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

Just watched 'Warm Bodies' 4/5

Neighbors - 8/10 Better than it looked in the trailers, thankfully 90% of the good jokes were saved for the movie. Cute show overall. Really just a fun movie. Even technically, the directing and acting was solid. Go watch it with buddies and you wont be disappointed. And bonus, if you have to pick this or TASM 2, dear god go see this. Spidey was like an hour too long and filled with ludicrous bullshit.

[B]Miami Connection[/B] [t]http://drafthousefilms.com/_uploads/films/29251/miamiconnection_poster-final__small.jpg[/t] This movie is legitimately insane. One of those 'good-bad' 80's treasures that's just as entertaining as it is baffling, get some friends together and watch this treasure.

RoboCop 2014: 6/10. Not as terrible as I expected it to be. I expected a dumb, soulless exercise in CGI action but it ended up being an uneven but inspired reimagining. I felt that the story was trying to tackle more issues than it can handle but I admire it for trying at least. The action was decently filmed, despite the lack of Verhoevian gore that made the original a lot of fun. I don't know if picking a completely uninteresting actor as Alex Murphy was an intentional choice or not. It made the parts where [sp]RoboCop becomes more emotionless and machine-like[/sp] better but in the scenes where he's still Alex Murphy he's like a black hole of charisma. His family is pretty boring too, his wife's defining character trait is that she loves Alex and not much else. I actually wanted the Michael K. Williams to be the guy who became RoboCop instead cause I certainly liked him better. Overall decent, but I wouldn't watch it again unless I wanted to compare it to the original.

[QUOTE=Corndog Ninja;44761157][B]Miami Connection[/B] [t]http://drafthousefilms.com/_uploads/films/29251/miamiconnection_poster-final__small.jpg[/t] This movie is legitimately insane. One of those 'good-bad' 80's treasures that's just as entertaining as it is baffling, get some friends together and watch this treasure.[/QUOTE] I'm in love with this movie

if i had to make a complaint about amazing spider-man 2, it'd be stan lee's cameo appearance. probably one of the worst of any recent marvel movie. not sure why they had such a lack of creativity with it. [QUOTE=PollytheParrot;44760008]uh oh, I rated him dumb, and he went back to the previous page and just rated my posts dumb am literally in tears atm[/QUOTE] first of all, most face punchers do this... yet the fact that you cared enough to point it out and even took the time to whip up an SS of it tells me that you actually [I]are[/I] a little butt hurt about it, lol. secondly, your star wars comment legit deserved a dumb rating. Sorry, be mad i guess. :suicide:

The Man From Nowhere - 7.8/10 A good revenge-type movie. The action scenes weren't unrealistically cheesy and the the characters were more in-depth than just bullet blasting thugs. Tears were tugged in some scenes and other scenes really had me on my seat. Definitely recommend it to anyone looking for a good movie where the main character slowly picks off thugs and picks up clues to find the kidnapped girl. The only downfall for some people would be the subtitles but it honestly doesn't take long to get used to them. Before you know if you're not even aware that you're reading them. Never let subtitles be a turn off for a great film.

Star Wars V - 7/10 Did i miss a directors cut or something? Silly transitions and they cut in the middle of the action? It was only 2 hours long.. And the robots can go fuck themselves, breaking the mood with their retarded jokes and slapstick. Not a bad movie really, but seriously what?

lol wut all star wars movies are about 2 hrs

I'd prefer if they were 4 each, there's no time to think anywhere, everything was so rushed. i guess pacing is the right word

Full metal jacket:guns & sex motive [MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qk4rPnfOdHA[/MEDIA]

Bernie: 8/10. Pretty dang good crime film, Jack Black is actually pretty darn good in it.

[QUOTE=Giraffen93;44763903]I'd prefer if they were 4 each[/QUOTE] 4 HOURS... I really doubt you often watch 4+ hour movies. Come on.

[QUOTE=AK'z;44764576]4 HOURS... I really doubt you often watch 4+ hour movies. Come on.[/QUOTE] i love the lotr trilogy the pacing is perfect, everything has time to sink in some movies really need to be longer

lol the LOTR trilogy's pacing is so fucked its not perfect at all [editline]9th May 2014[/editline] well its better than the pacing of the new Hobbit films at least

i like slow movies lost in translation & drive were good in that aspect too

lol it's nothing to do with being "slow", Lost In Translation and Drive have near perfect pacing because it's consistent (they are two of my favourite films and two films I'd describe as near-perfect overall) LOTR is all over the place. Don't get me wrong I really like the films but they're not the masterpieces everyone says. There's A LOT wrong with them.

[QUOTE=Giraffen93;44764582]i love the lotr trilogy the pacing is perfect, everything has time to sink in some movies really need to be longer[/QUOTE] how did I know you would say lord of the rings... [editline]9th May 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=Giraffen93;44764654]i like slow movies lost in translation & drive were good in that aspect too[/QUOTE] these are not 4 hours long though. Maybe you'll have a better idea if you see something like Dances With Wolves or Eureka (ユリイカ).. They're incredibly long but don't need flashing lights and big bangs to hold your attention.

12 Years A Slave - 6.5/10 This movie had its moments and could have been really good, but some of the acting really ruined that. There was also the few 'Why the fuck did they add that' scenes, and that one awkward scene added that was not in the book. They had something really good, but some poor choices really made it fall short of being a good film.

[QUOTE=FordLord;44765501]12 Years A Slave - 6.5/10 This movie had its moments and could have been really good, [B]but some of the acting really ruined that[/B]. There was also the few 'Why the fuck did they add that' scenes, and that one awkward scene added that was not in the book. They had something really good, but some poor choices really made it fall short of being a good film.[/QUOTE] Really? I found the acting to be by far the best part of the film. It was a good film but not amazing imo, a [I]huge[/I] step down from McQueen first two films, Hunger and Shame -two of the best films of the past 10 years imo- but the main thing that stuck out in 12YAS was how good the acting was :v:

[QUOTE=AK'z;44765092]how did I know you would say lord of the rings... [editline]9th May 2014[/editline] these are not 4 hours long though. Maybe you'll have a better idea if you see something like Dances With Wolves or Eureka (ユリイカ).. They're incredibly long but don't need flashing lights and big bangs to hold your attention.[/QUOTE] not really my style of movies, but thanks anyway i'm not saying all movies need to be long, but some scenes in star wars could easily be extended, they cut to a completely different part of the story too fast in the middle of a lightsaber battle doesn't seem like the perfect place to me

[QUOTE=FordLord;44765501]12 Years A Slave - 6.5/10 some of the acting really ruined that. [/QUOTE] you are literally the only person in the human race to complain about the acting. [editline]9th May 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=Giraffen93;44765584]not really my style of movies, but thanks anyway i'm not saying all movies need to be long, but some scenes in star wars could easily be extended, they cut to a completely different part of the story too fast in the middle of a lightsaber battle doesn't seem like the perfect place to me[/QUOTE] That's fair enough ok, but you saying it needs a whole 2 hours more of screen time is stretching your point m8

[QUOTE=AK'z;44765783]That's fair enough ok, but you saying it needs a whole 2 hours more of screen time is stretching your point m8[/QUOTE] i wouldn't mind exploring more plot points and extending scenes in general would immerse me more some of the characters just plop up from the middle of nowhere and are apparently the center of action, that's new to me especially fight scenes

If star wars was 4 hours I don't think I could cope lol the plots not exactly deep and neither are the characters

imagine if the prequels were 4 hours long... :suicide:

Man am I sick of Hans Zimmer. Dude was great until Inception (which is a good score in its own right) but his career has saturated to the point where everyone wants the exact same thing and I'm so tired of it. I actually [I]dislike[/I] his work nowadays. I just roll my eyes when his "epic" orchestral stuff comes in. His score on 12yas was especially bad, it was essentially self parody.

All hope is lost, roberto orci may direct star trek 3

We can't really make any judgements on that though since it's his directorial debut. And he wrote the first 2 and abrams is obviously busy with star wars. Idk I don't really care though cos the dudes not that good a writer so I don't expect great things, into darkness was pretty bad

[B]The Amazing Spiderman 2[/B] - 5/10 I will start this by saying I hated the first one. It was a forgettable cash grab by Sony that was only made to pander to the Marvel craze while at the same time keep the Spiderman property from falling back into Marvel's eagerly awaiting hands. I remember just being plain bored. Well, I was many things in the Amazing Spiderman 2, but at least I wasn't really bored. This was less of a "meh" movie like the first and more like a movie with ups and downs. I like Electro and Jamie Foxx actually did a good job playing Max, the character that later becomes Electro. It was corny as hell, sure, but this is a movie about a kid who gets bitten by a radioactive spider and goes to fight crime. Anything goes. I also really like Harry Osborn's character, although Dane Dehaan's acting got a little dry at times. But I will say what I said for the first; Andrew Garfield is not a good Spiderman. Spiderman is supposed to be a loser, and while Garfield stutters and acts goofy there is just no way to see him as that. Anyone who makes panties moist cannot make a good Spiderman. It's not his fault really, as I think he is a good actor, just miscast. At least his numerous goofy faces added some entertainment value to the movie. But all good things must end, and so we get to the bad parts of TASM 2. First of all, the shit between Gwen and Peter is so fucking unnecessary. You could chop it out and nothing about the movie would change. The whole "let's be friends" scene was just atrocious pandering to teenage girls. The Green Goblin's redesign looks like shit, and I couldn't take it seriously at all. [sp]Rhino is only in the movie for fucking 5 minutes at the end with an obvious sequel hook. That alone dropped my whole rating by one point not only because Rhino was barely in it, but also because the obligatory sequel hook is one of the most bullshit things a movie can do.[/sp] The movie is also way to long. At 2 hours and 22 minutes, there really wasn't any need. Now we get into [B]MASSIVE SPOILER TERRITORY[/B]. [sp]The guys at Half in the Bag summed up why this movie was honestly pretty shit. There is a whole lot of pointless, unconnected plot threads that are lazily written and have no eventual point. As they said, it is almost like 5 different "idea" scripts were written and as the intern went to deliver them, he dropped them and just hastily reassembled them into one beast. There is so much bullshit in this movie it would take a goddamn chainsaw to cut through. First off, the pacing is all over the place. The movie starts with some weird, close-up, boring fight between Peter's dad and some Oscorp agent. It was poorly shot, poorly edited, too fucking long, and added NOTHING to the story. Then it continues to go in complete high-gear with Spiderman beating up some random, irrelevant mobsters. That is fine and all, having an establishing scene where the hero does something badass is mandatory in superhero films. They almost always begin with action. But I can't help but feel like TASM 2 overdid it. Even worse is that the movie then slows down for drama and backstory for about an hour and a half before finally just throwing everything-and-the-kitchen-sink out the window for it to plonk right onto audience's heads. And as I said and will restate, none of this shit ever really connects. The whole thing with Harry and Electro just so happens to connect almost entirely by coincidence. The shit with Peter and his girlfriend and his visions of her father also never goes fucking anywhere (until she dies). Then of course Rhino is just the random Russian mobster from the beginning (it's okay to hate Russia again because they invaded the Ukraine) with no real character. Then there is the shit with Peter's dad that also goes fucking nowhere.[/sp] Now exiting [B]MASSIVE SPOILER TERRITORY.[/B] All in all, the film is a mess. It is like a garbage bag of half-realized ideas made for an unnecessary prequel/remake/reboot thing. So basically it's the Hobbit, but with Spiderman. [editline]9th May 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=mikeyt493;44766657]We can't really make any judgements on that though since it's his directorial debut. And he wrote the first 2 and abrams is obviously busy with star wars. Idk I don't really care though cos the dudes not that good a writer so I don't expect great things, into darkness was pretty bad[/QUOTE] I liked [I]Into Darkness.[/I] Why do you think it's bad? [editline]buttcheeks[/editline] Also, lest I forget, I think it is important to mention exactly what they said in the Half in the Bag review. Just because something is closer to the comics doesn't mean it is good. In fact, let us be honest here, most comic book writing is shit. I know all the nerds will beat me up for that, but as a guy who never could get into comics the biggest reason why is always that the writing is downright garbage in most of them. That is especially true for the older comics in which writing wasn't as important as selling cheap shit to children.

I don't see any reason why they couldn't just regroup and make Spiderman 4 instead of spawning pointless remakes.