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

[QUOTE=cardfan212;43445640][B]Gamera: Guardian of the Universe[/B] For those who don't know, since Godzilla is the King of the Monsters, Gamera is kind of like the Duke of the Monsters. Not quite as well known, but not unimportant. The original Gamera series was light-hearted and aimed at children. However, the reboot trilogy was much more serious. Which series is better is subjective. As for this movie, it is the first of the reboot trilogy. It follows the standard kaiju movie pattern with the people, the scientists, the military, you know the drill. The acting was good as far as I can tell (I don't know Japanese so I can't tell too well)(also can't judge the dubbing because I watched with subtitles). The costume design and the miniature sets look amazing. I really wish Toho would stop being lazy and give the Godzilla films a Blu-Ray release because kaiju movies in 1080p with 5.1 surround are awesome. Gyaos is a pretty cool kaiju, comparable to Rodan. The little bits of CGI and green screen held up mostly well. There were only a couple of parts that looked absolutely terrible. Overall if you want a good, fun monster movie, check it out.[/QUOTE] I've been meaning to give Gamera a try. The closest I've gotten were the Mystery Science Theater 3000 episodes that featured the first series.

[QUOTE=Xenomoose;43445827]I've been meaning to give Gamera a try. The closest I've gotten were the Mystery Science Theater 3000 episodes that featured the first series.[/QUOTE] Definitely do it. I've always been a Godzilla guy, with this being my first Gamera movie, and it was really enjoyable.

Crystal Fairy (& The Magical Cactus): 8/10 A rather unknown movie that showed up on Netflix starring Michael Cera. Mainly focuses on Cera's character and the person known as "Crystal Fairy". The actors portray their roles fairly accurately in this film about the search for a quest for a cactus high. Cera's standard awkwardness plays a good role in his position as a passive-aggressive asshole in this movie. There's a large amount of nudity in this movie, but what I like is how un-sexualized it is, focusing more on the idea of "hippy" spirituality rather than "lulz titties". It isn't for everyone, but I definitely recommend checking this film out.

Rise of the zombies 5/10 It's a corny, derivative zombie film, but still fun to watch. The story was unfocused with not much resolution. In traditional horror film, most of the cast gets killed off, but make it seem pointless. I mean, why give each character a story if they're just gonna die. Biggest complaint is the Danny Trejo and Levar Burton, weren't used as effectively as they should have been. Especially Danny Trejo. It's like the film makers just wanted to waste this B movie cult classic action hero.

I just saw Olympus Has Fallen. URRRRRRRRGHHH I don't even know what to say about this. There were elements I really liked but I also fucking [I]hated[/I] parts of it. I'll fully rant about it later, first my mind needs rest from the ridiculousness of it all

[QUOTE=Morbo!!!;43454529]I just saw Olympus Has Fallen. URRRRRRRRGHHH I don't even know what to say about this. There were elements I really liked but I also fucking [I]hated[/I] parts of it. I'll fully rant about it later, first my mind needs rest from the ridiculousness of it all[/QUOTE] tbh i found white house down much more bearable

[B]Hunger (2009)[/B] Steve McQueen has made a great film with Shame and here comes another one. What I do have issue with however is the way his topic is handled. IRA prisoners decide to fight back over conditions in the prison, much of which is a result of their refusal to obey the structure and rules of their jailtime. The style and brutal honesty of the film makes McQueens skills a cut above his contempories but to even suggest these animals were justified in their demands is outrageous. Bobby Sands and 9 other men [sp]starved themselves to death and as far as I'm concerned the world is a better place without them.[/sp] Michael Fassbender and support provide spellbinding performances but the way these men's stories are told I have deep issues with. This film is a great watch but don't allow history revisionists to make you think these men were martyrs, they were men who killed innocent people. [highlight](User was permabanned for this post ("alt of jewdozer" - Rusty100))[/highlight]

I was just talking to my friend who I thought was pretty into movies. I said I was looking forward to the new Sin City. He didn't know what I was talking about. He has never heard of Sin City. i dont even

This just in, not everyone has heard of every movie of all time, let alone watched it Now you have an opportunity to share the glory that is Sin City with him

And hopefully the second one won't suck. [editline]8th January 2014[/editline] One thing that bothers me about Sin City is Jessica Alba. I dunno, she just gets worse every time I see her in it.

So is there a definitive date when Sin City 2 will be released? It's been ages since I've heard about it.

I heard it was August 22, 2014.

Scarface - 7/10 An entertaining and styish story, it's easy to see how this was loved back in the day... but i'm not sure it still holds up as a classic, seemed to keep stopping and starting to me. still damn good.

[QUOTE=HammerBrute;43461041]seemed to keep stopping and starting to me[/QUOTE] Was something wrong with your movie player? Seriously though, would it be possible for you to expand on that? Did the film's pacing really feel that off and abrupt?

Holy fuck the CG in A New Hope is bad. I now understand why everyone hates Lucas so much.

Man of Steel 3/10 Y'know, when people told me I would probably find it underwhelming, I corrected my expectations. To no avail, sadly. I wasn't expecting this movie to be so fucking shit. The cinematography is nauseating at times, the dialogue is utterly laughable, the characters are either bland, stupid or both (Jonathan Kent, fuck you so much), nothing makes any sense, it's a trainwreck. Especially when I almost sympathized with Zod, YOUR VILLAIN, and found him more interesting than the hero! I like Michael Shannon's portrayal of Zod, as schizophrenic as it may be. A man who has found what is the last hope for his home planet and desperately clings to it. The means truly justify the end in his opinion. Part of that is probably because he has more development than Superman himself. We are given a reason, we get backstory, we know why Zod is the man he is and what he does. The guy had his home planet explode before his eyes and the amount of Kryptonians can now practically be counted on one hand. His methods are extreme because the man is completely and utterly broken but his intentions are good (disregarding his plan to[sp]terraform the earth[/sp]that has so many fucking holes in it it's not even funny). Superman is a bit of a blank slate. I just can't really find myself cheering for the guy because I didn't really feel compelled to side with him other than the movie telling me to. Only go see this if you want a 2-hour class on how not to write dialogue.

I can't find a single good thing about[sp]Jonathan Kent's death[/sp] Just...why? You just made the single best father in American superhero comics into...that. The only people I've found who really liked him in MOS are just die-hard Superman fans who try to defend single little thing about the Modern Superman mythos, no matter how bad it gets.

[QUOTE=kimchimafia;43461052]Did the film's pacing really feel that off and abrupt?[/QUOTE] Maybe it's just me, being spoiled by modern movies that keep you constantly on your seat, but yeah.

lol go watch transformers pleb

[QUOTE=mikeyt493;43409213]Like my mum got me into Lars von Trier and recommended films like Dogtooth[/QUOTE] caw that's great.. my dad got me into westerns, really long films and old black and white comedies from a young age, will always appreciate that. When I have kids, I'm gonna lead them through the good stuff and avoid the alvin chipmunk crap being fed to people these days.

Some christmas movie with Nick Cage and Don Cheadle. Was alright, 7/10. Ending seemed rushed, he ran to the airport and made his giant love confession then it played the credits over them having coffee.

Diamonds Are Forever 3/5 Undoubtably Connery's worst Bond film, and an unfortunate harbinger of what's to come. The first half of the film was pretty dull, with the opening scene killing the Blofeld double being the exception. The two gay hitmen just came off as campy, the acting was uninspired in some scenes, and Blofeld dressed in drag was too weird (although, because he was being played by an actor from You Only Live Twice and Rocky Horror, it came off as oddly humorous). On the bright side, the last half of the film picked up and made it vaguely redeemable.

Anchorman 2 It was okay. 70% of the jokes felt forced and fell flat as a result. Also it was way too long. 5/10

Attack the Block 8/10 Really fun watch. I really liked the use of strong color. My favorite thing however was that most of the movie was about just a handful of people dealing with something that really shouldn't be handled by a handful of people. I'm a sucker for contained stories. The simplicity of the alien's design made them unique and fun to watch shift around the darkness on screen like moving shadows. There were a couple of cliche scenes [sp]such as the peephole jumpscare thing and the "You don't have to do this/yes I do" near the end[/sp] but they weren't so bad as to take you out of the film. It was very entertaining. [editline]8th January 2014[/editline] Haha yeah this is funny I guess? Okay

I wanna come back to Man of Steel for a moment. To be more specific, Zod's plan because it almost physically hurts at how fucking retarded Zod executes it. [sp]Zod wants to find a new planet to recreate Krypton and use the World Engine to do so. Furthermore, he'll need the Codex (embedded in Superman's blood) to get it inhabited. If that's the case, why, oh why, oh FUCKING WHY does he insist on destroying the planet Superman calls home and yet still wants him to co-operate? It's like walking into your neighbor's house and saying 'yo i wanna nuke the hood and build myself a mansion but I'll need your help to build it, whatcha say'. It makes no fucking sense. He doesn't necessarily NEED Earth. We're already shown that the World Engine flattens any existing structures, kills any wildlife and alters the atmosphere, acting like a gigantic eraser on the sheet of paper that is the planet. There is NOTHING Earth has that is essential to his plan besides Superman who would probably be way more willing to help if you wanted to, say, terraform Mars. I've heard people say 'but they want powers like Superman' but that doesn't work either. Zod specifically mentions it's the proximity to our sun and parts of Earth's atmosphere that gave him such Herculean strength. If he's going to terraform Earth, there's no atmosphere to influence your powers. And Earth isn't known as 'the third rock from the sun' for giggles. Why not terraform Venus or Mercury? The 2 planets closer to the sun and thus the 2 more likely to enhance your powers (assuming you're after them)? And more importantly, 2 planets that don't involve wiping out what your only hope of survival calls home?[/sp] Part of me wants to find out I'm overlooking something, that I fucked something up in this noise because the alternative is that David S. Goyer was drunk as shit when he wrote Man of Steel.

Riddick 6/10 Could have finished the whole plot in a 20 minute action scene.

Did anyone here see The Best Offer? Aka La migliore offerta. I can't tell you anything about the story but damn, that movie blew me away. 10/10 in my eyes. I was surprised since I hadn't heard about it anywhere.

Anything Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer directs turns out to be pure horseshit.

[QUOTE=kimchimafia;43462170]I can't find a single good thing about[sp]Jonathan Kent's death[/sp] Just...why? You just made the single best father in American superhero comics into...that. The only people I've found who really liked him in MOS are just die-hard Superman fans who try to defend single little thing about the Modern Superman mythos, no matter how bad it gets.[/QUOTE] Mark Waid - [URL="http://thrillbent.com/blog/man-of-steel-since-you-asked/"]who had a [I]lot[/I] of problems with the movie[/URL] - liked Jonathan. [QUOTE]And I think you’d be surprised to find that I loved everything about Jonathan Kent. I loved his protectiveness, even when it made him sound like an asshole. (“Maybe.”) And I loved, loved, loved that scene where Clark didn’t save him, because Goyer did something magical–he took two moments that, individually, I would have hated and he welded them together into something amazing. Out of context, I would have hated that Clark said “You’re not my real dad,” or whatever he says right before the tornado. And out of context, I would have loathed that Clark stood by frozen with helplessness as the tornado killed Jonathan. But the reason that beat worked is because Clark had just said “You’re not my dad,” the last real words he said to Pa. Tearful Clark choosing to go against his every instinct in that last second because he had to show his father he trusted him after all, because he had to show Pa that Pa could trust him and that Clark had learned, Clark did love him–that worked for me, hugely. It was a very brave story choice, but it worked. It worked largely on the shoulders of Cavill, who sold it. It worked as a tragic rite of passage. I kinda wish I’d written that scene.[/QUOTE]

love actually - 8/10 absolutely amazing, especially considering how i had zero expectations. has a lot of heart to it. jurassic park - 7.7/10 a little overrated, imo. it was incredible visually, but as a movie it was just "really good", and not as outstanding as people make it out to be. pitch black - 7.5/10 solid, well-made action movie. just gets a slightly lower rating because it didn't feel that special or unique, but i'd definitely recommend it for anyone who hasn't seen it. thor: the dark world - 7/10 better than the first one, and really enjoyable. nice action sequences, great character interactions and a nice addition to the MCU, but as a movie it's nothing spectacular. starship troopers - 8/10 didn't even know this was a paul verhoeven film, what the hell. it has the same charm as his other sci-fi flicks, and that alone makes it a good watch. it's not as campy and it doesn't go crazy as often as the other ones, and while that makes it more consistent imo, i'd take total recall's style over it anyday. still, great movie.