Topic: Rate the last movie you've seen

[nickmitch]

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.

[BlackNMild2k1]

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.

[Plugabugz]

I watched The Green Hornet.... what was the point of it?

[broodwars]

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.

[BlackNMild2k1]

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.

[ThePerm]

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?

[Morari]

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.

[ThePerm]

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.

[Adrock]

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.

[Halbred]

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.

[ThePerm]

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.

[TJ Spyke]

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).

[ThePerm]

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

[Morari]

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.

[TJ Spyke]

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.

[BlackNMild2k1]

Is the Roommate a 2011 version of Single White Female?
Because that's exactly what it looks like.

[TJ Spyke]

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.

[BlackNMild2k1]

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.

[BlackNMild2k1]

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.

[ThePerm]

yeah roomate looked exactly like SWF

[bustin98]

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.

[TJ Spyke]

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.

[Stogi]

Hahaha The Roommate has been the butt of a couple jokes this past week, even though I haven't seen.

[BlackNMild2k1]

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.

[bustin98]

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...