Rate The Last Movie You Watched - This Thread Took 12 Years To Make Edition - General

[B]Upstream Color[/B] 1/10, worst movie I've ever watched. This movie details how the life cycle of a parasite affects those it infects. Just read the official synopsis and you have an idea of what is to come: [quote]A man and woman are drawn together, entangled in the life cycle of an ageless organism. Identity becomes an illusion as they struggle to assemble the loose fragments of wrecked lives.[/quote] It tries way too hard to be intelligent and artistic, but instead falls flat and comes off as pretentious and forced. Contrived symbolism abounds, as does fake meaning. Think Deepak Chopra tweets converted into film format and hacked together into a movie. I forced myself to watch it to the end in case some semblance of meaning showed up, but it never did. This is literally Postmodern Art: The Movie. It's as if the 100 top hipsters in the world gathered together and competed to make the most hipster movie they could make, and then God came down from heaven and showed them how it's really done. This is the first movie I've watched that I truly hated and could find no redeeming qualities. If I searched the whole universe for worse ways to spend 96 minutes, my hands would come up empty. Do not watch this movie. It is fucking awful.

[QUOTE=Headhumpy;49453853][B]Upstream Color[/B] 1/10, worst movie I've ever watched.[/QUOTE] :smug: Oh how I love newcomer's reactions to Shane Carruth's films.

upstream color was brilliant. gr8 soothing film.

[QUOTE=Headhumpy;49453853][B]Upstream Color[/B] 1/10, worst movie I've ever watched. This movie details how the life cycle of a parasite affects those it infects. Just read the official synopsis and you have an idea of what is to come: It tries way too hard to be intelligent and artistic, but instead falls flat and comes off as pretentious and forced. Contrived symbolism abounds, as does fake meaning. Think Deepak Chopra tweets converted into film format and hacked together into a movie. I forced myself to watch it to the end in case some semblance of meaning showed up, but it never did. This is literally Postmodern Art: The Movie. It's as if the 100 top hipsters in the world gathered together and competed to make the most hipster movie they could make, and then God came down from heaven and showed them how it's really done. This is the first movie I've watched that I truly hated and could find no redeeming qualities. If I searched the whole universe for worse ways to spend 96 minutes, my hands would come up empty. Do not watch this movie. It is fucking awful.[/QUOTE] gee i hope you haven't watched primer

[QUOTE=Bert the Turtle;49455315]gee i hope you haven't watched primer[/QUOTE] I tried watching Primer once. My head hurt.

[QUOTE=Bert the Turtle;49455315]gee i hope you haven't watched primer[/QUOTE] I watched Primer and liked it, because the movie as a whole made sense; although it required some thinking through and rewatching, it was possible to piece together a coherent storyline and make sense of the movie. More importantly, it wasn't pretentious. Upstream Color made no sense whatsoever and was completely unrewarding to watch. I felt cheated at the end of it.

dude... i think it's easier to understand Upstream Color than Primer... by a wide mile. You need to see Primer 4 or 5 times and write an essay to actually get on board with why things do this.

damnit, I'd been recommended Primer as one of the only good sci-fi films on netflix. I just wanted a good sci-fi, not that shit.

I really liked Primer. Definitely need to see it a second time though.

ex machina clean, polished, competent, good. location was slick, actors cared about the movie and the atmosphere of the mansion really gratified my eyes. and they ended the film in the best way possible in my opinion, even if the ending itself didn't truly shock me. i'd probably have enjoyed it a lot more if my friends didn't joke every five minutes about robot porn during the first hour of the movie.

[QUOTE=Mbbird;49456144]damnit, I'd been recommended Primer as one of the only good sci-fi films on netflix. I just wanted a good sci-fi, not that shit.[/QUOTE] it's worth seeing but it's not really a film I'd recommend for casual viewing... you have to be in the mood and you have to be in the zone. I've seen some experimental stuff in my time but Primer twists my brain way too much.

I think there needs to be more films like Primer. Films made specifically to confuse you and make you think but not be contrived bullshit.

Chappie 4/10 god dammit i shouldnt like this movie as much as i do, its crap but it could have been so good Neil really has a problem with making his themes subtle and real. His villains are borderline cartoons and the tone of this was everywhere, like, you may think sometimes this is for children but then a guy gets cut in half and splashed on a wall...come on i had this idea about what if it started when [sp] Deon is dying and chappie saves him [/sp] then they make another plot idea and we start guessing what happened before or something Or just take the scumbags out and its about the robot learning to be human, as a child, and some big corporation trying to take him out because fear or whatever, fucking anything but Die ANTwood

[b]The Matrix (1999)[/b] Whoa. [img]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Keanu_Reeves_2014.jpg/220px-Keanu_Reeves_2014.jpg[/img] This is actually my first time wathcing this from beginning to end. I think it's one of those films that every "90's kid" knows though sheer osmosis, just like how everobody knows who Luke's father is. As a kid I used to switch the channel away from The Matrix all the time, never having the patience to sit through it all. Honestly, I should've seen it earlier. It satisfied me in every possible way. What stood out to me the most is those glimps of excitement you can see on Keanu's face through his completely wooden acting. You know it's a great movie when a grown thirty-something man is more than happy to blow shit up and pretend to know kung fu. I'm never watching the fucking sequels.

tbh i enjoy the matrix sequels, but hands down the matrix and animatrix are really the only ones worth watching multiple times. matrix 2 and 3 have some good soundtracks, though.

The freeway chase scene in 2 is fun to watch. Not much else is good though in either of the sequels.

[b]The Hateful Eight (2015)[/b] 7.5/10 Not at all what I was expecting, but great nonetheless. If you aren't a fan of Tarintino's dialogue sequences, you probably won't like this. Also[sp]WARM BLACK DINGUS[/sp]

Les Miserables (2012) - 8/10 This is the only version of this I've seen, so I don't have much to compare it to, but I really enjoyed this movie. Loved the music, and that ending was just great. I was very pleasantly surprised.

[QUOTE=Dr. Ocsid;49457344]Les Miserables (20120 - 8/10 This is the only version of this I've seen, so I don't have much to compare it to, but I really enjoyed this movie. Loved the music, and that ending was just great. I was very pleasantly surprised.[/QUOTE] that's the only version of the musical, the rest are all adaptations of the book itself and don't feature fun singing and whathaveyou the liam neeson flick is worth watching, but it's severely watered down and ends right after javert jumps off the bridge, and liam neeson just walks on into the sunset.

[QUOTE=AK'z;49456504]it's worth seeing but it's not really a film I'd recommend for casual viewing... you have to be in the mood and you have to be in the zone. I've seen some experimental stuff in my time but Primer twists my brain way too much.[/QUOTE] I don't know if I'd go as far to say that I "liked" Primer but I definitely appreciate that someone took time out to make a film with ideas of that caliber Upstream Color was fantastic tho, had gorgeous visuals and this "future arthouse" vibe that I really fucking loved

[QUOTE=Demeschik;49456827][b]The Matrix (1999)[/b] Whoa. [img]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Keanu_Reeves_2014.jpg/220px-Keanu_Reeves_2014.jpg[/img] This is actually my first time wathcing this from beginning to end. I think it's one of those films that every "90's kid" knows though sheer osmosis, just like how everobody knows who Luke's father is. As a kid I used to switch the channel away from The Matrix all the time, never having the patience to sit through it all. Honestly, I should've seen it earlier. It satisfied me in every possible way. What stood out to me the most is those glimps of excitement you can see on Keanu's face through his completely wooden acting. You know it's a great movie when a grown thirty-something man is more than happy to blow shit up and pretend to know kung fu. I'm never watching the fucking sequels.[/QUOTE] If you liked the Matrix, watch Dark City. It has some themes and is stylistically similar in some ways, but it came out a year before. In my opinion it is a better film and has one of my favorite settings in a film due to absolutely amazing work on the film. [editline]5th January 2016[/editline] Tremors 4 - It was a fun film. imo though it felt as if the suspense focused on the first half was slightly done wrong though because the audience if watching the film likely knowing what a graboid was. Only major complaint is that [sp]the Gatling gun was not actually used in any battle sequence and was instead just displayed at the end.[/sp] [editline]5th January 2016[/editline] Also what was so great about Primer was how the tone at the beginning made it seem like it was almost a biopic about the Steve Jobs and the founding of Apple and everything, but [sp]by the end the tone could not be farther away.[/sp]

[B]Interstellar[/B] 10/10 What the fuck just happened

muuuuuurph

[QUOTE=Coyoteze;49458760][B]Interstellar[/B] 10/10 What the fuck just happened[/QUOTE] dying of laughter rn

[QUOTE=AK'z;49456128]dude... i think it's easier to understand Upstream Color than Primer... by a wide mile. You need to see Primer 4 or 5 times and write an essay to actually get on board with why things do this.[/QUOTE] That's the point. There's no deeper meaning to the movie, it's literally a bunch of random shots stitched together. It pretends to have some kind of deep symbolism with the connection between the pigs and the people but everything is so contrived that I found it hard to watch. I liken it to splashes of paint on a piece of canvas masquerading as art. [editline]5th January 2016[/editline] If you watched Upstream Color and thought it was meaningful I'm sorry to say that you are one of those who would lavish praise on the Emperor's new clothes.

[QUOTE=matt000024;49458996]dying of laughter rn[/QUOTE] to be fair the ending is fucking non sensical space magic bullshit

[QUOTE=Dr. Ocsid;49457344]Les Miserables (20120 - 8/10 This is the only version of this I've seen, so I don't have much to compare it to, but I really enjoyed this movie. Loved the music, and that ending was just great. I was very pleasantly surprised.[/QUOTE] Huh... I was just about to post how much I disliked it, maybe give it a 3/10 rating. I didn't like the writing; felt like there was absolutely no subtlety. Within the first fifteen minutes the movie tells me twice that the main character was enslaved for stealing a slice of bread for his hungry sister, and in both times the character practically spells it out in the most obnoxious way. I don't like when a movie has to spell out their story and themes to anybody who's watching - or, in this case, bellow them again and again for 90% of the time. That, combined with the camerawork in the film, which has a tendency to hold their actors in awful close-ups all the time, and the terrible singing, which robbed the actors of any chance of being convincing, made me quit it before the first half hour. It just felt pretentious, like it's trying to be super dramatic, but can't deliver the story right. I don't know, it just kind of rubbed off me the wrong way. Maybe I just don't like musicals.

[QUOTE=Headhumpy;49459014]That's the point. There's no deeper meaning to the movie, it's literally a bunch of random shots stitched together. It pretends to have some kind of deep symbolism with the connection between the pigs and the people but everything is so contrived that I found it hard to watch. I liken it to splashes of paint on a piece of canvas masquerading as art. [editline]5th January 2016[/editline] If you watched Upstream Color and thought it was meaningful I'm sorry to say that you are one of those who would lavish praise on the Emperor's new clothes.[/QUOTE] Films, especially experimental ones, aren't always required to strictly follow a narrative. I kind of see Upstream Color as a visual/aural poem rather than a story, and the beauty in being a viewer is that you can interpret whatever you want from what you see/hear It's OK to not like a film, but it's another thing to say that it doesn't mean anything - something being "art" or not isn't decided by the viewer, but by the creator

[QUOTE=Daniraldo;49459144]I didn't like the writing; felt like there was absolutely no subtlety. Within the first fifteen minutes the movie tells me twice that the main character was enslaved for stealing a slice of bread for his hungry sister, and in both times the character practically spells it out in the most obnoxious way. I don't like when a movie has to spell out their story and themes to anybody who's watching - or, in this case, bellow them again and again for 90% of the time. [...] Maybe I just don't like musicals.[/QUOTE] Dude, you just described literally all of them musicals. [editline]5th January 2016[/editline] But that's okay - Hooper's version is shit, and the only good thing that comes out of this is Sasha Baron Cohen/Helena Bonham Carter, but the rest is utterly underwhelming when compared to any other iteration of the musical.

[QUOTE=Joz;49459175]Dude, you just described literally all of them musicals.[/QUOTE] Oh. Good to know. Maybe I'll just be avoiding any musicals from now on.