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

[QUOTE=Rofl_copter;49034720]fear and loathing is a fun experience even though there's like nothing going on plotwise but i couldnt even make it through brazil[/QUOTE] yes, you don't really get a sense of satisfaction from a concluding plotline, you just get to enjoy the ride which kinda sounds like a bad excuse for a bad plot but idc, i liked it a lot

I honestly really do not like the Fear and Loathing movie, but the book is one of my all-time favorites.

[B]Sicario[/B] I can recommend it but be ready for a very dark movie. I wonder how much of it is based on reality, I don't remember ever hearing about ops like that and I doubt in our world that would fly. Still, very intense movie with solid performances.

[QUOTE=Marden;49035481][B]Sicario[/B] I can recommend it but be ready for a very dark movie. I wonder how much of it is based on reality, I don't remember ever hearing about ops like that and I doubt in our world that would fly. Still, very intense movie with solid performances.[/QUOTE] you don't hear about them because officially they never happened. basically [sp]everything that happened after they go to "texas" is unlisted in any reports, this is why cia "black bag ops" are referred to as such. only whatever happens on american soil is documented. furthermore, juarez really is that terrible of a place that people are killed on a daily basis and just left out there in the streets that everyone has become almost desensitized to it.[/sp]

[B]Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation[/B] I'm a fan of the series, but I'll try to stay unbiased. In short - it was slightly worse than Ghost Protocol, but it was a really fun piece of action flick nonetheless. Ghost Protocol was fresh and in many instances light - the good parts were just happening and the viewer felt like a child during Christmas watching the events unfold. After James Bond series turned into more "James Bourne like" type of spy-action, it was natural to fill the niche left behind - with unbelievable and unreal gadgets, 1 in a billion coincidences and saving the world from comic-book villains with a tint of humour. [i]Rogue Nation[/i] at times tried a little too hard (the only thing missing sometimes was Ethan Hunt's wink to the camera and running in fast-forward). But still, it was a great fun and not even once have I felt boredom. I loved the throwbacks to previous installments, especially first one - from simple things like breaking into an impossible, circular safe with encrypted data, Liverpool Street Station, escaping in costumes of the policemen, or Hunt's codename. Nice touch was finally having a team back ([sp]from the ending credits I really, I really hope that Alec Baldwin will remain as an IMF reporting officer, he fits that role (Jack Ryan,anybody?), though I still hope they'll bring Henry Czerny's Kittridge in some role eventually[/sp]). I hope the sequel will be really, really similar to the original TV series, that would be dope. Oh, and I really like the casting. Maybe it's a complete coincidence that chief of MI6 was played by the guy who previously played a g-man supervising British agencies in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy from 2011, and UK Prime Minister was played by the important minister from In the Loop. Either way, had a quite a chuckle because of that.

[B]Collateral[/B] - 10/10 Michael Mann is swiftly becoming one of my favorite directors. [I]Collateral[/I] is another fantastic film of his. The stakes, plot, and characters are swiftly and deftly laid out, and yet he still manages to keep you guessing on what will happen next. The final act kept me on the edge of my seat as the tension just kept ratcheting up. Stellar performances from Cruise and Foxx. I've also seen [I]Thief[/I] and [I]Heat[/I] - what other Mann movies should I check out?

the last of the mohicans public enemies and the kingdom are ok if you're dying for more

[QUOTE=Corndog Ninja;49038103][B]Collateral[/B] - 10/10 Michael Mann is swiftly becoming one of my favorite directors. [I]Collateral[/I] is another fantastic film of his. The stakes, plot, and characters are swiftly and deftly laid out, and yet he still manages to keep you guessing on what will happen next. The final act kept me on the edge of my seat as the tension just kept ratcheting up. Stellar performances from Cruise and Foxx. I've also seen [I]Thief[/I] and [I]Heat[/I] - what other Mann movies should I check out?[/QUOTE] The Michael Mann is the Man tier list arranged in order of awesome: Fuckin' A tier: Collateral (his best imo), The Insider, Heat, Last of the Mohicans, Thief, Manhunter I've seen better tier: Ali, The Keep, Public Enemies Skip it tier: Miami Vice, Blackhat Apparently he also directed a direct to TV movie called the Jericho Mile in 1979, but it's bloody impossible to find direct to TV movies made before the year 2000. So I don't know how that one stands up, maybe it's his masterpiece and we'll never know.

Cinema Paradiso - 10/10 One of the most beautiful films I've ever seen, especially for fans of film. This one made me tear up at the end.

So, finally, after a few years of putting it off, I finally saw Blue Valentine Pretty sure I'm just going to stay single forever now. This really fucked me up

[B]The Green Inferno [/B] What the fuck. Ok, not the worst horror I've ever seen. The deaths were pretty gruesome and well done, although laughable at times. At least it's pretty original compared to most of the shit this genre pushes out each year. I like the sprinkles of (maybe unintentional) humor, which made it a little more interesting. The whole SJWs aspect was especially hilarious. The only reason to watch this is if you're craving some gore and feel like some B-movie dumbness.

[QUOTE=TheKritter71;49038265]Cinema Paradiso - 10/10 One of the most beautiful films I've ever seen, especially for fans of film. This one made me tear up at the end.[/QUOTE] did you watch the theatrical cut or international cut? international has like an extra 40 min of scenes and whole subplot added back in that makes it an even better film than the theatrical already is. plus, that fucking score.

[QUOTE=KlaseR;49039190][B]The Green Inferno [/B] What the fuck. [/QUOTE] The Green Inferno was pretty bad but it was funny seeing a bunch of people running for the theater exits

[B]Runaway Train[/B] (Andrei Konchalovsky, 1985) 8/10 An underrated and mostly atypical 80s thriller-action. Great cinematography, interesting characters and plot. And the music has a great vibe to it. [video=youtube;_vhMFxAbpBI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vhMFxAbpBI[/video] Great soundtrack.

[b]Boyhood[/b] Interesting idea to have the same people working 12 years in the making, but that's not the cake for me. I got surprised with the feeling that life just happens, like, no great subplot or intricate script to hold you to the story. That's just life and it's series of choices - often bad. Not the greatest thing I've ever seen, but definetely not bad either.

[QUOTE=Chippy1339;49040577][b]Boyhood[/b] Interesting idea to have the same people working 12 years in the making, but that's not the cake for me. I got surprised with the feeling that life just happens, like, no great subplot or intricate script to hold you to the story. That's just life and it's series of choices - often bad. Not the greatest thing I've ever seen, but definetely not bad either.[/QUOTE] The first half was okayish, the second half was mostly garbage.

[QUOTE=matt000024;49041640]The first half was okayish, the second half was mostly garbage.[/QUOTE] Yeah I haven't seen it so I can't say personally, but I heard this movie really sucks, and I take it the gimmick was the only reason critics liked it anyways. Which is a shame, because that is an interesting idea if done properly.

[QUOTE=LSK;49041671]Yeah I haven't seen it, but I heard this movie really sucks, and I take it the gimmick was the only reason critics liked it anyways.[/QUOTE] It wasn't unbearable. As I said, the first half was enjoyable, but partially because it played into nostalgia I think. The second half of the film though had the protagonist terribly written and unintentionally annoying.

Saw Spectre and it's great. Found myself really getting into the fight scenes and chases. Very enjoyable especially at the front row of the cinema I was at.

Fantastic Four: 5.5/10. It was a mess of a movie. Not awful but not great either. I would consider this a dollar rent movie.

[QUOTE=mark6789;49042470]Fantastic Four: 5.5/10. It was a mess of a movie. Not awful but not great either. I would consider this a dollar rent movie.[/QUOTE] Which of the three movies with this title are you referring to?

[QUOTE=teddthebucfan;49042724]Which of the three movies with this title are you referring to?[/QUOTE] The new one. Although, i guess you could put this score on all of them :v:

Spectre: 6/10, wouldn't recommend as a Bond Film. A poor story that's been done in a dozen other thriller movies and it wasn't any good there either.[sp] Forced reasons to globe-hop, overlong and unexciting chase scenes with an over-reliance on A HELICOPTER WHOOOAAAH! References to prior films with all the subtlety of full-force punch to the throat and no real chemistry between Bond and the leading lady. Her character also drastically shifts halfway through the film, putting on a nice dress and suddenly I'm flirting with Bond and ordering "dirty" vodka's, suddenly she's in love! Christoph Waltz really had nothing to do in this film, such a limited script that arbitrarily decides that every death of a major character from prior Craig films was actually masterminded by him. Whooaaaah![/sp]

[QUOTE=mark6789;49042742]The new one. Although, i guess you could put this score on all of them :v:[/QUOTE] It that case you are being far too generous. The new Fantastic Four may very well be the worst movie I have ever paid money to see in a theater. I know all the background of the movie means that it's hard to tell who's responsible for what in the making of this and that it was chopped to hell but it's apparent throughout the finished product that on the whole there was no consistant vision throughout the film. I thought Pan was terrible but I could tell that that movie was trying to be a happy, whimsical story for kids, the finished product of Fantfourstic has no real ideas or themes beyond short segments. For example, the aforementioned behind the scenes problems make it hard to know who really wrote what but you can tell that the direction of this production only had three beats that they wanted to hit in the storyline: the beginning at the school, the middle being the accident (and a big fuck you to the movie for having the ineptness to make the middle be what in a competent script would be start of the rising action), and the end being the final fight. You can tell that is all the ideas that they had for story. They had no idea how to pace it, how to write the characters or what they should be doing or establish relationships that would fill up the bulk of the movie's run time. As a result there are huge forty minute chunks where it feels like nothing at all is happening. I've seen movies like [I]High Noon[/I] where you could say that nothing is happening until the end but [I]High Noon[/I] took that time to establish the stakes of the upcoming event and buildup the villain and establish the characters, all in real time. Fant4stic fails at all of those and has no buildup at all for it's villain so that when he shows up he appears long after the audience has forgotten about him in a script that is so mindnumbingly paced that it feels like we're watching a year long movie in real time. Plus watching this I am constantly taken out of the film by just how obvious it is that this is being shot on a soundstage. Again, I know that most movies are actually shot indoors and not on location but never has it been so glaringly obvious. A rundown of scene locations will go from something like school to house to gym to secret lab to a board room or secret lab to an obvious greenscreen shot to board room to other secret lab. This movie is so bad that you have these epiphanies while watching it as to what went wrong and it's all glaringly obvious how bad the production went. I honestly could go on for hours about how bad it is but I'm already rehashing what I said in the Marvel Movie thread. It's terrible. It's like an unintentional tragedy because all these actors are honestly giving pretty solid performances to such a crappy script where it's apparent that they are the only people involved in it who actually cared. The only thing that remains is to wonder if this film was actually made to be enjoyed by anyone. Oh, it's not the kind of movie where you ask how it got made or who it was made ofr because it's apparent that it was made to hold on to the rights for another few years, but was it made to be enjoyed? Considering how in just about every single department just really did not give a flying fuck about the answer is an emphatic no.

[QUOTE=cyclocius;49042865]Spectre: 6/10, wouldn't recommend as a Bond Film. A poor story that's been done in a dozen other thriller movies and it wasn't any good there either.[sp] Forced reasons to globe-hop, overlong and unexciting chase scenes with an over-reliance on A HELICOPTER WHOOOAAAH! References to prior films with all the subtlety of full-force punch to the throat and no real chemistry between Bond and the leading lady. Her character also drastically shifts halfway through the film, putting on a nice dress and suddenly I'm flirting with Bond and ordering "dirty" vodka's, suddenly she's in love! Christoph Waltz really had nothing to do in this film, such a limited script that arbitrarily decides that every death of a major character from prior Craig films was actually masterminded by him. Whooaaaah![/sp][/QUOTE] Sounds exactly like a bond film to me.

[QUOTE=Scot;49042954]Sounds exactly like a bond film to me.[/QUOTE] I know that I'm repeating what everyone around the world has said in regards to Spectre, but Casino Royale is a great film, IMO it takes all the good parts of classic Bond, makes them better, and sort of shelves the more stupid parts of it. Spectre was pretty mediocre, and Skyfall was beautiful but shallow.

End of Watch Saw this pop up on Netflix today. Pretty amusing film. Good alternation between action and dialogue between the two main characters(which kinda makes it feel like a character study at times) Sometimes it's a bit too "Hollywood-y". The director wanted to pull the audience in more by filming it with handycams and bodycams which works most of the time, but some situations feel a bit too fake and actually detract from the whole reality-show-ish theme. Still a pretty good movie. 7.5/10

[QUOTE=LSK;49041671]Yeah I haven't seen it so I can't say personally, but I heard this movie really sucks, and I take it the gimmick was the only reason critics liked it anyways. Which is a shame, because that is an interesting idea if done properly.[/QUOTE] It's honestly pretty average. If you're going to watch anything Linklater has done, it should be the Before trilogy

[QUOTE=Bathtub;49042972]I know that I'm repeating what everyone around the world has said in regards to Spectre, but Casino Royale is a great film, IMO it takes all the good parts of classic Bond, makes them better, and sort of shelves the more stupid parts of it. Spectre was pretty mediocre, and Skyfall was beautiful but shallow.[/QUOTE] Casino Royale was great, I need to watch it again. Skyfall was decent too but a lot of it was just so.. unmemorable aside from [sp]Scotland.[/sp]

[QUOTE=Pops;49039629]did you watch the theatrical cut or international cut? international has like an extra 40 min of scenes and whole subplot added back in that makes it an even better film than the theatrical already is. plus, that fucking score.[/QUOTE] Theatrical (aka Netflix version), and I do know about the director's cut but to be honest the theatrical cut is a much more better film, it's one of those 'american cuts that beats the international'.