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

[QUOTE=massaki;45109853][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, [/QUOTE] was that the one with the cockroach death? fucking wicked scene

[QUOTE=cricket50;45113092]was that the one with the cockroach death? fucking wicked scene[/QUOTE] I think that's the fourth one, dream master. Probably one of the coolest kills in the third one is the very first, where he uses one of his victims as a puppet via stringing his veins out to lure him to his own suicide, gnarly, although I think after the third movie is where they stopped caring so much for the horror aspects of the kills and just went straight ahead for some ridiculous looking effects, whatever it still works and it's awesome. [B]Saving Mr Banks - 8/10[/B] Loved this movie, great insight to P.L. Travers's journey on getting Mary Poppins to the big screen as well as Walt Disney, the period setting is absolutely perfect and I think it shines through that Tom Hanks himself is very passionate about his own portrayal of Walt Disney. It's not 100% the truth, but it's a nice story, very nice movie. Also ordered myself Nosferatu the vampyr on blu-ray, cannot wait.

True, the final lines in the film from that lifeguard dude kinda ruined the.impact from his poor delivery. Thing is van sant appears to always go for accurately young kids for his films and his.films mostly star teenagers. And I reckon lots are non -actors. Generally it seems performances aren't the main thing he's going for tbh. Main kid in Paranoid Park was good tho. [editline]15th June 2014[/editline] I think an interesting thing about elephant is that if it was any less detached or any more glorified it'd be morally wrong due to subject matter and considering it's almost a biopic of Columbine as well it'd be really insensitive. I think Gus van Sant absolutely nailed it personally. Fantastic work as a director there.

True but like I guess he didn't know what to do. Was probably really shocked and it'd be a surreal moment and people would probably be really suspicious. I know if someone said it to me it'd be very hard to believe... That kid was the best actor imo

The terrible performances in Elephant completely ruined it for me. The long-shots meant that there wasn't anything else interesting they could do with the cinematography. It's written in such a way that we only see so much of the characters and it's all in the space of less than twenty minutes out of a real-time period of about an hour so we don't see enough of them to grow attached to them at all. It's like the entire cast is made up of "that character who everyone knows is going to die because no time is spent developing them at all", which extends to the shooters. Plus the whole "everything going on at the same time, we see different angles of the same events" etc just felt super unnecessary when it felt like the actors weren't even [I]trying[/I] to copy what they'd done before. It was so obvious it was a different take altogether that it was almost painful to watch. Then there was that point where we're introduced to a character who acts like he's completely fucking retarded, walking in the opposite direction to where hundreds of people are running away from, he sees a dead body and helps someone out a window, then keeps walking, sees the gunman, and get shot. Wow, that sure had an impact on me. As well as that, it felt like the director threw in that scene where the shooters shower together to make the audience go "omg they're gay as well?? how horrible and depraved can two people be!" It's just so baaaad.

The American ...Well, that wasn't at all what I expected. Really enjoyed it though.

just finished The Grand Budapest Hotel pretty fuckin' good

[QUOTE=TheFilmSlacker;45114625]The worst bit for me was when the two shooters are about to go in the school and that blonde kid starts warning people not to go in the school. He just acts like it's no big deal even though he just saw two people armed to the teeth with backpacks walk inside. [editline]15th June 2014[/editline] Tbh I liked Zero Day more than Elephant, and I love Gus Van Sant most of the time.[/QUOTE] The big thing that bugged the shit out of me in Elephant involved the school shooting itself. There's one character who gets shot while exiting a classroom and the classmates thing he's trying to be funny. They try to get him up and end up dragging him across the floor, leaving a bloodtrail. If you look at the body, there's no entry wound, making the moment stupidly unrealistic. Granted, if there was one, they wouldn't have thought the kid was faking it, but its the principle of it. Shit like that always tends to piss me off.

For a movie called [I]The American[/I], it seemed more suited towards a non-American audience. [I]SPOILER [/I][sp]I didn't like it. Cue mikey and rusty telling me I'm wrong[/sp] [I]22 Jump Street[/I] 7/10 Just as good as the first, but in different ways, and it wasn't as tight. Scenes where I was gasping for air due to laughing out my diaphragm [sp]like when Jenko realizes who it was that Schmidt slept with[/sp] were contrasted by stuff like skimpy storytelling, unclear passages of time, and Jonah Hill occasionally trying way too hard to make something unfunny funny. [I]The Gauntlet[/I] 7/10 Clint Eastwood stars as a washed-up cop who gets tasked with heading to Las Vegas to bring a nothing-witness to Phoenix for a nothing-trial. Surprise! They're actually a high-profile witness wanted by the mob, and they have a price on their heads in the form of a high-stakes bet on whether or not they make it to Phoenix. Competent, with some good scenes, action, and dialogue. There's lots of crazy BS you'll only find in a late-70's/early-80's movie. However, the concept is wonky at best, and it's not used as often as I would have liked it to be. I mean how there's a bounty on them, but the only people after them are cops and mobsters. You never see anyone other than that. The person playing the witness is also really, really annoying.

Die Hard 5 - 2/10 It gets 2 points for some decent action scenes. Other than that, it sucked pretty badly.

[QUOTE=Rexxasaurus;45117805]Die Hard 5 - 2/10 It gets 2 points for some decent action scenes. Other than that, it sucked pretty badly.[/QUOTE] I think you went too easy on it.

[QUOTE=xBackfire;45117864]I think you went too easy on it.[/QUOTE] Yeah I did. I just felt sorry for it and gave it a 2 instead of a 0.

[QUOTE=massaki;45114100]I think that's the fourth one, dream master. Probably one of the coolest kills in the third one is the very first, where he uses one of his victims as a puppet via stringing his veins out to lure him to his own suicide, gnarly, although I think after the third movie is where they stopped caring so much for the horror aspects of the kills and just went straight ahead for some ridiculous looking effects, whatever it still works and it's awesome. [B]Saving Mr Banks - 8/10[/B] Loved this movie, great insight to P.L. Travers's journey on getting Mary Poppins to the big screen as well as Walt Disney, the period setting is absolutely perfect and I think it shines through that Tom Hanks himself is very passionate about his own portrayal of Walt Disney. It's not 100% the truth, but it's a nice story, very nice movie. Also ordered myself Nosferatu the vampyr on blu-ray, cannot wait.[/QUOTE] Colin Farrell also was amazing in Saving Mr. Banks his downward spiral has me in tears by the end in the theatre, and I haven't even seen mary poppins :v:

[B]Monuments Men - 7/10[/B] Nowhere near as bad as I expected. I liked this but Clooney made the story as dull as possible. There is really no action or real suspense of any kind. Just pointing that out and I'm ok with this. Maybe one part when the Russians are coming. None of the characters felt really realistic at all and they're also rather dull with no real personality of any kind. Some of the scenes have this very abrupt end to them that makes no sense. It's as if the director cut them all short for no reason. I guess it adds to the dullness of the movie. Most scenes felt like filler material and served no purpose at all. The story definitely deserves to be told, but this movie seems to have all the life sucked out of it. Is it Clooney's fault? I think so maybe. Maybe it's his own unique style!! I will say that it's well made and looks good. It's very very slow, but never boring though. I would only suggest it for fans of WWII history. It's actually less interesting than a WWII documentary. Not sure how Clooney pulled that off. Note: 7 isn't bad. I would say good, but nothing special. Maybe this is actually very accurate to the book. Sometimes that doesn't always make an entertaining movie. [B]Only Lovers Left Alive (2013): 8/10[/B] A lot of people will dismiss it as hipster-baiting garbage (well, it is a Jarmusch movie), but I can't be upset at those people. I'll just feel sort of sad for them, instead. Only Lovers Left Alive is not only one of the best vampire films of the last twenty or thirty years (yes, even though it is practically completely devoid of horror elements), but is also one of the funniest, timeliest, well-acted, and deliciously scripted indie movies I've seen recently. It is perhaps a shade too clever for its own good, and to say it's thinly plotted is an understatement, but its perpetual murk hides a lovely little gem, and I believe it's destined for cult-classic hood (more along the lines of Eternal Sunshine or Harold and Maude than Eraserhead or Rocky Horror Picture Show). It also possesses a truly great drone soundtrack that draws heavily from modern post-rock, psychedelic rock, and noise--so good, in fact, that I might be tempted to say that for those of you who are fans of the above-mentioned genres that this film might be worth seeing just for the music alone. I could also say that it might be worth seeing just for the performances alone, or for the night-time cinematography alone. Jarmusch and his cast and crew do a lot of things right here, and the end result is simply intoxicating. If it shows up in a theatre near you, don't miss it.

I need to see only lovers left alive. Looked great and I like jarmusch quite a bit. My friend saw it and bought the soundtrack on vinyl. It is great. Looks like a film I can really get behind. [editline]16th June 2014[/editline] It played a couple months back but not for long so I missed it

Jarmusch is great, Dead Man is one of my favorite movies

Being Flynn: 8/10 I liked it.

Tetsuo: The Iron Man 8/10 A surrealist nightmare. The Beyond (L'aldilà) 6.8/10 Another surrealist nightmare.

[QUOTE=Blazedol;45120827]Being Flynn: 8/10 I liked it.[/QUOTE] I can't be the only one who hasn't heard of this movie who immediately thought of Breaking Bad.

[B]White House Down[/B] 4/10 Not very good, it goes from out of place comedic scenes to seriousness pretty inconsistently, the action isn't all that great and overall the plot is predictable as hell and sometimes pretty boring. [B]Olympus Has Fallen[/B] 8/10 It seems like someone watched WHD and thought "how could this have been a good movie?" and made it so. It's just so much better in every way, the action is intense and surprisingly gory. The plot is still a little cliche' and all, but it kept me tense all the way through. They were some pretty cool moments, and Gerard Butler was pretty awesome. Definetly a must watch for action-packed thrill ride fans, although far from being a perfect movie. A pleasant surprise nonthelesss.

OHF came out before WHD actually and both are terrible, OHF doesn't deserve a rating over 6/10, and even that's pushing the envelope.

At least Olympus has Fallen has some value in being so ridiculously stupid and balls out that it's kind of entertaining because of that, like some dumb 80s B action movies.

Olympus Has Fallen would have been much better if all the action sequences weren't 90% CGI and most of the plotline hadn't been ripped straight from Die Hard. [editline]16th June 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=redBadger;45121281]I can't be the only one who hasn't heard of this movie who immediately thought of Breaking Bad.[/QUOTE] That took me a while to get.

jumanji - 7/10 i watched it before and didnt like it, but for some reason, it just clicked with me this time mistakes and all, i still enjoyed it

[QUOTE=Pops;45121883]OHF came out before WHD actually and both are terrible, OHF doesn't deserve a rating over 6/10, and even that's pushing the envelope.[/QUOTE] what I meant was it seemed as if someone did that, I know obv it didn't happen. I dunno, I liked it. ratings suck anyway

Oculus - 6/10 A mindfuck just for the sake of being a mindfuck. Props to it not being 100% jump scares.

[QUOTE=The_J_Hat;45123113]That took me a while to get.[/QUOTE] I don't get it D: [QUOTE=massaki;45123806]Oculus - 6/10 A mindfuck just for the sake of being a mindfuck. Props to it not being 100% jump scares.[/QUOTE] It's a pretentious mindfuck

I liked OHF. It was pretty much Die Hard but hey whats wrong with that? Die Hard movies havnt been that great lately so whatever. And if it had to copy one movie at least it copied Die Hard unlike most crappy ass action movies. White House whatever, sucked however.

[QUOTE=Blazedol;45123869]I don't get it D: It's a pretentious mindfuck[/QUOTE] Yeah, it really tried to push itself to be really memorable. The story was a fucking mess, I'm all for interpretation but there's literally no way to read into that film when there's plot holes and unexplained meaningless stuff everywhere. [b]Sinister - 7/10[/b] Here's a not so terrible horror movie from recent years. I actually found it to be pretty creepy, the snuff tapes had me asking who was placing them and why they existed whilst being pretty gruesome at the same time [sp]The Mowing the Lawn tape especially[/sp] Great sound producing as well, [i]which is pretty much key when it comes to making a suspenseful moment in a horror movie[/i] a lot of really goofy jump scares though stop this from being as good as it probably could be, the resolution/reveal of the story is pretty disappointing, it's villain sets it up to be so much more to what's actually revealed to be happening. It's good fun though, nothing really memorable apart from it's pretty gruesome snuff movie parts, but it'll probably get you creeped out.

The Double - 7/10 Was depressing as fuck. Really well shot, really neat bleak world. I thought the acting was good, could've been better