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

I think Tropic Thunder is the only Ben Stiller comedy that I actually like. And it sure as hell isn't because of Ben Stiller.

Just watched Blade. I liked it alot, Wesley Snipes is great in the role too.

Looking for a good comedy. Any recommendations?

[QUOTE=redBadger;44892450]Looking for a good comedy. Any recommendations?[/QUOTE] boy did you come to the right place let me see... everything by mel brooks lethal weapon national lampoon's vacation/xmas vacation ghostbusters airplane! the big lebowski waiting some like it hot muppet treasure island cheech & chong (nice dreams and up in smoke are highly recommended) and many many more

[QUOTE=redBadger;44892450]Looking for a good comedy. Any recommendations?[/QUOTE] New stuff? Old stuff? Monty Python's Holy Grail and Life of Brian are funny if you're looking for some old but timeless stuff. New stuff you could try The Way Way Back, Moonrise Kingdom, In Bruges and Attack the Block. Intentionally giving some lesser known films for the new stuff, I don't know how broad your movie watching is. If you haven't seen Wolf of Wall Street or This is the End, I highly reccomend them, but I would probably figure everyone has seen those already.

[QUOTE=Zukriuchen;44891283]i'm disappointed we didn't get to see colossus punching a sentinel through a wall like in the comic though movie colossus is probably nowhere near strong enough to do that[/QUOTE] When very early on in the movie colossus leaps at a sentinel ready to punch it and instead the sentinel just immediately runs him to the ground with the back of his hand I was genuinely surprised. [editline]24th May 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=redBadger;44892450]Looking for a good comedy. Any recommendations?[/QUOTE] The [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Flavours_Cornetto_trilogy]Cornetto trilogy[/url], which is one of the trilogies with probably one of the weirdest, most tenuous link between each movies (apart from the actors and director).

Thanks guys ill take a look

i think the film White Chicks is greatly misunderstood. It's superb absurdist comedy @ its finest :-)

I liked Norbit, it's one of those 'Eddie Murphy comedies' but I still think its funny. At least it isn't like Meet Dave

The Quiet Ones Goes from quiet to insane. Based on a true UK ghost story in 1974. 7/10

How to train your dragon got me hooked It´s my favourite animated film now, it has good plot and pace, awesome visuals and animation,, the dragons are cool, and even a suprise twist at the end. Although it still has flaws, no movie is perfect, so 9/10

[QUOTE=TheFilmSlacker;44896248]Norbit made me laugh, but I still wouldn't call it a good movie. [/QUOTE] but the function of a comedy is to make you laugh, unless the comedy is so bad it's laughable then that's a different case, e.g. freddy got fingered

I'm very angry, Jaws has lost the legendary 100 rating on RT. Now it has 98 because of one rotten review. It being one of my favorite movies, it is very displeasing to see it lose a rating like that just because of one rotten review. = [img]http://gyazo.com/06db109b96fd485e64724bd46665926f.png[/img]

Belka i Strelka Zvezdnye sobaki Two homeless dogs from Moscow ends in space. One of the underrated movies of summer 2010. 9/10

Just saw Xmen: Days of Future Past Pretty flippin good I liked how [sp]after Magneto told Quicksilver that he could control metal, Quicksilver's response was "my mum used to know a guy who could do that" (cuz it's a reference to how, in the comics, Magneto is Quicksilver's dad. But y'all probably knew that already. I dunno, thought it was cool)[/sp] One complaint I did have was that Peter Dinklage's character (Dinklage is great in this, by the way, [sp]especially when he’s playing Mystique pretending to be Dinklage's character[/sp]) didn't seem to [sp]have a real motive for wanting to get rid of mutants, other than "oh I read this university student's paper on them once". I mean yeah, everyone knew about what happened in Cuba, and everyone thought Magneto was behind killing the president, but he specifically didn't seem to have a reason to want to kill them all. It's more like he designed the sentinels, couldn't think of a reason for them, and then heard about mutants one day and decided "hey, the sentinels could just kill those guys off" or something.[/sp] Also, I thought it was a bit of a cheap move [sp]having the sentinels kill off some of the Xmen right at the beginning, establishing them as a serious threat and things to hate, before cheapening it by having that timeline wiped completely. It also made the point at the end where the sentinels start killing them all off less effective, because everyone knew that everything would just get reset because the whole thing had already been done before.[/sp] Oh, [sp]I was pretty bummed that they didn't use Magneto's theme from First Class.[/sp] Not really a spoiler, but eh Other than that, toptastic film. Definitely recommend it. I wish [sp]Quicksilver was in it more, though. He was a cool dude, and the slow motion stuff was cooool[/sp]

[QUOTE=evlbzltyr;44899949]One complaint I did have was that Peter Dinklage's character (Dinklage is great in this, by the way, [sp]especially when he’s playing Mystique pretending to be Dinklage's character[/sp]) didn't seem to [sp]have a real motive for wanting to get rid of mutants, other than "oh I read this university student's paper on them once". I mean yeah, everyone knew about what happened in Cuba, and everyone thought Magneto was behind killing the president, but he specifically didn't seem to have a reason to want to kill them all. It's more like he designed the sentinels, couldn't think of a reason for them, and then heard about mutants one day and decided "hey, the sentinels could just kill those guys off" or something.[/sp][/QUOTE] When they cast Dinklage as Trask I was wondering if they were going to tie in his dwarfism to his hatred of mutants. Like, sort of a self-loathing thing about how they have laser eyes and telekinesis - their mutations make them [I]homo superior[/I] - while his 'mutation' has left him merely as an irregular [I]homo sapien[/I]. I think it could have been an interesting angle

I feel like there was a lot in Days of Future Past that was close to being really good, but it was left by the wayside and therefore didn't get the screentime it needed, and it's odd cause it didn't feel like a cluttered film. Plus the whole time travel mechanics in the film (which they completely neglect to explain) are really, really dumb. I groaned out loud at the [sp]"only Wolverine can be sent back to the 70s because he has healing"[/sp] excuse.

[QUOTE=The Stills;44900155]Plus the whole time travel mechanics in the film (which they completely neglect to explain) are really, really dumb. I groaned out loud at the [sp]"only Wolverine can be sent back to the 70s because he has healing"[/sp] excuse.[/QUOTE] See, I felt Wolverine was actually a pretty good choice for the time-traveller. He was around in First Class, but was barely in it. He was an outsider, unconnected to the X-Men at that point. They couldn't send back Xavier or Magneto because then they'd "override" the versions we saw in [I]First Class[/I], hamstringing their personal development. A character like Beast, a lower-level supporting character, might have worked but probably not as well. Because he was already Xavier's buddy, he wouldn't be that good of an audience surrogate as Logan, who they all don't know. Finally, we already know who Wolverine is. Because he's "already" had his story explored in the prior films, he can fall back and not take the focus. He's completely absent for [sp]the final showdown[/sp], allowing the 'newer' characters like young Magneto, Xavier, and Raven to take the spotlight.

Yeah, I understand why Wolverine was the dude they sent back and it worked in favour of the story. I just think the reasoning behind it was dumb (never mind the fact that Kitty Pryde somehow can send people back in time is a dumb concept in the first place).

[QUOTE=evlbzltyr;44899949] Also, I thought it was a bit of a cheap move [sp]having the sentinels kill off some of the Xmen right at the beginning, establishing them as a serious threat and things to hate, before cheapening it by having that timeline wiped completely. It also made the point at the end where the sentinels start killing them all off less effective, because everyone knew that everything would just get reset because the whole thing had already been done before.[/sp][/QUOTE] well the thing is that nobody really knew for sure that they were gonna be able to [sp]prevent everything from happening. as the first few scenes show, sending someone back to the past wasn't exactly risk-free[/sp]

The Living Daylights 4/5 A nice change of pace in the Bond series. It's a shame Dalton only had one more movie after this. He rocked. Looking forward to License to Kill as I have not seen that one.

[QUOTE=Oicani Gonzales;44900077][sp]im still not sure why he wanted mutants gone so badly[/sp][/QUOTE] There's even a scene where [sp]he says outright that he thinks mutants are cool as shit[/sp]

12 Years a Slave - 9.5/10 Missed this one before and I'm glad I finally got to see it. Spectacular (if occasionally hard to watch) film, with my only real qualm being Brad Pitt's performance. It was good enough so that it wasn't jarring, but it felt underwhelming. That might just be because Fassbender, Ejiofor, and Nyong'o were giving such powerhouse performances next to him though. Hopefully this film gets Ejiofor the recognition he deserves for future roles.

Godzilla 2014 - 11/10 Definitely makes up for the 98 he-shall-not-be-named film.

Days of Future Past - 8/10 Can someone explain how Kitty Pryde can send people's consciousness back to the past? Is this a comic thing? I don't understand.

Oculus - 7/10 Not a bad horror movie. The emphasis was on building dread, not buckets-o-gore. The timeline overlap got a little confusing and tedious by the end, though. Also, it was pretty easy to guess the ending within the first 20 minutes of the movie. Once the ground rules are established, it's like "Oh, duh, of course that's going to happen to [I]someone[/I]." But it was still legitimately creepy, interesting, and worth the watch. Hopefully it doesn't turn into another lame franchise.

[QUOTE=Dunsparce;44901818]Days of Future Past - 8/10 Can someone explain how Kitty Pryde can send people's consciousness back to the past? Is this a comic thing? I don't understand.[/QUOTE] In the comic a different character uses their telepathy to send older Kitty Pryde's mind back to her younger self. My guess is that they had Movie Kitty do it as a reference to her bigger role in the comic storyline.

[QUOTE=Dunsparce;44901818]Is this a comic thing? I don't understand.[/QUOTE] I did some googling, [sp]apparently in the comics there's a storyline where some mutants gain secondary powers. At the same time, in the Days of Future Past comic arc, it's Kitty who goes back in time, but since she wasn't around during the time period they wanted to set it in, they had to have Wolverine go back, but they still wanted to involve Kitty in the process. So they went with the secondary mutation idea and explained that her phasing ability was enhanced so it could not only phase other people through space, but phase consciousnesses through time. Or something.[/sp] Meh, I'll buy it :v: [editline]25th May 2014[/editline] om l8

Oh yeah, they also build a machine to pull off the time-travel part of the memory overwriting. Remember in the opening scene when the mutant is grabbing that little piece of tech? I don't think they use it in the movie, but gathering machinery is a part of it in the comic.

Oh ok that makes some sense, I guess. It still really bothered me that they didn't even address it once throughout the whole movie. Like Kitty just explains that she can send consciousness to the past and Wolverine just stands there and thinks "fuck me after everything I've seen I'll buy it" [editline]25th May 2014[/editline] Like I dunno about you but if someone told me they can send my consciousness to the past, I'd want some damn explanation as to how they managed to get this power.