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

I think Terminator 3 was worse than Salvation but they are both horrendous films. Also I can't take any director seriously who goes by the name of McG. what is that shit. Does he not want to be taken seriously? Use yr name stupid (but hes as terrible as he sounds so its whatever I suppose)

[QUOTE=ElectronicG19;43489358]..think about it[/QUOTE] ok you asked for it m8: *thoughts you shat out the blu-rays? [editline]10th January 2014[/editline] also I just discovered Steve Mcqueen is black. :pwn: maybe I got confused is there another Steve Mcqueen?

[B]About Time[/B] Had a good time with this one. Heart warming, funny and had me on the edge of man tears.

Salvation was a giant turd. But the trailer was good.

Do we have a thread that talks specifically about movie trailers?

[QUOTE=UnidentifiedFlyingTard;43491325]Salvation was a giant turd. But the trailer was good.[/QUOTE] Nobody was more hopeful than me after the trailer. It didn't exactly tear me apart how bad it was, since the Bale rant kind of conveyed that noone would get that angry if they were involved in a project that was worthwhile...

Christian Bale kinda helped make is shitty though, since he ordered last minute script changes so he could play John Conner and he wanted more screen time/dialogue. That probably lowered the quality of the script. However I doubt that it was ever stellar.

[b]American Hustle[/b] - I'm conflicted about it. At the beginning it was it was around 6.5, but in the middle it was really solid 8.5 only at the end to go back to 7.0 What was stellar and absolutely incredible was acting. Everyone was awesome, everyone had their Oscarworthy scenes. Christian Bale is a genius. If on some award shows there's an award for Ensemble Cast - this film deserves it. The other godlike thing are soundtrack and costumes, that really make the whole atmosphere of late 70'. The rest, well: story was going back and forth, mixing and plotting, but at the end I've noticed that I was conned by David O. Russel. [sp]In the middle, when everything got so screwed up I've began thinking that this is something fresh, but at the end we got really classical Hollywood happy ending. You realize that in fact there wasn't anything complicated throughout the film. Protagonists wins, antagonists lose, live happily after. It's not even style over substance, there's almost no substance at all.[/sp] Maybe because it felt rushed at times and dragged at other, or maybe it was faulty from the beginning. The exact same thing I had after watching Silver Linings Playbook - it was definitely solid film with realistic take on mental diseases but when I've finished it I realized that I got the same cliched romantic comedy story, that was literally no different in every aspect to hundreds of films with the same premise. It was OK, but it wasn't praiseworthy. Maybe it's me, and I just can't handle Russel's directing, his narration style and pacing, I'm not sure. I need to see more movies of his, at least The Fighter.

[QUOTE=AK'z;43490189]also I just discovered Steve Mcqueen is black. :pwn: maybe I got confused is there another Steve Mcqueen?[/QUOTE] You probably have confused the director of [I]12 Years a Slave[/I] with the star of [I]Bullitt[/I]

I don't think I could back anyone in American Hustle getting an oscar, except Christian Bale but I don't quite think he should get it. Yet to see Blue Jasmine (will watch it in the next couple days) but from the trailer alone I think Cate Blanchett deserves the Oscar over Sandra Bullock (who was not that amazing in Gravity imo) and Amy Adams (who at best deserves a nomination but I'm sure there's several better picks. She was not that great). Judging again from hype Chiwetel Ejiofor's a likely one for best actor, same for Matthew McConaughey, expecting nominations for Tom Hanks in Captain Phillips, Leo Dicaprio, Oscar Isaac (even though it's the Coen bros this feels a bit out there but he was so great and i hope he gets recognition). Wouldn't complain if Bale got a nomination but Amy Adams was horribly flat, Jennifer Lawrence overacted as usual (btw how fuckin awful were the dancing scene/the scene when she [sp]kissed amy adams?[/sp] legitimate cringe moments at how bad they were), Bradley Cooper was good but not outstanding. Jeremy Renner was good but didn't really do enough to earn a nomination although I'd say he was better than Cooper. Also the only thing 70s about American Hustle was costume design and soundtrack, and the soundtrack was forced as fuck (lets see how many 70s classics we can put in the film who cares if it ruins the scene itself). That and they made it really orange and sepia to make it look "vintage" or something. And yeah you're right Russell is a bad director and if he gets any recognition this year ill be angry as hell because he was awful with AH. Overused voiceover to force story and characters, shot the film horribly (its frantic and messy, not knowing what style it's going for), pacing is all over the place, tone is fucked and everywhere. I will give credit to The Fighter as being very enjoyable but once again it's a film carried by performance as Christian Bale 100% made that film. O. Russell gets good performances but can't really do much else, except Three Kings which was a great political satire war film (a deliberately strange and borderline surreal heist film set during the end of the Gulf war- it's very good)but that was 15 years ago and not something he can still stand on. Its the one time his directorial style works because of its use of tone but it doesn't work in AH at all. The more I think about this film the more bad things I realise about it and not one positive aspect has come up in retrospect.

BAFTA awarded Gravity a nomination for best screenplay. It was a heartfelt piece but really... screenplays that fit on one page getting a nomination is just bleh. I did like Aningaaq the accompanying piece, really nice film to watch after having seen Gravity.

Yeah Gravity does not deserve best screenplay. Not at all. There isn't much to it and when it tries to be symbolic it's heavy handed, not to mention the plot is very very basic. Not to criticise a minimalist plot but that combined with a lack of depth and occassionally cheesy dialogue does not add up to an award winning script to me. The film's still riding off hype.

wasn't really the basicness or cheesiness, it's much more a film that lays back in space rather than showing fully-fledged connections. The connection with Aningaaq was awesome though, no doubt. That moment will stay with me, imo that's a scene that really puts a mark among other space films. :) Clooney's role was more the stabiliser than the healer, his character was [I]really[/I] withdrawn from the script. Other than that... where's the rest of the writing?!

Yeah, I know I say it touches on cheese and stuff but yeah a basic script can be excellent and powerful, it's just there isn't much to the script of Gravity aside a few key scenes. It's all in the visuals and the acting for the most part. [editline]11th January 2014[/editline] not to say the script is bad, it does exactly what it wants to do 99% of the time and it does it well. It's a solid script, just not a great one.

Saw Lone Survivor. Very heartbreaking story, the thought that these were real guys and they really died is very peculiar. Obviously SPR was based around real people, but the last movie that made me feel like this was Blackhawk Down. Very solid flick though, maybe ran a bit long. 7/10.

[B]The Hunt[/B] Frustrating as fuck, I almost cry, indie movies are actually good. [B]8'5/10[/B]

[b]The Maltese Falcon[/b] Classic film noir with plenty of twists and turns. 9/10.

[QUOTE=AK'z;43492068]BAFTA awarded Gravity a nomination for best screenplay. It was a heartfelt piece but really... screenplays that fit on one page getting a nomination is just bleh. I did like Aningaaq the accompanying piece, really nice film to watch after having seen Gravity.[/QUOTE] I can understand direction or cinematography, but... screenplay?

Go see wolf of wallstreet like right now [editline]11th January 2014[/editline] LIKE RIGHT NOW

That would mean I have to put on pants that aren't pajama bottoms.

Frozen 8.5/10 Great Disney flick and personally, I liked it better than Tangled. The animation seemed like it improved too as it looked like people, objects and facial expressions had weight to them. Good songs, good characters, effective story and great voice actors. So yeah, if you like animated motion pictures, don't miss this one. [editline]11th January 2014[/editline] And oh yeah, the world/setting felt very authentic and alive so that's always good.

The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty 6/10 - meh. Okay. Really hamfisted moral.

[B]Frozen[/B] - 9.5/10... Wow, this just might be one of the greatest animated films that I've seen in, atleast, the past 10 years. Beautiful all around, the songs... the visuals... the story. I haven't loved a film this much since The Incredibles. Kristen Bell in particular was a surprise, she has a wonderful singing voice and they definitely molded the character around her acting style.

[QUOTE=KlaseR;43491078][B]About Time[/B] Had a good time with this one. Heart warming, funny and had me on the edge of man tears.[/QUOTE] the scene where [sp]the main character and his dad go back and Tim is a kid and the dad is playing with him on the beach almost had me.[/sp]

[B]Her[/B] - 9/10 Not sure what to say. It was very good, it definitely had the Spike Jonze charm.

[b]The Conjuring[/b] - 7.5/10 I am not a fan of paranormal horror movies, actually I hate them. But this movie kept me entertained through out, good character development, backstory is pretty bland but they explain it well. Cinematography and sound is good, you need to watch it with surround sound on a large screen to fully experience it in my opinion. It's generally a creepy movie since you don't know what the fuck is going to happen most of the time.

Lost in Translation; 9/10. What a weird and wonderful film. I kind of started off a bit shaky and uncomfortable with it at first, but by the end it won me over. I can't explain it, but this movie has a charm that I can't be rid of.

[B]The Station Agent (2003)[/B] Well after the write ups I was expecting a half decent film but instead I got a borefest of self indulgent characters who just got on my tits. A midget moves into an old signal station to become a recluse and 2 people home in on him like a magnet and they have their own baggage. The rest of the film was pointless, yes we understood these characters and yes we get that people need people but so what? By the time the thing had been on a hour I was looking forward to the credits so I could go cook a curry and get a beer. Soundtrack was irritating and the film felt pointless. This felt like a TV series pilot that never got a green light. [highlight](User was permabanned for this post ("alt of jewdozer" - Rusty100))[/highlight]

Rush, 9/10 Pretty interesting and well made, I then went to read the real racers' biography.

[B]Lilya 4 ever (2002)[/B] Men are pigs. Amazing film.