Last movie you watched and your critique of it

[Slothy]

I'd have a foursome with the above named people. And I consider myself firmly heterosexual. It's just those two men are damn sexy, and I don't mind admitting it.

[krissy]

iron man 3 for the second time

it ages like fine wine i think way better this time around

less annoyed at the cliches cause i know they're coming

and more appreciative of how much tony loves pepper and how much she loves tony

[Jinx]

I'd have a foursome with the above named people. And I consider myself firmly heterosexual. It's just those two men are damn sexy, and I don't mind admitting it.

Patrick Stewart is a treasure. When you're wining, dining, and bedding Sir Patrick, you give him your full attention.

[Araciel]

The Wolverine.

So awkward and unnecessary.

[Psychotic]

Drag Me To Hell.

If you don't take it seriously then it's hilarious, especially with continuous amounts of gross stuff dumped on the main character. Not a classic but campy and fun all the same.

[Hollycat]

Enders game. Oh boy, here we go.
Whole post contains spoilies from the movie


It wasn't awful. It felt really rushed. Also, it felt like they just randomly pushed relationships together for no reason. They used that kid from Hannah Montanna as Bonzo, which I felt was one of the best castings possible. Ender's greatest battle and turning point is a fight with a midget. Which he cheats at. Seriously, the guy comes at him one on one and Ender makes himself slippery and gets away, then kills him. The biggest disappointment of the fight though was that Ender didn't just put his hand on Bonzos head and hold him away like that, with Bonzos arms flailing.
Also, why is it that by the end of the movie every black character is either saluting Ender or babying him, and none of the white guys do? I'm completely serious, at the end of the movie, Dap salutes Ender, who is now an Admiral, and then Colonel Graff has Ender sedated for no reason, and then makes Dap (played by a black guy) carry Ender around.

Ender's love(?) interest offers to give him private lessons out of the blue the first time she meets him.

Effects:
The special effects in the space battles and in the game were terrific. If there was a video game that looked that good out today, none of us would ever stop playing it. The Battle school design is pretty great. The caves that the Formics carved on the planet at the end look like a movie set from the days of bad science fiction. Santa vs the Martians anyone?

Music:
The movie literally never stops playing dramatic music. As if it knows that it has been reduced to key points of conflict in the movie and literally nothing else. It gets kind of annoying after a while.

Acting:
Petra go home. Whoever played Petra, please, you need a few more years of lessons, I felt like I was watching the Last Airbender movie again.
No one else except for Ender and Graff get enough time to warrant discussion, but I will say that I felt like the kid from Hannah Montanna was trying far to hard to get just the right amount of mean guy on his face.
Ender.... makes us feel nothing whatsoever. His emotional scenes don't make us feel anything since the only time in the movie he does anything other than disobey orders or kill teenagers is the first time he goes into the battle room.
Harrison Ford was Harrison Ford.


Pacing:
lol, next category.

Overall: I'll give it a 6/10. Pretty animation isn't enough to redeem the terrible pacing and the bad acting.






Oh god. This was the best adaptation. Maybe literally.
Instead of a proper review, here is a list of wtf were they thinking.

Why the hell is everyone 14?
Why the hell is Anderson a woman now?
Why the hell is Bonzo a midget, he's supposed to tower over Ender.
Why the hell is there a relationship between Ender and Petra, Petra is supposed to be dating Dink at this point.
Why the hell is the small asteroid now an Earth sized planet.
Why the hell is Ender promoted from launchy to soldier to commander to captain after one victory each
Why the bloody rotting infested hell is Bean not a midget. Seriously, guys, when Bean shows up in the book, he is 6, 3 feet tall, and a giant asshole.
Why the bloody hell didn't they make this a two parter, Part one is from the time Ender enlists till he becomes commander, movie two could be from commander to the end of the book. Then the actor could age like he does in the book.
Why did they announce at the beginning of the movie on the news that the humans are invading, in the book this was top secret information not revealed till the very end.

adaptation points:
0/10
Bugger off.



aaaah you have essentially pointed out everything that I found wrong with it. And I'm surprised you gave it such a high score! Well done articulating the complaints I had to make. I have a few in particular I'd like to add or elaborate on. I didn't feel like doing this originally because I felt it would take too much effort, but it's in my head now xD

- The fact that Anderson "goes soft" and tries to tell Graff that he's pushing Ender too hard and breaks down is appalling. Anderson is supposed to be such a great secondary character in the book, he's used as a means to show what a monster Graff really is, that he's a wolf in sheep's clothing with these kids. But this female Anderson! Why did they make her execute such a compassionate protest? Because she's a woman? That was all I could think about, and I found it pretty sexist. It was possible for her to behave the same way Anderson is written in the book, only as a woman. No, instead they had to make her compassionate toward the launchies and Ender. Why? It had to have been because she was a woman. The entire point of this school is to show no compassion and to not ever let Ender believe that help will come or that the pressure will ever let up. She violated all of that with her outburst.

- Which brings me to my next point. The fight with Bonzo. Supposed to be one of Ender's defining moments in Battle School, and a trademark of Ender that he finishes his enemies and he does it for good. a) Bonzo fell and broke his neck seeminly by accident and b) Ender rushed to him, sobbing over him and apologizing. Why the smurf would they make him do that? It takes away everything about Ender and his character.

- Petra is the best and I hate her. Hated her. There was no reason whatsoever for as much involvement in the story as she had. Can we also take a moment to piece our smurfing brains back together from the fact that Petra laid the final shot with the Little Doctor on the buggers? It wasn't Ender. Petra was the one who did it. Why. smurfing why. I'd like to know.

- Hated Dap. Next to Petra, he was the second best. So awful.

- "buggers" is not used once and it freak me out. The term "formic" is referenced only in those paragraphs between chapters in which the IF are speaking, if I remember. No one actually calls them formics.

- Mazer Rackham. I so badly wanted to like Ben Kingsley, but I couldn't do it. Didn't like him one bit.

- Seconding the atrocious pacing. Additionally, the dialogue was not believable or natural.

- A two-part would probably be best, agreed.

- I thought the Freeplay was atrocious and the fact that they put the Hive Queen on smurfing Eros is a travesty. Honestly. How did any of that work? Answer: It doesn't. The whole point of Freeplay is that the buggers used it to analyze Ender and then to create a situation in which he was familiar with in order to communicate with them, and that they would do it far away from all of this on another unknown planet for Ender to find as an adult. How would they have been able to do that on Eros when it was wiped clean by marines decades before? There is no possibility that exists in which this was a logical move to make in the plot. Ridiculous.

I understand that the book is extremely internalized and many of it are writings about what's happening to Ender and what Ender is thinking. I understand it can be hard to write a script and a dialogue for situations like that. But come on. Come on.

I agree with all of this.
Additionally, they were only called formics in the Ender's shadow series, which is now no longer possible to make a movie of.

[Gamblet]

Law Abiding Citizen

Very nice, ending could have been a little better though.

7.5/10

[Shorty]

Enders game. Oh boy, here we go.
Whole post contains spoilies from the movie


It wasn't awful. It felt really rushed. Also, it felt like they just randomly pushed relationships together for no reason. They used that kid from Hannah Montanna as Bonzo, which I felt was one of the best castings possible. Ender's greatest battle and turning point is a fight with a midget. Which he cheats at. Seriously, the guy comes at him one on one and Ender makes himself slippery and gets away, then kills him. The biggest disappointment of the fight though was that Ender didn't just put his hand on Bonzos head and hold him away like that, with Bonzos arms flailing.
Also, why is it that by the end of the movie every black character is either saluting Ender or babying him, and none of the white guys do? I'm completely serious, at the end of the movie, Dap salutes Ender, who is now an Admiral, and then Colonel Graff has Ender sedated for no reason, and then makes Dap (played by a black guy) carry Ender around.

Ender's love(?) interest offers to give him private lessons out of the blue the first time she meets him.

Effects:
The special effects in the space battles and in the game were terrific. If there was a video game that looked that good out today, none of us would ever stop playing it. The Battle school design is pretty great. The caves that the Formics carved on the planet at the end look like a movie set from the days of bad science fiction. Santa vs the Martians anyone?

Music:
The movie literally never stops playing dramatic music. As if it knows that it has been reduced to key points of conflict in the movie and literally nothing else. It gets kind of annoying after a while.

Acting:
Petra go home. Whoever played Petra, please, you need a few more years of lessons, I felt like I was watching the Last Airbender movie again.
No one else except for Ender and Graff get enough time to warrant discussion, but I will say that I felt like the kid from Hannah Montanna was trying far to hard to get just the right amount of mean guy on his face.
Ender.... makes us feel nothing whatsoever. His emotional scenes don't make us feel anything since the only time in the movie he does anything other than disobey orders or kill teenagers is the first time he goes into the battle room.
Harrison Ford was Harrison Ford.


Pacing:
lol, next category.

Overall: I'll give it a 6/10. Pretty animation isn't enough to redeem the terrible pacing and the bad acting.






Oh god. This was the best adaptation. Maybe literally.
Instead of a proper review, here is a list of wtf were they thinking.

Why the hell is everyone 14?
Why the hell is Anderson a woman now?
Why the hell is Bonzo a midget, he's supposed to tower over Ender.
Why the hell is there a relationship between Ender and Petra, Petra is supposed to be dating Dink at this point.
Why the hell is the small asteroid now an Earth sized planet.
Why the hell is Ender promoted from launchy to soldier to commander to captain after one victory each
Why the bloody rotting infested hell is Bean not a midget. Seriously, guys, when Bean shows up in the book, he is 6, 3 feet tall, and a giant asshole.
Why the bloody hell didn't they make this a two parter, Part one is from the time Ender enlists till he becomes commander, movie two could be from commander to the end of the book. Then the actor could age like he does in the book.
Why did they announce at the beginning of the movie on the news that the humans are invading, in the book this was top secret information not revealed till the very end.

adaptation points:
0/10
Bugger off.



aaaah you have essentially pointed out everything that I found wrong with it. And I'm surprised you gave it such a high score! Well done articulating the complaints I had to make. I have a few in particular I'd like to add or elaborate on. I didn't feel like doing this originally because I felt it would take too much effort, but it's in my head now xD

- The fact that Anderson "goes soft" and tries to tell Graff that he's pushing Ender too hard and breaks down is appalling. Anderson is supposed to be such a great secondary character in the book, he's used as a means to show what a monster Graff really is, that he's a wolf in sheep's clothing with these kids. But this female Anderson! Why did they make her execute such a compassionate protest? Because she's a woman? That was all I could think about, and I found it pretty sexist. It was possible for her to behave the same way Anderson is written in the book, only as a woman. No, instead they had to make her compassionate toward the launchies and Ender. Why? It had to have been because she was a woman. The entire point of this school is to show no compassion and to not ever let Ender believe that help will come or that the pressure will ever let up. She violated all of that with her outburst.

- Which brings me to my next point. The fight with Bonzo. Supposed to be one of Ender's defining moments in Battle School, and a trademark of Ender that he finishes his enemies and he does it for good. a) Bonzo fell and broke his neck seeminly by accident and b) Ender rushed to him, sobbing over him and apologizing. Why the smurf would they make him do that? It takes away everything about Ender and his character.

- Petra is the best and I hate her. Hated her. There was no reason whatsoever for as much involvement in the story as she had. Can we also take a moment to piece our smurfing brains back together from the fact that Petra laid the final shot with the Little Doctor on the buggers? It wasn't Ender. Petra was the one who did it. Why. smurfing why. I'd like to know.

- Hated Dap. Next to Petra, he was the second best. So awful.

- "buggers" is not used once and it freak me out. The term "formic" is referenced only in those paragraphs between chapters in which the IF are speaking, if I remember. No one actually calls them formics.

- Mazer Rackham. I so badly wanted to like Ben Kingsley, but I couldn't do it. Didn't like him one bit.

- Seconding the atrocious pacing. Additionally, the dialogue was not believable or natural.

- A two-part would probably be best, agreed.

- I thought the Freeplay was atrocious and the fact that they put the Hive Queen on smurfing Eros is a travesty. Honestly. How did any of that work? Answer: It doesn't. The whole point of Freeplay is that the buggers used it to analyze Ender and then to create a situation in which he was familiar with in order to communicate with them, and that they would do it far away from all of this on another unknown planet for Ender to find as an adult. How would they have been able to do that on Eros when it was wiped clean by marines decades before? There is no possibility that exists in which this was a logical move to make in the plot. Ridiculous.

I understand that the book is extremely internalized and many of it are writings about what's happening to Ender and what Ender is thinking. I understand it can be hard to write a script and a dialogue for situations like that. But come on. Come on.

I agree with all of this.
Additionally, they were only called formics in the Ender's shadow series, which is now no longer possible to make a movie of.


I know we disagree on opinions about that story and I wouldn't have gone to see it even if they somehow made it into a film, but there was no reason in hell to put Bean in his launchy group and it violates yet another key point Ender's time in Battle School because it takes away the option to now pit Bean in his army. Ender subconsciously copying the methods of the teachers and then deeply struggling with that and feeling shameful about it is what helps him to turn his methods around, thus creating the most powerful army Battle School has ever seen. Including Bean in his launchy group took all of those possibilities away.

Additionally, I would have liked to see more of the impact that the two vs. one army. ALSO I JUST REALIZED I don't think I saw Dink Meeker anywhere! Now I'm really mad.

[Hollycat]

Enders game. Oh boy, here we go.
Whole post contains spoilies from the movie


It wasn't awful. It felt really rushed. Also, it felt like they just randomly pushed relationships together for no reason. They used that kid from Hannah Montanna as Bonzo, which I felt was one of the best castings possible. Ender's greatest battle and turning point is a fight with a midget. Which he cheats at. Seriously, the guy comes at him one on one and Ender makes himself slippery and gets away, then kills him. The biggest disappointment of the fight though was that Ender didn't just put his hand on Bonzos head and hold him away like that, with Bonzos arms flailing.
Also, why is it that by the end of the movie every black character is either saluting Ender or babying him, and none of the white guys do? I'm completely serious, at the end of the movie, Dap salutes Ender, who is now an Admiral, and then Colonel Graff has Ender sedated for no reason, and then makes Dap (played by a black guy) carry Ender around.

Ender's love(?) interest offers to give him private lessons out of the blue the first time she meets him.

Effects:
The special effects in the space battles and in the game were terrific. If there was a video game that looked that good out today, none of us would ever stop playing it. The Battle school design is pretty great. The caves that the Formics carved on the planet at the end look like a movie set from the days of bad science fiction. Santa vs the Martians anyone?

Music:
The movie literally never stops playing dramatic music. As if it knows that it has been reduced to key points of conflict in the movie and literally nothing else. It gets kind of annoying after a while.

Acting:
Petra go home. Whoever played Petra, please, you need a few more years of lessons, I felt like I was watching the Last Airbender movie again.
No one else except for Ender and Graff get enough time to warrant discussion, but I will say that I felt like the kid from Hannah Montanna was trying far to hard to get just the right amount of mean guy on his face.
Ender.... makes us feel nothing whatsoever. His emotional scenes don't make us feel anything since the only time in the movie he does anything other than disobey orders or kill teenagers is the first time he goes into the battle room.
Harrison Ford was Harrison Ford.


Pacing:
lol, next category.

Overall: I'll give it a 6/10. Pretty animation isn't enough to redeem the terrible pacing and the bad acting.






Oh god. This was the best adaptation. Maybe literally.
Instead of a proper review, here is a list of wtf were they thinking.

Why the hell is everyone 14?
Why the hell is Anderson a woman now?
Why the hell is Bonzo a midget, he's supposed to tower over Ender.
Why the hell is there a relationship between Ender and Petra, Petra is supposed to be dating Dink at this point.
Why the hell is the small asteroid now an Earth sized planet.
Why the hell is Ender promoted from launchy to soldier to commander to captain after one victory each
Why the bloody rotting infested hell is Bean not a midget. Seriously, guys, when Bean shows up in the book, he is 6, 3 feet tall, and a giant asshole.
Why the bloody hell didn't they make this a two parter, Part one is from the time Ender enlists till he becomes commander, movie two could be from commander to the end of the book. Then the actor could age like he does in the book.
Why did they announce at the beginning of the movie on the news that the humans are invading, in the book this was top secret information not revealed till the very end.

adaptation points:
0/10
Bugger off.



aaaah you have essentially pointed out everything that I found wrong with it. And I'm surprised you gave it such a high score! Well done articulating the complaints I had to make. I have a few in particular I'd like to add or elaborate on. I didn't feel like doing this originally because I felt it would take too much effort, but it's in my head now xD

- The fact that Anderson "goes soft" and tries to tell Graff that he's pushing Ender too hard and breaks down is appalling. Anderson is supposed to be such a great secondary character in the book, he's used as a means to show what a monster Graff really is, that he's a wolf in sheep's clothing with these kids. But this female Anderson! Why did they make her execute such a compassionate protest? Because she's a woman? That was all I could think about, and I found it pretty sexist. It was possible for her to behave the same way Anderson is written in the book, only as a woman. No, instead they had to make her compassionate toward the launchies and Ender. Why? It had to have been because she was a woman. The entire point of this school is to show no compassion and to not ever let Ender believe that help will come or that the pressure will ever let up. She violated all of that with her outburst.

- Which brings me to my next point. The fight with Bonzo. Supposed to be one of Ender's defining moments in Battle School, and a trademark of Ender that he finishes his enemies and he does it for good. a) Bonzo fell and broke his neck seeminly by accident and b) Ender rushed to him, sobbing over him and apologizing. Why the smurf would they make him do that? It takes away everything about Ender and his character.

- Petra is the best and I hate her. Hated her. There was no reason whatsoever for as much involvement in the story as she had. Can we also take a moment to piece our smurfing brains back together from the fact that Petra laid the final shot with the Little Doctor on the buggers? It wasn't Ender. Petra was the one who did it. Why. smurfing why. I'd like to know.

- Hated Dap. Next to Petra, he was the second best. So awful.

- "buggers" is not used once and it freak me out. The term "formic" is referenced only in those paragraphs between chapters in which the IF are speaking, if I remember. No one actually calls them formics.

- Mazer Rackham. I so badly wanted to like Ben Kingsley, but I couldn't do it. Didn't like him one bit.

- Seconding the atrocious pacing. Additionally, the dialogue was not believable or natural.

- A two-part would probably be best, agreed.

- I thought the Freeplay was atrocious and the fact that they put the Hive Queen on smurfing Eros is a travesty. Honestly. How did any of that work? Answer: It doesn't. The whole point of Freeplay is that the buggers used it to analyze Ender and then to create a situation in which he was familiar with in order to communicate with them, and that they would do it far away from all of this on another unknown planet for Ender to find as an adult. How would they have been able to do that on Eros when it was wiped clean by marines decades before? There is no possibility that exists in which this was a logical move to make in the plot. Ridiculous.

I understand that the book is extremely internalized and many of it are writings about what's happening to Ender and what Ender is thinking. I understand it can be hard to write a script and a dialogue for situations like that. But come on. Come on.

I agree with all of this.
Additionally, they were only called formics in the Ender's shadow series, which is now no longer possible to make a movie of.


I know we disagree on opinions about that story and I wouldn't have gone to see it even if they somehow made it into a film, but there was no reason in hell to put Bean in his launchy group and it violates yet another key point Ender's time in Battle School because it takes away the option to now pit Bean in his army. Ender subconsciously copying the methods of the teachers and then deeply struggling with that and feeling shameful about it is what helps him to turn his methods around, thus creating the most powerful army Battle School has ever seen. Including Bean in his launchy group took all of those possibilities away.

Additionally, I would have liked to see more of the impact that the two vs. one army. ALSO I JUST REALIZED I don't think I saw Dink Meeker anywhere! Now I'm really mad.
He was the random black guy petra talks to the first time Ender meets her. I thought dink was Belgian or something in the books.
Yes, they threw away another huge part of Ender's developement by putting Bean in his launchy group, almost as big important as Ender beating down Bonzo in the original book.

[Shorty]

I don't think I noticed him through my blinding rage.

[Hollycat]

I don't think I noticed him through my blinding rage.
I feel your pain. In the book, Dink is just as important if not more important than Petra, and in the end, they replaced him and Hot Soup with Bernard. Ugh.
Edit: I just looked it up, in the book, Dink is dutch.

I kept wanting to yell at the screen the entire movie.

Why couldn't Peter Jackson have done this instead of Gavin Hood?

Then again, I don't think I need any more Radagast the Browns.

[Vermachtnis]

Pacific Rim was finally in the Red Box so I got to watch it. It was fucking awesome. I got the main theme stuck in my head.

[I Took the Red Pill]

Anvil! The Story of Anvil

This documentary is incredible. It tells the story of (you'll never guess) Anvil, a metal group that served as an inspiration for a lot of highly successful Rock bands (Guns n Roses, Jethro Tull, Metallica, etc) but never were able to "hit it big" themselves.

The film chronicles the lead singer/guitarist and the drummer, who remain best friends at age 51 and have not given up on the dream of becoming rock stars. I almost cried during it, to be honest. How they have the will to continue pursuing their dreams in the face of countless setbacks and disappointments is beyond me. Even if you don't like the type of music this is an incredible story of the triumph of the human spirit.

9/10

[Elskidor]

Olympus has Fallen - Great start filled with action and suspense, but somewhere in the middle it started to lose my interest and fall apart. 6/10

Now You See Me - I liked the tricks and learning how they were done, but wasn't crazy about the rest. I that the ending was a joke, and felt like more of a cheat than a magic trick. Maybe I was just tired and I should re-watch. 6.5/10

We're The Millers - Just another crude adult film that is sorta like The Hangover in its humor. If you like that sort of thing then I'd suggest it...and I do. I was laughing my ass off a few times. 8/10

[Sephiroth]

The Wolverine

I liked it more than the first one and the cliffhanger was good but the movie left some questions. But that's normal, it is not supposed to be serious.

[Ayen]

Thor 2: I thought it was miles better than the first one and it was good to see more of Asgard this time around. Loki pretty much got all the best lines in the movie, which isn't surprising with how popular the character became since Avengers. Only setback is the villain, despite being played by the 9th freaking Doctor, is forgettable and they could have done more with him.

[Shorty]

The Odd Life of Timothy Green

I rolled my eyes at this when it first started. Normally, I like Jennifer Garner but in the beginning she seemed so to overact pretty badly, and I wasn't so fond of the beginning in general. But Timothy reminded me so much of my little sister who has asperger's and I began to find myself enjoying the movie because of him. And then Jennifer Garner stopped being weird and I liked it a lot more.

Felt like a movie for kids, but I was still pretty touched by the ending. 6/10.

[Bubba]

World War Z

It was... OK. Just a watchable zombie romp with a decent cast. I still found it hard to fathom how Brad Pitt's character remained alive throughout the entire movie. He literally should have died fifteen times. No-one is that lucky. No-one. I did like the way they managed to deal with the contagion in the end. As zombie flicks go though, there are better ones out there.

7/10

[AssassinDX]

Stitches

It's about a clown (British comedian Ross Noble) who gets killed at a kids part and comes back for revenge several years later, it's a proper homage to classic slasher movies and some of Noble's one-liners are hilarious.

Solid 8/10 for me.

[Shaibana]

Tangled 9/10

this movie is genius!
i love the characters so much!
im in love with this movie

[Araciel]

Her

I can't even explain the effect this movie had on me without feeling gutted.

So good. Best film experience I've had in a long time.

[Bubba]

I watched Argo last night and was thoroughly impressed. It's a pretty amazing story and I can't believe it actually happened. The style and costume was perfect for the 1980 setting. I thought they sensationalised the ending to make it super-tense but overall I thought it was excellent.

Argo fuck yourself.

9/10

[Ergroilnin]

Watched Thor the dark world yesterday and I liked it like all the other Marvel universe movies from last few years. I just dig these superhero movies with their sense of humor (Thor putting Mjolnir on the rack, or the Mjolnir flying across universe forth and back befoe finally getting back in Thor's hands lol). Can't wait for next marvel movie.

8/10 for thor the dark world.

[Mercen-X]

Perks of Being a Wallflower

Charlie reminded of me... except I never worked up the courage to go and do stuff with people.

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Justice League: War

I didn't like Superman and Green Lantern's attitudes or Wonder Woman's naivete and felt that Cyborg's new origin story was a bit of a cop-out going the way of Young Justice. Still, a pretty good movie nonetheless. I liked the mid-credits stinger (Ocean Master). I hope for a sequel.

[Vermachtnis]

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2

It was cheesy as fuck, but it was a children's movie so that was to be expected. And it new it was cheesy and had some generally very funny moments.

[Shiny]

Her
9/10
I love Spike Jonze.

Best Man Holiday
4/10
Felt like a Tyler Perry movie and that's basically an insult. Way to be melodramatic. I think the people who liked this liked it more for nostalgic reasons.

American Hustle
6/10
Quippy dialogue but I felt the over the top fake Jersey accents brought me out of the movie. It was also mostly underwhelming. Bale was good as usual. And this film could have done without Amy Adams and her creepy eyes. I found myself trying to laugh rather than actually laughing. Louis C.K. parts were the best.

Blue Jasmine
7/10
God this was depressing. Cate Blanchett played the hell out of this role though.

Don Juan
8/10
I thought the dialogue was true to life and so were the Jersey accents. Take notes, American Hustle. It was a pretty funny and enjoyable movie.

Fruitvale Station
6/10
Could have been a short film and been equally effective. It probably should have just been 20 minutes long. The pacing was too slow and you could tell they were forcibly trying to drag things out to make it feature length. The good thing is that it was well acted. Felt true to life and the actors were subtle enough for me to feel like these are people I know in my own life.

[Bubba]

Oblivion.

I tried watching this the other night but I missed the exposition at the start and had no idea what was going on.

I watched it again this morning and I actually thought it was pretty good. It looked fantastic and I thought the plot developed really well. I would have liked to see someone else in the main role. Tom Cruise is just one of those actors who plays himself really well. I can never distinguish him from any of his films.

It was great to see Jaime Lannister pop up for a while in something else too.

8/10

[Slothy]

Oblivion was all right. Though I did figure out the entire plot with the exception of the clones within maybe half an hour if I'm being generous. Once I had that tidbit every single thing fell into place in my brain. I think I watch too much sci-fi. I'm not surprised by a lot these days.


Tom Cruise is just one of those actors who plays himself really well.

He was really good in Collateral. Though I suppose in that he just played a crazy homicidal version of himself. But it was the least Tom Cruise like he's been while giving a good performance. Aside from Tropic Thunder of course.

[Bubba]

He was really good in Collateral. Though I suppose in that he just played a crazy homicidal version of himself. But it was the least Tom Cruise like he's been while giving a good performance.

Collateral was a really good film, I thought. Even just the start with the cab ride. Jamie Fox and Jada Pinkett-Smith were excellent in that opening scene. Cruise was good but again... I reckon it would have been better with another actor.

[Shorty]

The Fairy

A French film about absolute nonsensical random shite. 0/10. Worst thing I have ever seen in my entire life.

I hate watching movies at family get togethers. They are always terrible, terrible, poor choices.

[Miss Mae]

The Lego Movie

Everything about this movie is awesome.

No, but seriously, hilarious superficial humour, clever surface plot and interesting deeper themes.

Spaceship.

[Casey]

Reading a review of the movie 'Her' here so I downloaded it and watched it.

9/10

It was kind of depressing but the end brought a tear to my face and a smile. The soundtrack is also nice, love Arcade Fire.

Anchor Man 2

7/10

It was alright. Wasn't that funny. Got goofy at the end.

[Kalevala]

Daylight, a disaster movie starring Sylvester Stallone as Kit Latura, a disgraced former New York City Emergency Medicial Services (EMS) chief who tries to save survivors trapped inside the Holland Tunnel.

It was not good.

[Drift]

Amazing Spider-Man 2
Need to rewatch it because we got crappy seats in the cinema. Film was good, music was better, score was AWESOME. Hans Zimmer and Pharell. Can't beat it.

[Bubba]

Watched Frozen on the plane back to the UK. I did think it was very good but I'd expect nothing less from Disney. I don't think it quite lived up to the hype though. Anna and Olaf were the obvious highlights. I did like the song Let It Go but again I expected it to blow me away more than it did. God damn you, hype!

Anyway, I much preferred Tangled. 8/10.

In an attempt to make myself feel more macho after giggling at a princess and a magical snowman, I then watched Lone Survivor. It was pretty brutal in parts, I'm not a huge fan of Mark Wahlberg but the rest of the cast were excellent. I know it was based on a true story but I didn't enjoy some of the injuries they sustained. It gave me a lot of respect for the special forces even if certain parts were embellished from the original story.

I give it a 7/10.

[Shorty]

Joss Whedon's Much Ado About Nothing
8/10

A bit confusing in the beginning, but I ended up loving it. I loved seeing all of the recurring Whedonverse actors. It bugged me that Nathan Fillion is listed as a main player when has such a minor role, but he was hilarious.

Would recommend!

[Kalevala]

Takashi Miike's The Great Yokai War
6.5/10

Miike's take on a live-action Miyazaki film, essentially. Loved the very extensive use of Japanese mythology. I enjoyed the movie overall, and there were quite a few laugh-out-loud moments that weren't lost in translation. Unfortunately, the b-movie special effects and over the top goofiness kept this from being as poignant or moving as a true Miyazaki film.

[Ayen]

X-Men Days of Future Past was...
Ten percent luck, twenty percent skill
Fifteen percent concentrated power of will :stare:
Five percent pleasure, fifty percent pain
And one-hundred percent reason to remember the name :doublecolbert:

:up::up:

[Jess]

The Wolf of Wall Street

8/10

I really enjoyed it. Leo nailed it, as per. :jess:

[Shorty]

I had never seen As Good As It Gets before tonight. That movie gave me a lot of feels, oh wow. I am not a fan of little dogs, but holy christ on a bike that dog was just about the cutest little thing I've ever seen.

The awkward head-slapping moments were at times a bit too awkward fand uncomfortable to me. I couldn't understand if they were trying to convey that his character has Asperger's as well as his OCD ailments or if he was just socially clueless. Not really a big Helen Hunt fan and I didn't love her character, but I thought it was good how well she stood up for herself throughout the entire film. I'm also not really a fan of Greg Kinnear, but he did pretty well, too.

Jack Nicholson is just a peach, though. I love it when he puts on that crazy smile of his and you see this glimmer of insanity in his eye and all of his other crazy roles like The Joker and Jack Torrance and Frank Costello flash before you for just a moment. I'm going to be so sad when that dude dies.

7/10

[Ayen]

Maleficent.

With the exception of some overacting in one battle, I thought it was an overall enjoyable experience and a good retelling of the classic Sleeping Beauty tale from Maleficent's point of view. Angelina Jolie was great and it even put the last comedy I saw to shame since there was more funny bits in this movie that didn't feel contrived.

I enjoyed Sharlto Copley as the king and Imelda Staunton as a fairy.

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[Pumpkin]

Click

I like it better than most people do

[Shorty]

That's actually one of Adam Sandler's movies I think a lot of people like! I wasn't a fan, but you're in the majority (from what I know)

[Jinx]

The Lady in the Water

I think a lot of people dislike this movie (not unlike shion with Click!) but it just really touches something inside of me and I lose it. So beautiful.

[Pumpkin]

I guess its just people I know personally then xD They all haaaated that movie. I thought it was sweet. The acting was terrible, but the message of the movie was a good one

[Bubba]

Click was pretty dull and depressing, I thought. The premise was actually excellent but the execution was poor.

[Ayen]

Yeah, Click got sad and depressing damn quick.

I forgive it for having Kate Beckinsale.

[Shiny]

The Rover

8/10


I've said this before, but it reminded me of a modern-day Of Mice and Men with Robert Pattinson playing the idiot sidekick. Guy Pearce does a fantastic job playing a man scorned after car thiefs steal his car which holds a curious value to him. This is not a post-apocalyptic movie. It's a movie of what Australia would be like if it were a third world country and after a huge economic collapse. This is the same director of the Animal Kingdom which I heard was also good and will check out.

[Alive-Cat]

The Battery

10/10

Like the best zombie film I have seen in a long, long time. The subgenre is so overworn now, but this film is a really interesting take on it, more of a road movie than a horror, although definitely a movie for horror fans, too. None of the scenes were really planned as far as I know, it's pretty arty and very well made. Jeremy Gardner both directs and stars in as one of the protagonists. Great stuff!

[Pumpkin]

A documentary on Netflix about Russian mail order brides. Was actually not bad. Wasn't overly long and was informative enough. One guy though just bugged me

This guy is like 100 lbs overweight and he gets a Russian mail order bride and says "American women her age don't take care of themselves. They're like 50 lbs overweight."

REALLY



REALLY!?!?!?!?!

[Bubba]

I watched Paranormal Activity for the first time the other night and I thought it was very well done. Some genuinely spooky moments in it. I can't believe how cheaply it was done. Much mmore impressive than the Blair Witch Project. I'm half way through the 2nd PI one on Netflix at the minute. It's started pretty slowly but the first one was excellent.

9/10

Tron Legacy - I really wasn't sure what to expect with this as I never saw the original. Some of the effects were pretty awesome but I'm not sure I enjoyed the film as a whole. I wasn't convinced by the guy who played Sam Fynn but Jeff Bridges is always watchable. Also, the girl in it was hot.

6/10

[The Space Pope]

Damn, this thread is still going? ;o Watched Running Scared on recommendation from a friend. A bit too stylistic, direction-wise for my tastes, and some of the writing was pretty juvenile (let's see how many times we can cram 'fuck' into a single sentence!) but I did enjoy the plot as a whole. It feels like one of those "love it or hate it" type of deals, even though I fall in the middle.

[Araciel]

Only Lovers Left Alive...

meh.. I guess it made me feel the way it was supposed to but I didn't like it.

[Agent Proto]

Watched Godzilla (2014) just awhile ago. Not a bad movie. I enjoyed the giant monsters fighting. :D

[kotora]

Saw Bad Neighbours recently. Pretty fucking hilarious, way better than the poster would suggest. Thought it'd just be another cliche romcom, turned out to have some pretty good jokes that subtle play on common cliches and tropes in the college shenanigans movie genre. Zac Afron also looks very handsome in it.

[Slothy]

I watched Transformers: Dark of the Moon today since it was on and I hate myself apparently. I have mixed feelings about it.

On the one hand, it's probably the most enjoyable of the first three Transformers movies overall, and actually has a premise that would make for an interesting Transformers movie, even if the plan the bad guys have makes little to no sense in the end.

At the same time, it's still not a good movie, spends most of it's time following that unlikable piece of crap known as Shia LeBeuf, and the story makes zero sense in the context of the first two movies.

[Jinx]

Children of Men.

I recently read the book (which is shit) and wanted to rewatch the far, far superior movie. Damn, it's an excellent movie.

[Parker]

I watched The Internet's Own Boy recently and while it is not a movie but a documentary it is pretty good and I think you should watch it.

[Shorty]

Doc of the Dead

10/10 as far as documentaries go. An interesting commentary on George Romero as the creator of zombie culture and what it's grown to be today, with several prolific zombie and undead geeks like Robert Kirkman, Max Brooks, Simon Peggy, and bunches more. I really appreciated the fact the commentary focuses on the fact that many of them have their own personal ideas about how they feel zombies should be, how they respond to the zombie fans, etc, instead of making this film about them all sharing the same vision. It made for a diverse range of perspectives, and I would suggest this documentary to anyone who is interested in zombies or horror films. Good stuff! You can find it on Netflix.

[The Man]

The Station Agent and The Grand Budapest Hotel were both well worth the ninety minutes or so it took to watch them. I'm not always impressed by films these days but I was definitely impressed by both of these.

[Shorty]

I enjoyed the Grand Budapest Hotel, but as I've told some others here, it disappointed me a little bit! Probably because I built up such high expectations for it, but it just felt a little different than his other films. I did like some of the liberties he took, namely the fact that there were clear and obvious tones of violence in the film, albeit under a veil of quirkiness still. That seemed new to me.

[Shorty]

Tabloid

A crazy documentary of this young beauty queen who allegedly kidnapped and raped a mormon missionary. I don't know what I believe from this story. On one hand, she's nutty and crazy and is clearly lying or has twisted things so deeply that even she herself believed them. On the other hand, I believe that mormon guilt drives people to do and deny things so badly that they also will twist until they themselves believe it. I think the truth might be a combination of both of their stories, but I guess we'll never know.

What's so fascinating about this story is that there are just layers and layers that keep peeling away of Joyce McKinny's life and secrets. I'll admit that by the end when she was explaining how her own dog attacked her as he was dying and essentially crippled her to the point where she was dying, I felt a little bad for her, despite the fact she is an obvious loony sociopath.

Crazy, crazy story. 8/10, I'd say.

[Loony BoB]

While on the flights to and from Thailand I watched...

Dallas Buyers Club - 4/5 - I had a real struggle hearing this movie which was a shame, but I'd say I got about 80% of it. It was really good! I feel it lacked that final little bit that would have made it great, but that's what you get for "based on a true story" I suppose.
American Hustle - 4/5 - Good ol' fashioned fun movie that is pretty much my cup of tea, but there are much better hustle movies out there so it doesn't crack 5/5.
The Grand Budapest Hotel - 5/5 - Great, worth the watch all the way. Although the funniest scene for me was actually right at the start, when the guy is talking to the camera. :shobon:
12 Years a Slave - 4/5 - Great movie but not my personal cup of tea in many parts. I don't really know what I'd have changed about it, it was a great watch, but a bit too serious at all times I guess. I suppose I figure there should always be a bit of comedy for every story. I don't know why I'm like that... I guess it just makes a film realistic because joking about terrible things is part of how humans deal with said terrible things. Maybe that's new in culture compared to back then, I dunno.

I was sure there was a fifth movie but maybe not. Can't remember off the top of my head.

[Rostum]

How To Train Your Dragon 2

4.5/5
I thought it was really great! On par or perhaps even better than the original. I think Dreamworks has really proven themselves over the last decade compared to Pixar, and this is a shining example of it!

[Alive-Cat]

Girl, Interrupted - I thought it was really cool, I did fall in and out of sleep for the last half hour because I was watching in bed at night and so have no idea how it actually ends but I liked what I saw! :greenie:

Watching movies with Brittany Murphy in makes me sad, she was amazing :(

[Araciel]

Under The Skin

Saw scarlett johannsen naked but otherwise it was worthless. I was waiting to feel some empathy but it didn't happen. Then you never find out wtf is going on... bleh

[Parker]

I watched Persona it was very good and creepy in the right parts

[Shiny]

Children of Men.

I recently read the book (which is trout) and wanted to rewatch the far, far superior movie. Damn, it's an excellent movie.

Indeed it is 10/10 that.

22 Jump Street
5/10

Recently I saw 22 Jump Street which is as I expected it to be. I didn't think it was as entertaining as the first, but I did laugh a few times so it set out to do what it intended. I loved the disdain that girl had for Jonah Hill's character. Pretty much every scene with her was hilarious. The ending credits were kind of funny too. In terms of originality it obviously didn't bring it there and I kept feeling like they were trying to shove anti-gay down my throat because of the whole Jonah Hill scandal.

The Grand Budapest Hotel
8/10
Nicely written and definitely has the typical Wes Anderson flair. I'm not a fan of most of his films, but this one managed to be funny, thoughtful, adventurous, mysterious, and romantic all while remaining true to it's nature. The ending was a tad disappointing only because it was odd how it took a morbid turn but otherwise it was delightful. My bf liked it though so I give it a -2 automatically because he thinks terrible things are good.

Oldboy (American version)
7/10
In all honesty, I enjoyed it. The Korean version is obviously superior, but Josh Brolin is such a fantastic actor. I have several things to say about this remake, but because I'm on my mobile I'll edit it in later.

EDIT: Okay, my main issue with this film is that it's a remake. I don't mind a remake if the original is outdated, but it isn't. A lot of things are shot-for-shot. This is essentially a rip-off. It's unoriginal and unimaginative. It brings nothing new aside from a new cast. It's almost as abominable as the Psycho remake was. They did cast a good actor, Josh Brolin, though the casting is another issue.

Interesting that Spike Lee directed this film originally about a Korean man and decided to make the lead protagonist some white dude who became basically a third degree black belt in martial arts really because he watched it on television. If only it could be that easy. Interesting again that Spike Lee directed this film and casted one of the villains as Samuel L. Jackson and the white villain is surprise surprise, a European. Well done Spike Lee, you've managed to fit in all of the Hollywood cliches and yet you claim to be going against the grain. You're one and the same. Terrible sell-out. Bring back the Jungle Fever Spike Lee.

I remember seeing Tabloid! Years ago in the Magno Sound review, but thanks for reminding me Shorty. Such an interesting story that was. I have no idea who to believe either but I do know that bish is cray.

[Pant Leg Eater from the Bad World]

I just watched Homefront.

It was pretty good. Your standard Jason Statham movie, but maybe a little mixed with a Bruce Willis revenge flick. I personally think Jason Statham is the next Bruce Willis of action movies. And that suits me just fine.

Anywho. I enjoyed it. I gave it a four out of five stars on Netflix.

[Rostum]

The Grand Budapest Hotel

8/10

I quite liked the style of this one, very enjoyable. However, the ending was kind of anti-climatic and disappointing.

[Araciel]

Snowpiercer.

So good. SOOO unexpected.

[Cloudane]

The "new" (2002... eh, make me feel old :p) version of The Time Machine

I've only seen the first one once and don't remember much of it, and not read the book. So maybe I'm blessed by a lack of expectations for it to match, but I loved it! I know it got some pretty uh... mixed reception, but I certainly enjoyed it. It took me along for the journey, and to a really cool future (past-like) world that I smiled at seeing, and a whole heap of emotions along the way.

Funny how it referenced itself at one point too :)

A Friday night well spent.

[Shiny]

Snowpiercer.

So good. SOOO unexpected.
I also saw Snowpiercer. I didn't know what to expect it as post-apolcapytic films can be a hit or miss as proven by how utterly shit The Colony was, but I'm very fond of the writer who also wrote some great Korean thrillers, Mother and Memories of a Murder. It did not disappoint. I would say the ending was definitely predictable though and it was a bit more violent than I expected, but otherwise enjoyable.

[jodymcdougle]

the last movie that I watched was Gravity. it was really good! only had a handful of actors in it. I think it was probably made to be seen in 3D, but I enjoyed it just the same.

[Casey]

I saw 'Deliver Us From Evil' in theaters with my girlfriend. I rate it 4/5 stars. Supposedly it is based on some events of a police cop in the Bronx, New York. Follows the random cases of that cop and how he has dealt with some supernatural stuff. It was really good and not even scary. There is also a trailer somewhere about a real life account of one case from the real cop that the movie was based off of and also the Priests who were his mentors. It was really worth the watch!

[Araciel]

New Planet of the Apes - pretty good - Wanna see where they take it next.

Edge of Tomorrow - very good - wanna see what happens on the next day :P

Noah - complete trout. Didn't expect any more and was not disappointed. Avoid at all costs.

[Pumpkin]

Down Periscope

It was okay

[Bubba]

That Awkward Moment.

Agreed to watch this with MissH to keep her sweet for when I drag he along to watch the new Planet of the Apes film.

It was a typical rom-com fare and was suitably predictable. Another one as well which makes men look like absolute dicks. Let's not be there for the girl of yours dreams when she needs you... instead let's stick to the whole "bro's before females'" bollocks. I was unhappy with the way my gender was portrayed.

Saying that, there were a couple of decent performances in it. Miles Teller and Imogen Poots played their roles well. There were also a couple of cracking one-liners. Overall though it was pretty middle-of-the-road.

5/10

[McLovin']

The Raid 2.

Holy crap it was so good. Definitely took the insanity of the first one and multiplied it. Story was weak tho, but fight scenes were insane. smurfing Rama, man.

8/10

Batman Begins

Never saw it before but I liked it a lot more than Dark Knight. It had a really cohesive story and I enjoyed the trippy scenes like demon Batman. Made it feel like those old school Batman episodes.

9/10

[Cloudane]

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

Looks like it's been pretty well received so far. In all honesty I found it slow, and the story a bit of a mess. To be fair though, I've only ever seen the original 1968 one (ended up at this one because friend's birthday) and thought this was purely a prequel, not a complete reboot, so I was trying to tie it in with the original in my head (and found the inevitability that comes with thinking it's a prequel somewhat depressing!). I should probably watch Rise and rewatch this one to give it a more fair analysis.

The history of it is quite complicated though isn't it. You have the original book, the original film, then several follow-ups that apparently sucked (barring Escape), a TV series, a remake film in 2001 that also apparently sucked, then the sort of reboot-prequel-thing. What a mess! Particularly with the remake being fairly recent and already made irrelevant via the reboot.

On the plus side it was certainly entertaining and with some memorable characters. There are iconic moments (and characters) that are - though probably unlikely to be as famous as that scene at the end of the 1968 movie, still unlikely to be forgotten any time soon.

[Ergroilnin]

So I just saw The perks of being a wallflower.

My expectations for the movie?

None whatsoever, I just thoughts hey I will see Hermiona out of her role.

What it delivered?

Awesome movie with catching story, some very dark things in interesting way. I loved it even though I was lots of times confused and totally thought things were gonna go other (more cliché) way. Really I got chills from the movie.

5/5

[Shiny]

The Raid 2.

Holy crap it was so good. Definitely took the insanity of the first one and multiplied it. Story was weak tho, but fight scenes were insane. smurfing Rama, man.

8/10


They need to some how revive Joe Taslim's character and then I'll watch it.

[Bubba]

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes


I should probably watch Rise and rewatch this one to give it a more fair analysis.

Yeah, that would give you a better appreciation for this one I feel.

MissH and I went to watch this last night and I thought it was fantastic. It was a little more Intense than the first one (Sophie still prefers Rise) but I felt this was a much better film in every way. The parallel the film shows between the apes and men is perfectly represented. I loved how at the start the Caesar felt that men had destroyed themselves and that apes were stronger because they were all a family. By the end he realises that the apes are no different from the humans themselves. It's a wonderful journey.

There are a couple of heartbreaking scenes which mirrored the men and newly developed apes perfectly. With the way the original 1968 movie starts (and indeed the huge spoilers in the film titles!) you kind of know how the next film is gonna go... but I already can't wait. God damn two-year wait :argh:

9.5/10

[MissH]

Damn you!! You got in there before me!!

Yes, I did prefer Rise- purely because I liked the cute baby Ceasar and I really enjoyed watching the relationships play out. There was probably a little bit too much fighting in Dawn for my liking. However, saying that, I still thought it was a fabulous film, totally in awe how they manage to create such an incredible film using a magic computer!

I am incredibly impatient and seriously grumpy about having to wait so long until the next film.

To summarise;
Rise : 9/10
Dawn: 8/10

P.S I want a baby ape

[Crop]

I watched Dawn a week ago, and honestly I wasn't too fussed about it. I thought it was a good film, but after loving Rise so much I was expecting more. It's certainly not a film I'd watch again soon. That said, I'm really looking forward to the next film, and I hear there could be a couple of them before they get onto Planet of the Apes, which should be interesting.
Rise - 9/10
Dawn 6/10

[Freya]

300: Rise of an Empire

3/5

The action was awesome as always, I just felt the story was kinda all over the place. But the blood and gore was so fun!

[Pumpkin]

Hitch

6.5/10 would watch again

[Shorty]

I feel guilty for liking it because I don't think it's good stuff, but Hitch is a cute little movie.

[Pumpkin]

I thought so! It wasn't top quality cinema but the couple with the guy from the King of Queens and that lady was just so sweet :flirt:

[sharkythesharkdogg]

No thoughts on Down Periscope? :lol:

[Pumpkin]

Down Periscope

It was okay


No thoughts on Down Periscope? :lol:

Check the previous page :greenie:

[Noire]

I just got back from watching Guardians of the Galaxy. I'm extremely disappointed in the lack of attention paid to the villains, as well as the horrific lack of character depth to Ronan in particular, but otherwise it was an absolutely fantastic film! It had a charming 80s feel to it, was hilarious at points, and it was pretty well paced for a two hour film...I've felt that some of the other Marvel films (Avengers in particular) have felt quite rushed.

Overall, I'd give this an 8/10. Not as good as Thor or Iron Man, but better than the others.

[McLovin']

Guardians of the Galaxy

Honestly I loved it. Amazing for every second. Loved the 80's feel. Its a classic for sure. Best marvel movie by far.
Id give it a 10/10.

[Rantz]

Just got back from GotG as well, awesome movie. The humour appealed to me more than I expected, and more than your usual Marvel movie. Drax the Destroyer was pretty hilarious. Good pacing, too.

[NeoCracker]

Hercules - The one with The Rock. :p

It was pretty great. The characters were fun, the fight scenes were awesome, though the plot was pretty simplistic. At first I didn't like that the Legend of Hercules was a myth perpetuated by Hercules to up his cred basically, but there are a couple interesting twists involving it I very much liked.

8/10

[Ayen]

Hercules (Hi, Neo)

It was... short. This movie could really benefit from being a hour longer so they could do everything they wanted to do. You don't spend a lot of time with the characters and they're hardly fleshed out as a result. I was meh on how they handled the myth too at first, but it grew on me. As far as action movies go I felt it was pretty standard: a bunch of awesome, badass characters kicking ass, taking names, and a couple of laugh out loud moments.

[Carl the Llama]

IP Man

It was incredible, the actor has great presence on screen and the martial arts in the film is one of the best I have seen in many martial arts movies. The story is also very impressive covering many details about Chinese and Japanese history. Its semi-biographical story about the man Yip (who was one of Bruce Lee's teachers) and his wife during Japans invasion of China during WWII.

Highly Recommended 8.5/10

[Shorty]

Gangs of New York

5/10, was okay. Didn’t love it, didn’t hate it. Felt like DDL was a bit of an overactor, but it could have just been how his character was written. Disappointed that it was probably the most predictable movie I’ve seen in a long time; saw each turn of events coming a mile away. And also, it could have been shortened by a good hour/hour and a half.

I really like the idea of having enemies honor and borderline-worship one another basically to the point of haunting themselves with the other’s death. Would have been better if Liam Neeson was in it for longer, tbf.

[MissH]

Delivery Man

Last night, Bubba and I settled down to watch this DVD. I really,really enjoyed it!

Vince Vaughn was the perfect casting for the loveable David Wozniak. He made the character totally believable with his charming ways.

This is the story of a man who donated sperm many years before. Due to the high quality of his sperm, the clinic gave the samples to every woman who entered the clinic. David was visited from a man from the clinic who told him this and explained he had 533 children! The problem was- over 100 of them were now contesting his contract with the clinic and wanted to know his idenity. David them embarks on a journey with his useless lawyer best friend to hide his identity. In the mean time, David decides to follow some of his children and act as their guardian angel- acting as a stranger, not their father.

This film was a perfect mix of comedy and heart-warming moments.

9.5/10

[Bubba]

Delivery Man

Last night, Bubba and I settled down to watch this DVD. I really,really enjoyed it!

Vince Vaughn was the perfect casting for the loveable David Wozniak. He made the character totally believable with his charming ways.

This is the story of a man who donated sperm many years before. Due to the high quality of his sperm, the clinic gave the samples to every woman who entered the clinic. David was visited from a man from the clinic who told him this and explained he had 533 children! The problem was- over 100 of them were now contesting his contract with the clinic and wanted to know his idenity. David them embarks on a journey with his useless lawyer best friend to hide his identity. In the mean time, David decides to follow some of his children and act as their guardian angel- acting as a stranger, not their father.

This film was a perfect mix of comedy and heart-warming moments.

9.5/10

I agree it was thoroughly enjoyable. There were some lovely bits in it. Vince Vaughn is actually a better actor than I gave him credit for. 8/10.

[Araciel]

I'd say Delivery Man was a solid 6 for me. Didn't try too hard and I always like Vince Vaughan even if he's always playing himself.

Just saw half of Divergent. It was terrible. Maybe I shouldn't review if I didn't watch the whole thing but.. Avoid unless you're 12-20 and female.

[AssassinDX]

The Purge

Apparently quite a popular Ethan Hawke movie (it made something silly like $90 million at the box office with a $3 million budget), I didn't think much of it personally.

Basically in an attempt to 'purge' America of the homeless and generally lower class (and an outlet to blow off some steam) the government allows one night a year of anything goes debauchery, which in turn keeps the rates of crime and unemployment very low for the rest of the year.

I think what annoyed me about the film is that aside from a brief explanation of the point of the purge through text at the beginning almost the entire focus is on one family, which is a shame as the idea itself is something I really wanted the plot to explain and explore in more detail. I'm aware of a sequel that probably does that, but I didn't enjoy the first movie enough to care anymore.

[Kalevala]

High Fidelity

A friend recommended I watch this because I am "terrifyingly similar" to Rob Gordon, the film's main character. Much of the movie was uncomfortable because, well, he was right, and Rob just so happens to be a bit of an asshole. That said, the characters are well-written and believable, including Gordon.

John Cusack was on fire at this point in his career. He is a master of making scripted easygoing, everyday "conversation" seem as natural on the screen as it would in the street.

Iben Hjejle's delivery, on other hand, is unfortunately a little flat. I also could have done without the clichéd ending, but maybe that's just because I'm Rob Gordon at a more immature stage in his life. These things aside, this was an excellent film.

9/10

[Jinx]

Star Trek: Into Darkness

Enjoyed it, but it's nowhere near as good as Star Trek 2009. If/when they make the third one, I'll see it, though. :)

[Scotty_ffgamer]

I just saw the movie "her". Im still processing how i feel about it, but it was definitely interesting. I love the visual design of the movie though.

[Mo-Nercy]

Brick Mansions.

Plenty of mindless action. Not nearly enough parkour compared to the source material, but I guess the viewing public in 2014 is probably a little less obsessed with parkour than in 2004. In any case, the action setpieces are all well done.

And this film has the distinction of being Paul Walker's last, and in a sense, it really is a typical Paul Walker film. Two dimensional, cliched plot, but plenty of great action thriller elements to keep the brain from focusing in on the flaws.

7/10

[Ergroilnin]

K-PAX

Just wow. I love movies like this, phylosohpical, science fiction movies. Also I really like Kevin Spacey

10/10

[Bubba]

Shark Night 3D

I was gonna say in honour of Shark Week I settled down to watch this. This is purely coincidence though as I have no recollection of putting this onto my Lovefilm list. I can only think I got drunk and self-destructive and decided to punish my sober self with this God-awful s***e.

Clearly this garbage was meant to be enjoyed in 3D so straight away I was at a disadvantage with my 2D TV. If you can imagine selected scenes from all the Jaws films, shot very poorly and spliced together you may have an idea what this was like. The cast was a predictable blend of high school kids covering the various ethnic bases and not one with any notable acting talents. The dog was probably the stand out actor and it played the part of a dog really well. The sharks looked like giant pieces of pasta. Also, outside of ridiculous films like Sharknado and Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus... sharks DO NOT ambush jet ski riders by jumping out of the water and biting their heads off as they ride by. The film makers might want to watch shark week a bit more closely this year.

I'll give it 1/10 as the labrador in the film was great. It was even trained to grab the female lead's hand whilst she was struggling in the water and I thought that was cute as hell.

[Jinx]

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

I also just finished reading the comics. I love this series. I love Ramona Flowers.

[Shorty]

Had you never seen Scott Pilgrim before? I still have my Roxy set floating round somewhere.

[Jinx]

Oh, I've seen it plenty of times. I just hadn't in awhile and I forgot how much I enjoyed it!

[Nate]

I watched Contagion again. It helps me sleep.

[Shorty]

Oh, I've seen it plenty of times. I just hadn't in awhile and I forgot how much I enjoyed it!

I see! It's good stuff, I like it a lot. Especially since it has my boyfriend in it as douche-y hipster royalty.

[Jinx]

Yeah, Jason Schwartzman is a babe.

[Shiny]

I saw Locke last night and it was pretty terrible.

[McLovin']

American Beauty

Wow I never saw this until now and I'm happy I saw it now rather than when I was younger. I dunno the movie resonated with me since the theme was about doing what makes you happy and it was portrayed in a decent way with each characters issues. Like once youve felt the disappointment that the main character goes through in your own life then you can understand better the happiness he experiences throughout the movie. Also Kevin spacey is the man.

8/10

[Shorty]

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
10/10

I can't quite put my finger on it, but something was nudging me in the back of my head all the while I was watching this film that said, "This is the greatest film produced in this millenium." I think I need to watch it again, but my mind was blown. It is slow to get going, but I really, really enjoyed it. Mark Strong's story as Jim Prideaux was probably my favorite.

I primarily chose to watch this film because it featured Gary Oldman and Benedict Cumberbatch. Both were extremely superb actors, but something about Gary Oldman's refusal to display any sort of emotional compromise made his role a little bit unbelievable to me. He was so hard for me to read for so much of the film and I felt like near the end that at any moment there would be this massive unleash of anger or hatred or some kind of emotion, but it never came. That was a little bit disappointing. I don't think anyone could be so perceptive or intelligent as his character was in this film. That was the only unbelievable part to me. All the rest was excellent.

I was shocked as smurf when Irina was shot to death in front of Prideaux. That was smurfing insane and I didn't see that coming at all.

Really, really good stuff. Definite 10/10.

[Ayen]

Guardians of the Galaxy:
Characters motivations were weak
It was funny, some parts more than others
Lots of action
The villain was an idiot
Needed more Nebula
Rocket and Groot were the best characters
Bradley Cooper sounded like Jason Alexander
The Star Trek girl and the Doctor Who girl both played aliens and fought each other
The opening was crap
That is all.

[Pumpkin]

Skeleton Key - 7/10
I enjoyed it and would watch again

Nightmare on Elm Street 2 - 5/10
Wasn't very scary, which was good because I spook easily and it was right before bedtime

28 days - 7/10
Also enjoyed it

[deepdoop]

Sin City: A Dame To Kill For
9/10

I really really loved it. It was pretty much the sequel I waited for. I'm surprised it's gotten such low-ratings on Rotten Tomatoes, if I'm being honest.

Anyway, what I like so much besides just the fact I find the characters and violence interesting, is that it actually feels like a comic book rather than just an action movie with comic book characters. I'm not criticizing the latter, because my favourite comic book movies are like that, but it's a nice change of pace to have a movie that hits the feel more. We don't get many like that. I remember The Spirit being like that but The Spirit was mediocre.

I've always appreciated the film-noir aspects of Sin City, the "cheesy" narration, the badasses, the black and white visuals. It's all part of the appeal. It's a hard sell for some people though because it's something you have to give yourself to. A lot of people won't watch a movie simply because it's black and white.

[Shiny]

I'm glad you thought The Spirit was mediocre because it was, so I might trust your review. However, given the reviews I have my doubts about seeing this sequel.

[deepdoop]

Yeah, I don't know what to tell ya. I haven't even read reviews to see what they're criticizing so I can't say with any authority if they're wrong in my eyes or not. I just saw it wasn't getting rated fairly high and was surprised.

For what it's worth, I review things based on a mixture of what I think they're trying to accomplish and my own personal taste. I don't believe a review has to be "objective" because that doesn't exist, but I do try to look at what I think a film maker is trying to do and rate it accordingly. I have my own biases like every one else, and I acknowledge that in any review I do if I feel like I have to, but it's hard to escape them so I just incorporate them. This isn't an exact science by any means, but say, even if I don't personally enjoy a movie, I can still rate it above a 5/10 if I think it was well-made. Sometimes movies just don't click with a person.

Sin City I was a little biased. Sometime I'll have to look to see what critics are saying but I think this will probably just be a movie I end up claiming as underrated in the years to come.

[Freya]

Just saw Guardians of hte Galaxy this weekend.

9/10

I really enjoyed this more for the fact that it seemed how normal people would act if they were tasked with saving the world. They'd be jamming out and "yeah bitch"ing things. I identified with that. The theater was still packed when we went there. I had to sit in the very front seat. I'm sure it would have been more enjoyable further back so my neck wasn't cranked up but still. It was a great movie.

[deepdoop]

Yeah, Guardians was fantastic. I'd say it's probably my favourite Marvel movie.

I just watched The Prince
4.5/10

When I give a movie a 4.5, it doesn't even mean that it's terrible. I literally work on a system that a 5/10 is kinda on the fence but generally a pass, whereas I know a lot of people look down on anything from 5-7 and only think 7 and up is good. A 4 or 4.5 to me is just that I wouldn't recommend seeing it unless you have nothing else, but it's not without it's good parts.

I'm generally down with movies where a retired badass is dragged back into his old business to save someone or something. Taken is awesome, for example. I mention Taken because this is seen as a lesser version of that movie. It is on all accounts. It lacks the charisma, excitement and Liam Neeson -- all three things that made it an incredible thrill ride.

With this, we get Bruce Willis and John Cusack but they're just phoning it in. They're underused anyway. The script is average, the shootouts are a little on the dull side, and the last showdown is stupid.

I enjoyed little touches where the guy actually went to buy more bullets, because it's a detail we don't often see, and for the most part the acting was okay.

Still, I have a bit of a soft spot for these types of movies, and it takes more effort from me to actively hate a movie than mildly enjoy it. I don't hate The Prince, I just don't feel like it was worth my time.

[deepdoop]

Hey before I say anything, I am aware that double posting is often frowned upon on forums but here's why I'm doing it in this thread. I've watched like 5 or 6 movies since my last post and want to post about them, and I was waiting for someone else to reply so I could, haha. If this is unacceptable just tell me and I won't do it again, otherwise I'll just keep posting in here whenever I see a new movie.


So I've seen...

Swearnet: The Movie
9/10

I saw this last night. I know the Trailer Park Boys are more of a Nova Scotian thing, but this is their new movie where they don't play the characters from that show... rather versions of themselves trying to get their own network off the ground. I thought it was hilarious. Be warned, there is a lot of swearing (who woulda thunk it?) in this movie, but it never feels like it's lazy. The only bad part in the movie is when it tries to get a little sentimental. It's hard to take these guys seriously.


Chef
7.5/10
I'm just going to post my review from Criticker:

I enjoyed it but wasn't madly in love with it or anything. The chemistry between father and son was there, and even though it really didn't do anything new with the genre (the indie dramedy/feel good story), it did it well. I didn't really find it that funny, but it was interesting and what little drama there was worked for me. The part with the 1 second videos edited together was genuinely touching. Also has a great soundtrack with reworkings of some classic songs.

The Prince
4.5/10

More Criticker:
It's not terrible, just a little dull and uninspired. The shoot outs really aren't that exciting at all, and many will say it's a lesser 'Taken' (it is), but it's not without its good parts. Cusack/Willis r underused but r seemingly just phoning it in anyway. It's a nice touch that the main character actually goes and buys bullets.. it shows some attention to detail that quite a few movies lack. But there's no oomph to anything. The final shootout isn't thrilling and the last showdown is stupid.


I also watched 3 short films, and all of these are Criticker reviews.

What's On Your Mind?
2/10

It has a point I guess, about how sometimes I suppose people can glorify and manipulate their life on Facebook to make it seem more appealing... but I honestly don't think people exaggerate it like he did, even if they do it. Most people, at least on my FB, seem pretty legit and if you say "my life sucks..." then people will generally comment (if you're popular. Nobody likes me so they won't). Not funny, not really that dramatic either.

See it on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxVZYiJKl1Y


The Writing On The Wall
6.5/10

"It's kind of an insignificant short film. I mean, it brings up a question but there really isn't enough time to truly evaluate and discuss the question. It talks briefly about the "other side" that may not like street art, but it doesn't go into a lot of depth and is mostly an endorsement of it. It gets some points though because I actually love graffiti so the fact we got to see some was pretty awesome."

See it on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0z2vvezjxI


Johnny Express
8.5/10

"An interesting take on a disaster film, really. It was funny seeing the lazy delivery man unknowingly rampage the city of the really really tiny citizens while trying to find where to deliver the really really tiny parcel. It was only roughly 5 minutes and it got two good laughs out of me so I'd say it was a success. It was animated well, colourful, expressive... a great animated short."

See it on Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/94502406

[deepdoop]

The November Man
5.5/10

Pierce Brosnan returns as a spy, and the movie was... okay. Some of the early stuff in the flick didn't work for me, and I'm not sure that the plot twists were that believable or interesting, but it was still a relatively entertaining movie to just kill some time. Brosnan still has some charm, and it's nice seeing him in this role, and everyone else did a decent job for the most part, but there were some scenes that just came off as cheesy and some poor delivery of certain lines added to that.

All-in-all though, not a terrible movie. Pre' okay.

[Ayen]

The Expendables 3.

It was a fun movie, but I think the novelty of seeing all these guys is starting to wear off. It's just underwhelming compared to the first, and even the second. It's fun when someone new is introduced like Wesley Snipes, Mel Gibson, Antonio Banderas, and Harrison Ford, but that's all they can do with this franchise. The movie definitely isn't better than the first two and it was a mistake having the Stallone/Gibson fight on a time limit. They should have saved it afterwards so they had more time to spend on the fight. A few hits and it was over. We may never see these guys in a movie again so that was very disappointing. The Stallone/Van Damme fight was MUCH better.

[deepdoop]

I agree about The Expendables. They're all good movies, just pure entertainment, but you're right because the novelty is wearing off a bit. None of them are great films, but the first one was thoroughly entertaining because it was like, "Wow, look at all these classic action heroes." Now it's like, "Yeah okay, this should be a decent hour and a half but that's it."

[Ayen]

It probably should have stayed one movie, since the teaser said "first and only time." But the second one was needed so we could see more from Schwarzenegger and Willis. One was still governor of California and the other was busy filming another movie so they only had time for one scene, plus Van Damme and Chuck Norris were awesome. I could have lived with there just being two. Or maybe Stallone should have waited for both men to be free before making the first film. I don't know. Christmas is the best character.

[deepdoop]

Word. I have no more to add to that. So, just, word.

I watched two movies today. I rate things a little higher than most people I think, because I tend to get into things easier, because I don't know, I guess it just takes a lot more for me to hate something than like it, and I'm able to appreciate so much about whatever art form I'm partaking in. I don't know why I'm explaining this.

Anyway I just watched The Rover. I want to just post my Criticker review:
9/10

I'm still not sick of post-apocalyptic movies, and that's kinda special. This one is incredibly bleak and brutal. It doesn't have some huge plot, no huge conspiracy, just a simple moment in time, a guy chasing down the people who took his car with the help of one of the brothers of the people he's hunting. It's like a snapshot of the post-apocalyptic world, wonderfully acted by the two leads. The violence is much like Drive... intense and sudden, with impact. Great road trip/post-apoc movie.

Since Criticker has a character limit, I'd like to just add that the director of this movie is off to a great start. He's done this and Animal Kingdom and I've loved both. Gave Animal Kingdom an 8.5.


I also watched Killers today as well.
8.5/10

I found the last couple minutes kind of cheesy and stupid, but the rest of the movie was really great. It explored some really dark psychological shit in an interesting way, such as violence and what drives us to it. The relationship between the serial killer and the journalist is intriguing, the violence is incredibly brutal, and it's shot really well.



It was a good day for movies. It was also a bit of a violent day, I guess.

[Freya]

Having never read the book, I saw Ender's Game last night. I enjoyed it. The last battle thing was cool. The plot was a little predictable though. But it was entertaining.

[Shiny]

I'm glad you liked The Rover. I too, thought it was great, but pretty under the radar.

[deepdoop]

Yeah, it was lovely. I would have watched it sooner had I known who was actually behind it. It kind of struck me as maybe being one of those random movies I find online that end up being either kinda crappy or mediocre, but then a guy I know gave it a glowing review then I actually found out who directed it and I loved Animal Kingdom so it shot up to the top of my list.


I watched the Angry Video Game Nerd movie today because I have a casual interest in him. When he just sits and reviews a game he's pretty clever and entertaining, but when he's doing his plot-based stuff or just chaining swear words together (he doesn't do it as well as the Trailer Park Boys do), he's kind of lame.

Unfortunately, an almost two hour movie just highlights that fact for me. I didn't laugh much, and I really wanted to like the movie because despite having a really low budget, it was clear that a lot of work and passion was put into it. Some of the rips on the low budget nature of the movie were fine, and there was a moment or two that I laughed, but I was mostly bored and thought a lot of the jokes didn't work.

The ending was good though, and him reviewing ET during the credits was nice because it was him doing what he does best. Sadly, I just didn't enjoy the movie.

3/10

[Ayen]

Yeah, it was lovely. I would have watched it sooner had I known who was actually behind it. It kind of struck me as maybe being one of those random movies I find online that end up being either kinda crappy or mediocre, but then a guy I know gave it a glowing review then I actually found out who directed it and I loved Animal Kingdom so it shot up to the top of my list.


I watched the Angry Video Game Nerd movie today because I have a casual interest in him. When he just sits and reviews a game he's pretty clever and entertaining, but when he's doing his plot-based stuff or just chaining swear words together (he doesn't do it as well as the Trailer Park Boys do), he's kind of lame.

Unfortunately, an almost two hour movie just highlights that fact for me. I didn't laugh much, and I really wanted to like the movie because despite having a really low budget, it was clear that a lot of work and passion was put into it. Some of the rips on the low budget nature of the movie were fine, and there was a moment or two that I laughed, but I was mostly bored and thought a lot of the jokes didn't work.

The ending was good though, and him reviewing ET during the credits was nice because it was him doing what he does best. Sadly, I just didn't enjoy the movie.

3/10

Where you go and see it at? Is it available online to watch somewhere? No theaters out here to my knowledge are showing it.

[Depression Moon]

Guardians of the Galaxy. It was just good. I felt that a good bit of the humor was trying too hard like when Groot skewered those thugs and repeatedly slammed them around and then looked at the camera. I thought Nebula randomly dropping in and monolauging was cheesy. I also thought that the opening fight could've been done a bit better.

[Skyblade]

Battleship.

Best argument ever to break away from the "all movies must be two hours or more" formula that cinema has reached.

Edit the first half hour down to about fifteen minutes, then just attach the entire last thirty five minutes or so of the movie, and you have a fantastic action flick.

I really wish they hadn't thrown in all that filler.

[Sephex]

Mr. Bunghole's Fantasy Ride

I got tired of all the hype and gave this a spin as I was winding down after work this morning. Basically, take the concept of "Ghostbusters" and put it in "Taken" and you have a pretty good movie. Denzel Washington plays and agent only known by the codename "Mr. Bunghole" who looks for the kidnapped child of wealthy parents. Sounds like "Man on Fire" right? Well, that movie didn't have ghosts cleverly disguising themselves in a haunted theme park attraction!

I don't want to spoil too much, but Washington basically carries this movie with stellar acting. I don't think any other actor, straight faced, can say, "Much like time spent eating spoiled Mexican food, Mr. Bunghole is tired of your s***!" Right after that, there is a cool slow-mo sequence a section of the haunted house blowing up. This apparently kills the ghosts, which is a tad silly, but they do spin this pseudo science crap about how power enough shockwaves disrupt the ether realm enough to dissipate spirits.

Kind of an obscure title, but I recommend it if you can find it.

[McLovin']

Mr. Bunghole's Fantasy Ride

I got tired of all the hype and gave this a spin as I was winding down after work this morning. Basically, take the concept of "Ghostbusters" and put it in "Taken" and you have a pretty good movie. Denzel Washington plays and agent only known by the codename "Mr. Bunghole" who looks for the kidnapped child of wealthy parents. Sounds like "Man on Fire" right? Well, that movie didn't have ghosts cleverly disguising themselves in a haunted theme park attraction!

I don't want to spoil too much, but Washington basically carries this movie with stellar acting. I don't think any other actor, straight faced, can say, "Much like time spent eating spoiled Mexican food, Mr. Bunghole is tired of your s***!" Right after that, there is a cool slow-mo sequence a section of the haunted house blowing up. This apparently kills the ghosts, which is a tad silly, but they do spin this pseudo science crap about how power enough shockwaves disrupt the ether realm enough to dissipate spirits.

Kind of an obscure title, but I recommend it if you can find it.

But did he find his teepee? For his Bunghole...

[Ergroilnin]

Okay I finally saw Guardians of Galaxy today (unfortunately in just 2D) and it was really great!

I really loved the humour and how the movie didn't really take itself so seriously so it was also very relaxing to watch. The action scenes weren't as good as in Avengers imo but they weren't bad. There were few moments that I cringed a bit like the dancing and singing to distract that evil dude with Infinity Stone but it didn't ruin it for me.

Also, Rachet and Groot = love.

[deepdoop]

Nicely played.

I just watched The Captive, the new flick from a fellow Canadian, Atom Egoyan. I've come to find, after watching I believe 3 or 4 movies that he's directed, that I'm not high on this guy. I apparently liked Felicia's Journey but I don't even remember what it is (I only know I saw it because I rated it on Criticker), and Chloe was okay, but I hated The Captive.

This is a movie about a little girl who gets kidnapped. This should be crushing because this is one of the saddest, most personal tales you can tell in movies, but I felt nothing here. I didn't even care.

First of all, the main villain was just over the top. Everything he did, from his hushed speaking to his appearance just screamed, "Hey look I did it!" I guess in the reality of the movie, you couldn't just pick him up because he looked like a pedo and drag him in, but the irrationality of one of the cops made it pretty clear that this was not a film based in reality. The script let this one down really hard, and I actually like Ryan Reynolds and don't think he did a terrible job... but he couldn't save it.

The one good thing about The Captive is the atmosphere. Snowy Canada is perfect for something like this because it's dark, depressing and symbolic. The film was competently shot, and normally something like that has weight with me but the plot holes and the writing in general was so terrible I just couldn't do it. I can't give this above a 2.5.

So yeah, 2.5/10.

[Shorty]

Guardians of the Galaxy - 7/10. Fun, cute movie! I've become quite sick of all the hype surrounding it and it put me off from it going to see it, but Rocket was in fact one of the best roles. Probably the best thing Bradley Cooper has ever done. And also I bawled my eyes out at youknowwhatpart. And holy trout did Chris Pratt look incredible. I watch him on Parks and Rec atleast once a day and didn't really care about him getting in shape for this movie as I already like him, but watching him on screen, yep damn looked pretty good. I also like that there was zero romantic moment/kiss between Pete and Gamora. That was awesome, and I really liked that. There were some sweet moments and obviously the time they got close, but otherwise, yep, really happy to see a movie where the hero did NOT get the girl.

I think I liked this more than the Avengers because it's about a group of misfits without phenomenal cosmic powers. I know it's all hoke and fiction, but in a way that seemed to make them more relatable to me. Pretty good movie!

Captain America: The First Avenger - 5/10. Eh. Was alright. Will probably never see it again. I just have stars in my eyes for Chris Evans as Cap and wanted to watch him on screen for two hours. It went on longer than it should and I felt like it should have ended at several places before it actually did.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier - 6/10. Pretty disappointed that I feel like Nick Fury hijacked this smurfing movie. I feel like many of his scenes were useless. The part where SHIELD turns on him and beats the hell out of his SUV? We didn't need to see all that. That was a showoff action scene. We could have cut straight to him being in in Cap's apartment all bloody and telling Cap not to trust anyone. Would have made for a better part of the story, I think. I disliked Black Widow being in this movie, I think she was totally unnecessary and a little too convenient. I also disliked how it seemed mostly about SHIELD than Cap somehow.

Additionally, I was really going for the Winter Soldier bit. That was awesome. A deadly anonymous highly dangerous assassin with a robot arm? Yes, amazing. I was kind of disappointed when he was revealed as Bucky, though. I know it makes for a good plot twist and drama, but it seemed like a massive stretch to me. What I did like, though, was that they did not have some big happy bromance reunion at the end. That made it watchable.

[Araciel]

The Last Days - Barcelona - the world is gripped in a fear of outdoors so everyone stays inside.

eh... I watch every 'post-apocalyptic' movie I come across but this was yawn-worthy.

[Shiny]

I also like that there was zero romantic moment/kiss between Pete and Gamora. That was awesome, and I really liked that. There were some sweet moments and obviously the time they got close, but otherwise, yep, really happy to see a movie where the hero did NOT get the girl.
She ends up with another hero who later joins the Guardians.



Additionally, I was really going for the Winter Soldier bit. That was awesome. A deadly anonymous highly dangerous assassin with a robot arm? Yes, amazing. I was kind of disappointed when he was revealed as Bucky, though. I know it makes for a good plot twist and drama, but it seemed like a massive stretch to me. What I did like, though, was that they did not have some big happy bromance reunion at the end. That made it watchable.
They're staying true to the comics with that one. It really isn't a huge stretch considering they brought back Captain America when he was frozen like Walt Disney and plus it's a smurfing comic book movie. When does anything in this universe actually happen?

[Shorty]

I didn't mean I was a huge stretch for the comics as I don't know anything about the comics. Just for the story in general it felt like a stretch.

[Ayen]

I've become quite sick of all the hype surrounding it

This. I'm glad I chose to ignore everything about this movie until I went to see it for myself.


I didn't mean I was a huge stretch for the comics as I don't know anything about the comics. Just for the story in general it felt like a stretch.

Doesn't help that it's kind of predictable too. I mean the whole time they're talking about Bucky in that museum (I think it was a museum) I was just sitting there thinking "He's going to be the Winter Soldier."

[noxious.sunshine]

"The Brittany Murphy Story" on Lifetime.

20/10 Horrible. The casting and acting were completely horrendous and didn't do Brittany any justice at all.

I mean, I know it's Lifetime and no one should've expected any better, but I figured that with them improving their efforts with the V.C. Andrews movies (which, yes, I do believe were very well done and well cast), they could manage to keep up with the same quality. This, I think, was one of their worst movies ever.

[Bubba]

20/10 Horrible.

Well I'd love to see what you give a film you thought was good!

[Mirage]

I watched Pacific rim yesterday and I thought it was awesome. I found it to be well-paced, and the action and special effects were top notch. 3 out of 4

[Bubba]

The Village

I put off watching this for years as like most films with a twist, I had it ruined for me. I wasn't overly impressed with it if I'm honest. It had a very good cast but the pace was slow and it was just a strange atmosphere throughout.

The twist didn't do much to add to the film and overall I was pretty disappointed.

5/10

[Ayen]

Veronica Mars.

If you liked the show you'll more than likely like the movie. I can't say for sure, I haven't interacted with the fanbase at all and I vaguely remember anything about the show. The movie is basically just an extended episode, anyway. The mystery is fun and exciting and everything tides up nicely.

[Markus. D]

Divergent writes the main character SO well, like there's literally not an action or line from her I didn't like. I didn't like how they switched the one liner's character off so early. Like, I really liked the train jumping bit where she was all "whaaa???!?!?!?!". My only problems is the Tsund love interest warms way too quickly from his brash introduction, and also Shailene makes every face from TFioS. My sister and I were in laugh-tears after the stairs scene.

[MissH]

Trading Places

Bubba introduced this to me last night to further develop my 80s education. I have to say, I really enjoyed it! I wasn't sure which way it was heading and although he was a bit of a douche,I felt sorry for Dan Akroyd's character.

This film was funny from beginning to end but to me had quite a deep meaning too- that money isn't everything and all people should be treated with respect. Just cause you've got a billion pounds/dollars in the bank, doesn't make you the 'bees knees'.

Loved this.

9/10

[Pumpkin]

Guardians of the Galaxy for sharkson

6/10. Some of the humour felt forced to me, I think I laughed once, and the female lead was so cliche I could predict what she was going to say and do for the whole movie, and I'm not even good at that stuff.

Also, I liked the big guy but you don't see him as much in promotions and stuff, so I feel bad for him.

But the movie was still okay to watch. I wouldn't watch it again but it was good for this time. Had some cute moments. The first two minutes were incredibly touching and almost made me cry

[NeoCracker]

The Village

I put off watching this for years as like most films with a twist, I had it ruined for me. I wasn't overly impressed with it if I'm honest. It had a very good cast but the pace was slow and it was just a strange atmosphere throughout.

The twist didn't do much to add to the film and overall I was pretty disappointed.

5/10

That is the single most glowing review I've ever seen of that movie.

[Ayen]

The Equalizer.

Good movie. Denzel Washington's character is skilled, smart, encouraging, and easily likeable. The suspense building up to the first main fight scene is great and it just gets better from there. Chloe was great as always and I really liked Marton Csokas' character as well.

Would watch again.

[Fox]

THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE

Good film! Surprised me. I saw the first Hunger Games on Netflix, which was OK, and this popped up a couple of nights ago so I thought I'd give it a go. Even though there was more 'Hunger games' to do the film benefited by not focussing too much on that, and instead building the relationships between a few key characters. Peeta (or however the heck you spell it) was much more interesting this time around, and they introduced a new guy (Finnegan... I think?) who they set up to be a cocky idiot bad guy but who actually has a lot going for him.

You could tell the main purpose of this film was to bridge a gap - show the aftermath of the first and set up for the bigger events to come, but it did it pretty well and was a definite improvement on the original. Jennifer Lawrence is one of the finest leading women out there at the moment and her performance really elevates a character that isn't written in a particularly impressive way. The entire film hangs on her pulling that role off and she does it very well indeed.

[noxious.sunshine]

I just watched "Julie & Julia"... I have no idea whatsoever Dr why I thought Katherine Heigl starred in this, but I did.

I absolutely loathe Amy Adams in this movie. She just irks me. If that is how the real Julie Powell was .... Then I don't fault Julia Child for chiding her.

I love cooking, though, & I truly truly admire Julia Child. I love that Meryl Streep played her and I love that Stanley Gucci played Paul. Their relationship is just so heartwarming and sweet.

The actual Julia Child looks exactly like my grandmother tho lmao... Srsly

[Freya]

Edge of Tomorrow

It was an interesting movie. the creatures were super cool and Emily blunt is super foxy but the movie was alright. Glad I didn't pay money to go see it in theaters. Interesting enough for a movie night not enough to waste tickets on.

[Shorty]

I just watched "Julie & Julia"... I have no idea whatsoever Dr why I thought Katherine Heigl starred in this, but I did.

I absolutely loathe Amy Adams in this movie. She just irks me. If that is how the real Julie Powell was .... Then I don't fault Julia Child for chiding her.

I love cooking, though, & I truly truly admire Julia Child. I love that Meryl Streep played her and I love that Stanley Gucci played Paul. Their relationship is just so heartwarming and sweet.

The actual Julia Child looks exactly like my grandmother tho lmao... Srsly

I just loved Meryl Streep and Stanley Tucci in this movie. I also have a huge crush on Chris Messina. You're right, though, Amy Adams' role was probably the weakest.

[Night Fury]

Pheesh and I watched Edge of Tomorrow recently.

After laughing at the terrible trailer for it, we decided it was probably going to be too shitty for a watch, but I ended up reading it was okay. So we watched it and actually really, really enjoyed it. I would give it a 7/10 taking into consideration it's genre. If you don't take it too seriously this is a great action flick, and probably Cruise's best in recent years.

[Scotty_ffgamer]

I really enjoyed that movie as well, Locky. I saw it the day it came out in theaters. I was the only one in the theater. It made me feel a little bad because I knew it had to not be doing well.

[Night Fury]

Yeah, I really do think the trailer let it down big time.

[Iceglow]

So I just watched Need for Speed. Unusually for a video game adaptation, it does it well. Yes, both game and movie are effectively car porn, much like Gran Turismo and The Fast & The Furious. However, instead of the progressively darker and more violent tones of the latter, the film manages to deal with an adult storyline where people die and not everything is hunky dory in a way that simply doesn't feel like there's less than no hope. That being said, some of the things involved in the plot are obvious and unbelievable which is after all to be expected.

I like that the film shows the illegal world of street racing and that it doesn't show the racers getting away without recourse all the time. Which is a refreshing change from The Fast & The Furious' repeated pardons or self imposed exile to a country without an extradition treaty to the USA. Even at the end of the film, when the Main Character Toby Marshall (Aaron Paul) has won the race, saved the bad guy and proven his innocence in the death of a close friend he goes to prison for breaching bail and for illegal street racing for another 6 months.

Cast wise, Aaron Paul is a good fit to the role, as is Imogen Poots as Julia. That being said, the last time I recall seeing Imogen on the big screen and not TV was as the young Val in V for Vendetta. (I never saw That Awkward Moment because I heard it wasn't so much awkward as just bad) Though IMDB reliably informs me I should recall her from at least one other movie. You'd think with my penchant for beautiful blondes I'd have remembered but nope.

Over all as the movie is effectively car porn, do not expect to watch it and be blown away or astounded by the plot lines. That being said, with a more realistic approach to the cost and penalties of illegal street racing, and a refreshing lack of CGI (one of the key things about this movie is that most of the car stunts are really done). Of course, some things have to be CGI'd but they did crash and flip a remarkable amount of cars, for the most part I remember Aaron Paul telling Jeremy Clarkson on Top Gear that they used custom kits which cost about 300,000 dollars apiece rather than wrecking 1million dollar cars every other week, but still they look the part and the racing and the stunts have a gritty real feel to them.

In terms of marks out of 10, I'd give the movie a pretty solid 8, the films story is enjoyable if not ultimately too realistic, but it has it's moments. The acting in the film is probably what I would expect from Aaron Paul (he gets over 70% of all screen time, along with Imogen Poots so much so that almost all other casting decisions are irrelevant). The stunts feel more realistic than those of the latter The Fast & The Furious films with a pretty good sound track to go with that isn't afraid to embrace the fact that not all car enthusiasts are in to rap.

[Shiny]

Aaron Paul is not believable as a bad ass ex con. He should have gained more weight for the role.

[McLovin']

So I just watched Need for Speed. Unusually for a video game adaptation, it does it well. Yes, both game and movie are effectively car porn, much like Gran Turismo and The Fast & The Furious. However, instead of the progressively darker and more violent tones of the latter, the film manages to deal with an adult storyline where people die and not everything is hunky dory in a way that simply doesn't feel like there's less than no hope. That being said, some of the things involved in the plot are obvious and unbelievable which is after all to be expected.

I like that the film shows the illegal world of street racing and that it doesn't show the racers getting away without recourse all the time. Which is a refreshing change from The Fast & The Furious' repeated pardons or self imposed exile to a country without an extradition treaty to the USA. Even at the end of the film, when the Main Character Toby Marshall (Aaron Paul) has won the race, saved the bad guy and proven his innocence in the death of a close friend he goes to prison for breaching bail and for illegal street racing for another 6 months.

Cast wise, Aaron Paul is a good fit to the role, as is Imogen Poots as Julia. That being said, the last time I recall seeing Imogen on the big screen and not TV was as the young Val in V for Vendetta. (I never saw That Awkward Moment because I heard it wasn't so much awkward as just bad) Though IMDB reliably informs me I should recall her from at least one other movie. You'd think with my penchant for beautiful blondes I'd have remembered but nope.

Over all as the movie is effectively car porn, do not expect to watch it and be blown away or astounded by the plot lines. That being said, with a more realistic approach to the cost and penalties of illegal street racing, and a refreshing lack of CGI (one of the key things about this movie is that most of the car stunts are really done). Of course, some things have to be CGI'd but they did crash and flip a remarkable amount of cars, for the most part I remember Aaron Paul telling Jeremy Clarkson on Top Gear that they used custom kits which cost about 300,000 dollars apiece rather than wrecking 1million dollar cars every other week, but still they look the part and the racing and the stunts have a gritty real feel to them.

In terms of marks out of 10, I'd give the movie a pretty solid 8, the films story is enjoyable if not ultimately too realistic, but it has it's moments. The acting in the film is probably what I would expect from Aaron Paul (he gets over 70% of all screen time, along with Imogen Poots so much so that almost all other casting decisions are irrelevant). The stunts feel more realistic than those of the latter The Fast & The Furious films with a pretty good sound track to go with that isn't afraid to embrace the fact that not all car enthusiasts are in to rap.

An 8!? Geez louise you must give Fast and the Furious a 10 then.

[Slothy]

John Wick.

Watch it. It's good.

Slightly longer review: it's Keanu being given an excuse to spend an hour and a half or so killing a bunch of people. And it's one of those action movies where the action elevates violence to an art form. He's brutally efficient and it gets the blood pumping.

[Iceglow]

An 8!? Geez louise you must give Fast and the Furious a 10 then.

Actually, I'd have given The Fast & The Furious no higher than an 8 either (and that would drop considerably for number 2 and Tokyo Drift... though Tokyo Drift may need re-evaluating as it's story is more intergrated with the main series. It was rated quite lowly because it came out of nowhere at the time). I like cars so movies where I get to watch a bunch of super cars doing ridiculous shit for a few hours please me, but don't make the mistake of thinking that as a result my 10s come that cheap, getting to an 8 is fairly simple if the movie is pretty good and I enjoyed watching it... it's gotta do something special to get higher than that though.

I disagree with Shiny regarding Aaron Paul putting on more weight for the role. Looking at him in that film my guess is he would be around 75 - 80 kilos and in very good shape. Had he gone up to 85 - 90 Kilos we'd be talking Christian Bale in Batman Begins/The Dark Knight sort of size which wouldn't have suited him at all or the role. With the added factors in the film such as the fact that in a prison you'd have limited access to calories and protein, no supplements to assist the bulking process and the time frame of his prison sentence (2 years served for the manslaughter of his friend, undoubtedbly a good behaviour early release) it would not have been logical for him to come out any bigger than about 75kg.

[Pumpkin]

White Oleander. It was my 4th time watching the movie and the first time after reading the book. Absolutely love it and now that I have read the book, I can say it does the book justice, I think.

9/10, one of my favourite movies

[Shiny]

Steve, your film critique lost credibility to me when you gave Need for Speed an 8.

Aaron Paul's character would have been ass raped in jail. Many ex cons come out of jail full diesel because they know what's up. He is not intimidating as they present him to be and thus not believable. If he couldn't put on the weight they should have casted someone else.

[Iceglow]

Shiny, I'm going to have to say that unless you happen to shack up with former convicts on a regular basis, living with or otherwise I think you don't particularly have a damn clue what the hell you're on about. Regardless of whether you think Aaron Paul's character would have been ass raped in prison is irrelevant, he's about the same build as Charlie Hunnam who plays Jax in Sons of Anarchy and does he get ass raped in prison?

Anyhow, this past week I have seen the new Godzilla, which I felt did ok, it could have been worse though it was unnecessarily dark, lighting wise in my opinion (though it is understandable when the MUTO (Mothra) is abound because he emits an EMP knocking out electricity it was also too dark and gloomy when he wasn't in many scenes). Aside from questionable choices about lighting the film was pretty good as monster-beatdown fare goes. On this outing Godzilla returns to the traditional shape and build which kind of does and does not work well as whilst the original was a man in a suit this is all CGI and so having this classic but biologically wrong shape to it is both great if you watched the original Japanese Godzilla movies but also one of the worst aspect if you think of how it should look as a bipedal amphibious lizard scientifically speaking. I wasn't as impressed with this though as Pacific Rim so whilst it is a good film if you're a traditional Godzilla fan it's not as good as other recent entries in the genre. Rating out of 10? I'd say that this was a fairly solid 8/10 (Pacific Rim would have gotten a 9 if I'd rated it myself)

The other film I saw this past few days was the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles I'll use some spoiler tags because some of you may be planning on seeing it for yourselves. Yes, it's Michael Bay, yes it has Megan Fox in it, and yes, there were a few unnecessary explosions. I went in to this with some reservations, the original cartoon was great, the old live action films were a big part of my childhood, which I have had the common sense not to revisit because I know that the movies were actually pretty terrible. So how did this do? Well, as there will be spoilers ahead lets mask from here on out... read at your own risk:

First of all I was relieved that the origins story that was going through the gossip train (aka the Internet) the one where Michael Bay supposedly made them all aliens wasn't true. Essentially the origins story was pretty true to the cartoon with a few notable differences. Such as the fact that Splinter wasn't a human prior to becoming a rat, he was a rat all along given the same mutagen as the turtles. April O'Neill's father was a scientist working on the mutagen at a firm, he finds out Shredder is behind it and the plan for it so tries to destroy the work to prevent this. He's killed as he burns down the lab. April somehow is in the lab at the time of the fire, manages to save the turtles who are normal baby turtles at that point in time and shredder who was a rat and releases them in to the sewers so they can live. Though, quite how she fails to remember the fact that her Dad's former boss is the one who shot and killed him is beyond me.

They upgraded Shredder's armour for this movie in a big way, in fact it's slightly ridiculous as it adds like 3 feet to his natural height and he's got about 9 samurai blades on each hand and can fire them as micro missiles recalling them at will, if you think of the armour worn by the final big bad in The Wolverine, you'd be along the right lines. It's like they took the idea of Shredder and mixed in a little Kang. Likewise, Donatello's Bo Staff is now technologically upgraded to have an extender feature meaning he can use it to do silly stuff like flip an entire Humvee, despite the staff only being a few inches round and made of wood (presumably hollow too to allow for the collapse/extending system).

The films a fairly predictable plot and doesn't break the mold. Raphael's independence has been updated to give him a fairly atrocious attitude problem however, which sucked as in the original cartoon he was a badass and very independent but didn't have such an overstated attitude issue. He does go it solo in one segment of the plot to rescue the other turtles from the bad guys lair however, he quickly runs in to Shredder who kicks his ass in no time at all which again kind of ruined the fact that it happened at all.

Sad to say, that this film tries to be quite funny but whilst my 12 year old nephew did laugh, it never managed to crack so much as a wry grin out of me hell even Megan Fox bouncing on a trampoline failed.

On the rating system I'd have to give this a mere 5/10 in the fact that I was pretty ambivalent about it. I didn't particularly feel it hit any of the right buttons to make an excellent movie but it did have good solid filming angles, lighting and special effects which made it OK to watch with my nephew in tow.

[Ayen]

John Wick.

Watch it. It's good.

Slightly longer review: it's Keanu being given an excuse to spend an hour and a half or so killing a bunch of people. And it's one of those action movies where the action elevates violence to an art form. He's brutally efficient and it gets the blood pumping.

I'm glad to hear it. This is one of the movies my mom and brother wants to go see, so I'll probably tag along when they do.

[Bubba]

The one with the guy with the funny limbs! He was bendy and shooty! ... not in an obscene way... and she SPOILER ALERT dies.

Sorry all you fans of the novel!

[Hollycat]

Hobbit 2. It was really bad with terrible cgi.

[Night Fury]

Jersey Boys

I knew I would love this movie when I saw it starred Christopher Walken, was a musical, and directed by Clint Eastwood.

I loved it - there are other movies of this type that I prefer (Walk the Line) but this was fabulous. Even just for Walken dancing at the end.

[Scotty_ffgamer]

I just saw Interstellar, and it was everything I wanted from it. There are a number of issues with the movie that stuck out to me, but there was just so much that touched on my love of space and my life goals as a child regarding becoming an astronomer as a kid.

[Shiny]

Steve, my family is full of convicts and despite never being convicted I am and most people are well aware of what goes on in a prison. You can give me every excuse you want, but the fact of the matter is he's not convincing and I will agree to disagree.

I don't watch Sons of Anarchy but Hunam looks of a bigger build and is still more intimidating looking than Aaron Paul. I will never take him seriously in a badass role, but I think he is tremendously talented.

[Night Fury]

I just saw Interstellar, and it was everything I wanted from it. There are a number of issues with the movie that stuck out to me, but there was just so much that touched on my love of space and my life goals as a child regarding becoming an astronomer as a kid.

I also saw this tonight, as a cinematic experience it was perfect. When we left there was this beautiful silence - everyone was quite speechless. It was fantastic, I'd honestly give it 10/10.

[Scotty_ffgamer]

Oh I give it a 10/10, but a couple of the people I saw the movie with didn't really like it. I don't really fault them for it, though. I recognize that for what it set out to do, it was cinematic brilliance, but it's not for everyone.

[Night Fury]

God I was trying so hard not to cry like 5 times in that movie hehe

[Jinx]

SEEING IT TOMORROW

FULLY EXPECT TO BAWL THE ENTIRE TIME

[Bubba]

Nope, not for me. I think Christopher Nolan has finally been found out. The writing is extremely muddled with some cringeworthy lines. Also, the acting in it was as bad as I've seen for a Hollywood blockbuster in a long time. The special effects were very impressive but not all shots worked as well as he expected them to. He has set such a high standard for himself but this is as big a fall from grace that I have seen.

2/10

[Ayen]

Frozen.

I liked it. Most of the characters were likeable, the plot twist at the end made my jaw drop, and Elsa's powers fascinate me. A lot of good one liners and funny moments. Would watch again.

Short review is short.

[Scotty_ffgamer]

Been a while since anyone has posted here!

I just saw Kingsman: The Secret Service. I had no expectations going into it, but it ended up being everything I needed in a movie at that moment. It was pretty hilarious (with some touching moments as well), and the action was supremely well done. It wasn't perfect, but it was certainly fun!

[noxious.sunshine]

Chef

It's definitely replaced Julie & Julia in my heart (though I still am so smitten with Meryl Streep and Stanley Tucci in it).

Chef is wonderful and I love it. I've watched it 3 times in the last week.

[Bubba]

Life as We Know It

I decided to put my aversion to Katherine Heigl aside for this film as MissH really likes it. My main problem with these kind of films is the predictability. I know that appeals to a lot of people as you know from the start it will end in a great way. The very first scene in which the two main actors go on a disastrous date you could tell they were going to end up together. I'm fine with a happy ending but jeez Hollywood... take a different approach maybe?

- Two people don't get on at the start
- They spend more time together and warm to each other
- About halfway through the film they are in love and everything is great. BUT you know because there's still 45 mins left that...
- Inevitably he/she does something bad and they fall out. Shock horror! Will they ever patch things up?!
- Of course they do... it's Hollywood

There were positives though. The baby who played Sophie was the cutest thing I have ever seen. It may have even swayed me towards wanting a girl when we find out tomorrow! Josh Du Hast Mich was quite likeable too.There were a few funny scenes that I chuckled at but those were mainly the ones involving the baby and Messer.

There are quite a few romcoms that I love like Just Like Heaven, Hitch and Silver Linings Playbook (awesome film) which follow a similar formula but in a much more funny and interesting way. I just don't think this one stood out from the crowd. I was gonna give it a five but Katherine Heigl's presence automatically docks a point so I award this film...

4/10

[Loony BoB]

Bad Neighbours (aka Neighbors in US & Canada) - 3/5

It wasn't nearly as bad as I was expecting it to be, it just popped on while I was channel flicking and I decided to give it a fair go since it was only just starting. In the end, it was nothing amazing, but it had a lot of funny moments and generally was good fun for something to watch when you're just wanting something to watch when you're ill like I am.

[Shiny]

Nope, not for me. I think Christopher Nolan has finally been found out. The writing is extremely muddled with some cringeworthy lines. Also, the acting in it was as bad as I've seen for a Hollywood blockbuster in a long time. The special effects were very impressive but not all shots worked as well as he expected them to. He has set such a high standard for himself but this is as big a fall from grace that I have seen.

2/10

You give Interstellar a 2/10 and a
Katherine Heigel film a 4/10? What the hell.

[Bubba]

Yeah, I was just trolling. I still haven't seen Interstellar! I'm sure when I do though it will get more than 4/10 :p

[Pumpkin]

New RoboCop. Wasn't funny, didn't stand out as an action movie at all, had none of the charm of the first one

Reaaally low rating from me

[Shiny]

Yeah, I was just trolling.
Okay good, but you still gave a Katherine Heigel film a 4/10...

[Bubba]

Yeah, I was just trolling.
Okay good, but you still gave a Katherine Heigel film a 4/10...

Wait did I not put the minus symbol in there? My apologies...

-4/10

[Shiny]

Oh, okay. That's more like it. xD

Anyway, I went to go see Chappie. I enjoyed it thoroughly and it gave me many feels. I couldn't tell by the trailer what it was about exactly, but the idea of being able to live forever through your own consciousness in a body that doesn't age seems pretty great. There were definitely plot holes, but it was still enjoyable. Another film where you have to suspend disbelief in order to really appreciate it.

[Shorty]

Sunset Blvd. It was super weird and bizarre. I'm still not sure how I feel about it, so I'll give it a 6/10 right now.

[Slothy]

Finally got around to seeing Whiplash. Jesus fucking Christ it was good. Really, really fucking good. Easy 10/10 for me.

[Dante WolfWood]

Watched Jack Ryan:Shadow Recruit today.

Actually very well done. I give it a 8/10.

[McLovin']

Nightcrawler

Jake Gylenhaal movie. Really freakin good. If you liked him as Donnie Darko playing like a psycho type character then this is the movie for you. Very cool story all taking place in night time Los Angeles. Cool cinematography.

[Rostum]

Into the Woods

Was so bored by the end of it, and was left with the thought "so what?" at the end. Do not recommend.

[DMKA]

Cinderella (2015). It was excellent.

[Jinx]

Into the Woods

Was so bored by the end of it, and was left with the thought "so what?" at the end. Do not recommend.

I just watched this too!

Everything about it was great except the story. Bummer.

[fat_moogle]

Still Alice.

It focuses on how a middle aged professor wbo gets diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's disease. It's ok, but the ending...hated it. It's like all this stuff happens and you expect it to go somewhere. Then it's over. I actually verbally said at the cinema "I hate endings like that, it pisses me off" xD

[Ceiladora]

100 Feet. It's fun watching Famke Janssen kick the eerie sadistic ghost of her dead abusive hubby dearest back to Hell where he belongs, even if she did off him physically before getting house arrest. The ending was a bit overdone, but hey I'm jealous of her pet kitty in this movie. :D

8/10

[McLovin']

Whiplash

Awesome. Go see this. Download it. Whatever. Just see this movie once in your mundane life.

9/10

[Sephex]

Jon Wick

Like a good chunk of people, I wrote this off as a throwaway action movie. Then I heard how good it was. Then my friends brought it over when we all hung out recently. Very well done action movie. Doesn't hold your hand for exposition, and the gun play is top notch. It's also nice to see Reeves back in action. Killer score/soundtrack as well.

8/10

[Leigh]

Kung Fu Jungle (一個人的武林)

Donnie Yen returns once again in another generic fisty-punch-punch swabble through the streets, rooftops, and underneath actual 'in-transit' HGVs of Hong Kong. A story as thin as the cereal box it was printed on, dodgy editing, and uninspired action-choreography shows that Hong Kong martial art flicks have become as tame and bland as unfried rice. Gentle martial-act convict, Donnie Yen, chases raving martial-art looney, Wang Baoqiang, through the medium of bland HK police dramatics provided by Charlie Young. There is a minor-irrelevant story of a girl with cancer, people die, and Donnie Yen wins! And by winning, I mean he ends the film saving his girlfriend who is 23 years younger than him. Hong Kong Cinema at its best.

4.5/10

[Shiny]

Whiplash

Awesome. Go see this. Download it. Whatever. Just see this movie once in your mundane life.

9/10
I want to see this so bad. Going to bug a co-worker for a "for your consideration" screener like I did with Birdman because On Demand be tripping with their Oscar winner prices.

[Bubba]

Gravity - 2/10

OK, so I'm sure I missed out on the visually appealing 3D effects at the cinema but this was utter garbage. It still did look very nice in HD but that is the one positive aspect of an otherwise terrible film. The script was pretty piss-poor, Bullock was literally a piece of driftwood (lol) as her acting so bad. Clooney was likeable but then gets killed off. The flirting between the two was totally unnecessary in that situation. I'm all for the characters getting close, for a change though, couldn't they have an emotional connection without saying things like "you have beautiful eyes" and "you find me attractive, don't you doc?"

The shot where she reaches the airlock and assumes the foetal position with the wires representing the umbilical cord. This was the director trying far too hard in my opinion. Seconds earlier she assuring George Clooney that she was coming to get him. What does she do as soon as she gets into the capsule? Let's have a little nap so the director can have his screen-fap image, then we'll rescue the guy floating to his death. Also, the debris flying around the Earth at 50000mph manages to completely destroy the International Space Station but manages to avoid her and her decently-sized escape shuttle which were occupying the exact same space? Bollocks.

Very disappointed.

[Strider]

Nightcrawler

I can understand now the clamor that Jake Gyllenhaal may have been robbed of a Best Actor nomination at the last Academy Awards. He's the kind of creepy that I don't think many other people can pull off, and he exists within a world -- that of a man seeking carnage for local news in Los Angeles night after night -- that of course he'd thrive within. Definitely worth the investment of time.

8.5/10

[Shaibana]

i did enjoy the movie, but what anoys me is that the story pretty much the same: something bad happens and dino's run loose.

- kids riding young dino's... thats just sad

- that motor was in no way suitable for that ride. i get it: its a cool bike. but they should have made it more realistic by using a dirt bike or something like that. there is no way that that bike would go so easy through that terain. thats another thing: there wasnt even 1 bump in the road.

- those hamster balls would be horrible outside a movie. people would roam for hours and start racing for fun. dino's might get anoyed with those balls running around all day and hit them

- the huge water dino: yeah.. thats asking for trouble. as it demonstrated at the en of movie it would easely do a dolphin action to get the prey from the land.

after that the movie made me feel sad :( especially when that cute young dino got picked up by that flying dino D:
so much dead dino's ;_;

Chris pratt is hot

[Mr. Carnelian]

Tank Girl

Think Mad Max, but more light-hearted, with a female lead and camper.
Tonally, this almost feels like two separate films. The first act is quite dark, with death, torture and slave labour.
After the eponymous heroine gains full possession of her tank, however, everything becomes a lot sillier.
This ALMOST worked, but things became a bit TOO silly in places (the kangaroo people were, I think, a mistake).
However, the engaging main character, Tank Girl, was enough to keep me watching.

6.5/10
It would be a bit higher, but the kangaroo people were just too much.

[Bubba]

No Country for Old Men

There were some very goods scenes in this film but overall I was a little disappointed. Maybe it's because I was after more of a resolution but I suppose that's what you get with a Cormac McCarthy story. It was an excellent cast with some chilling segments. I just felt afterwards that there wasn't much point me watching the film.

5/10

[Pheesh]

No Country for Old Men

There were some very goods scenes in this film but overall I was a little disappointed. Maybe it's because I was after more of a resolution but I suppose that's what you get with a Cormac McCarthy story. It was an excellent cast with some chilling segments. I just felt afterwards that there wasn't much point me watching the film.

5/10

I kinda felt this way about the film as well, especially because other people reacted to it like it was a masterpiece or something. I liked the characters and yes, there were some really good scenes, but I think I prefer for... I dunno, more to happen in a movie I'm watching.