Topic: Rate the last movie you've seen

[TJ Spyke]

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%.

[oohhboy]

Short version. Going on a date with any of those movies will not get you laid.

[TJ Spyke]

Mama is getting decent reviews (63% average), and it's a horror film (so you might get her holding onto you).

[EasyCure]

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

[BranDonk Kong]

Movie 43 looks like a Hollywood copy of The Underground Comedy Movie starring the Sham-wow guy.

[Halbred]

I saw Mama this last weekend. Very good, but very predictable scares. Pretty standard for a post-The Ring horror movie.

[Halbred]

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.

[Pixelated Pixies]

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.

[Pixelated Pixies]

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.

[Do_What]

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.

[EasyCure]

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.

[TJ Spyke]

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"?

[EasyCure]

yes, exactly.

[TJ Spyke]

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.

[EasyCure]

I'll wait for netflix.

[Stogi]

Anyone seen Seveen Psychopaths? Is it good?

[Pixelated Pixies]

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.

[Stogi]

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.

[ThePerm]

Anyone seen Seveen Psychopaths? Is it good?

i watched 7 psychopaths, but i was very hammered.

[TJ Spyke]

Not all cars have seats that do that. Plus, in that situation you don't have time to think.

[Stogi]

Not all cars have seats that lean back on the drivers side? Maybe not in the Democratic Republic of North Korea.

[TJ Spyke]

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.

[Stogi]

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.

[TJ Spyke]

Well, most cars I have been in have not.

[Stogi]

In Russia, car drives you.