Last movie you watched and your critique of it

The Hurt Locker

4/10

It was alright. I wasn't crazy about the documentary style filmmaking. I understand they probably chose to do the hand-held look to make this seem more raw and real, but I felt it was a distraction from everything else that was going on. I also noticed some really bizarre editing mistakes that are just huge no no's. Like they would cut to something and then repeat the cut and some how expect no one to notice that it's the exact same action repeated again in the exact same shot. The plot I wasn't crazy about either. After a while I grew bored of them disarming bombs. They pretty much kill off anyone in the film who was interesting. This film fails in comparison to other war films like Apocalypse Now, Tigerland and Fullmetal Jacket.

Brotherhood of the Wolf.

French film, with plenty of action, and twists that aren't super obvious unless you smoke crack. 8/10

Strawberry Shortcake: The Sky's the Limit.

Check it out:


Strawberry Shortcake has cute stuff.


I don't know who she is, but she's important.


She has a cute strawberry wand! Tiara, too!


This is where the juice is made, I think.


These are the strawberry slaves workers.


Sparkly song and dance about berries!


I WANT THAT BLENDER!


I WANT THAT CAR!


I WANT THAT STRAWBERRY HOUSE!


I WANT THAT GUITAR!

Lovely Bones. The screenplay was a complete mess.

^ I just watched this as well. It was very disturbing to me. I have not read the book, but according to IMDb the screenwriters pretty much butchered the entire plot by not making it detailed enough. Personally, I liked the fact that it's more subtle than the novel. I don't need to see her being chopped up to know that's what happened. I got that when I saw the bag and the safe. I think people who actually wanted to visually see this captured in detail are entirely to desensitized to this stuff and that's disturbing as well. They also don't understand that movies are for interpretation and books are for detail. If a book was to be made into a movie with all it's details it would be ridiculously long. Anywayz, it had beautiful musical score and the "in between" scenes were breathtaking. (SPOILER)Although it was very unsatisfying that no one ever found her body.

The thing that really annoyed me with this film is the narration. The constant droning of the main character throughout was a cop out to me. It's like saying, oh hey I'm going to just read some excerpts from the book or script because I don't feel like shooting some extra shots to move the story along. It didn't help that her voice was just incredibly bad for narration altogether though her acting was pretty good. So was Stanely Tucci's. Creepy as hell. The acting by all the main cast was good -- surprisingly even Mark Wahlberg was good even though he did some of the worse acting I have ever seen in The Happening.

There was also some scatterbrain scenes of Susan Sarandon's character rearing away from the plot of the story, but then it came back again. The editing was also on par. There were cuts from one shape to one shape. In particular, I liked the cut from the lighthouse on the beach to the cut to the miniature sized lighthouse in the bottle. All in all, this film definitely left a lasting impression.

8/10

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Originally Posted by Necronopticous

Sympathy for Lady Vengeance. Adorable.

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I want to see that, it looks good!

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What a coincidence, i watched that friday last week!

It was pretty amusing.

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Originally Posted by Shiny

Personally, I liked the fact that it's more subtle than the novel. I don't need to see her being chopped up to know that's what happened. I got that when I saw the bag and the safe. I think people who actually wanted to visually see this captured in detail are entirely to desensitized to this stuff and that's disturbing as well.

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As much as I didn't want to see the process of her rape/ murder, apparently the gruesome details are what made the book more (for lack of a better term) developed in terms of characters and overall plot. You felt like you were in her shoes, you felt her hatred (And I'm not saying that the film doesn't portray this well, it does, I'm just going by what my friend, who has read the book, said.).

Avatar. I don't know what everyone was complaining about. It's obviously not an original plot but it's obviously not supposed to be either. The world-building was superb and I liked the political allegory about nature and war. 8.5/10 easily, maybe even 9.

Inglourious basterds

It's Tarantino, and it's good

20th Anniversery Mystery Science Theater 3000 box set. Four enjoyably cheesy movies:

Werewolf: Like Skinwalkers, it exploits Navajo mythology for horror effect, but in this case winds up looking silly. One of the hammiest villains and most wooden of leading ladies.

Laserblast: Was that Mark Hamill? Unhappy teen stumbles upon an alien weapon and gets a chance at revenge on everyone who picked on him.

First Spaceship on Venus: Spiritual precurser to movies like Mission to Mars and Red Planet, but more pretentious. International crew fly in a rocket ship to Venus to look for signs of life with some of the goofiest equipment you've seen outside Looney Tunes.

Future War: Low budget rip off of the Terminator that throws in animatronic dinosaurs for good measure.

The Book of Eli.
Dont watch it, its the dullest movie I have seen in a long time.
If you want a plot thats 1000x better, play Fallout 3.

Pan's Labyrinth. It took me long enough, but I finally watched it last night. It's pretty freaking sweet and deserves the accolades.

Caught Sherlock Holmes and I was impressed. Holmes reminded me too much of a magician, and I didn't know if I'd like Jude Law as Dr Watson, but I loved it.

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Not that importing Miyazaki is a bad thing. :D

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Well, you've got me there though we're running out of films. Man I wish my local Independent theaters would show Mononoke Hime at the midnight showings again. :love:

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Originally Posted by KuRt

I've been hearing so much about the bad plot of avatar so I'm gonna suggest a movie with a GREAT plot for people to watch! And the movie is Man From Earth. The whole movie takes place in one guy John's house where he and his coworkers sit by the fireplace for the whole movie and talk. No action, no special effects, just speech. Still it was the most intriguing movie I've seen in a long time because of all the great insights this movie brings up. The movie is all about John telling the story of his life and boy does he have quite the story 'cause he's actually 14000 years old. I suggest YOU watch this movie!

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Don't get me wrong, I knew going in that Avatar's plot was going to be pretty blah just from seeing the trailers (god damn Hollywood and Americans, we have the worst trailers ever, cause we have to have everything explained to us before we'll actually watch a movie :mad2:) so I wasn't really surprised by that, of anything nothing about the film was surprising and the fact that people around me claim its the "best movie ever" spiel is making me feel that I once again missed the memo that told me that everyone needs to lower their standards of what constitutes as good.

With that said, I'll try to check out your film recommendation as it sounds like something up my alley.

Milf: Pan's Labyrinth was an awesome movie, I'm glad to see you approve. :D

Watched Avatar.

As most said, the plot was nothing new nor surprising. I was waiting for them to paint with all the colours of the wind to be honest. That aside, the movie itself was gorgeous. Pandora's plant life was simply amazing.

The movie made me want to run through the woods naked after watching it.