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

American Hustle 5/10 5 points for the acting, 1 point for seeing amy adams tits, -1 for not seeing jennifer lawrence's, 0 points for everything else about this movie. Everything was so unorganized and cluttered. The plot was very hard to follow and the movie was just plain boring. I didn't watch this whole film and had to skip to the end because I was about to slit my wrists. This movie did not deserve any accolades.

[QUOTE=Hoboiam;44635523]The book's and its sequel are both really good, and the titles are great conversation starters.[/QUOTE] I fucking love the sequel, but for some reason I just haven't found the time to pick up the first one.

[QUOTE=redBadger;44635968]American Hustle[B] 5/10[/B] 5 points for the acting, 1 point for seeing amy adams tits, -1 for not seeing jennifer lawrence's, 0 points for everything else about this movie. Everything was so unorganized and cluttered. The plot was very hard to follow and the movie was just plain boring. I didn't watch this whole film and had to skip to the end because[B] I was about to slit my wrists.[/B] This movie did not deserve any accolades.[/QUOTE] i don't want to see what you'd do during a 1/10 movie.

The Machine 3/10 painfully average, personally I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. everything felt pretty cheap about it, the soundtrack was pretty bad if you ask me, and lots of the reactions from the actors felt forced and rarely made sense. the plot was pretty cool, and the opening was awesome. it's a shame the execution went as it did, since personally I feel it could have been an awesome movie if it wasn't so cheesy.

[B]The Amazing Spiderman 2: The Power of Electro[/B] - 5/10 A few simple but effective ideas, such as associating Electro with electronic music (the very 5 minutes of his battle are enjoyable) but other than those, nothing positive really emerges from this film. The dialogues are badly-written, the plot is predictable and boring (it doesn't even cover well important details, for example Electro's true motivations, Peter and Harry's friendship, ...), acting is average and the CGI is just bad. [sp]why even bother marketing Rhino when you'd give him the last 5 minutes of the movie and fucking spoil them in the trailer. Hell, Goblin too is on the screen for what, 7 minutes?[/sp]

[B]Ocean's Eleven (2001)[/B] - 7.5/10 That was pretty good. Not absolutely fantastic, but still good. Funny at parts, too.

spider-man 2 better than the first one i guess?? felt like a mess. a lot of scenes (and characters) felt really out of place ([sp]the planes? really? also, electro should've been the secondary villain, with harry being the main threat, not the other way around[/sp]). the whole movie would've felt a lot more meaningful if they didn't dedicate so much time to teasing the fans, too. it's not the worst thing in the world, though. the camerawork was pretty unique for this kind of movie. the fight scenes weren't bad at all (even if most of them were 100% cgi), and some of the scenes were done incredibly well ([sp]such as gwen's death[/sp]) final veredict: [QUOTE=ElectronicG19;44627401] Just give the rights back to Marvel Studios, Sony/10[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=redBadger;44635968]American Hustle 5/10 5 points for the acting, 1 point for seeing amy adams tits, -1 for not seeing jennifer lawrence's, 0 points for everything else about this movie. Everything was so unorganized and cluttered. The plot was very hard to follow and the movie was just plain boring. I didn't watch this whole film and had to skip to the end because I was about to slit my wrists. This movie did not deserve any accolades.[/QUOTE] The performances were good, but they weren't in service of anything. There wasn't really anyone to root for (hell, Renner was by far the most relatable) and any tension was built up (oh no - the fake Sheik doesn't speak the language! oh no - Lawrence is gumming up the works! oh no - De Niro's gonna bust us!) but then quickly discarded (never mind, it worked fine). There wasn't really a rise-and-fall; Bale and Adams got busted at the beginning and I never felt very strongly one way or the other about Cooper. Even the [sp]double-cross with the "lawyer"[/sp] twist was only briefly engaging. It just felt like one big "ehh" in the end. And it wasn't the good, Coen-esque "nothing happened", it felt like Russell and company lost track of what they were trying to do. If behind-the-scenes interviews are to be believed, that's exactly what [I]did[/I] happen. Quite disappointing

I've decided O Russell is pulling an Adam Sandler type scam. Just shamelessly making shit starring his friends to bring in a load of cash (or Oscars in O Russell's book). i want his career to fail miserably so he lives in debt thatd be funny cos hes a shit human being as well

Just saw Once i give it :'( out of </3

I kinda liked Once from what I saw (I saw up to the two playing in the piano shop and a bit further) but its literally one of the most technically horrific films ive ever seen

[QUOTE=mikeyt493;44637101]I kinda liked Once from what I saw (I saw up to the two playing in the piano shop and a bit further) but its literally one of the most technically horrific films ive ever seen[/QUOTE] I didn't give a thought to any of the technical stuff, but it totally makes sense when you read about the production. They shot the entire film with a skeleton crew, the shots where they were in public were done without a permit and from far away so that a) the public didn't know the film was being made and b) it meant that the two main characters (who are musicians, not actors) didn't feel under pressure from the camera, there was a ton of improvised lines, and most of the interior scenes were shot in the houses of the director's friends :v: I still bloody loved it.

[QUOTE=mikeyt493;44637030]I've decided O Russell is pulling an Adam Sandler type scam. Just shamelessly making shit starring his friends to bring in a load of cash (or Oscars in O Russell's book). i want his career to fail miserably so he lives in debt thatd be funny cos hes a shit human being as well[/QUOTE] But I like SLP and The Fighter

yea i dont actually believe what i said fully tbh cos The Fighter was a good movie and I never saw SLP but I violently hate everything about American Hustle because it is shameless fucking fraud hack shit

[I]Three Kings[/I] was good, too

Children of Men - 9.75 / 10 Alfonso Cuaron is the man! He gets work done with his DP. I have to say he set some new ground for how long a shot can be. True Detectives DP was directly influenced from that film apparently.

[QUOTE=Corndog Ninja;44637685][I]Three Kings[/I] was good, too[/QUOTE] from what I've seen of his three kings is by far his best. Feel I should watch it again actually [editline]25th April 2014[/editline] It's a great satire and I live the idea of it basically being a heist film in the middle east. Really smart.

Flirting With Disaster was pretty good as well.

[QUOTE=mikeyt493;44637030]I've decided O Russell is pulling an Adam Sandler type scam. Just shamelessly making shit starring his friends to bring in a load of cash (or Oscars in O Russell's book). i want his career to fail miserably so he lives in debt thatd be funny cos hes a shit human being as well[/QUOTE] george clooney needs to give him another beatdown

[QUOTE=mikeyt493;44637101]I kinda liked Once from what I saw (I saw up to the two playing in the piano shop and a bit further) but its literally one of the most technically horrific films ive ever seen[/QUOTE] I don't remember it being "technically bad". I think it was shot very naturally rather than like a hollywood film. Plus that stuff doesn't really creep into mind when it's that kind of film.

The Fifth Element - 10/10 Really fucking great. Costumes, story, pacing, action, it's all rad.

[QUOTE=zelchacha;44637706]Children of Men - 9.75 / 10 Alfonso Cuaron is the man! He gets work done with his DP. I have to say he set some new ground for how long a shot can be. True Detectives DP was directly influenced from that film apparently.[/QUOTE] Weird, I just re-watched this yesterday. It still amazes me how detailed and believable a world he created in that movie.

What's DP?

Director of Photography. In Children Of Men's case, Alfonso Cuaron.

i forget if i posted it or not but Enemy. I loved it. definitely a good one for discussion. it's a perfect psychological mystery/thriller, but it's definitely one that'll put off the dummies. not that's it's all that profoundly smart, but definitely not something your average movie goer will understand. i can see someone hating it intensely if they didn't get it. but once it clicks, it's really wonderful. [sp]the spiders, while present throughout the whole film, really came together conceptually in the final shot. it's beautiful. it makes you work for it, you are almost definitely going to go 'AHH, what the fuck???', but give it a sec to stew and you'll be glad for it. here are the things i think. i think it's a given that they're the same person. this is confirmed when his wife asks him how class was - and when his mother tells him to give up on the d-list acting. naturally, the tarantulas symbolize jake's perception of women - that's the easy part. that's a documented freudian thing. but if you dig a little deeper, the movie seems to be an allegory for jake's identity crisis created by his inability to settle. it's about adultery and his mind trying to come to terms with it. he literally adopts a different personality during his affairs to the point where he subconsciously considers himself a different person, absolving himself of the guilt. he also sees women as spiders who try to trap him in a 'web' - and this is his solution to that. in the film, his wife is pregnant. and at the end, she is a giant tarantula. this sort of brings it back to the very first scene. the sex club is treated as very taboo - and considering the constant symbolism of spiders, i'm lead to believe the woman in the club wasn't just stepping on the spider. this sequence is a manifestation of jake's desire for his wife to get an abortion - break free of his commitment. it's possible women kill their babies in the club, which would make the cloak and dagger approach to it make a lot more sense. one thing i'm not sure about is how much of the film is actually really happening - and if so, when it's happening. jake is in a car crash with his girlfriend at the same time as he's with his tarantula wife. the crash is heard on the radio in the morning, meaning it happened in some shape or form. it's possible it was a metaphor for jake ending the adultery; killing that personality. but then obviously the cycle is doomed to repeat as he ends the film wanting to go back to the peep show - and i believe his uni lecture was on history repeating itself. [/sp] as you can tell there's a lot to decipher by that big black wall. but i enjoyed it immensely

[QUOTE=mikeyt493;44640962]Director of Photography. In Children Of Men's case, Alfonso Cuaron.[/QUOTE]Alfonso Cuaron was a director, and while that's a very important role, he wasn't a director of photography - it was the great [url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0523881/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cr12]Emmanuel Lubezki[/url]

lol oops yea I got the names mixed up

Thanks for the rec rusty. I was actually planning on watching Enemy today.

ditto on that

Batman Returns Danny DeVito is great as the Penguin. He reminds me of an urban legend about the Penguin Man in Iowa. 8/10