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

Rewatched Godfather part 1 and part 2. Great movies, I absolutely love them. I couldn't bother go through the third one again. I don't wanna be rude, but Sofia Coppola sucks :/

its not rude she is a horrific actress [editline]14th December 2013[/editline] I dont get her at all as a director either outside of Lost in Translation. Shes very very very boring.

[QUOTE=Swebonny;43181085]Rewatched Godfather part 1 and part 2. Great movies, I absolutely love them. I couldn't bother go through the third one again. I don't wanna be rude, but Sofia Coppola sucks :/[/QUOTE] she's just not an actress at all, it was kind of unfair of Coppola to cast her in such a huge role when she had no experience. It wasn't THAT bad, but it didn't bring the film much good.. [editline]14th December 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=mikeyt493;43181101]its not rude she is a horrific actress [editline]14th December 2013[/editline] I dont get her at all as a director either outside of Lost in Translation. Shes very very very boring.[/QUOTE] Surprised you didn't like Virgin Suicides. And yeah... Somewhere isn't a film I'd announce for people to watch, it's quite a personal little flick which I enjoyed tbh

yeah she's not an actress and I don't know why she was cast, maybe cos she's his daughter. It a bad choice from everyone really. Also yeah I wanted to like The Virgin Suicides but I felt like it was far less interesting than it thought it was and its objective view was super dull (although that view worked wonders in LiT). I enjoyed the kinda fantasy/mystery around the girls a lot though, and the whole taboo thing surrounding them. I don't necessarily think the problem is with Coppola though and maybe more me for not connecting. I think it's the kind of film where you need to make that connection to the film early on to enjoy it. [editline]14th December 2013[/editline] It reminds me of Broken Flowers, a film I almost hated and did not enjoy at all. However I can't say I hated it because I think I simply missed the film and didn't connect like it wanted me to. I guess I could fault the film for not drawing me in but I think it's on my end.

I wonder if in 1983 people were saying: "Why remaking Scarface, it's unnecessary, original from 1932 was great as it is". Or one year earlier about The Thing. Or True Grit few years ago. I'm not saying that every reboot is amazing, no, 90% of them sucks really hard. But I'm impressed how y'all are reacting so negatively, without knowing absolutely nothing about it. [sp]The exception is upcoming Naked Gun remake, but it's impossible to remake that style of humor and make it appealing to modern audience. Plus, with Ed Helms being the new Leslie Nielsen and "Night of the Museum" writers on board, you know you shouldn't expect anything watchable.[/sp]

[QUOTE=mikeyt493;43181101]its not rude she is a horrific actress [editline]14th December 2013[/editline] I dont get her at all as a director either outside of Lost in Translation. Shes very very very boring.[/QUOTE] yeah, Bling Ring was just basic bitch spring breakers, it was trying to capture the whole disaffected teenage criminality but it was just so dull to look at

dang I loved Broken Flowers too :v: It's the kind of independent film I'd just grab and watch in the early hours of the morning. Same with the film Terri which was really good.

[QUOTE=mikeyt493;43181164]yeah she's not an actress and I don't know why she was cast, maybe cos she's his daughter. It a bad choice from everyone really. [/QUOTE] Winona Ryder was going to be cast first, but she had something like a mental breakdown and couldn't commit (I guess it was very last minute). Coppola needed someone, so he cast his daughter, not to mention the fact that he really wanted to keep his family involved with the project.

[QUOTE=Rusty100;43179750]i am automatically saying no to a reboot. the original is fantastic. [editline]15th December 2013[/editline] t1 and 2 are among movies that should absolutely never be remade or touched again.[/QUOTE] Another thing is, who thinks they can top the movies? I mean, T1 is dated to be sure, but even if you can't look past the dance clubs and walk-mans and big hair the movie is still fantastic. Whoever they cast as the Terminator is going to have the BIGGEST shoes to fill - the Terminator is arguably Arnold's most famous role, and he's one of the most famous action stars. It'd be like remaking [I]Rocky.[/I] And even if Arnold [I]does[/I] return, he's 66 now; he plays characters who are old. Heck, you could tell he'd aged between [I]The Terminator[/I] (37) and [I]Terminator 2[/I] (44). I think in one of the novels they meet the man who the Terminators are eventually modeled after (this was before T3, so it's not that Texan dude) so maybe he could show up there. I have heard rumors that they were considering a [I]Superman Returns[/I]-like sequel, where they keep some of the older ones but spin off partway through. I think that'd be the best idea, although "best" is a relative term.

[B]I served the king of England (2008)[/B] A rather quirky Czech film about a man who works his way up through the hotels as a waiter and sees the lives of the rich and powerful. This was fantastic. The score was one of the best I've experienced and reminded me much of the silent film scores that just keep chugging along with the narrative. The lead from Ivan Barnev also nods towards the silent stars as his performance has little dialog but much of the bemused style of Chaplin and Keaton. The performances were wonderful and the sets worked for the time they were supposed to portray. Julia Jentsch makes an appearance as a fanatical German in occupied Czech and gives the film a needed change of pace. This is an excellent film and will entertain even the hardest of customers. [highlight](User was permabanned for this post ("jewdozer" - Rusty100))[/highlight]

[B]The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug: 7/10[/B] It was decent, but I just couldn't really get excited during any of that parts that were supposed to be exciting. Every scene felt like they could have been cut down by 2/3rds if not cut out completely. The "climactic" scene where [sp]Bilbo and the Dwarves fight Smaug inside the halls of Erebor[/sp] is a good example, because it was mostly the protagonists running around before coming up with a plan. That whole sequence was way too long. My biggest beef with the movie, however, was the blatant cliffhanger at the end. At least with the Lord Of The Rings movies, they end AFTER the most exciting part is over and we're given a few scenes to calm down while still giving you the knowledge that the adventure has yet to end. In this movie, [sp]Smaug gets angry at the Dwarves arrogance, flies off to take his anger out on Laketown, Bilbo goes "What have we done?"[/sp]... And then the movie ends. It's the biggest case of blue balls in the history of cinema. I mean, with that said, I still liked the movie, but I felt WAY more excited watching the trailer for Godzilla that was shown beforehand than I did at any point in this movie. It's just not a good theater-experience. More of a "curled up on the couch with a blanket at night" experience.

It seems like there are a lot of movies nowadays that are one story broken up into multiple films - New Moon, Mockingjay, The Dark Knight Returns, The Hobbit.. I wonder how we'll remember them in the future. Will they still be sold separately or bundled together? Will people watch just one or both back-to-back? I mean, series like Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, or Back to the Future are very clearly sequential parts of an overarching story, but they can stand just fine on their own.

The Fellowship of the Ring (Extended Edition) - 8/10 Watched it with my bro. We've never seen the extended editions before, so we're gonna go through the trilogy again.

Just finished with The World's End. Fairly solid movie, though not ever even comparable to the others. Ending was rubbish though. Bunch more movies to go woo

[B]Brotherhood of war (2004)[/B] An overdramatised story of 2 brothers foced to fight in the Korean war. FX are top notch and the battle scenes are as good as any big budget blockbuster. The horrors of war and the victims of political extremes are made all too clear when the front line goes up and down on the country's map. The 2 brothers supply a worthy story as a vehicle to tell the account of the Korean war but in some places it did get a bit slow-mo and 'noooooooo' but aside from that it was very well done. What I did like was the telling of war crimes committed on both sides which certainly cancels out the propaganda possibilities of such a production. Two and a bit hours but time well spent, this film is very good.

i also just saw it the first 20 minutes or so were bad but the rest was good

[QUOTE=NoNameForEvil;43185024]i wouldn't say it's [i]bad[/i], it just has way too much fluff[/QUOTE] No the dialogue was just terrible. It got better after that though.

Just finished watching [B]Ghost World[/B]. One of those films where I expected to like it, and ended up really connecting deeply with it. It's just one of the forgotten gems of recent years which is just through and through brilliant. Imo Steve Buscemi's best role/performance of his career. As the film begins, I kind of got this sense that these were just kids thinking they know it all and want to pull a few laughs as they make their way into adulthood. But as the film unfolds, it really turns into quite a picture; it becomes a film that really is driven by thought and perception. It's one heck of a performance by Thora Birch, who was in American Beauty, yeah the similarity in her character here kind of draws back to her performance in that. However, here I think she was given a lot more range to really grip us in, I found her role here to be even stronger than her role in American Beauty tbh. I felt like the entire thing was so easy to absorb, you feel as though you're just rolling into their lives casually and added to the fact that the cast alongside were just funny and natural. It did kind of pierce me a few times, when lives go in turmoil at such a young age, it kind of breaks your heart a bit. I don't see everyone getting the same vibe though, since the characters here aren't your average bunch, at all. Scarlett's role here kind of deviates away from what happens to Birch's character, in that she wants normality and stability where as Birch is searching for something within herself and trying to get that peace and harmony with her way of life. On top of being a sweet journey, it's just incredibly funny.. As far as I'm concerned, modern masterpiece m8

[QUOTE=Corndog Ninja;43181885]I have heard rumors that they were considering a [I]Superman Returns[/I]-like sequel, where they keep some of the older ones but spin off partway through. I think that'd be the best idea, although "best" is a relative term.[/QUOTE] Anything related to Superman Returns is a bad idea. EDIT: Then again Superman Returns was clearly a sequel to 'replace' Superman III and IV but it changed lots of other things that was clear in the Donner films (for no reason at all) therefore it's...kinda of a reboot. You have to make it clear and going the Superman Returns route where its not clear if its a sequel or a reboot is a big no no.

Total Recall (1990) 8/10 Pretty enjoyable to watch, my only complaint was Arnold's somewhat robotic acting at times. Also, Sharon Stone is hot as fuck.

[B]California Dreamin' (1999)[/B] The war in Kosovo is raging and Nato troops have a train load of tech material that gets stuck in a Romanian town due to a station master demanding their missing customs papers. The film is basically their couple of days stuck in the town as soldiers in an alien enviroment. This is overlong and a little cheap in places but there are a good deal of stories within the broader picture which are enough to keep the attention. Armande Assante is well cast as an angry American captain who wants to get moving and the rest do just fine. It has a very local feel to it where I'm guessing many of the extras might have been towns folk. Just about worth the watch. Gimmie20, you just keep dumping those dumb ratings, just the fact that my being here bothers you puts a smile on my face until I forget about it which is about.... what was I just saying then?

Pacific Rim: 7/10 Felt like it could've been way better. Why do they keep making these apocalypse/alien war movies PG-13.

[QUOTE=Joz;43181268]I wonder if in 1983 people were saying: "Why remaking Scarface, it's unnecessary, original from 1932 was great as it is". Or one year earlier about The Thing. Or True Grit few years ago. I'm not saying that every reboot is amazing, no, 90% of them sucks really hard. But I'm impressed how y'all are reacting so negatively, without knowing absolutely nothing about it. [sp]The exception is upcoming Naked Gun remake, but it's impossible to remake that style of humor and make it appealing to modern audience. Plus, with Ed Helms being the new Leslie Nielsen and "Night of the Museum" writers on board, you know you shouldn't expect anything watchable.[/sp][/QUOTE] Remaking films from the earlier years of film is good in my books though. With many of the films of that era, they still hadn't quite gotten the formula down. The Thing from the 50s is really just a B-movie now, but John Carpenter's version gave it a great, more serious outlook that is still terrifying today. With The Terminator, it came out when film already had its boots planted. It knew what it was doing, and still works great even today. It doesn't need a remake. [editline]14th December 2013[/editline] With Nosferatu also, I really like the original, don't get me wrong, and it was extremely influential on cinema. However, I find the Herzog version more enjoyable to watch.

Desolation of Smaug - 7.5/10 I can't believe they just Vince Gilliganed us.

[QUOTE=booster;43185890]Pacific Rim: 7/10 Felt like it could've been way better. Why do they keep making these apocalypse/alien war movies PG-13.[/QUOTE] PR didn't need a rating higher than PG-13 to be realistic.

[B]Desolation of Smaug[/B] Meh it was okay. Again the overuse of CGI annoys me to no end. Also I can now say that the series has as much to do with the source material as horror movies can say that they are "inspired by true events". Seriously fuck you Peter Jackson

I don't want to bag hard on a movie I haven't seen yet, but from all the trailers of [I]Desolation of Smaug[/I] I've seen, they show a lot of stuff that seems completely out of place. Like, I don't remember Legolas being around. Even though this is a prequel of sorts to LotR, it seems to me like the only reason Legolas is there is because he was in LotR. If they wanted to bring in a character, why did they have to take the cheap-ass route? Is he literally the only elf in the entirety of Middle Earth to have done anything noteworthy?

The Addiction 12/10 Holy fuck. This movie was. was. woah. Vampires in a modern new york, with shots that beutifully throw back neorealism (simulated one, that is) are just the frame of a bigger, deeper thought to the nature of evil and men, to that of addiction and depression. It all beautifully ties together in a spiralling madness that culminates with an ambiguous, almost Pirandellian ending. Melanchonic, misanthropist and macabre are the fist adjective that comes to mind when thinking about this movie. The only negative point I can find is hearing this or that charachter spout philosophical quotes inbetween dialogues can get a little heavy, almost funny so much they're out of place at times. It might also make the movie look pretentous trying so hard to prove it's point. Not to me tho. I was left in awe. My new favourite B-movie ever I'm not even sure you can call it B movie with Cristopher Walken and Lili Taylor in it.

[QUOTE=PollytheParrot;43187885][B]Desolation of Smaug[/B] Meh it was okay. Again the overuse of CGI annoys me to no end. Also I can now say that the series has as much to do with the source material as horror movies can say that they are "inspired by true events". Seriously fuck you Peter Jackson[/QUOTE] I thought they have made very nice decisions by changing stuff from the book and adding things to create the connection to Lord of the Rings. I was quite happy with the changes to the barrel scenes, the roast mutton scene and adding the stuff of Dol Guldur in. Some of the content in the book would have been fucking boring if they had adapted it 1:1. They also made quite many changes to the Lord of the Rings too, it seems like people tend to forget it. Cutting Tom Bombadil. The scene with Boromir is boring and emotional unlike in the movie. The battles were not as well described like they were adapted in the movies.

[B]I served the king of England (2008)[/B] A rather quirky Czech film about a man who works his way up through the hotels as a waiter and sees the lives of the rich and powerful. This was fantastic. The score was one of the best I've experienced and reminded me much of the silent film scores that just keep chugging along with the narrative. The lead from Ivan Barnev also nods towards the silent stars as his performance has little dialog but much of the bemused style of Chaplin and Keaton. The performances were wonderful and the sets worked for the time they were supposed to portray. Julia Jentsch makes an appearance as a fanatical German in occupied Czech and gives the film a needed change of pace. This is an excellent film and will entertain even the hardest of customers. [b]Brotherhood of war (2004)[/b] Over dramatic Korean story of 2 brothers forced to fight in the Korean war. The FX and battlefield scenes were fantastic and the story of these 2 brothers was a good vehicle to tell the story of the Korean war. Some parts were rather over dramatic with the slow-mo and 'nooooo' bits but the overall performances were very good. The horrors of war commited by both sides on the innocent were portrayed well which cancels out any propaganda charges that could be levelled against it. Two and a bit hours mades this a long film but I enjoyed it. [b]California Dreamin' (1999)[/b] Armanda Assente leads a small group of Nato soldiers on a cargo train trying to get tech equipment to Kosovo during the war. The only problem is a station master in Romania won't let them pass through his sleepy village without presenting the correct custom papers so the film is their stay in this tiny town. Plenty of small storys within this film keep it interesting but the overall package is nothing amazing. The extras look like locals inn the village they filmed it so the film does feel very real. Not bad, worth a watch but no classic. [highlight](User was permabanned for this post ("alt of jewdozer" - Rusty100))[/highlight]