L.A. Confidential- 10/10
wow, what a movie. Shame it got screwed out of the awards it deserved, by Titanic
I wish there were more movies like it, I really love how they set it up to make it seem like the movie was ending at the halfway mark when Kay Starr's Wheel of Fortune started playing and then plunged me back into the instant the song ended for a very enjoyable ride
James Cromwell should have gotten a nomination for his role
it feels like it's going to portray him as a good guy, even though he was a pretty huge racist himself
Paper Man - 8/10 Maybe because I like the actor so much.
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Abe Lincoln Vampire Hunter - 4/10 A perfect example of how having the right ingredients doesn't make a good movie.
It had decent actors, good effects and scenes but an absolutely shitty script that took itself too serious for a movie like this. It doesn't care about guiding the viewer at all.
Like one scene they are fighting in a stable and pop, cut to a MASSIVE(like many hundreds) horde of horses running through the open and along some cliff for some reason.
It could've been good but it was pretty bad.
[QUOTE=AK'z;38057305]The Valley of Elah
same director as Crash.
Liked it quite a bit, as a follow up to Crash I was eager to see it and it looks like nobody heard of it. Very worthwhile imo.
This movie will definitely not get such a mixed opinion as compared with Crash. EVEN though I liked that a heck of a lot so my words won't mean much.
It seems to be that as Tommy Lee Jones gets older, his movie roles get a lot better and more intense. Anyone noticed?
In essence it's an crime/mystery film, but also very much an anti-war film about Iraq. Not as painful as say "Brothers" with Tobey Maguire, but still a really good one. Shame nobody knew about it.
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I think he's consistently made great movies, it's just that he's gotten 'heavier' in terms of acting more recently, more willing to tackle characters that aren't straight and narrow
That film is pretty awesome
I really love Seth Rogen and I'm not sure if that's kind of a guilty pleasure or not. I don't really go in for the concept of guilty pleasures, I mean if I like it I like it but he actually owns srs.
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Inanimate objects slaughtering humans to the beat of AC/DC songs. What's not to like? 8/10
Killer Joe is coming out soon on blu-ray (or now, depending how you look at it).
I highly recommend you check it out if you if you didn't get a chance to see it in cinemas, which you probably didn't due to it's limited screening. It's fantastic. That's my plug.
Dude where's my car
3/10
Fuck, that was just a collection of irrelevant scenes barely resembling a movie. Only thing I laughed at were the scandinavian protection guys' accents.
Get Smart
5/10
Average comedy. Nothing particularly funny save for a few scenes, but nothing too bad either.
[QUOTE=strayebyrd;38066328]I think he's consistently made great movies, it's just that he's gotten 'heavier' in terms of acting more recently, more willing to tackle characters that aren't straight and narrow[/QUOTE]
He was good in The Fugitive.
I've seen quite a few movies in the 8 months I've been banned, so here's a few of them.
Looper: 12/10 Mind=Blown. The ending brought it from an 8/10 to the 12/10
The Grey: 12/10 The only movie I have ever cried for, and screamed for. Absolutely amazing.
The Amazing Spider Man: 10/10. Really worried about Gwen Stacey
The Hunger Games: 10/10 so much better than the book.
The Avengers: 10/10 everything I can say has already been said.
TDKR: 10/10 The only thing making it not as good as TDK is the lack of Heath Ledger.
The Lorax: 9/10
Chronicle: 8/10 we need more found footage films like this
Wrath of the Titans: 7/10 just one of those guilty pleasures.
End of Days
10/10
[QUOTE=Glype;38073259]End of Days
10/10[/QUOTE]
satan is a choir boy according to mr schwarzenegger.
[QUOTE=OrionChronicles;38072349]I've seen quite a few movies in the 8 months I've been banned, so here's a few of them.
Looper: 12/10 Mind=Blown. The ending brought it from an 8/10 to the 12/10
The Grey: 12/10 The only movie I have ever cried for, and screamed for. Absolutely amazing.
The Amazing Spider Man: 10/10. Really worried about Gwen Stacey
The Hunger Games: 10/10 so much better than the book.
The Avengers: 10/10 everything I can say has already been said.
TDKR: 10/10 The only thing making it not as good as TDK is the lack of Heath Ledger.
The Lorax: 9/10
Chronicle: 8/10 we need more found footage films like this
Wrath of the Titans: 7/10 just one of those guilty pleasures.[/QUOTE]
I see you've got some spare 10/10s there
Killing Them Softly:
Got a pass to a preview screening of this last week. Absolutely blown away. Really unnerving film. Brilliantly written, Brad Pitt is just amazing as Cogan, he hits the cold, money obsessed hitman right on the head. And the fact that the whole film is set against the Obama-McCain election where both sides are talking about unity during the financial crisis really makes that fact that this whole world is so greedy and revolves around money really hit home. Just a really fantastic film. Highly recommend going to see this when it comes out.
9/10
[QUOTE=killerteacup;38073570]I see you've got some spare 10/10s there[/QUOTE]
I only see the ones I might like in theaters. Last movie I saw in theaters I hated was The Last Airbender.
Hate to say it but: The Shining (the Kubrick one) - 6/10.
It wasn't bad, but it was [I]really[/I] disappointing considering the hype. I didn't find it effective as a horror movie, because I simply didn't find it at all scary, and I didn't find it effective as a character drama because the characters were all completely boring. The Haunting (1963 version, obviously) does the whole 'is there a ghost or are they mad?' ambiguity far better, and that had interesting characters and was a much more effective horror film too. It was beautifully shot, but that was about it.
^you should read the book, it touches on the alcoholism a lot more than the film.
It was like one good wine, except that the one I never tasted but dreamed of errynight.
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[I]” I realized the reason that android didn’t answer had nothing to do with her mechanism. Nor that she didn’t like him. More like she already loved someone else.”
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[QUOTE=Negrul1;38075621]effective as a horror movie[/QUOTE]
It's pretty funny how on the right off you can tell Jack Nicholson is insane. :v:
DANNY BOYYY
[QUOTE=AK'z;38076659]It's pretty funny how on the right off you can tell Jack Nicholson is insane. :v:
DANNY BOYYY[/QUOTE]
Exactly! From the way it was written it sort of felt like it was meant to show Jack's slow descent into madness, but it doesn't work because Nicholson's performance makes him seem like a psycho right from the start.
[QUOTE=Negrul1;38077489]Exactly! From the way it was written it sort of felt like it was meant to show Jack's slow descent into madness, but it doesn't work because Nicholson's performance makes him seem like a psycho right from the start.[/QUOTE]
that's why Stephen King was pissed off about it too, apparently in the novel you're not meant to realise that he would go insane.
I saw it a few days ago, ridiculously funny. :v:
The Shining is probably Kubrick's most flawed major film but it's still great and still a classic. It's getting a rerelease for Halloween due to a remaster. It's showing in a few cinemas here. Definitely gonna catch it.
yeah defo call shining overrated but i'll put that sucker on any day of the week.
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that waiter conversation in the bog is hilarious too.
"I CORRECTED HER"
Clockwork Orange: I'll give it a 10.
Honestly, I'm not sure what it is about the movie that I enjoyed so much. The soundtrack was a joy to listen to, the characters were truly disturbing and constantly engaging. It's a really long film, but it never drags on and you're always on the edge of your seat because you have [I]no idea[/I] what the characters will do.
And the whole "You can't change evil" thing really left me chilled. The sudden ending was great.
Hotel Rwanda: 88/100
[QUOTE=NanoSquid;38080012]Clockwork Orange: I'll give it a 10.
Honestly, I'm not sure what it is about the movie that I enjoyed so much. The soundtrack was a joy to listen to, the characters were truly disturbing and constantly engaging. It's a really long film, but it never drags on and you're always on the edge of your seat because you have [I]no idea[/I] what the characters will do.
And the whole "You can't change evil" thing really left me chilled. The sudden ending was great.[/QUOTE]
The scene where Alex and crew are terrorizing the old man and his wife was completely unscripted.
[QUOTE=GodKing;38083205]The scene where Alex and crew are terrorizing the old man and his wife was completely unscripted.[/QUOTE]
See these are the kinds of things that make film awesome as a medium.
I don't think anything will ever come close to portraying a character so undeniably evil yet so sympathetic.
[QUOTE=NanoSquid;38083304]See these are the kinds of things that make film awesome as a medium.
I don't think anything will ever come close to portraying a character so undeniably evil yet so sympathetic.[/QUOTE]
Also I don't know if you're aware, but the old man's large caretaker in the latter half of the film is Darth Vader (the guy who wore the suit at least, not the voice or the face at the end of RotJ).
[QUOTE=OrionChronicles;38072349]I've seen quite a few movies in the 8 months I've been banned, so here's a few of them.
Looper: 12/10 Mind=Blown. The ending brought it from an 8/10 to the 12/10
The Grey: 12/10 The only movie I have ever cried for, and screamed for. Absolutely amazing.
The Amazing Spider Man: 10/10. Really worried about Gwen Stacey
The Hunger Games: 10/10 so much better than the book.
The Avengers: 10/10 everything I can say has already been said.
TDKR: 10/10 The only thing making it not as good as TDK is the lack of Heath Ledger.
The Lorax: 9/10
Chronicle: 8/10 we need more found footage films like this
Wrath of the Titans: 7/10 just one of those guilty pleasures.[/QUOTE]
the score store called, they're running out of 10s
[QUOTE=TheFilmSlacker;38084894]Not completely. They said that they wanted Alex to beat the shit out of them while singing, but they didn't have a song for him to sing.
Stanley Kubrick asked Malcolm McDowell on set if he could sing, to which he responded "a little".
He picked "Singin' in the Rain" on the spot and Stanley Kubrick bought the rights to the song that night.
Gene Kelly (the original singer of the famous song in the movie of the same name) and Malcolm McDowell never got along after "A Clockwork Orange" was released.[/QUOTE]
Ah. I just read somewhere that he was told to do whatever he wanted, since the scene wasn't working, so he started singing that, and Kubrick got the rights to the song.
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