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

if hail caesar is as good as burn after reading then im happy who cares

[QUOTE=TheFilmSlacker;49706942]Dude, I live hours away from the nearest theater. I saw it at home. Having months of people hyping it up like it's the best action movie ever didn't really help.[/QUOTE] yeah, having people hype up a movie for you for a long time before you see it will do that. for example, i finally saw forrest gump for the first time a few months ago, after years of people telling me what a horrible person i am for not having seen it. i saw it, good film and all, but definitely over-hyped.

Trainspotting my life is fucking boring/10

[QUOTE=AK'z;49707777]if hail caesar is as good as burn after reading then im happy who cares[/QUOTE] but i didnt like Burn After Reading at all

[QUOTE=TheFilmSlacker;49706942]Dude, I live hours away from the nearest theater. I saw it at home. Having months of people hyping it up like it's the best action movie ever didn't really help.[/QUOTE] imo it looked really great on a big screen due to the amazing visuals. Even on a smaller screen it is great though. [QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;49707659]I saw it in 3D and 2D, there really wasn't much visual difference between the two at all.[/QUOTE] I'm also one of the few people who is a pretty big fan of 3D films when done right. On topic of Fury Road though, I really love the recent trend of highly stylized action films such as Fury Road, Dredd, and John Wick. What other 10's films like them should I check out?

[QUOTE=Rusty100;49707427]bond movies are boring, fury road was boring. stylish action without substance mad max 2 rules.[/QUOTE] Unpopular opinion but Fury Road is better than Road Warrior, but only a bit. [editline]9th February 2016[/editline] Also better than Dredd, Dredd was great but I haven't had the urge to watch it more than a couple times.

how does it feel to have totally backwards opinions?

I don't know, how does it feel?

im not the one that liked Furiosa Road over Dredd and Mad Max 2 spin this any way u like ur demonstrably incorrect

is it time for a rusty debate

The Martian I think the biggest thing you could say about this is that Ridley Scott was playing it safe, which isn't really a bad thing. It's a good movie, not really groundbreaking, but good. If you wanted to watch it, give it a go, you might be surprised.

[QUOTE=Rusty100;49709426]Furiosa Road[/QUOTE] but [I]Dredd[/I] also had a female deuteragonist who received much more backstory, humanization, and development than the titular male lead?

yeah but you know what she didn't get? more screen-time or plot focus. dredd was still the star of the show. unlike fury road where max very much took a back seat.

[QUOTE=Rusty100;49710319]yeah but you know what she didn't get? more screen-time or plot focus. dredd was still the star of the show. unlike fury road where max very much took a back seat.[/QUOTE] And?

and the movie delivered on it's premise, and fury road didn't? i'd have been perfectly happy with it if the movie was called Furious Furiosa or something. But it was a Mad Max movie that put Max on the backburner. I have plenty of other complaints about the movie too, that's just the most obvious one.

tbf its called mad max so it should kinda focus on max [editline]d[/editline] ninja

I see where you guys are coming from, but I don't really see how that is a problem. Like I didn't walk out of the theater disappointed about Max's role on the backburner. When I watch a film I usually try to judge it based on itself rather than what I expected going in. By all means it still is a Mad Max movie. It focuses on post-apocalyptic deserts with great driving sequences and stunts, and it delivered them well.

i get that but i mean.. it was always about max. i usually try not to set expectations for films but idk, it was a bit of a peeve for me imo it really wasnt that bad, but then there were moments like for instance when he [sp]goes off and kills the guys offscreen[/sp] and it makes it feel like this isnt his story at all. everything should be through his lens, not jumping off screen to war boys fighting offscreen in the doom fortress etc. who i honestly dont give a shit about

I just thought Fury Road was boring - the whole movie was like 'Look at how fucking ridiculous and cool and metal this shit is!!! WHOAOOA'. Dredd was very understated and contained. It was more of a pulsating, grimey survival movie. It was tightly knit and delivered and kept itself in check. It was gratuitous but it never went too far. And the smaller scale of the plot making it feel a lot more personal. Fury Road went too big and too loud and just lost my interest. The story was weak, the action was cool but wasn't supported by a strong enough narrative and had way too many characters shoehorned and very few I cared about. The wives were awful, the old ladies equally awful. Furiosa would have been fine as more of a sidekick, but the movie shifted focus to her too heavily. The whole thing just lost me. I realise it sounds like I hate women - I just hated the women in Mad Max, I think they were poorly written.

i thought most everyone was pretty tolerable up until it introduced the old ladies, and then it just felt incredibly shoehorned i didnt mind furiousa, but as i said it shouldve been through max's lens imo. jumped around way too much

[QUOTE=UnidentifiedFlyingTard;49709357]Unpopular opinion but Fury Road is better than Road Warrior, but only a bit.[/QUOTE] i dunno, i thought the more popular opinion was thinking that fury road as the best of the mad max series ever since it came out. but then again, it just might be the hype surrounding it since it is pretty damn cool george miller managed to finally release another mad max film after thunderdome. still mad max 2 is the absolute best of the series imo. tom hardy has nothing on mel gibson.

based road warrior [video=youtube;J7lMlz3DX_Q]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7lMlz3DX_Q[/video] maybe im a grouch but i just prefer this over the huge fantastical stuff like this: [IMG]http://static.nautil.us/6519_e23b16e83342d08d0d3ef4eeed9d3299.png[/IMG] [editline]d[/editline] and thats exactly what it looked like, a movie set.

yeah i really hated that set. i just didn't buy any of it.

[QUOTE=Rusty100;49710514]yeah i really hated that set. i just didn't buy any of it.[/QUOTE] The movie had cancer patients going to war on pimped out cars while their blood donors are hanging in the front of the car feeding them with some blood. I don't think you're supposed to think it's "credible" or "realistic". As you said earlier, "action with style over substance" but you're really missing the point if you're arguing about the style, because then it's just not your thing.

it's nothing to do with realism. as a fantasy world, i wasn't sold on it. i just wasn't digging it. [editline]10th February 2016[/editline] it didn't feel like a real, lived in world. plenty of ridiculous movies have this world that it sells to you and you suspend your disbelief. but this one just didn't feel genuine to me. [editline]10th February 2016[/editline] the whole thing just felt like 'big set' and not 'apocalyptic wasteland'.

[QUOTE=UnidentifiedFlyingTard;49709382]I don't know, how does it feel?[/QUOTE] stop all this fighting this instant :[ [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1Xsj9-3Pvo[/media]

I wasn't aware people were still pissy about Fury Road and its emphasis on Furiosa. I thought it was a good concept and it helped carry the film because as much as I like Max he's not exactly the kind of protagonist a movie can focus on for two hours.

I swear I haven't noticed that the movie had any focus shifted towards Furiosa until someone mentioned it to me after watching Fury Road [b]twice[/b]. She's not the lead. She didn't had the most screentime. She wasn't the most badass character, but she wasn't a damsel in distress which seems to anger many around here. They were equal, at best but still the narrative was created through Max's eyes effectively making him the main character, anyone claiming otherwise probably haven't seen the movie.

Dredd is definitely the better movie, but that doesn't mean that Fury Road was bad. Definitely not movie of the year.

I don't think Dredd is a better movie. I mean, if you're strictly speaking of the narrative then I see the point, but in terms of filmmaking, action sequences, cinematography, etc etc. fury road is superior in many aspects. I like Dredd a lot, but it has its flaws, for example some of the super saturated and "in your face" 3d scenes were quite annoying. It's a good movie but not better than FR. and I don't get the furiosa argument: if a movie doesn't meet your expectations it's not the movies fault. It focused on both characters, more on furiosa sure, but that didn't take away from the experience and I don't even see how that's a negative, other than for the reason that the movie is titled mad max.. It was basically a huge action sequence in which a bunch of characters are trying to murder each other and blow shit up, not some kind of compelling drama.