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

What the fuck The fault in our stars just beat fucking Edge of Tomorrow You know that there is no hope for this generation when a fucking generic young adult romance novel/film is so damn popular now.

[QUOTE=mikeyt493;45099161][B]We Need To Talk About Kevin (Dir. Lynne Ramsay, 2011)- 7/10[/B] I watched this because it's directed by Lynne Ramsay, who is a Scottish director, and as a Scottish aspiring filmmaker I was interested in seeing her work. This is the first of her films I've seen, she's made 3 over the past 15 years. I was surprised upon starting this to find that it was very much an art film. The film follows the mother (played brilliantly by Tilda Swinton) of a boy (Ezra Miller as a teen) who has since a very young age been notably disturbed and sociopathic. This expressionistic and visually stunning film plays out of chronology, going from snippets or whole scenes of things in Kevin's life as a toddler to a 16 year old boy. I found the film fascinating and I loved the characters. Although I call it expressionistic in its style, the characters are very much real. Kevin is a character I would describe as truly evil. He is manipulative and destructive, a true sociopath with absolutely no empathy or care for other people. Some of the things he does blow my mind. How can a person be like that? But also, he is a fantastically realised character with depth, we don't understand him particularly but we observe his life and we know him. The film is about Kevin but also about the trials of parenthood, specifically as a mother. I was unfortunate enough to have the concept of the film ruined so I won't do so here, as I said the film is edited out of order so the flashes to present leave a lot of mystery in the film (although it's easy enough to work out/piece together as the film goes on)[/QUOTE] Kevin is not realistic he's a fucking supervillain. And the kid who plays him as a toddler is hilariously terrible.

He waa convincing enough to me. I never really questioned the acting. And idk I don't know any people like kevin lol but I bought everything that happened, I never thought it went too far or anything and his character was well established to be evil so nothing felt.out of character and I never went "really?" or anything which I guess is more what I meant.

I thought his character was ridiculous tbh.

[QUOTE=Ignhelper;45100690]What the fuck The fault in our stars just beat fucking Edge of Tomorrow You know that there is no hope for this generation when a fucking generic young adult romance novel/film is so damn popular now.[/QUOTE] As much as I love Edge of Tomorrow, you must be pretty naive to think that a sci-fi action thriller based on an obscure Japanese mango starring a fading movie star was ever gonna beat an adaptation of a bestselling teen tearjerker novel starring an up-and-coming big name actress. What I AM surprised of is Maleficent beating Edge of Tomorrow cause I thought word-of-mouth from both films would have EoT beating Maleficent but I guessed wrong.

The Green Mile - 8/10 I remember watching this the first time when I was 12 and crying my eyes out. While it doesn't make me do that these days, it still carries a huge impact.[sp]John Coffey's execution[/sp]in particular is a serious punch. The weird thing is, I barely noticed its running time being 3 goddamn hours because it makes very good use of its time. Yeah, it's got flaws but I can't help it, this is one of my favorite movies of all time.

[QUOTE=Scot;45101086]Kevin is not realistic he's a fucking supervillain. And the kid who plays him as a toddler is hilariously terrible.[/QUOTE] Just because he's unusual doesn't make him unrealistic.. I think he's very convincing in the film. [editline]14th June 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=Scot;45101355]I thought his character was ridiculous tbh.[/QUOTE] Yes of course, but does this mean he's not captivating and memorable.

[QUOTE=Rusty100;45099351]i dont understand you at all[/QUOTE] im a piece of shit

How to train your Dragon 2 has some of the best animation I've ever seen. Hiccup looked stunning. Sounds weird but his character animation was amaZing

[I]Melancholia[/I] Interesting sci-fi, but ultimately an unfulfilling movie for me, mostly because [I]SPOILER[/I] [sp]everyone everywhere dies[/sp] and I didn't feel any kind of closure. If they were going for a movie that makes people depressed and unsatisfied, they did a good job. At least I got to see Kirsten Dunst's boobs, even though the circumstance had about as much build-up and relevance as a [I]Game of Thrones[/I] sex scene.

Melancholia is quite masterful imo, you touched on the point of the film. You said it's to make people depressed. You're on the lines. It's a film about depression and the apocalypse is the outside expression of kirsten Durst's character. The film isn't about the end of the world, it's about how dealing with depression feels like the end of the world... But with severe apathy. Dunst 's character is perfectly crafted and beautifully portrayed. The film was written as a catharsis for lars von trier's own depression. It's a really interesting exploration of how people act as well. Dunst couldn't care less but for instance keifer sutherland essentially loses his mind. By the end of the.film, Dunst is the closest one to sanity because she never changed, her character had no arc. Generally a lead character without an arc is a badly written character. In this case her lack of an arc makes her an even better one because of the subject matter. [editline]14th June 2014[/editline] I also find it interesting that Sci -Fi is the main genre you put it in

I would barely classify it as Sci-fi, because there's just one tiny element of Sci-fi, which is the planet.

Yeah it's hard to classify any von trier film into a proper genre due to his very unique style of directing and writing.. Like his first 3 films are technically noir/detective films but their total disregard of tropes and outside perspective make them pretty much not noir. Dancer in the dark is a musical but doesn't follow the tropes or standards of the genre and is very self -aware bordering on meta, Antichrist is a horror and probably his most conventional for falling into genre but you'll.not see another horror like it. It borrows more from Tarkovsky than Carpenter, for instance. Melancholia doesn't even use any Sci -Fi tropes at al except the pseudo science and planet coming towards them. I think if you wanna label his works just throw "post modern" in front because I feel that works. His films are taking genres to another plane that hasn't been done and looking at it from a different angle to create something new but still relatively recognisable (think the concept of Outsider Artists in music)

[QUOTE=mikeyt493;45099161][B]Pain and Gain (Dir. Michael Bay, 2013)- 7/10[/B][/QUOTE] Pain & Gain was really fun to watch. Saw it while hanging out with some friends and it was a pretty good time. I agree with you, people who say the film glorifies the protagonists are completely wrong. The general consensus between us all were that the protagonists were really fucking dumb.

[B]X-Men Days of Future Past - 9.5/10[/B] I am far from the worlds biggest X-men fan, i really enjoyed First Class but going into this it looked like it was going to be a huge mess based on the trailers but I have to say the last time I remember having such a nerd freak out of excitement was when Batman finally showed up in the tumbler in TDKR. I was crazy excited throughout nearly the entire film, had a massive shit eating grin on my face most of the time, the action was clever, with funny one liners and references, the cast was nearly pitch perfect, just a shame there wasn't more of Patrick Stewart and Ian Mc Kellan, and it was chock full of cameos. One of my most memorable cinema going experiences to in a while. The last time a film made me so happy was The Grand Budapest Hotel, which made me feel almost euphoric about cinema and the potential that still exists for the medium, it was more than a 10/10 for me, contender for my favorite film of the year, its out on DVD this week I think so check it out! [B]Ghost Rider - 8/10[/B] awesome movie although the ending was a tad hyped and then was just dull... that one line with Mendes in the restaraunt "am I pretty" **** waiter "meh" I mean who in their right mind would think Mendes is not awesome ;D... unrealistic or what! I'm a tad biased as im a Cage fan love pretty much all his movies and I will be getting it on DVD I actually thought they pulled the flaming head of perfectly saying that Ive never been a comic book fan, so never read Spiderman, Ghost Rioder, X-Men you name it but still thought it was an awesome movie... [B]The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey -3/5 [/B] as i love the LOTR films this just seemed pandering and endlessly dragging and i pretty much lost interest halfway through. like everyone else has said the bilbo/gollum scene was the highlight, especially considering they somehow managed to make Gollum even MORE expressive than the LOTR trilogy. but the rest of it was just middling and borderline insulting, and there just seemed to be no stakes at all. to think one tightened 3 hour film would have made me giddy with joy. :( that the desolation of smaug is somehow worse doesn't bode well. :(

melancholia is superb... it definitely is sci-fi but the film focuses far more on the "impending doom" fiasco and it's just so well made. On a rewatch I was engrossed into it more, same with Antichrist. Tbh these kinds of films, unless you get how Lars operates, it needs a few years to fully grasp.

22 Jump Street - 7/10 pretty funny with some nice clever references, Ice Cube was fucking hilarious. The end credits sequence was probably the cleverest thing I've ever seen a movie do. Prefer the first though. It felt tighter. Some jokes in 22 went on for too long.

[B]Edge of Tomorrow[/B] 8/10 - pure entertainment 6/10 - more critical view It's a really fun movie but that is almost guaranteed with this specific time travel element. They used this idea to full extent I think. I liked the main protagonist's transformation but Tom Cruise is just too famous to pull that role in a believable way. You know he will kick ass right from the start. I'd prefer some other actor that would give a proper rookie vibe so when he becomes a killing machine the change has more of an impact. The last act was too Hollywood-y for my taste which is a shame. I have a plot question (spoilers): [sp]Blunt tells Cruise she was given blood and lost the time travel ability. Cruise asks her if she tried to get it back by blood or sex. She replies "many times" (short version). With who exactly? Did I miss some line of dialogue or Cruise wasn't second person to get this power?[/sp] And who creates names for Tom Cruise's characters. They are so uninspired. Jack Harper, Bill Cage. What's next? John Smith?

I think you missed the part where [sp]it's heavily implied that Cruise reset several dozen times before he got anywhere good[/sp] Not to mention generally anytime [sp]you hear them reciting steps to take it shows that they've done it an untold amount of times before[/sp] Which is what makes the film so great imo, it's just Tom Cruise dying over and over again.

[QUOTE=KINGSTAR998;45103305][B]The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey -3/5 [/B] as i love the LOTR films this just seemed pandering and endlessly dragging and i pretty much lost interest halfway through. like everyone else has said the bilbo/gollum scene was the highlight, especially considering they somehow managed to make Gollum even MORE expressive than the LOTR trilogy. but the rest of it was just middling and borderline insulting, and there just seemed to be no stakes at all. to think one tightened 3 hour film would have made me giddy with joy. :( that the desolation of smaug is somehow worse doesn't bode well. :([/QUOTE] I have two main gripes with [I]The Hobbit[/I] movies so far: - Martin Freeman is fantastic but is woefully underused. Despite the fact that the book was called "The Hobbit", Bilbo doesn't really do all that much in the story. Heck, in the third act he [sp]doesn't kill Smaug[/sp] and [sp]misses the entire giant battle[/sp]. But he is always there and always in focus. In the movie, he gets lost in the shuffle of Thorin/Gandalf/Thranduil/Tauriel/Kili/Bard... - TOO DAMN LONG. Especially when watching [I]Smaug[/I], I couldn't help but think "I can't wait for all three movies to come out and someone to make a one-or-two-movie fanedit of the whole thing". Great scenes lose their impact from taking too long or being expanded on poorly, entire subplots feel unnecessary, and some scenes feel bizarrely shortened because so much is crammed in there. I remember thinking 'is it almost over?' before they even encountered Smaug.

Went to go see 22 Jump Street, but the theater was unexpectedly jam packed, and tickets were sold out. So we decided we might as well see something, and gambled on A Million Ways To Die In The West. 2/10 : It was a poorly sewn together quilt of shitty jokes and filler scenes for 90 minutes (maybe more?) The vulgar content was for teenagers, but the execution looked like it was made to appeal to 7 year-olds, so I don't know what audience they were aiming at here. The trailer for this, didn't appeal to me at all, but I hoped maybe it wouldn't be THIS bad.

[QUOTE=Pops;45107856]I think you missed the part where [sp]it's heavily implied that Cruise reset several dozen times before he got anywhere good[/sp] Not to mention generally anytime [sp]you hear them reciting steps to take it shows that they've done it an untold amount of times before[/sp] Which is what makes the film so great imo, it's just Tom Cruise dying over and over again.[/QUOTE] That is true but doesn't answer what I asked. Maybe I mixed who said what but I remember the conversation going: [sp]Cruise asks her if she tried blood transfusion or even have sex to get the power back. And SHE answers "many times". If Cruise is the one who has the reset power it should have been him to tell her it didn't work. The way she explains it made me think she tried to get blood and have sex with someone before Cruise. But Cruise is said to be the second person with this power.[/sp]

I think she implied that when she had the power, she tried to transfer it to someone else many times, but I'm not sure

[B]A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: DREAM WARRIORS - 8/10[/B] It's a defining example of an 80's horror flick. It has the best cast of victims since the first film, Freddy's kills are more rad than ever. Nancy's back from the first movie in order to help stop Freddy Krueger. It's just a lot of great fun to watch. The third and the first are tied for my favourites in the series. [B]Hammer's The Horror Of Dracula - 10/10[/B] This is without a doubt one of the greatest Dracula films (next to Bela Lugosi and the lesser known spanish version which both were shot simultaneously) The set design is the best you're probably going to see in an early Dracula movie, lots of great Gothic scenery, Christopher Lee's portrayal of Dracula is incredible as well as Peter Cushing playing Van Helsing. Hammer always hit it home with their excellent casting, check it out. On a huge horror binge lately, want to go back and check out the [I]many[/I] Friday The 13th movies, some awesome kills in there. Any other films I should check out?

If you're interested in Dracula films as it sounds like you might be, check out Werner Herzog's 1979 remake of the 1922 film. It's called Nosfetaru The Vampyre (although he's actually called Count Dracula in this one- Klaus Kinski as Dracula is probably the best portrayal of the character in a film). The original is good but this is better in every aspect imo, one of my favourite films.

[QUOTE=mikeyt493;45109895]If you're interested in Dracula films as it sounds like you might be, check out Werner Herzog's 1979 remake of the 1922 film. It's called Nosfetaru The Vampyre (although he's actually called Count Dracula in this one- Klaus Kinski as Dracula is probably the best portrayal of the character in a film). The original is good but this is better in every aspect imo, one of my favourite films.[/QUOTE] Looking through some stills of it right now. They definitely got the lighting perfect in this for a 70's remake, I'll check it out thanks.

just saw The Dirties Pretty fucking good imo. really, really liked it

I love Hammer movies, because of how campy and just how fun they are to watch

just watched Elephant straight after laughably bad

Non-stop 5/10 While its entertaining for a action thriller movie, the plot is pretty dumb. But okay movie if you can turn your brains off.