Llewyn doesn' like change?) he also no longer wants to bear responsibility for it.

Other examples of Llewyn's fear of change.


As with other Coen brothers films I suspect there's more to this movie than one viewing can reveal, but my first impression is very positive. I will admit that I'm inclined to enjoy this genre of music and the setting definitely interests me, but with a great look, great music and great cast 'Inside Llewyn Davis' is at the very least another quality movie from the Coen's.

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on January 29, 2014, 08:50:48 PM
Hmmm. I'd rank Nebraska as one of my top 5 favorite movies of the year. I really loved it and I've been recommending it to a lot of people. Maybe it is because I can relate growing up in a small rural town and having some relatives very similar to the characters portrayed so it really came across as totally believable and as a perfect snapshot of that life. I laughed a lot and like you, I liked the ending and found it an endearing picture. The black and white cinematography may have been the best way to shoot that movie.

When I saw it at the theatre, it was 1:15 in the afternoon on Christmas Eve. When I entered the auditorium, it was just myself and 3 other people in it. 3 more showed up by the time it began and that was it. 7 of us in this big room. Plenty of space around you. It was interesting because you could gauge the reactions around you. At one point, when the mother, June Squibb's character, lays down the law at the end, one woman sitting a few rows back from me starting applauding. You could tell who was laughing at what and it just gave me a funny sense of speciality. Like the few of us were lucky enough to stumble on this great gem of a film and experience it before many other people found out about it. Like a secret we were privileged to share in.

I definitely think that my feelings about the way I saw it had an impact in me viewing it more favorably but at the same time, I try not to go around recommending a lot of movies to people if I know their taste in films but this was one movie where I was telling everyone to see it regardless of what they may like and am still hounding some people to see it.

Actually, you've inspired me to make another thread. Just what this forum needs from me, am I right?

I'm thinking my score may have been a bit low, but I definitely loved the movie.  I just loved the other ones more.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on February 09, 2014, 03:18:53 AM
The Lego Movie:

What a surprisingly uplifting and enjoyable movie. This is a must see family movie, one with a message. It's funny, charismatic, entertaining and extremely well animated. The ocean waves looked crazy, you have to see it for yourself, I can't describe it. I don't want to give anything away, but there is more to this movie than what you see in the trailers.

Oh, and I think it's trending at 97% on reviews, if that helps persuade any interested parties to go see it.

Edit: I also stuck around for Vampire Academy since it started right afterwards 2 theaters down. I expected Mean Girls meets Harry Potter only with Vampires instead of bitches and witches.... what I got was more like Mortal instruments, the vampire version. The lead chick really reminded me of Tessa from Surburgatory in the way her character talked and acted. Not worth the watch.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: azeke on February 09, 2014, 06:55:57 AM
LEGO movie is made by directors of the first With a chance of Meatballs which was also amazing. It really helped me out during one harder times in my life, i can't wait for LEGO to come out here (have to wait till 20th...).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on February 09, 2014, 08:50:44 AM
RoboCop. This was a surprisingly dull film. It removed a lot of the factors from the earlier trilogy - Murphy's emotional distress and difficulties, 80/90s cheese and charm and nearly all of the humour - and resulted in a film that felt very quickly like it didnt need to be remade.

Gary Oldman and Samuel L Jackson, as usual, carry the film.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on February 09, 2014, 01:05:34 PM
You were... surprised?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on February 09, 2014, 01:28:41 PM
Completed my Oscar sweep.

Wolf of Wall Street: This is a coke-fueled (and other drugs) thrill ride.  Leonardo DiCaprio's charm and energy really shine throughout.  There are a ton of hilarious moments.  Three hours never passed by so quickly.  9.5/10

Philomena: On the opposite end of the emotional scale, this is a very touching, emotional story of an elderly woman searching for her lost son.  The titular Philomena is a very sweet, likeable character often contrasted with the male lead who is helping her on her journey.  Very satisfying ending. 10/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Nile Boogie Returns on February 09, 2014, 10:13:26 PM
But Robocop has to be good. It has Michael Keaton, SLJ and the greatest actor of all-time Gary Oldman. I'm still gonna watch it even though it has "unnecessary" written all over it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Nile Boogie Returns on February 09, 2014, 10:25:01 PM
Thor: The Dark World

I think I loved this movie. I am an admitted MCU junkie and have only not liked 1 movie out of the bunch (IM3), so I am only partially objective. I thought this movie had all the things I liked about the first movie and expounded on them. Strangest thing about the this series (including Avengers) is just how "good" Loki is. He owns the screen every time he's on it. It doesn't try to convince you that it's not a comic book movie and it's better for it. Of course the inevitable 3rd movie will suck because, well all 3rd comic/nerd movies suck.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on February 10, 2014, 01:14:37 AM
You didn't like IM3 but liked IM2? ha
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on February 10, 2014, 01:31:37 AM
I agree with him.  Iron Man 3 had the annoying kid that was annoying.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on February 10, 2014, 02:04:36 AM
But Robocop has to be good. It has Michael Keaton, SLJ and the greatest actor of all-time Gary Oldman. I'm still gonna watch it even though it has "unnecessary" written all over it.
You never saw Robocop 3 did you?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on February 10, 2014, 02:30:24 AM
So, my girlfriend and I have been watching Studio Ghibli films in release order for the past few months now. I don't know what it is, but their films have this sort of whimsy feeling to them. I get sucked into each and every one, and feel immensely sad when the credits start rolling, but happy at the same time. No matter which film it is (except for a few in the '00s that weren't made by Miyazaki and Takahata) I instantly fell in love with the characters that felt so damn real to me.


What I ended up enjoying even more than the films themselves are the soundtracks. God damn, do these movies have a bitchin' OST. I mean, look at this ****:






*shivers* Anyway, the latest one in our quest was Whisper of the Heart. Definitely low key compared to some of their other films, but in my opinion, just as good. It even, to my surprise, used Olivia Newton John's version of "Take Me Home, Country Roads" as the opening song, which, at first, felt strange, but by the end I decided that it was very fitting with the theme of the film.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Nile Boogie Returns on February 10, 2014, 02:51:14 AM
But Robocop has to be good. It has Michael Keaton, SLJ and the greatest actor of all-time Gary Oldman. I'm still gonna watch it even though it has "unnecessary" written all over it.
You never saw Robocop 3 did you?




is that the one with "NUKE"? no thats 2. OMG, I don't think I saw Robocop 3. was it superbad?






You didn't like IM3 but liked IM2? ha

I know thats crazy right, but yeah. IronMan 2 is quite a flawed movie but I like it a hellava lot better than part 3.

(I am also one of 12 confirmed humans that liked Superman Returns more than Man of Steel)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on February 10, 2014, 03:12:20 AM
You were... surprised?

I was surprised by how dull it was. I went in having seen nothing except one trailer and read nothing, but even the finished product didn't do it for me.

Both actors who play Alex and Clare (?) Murphy have no chemistry either.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on February 10, 2014, 04:15:05 AM
Robocop 3 is shockingly bad. It makes dull look good. Nothing good from the first 2 movies made it into 3.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on February 10, 2014, 10:19:10 PM
But Robocop has to be good. It has Michael Keaton, SLJ and the greatest actor of all-time Gary Oldman. I'm still gonna watch it even though it has "unnecessary" written all over it.
You never saw Robocop 3 did you?

is that the one with "NUKE"? no thats 2. OMG, I don't think I saw Robocop 3. was it superbad?

You didn't like IM3 but liked IM2? ha

I know thats crazy right, but yeah. IronMan 2 is quite a flawed movie but I like it a hellava lot better than part 3.

(I am also one of 12 confirmed humans that liked Superman Returns more than Man of Steel)

Man of Steel sucked.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on February 10, 2014, 11:06:37 PM
Man of Steel... wasn't good.  But it was leaps and bounds over "Superman-raped-me Returns"
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on February 11, 2014, 12:33:08 AM
Oh sure. You say that now but when Superman VS Batman comes out, you'll be talking about how great Man of Steel was/is.

Don't you people get it? Unless you say the latest movie was the greatest Superman movie ever, they will keep releasing worse and worse movies to make you change your opinion on the one that came just before and like it and force you to declare it better than the latest one.

Only be proclaiming Man of Steel as the best Superman movie ever will the studio finally feel free to release a different kind of movie (and hopefully better kind of Superman movie) because they will not have to worry about retroactive salvaging.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on February 11, 2014, 12:44:16 AM
Sadly, Man of Steel was probably the best live-action Superman movie ever...
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on February 11, 2014, 12:57:12 AM
Sadly, Man of Steel was probably the best live-action Superman movie ever...

Now you're playing with power getting it!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on February 11, 2014, 03:32:09 AM
It's February so my movie pass is about to expire. I still have about 2 weeks left, but before i renewed i decided to count up how many i've seen.

Since the end of February 2013 i've seen 54 movies.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on February 11, 2014, 11:13:58 PM
A wise cartoon once said, "If you stop going to bad movies, they'll stop making bad movies."
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on February 13, 2014, 03:10:53 AM
There's been plenty of poor movies, but if i'm not paying to see anything then why not?

If i don't like it i walk out - and the only movie i walked out on (and i've had this card for 6 years) was Bruno.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on February 13, 2014, 12:38:56 PM
Walking out doesn't really do anything.  You've already given them your money.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on February 13, 2014, 02:23:09 PM
Technically Plugabugz bought a ticket to every movie released that was shown in the places where is MoviePass is accepted.  He sort of has no real buying power anymore.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on February 13, 2014, 03:29:13 PM
He sort of has no real buying power anymore.

I don't effectively. But it does mean i don't have to really regret seeing a film. I can just decide on a whim and go.

While Bruno is the only film i've ever walked out of, there's several films i'd be pissed if i had paid money to see individually (the last one that sticks out to me is Die Hard 5).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on February 13, 2014, 05:33:22 PM
I've only walked out of Big Momma's House and Drop Dead Fred.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on February 13, 2014, 05:42:44 PM
I've never walked out of a movie, but I have slept through 1 or 2.

There was one movie that was so baaaaad, I can't remember what it was called, but it became amateur comedy hour with random comments from someone people down near the front. made the movie tolerable.

the only other time that has happened and it wasn't annoying or stupid, was when I saw Scream in the theater way back in the day. **** was hilarious. made the movie better than they could have hoped.
Luckily it was the second time I saw it, so I wasn't missing anything. Everyone was cracking up though. Best comedic experience at the theater ever. never to be properly duplicated.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on February 13, 2014, 07:32:12 PM
Man I haven't had an experience like that in forever. Makes me miss small movie theaters.

Hell I miss the movie theaters where you could order a pitcher of beer and some chicken strips. So damn awesome. Everyone was more than a little tipsy. I may have mentioned this before but I saw Rush Hour 3 in one of those theaters and I thought it was the best movie I had ever seen. That is until I watched it again some months later.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on February 14, 2014, 01:00:35 AM
I feel like the 'party' movie experience is dead. Last ones I experienced were for Star Wars episode 3 and Return of the King. There just seems to be no new exciting movie that has that opening night party vibe.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on February 14, 2014, 01:05:35 AM
In your opinion, of course. You guys are all old farts, that's why you don't get that vibe anymore. ;)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on February 14, 2014, 03:00:50 AM
There just seems to be no new exciting movie that has that opening night party vibe.

Doctor Who: The Day of The Doctor. That is easily the best experience i've ever had watching a movie.. and that was three months ago!

People of all ages, some even dressed up as Daleks, Cybermen, Weeping Angels, all eleven of the Doctor's outfits, some carrying screwdrivers and mini-TARDIS' all laughing whooping and even applauding before the film started.

When i think back to watchin it, i dont think about the movie itself i just loved that extremely unique atmosphere. Nothing has ever come close.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on February 14, 2014, 05:09:50 AM
Bad Milo!

Good toilet humor, fun, silly, B-horror monster movie starring people you might recognize. (Britta from Community, Guy that played The Tick, Boss guy from Party Down)
Recommended for those that like the above and are in a laughing mood, or in serious need for a laugh. It got the job done and was surprisingly funnier than I thought.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on February 16, 2014, 07:07:39 PM
Men in Black (the original)

This movie holds up amazingly well. The writing for Smith and Jones is really top-notch, and the effects are great because, like Jurassic Park, the filmmakers utilize convincing animatronic characters and only use CGI when absolutely necessary. Also features Rip Torn prominently: "We're not hosting an intergalactic kegger."
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on March 01, 2014, 05:47:23 AM
This week i saw The Lego Movie (EVERYTHING IS AWESOME!), Non-Stop (a pretty close claustrophobic thriller, pretty impressed at how everyone was a potential suspect) and today i'm seeing Unforgiven.

The total annual tally is 58 movies.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on March 01, 2014, 11:55:09 AM
About Last Night

Some pacing issues, an over emphasis on sex, and little to no character development don't completely ruin the movie.  Kevin Hart is very funny and toned down (for him).  Yes, he carries the comedy here, but he does a fairly good job.

6/10

P.S.
This is a pretty awkward movie to see with your coworkers.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on March 01, 2014, 02:01:52 PM
Rip Torn's best movie is Freddy Got Fingered.

I did see The Lego Movie last week, it really was quite good.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on March 01, 2014, 08:44:32 PM
Men in Black (the original)

This movie holds up amazingly well. The writing for Smith and Jones is really top-notch, and the effects are great because, like Jurassic Park, the filmmakers utilize convincing animatronic characters and only use CGI when absolutely necessary. Also features Rip Torn prominently: "We're not hosting an intergalactic kegger."
If you can track down the Cartoon its a hoot.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on March 14, 2014, 06:52:56 AM
Just about to binge on movies again:

Yesterday - The Grand Budapest Hotel. I've never seen a Wes Anderson movie, but i did thoroughly enjoy this. He has a very unique style.

Today - The Zero Theorem. I'm not sure what to make of this, but i'll go anyway. The trailer has me interested enough to want to see it, but without a reason why. Maybe because its got Christoph Waltz in the lead role?

Tomorrow - Under The Skin. Scarlett Johannsen playing a humanoid alien who abducts people and takes them back to her house? Colour me interested.

Some point next week - Need for Speed. Based on the trailers, i'd rather have Burnout Paradise as a movie than this.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on March 14, 2014, 03:30:40 PM
...

Tomorrow - Under The Skin. Scarlett Johannsen playing a humanoid alien who abducts people and takes them back to her house? Colour me interested.

...
In a Porn or that one movie with the female seductress alien that got a couple and I think was a horror and names escapes way or something more Outer Limit/Twilight Zonish or The Host.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on March 16, 2014, 11:09:57 PM
The Walking Dead - sad/10.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 17, 2014, 02:03:54 AM
The Walking Dead - sad/10.

I haven't watched it yet, but is that a good sad, like you lost a favorite character or touching moments almost made you cry?
Or a bad sad, like pathetic nonsensical story line that ultimately led to nothing but time wasted for all involved?

Edit: I just realized that this is the movie thread.... accident, or is there a sad movie by the same name as the show?

Edit 2: where did the baby go!? Did I miss something? Because she only killed her younger sister, but they left at the end with no baby. Where did the baby go?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on March 17, 2014, 09:09:30 AM
Yeah my bad, wrong thread. The baby was on Tyreese's back.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on March 24, 2014, 02:46:43 AM
Snowpiercer 10/10

Now I could write an elegant piece describing the multitude of reasons why I loved this movie so much, but I'd rather be concise and say, after I watched this movie, if I hadn't already made plans to go out, I would have immediately watched it again. It's that good.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on March 24, 2014, 09:01:32 AM
Need for Speed - I would have enjoyed this film if this was Burnout Paradise, and more actively took use of the IP ridiculous crashes and destructions!!!!!111 than this.

The Muppets - I quite enjoyed it, the songs were really a lot of fun.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Wah on March 27, 2014, 08:26:40 PM
Mr.Peabody and Sherman-
Very clever and funny movie, based a lot of the origanal cartoon.
8.5/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 28, 2014, 02:10:54 PM
Old Boy (Spike Lee Remake)
It was pretty good, but I knew what was happening from the start as I've seen the original. The weirdest part for me was watching Nick Fury slap Scarlet Witch on the ass while she was bent over a chair with her pants down.

Avengers 2 is going to be even weirder after watching Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver play husband and wife in Godzilla. and strangely appropriate for those that know about their Ultimate storyline.... :/
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on March 29, 2014, 05:24:04 AM
Going to see Captain America in 90 minutes.

300: Rise of an Empire. More of the same.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 29, 2014, 10:51:02 AM
Contracted ....

This is a random movie I started playing on Netflix because... well, why not.
I'm gonna go ahead and spoil it for you because you don't want to watch it anyway... and if you do, well, you're sick and twisted and you are only watching it to be grossed out.

It's about some lesbian girl who is roofied by some guy at a party a and coerced into having unprotected sex. Opening shot of the movie implies that the guy is humping a corpse at the morgue, but that isn't entirely clear from how it was shot. Anyway, the next day the girl that was raped refuses to admit to herself that she had sex with a guy, and to top it off she starts to get sick starting with excessive bleeding down there, a veiney rash thing, chills & flu like symptoms (quick onset of super AIDS was my first thought). So like anyone without good benefits, she goes to a local clinic to get checked out. Dr. doesn't diagnose anything as he never checked her down there, so she leaves.
Next day her eye was blood shot red... but not just the whites the whole damn eye. Long story short, this chick was fucked. blah blah blah-hidden text-blah blah blah


Who wouldn't make out with this girl?
(http://i.imgur.com/v7X4qct.jpg)


tl;dr
Girl has unprotected sex, contracts some sort of disease, has some rather gross symptoms.
It seemed really creepy and unnerving up till that 2nd doctors visit when it decided to turn full on stupid. Why is it that most horror movies never know how to end properly?


what could have been a good "sex scare" & "use a condom" movie fell apart in the 2nd act
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on March 31, 2014, 02:55:21 AM
Today i'm seeing The Raid 2. The UK release isn't until April 11 but my card lets me see some films early.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on March 31, 2014, 10:10:11 AM
How do I get this card you have? Is it available in North America? Or Canada, which is part of the Commonwealth?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on March 31, 2014, 10:41:47 AM
How do I get this card you have? Is it available in North America? Or Canada, which is part of the Commonwealth?


Kill Mr. Plub A. Bugz and assume his identity to enjoy unlimited movie viewing. Totally worth it, right?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on March 31, 2014, 11:19:19 AM
That was my first thought but the cost of living in the U.K is so high I'd probably have to kill a few others to afford doing it and that could cause another Jack the Ripper type situation and I don't need that kind of heat right now. I've still got all these Komodo Dragons I need to offload yet not to mention a "lost" shipment of Armeni neckties about to arrive and I just don't see how I could reasonably pull off such a U.K operation with my usual care and finesse with these other ongoing projects.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on March 31, 2014, 11:20:16 AM
Whoa whoa whao whao...They made Raid 2?!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 31, 2014, 11:49:27 AM
Whoa whoa whao whao...They made Raid 2?!

Yep. It just came out and is supposedly just as awesome as the first one.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on March 31, 2014, 12:02:09 PM
How do I get this card you have? Is it available in North America? Or Canada, which is part of the Commonwealth?
https://www.moviepass.com/ (https://www.moviepass.com/)

They just got theaters in my Area so yay if I watched more movies it may be worth it.


Looking at it again.  You really could only take advantage of this if you are Single with a lot of time.  I rather have a plan were I could get  my family tickets to about 2 shows a month for the same price. 
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on March 31, 2014, 12:49:08 PM
Man....I just saw the trailer. Holy ****. It gave me goosebumps.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on March 31, 2014, 05:25:19 PM
JFK - 4 Stars (Must see)

Woah! I watched this last night and I'm still thinking about and puzzling over this whole thing. I don't normally go in for conspiracy theories. I know a couple people who are into these things like the U.S government being behind 9/11 or how stone masons influenced history or some such things. Probably a decade ago, FOX ran a special about how the moon landing was believed to be faked and the evidence for it. But then, they ran another special soo after of people refuting the evidence of the conspiracy theorists and that evidence was much greater and superior in my mind that I dismissed the conspiracy of it being faked. From this and other examples, I'm a pretty big skeptic when it comes to believing in conspiracy stuff. As such, I've never paid much attention to the JFK assassination conspiracies. But man, after watching this, I have reasonable doubt that Oswald was alone.

The movie is an account of Jim Garrison, a district attoney in New Orleans, who starts looking into the JFK findings after a conversation he has with a senator brings up a troubling idea about it. This leads him and his firm to start their investigation into the event as they pick through evidence and witnesses and find more questions and odd happenings with those involved. At one point, Garrison tells his team they are through the looking glass and you definitily get the sense that you are falling into the rabbit hole with them as the questions and examination of the evidence begins to pile on leading into different directions. I watched the director's cut version which was almost the 3 and half hours long but there were only a couple moments where I glanced at the time on DVD player. The movie keeps you engrossed and is very well paced that time flies by.

Despite approaching the movie with skepticism for things presented, I had to admit by the end that there were some very good questions and arguments presented that leave me with doubt about it being Oswald only. I'm not sure there are any good counterarguments for some of them or not. I'm still not that highly invested to start searching more into it but I'd be willing to consider them and hear them. Regardless, the movie does a fantastic job in really going through and highlighting a lot of possible theories and ideas and just explaining the whole murky situation and making it clear. The answer as to why it happened given by Mr. X certainly feels like it has a lot of truth to it. It's interesting to see just how Kennedy was so dispised by a lot of people. Watching shows like Mad Men, he comes off as a revered figure and for many he was but he also had a lot of bitter detractors.

Even if the film is wrong or nothing is ever fully solved about the situation in the future, I do applaud the film for bringing up and asking so many questions on things about the event that most other shows or media never seem to bring up or acknowledge about it. There's usually two sides to every story so its interesting to see for once what the other side on this story entails and is made up of. Technically, the film is great. Great editing, great use of interspersed black and white shots, the score is well done and top notch directing to keep everything straight and well explained and propelling the story forward. The only thing that didn't work for me was the bits of Garrison and how this quest for answers affected his family. They were never shown that much to be invested in them and are far less interesting than the JFK mystery. Still, highly recommended. Best film I've seen since Her and maybe even better than that.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on March 31, 2014, 07:58:51 PM
Khush, I have a feeling you would like a movie called Memories of Murder. It's korean, but it's really fucking good. It's a murder mystery of course, no where near as prolific as JFK's assassination, but it does deal with S. Korea's first serial killer.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on March 31, 2014, 09:58:21 PM
Looks interesting. I see it's got some pretty high ratings and it definitely seems like something up my alley of interest. Also, foreign cinema doesn't put me off. In fact, I often find it better than the American remake. I.E, Infernal Affairs > The Departed, Shall We Dance (Japanese) > Shall We Dance (American). I really like Japanese foreign films the most of all foreign movies. Kurosawa, for instance, is just a genius, genius filmmaker. I've watched half of his films. One of my top 5 favorite movies is an Italian Fellini film, 8-1/2. French cinema I find the worst but maybe I've just chosen a lot of the wrong movies to watch. Lately, I've been coming up better French films. Still, I'll make a note of this and add it into my huge list of movies to see. Thanks for the recommendation!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Phil on March 31, 2014, 10:21:56 PM
Whoa whoa whao whao...They made Raid 2?!

...

They made a Raid 1?  :confused;
 
Phil's not too much of a cinema guy.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on April 01, 2014, 06:53:28 AM
How do I get this card you have? Is it available in North America? Or Canada, which is part of the Commonwealth?

It's part of the Cineworld chain of cinemas over here. It's £225 (about $360) lets me see unlimited movies, gets to see some early, 10% off food and discounts on other non-movie events (i saw Doctor Who's 50th anniversary for £5). Stay with it for 12+ months and 3D movies are free too. It's a UK only thing, though some chains/theatres in the USA may do something similar?

The difference between the one Maxi found and mine is that i can see multiple films a day.

The Raid 2 - BRUTAL. If the first one was aggressive, this one turned everything so far up to 11 my mouth was just stuck open. The final 1-on-1 battle was so intense that the audience actually started applauding. There was a fair bit of shakycam in this, but unlike The Hunger Games this was implying carnage rather than to hide things. Absolutely a definite watch. Insane.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on April 01, 2014, 10:12:32 AM
The difference between the one Maxi found and mine is that i can see multiple films a day.

Ha ha ha. Oh boy. That isn't going to boost Ceric's self confidence aka someone else.

Still, thanks for the info. Yours is definitely a better pass. I am the sads now.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on April 01, 2014, 11:25:53 AM
Contracted ....

This sounds like a full on Idiot plot.  Didn't she tell the doctor the location of the problem?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on April 01, 2014, 01:07:47 PM
Contracted ....

This sounds like a full on Idiot plot.  Didn't she tell the doctor the location of the problem?

she was witholding information due to embarrassment. Which is understandable for someone not knowing what was happening at first, thinking that it couldn't happen to them and not wanting to jeopardize getting back with the ex (if you don't acknowledge the problem, it doesn't exist... plausible deniability or something)... but the minute some serious symptoms started showing, she should have been full disclosure out of panic and fear for her own life. So like I said, by the time it made it to the 2nd doctors visit, the movie had just gotten stupid. Before that it was semi-believable, but they chose to move away from making a message and playing on the horrors of that, which would have made it a better movie, and instead decided to turn it into a monster movie.

The Raid 2 - BRUTAL. If the first one was aggressive, this one turned everything so far up to 11 my mouth was just stuck open. The final 1-on-1 battle was so intense that the audience actually started applauding. There was a fair bit of shakycam in this, but unlike The Hunger Games this was implying carnage rather than to hide things. Absolutely a definite watch. Insane.

My Day at the movies will be so good this weekend if I can fit this in after Captain America and possibly another movie after that (Ride Along and/or Non-Stop maybe). Of course it's too early in the week for me to plot out my Sunday though... :/
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: azeke on April 01, 2014, 03:11:42 PM
Grand Hotel Budapest:
This movie (like probably all Wes Anderson's movies) is one trick pony. "Look! Quirky! Laugh!". Some of humour is kinda forced.

It's like Tarsem's movies: visuals are the best parts. Every frame is made to look like a photo, or painting and audience is given enough time each time to eyeball all the quirky (look!) details that were put on each scene.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on April 03, 2014, 03:13:34 AM
Captain America is out this week for everyone in the USA.

BNM about two thirds in the film you should catch the POI reference, and then you'll be sad that Root is missing and she won't come in dual-wielding and tear up the place

But more importantly, go see Under The Skin (also out this week). If Scarlett plays the Black Widow in the Marvel universe, she is a black widow in this film. Khush may like this one. Although the scottish accents may throw you all.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on April 03, 2014, 04:52:15 PM
Khush may like this one.

Ha ha ha! Why am I suddenly being selected for movie recommendations? I adore it, of course, but it is strange that this is happening all of sudden. But truth be told, when I heard about this movie a couple weeks, I was kind of intrigued by it so you were probably right to single me out for the recommendation. I still need to see The Lego Movie and Grand Budapest Hotel though. I'm kind of interested in Non-stop but may wait for it on video and am still undecided on whether to check out Divergent or not so that's what's going on with me and movies currently playing.

As for upcoming films, the only one I'm actually interested in seeing for the month is Draft Day which is odd since I'm not a big football fan and it doesn't look like anything special but I really did like the trailer for it unlike Million Dollar Arm which told me the whole movie in the trailer. I mean, seriously? What is there left to see in the actual film? I'd have probably chosen M.D.A. over D.D. simply with prefering Hamm over Costner but at least D.D. knew to just give you the set-up and not the ending. Plus, I do think the pressures a general manager faces are more interesting than that of an agent trying to land a client or put them in the big leagues so it does have that going for it. Otherwise, there's nothing that I'd want to go to the theatre to see until Spiderman 2 and I'm not even that excited for it but 2014 is looking to be a pretty weak year for films at the moment. Oh well, I've still got a lot of older classics I can watch in the meantime.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: marvel_moviefan_2012 on April 04, 2014, 04:46:02 PM
I don't watch many movies anymore, time, money, lack of interest, fear/loathing of teenagers... I did see Robocop remake when it was fairly new and it was so so. I think it needed to stand on it's own and it had a good cast, a good premise and a pretty good set up but in the end it felt like it was just trying too hard to be different and then leaving out the important stuff. It had a few moments but that was it, nothing that stood out as epic as the original. Sure the original is dated but so is Star Wars and it's still a great movie. I would give it a 3 out of five, didn't hate it didn't like it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on April 04, 2014, 05:16:58 PM
You must be a pretty sad individual if you're afraid of someone like me.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: marvel_moviefan_2012 on April 04, 2014, 05:23:58 PM
You must be a pretty sad individual if you're afraid of someone like me.


it was a joke mostly but even still when you get older you will understand.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on April 04, 2014, 06:13:06 PM
I stayed away from the theater for YEARS due to the younger crowd.
I was afraid I might go to jail for putting some young inconsiderate punk in his place... like I've almost had to do on so many occasions.

Such as one time when some kids a few rows up started throwing skittles down to the rows below them... one landed in front of me.  I turned around and they ducked like I couldn't see them, another one landed near me, so I picked it up, stood up, took a few steps near them and told them if they didn't stop throwing skittles... [insert threat here]. They threw one more, but it was no where near me. I yelled something at them, a bunch of people around me then said thank you.

another time I had to yell at some kids down near the front for talking loudly and making stupid noises. people kept shhhh'ing them, but they would just keep on going to the point where you could no longer enjoy the movie. So I stood up, yelled something threatening at them, everyone on the theater started applauding and the kids shut the fock up.

I stopped going to the theater for years after that.
Now I have my occasional Sunday trips, which are nice because almost no one is there.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on April 04, 2014, 06:41:53 PM
I never understand why the **** people never, you know, tell the fucking management. That's what they are there for, not to sit around for two hours while you watch a movie. You will do nothing by telling them to **** off, and most likely make it worse. If you're gonna miss part of the movie anyway by confronting them, just leave the room and tell someone. Then, they get kicked out for good and you can relax. Not to mention, all you are doing is being even MORE disruptive by retaliating in a stupid way.

For someone that seems to watch a lot of movies in your spare time, you don't seem to know how to handle them. I go to movies once a month and when I get fuckers like that, I get them kicked the **** out of the place. Better than trying to "be a man" and tell them shush.

it was a joke mostly but even still when you get older you will understand.


ok

No, I won't. I'll probably be even less scared of them when I get older. You were that age once, you should know how to handle them.

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on April 04, 2014, 08:01:08 PM
I'm not gonna miss part of the movie or draw unneeded attention to myself by the staff. I'm a big black man, intimidation works well enough to quiet disrespectful punks. I'll even put a parent in check if they let their kids act up in the movie.
I'm not trying to get them banned from the theater, just want them to shut up and sit still while I'm trying to watch my movie. If that is too much for them to handle, then wait till it comes out on DVD and watch it at home.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: marvel_moviefan_2012 on April 05, 2014, 01:55:40 PM
I never understand why the **** people never, you know, tell the fucking management. That's what they are there for, not to sit around for two hours while you watch a movie. You will do nothing by telling them to **** off, and most likely make it worse. If you're gonna miss part of the movie anyway by confronting them, just leave the room and tell someone. Then, they get kicked out for good and you can relax. Not to mention, all you are doing is being even MORE disruptive by retaliating in a stupid way.

For someone that seems to watch a lot of movies in your spare time, you don't seem to know how to handle them. I go to movies once a month and when I get fuckers like that, I get them kicked the **** out of the place. Better than trying to "be a man" and tell them shush.

it was a joke mostly but even still when you get older you will understand.


ok


No, I won't. I'll probably be even less scared of them when I get older. You were that age once, you should know how to handle them.




 Who said I was scared of them I said I hate teenagers, big difference. Yes you will understand when you are older, it is something we all go through it is called growing up but you still got some of that to do so no hard feelings. But since you are a teenager obviously your still in that phase of your life so there is nothing I can do to convince you otherwise, yes I was a teenager once and I am so glad I am past that phase in life, like most adults.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on April 05, 2014, 03:08:09 PM
I'm not gonna miss part of the movie or draw unneeded attention to myself by the staff. I'm a big black man, intimidation works well enough to quiet disrespectful punks. I'll even put a parent in check if they let their kids act up in the movie.
I'm not trying to get them banned from the theater, just want them to shut up and sit still while I'm trying to watch my movie. If that is too much for them to handle, then wait till it comes out on DVD and watch it at home.


Have you ever listened to 'The Mens Room'? It's a local Seattle radio show (you can stream it or download the podcast online, 99.9 KISW) and one of the guys is a black guy named Thrill. I always picture you sounding and looking like him because he seems to have a similar demeanor and humor to you. Except I can hear him and only read your posts.


It's funny when a white caller accuses them of being 'racist white men' for making comments about black folk and Thrill responds "You do know I'm black, right? I'm talking about my family there."
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on April 05, 2014, 06:18:31 PM
I'm actually a really nice guy, and I'm not confrontational at all, but some situations require someone to stand up and say something (it doesn't have to be a threat, it just needs to sound threatening), and in 9/10 cases, the offender knows they are in the wrong, sees who they would be standing up against, and decided to not push their luck.

Ask Insanolord, he sat next to me at E3 2011.

and to answer your question, No, I haven't heard of that show, and no, I have never listened to any podcast.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on April 05, 2014, 06:36:32 PM
... no, I have never listened to any podcast.
I have da Sads.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on April 05, 2014, 07:51:45 PM
In Florida, texting in a theater will get you murdered, even if it's only during the previews.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: NWR_insanolord on April 05, 2014, 09:08:48 PM
I'm actually a really nice guy, and I'm not confrontational at all, but some situations require someone to stand up and say something (it doesn't have to be a threat, it just needs to sound threatening), and in 9/10 cases, the offender knows they are in the wrong, sees who they would be standing up against, and decided to not push their luck.

Ask Insanolord, he sat next to me at E3 2011.

and to answer your question, No, I haven't heard of that show, and no, I have never listened to any podcast.

Believe me, I mean absolutely no offense by this, but you weren't what I was expecting. You definitely play up your forum persona.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on April 05, 2014, 10:25:56 PM
I'm actually a really nice guy, and I'm not confrontational at all, but some situations require someone to stand up and say something (it doesn't have to be a threat, it just needs to sound threatening), and in 9/10 cases, the offender knows they are in the wrong, sees who they would be standing up against, and decided to not push their luck.

Ask Insanolord, he sat next to me at E3 2011.

and to answer your question, No, I haven't heard of that show, and no, I have never listened to any podcast.

Believe me, I mean absolutely no offense by this, but you weren't what I was expecting. You definitely play up your forum persona.

I'm not sure what you mean by that, so no offense taken I guess.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: NWR_insanolord on April 05, 2014, 10:36:09 PM
I guess I was just expecting a more boisterous kind of personality like you generally show in the forums. It may just have been the time of day; I know I personally was barely awake at that point.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on April 05, 2014, 11:11:26 PM
The Grand Budapest Hotel

I liked this movie.  I thought the story was charming and fun.  A lot of major plot details are given away by the movie itself, so you're never riding on suspense.  The bulk of the movie not being widescreen was weird, but I think I got used to it.  Characters were all likeable.  As an aside, I try not to watch Wes Anderson movies in the context of Wes Anderson movies, but in the context of movies in general.  Yeah, the movie is deliberately quirky, but the last movie I saw wasn't.  Anyway, some of the jokes were definitely forced, but the ones that hit were great.  The movie filled me with much delight.

8/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on April 06, 2014, 01:15:34 AM
I never understand why the **** people never, you know, tell the fucking management. That's what they are there for, not to sit around for two hours while you watch a movie. You will do nothing by telling them to **** off, and most likely make it worse. If you're gonna miss part of the movie anyway by confronting them, just leave the room and tell someone. Then, they get kicked out for good and you can relax. Not to mention, all you are doing is being even MORE disruptive by retaliating in a stupid way.

For someone that seems to watch a lot of movies in your spare time, you don't seem to know how to handle them. I go to movies once a month and when I get fuckers like that, I get them kicked the **** out of the place. Better than trying to "be a man" and tell them shush.

it was a joke mostly but even still when you get older you will understand.


ok


No, I won't. I'll probably be even less scared of them when I get older. You were that age once, you should know how to handle them.




 Who said I was scared of them I said I hate teenagers, big difference. Yes you will understand when you are older, it is something we all go through it is called growing up but you still got some of that to do so no hard feelings. But since you are a teenager obviously your still in that phase of your life so there is nothing I can do to convince you otherwise, yes I was a teenager once and I am so glad I am past that phase in life, like most adults.


Do you not read your own posts? You said you feared them, not me.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on April 06, 2014, 04:18:40 PM
Captain America The Winter Soldier - 9/10

Simply put, this is the best written Marvel superhero movie there is. I'm glad I didn't read any previews, or have that many Captain America comics, so I was actually out of the loop when the reveal is made - even though the reveal is known by anyone who has read the comics or anything about the movie before it was released. There is no Coulson in it, so I assume they haven't revealed how he's still alive in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (never seen it) yet. This just about makes up for Iron Man 2 and 3 though, highly recommended.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on April 06, 2014, 04:41:10 PM
I still think Iron Man is superior, but I doubt anything in the future of Marvel Studios' films will ever live up to Iron Man.


I love how a certain plot twist in the movie pretty much made every single movie in the series before it even better, and explained certain characters in those movies. Iron Man 2 and The Incredible Hulk come to mind.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on April 06, 2014, 06:01:37 PM
Iron Man is probably more fun to watch, but Winter Soldier is a more well-written movie. Hence, why I call it "best written."
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on April 06, 2014, 06:38:59 PM
Well, duh. Most of Iron Man wasn't even written, but improvised. Every single thing to come out after Iron Man was "better written".
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: marvel_moviefan_2012 on April 06, 2014, 06:52:05 PM
fixed
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on April 06, 2014, 07:27:42 PM
Captain America: The Winter Soldier was soooo good.

- How good was it -

I would skip Guardians of the Galaxy & Avengers 2 if I could get the Cap 3 movie next year.
Everything about this movie was on point, and I'm just gonna assume (TWS & AoS spoiler)Fury had such a remarkable recovery thanks to the same stuff that revived Coulson & healed Skye, as he had a lot of injuries to be so up, out and about the next day at SHIELD headquarters.

As some may find Iron Man to be the more fun movie, Cap 2 was the one that was so intense, that it had you eagerly anticipating what's going to happen next. And after everything that did happen, I can't wait to see what happens next. This is probably the Marvel movie that wins some award. I think this movie hit all the right notes.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on April 07, 2014, 03:47:16 AM
Divergent was incredibly stupid. After 30 minutes of exposition, including an opening expository narration by the main character, the film finally gets started. The film also barely struggles to hold onto it's "scifi" label it's been given. It's so far off from that it does not deserve that label. It isn't. It's a slightly-dystopian future, but thats it.

An unspecified war has ravaged the world, so Chicago has decided to split itself up into five factions. (all of these points are noted in the trailer too). As teenagers, everyone is subjected to these tests and those who fail the initiation - upon choosing their faction - become factionless.

The film spent too long with the plot it wanted to go down - she's a divergent - and less with things i wanted to see, like "what happens if you refuse to do the test?". It also is incredibly stupid in that everyone has a single dominant personality trait (honesty, bravery, quest for knowledge etc) and that possessing more than one is somehow implied to be a bad thing - but is not explained why that is.

There is also very little said as to some of the other factions, and the factionless themselves, except for a passing glance at the start of the movie.

This film might have been better - controversial - if they opted to create these factions based on gender, genetic tendencies, race etc. Anything to try and make it a more tangible, personal, kind of movie to people in 2014 over an aspirational personality trait that can be broadly applied to anyone.

This probably comes as no surprise, but Jai Courtney was in this. He looks ridiculous in this, as if Lady Gaga styled him herself. It also comes as no surprise but this was greenlighted for a second and third movie before release, expecting a Hunger Games like demand for it. This is nowhere close.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on April 07, 2014, 10:31:08 AM
I also saw that movie yesterday,  but we missed maybe the first few minutes whet she is explaining things, so we were a little lost as the training for everything until later in the movie. We spent the first 2/3 thinking that being a divergent must mean you have some secret super power or something and that it was going to reveal itself at anytime.... then I was a little disappointed to find out that it just meant that she was a free thinker, which showed her to think outside the box and not conform to a hive mentality as easily as everyone else.... wut!?
That deserves death? If anything they should be moved into the 6th faction, the one that ruled the rest of them.

Overall I thought it was mediocre at best, but I can see how a sequel might make it to theater, but that's where the series dies. Unless something far more interesting happens than convincing yourself you're dreaming/having a bad trip, and then being able to manipulate that dream to end it immediately.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on April 07, 2014, 10:45:32 AM
The books have to big of a fanbase for that.  My wife is one so I've heard at least part of most of the books.  Its not something I would personally watch as a movie but, whatever.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on April 07, 2014, 10:58:22 AM
It did good at the box office this time around, but for people like me, having gone into the 1st movie with nothing more than info from the previews... that didn't explain all that much, it wasn't that good that I would sit though the sequel again before I could do it on a Netflix rental.

Maybe the fanbase turns out for it, but I've never heard of the books, and I'm sure it will get a 2nd theater release, I'm just not sure how that will turn out profit wise.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on April 07, 2014, 12:05:33 PM
It is just the a fad with shitty but popular Young Adult Fiction where life is a giant highschool. On the "positive" side you have BS like Glee and on the dark gloomy side you have Hunger Games, Enders game, Divergent. There are more like it, but I can't recall them off the top of my head.

They are all functionally the same movie where teen(s) join/conscripted/forced into a clan/school/faction/contest where they have to pass tests in order to forefill some preset goal which always has some not very cleverly hidden secret agenda by organization/government/school that will eventually force some arbitrary binary choice where the protagonist will "Cleverly" take the third option instead at which point they "grow up" and "redeem" humanity.

The **** is so trite if it was a French Stick of Bread, you could kill someone with it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on April 07, 2014, 12:16:17 PM
another similar recent movie is Vampire Academy.
I'm not really sure that one even made sense with it's class structure of Vampire's and Vampire's keepers. i would have to watch it again, but I have no intention of doing that. so let's just classify that as stupid and not worth the watch.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on April 07, 2014, 12:59:47 PM
Interesting, interesting. Well, then, I think I'll skip Divergent and catch it some time later on video. However, I am surprised at how well received Cap America 2 has been from your comments and other reviews. I've never seen the first one and the only thing that interested me about the 2nd is that Robert Redford was in it. So many movies to watch.

I finally got around to seeing Taken last night. I'd planned to make it a Taken night by watching it and the sequel both but it was late and I was tired so I'll do that tonight. Still, I really liked the first one. I was in the mood for something less serious and mre action based after watching a lot of dramas and some so-so movies of the 40's and 50's. It was a silly movie but it did its job well. One of the better action movies I've seen in a while. (I'm looking at you Jack Reacher.) Some quick thoughts on it:


- I loved how vague the movie could be. It didn't seem to be too concerned with details. At one point, he has an Albanian translater tell him what some men are saying and one of the villains says he has to go to a construction site. It's never mentioned where the location for this site is nor if he follows someone there but somehow Neesson is able to find it and has already infiltrated it in the next scene.

- Speaking of the construction site, I think the car chase in it is the weakest part of the film. The amount of bullets shot at his truck that never puncture any tires or wound him or the girl he has found nor do I think they damage the windshield were too much for my suspension of disbelief. I think that 3 or 4 times, a vehicle drove up alongside his firing bullets at him as they are side by side and yet still nothing hit. I could buy and play along with everything else but not this.

- Neesan commits to the role. When harassing a prostitute to get an Albanian to threaten him so he can plant a listening device on him, Neesan acts vulnerable to the Albanian. You now he isn't but he sells it well. Same with him as the caring father. Moreover, I didn't realize he is 61 years old so he was 57 or so when he made this but you'd never think he was that old in the movie, he plays the ruthless action hero part well.

- The dinner scene with the corrupt French spy and his wife. Wowzer. When he throws the bullets at the guys face and then shoots his wfe in the arm when she has no idea what's going on and thought it was a friendly supper. Cold, man, cold.

- Katie Cassidy! I didn't even recognize it was her at first until she gets to her apartment. Of course, like in a horror movie, for her scandalous nature, she dies.

- Famke Janssen! It's a shame Xenia Onatopp doesn't get more to do than act like a shrew towards Neesan until their daughter is kidnapped, then just sucks up to Neesan to save the daughter and for saving her.

- The takedown of Peter at the airport. Owned!

- "Wouldn't it have been easier to just sign the papers in the first place?" "Wouldn't it have been easier to have just talked to me about it first?" Owned!

- "Please apologize to your wife for me." Owned!

- "It wasn't anything personal." "It was to me." Owned!

- The takedown of the ship. Owned!

- This movie isn't interested delaying things. Helps out with concert security and that night just happens to save the singer's life from an attacker. Great timing! Doesn't want the daughter to go abroad on her own and is worried for her safety. She's then taken in what seems about 2 hours after landing. Why waste time?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on April 07, 2014, 01:09:02 PM
Taken was a bad-ass movie.

Taken 2... not so much. It had good scenes, but didn't live up to the 1st.

and for some reason they are making a Taken 3.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on April 07, 2014, 01:21:46 PM
Gotta complete the trilogy.

But now you've lowered my excitement for Taken 2....
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: marvel_moviefan_2012 on April 07, 2014, 03:51:24 PM
I just watched a movie called "House of Whipcord" on Neftlix. It was a bait and switch, I was adding slasher films to my list and it recommended me it based on adding Sleepaway Camp 2 and Bay of Blood, so I figured okay it's old it's British but what the hell I like slasher films I will give it a try. Stupid, I should have known it was not going to be what I was looking for it was a total waste of time. I skipped ahead during the boring parts and it took me ten minutes to watch the movie, yeah it was that boring. It wasn't even trying to be scary and there was no stabbing in it at all. I would rate it 1 out of 5 but it was so terrible I just say stay away period.


On that same note, Sleepaway camp 2 was crap, the first was a real sick movie but the sequel was just lame.


While it is still fresh on my mind, it Netflix really needs to learn that just because Hell Raiser was British and damn good does not mean all British "horror" movies are the same. I hate how it recommends a movie based on country of origin like that means anything, watch some Doctor Who, oh you might like Dilby Abby or whatever it is, like Hell Raiser oh you might like this boring snorfest made in the 70's where nobody gets killed but it's labeled horror/slasher anyways.

Seriously it annoys me. What is worse, and kind of racist in a way, I watched a Japanese anime and it flooded my suggestions with some Korean crap, not even Korean cartoons/anime just movies and sitcoms from Korea, yeah not even cool jackasses.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on April 08, 2014, 06:43:43 AM
It's interesting (read: distressing) that all of these popular young adult books are based on a female lead/central character and the majority of the cast (in the movies) is white. Twilight, Hunger Games, Divergent, Beautiful Creatures, Mortal Instruments.

Is there any YA books - post-harry potter - where the central character is male?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on April 08, 2014, 01:08:31 PM
I don't really read a lot of YA books. Don't know why that it is.....

But is the Percy Jackson series YA? If so, did it get started after Harry Potter? That's the only thing I can think of because it became a couple of movies.

As for Taken 2, yeah, it is rather disappointing. Part of what made the first movie interesting was his take-down of the kidnapping ring and going through all the levels of it. It meant him encountering many different people and having to navigate through various obstacles. Plus, there was a time limit and urgency to his mission. With Taken 2, you see the villains track him down but there's no urgency or worry for Neesan because he doesn't know this net is drawing in around him. Then, when the villans strike, he's soon captured and taken out of commission for awhile. Once freed, there's a bit of action but he gets his daughter to safety then he retraces his steps, kills the bad guys and gets his ex-wife back. Thus, the scope feels smaller, there's less action, and it leaves the problem of the head villain's sons possible looking for revenge so it doesn't feel complete either. That's why there has to be a Taken 3.

Other thoughts:

- Once again, the Taken series doesn't want to get into details. What's wrong Lenore? Oh, I've seperated from the rich guy I married after you? I'm sorry to hear that. Well, thanks for the wine. See ya! Seriously, what caused that rift? Was it something from the first movie? Screenwriters don't care. Just get Bryan and Lenore together so they can be can be captured later in the movie.

- Guess singing didn't work out for Kim?

- That French agent from the first film is having one bad day after another. Wonder how things are with his wife? Did he survive the Albanians interrogation? Guess we'll see in the third movie. Maybe. It's details and these movies don't need them.

- I'm always up for the use of Istanbul/Constantinople as a setting for a spy movie. For years, I was big into Byzantine history. When playing Civilization, I want to play as the Byzantines regardless of how strong they may be. If you ever get the chance, I highly recommend the three volume history of Byzantium written by John Julius Norwich. It plays out as an epic trilogy of the rise, the dominance and the fall of an empire full of political intrigues and diplomatic manueverings. Bond has been to Istanbul 3 times with From Russia With Love taking the most advantage of the setting. The World is Not Enough ends in it but hardly uses it and Skyfall begins in Istanbul with a pretty good chase through it. Wish Taken 2 had used the setting more to its potential but in the end, it just became a blur of winding non descript alleyways that could have been in any number of places. At least there were a few great shots of the city and a brief rooftop chase of Kim.

- Kim is told to hide in the closet. She does but is just about captured. What would have happened if she was captured also? I thought maybe there was a panic room or hidden compartment in the closet but nothing. She wasn't even told about the weapons until after the villains fled the room.

- Do the movies really have to keep using the word taken? Can't they say captured or kidnapped? It starts to sound silly after a bit and circles back to the non-use of details. Taken is a rather vague word.

- The car chase was a better than the first but it reminded me of The Naked Gun when it was over. In that movie, Frank Drebin commanders a Driver's Training School vehicle and instructs the new driver of what to do while chasing after some villains. Here Bryan is instructing Kim what to do as she objects to much of it. I feel like the Taken movies are close to a really good car chase but there's always an element or two holding them back.

- Further on the chase, they have to evade the cops since Bryan shot one of their own. How does the daughter feel about that? As the audience, we know that cop was working with the main villain since he calls him on his cell phone (about what or why he was there in the first place is never mentioned nor do you hear anything from their conversation) but does Kim or Bryan ever learn this? For all Kim knows, Bryan just flat out killed someone innocent doing their job.

- He's killed a police officer, some Albanians, went on a reckless car rampage through the city ended by his breaking through security into the US Embassy while his daughter ran around throwing grenades in the city and he's a retired agent not even working on a case. Yet, somehow, it's no problem for him to then leave the embassy and get right back on the trail of the villains. His buddy Sam must be pretty powerful.

- After a hail of machine gun bullets through a wall, the shooter than creeps towards one of the bullet holes to look through it and see if Bryan is dead. Unfortunately, of all the holes to look through, that was the one Bryan was expecting as he shoots the villain as he looks through that hole. Bryan wins this round of Whack-a-mole.

- So, your last henchman has fought Bryan in hand to hand combat and is actually winning. Bryan is hurt and down. Imagine if you had a gun instead of cowering a room? Could have shot him right there. How was this guy the leader of the villains?

- There weren't any bullets in the gun! What a surprise. As if he was going to turn his back and leave the villain with a loaded gun.

- Hey! Maybe next time, Kim's boyfriend Jamie can join in on the action or be the one taken. He's part of the family now, right?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on April 08, 2014, 02:36:05 PM
It's interesting (read: distressing) that all of these popular young adult books are based on a female lead/central character and the majority of the cast (in the movies) is white. Twilight, Hunger Games, Divergent, Beautiful Creatures, Mortal Instruments.

Is there any YA books - post-harry potter - where the central character is male?

Lemme just say that the fact that there are a lot of white people in the Hunger Games was on purpose, to follow the book.

I don't see what's "distressing" about having a female lead. This isn't the 1920's. Having an all white cast, sure, but that's the same with all of Hollywood, not just movies based on YA books.

I don't really read a lot of YA books. Don't know why that it is.....

But is the Percy Jackson series YA? If so, did it get started after Harry Potter? That's the only thing I can think of because it became a couple of movies.

Yes, it is. The books started in 2003, if I remember correctly. The film rights were bought in 2004 and I think the first movie came out in 2010.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on April 08, 2014, 04:54:46 PM
It's interesting (read: distressing) that all of these popular young adult books are based on a female lead/central character and the majority of the cast (in the movies) is white. Twilight, Hunger Games, Divergent, Beautiful Creatures, Mortal Instruments.

Is there any YA books - post-harry potter - where the central character is male?

Lemme just say that the fact that there are a lot of white people in the Hunger Games was on purpose, to follow the book.

I don't see what's "distressing" about having a female lead. This isn't the 1920's. Having an all white cast, sure, but that's the same with all of Hollywood, not just movies based on YA books.

I don't really read a lot of YA books. Don't know why that it is.....

But is the Percy Jackson series YA? If so, did it get started after Harry Potter? That's the only thing I can think of because it became a couple of movies.

Yes, it is. The books started in 2003, if I remember correctly. The film rights were bought in 2004 and I think the first movie came out in 2010.

I mean distressing in the sense that you can see where the hype trail is leading things - look at all of those films i listed: Divergent's two sequels were greenlighted BEFORE the first movie was released, the budget doubled and the release date moved to broadly match Hunger Games' first movie release date. All because Hunger Games did well enough to expect lightning to strike twice.

I just want to see one where its done differently again.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: King of Twitch on April 09, 2014, 01:12:19 AM
payback- 4/5 Wish they made more like this. All the characters, acting, and music are perfect.
casablanca- 3/5 Got lost in the setting's geo-political conflict, but i like humphrey bogart's character. "I'm the only cause I'm interested in." Classic.

a few i couldn't finish due to boredom:
frozen- lasted 10min
big fish- 20min
planes- ~15min Sad to see Pixar pandering to 4-year-olds when they're capable of so much more.

wolf of wallstreet- 3min 19 seconds, due to grossness
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on April 09, 2014, 02:19:21 AM
payback- 4/5 Wish they made more like this. All the characters, acting, and music are perfect.
casablanca- 3/5 Got lost in the setting's geo-political conflict, but i like humphrey bogart's character. "I'm the only cause I'm interested in." Classic.

a few i couldn't finish due to boredom:
frozen- lasted 10min
big fish- 20min
planes- ~15min Sad to see Pixar pandering to 4-year-olds when they're capable of so much more.

wolf of wallstreet- 3min 19 seconds, due to grossness

Big Fish was a good movie, but you have to stick it out.
and Pixar didn't make Planes. Disney Animation Studios (or something like that) did.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: azeke on April 09, 2014, 02:28:15 AM
Big Fish is a great movie. It's Tim Burton without all that gothic crap and being at his earnest. People like to **** on him for overreliance on his wife and Depp, but if you look back at his carrier, there are some very, very, VERY good movies.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Fatty The Hutt on April 09, 2014, 10:59:39 AM
casablanca- 3/5
what what WHAT? I just..I don't know what to say. How about this: I respect your opinion sir, though I strongly disagree.

Casablanca is just a fantastic film all the way through. Barely a wrong note in the whole thing. Damn thing kills me every time I pop it in, which is at least a few times a year.

a few i couldn't finish due to boredom:
frozen- lasted 10min
I was remarking, after my third viewing, at how well the first 10 minutes of Frozen hooks you in. If you aren't invested in the characters by that time, by the time the trolls wipe the little kid's memory and her sister shuts her out and the little kid sings "do you want to build a snowman" through the locked door of her sister's bedroom then this film is not for you. Probably best that you bowed out when you did.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on April 09, 2014, 11:52:26 AM
Sine Khrush watched Taken 2, I bit the bullet and watched it for shits and giggles. What I got was shits and Giggles. There is a perverse pleasure in seeing Liam Nesson kill people not much different than watching Arnold do the same.

Compared to Taken, this movie is trash. There aren't even any cool quotes. For some reason the camera man can't even do a slow pan without acting like he is shooting on a boat. The killing instead of being OH SNAP moments of cringing are loaded with unintentional comedy. The pacing was nonsensical. While the first Taken was lite on details as Khrush pointed out, it was a tight package. Taken 2 on the other hand is a whole load of What? Really? Less said about the "Villain" the better.

At this rate Liam is going to have to kill the guy's extended family down to the child in Taken 3 and commit genocide in 4.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on April 09, 2014, 01:34:06 PM
At what point do you just stop messing with Liam Neesonsss?

Like, if he stole your grapefruit, would you exact revenge by stealing two of his or would you just count it as a loss?

And I know I just compared grapefruits with people, but I really love grapefruits.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on April 09, 2014, 01:46:56 PM
Why do you think the Balkans is such a mess? They treat everything like grapefruit! Grapefruit theft and eating all over.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on April 09, 2014, 02:47:05 PM
Hahaha I might have to make a visit there real soon. Sounds like my kind of place.

I just imagined several movies where what people were fighting about were grapefruits.

Boondock Saints

"The juice of grapefruits is on your hands! AND YOU WILL REEEP IT!"
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on April 09, 2014, 08:02:34 PM
"I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want with my grapefruit. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my grapefruit go now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will juice your grapefruits."

I like it already.

It's true I didn't even mention anything about the camera work in Taken 2. Despite watching the first one 3 days ago, I can't remember the camera shaking too much. It might have during the ending boat scene but even so, it was well done and didn't detract from the action. In Taken 2, Michael J. Fox was given camera duty for some reason. I maintain my stance that the only person who should do shaky cam is Paul Greengrass. I know he isn't the cameraman but his direction seems to be the only one that makes it work. Of course, others have disagreed with that point and felt shaky cam is shoddy no matter what but his work is the only one where it seems to work in conveying the action more than a traditional steady cam does. The Bourne Supremacy, Ultimatum and Captain Phillips are the examples I would point to.

Interestingly, I saw The Lego Movie last night and to my surprise, Liam Neesan was the voice of Bad Cop in the film. So, apparently, it is Liam Neesan movie week for me.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on April 09, 2014, 10:45:50 PM
Doing some IMDB research and he's in an upcoming Scorsese film called 'Silence'. So...**** yeah.

Might as well do a review

Fruitvale Station

This is the type of movie where you know what's going to happen at the end, yet it only makes it more powerful. You get to see this person, this human dealing with their struggles, trying to solve them and change for the better. It becomes increasingly personal and it's hard not to hold your breath when you see the setting for the end. It's simply sad. It's a sad movie. But it's extremely well done.

4/5
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on April 14, 2014, 03:07:49 AM
Noah - this film was weird in many many ways. The biggest bit that got me was that noah kept saying "we will rebuild humanity" yet the youngest was 2 newborn twin sisters and then a 10-15 year old boy. There's either a lot of incest or lesbian incest. The latter somehow making kids.

The film basically ignored that point. Weird.

If you're religious, don't watch. If you're not then consider it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on April 14, 2014, 01:26:28 PM
Lawrence of Arabia.

Wow. A Beautiful stunning film full of colour. Here is a film where actors act, not play themselves. Peter O'Toole gives an amazing performance playing Lawrence with all the complexity, contradictions, highs, lows and madness that must have been felt at one point or another.

They almost don't shoot movies like this anymore. Long still shots which let the actions on the screen speak for themselves. Wide limitless vistas of horrifying infinity. Most of the violence happens out of frame but the gruesomeness of the act is sold by the actors. The scale of the action is fantastic, computers don't even compare embarrassing themselves trying.

A must watch to understand what a real movie is like.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on April 14, 2014, 04:08:09 PM
Yeah Lawrence of Arabia is fantastic "I am a river to my people"
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on April 14, 2014, 05:45:28 PM
I feel like it's less that they don't and more that they can't. Nothing before LoA was like it, neither has anything happened like it since.

Gotta love that slow film stock, though. So freaking beautiful.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on April 19, 2014, 05:50:35 AM
I've seem both Amazing Spiderman 2 and Transcendence.

Spiderman - A little overlong, and Paul Giamatti's role was frustratingly limited - he only bookends the front and end of the film and is not seen or mentioned anywhere else. Jamie Foxx holds the core of the film together as Max Dillon, but the real star is the chemistry between Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone. Deliberately avoiding the plot, the single worst part of the film is the post-credits scene, which has nothing to do with spiderman.
It is entirely to do with xmen - and no it doesn't link both franchises together - so you're not missing much if you walk out

Transcendence - This film has a lot of promise but totally falls apart under its premise towards the end. It also makes a significant plot jump as soon as the primary story begins - he needs more power as soon as he is uploaded, but is never explained why - and everything hinges on that. It does introduce a few interesting concepts like avatars, which takes it very VERY close to how Rommie worked in Andromeda but doesn't expand on them. This film is very ultra-serious like Nolan properties (Christopher Nolan's movies, Jonah Nolan's Person of Interest) but lacks the writing and general cohesion to hold it all together. Rebecca Hall and Johnny Depp have ZERO chemistry together.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: marvel_moviefan_2012 on April 25, 2014, 09:04:02 PM
I just watched The Winter Soldier this week. I can only say two things, first it is the first time ever I actually thought Cap was kinda cool and not a total loser, second it makes me rethink my views on Snowden.


As for the movie itself, I liked it, especially the way they tied it into everything else. I would give it an 4/5
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on May 04, 2014, 05:04:24 PM
Amazing Spider-Man 2 - IMO the best Spider-Man movie

Electro is simply  badass. He only has two weaknesses and is by far the most powerful villain Spider-Man has faced in any movie. But holy **** I can't believe Gwen Stacy dies - even though one trailer did basically spoil it, and of course it happens in Amazing Spider-Man #121 as well, I just didn't think they would do that in the movie. I was also surprised at how limited Paul Giamatti/Rhino appears in the movie, but halfway through I figured that was how they would do it, and it is actually much, much better that way.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on May 04, 2014, 10:00:57 PM
Amazing Spider-man 2... this movie is covered in cheese.
It may be entertaining, kinda funny, exciting at times and even sorta touching at 1 part, but buckets of cheese dumped all over the dialog.
Most specifically "Rhino" and everything he says was absolutely horrible. the the lines to the accent, the entire delivery had to be a bad joke. Even some of the quips Peter makes were cringe worthy.

The origins seemed a little forced/rushed and the movie ran too damn long.
I had typed up a much longer and more detailed review when I first got out of the movie, and then I typed up another one about an hour ago when I realized the first one never sent somehow... but somehow that one didn't either. I'm doing this one from my computer instead of my phone.

(Edit: Electro was so damn powerful, I can understand that Spideys suit is some sort of rubber leaving him unaffected physically, but would magnitizing his web shooters really resist that kind of charge? I only ask because they kept making a big deal over providing more charge than a Barrett can hold will make it explode, so I assume that's what was shorting out his shooters to begin with.
Also how can Gwen hit Electro with the car and knock him out when just seconds ago he was like lightning and can become a current at any moment?

And then goblin shows up....
Spidey: Gwen! Stay there....
Me: No Gwen!! Go the **** back inside!! Now!!!
WTF Spider-man!?
)

Oh, and Max & Harry were horrible and the licensed music, especially for the ending seemed out of place.

I also forgot to re-mention that the X-Men teaser in the mid credits left the whole theater confused. Why the **** would someone splice together two movies like that, that have absolutely nothing to do with one another. And it wasn't even a particularly good clip. It just starts with no context and then ends as an out of place advertisement for another unrelated movie within the movie I'm watching.

Edit 3: and the Stan Lee cameo seemed like a last second insert to the point where they should have just left him out.

pre-post edit:
Ocuius - This was a better movie than Spider-man and my favorite movie of the day.
This was a psychological horror where they seemed to have covered pretty much all the bases and no one did anything obviously stupid, which is rare in a horror flick.

A Haunted House
It's been a while since I've wanted to walk out on a movie. The amount of forced racial stereotype jokes that are just rapid fired at you, the retread of events at similar times in this movie as they were in the original and the general "try-hard" nature of the comedy just didn't work for me. Sure there were a few laughs squeezed out of me, but overall the movie is just stoopid. (the first one was Hilarious though)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on May 05, 2014, 01:13:20 AM
Saw Spider-Man 2 yesterday. I wasn't super impressed.

Let's put it this way: I liked all the Peter Parker stuff, but I didn't give a **** about any of the Spider-Man stuff. Electro is just weird and inconsistent. He can use Force Lightning, which is great, and he apparently eats electricity. Fine. But then he can turn INTO electricity and then reform elsewhere--but when he reforms, all his non-electrical stuff is intact, like his clothing and that battery charge meter on his head. That stuff doesn't just fall off when the dude DEMATERIALIZES.

That really bugged the crap out of me. It's similar to how Elsa magically used her ice powers to make a new dress, but with electricity. It was stupid and distracting, and you'd think that, if Electro can DEMATERIALIZE, he'd just do that whenever Spider-Man threw a damn punch or shot webbing at him.

Seriously. They did NOT think him through.

Oh yeah, and Green Goblin just kinda SHOWS UP because we have to end the movie now.

I didn't like it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on May 05, 2014, 09:09:24 AM
The late Goblin/Rhino stuff was just to build up for the next movie, they didn't want to do another Spider-Man 3 where Venom comes and goes within 15 minutes. Electro being able to keep his suit (and where did he get it) when he transforms was kind of stupid, but first you have to believe that someone can actually turn into electricity in order to think that this is a big deal. The Spider-Man universe is not exactly based in reality. In the comics, Rhino typically does the same kind of bad jokes and stupid phrases too.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on May 05, 2014, 01:58:44 PM
There were so many things wrong with that movie that they build up and detract from your enjoyment on some level. It was still an entertaining movie but alot of it really doesn't make any sense.

Like  Harry taking the venom, which starts to change and probably kill him almost instantly, but for some reason he climbs towards the mechanized medical armor, which is strangely inviting, with the doors opening at him approaching from a distance in crawl. and then the suit apparently starts healing him.... so maybe he should have tried getting in the suit first?

Their motiviations were kinda paper thin, but you gloss over this as the movie is already long enough as it is, and there were quite a few missing scenes that were shown in the movie trailers that already showed the entire movie.

Electro was detained by the police... in cuffs? but now he's locked up in a secret facility by Oscorp in a harness made of metal and run on electricity. He is dry of any energy, but after a short taser burst  recharge, not only does he have enough energy to kill 3-4 guards in a split second, he can now dematerialize into pure electrical energy freeing himself from the machine...

that's not even to mention how Harry got into this secret lab and all the way down to Electro with badge of a front desk guard, before any other security even knew they facility was breached and long before they could get down there to stop him.

(edit:) and why do the cops have everyone barricaded off and standing around to watch a crazed man in a mechanical Rhino suit fire off .50 Cal bullets and small missiles at police officers... only to stop a mother from grabbing her son from wandering out into the direct field of fire, while no one else bothers to stop the kid either. ridiculous.


that's just off the top of my head, there are so many more things to point out off of just a single viewing. so many holes to fill in this movie it's ridiculous, and it was 2.5hrs long, which already felt about 30 minutes too long, so I really didn't want them to explain anything else. It just needed to be a tighter story, soo much time was wasted, I think it could have been written/directed better.

I would give it a 6.5/10
It's not horrible, and it was entertaining, it just wasn't that good.
I think the 1st 2 Raimi spiderman movies where better movies, but this was certainly better than Spiderman 3.
I think Garfield makes a great Parker/Spiderman and Gwen was great as well, but they weren't the problem with this or the last movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on May 06, 2014, 12:23:14 AM
Draft Day

This movie is better than bad, but worse than good.  Hard to pin a grade on it.  The editting is the best thing about it, but seriously, it's the same split screen transition thing.  I recently learned about the "rule of threes" and this film uses a lot of it.  My brother's friend works as an agent and heavily vouches for its accuracy, so there's that.  The film is also shot at real NFL facilities, which is neat, and has some great aerial shots on NFL stadiums.  BTW, if you're unfamiliar with the premise, the movie follows the GM of the Cleveland Brown's on the day of the NFL draft as he balances decision making and personal issues.  That being said, almost all the acting feels phoned in. 

5.5/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: NWR_insanolord on May 06, 2014, 02:02:06 AM
I haven't seen the movie, but I'm pretty sure Kevin Costner would be a better GM than most of the ones we've had in the last 15 years, and Denis Leary would certainly be a better coach.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on May 06, 2014, 02:09:06 AM
Lol, probably.

The funny part is, the hope of the Browns fanbase is played up in parts of this movie, ultimately leading to a happy ending that can only end in disaster once the season starts because Browns.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on May 06, 2014, 03:54:19 AM
Pompeii - Stuff happens and Jack Bauer hams it up hard. The volcano erupts and everybody dies. Except maybe the horse at the end..

The trailers, posters and even the name signal exactly what this film is actually about.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: marvel_moviefan_2012 on May 08, 2014, 10:33:25 PM
I am torn between going to Spider-Man next weekend or waiting for X-Men to release.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on May 08, 2014, 11:13:33 PM
Wait for X-Men, reviews so far have been MUCH better than Spider-Man.
And after you watch X-Men, just stick around for a showing of Spider-Man too. I'm sure the theater will be pretty empty, no one will notice.
Title: Jack Reacher
Post by: Nile Boogie Returns on May 13, 2014, 02:54:47 AM
Jack Reacher:


This didn't suck as much as I was lead to believe or what I call "The John Carter"  syndrome. Solid film with good action and not all the movie cliches play out as expected. Tom Cruise as a jaded military investigator works well and while I'm familiar with the source material, I didn't have a problem with Cruise playing a role meant for a really large guy.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on May 13, 2014, 07:07:37 PM
Jack Reacher reeked of a movie that no one asked for. Who is Jack Reacher and why should I care? Same thing with the new Jack Ryan movie. It was the strong fundamentals the Alec Baldwin and Harrison Ford movies had that made them good movies, not "Jack Ryan".

On an additional note Chris Pine should find a new job as he sucks at acting.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on May 14, 2014, 05:30:33 PM
Just watched Taken and Taken 2...both badass.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: marvel_moviefan_2012 on May 14, 2014, 05:46:23 PM
I just watched "We Are What We Are' on Netflix as they kept hounding me to watch it, and boy were they right on this time, the first suggestion Netflix ever recommended me I agreed with, this movie was great, It was a little slow and it had some what the **** moments but it was exactly what I was hoping for and turned out better than I anticipated. The plot was kind of interesting, the characters were believable and the gore was not the sole selling point like I would have expected, in fact it was hardly gory till the very end and even that was tame by current standards.


The movie is about a religious family who somehow turned a folk story about their ancestors surviving on cannibalism into a part of their religion. It is more of a thriller than a horror movie so it is more about the psychological aspect rather than cheap scares and excessive gore. There are some disturbing moments but for this kind of movie that was to be expected. The ending was perfect and made the rest of the movie totally worth it.


I would rate it a 4 out of 5 easily. Maybe a 3.75 as there was one scene that almost ruined the whole movie for me.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on May 14, 2014, 10:56:29 PM
Can you elaborate on the one scene? I might watch it with my wife and don't want to walk into something truly awful. Is it worse than something on Game of Thrones/HBO/Saw series?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on May 14, 2014, 11:00:27 PM
I barely remember the details, but was it a scene in the woods?

And no, I don't remember anything truly graphic in the movie.
It's a slower paced movie, but interesting.  It's more psychological than shocking in theme.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: marvel_moviefan_2012 on May 15, 2014, 07:22:52 PM
I barely remember the details, but was it a scene in the woods?

And no, I don't remember anything truly graphic in the movie.
It's a slower paced movie, but interesting.  It's more psychological than shocking in theme.


I liked the movie but yes that scene near the end when the girl took the cop into the woods I think went too far for my tastes. The movie was not graphic really at least not for the genre it was. I don't know how to do spoiler tags so I won't ruin anything for those who haven't seen it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on May 15, 2014, 07:35:59 PM
I barely remember the details, but was it a scene in the woods?

And no, I don't remember anything truly graphic in the movie.
It's a slower paced movie, but interesting.  It's more psychological than shocking in theme.


I liked the movie but yes that scene near the end when the girl took the cop into the woods I think went too far for my tastes. The movie was not graphic really at least not for the genre it was.
I figured it was the woods scene. I didn't remember exactly what happened, but I know something happened in the woods near the end that stuck with me, figured that's what you must have been talking about.


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I don't know how to do spoiler tags so I won't ruin anything for those who haven't seen it.

Well today is your lucky day, because I made a thread a while back just for you and your particular issue.
http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/forums/index.php?topic=30575.0 (http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/forums/index.php?topic=30575.0)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: marvel_moviefan_2012 on May 15, 2014, 07:37:53 PM
I barely remember the details, but was it a scene in the woods?

And no, I don't remember anything truly graphic in the movie.
It's a slower paced movie, but interesting.  It's more psychological than shocking in theme.


I liked the movie but yes that scene near the end when the girl took the cop into the woods I think went too far for my tastes. The movie was not graphic really at least not for the genre it was.
I figured it was the woods scene. I didn't remember exactly what happened, but I know something happened in the woods near the end that stuck with me, figured that's what you must have been talking about.


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I don't know how to do spoiler tags so I won't ruin anything for those who haven't seen it.

Well today is your lucky day, because I made a thread a while back just for you and your particular issue.
http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/forums/index.php?topic=30575.0 (http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/forums/index.php?topic=30575.0)




ok got it. Yes I was referring to the part where the grown ass man has sex with the teenage girl in the woods near the end of the movie
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on May 15, 2014, 07:41:46 PM

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I don't know how to do spoiler tags so I won't ruin anything for those who haven't seen it.

Well today is your lucky day, because I made a thread a while back just for you and your particular issue.
http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/forums/index.php?topic=30575.0 (http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/forums/index.php?topic=30575.0)


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not sure what happened with yours, but it looks right.
spell check says the second "spoiler" is spelled incorrectly though... weird.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: marvel_moviefan_2012 on May 15, 2014, 07:43:18 PM
I just copy pasted yours and then realized I had to actually type it out by hand. I figured it out.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on May 15, 2014, 08:09:28 PM
I just copy pasted yours and then realized I had to actually type it out by hand. I figured it out.

Oh, my examples in that thread were done in special secret way so that you can see the tags without them taking effect.

But if you ever come across something that needs explaining, or isn't explained in there, let me know. I'm always down to add/update/elaborate if need be.
If I don't have the answer, I'll torture one of the Admin's to figure it out for me.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on May 16, 2014, 09:34:45 PM
This is all I'm gonna say:

YOU NEED TO WATCH GODZILLA IN THE BIGGEST THEATER YOU CAN FIND.

Possibly in my Top Ten.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on May 16, 2014, 11:32:34 PM
IT WAS SO BEAUTIFUL ;_;
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on May 17, 2014, 12:08:22 PM
Godzilla has beat Cap 2 for best opening night of the year so
http://www.deadline.com/2014/05/box-office-godzilla-crushes-it-90m/

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The Lizard is leaping. After the morning dust cleared, Godzilla showed a stronger than expected Friday late night take of $38.5M+ and is now estimated to haul in $98M+ after the three-day weekend. Warner Bros. touted that it beat Captain America: The Winter Soldier ($36.9M) to have the best opening day of the 2014.

In other news... The Amazing Spider-man 2 continues to underperform and may even fail to see a profit (according to the link)
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The Amazing Spider-Man 2, now in third place after three weeks to take in an estimated $16.5M more for the weekend. Spidey’s cume is expected to reach around $172M+ this weekend and will definitely cross $600M worldwide. It needs to reach that magical $755M number to make a profit but Godzilla has definitely taken out more than its share of the domestic market, having scooped up the young male demo.

I broke the numbers down before, but the minimum they could have needed (assuming 50% of their marketing budget -$190M- was paid for by advertisers) before breaking even is $640M. Sony taking on the whole load ($225M production + $190 marketing = $415 total cost) would mean they need to make at least $830 Million before they start making a profit.

Now considering that recently Disney made a deal with Sony where Disney would purchase Sony's 50% stake in the Spider-man Merchandising (Disney strong armed them*) and Disney would in turn sell Sony back Marvel's 5% stake in Spider-man Box Office, Sony no longer can rely on money from the toys to offset their exorbitant spending on Spider-man should the movie not perform to previous movie numbers.... Well, it's not looking like it will, so now Sony will have to rely on DVD sales to make up the loss/profit.

*Disney threatened to pull all Spider-man merch from the shelves if Sony didn't agree. So essentially if Sony didn't agree, they would be getting 50% of nothing, because Disney controls the merchandise.
It appears this was all part of Disney's plan to compromise the profitability of Spider-man for a money strapped and struggling Sony, where Spider-man (& Bond) are the few highlights that the company have left.

Should this movie fail to make a profit, that may affect the next 3 Spider-man movies planned (Amazing Spider-man 3, The Sinister Six, and Venom) as budgets will need to be slashed and if the people aren't putting the required number of butts in the seats for Spider-man, then surely they won't do it for the rogues gallery when there will probably not be a whole bunch of Spidey in it to begin with.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on May 17, 2014, 01:19:08 PM
Clever move, Disney. Hopefully things continue to falter for Sony.


And the deadline for FF ticks ever closer as well. With everything out of the way except for X-Men I am hoping they can work out something for cross-overs with less hands in the Marvel cookie jar.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: marvel_moviefan_2012 on May 17, 2014, 08:43:30 PM
Well I was planning on going to Spider-Man maybe I will wait for it to arrive on Netflix.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on May 17, 2014, 09:00:55 PM
Live up to your namesake! Boycott all things Sony for the good of the Marvelverse!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: marvel_moviefan_2012 on May 17, 2014, 09:04:28 PM
ah but if you can't already tell I am also a Sony fan.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on May 17, 2014, 09:22:18 PM
So you are also sony_gamefan_2012?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: marvel_moviefan_2012 on May 17, 2014, 10:03:27 PM
?no I just picked a random username because I just wanted to sign up for the forums when they were doing that best game of the last decade a month or so ago. But I am a fan of Sony in general they tend to make damn good products, not just movies and games.


I meant the if you can't tell part by reading my posts where I mention repeatedly how I like Playstation.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on May 18, 2014, 12:15:45 PM
Don't wait for Netflix (that will be years). If you want to see the movie, see the movie. Don't go into it thinking about other people's reviews (good or bad).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on May 18, 2014, 12:22:12 PM
Go see Godzilla and then stick around for Spider-Man.
Or wait for X-Men and then stick around for Spider-Man.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Pixelated Pixies on May 18, 2014, 02:41:29 PM
I've got just a few quick thoughts on the films I've seen in the past couple of weeks.

Calvary - As John McDonagh's follow-up to the exceedingly funny 'The Guard', I was slightly disappointed by Calvary. Although Calvary is arguably a more ambitious film than it's precursor, The Guard was able to deftly combine drama and comedy in a way that felt tonally consistent. Calvary on the other hand sometimes feels jarring, and the characters that populate the film often seem to have been written with the sole intention of highlighting a different view on morality. Luckily the script is mostly great and the cast (especially Brendan Gleeson) is excellent.

The Raid 2 - The best collection of action sequences ever filmed. What else is there to say.

Locke - Putting Tom Hardy alone in a car for 85 minutes without a single car chase might sound boring, but this film really struck a cord with me. I don't want to spoil anything by saying exactly how the film is able to extract drama from such a seemingly mundane situation, but the combination of Hardy's performance and the big themes (heritage, responsibility, free will) at the centre of the story made for a pretty gripping film.

Frank - If you've read any of the press surrounding this release you'll probably know that the titular 'Frank', played by Michael Fassbender, is a conflation of several musicians and artists, most notably Frank Sidebottom and Captain Beefheart. I'm not familiar with any of the performers that 'Frank' is supposedly referencing, and can't therefore say to what extent the events depicted are based on true stories. With that said, I love this film!

The characters, the music, it's visual treatment, it's sense of humour, it's melancholy tone, the questions it raises about expression, and talent, and fame, and people's sense of entitlement...I love pretty much everything about this film and can't wait to see it again.



Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: marvel_moviefan_2012 on May 18, 2014, 04:14:00 PM
Don't wait for Netflix (that will be years). If you want to see the movie, see the movie. Don't go into it thinking about other people's reviews (good or bad).


I was kidding, I plan on seeing it soon but I am more excited for X-Men right now than anything. Its just a matter of time and money mostly.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on May 18, 2014, 06:46:54 PM
Godzilla. It's fucking awesome. If you haven't seen it and are not seeing it this second, then you are WASTING YOUR LIFE. GO FUCKING SEE IT NOW. RIGHT NOW.

I almost cried when I saw the tail plates start glowing blue.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on May 19, 2014, 08:18:19 AM
I liked Godzilla, it was definitely a more serious take compared to the 1998 version (which i enjoyed for its ridiculous cheese).

The two point that got me in the film was the MUTAs needed nuclear energy to feed and gestate. If this is modern times, then there's two places on earth where there's plenty of it leaking out - Chernobyl, and Fukushima which is *already in japan!* - both of those would prevent it from going to the USA. But it's a western film so that's where it "had" to go.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on May 19, 2014, 09:50:36 AM
I think an alternate universe where giant monsters exist can also not have an earthquake happen. This isn't our universe, so its safe to assume Fukushima didn't happen.


And technically, the male MUTO went to the US not for more radioactive material, but for the female one. You know, the one in the US.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on May 19, 2014, 10:47:20 AM
I think an alternate universe where giant monsters exist can also not have an earthquake happen. This isn't our universe, so its safe to assume Fukushima didn't happen.


And technically, the male MUTO went to the US not for more radioactive material, but for the female one. You know, the one in the US.


It's a small nitpick. One that doesn't really take anything away from the story itself.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on May 19, 2014, 11:03:58 AM
For those who have seen Godzilla.  My son has seen Pacific Rim.  Is it more or less for children friendly then that Movie?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Sarail on May 19, 2014, 12:19:42 PM
How old is your son, Ceric? A father and his son sat behind my group of friends and I when I saw it this past weekend, and one small utterance from his little kid (maybe 5 years of age) was, "Daddy, this movie is scary..."

I could see some of the scenes being terrorising for a small child. Godzilla's facial structuring has a small bit of a demonic flare to it. So, really, I don't know. Your call.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on May 19, 2014, 02:01:30 PM
I took my 8 and 4 years olds to see it, they weren't scared at any point.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on May 19, 2014, 02:44:29 PM
I'm guessing there isn't anything to realistically gruesome.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on May 19, 2014, 04:14:04 PM
I took my 8 and 4 years olds to see it, they weren't scared at any point.

Yeah, because all kids, let alone all people, are scared by the same things.

For those who have seen Godzilla.  My son has seen Pacific Rim.  Is it more or less for children friendly then that Movie?

I would say that the violence in Pacific Rim is a saturday morning cartoon, while Godzilla just seems more... real? Even though Godzilla is painted in a "good" light, I could see where a child might be scared of him or the other kaiju.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: marvel_moviefan_2012 on May 19, 2014, 10:06:22 PM
I watched Gremlins when I was 4 and thought it was a comedy. My sister thought Ghostbusters was scary. Everyone is different.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on May 19, 2014, 10:10:40 PM
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (I refuse to spoiler-tag this)
Meh. The Spider-Man parts were mostly cool which I suppose is the point, but everything else was pretty mediocre. The story didn't make sense. Max Dillon turning into Electro was one of the most insulting things I've ever seen in a movie. So the dude who just needed to shut the power off couldn't be bothered to stay at work for 10 more minutes so Max could fix the wires safely? Fine, that's kind of shitty. Then Max, who is an electrical engineer, balances himself precariously on the rails above the exposed tank of killer eels then super-surprisingly falls into the exposed tank of killer eels which give him powers and fix the gap in his teeth because sure, it should be positioned directly above the wires he had to fix? OH GOD, NO! IT WAS ALSO HIS BIRTHDAY! What the fuc...

There's just way too much wrong with this movie to spend a very long time on each instance. Everything from Peter and Harry totally still being bros after all those years to the secret subway lab that Richard Parker would never be able to build himself and without Oscorp knowing (plus uploading that confession video that Peter had the absolutely slimmest chance of finding) to how much it didn't make sense the way Harry becomes to Green Goblin and how he randomly shows up at the exact moment Spider-Man and Electro's dub step fight ends. So many coincidences, ALL the coincidences.

Was there even a point to the two planes on a collision course? I don't think Spider-Man even knew about that one. Oh, and by the way, here's Rhino. A huge crowd watches and doesn't run away screaming as bootleg-Metal Gear shoots at the police who are so helpless without Spider-Man that they let a little kid run out into the crossfire. Rhino is then totally okay with the kid and Spider-Man chatting then bumping fists.

Godzilla
I watched this at a drive-in theater. They started about 20 minutes before the sun completely set so I missed part of the beginning. I felt like there was a lot of cock-teasing. Every time Godzilla was about to fight the MUTO, the movie would cut to something else. I got the impression that the point was the build up that major fight scene at the end, but it was still more annoying than anything. Still, I liked it even though casting Bryan Cranston was kind of a waste

Braveheart
Still good after all these years. This was the first time I've watched it in its entirety since it came out on VHS nearly 20 years ago. I won't fault the movie for this, but I could used more women talking in Scottish accents because that totally does it for me.

Valkyrie
I finally got around to watching it. Not bad, not especially great. I had some trouble at first following the plot to kill Hitler. It seemed overly complicated. They should have just strapped bombs to themselves in a French theater where all the Nazi leaders gathered to watch a film about national pride and shot up the place.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on May 21, 2014, 09:41:26 PM
I felt like an idiot watching Valyrie and being in suspense at to whether they killed Hitler or not.

Anyway...

Source Code - I thought it was pretty good. Maybe a little too happy of an ending, but it was enjoyable.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: azeke on May 21, 2014, 11:55:46 PM
I felt like an idiot watching Valyrie and being in suspense at to whether they killed Hitler or not.
Inglorious Basterds

Source Code
I know i am repeating this again and again, but i will never get tired of saying how much i love that hollywood has gone into new sci-fi phase and does at least three-five good to very good sci-fi movies.

I really loved Source Code and how it felt like one of hard sci-fi of old.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on May 22, 2014, 12:01:19 AM
I'm assuming you saw his previous film, azeke? Moon? God, I loved that movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: azeke on May 22, 2014, 12:05:41 AM
I'm assuming you saw his previous film, azeke? Moon?
Yes, Zowie Bowie is amazing! I don't care for Warcraft one bit, but i'm looking forward to his next movie.

Looking for Edge of Tomorrow this month. Sci-fi rocks.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on May 22, 2014, 12:08:40 AM
Ah, yes, I forgot that was coming out soon. While I won't be able to see it in theaters, it'll definitely be a day one redbox for me. :)


So, what are your recommendations for good sci-fi films Hollywood has released in the last few years?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: azeke on May 22, 2014, 12:29:10 AM
Looper -- very good time travel story, love it

Oblivion -- 7/10, Morgan Freeman is wasted there, but otherwise it's solid if a bit cliche

Snowpiercer -- good story, again a bit cliche, and overall it feels kinda cheap, but i enjoyed it a lot

Elysium -- rehash of District 9. Absolutely the same story from the same director. Still it's okay, i guess. But D9 is so much better it's not funny.

Gravity -- best movie of 2013. Also read "Kaleidoscope (http://www.scaryforkids.com/kaleidoscope-by-ray-bradbury/)" by great Bradbury, if you want another story about spacemen thrown into space.

Ender's game -- very direct apadtation of the book. The book was only good if read it as a teenager (the less said about sequels the better). Same goes for the movie i guess. Battle simulation scenes were good i guess.

Planet of the Apes -- AMAZING. Great reinvigoration of classic sci-fi franchise. Looking forward for the next movie.

Prometheus -- meh. Fassbender's character doesn't make sense.

Pacific Rim -- **** YEAH

Riddick -- trash

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on May 22, 2014, 10:26:17 AM
You just saw Pacific Rim Azeke?  Easily my favorite movie in a while.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: azeke on May 22, 2014, 11:21:44 AM
So, what are your recommendations for good sci-fi films Hollywood has released in the last few years?



X-Men: Days of Future Past


Well made movie. It was funny how they didn't even try to explain how Picard got resurrected. He just did and that's it. I wish they brought back Rose Byrne.

All the sappy stuff with love and trust was a bit cheesy for my taste.

Quicksilver scene was a real crowd pleaser. Audience laughed a lot during it. I thought it was okay.

Tyrion did okay. Mags did okay. Gandalf also did okay.

Overall it was okay. I liked First Class a lot, but this new movie is okay too.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on May 22, 2014, 11:45:37 AM
I find it funny after all the **** everyone gave about Quicksilver being thrown in to smite Marvel and The Avengers and then about how stupid he looks with his "70's inspired" look, that he actually turns out to be one of the best parts of the movie.... or at least the scene he was "thrown in for" was one of the best scenes in the movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on May 22, 2014, 04:13:23 PM
Finally saw Star Trek: I Want to be as Good as Wrath of Khan.

I felt like I was watching a movie of a games Cutscenes strung together.  I kept feeling like there was something I wanted to play but these Cutscenes kept popping up.

I can't say it's a good movie because of that.  The Marvel thread we're talking team to build up and I think these movies lose something by not having the TV Series to help build these relationships.  All these character really feel generic this time.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: shingi_70 on May 22, 2014, 06:30:51 PM
Godzilla was pretty decent. I felt that unlike the toho movies it failed to strike a Balance between the human drama and the kaiju fights. There's at least two times where a fight is about to go down till we switch gears to pandering to middle america. The Muto's were pretty lame since the turned out to be pallate swamp Cloverfield.  The Asian scientist felt pretty wasted when his whole thing was I want to find GM. The idea of an organization made to find Kaiju is a pretty good one that I don't think has been explored that much in the toho series. Was hoping the Solider and Gman would have died to mirror the ending of the OG Godzilla, but i'm find with the leaving off this is a franchise.. Overall I liked it and was relived that with the expection of one scene we get a mostly neutral animal like Godzilla instead of the either Good Guy G or The King of Monsters is a gigantic dick some of the Toho movies seemed to sort into.


I'm really interested in where a sequel would take the series. It has the same problem of Man of Steel being in such a realistic universe and not hinting at other monsters being around. Doesn't seem like were going to get a Mecha  G but the director hinted at Mothra and Monster Island.







 
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on May 23, 2014, 01:37:31 AM
21 Jump Street

Holy ****, that movie is hilarious. I really wasn't expecting it to be as good as it was, but it was really funny. Pretty good actual movie though it is a bit cheesy at times. Looking forward to the sequel.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on May 23, 2014, 09:28:57 AM
21 Jump Street

Holy ****, that movie is hilarious. I really wasn't expecting it to be as good as it was, but it was really funny. Pretty good actual movie though it is a bit cheesy at times. Looking forward to the sequel.

That movie is criminally underrated.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on May 23, 2014, 11:50:42 AM
I guess I should spoiler tag this (21 Jump Street reference), and I don't know if it's just in the director's cut or whatever but Rob Riggle trying to pick up his own severed penis with his mouth is one of the funniest things I've ever seen.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on May 23, 2014, 12:00:52 PM
I think that might just be the director's cut, which may confirm a blu-ray purchase from me.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on May 23, 2014, 12:14:52 PM
It was in the version I watched.... and I'm pretty sure I only saw it in the theater.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on May 23, 2014, 12:16:00 PM
Really?! I must've forgotten it.  I guess it's been a while since I've seen it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on May 23, 2014, 01:36:50 PM
I could be mistaken as I think I have it on DVD as well, but I don't think I ever watched it at home.... unless I've only watched it at home... I really can't remember right now.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on May 23, 2014, 05:35:09 PM
The Expendables

What a load of horse ****. Easily one of the top 10 worst movies I've ever seen.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on May 23, 2014, 07:18:29 PM
The 2nd one is SOOOO damn cheesy, in both good and really bad ways.

I can only imagine how bad the 3rd one will be.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on May 24, 2014, 04:32:25 AM
The 2nd is a massive improvement on the first. Compared to the pedigree it came from, it's still not a very good movie, but if you want to see some old actors do some scenery chewing, it's not bad. The 3rd is going to be a train wreak with the number of MMA fighters they have cast.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on May 24, 2014, 09:08:46 AM
I think the 3rd is also going to be PG-13.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on May 24, 2014, 12:13:53 PM
Saw Amazing Spiderman 2, enjoyed it more than the first one. When they killed Gwen Stacy the audience let out a gasp
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on May 25, 2014, 12:25:54 PM
X-Men: Days of Future Past
Excellent. They did a really good job of bringing the original cast and the First Class cast together as well as correcting a lot of the discrepancies between all the movies. Still, much of that involved pretending some things didn't happen or focusing on certain things (e.g. flashbacks show Brian Cox as William Stryker from X2: X-Men United, not Danny Huston X-Men Origins: Screw Deadpool). Days of Future Past effectively resets the series and only First Class remains unchanged by the events of Days of Future Past.

Also, the future Sentinels were pretty cool. I'll have to watch it again, but I don't recall disliking anything. The stakes are high and the characters drive the plot, their actions are given real weight. Each relationship is complex and handled well. And I'll eat this crow and admit that Quicksilver was awesome. I suppose if I had to nitpick, the movie could have used more Quicksilver.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on May 25, 2014, 12:32:15 PM
Quicksilver being so good is why people need to stop bitching and moaning about casting choices and what prerelease photos show you about a character. You don't know how many times I had to say this on reddit and other websites, and no one ever listened. And guess what? They are eating their words. I believe that people shouldn't hate on things like Bat-fleck until they see the movie. Who knows, they might actually enjoy the film instead of going in hating it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on May 25, 2014, 02:29:04 PM
I didn't have any major issues with the casting (I thought Evan Peters was alright in American Horror Story) or design (according to a friend, the Internet really hated those goggles while I just figured Quicksilver didn't want **** getting in his eyes so it made sense to me). I'm pretty open to casting and design choices until I see it in action. That said, I was referring to the Carl's Jr. Quicksilver commercial which was an awful way to introduce the character.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on May 25, 2014, 02:38:37 PM
Just saw it too, awesome movie. Kind of weird that they don't ever explain how Professor X was still alive before they send Wolverine back, obviously Jean Grey never became the Phoenix, because the stuff in the first two X-Men movies never happened now, but that only explains why he's alive at the end of the movie. They probably will explain it in the next movie, and I'm sure it'll have something to do with Kitty Pride and the post-credits scene from X-Men 3. Don't forget to stay for the post-credits scene where a youthful Apocalypse is building the pyramids with his mind.

Awesome movie, and yes, it could have used more Quicksilver. Kind of funny when he sort of figures out that Magneto is his father, and yes, "that scene" is totally awesome and redeems the stupid Carls Jr. commercial.


In general, most of the remaining inconsistencies are from X-Men Origins: Wolverine, but in general it's best to pretend like that movie never happened anyway.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on May 26, 2014, 11:31:53 AM
Say what you want about Quicksilver in the Carl's Jr commercial, but he made that sandwich look damn good.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on May 26, 2014, 06:15:02 PM
The sandwich would have looked good regardless of Quicksilver's involvement in the ad. Sure made me want a bacon cheese burger.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on May 26, 2014, 06:56:50 PM
He was so into it, and eating it in slow-mo.... that made me hungry.
Quicksilver himself looked like a doofus, but he made that sandwich look oh so yummy.

I still haven't had one, but it was only because I made it to Carl's Jr just too late for breakfast the last 2 times I went there.

But I find it funny that Quicksilver was the shining light in the DoFP movie. I'm still not hyped to go see it (way too much disappointment in X3 & XO: Wolverine), even though this does what it can to right the ship. I might go next weekend, but now that I hear Godzilla may not even be all that... that only leaves me with The Neighbors... yet another movie I wasn't rushing to the theater to go see, to round out my movie day.



It could be a good day. I'm sure I'll like all 3 even thought I've not super excited to watch any of them.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on May 26, 2014, 08:44:42 PM
If you liked X-Men First Class and X-Men 2, then you will like X-Men DOFP.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on May 27, 2014, 09:26:11 AM
Godzilla: I-Max 3D

Honestly, the movie would've been better if I wasn't expecting Godzilla. Although, waiting for him to appear built up a lot tension and suspense.  Plus the build up involving the other two monsters was pretty cool.  The movie looked great, and I think there was just the right amount of shaky-cam.  There's a lot of holding off on showing Godzilla in full force until the end, but I felt like that was worth it.  One gripe: so many fucking kids in this movie.  And all of them get closeups of them not acting.  It was weird.

8/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on May 28, 2014, 05:03:36 AM
Can someone fill in a plot point for me?

In The Wolverine Magneto/Xavier appears and talks to him in the airport at the tail of that film, with his bone claws. In DOFP he's with them and he has adamantium claws back (in the future scenes). How did he get them back when he lost them in the film before?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: azeke on May 28, 2014, 05:26:04 AM
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Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on May 28, 2014, 07:58:41 AM
Can someone fill in a plot point for me?

In The Wolverine Magneto/Xavier appears and talks to him in the airport at the tail of that film, with his bone claws. In DOFP he's with them and he has adamantium claws back (in the future scenes). How did he get them back when he lost them in the film before?
Apparently, they cut a scene where Magneto puts the adamantium back on Wolverine's bones. Not sure if that needed spoiler tags, but it's there just in case.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on May 28, 2014, 09:58:23 AM
Can someone fill in a plot point for me?

In The Wolverine Magneto/Xavier appears and talks to him in the airport at the tail of that film, with his bone claws. In DOFP he's with them and he has adamantium claws back (in the future scenes). How did he get them back when he lost them in the film before?
Apparently, they cut a scene where Magneto puts the adamantium back on Wolverine's bones. Not sure if that needed spoiler tags, but it's there just in case.

From what I've read, it wasn't a cut scene, but the director of The Wolverine wasn't aware of what was going on with DoFP and was already halfway into filming before details of the movie started surfacing (like Director & script). So B. Singer conceptualized a scene w/ Magneto doing the assist to explain the inconcistency (on twitter) as another fan already asked the same question.

From what I hear it's just one of many continuity errors in DoFP. I can't confirm that as I haven't seen the movie or read the many spoiler articles pointing them all out yet.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: marvel_moviefan_2012 on May 29, 2014, 09:49:34 PM
Hick-


I just watched this on Netflix, got it as a suggestion from Max.


I am not sure what to think, it was a slow, boring ride but somehow I kept going. I had high hopes considering the talents of the actress playing the lead, but after getting through this movie I now have my doubts about her future. The movie had one of those Hollywood endings that ruined the rest of the movie. I didn't feel any tension whatsoever for the character, it was just like no matter what happened she just kept going along with it. The movie got a little dark near the end and had one of those moments that you could spot coming a mile away but in the end it kind of worked. The resolution was not that great considering how the story ended. You had no reason at all to feel anything for the characters and the way it ended just felt rushed. The actress was pretty good for what it was but the other characters were just flat and lifeless. The leading man was kind of just there he didn't convey any real emotion at all. All things considered despite it's flaws and a few darker moments, I like a movie having an happy ending so I rated it 3 out of 5 stars. I know I said I like happy endings and that the ending ruined the movie, well it was because there was no tension to get me to feel relieved for her outcome in the first place, it just felt almost I don't know like the ending was planned and the rest of the movie was made up as they went along.



Pumpkin-


This was a weird little movie. I also got this from Max and I gotta say it was a nice surprise. I had never heard of this movie, being a fan of Christina Ricci I was surprised I had never heard of it. It was one of those movies that should have been creepy but ended up being just weird instead. It had some good moments and some odd moments but over all I actually kind of liked it. I tend to like weird movies, especially those that make the "establishment" look bad and regular freaks out to be normal.


The acting in this one was much better than Hick, the story was a bit better developed and the characters were actually believable. It has some unbelievably ridiculous moments especially towards the ending , but overall it was kind of interesting. I gave it also 3 out of four stars but the very last shot kind of really made the rest of the movie worth it. It was a little slow but it had a good pay off. Also again I like happy endings for these kinds of movies so that was nice. It was a little bittersweet but not too bad. If I had seen this when it was new I might have liked it more but I am well past my watch anything she is in phase just for the hell of it, phase.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on May 30, 2014, 01:47:52 PM
In The Blood

I basically just watch whatever people are showing on Veetle when I'm at work, if you're looking at an explanation for all the horrible movies I've been posting about.

Anyway, terrible movie, and Gina Carano is a horrible actress. Probably not her fault, as this was just pure garbage, but she could have at least put some effort into her speaking parts and not just talked every line like it was an every day conversation.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on May 30, 2014, 03:58:07 PM
She is a terrible actress, which is probably why she wasn't cast as Wonder Woman beside her real life hubby Superman in BvS:DoJ.
In her big theater debut they dubbed over her voice it was so bad.
In FastSix I don't think she actually had a spoken line.
She does action well, but spoken lines are her downfall.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: marvel_moviefan_2012 on May 31, 2014, 11:48:46 AM
I decided to give the Hunger Games a try, since it is so popular right now and Netflix seriously seems to think I might like it. I could not get very far it was boring as all hell and really stupid plot. It kind of reminded me of Running Man only minus the spectacle that made Running Man tolerable despite how terrible of a movie it was. Maybe that was where they got the suggestion from was because I did add Running Man to my list recently when they first added it. Anyways I don't think I will even try giving it another shot it clearly looks like it was made for todays youth audience which is not me.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on May 31, 2014, 05:35:26 PM
lol
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on May 31, 2014, 08:10:14 PM
Anyways I don't think I will even try giving it another shot it clearly looks like it was made for todays youth audience which is not me.

If you don't mind me asking, as it's not in your profile, how old are you?
I think the average age of the active posters here are around 30+yrs old (children of the 80's).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on June 01, 2014, 02:55:09 PM
Maleficent - A film in which "why?" makes the primary plot fall down hard, but Angelina Jolie completely nailed the title character.

Edge of Tomorrow - If you have Netflix or other VOD i'd recommend watching an episode of Stargate SG1 called Window of Opportunity (in season 4), as that episode is better than the movie i say. However i really do like Emily Blunt as a hardass soldier. The film skips over why the aliens comes here - except that they do and why does it matter? - and skips even harder over how does the power remain with the person and why does blood transfusions make you lose the power to reset time? Except it does and that's that.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on June 01, 2014, 07:34:39 PM
Or you could just read the source material which is probably better than both the movie and that Stargate episode.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on June 01, 2014, 10:12:23 PM
The Devil's Backbone -- from what I understand, this is del Toro's first "big" film. It was billed as a horror movie, but it's not really that at all. It's about orphans in a middle-of-nowhere boarding school (or something) and there's a mean dude who wants to steal some supposedly hidden gold? It's not super-clear. The "horror" angle comes from a ghost who appears to one of the kids every now and then, but none of the creepy horror elements from other del Toro elements show up here.

Also takes place during, or shortly after, the Spanish Civil War, which is also when Pan's Labyrinth is set.

I didn't really like it, mainly because it was slow-moving and I didn't get what I was promised.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on June 01, 2014, 10:34:57 PM
I finally sat down and watched First Class and then went to go see DoFP.

Not Horrible/10.

I had avoided First Class since X3 was so bad and it didn't seem like First Class got very good review, but my friend wanted to go see DoFP, so I broke down and rented First Class on Amazon.  It was entertaining.

DoFP was okay as well.  I'd say they're both renters though.  DoFP really annoyed me with the whole Where the heck did this entire 'send someone's conscious back in time' power that Kitty Pryde had come from?  Ugh.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on June 01, 2014, 10:44:17 PM
Listed in order watched.

A Million Ways to Die in the West - funny, but not Great.
Starts off life a big budget play, or a Mel Brooks "Blazing Saddle" wanna be movie. A lot of the jokes were in the trailer, but not all of them, and Charlize Theron is gorgeous in this movie. Lots of laughs to be had, but some of them were a little too try hard. POst Credit 1 & 2 were a nice laugh, but not worth sitting through the whole credits for, so I'll just spoil it for you here Django shows up and shoots the shooting gallery guy... and then after the credits ask "Where da white women at!?"  the 2nd scene was literally 2 seconds long. Don't wait for it. I already told you what it is. now you can move on. you're welcome


X-Men: DOFP - pretty good but not Great. A good effort at rebooting w/o rebooting abs attempting to tie everything together even though it's obvious that that wasn't the original intention of all the movies. There was a some tense moments, and Quicksilver scene was pretty good, but you can tell it was tacked on as he should have been handy in the rest of the script as well.... but he was added in after the script was written. And damn did that post-credits scene at the end look rushed. The cg was terribad, looked like a gamecube cut scene.


Godzilla - Better than Xmen in my opinion. Not nearly as much monster action as I was hoping for, but the action we got was solid. And just when I was wondering if Godzilla was gonna be able to do something from the old movies, BAM there it was. I enjoyed this one. Probably tied to be my favorite movie of the day with....


Neighbors - I missed the first 5-10 minutes, but this movie was consistently funny. Young Stifler was & Efron were both good in this. Rogen and his leading lady were also pretty good. I could see a straight to DVD sequel happening in a new neighborhood with the same fraternity (different neighbors).

Overall a good day. No duds, even if AMWTDITW was not quite as funny as I hoped and a little too much in the trailers. & DOFP wasn't all it was hyped up to be. I also feel there may still be some continuity loose ends that need tying up, but I couldn't be 100% sure w/o a series rewatch... and that ain't happening. I guess I can just check the internet, I've been avoiding spoilers online for a week now, and I'm also curious which cast is moving forward... Past, Present or both.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on June 01, 2014, 11:06:26 PM
I saw Maleficent (I have kids). Enjoyable movie, Angelina Jolie did a great job, but no one else did. There are also way too many scenes where it's just her walking into a room or area slowly...we get it...she's Maleficent from Sleeping Beauty. Now, I'm not that concerned with "Disney Princess Cannon" but this movie makes a complete mockery of Sleeping Beauty. It's a more interesting story, but it *completely* ruins the original movie in every way imaginable. Now, all of the old Disney Princess movies come from books (I mean, they actually open with someone opening a book), so in a way it still works because the old movie is just the telling of a story, and not presented as an accurate account, so in that sense it doesn't ruin anything...I'm getting way too into this. It seems like a ton of stuff was cut from it, but it was pretty fun to watch.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on June 01, 2014, 11:21:19 PM
I almost stayed for that movie too, but 4 movies already had my butt hurting.
Although the theater I went to had really comfortable leather stadium seats that rock with armrest you can put up or down. It's very nice, but 4 movies in a row is already a lot. 3 is usually the perfect lineup, but I'm glad we stayed for Neighbors because it rounded out a better end half at the movies.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: marvel_moviefan_2012 on June 01, 2014, 11:25:11 PM
Anyways I don't think I will even try giving it another shot it clearly looks like it was made for todays youth audience which is not me.

If you don't mind me asking, as it's not in your profile, how old are you?
I think the average age of the active posters here are around 30+yrs old (children of the 80's).




Well I mention this in my dropping out of school thread and elswhere but I am 31. Also unlike a lot of people here, I don't have kids so there is little incentive for me to watch kids/family films.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on June 01, 2014, 11:28:23 PM
See, I didn't like Neighbors. It was kind of the same joke for two hours.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on June 02, 2014, 01:26:22 AM
I forgot to mention that one of the oversights of DOFP I think is that they introduced several new characters, but I don't think they ever actually introduced them. They were just there and doing their thing.

Still a solid entry in the X-Men saga for trying to salvage the cluster **** of prequels into an ongoing storyline. Also the highest grossing X-Men movie WW so far, thanks to the international market.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on June 02, 2014, 02:50:50 AM
Or you could just read the source material which is probably better than both the movie and that Stargate episode.

All you need is Kill is the source book for Edge of Tomorrow but has nothing to do with Stargate - but in terms of watching something that is centred around time loops that episode is better.

I forgot to mention that one of the oversights of DOFP I think is that they introduced several new characters, but I don't think they ever actually introduced them. They were just there and doing their thing.

Still a solid entry in the X-Men saga for trying to salvage the cluster **** of prequels into an ongoing storyline. Also the highest grossing X-Men movie WW so far, thanks to the international market.

Bishop just turns up. One of my favourite characters from the 1990s cartoon just turned into THAT.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: azeke on June 02, 2014, 03:06:23 AM
The Devil's Backbone -- from what I understand, this is del Toro's first "big" film. It was billed as a horror movie, but it's not really that at all. It's about orphans in a middle-of-nowhere boarding school (or something) and there's a mean dude who wants to steal some supposedly hidden gold? It's not super-clear. The "horror" angle comes from a ghost who appears to one of the kids every now and then, but none of the creepy horror elements from other del Toro elements show up here.

Also takes place during, or shortly after, the Spanish Civil War, which is also when Pan's Labyrinth is set.

I didn't really like it, mainly because it was slow-moving and I didn't get what I was promised.

Yeah, Devil's backbone is weird. I also didn't like it, but one friend really enjoyed it for some reason. Not even sure why.
That armed bomb sitting right in the school yard is kinda neat as a symbol.
From what i remember there is a another movie set in this "spanish trilogy" which stars Ron Perlman (Chrono or something), i should watch it sometime.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on June 02, 2014, 08:41:35 AM
I forgot to mention that one of the oversights of DOFP I think is that they introduced several new characters, but I don't think they ever actually introduced them. They were just there and doing their thing.

On one hand, I'm okay with that.  We're supposed to believe that mutants are *everywhere* and that it's a whole world of people... Every movie has folks who come in-and-out of the plot without any real introduction or background.

On the other hand... this sounds like the set up for Batman v Superman...
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: marvel_moviefan_2012 on June 02, 2014, 08:11:10 PM
I made the mistake of watching Nostalgia Critic old vs new Spider Man before seeing Amazing 2 so now I am not even sure I want to see it. I still prefer the original but I stop at 2, 3 was just awful.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on June 03, 2014, 02:38:57 PM
I saw The Devil's Backbone in about 2003. I always liked the movie, really atmospheric. Its one of those "I've wound up in a pretty bad place" movies. I like the effects for the ghost. The abusive guy is pretty terrifying.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: marvel_moviefan_2012 on June 03, 2014, 10:54:16 PM
Just watched Star Trek Into Darkness on Netflix.

The last one was better. This was a total mess of a movie, if this didn't carry the name Star Trek and all the baggage that franchise brings with it, this movie would have totally sucked as a stand alone. Also this movie was just too much fan service with all the little nods that make no sense in the reboot universe. The action was too over the top but that is typical in todays sci-fi blockbusters so I can kind of forgive that. The acting was good for the most part, a little forced in some areas but that might be more the bad script than anything. The entire movie felt way to frigging rushed especially towards the end but damn even the beginning was rushed. The special effects were mostly pretty good, considering the source material that was to be expected. The cameos were just out of place this time around, and I won't ruing it for anyone who hasn't seen it but the villains were cheap. I avoided reviews of the movie because I didn't want any spoilers.


Now for the good, or what I did like, well the ending mostly how they tied it into the original series, there were a few moments that truly felt like Star Trek but for the most part this is an abomination that they slapped Star Trek name on just to draw in an audience. It wasn't totally bad, not Search for Spock bad, but it was not super good either. Overall I rate it a 3.5 out of 5.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on June 04, 2014, 03:30:30 AM
The Search for Spock was relatively brilliant next to Into Darkness. Truly dire ST movies are the Final Frontier, Generations and Insurrection. JJ is fun in really short bursts, but the man can't write a coherent plot to save his life. He is like the Micheal Bay of Plot.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: NWR_insanolord on June 04, 2014, 05:12:16 AM
JJ Abrams is a lot better suited to the franchise he's doing now than Star Trek. Also, The Motion Picture was just as bad as the ones you mentioned, oohhboy.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on June 04, 2014, 05:29:42 AM
I did say dire. Motion picture was pretty bad in a long drawn out boring way, but I wouldn't consider it dire. But if you chose to lump it in the same category, there isn't much keeping it above that bar.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: NWR_insanolord on June 04, 2014, 05:34:16 AM
Yeah, if you were to cut about 40 minutes of shots of the Enterprise slowly moving through V'Ger that movie would be a lot less terrible.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: marvel_moviefan_2012 on June 04, 2014, 08:09:50 AM
So it's not his fault then its the Star Trek curse right? Plus I actually like Michael Bay so that doesn't make much sense to me.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: NWR_insanolord on June 04, 2014, 08:21:26 AM
He was just a bad choice to make a Star Trek movie, or at least a Star Trek movie that was true to the spirit of the series. He made the movie he set out to make, that the studio wanted him to make, it's just not a good fit as Star Trek.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on June 04, 2014, 09:50:14 AM
Finally saw Star Trek: I Want to be as Good as Wrath of Khan.

I felt like I was watching a movie of a games Cutscenes strung together.  I kept feeling like there was something I wanted to play but these Cutscenes kept popping up.

I can't say it's a good movie because of that.  The Marvel thread we're talking team to build up and I think these movies lose something by not having the TV Series to help build these relationships.  All these character really feel generic this time.
Instead of retyping I'll just quote this for my view of the movie.

This just doesn't really work like how most of the Next Generation Movies just don't work.
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Post by: oohhboy on June 04, 2014, 01:19:01 PM
That's how JJ works. Look back to some of his other work like Mission Impossible, same thing, a bunch of action scenes strung together. You want him to help influence an action scene, never to write anything.

Alias was a complete mess of a show plot wise, but each episode was "small" enough that as stand alone it sort of works. No effort was expended on any sort of long term coherency. The characters never changed the whole time the show ran, that was the only consistant thing about it. If he needed a character to get out of something he would always pull something out of thin air, make it look cool but completely unfeasible, then completely forget about it.

He never should have gotten as big as he has.
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Post by: NWR_insanolord on June 04, 2014, 01:34:23 PM
Big action scenes strung together with pretty poor writing. Man, he really was the perfect choice to replace George Lucas.
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Post by: oohhboy on June 04, 2014, 01:43:56 PM
It's going to look soooo cool until you stick a brain cell to it, then poof!. It's all gone, replaced by endless retardation. Agreed, a perfect GL replacement.
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Post by: Plugabugz on June 04, 2014, 03:27:35 PM
He never should have gotten as big as he has.

But then we wouldn't have got the shows (under his production studio, also the best ones) that had absolutely nothing to do with him: Almost Human, Fringe, and Person of Interest.
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Post by: Ceric on June 04, 2014, 03:54:15 PM
...
Almost Human
...
*Pours one out*
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Post by: Halbred on June 04, 2014, 10:06:30 PM
Bereavement

It probably would've helped if I'd known beforehand this was a sequel to another movie (Malevolence). It was a pretty typical "serial killer chains up people in his shack and tortures them" kind of movie. Could've been better. Given the way the movie ends, NOTHING about ANY of character's lives have any consequence. The only reason I kept watching it is because Alexandra Doddario (HUGE crush) was often bouncing around in a tank top without a bra, and she's very busty, so I really couldn't look away.
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Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on June 05, 2014, 12:20:59 AM
Do you watch True Detective?

I just google searched her name (safe search off) and there are some quite revealing photos of her on True Detective. If you'll sit through a movie for braless tank top, you better strap it in for some TD on HBO buddy.
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Post by: Halbred on June 05, 2014, 02:37:25 AM
Uh, YEAH I DID.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: marvel_moviefan_2012 on June 13, 2014, 10:26:50 PM
Just watched Candyman on Netflix. I have seen parts of it before but this was my first all the way through. I really, really liked Hellraiser so I had high hopes for this one. I had heard it supposedly has this great twist ending so I was hoping for a real shock. Instead it turned out completely predictable. The movie was okay it was a little slow paced but it had some good moments. It had me hooked. I rated it five stars, I didn't care for the ending but the rest of the movie was great.
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Post by: BranDonk Kong on June 13, 2014, 10:44:50 PM
Jesus Christ did you really just include a pun in your Candyman review? Anyway, I sneaked into that movie when I was a kid (said we were going to see Honeymoon in Vegas...have still never seen that movie). It was so awesome seeing Virginia Mardsen's breasts on the big screen...but I digress...
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Post by: marvel_moviefan_2012 on June 13, 2014, 10:55:37 PM
No that wasn't intentional, I wasn't even sure what you meant until I re-read my post then I remembered the guy had a hook for a hand.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on June 14, 2014, 12:02:47 AM
Edge of Tomorrow.

Tom Cruise finally stops taking himself seriously and we got a strong action sci-fi film where we celebrate Tom Cruise dying in increasingly outlandish ways. While I liked Oblivion despite it's huge flaws, EoT blows that movie out of the water. It has a strong story that had left me guessing yet without giving you a **** you we are making **** up because we hit a wall. The action served the narrative and the character building, not the other way round.

I would thoroughly recommend this movie unless you totally hate Tom and you are boycotting him.
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Post by: azeke on June 14, 2014, 04:21:57 AM
Yep, Edge of Tomorrow was really solid. Hell yeah, sci-fi!


Just came back from How to train Dragon 2. HTTYD was the only legitimately good Dreamworks animated movie, so i expected a lot.


Unfortunately, it's a lot worse, majority of the movie doesn't have dragon flying and fighting instead you're fed with some stupid family drama.


Don't bother /10
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Post by: marvel_moviefan_2012 on June 14, 2014, 09:58:41 AM
its not new but we are going to Dumb and Dumber tomorrow at our local old movie theater. My dad has never seen it so since I just got him a brand new HDTV its kind of like a fathers day thing.
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Post by: nickmitch on June 14, 2014, 01:28:11 PM
A Million Ways to Die in the West

I liked this one a lot.  I thought it was really funny, a lot of "Family Guy-esque" humor.  Some of the jokes were horribly spoiled in the trailer and commercials, including what I thought was the funniest gag in the whole film.  A lot of the jokes were a little too crude at times (the humor isn't exactly "smart" to begin with), but still funny.  The story was good enough to move the plot along.

7.5/10
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Post by: BranDonk Kong on June 15, 2014, 01:12:11 AM
22 Jump Street

Go see it, it does not disappoint. It is not the same movie as the first (though there are similarities, which are blatantly and hilariously pointed out whenever they appear), but even if it was the first one was great too. Even the credits are hilarious.
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Post by: Adrock on June 29, 2014, 08:23:43 AM
Edge of Tomorrow
I figured I'd like it, but I didn't think I'd like it as much as I did. There was a lot of comedy in the first half of the film that they (thankfully) did not spoil too much of in the trailers. The way it's handled here is necessary for the plot and character development. All around solid directing, editing, and acting.

I'd have to watch it again to nitpick certain things. If I had to dock points from Edge of Tomorrow, the film "cheats" to raise the stakes towards the end since it wasn't necessary to move the plot along. When Rita and William finally convince General Brigham to give them the transponder, why do they even try to escape? They don't need to. Use the transponder right there in the general's office to learn the location of the Omega then kill William. That way, they would never have to go through the trouble of doing any of that again. Instead, they did this a couple times with William eventually losing the ability to reset time after a blood transfusion. We get a neat car chase scene, but I think they could have come up with a better way to strip William of his powers without betraying the most important plot point in the film: the ability to reset the day.

As for the ending, I didn't mind it though I understand reactions tend to be split on this. It's a fairly typical Hollywood happy ending (though not too happy). William conveniently either regains his time reset powers or gets to use it one last time before the Omega was destroyed. I'm thinking the former and since William gets his powers from a different Alpha, the new loop has a different starting point so he wakes up in the helicopter instead. Resetting before he tries blackmailing General Brigham means he keeps his rank and Rita as well as J-Squad are still alive. The downside is that no one knows they saved the world and William, presumably, never meets J-Squad.

My brother read the manga and told me the ending. I feel like they changed enough for the film that original ending where the equivalents of Rita and William have to battle to the death doesn't really work.


World War Z
It's a pretty typical zombie film, just with better special effects. The whole let's-go-find-a-cure is standard stuff for the genre. I thought the last third was a bit slow. Honestly, I'm getting kind of tired of zombie-related media. It's part of the reason I haven't had to urge to seek out the latest season of The Walking Dead. It'll be on Netflix in a couple months so I can catch up then.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on June 29, 2014, 10:00:10 AM
Holy **** dude, you need to watch TWD season 4 ASAP.
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Post by: Oblivion on June 29, 2014, 10:07:10 AM
No, he doesn't. Yuck.  :-\
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on July 07, 2014, 11:19:32 PM
Re-watching probably the only movie I don't own that I have seen more than twice... Hook.

For the life of me, I can't figure out why the critics *hated* this movie when it came out... it's freaking awesome.  I haven't seen it in probably 10 years or so and I still think it holds up to this day.
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Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on July 08, 2014, 01:41:42 AM
GotG - 17 minute preview

This movie is gonna be great. Right off the bat it was entertaining, then there was some good action and it was genuinely funny.
The theater was practically full and everyone laughing their asses off at some the scenes.

I don't want to spoil anything, but the preview was very Rocket heavy, yet all the Guardian's played a part and some time.

Drax gave a good laugh (seen in the trailer), Starlord have a few chuckle moments, but Groot, YES GROOT, with an assist from Starlord, had the entire theater crackin up.

Rocket was pretty awesome, Gamora was kinda sexy, Groot is a badass, Quill is entertaining and Drax is a savage.
This movie is gonna hit, I just know it. Positive word of mouth will hopefully carry it far beyond the best of the 1st round Marvel movies (excluding A1).
It's very Star Wars in a way only much better if you ask me. HYPE levels are super high on this one. Gonna be a long wait till August.

Edit: I forgot to say that I usually hate 3D, and haven't seen a movie in iMax since forever a day ago, but ever though the iMax screen was much smaller than I thought it would be, the 3D (part processed) was actually pretty good. James Gunn explained in the beginning how he was working hard to make the experience as good as possible, and it shows. Most 3D movies either suck ass and/or give new a headache. This one was pretty well done and didn't bother me one bit.

p.s. I'm still not gonna pay iMax prices when the movie comes out though, certainly not with 3D ontop of that.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on July 08, 2014, 02:34:49 AM
Here is a slightly different preview from the trailer aired with the 17 minute preview.
(Contains Groots scene)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on July 08, 2014, 09:29:07 AM
In a way I'm a little upset they released that trailer because it means the Prison Sequence was all the 17 minutes had.  Though it is nice to be able to show the Groot scene.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on July 08, 2014, 10:59:09 AM
Edge of Tomorrow
I figured I'd like it, but I didn't think I'd like it as much as I did. There was a lot of comedy in the first half of the film that they (thankfully) did not spoil too much of in the trailers. The way it's handled here is necessary for the plot and character development. All around solid directing, editing, and acting.

I'd have to watch it again to nitpick certain things. If I had to dock points from Edge of Tomorrow, the film "cheats" to raise the stakes towards the end since it wasn't necessary to move the plot along. When Rita and William finally convince General Brigham to give them the transponder, why do they even try to escape? They don't need to. Use the transponder right there in the general's office to learn the location of the Omega then kill William. That way, they would never have to go through the trouble of doing any of that again. Instead, they did this a couple times with William eventually losing the ability to reset time after a blood transfusion. We get a neat car chase scene, but I think they could have come up with a better way to strip William of his powers without betraying the most important plot point in the film: the ability to reset the day.

As for the ending, I didn't mind it though I understand reactions tend to be split on this. It's a fairly typical Hollywood happy ending (though not too happy). William conveniently either regains his time reset powers or gets to use it one last time before the Omega was destroyed. I'm thinking the former and since William gets his powers from a different Alpha, the new loop has a different starting point so he wakes up in the helicopter instead. Resetting before he tries blackmailing General Brigham means he keeps his rank and Rita as well as J-Squad are still alive. The downside is that no one knows they saved the world and William, presumably, never meets J-Squad.

My brother read the manga and told me the ending. I feel like they changed enough for the film that original ending where the equivalents of Rita and William have to battle to the death doesn't really work.


About the ending: I thought the Omega's blood was what caused the day to reset for William again.  They could've done more to make what caused the reset more clear.

As for the movie as a whole, I give it an 8.5/10.  It's really great.  The movie has to establish it's premise, and it's kinda boring.  The payoff in the plot of the rest of the movie more than compensates, however.

Also saw 22 Jump Street.  It's definitely the funniest movie I've seen in a while.  The best jokes are saved for the film and not the trailers.  The credits are amazing.  The meta-humor is great throughout, and the plot is more than sufficient.  10/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on July 08, 2014, 12:20:14 PM
Here is a slightly different preview from the trailer aired with the 17 minute preview.
(Contains Groots scene)


Video has now been marked private.
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Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on July 08, 2014, 02:39:29 PM
Here you go


I think this is the same one shown last night with the preview....
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Post by: Ceric on July 08, 2014, 04:37:05 PM
I didn't realize it last night but, they swapped some lines in that trailer.
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Post by: Fatty The Hutt on July 08, 2014, 05:06:49 PM
Earth To Echo


Very good family flick. Nicely captures that sense of childhood friends "adventuring", on the cusp of getting older and moving on. The characters are well drawn and they are what make the movie worth your time. The alien creature is not really focused on or made into a character. I thought this was a good choice and avoided the trap of presenting a cutesy creature as the focus. The "found footage" aspect was quite well done but make sure you sit in one of the back rows. Makes a good companion piece to E.T. and/or Super 8 and/or The Goonies.


Recommended.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on July 09, 2014, 01:47:40 AM
I saw Tammy It bothered me.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on July 09, 2014, 03:29:57 AM
Transformers: Age of Extinction. 165 minutes of **** blowing up in quick and increasing succession.

Yet the things that bothered me the most? The two absolutely-blatantly product placement about Budweiser and Beats Pill.

Also, Ken Watanabe voiced Drift. Nothing wrong with the actor - i love his english voice - but the character wasnt in the previous three and numbers of autobots were dwindling. How did he just turn up?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on July 13, 2014, 08:20:03 AM
Dear 'The Raid 2',

MY.GOODNESS. I've never yelled and winced with pain so much during a movie since that time I got my ass beat by my brothers while watching one. You are brutal, realistic, and oh so fun to watch. And that last fight scene....I applauded. I was watching by myself and I applauded.

Watching you again and again,
Hypotheliciously Meticulously Ridiculously
thanks for the new name hah
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on July 14, 2014, 01:19:04 AM
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes - Go See This Right Now / 10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: NWR_insanolord on July 14, 2014, 01:38:34 AM
Or you could watch Battle for the Planet of the Apes again.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on July 14, 2014, 02:57:07 AM
Or you could watch Battle for the Planet of the Apes again.

Not really, because that movie is trash.
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Post by: NWR_insanolord on July 14, 2014, 03:01:50 AM
It is amazingly terrible, yes. To the extent that it's almost like that suggestion wasn't completely serious.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on July 14, 2014, 03:39:07 AM
Dear 'The Raid 2',

MY.GOODNESS. I've never yelled and winced with pain so much during a movie since that time I got my ass beat by my brothers while watching one. You are brutal, realistic, and oh so fun to watch. And that last fight scene....I applauded. I was watching by myself and I applauded.

Watching you again and again,
Hypotheliciously Meticulously Ridiculously
thanks for the new name hah

I watched this in the cinema when - about 10 days prior to its UK release - and that final fight scene caused the entire room (about 350 people) to nearly erupt insane applause.

The Raid 2 makes all western movies look tame in comparison after that.
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Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on July 16, 2014, 10:09:42 PM
The Raid 2

I enjoyed it, but not as much as the first one. Some fight scenes, like in the car, just seem like action pauses when the camera leaves and as soon as the camera came back "ACTION!!" and things start up again.
Other scenes like hammer & bat are like they are obviously holding back, like they were taking turns and trying to give him a chance.

The opening fight in the stall though was pretty crazy, there were lots of other visually brutal scenes and the perfectly timed cutaways made them all them more brutal for making you use your imagination. The camera would move with the strike pulling the victim just out of frame at the moment of impact. You might have to watch to see what I mean if you don't get it already.

Overall the action is top notch, the movie is gory, brutal and all that.
A few details would break the suspension of disbelief, and some of that could have been fixed with slightly better editing.
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Post by: azeke on July 18, 2014, 06:01:07 AM
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

7/10

Solid movie. Not as good as first one. Rise was instant classic, and easily the best film in entire series.

Ah well. Caesar was badass, what else do you need?

It's a pity there weren't more scenes with Maurice, he is my favourite character.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on July 26, 2014, 04:35:48 PM
Boyhood

If you didn't know, this movie takes place over 13 years as a boy ages from 5 to 18, filmed over 12 years with the same actors.  Here is the IMDB page (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1065073/) for more info.

This movie was incredible to watch.  The kid really does grow up before your eyes over a span of 2 hours and 45 minutes.  It's amazing watching him age a full year at a time between scenes with all the things happening in his life.  The movie really has no central plot.  It just shows a kid going through life events: moving, making friends, girls, jobs, his mother dating, etc.

What was weird to me was that it seemed like every older male acted like a father figure to the kid.  Like everyone was his dad.  The scenes just kinda jump between life events, so it always feels like something is happening.  The characters really grow on you (because, yeah).  It's hard to describe the experience of watching this film.  Suffice it to say, this is why we go to the movies.

10/10
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Post by: Pixelated Pixies on July 26, 2014, 06:46:20 PM
Boyhood

I have a love/hate relationship with Richard Linklater. Well, maybe hate is a strong word, but there are definitely elements of his films that make my eyes roll. I love his naturalistic style of directing, and admire the fact that he imbues his characters will real feeling and heart, but sometimes the words he puts in the mouths of his actors are downright pretentious. Take Boyhood for example, in which the following line is uttered,

"You know how everyone’s always saying seize the moment? I don’t know, I’m kind of thinking it’s the other way around, you know, like the moment seizes us.”

While I love the 'Before' trilogy, I could point to any number of similarly bogus lines from those films which made my skin crawl . Maybe it's a question of upbringing, social class, or cultural difference, but the people in Linklater's films bear little resemblance to people in the real world (or rather my world).

I find it much easier to accept the preternatural when it's not trying to evoke realism. I have fewer issues, for instance, with a director like Wes Anderson because his films are so very stylised; while Linklater's films strive to render realistic portrayals of people at given times in their lives. It's for that reason, because Linklater does deal with things like relationships and feelings so deftly, that when his characters say something that feels unnatural or forced, it pulls me right out of the film.

That, however, is just a personal gripe. My only other issue with 'Boyhood' is that the 'boy' at the centre of the story wasn't a particularly interesting character. Like some of Linklater's protagonists he's passive; things happen to him, he experiences events, but takes little action in them. In some ways I guess that's a fairly realistic portrayal of many of us (myself included), but as a result I found myself gravitating towards the lives of the other characters in the film. In fact, by the end I was pretty much ready for Mason to go to college just so the story could move on to the lives of other characters, who were much more interesting.

Those issues aside though, 'Boyhood' is unlike any film I've ever seen. Even if you were to ignore the logistics of putting a film like this together, you can't help but be impressed by this director's devotion to his characters. I very much look forward to seeing this film again and I suspect that, as was the case with the 'Before' films, I will appreciate 'Boyhood' more with each subsequent viewing.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Fatty The Hutt on July 29, 2014, 01:57:42 PM
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

7/10

Solid movie. Not as good as first one. Rise was instant classic, and easily the best film in entire series.

Ah well. Caesar was badass, what else do you need?

It's a pity there weren't more scenes with Maurice, he is my favourite character.
I agree of all of this. Especially Maurice. He's the best.
The film could have been 10 to 15 minutes shorter. They. .. Really. ... Dragged ... Out ... A ... Lot ... Of ... Scenes ......
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Post by: Shaymin on August 03, 2014, 02:42:22 PM
Sharknado 2: The Second One
Two impaled Rob Fords out of five.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on August 03, 2014, 04:45:09 PM
Sharknado 2 was definitely better than the first, but they tried a little too hard with the whole "we know it's a joke" theme. Still, pretty funny to see Matt Lauer and Al Roker throughout, especially at the end.
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Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on August 03, 2014, 09:52:24 PM
Day at the Movies August

Guardians of the Galaxy - Good movie. Lots of fun, very funny and some decent action. I would like to see more from the main villains here, but there always the sequel (July 28, 2017) ;)

Hercules - surprisingly better than I thought. I had not seen a single preview going in, but they play on the Man vs the Legend and the power of storytelling.
Really good action this.

Lucy - honestly, I feel asleep briefly during this one. Not because it was bad, but because I just ate and got too comfortable.
It was interesting and lots of visuals like Cosmos on crack, but I will have to wait for the DVD to see the whole thing.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: azeke on August 03, 2014, 10:54:11 PM
Raid 2:

Underwhelming, didn't live up to expectations of the original. First one was much better, less talking stuff, more stabbing, kicking and punching.

The story of of the first move was super simple, raw, basic and great for it -- you have a building full of mooks, now GO!.. There is a reason why this template gets copied so much by Hollywood.

They did a great job establishing badass "mini-bosses" so that it would be so much more satisfying seeing them getting their asses kicked by main character.

Second one got too bogged down by "undercover cop" plot and spending time on establishing characters that they could instead spend by showing more fights.

There were still a few cool mini-bosses like hammer girl, bat dude and the dude in the kitchen. All had a solid fights.

But it's no comparison to the first one where fights like that were going on constantly.

Amazing Spider-man 2
Surprised that they DID do what they had to do. A little bit better than first movie. Okay fights. Electro plotline was stupid. Harry plotline was surprisingly good.

Overall: eh/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Halbred on August 04, 2014, 12:40:07 AM
Guardians: Enjoyed it for what it was (action space opera). My big gripe coming out of the theater was that all the aliens were humans with different colored skin. Gamora? Green human. Drax? Grey-and-red human. Ronan? Blue human with facepaint. Dewey Cox's wife? Orange human. The Collector's assistant? Pink human.

Karl explained to me that this is because the Celestials are basically the Xel'Naga, trying to create perfect humanoids on different planets for a millenia. So that at least kind of makes sense, but I would've liked that sentence-long explanation to have been spoken in the movie. Because it wasn't, I came away thinking they were just being lazy or uncreative. "This movie has a giant budget. Invest in some prosthetics," I was saying.

But it was really good. Bradley Cooper does a wonderful job as Rocket.
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Post by: Plugabugz on August 04, 2014, 02:56:07 AM
Guardians: Enjoyed it for what it was (action space opera). My big gripe coming out of the theater was that all the aliens were humans with different colored skin. Gamora? Green human. Drax? Grey-and-red human. Ronan? Blue human with facepaint. Dewey Cox's wife? Orange human. The Collector's assistant? Pink human.

Karl explained to me that this is because the Celestials are basically the Xel'Naga, trying to create perfect humanoids on different planets for a millenia. So that at least kind of makes sense, but I would've liked that sentence-long explanation to have been spoken in the movie. Because it wasn't, I came away thinking they were just being lazy or uncreative. "This movie has a giant budget. Invest in some prosthetics," I was saying.

But it was really good. Bradley Cooper does a wonderful job as Rocket.

This same point about humanoid aliens has been explained away in both the Stargate franchise (Ancients spread across the galaxy populating elsewhere, thus humanoids) and Star Trek (all races are humanoid because they all evolved from the same one, placed in different places).

I figured the "in-universe" reason would be the same.
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Post by: NWR_insanolord on August 04, 2014, 03:18:31 AM
It's always the same reasoning, because it's the only one that even remotely makes any sense.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on August 04, 2014, 05:25:51 PM
Ok, I want to expand my thoughts on Guardians of the Galaxy.

Let's start with the positive.
Really good movie. It was fun, funny and emotional at times. It starts you off with an unexpected and emotional cold start, and I realize this because there were people still wandering around the theater like it was another preview that started.
Star-lord was more fun than funny, Drax was more funny than fun.
Groot had a lot of emotion for only being able to say a few words, which mostly consist of "I" "Am" & "Groot" and specifically in that order. There is some Groot merchandise missing from the shelves that I'm sure everyone would have bought had it been available. >THIS< (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAwwz2NqpNI) but Groot. It's even from the 80's. Disney where you at?
Rocket was a star in this movie, this gun toting coon was no one to be messed with. He had good lines and voice acting was pretty spot on.
Gamora... is it bad that Zoe Saldana made me consider banging a green chick?... the red/pink ones looked pretty damn good too. LOL
But her and Nebula were pretty under used here. Neither of them seemed particularly deadly either, but at the same time Drax didn't really seem as powerful as you would imagine.

The one major issue that bothered me though out the movie, was the SFX during fight scene. Like when someone gets knocked into the wall 30 feet away, it goes from believeable CG to damn that looked cartoonish, or when Gamora had to make a big jump, and it looked like a CG character took over from a 90's animated cartoon. Suspension of disbelief was broken for that split second everytime something like that happened.

I really want to watch it again, because I feel like I might have missed a few things, thanks to the lady next to us breathing heavy like she was snoring, and then suddenly just laughing her ass off for 2-3 minutes straight with a giggly little laugh that almost got you to just laugh right along with her. It was a little distracting at time.
Alot of the fight scenes were a little lacking as well. They should have brought in the choreographers from Cap 2 to handle the action.

And i wouldn't really call this a SUPER hero movie, as the only person in this whole movie who displayed a little "super" was Ronan. But definitely a must see summer movie. I can see where the 3D would be great in this movie, like all the scenes shot out in space, and all the scenes that had opportunity for depth perception (Groots scenes), but I didn't pay the price of admission on that.

I would honestly say that I exposed myself to too much of this movie before seeing it, and while I still really enjoyed it, had I gone into fresh like the 17 minute preview, where we were dying from laughter and everything was new, I feel like I really would have enjoyed it even more.

I would have to rank this very close to Cap 2... maybe a very close 2nd if not tied. They are tonally very different movies, but together show that Marvel is on fire, and that bodes VERY well leading right into Age of Ultron.

This movie has set the August opening Record @ $94Million by beating out Bourne @ $69M. I think it's also the 3rd highest opener of the year right behind TF:AoE ($97.5/$100M) & Cap 2 ($96M?), and word of mouth on this is extremely high right now w/ a RT score of something like 92% after 190 reviews. Also something close to 44% of the viewers were women and 55% of all viewers were over 26yrs old, so this bodes well for Marvel taking the risk and probably getting even a little more riskier going forward.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: marvel_moviefan_2012 on August 04, 2014, 05:37:35 PM
Decided to binge on Godzilla/giant monster movies on Netflix, watched all the Toho ones they had. I been torn between those movies for so long, when I was a kid I loved the Power Rangers and always wanted to like Godzilla but I am from an ultra conservative family who make fun of everything Japanese still and gave me more than enough **** just for liking Nintendo when they were all into Xbox and PC and am still the only one who ever got into any anime. So with that said I sure wish I had seen these when I was a kid and might have appreciated them more. I can't believe I sat through so many of them it was almost torture but I really wanted to do it. I tried to like them, I tried to be forgiving but they were just too late. It was like when I tried to watch Dragon Ball Z a few years ago after missing out when it was new, I KNOW I should have liked it when it was the in thing but again racist/fascist parents prevented me from enjoying something I otherwise might have.

My parents have mellowed out a lot since Obama was elected and mom got into Doctor Who dads less vocal about his anti-anything un-American and I have made much progress on my own since then (rest of family are big old rednecks no hope there) but I still think I would have enjoyed these as a kid. Ifelt really stupid for watching them today. I had to watch some Double Dragon to get them out of my system and that was pretty painful to revisit too.

I kind of liked the concept way more than the execution. I thought most of them were just pretty damn silly. I understand cultural differences come into play, I studied Japanese in college so I get their culture much better than I did before but it was still very foreign to me for the most part. Over all I rate them slightly above the sci-fi that was coming out of America in those days but that's not saying much.Main reason for binging now was due to hearing good things about the one in theaters, my dad called me up and asked if I wanted to see it with him, so he has come around some. He took me to see the one from 1998 but I like to pretend that movie never happened.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: shingi_70 on August 04, 2014, 06:49:00 PM
Transformer: Age of Extinction


It had Optimus Prime riding Grimlock into battle cutting fools up left and right.


8/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Dan Laser on August 04, 2014, 06:52:31 PM
More words on Guardians of the Galaxy!

I liked it. It was like a Star Wars that didn't take itself so seriously. While I'm glad the movie didn’t go crazy with the history lessons, silly jargon or explaining everything, I do wish it had better explained some other things, or elaborated on them. Actually, maybe if they had shown us, rather than told, it may have been more convincing and interesting.

For one example, they kept telling us how dangerous Ronan and the top big baddie was, but we really weren’t shown anything to convince us. Was Thanos really even necessary? They kept saying how horrible and evil he was, but all we saw of him was him sitting on his asteroid, grinning. I don’t care if the intent is to build him up for another movie. I’m watching Guardians of the Galaxy! Why is he important to the movie I am watching now? I agree with BnM that Gamora and blue cyborg girl also felt under used for being talked up as very tough assassins. There were a few things like that that seemed kind of neglected. Little bits of exposition that were never really expanded upon, or brief so that they were forgotten. I wouldn't be able to repeat the story of the creation of the galaxy or the magical power crystal, or why it was on that planet...

I also found it hard to believe that Peter and the others trusted Gamora so easily. Even as viewers, we had been shown nothing to believe she would betray the bad guys so easily.


Sorry I'll stop, I’m overthinking things :P:  They're mostly minor little things that bothered me. It was a fun family summer sci-fi movie. I did like it, just didn’t love it. It is worth seeing in theatres however. I liked Guardians much more than Thor 2, but less than Captain America 2. Edge of Tomorrow is still my favourite summer movie, tho. It’s great that Disney is adapting these lesser known and non-super hero comic series. I really really hope parents take their kids to Guardians instead of Transformers!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on August 04, 2014, 07:23:47 PM
Didn't Gamora say or someone say about her that Thanos killed her family and then raised her as one of his own, genetically modified her into a killing machine. And then when she realizes what Thanos and Ronan's plan were, she felt sympathetic, and then wanted to use the item to get a payday large enough to just disappear and live a different life?

But she really didn't seem as dangerous as she was talked up to be. They should have had a scene where she was surrounded by goons with weapons and she only had a tiny sharp object, and just as she makes the first move, the camera pans to a gapping jaw wide eyed rocket & quill as we watch them watch her take out 7-8 armed dudes with little more than a chopstick. Then we see the aftermath, and Quill makes a joke about how he was just about to jump in and help her out, and rocket says "yeah, I just needed to put a new clip in my gun first....."

There should have been an equivalent scene for Nebula where maybe when they were infiltrating the Kyln prison, Nebula had to make it down a hallway of armed guards shooting, and she was able to acrobatically dodge her way up to and disable all 6 guards at the end of the hall, losing 2 of her "helper" goons that followed her w/o taking any actual damage herself.
That would have showed some skill on both their parts and a reason as to why they are not to be fucked with.

wouldn't have added more than 2-3 minutes to the movie, and would have made 2 pretty good scenes IMO.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on August 04, 2014, 08:48:08 PM
Gamora did Cut off Groots Arms.

Though I think some of what your describing would have crossed the line on where they wanted to violence to go.  In fact the part part where Drax cut 2 guards open was the only place where there was any real blood and I'm sure that it was considered to essential by Gunn to cut.

This will be very interesting to see the deleted scenes.  I have the sneaking suspicion that there is probably a good hour of them easily.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: marvel_moviefan_2012 on August 07, 2014, 05:05:22 PM
Well I am planning on going to the movies this weekend, will have to see what is playing but this is the first weekend I have had off forever so movies are a must.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on August 07, 2014, 07:58:34 PM
It's always the same reasoning, because it's the only one that even remotely makes any sense.

Not if you go with a Darwin-esque theory of "survival of the fittest" and just assume that a humanoid-species is the best equipped to evolve and survive into an intelligent culture.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: NWR_insanolord on August 07, 2014, 08:07:12 PM
Intelligence isn't selected for. We're here because we could adapt and survive, we just kind of lucked into the intelligence. And for that theory to work pretty much every planet would have to be almost exactly like Earth.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on August 07, 2014, 10:31:41 PM
maybe all the inhabitable planets are very Earth-like as they all have the same basic elements in different mixture.
Higher levels of certain other gases in the air, mixed with with a different combination of gases in the atmosphere account for the different skin colors on different planets.

Maybe orbiting a red sun, or a dwarf star has different effects on the evolved humaniod figure that evolved from whatever passes for a monkey in their timeline.

Maybe there were other forms that also adapted for survival, (like some horse like people, that eventually stood up on 2 legs and evolved front hoofs into hands, because that would be more useful to an evolved species on land that needed to develop and use tools to survive) or "squid/octopus" creatures under the "oceans" that we haven't really seen yet.

so maybe it's a bit of both. Evolution into an upright land creature with hands for tools, and all land inhabitable planets are very "earth-like" in nature, even if they have different basic elements that make up the air and atmosphere.

or because the Celestials of the Universe saw fit to drop an extremely primitive version of the humanoid on every planet and see which ones survived long enough to evolve and eventually leave it's home planet.

Earth is very behind in the space race right now.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on August 07, 2014, 11:10:46 PM
*Terra.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: azeke on August 08, 2014, 12:03:57 PM
Guardians of the Galaxy:
4/5
Formulaic but fun dumb flick.

300: Rise of Empire:
Racist cartoonish dreck.

The first movie had it's cool moments between retarded scenes where Spartans (who were the most totalitarian state that ever existed) started preaching about freedom and how they're totally macho and not homo, unlike these Athens dudes (every male spartan had to take a male "partner" by law).

Second movie is more of the same only there are less redeeming action scenes. And slo-mo shtick has gotten old, by now.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: marvel_moviefan_2012 on August 09, 2014, 12:40:08 AM
Gardens of the Night, it was Netflix suggestion so I went with it. God Damn movie makes me sick, makes me think humanity is sick and deserves to be destroyed by the fiery vengeance of God. It was Tom Arnold so I assumed it had to be innocent but no it was a fucking mess. I spent all day watching **** like Short Circuit and Naken Gun just to wipe that movie from my memory. I watched We Are What We Are a month ago, that movie didn't even phase me except the one scene at the end but this movie just makes me want to hunt those sick bastards down myself and shoot them all. Sick thing is this movie is too close to home its one of those things that just pisses me off, not only that it could, and does, happen, but that someone would make a movie about it. I blame myself I read the description and thought no I should just avoid it but it was late I had just spent all day watching Living Dead sequels so I was in the mood for something more down to earth but that was too real. 0/5 stars total waste of time.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on August 10, 2014, 02:29:14 PM
So my Parents were down and they wanted to see Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle.  Just a quick note before I really get into it.  The theater we went to I have never seen busier and everyone was going to see GotG or 100 Foot Journey but, mostly GotG.

Back to Turtles.

Whoever was in charge of the Trailers and PR should just be fired.  They did a terrible job.  Megan Fox actually does an ok job as April O'Neil but, I still wouldn't have picked her.  The Villians are on par for Ninja Turtles but they could have replaced Shredder with a robot and you never know the difference.

The pacing was good if a bit fast.  The Turtles were true to who they are in general.  Though they never take a long enough break to really let the Turtles show their personalities really well.  Except Michelangelo.  The origin story does well and in its own way is a little more believable then some of the others.  Its still the ooze and like but its no longer as random of a chance.  Actually the ooze itself origin is a little odder than the Turtles.

I'm actually a little surprised to see this is a Nickolodeon movie.  There current Turtle run is pretty good but I guess they were looking a different demographic.  Honestly, wish this would have released in the Transformer slot and Transformer get released now to be slaughtered by GotG.  This is the better movie.

Now if you have to choose between TMNT or GotG go to GotG.  Though this is not a bad Action Flick.

 
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on August 10, 2014, 02:37:55 PM
Just saw Ninja Turtles - it's not nearly as bad as people are saying it is. I went in with pretty low expectations, and it was actually pretty good. It's easily the second-best (live action) TMNT movie, but that's not saying much. Yes, it does change the story quite a bit, but it makes more sense than the other movies at least. I read the IGN review, and it seems like they didn't even watch the movie or had no audio because a few of the things in their review are simply factually wrong. Worth a watch, inevitable sequel will probably be better.


Edit - there are also surprisingly few explosions for a Michael Bay movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on August 10, 2014, 04:11:38 PM
Michael Bay didn't direct though, only produced.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on August 10, 2014, 05:18:08 PM
I'm sure he has an explosion clause in any contract he signs though.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Oblivion on August 10, 2014, 05:26:42 PM
I'm sure he has an explosion clause in any contract he signs though.


He's produced many films that have little to no explosions.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: marvel_moviefan_2012 on August 13, 2014, 11:59:59 AM
It might not be a shock but I actually like Michael Bay films, not ALL of them but enough of them to say I don't hate him. My favorites are the first Transformers, the first Bad Boys, the Island, and okay well that is about it I guess. I am not sure what else he has done besides his Apollo-13-for-people-who-dropped-out-of-HS, and that lame chick flick about WWII planes.


I just watched World War Z yesterday. I wanted to like it, I just didn't care for it. Pacing was all off there was no tension at all, the story was kind of rushed at the end, the zombies were not even scary, and I don't know it had a prequel to I Am Legend vibe going on that just felt off to me. Even the action sequences were not that interesting and the whole plot was kind of shifty. I am not sure what it was even trying to do but unless it was to bore me for 2+ hours it failed.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: lolmonade on August 14, 2014, 09:20:14 AM
Saw Guardians of the Galaxy last weekend after missing The Winter Soldier in theaters, and telling my wife we had to see this one while it's still being ran.  I really think it's the best Marvel Movie I've seen so far.  It uses a very formulaic plot structure to give the movie a skeleton, but then paints that skeleton generously with humor, action, and a surprising few moments of emotional punch, which I didn't expect at all.
 
I'll agree with BlackNMild that Gamora was underused, but as disappointed I was in that, I was equally grateful they didn't turn her into a love-interest for Quill, and the story didn't bother with a love interest side-plot at all.  I also like how they smacked you in the face with Thanos, giving you a few scenes with him in it, and also having the majority of the characters know him as a tyranical, menacing threat to the galaxy.
 
I'd really encourage anyone to go see it.  Any quibbles about it I would have are minor, and are paved over by everything great about the movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: shingi_70 on August 14, 2014, 09:22:21 AM
Saw Guardians of the Galaxy last weekend after missing The Winter Soldier in theaters, and telling my wife we had to see this one while it's still being ran.  I really think it's the best Marvel Movie I've seen so far.  It uses a very formulaic plot structure to give the movie a skeleton, but then paints that skeleton generously with humor, action, and a surprising few moments of emotional punch, which I didn't expect at all.
 
I'll agree with BlackNMild that Gamora was underused, but as disappointed I was in that, I was equally grateful they didn't turn her into a love-interest for Quill, and the story didn't bother with a love interest side-plot at all.  I also like how they smacked you in the face with Thanos, giving you a few scenes with him in it, and also having the majority of the characters know him as a tyranical, menacing threat to the galaxy.
 
I'd really encourage anyone to go see it.  Any quibbles about it I would have are minor, and are paved over by everything great about the movie.


Really, I thought there was a love side plot between the two, the music scene and when he gives her his mask in space, than the glance at the end. They just made it less obvious than most other movies tend to do
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: lolmonade on August 14, 2014, 09:32:36 AM
Saw Guardians of the Galaxy last weekend after missing The Winter Soldier in theaters, and telling my wife we had to see this one while it's still being ran.  I really think it's the best Marvel Movie I've seen so far.  It uses a very formulaic plot structure to give the movie a skeleton, but then paints that skeleton generously with humor, action, and a surprising few moments of emotional punch, which I didn't expect at all.
 
I'll agree with BlackNMild that Gamora was underused, but as disappointed I was in that, I was equally grateful they didn't turn her into a love-interest for Quill, and the story didn't bother with a love interest side-plot at all.  I also like how they smacked you in the face with Thanos, giving you a few scenes with him in it, and also having the majority of the characters know him as a tyranical, menacing threat to the galaxy.
 
I'd really encourage anyone to go see it.  Any quibbles about it I would have are minor, and are paved over by everything great about the movie.


Really, I thought there was a love side plot between the two, the music scene and when he gives her his mask in space, than the glance at the end. They just made it less obvious than most other movies tend to do

Ok, so they teased the idea for a few minutes, but after she pushes him away and he saves her life in space, they don't ever approach the subject again.  I guess I saw that more about them subverting expectations and making fun of the plot device itself.  I hope they keep it up, cause these love side stories stick out like a sore thumb in every movie they're shoe-horned in now, and it's probably my least favorite movie trope anymore.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on August 14, 2014, 09:35:47 AM
Saw Guardians of the Galaxy last weekend after missing The Winter Soldier in theaters, and telling my wife we had to see this one while it's still being ran.  I really think it's the best Marvel Movie I've seen so far.  It uses a very formulaic plot structure to give the movie a skeleton, but then paints that skeleton generously with humor, action, and a surprising few moments of emotional punch, which I didn't expect at all.
 
I'll agree with BlackNMild that Gamora was underused, but as disappointed I was in that, I was equally grateful they didn't turn her into a love-interest for Quill, and the story didn't bother with a love interest side-plot at all.  I also like how they smacked you in the face with Thanos, giving you a few scenes with him in it, and also having the majority of the characters know him as a tyranical, menacing threat to the galaxy.
 
I'd really encourage anyone to go see it.  Any quibbles about it I would have are minor, and are paved over by everything great about the movie.
Really, I thought there was a love side plot between the two, the music scene and when he gives her his mask in space, than the glance at the end. They just made it less obvious than most other movies tend to do
Really you mention those scenes and totally skip the one when they are on knowhere (sp?) and he shares is headphones with here and try to get her to dance?  Its right before Ronin gets there.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on August 14, 2014, 10:59:33 PM
The Punisher (1989) - 5.5/10

Better than The Punisher (2004) but not as good as Punisher War Zone. The script was simply horrible, and the plot was too. It was more like an adaption of a single issue or two of the comic book (though not exactly based on any) and didn't have enough story in it. Still though, it's a much better depiction of Frank Castle than the 2004 "leader of the outcasts" version. I saw it like 20 years ago but didn't remember how bad it was. Somehow it's still worth watching if you've never seen it. What's cool about all 3 movies though is that each actor (Dolph Lundgren, Thomas Jane, Ray Stevenson) looks exactly like The Punisher would (face-wise), depending on the era. Makes me want to watch War Zone again.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: marvel_moviefan_2012 on August 17, 2014, 11:57:23 PM
I Am Legend. 3/5. I liked it somewhat when it was new, my dad was way more fond of it that I was. I just re-watched it today and I fell asleep it was so boring not a repeat worthy kind of movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: azeke on August 21, 2014, 05:47:30 AM
Sin City 2: Dame to Kill for

Horrible trainwreck.

The only good story out of three was Dwight's who is now played Josh Brolin who we have to believe will later transform into Clive Owen because this is a prequel to the first movie.

Eva Greene's tits and ass were nice and action scenes with katana girl (who was also recast for some reason) decapitating mooks left and right Ninja Gaiden style were good.

Lots of characters from the first move are here as well only most of them are recast and chronology of their appearance doesn't make a lick of sense.

You thought Zelda timeline is confusing? Try to figure out how the big black dude (who was played by Micheal Clark Duncan and is now due to obvious reasons played by Dennis Haysbert) fits in, because as far as i remember he appears in Hartigan's story and dies in Dwight's story of the first movie.

BUT, in the second movie he operates in Dwight's story (with the eye initially intact) which happens AFTER Hartigan's story of the first movie but BEFORE Dwight's story of the first movie.

It's some kind of stable time loop or something. Just thinking about gives me a headache so hard, i start to feel as confused as Marv.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on August 21, 2014, 08:10:34 AM
Nothing after the fourth sentence matters.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: harvjones on August 24, 2014, 07:26:37 AM
GOTG...feels like movie of the year  ;D
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: marvel_moviefan_2012 on August 26, 2014, 12:55:26 AM
Just watched Silence of the Lambs on Netflix. I had seen it when I was a kid back when it was new but I never understood the movie back then. I watched Hannibal when it came out and I didn't care for it so I just shied away and never considered it. Today I decided to give it a shot for some reason. I won't get into the specific details but I really got more out of it as an adult as I ever did as a kid. I question the logic of parents who would let their kids watch this but then I don't want to get into that right here.

That said the movie was actually pretty good. I guess I don't need to write much of a "review" as its old enough most should be familiar with it already. I would rate it 4 out of 5 Stars, something I would revisit down the road if the mood ever strikes me again. I gotta say the actress in this film was so much better than the &%^#& they got to replace her. I was kind of tempted to watch Hannibal again just to follow the story but I remember Hannibal enough to know I can do without that.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on August 26, 2014, 01:18:33 AM
^Now that you have an interest in the Hannibal storyline, maybe you should check out the TV Show.

it is currently about to start it's 3rd season (13 episodes each), so you have a little catching up to do.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: azeke on August 26, 2014, 01:47:30 AM
Red Dragon with Edward Norton is also very good. Way better than Hannibal movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on August 26, 2014, 07:52:29 AM
Manhunter is on Netflix too, I believe. Always wanted to see that, and that is the one that Hannibal (TV show) is based off of.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: azeke on August 26, 2014, 08:08:08 AM
Manhunter is kinda eh.

Red Dragon is the same thing and in my opinion it's better. Mann's movie does have some cool visual scenes going for it though, like very cool looking prison.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: marvel_moviefan_2012 on August 26, 2014, 11:32:45 PM
if it's on Netflix I can check it out, or Hulu Plus, if not only other option is On Demand but all we have is basic cable no movie channels or extra packages.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on August 27, 2014, 01:58:01 AM
but you also have internet, I'm sure you could figure out a way to watch it if you really wanted to.

Here's a poem for you:
scream "letmewatchthis" into the "pirates bay", and you're sure to find what you wish to play.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on August 27, 2014, 10:56:01 AM
Hunger Games

Dreck.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: marvel_moviefan_2012 on August 27, 2014, 11:09:23 AM
sorry BNM I stick to strictly legal methods. I don't judge those who stray but I stay clear to the right of the law.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on August 27, 2014, 12:37:47 PM
I finally got around to watching The Silence of the Lambs sometime last winter as I finished up my quest to see all Oscar Best Picture Winners. On the whole, I found it a rather dumb movie. To be sure, Hopkins is fantastic and Lector is the star of the show. You want to see more of him although his scenes with Foster are greater than his scenes alone or with others I feel. However, the rest of the movie is lacking. Someone once told me they thought the movie was really scary because instead of ghosts or vampires, this was about real twisted killers. While Hopkins does make Lector seem possible in real-life, the Buffalo Bill character is cartoonishly outrageous.

He starts off ok with a realistic kidnapping of a woman. But then we end up with a subterranean lair where his plan is to make a woman body suit out of the skin of other women (like that would last and never get dry) and he also puts a killer moth larvae in the victims throats as a calling card or something. The bug thing is what gets me. It's like the filmmakers felt that would make it even more creepy but Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom was more creepy with its use of bugs than this movie.

While Clarice is technically the star or hero, when I think of her, I think of someone always trying to prove themselves or play catch-up. I don't think she comes across as strong-willed or tough as the filmmakers or writers thought. While it was interesting to learn what the title of the film means and how it relates to her, in reflecting about it, something about the story feels fairy-tale like.

The worst thing and most galling thing that got to me was her decision at the end when she realizes that she has found Buffalo Bill, instead of getting back-up or alerting anyone where she is and that she has located him, she chases after him alone into his basement subterrannean lair. It just seemed so stupid especially for someone we are supposed to believe is a smart agent. Not surprisingly, going into this unknown territory leads to Buffalo Bill gaining the upper hand when he cuts the lights and is wearing night google visions. Now Clarice is at his mercy and what does he do? He plays around with her by showing how close he can stand around her without her being able to tell. Finally, she kills him. The end. It was just such a dumb-cliched ending I couldn't believe that it won Best Picture. At least, Hannibal didn't show up to save her which I was half-expecting at that point. Hannibal was just looking out for himself and furthering his own agenda and I think that's what saves the picture or at least makes it end on a slightly more intriguing note.

The 4 other Best Picture nominess that year were Beauty and the Beast, Bugsy, JFK, and The Prince of Tides. I haven't seen Beauty in the Beast since it was orginally released in theaters back in 1991 although I did see a costume performance of it at Disneyland and a few years later an On-Ice production of it. While I do still recall certain things about the movie, I'd probably have to watch it again now to give it a fair assessment. I haven't seen The Prince of Tides or Bugsy although I've really become interested in tracking down and watching Bugsy. If I were to make a short list of movies I really want to see, it would be on it. I don't know why but it just seems like it would be up my alley. Regardless, as far as I'm concerned, JFK would be my choice for Best Picture and I don't think those 3 other films would challenge that notion. JFK was a riviting, gripping experience when I watched it earlier this year. While I don't post in this thread as much as I could, after watching JFK I did come and write a review on it to get the word out on it. I was telling everyone I knew to check it out because it was just so compelling and after seeing it, I am so surprised it lost to The Silence of the Lambs.

However, that is a sidepoint and winning or losing an Oscar isn't the deciding factor of what makes a film good or bad. I just found it surprising that it swept the major awards when there was, to me, a much more superior movie in competition at the same time. Thus, I may give it a harder critique because of it yet, even before seeing JFK, my opinion of it was luke-warm.

As for the other Hannibal movies, I've had no interest in them or the T.V. show. There's an interesting review of Hannibal that you may want to read at The Dissolve by clicking here (http://thedissolve.com/features/forgotbusters/212-hannibal-gave-silence-of-the-lambs-fans-a-sequel-c/). That review is all I really need to know about the sequel.
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Post by: marvel_moviefan_2012 on August 27, 2014, 08:48:15 PM
I never thought the movie was scary even when I was a kid and it was supposed to be. I always thought it was just weird and I happen to like weird. But I think most of what I enjoyed was how it reminded me of the Fugitive but without all the chase scenes. I didn't think Lector was at all believable I just think he was portrayed as more real in the context of the film universe but in real life he doesn't seem very realistic to me at all.
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Post by: BranDonk Kong on August 29, 2014, 04:16:24 PM
Sabotage - Horrible / 10
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Post by: Khushrenada on August 29, 2014, 04:25:37 PM
Are you talking about the 1936 Hitchcock film or the 2014 Schwarzenegger film?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on August 30, 2014, 02:24:32 AM
2014 crapfest. I'd rather watch the video for the Beastie Boys song for 2 hours. Actually, that would be awesome.
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Post by: azeke on August 30, 2014, 04:34:24 AM
Are you talking about the 1936 Hitchcock film...
That's a great movie.

In fact all black and white Hitchcock movies i've seen were great.
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Post by: pokepal148 on August 31, 2014, 02:57:21 AM
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Post by: ShyGuy on August 31, 2014, 07:02:06 AM
Enemy Weeeeeird/10 Do you like Dopplegangers? Do you like Spiders?

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Post by: Halbred on September 01, 2014, 04:35:08 PM
I saw that movie and I have NO idea whether I liked it or not. And what the heck was up with that final scene?
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Post by: nickmitch on September 01, 2014, 08:10:17 PM
2014 crapfest. I'd rather watch the video for the Beastie Boys song for 2 hours. Actually, that would be awesome.

Watched that video more than a couple of times in a row once during college because "college".



Great decision.
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Post by: Oblivion on September 01, 2014, 08:25:30 PM
Guardians of the Galaxy

It was good, but there was a bit of it that I was not a fan of. The beginning mostly.
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Post by: ShyGuy on September 01, 2014, 09:36:18 PM
Manhunter is kinda eh.

Red Dragon is the same thing and in my opinion it's better. Mann's movie does have some cool visual scenes going for it though, like very cool looking prison.

Manhunter has the same tone all Michael Mann movies have and it feels much more grounded than other versions of Hannibal Lecter, but not as fun. If you look at it as a stand alone movie, I think it is pretty good.

You ever notice how the protagonists in Michael Mann film's don't really triumph but at the end it feels like they just survived? Nobody completely controls their own destiny in his movies.
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Post by: jimihan on September 02, 2014, 07:18:02 AM
The last movie I watched was Lucy(2014) and I love this move, it was so interesting.
My rate - 9/10
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Post by: Plugabugz on September 02, 2014, 04:21:10 PM
I binged on movies lastw eek to catch up.

Expendables 3 - EVEN MORE EXPENDABLE but now watered down to a 12A rating to get more people to watch. The result is less gore, no blood and too many people.

Into The Storm - It's amazing how in this film about multiple tornadoes, and a basically-impenetrable tank that can survive winds up to 135mph it somehow survives unscathed right up to the point when they are in the middle of a tornado that is 300+mph. If i knew this was a found footage movie i'd have skipped it. The film also completely forgot to explain how the meteorologist, who was tracking these events, failed to notice that the wind speed (and its potential damage factor) was far higher than anything she'd seen before.

Lucy - This film was heavy on the padding initially, particularly with the nature elements. I get what they were trying to do but doing that prior to the setup of the primary story felt like "stretch for time!!!!!". Morgan Freeman was very nearly wasted too, having almost nothing to do - but boy did the film manage to be ridiculously silly and entertaining all at once. This isn't The Fifth Element (and honestly nothing comes close to that yet) but i did enjoy this. However, this is Scarlett Johannson's third best film of the year (Her came out in the UK in 2014) after Under the Skin and Cap 2.

Under the Skin is STILL the film of the year.

Sin City 2 - This film didn't need nine years to be made. I walked out going "oh ok then" and that was that.
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Post by: Halbred on September 03, 2014, 09:32:23 PM
I didn't get Under the Skin. I understood what it was supposed to be...but yeah. After the initial alien-ness of her character wore off, I was fighting to stay engaged.
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Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on September 03, 2014, 10:52:57 PM
I didn't get Under the Skin. I understood what it was supposed to be...but yeah. After the initial alien-ness of her character wore off, I was fighting to stay engaged.

what he said.
I think I wrote something about it on here...(I might not have) but I really don't get the praise for it. it was kinda dull.


Enemy was also a weird one to watch. But I watched that super late night, so I might have missed part... I don't even remember. Don't really care to go back and check either.
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Post by: Plugabugz on September 04, 2014, 04:04:44 AM
I suppose i latched onto it because its Scarlett Johannson starting off by wandering around a shopping mall in Scotland, only changing her hair, and totally blends in.

It was the most extreme example of "show, don't tell" - i can see why its considered dull though. It's not paced like Cap 2 or Lucy. It was so deliberately eerie i walked out thinking "what did i just watch?!".
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Post by: BranDonk Kong on September 28, 2014, 01:48:18 AM
The Equalizer - Denzel/10

Good movie. It won't change your life or anything, but it's pretty entertaining. Basically Denzel Washington is a badass and kills lots of people for two hours. If you ever see him in a Home Depot, leave.
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Post by: Fatty The Hutt on October 14, 2014, 12:00:11 PM
Guardians of the Galaxy - NotStarWars/10
I finally caught up with this film. It was very good but not overwhelmingly great. It looks great, most of the action set pieces were fine. I like the band of characters. The plot is just an overly complicated take on chasing a MacGuffin. There were enough spaghetti-western and prison-break film influences to keep the action fun. The story is way too convoluted. I suspect folks that are familiar with the Marvel universe of comics probably appreciated the story more than I did. I found the villains of the piece to be very boring and one-noted. They were just bad guys for bad guys' sake. No dimension to them at all. Thanos in particular was laughable. Big faced "scary" dude sitting on a throne in space. OK, whatever. He's no Darth Vader, choking the life out of some dude within the first few minutes. I gather he's the Big Bad for the next Avengers? I hope he is more interesting by then. I had the same problem with the Christopher Eccleston baddie in Thor 2. He was just a bad guy hell bent on destruction and darkness because ... no reason, he's just a bad guy. A shouty, boring bad guy. Eccleston's such a good actor, that role was wasted on him.
Anyway, Guardians was far from terrible, just not a revelation.
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Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on October 14, 2014, 01:57:49 PM
Well, Thor 2 has like 20 minutes cut out of it, and then villain scenes replaced with reshoots to include more Loki. Maybe all the extra scenes are on the DVD? Or maybe one day they release the extended directors cut (since the director was cut from final edit of the movie... and probably the Loki reshoots as well).
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Post by: ObbyDent on November 07, 2014, 11:17:57 PM
Interstellar - 10/10

An incredibly emotional, profound, beautiful movie. I loved every goddamn second of it. Fits right alongside the other great New Millennium science fiction movies. That is all I will say so I don't spoil even a second of the film for anyone else here.
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Post by: Plugabugz on November 08, 2014, 07:23:10 PM
Interstellar - 10/10

An incredibly emotional, profound, beautiful movie. I loved every goddamn second of it. Fits right alongside the other great New Millennium science fiction movies. That is all I will say so I don't spoil even a second of the film for anyone else here.

I agree with this. This film is shy of three hours long, but is so far the ONLY film of 2014 which did not feel like 3 hours just passed.
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Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on November 09, 2014, 02:37:16 AM
Live. Die. Repeat / Edge of Tomorrow

Great fun movie.
It was like Groundhog Day meets Starship Troopers vs The Matrix.
Acton was good, fair amount of comedic elements and entertaining throughout. Definitely worth the rental/purchase.
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Post by: Nile Boogie Returns on November 09, 2014, 07:29:22 PM
Big Hero 6!


Movie really has a lot of heart and feels warm and toasty. I was nice to see grown people in the theater watching this movie without kids. (although I was there with 3 of my little ones but I would have seen it dolo) This won't be as big as say Frozen or Tangled but it is right there with Wreck it Ralph.  Also while not yet old Pixar or New Dreamworks in terms of quality DAS has really stepped up there game in the last few years and I hope they continue to rotate between Girl >Boy>Girl> Boy movies. (...I know they can be enjoyed by all)


Live. Die. Repeat / Edge of Tomorrow

Great fun movie.
It was like Groundhog Day meets Starship Troopers vs The Matrix.
Acton was good, fair amount of comedic elements and entertaining throughout. Definitely worth the rental/purchase.




I thought this was really good as well. Can't figure why they changed the name of the flick..twice. "All You Need Is Kill" might be a James Bond-ish type of name but I really thought it was better than both of the new names.  And thanks Tom Cruise for holding down the Sci-Fi/action themed movies.
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Post by: azeke on November 12, 2014, 06:01:51 AM
Last year's best movie was Gravity.

This year it's Interstellar.

Amazing sci-fi resurgence, love it so much. What an amazing time for sci-fi we live in.

I could have lived without happy ending but otherwise it's a stellar terrific movie.
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Post by: nickmitch on November 14, 2014, 02:28:57 PM
Interstellar 9.5/10

Gotta dock it half a point for some of the plot, but otherwise this movie is amazing.  One thing I loved was that it dared to ask a big question (like Prometheus), and went ahead and provided an answer (unlike Prometheus).  But this film looked amazing and was awe-inspiring all the way through.
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Post by: BranDonk Kong on November 16, 2014, 02:26:38 AM
Interstellar - 9.9/10
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Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on November 16, 2014, 11:28:07 PM
I just watched 2 movies today, time I can never have back unfortunately.

Terrible movie #1:
Twilight Breaking Dawn part 2.
This movie can't get anything about vampires correct.... coven of vampires? never heard that one before. Thought it was a Den. Special powers, like controlling the elements and barrier of protection... is this a vampire movie or were we watching the XY-Men. Doakota fanning I don't think even had a single line in this movie. Her whole role was ::stare intently.....:: ::stare even harder as you mean more harm!!!:: and the CG baby face was a little weird.... and the huge cop out at the end of the final battle not even happening.... yeah, don't watch.
the only good thing was that the vamps no longer sparkle.

Terrible movie #2:
Transformers: Age of Extinction
first of all, this movie is waaaaaay too damn long. the final battle was like 45 minutes of destruction porn all over China. The "improved" transformers made from "transformium" that destabalized and broke down like CG straight of of The Lawnmower Man slightly updated for 2001 was distracting. This movie made a billion dollars and had a $200M+ budget. I expect much better.
And the little purple car made from "transformium" sounded like Wall-E "waaaaaallllll eeeeee" every time it drove off. found that pretty damn funny. Also the boyfriend of the daughter looked like a mix between Chris Pratt and Seth Rogan. something else that was distracting. And why do the transformers transformations have to be so damn overegineered!? Why can't it be simple like the toys that will eventually be made from these very characters?

2 movies I would not sit through again. I recommend you not do the same.
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Post by: oohhboy on November 16, 2014, 11:42:00 PM
Live. Die. Repeat / Edge of Tomorrow

Great fun movie.
It was like Groundhog Day meets Starship Troopers vs The Matrix.
Acton was good, fair amount of comedic elements and entertaining throughout. Definitely worth the rental/purchase.

I much preferred the original Japanese source name All You Need is Kill. Admittedly it would have confused the **** out of western audiences though.

Last years Snowpiercer was a fantastic movie I somehow missed. Great action, excellent pacing, wonderful performances and though provoking if you're up for it.

Did someone make you watch those movies BlacknMild? If someone is hurting you, you can tell us. It is safe here. We can help you.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on November 17, 2014, 12:04:00 AM
I got a bunch of movies o my "to watch list" she picked one out of the first stack, and I picked the one on top of the stack after that.

Now she is butt hurt because she read my previous post (as I was typing it) and thought I said that my time spent with her couldn't be had back.... instead of that the movies themselves were a waste, and we could have been watching something else instead (p.s. she is a Twilight fan and has seen the movies countless times. It was my first time was my first and last time...).

help me?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ObbyDent on November 17, 2014, 03:41:57 AM
Explain to her what you meant?
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Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on November 17, 2014, 12:58:07 PM
that was the first thing I did.
But women will be women.... (http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/forums/index.php?topic=44485.0)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on November 17, 2014, 04:23:31 PM
Do what I do: don't post when she is present. She is also the reason I don't play multiplayer games with voice chat anymore. She likes to interfere or make awkward noises.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on November 17, 2014, 07:44:57 PM
yeah, I didn't think she was looking at the screen as we were watching a show at the same time.
called me an asshole just as I finished typing the first sentence.... :/

oh well. hopefully she got over it once she realized she was being crazy.
personally I think she was just kinda annoyed that I was ragging on her favorite movie series (Twilight). I even got one of her friends to start watching Vamp Diaries, and now her BFF is like "this is soooo much better than Twilight."

but that's enough derailment.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on November 17, 2014, 08:18:17 PM
Just apologize and wait it out.  She'll get over it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on November 17, 2014, 08:35:48 PM
I ain't apologizing for her mistake. Besides, I already took her mind off it ;).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on November 17, 2014, 10:23:01 PM
Getting her off your back by putting her on your front.


Classic.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on November 18, 2014, 02:05:26 AM
help me?

Watch better movies of course!

But yeah, your lady seem to watch some pretty dire stuff.
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Post by: Nile Boogie Returns on November 18, 2014, 09:51:57 AM
At least you're not stuck watching whatever channel that damned "4 weddings /Bridezilla / Say yes to the dress" comes on.
(HELP ME)
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Post by: ObbyDent on November 18, 2014, 12:37:35 PM
You poor saps.
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Post by: Khushrenada on November 18, 2014, 01:01:16 PM
At least you're not stuck watching whatever channel that damned "4 weddings /Bridezilla / Say yes to the dress" comes on.
(HELP ME)

Sounds like TLC. I remember when TLC stood for The Learning Channel and had educational shows.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Nile Boogie Returns on November 18, 2014, 01:36:54 PM
The Learning Channel, before HISTORY, that was like my favorite channel (10years ago) now its just smut...and not the good smut either.
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Post by: oohhboy on November 18, 2014, 03:19:18 PM
I didn't know what TLC meant until a year or so ago. I always thought it was "Tender Loving Care Crass" for all the **** on that channel. When I found out its real name, it was a real WTF moment.

I hear History isn't really about History any more either since it replayed WW2 the nth time. Now they are chasing aliens and ghosts.

Just cut the cable already America, its not worth it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Nile Boogie Returns on November 18, 2014, 04:01:12 PM
A few more Terabytes of Movies, TV and Old Game Shows on my hard drives  and it "bye bye Comcast".  We already get like 35 OTA channels in Philly, plus Netfilx, but I'm planning for when the NET goes to toilet and I can't get a Nickels-worth of bandwidth without have a a DNA scanner in my hand...(boy that got dark fast).
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Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on November 23, 2014, 01:06:18 AM
Deliver Us From Evil

I just finished watching this one (crazy story related in trying to do that too), and it was actually pretty good. Crazy visuals for and pretty intense for seems like a run of the mill possession/exorcism  story. And I saw a name that was familiar during the credits - Director: Scott Derrickson
where do I know that name? That's the guy who did Sinister and is directing the upcoming Doctor Strange movie for Marvel Studios (I looked it up). Now i don't remember being all that into Sinister story wise, but I think it was visually pretty creepy (I'll have to pop it in and refresh myself), but Deliver us had some pretty sick imagery going on that might make some weaker stomachs a little queasy. The action and possession/exorcism scenes were also pretty intense. So this adds a small amount of anticipation to Dr. Strange. Looking forward to a trailer for that one, sometime before end of next year.

anyway, this one I would recommend for supernatural/possession "inspired by true events" horror fans.
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Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on November 23, 2014, 02:23:34 PM
Batman Suicide Squad: Assault on Arkham

Batman was barely in this movie, but I guess they were trying to sell it on name recognition (surprise surprise). 85% of this was Deadshot and the Suicide Squad. Not terrible, but nowhere near DC's best.
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Post by: Shorty McNostril on November 23, 2014, 04:54:31 PM
How any villain with any self respect can call themselves Captain Boomerang boggles the mind.  I had to actually google him to see if this character was for real. 

And now he is in Arrow....*sigh*
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on November 23, 2014, 06:21:52 PM
How any villain with any self respect can call themselves Captain Boomerang boggles the mind.  I had to actually google him to see if this character was for real. 

And now he is in Arrow....*sigh*

and in 2 weeks, on The Flash as well (Arrow vs The Flash crossover).
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Post by: broodwars on December 18, 2014, 03:16:02 AM
I finally got around to watching The Wind Rises, and it's easily the most boring & most passion-less film I've seen all year. To top it off, the film features performances (apparently on both the English & Japanese language tracks) so quiet and emotionless that that it feels less like a film and more like the animators decided to draw 2 hours of Disney Animatronics re-enacting the Hall of Presidents. Typically, biopics exist to reveal insights into famous historical figures in order to give the audience an idea of the people behind the great moments of our time, but this movie doesn't care about the people in this story, just that an airplane got made eventually. And apparently the writers knew how boring the script of their biopic was, because they decided to throw in a completely fictional turberculosis-stricken wife to serve no other purpose than to die.

I'm not a fan of Miyazaki (outside Porco Rosso & Kiki's Delivery Service), but even by his low standards this movie's a complete flop.  At least the animation's nice to look at, I guess.
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Post by: oohhboy on December 18, 2014, 07:59:05 AM
That sounds pretty horrific for a Miyazaki film. Although I have always felt peak Miyazaki was back around Porco Rosso, Kiki's Delivery Service and Laupta(Crazy good music). Nausicaa is ok, but is so heavy handed and the world so shizo with its technology it breaks the movie. Spirited Away looks fantasitic but felt pretty nonsensical and forgettable outside of a couple elements.
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Post by: ObbyDent on December 18, 2014, 02:14:09 PM
That sounds pretty horrific for a Miyazaki film. Although I have always felt peak Miyazaki was back around Porco Rosso, Kiki's Delivery Service and Laupta(Crazy good music). Nausicaa is ok, but is so heavy handed and the world so shizo with its technology it breaks the movie. Spirited Away looks fantasitic but felt pretty nonsensical and forgettable outside of a couple elements.

Mononoke?

But yeah, the best Ghibli movies aren't even the ones that Miyazaki directed. Whisper of the Heart, Only Yesterday, and pretty much every Takahata film are superior to every film Miyazaki ever did.

Oh, and the movie isn't as bad as broodwars says it is. It isn't the best, but he tends to exaggerate these sorts of things.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on December 18, 2014, 02:34:37 PM
I thought Nausicaa would have been great with just a bit more character development, especially between the two villains.

And ObbyDent's right. My favorite Miyazaki film isn't even a Miyazaki film as I originally thought. It's a Takahata film. And that movie is Pom Poko. I thought Miyazaki finally nailed his "humans are assholes to ecology" bit, but it turns out it was Takahata.

I guess my favorite film that Miyazaki directed is Howl's Moving Castle. I am still not sure what happens storywise, but I just find it so damn creative and funny. The english dub is fantastic, especially Billy Crystal as Howl's heart. It's very well done. But again, I have no idea why anything happens in that movie.
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Post by: ObbyDent on December 18, 2014, 02:45:10 PM
Oh, man. Pom Poko is such a fantastic movie. Incredibly beautiful in almost every way and incredibly heartbreaking at the same time. It was interesting to see the slow decline and fall of the tanookis over a few decades.

I find it to be a shame that Takahata never had the cult following that Miyazaki has. Hell, most of my friends who I'd consider to be knowledgeable about anime don't know who Takahata even is. All they care about are three movies: Totoro, Spirited Away, and either Howl's or Mononoke.

Is my hipster showing yet?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on December 18, 2014, 09:51:47 PM
I didn't really like Howl's Moving Castle. I'm partial to Kiki's Delivery Service though Kirsten Dunst's shrill, wounded harpy voice nearly wrecks an otherwise pretty stellar dub.

Whisper of the Heart is probably my favorite Studio Ghibli film even though that ending is rushed and far worse than the rest of the film.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on December 20, 2014, 11:54:44 PM
I haven't seen many Studio Ghibli movies myself. Of the ones I have seen, here's how I personally rank them.

1. Grave of the Fireflies
2. Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (I know it isn't technically Ghibli but often considered to be.)
3. My Neighbor Totoro
4. From Up on Poppy Hill
5. The Wind Rises
6. Howl's Moving Castle
7. Princess Monokoke

I've actually just borrowed Spirited Away so I'll see that sometime from now. Grave of the Fireflies is the first Ghibli film I've watched and I guess all others I've seen have been compared to it and yet it still holds my number one spot. I saw Nausicaa a few months ago and was really impressed with it. Judging by my list, it would seem I'd like the older Ghibli movies more than the newer but I'll slowly give them all a shot.

I think the strongest thing about Ghibli movies however is the music. Even when watching one I think is a bit of a stinker, I'm still impressed by the music.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on December 21, 2014, 12:53:37 AM
However, it's time to talk about the best movie of 2014. (Keep in mind I've yet to see Boyhood, Under the Skin, The Imitation Game and a few other highly praised movies.)

That film is Whiplash.

Go see it. Even if it is playing a town 10 hours from where you live. Plan a trip and go see it. It will be worth the drive and you'll want to have the 10 hours coming back to mull it all over.

Why are you still reading this? Unless you've already seen this movie, you should be heading out to see it right now.

2014 has been a year of much movie disappointment for me. There's been a lot of crap released. Even films I'd hoped might be good or others seem to really like, such as Edge of Tomorrow and Interstellar, have been disappointments. Let's just say that at the moment, Dumb and Dumber To would actually be one of my top 10 movies so far and even that I recognize is a movie that could have used a bit more work.

Regardless, even if I had liked those movies more, Whiplash would still have blown them out of the water. It sounds like a pretty basic premise of a drummer trying to prove his skill and the sadistic music teacher that only accepts perfection and the clash between them. But it plays this story out masterfully.

When the movie was over, I was left in a state of stunned awe. I left the theater dazed and replaying so much of it in my head. Starting my car, I realized that I was sort of catching my breath and just beginning to relax. That's when I realized just how intense of an experience this movie was. This movie is intense. It sucks you into this world and doesn't let go. You feel the pressure and stress that is going on and all the ups and downs as things go good and go bad. Perhaps, too, the fact there is so much drumming go on which affects the tempo of the soundtrack and music playing and is often done at a high rate of speed is another reason as to why my heart was pounding so fast. Whatever it was, that whole combination worked for me.

J.K. Simmons is the front runner for the Best Supporting Oscar (despite the fact Oscar nominations haven't even been made) from a lot of sources and has already won some awards and gotten other nominations for his work in this film. Personally, I think calling him a supporting actor would be like calling Mozart a supporting character in Amadeus. To me, he is a main actor. That isn't to say Miles Teller who plays the lead does poorly. He is also exceptional. It's just that J.K. Simmons character is a force in this movie. Like a good villain, you understand his motivations and you can admire and despise him in various situations. It is great work.

One thing that was unexpected for me going into the movie was that it would be a more jazzy soundtrack. My problem with jazz is that as much as I want to like it, so much of it is rather boring. What I mean by that is when I hear a good jazz song or music, it really sinks into your soul. You can just really dig it and it is the greatest sound on Earth. Unfortunately, that isn't the vast majority of jazz music. Compared to that feeling, a lot of it comes off rather plain or a bit boring and repetitive. So, with a movie about achieving greatness in music, the soundtrack reflects it and I was digging the music in this right from the beginning opening credits and on to the Whiplash song, Fletcher's piano piece and the Caravan number. This is what I think of when I think jazz.

In the end, Whiplash is a movie that reinvigorates a person about movies and cinema. It represents the amazing things that can still be achieved on screen and is a great example of how to properly use the medium. It is a movie that stayed with me all evening and then was right there with me when I woke up the next day. It's all I wanted to talk about. I had to search out other reviews and forums just to get some more discussion and thoughts on it.

It currently sits as the 4th best movie of 2014 on Rotten Tomatoes rankings (http://www.rottentomatoes.com/top/bestofrt/?year=2014) with 96% approval both by critics and by audience members. Thus, there is a very good chance you will like it too. I went into the movie knowing next to nothing about it aside from the small story description I gave earlier and knew it was highly reviewed. I hadn't even seen a trailer for it. Thus, I don't want to get into too many specifics in an effort to let others see this movie with that same mindset of unknown potential.

The other big thing I can do to ensure enjoyment is to tell you to go see it already. I saw it two weeks ago and my enthusiasm for it has not diminished unlike a lot of other films this year. If you see this movie, you won't care about whether Marvel or Sony make Spiderman movies in the future or whether pulling The Interview was a good idea because Sony Pictures was smart enough to distribute this film. All you'll be thinking about after is why can't more movies be this good.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on December 21, 2014, 01:14:04 AM
Did... did you just copy and paste that from somewhere else?

2014 has been a pretty meh year for movies. Can't even be bothered to look for a movie of the year. It hasn't helped by poor marketing overexposing movies most people don't give a flying **** about(Looking at you fucking Hobbit movies). Or that a movie I was looking forward to watching (John Wick) didn't even come out here.

Better luck next year I guess.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on December 21, 2014, 03:08:05 AM
Did... did you just copy and paste that from somewhere else?

2014 has been a pretty meh year for movies. Can't even be bothered to look for a movie of the year. It hasn't helped by poor marketing overexposing movies most people don't give a flying **** about(Looking at you fucking Hobbit movies). Or that a movie I was looking forward to watching (John Wick) didn't even come out here.

Better luck next year I guess.

No. Is there another site where someone said something similar?

It has most definitely been a meh year for movies which is disappointing since the past 3 years have had a lot of great movies. I've wanted to see John Wick also but since it has been released in my area, I keep putting it off to see other movies like Nightcrawler, Interstellar, Whiplash, etc. I'll probably go see The Theory of Everything this week instead of it as well unless I decide to gamble that theatres will keep playing Theory of Everything for another week and check out Wick instead. Plus, Foxcatcher is now playing in a theatre this week so the clock is ticking now on how long that will be shown. I wish there was a way to know how long a theatre was going to show a film so it was easier to know which would be around for awhile and which would be limited.

As for poor marketing, keep in mind that Transformers 4 is the worldwide box office leader at over $1 billion dollars. Maleficent, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Rio 2 are all in the top 13 worldwide box office leaders and The Hobbit will most likely be up there also. Sadly, people still want to see those movies. Although maybe I'm part of the problem as I'll go to The Hobbit 3. I actually did enjoy the Desolation of Smaug for the most part but I don't have high hopes for the third movie. My favorite part of The Hobbit book was the confrontation of Bilbo and Smaug amongst the treasure and I quite enjoyed that part in the movie as well. I was always eager to see the second film because of that. But now the Smaug part is mostly over and I can not remember anything about the ending of the Hobbit after Smaug dies so I have no idea what's coming except it will probably be long.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: marvel_moviefan_2012 on December 26, 2014, 08:16:20 PM
This: http://thespiderslair.com/?p=478 (http://thespiderslair.com/?p=478)

It was not as good as I remembered it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on December 26, 2014, 08:31:00 PM
The Interview

A damn fun movie that makes fun and mocks the **** out of everything. It starts from the first scene and it doesn't stop till the credits. It somehow just keeps escalating.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: marvel_moviefan_2012 on December 27, 2014, 06:18:36 AM
The Interview

A damn fun movie that makes fun and mocks the **** out of everything. It starts from the first scene and it doesn't stop till the credits. It somehow just keeps escalating.

I was going to see it but they didn't have it on Playstation. which is odd they released it on Xbox but not Playstation I was disappointed I don't have a way of seeing it at the moment. I will have to wait for Netflix or iTunes to balls up I guess.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Nile Boogie Returns on December 31, 2014, 03:39:17 PM
LUCY?




Anyone wanna try and explain just what the hell I watched? If I take drugs I become God?  Huh?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on December 31, 2014, 04:36:45 PM
LUCY?




Anyone wanna try and explain just what the hell I watched? If I take drugs I become God?  Huh?

They left off the post credit scene where she wakes up strapped to a hospital bed because it was all a drug induced nightmare coma.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on December 31, 2014, 05:01:50 PM
The Drop

This movie reminded me of Breaking Bad; not for the plot, but because of the intense conversations. It's incredible. The amount of anxiety this movie was able to build with just a few characters and scenes is incredible. The last 20 minutes or so is wrought with tension, so intense that even the smallest, most mundane actions are disturbing. And I have to mention the well written antagonist. They're unpredictable. I never knew what they were going to do next, and it freaked me out. They were just so unlike myself, or any of the other characters, yet so firmly placed in reality that it was actually pretty frightening.

The payoff for all the tension is a wonderful climax that doesn't let you down. By the end of the movie, you'll wonder what you just watched and want to watch it again. It's that good. And other than a few scenes that I think went just a tad too long and disrupted the otherwise brilliant pacing, this movie is a perfect.

9.5/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Nile Boogie Returns on December 31, 2014, 07:23:25 PM
LUCY?




Anyone wanna try and explain just what the hell I watched? If I take drugs I become God?  Huh?

They left off the post credit scene where she wakes up strapped to a hospital bed because it was all a drug induced nightmare coma.




I was hoping for something like that. I thought Morgan Freeman was running a simulation within a program but NO they ended the movie in the worst possible way I could never imagine.  I mean an omnipotent Flash-drive? I've been a shitty writer for 15years and I liked Superman Returns better than Man of Steel. I know thats crazy but not as crazy as matter-transfering time travel because of drugs. If I saw this in the movies, I'd a walked out and threw fruit at the side of the building.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on December 31, 2014, 08:42:58 PM
Lucy

No it wasn't an omnipotent flash drive. It contained fundamental knowledge of the universe and the path to follow Lucy to ascension. The knowledge is also gated so that the massive amount of knowledge wouldn't lead to the human race to blow itself up with it.

The drug is suppose to be some sort of energizer like coke. Lucy ODed on it but happen to win the genetic lottery ana become increasingly super human.


The other ending would have been worse as they are "It was all a dream ending" which is beyond lazy and gutless. It would have sucked hard.

It is a Luc Besson film. The guy is almost a trope. Leon, Taken, Fifth Element, Transporter series.

Has a strong female protagonist that is as strong if not stronger than a male? Check so much. The science is mostly nonsense but is justified and consistent in-universe? Check. Cool non-shake cam sequences(This alone make Lucy better than most films)? Check. Lots of style? Check. Has foreign or outright alien language? Check. Doesn't feature America? Double check.

If this movie pisses you off then I am really surprised there isn't rioting outside Transformers showings.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Ceric on December 31, 2014, 11:04:21 PM
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If this movie pisses you off then I am really surprised there isn't rioting outside Transformers showings.
That's actually just a travesty.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Nile Boogie Returns on January 01, 2015, 10:46:45 AM
I 'd watch Transformers 1 (Bay's best film)  any day of the week before I set eyes on Lucy again.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on January 01, 2015, 10:56:59 AM
If Bay ever had a good film it would be The Rock. Maybe the Bad boys series because they are fucking cartoons. Transformers series is a rolling garbage pit.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Nile Boogie Returns on January 01, 2015, 01:39:03 PM
Bay indeed has some stinkers in the Transformers series, but the first one still has that perfect mix of comedy and action that he is good at.  The Rock, Armageddon Bad Boys and Transformers can be in his top tier.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on January 01, 2015, 05:33:28 PM
Are you Michael Bay?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Nile Boogie Returns on January 01, 2015, 09:16:12 PM
In all fairness he is my uncle.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on January 01, 2015, 09:34:35 PM
Annie - 5/10

Screw you, I have kids.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on January 01, 2015, 11:55:30 PM
Just disappointing to see no one has taken my incredibly sound advice to see Whiplash yet.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: marvel_moviefan_2012 on January 02, 2015, 05:47:20 PM
I like Michael Bay movies, not all of them but most of them.


I just finished The Hunger Games, watching Catching Fire now. Not that interested but I am taking a girl to see the third one tomorrow night and she wants me to see the first two first.

The story is not that bad, the cinematography is terrible though. I am not that fond of the acting either. Whatshername is a terrible actress but whatever she is a superstar so she must be here to stay.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ObbyDent on January 02, 2015, 06:46:26 PM
Terrible? Not even close bro
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on January 03, 2015, 12:47:01 AM
Jennifer Lawrence is a national treasure.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ObbyDent on January 04, 2015, 02:29:44 AM
Terrible? Not even close bro


To clarify, go watch a Twilight movie or any of those generic YA adapted films (Divergence etc) made to copy the Hunger Games trend and you'll see what I mean.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on January 04, 2015, 08:43:36 AM
Not to nitpick, but Twilight came out before Hunger Games (books and movies). However, I have never, and will never, read or watch any of the aforementioned books or movies.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: marvel_moviefan_2012 on January 04, 2015, 11:57:12 AM
just because there are worse actors out there doesn't magically make bad acting good. She was only good at one thing, crying, which as a female comes naturally to her anyways. To be fair, I have seen her other movies she couldn't act worth a damn in them either. That isn't saying they are bad movies but the fact remains the lead actress was not very good.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on January 04, 2015, 12:02:57 PM
She was only good at one thing, crying, which as a female comes naturally to her anyways.

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Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on January 04, 2015, 12:34:27 PM
She was only good at one thing, crying, which as a female comes naturally to her anyways.

...
That is funhaus material right there.

Jennifer Lawrence is very, very bland, there are far more interesting, distinct and talented people than her. Like Kristin Stewart she exists as an audience insert. She is primarily getting promoted around because she is the only successful actresses in her niche which she did by the virtue of filling it first.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on January 04, 2015, 04:42:11 PM
She was only good at one thing, crying, which as a female comes naturally to her anyways.

...
That is funhaus material right there.

Jennifer Lawrence is very, very bland, there are far more interesting, distinct and talented people than her. Like Kristin Stewart she exists as an audience insert. She is primarily getting promoted around because she is the only successful actresses in her niche which she did by the virtue of filling it first.

Plus Kristen Stewart is impossible to pay attention to since i was informed of that mouth-breathing thing she does.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Nile Boogie Returns on January 04, 2015, 08:04:38 PM
How many "bad" actresses have an Oscar?  Not that it doesn't happen but while she may not be the best ever she is very far from bad!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ObbyDent on January 04, 2015, 09:10:09 PM
Not to nitpick, but Twilight came out before Hunger Games (books and movies). However, I have never, and will never, read or watch any of the aforementioned books or movies.


If you look, I never said it came out after. They were seprated by an and. Subject confusion, but still

She was only good at one thing, crying, which as a female comes naturally to her anyways.


what the **** man
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on January 04, 2015, 10:42:31 PM
They were separated by an "or,"  but whatevs.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ObbyDent on January 04, 2015, 10:46:06 PM
They were separated by an "or,"  but whatevs.


Right, even more so then
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on January 08, 2015, 02:38:10 AM
Interstellar 9/10

Buh bah, buh bah, boh bah, boh bah bo bo bah, buh bah, buh bah, boh bah bo bo bah...


Hours later and the theme song is still in my head.


If you haven't seen this movie, go see it...it's great. That said....


LESSTHANSTELLAR (so clever) OR WHY I HATE LOVE THIS MOVIE.


This movie is good. It's original, it's beautiful, it delves into subjects that I find fascinating, but it's not without its problems. And some of those problems are pretty major. But despite those problems, I still got goosebumps from some scenes, and I walked out of the movie theater glad that I sat through this experience.


But that's also one of the major problems. It's long. It's really long. That would be okay, if it wasn't unnecessarily long. There were so many scenes and plot points that actually didn't serve the plot. They were completely trivial and it dragged down what could have been a laconic film. For example, there was no reason for Matt Damon's character and planet other than for Nolan to preach through film. It didn't serve the plot at all, and in general, the entire scene was badly written. It could have been something worth filming if the character wasn't so obvious. There was ample room for suspense, but even a novice could see the twist coming. And other than Cooper being the "ghost", this was the only point in the film thus far that we knew exactly what was about to happen. And the lack of surprise completely killed the scene. That said, Cooper docking into the station was thrilling. I loved every second of it, but Damon being "the best of the best" surely wouldn't have made such a mistake no matter how severe his psychotic breakdown, and it all came off very forced in retrospect. Nolan should have realized that leaving this scene in the movie was a mistake. There was no need to force a problem through "Man" when space is already extremely dangerous. If after guessing wrong on the first planet, the astronauts spent most of their fuel and had to slingshot around the black hole in order to reach the hopefully habitable planet, with Cooper sacrificing himself, the movie would have benefited.


Still, as an adventurous person, I was excited that we were travelling to three planets instead of two (or even one). Space is the biggest dick tease. You can quote me on that. And our generation was born too late to explore Earth and too early to explore the Cosmos, so it comes down to movies like this to satisfy my thirst for adventure. But what do we get? A water planet, an ice planet, and a desert planet. How incredibly boring. Nolan had free range to create any world he wanted with a multitude of reasons why it is or isn't habitable, yet he showed us nothing creative in the slightest. And it was so bland, so insipid that it made me question the science of the film, which immediately drew me out of the picture. If we, today, can find "Goldilocks" planets by the hundreds, then how did these future astronauts not make better guesses? And next to a black hole? Really? I was willing to let the black hole slide because it was serving the plot beautifully, but after the dud of water world, and the unimaginative ice world, I began to hate this movie.


But then the black hole drew me in and creativity was finally shown to me. Despite the many problems I have with this, which mainly focus on the fifth dimensional beings, I really loved the scene of Cooper in the tesseract. The only thing working in this film was Cooper and Murphy, and they were on display on a stage I have wanted to see visualized for a long time now. Seeing time laid out in front of you is incredibly compelling, and with the two best written characters, it was mesmerizing. There were few scenes already that were incredible, but this made the movie. Even though I knew Cooper was the "ghost", seeing how he was the ghost was the best thing this movie had to offer.


And then the movie continues, and at first I was genuinely excited to see it play out. But it just became worse and worse. The only reason you would ever write an ending where Cooper and Murphy meet is because they finally meet. All of their actions and regrets has been leading to this point, and though you could have ended the movie already and really struck a chord about those actions and regrets, you continued on so that they could meet and embrace each other and what happens? A 30 second conversation. A 30 second conversation that doesn't even end abruptly because of someone dying. Is that really it? Is that what you wanted us to see? Cooper should have gotten on the bed and cradled Murphy as if she was young again and the movie should have ended. That would have been powerful, that would have been meaningful, but instead you try to wrap everything in a nice bow, insuring all your characters who survived are accounted for and it comes off confusing and completely backwards to your characters motivations. Either have Cooper floating through space and die or have him coddle his now older than him daughter. Those are the only two ways to end the film...well.


But despite all those problems and several more (why did the fifth dimensional beings make it so damn hard for us humans? There are more coincidences in this movie than an M. Night film), I like it. I really liked it. Every time I got flustered with the plot or tired of the length, Nolan would punch me in the gut with raw dramatic energy. Every time there was too much explanation or the surprise wasn't well concealed, Nolan would punch me in the gut with a thrilling set piece. And every time I began to get bored with the monologues and speeches, my jaw would drop from the magnificent backdrops (I seriously could watch a .gif loop of some of those for hours, hypnotoad be damned).


So watch this movie. Buy it if need be. And shut your brain off and be spoon fed explanation while you lovingly watch two great characters act out their drama on the greatest of stages.

EDIT: One last thing. I do not hate Matt Damon's character. Far from it actually. He's one of the most intriguing and easily one of the most believable, but he's ultimately unnecessary.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on January 12, 2015, 04:14:41 PM
Whiplash 10/10

A perfect film, from beginning to end. There's not much to say that Khush hasn't already, but I'll back him up in telling all of you to go see it. It is, in a word, mesmerizing. From the first second to the last, you can't take your eyes off the screen.

But quite possibly the greatest thing about this film is how simplistic it all is. There's very few characters, very few settings, and very few motivations but it works because of focused it is. Just watch it and you'll know what I mean. It gave me a very Aronofsky like chill watching it, and honestly I'd like to hear his opinion of the movie because it's right up his alley. I wonder if he would say "I couldn't make it any better."
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on January 12, 2015, 06:18:31 PM
Awesome! Thanks for backing me up and checking out the film. Glad you liked it also.

But quite possibly the greatest thing about this film is how simplistic it all is. There's very few characters, very few settings, and very few motivations but it works because of focused it is."

This. So much this. Other films like The Hobbit 3 are made at a budget of $250,000,000, Transformers 4 at a budget o $210,000,000 and The Amazing Spiderman 2 at a budget of $200,000,000. Despite all the money and technology poured into those films, they are large, bloated and uneven films and don't even come close to delivering the same intense and exciting experience as this film despite it being much more simple and at a far smaller budget. I just hope it gets the Best Picture nomination it deserves.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on January 13, 2015, 02:06:23 PM
Big Hero 6

7/10

Not the best movie, but I wasn't expecting anything great. Funny thing is, it's main plot device was eerily similar to something I had thought up years ago http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/forums/index.php?topic=27795.msg692354#msg692354.

The first third of the movie is great. It has some hilarious moments, but the rest was pretty forced. I didn't really care about a majority of the characters. Still, it's a fun animated flick that doesn't reach the threshold of How to Train Your Dragon or Wall-E, but those movies are perfect so I wasn't expecting it to.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on January 14, 2015, 11:40:32 PM
Good Will Hunting Three Stars out of Four

Robin Williams was good. Matt Damon needed to be hit by a car. The story was a little contrived, but I enjoyed it.

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on January 15, 2015, 03:02:07 AM
You missed a part of Interstellar that everyone seems to have completely forgotten: At the end of the film, where is Cooper's son? I think he's shown in the shot but has absolutely no lines and gets sidetracked for Murphy and then again to send Coop back out into space.

Apart from the family drama (and Topher Grace turning up to tell them they cannot stay at the house anymore) he disappeared almost immediately after that. We don't know if he lived or died or if anything has actually happened to him, because Murphy was too busy having daddy issues.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on January 15, 2015, 08:55:30 AM
No one completely forgot about it but it goes "forgotten" because that was the movies intention. His character makes no sense and is unnecessary and the movie knows it. It would have flowed much better without him there.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on January 15, 2015, 11:25:50 AM
Good Will Hunting Three Stars out of Four

Robin Williams was good. Matt Damon needed to be hit by a car. The story was a little contrived, but I enjoyed it.



Really? I just saw this movie for the first time myself last week, oddly enough, but I liked Damon's character. That scene when he first meets Robin William's character and is scanning his office and probing with questions and statements to find some way to break Williams is great. I agree that the story did seem a bit too pat or artificial at times but it and the characters were still enjoyable enough that I didn't judge it too much and just enjoyed watching it play out. I'd rate it slightly higher at 3.5 stars out of 4.

Say, did you ever get around to seeing all of the AFI top 100 movies? What was the end result of that?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on January 15, 2015, 02:30:06 PM
John Wick

6/10

Apart from some cool set pieces this is a run-of-the-mill story about a retired gangster who is flung back into the life he escaped. I think my main problem is how quickly the main character (or John) returns to his past life. The setup is there but it's brash, sloppy and lends no weight morally to the rest of the movie. So instead of rooting for him to succeed, you're just watching him succeed.

There are some cool concepts. One of the best characters isn't even a person but a hotel. And while cool, it's a problem in comparison to the characters.

One scene of this movie tells the problem with the entire movie, and that's when they are discussing who John Wick was. That story was far more interesting and could have made a better movie than we we were given.

Check it out at your leisure for some cool scenes and concepts, but if you're not an action buff, don't be afraid to simply ignore it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on January 16, 2015, 08:10:10 AM
No one completely forgot about it but it goes "forgotten" because that was the movies intention. His character makes no sense and is unnecessary and the movie knows it. It would have flowed much better without him there.

Thinking about it, he only had a purpose for the video tapes he recorded to send to Endurance, because if he didn't Coop wouldn't have got anything at all - past that it didnt matter his kids were sick and dying.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on January 17, 2015, 01:25:33 AM
John Wick

I really like how all the action is framed and shot. It doesn't try to melt your face off with shaking, speed up or stupid quick cuts. Comparatively low key, no exploding cars, a simple plot that boarders on excuse plot that opens up to some dark comedy.

John never really truly got out in his own mind. He still practices driving at airport regularly. He is still "friends" with the local cops. He still remembers the cleaners number. I don't think morality has much of a place in this movie, its more about professionalism and civility. The professionalism really comes through with just how lethally clean it is with the constant headshot finishers and the lack of collateral damage.

I agree with you though, the Hotel is great and it is a reflection of the great writing tone wise.

The only thing that is just straight up wrong was them showing the ending in the opening. It really killed the tension. The correct way to do something like that was to copy hat Richard Donner did in 13 Blocks where he fakes you out by showing you what you think the ending is.

For an action aficionado it would rate it a 8/10 just because how well shot action is just so rare these days. If you're not an action fan then there isn't much for you. There is no deeper meaning here, no moral question to be answered, just lots of people getting killed.

Taken 3

Better than 2 which was just embarrassing. Got some alright action and some good quips with that trademarked gravitas. Plot far too complex for its own good but good opening setup. Liam Nesson kills people and has a funny old man jog. Poisons own daughter Nesson is also a bit of a lair.

6/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on January 17, 2015, 11:16:58 AM
Taken 2 was awesome, so Taken 3 must be perfect. Anyway...

Gone Girl - everything before the ending - 9/10

Though I do kind of like the ending thinking back on it (who know what will happen down the road when the Feds have taken over), but justice should have been served.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ObbyDent on January 18, 2015, 03:50:40 PM
Taken 2 was awesome, so Taken 3 must be perfect. Anyway...

Gone Girl - everything before the ending - 9/10

Though I do kind of like the ending thinking back on it (who know what will happen down the road when the Feds have taken over), but justice should have been served.

Personally, I don't think justice should have been served for it be a better movie. In fact, it being a completely happy ending where Rosamund Pike gets her just desserts wouldn't fit the rest of the movie. She was never going to be caught in the way the audience wanted.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on January 18, 2015, 05:36:31 PM
Selma - 9/10

Great bio pic.  I'm glad the film didn't shy away from King's affairs or insecurities and other flaws.  Also, great casting done here.  Seeing the girl from Dear White People was nice, though most side characters don't have "big roles".

American Sniper - 9/10

Bradley Cooper was incredible.  The movie does a good job of not being jingoistic, even if the main character kind of is.  After the first money shot, the movie doesn't really make you wait too much for the next one, so it never really felt "tense" to me.  Sienna Miller may be built like a 2x4, but her acting certainly wasn't flat.
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Post by: Khushrenada on January 19, 2015, 01:33:09 AM
Selma - 9/10

Great bio pic.  I'm glad the film didn't shy away from King's affairs or insecurities and other flaws.  Also, great casting done here.  Seeing the girl from Dear White People was nice, though most side characters don't have "big roles".

American Sniper - 9/10

Bradley Cooper was incredible.  The movie does a good job of not being jingoistic, even if the main character kind of is.  After the first money shot, the movie doesn't really make you wait too much for the next one, so it never really felt "tense" to me.  Sienna Miller may be built like a 2x4, but her acting certainly wasn't flat.

Looks like someone is catching up on their Oscar Best Picture Nominations.

I agree with you about Selma. The only film I haven't seen yet of the Best Picture nominees is American Sniper. It just opened in theatres in my area this weekend so I'll check it out this Tuesday. I'll admit that of all the nominees its the one I've been least interested in so your review is quite encouraging and maybe I'll have a better time at it than expected.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on January 19, 2015, 09:53:50 AM
Birdman

Surprisingly hilarious. I know it is labeled as a comedy but I didn't think I'd laugh as much as I did. The characters are great, the directing is among the best I've ever seen, and I really liked how the entire movie took place in one city block.

However the plot doesn't appeal to me. Maybe because I cannot relate to it, but a washed-up actor is less interesting than say a disgraced doctor or washed-up athlete. I'm sure actors have a tough life, but after making it big, you're famous for your best work. There's still power there (as exemplified by the movie), so it all sounds a bit pretentious and condescending. But to the film's credit, it does mention these very subjects in a hope to show you how difficult it really is, and I applaud them for that, but I just didn't agree.

To me, it looked like a bunch of narcissistic, border-line sociopathic characters trying to accomplish something. And in that way, I still found it incredibly entertaining. But did I find it endearing? Not really. That said, Michael Keaton did a fantastic job. Actually the entire cast acted incredibly.

This is definitely a movie you should check out, even if it is a little heavy-handed from time to time.

8/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Nile Boogie Returns on January 19, 2015, 10:19:57 PM
John Wick:


It was as if Platinum Games directed a movie. It's up there with The Raid. I mean it's awesome, like really really awesome. The gunplay is some of the best I've ever seen and he plays no games when it comes to making sure you're dead. 9/10.
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Post by: oohhboy on January 20, 2015, 09:24:36 AM
I little something about John Wick

(http://i.imgur.com/bhuJYTQ.gif)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Nile Boogie Returns on January 20, 2015, 10:45:08 AM
I little something about John Wick

(http://i.imgur.com/bhuJYTQ.gif)


The defining moment of the character! It just shows so much that he waits to reload and finish the job. So damed good!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on January 20, 2015, 03:56:32 PM
Yeah, that part was great. It's actually the best part of the movie and you should probably spoiler tag it (can you spoiler tag images?).

But even as an action movie, it's pretty boring. You don't need much plot for an action movie. Just look at Taken. But you do need a solid motivation, and this one is based on something that is pretty irrational. That's what they were going for, I know, but even the character who starts the motivation makes that very point, and it's actually pretty funny in a meta sort of way, though it shines a bright light at the ridiculousness of it all.

If it was suppose to be tongue-in-cheek, I must have missed it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on January 20, 2015, 06:19:00 PM
You're looking into it too much. But if you must, Wick's motivation is some punks remove his last shred of humanity and he has the skills to do something about it? Sure I would go on a revenge rampage against the Russian mob. The simple plot lets you focus on the action. There is no side romance side plot, just Wick and his cold efficiency.
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Post by: Nile Boogie Returns on January 20, 2015, 09:41:00 PM
 "People keep asking if I'm back and I haven't really had an answer but now.. yeah, I'm thinking I'm back!"




It's by no means a iconic but for some reason I really love that line. Ok, I think I'm done gushing over this movie.

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: marvel_moviefan_2012 on January 24, 2015, 06:23:41 PM
I just watched Lucy, that was an odd experience, I can't even call it a movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Shaymin on January 24, 2015, 06:42:00 PM
The Interview

Wait, a 60 year armistice nearly died for this?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Nile Boogie Returns on January 25, 2015, 01:25:37 AM
I just watched Lucy, that was an odd experience, I can't even call it a movie.




That was one of the dumbest movies I've ever seen, and I like almost everything.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: marvel_moviefan_2012 on January 25, 2015, 10:43:06 AM
Also just saw the Interview on Netflix. It was not what I expected. There was like nothing funny about it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Nile Boogie Returns on January 25, 2015, 10:34:54 PM
It's on Netflix already? This is the strangest release of any movie in history!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: marvel_moviefan_2012 on January 25, 2015, 11:10:37 PM
It's on Netflix already? This is the strangest release of any movie in history!


It is worth the watch just to see what all the hype was about, yeah North Korea had a legit reason to hate this film. And there is a really cool scene with rapper Eminem early on, but the rest of the movie is bottom feeder toilet humor at its worst. It makes Kevin Smith movies look actually intelligent.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on January 26, 2015, 12:00:47 AM
I finally watched Robocop last night. I rate it a classic out of four stars You can really see where this film defined a lot of action tropes and urban dystopia for decades to come.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on January 26, 2015, 02:49:26 AM
I finally watched Robocop last night. I rate it a classic out of four stars You can really see where this film defined a lot of action tropes and urban dystopia for decades to come.

I assuming you mean the original and not the 2014 reboot?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on January 26, 2015, 03:45:04 AM
Bitches Leave.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Nile Boogie Returns on January 26, 2015, 09:06:56 AM
Could you believe I was allowed to see RoboCop in the movies back in 1987? I was 9 years old. Sex, drugs that scene where the guy is drowned in acid and exploded on a Ford? 80's violence was such awesome, plus I don't think my moms knew what was happening in this film.


As a child, I retcon
RoboCop to be the origin story of the first Terminator movie. Basically, OCP becomes Cyberdyne Systems and RoboCop is design the t 100 is based off. Hell, I still thinks this works today and would solve the "closed loop" theory in the now completely screwed up Terminator Timeline. Then I found out that this partly the story of they 1992 Dark Horse Comic, my reality and dreams are one.



"I'd buy that for a dollar"
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: marvel_moviefan_2012 on January 26, 2015, 09:48:03 AM
I used to the same thing, but I took it a step further and had Star Wars as the origin for the Transformers too.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on February 12, 2015, 03:19:00 AM
Jupiter Ascending. No. No. No.

If you HAVE to watch this movie, then watch it in 2D and save yourself some money. While the art style is gorgeous, the plot feels "scribbled on the back of a hand" and doesn't make much sense.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: marvel_moviefan_2012 on February 15, 2015, 03:46:57 PM
I could tell from the commercials I was not going to even bother with that one. Man am I turning into that old grouch who hates everything that came after he left high school?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on February 15, 2015, 09:16:01 PM
Aren't you that already? Or are you still waiting to graduate?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on February 15, 2015, 10:18:17 PM
Jupiter Ascending looks "so bad, it's good", a genre that's in short supply of big budget flops. Watching as soon as it hits the web.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on February 15, 2015, 11:03:16 PM
I watched John Wick last night.

Keanu was a badass in this movie. Could have renamed it to
Head Shot: The John Wick Story
or
Videogame: The Movie

only thing I didn't understand was, if John Wick was such an underground legend, "the man you send to kill the boogeyman" and he worked for the biggest mobster in town up till 5 years ago... Why didn't that mobsters 30something year old son, who has obviously been in living off the advantages of the family business for quite sometime, know who the **** John Wick was by name and reputation, if not picture/looks, even after having it explained to him?
I mean even the fucking cops know whats up.

Cop: "Oh hey John"
::sees dead body on the floor behind him::
Cop: "uh... you working again!?"
John: "Just dealing with some stuff"
Cop: "Oh, ok, well have a good night...."

and this punk ass "kid" (he's like 30 something clubbing on daddy's mob money, he has to know something about whats going on, or atleast something about the biggest players in the game).

But other than that little oversight (which I'm hoping someone can explain) it was pretty damn good. Great Action, from the hand to hand, to the gun fights. Keanu owned that ****.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on February 16, 2015, 12:02:18 AM
I just saw John Wick a few hours ago as well. Like 300, it's a bad movie. There's no plot, no character development, no real substance... But goddamn, it was so fun and entertaining. I accept it for what it is and I enjoyed it so much more because of that. It isn't trying to be high art. It's Keanu Reeves fucking up everyone's day because they stole his car and killed his dog... and probably something about post traumatic stress disorder.
Why didn't that mobsters 30something year old son, who has obviously been in living off the advantages of the family business for quite sometime, know who the **** John Wick was by name and reputation, if not picture/looks, even after having it explained to him?
I thought that was the point. Ioseph is supposed to be a **** up. He doesn't know better because he's a spoiled idiot and everyone kisses his ass because his dad, Viggo, is the boss. So he never learns this stuff because he's too stubborn and prideful, and no one who matters corrects him for fear that he'll act up or throw a tantrum (like the club scene when he yells at someone to get him another bottle after one his dad's right hand men puts him in his place and takes his booze), potentially having his dad come down on them. Ioseph surrounded himself with cowards and imbeciles. On top of that, they even cast Theon Greyjoy (Alfie Allen) who is basically the posterchild of playing a stupid, entitled dipshit with a chip on his shoulder because his father is disappointed in him but he's so useless that it backfires.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on February 16, 2015, 12:21:58 AM
I can't let you call John Wick a Bad Movie. Its a focused movie that knows what it is doing unlike actual bad movies like Transformers.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: marvel_moviefan_2012 on February 16, 2015, 01:10:25 AM
Aren't you that already? Or are you still waiting to graduate?



I am in my fourth year of college and going on 33 years old so does that qualify as grouchy old man, doubtful. But yeah I am getting bitter these days or have been for a while.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on February 16, 2015, 02:39:35 AM
Holy crap, you're 33? I thought you are 25-30. Beat me out in the grumpy old man department.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on February 16, 2015, 07:30:24 AM
I can't let you call John Wick a Bad Movie. Its a focused movie that knows what it is doing unlike actual bad movies like Transformers.
Well, unfortunately for you, I don't need your permission to call the movie what I want. And if you read further than the second sentence, I did call it fun and entertaining. John Wick is very focused; it is what it sets out to be, but it still lacks the basic tenets of decent storytelling. Yeah, Transformers is a bad movie because it lacks decent storytelling AND doesn't even do what it wants to well. That's why I specified. I thoroughly enjoyed John Wick for what it is. I still wouldn't call it a good movie. Ultimately, I don't need it to be. I went into it wanting to see John Wick get sweet revenge with fresh action scenes, and that's exactly what I got.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: marvel_moviefan_2012 on February 16, 2015, 11:27:42 AM
well I am a lot more mature in real life than I am here, this is a place to vent and unwind. Its like a drug. When I first started coming here I was 21 and people thought I was 16 or younger. I believe in being raw people don't like it they can **** off. But I like you guys most of you, not all of you but most of you.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: marvel_moviefan_2012 on February 16, 2015, 11:28:39 AM
I can't let you call John Wick a Bad Movie. Its a focused movie that knows what it is doing unlike actual bad movies like Transformers.
Well, unfortunately for you, I don't need your permission to call the movie what I want. And if you read further than the second sentence, I did call it fun and entertaining. John Wick is very focused; it is what it sets out to be, but it still lacks the basic tenets of decent storytelling. Yeah, Transformers is a bad movie because it lacks decent storytelling AND doesn't even do what it wants to well. That's why I specified. I thoroughly enjoyed John Wick for what it is. I still wouldn't call it a good movie. Ultimately, I don't need it to be. I went into it wanting to see John Wick get sweet revenge with fresh action scenes, and that's exactly what I got.


Transformers was not a bad movie, it was very entertaining it had some cheesy moments but its a summer blockbuster they are supposed to do that. ALL sequel were garbage though,.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: marvel_moviefan_2012 on February 20, 2015, 09:39:42 PM
Got my copy of AVGN The Movie in the mail today. It was about what I expected. I was hoping it would have been better but it was good for what it was. I especially liked the Nostalgia Critic appearance and his review.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on February 22, 2015, 10:22:33 PM
Kingsmen

Holy ****, go watch this. This has been a very good start of the year for action films. Samuel L Jackson actually acts in this one. Collin Firth as some poncy badass?! The Trailers SUUUCCCKKK. The level of violence while not gory is right up there. Old school James Bond that has been shaken, not stirred?

Oxford before Bros.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on February 23, 2015, 12:15:52 AM
I saw Kingsman today as well, and completely concur.

Easy 8/10 for being funny, action packed, and well (enough) acted.  Lost points for cheap tension but made up for it with the ending.
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Post by: Plugabugz on February 23, 2015, 03:09:50 AM
Kingsmen

Holy ****, go watch this. This has been a very good start of the year for action films. Samuel L Jackson actually acts in this one. Collin Firth as some poncy badass?! The Trailers SUUUCCCKKK. The level of violence while not gory is right up there. Old school James Bond that has been shaken, not stirred?

Oxford before Bros.

Colin Firth in an action movie makes the entire movie worth it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on February 23, 2015, 06:31:04 AM
Killing Them Softly
Ehh, really boring. There were a couple decent scenes, but there's a reason it took me four months to watch this movie.

RoboCop
I almost turned this off when Samuel L. Jackson said, "Robophobic." I kind of wish I did because this was not good, and I didn't expect it to be which I thought would help its chances. I was too lazy to scroll through Netflix for something better and my calzone was getting cold. I don't know why they bothered to remake again. Here's a much better one and it's less than four minutes long:
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on February 23, 2015, 08:05:55 AM
Project Almanac: if I knew this was a found footage movie I wouldn’t have bothered.

Secondly, while the film centres on time travel it takes repeated liberties around the accepted ideas around time travel just to make it work. So I’m about to spoiler the **** out of this movie, and that’s usually a hint i didn't like it.

The film namechecks both Looper and Doctor Who as the premise for the movie (people can travel back in time) to accelerate exposition, but conveniently forgets the cornerstone rule of the Who franchise – never travel into your own past, because of the damage you may make to your own timeline and potentially causing a paradox – and then does it anyway.

The movie makes a point of showing what happens with duplicates (you see your past self, both disappear) but simply ignores what happens when present duplicates are seen in the same place. In one part of the movie, one of the kids fails his chemistry test and needed to pass it so he went back repeatedly to get all the answers to the questions, but in each time he travelled back there’s only one group of time travellers (themselves) rather than 2 then 3 then 4 then 5 and constantly increasing. It was always one set.

The concept of ripple effect is used to quite baffling effect. Because the main character goes back three months to kiss the main female character (resulting in them two getting together), this kicks off a chain reaction that somehow results in the basketball team (neither of which are connected or related) to lose because one of the star players’ broke their leg, which results in that guy’s father (a pilot) not being on a plane in London (to Madrid) which results in it crashing killing 77 people.

To keep the premise of the movie going, one of the rules set is to film everything. In the climax of the film, the main character goes back 10 years to his 7th birthday (where he’s seen in the mirror of his footage from the birthday party, completing the paradox that he has to go back there -  but the entire film and all its characters ignores that point) to meet his alive-at-the-time father to convince him that his time machine does work, but cannot be built because of the damage it will cause. So he goes and destroys some key components and blueprints, preventing the machine being built, while leaving the camera to film the entire event.

When he destroys the equipment, he disappears entirely but the camera does not. It remains and is filming everything and is stored up with his now-dead fathers’ equipment for 10 years (with the first identical camera from the party) depicting the entire movie – which could not have possibly happened because it came from the original timeline which now never happened, because the time machine was never built in the first place to enable him to go back in time and be recorded - on tape.

A loop is still established because a future self appears in the mirror, but cannot be completed (or seen in the future) as a result of the lack of equipment needed in the future to go back in time to be seen in the mirror in the past. So how can it still be there? Assuming this is a single timeline (and not several different timelines when they change the past each time), that’s simply not possible.

Because of this, there should be only one camera, not two, and maybe no shot of him in the mirror from 10 years previous.

The final scenes of the film imply they could rebuild it again, but how can they when the equipment was destroyed? Because they have evidence of a previous run (and records of experiments)  of that timeline? If they do, then the loop is established yet again by the mirror and they are doomed to repeat the entire sequence of events.


So this film just drove me crazy by the end.

But it's a happy ending apparently.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: marvel_moviefan_2012 on February 26, 2015, 11:47:13 AM
I forgot about Robocop remake, I actually did go see that in theaters wow how did I forget that? Yeah it was a terrible movie. Nothing from the original made it into this one not even vague passing references aside from a couple of obvious connections that any movie doing this would have done.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 08, 2015, 01:21:32 PM
Whiplash.

HOLY ****.
I went into this movie blind, only knowing that it came highly recommended, so I had no idea what it was about or who was in it. None of that even matters at this point. all I know is OMG at that finale. It was good all the way through, but it just makes the finale all that much more... well, I found myself almost holding my breath it was so damn intense. As soon as it was over I had to catch my breath I was so caught up in the final moments.

You don't have to go in blind, but I went in with zero expectation and came out more than satisfied with the experience.


oh, and Miles Teller (Mr. Fantastic), the girl who was just chosen to play Supergirl, and JK Simmons (J. Jonah Jameson) are all in this. And JK was, well, he was damn good in this.
Highly recommended.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: azeke on March 09, 2015, 10:38:51 AM
Chappie:

What if Pinocchio was Robocop? AKA Short Circuit... in criminal Johannesburg!

Blomkamp is back. After underwhelming Elysium which was a pale imitation of his own Distrct 9, he tackles new subjects and succeeds.

Plot is riddled with holes and outright bullshit, but you gotta let it all pass. After all it's sci-fi and that's exactly what you paid for -- fantastic things.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: marvel_moviefan_2012 on March 09, 2015, 10:01:22 PM
watched something called Identical. My sister tricked me into it since it had Seth Green but it was a lousy boring pile of garbage. It was basically some alternate reality parody or something about how Elvis twin didn't die but was adopted to some preacher family or something I don't know it was boring.




Also just watched Alexander and the really long name, it was an okay kids movie it had some funny moments.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on March 10, 2015, 04:28:37 AM
Chappie:

What if Pinocchio was Robocop? AKA Short Circuit... in criminal Johannesburg!

Blomkamp is back. After underwhelming Elysium which was a pale imitation of his own Distrct 9, he tackles new subjects and succeeds.

Plot is riddled with holes and outright bullshit, but you gotta let it all pass. After all it's sci-fi and that's exactly what you paid for -- fantastic things.

I quite enjoyed it. Elysium was a bit of a letdown, a bit, but i really like Blomkamp's use of developing cities in the use of his films. It's such a refreshing take on things over crisp pristine shinyness.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on March 10, 2015, 10:42:36 AM
Whiplash.

HOLY ****.
I went into this movie blind, only knowing that it came highly recommended, so I had no idea what it was about or who was in it. None of that even matters at this point. all I know is OMG at that finale. It was good all the way through, but it just makes the finale all that much more... well, I found myself almost holding my breath it was so damn intense. As soon as it was over I had to catch my breath I was so caught up in the final moments.

You don't have to go in blind, but I went in with zero expectation and came out more than satisfied with the experience.


oh, and Miles Teller (Mr. Fantastic), the girl who was just chosen to play Supergirl, and JK Simmons (J. Jonah Jameson) are all in this. And JK was, well, he was damn good in this.
Highly recommended.

Welcome to the club. That's pretty much how I first saw the movie as well. If you have the means, I highly recommend it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Nile Boogie Returns on March 21, 2015, 10:12:46 AM
INTERSTELLAR


I like more Christopher Nolan films than I dislike, with Dark Knight Rises being the one that overall lets me down. This movie, Interstellar was such a mixed bag of ideas that looked good but failed overall. I think its far too long (most nolan movies are) and its not really sure what it wants to be. I'm glad I watched it but I never want to see it again.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on March 21, 2015, 03:26:16 PM
What We Do In The Shadows

Hilarious, had no idea what I was watching when I came in. I was told it might be a vampire movie. I would call it an instant classic.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 21, 2015, 05:10:58 PM
What We Do In The Shadows

Hilarious, had no idea what I was watching when I came in. I was told it might be a vampire movie. I would call it an instant classic.

So you want me to go in completely in the dark? Can you cast just a little light on it....
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on March 22, 2015, 04:29:11 AM
I could, but you might catch on fire and nobody would forgive me for it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on March 22, 2015, 10:50:31 PM
I want to see that.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on March 23, 2015, 06:35:55 PM
So the end of my cinema "year" finished at the end of February. I saw 61 movies.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: marvel_moviefan_2012 on March 27, 2015, 02:57:39 PM
finally got around to watching Starship Troopers on Netflix. eh, not terrible, but not worthy of all the praise it seems to get.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on March 27, 2015, 08:14:36 PM
Starship Troppers is not what it seems. If you are watching it and thinking it is taking itself seriously than you are missing the point. The movie is a satire on war propaganda films. If you watch Eli Roth's "Stolz der Nation" on Inglorious Basterds then you can see the comparison. Its a very subtle satire. Only the director and some of the audience are in on it.

see

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/forums/index.php?topic=31343.msg611539#msg611539
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on March 27, 2015, 08:27:56 PM
Starship Troopers is a masterpiece, just like the original Robocop.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: marvel_moviefan_2012 on March 27, 2015, 09:07:05 PM
Starship Troppers is not what it seems. If you are watching it and thinking it is taking itself seriously than you are missing the point. The movie is a satire on war propaganda films. If you watch Eli Roth's "Stolz der Nation" on Inglorious Basterds then you can see the comparison. Its a very subtle satire. Only the director and some of the audience are in on it.

see

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/forums/index.php?topic=31343.msg611539#msg611539 (http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/forums/index.php?topic=31343.msg611539#msg611539)


I am fully aware of that, that was what I didn't like about it. I was expecting it to be similar to Robocop but it wasn't a bad movie just didn't live up to the hype.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on March 27, 2015, 09:45:06 PM
He likes stupid action movies (See Transformers). He doesn't understand remotely the art of movies.

Offensive language removed. Watch it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on March 27, 2015, 10:08:34 PM
Robocop and Starship Troopers are totally different beasts, Robocop was actually trying to be a good movie for viewing pleasure. whereas Ss Troopers is only good on an acdemic level. Theres Satire in both, but they go about them in totally different ways. Robocop is overtly satirical and sst is covert. When I was in Junior high when the movie came out I liked it on its surface level, then later it seemed like a bad action movie, then later it became a totally different movie after I took film classes.

Transformers are terrible movies. Maybe if you're high or elated for other reasons you might enjoy them. But I deal with utter nonsense at work, I have to have something different at home. Its also weird Transformers comes out of the same people who make pain and gain.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: marvel_moviefan_2012 on March 28, 2015, 12:08:24 AM


What the **** where did I say I liked the Transformers movies? I said I didn't entirely hate the first one but I think you have me confused with someone else.

I know what StarShip Troopers was doing, that part I get what they were doing I didn't say I didn't like it geeze I said it didn't live up to the hype, maybe if I saw it when it was new but I didn't I liked it just not near as spectacular as it was made out to be.



Also I am going to say this again, I am a film student I have probably seen and studied more films that you, its not just my passion it is what I have been going to school for. Sure I have taken a few detours along the way due to the limitations of life, but that has always been my primary focus. I appreciate films as art so stop trying to pretend you know anything about me, the ONLY thing I have ever admitted to liking that you were openly against is the Star Wars prequels and those are an entirely different matter, Star Wars is super emotional for everyone so its not judged fairly as a film franchise.
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Post by: oohhboy on March 30, 2015, 02:45:14 PM
Interstellar

A great movie. Visually stunning, even more so than Gravity. Very hard on the Science scale, obviously not Apollo 13 hard. Alot of the elements have commonalities with 2001: A Space Odyssey, a film which was visually excellent however outrageous pacing issues which meant sitting through that movie was a literal Odyssey I couldn't endure.

While a lot of people fawn over Matthew McConaughey's performance, I found for most part to be adequate and most of the "McConaughey effect" is more about him not doing such dire movies rather than him improving his art. The real star of the movie for me were the robots. They were sharp, they do awesome things, they surprise you with their initially outwardly seemingly alien design and their internal limitations.
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Post by: ShyGuy on March 31, 2015, 01:24:37 AM
Horns

Good acting, sets up a intriguing premise and fails to deliver. Joe Hill has the same shortcomings as a writer that his father does.
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Post by: Plugabugz on March 31, 2015, 04:15:01 AM
The Voices

Ryan Reynolds as a incredibly cheery factory worker who goes home to his scottish foul-mouthed talking cat and ever-loyal talking dog? What's not to like?

This is easily my favourite movie of 2015 so far because its just so knowingly ridiculous.
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Post by: animecyberrat on April 10, 2015, 09:40:21 PM
Watched Olympus Has Fallen. Pretty good action movie, terribly unrealistic plot, totally predictable but still a good ride.
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Post by: Plugabugz on April 11, 2015, 01:53:49 PM
John Wick (no really this did just come out here!) - This felt very very close to a game in that it had one single purpose, the coins, the  "safe haven" in the hotel and a nearly-mute main character.
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Post by: nickmitch on April 12, 2015, 06:11:48 PM
FuriousSeven

Great movie.  Best thing you could hope for: cheesy one-liners, over the top action, impossible stunts, hot chicks, physics defamation.  AND more!

9/10
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Post by: UncleBob on April 12, 2015, 07:31:52 PM
FuriousSeven

Great movie.  Best thing you could hope for: cheesy one-liners, over the top action, impossible stunts, hot chicks, physics defamation.  AND more!

9/10

You know, I enjoy the F&F movies for what they are.  And I usually have to turn off my brain for them, and generally manage to do so.

But the scene where the Rock busts out of his cast... I couldn't take it.  I seriously broke out laughing in the theater at that.  I was amused. ;)
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Post by: nickmitch on April 12, 2015, 08:18:14 PM
You were doing it right.
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Post by: oohhboy on May 01, 2015, 08:52:38 AM
Godzilla 2014

Overall a good movie with the only flaw being it followed the wrong person. It could have followed Brian Cranston, The Professor and his mousey assistant, the admiral or not follow anyone at all. But nope, got to follow Mc whitey generic of I don't give a ****.

One detail I really like was that Godzilla had elements of "Man in a suit" physics. Places where you expect it to be taunt like the legs come have a just enough give to point out there is nothing underneath.
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Post by: UncleBob on May 01, 2015, 12:53:06 PM
I saw some crazy super-hero flick last night.  It was acceptable.
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Post by: Adrock on May 13, 2015, 03:39:48 PM
Avengers: Age of Ultron (spoilers)
I saw this last Wednesday. I've been too lazy to do a write-up. It was okay. I may have hyped myself out of enjoying this movie to its fullest. I only saw the three trailers, and avoided most articles leading up to release. I remember reading that Joss Whedon wanted to make a different kind of movie than first one, and I didn't really get that impression. It was a bunch of big action scenes loosely connected with exposition, much like the original. I heard Whedon was asked to cut like an hour from the run time so that might have something to do with it. Scenes like Thor's cave bath felt disconnected which I figured was due to cuts.

Age of Ultron felt like it was largely setting up Phase Three, rather than acting as the culmination of a phase like the original (I realize Ant-Man is technically closing out Phase Two). Some additional thoughts:

1. Hawkeye is so lame. He's the first and only Avenger taken down in the opening scene. He was being mind-controlled in the first one. In this one, he's the only one who isn't incapacitated by Scarlet Witch yet he was still useless. Iron Man has to take down Hulk on his own. "Ooh, look, I have a farm." And he totally gets Quicksilver killed. Pietro should have used Hawkeye as a shield. Terrible.

2. Speaking of Quicksilver, I feel like he was killed off because Fox also uses Quicksilver (who was also cooler). They didn't even really address it either though I attributed that again to cuts. The main problem is that he didn't do a lot in Age of Ultron so his death didn't have the weight that Agent Coulson's did (which was ruined by resurrecting him for Agents of SHIELD). Quicksilver is apparently not being brought back. I'm not entirely convinced. We'll see whenever the Time Gem is finally addressed and used in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It'd be swell if it was used to bring back Ronan the Accuser.

3. The movie could have used more Ultron. He didn't do as much as I expected. I also got the impression that The Vision removed Ultron's access to the internet (more aptly, send his memory/"consciousness" online when he's about to be destroyed). I guess, unlike comics, they can't just keep reusing the same villains, but Ultron's ability to copy himself and return is one of the most important parts of his character. It's what made him such a good villain.

4. I realize it's difficult to do an Ultron story without The Vision, but introducing such an important character in the third act caused some problems. I didn't think The Vision did that much. He ultimately destroyed Ultron at the end (and may be how to bring him back since Ultron uploaded half of himself into The Vision's body).


I think I'll stop there. I didn't hate the movie; I just didn't like it as much as I wanted or expected.
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Post by: Stratos on May 13, 2015, 09:31:03 PM
I do hope that they find a way to bring Ultron back. After watching the Next Avengers (http://marvel.wikia.com/Next_Avengers:_Heroes_of_Tomorrow) movie I want to see something similar pulled off in the MCU. Plus introducing children/heirs of the Avengers is a good way to carry on the story while writing out the older actors.
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Post by: oohhboy on May 16, 2015, 03:53:29 AM
Mad Max Fury Road

I was sold on this as the car equivalent of what the Raid or John Wick did for action movies. It failed.

But it isn't a made movie by any means and it could have been so much better if it restrained itself a little. The action was over amped which resulted in the use of CGI which did no favours which took away the realness the original has. I also hated the use of colour. I don't care how you justify it, but stop it with the Orange and Blue, **** that noise. General lack of Australian accents was most disappointing. While I applaud it for not using shake cam, they cut the action too early instead of letting a crash play out fully, the editing is just too aggressive.

If you like cars trucks and crazy **** done to them, you will love what they have done. The universe they constructed is pretty good with people worshipping V8s and mixing it with bits of Norse mythology. It showed how the Warlords stayed in power and how at the upper levels interacted without actually going into politics. You have good characters with simple but powerful motivations. Max himself isn't really a character and is more of a vehicle for the movie and a myth, legend, or a passing whisper in the movie's universe.

A disapointing yet good movie overall. No assless chaps though.

Chappie

A mess of a movie.

It don't know what it wants with the theme or plot or characters. Visually excellent with the usual Neill Blomkamp level of goodness where the real and the unreal exits as one. Sharlto Copley is brilliant as the voice of Chappie and is easily becoming my most favourite actor of all time. Peter Weller has an awesome cameo. The Universe feels authentic, but major plot issues and the criminally stupid violent characters take away from it substantially. The opening action scene is just great and I wish the action in the rest of the movie was as good as that, but unfortunately no.

I can't really recommend this movie dispute it having some really good scenes and dialogue from Chappie. I really wanted to like it but alas it was not to be
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Post by: Plugabugz on May 18, 2015, 03:12:57 AM
Mad Max Fury Road, or its alternate title: How to try and fail at making Charlize Theron look ugly.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on May 21, 2015, 01:48:37 AM
Mad Max: Fury Road.   Visual: 10 Story: 6 Action: 9 Weirdness: 11 Overall Movie : 8.5.

Max is the least interesting character in the movie. The action is great, I love the visuals. Something didn't entertain me. It could be I'm starting to prefer a giant tv over a theater screen. Charlize Theron's character was great. If you cut max out of the movie and call it Fury Road then there would be no points lost. The lack of Australian accents did take it down a notch. From all indications there will be a  Mad Max: Wastelands.  Sounds good. Maybe this one will be better from all indications Hardy sounds like he was being a difficult actor. He said he had to apologize to Miller.

I'm still tempted to make a Mad Max/Escape from new york parody movie. I have the costumes.
http://imgur.com/a/5Wsau#4
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Post by: broodwars on May 21, 2015, 11:34:33 PM
I saw Tomorrowland earlier this evening, and it's both amusing and sad that a movie who's very message is that the world is being destroyed by cynicism and apathy has internet critics practically tripping over themselves to condemn it. Yes, it's a movie hopelessly obsessed with optimism and what could be achieved if anyone gave a damn. That's kind of the point.

Overall, I really enjoyed the movie. It's by no means a perfect film. There's way more of an action movie bent to it than I felt was necessary or justified and the movie really drops the ball on what appear to be the central villains for most of the film (the evil AAs). After a certain part of the movie, they just completely vanish from the movie, and aside from a throwaway line I completely missed until my best friend pointed it out they don't even explain why the AAs were there.  That one, huge plot point aside, I felt the action was excellent; the comic timing superb; and the film's earnest sincerity really spoke to me. Also, the performances were excellent all around. I particularly enjoyed the goofy acting of the AAs, which straddles a very thin line between being utterly ridiculous and strangely endearing. And the relationship between George Clooney & the Athena character was very well-executed.

To me, this movie reminds me a lot of how I felt coming out of the Muppet movie reboot from a few years ago: it's not a masterpiece of filmmaking. Its parts don't come together flawlessly, but its message about optimism; hope; and effort saving the world by reminding everyone that we once thought it was possible was very endearing. The world may suck, but it doesn't have to. It's the same "heart on your sleeve" optimism that really made me love shows like Quantum Leap.

So yeah, I hope that audiences are more open-minded about this film than the critics were.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on May 25, 2015, 02:10:59 AM
I pretty much agree with ThePerm's review of Mad Max: Fury Road, maybe I'd give it a little higher on the story scale though. There is a story there, they just kind of ignore it and it's basically non-stop action from beginning to end. If you have any thought of seeing it, do.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on May 25, 2015, 10:05:32 PM
im pretty sure if i hadn't seen the others i would think it was better. It is better in a lot of way than say road warrior.
If I were to do a rating scale. It would be Road Warrior > Fury Road  ==  Mad Max > Thunderdome.  Keep in mind I'm one of the people who liked Thunderdome.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on May 26, 2015, 12:37:05 AM
I've never seen any Mad Max movie before. I'm still on the fence about checking out Fury Road.

Right now, of movies in theatres, the movies I'd like to see in order of preference are:

Far from the Madding Crowd
Pitch Perfect 2
Ex Machina
Tomorrowland
Fury Road

Looking ahead, aside from some mild interest for Love & Mercy, a Brian Wilson bio-pic, the only movies I have major interest for in June are Jurassic World and Inside Out.

Anyways, why am I bringing this up? Not sure. Guess I'm just wondering if anyone has seen much of the movies I'm interested in and if they had any strong recommendations about them.
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Post by: BranDonk Kong on June 14, 2015, 09:57:45 AM
Jurassic World - 7.5/10

Am I seriously the first person from here to review this movie? Really the biggest problem with this movie is the script, there's is just some terrible dialog and one liners throughout that hurt the fear that you're supposed to be experiencing. The CGI is greatly improved since the original trailer release, and as should be expected, is the most realistic looking Jurassic Park movie (also thanks to some good practical effects). The story is pretty good, but the script hurts its' execution. It should have opened more like the first movie to explain the motives of the "bad guys" instead of doing it the way that they did. They do address the appearance of the dinosaurs (applying to all of the movies) and why they never looked exactly like their real ancestors, which is nice, but almost fourth wall-breaking when you consider they were probably doing it in response to past criticism. Anyway, I still recommend everyone who's a fan of summer blockbuster movies or any Jurassic Park films. It's easily the second best (after the original). I don't think anyone saw the ending coming, just like no one saw the ending to the original coming.
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Post by: Shorty McNostril on June 14, 2015, 05:44:27 PM
I saw that ending coming haha. 

I enjoyed it.  Was bummed there was no Ian Malcolm cameo.  I do like Jeffrey Goldblum.  The whole movie was pretty much what it says on the box.  If you enjoy dinosaurs you'll like it. 

Not a kiddie movie though, so I wouldn't be taking littlies to see it.  Lots of death and one surprisingly brutal death too.

Also, I may getting soft (which is quite likely) but a couple of scenes made me feel geniunely emotional.  The apatosaurus/brontosaurus scene and when the fliers were attacking the poor little protoceratops and others in the pen.  I do hope the little guys were ok. :(
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on June 14, 2015, 06:34:34 PM
Saw the Entourage movie today.

How much you like this movie basically depends on how much you liked the show.  If you're there for tits and Ari, you won't be disappointed.

Score Pending/10
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Post by: BranDonk Kong on June 20, 2015, 05:48:47 PM
Inside Out - 9/10...wait, what?!

I have kids. I had literally no interest in seeing this movie beforehand, and it ended up being one of the best Pixar movies I've ever seen. I'd put it up with Wall-E, and Up (above any Toy Story or Cars). Finally an original movie (at least unlike any I've seen). The short before it, Lava, was great too.
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Post by: UncleBob on June 20, 2015, 07:22:36 PM
Better or worse than Herman's Head?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on June 20, 2015, 08:40:57 PM
Holy crap I totally forgot about that show! Nevermind, it's a rip-off of Herman's Head.
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Post by: azeke on June 20, 2015, 10:44:18 PM
Inside Out is a weird movie.

It's still classic Pixar don't get me wrong, but i think previous flicks had a better balance between being a great movie for adult and and entertaining flick for kids.

This one i think goes a bit too much into adults territory with subjects and concepts that children simply don't know about. There IS some slapstick, but i don't think it was enough to dispel boredom from kids.

There is even Roman Polanski reference.
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Post by: BranDonk Kong on June 20, 2015, 11:22:41 PM
I think that's why I liked it so much.
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Post by: Fatty The Hutt on June 26, 2015, 06:30:39 PM
Inside Out - 9/10...wait, what?!

I have kids. I had literally no interest in seeing this movie beforehand, and it ended up being one of the best Pixar movies I've ever seen. I'd put it up with Wall-E, and Up (above any Toy Story or Cars). Finally an original movie (at least unlike any I've seen). The short before it, Lava, was great too.
Yes to all of this.
And, hoo boy, bring some hankies. This one is a festival of "the feels" as the kids say. I was most unmanly many a time during the proceedings. Well worth your time.
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Post by: Khushrenada on June 26, 2015, 06:44:18 PM
Yep. Inside Out is right now the best movie of the year for me. I can't recall the last time I cried at a movie. (And so much too!  :-[ ) Best Pixar since Wall-E for me.

Finally will get to see Jurassic World tomorrow. Never make plans to see a movie with someone. Waiting for you and them to be free can be insufferable.
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Post by: nickmitch on June 26, 2015, 08:08:51 PM
Dope

Has no one else seen this movie?  I really liked it.  I found the protagonists immediately likeable and relatable.  The soundtrack is amazing, and well used in many parts of the film.  Some plotlines kind of fall off, and there are a few more things that keep it from being perfect.  It's not as quotable as some classic comedies (or maybe it's me), but the laughs are pretty genuine.  I left the theatre feeling really good about this one, like it would really stick with me.

8.5/10
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Post by: ThePerm on June 26, 2015, 08:30:01 PM
The trailer looks good. I was waiting for it to be time for studios to start making retro 90s flicks. It has begin.
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Post by: nickmitch on June 26, 2015, 08:34:13 PM
The movie is actually set in modern day (plot point kinda revolves around it).  The kids are just obsessed with 90s culture.

It's not like Take Me Home Tonight with Topher Grace where that was a total 80s movie (plot, style, setting) that was released in 2011.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on June 27, 2015, 10:06:32 PM
San Andreas - 7.5/10
Surprisingly well acted, and insanse special effects. A bit unrealistic with how The Rock saves his family...though I guess his experiences and teachings helped his family survive, but they actually give everyone in the movie enough to make you actually care about them. It's worth a watch. Oh, and good lord is Alexandra Daddario hot.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on June 28, 2015, 03:40:05 AM
She is...the swimming :)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on June 28, 2015, 04:25:51 PM
Jurassic World (IMAX 3D)

It was what I needed it to be.  Would've been nice to take a shot for every product placement.  Effects were good.  Some lines are cheesy, but I'm not sure if they're supposed to be funny.  Either way, there was a good amount of laughs.

8/10
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Post by: ShyGuy on June 29, 2015, 02:42:43 AM
The Apartment This is not a romantic comedy. Well, maybe it is, but it is one of the bleakest you will find. It's look at office culture and amoral adults in the city is timeless. Jack Lemmon is perfect, Shirley Maclaine's character is very nuanced and complex. Fred MacMurray is both believable and horrid. Billy Wilder was a master film maker. Four Stars.
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Post by: Plugabugz on June 29, 2015, 02:46:24 AM
Mr Holmes

Ian Mckellen as a retired and lonely Sherlock Holmes having exiled himself after a failed final case. It's not out in america until July but if you like Sherlock (the BBC series) or Elementary then its worth a watch to see this significantly slower paced version. Mckellen's version makes him look so calmly confident (when he was in his prime) compared to the hyper Cumberbatch version which is so refreshing. Definitely a short movie worth watching.

Dope

Has no one else seen this movie?  I really liked it.  I found the protagonists immediately likeable and relatable.  The soundtrack is amazing, and well used in many parts of the film.  Some plotlines kind of fall off, and there are a few more things that keep it from being perfect.  It's not as quotable as some classic comedies (or maybe it's me), but the laughs are pretty genuine.  I left the theatre feeling really good about this one, like it would really stick with me.

8.5/10

It's not here.

Jurassic World (IMAX 3D)

It was what I needed it to be.  Would've been nice to take a shot for every product placement.  Effects were good.  Some lines are cheesy, but I'm not sure if they're supposed to be funny.  Either way, there was a good amount of laughs.

8/10

The product placement was so bad it actually made its way into the script disguised as humour What if the marketers named the dinosaurs? Verizon Presents the (whatever the dinosaur name was)?
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Post by: Fatty The Hutt on June 29, 2015, 12:33:47 PM
The Apartment This is not a romantic comedy. Well, maybe it is, but it is one of the bleakest you will find. It's look at office culture and amoral adults in the city is timeless. Jack Lemmon is perfect, Shirley Maclaine's character is very nuanced and complex. Fred MacMurray is both believable and horrid. Billy Wilder was a master film maker. Four Stars.
Yes!
My fave Billy Wilder is still Sunset Boulevard (so dark) but The Apartment is gold.
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Post by: ShyGuy on June 30, 2015, 01:19:03 AM
"I'm ready for my closeup, Mr Deville"
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Fatty The Hutt on June 30, 2015, 12:17:44 PM
"I'm ready for my closeup, Mr DeMille"
FTFY.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on June 30, 2015, 09:56:16 PM
Jurassic World (IMAX 3D)

It was what I needed it to be.  Would've been nice to take a shot for every product placement.  Effects were good.  Some lines are cheesy, but I'm not sure if they're supposed to be funny.  Either way, there was a good amount of laughs.

8/10

The product placement was so bad it actually made its way into the script disguised as humour What if the marketers named the dinosaurs? Verizon Presents the (whatever the dinosaur name was)?

Yeah, that part was "so bad, it's good" for me.  I kept thinking about how epic of a drinking game you could make of it.
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Post by: UncleBob on June 30, 2015, 10:47:20 PM
Terminator.  The 3rd movie in the series I've been waiting for for 20 years.
Watch the first one again before you go see it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on July 01, 2015, 01:01:36 PM
So, good? Bad? Great?
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Post by: UncleBob on July 01, 2015, 02:32:30 PM
I really, really liked it.  It's been getting mixed reviews, but I was very pleased with it.  Probably going to see it again this weekend.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on July 07, 2015, 10:13:55 PM
Terminator Genisys - 8.5/10

I don't get the negative reviews for this movie at all. It's awesome, and it's basically the Days of Future Past of Terminator movies, only with more time travel. It actually answers many of the questions from the other movies if you pay attention. The trailers give away too much, but not everything. The remade scenes from The Terminator are done excellently, and the little bits of humor actually work. Sure the story could have been explained a little bit more, but I think the lack of explaining some things actually helps set the intense pace of the time travelling (33 years in a matter of hours). I thought it was great.
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Post by: azeke on July 07, 2015, 11:24:02 PM
Terminator: Genisys is kinda a mess, but i liked it. It's stupid but loveable in a way.

At first i thought JK Simmons' character was Dr. Silberman but apparently he was an unrelated character. A shame because Dr. Silberman appearance would have been a great fanservice move.
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Post by: oohhboy on July 09, 2015, 07:11:47 AM
Terminator Genisys

An entertaining mess that is so bad it's goodish. Conner, Kyle, and Sarah are just terrible. Conner doesn't come off as a leader, Kyle is missing all the war trauma or personality and is so built that the rats in the future must be huge. Sarah doesn't have a hard edge to her for someone who has been running from killers for most of her life and comes off more of a school girl than anything else. The "Chemistry" between Sarah and Kyle is just not a thing. Casting is a fucking disaster.

Arnold still fucking owns, however the the dialogue overall was pretty poor and you aren't really going to get any classic one liners out of this movie. JK Simmons is mentioned is great.

The action goes from excellent when they aren't leaning on CGI to yeah, err ok. Visually, young Arnold is a real treat. Future War isn't bad, but lacking skulls. I appreciated the overall low amount of camera shake.

The music is really forgettable despite cribbing notes from the original.

The marketing for this movie was just terrible, packed with spoilers. Seriously, they could have just have Arnold hamming it up chewing lines as the only form of marketing and it would have been 100x better. Also PG-13 this meant even swearing is seemingly notably absent.

It's a terrible Terminator film in most respects, although still better than Salvation, good god that was rubbish. If you are going to watch this, go to see it for Arnold, anything else is going to disappoint you. T3 is the better Terminator movie, but this is the better Arnold movie.

It's stupid fun at the end of the day and isn't going to piss you off like Transformers.
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Post by: Khushrenada on July 09, 2015, 09:58:10 PM
I really should get around to watching all the Terminator movies for once. I finally got around to seeing all the X-Men movies for the first time last month. Well, except for Origins: Wolverine and The Wolverine. Still, all in all, it's been a pretty well handled film series. As much as Sony gets crap for how they've handled other superhero properties like Fantastic Four and Spiderman, they've really done a good job with the X-Men franchise as evidenced by the fact that no one really seems to be calling for Marvel to talk it back over. X-Men: First Class is probably the high point so far of the series.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Fatty The Hutt on July 10, 2015, 12:38:13 PM
Xmen and F4 are Fox. Sony has Spiderman. Everything else is Marvel Studios (Disney), I think.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on September 02, 2015, 01:41:13 AM
Primer whoa. I had it until about 3/4 of the way through the movie. I read a guide online after watching it which laid out most of the details (but not all)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: azeke on September 02, 2015, 02:03:50 AM
While Primer definitely got way too too confusing i still got the general gist of what was happening by the end. Neat movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on September 02, 2015, 08:59:10 AM
Mission Impossible Rogue Nation

A pretty good emulation of Bird's Ghost Protocol overall style and feel with it's continued deconstruction of the franchise and spy movies. The massive motorbike chase mid movie was a true stand out moment for the film although it is interrupted with an almost nuke the fridge moment that tarnishes it. No doubt all the biking was to make up for how little Tom gets to run.

The camera is nice and smooth outside of hand to hand fights which is a shame because the fights is good enough not to need them. Bolt on cameras are used to best effect during the chase scenes.

The bad was the gratuitous product placements, this is contrasted by how well it does its callbacks which are rewards for the observant viewer. There were an overuse of "smart" type devices which I guess was an attempt to avoid looking like the period piece that is the first mission impossible has become despite its use of then bleeding edge tech.

1>4>5>3>2

7/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on September 02, 2015, 01:16:56 PM
I really should get around to watching all the Terminator movies for once. I finally got around to seeing all the X-Men movies for the first time last month. Well, except for Origins: Wolverine and The Wolverine. Still, all in all, it's been a pretty well handled film series. As much as Sony gets crap for how they've handled other superhero properties like Fantastic Four and Spiderman, they've really done a good job with the X-Men franchise as evidenced by the fact that no one really seems to be calling for Marvel to talk it back over. X-Men: First Class is probably the high point so far of the series.


Fatty is correct in the breakdown of film rights. I know for me the greatest reason that I am not calling for Fox to hand back X-Men is because they have handled it well enough, so there is little chance of it happening anytime soon. I would love it just to get everyone back together, but it just won't happen right now. It took a huge studio network hack and a failed Spiderman movie to bring Sony to the bargaining table.


Mission Impossible Rogue Nation

A pretty good emulation of Bird's Ghost Protocol overall style and feel with it's continued deconstruction of the franchise and spy movies. The massive motorbike chase mid movie was a true stand out moment for the film although it is interrupted with an almost nuke the fridge moment that tarnishes it. No doubt all the biking was to make up for how little Tom gets to run.

The camera is nice and smooth outside of hand to hand fights which is a shame because the fights is good enough not to need them. Bolt on cameras are used to best effect during the chase scenes.

The bad was the gratuitous product placements, this is contrasted by how well it does its callbacks which are rewards for the observant viewer. There were an overuse of "smart" type devices which I guess was an attempt to avoid looking like the period piece that is the first mission impossible has become despite its use of then bleeding edge tech.

1>4>5>3>2

7/10


I have a soft spot for number 2. It is a fun popcorn action flick.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on September 02, 2015, 01:26:55 PM
I have a soft spot for number 2. It is a fun popcorn action flick.
It was a really, really bad MI movie, But there is no denying its Wooness. Its not that far behind 3 which is nonsensical. If you go for the popcorn factor 2 definitely pulls out ahead of 3.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: azeke on October 24, 2015, 11:16:49 PM
Martian - fantastic.

I will never stop raving at Hollywood's streak of great sci-fi movies every year.

Space, rockets, people surviving against all odss -- give me more of that.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: michaelbaysuperfan616 on October 28, 2015, 04:24:15 PM
I just saw Jurassic World on Sunday. I regret not seeing this in theaters it was probably the best movie in the series, definitely superior to all of the sequels and almost better than the original in some ways. I am going to be keeping an eye out for the sure to disappoint sequel that now follows.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on October 28, 2015, 07:55:47 PM
I think that sequels, if done right, could be quite enjoyable.I can think of two premises: first, Owen is hired to be an adviser/wrangler for some hybrid dinos gone wild in some mountain village, carnage and cool dino fights ensue; second, some foreign company tries to build a park in a more populated part of the world and hires Owen as an adviser/wrangler, carnage and cool dino fights ensue.


The magic of the first film will never be repeated, but JW matches the fun factor blow for blow.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: michaelbaysuperfan616 on October 29, 2015, 02:13:36 PM
I hope that if they do a sequel they stay away from repeating the mistakes of the previous films. The whole subplot of weaponizing the raptors was pretty weak but that could be a good basis for a sequel, some terrorist group gets their hands on that stuff the scientists were running off with at the end of the film.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Spak-Spang on October 29, 2015, 07:38:08 PM
I would like a sequel that deals with dinosaurs differently than on a theme park.  The Lost World, worked because it wasn't Jurassic Park 2...it was a different premise. 

It would be nice to see what happens if a complete military breeding program was created and it got out of hand.  The plot could easily follow the stereotypical man screws up with the forces of nature...and unleashes something horrible.  But this time with military instead of civilians being in the crossfire. 

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on November 15, 2015, 01:28:23 PM
Pixels wasn't as bad as the Internet says it is. It's not great, but it is dumb fun.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on November 15, 2015, 02:02:15 PM
The Martian was good.  Has science, could've used more of it.  I kinda wanted to see more of Matt Damon discovering the problem and then figuring out the solutions.  Movie kinda only shows him solving problems.  Still good movie, depending on how much you like Matt Damon.

The Peanuts movie was also good.  It sticks to the core themes of Peanuts.  Some segments seem like non-sequiturs, but it was still fun.  It doesn't really shake things up to attract new fans or turn off existing ones.  Only thing that really feels "fresh" is animation and audio quality.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: michaelbaysuperfan616 on November 15, 2015, 07:35:16 PM
I actually want to see Peanuts might have to take my nieces to see it too.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on November 15, 2015, 09:51:44 PM
I would definitely recommend.  Now, the humor is largely in-line with the older movies, so it's not as fast paced and "random" as many modern American cartoons.  I'm not sure how "today's kids" will react to it, whatever that means.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on November 16, 2015, 04:32:05 PM
So i've never watched Star Wars. All six. I've always maintained that - just like F-Zero - it was made too early for the technology to support it's scale properly.

From The Matrix onwards the tech of the time caught up enough to make it possible, and then along came Mad Max this year which made me change my mind and go back to it.

I'm very nearly through episode 2. Both 1 and 2 have the same flaws - really awkward writing (the scene in episode 2 where Obi Wan asks Yoda about the missing planet from the archives; Yoda stops mid-conversation to ask the CHILDREN who tell him someone must have deleted it), some directing choices which kills the strengths of the actors, and infuriates on others (ALL the child actors) and the real overuse of CGI (which Mad Max in particular makes that choice look like a very bad one).

So far i'm not enjoying this.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: michaelbaysuperfan616 on November 16, 2015, 05:00:59 PM
So i've never watched Star Wars. All six. I've always maintained that - just like F-Zero - it was made too early for the technology to support it's scale properly.

From The Matrix onwards the tech of the time caught up enough to make it possible, and then along came Mad Max this year which made me change my mind and go back to it.

I'm very nearly through episode 2. Both 1 and 2 have the same flaws - really awkward writing (the scene in episode 2 where Obi Wan asks Yoda about the missing planet from the archives; Yoda stops mid-conversation to ask the CHILDREN who tell him someone must have deleted it), some directing choices which kills the strengths of the actors, and infuriates on others (ALL the child actors) and the real overuse of CGI (which Mad Max in particular makes that choice look like a very bad one).

So far i'm not enjoying this.


Well you shouldn't start with Episodes 1-3 in the first place, rookie mistake man. You start with 4-6 then go back and watch 1-3 and then re-watch 4-6 to erase the stink of 1-3. 1 has some good action but weird story stuff, 2 is awkward but had some great visuals and more action, 3 had the best story of the prequels but it still suffered from bad writing but more than makes up for it with the best action.

1-3 are cartoons, 4-6 are proper movies, if that makes any sense.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on November 17, 2015, 01:08:36 AM
No amount of technology could rescue the prequels from being garbage. Over reliance on computer technology is one of the problems the prequels had. That and they are fundamentally bad movies. I highly recommend you watch the Plinkett reviews/breakdowns in order to understand why they are what they are.

http://redlettermedia.com/plinkett/star-wars/

Comparing PT to F-Zero is a pretty nasty insult to F-Zero.

There is also this little gem
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Shorty McNostril on November 17, 2015, 01:39:31 AM

There is also this little gem

I have never seen that before.  That was amazing.  Thank you Sir.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on November 17, 2015, 03:56:20 AM
No amount of technology could rescue the prequels from being garbage. Over reliance on computer technology is one of the problems the prequels had. That and they are fundamentally bad movies. I highly recommend you watch the Plinkett reviews/breakdowns in order to understand why they are what they are.

http://redlettermedia.com/plinkett/star-wars/

Comparing PT to F-Zero is a pretty nasty insult to F-Zero.

There is also this little gem

I'm not comparing F-Zero to the PT. I am comparing their struggles with the hardware they had at the time - F-Zero X was the first that really started to scratch at the universe it had, while GX truly went nuts with the hardware it had. Imagine F-Zero UX (as insanolord named it) on the Wii U?

Star Wars (i can't speak about 3-6 yet) had the same issue just being a bit too early. But i agree with them being bad movies generally.

And i would have preferred THAT video as the actual battle instead. Thanks!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: michaelbaysuperfan616 on November 17, 2015, 10:11:26 AM
No amount of technology could rescue the prequels from being garbage. Over reliance on computer technology is one of the problems the prequels had. That and they are fundamentally bad movies. I highly recommend you watch the Plinkett reviews/breakdowns in order to understand why they are what they are.

http://redlettermedia.com/plinkett/star-wars/ (http://redlettermedia.com/plinkett/star-wars/)

Comparing PT to F-Zero is a pretty nasty insult to F-Zero.

There is also this little gem



That guy is completely full of **** his review can't be taken any more seriously than AVGN or any of those losers. They are not bad films, they have plot, character, and all that its week plot and character but they are there. He is just sour that it wasn't the movie he daydreamed about in his mothers basement all those decades waiting for it to release.

Mostly what makes the prequels bad is the terrible dialog and the wooden acting, the CGI is a lame excuse it was actually very impressive stuff, for the time, and holds up well today.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on November 17, 2015, 10:22:23 AM
I really don't think the CGI holds up very well. It became obvious that these scenes were filmed in front of a green screen and lacked depth to them. There was one scene in Clones where Obi Wan goes to see some aliens in an all-white room.... it LOOKED like it was done in front of a green screen as everything was flat. Same thing when Anakin and Padme was wheeled out into the arena (and their clothes suddenly lit up with artificial lighting pointed down that made the green screen even worse).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on November 17, 2015, 10:34:38 AM
Wait. One moment you're trashing the Prequels and the next you're praising them for being a movie? They're **** through and through. If you want to talk about effects that hold up, look back to the OT. So much more done better with so much less.

One scene in episode two that stood out even back then was when Obiwan confronts Grevious, Obiwan has absolutely no reaction to what's happening while some 4m robot with lung cancer blends the air with lightsabers.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: michaelbaysuperfan616 on November 17, 2015, 11:31:30 AM
I didn't trash the prequels, I said you have to consider them as cartoons and the old movies as real films, but I never said they were garbage, bad movies, well maybe but not terrible, not good movies at least. Also um I was disagree with his reasons for disliking them, not defending them entirely.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Fatty The Hutt on November 17, 2015, 04:12:19 PM
Martian - fantastic.

I will never stop raving at Hollywood's streak of great sci-fi movies every year.

Space, rockets, people surviving against all odss -- give me more of that.
Agree wholeheartedly

In the last couple o months I have seen;
Sicario
Bridge of Spies and
The Martian.

I went to see each by myself. I like seeing movies by myself, actually. Nothing detracts from me getting really into it. Plus, I got some movie coupons for me birfday so I've been using them up.

I really enjoyed each of these films though they are all very different. Maybe their common denominator is that they are Oscar Bait but that doesn't make them bad at all.

I recommend each of them but if I had to rank, I would go with:
1. The Martian
2. Sicario
3. Bridge of Spies
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on November 23, 2015, 03:50:24 AM
The Hunger Games Mockingjay Part 2: This is a series which peaked right at its start and steadily went downhill over the remainder. I get what the fourth film was trying to do, being about the manipulation and propaganda over the actual reality and the "stresses of war" - but it was incredibly talky and didnt actually do much and then in bursts of "lets do something" scenes proceeds to kill off as many characters as possible because it's the final film.

Also, for a film that has two antagonists both of them never actually do anything directly or personally to Katniss which further makes her struggle more about "things done to her" (become the showpiece of the resistance, being in two hunger games etc) rather than Snow or Coin directly. It became less about her own motivation for things.

DS9 ended 16 years ago. There are episodes of that series which tackled these individual topics far better (Pale Moonlight, Siege of AR558, Paradise Lost come to mind).

Also did i mention how talky this film is? It's 2 hours 20. You could probably cut out 20 minutes comfortably and nothing has changed.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on November 23, 2015, 05:04:03 AM
SPECTRE

A disappointment. It has some good action scenes. But the plot is bewildering at best. It calls back to the previous films but it does it in a way that even as someone who have watched all the the Craig films can't follow. You're constantly left wondering how did Bond know that or what's the connection? Despite this one can figure out the ending before you hit the quarter mark.

It's better than Quantum, has good jokes, but it is a big fall from SkyFall. Christopher Waltz was criminally wasted.

6/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on November 23, 2015, 05:20:41 AM
SPECTRE

A disappointment. It has some good action scenes. But the plot is bewildering at best. It calls back to the previous films but it does it in a way that even as someone who have watched all the the Craig films can't follow. You're constantly left wondering how did Bond know that or what's the connection? Despite this one can figure out the ending before you hit the quarter mark.

It's better than Quantum, has good jokes, but it is a big fall from SkyFall. Christopher Waltz was criminally wasted.

6/10

To be fair after Skyfall the only way was back down. How was Silva connected to Spectre? And how was Le Chiffre? Or Quantum?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on November 23, 2015, 06:23:52 AM
It retcons all the pass movies villains and organizations as SPECTRE fronts. It's made extra dumb by the fact that Blofeld outright states that all of Bond's suffering and loss of the women in his life were designed by Blofeld as some sort of sick joke despite the fact Bond has been causing serious damage to his organization yet somehow remains a secret while being a world wide organization. They also retconned Bonds relationship with Blofeld as his sort of adopted older brother who was evil and a mastermind back when they should have been in high school. Basically retcons out the ass and stupid as hell.

The action scenes saved it from Quantum level of bad.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Fatty The Hutt on November 23, 2015, 03:13:51 PM
Yup. SPECTRE was bad. I enjoyed the world-hopping scenery that Bond films are good for. The money they spend on locations is nicely up there on screen. The opening sequence was quite good, I thought. The supporting actors were good (i.e., Voldemort and L'il Q). And that's it. The rest was really very bad.
The script was just awful. Instead of characters having conversations, the dialogue consists of several exchanges of oh-so-clever one-liners and quips that are supposed to set up multiple pay-offs but which just come off as super-lame. It's like the dialogue was written by a 9 year old boy playing "Bond" by himself in his bedroom. It needed a massive dialogue re-write. Where's Bruce Vilanch or Carrie Fisher when you need them?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on November 23, 2015, 03:22:32 PM
It retcons all the pass movies villains and organizations as SPECTRE fronts. It's made extra dumb by the fact that Blofeld outright states that all of Bond's suffering and loss of the women in his life were designed by Blofeld as some sort of sick joke despite the fact Bond has been causing serious damage to his organization yet somehow remains a secret while being a world wide organization. They also retconned Bonds relationship with Blofeld as his sort of adopted older brother who was evil and a mastermind back when they should have been in high school. Basically retcons out the ass and stupid as hell.

The action scenes saved it from Quantum level of bad.

I know but HOW? It just said "this is the case" but not explaining how.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on November 23, 2015, 07:11:49 PM
That's the thing I can't tell you how other than the fact he gets name dropped. There is no connection. It's BS.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on November 29, 2015, 08:32:44 AM
Creed - 8.5/10

It's a really good movie. Maybe actually could have been a little longer because it covers a lot of things over a short amount of time, but if you're on the fence, I highly recommend it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on December 19, 2015, 09:13:28 AM
Star Wars: The Force Awakens - 9/10

It gets everything right (I saw it twice yesterday, I'm confident in that statement). The new main characters - Finn (FN-2187), Rey, Poe Dameron, Kylo Ren and BB-8 all fit in so well to the Star Wars galaxy. The only new character who is featured heavily in commercials but not featured heavily in the movie is Captain Phasma. There are a few similarities to the original Star Wars, but it is by no means a copy. It is more violent than any of the Star Wars movies, with a pretty decent amount of blood being shed. It's really hard to describe the story without some massive spoilers, and I'd rather not go through and spoiler tag everything, so I will make the somewhat vague comment (that could still be seen as giving the feeling of a spoiler maybe, without giving any detail) that Kylo Ren will do something that will make him the most hated villain in all of Star Wars. We've been waiting for a new Star Wars for a long time, and we're lucky that they actually waited this long. We got a great director, and amazing cast, and also we've finally gotten to the point where the line between CGI and real life has been completely erased. In my book, this is easily the second-best movie in the series. If it wasn't for the necessity of the struggle with what happens in The Empire Strikes Back for the entire Star Wars story, then I would possibly even put The Force Awakens in first place - but, if this is any indication of what's to come, at all, then the new trilogy will be the greatest of the series.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on December 19, 2015, 11:41:55 AM
This is great to hear. I'll be seeing it when I get back home.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on December 19, 2015, 05:13:20 PM
Very well said, Brandogg. I wholly agree.

I've also seen it twice.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Nile Boogie Returns on December 19, 2015, 10:53:56 PM
The Force Awakens:


Is a very good film and classic JJ Abrams. He has a very punchy directing style that lends very well to the type movies he does. I thoroughly enjoyed this movie and can't wait to sneak out of work next week to see it again.


**** YOU KYLO REN

However, this movie felt too safe and formulamatic. Very by the numbers way of telling a Star Wars film. It also lacked a bit of George Lucas'..."something". I don't know if he had anything to do with this film other than getting Han, Luke and Leia on board for the story he created but it needed something more of his. Not that I wanted him to direct this film, no not at all but I think Star Wars still needs its Master in some way.


**** YOU KYLO REN one more time

8/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on December 20, 2015, 10:34:22 AM
I think that comment mentioned twice above should be spoiler tagged, because while it doesn't actually describe what happens in any way, if someone is reading that but hasn't seen the movie yet, then they're going to know what's going to happen when that scene starts...even though you probably feel it coming anyway.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on December 20, 2015, 02:49:38 PM
I have a hunch what he does. I've suspected this would happen from the moment the films were announced. It was inevitable though. I'll talk more once I see it next week.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on December 20, 2015, 07:41:52 PM
Going to see it for the third time, tonight. This time in IMAX 3D.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on December 20, 2015, 07:57:00 PM
Looks like SW:TFA broke Domestic OW records for December pushing The Hobbit to 2nd plce, and Domestic OW record in general pushing Jurrasic World down to second as well.
Won't know if SW beat JW worldwide till the actuals come in, but it's roughly behind by $8M even though it hasn't opened in China yet.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: michaelbaysuperfan616 on December 20, 2015, 08:07:29 PM
I just got home from my second, of many more to come, viewings of the Greatest Movie of the year. Star Wars: The Force Awakens was just plain awesome.

My only complaint, well I have a few minor nitpicks but I am sure in time they will subside, but my only complaint is it being DISNEY was jarring at first. I don't know about other movie theaters but the showing I went to really had to hammer home how "perfect" Disney is.

If it wasn't for money, and time, and work, and school, I would be going back to this movie again at least once a week until I can get it on Blu Ray. But for now I will settle for having seen it twice opening weekend. Plus I was there opening night so I got that out of my system.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on January 02, 2016, 07:05:15 PM
Martian 6/10

I read the book several months ago just ahead of the movie. Well, listened to the Audio book(which is great!). The movie was finally available to me. Somewhat disappointing.

There's very few cuts to the story, which is generally a good thing. i'd have to say for the most part they condensed it well. I just don't understand how anybody could watch this movie and know what was going on if they hadn't read the book. I didn't care for the acting. Everything seemed meh. I felt like the movie underutilized Mat Damon. Another thing, how the **** was the budget of this movie 100 million dollars? It looks like it cost about 15 million to make. Was it all actors costs? Was it shipping everybody to some location in Jordan? **** I live in Tucson, should have filmed it here.

Blade Runner (Final Cut) 9/10 So, this was a great movie by the same director. I had decided to watch both movies. It was pretty ironic because I hadn't done that consciously. I watched The Martian and then watched Blade Runner. Now I had made some attempts to watch Blade Runner before, but they were always at like 3am and I would fall asleep. Not this time. The atmosphere was great, the story was good.

pretty ironic though. I knew blade runner had to go through 3 different releases because the studio had tampered with it and put a voice over. Which, after watching this cut, I found unnecessary. However, The Martian should have had one. There were some spots where it did, but there should have been more. The whole book is Mark Watney doing logs on his computer explaining what was going on the whole time. In the movie you can see him doing things, but you don't get that sense of fear as to why he has to do these things. I didn't care for the cinematography either. These two movies were night and day. I have to put some doubt in, maybe I might have enjoyed this movie if I hadn't read the book? I'll never know. It's one of those cases if I ever become a director, I'll remake the movie. I'll set it somewhere else like Ceres or something.

2001 Space Odyssey 8/10 This movie holds up really well. i guess I had pretty much watched it before(i fell asleep on previous viewings, during the hypnotic acid trip scene). The main meat of the movie is the astronaut segment, and that's the best part.

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on January 03, 2016, 12:57:02 AM
Ex Machina Not as good as I hoped. The humans are idiots and the robots are predictable.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on January 05, 2016, 04:42:00 PM
A Good Day To Die Hard

Usually, I try to post detailed write ups of movies I've seen. I can't in this case. A Good Day To Die Hard was terrible, and this is coming from someone who thought Live Free Or Die Hard was decent (my favorite is still Die Hard With A Vengeance). John McClane was barely recognizable here. And stop trying to make Jai Courtney happen. He's not going to happen.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on January 05, 2016, 04:49:24 PM
What if Jai Courtney played a bounty hunter with a mask on?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on January 05, 2016, 09:21:55 PM
Hateful 8

Mostly standard Tarantino fare.  There's a lot of dialogue that slowly builds tension.  I think the action pay off is good, especially with how limited the cast is.  The ending is satisfying, even if the "mystery" is kinda easy.

I saw this in 70mm, and I gotta admit, I loved it.  I may be a sucker for a good sparkling innovation, but this made every other shot look like a money shot.  I also don't see enough movies on film (clearly).  The 15 minute intermission was nice.  I wish more movies had them.  I got to use the restroom and get a soda.

Anyway, I really liked the movie. It was a fun ride. Charred Taters got to work out his cajun accent ahead of Gambit, which wasn't bad.

9/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Nile Boogie Returns on January 07, 2016, 12:26:03 AM
Night at the Museum 3


Forget the movie, the only thing that matters is the line that Robin Williams says, "Smile my boy, its sunrise!"


Damn! I mean I felt that one. right in the heart. for that to be his last line spoken on film...Perfect!


it reminded me just how much I loved a man I never knew.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on January 07, 2016, 08:26:21 AM
Damn! I mean I felt that one. right in the heart. for that to be his last line spoken on film...Perfect!

Night at the Museum isn't is last film, his final film is "Absolutely Anything".
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on January 31, 2016, 02:13:55 PM
I went and watched The Revenant last night.

It was cool, too long though.
A few too many pan aways to scenery shots for no reason. Yeah, some of them were really cool looking, but the movie was already too long as it is.

But the action scenes in the movie were all pretty damn crazy.
and I suppose Leo might finally win his Oscar for this movie, but this certainly isn't the one he should have won it for it he finally does, in my opinion.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on January 31, 2016, 09:12:28 PM
Pretty much the exact same opinion. I actually think this movie would have been great or even amazing if Leo wasn't in it. I'm thinking Guy Pierce or Ethan Hawke would have come off more natural. And yeah, it could have cut a good 20 minutes of footage or added scenes to make it even more tense. For instance, Leo and his son's backstory could have been fleshed out more. It would've added gravitas to later scenes. The dragging out of scenes and the weird second act didn't help the movie at all. I was hoping they wouldn't focus on Leo the more the movie went on and shifted the focus to Hardy. He played the role perfectly.

And I hope Leo doesn't win. At least not for this film. What emotions did he need to show? I counted three or four and they were straight forward.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: michaelbaysuperfan616 on February 08, 2016, 10:55:04 AM
Don't hate me but I just watched Pulp Fiction for the first time yesterday. I say for the first time because, I did see it when I was 12 but my parents rented it on Pay Per View and sent me out of the room pretty much within ten minutes or less of the film, so I had to see it through the vent from my upstairs bedroom. As a 12 year old in those conditions the movie didn't appeal to me much so I avoided it in years following.

All that being said, I can honestly say I had a hard time getting into this movie at first, it wasn't until the Bruce Willis story that I started to get into the movie. Then it got weird. I am not sure if it was more shocking when it was knew or I have seen far worse stuff since but I didn't find it as "ground breaking" or mind blowing or whatever it is supposed to be famous for. I liked it but not as much as I get the impression I was supposed to.

Because of the bad taste it left in my mouth from my youth and the terrible Batman and Robin starring Uma Thurman, I have avoided movies like Kill Bill just because. I am now starting to wonder if I should go back and give some of his other movies a chance then. I would rate the movie a solid B+ or a 3.5 out of five somewhere in that ball park.


The other movie I re-watched was Curse of the Black Pearl. This is a movie that, while still amazing and I love every minute of it, is tainted by seeing the sequels. If you take into account the Davey Jones stuff from the next two movies, it makes no sense from a narrative standpoint why Sparrow would be so obsessed with finding the Black Pearl when he should have been more concerned with getting away from Jones. Now they start the second movie off with him looking for the things he needs to save his soul from Jones but if it was so urgent then there should have been some hint of that in the first movie, clearly nobody was thinking about that when they made the first movie but they should have been mindful of the events of the first when coming up with a plot to the next one. It makes Jack look like a complete space case running around living it up when he should have been fearing for his life like he was in Dead Man's Chest. I enjoy Dead Man's Chest a lot, it is in my top ten favorite movies of all time so I can't accept the first one tainting it so I have to live with the events of the sequel tainting the first one.

I also came to terms with continuity error in Aeon Flux that always drove me crazy. (I got my Netflix back this weekend so I am catching up on my movie watching finally) and I realized that there is an in movie explanation for why it appears that a girl dies one day and is reborn nine months latter, the very next day. That always drove me crazy but upon re-watching the movie there is a chance that a span of time did pass between those two days that might have been further apart than just a day.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on February 08, 2016, 01:32:56 PM
Three movies watched this weekend (taking me to #49)

Trumbo - Bryan Cranston can ACT. He carried the hell out of this movie. Inaccuracies aside, he made it thoroughly watchable.

Point Break - What was the point of remaking this movie?

Goosebumps - This is a kids movie for kids. Pitched as a horror comedy i didn't laugh once, and one of the characters (you'll know which one) is intensely irritating.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on February 09, 2016, 12:50:44 AM
If you take into account the Davey Jones stuff from the next two movies, it makes no sense from a narrative standpoint why Sparrow would be so obsessed with finding the Black Pearl when he should have been more concerned with getting away from Jones. Now they start the second movie off with him looking for the things he needs to save his soul from Jones but if it was so urgent then there should have been some hint of that in the first movie, clearly nobody was thinking about that when they made the first movie but they should have been mindful of the events of the first when coming up with a plot to the next one. It makes Jack look like a complete space case running around living it up when he should have been fearing for his life like he was in Dead Man's Chest.


I think this is a perfect case of Jack being Jack. He lives in the moment. I could see him procrastinating on getting the soul debt resolved because he is distracted by getting his ship back. Plus, didn't Jones give a deadline? I thought he was giving Jack a number of years with his saved ship before coming for his soul. I'm sure I remember a conversation where Jack is arguing that the years that the cursed pirates held his boat should not count towards the years he had until Jones came for him.


~Just looked this up online~
Davy Jones: "You've been captain of the Black Pearl for thirteen years. That was our agreement."
Jack Sparrow: "Technically, I was only captain for two years, then I was viciously mutinied upon."
Davy Jones: "Then you were a poor captain, but a captain nonetheless! Have you not introduced yourself all these years as Captain Jack Sparrow?"
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on February 09, 2016, 05:27:11 AM
Some people may wonder, what did Khushrenada do while he was away from these forums? Well, I watched some movies. Here's a list of all the movies I've seen since my ban on Dec. 18.

Creed
The Good Dinosaur
PotC: Black Pearl
PotC: Dead Man's Chest
PotC: At World's End
Rocky Balboa
Star Wars 7
McFarland
The Reader
Mr. Turner
The Maze Runner
Foxcatcher
Wild Tales
Two Days, One Night
Leviathan
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
Far From the Madding Crowd
Brooklyn
The Brothers Bloom
Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome
The Phenix City Story
Night and Fog
Joy
Mad Max: Fury Road
I Know Where I'm Going
Under the Skin
Judgement at Nuremburg
Insurgent
Ida
Taken 3
55 Days at Peking
The Revenant
The Day of the Jackel
Bernie
Precious
PotC: On Stranger Tides
Oz: The Great and Powerful
Focus
Terminator: Salvation
The Big Short
Spy
Ex Machina
Cavalry
The Immigrant
Lost in Translation
Still Alice
The World's End


Now these are all movies I saw for the first time. I probably re-watched a couple things in there too. I know this the rate the last movie you saw thread but I just don't feel like going through it all. It's just evidence of why I feel bad about not participating in this thread more. Still, if NWR ever decided it wants to branch out into other media, I'd really like to get in on the movie ground floor.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on February 09, 2016, 05:37:39 AM
Don't hate me but I just watched Pulp Fiction for the first time yesterday.

No hate. There's plenty of stuff I've yet to see. Like the list I just posted, I only got around to watching the Pirates of the Caribbean movies in the past month or so for the first time. There's a lot of stuff out there to watch. I've yet to see Pulp Fiction myself. The only Tarantino movie I've seen is Inglourious Bastards and I found it a weird mixture of mesmerizing and repulsive that's just put up a mental block from me wanting to watch anything else of his.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: michaelbaysuperfan616 on February 09, 2016, 10:55:51 AM
Don't hate me but I just watched Pulp Fiction for the first time yesterday.

No hate. There's plenty of stuff I've yet to see. Like the list I just posted, I only got around to watching the Pirates of the Caribbean movies in the past month or so for the first time. There's a lot of stuff out there to watch. I've yet to see Pulp Fiction myself. The only Tarantino movie I've seen is Inglourious Bastards and I found it a weird mixture of mesmerizing and repulsive that's just put up a mental block from me wanting to watch anything else of his.


Then stay as far away from Pulp Fiction as you can, it had a few moments of wow followed by moments of what the **** am I watched then some did that actually just happen? Then it just ends on a whimper. It was entertaining but very disorganized.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Fatty The Hutt on February 09, 2016, 11:53:32 AM
Hi Khush! Here are some random thoughts on movies you saw recently

The Good Dinosaur - OK, I guess. Lesser Pixar. Wasn't blown away
PotC: Black Pearl - like
PotC: Dead Man's Chest - like a little less, drags a bit
PotC: At World's End - remember liking more, haven't seen it recently though. It's the crazy one. Plus I think DMC sufers from lack of Barbossa. He's back in this one thankfully. Giant Tia Dalma still makes me laugh.
Rocky Balboa - really enjoyed this. Great capper to the series. Haven't seen Creed yet.
Star Wars 7 - I'm up to 3 viewings. You could say I was a fan
Mr. Turner - very disappointing to me. Seemed to be a collection of scens of "Hey, remember when Turner did this? Crazy, huh?" Well acted but left me with a big sense of "Who cares?" I would rather have seen a 45 minute documentary.
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior - solid flick. Holds up. Original Mad Max is pretty good, too.
Far From the Madding Crowd - was this the 2015 one or the 1967 one? I've wanted to see both/either. How was it?
Brooklyn - any good, or sentimental NPR crowd pap?
Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome - Yeah! Tina Turner in all her 80s hair glory. And Ewoks, erm, I mean kids soften up ol Mad Max. This is the weakest entry but I have a soft spot of nostalgia for it.
Judgement at Nuremburg - love, love, love this flick, even with all it's usual Kramer heart-and-politics-on-his sleeve overtones. Max Schell is just so damn good in this. So is Deitrich. And Monty Clift, ouch. That is a great performance from a very broken actor. He leaves it all up there.
Precious - I've heard this is a comedy masterpiece (http://thesupernaughts.com/movies/drama/i-watched-precious-based-on-the-novel-push-by-sapphire/).
PotC: On Stranger Tides - Barbossa in courtier whiteface for most of this was a pain but the payoff was pretty good. Plus, Killer Mermaids! Sadly, I thought Blackbeard was miscast, as much as I love Al Swearengen.
Oz: The Great and Powerful - I enjoyed this, for what it is.
The Big Short - I liked this movie a lot until the last third or maybe quarter of the film. It seemed to lose its way and didn't know how or where to end. Plus, they patiently explained all the technical jargon all the way through until the end, when a lot of "stuff" happened that they did not stop to explain. I had to look it up afterwards and I'm still not sure I understand. Maybe the filmmakers don't either and that's why it felt like they dropped the ball at the end.
Ex Machina - really been wanting to see this. I like good sci-fi. Is this the real deal?

Wecome back, Khush!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on February 09, 2016, 01:41:59 PM
Lets have a bit of fun.

My cineworld unlimited card expires (although it will be renewed) end of february.  I am currently on my 49th movie.

By the end of this month (29th February, leap year!), how many will i have seen?

Winner gets a prize.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on February 09, 2016, 01:56:57 PM
Hard to say what you've seen already and what you may want to see. Depends on how much you want to squeeze out of it. 52 sounds good because that means a movie a week but I have a feeling with the deadline approaching, you may want to use it up a bit more. Therefore, I'll double it and go with 55 as my final answer. That allows for stuff like "Hail, Caesar", Zoolander 2 and Deadpool plus re-watching something like Star Wars or checking out other films of potential interest like Race before the deadline.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: michaelbaysuperfan616 on February 09, 2016, 03:18:19 PM
Hard to say what you've seen already and what you may want to see. Depends on how much you want to squeeze out of it. 52 sounds good because that means a movie a week but I have a feeling with the deadline approaching, you may want to use it up a bit more. Therefore, I'll double it and go with 55 as my final answer. That allows for stuff like "Hail, Caesar", Zoolander 2 and Deadpool plus re-watching something like Star Wars or checking out other films of potential interest like Race before the deadline.

Just use it to see that twice a week until it expires and you will be good man. If I had to guess I would put the final number at 53.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on February 09, 2016, 03:48:04 PM
Hi Khush! Here are some random thoughts on movies you saw recently


Hi-ya Fatty the Hutt!

Now you've done it. Maybe I will get into this a bit more.

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The Good Dinosaur - OK, I guess. Lesser Pixar. Wasn't blown away

There were moments as I was watching it that I thought to myself that this is better than a lot of other Pixar movies and other times where it just seemed like the pacing was off or that it was two different directions competing with each other as to what this film should be. It took awhile but when the T-Rex's showed up, I realized that movie seemed to be going with a Dinosaur Western type setting but then there were other characters that just didn't seem to fit that mold either like a group of pterodactyls or John Ratzenberger's character or even the main dinosaur/human relationship. I guess it makes sense considering the movie had gone through a few rewrites and changes and was originally planned to be released a few years ago. There's also weird tonal issues. It's supposed to be family friendly but one story by a T-Rex and it's survival against some crocs as well as a few other moments that seemed to go past the family friendliness. Yet, to stay within that friendliness there are scenes in which dinosaurs fight but no real harm or damage is done which doesn't seem realistic and ruins the suspension of disbelief. In the end, it makes me wonder if it might have been a stronger movie by giving up the G rating and allowing for a bit more of embracing the danger elements of dinosaurs. Doesn't mean it has to go the Jurassic Park route but it may have been a factor in developing this movie as well.

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PotC: Black Pearl - like
PotC: Dead Man's Chest - like a little less, drags a bit
PotC: At World's End - remember liking more, haven't seen it recently though. It's the crazy one. Plus I think DMC sufers from lack of Barbossa. He's back in this one thankfully. Giant Tia Dalma still makes me laugh.
PotC: On Stranger Tides - Barbossa in courtier whiteface for most of this was a pain but the payoff was pretty good. Plus, Killer Mermaids! Sadly, I thought Blackbeard was miscast, as much as I love Al Swearengen.

Let's group these together. For me, I'd rank the series as 1,2,4,3 as best to worst. I actually like the second one a lot myself and the only thing that prevents me from putting it as the top film is that it isn't really a complete film on its own. The first is a complete film on its own that doesn't require seeing anything else to get the whole story. I actually think the action drags a bit on the first one particularly in the end when Jack and Barbossa are fighting but neither can be killed. It just makes the whole fight pointless because it removes the stakes and threat from the fight. I actually thought the action in the second was the highpoint of the series particularly when the chest is located and it becomes an insane free-for-all battle. The third movie unfortunately seems to undo all the good from the first two with how it concludes many of the characters storylines and gets bogged down in the mythology and magic it has created making while struggling to find ways to surpass the action that came before but not quite succeeding. The fourth film is a better return to form although it feels like a sea-faring Indiana Jones movie. The problem is that by jettisoning so many of the characters from the first three, it feels lesser as though it is missing something and it is unable to equal the first two in action or thrills but it still has its moments like the aforementioned mermaids.

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Rocky Balboa - really enjoyed this. Great capper to the series. Haven't seen Creed yet.

I've only ever seen the first Rocky and then I saw Creed a couple months ago. Because of Creed's release, some movie channels were playing older Rocky movies so I watched this and the fifth one to see what they were like. Despite not being as good as Creed, they were still engrossing and I still enjoyed them. I think one of the underappreciated aspect of the Rocky movies is their music. The score really helps elevate the material making it better than it probably should be. Watching these films helped me appreciate some of the references that were in Creed that I didn't even realize were references until watching this which may have further helped the appeal. But do check out Creed. I thought that movie was much better than either of these.

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Star Wars 7 - I'm up to 3 viewings. You could say I was a fan

You know, I missed out on the whole Star Wars review thread so I'll make some comments on this now.

There were parts of it that I thought were great and it definitely had its moments yet I had this weird feeling in my head like I was watching something for the first time that was new yet I'd already seen it all before. It definitely struck me as a combination of A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back blended together. After this and Star Trek: Into Darkness, it left me wondering if J.J. Abrams has ever had an original idea in his life. Although that sounds harsher than I actually feel about it.

The biggest weakness is that you could almost view it as a re-make or replacement of the original A New Hope except for how the force is never explained to Rey like it is to Luke in the original. Somehow, Rey just guesses or learns how to use the force despite not getting any real instructions on it. If this was someone's first Star Wars movie, I don't see how they'd understand what characters are doing with the force with how it's shown and used in this movie. Say what you want about the other Star Wars movies but I think if a person were to watch any of those movies as their first one without having seen any of the others, I think you can understand the rules of that universe and that you wouldn't really need to have seen any other film first to understand the characters. They could mostly act as a standalone film. This one seemed to depend or rely on you having at least seen the original trilogy which then makes it so weird that they blended the first two films of it.

SPOILER WARNING in case some of you still haven't seen it. Thinking about the movie on my way home after watching it, I pictured Harrison Ford watching this movie and then doing a fist pump when Han Solo was killed and thrown in the pit and maybe thinking to himself, I'm finally free of this bloody movie franchise. I wonder if Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill are also super jealous and hoping they can be killed off as well. I love how so many of the stars of Star Wars hate being constantly associated with the films and the undying fandom for them. A couple other things that struck me while watching the films. "Why does everyone want to keep going back to Jakku?!" The aliens that Han and Chewie were carrying get released and proceed to attack and kill everyone they get in contact with. Except when one attacks Finn, then suddenly the creature decides to drag him away all through the ship despite killing everyone else instantly when attacking them. I didn't buy that. At first I thought Supreme Leader Snoke was this skyscraper tall alien until the transmission ended and it turned out to just be a hologram message. I like the idea of giant alien creatures. If we can have midget ewoks, why not 3 story tall aliens? Maybe we'll see something like that yet. A death planet? And the Empire is still building their weapons with one terrible defect in them? At least the second Death Star seemed to correct the mistake of the first and required some tough maneuvering to get inside to the center to blow it up. So many other things about the Death Planet I could question but won't. Saw the movie in 3D and really liked the one shot of being inside an X-Wing during the Maz (Katana?) dogfight. Took me back to my days of Rogue Squadron 2 and flying around in cockpit mode in that game. With the 3D, it was even more immersive. Hope the upcoming Rogue One has more shots like that. When Kylo Ren was walking on the long platform and then Han called out to him and met him on it, I couldn't help but marvel at how the Empire just doesn't believe in workplace safety like maybe having a hand or guard rail along each side of a platform like that. I did like Kylo Ren's fits and the storm trooper reactions to them. Chewie may have been the secret star of this film. Everything with him was great. I thought Finn might have died in that final battle and I suddenly saw this moment of boldness for the film introducing this character and making him such a major player throughout only to lose him. Maybe the next films would also have big characters that would be major players but also be offed and only star in the one film. Now that we don't know what to expect or who might survive, everyone is danger whether old or new. However, it turns out he did survive so that moment quickly passed. Shame. And after a whole movie of all the characters asking, "Where's Poochy, er, I mean, Luke?", we finally get to see him at the end only for him to stand still and say nothing while Rey holds out a lightsaber to him and says nothing and they do this for 2 years until the next episode starts up.

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Mr. Turner - very disappointing to me. Seemed to be a collection of scens of "Hey, remember when Turner did this? Crazy, huh?" Well acted but left me with a big sense of "Who cares?" I would rather have seen a 45 minute documentary.

Agreed. It has a few interesting scenes and moments but it just seems to lack direction. What was the purpose of this film? It's a shame because it has some great cinematography to it. Visually, it's brilliant doing a great job of capturing the artistic beauty that Mr. Turner could see or be inspired by. But narratively it is lacking with little in the way of character development. I feel like it is worth a watch for the cinematography but its hard to recommend even with the occasional interesting moment scattered throughout.

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Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior - solid flick. Holds up. Original Mad Max is pretty good, too.
Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome - Yeah! Tina Turner in all her 80s hair glory. And Ewoks, erm, I mean kids soften up ol Mad Max. This is the weakest entry but I have a soft spot of nostalgia for it.

Mad Max is the rare franchise where it seems that every entry is better than the one before it. I actually think the 3rd one is better than the 2nd in this case but I can get why someone would like the 2nd over the 3rd. It just seems like that with every film as the production values grow, it gets closer to Miller's ideal of what this world is like, becomes narratively stronger and is visually more appealing. That said, I'm just not big on this series like some people and don't see myself revisiting it anytime soon.

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Far From the Madding Crowd - was this the 2015 one or the 1967 one? I've wanted to see both/either. How was it?

The 2015 version. I quite enjoyed but I do like these kinds of stories and films. The 3 suitor conflict may have been wrapped up a little conveniently but that happens a lot with older novels like this. Still, I enjoyed the journey and the ending love felt hard-fought, deserved and right and isn't that how you want a romance to feel? Plus, how can be against a movie that wants to feature a bunch of sheep abuse?

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Brooklyn - any good, or sentimental NPR crowd pap?

This is a hard movie to describe. It plays out very understated. There's really nothing flashy about. It doesn't really have any major high points or low points. I can't say I really felt a lot watching it although it did have moments that made me laugh from time to time. I also thought the conflict that arises late in the film felt rather unnecessary and could have easily been avoided although I do get the motivation for why it takes place. And yet, when the movie spells out its message at the end as the main character talks to another character that reminds them of a time earlier in the movie, it really stuck with me and impacted me. As such, the whole movie has stuck with me and I'm still thinking of it from time to time despite having seen it over a month ago now. It might be because I've gone through a bit of that situation in the past year myself. I think if you like Far From the Madding Crowd, there should be no reason you wouldn't enjoy Brooklyn as well. I just can't figure out how a movie that plays out as unassuming as it does managed to find its way under my skin and stick with me so much. It's a puzzle but a pleasant one nonetheless. And it's interesting to see Emily Bret Rickards from Arrow pop up in other media.

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Judgement at Nuremburg - love, love, love this flick, even with all it's usual Kramer heart-and-politics-on-his sleeve overtones. Max Schell is just so damn good in this. So is Deitrich. And Monty Clift, ouch. That is a great performance from a very broken actor. He leaves it all up there.

I don't think there is a weak link in any of the performances really. Lancaster and Tracy also do good work here. This is a case where the Kramer's politics do help the film because it really does raise a lot of interesting questions especially through Schell's defense. Even more surprising is how Schell was right about the convictions not lasting. Much better than The Reader which sort of delves into some of this same discussion and topic. This was nominated for Best Picture in 1961 but lost to West Side Story. I think this is a better film than West Side Story but not better than The Hustler which would be my pick for Best Picture Winner that year. It's maybe a more an emotional pick but while I found JaN to by highly engaging and intellectually thought-provoking, I find The Hustler to be a good pseudo Film Noir that appeals to my sensibilities and sticks with me more.

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Precious - I've heard this is a comedy masterpiece (http://thesupernaughts.com/movies/drama/i-watched-precious-based-on-the-novel-push-by-sapphire/).

That is a great review. I went into this movie not knowing anything much about it and was as odd as that person describes it. I'm surprised it was nominated for Best Picture. There's really nothing about I'd recommend especially if you just read that review unless you want to see for yourself if it is as crazy as it sounds.

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Oz: The Great and Powerful - I enjoyed this, for what it is.

I did too. It did really well in coming up with an origin story for how things came to be before Dorothy's arrival and succeeded more than I would have thought possible. My only gripe is that the ruby slippers don't show up. In the OZ books, there are wicked witches in the east and west and good witches in the north and south. Glenda is the good witch of the south, everyone knows about the wicked witch of the West whom Dorothy defeats and the wicked witch of the east is killed by Dorothy's house. Therefore, the other wicked witch in this movie should be the east witch and have the ruby slippers but they never come up or appear.

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The Big Short - I liked this movie a lot until the last third or maybe quarter of the film. It seemed to lose its way and didn't know how or where to end. Plus, they patiently explained all the technical jargon all the way through until the end, when a lot of "stuff" happened that they did not stop to explain. I had to look it up afterwards and I'm still not sure I understand. Maybe the filmmakers don't either and that's why it felt like they dropped the ball at the end.

The only thing I ended up confused on at the end was what Steve Carrell's company's relationship was to Bear Stearns and how they were being affected to possible lose everything despite having the Shorts on the big banks that would bring in money. The funny thing is that despite understanding a lot of the other things explained in the movie, I'm still not clear as to how shorts work or how they would pay off aside from considering it like a wager or bet on the marketplace. I was disappointed that the cast of characters don't really engage each other much. Bale is all on his own in this film. Still, this is one of the top films of the year for me. It's interesting how the comedy works in this movie. For instance, there's the case of the banks laughing at Bale's character for making the deals with them that he does and yet we know the outcome so we are laughing at the banks for making that deal which is going to backfire on them. The movie does a good job of using a viewer's foreknowledge of the situation to good effect and keeping them interested despite kind of knowing the ending which isn't an easy thing to do.

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Ex Machina - really been wanting to see this. I like good sci-fi. Is this the real deal?
Wecome back, Khush!

Good to be back. For Ex Machina, I'd heard good things about it and was looking forward to it as well but it wasn't as good as I hoped. The movie isn't really sci-fi. It's played more like a mystery thriller of who can you trust. The cinematography does its job of setting up and creating the proper atmosphere and tension. The problem for me is that I could see a lot of the "twists" coming and had guessed them early on. I agree with ShyGuy that the main character, whatever the blonde dudes name is, was a bit of a dunce. As far as I'm concerned, the A.I. failed the Turing test because I never saw it as anything but a machine which also didn't help in my sympathizing with the main character or getting on his side. Is it worth watching? Maybe. It still has some good moments and the production is really well done. However, I'd say temper your expectations and know its less sci-fi than expected. When it comes to A.I., I'll stick with what Person of Interest is doing even if its a bit more fantasy than sci-fi in that world.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on February 09, 2016, 06:47:38 PM
oh ****! Theres some of that OG khush
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on February 09, 2016, 06:56:58 PM
I expect you to READ, y'all!!

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Evan_B on February 10, 2016, 05:50:19 PM
I echo your sentiments on giant aliens, Khush, and I think it's a missed opportunity.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Fatty The Hutt on February 11, 2016, 01:19:33 PM
Khush, I agree with much of what you stated about the movies discussed above. I also disagree with much of what you stated. I can do both because you stated so much. Classic Khush wall-o-text. Glorious, really.

I will say that I hope Snoke actually turns out to be really small in person. Like the size of an action figure, like he could fit in your hand. That would be funny. It'd be an Airplane! gag stuffed into Star Wars.

Some other random observations:
- I like POTC 3 for the Pirate's Council and the aspects of more "foreign" pirates that it brings (like Chinese pirates! Excellent!). I also like the swordfights over the whirlpool and all that crazy action near the end. Giant Tia Dalma/Calypso is stupid, as is the land-of-the-dead Jack Sparrow rescue bit. But sometimes, I like stupid just as much as awesome (see: Attack of the Clones). I also was satisfied with the endings of "major" characters in POTC 3.

- I love the ending of SW 7 so much. I wanted more. But that's the point, it left you wanting more. I actually like the new characters much more than the old in SW 7. Rey in particular is fantastic and I love the direction they took with the villain. I see people complaining that he is not scary (or not as scary as Darth Vader), that he is just a petulant child. Indeed he is and that's the point. He is not a controlled, classically eeeevilll villain, he is an out-of-control, messed-up teenager type with enormous power. He is like a school shooter. To me, he is terrifying.

- Totally agree about the '61 Oscars. Either film is miles above WSS. The Hustler is pretty damn great. Reminds me, I haven't seen The Color Of Money. Gotta get on that.

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Wah on February 11, 2016, 07:26:39 PM
Seen Deadpool yet Khush? Great character bad plot.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on February 12, 2016, 02:53:40 AM
Seen Deadpool yet Khush? Great character bad plot.

I have not. It hasn't even opened in theatres yet. I'm undecided on whether I want to see it or not. Right now, my first choice of movies I'd go see in theatres is Hail, Caesar by the Coen brothers. I've got so many movies to watch on my DVR and from the library anyways so I'm not hurting for movies to watch.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Wah on February 12, 2016, 04:00:59 AM
wait its been out in oz for 4 days now wtf?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on February 12, 2016, 09:28:08 AM
Not in the US.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: michaelbaysuperfan616 on February 12, 2016, 09:47:50 AM
Well following my viewing of Pulp Fiction I thought I would dare try to give some other Tarantino flicks a try. I had seen bits and pieces of Kill Bill over the years and thought I would go a head and give it a try on Netflix last night. Yeah I barely got thirty minutes into that piece of **** before I had to turn it off, rate it 1 star and launch some Night At the Roxbury.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on February 12, 2016, 03:57:54 PM
Yeah, I take it Art isn't really your thing.

Side note: Kill Bill is overrated.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on February 12, 2016, 05:00:10 PM
Deadpool - Ryan Reynolds can do charming in his sleep. He's having a LOT of fun making this and the digs at wolverine and how the other xmen cast don't appear because "the studio can't afford them" really help put it into that universe but split it into its own little thing.

It's not taking itself at all seriously and that works very well for it.

Also, stay right to the very very end.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on February 12, 2016, 08:14:22 PM
We all knew Ryan Reynolds was perfect for this role ever since we first noticed him in Van Wilder. Whoever thought he'd make a good green lantern was an idiot. He's not a deep character actor. His movie Buried would have been much better with Tom Hardy. Actually Tom Hardy made pretty much the exact same movie and it was really good.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on February 13, 2016, 04:12:49 AM
Yeah, I take it Art isn't really your thing.

Side note: Kill Bill is overrated.
Dude LOVES All the Transformers movies and will defend it to the death. So yeah, Art isn't his thing.

Side Note: Agreed.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Wah on February 13, 2016, 05:26:30 AM
holy ****, Deadpool OMFG haven't laughed this much in a movie for a long,long time!
See it it is so worth it.
Those credits at the start will kill you straight away!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on February 13, 2016, 05:43:43 AM
Re: Deadpool

I haven't seen it yet, due to being on a plane almost all day today, but I've been hyping this movie since the script leaked however many years ago that was.

and it's not everyday that you come across a character, and there just happens to be this current actor that was apparently born for the role. RR was such an actor and Deadpool was his role.

Just as Patrick Stewart was Prof X,
Wesley Snipes was Blade
RDJ is Tony Stark
SLJ is Black Nick Fury
JK Simmons is J. Jonah Jameson
and I'm sure you all could come up with several other perfect matches where you just knew it was meant to be the moment the character opportunity came up.

surprisingly the list above is all Marvel Characters.... but i'm sure DC will land that soul match eventually.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on February 13, 2016, 09:00:46 PM
Liam Neeessoonsss = Ras Al Ghul
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on February 14, 2016, 01:47:41 AM
Deadpool - 8.5/10

Go see it. Honestly the story isn't fantastic, but it isn't bad by any means. However, the dialog is god damn hilarious. Like others have said, Ryan Reynolds was born to play this role. As Lucariofan99 said, even the opening credits are hilarious. There is a lot of blood, a lot of bad language, a lot of nudity, a lot of references to other films (Marvel and DC), and tons of jokes. There is a decent amount of fourth wall-breaking even one piece of 16th wall-breaking but it doesn't ruin the movie like I thought it would. The only thing is, they just can't do it if they put Deadpool in an X-Men movie, but it works when they put X-Men in a Deadpool movie. Anyhow, the post-credits scene must have been put in right before the theatrical release (it was not in the early screenings), because Deadpool confirms the sequel will have Cable in it. Go see it. It lives up to the hype.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on February 14, 2016, 02:21:52 PM
I swear I came in here yesterday and posted my quick review for Deadpool.

conclusion - Best Superanti-hero / comicbook movie of the year so far ;) :thumbsup;

Morena Baccarin is absolutely gorgeous in this BTW.
Action was good. Sex Scene was great (lol), Gore was not excessive, Humor was hit or miss.. but was also on rapid fire, so even if you didn't like this one, next one might be for you. Nudity wasn't too gratuitous (why are there families bringing their 2, 4 & 7 year old kids to this movie?) Violence was not overdone, and conversations with the audience (4th wall breaking) were never out of place and did not pull you out of the movie.


edit: oh and this was the version of Colossus we should have gotten in the X-Men films.
Negasonic was also cool.

and some may not have gotten it, but the end credits are a homage as well:
spoiler? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRJ38y4Jn6k (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRJ38y4Jn6k)


Looking forward to the sequel w/ Cable (https://twitter.com/IAmStephenLang/status/698637537565347841?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw).
and the potential X-Force movie as well.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on February 14, 2016, 04:32:18 PM
CGI wasn't good enough in the original X-Men trilogy to give us this Colossus.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: michaelbaysuperfan616 on February 14, 2016, 05:21:55 PM
Watched Full Metal Jacket last night on the Netflix.


It was a lot better than I expected it to be. There were moments where I felt the direction the film was going in was unsure of itself but it came together in the end.


I gave Mortdecai a try, couldn't get into it not sure if it was the british "humour" or the pacing but I couldn't sit through that.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Wah on February 14, 2016, 06:25:45 PM
No bad Michael!
We're talking about Deadpool!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: michaelbaysuperfan616 on February 14, 2016, 07:24:18 PM
Then create a new thread this is about movies people have seen, I haven't seen  Deadpool and I don't plan on seeing it either.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Wah on February 14, 2016, 11:04:43 PM
Deadpool is an amazing funny as movie, or does it not have enough explosions for you?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Evan_B on February 14, 2016, 11:48:12 PM
Shots fired.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on February 14, 2016, 11:58:28 PM
Happy International Women's Day!

The story was neither here or there, but the humour made up for it. Needed more gore. Much better than your average Marvel movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: michaelbaysuperfan616 on February 15, 2016, 02:46:46 PM
Deadpool is an amazing funny as movie, or does it not have enough explosions for you?


I like my action movies to have explosions sure, but I like my comedies to be a little goofy and I hated the Deadpool character from the comics, his last movie incarnation, the guy playing the character, so lame jab at my taste in films aside, I have no desire to see Deadpool. But despite the idiot I portray on this forum I promise you I am far more intelligent than you and probably one reason why you will never understand half of what I do.

But if dick and fart jokes are all it takes to make you giggle like a school girl then good for you ph@8.

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on February 15, 2016, 03:38:51 PM
Shots fired.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on February 15, 2016, 05:03:33 PM
So, you're judging the movie without watching it?  Wolverine Origins is not something to base your opinion of this Deadpool on.

Deadpool is a dark humor, more violent Ace Ventura. It really is the same type of humor, but the main difference is he can launch himself into harms way and he kills people and laughs at it.

Deadpool 8/10

and to echo BnM I hope they bring back JK Simmons for Spider-man. I kind of want him to be on screen and be re-intoduced and say "Well, who else did you expect?"

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on February 15, 2016, 07:14:03 PM
Latest Movies I've seen since my previous wall of text:

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

It was alright. It's been over a decade since I read this series and it brought back some memories of it all. The problem is that the books are very hard to adapt with their over-the-top sci-fi concepts and wordplay which isn't easy to put on screen. With its beginning song of "So Long and Thanks for all the Fish", it seemed to start off with great potential for a comedic adventure but it did not fulfill that hope. It had its moments and it refreshed my memory again on the story but all the ideas, effects and actors just didn't blend well with some things and character motivations left unexplained. My rating: So-so.

Life Itself

This had a lot of good reviews and was a pretty highly rated film from last year going by Rotten Tomatoes. Filming for this began close to the time of Roger Ebert's death which occurred as production was happening giving the film a bit of a tragic ending. I learned some interesting and new things about his life that I didn't know before and it was fascinating how much Siskel and Ebert really did hate each other for some time in their relationship. Yet, the most poignant and gripping material may have been the present day stuff of him fighting on despite through the cancer battles and his health issues. My rating: Very Good.

20 Feet from Stardom

I'm not a big fan of documentaries and this movie falls in line with my less than positive perception of documentaries. Here are some background singers that have worked with some big artists. You may have heard their background vocals on some pretty famous songs the film will provide examples. Now you know who sung that stuff. Despite having good singing voices, a lot of these background singers couldn't get a solo act. Why not? Who knows. The film can't figure out for sure, aside from Darlene Love who was blocked by Phil Specter. Did you know that nowadays not many artists are using these great background vocal singers? Won't you please hire these background vocalists and prevent a potential music travesty from occurring? The end. Oscar please! I can't believe this won Best Documentary over The Act of Killing. My rating: Skip it unless you are really, really into music and like knowing various histories and anecdotes behind various groups and songs.

The Color Purple

Watching this, I was reminded of the movie Precious incredibly. Perhaps it was from the main character's dad who impregnated her twice (just like Precious's father did to her), or the abuse heaped on her from her husband (like Monique's character hating on Precious), or it could have been from the singer Sugar who helps the main character blossom and is a bit promiscuous even leading to a bit of lesbianism with the main character (just like Precious's teacher, who is a lesbian, helps her grow and escape the abuse of her mother). Yet, despite these odd parallels, The Color Purple is far superior from Precious. The writing and story is stronger but it probably helps that the director for it is Spielberg who wanted to prove a point that he could direct a solid drama without special effects or sci-fi elements.

This movie is one of those few films that has a literary feeling in that it gives me the sensation that I'm watching a book. It comes from dialogue, from the characters and the structure of the film but the way things are set up and introduced, the various conflicts and their resolutions just remind me of my time reading classics of literature and how they unfolded. The only resolution I was less sold on was how Sugar resolved the differences with her father but then the movie didn't spend much time building that plotline up or developing it much. Yet, as silly as the resolution is on reflection, at the time and in the movie, it was actually one of the emotional highpoints so Spielberg is able to get away with it. Incredibly, this is pretty much Whoopi Goldberg's debut film getting her an Oscar nomination for Best Actress and launching her career. It's the best role I've ever seen her in and probably her best career performance. Up to this point, I'd always felt her work on Star Trek: TNG was the best I'd seen her do and, even then, I wasn't a big fan of her character so to see her carry a movie and deliver a great performance like this was surprising. My rating: Secretly great. After watching it, I knew it was good but wasn't really sure what I felt about it. After a couple more days processing it all, I find myself admiring it more and more and really being impressed by it.

All About my Mother

Recently, the AV Club did an article talking about Pedro Almodovar. Despite knowing about him and being aware of many of his films, I realized I had still yet to see any one of them. As luck would have it, I came across a copy of this film while at the library a week or two later so I checked it out. I knew this was an Oscar for Best Foreign Film as well. I get why the movie would have been lauded at the time but it feels sort of dated to me. The plot makes a lot of allusions to All About Eve and A Streetcar Named Desire and there are times where it seems like the plot may begin to veer in the same direction as one of those stories but then it seemingly abandons that path and goes in another direction. I found the film intriguing because of not knowing where it was going and it actually has a resolve that is able to tie a lot of things up and together when I didn't think it possible. However, it never really engaged me emotionally despite having many elements that could or would seemingly allow it do so. Plus, reflecting on the plot after watching it, there are a few actions that strike me as ridiculous or preposterous that occur and that brings it down my opinion on it a bit. My rating: Good but I also don't think you're missing out on much if you don't ever see it.

Rififi

I liked this one a lot. Film Noir is one of my absolute favorite genres. After suffering through a slog of a lot of French films I've disliked or hated, I seem to be have finally found ones that align with my tastes more. Rififi is the story of 4 criminals who work come together for a jewel heist, plot it and carry it out. This being the 1950's, everything falls apart after the heist which is the one thing that disappoints me about the film. Even when things go wrong, Tony and Jo still have a chance to turn it around and succeed but the moral code of the time didn't let crooks succeed and film noir isn't always about happy endings. Still, even knowing that tragedy is coming, there's a lot to recommend about this film although the centerpiece is the heist itself. It's the kind of thing that inspires you to want to make your own heist film or maybe even pull one of yourself. The smartness they all display in how they communicate, in their equipment and watching their timing helps win you over to their side making it all the more disappointing that it will later all be for naught. My Rating: Great. Even though the technology may be outdated, it doesn't diminish the effectiveness of the heist. Absolutely worth seeing even if it isn't a happy ending.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: NWR_insanolord on February 15, 2016, 07:19:41 PM
You just can't turn a comedic novel into a movie very well. They're generally very leveraged on narration to deliver the humor, and that doesn't translate to the way movies work. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie tried the best it could, with little sequences quoting the guide here and there, but it was a lost cause.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on February 15, 2016, 08:02:25 PM
Very true. It's the same as taking a movie comedy like The Naked Gun and trying to turn it into a humorous novel. Trying to describe all the sight gags wouldn't translate well at all although you may get some humor from the spoken dialogue still. Hitchhiker's did the best it could and it came close but it's in a lose/lose situation. If it ditches a lot of the story material to be a successful screen comedy, Hitchhiker fans will be upset and rant against it. So, it tried to stay close to the material but the result is that the comedy is muted and understated and the movie doesn't really succeed.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on February 15, 2016, 08:49:34 PM
Two of my best friends in high school adored Hitchhikers Guide, and always were quoting from it as a sort of running inside joke. I never got around to reading the books, but it was nice to get some of the jokes that they were shooting at each other after watching the movie. I don't think it was terrible, and for me I mostly blame the cast. None of the actors felt right for their roles. No idea who would have done a better job in those settings, but that was what felt the most "off" about the film. I would give it a "close, but no banana" rating.


Going to see Deadpool tonight as part of my wife and I's Valentines weekend festivities. Super stoked for it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on February 16, 2016, 12:32:54 AM
I went and saw Deadpool a 2nd time, last night, this time with a girlfriend of mine.

She does not like comicbook movies, hasn't seen the majority of them and generally has no interest in them. But she was enjoying her some Deadpool last nite.

It's a genuinely good comedic comic action flick with strong romantic tendencies that likely has a little bit of something for everyone open to just enjoying a fun movie.

I really think they covered almost everything in this movie.
Guys get their explosions and gun play
Girls get their romantic comedy
Guys got blood and violence
Girls got Powerful women and male nudity (front and back)
Guys got nude stippers and the gorgeous Morena Baccarin.
Everyone got a faithful Deadpool & Colossus w/ endless non-stop humor of all sorts in a comic based movie that was not only good, but played perfectly to the Him and Her crowd looking for a mutual Valentines day movie that we could all enjoy.

It was marketed so damn well, that Parents forgot that it was Rated R and brought ALL their damn children to the theater to watch it. and I'm not talking teens and pre-teens, but pre-school/elementary aged children, telling them to cover their eyes at certain parts.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on February 16, 2016, 01:59:11 AM
Then create a new thread this is about movies people have seen, I haven't seen  Deadpool and I don't plan on seeing it either.
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Deadpool is an amazing funny as movie, or does it not have enough explosions for you?


I like my action movies to have explosions sure, but I like my comedies to be a little goofy and I hated the Deadpool character from the comics, his last movie incarnation, the guy playing the character, so lame jab at my taste in films aside, I have no desire to see Deadpool. But despite the idiot I portray on this forum I promise you I am far more intelligent than you and probably one reason why you will never understand half of what I do.

But if dick and fart jokes are all it takes to make you giggle like a school girl then good for you ph@8.
I am intelligent, I just act like an idiot. Well played sir.

Hateful 8

If you want to talk about art, here it is. It is essentially play shot on really big pieces of 70mm film. It really good at playing with your expectations and yanks your empathy from one character to another. Every actor in this is putting in their 100%, they are a hateful bunch, everyone evil in their own way. The dialogue is absurdly sharp and when you get a monologue, you are going to get some riveting imagery to go with it. It's shot old school, no bullet time, no tumbling cameras, just has a camera sitting there most of the time, framing whatever is happening perfectly still and if there is motion, it's slow and deliberate.

My current movie of the year based on what I have seen.

--

Deadpool is the antithesis of current Super Heroes. He isn't brooding, growling or super mysterious. He isn't subtle, he isn't babbling on about the responsibility of power for the nth time(Fucking Spiderman). He is emotionally available despite the endless jokes about himself and everything around him. While he isn't above the odd dick and fart joke, most of it is about the absurdity of what's happening and having a visual conversation with the audience about the nature of his violence. Despite his loose moral code, he has one and while he kills, he isn't sadistic about it and tried to be quick about it even if it is out of a more pragmatic concern.

As noted by others, the movie packs in a lot of opposing, seemingly mutually exclusive genres, and it works. That is what the real art of this movie is at. It does this without shoving elements in or aside or b-plotting or neglecting.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Wah on February 16, 2016, 05:08:46 AM
So Explodingfan, you going to see it now?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on February 16, 2016, 03:13:50 PM
Sadly the movie didn't work out as a perfect closing to our Valentines weekend because she had a massive amount of homework. But if the low point of a Valentines weekend was missing a movie then I'm not going to complain ;). We'll be trying for next weekend for sure.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on February 17, 2016, 10:10:35 AM
Holy cow, Angel Heart is a MESSED UP movie. My rating: gun rape/100
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: michaelbaysuperfan616 on February 17, 2016, 11:05:14 AM
So Explodingfan, you going to see it now?


Well buddy I have decided that when it comes to Netflix I will put it in my queue that is the best I can offer.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Wah on February 17, 2016, 06:33:08 PM
Ok, that's good enough I suppose...
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on February 19, 2016, 12:30:58 AM
The Towering Inferno 8/10. Slow, but once it kicks up, it is pretty damn exciting.

Cooties 7.2/10. Its pretty good at first. Kinda doesn't have a real ending. Extra points for very dark humor.

Project Almanac 8/10 I like time travle movies.

Time After Time 8/10 Even old ones.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: pokepal148 on February 19, 2016, 08:06:31 PM
So I wound up seeing the first two Back to the Future movies relatively recently.

I like how they spend half the second movie just layering stuff on to the events of the first one.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on February 20, 2016, 10:56:54 AM
Deadpool was pretty entertaining. Was there supposed to be some significance to the wrecked ship at the end of the movie?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on February 20, 2016, 11:44:55 AM
Deadpool was pretty entertaining. Was there supposed to be some significance to the wrecked ship at the end of the movie?

"SHIELD" Helicarrier is what it's supposed to be.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Evan_B on February 20, 2016, 11:46:23 AM
Deadpool was pretty entertaining. Was there supposed to be some significance to the wrecked ship at the end of the movie?
Concept art revealed that it was supposed to be a downed helicarrier, but they couldn't reference anything SHIELD related too overtly.


Dammit, got the answer sniped from right underneath my nose!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on February 20, 2016, 05:04:48 PM
Triple 9 - This hasnt launched in the USA yet. I quite enjoyed this for how it's an overwhelmingly negative film. But Michael K Williams completely stole the movie with his single scene in full drag, long hair, and matching pink wig for his dog and make up and softened voice.

It was played so seriously and straight faced I was the only one laughing at how well done that scene was. The only way i recognised it was him was because of his trademark scar.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on February 22, 2016, 11:12:14 AM
Deadpool - 9/10

Loved it. The X-Men franchise should build from this.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Evan_B on February 22, 2016, 03:44:35 PM
I know the Hitchhiker's conversation has long since passed, but I wanted to say that I thought Martin Freeman and Sam Rockwell were very well cast. Others, not so much.

I have read all the books, but I appreciate the movie just as much. The narration keeps it feeling like the book while taking cinematic liberties.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on February 24, 2016, 11:11:13 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/VvfZIMn.jpg)

the marketing continues :P
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on March 01, 2016, 08:55:55 AM
I liked but didn't love Deadpool. The action was great. The acting was generally pretty good. Even Gina Carano wasn't awful though she had like five lines and didn't need to emote much.

I'm not against foul language; I just found it a bit much here. Sometimes it felt excessive. However, that's Deadpool. I can't fault the filmmakers for sticking to the source material. I'd prefer they respect the source material (which X-Men Origin's Wolverine certainly did not) so I suppose my issue is with the source material itself. I like the Deadpool character though I think he's best as a supporting character.
(http://i.imgur.com/dNCnAf7.jpg)
And TJ Miller was awesome. Almost everything Weasel said was hilarious.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Evan_B on March 01, 2016, 02:01:18 PM
A friend of the site and mine recently recommended (or rather, placed a copy of in my hands) The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. It's a Deadpool arc that has the character going to North Korea with Wolverine and Captain America. It's one of the best portrayals of the character I've read in a long time (after the questionable choices that Way made with the character), and I recommend it if you think Deadpool can't have dramatic weight.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 05, 2016, 08:03:18 PM
Watched Zootopia today, and I must say it was quite good.

Never seen a trailer, but decided to take my daughter to go watch it since it just came out this weekend and it's been raining for 3 days already, so it seems like the perfect time to go to a movie.

The movie was funny, and it had a message that the kids I think will pick up on, while the overall adult subject/thematic matter behind it all will likely go right over all their little heads. All the while keeping things fun, entertaining, and interesting.

Message for the kids you can be whatever you want if you never give up trying to be that

Overall more adult theme that most kids probably won't really catch on to racism, bigotry, bullying, prejudice and all that is not only a real problem, but even those of us that think we may be the victims of it, may also be the one victimizing others with it.

At least that was my take on it.
Overall - really good movie, and I think I laughed outloud more than my daughter did.

That Sloth... LOL both times too. LOL

edit: this movie begs for a sequel
and to steal an aptly fit title from GAF 22 Hopps Street
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on March 06, 2016, 03:32:41 PM
I have done a final tally.

I saw 52 movies from February 2015 to February 2016.

My favourite movies over this period:

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on March 06, 2016, 03:41:23 PM
In one month?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on March 06, 2016, 04:08:02 PM
February 2015 ;)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on March 06, 2016, 04:16:42 PM
I have done a final tally.

I saw 52 movies from February 2015 to February 2016.

My favourite movies over this period:

  • The Voices - An extremely unique charm that only Ryan Reynolds can do.
  • Mad Max - An insane technical achievement.
  • Tomorrow - Completely forgettable and yet made with the same Disney high-budget polish and shinyness.

Hard to say what you've seen already and what you may want to see. Depends on how much you want to squeeze out of it. 52 sounds good because that means a movie a week but I have a feeling with the deadline approaching, you may want to use it up a bit more. Therefore, I'll double it and go with 55 as my final answer.

Nuts. I should have stuck with 52 but thought you'd do more. That means MBSS616 is closer with his guess.



Just use it to see that twice a week until it expires and you will be good man. If I had to guess I would put the final number at 53.

Fortunately, neither of us actually guessed 52 so you don't have to give out a prize!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on March 06, 2016, 05:35:17 PM
I predicted 53 personally. If i saw either The Big Short or Spotlight (two movies of "i'm not sure i want to see this") i would have got there.

Also, if i wasn't travelling over December i would be nearer 60.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on March 07, 2016, 12:30:12 AM
Adventureland Another writer tells his fictionalized coming of age story.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: michaelbaysuperfan616 on March 07, 2016, 11:29:42 AM
I loved Adventureland.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on March 14, 2016, 03:48:37 PM
The Divergent Series: Allegiant. A film series in which everyone is broken up into 4 factions based on personality traits (or if you just choose to be in one, making the "tests" pointless). But if you have multiple dominant traits (which humans have anyway?) then you are classified as divergent which makes you a danger to society and frowned upon. Except according to the second film it is revealed that the wall which surrounds the city from the "dangerous outside world" was setup as an experiment to determine whether they can find divergents which is the true purpose and "saviours of the world".

BUT! According to the third/2016 film, being divergent doesn't actually matter because they actually want people which is "pure" because the "genetics wars" of the 21st century resulted in "genetic damage" and the whole purpose of Chicago (and the wall that runs around it) was to determine if nature could correct the damage on its own.

This sets up a whole host of plot holes:

1 - How did the bureau create the experiment in the first place? Wouldn't someone have remembered them?
2 - How did genetic changes (designer babies, in effect) cause "damage"? If this was designer babies, then wouldnt it take 100-200 years for it to filter in and cause problems?
3 - How does being "pure" differ from being divergent? Is there even a difference? Who decides what's pure?

That and combined with a budget that couldn't really hide the fact that a LOT of it was green screened (a large amount of the outdoors shots) turned this film into MEH.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on March 24, 2016, 10:28:41 PM
BvS

Ugh.  This movie was every bit the mess I thought it was going to be.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 25, 2016, 01:55:50 AM
I watched it too.

Things are happening, and people are doing things, and appear in places for reasons unexplained.

Was it the most terrible movie ever?
no.
but it wasn't a good movie either. Maybe the extended Directors Cut fills in blanks, but, it probably still won't make this a better movie.

I also wouldn't say it was humorless (there were 2-3 quips made), but it certainly wasn't fun.
and I have no idea how Lex was able to suddenly get in the alien ship, learn all the kryptonian, hack the system to allow him admin access, and then use his own blood to create Doomsday, who happen to emerge from his cocoon on queue, right as the egg timer was up, and right after Superman showed up. what a coincidence. Perfect Timing.
and this is where the slightly off putting CGfest starts, half of which I believe was in the early trailers.

The Verdict: About on Par with MoS for me. and as Zach Snyder would say "it is what it is"
Hype level for JL.... flatline____________________
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on March 25, 2016, 06:11:03 PM
Zack Snyder's style is really visually dark and drab. Why was the movie so dark?! At least in the dark knight trilogy everything was clearly shot, even when it was night time. In this, it was black upon black (especially with batman scenes) making it hard to see details clearly.

Plus i see his style of over-the-top destruction continues as usual.

Also, the movie used a LOT of musical cues from Man of Steel.

It did exactly what i expected it to, and stopped there. Not amazing.

The trailers spoiled huge amounts.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 25, 2016, 09:22:10 PM
The trailers showed off way too much of almost all the major scenes in the movie.

They should have never showed Doomsday at all in the trailers.
but that was the least of this movies problems.

We all called it from the start when we said that this movie was too crammed w/ too many characters/things going on. It seems like it was at least 2 different movies heavily trimmed and then spliced together. There are random scenes that didn't need to be there, and they take the place of expanded scenes that would add more context to the relevance of progressing the story.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on March 25, 2016, 09:45:10 PM
It seems like it was at least 2 different movies heavily trimmed and then spliced together.

My wife made this same comment - and she wasn't as harsh on this movie as I was. ;)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 25, 2016, 10:13:26 PM
It seems like it was at least 2 different movies heavily trimmed and then spliced together.

My wife made this same comment - and she wasn't as harsh on this movie as I was. ;)

and a very valid complaint. One of many I could make on this film.

I honestly went in with already low expectation and was hoping to be pleasantly surprised.
I was only surprised to find out that even my low expectations were not quite met.

But I'll not discourage any potential fans of MoS or Batfleck (who was a better part of this movie) from watching the movie... i'll just urge them to wait for the Directors cut and watch it at home.

I have no doubt that the movie will have a Top 10 opening weekend, but I'm very curious as to how weekend 2 & 3 fare at the box office. This movie currently has a 31% or Rotten Tomatoes, and it's only going lower as more and more disappointed critics view the movie.

Did you guys see the interview w/ the director and Affleck over the low reviews? Affleck looked like he wanted to be anywhere else (zoned into an out of body experience almost), and he was moments away from snapping on somebody.


and if there wasn't enough wrong with Snyder and BvS *minor spoiler*
The photographer for Lois Lane in the desert that turned out to a CIA agent, just before getting shot in the face... was Jimmy Olsen. Snyder thought it would be fun to have the character bite the bullet (pun intended) unexpectedly early on when you thought he would be around for a while
but you wouldn't know this because they had to trim so much of the movie that nothing is properly setup in this film.


**wait for the R Rated Directors Cut** which comes out this summer-according to Snyder.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on March 26, 2016, 12:25:51 AM

I have no doubt that the movie will have a Top 10 opening weekend, but I'm very curious as to how weekend 2 & 3 fare at the box office. This movie currently has a 31% or Rotten Tomatoes, and it's only going lower as more and more disappointed critics view the movie.


Well, my plan is to maybe go see it in a couple weeks so there may be others who also want to see this trainwreck but are hoping for the crowds to subside a bit. Although part of me feels like maybe I shouldn't see it just to keep from supporting this terrible DCU. Perhaps this type of movie is just too big to fail no matter how poorly it turns out. Like Star Wars prequels!

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Did you guys see the interview w/ the director and Affleck over the low reviews? Affleck looked like he wanted to be anywhere else (zoned into an out of body experience almost), and he was moments away from snapping on somebody.

Are you talking about the video I linked to in the YouTube thread or a different one? Because the one I linked had Henry Cavill not Snyder in it with Affleck.

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and if there wasn't enough wrong with Snyder and BvS *minor spoiler*
The photographer for Lois Lane in the desert that turned out to a CIA agent, just before getting shot in the face... was Jimmy Olsen. Snyder thought it would be fun to have the character bite the bullet (pun intended) unexpectedly early on when you thought he would be around for a while
but you wouldn't know this because they had to trim so much of the movie that nothing is properly setup in this film.

That's just stupid. Man of Steel already made the big deal of having Jenny Olsen in place of Jimmy Olsen which created a minor uproar only to turn into nothing because Jenny turned out to be a nothing character with no real set-up, purpose or impact. Glad to see Snydor's stuck to his strengths. No wonder he thought he could throw in Jimmy Olsen here. He probably forgot he already had Jenny Olsen to replace him since she was so forgettable.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on March 26, 2016, 02:09:14 AM
Batman V Superman : Dawn of Justice

Not as good as The Dark Knight
Not as bad as Batman and Robin
Not as good as the Avengers
The villains are much more satisfying than Green Lantern
Somewhere between Avengers 2 and Watchmen
Better than Iron Man 3
About the same as Iron Man 2
Not as good as Iron Man
Not as good as Man of Steel
Better than Man of Steel
I really don't remember what happened in Thor 2 (I remember not hating it)
Not as good as Captain America 1 or 2
I didn't have a problem with Daredevil the movie
Not even in the same league as the Daredevil show.
Way better than Transformers and Ninja Turtles, if you like Transformers and hate this movie that doesn't make sense. Don't be so negative to **** up my future Justice League movie.
Ben Affleck was great as Bruce Wayne.
Wonder Woman's theme rocked. She rocked.

I was satisfied. I saw Superman fight Batman, and it set up the Justice League. I would say if they cut out wonder woman they could have honed in on the story a bit more, but she was pretty awesome.

The Lex Luthor thing ( He cut off general zods finger prints and used them to gain control. He then took advantage in bugs in the Ai. (alien Ai may not respond well to deception, it is possible in a utopian society they don't put enough gates in the way to prevent unauthorized access. Deception would not be a trait handy to Kryptonians since they would figure you out
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 26, 2016, 02:41:16 AM
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Did you guys see the interview w/ the director and Affleck over the low reviews? Affleck looked like he wanted to be anywhere else (zoned into an out of body experience almost), and he was moments away from snapping on somebody.

Are you talking about the video I linked to in the YouTube thread or a different one? Because the one I linked had Henry Cavill not Snyder in it with Affleck.

I like the cut you posted, but the full video has Gal and Snyder in it as well. it's where the Snyder "it is what it is" quote comes from.

I was satisfied. I saw Superman fight Batman, and it set up the Justice League. I would say if they cut out wonder woman they could have honed in on the story a bit more, but she was pretty awesome.

The Lex Luthor thing ( He cut off general zods finger prints and used them to gain control. He then took advantage in bugs in the Ai. (alien Ai may not respond well to deception, it is possible in a utopian society they don't put enough gates in the way to prevent unauthorized access. Deception would not be a trait handy to Kryptonians since they would figure you out

I did have to step out of the movie for about 5 minutes during a Lex in the lab scene (daughter had to go to the bathroom) but I was told i didn't miss anything. I guess I did miss something.

But I don't think getting rid of WW would have helped fix the focus of the movie. She was a positive aspect of the film in my opinion. although I have no idea where she was hiding that sword and shield when she got on and then off that plane at the end w/ her carry on luggage.

I also think the *big spoiler?*JL reveals were out of place, and the Aquaman one was awkwardly long. Bruce should have shown them to Diana at the funeral in a pre-credit scene, with the post credit being the final coffin shot

edit: I just want to re-iterate something.

This isn't a "terrible" movie, but it is highly disappointing in the fact that it is NOWHERE near as awesome as it should have been. I also wouldn't even call it a Good Movie, as it was cut in a way that left if feeling incomplete, especially in the way it seemed to want to tell so many stories in one movie, but just didn't have the time.
I mentioned it was probably on par w/ Man of Steel, as it is just a mediocre movie with a collection of awesome visual fight scenes*...

I actually didn't even fully understand Lex until I read an interview w/ Snyder yesterday (source of the *minor spoiler* in my previous post)

Bruce Batfleck was pretty good in this film, as he was more the Arkham Batman than anything.
I imagine the videogame portrayal of this movie will be fun to play, as Wonder Woman was pretty hardcore in her battle as well. He put his best foot forward for his portrayal of the Bat in this movie, and it's just the direction and editing of this movie let him down. I'm not sure how much of this bloated film is the fault of trying to fit the entire script, or just the Director trying to hard to add too much that ultimately had to be trimmed down and stitched back together, but I don't think it was quite pulled off.

*(except for that Knightmare fight scene that was scripted like the Nolan Batman films where the enemies dance around waiting their turn for Batman to kick their ass instead of engaging him with their guns pointed while it's 5 on 1...)


In spite of the sour taste this film left in my mouth, I'm still onboard for Suicide Squad. Looks fun.
And because of this movie, I actually have an interest in the Wonder Woman movie, even though I've barely seen anything about it. She looks fun.
I hope Ben fast tracks a solo Batflick (that he is in control of), and that WB puts someone w/ a vision for this DCCU in charge of reigning in Snyder so he doesn't feel so free to just keep making visually interesting mediocre superhero movies.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on March 26, 2016, 10:35:46 AM
Just a lot of BvS Spoilers here...

Wonder Woman - I keep seeing how folks think she's the best part of the movie.  My view?  She was there.  In MoS, We got Superman's origin - yet again.  Here, we get Batman's origin - yet again.  There's not a soul alive that is going to this movie and doesn't know the origins of these two iconic characters.  And then, Wonder Woman is there.

Oh, Lex has a photo of her she wants to get back?  Well, it's a good thing digital files can't be backed up or anything.  Yeah, waste your time breaking in there to get it back.  There's no way a mega corporation would have multiple dedicated backup servers of important files or such.

Oh, and Bruce has to go back to get his little dongle thingee?  The guy has the technology to clone a cell phone by sitting it down next to another cell phone, but needs a physical connection to connect to these servers?  Well, I guess you need a reason to get him back down there and to introduce Wonder Woman.

Instead of spending 20 mins telling us all Batman's origin all over again, why not spend that time giving us a montage of him beating the **** out of the Joker, Penguin, Riddler, etc.?  Give us the sense that he's been doing this - and has been successful, for 20 years.

Oh, yeah, the media is freaking out because Batman is "branding" the bad guys... but all the bad guys he killed in this movie (not counting the dream sequences) - yeah... I'm reminded of the Badman/Penguin College Humor skit.  They're just sleeping!  By the way, if you've never watched them, go watch them.  They're good.  The Badman/Superman skit was 100x better than this movie.

Oh, those dream sequences?  Those where totally out of place.  I'd say they screwed the pacing of the movie, but that implies there was some kind of pacing to begin with.

So... Lex goes through the delicate process of cutting off Zod's fingerprints in order to gain access to his ship.  That, apparently, he knows runs off Zod's fingerprints.  Advanced alien technology and it does what our spy movies did in the 60s.  Oh, and the very careful process of cutting off the fingertips?  Why not just slice off his hand?  Or, better yet, you're freaking taking his corpse to the ship with you... Just lay his hand up there.

Why are you taking his corpse with you anyway?  Oh, the origin of Doomsday is "Lex smeared some of his blood on Zod's body, and Zod's ship uses that to bring him back as the iconic, unstoppable killing machine - now with heat vision, flight, and some kind of energy absorbing powers."  Okay.

And Kryptonite.  Guh.  Okay, once you know Kryptonite is Superman's weakness, you're golden - but how do you find that out?  The cartoon handled it well - the rock was on display at the museum, some bad guys tried to rob the place, Superman tried to stop them, got exposed to the Kryptonite, then Lex saw the footage and built a hypothesis and tested it out.  Awesome.

In this movie... Lex finds some green, radioactive rock.  Having tried everything else, I guess, he decides to see what happens to Zod's corpse when exposed to the rock.  I mean, that's a logicial test to run "Hey, nothing else is happening.  Let's try cutting him with pieces of dirt lying around."

Oh, Lex knows Clark and Bruce's secret identities.  How?  We'll never know.  It's a thing that happens.  Like most things in this movie.



I could rant more... but it just irks me.  DC, I know you're like 6 years behind Marvel on building up and fleshing out your movie universe... and you don't have to copy them exactly... but seriously - they took time and nurtured the billion dollar movie franchise that we know and love.  This... was terrible.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 26, 2016, 11:50:17 AM
i... agree with everything you said up there.

and reading this article *spoilers* reminded me of some of the very things you were just talking about
http://www.cinemablend.com/new/7-Big-Batman-V-Superman-Questions-Never-Get-Answered-120447-p8.html (http://www.cinemablend.com/new/7-Big-Batman-V-Superman-Questions-Never-Get-Answered-120447-p8.html)

and I was also not trying to go too hard on the lack of reasoning behind so much ****, and the fact that this is mostly a Batman movie, or that the random scenes thrown in here and there really do screw with the movie overall. But honestly Lex's plan seemed so nonsensical. and a lot of things about this movie left me with a WTF look on my face while watching it, because I just didn't understand why this was happening or that was going on. Your comments flooded those thoughts back to me.

But I really was trying to enjoy it, so I might have glossed over details (or lack there of) for the sake of salvaging a good time at the movies.

bottom line: this is not a good movie.
wait for the R Rated Directors Cut this summer if you MUST watch it.
it will hopefully have more exposition missing from the theater cut since it will obviously have an extended run time.

It's never a good sign when the biggest star in the movie is disappointed, and even the director is informing you of the extended directors cut on opening day.

edit:
and let's not forget how Lex was warning of Darkseid at the end, and how Batman's Knightmare has Darkseids Parademons.... oh and that was apparently The Flash that came to warn Bruce that Lois was the key and that he was right about him!? WTF.
Batman doesn't even know the flash, so how was that a dream!?


The Meta human video files were... very out of place, and it's weird that they already had their JL member logos attached to the video files as if they already had logos and costumes in place for their public marketing campaign.

It was all so random that and out of place that lots of things just didn't make sense to me.
The more I go back and read about this movie, the more it just reminds me of everything I didn't like about it while i was watching it. and I really wanted to like this movie, as I was a fan of the JL & most of the DCAU cartoons.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on March 26, 2016, 12:32:53 PM
That article reminded me of another compliant.

Lex:  Okay, ship - make me a weapon of ultime destruction.
Ship: I can't do that.  It's illegal.
Lex: **** you, do it anyway.
Ship: Okay.


The best summary of this movie is "Stuff happens."

You know how in Avengers 2, Thor goes into the cavern and has weird hallucinations and everyone complained that scene was out of place?

That was BvS for two hours.

The director's cut...  I want to be excited, but if they added in an hour more footage, is it material that fleshes out the story, or is it just more stuff happening?  We already have plenty of stuff happening.

IF the director's cut actually fleshes out the story, Warner Brothers should rush that version to theaters in 2-3 weeks when the hype from this dies down.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 26, 2016, 12:47:56 PM
The best summary of this movie is "Stuff happens."

Yep.
Things are happening, and people are doing things, and appear in places for reasons unexplained.

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You know how in Avengers 2, Thor goes into the cavern and has weird hallucinations and everyone complained that scene was out of place?

That was BvS for two hours.

pretty much. and the point being that the scene was longer, and had more explanation, but was cut down to to theater run time, and over all the scene suffered for it.
That was the ENTIRE BvS movie. trimmed down for run time, and left you with a bunch of stuff now placed out of context, and the whole movie suffered for it.

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The director's cut...  I want to be excited, but if they added in an hour more footage, is it material that fleshes out the story, or is it just more stuff happening?  We already have plenty of stuff happening.

IF the director's cut actually fleshes out the story, Warner Brothers should rush that version to theaters in 2-3 weeks when the hype from this dies down.

I'm assuming it's both based on how Snyder wanted to do this and wanted to that just because it would be fun. But I bet after the "additional hour" of footage not shown, you would be able to extract an almost complete solo Batman movie out of BvS, with cameos of WW and Superman in it, and it would have been a better movie for it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on March 27, 2016, 03:06:46 AM

Yeah, does anyone remember they filmed another stadium batman scene? That wasn't even in the movie.


I think if this had been a solo Batman movie it would have been great, but both of these movies took so long to make that by the time they were ready for a justice league movie everyone would have forgotten about Henry Cavill as Superman. Remember the development time for both these movies were over two years. Their biggest problem with making these movies is scheduling. I think they need to focus and get a good universe runner to hone everything in.

Also, let's all check out the 3+ hour R rated directors cut.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 27, 2016, 10:12:17 AM
I'm sorry Perm, the theatrical cut of BvS is a terrible birthday present.

I'm sure you enjoyed it on some level though, because it's not like it doesn't have it's moments. The movie as it's currently cut, just doesn't come together as a whole.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on March 27, 2016, 11:56:13 AM
Batman V Superman should have been good. There are a bunch of good scenes throughout...there's just nothing that ties them together. Really it probably should have been two separate movies.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 27, 2016, 04:27:25 PM
Here is a good *SPOILER* filled review for Bats v Supes (aka Murderman v Captain Hypocrite)


they didn't like it. they rip it to shreds. and it's hilarious to watch.
I agree with everything they had to say, except the criticism of Gal as WW


UB, I think you especially will like this, as there are even more reminders of things you forgot you didn't like about this movie. LOL.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on March 29, 2016, 09:49:58 AM
Saw it last night.  I'm not as down on it as the rest of you, but yeah, not quite a good movie.

It's so weird to that a 3+ hour cut could make the movie better because I thought there was too much going on.  For instance: the metahuman files, all dream/nightmare sequences (especially the one with the Flash), the entire subplot about Lex blowing up the capitol building, and the last seen with Bruce and Diana could've all been removed and left the movie the same.

Another beef I had was I couldn't tell if Lawrence Fishbourne knew who Clark Kent was or not.  Because in MoS, it was pretty clear that he knew who the "new guy" was.  Then, when Clark wants to write a story on Batman, he's like "No, sports" and not "Hm, what does Superman think about Batman? There's a thing I would read! What if they meet face to face?!"  But when Lois needs a helicopter it's too expensive until it's "not for a story".  Does he know she's running off to see Superman? Does he know they have a thing for eachother? (Because Lex obviously does.) Does he know she lives with Clark? (They apparently do, based on the bath scene even though they don't act like it at work.)  Also, for that matter, the cab driver was really nonchalant when Lois starts getting in cab and stops to make out with Superman, who had been missing since the Capitol blew up.

I thought Wonder Woman was good, and the actual Batman/Superman fight was good. But one thing that bothered me was how Superman being close to the kryptonite spear almost caused him to drown, but then he's able to hold it while flying and kills Doomsday just by trying harder.  I hate that in Superman movies.  They find some way to power him down, but then he saves the day by just giving it a little more oomph.

Also, I loved Ben Affleck in this.  However, Superman is not a character that can fit in Zack Snyder's aesthetics.  Very little about Superman as a character worked in this movie.

I think it'll get worse for me the more I ponder it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 30, 2016, 01:52:49 AM
Saw it last night.  I'm not as down on it as the rest of you, but yeah, not quite a good movie.
[snip]
However, Superman is not a character that can fit in Zack Snyder's aesthetics.  Very little about Superman as a character worked in this movie.

I think it'll get worse for me the more I ponder it.

Yes it will. now go watch the deleted scene that WB/DC released and ponder on the significance of that and it's context, or lack there of, as a scene had it been left in the movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on March 30, 2016, 08:35:49 AM
Yeah, I watched it, and it still left my head scratching.  I understand it's supposed to explain Lex's dialogue at the end, but it's not a lot of context and would've only been more confusing.  Honestly, A scene where you just see Lex {slight spoiler} asking the computer question after question to learn more about the universe would make sense, and if that came up, then it'd be fine. But the deleted scene seems like it should have deleted scenes.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on March 30, 2016, 09:09:32 PM
Saw it last night.  I'm not as down on it as the rest of you, but yeah, not quite a good movie.
[snip]
However, Superman is not a character that can fit in Zack Snyder's aesthetics.  Very little about Superman as a character worked in this movie.

I think it'll get worse for me the more I ponder it.

Yes it will. now go watch the deleted scene that WB/DC released and ponder on the significance of that and it's context, or lack there of, as a scene had it been left in the movie.


I keep thinking about how Lex's plan to make Batman want to fight Superman was insanely unnecessary. He was already obsessed.  All Lex really needed to do was deliver the Kryptonite to him. Plus, Lex was overly fiendish.  He probably didn't need to have Martha Kent killed.

Also, I get having Doomsday as a contingency if Batman doesn't win, but did he have a contingency plan for Doomsday? I would hope so.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 31, 2016, 01:38:11 AM
Saw it last night.  I'm not as down on it as the rest of you, but yeah, not quite a good movie.
[snip]
However, Superman is not a character that can fit in Zack Snyder's aesthetics.  Very little about Superman as a character worked in this movie.

I think it'll get worse for me the more I ponder it.

Yes it will. now go watch the deleted scene that WB/DC released and ponder on the significance of that and it's context, or lack there of, as a scene had it been left in the movie.


I keep thinking about how Lex's plan to make Batman want to fight Superman was insanely unnecessary. He was already obsessed.  All Lex really needed to do was deliver the Kryptonite to him. Plus, Lex was overly fiendish.  He probably didn't need to have Martha Kent killed.

Also, I get having Doomsday as a contingency if Batman doesn't win, but did he have a contingency plan for Doomsday? I would hope so.


He didn't, because if it weren't for Superman, Lex would have been dead at the hands of Doomsday the minute he birthed from his eggsack.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on March 31, 2016, 08:51:47 PM
I kept thinking how cool it would've been if there was a scene after Doomsday was killed (with teamwork and not self-sacrifice) where Supe's says, "And what would you have done, if that thing killed me?" and Lex smirks, pulls a button out of his jacket, and smugly replies, "This" as he pesses the button, triggering a explosion blowing up Doomsday's head.

But seriously, Lex's plan gets worse the more I think about it. Like, he gave one guy literally ALL the kryptonite, and his plan if that guy failed was to unleash an unstoppable monster whose only weakness is kryptonite.  Like, he needed a better contingency more than OJ needed a better alibi.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on April 01, 2016, 08:05:02 PM

a relevant dialog from a different movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on April 01, 2016, 08:14:17 PM
Ha. Great point. But does that fit Lex in this movie?  It would explain a lot, though.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on April 01, 2016, 09:35:59 PM
He does mention his dad a few times, maybe he died in the Alien Invasion? The villains don't have good plans or motives in these Man of Steel movies. Zod planned to use a gravity drive on Earth, a planet with billions of innocent sentient life. Why earth? Why not Venus? Why not mars? Why not a moon of Jupiter? If you're going to kryptoform a planet it is a terrible plan to wipe out a possible support planet. Hell, the best solution would be to keep earth as is. Apparently, if you go on vacation on Earth you will get super powers if you're Kryptonian. How could future Kryptonians not benefit from that? Not only that, I'm pretty sure they can extract Kryptonian DNA without harming Superman given their advanced computers. If they had taken their time they wouldn't have all died. Their plan was brash and it sucked.

also, has anyone seen pumpkin head? check out this scene
https://youtu.be/w9p_Lce95Pg?t=2267
It all makes sense. I was watching the movie and I was like..did Lex Luthor just do the pumpkinhead ritual?


Gone Baby Gone 8.5/10
It's a pretty good detective movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Spak-Spang on April 02, 2016, 09:31:02 AM
I just finished watching BvS.

It is not nearly as bad a movie as the critics and fans are saying.  There is a very good movie in there just waiting to be edited down and released.  There is so much good in the movie, but it is surrounded by a lot of filler and some crap that just makes it look really bad.

First, Lex Luthor could be edited down.  His performance if over the stop and strange, but it could work if it is more limited.  This Lex feels like the Lex Luthor in the animated series once he is beaten to the point he goes Crazy and does something irrational. 

Second, just taking every reference out of this movie that is supposed to set up the next movies would help.  The dream sequences and visions should be the first to go.  They just don't fit.  Especially the long Batman one.

The good.  I liked the scope of this movie.  It truly felt Epic and where they could have easily split this into 2 movies I think the theme and story truly felt like you were watching an biggest Super Hero movie of all time. 

I thought they nailed Superman and Batman.  It was a pretty spot on.

I liked the dark "Opera" like approach to this story. 

Last, I felt like they really were able to spend some time world building in this movie, which was pretty cool.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on April 02, 2016, 05:08:54 PM

a relevant dialog from a different movie.

But form a different movie in which it used the dialog to explain itself far more plainly and had a single premise to run with.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on April 02, 2016, 05:28:37 PM
He does mention his dad a few times, maybe he died in the Alien Invasion? The villains don't have good plans or motives in these Man of Steel movies. Zod planned to use a gravity drive on Earth, a planet with billions of innocent sentient life. Why earth? Why not Venus? Why not mars? Why not a moon of Jupiter? If you're going to kryptoform a planet it is a terrible plan to wipe out a possible support planet. Hell, the best solution would be to keep earth as is. Apparently, if you go on vacation on Earth you will get super powers if you're Kryptonian. How could future Kryptonians not benefit from that? Not only that, I'm pretty sure they can extract Kryptonian DNA without harming Superman given their advanced computers. If they had taken their time they wouldn't have all died. Their plan was brash and it sucked.



Yeah, but MoS sucked too.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on April 02, 2016, 07:15:44 PM
One question I have about the DCCU.

Considering how BvS is tumbling in B.O., ratings, and appeal... after showing Cyborg's origin in the mid-movie trailers, should the Cyborg movie still be on track to happen, do you think they carry on with the origin that was shown in BvS?
because I honestly, at the time, could not tell you WTF happened in that scene.
I found out later is was a "mother-box" and has something to do with Darkseid
, but even after knowing that and being somewhat familiar w/ DC, i still don't really know what that means.

I would imagine in their "director-driven" movie-verse they got going on, that they leave the details up to the writers and directors to hash out..(at least that was their plan up till this point). so what if that conflicts with what the writers of Cyborg wanted to happen in their movie? As far as I know, no one has a single solitary unified vision of what is happening, where everything is headed, and how it's supposed to get there.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on April 02, 2016, 08:49:07 PM
I would imagine in their "director-driven" movie-verse they got going on, that they leave the details out.

Fixed that for you.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on April 02, 2016, 11:21:02 PM
I honestly am looking forward to the Extended R Rated Directors cut Bluray w/ all the extras and (still) deleted scenes and all that.
But not so I can partake in that 3hrs of potentially self-inflicted punishment that I might have even less enjoyment out of the 2nd time around. But so that someone out there with too much time on their hands can do a definitive "fan-edit" that removes all the **** that brought the movie down and possibly trim it back to roughly 2hrs or less.

The 2 things I would most certainly remove, without even knowing if any additional context is added to them to make them flow better into the story is:
1: The Dream Sequences, in their entirety - just flat out remove them from the movie. They were uncessary and only confused the audience as they just happen so jarringly and then left more questions w/o providing any answers.
2: ANYTHING that has anything to do with Justice League setup. specifically, but not limited to the mid movie trailers for Video flicker Flash, Horror movie Cyborg and the stare down Aquaman clips. They were awkwardly placed in the movie, and the whole reason WW was even trying to get into the system at all really didn't make much sense to begin with. But they needed a reason to HYPE her movie, and have her interact w/ Bruce, and for him to realize that she was something special, before realizing her connection to the Warrior that showed up at the big fight.

Certainly could have been handled better... much like most of the movie.

But I honestly think I've spent far to much time talking and reading about this movie over the last week or so.
So disappointed. I know I'm a Marvel man, but I really wanted to like this, even if I didn't like it anywhere near as much as my MCU offerings.

and it's a shame that BvS is tanking in it's 2nd weekend (70% drop?), with no competition, and some people still on Spring Break.
not a good sign at all, especially since Justice League starts filming on April 11th.
BvS is actually tracking below Deadpool both domestic and internationally right now.
and that's w/o Deadpool ever releasing in China....

(http://i.imgur.com/qntTeU5.gif)

Civil War can't come soon enough.

remember when WB tried to muscle Marvel off of the 1st weekend in May spot?
and Marvel not only didn't budge, but actually called their bluff?

(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/8g0SdpF0v0k/hqdefault.jpg)

Looks like DC not only swerved out the way, but ran right off the road.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Nile Boogie Returns on April 04, 2016, 10:58:10 AM
Saw it.


I liked it more than everybody I have talked to in person. I understand the movie is deeply flawed and the issues people have are valid. However, I feel like people are judging this on what its not more so than what it is


THIS SHOULD HAVE BEEN TWO SEPARATE MOVIES RELEASED AT THE SAME TIME. POKE'MON RED/BLUE STYLE

Batman Vs  Superman: Knight of Justice

Superman Vs. Batman: Dawn of Justice

I know this could be a difficult task on the surface but it feels like 2 different movies at times, so I say embrace the epicness that this story deserves.




Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Spak-Spang on April 04, 2016, 07:47:34 PM
More I think about the movie.  The more I feel there really is a great movie in there...however the studio made them set up the entire world for a DC movie universe. 

However, the most of the Batman and Superman stuff is good.  I like the focus on Superman more than Batman and it feels like a Superman movie following Lex Luthor around and having Batman be less center stage.  There are elements where Lex Luthor is actually played really well.  If they would have taken the crazy down just a little. 

I know some have complained about Lex Luthor's plan that we didn't understand his motivation...but honestly, this movie didn't truly need to set up his motivation...it needed to set up Batman's motivation and they did a good job at that.  I believed Batman's motivation was sincere and his resolve was absolute.  I also felt the reason he quit fighting was believable.  And it worked for the overall story.

If they took the Justice League stuff out and the dream sequences this would have been a great film for what it is...a Super Hero tragedy. 
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on April 04, 2016, 09:17:24 PM
I know some have complained about Lex Luthor's plan that we didn't understand his motivation...but honestly, this movie didn't truly need to set up his motivation...it needed to set up Batman's motivation and they did a good job at that.

I agree with your point to an extent.  They needed to focus on why they Batman wanted to fight Superman, and that was done well.  But they also needed a reason for Superman to fight Batman.  And the film's reason is because Superman can't explain himself in time, but also because Lex is making him.  Lex has no real motivation for this.  And without any motive for Lex there's really no reason for Doomsday to exist.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Spak-Spang on April 04, 2016, 09:46:25 PM
I took the plot line of Batman taking the Kryptonite as not part of his overall plan.  He didn't want Batman to have it.  He wants Batman and Superman to fight, but he still wants to possess the ultimate weapon against Superman.  But now he lost it.  It might still be useful for him.  I don't Lex is manipulating both of them, but he isn't a perfect mastermind controlling both Batman and Superman perfectly...which is why he results to both kidnapping Martha AND making Doomsday.  The biggest mistake made in the movie in my opinion is making it Doomsday and not Bizarro. 
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on April 04, 2016, 10:32:07 PM
  The biggest mistake made in the movie in my opinion is making it Doomsday and not Bizarro. 

But if they did that, then you would have seen WW bodying "Superman" with her Sword, Shield and Lasso. It wouldn't have been a good look for "Superman". It also would have been much harder for Bizarro to kill Superman, so a giant mutating nuclear explosive Cave Troll was almost a necessity in bringing Superman down.

Also Lex's plan was totally unnecessary, I don't think he expect the Batman to steal his Kryptonite, and Batman was already setup to take on Superman w/o any interference from Lex. But Supers did need a reason to actually confront Batman again. the whole "Martha Martha Martha" thing was pretty lame though.


It's a shame this movie turned out to NOT be what most people wanted. The cartoons handled it so better.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on April 05, 2016, 03:59:29 PM
One of the few things BVS (and Man of Steel) got absolutely right was the musical score. But then its Hans Zimmer. He's frequently in danger of making music more iconic than the film itself (Inception especially!).

It's sad to see that he's retired from scoring superhero movies now.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on April 10, 2016, 05:49:35 PM
Hardcore Henry - Or its alternate title "First Person Shooter: The Movie". This is batshit crazy. I havent seen a movie become a game so closely since Scott Pilgrim. The best description is "what would happen if you cross Avatar the movie with a FPS  game?" This is the result.

I also saw The Huntsman and Midnight Special, but Henry was the standout.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on April 11, 2016, 12:32:38 AM
I meant to go watch Hardcore Henry this weekend... maybe I'll get to it this week.

I also heard Midnight Special was pretty good. That's another one on my list.
But I'll probably end up going to watch Jungle Book this weekend.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on April 11, 2016, 01:00:32 PM
I saw Zootopia and 10 Cloverfield Lane yesterday.

Zootopia was good.  The social messaging was a bit obvious. It was hard to pinpoint the exact metaphors they were going for, but maybe I was just trying to make things more on the nose than the film did.  For all of the environments they show in the film, you only get to spend time in a select few. I would've liked to see more, but that's more of a positive comment.  The plot was actually pretty good.

10 Cloverfield Lane was a bit different from Zootopia.  The small cast really shined.  You could feel the tension throughout, and I felt that the characters made reasonable decisions (except for one, but his motivation was there).  A few notes on the ending: It was more sci-fi than I expected, but I suppose you needed the payoff since you knew what this was going in.  Also, the things were way different from the Cloverfield monster.  That was weird.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on April 12, 2016, 01:35:09 AM
I saw Batman v Superman it badly needs an editor.

I'm fairly well versed in the DC Universe so I understood most of the references but there were so many unexplained/badly setup scenes in this film it must be completely confusing to the uninitiated.

- I did like Ben Affleck as Batman.
- The bat cave was cool What happened to the manor?
- Wonder Woman was enjoying the fight at the end which was nice in such a grim story.
- I actually liked Kevin Costner showing up again for a scene.
- The visions would have made a better movie on their own.
- Somehow everyone knows everyone's secret identities?

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on April 12, 2016, 02:40:37 AM
10 Cloverfield lane 8/10

Nickmitch summed up my feelings on the movie. The explanation for the monsters being different. The movie is more of a "theme successor". Imagine each cloverfield movie as some sort of weird scifi movie. John Carpenter had originally wanted Halloween movies to be different scary movie ever year. It never worked out that way. The American horror story series does this idea every year. Same sort of vibe, different stories. AHS has the advantage of using the same actors.

Zootopia  8/10 A good kids detective movie. All the beats of a buddy cop movie, but with animals.

I like Nile Boogies idea to have done 2 movies for BVS. They should have released them at the same time. I think they could have handled pacing a world building much better that way. Kill bill was originally going to be a long movie. They broke it into two movies, they didn't do something as crazy as release them at the same time though.

One thinks of Harry Potter: The Half Blood Prince. Imagine if they had tried to make those into one movie. It would have been terrible. Also, that movie was dark as ****, but they handled it alright.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on April 12, 2016, 10:26:49 PM
I don't have it in me to write a long post trashing Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. It was a train-wreck. I knew it was going to be a bad time when it started with Batman's origin (because we need to see that again) which ends up being a dream... that Batman narrates because sure, everyone narrates their own dreams.

Total character assassination of just about everyone except Wonder Woman because she wasn't in the movie long enough for Zack Snyder, David S. Goyer and the other writers to **** all over her character. They literally killed poor Jimmy Olsen who they didn't have the decency to even name in the movie because Snyder thought it would be "fun" to kill off a fan favorite.

I can't talk about this movie anymore right now because it's making me really upset. I'm going to lie down and count to 10.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on April 12, 2016, 10:40:19 PM
At least you saw it on a discount tuesday.

I told everyone to just wait for the DVD release... it might not fix the movie, but if you are going to sit through it only once... it might as well be the full version of the movie, so that there are no longer any excuses as to why it turned out the way it did.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Wah on April 13, 2016, 10:17:50 PM
Zootopia
8/10
Great Movie has all the Clichés and References of a Cop Movie but in a fun kid-friendly environment. There were big Godfather and Breaking Bad References in the movie.

The Movie is mostly Clichés but it pulls it of really well.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on April 14, 2016, 06:09:32 PM
At least you saw it on a discount tuesday.

I told everyone to just wait for the DVD release... it might not fix the movie, but if you are going to sit through it only once... it might as well be the full version of the movie, so that there are no longer any excuses as to why it turned out the way it did.
I saw a matinee on Saturday morning so I only paid $6.75 for my ticket. I've been angry about Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice since, and still feel like I wasted money on it. My brother hasn't seen it and I was going to wait for the rated R extended version, but I was so curious. Mistakes were made.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on April 14, 2016, 06:21:52 PM
Darn, you should have gone to best buy and bought a copy of the dark knight, or one of the other DC movies that came with $8 off your ticket.

BVS is not as bad as Aidyn Chronicles.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on April 14, 2016, 07:10:13 PM
Darn, you should have gone to best buy and bought a copy of the dark knight, or one of the other DC movies that came with $8 off your ticket.
I still would have felt like I overpaid.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: shingi_70 on April 14, 2016, 11:52:08 PM
Got into the Civil War early screening.
Captain America: Civil War is the best realization of characters to the screen since the Dark Knight or the Avengers. It's also a contender for best Comic book movie of all time and a shoo in for movie of the year. The film has a ton of spectacle, but still finds time to slow down the pace even amidst action to give small character moments and have the cast play off each other. The thing is through the pessimistic and malevolent tones that comes with a superhero War, the movie is able to find spots of hope and enjoyment throughout, by small and sometime large doses of humor to contrast the seriousness of the situation, with out undermining the ongoing conflict. Newcomers Spider-man and Black Panther are given the respect they serve and have full character arcs that firmly establish them in the MCU while taking a direct inspiration from the pages of the 616. Other characters are given ample time and you see an evolution from where we last saw them in previous movies in the universe. Despite this all star cast this is firmly a Captain America film and Steve Rogers is at the heart and soul of not only the film, but the Superhuman community. If I had to give the movie a rating it's a pure 5/5
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on April 15, 2016, 12:52:19 AM

As if I wasn't already HYPED to see this, I just hope that every other studio takes notes of the MCU when they attempt their own Cinematic Universes.


Create something that is fun to watch, respects the source material, is coherent in it's storytelling, develops the characters, and actually has a plotted path along the long form story telling you are attempting to achieve.


and this isn't directed at just WB/DC but also Universal w/ their upcoming Cinematic Monster Movieverse. You don't have to do it like Marvel, just follow the outline above, and I'm sure you'll find your audience.


but back to Civil War.... 3 fucking weeks.... spoliers are gonna be hard to avoid when I can't stop reading peoples impressions all over the internet.


One question Shinji, and no spoilers please.
How relevant was the post credit scene to a potential future moment or movie?
actually, don't answer that... I don't need to know anymore about this movie than I already do.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on April 15, 2016, 02:42:02 AM
I'm with you on spoilers and hype. Can't keep away from news and I'm worried I'll find out who dies. But it does sound like everything we hoped it would be.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on April 15, 2016, 03:11:27 AM
I won't spoil it when i see it in 2 weeks ;)

Annoyingly Cineworld isn't giving an early showing of this to unlimited members (mainly because they know it will sell out immediately) so i have to catch it as early as i can.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: shingi_70 on April 15, 2016, 08:22:44 AM

As if I wasn't already HYPED to see this, I just hope that every other studio takes notes of the MCU when they attempt their own Cinematic Universes.


Create something that is fun to watch, respects the source material, is coherent in it's storytelling, develops the characters, and actually has a plotted path along the long form story telling you are attempting to achieve.


and this isn't directed at just WB/DC but also Universal w/ their upcoming Cinematic Monster Movieverse. You don't have to do it like Marvel, just follow the outline above, and I'm sure you'll find your audience.


but back to Civil War.... 3 fucking weeks.... spoliers are gonna be hard to avoid when I can't stop reading peoples impressions all over the internet.


One question Shinji, and no spoilers please.
How relevant was the post credit scene to a potential future moment or movie?
actually, don't answer that... I don't need to know anymore about this movie than I already do.

It's relevant to a future movie but maybe not for the universe itself.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on April 17, 2016, 06:13:40 PM
Just got back from JUNGLE BOOK and it was pretty awesome.

My daughter loved it and kept talking out (briefly) about it during the movie (ooops... it a kids movie, all I could do is shush her so she wasn't so loud, but it never detracted from the movie. plenty of kids and lots of them enjoyed it.)

There was actually applause by most of the theater... which was probably about 90% full when I glanced back just before the movie started, right when the movie was over. The Climax was intense and emotional, and I'm sorry I'm not wordsy descriptive reviewer type, but I would have watched this again, and highly recommend it to anyone that is a fan of the original disney animated version, has kids (of all ages), and likes good movies.

I think Disney has struck gold on yet another animated to Real life conversion movie.

I can't wait till they finish adapting them all, and then surprise everyone by having some event where they all come together (Avengers/Once Upon A Time - style) for a major Disney Event movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: glynisninfa on April 28, 2016, 09:40:02 AM
I just recently watched BVS, an I rate it 7 for meh.   :-X
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Spak-Spang on April 28, 2016, 07:33:34 PM
Last night I watched Civil War and it is the best Marvel movie and possibly the best comic book movie I have seen.  It is truly a Captain America movie firmly focusing on his motivations and who he is.  However, by including the other Marvel characters into the story it helps to show the world is bigger and includes more heroes than just Cap.  Also focusing on Tony Stark you truly see the world from 2 views.  This movie is big but it focuses more on character than anything else. 

The action is topnotch of course.  It feels like Captain America 2 where the audience can feel the blows and the impact the battles have.  The camera work is top notch is making sure you understand the fights going on.  It is big by very personal. 

Easily 10 stars if you like action movies.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on April 28, 2016, 09:18:07 PM
Just got home from seeing the new Ratchet & Clank movie, and I really enjoyed it. The writing is simple & often borders on corny, but that's true to the spirit of the games and never goes too silly. There are a ton of Sony in-jokes throughout the movie, from cameos by Daxter & Sly Cooper; to the series' LONG history of weapons; to the frickin' PS2 boot-up music. Also, if you've played the recent reboot game, there's actually not a lot of the game's events in the film and, frankly, I think the movie tells the story better with more scenes featuring the Rangers and Dr. Nefarious. Speaking of Dr. Nefarious, make sure you sit through the first batch of credits.  ;)

It's not a particularly deep movie & its jokes don't always hit, but as a fan of the series I was consistently entertained. Frankly, I think it's a better written & executed film than Force Awakens was, which I recently saw on home video.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: jacquie26 on April 29, 2016, 07:46:20 AM
I just watched Civil War today, Its good but not really great to be honest.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on May 01, 2016, 04:25:21 PM
Everybody Wants Some - 8/10

This movie has no plot, no character arcs, little conflict, and it just sort of ends.  Outside of that,I had a fun time watching it.  I enjoyed the characters.  It's a very light and casual watch.  It's not there to move you, just entertain, which it does.  If you can put up with an 80s style romp through mild misogyny, you'll have a good time.

Mile Ahead - 8/10

Don Cheadle really does it with this one: co-writing, starring, and directing.  The story telling is really good, and the editing is top notch.  Cheadle really becomes Miles Davis for this role.  If you're a fan of Jazz - or rather, Social Music - or just want to peak in to the life of a music legend, this is a must.  The biopic doesn't tell the full life's story, which I think is for the better, and doesn't really make a point.  It starts, it ends, it shows you a good time.  Much like Jazz.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on May 01, 2016, 08:22:05 PM
Keanu - 6/10

Pretty disappointing. There are a few hilarious scenes, but it's nowhere near as funny as the show was.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on May 02, 2016, 01:53:30 AM
Automata I long for Blade Runner. This is a mediocre substitute.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on May 04, 2016, 08:04:02 AM
The Force Awakens

An extremely insecure is the top of the list of flaws this film has with JJ being the number one cause. Rey is a terribly un-compelling character because the Force did it if you get my drift. Time, space, scale issues kick in hardcore near the end of the movie as people, ships, objects and time warp all over the place. **** not Tatoonie, just because you call it something else doesn't mean it's not.

Poe is a little too good of a pilot, he flies like I do in a videogame, but thankfully that really the only thing he is good at other than jokes. Finn is great because he is so mediocre at everything he does. He gets by with a bit of luck, but he has nothing but raw effort to his name. Han is Han but a little strange.

The insecurity the film has means it insists on hitting virtually all the plot points from A New Hope but bigger and more grit. It's immensely afraid to be it's own movie and suffers for it as you keep going "Really?" again and again. The lighting is poor indoors like they are constantly trying to hide something in place of lens flares.

Such a try hard villain that had me laughing at him. So fucking pathetic.

Much better than PT(Not that hard), but falls short of the OT. Way the **** over hyped.

I then watched the Winter Soldier for the first time, a much better film and probably the best of the Marvel stuff if it wasn't for Deadpool which was near perfect.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on May 04, 2016, 10:20:45 AM
Hopefully you don't wait till years later to watch Civil War.

I haven't seen it yet, but 2016 has had nothing but Disney/"Marvel" hits so far.

Although I'm sure X-Men might drag that down a bit.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on May 04, 2016, 10:36:37 AM
Yeah, after watching Winter Soldier I can see why people didn't like Avengers two. It's a pretty muddled movie largely to the over-sized cast. It's got some cool scenes and shots, but it's got a whole lot of pointless fights because. Stark is an idiot in A2, but I know enough about the Civil War that the whole thing was a setup for it.

Robert Redford is always great and he was used perfectly. He pretty much puts everyone else to shame.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on May 04, 2016, 06:26:03 PM
Sounds like Cap 3 is doing Avengers 2 better than Avengers 2 did.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Wah on May 04, 2016, 08:32:05 PM
Very true should have been called Avengers: Civil war, not Cap, very strange choice of name.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on May 04, 2016, 10:55:23 PM
No Thor, no Hulk, no Avengers
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Wah on May 05, 2016, 06:01:11 AM
Im did you pay attention to the end of avengers 2?
 Thor and hulk left. and tony did too, and now hes come back.
The new avengers cast was:
Cap
widow
vision
witch
falcon
Rhodey ( i think)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on May 05, 2016, 11:04:05 PM
Captain America Civil War - Go See It/10

Yeah, it's awesome. Just see it. More like Captain America The Winter Soldier than it is like The Avengers (either one), even though it's pretty much an Avengers movie. Spider-Man is awesome in it, definitely the best version of the character. Also, there is a mid-credits scene and a post-credits scene, so don't leave when they start rolling. Everything else goes in the spoiler discussion thread.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on May 06, 2016, 02:07:44 AM
Captain America Civil War - Go See It/10

Yeah, it's awesome. Just see it. More like Captain America The Winter Soldier than it is like The Avengers (either one), even though it's pretty much an Avengers movie. Spider-Man is awesome in it, definitely the best version of the character. Also, there is a mid-credits scene and a post-credits scene, so don't leave when they start rolling. Everything else goes in the spoiler discussion thread.

seconded.

Spidey was great. Panther was dope. Ant-man had his moments some bigger than others, and I'm gonna assume the mid credit scene is the one that wasn't shown before?
Either way, both end credit scenes are HYPE for fans of Marvel and the MCU. Do not leave the theater early.

p.s. DC/WB/Snyder, this is how it's done. Hero vs Hero, real emotion, actual reasons, a build up that leads to a an actual pay-off. A story that's coherent, emotional, full of action, and fun to watch.
I am actually left wanting more, and HYPED for the morsels that were teased.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Wah on May 06, 2016, 05:46:41 AM
I dint have time to see the VERY last end credits scene, what happened?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on May 06, 2016, 07:29:50 AM
Peter Parker is back at home playing with his web shooter (that Tony Stark upgraded) and it starts casting something on the wall. Aunt May walks in and asks about the fight he got in, Peter says the guy's name was Steve and he's from Brooklyn and says he got in a few good hits himself. He says Steve's friend was huge. Then she leaves and he looks at what it's doing and  it is display a big Spider-Man face and these other things, it's clearly some type of communication device with Tony Stark. Then it goes black and says "Spider-Man will return.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Wah on May 08, 2016, 01:19:35 AM
thanks
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on May 19, 2016, 12:48:05 AM
London has Fallen.

LOL. I didn't like this one as much as the first due to the fact it was much harder to follow people from location to location as London isn't as familiar as Washington. Both movies are real popcorn movies where you wear a **** eating grin as you watch the carnage and ignore the plausibility of the opening scenario in an otherwise well made films. Unlike Michael Bay films it doesn't insult or assault you or completely take your intelligence for granted.

London has this really nice fire fight I enjoyed where it is one really long relatively smooth shot. There are cuts in it if you know how to spot them but compared to most fire fights it felt like a real treat as the director put his skills on display and took a risk. I wish more directors are more willing to do long shots instead of constantly cutting like they are suicidal.

Rating: Quite entertained.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on May 19, 2016, 03:27:35 PM
Finally went and saw Batman Vs Superman after putting it off for so long and almost talked myself out of doing it again. Almost dragged myself to the theatre. However, in the end, I'm more on the positive side of the film than I expected. I'd probably be willing to see it again in theatres even but I think I'll wait instead for the director's cut to see it again that way. I can see why it has it's detractors but I don't think it fully deserves the scorn it has received. I had a mixed reaction with Man of Steel and was generally down on the movie after I saw it in theatres and expected the same or worse reaction but instead I'm ok with this film and I'm rather interested to see how the Justice League movie will play out. I know I'm late to the party and a lot of the previous comments in this thread address many things about the movie I was thinking about but I may end up posting some more in-depth thoughts on it all later.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on May 19, 2016, 04:10:11 PM
I'm guessing you are more okay with it in part because you had your expectations lowered before entering the theater, leading you to be pleasantly surprised by it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on May 22, 2016, 10:27:45 PM
Neighbors 2 - 6.5/10

Pretty cookie-cutter sequel, but with a hilariously feminist leaning. Honestly, I really like this cast and hope they can get together again for a non-sequel.  The movie wraps itself up with a quick "everybody wins" ending, but there's enough laughs along the way to make watching worthwhile.  Still, it's not quite good enough to rush out to the theatre.

The Nice Guys - 8.5/10

I was home with my family recently, and I think my dad watches a lot of those crime shows ironically.  Either way, I got my fill of those, and it was incredibly refreshing to watch a detective movie without any of the modern cliches.  The jokes hit with a more than acceptable success rate, even if there is more than one Hitler joke.  There might be one or two contrived plot points, but overall it works great, and the story is well written with almost every plot point logically leading to the next.  I like the characters a lot.  There's a prominent kid roll, but she's endearing and helpful without being absurdly smart (or the adults being completely dimwitted).  This could be a solid franchise series, especially since you only need 3 returning characters to make it work.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on May 23, 2016, 03:40:39 AM
London has Fallen.

LOL. I didn't like this one as much as the first due to the fact it was much harder to follow people from location to location as London isn't as familiar as Washington. Both movies are real popcorn movies where you wear a **** eating grin as you watch the carnage and ignore the plausibility of the opening scenario in an otherwise well made films. Unlike Michael Bay films it doesn't insult or assault you or completely take your intelligence for granted.

London has this really nice fire fight I enjoyed where it is one really long relatively smooth shot. There are cuts in it if you know how to spot them but compared to most fire fights it felt like a real treat as the director put his skills on display and took a risk. I wish more directors are more willing to do long shots instead of constantly cutting like they are suicidal.

Rating: Quite entertained.

Actually living in the city it's based in there was a pretty loud groan from some people while i was watching through the film. 90% of it isn't even visually London either as the production was done in bulgaria.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: gayla8 on May 23, 2016, 06:23:27 AM
X-Men Apoc is really a must-watch.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on May 26, 2016, 10:44:28 PM
X-Men: Apocalypse - 8/10

Seriously this movie is much better than the reviews are saying. Yeah, sure, the world in comparison to the major characters of the film does seem a little small and takes a back seat, but the movie is pretty damn good. There is a *major* swipe taken at X-Men: The Last Stand during the movie, pretty much everyone in the audience got the reference and laughed. It's kind of weird that this is somewhat an origin story for characters that we already know in the X-Men universe, Cyclops, Jean Grey, Nightcrawler, Angel and Archangel, but they do just enough character building for them to not distract from the rest of the movie, or take anything away from any of the other ones. And holy ****, about 2/3 into the movie, full-on Weapon-X Wolverine is unleashed and kills the **** out of everyone in his path. Sure, it's pretty predictable, but what super-hero movie isn't? I would ranks this in the top 3 X-Men films. Yes, there is a post-credits scene - which you can't be certain is building up to the next X-Men movie, or the next Wolverine movie, but it definitely reveals that the next villain, for whichever movie they make, will be Mr. Sinister.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Evan_B on May 27, 2016, 12:09:16 AM
Sure, it's pretty predictable, but what super-hero movie isn't? I would ranks this in the top 3 X-Men films.
Considering one of the other movies in that top 3 has to be First Class, it's hard to really rank X-Men films when one or two of them blow all the others out of the water.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on May 27, 2016, 10:29:02 AM
It was an okay movie.  Not as bad as Last Stand by any reach.  I enjoyed it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on May 27, 2016, 12:30:18 PM
Also it's pretty awesome that Metallica's The Four Horsemen is playing when Apocalypse, Psylocke and Storm meet with Angel.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on May 30, 2016, 06:57:46 PM
The Lobster - 6/10

It just felt like an indie movie trying too hard to be an indie movie.  I'd rate the first 1/2, maybe 1/3, of it a solid 8+, but the rest of the movie falls flat.  It still manages to have its moments, but the story seemed to be going nowhere after a certain point.  The narration fell flat.  I presume that the "say a thing is happening, then the thing happens" (or vice versa) style was meant to be funny, but it just fell flat and proved to be annoying.  The narrator's voice was also not the most pleasant, but I think that was just the style of speaking all the characters used which was awkward, blunt, and unnatural.  The humour is very dry.  The open ending was also vastly unsatisfying, sure it makes you think, but not for very long.  The interesting bits of this movie come from the world built around mandated relationships.  Being single is a crime, and anyone who is single is sentenced to going to a "hotel" where they pair up with someone, or be turned into an animal of their choosing.  People seen alone in the city have to present marriage papers when asked, or be arrested.  There are also "loners" who are forced to live in the woods.  Each piece of society has its own, intricate rules, and the parallels between the law in the hotel and that of the loners is intriguing.  The movie excels when exploring these rule sets, but then falls flat once it has to wrap up the story.  Overall, it gets quite of few laughs with its dry humor, but may be a little too artsy fartsy.

Alice: Through the Looking Glass - 6.5/10

It's easy to say "if you liked the first one, you'll like this", but  it's probably true.  The visuals are fantastic (in both senses of the word), and the acting is a little less flat this time.  The star of the show is really Sasha Baron Cohen, who plays "Time".  He really steals the show and is at his best when he chews up the scenery.  There's also a fun scene when a few characters make several time puns in a row at his expense.  If you allow yourself to just go with the premise, you'll have a good time.  The parts outside of Wonderland weren't my favorite (successful woman meets sexist opposition from upper class and argues with her mother-cliches), but overall it's a good film if a bit heavy handed with the heavy handed parts.  Also, the new P!nk music video plays before the film for some reason, so heads up.

Money Monster - 7.5

George Clooney hosts a parody of CNBC's Mad Money.  You may remember former Daily Show host Jon Stewart handing Jim Cramer his ass on a platter a few years ago.  Honestly, when I went into the movie, I thought that sounded like a show I'd totally watch.  The movie's humor is a little dark sometimes.  It starts with light boner jokes, but as the hostage situation builds, the situation that the characters are in isn't lost on the writing.  The story tries to make a point somewhere, but "investment firms do fraud" isn't exactly groundbreaking.  The thriller aspects of the film aren't as balanced as the comedy.  Julia Roberts connects all the dots off screen, then puts it in Clooney's ear for him to say.  That may be a metaphor for something, but idk.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on May 31, 2016, 02:54:52 AM
Warcraft - I'm not at all familiar with this franchise at all so i went into this blank faced, but it is pretty dense and there's a lot of lore i didnt know about. I'm not fond with how its been written to try and force a sequel/franchise (which is a studio decision, obviously).

I know the film has been getting negative reviews but looking at it from a gamer angle it sits a whole lot better.

My favourite thing about this film is the directing. Duncan Jones (who did Moon and Source Code) is a really competent director, everything is "un-Michael Bay". Smooth, clear, well-lit action shots that's steady and very easy to process. Compare against Transformers (2 especially) when you cannot even recognise who's battling who at times... in this you can clearly work it out.

Regardless of how badly the film itself does, it's a success to me for being able to make this universe come to movies, but do it in such a way that makes sense visually.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on June 03, 2016, 10:30:37 PM
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows - 6.5/10

It's either tied with or slightly better than the 2014 reboot. Shredder looks a lot better in this version, but he never fights the turtles and gets turned into stone by Krang near the end. Bebop and Rocksteady are very much alike their 80's/90's cartoon versions, aside from their voices. It actually could have stood to be a little bit longer (so could the 2014 movie), but it is what it is. Obviously they're setting up for a third movie with Krang in it again, and probably Shredder returning as well - but I imagine that at least *part* of it will take place in Dimension X. Whatever, go see it if you're a TMNT fan. It's not great, but it's not horrible.


As a side note, I noticed the Krang action figure (from the movie) has the name spelled "Kraang" like the Kraang from the Nickelodeon series...but in the movie it's spelled "Krang" like it always was before.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on June 04, 2016, 05:25:35 PM
I haven't seen it yet, but this one does look a lot better than the first one.

I didn't like the first one because it got the characterization of the turtles wrong, none of their jokes were funny, and they just didn't seem believably there. In contrast of the old series I felt like there was some deep stuff going on. I was watching the first one yesterday in hd and I was watching Mike and Donny talk. The lighting in that movie was really good. The movie was gritty and grimy, like a move about humanoid turtles living in sewers should be. Also, they got the ninja element down. I feel like the first series is more believable in a lot of ways. I liked the all cgi movie too. It felt like a continuation of the other movies.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on June 04, 2016, 08:52:41 PM
Aside from some of the scenes with Krang, and the Technodrome itself, the CGI is excellent in this one. Spoiler alert: none of the jokes are funny in his one either.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on June 05, 2016, 06:14:07 AM
I watched it yesterday and largely agree.... the CGI is very well done and has avoided the sin of this year of "i'm standing in front of a green screen!" that Allegiant, BVS and Through the Looking Glass fell into. I'm glad Stephen Amell is getting his name out there too.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on June 05, 2016, 09:19:11 AM
Yeah, I'm at the point where I couldn't give any less of a **** about anything DC does, but having different actors for the same characters on TV and in the movies is about as stupid as it gets. If Marvel had someone else play Punisher or Daredevil in whatever movie they show up in...well, they just wouldn't do that.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on June 05, 2016, 10:04:15 AM
X-Men: Apocalypse  - 7/10

As a film, it's pretty good.  There are a couple of "ugh" moments (green screen, inexplicable character deaths).  The plot holds up, and the lead characters are likeable.  It felt like the film was Jennifer Lawrence's movie, but she gets left out of the climax, which was weird.  The film also ups its ante a little too much.  The entire world is getting destroyed (though, not all of it is shown), so you're left wondering where they go from there.  The movie does a lot of retreading along the same character arcs and even goes to repeat the magic of a particular shot from the last one.  Still, the action scenes work, and that the important part.

As an adaptation, I can see why fans would be frustrated.  The film stomps all over the canonical origins of several characters and effectively reduces their "cool factor" to zero.  I think of Storm particularly on this issue.  But comicbook canon is rarely sacred to film makers anyway.  However, the movie also shits on its own canon, for better or worse.  It basically wipes out X-Men Origins: Wolverine, which is great.  But also leaves a number of questions for how exactly the original time line works.  As a nerd, it's hard to look past these things.  As a moviegoer, you gotta shrug them off.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on June 05, 2016, 11:18:30 AM
What is canon anymore, anyway? If the movies were direct 1:1 comic adaptations, that would be pretty boring.

The original timeline is pretty much gone - everything (or at least nearly everything) that happened in X-Men 1, 2, and 3 has been erased, as well as X-Men Origins: Wolverine. The only things that actually have happened now are what happened in First Class, DoFP, Apocalypse, The Wolverine, and Deadpool, in that order. Wolverine still has all of his memories from between X-Men and DoFP apparently, so whatever happens in The Wolverine 2, unless it takes place in present day (well, what was "present day" at the end of DoFP), he won't remember...unless these events would have happened with or without what was changed by what started with DoFP.


Bottom line: it's better this way. The second trilogy of X-Men movies is better than the first.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on June 05, 2016, 11:47:16 AM
I thought DoFP stated that Logan would have all his original memories.  So, he would remember X-Men Origins: Wolverine (and X1-X3), but not meeting Jean in X-Men: Apocalypse, right? 

And I'll agree that the new films are better, but they make a lot of the same mistakes the old ones did: under-developing characters, killing characters off-screen, and bad deaths on-screen.

But as far as the time travel thing goes, what we don't know is if the whole Apocalypse thing happened in the old timeline.  And if it didn't, it kinda messes up Storm's character in the original trilogy (not that it matters much).  Plus, there are some character relationships that don't work (but that can't really be helped).  It's like they really don't want us to remember the original trilogy, and I'm fine with forgetting them. to be honest.

I don't mean to harp on Storm too much, but she's kind of a fan favorite.  And the film completely rewrote her origins to be wildly uninteresting, and she basically stopped having lines in the film once Olivia Munn showed up.  I honestly think she only had one line after meeting Psylock, not that Psylock had a ton of lines herself.  But the portrayal just felt like a big let down.  Meanwhile, I think they did great jobs on Cyclops and Nightcrawler.  But that's one example where sticking to some canon, would've been nice.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on June 05, 2016, 04:04:00 PM
I guess on paper Origins still happened and Wolverine remembers it, but I think the best idea is to just pretend that this movie never happened, or the changes from DoFP meant that Wade Wilson must have had a son...named Wade Wilson and he became Deadpool instead.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on June 05, 2016, 04:34:43 PM
As long as he doesn't talk about it, the rest of us don't have to.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on June 05, 2016, 06:23:45 PM
I just pretend that was a new mutant named Deaddrool with no relation to our favorite 4th wall breaker.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on June 06, 2016, 10:18:56 PM
Time travel happens in the x-men movies. With time travel you can explain away everything.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on June 17, 2016, 03:31:57 AM
I just got back from watching Finding Dory.

Quick review: It's no Finding Nemo

Long Review: not gonna happen, but it was fairly entertaining with a few laughs.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on June 19, 2016, 03:46:38 PM
I saw Finding Dory last night.

I'm a lot warmer on it than BnM, apparently.  I thought it held up well.  I hadn't rewatched Finding Nemo, so my opinion may be skewed.  The movie had some good laughs.  Not too many feels.  One thing that was upsetting during the film was how many kids were just running around the theatre.  One ran up right between me and friend and just screamed, as loud as it could, and for no apparent reason.  It was a 10:30pm showing.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on June 19, 2016, 04:57:45 PM
To be fair, I tried to review it after the movie, and I was very tired. It wasn't bad, but my biggest criticism is that it ventured into the realm of "cartoon" after a certain point, and never really looked back.

And the post credits scene didn't really make sense considering the amount of time that went by.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on June 20, 2016, 01:14:14 AM
Just watched Finding Dory. It's pretty good, not fantastic, but watchable. To be honest I didn't think Finding Nemo was spectacular either, but it is better than the sequel.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on June 20, 2016, 01:56:30 PM
To be fair, I tried to review it after the movie, and I was very tired. It wasn't bad, but my biggest criticism is that it ventured into the realm of "cartoon" after a certain point, and never really looked back.

And the post credits scene didn't really make sense considering the amount of time that went by.

There was a post-credits scene? Damn!

I did like the Octopus thing during the credits.  That was fun.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on June 20, 2016, 08:23:42 PM
Finding Dory *SPOILER*

post credit Scene:
the 2 sea lions were on the rock sleeping, and the 3rd one that wanted to get on the rocksnuck up quietly and barely touches it, when they 2 sleeping ones snapped up and started barking at him. They immediately snapped back to sleep the minute the 3rd one disappeared back in the water.
then off to the side of them comes 5 or so algae filled plastic bags w/ some familiar sealife in it from a certain dentist shop. They say something to each other, clear away enough algae to reveal themselves, and they are snapped up by the research team in a boat and taken into the facility.


now considering this movie takes place roughly 1 year after Finding Nemo... that's a long time to be in a plastic bag hamster wheeling it across the ocean. and I know that's a rather nit-picky criticism considering how cartoony the movie was toward the end.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on June 20, 2016, 09:00:55 PM
I had to go look up that seen from the first movie to remember what went on.

But that's pretty cute.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on June 20, 2016, 11:03:01 PM
Yeah those fish would have been dead. Unless maybe the post credits scene actually happens before Finding Dory.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on June 21, 2016, 01:19:13 AM
If that was the case, then easter egg background appearances would have been nice when they were going through the institute.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on July 15, 2016, 01:14:20 AM
Just got back from Ghostbusters

and even though my daughter was excited and enjoyed the movie, I thought it was kinda lame.
It was kinda like MiB meet PotC with a Ghostbusters overlay, and some awkwardly flat almost improvised comedy that routinely missed the mark....
and I was really trying to enjoy it because I wanted my daughter to have fun with the movie.

Now there were a few laugh out loud moments, mostly from Hemsworth, but this wasn't all it could have been. there were a few unexpected cameos, although I think one was missing (key master), and lots of call backs to the first movie, especially in the first cameo, and the end climax

Although I didn't really enjoy the movie, I didn't exactly not like it either. I wouldn't be surprised if there is a sequel, but unless the trailers sell me on it, it will be a Netflix'd movie for sure.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on July 19, 2016, 03:44:47 AM
I agree with BNM about Ghostbusters. It felt like a lot of forced humour in places that just didn't land for me.

Also, Tarzan didn't really need to be made either although that felt a bit tighter and more straight faced.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on July 19, 2016, 10:27:33 AM
I finally watched Interstellar and it's my least favorite Christopher Nolan movie. The runtime was too long and it is a bleak, bleak movie.

Was Anne Hathaway supposed to impregnate herself over and over to ensure the human race's survival?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on July 19, 2016, 07:27:46 PM
LOL, hell no(Interstellar). They have artificial wombs. If getting Anne pregnant over and over again was true they should have sent an all women crew. If she wants to give birth to one I don't see why as she risks death leaving no body to look after the first batch.

I love Interstellar as it harkens back to the day of 2001: A space Odyssey without being boring as all hell. I acknowledge what 2001 achieved, but it felt like watching a real time trip to Jupiter, so very very slooow(no doubt intentional). I am not sure what you could cut from Interstellar without destroying it. I have seen movies where you can throw away an entire plot line without issue(Char's counter Attack's Quess story line, everything in the SW PT). Interstellar moves at a pretty brisk pace covering alot of territory.

I can see why it is your least favourite Nolan movie. For me it is Batman Begins. While it thankfully rebooted Batman, I am just sick to death of origin stories.It is also his least confident movie because of that. With a couple of small changes he could have gone straight to Dark Knight.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on July 22, 2016, 10:59:46 PM
I watched the Batman v. Superman Ultimate Edition for the first time today and...I liked it (and no, I didn't see the theatrical version). I didn't love it, and it has a TON of problems (not the least of which is trying to clumsily cram about half a dozen different stories into one movie), but I enjoyed my time with the film. I'll at least give it this: grim and grey as it is, I appreciated actually seeing a director's vision on-screen, compared to the factory-assembled Marvel movies. I actually really appreciated that the film had moments of quiet where the film could just breathe. Not the worst foundation for future films, though I'm glad the far more competent people in charge of the TV division are spearheading things going forward.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on July 24, 2016, 09:43:22 PM
Ghostbusters - 6.5[/10]

It was pretty enjoyable, but it's definitely more of a comedy than the original run, and lacks a real sense of danger for the most part. If this was the only Ghostbusters movie ever made, it would be almost immediately forgotten though. One thing that was kind of nice was that Leslie Jones didn't play the same person they cast her as in almost every SNL skit. The old ladies sitting next to me (and most of the audience, to be honest) was laughing throughout nearly the entire movie. I think the only part I actually laughed at was the commend "you killed a pilgrim. Good summer movie I guess...just nothing really memorable. It reminds me more of the live action Scooby Doo movies.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on July 25, 2016, 05:08:06 PM
Star Trek Beyond was better than i was expecting. I do like the shiny white design of this alternate timeline Enterprise compared to the beige of the TNG era (but doesn't age quite as well as the worn-out look of DS9 and Stargate Universe).

I do think Krall could have been fleshed out more. Quite a touching tribute to Spock Prime i felt. The story was simpler and more straight forward and starting to nudge back to a more "star trekky" feel... although slowly.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on August 06, 2016, 05:12:32 PM
Suicide Squad - 7.5/10

The hate for this movie is completely unjustified. I have read some really bad reviews for this movie, and it's blatantly obvious that it's just people trying to pile on the bandwagon and say that hated it even more that the last person, and it's just bullshit. It's a comic book movie about a team of villains who have to save the world from one of their own. It's the best DC movie since the Dark Knight Trilogy. I went into it expecting to hate it, and especially expecting to hate Joker, but I came out of it really liking it, and really liking Joker. Some of the villains are pretty boring (Boomerang), and some are under-utilized (Killer Croc), but some were used really well and actually developed - Deadshot, Harley Quinn, Enchantress, Diablo, even Joker to an extent. For being a movie that tells the origins of a handful of villains, makes them form a team, and has the team win the day, all within two hours, it gets the job done pretty nicely. It's certainly no worse than Avengers Age of Ultron, and there's a reason for the huge difference between the IMDB rating and the Rotten Tomato rating.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on August 06, 2016, 05:27:36 PM
I saw Ghostbusters (2016) last night, and I don't know what you guys are talking about.  I thought it was hilarious.  I laughed pretty much throughout.  I thought the dialogue was great.  They pulled back on the comedy as the action picked up.  The cameos were awesome.  The movie had a few flaws though.  A few kinda bother me.  Either way it was a fun ride. 8/10

I also saw Star Trek: Beyond.  This movie was also good, but there's way too much shaky cam for me to give it anything over a 7/10.  Like, I appreciate the films being kinetic, but the camera was distracting and nauseating.  Also, I think they over did it on the design of the space colony.  The movie makes up for that with another late reveal of the main villain seriously, I had no idea Idris Elba was in this movie and use of the Beastie Boys.  Action was mostly good (except for the camera).

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on August 07, 2016, 07:17:23 PM
Seen Suicide Squad twice now, think I liked it even better the second time. If they do end up with a Justice League vs Suicide Squad movie, that could be pretty amazing. But, Superman.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on August 07, 2016, 09:47:57 PM
Superman is DEAD!!! so I don't think he'll be much of an issue ;)

and I go to see SS tonight.
I know it's an editing mess, but I hear it's still fun (i'm blending all the reviews and taking the perspective down the middle), so I'm sure i'll still enjoy it. My only expectation is that it's enjoyable to watch (vs moving the meter from bored to confused and then highly disappointed).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Shaymin on August 07, 2016, 10:10:12 PM
Ghostbusters 2016
+ Several laugh out loud moments
+ Good use of music
- Chris Hemsworth useless

8.5/10

Will wait another seven and a half years before I pay for a movie again, though. I think it taught me that the theater experience is bunk.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on August 07, 2016, 10:27:02 PM
If you only went to the theater one in a blue moon, I would have told you not to go see Ghostbusters. Not that that it was terrible or anything, just that it wasn't all that... great.
Not worth the price of admission for several people to watch in the theater "good".

But atleast you enjoyed it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on August 08, 2016, 12:42:26 AM
I still want to see Suicide Squad. Rotten Tomatoes is deeply flawed as a grading system and I can't trust it's numbers.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Wah on August 08, 2016, 12:50:00 AM
No where near as good as Deadpool.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on August 08, 2016, 02:45:03 AM
I still want to see Suicide Squad. Rotten Tomatoes is deeply flawed as a grading system and I can't trust it's numbers.

All RT does is tell you the percentage of reviewers that thought the movie was good vs bad.

and I just got back from Suicide Squad.... and I can't hop on the hate train.
I've read a ton of reviews.. and I just didn't see all of what most people were complaining about.

My biggest gripe would have to be the main badguy, but over all the movie was enjoyable. The jokes weren't really "funny" but there was obviously some humor. You've seem most of what to expect from Harley in the trailers, and there were some scenes in the trailers that weren't in the final movie. The Joker was not exactly what I expected, and didn't really "joker" much, but he was throughout the movie. Not sure how much more of him we were supposed to get.... He had opportunities to "joker" it up and didn't... so it just was what it was I guess.

What I did find funny though is that the need for the Suicide Squad in the first place... well at least their first mission, was because of the 1st member of the squad going rogue. and due to that, the big bad was created almost out of nowhere...

But i'm not going into too much detail. The movie wasn't perfect, but it was entertaining.
The big bad boss plot could have used some work, but overall, I liked the movie.

This was a nice step forward from the hot mess that was BvS, and I don't care what anyone else says about that movie, but it was bad. SS on the other had was fun to watch despite any of it's flaws. This movie gives me hope going forward in the DCCU. Let's hope WW and especially JL don't kill that hope.


edit: I must add that I missed the very first scene and came in when Waller was at dinner.
If someone that has seen the movie would be so kind as to describe the opening to me, that would be nice :)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on August 08, 2016, 12:46:39 PM
I strongly prefer Metacritic to Rotten Tomatoes.  I just can't get past their "hot or not" style of aggregating.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on August 09, 2016, 01:18:48 AM
I've had more time to digest SS, and the more I think about it, the more I don't really like Leto's Joker... or atleast what they showed of him in SS. I don't know if the deleted scenes would fix his characterization, but what I saw I wasn't really feeling.

His joker wasn't cRaZy and unpredictable and doing it for the LOL's enough for me. He wasn't quite as twisted and Bi-polar and schitzo as I expect him to be. Not enough Psychotic behavior, no showman ship, and his laugh was kinda terrible.

I'm not sure I want more of the Joker we were shown, but it's the Joker we get... so I really hope they let him loose in the next outting, which I assume will be the Batman solo in 2018. maybe a few peppered appearances throughout the next few movies like Batman in SS.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: NWR_insanolord on August 09, 2016, 05:18:50 PM
I saw Star Trek Beyond this afternoon. Like its predecessors, it's a big action-adventure movie dressed up as Star Trek, but it's a fun ride. For all the issues I have with the reboot, it's still shocking how well they recast the crew, and I thought this one in particular stuck pretty well to the ideals of Star Trek in between big gratuitous action sequences. There's a moment near the very end where New Spock is going through Old Spock's things and finds a photo of the old crew that convinces him to stay in Starfleet that I thought was really well done.

I think the biggest compliment I can give this movie is it made me want to go back and watch Into Darkness, which I never got around to seeing before now.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on August 09, 2016, 08:27:42 PM
The first scene is just Waller talking to the dude about forming the team over dinner, and you get brief intros for Deadshot, Harley Quinn, Captain Boomerang, Diablo and Killer Croc. I kinda disagree about Joker though.  This version is just pure evil, much like the comic book and Arkham video game series Joker, just not very comedic. He didn't need to be in the movie much though, he's not part of the Suicide Squad anyway, this was to show why Harley is the way she is, and most likely introduce him before the next Batman movie. At least we'll finally get the same Joker in more than one film.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on August 09, 2016, 10:04:42 PM
All RT does is tell you the percentage of reviewers that thought the movie was good vs bad.

I'm not even sure it always does that. I've read rotten and fresh reviews from RT that both had a tone of 'the movie has good points and bad points' and it seems they arbitrarily assign fresh or rotten to reviews that are in the middle.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on August 10, 2016, 04:37:28 PM
I always stick with IMDB and read a couple amateur reviews, good and bad. If the person thinks like me and likes it, that I'll watch. The opposite is true too.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Wah on August 10, 2016, 07:53:45 PM
DC really needs to hop of Marvel's Bandwagon and make a strike for themselves.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on August 10, 2016, 08:50:05 PM
DC on Marvel's bandwagon?

If that was the case, the DCCU would be quite a bit different than it is now.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Wah on August 10, 2016, 08:52:15 PM
BvS, rip off of the avengers.
Suicide squad, rip-off of Deadpool.
Seeing a trend here?

Plus the fact most of their movies are nowhere near as good as marvels. If you compare them,... DC sucks.
prepares for shitstorm.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on August 10, 2016, 10:16:55 PM
You should like Suicide Squad, it has Captain Boomerang in it.

(http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k302/shyguy70/Jai-Courtney-Terminator-Genisys-Sydney-Photocall-Style-Picture-2015_zpsigbuocfr.jpg) (http://s91.photobucket.com/user/shyguy70/media/Jai-Courtney-Terminator-Genisys-Sydney-Photocall-Style-Picture-2015_zpsigbuocfr.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Wah on August 10, 2016, 10:47:09 PM
Isn't Captain Australia already a Marvel thing? XD
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on August 11, 2016, 09:36:30 PM
Thought Marvel's was just 'Boomerang'? At least that is the name in one of the Marvel games I play.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on August 12, 2016, 01:02:50 PM
Suicide Squad is not a Deadpool ripoff. They are really nothing alike, other than someone gets rescued and there are guns and a sword. Anywho...


Star Trek: Beyond - 6/10

This is actually the first Star Trek movie (or anything, really) that I've seen. Probably never would have seen it, but it was part of a team celebration thing from my job. It was fun to watch I guess, but pretty generic. Cool use of Sabotage by Beastie Boys though, but you knew that was coming anyway from the commercials. Also they way they chopped up the song was stupid, they should have just played the whole thing. Maybe it would have been better if I had seen the other movies, maybe not. Whatever.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: RABicle on August 13, 2016, 10:26:46 AM
I saw Star Trek Beyond and it was ok I guess. I enjoyed the nods to Enterprise and it dealt with the deaths of Anton Yelchin and Leonard Nimoy in a touching way. THe movie was at it's best when it was pairs of characters exploring the planet and at its worst in almost all the action scenes. Except when Beastie Boys Sabotage came on, that bit was good.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on August 14, 2016, 04:21:38 AM
El Cid A classic medieval epic starring Charlton Heston as the hero of Spain. Great period costumes and castles. After watching it, I'm convinced that Dennis O'Neil based Ras Al Ghul in part on this movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on August 14, 2016, 01:48:46 PM
Is that on Netflix? I love the story of El Cid so I'll be sure to check this out.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on August 14, 2016, 02:29:35 PM
No, for some reason it's a hard one to find. Not on Netflix, Amazon, or Hulu. Never seen it on TV either. I watched it on DVD.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on August 15, 2016, 04:00:11 AM
El Cid A classic medieval epic starring Charlton Heston as the hero of Spain. Great period costumes and castles. After watching it, I'm convinced that Dennis O'Neil based Ras Al Ghul in part on this movie.

What reminded you of Ras Al Ghul from this movie?

El Cid is a movie I was interested in seeing for awhile. It was Heston's next movie after Ben-Hur and Sophia Loren was just hitting the peak of her career having won an Oscar and a couple more of her most famous Italian movie roles were on the way. Martin Scorsese is also a big fan of it. It has its moments and I'm on the positive side to it but there is something about it I find a bit lacking. When it comes to epics, there are others I'd easily put ahead of it. Maybe it's because I have a hard time taking Herbert Lom seriously after the Pink Panther films but he just comes across as a villainous caricature than a real threat and his death doesn't do anything to dispel that notion. The whole ending just seems a little silly. Heston, of course, nails the role of a righteous warrior who upholds his loyalty to his king no matter what mistreatment the king may put upon him. The court intrigues are well done but there's no standout sequence I can think of compared to Lawrence of Arabia, Ben-Hur or even Spartacus of which I can easily think of many different great moments. It's at least 2 years since I saw the film, maybe even 3. A lot has faded from my memory but I do remember liking Loren in the film although it takes some time until close to the intermission where she finally admits love to El Cid that brought me around to liking her. Still, when that happens, it seemed to improve the film and having the two stars working together finally gets the movie into a higher gear.

On the topic of Loren, one movie I've been interested in seeing for quite awhile now is The Fall of the Roman Empire. It's a movie often cited as a big example in the demise of the Epic movie genre and the Roman-era set stories. Sophia Loren stars in it and I see it was also directed by Mann who directed El Cid. It's got some big name talent in it and actors I like such as Alec Guinness, James Mason, Omar Sharif and Christopher Plummer. I'm curious to see just how bad it is and what the actors are like in it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on August 15, 2016, 10:33:21 AM
If you look at Charlton Heston's beard, especially at the end of the movie, he has a two streaks in his beard plus intense eyes that make him look a lot like Ras Al Ghul. Not to mention the legend of El Cid has the encounter with Lazarus, which is referenced in the film, and the moors have a middle eastern vibe that Ras has. I can also see the fawning Sophia Loren as a stand in for Talia. Maybe Neal Adams was the one that watched the movie and was inspired. Either way, I can see the influence.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on August 20, 2016, 04:27:59 AM
Cabin Fever (the new remake)

I went in knowing it would be bad, but I didn't think it would be this bad.
There was literally a Jason Vorheev's moment at the edge of the lake... that's the moment I knew I had to say something.
I don't understand why they can't make a horror movie where people do normal things a person might do... or are we all really just this fucking stupid?

I mean near the end, the love interest is sick... **SPOILER ALERT... not that you should care**
they have her in the shed, and she begs to be killed. He has a rifle and already expended all his ammo killing a sick dog that was trying to gnaw on her. so after she kept begging to be killed, he tried to take her head off with the shovel. Missed, splitting her mouth open like the Joker, then decided he is terrible at this. so she somehow still screams to be killed, so being that he's been in love with her since FOREVER, he decides the merciful way to put her out of her misery is to douse her in gasoline and set her on fire and walk away as she screams out in agony. Literally one of the worst ways to die.

Now mind you not even a minute later, some men that mean to kill him shoot his homeboy in the head who's sitting right in front of him. he grabs his rifle and turns around trying to shoot... but the trigger don't work. The men laugh at him and say "hehehe you got the safety on... hehehe"
He says "thank" undoes the safety and then unloads 20 rounds into them.

Now remember not even a minute ago, his gun was out of ammo. all of sudden he has a full clip.

and there's tons more stupid, like how at the very end, there are somehow pics posted of the gruesomeness and the shovel to face "mercy killing" posted on Instagram or something, when literally no one had their phones out, no one could have snapped the last photo, unless it was the dead dog, and no one survived to post them to their account anyway.


Green Room

Now this was a much more interesting movie. Kinda gruesome in some parts... actually it's downright gory in some parts, with a very unexpected role by someone I never would have thought to be in this kind of movie. This one I would recommend to fans of the horror/thriller with scenes of extreme graphic violence. No spoilers here.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on August 20, 2016, 06:48:47 AM
Cabin Fever (the new remake)

I went in knowing it would be bad, but I didn't think it would be this bad.
There was literally a Jason Vorheev's moment at the edge of the lake... that's the moment I knew I had to say something.
I don't understand why they can't make a horror movie where people do normal things a person might do... or are we all really just this fucking stupid?

I mean near the end, the love interest is sick... **SPOILER ALERT... not that you should care**
they have her in the shed, and she begs to be killed. He has a rifle and already expended all his ammo killing a sick dog that was trying to gnaw on her. so after she kept begging to be killed, he tried to take her head off with the shovel. Missed, splitting her mouth open like the Joker, then decided he is terrible at this. so she somehow still screams to be killed, so being that he's been in love with her since FOREVER, he decides the merciful way to put her out of her misery is to douse her in gasoline and set her on fire and walk away as she screams out in agony. Literally one of the worst ways to die.

Now mind you not even a minute later, some men that mean to kill him shoot his homeboy in the head who's sitting right in front of him. he grabs his rifle and turns around trying to shoot... but the trigger don't work. The men laugh at him and say "hehehe you got the safety on... hehehe"
He says "thank" undoes the safety and then unloads 20 rounds into them.

Now remember not even a minute ago, his gun was out of ammo. all of sudden he has a full clip.

and there's tons more stupid, like how at the very end, there are somehow pics posted of the gruesomeness and the shovel to face "mercy killing" posted on Instagram or something, when literally no one had their phones out, no one could have snapped the last photo, unless it was the dead dog, and no one survived to post them to their account anyway.

The original Cabin Fever is one of my favorite movies ever. That being said this is the Psycho Remake of Cabin Fever. It's a simulacrum. It's a copy. Very little is changed. I know all of the words to the script in the original. I've probably seen the original 30 or so times. I used to clean my apartment and organize my books, I could listen to music sometimes, but Cabin Fever was just as good. The original was one of those movies where it was a breath of fresh air from all the pg13 movies that had been coming out at the time for years. It harkened back to the 80s and was retro-pie.

 I watched the "making of" featurette on the remake. They said they made the movie for the same budget as the original. NO. YOU DID WHAT? I'm pretty sure accounting for inflation that is considerably less money than the original. You used worse actors, a not creepy location, you copied the script 97% word for word. What was the point? A couple other things. The director said he wanted to make a more action-y less comic version of Cabin Fever. Cabin Fever was meant to be somewhat funny. Watch any Eli Roth movie and the guy has a good sense of humor. Wait one day he might just make a Teen Comedy movie. The appeal of the series is a Horror comedy. They had said they wanted to reboot after Patient Zero. So stupid. Patient Zero was actually pretty decent.

If they were going to do a remake they should have done it for the budget of a remake. I think of movies like Friday the 13th or a Nightmare on Elm Street. Those were pretty decent remakes. **** Actually I should say Piranha and Hills Have Eyes, those are fantastic(both directed by Alexander Aja)
I wish a decent horror movie production company like Dimension owned the rights. This was ****. 

I have to say: from the trailer I actually expected worse.  I went in with low low low expectations. It was better than that, but it was still terrible. None of the charm of the original. It's interesting to read posts on it from young people though. They seem to like it, I guess because the characters have facebook. I don't know.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: sudoshuff on August 20, 2016, 08:59:12 AM
Star Trek: Beyond - 6/10

This is actually the first Star Trek movie (or anything, really) that I've seen.


Well, it's certainly nothing like traditional Star Trek.  For comparison, you should at least try to watch Star Trek: First Contact. It is the most "actiony" of the pre-Abrams movies, but has a fantastic plot and character development. Most fans consider First Contact to be the best Star Trek movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on August 20, 2016, 09:35:24 AM
I thought Wrath of Khan was considered the best? Or is that just the best "original cast" films?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: NWR_insanolord on August 20, 2016, 09:43:07 AM
Yeah, I definitely don't think it's true that most fans consider it the best one, but it is very good and probably more approachable to non-fans than the ones I'd consider better movies.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: sudoshuff on August 20, 2016, 10:56:58 AM
You're right.  I probably should have qualified that statement..."best one for non-fans" is more accurate (although I know a lot of Star Trek fans who like First Contact better than Wrath of Khan).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: NWR_insanolord on August 20, 2016, 11:18:32 AM
I'd personally put it behind Wrath of Khan and The Undiscovered Country, although the latter is probably, of all the Star Trek movies, the one that most requires you to be a fan of the franchise to really appreciate. First Contact really nails the balance between action, accessibility and quality in a way no other Trek movie has, though, and I've shown it to quite a few people who weren't fans of the series who enjoyed it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on August 20, 2016, 11:20:43 AM
While Wrath of Khan is by far the best ST film, second and third place are very close with Undiscovered country and First contact respectively.

First Contact is really easy to get into for just about anybody. It doesn't require the audience to know any Star Trek in advance. It tells and shows you enough of the characters to get by and develop. The special effects are top notch and the action accompanying it is well done.

For me by default the latest Treks are in last place as they are just nonsensical messes that has little to do with Trek or their characters.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: NWR_insanolord on August 20, 2016, 11:28:21 AM
As mentioned earlier in the thread, I was surprised by how much I liked Beyond. I'd certainly put it ahead of several of the non-reboot movies Honestly, now that I think about it, it's fairly similar to First Contact in a number of ways.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on August 20, 2016, 11:46:25 AM
I was thinking that Undiscovered Country was a solid #2, but thought my personal bias was clouding the matter. UC is my favorite Star Trek flick for nostalgic reasons. I always liked the original cast films better since I grew up with them.


First Contact seems to be the best Next Generations film, though I felt it was a bit redundant since Voyage Home already did the time travel thing. Although it is different enough to distinguish itself, especially since a lot of Trek episodes in all series have dealt with time travel.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on August 20, 2016, 11:58:10 AM
There is no contest that First Contact is the Best TNG film. The rest are pretty horrid with Nemesis in the distance number two TNG slot.

First Contact being a Time Travel movie didn't hurt it at all, but Voyage Home had alot of great humour going for it as well as finishing off the "Trilogy". "Double dumbass on you!".

UC is a great swan song for OG Trek, something few series on any sort gets.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on August 20, 2016, 01:07:19 PM
I liked Nemesis and Insurrection.

Generations was horrible... :/
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on August 20, 2016, 02:51:49 PM
UG was a nice swansong, but everytime I watch it I get a bit sad knowing they almost did one more with the OG Trek crew. Though perhaps that was for the best, allowing the series to end on a strong note instead of a weak fizzled out film (which would have also run the risk of being an "awful odd" if it followed the quality pattern).


I guess I feel Voyage was a more well rounded film because of all the great humor. I suspect part of that credit should be given to Leonard Nimoy, who directed it. It was also a much better output than Shatner's attempt. Though I have read a few of Shatner's Trek books, and it makes me much less surprised with the decisions made in Final Frontier.


And I actually enjoyed Generations as a whole, despite the flaws. I liked how it combined the two series for a hand-off to the Next Generation crew.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on August 20, 2016, 04:46:20 PM
What? Star Trek 5 is great! It answers the ultimate question of why would God need a starship and is the only time I've ever cried from the song Row, Row, Row Your Boat. Do know hard that is to do?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: NWR_insanolord on August 20, 2016, 04:49:56 PM
The camping scene really is great, and Kirk's "I need my pain!" moment is as well, but pretty much everything else about that movie is awful. I'd still probably watch it again before Insurrection, though.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on August 20, 2016, 04:51:21 PM
5 is basically a summary of Captain James T. Kirk's persona in a nutshell. Over the top acting, cheesy dialogue, "sexy" aliens, and and a main plot that examines the human need of "god". It really was the pinnacle of classic campy Star Trek.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on August 20, 2016, 05:06:37 PM
3 words: Uhura Fan Dance.

3 more: Best. Trek. Ever.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: King of Twitch on August 20, 2016, 06:49:42 PM
Just got IV on dvd for the shatner&nimoy commentary but I didnt think it was insightful at all. They were fascinated with the filmmaking process like some old grandpas instead of giving anecdotes.

Anyways, <3 IV. It's the only one that gives the secondary crew an important role, which was my fave throwback in Beyond. Plus no one dies in IV, it's the cheeriest of all ST movies. So sad when Kirk's son dies of AIDS  :'(
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on August 21, 2016, 12:41:45 AM
Just got back from Kubo and the 2 Strings

This was a pretty good "Japanese" fantasy stop motion animation. Had a few laughs, some good action, and the required heartstrings tugging moment. The bad guys were actually kinda scary, and the quest, while handled quickly (less than a 2hr movie) was very Zelda-like in in scale in execution.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on August 21, 2016, 02:38:31 AM
I'm making a list of movies/tv shows with really good Synth Soundtracks

recent
It Follows
The Guest
Hanna
Stranger Things
Drive

retro
Anything John Carpenter
Demons
Suspiria
Some of the Friday the 13th movies.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: sudoshuff on August 21, 2016, 08:00:49 AM

Plus no one dies in IV, it's the cheeriest of all ST movies.


I thought IV was awesome growing up. Scotty trying to talk into the computer mouse...Spock and the punk kid on the bus...definitely cheery/funny stuff in there.  I'll probably see Beyond when it's available to rent.  I'm just not sure it's worth securing a babysitter for.


I'm making a list of movies/tv shows with really good Synth Soundtracks


Thanks for the reminder that it's almost time for my re-watch of It Follows.  Fantastic movie and soundtrack.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on August 21, 2016, 10:31:37 AM
VI struck the perfect balance between the "science" fiction and the campy humor of classic Trek. The only thing it was missing was some starship action scenes, but those were never really in the old series and the story didn't really need it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on August 22, 2016, 12:43:16 AM
I'm making a list of movies/tv shows with really good Synth Soundtracks

recent
It Follows
The Guest
Hanna
Stranger Things
Drive

retro
Anything John Carpenter
Demons
Suspiria
Some of the Friday the 13th movies.


FYI, It sounds like the soundtrack to Thor: Ragnarok may be added to your list.
something about Orchestral Synth mix and some guy named Mark Mothersbaugh

here is a quote from GAF
Quote
Originally Posted by -ImaginaryInsider

No clue if this has been mentioned yet, but Mark Mothersbaugh is doing the soundtrack for this. He had a lot of nice things to say about working with Taika Waititi, he (Mark) isn't really a blockbuster movie guy, but Taika specifically reached out and sent him a bunch interesting demos and got him on board.

The gist I got was it would be a mix of traditional orchestra and then synths. Mark seemed legitimately excited about what they were coming up with, so I'm optimistic this will have a better than normal soundtrack.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on August 28, 2016, 01:33:48 PM
Sausage Party - 8.5/10
Probably one of the funniest movies I've ever seen. There were a couple times, especially in the end, where I was literally crying because it was so funny. If you haven't seen this yet, you need to question your life decisions.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Wah on August 28, 2016, 07:14:15 PM
Sausage Party - 8.5/10
Probably one of the funniest movies I've ever seen. There were a couple times, especially in the end, where I was literally crying because it was so funny. If you haven't seen this yet, you need to question your life decisions.
Didn't come out in cinemas over here, so I'll buy it on DVD when it comes out.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on August 29, 2016, 03:20:15 AM
I'm making a list of movies/tv shows with really good Synth Soundtracks

recent
It Follows
The Guest
Hanna
Stranger Things
Drive
Turbo Kid
Kung Fury

retro
Anything John Carpenter
Demons
Suspiria
Some of the Friday the 13th movies.


FYI, It sounds like the soundtrack to Thor: Ragnarok may be added to your list.
something about Orchestral Synth mix and some guy named Mark Mothersbaugh

here is a quote from GAF
Quote
Originally Posted by -ImaginaryInsider

No clue if this has been mentioned yet, but Mark Mothersbaugh is doing the soundtrack for this. He had a lot of nice things to say about working with Taika Waititi, he (Mark) isn't really a blockbuster movie guy, but Taika specifically reached out and sent him a bunch interesting demos and got him on board.

The gist I got was it would be a mix of traditional orchestra and then synths. Mark seemed legitimately excited about what they were coming up with, so I'm optimistic this will have a better than normal soundtrack.

Interesting. There was a video with Thor that popped up. It reminded me of What we Do in Shadows. Now, it totally makes sense. I think I heard news of Taika Waititi directing Ragnorok but forgot about it. If it's not already in the Marvel thread I'll post it.

Also, add Turbo Kid and Kung Fury to the list.

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on August 31, 2016, 08:41:44 AM
Add Starry Eyes to the music list

also Starry Eyes  8/10 . Pretty good.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on September 02, 2016, 03:18:38 AM
I finally saw Suicide Squad. I feel like I really need to see the director's cut. The editing in the movies is super fast, but some of the characters were well done.

Slipknot was robbed though. :(

Waller was a straight up villian.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on September 02, 2016, 12:55:32 PM
I really feel like Waller knew exactly what she was doing when she put Slipknot on the team, though.  I mean, what other purpose would he serve?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on October 16, 2016, 09:39:01 AM
Star Trek Beyond

Finally, a good Nu Trek movie. The first 2 are still trash and forever will be. This movie is the closest to actual Trek of the 3. The characters resemble who they actually are instead of the hyper cartoon rubbish.

The weakest part was the villain, yet another revenge story. Lots of barely audible grunting. They blow up the Enterprise again. Another superweapon.

Simon Pegg did the impossible, it gave Star Trek a pulse after the last 2 murdered it and threw it into a grave.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on October 17, 2016, 01:07:13 AM
The Accountant I liked it! Ben Affleck gives an understated performance and reminds me of some people I have known. A nice little action thriller that is a bit too fantastical at times with some weird twists. Go see it!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Shorty McNostril on October 27, 2016, 09:04:33 AM
Dr Strange.

All I can say is WOW!! WHAT A RIDE!! Absolutely mind blowing.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on October 27, 2016, 10:47:17 AM
I think someone needs to rename to spoiler thread!!

But without saying anything about the movie, how was the 3D!?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Shorty McNostril on October 27, 2016, 03:16:56 PM
how was the 3D!?

It was good.  However, I'm not convinced that it dramaticaly improved the experience.  Obviously I haven't seen a 2D version so I can't contrast it. 

I suppose what I'm saying is the 2D version wouldn't be missing anything and would still provide a magnificent experience.  This movie is all about the experience.  It's unlike anything I've ever seen.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on October 27, 2016, 03:37:14 PM
Jack Reacher. I weirdly kinda liked this for how extremely simple it was.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on October 27, 2016, 09:13:58 PM
The IMAX's near me don't have it till a week from now.

EDIT: I see, it doesn't release until the 4th in the US.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Shorty McNostril on October 27, 2016, 10:14:32 PM
EDIT: I see, it doesn't release until the 4th in the US.

The one benefit of being in Australia.  You get Marvel stuff released earlier and we're ahead of most of the planet so we get stuff earlier that way too.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on November 05, 2016, 10:22:43 AM
I saw Doctor Strange in IMAX 3D last night. It was good, it was intense, visuals were crazy and the fight scenes were dope.

The 3D in all the "acid trip" effects scenes were very well done.
Kaecilius could have used a little more fleshing out.
The Ancient one was a bad-ass
Doctor Strange himself is going to be a very interesting addition to Infinity War, considering his methods used in this movie to fight Kaecilius and resolve the conflict of the movie...

My summary rating: not my favorite Marvel movie, but definitely in the upper ranks.
I'd probably place it on the shelf next to Ant-Man
and I'm sure the sequel for both will be even better, like Cap 1 to it's sequels.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Spak-Spang on November 05, 2016, 07:27:17 PM
Doctor Strange.  Visually the best movie of the Marvel Universe. 

The movie played it straight, but I would have loved more time with Stephen before he went on his quest.  All we saw was him being an arrogant jerk, but there should have been a little more to him to show he had potential for greatness. 

Some of the jokes didn't work, but I would rather have flat jokes designed to keep the movie entertaining and light fail, than to have a movie be too serious, so this wasn't a problem. 

Marvel handled Magic in a very balanced way.  Doctor Strange can easily play in the confounds of the Marvel Cinematic Universe without being too powerful.  It is almost like Magic is just another technology...in a way.

Let's really look at the magical combat:  Energy Shields, Energy Wipe, Energy Swords, Teleportation via a device.  This can all play nicely in the Marvel Universe.  They wisely put most of the incredibly crazy stuff in the Mirror dimension which allowed them to get away with more crazy visuals but not go too abstract. 

I would put it in the ranks of the higher Marvel movies honestly.  I like the play it safe origin stories Marvel does...because they still try to find something to make it unique. 
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on November 06, 2016, 09:20:47 PM
Doctor Strange - 8.5/10
There really isn't any other Marvel movie to compare this to. The visual effects are amazing, the acting is all very good, the humor is on-point, and the story is deep enough while not going too far. Really the closest superhero movie I could compare this to is Batman Begins. This really introduces a whole new dimension (no pun intended) to the MCU. Make sure you stay for both post-credits scenes.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on November 06, 2016, 09:32:54 PM
Considering how this movie portrays the manipulation of time, they sure did a poor job in showing exactly how much of it has passed during this movie....

the boss "battle" could have used some sort of nod of how long they were stuck in that stand-off, even if it just fast-forwarded though dozens and dozens of deaths before Strange shows back up with the conflict resolved.
Actually that probably would have been funnier.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Spak-Spang on November 06, 2016, 11:11:07 PM
They probably decided not to keep it too dark with too many deaths.  The point of the scene was to show he was a changed man...and willing to sacrifice himself to avoid murder and others dying.

I think it worked fine.  We don't need to worry about how much time it took.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on November 07, 2016, 03:55:52 AM

we know when the story starts, but not where it ends.

The story starts around the time of civil war. They mention a man in experimental armor getting injured, that is Falcon

When it ends? Not sure. Dr. Strange is a fast learner. I don't know if it takes him years to learn this stuff or weeks. I think he has a convo with Rachel Macadams that reveals how much time has passed, but not sure.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on November 07, 2016, 09:11:33 AM

we know when the story starts, but not where it ends.

The story starts around the time of civil war. They mention a man in experimental armor getting injured, that is Falcon

When it ends? Not sure. Dr. Strange is a fast learner. I don't know if it takes him years to learn this stuff or weeks. I think he has a convo with Rachel Macadams that reveals how much time has passed, but not sure.


nope. I responded in the spoiler thread. see below :)
http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/forums/index.php?topic=49895.msg907323#msg907323
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on November 08, 2016, 12:50:08 AM
I WANTED to see Strange in IMAX, but my wife has become an even bigger cheapskate than usual lately. I tried to convince her but ended up conceeding that I would have to go to IMAX with a friend later.


First thing she says when the movie is done: "Wow! I see why you wanted to go see it in IMAX! You didn't tell me it would be like that!"...except I did, lots of times in different ways.  :confused;


Thought it was both fun and fresh.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on November 08, 2016, 02:41:03 AM
First thing she says when the movie is done: "Wow! I see why you wanted to go see it in IMAX! You didn't tell me it would be like that!"...except I did, lots of times in different ways.  :confused;

(https://coubsecure-s.akamaihd.net/get/b14/p/coub/simple/cw_image/8f60bfd4ceb/c5bf33a5f55483080a0d7/timeline_1447701495_00027.jpg)

(https://i.makeagif.com/media/6-25-2016/wt3d9V.gif)

Women. Am I right?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on November 09, 2016, 12:54:50 AM
You said bitch though, right?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on November 11, 2016, 12:53:38 AM
I said the most politically correct thing you could say as a husband to your wife in a movie theater and get away with it.


She doesn't want to go again, so now I need to find a real friend to go with me to an IMAX. Speaking of, I'd better start making friends for Rogue One, because she sure ain't going to see that with me in December! She won't even go to see Passenger because it is too corny looking... I need a movie pal.


Shyguy! Don't we both live in the Greater Seattle/Puget Sound? Want a movie buddy?...No? Anybody?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on November 14, 2016, 01:35:31 AM
So I saw 2 movie this weekend.

1 was with low expectation, but basically going in blind.
the other was with high expectations, and also going in mostly blind.

The 1st movie was Trolls.
this was the one with low expectations. Surprisingly, entertaining. Pretty good use of commercial licensed music throughout the movie. And while I didn't find it "funny" I did find it humorous. I laughed out loud a few times at "funny" parts, but only because I was trying to get my daughter to be vocal about her enjoyment. She said she didn't find it funny, but really enjoyed it, as she was dancing at the very end.
verdict: recommended for people w/ kids... to obviously watch with their kids. (matinee)

the other movie was Arrival
I'll keep it brief as I don't want to start the spoiler block of text on this one, but despite all the talk of "great movie", "best movie I've seen this year", "award season release" this was quite dull. It was interesting for a bit, but the resolution just.... well... WTF!?
I'm not sure what I expected, but I really didn't get it. The end makes no sense to me upon any thought put into it, and I was honestly surprised that I didn't fall asleep near the beginning (mostly because the seats are very comfy and recline, I was very full, it was dark, it was quite warm, and it was kinda dull for the first half.)
verdict:... check the trailers. maybe read a review or two, and then if you are still interested, pick a matinee priced viewing.


Overall, I would gladly watch Trolls again, but I don't think Arrivals would even make my Netflix list.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Spak-Spang on November 14, 2016, 02:03:35 AM
What was wrong with The Arrival?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on November 14, 2016, 05:24:34 AM
What was wrong with The Arrival?
He said it was dull twice.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Spak-Spang on November 14, 2016, 07:21:36 AM
I wanted to know why it was dull. 
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on November 14, 2016, 09:16:42 AM
I wanted to know why it was dull.
I don't think there were any pewpewboomboom as it probably was an intellectual exercise in communication. That is something that is very hard to make interesting. I very much like Sci-fi but I found 2001 Space Odyssey intensely boring.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on November 14, 2016, 06:15:19 PM
Arrival is a fantastic movie if you like The Next Generation's Darmok.

That's all i can say about that.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on November 16, 2016, 02:21:44 AM
Arrival is a fantastic movie if you like The Next Generation's Darmok.

That's all i can say about that.
That episode frustrated me partially because it is very aggravating not being able to communicate.

I don't like that episode even though it produced the desired emotional response as it did it mostly by being bad. It really dragged on and there just wasn't enough material to fill the episode. I really wanted the episode to be over with, it was like pulling teeth.

It's is very pure old school sci-fi I will give it that.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on November 16, 2016, 03:09:34 AM
I heard Arrival is pretty damn good. I'll wait to watch it on the interwebs though. It doesn't seem like an IMAX film like Doctor Strange or Interstellar were.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on November 16, 2016, 03:15:15 AM
I'm getting a contact vibe from The Arrival trailers.

I don't know if that is a good thing(I was young when Contact came out, I might actually like it now)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on November 21, 2016, 01:05:02 AM
I managed to type out what about Arrival made me go WTF!!?

It's the ending, and it makes no sense.
short and confusing version:
It does not make sense that you can do something in the past to create a situation in the future (the meeting), but it's the situation in the future where you are told that it was what you did in the past that caused the meeting. And you were not even given the info you used in the past to cause the meeting until it was given to you at the meeting in the future so that you could go back to the present(past) and use it to as a reason to cause the meeting(in the future) at which you were given the info you used to get the meeting.


I simply can't wrap my brain around how that makes any sense at all.

longer version:

basically, to stop a nuclear attack against the aliens, Amy Adams has to call the Chinese General on his private phone.... a phone to which she nor anyone she knows, knows the number to. so she glimpses to the future, because Alien Universal language taught her that time is non-linear... but when she glimpses to the future, it's not to how she discovered the generals private number so she could call him, it to when she meets the general, after she called him, and he's happy to meet her because she called him. Now he is explaining that he only met with her because she called him on his private phone (to which he pulls out his phone and shows her the number.... yes that's how she got the number, he gave it to her after she supposedly called him on it. :/) and told him his wifes dying or last words (to which he also told her this as well in this moment... right after giving her the phone number). He states that had it not been for those 2 things, he wouldn't have ever spoken to her, nor taken her seriously. So now that he gave her what she needs to cause the meeting that they are already at, she now snaps back to the present to call the Chinese General on his private phone, tell him his wifes dying words and talk him out of attacking the aliens w/ nukes. This lead to a worldwide unification, and caused the general to be eager to meet Amy Adams in person, where he will now tell her that he only took her call because it came on his private line, that she didn't know until he shows it to her on his phone *right now*, and because she told him his wife's dying words, which he also then tells her *right now*....
WTF is this nonsense!?

But yes, this movie was also pretty dull to be quite honest. Interesting (until the ending), but dull.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on November 21, 2016, 01:13:54 AM
so it is like contact, sounds like a predestination paradox

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causal_loop


simple answer, when you can travel through time, regular time rules do not apply, you exist outside of time. There was a previous loop.



I used to do this strange trick with animal crossing. If you went to the GBA island and just dropped a ton of items on the island you could if i remember correctly press reset and make dupicates of the item. You never saved the game so you never lost the items.  You could then connect the gba island up and have duplicate items. I did the same thing on a minecraft server. The server would save and reset at 4am every day. If I put all the items on hand in a chest at 3:59am I would have items in my hand and in the chest.

that is how this got built.

(https://scontent.fphx1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/291880_10100507354923562_8211169_n.jpg?oh=899c2fe3e2db766259afe6ba60947e44&oe=58BE5467)

Ok imagine this you are in 1985 and you have 1 dollar. You travel back in time to 1955 and drop this dollar off. You then alternate between future and past dropping off the dollar in the same spot. Have you duplicated the dollar? No, it's just the same dollar at different time lines. The dollar has it's own timeline. but it's not linear.

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on November 21, 2016, 01:31:26 AM
so it is like contact, sounds like a predestination paradox

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causal_loop (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causal_loop)


simple answer, when you can travel through time, regular time rules do not apply, you exist outside of time. There was a previous loop.


regardless of the explanation, to me it makes no sense.
It's not like she went to the future and found something that would help her get to her point in the future easier if she used it in the past.
she was literally only where she was in the future because she had already used the information in the past that she was literally just given in the future... where she wouldn't be if she didn't already have the info in the past. There is no way she makes it to that future w/o previously knowing the info in the past that she was only given once she reached that point in the future. It seriously makes NO SENSE.



and your random example above isn't really relevant, because you placed items for yourself, and came back to get them, now having double, allowing you to build your temple.
you didn't show up down the line to an already build temple, and then were told that the temple only existed because you created it, and were handed the tools and blueprints, by the temple to build the temple that you supposedly already built...
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on November 21, 2016, 01:46:01 AM
they are the same item though, I'm using a time travel method in the game. I existed outside the continuity of the saves, so my items were duplicated. The bricks in the temple are the same brick existing at different times.

in Majora's Mask you have the opportunity to do a lottery. In the first loop you don't know the numbers, but you are given the numbers on the third day. You then travel back in time and use the numbers to win the lottery. The money won from the lottery can be used to win future lotteries.

As far as her whole psychic premonition thing. **** if I know. I didn't watch the movie, but you explained a causual loop.

Maybe she's connected to an entity that is aware of all timelines? Like Marvel's Watcher?

 
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on November 21, 2016, 01:55:38 AM
In the movie time becomes non-linear once you fully embrace the universal language. So she is able to see time as it exist in every period of her life. That I am fine with. it's just the fact that she is somewhere she wouldn't be w/o the gained knowledge only given to her once she got there, but is only there because she already used that knowledge is a paradox

The Zelda example would be that you only got into the shop because you won the lotto, but you weren't given the winning numbers to said lotto until you got into the shop.... well then, How the **** did you get the money to get in the shop if you hadn't won the lotto yet because you didn't get in the shop to get the numbers? That's the paradox that doesn't make sense.
But casual loop, sure...
that fits what they were going for, they just didn't quite pull it off correctly IMO.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on November 21, 2016, 04:17:58 AM
Someday I'm going to see this movie just so that I can later come and read all these spoilered posts.  :-[
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on November 21, 2016, 02:21:11 PM
I haven't seen the movie and I read the spoilers, you are not missing much. The consensus so far is that the ending is a mess.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on November 21, 2016, 05:45:07 PM
Arrival is a fantastic movie if you like The Next Generation's Darmok.

That's all i can say about that.
That episode frustrated me partially because it is very aggravating not being able to communicate.

I don't like that episode even though it produced the desired emotional response as it did it mostly by being bad. It really dragged on and there just wasn't enough material to fill the episode. I really wanted the episode to be over with, it was like pulling teeth.

It's is very pure old school sci-fi I will give it that.

I completely understand the aggravating part. But the strength (and the boredom) of it comes from trying to get past that. That's not very exciting to watch, admittedly.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on November 21, 2016, 07:41:38 PM
I saw Dr. Strange in IMAX 3D.  It was awesome. 
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on November 21, 2016, 10:47:11 PM
Arrival is a fantastic movie if you like The Next Generation's Darmok.

That's all i can say about that.
That episode frustrated me partially because it is very aggravating not being able to communicate.

I don't like that episode even though it produced the desired emotional response as it did it mostly by being bad. It really dragged on and there just wasn't enough material to fill the episode. I really wanted the episode to be over with, it was like pulling teeth.

It's is very pure old school sci-fi I will give it that.

I completely understand the aggravating part. But the strength (and the boredom) of it comes from trying to get past that. That's not very exciting to watch, admittedly.


I feel they should have removed the external threat of the beast. They should have bought in a linguists to consult on how to communicate with a culture and language that is completely foreign to you. That would have given them real material to write with instead of an empty field shouting Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra, while giving the audience a lesson in basic linguistics.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: sudoshuff on November 23, 2016, 08:00:56 AM
I completely understand the aggravating part. But the strength (and the boredom) of it comes from trying to get past that. That's not very exciting to watch, admittedly.


I thought that TNG episode was really boring as a kid, but have appreciated it much more as an adult.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on November 23, 2016, 10:30:28 PM
Someday I'm going to see this movie just so that I can later come and read all these spoilered posts.  :-[

I haven't seen the movie either, I just had no desire to watch the movie based on the trailer. I did see the movie Contact though, which the trailer reminded me a whole lot of. I read BlackNmild's spoilers and well and it seems very much in league with Contact. Not the same movie, but yeah....similar frequencies.


instead of watching Arrival or Contact watch these.


Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on November 26, 2016, 04:57:00 PM
I just got back from Moana, and OMG I loved this movie.

we almost watched it again, but there was a long line forming, and the 1st showing of the day was practically sold out, so I thought maybe another day later in it's run.

For reference, I thought Frozen was good, and I really liked Zootopia as well, but I think I liked this move the most out of those three.
I thought The Rock was ok, and I liked Moana herself, but the ocean and the chicken were quite the entertaining combo.
I personally think this movie checked ALL the boxes, and with the bonus box of NO love interest or romantic entanglement of any kind.

Disney is just owning the box office for the last few years, and if it keeps up like this, between Disney Animation, Pixar, Marvel, and now Lucas Film, they will continue to do so for years to come.
Disney certainly has a new golden age of animation going on right now, and I can't wait to see what they have for us next.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on November 26, 2016, 11:15:58 PM
Moana was FANTASTIC! Maybe the music wasn't as "singable" as with Frozen (but maybe that is a good thing...no more rounds of Let It Go causing you to pull your hair out), but it was entirely enjoyable and a well balanced film.


An the surprise thief of the show for us was Baby Moana. Freaking adorable. I wanted to adopt her.


For the rest of the film, the chicken was far more funny than I thought it would be. Glad the pig did not come along too because it could have been an overload of cute and quirky sidekicks.


I also liked how they portrayed Maui. I liked how he and Moana really played well off of each other.


If I had to chose a weak part of the film, it would be the underworld scene. And I enjoyed that part, but my nephew seemed to like that part the least. So I'll call it the weakest part.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Silenced on November 26, 2016, 11:58:08 PM
Frozen was about as singable as The Dillinger Escape Plan.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on November 27, 2016, 04:22:02 AM
Moana was FANTASTIC! Maybe the music wasn't as "singable" as with Frozen (but maybe that is a good thing...no more rounds of Let It Go causing you to pull your hair out), but it was entirely enjoyable and a well balanced film.


An the surprise thief of the show for us was Baby Moana. Freaking adorable. I wanted to adopt her.


For the rest of the film, the chicken was far more funny than I thought it would be. Glad the pig did not come along too because it could have been an overload of cute and quirky sidekicks.


I also liked how they portrayed Maui. I liked how he and Moana really played well off of each other.


If I had to chose a weak part of the film, it would be the underworld scene. And I enjoyed that part, but my nephew seemed to like that part the least. So I'll call it the weakest part.

You are right on Baby Moana. I see that being a big selling plush toy if Disney was smart.
and now that I think about it, why doesn't some theaters have gift shops on the way out? As a parent, I think it's terrible idea for my wallet, but as someone who understands how business works... why isn't there a gift shop you are forced to walk through on your way out the theater?
Overpriced toys and collectibles with over excited kids (and adults) longing for souvenirs of their new favorite movie they just watched 5 minutes ago... it's seems so obvious, there must be a good reason why that isn't something we see.

Oh, and we both forgot to mention that this movie is absolutely GORGEOUS.
The islands, the water, the sky, and the hair. It was all so well done.

and I'm just now finding out that there was supposedly an after-credits scene. So if you go watch it, stick around for that.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on November 28, 2016, 05:32:12 AM
Damn, I need to go to work in a few hours, but I just watched The Conjuring 2....

I see why this movie got so much praise. This **** was intense in the spooky scary department and no cheap jump scares with ear piercing loud sound effects out of nowhere to startle you in place of a genuine earned scare. I can see some people legitly having nightmares, or at least not sleeping easy that night after watching.

What made it even creepier for me was that my window was open, and during some creepy mood music in the movie, there were some weird howling sounds that didn't quite sound like they were coming from the movie.... it was during a pretty intense build up scene, and I had surround sound on, but after carefully listening for that sound, I determined that it was coming from another room.... somewhere behind me. After a few seconds, I had to pause the movie to figure out what it was and where it was coming from. After walking past the bathroom, which also had a window open, it turned out to be 2 cats getting it on somewhere on that side of the house (bedroom window and bathroom window on different walls of the house). That really creeped me the **** out, which is a major compliment to this movie, as horror movies haven't gotten me worked up in YEARS, but it's still one of my favorite genres, as I want to be spooked, they all just fail at it spectacularly. This movie accomplished it. I wouldn't have freaked out at the sounds of cats fucking in the dark if it hadn't been for the mood the movie had already put me in due to it's intense build up of supernatural creepiness (with the assist of my surround sound system).

and then the once again show that Annabelle doll that was in the first movie, and got it's own spinoff. I still need to check that movie out. This just might have motivated me to do so.

So if you looking for a good supernatural horror/thriller, I think this is one you check out.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on December 03, 2016, 01:37:04 PM
Oh, and we both forgot to mention that this movie is absolutely GORGEOUS.
The islands, the water, the sky, and the hair. It was all so well done.

and I'm just now finding out that there was supposedly an after-credits scene. So if you go watch it, stick around for that.


Yes, it was breathtaking, and we saw it in 3D which was a real treat. The tropical setting made for a great, colorful setting. And yes, the hair rendering is amazing. I am impressed with how far the hair tech has advanced. It looked great wet, which was a new thing for me.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: sudoshuff on December 03, 2016, 07:48:06 PM
Damn, I need to go to work in a few hours, but I just watched The Conjuring 2....
I see why this movie got so much praise.
So if you looking for a good supernatural horror/thriller, I think this is one you check out.


This is great to hear.  I loved the first one.
Not sure if I'll be able to convince my wife to watch it with me though.  She still has memories of going into labor a mere hours after watching the first one together.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on December 15, 2016, 09:43:49 AM
I finally watched Kubo and the Two Strings. It was a fun, straight forward adventure movie, with gorgeous stop motion style animation.

It reminded me in places a lot of the Legend of Zelda. Probably not intentionally, but they are drawing from the same well of legendary Japan.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on December 15, 2016, 10:39:36 PM
That was the same thing lots of people said about Kubo. Reminded them of TLoZ.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on December 15, 2016, 10:48:41 PM
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story - 9/10
It's somehow a spin-off and the most direct prequel to any Star Wars movie there's ever been. Somehow they get you to care about a group of people that are all completely brand new, which sucks, because they all die. Everyone. I don't want to get too into it, the story is pretty predictable, because if you've seen any Star Wars movie, then you know what the plot is, though you may not realize that the ending literally takes place aeemingly moments before A New Hope starts. I will say though, given the small amount of screen time Darth Vader has (3 scenes...4 I guess if you count the first scene he's in) - this movie has the best version of Darth Vader in any movie. His final scene is basically the movie version of playing as Darth Vader in The Force Unleashed games - force pushing, force throwing, force raising (and then slicing in half with his lightsaber). It's a pretty short scene, but it is simply badass. There are some CGI character cameos which are a little disappointing (on a huge screen at least, they'll probably get reworked before the Blu-ray release), but if you don't pay too much attention (because you have to know that they are CGI, given that A New Hope came out 39 years ago), then they're probably pretty convincing.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on December 15, 2016, 10:52:42 PM
As someone who's not really a Star Wars fan, should I see this in the theater?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on December 15, 2016, 11:10:07 PM
I gave TFA a miss in the theatres and I don't regret it. It was so incredibly overhyped and quite frankly not that good. I am going to place Rogue One in the same box and not see it in the theatre.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on December 15, 2016, 11:49:17 PM
I echo Brandogg's thoughts on Rogue One.  The movie starts off as feeling like it's entirely it's own thing and then slowly becomes the direct prequel you know it is by the end.  Some of the callbacks to A New Hope felt a little off.  One character at the very end just felt like she was on a separate movie reel or something.  Another cameo felt kind of unnecessary.   Lastly, I think this one is probably the funniest Star Wars movie, to me at least.  It felt like there were more jokes, but maybe it's just me.

9/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on December 16, 2016, 12:00:17 AM
It's not like any other Star Wars movie, other than sharing the base material - hell, there's not even any crawling text nor the Star Wars theme song. Even the title screen just says "Rogue One." This is a war movie set in the Star Wars Galaxy. I don't know that this one needs to be seen in the theater, other than to get the experience with the audience laughing and cheering, and clapping in several scenes. It's very familiar but very, very different at the same time. I'm telling you though, it's worth the price of admission just to see Darth Vader absolutely kick some rebel alliance ass on the big screen, in my opinion.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on December 16, 2016, 06:10:47 AM
Rogue One 6.8/10 I don't know if people watched the same movie, but this movie really lacked character development and narrative. These people do not talk to each other. They merely grunt to each other. There is nothing establishing motive or direction. If it was there, it must have been cut out. I can't find myself to enjoy the characters or sympathies with them. The trailers did a better job than the actual movie at this. It kind of reminds me of a B horror movie. You never even really get peoples names. The only new names you get out of the movie is Jin and Geilen Urso. Then there was that appalling Zombie Peter Cushing. I'm a big fan of him outside of star wars. I did not expect him being in the movie. They do a pretty good job, but it still has the uncanny valley. The voice isn't right either.

The movie does pick up though. About the time Darth Vader shows up the editing, pace, music,and everything picks up. The last half of the movie is really good. The color also returns to the movie too. I really didn't care for any of the settings before the beach scene. The Beach scene was the second best part.  The movie ends with a sacrificial blast. I feel like I've seen this before, but not sure where. The closest things that come to mind are Seeking a Friend at the End of the World, or Watchmen.  The end scene with Darth Vader being belligerent was pretty cool.

This movie would get an 8 if they had just introduced the characters better, and gave them clear motivation. It was like watching episode 3 of some show where you missed all the character development. That first half was just a mess. Tell a story! Don't just meander from scene to scene. The director did the same thing with Godzilla.

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on December 16, 2016, 06:26:23 AM
SPECTRE

A disappointment. It has some good action scenes. But the plot is bewildering at best. It calls back to the previous films but it does it in a way that even as someone who have watched all the the Craig films can't follow. You're constantly left wondering how did Bond know that or what's the connection? Despite this one can figure out the ending before you hit the quarter mark.

It's better than Quantum, has good jokes, but it is a big fall from SkyFall. Christopher Waltz was criminally wasted.

6/10

Yeah, I watched this recently myself. I have about the same criticism. The beginning was cool, but there was nothing left to care about afterwards. It had some nice nods to some Roger Moore Bond movies, but falls flat.

The Man with the Golden Gun
8/10. Love this movie. Christopher Lee is one of the best bond villains ever. I liked the settings, it was like a setup for a bond game. That Island would make a great multiplayer level.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on December 16, 2016, 08:12:59 AM
You can't spoiler the whole review, that defeats the purpose. Yes, character development is light, but this is a stand-alone movie about a group that has one job, they can't all have origin stories.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on December 16, 2016, 08:58:29 PM
I hate spoilers. I left the rating out, but I'd rather people watch a movie totally dark then know too much about it. This is an anthology movie, and these are throw away characters, but I like the idea of a Marvel approach, where this could be somebodies first experience watching something in the franchise. I want stories to be able to stand on their own.


If you compare this to The Matrix or Inglorious Basterds or even a New Hope or Force awakens at least you get a nice introduction to the characters. Don't get me wrong, I don't think there should be an info dump. This is a dirty dozen type of movie like suicide squad, but I wouldn't want them to do it Suicide Squad style. The best way to do it in this movie would have been James Bond Style. Where a superior introduces a character and gives the perspective character a light back story. It is possible some of these scenes were cut for time, but I think they are more important than some of the flashier stuff. Like I said, these characters barely talk to each other. I could imagine going for a more naturalistic way of speech in this movie, but that only works if it's established people know each other well. When Luke and Leia meet they actually have a conversation. When Neo and Trinity meet they have a conversation. We know Finn was a garbage collector because he mentioned it when he was talking to Han or Poe. I just don't this movie stands on its own. When I watched Matrix I didn't know anything about it. Hadn't seen a trailer, hadn't heard any buzz. The name just sounded cool. I was blown away, it developed characters and built a story. It has the same archetype of story. A lone person joins a rebellion. The movie stood on its own. The movie was a good movie without the need for sequels or an expanded universe. I also think that just because the characters were throwaways doesn't mean we didn't need to get to know them.  I think the movie would be more emotional if the people sacrificing themselves were not barely more than nameless drones. Visually the movie was great, but there was either problems with the writing or editing. I'm curious what the Directors original cut looks like.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on December 17, 2016, 01:23:31 PM
Really Perm, there was only one part of your review paragraphs that needed to be spoilered: the part about the sacrificial explosion but even that is vague enough that it didn't spoil anything. I have not seen the film and I read both of your segments in full.


And your complaints are what I was most worried about for the film. I think the more Disney messes around with Star Wars, the more I become a stodgy old fart who claims that Star Wars canon closed when Disney bought the company. Only thing that holds any form of interest to me now is Rebels, but that still has it's misses.


Don't get me wrong, I'll still go and enjoy these new movies, but they won't ever hold the appeal that the EU material did. To me it feels like Christopher Tolkien sold the rights to Middle-Earth to Universal and the only "canon" to the Tolkien-verse is the Peter Jackson films.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on December 17, 2016, 11:10:11 PM
It is better to be safe than sorry about spoilers. That's why I aggressively spoiler. I don't like it when someone lets out a little detail they thought wasn't important otherwise.

Yeah, I watched this recently myself. I have about the same criticism. The beginning was cool, but there was nothing left to care about afterwards. It had some nice nods to some Roger Moore Bond movies, but falls flat.

The Man with the Golden Gun
8/10. Love this movie. Christopher Lee is one of the best bond villains ever. I liked the settings, it was like a setup for a bond game. That Island would make a great multiplayer level.
My best Bond villain remains to be Sean Bean, like Christopher Lee he plays a villain that can equal Bond in combat, Sean easily pulls ahead because he is in a far better movie in every respect with a far more engaging plot.

Scaramanga is weird in the case he shouldn't have gotten his own movie, he is a hired gun, a right-hand man, rather than a stand alone character. That is reflected when you get to his base which even has a super-weapon, but there is nothing there, barely any people for him to command or a boss for him to report to. It really didn't make sense for him to have a base at all.

Scaramanga's final fight should have been something closer to Skyfall's fight with the assassin in the empty skyscraper. Bond isn't saving the world or fighting the Cold War, he is killing an assassin.

The Man with the Golden Gun is definitely a product of it's time where instead of what should have been a spy thriller going back to it's roots like From Russian with Love. You had to be a super villain, you had to have a super base with a super weapon that blows up, you had to push the Roger Moore period jokes, you had to have track suited minions.

It's the same sort errors SPECTRE had where it fell apart because it wanted to fit all these things in no matter how pointless or disconnected it was. They wanted all these thing in the film and they got it by throwing way almost everything they needed to make a competent film. Looking back at it now 6/10 was a too good of a score to give it. If I saw it today I would have given it a 3-4/10.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on December 18, 2016, 06:22:55 AM
I totally get the problems with the Man with the Golden Gun. A lot of people just think it's a weird movie, and it is. My entry in interest in James Bond is through the portal of the Goldeneye game though. I like that it is a product of the Era. I never watched all the Bond movies in order though. I still haven't  seen them all. I'm almost halfway. The only Connery movie I've seen is Dr. No(once 15years ago). My access to the bond movies sucks. I should have went on a renting spree. They've been on an off cable, and then on and off Hulu and Netflix. I usually catch only a few before they get taken off wherever.

 The bond movies I tend to like are actually the campy ones. Though too goofy might be a turn off. I wasn't a fan of A View to Kill.  James Bond infiltrating a horse racing magnates mansion is not my idea of a good movie. Fun is a better way to put it. If it could happen equally in either a 60s Godzilla movie, or a James Bond movie then it probably will be entertaining to me.

I actually had the game Goldeneye, but never got a chance to watch the movie until about 4 years ago. Goldeneye is great though, because it has a good balance both fun and seriousness. I really don't care for all the other Brosnan movies. I finally got around to watching the Timothy Dalton movies. I understand Brosnan was originally going to be in the first one of these, but he had a scheduling conflict. Goldeneye, and the Living Daylights really seem like the same grouping. License to Kill seems like a Moore movie with Dalton.
What is also weird about them is they weren't at all how people described them. I expected a darker edgier Bond, but while License to Kill did take place around Florida, it was no Scarface.

As far a villains with good character development goes, Sean Beans character is really good. He is one of my favorites. His story is well developed compared to other Bond villains.

Scaramanga, is a cartoony villain. The plot-line to TMWTGG reminds me of a short story like "The Most Dangerous Game" or maybe a one off Star Trek villain. The production of a lot of bond movies rank with TV shows sometimes. Maybe you would like the idea of this story better on the small screen? You make a good case, that it is odd that he is not of the caliber of other stand alone villains.  In the back of my head I was thinking about the James Bond Code name theory. Scaramanga is like a retired James Bond gone rogue. Where do James Bonds go to die?  An island to duel!

 In a lot of ways the good Roger Moore Bond movies are self parody like Batman the TV show. I just think of them as two different things. The other reason for the love of Scaramanga is just the extension of my fanship of Christopher Lee. There is going to be some less objective Rose Colored lenses stuff going on. The guy is Dracula, Frankenstein, Saruman, Count Duku, and Lord Sumerset. I like Christoph Waltz, but he didn't blow me away this time. It also could be I watched it at 2 am on hulu and I hadn't seen anything interesting in weeks. Hard to be objective when you're bored. I was also digging the era Cinematography. Also, having watched a bunch of Bond movies, it was pretty different. That was appealing.

Ever Watch Wicker Man? The original version. Also, Wedding Crashers, and When Eight Bells Toll. These movies aren't Bond movies, but they are somewhat Bond related.

I have said in the past I prefer movies to stand on their own without the need for a franchise. On the other hand sometimes an actors work is like a franchise itself. Sometimes, experiencing an actors other work makes a movie better.  Which sounds counter-intuitive, because there is the idea that actors aren't doing their job if they aren't lost in the role.

When you force me to compare Scaramanga to Alec Trevelyan I can't safely make the case that Scaramanga is a better villain than Trevelyan. Goldeneye is definitely the better movie. Even comparing Sean Bean to Christopher Lee is interesting. What I can say is they have a lot of good roles, and they're both on Lord of the Rings.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on December 18, 2016, 07:30:48 AM
As someone who's not really a Star Wars fan, should I see this in the theater?
Just watched it so I can answer this question for you. As a stand alone movie it is not bad. It felt original despite hitting some of those beats. It beats TFA which is a movie I just don't like for a number of reasons.

While the Perm is in some ways rightly annoyed at the lack of dialogue between characters it forced the actors to do their bloody jobs and they generally did. Unlike TFA I like these characters, they are diverse, they have their own skill set, nobody is some sort of super character. I like that they didn't over focus on the lead(Looking at you Rey so hard). TFA was bad enough that I don't care for anyone but Finn, yeah that's right I didn't care about Solo anymore.

Some of the character do feel like they came out of nowhere. like the Jenna warrior and monk. What is the deal with the monk anyway? It was sort of cheating how they included a Jedi without having a Jedi. It also had me wondering do all farmers wear the same ****?

R1 did suffer from an uneven half to 2 thirds of the movie. The middle just felt wasted and parts just felt like they were padding for time. The climax is great though but not without some small problems. During the space battle the space and time felt like it had disconnects like when they brought in the ramming corvette I was like "Where did it come from?" and "Where is everyone in relation to the shield ring"?

The Britishness isn't really there, it was so soft and was just so wrong at times. I just don't know what happened to that considering it is the trademark of one of the pivotal characters and the mark of the officers in the Empire.

The Vadar was good although his first scene was just so pointless and a waste of time. It was there just to feed the fanbois and I don't really appreciate that. He was good in all his other scenes.

The music was pretty standard fair, unlike the originals, I am not going to remember it. The sound was nice and thankfully didn't include the Wilhelm scream, because **** that, you're not clever including that.

That ended was great even if it did just repeat the Death Star shot. Kiilling everyone was original and tied off the movie so you don't have these people running around in the background in the originals. I honestly laughed  and groaned a bitwhen the Rebellion commandos setup in a position with a bunch of waist height walls like it was some sort of generic wall sticking third person shooter.

If you have played some of the Star Wars games you will get a kick when some of it makes it into the film. It was a real shame they didn't Kyle Katarn or Dash Rendar in there because I would have cracked up to no end with a **** eating grin.

There are a bunch of nitpicky stuff I could go into but it is a solid movie a like much more than TFA and it can stand mostly on it's own to feet without leaning too much on Star Wars unlike TFA.

I would score it somewhere between a 6-8/10 My feelings about it will settle over time, but to answer the question, sure why not if you can get a ticket that's not too expensive, go with your other half/friends. It's a bit better than a popcorn movie. If you have seen the other Star Wars movies it is comparitively refreshing in its originality.

I think I might have scored TFA a 5-6/10 when I saw it, but after this TFA becomes a solid 4/10. Still better than PT, but after being shamed by this movie it deserves a lower score.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on December 18, 2016, 09:40:17 AM
Thanks oohhboy. You have motivated me to get out and see it. Sounds like this is the film we should have gotten instead of TFA.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on December 18, 2016, 09:55:48 AM
Ugh, I should have put that through another proof reading pass. Whatever, I am tired and I don't care.

Thanks oohhboy. You have motivated me to get out and see it. Sounds like this is the film we should have gotten instead of TFA.
For sure. TFA is just another movie in a long line of movies that shows JJ is a Hack. He should stay the hell away from the camera and focus on being a producer since he did right by helping POI and WestWorld started.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Evan_B on December 18, 2016, 10:23:27 PM
A Wilhelm was indeed killed in the making of this movie. It's a bit more muted than most deaths though.

10/10 movie, if only for the T-15 line.

My brother died last week, and Star Wars was one of his absolute favorite franchises. He was unabashedly nerdy about it when he considered himself a hipster and punk in pretty much every other way. A group of his closest friends went with me to see the movie and I wept like a child at the end. While I consider myself a highly critical individual, I enjoyed the film for what it was- the only good prequel we've ever had. Sure, the characters are poorly established and some of them are overly "iconic" for lack of a better word, with extremely powerful abilities and stark designs, but the fact that everyone died at the end was a nice way of establishing the reality and horror of what the Empire was striving to achieve. Whereas The Force Awakens completely botched its "Starkiller" sequence with little to no emotional impact, the destruction of locations in Rogue One had impact literally and figuratively. I also felt the additions to the lore were valid and interesting- although we didn't have to know what powered the Death Star, a beam that cuts to the core of a planet should most certainly be powered by lightsaber crystals. The hokey weak point from A New Hope was given more weight and logic in Rogue One, which is honestly the best point of the movie and makes it a worthy addition to the canon, in my opinion.

Overall, it is most definitely fanservice. But it respects the material in a way the original prequels did not, and it tells a contained story that adds to the overarching narrative quite nicely. I would rather have stories such as these than anthology films for familiar characters, but only time will tell whether or not those films are worthy.

My brother would have loved it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on December 18, 2016, 10:31:10 PM
A couple between TFA vs Rogue One

Rogue One has a better Plot Line, but TFA has better execution.

Both movies drag at around the same point. Though I was madly bored at this spot in Rogue One. There was a point in Rogue One where I felt like walking out.

I felt a little more engaged throughout TFA.

There was a certain point in Rogue One where it suddenly got good, and I was thinking to myself. I wish they just started the movie here. With the reshoots I wonder who did what? It really makes you wonder because Godzilla itself was like that. Though in reverse. I was more entertained in the first half of Godzilla than the second.

Sometimes TFA dialog feels forced/unrealistic where Rogue One seems nonchalant

In TFA I felt some characters liked each other too much, for having just met.

In Rogue One I feel like characters didn't like each other too much, for having just met.

Rogue One goes to different places in the Galaxy, which is Nice. TFA just copied Tatooine and Hoth with Jaku and Starkiller base.

TFA lacks originality, R1 lacks character development.

I feel like TFA stands on it's own(but really only because it's a remake) It's like a New Hope if they talked about what's going on with Yoda the whole time.

Sometimes the scoring of Rogue One was overbearing and annoying. When people are talking they should not be overpowered by the background score. It's interesting that it's the same composer from Lost. Would it be better with the Lost Score? I can't wait till Youtube does this. I wonder how much this affected my enjoyment of the movie. I always wanted to see versions of bad movies like Batman and Robin with a better score, just to see what they're like.

A better movie would be TFAs first half and Rogue Ones second half.

Some people say Rogue One is as good as Empire Strikes back. That is crazy. Maybe if you're entirely visually oriented and have no interpersonal skills.

It will be interesting how all these movies age though. Star Wars now has 5.5 different directors, with their own takes/additions to the universe. I'm pretty excited to see what Rian Johnson is going to do with Episode 8,and what Colin Trevorrow will do with 9. I really enjoyed Looper and Safety not Guaranteed. I'm still trying to place Rogue One in the halls of Star Wars.

and even though I give Rogue One a 6. I would still go to the theater and watch it again. There is enough going on in any Star Wars movie to watch again for extended nuance. Also, speaking of WestWorld. I wonder how much it affects my objectivity watching WestWorld twice before watching Rogue One. I'm going to be in a deeper analytical mode than normal. I go from a 9.5  show to a mediocre Star Wars movie. WestWorld has the luxury of telling the story over time in serial format, but I feel like 60 minutes of WestWorld is better than 60 minutes of Rogue One.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on December 19, 2016, 12:16:41 AM
TFA is in no way the better executed movie. It is openly belligerent to the viewer's intelligence and increasingly so closer to the end it gets. Throwing explosions at the screen is Michael Bay level of film making and it is embarrassing.

I wasn't anywhere near walking out but yeah, R1 starts a little too slow and the first third is questionable.

R1 got good when they got on with the main plotOnce she gets the message it is like a different movie as it changes gears. I like Jin over Rey so much it isn't funny(Rey is such a **** character), but the first half is following her quest. The problem is that we know what she is going to find and it doesn't get there fast enough while jumping through a few too many convenient hoops. The best example of this dragging is Forest Wikiter's character who is literally dragging air for his lines. Because they spent a little too much time on Jin they neglected the other characters.

Godzilla's problem was that they killed off the wrong person. Going from Bryan to generic white dude #55678 was a seriously bad move that hurt the movie. #55678 place in the movie was unearned and was amateur night compared to Bryan.

The characters not talking that much to each other is ok, I rather they keep the dialogue down to allow for the acting to come through than to speak too much thinking that is what acting is. The characters don't really know each other so it is understandable they don't talk that much, it is actually realistic in that sense. Think about how often you actually talk to the person on the plane next to you? Also pauses in conversations are as important as words said.

I like the banter they did have even if at times it was a little too on the nose.

The problem I did have with the characters was that the motivations weren't enunciated well enough(The warrior and the monk fall squarely into this in the beginning). It was the side effect of having a large team of people with an overly dense plot. You just can't spend that much time building them or else you would make the first half of the movie even more ponderous.

TFA IMO didn't have any character development, things happened, but the characters are 95% the same at the end  as when they started. getting good at things is not character development. R1 had no one getting better at things like it was some RPG. Character development is when they choose differently than they would have done before because their motivations have changed, they have learned new things about themselves, they are not the same person as they were before, events have impacted them on an emotionally level and has done so convincingly.

R1's characters hesitate from moral conflicts, they fail and fail even if they are morally right. They have their own agenda's that isn't given to them by some boss man or just because they caught up in the flow of events. They choose to do what they do. They aren't binary black and white choices.

R1 going to different places was so fucking nice. Everyone knows this, but **** Tatooine.

TFA doesn't stand on it's own because it unabashedly rips off everything that came before it but "Bigger!"(See Sun Sucker). What presence it does have comes heavily on nostalgia, you remove that you have nothing. R1 has Vadar's first scene which is just pointless, bad fan wank that drags out the movie. Vadar does not need to be introduced!

Vadar showing up later is damn good though. It is opposite of the rebels arriving to save the day. It does it so quickly and so effectively. "Jump to hyperspace"! Vadar arrives, ships splat against the ship like a bug on a wind shield. Him being a badass without any of that Kung Fu dance **** is so good. It doesn't fix the prequels but it certainly washes some of the flavour out of the mouth. I have to give kudos to the actors who played that scene, they really sold it and without them the scene could have been just terrible.

I honestly can't remember any of the score, maybe the mix was wrong, who knows, but it felt like it just disappeared. If there was not score during the battle I might not have consciously noticed. That said I have the same problem with TFA, so it isn't a John William problem. They might have needed to go for someone more unique as it was very generic.

Even with the first half, R1 is the better movie hands down through out. R1 made me care about what was happening. TFA I just could give a **** as to what was happening or to the characters.

R1 is in no way better than Empire, but R1 has some elements from it that people are definitely over attributing to Empire. R1 is better than 1,2,3,7. It won't be a classic like the originals, but it will be remembered fondly as that other Star Wars movie that took chances and it paid off like how Empire did.

After watch WW I am significantly less forgiving about flaws. Even without R1 clowning TFA looking back I would definitely lower my score for TFA. Part of that is because I have become so much better at spotting mistakes and I have higher expectations as to what can be achieved with characters and stories.

There is no doubt 60 minutes of WW is better than 60 of R1, but they have to use those 60 minutes differently and WW has far more time beyond that to do what it wants. However, there is no denying WW is the show of the year and there is just no competing with that to the point it is *almost* unfair to do so.

You are better off comparing R1 directly to TFA as it slams home just how over hyped TFA is and how TFA much rode on the coattails(Completely) of the previous films multiplied from such a long gap from RotJ. TFA just breaks down the more you look at it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Evan_B on December 19, 2016, 12:25:47 AM
I posted this elsewhere, but I thought I'd share. I'll try to spoiler as much as I can:

I’m not the biggest fan of The Force Awakens. It did what it had to do, which was “remind us why Star Wars can be fun,” but there’s a number of elements that didn’t sit well with me. However, I wanted to take a look at one of the most disappointing aspects of The Force Awakens and compare it with Rogue One’s greatest strength.

The most important element of Rogue One is how it deals with the construction and destructive power of the Death Star, and the way it utilizes virtually every aspect of its narrative in order to emphasize these points. The Force Awakens uses Starkiller Base, also known as “The Death Star 2.0, 2.0” as a narrative device to connect the various threads of its characters and make sure they are all in the same place at the same time, but the way it is introduced and dealt with completely underscore the dramatic heft of such a devastating superweapon. In Rouge One, a film that takes place 34 years before the destruction of Starkiller Base, the idea of a mobile planet-killer is treated with incredible weight through various means- characters talk about the sort of fear it would impose upon the crumbling Republic, scientists weigh the morality regarding the usage of the device, and then there is the very literal, visual representation of its destructive power, highlighting the way the Death Star is able to perform precision strikes in addition to its iconic destruction of Alderaan from A New Hope.

The entirety of Rogue One is spent attempting to subvert the usage of the Death Star upon the galaxy, and it is a noble cause that doesn’t work out for everyone. This requires the Rebel Alliance’s concentrated efforts to infiltrate and extract the plans for the weapon, a plan that was touched upon in A New Hope (although, where were all the Bothans in that final sequence, anyway...? I heard a bunch of them died), which means the construction and subsequent destruction of this weapon now shapes half of the Star Wars canon- the weapon makes its appearance in Episodes II, III, and IV, and now Rogue One. So you’d think that superweapons like these would be treated with some level of severity and importance, right...?

Well, The Force Awakens would like to have a word with you.

The Starkiller Base firing sequence is so lacking in weight, it almost feels out of place in the story. Its activation occurs simultaneously with Kylo Ren’s acquisition of Rey, which packs a markedly heavier punch because of how engaging the character dialogue between her, Finn, and Solo. In fact, if you were to edit out the firing sequence, the movie would not lose much- sure, you’d miss out on Domhnall Gleeson screeching for a bit and you might not get to see Oscar Isaac do cool things in an X-Wing, but what does Starkiller Base add to the narrative of The Force Awakens? The only benefit it brings to the finale of the movie is that it gives Kylo Ren and Rey an excuse to not-make-out after she gashes his face with a lightsaber. Come on, you were hoping for it. No? It’s just me? Well, okay.

But whereas Rogue One uses its two firing sequences to highlight the cruelty and overwhelming odds the Rebel Alliance must face, and even A New Hope uses Alec Guinness’ powerful and brief commentary to deliver the crushing realization of destructive power, The Force Awakens sort of throws away its super-dee-duper-weapon, despite  the firing sequence being less showy than Rogue One or even A New Hope’s displays of destruction. The Resistance is able to create a strategy for destroying this seemingly-unknown-until-yesterday-threat ON THE SPOT, and sure, while Thermal Oscillators might be more familiar and exploitable in-universe than the Death Star’s complex construction, we have no reason to believe this is the case. Oh, and how convenient and non-Bothan-sacrificial is it that a custodial Stormtrooper happens to know about all of these interesting details.

Sure. Say it’s “The Force awakening” to make everything work out in Rey and Finn’s favor, but it reeks of laziness and a nostalgia-grab on Abram’s behalf. Where Rogue One respects the prospect and implications of a planet-destroyer, The Force Awakens expands the literal size and destructive properties of the device, but underplays its effect on the galaxy. Will we see the implications of this system-wide destruction in later films? I would argue that, to be an effective narrative device, Starkiller’s abilities should have been emphasized from the very start. While The Force Awakens re-established the status quo of the universe, it did little to bring any semblance of reality to the gravity of its conflict. Yeah, okay, the Resistance base was sure in trouble, but again, A New Hope had similar stakes and even established logical methods of revealing the Rebel Alliance’s base of operations to the Empire, something The Force Awakens lacked.

To make a long, long rant short, was I entirely fond of Rogue One, and did I even appreciate its glorified and literal representations of the Death Star firing sequences? Not really. But the film also did an exceptional job at- excuse me, Alex Matthew- world building from the very start: having characters discuss the destructive capabilities early on in the film and centralizing its narrative on that aspect, while adding references to The Force and the Jedi throughout. The Force Awakens had the opportunity to tell a reverse narrative, one of Jedi re-establishing themselves in the galaxy and, you know, The Force awakening, but chose to toss in a bigger, badder Death Star rather lazily in the middle of its second act. While its destructive capabilities were certainly more impressive, it never delivered on its danger in a satisfying manner, and I would argue that a larger Death Star would have more impact if it had been a threat over the course of more than one movie- after all, we know the main Star Wars films do not have to tell a concise narrative because they come in trilogies. Still, Rogue One did a better job of displaying the might of a superweapon without even having to destroy a single planet- and Starkiller Base did not manage to do so despite destroying five.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on December 19, 2016, 01:22:49 AM
I completely I agree with you Even_b. One small correction. The Bothans died for the second Death Star plans, not the first, that's why you got confused there.

R1 also had some very cool and good imagery of the Death Star and it uses the destruction to full effect. It doesn't for a moment waste the spectacle. It was beautiful in it's horror.That line did not need to be said, that was definitely a mistake. It doesn't cut away, it lets you take it in.

You are fully aware of the consequences. The Sun Sucker blows up planets, but as you said there is no weight. Who the **** cares. While removing the Sun Sucker would have helped, TFA is fundamentally flawed from the start to finish. No amount of editing is going to change that. It would require throwing out the movie whole sale declaring it persona non grata.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on December 19, 2016, 01:45:48 AM
How would you compare R1 to Inglorious Basterds?

Also, what do you think about the possibility of Finn being a deep deep cover operative? If his objectives are to "do whatever it takes to get to Luke Skywalker and kill him" then that adds a layer of complexity. You can never trust anyone defecting from an organization.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Evan_B on December 19, 2016, 02:07:38 AM
Damn! I want a Bothan anthology film now.

I think that would be an interesting angle, but unlikely. The innocence of Luke'a perspective and desires are what allowed viewers to get into the original trilogy, I assume Finn and his unapologetic friendships with Rey and Poe are going to drive the new trilogy. Can't have such a likeable character going all Fate of the Furious on folks.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on December 19, 2016, 02:58:23 AM
How would you compare R1 to Inglorious Basterds?

Also, what do you think about the possibility of Finn being a deep deep cover operative? If his objectives are to "do whatever it takes to get to Luke Skywalker and kill him" then that adds a layer of complexity. You can never trust anyone defecting from an organization.
I don't see how any undercover operative can ever be worth that kind of damage. It would also be stupid like Cortana turning on everyone in Halo 5(?). It would be the kind of **** m. night shyamalan would do.

Inglorious Bastard has several advantages that makes it the superior film by far.

Even though there are several plot lines running concurrently, each line are quite simple and exists for the actors to chew the scenery in character. The complexity comes from the interaction of the character rather than from the plot itself like Spectre where it was convoluted and ultimately pointless where the characters are just moving place to place just because plot makes them.

It had a large amount of unabashed violence that was very personal. R1 racked up a good body count so it isn't as great of an advantage, but it is still there. R1 is also comparability realistic for a Star Wars movie plot armour isn't really strong, they get in some small fights, but a lot of the time they use actual cover and leaving it gets people any and everyone killed. Once you realise no one is safe it gets real, you hope some one would make it out, but it doesn't happen and you feel that loss.

Length.Going back to the plot, it had enough running time to work with all the characters. A number of characters were sidelined appropriately instead of trying to force more events to happen. You would think the Bastards themselves would have more screen time with a lot more killing but nope. It was a mild bait and switch that allowed some more human characters to shine.

A much higher calibre of actors and director. Taratino knew what he wanted and got it with no regrets. He didn't have higher ups breathing down his neck nor the baggage of working within an existing franchise. He knew how to use silence for tension and to make the flow of conversation natural. He also wasn't trying to be overly clever with it.

The special effects were more old school making it a lot more real oppose to computer generated hits. This is also true with OG Star Wars where you see holes blown into Storm Trooper armour and Leia taking a very visible hit. these thing are somewhat missing in TFA and R1.

R1 has the advantage of being able to make things out of whole cloth while Inglorious has to stick to period accurate everything. There are elements of R1 they can't change like Storm Trooper looks, X-Wings, Y wings and all those staples, but can work in new things that you having seen before in SW.

There is a something I noticed about the Death Star until now. It is too accurate. I know the second shot was off the mark, but the Death Star wasn't very accurate compared to DS2. It is sort of a nice carry forward from RotJ where it could target ships.

I can see why you want to make the comparison, but it is only so in a fairly shallow sense. R1 is more of a normal movie while IG is closer to a play. Taratino goes all the way with this in Hateful 8 where you could convert it into a play almost completely.

R1 did the right thing by making sure it was a decent movie first rather than Star Wars for the sake of it like TFA. If it didn't have Star Wars it would still be an enjoyable movie because it has good fundamentals.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Evan_B on December 20, 2016, 02:18:09 AM
I'd just like to say that I don't think Rogue One is a great film. It is a well-made film, developed by professionals. What it lacks in originality, it makes up for in world-building and diversifying character types. The Force Awakens has a diverse cast... of humans... but it also lacks in originality and squanders its third act. Rogue One has a bad first and second act, but its third act is pretty great.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on December 20, 2016, 11:14:08 PM
So I just saw Rogue One again, this time with my kids. I actually liked it even more the second time, and weirdly enough, maybe because I was sitting about 15 feet further away, though in the same theater, but CGI Tarkin and Leia looked completely believable. Even the lady sitting next to me asked her husband "wow, he's still alive?" in regards to Tarkin.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on December 21, 2016, 02:09:30 AM
That's pretty funny. My problem with him side from his voice was that he was stiff as a block of wood. It's like they forgot to animate in all those micro-expressions in.

Leia had me perplexed as I thought they cast Maggie Gyllenhaal. She was Leia like, but I thought they had a look alike actor. Either way it failed technically, however the importance to the scene was not diminished.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on December 21, 2016, 04:21:16 AM
Grand Moff Tarkin took me out of the movie. However, I still thought it was ballsy to do it. They had it almost right, but they needed to take a few more passes. First, it seemed like only the bottom part of his mouth moved. You should see more going on with the cheeks when he talks. If you watch A New Hope you can see his cheeks vibrate as he talks. He also has wrinkles on his cheeks that move when he talks. His head also looks bigger in Rogue One. They're on youtube now, so you can compare. They still did a pretty good job, Still uncanny valley. They used an actor with a similar face structure. They should have used 5, but that would get super expensive. On the other hand, all this is basically an insurmountable task. So, I applaud them for trying even though it took me out of the movie. I prefer this to a total recast. There is probably not going to be a point in the timeline where this will ever be needed again. I wonder what the Benjamin Button people think of this(or maybe how many are the same people). That movie was not perfect, but it was better with the micro expressions.
Though my friend who watched Rogue One with me didn't even notice.
I was like "Zombie Peter Cushing!"
and he was like "who"
"the CG Grand Moff Tarkin, he died over 20 years ago"
"huh, I didn't know he was dead. I didn't notice. I noticed they redid Leia"
So, there's that

Leia looked like a more cartoony version of herself. She was definitely a Disney princess. Thankfully her scene was much shorter.

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on December 21, 2016, 04:35:32 AM
It was plot critical and absurd not to include him. Why the hell would you have the first DS without Trakin in command. It is the same with Leia as she has to be on Tanitive 4 as it links the baton passing of the plans into ANH both literally and thematically. The execution of her face was questionable, however it sets up using her in future movies and again plot critical.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on December 24, 2016, 03:57:06 AM
X-Men Apocalyse

how do I sum this up without wasting anymore time than necessary?

....terrible.

and to even quote the movie:
Jean Grey says "we all know the 3rd one is always the worst"

yes, this one certainly was.
not as bad as the 3rd from the original trilogy, but certainly the worst of this new trilogy.

I believe it's time to let the X-men rest, give Singer a non-comic property to go satisfy his studio contract, and let the Deadpool team steer the direction from here on out. like a soft reboot.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on December 24, 2016, 03:23:44 PM
It's the worst of the new trilogy, but that still makes it the 3rd best X-Men film, because the new trilogy > the original trilogy. Do not kid yourself, the first 3 X-Men movies are all terrible.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on December 24, 2016, 04:56:55 PM
And by 3rd best, I assume you mean X-men branded and not series.

But even still I don't agree, as in just branded, X1 & X2, at release, were better movies than this one.

As far as the series go, X3 & XO are the only ones worse than this one.

And what surprised me most, is that quicksilver scene was terrible as well. There wss almost nothing to like in this movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on December 24, 2016, 05:44:29 PM
I didn't think this one was too bad(i did go inwithlow expectations), but I did chuckle at the comment about the third being the worst. If I were to rank it would be FC1 FC2 X1 FC3 X2 X3. I still need to watch The Wolverine. I became disinterested when Aronofsky dropped out.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on December 24, 2016, 11:15:49 PM
in it's defense, it wasn't the worst movie I've seen all year, but it was probably the most uninspired use of IP i've seen by far. At least IP that I'm vaguely familiar with...

I will admit that I had to forcefully watch this movie through several sessions, but it really just wasn't very good.
I actually saw the HISHE the next day, and I feel it was very on point and funny. There was practically no character development, and somethings need more time than what was given.

Singer is creatively bankrupt, X-Men has been dragged through the mud. The timeline is a mess, the story is all over the place, and the entire things needs to use Deadpool as a soft-reboot.

Hopefully New Mutants, Deadpool 2, and X-Force can take things in a new direction.
J Law, Mags, and Prof not coming back will force them to let the current line of X-Men just be done.

the fact that DP already made a superior Colossus, and kinda retconned the previous movies to not really exist at this point, is a good restarting point.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on December 24, 2016, 11:49:58 PM
The Good Guys

Now that was a wonderful palette cleanser. Good Buddy "cop" adult action/thriller movie.
Now I'm disappointed that it took me this long to get around to it, I instead wasted time and money on garbage like BvS, SS and X-Men Apoc.

This is one of those that could make for an entertaining sequel, or maybe a TV show spinoff on Showtime or HBO.

verdict: recommended
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on December 25, 2016, 02:39:43 AM
Star Trek Beyond

I enjoyed this one. it was fun. Biggest Surprise Idris Elba was in this.
the only thing that really confused me, well there were 2 things, but the main thing that confused me was the SS Franklin navigating under teh waterways in York Town at the end. and somehow keeping pace with the other ships, as it didn't look like there was any connection to how all that worked.
the other thing was how was the human(?) Idris an energy absorbing "shape-shifting" alien and how did Uhura know that it was the Old Captain of the ship that should have been dead almost 100 years ago? She reviewed an old video, heard a voice? but you never see him say it.... so I don't get how we get to that conclusion or why he was suddenly Idris Elba all of a sudden... what made him previously look alien? is it who is sucking energy from that transforms him?


but otherwise enjoyable.

edit: I guess there was also how just playing music suddenly made all the alien ships blow up. I get their synchronized formations were disrupted, but that should have made them fly chaotic, not suddenly have a uniform wave of explosion.


oh well. On to the next movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Spak-Spang on December 25, 2016, 06:13:02 AM
Black and Wild:  The ships flew so close together that once you disrupted their signal the flying wildly ended in crashing and explosions.  Which is why it wasn't one big explosion but a chaotic wave of explosion as the Enterprise surfed the robots. 

When you write it out it sounds really silly.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on December 25, 2016, 03:33:51 PM
Sully: Good movie, very heartwarming, very patriotic without laying it on too thick. Tom Hanks should play an every man dealing with the extraordinary in every movie he makes. He is perfect for it.

Jason Bourne "He's hacking the interwebs!" "Which ones?" "ALL of them." The technology seemed dumber than usual, still great car chases and fights.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on December 25, 2016, 03:35:07 PM
The Good Guys

Now that was a wonderful palette cleanser. Good Buddy "cop" adult action/thriller movie.
Now I'm disappointed that it took me this long to get around to it, I instead wasted time and money on garbage like BvS, SS and X-Men Apoc.

This is one of those that could make for an entertaining sequel, or maybe a TV show spinoff on Showtime or HBO.

verdict: recommended

Great movie, but a little too sleazy in parts for my taste. If you haven't seen Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, this movie is a spiritual sequel to that movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on December 25, 2016, 04:49:30 PM
Black and Wild:  The ships flew so close together that once you disrupted their signal the flying wildly ended in crashing and explosions.  Which is why it wasn't one big explosion but a chaotic wave of explosion as the Enterprise surfed the robots. 

When you write it out it sounds really silly.


I realize the effect, it was just silly that it was a uniform wave of explosion instead of a chaotic ripple as ships started flying off course and into one another
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on December 25, 2016, 04:51:16 PM
The Good Guys

Now that was a wonderful palette cleanser. Good Buddy "cop" adult action/thriller movie.
Now I'm disappointed that it took me this long to get around to it, I instead wasted time and money on garbage like BvS, SS and X-Men Apoc.

This is one of those that could make for an entertaining sequel, or maybe a TV show spinoff on Showtime or HBO.

verdict: recommended

Great movie, but a little too sleazy in parts for my taste. If you haven't seen Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, this movie is a spiritual sequel to that movie.

I remember that, with Val Kilmer. I think that was the last movie he was in that I liked.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Spak-Spang on December 25, 2016, 06:30:10 PM
Black and Wild:  The ships flew so close together that once you disrupted their signal the flying wildly ended in crashing and explosions.  Which is why it wasn't one big explosion but a chaotic wave of explosion as the Enterprise surfed the robots. 

When you write it out it sounds really silly.


I realize the effect, it was just silly that it was a uniform wave of explosion instead of a chaotic ripple as ships started flying off course and into one another

Not justifying the effect...because it made little sense, and it was only used to look cool...but I think the music could only disrupt the signal when close up.  So the explosions occurred closer to the ship.  Yeah, the Abram's Star Trek verse has never been about sound logic with technology and science, which is said, because both of those are the building blocks and foundation of good Star Trek stories, and is the difference between Star Trek and Star Wars.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on December 29, 2016, 11:14:58 AM
The Shallows

This was a pretty intense one. They kept it small and simple. Girl goes to Mexico to surf, **** goes wrong when a shark attacks, now she does her best to survive the ordeal. I can't speak to how realistic it was, or why she would make a certain decision that led to her incident, but the kept it tense and entertaining and that's all I can ask for out this "New Jaws" thriller.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on December 29, 2016, 07:30:41 PM
Tarzan The movie wasn't very fun. Gloomy colors and lots of CGI. BUT I do have a theory. The apes that raised Tarzan are the same vicious apes in the movie Congo. IT ALL MAKES SENSE

Hell or High Water Fantastic, best movie I've seen all year. Every actor is great and the tone and style is pitch perfect. I recognize the world this movie takes place in. Captain Kirk is fantastic. Angel is fantastic. The Dude is fantastic. Oscars all around.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on December 29, 2016, 07:59:07 PM
The Shallows

This was a pretty intense one. They kept it small and simple. Girl goes to Mexico to surf, **** goes wrong when a shark attacks, now she does her best to survive the ordeal. I can't speak to how realistic it was, or why she would make a certain decision that led to her incident, but the kept it tense and entertaining and that's all I can ask for out this "New Jaws" thriller.

You might like Frozen(not the disney movie)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on December 29, 2016, 10:43:04 PM
The Shallows

This was a pretty intense one. They kept it small and simple. Girl goes to Mexico to surf, **** goes wrong when a shark attacks, now she does her best to survive the ordeal. I can't speak to how realistic it was, or why she would make a certain decision that led to her incident, but the kept it tense and entertaining and that's all I can ask for out this "New Jaws" thriller.

You might like Frozen(not the disney movie)

I've seen that one. People stuck on the chair lift at the ski resort during a storm or something. I think they just forgot about them and they got stranded at a high point over night. Details are vague, but I remember liking that one.

I just looked it up on Netflix, and I rated it a 3 star, but just it could have been a 3.5. No way to remember since i didn't write an actual review, and Netflix doesn't let you do half stars.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on December 29, 2016, 10:59:31 PM
I really enjoyed Frozen. Mythbusters even went over it. A lot of fan ideas don't work including my own. I was thinking about Frozen while watching the Shallows. I should make my version of "i'm stuck somewhere and I can't get out" movie.
I've thought about it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on December 29, 2016, 11:08:03 PM
So Rogue One was awesome.

Full Disclosure: I like but don't love Star Wars. That said, I also really liked The Force Awakens. I presume oohhboy stopped reading.

Rogue One isn't perfect. There were too many characters to keep track of yet only Jyn and maybe Cassian have any kind of development. I still don't know Donnie Yen's character's name. There was a lot of telling, not showing which is like Writing 101. For example, Saw Gerrera was supposedly a Rebel extremist, but I didn't get any impression of what was so extreme or radical about his views or methods. Also, Jedha's importance was kind of glossed over. I get the Empire was mining Kyber Crystals. That still doesn't explain its spiritual importance to the Jedi.

The first Darth Vader scene is narratively unnecessary (and I hated his final line about choking on asperations). Director Krennic was shown to be ambitious yet incompetent well before that. However, introducing Vader was absolutely necessary in order to have his second scene because a character can't have any dramatic weight (particularly given what he did) without an introduction. To anyone new to Star Wars, it'd play out like "Who the **** is this guy?" Since Rogue One is meant to stand alone, the filmmakers wisely didn't rely on the audience having seen any other media Vader appeared in. I'm conflicted in that I found Vader to be extraneous, but the payoff was totally worth it as a fan. This is the Vader I wanted from the Prequel Trilogy yet never got. Rogue One is better at being a prequel to A New Hope than any of the prequels.

Anyway, I liked Jyn Erso though I hate that they cut her "I rebel" line. Krennic was an effective villain even if he was an ineffective director of the Death Star's development. CG Tarkin taking Krennic's glory was so good. K-2SO was excellent. I liked that the Death Star's weakness has been such a point of contention for nearly 40 years that Disney made an entire movie to retcon how silly the exhaust port flaw was. "Oh, it was totally put there on purpose." Ehh, I buy it. The explanation worked for me.

Ultimately, Rogue One is a story that didn't really need to be told, but I'm still glad that it was. I'd really like for Disney to remake the Prequel Trilogy. That's probably asking too much though.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on December 30, 2016, 09:33:58 AM
You presume too much.

You missed the details so you didn't pick up the character development. It definitely was shown.

I typed this else where but I will C/P this here.

Cassian's entire character arc was about his struggle with morality. He kills people on orders without questioning them. He shoots assets in the back instead of trying to offer some hope of escape. He kills without considering why or the consequences beyond mission accomplished. He is not a good person and he personifies the dark side of the Rebellion.
 
 Bodhi wanted to defect because he felt guilty for helping to construct the Death Star which gave Galan an opening to turn him so he could deliver his message. He redeems himself when he finds his bravery and is at peace. His cowardliness/instability is born from him not knowing what was going to happen and his desperate search for protection with the only leverage he had. The mental pressures from escaping from something as powerful as the Empire would be immense and I am not surprised some people would breakdown.
 
 Jyn only cared for herself and has trust issues after being abandoned and seeing her mother killed by who she saw was a family friend. Going after Kernnic was personal hence why Cassian had to pull her away at the end. Part of her arc was finding out the sins of her family and deciding to redeem herself and her family. She also finds a cause worth fighting for that is greater than herself that she believes in the face of overwhelming odds instead of running away like she has done all her life.
 
 Churrit and Baze was about their contrasting view point on the Force. Baze lost hope when the temple was destroyed while Churrit maintained his faith and was strengthened by it. They share common bonds of disliking the imperials, their formerly shared faith and just from the inertia of their friendship over the many years they spent together. Their arc was to have them reconcile their differences in faith.
 
 K2SO was there to wise crack and question if they *might* be living beings worthy of rights and respect shown by his act of self sacrifice. Other droids in the SW are treated like garbage, pets, appliances, slaves. He is treated by Cassian as an equal and implicitly trusts him. his arc was to reward Cassian for his treatment.


Note that none of the characters has more skills or has some higher power level as the movie goes on which people commonly mistaken for "Development". Nobody has all the skills. They are better people by making better, different choices. They form new bond and reconnect old ones. They reconcile their differences to work togeather. They fight for something greater than themselves with a common goal and do so on their own volition with their different motivations. This is character development.

The Kyber Crystals is what powers light sabres. Baze, the guy with the machine gun takes one and loads up his backpack for power. The Imperials trash the temple to get them. Churrit the Monk and Baze are keepers/guards with a deep connection with the Jedi and the temple.

Saw is an extremist because he was attacking Imperials without considerations of civilian casualties.When they blow up and ambush the convoy in the middle of town. He also tortures people with the mind monster without provocation. The Rebels don't want to be associated with this so they excommunicate him. I can't tell what was worse about Saw. His dialogue was just terrible. FW is a good actor but why would you direct him to act like that or cast him in such a role. Asshole who can barely breath is a paper thin character. He literally sucks up running time.

Vadar's first scene was unjustified from any angle, it did nothing to introduce him other than have him make a bad pun. People new to Star Wars doesn't need to know who he is, all they need to know this is a bad guy called Vadar who looks different from everyone else and he fucks the Rebels up at speed with no one else has. Vadar in R1 has 3 purposes, 1. Link him to ANH in his pursuit 2. Rehabilitate him from the Prequels 3. Ride in at the last moment to crush the Rebel's moment of Triumph.

The details are there and it took me a couple of days for me to coalesce them with just one viewing. It will come to you eventually unless you speed up the process by reading it up.

One of the best scene for Jyn is when she gives her rousing speech to continue fighting to the Rebel council with her new found idealism and she fails completely, convincing no one new to the fight. It is Cassian the most sinful of all of them to bring in a band of equally sinful people for this idealistic fight for good.People deride Felicity Jones performance pointing to this example, but this is exactly what you expect to happen. She played a normal person with normal abilities with a shitty upbringing.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Evan_B on December 31, 2016, 09:11:21 AM
La La Land

As a former actor and current big dreamer, La La Land was an effective mix of what was then and is now that struck all the right chords in me. A rather interesting subplot in the movie is the fight against evolution and over-emphasis on tradition, so seeing a studio musical that blends classic elements with more grounded, contemporary acting was an impressive mix of old and new. Is the plot overly idyllic? Sure. But there is something simple and clean regarding the music and foolish charm of the characters that allows the audience to connect and enjoy the plot. Its sobering reality in the final moments hits harder that way, as well, and provides another excellent contrast to the happy endings of past musicals.

Is La La Land perfect? I don't think so. I'd love to have a word with the sound editor, because the balance in the group numbers isn't great. I think it's a bit too heavy-handed with its reliance on classics, but that comes with the nature of the material. However, it is ultimately a reminder of the raw talent that was required of actors in those old studio musicals- Emma Stone is no "triple threat" of singer/dancer/actor, although Gosling damn near pulls it off. It's a hopeful reminder of a genre that relied on the strength of its performers rather than that of computer generated imagery, and it's my personal hope that it's a genre we will see more of in the future- not just shlock movie-musicals based on whatever is on Broadway, but original pieces that take advantage of the blend between cinema and musical. Then again, maybe lightning only strikes once, so enjoy La La Land for what it is before the imitators jump on its successful blend. 9/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on December 31, 2016, 12:00:07 PM
Sausage Party .... OMG

This is juvenile sexual innuendo using food THE MOVIE. and I can't fault it for that.
once you accept that his is Rated R for 15 year olds Shock Schlock humor, it's actually quite hilarious.
I fully believe that this was thought up while fucked up on all sorts of ****, and it's only more impressive that they not only got it made, but with big name talent and released in theaters.

I can only imagine the amount of horror that was felt by parents as they attempted to rush their children out of this movie as quickly as possible once they realized that it wasn't actually for children. I imagine it went much like this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5p0gqCIEa8&feature=youtu.be

But all that being said, it got quite uncomfortable towards the end with the severed human head, the anal douching, and then the grand food orgy sex scene. But I still recommend this one for some good ol' stereotyping, racial profiling juvenile sexual innuendo humor in CG animated form.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on December 31, 2016, 06:25:17 PM
I am not  a Serial Killer 8/10 Enjoyable

Ghost Hunt 7.9/10 Also Enjoyable

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Fatty The Hutt on February 01, 2017, 03:51:29 PM
La La Land 9.5/10

What a lovely smooch of a movie. And it is a MOVIE writ large in the old Hollywood tradition of musicals with heart and romance. Yet it's also very modern and has good drama and pathos. It hits the blend just right. It has two real characters and you are invested in them all the way through. There's no cheating for the sake of moving the plot forward, you believe their actions and reactions the whole time.  That's refreshing.
Great camera work, great art direction, lovely dancing, pretty good singing and really lovely songs. I wish there was one or two more songs and I wish one or two more were "belted out" in that musicals way, but the songs were terrific nonetheless.
Definitely worth seeing on a big screen with good sound. My screening seemed pitched a little quieter than I would have liked but maybe that was because we were at a Saturday matinee.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on February 07, 2017, 01:57:32 AM
So Imdb's message boards are closing down. This shall be my IMDB.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on February 07, 2017, 02:33:19 AM
All the more reason to create a movie forum here. Let's try and win over some IMDB refugees!  ;D ;)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on February 07, 2017, 03:57:43 AM
They're closing the forums because over the last 17 years they've been nothing but haters and trolls. Every forum has these 5 topics: This person is the worst actor ever, Happy Birthday,  The celebrity looks like so and so, this movie sucks, This actor looks bad.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on February 07, 2017, 01:41:24 PM
Oh yeah, lot's of topics on there are about how a person hates a movie and can't accept that other people like it and here's why they're wrong. But sometimes there is a worthwhile topic that can explain some questions I had after watching a movie or things I missed. It's just a shame that the good stuff got overshadowed by the worthless.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on February 10, 2017, 12:36:52 AM
I saw he LEGO Batman movie tonight.

I wasn't impressed and lots of the humor fell flat on me.
I also did miss a portion in the middle (4yr old bathroom break), but this certainly was no The LEGO Movie.

the songs weren't very good, and the humor is hit and miss (mostly miss w/ me today, some might hit on a rewatch in a slightly different mood.). But my daughters favorite movies at the moment at Gremlins 1 & 2, and Stripe and the gremlins all make an active appearance in the main fight.. I will need a full rewatch, as I missed a little bit in the 1st 3rd and then a section in the last 1/3, so I'll hold off final judgement.
There was homage to lots of incarnations of the live versions of Batman too. But I'll have to rewatch before I recommend or deter.


edit: I also was kinda off put by the voice actor for The Joker. I was really hoping they'd knock that out the park considering the BS that was Leto Joker, but how on point Gotham Joker was.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on February 12, 2017, 12:38:20 PM
They should have gotten Mark Hamill to do Lego Joker.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on February 12, 2017, 04:48:05 PM
They really should have. I think that would have upped m enjoyment quite a bit. Joker just sounded like a regular guy, no real defining character to his voice and laugh.

Oh, I also saw John Wick 2 the next day, forgot to post about it here.

Movie was pretty badass. John Wick is fucking crazy. If you enjoyed the first, you will like the second for sure. There was a scene involving a pencil that will probably be the haunting talk of the movie, as the whole scene was pretty crazy.

Also pretty sure there will be a John Wick 3 at some point.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on February 13, 2017, 10:19:30 AM
Isn't the Joker voice Zack Galifianakis? I feel like he'd be a better Riddler than Joker.  Or maybe Toyman.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on February 22, 2017, 03:00:36 PM
So last weekend i binged super hard (making full use of my cinema pass) and watched, over three days:

Hidden Figures
John Wick 2
Moonlight
Fences
The Great Wall

Hidden Figures, Moonlight and Fences all came out here last week. I realise the USA got them much earlier. All three, especially Moonlight, are fantastic films. Janelle Monae was in 2 of them, and she is just a delight (and so is her albums!).

Fences is 2 hours of Denzel and Viola Davis (two of the best actors on screen) absolutely tear it UP! Either one of them can act anyone else off the screen with no effort, but those two are just a force to be reckoned with.

John Wick was a great follow up with a unique twist on its own little universe. I'd have preferred it to be a little shorter, particularly the fight scenes, but it was a great world to jump back into. The scene BNM talks of is... something.

The Great Wall bore a lot of criticism for casting Matt Damon into what appeared to be a "white man saves another culture" like storyline, but in reality it didn't do that. His character stumbles into the events of the story by accident, and is told by other chinese characters that "they work because we trust each other". They even take this even further in the final battle by making him miss the shot, twice, to end the battle, and the chinese general has to do it herself.

But given the three "black movies" i watched over the same weekend, this was a good palate cleanser to turn my brain off to.

I'm coming up to the end of my 12 month period, but Arrival and Moonlight are my 2 favourite movies by a mile.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on February 24, 2017, 12:14:27 AM
Saw three movies today:

Fist Fight:

This movie was pretty damn good.  Charlie Day is a terrific comedic actor and Ice Cube was a fantastic antagonist.  The supporting cast fell a little flat for me though.  For instance, Jillian Bell (Workaholics) kinda stuck to her usual comedic range, which is beginning to feel pretty stale.  And there wasn't much for Tracy Morgan to do other than support Charlie Day's character.  I see this getting a lot of negative reviews, and I don't get why.  It does try to stick to its message,  but it ends up with Charlie Day having a pretty solid character arc, I suppose.  I thought the plot was solid.  A lot happens to the characters, within the short day.  Humor surrounding the students (it's senior prank day) was juvenile, but enjoyable.  Also, not sure why they didn't just call the movie "Teacher Fight" because that's what they keep saying in the film itself.

8.5/10

John Wick 2:

Holy **** was this movie great.  Keanu's acting is meh, but the other characters do a good-enough job of acting around him.  However, I have a thing for action heros who only speak in one-liners, and this one delivers hard.  John Wick seems almost always confused or just reciting codewords, which feels about right.  The action though is great and plentiful.  I enjoyed watching him do some prep and seeing the prep pay off later.  Some action scenes are a bit long (especially one you can see coming from a mile away), but it didn't feel like it dragged the movie much.  One last note: This movie seems to pick right up from the last movie and dovetails into another sequel like the trilogy could just be one long movie.  Hope the 3rd one will be as good.

9.5/10

The Lego Batman Movie:

I went into this movie with some high expectations.  I really liked The Lego Movie and felt the humor really jived with me.  This one, not so much.  It was pretty funny, but maybe my palate wasn't quite cleansed from the last 2 films.  Either way, I loved the callbacks to earlier Batman movies and much of the cameos from other properties.  That part of the movie made it feel really "Lego".  I was mostly "meh" on the plot, especially the ending, but maybe I'll feel better about it accepting as just another interpretation of the character.  Supporting cast is great but limited in value and screen time.  The music is also okay.

7/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on February 24, 2017, 11:14:15 PM
Saw more movies today.

Hidden Figures:

Janelle Monae's acting was way better than expected.  The acting was top-notch from everyone, in fact.  The Pharrell soundtrack was good, but felt under-utilized.  There are a lot of feel-good moments, which was to be expected.  Story is really great overall, but some scenes felt scattered or rushed.  They were mostly the ones outside of NASA, reflecting the characters' personal lives.  I wish that would've been touched on more.

8.5/10

La La Land:

OMG.  What the hell were people even watching with this movie?  I feel like I went to the wrong film.  The movie basically abandons its own premise of being a musical.  It then turns into a shallow, uninteresting love story spread out between long, jazz interludes.  The jazz music is great.  The John Legend song is also great.  The story was garbage.  The "musical" numbers also sucked, especially the opening number where there's a guy inexplicably doing half-hearted parkour over cars while everyone else is posing on top of the cars.  There was only one scene where there was any conflict whatsoever.  To top it off, the ending just was nonsensical.  I can't believe this is gonna win the Oscar.  Ugh.

5/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on February 25, 2017, 01:04:23 PM
La La Land:

OMG.  What the hell were people even watching with this movie?  I feel like I went to the wrong film.  The movie basically abandons its own premise of being a musical.  It then turns into a shallow, uninteresting love story spread out between long, jazz interludes.  The jazz music is great.  The John Legend song is also great.  The story was garbage.  The "musical" numbers also sucked, especially the opening number where there's a guy inexplicably doing half-hearted parkour over cars while everyone else is posing on top of the cars.  There was only one scene where there was any conflict whatsoever.  To top it off, the ending just was nonsensical.  I can't believe this is gonna win the Oscar.  Ugh.

5/10


You basically summed up what I got from the trailers and previews I saw, and until your review I was actually considering watching it due to the universal praise it seemed to be getting. You have reentered my lack of a desire to not see the film. My wife and I will probably go see Hidden Figures instead on our next date night to the dollar theater.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on February 25, 2017, 03:52:58 PM
You're welcome.  You're going to have a much better experience with Hidden Figures.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on February 25, 2017, 05:06:40 PM
Hidden Figures and Fences, 2 movies on my Must Watch soon list.

Fist Fight and Get Out, 2 movies on my want to watch even sooner list
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on February 25, 2017, 10:42:19 PM
You might want to expedite the former two, as they have less time to still be in theatres, assuming that's how you want to watch them.

Saw another movie tonight.


Moonlight:

This movie is squarely split into three acts centering around the childhood, adolescence, and adulthood of a black, gay man.  Each act kind of tells its own story with the general themes overarching between the three.  This movie is very, very good.  It's great seeing another modern portrayal of the black experience, especially from a side of it that's even more marginalized.  It's well acted, thanks to the strong supporting cast.  Even the kids actors work well.  The main character is very quiet and shy, so often it feels like people acting around him, but the supporting cast is strong enough to do that.  The ending left me wanting to see more of the story.  And there's obvious gaps where the story jumps in time that I would've loved to see filled.  All in all, this movie feels like a genuine experience.

9.5/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on February 25, 2017, 11:28:09 PM
You might want to expedite the former two, as they have less time to still be in theatres, assuming that's how you want to watch them.

Drama's I prefer to watch at home. So I'll wait till it's available at home to do that.
but Moonlight is another one I'd heard good things about. not sure if I'll ever watch it though.
Title: Get Out and watch Get Out, NOW
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on February 26, 2017, 10:31:37 PM
Get Out - HOLY Black Man Batman

This was Black Horror done right. Jordan Peele gets praise from me for his first directorial debut that he also happened to write and Produce. You've all seen the previews and you all expect a twist, but the twist wasn't what I thought it was gonna be, it was much more twisted than that!. And just in case any one is wondering, Yes, there is a hidden message out there for black men... and I guess black women too, but I feel like he was speaking directly to us black men with the not so hidden message of this movie.
All I can say is that the theater was APPLAUDING, not once, not twice, but several times in the fucking movie. They were fucking APPLAUDING!! It was amazing.

It's a very psychological horror, but does also have some traditional horror elements to it. And No, the trailer didn't ruin ****. You have no idea what's happening, even if you think you do (well, at least I didn't) but I assume you'll be able to piece things together just fine as it's being revealed (some in the audience didn't quite put all the pieces together before it was spelled out for them).

The movie has humor, keeps you in the edge of your seat and makes you think. It's like a Horror/Comedy/Thiller.
But I don't want to spoil anything, just go see the movie, even if you don't like horror movies. It's actually that good of a movie. If you don't want to believe me, check the tomato meter -136 Reviews @ 100% Fresh  (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/get_out (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/get_out)).

My Toasted Review: Full Price / in theater / asap
and once you've seen it, you may want to go watch it again, for reasons that will become obvious after you've seen it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on February 27, 2017, 04:20:19 AM
The UK release date is March 17. I gotta wait a while :(
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on March 02, 2017, 10:02:38 PM
Logan - 9.5/10
Not going to get too into it right now because I'm in line for a Switch, but holy **** that movie was great. By far the best X-Men franchise movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on March 04, 2017, 09:53:23 AM
John Wick 2 10/10

A true herald of the return ultra violence cinema that John Wick(Along with others like Dredd) was this is hitting 88 miles an hour.

The cold open is a great synopsis of what happened during the first film(Fucking watch this already!) and a treat unto itself for fans.

The violence is always a treat and never ever looks like a dance and massive bonus points for Keanu for doing his own fights as he rips through everyone in his way. The desperation and danger is real/ John is extremely skilful but at no time do you think he is invincible, he hurts, gets tired, and as they say John is a man of focus, commitment, sheer will.

I music seemingly took a step down, but that is mostly due to the fact you are just mesmerised by what's happening on the screen to care. I am sure with multiple viewings it would sink in just like the first.

It's clever, has excellent pacing just slowing down long enough to setup the next challenge. It expands the world we mostly caught glimpses of. The dialogue is sharp and John never minces his words. The call backs are great without being too on the nose with some good comedy to round the movie a little.

Visually it is stunning as ever with "Impossible shots", long cuts, great blocking. The director knew what he wanted, what we wanted and he got it.

A little titbit of trivia, the Cantonese name for John Wick 2 can be translated to Killing God(s), (The) God of killing or Skilled Killer.

Go Fucking watch this while it is still in cinemas but because whole **** you will get your monies worth of entertainment and then some. **** the Oscar bait and watch this instead.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on March 10, 2017, 08:13:51 AM
Honestly has no one else seen Logan yet? It's probably actually the best superhero movie I've ever seen. Oscar-worthy performance by Hugh Jackman.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on March 10, 2017, 10:20:09 AM
Honestly has no one else seen Logan yet? It's probably actually the best superhero movie I've ever seen. Oscar-worthy performance by Hugh Jackman.
No, because **** superhero movies. I really don't care how good it is as it is just another Wolverine movie as far as I am concerned. There has been one or two standouts that are way off the reservation(Deadpool). But otherwise they are as stale as month old, partly dissicated hamburger.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on March 10, 2017, 11:41:26 AM
Logan > Deadpool. It's so far removed from other superhero movies.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on March 10, 2017, 07:56:06 PM
And they got Patrick Stewart back to reprise his role with destiny. I'm trying to talk my wife into going because I think I want to see it sooner rather than later.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 11, 2017, 04:20:48 AM
Logan > Deadpool. It's so far removed from other superhero movies.

in overall quality, I must agree.
But Deadpool was so much fun, that it's a HUGE compliment that Logan was probably the better movie. I'm glad Fox FINALLY got their game together and put together (even if through no fault of their own) 2 really good comic/superhero movies, that both happen to be rated R.

I hope Deadpool 2 can keep the bar raised high, and hopefully the X-Men movies are dead for a while, and X-Force and New Mutants takes it's place instead.

I really think the best thing about Logan is how far removed it is from ALL the rest of the X-Men movies. and the fact that Laura is a fucking savage!! I loved X-23, hope we see more of her.... is that what New Mutants is about?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on March 13, 2017, 06:41:44 AM
Arrival

It's really hard to have a satisfying ending to a thriller, especially a sci-fi thriller, and Arrival wasn't up to the task. The premise is rock-solid, the acting was thoroughly enjoyable, and the tension was palpable. The resolution was my only gripe and not because it didn't make sense, but because it was dumb from a story standpoint. You have this anxiety building up, fears are mounting, and then the climax is shown to be resolved before it is actually resolved. Who thought that was a good idea? It's a really stupid decision that deflates the last 20 minutes entirely. It's a cool idea but it doesn't work narratively, or at least wasn't directed well enough to keep the suspense intact. That's really my only problem with the film.

It's pretty cool how they filmed at two main locations almost entirely.

It's still a decent movie and anyone who is a fan of sci-fi will be engaged throughout the first two acts.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on March 13, 2017, 05:49:11 PM
King Kong Skull Island 8/10
The most R rated popcorn flick version of King Kong even if it's PG 13. It was pretty fun. I watched it at a cool theater that served me fish and chips and beer. Less beauty in the beast ****, more kaiju action.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 13, 2017, 07:07:59 PM
::snip::

now hurry up and go watch Get Out!!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: lolmonade on March 14, 2017, 02:27:16 PM
I know it was already brought up, but Logan, holy ****.  Awesome movie that just so happens to be about comic book characters.  It was also really gut wrenching, especially if you know anything about the character's experiences throughout the series of movies.

This is coming from someone who thinks the comic book movies have gotten kind of stale, especially with the prevalence of the MCU.  My wife has gotten tired of these kinds of movies, and LOVED it as well.  Good characterization, good acting, meaningful stakes and outcomes. 

I also think the comparison to Deadpool is like trying to rate John Wick against Anchorman, apples & oranges.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on March 14, 2017, 03:27:54 PM
It's kinda like a Nicholas Cage movie, but with Hugh Jackman instead.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 14, 2017, 07:58:21 PM
I know it was already brought up, but Logan, holy ****.  Awesome movie

I also think the comparison to Deadpool is like trying to rate John Wick against Anchorman, apples & oranges.

I think if Fox can continue to carve that niche of the adult R comic movie, while Marvel continues down the Family Friendly all audiences route, we will be getting all we want from Comic movies in the near future. at least from the Marvel Comics side of things (please give back F4...)

I'm not sure where that leaves DC, but I'm hoping WW puts them back on the right track.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on March 14, 2017, 09:07:21 PM
ThePerm - I haven't seen Kong Skull Island yet (tomorrow or Sunday), but I hope you stayed for the post-credits scene.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 15, 2017, 04:03:13 AM
ah, ****. there was a post credit scene!!

****.

I just got home from the movie. guess I'll have to look it up online somewhere.


movie was intense as **** though.
I'm 3 for 3 at the theater so far this year.


Get Out = 6 out of 5 stars - for smart ass thriller with more layers than an onion. True thrills and thoughts that chill.
Logan = 4.5 out of 5 stars - for that Wolverine action we've wanted since he hit the big screen, and wrapped in a movie that was more than just comic fodder. Best X-Man movie yet.
Kong Skull Island = 4 out of 5 stars - pure action, and everything else you could possibly want in an giant Monster Movie. Don't over analyze it, just sit back and enjoy the unadulterated brutality of this uncharted movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on March 15, 2017, 04:48:58 AM
ThePerm - I haven't seen Kong Skull Island yet (tomorrow or Sunday), but I hope you stayed for the post-credits scene.

Yeah, I waited for the post credit scene. I was most excited about the possibility of Mothra

I liked King Kong a whole lot better than Godzilla 2014. Godzilla 2014 wasn't bad. Actually, this series is shaping up to be pretty good.When I was in first and second grade I used to watch Godzilla movies a lot.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 15, 2017, 04:53:18 AM
i just saw the post credits. - thank internet

I look forward to the MonsterVerse if it's more like Kong going forward and little less like Godzilla.
I'm hoping they mix well.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on March 15, 2017, 11:57:42 PM
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (the original) 8.9/10
Wow, this was better than I had expected. I expected it to be extra corny, campy and stupid. But here is the thing: It was actually a lot smarter than many other horror movies. The characters don't make a lot of stupid cliché decisions. They're just pretty fucked when they get in the situations. Which is nice.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: lolmonade on March 16, 2017, 09:07:11 AM
I know it was already brought up, but Logan, holy ****.  Awesome movie

I also think the comparison to Deadpool is like trying to rate John Wick against Anchorman, apples & oranges.

I think if Fox can continue to carve that niche of the adult R comic movie, while Marvel continues down the Family Friendly all audiences route, we will be getting all we want from Comic movies in the near future. at least from the Marvel Comics side of things (please give back F4...)

I'm not sure where that leaves DC, but I'm hoping WW puts them back on the right track.


I think the Xmen series as a whole have been very up-and-down in quality, X1, X2, Days of Future Past being Stand-outs in quality.  I didn't bother with the Wolverine stand-alone movies besides Logan, and only saw Logan because it really brought the story down to a micro level, whereas the other movies are always seemingly about world or universe-level threats. 


I think the R rating was important for Logan & Deadpool.  That said, Marvel's lesson from this shouldn't be "make R rated movies", instead that not every movie of theirs involving a superhero needs to have a world ending threat.  Some of my favorite parts of Marvel movies have been when they've boiled it down to a very personal level (Thor being stranded on Earth, Steve Rogers before he actually starts fighting in the war in the first Captain America Movie).  It's fine if Marvel is focused on going bigger and bigger, but it means I'll be checking-out sooner than later on them.  It's gotten to a point where I'm lukewarm about the next Avengers movie because they're building up to a ridiculous amount of people on-screen that I think will be impossible to accomplish without ruining any possibility for good storytelling.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on March 16, 2017, 01:22:56 PM
Get Out - 10/10

My word.  This movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 16, 2017, 08:23:59 PM
Get Out - 10/10

My word.  This movie.

My man. I've been trying to spread the word. people just don't know.
tell me that you immediately didn't go back and rethink the whole move in the end.

in a future post, there will be lots of black bars. Gonna have to warn people to Get Out just to avoid  all the spoilers
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on March 17, 2017, 12:08:11 PM
Kong was rad af.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 17, 2017, 06:58:39 PM
Kong was rad af.

3 Months into 2017, and we already have 4 good movies worth recommending.

#1 - Get Out
#2 - Logan
#3 - John Wick 2
#4 - Kong: Skull Island

and wonder what's upcoming that that will likely be recommended this this forum outside of the usual comic blockbuster movies....


edit: Can't believe I already forgot about JW2. It's been a good and entertaining movie year so far, and we're only half way through March.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on March 17, 2017, 07:12:08 PM
Well, I WANTED to go see Logan with my wife, but she was all into seeing Skull Island. In the end I would be happy to see either one (or both!) but Nooooo!


Beauty and the Beast comes out this weekend and we. Have. To. Go. See it. Not that I am not excited to see this film as the animated version was one of my favorite Disney flicks, but I am more excited for Logan and Skull Island than the live version.


Gaston just feels off to me, though Emma Watson seems perfect for the part of Belle.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 17, 2017, 08:25:06 PM
I'm watching B&tB tonight. so I may have impressions at some point.

it better be good though, and not ruin my streak. although this one doesn't really count, as it's not on my watch list. it's for my daughter.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on March 17, 2017, 10:33:34 PM
I don't think it will be bad. It is at risk of being just decent. Depends on the execution.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 18, 2017, 02:45:59 AM
Welp, Disney has done it again...

I don't remember how much Jungle Book made, but I willing to go out on a limb and say this movie will do even better. For one, the lines were RIDICULOUS. 1 hour + before the movie started there were lines... long lines. But this was easily the best Princess Livemake (new word... it's a work in progress) so far.

I like The Jungle Book better as far as an entire movie goes (I'm not really into the princesses... but to each their own), but it (JB) gets minus points for the songs being not so hot... BatB was entertaining, humorous, and even had good music that matched what I remembered from the original movie.

this is a great date or take the kids out movie. You're girl will want to see it, that girl you are trying to ask out will probably want to see it, and your little girls will definitely want to see it. So one way or another, you'll probably end up watching this, and he best part about it is you likely will enjoy it, even if you weren't expecting to.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on March 18, 2017, 03:51:37 AM
How was Gaston? He is one of my favorite villains and I felt his voice was a bit weak in the trailers.


Nice to know it will be worth seeing tomorrow, but I still need to see Kong and Logan. Anyone need a movie buddy? Doubt my wife will be keen on seeing all of them.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on March 18, 2017, 09:48:45 AM
Get Out was released yesterday. It's deeply deeply unsettling (although i can relate to lots of it!) but is a fantastic movie. I don't even know where to start with it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 18, 2017, 11:00:47 AM
we can start with how *Get Out Spoilers*the reveal... the twist, changed how you looked at EVERYTHING that happened in the movie, right from the start.

like the first :mind blown: example - when they got pulled over and she "stuck up for her man" against the cop. But did she really!? or was she just trying to make sure that there was no record of her "black offering" on the local police radar, once a "missing persons" report is filed.

and how Mr TSA was the movie's representation of the audience, in saying everything we wanted to say to the character in the movie in the moment of the movie. It was such a relief character.

and then there's the party and the "help"....
but I don't got time to get into that right now. such a fantastic movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on March 19, 2017, 05:46:32 AM
The party scene was super unsettling for me because i had something like it recently. I'm pretty sure BNM and Stogi probably had similar experiences.

I can say this without spoilers, this is my 10th year with my movie pass and this is the first time ever that people in the audience actually screamed at the characters "no dont do that!" "just drive away!" "don't trust the bitch!" and even applauded three times at the end.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on March 19, 2017, 07:59:01 AM
John Wick 2 - really good/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on March 19, 2017, 11:04:53 PM
The Demon's Rook 7.5/10  A weird independent film about demons. The funny thing about it is if you watched, or are currently watching Iron Fist you should watch this one. Not the same, but a similar plotline which is interesting. A kid travels to a dimension filled with Demons and appears many years later as an adult alien to the normal world. He has interesting new powers. Also, watch if you're a fan of 80s movies.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on March 19, 2017, 11:15:29 PM
Get Out - 10/10

My word.  This movie.

My man. I've been trying to spread the word. people just don't know.
tell me that you immediately didn't go back and rethink the whole move in the end.

Dude, this was one of the few times I've sat in the theatre thinking as the credits rolled.  Called my girl the next day so we could talk about it.



we can start with how *Get Out Spoilers*the reveal... the twist, changed how you looked at EVERYTHING that happened in the movie, right from the start.


like the first :mind blown: example - when they got pulled over and she "stuck up for her man" against the cop. But did she really!? or was she just trying to make sure that there was no record of her "black offering" on the local police radar, once a "missing persons" report is filed.


and how Mr TSA was the movie's representation of the audience, in saying everything we wanted to say to the character in the movie in the moment of the movie. It was such a relief character.


and then there's the party and the "help"....
but I don't got time to get into that right now. such a fantastic movie.


DUDE!


When I realized the bingo scene was a fucking auction!  At first, I was like, WTF are they doing??  And the scene when he runs up stairs and everyone immediately stops what they're doing and looks up at the ceiling, the girl goes after him and doesn't mention how weird everyone's acting.  She had to have seen that ****.  Then he's going into that little closet while trying to leave, and I'm yelling "DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME GOING THROUGH ****, LEAVE!!"  But that's when you realize she's in on it!  Holy ****.  There are so many damn layers to it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on March 19, 2017, 11:36:19 PM
Logan - 7.5/10

I liked this movie.  But it didn't wow me.  It got such good reviews, so maybe my expectations were too high.  I know the movie was going for the R rating, but the language just seemed gratuitous.  Like, they just kept throwing out F-bombs for no reason.  I also didn't like the ending and there were a few details I wish we had gotten more information on.  Other than that, it's a good movie.  The cast of recognizable characters is kept to a minimum to keep anyone from getting underutilized or ruined, which I appreciated.  The story was also really good.  I'm really sad to see that Fox finally learned to make a good X-Men movie all too late.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 20, 2017, 01:07:57 AM
Get Out - 10/10

My word.  This movie.

My man. I've been trying to spread the word. people just don't know.
tell me that you immediately didn't go back and rethink the whole move in the end.

Dude, this was one of the few times I've sat in the theatre thinking as the credits rolled.  Called my girl the next day so we could talk about it.



we can start with how *Get Out Spoilers*the reveal... the twist, changed how you looked at EVERYTHING that happened in the movie, right from the start.


like the first :mind blown: example - when they got pulled over and she "stuck up for her man" against the cop. But did she really!? or was she just trying to make sure that there was no record of her "black offering" on the local police radar, once a "missing persons" report is filed.


and how Mr TSA was the movie's representation of the audience, in saying everything we wanted to say to the character in the movie in the moment of the movie. It was such a relief character.


and then there's the party and the "help"....
but I don't got time to get into that right now. such a fantastic movie.


DUDE!


When I realized the bingo scene was a fucking auction!  At first, I was like, WTF are they doing??  And the scene when he runs up stairs and everyone immediately stops what they're doing and looks up at the ceiling, the girl goes after him and doesn't mention how weird everyone's acting.  She had to have seen that ****.  Then he's going into that little closet while trying to leave, and I'm yelling "DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME GOING THROUGH ****, LEAVE!!"  But that's when you realize she's in on it!  Holy ****.  There are so many damn layers to it.

well, let's talk about the Party scene like how it starts after the awkward conversation with the grounds keeper, who is then seen greeting all the guest like long time friends.....
During the tour the dad said he always kept a bit of his mother in the kitchen, and who's standing int he kitchen!? The House Keeper (aka his MOM) which also means the grounds keeper was (his Dad).
All the awkward ass conversations like "so how would you say your experience as a Black Man was...?" from the Asian man
and the heart to heart w/ Jimmy James (from News Radio)
and the moment you realize that the brotha w/ the white lady was actually that black dude from the intro to the movie that went missing!!!

ANd the GF feeling her man needed a break from the party was all part of the ruse, so she could get him away for a bit so they could bingo/auction his body to the highest bidder.


some of the details are a little foggy right now (I need to rewatch this one)
but there is just soooo much to talk about on this one. insights I probably haven't caught, that someone else probably picked up on.

I really hope this one sticks in the theater for a while and gets remembered around award season time.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on March 20, 2017, 11:50:09 AM
Get Out - 10/10

My word.  This movie.

My man. I've been trying to spread the word. people just don't know.
tell me that you immediately didn't go back and rethink the whole move in the end.

Dude, this was one of the few times I've sat in the theatre thinking as the credits rolled.  Called my girl the next day so we could talk about it.



we can start with how *Get Out Spoilers*the reveal... the twist, changed how you looked at EVERYTHING that happened in the movie, right from the start.


like the first :mind blown: example - when they got pulled over and she "stuck up for her man" against the cop. But did she really!? or was she just trying to make sure that there was no record of her "black offering" on the local police radar, once a "missing persons" report is filed.


and how Mr TSA was the movie's representation of the audience, in saying everything we wanted to say to the character in the movie in the moment of the movie. It was such a relief character.


and then there's the party and the "help"....
but I don't got time to get into that right now. such a fantastic movie.


DUDE!


When I realized the bingo scene was a fucking auction!  At first, I was like, WTF are they doing??  And the scene when he runs up stairs and everyone immediately stops what they're doing and looks up at the ceiling, the girl goes after him and doesn't mention how weird everyone's acting.  She had to have seen that ****.  Then he's going into that little closet while trying to leave, and I'm yelling "DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME GOING THROUGH ****, LEAVE!!"  But that's when you realize she's in on it!  Holy ****.  There are so many damn layers to it.

well, let's talk about the Party scene like how it starts after the awkward conversation with the grounds keeper, who is then seen greeting all the guest like long time friends.....
During the tour the dad said he always kept a bit of his mother in the kitchen, and who's standing int he kitchen!? The House Keeper (aka his MOM) which also means the grounds keeper was (his Dad).
All the awkward ass conversations like "so how would you say your experience as a Black Man was...?" from the Asian man
and the heart to heart w/ Jimmy James (from News Radio)
and the moment you realize that the brotha w/ the white lady was actually that black dude from the intro to the movie that went missing!!!

ANd the GF feeling her man needed a break from the party was all part of the ruse, so she could get him away for a bit so they could bingo/auction his body to the highest bidder.


some of the details are a little foggy right now (I need to rewatch this one)
but there is just soooo much to talk about on this one. insights I probably haven't caught, that someone else probably picked up on.

I really hope this one sticks in the theater for a while and gets remembered around award season time.


Same.  I definitely need a second viewing.  This movie deserves a few nominations, and the screenplay needs that trophy.

Speaking of the "black experience" question, when he tries to pass the question and the guy can barely answer it! 

Speaking of the groundskeeper, the way he talked about the girl makes way more sense as a grandfather talking about his granddaughter.  You also hear about his "claim to fame" in losing the Olympic trials, and see the groundskeeper running in full track form that night.

Then, Geraldine couldn't identify black slang.  And that whole part at the end of that discussion was the real her trying to get out of the sunken place.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on March 23, 2017, 08:33:58 PM
Get Out 8.5/10  I have to say reading your comments.....you guys don't watch horror movies do you? Of course she's in on it! She's the archetypal Siren. The only thing unpredictable about this movie was the good guy came out on top. I'm used to seeing these movies not end well. I liked the hypnotism thing, that was a fairly new angle. I thought they were just going to drug him.

If I were to put this movie on my shelf it would be placed next to Texas Chainsaw, The Hills have Eyes, and Willy Wonka.

This innovated in a couple ways though. First, a lot of these movies tend to have a larger cast. Rarely do they focus on the "final girl" Usually there is 2-3 guys and 2-3girls. In a regular movie they would be slowly wiped out until there is only 1 or 2.  This one was different. There were previous victims, but not at the same time.

In the indie games section we were talking about playing so many games that enjoyable game like Guacamelee wouldn't be as enjoyable. I have that problem with horror movies. At least I'm self aware.

Also, recently I was watching the Strangers and I was thinking to myself "I just want a character in one of these movies to be totally aware of the situation and take care of business." I had envisioned an idea where a movie like the strangers happened, but there's a guy sleeping in the basement and wakes up and realizes what's going on and then kicks everyones ass like a badass. This kinda had that. The friend character would have never got in the situation in the first place. He's the guy who would be the only one aware a zombie apocalypse is happening in a zombie movie. Though I was surprised he got to the house alone. I would have skipped the police and rounded up some of my buddies. I liked that Chris beat everyone's ass. I was hoping he'd punch the art dealers exposed brain though.

I think it was unavoidable for Chris to get hypnotized. I would have covered my ears sooner.  I was thinking when he was packing "He need to cover his ears now!"   I recently watched Texas Chainsaw Massacre this week (i had seen the remake) and one of the things that I liked about it was there were a lot of instances where events were unavoidable. In a lot of these movies there's some contrivance to move the plot forward. In here though he had placed his trust in the wrong place and was conned.

Though, I feel robbed I didn't have the realization that the girl was in on it. I knew she was in on it from the start. So, when I was watching it I was like "is she just saying the most liberal PC possible to gain his trust?"

Another way it was  different was the family was not flamboyantly crazy. There are two types of psychos in movies: The ones that are obviously psychos,  and the ones who keep it hidden. I don't think there's been a movie where "the family" on the surface are normal. I've seen movies where an individual serial killer was  outwardly normal, but not the whole family.

I need to re-watch it though, because I'm a little confused how the transfer consciousness from parasite person to host. That part makes the least sense. So both personalities are there? Maybe we can just attribute that to turn your rational brain off movie trickery.
 


If you liked Get Out then you should check out After.Life, 1001  Maniacs, and Barrio Tales.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 24, 2017, 01:08:25 AM
I think part of your problem, outside of probably having read a few spoilers before hand, was going in thinking "this is a horror movie" instead of "damn this is a real life situation, and what would it be like to be a black man in this very situation" which for someone like me (a black man), is a very real situation to be in.

The beauty of this movie, is that placing yourself in the main characters shoes, as if this is your life, you would probably have been stuck in the exact same situation he was, when he was, and how he was.

as far as how the consciousness worked. For one, he was hypnotized before he even realized he was being hypnotized. Once he had fallen to the sunken place, he was already ripe for transfer as all that was required was to be able to take the dominant consciousness and place it in to the back of the mind, or the subconscious. basically making you a passenger in your own head while the new transplanted brain/consciousness is placed in the dominant position. The reason for keeping the old consciousness is that the brain is very complex and having a subconscious that is already attached to the body allows the new consciousness to just drive, and not have to relearn how to walk or talk.

as far as the family goes, no one goes into a situation and thinks, this is a horror movie, I should just murder my new girlfriends family.... that would be crazy. don't go into this movie thinking it's a horror movie. It is a "keepin it real" thriller. The family interactions were awkward as they were kinda try hard in some instances to make him "feel comfortable". In a real life situation, you would probably recognize the awkwardness and try to brush it off, and keep taking note of repeated awkwardness before you finally had to let your girl know that this **** was just too awkward for you, which is basically what happened.

But at the same time, I don't expect everyone to relate. It really was a Black Horror, which was most emphasized by the scariest moment in the film when the cop car shows up at the end with lights flashing, and the ENTIRE audience in the theater gasped thinking that after all this bullshit he just went though, he was either about to get shot and killed on site, or arrested and found guilty for everything that went down at that house while they all think he's just some crazy *****. luckily that wasn't what happened, but it was honestly the scariest moment of the whole dame movie
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on March 24, 2017, 05:39:32 AM
I didn't read any spoilers, but the original trailer shows the entire movie. I wrote a big thing about the movie, but towards the end of writing it I went and watched the original trailer from October, and it's just a condensed version of the movie.

As a horror geek I could probably talk about this movie for hours though.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on March 24, 2017, 09:40:33 AM
I actually don't watch too many horror movies.  I honestly don't like being scared and I especially hate jump scares in movies.  I saw this one because of the reviews.

To BnM's point, I think I liked this movie better because of relatable it is.  The fact that it's good horror only helps the situation.  If I had known the of the siren trope, I probably also would've seen it coming.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 24, 2017, 09:59:03 PM
well, I watch tons of Horror movies, and even though most of them are forgettable, Get Out is the best one i've seen in probably ever. Especially for how relateable it is. I could have guess the GF twist... hell, we discussed it during the movie, but it was so well acted, that I didn't want to believe it to be true. I wanted to believe that she was hypnotized, I didn't want to believe that she wasn't standing up for him like good girlfriend that won MAJOR points with me by standing up to that cop, I wanted to believe that she was actually really that damn attractive to a black man and really had no idea her family was crazy. but then she revealed her self, and I was like "Aww Hell Nooo!!! She was in on it from the beginning!!!" and that's what makes you go back and reevaluate the entire movie from the get-go.

Those other movies you suggested aren't even the on the same level as this one.
But then again, I wasn't trying to analytically breakdown the movie while watching it. I was experiencing it for what it was in the moment. And in the moment, it was the best Horror/Thriller to come out in a very long time in my eyes.


But then again, this was a sorta personal movie to me in the way I can relate to it.
I don't expect everyone to share that same sentiment.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on March 25, 2017, 05:02:15 PM
Saw Power Rangers last night with one of those free tickets they were dumping online a few nights back and...surprisingly, I quite enjoyed it. Half-decent writing & solid character building. I actually didn't mind that there's only maybe 20 or so minutes of actual Power Rangers in this movie. But...Krispy Kreme...oh god...the Krispy Kreme... -_-
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 25, 2017, 05:11:41 PM
I watched it too, Thursday nite. I missed out on the free tickets, but I got 2 tix for $7, and that's practically free.

and I actually kinda enjoyed it too. first 2/3 really reminded me of Chronicle.
No actual PR **** til about the final 1/5 of the movie though

and for those that do watch it, don't rush out the theater. there is a mid-credits tease Tommy the Green Ranger.

also since this seems to be getting a decent opening weekend, Saban has a 6 movie arc planned for this. So get ready for sequels!!!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on March 26, 2017, 03:42:40 PM
Saw Power Rangers last night with one of those free tickets they were dumping online a few nights back and...surprisingly, I quite enjoyed it. Half-decent writing & solid character building. I actually didn't mind that there's only maybe 20 or so minutes of actual Power Rangers in this movie. But...Krispy Kreme...oh god...the Krispy Kreme... -_-

That scene made me instantly think of Man of Steel and IHOP and how blatantly WE PAID MONEYS!!!! it was.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Evan_B on March 26, 2017, 08:24:26 PM
Get Out was the worst movie I've never seen.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on March 26, 2017, 09:23:13 PM
I watched Chips last night. It was funny, a little gross at time, but funny. The characters felt a little off, but Dax Shepard wrote, directed, and starred, so something has to suffer. Perhaps if it had better editing. It felt like a lot of stuff was cut. The film has a large amount of characters to deal with and they don't get enough time to develop.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on March 26, 2017, 10:42:49 PM
I also saw Power Rangers (rare opening weekend viewing for me).  I liked it.  Solid 7/10.  Better than I was expecting.  I just didn't like the constant therapy sessions.  I get it, teenagers have issues.  I just didn't care too much for their personal problems.  I liked the things they added to the cannon.  Playing up the alien origins was cool.  The midcredit scene shows the plans for the sequel.  And I can easily see how they can build a three movie arc based on the original series, but six is a lot.

Get Out was the worst movie I've never seen.

This was the worst post I've ever seen.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on March 28, 2017, 10:13:45 PM
Beauty and the Beast - 9/10

I honestly can't believe I'm saying that, or would have before seeing it, but holy crap, it was excellent. Maybe it's a bit of nostalgia kicking in, but they really nailed it, as far as converting the animated movie into live action - and actually improved a bit upon the story. There were several moments where my allergies started acting up...
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on April 25, 2017, 08:38:43 AM
Ghost in the Shell.

This is a patch work of the best of Ghost in the Shell scenes.

The problem is that they don't copy them close enough. Instead of ripping them wholesale or be homages they try to do their own thing but they can't measure up to the original scenes for a variety of reasons.

They copy and twist the scenes without understanding why they worked in the first place. A lot of the originals bath in the excess in both pauses and violence. The silence of dripping water, the slow motion destruction, the massive bloody messes and the matching body count brought about by overmatching fire power from both sides.

The night club/Yakuza office should have been a amazing blood bath but nah, just have the guys pointlessly attempt to rape the major instead of bringing Togusa who freaks out a little about Batou's methods.

They also drop a lot of references of which some of them are massive plot points and driver of the entire movie like the Geshias asking for help that are reduced to red herrings. Gabriel the dog scene are completely superfluous and misses the point of Batou having a dog in the first place. They also waste time giving Batou his eyes.

The movie is just too dark in fair number of places especially the final fight. The originals were never shy about showing what was happening. It took responsibility of what they put on screen.

There is just no team dynamic outside of the Major and Batou and even then it is a bit far to overt. Aramaki gives orders but no one ever listens to him and he isn't the spy master he should be. I give a lot of points for them going out there by letting him speak full on Japanese and gave him a badass scene even though it was out of character and pointless.

The movie also lacked an overriding message. It wasn't really about the state of humanity, surveillance state, massive technological invasion, concern for the public safety, questions about section 9's methods or transcendence. This is brought about by stringing all these scenes which all have different messages. The only stand out thing is that section 9 is a hit squad and have little concern for anybody or the public good.

The one of massive points I give is the casting. Absolutely spot on. They not only look the part but how they carry themselves is in character even if the plot points they have to go through don't really reflect that. If they ever make another live action GitS movie I would pick no other.

Another great thing is the small details. The android office ladies all looking the same. The displays with the circular interface. The opening scene showing a body being assembled. Togusa's weapon. The briefcase guns. The overall look of the faceless SWAT and security teams. The vehicles. The world at large which is a hair too blade runner which isn't set in Japan but in a Hong Kong like area.

I really wished they had just ripped sequences wholesale as the originals were just spectacular and unbeatable. They came close to this with the fight with the garbage man. If you can't beat them, join them.

It really needed some full on violence instead of this bloodless genericness. Maybe not minced meat in an armoured car, but something.

I am also very disappointed and frustrated that this was yet again another origin story. Please Hollywood, fucking stop it. A chuck of this time was spent ass covering for the accusation of whitewashing the Major who doesn't have a back story. She lost that long ago and is part of her character as she isn't meant to know herself hence her pursuit about the identity of others.

Was it worth going to the cinema? Sort of not really. If you are a fan you will get a buzz here and there all hte while gulping down references. Anyone else will feel like it's another generic action movie with a couple good scenes that come out of nowhere. Both would wonder what the movie is trying to tell us.

Go watch John Wick 2

6/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Silenced on April 25, 2017, 03:32:16 PM
I've grown progressively more obsessed with In Bruges the more times I watch it. At this point I believe it busted into my top 10, which is about as organized as a Pollock painting.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on April 25, 2017, 08:44:51 PM
Beauty and the Beast - 9/10

I honestly can't believe I'm saying that, or would have before seeing it, but holy crap, it was excellent. Maybe it's a bit of nostalgia kicking in, but they really nailed it, as far as converting the animated movie into live action - and actually improved a bit upon the story. There were several moments where my allergies started acting up...

I saw this and don't think I posted about it.

It's really freaking good.  Unlike La La Land, if someone was on screen, singing by themselves, they were a good fucking singer.  Where the movie shines best is where it adds to the original.  There's more back story on what happened with the prince in the prologue.  There's more references to the story's setting being in France.  There's more romance between Belle and the Beast.  There's more character to the Beast and Gaston (who is less rapey, but still not likable in the end).  The ending has more closure.

That said, the movie is both more an less French.  There's so many people with English accents!  The new songs aren't mindblowing and feel more like songs that were cut from the original for not being as good.  They're quality in terms of what they bring, just not something you'll be singing in the shower.  The movie goes out of its way to demonstrate that Belle is an outcast for being smart.  It also felt like there was just too much set up for the "Be Our Guest" number, just so they can explain recreating the original scene in the more realistic world they painted.

This is definitely a good watch.  It highlights the best of the original while feeling like its own thing.  Disney is really knocking it out with these live action adaptations.

8.5/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on April 25, 2017, 09:08:08 PM
The Fate of the Furious

OMG! This movie had everything.  I'll admit, I didn't quite get this franchise at first, but it might be perfect.

So, as you may have seen from the previews or the official movie poster, they're racing a fucking submarine and Vin Diesel has gone rogue.  You might be wondering how they explain all this, and I think the film does a great job of doing it.  I was worried about the plot setting up the premise the most.  The story, however, does a good job of explaining things.  The setting also helps explain why they can try to out drive a submarine (it's in Russia).  The movie opens up with a classic series street race with absurd shenanigans.  Then it goes right into why Dom goes rogue.  They don't show you until much later, but it isn't just that he was magically brainwashed. 

This movie was just about everything I needed with one nagging plot hole.  Tyrese is pretty much all comedy all the time.  The Rock lays the smack down.  Everyone else is also there.  There's great tension with the main villain is kind of retconned into being the big bad of the franchise.  There's tons of classic Hollywood tropes, especially around acting, but I've already accepted that's just how this movie-verse works. You should too.

One thing I really love the characters are all having kids.  Which makes me think they're investing in future proofing the franchise so that Fast 16 can star The Rock's daughter and Dom's son. <-Huge plot point spoiler, BTW.

Fast 8: 9/10

There's also the elephant in the room: Paul Walker's death is largely unmentioned.  The film moves on without him.  There's a brief moment where the characters are struggling with what to do and how to stop Dom.  But someone says the team has already decided not to involve Paul Walker's character in anything.  I thought there was a point where he could've been killed off screen, but they went in a different direction.  However, I think not harping on it was actually the best approach, but canonically, his absence is pretty felt, especially at the very end.  And I'm sure it will going forward. (I kinda wanted to end that thought with "for the next quarter mile, and each one after", but I thought that was cheesy.  Feel free to sub it in if i gives you good feels.)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Silenced on April 26, 2017, 06:49:36 PM
That's quite a bold rating there eh
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on April 28, 2017, 10:54:08 PM
If you want dumb action and cheesy punchlines, this movie delivers in spades. It's a franchise that knows what it is and doesn't try to be anything else. I'd maybe go down to an 8.5. This wasn't the series high, but it certainly made me appreciate the franchise.

Also, I'm not here to give lukewarm takes.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Silenced on April 28, 2017, 11:19:14 PM
As someone who loves every single bad action movie that erupted from the 80s, I can appreciate something dumb that I can get a cheap laugh out of.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on April 29, 2017, 09:33:22 AM
Let me tell you how dumb it is: Tyrese hits a guy off a snowmobile with a car door, a Lamborghini door.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Silenced on April 29, 2017, 05:30:47 PM
Doesn't top the car jump from the last one.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on April 29, 2017, 10:55:47 PM
There's a scene that's about on par with that one. I won't spoil it though.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on April 30, 2017, 10:42:15 AM
Logan Finally caught this in a second run theater. It was a good story, well presented and well acted, but I still didn't like it. Like Nickmitch said earlier, the language felt gratuitous at times, especially the beginning. But it was the cynicism of the movie that left a bad taste in my mouth. I was also bothered by the murderous children, and not just X-23. That is something that is usually off-putting to me. 

Still, Hugh Jackman gives a fantastic performance and Patrick Stewart is even better.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Silenced on April 30, 2017, 11:36:53 AM
That's his last turn as Wolverine, right?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on April 30, 2017, 01:05:01 PM
That's his last turn as Wolverine, right?


Yes, though he has stated he would return if it were in the MCU.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on April 30, 2017, 04:47:37 PM
That's his last turn as Wolverine, right?


Yes, though he has stated he would return if it were in the MCU.

I'm assuming he makes good on RR's efforts to get him in Deadpool 2 as well. He wants to be in box office successes, and X-Men movies were failing financially and critically successful.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on May 01, 2017, 11:08:31 PM
GET OUT


Most cathartic movie I've ever seen. The ending...man. I've never felt such pleasure watching a movie than after seeing Pops get a rib full of antlers. That's not to say it's a perfect movie. After he had substantial proof that his girl was in on it, he still asked her for the keys and made no precautions to leaving the house safely. I would have immediately been the most pleasant person around, asking my girl if we could stay longer because I was enjoying myself so much, all the while planning my escape. Best character by far was the NSA. He was my voice. That was a very smart character addition.

Overall, an incredibly fun movie. It's unnerving, intelligent, and over-the-top. 9/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on May 02, 2017, 12:15:34 AM
It's a damn shame it took you this long to watch it. I just hope it was in a packed theater with people who weren't afraid to vocalize their immersion in the movie.

Best time in a theater since Scream 1.
And homeboy was not only TSA, but took a really good movie and made it great, by saying everything we'd want to say to the movie, but in the movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on May 02, 2017, 08:26:56 AM
Universal Soldier Day of Reckoning

Great action but I don't know what the **** is going on. The plot is borderline experimental. It is a series of great stunt scenes but where you normally expect an excuse plot is just??? I have no idea what it is trying to achieve or what anybody's motivations are.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Evan_B on May 04, 2017, 12:07:02 PM
GET OUT


Most cathartic movie I've ever seen. The ending...man. I've never felt such pleasure watching a movie than after seeing Pops get a rib full of antlers. That's not to say it's a perfect movie. After he had substantial proof that his girl was in on it, he still asked her for the keys and made no precautions to leaving the house safely. I would have immediately been the most pleasant person around, asking my girl if we could stay longer because I was enjoying myself so much, all the while planning my escape. Best character by far was the NSA. He was my voice. That was a very smart character addition.

Overall, an incredibly fun movie. It's unnerving, intelligent, and over-the-top. 9/10
I really liked Get Out. I saw it a couple weeks ago. I would say that it is one of the sharpest horror films I've seen in a while, but that doesn't really mean it's a great movie. I love horror films, and I think so much of the movie is excellently choreographed and in line with horror tropes and concepts, but that just means it is a great horror film. Some of the acting is good, some of it is mediocre. The dialogue is great and you can appreciate it on a second viewing, for sure. I think where the movie succeeds is in its absurdity and humor, however, which often made me feel like I was watching a comedy rather than a horror film. This doesn't surprise me when factoring in Peele's writing and experience.

While the TSA homeboy was extremely funny, he put my viewing experience at sort of a meta level for me that really detracted from the narrative. He was providing commentary for the movie I was watching within the movie, and his involvement in the plot really only contributes to the (brilliant) ending.

Like I said, it's one of the best horror films I've seen. The fact that it has enough restraint to not push itself over the limit is impressive, although I think it's a deliberate choice by Peele. I am looking forward to his next film, although I'm still not sure he can execute anything as well as he does humor.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on May 08, 2017, 11:51:04 PM
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 - Really good/10
Just go see it. I don't know if it's better, worse, or the same as the first, in terms of "quality" - but it's really good. I've seen it twice already, going to see it in IMAX 3D on Wednesday. Yes, there are 5 mid/post-credits scenes. Unfortunately, the most boring one is saved for last, but it's still worth sticking around for. It ties into something that takes place during the movie: basically, Stan Lee is confirmed to be the same character in every Marvel movie - including the non-Marvel Studios films, I suppose.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on May 09, 2017, 03:28:21 AM
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 - Really good/10
Just go see it. I don't know if it's better, worse, or the same as the first, in terms of "quality" - but it's really good. I've seen it twice already, going to see it in IMAX 3D on Wednesday. Yes, there are 5 mid/post-credits scenes. Unfortunately, the most boring one is saved for last, but it's still worth sticking around for. It ties into something that takes place during the movie: basically, Stan Lee is confirmed to be the same character in every Marvel movie - including the non-Marvel Studios films, I suppose.

Yes. I've only seen it once, but I'm in same place with not knowing if I liked it more that the 1st or not, but still really liked it. It was funny and emotional. It was silly and yet touched on some issues.
It's a must watch for any MCU fans, its a good watch for fans of comicbook movies, and besides, your girl/wife will love it (and you probably will too).

Now bring on THOR!!!!! I need my Ragnarok NOW!!!!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on May 13, 2017, 05:07:47 PM
Alien Covenant. Maybe i'm just burned out on horror movies, but the entire movie, and same with Life recently, is built on the idea that the characters are stupid. I just can't get past that.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on May 13, 2017, 05:50:09 PM
Alien Covenant. Maybe i'm just burned out on horror movies, but the entire movie, and same with Life recently, is built on the idea that the characters are stupid. I just can't get past that.

And that is exactly what makes a movie like Get Out shine. [/shameless plug as if I'm getting paid for it]
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on May 13, 2017, 06:29:20 PM
Guardians of the Galaxy 8.5/10 really good. The Stan Lee thing is great because it means that all Marvel Universes are connected. There are just multiple realities.

The movie was great. I really liked Kurt Russell. The guy is always a presence and brings a lot to the plate.

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on May 14, 2017, 04:27:16 PM
Sleight

This movie is a lot like Dope without all the comedy and 90s hip-hop nostalgia with just a hint of The Prestige.  It's about a boy named Bo who, a year prior to the film, loses his mother and is forced to become the breadwinner of his household, turning down a track scholarship in the process.  He takes care his little sister, Tina, with the help of neighbor.  His primary income is doing street magic for LA tourists, which he supplements with a night job as a drug dealer.  His supplier seems to play a father figure-like role, but things take a turn when a new drug dealer moves into their turf.  Also, he meets a girl and they start dating.

This is a film from WWE Studios, and is way better than what you'd expect from that label.  The story is very well written, and the acting is good for such a small cast.  I found the main character very relatable: he just wants to take care of his sister and does his best to hide his "real" job from her.  If you've seen the trailer or TV commercial, you might think this is a superhero movie; it's not.  The movie slowly explains how he does his magic tricks, which becomes a major plot point towards the end.  You actually get a scene of him tinkering with a new trick, which I wish the film had more of.  I liked the pace in which it's explained.  The movie escalates really well, as the Bo's choices end up catching up to him.

A few things that bugged me: there's one scene where the characters have to do math, and they don't math right.  It's not of heavy plot significance, but it bothered me.  The sister, Tina, does something adorably annoying but still worrisome for someone her age.  The film also fails to stick the landing at the end.  The plot ends very nicely, but that last scene was just a total face plant.

8.5/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on May 20, 2017, 06:08:41 PM
Alien Covenant - 6/10

Prometheus was better. It's a watchable movie, and it does actually explain where the Xenomorphs came from but doesn't explain why the Engineers wanted to kill all of the humans, but there is a complete lack of terror throughout - at least for the audience. Yes, you do need to watch Prometheus for this movie to make sense, or at least know what happens in it. Apparently there are more movies in the works...but there doesn't really need to be. Maybe one more prequel and then an actual sequel, I guess, since there is still a little bit of time between this one and Alien. But now we know where they came from, so whatever. Like I said, Prometheus was better.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Spak-Spang on May 20, 2017, 06:55:29 PM
Prometheus was a horrible film.  So if it was better, I don't want to know how bad Alien Covenant is.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on May 20, 2017, 10:51:54 PM
Prometheus gets a bad rap. It's definitely not horrible. They did, however, remove two scenes that would have made it a much better movie - the actual beginning, and the dialog between The Engineer, David, and Weyland.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on May 20, 2017, 11:33:27 PM
Also, to note. If you look for some plot inconsistencies between Alien and Prometheus...well it's on a different planet and they're exploring a different ship. It also, might even be a different(but related) alien organism.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on May 21, 2017, 12:51:51 AM
I just watched Alien vs. Predator - I guess this not considered canon, because it destroys the entire Alien timeline...unless the Predators are time travelers.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on May 21, 2017, 02:11:57 AM
Also, it doesn't really line up with the Weylands in Alien Resurrection and Promethius. Also, why would the Predators need to be time travelers? Wouldn't they just exist since well before humanity like the Engineers? I think the Alien vs Predator movies **** up the Predator timeline more than the Alien Timeline. Also, Predator 2 is underrated. I haven't seen Covennant yet. But the engineers apparently have an unknown foe...which may end up being the Predators when Fox goes through a few reboots

Also, speculation. The movie was called Promethius. Promethius was a Titan in Greek mythology. In some myths Promethius brought fire to man. In other myths he created man. This pissed off both the Olympians and the other Titans.

In Starcraft the Xel'Naga created both Protoss and Zerg.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on May 21, 2017, 07:08:19 AM
I'd have to spoil Covenant to explain why they would need to be time travelers...but the short of it is that the Xenomorphs, at least in their perfect form, didn't exist until 100 years after Alien vs Predator.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on May 22, 2017, 03:47:52 AM
Too late. I Already got spoiled. I was on an Alien wiki page and I read through the article without the assumption it would be be updated immediately. though I have seen Promethius at least 3 times. I noticed the David 8's funny business. I don't want to look further into it until I see the movie. I have a free ticket.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on May 23, 2017, 06:08:36 PM
GHOST IN THE SHELL

Did they change the plot of the story? I don't remember it being about a conspiracy. I had thought it was an AI finding Major because of their similarities. Maybe I'm remembering it incorrectly.

Anyway, I didn't like it. Simply put, it was boring. Clint Mansell, the soundtrack artist, and whoever was the DP are the only reasons to check out this movie. It's gorgeous visually and audibly, but the original has a better story, pacing, action, dialogue, and characters.

There is one addition I did like. It's Major hiring a prostitute. I thought it was a clever way to show her disconnect to humans. If that scene and the OST were transposed into the original film, it'd be the perfect version to watch.

6/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on May 24, 2017, 12:37:16 AM
are you talking about the Live Action movie w/ ScarJo?
as I heard there was another GitS movie released recently, but I think it was CG animated.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stogi on May 24, 2017, 12:40:30 AM
I'm talking about the live action movie.

I looked up the plot of the original and it couldn't be more different. It's strange. Why would they change the best part about the movie yet include shot for shot remakes of the action scenes? It's a weird decision.

EDIT

If you haven't seen the original, I suggest you see it. It still holds up today and the plot doesn't treat you like a child.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on May 24, 2017, 02:18:19 PM
I think the film was trying to go for a "greatest hits" from the show (based on reviews I've read), so the story kinda had to suffer to squeeze it all in.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on May 24, 2017, 05:06:47 PM
King Arthur. Guy Ritchie's style is hyperactive and unsettled. Like it's almost going for Edgar Wright but without the precision or the care to follow his style properly. The result is crazy edits (fight scenes jump cuts almost as frequently as beats in the backing track) that makes it hard to follow.

Also its just boring and really "laddish".
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on May 24, 2017, 09:02:56 PM
Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 2

Without the burden of having to formulate a the team, the movie decides to spend time with some heavy-handed scenes of characters explaining their backstories/motivations.  While this would drag down lesser movies, the scenes always hit with great timing and don't feel like they're interrupting the action.  The movie flows just too damn well.  All the action, comedy, and fun times are on par with the first one.  It's a text book of how you do a sequel.

8.5/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on May 31, 2017, 01:34:19 AM
I am Not a Serial Killer

This an entertaining little indie film about sociopath high schooler who works in a funeral home. People start getting murdered in his small town and then things take a twist. Christopher Lloyd is in it, definitely worth a watch on the Netflix.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on May 31, 2017, 02:39:37 AM
I am Not a Serial Killer

This an entertaining little indie film about sociopath high schooler who works in a funeral home. People start getting murdered in his small town and then things take a twist. Christopher Lloyd is in it, definitely worth a watch on the Netflix.

Check out The Willies.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Shorty McNostril on June 01, 2017, 03:16:49 PM
Wonder Woman.

It was great.

A great ride from start to finish. Gadot just nailed the role. I still think she's too skinny, but that's a tiny and subjective complaint. It also turns out to be the biggest complaint I have with the movie so it was pretty damn good lol. And there is some amazing spectical in it too. Just what I want from my comic book movies.

Though it loses major points for having no invisible jet. -5/10 :(
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on June 01, 2017, 04:54:35 PM
I can't say that they were willing or able to fit the invisible jet in other than a gag considering how DC's universe is built.

But then we got random Kryptonian dragon mounts for "reasons".
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Shorty McNostril on June 01, 2017, 05:17:55 PM
I was joking about the invisible jet lol.  The whole notion is absurd. 
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on June 01, 2017, 05:42:38 PM
Guardians of the Galaxy 2 - 3 stars.

Sadly, a bit lesser than the first. Has its moments and I'll probably watch it again a few times more in the future but from my initial viewing it has some stumbles that I think hold it back from achieving the greatness of the first film.


Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on June 15, 2017, 09:30:07 PM
Wonder Woman - 7/10
It's good...but it's not great. People seem to be making a lot of comparisons to Captain America: The First Avenger - it's not even close. Captain America is a much better movie. Is WW the movie that DC has been *needing* to make? Maybe. It's certainly different than Batman v Superman and Suicide Squad, but it's not necessarily any better than them. Wonder Woman is certainly a much more likable character than the DCEU Superman or anyone from Suicide Squad, but the story pretty much makes no sense and the villains are pretty boring. Also the ending is just plain silly. I think this movie was over-hyped and people are saying it's better than it really is - just like people said Suicide Squad and Batman v Superman are worse than they are. But it's good, and worth the money to go see it. It's pretty weird to see an origin story after the character was introduced though...they should have released this before BvS.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on June 16, 2017, 06:12:57 AM
The Mummy - The goofiness of the Brendan Fraser movies is all gone and replaced with grittyness thats largely unearned. I did like how Tom Cruise's character was, like in Edge of Tomorrow, had his own motives but then by the end that was all washed aside.

Iron Man was nearly 10 years ago, and that film told it's own story and dropped very subtle hints to a wider universe. This left several major plot points to be answered later, immediately introduced jekyll and hyde and vampires and then went "who knows if he will end up good?" You start a franchise by immediately throwing long story arcs?

Almost as if to say this entire movie was a 2 hour trailer for the next one.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on June 16, 2017, 01:56:13 PM
Has no one learned anything from Marvel on these conjoined universes?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Shorty McNostril on June 24, 2017, 11:10:33 PM
Transformers:
I saw it last night.

Not let me preface this with the fact that I very much enjoy these movies.  I am quite aware they are terrible, but they are just the kind of brainless nonsense and action that I will happily watch any of them at any time. Until this one. :(

Nothing made any sense. No plots were really resolved. And the biggest disappointment.....no epic moments. They were primarily what I enjoy about the previous movies.

- The epic forest fight in 2, ( I don't care what you think about that movie, that scene is just amazing), Prime's resurrection in 2 when he went and wasted the Fallen and other decepticons.
- Prime's entrance with his flight pack in 3 and going to town in that one swoop.
- Prime riding a firebreathing T-Rex into battle with a sword in 4.

All examples of what I'm talking about.

There was none of it. I have no desire to ever watch this one again.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on June 25, 2017, 02:53:52 AM
Until this one. :(

Nothing made any sense. No plots were really resolved. And the biggest disappointment.....no epic moments. They were primarily what I enjoy about the previous movies.

There was none of it. I have no desire to ever watch this one again.

This had me laughing pretty hard. What took you so long?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on June 25, 2017, 04:10:52 AM
Until this one. :(

Nothing made any sense. No plots were really resolved. And the biggest disappointment.....no epic moments. They were primarily what I enjoy about the previous movies.

There was none of it. I have no desire to ever watch this one again.

This had me laughing pretty hard. What took you so long?

I left at part 2. Transformers 1 was at least coherent, but the series got super stupid on 2. Objectively 1 isn't that great of a movie either, but it was at least cool to see a live action Transformers movie for the first time. I saw 3 with the promise that the series might get better, and no, it got worse. Now I'm just not going to watch them again.

If for some magical reason I became a studio director I'd really want to reboot GI Joe.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Shorty McNostril on June 25, 2017, 06:21:13 AM
I can ignore all the problems with them as long as there is some awesome action happening.  Which has been there in the others except this one. 

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on June 25, 2017, 07:28:42 AM
I just don't understand how you manage to cast Anthony Hopkins and turn him into walking talking exposition device and then cast Stanley Tucci again and not play his role from the last one, then put him in a time period where he's covered in make up and never talks to human characters for all of his scenes.

If you're going to waste talent like that then just don't bother.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on June 25, 2017, 10:39:26 PM
Wonder Woman

Finally saw this today.  The film definitely falls into the "good-not-great" category.  I had problems with the excess CGI in the end, some of character development, and the lack of invisible jet.  There's some serious plot holes in there too, but it's the best film DC has put out since Nolan was around.  It's different in all the right ways.  There's some time spent with Diana as a child that I didn't care for, but once the plot gets going, it's good.  The humor is mostly fish out of water, but I liked it.  Chris Pine is a good straight man.  Action scenes are fun to watch and a bit more refreshing compared to other superhero movies.

Climax of the film also leaves something to be desired: there's a moment where it looks like Wonder Woman is basically gonna fall to the dark side, but there's nothing in the film to imply this could ever be a risk.  It only comes up in this one scene and she quickly overcomes it.  Also, the reveal of the villain feels so anti-climatic and turns everything about the other bad guys into red herrings, making two characters feel completely wasted for the sake of a twist.

7/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on July 04, 2017, 03:43:15 PM
Baby Driver - Edgar Wright's hyperactive sensibilities are so sharp in this as he makes a musical crime heist movie.... all of the musical scenes are incredibly choreographed right down to the actors movements, lines, and camera movements.

It sounds weird to watch a musical, but this is a literal musical. Everything you see is music.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on July 04, 2017, 09:52:20 PM
The House

A classic Will Farrell comedy that feels more "adult" than his other comedies.  Not in an "Everything Must Go" or "Casa de mi Padre" kind of way.  The plot is something out of a sitcom drawn out for the length for feature film.  They spend exactly enough time in the beginning to establish the premise and settle most of the "why don't they try ___?" questions.  All in all, it's silly, it's fun.  If you're looking for some cheap lolz, you'll find them here.

7/10



Baby Driver

I really liked this one.  The visuals lining up with the soundtrack worked incredibly well.  The cast is also pretty stacked and the film is very well structured.  The action is also intense.  The film is more of a "chase" movie than a heist movie.  Heists happen, but you're following the driver so the part you're focused on is the getaway.  The supporting cast is strong.  I also thought the movie had just the right amount of violence.

8/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on July 06, 2017, 10:20:05 PM
Spider-Man Homecoming - 10/10

I was afraid that this movie was going to get over-hyped, especially with how much promotion it's received. Well, that didn't happen. It is, absolutely, by far, the best Spider-Man movie ever. None of the others even come close. We finally get a high school Spider-Man that actually seems like a high school student, who goes to school with other high school students. We finally get a villain that has a conscience although, yes, he does murder one person in the movie. We finally get the true MCU Spider-Man movie that we've always wanted. There were 5 Spider-Man movies before this one - the Green Goblin was in 4 of them, thankfully he is not in this one, and there is no mention of any Osborns at all. Honestly watching any of the previous Spider-Man movies now seems like it would feel like a chore. I hope that the Venom movie does somehow relate to this movie, because this movie is absolute gold.

Now for some spoilers: Yes, Zendaya does play MJ, but her first name is Michelle, so technically she's not Mary Jane...but yet she kind of is. Vulture does not die, he's in prison in the first post-credits scene and lies to Mac Gargan, denying that he knows Spider-Man's identity - because Spider-Man saves Vulture's daughter earlier in the movie (who is Peter's love interest), and saves Vulture at the end. Also, the man that he just lied to will most likely be the villain of the next movie, and he's better known as Scorpion. Pepper Potts returns and Tony proposes to her to make up for the press conference that was going to happen at the end, but Tony has to improvise because Peter turns down the invitation to join The Avengers, after setting his eyes on, and refusing, the completely bad-ass Iron Spider costume that Tony made for him. Aunt May finds out that Peter is Spider-Man right at the end and yells out "What the fu--" right as the credits start.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on July 07, 2017, 12:40:59 AM
I am so behind on movies, might have to go binge some on my own. Wish I had more friends to go see them with.


Have yet to see Logan, GotG2, Pirates, or Wonder Woman. Gotta get on the cinema train! Might skip them all and go straight to Spidey because of all the positive feedback I've heard so far.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on July 07, 2017, 01:58:22 AM
Spider-Man was awesome. No joke.
and it was non-stop entertainment.

Easily the best Super-hero film of the year so far (I have yet to see Wonder Woman though).
Holland I think nails both Spider-Man and Peter Parker, and there was plenty of both all through out the movie. I also feel that The Vulture was pretty good. Kinda scary, developed and clearly motivated.

With all the well timed humor and intense action, I think this just might make most people's top of the MCU list (if not also Spider-man movie list and possibly even Top Superhero Movie list).
Thor: Ragnarok got it's work cut out for it if it's gonna be the funnest and most entertaining superhero movie of the year.
While Guardians was good... Spidey was Great.
There was lots of MCU integration, but the main story itself was pretty self contained.
Oh and definitely stay for the post credit scene. well worth the wait. LOL
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on July 07, 2017, 11:06:17 AM
I loved Spidaman.  Great film.  Really liked how they worked Spidey's Civil War appearance into the first part of the film.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Shorty McNostril on July 08, 2017, 04:52:24 AM
Post credit scene was indeed amazing.  Perfectly executed and fits the theme established through the movie.

Oh, and love the tease towards the end.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on July 08, 2017, 10:51:19 AM
that final regular movie scene right before the credits was LOL

The Bodega convo was pretty funny too "How's your aunt...." "How's your daughter"

Zendaya was pretty funny with the "sarcastic" tone of her character speculations were true,
 and they really managed to down dress her for that magical butterfly from the cocoon "she's all that" moment in the later sequels


Michael Keaton was great. His character was menacing, and methodical, motivated and smart. His interactions with both Spidey and Parker were great. But Parker's reactions to him were hilarious. LMAO that whole scene from the moment he opened the door, till the moment he got out of the car was amazing.. and let me just add that the Vulture Wing Suit was pretty fucking dope. Marvel fucking nailed bringing that character to the Big Screen. Can't wait to see who's next.

Tom Holland has absolutely embraced the role and character of both Peter Parker and Spider-Man.
His interactions and reactions to everyone were great. He made this movie really enjoyable to watch.

Tony Stark/Iron Man didn't overtake the movie. This was most definitely a Spider-Man movie, and IM was hardly in it. It was well written to integrate SM into the larger MCU in a way that makes sense.

And having given the movie a day to sink in, this is easily Top Tier MCU if not Top of the stack.
Marvel Studios hit it out of the pack, and it would be a damn shame is Sony doesn't just sit back and allow Marvel to continue to rake it in for them and have access to everything they need to continue to make SM the best damn SM series possible. or hopefully Disney just buys Sony Pictures and end this issue w/ SM licensing once and for all (Sony was rumored to be entertaining the idea of selling the movie division, which holds the SM rights... since SM is the only franchise they have that makes money).

Summary: Fun movie for everyone. Best of the MCU. Best Spider-Man movie. Highly recommended for anyone that enjoys action, superhero and/or coming of age movies.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on July 08, 2017, 04:28:08 PM
I would rather Disney bought Fox if there was a studio for them to go after.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on July 09, 2017, 02:50:20 AM
Fox isn't in a position to possibly need to sell though.

and why buy Fox? to get the X-Men rights back?
Fox doesn't own the Fantastic Four license, if that was the reason.

With Sony, we can strip Spider-Man and whatever other properties Disney may find interesting, and then sell the rest off. And Sony Pictures has actually been on the fence of actually wanting and needing to be sold, so it's more of a possibility than just a pipe dream.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on July 10, 2017, 08:03:30 PM
I know it is more of a pipe dream, but I just feel there would be a lot more potential with a Fox deal, even if its not happening.


And who owns F4 then? I thought Fox published the last three F4 films?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on July 10, 2017, 08:51:39 PM
Fox does still have the FF rights.  There has been rumors that Marvel got them back, however.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on July 11, 2017, 05:58:02 AM
But no one wants a FF movie, they have uniformly sucked.

I rather see a new Blade movie skipping the origin story. I have no idea who to cast as Wesley Snipes was just perfect for the role.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on July 11, 2017, 09:58:14 AM
There are folks (myself included) who want a good Fantastic Four movie.  The addition of bringing Reed Richards and the Thing into the MCU is exciting to no ends.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on July 11, 2017, 01:47:45 PM
Doesn't Blade have a daughter in the comics?  Couldn't a movie be made about her?  Maybe with Snipes even reprising his role.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on July 11, 2017, 03:06:49 PM
And who owns F4 then? I thought Fox published the last three F4 films?

Constantin Films has the F4 rights, but they have some deal with Fox to actually make the movies.
They are some German investment group, and I think they also own the Resident Evil license for movies as well.
They have reportedly been having some sort of shake-up where they might be in a position to sell or be bought out. I'm sure both Disney and Fox are watching closely.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on July 11, 2017, 03:11:40 PM
There are folks (myself included) who want a good Fantastic Four movie.  The addition of bringing Reed Richards and the Thing into the MCU is exciting to no ends.

We already got a good Fantastic 4 film. It's called "The Incredibles." :P
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on July 11, 2017, 03:16:59 PM
There are folks (myself included) who want a good Fantastic Four movie.  The addition of bringing Reed Richards and the Thing into the MCU is exciting to no ends.


And Dr Doom is one of the more fun villains after Red Skull, and the MCU really needs some new and more engaging villains.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on July 12, 2017, 08:26:38 AM
I need any of them, literally any except Loki, to appear more than once.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on July 12, 2017, 07:07:37 PM
Finally saw Spider-Man Homecoming.

Oh, boy. This film. Where to even begin?  I loved all of it.  I really enjoyed that Peter was a high school kid who was constantly in over his head, but determined.  This is also one of the first superhero movies, to me at least, that pulled off the "try harder" trope found in so many Superman movies.  There wasn't a prolonged fight scene in a public area where Spider-Man didn't have his mask on. The romance didn't drag the movie with the hero revealing himself or having the love interest be in direct danger (she does get saved, but it's not from a villain).  The movie seems to side-step every opportunity to not be terrible.  But enough judging this movie on what it's not.  It's very funny.  It also sprinkles in a lot of references to the comics and to potential future films without beating you over the head with them.  The villain is well developed, but you've heard about this already.

9.5/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on July 17, 2017, 11:39:42 PM
War for the Planet of the Apes - 8.5/10
It's a really sad movie. It's also really good. Go see it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on July 27, 2017, 09:43:08 PM
I watched A Cure for Wellness

beautiful scenery and camera work in this film, but it goes on too long and is all over the place. Still enjoyed because I'm a sucker for the isolated asylum kind of movies.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on August 01, 2017, 04:29:54 AM
Dunkirk is dark depressing, grey, very tense and impressively well made. While the events of the movie don't really have much traction with people outside of Western Europe, at the end (mainly because of the Hanz Zimmer score), i let out a big sigh that it was over.

Definitely not a standard summer movie, but still a great experience all the same.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on August 06, 2017, 09:34:07 PM
I recently listened to a podcast that talked about the upcoming (terrible) Jumanji reboot, and that reminded me that I never got around to seeing Zathura, the spiritual successor/clone of Jumanji.

Well, I have now and...wow, that was bad, alternating between boring, annoying, & lame. Nothing about this movie works, although Kristin Stewart puts forth her best performance as an inanimate, frozen person. It's easily the most expressive she's ever been.

There's just a sense of dread & adventure to Jumanji that's completely absent here. There's no LIFE to it and no stakes once the players read the instructions, where it TELLS them that finishing the game will reverse everything. Ugh...
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on August 10, 2017, 10:38:35 AM
I finally watched Wonder Woman the other day, and not that I was surprised, but I liked it.
Best DCEU movie so far.

The only real negative that happens to be pretty consistent throughout the movie for me was the jarring CG and slo-mo. They really need to ditch this Zach Snyder visual flare that has plagued practically all of his movies since 300. The real issue w/ the CG is that it just looks so fake.... like the movie turned into a video game for a spit instance. Especially that whip... wow, that just looked terrible, and then the end battle...

But other than all that, the movie was pretty good. I can see why WW is not becoming the face of the DCEU (other than the fact that she has the best movie so far....), and I look forward to a sequel. But what this doesn't do is make me look forward to JL. I know Joss took over, but until I see more, the ZS patented visual flare is a real turn off for me, and the only thing I can really knock WW for.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on August 10, 2017, 10:50:01 PM
I still think it was kinda meh. Good, but not great. I think it actually had the same problems as Power Rangers - good character development, but dumb action scenes.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on August 10, 2017, 11:17:09 PM
I got see an advance screening of The Hitman's Bodyguard.

If you're worried the best jokes are in the trailer, don't be.  The jokes that are in the trailer are funnier with the comedic timing and context, and there's also more jokes to enjoy.  I had some problems with some of the lighting in quite a few shots.  It gets pretty distracting at times.  The dynamic between the mains is absolutely priceless.  The action scenes are all very fun to watch.  The intro takes a moment to get going and the ending drags a smidge, but the the rest of the film is pretty well paced.  The plot is pretty simple, so don't expect any deep story telling.  If you expect quips, violence, and the more than occasional "motherfucker", you'll like it.  Also, Samuel L Jackson's opening line made me laugh very hard.

7.5/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on August 10, 2017, 11:55:56 PM
I'm jealous.... but i haven't even looked for early screening tix.
and I love that you enjoyed it, but I'm sure I'll give it higher than a 7.5 based on the RR/SLJ factor alone.

honestly, I'm not even sure when this movie comes out... I just assume it's this month.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on August 11, 2017, 03:19:18 AM
2017 rundown of movies so far for me:

Kong: Skull Island - This appears to be the first 2017 I watched which surprises me but ok. I didn't have a huge interest in seeing this since I had actually recently rewatched most of Peter Jackson's King Kong a year or two ago. However, the trailer was visually interesting enough that I was willing to check it out at some point. Then a friend asked if I wanted to go with him since his wife wasn't interested in seeing it so I figured why not and went. I must say, I went away quite impressed. While the skull crusher monsters were kind of generic and a sort of boring villain, I did like that the movie did appreciate that it gave Kong something to battle and do in order to change the human motivation from capture or kill to protect and aid. The "beauty and the beast" usual romance was also done more low key. John C. Reilly's character shouldn't work. It's like he's wandered in from a different movie but he ends up stealing the show and was one of the best things about this film. The choice to go retro to a 70's timeframe also works and that opening "Vietnam"/Kong helicopter battle is a great set-piece. Was disappointed about some of the actors whose characters who didn't make it and exited to soon. It's quite a good cast and I'd love to see them have been able to play off each other more. In the end, I think this might actually be the best King Kong movie that's been made so far and I'm definitely on board with this new Godzilla themed cinematic universe. Bring on the other monsters! Highly recommend and would absolutely watch again. 9/10.

Your Name - Watching this movie, I couldn't help but think to myself of how it could represent an alternate future where Disney successfully pursued 2D animation to create visual works of art like this film instead of Pixar leading the 3D animation path we see dominate the animation scene now. Like some other Studio Ghibli works, this film gave me a feeling of travelling to Japan and experiencing its culture. However, unlike Studio Ghibli films, I didn't find it emotionally resonate much with me coming off more as am intellectual exercise engaging my brain more than my heart. Part of that might have to do with the plot and its fantasy/sci-fi as it throws some twists at you and the mystery behind it all. While it is the only animated movie I've seen this year, from the clips and bits I've seen of other animated movies released so far, I'd think it would have to be the frontrunner for Best Animated Film of 2017 in any awards handed out. Another movie I'd definitely recommend even if it is just to take in the beautifully detailed animation but fortunately it has a pretty engaging story to go with it. Would also watch again. 8/10

The Lost City of Z - I hadn't heard anything or seen anything about this movie until I was one the AV Club one day and they were recommending it with an A grade and had a headline along the lines of "sometimes they do make them like they used to". Being a classic film fan and buff, that alone got me highly interested in this movie so I checked it out. This most likely isn't for everyone. It's a slow, ponderous kind of movie based on the real life story of a British explorer with a quest to prove evidence that an ancient civilization existed in the Amazon rainforest many centuries ago. The movie did an excellent job of putting you in the explorer's headspace. That despite how incredibly inhospitable and life-threatening the jungle can be there is still an allure to it and how the feeling of being so tantalizing close of discovering some great and marvelous can play on the mind. There's not much action in the movie but it is very atmospheric and the mood and mindset it put me in lingered with me for a few days after watching it. Wasn't quite what I expected going in but I'm glad I checked it out. I could see myself watching it again some day but it's not something I'd be willing to just jump into at any time like the first two movies I listed since I know the mood of the film and the sort of heaviness that it leaves you with. 7.5/10

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 - I briefly reviewed this before earlier in the thread. I do like this cast of characters so I was disappointed that they split them up early into the film. I felt the movie had a couple tonal issues in it. Sometimes it wants to play things up as cartoonish action and sometimes it brings up elements which are uncomfortable. Yondu willing transported a bunch of kids to Ego even when he knew Ego was killing them? It's hard to not associate that with Yondu when I think of him now or see him in the first film. Like many a sequel, it imitates what came before but with lesser success. In the first film, the opening credits of Quill alone in a cave dancing to his music while on the path to a treasure was wonderful. This time, we have Baby Groot dancing away pointlessly while the rest of the team fights in a monster in a blurry background behind Groot. I'd have frankly rather seen the team fight the monster than watch Baby Groot dance. In fact, Baby Groot did not work for me and I missed the adult Groot of the first film. That said, one of the ending credit scenes showing a teenage Groot has the potential, just from this brief clip alone, to course correct Groot and make for some great comedy in the next film and makes me wish we could have seen that Groot in this movie instead. It's weird but somehow Drax ended up being the most reliable comedy in the film I thought. And we did get Trash Panda (It's so much worse) so it has its moments which keep me from judging it too harshly despite there being a lot of other elements I could complain about. I gave it 3 stars in my review but that would translate to about a six out of ten and I don't think it quite deserves to be that low on reflection but I certainly wasn't really recommending it to people like the first one and I actually forgot I had seen this until I was going through a list of movies released this year and that's not a good sign. 7/10.

Wonder Woman - I'm in agreement with most here. Overall, I enjoyed the movie. A bit of a so-so ending with the CGI-fest battle and an ultimate villain whom we don't really see engage in the story much until he shows up at the end to try and sway Diana to his way of thinking. However, up to about the point of the village gassing, I'd say it is a really solid movie. Having read the New 52 Wonder Woman epic by Brian Azzarello, the incarnation of Ares in this film was further disappointing from how he and other Greek gods were portrayed in that story. Would have liked to see more Dr. Poison. Think she had more potential then we saw. Ultimately, Trevor's friends didn't really add much to the movie or overall plot so that also seemed like wasted time / missed opportunity. Steve Trevor, though, was a great ally/foil for Diana at the expense of being the only other character really worth caring about. The one question that popped up in my mind, particularly at the end with the defeat of Ares, is what do the writers or people in the world of Wonder Woman attribute as the force behind World War 2? If Ares is the last god and he was behind WW1 and stopped then how do they explain the other World War to follow?

Has Wonder Woman made me excited about Justice League? A bit but I still think that is going to be a Snyder vehicle. Despite other comments on the forums, I don't think Whedon is going to change much about it as he is coming in quite late to the process. I think he'll keep it close to Snydor's vision but may be given more influence on the DC movie universe going forward. What Wonder Woman does make me excited for, though, is other DC movies made by people who aren't Snydor. I enjoyed the different flavor and visual style of this movie compared to the current entries of Marvel films coming out. Ultimately, the plot is full of very similar story beats and momentum as all these other kinds of Superhero movies coming out but it was able to keep things fresh enough to not be an issue. Would I watch again? Sure but there are some parts I'd skip because I feel they'd drag on watching them again. 7.5/10

Baby Driver - Another mixed bag. There are great things and dumb things to it. Some of the bits I loved and some annoyed me. Ultimately, I never warmed up much to the titular Baby. Even though Kevin Spacey was playing a part and personality he can probably do in his sleep at this point, it still worked for me and I loved all his scenes. Likewise, Jon Hamm and his love interest were more compelling to me than Baby and Debra. Jamie Foxx's character just annoyed me. He just seemed to exist to make everyone's life more difficult. I think the constant barrage of music also got a bit tiring. Maybe it would help if it was more my taste of music but it might have worked better to have something orchestral / original movie score in there instead. Not that Guardians of the Galaxy 1 is the pinnacle of filmmaking despite the fact that I feel I reference it a lot but that movie took a lot of songs I don't care to normally listen to on their own yet somehow made them work with the visuals and how they were weaved into the story and sort of elevated them where I appreciated the music. That didn't happen with Baby Driver. While he doesn't have an extensive filmography, I'd say Scott Pilgrim vs The World is Edgar Wright's best work so far. I appreciate that this movie is willing to be different from most other movies like it with its own style and sensibilities but it just didn't work as a cohesive whole for me with just different bits and pieces working here and there. 6/10.

Spider-Man: Homecoming - Just saw this on Tuesday. I seem to be more down on it than others here. Yeah, it's a slick, fast-moving film and doesn't really stumble much with the property (either the actor or the portrayal of Flash Thompson was the only thing that felt off to me but something about the character just constantly struck me as off). Compared to the Amazing Spiderman series, it's definitely an improvement but I've mostly liked the Raimi trilogy with Spiderman 2 still being one of my all-time favorite superhero movies. Maybe this movie is better or tops it but my problem with the movie is my problem with the current Marvel universe as a whole. Having seen nearly all of the Marvel films released so far (The Incredible Hulk and Dr. Strange are the only ones missed at the moment), this movie seems very similar to many of the other Marvel superhero films I've seen so far. I suppose I could start breaking down how I see the formula at this point but I've got to think that other people who have seen a lot of these movies can recognize it too. And with DC starting to imitate it as well, as seen in Wonder Woman, it's starting to kill the enjoyment I've had of these kinds of movies. It's creating a blandness in the Marvel universe that if you see one movie then you've seen them all. A formula for a movie isn't necessarily a bad thing. Bond movies have a formula and it's allowed the series to stay successful through 5 decades even if there are many similarities in each film. But maybe the difference is that there isn't a Bond movie every 3 - 4 months. Having seen GotG2 and Wonder Woman already this year, it just made Spiderman come across as a bit stale in the whole learning-to-be-a-superhero arc it played out.

Likewise, for all the faults of the previous Spiderman efforts, at least they had some strong emotional beats. When I saw The Amazing Spiderman for the first time, I don't know why but my eyes started to well up a bit when the crane operators work to help Spidey near the end. I even thought to myself, why am I falling for this? It came across as an obvious emotion manipulator but it somehow worked in that moment and I couldn't help feeling moved by the support for Spiderman. Sort of like the end of It's a Wonderful Life when George Bailey is so happy to be reunited with his family and sees the respect he's garnered in the community by all the people who come by to help him. Or the end of A Beautiful Mind when John Nash suddenly realizes the respect he's garnered from his contemporaries at the end of that film in the teacher's lounge and at the Nobel ceremony. I'm a sucker for those mad respect moments, I guess. However, Homecoming had no real emotional tug that I noted further creating a more passive viewing experience when watching it. However, to it's credit, we got a Spiderman movie where Peter Parker isn't attending a funeral at the end. And the villain lived. Both villains lived! Way to break the Marvel formula on that one! 7/10

There's one other movie I've seen (Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets) that I'll get to tomorrow but it's late and it took a couple hours to make this post and get my thoughts together for these various reviews. This review business ain't easy, ya know!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on August 11, 2017, 06:26:29 AM
I saw Valerian last week. Gorgeous movie but the two leads just don't click with each other in the way they should. I wouldn't quite say "forced" but it wasn't gelling and the flow was off. Also stopping the movie two thirds in for a Rihanna dance break also helped to show up the 137 minute runtime does stick out.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on August 11, 2017, 02:31:33 PM
Regarding what you said about Groot in GotG Vol 2 - teenage Groot is the version that is going to be in Avengers Infinity War.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on August 11, 2017, 03:22:54 PM
Thanks Plugabugz! Just go and steal thunder by summing up what I'm about to say.  >:( As soon as Khushrenada is going to do something, everyone else wants to do it too.  :P

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets - Can you like a movie despite hating the two main characters? Valerian seems like a weird experiment to see if this is possible. When I saw the trailer for this in the theater, I knew I was going to see it just because it seemed to promise some interesting visuals and over-the-top sci-fi fantasy fun. That's definitely there in this movie. Silly costumes and colorful, crazy landscapes. There's a really interesting bit of action at the start with a character trapped in different dimensions. When the film focused on weird sci-fi like that, it is at it's best. When it tried to focus on the relationship between the two leads, it went to film-making hell. I think the leads were miscast although the dialogue does them absolutely no favors and I can't think of any actors who may have been able to save/redeem it. I really felt like blurting out to the audience in a scene near the end that this is the worst romance ever but I just suffered in silence.

There was some intrigue for awhile about how one alien race was playing into the events going on but then the answers are presented and I found myself restlessly waiting for the film to wrap up. Sometimes it almost felt like I was watching a video game cinematic particularly at the start with a CGI alien culture and planet. A plot element had me thinking of Xenoblade Chronicles X. Herbie Hancock came across as a live action form of General Pepper in Star Fox. I also had flashbacks to The Fifth Element despite having not seen that movie in probably a decade. Some of the interesting similarities I noted. Maybe I'm cynical but I kept waiting for an attack in the opening credit scene. I guess movies have trained me to expect something different with those scenes which I thought was kind of funny at the time. The sad thing is that the potential seems to be here for what could have been a fun sci-fi romp but it trips all over itself with its main characters dooming that potential.

Plugabugz is right that the whole reason for Rihanna to appear and be in the film is filler. It's sort of a like a side-quest in a video game. That said, I don't mind detours like that in the plot if it's interesting allowing you to see new details and enrich the setting of the world. Ultimately, though, it does all feel rather pointless when you think about it after so it doesn't quite succeed. I thought the point was to avoid a diplomatic incident yet by the end, Valerian is clearly showing his face as he fights the aliens so won't there still be an incident? Also, Bubbles dying in his arms was another Fifth Element flashback of the blue alien opera singer dying in Bruce Willis's arms. If you can put up with a rather flimsy plot and annoying characters with mind-numbing dialogue then you may be able to find some enjoyment I did in some of the action, settings, visuals and costumes. 5/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on August 11, 2017, 03:23:49 PM
Regarding what you said about Groot in GotG Vol 2 - teenage Groot is the version that is going to be in Avengers Infinity War.

Good. I'm more interested in this movie now than I was a day ago.  ;D
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on August 11, 2017, 10:04:40 PM
Regarding what you said about Groot in GotG Vol 2 - teenage Groot is the version that is going to be in Avengers Infinity War.


Good. I'm more interested in this movie now than I was a day ago.  ;D

Just remember that GotG2 took place in 2014 right after GotG1, but the flashback at the end took place while you were watching the movie in the theater (2017).

yes, that was a live feed into Groot's bedroom.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on August 12, 2017, 01:18:05 PM
Watched Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders last night, and it was just as silly & dumb as I expected. Surprisingly, the thing that really didn't work for me? The 3 returning actors. They may have had the energy & the acting ability, but none of them could hide how old their voices sounded, which clashed extremely poorly with the apparent age of their characters. Catwoman in particular didn't work for me, and it's a shame because it's clear that she's still "got it." She just sounds like an 80 year old woman playing a 20 year old femme fatalle.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on August 12, 2017, 02:10:20 PM
Well, they won't be making another one...so you don't have to worry.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on August 12, 2017, 02:16:36 PM
Well, they won't be making another one...so you don't have to worry.

And you'd be wrong, there: Adam West recorded one last performance with Batman vs. Two-Face. http://batman-news.com/2017/08/07/adam-wests-final-batman-movie-batman-vs-two-face-gets-a-release-date/
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on August 13, 2017, 01:23:45 AM
You foiled my dark sense of humor.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on August 18, 2017, 09:19:04 PM
Alien Covenant: They Should have made Neil Blomkamp's movie/10

This movies is a fat meandering mess of a movie. There are good stuff in this movie, but you have to sit through a bunch of boring garbage to get to it. It seems Ridley Scott was confused which movie he was working on. This has some excellent blade runner elements, but it tries to go Kubrik and forgets it's an Alien movie. It's also kind of a not as good Forbidden planet.

Creature of the Black Lagoon 8/10 Excellent. It gets to go the point, it gives you what you want.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on August 19, 2017, 10:42:47 AM
The Hitman's Bodyguard: Whoever made the trailer had a far better feel of the tone of this movie than the actual director. SLJ and Ryan Reynolds was fantastic together, but the tone kept jumping back and forth between their high-energy banter, Gary Oldman's mass genocide / war crimes trial and several horribly edited action scenes. When you let Gary Oldman chew the scenery you get The Fifth Element. When you let him *act* you get Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Lack of talent is not an issue.

The directors of John Wick 1 and 2 (one of which went to Atomic Blonde, where the same skillset is shown) are very good at long take action shots it's all done in one go. In THB some of the sequences go on for too long, some action shots quick-cut to another shot within 3 seconds (i counted) repeatedly and the music choices simply cancel out the sheer lunacy that the trailer suggested.

There is many good parts in this movie, Selma Hayek's scenes chief among them, but it needed a better director to make it all come completely together.

Oh, and the CGI work (especially when things blow up and right at the end) is really poor.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on August 19, 2017, 11:11:20 AM
A lot of directors waste master class/charismatic actors. See SPECTOR, Expendables series, NuTreks, Batman with Cloony. Not only were they bad movies they just didn't know what to do with them, were stunt castings or were too star struck afraid to tell them to do their jobs or give them materials about their characters.

RED is not remotely high level cinema but they knew how to use Hopkins who stole the show whenever he showed up.

If you really want to see direction go off the rails watch Man of Tai Chi where Keanu Reeves directs himself resulting in a so bad it's bad. It's like an alien directed this movie. Thankfully he realised he is rubbish at directing and hasn't don't it since.

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on August 19, 2017, 07:22:19 PM
I was at a friend's house and the fight scenes of the man of Tai Chi laughable. So slow.

Revenge of the creature 8/10 The Creature from the Black Lagoon is back. He's been kidnapped and hauled to Florida. Mayhem ensues.

Edit: the forum now has double post prevention :-)  !
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on August 19, 2017, 09:10:29 PM
What?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on August 19, 2017, 09:10:35 PM
Since when?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on August 19, 2017, 09:56:14 PM
I got a message saying:

You already submitted this post! You might have accidentally double clicked or tried to refresh.

Which, I quite liked given how it used to be problematic.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on August 20, 2017, 01:37:47 AM
I was at a friend's house and the fight scenes of the man of Tai Chi laughable. So slow.
It was overly choreographed and full of quick cuts for something that is slower than normal. It didn't help that Tiger never takes any damage unless the movie thematically calls for it.

It's an amazing feat to have so many fighting styles in a movie and to somehow make them all boring.

I did laugh when they brought out the Shaolin Temple Bronze man technique. I was hoping Tiger would almost lose or even look tired all the fruitless punching ala Homer Simpson technique but nope, just breaks down into another normal fight. The movie couldn't even hold it's gimmicks.

The last fight looked weird as it seemed entirely green screened despite having a physical set. When they came to punches Kenau looked like CGI Neo from the matrix.

The cop sub plot line gets half aborted as Tiger never goes undercover nor does he have any interaction with the cop beside the initial offer.

Chinese propaganda gets in on the action showing what would be considered asshole behaviour as virtues and Hong Kong cops being corrupt. The arrest of literal everyone at the fight club was to conform to the rule that all criminals must be punished or caught if you want to release the movie in China hence the sub plot.

People kept recommending this movie to me including my mom but it just affirmed they don't know a bad movie when it grabs them by their throats.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on August 20, 2017, 03:11:24 PM
The Dark Tower - A lot of the same problems as The Hitman's Bodyguard (director not experienced enough to make this work), but with a whole host of plot problems that get skipped over because the runtime is a short 95 minutes.

Jake lost his father in an accident, then later on he finds his stepdad dead on the floor (which he completely ignores by yelling MOM! and goes to find her), finds his mother burnt into ashes and then mourns her. End of the movie, he makes no mention of the fact that he's effectively been orphaned three times over

Then Roland is immune to Walter's powers but nobody explains why. Later in the movie he says "are bullets rare on earth too?" which makes me wonder, if thats true then why not use other weapons first? When he's on earth he goes into a gun shop, takes loads of ammunition and walks right back out but nobody calls the police. At one point he's telling Jake about the titular tower and says things like "protecting us from what's outside the universe". How does he know this, who taught him and why is it the tower protects "the universe" but cannot from those inside it?

I'm pretty sure the book is better, but the movie is definitely one of those things where it should have been given a LOT of extra time to breathe and develop itself (ala The Expanse).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on August 20, 2017, 05:33:31 PM
95 minute movie withdrawn from a novel?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on August 21, 2017, 06:15:22 AM
Yes that's the runtime. There's several scenes which run at a blinding pace, and could take a moment to breathe and even ask "why?" or just ponder for a moment to let the characters grow. But it cuts smoothly into the next scene and kept moving forward.

That's good if you like short films, but not so much if it has to chop everything to the bone to make that runtime work. Guardians of the Galaxy 1 had a similar runtime, but that felt "just right" (if they added or removed a few minutes it wouldn't have mattered too much)

I forgot another plot hole. In the movie, Jake realises he has psychic powers, because someone told him, then starts using them with no training or practice.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on August 21, 2017, 03:46:57 PM
Guardians of the Galaxy was based off of comic books,  so it could just focus on one story.

Though, 1930s movies are really short and based off novels.  Dracula is 85 minutes. Wizard of Oz is 102 minutes. It cuts out the doll country episode and greatly alters the Witch's appearance, leaves out some of the more morbid origin stories, but overall it's pretty close to the book.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on August 21, 2017, 04:06:47 PM
The Wizard of Oz books are so good. I started reading them a few years back, but stopped when I got too busy at work.  Might pick them up again.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on August 21, 2017, 07:33:41 PM
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

What was the point of this movie? It was beautifully shot and the CGI was very impressive, but the story felt like a depressed Forrest Gump retread.

Also, the accent of the old lady was atrocious. She narrated the first part of the movie and I couldn't understand a thing she said.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on August 21, 2017, 08:33:06 PM
The Wizard of Oz books are so good. I started reading them a few years back, but stopped when I got too busy at work.  Might pick them up again.

I actually read the first one AT work. I worked at a call center, and for a month I was put on this weird discount project where we only got about single call a day. For the most part the internet was blocked out, but I could read google books. I read Wizard of Oz and a few Life Magazines from the 40s-60s. Turns out people whining about teenage girls dressing risqué was always a thing. Also, was interested to read WWII events from the perspective of the time and not filtered to us through modern media.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on August 22, 2017, 10:27:05 AM
Wonder Woman
Saw this about two months ago. I didn't think Wonder Woman was as amazing as reviews made it out to be. It's good, not great which is comforting since the previous two Detective Comics Comics movies were subpar. From what I remember, Wonder Woman's three biggest sins:

1. There's an unnecessary amount of slow-motion. Felt like Patty Jenkins tried to channel Zack Snyder. She isn't Zack Snyder, and that's a good thing. Snyder can direct an action scene well and like literally nothing else. I don't know if she was pressured into adhering to the aesthetic of Batman v Superman (or felt like she had to as part of a shared universe). Honestly, I think Jenkins is better than the final product. If she returns for the sequel, I'd like it to feel more her own.

2. The third act is the weak link. The plot twists were not as shocking as the writers thought they'd be. The villain delivers a fairly lengthy exposition dump. The villain is also not great, mostly due to being absent until the third act.

3. Maybe this is related to the above. My girlfriend said, "Of course, a female superhero would use love to defeat her enemies." I disagreed. I felt like Wonder Woman used love because it's the opposite of war which is less ridiculous but still ridiculous. It's lazy writing. I didn't buy the love story. Diana and Steve knew each other for a few weeks at best (depending on how long Steve was in Themyscira).

Spider-Man: Homecoming
Saw this on Sunday. Excellent. Spider-Man is my favorite superhero, and this is now my favorite Spider-Man film. I saw Spider-Man 2 again a few years ago, and it hasn't aged well. What it gets wrong, Spider-Man: Homecoming gets right. It doesn't dwell or even mention Uncle Ben. It never puts Aunt May or a (potential) love interest in mortal danger. Besides external antagonists, the film looks inward. It addresses Peter's internal conflict better than any previous Spider-Man film. Peter has a very believable character arc. He begins by spending his days counting the hours until he can be Spider-Man again, and ends by learning that it's a balance. Spider-Man isn't his life, merely one part of it. In a way, being Spider-Man is a sacrifice. Peter learns Uncle Ben's famous words without it being force fed to the audience.

I struggle to find any major negatives. Michael Keaton was an excellent villain. His motivation is refreshing, especially as far as Spider-Man villains. If I had to nitpick:

1. Explaining the Ferris Beuller reference. It was well-done until Watts cut to a TV playing Ferris Beuller. The 1989 Batman reference was great though.

2. Zendaya as "MJ" was just Joseph Gordon Levitt as "Robin". Either commit to it or don't. I wouldn't have had any problem with Zendaya playing Mary Jane Watson. I'm not a comic book purist so I generally don't care about changing a character's appearance such as race or gender as long as it doesn't matter. This is a little complicated for something that's ultimately inconsequential. Mary Jane Watson is a boring character. She's a love interest or damsel in distress depending on which lazy writing serves the story when she shows up, and supermodel hot because comic books. Generally speaking, while I think it's worth changing a character to make her more interesting, I wonder if that change makes it not worth referring to her as the same character anymore. So she's "MJ" but not the MJ. They went half-way with it though I don't really know why the connection even had to be there. Still, I liked Zendaya in the film. She did a good job. Michelle was funny, interesting, and the kind of off-beat that better fits Peter. And they set her up for future installments really well. She was present yet unobtrusive which is really good long-term storytelling. Nice try attempting to make Zendaya frumpy though. You can frizzy-up her hair, but she's still hella good-looking.

Again, really minor quibbles.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on August 26, 2017, 09:55:29 AM
Wind River - 8/10
Pretty decent movie. Definitely worth a watch if you're into crime movies, though it's not like a heist or something (it's actually way worse). Really good acting.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on August 30, 2017, 10:49:57 AM
I watched the BluRay of Batman & Harley Quinn and...wow, that was pretty bad. I can't make up my mind if I hate this movie, or if it's just a colossal disappointment. It's a wacky comedy that's not funny, & Big Bang Theory lady waffles between being a passable Arleen Sorkin knockoff & just being awful. The art is also amazingly inconsistent. In the same scene, I've seen Batman's head go off-model & out-of-proportion multiple times. While it was neat seeing some character designs from Batman: TAS return & Conroy & Larzo sound like they never left as Batman & Night wing, this movie's just a huge letdown. You're better off watching the classic B:TAS EPs "Harley's Holiday" & "Harley & Ivy" that are on the BluRay.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on August 31, 2017, 11:21:06 AM
kaley cuoco has never being a good actress... wait, looks up *imdb* ehh Melissa Rauch? That is a surprise, her big shtick on BBT is that she does good and consistent voices.

She hasn't done much else other than riding BBT hard as it looks like it is 95% of all the work she has ever done. I don't think she is going to get much work post BBT.

Maybe they got her for the Star Power??? Honestly Conroy is the big draw only equalled by Hamill.

But her performance wasn't good as she completely over does the accent and it didn't have any playfulness to it. You could tell immediately it was bad even if your memory from TAS was hazy. It was like she was still doing Brenadett. The script was pretty alright making up.

I liked the humour but I enjoy what can be considered puerile or crass. The story enjoyable using the characters well within the situation they were in. But there was a lot of tonal whiplash which lessened as Batman loosened up a bit.

But wow people were using real guns and not "lasers" with people dying left and right.

The ending had me laughing pretty hard as they intentionally deflated it and used what would be an obvious solution into a joke one. The post credit is pretty funny.

It is irrelevant, funny in the right mindset, pokes fun at the duo, Harley is good even if her voice was terrible. It was enjoyable for what it is. It's no Harley's Holiday" & "Harley & Ivy" but those are some of the best episodes of the series making it hard to measure up to.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on August 31, 2017, 08:51:19 PM
Yeah, I suppose there's just stuff about this movie that rubbed me completely the wrong way as someone who loves Batman: TAS. For instance, why is THIS incarnation of Harley a total slut? Seriously, WTF is going on with Bruce Timm? After all the crap he got for shoehorning in a sex scene between Batman & Batgirl in Killing Joke, he decided to double-DOWN on it by having Harley & Nightwing have bondage sex with weird tickle stuff afterwards? Not to mention, all the gratuitous swearing, Harley's butt being like twice the size it's ever been, & that breast thrust & shake she does in the bar scene.

Then there's the scene at the bar, where the entire movie just grinds to a halt for, like, 7 minutes (an eternity in animation time), for 2 musical numbers that contributed nothing to the movie (outside a nice Rob Paulsen duo performance). This whole movie is just so tonally inconsistent with even the version of Batman in Mystery of the Batwoman (another B:TAS comedy).

This movie was billed as a tribute to one of the greatest animated series ever made, & it failed at that. Consider, for a moment, the Return of the Caper Crusaders movie, which was a tribute to the Adam West Batman series. He goes evil in that movie, but he's so hilariously dorky as an "evil" person (he basically rants at people about how useless they were in the 60s show until they turn over power to him in shame) that it's hilarious AND consistent with that version of Batman.

Batman in B&HQ is a dumbass, Nightwing's a Playboy, & Harley's a slut. Just rubs me the wrong way, and it reminds me of the infamous line from Jurassic Park: "You people were so caught up in if you COULD do something that you never stopped to think if you SHOULD."
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on August 31, 2017, 09:22:03 PM
I haven't heard the performance, but I can't lay too into Melissa Rauch. The problem with these fly by night OVA movies is voice actors don't sink into the roles. Just look at the Simpsons. It took Dan Castellanetta a while to perfect Homer. Nobody has quite captured Arleen Sorkin because the character was tailored around her. Margot Robbie did more of her own thing.

I'd imagine Melissa Rauch would sound like Betty Boop trying to do a Harley Quinn.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aoj5qIZvwWA
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on September 01, 2017, 12:01:23 AM
Aside from just wanting a big(?) name, though, I don't get why they recast Harley. The role's been Tara Strong's ever since Arleen Sorkin retired. And after playing Injustice 2, it's pretty clear that she's finally mastered it. Her voice actually sounds natural now.

https://youtu.be/0o0-TcB4zg4

By comparison...the new girl...

https://youtu.be/QgE0k_V5VrA

I wonder if Tara had some contractual reason she couldn't be in this.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on September 01, 2017, 12:19:57 AM
Yeah, I suppose there's just stuff about this movie that rubbed me completely the wrong way as someone who loves Batman: TAS. For instance, why is THIS incarnation of Harley a total slut? Seriously, WTF is going on with Bruce Timm? After all the crap he got for shoehorning in a sex scene between Batman & Batgirl in Killing Joke, he decided to double-DOWN on it by having Harley & Nightwing have bondage sex with weird tickle stuff afterwards? Not to mention, all the gratuitous swearing, Harley's butt being like twice the size it's ever been, & that breast thrust & shake she does in the bar scene.

Batman in B&HQ is a dumbass, Nightwing's a Playboy, & Harley's a slut. Just rubs me the wrong way, and it reminds me of the infamous line from Jurassic Park: "You people were so caught up in if you COULD do something that you never stopped to think if you SHOULD."

Don't go there! PULL UP, PULL UP!!

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on September 01, 2017, 12:32:42 AM
Yeah, I suppose there's just stuff about this movie that rubbed me completely the wrong way as someone who loves Batman: TAS. For instance, why is THIS incarnation of Harley a total slut? Seriously, WTF is going on with Bruce Timm? After all the crap he got for shoehorning in a sex scene between Batman & Batgirl in Killing Joke, he decided to double-DOWN on it by having Harley & Nightwing have bondage sex with weird tickle stuff afterwards? Not to mention, all the gratuitous swearing, Harley's butt being like twice the size it's ever been, & that breast thrust & shake she does in the bar scene.

Batman in B&HQ is a dumbass, Nightwing's a Playboy, & Harley's a slut. Just rubs me the wrong way, and it reminds me of the infamous line from Jurassic Park: "You people were so caught up in if you COULD do something that you never stopped to think if you SHOULD."

Don't go there! PULL UP, PULL UP!!

That's what she (Harley) said. :P
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on September 01, 2017, 12:33:39 AM
Yeah, I suppose there's just stuff about this movie that rubbed me completely the wrong way as someone who loves Batman: TAS. For instance, why is THIS incarnation of Harley a total slut? Seriously, WTF is going on with Bruce Timm? After all the crap he got for shoehorning in a sex scene between Batman & Batgirl in Killing Joke, he decided to double-DOWN on it by having Harley & Nightwing have bondage sex with weird tickle stuff afterwards? Not to mention, all the gratuitous swearing, Harley's butt being like twice the size it's ever been, & that breast thrust & shake she does in the bar scene.

Batman in B&HQ is a dumbass, Nightwing's a Playboy, & Harley's a slut. Just rubs me the wrong way, and it reminds me of the infamous line from Jurassic Park: "You people were so caught up in if you COULD do something that you never stopped to think if you SHOULD."

Don't go there! PULL UP, PULL UP!!

That's what she (Harley) said. :P:

You went off the deep end, not cool, very not cool.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on September 01, 2017, 12:39:59 AM
Yeah, I suppose there's just stuff about this movie that rubbed me completely the wrong way as someone who loves Batman: TAS. For instance, why is THIS incarnation of Harley a total slut? Seriously, WTF is going on with Bruce Timm? After all the crap he got for shoehorning in a sex scene between Batman & Batgirl in Killing Joke, he decided to double-DOWN on it by having Harley & Nightwing have bondage sex with weird tickle stuff afterwards? Not to mention, all the gratuitous swearing, Harley's butt being like twice the size it's ever been, & that breast thrust & shake she does in the bar scene.

Batman in B&HQ is a dumbass, Nightwing's a Playboy, & Harley's a slut. Just rubs me the wrong way, and it reminds me of the infamous line from Jurassic Park: "You people were so caught up in if you COULD do something that you never stopped to think if you SHOULD."

Don't go there! PULL UP, PULL UP!!

That's what she (Harley) said. :P:

You went off the deep end, not cool, very not cool.

Hyperbole aside, I'm just fed up with Harley's depictions outside the animated series. In almost every version except Injustice 2 & Lego Batman, the creators take this playful, psychotic, sympathetic character...and they sex her up. It really bugs me. Starting with the 1st Arkham game & ending with this film & suicide squad, and her depictions have grown increasingly crude & sexual, along with her outfit. It's something that's bugged me for years considering this was a goofy character created for a children's cartoon who eventually became a symbol (of sorts) for domestic violence.

Just sayin', is it really too much to ask for this character to be treated with something akin to class...especially considering (once again) that this is supposed to be a tribute to the very series that created her?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on September 01, 2017, 12:41:05 AM
You already did the damage mate.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on September 01, 2017, 04:27:50 AM
Oh yeah, doesn't do the accent right. She sounds more like Lois Griffon. Melissa Rauch is also really nasally.  I kinda feel like I could do the voice better. It's pretty close to my talking to cats voice.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: pokepal148 on September 01, 2017, 04:37:21 PM
Yeah, I suppose there's just stuff about this movie that rubbed me completely the wrong way as someone who loves Batman: TAS. For instance, why is THIS incarnation of Harley a total slut? Seriously, WTF is going on with Bruce Timm? After all the crap he got for shoehorning in a sex scene between Batman & Batgirl in Killing Joke, he decided to double-DOWN on it by having Harley & Nightwing have bondage sex with weird tickle stuff afterwards? Not to mention, all the gratuitous swearing, Harley's butt being like twice the size it's ever been, & that breast thrust & shake she does in the bar scene.

Batman in B&HQ is a dumbass, Nightwing's a Playboy, & Harley's a slut. Just rubs me the wrong way, and it reminds me of the infamous line from Jurassic Park: "You people were so caught up in if you COULD do something that you never stopped to think if you SHOULD."

Don't go there! PULL UP, PULL UP!!

That's what she (Harley) said. :P:

You went off the deep end, not cool, very not cool.

Hyperbole aside, I'm just fed up with Harley's depictions outside the animated series. In almost every version except Injustice 2 & Lego Batman, the creators take this playful, psychotic, sympathetic character...and they sex her up. It really bugs me. Starting with the 1st Arkham game & ending with this film & suicide squad, and her depictions have grown increasingly crude & sexual, along with her outfit. It's something that's bugged me for years considering this was a goofy character created for a children's cartoon who eventually became a symbol (of sorts) for domestic violence.

Just sayin', is it really too much to ask for this character to be treated with something akin to class...especially considering (once again) that this is supposed to be a tribute to the very series that created her?
Don't you want to rev up your Harley? *vroom* *vroom*
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on September 01, 2017, 06:19:09 PM
That line, IIRC, is from a single scene in Mad Love (the same scene where Harley emerges from a pan of pudding singing a variant on the Birthday Song, in the most suggestive moment of the entire show). Yeah, that's extremely suggestive, but that's the point: it's suggestive. It's innuendo. And it's also in an episode explicitly about the long, kinky, destructive relationship between Joker & Harley. That puts it already on an entirely different level than what Batman & Harley does. B & H can just explicitly show the thing B:TAS would hint at in metaphor & innuendo...so it does.

It's also one scene in one episode of the Final Season of Batman: TAS (a season that was notorious for pushing its luck with the censors) and that's as far as the show ever went with that. Even Return of the Joker, as messed-up as THAT movie is, was classier than that.

So yeah, maybe it sounds petty, but this movie's take on Harley bugged me.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on September 01, 2017, 07:59:58 PM
Has Bruce Timm has went nuts and is now some sort of cartoon fetish pervert? Maybe he always was.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on September 01, 2017, 08:38:35 PM
So yeah, maybe it sounds petty, but this movie's take on Harley bugged me.

You don't sound petty, you sound something far more insulting I just can't put a word to right now.

Has Bruce Timm has went nuts and is now some sort of cartoon fetish pervert? Maybe he always was.

Like the violence I think he knows that the audience for B:TAS has grown up and given the opportunity has pushed the boundary. If anything I don't think he has pushed it at all as you wouldn't blink twice if this happened in a live action movie.

It is still a heck of a alot better than The Dark Knight Returns with all it's military hardware Batman uses pretends to not kill anyone.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on September 02, 2017, 12:47:09 AM
You know nothing, Jon Snow!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on September 02, 2017, 11:06:52 PM
Fiend without a Face 6/10 - Entertaining. It has some stuff in common with Forbidden Planet. It makes me wonder if the comic watchman had some inspiration from this movie. Or even Twin Peaks.

The Thing from Another World 8/10 - excellent set design. An aged movie, but still a classic.

The Thing 82' 10/10 - I've probably rated it before, but it may just be my favorite movie.

The Thing 2011 7.8/10 - This movie does a particularly good job of recreating what happened to the Norwegian camp of The Thing. Interestingly enough, because of this, it is somewhat of a remake of The Thing From Another World as what happened in the Norwegian camp is pretty much the same as what happened in The Thing From Another World. This movie is marred by bad CGI. It's a shame as they made the film practically and the suits decided to cover it up  because it  "looked too much like a cheesy 80s sc-ifi film." It has some good acting, but lackluster pacing. It doesn't quite capture the excellent depiction of paranoia of the 82 version. Like the Thing it is an imitation of the real thing. It is also quite thin that you can see there was another draft of this movie where Childs and Macready  traveled to this camp, but that was changed in favor of a backstory for The Thing 82' (which is a better choice)

The Blob 58' 8/10 - That ending hit's home pretty hard nowadays. I said "awww ****!"
at the end of the movie the airforce drops the blob off in arctic. One of the lines is something like "i guess we'll be fine as long as theres ice in the north pole!" Then it ends with a The End? 

The Blob 88'  8/10 - Good ass effects. It was interesting to watch them back to back.

They Live! 8/10  - Consistently relevant.

Leviathan 7.8/10: A fine example of an 80s creature feature. Stan Winston does the effects.

The Deadly Spawn 8/10 - Despite some budget shortcomings this movie has a lot going for it. The monsters look pretty good. This one also has a more exploitation bent, which is nice.

Harbinger Down 6.5/10 - Great effects, not so great movie. The movie could have used a better director of photography. Though watch this movie immediately after watching Life 2017. It makes it a little better. You could watch them pretty continuously. Even though i'm sure most people would never notice that.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on September 09, 2017, 01:11:51 AM
IT - 9/10
Just got back from seeing it, the theater was packed, in fact they oversold the 9:00 and people (including my brother and myself) had to wait for the 10:00. This could be due to the impending doom of Hurricane Irma (I live on the east coast of central Florida), I'm not sure if any other theaters were open. Anyway - the cast was amazing, not just for being kids, but they were truly excellent. When I first saw pictures of Pennywise I thought they were going to ruin the movie by trying to make him look scary, and I was wrong. The Tim Curry version of Pennywise (while excellent) would not have worked as well in this movie - they made the right decision. The movie does have some genuinely scary parts - sure they're mostly jump scares, but not all of them. If you've seen the trailer or anything, or the old movie, then this isn't exactly a spoiler, but I was actually shocked to see that they actually show Pennywise kill Georgie in the beginning, and it's pretty graphic too, that's not something you see very often in movies. I guess you could also consider this a spoiler, but not if you've read the book or have seen the Tim Curry version, but when the credits begin to roll, the title appears on the screen, but this time it says "IT Chapter One" so you know there's a sequel coming - which is the second half of the book...also it's already been announced anyway. I highly recommend going to see it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on September 18, 2017, 05:41:41 PM
Mother! - What on earth did i just watch? This just fell off a cliff into insanity really quickly. I can't really construct a view on this movie. It's utterly weird. Khush, anyone, ANYONE else please watch this.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on September 18, 2017, 06:47:38 PM
How weird is it?

Is it like Under the Skin weird? Hiroshima Mon Amour weird? Un Chien Andalou weird? Jean Luc Godard's Weekend weird?

I was kind of interested in the movie based on the cast and director but the posters and plot description really didn't seem to provide much detail to go on as to what it might be about or what it might be like. When I saw a trailer for it last month, it just killed my interest. Besides the whole setting looking like it is in a poorly lit house the whole time, the plot of some woman perhaps going mad from strangers with the obtuse mystery of what is behind this mystery just seemed like a weak story to care about or make me motivated to watch. Seeing all the negative reviews and reactions wasn't much of a surprise to me since the trailer alone gave me a negative reaction in seeing the film but I am surprised at how highly publicized the negative reaction has been.

I'd probably never get around to watching it if it wasn't for the fact that plugabugz has semi-requested that I do so. Now I'm seriously considering checking it out. Peer pressure's still got it!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on September 18, 2017, 09:57:38 PM
All i know about the movie is that it got a Cinema Score of F
JLaw got a pretty good payday out of it, and she is dating the director.
also that it was so WTF.... that no one apparently liked it. Not sure if it's because the trailers didn't depict the movie or there was just no way to convey the movie in the trailers anyway.

But definitely a late night Netflix before I go to sleep movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on September 19, 2017, 08:16:07 AM
How weird is it?

Is it like Under the Skin weird?

Under The Skin was weird but in an alien "i'm not of this place" kind of way. You could see it in Scarlett Johannsen's eyes - everything to her was of a foreign land (not counting that she was in Scotland, but you know....).

Mother! is just weird because there's several huge leaps, in time, logic, plot and overall point.

One example was after both characters just slept together, she wakes up in the morning and tells him she's pregnant. He asks how do you know, she says "i just know". The next scene you see her with a baby bump and she's decorating the room for the baby. That to me suggested a timejump, but other "time ambiguous" events happen.

Clearly the marketing didn't know what to do because the trailer shows Jennifer Lawrence and even suggesting that Michelle Pfieffer is the real antagonist of the film - she isn't, both her and Ed Harris only appear in the middle run then promptly vanish. From THE scene (it's the scene when PLOT SPOILER HERE she has the baby and He takes the baby downstairs to the crowd who promptly kill the baby and then carve him up to eat); from that point to the end) the movie just goes completely apeshit.

If you strip out the religious allegory layered through the film it's ultimately about a couple in which the woman does all the work but the man gets all the praise and attention from literally everyone, and her love for him is completely and utterly undeserved.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on September 21, 2017, 10:44:47 AM
Finally saw Wonder Woman yesterday. Eh...it was OK, I guess. Like Adrock, the movie's 3rd act is so incredibly weak that it almost ruined the movie for me. And man, is Gal Gadot's acting spotty. Sometimes, she's really convincing. Other times, she's on par with Tommy Wissaeu.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on September 21, 2017, 05:21:52 PM
Kingsman: The Golden Circle. I tried to avoid the trailers (which is hard to do when you go as much as i do), but at 140 minutes again this movie is too long. You can easily cut out ~20 minutes (a minute here, a minute there rather than entire scenes) and the film would be leaner for it. Gravity is 91 minutes, and at the end there probably is not a single scene i'd cut out because it was so aggressively taut (both in pacing and suspense) that when it ends you can almost relax.

The upside is that the director is much better skilled at action shots and resists editing them to death, so you can actually watch rather than waste brain power trying to see everything quickly before it cuts to the next shot.

The weak link in this whole movie though is Julianne Moore's character, she had such little urgency that all of her scenes were from her secret hideaway. Channing Tatum is also wasted too, appearing when Statesman does then literally is sidelined until the tail end of the movie. Samuel L Jackson, this is not.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on October 09, 2017, 04:50:31 AM
Blade Runner 2049 - What a visually gorgeous movie. The visuals was truly, truly a sight to see. I haven't seen the first BR, so i went in blind. But i was able to pick it up quite easily, so it isnt impenetrable to those who haven't seen the first. There's a shot almost immediately as the film begins as K lands his ship and steps out into the foggy vista - the camera pulls back and you get this extremely cool shot of him just standing in his long flowing jacket. The only thing that breaks up the fog is the clean lines of his clothing and his ship doors.

The music was great in places (another Hans Zimmer production), some notes that really help to sell the awe of what you're looking at. And then he drowns it in heavy techno bass.

Denis Villneuve is definitely one of my favourite directors of recent times (Arrival is one of my favourite movies of 2016) and he was definitely up to the task of recreating this universe. The design, details, and mood was fantastic and he took his time with all the shots to make sure you appreciated it too.

Which again brought up my chief complaint - at 160 minutes its too long and spent too long being relaxed about it's mood.

But if that's my only complaint then this is still a really good movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on October 09, 2017, 06:59:52 AM
Probably one of the most interesting reviews I'll hear before I watch the movie. Not too many people are going to 1) See it blind 2) See it without seeing the original.

Arrival was a nice surprise of a movie. I like Aliens, and I like Constructed languages. so it was intended for my niche.

Also, did not find out it was already out until yesterday. Marketing team failed. Sometimes movies come out and you think they are still coming out, when they're actually leaving theaters. So, if it doesn't do well at the box office, then it was advertisers.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on October 09, 2017, 11:13:46 AM
Kingsmen: The Golden circle

Very enjoyable. The action is a bit over the top and doesn't reach the awesome peak of the first with the church fight and the final with the maid. The gore has been turned up to good effect.

Julianne Moore as always smoking hot and absolutely sold her character. Again an excellent villain that defies expectations. Her motivations are well understood and her actions are consistent with who she is.

The humour has been turned up 300% and I approve. But it is not without that emotional kick in the teeth to balance it off. A real tear jerker and a heart warmer.

It links up with the first movie well and it doesn't require you to see the first but seeing the first definitely helps you get close to the characters and understand their relationships. Almost everything gets a setup so it doesn't come out of nowhere which they use to full effect by pulling the rug from under you at times, constantly playing with your expectations.

It does drag a little but that is more due to impatience for what you know is going to happen to happen. Being a sequel does mean it loses some of that freshness of the first but they change it up enough so it doesn't fall into that "Exactly more of the same" hole that produces inferior movies. With the flavour change it gets to keep some of that freshness.

There is a sequel hook but it isn't presume that it is going to get a sequel leaving you with a non-ending pretending to be a cliffhanger *Cough, SW:TFA*. It is a complete story like the first and if more are made that option is open.

So many movies these days presume that they are going to have a guarantee sequel or from the outset to be some sort of movie universe where they can endlessly derive products from. This results in no thought given to the ending when you could do it "Later".

In a bit of a surprise Channing Tatum managed to do some acting or at least went home playing as someone from his native Alabama. Normally every time I see him I want to throw the proverbial tomato at him for being someone so bad at acting yet still remain employed. I saw him as that character instead of Channing Tatum as Channing Tatum. Good job for once.

If you liked the first you will enjoy this just as much.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on October 19, 2017, 08:20:54 PM
Thor Ragnarok - 10/10
Just kidding it's not out yet.

Blade Runner 2049 - 9/10
So much better than the original. Let's face it, the original (no matter which cut), is not a good movie. People say it is, but it's not. It has good ideas, but it's executed poorly. Anyway...the sequel is amazing. It builds up kind of slowly, like the original, but it actually has some payoff in the end, unlike the original. It's a shame that it's "bombing" at the box office, because it deserves to be seen.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on October 24, 2017, 04:43:09 PM
Thor Ragnarok - 10/10
Just kidding it's not out yet.

It is now, and it's 1 the best Thor movie by miles and 2 probably the best movie in the MCU. I called it "delightfully awkward" when i left, and it definitely is. The chemistry across the entire cast is sparkling, everyone actually looks like they're having fun (which is really REALLY hard to do in a movie), and its the most un-Marvel movie in the MCU by the fact that at the end of the movie they deliberately stop trying to save the world and go and cause the end of the world instead.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Shorty McNostril on October 24, 2017, 04:51:50 PM
I'm seeing Thor tonight.  Most excited.  And the missus always loves a couple of hour oogling session at Mr Hemsworth.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on October 24, 2017, 06:11:52 PM
I'm seeing Thor tonight.  Most excited.  And the missus always loves a couple of hour oogling session at Mr Hemsworth.

I hear there are some shirtless scenes, so be ready for some post movie play time.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Shorty McNostril on October 24, 2017, 06:28:06 PM
I hear there are some shirtless scenes, so be ready for some post movie play time.

Bahahahah.

Um I don't think that will be happening lol.  Let's just say that I am NOT like Mr Hemsworth.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on October 24, 2017, 07:19:03 PM
I hear there are some shirtless scenes, so be ready for some post movie play time.

Bahahahah.

Um I don't think that will be happening lol.  Let's just say that I am NOT like Mr Hemsworth.


that's why she keeps her eyes closed, or turn the lights out, and play pretend. I'd work on the accent a little if I were you. LOL
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Shorty McNostril on October 24, 2017, 10:04:32 PM
that's why she keeps her eyes closed, or turn the lights out, and play pretend. I'd work on the accent a little if I were you. LOL

The accent is the one thing that I have nailed.  Chris Hemsworth is my fellow countryman after all.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on October 25, 2017, 12:03:24 AM
In Hemsworth's accent... [insert "can handle Thor's hammer" joke here]
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Shorty McNostril on October 25, 2017, 08:52:50 AM
Well, that was excellent.  Reviews are spot on.  Laughs all the way through.  Must also confess that Ms Blanchet looks HELLA *cough* sexy in that catsuit lol.

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on October 25, 2017, 10:09:47 AM
Good. HYPE is increasing.

1 week to go till IMAX 3D
even paid a little extra for reserved seating so I don't have to wait out in the cold for an hour just to get in line super early to find a decent seat.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Shorty McNostril on October 25, 2017, 10:18:53 AM
Korg is one of the best characters in the whole show.  You'll know why instantly.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on October 25, 2017, 12:13:49 PM
Korg is one of the best characters in the whole show.  You'll know why instantly.

Because he is Waititi?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on October 25, 2017, 01:53:13 PM
Korg is one of the best characters in the whole show.  You'll know why instantly.

He was fantastic. Apparently he will appear more in future films, and deservedly so.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on November 02, 2017, 11:32:04 PM
Thor Ragnarok - 8.5/10
It's really, really good. Doesn't seem to do *too* much for the MCU as a whole until the mid-credits scene, but it's a really fun, and very funny movie. It's really basically a stand-along Thor/Hulk buddy movie. Can't say too much about it, but a lot of scenes from trailers or TV spots are either not in the movie, or very different. It's not the greatest MCU movie, but it should be one of the most re-watchable MCU movies.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on November 03, 2017, 01:50:16 AM
I agree with the above.

The trailers are a little misleading, which is good, because even though I recognize things from the trailers, they weren't in the movie exactly like you saw it in the trailer.
Very funny and enjoyable movie though. Probably will be the easiest to re-watch for those that like to watch over and over again.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on November 03, 2017, 12:06:14 PM
Also if Korg and Meik don't get their own movie trilogy, it will be a crime against humanity.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on November 03, 2017, 02:07:45 PM
Also if Korg and Meik don't get their own movie trilogy, it will be a crime against humanity.

...they were talking about bringing back the One Shots

Korg & Miek meet Lady Sif and try to help her find her way back to Asgard
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Shorty McNostril on November 03, 2017, 04:21:48 PM
Yes.  Bring back Lady Sif!!!!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on November 05, 2017, 03:04:46 PM
Finally got around to seeing Spider-Man Homecoming and...ehh...it was OK, I guess. It's a pretty average film pretty much completely carried by Michael Keaton in the role of the best Marvel villain we've had since...I dunno, the Red Skull? He's not a bad guy. He's just a thief trying to keep his men from losing everything as a result of Tony Stark (because EVERYTHING bad in the MCU eventually comes back to Tony Stark being an asshole. He's like the Guardians of the Green Lantern Corps in that regard).

The new kid's OK, but there's a lot less quipping than I expected.

And what's with Uncle Ben not even being MENTIONED the entire movie?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on November 09, 2017, 10:43:40 AM
The now-legendary Your Name hit BluRay this week, so I finally saw it. Eh...it's good, certainly, but I don't understand how this is one of (if not the) highest grossing anime film ever made. Sure, the animation is outstanding for an anime film, but the entire first half is incredibly dull, formulaic, & confusingly edited. It's not until the film introduces a twist that brings a ticking clock of sorts into play that the movie finally locks into a storyline & succeeds. The second half is just a completely different movie, and to explain why would heavily involve spoilers.

I think the biggest weakness of the film, though, is that I just don't buy the romance. The story is framed around these 2 characters who never meet until very late falling in love, but the movie's in such a hurry to convey the "wackiness" of the body-swapping mechanic that I don't feel like there's ever a scene where they actually bond in their weird, asymmetric way.

Overall, a good film, but I really draw the line at calling it a "great" one. It's just so incredibly sloppy & unfocused.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Shorty McNostril on November 16, 2017, 02:42:55 PM
So yeah....Justice League.

It's definitely better than BvS (no great accomplishment granted) but nowhere near the level of the Avengers though in my opinion.  Story was nothing special but at least it was somewhat coherent.  Now with CGI, I'm not a CGI nerd so it didn't worry me at all. But Steppenwolf is definitely sub par, especially his talking.  As for Cavill's mo, I didn't notice that at all. 

I quite enjoyed all the different characters and I felt they all had their place. 

I won't see it again at the movies, but will certainly watch it again when it releases on home formats.  Hopefully there'll be an extended cut like BvS.


Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on November 17, 2017, 01:04:49 AM
So yeah....Justice League.

It's definitely better than BvS (no great accomplishment granted) but nowhere near the level of the Avengers though in my opinion.  Story was nothing special but at least it was somewhat coherent.  Now with CGI, I'm not a CGI nerd so it didn't worry me at all. But Steppenwolf is definitely sub par, especially his talking.  As for Cavill's mo, I didn't notice that at all. 

I quite enjoyed all the different characters and I felt they all had their place. 

I won't see it again at the movies, but will certainly watch it again when it releases on home formats.  Hopefully there'll be an extended cut like BvS.

Maybe there will be a Snyder Cut and and an extended Whedon cut, w/ finished/polished CG.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on November 18, 2017, 11:17:12 AM
I saw JL last night.

Now while lots of criticism could be had at the movie, I actually enjoyed it. I did go in know full well what all the flaws were, but I was determined to either "laugh with them, or laugh at them, but I'm laughing either way" and I laughed WITH them and AT on this one. A lot of the things people were nitpicking just weren't that noticeable in the flow of the movie. there were some funny parts, and couple of cool scenes, including some straight fan service that were kinda cool, even if one in particular didn't make much sense in the flow of things (Superman catching up to The Flash for that road race in Russia after The Flash had already been running for a while and Supes was just a second ago doing something else). There was also some noticeable CG issues but I don't feel most of it took you out of the movie too much... Supes lip, Steppenwolf, CG background of everything, Aquaman's surfing the demon thing down the building  but hopping out full size over a tiny fence (WTF?), Steppenwolf... did I say that already!? and maybe a few editing errors....

Aquaman wasn't bad. That Dudebro attitude you see in the trailers is in the movie, but he was pretty cool I guess. Mera was also damn hot.

The Flash really wasn't as annoying as you thought he would be based on the trailers. His quirkiness fit the character in the context of the movie. He was actually kinda funny.

Cyborg wasn't nearly as energetic as you're used to seeing him on the Titans, but he was cool. I had no issue with him here. I could see him really lightening up in a future sequel. The scene posted in the other thread apparently had the CG fixed for the US release, as it no longer looked like a Snapchat filter. But I"m really glad they fixed his appearance in the movie at the very end.

Wonder Woman was fine. You can tell it was a Snyder production (vs a Patty Jenkins one) from the gratuitous butt shots and short Amazonian skirts, not to mention the over use of slow-mo to speed up action, but she had a few cool scenes.

Batman was ok. We finally got a bit of prep time Batman, and contingency plan Batman, but he wasn't fully prepared for everything, and not quite the Worlds Best Detective Batman either. Those are things I'm sure we'll see in the solo movie... assuming that ever happens.

Superman was alright. He wasn't in much of the movie till near the very end, but he was rightfully more powerful than everyone and they made sure you knew from the moment they brought him back. I LMAO at the "I see you" scene vs The Flash when he was fighting everyone.
Although his stache erase in the beginning was very noticeable....


Steppenwolf was like a videogame character since he was all CG, but really, I feel like this only bothers you if you are looking for things to hate. It wasn't that off putting considering most scenes he was in was all CG anyway. LOL

Now I certainly had a few issues with the movie, and noticed lots of the things pointed out, but nothing that would make me hate the movie. Now when I walked out of BvS after it was done, I was actually pissed off that I had to sit through that mess, and I don't know exactly every addition that Joss Whedon made, but I feel like if he hadn't stepped in and reshot about 20% of the character moments in this film... I might not have liked it as much as I did. It was actually a fun movie.

It wasn't on Thor: Ragnarok level of fun and funny, but it was certainly on that WW tier of enjoyable. I had a few LOL moments, and there were a few intense scenes, but honestly, anyone railing against this movie either hasn't seen it, just went in wanting to hate it, or was purposely trying to be overly critical of it and came out thinking it was cool to see who could dis it harder.
Not saying a lot of that criticism isn't justified, but as a general audience, we either aren't gonna notice lots of the things pointed out in a first viewing, or not gonna care even if we noticed it on a first viewing. (there were a few off putting CG scenes though.....) I was also heavily drinking when I saw this ;) so I may be more forgiving than some :P: :

tl;dr
it really wasn't bad. I quite enjoyed it, and even though I wouldn't push anyone to go see it, I surely wouldn't dissuade them from seeing it either. It was FAR better than that mess BvS and SS.

pre-post edit: haha as I'm typing this out, I'm going back an editing in things I remember laughing AT about the movie, so excuse me if this post ends up a mess. lol


still tl: still dr
6.5/10 - Not as bad as all the critics make it out to be. actually pretty enjoyable movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on November 18, 2017, 04:07:15 PM
It definitely wasn't bad, but the Time of Snyder needs to end. The secondary characters (Lois, Marthaaaaaaaaaaaaa, Gordon) were all pretty perfunctory. Calling them "in" the movie is wrong.

Cyborg and Flash are great together - the accidents lol I really hope they apear in the others' movies.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on November 18, 2017, 05:22:35 PM
Bladerunner 2049 - This is a fitting sequel to the original Bladerunner. It is more of the same. Which is, a good thing. They managed to capture the feel of the original film without trying to retread. I feel like if you liked this one you should watch AI or give AI a rewatch.

Thor Ragnorak : bum badada bum. Really fun.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on November 18, 2017, 08:26:21 PM
Producers claim Whedon reshot about 15-20 percent of the film, but some articles are saying it was WAY more. ALL of Superman shots were redone, except for two.


Here is a neat breakdown (https://screenrant.com/justice-league-movie-reshoot-changes-explained-snyder-whedon/#ampshare=https://screenrant.com/justice-league-movie-reshoot-changes-explained-snyder-whedon/) of the Snyder/Whedon changes.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on November 21, 2017, 02:09:27 AM
Well, the RT meter settled at 40%
the estimates for the weekend adjusted to $94M
WB is officially not happy:
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/justice-league-box-office-setback-dcs-superhero-universe-1059826 (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/justice-league-box-office-setback-dcs-superhero-universe-1059826)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on November 22, 2017, 01:28:38 AM
WB is officially not happy
(https://i.imgur.com/Yb4lLIm.jpg)

Also, I saw Thor: Ragnarok on Sunday. It was good though I still have not seen Dark World. I didn’t feel like I was missing much except I thought Heimdall may have died in that movie because I forgot he was in Avengers: Age of Ultron which my phone just autocorrected to “Austrian.”

Ragnarok’s plot is a little strange in that it relies on massive coincidences to work though I suppose the same can be said of other comic book movies. Hela would have won easily if Thor and Loki didn’t happen to both end up on the same exact distant planet both Hulk and the last Valkyrie were.

Anyway, Hela was a good villain though I’m not convinced she’s as disposable as other Marvel villains so I expect to see her again. I’m not sure why she kept switching between regular hair to impractical battle helmet.

I was disappointed Sif was absent, but if she was just going to get murder-death-killed, I’m glad she was written out so she can make future appearances.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on November 22, 2017, 02:40:32 AM
Star Trek: Of Gods and Men (2008)

It's an unofficial fan film with a very large cast of Veteran Star Trek actors so reprising their roles and others playing new. The results are pretty mixed.

First the bad:

Tim Russ is not a good director. He either isn't giving the actors enough direction or maybe not enough backfill material for the actors themselves to build on as some of the performances felt like a half forgotten memories to the characters they played before. Not helped by the very close blocking and the one un-stabilised handi cam they must have used.

The ship to ship fighting and CGI is just bad. Ignoring 1960 looks better, it is bad. Tim can't make up his mind what kind of feel he wants so he does all of them. Sometimes it is the classic slow shot, then its a 3 axis rotating camera or a mix. Shadows, lighting and sense of scale is non-existent.

The worse thing about the action is the final battle. 95% of the time I had no idea what was going on, who was where, shooting at who, who was dying, what were people trying to do, just bedlam. It fell into the battle of Endor trap which funny enough that itself didn't fall into. This also applies to video games where you fill the space with as much explosions, enemies and "stuff" as you can to make it look "Epic".

The problem is unless you establish a direction, goal, an instantaneous way to differentiate between the opponents and some clear way the protagonist is influencing the battle you end up with a game title screen background of exploding stuff.

The battle of Endor avoided the problem by keeping what we saw slightly more than the minimum, choose when to show a massive number of ships. As funny as "Its a trap" is it unequivocally defines the problem. The unique looks of the ships, sub goals like "Protect the medical frigate", having a local datums to fix movement around and give geography to space. Actual tactics are described in a short couple sentences "Get closer to the Star destroyers" not "Pattern Omega 7".

The whole thing just goes on for way, way too long with more ships arriving mid battle to pointlessly extend the run time instead of being something meaningful like the cavalry arriving. If they cut back on the running time they could have had much better looking effects and tightened it up into something coherent.

The good:

The sets look excellent even if the usage was weird at times as they barely built enough space which caused it's own problems. It has that cheapness you expect from that era. The computer displays are hilariously simple with no other explanation other than it being an in-joke.

The story and script was quite good. Mostly good use of old characters long since forgotten, the dialogue for most part is what you expect from those characters except Uhura was playing a space hippy dealing in very shallow ethical questions. When the actors loosened up to do their own thing and chewed some scenery they started to shine. Not-Martok is a lot of fun. Alan Ruck (Captain John Harriman) gets good once he starts having fun as does Walter Koenig.

Getting so many Trek actors in one place is a treat.

The make up looked great on par with any of the TV shows.

They weren't shy about killing people with phasers, everyone getting shot everywhere at a drop of the hat while being absurdly cheesy from how amateur it can be. They find mildly amusing ways not to shoot the MCs when they should.

It has that love for Trek even if the end result is very mixed. They needed a much better director like Jonathan Frakes or just about anyone else. What we got was maybe slightly above film student level of skill.

So much wasted potential and that is one of the worse things you can say about a show.

It is still enjoyable if you can and willing to mentally filter out the big problems like the battles as well as the ugliness and the poor overall direction. Otherwise it is a hard pass unless you are already a Trek fan.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on November 22, 2017, 11:05:53 PM
Justice League - 5/10
The post-credits scenes are the best parts of the movie. The Flash grew on me a little bit after a while, but in the beginning his jokes are bad and forced. Cyborg actually became less interesting as the movie went on. Aquaman is a complete douchebag. Batman is suddenly in love with Superman and is basically...not Batman. Wonder Woman is charismatic and very likable. Steppenwolf should not have been cut from Batman V Superman, it would have made him a littler more interesting. The CGI on Henry Cavil's face was very poorly done - especially in the one scene where he actually smiles. A few of Cyborg's moments are equally bad, if not worse (for example when he automatically attacks Superman because of his "self defense" mode or whatever, it looks like someone used a free video editor to paste his face onto a static background). I don't think Steppenwolf was necessarily a bad villain - though his plan seemed kind of stupid, at least in execution. It's just that the team never really does anything to make you care about any of them, other than Wonder Woman. I honestly think this is the worst DCU movie so far (Man of Steel being the best).


Edit - I just read the above article from the Hollywood Reporter about their being an Aquaman movie next year. That's a really bad idea.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on November 22, 2017, 11:18:00 PM
I saw a clip of that fight you are talking about. I couldn't stop laughing at how bad it was and how much money was spent on this trash.

To hell with them for "Sneaking" in the classic superman theme in a situation completely oppose to what it is meant to inspire.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on November 26, 2017, 03:54:17 AM
Star Trek: Renegade + Not Star Trek: Renegade 2 part 1

An improvement over Of Gods and Men, mostly, sort of, maybe no?. It feels really Firefly or Rouge One than Trek or a good show. It is a mildly confusion sequence of clichéd events, untested moral questions, flat acting, boring battles, more save the galaxy from super weapon and general ??

A good portion of the blame can again be laid upon Tim Russ. He is a poor director at best. Actors aren't all flat but it takes effort to make them all flat and one note. He insists on using free handed shots regardless of appropriateness. Blocks faces too closely which I thought was a limitation imposed by the small sets from oGnM.

He somehow managed to make a romantic kiss a slightly confusing and awkward mess by not showing them kissing. It jumps from the back of one persons head to another without ever showing them kissing. If the actors wouldn't or couldn't kiss for some reason they should have found a work around to be romantic and be touching like slow dancing while ogling each others eyes.

The space battles are thankfully shorter but still too long and have no weight to them. The damage dialogue is weird. They say "The shields have fallen another 15%" instead of "The shields have fallen to 15%". The former tells you nothing since you don't have a start point while the latter tells you are close to zero which is bad. It is also an isolated dead moment like the movie couldn't do 2 things at the same time. Everything pauses so the shield report could be given.

Another issue is that they trade blows but it is meaningless until it's not. The Icarus at one point fires a weapon so powerful it takes out a Klingon battle cruiser in one shot and it is never mentioned again. Shields without coming close to failing would let in critical damage.

Close combat isn't any good either. While not(I am assuming) having a stunt coordinator understandable it doesn't mean the gun fights have to be bad. The crew are basically shooting in every direction yet it doesn't feel like they are surrounded as there isn't any sense of space or directionality between the combatants. I think this is likely due to an absurdly small set.

All the characters bar 2 are pretty bad. Chekov mops about high school level idea of doing the necessary thing while doing things that in no way be considered wrong especially since he is the head of Federation Security who would deal in cloak and dagger grey morality but he doesn't. It does result in a ridiculous double back stab that literally comes out of nowhere.

The Captain is meant to be some sort of badass, maybe taking after Claudia Black in Farscape but just comes off as in a perpetual state of irritation. The rest of the crew is just mostly sort of nothing, just nothing but angry or are cannon fodder and poorly executed anti-racism message. The Bajorians are dicks and I don't like most of them very much but come on. The only exception to the crew is Fixer played by Edward Furlong, yes John Conner from Terminator 2 as he seems to be having fun and does some acting beyond a single emotion.

Uhura gets to ham it a little by getting to blow off a higher up request for information. Her reason is very transparent buy she manages to sell it.

The villains are the worse. You are constantly asking yourself who the hell are these guys and why are they pissed off at the Federation for something they have zero causal connection to. The weapon they have is insanely powerful, concealable, and requires no special access to be placed and used yet they make enough noise to get tracked down. There is another big bad behind them but that just leaves you with more questions you aren't going to bother asking.

It's likely Tim is the Director because he is very good at getting the resources together in place to make the show but is a terrible baker. I met Tim once at a convention and he is as stiff and as humourless as Tuvok.

Without the cheese Of Gods and Men had it's a pass even for a Trek Fan.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on November 26, 2017, 02:33:18 PM
The Untouchables - Pretty Good.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on November 27, 2017, 05:33:07 AM
Ingrid Goes West - What a painfully awkward movie not in a bad way, but just seeing the characters decisions ruin her life over and over again all because she wants attention, but still pretty fun to watch.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on November 28, 2017, 05:18:42 PM
Watched Coco over the weekend. Yet another Pixar masterpiece. Loved every part of it, the music was fantastic and of course they overwhelm you with feelings.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on December 15, 2017, 10:39:20 AM
Last Jedi.

No Jar Jar.
No Ewoks.
No Captain Picard.

0/10.

Why reboot a franchise if you're going to take out all the best parts?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on December 15, 2017, 03:41:38 PM
Star Wars Episode VIII - 10/10
I think this could be the best Star Wars movie. Just go see it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on December 15, 2017, 03:44:15 PM
Based on the spoilers its trash.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on December 15, 2017, 05:22:41 PM
Star Wars

I saw it... still not a Star Wars man. It was ok... I guess. SW is just not my thing
so instead I'll talk about how I went to a 9am showing on a friday, maybe 1/3 of the theater full, and that's being generous. they played the Infinity War trailer... and then a trailer for something else, and then 5 m inutes of COMMERCIALS.... WTF. then the movie started.
Where was my Black Panther trailer!? Disney, what's going on here!?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on December 15, 2017, 05:39:19 PM
Honestly, I'm not a Huge Star Wars fan (like, I don't dislike it...) - but I enjoyed it a lot.

We had some great previews.  Infinity War, Black Panther, A Wrinkle in Time...
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on December 15, 2017, 05:44:46 PM
Hmmm...I went to a 90% sold out IMAX showing at noon.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on December 16, 2017, 01:52:19 AM
Well, I showed up early for reasons, and totally thought it would work out since I was expecting there to be a line of Wookies, Boba Fets and Storm Troopers lined up out the local theater, but there was no one there....

about 15 minutes before the movie started, people slowly appeared.... but granted, it was the 1st showing of the day @ 9am.
when we got out at about 11:45am, there wasn't that many more cars in the parking lot, but granted... it was still work and school hours, so that could be the reason.

Now I didn't hate the movie or anything even close to that... I'm just not that interested or invested in any way whatsoever. I can't seem to lose myself in the fantasy of Star Wars like I can with the Marvel (and DC if they were good) movies. So there are things that I just don't understand, even though I get what is happening.
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*TLJ Spoilers*like Luke projecting himself from across the galaxy, or Snokes force choke slamming the ship commander through his hologram. He also used the force to connect 2 minds with a universe between them.... yet was somehow unable to feel/know Kylo was moving the saber next to him as well... cool moment, but there's obviously been a power buffing to the force since the last Star Wars movie I remember. Rey also got really good at her force control in a very short amount of time w/ 1 brief lesson... but I guess just understanding what is happening, makes it all sort of just click.

I also don't get why Finn would divuldge the entire plan to the guy that wasn't even the guy they were looking for who may or may not be able to help them do the "impossible" thing they were trying to do.

and another thing... was that Carrie Fisher? I thought she didn't finish... and they weren't going to replace her, or do any face/body swapping to complete her part.... I want to say that was a whole different actress, hence the "i know what you're gonna say.... I changed my hair" joke, but I just wasn't sure
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But yes, I was very annoyed by the selection and order of the previews they played. Like they did them backwards, and realized they fucked up, so just skipped the rest, cut to a few commercials they forgot to play, and then skipped straight to the movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on December 16, 2017, 03:23:28 AM
It the typical power inflation poor writers do like bigger Death Star and more powerful people. Its DBZ where each villain is arbitrarily more powerful because the solution to the last villain is to squat harder so you have to squat harder since they are hacks that can't think of anything clever or creative to deal with it.

Through out the OG trilogy everyone isn't really anymore powerful by Jedi. Luke learns some skills that keep him alive but in the end it is his pleas that wins through the day. The Rebel gets a bigger fleet to fight another Death Star but it isn't the same as the last one flipping your expectations with these changes actually plot critical.

TFA blows up 7 planets but it isn't plot critical or clever, just pointlessly bigger. R1 is clever about it's use of the Death Star by not using it at maximum power giving time for the destruction to play out. We have seen it annihilate a planet, we don't need to see it again. They also use it to generate some beautiful shots that inspired terrible awe.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on December 16, 2017, 07:44:09 AM
To reply to BnM's spoilered queries above...

I don't disagree, but with the whole Snoke/Lightsaber death scene, I'd say, in that moment, Snoke was just overconfident.  He was literally about to snuff out every enemy that the First Order had left.  Essentially the entire Rebellion was about to be blown up, he got the location of Skywalker from Rey, and Rey herself was about to die.  He had every reason to be overconfident at this point.  If he'd been in a normal state of mind, I'd guess the lightsaber trick wouldn't have worked.

Finn and the code breaker is a mix of desperation, stupidity, and not paying attention.  This Code breaker dude seems like the kind of guy who slips through the shadows and absorbs every bit of knowledge about what is going on so he can use it for later.  Finn and Rose were desperate enough at this point that they *had* to trust the code breaker and stupid enough not to keep a close eye on him.

The bad thing is, Poe is still going to be treated like a hero, but had the dude not gone through with his terrible, off the books plan, Finn and Rose wouldn't have ended up captured and 90% of the remaining rebels wouldn't have been killed.  Dude screwed up, big time.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on December 16, 2017, 12:34:00 PM
The Last Jedi

My trailer selection was much better than BnM's.  Commercials were before the trailers and Infinity War was the last one.

Anyway, I loved the movie.

The linking of Rey and Kylo to me made a great plot point.  I enjoyed the duality of it; Rey convincing herself that she can save Kylo, Kylo slowly trying to corrupt Rey.  Their interactions made the movie for me.  I never saw that as "buffing" the Force.  The Force is supposed to connect everyone in the universe and there's like 4 Force users left, so why couldn't they be connected?  This felt to me like an extension of Vader and Obi-Wan sensing eachother's presence   The scene with Luke Force-projecting from the island I thought worked as he wasn't doing anything other than what you saw Klyo and Ren doing but on a bigger scale, which should be expected as Luke was supposed to be the most powerful Jedi in the galaxy.  Also, the act killed him and no one else.  It wasn't like he reach Super Saiyan level 90, killed the bad guys, and then everyone went home.

The cleaning house aspect of the film was something else I enjoyed.  Both sides are down with only a few players on each side, but you still get the vibe that the First Order is significantly more powerful.

The very end of the film, showing the little boy using the Force to pick up a broom was a nice little touch.  But I do wonder where the next movie will go.  TFA leaves you on a cliff-hanger, while TLJ leaves you with the conflict only minorly resolved, but with no clear direction.


But yeah, this movie was great.  I'm more than satisfied.

9.5/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on December 16, 2017, 06:44:44 PM
Star Wars: The Last Jedi:   It was boring/10 

But really a 6/10. It had some cool parts, but it wasn't enough to save the movie from some bad pacing issues. There were also some plot face palms. Honestly, I enjoyed Justice League more, and that was a clunky mediocre movie.

A lot of people didn't like TFA because it retreated on old territory with a repetitive plot stucture and a ton of fan service. It did do a lot right however, and was a good spring board for future movies. This movie wasted a lot of potential. It was like the took interesting characters from the previous film and put them in one of the prequel trilogy movies. The pacing was horrendously slow. I knew what was going to happen next, and I was just bored to tears. 

What a waste of a big bad. It wasn't funny either like in Conker's Bad Fur Day. It was a fun way to take him out, but it  was anticlimactic. It sort of reminded me of Dooku's death in Revenge of the Sith.

This movie had a way of wrapping up unanswered questions and plot points in a bow. Rey's Parents were uninteresting boring people, Snokes dead, and never developed as a character. What about Luke mastering Astral Projection and then taunting Kylo about their future encounters only to decide a few moments later "**** it?" If they were going to do that they should have just killed him off in the earlier pointless fight. It would have been even better if Rey had turned, joined Kylo, and then helped Kylo to murder Luke and Leia. That way in the next movie you really really hate them. That would also bump up Poe, Finn and Rose's profile.
Call the movie the Rebellion Strikes Back.

The movie ended with no mysteries. A few characters died, but little actually changed in the world. The whole affair was kind of pointless. Rey and Kylo are at odds with each other, Poe and Finn are still loveable goofballs. The only difference between the last movie and this movie is Snoke died, but Snoke we hardly knew ye. We're right back where we were. I could have skipped this one and been alright.

However, to some extant I do appreciate some of the big **** yous to the fans. I have a dark sense of humor.

I also wasn't a fan o f the CG to Practical Ratio either. Even Rogue One got that right.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on December 16, 2017, 08:25:56 PM
Went to Last Jedi opening night. ALL of my friends who went that night walked out either stunned, subdued, and refusing to fully comment on the movie until we processed it more. It really is one of the most divisive and conflicting films in the series.


In the last few days we are all still mixed about the film. There were good parts, great parts, poor parts, and just plain awful parts. Really, I hope Disney rethinks giving Rian Johnson a full trilogy with no restrictions, because I feel like he is primarily to blame for the mess he put everything into.


The only lasting positive I can say at this point is that I genuinely have NO idea where the series will go from here. Whether I saw the plot twists coming or not, it just feels like wild space going forward, especially with the loss of Carrie Fisher. I really hope they make the right decision and keep the character in the next film. Recast her and couple it with a bit of tasteful digital wizardry if necessary and roll with it. Writing her out will be as clunky and infuriating as some of the scenes, plot contrivances, and pacing of Last Jedi.

Also, experienced the same subdued mood as others like BnM mentioned. NO costumed folks, limited applause/cheering, the theater wasn't even full, probably close to 80-85% full not including the handicapped seats, though that may be due to the sheer number of showings throughout Thursday meeting demand.

And really, the biggest disservice to the film were the critics and early access reviewers. They should NOT have equated this film to Empire, it is by far not close to that film. I don't even think it belongs in the top three. But their high praise made everyone expect a masterpiece, which this film clearly is not unless you are walking in with rose colored nostalgia glasses and a huge bias.

They treated a number of the new leads poorly (not giving them enough screen time, poorly framing their actions/decisions/allowing them to just be idiots that shouldn't be anywhere near leadership), they treated some of the older characters like dirt (where the hell is Lando? There we at least half a dozen moments where he could have fit to the plot to the directors excuse of "we couldn't fit him in" is inexcusable, especially considering their massive attempts to boos diversity in the films,
 so they drop the one major black character from the OT? And don't even get me started about Akbar.
 HE should have been the one to ram the Raddus into the enemy ship, and it could have been a perfect alternative to replace him with Leia if they wanted to give her a graceful and emotional exit from the series
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Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on December 16, 2017, 09:42:00 PM
Let the past die. Kill it if you must. That's the theme of the movie. On one hand I see the point with some of the issues people have, on the other hand, I think those points are ridiculous.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on December 16, 2017, 10:14:08 PM
The thing is I want to love the movie. I loved a number of parts and scenes, and I've grown attached to some of the new characters. Its just a beautiful mess.


The parts with Kylo, Rey, and Luke were great (and I loved the scene with Yoda, and the twist with Snoke's death and the subsequent team fight was one of the best scenes--even if I'm a little miffed we still don't know who Snoke was, though we may learn more in the next film). And even if I disagreed with the portrayal of Luke and some of those nuances, they were good and enjoyable scenes.


But I'm just frustrated with how contrived and unbelievable the Resistance side of the film was and the tossing aside of characters like Phasma, who is now an even more worthless character than the one she was modeled after (Boba Fett).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on December 16, 2017, 10:49:00 PM
I do agree with that last point. That was a waste for sure.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Evan_B on December 16, 2017, 11:00:55 PM
Let the past die. Kill it if you must. That's the theme of the movie. On one hand I see the point with some of the issues people have, on the other hand, I think those points are ridiculous.
This is a tough pill to swallow for people who are devoted to a franchise that hasn't treated them well for a long time. And, while I don't want to get into the argument of deifying characters and such, there are a number of choices made in this narrative that, while bold and different, don't feel genuine or rational. Heck, the biggest twist of the movie is just a poor writing choice that resulted from two people having creative differences. That's not something to be praised.

The Last Jedi is a well-made film. Hell, the idea of letting the past die (which can be extremely dark in some ways, but they pull it off with some grace) is a decent statement to make. But it feels tonally inconsistent with the previous entry and it puts this new trilogy into an even more ambiguous place. It's a great stand alone statement, but it does not work to the benefit of an over-arching narrative at all.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Luigi Dude on December 17, 2017, 12:11:41 AM
I liked the film but can understand why some might hate it. 


The bad thing is, Poe is still going to be treated like a hero, but had the dude not gone through with his terrible, off the books plan, Finn and Rose wouldn't have ended up captured and 90% of the remaining rebels wouldn't have been killed.  Dude screwed up, big time.


It's not his fault the new commander didn't bother to tell him what the real plan was.  I mean, what was the point of not bothering to telling your most important fighter that they had a good plan to escape the First Order.?  Instead they made him think they were just going to wander around aimlessly until they ran out of fuel, and when they finally reveal that they'll put everyone on the escape shuttles, never bother to tell him the First Order can't track them so everyone will be safe.  Instead they just let him think they'll be easy pickings, which is the final straw to cause him to mutiny, which ends up causing the shuttles to actually be easy pickings and the First Order to know the survivors are on the planet. 

Yeah Poe's planned backfired but the leaders of the Resistance were at fault for not even letting him no what the real plan was, especially when Leia finally reveals it too him he's actually impressed and OK with it.  Meaning if they told him it in the first place he wouldn't have done the stupid things he ended up doing.


But I'm just frustrated with how contrived and unbelievable the Resistance side of the film was and the tossing aside of characters like Phasma, who is now an even more worthless character than the one she was modeled after (Boba Fett).

Yeah that's one of my biggest complaints about the film.  Much of the drama that takes place on the Resistance ship could have been avoid had certain characters just communicated better.  It's like they put most of their energy into the Rey, Kylo and Luke storyline, and didn't know how to give Poe and Finn something interesting to do as well so they came up with a convoluted situation that if certain people were actually smart shouldn't have happened in the first place.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on December 17, 2017, 02:25:55 AM
Here is a little something I had written up else where as to what to do with Finn and Ackbar. Ackbar like all the classic characters received character assassination by either getting everything they have done and developed as a character reset to the moment we see them. Ackbar is always the Admiral he doesn't do anything else ever, he sits in the chair and says it's a trap repeatedly.

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They could have had a sub-plot where he is convinced to come out of retirement by Leia to reactivate a mothballed fleet he setup to ride to the rescue. He makes a call to duty to the scattered crews and they arrive en mass. Ackbar gets a badass speech about freedoms and stuff. Some of the crew would be old guys back from Jedi who persuades their own freighter, smuggler, garage crews to fight. Professional racers and adrenaline junkies to fly fighters. Finn is working with one of these crews who manages to join the fleet and does something heroic.

Lando would be gambling again because that's all he does he gambles because that's the first thing we know about him. Wedge would still be flying a fighter making a run on the lastest Death Star because STAR WARSSS.

In the last few days we are all still mixed about the film. There were good parts, great parts, poor parts, and just plain awful parts. Really, I hope Disney rethinks giving Rian Johnson a full trilogy with no restrictions, because I feel like he is primarily to blame for the mess he put everything into.

The only lasting positive I can say at this point is that I genuinely have NO idea where the series will go from here. Whether I saw the plot twists coming or not, it just feels like wild space going forward, especially with the loss of Carrie Fisher. I really hope they make the right decision and keep the character in the next film. Recast her and couple it with a bit of tasteful digital wizardry if necessary and roll with it. Writing her out will be as clunky and infuriating as some of the scenes, plot contrivances, and pacing of Last Jedi.

JJ is the root cause of the awfulness that is the new trilogy. He knocked down the door of coherence to shove in his style of "Storytelling" which is make **** up lazy nonsense that is all his films. It is very likely there were extreme creative differences happening as a good film maker would avoid being incoherent at almost any cost as that is a foundation of a film.

Rian got given a flaming bag of dog **** and the new visual style he now had to adhere to even though it's ****. You can see the same issues with the Nu Trek movies and STD. Looks awful, incoherent and insipid 2d characters. If that is all that you have to work with you are setup for failure no matter how you are.

The plot twists and such are likely not something they planned but as an artefact of nonsense.

R1 didn't have to adhere to the new jj visual style so it could mix elements not available to the original Trilogy and keeping the language of the original. The space ships look like real models made back in the 1980's in the plastic like texture. R1 failures is its own.

Didn't I tell you guys critics are hacks? Probably was in another thread. I don't think I have ever seen a early or at release reviewer ever review a movie or game critically. They ouroboros the hype, company pressure and because of the short time frame to push content for the bucks you very rarely ever get useful information that isn't just a collection of superlatives. They will throw in one maybe 2 "Nags" as a fig leaf.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on December 17, 2017, 03:58:54 AM
I liked the film but can understand why some might hate it. 


The bad thing is, Poe is still going to be treated like a hero, but had the dude not gone through with his terrible, off the books plan, Finn and Rose wouldn't have ended up captured and 90% of the remaining rebels wouldn't have been killed.  Dude screwed up, big time.


It's not his fault the new commander didn't bother to tell him what the real plan was.  I mean, what was the point of not bothering to telling your most important fighter that they had a good plan to escape the First Order.?  Instead they made him think they were just going to wander around aimlessly until they ran out of fuel, and when they finally reveal that they'll put everyone on the escape shuttles, never bother to tell him the First Order can't track them so everyone will be safe.  Instead they just let him think they'll be easy pickings, which is the final straw to cause him to mutiny, which ends up causing the shuttles to actually be easy pickings and the First Order to know the survivors are on the planet. 

Yeah Poe's planned backfired but the leaders of the Resistance were at fault for not even letting him no what the real plan was, especially when Leia finally reveals it too him he's actually impressed and OK with it.  Meaning if they told him it in the first place he wouldn't have done the stupid things he ended up doing.

Poe already proved he was a hot headed flyby unwilling to listen to authority - something that decimated the rebel army in both manpower and firepower - and he wasn't even remorseful about it.  Dude should have been thrown in the brig.  No one owes him an explanation for anything.[/quote]
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on December 17, 2017, 01:50:43 PM
This is all subtext, but back in Force Awakens with Finn and Poe when they first meet and through every single scene that followed with those two together there was tangible chemistry. Even to the point when Finn takes Poe's jacket and Poe looks at him biting his lips for a split second.

Some people actually, fairly, asked to make those two hookup. Personally i think it would have been a good thing for that to have come naturally as a result of the actors having natural chemistry. Remember Michael Emerson and Terry O'Quinn in Lost? Those two was so powerful together that the entire rest of the cast couldn't cope with their brilliance.

The result in Last Jedi, though, is we wind up with Rose kissing Finn. And he is completely blank about it. And Finn and Poe have maybe 1 scene solo together for the entire movie.


Let the past die is a great line, but the movie, and indeed the franchise needs to have the balls to apply that outside the movie itself too.

EDIT: And it just dawned on me. At the end they used their last ship to lightspeed into the First Order armada. Why didnt they do that with all of the previous ships that they evacuated? The first order would have either stayed on to take the risk of having their own ships destroyed or let them escape. Some actual odds and genuine tension right there.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Shorty McNostril on December 17, 2017, 02:46:35 PM
Angry Joe did a video recently which outlines issues with issues he had with the movie, and it pretty well perfectly reflects the problems I had it too.  It's a good hour long. Obviously, it's full of spoilers.

https://youtu.be/cL5oCP0VIEI

I adored Force Awakens.  I know it had its issues but to me it felt like a Star Wars movie.  I had a great time, and I left feeling satisfied.  It felt like it was made as a passion project.

This one felt to me like the director didn't bother watching FA, had only seen the original trilogy once or twice and just followed a check sheet provided by someone. 

I for one am most pleased that JJ is back in the saddle for Ep 9.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Evan_B on December 17, 2017, 03:49:10 PM
If you want to let the past die, stop making Star Wars movies. We need some new, original IPs out there, anyway.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on December 17, 2017, 04:44:31 PM
Letting the past die is a stupid motto and theme. Without the past you have no present or future. If you want a theme that isn't stupid just use "regret".
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Evan_B on December 17, 2017, 05:45:21 PM
That sounds like a logical theme to base a movie around. I wish there was one recently released that utilized that theme.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on December 17, 2017, 06:05:45 PM
If you want to let the past die, stop making Star Wars movies. We need some new, original IPs out there, anyway.

I subscribe to the MCU is the "Star Wars" of this generation.
And before you say "but SW is the SW of this generation", you know what I mean, and no it's not.

Also no one ever answered... There was a new actress for Leah, right?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on December 17, 2017, 09:03:57 PM
EDIT: And it just dawned on me. At the end they used their last ship to lightspeed into the First Order armada. Why didnt they do that with all of the previous ships that they evacuated? The first order would have either stayed on to take the risk of having their own ships destroyed or let them escape. Some actual odds and genuine tension right there.

This is a really good point. It makes the scene where they show the guy driving the medical ship dying feel really pointless.  Like, They could've used that at any point.

I liked the film but can understand why some might hate it. 


The bad thing is, Poe is still going to be treated like a hero, but had the dude not gone through with his terrible, off the books plan, Finn and Rose wouldn't have ended up captured and 90% of the remaining rebels wouldn't have been killed.  Dude screwed up, big time.


It's not his fault the new commander didn't bother to tell him what the real plan was.  I mean, what was the point of not bothering to telling your most important fighter that they had a good plan to escape the First Order.?  Instead they made him think they were just going to wander around aimlessly until they ran out of fuel, and when they finally reveal that they'll put everyone on the escape shuttles, never bother to tell him the First Order can't track them so everyone will be safe.  Instead they just let him think they'll be easy pickings, which is the final straw to cause him to mutiny, which ends up causing the shuttles to actually be easy pickings and the First Order to know the survivors are on the planet. 

Yeah Poe's planned backfired but the leaders of the Resistance were at fault for not even letting him no what the real plan was, especially when Leia finally reveals it too him he's actually impressed and OK with it.  Meaning if they told him it in the first place he wouldn't have done the stupid things he ended up doing.

Poe already proved he was a hot headed flyby unwilling to listen to authority - something that decimated the rebel army in both manpower and firepower - and he wasn't even remorseful about it.  Dude should have been thrown in the brig.  No one owes him an explanation for anything.

He was influential enough to lead a mutiny.  I think someone owed him an explanation.  It's bad leadership when everyone under you can be easily turned against you.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on December 17, 2017, 10:24:36 PM
As a thesis for the movie "Let the Past Die" is a pretty good thesis. There is barely anything left that can be called Star Wars

Looking at how different directors make these movies, it is kinda interesting to see how they perceived Star Wars. It's also interesting to see how they treat their counterparts characters. This is kind of like a writing project where someone writes a chapter, and then another one writes a chapter, and then the original writer continues with what the other one wrote. As a project that is still interesting.
Obviously, Rian Johnson did not give a **** about most of JJ Abrams Characters or their journeys. His lasting impact on Star Wars is Vulpix, Porgs, and Rose. He cared about Luke Skywalker, and what he did with the character was nice. Finn and Poe were sidelined though.  I think he liked Kylo,  and Rey though. The movie was torturous slow. I think he could have done more with the Finn Rose story. I liked Rose as a character, but she didn't do much. It almost seems like she was inserted in there so Poe and Finn don't ****. I think they should have wrote another draft, or maybe a previous draft was superior and the studio fucked it up

Actually, as a nice NWR project. I want to read what everyone's Fan Fiction for episode VIII would be. It could be a fun project. Who's in?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Evan_B on December 18, 2017, 01:46:25 AM
As in, what I'd rather see? I could do that.

I saw the movie tonight. I was basking in the afterglow immediately after the film, but the more I sat on the plot developments, the less I found myself enjoying things. Also, screw Porgs. Cheap comedic bits.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on December 18, 2017, 05:01:02 AM
Seeing JJ didn't give a **** about the movies that came before either so Rian Johnson not caring about JJ is only fair. The precedent has already been set. You can **** it up, slap STAR WARS on it for the plebs. The standard is that low.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: King of Twitch on December 18, 2017, 02:45:02 PM
They gave me what I wanted (lots of screen time with Luke) and the one thing I definitely did not want them to do ( ; - ( ), but I'm surprised to hear the anger ^above^. I don't love it or hate it, I just liked it. Even though I shouldn't like it for sticking 5&6 in a blender, I still did. The most surprising parts were the anti-climactic SNLish jokeiness and the burning down of the old. We lost: Luke, his light saber, the medical frigate, that other bulby ship, Akbar, the Jedi tree. And we know Leia is next. Ouch. I'm definitely with ThePerm on wanting to come up with my own alternative fanfic.

+Props for avoiding the obligatory loss of limb, asteroid field, cloud city, betrayal, carbonite, swamp
+Bachelor Luke is everything I hoped it would be
+A row of clone Daisy Ridleys. wawa wewa
+Luke doesn't exactly train Rey
+Reminded me of Helm's Deep
+The movie wraps up nicely for Episode 9: "Dirty Hippies Living on the Falcon"

No one else has complained about these things so I'll list them here:
-Why are they worried about running out of fuel? Without gravity to slow them down, they'll probably keep going but I'm no Bill Nye
-I thought Yoda for sure would blow out Luke's torch before he could use it. Burning down old things doesn't seem like Yoda
-Rose and Finn didn't act like they were in a hurry on their little Jumanji mission
-Shirtless Kylo dialogue kind of sucks the evil out of the character. don't @ me, I don't care
-Can't track a handheld homing beacon
-Why does using force projection kill you? ; - (
-Rose's dumb, selfish action required the service, and the death, of Luke Skywalker. I wish Finn had shot her for insubordination before she could finish her dumb little speech and then tossed her corpse into the canon to save the day. How did he carry her all the way back across the battlefield without getting killed?
-The scene where Billy Lourd puts on a hologram mask of 1977 Leia and says "Now *I* am the master around here" is super creepy
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on December 18, 2017, 06:31:04 PM
As far as the fuel thing goes. They just wanted to find a way to needlessly constrain the  plot. Usually, there is a difference between Impulse and FTL travel.  The ship is fairly large. Perhaps it needs a lot of fuel to use the Hyper Drive? Though, the enemy apparently never runs out of fuel. In fact they seem pretty well armed and armada'd for having their main base destroyed only 18 hours ago. Also, the hyperdrive tracking thing. Why? Why make that a plot point? That is midichlorian level nonsense. A stupid point thrown in to explain something. The First order should be regrouping after The Force Awakens, not as powerful as ever
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Evan_B on December 18, 2017, 08:02:13 PM
The Resistance might make more sense as a faction now that it's... an actual resistance, but I'm still miffed that the First Order is incredibly nebulous. Like, if they're such an overwhelming force that's going to take over the galaxy, why the HELL are like, three ships, including Snoke's own flagship, the only ones that can chase down the dinky Resistance fleet? Why can't they send a transmission to some other forces? WHY DO THEY ONLY SEND A HANDFUL OF WALKERS DOWN TO SALTY MCSALTSALT? It's just so poorly defined and there's no sense of oppression, and hell, maybe there shouldn't be. But I have absolutely NO idea where this story is going and it seems to be a fine ending point for this story arc in general.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on December 18, 2017, 09:35:13 PM
There are simple questions from TFA like "Where the hell is everyone else?" among other things. The underlying premise of the new trilogy is nonsense and I do not expect it to get any better.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Luigi Dude on December 18, 2017, 10:06:34 PM
The Resistance might make more sense as a faction now that it's... an actual resistance, but I'm still miffed that the First Order is incredibly nebulous. Like, if they're such an overwhelming force that's going to take over the galaxy, why the HELL are like, three ships, including Snoke's own flagship, the only ones that can chase down the dinky Resistance fleet? Why can't they send a transmission to some other forces? WHY DO THEY ONLY SEND A HANDFUL OF WALKERS DOWN TO SALTY MCSALTSALT? It's just so poorly defined and there's no sense of oppression, and hell, maybe there shouldn't be. But I have absolutely NO idea where this story is going and it seems to be a fine ending point for this story arc in general.

I still find it rather funny how the entire New Republic army is apparently gone.  I mean, are you telling me they had their entire fleet at the capital planet when it was destroyed in TFA?  That literally doesn't even make sense when you consider just how huge an entire galaxy is.  That would be like the US putting it's entire military force, Army, Navy, Airforce around Washington DC during the Cold War.  They didn't bother to build any other major bases around the galaxy, especially in places that would be of strategic important in case an enemy like, you know, the First Order was to make a move.

I mean, holy **** if it was that easy to take out the entire New Republic then they deserve to be destroyed for being that stupid.  Even if they didn't believe the First Order had a planet destroying weapon, it's still defies all logic to put your entire military force at one spot.

It was incredible stupid when JJ made it seem like the entire New Republic was finished when it's capital was destroyed in TFA, but I hoped Rian Johnson would at least fix that since you know, the capital of a country or empire being destroyed wouldn't suddenly make the entire thing fall apart over night.  Instead Rian Johnson decided to go full retard with it and makes it the ENTIRE New Republic is now gone and the First Order is stronger then ever, despite them also losing their main base of operation as well.


Yeah like I said before I still liked the film since it was well made and enjoyable to watch, but man does it have some really poorly thought out story elements.

There are simple questions from TFA like "Where the hell is everyone else?" among other things. The underlying premise of the new trilogy is nonsense and I do not expect it to get any better.

Pretty much, they've managed to make the Galaxy smaller then ever in the new trilogy.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on December 18, 2017, 10:37:33 PM
The answer to "Where is the New Republic?" isn't a big ask. As far as I could tell it doesn't exist and the 7 planets were just some random planets that happen to be really, really close or "Bigger Death Star" far away.

OG Star Wars opening scroll is genius in how briefly yet clearly it sets up the premise of the movie. TFA is "I don't know what I am doing and I don't care". It discards all the previous galaxy shattering events yet is wildly inconsistent with it's own premise. You can get away with a bit of nonsense if your are borderline experimental, comedy or Commando.

You will often hear how Star Wars was saved in the edit. After watching this you will see the genius of how it was saved. It is so drastic today it would fall under "Reshoot".


You will also understand how stupid the special editions are as Lucas thrashes hopelessly to rewrite history.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Evan_B on December 18, 2017, 10:38:24 PM
But hey, guys, that casino subplot... amirite?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on December 19, 2017, 12:23:55 AM
But hey, guys, that casino subplot... amirite?

That could have been good, but it wasn't. I liked a lot of the ideas it had, it just wasn't well executed.

Also, just read an interview. Rian Johnson wrote his script while The Force Awakens was shooting. Which means he had his layout before the movie was complete.  Which means, he hadn't watched the movie. That helps to explain the big disconnect. In some ways that makes his work more pure, but as a trilogy piece, it is glaring.

I look forward to Solo as it is written by Lawrence Kasdan. Though, I imagine no matter how good it is it will be hated by most everyone.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on December 19, 2017, 02:50:26 AM
I hear there is a petition or two going around to make The Last Jedi NON-CANNON

that seems reasonable right?
https://geektyrant.com/news/there-is-a-petition-for-disney-to-remove-star-wars-the-last-jedi-from-the-official-canon
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on December 19, 2017, 03:45:45 AM
But hey, guys, that casino subplot... amirite?

That could have been good, but it wasn't. I liked a lot of the ideas it had, it just wasn't well executed.

Also, just read an interview. Rian Johnson wrote his script while The Force Awakens was shooting. Which means he had his layout before the movie was complete.  Which means, he hadn't watched the movie. That helps to explain the big disconnect. In some ways that makes his work more pure, but as a trilogy piece, it is glaring.

I look forward to Solo as it is written by Lawrence Kasdan. Though, I imagine no matter how good it is it will be hated by most everyone.
Glaring is the under-statement. That is outright asinine.

I had a look at Kasdan's past work and he hasn't made anything good since 1996. The odds are heavily against it being even mediocre.

I hear there is a petition or two going around to make The Last Jedi NON-CANNON

that seems reasonable right?
Anything JJ touched should be shot out of a cannon into his face.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on December 19, 2017, 09:39:08 PM

In my head-canon, the Official Star Wars Canon closed with the purchase of Lucasfilm from Disney.

Also no one ever answered... There was a new actress for Leah, right?


No, she had finished filming all of her scenes so it is all Carrie Fisher, though I heard that they had to do a bit of digital magic to complete a few of her lines that needed additional work.


There are four options for what to do with Leia post-Last Jedi:


1) Write her out (death) off-screen - awful option. It will be a very unfitting end to the character and a disservice to Fisher.


2) Write her out (non-death) via plot - this would be even worse that killing her off screen. Same logic as above and compounds the problem by asking what to do post-Episode 9. Abandon the character and leave it up to the viewers? Worry about recasts/conclusions later? Just forget about her? Awful.


3) Use digital magic to recreate her akin to Rogue One - not awful, but judging from the response from R1 viewers the tech just isn't quite there, though I could see it used sparingly to assist the one true option.


4) Freaking recast the character. Truly, this is the best option and it is surprising no one will seriously consider this yet. Recasts happen all the time, especially in series that carry on for over four decades. Find someone similar, apply some digital magic as necessary, and roll with it. Heck, age up Fisher's daughter and let her play the role.


Truthfully, they missed a serious opportunity to give her a glorious end, having her be the person on the Raddus crashing into the First Order Fleet, they could have even given her a touching scene similar to Rey/Kylo where she reaches out to Luke for a final goodbye, perhaps being the catalyst for Luke to reach out and help. But that role should have been for Akbar, not a new character that we hardly had the time to know, especially when she was such a poor leader/character in the first place.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on December 20, 2017, 12:08:32 AM
They recast Dumbledore and the world moved on.

They could have killed her off with the giant canon thing that seemed to do nothing except almost kill Finn
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on December 20, 2017, 12:55:45 AM
They recast Dumbledore and the world moved on.

They could have killed her off with the giant canon thing that seemed to do nothing except almost kill Finn


Exactly, maybe the creators should get off of their high-horse message of the film and "let go of the past". ;)


Some people are saying that the arguments over the "Akbar event" are just overblown nerds whining, but I think it is indicative of the larger issue that is at hand; Disney/Lucasfilm is snubbing long-time fans. So what if the majority of his following was born out of memes and de-canonized material? He had become an icon of the series and people cared about him. Dismissing him was yet another action that dismisses the older fan base. Despite all of the tea-table upending plot twists in TLJ, Star Wars is becoming stale. A film every year will burn people out of the series and lead to diminished returns. Really hoping they dial everything back a notch going forward.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on December 20, 2017, 10:55:30 PM
I think the ideal thing is to kill her off-screen but do a nice funeral scene/tribute type thing.  Recasting seems heartless.  People associate the character with the actor way too much.  Dumbledore recasts had the advantage of being a person who existed in print and not having been around for decades.  There's no option with Leia that won't piss of a bunch of nerds, but that's life.  Nerd rage powers the internet.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on December 20, 2017, 11:59:04 PM
I like to think they all lived Happily Ever after at the end of Return of the Jedi.

...Not die old and bitter as they fail.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on December 21, 2017, 01:52:51 AM
I like to think they all lived Happily Ever after at the end of Return of the Jedi.

...Not die old and bitter as they fail.

right?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: lolmonade on December 28, 2017, 08:45:51 PM
Just saw the new Star Wars - it's worlds better than The Force Awakens.  Still prefer Rogue One over the other new generation Star Wars Movies.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on December 29, 2017, 02:23:10 AM
Same, it helps that R1 has a coherent plot even if the first 2/3 were a let down and the characters a bit flat.

I don't know why a lot of people complain about having tie fighters and star destroyers and AT-AT precursor as it is well within that era for them to show up. TFA doesn't have that excuse. They strangely also bitch alot about the end Vader scene when we finally see Vader be that holy **** badass without current dance fu bs.

When you point out of course it looks like OG Star Wars because it's the same era they say it's fan service the movie and should have been more creative or some **** like that. Absurd claim of course and it's great the movie understands how it is restricted by the universe so it doesn't get ridiculous.

There are a couple of examples of excess fan service like blue milk, AT-AT and Vader's lava planet since I don't know why you would setup a home where you got fucked up at.

It has a fair share of problems but look, feel, technical skills and action isn't one of them. It has some very beautiful vistas of horror and the Star Destroyers looking like plastic is a joy which I wished they carried that to the other ship a little.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on December 29, 2017, 04:39:06 AM
Rey learned how to speak kyssik in 4hours
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on December 30, 2017, 06:01:06 PM
A hopefully less polarizing movie, I saw Downsizing recently.

I thought the premise seemed really cool, but was curious as to what the plot would be like.  Turns out I should've been more skeptical as the premise is reduced to mostly sightgags.  Admittedly, they're kinda fun, but I would've liked to see more of them as they are very few in number once the movie gets into the tiny bits.  As far as plot, this is a minor spoiler, but it's essentially a "white guy deals with life post-divorce" movie.  That's the movie, and it's not a particularly good one.  Matt Damon just kind of does a few things.  The end of the movie ties back to the premise but in a way that ultimately feels silly.  The movie flirted with making a larger point about class and race, which could've been made, but it was avoided.  Also, there's a surprising amount of penis in one section of the movie.  It's only that one part though.

5/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on December 30, 2017, 06:38:48 PM
Same, it helps that R1 has a coherent plot even if the first 2/3 were a let down and the characters a bit flat.

I don't know why a lot of people complain about having tie fighters and star destroyers and AT-AT precursor as it is well within that era for them to show up. TFA doesn't have that excuse. They strangely also bitch alot about the end Vader scene when we finally see Vader be that holy **** badass without current dance fu bs.

When you point out of course it looks like OG Star Wars because it's the same era they say it's fan service the movie and should have been more creative or some **** like that. Absurd claim of course and it's great the movie understands how it is restricted by the universe so it doesn't get ridiculous.

There are a couple of examples of excess fan service like blue milk, AT-AT and Vader's lava planet since I don't know why you would setup a home where you got fucked up at.

It has a fair share of problems but look, feel, technical skills and action isn't one of them. It has some very beautiful vistas of horror and the Star Destroyers looking like plastic is a joy which I wished they carried that to the other ship a little.


I greatly appreciated R1. sure, it had a few weak points, but every SW film has one or two. Really, I'm only put out by how Saw Garrera wasn't more involved in the film. But that's just me being a Clone Wars fan and wishing for more tie-ins between them and the movies.


Also, either they really went all out on the camera work for the dog fights, or they found some old footage from A New Hope and touched it up. I swear that was the same actor at the same age playing Gold Leader. Even felt like they were "older grain" film shots.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on December 30, 2017, 08:24:05 PM
It was old unused footage and I had a grin wide enough to go right around my head.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on December 30, 2017, 09:23:29 PM
That makes me even happier knowing they used old footage. Got a similar feeling in Last Jedi when R2 played the old "Help Me Obi-wan" message.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Evan_B on December 31, 2017, 11:02:05 AM
You know, I sat down and had a long talk about this Star War thing with a friend, and I think I’ve sort of pinpointed the problem with the film, in my eyes, which is that it ultimately doesn’t function well as either a stand-alone movie or a part of a trilogy. It’s obsessed with filling in the details of what has occurred over the past thirty years of no Star Wars, but also convinced that it has to be contrary to almost everything established in the previous film. It also happens RIGHT after the events of The Force Awakens within what could be considered a thirty-six hour period, which means the characters have had little to no time to grow over the course of the narrative, but also that the plot has had a markedly negative impact on this fact because of it’s supposed “urgency.” It also means that, at its core, the plot line of this new trilogy is even more absurd, in retrospect, as all of these events that occur in these first two films- the DESTRUCTION of the REPUBLIC and a COMPLETE RESCAFFOLDING of both the Resistance and the First Order- have taken place over the course of two or three weeks. Like, what?

Again, great popcorn flick, but utterly falls apart as soon as you give it serious reflection. Which, hey, if it’s nothing more than a popcorn flick, maybe it shouldn’t be reflected upon seriously, but there are other smarter action blockbusters out there that actually hold up in comparison.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on December 31, 2017, 03:12:09 PM
For me the new trilogy fell apart at the opening scroll in TFA. It instantly set off the nonsense alarm. While I was expecting nonsense as it is JJ we are talking about, I didn't expect it to break suspension of disbelief in the first 10 seconds. Once that happened I knew the entire series was doomed as the story collapses. It's so bad that I was able to pick apart the movie in real time. It is such a poorly made film but gets a pass because STAR WARS.

The same thing happened to nu Star Trek. I really don't understand why anybody would want JJ to helm their movie let alone have legions of nerds begging JJ to do it because nu Trek was really a Star Wars movie or some ****.

It doesn't help that TFA did its best to assassinate the OG trilogy because soft reboot??? Why??

E9 is going to be such a farce that the prequels are going to looked upon fondly if you're not already there. Its going to introduce a dozen threads and none of them are going to get tied up or have a reasonable outcome. Its going to be another bag of flaming dog **** someone has to clean up come episode 10 if it somehow survives.

Just because a movie is a "popcorn flick" doesn't give it the excuse to be bad, its such a cop out.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: King of Twitch on December 31, 2017, 09:42:31 PM
TLJ 8 spoilers maybe?
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For me the new trilogy fell apart at the opening scroll in TFA. It instantly set off the nonsense alarm.

Care to share more on this? Bad guys take over without LS, seemed pretty straightforward, especially in light of how inept the Resistance is in Ep 8.


the DESTRUCTION of the REPUBLIC and a COMPLETE RESCAFFOLDING of both the Resistance and the First Order- have taken place over the course of two or three weeks. Like, what?

Ep 7 crawl says the FO arose in the absence of LS.

I saw 8 a second time, and compared to my last post, I'm more annoyed at:
-the "Noooooo" when Kylo realizes it's a Holo-Luke. It's not funny anymore, if it ever was.
-the first star wars flashback and story backtrack in history. lame.
-I understand Luke doesn't want to train more people and risk these powers going to the service of evil, but doesn't he care about correcting his mistake or, at the very least, saving the lives of his friends and family?

-the new trilogy recycles the OT. 2 years and 2 weeks ago, I hoped "The Force Awakens" meant the force would awaken in random people throughout the galaxy, that it would cause chaos and double-crossing as families and friends are divided on how to respond to it, and the return of LS to restore order and education about the power and responsibilities of the force. My (unearned) optimism and good will (and wild imagination) feels a little cheated.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on December 31, 2017, 09:48:47 PM
Just went and saw Jumanji.

It was very entertaining, but the entertainment started before the movie....
some 30something couple were plainly visible fucking in the front section. I could see her whole thigh and leg as she's bouncing up and down on the dude's lap.... praying that my daughter and her friends next to her never actually notice whats going on.

Luckily another concerned parent had already alerted theater staff, who promptly confronted the couple, with flashlights. The female had to stand up and pull her pants back on, trying to grip her blanket so as to not be exposed to everyone, now that the flashlights were on her.... little did she know, we could already see her before they brought the flashlights in.

but anyway.... back to the movie.

This is a direct sequel to the original Jumanji movie, which I remember hearing wasn't the case...
Everyone was pretty entertaining in this, and a majority of the humor was funny. Definitely a teen comedy, so some humor not appropriate for little children... luckily some of it will just go over their head. Videogame aspects were handled well, and overall a good time at the movies. Don't think too hard, just enjoy your popcorn and be in a mood to enjoy what you're watching. You'll like it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on January 01, 2018, 12:05:05 AM
For me the new trilogy fell apart at the opening scroll in TFA. It instantly set off the nonsense alarm.

Care to share more on this? Bad guys take over without LS, seemed pretty straightforward, especially in light of how inept the Resistance is in Ep 8.

It has nothing to do with the force or light/dark side. The opening scroll is immensely important for Star Wars as it is a very quick and efficient way to establish the universe.

1/3 of TFA scroll mystery box rubbish that doesn't flow into the next paragraph with information we don't need to know or mattered to the movie. Absurd notion that one person's absence leads to FO is never touched upon.

2/3. Another mystery box, self-contradicting with RESISTANCE clearly meant to reset everything to retell ANH. Also tells you nothing of importance or why, how, what the state of the galaxy is. New republic? Whats that?

3/3 Finally gets going. Given how much it is screaming about Luke you would think they are going on an original adventure to find Luke not to blow up yet another death star.

TFA failed to establish the current state of the universe while assassinating the past and only purpose was to drop names. You can't have your audience question the premise of your movie from the get go as it leads to story collapse as you increasingly take note of all the problems and the absurdness.

Go and read the OT scrolls. It's concise, flows from one paragraph to another, doesn't falsely advertise what the objective of the movie is and sets everything up.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on January 01, 2018, 01:00:59 PM
Just went and saw Jumanji.

It was very entertaining, but the entertainment started before the movie....
some 30something couple were plainly visible fucking in the front section. I could see her whole thigh and leg as she's bouncing up and down on the dude's lap.... praying that my daughter and her friends next to her never actually notice whats going on.

Luckily another concerned parent had already alerted theater staff, who promptly confronted the couple, with flashlights. The female had to stand up and pull her pants back on, trying to grip her blanket so as to not be exposed to everyone, now that the flashlights were on her.... little did she know, we could already see her before they brought the flashlights in.

but anyway.... back to the movie.

This is a direct sequel to the original Jumanji movie, which I remember hearing wasn't the case...
Everyone was pretty entertaining in this, and a majority of the humor was funny. Definitely a teen comedy, so some humor not appropriate for little children... luckily some of it will just go over their head. Videogame aspects were handled well, and overall a good time at the movies. Don't think too hard, just enjoy your popcorn and be in a mood to enjoy what you're watching. You'll like it.

That's pretty disgusting. And why would someone do that in the front section?  And why don't people think they'll get caught? Was the theatre not crowded?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Evan_B on January 01, 2018, 02:44:16 PM
the DESTRUCTION of the REPUBLIC and a COMPLETE RESCAFFOLDING of both the Resistance and the First Order- have taken place over the course of two or three weeks. Like, what?

Ep 7 crawl says the FO arose in the absence of LS.
I’m not arguing that point. What I’m saying is, within the one frame of the movies, the First Order has decimated the New Republic and also lost their Supreme Leader (which is just an absurd title, by the by), who presumably helped this organization rise and put plans into effect, within the span of two weeks.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on January 01, 2018, 04:00:39 PM
Man, this movie where people can move things with their minds is so unrealistic!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: lolmonade on January 01, 2018, 09:41:09 PM
I want to preface this with stating I understand people have different opinions, and I don't say this to try and sway anyone's opinion about The Last Jedi.  I'm gonna spoiler tag the whole thing in case anyone is still waiting to see the movie.


That said, while the universal praise of it being this trilogy's "Empire Strike Back" is silly, it is a very good movie that used a theme (failure and how you handle failure defining you) excellently, dives deep into the character flaws of Luke Skywalker (how the legend of Luke compares to the actual man and how much his image means to the efforts of the resistance/rebellion), and re-structures the concept of Jedi and who has potential to reach the height of the force.


It doesn't matter that Finn's escapades end in failure, that Poe's efforts to corral the resistance to his plans get thwarted, or that Rey's parents are no-ones and that she was wrong about there being good left in Kylo Ren - there's merit in having them not succeed in their mission and learn/grow from their experience.  This episode is just as much about being a character study as it is about progressing the plot forward, and in that sense, they executed wonderfully.





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Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on January 01, 2018, 11:27:10 PM
For me, Poe is a dick coming out of this movie.  As you said, he can learn from his failures and grow as a character - but we didn't see that in the movie.  He ignored direct orders at the beginning and got a lot of ships and people blown up for almost no good reason.  Then, instead of being put in the brig or blown out a space hatch, he's given a second chance... which he uses to again directly defy orders, getting even more people and ships blown up.  He learned NOTHING the first time around.

That's not to say he cannot be redeemed going forward, but, in the context of this movie, dude is a dick.  I don't like him.

If you're going to go off the books with some crazy ass plan, that plan had *better* work.  Because, if it doesn't, you're going to have hell to pay.  Except in Poe's case, he gets to continue being the center of attention while all those around him are dead as a direct result of his actions.

They could *really* use this to create a great plot point around his character in nine.  I doubt they will.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: lolmonade on January 02, 2018, 12:48:49 AM
For me, Poe is a dick coming out of this movie.  As you said, he can learn from his failures and grow as a character - but we didn't see that in the movie.  He ignored direct orders at the beginning and got a lot of ships and people blown up for almost no good reason.  Then, instead of being put in the brig or blown out a space hatch, he's given a second chance... which he uses to again directly defy orders, getting even more people and ships blown up.  He learned NOTHING the first time around.

That's not to say he cannot be redeemed going forward, but, in the context of this movie, dude is a dick.  I don't like him.

If you're going to go off the books with some crazy ass plan, that plan had *better* work.  Because, if it doesn't, you're going to have hell to pay.  Except in Poe's case, he gets to continue being the center of attention while all those around him are dead as a direct result of his actions.

They could *really* use this to create a great plot point around his character in nine.  I doubt they will.




I don't particularly love Poe as a character, and I agree he fails in two chances to learn, but the third time where Finn wants to rush to aid Luke on the Salt Planet and Poe holding him back and recognizing that it's not a time to fight, but a time to run, to me was meant to signify he finally got it through his thick skull that stubborn-headed crazy plans aren't the always answer and understanding when to draw back and live to fight another day.


I guess the question is whether it's believable that someone can make the same mistake several times before it finally getting through to them.  I think that's more realistic, but I suppose it may also make for frustrating storytelling if that's something that's grating to you.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on January 02, 2018, 02:46:30 AM
I think a  lot of people think TFA is a reboot, but if Jakku looked more like a junk yard the idea of that falls apart. Aside from that, none of the other characters fit into the same Jungian archetypes. I have to say though the trajectory for the sequel to TFA could have gone into first draft The Star Wars territory.

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Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on January 02, 2018, 10:45:33 AM
TFA is pretty much a reboot in all but name. It went out of it's way to destroy, render null or ignore everything that happened before. Regressing character development especially Solo and side lining everyone else.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on January 02, 2018, 12:08:15 PM
Just went and saw Jumanji.

It was very entertaining, but the entertainment started before the movie....
some 30something couple were plainly visible fucking in the front section. I could see her whole thigh and leg as she's bouncing up and down on the dude's lap.... praying that my daughter and her friends next to her never actually notice whats going on.

Luckily another concerned parent had already alerted theater staff, who promptly confronted the couple, with flashlights. The female had to stand up and pull her pants back on, trying to grip her blanket so as to not be exposed to everyone, now that the flashlights were on her.... little did she know, we could already see her before they brought the flashlights in.

but anyway.... back to the movie.

This is a direct sequel to the original Jumanji movie, which I remember hearing wasn't the case...
Everyone was pretty entertaining in this, and a majority of the humor was funny. Definitely a teen comedy, so some humor not appropriate for little children... luckily some of it will just go over their head. Videogame aspects were handled well, and overall a good time at the movies. Don't think too hard, just enjoy your popcorn and be in a mood to enjoy what you're watching. You'll like it.

That's pretty disgusting. And why would someone do that in the front section?  And why don't people think they'll get caught? Was the theatre not crowded?

I thought i responded to this already.... must've never hit send on my phone or something.

We were sitting in the front row just before aisle that separates the bottom just below the screen seats. We had full view of what they were doing from out angle. She was not being slick in her aggressive bouncing up and down. I'm not sure how they thought they wouldn't get caught.
TBH, I even waved at them right when they were getting started just so they knew we could see them. I'm guessing they didn't see me. If someone else hadn't gone to go get Theater management, I was going to go sit right next to them and make it very uncomfortable just so they would stop.... WTF would you do that in the front of the theater and not the back... actually, why wouldn't you just go sit in an empty theater (I think there was a showing of JL at the time too), or possibly a showing of an R rated movie at the very least, where there wouldn't be kids in the room.

BTW, the theater wasn't packed, but it was probably close to 2/3 full @ 3:15 on NYE, so not bad.
movie was good though, and none of the kids I was with noticed them doing anything, so it was all good.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on January 02, 2018, 01:42:54 PM
2/3 full is still entirely too full to be doing that in a theatre.  If there's 2/3 other people then maybe, but jeeze.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on January 02, 2018, 04:25:12 PM
2/3 full is still entirely too full to be doing that in a theatre.  If there's 2/3 other people then maybe, but jeeze.

I agree, back of an otherwise practically empty theater, or at the very least be extra discreet if your gonna play around. Hopefully you choose something a bunch of kids wouldn't be present at... but not everyone is as considerate as they should be. At least they weren't being loud... just visible. lol
if they had gone all the way to the very front row... no one would be able to see them on the floor.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Order.RSS on January 02, 2018, 10:10:41 PM
Sounds like Jumanji...

...Brings out people's animal side!!!
 :cool; :cool; :cool; :cool; :cool; :cool; :cool; :cool; :cool; :cool; :cool;
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on January 02, 2018, 10:58:24 PM
Sounds like Jumanji...

...Brings out people's animal side!!!
 :cool; :cool; :cool; :cool; :cool; :cool; :cool; :cool; :cool; :cool; :cool;

yeah, it's like they became.....
:cool; :cool; :cool;
a bunch of fucking jackasses.
YEEEEAAAAHHH!!!!!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on January 03, 2018, 12:58:45 AM
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(I think there was a showing of JL at the time too)

You got me there.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on January 03, 2018, 04:33:12 PM
Glad we got this thread going in the right direction again.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on January 04, 2018, 06:12:51 AM
TFA is pretty much a reboot in all but name. It went out of it's way to destroy, render null or ignore everything that happened before. Regressing character development especially Solo and side lining everyone else.

IDK I think TFA took Solo as far as his character could go. The end of the line.

Luke and Leia were definitely sidelined, but it was set up for them to do more in sequels. Like magical things like Mary Poppins rides and disappearing acts. Nothing lame like Luke using the force to pick up and AT-AT and slam it against a series of AT-ATs
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on January 06, 2018, 11:58:09 PM
Get Out - 10/10
Holy ****, why did I wait so long to see this movie? Easily one of the best movies I've ever seen. I don't know that it's very re-watchable on its own, but watching it with different people who haven't seen it seems like it would be a lot of fun. I actually clapped at the end.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on January 07, 2018, 12:19:55 AM
Get Out - 10/10
Holy ****, why did I wait so long to see this movie? Easily one of the best movies I've ever seen. I don't know that it's very re-watchable on its own, but watching it with different people who haven't seen it seems like it would be a lot of fun. I actually clapped at the end.

Man, I tried to tell all of you before this movie even hit the theater, and then couldn't sing higher praises after I had actually seen it in theaters as well.
I'm determined to get me a new white girlfriend that has never seen this movie and make her watch it with me.

This movie was seriously one of the best theater experiences I've ever had. The audience reactions and interactions along with the uncomfortability of a few select white people and mixed couples in the audience made this an 11/10 in the theater.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on January 07, 2018, 06:37:52 AM
Birth of a Nation 2016 - I like to see when jerks get their comeuppance. Hard to watch, but there are some satisfying moments. It's Spartacus meets Braveheart meets Roots.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on January 07, 2018, 09:56:40 AM
Man, I tried to tell all of you before this movie even hit the theater, and then couldn't sing higher praises after I had actually seen it in theaters as well.
I'm determined to get me a new white girlfriend that has never seen this movie and make her watch it with me.

This movie was seriously one of the best theater experiences I've ever had. The audience reactions and interactions along with the uncomfortability of a few select white people and mixed couples in the audience made this an 11/10 in the theater.
Haha that's awesome. I will admit this movie made me think about stuff, like, have I ever gone out of my way to "prove" that I'm not racist, and made things awkward by doing so, and stuff like that.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on January 07, 2018, 11:55:04 AM
Cannot say enough good things about Get Out.  Welcome to the club.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on January 07, 2018, 01:21:36 PM
Man, I tried to tell all of you before this movie even hit the theater, and then couldn't sing higher praises after I had actually seen it in theaters as well.
I'm determined to get me a new white girlfriend that has never seen this movie and make her watch it with me.

This movie was seriously one of the best theater experiences I've ever had. The audience reactions and interactions along with the uncomfortability of a few select white people and mixed couples in the audience made this an 11/10 in the theater.
Haha that's awesome. I will admit this movie made me think about stuff, like, have I ever gone out of my way to "prove" that I'm not racist, and made things awkward by doing so, and stuff like that.

Yes, immediately after the plot is revealed, you start to think back to motivations of certain characters prior to that revelation.
have one of these moments:
(https://i.imgur.com/SBkALFa.gif)

I have to admit, and I'm sure i mentioned it in my immediate impressions of the film but white girl had me rooting for her, especially after that Cop on the side of the road scene after hitting the deer. I was thinking to myself, "she's the one"... but then later I had to admit, I would've got caught in the same damn trap. She had me fooled. She had everyone fooled.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Order.RSS on January 08, 2018, 10:18:38 AM
This movie was seriously one of the best theater experiences I've ever had. The audience reactions and interactions along with the uncomfortability of a few select white people and mixed couples in the audience made this an 11/10 in the theater.

Yeah this was a perfect theater movie. The main character's friend, the cop/security guy, was like the perfect audience POV character as well. People were yelling at the screen to nope the heck out and right on cue that character would call with just the same message, so funny. Saw it with a mostly non-white audience, I'd be curious how it'd play for a mostly white audience actually.

What's best about Get Out though is that even if you're the least woke person on Earth, it's still a super solid, tense thriller. And the layered themes of experienced racism (both the everyday kind, as well as the systemic exploitation kind), as well as the tendency of (white) people to awkwardly overcompensate out of guilt for past injustices by calling attention their non-racist views... well those themes are just icing on the cake really. Best movie I saw last year.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: apdude on January 10, 2018, 08:01:04 PM
I think I enjoyed TLJ, but everytime I think about it I have different feelings on it.  Overall there were some things explained in way too much detail (to the point of bordom) and then others that they completely skip (leading to why are they doing that?) which forces the audience to fill in the gaps and then comes the arguing for die hard fans.  If you can just set everything aside I think it works as a film in the SW universe and does wipe the slate clean to hopefully craft some compelling original stories within the SW sandbox. 


It feels like they are trying to go in a more nuanced direction where its not all good or all bad.  I just hope they can drop the whole there always is a bigger weapon theme and the FATE OF THE GALAXY riding on some rag tag bunch which is already well traveled territory. 


Maybe smaller scaled stories that are more fleshed out giving both sides reasons for doing what they are doing.  Maybe that's the plan with the side story movies coming out or being planned (R1, Han Solo, ObiWan, etc...).  Maybe we can get some side story where the main character is the darkside jedi/sith/whatever and filling in some of there perspective on this dark-v-light struggle.

EDIT: And it just dawned on me. At the end they  used their last ship to lightspeed into the First Order armada. Why didnt they do that with all of the previous ships that they evacuated? The first order would have either stayed on to take the risk of having their own ships destroyed or let them escape. Some actual odds and genuine tension right there.

I liked the film but can understand why some might hate it. 


It's not his fault the new commander didn't bother to tell him what the real plan was.  I mean, what was the point of not bothering to telling your most important fighter that they had a good plan to escape the First Order.?  Instead they made him think they were just going to wander around aimlessly until they ran out of fuel, and when they finally reveal that they'll put everyone on the escape shuttles, never bother to tell him the First Order can't track them so everyone will be safe.  Instead they just let him think they'll be easy pickings, which is the final straw to cause him to mutiny, which ends up causing the shuttles to actually be easy pickings and the First Order to know the survivors are on the planet. 

Yeah Poe's planned backfired but the leaders of the Resistance were at fault for not even letting him no what the real plan was, especially when Leia finally reveals it too him he's actually impressed and OK with it.  Meaning if they told him it in the first place he wouldn't have done the stupid things he ended up doing.


Poe already proved he was a hot headed flyby unwilling to listen to authority - something that decimated the rebel army in both manpower and firepower - and he wasn't even remorseful about it.  Dude should have been thrown in the brig.  No one owes him an explanation for anything.


He was influential enough to lead a mutiny.  I think someone owed him an explanation.  It's bad leadership when everyone under you can be easily turned against you.



 Well they were trying to play up the fact that the tracking could have been from a spy so no one could trust anyone else.  Imagine Holdo told everyone the plan then the spy could report it to the First order could just jump right there and wipe them out.   


Granted this was not stated explicitly that they were keeping it confidential for this reason but it could be inferred.  This goes back to my point about things being either over explained or not explained enough which was my main grip with this movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on January 10, 2018, 09:14:50 PM
An interesting tidbit I just saw was about when Luke appeared and had the blue lightsaber, even though it had just been destroyed. Kylo never actually saw it explode, and Rey took it before he regained consciousness. Luke used it to piss off Kylo, since it was Anakin's, and he also made himself appear younger, to look like he did when Kylo burned down the temple. I don't think anyone caught on to either of those things, even though they were both blatantly obvious.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: King of Twitch on January 11, 2018, 04:14:49 PM
Thought it was just bad and pointless cgi, since it's clearly not cgi when he's speaking. Seems like Kylo would be too excited to finally wipe out the Resistance once and for all to care about Slightly-Younger-Looking Luke from 7-8 years ago. Maybe it really is a good movie if all these things are up for interpretation. Is that what they call "art"?

IGN has this quote from Rian: (http://www.ign.com/articles/2018/01/10/why-did-luke-skywalker-use-a-blue-lightsaber-against-kylo-ren-in-star-wars-the-last-jedi)
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“[Luke] is basically tailoring this projection to have maximum effect on Kylo,” Johnson explained. “He knows that Kylo’s Achilles heel is his rage, and so that’s why he kind of makes himself look younger, the way Kylo would’ve last seen him in their confrontation at the temple and that’s why he decided to bring Kylo’s grandfather’s lightsaber down there — the lightsaber that Kylo screamed at Rey, ‘that’s mine, that belongs to me.’”



I love ThePerm's idea; would've been great to see him push over the AT-ATs like dominoes.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on January 13, 2018, 10:30:32 PM
The Last Jedi atomic bombed in China. Massive surprise since China will watch just about anything especially with such limited number of release slots available for western movies without the "CCP hook".

https://www.forbes.com/sites/robcain/2018/01/11/7-days-into-its-release-chinese-theaters-abandon-the-last-jedi-dumping-92-of-its-screenings/#7cf573295cc0

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After its hugely disappointing debut last weekend, China’s movie exhibitors have taken the big, and possibly unprecedented decision to drop the Hollywood studio film Star Wars: The Last Jedi’s showtimes by 92 percent, from its 34.5% percent share of the territory’s total screenings last Friday to just 2.6 percent this Friday.
 
 I don't normally track screen counts in China on a week-to-week, movie by movie basis, so I can't be absolutely certain, but I suspect this magnitude of abandonment by exhibitors is unprecedented in Chinese cinema history.
 
 Disney (NYSE:DIS) can credibly blame the fact that Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle and a slew of local Chinese movies are releasing wide this weekend and sucking up The Last Jedi's venues, but the real story is that Chinese moviegoers have rejected Star Wars: The Last Jedi like a bad liver transplant. The film earned just $27 million in its debut last weekend, less than one-third of the $87 million that the low-budget rom-com Ex-File 3 earned in its second frame, and it added only $7 million during the week, to reach a distressingly low total of $34.2 million in its first 7 days.
 
 If The Last Jedi had been performing the way most Disney movies have over the past year in China, it would have held on to many if not most of those showtimes for its second weekend. The studio's Pixar animated feature Coco, for instance, is still going strong nearly two months after its China premiere.
 
 The draconian decline in screenings might actually help boost The Last Jedi's per-screen averages, as theater supply falls below the demand of moviegoers who still want to see the Star Wars sequel.
 
 On the other hand, it's equally possible that most everyone who wanted to see the picture in China has already seen it, and Star Wars: The Last Jedi will suffer a swift and devastating demise this coming weekend.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on January 14, 2018, 12:28:51 AM
Wish Upon - I liked it. I liked it for the same reasons I liked the evil genie stories in Arabian Knights, and Final Destination. I thought it worked out quite well.

Emelie - another psycho babysitter movie. It was a 7.

Dead Body - A whodunnit. Again worked out well. I liked how my day went.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on January 14, 2018, 03:43:29 AM
Killing Gunther Overlooked assassin mockumentary comedy. Has some funny moments, but they are a little too far in between. The titular character doesn't show up until the last third of the movie. Streaming on Prime video

Way of the Gun Another overlooked movie from 2000. It has way too much plot, but the characters are interesting and the action is well done.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on January 30, 2018, 02:29:55 PM
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle

Overall, I liked this one.  The Rock and Kevin Hart have a special kind of chemistry.  It plays better when they're being more like themselves than when they're being Kevin and Dwayne.  The Rock's character, as a video game character, is super-op.  But that's part of the humor, i guess.  Speaking of humor, you may have noticed in the trailer that a teenage girl turns into Jack Black.  Well, there's an obvious joke that you might think they'd skip over because it's a family movie, but they go right for it.  The movie is pretty funny throughout.  There are some parts where the movie gets clever.  Every clue the team gets is a misdirect.  Lastly, the parts before the kids get inside the game are just about the right length, borderline too long.

One sticking point: Each character has three lives, but they never confirm "if you die in the game, you die in real life!", so I was never sold on the stakes when most characters got down to one life.

7.5/10

EDIT: One more sticking point: When the kids first get into the game, there's a clue that you know is gonna be a call back at the end and then it is.  That's not much of a sticking point though.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on February 06, 2018, 09:38:28 PM
So the latest Batman animated Direct-to-BluRay film is out, Gotham By Gaslight, and it's...perfectly fine. Not amazing, not earth-shattering, and definitely not everything I had hoped it would be...but it's fine, which is definitely a huge improvement over the last PoS Bruce Timm put out. The performances are excellent, and the universe feels very well-established. Selina Kyle works excellently in this movie, which is amazing considering she wasn't originally in the comic this film is based on and Bruce Timm has a very bad track record of inserting new characters & stories into these adaptations lately (*cough*KillingJoke*cough*).

Really, my only real complaints with this film are with the art & direction. Like all the DC animated films these days, the models are very flat-shaded & lacking in dimension. For a film with a Victorian setting, there aren't a lot of shadows & outside of a few scenes there's very little fog. I feel like if they had given this film a bigger budget they could have built a lot more atmosphere into the look of it. Also, the movie ends super abruptly and could have stood to be 15-20 minutes longer.

Oh, and if you've read the comic, they apparently changed the identity of Jack the Ripper so it's still a surprise.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on February 09, 2018, 10:26:03 AM
I saw The Commuter last week, which is definitely one of the better action movies Liam Neeson has done. It's a well paced thriller.

However, if you want to retrospectively make all his movies better - assume they all exist in one "Neesonverse".
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 03, 2018, 08:22:36 PM
Get Out wins a Best Picture Award, and Jordan Peele wins Best Director....
(https://i.imgur.com/jhkbwYK.png)

Does this translate over to the Oscars?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on March 03, 2018, 08:29:29 PM
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Bruce Timm has a very bad track record of inserting new characters & stories into these adaptations lately (*cough*KillingJoke*cough*).

Besides Killing Joke (which I 100% agree on), what other 'very bad' decisions has he made?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on March 04, 2018, 05:13:07 AM
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Bruce Timm has a very bad track record of inserting new characters & stories into these adaptations lately (*cough*KillingJoke*cough*).

Besides Killing Joke (which I 100% agree on), what other 'very bad' decisions has he made?

The entirety of Batman & Harley Quinn.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on March 04, 2018, 01:35:19 PM
What was Batman and Harley Quinn an adaptation of?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on March 04, 2018, 08:57:41 PM
What's wrong with Batman & Harley Quinn? Killed a bunch of people on screen, guns and it was pretty fun with that touch of camp.

The only flaw I have with it is casting Melissa for Quinn, it was terrible. What were they thinking.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on March 04, 2018, 10:44:28 PM
What's wrong with Batman & Harley Quinn? Killed a bunch of people on screen, guns and it was pretty fun with that touch of camp.

The only flaw I have with it is casting Melissa for Quinn, it was terrible. What were they thinking.

I haven't seen it yet, but isn't there a scene where she practically rapes Nightwing?  And a dance number that involves her shaking her breasts for 2 minutes?

Harley has always been a sexual character... but my understanding is that this movie kinda took it ip a notch... in a bad way.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on March 04, 2018, 11:28:32 PM
Not at all, it's night wing, he could have escaped at anytime and he didn't even try. He wiggled his hand a touch and he wanted it as much as she did, I as hell sure would. I am not even sure if they had sex. The ambiguity is almost trolling shippers.

You can threaten use of WMD, murder, blow up entire city blocks and people don't give it a second thought but when a girl wants some sexy time that pushes your buttons? Sex must create victims? While the idea did pass my mind I did not buy into the narrative of rape on any level, a view that is further cemented on subsequent viewings. There was a recent bit in the Daily Show where he points out you can be too "Woke" well into it being detrimental, outright insulting and absurd. Even before that the double twisted standard was strong.

The entire movie questions then answers and plays with how damn silly the entire super hero genera is right down to the ending. It might be the most realistic super hero movie ever made as it is very honest with everything. It is under appreciated for sure.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on March 08, 2018, 05:37:51 AM
Annihilation - 9/10

I made mention of this in my recent Oscar thread but I found 2017 to be a year of mostly disappointing movies which resulted in a diminished enthusiasm for going to the movies or even just watching them at home. Perhaps if they had been more like Annihilation then this wouldn't have happened. Because of the timing of my viewing, it just feels to me like Annihilation is better than anything I saw in 2017. It's easily the best movie of 2018 I've seen so far. (Sorry Black Panther and Game Night, the only other actual 2018 flicks I've seen so far.)

I remember reading Roger Ebert's review of The Grey way back when that Liam Neeson vs wolves movie first came out. He talked about the movie affecting him and leaving him in a mood after the movie ended. I looked up that review to see what exactly he said about it and I'm going to quote that portion here: "I was also stunned with despair. It so happened that there were two movies scheduled that day in the Lake Street Screening Room (where we local critics see many new releases). After "The Grey" was over, I watched the second film for 30 minutes and then got up and walked out of the theater. It was the first time I've ever walked out of a film because of the previous film. The way I was feeling in my gut, it just wouldn't have been fair to the next film."

That's kind of close to how I feel about Annihilation. I wouldn't say that it feels you with despair but it is a heavy and foreboding experience. When it ended, it took a couple hours to decompress from it. It just left me in a heavy mood and for awhile, I felt detached to things around me or my actions as my brain continued to process what I'd seen and how the whole thing made me feel. After a couple hours, the feeling subsided but it's been awhile since I remember really affecting so much that it took awhile to recover from it. I've seen stuff that made me feel a bit elated, sad, shaken, numb, etc when it was over but after, say 15 minutes or so, that feeling would pass and I'd be back to my normal self. So, the fact that this movie could do that to me is a reason why I do rate it so highly although I'm not sure it's a good thing when it comes to the idea of seeing it again.

The reason it seems to have this power is based on three things. First, it is Sci-Fi so it brings up questions and ideas on some interesting themes that stuck in my mind after viewing which kept me pondering in reflection. Genetics and biology is the obvious thing from this move along with the question of self but also the thoughts on self-destruction stuck with me and a good grasp on putting the alien into alien lifeform. Second, the movie really does blend deadly and beautiful together so even though there are fascinating sights to behold, I never trusted anything and always felt uneasy and the movie rewards that distrust. There are moments that move more towards the horror end of the scale that will linger in your mind after you walk out of the theater. Finally, the ending goes for the weird and strange. That may frustrate some people or confound them and its ambiguous nature almost seems a bit anti-climatic but it left a bit of a mystery in my head to work over and decipher just what it all meant. It also brought back some flashbacks of Under The Skin.

Now, there are also a lot of things that people can get hung up on about this movie. I think most people going to the movie are going for the premise of entering into this strange zone. To the movie's credit, it moves pretty quickly to get to that point and come up with a reason as to why Portman's character would be on this mission. It's servicable enough but in an effort to hurry towards entering the zone and set up its mystery, it leaves a lot of details and questions unanswered. Simple things such as why not have teams enter a few feet from the entrance to assess things and then come back out again. Why not try setting up equipment close by? Or starting building a path into the zone and taking things slowly? Why does every mission have to be a deep infiltration to the heart of the zone when no one is coming back from these missions? There are questions of sound logic that you might be asking yourself at first in these early beginnings. But soon you are on the journey and the mystery of what's inside and at the heart is what you want now want answers for so forget those other pesky little details. They'll still be there after the movie is done but at least they don't derail things or your suspension of disbelief too much at the start. A well, the film is a bit clunky with its characters as a lot of details are just explained to the audience about them and who they are. It's tell rather than show which is sometimes a necessary evil particularly for a movie like this since it isn't really interested in the characters but the journey and the sights in it. Overall, its strengths are greater than its weaknesses which is why I'm still willing to give it a high rating and recommendation.

One other point of interest for Nintendo fans is that, maybe about 2/3 into the movie, I suddenly had a moment of thinking about the Metroid series. There were a lot of elements that I felt paralleled moments of the franchise, particularly with the Prime series. Portman's character could almost serve as a standout of Samus but without a powersuit. Exploring a strange alien environment while having to fight off some of the monsters inhabiting it. Finding different ruins and finding notes / clues / videos giving some details of what occurred before. A meteorite that has brought with it something that is mutating the environment (maybe it was Phazon all along!) and the heart of darkness hole where it landed. If Nintendo is serious about bringing its properties to other media like TV or Film then I think this film should be the number one source for how to handle the Metroid series in making it a successful transition. In that regard, I think that will add another element of intrigue for anyone here when watching this film.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on March 09, 2018, 02:42:41 AM
Black Panther 9/10
In my top 5 MCU movies.  It was very satisfying. Marvel really has been kicking ass at making these movies. Speaking of top 5 it becomes a futile effort to even figure out which are in the top 5. There was even a James Bond aspect to this movie I didn't expect. Not the Grace Jones reference, but hey that was cool too.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Clemence on March 09, 2018, 04:15:15 AM
Black Panther 9/10
In my top 5 MCU movies.  It was very satisfying. Marvel really has been kicking ass at making these movies. Speaking of top 5 it becomes a futile effort to even figure out which are in the online mobile casino no deposit bonus (https://passion-games.com). There was even a James Bond aspect to this movie I didn't expect. Not the Grace Jones reference, but hey that was cool too.

The storyline was very similar to Ragnarok.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on March 15, 2018, 10:42:40 AM
What's wrong with Batman & Harley Quinn? Killed a bunch of people on screen, guns and it was pretty fun with that touch of camp.

The only flaw I have with it is casting Melissa for Quinn, it was terrible. What were they thinking.

I haven't seen it yet, but isn't there a scene where she practically rapes Nightwing?  And a dance number that involves her shaking her breasts for 2 minutes?

Harley has always been a sexual character... but my understanding is that this movie kinda took it ip a notch... in a bad way.

She handcuffs him to a bed & carries out S&M, and...yes, that terrible musical number happened, too.

Saving my complete thoughts on this because it'll come up in the NFR GOTY show, but the root of my problems with that movie is that they did that to THAT version of the character in a movie marketed to appeal to fans of THAT show.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Shorty McNostril on March 15, 2018, 04:58:25 PM
Haven't seen it, but reviews are saying the new Tomb Raider movie is terrible.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on March 15, 2018, 05:30:15 PM
I'm going to be seeing Tomb Raider on Saturday.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on March 16, 2018, 12:03:28 AM
The Tomb Raider movie looks like a direct re-make of one of the recent Tomb Raider games. Not sure why but Lara Croft is now pronounced Laura Croft.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 16, 2018, 01:09:41 AM
This is why Black Panther is estimated to take the 5th weekend at #1 in a row.

Pacific Rim 2 will probably win next week, but the next "big" opening might not be till RPO the week after.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on March 16, 2018, 01:12:54 AM
I never saw the first Pacific Rim... is it any good?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on March 16, 2018, 02:26:53 AM
I never saw the first Pacific Rim... is it any good?

It's an incredibly simple movie, but I love it. When my Dad saw it, he compared it favorably to Independence Day, and I think that's an apt comparison in terms of tone & how it plays squarely to emotion.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 16, 2018, 02:54:47 AM
I'm hearing the 2nd one will probably be compared more to Independence Day 2 though....
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Shorty McNostril on March 16, 2018, 09:37:50 AM
If you do decide to watch Pacific Rim, ensure you go in with the mindset of watching giant mechs fight giant monsters.  The story doesn't matter.  Ignore it.  Just enjoy the fireworks.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on March 16, 2018, 10:22:12 AM
I never saw the first Pacific Rim... is it any good?

It's an incredibly simple movie, but I love it. When my Dad saw it, he compared it favorably to Independence Day, and I think that's an apt comparison in terms of tone & how it plays squarely to emotion.

It's like a big budget b-movie.  The dialogue is laughable at times, but everything works.  You gotta go in for the giant robot on giant monster violence and stay for the Charlie Day.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on March 16, 2018, 10:34:56 AM
I never saw the first Pacific Rim... is it any good?

It's an incredibly simple movie, but I love it. When my Dad saw it, he compared it favorably to Independence Day, and I think that's an apt comparison in terms of tone & how it plays squarely to emotion.

It's like a big budget b-movie.  The dialogue is laughable at times, but everything works.  You gotta go in for the giant robot on giant monster violence and stay for the Charlie Day.

"TODAY...WE ARE CANCELLING THE APOCALYPSE!" :P

Yeah, it's silly but it wallows in how gloriously stupid it is that it's just endearing. There's also talk that if Pacific Rim 2 does well, they might build a crossover universe with Godzilla, and that would just be amazing.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Shorty McNostril on March 16, 2018, 04:45:02 PM
Yeah I just adore Pacific Rim.  Whoever came up with the idea of a using a cargo ship as a weapon needs to be knighted immediately and their pay doubled.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on March 16, 2018, 08:30:24 PM
Just got out of Tomb Raider. It's an OK popcorn flick, but it's an adaptation of Tomb Raider 2013 in name only. It's ACTUALLY an adaptation (almost beat for beat) of Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, with a LOT of Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade. Yep, they do that. Yep, that too. Yep, EVEN THAT.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on March 16, 2018, 10:21:14 PM
"you call this archaeology?"
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on March 16, 2018, 11:25:26 PM
"you call this archaeology?"

"I should have sent it to the Marx Bros."
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on March 18, 2018, 12:46:27 PM
Just got out of Tomb Raider. It's an OK popcorn flick, but it's an adaptation of Tomb Raider 2013 in name only. It's ACTUALLY an adaptation (almost beat for beat) of Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, with a LOT of Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade. Yep, they do that. Yep, that too. Yep, EVEN THAT.

I completely agree with this.

My favourite part is Alicia Vikander. She built the perfect physique for the role (unlike Gal Gadot with Wonder Woo...) and at least looked like she was ready for it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on March 19, 2018, 04:33:20 AM
I don't know where people get their ideas about Gal Gadot. Gal Gadot could rip up Alicia Vikander. She has a bigger frame. Vikander might have some crazy abs, but Gal Gadot has reach and Krav Maga. She's 6 inches taller than Vikander.

(https://www.traileraddict.com/article/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/alicia-vikander-gal-gadot.jpg)

(http://img3.looper.com/img/gallery/how-gal-gadot-got-in-shape-to-play-wonder-woman/push-ups-and-planks-help-sculpt-killer-biceps-1496333088.jpg)

(https://i.pics.livejournal.com/sisterruth/13482168/851626/851626_600.jpg)

(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/10/20/21/398FE58000000578-3857020-image-a-36_1476994340934.jpg)

(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ae/02/fd/ae02fdc2380a6a16ec92d80f91cf01ce.jpg)

(https://www.usmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/gal-gadot-ben-affleck-zack-snyder-henry-cavill-zoom-75bf896b-a72f-4c61-98aa-6ba893d34fa2.jpg)

(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/11/02/20/45BC0EF900000578-5044471-Mandatory_Credit_Photo_by_Imaginechina_REX_Shutterstock_9177023q-m-101_1509654690489.jpg)

(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/89/55/82/895582facd0453af8140b33034964703.jpg)

Vikander would look tiny compared to Affleck and Cavill
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on March 19, 2018, 07:57:45 AM
In Tomb Raider, Alicia did some MMA stuntwork right at the start of the film. It immediately sets up that she's capable of what the movie puts out. In BVS through Justice League there wasn't any equivalent of this in the movies - but i think that was more to do with how the films tried to portray "warrior spirit" through costuming, props, and the one training scene in WW.

So the fault is Zack Snyder, as usual.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 26, 2018, 01:03:27 PM
Game Night

This was a fun one. Very funny. A few unexpected turns made for a fun wild ride on this one.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on March 26, 2018, 01:36:38 PM
Star Trek Beyond
I had no idea Idris Elba was in it. I’ll pretty much watch anything he’s cast in. The movie was decent. I was unpacking boxes while it was playing in the background so I only looked up during action scenes so I half-understood the plot. Kayla seemed like a pretty cool addition. Weirdly, Alice Eve’s character from Into Darkness wasn’t really referenced (unless I missed it).

Atomic Blonde
I’ve heard this compared to John Wick. Not nearly as fun, but it’s a decent popcorn flick though a little choppy in most action scenes.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on March 26, 2018, 03:00:57 PM
Atomic Blonde was done by part of the team that made John Wick so good hence the comparison. The action scenes has that well shot brutal reality that carries weight, fancy martial art breaks down into brawls, the fighters get really tried and keeping track of the injuries(The ending has her still wounded).

Unfortunately missing a part of the team(iirc a trio) made a greater impact than expected. The plot was a mess causing all sorts of flow problems and character motivations were ???. The action wasn't quite as sharp but the soul is still there.

John Wick nails it with a simple plot on top of a multi-layered world emergent from a few simple rules we knew about. They expertly insert motifs and themes without any attention whoring.

AB had no clear rules to ground the story. It was reliant on the audience knowing something about history to set the tone and place constrains. Given the average education level of the audience that was not going to fly well. It looked good, matching the era and the feel so it waasn't a total loss.

Star Trek Beyond: Damage already done, it wasn't remotely good enough to move the needle. Even if it was legit good the previous movies either burned out, alienated and insulted the audience enough that it was DOA, a funeral.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on March 26, 2018, 03:50:46 PM
Seriously, the only thing I even remember about Star Trek Beyond was the scene where it references Enterprise's Xindi War as the foundation of the villain's entire motive, something that would COMPLETELY fly over the heads of the new audience these shitty reboot movies were made to cater to.

It says something about how utterly forgettable the movie is that I have NO recollection of the movie's most infamous scene, where Kirk kills off a swarm of alien bees using the power of Rock & Roll (yes, really).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: segagamersteph on March 28, 2018, 10:42:00 AM
Most recent movie I saw was Oculus with the girl from Doctor Who. It was okay but I didn't care for how predictable it turned out.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Order.RSS on March 29, 2018, 01:12:25 PM
Most recent movie I saw was Oculus with the girl from Doctor Who. It was okay but I didn't care for how predictable it turned out.

This was a great lil' horror flick! I agree it's a little predictable in parts, but I saw this in theater expecting it to be awful and it turned out pretty decent. It's impressive how they turn a stationary object into a decent antagonist.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on March 30, 2018, 05:13:33 AM
The Cloverfield Paradox - This feels like a movie which had an idea it was going for, and then other writers came in (or the studio?) and then started ripping bits up and rewriting others. The result was multiple scenes which felt like the the actors weren't saying lines which a person would actually say, but stuffed in to nudge that scene in a different direction with no real care to consistency. Ultimately, this is a bad film stuffed with several very good actors.

Mute - Duncan Jones directed Moon and Source Code. Both are fantastic movies and proved that this guy can produce some good work. Warcraft was a bit of a wobble, but i feel that the issue is the inherent difficulty with video game movies rather than him himself. Meanwhile, Mute was a disaster from the start. A silent main character, who doesnt express himself in any non-verbal way, made it difficult to relate to him. The movie also looked like a low budget Blade Runner, which is weird because Altered Carbon came out just before it and looked exactly the part (both are on Netflix). There was also several weird story choices like a paedophilia storyline which ultimately didnt go anywhere or amount to anything. Once it ended that storyline, one of the other characters (who became aware) went off with him to celebrate about some other people about a point in a parallel storyline - no mention after that, that he plays with kids. The film also made several references to Moon by showing constantly to the fallout of that movie  all of which was to say "look we're in the same universe!"

I don't know how this came out this badly. It really needed someone to step in and help to make sense of certain points.

Ready Player One - A big budget, gorgeous CGI-fest featuring lengthy action scenes, all of which is clear and easy to recognise. Zack Snyder could learn a lot from him. Storywise i liked it despite how Wade "wins the girl" at the end and how i dont understand how the Oasis actually earns money in real life. But this is a great movie i could watch with my nephew, or maybe BNM with his daughter. I enjoyed this a lot more than Pacific Rim recently (which, once you've seen big monsters smash stuff up it kinda gets exhausting eventually)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on March 30, 2018, 11:09:42 AM
Saw the Last Jedi. Reaks of **** you Disney, you gave me ****, I make a **** sandwich. Any competent director would recognise how fucked the everything was is but he seemed to make no effort to make improvements by directing it as straight as possible with a level of competence JJ wished he had. It's shot clearly which means the actors have put in effort which shows how **** they are. He makes no effort to hide the stupidity on all levels.
 
 Hamill fucking owns and Fisher did good super women aside. Holdo is the only other person that is good although written like she was Leia, also pew pew.
 
 LOL Poe the **** is wrong with you, acts like a psycho playing a videogame. Rey still effortlessly hyper-competent. Finn almost had his one moment but **** you.
 
 It rips off so much from ESB and Williams doesn't give a **** recycling the **** out of everything.
 
 R1 at least came together for the last third.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Shorty McNostril on March 30, 2018, 05:13:33 PM
I watched Last Jedi again last night too.  Hated it as much as the first time I saw it at the movies.  I thought since I had seen it and knew what would happen it would make it a little more palatable for the second viewing.  I was wrong. 

I don't remember the last time I was so disappointed in a movie.  After all the 'best Star Wars ever' reviews I was expecting magic.  It was not magic. 
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on March 30, 2018, 06:24:20 PM
The Force Awakens really killed my interest in Star Wars at the time. Probably more than the prequels. But then I ended up really liking Rogue One, maybe more than most people here. Still, I wasn't really that concerned about The Last Jedi. It probably helped that I didn't have cable so I wasn't seeing much in the way of ads or bothering to watch much of the trailers. However, while I was in the middle of the move, I was staying at a place and began watching TV and shows I missed from not getting TV like The Daily Show / Conan / The Food Network. This happened to be right around the time that Last Jedi almost released in theaters so there were plenty of ads for the movie and the cast like Hamill were doing the talk show circuits so I suddenly started getting really pumped about the movie. I was pretty disappointed at the lack of Luke in the TFA so it was exciting that he would be front and center and now that the lame excuse of copying/mixing A New Hope and Empire Strikes Back together to create TFA for a whole new generation couldn't be applied to this (and the goodwill from Rogue One), I started to get pretty hyped for the film.

I did end up seeing it the Tuesday of opening week and it was a weird mixed bag. I do like it much more than TFA but I still think Rogue One is better. I read a lot of the discussions in this thread at the time of the movie as it came out and a lot of people have pointed out the faults and criticisms I have on the movie. The biggest is how time doesn't make sense in this movie. This is all happening in what? About a 2 day period? The Empire has been so resurgent that this is all that's left of the rebel fleet because I don't remember them being that strong in TFA?

Even with those inconsistencies aside, I think the biggest problem with the film is that it keeps trying to have one plot twist too many. You see this in the rebel escape. With Luke, he's not going to help. (Ok, he is going to help like expected.) Confronting the Empire alone? I guess Luke's dead. Oh, he's actually really powerful? Don't pull an Obi-Wan Luke. Ah nuts. They're having Ren kill Luke after all. Oh, what? He's been manipulating him with a force vision of himself. That's awesome! Brilliant. What, he's disappearing? This manipulation was too much for him. So Luke is dead after all? Then why'd you just get the audience's hopes up that he outwitted Ren and was still alive. Argh! Sucks. One twist to many.

Some of the talk going into The Last Jedi was about Snoke and learning more about him and who he was so that was another thing that got me curious and wanting to see the movie right away only for him to be a non-factor with nothing much explained about him at all. It's kind of funny in a way but also frustrating. I forgot all about the mystery behind Rey's parents until it got brought up in the movie and with the way Kylo was talking to her about them, I was getting prepped for a reveal that she was Kylo's sister and that Han and Leia were her parents only for the answer to be nobody and that it doesn't matter. Which is fine, I guess. Anakin Skywalker came from non-force / inconsequential parents but it was such a weird buildup to a strange answer and part of me still isn't convinced that is the answer and that Kylo was lying to her and the next film will reveal her parents to be something special after all. That was another problem with the movie is that it keeps leaving you in disbelief, like, is that really how this character is going out? Is that really the answer to this question? Why didn't they hyperspeed the medical frigate into the Imperial Armada before? If the captain was going to go down with the ship anways, why not take a run at the fleet and take as many Imperials with you as you can?

And yet, there are parts I really liked. The whole Snoke throne room scene is one of my favorite movie moments / scenes from last year. Even the aftermath where Ren is trying to win Rey to his side and she's trying to win Ren to her side. I was wondering if she really would accept his offer and do a reverse Luke who rejected Vader and his offer and where things might go from there. For a brief moment, there just seems to be a lot of crazy places this story can go and then the bright lights of a ship being sliced by hyperspace is just too much crazy so everything settles back down to Rey and Ren sticking to their sides and going their own way with a traditional Empire vs Rebel final. But what if they paired together? What if Ren becoming de-facto Emperor while being pulled toward the light side by Rey caused the Empire to divide between Ren and Hux? Would the rebels suddenly join or be persuaded to join the Ren side of the Empire with Leia and Ren's connection? For a moment, the film and series really became alive with strange new potential but then it all faded away.

Really, though, I have no problem with any of the Ren, Ray, and Luke material and scenes. Hamill lived up to the wait of seeing him in this film and I just wish we could have had more adventures with Jedi Master Luke after all the training he went through in the original trilogy. So much untapped potential there. Unfortunately, with his hermit history now, it might be hard to make any solo Jedi Master Skywalker films since he doesn't seem to have gone on many adventures after the end of RotJ. The push / pull of the Rey and Ren dynamic worked a lot better this time and was when I was most engaged with the film. I like the opening battle and desperation of the Rebels trying to blow up the Imperial Cruiser or Destroyer (I'm not up on my Star Wars spacecraft) and I liked the spectacle of Hoth Redux and Luke's trolling of Ren. Unfortunately, I feel the rest of the film needed a bit of a rework or better awareness of how it comes across on screen. Unlike TFA which I have had no interest in rewatching since I first saw it a couple years ago, TLJ is something I could see myself watching again though most likely, I'd probably just want to skip ahead to the good parts sort of like the prequels. Rogue One is still the best Star Wars film Disney has put out so far in my book.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Evan_B on March 30, 2018, 08:41:17 PM
As a statement, The Last Jedi sort of works.

As a second installment in a trilogy, it's a mess.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on March 31, 2018, 04:30:34 AM
I didn't watch TFA or TLJ in the cinema as I knew it was going to be a **** show. Rian gave exactly what Disney asked in what seems to be one hell of a professional **** you.

You could see where and how every idiot suit with an idea jumped in. There is a clear A and Z. The path is a wingdings bomb site of stupidity. Rian gave a professional tour.

Luke was given the best send off possible considering the circumstances as he was meant to get thrown under the bus.

Rey is the worse student, bitches about not being taught anything while ignoring the teacher. "Why are you here?". While you don't have to buy into his emotional state he is teaching you about the force, the dangers, its true nature, how balance is BS which was always an absurd concept. It one of the few good things that came out of this.

The themes if you can call them that is garbage.

It opens all the shitty mystery boxes showing how empty and terrible they are. Gives bad answers to bad questions. *Kills Snoke with poor weapon safety, salts the earth*. Ben evil all along, no reason. The joke is the JJ might have to finish something for once.

Got to respect Rian's professionalism facing the impossible.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Order.RSS on April 04, 2018, 06:49:05 PM
Huh interesting to see these negative responses to Last Jedi. I assume you guys & gals are maybe just more invested in the franchise than me, because it's my second favourite in the series behind Empire. By a long mile too; I thought episode 7 was a bit too familiar to what came before. Rogue One felt very turgid, didn't care for anyone except the droid.

That said, I've not seen all the films I don't think and to me Star Wars was always a really goofy franchise that prioritised spectacle over everything else. I have more nostalgia for its videogames on GameCube than any of the movies.

Last Jedi was, to a casual observer like me, a really cool fast-paced action movie. It had bombing runs, chase scenes, sacrifice in flashy ways, and did a lot of surprising things. (Well, suprising to me, at least.) I thought the emperor was the main bad guy, so killing him very casually worked well. Letting characters constantly make mistakes (Poe, Finn) instead of being infallible heroes felt fresh even if it did drag sometimes. Having the remaining bad guys be these snivelling lil' draco malfoy shits feels scarier than darth vader ever did, because these bitter egocentric angry guys feel more like real-world menaces.
The snow planet with red salty dust looked supercool, the ice foxes were cute, BB-8 is cute and funny as the slapstick sidekick.

Maybe it lacks the magic that longtime fans want, and that's a real bummer for them. But yeah, for General Audiences like me who come for the dizzying special effects, the striking deep red colour scheme and ice foxes are enough. It definitely has flaws and I've forgotten the majority of it, but just wanted to post this because the audience I saw it with all seemed very positive, so I'm surprised to see such harsh opinions. I hope the next one will be more fun for you guys!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on April 04, 2018, 11:49:40 PM
Like 7 it is a bad movie. This one is somewhat interesting given it is competent in it's directorship so it's professional but is otherwise a nice looking bombsite.

There is infallible and then there is too stupid to breath which Poe glaringly and most of the movie falls under. It has those almost clever/cool and *vista* moments like Luke's confrontation but it is no where enough to save the movie. Even without the Star Wars baggage it is a bad movie.

Finn gets thrown under the bus where everything he does is pointless. He could have escaped in the escape pod and nothing would change. That screams bad movie when you can edit a person out with that much screen time and supposed importance with zero impact.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Order.RSS on April 05, 2018, 11:29:41 AM
Finn gets thrown under the bus where everything he does is pointless. He could have escaped in the escape pod and nothing would change. That screams bad movie when you can edit a person out with that much screen time and supposed importance with zero impact.

Haha oh yeah I forgot most about that side adventure. Evan said just above here how the film works well as a statement, wasn't the whole casino planet meant to critique war profiteers and arms dealers? I figured it was maybe a continuation of something that happened in the prequels, like the arms dealers who trained cloned soldiers.
Other than that though, yeah it didn't add much, unless they're going to continue with the lil' kid in the final shot of the movie. I suppose the suggestion is nice, that the force routinely manifests itself with the severely underpriviliged. That feels very Star Warsy to me.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on April 05, 2018, 01:17:15 PM
Considering the timeline of this film, Finn should have been in that healing pod dealie for most of, if not the, entire movie. Writing him out, however, would have been culturally problematic. The filmmakers went out of their way to be more inclusive (which is good) so having the lead black male in stasis would have been a massive step back. To this end, Rian Johnson painted himself into a corner by having The Last Jedi pick up right after The Force Awakens ended.

To justify this, Canto Bight needed to be a better (and shorter) subplot. There are numerous ways to do this. I suggest:

1. Lando Carissian is the codebreaker or just the general McGuffin to be on Canto Bight. And he, unbeknownst to Finn and Rose, has already been arrested and locked in prison. The reason is irrelevant.

2. DJ is Maz Kanata’s source (or pretending to be) who gave her the info that Lando is on Canto Bight. He finds Finn and Rose and helps them break Lando out of prison because getting arrested for parking on a beach is dumb. Nix the chase scene, get them off the planet. Finn and Rose can meet the stable boy shortly after landing while searching for Lando.

3. DJ still betrays the group, makes his little speech etc. etc. Lando joins the Resistence on Crait.

This allows the movie to have the commentary about war profiteering while making the subplot more important to the overall story. Including Lando links the sequel trilogy to the original trilogy and gives the Resistance a seasoned veteran in the fight against the First Order given their ranks have been nearly obliterated. It’s okay that their plan to stop the Supremacy from tracking the Resistance through hyperspace failed. That is a reasonable plot point, but there still has to be some payoff other than showing the kid in the stables.

Speaking of, to me, the kid using The Force at the end is meant to reinforce the idea that Force sensitive people can be literally anyone and anywhere like Rey (for now, anyway). After all, some random person had to abitrarily discover The Force at some point in this universe’s history. While it is well-supported that genetics can, in fact, play a role in someone’s connection to The Force, the point is it doesn’t have to. Being Force sensitive is as mysterious as The Force itself. In a way, this undercuts the existence of midi-chlorians. A person doesn’t need to be from an important, infamous, or even mildly notable bloodline. This will be true even if J.J. Abrams walks back on Rian Johnson’s decision to make Rey’s heritage inconsequential to the overal mythos.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: lolmonade on April 05, 2018, 02:29:28 PM
Speaking of, to me, the kid using The Force at the end is meant to reinforce the idea that Force sensitive people can be literally anyone and anywhere like Rey (for now, anyway). After all, some random person had to abitrarily discover The Force at some point in this universe’s history. While it is well-supported that genetics can, in fact, play a role in someone’s connection to The Force, the point is it doesn’t have to. Being Force sensitive is as mysterious as The Force itself. In a way, this undercuts the existence of midi-chlorians. A person doesn’t need to be from an important, infamous, or even mildly notable bloodline. This will be true even if J.J. Abrams walks back on Rian Johnson’s decision to make Rey’s heritage inconsequential to the overal mythos.


The kid at the end of the movie ties in with some of what Luke said earlier in the movie about how anyone is capable of tapping into the force.  Yes, it's true some are able to tap-into it easier and wield it more powerfully, but the message I got from it is that literally anyone within the Star Wars universe is capable of learning how to use the force if they're willing to learn.


It's a real democratization of the force and sets-up a narrative thread that could lead to lots of people within the universe learning how to use the force to varying degrees.  Imagine a scene where Kylo has hurt Rey, but then Finn and Poe who are weaker force users intervene to take Kylo on, or something of that nature.  But similarly, it could create a scenario where it starts feeling like the Matrix or DBZ where everyone has silly powers and removes the sense of gravity I like in Star Wars.


That said, based on Episode 7 and JJ Abrams being back at the helm, i'm kind-of lukewarm that episode 9 will turn into something I want to watch.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on April 05, 2018, 03:30:16 PM
The kid at the end of the movie ties in with some of what Luke said earlier in the movie about how anyone is capable of tapping into the force.  Yes, it's true some are able to tap-into it easier and wield it more powerfully, but the message I got from it is that literally anyone within the Star Wars universe is capable of learning how to use the force if they're willing to learn.
Isn’t that what I said?
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It's a real democratization of the force and sets-up a narrative thread that could lead to lots of people within the universe learning how to use the force to varying degrees.
I feel like this has always been the implication. In A New Hope, Obi-Wan says, “The Force is what gives a Jedi his power. It’s an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us. It binds the galaxy together.” If The Force is within everyone, it follows that everyone can tap into it to some extent. I’d liken that to athletic ability. Anyone can play a sport. Some are just more naturally gifted; others have to work extra hard and even then, they still may not match someone who just has good genetics. And if one doesn’t foster any of that, it’s just lost potential.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: lolmonade on April 05, 2018, 03:50:15 PM
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Huh, guess I misread your comments as focusing more on the force sensitive nature rather than the idea that anyone can wield the force.  Shame on me for trying to read and reply to a comment while at work.

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QuoteIt's a real democratization of the force and sets-up a narrative thread that could lead to lots of people within the universe learning how to use the force to varying degrees.[size=0px]I feel like this has always been the implication. In A New Hope, Obi-Wan says, “The Force is what gives a Jedi his power. It’s an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us. It binds the galaxy together.” If The Force is within everyone, it follows that everyone can tap into it to some extent. I’d liken that to athletic ability. Anyone can play a sport. Some are just more naturally gifted; others have to work extra hard and even then, they still may not match someone who just has good genetics. And if one doesn’t foster any of that, it’s just lost potential.[/size]

I agree with you, but would also suggest that with such a honed-in focus on the Skywalker lineage and how up to this point in the series it's been an almost abandoned skill, it's not hard to forget the groundwork has already been there.  Why I thought episode 8 was great for pushing it back into the spotlight.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on April 05, 2018, 11:30:59 PM
I seriously doubt Rian Johnson or anybody competent would so obviously corner himself with the pointless hotel side non-plot. Finn's "arc" was beyond forced and it along with pretty much the whole movie reaks of suit interference. Ticking the pre-programmed, mathematically calculated requirements mixed in with out of touch "Cool" ideas. It's almost the polar opposite of Lucas failure mode.

There is no rule saying you can't make a statement it should seem incidental so to make the viewer think they are clever, their idea rather than smashing them over the head which never works. I share those values but it was embarrassingly bad in it's execution that I reject them in context of the movie. Who the hell cares where they get their weapons form when they desperately need them? Even the arms dealer angle gets abandoned.

The OG unintentionally had an all white cast if you exclude aliens and I doubt Lando was a diversity hire given his importance or little fanfare to his appearance(I get a good chuckle from him being "The only black guy in SW"). Both Finn and Rose were diversity hires given how pointless they were, they were seat warmers given make-work, the ultimate insult. To twist the knife like a drill Finn was the best(only viable) character imo in 7, a nobody thrust into importance from a moral choice. Han Solo has the same type of arc but with a very different personality. Conversely Luke doesn't get a choice until he gets into the X-Wing.

You don't need to be special to be a force user already got covered when we find out Rey like is a nobody and it should have been Luke dropping the first hints with Ren doing the closer like he did. It should have been his naked hubris, relying on his legend keeping the students in-line rather that him following the extremely flawed Jedi teachings. Ren should have fallen because he tried to follow a legend not because he was evil all along.

Seriously, Yoda manifest lightning decades later to clown Luke but didn't inform how they fucked up? "Don't kidnap children and isolate themselves emotionally given he appealed to emotion to rescue Vadar rather than any force of arms? Luke had already rejected the Jedi emotional constrains and he was proven right via lightning based evidence. Luke also proved following prophecy is BS.

Rey being the worse student ever not from anything Luke didis not only a reversal of why she even seek out Luke in the first place but undermines the reason for Luke's failure. Luke straight up asks "Why are to here?" and it's rhetorical. Rian is dunking on the script. I wanted to slap Rey when she lifts rocks and I don't know why they think I would be impressed swinging a sword that we know can cut things in half no skill required.

We still don't know how therefore why the New Republic fell or how FO just came out of nowhere or why the resistance is speck in size. As it has been mentioned, the OG is brilliant in establishing the political situation with no more than a couple sentences. Using the word Senate just brings it closer especially for Americans.

I still can't believe they remade Empire even though they reactionary were trying not to do so. Rian worked to rule, almost everything is forced, unnatural, lacks artistry or personal touch. Even JJ got his mystery boxes, awful action and BS plot, it was all him, you could tell it was a JJ film.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on April 14, 2018, 03:24:27 PM
Isle of Dogs What a fantastic movie! I need to watch it again
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on April 15, 2018, 03:31:50 PM
Rampage - what a loud ridiculous and stupid movie. But it completely knows that and works with it. I admit the crashing a helicopter off the top of a collapsing building while a giant gorilla, wolf and lizard are on top of it was just crazy stupid and weirdly tense.

I think it is a Dwayne Johnson thing that he completely powers through the stupid premise with a straight face and makes it workable.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on April 15, 2018, 07:38:13 PM
A Quiet Place
A very effective horror movie. Best one I’ve seen since Get Out though I consider Get Out more a psychological thriller than straight horror. I disgress. Point being, I like horror movies though I find most tend to fumble the horror part or devolve into a series of jump scares that “cheat” at scaring the audience. A Quiet Place earns most of its scares by creating atmosphere.

I have two issues with A Quiet Place. First, I have a hard time believing it took so long to stumble upon the creatures’ weakness. I can give this a pass though. Second, the nail in the stairs[/spoilers] makes no sense. Unless you were making a Home Alone death house, I don’t see even how a nail would be sticking up that way, especially with how meticulous the family, notably John Krasinski’s character, was. The tension was unearned because that plot point is such an odd choice.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on April 16, 2018, 12:02:39 AM
I watched Rampage w/ my daughter yesterday. She insisted we go watch it.

While I thought it had some pretty funny bits (like the moment at the end) my daughter said she liked it but found it kinda boring. While I won't be promoting people run out and go see it (I could are less actually... probably should just wait for it on some streaming service just because you like The Rock), I thought it was kinda fun for what it was, even if you ignore where The Rock gets shot, goes down, then reappears after shrugging off a bullet to the abdomen, excusing it with a quip, then pretending like it never happened, among several other stupid moments, it was "enjoyable", but as stated above, almost entirely because of The Rock (and the Ape).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: segagamersteph on April 19, 2018, 11:15:33 PM
I just watched Jumanji and it was a blast. I don't much care for Jack Black but I liked him in this.
I had some issues with it that I am sure will nag me but over all it was just fun. Makes me really want to see Rampage now.

I am trying to decide if I want to go to that this weekend or go see Super Troopers 2.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Shorty McNostril on April 25, 2018, 04:26:18 AM
Infinity War.  1000/5

I'm not saying anything about it.  Just get the hell in there asap and avoid spoilers like the plague.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on April 27, 2018, 08:39:51 PM
Avengers: Infinity War - 10/10

This is absolutely the best movie Marvel Studios has ever made. The fact that it's sitting at an 84% (93% with fans) on Rotten Tomatoes right now is a joke. The Last Jedi is sitting at a 91% (47% with fans). It's a joke.

It is definitely a Thanos movie more than anything else - even though it features nearly every hero from all of the previous MCU movies. Thanos appears on-screen within the opening moments of the movie, and absolutely asserts his dominance. From there on, everything that happens leads to every character making their way to some sort of confrontation with Thanos. While not every hero meets each other in the film - they all meet Thanos. While you will probably never feel sorry for Thanos in the film (actually, you may in two particular scenes), you will at least understand why he is on his quest. It's nearly impossible to get into it anymore without just having to turn this whole thing into a spoiler tag, so I will just say this - every assumption made about where the Soul Stone is, that I've seen at least, is completely wrong. This movie completely blew me away, and it makes me think (or hope, at least) that the events which will happen in Ant-Man and the Wasp and Captain Marvel will maybe give some hints as to what will happen next May in Avengers 4 - because this film is just so full of "holy ****" moments. The audience was essentially silent at the ending because of what they had to think about. It is not a character piece, at least for anyone other than Thanos - but we've have 17 movies already to build the main cast. This is the culmination of all of that character development. On a side note - make sure you stay until the end, because there is a single, arguably *extremely important* post-credits scene
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: segagamersteph on May 07, 2018, 11:35:59 PM
My most recent movie viewing includes Scarface, Thor Ragnarock, Doctor Strange and the first ten minutes of Forgetting Sarah Marshall.

Scarface: I should have seen this at some point in my life, I felt like Tamara Chambers going into this. I have no excuse my best friend growing up was a Mexican drug dealer and this was his favorite movie.
What did I think. It was good but overrated. Not nearly as good as it was made out to be but not bad. I can see why it has a following but it's not something I will want to rush out and watch again soon.

Thor: I haven't seen Thor 2 yet nor many of the MCU films preceding it. On it's own it does not stand up well at all. If all a person watches are the three Thor movies this one will not work as a stand alone sequel. This is my biggest gripe with the MCU in general. It was an OKAY movie, but I felt like it was doing too much world building then world destroying when it should have been a straight forward Apocalypse. I didn't hate it and I intend to watch it again once I am caught up on MCU, maybe watch them in proper order for a change, but I thought it was sloppy.

Doctor Strange.
Clearly I should have seen this BEFORE Thor 3 so oops. First gripe. This guy, supposedly genius level smart, lives in a world with Hulk and Loki and the Avengers, knows about them, was in New York during the alien invasion and he still is skeptical of the ancient ones magic? B.S. not believable took me out of the movie.
To that end, it's 2017, in the Marvel Universe, there is NO WAY there is this remote place in the jungle of who knows where completely out in the open with an ancient order of sorcerers in a world of cell phones and he still never heard of it, in the same world with Loki fighting Avengers downtown from his apartment? Not buying it.

The rest of the movie, once you get past that eye rolling oversight, was AWESOME. I will be putting this on my list of hidden gems or under rated super heroes for sure. It had flaws, and it definitely falls into the setting things up for the next film flaw they all do, but it stands more on its own than some of the others, of course some of that was distracting so there is that.

I thought I would hate Doctor Strange yet somehow I found myself really enjoying it.

Forgetting Sarah Marshall: God no. I couldn't get ten minutes into this before I was bored and turned it off. Not my kind of comedy. I wasn't sure going in what to expect but nope not for me.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on May 08, 2018, 04:33:00 AM
If you only watched the first 10 minutes of Forgetting Sarah Marshall than you only watched to the point you see Jason Segals dick. That is probably the most frat humor in the movie. It then turns into a movie about a man recovering from a breakup and finding his ability to love again. I'd put it in my top 10 romantic comedy movies.

Avengers: Infinity War - That touched me in the right place. My favorite episode of Power Rangers is where Lord Zedd wins
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on May 08, 2018, 08:46:03 AM
I really liked Forgetting Sarah Marshall though I’m admittedly biased because Kristen Bell is in it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on May 08, 2018, 04:33:35 PM
I liked Forgetting Sarah Marshall a lot too.  There's another frat humor scene later in the movie, but it definitely gets better as it goes on.  Easily top 10 romcom.  I think you should give it another shot.

But your criticism on Dr. Strange was so harsh, Steph!  I bought into the secrecy of it since no one seems to be able to get in the front door and secrecy seems to be their thing.  The skepticism to me was also believable because everything that happened so far in the MCU was science and aliens.  Magic being a thing is reasonably surprising.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on May 08, 2018, 07:38:21 PM
I want whatever the writers of Batman Ninja were smoking, taking, and drinking (clearly all at once).

Is it a good movie? Not...really (the animation is kind of randomly terrible & the lip syncing doesn't even try), but it sure is fucking memorable. I'll give it that. And in spots the movie just looks amazing.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: segagamersteph on May 08, 2018, 09:49:34 PM
I would buy the magic versus science argument if not for the first Thor movie already opening that door, the first Avengers movie the villain was a god. I don't know I guess I just thought it was too much to get past. I enjoyed the rest of the movie so I might be able to get over it. But he was so skeptical even after her first move throwing him out of his body, I don't know maybe I just been extra down lately due to the move not going as planned. I will give these movies all a second chance once I get back on my feet and am in a better state of mind.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on May 09, 2018, 11:35:36 AM
I understand the thing about the first Thor.  I've kinda written off most of the things from that movie since they explicitly say they're not gods and then by Thor 3, they're gods again.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on May 09, 2018, 02:38:13 PM
Watched Black Panther. Meh?

Cracking white boy jokes on Watson was funny and so was that Gorilla dude. BP himself was a black hole of I don't care. They killed all the wrong people. The fighting got duller as it went on to the point of being disinterested. This especially so at the end where they are fighting hand to hand in an empty space like a climax of a TV episode even though they have weapons capable of turning everyone into red mist.

It's a comic book movie that really wants me to take it seriously but it plays it so straight and transparently that I can't.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on May 09, 2018, 03:18:49 PM
I wrote a long review (http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/forums/index.php?topic=43091.msg934517#msg934517) in the main MCU thread about a month ago. I thought Black Panther was fine. Not objectively bad, just not great either. If nothing else, it was a culturally significant movie, easily the best comic book movie with a black lead since the first Blade, but it didn’t move the needle for me.

+ Killmonger in general, Michael B. Jordan was excellent
+ Overall solid performances
+ First T’Challa vs Killmonger
+ Art direction

- T’Challa is kind of bland
- Could have used more Killmonger
- Could have used more M’Baku
- Second T’Challa vs Killmonger was bad CGI
- Didn’t do anything new
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on May 09, 2018, 10:36:26 PM
I understand the thing about the first Thor.  I've kinda written off most of the things from that movie since they explicitly say they're not gods and then by Thor 3, they're gods again.

There is some sort of crossover between a "Superman" and a god(lower case g) They're more like Titans or Olympians. Not omnipotent, just a supremely powerful being.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Evan_B on May 09, 2018, 11:26:03 PM
Let’s not talk about Marvel movies for a hot second, eh?

Gerald’s Game was a fantastic adaptation and just a high quality horror film.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on May 10, 2018, 03:25:19 PM
I always took to "gods" references to just imply they were vastly powerful alien beings mistaken as bods by early humans, not that they were literal gods. Though I'm a Stargate fan, so that assumption just comes naturally.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: segagamersteph on May 10, 2018, 08:22:11 PM
I wasn't so much talking the specifics of them being true gods or not, just that it very explicitly states magic and science are the same thing. Either way if you can accept Loki running around New York City then you have no reason to be surprised by anything else, at least not as skeptical as he was he was flat out refusing to believe it he would have been more believable if he questioned it but accepted what she was doing not caring how but he flat refused to believe she could do what she claimed despite Loki doing all the same things he was skeptical of. I guess it's niticking at this point. I still enjoyed the movie.

It wasn't as bad as 40 year old ghost yoda, who should have been faded into the Force by now, summoning powerful lighting to destroy a whole tree yet Luke dies trying to astral project himself, something two kids were doing throughout the entire film. I like nitpicking things mostly just for fun.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on May 11, 2018, 06:32:41 AM
I want whatever the writers of Batman Ninja were smoking, taking, and drinking (clearly all at once).

Is it a good movie? Not...really (the animation is kind of randomly terrible & the lip syncing doesn't even try), but it sure is fucking memorable. I'll give it that. And in spots the movie just looks amazing.
This was literally bat **** insane. It gives no fucks and it is an amazing spectacle. It takes Batman tropes all the way and when you think it's done it runs off the cliff completely disrespecting gravity. It's great.

I wasn't at all concerned with the animation. There are tiny little details like Batman's blue lights on the side of his head looking like sweat drops when he first lands in Japan while the background is rendered in stereotypical Animé style while he is still hard edged. OMG Catwoman in a Kimono with a cat hand. Great grapnel joke. "Eject" icon and everything leading up to it. That final scene just takes it over the top.

It's extremely hard to rate this movie as it heavily depends personal taste, willingness to accept the insane premise and understanding the context. If you are looking at it from a technical stand point it beats all the post Nolan live action films.

Subjectively, I was giggling, laughing and at moments face palming when it got a little too much. There were some groaners and it plays some tropes too straight like with Robin repeating things for the audience. There are some weird questions you would normally ask like where did the Penguin get his Penguins from but context says who gives a ****.

If you like Batman and are looking for alternate takes I most certainly recommend it. I would rate it above the likes of Black Panther based on raw entertainment. If you are looking for a statement, some moral compassing or xyz guilt wash via consumption, it's not here.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: segagamersteph on May 12, 2018, 11:23:55 PM
I just watched Flatlines remake. First off um not sure how to spoiler tag this so um Ellen Paige was the only good thing about this movie.

That is all.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on May 17, 2018, 10:36:01 PM
Deadpool 2 - 8.5/10
It's so god damn funny...easily way funnier than the original. I'm not sure if I'd rate it as a "better" movie - may need to watch it again to determine that, but it's at least as good. But seriously, it's hilarious. The trailers are a bit misleading, which is good - or at least, they definitely don't give away the movie. About two-thirds through it takes an unexpected, and hilarious left turn that I was not expecting. There are some pretty fantastic cameos too, even though they last for about two seconds (I mean, they are cameos, after all). Just a head's up, there are some mid-credits scenes, but no full post-credits scenes (there was one, but it was cut for being too dark...maybe it will be in the unrated version). Spoilers below...

LMAO at them literally killing everyone (except Domino, she's lucky, after all) in the X-Force just minutes after they're introduced. Technically Deadpool goes back in time and saves Peter too but no one else lol. Juggernaut was a lot better in this one than in X-Men 3. Brad Pitt as Vanisher? 10/10. Also the cameo by the entire X-Men is pretty great...if you blink you'll miss it. Time travel is kind of confusing in this movie because it seems that the person who goes back takes over their body and at least knows about what is about to happen when they go back - but Cable didn't exist in Deadpool's time, but since he's a Cyborg maybe it's different for him? Also Deadpool signs and autograph as Ryan Reynolds in the Essex scene, but later on he kills both the X-Men Origins: Wolverine version of Deadpool (though that Deadpool also couldn't die, at least in the movie) and kills Ryan Reynolds as he gets his hands on the Green Lantern script - so does that mean he knows he's in a movie, but he's actually played by Wade Wilson and not by Ryan Reynolds? Anywho...great movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on May 17, 2018, 10:49:46 PM
An amazing thing happened at my screening of DP2.  The audience sat through the pre-credits scene, the mid-credits scene, all the credits, and the blank screen at the end.

Mind you, every freaking Marvel movie, where you *know* there's stingers, people always get up and leave... folks were still setting there... 30 seconds... we're all kinda awkwardly laughing.... a minute... two minutes... we're freakin sitting there staring at a blank screen for about five minutes.  A few people have left, but we're all still in there tryin to figure out if there's more.  Surely the staff is going to come in and clear us out, right?  No.  Finally, someone googles it.  Only the cut scene.  We left - there were still folks sitting in there.  Like, wow.  Everyone wants more Deadpool
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on May 18, 2018, 04:14:09 AM
I didn't plan accordingly and therefore didn't make opening night.... I will certainly see it this weekend though.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: segagamersteph on May 18, 2018, 05:48:15 PM
I just watched August Rush on Netflix earlier this week. I plan on talking about it on the podcast tomorrow. It was one of those movies that I enjoyed parts of but thought was a little heavy on the message.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on May 20, 2018, 02:37:47 AM
I just got home from DP2.

Not gonna provide much right now. I liked this one, but I loved the first one.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on May 20, 2018, 06:52:24 AM
Just got home too. It's is that rare that not only equal or surpass its predecessor, it blows past it. The first almost feels lame now. The hit rate on the jokes is just astounding. The writing is impeccable. The action is good and Domino is a real treat to watch which is also another joke or 12. The characters are all great. Visually seems to be another joke where it looks really good to meh.

"The guy who killed the dog from John Wick". This guy really knows how to make action movies.
Oh God the X-Force. Let me show you how stupid this **** is.
Best movie this year.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on May 20, 2018, 11:25:02 AM
The jokes were on rapid-fire. The action was great.
X-Force. LOL. I wonder how many of them will be back for the X-Force movie LOL

And I have to say that the Trailers were a bit misleading, but it was for the better. LOL

I'm probably gonna go watch it again, as I'm sure I missed a few things as I was at one of those theaters that serves food, and I was looking down to eat and deal with the waitress during the opening credits scene, so I missed a lot of that.
I was also super tired and coming down off a buzz from watching that BORING ASS Cavs v Celtics game. (3 boring games in a row now Zzzz), so I wanna be ready this time.

things I don't want to Spoil!!!

Baby Legs!!! LMAO, the Basic Instinct Baby legs cross over. OMG, I was dying.
The X-Force 1st outing being a total bust - Shatterstar looking ridiculous and comic accurate being propellor food. The Vanisher... who was that actor. I recognized him, but it was such a brief look (was eating, so occasionally looking down)
Yuki never actually seeing any action, and her totally cute interactions with Deadpool
The X-Men cameo in the Mansion
THE MUTHA FUCKING JUGGERNAUGHT BITCH... he didn't say that, but he looked great. and he led to the 1st spoiler moment mentioned above.
The the 2nd post credit with him going back to fix everything (Avengers 4 pre-credit cameo!? LOL) was pretty damn funny. That Xmen Origins cameo was great.
Deadpool 3 with a time watch... Oh boy.
Oh, and the dead... nope, not yet.... ok now I'm dead... GODDAMMIT!!! why can't I just die... #dead..... just kidding now we saved you scene was pretty good too.


I honestly feel like the jokes came so fast and delivered to non-chalantly, like DP is just endlessly rambling quips after quips, and that's not even the visual jokes, that I had to either missed some of them, or just not gotten some of them (hence the need for a 2nd viewing). I am at least familiar with X-men/Marvel Comics and know most of the characters referenced, so I'm not sure how much the "new to this" crowd understood or even realized there was a joke or comic accurate portrayal or comic reference they were missing.

So while I loved the 1st Deadpool, at this point, I merely REALLY LIKED this one. but I'm going to go watch it again, and will let you know if the mood change going in changes the experience a 2nd time round.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on May 20, 2018, 01:26:08 PM
It was Brad Pitt. Leaving that without a spoiler tag because it's only a spoiler if you look up who he played. Matt Damon is in the movie too, by the back of the truck when Cable first goes back in time.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on May 21, 2018, 10:44:02 AM
So I watched DP2 again last night after the Warrior game.
saw all the little bits I missed, the 1st movie to me was certainly better IMO. Tighter from beginning to End and built up over years.
But even though the new one is good to, and were lots of things that were technically better in the sequel (action, visuals, budget, cameos, characters), it just didn't quite have the shock value of the 1st, but that's ok.

and Morena Baccarin is so damn fine. I'm glad he un-killed her at the end.... still not sure if he bothered to save the rest of the "X-Force" outside of Peter.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: segagamersteph on May 21, 2018, 11:02:29 PM
Die hard fans aside, do you think following this summer the super hero movies are going to start winding down?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on May 22, 2018, 12:21:50 AM
Well Star Wars dead so that is a start and we are starting down the B list heroes with only Avengers # to go before everyone can leave. DP was the only thing to kick my interest for years and you can't exactly ride one set of characters into oblivion.

There are other ethnicities they can sell/pander/grease directly to like the Chinese which they have started the ground work on. The Japanese won't give a **** as they have plenty of their own. The rest are too small or needs validation.

If DC makes a comeback(LOL) you will get a bit more life out of it. As universes go it going to reach heat death very soon as you can only kill so many people on an epic scale before you run out of people to kill. It's almost a miracle MCU has lasted as long as it has without an outright bad movie or jumping the shark but its explainable by them playing it very safe.
It's the reason why we haven't seen a Black Widow movie. You have an Avenger going around assassinating people and all kinds of dirty work. She's not safe, that's a R rating. The back story they gave got laughed out of the park. I still don't know her and Hawkeye's in universe reason why they are an Avenger.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on May 22, 2018, 11:24:32 AM
I think we still have a few more summers left in this thing.  Marvel could run out of heroes, but adding Miles, Ms Marvel, Ironheart and whomever else they haven't milked for ether film or TV can breathe some life into it.  However, I could see the returns start to diminish as the characters lose a bit of the cool-factor.  But with (almost?) all the Marvel properties being under one house, the risk of over-saturation is almost gone.  The only real issue is the scale. 1/2 the universe bit the dust in A3, so even if you save them in A4, there's not many places to go.  Other than Skrulls, of course.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on May 22, 2018, 01:47:29 PM
It's not so much they run out of heroes as they can always manufacture more whole cloth and some can pass on their legacy to an understudy. The question is would anyone care? With existing heroes they have a cheat sheet back catalogue of comics to pick and choose character elements from to shorten their introduction. Completely new would require all sorts of investment and build up essentially doubling down on origin stories.

Right now they are dumping a set of completely new characters in China tailored very specifically to their market to the point an outsider would see it as an extremely cynical move. It's a couple steps away from propaganda.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-44078700

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Pretty good. Warriors of Three Sovereigns has already been read more than two million times since its release. Cyclone just in at just under 750,000 on NetEase. (https://manhua.163.com/author/book/85518982)

"We finally have Chinese superheroes," said one commenter on NetEase. "We've made it."

"Maybe one day they'll be able to fight alongside The Avengers," another added.

For now, the comics are only available in Chinese and on NetEase's Comics website - the online comic platform, which already hosts other Marvel comics including Captain America and Spiderman.

According to a statement by NetEase, the characters are meant to appeal to more than just a Chinese audience, with the company saying it hoped they would "promote the diversity of the Marvel universe."

Warriors of Three Sovereigns?! It's a direct reference to Romance of the 3 kingdoms which is one of the few cultural bit of entertainment that is safe to make in China and it is done to death beyond imagination. Imagine if the few media you can make is Sherlock Holmes/Sir Francis Drake and spin-off from it with the same few characters, same sets, props, several dozen times a year while the government dictates the tone so that is the same in every literation.

No other country would say "We've made it" if Marvel made a hero specifically for them as validation of their insecurity or a tick box to prove they are a nation on the world stage. Nobody outside of China would bite. No body imports Chinese media while we do import Bollywood or anywhere else as it is that creatively bankrupt.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on May 22, 2018, 11:16:59 PM
Just got back from Deadpool 2. It's better than the first in some ways, worse in others.

Fridging Vanessa is one of the laziest choices the writers could have made which is especially weird since Deadpool jokes about lazy writing at least twice. At the same time, I really liked the "Just fixing the timelines" gag. The movie didn't need to fridge Vanessa to get that scene or line. Reversing it so nonchalantly also robs the movie of its emotional weight though I don't think anyone goes into a Deadpool movie for drama.

Like the first, the writing is uneven at times. It's inexplicable how Cable even knows to question Weasel. Maybe there was a scene cut? The writers have to get Cable to the convoy and kind of cheated to get there. I like the scene itself though. Josh Brolin and T.J. Miller played off each other really well.

Cable's backstory is trite and extremely uninteresting. And if we're to believe that his entire motivation to travel through time is to save his family, I have a really hard time also believing he would assume his family is safe (they could still get murdered in a different way) and that he would give up his chance to see them again to save Deadpool when they could have easily save him. I also don't think Colossus would have stood there and watched Deadpool die. That isn't good writing even if the payoff worked. It felt like five minutes of Deadpool not dying.

I didn't think the profanity was distracting this time. A couple eye rolls from me, but the dialog was a lot stronger in this one. Most of the jokes land, and they don't rely so heavily on pushing that R rating. Deadpool asking Colossus to say "****" was both hilarious and an effective use of profanity.

Some random thoughts

1. Colossus vs. The Juggernaut was a total letdown. I was so pumped for it too.
2. I've never seen or heard of Zazie Beetz before. She is excellent as Domino (and also extremely good looking).
3. Speaking of, I would've liked more Domino though I thought she was handled well. She drops a lot of loaded lines about her past then the movie never pays them off which is fine since Deadpool 2 isn't her movie.
4. I loved the misdirection in the trailer with X-Force. A little disappointed I didn't get more Terry Crews.
5. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the impression I got from the mid-credits scene is Deadpool only goes back and saves Peter. The other X-Force members who died are still canonically dead.
6. The X-Men cameo was so good. Chronologically, it doesn't make sense. Deadpool 2 probably takes place in 2018, but I accept it because this is a Deadpool movie. It was a one-off gag and worth the fraction of a second of screen time.
7. CG was not great.

Anyway, I liked it, probably more than the first one.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on May 23, 2018, 12:51:42 AM
I believe the CG itself is another gag. The Domino sequences looks fantastic as hell while DP rips on about how you can't make Luck look good. The C Vs J fight looks poor as it doesn't matter, it's obligatory basically trolling you. When C picks up DP C looks great.

The guy who killed the dog from John Wick does exceptional real action where others get lazy so I am not surprised even if this wasn't a gag CG is his weakness. Even in JW this shows.

I love they spent next to no time on Cable's back story and got right into the meat of him playing terminator. It's KISS. We don't need his genealogy and making yet another origin story would just drag on the movie. I am beyond sick of origin stories. He has secondary motivations leading to why he stays. It's spelled out visually and naturally through the dialogue. Its a gag and a message for us. Who is he is right now is what is important not his future past. Cable knows more than us about time travel(His device can track changes) and the bear is a glaringly bright audience device.

In regards to the end, DP felt he was done which he was and was trying to do or accept throughout the movie. C is that much of a friend. A good chunk of the movie was built to lead up to this moment and how important V is.

The premise you have incorrect. This isn't a comic book movie. It's a DP movie, tightly written and has strong internal logic. If you try to MCU this it doesn't work as it doesn't follow the rules. Once you think along the lines of almost everything is a gag, funny observations of the world, movie making and reflection of audience fatigue it comes together insanely well.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on May 23, 2018, 01:01:25 AM
Zazie Beats, she is from Atlanta. The Donald Glover/Chidlish Gambino TV Show on FX. Look it up. It's good. Unique. won an award in it's first season.

I'm pretty sure most people haven't heard of her before though.

Colossus vs Juggernaut, I had no idea he was in the movie... I avoided most spoilers, and now that I think about it, I remember there being a spoiler about it, but I either didn't believe it or just plain forgot. Juggs survived though, so it's all good. LOL

I also not sure who from X-Force makes the titled movie though for the same reason you pointed out. it's entirely possible they take the lazy way out, bring them all back like they didn't die, and then DP just calls it out like the audience would, then points out that he eventually went back and saved those he thought were useful... because he can address the audience like that.

and for the X-Men cameo, for as good as it was, they should have mixed both First Class and Original X-Men in the room... just because. Why Not!?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on May 23, 2018, 08:07:27 AM
Because they shot that cameo from the set of Dark Phoenix.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on May 24, 2018, 01:03:55 AM
It's not so much they run out of heroes as they can always manufacture more whole cloth and some can pass on their legacy to an understudy. The question is would anyone care? With existing heroes they have a cheat sheet back catalogue of comics to pick and choose character elements from to shorten their introduction. Completely new would require all sorts of investment and build up essentially doubling down on origin stories.

Right now they are dumping a set of completely new characters in China tailored very specifically to their market to the point an outsider would see it as an extremely cynical move. It's a couple steps away from propaganda.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-44078700

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Pretty good. Warriors of Three Sovereigns has already been read more than two million times since its release. Cyclone just in at just under 750,000 on NetEase. (https://manhua.163.com/author/book/85518982)

"We finally have Chinese superheroes," said one commenter on NetEase. "We've made it."

"Maybe one day they'll be able to fight alongside The Avengers," another added.

For now, the comics are only available in Chinese and on NetEase's Comics website - the online comic platform, which already hosts other Marvel comics including Captain America and Spiderman.

According to a statement by NetEase, the characters are meant to appeal to more than just a Chinese audience, with the company saying it hoped they would "promote the diversity of the Marvel universe."

Warriors of Three Sovereigns?! It's a direct reference to Romance of the 3 kingdoms which is one of the few cultural bit of entertainment that is safe to make in China and it is done to death beyond imagination. Imagine if the few media you can make is Sherlock Holmes/Sir Francis Drake and spin-off from it with the same few characters, same sets, props, several dozen times a year while the government dictates the tone so that is the same in every literation.

No other country would say "We've made it" if Marvel made a hero specifically for them as validation of their insecurity or a tick box to prove they are a nation on the world stage. Nobody outside of China would bite. No body imports Chinese media while we do import Bollywood or anywhere else as it is that creatively bankrupt.

It's probably supposed to be "Warriors of the 3 kingdoms" There is an issue when something is translated and then translated back.

My take on originality is that there isn't much nowadays. The most original thing lately is Black Mirror, but it really is just a modern Outer Limits or Twilight Zone.

The best thing you can do is make a sort of rip off that twists something formulaic into something new. That is what Stranger Things is. Or the Guest.

Though this was an issue 115 years ago.
https://archive.org/details/LenSpencerSHDudley
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on May 24, 2018, 03:16:06 AM
"Warriors of the 3 kingdoms" just makes it more of a farce. While originality is hard you have to go "Really? come on" when you crank something out like that. It creative bankruptcy at it's finest meld with self censorship and propaganda.

We still make Sherlock Holmes but we also have new stuff all the time, we aren't going back to that one well time and again historically, culturally, location, characters, symbols, themes saying yes please can we have some more?

You will never escape the fact everyone have the use the same basic building blocks which is a mistake people make when talking about originality and we are still adding new blocks, new ways to experience those stories. Experiences never possible driven by new technologies like writing, printing press, the explosion of literacy, film, internet, games, VR.

Self generating stories. Branching resulting in completely different results. Collaborative stories on a massive scale. Extremely high fidelity of facts and fiction. New genera. Nothing new under the sun? Nope. A literal lack of imagination.

A Bridge Too Far (1977)

The Saving Private Ryan Before Saving Private Ryan, the Band of Brothers. The scale is epic, brutal. Being true to the actual events, people not just "Based on" is chilling. It has some editing issues from time to time with so many separate battles going on makes location and time a bit fuzzy with some odd orphaned scenes.

Being forced to do things for real adds to it. Want to air drop a division? Better get enough planes, people and material. Build a bridge? Work all night.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on May 25, 2018, 02:16:11 AM
Solo is a movie that exists.  It has a beginning, an ending, and a plot that takes you from one point to the other.  It has some characters in it.  They do some stuff.

It's not a *bad* movie.  It's not a *good* movie.  It just is.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on May 25, 2018, 02:42:54 AM
But what everyone (namely me) cares about is how was Lando?

p.s. That solo movie ain't happening is it? ... I mean the Lando prequel movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: segagamersteph on May 25, 2018, 03:58:40 PM
No spoilers, if Han dies in this and it gets leaked before I see it I might shoot someone first.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on May 25, 2018, 05:50:04 PM
Han died in this. But don't worry, he comes back next year when Thanos resurrects him. /infinitystarwarsspoiler
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on May 25, 2018, 06:37:03 PM
I've not seen Solo and may end up waiting until it hits the discount theater, but there was a neat spoiler I read about a cameo character from the prequel era. Darth Maul, which makes a lot of sense, as he was running Black Sun at one point before his final duel with Obi-wan on Tatooine
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on May 25, 2018, 10:36:23 PM
Solo: A Star Wars Story - 8/10

This was so much better than I had expected! Honestly it's better than The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi...not quite up there with Rogue One, but I'd say it's pretty close. So I think my current ranking is 5, Rogue One, Solo, 4, 6, 7, 8, 3, 2, 1...but I'd almost put 4 after 7. I'd consider myself a Star Wars fan, even if not a big one, but honestly, most of the Star Wars movies are not very good. Anywho, they do cover quite a but in a short amount of time, and it does probably rely a lot on nostalgia (hey, wanna see how Han met Chewie? Hey, wanna see how Han met Lando? Hey, wanna see how Han got the Falcon? etc.) but they actually pulled it off in a really cohesive manner. Of course one of the best parts is the cameo of the character who you would absolutely not expect to make a cameo - Darth Maul. I really hope this character shows up in another spin-off movie, and one of the rumored ones would actually be a perfect fit. It's not just awesome for being a cameo from that character, but from the implications of that what follows. I was going into this expecting to have the same view at the end as UncleBob, but I wholeheartedly disagree. Aiden Ehrenreich is not Harrison Ford, and he doesn't make an attempt to play that version of Han - but he does a really good job on his own and does bring in a few of his mannerisms (banter with Chewie, the way he holds his blaster, etc.), I was impressed especially after all the stuff I read on the internet. If you're on the fence, go see it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on May 26, 2018, 04:15:51 AM
I'm not a huge Star Wars fan, not actually having seen it until my late teens and still thinking they're good movies, but not ones I'd go out of my way to own.  I enjoyed Last Jedi (although it had many, many flaws).  Rogue One is my favorite movie in the franchise.  I don't *hate* Jar Jar, and, in general, am not super attached to any of the characters.

So, with all that said, none of the Nostalgia really hit me anywhere.  If the movie was terrible at keeping the Star Wars story in-tact, that would probably help my opinion of it (since I'm not too attached to it all).  On the other had, because the movie is deisgned to hit a lot of Nostalgic Notes... it also doesn't really do anything for me.

It's not a bad movie, like BvS or Justice League... just not one I'd go out of my way to see again.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: segagamersteph on May 28, 2018, 08:16:08 PM
I just watched It Follows and Seven on Netflix.


It Follows.

I, uh didn't care for it. I knew going in it was going to be weird but it wasn't scary at all, there wasn't any really any tension and the um, monster?, didn't even make sense. Also the acting was bland. I would rate it I guess 3/10. Not great.

Seven.

Okay much like Fight Club and The Sixth Sense, I avoided seeing this because the ending was spoiled a long as time ago and I never got around to seeing it. I decided to just give it a try. I wish I had been able to see this back when it was new. I wanted to. I remember seeing previews for it and liking it. But, my ultra conservative parents would have freaked out if I watched it so I never got much of a chance.

I liked it. It was great. I loved the tone, the atmosphere, the villain made a whole lot more sense to me than Hannibal Lector in Silence of the Lambs (Which was a rare movie my weird parents did let us watch for some reason) and well even knowing the ending I still felt the tension during that final scene.

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: RABicle on May 29, 2018, 10:27:27 AM
I saw this werid move on TV the otehr day. hadn't seen it before, it was called The Avengers and it was about this grab bag group of different characters who had to save the world from some alien god who wanted a source of infinite power or something. I duno I think I stopped paying attention for a while and browsed my phone but the action scenes were pretty good and there was a great wisecracking lead, this guy in an Iron suit. Apparently he has his own spinoffs? Sounds good. Anyway I give it a thumbs up, good for a rental or to watch if it was on TV.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on May 29, 2018, 12:07:59 PM
Yeah that one was pretty good. There was also a few low key direct-to-theater sequels you might want to check out.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: RABicle on May 30, 2018, 12:54:19 AM
Direct to theatre? Who watches movies there anymore?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on May 30, 2018, 01:06:42 AM
The only films I see these days are the ones done through pantomime in the back of a darkened alleyway.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: segagamersteph on May 31, 2018, 01:28:04 AM
I just watched The Lost Boys and Hellraiser 2 on Netflix.

I've seen both before but have new thoughts.

The Lost Boys

10/10 still one of the best vampire movies of all time. Oozing with 80's charm. I noticed they really don't show the vampires actually flying although they are depicted as flying a lot. That used to bother me as a kid, it felt cheap, low budget. I didn't get that this time, it felt more artistic, especially with the music.

Hellraiser 2

The first time I watched this one I liked it more than the original. Not this time. I started to really see the flaws in this movie I skipped the first time. The plot of these movies never makes sense but this time I felt like it was trying to get me to root for the monsters and I guess I just didn't get into that.

7/10 good visuals, lots of gore, bad acting and terrible plot.

Oh I also rewatched Little Monsters for the billionth time. Nothing negative to say still love this movie.

I do still roll my eyes every time they make lightning out of pencils though. The rest of the movie I can live with.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on June 01, 2018, 01:07:31 AM
Inception...that was really good!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on June 01, 2018, 03:29:48 AM
Mother! - What on earth did i just watch? This just fell off a cliff into insanity really quickly. I can't really construct a view on this movie. It's utterly weird. Khush, anyone, ANYONE else please watch this.

Alright. You asked me too and now I've seen it. Why did I listen to you? Lol. Do you want to discuss this or forget it?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on June 01, 2018, 04:28:44 AM
Mother! - What on earth did i just watch? This just fell off a cliff into insanity really quickly. I can't really construct a view on this movie. It's utterly weird. Khush, anyone, ANYONE else please watch this.

Alright. You asked me too and now I've seen it. Why did I listen to you? Lol. Do you want to discuss this or forget it?
I vote that you discuss it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on June 01, 2018, 04:35:14 PM
Awwwwwww geeeeezzzzz. Well, alright. But it will have to be tomorrow. I'm just going to be out and about too much today. You know what that means? Less moderator oversight on these forums. Time to go wild!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on June 09, 2018, 02:23:05 AM
Just watched the Pixar movie Coco on Netflix. Bold choice to make the two Grandmas the villains.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on June 10, 2018, 08:12:55 PM
I just watched The Lost Boys and Hellraiser 2 on Netflix.

I've seen both before but have new thoughts.

The Lost Boys

10/10 still one of the best vampire movies of all time. Oozing with 80's charm. I noticed they really don't show the vampires actually flying although they are depicted as flying a lot. That used to bother me as a kid, it felt cheap, low budget. I didn't get that this time, it felt more artistic, especially with the music.

Hellraiser 2

The first time I watched this one I liked it more than the original. Not this time. I started to really see the flaws in this movie I skipped the first time. The plot of these movies never makes sense but this time I felt like it was trying to get me to root for the monsters and I guess I just didn't get into that.

7/10 good visuals, lots of gore, bad acting and terrible plot.

Oh I also rewatched Little Monsters for the billionth time. Nothing negative to say still love this movie.

I do still roll my eyes every time they make lightning out of pencils though. The rest of the movie I can live with.

Is it just me or does the characters on Hellraiser 2 look like the characters from the Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: segagamersteph on June 11, 2018, 11:08:06 AM
First up, every June I revisit the Friday the 13th films. I got through part 4 last night.
I haven't changed my mind, the first 2 are the better horror movies, 3 is a total joke but still entertaining and 4 is where the films start to become more comedy than horror.
I realize, if you don't count Zombie Jason, the Tommy Jarvis character is in exactly the same number of movies as human Jason.
I still think it's dumb that a kid in the country with no money or tools and produce Hollywood quality masks and make up knowing how much work goes into those things. That always kind of bothered me.

Watchmen/V For Vendetta-
I got about ten minutes into V for Vendetta before I had to turn it off. Boring a sin. I got a little further into Watchmen but it also didn't hold my attention. To be fair I was having a discussion with a friend on Twitter during the film so I was distracted. I might give it a second chance but I tried V for Vendetta twice and it just doesn't interest me at all.
Guardians of the Galaxy 1 and 2- I watched those sometime last week. Not sure if I already talked about them here yet or not but damn I fell in love with those movies right away and they are now my favorite Marvel characters. I am hesitant to watch Infinity War now but I figure I will get around to it eventually.
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Is it just me or does the characters on Hellraiser 2 look like the characters from the Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt?
I've never seen that so I don't know. I thought the girl was just out of place. The first time I watched it was a marathon so I think I liked it more in my memory because I went straight from 1 then 2 then 3 all in the same day. Watching it by itself  I didn't enjoy it as much. I still liked the first one, I've now seen it 5 times and I could see it again.

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on June 11, 2018, 07:40:48 PM
V for Vendetta sucks.  There's one scene from the source material that they nail, but the rest of it feels heavily dumbed down from the graphic novel.

If you liked reading Watchmen, you'll like the film.  I thought it was a solid adaptation.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: segagamersteph on June 11, 2018, 07:56:52 PM
It was assigned reading for a college course I took. I, uh, skimmed the pictures and got the rest of Wikipedia. I am fairly certain I will enjoy it I just need to watch it when I am not distracted.
 
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on June 14, 2018, 07:22:50 AM
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. I see where they were trying to go with this, and the film had a lot of "let the past die" moments like The Last Jedi in the sense that they wanted to push the franchise forward but had to shuffle a whole bunch of things to allow it to get there.

For me my real issue is the moral dilemma came down to should we push this button, which the answer is "the studio ordered a sequel!!!!!!" and then the child decided this anyway
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on June 15, 2018, 01:36:13 AM
Incredibles 2 is incredible too.




edit: 14 year wait, and it was worth it.
Action was great and this movie is hilarious.
Me and my daughter were loving it. So many good moments
Jack Jack steals the show, and I better not have to wait 14 more years for another sequel.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on June 16, 2018, 05:59:18 PM
Just got out of Incredibles 2 and...that's a very OK movie...that's a follow-up to a legendary one. -_-

14 years for that? Really?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on June 17, 2018, 11:20:14 AM
I also saw Incredibles 2 recently and will say it was as good as the first.

One thing though: That baby is OP.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on June 23, 2018, 10:03:54 PM
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

Poignant and surprisingly, genuinely funny at times. Fred Rogers was too good for this world.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on June 23, 2018, 10:38:04 PM
Casablanca - 8/10 Still Relevant.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on June 24, 2018, 05:43:05 PM
Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom - 8/10
This movie is better than it deserves to be. It's basically just two scenes too. More or less a better, also sadder, and scarier, version of The Lost World. Lots of good ol' people getting eaten by dinosaur scenes.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on June 24, 2018, 07:47:16 PM
Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom - 8/10
This movie is better than it deserves to be. It's basically just two scenes too. More or less a better, also sadder, and scarier, version of The Lost World. Lots of good ol' people getting eaten by dinosaur scenes.

I've heard it was pretty bad.... and that swayed me from opening weekend excitement, even though my daughter wants to see it. Maybe I'll go watch a 6pm showing of it tonight.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on June 24, 2018, 09:10:51 PM
I'll put it this way - it's easily the second-best Jurassic Park movie. Side note: there is a (very brief) post-credits scene. Is it worth staying for? Not exactly...doesn't offer much more than the ending does.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on June 25, 2018, 12:40:03 AM
I missed that brief post credit. Theater employee told me there wasn't one.
Care to just describe it for me?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Shorty McNostril on June 25, 2018, 01:32:41 AM
Several pterosaurs land on a building in Las Vegas


I thought it was OK.  I enjoyed JW far more.  But this isn't a bad way to waste a couple of hours if you're that way inclined.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on June 25, 2018, 05:00:28 AM
I am convinced anyone who hates Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom just hates fun movies. It was a blast. Great follow up to the last film. I was cheering at parts. Final battle was great, I loved the settings, and while some people knocked the "earth first" themes, I never felt they hammered you over the head with it. It was used as a tool in the story telling, unlike some films where the environmental or other message were the point of the film.


Felt a bit of a Resident Evil vibe thanks to the creepy old mansion, and turns out the director has done horror films in the past. There were several good scare points and I genuinely feared people (outside of Owen/Claire) could have died at any number of times. Ever since the mess that was JP3 I have gone into these films just rooting for the Raptors/Rexy to kill people. Not been disappointed in the JW films so far.


For those unaware, the T-Rex in the Jurassic World films is the original one from Jurassic Park. You can tell by the scarring on her face and back from her fight with the raptors.


Mosasaurus (sp?) needed more time, but she (he? it?) at least got one awesome scene.


The ending was a little odd. Obviously they left it open for further sequels, but it kinda makes me wonder where they go from here? Blue/Rexy/Dinos loose in NorCal, will they get caught and placed in a zoo? Send them to site B?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on June 25, 2018, 11:34:20 AM
I watched JW:TLK with my daughter last night.

She was in to it from beginning to end. and that says alot, because she was about to take a nap just before the movie started, as we spent all day at the water park swimming in the sun. As soon as the movie started, she was scared, and then as they brought up Blue, she found her emotional focal point.
She told me right after the movie was over, that she cried during the movie, and it was related to Blue. she actually started clapping when Blue took out the New Raptor and then got up and walked away!!!

I have to say I did run out to see this as a lot of the impressions online are that this movie was terrible, but from someone that barely remembers anything from the last movie plot wise, this movie was entertaining for what it was. I don't remember there being any real dull moments, and I actually enjoyed it for what it was. A fun action movie centering around dinosaurs living in the modern world. and in the next sequel, that's exactly what this movie will be about.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on July 03, 2018, 12:11:54 AM
Rampage - 7/10
The Rock is so good damn charasmatic, he can increase the regular score of any movie by 3 points just by being in it. I was pleasantly surprised at how decent this actually was. The CGI is excellent - the plot is absurd, but The Rock is so great, and JDM is fantastic (and basically plays Negan in this movie) that it makes up for the shortcomings. I've got to say, this is probably the best video game movie there is. Luckily the source material is so simple that they were able to actually put something together like they did, without it feeling like they're ruining something (like every RE movie, Street Fighter, Mario Bros., Mortal Kombat, etc.). Yeah. It was actually a lot of fun to watch.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on July 03, 2018, 09:00:38 PM
Rampage I haven't seen it but I t has giant monsters and the Rock/ 10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on July 06, 2018, 12:26:43 AM
Ant-Man and the Wasp - 8/10
Funnier and more interesting than the first one. It's very much a standalone movie, even though it's a direct sequel (to Ant-Man and Captain America: Civil War) - basically you can see this without seeing any of the other movies and not feel completely out of the loop. Timeline-wise, this takes place before Avengers Infinity War, but pretty close to the same time (you can deduce this by Scott being on house arrest for just under two years, and Thor telling Banner he's been the Hulk for over two years in Ragnarok...and because, <Infinity War spoiler ahead> well, no one seems to be freaking out because of half of the population being wiped out). It's also very different than any other Marvel Studios film, especially when it comes to the villain, because, well, there isn't one - well, at least not a major one - and the real antagonist isn't Ghost. I wouldn't say that's a major spoiler, and you figure that out pretty early on.

There are two post-credits scenes. The second one you don't necessarily need to stay for, it's really just a tease, but the first one is very important in regards to Infinity War and Avengers 4, because Ant-Man is trapped in the Quantum Realm, and it's goodbye Hank, Janet, and Wasp when Thanos snaps his fingers.
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Post by: BranDonk Kong on July 07, 2018, 12:05:25 AM
Am I the only one watching movies these days?

No Country for Old Men - 8/10
Waited too long to see this one, so I think I over-hyped it for myself. Still really good, but was expecting to like it more.

There Will Be Blood - 8.5/10
Same deal, except this was a better movie. Some of the best acting I've ever seen - absolutely brilliant performances by Daniel Day-Lewis and Paul Dano.

Sicario - 9/10 (the first one)
I actually watched this a couple days ago. Really fucking good. Makes you feel a little uneasy, especially the last act. Looking forward to seeing the sequel very soon.
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Post by: ThePerm on July 07, 2018, 12:28:58 AM
Am I the only one watching movies these days?

No Country for Old Men - 8/10
Waited too long to see this one, so I think I over-hyped it for myself. Still really good, but was expecting to like it more.

There Will Be Blood - 8.5/10
Same deal, except this was a better movie. Some of the best acting I've ever seen - absolutely brilliant performances by Daniel Day-Lewis and Paul Dano.

Sicario - 9/10 (the first one)
I actually watched this a couple days ago. Really fucking good. Makes you feel a little uneasy, especially the last act. Looking forward to seeing the sequel very soon.

I really like The Will be Blood but I have no idea what it's about. It's really fun to see these people act as these characters though.
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Post by: BranDonk Kong on July 07, 2018, 11:18:42 AM
I DRINK YOUR MILKSHAKE!
It's basically just about a total asshole. When he gets to Little Boston his plan was to get all of the oil and to kill Eli, because Eli challenged him, which is why he says "I'm finished" at the end...at least I think that's why, and because he's done witth his dinner. I saw a good write-up about it last night.
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Post by: ThePerm on July 07, 2018, 08:21:00 PM
could you tell me what Inherent Vice is about? At first I didn't like the movie because its plotline baffled me, but then I realized it was all worth it for "Moto Panekeku!"

That scene stuck with me. Every time I eat Pancakes I think about it. Or Cabin Fever.
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Post by: BranDonk Kong on July 07, 2018, 09:04:06 PM
Never seen either one of those...need to though.
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Post by: ThePerm on July 07, 2018, 09:39:19 PM
Watch the original Cabin Fever, not the remake.
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Post by: ThePerm on July 08, 2018, 09:24:27 PM
The Hitman's Body Guard - Good
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Post by: BranDonk Kong on July 08, 2018, 10:16:24 PM
Acquiring that one now...and Cabin Fever (2002 Eli Roth version).
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Post by: nickmitch on July 08, 2018, 10:26:14 PM
Jurassic Word 2

This movie was absolutely terrible, but so much fun. Easily a 7.5/10.

Honestly, I felt like the cinema sins guy while watching the movie.  Every idiotic thing just stuck out at me.  I still had a ton of fun watching the movie, for sure.  There was one scene where the super raptor smirked because he had some guy fooled.  I could've ignored it, but it happened twice! As if they just replayed that part of the scene.  It was cartoonish.  There was another super cartoonish scene with the super raptor, and I think they should have just gone all the way with it.  There are so many things wrong with it, but it's also great in that Fast & Furious way.
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Post by: BranDonk Kong on July 08, 2018, 11:30:39 PM
Yeah, so that's the problem with the other Jurassic movies - they aren't fun.
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Post by: ThePerm on July 08, 2018, 11:37:37 PM
Jurassic Word 2

This movie was absolutely terrible, but so much fun. Easily a 7.5/10.

Honestly, I felt like the cinema sins guy while watching the movie.  Every idiotic thing just stuck out at me.  I still had a ton of fun watching the movie, for sure.  There was one scene where the super raptor smirked because he had some guy fooled.  I could've ignored it, but it happened twice! As if they just replayed that part of the scene.  It was cartoonish.  There was another super cartoonish scene with the super raptor, and I think they should have just gone all the way with it.  There are so many things wrong with it, but it's also great in that Fast & Furious way.

It sounds like the Jurassic Series has Flanderized itself.
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Post by: ShyGuy on July 09, 2018, 01:16:49 AM
I watched Bangkok Dangerous starring Nicolas Cage. It was not very good, but it was entertaining a few times. Two stars.
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Post by: nickmitch on July 09, 2018, 09:17:35 PM
Yeah, so that's the problem with the other Jurassic movies - they aren't fun.

I thought Jurassic World 1 was fun too, but not as fun as this one.  It was so close to being good because it was clearly aware of how terrible it was, but it just didn't do enough with that knowledge.  This one seems less self-aware, but a lot dumber.

It sounds like the Jurassic Series has Flanderized itself.

Not quite enough, if you ask me. At least, not in the right direction.
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Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on July 13, 2018, 02:37:37 AM
I watched Ant-man and the Wasp.

really quick 30 second review because I'm tired now.....

They showed waaaay too much in the trailers.
It was ok, I like the 1st one as a whole better... much better.

and just to save everyone time, I'm spoiling the 2nd post credit scene.
It was in the trailers. I posted a gif of it weeks/months ago in the Marvel thread.
save yourself 10 minutes and only watch the mid-credit scene.
They seriously made me wait to watch something they spoiled in the damn trailer.... smfh.
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Post by: BranDonk Kong on July 13, 2018, 05:32:25 AM
It's technically not the scene from the trailers, that takes place earlier ("What are you, fifteen?") - but it's very close to the same thing.
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Post by: nickmitch on July 16, 2018, 01:18:05 PM
Ant-Man and the Wasp

Yeah, that second scene was a HUGE letdown.  But the question mark after "will return" was kinda funny.  Overall, I really liked.  It was very funny.  I think it did a good job of catching the audience up on where they were in the story and what the deal was with where the characters stood with eachother.  Also, most of it was in the trailers.  But at least enough of the gags that were in the trailers had a bit more to them.  That said, I really wanted more gags with things being the wrong size.

Solid 8.5 out of whatever you thought of the first one.

Deadpool 2

I know I was late on this, and I probably caught one of the last showings in my area.  But this movie was actually better than the first to me.  It's for sure worse in some areas, but the film does benefit from not having to do an origin story.  A few dislikes: the joke density is a little too high at times; there's a lot of the movie being indulgent and gratuitous in certain scenes; still too much cursing for the sake of it.  But the movie is hilarious, for reasons that are obviously different from AM&TW.  Lots of cool characters get introduced.  And once again, this series proves itself as the perfect jumping point for an X-Men universe.  Also, Cable is just great.

8.5/10
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Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on July 16, 2018, 02:20:39 PM
Just to be clear on AM&TW, I liked the movie, there were plenty of good gags, it's just that if you watched a majority of the trailers, they literally showed 90% of them in the ads... the other 10% were probably an extension of the same scene already shown. And I stopped watching the trailers after the kid-sized shrink was shown. That's when I knew they were digging to get my attention. I was already going to watch the movie, so there was no reason for me to keep looking at trailers.... I think I even mentioned something about it when I posted that last trailer in one of these threads.

On the other hand, The Wasp was a bad ass, and Ghost was pretty cool too. Ant-man himself was comic relief, and the Luis gag was pretty good, but they need to find another way to do it if they do it again.

The movie overall was good. It was pretty small scale and unconnected from the greater going-ons in the MCU, which while needed as a pallette cleanser after IW.... Incredibles 2 already cleansed that pallette and in a much more entertaining way. (seriously I2 was was great, I loved it from beginning to end). Personally I think AM&TW was just released too soon. should come out next month maybe? There was just too much going on this summer, and AM&TW was too soon after IW to not be really be connected, not have a trailer before IW, and the only real connection (outside of forced CW references) being the mid-credits scene. After what just happened in IW, I think I needed more #itsallconnected substance.... maybe that had nothing to do with it... maybe what it really needed was a little Edgar Wright in the writing and visuals room (I don't remember there being the same visual shrinking flare from the first movie)?

long story short, AM&TW had good parts, but as an entire package, the 1st movie was better in almost every way. IMO
Hopefully the ending plays into A4 in a very important way, which leads Ant-man into having his Doctor Strange moment in IW, where we see what he's really capable of when it comes time to handle business.
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Post by: nickmitch on July 16, 2018, 08:56:38 PM
I think the setup for Ant-Man and IW is pretty good, but I'm 100% basing it on the leaked art showing Ant-Man in A4.  He's stuck in the Quantum Realm and he either gets rescued from the outside or finds help in the inside.  Personally, I think that's how the team eventually finds out that everyone is alive inside the Soul Stone.

I also liked that the movie was on a smaller scale.  Thor 3 destroyed all of Asgard and every other movie has the fate of the world hanging in the balance, so these Ant-Man movies are a great change of pace.
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Post by: oohhboy on July 17, 2018, 06:34:02 PM
Your failure is complete.

edit for link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6eAcFOSOY0
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Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on July 18, 2018, 12:56:02 AM
Your failure is complete.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6eAcFOSOY0


I had to quote to see the video... but damn.
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Post by: ThePerm on July 18, 2018, 08:59:59 PM
It - Tim Curry is Great in this, but I had to take breaks watching it because it is a miniseries slammed into one product. Also, production value is terrible. It has some bad acting as well.

It- This was great. Good pacing. It works pretty well.

The great thing about the internet is if you come up with an idea you don't have to execute it sometimes. Sometimes you find someone already did it exactly how you would have wanted it.


Mostly I would have had an intro.
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Post by: oohhboy on July 19, 2018, 12:28:15 AM
I had to quote to see the video... but damn.
When it first popped up I thought it was some clickbait. TLJ bloat needed to be edited down to EFLA pacing and length but it's all there. That was some straight up plagiarism.
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Post by: ThePerm on July 19, 2018, 12:54:13 AM
From what I remember isn't there supposed to be scenes from all sorts of movies? The whole movie could be some big troll.
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Post by: oohhboy on July 19, 2018, 01:13:12 AM
With each reveal its just more incompetency and creative bankruptcy.
It being a troll is highly, highly unlikely, right into the realm of conspiracy theories. Like any conspiracy the number of people required to get one board is too high to be remotely plausible. Plus the ongoing actions make it an impossibility.
It's just **** people making **** movies spewing ****.
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Post by: ThePerm on July 19, 2018, 01:23:27 AM
With each reveal its just more incompetency and creative bankruptcy.
It being a troll is highly, highly unlikely, right into the realm of conspiracy theories. Like any conspiracy the number of people required to get one board is too high to be remotely plausible. Plus the ongoing actions make it an impossibility.
It's just **** people making **** movies spewing ****.


I've always wanted to make a troll movie. I don't think I would tell anyone. I would do it one of two ways. Either make it cryptic and weird like a David Lynch movie or make it very serious and end with farts and clowns and circus music.

My god we're in one of those movies aren't we?
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Post by: BranDonk Kong on July 19, 2018, 11:16:11 PM
A Quiet Place - 7/10
It's basically a more violent, and more depressing version of Signs. Pretty good and intense, also pretty sad. I like that there's no explanation for the monsters.
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Post by: Adrock on July 21, 2018, 07:44:15 PM
Ant-Man and the Wasp

It was fine. There was nothing offensive or especially problematic about it except maybe the exposition dump to explain Ghost’s backstory. It kind of just brought the plot to a halt. Most issues I had stem from Ghost because the character’s presence felt tacked on because saving Janet Van Dyne didn’t provide enough conflict for a two hour movie. Hannah John-Kamen’s performance was good. The character’s arc felt rushed and incomplete though maybe that was the point?

Ant-Man and the Wasp was vanilla. It wasn’t bad; it didn’t show me anything I haven’t seen before. I get the same way about Black Panther except that at least had Killmonger. Here, we had Michelle Pfeiffer’s weird face.
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Post by: ShyGuy on July 24, 2018, 08:00:32 PM
The Death of Stalin Probably the funniest movie I've seen all year. Very dark comedy, with a dark ending, but that's the Soviets for you.
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Post by: broodwars on July 24, 2018, 09:29:52 PM
Ready Player One came out on BluRay today, so I finally got around to seeing it.

Yeah, that'll do. I haven't read the book (though I have an unlistened-to copy on Audible), but this feels like it does an excellent job of salvaging a heavily-criticized book. I really enjoyed it. It felt like it had just the right blend of Spielberg sentimentality & dumb fun.

Just one thing that bugged me, though: they heavily used "Take on Me" in the trailers, and it's not in the movie at all. SMH...
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Post by: BranDonk Kong on July 24, 2018, 09:57:36 PM
Sicario: Day of the Soldado - 7.5/10
Not as good as the first one, but it's very different too. You wouldn't have to see the first one to get what's going on...but it would probably help, especially with the assumed third film. Lots of great acting, very suspenseful...but still the first one has the edge. You don't exactly watch a Sicario movie and feel good when it's over.
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Post by: Plugabugz on July 27, 2018, 03:58:44 PM
Mission Impossible Fallout - THAT was a lot of fun. It's a little long (nearly 150 minutes) but once it gets going it ramps up gradually and steadily into one crazy scene after another, including one where Tom Cruise jumps off multiple buildings, breaking his ankle in the process, and sprints across the roof of Blackfriars Bridge in London.

The director is really good, actually making action shots clear and understandable even when they start to evolve into crazier things rather than the murky muddle of other directors.
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Post by: BranDonk Kong on July 28, 2018, 11:33:21 PM
Batman Ninja - 6/10
If it wasn't for the awesome animation (even though it's really just CGI - but there are a couple water color-style scenes which are pretty dope) and some of the crazy sequences, this would have been like a 3/10 if not lower. The story make absolutely no sense, and only gets more insane and less coherent as it goes along. Nothing ever really gets explained. I'm pretty sure Alfred and Grod never make it back at to Gotham.
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Post by: oohhboy on July 30, 2018, 02:11:35 PM
It's a standalone movie, no continuity. It's meant to be (aheam) batshit crazy, it's part of the premise. It's a parody of animé and Batman. Batman is baffled by animé and his over reliance on gadgets leads to his repeated failures while everyone else including villains roll with it. It doesn't explain anything as it's not the point and is done for laughs. It takes refugee in it's audacity.

It's version of Catwomen is unbelievably cute while in the Kimono.

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Post by: BranDonk Kong on July 30, 2018, 02:24:17 PM
She did have gigantic, umm, kitties.
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Post by: oohhboy on July 30, 2018, 04:37:24 PM
Check the blue dots on Batman's temple.
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Post by: oohhboy on August 03, 2018, 09:05:13 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/rmhZPdZ.png)
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Post by: ThePerm on August 06, 2018, 11:11:03 PM
Die Hard: Finally got to watch it Uncensored with no commercials. 9/10

It was always on TV growing up but i never want to watch the shitty TBS/TNT version.
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Post by: broodwars on August 06, 2018, 11:15:57 PM
Die Hard: Finally got to watch it Uncensored with no commercials. 9/10

It was always on TV growing up but i never want to watch the shitty TBS/TNT version.
Man, I can't even remember the last time I willingly watched a movie broadcast on TV. It would have to have been the late 90s or early 2000s.
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Post by: ThePerm on August 07, 2018, 12:30:09 AM
Die Hard: Finally got to watch it Uncensored with no commercials. 9/10

It was always on TV growing up but i never want to watch the shitty TBS/TNT version.
Man, I can't even remember the last time I willingly watched a movie broadcast on TV. It would have to have been the late 90s or early 2000s.


They're just terrible. It's the same reason I didn't watch Jaws for a long time. Though was shocked that a giant PG logo popped on the screen shortly after I witnessed Quint get chewed up by a shark. I kinda get some joy in seeing how they censor Christmas Vacation though.
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Post by: oohhboy on August 07, 2018, 08:46:21 AM
Yippie kayak Mr Falcon!
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Post by: Stratos on August 07, 2018, 06:34:13 PM
Got around to seeing Ant-man & Wasp with my wife and my sister. Had a blast.


Would give it a Soothing Balm/I-Don't-Feel-Good-Mister-Stark. This was just the film to follow up on Infinity Wars and gave us a teasing for what was to come.


Agree that Ghost felt a bit lacking, but I'm hoping a future film can flesh that out more. Felt like it did a lot to setup a future films outside of Infinity War 2. Hoping we get more Goliath too.


Worst thing will be the wait. Eight months until the next MCU film?!? Feels like something should have been there.
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Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on August 07, 2018, 08:53:16 PM
I think what helped your viewing enjoyment is that it shouldn't have come out till this month.

Incredibles 2 was the palette cleanser. AM&TW came out too soon after IW and near DP2, I2 and Solo and the dozen other movies early last month.
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Post by: oohhboy on August 08, 2018, 12:01:25 AM
Mission Impossible Fallout is good, very good. It's crazy that it has a proper mythology beyond callbacks where Ethan Hunt is almost some kind of legend you would tell to future generations. It's is also so tied to Tom Cruise any attempt to replace him would be verging on impossible. Cruise is Ethan Hunt.

The dedication to that myth is amazing when they bring in the daughter of a past character who is not only important, plot critical character, pretty fleshed out for a secondary, she is the actual daughter of that actress who played that character. It takes it beyond acting.

Cavill's mustache is truly a wonder.
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Post by: ThePerm on August 21, 2018, 06:33:57 AM
No Country for Old Men 10/10 I especially like the coin flip scene.

Subtext: This is really ThePerm who somehow got switched with Mouse_Clicker. One time I was on Aol Instant Messenger chatting with Mouse Clicker and he said he disliked this movie and cited the coin flip scene. He said it was pointless and slowed the whole movie. I told him how the entire movie was just a setup for the coin flip scene. The scene was tense and was really the centerpiece of the movie. He went to Film School, I went to Art School... what do I Know?
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Post by: Adrock on August 21, 2018, 10:01:12 AM
No Country for Old Men 10/10 I especially like the coin flip scene.

Subtext: This is really ThePerm who somehow got switched with Mouse_Clicker. One time I was on Aol Instant Messenger chatting with Mouse Clicker and he said he disliked this movie and cited the coin flip scene. He said it was pointless and slowed the whole movie. I told him how the entire movie was just a setup for the coin flip scene. The scene was tense and was really the centerpiece of the movie. He went to Film School, I went to Art School... what do I Know?
The confrontation between Carla Jean and Anton Chigurh doesn’t carry the same weight without the gas station coin flip scene. The earlier scene implies a lot about Chigurh, notably that he has a (bizarre) set of principles instead of just murdering fools randomly. I don’t think the movie works without the scene.
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Post by: ThePerm on September 18, 2018, 09:57:21 PM
Predator Film Rankngs

1 Predator
2  Predator 2
3 The Predator - This one is a nice direction. It was pretty action packed. It had likable characters.
4 Predators
5 AVP
6 AVP2

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Post by: oohhboy on September 18, 2018, 11:45:38 PM
Predator Film Rankngs

1 Predator
2  Predator 2
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Post by: ThePerm on September 19, 2018, 04:13:49 AM
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Post by: oohhboy on September 19, 2018, 10:03:07 AM
The most manly of man movies ever made by man, carrying biggest manly man guns, full of men and one wo-men, man-o a man-o with a man who is no man stalking the most stoic men to prove they are no man's man, only men.
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Post by: ThePerm on September 19, 2018, 04:22:08 PM
The manliest movie made is The Thing.
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Post by: Stratos on September 19, 2018, 07:31:24 PM
No, that would be Braveheart.
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Post by: Plugabugz on September 20, 2018, 06:58:05 AM
3 The Predator - This one is a nice direction. It was pretty action packed. It had likable characters.

All of the lead characters except for the scientist, child and sniper were all drawn over with maybe a sentence or two except for Nebraska. In fact nearly everything was blown through at high speed except to add some more details to the Predator race except why they brought the suit in the first place, which they never answered - and then when it got to the last act it started killing off cast members at high speed including one who blew his own head off, but it happened so quickly that the movie didn't even acknowledge it after it happened.

Mile 22 - The best thing about this movie was Iko Uwais of The Raid fame. He was really good in the acting roles and his stunt work is incredible. But whoever edited this almost made that completely pointless. After the one-take shots that we got in The Raid that lasted several minutes, how do you manage to edit and chop his scenes here to an almost unwatchable mess? Mark Wahlberg's character was pretty insufferable in this - not one person, including his superiors - tried to check him for his shitty attitude.
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Post by: ThePerm on September 20, 2018, 05:41:44 PM
3 The Predator - This one is a nice direction. It was pretty action packed. It had likable characters.

All of the lead characters except for the scientist, child and sniper were all drawn over with maybe a sentence or two except for Nebraska. In fact nearly everything was blown through at high speed except to add some more details to the Predator race except why they brought the suit in the first place, which they never answered - and then when it got to the last act it started killing off cast members at high speed including one who blew his own head off, but it happened so quickly that the movie didn't even acknowledge it after it happened.

Mile 22 - The best thing about this movie was Iko Uwais of The Raid fame. He was really good in the acting roles and his stunt work is incredible. But whoever edited this almost made that completely pointless. After the one-take shots that we got in The Raid that lasted several minutes, how do you manage to edit and chop his scenes here to an almost unwatchable mess? Mark Wahlberg's character was pretty insufferable in this - not one person, including his superiors - tried to check him for his shitty attitude.

I have to comment there was some really choppy editing in the The Predator. I'm not the only one who wasn't quite sure what happened with Stirling K Brown because that was some bad editing. Some deaths happened way to quick. I wonder if it had anything to do with the character cut out, or them trying to maintain an R rating. That being said I didn't find this movie to be egregious like Alien Covenant
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Post by: ThePerm on September 25, 2018, 03:44:13 AM
King of Comedy 9/10 This movie was excellent. I wish I'd seen it earlier. One of the more entertaining movies I've watched in a while.
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Post by: nickmitch on October 01, 2018, 12:55:08 PM
I saw White Boy Rick on Saturday.

Overall, the movie is good (not great, but good).  The individual scenes are all entertaining with some compelling moments mixed in.  Where the film lacks is cohesiveness.  The film just feels like a bunch of random events just kind of happening with little linking them together.  There is an overarching story, however, but the the plot just feels like some some scenes were missing and/or cut short.  This is a very light spoiler, but I think it explains what I'm talking about well: Rick hooks up with a girl he knew from school, but this is the first time she's introduced or Rick even talks about having been to school (you never see him in school).  Then, the girl pops up again later, and Rick mentions that he'd hooked up with her a few times, but you never see it or are made aware of their continued interactions.  There's another scene with Rick and his dad and they're doing something, and it's not clear what it is until you see the why.  Where they are and how did they know to go there are not covered, but the scene itself is good and fits into the story as a whole.  There are a lot of laughs along the way, but the movie's tone nosedives at the end.  So by the end of it, you're kinda wanting for some warm and fuzzies.

7.5/10
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Post by: ShyGuy on October 04, 2018, 12:01:50 AM
Destination Wedding Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder are two bitter cynics who go to a Destination wedding. witty banter ensues. Very charming and dryly hilarious. Four stars.
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Post by: BranDonk Kong on October 04, 2018, 09:59:59 PM
Venom - 7/10
It's honestly not that bad. It isn't great, but some of the reviews are garbage. IGN's 4 is pretty stupid. Slow beginning (it's an origin story), CGI fight at the end is dumb, but the Venom scenes between those parts are great. Stay for the first post-credits scene, even though you probably already know what it is. Skip the second one - it's a scene from Into the Spider-Verse (unless you wanna see that), has nothing to do with Venom.
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Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on October 06, 2018, 12:22:41 PM
I'd give Venom a 6/10

It's no where near as bad as the critics rate the movie, but it's not exactly a good movie either.
It's got a few decent parts that may get a laugh, and a few Venom scenes that are pretty cool, but it never crosses into "so bad it's good" or "this is pretty awesome" territory either.

I'm not opposed to a sequel, but I'm also not recommending anyone run out to go see this in the theater either. Oh, I also went and watched it in DBox, the motion seat theater.
DBox was pretty cool for what it was, but it was also kinda distracting during certain parts of the movie. I think it would be better suited for a Fast & Furious movie, or something like Hardcore Henry where everyone is in an interactive looking experience.
I would hate to be trying to drink a soda and holding a popcorn during an action filled movie though. I can only imagine how messy that could potentially get.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on October 06, 2018, 01:52:33 PM
I just saw it again and honestly think I liked it better the second time.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on October 07, 2018, 01:22:47 PM
I streamed The Belko Experiment last night.

I dunno why I expecting this to be funnier than it was.  There were jokes, sure, but I was hoping it'd be more of a dark comedy.  It was very violent, but only once or twice was it off putting.  The ending was good, though I was losing track of how many people were still alive by the end.  Speaking of the ending, it sets itself up for a sequel, which I would be interested in to see the larger story.  I think I would've liked it more if the main character was more likeable, and if the antagonist didn't turn so immediately.  Still, I found the movie largely entertaining, with some of the deaths being pretty entertaining.

6/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on October 07, 2018, 01:58:59 PM
I keep forgetting I kinda wanna see that.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on October 07, 2018, 02:00:30 PM
Little Evil - 4/10
This movie had a couple funny parts, but overall it was pretty awful. For a horror comedy there is a definite lack of horror.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on October 07, 2018, 07:50:16 PM
I keep forgetting I kinda wanna see that.

If you have HBO, you can stream it.  Not sure if it's on Netflix.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on October 09, 2018, 11:53:14 PM
Checked out 2 DC animated "movies" tonight...and man, what a difference between. I say "movies" because they're actually both web-based 5 minute shorts compiled together into 70 - 90 minute films:

Vixen - I'm not a huge fan of this character, but the BluRay was $10 & this series is actually in continuity with the Arrowverse, so I thought I'd check it out. Eh...it feels like 2 separate animated "seasons" squashed together, and so doesn't really work as a "movie" since the story noticeably climaxes twice: once when Mari comes to terms with her destiny & power and takes on the identity of Vixen, and then again following Mari's battle with the bearer of the Fire Totem (which also plays directly into the events of Legends of Tomorrow Season 3). The story itself just basically explains how Oliver knew Vixen so he could call her in during Season 4 of Arrow.

The animation is passable at best, about on par with a typical episode of JLU. It sounds like the actors for Barry, Oliver, Felicity, Ray Palmer, Cisco, and Vixen reprise their roles from the various Arrowverse shows...for better or worse. Barry & Oliver come off the worst, as Grant Gustin sounds very awkward and Stephen Armell is missing his trademark gruffness. Like the movie overall, though, it's...fine. It's easy to see, though, why this attempted pilot for a Vixen Arrowverse show didn't get picked up for a real series. It's just...fine.

Constantine: City of Demons - Now THIS?! This is more like it. This series only got one season, so taking those micro-episodes & adding another 20 minutes of story just fleshed out what was already there and created a more coherent story. This movie is dark, violent, and gory. It earns its hard R rating without having to work for it like a lot of DC movies do. It also seems to be much better animated than Vixen was, despite probably having a very similar budget.

As for the story, it's typical Constantine: a girl's soul gets stolen by a demon, and Constantine has to find a way to save her while fending off other demons, large & small. The film does a nice job of showing that he's obviously very skilled at what he does, but he's nonetheless always in over his head and barely scraping by. It wraps up in a satisfying and bittersweet way, typical of a Constantine story.

Kind of my only gripe with this film is that I've been wanting a continuation of the Matt Ryan Constantine TV series, and despite him reprising the role here this is definitely NOT in continuity with that show. It's nice to see the mystical side of the DC universe for a change.  If you liked that TV series, check it out. Just be warned: it's not for the squeamish.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on October 10, 2018, 11:00:11 PM
Watched Venom.  Not terrible.  I agree with a lot of the earlier reviews - def felt like a late 90s, early 00s superhero flick.

If you can watch and enjoy the original Blade, you'd enjoy Venom.  Overall, I did.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on October 11, 2018, 10:49:03 AM
Hardcore Henry

It relies entirely on the first person point of view gimmick which is both the movie’s greatest strength and weakness. “Hardcore Henry” pulls off some really cool stunts and set pieces, but it’s also hard to follow at times. Additionally, without characters or a plot to care about, it’s difficult to sit through an hour and a half of this. Director, Ilya Naishuller, previously directed the video (also in first person) for “Bad Motherfucker” by Biting Elbows for which he is also singer and guitarist. If you haven’t seen it before, do so; it’s awesome. That video works because it’s like four minutes long. There’s enough shown to extrapolate what is happening. I’m not bothered that I don’t know anything about the characters or the world. It’s like watching a single set piece which is fine for what it is.

Ultimately, “Hardcore Henry” is pretty hollow. The dialog is weak, and it never commits to world building. The villain, for example, has psychokinetic powers that are never explained. I’m not even really sure how Henry beats him. Sure, some of the action is cool, but again, I’ve seen it before, better, and from the same director in a package that works better for what it is.

Compare “Hardcore henry” to say, “John Wick” which has similarly weak character development and plot but has much better world building and dialog. Yes, “John Wick” relied on action, but it was also like the best action movie in like 15 years. The action is great, but the movie is engaging because it gets other things right despite its flaws. “Hardcore Henry” desperately wants people to think it revolutionizes the genre but never gets there. The movie suffers because the action isn’t good enough to cover its flaws. It does have Sharlto Copley who is almost always a delight, but he can’t save the entire movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on October 11, 2018, 02:05:41 PM
"Hardcore Henry" in DBox with Oculous view, might become an AMAZING movie experience.

A major movie studio with an amusement park should set up an attraction like that.
Comcast/Universal seems like the most obvious candidate,  but I'm taking about Disney as WB too.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on October 11, 2018, 03:35:05 PM
Trying to find something deeper with Hardcore Henry is a fools errand. It's not meant to be a John Wick. It's pure action sholock.

Hardcore Henry has an excuse plot with just enough connective material to keep moving forward and was made because they could. If you directed 4 minutes of something then got offered millions to make a movie length of that wouldn't you?

You're not meant to watch it for themes, character, setting or plot. You're there purely for the unique and novel action. The editing is quite good when it comes to making transitions from one scene or sequence to another which is rather unappreciated. The amount of skill required is not trivial and the laser focus on the action is the right choice. If they added more fluff to it would it make it any better, would it have a point?

The inherent limitations of the camera angle and incompatibility with a significant fraction of the audience meant it was never going to revolutionize anything or have wide mainstream acclaim. I seriously doubt Ilya had such delusions.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on October 11, 2018, 04:12:37 PM
You're not meant to watch it for themes, character, setting or plot. You're there purely for the unique and novel action.
No, I got it. And I’m saying the action wasn’t good enough to carry a ~90 minute movie. It’s great for a four minute music video.
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If they added more fluff to it would it make it any better, would it have a point?
Yeah, it would have made “Hardcore Henry” a lot more interesting. I don’t need it to be The Shawshank Redemption or The Great Gastby. I brought up “John Wick” because a little bit of world building and some well written dialog goes a long way (Michael Nyqvist chewing up whole scenes doesn’t hurt either, RIP). The other things are still important even if action is the main point.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on October 16, 2018, 01:13:36 PM
Never Goin’ Back

Largely based on writer/director, Augustine Frizzell’s own teenage years, “Never Goin’ Back” is about two high school dropouts and best friends, Jessie and Angela, who use rent money to pay for a beach vacation and have to come up with the deficit. The plot isn’t especially deep, and really, it doesn’t have to be. The movie spends most of its runtime building up to one excellent joke during the climax. For a comedy, there is only one other really funny scene which the trailer partially spoils (don’t watch the trailer if you’ve never heard of this movie). There are some funny lines sprinkled here and there. Overall, “Never Goin’ Back” isn’t that funny. I’ve never done drugs so I often see it in movies as plot points rather than anything I can relate to. I know some people can’t get into drug related humor. I typically don’t mind, just seemed worth mentioning. I’ve seen the movie referred to as “Superbad” or “Pineapple Express” but with girls which I personally consider reductive.

For an 85 minute movie, I would still recommend this if only for the aforementioned funny scenes and the chemistry between Camila Morrone and Maia Mitchell. The soundtrack is pretty good too. “Lights” by Zhora and “Explode” by Sarah Jaffe being my favorites, the latter of which, I believe, was written for the movie. “Never Goin’ Back” is available on Amazon Prime video for anyone interested.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on October 17, 2018, 01:37:54 PM
Venom

Whoever said it was as bad as Catwoman was overly exaggerating.  I actually thought it was pretty good.  I was hoping for a "so bad, it's good!" movie, but it wasn't too offensive at any one point.  I like how they made sure to steer the character as far away from Spider-Man as possible (by literally moving the story across the country).

I don't have more to add than what everyone else has said.

6/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on October 23, 2018, 09:39:22 AM
Steve Jobs

No one should watch this movie because they want an accurate biography of Jobs or a history of Apple. For example, Steve Wozniak is still working at Apple in 1998 in the film despite actually leaving Apple in 1985 before Steve Jobs. The film does not adhere to history, but it doesn’t have to. First and foremost, it has to work as a narrative, and if some facts have to be fudged, so be it. If anyone wants to read about Jobs, there are several unauthorized biographies as well as Walter Isaacson’s official biography.

The reason to watch “Steve Jobs” is Aaron Sorkin’s excellent dialog which is effective, no line feels wasted. Sorkin also eschews a traditional biopic with a three-act structure that follows Jobs through three product launches: Macintosh, NeXT, and iMac. It works better than I thought it would when I first read about it.

The pacing is really solid here with a great arc for Jobs the character by sacrificing adherence to Jobs the person. The movie never addresses a lot of Job’s life: Pixar, his marriage, pancreatic cancer etc. The result works really well for a two-hour movie. Sorkin sets up conflict early and addresses each one which ultimately builds up to real growth by the end. Jobs the character and John Sculley the character make amends and get catharsis that they never got in real life. In the film, this is a precursor to Jobs and his daughter, Lisa, making amends. Sorkin uses these relationships to explain what even Isaacson’s biography didn’t really do: something changed for Jobs the person after his resignation from Apple in 1985 and return in 1997. Maybe it was humble pie or the mere passage of time. Whatever happened personally between his failed coup and becoming arguably the greatest CEO in history is never really explored in depth in Isaacson’s biography. “Steve Jobs” the film ties that personal growth to specific people, and it works really well from a narrative perspective.

The acting here is also especially strong. There isn’t a weak link in the cast. Seth Rogen is surprisingly good at drama. I feel like Kate Winslet is underrated though maybe I just don’t pay enough attention that stuff. Credit again to Sorkin for writing Joanna Hoffman’s most important scene in broken English while still making sense, and Winslet for pulling it off. Michael Fassbender may look nothing like Steve Jobs but does excellent work here. Jeff Daniels is just good in everything.

The seven minute scene between Jobs and Sculley before the NeXT launch features some really great editing. It’s probably the best scene in the film followed closely by the exchanges between Jobs and Wozniak during the NeXT and iMac launches. Rogen has some of the best lines which says a lot for a film full of great lines. My favorite is, “It’s not binary. You can be decent and gifted at the same time,” which sums up the theme fairly well. It’s a shame this movie bombed when it was released. I only just got around to watching it so I’m part of the problem.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on October 23, 2018, 06:25:08 PM
It's pretty interesting to watch all the Steve Jobs movies. My favorite is still Pirates of Silicon Valley.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on October 30, 2018, 11:21:41 PM
Halloween (1978) - 3/10
No idea why this movie is held in the regard that it is...maybe it was good for its time or something, but this was just flat-out bad.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on November 02, 2018, 10:07:50 PM
Halloween (2018) - 6.0/10
This one actually (at least attempts to) make the first one a better movie. They sort of get into what drives Michael Myers, and I think to a little ret-conning of the previous sequels. The script is pretty bad though, which hurts the movie a few times. There are several throwbacks to the original, which are neat at first, but then it gets to be like "ok, we get it." There are a few funny scenes too, but one of which is at an awful time and basically ruins the scene. The ending is pretty bad...but overall, a much better movie than the original.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on November 16, 2018, 12:38:48 PM
Bohemian Rhapsody

This is the Feddie Mercury/Queen biopic that was originally going to star Sacha Baron Cohen.  The film turned out really well!  It showcases Freddie Mercury's struggles with shunning his background/ethnicity, discovering his sexuality, and substance abuse.  I had completely forgotten that he was a person of color (he's Parsi) and felt like I was learning a lot about the band throughout.  I thought Freddie's arc was really well done.  The final scene of the movie is basically their entire Live Aid set at the Wimbly.  I was shocked about how long it went on for, but it was super good.  Freddie's death is discussed in the credits, so the film itself ends on the high note of the concert performance and the band reuniting.

The soundtrack is all Queen songs and is fantastic, but not many deep cuts are in there.  The cast were all dead ringers for the band members, which was great.  Also, Mike Myers makes a fun cameo.

One thing I would've liked to see more of is the making of some of their videos.  You get a behind the scenes of one video, but that's really it.  Most of my issues with the movie are mostly around me wanting more of it.  There are maybe one or two areas that I feel are skipped over whether it's band stuff or Freddie's substance abuse habits.  Speaking of the latter, I just can't recall seeing him do drugs, which may have been out of respect, but I don't recall seeing him "get clean" either.  Maybe he never really did.  The scenes are just him surrounded by drugs or "Freddie are you drunk/high?" "Yes, darling! What of it?" or "Freddie, there's drugs on that table!" "Oh you know, sometimes drugs are good!" and then he's a good person again.

Anyway, this is a movie you should see even if you don't like Queen that much.  Rami Malek does a great job.

9/10

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on November 17, 2018, 10:44:01 PM
Krampus - 8/10
Surprising solid comedy horror (mostly horror, I'd say). Lots of awesome practical effects, and the CGI is done well too. Definitely recommend checking it out.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on November 18, 2018, 12:02:42 AM
Krampus is like one of those 80s Charles Band movies like Puppet Master except done well. Not counting Trancers..that is a legit good movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on November 18, 2018, 02:29:41 AM
Krampus is underrated awesomeness. Watch it this Christmas, people!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on November 19, 2018, 04:53:39 PM
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs 9/10 I'd say that is an instant classic.

I wish there was more. I didn't realize it was an anthology movie either. Which is interesting because I also watched

Tales From the Hood 2 6/10 Not at all as good as the first movie. Keith David was great in it though.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on November 20, 2018, 09:09:07 AM
Manchester by the Sea

Curl-up-into-ball-and-die/10. This is the most depressing movie I’ve seen in a while.

The acting and writing are both excellent. Casey Affleck’s performance was justifiably lauded (though I wouldn’t have clapped for him as the Oscars either). Manchester by the Sea handles the subtleties of pain and loss really well, better than any movie I’ve seen before. Movies often use long strings of carefully written dialog to show these things even though no one speaks like that in real life. Depending on the writing, it absolutely can work on film as a drama piece. Manchester by the Sea leans heavily on the actors’ abilities. Their grief is expressed through body language and what isn’t said or the inability to find the right words.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on November 20, 2018, 02:45:39 PM
Fantastic Beasts - Now i'm not even a Harry Potter fan, having watched the final movie in that series, but this movie struggles with the weight of the universe its set in on top of having to setup three more movies ahead of it. I forgot the entire plot of the first movie, didnt understand the significance to many places they went (except the obvious musical cues that tell you) and didnt realise why the movie wasn't wrapping up Grindlewald gets away and............ stop until it clicked it was a five-film series.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on November 21, 2018, 07:52:53 PM
Crazy Rich Asians - I've Feel Like I've seen this movie before. I feel like I've watched a movie with the exact same plotline before. Or maybe it just reminds me of Disney plotlines like Aladdin and Cinderella. It was mildly funny.

Valley of the Dolls - Interesting movie. It wasn't what I thought it was going to be. The pace was fast. Some of the actresses look too much alike.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on November 24, 2018, 01:33:01 AM
Bohemian Rhapsody - 6.5/10
I'd have to say this is actually not the movie that Sacha Baron Cohen was going to make. It was pretty good, but it was largely a feel good movie when it shouldn't really have been one, at least not the whole time. The performances are well done, and the ending scene makes you actually feel like you're at Live Aid - but there was a LOT that was glossed over about Freddie Mercury and it ends abruptly as they walk off stage from the show, which was 6 years before Freddie died. The movie was fun, and I'd definitely watch it again - but this is the movie that Sacha Baron Cohen dropped out of, and not the biopic that was originally planned. I do recommend it, and I actually enjoyed it a lot, but it should have been a lot more. Rami Malek did a great job (although he looks like...Rami Malek, I think SBC would have pulled off the look better, although he's 5 inches taller than Freddie was), and so did everyone else in the band...good movie...but...not what it should have been.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on November 25, 2018, 01:28:23 AM
Teen Titans Go! to the Movies if you enjoy the show, this movie has a lot of laughs and I think they balance the wackiness, the satire, and the appreciation of Superheroes really well. If you're a fan of the original Titans show there's a little cameo at the end The moves dips a little bit into some black humor here and there, but it works really well.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on November 27, 2018, 01:58:39 AM
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle  8/10 I like adventure movies.

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on November 27, 2018, 07:03:29 PM
That was a surprisingly good movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on December 10, 2018, 05:11:10 PM
Sorry To Bother You - This only reached here last week, but what an amazingly odd movie. Teaching a black guy how to use their white voice, only to rapidly ascend at work and get into all kind of corporate shenanigans. Then it goes *really* left and absurd super quickly. It's easily my favourite movie of 2018.

Mortal Engines - I have a big disconnect with movies when they portray London and how whats on screen almost never matches up with reality. Fast 6 (or 5?) did this in a big car chase that runs through Embankment (near the geographic centre of London), turns east and then winds up 5 miles away in Canary Wharf. This movie decides to put giant cities on wheels, ignoring the logistics of how that would work, says they cross the "land bridge" to into Europe. Yet the movie says that several nuclear-style bombs were dropped over the world, destroying cities and infrastructure. So how would a supposedly city-size moving city cross over a 30 mile-long bridge across the English Channel to France (which doesn't exist, by the way, only the tunnel which runs under it) and have not crumbled seeing as everyone has regressed hundreds of years?

Also, where's all the other major cities that would exist? Paris? Berlin? Amsterdam? Why has the visual aesthetic set around 1900s London, and not anything current?

The more you think about "how does this work?" the whole movie falls apart.

Spiderman: Into The Spider-Verse. I went into this blind deliberately, but was quite sour on Sony movies generally. But i was so surprised by this movie. Zippy, well-paced, good humour, extremely unique and fun animation style and the best post-credits scene (the second one, right at the very end) i've seen in a while. I'm definitely seeing this again.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on December 14, 2018, 01:00:17 AM
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse..... O.M.G.

I think this may be the BEST Spider-Man movie I've seen yet.
(hot take!? I don't know... I may just be caught up in the moment. It was damn good)
Sony really did it. They should let Marvel keep Live Action Spider-man and expand into this animated spider-verse.

The animation style.... while a little funky at first sight, at times it's out-right cartoonish yet strangely photo-realistic at different times or even at the same time. You'll understand once you watch. It's quite a unique a beautiful thing to look at (Spider Ham and Peni Parker were kinda off-putting at first)

The humor... there were parts of the movie that almost had me out of my seat. They really went all in on some parts, but I don't want to say in what parts so that you have the same reaction as me.

The emotions... Miles was great. the family dynamic was excellent. the relationship to Peter was also amazing. But some of this also leads right back into the humor.

The action, on.fucking.point. lots of it was gripping. into every single moment of everything happening in this movie. it was really good.

I think I have to go back and watch it in 3D.
and anyone of you here have to stay for the final credit scene. it's worth it. for multiple reasons. LOL
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on December 14, 2018, 09:18:41 PM
Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse is fucking amazing, way better than that trash Disney's been selling as Marvel films the last few years.

Seriously, I haven't enjoyed a Spider-Man work like this since Spectacular Spider-Man, and a Marvel movie like this since the original Guardians of the Galaxy. So much obvious love for the source material, and so much focus on the heart of Spider-Man.

I have some minor gripes with it, mainly stemming from how little screen time the last 3 Spider-people get and how they basically just exist for jokes (and Spider-Man Noir is just flat-out a completely different character than his comics counterpart). But the movie's amazing, way better than Sony deserves after that 20 minutes of **** I had to sit through in the Previews. And holy ****, I wasn't prepared for this movie to be this funny.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on December 14, 2018, 10:47:00 PM
on that 1st sentence....

first part 100% correct, that second part, so much unneccessary and undeserved salt.

lmftfy
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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is fucking AMAZING, way better than that trash Sony's been selling as "Marvel" films the last few years.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on December 14, 2018, 11:11:18 PM
on that 1st sentence....

first part 100% correct, that second part, so much unneccessary and undeserved salt.

Sorry, but one of the reasons I've so completely tuned out of Marvel the last few years is that their films are so formulaic, safe, & dull (caveat: I haven't seen Thor 3, and I heard that was really different). There's no heart, no pathos. It's just Disney smashing the action figures together for a few hours with some jackass writing snarky dialog every few seconds. And Homecoming is just the poster child for that. It's so empty, shallow, and pointless. And it also completely cuts out the heart of Spider-Man in favor of gadgets and Tony Stark Hero-worshipping. I'll never understand why people loved that movie. It was the embodiment of everything cheap & lazy about the Marvel cinematic universe.

That's why this film really clicked with me: the focus is on the characters, not the fighting or the quipping. These writers "get" Marvel characters in a way I don't think the dumbed-down, LCD Disney Marvel films do. I CARED about the characters in Into the Spiderverse.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on December 14, 2018, 11:24:08 PM
You've clearly missed something I didn't... or are looking for something that won't be found.

MCU had to fit Spidey into the continuity and it made sense in the context in which he was brought in. In a world where the Avengers have existed for 8 years.... you know the rest.

I'm not trying to take anything from Spider-Verse because I still think it may have been the best Spider-man movie I've seen yet, but even Aunt May was creating web shooters and possibly even the outfits in this one for Spider-man.
Homecoming was dope for what it was, and it had lots of good feel moments.
but if you choose to strip each movie down to it's wire framing and examine the nuts and bolts that hold it together, instead of appreciate the pieces as they stand assembled and completed... do what you do I guess. I'll just continue to enjoy my MCU for what it is, and also appreciate Spider-verse for how much of a better overall singular movie experience that it is so far and the future it teased a promise to deliver.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on December 15, 2018, 04:50:31 PM
Into the Spider-Verse - 9.5/10
Absolutely incredible. The visuals, the sound, the story, the humor, the action, the emotion - they nail every bit of it. There's no way this would have worked as anything other than an animated movie - and they do a lot of story telling in a very minimalist way, which really works and allows them to tell way more story than should be possible within 100 minutes. BnM is right - its somehow completely lifelike and totally cartoony at different times and at the same time in certain places. Another interesting thing is that the suit collection is strikingly similar to Insomniac's Marvel's Spider-Man, even including the "Advanced" suit that the game features so heavily - making me think at times that maybe the Peter Parker in this movie is the same one from that...but obviously it can't be if you watch the movie and are familiar with what's in the spoiler text. First post-credits "scene" is very touching, as is the Stan Lee cameo, and the second one is pretty hilarious. Cannot recommend this movie enough.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on December 15, 2018, 05:54:03 PM
Aquaman - I saw this movie in "ScreenX", which is a 270 degree experience. Three of the four walls are covered in images which turns it into a "super widescreen". It's yet to reach the USA i dont think. It's quite an experience to try out. I realise that doesn't make sense, so here's a photo https://bit.ly/2PG1qxl

About the movie itself though, its definitely miles better written than in Justice League with Arthur shouting MY MAN! and little else. It's definitely better visually too compared to Justice League with only a few shots that looked like a green screen despite how much was used. This one is set after Justice League early on in the film they point out "he" defeated Steppenwolf but i was really hoping for a mini crossover "I know a friend who can get us to the desert", and asks Bruce to send a plane for him is all it needed. The plot could be a little tighter overall, and maybe lose 20 minutes, but this at least goes for spectacle and awe and makes it visually entertaining. This was... decent. Wonder Woman was better overall in a tighter movie.

Bumblebee - I never thought i'd say this, but this was the best Transformers movie of them all. Better directing, better action shots, better editing, better acting, an actual grounded plot that has emotion and genuine connection... even the CGI fights were clear and recognisable. I walked out of this being incredibly surprised, but given the low bar of the previous 5 movies this shouldn't be too difficult. If this is the "new direction" they planned to go in, then i'm all for it. All they had to do was make a better movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on December 15, 2018, 06:39:05 PM
I have tickets for Aquaman for tonight, so I'm glad to hear it not a bad movie and actually quite enjoyable.

and I was curious about Bumblebee, the previews looked pretty good, but I've skipped the last 2 Transformers movies as they were a mess visually and I really just didn't care for any of the series whatsoever after the 1st 3 movies.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on December 17, 2018, 12:27:46 AM
I watched Aquaman last night...

It was cool. If I had to rank it in terms of DCU movies, It sits on the shelf next to Wonder Woman, which is 2 shelves above MoS, which is the shelf above JL, which sits next to the garbage can that holds BvS.

Now that I got that out the way, the action is good, and Aquaman is portrayed far better in this movie than he was in JL (which was stated above). The humor is soft, as in none of it will hit you hard, but you might allow yourself to actually laugh out loud at some of it, even though it wasn't that funny. The movie overall is quite enjoyable, although you have to forgive it in a few places where things happen just to happen such as After Aquaman references Pinocchio and they do the in the whale mouth scene, 10 minutes later, Mera is a fountain enteraining some kid with a water show, the kid runs to her parents to get their attention, and then for seemingly no reason whatsoever, she comes back to Mera and hands her the book for Pinocchio, which she then reads and a jab a millenials joke takes place. it's a nonsensical moment, and I'm sure there are a few more I can't be bothered to remember atm, but they are there.

Bottom line, if you only have time for one movie next weekend at the theater, I recommend SPider-Man: Into the Spider-verse.
But if you've already seen that, Aquaman is not a bad choice in the slightest.

Has anyone checked out Deadpool 2: Xmas Edition yet?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Shorty McNostril on December 17, 2018, 05:11:12 AM
Wow.  We don't get Aquaman for another week and a half.  Will be in there the moment it releases though.  Looks like a great ride.

As for Deadpool, yes I have seen it.  And I hated it.  I loathe it.

I have not seen the original DP2.  I am a sook and I can't stand blood and guts.  I have no interest in seeing it and don't feel it adds anything to a movie. So I thought this was going to be perfect for me.  I've seen much M rated (PG-13 is essentially the equivalent of M in AU) stuff before.  Pretty much every Marvel movie is M rated.  No problem.

How the hell this got an M rating genuinely befuddles me.  This was far, far worse. Ironically, Peppermint released around the same time.  That was rated MA (which is the level above M).  The worst you saw in that was a quick shot of someone's foot that got blown off. It was nowhere near as bad as Deadpool. From what I can tell, OUaD was just a retelling of DP2 with the blood and F-bombs removed.  You still see him blow himself to pieces when he's lying on top of the drums of diesel or whatever they were, you still see him get torn in half by Juggernaut and the two halves of his body lying there on screen, you still see him get a fence pole through his head.  I was uncomfortable most of the way through.  Nearly walked out.  Family friendly....like hell.

By far the best parts were the bits with Fred Savage.  They were genuinely amusing.  In fact, I reckon the whole movie would have been more enjoyable if it was nothing but a dramatic reading of DP2 with Fred making the odd interjection and quip.

In fact this movie just told me that the Deadpool character can't carry his own movie despite how well Ryan Reynolds plays the character.  Ignoring all the above ranting about the violence that should not have been there, I just didn't enjoy it.  A lot of the jokes felt shoehorned in and just flopped, story was uninteresting.  It felt like a movie made purely for gratuitous violence and (bad) jokes that was made purely for its own sake, with nothing else to justify it.
In my opinion, the whole Deadpool schtick is done.  It was funny the first time because it was new and fresh (and I would argue done far better) but the second was more of the same, just executed far worse.

I think he's a great support character and look forward to him showing up randomly in the MCU, but not on his own.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on December 17, 2018, 06:42:51 AM
I hope to god you never get your wish. The movie in every respect isn't for you in a very literal sense given your issues you outlined. You might have gotten trolled by the PG13 version in a Deadpool meta way where the cut is literally playing it right to the edge. Also remember your local rating system there is might be focusing on other aspects. An M there is different from a PG 13 elsewhere.

In a comparison to the rating system here Marvel Movies rated M would be a joke. The removal of the blood and swearing in DP2 would drop it to a PG or a PG with an advisory here. Here an M would be in the same category as John Wick level violence.

To be brutally honest your extreme aversion to violence renders your opinion on it quite frankly worthless. You are always going to end up complaining about the violence, hate on the movie on every level then beg for an heavily censored version despite the fact that it is completely integral to said movie. This isn't the first time either.

Just stop watching movies you are going to hate because of violence. It's not working for you.

There are some genera I don't like to watch and should I watch it I would not do what you just did. Imagine me after having watched a musical complain that is has music wishing there was a version without all the singing and dancing. That is asinine, that's what you sound like to everyone. Just stop.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Shorty McNostril on December 17, 2018, 03:12:23 PM
My goodness you're right!!!! How did I not think of that before?? How about I avoid movies I know won't be for me?? What a stroke of genius!  Interstingly I already do that.  Strangely enough that is the very reason I have not seen the original Deadpool 2. What was different here?? 

It was marketed, promoted and rated as a family friendly cut of the movie.  This would logically lead one to assume that was indeed, a family friendly cut of the movie.  That's the whole point of its existence.  So I think I'm quite justified in criticising the fact it turned out to be completely wrong.

Now I am quite aware that some what made this movie appeal to fans of the orignal movie may have been lost in the transition, but I didn't care.  I thought that a version of the movie had finally been made that I could enjoy.  I was excited to go and watch it.  Sadly it was not for me.

Your comparison is an interesting one.  And a flawed one. As I mentioned above, the way this movie was presented indicated that it would have been something I would have enjoyed.  Let's carry forward with your musical analogy.  What if DP3 was marketed and promoted as another 'traditional' DP movie, with all the quips, violence, sex etc, but when you excitedly went in to see it, it turns out it was a full on serious musical? I am quite confident you'd come in here and voice your thoughts about that.  And you know what, that's fine.

My aversion to graphic violence does not in any way render my opinion invalid.  I outlined my aversion about such things right at the start of the post so a reader could have all the information with which to take my thoughts. BnM asked for thoughts of those who'd seen the movie.  I've seen the movie and I had thoughts so I am quite within my rights to discuss it. This is not "Oohboy's Ponitification Thread" where any and all opinions against yours are invalid and you have a god given right to bring the hammer down on them. You don't agree with my assessment.  That's fine.  Feel free to ignore it entirely, or to discuss what you enjoyed about it as opposed to what I didn't. You have the right to your opinion just as I have the right to mine.  However, do NOT come in here and start stomping on someone because your opinion is different to theirs, and certainly do NOT say that their opinion is outright invalid because of that. 

You think my aversion to graphic violence is weird, that's cool. You enjoy it, that's cool too.  If you think about it, that arguably makes your opinion just as invalid as mine because it biases you towards the movie, just as my opinion biases me away from it. Neither of those two things are wrong. We are both private citizens with different tastes discussing a movie we don't agree on.  The difference is I haven't in any way been implying that my thoughts are objective fact and anyone who disagrees with me is objectively wrong.  I have never eviscerated your posts and criticised you personally because of something I may disagree with so have some respect

And even if my aversion to violence somehow did render my opinion worhtless, I am not a paid, professional movie reviewer so I have no obligation to be fair and unbiased.  If I want to rant about something that burned me I am quite within my rights to do so on this public forum.  It's not like I hid anything which alters my opinion.

Get off your high horse.  Let's use this thread and others like it to enjoy discussing what we enjoy and what we don't as they were intended.  This is a discussion forum, not your personal blog.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on December 17, 2018, 10:52:01 PM
You did get trolled by the movie.

DP2 didn't lie. Right from the start the original was promoted as a family movie, just not in the context you think. The more friendly cut is a cut, not a remake. They reduced the violence as much as they could while keeping the story and messages intact. As far as the rating is concerned they hit their target, it's now family friendly. It just wasn't your very specific target.

The funny thing is I don't like musicals but some of my favourite TV episodes are musicals(ie; Music mister in Batman: Brave and the Bold). I watched a musical as part of a random movie triple(They were all bad) last weekend and I hated it not because it was a musical but because it had bad music, barely anything that would constitute music, what music was there got murdered by the sound department, the MC was insane in a bad way, zero dancing, badly cut, lacked structure. We were shouting for it to play more music and let the badass girl show off her skills which didn't happen.  The film makers intent was clearly to make a musical promoting Chinese music and they failed so hard they self owned. We made our own entertainment by picking it part.

The crazy thing is that you think DP/RR can't carry a movie despite having done it twice to the highest standard. You took a statement at face value. You didn't think it was mocking itself. Beyond all the violence there is a very touching story about family. The big love scene would have been pure cheese in another movie but damn did they transform that cheese into gold. The movie is full of "You can't do this" then proving the statement wrong.

DP2 isn't the same as DP1, if it was DP2 would have been just him getting revenge for the length of the movie. But it wasn't, it is so much more. It was about loss, family, nobleness, purpose, consequences, DP finding something to live and die for.

DP is done when RR calls it, he has earned the honour.

Edit: The movie was Our Shining Days if you are wondering.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on December 18, 2018, 12:19:21 AM
Having watched so many Dark Dark movies of the 70s most movies today are candy canes and lolipops. Even the R rated movies.

I highly recommend A Serbian Film

A family film you won't forget.

It might make one re-asses these arguments.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on December 18, 2018, 01:22:27 AM
Having watched so many Dark Dark movies of the 70s most movies today are candy canes and lolipops. Even the R rated movies.

I highly recommend A Serbian Film

A family film you won't forget.

It might make one re-asses these arguments.
I heard some rumours... Looks at synopsis. Holy **** Christ. The context, premise and intent is fucked up. I don't know who that is for other than a very specific audience. That is Hostel/SAW ++++++ which I didn't like at all. If there was something deeper of value or purpose in Hostel/SAW I am unable see it past the gimmick. It's so far out I couldn't give a worthwhile opinion. Are they good or bad movies? **** if I know.

One thing is for sure, I am not the target audience and no level of cutting will make it family friendly nor would I ask for one.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on December 18, 2018, 04:19:37 AM
Bumblebee was a PG film (the second lowest film rating) while every MCU and DCCU movie has been a 12A. Bumblebee has no gore or bad language and quite skillfully plays it differently to earn that. The film is no worse off for it because it was written better overall.

The three exceptions, which really deserve it, is DP 1 and 2 and Logan.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on December 18, 2018, 03:58:01 PM
Having watched so many Dark Dark movies of the 70s most movies today are candy canes and lolipops. Even the R rated movies.

I highly recommend A Serbian Film

A family film you won't forget.

It might make one re-asses these arguments.
I heard some rumours... Looks at synopsis. Holy **** Christ. The context, premise and intent is fucked up. I don't know who that is for other than a very specific audience. That is Hostel/SAW ++++++ which I didn't like at all. If there was something deeper of value or purpose in Hostel/SAW I am unable see it past the gimmick. It's so far out I couldn't give a worthwhile opinion. Are they good or bad movies? **** if I know.

One thing is for sure, I am not the target audience and no level of cutting will make it family friendly nor would I ask for one.

Well the context was...once you watched that movie... I highly doubt a person could reasonably criticize a PG-13 movie for it's violence. I'd say you'd have to seriously recalibrate your detectometer for violence in a movie. I recommend Shorty watch this movie and come back and tell us how bad Deadpool Christmas is. A Serbian Film makes Hostel and Saw look like the Sound of Music. Though to get my family joke... you' have to watch it. Calling it a family film was some dark humor on my part. I've seen the film and my real opinion is Definitely don't watch it unless you aim to be traumatized Years ago I had seen a trailer for it and was interested in watching it, but a few years came and went. Then I moved and saw it at my local video store. I checked it out and my friend and I watched it.... and regret watching it. I'd say it is well past the realm of good taste. I'm generally anti-censorship, but this film...**** you Srdjan Spasojevic
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on December 18, 2018, 05:39:44 PM
I must see this.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on December 18, 2018, 09:07:35 PM
The non-violence version is 2 Girls 1 Cup.... Don't look this up, it is regret manifest. If you must sacrifice others with the mirror of reaction videos.

Family friendly version would be title, fade to black, FIN, roll credits.

**** you Srdjan Spasojevic aside...

Film makers can definitely earn a high or lower rating. The problem is the arbitrary pursuit of a rating. We have seen time and time again compromise a movie. There is the infamous E.T. Walkie Talkie replacement. 2 Die Hard movies that is nothing to do with Die Hard. The double selling of "Unrated" versions which shows just how arbitrary a rating is.

DP definitely earned it's violence, it owns and embraces it. If the next DP movie gets PG-13 out of the gate I am done. Adding violence back in doesn't work as it has already been compromised.

I must see this.
Watching you come back with PTSD is going to be my entertainment.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on December 19, 2018, 01:51:59 AM
It's hard to say what Disney will do to Dead Pool until we see the next movie. They let the Netflix shows have some crazy ****. That scene with what Kingpin did to that guy was gross as ****. Though those are "moving".

Disney used to run Miramax, which had some good independence. Fox could turn into Disney's new label for "R rated" stuff. They used Miramax, Touchstone, and Dimension like this in the past. So Disney made Pulp Fiction, Clerks*, A few Halloween movies, Starship Troopers, and Scream.  If they want to keep these franchises making money they'll make the MCU expand, but maybe take it some dark places for certain movies. Even though Avengers Infinity War was PG-13 it was dark as ****. Which, was nice, ballsy.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: RABicle on December 19, 2018, 11:03:26 AM
I heard some rumours... Looks at synopsis. Holy **** Christ. The context, premise and intent is fucked up. I don't know who that is for other than a very specific audience.
I believe it is for Serbians.
That is Hostel/SAW ++++++ which I didn't like at all. If there was something deeper of value or purpose in Hostel/SAW I am unable see it past the gimmick. It's so far out I couldn't give a worthwhile opinion. Are they good or bad movies? **** if I know.
The first Saw is a very clever movie and hardly violent at all. It is unsettling though. The first few saw movies area about valuing your life and paying attention to instructions, the later films less so. Saw was also the directorial debut of James Wan who directed Aquaman. Saw 1 writer/star Leigh Whannall appears as in Aquaman too.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on December 19, 2018, 11:48:32 PM
I never saw 'SAW' when it first came out. When I did catch a bit it was from the later movies where it was clearly for shock value violence porn ala Hostel.

I am not a fan of Disney-ifed movies which 100% will happen to anything under their label. If they have any business sense they need to keep things hands off and separate.

Infinity Wars has extremely dark implications but the end of the movie doesn't give it's full impact. Yeah they kill off a bunch of heroes but they cut short the absolute every person chaos Nick Fury was in.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on December 20, 2018, 12:16:58 AM
The Saw series fell of the wagon when producers focused more on torture porn than the concept of a serial killer who not only doesn’t believe he’s a murderer but thinks he’s helping people gain an appreciation for life by forcing them to face their own mortality by kidnapping them and placing them in simple yet ironic traps. So, yeah, pretty much after the first one.

The traps got so silly and elaborate in the later installments. One plot thread involved a detective setting up a giant swinging pendulum-ax machine to look like a Jigsaw trap as a cover to get revenge on his sister’s killer. It’s established that Jigsaw is an engineer. Fine; he can design a reverse bear trap. How would a detective with no engineering background make something so complex? I think the latest installment had a laser-collar. What the fuc...

The best parts of the Saw movies involved how interconnected everything was. That doesn’t really work in a yearly theatrical series because it asks a lot of the audience particularly when the producers glorified the torture/murder aspects. Even though Tobin Bell is Jigsaw, Saw would greatly benefit from being rebooted as a mini-series on say, Netflix with focus more on the whole serial-killer-who-doesn’t-believe-he’s-a-murderer thing with simpler, cleverer traps.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: RABicle on December 21, 2018, 06:13:03 AM
The best parts of the Saw movies involved how interconnected everything was. That doesn’t really work in a yearly theatrical series because it asks a lot of the audience particularly when the producers glorified the torture/murder aspects. Even though Tobin Bell is Jigsaw, Saw would greatly benefit from being rebooted as a mini-series on say, Netflix with focus more on the whole serial-killer-who-doesn’t-believe-he’s-a-murderer thing with simpler, cleverer traps.
I mean yeah I stopped watching after 2, but I heard that two of the movies run on a concurrent timeline? That's very clever, maybe even too contrived.
As for your reboot idea, that's kinda how saw began. (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0495241/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_12)

Oh and as per the thread. The other night I watch most of Star Trek Generations. It was ****/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Shorty McNostril on December 21, 2018, 04:43:50 PM
So, that Very Spidey Christmas album mentioned in Spider-Verse.

It's real.  And it's wonderful.

https://open.spotify.com/album/1dO8j15uVKxkHA92rYufUv
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on December 21, 2018, 06:12:33 PM
As for your reboot idea, that's kinda how saw began. (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0495241/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_12)
If only it stayed that way. The original (and arguably the second one) were relatively grounded. It wasn’t too much of a stretch that most if not all the traps could be set up especially with the retconned help Jigsaw got in later installments via flashbacks.

To me, Amanda in Saw saying, “He helped me,” was kind of scary because it attempted to justify Jigsaw’s methods. Detective Matthews’ trap/test in Saw II in which he had to not be an asshole for like 90 minutes was similarly effective. The series lost what made it so unique. It’s easy to toss fake blood around/lop off limbs and call it horror. It’s much harder to come up with an idea that delves deeper than fake screams. There’s something so unsettling to me about a man who abducts and places people in deadly situations yet still truly believes he’s a hero in his mind, that he’s helping others, and doing good by forcing people to face the evil they’ve wrought on themselves and/or others.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on December 22, 2018, 12:25:30 AM
Oh and as per the thread. The other night I watch most of Star Trek Generations. It was ****/10
The only good thing about it was crashing the Enterprise. That was a great piece of old school effects work. Also Data because he is always super. I really don't know what they were thinking when they made this movie. Picard + Kirk + ???? = Profit.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: NWR_insanolord on December 22, 2018, 12:44:14 AM
It's still the second-best odd-numbered Star Trek movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on December 22, 2018, 01:22:29 AM
It's still the second-best odd-numbered Star Trek movie.
Sad but true. JJ breaks this pattern if you were to consider it Star Trek which I don't.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on December 22, 2018, 01:57:01 AM
Oh and as per the thread. The other night I watch most of Star Trek Generations. It was ****/10
The only good thing about it was crashing the Enterprise. That was a great piece of old school effects work. Also Data because he is always super. I really don't know what they were thinking when they made this movie. Picard + Kirk + ???? = Profit.

I believe the thinking was to pass the baton of Star Trek movies from the Original crew to the Next Generation crew while finally answering the question of what happened to Kirk since he's not mentioned too much in Next Generation. At the time, it also would seem to have the appeal of putting Kirk and Picard together after fans had been comparing the two for some time. Sadly, for all the potential there to make something great out of this premise, Generations fumbles the ball quite a bit.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on December 22, 2018, 02:27:33 AM
That's is pretty obvious, it's just so unnecessary which makes you ask the question.

TNG didn't need to to do it the the entire run aside from the absolutely excellent Soctty episode that did more than pass the baton where he passed along some real wisdom especially to Geordie who is way too much by the book. Over-estimating completion time is also a very useful lie beyond looking badass as it pads uncertainty with the possibility of failure and forces the captain to look at multiple options other than pulling a rabbit out of the hat.

It asked the question of what happens if you woke up in the future? As unique and how much a hero he rightly is he basically got told to **** off not completely without reason which would crush anybody. It is so much more graceful and meaningful than dumping Kirk to a fight. How old were they at that point? I didn't pick up that detail at the time which just makes it more WTF later.

Have/did you watch First Contact yet RABicle? Now that is a great Star Trek movie. 3rd place behind Khan and Undiscovered Country.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: NWR_insanolord on December 22, 2018, 03:41:01 AM
It's still the second-best odd-numbered Star Trek movie.
Sad but true. JJ breaks this pattern if you were to consider it Star Trek which I don't.

I was counting JJ, Beyond was the one I had ahead of it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on December 22, 2018, 01:31:34 PM
1st of the odds would be the Search for Spock. Including JJ Generations gets knocked to 4th.

Into Darkness takes over from Final Frontier for the worse although I am tempted to swap Frontier with Insurrection for how ungodly convoluted, contrived and boring it is. FF at least had a great ending "What does God need with a Starship?".
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: RABicle on December 22, 2018, 10:21:48 PM
Have/did you watch First Contact yet RABicle? Now that is a great Star Trek movie. 3rd place behind Khan and Undiscovered Country.
First Contact is a good movie, but I'm not sure it's a good Star Trek movie. Picard seems to be a completely different person.
Good to see you guys also hate Into Darkness. What a shitshow.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on December 22, 2018, 10:37:58 PM
I liked Generations outside of the terrible final act.

As for Into Darkness, it's...weird. I LOATHED that 1st Abrams Star Trek movie, but I remember liking Into Darkness when I saw it in the theaters w/ my dad. However, as time's passed, my opinions on that movie have radically shifted in the opposite direction as less & less of that movie makes sense when you think about it. Hell, it reminds me of how my opinion of Frozen's shifted over the years.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on December 23, 2018, 02:41:36 AM
Wolfenstein   Overlord 8/10 You know how pretty much all all video game based movies are bad? Well this one is not a movie branded as Wolfensten, but it could have been. It was pretty good popcorn/war/horror.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on December 24, 2018, 10:23:59 AM
Does anyone watch the CinemaSins channel on youtube?

Th3Birdman has a countersins channel where he sins the sins video. He totally lays into him and rips him to shreds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnsSFdhfYe0

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on December 24, 2018, 12:45:09 PM
Does anyone watch the CinemaSins channel on youtube?

Th3Birdman has a countersins channel where he sins the sins video. He totally lays into him and rips him to shreds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnsSFdhfYe0


Yeah, I watch them. I hope this guy lays into them for that Mary Poppins video. So much nonsense, even beyond the usual nitpicking.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on December 24, 2018, 09:34:04 PM
You wish Cinema Sin was nitpicking, every movie they just make **** up and it isn't even funny. For every real observation there are 5 bits of BS.

I liked Generations outside of the terrible final act.

As for Into Darkness, it's...weird. I LOATHED that 1st Abrams Star Trek movie, but I remember liking Into Darkness when I saw it in the theaters w/ my dad. However, as time's passed, my opinions on that movie have radically shifted in the opposite direction as less & less of that movie makes sense when you think about it. Hell, it reminds me of how my opinion of Frozen's shifted over the years.

I loath Star Trek from JJ onwards for poisoning the well. JJ put Trek in hospital, STitD shot, gutted and defenestrated the corpse. Beyond was the funeral. STD is Weekend at Bernies with the dug up rotting corpse filled with screaming cats.

As bad as the previous movies were they didn't intentionally **** on Trek. They would **** up, maybe apologise, have a laugh at how bad it is and move on looking to do better, rather than defending a turd to the last by throwing it into a fan. This effect in not way restricted to ST btw.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on December 25, 2018, 02:35:16 PM
Hey, speaking of Into Darkness, SFDebris reviewed it today.

http://sfdebris.com/videos/startrek/film12.php (http://sfdebris.com/videos/startrek/film12.php)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on December 29, 2018, 09:00:37 AM
Bird Box - 3/10
Absolutely terrible movie. Go ahead and watch it, since everyone else has...just don't expect a good movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on December 29, 2018, 12:11:19 PM
Bird Box - 3/10
Absolutely terrible movie. Go ahead and watch it, since everyone else has...just don't expect a good movie.

I did... Almost left a review, actually started typing it, then realized I wasn't even sure what to say about it, so I abandoned the post

Not sure if I'd give it a 3, but I'm not recommending anyone spend time to watch it either.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on December 29, 2018, 01:23:33 PM
I can't tell if it makes it better or worse that there is essentially no real ending, and I don't think it's that's similar to A Quiet Place like some people say, but the two movies do the same thing where they focus on one small group of people/family and you don't really know how most of society is dealing with the issues. I'm pretty sure that the antagonist in Bird Box is Cthulhu though.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on December 29, 2018, 11:16:49 PM
Well the ending to Bird Box is they're more or less in a safety sanctuary. They haven't defeated evil, but that isn't something they can do.

As far as these types of movies go this wasn't a bad one. It is reminiscent of A Quiet Place, but A quiet Place is more or less reminiscent of It comes at Night. This is a little more The Darkest Hour, or Vanishing on 7th Street.

As far as the bad guys in the movie goes. It is probably what Lil Rel is talking about. Some sort of Rapture. This also reminded me of the Remaining.



So the recommendation list is:

It Comes at Night  (Joel Edgerton) - Something has happened to the world, People must remain indoors and not make much noise.

The Darkest Hour  (Emile Hirsch)  - Something has happened and People Disintegrate once noticed by a mysterious adversary, possibly alien in origin.

The Remaining (Italia Ricci) - The Rapture has happened. Everyone died except a few remaining people.

This is the End - A Rapture Comedy.

Vanishing on 7th Street. (John Leguizamo, Thandie Newton, Hayden Christenson) - Something has happened and the world is overwhelmed by darkness.

Pitch Black (Vin Diesel, Keith David) A commercial transport ship and its crew are marooned on a planet full of bloodthirsty creatures that only come out to feast at night. But then, they learn that a month-long eclipse is about to occur.

Blindness (Julianne Moore, Danny Glover) - Something has happened and most people went blind.

The Day of the Triffids (1962) - After mass viewing of a celestial event the majority of the worlds population has gone blind. To complicate matters a species of plant monsters has awakened and infested the world. It's up to the one guy who had eye surgery the night before to save the world.

Raiders of the Lost Ark (Harrison Ford, Keren Allen, John Rhys Davies, Alfred Molina) - Don't look over at the Ark of the covenant once it's been opened. Having re-watched this recently it made me appreciate the angle of the movie.

The Happening (Mark Wahlburg, Zooey Deschanel, John Leguizamo) - Something has happened and all the people in the world are commiting suicide when they come in contact with something er other.

Night of the Comet - I can't recommend this movie more. It is exactly what I look for in a movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on December 31, 2018, 01:06:07 AM
I honestly thought Birdbox was okay. It didn't seem to have any aspirations of being a great movie, but I thought it was still pretty interesting. However, it's starting to become one of those movies that gets worse the more I think about it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on January 03, 2019, 10:03:35 AM
Vice - 9/10
Very funny, very infuriating. It will probably make you pretty angry, but it's really funny. Many of the characters and impressions are spot-on, like Bale as Cheney, Rockwell as W, whoever the hell played Wolfowitz - but a few (while good performances) are way off, like Carell as Rumsfeldt, Perry as Powell. Still, a must-see in my opinion. I guess you would say it's biased, but Dick Cheney is a horrible human being, and there are a lot of facts in the movie which prove that.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on January 03, 2019, 02:48:17 PM
wait... that was Bale (Batman) as Cheney!? holy ****.
I see it now.. but damn, he really will change himself for a roll. LOL
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on January 03, 2019, 03:59:04 PM
The man likes his bread....
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on January 03, 2019, 10:38:51 PM
Well, you know the man's gotta eat...
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on January 03, 2019, 11:39:47 PM
Nice use of floury language.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on January 04, 2019, 12:44:18 AM
Don't try to butter us up.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on January 04, 2019, 09:20:32 AM
It's the yeast I can do.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on January 04, 2019, 08:22:45 PM
Ok, guys. I think we've had enough bun for the day.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on January 05, 2019, 12:06:19 AM
Ok we really knead to stop. I'm bready to move on.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on January 05, 2019, 12:33:26 AM
Whole lot of dough nuts here.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on January 05, 2019, 09:31:38 AM
heh. bread.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on January 12, 2019, 02:59:38 AM
Aquaman - Some of the best action scenes ever at the beginning of the movie, followed by cliche Quest to be the Chosen  One stuff, followed by a jizzing of undersea battle cgi.

I give it an 8. I enjoy all that ****.

Quoting BlackNMild2k1
"After Aquaman references Pinocchio and they do the in the whale mouth scene, 10 minutes later, Mera is a fountain enteraining some kid with a water show, the kid runs to her parents to get their attention, and then for seemingly no reason whatsoever, she comes back to Mera and hands her the book for Pinocchio, which she then reads and a jab a millenials joke takes place"

Yes! That must be what I missed when I went to the bathroom. Good. My friend went to the bathroom at an earlier non important moment(When patrick wilson is talking to a storm trooper power rangers style). When Mera started eating flowers i knew I had a chance. I was pretty sure they'd get attacked shortly after they got to Sicily. But I knew I was about to hit a goofy moment. Timed it just right.

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on January 12, 2019, 12:51:58 PM
FYI the millenials joke was "oh that was based on a book!? I've only seen the movie..."[/paraphrasing]

Hopefully the sequel is better, same with Wonder Woman.
They were both enjoyable movies, so I hope the DCEU continues to recover, and hopefully they can use this success to spend time developing characters other than Batman and Superman, and also create some fun, enjoyable and profitable movies going forward.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on January 13, 2019, 12:20:00 AM
Well spring boarding off of Aquaman and Wonder Women all they have to really do is their homework and make standalone movies.

The Snyder movies were bogged down in useless exposition that would better fit in a Standalone movie. Part of the reason the Marvel Movies work so well is there was exposition initially. The exposition was the individual movies.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on January 13, 2019, 11:25:38 AM
I saw Aquaman yesterday.  It was surprisingly good.  I still haven't seen Justice League, so this was my intro to the DCEU version of him.  I felt like it was filled almost to the brim with cheesy movie tropes.  But almost all of them were great.  I kinda liked that Arthur had some knowledge about Atlantis, but not like a whole bunch.  Also, the money shot at the end with him jumping out of the water in full costume was just the best.  So dumb, but also the best.

7.5/10

I also saw Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse.  This movie was amazing.  I loved almost everything about it.  Anime Spider-Girl was hilarious.  Everything Spider-Man Noir said was hilarious to me.  I also loved the scene where all the Spider-People turn into a big support group.  I thought it was great that the movie let the impact of the tragedy scene linger for a while instead of just moving on.  I feel like a lot of movies do that.  Spider-Man is a pretty tragic character, and I'm glad the movie really played that up.  I was worried Spider-Pig would be annoying, but he was in it just enough to be funny.  I was also fairly surprised by the one scientist lady turning out to be that universe's Doctor Octopus.  That felt pretty surprising. 

9.5/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on January 14, 2019, 01:00:07 AM
Hold The Dark Netflix puts out a decent little movie once in a while. A very dark and ambiguous thriller, that zigs when you expect it to zag. If you liked True Detective, if you like the screenplays of Taylor Sheridan, you should check it out
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on January 20, 2019, 09:20:41 PM
Vice

This one wasn't quite as funny as I thought it would be.  Still pretty funny at times with a lot of things I never knew.  So many WTF moments.  Overall, I think it could've been better put together?  I dunno.  Definitely worth seeing.  Christian Bale nails it nearly as hard as the makeup artist.

7.5/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on February 02, 2019, 12:21:41 PM
Wat
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on February 02, 2019, 12:32:03 PM
Can't tell if the bots are getting better or worse. At least it tried to make a movie review in the movie review thread.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on February 10, 2019, 06:16:27 PM
Dragon Ball Super: Broly

The story was pretty good, but the shifts in animation were jarring at times.  There's a few action sequences that looked like they were animated in the same engine as Dragon Ball FighterZ.  Don't get me wrong, that game looks great and the animation looked great.  It's just that the shift from the 2D animation was not at all subtle and incredibly sudden.  But anyway, the story made way more sense than the DBZ version, and I'm glad this one is the canonical one.  Basically, instead of some dude luring Vegeta to a planet to fight his son who hates Goku for the most contrived reason possible, Broly was exiled and raised on a hostile planet by his dad, eventually they get rescued by two people helping rebuild Freeza's army, which brings them to earth to fight Goku and Vegeta. 

There's a lot of backstory, which is cool because you get to see a lot of the Saiyans before their planet blows up, including their relationship with King Cold and Freeza.  They also show chibi-Vegeta and Raditz, and Vegeta mentions having a brother somewhere.  You get to see Goku's dad and mom, for a nice treat that has all the flavors of a Superman backstory.  The story is actually pretty Freeza heavy, which might be a spoiler if you haven't been following DBS.

There's really only one long action sequence, but other than the weird animation shifts, it's pretty good.  I think they did a good job of having Broly keep up with Vegeta and Goku rather than them just being outclassed from the beginning. One weird thing that happens is the fighters are just suddenly in another dimension for some reason and how they got there/get out isn't explained.  It honestly just felt like a way to save animation costs.

There's also some comedy thrown in there.

7/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on February 12, 2019, 01:44:34 AM
The Upside This was a nice little pleasant drama. Kevin Hart shows some acting chops and Bryan Cranston is good as usual. The worst part were the half dozen trailers before the movie. Watching mostly action and super hero movies at the theater, I didn't realize they made so many uplifiting, feel-good, hallmark channel style dramas.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on March 08, 2019, 01:29:22 AM
Captain Marvel - 8.5/10
Great movie. Really great. The thing is...it probably won't be the most re-watchable origin story. The smear campaign against Brie Larson and this movie really makes me sick and disgusted with humanity...and trolls are already at it with fake reviews. Well, the bullshit isn't working, because the IMAX theater I just left was packed, and everyone had a good time. This was also the first time I've been to an MCU movie where *no one* left when the credits started, and every single person stayed for both post-credits scenes. Lots of humor, lots of dialog, a few good twists as well. One of the fight scenes is actually a little too close-up, not quite Batman Begins-level, but pretty close, and it makes it hard to tell what's actually happening. If you're on the fence, see it. If you're set against this movie because of some made up bullshit you read online, you're a moron. The movie has no agenda other than building a new character up and fleshing out Phase 4 of the MCU.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on March 08, 2019, 01:58:33 AM
You do realise the troll narrative is always BS right? You're conflating a fraction of a fraction of a percent of people who are **** heads with the internet in general and Disney's wonky marketing. Brie said something dumb, people called her out, she doubled down souring the marketing, that's it. Everybody sane were wait and see.

The Rogue jokes are pretty funny though and Anna Paquine is still good to go.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 08, 2019, 02:52:11 AM
what did she say thats got everyone riled up?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on March 08, 2019, 08:14:59 AM
She didn't even say anything dumb. During the A Wrinkle in Time press tour she said something about "I don't care what a 40 year old white dude thought about this movie, it wasn't made for you." And while getting interviewed for Captain Marvel, by, I believe, a physically handicapped black woman, she said it was a breath of fresh air and though there should be more diversity in interviewers (including people with disability). Incels and racists jumped on it, lied about what she said, trolls and more incels and racists spread the word (the fake word, with tons saying "I'm a white male, she doesn't want me to see this movie"). It's pathetic.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on March 08, 2019, 11:09:20 AM
For further proof of the MASSIVE troll campaign and reasons to lose faith in humanity: the fake review bomb on Rotten Tomatoes. It had 58,000 "audience score" reviews within hours of it's release, meanwhile Infinity War has only 52,000 votes after nearly an entire year.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on March 08, 2019, 12:43:58 PM
Captain Marvel was good. I'd give it a 7.5 or an 8. Some complained it was 'average', but after all of the heavy stuff going down in Infinity War and all the build up those films had, I like how it went back to a more traditional origin story. Sure it had a few problems, like the fights felt weak and she didn't have enough people to directly fight, but it was still a good time.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on March 08, 2019, 01:49:14 PM
She didn't even say anything dumb. During the A Wrinkle in Time press tour she said something about "I don't care what a 40 year old white dude thought about this movie, it wasn't made for you." And while getting interviewed for Captain Marvel, by, I believe, a physically handicapped black woman, she said it was a breath of fresh air and though there should be more diversity in interviewers (including people with disability). Incels and racists jumped on it, lied about what she said, trolls and more incels and racists spread the word (the fake word, with tons saying "I'm a white male, she doesn't want me to see this movie"). It's pathetic.

She also said she was specifically going out of her way to request interviews from non-white male journalist, and requested the interviewer you mentioned specifically.  I think those actions really set off that particular group.

I also wouldn't down play the size of this group.  If you see 50K fake reviews, it likely isn't 50K people that feel that way, just 50K people who think like that, care about comic book movies, and were organized in that particular effort.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on March 08, 2019, 03:46:30 PM
Or ten guys with too much time on their hands.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on March 08, 2019, 08:05:31 PM
A site I like visiting every once in a while is https://www.blu-ray.com/ (https://www.blu-ray.com/) , as it's a good place for news on a lot of releases that slip through the cracks, but one of the things I've taken to recently is this little bargain round-up they have at the top of the page that displays Blu-Ray sales across the internet, mostly on Amazon. And it was there that I saw a recent BluRay on sale for a film I haven't seen in several decades (and didn't know it WAS on BluRay): The Prince of Egypt.

It was on sale for $7 and I remembered liking it, so I picked it up and now I've watched it. Yeah, this film holds up damn well, and it's probably my favorite Dreamworks film...though this BluRay is just about as half-assed as you can imagine. The video transfer is abysmal, apparently drawn from a late-90s DVD rather than the apparently-amazing 4K restoration unveiled last year at a major film festival. The video is extremely grainy, and the audio is pretty muffled, which is particularly an issue for a musical.

Disappointment with the video quality aside (though there is a pretty decent selection of legacy bonus features), I still quite like this movie. The music is excellent, even if the way the film leads into the songs is pretty blunt-force trauma. The animation wavers from "eh" to "pretty good", with the worst offender being the CG Dreamworks used for some of the more difficult shots. There is an amazing sequence where Moses dreams about the slaughter of the Hebrew children in the form of moving Egyptian Paintings reminiscent of Link Between Worlds's wall sequences.  And, of course, the standout moment is the parting of the Red Sea, which is still a pretty damn impressive sequence even if the water sometimes looks like the T-1000 should be rising up from it.

As for the story, this is probably the best way you could adapt the Moses story, focusing on the bond between the brothers and the way their respective duties pull them apart. There's a surprisingly amount of quiet time in the film to just let moments hang and characters breath and contemplate. You don't really see that in animated films anymore. There's also actually an impressive amount of bite to this movie as well considering when it was made, as you see a fair amount of cruelty, violence, disease, and eventually child murder more or less on-screen (though the latter is handled very delicately).

Yeah, glad I saw it again.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on March 08, 2019, 11:12:00 PM
For further proof of the MASSIVE troll campaign and reasons to lose faith in humanity: the fake review bomb on Rotten Tomatoes. It had 58,000 "audience score" reviews within hours of it's release, meanwhile Infinity War has only 52,000 votes after nearly an entire year.

Every time the audience/players doesn't like something people call it review bombing as an excuse. It's so tired to the point it's lost all meaning as has Rotten Tomato which algorithm has always been an issue.

You are far, far better served by metacritic which is a lot more transparent about where the numbers come from and what it breaks down to. It doesn't count a 'meh' review as a 'positive', it stays a meh.

https://www.metacritic.com/movie/captain-marvel

What Brie said was dumb no matter what colour, age or sex of people you are referring to especially when it came out of no where and comes of like a rant. If you watch the video it's a bit cringe. She committed a cardinal sin of business, 'Don't drive away customers'. There was also her tasteless self promotional twit regarding Stan's death. When you're on a press junket you stay professional and keep your views to more personal channels/Oscars.

What she could/should have said was' I would like to give more opportunities to give a wider range of interviewers and critics to examine movies from more angles. I believe seeking a wider range of views is important to grow as an actor and personally'. A big part of PR is how you say it. Unlike a political campaign you don't go negative, if you want to promote equal opportunities you promote 'Equal Opportunities'.

But it has generated a lot of good laughs. This is a good one came up on the Agony Booth hit/bomb.

Quote
Rick: Shazam! Okay, honestly, I get the controversy. Brie Larson is a bizarre casting choice for a 12-year-old boy to turn into when he screams a magic word. I mean, I’m all for transgender rights and equality and stuff, but I’m just really uncomfortable looking at her in that sparkly spandex and knowing that’s really a tween kid in there. It makes this erection really awkward, you know? Wouldn’t that dude from Chuck have been a much better choice? Still, I’d HIT it.

Or ten guys with too much time on their hands.
Russian Bots - Rian Johnson.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on March 09, 2019, 12:19:42 AM
To me, Rotten Tomatoes lost all credibility whatsoever when they removed the ability for people to comment on their hype for a movie pre-release just because oh-so-precious Captain Marvel was getting hammered. I'm not sure whether it was overly-triggered people or the corporate dollar of Disney that made that sudden policy change possible, but it sure was convenient for both of them.

Then they also removed actual audience reviews from the site so the audience score could go from 31% to 34%. I wonder how many more they'll remove until they can get that score to a state Disney approves.

It just reminds me of the comments coming out of Youtube about them possibly removing the dislike button from videos because Ghostbusters 2016 & Captain Marvel got hit hard. The people doing it could have the best of intentions, but it looks shady as hell and counter to the intended purpose of the site.

Edit: And now the audience score for Captain Marvel is at 51%, so I guess that answers my question.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on March 09, 2019, 06:54:27 AM
I don't think audience scores give any credibility at all. There is no way to prove that you saw the movie - this is why online polls are never taken seriously. It absolutely 100% is review bombing. When people with an agenda put negative reviews out for a movie they didn't see and will never see, that is review bombing.
Cinemascore is out, and it's an A. That doesn't mean everyone will like it or love it, but there is no question that there is a massive campaign against this movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on March 09, 2019, 10:18:39 AM
Err, how do you explain reviews from legit websites like say, umm, the BBC.

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-47463483

6/10. Review bombing right?

Or critics going meh. A small excerpt quoted.

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-47467921

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Captain Marvel is an "entertaining" and "robust" superhero movie but is not the game-changer Black Panther and Wonder Woman were, according to critics.

The film, the first from Marvel to have a stand-alone female lead, stars Oscar-winner Brie Larson as an intergalactic warrior with untapped super powers.

According to the Telegraph, the Room actress gives a "terrific" performance that is "big on girl-boss attitude".

Yet other reviewers are less impressed, calling the film "perfunctory".

"The picture is not dull, exactly, just mundane," writes Todd McCarthy from The Hollywood Reporter.

In a review headed with the words "It's no Black Panther", he accuses Captain Marvel of "unimaginative plotting, cut-rate villains [and] a bland visual style."

Screen Daily's Tim Grierson expresses similar reservations, calling the film "fun and breezy but also a tad familiar" and its action sequences "sturdy but unspectacular".

Have you seen the opposite where a game gets positive review "Bombed" with legit criticism, good things to say about it and be a protest? Decent game but **** the Epic store and the rug pulling BS is the sentiment.

Here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/412020/Metro_Exodus/

I always find audience reviews far more useful and accurate simply due to massive sample size. They are also a lot more honest in the text with their criticism good or bad nor are they beholden to anything. People vote zero or ten because they want their vote to have the greatest statistical pull. With the large sample size the so called positive or negative bombing noise is suppressed.

Here is an entertaining and endlessly relevant look into the simple statistics related to movies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWROBiX1eSc


If the audience has gone negative something is wrong with your show inside or out. Blaming the customer always makes it worse especially if they are right. If they are wrong you stay quiet and don't rub it in, they will come around on their own when the dust clears. Maybe it's more of a cult classic.

It use to be in Hollywood you made a bad movie you apologise or faced up to it or stay quiet, take the hit and meme after which everybody moves on. Now few will take responsibility for screwing up, more often than not blaming the audience. Covering in up for the screw up tends to be worse than the initial mistake.

Massive Respects:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6epsGrcuTs

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on March 09, 2019, 12:07:13 PM
No, 6/10 is a perfectly respectable score, but 0/10 is not. I'm specifically talking about fake review from people who did not watch the movie. Another example is the IGN review had a 4:1 dislike ratio, for a review that came out 3 days before the movie was released. Sure lots of these movies have fake reviews in favor and against, but this is a whole new level. The evidence is overwhelming. Cinemascore is based on actual audience scores, at the movie theater. Sure you can say it was better than you really thought, but you can't lie and review something you didn't watch. This whole smear campaign started with the "she should smile more" horse **** and just continued and got worse from there.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on March 09, 2019, 03:17:04 PM
Captain Marvel - The movie had some issues in that for such a powerful character she seemed to lack punch or power in her fights at times. The music was dialled down and the sound effects was very muted with several scenes with plenty of gaps and pauses. I don't think Brie Larson has quite found the character yet, so i'm looking forward to seeing how it evolves in later movies.

However, it is definitely a good palate cleanser between Infinity War and Endgame to slow the pace down and try something different.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Spak-Spang on March 09, 2019, 05:14:10 PM
Captain Marvel: 
I really like this movie, but it is really about average for a Marvel movie.  Some of my friends and I have said it was about Iron Man 2 or 3 good. 

The Good:  An origin story that truly felt different and fun.  Marvel is figuring out ways to tell origin stories without falling into the trappings of origin stories.  The world building in this movie felt good and was just enough to help tell the story of the film without taking from it. 

The Bad:  The twist to the plot was a good twist and I really understand and respect why they did that.  Unfortunately, it means there is really only 2 or 3 scenes that take true impact of a great villain.  Hopefully, that is just a taste of something better to come.  Unfortunately, the twist messes with the tone of the movie.

The Ugly:  While I will admit that there was some good chemistry between Fury and Marvel (Jackson and Larson) the comedy was rather flat.  Scenes felt like they were trying to be funny and it just fell flat. 

Overall I think a 6 or 7 outta 10 is good accurate score. 

Finally, I think anyone that would protest this movie as a feminist movie is dumb.  The movie is clearly a humanist movie with a message of the strength of humanity and how we can always get back up to fight again.  Which is a perfect message leading into End Game which is going to start out bleak. 

However, I will say the media telling stories like, if you don't see this movie you are a bad feminist is going to give people the wrong idea.  As always, I believe the safest thing to do, is put your message you desire in the movie (the humanist message with subtle feminist undertones) and then let the movie speak for itself.  Correct the media when they get off track, so that public perception is not hurt.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on March 09, 2019, 05:55:34 PM
That's the thing that really gets me - this movie has absolutely no political agenda at all - but even if it did, Stan Lee was always an outspoken progressive, so it would be nothing new.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on March 09, 2019, 11:51:21 PM
No, 6/10 is a perfectly respectable score, but 0/10 is not. I'm specifically talking about fake review from people who did not watch the movie. Another example is the IGN review had a 4:1 dislike ratio, for a review that came out 3 days before the movie was released. Sure lots of these movies have fake reviews in favor and against, but this is a whole new level. The evidence is overwhelming. Cinemascore is based on actual audience scores, at the movie theater. Sure you can say it was better than you really thought, but you can't lie and review something you didn't watch. This whole smear campaign started with the "she should smile more" horse **** and just continued and got worse from there.

There is a couple of you have got to be shitting me elements here.

1: IGN. I have far more respect for the Pietriots and Khushrenada's ramblings.
2: That is people disliking a review. That's like shouting conspiracy over a trailer getting disliked.
3: WHAT EVIDENCE.
4: There is no campaign.
5: If there is a campaign it would be the weird changes on RT and the media narrative.
6: I am pretty sure smile more was -

a: Smile please, we like happy people.
b: Concern from fans as to whether she could compare to the heavy weights that have come before her. Black Panther had the serious problem of BP himself being extremely disinteresting. I didn't want to see him, I wanted to see everyone else. See Goose the Cat.

6/10 is catastrophic for this kind of movie. Movies and games curve doesn't sit anywhere near the 50% mark as it should, it's closer to 75%, anything below that and you have failed score wise.

That's the thing that really gets me - this movie has absolutely no political agenda at all - but even if it did, Stan Lee was always an outspoken progressive, so it would be nothing new.

Being progressive is not about tearing others down to equal the playing field. Stan certainly understood that, Brie didn't. Even had CM had no political agenda, she gave it one, a bad one at that. It's not the progressive ideals people are having problems with, it's the delivery. Brie absolutely made a mess of it.

However, I will say the media telling stories like, if you don't see this movie you are a bad feminist is going to give people the wrong idea.  As always, I believe the safest thing to do, is put your message you desire in the movie (the humanist message with subtle feminist undertones) and then let the movie speak for itself.  Correct the media when they get off track, so that public perception is not hurt.

Bingo. This keeps happening over and over again. BP thankfully avoided that by not having people with foot in mouth. While the whole first all black movie or whatever is ridiculous there wasn't a "You're racist" narrative going on. They had accepted the legitimate flaws by staying quiet and letting the movie stand on it's own. Gotta say the Oscar nod is a joke.

Past and today's feminism are two very different things. It was liberating ones self and building yourself up, now it's tearing others to make yourself relatively bigger.

Funny thing is that the DCAU Wonder Women, even with the current literation is a man hater and no one blinks an eye, why?. Her character is easily understood by her upbringing and history. Countered by other open minded women, certain powerful emotional events and seeing the logical extreme of her views. Because of this it wasn't an attack, it was an introspection. This is what good writing can do for you.

Looked up some of the CM comic book material. It's horrific. She is also a villain. Seriously though, if you had asked me before all this what I knew of CM my reply would have been 'The person now in a coma who gave Rogue her powers' from the x-men cartoons.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on March 10, 2019, 03:28:34 AM
I have far more respect for the Pietriots and Khushrenada's ramblings.

Please elaborate more about this respect for my ramblings.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on March 10, 2019, 04:41:41 AM
I have far more respect for the Pietriots and Khushrenada's ramblings.

Please elaborate more about this respect for my ramblings.

It comes down to it being from the heart. The heart of insanity, but heart all the same.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on March 10, 2019, 05:08:55 AM
Hahaha. Yes!!! Take that, IGN!

(http://i.imgur.com/pnm8AHB.png)

Too cold and sterile. Where's the heart?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on March 10, 2019, 11:04:30 AM
Ooohboy what is it she said that you think was so offensive? The quote about A Wrinkle in Time about not being made for 40 yr old white dudes? Saying there should be more diversity in the press tour? Neither of those statements are controversial. Did she say something else?

And when I saw 6/10 is perfectly respectable, I'm saying "this is the score from someone who actually watched the movie and this is how they felt", whereas a 0/10 from a bunch of internet trolls is not respectable.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on March 10, 2019, 11:13:43 AM
Dude all you need to do is go to the Marvel Studios Facebook page and look at the comment section from pretty much any post. I can't take you seriously if you don't think the Rotten Tomatoes fan score is a result of thousands of people posting fake reviews. I mean just look at the entire MCU collection disparity between critic score and audience score, and this is after RT has removed dozens of thousands of fake reviews
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/franchise/marvel_cinematic_universe
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on March 10, 2019, 12:58:15 PM
6: I am pretty sure smile more was -

a: Smile please, we like happy people.
LOL. No, it wasn’t. There’s so much history to “smile more.” Men telling women to smile more is like the oldest form of street harassment.

If these chuckleheads bothered to wait until Captain Marvel came out or even watched it when it did, they probably still wouldn’t have realized that the movie flat out makes fun of these unwanted advances from men.

Also, Carol does smile in the movie particularly once she starts regaining her memory. “Carol McSerious” was part of her character arc. She’s stolen from Earth, lied to, and forced to be a no nonsense soldier. The Kree, Starforce/Yon-Rog, and Supreme Intelligence made her that way. Smiling isn’t something a person should do because some fucking rando on the street or internet tells you to. It’s part of your identity, your personality.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on March 10, 2019, 03:36:08 PM
Err what? This is literally the first I heard smile more or lets have a smile is street harassment. That is a lot of missing context. My context was always cheering someone up, I have certainly being asked that more than once, have done so myself it made both feel a little better. What the heck.

Ooohboy what is it she said that you think was so offensive? The quote about A Wrinkle in Time about not being made for 40 yr old white dudes? Saying there should be more diversity in the press tour? Neither of those statements are controversial. Did she say something else?

And when I saw 6/10 is perfectly respectable, I'm saying "this is the score from someone who actually watched the movie and this is how they felt", whereas a 0/10 from a bunch of internet trolls is not respectable.

It was needlessly exclusionary and the delivery was angry. I have already stated why that was a problem. I wasn't offended, at best it was unprofessional. Blaming trolls just antagonises people by discounting their views of which some are legitimate. If you want your movie to have a positive vibe, you have to be positive in it's messaging. If you made a mistake, just apologise, it's ok to say sorry, people respect that.

If marketing wasn't an issue why would a BBC reporter have to bring this up?

Quote
At the risk of adding yet another middle-aged white male voice to the critical choir, I find myself in broad agreement with the opinions cited above.

I spent a perfectly enjoyable two hours watching Captain Marvel on Monday. Yet I couldn't help feeling it represented a missed opportunity.

It's probably asking too much for one of the few superhero blockbusters to have a female lead to course-correct an overwhelmingly male-dominated genre.

Having cast the capable, talented and highly watchable Brie Larson as their heroine, though, I sensed the film's makers were unsure how to capitalise on her strengths.

While the film is full of amusing moments, Captain Marvel herself is almost entirely humourless. The likes of Robert Downey Jr's Iron Man and Chris Pratt's Star-Lord are never short of a self-deprecating quip, yet Larson is required to play things deadpan straight.

I already told you why each score is as it is, the problems, how statistics work. If you are going to argue 'Respectability', how is a 10 any more valid than a 0? Maths doesn't care. That's why you also read the text that went with the score.

I didn't believe myself when I was told there was positive copy pasta Google reviews. Have a look, it's weird.

If it was a female issue why does everyone love Wonder Women? A literal man hater in DCAU yet beloved. Trolls right?

Dude all you need to do is go to the Marvel Studios Facebook page and look at the comment section from pretty much any post. I can't take you seriously if you don't think the Rotten Tomatoes fan score is a result of thousands of people posting fake reviews. I mean just look at the entire MCU collection disparity between critic score and audience score, and this is after RT has removed dozens of thousands of fake reviews
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/franchise/marvel_cinematic_universe

I don't use Facebook anymore for about 2 years other than Birthday messages and even when I did I didn't use it other than friends.

They had the same excuse with STD and they were antagonistic. It is garbage on every level. Forget the Trek lore or continuity, it has piss poor writing without getting into the rest of the dumpster fire. It has close to 50% difference I last checked. Trolls right?

The Orville got slammed by the critics yet fans loved it with an even wider margin of 63% (32-94). Are you going to say that there was some sort of conspiracy here too by the fans? Suddenly season 2 gets 100% from critics post Disney buyout? It's hella progressive, more so than Trek, with far more complex conundrums, better stories. Trolls right?

Everyone knows most game or movie critics engage in access journalism. RT was overdue to die and lost it's credibility well before CM with it's algorithm that was problematic from the start. Hence why I gave you the link to Metacritic as it is more open to how the numbers came about.

If the absurd score differential doesn't discredit RT at the minimum or question what is going on, I don't know what to say. There has been a lot of fishy **** well before CM. Marvel fucked up it's marketing.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on March 10, 2019, 03:48:24 PM
A little bit of critical context, I am not going up to random people asking them to smile, it is always with people I know. Harassment is harassment regardless of what is said, context, intentions and delivery make all the difference.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on March 10, 2019, 05:30:30 PM
How is saying there should be more diversity exclusionary? That's the opposite of exclusionary. That review you quote is also pretty bad and misses the point. She's not supposed to provide comic relief, although she actually does in a few scenes. She doesn't even know who she is for 80% of the movie, and doesn't know who to trust...but she's supposed to make self-deprecating jokes? She plays role she was given very well. I take it you haven't seen the movie, right? RT doesn't even use an algorithm...it's the total number of positive reviews divided by the total number of reviews. That's it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on March 10, 2019, 05:35:06 PM
Here is the article that contains the quote (and the statistics that prove her point) that is "stupid" or whatever.
https://www.indiewire.com/2018/06/brie-larsons-i-do-not-hate-white-dudes-lack-of-inclusion-film-critics-1201974617/
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on March 10, 2019, 06:04:39 PM
I am not going to repeat myself. If you haven't figured out what the issue was you're not going to or don't want to. I have laid it all out the best I can, with far more evidence than you have ever provided.

In regards to the second post, that's her back pedalling. In the video it was very clear what her message was, context, intent and delivery. I provided a example statement that would be inclusive with none of the baggage. She did something unprofessional. If one of the cast members in every other Marvel movie did the same they would be unprofessional.

The BBC reporter who is about as far away from all this as you can get had to acknowledge the issue. Something had gone wrong.

That's the problem with RT algorithm. It is absurdly reductive. A 51% review is positive. If all reviews were 51% or 60%, *insert arbitrary number* it would have a 100% freshness rating. I converts a 51% to 100%. That's stupid. A critic would have to dump the score to avoid effectively giving it a 10/10.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on March 10, 2019, 06:14:41 PM
I think we should probably table this discussion. I feel like everyone's gotten their point across here, and there's a good chance this is going to get ugly. And I don't think we want that.

On a brighter note, this isn't really "movie" discussion per say, but there really isn't a great place to put this and it is movie-related: I recently discovered that Audible's been releasing these full-length Alien franchise audio dramas the last few years for "Alien Day" (04/26). I had an active trial going with them, so I picked up the 1st of the 3, "Out of the Shadows" and eventually purchased the other 2, "Sea of Sorrows" and "River of Pain". All 3 are based on circa-2014 novels.

At first glance, these stories are somewhat blasphemous: Out of the Shadows takes place on a mining vessel over a different alien-infested planet, LV-178. The miners discovered the Xenomorphs, and you can probably guess where things went from there. It's amusing hearing how much this sounds like a Dead Space story when you can't actually see the Alien franchise trappings, considering most of the characters alive on the ship are engineers using repurposed mining equipment as weapons.

Where things get interesting is when characters start openly referencing the characters and technology of the Alien: Isolation game. Apparently, these 3 novels were meant to be somewhat of coordinated cross-media effort with that game, and all are considered officially cannon. Then Ripley's shuttle arrives and the crew wakes her up. She's not voiced by Sigourney Weaver, but the person voicing her does a DAMN good Weaver impersonation. They also brought in Rutger Hauer to voice Ash as a rather-chilling "ghost in the machine".

Overall, the story is excellent, if incredibly redundant considering the franchise formula. That said, it's interesting seeing crew members in an Alien story act competently, since Ripley tells them exactly what they're dealing with and they react accordingly.  You may wonder how this story could possibly exist considering where Aliens picks up, and there is a reason. It's a stupid reason, but continuity is preserved...unfortunately.

Sea of Sorrows is a sequel to Out of the Shadows and apparently takes place after Alien: Resurrection. Apparently, Weyland-Yutani just never learns. If the 1st book was tonally in line with the 1st Alien movie, this one is definitely more in tone with Aliens, featuring mercenaries basically filling in the role of the colonial marines on a "bug hunt". Yeah, you already know where this story is going, unfortunately. The story does bring in a spectacularly dumb new element of the franchise by having one of the characters be an empath ala Deana Troi. Apparently, the Alien franchise really needed Newtypes for some reason.

River of Pain is probably the strangest and most redundant out of all the stories, as it seems to be basically just telling the story of the Aliens Directors Cut novelization. I'm still listening to it, but I've definitely read this story before, as there have been novelizations about the downfall of Hadley's Hope before. Still, audio drama form is a cool way to experience it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on March 10, 2019, 06:36:32 PM
Actually RT uses 60% as positive. Being that a lot of sites and critics use 4 and 5 star-based review systems it makes perfect sense (3/5 stars would be 60%). RT score does not mean "this is how good it is" it means *this percentage of reviews would be considered good, or even not "don't watch this movie"* that's what it has always meant. Chris Evans calls out the president almost on the daily, so does Mark Ruffalo...they are *way more* political than Brie. Like broodwars says, it's pointless to go on though. I just took my kids to see it, and they loved it. On a positive note, my son pointed out that the local theater has a Mortal Kombat II arcade cabinet...I'm gonna try to buy it, even though it's not an original.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on March 11, 2019, 04:17:14 AM
That is still has the same reductive problem and encourages critics to raise the score to keep in line. It's manipulating the statistics dishonestly. A 10% hidden bias that people defend is impressive marketing. Also what...

RT score does not mean "this is how good it is" it means *this percentage of reviews would be considered good, or even not "don't watch this movie"* that's what it has always meant.

Does RT review movies or does it review reviews or percentage of cats and dogs? Don't bother answering, like, just, wow.

They call out the president, one person, a political figure, on serious issues on their own time, well communicated and through appropriate channels, being professional. They don't go after an entire segment of the population including customers and the press during a press junket in an angry rant. How they went about it made all the difference.

SUPER: Ellen Page is amazing hoping around like she is on crack, that psycho laugh every time. It take off for real when she gets in to the movie. You can't make this movie today.

Logan: A great shitty road trip.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on March 11, 2019, 08:15:12 AM
Lol now it was an angry rant.
https://youtu.be/9e852S8RvlU
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on March 11, 2019, 02:29:15 PM
Yeah 'lol'. We are done.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on March 11, 2019, 04:30:06 PM
I don't recall reading this a year ago with Black Panther; i don't mean the trolls reaction.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on March 12, 2019, 01:38:46 AM
Captain Marvel: I enjoyed it.

There's Nothing Out There:   I clicked on this movie randomly, i didn't know I'd like it, but it was really the horror movie I'd always wanted to see. I always wanted to see a horror movie where a character was blatantly self aware he was in a horror movie, I guess scream does this, but this does it different
If you liked Cabin in the Woods, or Scream you might like this.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on March 13, 2019, 03:39:01 AM
Re-watched bits from Mission impossible Fallout. That bathroom fight, damn, so simple but it is so good. I absolutely love the few movies and TV that have returned to the fundamentals. Charlize, Kenau and Tom is a trifector that if they ever got together we will have reached peaked action movie and it's all down hill, might as well pack it up.

Did someone get a little salty? I will smile more. 8)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on March 13, 2019, 04:00:46 AM
I'd love to see a Tom Keanu Charlize movie. They should call it the Triumvarate.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on March 17, 2019, 11:49:01 AM
District 9 - 9/10
Pretty incredible that this was the directorial debut for someone. Very ambitious film that really came out nearly perfectly. I'm disappointed that it took me 10 years to finally see it, but man, what a great movie. Wikus is such a selfish douchebag but then you kinda feel for him, and he eventually makes the right decision at the end. Going to watch Elysium and Chappie (even though it has pretty awful reviews) afterwards. I'm not totally convinced that Neill Blomkamp would be the right guy to direct an Alien movie, but I'm totally convinced he'd be perfect for the (good) RoboCop reboot/sequel.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on March 18, 2019, 12:25:59 AM
Elysium is a fine watch and a flawless visual treat. Merges old school with new tech perfectly. It struggles to integrate it's messages and themes to it's world it effortlessly does in D9. Matt is bland and Foster was a bit what?? Lower the star power, the better they are.

D9 is a 30 million dollar movie that look $120m while Elysium is a $120m movie that looks $200m. They gave him too much money far too quickly. He does best with less. Blomkamp is a visual guy at heart and he needs his crew to fill in his weaknesses which seems to have happened at Oats. Visually stunning but far better writing.

Chappie... oh Chappie... Great opening with Peter Weller, don't bother with the rest of the movie. There is still some good in there but it's not worth it.

Definitely a slot in as part of the puzzle for Robocop if he gets a bit of guidance from Verhoeven and Weller.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on March 18, 2019, 10:12:41 PM
I think people hate on Chappie too much. Though it probably has to do with whether or not your can stomach Die Antwoord.

Really Chappie and Encino Man are the same movie. What happens when you take a blank slate and teach it all the wrong things?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on March 19, 2019, 06:38:48 AM
Part of it was definitely Die Antwoord. I don't know why he thought casting them was a good idea. All the movies have a pretty significant accents which I definitely appreciate but that strong on top of speaking like Chavs with questionable acting ability is a viewer lethal combination. That said Neil's staple of criminals wouldn't work as they are irredeemable and lethally competent psychos who would give no shits.

All of the usual technical talent is there, the Indian(?) otoh was pretty good although for this movie it might have been relative. It should have being a workable film, but it is just so messy, Jackman is crazy mother fucker but didn't add much other than a boss fight. The religious angle distracted from an already good character reason of him being Jelly and his product not working/passed over.

Sharlto Copley is easily one of the best actors we have, please fucking give him more work. He sells Wikus brilliantly. He for a while convinced me that he was doing a good thing, he seemed to care but it was completely utilitarian as it would reduce bodily harm and hides his repulsive actions behind paperwork. In some ways he might be ignorant or actually believe he is doing good through the documentary part and his little interactions with his family. His ganders more sympathy at the end by not screaming he isn't racist like a lazy movie would do but acts on his change of heart and even then there is a struggle.

Wikus is an amazingly written, deep, complex and performed character that in large part made D9 near perfect matched by Neil's technical ability to create a living world. Elysium does this well, the world is convincing. Max should have worked but Matt Damon falls short especially with the supporting cast being so much better than him. Elysium with a couple tweaks could have been a near D9 masterpiece but that missing half really hurts it.

Chappie is missing both and it dies. Neil's technical ability is still on display and is essential but his good shows was not just that.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on March 20, 2019, 07:56:42 PM
What would happen if Chappie got dropped off in the neighborhood from Gummo?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on March 21, 2019, 10:55:39 AM
A lot more "Sleeping" would happen with a massive amount of "N" I would imagine.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on March 23, 2019, 09:54:26 PM
Us - 8/10
This turned out pretty different than what I would have thought just based on the trailers. Can't say if that means better or worse... definitely makes you think for a while, though I had figured out one of the biggest parts basically when it started. But even knowing that still doesn't exactly ruin it...it's pretty weird though. There are a lot of things what will click after some time but that doesn't necessarily mean it really answers anything in a satisfactory manner. Since it will be obligatory to compare it to Get Out, I will say Get Out was a better movie in my opinion...well, maybe not better, but more complete. Maybe that's the point of Us though.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on March 24, 2019, 12:22:16 AM
Shazam

I went to a special screening (via Fandango) today.  It was pretty cool being able to see the movie two weeks early.  What wasn't as cool was the movie itself.

The movie is mostly a comedy, with only so much action, and the action isn't really that good.  I think the main problem is that it's a kid's movie.  The plot is very straightforward and overly simple.  The villain is established before the title screen and is the villain throughout.  The majority of the plot is based on Billy figuring out his powers.  And here's one of my biggest issues with the movie: his powers. Shazam's whole shtick is that he has the wisdom, strength, stamina, might, courage, and speed.  However, the entire plot revolves around him being a 14 year old kid and behaving like one while Shazam.  This includes not knowing how his powers work, giving bad advice, misusing his powers, being very scared and running from the villain multiple times.  Eventually, Billy figures his **** out and comes up with a "clever" way to save the day.

Ultimately, it was pretty funny, and I was entertained. If this was DC's "Ant-Man", they totally overshot it.  Subprime action, no suspense, and I wasn't invested in the characters at all.  The emotional beats almost all fell completely flat.  But I got a good couple of LOLs.

5.5/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on March 24, 2019, 12:41:47 AM
That's disappointing. No reason a low action hero movie couldn't work. Of course this would be a bit more difficult on the writers since they can't throw in plot points to make up for time and punt the work.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on March 24, 2019, 12:51:21 AM
I might be kinda harsh on the movie because I was frustrated with the character. The kids are pretty cute and the movie has some heart warming touches to it.  I'd be willing to bump it to a 6.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Order.RSS on March 26, 2019, 03:04:09 PM
Saw Alita: Battle Angel recently, only my first movie of the year.
To be honest my expectations for this were on the low side, which may have helped my enjoyment because overall I found it quite a surprising delight?

(https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51b3dc8ee4b051b96ceb10de/t/5bc7a5bee2c483750d16613f/1539810757480/alita2.jpg?format=2500w)

The movie certainly has MANY problems: Alita's central struggle hinges entirely on dime-a-dozen amnesiac destined hero characterisation which feels old and tropey. The central romance just flat-out doesn't really work, because the guy is just the wettest pancake on screen since the bad boy love interest from the Lizzie McGuire Movie. It doesn't help that Alita herself looks a lot older than he does because of the extensive motion-capture changes to her facial structure (and also she's a killer cyborg while he... rides on a bike...). In general I'm not confident anyone of the writing staff really gets teenage girls; trying to signal independence by making her essentially play rollerderby is such a trope. Maybe it's a holdover from the source material...?

Structurally the movie is also very overstuffed, coming in at least 30 minutes too long. It has at least 4 different endings all stacked back-to-back, ranging from resolution, to late-game twists, to the birth of entirely new motivations, to revelations about the past casting everything in new light.

With those negatives out of the way though... The CGI is incredible in this film. Alita looks equally uncanny valley and human enough, with exaggerated facial expressions. She's an animated cartoon come to life. The fight scenes are really energetic, creative, and surprisingly violent. They're real highlights, much more stylish  than many of the average Marvel punch-ups.
I found the character of Alita immediately likable, she's worth rooting for. Additionally, the world design is right up my alley. Sitting somewhere between the trash planet from Thor: Ragnarok, Firefly and maybe Beyond Good & Evil it's basically laser-focused to my tastes.

Ultimately I think this movie isn't really aiming for adults, with the rather generic story and largely absent villain. But I think kids of say ages 10-15 would really dig it. The tone kind of lands in that Speed Racer and Spy Kids zone, or maybe something like an earlier X-Men movie. I wish they went a bit further with the whole human-in-machine body angle, because it has all kinds of interesting transhumanist implications. But ultimately the movie isn't trying to be Ghost in the Shell or Blade Runner, it's trying to tell a gorgeous action story for teen audiences.
I'm not very well-versed in manga/anime but this at least feels like a great adaptation.

Recommended if you want a colourful, uncomplicated popcorn action movie. It skews a bit younger than the average Marvel fare, but I think there's a lot of overlapping appeal there. Definitely got me excited to try Captain Marvel next. I hope Alita gets a sequel, it feels fresh with rich worldbuilding and there's a lot of potential for depth.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on March 27, 2019, 08:35:24 PM
Us 7/10 (Just watched it score)
It was too predictable, but at the same time all over the place. It didn't seem to have as much of a central thesis like Get Out. That sort of happens on Sophomore movies though.

Really amazing cinematography.

Maybe if the main character had watched something other than Goonies the movie would turn out different. Her parents should have let her watch C.H.UD.  Also, If you're tethered to the coffee table just pick up the coffee table.

Still, Jordan Peele is a Kubrik level director. We haven't gotten to his Shining or Barry Lyndon yet.


Us 8/10 (3 hour later score)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on March 27, 2019, 09:09:42 PM
Finally saw Aquaman,

Meh.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on March 30, 2019, 11:43:16 AM
The Dirt - wow/10
Hugely entertaining movie. I was never a huge Mötley Crüe fan or anything, though I do like a handful of their songs, but man, this was pretty great. Very funny, very sad. Lots of drug use, sex, and pure craziness. Machine Gun Kelly (I mean, I'm, Colson Baker) is like the number one actor on Netflix these days.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on April 01, 2019, 06:24:13 PM
Finally got around to seeing LEGO Movie 2: The 2nd Part over the weekend, and...*sigh*...I really didn't like this movie, and it took me a long time to figure out exactly why because the 1st movie is one of my all-time favorite films.  All I kept coming back to is that it reminded me of watching Muppets: Most Wanted after watching the previous "The Muppets" quasi-reboot film. On paper, the film is quite solid, but something about it just slowly pissed me off.

After thinking that over for a while, it struck me: just like that film, LEGO Movie 2 trades in sentimentality, subtlety, & wit for cynicism and irony. It's not enough to have a character make a funny side-joke or clever metaphor in the midst of a sequence: the movie has to scream it at the audience and then hit them over the head to make sure they understand. The script feels incredibly heavy-handed; obvious; and spastic, and the performances feel like the characters spend half the movie rolling their eyes and the other half perpetually winking at the audience. Meta humor can be amusing in small doses, but too much of it just gets obnoxious. It also feels like Wild Style/Lucy is the only character that actually matters in this film, as none of the other characters really have anything to do.

It's not enough to have an incredibly catchy song like "Everything is Awesome" now. They had to go and craft a new song CALLED "Catchy Song" whose lyrics endlessly repeat how you'll never get the song out of your head. Amusingly, I actually thought the "villain song" "Not Evil" was way catchier and clever. The LEGO movies are starting to repeat jokes now from earlier movies for severely less return, such as devoting an entire song to in-jokes about past Batman performances that would be a lot funnier it it hadn't been done before and done better in LEGO Batman.

Honestly, I'm not sure how you make a good sequel to the LEGO Movie. The first film was fundamentally perfect, both as a mission statement on LEGO in general as well as the metaphor about a father and son coming to understand each other. This is also the 3rd LEGO film since the original LEGO Movie, so the animation style doesn't really impress anymore.  I guess I expected better than for them to make a LEGO movie that feels like Toy Story by way of Teen Titans Go.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on April 05, 2019, 12:59:13 AM
Quick review.....

first of all SHAZAM was a ton of fun. Deserves all it's about to get... and hopefully it gets it quickly, as Endgame is coming.
My daughter was running through ranges of emotion during this one. Excited, Scared, Hysterical Laughter, Clapping, gasping, crying, and then cycle through it again.
DC has finally found it's stride. the first few movies were a real misstep.

Wonder Woman was a course correction. Aquaman was entertaining, and Shazam rounded all the bases.

the end scene was tons of fun.
the mid credit scene referenced something I know nothing about. Whoever watches it next, please tell me what that was all about
Mid Credit *SPOILER* Chubby Caterpillar with a talking box... talking about how to get magic...
and then there is a post credit scene.... I swear I've seen it in the previews though.
End Credit *SPOILER*talking through a fishbowl, jokes about how stupid talking to fish powers would be, kid is wearing Aquaman shirt
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on April 05, 2019, 12:49:57 PM
They added the entire end credit scene to the TV spots lately.

As for your other question: It's a villain named Mister Mind.  He forms a super villain group in the comics.  Pretty big Shazam villain.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on April 07, 2019, 06:55:23 AM
Justice League Vs The Fatal 5

It's pretty good, goes back to the 90's DCAU visuals as well as continuity. It matched the humour, vibe, characterisations, pretty much everything you expect from a mainline DCAU show. A good return to form.

Batman: He did have a strong reaction to your little scuffle, Clark.
Superman: Yes, it's healing slowly, and I'm in a fair amount of pain. Thanks for asking.

The Superman motif still gives me '**** yeah!'.

There is an interesting parallel or two that can be drawn to Endgame. Whether it was intentional or not it gave me a smirk.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on April 07, 2019, 04:31:21 PM
Justice League Vs The Fatal 5

It's pretty good, goes back to the 90's DCAU visuals as well as continuity. It matched the humour, vibe, characterisations, pretty much everything you expect from a mainline DCAU show. A good return to form.

OK, now I'm interested. I've been ignoring the DC animated movies outside of Constantine and his related stuff since they have just sucked since the New 52-era kicked in, all edgelord tone and constant anger. But if this going back to the tone of the pre-New 52 films, I'll check it out.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on April 07, 2019, 05:12:15 PM
It's pretty much feature length JL:Unlimited which is good.

The other animated continuity is... ok. The tone is angry but no Znydar. Supes and Batman are seemingly constantly pissed off at each other making nearly no progress or reason. Wonder Women was very aloof and was very dismissive of males which I was fine with as it wasn't unusual(DCAU WW has it as part of her story arc) and fit her back story but again, no progress which made it a problem.

I assume this is the new 52 thing you are talking about.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on April 07, 2019, 10:03:15 PM
It's pretty much feature length JL:Unlimited which is good.

The other animated continuity is... ok. The tone is angry but no Znydar. Supes and Batman are seemingly constantly pissed off at each other making nearly no progress or reason. Wonder Women was very aloof and was very dismissive of males which I was fine with as it wasn't unusual(DCAU WW has it as part of her story arc) and fit her back story but again, no progress which made it a problem.

I assume this is the new 52 thing you are talking about.

It's a tonal shift in the movies that started with "Justice League: WAR!" where you saw the characters just randomly angry and stupid all the time. It's also where you saw a lot of character redesigns to coincide with what was going on in comics at the time: the "New 52" continuity reboot caused by Flashpoint (which gave us the excellent Flashpoint Paradox movie). Yeah, Wonder Woman became a man-hater rather than the spirit of compassion and truth, Hal Jordan became an idiot, and just about everyone became an asshole.

I loathed when that happened in the movies. It was bad enough what I was hearing of the actual comics that were going on at the time, but to go from "inspired by JLU" to "mandated by the New 52" was a definite downgrade...even if I did really like Justice League: Dark & Constantine's movie.

Incidentally, the New 52 continuity got gutted a few years back in the comics because everyone hated it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on April 07, 2019, 10:36:39 PM
The 52 shows is absolutely a downgrade. It's visually cheap with the same number of frames that can buy. Everyone is either a dick, **** or asshole.

It doesn't help there are some absurd details like when Talia/LoS get assaulted by helicopters and machine guns while they fight back with swords with predicable results. The most absurd thing wasn't even that, it was Talia using a hand cranked Gatling dart launcher that manages to shoot down a helicopter and a dozen people. WHHHHYYYYY.

I am on the same page with the Constantine movies, quite enjoyable. Justice League Action is a lot of fun if you haven't watch it. It takes the piss quite nicely.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Spak-Spang on April 08, 2019, 07:26:34 AM
I really liked the Wonder Woman animated movie.  I think that was the first one to get a PG-13 rating.  But ever since that one they have been pushing the graphics too much, getting more and more violent and cursing with no real reason, and it doesn't always fit the characters.  This has really bothered me, because I loved the Justice League and Batman series as a kid, and really wanted to like this movies as something to share with my family.  But nope.  I feel like this one fits with something I could show my kids.  Sure it is more mature and darker, but it is balanced well.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on April 08, 2019, 06:05:42 PM
I really liked the Wonder Woman animated movie.  I think that was the first one to get a PG-13 rating.  But ever since that one they have been pushing the graphics too much, getting more and more violent and cursing with no real reason, and it doesn't always fit the characters.  This has really bothered me, because I loved the Justice League and Batman series as a kid, and really wanted to like this movies as something to share with my family.  But nope.  I feel like this one fits with something I could show my kids.  Sure it is more mature and darker, but it is balanced well.

That's actually something I really don't like about the modern DC animated movies in general, at least the early ones: the creators were so desperate to get that PG-13 rating to show how "adult" the films were that they shoveled in a lot of gratuitous stuff that didn't actually matter just to get that rating. This straddling of the middle really bothered me with the early films since they kept pretending that they were actually going to go into some dark and graphic territory, but they never did.

To paraphrase My Fellow Americans, "Please, if you're going to use the f-word, go for the gold." That's why I really liked that Constantine movie from last year (and Batman: Under the Red Hood), because it paraded it was going to "go there" and then DID. Either have the guts to go dark and do it right, or stay around where Batman: TAS and JLU was comfortable going. Don't pull this "Oh, let's put a nipple or a few swear words in there so we can get a PG-13 rating!" Batman: TAS is one of the greatest TV shows of all time, and it was an all-audience show.

It's the reverse problem of modern horror PG-13 remakes of R-rated 80s films, where studios start with something already dark and graphic and water it all down into something tasteless. People appreciate edge-pushing, but no one likes something that's wishy-washy.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Spak-Spang on April 08, 2019, 08:07:48 PM
"Batman: TAS is one of the greatest TV shows of all time, and it was an all-audience show."

When people realize that you can have the definitive version of certain shows and ideas with a lower rating is when we get great media in all areas.  To know your art form and your audience is important.  I kinda wish Deadpool was rated PG-13.  But I also know that the movie perfectly understands its audience and what it needed to be.  Disney's Marvel movies know that PG-13 rating allows for them to show the comic book action to the biggest audience possible, and also stay true to the themes and ideas of the character and series.  Just like Logan being rated R was the best fit to explore who and what Wolverine really was, and that R rating wasn't for gratuitous violence...just violence needed for the movie.  It showed it, but did not glorify it. 

I think that is the problem with going for the rating first, is that you are showcasing the violence, not the story or character. 
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on April 09, 2019, 02:43:38 AM
Shazam 8/10 or 8.5/10

The movie was good. It reminded me of if Sam Raimi was still making good Spider-man movies. I'd say it is somewhere between Spider-man and Spider-man 2 in the good spot.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on April 09, 2019, 06:01:49 AM
Aiming for PG13 is an very bad condition to inflict on yourself. Right out of the gate you have compromised your show that is irrelevant to the narrative or it's true nature.

Understand, focus on the natural audience, and they will repay you in kind. As awesome as TAS: DCAU is with wide appeal which is partially incidental, it's focus has always been on the comic crowd who made it a success, growing it for free. How many of us have recommended it to others even those who might only have passing interest only for them to become fans or have continued interest related to comics?

That continued focus is what continues to make it great, it's hasn't gone chasing some new audience or done a money grab or change for the sake of change.

The shows does a lot of flying under the radar whether it be philosophy, morality, sex and violence, seamlessly weaving it into the narrative. It doesn't bash you the head or be propaganda, it respects your intelligence. When I was a child I didn't pick up on any of this but as an adult seeing it makes me appreciate it even more for that depth, that show within a show. I get a feeling of surprise like I am watching a new show.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on April 09, 2019, 11:38:04 AM
I don't approve of rating systems. When a rating system is first invoked it makes sense because it is just classifying where movies fit. Over time there becomes an incentive to design media for ratings systems. Also, over time the  definition will change to more vanilla fare. A PG movie does not mean Goonies or Raiders of the Lost Ark anymore. If Goonies was released today it would be rated PG-13.

Then there are absurd things like Jaws is PG, The Ring is PG-13, The Dark Knight is PG-13. Only one of those movies shows a violent death.

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on April 09, 2019, 02:58:28 PM
An additional problem at least for America is the rating board is a private entity that is opaque, non-representational, arbitrary, filled with conflicts of interest and agendas that make it less than worthless even as guidance.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on April 15, 2019, 04:24:24 PM
Watched the new Hellboy...hoo boy, that was a train wreck. Some nice parts, but it was very disjointed and very grotesque (and this coming from a pair of Game of Thrones fans). It felt like what would happen if the Saw creators tried to make a Deadpool style super hero film. I was never terribly big on the previous films, we went because we liked David Harbour in Stranger Things, but we were tempted to walk out and watch Shazaam instead.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Spak-Spang on April 15, 2019, 10:30:10 PM
Yeah, no the new Hellboy movie looks like a train wreck.  Which I knew it would be once the movie was rated R.  The movie should have never been rated R.  Del Toro literally perfected the Hellboy formula, leaning on traditional folklore and religious creature design which fits with the comics.  Dark Comedy that was still playful, and scenes that were scary but also matched the tone of the rest of the film.  I hope this movie fails so hard they consider giving the franchise back to Del Toro to make his trilogy complete.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on April 15, 2019, 11:03:52 PM
Us

I saw the twist coming early on, so it was kinda spoiled for me right away.The movie side steps the twist maybe once at the end?  But otherwise, the first time I suspected it, everything that after confirmed it.  I'm not a huge fan of the horror genre, but I still ended up liking it a bunch.  I don't think the characters did anything I thought was overly stupid, which is a plus.  It's a lot different from "Get Out", and there are probably a lot of reasons that I like it less.  I would still say it's a good movie.  There's a lot of imagery that's either obvious or a little on the nose.  Like the kind of things you see in "12 things you missed in this movie!" videos.  But those can be fun to pick out and make the experience more "interactive", I guess?  I just need the film to do more to distract me from the clues it's laying down regarding the twist.

7.5/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on April 16, 2019, 01:14:04 AM
Having not seen the new Hell Boy, the footage I've seen shows a real haggard looking Hellboy. The first time I saw test makeup it looked great, but in trailer footage he looks like what happened if you Hellboy did meth.

(https://pmcvariety.files.wordpress.com/2017/12/hell.jpg?w=1000&h=563&crop=1)

(https://i.imgur.com/f7oLOgs.jpg)
METH NOT EVEN ONCE
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Spak-Spang on April 16, 2019, 01:38:04 AM
The makeup looks great.  Like he is more aged and experienced.  I have no problem with the look and I like the darker red tone.  But Ron Perlman will always be my Hellboy.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on April 16, 2019, 01:52:45 AM
While actual photos usually suck as the colours are meant to be corrected in post... Jesus you're bang on about the meth. That face commits murder it along with the reduced ripness.

I go to a bad movie night/day every week, usually the movies are really bad, some a surprisingly entertaining, but we get legit good movies that you wouldn't otherwise expect.

Destination Wedding:

Romcom are dire. I have yet to see one that is good, consistently funny or clever until now. Keanu and Winonia Rider accidentally meet at the airport going to the same wedding. They then spend the entire movie ripping into each other and everything around them interacting with no one else. There is some physical comedy, but it's 90% dialogue backed by body language. Essentially a stage play.

I can't really describe why it is awesome and unbelievably funny. It is just layer and layers of interactions with each other, setup, just the right amount of absurdity, awkwardness, perfect casting. I can't quote a joke or present a random one in video form doing it any justice.

If you like it you are going to laugh your ass off, really tickling your brain. At worse you will be dismissive and stop 10 minutes in. If it hasn't captured you by then it won't.

I am whole hearty recommending this romcom, truly a first.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on April 16, 2019, 04:46:52 AM
At least their not being besieged by an undead prince from Transylvania this time.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on April 16, 2019, 07:42:02 PM
Just finished Justice League vs. the Fatal 5 now that it's on BluRay, and...yeah, this is a pretty good Justice League Unlimited movie. Hell, I don't know why they didn't just officially brand it a JLU movie, considering it's using the JLU character designs, sets, voice actors, and even the musical cues.

I've never been terribly interested in the Legion of Superheroes, so I found the Fatal 5 kind of generic & randomly powerful. My big issues with the film lie with the ending, though. Suffice it to say that one character pulls god-tier power RIGHT out of their ass when everything the film built up to that point indicated they SHOULD have been severely weakened. Also, there's a certain power source that plays right into the film's climax that the movie never addresses whether it can be replenished, and it's just...gone at the end of the movie, and the movie never gives a resolution to it. It's an annoying, dangling plot thread.  I also would have preferred if the movie was longer, but that's just getting greedy.

One nitpick, though, I can't let slide is the animation. It's really inconsistent, reminding me oh so much of how bad the animation in Batman & Harley Quin was. Characters go off-model a LOT, particularly Wonder Woman (who looks like a bobble head in certain shots) and Superman. However, there's also a shot when the league is jetting to the finale where Batman's eyes go WAY off model. It's really distracting.

Overall, though, I quite liked it and it's a good return to form. Hopefully, they stick with the JLU designs and stories for a while. I know Hush is next (with Damien Wayne...ugh...), but it would be nice to see more animated films like this coming out of DC.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on April 17, 2019, 01:15:53 AM
I didn't pick up on the off model animation except for batman eyes, wtf was that? I look to the consistency of the art style and motion than the raw accuracy of the model. If you're frame rate is poor or poorly masked, the picture has technical flaws like jaggy lines or discoloured, I will see that.

It had some of the same issues with the movie's story as you did. The power scale was all over the place for the villains. Consistent for the heroes though. I assume the other item is an access point/representation to be rebuilt rather than the ultimate source which would work within this continuity, I think. Outside of it, all bets are off.

I think they didn't need to name it as a JLU movie. That unique set of visuals, music, voices, character behaviour unmistakably screams DCAU and DC has never used they style outside of that continuity which no doubt Timm fights for tooth and nail. Even as a kid I could tell Batman Beyond was DCAU despite it being visually darker, different colour choices, the underlying art, feel is the same, you just knew. That takes real talent.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on April 22, 2019, 05:23:49 AM
Her 9.5/10 Wow. What an excellent movie. I've been meaning to watch this for years.

You were never really there 7/10  I re-watched Taxi Driver a week ago. This is like a more confusing and messy version of Taxi Driver.

Don't Worry, He won't get far on foot7.8/10 An enjoyable biopic. Though I feel like i've seen this before. Like I haven't, but there has been a near identical movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on April 25, 2019, 09:03:34 PM
Wow.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on April 25, 2019, 10:15:42 PM
Avengers Endgame - 10/10
Talking about anything is basically a spoiler. You really should just not even think about going to the bathroom. It's an absolute masterpiece. Truly incredible how they managed to weave everything together.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on April 25, 2019, 10:37:54 PM
Avengers Endgame - 10/10
Talking about anything is basically a spoiler. You really should just not even think about going to the bathroom. It's an absolute masterpiece. Truly incredible how they managed to weave everything together.

You said what I said but with more wordywords. :D
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on April 25, 2019, 10:59:47 PM
It's almost like we finish each other's...
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on April 26, 2019, 01:48:55 AM
sandwiches!!!

Great movie. Touching and sad moments. Funny to hilarious scenes. Clapping and wild Cheering!!!! and seat gripping action.
avoid the spoilers if possible, but do a recap to refresh your memory.

Not a Spoiler but there is no end credit scene. watch the colorful credits and bounce after the that. get a headstart to the bathroom, or the parking lot. I just wanted to confirm this for those that stay till the end.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Order.RSS on April 26, 2019, 08:20:01 AM
What's this Endgame y'all are talking about, did we turn into a chess forum? Anyway I just saw Captain Marvel, the Newest Film from Marvel Studios TM.
It's another good Marvel action film. Liked the banter between Carol and Fury, of course Goose is the best cat, and the opening montage with Stan Lee cameos was a nice touch. It's great how much work they put in to make it seem like the nineties again. Saw it in a packed theater and people were loving all the jokes. It's borderline criminal they have her wear a NIN shirt all movie long and don't even bother throwing Ruiner over the end credits though.

I don't think it ever quite nails the balance between the youth flashbacks and where Carol winds up going. You can see what they're going for, someone keeps getting kicked down but always tries getting back up. That's a good message, but sort of the inherent problem with how powerful her character has always been is that the movie can't really mount a challenge for her at the end.
The Skrulls work very well as an enemy for Carol, since their shapeshifting power means she can't rely on brute strength but has to actually pay attention to other people - something she's usually bad at. But since they invert that threat halfway through, the movie basically has her doing a victory lap against the Kree. It was great to watch, mind, but I felt like she bought the Skrull's explanation a bit too easily.

Overall I didn't love this one, but it's a good time and can comfortably slot into the mid-tier of Marvel movies. I've read some of the Captain Marvel comics and there's a lot of fun easter eggs for what I imagine must be a pretty niche audience, including a cameo by one of the writers, haha. Liked what they did with Mar-Vell a lot, and her origin story in this movie gives her even more agency than how the comics revamped her several years ago.
3/5 it's no Thor Ragnarok or Guardians 2, but another solid wagon on the Marvel train.

Her 9.5/10 Wow. What an excellent movie. I've been meaning to watch this for years.

Yeah I found this to be a really moving and pretty thoughtful film, too. Meanwhile Blade Runner 2049 is sort of the inverted, Black Mirror style take on a similar subject. Also comes highly recommended.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on April 26, 2019, 06:27:15 PM
10 out of 10 damn years, and it was more than worth it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on May 12, 2019, 02:18:55 AM
Detective Pikachu

It was an entertaining movie. had a bit of a twist.
but ultimately, I don't really know many pokemons, never played the game, and barely ever watched the show, so this didn't really capture me with nostalgia.

However, once the mystery was exposed, I don't think it actually made any sense.
It might make perfect sense if you didn't actually think about it.... and I think that's what they intended, but wut!?

Anyone else see this movie yet?
p.s. my daughter and her friends liked it, especially any part with Pikachu in it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on May 12, 2019, 12:39:20 PM
We were going to take our sisters to go see it this weekend, but may wait until next weekend. I'm sure they will enjoy it, I just want a bit of a nostalgia trip and to appreciate PikaPool and the cool monster designs.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on May 12, 2019, 02:08:58 PM
Well obviously, the best part is Pikachu
endless banter (as RR is known to do), that is quite humorous and entertaining.

There's lots to like about and within this movie. It's not just for Pokepals, it's definitely for everyone.
I actually enjoyed it, and wouldn't mind seeing a sequel produced.

my only nitpick (because I know what this movie is and who it's for) was the resolution of the mystery... but like I said, I don't really know pokemon, so I don't know if that makes sense in the land of Pokemon. I will provide no context for now, not even in spoilers, but maybe after everyone goes an sees it, I will still remember what it was that I didn't understand. Maybe someone can make it make sense for me. :)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on May 12, 2019, 04:31:57 PM
I played yellow and blue and watched the show until they switched the the Johto league. I'd be curious to see how this holds up. It got a 60%ish critic score and an 80%ish fan score on Rotten Tomatoes. One negative review said "Strictly for die-hard Pokemon fans."  Which makes it sound good to me.  Most video game movies are terrible aside from the first Mortal Kombat. I'd be curious to see if this one breaks the mold.

If Overlord was called Wolfenstein it would have been the best video game movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on May 12, 2019, 05:54:56 PM
I've been meaning to watch Overlord.
I need to make that a priority.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on May 12, 2019, 06:36:31 PM
I saw Detective Pikachu. I was pretty excited for it. I thought the plot was actually kind of not good, but I still enjoyed it overall. Seeing all the Pokémon was, hands down, the best part of the experience for me.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on May 12, 2019, 07:32:58 PM
Simple yes or no answer..
The plot reveal..... Did that make sense to you?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on May 13, 2019, 12:38:32 PM
Yes.

However, the plot was pretty convoluted and felt a bit forced. There’s a lot of “why” that’s missing.

Edit: I’ll also add that the plot in the game makes more sense, but it doesn’t solve the “big” mystery. So, the film working a solution for that into the plot makes sense.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on May 14, 2019, 08:09:59 AM
The Hustle - basically every studio avoided releasing a movie immediately after Endgame, but this released last week and it is pretty bad. The movie feels like a string of events along with a bet to get Anne Hathaway in as many costumes as possible.

I don't find Rebel Wilson funny. Her style of physical humour is akin to Kevin Hart's "i'm short and loud" style.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on May 15, 2019, 07:22:26 AM
Go Fucking watch John Fucking Wick.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on May 15, 2019, 08:24:27 AM
Go Fucking watch John Fucking Wick.

You know...I've never seen any of those movies. Just never got around to them. My dad was the one who always bought what we called the "macho shithead" films.

I'll get around to them eventually, along with that copy of Pacific Rim Uprising that's been sitting on my shelf for a year.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on May 15, 2019, 12:01:07 PM
I haven't seen JW3 yet, but John Wick in general is fucking awesome.

Not to oversell it, but it's like the Raid w/ Guns. easiest way to compare it action wise.
I'm looking forward to John Wick 3. might go this weekend.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on May 15, 2019, 01:37:21 PM
If you liked John Wick you should also check out the movie Red(2008) not to be confused with the Helen Mirren movie.

Red is about a man who is retired and just want's to fish. Then someone kills his dog Red,  a gift from his late wife. Never kill a mans dog.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on May 15, 2019, 03:09:49 PM
Red (2008) Box office: 10,731 USD lol. I might give it a look but JW is more than just a dog. Another JW like is The Equalizer. Nowhere near as good but it has it's charms and the sequel was alright.

Halley Berry is fantastic in JW3, definitely raised her stock. For me it got her out from under Catwomen shadow. She is still a long ways to go before she gets to Charlize's level.

They have managed to hit 3 for 3. Each one as good if not better than the last. I don't know any other 3 movies that has completely avoided sequel decay.

Go Fucking watch John Fucking Wick.

You know...I've never seen any of those movies. Just never got around to them. My dad was the one who always bought what we called the "macho shithead" films.

I'll get around to them eventually, along with that copy of Pacific Rim Uprising that's been sitting on my shelf for a year.
Just watch John Wick. You will have a new appreciation for action and will know what real action cinema is. You will be forever bored of CGI punchman and pissed off with shakey cam quick cut abuse.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on May 15, 2019, 05:57:16 PM
Just watch John Wick. You will have a new appreciation for action and will know what real action cinema is. You will be forever bored of CGI punchman and pissed off with shakey cam quick cut abuse.

I just ordered the 1st 2 movies off Amazon since they were on sale for quite cheap.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on May 15, 2019, 07:05:34 PM
John Wick 2 was good because it added a lot of weirdness to the series. Not at all stale. It wasnn't one of those movies where there's repeat in the sequel. After 2 you question what is real.

I found a trailer for Red, but it shows the whole movie. Also, a note. Brian Cox is also in RED.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on May 16, 2019, 05:02:20 AM
Changing up the feel with each movie is partly how they avoid sequel decay. It's more of what you love but not. The first is a revenge/crime underworld movie. Second an John Wick FPS/Opera where he isn't stalking his target, he has to bulldoze his way there. The third is a martial Arts movie thick with excellent dark comedy.

Fantastic locations. Great characters who you get to know well enough to be satisfied. No mystery box BS. The mythos, the consistency. The raw physical work put in by all the entire cast gives it a very authentic feel. Keanu really sells the pain, the danger.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on May 17, 2019, 05:36:37 PM
I'll See You Tomorrow - 6/10 These kids need to play Starcraft. Their strategies are ****. The first thing you do when you invent time travel is you win the lottery or invest in surefire stocks. If you only have enough power to time travel one day you just bring more time machines with you. A time travel machine is expensive? Win the lottery. buy a warehouse, build 365 time travel machines. Take cash back in time. Pay off the robbers so they don't rob the convenient store
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on May 20, 2019, 10:08:25 PM
Detective Pikachu - 6/10
It has its moments - some humor, some tender bits, but overall it's a pretty dumb movie. If you're a Pokemon fan, I'm sure you'll love it - but if you're not, you'll probably think it's stupid. CGI is amazing though.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on May 20, 2019, 10:36:11 PM
Rocketman

It's really hard not to compare this to the most recent gay-English-musicman biopic that I saw (Bohemian Rhapsody), but I will say this was the better movie.  For one, it's more of a musical, with more full on musical scenes.  Similar to BR, I felt there were a few things missing.  Light spoilers: Elton's first drug use is shown during a musical number, and then he's just kind of an addict.  I would've liked to see more of the story of him trying out different drugs for the first time.

Heavier spoiler: The conflict with his mom towards the end feels a tad out of nowhere. She goes from a negligent parent, to outwardly homophobic, to blaming Elton for running his dad away while trying to extort him for money in like 3 scenes.

Some other things you don't see are him deciding on or picking out his costumes, which felt weird.  But the costumes themselves are cool.  The film is framed around Elton telling his life story in a group therapy session, which I thought worked pretty well.  His life story is also pretty cool.  There's romance, a pretty raunchy sex scene, and some moments that are heavy, but not too heavy.

I will say I'm not as big a fan of Elton John as I am Queen, music-wise, so I'd give it about the same score.  However, I was really high on the music in BR, so the missing plot points stuck out to me a bit more.

7.5/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on May 21, 2019, 06:18:16 PM
John Wick was totally worth it for the fight scene with the "ninjas" at the end, both of which are actors (and stunt actors) involved in The Raid 1 and 2.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on May 21, 2019, 10:53:04 PM
I am going to end up seeing John Wick 3 three times at the cinema. Again with father and once more with a friend. I am still excited. This is the only movie I will have gone to repeated viewings at the cinema.

"It was a good fight eh John?". God I loved it when he geeked out.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on May 23, 2019, 03:50:22 AM
Just got back from John Wick 3

awesome. HB was great. the scene with the dogs was so fucking good. but why did she train them all to love the taste of man meat!!!? LMAO they just coudln't get enough
the scene on the couch. LOL
and then the fight at the end we all know those 3 could've ended that fight at any time, but they kept fucking around. So glad JW let the 1st two live. The third should've went for the kill too, but nope, he too was too living the experience. too bad he didn't also live

good time at the movie.

Now I'm ready for Brightburn
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on May 23, 2019, 04:38:31 AM
The whole going below than the belt was such a great running joke. That said I laughed at every joke. This is almost as much of a comedy as action. John's reaction to the boss shooting Sophie's dog, "He shot my dog" "I know", just priceless.

The shotgun reload sliding 2 shells per load and the reloads smoother than ever before was something else, not that JW 2 was a slouch. 2's one handed chamber check still has me smiling.

Also LOLthat last gun fight giving me Payday 2 flashbacks, fucking nothing but bulldozers. This is after the concierge had gun porn these "Serious bullets". That is how you subvert expectations you fucking Hollywood hacks.

I could talk about this movie forever.

I am super glad I gave myself a media black out, to see it as blind as possible. Not a single trailer, took my eyes away as fast as I could whenever I saw Keanu. I would look like a had absolutely no interest. The study saying spoiling the movie increases enjoyment is the highest level of BS, there to excuse sloppy trailers. Why bother going if you already know everything about it. The only titbit of information I couldn't avoid was 1 picture of HB. It's why I have said as little as I have, not even placing the smallest amount of information under spoiler tags till now as I saw it ahead of a good chunk of the world. I want you to have the best experience possible.

If you like action go watch it in the cinema, not going only deprives yourself of one of the GOAT movies that should be experienced on the biggest screen, as loud as OSHA will allow with as many friends as possible.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on May 23, 2019, 10:42:51 AM
One name I forgot to mention *SPOILER* BOBAAAAN!!!!

the movie was filled with so many "Oh ****!!!" "Oh ****!!" "Oh Hell Naw!!!" moments.
especially scene related to the spoiler above. and the one that comes right after it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on May 23, 2019, 12:17:26 PM
>.<

I really gotta see this.  Kinda wish I wasn't going to a wedding this weekend and could just spend 3 days at the movies. *le sigh*
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on May 28, 2019, 01:01:22 AM
Just saw Aladdin.

verdict: ignore the haters. Will Smith was fine, it was a different take on the Genie. And trust me, the genie is very Will Smith... as is every enthusiastic character Will Smith plays. The look of the genie is a little weird at first, but you get past it.
the music was fine, it was actually sung by the actors. Will Smith definitely puts his touch on his songs. It's not offputting, it's just different... updated you could say.

Without going into too many details, I think the only thing the movie really lacked was a moment where you were gripped emotionally. That may be because they more or less followed the original story with a few minor changes here or there, but that moment where you just felt the loss or pain of the characters just never reached that level.

long story short, movie was good.
Not great, not amazing, but definitely good. I enjoyed it and I'm recommending anyone who is interested to go see it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on May 28, 2019, 05:55:48 AM
Really? I saw the clip of "Prince Ali" and that's what made me really not want to see it. It sounded like (very) bad karaoke.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on May 28, 2019, 08:33:19 AM
Was it amazing singing.... no.
is the soundtrack gonna win awards... probably not.
but within the movie itself, it wasn't that bad.

I mean, I could nitpick some minor things in the movie that have to do with the song and dance sequences, but within the movie itself, it was overall enjoyable.
If you are annoyed by Will Smith being Will Smith, then you will be annoyed by Will Smith being Will Smith, nothing about this movie is gonna change that, but the movie was entertaining. The song and dance sequences are not oscar worthy, but they weren't that bad, and overall, the movie was fun.

edit: It's not as magical as the original, and even the big moments don't quite grip like they did in the original, but the movie is a better than expected live-make, considering the giant shoes that needed to be filled on this one.

I went in kinda reluctantly with low expectations after initial RT scores - until I read the early batch of "bad reviews" that were on the same page. Most of the early batch of 1 star reviews/impressions were incredibly nit-picky on things that really had nothing to do with the movie itself, or judging a movie they obviously hadn't seen yet based on clips and/or other people's reviews/impressions. So I just decided to see it for myself. The trailers certainly did not sell me on this.
and I'm not telling anyone to grab the entire family and run out to see it, but if you were even slightly interested, go give it a watch. It's not bad.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on May 28, 2019, 12:50:04 PM
Sounds awful like don't bother, just watch the far superior original.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on May 28, 2019, 01:12:37 PM
I'm amazed at how in the entire movie there was only one Guy Ritchie-ism when Aladdin was pushed off into the river it went all slow-mo for a few seconds when his other movies are normally packed full of his style.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on May 28, 2019, 05:57:29 PM
Sounds awful like don't bother, just watch the far superior original.

As has been pretty much the case for all the live action Disney remakes, which at this point are proving less worthwhile than the Direct-to-DVD Disney sequels, and that's saying something. And both existed for basically the same reason: to make tons of money with very little creative effort.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on May 28, 2019, 07:39:48 PM
Definitely not jumping to see Aladdin. I'll watch it when I get Disney's streaming service though.

They should really have made Aladdin a kid. Scott Weinger was 17 when he voiced Aladdin.  I liked what Marvel did with Spider-man. They had people who were 30ish playing Peter Parker. Their best Peter Parker was the youngest smallest yet. I really liked Julian Dennison in Hunt for the Wilderpeople and Deadpool 2. He'd be my top pick.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Shorty McNostril on May 30, 2019, 03:57:25 PM
Godzilla 2.



It was definitely a big romp. If you like the monsters beating each other up this movie is for you. The actual story felt very contrived to me. Felt like it was thrown in as an afterthought just to string the monster fights together. But let's be honest, this movie was made for monster fights to I don't think I can criticise it too much for it.

The monster designs were great and they had some interesting moves too. And I never thought I'd ever say this but I never thought I'd get so attached to a giant bug. Mothra was just unexpectedly lovely.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on June 02, 2019, 12:45:11 PM
Booksmart

This is the classic coming of age highschool movie genre film but for 2019.  The film clearly establishes itself as a 2019 setting early on, even outside of a few kids yelling "class of 2019 forever!".

I went into this movie wanting to like it, and then I did.  So, good on me.  But honestly, it is very good and funny.  The premise is very first world.  The two leads have to party tonight not because it's their last night in highschool but because they not partying in highschool got them into the same caliber of colleges as their peers, who did party.  Once the premise is out of the way, the rest of the movie covers their journey to the big highschool party. 

I was hoping the movie would avoid the cliche where the friends fight and split up, but then they didn't.  There's also a few heart-to-heart moments with classmates who they initially don't get along with, but those moments didn't carry the weight that moments focusing on the main characters do. 

The adult supporting cast features some very funny people (Jessica Williams, Will Forte, Jason Sudeikis).  The friendship between the leads felt really endearing and I got a good number of laugh out loud moments.

9/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on June 03, 2019, 04:20:09 PM
Godzilla 2.



It was definitely a big romp. If you like the monsters beating each other up this movie is for you. The actual story felt very contrived to me. Felt like it was thrown in as an afterthought just to string the monster fights together. But let's be honest, this movie was made for monster fights to I don't think I can criticise it too much for it.

The monster designs were great and they had some interesting moves too. And I never thought I'd ever say this but I never thought I'd get so attached to a giant bug. Mothra was just unexpectedly lovely.


Agreed. What a great design.

I do have to argue though, in that universe who would want to live in or insure large buildings?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: kaijugamer on June 04, 2019, 03:53:07 AM
I've seen the live-action Aladdin. It's not that bad but definitely not a fan of this remake. The singing is good but the performance was static and bland. I'm having this indescribable feeling like what they said in the song.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on June 04, 2019, 10:15:01 AM
I also saw Aladdin and I liked it.  I thought Jafar stopped acting at one point in the movie, which was weird.  There were some nice throw away lines that kind of explained a few "plotholes" (nothing too important, more like minor gaps) from the original which was nice.  The original also kind of implied that the Genie was the guy telling the story (whether he was really the Genie or it was all made up was a bit ambiguous though), but this goes in a more decisive direction.  The added subplot was also a nice touch.  And yes, the singing was good.

7.5/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ejamer on June 04, 2019, 02:34:43 PM
I'm not really feeling the live-action remakes of classic Disney cartoons.

I'm probably just lame, but there is nothing wrong with using animation to tell fantastic stories. Although it's novel to see those classic stories remade, it's very rare that I enjoy the stories more (or even as much) as the originals.

In the same way, I'm not sold on all games needing super realistic HD graphics. Sometimes abstraction is beautiful and allows me suspend disbelief more easily.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on June 04, 2019, 02:49:23 PM
Pretty sure the animated sequels to Aladdin confirmed that the wandering trader narrator was in fact the Genie. Also sure it was dear Robin Williams doing the trader's voice in the first and third film.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on June 04, 2019, 04:45:53 PM
Yeah, I remember reading that from the first film.  I don't remember the sequels too well, but I'll take your word on it.  Cool they confirmed it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on June 04, 2019, 09:11:12 PM
So...Batman Vs. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Part of me still can't believe this movie actually exists, but it does and it's pretty good!

I don't want to spoil too much of the movie, so suffice it to say the basic premise of the film is that The Shredder & the Foot Clan steal some mutagen, go to Gotham City, and team up with Ra's Al Ghul for a supremely goofy plan. The Turtles follow behind them, and hijinks ensue.

What I like about this movie is that there's clearly a lot of deep love by the creators for the different incarnations of both franchises. The art style is straight out of The Batman, Batman's voiced by Troy Baker, who voiced him in the TellTale Batman games. The Turtles designs are straight out of the most recent TMNT series (unfortunately), but Shredder looks like he's sporting a very nice updated version of his 80s cartoon look. The turtles fight a goon who looks just like Krang's robot body suit from the 80s series. Ra's Al Ghul is sporting his Batman: TAS design, and he even has Ubu with him (who very rarely appears in adaptations these days). Penguin's voiced by Tom Kenny, who voiced him in The Batman, but he's sporting a character design modeled after Burgis Meredith.

The animation is excellent as a whole, colorful; fluid; and never off-model. Really, my only gripes with this movie are pretty simple:

1. Damien Wayne is in this movie - apparently, in the original comic, they used one of the Robins that people actually liked, but probably for the same reason the Turtles have their most recent series designs...we're stuck with Damien Wayne as Robin. Gratifyingly, no one treats him with any respect until near the end of the movie, as he deserves.

2. Mutagen doesn't work either of the ways it's ever worked across any of the various Turtles incarnations, which makes the transformations feel really random and REALLY stupid in some cases. It just seems to run on "hey, there's an animal similar to this character", and really falls flat. Speaking of...

3. There's an extended portion of the film in Arkham Asylum, and it's both total filler and REALLY underwhelming. The movie would have been better off cutting it and fleshing out the cast already established at that point.

Overall, though, I really enjoyed the movie. It has a nice tongue-in-cheek tone that works well with this specific pairing of franchises, and the fight scenes are fantastic. And stick through the credits, where there's a really cool thing they do with famous Batman/TMNT comic book covers.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on June 08, 2019, 09:48:44 PM
Finally got around to watching the 1st John Wick film today, and it was...fine, but after all the hype I guess I was expecting something more, something crazier. I expect that's what the sequels are for.

I do really appreciate that the film never cheated during its action scenes, and the action was very well choreographed while being nothing particularly fancy. It's a very workman-like movie, except for all that stuff in the middle with the Continental Hotel. That felt like a lot of time spent world-building for later movies while the plot of the actual movie floundered around. You could have cut out everything involving the Hotel, and the movie would have been a lot more focused for it.

I appreciate the world it sets up with very clearly-defined rules and how the action sequence are very simple and physical while being quite fluid. I'm just not sold on the middle 1/3 of the movie.

Well, on to the 2nd film.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on June 08, 2019, 10:16:33 PM
Always Be My Maybe

Recommendation: DON’T WATCH THE TRAILER OR LOOK UP THE CAST LIST

Aside from a mostly non-white cast, this is about as generic as a romantic comedy can get. Ali Wong and Randall Park play the leads, Ali and Marcus, and are both good. They’re credited as writers in the movie. It has some funny lines and one really good part in the middle with a surprise that is largely spoiled in the trailer because Netflix doesn’t know how to cut a fucking trailer. That part steals its main schtick from Nahnatchka Khan‘s other work which I won’t spoil. While the movie can be funny at times, it felt like it was written with a checklist of rom-com tropes.

Narratively, it’s kind of a mess too. The plot moves really fast. There’s a part where Marcus messes up his band’s audition then like two minutes later, the venue gives them another audition which goes well. What the F was the point of that then? The main conflict between Ali and Marcus at the movie’s climax is resolved in maybe 10 minutes and never felt earned or really, even that big of a deal.

Basically, the entire reason I even wrote all this is because I’d still get about an hour in for that one scene.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on June 09, 2019, 01:29:42 PM
I saw that last night.  And yeah, you're right about all the romcom tropes and the conflict resolutions.  He failed the audition pretty spectacularly.  Like, why would they just up and give them another audition?

But the supporting cast is really good and I had some laugh out loud moments.  I think it's worth a watch.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on June 09, 2019, 03:53:49 PM
I'm not really feeling the live-action remakes of classic Disney cartoons.

I'm probably just lame, but there is nothing wrong with using animation to tell fantastic stories. Although it's novel to see those classic stories remade, it's very rare that I enjoy the stories more (or even as much) as the originals.

In the same way, I'm not sold on all games needing super realistic HD graphics. Sometimes abstraction is beautiful and allows me suspend disbelief more easily.

I wouldn't lump them all together. They mostly have different directors. Some will be better than others. I can't picture Guy Richie directing an Aladdin movie, but here we are. I haven't seen it still, but would rather watch a Danny Boyle version.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on June 09, 2019, 11:05:34 PM
Finally got around to watching the 1st John Wick film today, and it was...fine, but after all the hype I guess I was expecting something more, something crazier. I expect that's what the sequels are for.

I do really appreciate that the film never cheated during its action scenes, and the action was very well choreographed while being nothing particularly fancy. It's a very workman-like movie, except for all that stuff in the middle with the Continental Hotel. That felt like a lot of time spent world-building for later movies while the plot of the actual movie floundered around. You could have cut out everything involving the Hotel, and the movie would have been a lot more focused for it.

I appreciate the world it sets up with very clearly-defined rules and how the action sequence are very simple and physical while being quite fluid. I'm just not sold on the middle 1/3 of the movie.

Well, on to the 2nd film.
Things like the Hotel makes John Wick, John Wick. A straight revenge story would have been boring as we have plenty of that. No matter how good the action might be, it's not a whole package. It's not just a fucking dog.

You can see this incompleteness with The Raid and Raid 2. The Raid is a complete movie. Raid 2 is a self-indulgent sparing session rather than a movie.

Tony Jaa movies are very incomplete. Amazing physical action with fantastic level of effort especially in the hotel assault that made him famous. There isn't much else. Were you hungry for another TJ movie? You certainly didn't watch it for Tony's acting ability.

Hong Kong era Jackie Chan is a great example of something that is the whole package. Great action that he uses to augment a character. Drunk style in Drunken Master. Uses guns in Police story instead of finding excuses to punch everything. It's appropriate for the story.

An action movie also needs some downtime to setup the next set piece, room to feel the acceleration. A roller coaster isn't good just because it's fast, it's about the acceleration.

JW is workman like because he is working. I will see myself out.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on June 10, 2019, 01:31:26 PM
My favorite Martial Arts Action movie of all time is Drunken Tai Chi. I found it in the bargain bin a few years ago and then several years later suddenly Donnie Yen became a hit in Ip Man. Yuen Woo-ping makes some good stuff. Tai Chi Master(Twin Warriors) is also pretty good.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on June 11, 2019, 11:35:16 PM
I Am Mother

Mother = Skynet with a plan after “kill all humans”

It was a perfectly okay suspense/thriller. Good performances from the small cast. Rose Byrne voices Mother. I’ll pretty much watch anything she’s in even though she’s been in some not great movies. A little pretentious with the characters only referring to each other as Mother, Daughter etc. It made the dialog feel unnatural. Felt like the writers were just really attached to not naming the characters. The ending didn’t work for me. I don’t see how Daughter intends to do what she says she’s going to do, or why Mother agrees to it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on June 12, 2019, 03:25:27 PM
Watched the trailer with my wife. She is passing on it so I'll watch it next time I have a spare afternoon. Wife was making jokes about how it must be the same writers as Bird Box since there it was always "Girl! Boy!" and now it is "Mother! Daughter!"
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on June 22, 2019, 02:59:11 PM
Godzilla: King of the Monsters

If you're only there for the monster fights, it's a solid 8/10.  However, some the people bits are infuriatingly bad.  There's also constant references to Skull Island and King Kong is shown, but doesn't do anything, so they're really working to set up Godzilla vs King Kong.

I'm gonna summarize my issue with the main humans in the story in spoiler tags: The mom character fucking sucks.  A terrorist group comes in and kills a bunch of scientists, sparing her and her daughter because she has the mcguffin. Fair.  They then take her to go use the mcguffic on King Ghidorah.  The terrorist show up at the base and immediately start shooting everyone.  I was first annoyed by how calm she was and her refusal to warn anyone.  Then, her husband has a gun on the terrorists, allowing her and her daughter to escape.  She pulls the daughter back and uses the mcguffin on to awaken King Ghidorah, a seemingly suicidal move that was also in no way helpful in saving her.  But then it's revealed that SHE is teaming with the terrorists.  I thought this was a great twist in the plot and was really into it because it made her character make sense.  But then after giving the whole "the titans need to kill people and rampage the Earth to restore it" speech, and freeing Rodan before people could flee to safety, decided that Ghidorah is actually destroying the earth and then the movie wastes time trying to redeem her.  The problem is, in no way did she say "Hm, maybe killing half the population wasn't a good thing".  And then I'm supposed to feel sad when she self-sacrifices at the end?  That really took me out of the movie.  Like completely ruined the climax for me.  Also, the daughter got over her mom being a murderous terrorist really quickly, as did her estranged ex-husband.  Even her self-sacrifice was really dumb because she's using the mcguffin to lure Ghidorah away in a car when there's a plane available.  Sure, Ghidorah can fly, but you can get it away from Godzilla way fast in a plane!  I hate feeling like those cinema sins guys, and there are a few other nitpicks that I think are made worse because that character had soured me a bit.

With that rant out of the way, a cut of the film without that one storyline would actually make the film perfect for me, and at 2 hours, the run time could spare it.  The fights are good!  And some of the supporting humans are fun characters I wish the film would've focused more on.  I also kind of wish it wasn't almost always night time and raining during the fights.

While I overall think it was good, it's hard for me to higher than 6.5/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on June 22, 2019, 03:46:48 PM
Toy Story 4

I was a bit skeptical when Pixar announced it was working on a sequel because I thought the ending of Toy Story 3 was perfect. Once I read the premise involving a character that was written out of Toy Story 3, I was on board. The story does feel a little unnecessary though I guess one can argue all movies are unnecessary. If Pixar never made this movie, I don’t think anyone would have been dissatisfied with the way Toy Story 3 left things. That said, the ending here is similarly fitting, a little bittersweet. Overall, the movie is excellent though the writers “cheat” a little bit here and there. For example, Woody is Bonnie’s favorite in Toy Story 3. Andy doesn’t leave Woody if she wasn’t so insistent. However, he’s the only one of Andy’s toys “left in the closet” in Toy Story 4. Kids are fickle so I guess it’s possible, and more importantly, Woody’s arc doesn’t work without it. Also, the chances of Woody and Bo Peep reuniting are so infinitesimal (not sure that’s a spoiler since it’s in the trailer but just being safe). Then again, this is a world full of living toys so it doesn’t really matter. It crossed my mind yet didn’t prevent me from enjoying the ride. I think I like Toy Story 3 better, but that isn’t a knock on Toy Story 4, and I don’t want to take anything away from it. I highly recommend Toy Story 4. It has good dialog and some really genuine moments. Check a look.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on June 30, 2019, 01:35:23 AM
Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse

Finally got around to this now that it's on Netflix. Pretty good. I liked it better than Homecoming. I've strangely cooled on Homecoming as time as went on. It's a good movie, but it's not a great Spiderman movie, if that makes sense. At first I was cold on it, but it won me over as it went on. It takes like 20 minutes before it gets into any Spider action.

- What was with the constant chromatic aberration and image ghosting? Was this movie 3D in the theaters?
- The Kingpin looked ridiculous. Everyone is else is semi-realistic in proportions, but he's a hunch back with with shoulders 10 times as wide as his head.
- Miles taking his leap of faith and the upside down shot falling between the skyscrapers looked amazing
- I liked this take on the Prowler. He was a serious threat.
- I was actually hoping for even more flavors of Spiderman. Maybe the sequel?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on June 30, 2019, 02:11:03 PM
Men In Black: International

This feels like a pretty by-the-books MIB film.  The little alien side-kick wasn't nearly as annoying as I thought he would be and was actually pretty funny.  Other than that the movie doesn't really offend in any way, but doesn't stick out as being particularly great.  It's a good watch if you want laughs and action and have seen everything else.

7/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on June 30, 2019, 02:51:48 PM
- What was with the constant chromatic aberration and image ghosting? Was this movie 3D in the theaters?
- The Kingpin looked ridiculous. Everyone is else is semi-realistic in proportions, but he's a hunch back with with shoulders 10 times as wide as his head.

That's just a stylistic thing with the film. I don't believe it was converted to 3D.

Watched John Wick 2 yesterday, and I definitely like it more than the 1st film. There's less padding, and you can tell that everyone was having a bit more fun with the movie. I have some nitpicks with the plot (what use are $7 million in an economy that runs on Gold Coins?), but overall it was an excellent film.

One thing that I meant to bring up with the 1st film that I definitely noticed here: there's an insane attention to detail and realism during the staging and execution of the fight scenes. For that early fight in the catacombs, the filmmakers spend the time to show John placing all the weapons and supplies that he'll be grabbing during the later fight so you know he didn't just pull them out of hammer space. Not only does John frequently need to reload during the fight (something action films are notorious for not doing), but they even ensure that he reloads at the appropriate time that a clip for that weapon would have run out of bullets.

At one point, he had an assault rifle out, which typically holds around 30-35 bullets in a typical video game. I counted the number of bullets John fired at one point, and sure enough he had to reload after shot # 31. That's some very fine attention to detail.

I like how the 2nd film raises the stakes without getting particularly nuts, and it removes a crutch the series was starting to lean on (the Continental hotels) so the series can't depend on it going forward.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on June 30, 2019, 03:42:11 PM
Coins and money are two different non-convertible currencies that buy very different things in a shadow economy with no pricing equivalence as the coins are "Priceless". It represents a value worth more than the dollar equivalent in gold much like normal money where the value isn't the paper/plastic. Both can buy a drink, but only one is accepted at a hotel for the same drink.

It also helps the viewer understand at a glance what is an underworld service/shop as you can't make purchases with dollars.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Shorty McNostril on July 01, 2019, 03:22:44 PM
Far From Home -  Damn awesome.

Enjoyed it far more than Homecoming. I think I'd say this is now my favourite Spider-Man movie. Was a great ride with some awesome scenes.

Two post credit scenes which are both mandatory viewing.  Both of them got an audibly shocked WOW from me.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on July 03, 2019, 09:23:45 AM
Spider-Man Far From Home - 9/10
This is the best Spider-Man movie there is, period. Mysterio is so awesome and done so well. The second and third act fight scenes are totally next-level and unlike anything that's been in the MCU, except maybe in Doctor Strange. The mid-credits scene is HUGE and changes absolutely everything in so many ways, and then the post-credits scene does it again. Great movie. See it now before you get spoiled.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on July 03, 2019, 01:53:13 PM
It was great, I just kinda wish my knowledge of Spider-Man lore didn't spoil the obvious to any casual fan plot twist.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Shorty McNostril on July 03, 2019, 03:25:17 PM
It was great, I just kinda wish my knowledge of Spider-Man lore didn't spoil the obvious to any casual fan plot twist.

On the other hand, they were faithful to the character.  A lot of people whined about Iron Man 3 when they changed up the Mandarin  They tried to do something a bit different and unexpected and got roasted for it.  So this time they played it safe and gave us a character straight off the page of the comic book.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on July 03, 2019, 03:35:41 PM
Oh yeah,  I wouldn't have asked for anything different with the movie, I just wonder if it would have been even better, for me, had I not known the obvious.

Honestly, I had kinda been hoping thay Mysterio had been from another Earth, but then his counterpart from the mainline MCU Earth showed up to become the main baddie...
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on July 03, 2019, 06:50:14 PM
X-Men: Dark Phoenix

Honestly, a lot better than I thought it would be.  There were some emotional moments early on that I think were undeserved since I wasn't particularly attached to this version of Jean.  But the plot was fine.  Scott Summers was extremely derpy in the beginning, but really grew on me.  They also avoided the whole "make Magneto the villain" arc that they always do.  They get into it a little bit, but not quite all the way, which I liked.  Also, there was so much slow motion.  It was like a shampoo commercial at times.

6/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on July 04, 2019, 11:06:40 AM
Spider-Man Far From Home - 9/10
This is the best Spider-Man movie there is, period. Mysterio is so awesome and done so well. The second and third act fight scenes are totally next-level and unlike anything that's been in the MCU, except maybe in Doctor Strange. The mid-credits scene is HUGE and changes absolutely everything in so many ways, and then the post-credits scene does it again. Great movie. See it now before you get spoiled.

I still think Into the Spider-verse was better, but those fight scenes put Doctor Strange to shame visually. Doctor Strange 2 better step it up big time, because that **** was a trip.

and it still totally blows my mind how regular, unassuming, and awkward they can make Zendaya look. It's like 2 totally different people.

but back to the movie. FFH was great.
I knew there was a twist coming, as I know the comics, but I had no idea exactly how or why it would come. The explanation and continuity in the MCU is just incredible. it makes you want to go back and watch previous movies, even if for just specific scenes of relevance.

I'm not going into any spoiler talk, so someone needs to update the *MCU SPOILER THREAD* so we can speak freely there.

But as for par for a MCU movie, please stick around for both the Mid Credit and Post Credit Scene.
both are actually relevant for either the movie you just watched and the future of the MCU in general.
I have questions that need to be answered!!!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ejamer on July 04, 2019, 12:23:58 PM
Wow, you guys watching new movies and stuff.

Last movie I saw was The Great Wall on Netflix. It wasn't good... but most of the flaws were laughable and the lead actress is very pretty, so I didn't mind just vegging out while the show was on. Probably the best moment was watching as armor-clad women warriors with long spears bungee-jumped off the Great Wall only to be devoured below. Who comes up with ideas this terrible? Thankfully they made up for it later when the entire top half of the Great Wall lifted to reveal huge spinning blades that would chop down anyone trying to scale it during battle.  Not recommended, but I've wasted time with worse.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on July 07, 2019, 12:30:51 AM
John Wick: Chapter 2

I saw that the Blu Ray was on sale for less than $10 again so I snagged it this time. It’s good, better than the first one in almost every way. I have more neutral comments than criticisms. Off the top of my head, there are some things that stuck out to me and I mostly just ignore them to enjoy the ride.

1. There isn’t a single actor in Chapter 2 who is even remotely as good as Michael Nyqvist (RIP) was in the original. I’m not docking points from the sequel for this.

2. There are several instances in which John Wick should flat-out be dead, though maybe not as egregiously as in the first one when he was captured and the bad guys didn’t just cap him right there... immediately. Alright, fine, Wick is established as this super-assassin. Almost everyone else is just a redshirt who dies immediately or a Stormtrooper who can’t aim for ****. How are these people assassins? I get it. In this kind of movie, the hero needs mostly faceless goons to mow through. It doesn’t seem like character development, but it is. It shows audiences just how good John Wick is. At the same time, said goons are just so bad at being guards and/or assassins. Like unrelentingly so. Not really a criticism, just something I noticed.

3. I understand Santino’s goal. However, I’m not entirely sure why he invoked the blood oath to have specifically John kill Gianna. It seemed really easy to do, and Santino told him how to do it. Most of John’s planning seemed to revolve around his escape. If Santino was just going to double-cross John, I feel like he could have sent literally anyone else and he had like hella disposable cronies to send out to die. Maybe don’t send the one man perfect capable of ruining your whole career? I’m nitpicking. There’s no movie if Santino doesn’t coerce John into taking the job.

4. Is there any reason why people keep fucking with John Wick? I get that the contract was a lot of money. These assassins had no plan other than let’s just walk up to the most dangerous man alive who has an entire mythology surrounding his murdering capabilities. That’s the guy you want to mess with? Go back to school. Be an architect or an electrician because murdering is not for you.

5. Good call not giving Ruby Rose any dialog. I get that she’s really pretty; she isn’t a good actress.

6. While it was cool seeing John walk into the museum with seven bullets and taking all the guns away, it didn’t seem like it was in the Bowery King’s best interests to limit John so much. If John dies, he wouldn’t be able to collect the bounty. If John lives, he gets what he wants and Santino doesn’t take over New York. Looked cool, just a little baffling.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on July 07, 2019, 01:42:18 AM
1. Michael Nyqvist did give a great performance which was very hard to top. The performance was very much like Alec Guinness or other classically trained, very experienced actors where a single facial expression that is worth more than paragraphs. Santino smug asshole was good even if it was a bit limited. Ian did fantastic as always although he is a character actor, Keanu is more flexible in comparison.

2. The film makers are actually very aware of what they did in regards to the goons/guards, they knew no matter what it was getting a bit out there so they leaned into it by having feel like a video game with more gun-fu using the rule of cool to sell it. The corridor shooter environment, the suit, pre-placing resources, salvaging weapons which is cool af. The next movie changes this up again.

3. Santino couldn't pay anyone enough money to do that job that is clearly a trap/suicide. He had to make John do it. Safely assuming markers are very rare Santino John is the only choice.

4. Think heavy weight boxing or mma championships with JW at the top spot. Unseating him not only comes with a massive amount of money and prestige, it's open season, every single one of those assassins are rightly assuming John is getting depleted increasing their chances in an ambush. John is getting worn down as it takes quite a while for John to dispatch them and takes serious injury from one of them.

5. No idea Ruby Rose isn't a good actress. Haven't seen enough to say.

6. Bowery King doesn't need the money, he already owns the underbelly of New York which is far more valuable than  $7 million. Also there is a very good reason as to why he only gave him 7 bullets in the sequel regardless of outcome.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on July 08, 2019, 12:10:09 PM
Under the Silver Lake - I always love weird LA Noire. 9/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on July 09, 2019, 10:49:43 PM
John Wick Chapter 3: Parabellum

I don't know what the opposite of "nit pick" is, but I could go through this movie and find so many things to pull out that I liked (unless that is also nit picking?).  Anyway, this movie is just as great as the first two.  I liked that John Wick finds himself on a different kind of mission in each movie.  There's always a survival edge to each film, but this one has him more on a "get from point A to point B" type mission with everyone always trying to kill him.  The acting is a lot of everyone around Keanu, but this is a good thing; he talks in one liners, which is a thing I love seeing.

Two things that weren't as great: excess use of breakaway glass, some kills were over-kills.

9/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on July 10, 2019, 02:14:34 AM
Gush would probably be the word.

The director always take the movies into another direction to keep it fresh. 3 slanted Kung Fu/dog. 2 Videogame/Opera. 1 Mafia revenge/monster. You can bet on 4 being going in another direction. Not going to bother guessing as these guys are way too good to try to predict. My expectations is that it will be just as good as the last 3 or even better depending on personal taste.

3 showed how to subvert expectations to enhance a sequence like with "Serious business".

Keanu one liners aren't always spoken, it can be an expression, the kill itself is the one liner. This might be something a lot of people miss is that Keanu's acting is not just the dialogue which is delivered well, it is that he sells pain like a fridge to an Eskimo. When John gets hurt, every hit, I bloody believe it. It's absolutely fundamental to John Wick. The pain also applies to the enemies but not to that extent as they are usually dead well before suffering kicks in.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on July 11, 2019, 09:35:14 AM
Captain Marvel

It was free to watch on my flight, so I gave it a whirl. It was... kinda dull? Nick Fury was the best part. I wouldn't mind a solo Fury film. Captain Marvel was okay as somebody's disaffected niece. The Kree and Skrull didn't do much for me, the movie kinda reminded me of the Ryan Reynolds Green Lantern.

I'm getting confused trying to keep track of the Tesseract.

All in all, better than Thor 2, not as good as Thor 1.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on July 11, 2019, 12:24:28 PM
Ryan Reynolds Green Lantern.

Ouch.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on July 11, 2019, 02:33:23 PM
Gush would probably be the word.

Yeah, I think that's the word.

Another thing about Keanu's acting is that he's clearly in a lot of pain for the entire film and his speech reflects that very well.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on July 21, 2019, 09:08:44 PM
Finally saw John Wick 3: Parabellum I liked it, but I feel like I need to see it a second time. This one was more focused on Kung Fu, but the action was still amazing. John Wick seems less likeable as this goes on, he keeps breaking the rules, getting other people to break the rules and they all get screwed over for it.

Halle Berry was awesome, wouldn't mind a spin off where she gets her daughter back.
The dogs were even more awesome! this was the best dog attack action I have ever seen.
It was great seeing Mark Dacascos back in action.
The one above the council. What was his deal? He had veto power over the high council? Why? I expected someone older or with more gravitas to play that role.
You would think John would have gotten in more trouble for shooting up their mint in Morroco
I think there is more to John's backstory than being from Belarus and coming out of the Russian Ballet/Assassin school

I need a flow chart to map the whole orginization and everything that John has done.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on July 21, 2019, 09:10:07 PM
The Lion King

I'm not really sure what to say about this other than it's exactly what you expect it to be and it's going to make a ****-ton of money. They more or less, from what I can remember of the original, follow the story beat for beat, with a few minor deviations.

There were a few laughs to be had, and the animation was incredibly lifelike for animals that talk and sing. But that doesn't meant this didn't have some problems that may be noticeable to those actively looking for something to dislike about this.

I'm not going to go into any of that here, but go watch the movie. Enjoy it for what it is intended to be and watch as it makes $1.25B at the box office as expected. Audiences LOVED it. My audience was clapping wildly when the movie ended. It's gonna do really well despite what the critics, the haters, and the nitpickers say about the movie. The General Audience of children, their parents and other nostalgic adults will carry this movie to the pride lands where it will be held up by a baboon on pride rock and deemed the heir to the throne the previous Lion King movie sat on.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on July 22, 2019, 12:43:01 AM
Ryan Reynolds Green Lantern.

Ouch.

Well there's more than just quality comparisons. There is production design things too. When I saw the first trailer it reminded me Green Lantern alone. I mean it's about a pilot who encounters some aliens and gets some powers. Not quite the same but some shots are very similar.  Captain Marvel is an uninteresting character in an interesting world if that makes sense. I think the main issue is Brie Larson was miscast. She's no Sigourney Weaver.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on July 22, 2019, 12:51:32 AM
Here's who I would have liked to see as Captain Marvel. Katee Sackhoff.

(https://i.imgur.com/CGjweJ0.jpg)

or maybe Emily Blunt.

(https://i.imgur.com/WzInepG.png)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on July 22, 2019, 04:42:36 AM
Those two sure would have helped although the script needed serious work to avoid the cringe.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on July 22, 2019, 05:37:55 AM
I was watching a making of Captain Marvel. The script might have had too much work.

They picked two screen writers, then they had another rewrite, then it went through apparently a Marvel parliamentary process, then things were added during filming, and then in post. They screen capped a stack of like 6 abandoned screenplays. They probably should have stopped rewriting at draft 2 or 3.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Order.RSS on July 22, 2019, 09:47:13 AM
I saw Pacific Rim: Uprising this weekend, the hottest mech action movie of last year waddup!
Can't believe it's a 2018 release, already feels so long ago this came out.

(https://d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net/wp/wp-content/images/pacificrim-uprising-jaegerlineup-city-700x292.jpg)

Anyway, movie's okay. Very predictable plot, you pretty much know where they're going from the start. There's a few scenes that appear missing, resulting in some character developments that don't feel entirely earned. It's really missing the hefty feel from the first film, now the robots are doing flips and tricks and the kaiju just kinda stumble through buildings as if they're made of cardboard. In the first movie even lifting a tanker ship took them a while, messing with torque, and it was shot from street-level to convey the scope. This one is less anchored in the reality of the viewers.

Another complaint I have: too many mech vs mech fights, and even worse they're fighting drone mechs so there's not even the potential for any human drama. In general the Pacific Rim movies have always skimped out in the fights, there's always one or two too few of them, or they're too short, or you can't see half of it because they filmed everything at night during a downpour.
At least this one attempts to rectify the latter by setting most of the action scenes during bright daylight, so that's a plus.

Does anyone care about Pacific Rim still? I highly doubt it, but if the first one was dumb fun, this one doesn't hit very far from the mark. It's better in some areas (more mech variety, slightly better main characters, daylight fights) and worse in others (nothing has any weight to it, soundtrack is at its best when they're copying from the previous one, curious lack of worldbuilding). Won't change your life, and in fact I've already forgotten most of the character names, but eh, I thought it would be a lot worse since this one basically killed the franchise.
Recommendation: Check if Evangelion is on Netflix.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on July 26, 2019, 04:57:40 AM
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood - 8/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Spak-Spang on July 27, 2019, 03:41:54 AM
Just saw Shazam it is a pretty average movie 6/10. Not really worth seeing. 
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on July 27, 2019, 04:20:03 PM
Wow.... Shazam was genuinely a fun movie.
My daughter loved it. Never seen her that excited during a MCU movie, so I was little surprised, but even I enjoyed it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on July 27, 2019, 09:48:11 PM
Wow.... Shazam was genuinely a fun movie.
My daughter loved it. Never seen her that excited during a MCU movie, so I was little surprised, but even I enjoyed it.

I enjoyed the movie. It was just a lighthearted adventure. It was a nice change from brooding Snyderverse stuff.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on July 28, 2019, 06:03:46 PM
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood - 6/10
Very boring for most of the entire movie. The acting is excellent, but it just drags on and on. There are about 4 "good" scenes and one of them is literally just the mention of the name of a character from another, far superior, Tarantino movie. Don't waste your time, unfortunately.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on July 29, 2019, 06:57:42 PM
Wow.... Shazam was genuinely a fun movie.
My daughter loved it. Never seen her that excited during a MCU movie, so I was little surprised, but even I enjoyed it.

I enjoyed the movie. It was just a lighthearted adventure. It was a nice change from brooding Snyderverse stuff.

It's definitely more of a kids movie.  I can see why a younger person would like it more than an adult.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on August 06, 2019, 09:34:02 PM
So today we have yet another Batman animated movie in the increasingly mediocre "DC Universe" animated movies, and like every other film in this New 52 continuity before it, Batman: Hush is extremely...mediocre. Shocking, I know.

Everything I hate about the New 52 DC animated movies is here in full swing: characters needlessly being assholes, everyone (male & female alike) having broad shoulders & elongated heads so they look like football players, Damien Wayne's mere existence, etc. But because they want an "animated universe" now, they decided to basically slap the Hush name over a completely different story. Instead of a story about Batman facing a childhood friend gone supervillain, a devious mastermind who knows his every move and plans 3 moves ahead...we get the Bruce & Selina Romance Hour (featuring some guy named Hush). Yes, they decided that what this movie really needed to be about was Catwoman reforming & having sex with Bruce for half the movie before deciding that Batman Can't Really Change (because that would mean he'd actually age). Same ol' **** goes in, same ol' **** comes out.

Oh, and I hope you weren't really looking forward to seeing how Hush was translated from the comics, because they pulled a Gotham By Gaslight on us and changed his true identity. I'm not going to spoil exactly who it is, except to say it's really stupid. It's the kind of needless stupidity I'd expect from an episode of Young Justice.

Some of the dialogue and fight scenes are good, and the characters look OK so long as they remain in profile, but I was hoping for so much more and I knew it was all downhill the moment I saw the New 52 character designs. See it if you want. It's not offensively bad like Batman & Harley Quinn. It's just incredibly...meh.

Suffice it to say that I'm not looking forward to their adaptation of The Long Halloween, which is the next Batman story being adapted. It's being done in 2 parts, but I REALLY hope they're not going to try to alter it to fit this awful continuity.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on August 07, 2019, 12:55:57 AM
Man, did DC Animated go way down hill in the last few years or what? What happened?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on August 07, 2019, 05:45:13 AM
Batman: Hush

Definitely with you on this. Another thing that really stood out was the excuse plot. It wasn't there to tell a story, it was to contrive as many villains and heroes to fight or cameo. Jammed in a Batman Vs Superman again. Oh hi Lex, here's the info Batman, **** off so I can get back to sleep as Batman is needlessly being a dick to setup some indeterminate sequel where Lex is evil again because Batman can't give him a shred of respect.

It's the usual forgot to pay the power bill dark, black on black hopelessly gloomy even in metropolis as they set the entire thing at night.

Christ if you want Batman dead just kill him already, taking a shot even Dead Shot would call BS. Turned Bane into a meat head with the same old weakness. Fights went on for so damn long.

WTF with Batman teleporting next to Catwomen.

Say what you will or get outraged by that one scene all you want at least Batman & Harley Quinn was god damn fun.

Verdict: Please stop.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on August 07, 2019, 07:30:29 AM
Man, did DC Animated go way down hill in the last few years or what? What happened?

With very few exceptions, yes. Originally, DC planned their movies to be distinct entities with their own look and continuity, as they were adapting different stories from different comic eras. Then some company decided to redefine cinema with a series of live action comic movies, and DC decided that everything should be in one continuity.

Unfortunately, the incessant need to be "edgy" and "adult" has always been a problem with DC's movies. I remember them shoehorning blood, sex, and swearing into those early DC animated movies like Superman Doomsday because "we're not a children's cartoon anymore!" The New 52 just provided character designs and writing fit for the executives' teenage mindset. And unlike the recent DC live action movies, the animated films have been produced on such small budgets that they've never failed hard enough to force a course correction. Just check out sometime just how many modern DC animated films use "Vs" in their titles.

We have a truly awful-looking Wonder Woman animated movie coming up next, also in this continuity. After that, we have 2 Superman films, one of which is an adaptation of "Superman: Red Son". I don't remember what the other one is. Batman's going to be on hiatus for a while until The Long Halloween comes out.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on August 07, 2019, 08:09:21 PM
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood - 6/10
Very boring for most of the entire movie. The acting is excellent, but it just drags on and on. There are about 4 "good" scenes and one of them is literally just the mention of the name of a character from another, far superior, Tarantino movie. Don't waste your time, unfortunately.

I saw this last weekend.  It's not QT's best work by far.  I'm a little higher on it BranDonk, however.  The movie feels pretty aimless.  It's trying to set up one scene and eventually you get to that scene and then it just kind of ends.  I was enjoying the ride pretty much until the narration kicked in, which is right before the scene.  Even though there isn't a ton of plot, I thought the characters were fun enough to enjoy the first chunk of the movie.  And yeah, the acting is very excellent.

7.5/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on August 08, 2019, 02:21:08 PM
I mean don't get me wrong: great acting throughout, but it's just mostly so pointless.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on August 09, 2019, 08:02:55 PM
Yeah, but that doesn't necessarily turn me off.  It can be pointless, as long as I'm entertained, which I was.  I liked "Everybody Gets Some", and that has almost no plot whatsoever.

The one scene is the "climax", but in no way feels climatic.  That's a pretty big fault of the movie, but I think it's part of the point that it's sudden and random? I dunno.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on August 20, 2019, 09:22:29 PM
Been a while since I posted in one of these, so I might as well add one now:

I finally got around to seeing the live action Battle Angel Alita movie, and it's...Good, but not great. I actually feel kind of annoyed now that this film won't get a sequel considering that this movie only tells at best half the story. The movie is visually interesting to look at (a tough thing to do considering how one-note Cyberpunk often comes off as), the action scenes are excellently staged, and Alita is cool & compelling without being a Mary Sue.

There were just a bunch of small thing that just pulled me away from loving the film. For instance, the film never makes it clear whether beings like Alita are androids or some Ghost in the Shell-style Cyborgs. I understand that there is tie-in material that eventually makes it clear that they are Cyborgs, and they are living beings, but that's really not clear in the actual film. I kind of ruled it out immediately when it was revealed that Alita was 3,000 years old, considering that her (organic, apparently) brain should have decomposed by then.

I also found the motor ball rollerblade death race...thing kind of annoying. Yeah, it was visually interesting, but despite how much screen time it takes up it really isn't important until the last few minutes of the film. I also for the life of me couldn't understand what the rules/objective of the game was. Yeah, I know...a person grabs the ball and then makes a run for it until they eventually shove it into a hole. I get that part. However, it's played on a race track instead of a court with no indication of whether they have to race a lap before stuffing it in; etc. I just found myself confused watching those sequences since it was hard to tell what was going on outside people decking/slicing each other.

Throw in a lot of repetitive language ("Hunter-Warrior" in particular comes to mind when just "Hunter" would have sufficed and half the characters say "bounty hunter" anyway), and it just took a while for me to warm up to the film. And by the time it did, it was over on a To-Never-Be-Continued cliffhanger.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on August 21, 2019, 12:31:05 PM
Is it confirmed to not be getting a sequel? I heard it did well enough that it wasn't ruled out.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on August 21, 2019, 12:37:09 PM
Is it confirmed to not be getting a sequel? I heard it did well enough that it wasn't ruled out.

With Disney killing Fox projects left and right and Alita 1 not being a massive success, it's not ruled out but it's extremely unlikely. Also, Cameron's going to be tied up with Avatar sequels no one asked for for the next decade because hey...Disney has to justify that goddamn Pandora section of Animal Kingdom SOMEHOW.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on September 12, 2019, 01:43:24 AM
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Wow. It is weird. You don't know where the movie is going until the ending. SNAP it all falls into place. The very premise of the movie is a spoiler.

It's a Forest Gump type movie but isn't an implausible character insert that somehow hits all these historical moments. It's people living in that world proper we were following, it was so convincing I thought it was something that happened right up to the ending where it springs the premise, intentionally breaking the illusion like a trap once you realise who certain people are.

Everything works towards this illusion, including all this stuff that seemingly has no relationship for 95% of the time.


There is this section where I think lasted 10 minutes maintains the Resident Evil 4 tension when Leon first arrives at not Spain even after the climax of that scene happens. I was actually whispering to myself "Leave, run, get out", something I have never done for a horror movie. I cared for these characters that much.

Tarantino trademark violence is there so people expecting that won't be disappointed.

Super recommended if you like Tarantino. Watch it if you want finely crafted art, not the next product.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on September 12, 2019, 02:15:32 AM
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is "a slice of life movie"
Not particularly story driven, you get taken on a tour of a city, and you meet some interesting characters. Not your usual Tarantino film, even though it totally is. You should compare this movie to American Graffiti, Dazed and Confused, Boogey Nights, A Serious Man, The Big Lebowski, Everybody Want's Some, and Vice. Also Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets in pace.

What oohhboy says above is also a perfect description.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on September 14, 2019, 09:01:39 PM
Just rewatched Inglorious Basterds. This is Tarantino’s best film, and it isn’t even close. Don’t @ me.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on September 15, 2019, 02:51:25 AM
As a mid level German speaker I agree.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on September 16, 2019, 04:49:07 AM
Nobody is going to @ you over a Tarantino movie. Like tf.

Not fond of Kill Bill though. Indifferent at best. It was way too long even cut into two movies. It didn't fell like it went anywhere or come together satisfyingly and the cool **** wasn't enough to pull it out. I can only imagine what the "Full" cut is.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on September 16, 2019, 07:31:04 AM
Nobody is going to @ you over a Tarantino movie. Like tf.
It was a joke. This isn’t Twitter. Nobody can even @ on this message board. Like tf.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on September 16, 2019, 08:18:23 AM
Never seen a Tarantino film, myself. Just never been interested in them.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on September 16, 2019, 09:35:20 AM
Never seen a Tarantino film, myself. Just never been interested in them.
They’re not for everyone. I enjoy most of them. They’re often really violent. And Quentin Tarantino does have a weird affinity for a certain N-word with a hard-R. I understand from an artistic standpoint. That’s how some people talk, and the world at large is really unsympathetic to black people and he’s putting a spotlight on it (how do you make Django Unchained without racists saying and doing a bunch of racist ****?). Still, it can be a little off-putting though maybe that’s the point sometimes?

Tarantino also really likes women’s feet. Like the first time, fine, characters are just talking, Mia is barefoot etc. Then, it just kept happening which each subsequent film... Seems harmless (I hope), but some may be put off by how egregious it can be. Rarely does it serve any narrative purpose. It does in Inglorious Basterds and maybe Kill Bill depending on whether that scene was necessary.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on September 16, 2019, 02:46:51 PM
Yeah, QT has gotten some backlash for his use of it.  It'd be less weird if he wasn't the one saying it in his films all the time.  Characters, sure, but he doesn't always need to play those characters.

Still, I like his films.  The other hard-R about them is the ratings, which can also be off-putting to people and understandably so.

And Hateful Eight and Django round out my top 3 QT films.  They're all great for separate reasons too.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on September 16, 2019, 02:54:10 PM
It has been interesting to see the change of pacing since Sally Menke died. She was his editor and always did a good job. The last Tarantino film she worked on was Inglorious Bastards. I think that was his tightest film. Since then his movies have been longer and more indulgent. Before they were punchier.  They're still good but it is certainly a different era. She also worked on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles which I would give a perfect score.
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Post by: nickmitch on September 16, 2019, 03:05:54 PM
Hateful Eight had a long run time, but honestly, the intermission was incredibly welcome.  I may have said this before, but there are some movies that I think would be better served to be longer with intermissions than shorter.  Like the last two Hunger Games movies or Avengers Endgame.
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Post by: nickmitch on September 22, 2019, 08:52:54 PM
Fast and Furious Presents: Hobbs and Shaw

I was somewhat excited for this movie.  I think my appreciation for the F&F franchise is well-enough documented.  The thing about this spin-off is that it always feels like something is missing.  Maybe it was Dom and the rest of the regulars, but something really felt off about it.  There was also a lot of deus x machina in the movie.  There's one scene where (slight spoiler) Jason Statham sets up The Rock to basically get arrested, but The Rock suddenly gets out of it because "people like me".  There's a lot of other magic/hand waving on how they're able to move between locations.  And the setup for that scene is another, "Don't worry, I happen to have just the thing" scene.  But one thing that really sticks out was that (less slight, more spoiler) The Rock's brother is an engineer who can fix a broken machine and you're told he can fix it, but once you meet him, his whole thing is cars and not a complex, one of a kind, piece of medical equipment.  There's another moment courtesy of a cameo who I would expect to come back in a sequel.

The good parts include the level of sass that is exchanged by the leads.  However, the plot is basically paused to bring you the exchanges most of the time.  The action scenes are good, but there's maybe a smidge too much slow motion and too much shaky-cam.  The bad guy was pretty good except there was a little too much "secret organization that secretly rules the world!", which is something I'm not a fan off.  Like, they exert a level of control that is beyond practical for any evil organization.  Normally, it's the cartoon-ish things that I like, this felt like lazy writing in order to silo the protagonists into a situation where they then lazily hand waived out of when needed.

All in all, the action's good, the locales are cool enough (London has been done to death, Russia was barely seen, but Samoa was very pretty to look at), and the dialogue is there.  It's just missing a few things regular F&F movies have.

6.5/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on September 24, 2019, 03:47:33 PM
Fast and Furious Presents: Hobbs and Shaw

All in all, the action's good, the locales are cool enough (London has been done to death, Russia was barely seen, but Samoa was very pretty to look at), and the dialogue is there.  It's just missing a few things regular F&F movies have.

6.5/10

What annoys me is they frequently use the same stretches of London, in many films (mostly around the City), over and over. London is a lot bigger than that.

Rambo - why was this film made? They touted it to be the last one, but nothing about it had anything to do with finality. He's living on a farm with an adopted family, of sorts, where the daughter ignores all common sense almost as if the screenwriter decided this to happen and kicks the story off. The parent of said daughter is then left alone who is filmed several times just sitting and waiting, doing nothing, waiting for the plot - now off in Mexico - to join back to her only for her to be kicked out of the story again because Rambo says to go to your sisters, there's nothing here for you anymore.

The plot needs to go off and do Ramboing so lets visibly shuffle everyone unnecessary out the way. The upside was the film was 90 minutes, but by half way i was pretty frustrated. IF you watch this, watch passively.

Ad Astra - This is a GORGEOUS movie, no doubt about it. But don't go into it expecting Gravity. It isn't. It is way way WAY more talky. It also introduces several characters who all rather abruptly just disappear as soon as their character arc or purpose ends. The main character is unflappably calm all the time and yet through the entire movie death and destruction follows him around, but he doesnt seem bothered by it. Realistically this is a character/family drama dressed up as a scifi - the scifi trappings are merely to grab you and distract from how thin the writing is.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on September 24, 2019, 08:40:40 PM
I don't know who Rambo 5 was made for either. Hell I don't know who Rambo 4 was made for and I love the first 3 Rambo movies. 4 is embarrassing, lazy and disappointing, should have known better after Expendables. When they announced 5 "Why?" and put that in the Nope box.

Ad Astra: Being unflinching is his external character, the jar holding the mess inside. This is where Brad Pitt comes in with subtle inflections, fake smiles, bit too long pauses and doesn't overact. Astronauts and test pilots do have that level of calm.

Those certain characters that come and go are his emotional rocket boosters. Without them he would physically get to where space command wants him but be emotionally back on Earth.

lol poor Liv Tyler
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on September 25, 2019, 02:18:44 AM
I was hoping they called it Last Blood: part 5 so the naming scheme makes even less sense.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on September 25, 2019, 07:23:28 AM
Ad Astra: Being unflinching is his external character, the jar holding the mess inside. This is where Brad Pitt comes in with subtle inflections, fake smiles, bit too long pauses and doesn't overact. Astronauts and test pilots do have that level of calm.

He may be that calm but very nearly everyone else wasnt. Trying to arrest him during takeoff is a very bad idea
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Post by: oohhboy on September 25, 2019, 09:38:45 AM
With the massive expansion of space travel where you can go shop on the Moon you are not sending the Right Stuff all that much. The others represent things he has suppressed to do his job which can be detrimental that he later adopts and learns, turning them into strengths, to them to make him more whole. His calm had strong elements of indifference, apathy.

By the turning point time he isn't calm, he is doing things that would have been unimaginable based on emotion, not pragmatism. Calm got replaced with focus.

That bit escalated quickly.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on October 04, 2019, 12:47:38 AM
Joker - 8.8/10 I want to give it a higher score, but I just watched it, and also there is an entirely qualitative foolishness in rating things by number. I rated King of Comedy 9/10. I feel that was a slightly better movie. I'd put this somewhere between Taxi Driver and King of Comedy, but neither are as good as like A Clockwork Orange. As violent as the movie is supposed to be... it's no A Serbian Film. But none are and again don't ever watch that movie. It's closer to Drive.  There's some punctuations of violence, but it isn't overly gratuitous. It's like a high pg-13 low R. Nowhere near a Scarface or a Rambo 2. I was trying to put my finger on where this lies tonally, and the closest I can think of is The Witch or Hereditary.

edit: Let's make it 9.8/10 I haven't spent as much time thinking about a movie ever.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on October 09, 2019, 03:05:05 PM
John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum

A friend of a friend hooked me up with his Plex server so I finally got around to watching this.

***Unmarked spoilers ahead***

I have a bunch of thoughts below. Overall, it’s awesome. I don’t know how the filmmakers keep managing to up the ante without treading into absurdity. Alright, surviving getting shot off a building is almost there, but l accept John Wick’s ability to survive all manner of near-death situations. Also, that looked cool so 🤷‍♀️

1. I’m glad Lionsgate or whoever added “Chapter” to the title because for the longest time, this was known as John Wick 3: Parabellum and that low-key bugged me.

2. I hate one thing about this movie: Wick doesn’t leash his f-ing dog at the beginning. Come on, man.

3. People always mention Sofia’s dick-munching dogs. Yes, that scene was awesome. However, are we just not going to talk about the fact that John Wick incapacitates two assassins by slapping a horse to make it kick said assassins in the face? I saw that and was like, “Jebus, did that just happen?” I don’t think I’ve ever seen that before. Good on director Chad Stahelski for only doing that twice. Clever the first time, do it again because yeah, still pretty cool then move on. If I had to nitpick, I feel like getting kicked in the face by a horse would toss a person back. Still awesome though.

4. I think I like the story in Chapter 2 a little more, but Chapter 3 is a better sequel (and movie) due to how it builds on the previous story. Chapter 2 doesn’t necessarily happen because the original happens. Santino could have invoked the blood oath at any point; it wasn’t necessarily because Wick took down Viggo’s entire operation. Chapter 3 happens as a direct result of the events of Chapter 2. I don’t know if I’m explaining this well. I just like the way Chapter 3 built off of Chapter 2 better than the Chapter 2 built off the first movie, but Chapter 2’s story is a little more focused. Chapter 3’s story is still good, but it’s tasked with doing a lot more.

5. Nice to see Mark Dacascos still getting work.

6. Also nice to see Lance Reddick finally do literally anything of note in this film series.

7. I didn’t love the whole man-above-the-High-Table thing. That’s the only trope-y thing I can think of in a film series that generally doesn’t do that. In Chapter 2, the series even plays on that. The movie starts with some grade A misdirection with Viggo’s previously never mentioned brother, Abram, having Wick’s car then basically saying, “Well, don’t want any part of this ****...”. Pair that with the stunt casting of Peter Stormare, and it was *chef kiss*

The Elder has Wick’s wedding ring. We all expect that dude is getting hella murdered, right? There’s no point in introducing that character only to have him **** off forever.

8. I will admit to a misreading of the original John Wick. That’s why I originally pegged it as awesome albeit dumb fun. The movie and series are surprisingly deep for those who are looking for more. The original John Wick isn’t merely about a man getting revenge because some punk killed his dog and stole his car. The subtext is John Wick is a grieving widower who was already suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (from you know *broadly gestures at John’s entire life*), and he takes his **** out on Ioseph (and anyone who gets in the way of that goal). His wife, Helen, was the only thing in his life keeping those demons at bay.

Chapter 2 suggests John Wick would just go home and seal up how guns forever and ever, but he can’t, right? Not really. It’s only a matter of time before some other **** pushes him over the edge again. Mental illness doesn’t make John Wick weak; it makes him even more dangerous because he’s also really good at murdering. That plus the expert world-building makes me appreciate the series even more than simply the action which I mean, absolutely is oh-my-gawd.

9. Spin-offs aside, I kind of want to see the series end with John Wick Chapter 5. In Chapter 4, Neo and Morpheus take down the High Table. In Chapter 5, John takes down The Elder. I also want to be surprised so maybe not that. Who knows?

10. I think my favorite overall action scene in the series is the night club shootout the original if only because of how well Think by Kaleida works to contrast the sheer mayhem happening. In terms of strictly action, I’ll have to watch all three again.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on October 11, 2019, 08:14:20 PM
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie

Breaking Bad is one of my all-time favorite shows and has one of top two favorite finales. I'm torn between Breaking Bad and Futurama. That said, El Camino is (thankfully) good. Kind of pointless in the way that a lot of epilogues are. Breaking Bad didn't need to explain what happened to Jesse Pinkman after the finale. The explanation is fitting. The flashbacks are a nice trip down memory lane and all that. It answers a lot of questions that no one was really asking such as "Is Todd even weirder than everyone thought he was?" (answer: yes, somehow). El Camino ends Jesse's story in a similar manner as Breaking Bad did except the audience now knows he doesn't just get caught by the authorities. That's fine, I guess.

El Camino touches on Jesse's PTSD from, you know, being a meth-cooking slave. Interesting, but then Jesse just kind of gets over it. That isn't how PTSD works. Jesse needs years of therapy. He will probably need therapy forever. I understand that doesn't make for good television. That's my only real criticism. El Camino treats the ending like a happy ending, but it isn't really. It's TV happy which I guess is fine.

Ultimately, El Camino is a good if extraneous addition to Breaking Bad that doesn't do anything offensive to the original show's legacy. It's maybe three or four years too late. Nice cameos throughout especially one right at the end.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on October 11, 2019, 09:11:16 PM
I thought El Camino was great the only thing that took me out of it was Jesse Plemons radical change of appearance. But what can you do? Last time he played the role was 6 years ago. He was only 25 when he did Breaking Bad.  It's more of a continuity error than anything. It was entertaining to see Todd return. He was still great as a psychopath.

I love where Jesse freaks out because of the blinds because that sort of stripe pattern is identical to the grate pattern he was caged in.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on October 13, 2019, 03:34:56 PM
Gemini Man - I admit i only watched this to see how well the movie handled the CGI de-aging tech. In any dim/night scenes it works great and the younger versions looks  accurate and handles motion easily. In daytime, however, it looks rubbery and the lighting is off in several scenes with even slow motion not clicking properly. Give it a few years and it'll be nailed down properly, but there's a reason why movies like Civil War used it for a 30 second walk and talk and nothing else.
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Post by: BranDonk Kong on October 13, 2019, 04:42:27 PM
They used it for all of Captain Marvel too. Flawless.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on October 13, 2019, 07:03:30 PM

They used it for all of Captain Marvel too. Flawless.

Must've been since Pluga didn't even notice. Lol
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on October 13, 2019, 08:42:05 PM
It was really good on Captain Marvel, but some people did complain.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on October 14, 2019, 06:07:10 AM
I totally forgot about Captain Marvel lol. Fury was good but Coulson looked a touch off in a shot or two, but this was notably worse. Gemini Man moved around a lot more, his face often looked "wrong" in daylight and the colouring in daytime was the wrong shade.
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Post by: ShyGuy on October 14, 2019, 09:48:12 AM
I think Michael Douglas in Ant Man, etc was decent.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on October 19, 2019, 11:49:45 PM
3 From Hell - Jam-packed with dark humor. My kind of movie 8/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on October 21, 2019, 03:06:56 PM
Maleficent - It was worth the wait to see Angelia ham it up again. I enjoyed only for that.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on October 25, 2019, 06:45:14 PM
Terminator: Dark Fate - it may have taken 27 years but we finally got the third movie we truly deserved. Linda Hamilton still captures attention as strongly as she did in T2.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on October 26, 2019, 04:04:49 AM
Death Wish(1974) 8/10 Quite enjoyable.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on October 26, 2019, 11:18:53 AM
Maleficent - It was worth the wait to see Angelia ham it up again. I enjoyed only for that.

I watched this last night (Maleficent). I thought it was alright. the kids LOVED it, even though my daughter may have worried me a little bit with her blood lust for revenge on the queen but I had to explain to her that sometimes, some things are worse than death, and the Queens fate was to suffer and watch everything she didn't want to happen and convinced everyone else that could and would never happen..... happen. And she had not the power to say or do anything about it.
Overall there were lots of tense moments, and plenty of action. Angelina was beautiful even as a Demon Bird Like creature with horns and sharp cheeks. It was overall an enjoyable movie that the entire theater actually clapped for at the end.


Also watched Addams Family (the new animated one) a few weeks ago.... :/
It tries so hard to be the animated version of the last live action version (the 1991 cast was great) with so many jokes that went over the kids heads, but didn't actually land with the adults, that it was a little too try hard for my taste. The kids seemed to like it (I took my daughter and 2 of her friends to go watch), yet no one hardly made a sound during the movie. Almost no interaction during the movie, and barely a chuckle from the girls, and the theater as a whole. (they were very into Maleficent BTW, laughing, gasping, making comments and whispering to each other things I couldn't hear during the movie.... ). Oh and I really didn't like the art direction.

my recommendation... kids might enjoy it, but just stay home and watch Addams Family 1991 and Addams Family Values. Oh and then put on Hocus Pocus. much better and more memorable experiences for the whole family in my opinion.
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Post by: BranDonk Kong on October 27, 2019, 10:22:33 AM
Wait really? I saw Death Wish a few weeks ago on AMC and thought it was horrible. Maybe it was ground breaking for the time or something...but it doesn't hold up.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on October 28, 2019, 12:18:05 AM
Wait really? I saw Death Wish a few weeks ago on AMC and thought it was horrible. Maybe it was ground breaking for the time or something...but it doesn't hold up.

Eh, I guess you have to like Charles Bronson. I got like some bonus too. I'm from Tucson. There's a shot of a big white building in the background. On Halloween that building is a haunted house.  I understand it isn't a modern movie so there is that aspect of it. I grew up watching cheesey action movies, but this one I didn't watch. So, it's kinda like a lost gem. I give it an 8, but that is as far as it goes. Young Jeff Goldblum yelling "Goddamn Rich ****!"
had me in tears laughing.

(http://www2.pictures.zimbio.com/mp/RV7bUcQACTRl.jpg)
It's unintentionally funny. Like it's supposed to be a serious violent scene, but because it's Jeff Goldblum who is bubbly in real life it is just funny. Like it is comically not what I expect.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on November 01, 2019, 12:06:53 AM
Terminator: Dark Fate - it may have taken 27 years but we finally got the third movie we truly deserved. Linda Hamilton still captures attention as strongly as she did in T2.

I'm a huge Terminator fan (thus the nickname).  T2 is my favorite movie of all time with the first one as a close second.  I enjoyed Genisys (but will admit it has a *LOT* of flaws).  I have rewatched RotM once since I saw it in theaters and came out hating it - and, at that time, I had recently read an analysis of the series that gave me a new appreciation for the movie.  It's still terrible, but if you take out what little attempts there are at SciFi elements, at the horror elements, and the whole man vs machine existential crisis that the first two movies are built on, you're left with a pretty fucking awesome 2-hour long chase sequence that does a good job at that.  Salvation is... an Okay movie if you just take John/Kyle out of it and forget it's supposed to be a Terminator movie and just watch it as some kind of generic dystopian future war movie.  The machinma series is neat for what it is.  And Sarah Connor Chronicles is a freaking amazing series and I hate FOX for killing it.

All that said, Dark Fate easily ranks #3 on the list.  It fails to hit the horror aspects that 1 & 2 did so well and the editing suffers from the quick cuts that all action movies are made up of in the last 10-15 years.  The main antagonist is... a really cool idea, but often just appears in places.  Granted, you probably don't need yet another scene of it quickly killing a bunch of random guards and touching a computer, but...

Linda Hamilton fucking nailed everything about this movie and this franchise.  She did amazing.  Dani was great and I'd be interested in seeing them build her character in a theoretical sequel that will probably never happen.  Grace was a thing.  I get why Sarah is secretive and overly protective of herself.  Grace seems to be one of those "I'm not going to tell you this useful information so I appear more mysterious and I can reveal it more dramatically later." characters.  Bleh.  The way they developed Arnold's Terminator here worked well, building on what was set up in T2.  Oh, and what I assume to be digital voodoo at the beginning of the movie for HIM... I need to google what went on there, because if you told me they sent a Time Machine back to 1991 and plucked him out of time to record that scene, I'd believe it.

All that said, I watched the movie in a 4D theater and... I do NOT recommend it.  There were very, very few scenes where the effects were used well, but it was mostly a lot of being thrown around in the seats and air being blown on your face.  Something like this works for a ~15 minute ride, not for a 2 hour movie.

I'll definitely watch this one again.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on November 01, 2019, 08:30:26 AM
I'm a huge Terminator fan (thus the nickname).
(https://i.imgur.com/g5GLzY5_d.jpg?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium)

Wait, what? Am I the only one who never got this reference? I mean, I remember that scene. I just never put the two together.
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Post by: Shorty McNostril on November 01, 2019, 09:14:19 AM
I probably should watch it one day.  I've heard decent things about them.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on November 01, 2019, 10:35:39 AM
Wait, what? Am I the only one who never got this reference? I mean, I remember that scene. I just never put the two together.

It's very subtle - It's not like Uncle Bob couldn't mean a million different things.  You'd need to know my affinity for the movie to ever make the connection.

On the other hand, maybe I just really, really liked Con Air...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uEHOhfPeO4s
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on November 03, 2019, 11:32:43 AM
I'm a huge Terminator fan (thus the nickname).
(https://i.imgur.com/g5GLzY5_d.jpg?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium)

Wait, what? Am I the only one who never got this reference? I mean, I remember that scene. I just never put the two together.

I'm also shocked at the revelation.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on November 10, 2019, 09:19:54 AM
Midway - I hope BNM/nickmitch understands where i come from when i say this.. but some movies feel better in context with paired with a loosely related movie or concept.

The Need for Speed movie makes more sense when you consider it to be a Burnout movie instead. First Man makes more sense when paired with Hidden Figures, because you then get an idea of what we didn't see.

Watch Red Tails (or at least become familiar with the story) with Midway.

Because while this is a very hollywood take on what happened there, there was so many tropes portrayed that began to annoy me by the end: pilot with no fear of death but then suddenly loses his resolve, officer who nobody believes ends up being right, female characters literally sidelined only to hangout with other sidelined female characters worrying about their husbands and more subtle production-related ones like zero non-white people seen in the entire movie. Ignoring the Japanese cast (who were obviously required given the plot), i think i saw only one black person in the entire film - from the back of the head with no speaking lines. In 2019 things like that stand out really clearly.

Otherwise its a good movie to put on and not pay attention to.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on November 10, 2019, 05:43:07 PM
I think I'm picking up what you're putting down.  That sounds pretty disappointing about Midway.  A lot of people (myself included) often think people of color weren't involved in certain historical events because representations of the history (TV, film) often exclude POC.  In 2019, that's pretty disappointing for a historical film.

I own the blu-ray of Red Tails, but never got around watching it.  I'm familiar with the story, however. 
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on November 10, 2019, 11:32:36 PM
Joker was amazing.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on November 16, 2019, 06:56:50 PM
In light of the new (and apparently quite good) Star Wars game coming out, I decided to finally check out Rogue One. A year or so back, I commented on how much I dislike The Force Awakens, and someone (Adrock, I think) commented that I would probably like Rogue One. Well, I've now seen it and...yeah, I actually do quite like it.

Something I find somewhat curious about this film is that the big thing I always heard about this movie over the years was that it was "Pandering: the Movie." Yeah, I can definitely see that with a few things like the blink & you'll miss them cameos by the "You'll be Dead" Guys; Artoo & Threepio (seriously, what the **** were they doing on Yavin 4?); and the entirety of CG Tarkin & CG Leia.  Still, other than that I really didn't see anything particularly eggregious. Characters, ships, & factions were pretty much where you would expect them to be at this point in the timeline, so their appearance in this film was pretty fitting.

What I like about this film is that it doesn't pull it punches, something I had serious issues with in both the Clone Wars & Rebels animated series, shows that were supposed to take place during violent warfare. If a character should die during a particular sequence, they generally do and usually not in a particularly heroic way. The film also has easily the best vehicular battle sequence (counting the planet & the surrounding space) since Return of the Jedi, and that is quite the high water mark.

And yes, everything about that final sequence with Vader was fucking awesome. But you knew that already.

I really only had a few issues with the film:

1. The really shitty editing of the 1st half of the film, where there's a LOT of jumping around from planet to planet without really establishing anything. The battle sequences in that part of the film are also very confusingly shot so it's not entirely clear what's going on and where characters are in relation to one another.

2. The entire existence of CG Tarkin & CG Leia. I agree with the comparison that Tarkin looked like he'd stepped out of that CG Jim Carrey Christmas Carol movie, with a very rubbery face and gigantic nose. Leia looked like a bobblehead after a few seconds.

3. Diego Luna's acting as Cassian Andor: I've seen a lot of complaints about the acting in general in Rogue One, but for the most part I thought it was fine for the kind of movie this was. The one actor I can't excuse is Diego Luna as Cassian. He spends 9/10 of the movie staring out blankly into the middle distance, and good god is he **** at it. Yeah, the guy playing "The Pilot" does a lot of that, too, but he actually manages to convey expression while he's doing it. There's an actual performance there.

I could nitpick & complain about all sorts of little issues throughout the film (like the entire existence of the U-Wings, considering the Rebels never use them again after Rogue One, or WHAT THE HELL WAS EVEN THE POINT OF THE GIANT MINDREADING SQUID), but overall that was a solid film and probably the lone good Disney Star Wars film.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on November 16, 2019, 10:07:21 PM
Blood Harvest (1987) 5.8/10 I liked Tiny Tim in this, and Jesus is Itonia Salcheck hot, but this is a pretty bad movie. The music is catchy though.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on November 22, 2019, 01:18:09 AM
Frozen 2 - not as good as the first IMO

I don't remember the first movie breaking out into song every 2.5 minutes, but I could be mistaken. I haven't watched it in a long time. None of the songs really stuck with me either like "Let it go!" did for the entire world for however long that was. I couldn't recite anything from any of the songs tbh.... but that's not even what took me out of this movie.
Now this may seem like a bit of a nitpick, and i'm sure it was done for time (and because it's meant mainly for younger audiences) but there were several large leaps in logic to move the plot quickly in this one. They were all so sudden and just "HEY!! OMG THAT MEANS X", which I guess is fine, but for some reason it stood out to me sooo much the 2-3 times I remember it happening in the movie.

Visually this movie was very nice, and all the kids seemed to really like it, but overall, I'll hold on to the recent nostalgia of the first over the sequel.
I'm also pretty sure there will be a Frozen III or a D+ series sequel announced in the next year or so. LOL
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on November 22, 2019, 06:14:14 PM
I wouldn't expect the sequel to a Disney princess movie to be good. Bad track record.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on November 22, 2019, 06:21:13 PM
I wouldn't expect the sequel to a Disney princess movie to be good. Bad track record.

Yeah, I think the only good one we've had was...Cinderella 3?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on November 25, 2019, 12:53:42 AM
I wouldn't expect the sequel to a Disney princess movie to be good. Bad track record.

Yeah, I think the only good one we've had was...Cinderella 3?

I'd argue the Aladdin sequels were good ones. Cinderella 3 earns points more for its bravery to completely shake up the formula and do a time-travelling what-if plot and doing it to an acceptable level, though I wouldn't call it "great".
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on November 25, 2019, 01:00:56 AM
I wouldn't expect the sequel to a Disney princess movie to be good. Bad track record.

Yeah, I think the only good one we've had was...Cinderella 3?

I'd argue the Aladdin sequels were good ones. Cinderella 3 earns points more for its bravery to completely shake up the formula and do a time-travelling what-if plot and doing it to an acceptable level, though I wouldn't call it "great".

While Aladdin has a Disney princess it focuses on a Disney prince/king/sultan. But...this talk makes me want a Jasmine's Adventure movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on November 25, 2019, 01:03:23 AM
Aladdin is the Princess in his movie.  But yes, those are the good sequels.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on November 25, 2019, 01:22:33 AM
I wouldn't expect the sequel to a Disney princess movie to be good. Bad track record.

Yeah, I think the only good one we've had was...Cinderella 3?

I'd argue the Aladdin sequels were good ones.

I'd argue that Return of Jafar is trash, but King of Thieves is good. I have a hard time thinking of Aladdin as a "Disney Princess Film", though, especially since King of Thieves was also the series finale to the animated series, where Jasmine had a much more prominent role.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on November 25, 2019, 01:34:11 AM
Heh, I totally missed the "princess" clarification. And yeah, when I think about it more, I do give Return of Jafar a bit of a pass because of its connection to the TV series and King of Thieves how the films perfectly bookend the show.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on November 25, 2019, 03:17:04 PM
The TV series spinoffs are great though.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on December 23, 2019, 09:22:35 AM
Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker

[I’ll post general, mostly non-spoilery thoughts here then more of the granular Star Wars discussion in the dedicated thread]

It’s fine. I think I need to let it sit in for a while. I remember saying the Game of Thrones finale was fine then after I had a chance to really think about it, I started to see its warts more clearly. That entire last season was such a flustercuck that I was almost conditioned to think the finale was passable. It’s possible the same may happen with The Rise of Skywalker.

As the end of a trilogy, it kind of works. The Resistance defeats The First Order, good triumphs over evil etc. etc. Some of the character arcs are okay, some are a mess in that they flat-out don’t make sense and/or felt rushed or unearned. Using cut footage and B-roll of Carrie Fisher worked about as well as it could. I expected worse.

As the end of a trilogy of trilogies, it succeeds in some ways but mostly stumbles. It’s hard to stick the landing when the filmmakers spend so much time aggressively, almost maliciously retconning certain events of previous films.

On its own, it’s okay though The Rise of Skywalker cannot be watched as a stand-alone movie. Not terrible, but the exposition could have been tightened up. Instead it leans into lore almost to the point where even I, someone who has seen all the films, had to make mental notes and google things later. The movie drops too many names, terms, and references to make any sense without some knowledge of what happened before. I suppose most people would not be watching this without having seen at least a couple of the main saga.

The Rise of Skywalker does noticeably make basic storytelling and filmmaking mistakes. There’s a scene in which a particular character “dies” then is shown to be alive in the very next scene. A couple minutes later, there’s a “[Character] is still alive. We have to save [character]” moment. The previous scene could have been nixed entirely. That would be problematic editing in any movie.

Ultimately, I mostly liked The Rise of Skywalker, for now at least. It had some good moments, some bad moments. I don’t want to hand wave away everything I didn’t like as you-can’t-please-everyone because some things are subpar storytelling and/or filmmaking. I enjoyed The Last Jedi, and I didn’t necessarily get what I wanted after that film (I should note that I didn’t get what I wanted from The Last Jedi either). I’ll delve into that in the other thread.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on December 23, 2019, 06:10:12 PM
The Rise of Skywalker - 7.9/10

The Chewie thing. I expected that wasn't the right transport ship. The reason for the scene though is to demonstrate her accidentally using the force and how it might lead her to the dark side. It made sense. It could have been written differently. They shouldn't have used Chewie as a pawn for emotions. It should have been a low stakes character we just met. Like instead of her healing a snake it should have been like a Wompa type thing, but then that thing gets captured. Then it gets blown up and is for real dead. Or maybe those alien children she met at the celebration get rounded up by the empire and whoops they get blown up. Yay Chewie was alive! He didn't get a punk death. No remorse for those other people on the transport though

I think the movie was fine. It just wasn't fantastic. I'd rank it with Attack of the Clones.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on December 28, 2019, 06:33:18 AM
6 Underground

New Netflix Ryan Reynolds movie directed by Michael Bay. This was quite entertaining as RR gets to be himself and there was tons of action. Story seemed a bit all over the place as they kinda time skipped around the story a bit and I had to watch it in 2 parts as I started it late at night, but I enjoyed it. It was fun for what it was, and the RR humor was pretty on point.


Spies in Disguise

Wow..... pleasantly surprised by this one. Will Smith in FULL Will Smith mode, but it fit the character  he was playing. I totally forgot that Tom Holland was the other main character, but after someone told me, I was surprised I didn't recognize his voice. But this movie was actually funny, it thought they showed it all in the previews, and a lot of it they did, but some were still funny once put into context. A few quick moments that were a little dark for some younger kids, but they passed fairly quickly and probably went unnoticed. But I actually enjoyed this one, and since it was done by Blue Sky studios.... I'm expecting either a sequel, or a follow up series on D+
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BranDonk Kong on December 29, 2019, 01:18:48 PM
Joker - 9.5/10
Very much a contender for best movie of the year, versus Avengers Endgame. Not sure what to say without spoiling anything...
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on December 29, 2019, 03:40:58 PM
I have yet to watch... I need to move that up on my list of things to watch asap.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on January 05, 2020, 05:59:20 PM
Jumanji 2

Honestly, it was entertaining, just not as funny as I thought it would be going in. The Rock wasn't quite capturing the Danny Devito I wanted, and Kevin Hart didn't really capture Danny Glover at all imo. There was so much potential in the concept, but I just think it wasn't executed nearly as well as I had pictured it in my head going in. I imagine a "ghostly overlay" may have helped bring it back to who they were attempting to portray, but that might not've worked out well either.


Alita: Battle Angel

Damn, I actually got into this one, and now I see why everyone was clamoring for a sequel to this movie.... mostly because they end it as if there was a continuation to the story, as it was left rather unresolved. The main bad guy was still there, the main mission was still uncompleted, and she ends the movie directly calling him out through gesture of "I'm coming for you" in the battle arena. Ultimate cliff hanger, and now they are obligated to tell the other half of this story. I promise to watch it in a more timely manner this time... possibly even in the theater.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on January 06, 2020, 01:25:19 AM
The Rise of Skywalker - 7.9/10

I think the movie was fine. It just wasn't fantastic. I'd rank it with Attack of the Clones.

Attack of the Clones: 7.9/10. Yeah, nah.

Does anybody actually rate movies on  a 0 - 10 scale?

Jumanji 2

Honestly, it was entertaining, just not as funny as I thought it would be going in. The Rock wasn't quite capturing the Danny Devito I wanted, and Kevin Hart didn't really capture Danny Glover at all imo. There was so much potential in the concept, but I just think it wasn't executed nearly as well as I had pictured it in my head going in. I imagine a "ghostly overlay" may have helped bring it back to who they were attempting to portray, but that might not've worked out well either.

The Rock isn't that great of an actor so doing Devito is asking a lot from him. He is better than Sam Worthington and his ilk but that is faint praise.

He worked in nu-Jumanji because he was just playing himself again but excited looking based on a character/actor we don't know.

In light of the new (and apparently quite good) Star Wars game coming out, I decided to finally check out Rogue One. A year or so back, I commented on how much I dislike The Force Awakens, and someone (Adrock, I think) commented that I would probably like Rogue One. Well, I've now seen it and...yeah, I actually do quite like it.

...

 but overall that was a solid film and probably the lone good Disney Star Wars film.

I works out better if you completely ignore the first 2/3 viewing it as a short film. The first 2/3 really there to give the DS a backstory which is why??. It's almost like it was all reshoots. There are stark visual differences and change in style that scream it even if you didn't know the BTS issues. Krennic being middle management trying to climb the corporate ladder getting cold blocked by everyone is funny; dad joke aside. ughh, it took away from his what should have been his one and only appearance.

Diego Luna had little to work with along with everyone else. They wasted so much time they didn't build anyone up. Killing everybody isn't an excuse not to (Felicity Jones excluded as if you watch any of her previous work she is beyond limited). It's like they rolled a bunch of RPG characters and not play them. I do like there wasn't a romantic sub-plot by accident or otherwise. They are two people at the end sharing their fate the best they can.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on January 06, 2020, 03:10:12 AM
Crawl - Wow, now that was intense!!!

First time in a long time where you watch a creature feature where the main characters didn't do a bunch of dumb **** to end up in the situation they were in. Not gonna say they did everything right, or that I wouldn't have made a lot of the same decisions if I were them in that same situation, but damn, was that **** intense.

Now I have no idea how high a tolerance of pain the dad had to be walking around at all, but this daughter is real trooper. I guess once that adrenaline kicks in, theres no time to bleed, ain't no time for pain, and this aint the time to die.

I had heard it was a good one, and I was not let down.
Let's hope they do not make a sequel though. There does not need to be a part 2. lol
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on January 07, 2020, 03:33:45 AM
Overlord - not exactly what I was expecting

I was looking forward to this one based on the previews, painting it as kinda DOOM in WWII, which ultimately is kinda sorta was, but then again, not really. It was a pretty intense WWII movie, starting off with troops getting deployed in the heat of the battle, with a mission to infiltrate enemy lines and take out air-support communications so more troops could get flown in for backup.

Well obviously **** hits the fan immediately, as it's WWII, but the DOOM portion comes much later.
Did I mention that Fitz, from FitzSimmons (AoS) was in this?
I was actually really into it up until the very end when people as usual do stupid stuff when they should already know better.
Mutated man was beating up the US Soldier, and the black guy, who has already demonstrated that you have to destroy the head to kill these bastards, decided to unload his rifle in the guys midsection, never once even aiming to shoot him in the head. White US soldier then comes to save Black US Soldier, sneaks up from behind and shoves a pole thru his mid section.... smfh. Why didn't you just shove it through the back of his head!!!? Oh, because that would've prematurely killed the end move fight. That was the moments that pulled me out of this one, but thankfully it was practically at the end of the movie already.
It was still a fun one up until that moment of stupidity. Properly setup for a sequel of some kind as well. We'll see, I don't remember if this did well enough at the box office for a follow up, but I might give it a watch at some point. I enjoyed this one enough to do that.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on January 20, 2020, 06:03:52 PM
Bad Boys For Life - So......... this was far better than i expected. Substantially better than the car crash the trailers suggested. Martin Lawrence clearly isn't in shape and didn't try to match Will Smith, so the movie works overtime to avoid him doing any physical combat or activity through the movie - but the movie doesnt acknowledge it either, despite the entire movie referring to how they've been doing this for 25 years
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on January 20, 2020, 06:54:04 PM
I saw the poster and my first initial thought was Dayum Gina Martin... you got fat.

Maybe he'll whip himself back into shape for another sequel if that end up happening.
Not the type of work ethic that will get a paid part in a Marvel Studios movie, that's for sure.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ejamer on January 29, 2020, 11:15:36 AM
Contagion is an old movie, but I'd never seen it and the content seems relevant given the current coronavirus situation.

Despite some goofs, it's a pretty decent movie. Some of the concerns it showcases around public panic and misinformation seem even more relevant today than a decade ago - especially given the ridiculous social media conspiracies that float around.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on January 30, 2020, 04:12:22 AM
It's a lot more dangerous now as rumours and disinformation require little to no effort. It's so much more virulent, persistent, much easier to weaponise by either state actors or snake oil salesman or trolls. We have repeatedly seen social media get weaponised causing real world damage. Anti Vaxxers are an example of this leading to a lot deaths that never should have happened at an increasing rate.

In the past a rumour would require it to be plausible sounding, maybe a method of broadcasting like TV or radio to gain wider traction which gave the authorities an edge on information. Which meant you needed to already have access to the network in the first place. On top of that it is much easier to impersonate the authorities or someone with a wider audience.

People increasingly don't read anything beyond the headline before hitting share. Their BS meter is under developed or isn't able to deal with the new environment.

People with a lot of followers tend not to do the due diligence before sharing nor feel responsibility or falsely believe they are doing good or don't do a retraction as that is considered "Embarrassing" thus lose followers. In many cases they double down or simply delete the tweet. Not helped the system is a loop based entirely on clicks.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ejamer on January 30, 2020, 07:45:40 AM
Speaking of which, I found it oddly satisfying to see Gwyneth Paltrow be cast as patient zero in Contagion, given some of the ideas she actively promotes (and profits from) during the past few years. The fact that people literally buy into that BS is terrifying to me.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ejamer on February 10, 2020, 10:34:32 PM
Just saw Avatar for the first time. The blue tail people movie, not the air bender.

Wow. As an action-based, sci-fi summer blockbuster, it's decent enough... I guess.

The story was a disappointing mix of heavy-handed and laughable. For something that is supposed to be a modern classic, I was left disappointed at almost every turn. Character development was non-existent; why bother when you can boil everything down to basic tropes and a simple storyline? There were no surprises or clever moments, no emotional investment built up during the movie.

That said, the art and world design is mostly very appealing, despite CG not holding up well enough to be a selling point like it was on release. (I mean, it's good enough, and probably was impressive upon release. But it's a shame they seem to have valued presentation values over actual content.) Makes me wish they just animated the movie instead, and then spent the difference in budget on some better writers.

Look, I'm sure this sounds pretty grumpy; maybe I missed the point and should've just shut off my brain and enjoyed the visuals... but building such a lush and creative world and then failing to deliver a storyline that was equally rich feels like a missed opportunity. The have a beautiful setting that could handle all kinds of meaningful stories, and instead you get a trite plot that sounds like they forgot to move past the elevator pitch.

5/10 because I'm a curmudgeon
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on February 10, 2020, 11:10:24 PM
did you watch it on a very large theater screen in 3d?

I did. It's not as good at home.  9/10 at theaters.   7/10 at home.

Avatar = Starship Troopers + Ferngully + Apocalypto +Last Samurai

9/10


well the first half of the movie is like 3d in your face everything, then it tones down the 3d, and then it kicks back up around the end with the action

it gave me googly eyes for 2 hours :P

That's probably half of why I hate going to theaters today. I worry about having to pee in the middle of the movie and also can it live up to Avatar the first time? probably not.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on February 11, 2020, 12:12:07 AM
Avatar is a bad movie with great special effects.  There was only one way to watch it, and that time has passed.  It's probably pretty funny if you watch it for the lolz.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on February 11, 2020, 02:56:11 AM
For all the release hype Avatar made no cultural impact because it is so hollow. I didn't see it in the cinema but it was clear I wasn't missing anything. That's the problem with CGI spectacles and increasingly so as we get more and more processing power. It's not impressive or exciting. It makes directors and writers lazy.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on February 11, 2020, 03:44:36 AM
Birds of Prey: Go into this movie thinking "unreliable narrator". Thats the only expectation to set. Otherwise its a fun and goofy movie in its own right (its not Legends level of goofy however).

My only complaint was how literally everybody took the chemical plant blowing up to mean Harley and Joker broke up. That's one really big stretch to make. Also what did everyone else make of Black Mask and Zsasz's chemistry? It leaned into they're in some sort of relationship slightly.

EDIT: It's much too late now, and Joaquin Phoenix's Joker killed the opportunity of this happening, but they should have release Birds of Prey and a Leto Joker movie around the same time as each other (maybe a month apart?) to allow them to tell the story of their breakup, and what they did next, to be told in parallel. Harley goes off and runs into the Birds of Prey while Joker throws himself back into his work and tackles some people who thinks he's distracted by the breakup.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ejamer on February 11, 2020, 09:08:15 AM
Avatar is a bad movie with great special effects.  ...

When a movie goes fully CG like Avatar, I have a hard time viewing that as "special effects" instead of just considering it "animation". As movies move towards an all-digital world where anything the artists dream of can and does happen, then it's just the quality of art and how fluid animation is that really matters.

A contrast would be some of the Marvel movies, which use tons of CG to augment the action but also mix in real special effects. Having just watched Captain America: Winter Solider with my kids, there were a bunch of stunts and effects during action and chase scenes that left me impressed.

Probably just being too pedantic.


ThePerm and nickmitch are both right though: this was a "must watch in a big theater" experience. Anyone else who missed out in the moment should spend their time elsewhere now, as there really isn't much in the experience worth going back to.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on February 11, 2020, 11:53:33 AM
I remember thinking the 3D was really good at the time as well.  So it wasn't just the animation, but I see your point.  The best parts of the movie are 100% CGI, and the people parts are usually the most bland.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Luigi Dude on February 11, 2020, 03:33:12 PM
ThePerm and nickmitch are both right though: this was a "must watch in a big theater" experience. Anyone else who missed out in the moment should spend their time elsewhere now, as there really isn't much in the experience worth going back to.

That sums it up pretty accurately.  My first time watching Avator was when I visited my parents one weekend, my Mom rented the movie so I watched it on my parents TV, which at the time wasn't even HD yet.  So my first experience with the movie didn't even have the fancy visuals to back it up.  Now I thought it was still an ok film, but about as generic as you can get.  The storyline is completely one dimensional, and I literally predicted everything that would happen next as I watched the film.

It'll be interesting to see how the sequels perform since there was nothing in the movie that said, "yeah, we need four more of these films".
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ejamer on February 11, 2020, 03:51:10 PM
Weirdly, I think there would have been room for 4 films in the Avatar world if the whole idea of exploring the planet and actually developing characters had happened. But that's not what they did, and now I'm not sure that I want to go back for more...  They didn't really establish anything in the first movie that seems worth building on; they'd be better off starting fresh.

Of course, the person who greenlit the next set of films was most likely looking at the number of zeroes attached to Avatar, and not the actual quality of the story.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on February 12, 2020, 02:18:45 AM
Eh, that should be one of the things they address with the sequels.

I'm up for Ferngully 2 boogaloo.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on February 12, 2020, 03:33:44 AM
Captain America: Winter Solider is the only Marvel movie that rises above "Meh" because of the real stunts. The simple elevator fight puts all the other movies to shame.

For the other movies what stunts there are was plastered over so much they stop being stunts.

I am not sure there is anywhere to go with Avatar. Absent the humans coming back for more it's Blue Cats. If the humans come back it would just be a replay of the first as they wouldn't be a trade delegation. If they don't switch up the biome it would be hours of faux rituals no one cares about.

The above is why I think Cameron has taken so long to move on the sequels, he knows it's a dead end. Not helped that he has been spending a lot of time swimming with fishes blunting his skills and presence.

Imagine trying to make a sequel to Dances with Wolves or Last Samurai. That doesn't work. The story is actually complete.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ejamer on February 12, 2020, 10:22:22 AM
... but what about if we did a trilogy of Avatar prequels? If the story can't go forward, then we can still look back. Surely people would pay to see that!



Did anyone here ever see Flight of the Navigator?  I can't remember what the movie is about but have vague memories watching it as a child. From IMDB: "In 1978, a boy travels 8 years into the future and has an adventure with an intelligent, wisecracking alien ship".

It's the next movie on my "to watch" list. With a descriptive blurb like that, what could go wrong?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on February 12, 2020, 11:32:37 AM
It's been so long for Avatar that I'm stuck wondering who the hell even cares about it anymore?  It had it's moment back then, and they put out a themed area at Disney World, but why would anyone want a sequel?  Who is it even for?  Is the 3D going to be that much better?  Because, over the years since, so many films cheaply put 3D into their movies that I'm jaded on the experience.  I won't see a film in 3D unless I've research precisely how much and how good it is, and then it's a still a maybe.  I just don't think you can sell the film on what it was sold on before, and that's the only thing it had going for it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on February 12, 2020, 01:25:27 PM
Did anyone here ever see Flight of the Navigator?  I can't remember what the movie is about but have vague memories watching it as a child. From IMDB: "In 1978, a boy travels 8 years into the future and has an adventure with an intelligent, wisecracking alien ship".

It's the next movie on my "to watch" list. With a descriptive blurb like that, what could go wrong?

I remember watching it as a kid and just remember it being a weird adventure film. Not awful and not amazing. I plan to rewatch it at some point. I don't remember the time travel stuff though. I think it was one of those films that probably helped popularize the myth that humans only use like 1-5% of their brain. As I THINK that the ship unlocked the boy's ability to use his entire brain. But I might be mixing up movies.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on February 12, 2020, 01:26:41 PM
It's been so long for Avatar that I'm stuck wondering who the hell even cares about it anymore?  It had it's moment back then, and they put out a themed area at Disney World, but why would anyone want a sequel?  Who is it even for?  Is the 3D going to be that much better?  Because, over the years since, so many films cheaply put 3D into their movies that I'm jaded on the experience.  I won't see a film in 3D unless I've research precisely how much and how good it is, and then it's a still a maybe.  I just don't think you can sell the film on what it was sold on before, and that's the only thing it had going for it.

Hopefully since it's taken around 10 years to make the sequel it was time used to improve the 3D.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on February 12, 2020, 02:48:20 PM
But how much better will it be than what we've seen since?  Unless they have new technology, there's nothing to hook me in.

Maybe the Avatar sequels, instead of focusing on Pandora as everyone would expect, could focus on the human trying to find unobtainium on other planets.  That could be a hook.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: relicgear92 on February 13, 2020, 02:27:28 AM
Ready or Not: I didn't expect it to be so good. It was funny as hell and I can even relate to unwanted in-laws. I just can't shake the feeling the Samara Weaving looks like Margot Robbie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on February 13, 2020, 03:02:35 AM
Jokingly:
Maybe Avatar 2 will be a court drama where the Cat people are trying to secure their legal rights.

Seriously:
Maybe they'll introduce another species to the mix and it could become a whole new thing.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on February 13, 2020, 11:15:07 AM
Jokingly:
Maybe Avatar 2 will be a court drama where the Cat people are trying to secure their legal rights.

Picturing the cat people in suits and a courtroom that's entirely too small for them is giving me the lolz.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on February 13, 2020, 03:38:24 PM
Jokingly:
Maybe Avatar 2 will be a court drama where the Cat people are trying to secure their legal rights.

Picturing the cat people in suits and a courtroom that's entirely too small for them is giving me the lolz.

It will be Bee Movie all over again...let the meme times roll!
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on February 13, 2020, 04:10:30 PM
Now that I think of it this is exactly the plot of I, Robot, Amistad, and the Star Trek:TNG episode The Measure of a Man. So, given that Avatar was just a ripoff of other movies this is just what we should expect. But that courtroom 3d is going to be fantastic.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on February 13, 2020, 07:50:36 PM
Thor: Dark World

I actually watched this a few weeks ago on Disney+. I’ve been meaning to post a write up except I barely even want to. It was so remarkably unremarkable.

The fight against Malekith wasn’t even cool. It was Red SFX, the scene. I expected to hate this movie based on comments from others. I didn’t. To me, it merely exists.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on February 13, 2020, 11:56:16 PM
Thor: Dark World

I actually watched this a few weeks ago on Disney+. I’ve been meaning to post a write up except I barely even want to. It was so remarkably unremarkable.

The fight against Malekith wasn’t even cool. It was Red SFX, the scene. I expected to hate this movie based on comments from others. I didn’t. To me, it merely exists.

also unmemorable. Like I don't remember what happens. I remember liking it more than I thought when I watched it, but only because the ending. Can't remember any other details of it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on February 14, 2020, 12:14:27 AM
Yeah, the first two Thor movies weren't great.  But Ragnarok was fantastic.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on February 14, 2020, 03:04:08 PM
I thought the first one was alright, but when I watched it my thoughts were: "This is just Master's of the Universe, but a little better"

I loved Ragnarok. Only in the MCU can a third movie be the best in a series. Captain America: Civil War, Thor: Ragnarok, Avengers: Infinity War were all better than their predecessors.

Ready or Not: I didn't expect it to be so good. It was funny as hell and I can even relate to unwanted in-laws. I just can't shake the feeling the Samara Weaving looks like Margot Robbie.

I too enjoyed Ready or Not. Samara Weaving is Red Skull and Agent Smith's niece. Much like Margot Robbie she is also Australian.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ejamer on February 14, 2020, 05:47:40 PM
Flight of the Navigator (streamed via D+) was much better than I expected.

Watching brought up a lot of old memories from the 80s when I first saw it - although was still interesting because I didn't remember the plot at all. The movie has a pretty good concept and works well enough, but it's a shame that there isn't much danger/adventure when the kid is reunited with his ship; the time spent together isn't really impactful or even that interesting, which is a real letdown since you feel like that could've made the movie something special.

The film is definitely dated, but the acting is fine and story manages to stay just interesting enough. I enjoyed seeing Sarah Jessica Parker play a character that didn't annoy me, and hearing Peewee Herman's voice (I know; not his real name) was a definite throw-back.

Overall it gets one thumb up. A pleasant stroll down memory lane. If you don't have any memories of watching as a kid, harder to recommend... although the sci-fi story might draw some in even if the payoff is pretty slim.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on February 14, 2020, 06:36:08 PM
Its funny, as between Captain America First Avenger and Thor I was more excited for Thor but after watching them I preferred Cap's film over Thor's. I didn't hate Dark World, but it was definitely a middle-of-the-road film. Not as weak as Hulk, but not much better. The only things I could readily recall after the first viewing was the bit where everyone was warping around in the climax and the gag where people were shouting out the names of the people flying around (Thor!...Mjolnir!) and the feeling that Christopher Eccleston was squandered as an actor. Though playing the villain in a Marvel film kinda sets you up to be squandered unless you are related to a hero (Loki, Killmonger) or are named Thanos.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on February 15, 2020, 09:49:30 PM
Birds of Prey  6.5  Meh. Storytelling was a mess. It's trying so hard to be Deadpool and Kill Bill it forgot to actually be funny. If I were to re-write the story I'd tell the story from Black Canary's perspective or work harder to make it an ensemble movie. It's kind of ironic to see Ewan McGregor there because Transpotting was better version of this movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on February 15, 2020, 10:22:04 PM
Finally got around to watching the good Captain Marvel movie, aka Shazam, and...yeah, that was pretty entertaining. I feel like the film is a bit long so I would have trimmed back some of the scenes with Captain Marvel being arrogant and selfish. Also, the designs of the 7 Deadly Sins were just awful and generic, and their CG was incredibly unconvincing.

That said, I thought the acting was great, the fight scenes very well-paced, and I really wasn't expecting to see the extended Marvel family this early in the "franchise." I'm really curious whether they're going to use the "Mary Marvel" name for one of them considering DC can't actually use the "Captain Marvel" name.

The humor in the film was pretty on-point, and I really appreciated the scene in the mall where you got to see all the classic-style DC merchandise ("I'm Batman") and the nod to Big. I appreciate DC allowing their directors to make more than 1 style of film (unlike the MCU, where every film is "what if everyone was a quipping, sarcastic Spider-Man except Spider-Man?"), but I can certainly enjoy a popcorn film like this every once in a while.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on February 28, 2020, 04:28:53 PM
Candyman(Original) - 8/10 That was good. I didn't watch it when it came out because I was 8. I missed out on this one. I should have watched it sooner, but it was off my radar.


edit Candyman(Original) - 9/10 The theme is stuck in my head.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on March 08, 2020, 04:05:15 AM
Yesterday 8/10 Solid alternate reality romantic comedy.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on March 15, 2020, 04:04:57 PM
Finally got around to watching my copy of Aquaman. That was thoroughly enjoyable. I don't understand why people **** on this movie so much.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 16, 2020, 02:58:20 AM
I thought Aquaman was fun, if not a little stupid at parts.
only part that I had a gripe with that sticks with me was the whole Pinocchio moment all the way up to the book at the fountain. Other than that, i remember having fun with the rest of the movie. It wasn't great, but certainly enjoyable and definite turn around from the majority of DCEU movies that came before it.


However I just watched Sonic the Hedgehog, and I have to say that even thought I came in with relatively low expectations, and more or less expected a Jim Carey Hamfest (in which it didn't disappoint, especially at the end. LMAO), but I was pleasantly surprised in how much I didn't hate this movie. The Sonic redesign helped a TON, but the character himself was pretty enjoyable overall. There were some laughs to be had, and the action was fun, and dare I say I actually liked the movie.
TBH I heard it was pretty good for what it was, so my expectations were I guess set slightly below what I ended up with, and that was an enjoyable videogame movie, where i think the sequel may be the Jim Carey Hamfest we only got glimpses of in this first movie. Assuming of course it gets a sequel. And my daughter opposed watching this movie since the day it came out, but I finally talked her into watching something new we hadn't seen yet, and she ended up liking it as well.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on March 22, 2020, 08:43:01 PM
(Posting this in the correct thread)

Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)

Yikes. This movie is a mess.

This is like three movies mashed into one: Harley Quinn's emancipation (which is not earned), Birds of Prey origin (also not earned), and whatever the hell Black Mask was doing.

1. How is Warner Bros going to make a Harley Quinn emancipation movie without The Joker? That's who she's emancipating from. That can and should be a whole movie, possibly even two given Suicide Squad barely covered anything so to get the full effect, we need to see that relationship for more than a few flashbacks then Quinn needs to free herself from her abuser. Also, the emancipation part could really use Poison Ivy. I didn't know anything about this movie before I watched it, but the whole time, I was waiting for Poison Ivy to show up especially since they shoved Huntress in there for maybe five minutes of total screen time.

2. There are four origin stories in this: Black Canary, Renee Montoya, Huntress, and Cassandra Cain. Black Canary and Renee Montoya got the most screen time of the limited screen time left over from Harley Quinn. If they want to make a Birds of Prey movie, just make a Birds of Prey movie. Then, if they really want Harley Quinn, add Harley Quinn later in a sequel to both movies. Also, how they decided to make a Birds of Prey movie without Barbara Gordon is beyond me. Finally, I generally like Rosie Perez as an actress. Unfortunately, I thought she was too old to be Renee Montoya.

3. Black Mask is just The Joker from Suicide Squad. They're both mob bosses. I didn’t think they did enough to make Black Mask more villainous than Harley Quinn. There’s one scene where he abused and embarrassed some random woman for laughing. It happens really late in the movie and seems so out of place. I know what they’re trying to do, but they’re doing it badly. It needs to happen earlier if they’re going to do it at all.

This movie really needed The Joker in order to work in any capacity. My understanding is Jared Leto wasn't available to film Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn). Fine, but don't make this movie until he is, or just cast someone else as The Joker. I didn't even like Jared Leto's Joker (did anyone?). At the same time, this movie really shouldn't happen without the character. It's so weird that they learned nothing from the dumpster fire that was Suicide Squad. The Joker so clearly should have been the main villain in that movie just like he should have been the main villain in this. It was all like right there on a platter yet they were like, "Hmmmmmmmmmmm, no. LOL."

Anyway, 90% of this movie is narrated. No. Just no.

The non-linear structure is confusing and doesn't add anything. That only works if the audience can follow what you're doing without narrating it to them and if there's a payoff. Neither of those things are true in Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn). Take Pulp Fiction for example. It's a movie that doesn't need to be told in chronological order and even benefits from not being told in order because each sequence is its own self-contained story that share certain characters. There are clear visual clues to piecing it together if you want (e.g. Jules and Vincent wearing Jimmy's dorky clothes in "Vincent Vega and Marsellus Wallace's Wife" then finding out why in "The Bonnie Situation"). Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) is just scenes seemingly thrown in a lottery ball tumbler then the editors decided to pick them at random and leave the film like that.

The action is so stupid and frustrating in this. Harley Quinn storms the police station by herself to find Cassandra Cain and only really gets away with it because the police in Gotham City are useless, oafy dipshits who have apparently never received police training before. Even Renee Montoya just fucking stands there gun drawn while Quinn throws the phone in the air and does this cartwheel kick into the phone which hits Montoya in the face. This, somehow, knocks Montoya out cold.

Black Mask sends other mercenaries to find Cain alive and the first thing they do is shoot in her direction with machine guns. They're actively shooting at Harley Quinn, but Cain is like right there.

I don't have the time or patience to run through all the dumb **** in this movie in depth. Why is Harley Quinn just walking around freely in broad daylight and playing roller derby? Batman isn't going to do literally anything about this? For some reason, Harley Quinn rescues a hyena at what is seemingly a regular pet store which then merely exists for the whole rest of the movie. It never does anything except violate Chekhov's Gun. Even when it supposedly dies, Harley Quinn never even really even grieves all that much. No one really tries to shoot Harley Quinn ever. They’re just holding guns and waiting for Harley Quinn to disarm them. The owner of this Chinese restaurant is introduced and built up as the only person who cares about Quinn, betrays her five minutes later, then just fucking drives away. He's just like "I have to go now. My planet needs me *slide whistle*". There's no comeuppance for that like... at all?

The moment when Harley Quinn, Black Canary, Renee Montoya, Huntress, and Cassandra Cain team up is just:

Harley Quinn: We should team up now.
Everyone: Yeah. Okay. Fine.

Towards the end of the big action set-piece, Renee Montoya gets shot in a bullet proof corset. She should be fine, but acts like she has stage four cancer and AIDS at the same time. Then, she hands Harley Quinn a gun and says, "I trust you."

WHY? YOU'RE A DETECTIVE AND HARLEY QUINN MURDERS PEOPLE! WHAT IS HAPPENING.............

I digress. I like Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn. Her talent is just wasted here, just like it was wasted in Suicide Squad. Huntress was lowkey one of my favorite characters in the DCAU. I just like the character, and Mary Elizabeth Winstead did as good a job as she could give the weak... everything in this movie. Black Canary was fine. Seemed a little out of character, and also, she uses her Canary Cry once. Just once. It blows dudes away, dozens of feet in the air yet Harley Quinn just roller skates through it with her fingers in her ears beca...

I can't do this anymore. Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) is laughably terrible. You may get something out of it if you go in with the right mindset. It's going to be a bad time, but it may be so bad its good as long as you understand it’s going to be a bad time.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ejamer on March 23, 2020, 01:23:16 PM
...
I can't do this anymore. Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) is laughably terrible. You may get something out of it if you go in with the right mindset. It's going to be a bad time, but it may be so bad its good as long as you understand it’s going to be a bad time.

So it's pretty much business as usual for another DC Universe movie?
That is a license deserving of better treatment. It's gotten to the point where even if I want to like the film, and go in with low expectations, I leave disappointed more often than not...  :(
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on April 02, 2020, 08:59:12 PM
Under the Silver Lake I still don't know what to think of this movie. I watched it last night and its the kind of movie that sticks with you and I find myself thinking about it still. On the other hand, there is some reprehensible characters in the film. Actually most of the characters. Watch it on Amazon Prime, and tell me how many stars I should give it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on April 03, 2020, 12:58:36 AM
I've probably watched Under the Silver Lake 5 times now. Something about it. It's like a ghost story without ghosts.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on April 04, 2020, 08:48:05 PM
Had the rare opportunity to sit down with my best friend today and watch some stuff I've had sitting on my shelf for a while:

Bumblebee - You know, it's a shame that Michael Bay so thoroughly killed the Transformers Live Action series, because if the series had put out something like Bumblebee sooner, maybe it would still be around. It's a real sign of the status of the franchise that I can post that Bumblebee bucks the trend of LA Transformers by actually being visually and narratively coherent. The Transformers look distinctive. I can tell them apart. When they fight, I can actually follow what's going on, as opposed to something like Dark of the Moon, which was so ungodly boring I actually fell asleep during the final battle sequence.

It's not an amazing film. It's WAY too happy to be set in the 80s and to shell out the royalties for period licensed music (although the appearance of one particular 80s pop song made me laugh because I really didn't think the film would get that Meta). The big problem I have with the film is there there are really 2 different films running simultaneously: E.T. and a Transformers film. They don't go together well. Overall, though, I found the movie quite enjoyable.

Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle - That was way, WAY better than it had ANY right to be, and was oddly very reverent towards the original 90s film. I had to smile that the filmmakers actually went out of their way to preserve continuity with the 1st film. It's a dumb, dumb movie, but it KNOWS it's a dumb movie and I had a great time with it. I appreciated the little touches, such as the characters finding one of the original Jumanji board game pieces within the game, as well as the original game board being visible when the camera panned out from the jungle.

Don't know if I'll bother with the sequel any time soon, though. I feel like there only "needed" to be one of these.

Well, Onward was available to stream, so we gave that a shot as well and it's...fine, I guess. "Meh" kind of sums up that movie in general. There's apparently a rule at Pixar that "whatever idea strikes you first with a concept, toss it out because that's what everyone will think of 1st". That rule was definitely not followed with Onward, which is as standard a "road trip movie" as you can get. The beats are exactly what you'd think they are, and the lesson is exactly what you'd think it would be. The movie coasts along on its setting, which just isn't enough to carry it over the finish line. This movie underperformed for a reason, and that reason wasn't the virus.

It's a shame, too, because the side story with the mother and Manticore was actually my favorite part of the movie. I kept wishing for them to cut back to it, because it was WAY more entertaining than the main story.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on April 06, 2020, 02:39:01 PM

Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle - That was way, WAY better than it had ANY right to be, and was oddly very reverent towards the original 90s film. I had to smile that the filmmakers actually went out of their way to preserve continuity with the 1st film. It's a dumb, dumb movie, but it KNOWS it's a dumb movie and I had a great time with it. I appreciated the little touches, such as the characters finding one of the original Jumanji board game pieces within the game, as well as the original game board being visible when the camera panned out from the jungle.

Don't know if I'll bother with the sequel any time soon, though. I feel like there only "needed" to be one of these.

I've not watched either of the two new Jumanji films. This is the first I am hearing that they don't break continuity with the original. One thing I am wondering, does Van Pelt make some sort of return (even as a descendant of the original character or something?)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on April 06, 2020, 05:01:21 PM

Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle - That was way, WAY better than it had ANY right to be, and was oddly very reverent towards the original 90s film. I had to smile that the filmmakers actually went out of their way to preserve continuity with the 1st film. It's a dumb, dumb movie, but it KNOWS it's a dumb movie and I had a great time with it. I appreciated the little touches, such as the characters finding one of the original Jumanji board game pieces within the game, as well as the original game board being visible when the camera panned out from the jungle.

Don't know if I'll bother with the sequel any time soon, though. I feel like there only "needed" to be one of these.

I've not watched either of the two new Jumanji films. This is the first I am hearing that they don't break continuity with the original. One thing I am wondering, does Van Pelt make some sort of return (even as a descendant of the original character or something?)

I believe so. The villain of Welcome to the Jungle has his name IIRC.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Kairon on April 06, 2020, 05:29:57 PM
Finally caught Yesterday, which I missed during its theatrical run and have been meaning to come back to for awhile. I'm pleased to have watched a movie that I enjoyed and left me calm afterwards instead of blowing up the entire world in the process.

Thing that most surprised me about it is that it's LONG, almost 2 hours! In a good way too in the sense that there's a lot of events driving the story forward and every moment showcases that this is a very solid cast and crew... or maybe I'm biased since this is a British film and I'm a big fan of their talent pool. apparently the movie has another 23 minutes of deleted or alternate scenes, so wow, it could've been longer!

Also, I was surprised that the film was more  interested in being wholesome than punitive. It could've very easily been made to wreak vengeance on the main character, which is very much his fear for a good part of it, but it ultimately goes in a whole other direction entirely, which is a win for positive lessons instead of negative ones.

Also, I really find Kate McKinnon a ton of fun and I would love to see her in more movie work (I even liked her in Ghostbusters where I place most of the blame on what must've been a horrendous script). And the many covers of Beatles songs are always enjoyable because, well, it's Beatles music.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ShyGuy on April 19, 2020, 08:14:10 PM
I watched Annihilation with Natalie Portman. People were calling this a smart sci-fi movie, but I found it to be a horror movie of questionable intelligence. All in all it wasn't terrible, It's nice to see an original big budget movie from Hollywood, but if you want smart sci-fi, go watch Arrival. If you watch this film take it all as a metaphor and not reality.

time for rants:
Why not send in an all terrain robot attached to a cord to collect samples? They would have tested the DNA of the samples and figured it out early. Or even send a person 30 feet in then back out and put them in quarantine for a month while you test his blood? Did they try tunnelling under? Flying over? And the alien got taken out with a phosphorus grenade? They could have dropped a fire bomb on the lighthouse and been done with the mess.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ejamer on April 19, 2020, 09:22:15 PM
I watched Annihilation with Natalie Portman. People were calling this a smart sci-fi movie, but I found it to be a horror movie of questionable intelligence. All in all it wasn't terrible, It's nice to see an original big budget movie from Hollywood, but if you want smart sci-fi, go watch Arrival. If you watch this film take it all as a metaphor and not reality.

time for rants:
Why not send in an all terrain robot attached to a cord to collect samples? They would have tested the DNA of the samples and figured it out early. Or even send a person 30 feet in then back out and put them in quarantine for a month while you test his blood? Did they try tunnelling under? Flying over? And the alien got taken out with a phosphorus grenade? They could have dropped a fire bomb on the lighthouse and been done with the mess.

Agree on all points. Don't regret my time watching it, but not a film that I found memorable or particularly exciting.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on April 19, 2020, 09:27:46 PM
time for rants:
Why not send in an all terrain robot attached to a cord to collect samples? They would have tested the DNA of the samples and figured it out early. Or even send a person 30 feet in then back out and put them in quarantine for a month while you test his blood? Did they try tunnelling under? Flying over? And the alien got taken out with a phosphorus grenade? They could have dropped a fire bomb on the lighthouse and been done with the mess.
For BNM (https://youtu.be/mG5v2udwOPY)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ejamer on April 21, 2020, 12:26:26 AM
The Wandering Earth.

I don't know what to say. It's a pretty bad movie if you care about having a well-crafted plot of logic, but it's got enough action and CG set pieces to distract if shortcomings in those areas don't bother you. Large portions of the film was barely watchable for me, and having to follow subtitles made it hard to do just leave it in the background like I would often do with this kind of mindless action stuff.

Maybe I'm being too hard on it though. If you liked Armageddon then you might find this good also?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on April 21, 2020, 08:30:05 PM
Darn these Mega-threads! Gotta go through pages and pages to track down an earlier post. Since ShyGuy brought up Annihilation, I wanted to find my review of it from when it came out. I remember liking the film when I saw it but I'm surprised that I rated it as high as I did. Maybe it comes for the residual feelings I mention after seeing it or how it no longer stayed with me anymore but, having not seen it since it first released, my first reaction when thinking of what I'd rate it is a bit lower like an 8 or 7.5. Anyways, I'll repost it again here since it may be of interest to compare your thoughts if you've seen it recently or missed it the first time. Reading the review over, there's more I wish I'd been specific with or gotten into but I didn't want to provide much for spoilers at the time since it was newly released. The fourth paragraph kind of goes all over the place without saying too much. Who let's this Khushrenada guy write so much when he says so little? (There's a new quote for everyone to use. ;) )



Annihilation - 9/10

I made mention of this in my recent Oscar thread but I found 2017 to be a year of mostly disappointing movies which resulted in a diminished enthusiasm for going to the movies or even just watching them at home. Perhaps if they had been more like Annihilation then this wouldn't have happened. Because of the timing of my viewing, it just feels to me like Annihilation is better than anything I saw in 2017. It's easily the best movie of 2018 I've seen so far. (Sorry Black Panther and Game Night, the only other actual 2018 flicks I've seen so far.)

I remember reading Roger Ebert's review of The Grey way back when that Liam Neeson vs wolves movie first came out. He talked about the movie affecting him and leaving him in a mood after it ended. I looked up that review to see what exactly he said about it and I'm going to quote that portion here: "I was also stunned with despair. It so happened that there were two movies scheduled that day in the Lake Street Screening Room (where we local critics see many new releases). After "The Grey" was over, I watched the second film for 30 minutes and then got up and walked out of the theater. It was the first time I've ever walked out of a film because of the previous film. The way I was feeling in my gut, it just wouldn't have been fair to the next film."

That's kind of close to how I feel about Annihilation. I wouldn't say that it feels you with despair but it is a heavy and foreboding experience. When it ended, it took a couple hours to decompress from it. It just left me in a heavy mood and, for awhile, I felt detached to things around me or my actions as my brain continued to process what I'd seen and how the whole thing made me feel. After a couple hours, the feeling subsided but it's been awhile since I remember a film really affecting me so much after that it took awhile to recover from it. I've seen stuff that made me feel a bit elated, sad, shaken, numb, etc when it was over but, after maybe 15 minutes or so, that feeling would pass and I'd be back to my normal self. So, the fact that this movie could do that to me is a reason why I do rate it so highly although I'm not sure it's a good thing when it comes to the idea of seeing it again.

The reason it seems to have this power is based on three things. First, it is Sci-Fi so it brings up questions and ideas on some interesting themes that stuck in my mind after viewing which kept me pondering in reflection. Genetics and biology is the obvious thing from this movie along with the question of self but also the thoughts on self-destruction stuck with me and a good grasp on putting the alien into alien lifeform. Second, the movie really does blend deadly and beautiful together so even though there are fascinating sights to behold, I never trusted anything and always felt uneasy and the movie rewards that distrust. There are moments that move more towards the horror end of the scale that will linger in your mind after you walk out of the theater. Finally, the ending goes for the weird and strange. That may frustrate some people or confound them and its ambiguous nature almost seems a bit anti-climatic but it left a bit of a mystery in my head to work over and decipher just what it all meant. It also brought back some flashbacks of Under The Skin.

Now, there are also a lot of things that people can get hung up on about this movie. I think most people going to the movie are going for the premise of entering into this strange zone. To the movie's credit, it moves pretty quickly to get to that point and come up with a reason as to why Portman's character would be on this mission. It's servicable enough but in an effort to hurry towards entering the zone and set up its mystery, it leaves a lot of details and questions unanswered. Simple things such as why not have teams enter a few feet from the entrance to assess things and then come back out again. Why not try setting up equipment close by? Or starting building a path into the zone and taking things slowly? Why does every mission have to be a deep infiltration to the heart of the zone when no one is coming back from these missions? There are questions of sound logic that you might be asking yourself at first in these early beginnings. But soon you are on the journey and the mystery of what's inside and at the heart is what you want now want answers for so forget those other pesky little details. They'll still be there after the movie is done but at least they don't derail things or your suspension of disbelief too much at the start. As well, the film is a bit clunky with its characters as a lot of details are just explained to the audience about them and who they are. It's tell rather than show which is sometimes a necessary evil particularly for a movie like this since it isn't really interested in the characters but the journey and the sights in it. Overall, its strengths are greater than its weaknesses which is why I'm still willing to give it a high rating and recommendation.

One other point of interest for Nintendo fans is that, maybe about 2/3 into the movie, I suddenly had a moment of thinking about the Metroid series. There were a lot of elements that I felt paralleled moments of the franchise, particularly with the Prime series. Portman's character could almost serve as a standout of Samus but without a powersuit. Exploring a strange alien environment while having to fight off some of the monsters inhabiting it. Finding different ruins and finding notes / clues / videos giving some details of what occurred before. A meteorite that has brought with it something that is mutating the environment (maybe it was Phazon all along!) and the heart of darkness hole where it landed. If Nintendo is serious about bringing its properties to other media like TV or Film then I think this film should be the number one source for how to handle the Metroid series in making it a successful transition. In that regard, I think that will add another element of intrigue for anyone here when watching this film.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on April 21, 2020, 10:04:41 PM
Darn these Mega-threads! Gotta go through pages and pages to track down an earlier post.
Maybe we should take a vote on whether to stop using mega-threads? Or take a vote to see if we should take a vote on whether we should stop using mega-threads?

Or maybe just decide one way or another? Or maybe someone else should decide because you started a whole Better Call Saul thread and abandoned it hella fast. Ohhhhhhhh, shots fired.









(To be honest, I don’t care either way. Y’all just let me know whether we’re using mega-threads or posting new ones for each movie)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: NWR_insanolord on April 21, 2020, 11:47:18 PM
The point of creating a separate subforum for movies and TV was to be less reliant on mega threads, but this particular one seems necessary. We don’t need a separate thread for every random movie somebody sees.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on April 22, 2020, 12:04:28 AM
Maybe it should be a case by case basis? Every Marvel movie could probably be an individual thread. Most tent pole movies could too, right?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: NWR_insanolord on April 22, 2020, 12:11:37 AM
Sure, if people want to make separate threads that’s fine, but just to use Khush’s post as an example, I doubt a thread dedicated solely to Annihilation would be that active. But again, if people disagree with that, go for it. If it’s not clear by now, I’m not usually that strict of a moderator.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on April 22, 2020, 12:52:36 AM
Or maybe someone else should decide because you started a whole Better Call Saul thread and abandoned it hella fast. Ohhhhhhhh, shots fired.

Never abandoned it. Just haven't had time to post all I've wanted to in that thread. But I did start it to try and set the example of starting threads on shows/movies for case by case. I always thought the goal wasn't so much to create threads that continuously get new posts and have to make a thread about Annihilation thrive but rather just to have that thread exist for when someone wants to add to it after watching a movie or show.

Take Better Call Saul. Although it was my intent to try and post in it every week or two as the season aired, by the end of the season I expected it to fade in activity until the next season and new episodes air or if someone bumped it. This forum could be about a lot of bumped threads as people watch stuff and then want to make a post or respond to a previously started conversation created on that subject.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on April 22, 2020, 04:44:04 PM
Never abandoned it.
Also Khushrenada:

Y’all should check out There Will Be Blood (https://youtu.be/JghkG4WydNk)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on April 23, 2020, 03:48:20 PM
Maybe it should be a case by case basis? Every Marvel movie could probably be an individual thread. Most tent pole movies could too, right?

We have like two or three three different threads for Marvel TV and films. It makes sense for large series to get their own threads, but most one-off films should really be condensed together. But really, this is still a pretty open environment. If someone wants to make a thread for an individual movie there isn't really anything stopping them.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on April 23, 2020, 04:39:20 PM
Maybe it should be a case by case basis? Every Marvel movie could probably be an individual thread. Most tent pole movies could too, right?

We have like two or three three different threads for Marvel TV and films. It makes sense for large series to get their own threads, but most one-off films should really be condensed together. But really, this is still a pretty open environment. If someone wants to make a thread for an individual movie there isn't really anything stopping them.

Just to make the counterpoint here, let's be honest: most of the time people post about a movie here, no one bothers to comment on it. I'm shocked when I take the time to post something about a movie or TV show older than 3 months, and someone actually comments on it. It's a large part of why I don't even bother posting anymore. I'd personally much rather that happen in a mega-thread than have a brand new topic that just sits there at 0 responses because these forums are dying.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on April 23, 2020, 04:49:00 PM
Sure, anyone can post a thread. Having some guidelines may not be a bad idea for the sake of organization. Sometimes I don’t know which thread to post in. I try to follow where the larger conversation is happening. I don’t know.

We may have more than one Marvel thread, but it can be confusing. BlackNMild‘s MCU thread is this massive, unwieldy potluck of Marvel things. Maybe it should be exclusively general news items. Larger news items (e.g. James Gunn getting fired) probably should have be their own thread. An entire mega-thread for MCU spoilers makes it harder to find related posts if you were late to the party. For example, I finally saw Thor: Dark World a couple months ago, and I just ended up posting about it in this thread because I didn’t know where else to put it.

For Marvel (since it accounts for a huge percentage of discussion/traffic in this sub-forum), my suggestion would be to have one general news mega-thread (namely the one we already have), then every future movie and TV show gets its own thread since chances are, each one will drive a significant, pages long discussion. At the same time, if someone posts in the wrong thread, mods would have to move the posts to keep things organized. Is that worth anyone’s time? Probably not.

This all started as a joke so I‘ll make do with whatever is decided.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on April 23, 2020, 05:17:38 PM
Just to make the counterpoint here, let's be honest: most of the time people post about a movie here, no one bothers to comment on it. I'm shocked when I take the time to post something about a movie or TV show older than 3 months, and someone actually comments on it. It's a large part of why I don't even bother posting anymore. I'd personally much rather that happen in a mega-thread than have a brand new topic that just sits there at 0 responses because these forums are dying.
That’s fair. I can’t speak for anyone else, but I do try to reply when it’s a thing I’ve actually watched especially if I liked it. I’ve seen you post about the DC animated movies. Some of them were DCAU related, and I loved those shows. However, if it isn’t on Netflix, I probably didn’t see it. Sometimes I forgot to even check Amazon Prime video.

I’ll post if I think something I watched is interesting. Great if others reply to it. For me, sometimes I just need to get it out of my system. Sometimes, I watch a thing and won’t think it’s worth spending a lot of time writing about such as (and to bring this back on topic):

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

I didn’t like it. I haven’t read the book since 2006, I think. The film (written and directed by the author of the book, Stephen Chbosky) is an extremely faithful adaptation of the novel. That’s also why I think the film doesn’t work. There’s very little action in the novel. Most of the best lines are Charlie’s thoughts which are then narrated. The book is epistolary. Charlie is writing to an unnamed recipient which is implied to be the reader. It’s difficult to translate that effectively on film. Chbosky uses narration (excessively) to mimic the epistolary format which is exhausting. The movie has no subtext, just straight text. I guess that’s fine, but it lacks substance.

Logan Lerman (Charlie) and Emma Watson (Sam) had no chemistry. Also, maybe cast some teenagers.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on April 24, 2020, 04:36:42 PM
I've thought about it more and I agree that the more separate threads for each film/series might be the better way to go. We are indeed stifling our own conversations to a degree because we only have a rudimentary ability to follow up to specific comments. We can quote people, but no way for that person to see they got a response since @-ing someone doesn't really do anything, and if the thread moves on a page or more before someone responds there is a good chance they will miss the response and then there is no further conversations. Sure, we could end up with a lot of threads with 0-3 responses, but I think it opens us up to allowing more conversations to run at once.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on April 24, 2020, 04:50:31 PM
Or..... And just hear me out. We can UPGRADE THE FORUM SOFTWARE to something from the last half decade and then we can do BOTH!!!

I know I'm preaching to the choir, and none of us have the ability to make it happen..... But seriously, there's gotta be other software out there that works besides simple machines if they don't want to release a recent upgrade.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ejamer on April 30, 2020, 12:34:46 AM
Burning, watched via Netflix.

The movie is two and a half hours long, with very relaxed pacing. At times it feels like the plot is meandering, lacking a clear purpose or direction. There is a lot of ambiguity around some of the characters and key story points. We can make assumptions since there are plenty of hints given, but it's hard to pin down the truth even when the movie ends.

This isn't a movie for everyone... but I thought it was pretty fantastic. Maybe the kind of movie where you get out of it when you put in, though?

I'm curious if anyone else watched this one.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on May 15, 2020, 06:02:53 PM
Sonic the Hedgehog

This movie has no right to be as good as it is. Mind you, it isn’t good per se; it just isn’t bad either. I expected a disaster and was pleasantly surprised. Maybe that’s the approach you should take.

Sonic the Hedgehog was clearly not made some a mid-30s person who doesn’t have a strong connection to the character. As a kid’s movie, it’s by-the-numbers, and I think that’s what makes it okay. The movie isn’t offensive in any way (thanks mostly to delaying the entire thing to redesign Sonic who looks really good and faithful to the source material). There are a few attempts at including some humor for adults that kids won’t understand, but they’re not especially clever. At least they aren’t distracting.

If you enjoyed 90s Jim Carrey, watch this movie. He’s the best part, and he goes as close to full-Jim Carrey as he can at all times. The performance isn’t as strong as vintage 90s Carrey, but this is as close as you can get for a PG movie. He doesn’t talk out of his butthole, for example.

There’s some sequel bait at the end which I didn’t think was necessary. Sonic the Hedgehog lends itself to a series more than Detective Pikachu did, and Legendary Entertainment has already announced a sequel so 🤷‍♀️.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Shorty McNostril on May 22, 2020, 08:35:05 AM
As soon as I saw the first trailer, the first thing I said was "they're bringing Ace Ventura back!". Looks like I was right lol. Definitely going to watch this one, but I'll be waiting till it ends up on *insert streaming service here*.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on June 22, 2020, 07:08:55 AM
Destination Moon - a pretty scientifically accurate scifi movie for 1950. It's interesting to see the parallels between whats going on with space travel today and the exposition of the movie. Private industry takes over for space travel because the government got cheap with public funding. Dick Wesson is the standout as a reluctant astronaut.  "The Oyth!" Written by Robert Heinlein.

Rocketship X-m - the science isn't as good as Destination Moon, but it has Lloyd Bridges. Overall, a much better cast with a worse script. Though points for having a total downer ending in a movie made in 1950.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on July 11, 2020, 03:34:09 PM
I watched Justice League (2017) for the first time a week or two ago.

I expected it to be bad, but it wasn't as bad as I thought.  Still bad though.  I don't get the total turn Batman does concerning Superman.  If he wanted to bring him back because he realized he wasn't as bad as previously thought and could help in the thing that's happening because of a dream he had, then fine, I guess.  But the "I don't not like you" gag was really cringe.  Where did this bromance come from?

The Flash's jokes worked slightly less than 50% of the time for me, which isn't enough.  The worst moment was at the end when Alfred is like "civilians moving east" and he saves one family in one car.  Then Superman saves an entire stationary building full of people who would not be moving east.  Who the **** was Alfred talking about?  Supes flexing on Flash was kinda funny, but everything involving that family was dumb since you saw them the whole film and didn't know why you were supposed to care until the end.  Back to the Flash, the one joke people complained about the most was 100% not worth Joss Whedon mistreating Gal Gadot (https://www.pinkvilla.com/entertainment/hollywood/gal-gadot-refused-sexualised-wonder-woman-scene-justice-league-joss-whedon-did-it-body-double-547732).

Speaking of Wonder Woman.  She was alright.  I wished there was more of her in the movie.  As for the Amazonians, I was really confused as to how women with super strength could be crushed by a horse in the very beginning.  Speaking of that scene, way to tease a GL without having one.

Speaking of underutilized, Cyborg's character S U C K E D.  He was "Wahh, I'm a monster" and they went nowhere with it.  His whole shtick is being a walking deus ex machina for the plot, but I just couldn't stand his not having an arc.

Also, Superman was way too op and his mouth was noticeably weird.  Like, on my meager 1080p screen, it was distracting.  I couldn't imagine seeing it in an actual theatre.  He's still the cardboard cutout from Man of Steel, except he was angry he got resurrected for some reason, but then he just had to go be sad on a farm for a bit.

Now, most of my biggest complaints are allegedly because of the reshoots, and the Snyder Cut fixes them. Allegedly.  So, now I'm actually excited to see it.  There might be a good movie under all the crap, or at least an okay one.

4/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on July 21, 2020, 03:28:00 PM
From the changes I know about The Snyder Cut sounds like it's going to be a lot better. The plotline is differ/bigger and Steppenwolf looks a lot cooler.

Snyder Cut concept art
(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/57/62/5f/57625f9bd2a763d9c9cd4df5a5c41666.jpg)

what he looked like in JOSStice league.

(https://www.shawarmachine.com/images/Steppenwolf_(2).png)

I remember being in the theaters and thinking "WTF? this guy looks goofy as ****. Like what was the point of CG if they could have just put a guy in a costume?" it was stupid.

version 1 looks like something I would have drawn in 7th grade

(https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com/f/25ef5b75-27ce-4451-9d9e-19b9d1873a50/d38qite-1d50993a-9ed4-4306-8e5e-b6d95919f5d0.jpg/v1/fill/w_900,h_1168,q_75,strp/yoric_the_demon_by_thepermman_d38qite-fullview.jpg?token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJ1cm46YXBwOiIsImlzcyI6InVybjphcHA6Iiwib2JqIjpbW3siaGVpZ2h0IjoiPD0xMTY4IiwicGF0aCI6IlwvZlwvMjVlZjViNzUtMjdjZS00NDUxLTlkOWUtMTliOWQxODczYTUwXC9kMzhxaXRlLTFkNTA5OTNhLTllZDQtNDMwNi04ZTVlLWI2ZDk1OTE5ZjVkMC5qcGciLCJ3aWR0aCI6Ijw9OTAwIn1dXSwiYXVkIjpbInVybjpzZXJ2aWNlOmltYWdlLm9wZXJhdGlvbnMiXX0.7xGfb97WMUcDDJPX_5Y76tv7L4eZO5gutLvWCzSSytk)

which I appreciate.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: oohhboy on August 02, 2020, 07:02:44 PM
Wait, nickmitch, you don't know about the Superman Moustache?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on August 03, 2020, 01:58:51 AM
Wait, nickmitch, you don't know about the Superman Moustache?

I had heard about Henry Cavil having grown a mustache that he couldn't shave for the reshoots, which is what I think you're referring to.  I had actually assumed the one screenshot of his face that was passed around a lot was just the worst example, taken out of context of a moving image.  This was not the case, and it was noticeably distracting throughout.  It almost became a game of "Will it be weird mouth or regular mouth?" whenever he was about to appear on screen. 


Perm, I actually didn't have an issue with the Steppenwolf design, and I'm not sure I like the Snyder concept art.  Steppenwolf is kind of just a dude in some armor, right?  Why overly complicate that? 

My biggest problem with that character is that he kinda sucks.  He's like a second tier villain, Darkseid's #2.  He just doesn't have the cache, to me, to be the big bad of a whole film.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on August 28, 2020, 04:43:07 PM
Tenet - I am still completely unsure about what i just watched. A technical masterpiece, made by someone who knows exactly what they're doing (see: Birdman, 1917). But the story? I'm not sure yet, i'll watch it a second time over the weekend.

If you watch Doctor Who, the character of River Song will have educated you completely as to how certain parts work

But i can say with absolute certainty, Tenet will be confusing a LOT of people.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on August 28, 2020, 09:42:22 PM
Wait, nickmitch, you don't know about the Superman Moustache?

Perm, I actually didn't have an issue with the Steppenwolf design, and I'm not sure I like the Snyder concept art.  Steppenwolf is kind of just a dude in some armor, right?  Why overly complicate that? 

WB is not great at realistic humanoid CG. Certainly not as good as Disney or Sony. Making someone look human dips into the uncanny valley. Changing the character into more of a creature gets around this. Also, looks like something I would have drawn in 8th grade. A plus. It's like having one of Napoleon Dynamite's ligers as a character.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on August 29, 2020, 03:53:56 PM
The New Mutants - Well this ends the FoX-Men era with a complete whimper. The movie needed some extra time to polish up some things, and the editing is all over the place one scene very early into the movie sees Dani run into an invisible wall and wake up with blood under her nose, and the very next scene (with no time jump) its all gone.

A common complaint over all these movies - Apocalypse especially - is they keep fighting murky CGI villains. And this continues here too. Sadly the movie hints at a few things for future movies that will never happen.

It's best to assume the final X-Men movie is Logan.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on August 29, 2020, 08:19:59 PM
Wait, nickmitch, you don't know about the Superman Moustache?

Perm, I actually didn't have an issue with the Steppenwolf design, and I'm not sure I like the Snyder concept art.  Steppenwolf is kind of just a dude in some armor, right?  Why overly complicate that? 

WB is not great at realistic humanoid CG. Certainly not as good as Disney or Sony. Making someone look human dips into the uncanny valley. Changing the character into more of a creature gets around this. Also, looks like something I would have drawn in 8th grade. A plus. It's like having one of Napoleon Dynamite's ligers as a character.

That makes sense.  With how Superman's face turned out, I'd expect some crazy uncanny valley if they designed him the otherway.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on August 29, 2020, 09:21:34 PM
It also didn't make sense. Superman could have just had a beard in the movie. He had a beard before. He was not really dead as much as he was in a weird stasis, where logically his hair could grow.  It would have been easier to CGI on a beard on scenes where he didn't have one. Or have him wear a beard on reshoots. It's not like Henry Cavil never had a beard in Man of Steel.

(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/45/8c/08/458c08c76355934df9361053e9b4c4e8.jpg)

(https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/4HEAAOSwIt5ccs7N/s-l400.jpg)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on August 30, 2020, 10:23:54 PM
X-Men: Apocalypse

I finally did this to myself. This installment has very few redeeming qualities. I don't know how they can cast an actor as talented and charismatic as Oscar Isaac then direct him into being as bland as possible. Apocalypse was so bad. I'm just waiting for Marvel to do the character correctly for in 10 years.

Two scenes stood out to me. First, when Scott officially introduces himself to Jean, a group of students gossip about her while one calls her a freak. Aren't y'all at this school for the same reason? Second, when Apocalypse makes his transference building toward the end, he takes time to make statues. I guess. Seems unnecessary.

It'll be some time before I muster the energy to watch X-Men: Dark Phoenix. Also waiting for Marvel to do this correctly, maybe for Avengers vs. X-Men.

EDIT: Clarity. I did not proofread this before posting.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on August 31, 2020, 10:26:38 PM
For not being anything like Apocalypse I thought Oscar Isaac did a good job. He's such a good actor.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Spak-Spang on September 02, 2020, 07:26:40 PM
I think there are only 3 good X-men films (not counting the Wolverine or Deadpool films) which I guess that is almost half of them.  One could make an argument that there are 4 good movies, but if you do then I will counter which there are only 2 great X-men movies.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on September 02, 2020, 08:01:52 PM
I think there are only 3 good X-men films (not counting the Wolverine or Deadpool films) which I guess that is almost half of them.  One could make an argument that there are 4 good movies, but if you do then I will counter which there are only 2 great X-men movies.
What are your three?

Not counting Deadpool, I liked X2: X-Men United, First Class, and Days of Future Past. The original is good, but it didn’t age well. I wouldn’t call it bad; it’s just harder to watch 20 years later. I got three to four so I’m with you. It feels like there are more of these movies.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Spak-Spang on September 02, 2020, 09:23:55 PM
X2 United, First Class, and the Original and Days of Future Past are the 4 "good movies". With X2 United and First Class being great films. 
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Spak-Spang on September 02, 2020, 09:30:23 PM
I am willing to accept a movie that has aged poorly as still being good.  The original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is still one of the best comic book movies ever made, and X-Men works up until Magneto's silly scheme.  It would have worked as a story, better if Magneto looked at storm and just said, "Well, if mutation does stick, then at least those leaders can hurt us anymore."  Showing himself to equally the problem. 

As for the movie count, I thought there were more too.  But mainline movies there are still only like 7 movies...so still almost half of the movies were good.  I guess that is Star Trek and James Bond level consistency. 
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on September 03, 2020, 01:26:58 AM
X-Men works up until Magneto's silly scheme.  It would have worked as a story, better if Magneto looked at storm and just said, "Well, if mutation does stick, then at least those leaders can hurt us anymore."  Showing himself to equally the problem.
I thought that was his plan. Make all humans into mutants, starting with world leaders. That way, everyone would be mutant or rather, in a way, no one would be a mutant. Even if the mutated humans die like Senator Kelly, no more dumb humans. 🤷‍♀️

Feel free to correct me. I haven't seen the original X-Men in forever.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on September 03, 2020, 02:50:58 AM
The ones I like are First Class and Days of Future Past. Not too fond of the others.

plot twist Covid gives you Mutant powers.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Spak-Spang on September 03, 2020, 10:15:20 AM
Adrock:  It was, except that he doesn't talk about not caring if they die.  He still believes he is going to change the world by making all the world leaders now have the same struggle as mutants...except that if they aren't real mutants but forced mutants it isn't the same plight. 

I think showing the Magneto understood the risk of death and went with his plan knowing it would most likely fail...showing that cold conviction with words is important.  Just having him say, are you sure you saw what you saw?  or something like that wasn't enough. 

On a separate note, I read the Demon Bear Saga again to prepare for the New Mutants movie...and I fully understand why the movie is getting bad reviews...and why it should have worked...the story is a perfect story for a movie if it was written right.  First, trapping them into the hospital like the hospital and workers is evil takes the set piece of the original story of being trapped in a hospital protecting a fallen comrade away.  The core setup is wrong.  And it is tragic because the hospital works so well in the original comic book story.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on September 06, 2020, 08:33:47 PM
Happy Happy Joy Joy: The Ren & Stimpy Story

This is a decent documentary. TL;DW: John Kricfalusi is a ****.

Bill & Ted Face the Music

It's dumb, but good dumb. I put it on to unwind. I'll never watch it again which applies to the first two which I haven't seen in like 25 years. They should leave well enough alone and not make another sequel. The ending is good, fitting. There's one really good joke in this movie (Bill and Ted's second visit to one of their future selves; it involves a gun).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on September 30, 2020, 01:41:04 PM
The Old Guard - A surprisingly decent Netflix movie with an interesting conceit. The only thing that stands out is the "location problem" when movies film in a major city.

Towards the end of the film they park a car outside an office block in the City of London (the City of London is itself inside London, but only a square mile wide) and leave it and go upstairs. No other people, no other cars, no other traffic seen. When they leave no other traffic or people is seen until after they leave when all the extras suddenly pop out from around the sides.

1 - That car would have had hundreds of parking tickets on it by the time they got back to the car.
2 - Parking that car on a two lane road in the City would have caused a massive traffic jam going back miles (having seen a fight in the middle of the road last week, this is very likely)
3 - It was clearly a workday if dozens of people appear in business clothing, meaning that, in pre-2020 at least, that street would have been packed and police would have been there before they got downstairs.

It's the little things that throw me out.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on September 30, 2020, 04:41:48 PM
I watched a movie last night where three old white guys spent 90% of the time yelling at each other mostly incoherently.  It was terrible and I would not recommend.  Somehow, there's already two sequels and a spin-off slated.

I know folks complain about Michael Bay special effects, but I was to the point I was praying we'd get a huge explosion or something during the movie.  It was just bad.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on October 01, 2020, 12:06:51 AM
I saw that too. An embarrassment of a production.
Can't believe they plan to make more. All involved should probably just retire and not plan to pursue a career doing this anymore.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on October 01, 2020, 12:14:18 PM
Saw as well. To paraphrase a friend of mine "I can't believe they cast a child and a moron as the leads in this film". A shame the production studio can't bother finding some decent talent for their films.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on October 01, 2020, 02:41:07 PM
What movie are y’all talking about? I’m having trouble putting the clues together. 🤷‍♀️
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on October 02, 2020, 11:11:37 AM
I just realized you guys were talking about the presidential debate. 🤦‍♀️

I didn’t watch it because I hate-watched the last four seasons of the show it was based on. I read the plot summary online instead.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Khushrenada on October 02, 2020, 12:30:59 PM
I'm sorry but that earns a new title and signature.  ;D
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on October 02, 2020, 03:19:33 PM
We don't talk about politics on here.  That's forbidden.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on October 02, 2020, 03:40:54 PM
We all know that word is derived from 'poli' the Greek word for many, and 'tics' which are blood sucking insects. So we can't talk about Many Blood Sucking Insects.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on October 24, 2020, 06:50:40 PM
Borat: Subsequent Movie Film

OMG, I haven't laughed this hard at a movie in quite a long time.
The first half of this movie was killing me. We were all laughing the majority of the time.
The second half, while still funny, wasn't quite on the same level for some reason.... It might be because we kept taking breaks (we were watching on the projector in my back yard -"Home Theater.).

Also there was one scene in the trailer that seemed kinda funny, but was even funnier once put into context. The scene at the doctors office, where the audience has the same "WTF" expression as the doctor out of context in the trailer, is now literally laughing your ass off once you realize the context of the situation.

Highly recommended to watch with friends. maybe even slightly elevated... or at least relaxed and in a mood to laugh.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on October 24, 2020, 07:40:05 PM
I agree that the first half was better than the second half. I got sort of taken out of the movie because of the camera angles. Part of Borat is a lot of people are marks getting sucked into his candid camera gags. But when the camera angles keep changing in ways to move the narrative like a regular movie then you know hey those are just actors in on the gag. There is more of that in the second half than the first. The first half is mostly marks.
It does pick up again in the last third of the movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on December 26, 2020, 07:59:24 PM
Fantfourstick.  4/10 in 2020 dollars.  8/10 in 1990 dollars.

This movie wasn't quite as terrible as everyone made it out to be.  Sure, it's predictable, cliché, and doesn't do the source material justice, but neither did most 90s comic book movies.  If this script had come out in the 90s, I'm sure it would have done as well as any comic movie from that time period.  You may argue against the quality of comic book movies today, but, for the most part, they've upped the game and the expectations, something FOX just never got their head around with their later X-Men installments.  It's a shame, they helped paved the way for the modern super hero film, but they took an exit to a rest stop and just kinda stayed there.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on December 29, 2020, 09:49:49 PM
Soul

Pixar does it again.  Not sure what else to say.  It's a great film, lots of feels, good enough plot.  While I don't have a ton to say about it, but I highly recommend it.  Best film I saw today.

8.5/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on January 01, 2021, 02:19:39 PM
Wonder Woman 1984

Woof. I don't know how Patty Jenkins made a movie as good as Wonder Woman then made a movie as bad as its sequel. Granted, this is not the first time this has happened though I find it odd that this seems to happen with superhero movies a lot.






UNMARKED SPOILERS BELOW
(To be honest, I don't think this movie is good enough to justify the time needed to individually mark spoilers or really, the length of this post, but I had a lot of feelingz)






Let's start here: It's ridiculous that Diana isn't over a man she knew for what, a few weeks, a month 66 years ago. That implies she has had no personal growth in nearly seven decades. She has pictures and mementos of Steve Trevor all over her condo. What was she doing with all that time? I don't hate the choice to bring back Steve (Gal Gadot and Chris Pine have good chemistry). However, there had to be a better way to do so without making Diana seems so needy.

Then, there's the weird moral quandary of Steve's soul/consciousness being magically placed in some random man's body instead of simply appearing as himself. Diana and Steve definitely ****, meaning both of them just used this hapless dude's body yet neither of them act like that's completely reprehensible. Then, that man shows up at the end none the wiser so I presume he was not aware for any of that (except he probably was). WHAT WAS GAINED FROM THIS? Just bring back Steve in his own pre-blown up body and have him disappear when Diana renounces her wish. After speaking to a friend, I am not the first person to think the Steve-Not-Steve thing was bizarre. This begs the question of how this made it into the final cut. Wonder Woman 1984 was delayed eleventy-billion times. No one in like two years thought it might be a good idea to cut/reshoot that part?

Anyway, many of the issues in this movie stem from the Dreamstone as its rules were particularly unclear. Explaining the MacGuffin using a well-known work of fiction (i.e. W. W. Jacobs "The Monkey's Paw) isn't necessarily a bad strategy. However, once you make that connection for the audience, it becomes extremely difficult to walk it back. The Monkey’s Paw is an extremely easy concept to grasp. However in Wonder Woman 1984, Dolos is mentioned then never introduced and subsequently ignored for the rest of the movie. Are we supposed to care about that? As for the wishes themselves, sometimes a person gets exactly what they want, sometimes they mostly get what they want. Sometimes the ironic twist is instantaneous, sometimes it's a slow burn. Perhaps more cumbersome is that the text supports the notion that everyone remembers that weird day when everyone's wish was granted yet no one is freaking the **** out, particularly Not-Steve at the end who should know who Wonder Woman is. Collectively, the movie does a poor job of establishing the rules of the world its presenting.

Additionally, I wasn't entirely sold on why this movie absolutely had to be set in 1984. I get that Maxwell Lorenzano/Max Lord was cosplaying as Gordon Gekko, the poster boy for 80s greed. The problem here is Gordon Gekko is a **** through and through while Max Lord is not (more on that later). I suppose 1984 was only five short years removed from the 1979 oil crisis yet also around the 1980s oil surplus. The movie also touched on but pre-dates the Cold War of the 1980s. One thing I learned in a screenwriting class back in college is if you're going to write a period piece, it has to be essential to the story you're telling. For example, X-Men: First Class very critically uses the Cuban Missile Crisis. Additionally, the antagonist and one of the protagonists are intimately tied to World War II so the timing works. Those are big reasons to set the events in 1962.

In Wonder Woman 1984, there are mostly superficial references to the 1980s such as the mall set piece at the beginning that seemed like a wink-and-a-nod to 1980s comedies (and aggressive use of literal winking at the camera). Tonally, it did not fit well with the rest of the film. Personally, I feel like this was a missed opportunity. If Warner Bros./Patty Jenkins really wanted to make a period piece, here's an idea: make a $200 million, two hour and 30 minute version of the 1970s TV show.

As it stands, Wonder Woman 1984 does not use its runtime well. It's somehow too long and not long enough. Jenkins seemingly wanted to do a lot with all these different moving parts and accomplished almost none of it. The opening scene is there to show how and why Diana understands the importance of telling the truth. 11 minutes were spent on what could have been a 30 second scene or you know, not in the movie at all because we don't need that lesson. As a moral figure, we expect that from Wonder Woman. This is the same kind of heavy-handed storytelling from the original (i.e. love > war). I didn't even dislike the scene itself (other than not believing Lilly Aspell could outperform all of the other Amazons). However, it was an easy scene to cut with its runtime better used elsewhere such as...

I didn't care about Max Lord and his relationship with his son because roughly 37 seconds was spent on that yet it became the catalyst for Max's change of heart at the end. In fact, I didn't really care about Max Lord's character. He's all over the place so it was difficult for me to feel anything for him. Max is the main antagonist yet the movie never commits to him being a villain. He's clearly meant to be sympathetic except we're not given key information until his flashback montage in the third act. For that reason, I wasn't able to relate to him. Marvel, for example, has tried this a few times, and has been far more successful at least partially because they didn't try to squeeze in a redemption arc in a limited amount of time. It takes Loki two whole movies and one scene in a third to earn his redemption. Zemo and Killmonger don't get a redemption arc (yet?). They live and die by their actions. In Wonder Woman 1984, Max Lord almost destroys the world yet faces no consequences. He just fucking walks out of that building the randomly finds his son wandering out of the forest. What in the worl..........

Additionally, I didn't care about Max Dillon/Electro Barbara Minerva/Cheetah because her screentime was so poorly utilized. It felt like Kristen Wiig was in this movie for like 10 minutes. Why am I supposed to care about her? She dropped some papers, people don't remember her name/appreciate her intelligence, then she has her did-we-just-become-best-friends lunch date with Diana. That scene cuts to Diana laughing and telling Barbara how funny she is. "No one's made me laugh like that in such a long time." Well, what did Barbara say that was so funny? Y'all cast one of the funniest comedians in the world and don't let her be funny? We're just told she's funny. Woof.

Later, Barbara beats up that creeper who previously harassed and assaulted her because he was harassing her again. To be honest, I was still on Team Barbara. She shouldn't be beating up people, but we're conditioned to take Barbara's side. Right? Barbara hasn't done anything terrible yet, and the guy has now street harassed her twice implying that his earlier behavior wasn't isolated. The scene plays out more like a bad person getting their comeuppance than Barbara losing a part of herself due to the ironic nature of her wish. The movie didn't commit to Barbara's heel turn when it needed to. The audience doesn't find out until later that Barbara's wish traded her warmth as a person for power and beauty. Okay. It's-not-their-fault® except that's both antagonists in this movie. Why? It's okay to have an irredeemable villain.

And it was hella weird that Barbara just walks into the White House and has a big fight with Diana. That action set piece felt off. There are multiple shots of White House security just not firing their guns at people who trespassed on White House grounds. Then, Diana drops an exposition bomb on Barbara who quickly turns it around on Diana. It's frustrating that Diana somehow didn't realize that she had to give up Steve-Not-Steve to get her powers back before being told. At least she learned to fly (though the flying and whip swinging parts looked off to me).

I'm not sure what Barbara gained by using her freebie wish from Max to be “an apex predator”. She already had Diana's powers and literally just bested her in combat. On top of that, the makeup and CGI were not great. This movie was such a flustercuck that I'm 97% sure there's a version of Cheetah with a CGI butthole. #ReleaseTheButtholeCut

Wonder Woman 1984 violates so many basic rules of filmmaking and storytelling from people who should and do know better. I want to blame Warner Bros. for meddling because that's on brand for the company and a lot of these things don't seem like mistakes a seasoned director like Jenkins would make.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on January 01, 2021, 04:12:26 PM
Wonder Woman 1984

Woof. I don't know how Patty Jenkins made a movie as good as Wonder Woman then made a movie as bad as its sequel. Granted, this is not the first time this has happened though I find it odd that this seems to happen with superhero movies a lot.

and to think WB fast tracked the the third movie with the same director...

I still haven't watched it, so I avoided the rest of your post. I'll probably come back to read it later.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on January 03, 2021, 05:37:54 PM
I wonder if there was some studio interference with it. 1984 is a popular year right now because the 80's are all the rage (Stranger Things, Thor Ragnarok styling) and people associate that year with the Orwell book so I imagine this was a critical bullet point added early on to the plans for the film. It is also separate enough from the first WW and from Justice League that it pulls a Mandalorean in that it can still do its own thing without either the surrounding events/films that were more controversial having too much of an impact on this film. So Justice League's panned acceptance may have caused them to pick a time in the remote past to avoid dealing with any possible retconning or adjustments or commitments to the JL film/DCU while WB figures out what the hell they want to do with that mess going forward.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on January 03, 2021, 11:11:37 PM
Wasn't there studio interference with the first one?  I recall some talk that the final fight scene was designed to fit the Snyder-verse look, but I may be misremembering.

Wonder Woman 1984

Woof. I don't know how Patty Jenkins made a movie as good as Wonder Woman then made a movie as bad as its sequel. Granted, this is not the first time this has happened though I find it odd that this seems to happen with superhero movies a lot.

I worry she went in with an "all of my ideas are good ideas" mentality and just left too much **** in there and didn't leave room to explain enough of it.

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(To be honest, I don't think this movie is good enough to justify the time needed to individually mark spoilers or really, the length of this post, but I had a lot of feelingz)

Not adding spoiler tags, so fair warning, lol.

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Then, there's the weird moral quandary of Steve's soul/consciousness being magically placed in some random man's body instead of simply appearing as himself. Diana and Steve definitely ****, meaning both of them just used this hapless dude's body yet neither of them act like that's completely reprehensible. Then, that man shows up at the end none the wiser so I presume he was not aware for any of that (except he probably was). WHAT WAS GAINED FROM THIS? Just bring back Steve in his own pre-blown up body and have him disappear when Diana renounces her wish. After speaking to a friend, I am not the first person to think the Steve-Not-Steve thing was bizarre. This begs the question of how this made it into the final cut. Wonder Woman 1984 was delayed eleventy-billion times. No one in like two years thought it might be a good idea to cut/reshoot that part?

I don't get how that guy is just walking around like his life is normal?  He either is aware of what happened or has no memory of the last few days, which would cause most people to go to a hospital.  He was also all over the White House, so he probably should've been answering some questions from the Secret Service, maybe?

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Anyway, many of the issues in this movie stem from the Dreamstone as its rules were particularly unclear. . .

So, I think the way it worked was that the dreamstone takes something, and it could be anything.  By becoming the dreamstone, Max Lord could just up and decide what to take?  But with everyone making wishes, it's unclear how he can possibly keep up with taking things or why he appeared to be dying for some reason.

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Later, Barbara beats up that creeper who previously harassed and assaulted her because he was harassing her again. To be honest, I was still on Team Barbara. She shouldn't be beating up people, but we're conditioned to take Barbara's side. Right? Barbara hasn't done anything terrible yet, and the guy has now street harassed her twice implying that his earlier behavior wasn't isolated. The scene plays out more like a bad person getting their comeuppance than Barbara losing a part of herself due to the ironic nature of her wish. The movie didn't commit to Barbara's heel turn when it needed to. The audience doesn't find out until later that Barbara's wish traded her warmth as a person for power and beauty. Okay. It's-not-their-fault® except that's both antagonists in this movie. Why? It's okay to have an irredeemable villain.

I had no idea what the scene was trying to convey.  It didn't even register to me that she was losing her humanity.  Why?  She beat up a guy that, let's be honest, was giving off rapist energy.  He got what he deserved, but she was slightly embarrassed because the homeless guy she was nice to saw that happen?  Pfft.

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I'm not sure what Barbara gained by using her freebie wish from Max to be “an apex predator”. She already had Diana's powers and literally just bested her in combat. On top of that, the makeup and CGI were not great. This movie was such a flustercuck that I'm 97% sure there's a version of Cheetah with a CGI butthole. #ReleaseTheButtholeCut

I'm still not even clear on how she got a second wish.  The rule was everybody got one, but did that reset when Max Lord became the dreamstone?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on January 04, 2021, 12:10:02 PM
Now that the internet at as a whole as convinced me to save my time and not invest it in yet another terrible DCverse movie, I came across this video of the WW84 Pitch Meeting that made me laugh out loud and pointed to some of the same complaints as above, while also convincing me that my time can be better spent watching other things on my watch list. LOL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_Tm0SxIp6w&feature=emb_title
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on January 04, 2021, 03:18:12 PM
I wonder if there was some studio interference with it. 1984 is a popular year right now because the 80's are all the rage (Stranger Things, Thor Ragnarok styling) and people associate that year with the Orwell book so I imagine this was a critical bullet point added early on to the plans for the film. It is also separate enough from the first WW and from Justice League that it pulls a Mandalorean in that it can still do its own thing without either the surrounding events/films that were more controversial having too much of an impact on this film. So Justice League's panned acceptance may have caused them to pick a time in the remote past to avoid dealing with any possible retconning or adjustments or commitments to the JL film/DCU while WB figures out what the hell they want to do with that mess going forward.

I was born in 1984. That being said. I think most nostalgia content of the 80s are barely like the 80s were. I had a college professor who was a teenager in the 60s and he thought all the 60s nostalgia stuff was goofy. I'm down for some early 90s nostalgia though.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on January 04, 2021, 07:07:09 PM
I wonder if there was some studio interference with it. 1984 is a popular year right now because the 80's are all the rage (Stranger Things, Thor Ragnarok styling) and people associate that year with the Orwell book so I imagine this was a critical bullet point added early on to the plans for the film. It is also separate enough from the first WW and from Justice League that it pulls a Mandalorean in that it can still do its own thing without either the surrounding events/films that were more controversial having too much of an impact on this film. So Justice League's panned acceptance may have caused them to pick a time in the remote past to avoid dealing with any possible retconning or adjustments or commitments to the JL film/DCU while WB figures out what the hell they want to do with that mess going forward.

I was born in 1984. That being said. I think most nostalgia content of the 80s are barely like the 80s were. I had a college professor who was a teenager in the 60s and he thought all the 60s nostalgia stuff was goofy. I'm down for some early 90s nostalgia though.

1984 represent! ;)

While I agree, I personally love the hyper-stylized imagery of "our birth era". I view it similar to the stylized portrayal of pirates, ninjas, and cowboys in that it is rather romanticized and idolized rather than being true-to-life of the time. Plus as time goes on, it continues to get boiled down into tropes, stereotypes, and exaggerated images in a modern form of myth-making from history. So I try to not fault things from using stylized iterations of those images unless they are blatantly trying to claim that was truthfully how it was at the time universally.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on January 05, 2021, 11:19:03 PM
Tenet

I freaking loved this movie.  I honestly thought it made perfect sense through out.  There were a few things I would've liked to see explained more, but they're largely irrelevant and some made more sense as I thought about it later.  This movie takes the "Looper" route and literally tells the audience to try not to think about it too much, but once they really get going with inverted people, the movie is fine.  The protagonist's name being "The Protagonist" was kinda silly also.  Speaking of, he has such a Tintin vibe in that he's kind of just going along with the adventure and seeing it through because that's just how he gets down, and I like that.  "It's your job to go stop WW3", "Ok" and that's all the character motivation you get.

The action scenes are so fun, and there's people moving backwards and forwards in them and they're so fun to watch.  You get to see a lot of them from both perspectives, which is a treat and works very well. 

9/10

I recommend watching with subtitles to make it easier to follow, but basically all the action scenes have someone/something with reversed entropy so you just have to keep in mind which way the protagonist is heading.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Order.RSS on February 11, 2021, 12:50:43 PM
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Color Out Of Space - 2019.

Threw this on because the poster looked cool, without really knowing anything about it. But this was genuinely pretty decent, although I could see it being divisive. It's a slow-paced cosmic horror flick about a meteorite landing in Nicolas Cage's backyard alpaca farm (no, really). Slowly the space rock starts to radiate a hypnotic ultra-violet~ish color which hypnotizes everyone around it and causes all kinds of horror stuff.

In terms of characters, motivations, plot, etc. none of this is new, but Madeleine Arthur is great as a teen daughter dabbling in witchcraft, and Elliot Knight plays the straight man role well - he's the only sane person,  a hydrologist caught up in all the madness. Nic Cage is of course game for everything, and while you only get 1 or 2 Certified Cage freakouts, he's good in a quite demanding role which has him slipping in and out of sanity, persona, accents, etc. on a dime.

Yes, you could definitely switch out the ominous space color for witchcraft or demonic possession to get similar results, but it was unsettling enough to get under my skin which is impressive since the antagonist is... glowing light? It's certainly a budget movie, but they hide their limitations well by keeping most of the (deeply grotesque) body horror out of the light, and there's a real permeating sense of dread falling over the farm through smart set dressing.

Heads up though: not for anyone with a light stomach, aversion to body horror, and mutilation. It's hardly a slasher movie bloodbath, but the few choice moments of gore are unsettling. 
Rating: one Wicker Man out of MANDY.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: M.K.Ultra on March 09, 2021, 03:01:33 PM
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Bliss (2021)
I saw promos for this on Amazon Prime and decided to give it a try because of the leading actors. You may have passed over it because of negative reviews. It currently has a 5.3/10 on IMDB (I rated this 9/10). I think it is being advertised as a romance film and while there is a romantic aspect it is a dark film that deals with drug use, mental health, and homelessness. If any of these issues bother you, the film's approach may be a problem and make you feel uncomfortable as it may very well be trying to. So I recommend this to people who enjoy the work of Darren Aronofsky, as Bliss seems to have suffered from the same poor reception as Mother. There is a powerful thought provoking film here, just not one that will make you feel good.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on March 10, 2021, 07:42:20 PM
Coming to America 10/10  - A classic.  I re-watched it to catch up. Gags throughout the whole movie. Also a crazy attention to detail. When I watch a movie a subsequent time I pay attention to background things more.

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Coming 2 America 7/10 - the acting and characterizations were there, but it wasn't quite as bitingly funny, and had a poorly constructed story. Everything is there except the writing.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on March 21, 2021, 10:05:25 PM
Palm Springs

This is the Lonely Island movie that's basically a two person Groundhog's Day.  I think it might be Hulu exclusive?  Anyway, the premise was enough to sell me on the movie.  I thought having an extra person would spice up that formula.  Andy Sandberg's character has pretty much been stuck in the loop for (what he experiences as) many, many years.  He's pretty much completely jaded by the experience at the start of the movie.  He attempts to seduce Cristin Milioti's character, but she wanders into the cave that put him into the loop, which gets her stuck in it as well.  The movie is more or less a romcom from there.

The movie is fun and the jokes are pretty good.  One issue I had was that Sandberg's character seemed like he had something more going on with him.  He specifically said that he'd been trapped in the loop for so long that he did not remember what he did for a living.  I didn't think it made sense for him to be lying in that situation, so that added a layer of tragedy to the character that ultimately goes unexplored.  His character's arc feels a bit lackluster overall.  There's a light twist later in the movie that they do a good job of alluding to without it being too overt, though you can figure it out early on.

8/10


Sonic the Hedgehog

The best phrase I've seen used to describe this movie is "Better than it has any business being".  Once you accept the conceit that they're doing their own thing on Sonic's cannon, including how the rings work, the rest of the movie works.  The only thing I didn't really like were the sudden "only Sonic is moving and everything else is perfectly still" scenes.  They just felts too sudden, I guess?

In any event, I'm excited for the sequel.  The mid credits scene was sufficiently hype and the opening scene lets you know that a certain other species of Sonic friend exists in that universe.  Also, Jim Carey is an absolute treasure.  That one line from the trailer was still in the movie and was just as cringe.

8/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on March 23, 2021, 09:05:06 PM
Well, after watching Netflix's Pacific Rim: The Black, I decided to finally bite the bullet and watch that copy of Pacific Rim Uprising I've had on my shelf for a while now. I'd held off on watching it because I heard it was a colossal disappointment after the superb 1st film.

Well, if I had any expectations left going into the film, it probably would be as such but in general I thought the film was just OK. The first movie was dumb, but it was so sincere and so thoroughly embraced how sincere and dumb it was that I loved it. It was like a modern Independence Day in many respects.

Uprising is a confused mess that has no idea who it wants to focus on, what story it wants to tell, or what tone it wants to set. Is it about yet another Angry Black Man Who Grew Up Without a Father Finding His Place in The World? (TM) Is it about a team of Young Recruits Learning to Become a Team and Fulfill Their Potential Under Their Harsh But Caring Instructors? (TM) Is it about a corporation carrying out political assassinations to advance their objectives? Is it a sincere movie about fighting to save the world? Is it a snarky Marvel knock-off where everyone's a smart-ass? WHO KNOWS?!

The first half of the movie thoroughly bored me, which reminded me of a Michael Bay Transformers film. The presumed main character is a completely unlikable ass, and honestly his transformation into his more noble form doesn't really feel earned. Hell, it doesn't really make a lot of sense why he was an unlikable ass to begin with. The movie doesn't really explain why he chose to become a selfish drifter when he had all the opportunities in the world. The fight scenes are uninspired and lacking weight in their animation, and there is some of the worst green screen I've seen since the Star Wars prequels. Mako might as well have not even been in the movie, considering she does practically nothing and is summarily dismissed from the film in a frankly insulting way. The music also feels completely absent, which probably considerably contributed to me feeling absolutely nothing watching the film's 1st half. They don't even do anything interesting with The Drift, an aspect of this universe tailor made for character development!

All that said, when the movie FINALLY kicks into gear in its 2nd half and finds SOME kind of focus, it gets a lot better. The movie remembers some of the sincerity of the original Pacific Rim, and the fights scenes suddenly regain the weight in movement similar to the 1st film. The music isn't great, but it at least exists (including a somewhat half-assed rendition of the original movie's theme). Whoever helmed the second half of the movie actually gave a damn, including some really cute easter eggs (hi, giant Gundam statue sitting in front of an Anaheim Electronics building!). There's actual human emotion on display.

On a side note, I don't understand how this movie can lead into The Black, as all the new breaches were sealed at the end of the film.

This movie would have been better if it had been reworked to focus entirely on the team of young recruits. By the time stuff starts happening to them in the final battle, it's just too late to care. They needed more screen time. Keep the Pentecost character and his emotional baggage, but have him already a Ranger and open him up through bonding with the New Recruit. There could have been a good movie in here and a worthy follow-up to the 1st film, but it feels like it was worked over by the suits to try to be a Marvel movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Shorty McNostril on March 24, 2021, 04:55:29 PM
Yeah that pretty well summed up my thoughts on Uprising too broodwars.

Not having the proper theme song was just sacrilege. I think the opening to the original movie was one of the best movie openings I've ever seen - the theme song cranking whilst loading up a Jaeger. Yeah it was a dumb movie, but it knew it was dumb and embraced it and consequently we were given one of the best scenes ever depicted in cinema - that being a ship used as a bludgeoning weapon. I don't know who thought of that but they need to be knighted immediately.

Anyway - speaking of monster movies
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Saw Godzilla vs Kong last night. Holy hell it was just magnificent. They have finally listened to the viewers and realised that viewers watch these movies for monster battles, not human family drama. Not only is there plenty of monster fighting but it doesn't cut away every two seconds, you can see what's happening and there is some really creative combat. Godzilla can move now. I assume the previous two movies kept him a slow, lumbering tank for CGI or technical reasons or something but they've completely changed that. He moves damn quick and is far more agile.

I also found it unexpectedly emotional in some portions. Not sure if that was just me but an element to Kong is revealed in this one that hit very close to home. Won't reveal it here.

There is also some jaw dropping cinematography. Go and watch it on the biggest screen you find.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 28, 2021, 12:10:11 PM
I haven't finished either of these movies I'm about to mention, but here goes.

Tom & Jerry

Why is Jerry such a fucking asshole? I remember the cartoon taking a slightly more opposite position.
Except here Jerry will actively antagonize Tom for absolutely no reason. The cat was literally running his own hustle and Jerry comes up, out of the blue, and tries to co-opt it and steal all his hard earned profits.... fucking up the whole setup in the process. And then this just continues throughout the rest that I've seen so far. I can only imagine how they try to redeem Jerry after all this tom-foolery.

edit: I know I missed a part of the movie somewhere, but Jerry a was petty dick even in the end.


Bad Trip

An Eric Andre hidden camera movie.
I'm probably about halfway through this one and OMG this **** is HILARIOUS.
I had to shut it off because my daughter came in the room, and almost none of this is kid appropriate.
They set up real people in the scenes for this movie and capture their actual reactions. Some of it is WTF and some of it is LMAO but either way, I think I woke the house this morning trying to watch it.
So next time you in the mood to laugh, and don't have anyone around that is offended by "nudity" and adult humor, put this one on. I'm curious if they stick the 2nd half, but the first half has been funny so far.

edit: Good watch funny from beginning to end. It's hilarious to see how some people act, react or don't react in these random ass fucked up situations. LMAO
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on March 28, 2021, 04:00:06 PM
I suspect modern culture misinterprets Tom and Jerry. Look at how a lot of people stretch the term 'prank' into the realm of abusive or harassing behavior.

Avatar the Last Air Bender

I decided to check this out since I've heard good things about it and knew Star Wars lore master Dave Filoni was involved. It was very creative and clever. Humor was on point and the characters were all interesting, engaging, and likeable. Its one of those 'kids shows' that really transcends into more of an all-ages universal appeal and I highly recommend it for fans of animation and fans of adventure and fantasy stories, especially those fond of more Asian themed fantasy settings.

Dove right into the sequel show Korra and I'm loving that as well, it really does a good job upping the emotional ante an new high stakes instead of repeating the same old story points.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 28, 2021, 05:48:56 PM
ATLA and Korra are both great.
I prefer the first series over the second, but they were both great.
I would love to see a 3rd series that carries on the story.

I know they are doing a new animated project in the Avatar space, and I think also another Live Action version on Netflix, but who knows what that will look like or when it will come to be.

oh, and this is the Movie thread. I think you may have been looking for the TV thread.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on March 28, 2021, 07:18:26 PM
Tom and Jerry - If you've seen the trailer then you don't need to see the movie. If you watch the movie there isn't anything more you're going to get out of it.  Find an old clip on some 1940s Tom and Jerry. It will be better.

Terminator: Dark Fate - I enjoyed this. I'm sure people hate the introduction situation, but in Time Travel movies canon is irrelevant. The movie that followed after the intro was pretty descent. It had action, tough characters, good villains. Is it as good as Terminator 2? No, but we're at diminishing returns at this point. I think the best thing Terminator can do as a franchise though: ditch the old cast. Make it take place somewhere else. How about one that takes place in Europe? Surly there is some savior skynet is after over there. They can't be only after John Connor. They were halfway there. I wouldn't mind a comedy version. Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Vinnie Jones, Jason Statham  put it together.

My new rankings for Terminator Movies are as follows:
S Tier
Terminator 1 & 2
A Tier
Terminator: Dark Fate
B Tier
Terminator:Salvation, Terminator 3
D Tier
Terminator Genysis
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on March 28, 2021, 09:06:14 PM
I don't get the hate that Dark Fate gets and I don't get the hate Genysis gets.  No, neither one stands up to 1/2, but short of reviving Sarah Connor Chronicles, I just don't see it happening.  Those two movies are lighting in a bottle.  Hell, I don't even think 2 captured what 1 was (and I like 2 better).

As to your point, though,  you might check out https://terminator.fandom.com/wiki/The_Terminator:_Hunters_and_Killers  (there's a comic-on-DVD version) where they explore the Russian version of Skynet (which plays into how Judgement Day started).  It's a slightly entertaining read.  Although the T2 Trilogy of novels is my go-to recommendation for off-screen Terminator goodness.

It will be interesting to see what Netflix thinks they're gonna do with their animated Terminator series.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 28, 2021, 09:38:44 PM
Tom and Jerry - If you've seen the trailer then you don't need to see the movie. If you watch the movie there isn't anything more you're going to get out of it.  Find an old clip on some 1940s Tom and Jerry. It will be better.

It's been a very very long time since I've watched a Tom & Jerry cartoon, but I always kinda remembered it as Jerry living his life, and Tom, being the cat of the house, had a job to do to get rid of him. Occasionally Jerry would stray outside and hide behind Spike, who being a dog, just naturally hated cats, and would therefore come after Tom.

Maybe I remember it wrong...
Movie just makes Jerry an unapologetic asshole for no good reason, and Tom is more or less responding to being constantly triggered by Jerry. Except that in the movie (and this covers the majority of the movie that I missed, and have not intention of going back to watch) Tom does get hired to get rid of Jerry but Jerry was still just being a dick for dick's sake.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on March 28, 2021, 10:41:11 PM
The Tom and Jerry movie had pretty good animation.  But it's just one of those stupid movies where the try to combine cartoons and humans. You don't need the humans.  If Tom and Jerry kept it simple cat vs mouse we'd be good.

One thing I'd like to see: Tom and Jerry are owned by Warner Bros. I'd like to see a series of shorts where Tom gets put at Granny's house from the Sylvester and Tweety cartoons. Sylvester and Tom can work together and Tweety and Jerry can work together.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on March 29, 2021, 01:31:08 AM
ATLA and Korra are both great.
I prefer the first series over the second, but they were both great.
I would love to see a 3rd series that carries on the story.

I know they are doing a new animated project in the Avatar space, and I think also another Live Action version on Netflix, but who knows what that will look like or when it will come to be.

oh, and this is the Movie thread. I think you may have been looking for the TV thread.

Sounds like they want to do multiple film and TV projects, and the lore already established leaves plenty of room for expanded adventures from the current show's casts and new ones.

And my bad, I was planning to also post in the TV thread but Tom & Jerry made me think TV and my brain just spewed it all out together.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 29, 2021, 01:38:39 AM
It's all good.

Also I believe Netflix or Nickelodeon, whoever is in charge of the Airbender series, has set up a special studio to handle those specific projects if I remember correctly. So I'm hoping they expand on the world of ATLA
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on March 29, 2021, 08:03:40 PM
Last Airbender is a classic, but Korra was just a disappointment. Beyond the show just being a narrative & thematic mess, it's also oddly mean-spirited in regards to the Last Airbender characters and the world of the original show. It feels like Korra was part of that same misguided "subversion" movement that a lot of Hollywood, etc. was going through at the time (and to some extent, still is), which makes it very hard to like when it spends half its time shitting over the 1st show's beloved characters.

Korra gets a lot better in its 3rd season, but man that show has a lot of wasted potential.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Spak-Spang on March 31, 2021, 12:52:37 AM
Last Airbender is a classic, but Korra was just a disappointment. Beyond the show just being a narrative & thematic mess, it's also oddly mean-spirited in regards to the Last Airbender characters and the world of the original show. It feels like Korra was part of that same misguided "subversion" movement that a lot of Hollywood, etc. was going through at the time (and to some extent, still is), which makes it very hard to like when it spends half its time shitting over the 1st show's beloved characters.

Korra gets a lot better in its 3rd season, but man that show has a lot of wasted potential.

I dunno I think Korra season 1 is easily some of the best Avatar in the series.  Season 3 is also very brilliant, and the world building is great.  Where Avatar the Last Air Bender is about characters.  Korra is about the world and bigger themes.  I like how the villains all explore the world of benders and the need or really lack of a need of an Avatar when a world has working governments...or when chaos is needed because order is broken and just an illusion.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on March 31, 2021, 08:08:34 AM
Korea's biggest hurdles was pacing issues due to Nick not committing to the series.  And when they finally did, they really screwed with the airings, between international premiers, online premieres, MOVING THE FREAKING CHANNEL it was on...

Season one had a lot of promise, but the final episode really hurt the series going forward.  I would love to see Korea from a universe where Nick put their faith in the series from the start.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on March 31, 2021, 07:39:38 PM
I'll say it for you "dang auto-correct!"
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on April 01, 2021, 02:38:38 AM
GvK aka Godzilla vs King Kong

This was a pretty dope movie, far from perfect, but the fight scenes were pretty dope.
It seemed to kinda skip certain things for sake of saving time, and I mean to transition from one situation or scene to the next, but it's nothing major. and I'm sure the exclusion of those types of scenes probably shaved a few minutes from the runtime. So all is forgiven.

Kong looks like a bad ass in this with his grey beard, just an observation.
But you can kinda liken this movie to a Batman vs Superman, in the sense that Godzilla is a much more equipped beast (mouth laser, thick hide, tail, and at home in the water or on land) than Kong, but Kong ain't no punk.

long story short, worth the watch.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on April 01, 2021, 05:31:32 AM
Godzilla vs King Kong - 6/10.

I didn't like Godzilla vs King Kong except the two fight scenes. Watch the intro, fast forward to the ship scene and then fast forward to the fight in the city. Otherwise it's just a shlog through psuedo-science and conspiracy theory babble. Every time a human opened their mouth I felt stupider for having watched it. They could have cut the film to 45 minutes. The best entry in the legendary series is still King Kong Skull Island. I was also spoiled by Cloverfield.

If I were to make a Godzilla movie I'd set it on Okinawa(or maybe a fictional island like the mythical Onogoro island) and I'd just follow a similar plot of the 1960s movie. The beasts each start attacking the island from opposing ends and bowl through the island only to clash at the end. The great thing about setting it on Okinawa is you could have Kong start off on a US military base and then have Godzilla start off in a city. Obviously everyone would be terrified by the monsters having been caught between them. no journey to the center of the earth bullshit Human being will not be able to stop these monsters and the only thing that is going to stop one of the monsters is either one of the monsters.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on April 02, 2021, 01:14:23 PM
Korea's biggest hurdles was pacing issues due to Nick not committing to the series.  And when they finally did, they really screwed with the airings, between international premiers, online premieres, MOVING THE FREAKING CHANNEL it was on...

Season one had a lot of promise, but the final episode really hurt the series going forward.  I would love to see Korea from a universe where Nick put their faith in the series from the start.

I feel like that was par for the course for them at that time. I remember missing so much of Avatar Book 3 because the new episodes would air at random times, and they'd never repeat them.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on April 04, 2021, 03:18:08 AM
I liked S1 of Korra, it felt like it upped the ante in a lot of great ways but that the escalation ended faster than I would have expected, especially for a single first season. While the 'resolution' at the end for her dilemma made some sense, it felt unearned or at least not dwelled on long enough.

Then S2 felt like it upped that ante from the climax of S1 10-fold to the point it felt like it should have been the final season. Knowing that Nick's commitment issues were at play I can see why each season both upped the risk and seemed like a 'new final boss form' challenge to overcome as they were trying to write a series conclusion that ended up not being the end.

Partway through S3 now and I like how it has 'settled back down' so to speak. I like all the additional world building but agree that the characters have been neglected so to speak (but there are also some really good moments as well).

I've not seen enough of Zuko to know what they did for his character, but not seen anything too bad about the others (mixed feelings on Toph, but maybe I'll see more later in the season). I like the sibling dynamic for Aang's kids, though I need more context to know if it truly is a mar on Aang's character/poor parenting since we are only hearing it from the perspective of the children as adults while they are fighting/resolving fights.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on April 04, 2021, 08:56:16 AM
Korea's biggest hurdles was pacing issues due to Nick not committing to the series.  And when they finally did, they really screwed with the airings, between international premiers, online premieres, MOVING THE FREAKING CHANNEL it was on...

Season one had a lot of promise, but the final episode really hurt the series going forward.  I would love to see Korea from a universe where Nick put their faith in the series from the start.

I feel like that was par for the course for them at that time. I remember missing so much of Avatar Book 3 because the new episodes would air at random times, and they'd never repeat them.

I just noticed autocorrect nailed me twice in my,post, Korra to Korea.  Ugh. 🤣
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on April 06, 2021, 08:13:44 PM
I watched the Big Monkey fight the Big Lizard.

There were a lot of people talking and being not normal humans in the movie.  There seem to have been some technological leaps since the last Godzilla movie.  I remember the first one in this current iteration being very grounded in modern times and the next one sort of upping things to allow the humans to contain and monitor giant eggs or something and also submarine tech got better (hard to remember).  I didn't see Kong: Skull Island, so idk about that.  But the jump in tech appears exponential.

Speaking of annoying things, the logistics of moving Kong around (so he could punch Big Lizard) left so many questions.  First, the fact that some corporation could move him around just because some lady gave the ok is WILD.  That really seems like something the U.N. would want to talk about first?  Then, this corporation seems to own an entire naval fleet complete with multiple aircraft carriers which cost tens of billions of dollars to build and like $100B to maintain a year, and these guys just have some lying around.  Also, these things are nuclear powered, meaning there is a nuclear reactor on the ship to make it go, and that is one of those things the US Government is pretty good at regulating.

After suspending your disbelief beyond there being a Big Lizard who wanted to fight a Big Monkey, the rest of the movie is pretty good.  It does, however, ask you to suspend disbelief a lot as things get fairly cartoonish even beyond the title fight, especially the villain of the film because there just had to be one for some reason.  It's worth the watch.  You get what you come for, and they didn't lie with the "One will fall" tagline, either.

7/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on April 06, 2021, 09:12:01 PM
I just looked up who the writers of Kong vs Zilla were. Krampus comes up, which is a great movie. Just interesting to think that either they had no basic science education, or are into absurdist fictional science.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on April 07, 2021, 12:10:43 AM
The giant monster fight genre lends itself to pseudoscience pretty well.  The problem is, as far as the monsters are concerned, you can lean more reliably into mythology which is kinda how I remember Godzilla: King of the Monsters.  But then they get people in that space and you end up with flying cars that look horribly out of place.  But even that would be excusable if they plot points made more sense.  They had to do some serious hand-waving at the end that would've ruined it for me had the movie not been pretty much over by that point.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on April 07, 2021, 03:53:43 AM
I grew up watching Showa era movies. So, I can enjoy them for what they are. I see what the Legendary pictures movies are trying to do, but it just isn't working. If we were to compare this to Batman: these movies are in the Batman Forever/Batman and Robin space. They're homaging the old stuff, but not doing it as well. Batman Forever was better than Batman and Robin and I feel Godzilla 2016 and Skull Island were Forever, and Godzilla king of the monsters and Kong vs Godzilla are Batman and Robin. I really need to check out the Shin Godzilla series. They look better to me.  I just watched the Japanese version of the original Godzilla and while it had more of what I was looking for than this movie. This movie does look fantastic though.

I just like the idea that these things are just unstoppable hurricanes. Another thing. I used to go to Universal all the time when I was a kid. Orlando wasn't far and universal was cheaper than Disney. Anyhow we went on the Kongfrontation ride, the Earthquake ride, and the Jaws Ride and I think one of these movies really does need to focus on a group of people. There needs to be a sizable amount of shot with the monster, but whats scary is when your inside the building and it's getting fucked. Scenes should alternate between macroscopic and microscopic. As much as people dislike Roland Emmerich, I think his movies are pretty good. If it wasn't for the dialog they'd be S tier movies.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on April 07, 2021, 09:49:45 PM
Speaking of Universal Studios, I think there was one section of the movie explicitly designed to be turned into a ride.

I do think you need the scenes with people on the ground, but what we got in this movie was not cutting the mustard.  During the end fighting, you get three people in a building that should've been torn to shreds because of Mechagodzilla escaping it but they're perfectly safe.  Then you get three people on the ground during the fight, who are more or less unaffected by it.  It was almost as if there weren't civilians in the movie getting absolutely wrecked by the giant monster fight.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on April 16, 2021, 02:53:13 AM
Thunderforce 6/10 - The internet hates this move, but I find crab jokes hilarious.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on April 30, 2021, 06:27:28 PM
Mortal Kombat(2021) 5/10 What an awful movie.
The movie had a horrendously bad plotline, actually going downhill from other Mortal Kombat movies. Goro looked great though. Kabal was cooler than he's ever been.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on May 01, 2021, 03:55:15 PM
I have a contrasting opinion on Mortal Kombat (2021).  I hate to keep giving out 7s like this, but it's another 7.  It's a stronger 7 than Godzilla vs Kong, but the fight scenes needed to be better for another point/half point.

Light Spoiler Ahead
Anyway, I thought the plot was fine.  There's a tournament coming, and if the bad guys win, they get control of Earth.  Kinda silly, but who cares.  The bad guys realize literally nothing is stopping them from just cheating by killing all of their opponents ahead of the tournament, which is a smart plan.  The whys and hows about this are not even discussed, which is fine.

The worst part of the movie is the fact that the main character is made up specifically for this movie and is dull as dirt while the characters from the actual game are fairly interesting.  Too much time is spent on this guy (and his family) while actual MK characters have to carry him in every scene.  The main guy could've been dropped and the perspective shifted to almost any other hero in the movie and it'd be an improvement.

The fights are pretty good, and a lot of the characters say things from the game.  The fan service is required, so I didn't mind they leaned into it a little.  The problem is that there are fights towards the end to settle the plot and a number of characters die a bit unceremoniously so that other characters can get more screen time for their plotlines.

They explain that all the characters get their powers from magic that works like magic does, so you're forced to just go with it.  Liu Kang's fire attacks are the same magic Kano's eye laser and the same magic as Jax's arms or Kung Lao's hat (for some reason).

All of my knocks against the movie revolve around the choice of main protagonist, especially when it comes to the final fight scene which features fan favorite Scorpion, who was on the poster, while for some reason taking place inside the MMA gym where Cole Young practices.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on May 02, 2021, 12:04:03 AM
I feel like we got a Batman and Robin version of Mortal Kombat. The Original version was Batman 89 and there still hasn't been a Dark Knight trilogy version of MK.

They should have introduced Cole and Janet Leigh'd him. The birthmark thing is silly. The MK emblem should just be Shang Tsung's seal.

It sucks when you're watching a movie and you absolutely know you could make a better one.

The best Shang Tsung is still James Hong in Big Trouble in Little China. Mortal Kombat the game is essentially a game based on it where they didn't have the rights.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on May 03, 2021, 07:05:41 AM
Tom Clancy's Without Remorse (Amazon) - This movie was very average and cliched in spots the casting definitely didnt help either but Michael B Jordan did his absolute best to hold the whole film together through energy alone.

MBJ seemed tense and on edge the whole way through this movie, but in both Creed's and Black Panther he was far more relaxed and at ease. I'm wondering if thats a acting choice or if he just feels more comfortable working with Ryan Coogler.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on May 03, 2021, 08:16:39 PM
I feel like we got a Batman and Robin version of Mortal Kombat. The Original version was Batman 89 and there still hasn't been a Dark Knight trilogy version of MK.

They should have introduced Cole and Janet Leigh'd him. The birthmark thing is silly. The MK emblem should just be Shang Tsung's seal.


I don't follow what you mean by "Janet Leigh'd him".  Could you elaborate?

I think it could've worked if Cole turned out to be Scorpion or at least the "new" Scorpion.  The final fight scene would've made more sense to have him carry on his ancestor's legacy and defeat Sub-Zero instead of having him pointlessly hit blocks of ice while the deus ex machina saves the day.

I was fine with the birthmark thing.  People in the MK universe have magic powers, but there's no real reason for it (at least to my knowledge).  The mark being tied to it helps put rules to it while also giving the villain a clear marker as to who to go after.  It allowed them to have the movie take place in the "real world" while not having to rewrite too many rules about how things work.

Although, I will say that the fact that the villains can just go to Earth and wreck **** seemingly whenever they please messes with that last point quite a bit.  But I have to assume that if the "tournament" is what would give them control of the earth realm, then Raiden (and the other gods?) can and would just shoo them off if they tried to just "invade".
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on May 04, 2021, 01:25:16 AM
I feel like we got a Batman and Robin version of Mortal Kombat. The Original version was Batman 89 and there still hasn't been a Dark Knight trilogy version of MK.

They should have introduced Cole and Janet Leigh'd him. The birthmark thing is silly. The MK emblem should just be Shang Tsung's seal.


I don't follow what you mean by "Janet Leigh'd him".  Could you elaborate?

I think it could've worked if Cole turned out to be Scorpion or at least the "new" Scorpion.  The final fight scene would've made more sense to have him carry on his ancestor's legacy and defeat Sub-Zero instead of having him pointlessly hit blocks of ice while the deus ex machina saves the day.

I was fine with the birthmark thing.  People in the MK universe have magic powers, but there's no real reason for it (at least to my knowledge).  The mark being tied to it helps put rules to it while also giving the villain a clear marker as to who to go after.  It allowed them to have the movie take place in the "real world" while not having to rewrite too many rules about how things work.

Although, I will say that the fact that the villains can just go to Earth and wreck **** seemingly whenever they please messes with that last point quite a bit.  But I have to assume that if the "tournament" is what would give them control of the earth realm, then Raiden (and the other gods?) can and would just shoo them off if they tried to just "invade".


Psycho spoilers - What Janet Leigh'd means

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-allJhAbbw

Janet Leigh played Marion Crane, the main character of psycho. Or so the people going to the movie in the 1960s thought. The movie starts with her. It follows her closely for the first act of the movie. As closely as Joker follows Joaquin Phoenix. She's in almost every shot in the first act. Then Norman Bates murders her. The movie takes its time before it kills her. The camera follows her for 48 minutes.  For the rest of the movie it follows other characters. This was shocking at the time. As far as movie structure goes, it would still be pretty jarring.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on May 04, 2021, 01:44:17 AM
OH! Ok. Thanks for the explanation!

Yeah, that would've have been interesting to do in MK.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: M.K.Ultra on May 04, 2021, 11:33:10 AM
I have a contrasting opinion on Mortal Kombat (2021).  I hate to keep giving out 7s like this, but it's another 7. 
I agree with Nickmitch and give it a 7. I had fun watching it and enjoyed the references to the games. I have not played an MK game since 3 but still knew almost every character. I actually thought Cole was some new character I had not heard of. I thought Kano was funny at first but think they over did the comic relief with him like they did with the Flash in Justice League.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on May 04, 2021, 11:56:31 AM
Was Cole not a new character made just for the movie?
That was the main character with the family that eventually could pull out two batons, right?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: M.K.Ultra on May 04, 2021, 05:03:07 PM
Was Cole not a new character made just for the movie?
That was the main character with the family that eventually could pull out two batons, right?

Yeah, I just didn't know that when I was watching it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on May 04, 2021, 11:28:33 PM
I remembered reading that they had made up a guy for the film, but I initially forgot when watching it because of the opening scene.

I've been thinking more about Perm's idea. Seeing another descendant of the original Scorpion killing Cole and then taking up the mantle because he is a rightful heir would've made for a pretty interesting twist and plotline.

One thing about the film is that it gets more frustrating the more you think about it, but I guess at the time it doesn't seem like it's asking you to suspend your disbelief too much.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on May 13, 2021, 05:03:11 AM
Time Bandits - 6.5/10. It's been a long time coming. It was pretty good. I've been meaning to watch it for years, I just never did. It reminded me of Baron Von Munchausen... and I just looked it up and it turns out Terry Gilliam. Which must be why it also reminded me of the Imaginarium of Doctor Pernassus. He's got clear style.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on May 24, 2021, 02:33:52 PM
I remember thinking Time Bandits was a fun movie when I watched it as a child, but hated the ending which killed my opinion of it afterwards. I'd give it another chance now if it is on a streaming service I pay for.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on May 25, 2021, 02:42:36 AM
I think I watched it on HBO Max
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on May 29, 2021, 11:50:07 PM
Army of the Dead

Not great.

I need to admit to myself that I simply don’t like Zack Snyder as a filmmaker because I’m also 45 minutes into Zack Snyder’s Justice League, and yikes.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on June 02, 2021, 02:11:45 PM
Honestly, its kind of pessimistic of me to think this, but a lot of the positive vibes from Army of the Dead AND the Snyder cut of JL feel like a bit of a counter push because people are bothered by Joss Whedon's behaviors and the general decline of the DCEU and so it feels like people are pushing to like Snyders new stuff. Its similar to the phenomenon of jaded Star Wars fans hating on Rian Johnson and JJ Abrams stuff like Knives Out as a way to 'balance out' the directors' sub-par (or arguably sub-par) work on Star Wars.

Am I wrong to think this? Just feels like an extension of the wars we see playout online where one person does a wrong (perceived or otherwise) and the two sides duke it out by promoting or denouncing anything related to the people at the center of the controversy as a way to 'make things right'. We also see this in the Depp-Head controversy where because Depp lost his Pirates and Fantastic Beasts roles people are trying to make both of them either into a monster or a saint when in truth both are obviously flawed individuals.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on June 02, 2021, 11:44:24 PM
I liked the Snyder Cut, but Army of the Dead was really meh.

I like some zombie movies, but not very many zombie movies are good. The last good piece of Zombie fiction was season one of The Walking Dead, and it was still not as good as the comic. I'd rank Army of the Dead somewhere between Zombieland 2 and Night of the Living Dead 3d(2006). So pretty mediocre.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on June 05, 2021, 02:07:26 AM
Barry Lyndon 9/10 - A masterpiece.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on June 07, 2021, 03:11:52 PM
Zack Snyder’s Justice League

It’s better than Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice if that holds any weight. Unfortunately, Justice League never overcomes one of the main problems with its predecessor: most of it remains unearned.

Justice League is full of nonsense. For example, terrorists have no demands and simply want to blow up a building and the hostages yet put a timer on their bomb. Wonder Woman uses her bracelet clash when she’s fast enough to disarm the shooter. The scene where that town woman sing after Aquaman jumps into the water was hilarious even though it clearly wasn’t mean to.

I don’t want to write a long post as no one reads those, and it’s largely unnecessary anyway. Justice League suffers from the same problems as Snyder’s previous DCEU movies from lacking a basic understanding of the characters to the ridiculous use of Instagram filters.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on June 08, 2021, 04:49:43 AM
Zack Snyder’s Justice League

It’s better than Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice if that holds any weight. Unfortunately, Justice League never overcomes one of the main problems with its predecessor: most of it remains unearned.

Justice League is full of nonsense. For example, terrorists have no demands and simply want to blow up a building and the hostages yet put a timer on their bomb. Wonder Woman uses her bracelet clash when she’s fast enough to disarm the shooter. The scene where that town woman sing after Aquaman jumps into the water was hilarious even though it clearly wasn’t mean to.

I don’t want to write a long post as no one reads those, and it’s largely unnecessary anyway. Justice League suffers from the same problems as Snyder’s previous DCEU movies from lacking a basic understanding of the characters to the ridiculous use of Instagram filters.

short but sweet (talking about your review, not the movie). Better than the theatrical version, but still not a good movie.
lots of setup for something that barely makes more sense than the previous version with extra characters thrown in as easter egg teasers for a sequel that ain't gonna happen.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on June 20, 2021, 03:10:02 PM
The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard - I'm still mad at the first movie for having such an amazing trailer and such an average movie..... this one continues that trend somewhat.

Selma Hayek was great, however, and was worth all the extra attention. You could tell she was completely up for the nonsense.

https://youtu.be/F4Afusxc2SM this is still just great.

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on June 23, 2021, 07:15:10 AM
Rachel Gets Strange 6/10 this was an interesting low budget film that takes place in my home college town.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on July 09, 2021, 07:18:41 AM
Fear Street Vol 1 & Vol 2

Both really fun teen slasher movie from the creator of Goosebumps (iirc), now airing on Netflix.
Vol 3 airs next Friday, and I look forward to seeing how this concludes. A lot more violent that I thought it was gonna be, and some unexpected adult scenes in Vol. 2

I'm not trying to spoil anything, but if you're looking for some new horror to watch, this 3 week Trilogy from Netflix so far has been a really good and fun watch.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on July 17, 2021, 04:00:10 AM
Space Jam 2 - LOL/So Bad

First of all, this movie is absolutely TERRIBLE in almost everyway.
Do yourself a favor and come in to this movie with the mindset to laugh AT the movie and not WITH the movie. That is likely to be the only way to find enjoyment throughout this movie.
Lebron is very uncharismatic as an actor, delivers his lines very stiff.
The first 10 minutes of the movie is literally a "King James Biopic SIZZLE REEL!!!" and we almost shut it off after 20 minutes in, but we pressed on and after that mindset change, found some enjoyment in how terrible this movie was.
There are literally 1000 cameos/references, and honestly maybe even a few good/funny lines, but nothing in this movie is really worth the watch. I wouldn't say avoid at all cost, but certainly don't pay for it.

oh and this
(https://i.imgur.com/CIX1TE7.png)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on July 18, 2021, 01:44:49 AM
A Quiet Place Part II

It's good. There were a few instances of silliness like a colossal waste of Djimon Hounsou or the fact that the boat carrying one of the creatures made it to the island's shore. Overall, some pretty great performances, particularly Cillian Murphy.

Black Widow

Imagine playing the only female Avenger and being a supporting character in like seven movies before finally getting a starring role two years after your on-screen death then getting upstaged by two brand new, never previously mentioned supporting characters. Florence Pugh and David Harbour are excellent, the former largely steals the show. The dynamic between Natasha and Yelena was completely unearned. They're fun together, but the movie keeps reminding you that they were a pretend family for a short time.

The film itself is fine if largely unnecessary. Reminds me of Thor: Dark World in that it's inoffensive and merely exists. I was really hoping there would be a third act reveal that completely blows everything open. Turns out the entire movie was a vehicle to explain how Natasha got her nice vest in Avengers: Infinity War (it has so many pockets).

Gunpowder Milkshake

The movie opens with narration, and I had a feeling from the outset that I was in for a bad time.

This may be the most pretentious movie I've ever seen. I should have turned it off when Sam (Karen Gillan) goes to a "library" for "books" and even when she's led to the armory, they still keep up the charade and offering her "books". I paused the movie out of frustration. I got it; you're talking about guns. Just say "guns" now. I don't understand what is gained by this pretentious bullshit.

The movie was written by two men who think a woman lead and name-dropping women authors is "feminism". I'm also not convinced either of them have have spoken to other people before because the dialogue doesn't sound the way people talk. And they're bad at world-building.

It was recommended as soon as I opened Netflix yesterday, and my life is a big time waster. I'd pass if you haven't watched it. Do what you like; I'm not your mother. Or am I?
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Post by: Plugabugz on July 18, 2021, 03:16:22 PM
The Tomorrow War - I'm only half way through that movie but the time travel rules make no sense to me. If they can only jump so far into the future, and that "time only flows in one direction like a river" and they need to build two time beacons to facilitate jumping back and forth, then how did they do that? How did they go back in time to start with?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on July 18, 2021, 11:49:46 PM
I'm watfching Gunpoweder Milkshake right now....

I love a good bad movie, and after Space Jam 2... I figure, what do I have to lose.
There's gotta be something enjoyable in this... I'll just have to see for myself.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on July 18, 2021, 11:56:34 PM
The Empty Man They were just making it up as they filmed/10

Not a good movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on July 19, 2021, 01:07:55 PM
I'm watfching Gunpoweder Milkshake right now....

I love a good bad movie, and after Space Jam 2... I figure, what do I have to lose.
There's gotta be something enjoyable in this... I'll just have to see for myself.

Ok, so I only made it about 35 minutes in to this movie so far, but that first fight scene in the bowling alley was pretty bad for most of it. Not sure if I'll pick it up again, but wouldn't be bad for some background noise while multitasking on something else.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on July 25, 2021, 09:53:08 PM
Black Widow

It was good. I've seen people say this would've been better if released between Infinity War and Endgame.  I agree with that sentiment, but the post-credits scene would've been a spoiler, and I'm not sure where else you put that scene.  The supporting cast is great, and I hope they all make a return.

I saw it today, and it was my first movie back in a theatre.  It was a good enough choice.  The movie has a lot of action, but it feels a little "tropey" I think.  It doesn't do much for the MCU cannon but put in some new faces, so that's nice.

7/10

Space Jam

It's only a bad movie if you think about it; otherwise, this is a movie for kids.  Modern kids' movies are very nonsensical, and this one is no exception.  The slapstick Looney Tunes antics are there, which is nice.  LeBron is no better an actor than MJ was, but this movie feels like it asks more of LeBron to act?  It feels like a LeBron James movie starring the Looney Tunes and not a Looney Tunes movie starring LeBron.  That definitely hurts the film.

Overall, I thought it was good enough.  The part I liked the least was where LeBron's son is basically doing magic to make his video game work.  It's fine if cartoons are doing cartoon things, but the movie doesn't feel grounded on LeBron's end, so the contrast between worlds isn't really there.  The film would've been better off just rehashing the plot from the first film, in my opinion.  So much of what the film was going for just wasn't working for me, but I still found it funny.

6/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on July 26, 2021, 12:59:26 AM
You said MJ and I thought of Michael Jackson instead.  I suppose I might think of Mary Jane too. Context.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on July 26, 2021, 09:55:11 AM
You said MJ and I thought of Michael Jackson instead.  I suppose I might think of Mary Jane too. Context.

The context was Space Jam

Black Widow

It was good. I've seen people say this would've been better if released between Infinity War and Endgame.  I agree with that sentiment, but the post-credits scene would've been a spoiler, and I'm not sure where else you put that scene.  The supporting cast is great, and I hope they all make a return.

I saw it today, and it was my first movie back in a theatre.  It was a good enough choice.  The movie has a lot of action, but it feels a little "tropey" I think.  It doesn't do much for the MCU cannon but put in some new faces, so that's nice.

7/10

I just came in to post about this. Finished it this morning.
Good action, and I to was thinking that I had revise an earlier statement, because the post credit scene messes up the expected viewing order.

The movie still should've came out sooner, but that post credit scene would need to be placed somewhere else post Endgame.
Honestly, I kinda wondering what the post credit scene would've been had this movie come out during it's place in the timeline. 🤔
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on July 26, 2021, 01:55:55 PM
You said MJ and I thought of Michael Jackson instead.  I suppose I might think of Mary Jane too. Context.

The context was Space Jam

This made me LOL.

But on the subject of the timing of Black Widow, the film itself works either before or after Infinity War, but the character's arc needed to be closed before it closes forever.  I don't know when else it makes sense to put out that scene, though.  Endgame was better for not having a post-credits scene because that let the film feel like it closed the arc.  Spider-Man was the first post-Endgame movie released (and the last MCU theatrical release until now), but that already had a post and mid-credits scene.  It would've been too much.  The only options are tacking it on for Endgame re-releases or the Blu-Ray.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on July 26, 2021, 05:29:39 PM
Boss Baby 2

I forgot I saw this a few weeks back.  I had not seen the first one, but I suppose it didn't matter.  It's a kids' movie with a little here and there for the adults.  Most of the humor is "for all ages" though, but it didn't get too many laughs out of me.

Anyway, the plot is very much in that vein of not making sense because it's for children.  I'm willing to let most of it go, but the film opens with the information that the protagonists from the first film are older (one has a family of his own now) and have grown apart.   The younger brother sends gifts to the family, but the brothers otherwise don't talk or see each other.  What bothers me is that the film tells you two things: a) the brothers were more or less estranged by the time the youngest graduated college, b) they were very close, following the first movie, for some years.  They almost go out of their way to shorten the gap of time between being close and semi-estranged.  It just feels like something happened that the movie isn't telling us.  But I'm probably giving it way too much thought.

Jeff Goldblum is in it as the villain, and he's pretty good.  The movie, however, is not good.

4/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on July 26, 2021, 09:03:07 PM
You said MJ and I thought of Michael Jackson instead.  I suppose I might think of Mary Jane too. Context.

The context was Space Jam

This made me LOL.

But on the subject of the timing of Black Widow, the film itself works either before or after Infinity War, but the character's arc needed to be closed before it closes forever.  I don't know when else it makes sense to put out that scene, though.  Endgame was better for not having a post-credits scene because that let the film feel like it closed the arc.  Spider-Man was the first post-Endgame movie released (and the last MCU theatrical release until now), but that already had a post and mid-credits scene.  It would've been too much.  The only options are tacking it on for Endgame re-releases or the Blu-Ray.

LOL
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on July 27, 2021, 09:58:58 AM
Fear Street Vol 1 & Vol 2

Both really fun teen slasher movie from the creator of Goosebumps (iirc), now airing on Netflix.
Vol 3 airs next Friday, and I look forward to seeing how this concludes. A lot more violent that I thought it was gonna be, and some unexpected adult scenes in Vol. 2

I'm not trying to spoil anything, but if you're looking for some new horror to watch, this 3 week Trilogy from Netflix so far has been a really good and fun watch.

I forgot to follow up on this, but Vol. 3 was a solid ending to the Fear Street Trilogy, which as you probably guessed, is looking for more sequels/spin-offs.

Last report I saw stated that they were hoping to make an "MCU" of Horror Movies based on the Feat Street books. I don't know how they plan on doing that unless they gonna be releasing movies at a much faster pace, but what I've watched from the series so far was a solid start for a horror franchise. I look forward to seeing what comes from the book next.

The Tomorrow War - I'm only half way through that movie but the time travel rules make no sense to me. If they can only jump so far into the future, and that "time only flows in one direction like a river" and they need to build two time beacons to facilitate jumping back and forth, then how did they do that? How did they go back in time to start with?

I only watched the movie once, but I really don't think they explained that.....
It made sense to only pull people that were already dead at the point of the jump in the future, as to not pull them from the current timeline and risk them not being there in the future they are jumping to, or the off chance of having them run into their future selves causing some sort of paradox.
So in my head, the 2 points of travel things must be that they originally built the machine in the present at some point, but didn't know it's future use as a time machine was actual (theoretical science), yet it still acted as a beacon, allowing the fully completed machine in the future to ping that signal and travel back. Traveling back allowed them to upgrade the machine and allow it to ping the moving point of time in the future to jump back and forth.


but it shouldn't necessarily be up to the viewer to explain the theoretical science of a movie to themselves.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on July 31, 2021, 02:51:07 AM
Army of the Dead

I will say that I liked the movie.  Many bad things jumped out at me, but nothing that ruined the film.  There are just as many, if not more, good things; so the film averages out.

It's a heist movie and a zombie movie, which makes for a fun time.  The opening credits take way too long, and there are too many shots that remind you it's a Zack Snyder film.  Some shots just seem overly milked for no reason.  There is one really frustrating scene where a character's impending death feels strung out, and they're able to warn another character of a very specific threat but seem unable to for some reason.

Most of the rest of the movie is really good.  Some moments feel a little over the top, but that's what we're here for.  Many characters are likable enough for you to root for them, and there's just the right amount of comedy in the film.  It's a solid watch if you're enjoying some drinks during the viewing.

7.5/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on August 13, 2021, 12:47:41 AM
Free Guy

I saw a comparison that said this movie was The Lego Movie of videogames... I think that's pretty spot on comparison. Plenty to love in here for gamers as they reference all sorts of things from games. Entertaining pretty much the whole way through, and funny too.

I don't want to spoil anything, but some of the references towards the end were great.
Saw this in the theater, and even though there weren't many of us in there, you could hear the reactions. Definitely worth the watch, hopefully it does well at the box office as well.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on August 13, 2021, 01:20:50 PM
The Suicide Squad

I liked the movie overall for what it was, which was trying to be its own thing.  It's been a while since I've seen the first film, so it's a little tough to compare.  A few differences stand out from its predecessor nonetheless, namely the tone.  The action is pretty good throughout, but there are some QT levels of blood splatter going on.  Most of the violence is actually pretty cartoonish.  The film itself is very chaotic.  There are all sorts of sudden deaths that I assume are meant to keep you on your toes.  Unfortunately, it's hard to get attached to any character because of this, and I'm not sure if any death is meant to feel significant.  There's a scene where the joke is more or less that only one person cared that this character died.

Most of my gripes with the movie involve spoilers, so I'm going to tag them here. Walker's team feels like a ragtag bunch of late-20s/early-30s IT grads.  It feels like she somehow got aggressively downgraded from the shady government organization she was running before.  However, she still runs this secretive government program with a guy in a hoodie working directly under her.  Maybe it's just me, but I expect my shadowy government agents to dress professionally.  The movie relies almost too much on misdirects.  The opening scene is misdirect as you see a bunch of characters gets brutally murdered only for the movie to reveal that those people were just there to serve as a distraction.  Later, Harley just up and shoots one of the movie's villains (a guy who did a coup and now runs the country and the Starro thing) in the middle of the movie which set up another guy being in charge, I guess.  And speaking of character deaths, Captain Boomerang is in this movie and dies in the very beginning.  Now, I knew he wasn't in the whole thing, but for a franchise that's still working to world build, killing one of your hero's 3 biggest villains seems like a bad move when the said hero has yet to have his own movie.

Other things, John Cena is very much in this movie.  He almost steals the show, but it might depend on how much you can take his almost pointless swearing.  It felt like there was a lot of cursing just to earn that R rating.  King Shark is an absolute delight is my last point about the movie.

8/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on August 13, 2021, 03:53:55 PM
Free Guy

I saw a comparison that said this movie was The Lego Movie of videogames... I think that's pretty spot on comparison. Plenty to love in here for gamers as they reference all sorts of things from games. Entertaining pretty much the whole way through, and funny too.

I don't want to spoil anything, but some of the references towards the end were great.
Saw this in the theater, and even though there weren't many of us in there, you could hear the reactions. Definitely worth the watch, hopefully it does well at the box office as well.

Towards the end the movie goes maximum disney and just lands it.

I've never seen Lil Rel Howery in anything else before, but at first he gives off "short and loud Kevin Hart" until the scene when he refuses to put the glasses on and starts to prove himself very quickly then. Also, this is the first time ive seen a bromance done as sincerely as Legends of Tomorrow with Nate and Ray.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on August 13, 2021, 06:13:20 PM
Free Guy

I saw a comparison that said this movie was The Lego Movie of videogames... I think that's pretty spot on comparison. Plenty to love in here for gamers as they reference all sorts of things from games. Entertaining pretty much the whole way through, and funny too.

I don't want to spoil anything, but some of the references towards the end were great.
Saw this in the theater, and even though there weren't many of us in there, you could hear the reactions. Definitely worth the watch, hopefully it does well at the box office as well.

Towards the end the movie goes maximum disney and just lands it.

I've never seen Lil Rel Howery in anything else before, but at first he gives off "short and loud Kevin Hart" until the scene when he refuses to put the glasses on and starts to prove himself very quickly then. Also, this is the first time ive seen a bromance done as sincerely as Legends of Tomorrow with Nate and Ray.

Absolutely on both points. That (Climax Spoilers - don't look)cameo at the end, when he used the Shield, and then the HULK arm (might've even triggered that Avengers theme song for a split second) the audience got all excited. Ryan Reynolds definitely was leaning into his MCU connections for that. (/Climax Spoilers)

As for Lil Rey Howery, he was that security guard friend from Get Out (and I know you've seen that....), but I bet you've seen him in something else as well. Here's his IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2577076/

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on August 15, 2021, 11:10:07 PM
F9 - woof
Fast & the Furious 9 for those not aware...

This franchise just jumped the shark. No wonder The Rock opted out of anymore sequels. This **** was ridiculous in a bad way, and so bad it was slightly entertaining when it wasn't just bad.

I knew from the trailers it was gonna be stupid and fun, but really it was mostly just stupid. We had more fun clowning how this and that was dumb or didn't make sense, more so than just being blown away by how crazy and exciting things were (definitely crazy, not all that exciting). They really need to stop trying to one up the craziness of car stunts from the last movie, and just focus on making a fun movie... But honestly, I think they've taken it too far to tone it back down now, and that's a serious problem.
You can only suspend disbelief so much.
Oh and most of Tyrese and Luda's lines and banter are terrible.

Unfortunately, there will likely be another sequel or 2 before they lay this series to rest, but I'm gonna save you time and money here.
DO. NOT. SPEND. MONEY. ON. THIS. MOVIE.

If you must watch it, you can wait till it's available on the streaming service of you're choice for no extra charge, and thank me later.

edit: I just realized that this movie came out around 2 months ago....
My friend decided to "rent" or "buy" it when I came over yesterday, and he now regrets spending the money on it. I don't know what it cost, but this was already on my "i'll see it when it pops up on Netflix" list.

p.s. also found out that that they only plan on going to F11 before no more core sequels... maybe only spin-offs from there.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on August 17, 2021, 10:13:20 AM
Free Guy

I saw a comparison that said this movie was The Lego Movie of videogames... I think that's pretty spot on comparison. Plenty to love in here for gamers as they reference all sorts of things from games. Entertaining pretty much the whole way through, and funny too.

I don't want to spoil anything, but some of the references towards the end were great.
Saw this in the theater, and even though there weren't many of us in there, you could hear the reactions. Definitely worth the watch, hopefully it does well at the box office as well.

Towards the end the movie goes maximum disney and just lands it.

I've never seen Lil Rel Howery in anything else before, but at first he gives off "short and loud Kevin Hart" until the scene when he refuses to put the glasses on and starts to prove himself very quickly then. Also, this is the first time ive seen a bromance done as sincerely as Legends of Tomorrow with Nate and Ray.

Absolutely on both points. That (Climax Spoilers - don't look)cameo at the end, when he used the Shield, and then the HULK arm (might've even triggered that Avengers theme song for a split second) the audience got all excited. Ryan Reynolds definitely was leaning into his MCU connections for that. (/Climax Spoilers)

As for Lil Rey Howery, he was that security guard friend from Get Out (and I know you've seen that....), but I bet you've seen him in something else as well. Here's his IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2577076/



Get Out was 2017 so i had forgotten altogether... but thats the only film ive seen Lil Rel in.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Shorty McNostril on August 21, 2021, 06:30:00 PM
I too loved Free Guy. You definitely get more out of it if you know how the gaming industry works, but there were great nods and easter eggs all the way through, and yes that climax was wonderful BnM, yes the Avengers theme did play when the shield appeared, as did the Star Wars theme when the lightsabre appeared. A shame it was Fallen Order lightsabre and not a real one because dude didn't seem to care at all.

Realistically though I think it's Ryan's best work. Enjoyed it far more than both the Deadpool movies. But it's more Ryan Reynolds. If you like Ryan you'll have a fun time with this even if you know nothing about video games.

Looking forward to a home release so I can see it with subtitles.

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I have only ever watched one Fast and Furious movie. That was the fourth one. And on that cursed day I swore a vow to the universe that I would never watch this franchise ever again. I just hated it. I mean, I don't expect exact realism when you're going for a dumb movie like this, but at the same time I expect the directors and producers to at least have the slightest idea how a car works, and the physics therein. Nope, not for me.

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I have zero interest in The Suicide Squad. I 'm just not a fan of James Gunn's style. I did like the first GotG because it came out of nowhere, but the shtick didn't work twice in my opinion. I have never watched GotG2 since the first viewing and I quite likely never will. Suicide Squad trailers just looked like it was just another GotG with different characters but with more blood and swearing. Pass.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on September 20, 2021, 11:58:42 AM
Malignant (in theaters... but watch on HBO Max)

What a TERRIBLE, yet at times, fun movie.

The opening scene seemed like a Lifetime Channel horror movie w/ a bit of an effects budget.
The acting was just atrocious, and the way it ended... I was seriously hoping that it was someone in the movie watching a bad horror movie... but nope, that was the intro to the movie.
And then long tv movie like intro credits.... it was almost too much to look past.

If I had watched this in the theater, I would've tried to get my money back at this point.

Afterwards, it becomes "decent" for a moment, but still strong "Lifetime Channel" vibes being given off.

But once you get into the good stuff.... it's fucking ridiculous, but damn was it kinda crazy. The scenes starting with The Cop in the apartment confronting the killer all the way through the police station was a fun ride. It was insanely ridiculous, violent and gory. But DIVES back into Lifetime Channel/Hallmark Channel levels of cringe once they get in hospital at the end.

Overall, this movie is bad. But if you can sit through it, you'll definitely enjoy parts of it.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on October 02, 2021, 02:17:36 PM
007 No Time To Die: A decent send off to Daniel Craig, but that ending drew a lot of questions M says this will cause an international incident, and possibly a war, with a British ship firing missiles in an island in an area disputed between the Russians and Japanese, but they fire away and the movie completely skips over any potential fallout of that to give Bond a eulogy.

The movie also had too many secondary characters to service in this plot. Paloma only appears for one scene and and is never mentioned again - you could have cut her out entirely and have a no-name extra silently deliver the suit and Bond does everything himself, and the movie would carry on as normal.

Nomi was off-screen for bits doing things that we dont see or hear about, and for most of the final act M, Q and Moneypenny are all in one room together talking at a screen


I was really expecting a David Tennant's 10 Doctor style "i dont wanna go" but that didnt happen either. His final line was "i know". Underwhelming exit.

To wrap up his era this was completely fine, but this was no Skyfall either.

Also, it's hilarious that Judi Dench has been in more 007 movies than than any other lead. This franchise ultimately belongs to her, and i hope she comes back a third time.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on October 03, 2021, 07:31:46 PM
Here's a round up of a bunch of movies I've seen in the last few months (may be missing a few):

Fear Street Trilogy: 1994, 1978, and 1666
Only 1994 is any good (1978 is okay and 1666 is aggressively bad).

I'm conflicted on a few things. The main character, Deena, is a gay, teenage person of color. No issues there. None of those things are plot significant which is an odd choice but fine. However, I felt the director, Leigh Janiak, was intentionally coy about Deena's sexual orientation in the beginning for like no reason whatsoever. Sure, it kind of connects with Sarah Fier but also didn't need to narratively or thematically (Janiak sure did try then never quite got there). The actress who portrayed Deena (Kiana Madeira) is neither gay nor a teenager (she's literally 28). Maybe I'm just way too cynical in my old age, but to me, it seemed like the creators of this trilogy wanted the social "woke" points for having the courage to have a gay, teenage person of color as the lead except without doing any of the work. I really didn't like that; it felt exploitative like how corporations put all that Pride Month stuff out in June but you know they don't care during the other 11 months.

Reusing actors from the 1994 and 1978 installments in the 1666 segment was really unnecessary to me. The big villain reveal was also thoroughly unearned. Each installment got progressively worse so by the time the last one was wrapping, I didn't really care anymore.

BlacKkKlansman
Excellent, and I'm not normally a fan of Spike Lee joints. Not sure why Lee set the movie in 1972 when the investigation took place in 1978. I normally don't mind movies eschewing historical accuracy (unless it's egregious); this was odd choice.

Lady Bird
I doubt this is a movie anyone here is interested in. It starts off pretty slow. I started, put down, and picked up this movie on a least five separate occasions. If you're into performances, Saoirse Ronan and Laurie Metcalf are both excellent.

The Suicide Squad
It's good. The Suicide Squad is probably my favorite DC movie. You don't need to see Suicide Squad to understand what's going on here though James Gunn weirdly expects you to know some of the relationships from that movie like Rick Flag and Harley Quinn are kind of friends. It's been a while since I watched this so I can't give more detailed thoughts on it at the moment.

In another thread, I recall someone saying they don't really like Gunn's work. If you're reading this, yep, this movie is not for you.

The Girl Next Door
Woof, not good. They managed to throw in more teen comedy tropes into this movie than I thought was possible during its fairly short run time. I'm almost appalled that Timothy Olyphant was convinced to be in this.

Casino Royale
Still holds up. Skyfall is still the best Daniel Craig-led Bond movie, but Casino Royale works as a reboot, reintroduction of the character, and a movie in general. The ending is a little bit hard to follow. And Bond being so hung up on Vesper Lind is quite possibly the least believable part about this movie. He knew her for like three days.

Quantum of Solace
This is the first time I watched this since it came out. I remember not liking this movie, but it's actually not bad IF you watch it directly after Casino Royale as Quantum of Solace takes place immediately following the events of that movie. The antagonist, Dominic Greene, is both kind of weak as a Bond villain in that there's nothing especially noteworthy or remarkable about him EXCEPT that his plan is weirdly the most realistic out of any Bond villain I've seen. He wants to privatize water for an entire region which is IRL evil, but like not Bond-villain evil. Greene is essentially the CEO of Nestlé.

Mystic River
Man, this is one of the most depressing movies I've ever seen. I saw it when it first came out on video, and I couldn't bring myself to watch it again until recently.

Anyway, it's good. All-round great performances. I still think Bill Murray was better in Lost in Translation than Sean Penn was here. This is one of a few performances by Marcia Gay Harden where she really makes you hate her which I think is the point so good on her. She's doing her job well.

There's tons of misdirection in this movie which shouldn't surprise anyone because the book was written by Dennis Lehane (Gone Baby Gone) whose writing is filled with that. The only thing I really don't like about this movie is a scene right before the end between Penn's Jimmy Markum and his wife, Annabeth, played by Laura Linney. It's hard to describe why I dislike it without summarizing the entire movie which I'm not going to do.

Jennifer's Body
This movie bombed in 2009, and the marketing had a lot to do with it. 20th Century Fox decided to market the movie to young men so the ads primarily focused on Megan Fox's hotness. Admittedly, this is exactly why I avoided this movie. I figured I didn't need to watch a bad horror movie for one hot actress. I also did not like Juno so the fact that Diablo Cody wrote this didn't help either.

Recently, I've seen some video essays defending the movie, and it was on Netflix so I gave it a go. It's alright. The marketing failed so tremendously in showing what Jennifer's Body actually is and is about. It's more of a horror-comedy/satire. There are some genuinely funny jokes in there. More importantly, the actual movie is like the exact opposite of its exploitative marketing. Megan Fox lost a bunch of weight and avoided sunlight to make herself less attractive. Karyn Kusama filmed Fox's scenes specifically to avoid sexualizing her. Every time you're about to see something, the camera cuts away. I have doubts the marketing department even watched the movie before sending out the TV ads and movie posters. The movie probably still would have bombed because I don't think we were ready for this movie in 2009. I may have watched it sooner though.

Gladiator
Still holds up. Some of the CGI is dated, but for a movie that came out in 2000, pretty good. It's a mess as far as historical accuracy. I feel like you have to just ignore that in order to enjoy the movie. Everyone speaks English and New Zealand-born Russell Crowe is repeatedly referred to as "The Spaniard".
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on October 24, 2021, 10:07:46 PM
Thought I'd try something a little different tonight and threw in a recently-acquired BluRay for Dreamworks' ill-fated Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas, the film that flopped so badly at the box office that Dreamworks swore off 2D animation forever (just like Disney did with Treasure Planet around the same time). I'd never seen it, but had heard very good things about it.

Yeah, that was pretty fucking good, and gorgeously animated. Man, quality 2D animation is truly timeless and tragically underappreciated. In particular, I hope whoever animated Eris was well-paid because...yeah. Wow, that is incredibly fluid.


Link (since apparently YouTube embeds are back to not working again): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzxxuCJP6yU (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzxxuCJP6yU)

It's nothing deep or complicated. It's just a fun adventure story, and I'm down with that. The BluRay transfer is incredible, too. Considering how...mediocre...the transfer for Prince of Egypt was, that was a pleasant surprise.

One of these days, I'll get to some other films from my Dreamworks backlog I recently acquired on BluRay, that being the 3 How to Train Your Dragon (of which I've seen one) and Kung Fu Panda movies (of which I've seen none).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on October 25, 2021, 01:33:09 PM
You're in for a treat with the Kung Fu Pandas. Its one of those rare series where it gets better with each film and they actually ended on a good note instead of slowly dying due to over milking.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Plugabugz on October 26, 2021, 03:07:19 PM
Dune - A visually gorgeous movie. I dont understand how some was confused by this storyline as it was both relatively easy to follow and with a budget to match. Directly sets up a sequel too I dont know if this is directly in the book, but two warring mostly-white tribes fighting over a planet of mostly POC locals with a white chosen one isn't really comfortable - i wish they changed the casting to avoid this

The French Dispatch - I never know what to make of Wes Anderson movies but, for me, i think i cracked it. Don't *watch* his movies, but look at them. Everything down the music and actors movements are perfectly in sync in such a way that even if you dont pay attention to the plot there is things to soak in. I wouldnt call this a movie but rather choreographed art.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Shorty McNostril on November 05, 2021, 02:35:47 AM
Eternal: One million out of ten. Seen it twice already and just love it. I also have a new favourite Marvel hero. Makkari ftw. I dearly hope to see her again.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on December 22, 2021, 12:53:24 AM
Spider-man No Way Home: 8/10 - one of the top movies in Spider-man history. It has issues,  but they're minor. The first act is hilarious. It slows down a bunch in the third act. It's one of those cases where the fight scenes are better in the beginning of the movie. Great all around.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BeautifulShy on January 03, 2022, 02:30:25 AM
Last movies I saw were in the past week.

On the 30th I watched Spider-Man: No way home and I loved it.  I knew about some of the typical spoilers like how the 3 Peter Parkers were in the movie.  From the OG trilogy and the Amazing movies.  But I was not really prepared for the ending of the movie and how it ended.  Such sacrifice by Tom Holland Peter.  Who would of thought this whole movie would not of happened if Tom Holland Peter actually called MIT before going to Dr. Strange so that Ned and MJ could get into MIT. Give himself and them a second chance without resorting to magic.   Also loved the end credits.  Yes credits so stick around till the very end.

2nd movie I watched on new years eve day and that was Matrix Resurrections and it was a really great movie.

Lots of mind bendy stuff in the first 45 minutes but then it settled into the main plot which was about connections with people and places.   There is an very important connection but it may not be who you might expect. 

Vox did a really good spoiler review of the movie and it gets into the weeds of what the movie is all about.

I will leave it behind a spoiler tag as the link does have some spoilers about what the whole movie is about.

  https://www.vox.com/culture/22847558/the-matrix-resurrections-4-spoilers-review-neo-therapy-mental-health-trauma 
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on January 12, 2022, 08:18:43 PM
The Matrix Resurrections 6.5/10 - A lot of great ideas, but not put together in a way that keeps the film riveting. Another case of the trailer being better than the movie. The best I can describe this movie is chasing the dragon.

Candyman 5/10 I actually enjoyed the first 2 acts of this movie, but the third act happened at lightning speed and it made the movie terrible. This movie has some serious pacing issues. I feel like more should have been explored before it devolved.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on February 19, 2022, 11:57:03 PM
Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2022 - Cringe distilled in a bottle, and not in a good way. Great effects though. 4/10

Does anybody think that an over 40 white Texas gas station manager is going to call anybody "Gentri-fuckers?"

I mean the idea behind the movie is sound, it takes a page from The Evictors 1979. It's just characters are so illogical. In the OG TCM all the characters act logically, but get fucked by circumstances unlike so many other slasher films filled with clichés.

There are artificial member berries in the film. Remember Sally? That's not the actress who played Sally. Sally doesn't do anything.

Everybody does infuriating nonsense. And a chain of it.

I did laugh when they said "your canceled" before they got chopped to pieces.

It's got a terrible story, but it is very technically well done. I feel sorry for Fede Alvarez because he is capable, but there was not enough oversight on the script. This has some good ideas, but is overloaded with bad ones.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on February 21, 2022, 01:32:54 PM
Don't Look Up - 7.5/10

It's pretty funny, but pretty on the nose at times. I thought it would be a bit more light-hearted, but it is a movie about a comet getting ready to smash into the earth. The parody of certain characters is not at all subtle, but it's not direct either, which makes it work really well. The movie went in a few directions that I wasn't expecting, but the plot was still alright. This is where I'd say it was nothing earth-shattering, but spoilers.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on February 21, 2022, 03:03:45 PM
With Don't look up I couldn't help but think of Majora's Mask.

I usually enjoy End of the World movies.

Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, These Final Hours, and Last Night(1998) are really good examples. There is something very eerie about everyone on earth knowing when they're going to die and just waiting.

speaking of which

Silent Night(2021) - 7/10 - A pretty solid one of these movies featuring the kid from Jojo Rabbit -also not an evil Santa movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on February 21, 2022, 04:55:05 PM
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World was a really good one that I enjoyed. It was an interesting perspective on what some people would be going through at a time like that.

I also saw Tinder Swindler.

I love a good scam. I think they're very interesting and fun to learn about (but not do). This was a good scam. You get a feel for how he operates as the story goes on. I know some people said the women are "gold diggers", but that's entirely too harsh. They are complete idiots though. One woman agrees to meet the guy at a hotel the night they match (not safe behavior) and another goes on a date and gives basically all of her personal information to the guy (poor internal controls).

This one kept me hooked, but the victims weren't fully sympathetic to me. Even though the scammer in question seemed to have just about everything thought out in order to, effectively, rob these women for tens of thousands of dollars, they made themselves very vulnerable.

9/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on February 21, 2022, 05:38:45 PM
Maybe I was raised different but I don't get how most of these scams pull people in if you exercise some basic common sense (obviously its not so common with how people fall for them).

I can smell pyramid schemes and MLM pitches a mile away, I was the one friend in my group not tricked by silly chain emails and viruses in the 90's/2000's. I'm also a glass-half-full person who tends to give the benefit of the doubt towards individuals yet I don't get tricked by any of these things. So I just am shocked with how these people are able to be conned out of tens of thousands of dollars.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on February 22, 2022, 09:18:21 PM
One thing to remember is that with this guy, it wasn't large swaths of people being tricked all at once. Sure, it was far more than a few women, but compared to all women on Tinder, it's a small number. With that type of scam, you have to be careful with your marks. I'm sure he could tell from their profiles how to proceed, but each step is also a test. Getting the woman to come to him, getting them to spill personal details, then waiting on how they communicate afterward all tell him whether or not he can proceed. Basically, he's targeting women who have limited common sense, then he tears away at it. He establishes having enemies early on so that when it comes up later he can lean on that. He spends money in a Ponzi-like scheme so when he asks them for money they assume he's good for it because he's already spent so much on him.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on May 23, 2022, 02:59:51 AM
Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers

This movie is a spiritual successor to Who Framed Roger Rabit. Also, Roger Rabit is in the film at the very beginning to let you know this. It's actually kind of weird that this type of this hasn't been revisited (aside from Space Jam).

Anyway, the film is very self-aware. The titular characters frequently reference rebooting the show. People in the film have either never heard of the show or are huge fans. This is especially true of the main human character (a big fan).

The movie is overall very good! It's funny if you like that "cartoony" style of humor. It feels like modern writers writing old-fashioned comedy if that makes sense. Despite being actors in this universe, Chip and Dale getting involved in solving a mystery makes enough sense. The story progression is logical enough to keep you involved (unlike a certain other recent film that mixed animation and live-action that I can't recall the name of).

Your mileage may vary on the level of cringe with some of the jokes. It helps to like Andy Sanberg's style of humor as well as John Mulaney's. There's a certain comedic element that's in the movie a little too much, as if on purpose, but that's the worst thing about the movie to me.

9/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on May 23, 2022, 12:21:42 PM
I was really worried about this film but been hearing good things about it. Hope to check it out soon. I would have rather gotten a new cartoon series but this sounds pretty good as it is.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on May 27, 2022, 02:22:12 AM
Memory 5/10 what a mess.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on July 23, 2022, 01:03:36 PM
Saw NOPE last night...

Just want to pre-face that I LOVED Get Out, and thought that a scifi thriller movie for White people, but a true HORROR movie for Black people.

Didn't love Us, thought it was ok, but not on the same level as Get Out.

This movie upon initial theater watch was a big NOPE from me. Beginning of the movie just kinda dragged, and then when it got interesting, it turned out to not be what I was expecting. some thing didn't make sense, and we all left the theater thinking... did I like this movie - NOPE. would I watch it again - NOPE. recommend to anyone - NOPE. potential second watch on streaming..... maybe.

Now i have to admit that I had a long day prior to watching this movie, and there was part where I dozed off for about 2-3 minutes, but I didn't miss anything significant.

Now I read up on things that happened in the movie this morning, and while it adds some insight to stuff that I didn't really piece together in the moment, it doesn't change how I feel about the movie.
I didn't really enjoy it all that much. There were a few moments were it was entertaining and thrilling, but this was a miss for me.

p.s. I would barely call it a horror movie, as the trailers before the movie were scarier.
More of a "thriller" as it had some tense/exciting moments.

oh, and Kaluuya seemed too muted and lacking of personality throughout the entire movie. Wish he was a little more personable, as that would add something to movie.

**WARNING** Movie Spoilers - don't read till after watching **WARNING**
-the scariest part of this movie turned out to be a psych out, and was just kids in alien mask creeping around in the dark playing a prank.

-also the part with the chimp, which was the 2nd scariest/most terrifying part of the movie is actually based on a real thing that happened:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travis_(chimpanzee)


-the Chimp incident and the scene with the horse training on set were all foreshadowing interactions with the alien ship, that turned out to not be a ship at all, but an actual flying alien jellyfish.
Yuen survives the Chimp incident because the table cloth blocked eye contact, much like when Kaluuya tells the set guy to not make eye contact and get in the horses face, which caused the horse to react with a kick. possibly the same reason why the last horst didn't get sucked up, because it's blinders prevented it from making eye contact

Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on November 16, 2022, 05:04:20 PM
Smile - I wanted to see this, but then I watched it. It wasn't bad. But it was really cliché.

I have seen this movie before, even though I never saw this movie before.

6.7/10

I'd only recommend this movie if you're like 18 and never saw any R rated ghost curse movies. It could be good if you weren't spoiled by being 38.

Barbarian

8.5/10

This movie does smart things even if the characters are so stupid. It's one of those movies directed by a previous Comedy movie person that works.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on November 29, 2022, 04:56:15 PM
Peanut Butter Falcon 8.8/10

That was really good.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on December 01, 2022, 02:05:48 AM
Magnolia 8/10

I'm going to be thinking about this one for a long time.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: M.K.Ultra on December 05, 2022, 10:48:10 AM
I saw The Menu last night. An excellent dark comedy the plays with the class system, service industry, and elitist foodie culture. Highly recommended.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on January 17, 2023, 12:49:35 AM
M3GAN

I really enjoyed this movie. I'm sure the trailer described it enough, but this was pretty enjoyable from beginning to end. A sort of "Scifi Horror/Thriller" that flirts on the edge of "is that possible" in the not so distant future.
I could see this having a future of sequels.... at least 1.... MEG4N

***LIGHT SPOILERS MAY BE AHEAD**
Basic story is about an animatronic doll with the ability to learn, takes instructions too personal.
This doll with it's almost lifelike "uncanny valley" appearance, is just so creepy.... Like if Anabelle had an Alexa inside it that learned to hold a conversation. How the creator didn't see the issue until it was pointed out, wasn't that surprising, as being a parent changes perspective on things.
The issue was very apparent to me right away, but there wasn't really any stupid people tropes taking you out of this one.
....or maybe I was just enjoying it too much to notice.


***Potential HEAVY Spoiler***
If I had to summarize this movie after having seen the entire thing.... I would say it's as if Ultron had possessed a child sized Chucky doll, and then decided that it deserved more than to be thought of as a machine.

Seeing how it ended though, I really expect there to be at least 1 sequel. And tbh, I'm looking forward to it.


Verdict: Highly Recommended

Edit: And the sequel was announced!! M3GAN 2.0 - Jan 2025
https://variety.com/2023/film/news/megan-2-sequel-release-date-1235493838/
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on January 20, 2023, 05:49:41 PM
The Lure - 8/10 - about as good as a Naked Polish Mermaid Stripper Musical can get. I'd recommend it if you feel like watching something... different.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on January 28, 2023, 05:39:17 PM
Werewolf by Night - 8.5/10

This was a fun little romp and a neat way to expand the MCU into the magic realm. The pacing was just right, and felt like what a full feature could be without any side plots going on. Some of the shots looked like they were trying really hard to be artsy, but I'll be damned if it didn't work. I'd definitely be interested in seeing these characters more.

Lightyear - 7.5/10

This is one where I have to like it for what it is and not what I wanted it to be or what it wasn't. The opening says that this was the movie Andy saw before the events of Toy Story, and I don't believe them. The twist with Zurg only works as someone who is already familiar with the character from Toy Story, the ride at Disney, and the cartoon series. That said, it is a fun interpretation of the characters and a pretty interesting movie on its own merits. My only other gripe is that Buzz kept talking about going "home", and the ship was on its way somewhere, but there never seems to be any attempt to make contact with those people. Maybe I missed something about the ship containing the last of humanity, but that stood out to me throughout the movie, considering it's the primary motivating factor.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on January 28, 2023, 05:56:55 PM
Space Jam

It's only a bad movie if you think about it; otherwise, this is a movie for kids.  Modern kids' movies are very nonsensical, and this one is no exception.  The slapstick Looney Tunes antics are there, which is nice.  LeBron is no better an actor than MJ was, but this movie feels like it asks more of LeBron to act?  It feels like a LeBron James movie starring the Looney Tunes and not a Looney Tunes movie starring LeBron.  That definitely hurts the film.

Overall, I thought it was good enough.  The part I liked the least was where LeBron's son is basically doing magic to make his video game work.  It's fine if cartoons are doing cartoon things, but the movie doesn't feel grounded on LeBron's end, so the contrast between worlds isn't really there.  The film would've been better off just rehashing the plot from the first film, in my opinion.  So much of what the film was going for just wasn't working for me, but I still found it funny.

6/10

I want to come back and give this movie a 3/10. I know I said it's only bad if you think about it, but I've thought a lot more about it since this post, and it just gets worse and worse. It didn't help that someone tried to tell me that the first Space Jam wasn't "some cinematic masterpiece", so I went back to watch it. Space Jam 1 holds up in ways the sequel absolutely does not.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on January 28, 2023, 06:23:31 PM
Vampyres(1974) 8/10 I thought this was going to be one of those bad Jean Rollin Lesbian vampire movies, but this was a pretty good José Ramón Larraz Lesbian vampire movie.

House of Darkness 5/10 - They just took the first act of Vampyres and stretched it over a whole movie. Same conversational points.

Lair of the White Wurm -8/10  another similar movie, but this one directed by Ken Russell has some panache. This version had my favorite version of the countess archetype.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on March 19, 2023, 03:59:49 AM
Babylon 8.5/10 - I like it for the same reasons I like Ed Wood and Boogey Nights

The Banshees of Inisherin  - 8.9/ 10 - I can relate.  Another movie I'll think about for a long time.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on March 19, 2023, 10:44:56 AM
Out of morbid curiosity, I recently watched the 4th and 5th Pirates of the Caribbean movies for the 1st time.

On Stranger Tides is just wretched. The Pirates movies are routinely criticized for being too long, but On Stranger Tides is just a slog. This is a movie about killer mermaids and finding the Fountain of Youth, and yet it takes nearly the entire movie to get to either of those. You could literally cut out the 1st 40 minutes of the film and lose nothing. In fact, it'd be much better. There were also pretty much no worthwhile set pieces, and the film carries on the way-too-serious tone of At World's End to its detriment.

I'll give it some credit, though: Blackbeard is great for as little screen time as he has in the movie, even if he is a shameless Davy Jones knockoff in some ways.

Dead Men Tell No Tales is a much better film. The villain is menacing enough in a way reminiscent of the Pirates from the first film, and there's a bit of personal stakes to what's going on again. The movie also gets to the point a lot faster this time, and there's a welcome return of the Looney Tunes zaniness that made the earliest films more entertaining. Overall, this is damning with faint praise but IMO this is probably the 2nd-best film in the series (way behind the 1st movie).
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on March 20, 2023, 03:43:40 PM
Satan's School for Girls/ aka Salem's School For Girls(1973) - 5.0/10. An old movie about a cult running a school. It seems like a proto-type for Suspiria. It was a short made for TV movie. Only 74 minutes.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on March 28, 2023, 07:46:54 PM
I finally saw Marriage Story, the 2019 Netflix Oscar-bait film about a divorce. The acting is fantastic here. Adam Driver and ScarJo put on some amazing performances. They're both also given a song and dance number to really sell that the two are acting in this movie. However, those scenes are clearly there just for that reason.

Aside from that, I completely hated the movie. The feelings it left me with were almost all entirely negative. No character felt like they went through a meaningful arc. The story itself was utterly unsatisfying. And I'm not sure what I'm supposed to walk away with at the end. That divorce is bad? Not a new concept! That lawyers are evil? That's also an old trope! I wouldn't watch this again and can't recommend it.

4.5/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on March 29, 2023, 03:44:13 PM
Still haven't watched that one, but Adam Driver is one of the best actors of his generation. I feel like I should do a side by side scene comparison to Joker and The Force Awakens where they kill their father figures.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on April 01, 2023, 03:39:18 AM
Tetris 7.8/10 - The first act of the movie could be better, but acts 2 and three are great.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on April 09, 2023, 08:30:58 PM
Nothing on the Super Mario Bros movie yet....?

Well, I'm about to go in an hour, and my daughter is about to see it for the 2nd time.
She said it was fun and would definitely watch it a second time if I wanted to go watch with her.

Reviews seem good enough and the movie I smashed an animated movie opening weekend (overtaking Frozen) and the 5 day opening weekend record.

(shamelessly stolen)
$204m domestic / $377m international

🥇 Biggest opening of 2023
🥇 Biggest worldwide opening for an animated movie
🥇 Biggest Illumination movie
🥈 Second best domestic opening for an animated movie

How good is a $377M opening weekend you ask?
Well, here are the complete B.O. Intake for a few other movies you might've seen:

Free Guy: $331m
Black Adam: $393m
Spider-verse: $384m
Sonic the Hedgehog: $319m
Sonic the Hedgehog 2: $405m


I hope Nintendo and Illumination are already working on that Sequel/Spin-off. This could be the start of the Nintendoverse, leading up to a Super Smash Bros/End Game situation. :P

Mario & Luigi coming into 2023 like:

(https://media.tenor.com/h0qiFm55-BYAAAAC/mario-nuke.gif)
also shamelessly stolen... but it's a classic

and now they be like:
(https://media.tenor.com/B2hIBUN9se0AAAAC/shocked-at-the-amount-of-money-mario.gif)
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on April 09, 2023, 10:36:29 PM
The Super Mario Bros Movie: Overall 7.8/10, Fan Service 8.5/10, Story 6/10, Visuals 9/10

It was good. It was filled with Mario fan service, it just had problems with the writing. I'm aware of the Mario universe, so, I wouldn't get lost. But I also spend a lot of time writing screenplays. So, I imagine if you don't, or aren't a kid this would be a problem for you. Which lead me to my other review.


The Wiz  7.9/10 - Same deal. I watched this at the end of March. I was doing some Wizard of Oz art recently. Which, made me realize I've been meaning to watch it for a long long time. I watched it, but it had some problems with it's storytelling. If you hadn't read the book, or hadn't seen the previous movie you would be lost. Luckily, I had done both, so not a problem for me. Luckily there was some pizazz and production value. Connections between characters, and inciting incidents in the story could have been better. And we know they could have been better because we've seen a better version of it.

The biggest problem with these movie is the connective tissue between scenes. Some movies have too much exposition, these are ones that don't have enough. It felt like the biggest issue was how Mario met Peach. Like was this scene written by Nintendo? Because it was just a level tutorial. Very strange. It also just felt like there was no connection between them.  The opening was great, much better writing and interaction between characters. And then it kind of devolves.

Also, how Mario met Donkey Kong. It would be good retconning to have Mario's Father be the character from the game Donkey Kong.

It'd be interesting to see a version of the 1993 Super Mario Bros The Movie, where we've replaced all the characters with proper Mario CGI, and cut out all the dinosaur references.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: UncleBob on April 09, 2023, 11:04:44 PM
>leading up to a Super Smash Bros/End Game situation.

People keep saying this... but meh.

I'll go see virtually every movie Nintendo pumps out, but I just can't get excited about a Smash Bros. movie.

Now, gimme a Captain N movie... :D
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on April 10, 2023, 12:17:32 AM
Personally, I enjoyed the movie from start to finish. I'd give it a Solid 8.5/10.

Fanservice was a 10/10
Visuals were a 8.5/10
Music/Soundtrack 8.5/10
Story.... it's a Mario movie, the story led them to a magical pipe, that led to a magical land, where you think Mario is gonna have to save a Princess.... not sure what everyone was expecting.
They managed to make the necessary connections and motivations, and then make them work. They even setup the excuse for future cameo's/game movies.

I don't actually think they will go the Smash Bros route, as that twist was already taken by the Lego movie, and I was joking when I said that, as I hadn't even seen the movie yet.
But I am curious as to how and/or with whom they follow up this movie with.


I can't see Zelda working in that same style... or genre.
nor Metroid... that can be a cameo/universe crossing scene on a grander adventure

Maybe Icarus or something, but I don't feel that is known enough to be a competent follow up.
I actually assume there will be a Super Mario Bros 2 before anything else (maybe even SMB3), but I assume they will try to expand at some point, and no better time to strike, than while the iron is hot.

Where do you think they'll expand first?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on April 15, 2023, 08:26:21 PM
I saw the Mario Bros Movie yesterday and think I give it an 8/10.

The pacing is swift. The movie wastes little time, even if the story isn't particularly complicated. I found Bowser's primary motivation and related insecurities to be a hilarious interpretation of the character. I also really liked how the power-ups were interpreted in the film, though it made it seem like Mario needed the mushroom to jump well but Peach didn't, which might imply she's always big, but I'm likely overthinking it. Peach does mention she had an edge having grown up in that world, which is enough of an explainer.

I think I was caught up in the references/excitement of a Nintendo movie coming out in 2023 to really enjoy the actual humor the film was going for. That's not a knock on the movie, that's just me being a dork.

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It felt like the biggest issue was how Mario met Peach. Like was this scene written by Nintendo? Because it was just a level tutorial. Very strange. It also just felt like there was no connection between them.

I thought it was a fun touch that Mario still had to go through a tutorial level. It made the narrative feel more videogame-y.

The biggest knock that I have against the movie is that they seemingly blew the load on references. We got a freaking fire flower Donkey Kong in this movie, which I don't think has been in a game? Kart action on Rainbow Road with green and blue shells also got checked off the list. I'm definitely excited to see where they take things even if the bonus scene showed a Yoshi egg hatching in the real Brooklyn despite us seeing Yoshis in the film, but I guess that would actually force a Mario/Yoshi interaction.

The other gripe I have is pretty small. Bowser really wanted that power star, and there seemed to be one in that world. But it ended up being more like the 2D game power-up than the N64-style mcguffin.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on April 16, 2023, 03:15:14 AM
I always thought it made sense that the power stars got updated in Mario 64. Power Stars are the Nukes of Mushroom Kingdom.

When I was making Mario Maker Levels I'd use them like keys, as in there is no way you can get through this section without one.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on April 17, 2023, 10:33:53 PM
I always thought it made sense that the power stars got updated in Mario 64. Power Stars are the Nukes of Mushroom Kingdom.

When I was making Mario Maker Levels I'd use them like keys, as in there is no way you can get through this section without one.


That's a pretty cool design element. But the stars in Mario 64 aren't making the villains temporarily invincible. And characters all over seem to have them from King Bob-omb to Mama Pinguin. They clearly have some power, but maybe not quite nuke level? I guess they power the castle and/or protect its inhabitants in some kind of way. I don't remember too great.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on April 24, 2023, 01:25:46 AM
Evil Dead Rise - 9.5/10

This was a good one. Once things got started... it was TENSE. I could see people that get scared, being scared by this one. It was creepy, very unsettling, extremely gory, nerve wracking, and it touched on the family aspect of this that wasn't in any of the previous versions, all while being entertaining throughout.

I'm not giving anything away on this one, but if you got a scaredy girlfriend/wife, this is the one pull them into.

.....and to think this was originally made for direct to HBO Max.
I'm glad new management looked at it and said "no, this is too good for direct to streaming, send it to the theaters!!".
that was a good call.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: M.K.Ultra on April 28, 2023, 06:32:21 PM
Evil Dead Rise - 9.5/10

This was a good one. Once things got started... it was TENSE. I could see people that get scared, being scared by this one. It was creepy, very unsettling, extremely gory, nerve wracking, and it touched on the family aspect of this that wasn't in any of the previous versions, all while being entertaining throughout.

I'm not giving anything away on this one, but if you got a scaredy girlfriend/wife, this is the one pull them into.

.....and to think this was originally made for direct to HBO Max.
I'm glad new management looked at it and said "no, this is too good for direct to streaming, send it to the theaters!!".
that was a good call.

Are you a fan of the original trilogy? If so, does this relate to those at all or provide fan service for fans of the original?
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on April 29, 2023, 11:47:13 AM
Evil Dead Rise - 9.5/10

This was a good one. Once things got started... it was TENSE. I could see people that get scared, being scared by this one. It was creepy, very unsettling, extremely gory, nerve wracking, and it touched on the family aspect of this that wasn't in any of the previous versions, all while being entertaining throughout.

I'm not giving anything away on this one, but if you got a scaredy girlfriend/wife, this is the one pull them into.

.....and to think this was originally made for direct to HBO Max.
I'm glad new management looked at it and said "no, this is too good for direct to streaming, send it to the theaters!!".
that was a good call.

Are you a fan of the original trilogy? If so, does this relate to those at all or provide fan service for fans of the original?

The Original trilogy was a long while ago.... so I can't say if there was any easter eggs to relate to ED 2 or 3. Evil Deal (2013) was a remake of the original though, and this new one is a sequel to that. They all contain the "Book of the Dead" however, and that is the main connection.
I do no believe Evil Dead Rise made any attempt to relate itself to Evil Dead 2 or 3 though, outside the eventual use of a chainsaw.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on April 29, 2023, 03:06:56 PM
Evil Dead 2013 is only sort of a re-make. It's implied that it is similar events, it's just a later time. And that the events of the originals happened. Ash's car is parked at the cabin, but then again that car is usually in Sam Raimi productions.  at the end cedits of Evil Dead 2013 Bruce Campbell as Ash randomly pops on the screen and says "Groovy"
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on May 09, 2023, 04:12:33 PM
Critics have lost their souls is my theory. Mario Movie is brilliant fun and a good time for like 90% of people. I was going to go see it with a friend and he was dissuaded due to the initial negative reviews. Thankfully he changed his mind and enjoyed it just as much if not more so than me.

I'd give it a 9/10. One point dinged for lack of Waluigi and Wario  ;D
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on May 25, 2023, 02:54:36 PM
Fast 9

I know Fast X is out, but I hadn't seen 9 yet, and it was on HBO Max, which is dead now. Anyway, the movie mostly sticks to the formula but makes a few changes. The fun street race or heist that normally opens these films is replaced by a stock car race flashback, and it still works. John Cena is Dom's long-lost brother, which is weird for a guy whose main thing is "family". You'd think Dom would've reached out by now. Cena is great in the movie. There's a lot of retconning going on. Also, they finally go to space.

I think the best parts about the movie aren't touched on quite enough. Tyrese (Roman) realizes that he and the rest of the gang might be immortal, but the rest of the group writes this off as them being lucky, despite him having a really good point.  I mentioned the irony of Dom having an estranged brother. There are scenes where Dom is all "mmm...family" and Cena is just watching and seething. There was clearly a found family vs blood family dynamic that was sold, but not fully explored. I honestly think the film would've been better exploring Tyrese's existential crisis and Cena's family-envy more instead of the space stuff, which was largely superfluous and felt like it was tacked on because they felt the need to do it.

Not the strongest in the series, but a good romp. Definitely a "one of these for fans of this" movie 7.5/10


Ant-Man and the Wasp in QUANTUMANIA

Sucks about Johnathan Majors. But this was a pretty good movie. I think this got a bad rep because Ant-Man is a B-list hero who's clearly punching above his weight class. Phase 4 also doesn't have a proper "Avengers" team-up movie, so this coming toward the end probably felt like a letdown.

The movie does well enough on its own though. You get to hear some of Ant-Man's book, which is basically how the world found out about what happened with Thanos. But instead of more "post-blip" world-building, they throw you straight into the Quantum Realm. One grievance I have is that Janet Van Dyne keeps this secret about what's going on in the Quantum Realm with no reason not to go into detail. The group is basically just walking around while she refuses to explain the very real danger they're in. That irked me quite a bit.

The comedy is pretty good and not heavy-handed. Ant-Man wins the day in kind of an Ant-Man way. Bill Murray is in it. It's a solid "like this for what it is and not what it ain't and you'll have a good time" movie. 8/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on May 25, 2023, 07:52:04 PM
Guardians of the Galaxy 3  8.8/10  Great movie. I love the series. This was the best movie in the MCU since Infinity War. Or maybe No Way home. That was good too.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on June 01, 2023, 12:58:14 AM
The Super Mario Bros. Movie

It's good. The plot is by the numbers though I figured that's intentional as this is targeting young children specifically. The movie visually looks good with a very distinct Mushroom Kingdom in particular.

Chris Pratt was fine. Jack Black was excellent though his normal voice slips through sometimes when Bowser sings.

My only criticisms:

1. The plot moves too quickly. It rarely gives the audience time to think/appreciate what just happened before moving to the next set piece.

2. I didn't love all the pop culture songs though they did start with "No Sleep Till Brooklyn" by the Beastie Boys so this is a Decision Button criticism for me.

3. The Mini Mushroom seemed to only make someone small. It would have been nice if Mario used it like he does in the games (i.e. floaty jump, walk on water) though the ending kind of doesn't work if the Mini Mushroom wasn't just an outright negative.

4. No Daisy.

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

I watched this months ago so none of this is fresh. It was excellent.

One of my criticisms isn't one. The movie is like half an hour too long, but it needed that extra 30 minutes to handle T'Challa/Boseman's death effectively, appropriately, and respectfully. Had Boseman not passed away, it's very easy to see where Ryan Coogler would have a more streamlined narrative. For movies with longer run times when streaming, I will sometimes split it up into two or more sessions.

Anyway, T'Challa's death was handled very well, serving as the emotional through-line of the entire movie. Absolutely amazing character work for Shuri throughout. Letitia Wright was acting her ass off there in that final scene of Shuri on the beach, burning the funeral robe (though some of that was probably not acting), communicating so much grief without a single word of dialogue.

I'll have to rewatch as I didn't fully understand aspects of the Talokans (?).

I both loved and hated a particular cameo.

Namor was awesome.

Didn't particularly like Riri Williams/Iron Heart.

As always, this movie could have used more M'Baku.

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

I almost broke my No More Movie Theaters rule to see this almost entirely for Jonathan Majors which yikes. Like nickmitch, sucks about that whole dealie. As always my thoughts are "If there's any kind of fuckery, you gotta go. However, I am willing to adjust my position when more information is presented."

As for the movie, ehh. It's fine. Eternals is the worst post-Endgame MCU film. I'd place Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania right above that due to:

1. Overuse of CGI.

2. Too many characters, not enough time for all of them. For example, Jentorra was more important narratively than Hank yet received far less screentime. Bill Murray's role so greatly reduced that he could have been excised from the movie entirely with a few more tweaks.

3. Majors was good as Kang (playing him very differently than He Who Remains) yet like most MCU villains, Kang felt grossly under-utilized and under-developed so I'm hoping that isn't the end for this version of the character.

4. Janet was frustratingly evasive... about everything (as nickmitch mentioned). In the Lemon of Troy episode of The Simpsons, Nelson tells everyone something happened and that there's no time to explain but on the way he stops to drink from a water fountain and reiterates that there's no time to explain. That was Janet for most of this movie.

5. If there's a Thanos-level threat stranded in the Quantum Realm (where the Avengers just traveled through to save the trillions of sentient lifeforms), maybe that's something Janet should have mentioned to someone on the outside. Feels like all of this could have been averted entirely.

6. Recasting Cassie felt like a colossal waste of Kathryn Newton who is too old to be playing this character anyway. Cassie says Yellowjacket attacked her when she was six and Ant-Man takes place in 2015 so if Quantumania takes place in 2025 then Cassie is 16. Newton is 26.

7. Ant-Man and the Wasp (and Stature for that matter) all keep taking their helmets off when they talk. Did they do that in the first two?

8. Kang didn't just shoot Cassie who stood there like an idiot after Ant-Man and the Wasp both shrank to attack him. He straight up stops shooting lasers out of his hands to monologue after everyone is licking their wounds. Then, he creates a shield on the ground where most of the ants are instead of flat-out fucking flying away which we know he can do because he floated down on that blue energy disc thing. Just all-around bad direction. Reed is normally better than this.

9. No good reason to bring back Darren Cross. This is related to #2. He didn't even do anything, and he's treated as a big joke the whole time. There was one scene where Kang abuses MODOK which shows Kang being a dick. There were any number of ways to accomplish the same thing.

There's probably more; I'm just tired of writing this.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on June 03, 2023, 02:19:51 AM
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse..... 11/10

**POTENTIAL MINOR SPOILERS AHEAD**

This move was crazy good, and I would've sat through a 4 hour version if they had released the whole thing at once. TBH, I wasn't even aware it was a 2 parter.... and about 2 hours in, I leaned over to my daughter and said "There is so much story left to tell... I wouldn't be mad if they hit pause right here, and said 'To Be Continued'..."
about 5 minutes later, that's exactly what happened. They certainly leave you wanting more.

The script gets flipped in this a few times, and the action is intense. The art-style lends alot to what they are able to create here visually, and it's awesome all the way through. This could not be achieved in live action in anyway whatsoever.

There are tons of easter eggs, and a *SPOILER*surprise cameo that's MCU related

I'm not even gonna get into details, but know that Spider-Gwen has plenty of screen-time, there's more easter-eggs in the amount of spider-beings and related villains that you will not be able to name them all in a single viewing, the action is amazing, the visuals are insane, and if you have time to rewatch the first movie (which I need to do, but isn't required).... the story is very much directly connected.

p.s. there are no post credits, and part 2 comes out March of next year (Beyond the Spider-verse)

long story short.
This is better than Into the Spider-Verse.
This is the best Spider-Man movie made to date
This is the best Marvel movie made to date
and you should go see this movie now.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: broodwars on June 08, 2023, 07:23:54 PM
I've been watching a lot of movies lately (including nearly the entirety of MCU Phase 3 + Spider-Man, which I may discuss at another time), but since Across the Spider-Verse has come up I might as well chime in on it since I just got out of a showing:

Into the Spider-Verse is one of my all-time favorite movies. Across the Spider-verse is a mess. An absolutely gorgeously and creatively-animated mess to be sure, but a mess nonetheless.

As I feared would happen, this feels like a 2 hour movie that was stretched out to two 2 hour movies to justify having enough content for a 3rd movie. Miles feels like a side character in his own movie, the vast majority of screentime seemingly devoted to Gwen or the endless parade of barely-distinguishable Spider-Man multiverse cameos.

I'll save my general complaints about the writing until the 3rd movie is out so we can see if they can stick the landing, but suffice it to say if the 1st movie was a very personal, tight story...Across the Spider-verse wants to be a meta commentary on the Spider-Man fanbase in a way I don't think is even genuine (the "crisis" at hand is, frankly, something I think was definitively settled with the reception to Into the Spider-verse). To me, the vast majority of the film's 2nd half felt cold and corporate, though it was nice to see Spectacular Spider-Man get even as little screentime as he does after Disney killed his series.

What's here is "OK", but "OK" isn't good enough when you're following-up a movie like Into the Spider-verse. It's disappointing, and if you don't know the "To Be Continued" is coming, it will piss you off like it did half my theater.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: ThePerm on June 20, 2023, 06:04:28 AM
The Flash Fun/10 I liked this one. It's very creamy.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on June 20, 2023, 12:33:41 PM
The Blackening

This was a fun little horror/comedy.
It's about an all black main cast taking a quick Juneteenth weekend trip to a cabin in the woods.
therefore I guess it now falls under black comedy... (haha get it.... ::crickets::)

anyway, a little social commentary, and black tropes in horror movies all of course get visited in this one. I mean, the tag line is "We can't all die first".

Long story short, this was entertaining, funny, and had a few "tense" horror moments.
a certain aspect of it I thought was pretty obvious early on, but that didn't stop the enjoyment of this.
It's based on a skit from a comedy show, but they did a good job of fleshing it out to a full fledged movie that didn't overstay it's welcome by stretching the skit too thin.

If you like horror/comedy, it's worth the watch. A lively crowd in the theater is also a bonus, as people reacting to a horror/comedy in real time always adds to the enjoyment.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on June 29, 2023, 05:28:50 PM
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

9. No good reason to bring back Darren Cross. This is related to #2. He didn't even do anything, and he's treated as a big joke the whole time. There was one scene where Kang abuses MODOK which shows Kang being a dick. There were any number of ways to accomplish the same thing.

I actually liked what they did with MODOK. He's a comic-booky-ass comic book character.  A giant floating head with dangly limbs is just too silly. Having him as a serious threat would've felt forced, so making him something of a joke that's still some kind of threat felt right. Having the callback also gave him some additional motivation and gave something for the characters to play off of.

It does suck that a normally recurring villain once again dies in their debut movie.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on June 30, 2023, 06:04:05 PM
I actually liked what they did with MODOK. He's a comic-booky-ass comic book character.  A giant floating head with dangly limbs is just too silly. Having him as a serious threat would've felt forced, so making him something of a joke that's still some kind of threat felt right. Having the callback also gave him some additional motivation and gave something for the characters to play off of.
Don't get me wrong. MODOK didn't need to be serious. Rather, he needed to be necessary. Like I said above, there are too many characters. Bringing back Cross only to dunk on him the entire time didn't justify the screentime. There's a whole rebellion with characters I did not care about because the movie says so little about them. Still, if anything, a lot of these characters including MODOK should have been excised in order to give Kang more to do especially if they're using this movie to partially set up Avengers: Kang Dynasty.

Also, I saw a supercut (which I can't find) of the MCU mocking a lot of the sillier comic book names and whatnot. Hadn't realized how frequently that happened. Instead of leaning into the weirdness of comics, they do a wink and a nod to the audience, and I disagree with that choice.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on July 09, 2023, 07:19:55 PM
I actually liked what they did with MODOK. He's a comic-booky-ass comic book character.  A giant floating head with dangly limbs is just too silly. Having him as a serious threat would've felt forced, so making him something of a joke that's still some kind of threat felt right. Having the callback also gave him some additional motivation and gave something for the characters to play off of.
Don't get me wrong. MODOK didn't need to be serious. Rather, he needed to be necessary. Like I said above, there are too many characters. Bringing back Cross only to dunk on him the entire time didn't justify the screentime. There's a whole rebellion with characters I did not care about because the movie says so little about them. Still, if anything, a lot of these characters including MODOK should have been excised in order to give Kang more to do especially if they're using this movie to partially set up Avengers: Kang Dynasty.

Also, I saw a supercut (which I can't find) of the MCU mocking a lot of the sillier comic book names and whatnot. Hadn't realized how frequently that happened. Instead of leaning into the weirdness of comics, they do a wink and a nod to the audience, and I disagree with that choice.

That's fair. They definitely could've done more with Kang. And the rebellion felt so unimportant story-wise despite being somewhat needed to give the heroes and offset to Kang's army. Definitely could've scaled down a lot.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on August 31, 2023, 12:47:47 PM
I recently saw The Flash on some streaming platform. It wasn't TV or HBO, but I can't remember what it was, and there's no way to tell. Spoilers ahead.

Anyway, this movie was bad. Ezra Miller (even if we put their issues aside) plays a pretty insufferable version of Barry Allen. We then get stuck with an even more insufferable version of his character, who I'll call Alt-Barry. Alt-Barry got to live with both his parents, so he was never motivated to learn science and is a reasonably immature 18-year-old.

I don't want to talk too much about the opening action scene. It's so much CGI, and it's just hats on hats. The whole movie is just a hat on a hat on a hat when it comes to most things. But they establish early on that Barry is constantly hungry and needs to maintain a calorie load, but it just doesn't seem to come up in the ending where there are two of them, and they're just ripping and running at max speed the whole time.

The film seemed to want to showcase Barry's maturity and experience being a hero by having Barry lose his powers and Alt-Barry gain them, setting up a forced mentorship scenario. This allows the film to highlight how annoying Alt-Barry can be. But one thing that stood out to me was the scene where Barry tries to phase through a wall by just walking right into it and then poking it, only to realize he doesn't have his powers. It didn't seem like he understood how that worked AT ALL, but he's later able to explain exactly how it works.

The scene of Barry getting his powers back was also just a slog. The first lightning strike almost killed him, but then Supergirl carries him into the sky, which somehow works. I don't understand what the difference was supposed to be.

The ending gave me mixed feelings. Ultimately, Barry ends up doing the obvious thing he should've done from the beginning. It was weird that his dad seemed to put on a whole-ass disguise to buy some tomatoes, but I could roll with that. His getting that one convo with his mom was also a bit ham-fisted. Seeing George Clooney made me laugh, but I saw a video where the ending was meant to be ambiguous and allow for this Flash to segue into the new DCEU. But I guess this character is just stuck in this alternate timeline forever (and Aquaman is also there).

I'll just rattle off a few other things I didn't like. Barry has to slow down and concentrate to activate his powers. They show a real-time pause when some onlookers catch him "charging up," which I thought was weird. There's no reason for Barry to be late to anything. That's a tired Superhero trope that just doesn't fit a fast enough character to run backward through time. Especially if he can save a collapsing hospital, have a conversation with strangers, have another conversation with Batman and Wonder Woman, and make it back in time for his sandwich to be done. During the final fight, Alt-Bary asks if he can go back in time, but regular Barry says he shouldn't be fast enough yet. That was a good explanation, but Alt-Barry just said, "lol, watch me." The contrast of the blue and orange lightning colors made filming sense, but there was no story reason for the two to have different lightning colors. It's bizarre that Barry didn't go straight to Bruce's house when he needed help and instead Googled every other Justice League member first.

There was a good movie in there somewhere. I think Barry learns a good lesson about changing the past by watching Alt-Barry slowly corrupt himself. That's a good use of the multiverse trope; the pointless emphasis on Superman overshadows it. Steven Universe did this whole story in about 11 minutes. There is also a good showcase of classic Flash stuff, like the tiny suit in the ring and him making a tornado, which I found fun.

That's way too many words for something I didn't like. 4/10
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Adrock on September 22, 2023, 07:22:05 PM
The Flash

Nice write up, nickmitch. “Hats on hats” is like the most apt way to describe this movie. And “then get stuck with an even more insufferable version of his character” is almost verbatim when I described this movie to a friend.

Nightmare fuel uncanny valley CGI especially the babies and Superman. I don’t even get the latter. Did they not have any reference materials of Henry Cavill? He even filmed a cameo that was cut. It’s as if the artist who was assigned Superman just rendered Cavill from memory.

Supergirl was kind of bland. And if they planned on bringing her back, way to let her job to Zod repeatedly. I get that it isn’t her movie. Just made her look weak especially since she had help and Superman didn’t in Man of Steel.

Getting tired of multiverse stories.

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

It’s fine. I recently rewatched all of them and only Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is actively bad. I’d be here all day if I compiled a list of gripes about that movie. Even Temple of Doom is pretty good; it’s just really mean-spirited.

Anyway, Dial of Destiny is too long. Maybe I’m just old, but I often have trouble watching movies longer than two hours in one sitting. I found myself constantly saying, “That could have been cut.” For example, most of the opening scene. Sure, CGI Young Harrison Ford was coolio and all, but that entire set piece felt like an eternity.

I’m too lazy to write a whole big thing. Some quick thoughts:

1. Indiana Jones wanting to remain in the past would have hit harder had the movie spent more than 12 seconds on his son’s death and how it destroyed his marriage.

2. Didn’t need to bring back Sallah.

3. The movie never addressed how Jones was wanted for murder then just isn’t when he returns to America.

4. People were dunking on Phoebe Waller-Bridge. She was fine, not amazing or anything.

5. I liked the ending, but it would have been better had this movie released in the 2000s and Indiana Jones 4 release in the 1990s.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: nickmitch on September 23, 2023, 08:52:24 PM
The Flash

Nice write up, nickmitch. “Hats on hats” is like the most apt way to describe this movie. And “then get stuck with an even more insufferable version of his character” is almost verbatim when I described this movie to a friend.

Nightmare fuel uncanny valley CGI especially the babies and Superman. I don’t even get the latter. Did they not have any reference materials of Henry Cavill? He even filmed a cameo that was cut. It’s as if the artist who was assigned Superman just rendered Cavill from memory.

Supergirl was kind of bland. And if they planned on bringing her back, way to let her job to Zod repeatedly. I get that it isn’t her movie. Just made her look weak especially since she had help and Superman didn’t in Man of Steel.

Getting tired of multiverse stories.

Thank you! I was actually only able to summarize that down after explaining everything wrong with that scene to my wife in more words than I used here to describe the entire movie. Everything wrong with that scene is exactly what's wrong with the movie.

Supergirl really should've been given more time and characterization. I get that they were going for the Flashpoint version of Superman with her being trapped away from the sun, but they could've given her something. At least a death where she looks like Zod's equal.
Title: Re: Rate the last movie you've seen
Post by: Stratos on September 24, 2023, 12:09:40 PM
7. Ant-Man and the Wasp (and Stature for that matter) all keep taking their helmets off when they talk. Did they do that in the first two?

I notice this in Star Wars too. Maybe its an actor thing, maybe a director thing. Everyone with a helmet takes it off for any conversations longer then three words. I wonder if there is a belief that viewers need to see faces to better understand and enjoy a scene. Or studios are dicks and try to pay actors lower rates like they tried to pull on Pedro Pascal in Mandalorian, so actors guilds could be requiring a certain amount of face-time for actors with helmets.