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

[QUOTE=EliaMoroes;48508283]I know I'm late to the party, but the movie was released later in Italy Ant-Man 8/10 What I find incredibly amusing about this movie is how it manages to be a good film by subverting all your typical tropes from the recent big dick Marvel movies. To elaborate: - Your average Marvel movie is filled with useless subplots and convulted threads. Ant-Man instead has a linear, simple plot with a clear objective - Your average Marvel movie loves to cather to the MCU continuity at the expense of the single film. Ant-Man instead just features [sp]a combat scene between Scott and Falcon[/sp], which is actually an integral part of the plot and that's it. The Avengers are mentioned in the movie and at the end is implied Ant-Man is going to join them: no useless or shoehorned cameos - Your average Marvel movie tries to bring comedy into a serious setting and fails spectacularly at it, with far too many jokes that ruin the modd and are generally not funny. Ant-Man instead doesn't take itself seriously and allows the odd premise and the strange situations the characters find themselves in to do the comedy, to great effect. And since we are on this subject, the final battle of Ant-Man actually mixes up well tension and comedy, something that CAN'T be said for any Marvel movie this far - Your average Marvel movie contains horrible comic relief characters who get far too much screentime for their own good. Ant-Man does have a trio of such characters, but their presence is berable at worst and welcomed at best instead If anything, this movie is leagues better than Age of Ultron, nor that it takes too much effort to beat that down. Cross is also better than Ultron as a villain, but that may be just me: I can understand people considering the former a bit underdeveloped, but I think he got enough screentime to paint his character well enough Also, regardless of what you think of the MCU version of Hank Pym, Michael Douglas' performance is incredible[/QUOTE] that's because the film still has edgar wright's fingerprints on it.

[QUOTE=TheTalon;48507379] reminds me of another very similar movie starring Sandra Oh that was also pretty good but I can't recall the name of it [/QUOTE] last night? really love that film and nobody seems to know of it. worth checking out if you like depressing films, its pretty thought provoking and i think you can find the whole thing on youtube

300: Rise of an Empire I want to kill myself/10 [editline]21st August 2015[/editline] Worse than the first, the acting was pitiful, the action scenes were shakeycam shitflings, none of the characters were fun and it looked like its color palette came from the inside of canned chili. With the lid still on.

I think the funniest parts of Ant Man were the Drunk History-esque flashbacks.

[QUOTE=A B.A. Survivor;48506086]How do all you folk feel about talking to whoever you're watching a movie with while watching the movie? I can't not poke someone and be whispering crap like, "Hey! That's the guy! They totally are gonna do that with the thing!"[/QUOTE] To me watching a good film is a religious experience. I frown every time someone makes the slightest noise.

[QUOTE=Zillamaster55;48509461]300: Rise of an Empire I want to kill myself/10 [editline]21st August 2015[/editline] Worse than the first, the acting was pitiful, the action scenes were shakeycam shitflings, none of the characters were fun and it looked like its color palette came from the inside of canned chili. With the lid still on.[/QUOTE] eva green has nice titties, at least [sp]did not watch movie[/sp]

Watched The Descent. This movie really wasn't doing it for me. I love the concept so much and I wanted to like the movie so much more than I did. I wish they focused more on the "trapped in a cave" idea because that shit is terrifying, because as soon as the monsters were introduced everything went downhill. The second half played out like an action movie with WAY too many fight scenes. Outside of the initial cave exploration scenes where stuff started to go wrong and it was tense, everything was just jump scares. BOO monster popped out, gotta fight it, repeat for 30 minutes until end. The stakes are zero when you don't care about any of the characters and all the tension and horror that should've been in the fights just isn't there because of this.

Disney's Treasure Planet(2002) on Netflix. 9/10 One of my favorite animated films. Great Animation, combines both CG and Hand-Drawn to make stunning environments and lively characters. Music is also really good, but that's to be expected of a Disney movie. The design of the steampunk/sci-fi/colonial world is all really creative and imaginative. The only problems are any gripes with the space setting(Which can easily be overlooked), and the B.E.N. character(who does deliver some funny lines). The character writing is probably the best I've seen in any Disney film, and John Silver is the fascinating, layered and complex center of it all. "Now you listen to me James Hawkins! Ya got the makin's of greatness in ya, but ya gotta take the helm and chart your own course! Stick to it, no matter the squalls, and when the time ya get to really test the cut of your sails and show what you're made of, well. . . I hope I'm there, catching some of tha light comin' off of ya that day." Really great movie, sad it flopped and didn't get its sequel.

When Marnie Was There: 8/10 Great movie, not your usual Studio Ghibli fantasy fare, but nevertheless a heartwarming coming-of-age/acceptance story. Almost made it to the end without crying [sp]but then Marnie waved from the window. Damn it.[/sp]

Dark City - Damn, I really loved this movie although it isn't really perfect anyway. The setting and atmosphere was so dark and nightmarish which was great. The plot was interesting and I enjoyed it although I wouldn't call it perfect although it was pretty original. The ending [sp]felt heartwarming, but was clearly sort of done so almost ironically. I loved how not much was really solved from it all. Genocide was committed against an alien race and the people of the city weren't really in a much better position. They only had a new ruler and change of scenery. Nothing saved them.[/sp]

I don't know where else to put this, but seeing as this is the "movie" thread, I should ask, who are you guys' favorite film critics? I really like Red Letter Media and Mark Kermode, and I've liked the few episodes of On Cinema at the Cinema that I've seen

[QUOTE=MajorWX;48514721]Disney's Treasure Planet(2002) on Netflix.[/QUOTE] I first read that as "Disney's Pleasure Planet" and though confused I felt like I wanted to know more.

[QUOTE=cheetahben;48515670]I don't know where else to put this, but seeing as this is the "movie" thread, I should ask, who are you guys' favorite film critics? I really like Red Letter Media and Mark Kermode, and I've liked the few episodes of On Cinema at the Cinema that I've seen[/QUOTE] Other than the first two you suggested, I generally check out Chris Stuckmann's reviews every now and then, but that's about it.

return of the jedi great movie, not as good as the empire strikes back though.

Kill Bill, both volumes - 9/10 Really, really good. In fact, I'd say that my only real problem with it is the Superman monologue at the end because it just reeks of pretentiousness. Everything else? Thumbs up.

[B]Valhalla Rising[/B] (Nicolas Winding Refn, 2009) [B]7/10[/B] It's a trippy though artistic vision of the discovery of a new world. And yet it's impossible for me to tell if the dream-like sequences, showing a mix of the characters' despair or madness and the beauty of the scenery, are the best or the worst parts of the film. The end is definitely too sudden though. But the soundtrack is a huge plus to the film.

[I]Atlantis: The Lost Empire[/I] I like the visuals and the characters. The story was schizophrenic. The expedition starts off with about 50% of the crew dying horribly, and over the next half hour the remaining goons get maimed and crushed and burned to death until there's visibly only maybe 50 guys, excluding the main characters. Then, once the obvious villain throws away his nanometer-thick veil and reveals himself to be the bad guy, there's like 1000 goons, and they already have a bunch of shit to transport the shit they had no idea would be there, and they also already had a bunch of shit to escape the underground labyrinth through a hole they had no idea would be there.

[B]The Unusual Suspects[/B] It's a fine movie but it's also another case where I have to think if I'm just a consumer of movies, if my brain isn't wired properly for the movie. I don't need everything spelled out but I'm not a fan of [sp]Unreliable Narrator stories either. You get invested in the story and in the end you learn most of it can/are be lies.[/sp]

[QUOTE=Marden;48518921][B]The Unusual Suspects[/B] It's a fine movie but it's also another case where I have to think if I'm just a consumer of movies, if my brain isn't wired properly for the movie. I don't need everything spelled out but I'm not a fan of [sp]Unreliable Narrator stories either. You get invested in the story and in the end you learn most of it can/are be lies.[/sp][/QUOTE] The problem with those is that it needs to be foreshadowed and hinted at properly and the reveal itself needs to be executed just right too.

[QUOTE=Marden;48518921][B]The Unusual Suspects[/B][/QUOTE] ??? [t]http://www.theunusualsuspects.org.uk/FWThumbnails/TUS-6title.jpg[/t]

[B][I]American Ultra[/I][/B] At one point in [I]American Ultra[/I] Jesse Eisenberg's character says something along the lines of "I explicitly remember everything that happened to the past 94 minutes!" This movie is 96 minutes long and let me tell you, I already had forgotten most of it on the way out of the theater. That's basically the kind of movie that [I]American Ultra[/I] is. It's rather boring and really the only reason you're still looking at the screen is because something is happening up there and you're kind of curious as to what it is. It's an attempt to be a stoner film/comedy/action movie only there's not that much drug use, not a whole lot of laughs, and while there is plenty of action it's rather dumb and shot using slow motion that lingers on shots just long enough for you to see how dumb they are before they happen and a lot of shaky cam. Hell even the film's title card is in shaky cam. What there [I]is[/I] a lot of in this film is brutal and graphic violence, but this too is a kind of flaw with the film, as at about the half way point I got myself thinking the Eight Deadly Words for Stories ("I don't care what happens to these people") because at a certain point I realized that every time a new character showed up it wasn't a question of what was going to happen to them as much as a question of whether they will be murdered brutally or viciously. Characters get gaping holes in them, get blown apart by explosions, electrocuted, strangled, all in graphic detail to the point that I was actually surprised near the end when the movie did one of those things where it makes cuts to not show someone get shot. As for the actors, Kristen Stewart is actually pretty good in this and she has some pretty good chemistry with Jesse Eisenberg, so it's not only a shame that they spend half the film apart but also if you want to see these actors play off each other well go watch the much superior film [I]Adventureland[/I]. As for the other actors, I actually hated Topher Grace in this film. He plays the villain CIA operative in such a way that made me think less evil government guy and more jock bully from a high school movie, probably because of the weird way he reads his lines. One last thing I want to note is that I was surprised to find out this film is set in West Virginia since I've spent most of the past 4 years living there for school, mostly in one part of the state but I think of I've gotten a pretty good understanding of the place. There is no reason at all that I can think of that this is set in West Virginia. None. They didn't film there, there's no implication that this is supposed to be in the middle of nowhere, and there's not even any of the things good or bad that one might associate with the Mountain State. No hillbillies, no booze, no coal mines, no closed mills, no mountain vistas, no river valleys. Nothing. This could have been set in Louisiana where they filmed it and it would have made no difference on the plot whatsoever. In short, I came away from [I]American Ultra[/I] feeling as though I wasn't sure if I just didn't like it or if I disliked it. It's not objectively bad but it's not objectively good either, and I feel as though if this film had gone on for even another 20 minutes I would probably be really angry at this film. 5/10

Jurrasic World 9/10 Haven't watched movies in a few years so I can't judge too well, although I loved this movie a ton.

[B][i]Hitman: Agent 47[/i][/B] [I]Hitman: Agent 47[/I] is one of those movies that is only 90 or so minutes long but feels like it's a lot longer than it really is. Part of the reason is the fact that just about every action sequence from about the second act on feels like it could be the climax to a film, only for it to continue on afterwards. I know I earlier in the year said that [I]Tomorrowland[/I] of all films felt like it was aping [I]Terminator 2[/I], but for the most part the plot of this movie really does feel as though it's the plots of the first two Terminator films mushed into one, only with robots replaced with genetically engineered supermen. Seriously, at one point it's revealed that a villainous character actually has a liquid metal skeleton. As for the non terminator plot points the rest are painfully obvious, In fact I'm not even sure why I'm even bothering dancing around spoilers. If one knows anything of French one of the plot twists will be obvious, and from there your mind can get working on the rest of the plot to the point that you could probably leave to go to the bathroom at any point and have missed nothing. The ending is probably the most memorable part of this film. The film ends with an action sequence that feels really unsatisfying, which is kind of odd as the action scenes up to this point had actually been the best part of the film. Then there are two endings. The precredits ending ends on a shot that made me go "That's it? That's how you're gonna end it?" but then after the film ends and the first part of the credits come up the film shows a shot and, well, let's just say that the last shot of the film is literally one of those scenes where the thought-to-be-dead villain's eyes open and a soundtrack sting plays. In the Year of Our Lord 2015, they actually ended the film that way. This film is objectively terrible in just about every way save for some of the action scenes, but oddly enough out of the two movies that I saw today to end this summer I would still say that this is the film to go see. [I]American Ultra[/I] was boring but [I]Hitman: Agent 47[/I] is laughably bad at times. I say if you can get a couple of friends together go see it and riff it. I guarantee you there'll be a lot of empty theaters to talk in soon. 3/10

Over here they're showing American Ultra and some orthodox christian cartoon, but not Hitman. I guess I'm not missing much either way.

Max Payne: 5/10 despite some pretty cool looking Valkyrie scenes, most of is just... bland. It didn't focus on his past like the first game, or his downfall into despair like the second game, and instead chose to be more like a bland Sin City, with Maxxy Max Payne just being this sort of bland loose-cannon cop, with only maybe one scene that's kinda worth watching. will say though, the directing wasn't that bad. Better than what I expected, at least.

[B]Mr. Turner[/b] god, what a dreadful, plodding story. apparently this painter was an awful beast of a man who did nothing much redeeming and i don't see why they felt the need to make a movie about his life because it would seem his paintings were the only good thing about him. i shouldn't even rate this with a number because i'm not the target audience. Eugh/10

what made you want to watch that film? only reason i want to see it is because the director is a genius.

[QUOTE=cricket50;48508985]last night? really love that film and nobody seems to know of it. worth checking out if you like depressing films, its pretty thought provoking and i think you can find the whole thing on youtube[/QUOTE] Yep that's the one

[QUOTE=matt000024;48514769]Dark City - Damn, I really loved this movie although it isn't really perfect anyway. The setting and atmosphere was so dark and nightmarish which was great. The plot was interesting and I enjoyed it although I wouldn't call it perfect although it was pretty original. The ending [sp]felt heartwarming, but was clearly sort of done so almost ironically. I loved how not much was really solved from it all. Genocide was committed against an alien race and the people of the city weren't really in a much better position. They only had a new ruler and change of scenery. Nothing saved them.[/sp][/QUOTE] Did you watch the Theatrical Version or the Director's Cut? The Director's Cut makes a great movie fantastic.

Interstellar 7/10 Late to the party with this one. Moderately enjoyable film with some undertones of 2001. Unusually, there was some poor acting in places by Michael Caine imho. Dialog was very difficult to hear at times which certainly didn't help. On the positive side, it was good to see something a little more adventurous than the typical Sci-Fi blockbuster formula.