Last movie you watched and your critique of it

[Rad Bromance]

Saw Sherlock Holmes today. Very fun and entertaining, and both Downey and Law did excellent jobs in their roles. Their bickering bits are quite entertaining.

Was Precious really that depressing? I mean, it looked it, but it looked it in a good way. I really want to see that movie. The previews make me a little teary.

Yes, it's incredibly depressing throughout, including the ending, but holy cow the acting (especially Monique's, incredibly enough) is phenomenal, some of the best I've seen in years actually, as it's frighteningly convincing.

It's a good movie, yes, but not a happy one.

[The Summoner of Leviathan]

My first problem with this movie: since it is an all boy's school the director casts boys for the female parts. Yes, in Shakespeare's time this was how it was done, but this is NOT how any Catholic boy's school would do it EVER.

Since I've never been to an all boys Catholic school, I can't say if they wouldn't do it, but then again it is Shakespeare and you'd be hard press to find a play that didn't have female roles. Plus I think it'd be less embarrassing to say "Hey, I'm playing a girl in a Shakespeare play; it's like how they did it way back when" than being like "I'm playing a female role in Rent/Wicked/Hairspray/some-other-lay". Not to say that those guys wouldn't get flack for it, cu they still would, but that's how High School roles.

The main character is a homo who plays the fairy (hahahaha) in the play. He finds a "magic love potion" in the play . . .
My second problem with this movie is that NO SUCH POTION EXISTS IN THE PLAY! Bad, bad, bad screen writing to invent something that is supposedly in a famous piece of literature that simply isn't there.

Dude, the script magically revealed a potion that made the magic flower that he uses both in the play and on the town. So that part is not as bad as you are making it seem. I mean, the flower had to come from somewhere.~

The boy uses the magic potion to cause people to fall in love . . . but by some absurd coincidence, the first person each person sees is only that of the same sex.

Kinda the point of the whole movie...:P

Naturally the main character causes the straight jock he has a crush on to fall for him.

He's a teenager, so I don't blame him. If I were in his shoes, I can't say I wouldn't have done the same.

So when the drama teacher catches on and doesn't seem to be surprised at ALL that there is magic afoot
she advises him to return everyone back to normal, including the jock he likes. He does. But what's this? The jock is still in love with him?

I suspected the drama teacher was more than well aware what was gonna happen. They made subtle hints throughout that the whole thing was more or less her intent. Maybe not necessarily turning the whole town gay, but she was highly amused when Timothy first used the flower.

Same thing for the jock-boy, they had made hints throughout the movie that he was more-than-he-seemed or at least not as homophobic or straight as we'd like to believe. At one point, he does slap Timothy on the ass and a few other small things as well.

Regardless, it's an awful movie.

But the boys are cute and the music is good.

Wouldn't say "awful" but it wasn't amazing either. Entertaining enough. Seen better queer movies, that's for sure. Still better than some of the other movies I've seen.

Agreed on the last point *has soundtrack*.

Last movie I saw was Brothers. Was pretty good though it wasn't what I thought it was gonna be. Then again, the way my boyfriend described it, we both thought there'd be more melodrama. The last segment of the movie felt a bit too long but at the same time it felt appropriate after the fact. Worth seeing it if you like drama and something that is not too over-the-top and that is a bit slow paced.

[Bastian]

My first problem with this movie: since it is an all boy's school the director casts boys for the female parts. Yes, in Shakespeare's time this was how it was done, but this is NOT how any Catholic boy's school would do it EVER.

Since I've never been to an all boys Catholic school, I can't say if they wouldn't do it,

You'd be hard pressed to find a non-religious school putting on any play with guys kissing each other, let along a Catholic school. It's pretty much 100% unreasonable. Huge mistake of the movie Number One. And even IF somehow the drama department got away with it, you'd be hard pressed to find straight guys willing to play those roles, especially the straight guys as shown in the film.

The main character is a homo who plays the fairy (hahahaha) in the play. He finds a "magic love potion" in the play . . .
My second problem with this movie is that NO SUCH POTION EXISTS IN THE PLAY! Bad, bad, bad screen writing to invent something that is supposedly in a famous piece of literature that simply isn't there.

Dude, the script magically revealed a potion that made the magic flower that he uses both in the play and on the town. So that part is not as bad as you are making it seem. [/quote]
What if I told you I was doing a movie about someone who finds a copy of The Wizard of Oz and discovers in the old book a diagram to build giant robots to take over the world?

The reason why that's idiotic is because EVERYONE knows there's no such diagram in the book The Wizard of Oz. So should I write a script where a character finds such a thing, it would be considered a VERY awful device in screen writing terms.

If these people wanted to do a movie about some gay boy turning everyone gay, fine. But it has NOTHING to do with A Midsummer Night's Dream. And they should have left it alone. Or at least followed the rules set up in Shakespeare's play.

This would mean NO "magic potion" but the boy would somehow have to find the flower that Puck originally used in the play. This flower would not make people magically adopt a gay stereotype, but just make them fall for whomever they first saw. That's not difficult to pull of. But resorting to idiotic cliches and juvenile screenwriting explains why these film makers can only make bad gay b movies.

The boy uses the magic potion to cause people to fall in love . . . but by some absurd coincidence, the first person each person sees is only that of the same sex.

Kinda the point of the whole movie...:P[/quote]
The point of the movie is to rely on laughable coincidences? Better screen writers would not depended on the gay aspect and caused the love flower to create all sorts of OTHER interesting combos. It's just insulting to ask us to accept that SOMEHOW the first person each individual saw was of the same sex, thereby causing the entire town to go gay. Insulting. I require more intelligently written films.

Naturally the main character causes the straight jock he has a crush on to fall for him.

He's a teenager, so I don't blame him. If I were in his shoes, I can't say I wouldn't have done the same.[/quote]
Despite the fact he already had a girlfriend and as far as we knew, they were perfectly happy? Extremely immoral. But fine, that would make an interesting story if the main character had to struggle with his immoral decision. Does he? No. Bad writing.

So when the drama teacher catches on and doesn't seem to be surprised at ALL that there is magic afoot
she advises him to return everyone back to normal, including the jock he likes. He does. But what's this? The jock is still in love with him?

I suspected the drama teacher was more than well aware what was gonna happen. [/quote]
Why? Is she some bad reject character from Charmed or something? Why would any sane person EXPECT that magic is going to turn everyone gay? If she's supposed to be some sort of supernatural being or whatever, they should have developed it. As far as we know, she's just some weird old lady who doesn't blink an eye when magical stuff starts happening. Bad writing.

Same thing for the jock-boy, they had made hints throughout the movie that he was more-than-he-seemed or at least not as homophobic or straight as we'd like to believe. At one point, he does slap Timothy on the ass and a few other small things as well.

Guys can slap other guys on the ass in a sports environment and not have it construed as anything other than hetero. But I know what you're getting at. However, it's not so much that they DEVELOPED the character in such a way that makes it seem natural, but that they never contradicted that it could be a possibility.

Still, from a story stand point, I think it's cheesy and weak. A better screenplay would have the main character deal with having to give up the straight guy at the end. This was the easy way out.

Regardless, it's an awful movie.

But the boys are cute and the music is good.

Wouldn't say "awful" but it wasn't amazing either.[/quote]
I would say awful. It's seriously the worst movie I've seen in at least a couple years. And I've seen some bad horror movies. But at least those bad horror movies have clear character development and storyline pay offs and justifiable rules.

This badly written of a screen play would NEVER have made it in mainstream Hollywood had the characters been straight. The only reason why it got made is because we have laxer standards for gay movies.

I hated it. Vehemently.

[Shiny]

Jennifer's Body

8/10

I gotta say, I wasn't expecting to enjoy this as much as I did. Going in to, I wasn't quite sure what to expect, but I knew since the writer of Juno was a part of it, I knew this was gonna be quirky. I'm a big fan of black comedies and this is definitely one of the more darker comedies I've seen. It had a few parts where it was on the verge of being an outrageous B movie horror with semi believable blood (blood was really red for some reason) and minor plot holes. Other then that, I thought it was really enjoyable and Megan Fox actually did a good job at delivering her lines. It was a funny albeit disturbing movie. And wtf was with the random girl make out scene. xD All in all, I enjoyed it right from the opener in jail and the opening credits where you see "Jennifer's Body" in Pretty in Pink text so it made me think this was going to be another teen movie. Nope! You're in for a treat.

[Vyk]

Willow ^_^ Still awesome. Its been probably ten years since I saw this movie last. Used to have it on VHS. I'm very retro and nostalgic, so someone got me the DVD for Christmas <3 Its too bad George Lucas doesn't know how to do "adventure" anymore

[Breine]

Into The Wild.

Wonderful movie. I want to have my own Alaskan adventure!!!

[Necronopticous]

Into The Wild.

Interesting. I just re-watched Into the Wild with Lamonda earlier this week.

[Marshall Banana]

Into The Wild.

Wonderful movie. I want to have my own Alaskan adventure death!!!

[Rantz]

Mùi du du xanh - L'odeur de la papaye verte (The Scent of Green Papaya)

I loved this movie. It was beautiful and inspiring. The story is simple and with little conflict, but it does the trick well. The gorgeous, exploratory visuals and wonderful music are the points of most interest anyway.

[McLovin']

Jennifer's Body

8/10

And wtf was with the random girl make out scene. xD .

Demon-thing 0/10
Megan Fox 0/10
Girl-on-girl 8/10

You gotta have something to remember this movie by to rate it!!!

[Del Murder]

The Blind Side

Good movie telling a good story. There's not much more I can say than that. Sandra Bullock was good in it and her accent didn't annoy me as much as I thought it would. It's just a really cool story and even better that it's true.

4/5

[rubah]

I only half watched these, but man, The Day After Tomorrow and Journey to the Center of the Earth (3D!!!!!11) had some awful science. I told my nephew not to believe any of the physics in Journey and if he had questions to ask me instead.

It was all I could do not to launch into the chemical definition of magnetism when he asked about the floating rocks.
(SPOILER)you know, with the electrons spinning in the differently paired directions.. you know!?

Yes, I knew beforehand this would be this way. Didn't make them any less painful!

"the cold is coming down, because that's where the clouds are at"

[Moon Rabbits]

Just finished watching Oldboy like 10 minutes ago. Intense stuff. Very good movie.

Watch the other two!!!!!!!!!!!111111111111

Last movie I watched was Raspberry Reich. Weird communist political satire commentary porn?

[BG-57]

I only half watched these, but man, The Day After Tomorrow and Journey to the Center of the Earth (3D!!!!!11) had some awful science. I told my nephew not to believe any of the physics in Journey and if he had questions to ask me instead.

It was all I could do not to launch into the chemical definition of magnetism when he asked about the floating rocks.
(SPOILER)you know, with the electrons spinning in the differently paired directions.. you know!?

Yes, I knew beforehand this would be this way. Didn't make them any less painful!

"the cold is coming down, because that's where the clouds are at"

You should check out The Core, where a demonstration of what could happen to the Earth is reduced to a flaming peach.

[Levian]

Ugh, I watched The Final Destination yesterday and it was awful. These people shouldn't be allowed to act, and the special effects guys shouldn't be allowed to make death scenes. Maybe they should switch places.