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

make him watch salo

World War Z - 7/10 Surprisingly good. Didn't like how the zombies were portrayed though and the whole [sp]Climbing over the wall[/sp] scene was so stupid. Plus plot armor everywhere. Nice plot though and an enjoyable film.

No, it made sense for Brad Pitt to survive everything. He had the long hair of a Greek god. The ending of [I]Evil Dead[/I] (the new one) made me really happy, since the one person that survives is the only one that I actually know from somewhere else. [sp]The chick from Suburgatory[/sp]

I feel like they missed a perfect opportunity to capitalise on the fact that Ashley is a gender neutral name and have the protagonist of the remake share names with our boomstick totin', large chinned, groovy friend from the original trilogy.

[B]National Treasure[/B] - 7.5/10 This is a fun movie. I think watching this as a kid is what got me into heist movies - there's a lot of fun action setpieces, from the frosty boat discovery to the Declaration heist to the city chases to the underground temple. You can definitely feel Bruckheimer's [I]Pirates[/I] influence in there, and there's some [I]Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade[/I] in there too. Cage is a good lead - not as crazy as usual, although Ben Gates probably suffers from apophenia. Kruger is a fun co-star and easy on the eyes, even if her accent is all over the place. Bean (who does [I]not[/I] die) and his gang of eastern-European thugs are good villains. A little simple and cheesy, but still fun. Sometimes I wish there were more easy-watching PG action-adventure movies. Also now I want a "steal the Declaration" heist for [I]Payday 2.[/I]

Strangers on a train (1951) 8/10 [IMG]http://www.ricardogreene.cl/espectrofilia/strangersonatrain/strangers_on_a_train_10.png[/IMG] Damn, Sir Alfred had an eye for women actresses! As for the film itself, I quite liked it. It may not be Hitchcock's best but it's certainly up there among the greats. Robert Walker's performance was particularly riveting

[QUOTE=Yogkog;45288574]Dredd - 8/10[/QUOTE] This film screams for continuation. Also yes, good that you would compare it to the Raid, they were very similar in my opinion too. But more (or less?) entertaining than the other? Nah, not gonna comment on that. They are so different in their own ways, seeing as Dredd is set in a futuristic, almost like post-apocalyptic fictional Universe whereas the Raid is absolutely none of those things.

[QUOTE=The Stills;45297366]I feel like they missed a perfect opportunity to capitalise on the fact that Ashley is a gender neutral name and have the protagonist of the remake share names with our boomstick totin', large chinned, groovy friend from the original trilogy.[/QUOTE] you seem to forget that they're making a sequel to it, a sequel to army of darkness, and a final film that combines the two universes together and end the series.

I know they are, what's your point?

The Manchurian Candidate (2004) 8/10 Very much a silly premise but everyone is quite good in it

[B]Hobo With A Shotgun (Dir. Jesse Eisener, 2011)- 6/10[/B] This is the second film made from the Fake Trailers that open the Grindhouse doublebill (Tarantino's Death Proof and Rodriguez' Planet Terror). I've not really got much to say about this but I do have one pretty interesting thing to say. It does a better job than Death Proof or Planet Terror at being what it wants to be. Its not as good as either film but instead of feeling like an homage to grindhouse, this feels like a real grindhouse film. The film is super silly though, but not really that funny. Its gore is plentiful for sure but it kinda rubbed me the wrong way a few times for just kinda being a bit much, and I wasn't so much disturbed as I was just kinda like ":///" u know Rutger Hauer is pretty good as the titular character and theres some fun lines as you'd expect. It certainly doesn't hold back. Worth watching if you're into low budget gory movies. I imagine this'd be a load of fun with friends. [B]Wild At Heart (Dir. David Lynch, 1990)- 7.5/10[/B] Had this for a while but never got round to watching it until today. Another solid Lynch film, as expected. Pretty conventional for his standards but still strange. A lot of trademark use of sound design, weird use of lenses and the camera, and campy acting to weird you out. Nic Cage and Laura Dern are great in the lead roles as a couple on the run, and Willem Dafoe is chillingly good in his pencil-stache creep role. The film is a road movie, and starts with Sailor (Cage) brutally murdering, with his bare hands, a hitman hired by Dern's mother (played by Diane Ladd, Laura Dern's real life mother) trying to kill him. The scene is really exhilarating and has a thrash metal riff playing as the soundtrack bringing a lot of life to it along with Cage's expectedly energetic performance (although through most of this film he's actually quite calm and doesn't meet the stereotypical performance expected by him) He's locked up for about 2 years under manslaughter charges and once freed drives away with Lula (Dern) to California and away from her controlling mother who hires mobsters to go after them and kill Sailor. The film is cool and slick, pretty fast paced and thoroughly entertaining although the very on the nose Wizard of Oz references are pointless and detrimental to the film. I would much rather they were all gone from the film but they're not enough to ruin it at all. The film kinda touches on Lynch's favourite motif, that of a small town with an evil underbelly, but in this it's more just kinda hinted at rather than being the focus of the movie (like his previous film Blue Velvet, one of the best movies I've seen). It does however follow many of his other well-worn motifs of melodrama, deliberate cliche, black comedy and satire, and glowing in 50's culture. Cage is equal parts Elvis and James Dean (he in fact sings two Elvis songs, both performed by Cage himself, proving that he has a really nice singing voice). He's the laid back, smooth talking, sharp Elvis, but he's also the charming bad boy James Dean. He wears a Snakeskin jacket (one of Cage's own suggestions, of course) that is " a symbol of my individuality, and my belief in personal freedom" If you've watched Twin Peaks, which you most certainly should if you've not, (fuck ya Breakin Bad shit Twin Peaks is the greatest TV show of all time) also created by David Lynch, you'll spot several familiar faces. Lynch likes to use some of the same actors in his works and WaH and Twin Peaks were made the same year, so it makes sense. Overall not Lynch's best work but still a film very much worth watching, it features a great performance by Nic Cage back when he was young and respectable (I still love his work from the past 15 years, generally at least, but there's no denying he's become a bit of a joke despite his talent) and a witty, dark, strange story, so if you want something cool and a bit different definitely check this out.

Captain Phillips - 8/10 Movie was pretty slow paced for the most part and it really felt like it dragged on for too long, but it was still enjoyable. Paul Greengrass still has his shaky cam and sniper rifle fetish. Most of the pirate actors are doing the typical "black guy has his eyelids peeled back so much it looks like his eyes will fall off" routine for most of the movie. Oh and Tom Hanks [I]almost[/I] gets to have a piss scene in this one.

[B]Team America: World Police[/B] Going to forgo a rating and just say that it was the weirdest fucking movie I have ever seen. Those puppets are just too goddamn creepy. Yeah it was hilarious, but fuck, those puppet faces are going to haunt my nightmares. Anyways, of all the movies one could watch on the 4th of July, this was a good choice.

Django Unchained - Nigger on a horse/10

[QUOTE=mikeyt493;45301039][B]Hobo With A Shotgun (Dir. Jesse Eisener, 2011)- 6/10[/B] [/QUOTE] incorrect this movie is a gem

Robocop (2014) - 5.5/10 This... wasn't very good. Admittedly I expected it to be somewhat decent but I was sorely disappointed. It's so boring and there's next to no suspense in any of the "action" scenes, which there aren't that many of in the first place. Alex rides around on his motorcycle and there's a few dull shootouts, not much else. Only thing I really liked about it was Gary Oldman's performance. But hey, at least it was better than Robocop 3.

robocop 3 had a better ending though

[I]Hyde Park on Hudson[/I] ?/10 I didn't get it. Stopped watching it before getting even halfway through. I'm pretty sure that there's a scene where FDR gets a handjob. [I]Election[/I] 6/10 Funny at times, but as a whole made me feel depressed and unable to really enjoy the movie. I guess it's just like [I]Melancholia[/I] where there's actually a super obvious transcendent representation of humanity that I'm too stupid or inattentive to notice. [I]Flags of Our Fathers[/I] 8/10 Choppy pacing, but the movie makes up for it in many other areas. Hard-hitting emotional journey. It's funny because my DVR said that it was almost 4 hours long, but that was just because, for whatever reason, it recorded the movie after it, which was [I]Madagascar[/I].

you gotta watch Letters from Iwo Jima now.. There's no other option.

[QUOTE=AK'z;45306272]you gotta watch Letters from Iwo Jima now.. There's no other option.[/QUOTE] These two films have to be watched back to back, there's no other way.

monty pythons the quest of the grail 7/10 The movie was great but some parts need[I] get on with it[/I].

i've seen letters from iwo jima but not flags of our fathers should i bother i hear it's not as good?

it's very good, but nowhere near as good as Letters.. that's why it's best to see beforehand.

Europa Report This is basically The Abyss mixed with Space Odyssey presented as found footage/a documentary. It was definitely very interesting and competently made but it suffered from some clichés and a low budget for what it was trying to be. Also the last twenty or so seconds were unnecessary. I'd recommend it if you're into sci-fi mysteries.

[QUOTE=Scot;45308440]Europa Report This is basically The Abyss mixed with Space Odyssey presented as found footage/a documentary. It was definitely very interesting and competently made but it suffered from some clichés and a low budget for what it was trying to be. Also the last twenty or so seconds were unnecessary. I'd recommend it if you're into sci-fi mysteries.[/QUOTE] the trailers botched it, they made it seem like blair witch in space.

[QUOTE=Rusty100;45306468]i've seen letters from iwo jima but not flags of our fathers should i bother i hear it's not as good?[/QUOTE] imo it's worth seeing

[B]Boyhood (Dir. Richard Linklater, 2001-2013)- 10/10[/B] I can't imagine anyone will remember, but a while ago I wrote a post here breaking down how I justify my numerical ratings. I said that my 9 is probably a lot of people's 10, and that a 10 for me is a film that I understand may not work for everyone in the way it does for me but it has that staying power, or that relevance, or some other indescribable resonance and power to you as an individual that is special. This film had that. It is breathtaking. Just an absolutely stunning piece of cinema. For anyone not aware, this film follows a family (it's [I]not[/I] just the boy) over the course of 12 years, and they filmed it in real time. So they'd film the stuff based in 2001 in 2001. 2002 in 2002, and so on. Every year they'd return and shoot that part of the film. Linklater, as well as the four main characters, wrote the film as it went on, each year changing and adapting it to suit who these people became in real life so that the characters were as real as could be. And it worked fantastically. I trusted this massively ambitious project and expected it to work totally and not as a gimmick (it is absolutely not a gimmick) because I trust Richard Linklater, who I think is one of the best and most honest contemporary filmmakers. Not to mention he has already attempted a similar idea with his masterful [I]Before[/I] trilogy. i don't really wanna write much about this film cos it's magical and getting deep into writing about it would take it away. The film is beautiful and heartfelt and honest. It's not a big drama, there's nothing "unique and special" about these characters or their story. They're just people. People you see on the street or are in the same class as you or you work with them. They don't throw in a death in the family, or a car crash, or cancer, or anything. It's not necessary. The point of this film is that life is great as it is and adventure is found every day through normal life. I was really moved by this and came out feeling like I have a different outlook on life and I think that's still true. This film has marginally affected my perception of life and the world and growing up, which I think is absolutely amazing. There were [I]so many[/I] moments that I looked at and was like, "this is me". And I mean that totally sincerely. I literally can see myself in Mason Jr. I remember being forced to get my hair cut and hating it. I remember seeing my dad who I don't live with and having him say something about life that made me think and affected my perspective and attitude towards things. I remember my first girlfriend. I remember hanging out with kids a good few years older than me and doing shit I wasn't supposed to do. I remember the first time I drank and got high, or went camping, fought with my sibling, did something that'd piss off my parents but I didn't care. Discovering where I want my life to take me. I saw myself in just about everything Mason Jr. did, and not because he's a surrogate. He's a real, full character, but he's just a kid and that's it. So was I and I grew up alongside him. I'm the same age as him too, so as I was doing what I was doing, so was he. At the same time, and I was oblivious. I think that's amazing. I really feel like I grew up alongside this character and that I was a part of his story, that he let me be a part of it. The film becomes more than a film because of this and because of the filmmaking process and the use of the same actors. It becomes a window into other people's lives. Literally. The film shaped around the actors as they aged and lived their lives, and it shows. Highly recommend this film to absolutely everyone. It's my favourite of the year so far and there's going to have to be something incredible to stop it staying my favourite. I can't imagine anyone who is a fan of film disliking this movie. It is so beautiful and so incredibly watchable. It's not out yet, I saw it at a preview, but keep an eye on this hitting a theatre near you and do not miss it. I truly feel I appreciate the life I've lived and will continue to live more because of this movie.

[B]The Lunchbox[/B] Good golly.. This film is one to really rejuvenate the spirits. Not only is this one of the most meaningful and well made Indian movies I've ever seen but it's a rarity that personally connected with me. (it was actually released in 2013 but released this year in the UK). Movies which are simple yet give a great deal and bond with me are the ones that get ahead. It's essentially a love story, and it's nothing like I've ever seen. If anything I'd compare it to "Her" in that the love is mysterious and at the same time real and moving. Here it's more in how they communicate that touched me deeply. I also would like to praise the acting here because it's really something else. It's just so damn natural and it blows my mind. This film has not only reaffirmed my hope for new movies (that keeps happening btw) but it also moves Indian cinema into a new realm. What kind of dope didn't choose to enter this for the Acadamy award this year beats me... but this is definitely the most special film I've seen all year. I'm so hungry. edit: just found out why it wasn't submitted for the oscars: [quote]"Now I can say that some people from Bombay felt that the basic premise of The Lunch Box was wrong. Because the Dubbawalas never do such mistakes. "[/quote] That's pathetic. "This film gives the business a bad press so let's not praise the fictional story".

The Warriors - 8/10 Love this movie, but not the shitty changes done in the director's cut.

[b]Man of Murder (2013)[/b] Not as bad as everyone made it out to be. I did the saturation thing that people were talking about and got an enjoyable movie.