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

[QUOTE=Scot;49507649]Spy was one of the least funny movies I've seen in a very long time.[/QUOTE] OK, well I'm just saying that for the Golden Globes, the only movies in the comedy category that were actually comedies were Spy and Trainwreck. The Martian, Joy, and The Big Short were all dramas.

Saw The Revenant yesterday, really enjoyed it, I'd give it an 8.5/10. Some of the CG animals were a bit unrealistic, but the cinematography and costume design were fantastic and the acting was great. I really liked how gritty and realistic the characters were, it's nice to see people with snot hanging down their face and shitty facial hair and whatnot in a movie instead of everyone looking perfect. There wasn't much dialogue but it didn't feel slow at all, I was surprised when I walked out and realized three hours had passed. The biggest thing that bothered me was the 360° rotating shots, which made me kinda nauseous. I'd definitely recommend seeing it.

I watched The Babadook last night because I remembered seeing it pop up on the thread a couple months ago quite a bit. Can't say I was really impressed though... The little kid was the most annoying child ever, and the story never really made sense when I thought back on it. It had some potential, but I felt like it ruined it after the midpoint.

Ashby 7/10 Some pretty funny parts and I genuinely liked Mickey Rourke's performance, but there are a lot of things that felt under developed and I had some other issues with it to that will likely lower that 7/10 rating every as time passes and I think about it more. The main thing that bothered me is: It is another one of these movies focused on awkward / nerdy main characters that simply treats awkwardness & nerdiness as a superficial wash of the character that disappears as the characters "grow some balls." Like what is even the point in trying to have awkward / nerdy characters anymore if the character development is simply them STOPPING to be awkward nerdy characters. Bugs me. Like in this movie, both the leads are supposed to be nerds, yet the main character joins the football team, does really well, succeeds at everything he tries to do, becomes a popular jock and then gets the girl. I really want to see a movie where the main characters just stay awkward and make it work like that, as that is much more how real life works. We are living in a time when you don't have to be an athletic "hero" to be successful. The characters are unrelated, but I thought "Master of None" with Aziz Ansari did a great job at portraying a fairly real relationship and subtle but effective character development. -- Sicario 7/10 Good in a lot of ways, kind of bland and unimaginative though I felt. Successful though in presenting a main character and then showing how they get completely overshadowed by everything else going on around them, how they are totally an insignificant player in the actual story.

[QUOTE=Scot;49507649]Spy was one of the least funny movies I've seen in a very long time.[/QUOTE] I really found melissa mccarthey and some other characters incredibly unfunny and annoying, but I must admit that Jason Statham was hilarious. He's the only reason anybody should watch that movie.

I can't do 95% of comedy movies I have a sense of humor, anyone who knows me knows this, but there's something about comedy movies that just makes me completely stone faced. Exceptions include Being John Malkovich, Scott Pilgrim, and the Cornetto trilogy, those ALWAYS make me laugh [editline]11th January 2016[/editline] and I like quite a few sitcoms too, so who knows what it is about comedy movies

Scott Pilgrim is like a comedy vacuum. Except Kieran Culkin, he was probably the only good part of that film.

yea Scott Pilgrim is unwatchable i do not understand the acclaim

[QUOTE=Revenge282;49508286]I watched The Babadook last night because I remembered seeing it pop up on the thread a couple months ago quite a bit. Can't say I was really impressed though... The little kid was the most annoying child ever, and the story never really made sense when I thought back on it. It had some potential, but I felt like it ruined it after the midpoint.[/QUOTE] [sp]the entire film is one of the better examples of extended metaphor in moviemaking that I can think of. Everything the 'Babadook' does and causes to happen is an extension of the effects of violent trauma on the psyche, behavior, and relationships of its victims. It is an anthropomorph of stifled grief. I really enjoyed the way my sympathy switched from lying with the mother to the child toward the end of the movie, despite the mother remaining the central character. i went from thinking, "what a little shit i feel so bad for her," to "oh my god, kid, you can do this, you can still save your mom and you!"[/sp]

there are some good gags but 99% of the movie falls flat over itself for trying so, [I]so[/I], hard to be funny and zany.

[QUOTE=cheetahben;49508924]I can't do 95% of comedy movies I have a sense of humor, anyone who knows me knows this, but there's something about comedy movies that just makes me completely stone faced. Exceptions include Being John Malkovich, Scott Pilgrim, and the Cornetto trilogy, those ALWAYS make me laugh [editline]11th January 2016[/editline] and I like quite a few sitcoms too, so who knows what it is about comedy movies[/QUOTE] I guess it really is a statement to mainstream comedies when sci-fi drama is not only funnier than the rest of them, it also scores the title of "Best Comedy of the Year"

[QUOTE=cheetahben;49508924]I can't do 95% of comedy movies I have a sense of humor, anyone who knows me knows this, but there's something about comedy movies that just makes me completely stone faced. Exceptions include Being John Malkovich, Scott Pilgrim, and the Cornetto trilogy, those ALWAYS make me laugh [editline]11th January 2016[/editline] and I like quite a few sitcoms too, so who knows what it is about comedy movies[/QUOTE] it's the same thing for me. I believe some genres, especially comedy and horror, are cluttered with junk and only a few of them really stick out and are generally good. I think they are just really hard to pull off, but are uniquely enjoyable when done right.

im more neutral on scott pilgrim. it's good, but it's very stylized and it's definitely not for everyone.

[QUOTE=mikeyt493;49509048]yea Scott Pilgrim is unwatchable i do not understand the acclaim[/QUOTE] chiming in on this too. scott pilgrim is dire and unwatchable [editline]12th January 2016[/editline] [QUOTE=TheFilmSlacker;49509155]I object, Scott Pilgrim is fucking amazing and easily one of my favorite comedies.[/QUOTE] u consistently like garbage though (like the walking dead)

rusty you take peoples entertainment choices too seriously

I thought Scott was ight, It had some really neat scenes in there. Walking Dead turned into garbage after season 3-4 imo.

the only remotely good thing about WD was the first season. after that, it tanked extremely hard in favor of being a Soap opera with zombies.

My standards for comedies are: is it better than a nostalgia critic skit? If yes, then it's good in my book.

That's a pretty low bar

The original Mad Max Trilogy seen in the order of release [U](quite a few spoilers)[/U]: [B]Mad Max[/B] While not nearly as action packed and post-apocalyptic as I expected from what I heard about the series (and seen from the game), I still enjoyed it alot for its tension and especially Max' character arc. I feel like the entire action around Max' revenge came quite late, but considering it's a b-movie it was still pretty good. The final scene leaves a gritty taste in your mouth and sets up Max' character perfectly for the next movie. I personally feel that this entire movie is best seen as a kind of prologue or exposition for Mad Max 2, rather than the meat of the series. [B]Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior[/B] This was the movie I enjoyed the most and feel like it defines the signature of the trilogy. Since it takes place in the Outback of Australia (rather than close to the remains of civilization) it feels much more desolate and post-apocalypse wastelandish, like I imagined it. Max' appearance is also cool as fuck in here, so cool in fact, that a decade later the Fallout RPGs would borrow heavily from it. The movie felt really great for the most part, especially how everyone's actions seem to be natural and making sense. Max does not really want to be the hero and tries to stay as far away from responsibility as possible, merely helping out at the end, because circumstances did not give him any other choice. The only thing which fell a bit flat in my opinion was the boss of the raiders, he didn't really have alot to him, I preferred the bat-shit crazy guy with a mohawk. Action felt real and tense, especially because a lot of good guys were dying quite fast. Overall my absolute favorite Mad Max movie so far (haven't seen Fury Road yet, will soon tho). [B]Mad Max 3: Beyond Thunderdome[/B] Starts out somewhat promising, turns out to be utter garbage halfway in. Max is supposed to kill a dude in a gladiator-ish fight as a part of a deal with the local boss of the town, doesn't finish him off though, because he suddenly has feelings or some bs, gets exiled as a result and ends up being found by a shitty tribe of children. Half an hour of absolute boredom and annoying family friendly shit, the bit of action at the end cannot really save it. The movie didn't really make sense at multiple times and lost me entirely. Seeing how the Mad Max movies tell independent stories (except the first one, which is quite important for fully understanding Max' character), there is nothing lost in just skipping it and pretending it never happened. [B]spoiler free tl;dr:[/B] 1 is okay if you can stand old b-movies, 2 is the best bit of the series and 3 is utter garbage.

[QUOTE=ThePanther;49509598]My standards for comedies are: is it better than a nostalgia critic skit? If yes, then it's good in my book.[/QUOTE] problem with humor in general is that you can't posibly expect to appeal to everyone. if you tried to, you'd find yourself being far more cringeworthy than you'd tried to be. you can, however, aim for the cheaper/lower denominator and therefore rank in good laughs/appeal from the largest group. [URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJEmtLxkEoI"]Naked Gun is one hell of a movie[/URL] and its funny on its own right, you can watch it 30 years after it debuted and still find skits being funny as hell. Vampires Suck however tanks by the minute since it relied exclusively on a short lived fad.

[QUOTE=Loadingue;49506438]Relevant to today's news, I watched this a few days ago. [B]The Prestige[/B] (Christopher Nolan, 2006) 9/10 It's original and deep (and deeper as the film goes on), with great actors and a good art direction. Fans of plot twists will love this. And it has David Bowie as Nikola Tesla. R.I.P.[/QUOTE] Rusty100, you rated me dumb on this post, but didn't bother to explain why. I suppose you hated the film because of the genre switch, I guess?

it was the fact that the season jumped from well planed 6 ep thriller to "lets discuss our family issues for the next 20 eps while we survive slow moving zomb- walkers"

for scott pilgrim, forget the movie and just read the comics. iirc they should be finished with the last volume in color now.

but the movie is better when you ignore its based in a comic series. its just a heavily stylized teen flick and nothing else. not saying that the book is anything other than just "video game references - the reference".

I never read the comics but I thought the movie was pretty alright, it was pretty obviously geared towards the nerdy type crowd but Edgar Wright's a good director and I thought Kieran Culkin was great

[QUOTE=TheFilmSlacker;49510016]If anything, the first season was good, seasons two and three were [I]baaaaaaaad[/I] and then it got good again with a few mistakes here and there. If you see it as nothing more than a soap opera with zombies, you're not paying close enough attention. [sp] Although some of the acting and lines from the minor characters can be cringeworthy, but I still enjoy it, I don't care. [/sp] Anyway, content. The Big Lebowski- 10/10 Still my favorite comedy. One of the movies I can say that I have lost track of how many times I've seen it.[/QUOTE] You are literally the only person I hAve ever seen not like seasons 2 and 3 but like the othera. No way

wasnt a fan of force awakens but i just found out the director for episode 8 is the guy who made Looper and the Ozymandias episode of BB. that's interesting [editline]d[/editline] he grew up like 10 minutes away from where i live. neat :D

I rewatched Grindhouse last weekend since I had nothing to do. I would say Planet Terror is more enjoyable since there's more stuff going on. There's a lot of people who say Tarantino's weakest film is Death Proof and I'd probably agree with them. That's not to say it's a bad movie in fact it's good just not the best of his work which what he had in mind for 70s exploitation film is understandable imo. I'd just wished there was more to it. Though I gotta admit the characters were interesting especially Kurt Russel. The best scenes was the [sp]Car Crash and Car chase in the 2nd half[/sp] obviously.

[QUOTE=Bathtub;49509394]rusty you take peoples entertainment choices too seriously[/QUOTE] strong feelings dont indicate how much i care but i can understand that mistake [editline]12th January 2016[/editline] [QUOTE=Loadingue;49509952]Rusty100, you rated me dumb on this post, but didn't bother to explain why. I suppose you hated the film because of the genre switch, I guess?[/QUOTE] no I liked the film. i just dont think its close to as deep as you think. it's solid but simple