Last movie you watched and your critique of it

[Bunny]

Fun fact: The person who wrote the screenplays for all the Twilight movies is also responsible for writing eleven episodes of Dexter.

World's Greatest Dad: 7/10. Good movie, albeit slow and occasionally filled with incredibly tedious and annoying dialogue. The son in which the majority of the storyline revolves around is an annoying little :bou::bou::bou::bou: who deserved everything that occurred within the film. Robin Williams' performance was, as in the majority of his more serious roles, incredible.

[Winter Nights]

The Room: 0/10

The Holy Grail of bad movies and yet, I highly recommend it. I haven't laughed that hard at a bad movie in my entire life. The acting in this piece of makes porn acting seem oscar-worthy. It's so amazingly awful, it must be seen to be believed.

[Rantz]

You're tearing me apart, Lisa!

[BG-57]

Apparently Tommy Wiseau is very touchy about people mocking him. His webmaster threatened to sue the Nostalgia Critic over a review that trashed and parodied the movie (but recommended it anyway to his viewers). His legal reason: copyright infringement. N.C. took down the review but made a parody sketch of Wiseau the next week without using clips.

[Winter Nights]

Wiseau is just a big baby. The NC review is what got me to watch it, so it's not like he's losing viewers because of it. He should just embrace it.

And you can still find the review on Youtube,

[BG-57]

Agreed.

[Shiny]

Kramer vs. Kramer

6/10

There were scratches in the film. Just goes to show you why digital may be better. Regardless I thought it was good. You can't go wrong with Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep together in the film; although Meryl Streep is not in the movie for long. Some of the cinematography was a little weird. Like first it would go to a close-up of Meryl and a black background and then it would cut to a medium and it would be Meryl and a blue wall. Wtf?

The story was great. Not the cliche dead beat dad leaving the family, but instead the mother walking out. My biggest pet peeve was that it was never fully explained why the mother left. The little boy was also great. Child actors should probably take a cue from him and not be another annoying-child-in-a-movie.

Life as a House

4/10

Meh.

[Vermachtnis]

Dinner for Schmucks

Really funny movie. Steve Carrol is hilarious.

7/10

[Marshall Banana]

I watched The Little Mermaid last night as I was falling asleep and four times today.

I like it a lot!

[Bunny]

Dinner for Schmucks

7/10

This. Though I would rate it a little higher since the ending battle between Zach Galifianakis and Steve Carell was the most amazing thing I've seen lately.

[Shiny]

Martin

6/10

Some people think this is George Romero's best film. I still prefer his zombie movies, but I liked this a lot. It had the right level of creepy and comedic. The actor, John Amplas, was pretty good in his role. I didn't really get the reference to the toy babies or why the blood was a ridiculous bright red, but still good for low budget. Romero probably should have explained the relationship withe uncle a little better. We don't really know why the guy goes to live with his uncle or why his uncle believes in vampires. It's weird, but yeah.

Secretary

7/10

Wow. What the hell was that

[Raebus]

Shutter Island

I've seen bits and pieces of it before but have never watched it from start to finish and I have to say, it's a pretty good film. Leonardo Dicaprio has gotten better with age and the supporting cast do well in there roles. It has a thick atmosphere to it with lots of gloomy music and it never got boring.

The ending kind of blind sided me a bit, it might require a second viewing to understand it fully.

8/10

[Depression Moon]

Just got through watching Battle Royale on Youtube. That is some sick ass right there!

[BG-57]

Just found the box set of William Castle movies. He was the P.T. Barnum of filmakers, a master of exploitation and gimmicks to get people to see his movies.

Straight-Jacket

One of Joan Crawford's later movies, somewhere between What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? and Trog in quality. She plays a woman who commits a crime of passion and is committed. Twenty years later she gets released and comes to live with her grown daughter. It came out the same time as Psycho and has the same writer. Both are lurid tales of murderous insanity, but Hitchcock's was able to transcend the genre while this movie just wallows in it. Nevertheless, Crawford gives a good performance of such a melodramatic and overwrought character.

Meant to be shocking and scary, this has instead aged into good cheesy fun. But no Percepto or Emergo in this one.

EDIT:

Saw another movie in the collection.

Homicidal

Made about the same time as Psycho it also borrows heavily from that much better movie, too much as it turns out. Remember how an otherwise great suspense thriller is ruined at the end by a psychiatrist explaining exactly what's wrong with the killer in a courtroom scene? The same sort of thing happens here. What's worse it's just reiterating stuff that we learned at the 'shocking' climax.

And boy are the characters idiots in this movie! My favorite example is two characters piece together that someone they know committed a horrible murder:

Person 1: I'm calling the police!

Person 2: No wait! We have to make sure first!

I'm not sure if it's comforting or depressing that almost fifty years later there are suspense movies being made that feature characters this stupid. And not one but two scenes where a character wanders into an empty house calling another person's name over and over again.

This is one movie that begs to have the audience talk back to it. Anyways I figured out half of the twist ending, although having seen (SPOILER)The Color of Night may have helped. The gimmick in this was was the Fright Break, where the movie stops right before the climax and gives the audience who are too chicken to finish the movie a chance to make their way to the Coward's Corner to get a refund.

[Casey]

Year One

***/*****

Funny comedy.......