Last movie you watched and your critique of it

[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 'smurf' 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.

[kotora]

Saw Bad Neighbours recently. Pretty smurfing 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 trout) 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.
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!

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