The Hunger Games
7.5/10.
I was disappointed that they toned down the violence from the book to achieve the PG13 rating. I know they have to get a certain audience there but it was just a bit of a disappointment to have all the real violence offscreen. Nonetheless, it was a good film.
[QUOTE=garrynohome;35268399]The Hunger Games
7.5/10.
I was disappointed that they toned down the violence from the book to achieve the PG13 rating. I know they have to get a certain audience there but it was just a bit of a disappointment to have all the real violence offscreen. Nonetheless, it was a good film.[/QUOTE]
yeah thats what pissed me off the most
they couldnt put in the actual gore so they made up for it by having a spastic camera so it looked like some nasty shit was going down
and it made me mad that when rue died, instead of getting shot in the neck, the guy that killed her was shot in the chest because a neck shot would be too gory or something
oh well, it was still pretty rad
[QUOTE=FoodStuffs;35260811][sp]the kid gets shot in the bathroom by a black kid just before turning in a report on his brother and that life shouldn't be ruled by hate[/sp] tearing down all the nazi shit and stuff, he probably wrote about that.
rusty, ur kinda backwards man. the original ending was a downer by itself.
well unless you hate ur little brother or something[/QUOTE]
no because even though[sp]he died, he died without hate in his heart[/sp]. that's uplifting shit man. it's sad, but it's not dark.
[editline]24th March 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=Dragoshi1;35263860]The Hunger Games
5/10
My fuckin' head is STILL hurting from the horrendous camera.
I mean damn it. And they said CLOVERFIELD was bad with the shaky cam....[/QUOTE]
yeah the shaky cam during the fight scenes in hunger games was really horrendous i couldn't see jack shit
and the very next day i saw the raid and while having a shaky cam, you could always tell exactly what was happening during the fights
on that note, The Raid 9/10 it owned
na, shit's dark. shit's darker than the chambers of a dead nun's heart
no it isnt
the deleted scene at the end is dark because all his soul searching and shit was undone. even though the kid u know whatted the end still had a message of love and peace instead of 'once a nazi always a nazi :)'
[editline]24th March 2012[/editline]
as far as dark endings go the mist tops all
[QUOTE=Ganerumo;35266201]Gran Torino
Rating: 9/10
Critique: Very good movie. The premise was honestly incredibly idiotic (some old guy befriends Asian guys, woohoo), but what was made out of it is genius. The movie was really suspenseful at some moments, always interesting, Clint Eastwood's performance is great and so is the performance of everyone else, and most importantly the ending is beyond everything I could have expected. I think it can be qualified as a twist ending up to a certain point and it was a very nice touch, especially as the whole scene is a direct reference to the classic spaghetti western where Eastwood always did the untouchable sharpshooter.[/QUOTE]
An old guy was capable of making friends with someone [I][B]that's not white[/B][/I]??
Well fuck me ain't that silly.
[QUOTE=Rusty100;35268954]
as far as dark endings go the mist tops all[/QUOTE]
oh god the mist :(
I really find it strange how the Hunger Games series received an almost Twilight-level audience, when it's so damn gritty and dark and gory. I guess it's 'cause of all the love triangle mumbo jumbo.
Such a shame too, the movie would have been so much more awesome if it delivered those violent scenes. [sp]From the top of my head, Clove (orphangirl) gets her skull crushed by a rock by Thresh (bigblackguy), and Cato (the last guy to die) is basically a bloodied lump of flesh until Katniss puts him out of his misery.[/sp]
[QUOTE=RockSauce;35269668]I really find it strange how the Hunger Games series received an almost Twilight-level audience, when it's so damn gritty and dark and gory. I guess it's 'cause of all the love triangle mumbo jumbo.
Such a shame too, the movie would have been so much more awesome if it delivered those violent scenes. [sp]From the top of my head, Clove (orphangirl) gets her skull crushed by a rock by Thresh (bigblackguy), and Cato (the last guy to die) is basically a bloodied lump of flesh until Katniss puts him out of his misery.[/sp][/QUOTE]
People applauded and wistled when [sp]when Thresh kills Clove, it was fucking rad[/sp]
[QUOTE=Scot;35260979]2001: A Space Odyssey
wut[/QUOTE]
read the books you knob
[QUOTE=Neat!;35270460]read the books you knob[/QUOTE]
i don't like your tone lol.
[QUOTE=barttool;35270357]People applauded and wistled when [sp]when Thresh kills Clove, it was fucking rad[/sp][/QUOTE]
my audience including me laughed when it cuts back to a shot of the black haired guy in her district watching the romance. it was supposed to be so serious which makes it all the more funny
[QUOTE=Rusty100;35270744]my audience including me laughed when it cuts back to a shot of the black haired guy in her district watching the romance. it was supposed to be so serious which makes it all the more funny[/QUOTE]
the audience laughed every fucking time they showed the guys face in disbelief. something I hated about the movie is that they hardly expand on him like suzanne did in the books.
[QUOTE=Pal13;35270727]i don't like your tone lol.[/QUOTE]
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Mulholland Dr. - 8.5/10
Crazy. I need to rewatch it to get everything, but what I've got is still amazing. I feel like the tone (as in color) for lighted objects changed when it went into the "revealing" chapters. The tone looked like a low budget film or well-produced porno at first (the saturation I think). If I'm right about the tone thing, I think it benefits the "fakeness" of the first side of the story. I also loved the foreshadowing and self-reference going on.
I don't really get the kinda supernatural undertone, but like I said, I have to watch it again. This reminds me of Memento, though with more thriller stuff.
David Fincher's The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Now I'm not the one who holds back from seeing a movie because of a said premise, in fact I didn't have a clue what it was about until a few days ago a friend told me how they would not see it because it's "just about a hacker girl".
I told him that he was bullshitting, saw the movie and was correct.
This is intense.
The casting of the main lot was pretty solid, Craig is probably the only person who played James Bond who is pretty flexible to carry other character performances. This is close to his best.
Fincher's style is prominent and makes the movie all the more gripping, but even though I have not seen the original, I feel there is more to be got out of the character.
That's just my initial feeling.
2 and a half hours is a long stretch, and emotionally we only see the Girl take on 3 emotional stages, the beginning, when she meets Craig and works with him, and after they're accomplished.
There's a lot about her idiosyncratic character that I liked a lot, but I felt screen time was pushed for the "detective" sections which didn't quite do much for me seeing as I've watched "12 Angry Men" and "JFK".
All in all.. I rate this mid-highly, but I plan on seeing how the Swedes pulled this off. It might be more authentic, but I'll give it a week or two before I see it.
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World: 8/10
I generally like war movies, and there's definitely not enough Napoleonic era or naval ones. It kept a good feel throughout the entire film and while it didn't blow me away, I certainly enjoyed it.
[QUOTE=AK'z;35272175]The casting of the main lot was pretty solid, [b]Craig is probably the only person who played James Bond who is pretty flexible to carry other character performances.[/b] This is close to his best.[/QUOTE]
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Yeah but Connery was the best Bond.
Driving Miss Daisy
8/10
[QUOTE=TheFilmSlacker;35272922]Sean Connery and Pierce Brosnan were my favorite Bonds, even though Pierce only had one good Bond movie under his belt...
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly- 7/10. I hate to admit that I didn't like this movie as much as I'd hoped. Maybe I'll have to watch it again and I'll appreciate it more.[/QUOTE]
If you watched that as a lone movie and not part of the trilogy then you lost out on that experience.
I guess the fact that the character builds from the initial one, kind of makes everything more intense for the end.
I watched it as a lone movie, and I still think it's one of the best movies I've ever seen
me too
The Hunger Games 8.5/10
A kids version of Battle Royale.
Brilliant film its just the action scenes were a bit blurry for my liking.
the problem with the dollars trilogy is that it's not actually a trilogy in the conventional sense.
clint eastwood's character is the only thing that really stays consistent throughout and even then he's not necessarily even the same person, just implied.
I watched them all in a row in the spawn of three days though so when I watched tgtbatu my exhausted mind had a lot of trouble comprehending that Lee Van Cleef plays completely different characters in For a Few Dollars More and tgtbatu.
The experience does build up though, because each movie is probably better than the last and the finale to tgtbatu is one of my favorite scenes in a movie.
yeah that each movie is better than the last does make watching the trilogy better.
I do really like the second one though, in some ways more than the last, but TGTBATU will always be an essential watch for me.
I think A Fistful of Dollars is the best, but TGTBATU is literally right behind it. That, and I don't really remember For A Few Dollars More.
Also, this
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILB0yIn6jBg[/media]
thing is.. nobody realises that it's a remake. I really should see the original.
NOKAS, 9.7/10
Best movie I've watched in a [i]long[/i] time, only thing was that it was a bit slow in the beginning.
Just watched For a Few Dollars More.
9.7/10.
Absolutely fantastic, one of the best I've seen.
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10/10? I don't know, I suck at rating movies. You can't turn a whole opinion into one number.
I didn't find anything wrong with the movie, so 10/10.
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