Rate the last movie you watched - February - General

well, he was in the director's last movie Hunger. Brilliant movie too. Very slow and absorbing, definitely more so than Shame as it's a prison bio.

[QUOTE=Zukriuchen;36215468]I don't remember much of law abiding citizen, why was it so bad?[/QUOTE] i hated the main character basically throughout the whole thing so his whole disgusting revenge spree didn't really appeal to me. the whole "super prepared guy who kills in genius ways" is something I like seeing but it just wasn't done that well. i try to rate things low just to balance ratings out more though.

There will be blood (second watching on bluray) 9/10 rewatching long movies does make you lose interest at some points but i still got fucking shivers of Daniel Day-Lewis's acting

We Need To Talk About Kevin 7/10 Very good movie, with great acting and a very tense atmosphere.

[QUOTE=sp00ks;36225628]We Need To Talk About Kevin 7/10 Very good movie, with great acting and a very tense atmosphere.[/QUOTE] I liked that a lot, unexpectedly good.

V for Vendetta. 6/10 + V was very well done as a character. - Predictable. - Bad atmosphere and setting. - Not much in the way of in-depth characters. Really didn't like this film.

amarcord 2/5 eh i like the idea but not the actual film. good on fellini for making such a personal, unique film i guess. but when the charm wore off it got boring.

I can't really name a movie I've seen in the last year that I'd call a dud. I mean The Life of David Gale was horrid, but it's still very amusing that it's bad.

Black Book 7/10 boobies

[B]Project X[/B] 4/10 It starts okay, but as the film goes on it just gets boring and uninteresting. It doesn't really render that "super party" feeling that I expected, and it seemed more like one of those videos you would find on a club's facebook page. Even the little of a story that it had wasn't good enough to make up for the rest of the film's dull aspects. The characters weren't bad, but the love affairs were just so clichè (girl the protagonist knew since he was little, and has a crush on, finds him in bed with the hottie of the school. that kind of bullshit) I didn't feel connected with the characters enough to cheer for them when they tried to get the girls, like I sort of did in American Pie. The party doesn't even evolve realistically. One moment the house is empty, a minute later there are like 200 people. It would have been better (not good, better) if things evolved, and slowly got out of hand. I give it a 4 because the camera work was good, the screen didn't jump all over the place as I was expecting. And that feeling of "I wouldn't mind being there" got me at some point during the movie. Anyhow, I recommend not watching it.

Watched the Dictator. A very mediocre film with hit and miss jokes, cliched plot line but atleast a new spin on old hat. 5~6/10

[QUOTE=fingerinmum;36223392]I can't quite decide if he's just picking his roles carefully or if he is the shit. So far everything I've seen from him is quite diverse so right now its not possible to say he's taking the same old Fassbender roles like maybe other actors we could mention. I too am looking forward very much to catching him in Prometheus.[/QUOTE] He is probably the best thing in Prometheus. Movie would be a good 6/10 without him I reckon. Really elevated a lot of it. [editline]7th June 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=vagrant;36223545]i hated the main character basically throughout the whole thing so his whole disgusting revenge spree didn't really appeal to me. the whole "super prepared guy who kills in genius ways" is something I like seeing but it just wasn't done that well. i try to rate things low just to balance ratings out more though.[/QUOTE] man I hated law abiding citizen. it was just so fucking stupid. [editline]7th June 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=AK'z;36227614]I can't really name a movie I've seen in the last year that I'd call a dud. I mean The Life of David Gale was horrid, but it's still very amusing that it's bad.[/QUOTE] When did sucker punch come out? that's still my 'worst of all time' movie.

Rewatched [URL="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0172495/"]Gladiator[/URL] for the n-th time, a truly great movie. 9.5/10 I remember when I saw it premiere at the cinema, 12 years ago; they sold more tickets than they had chairs, some people had to stand up.

[QUOTE=TheFilmSlacker;36228032]Game of Thrones: Fire and Blood- 9.5/10 Game of Thrones Season 1: 8/10 I enjoyed it for the most part, although episodes like "Lord Snow" were [I]really[/I] slow and didn't really go anywhere. It really started to pick up around 5 episodes in, though.[/QUOTE] That's only because they have to establish the setting and characters and such. Especially in a show this complex with so many different characters it's going to take a while. Not to say, I don't agree they were rather slow.

Starship Troopers 1 - 11/10. I am in awe.

[QUOTE=Rastadogg5;36237128]That's only because they have to establish the setting and characters and such. Especially in a show this complex with so many different characters it's going to take a while. Not to say, I don't agree they were rather slow.[/QUOTE] Personally I enjoy the slow parts more and without them the parts with action probably would not have as much impact. The slow parts often have the most detail in them and give you a better insight into the characters. The show is about the characters and the setting. If it wasn't for them Game of Thrones would just be another mediocre medieval series.

v for vendetta 9.9/10 i love it, there's just this nagging feeling something's off though. hugo weaving is awesome as always, the ending is god damn beautiful. i myself have been known to cry tears of joy to the 1812 overture... well ecstasy helps, and on my first viewing of this film i saw it in theaters on it, was super fucking awesome. also natale portman like never ages. i just saw thor and she looks fucking younger than she normally does. it's to bad /b/ had to ruin it. [editline]7th June 2012[/editline] well while i'm under the influence of hugo's intoxicating acting i might as well finish capt america and watch the matrix.

The Hurt Locker - 8.5/10 Really good war film with some really tense scenes and likable characters.

Prometheus - 9/10 it has everything it needs except the 3 hour mark

capt america 7/10 the ending was just like awwwww.... other wise decent movie. bits of humor over a landscape of action and drama also hugo weaving needs to act with his real face more. his intense villainous eyes and brow are really under utilised. at first i was like yay hugo weaving then [sp]/mask[/sp] like ten minutes into the movie [editline]8th June 2012[/editline] he could have kept it till the last fight or something. in fact him discarding it really did nothing except brandishing the fact he is so evil it [sp]made him fugly[/sp] which is pretty damn cheesey

it's still hugo's face even though it's cgi, pretty sure his real face would have done all the motion capture for it.

[QUOTE=FoodStuffs;36245268]capt america 7/10 the ending was just like awwwww.... other wise decent movie. bits of humor over a landscape of action and drama also hugo weaving needs to act with his real face more. his intense villainous eyes and brow are really under utilised. at first i was like yay hugo weaving then [sp]/mask[/sp] like ten minutes into the movie [editline]8th June 2012[/editline] he could have kept it till the last fight or something. in fact him discarding it really did nothing except brandishing the fact he is so evil it [sp]made him fugly[/sp] which is pretty damn cheesey[/QUOTE] But then it wouldn't have been Red Skull, it would've been just some random guy and they would have pulled Red Skull out of their asses at the very end because oh shit, this movie needs a villain people recognize.

Iron Lady was great, I don't know why roger ebert gave such shit ratings. Really sad about Margaret's life.

[QUOTE=Rusty100;36245348]it's still hugo's face even though it's cgi, pretty sure his real face would have done all the motion capture for it.[/QUOTE] i know it still looked like him but it didn't capture the intensity that he can put out normally. [QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;36245403]But then it wouldn't have been Red Skull, it would've been just some random guy and they would have pulled Red Skull out of their asses at the very end because oh shit, this movie needs a villain people recognize.[/QUOTE] then instead of him throwing it away, put it back on? i dunno, i'm probably being irrational because i just saw V for vendetta and it is yet another film where we don't get to see his face. i mean in the matrix even he's almost always wearing those sunglasses that could make a hippy's head look like some federal square's. i'm probably getting hugo fever. any other good movies he's had a leading role in where his face isn't constantly obscured? [editline]8th June 2012[/editline] him, christian bale and sam neil are among my favorite bad guy/anti hero actors. maybe some other movies sam neil is the badguy in as well. already seen hunt for red october, well i couldn't take seriously a lithuanian with scottish accented english so i turned it off at some point. honestly i dunno if sammy was a baddy in it, but i got those vibes.

[QUOTE=FoodStuffs;36245468] i dunno, i'm probably being irrational because i just saw V for vendetta and it is yet another film where we don't get to see his face. i mean in the matrix even he's almost always wearing those sunglasses that could make a hippy's head look like some federal square's.[/QUOTE] To be honest, yes, you are being irrational. You never see his face in V for Vendetta because we're supposed to be left wondering what or who he is. The fact that he hides in complete and utter anonymity adds to the character and the mystery of his identity. You barely see his face in the Matrix movies because he's supposed to be an emotionless drone. Eyes tend to show some sort of emotion so blocking them from view again helps build character. Red Skull's character is defined by his actions and, most importantly, the way he looks. Obscuring his true face all the time just looks incredibly silly, especially considering how his face looks before he tears it off. Even disregarding that, why have a character called Red Skull when he has a regular face for most of the movie? It's dumb and doesn't make sense. Hell, Johann Schmidt is considered the TRUE Red Skull in the comics so what would be the use of bringing in the true Red Skull and just keeping his normal human face on all the time?

na, in V the reason behind us never seeing his face is because he considered himself more of a force or a physical manifestation of an idea/rebellion. that is faceless, and thus he himself is faceless as well. you know? in the end [sp]both the protagonist and antagonist die[/sp] but the biggest difference in this coincidence is the latter happening destroyed something, while the former created something, because the resistance was faceless, everyone and noone. just the people, not one man controlling everything. i mean in the end the government thugs [sp]ask for orders from [B]specific[/B] people then freak out and stand down when no response is heard. all the while V is dead as shit and noone gives a fuck or even knows, they just keep on marching through the front lines. i don't even think it would matter if they knew he was dead or not, the fact that he blew up parliament is enough, just like it would have been for fawkes, only V actually did it.[/sp]. but you know what's underneath the fawkes mask. you just saw it in capt america :P [editline]8th June 2012[/editline] it's actually sort of funny cause the premise of all that subtext in V is somewhat similar to the mantra of something like "cut off the head and two take its place" the hyrda had in capt america. didn't make a whole lot of sense though because that can't really apply to a military force with a pyramid command structure and an irreplaceable dictator at the top.

The Guard - 7/10 Brilliant dialogues which made up for the thin story.

[QUOTE=FoodStuffs;36245732] it's actually sort of funny cause the premise of all that subtext in V is somewhat similar to the mantra of something like "cut off the head and two take its place" the hyrda had in capt america. didn't make a whole lot of sense though because that can't really apply to a military force with a pyramid command structure and an irreplaceable dictator at the top.[/QUOTE] According to the comics, Hydra was founded in Egyptian times and the name was more referring to the degree of how deep they were ingrained into the different parts of society.

Man on Fire - 6/10 Not a patch on Taken, the lead was not an interesting character, and events felt oddly disjointed.

American Reunion - 8/10 Fairly funny, The typical American Pie cheesy ending. They all lived happily ever after!