Rate The Last Movie You Watched - April V3 - no tv shows - General

there literally no enjoyment to be found in either machete movies. its completely devoid of anything to enjoy. [editline]8th December 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=TheFilmSlacker;43099394]Machete was so boring that I didn't bother with Machete Kills. Hobo With A Shotgun was a better movie than Machete, and it still wasn't amazing. It just got the Grindhouse formula down better. Planet Terror's still my favorite.[/QUOTE] i loved Hobo though

So I saw Hunger Games 2. I would give it about 6/10. Definitely better than the first but the love element is a bit distracting. I feel this way because they try to combine a nation conflict and love between two guys and as a result both storylines aren't given enough time. If I wasn't invited to both of these movies I'd probably never saw them. On the plus side they are definitely better than Twilight films which I have to quit after few minutes.

[QUOTE=mikeyt493;43099382]i actually rank Rodgriguez pretty highly. I think Rodriguez did well with the first Machete but Kills was yea not as good. I still thought it was fun and enjoyable but basically because it fell into its own trap of being legitimately bad but enjoyable because of that. The first Machete pulled off the whole parodying-bad-films-by-being-bad thing imo though. I think that you gotta respect him though whether or not you like him. His DIY ethic, originality and pioneering creativity are worth nothing less than respect regardless of your opinions on his movies. I like Robert Rodriguez as a director and think he's done some cool stuff and I really respect his ethic. The dude is a total icon of independent filmmaking. Even now he has a huge DIY attitude despite being a Hollywood director. (kinda. I'd say he's stayed clear of Hollywood but uses them when he needs to. He can get away with a lot more than most directors, working with Hollywood etc cos I think he knows how to use them) Often getting friends in his films, he does basically everything himself (writes, directs, shoots it himself, edits it himself, scores it himself). El Mariachi brought on waves of low budget indie films and stuff cos Rodriguez basically showed that it could be done when everyone was saying it couldn't. All you need is the right attitude and dedication. I mean, the dude sold his body to science to fund the film. And a whole lot of cost cutting and improvisation. He even wrote a successful book about the production of the film. I don't like the term auteur much as I think it demeans everyone but the director and if a director labels themselves as one they're straight up pretentious but i think Rodriguez is a prime example of a contemporary one. He also pioneered 3D when no one was doing it (I remember seeing Spy Kids 3D in the cinema. I'm sure it was the first time I saw a 3D movie and now 3D is a massive thing. Rodriguez was an influential kickstart to the 3D movement of right now.) Sharkboy and Lavagirl, another Rodriguez film was an early contributor. And with Sin City he pioneered yet another new way of making films- he did zero budget. He did 3d. With Sin City he did the first fully CGI/green screen stage feature film. It had never been done before and it brought on films like Tron: Legacy, Avatar (that's twice he pioneered something leading up to the highest grossing film of all time) etc. Say what you will about his films but the dude is a creative and original force in the filmmaking world and is highly influential even way outside his genre.[/QUOTE] Still, I wish he'd go back to making El Mariachi movies. Desperado and Once Upon a Time in Mexico both kicked ass.

Well, I recently watched We're the Millers and I guess it's an okay movie. Kind of got [I]really[/I] predictable by the end, though.

Much Ado About Nothing (2012) 4/5 Wonderful movie.

The Incredibles. I've managed to forget how much I adore this film, and how many times I've seen it on VHS. About thirty, or so. It was great almost 10 years ago, and still is. But this time I've managed to catch all those little things, little references to many things. I would really love to see a sequel to this, somehow playing on current "dark and serious superhero" trend.

Incredibles is the best Pixar movie.

Not quite a movie but... Bill Cosby: Far From Finished It was a comedy special from Bill Cosby made this year. He's definitely getting up there in age, but he still has total and complete mastery over the audience that you can tell only could come with decades of experience both on and off stage. He still has all the energy he had during his older comedy albums and stand-up specials. It was absolutely hilarious. I would definitely recommend people watch it. I'm not even sure I would classify it as stand-up comedy, he takes it to a level beyond that. I would put him up there with people like Jean Shepherd and Garrison Keillor as one of the all-time great storytellers.

[B]Elysium[/B] Well we needed something rather light and uplifting today as my flatmates dog sadly passed away last night so we put on the pajamas for the day and ate ourselves silly in front of the glass god for comfort. This was just what we needed, a left wing statement against the bourgeois haves who shit on the working class from their thrones. Elysium is no District 9 but it has its moments. Sharlito Copley is fantastic and shows he can do more than 1 character but the rest really was a run of the mill sci-fi with some fancy FX. Just what we needed. Bono, (RIP) (no idea why she named him after the U2 frontman) [highlight](User was permabanned for this post ("alt of jewdozer" - Rusty100))[/highlight]

What was it was saying?..... Oh yes, [B]Elysium[/B] Rather average sci-fi flic with lefty leanings towards a better future where the rich shouldn't be the ones with exclusive access to a better standard of living. Not exactly District 9 but some mindless action sci-fi was just what we needed after our dog died yesterday. Sharlito Coply owns the film. [B]Soldier of Orange (1977)[/B] Paul Verhooven directs Rutger Hauer in the wartime tale of spies and espionage. Its quite a run of the mill TV drama style with very little excitement in it. Theres much better films like this such as Max Manus and Verhooven's other film called Black Book. [highlight](User was permabanned for this post ("alt of jewdozer" - Rusty100))[/highlight]

yeah, i didn't really like Elysium. Felt preachy. The Incredibles - Rewatched it after I saw it mentioned in this thread. Personally, my favourite Pixar film other than the Toy Story series. Love the 60's vibe.

[B]Riddick[/B] - 5/10... I can't believe that I was hyped for this. Awful awful awful awwwwwful dialogue, it was just scene after scene of Vin Diesel being a badass with everyone getting excited over it, and it really felt like a retread of Pitch Black. The opening, before the mercs arrived, was pretty cool that's about it. Also Katee Sackhoff boobies. Where the Necromongers at? I don't even care if their existence was ridiculous, it was damn cool and I really was hoping we'd see more of Riddick as Space Conan.

[B]Prisoners[/B] Jesus christ holy fuck. That was some heavy shit. Seriously was not expecting that. While this is going to sound stupid, I knew nothing about the movie prior to watching it and I was expecting a movie about an actual prison, akin to Shawshank or Green Mile or something. After watching this my day went from blissfully idle day, I am now fairly depressed. Truly awe-inspiring and award-warranting acting from the entire cast, Jackman and Gyllenhaal in particular. It's a rather simple movie but it really was perfectly played out. The cinematography was easy on the eyes and did an excellent job of immersing you in the movie and in the characters. It's very eerie when it wants to be, but also heart-wrenching and terrifying. This story struck home with me because years ago when I was a young kid, a kid in Houston had been taken and I vaguely remember seeing it all over the news. For those who wanted to know they still haven't found him. To describe the movie, I don't want to say it was terrific or amazing or incredible because for me, such adjectives create a positive connotation on the subject matter and I don't want to do that. So for lack of a better word, the movie was good. Probably among the top two or three in 2013 for sure.

Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox A pretty enjoyable movie, though it's very dark as far as DC animated films go. It's about as dark as Dark Knight Returns. Barry Allen, the Flash, wakes up in an alternate timeline. In this new timeline, Aquaman and Wonder Woman and the forces of Atlantis and Themyscira are locked in World War 3, Superman is nowhere to be found, Hal Jordan never becomes the Green Lantern, and Cyborg is the world's most famous hero, among many other things. Even Batman is drastically different, being totally unafraid to use guns and having no reservations about killing. Flash must figure out exactly what caused the timeline to change so drastically before the war causes the ultimate destruction of the planet. The movie was pretty entertaining but it's DC Universe; the movie won't be terribly deep and is mostly just an entertaining ride, as expected. Seeing how all the characters have changed is exciting, however. Especially Batman's new origin story is an exciting twist on the classic "Joe Chill in an alleyway" story that we've come to know. I'd recommend it to the DC Universe fan, especially those who are fans of The Flash or Batman.

I'd say Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox is the darkest DC animated film by far. In The Dark Knight Returns, you don't see the same amount of violence and destruction as much as Flashpoint Paradox. Also, none of the superheroes in TDKR are as fucked up as Aquaman and Wonder Woman in Flashpoint. People who are fans of the JLU Wally West Flash are probably gonna be disappointed with Barry Allen Flash.

Elyisum - 7/10 I actually liked it. Sharlto Copley stole the show though with his brilliant performance. I thought the ending was too dramatic and Matt Damon was overacting at times.

[QUOTE=kimchimafia;43109436]I'd say Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox is the darkest DC animated film by far. In The Dark Knight Returns, you don't see the same amount of violence and destruction as much as Flashpoint Paradox. Also, none of the superheroes in TDKR are as fucked up as Aquaman and Wonder Woman in Flashpoint. People who are fans of the JLU Wally West Flash are probably gonna be disappointed with Barry Allen Flash.[/QUOTE] It was very uncanny seeing Wonder Woman and Aquaman, of all people, being such monsters on account of some [sp]Shakespearean romantic tragedy.[/sp]

[QUOTE=SGTNAPALM;43109543]It was very uncanny seeing Wonder Woman and Aquaman, of all people, being such monsters on account of some [sp]Shakespearean romantic tragedy.[/sp][/QUOTE] Yeah exactly. It was so weird, seeing Wonder Woman[sp]chopping off Mera's head and then wearing her crown as a trophy. Like Jesus fucking Christ, Diana just brutally killed the wife of Aquaman (one of the most under-rated generally well written romances in superhero comics) by decapitating her and then sending her corpse to Aquaman. She also brutally chokes Steve Trevor to death, her original love interest and then also slits Billy's throat. And oh yeah, hundreds of millions are dead. Imagine if in TDKR Superman waged war against the world and choked Lois Lane to death. As much as I didn't like Miller's Superman, at least he was kinda in character and Batman, as gloomy and grumpy as he is, still couldn't bring himself to kill the Joker.[/sp]

[QUOTE=kimchimafia;43109601]Yeah exactly. It was so weird, seeing Wonder Woman[sp]chopping off Mera's head and then wearing her crown as a trophy. Like Jesus fucking Christ, Diana just brutally killed the wife of Aquaman (one of the most under-rated generally well written romances in superhero comics) by decapitating her and then sending her corpse to Aquaman. She also brutally chokes Steve Trevor to death, her original love interest and then also slits Billy's throat. And oh yeah, hundreds of millions are dead. Imagine if in TDKR Superman waged war against the world and choked Lois Lane to death. As much as I didn't like Miller's Superman, at least he was kinda in character and Batman, as gloomy and grumpy as he is, still couldn't bring himself to kill the Joker.[/sp][/QUOTE] [sp]I was more impressed that Wonder Woman was able to defeat Captain Marvel in a straight up no-holds-barred fight. I've always considered Captain Marvel to be Superman-tier in terms of strength, maybe even a little bit above. The lasso move was brilliant. Then when she just slits Billy's throat. Murdering a child is basically the lowest a person could fall in these types of things.[/sp]

[QUOTE=SGTNAPALM;43109637][sp]I was more impressed that Wonder Woman was able to defeat Captain Marvel in a straight up no-holds-barred fight. I've always considered Captain Marvel to be Superman-tier in terms of strength, maybe even a little bit above. The lasso move was brilliant. Then when she just slits Billy's throat, which is basically the lowest a person could fall in these types of things.[/sp][/QUOTE] DC always has this thing against Captain Marvel due to the interesting fact that Captain Marvel easily outsold Superman and Batman in the 40s. He was not only more popular than Superman back then but he was also more powerful. The only reason why he generally lost popularity is because DC claimed a copy right infringement suit by saying that he was a ripoff from Superman in like 1953 I think which forced Fawcett to stop publishing Captain Marvel comics. Since then DC nearly always makes it clear that Superman is the 'more powerful' character. But yeah it was strange seeing[sp]Wonder Woman rather handily beating Captain Marvel/Captain Thunder. He seems to be the butt-monkey of the DC universe these days, like that time in Injustice when Superman casually murders Billy with freeze-breath and heat vision.[/sp]

just watched akira first reaction "guys, we just survived a fucking singularity!, lets go get some fucking food cas apparently not even a black-hole can stop us now!" i mean most of the movie is great just frantic running around, the end is just a game of bringing bigger and bigger guns vs superman, the catch, they have really really big guns oh also theres a scientist who has one hell of a powerpoint graph that makes very little sense throughout most of the movie and he just sits there stareing at it like it explains everything when its just a bunch of dancing lights

[QUOTE=SGTNAPALM;43109248]Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox It's about as dark as Dark Knight Returns.[/QUOTE] ahahahahahahaha no dkr is scraping the surface of dark flashpoint paradox is much darker [I]You could have stopped Hitler.[/I] *gunshot to the forehead* Yeah, definitely darker than DKR.

Seems like a pretty trivial thing to get annoyed about but sure. Also, spoilers.

[B]Pacific Rim[/B] - 4/5 [IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f3/Pacific_Rim_FilmPoster.jpeg[/IMG] Third time seeing it and it's still great. Tons of fun, with great style and design. You can tell a lot of heart was put into it, and the result is a very enjoyable movie. Shame we'll never see the extended version, though..

[QUOTE=Corndog Ninja;43110665] Shame we'll never see the extended version, though..[/QUOTE] What?

so i saw few great movies in the past few days Inside Llewyn Davis - 8.2/10 It's a very very solid movie, it really knows what its doing and has its own thing going, which can be expected from coen brothers. It's funny and witty and everytime a song started everyone in the theatre got as silent as a mouse and watched the awesome performance of Oscar Isaac and the occasional Justin Timberlake with Carey Mulligan, i want to honestly rewatch it just for the music. other than that it felt like some characters didnt get enough screentime and felt left away after the movie ended, but maybe thats just the way the movie is. The movie is essentially about the adventure and struggle of Llewyn Davis anyways. suck it Les Miserables Captain Phillips - 7.6/10 Now i dont know if i should rate this because i fell asleep in the middle and missed maybe 5-15 minutes of the movie, even though the best part was the ending hands down. One thing I liked is how even though Tom Hanks was really the only actor carrying the movie forward (he was fuckin great), they did it in such a way that the other actors all had their screentime and really felt like they were a part of the story too. But yea like i said the climax was just 10/10 A+ great, literally everyone in the theatre was shocked and i even heard some guy go "holy fuck" next to me.' Great movie, maybe not as good and realistic as Kapringen but i'm not sure of that right now and thats why im gonna rewatch kapringen some time soon. I also saw My Left Foot - 7.8/10 Daniel Day-Lewis plays Christy Brown, a guy with cerebral palsy who became a painter and writer. I've always liked movies where the main actor/actress plays a physically or mentally defect character because it really shows a different angle of the performance than in a normal movie with a normal character. and of course DDL nailed it and won an oscar for this. I liked how it wasn't a plain heartwarming story about a super nice guy who became famous, because he really was a dick to others sometimes which was funny as hell, especially the dinner scene

[b]Elysium[/b] Well our dog died a couple of nights back so we needed something simple and mindless as a distraction. Elysium is a very left wing story attacking the class system where the future has 2 distinct worlds. The first half was good but as the movie progresses it just became the same old sci-fi shit we've seen before. Shalito Copley stole the whole thing with a very different role to district 9. It passed the time which was all it needed to do. [editline]8th December 2013[/editline] [B]Soldier of Orange[/B] Rutger Hauer stars in this Paul Verhooven war time drama about spies and espionage. This was like a tv series put together and it was very average. Theres been some great films about the occupation of European countries and the local resistance like Max Manus and Verhoovens great Black Book. This just seems to tread water with very little to tell. [b]Waltz with Bashir (2008) Israeli meets with fellow soldiers who fought with him in the Lebanon conflict in the early 80's to help him fill in the mental blanks about what actually happened. This one is an animation over the actual recorded chatter between the man who the film focuses on and his fellow servicemen from the time. [b]Lebanon[/b] one and half hours inside a tank during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon. for me it was ok but nothing too special. 4 crew are a bit green but soon understand the reality of war. [b]Broken Circle Breakdown[/b] Belgian copy of Blue Valentine with a different backdrop and added ingregients. The film has some generic predictables but the 2 leads lifted the film to a better place than the director was able to. Bluegrass music is a central theme. Sex scenes were very good. [B]Entre les murs (2008)[/B] Theres been a good few films about classes full of dead end pupils lead by inspirational teachers with varying degrees of honesty. The Adriend Brody and Ryan Gosling movies are 2 excellent examples but this French film is pure art. Art is supposed to reflect life and this is why its so damn good because its totally honest in the way it tells its story and how the characters exist in the narrative. No soundtrack, no melodrama and no massive story as such, just great honest characters. The actors reveal so much about their motivations and the narrative reveals much about the balance of power between class and teacher and how a teacher keeps control. What comes across is the utter hopelessness of a section of society that has no aspirations or care for themselves. The second to last scene is subtle but extremely revealing and powerful in terms of how these kids think and I was blown away. The presentation was similar to the other French film 'A Prophet' because that also sidelined the usual pointless bullshit that clouds a great film. [b]Polytechnique[/b] This is a French Canadian film that tells the real story of the woman hating loser who went to school one day to kill as many girls as he could. Its directed by the brilliant Dennis Villeneuve who gave us Incendes and Prisoners. The dialog is virtually absent so the faces and actions do most of the talking so this can be a bit slow. The whole lot is in black and white so the red stuff doesn't upset the families of the victims. Personally I didn't really like this film because there seemed to be too much focus on nothing and that nothing didn't build anything. What I did see was a prelude to greater things though.

Watched Jackie Bron yesterday, 8/10 bretty good.

Watched Don Jon I'd say 8/10, smartly written, a bit messy on the flow of the story and a really ballsy ending, amazing acting by JGL.

[QUOTE=GeneralSpecific;43110676]What?[/QUOTE] Del Toro had to cut about an hour and a half from it. From what I understand, it was extra characterization that ended up not being totally necessary.