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

theyre both good okay god lets just leave it at that

[T]http://cdn.collider.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/the-night-before-poster.jpg[/T] Ok this movie is pretty weird in terms of editing and pacing, in a bad way. This issue, coupled with the fact that Seth Rogen is on every drug imaginable throughout the whole thing, and all the flashy christmas lights and music, make it almost like an acid trip experience. Also, it's just not very funny, and I'm saying this as a fan of these kind of films. There are a few good gags and good cameos, but that's about it. Most of it is dead moments and bad jokes. Props to michael shannon though, who plays the most interesting character by far. I must admit the whole friendship thing going on, and the chemistry between the leads, is by far what carries this movie and makes it watchable. I'd say 6/10, and I'm probably being generous.

"Dude weed lmao" - Seth Rogen

[QUOTE=cheetahben;49712823]"Dude weed lmao" - Seth Rogen[/QUOTE] I have no idea how to put Rogen's laugh into text but just pretend I did.

Seth Rogan was the weakest part of that movie and it doesn't help that he literally plays the same character in every movie he's in. I think the film would have greatly improved if they had his character disconnect from Joseph Gordon-Levitt's character other than "drugs, don't care".

It's sad that Seth Rogen has basically typecast himself into the same role over and over again because I thought he was pretty good in Steve Jobs

What was/is the verdict on Steve Jobs from you guys? I only just realized it's still playing here and thought I missed the release. If it's positive I'll give it a watch.

Just watched The Lazer Team It was alright I guess. Burnie and Gavin can't act too well and the story was pretty cliche. The jokes were mild but I did have a few honest laughs. I can't really put a number rating down on it; it's clearly not a 10/10 but I can't quite peg what number below that to give it.

[QUOTE=Luxuria;49713587]What was/is the verdict on Steve Jobs from you guys? I only just realized it's still playing here and thought I missed the release. If it's positive I'll give it a watch.[/QUOTE] It's good for a biopic. It's pretty much what Jobs was supposed to be, I'd recommend it.

[QUOTE=Luxuria;49713587]What was/is the verdict on Steve Jobs from you guys? I only just realized it's still playing here and thought I missed the release. If it's positive I'll give it a watch.[/QUOTE] I'd give it about a 6.5/10 First two acts are very good, third act is kind of meh, the ending is pretty garbage. Not Sorkin's best script but it's decent If you're the kind of guy that sees movies for strong performances you'd probably like it, Michael Fassbender and Kate Winslet are on point as usual and it's always fun to see actors rattle off a bunch of dialogue

I enjoy Seth Rogan better when he just shows up in smaller parts. For example, His multiple characters in Fanboys are hilarious.

he's really good in 50/50

[QUOTE=cheetahben;49712823]"Dude weed lmao" - Seth Rogen[/QUOTE] "You lose 100% of the joints you don't smoke" - Beth Rogentzky

a lot of fuss over disliking fury road. i will never really understand what people see in it, it just wasn't there for me. it tried to hit the right marks but there was no magic. also - really classy trying to tell me i have a problem with women because i thought it focused too much on furiosa. that's cool if you interpret the movie in a way where she wasn't the focus, i guess, but there is no doubt the movie shifted gears onto her. hugo did a similar thing, where the titular character, hugo, was a vessel to tell a bigger story about the old film dude. in the end, the movie really wasn't about hugo, like, at all. it just brushed over his plot with his dad and the movie was a big love letter to cinema all about ben kingsley's character. that really sucked because it's a bait and switch, which i don't inherently have a problem with, but they are rarely done well. you want to have expectations subverted, not shit all over. there's a difference between feeling surprised, and feeling lied to. it set up this plot we were following, and then said 'you know what? fuck that plot. it's about someone else now' and it just kind of disregarded everything it built up. what fury road did was similar, in that it tried to subvert expectations but really ended up just giving a big old fuck you to any mad max fans who really wanted to see a mad max movie. 'here's this new character who the movie is ACTUALLY about, and max was just an instigator to it that brought it together.' because let me ask, you can recall furiosa's story arc, right? well what was max's? see what i mean? they're banking on you liking her and being like 'oh it's actually about her but she's cool so that's okay', but she ended up being a really flat and uninteresting character who took focus away from max. mind you, tom hardy's max was really weird and i didn't dig it either, so really the movie had almost nothing going for me. he couldn't keep his accent strait and was more like a grumbling drunk vagrant, which was maybe intention, but not very good. fury road was a big movie with big sets and big action and a big cool villain that people seem to really love - but everything else (including those if you weren't a fan of them like me) was very mediocre [editline]11th February 2016[/editline] THATS MY SUMMATION OF WHY FURY ROAD WASN'T GOOD THANK U

Rusty if it makes you feel better I think Road Warrior is better than Dredd too.

Gotta admit tho, Fury Road has a pretty sweet soundtrack

[QUOTE=Rusty100;49714789]mind you, tom hardy's max was really weird and i didn't dig it either, so really the movie had almost nothing going for me. he couldn't keep his accent strait and was more like a grumbling drunk vagrant, which was maybe intention, but not very good.[/QUOTE] In a discussion about The Revenant you literally called him (the actor) autistic, so your criticism comes more from disliking the actor (who surprisingly does a good job separating his roles from his real life persona, unlike say Leo) than what he did in the picture. Similarly just like in The Revenant he stole every scene he was in, with having significantly less to work with (it's actor's job that reserved and calm character as Max can take as much spotlight as hyperactive Nux or Furiosa, even though he was the main character). [QUOTE=Rusty100;49714789]but there is no doubt the movie shifted gears onto her. [..] what fury road did was similar, in that it tried to subvert expectations but really ended up just giving a big old fuck you to any mad max fans who really wanted to see a mad max movie. 'here's this new character who the movie is ACTUALLY about, and max was just an instigator to it that brought it together.' because let me ask, you can recall furiosa's story arc, right? well what was max's? see what i mean?[/quote] I agree with the first part, but if the film isn't about Max, it isn't about Furiosa either. I think the idea was something else entirely. From the first Miller's concepts of this installment it was highly experimental film. The intention was to create a movie where all the action takes place on a high octane chase, something like Speed with Keanu but cranked to maximum, but the more important is narration. It shows that Miller experimented with the unconventional methods of telling this story, just look how often he talked about releasing a version that's black&white and silent. In effect you get something, the main focus of the film that perfectly encapsulates Mad Max universe (because in all honesty, despite the title, it's not about Max's arc, maybe the first one was but that's arguable) - the madness of the world, pure crazyness of the post-apocalyptic dystopia. [editline]10th February 2016[/editline] [QUOTE=Luxuria;49713587]What was/is the verdict on Steve Jobs from you guys? I only just realized it's still playing here and thought I missed the release. If it's positive I'll give it a watch.[/QUOTE] Surprisingly it was good. But I disagree with Blazedol - it's horrible as a biopic, because if you don't know entirely who Steve Jobs is, the films doesn't do a very good job at clearing that up, or explaining it. The dialogues were one of Sorkin's best, the acting from everyone was really great, the direction was okay (it's kind of a thing with Boyle that you might not notice his direction which in a way is a good thing). It's actually more of a personal story about father and his daughter, than about rise and fame of a technological mogul.

i think it is totally 100% supposed to be a character study of max, especially when the title is named after him. it's very much about him if it wasnt supposed to be about max they couldve easily chosen a different title all the villains (Wez, Aunty, etc.) are reflections of himself and at one point even in fury road he has to face down [sp]his own interceptor[/sp]. it's really blatant imo [editline]d[/editline] ie Wez is wearing shoulder pads, max [sp]kills his gf/wife, now he's mad and wants revenge etc.[/sp] btw as an actor i think tom hardy was great as always but his accent in fury road was really weird and inconsistent and it kinda took away from the role quite a bit i did think it was neat [sp] how visibly he changed over the course of the movie[/sp]. i think its dumb to say that its completely shallow

The Good Dinosaur. It was a nice, beautiful movie but i think it was just Pixar flexing their animation skills. The story was eh. 6/10 Goosebumps. Not as souless as i thought it was going to be but definitely a cash grab, if that makes sense. I bet (hope) the sequel will be a lot better. 5.5/10 Bridge of Spies. It was alright, Tom hanks was good but nothing really happened in the movie that made it feel significant. Cold War is always interesting but this was a little flat Southpaw. I like boxing movies and Jake G so this one was pretty good. The story was a little forced at times but overall well made and acted. 8/10 As for the Dredd and Mad Max conversation, I like them both equally with maybe a point more towards Dredd. I did not like Max character acting like a caveman the whole movie. I think people read into his character more than they should.

Adaptation - Good as expected from Kaufman and Jonze. Really has a lot of depth to it and hits hard, as Kaufman's scripts do.

[QUOTE=mark6789;49716485]Southpaw. I like boxing movies and Jake G so this one was pretty good. The story was a little forced at times but overall well made and acted. 8/10 [/QUOTE] sorry but i couldnt not point this out [editline]d[/editline] it's extraordinarily bad

[QUOTE=Rofl_copter;49716959]sorry but i couldnt not point this out[/QUOTE] And? Whats the problem?

The Loft Surprisingly good murder mystery about five men and their mistresses. The only complaint I have is the flashbacks are sporadic and leaves the viewer confused at times to which scene is "now" as oppose to the "last year". Overall, it was easily a 9/10.

[QUOTE=Butthurter;49717560]you on that shit but[/QUOTE] Ill take the rating off that since that implies it's bad because it wasnt. It was an interesting but nothing memorable kinda flat.

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Not sure if this is the right thread to ask, but I'm remembering a scene in a film in which there a shooting inside a church, maybe inside of a confessional booth, but I can't for the life of me remember what it was. Figured it would be worth a try to see if anyone remembers or knows of anything similar.

[QUOTE=Hunterdnrc;49718095]Not sure if this is the right thread to ask, but I'm remembering a scene in a film in which there a shooting inside a church, maybe inside of a confessional booth, but I can't for the life of me remember what it was. Figured it would be worth a try to see if anyone remembers.[/QUOTE] in bruges?

Deadpool - 1/10 Kill me.

[QUOTE=Zuimzado;49718110]Deadpool - 1/10 Kill me.[/QUOTE] haha what really you're gonna need to delve into this

[QUOTE=Rofl_copter;49718116]haha what you're gonna need to delve into this[/QUOTE] I had hopes, my friend. I had high hopes. I thought to myself "maybe this time they'll go for quality over quantity, maybe this time they'll use the humor to further enhance his tragic backstory, maybe they'll tell a story worth a damn". Nope. Further thoughts from [url=https://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1478066&p=49718068&viewfull=1#post49718068]the MCU thread.[/url] [quote]Deadpool is the cinematic equivalent of that thirteen year old boy who just found out about sex and thinks its the most hilarious thing in the world. I can say with certainty that 90% of the jokes in this movie are low brow humor of the lowest kind. And that's not to say low brow humor is instantly bad, because some of these jokes do land (mostly thanks to the MVP of the movie, TJ Miller), but dear god does it gets fucking boring the fifth time he's making an analogy to sex. There are no characters here, there are only joke machines, unnecessary and fruitless cameos or one-dimensional fuck fantasies. That's right, fuck fantasies. The female characters in this movie are a joke: Vanessa is nothing more than another 'THE PERFECT WOMAN WHO LIKES FOOTBALL AND MAKES STAR WARS JOKES and also has no relevant character traits and just accepts whatever the main male protagonist does and becomes a damsel in distress' and Angel has one line in the entire movie. There is the minor exception of Teenage Warhead and Blind Al, but the problem is that one of them's very one note (for the two good jokes Teenage Warhead gets, she amounts to a big fat pile of nothing) and the other is a double standard (it's okay for Deadpool to joke about masturbating himself every goddamn second, but when the old black lady talks about sex, it's gross! ewww pewww!11!) Maturity is nowhere to be seen, except in the character of Colossus, who gets a big fat dump in his head. He's the only adult in the movie (maybe with the exception of the cab driver, who is Indian of course) and he's there just so Deadpool can make the same 'HA HA HIS PENIS IS METAL TOO' joke over and over and so the movie can just laugh at the fact he has morals and wants Deadpool to be a better person. The movie also commits that classic mistake of pointing out cliches... and then doing them with a straight face. There's a scene where Wade Wilson remarks that he wants to learn more about Vanessa so she's 'not just an objectified Hollywood female character', but that's all she is. There's a dig in the opening credits about there being a British villain, but I'm pretty sure that's the only characteristic of the bad guy (there's this awful attempt at making a recurring leitmotif or something out of his name but it just comes off as hollow). Oh yeah, here's the big great problem behind Deadpool: for all its incessant joking (I get it, the guy does not shut up, I guess I can't blame anyone but me for walking into that one) and fourth wall 'breaking' (which usually amounts to him making casually stupid and unfunny remarks to the camera with the occasional dig at FOX's nigh-idiotic handling of the franchise), the movie's just another by-the-numbers origin story complete with a big finale that destroys everything and ends with a romantic moment. Except whilst those other movies had to create characters so that the romantic moment feels rewarding, Deadpool can just make a joke about how he's gonna have sex later. It's annoying, it's degrading to anyone who isn't a straight male (the amount of 'suck my dick' jokes in this movie makes me feel like I stepped back in time to when being gay was considered a shorthand for instant comedy and I'm pretty sure it made a transphobic joke) and it feels like the entire genre is taking seventeen thousand steps back with every minute of this godforsaken cesspool. I'll say two good things: the action scenes are interesting and capture the frenetic action of Deadpool in the comics (although like most action movies these days they border on chaotic and are almost impossible to follow) and the movie has ONE SEQUENCE where it manages to tap into the tragic nature of Deadpool's character. Coincidentally, its the one sequence where he doesn't open his mouth. I'm pretty sure if you tried to pass off this movie as the result of a youtube sketch group trying to take a crack at a motion picture, everyone would believe you. Even with the special effects, because there are MANY instances of everyone looking plastic as fuck. In the end, every attempt at character development or making this movie about Deadpool the character and not Deadpool the blight that has spread over the internet feels incredibly hollow because Deadpool (both the movie and the character) just doesn't shut the fuck UP. (The post-credits sequence is awful too. It started off as a cool reference and ended up turning into what felt like Ryan Reynolds and everyone at FOX throwing a morsel to the hungry crowds of idiotic fans who'll bite at anything regardless of quality. [sp] It's literally him saying the next one will have Cable. Fuck you. [/sp] Oh yeah, don't worry about spoilers: this is the most generic origin story you've ever seen out there. Think about every plot point that has been done before and it's in this movie. For all the winking, it's incredibly unoriginal.) [/quote]