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

Rise of the Planet of the Apes Apes dual wielding M4s on horseback/10

Mama - 6.5/10 Nice, original horror flick that relies for the most part on old-school scare techniques. Genuinely frightening at parts, but begins to lose that essence in the final third when the monster is outright revealed frequently. Anyone who is a fan of horror movies will dig this as it has some really great scenes and harks back to an era before the genre became mostly about jump scares. Loses marks for the final third; in particular the ending, but still definitely worth checking out.

[I]Riddick[/I] Made-for-TV movie/10 I think that Vinn Diesel thinks that Riddick is way cooler than he actually is.

[QUOTE=A B.A. Survivor;45400775][I]Riddick[/I] Made-for-TV movie/10 I think that Vinn Diesel thinks that Riddick is way cooler than he actually is.[/QUOTE] Nothing worse than listening to him whisper-read his super cool lines in Escape from Butcher Bay. "nanostations...takes away the hurt...leaves the pain...."

[B]Boyhood - 10/10[/B] This is a film everyone should see. I realised as I was watching that Mason and I are the same age which is pretty cool. This film was just... wow. I felt such a real emotional connection to every single character it was scary. I almost felt voyeuristic at times because it was so personal. I really fucking love Ethan Hawke in this, shame he's shit with anyone other than Linklater. Everyone go see this. [editline]15th July 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=evlbzltyr;45398861]just saw Kill List pretty neat. I think that's the first time I've heard someone use the word "gaff" meaning their house unironically[/QUOTE] i don't know why but i think Kill List is my favourite horror of all time, it's just perfect to me. I have a big boner for Wheatley.

[B]Red State[/B] 7.5/10 I heard nice things about this one so I decided to give it a shot, and I'm now glad to have done so. It's a very simple concept and not a very long movie, but it was really fun, gory, unpredictable and definetly unconventional. It's not perfect, but it works. I heard the director talk about the alternate ending he had in mind, and the movie would have probably been better in my eyes if they chose to include it. [B]Need for Speed [/B]5.5/10 Ehh.. Granted it is fun at times and Aaron Paul is very good, but it's just so convoluted, predictable and formulaic and just doesn't make sense at times. I don't know why I expected better from a videogame movie, I shouldn't have. It's still one of the better adaptations, but that's not really saying much. [B]Sabotage[/B] 3.5/10 Definetly the worst of Schwarzenegger's recent flicks. Dull and generally badly made, it tries to be smart and intrigueing but ultimately fails under almost every aspect. The ending was the best part, but doesn't even remotely do any justice to the film as a whole. Just skip this one, even if you are a hardcore arnie fan.

Agreed with everything electronic just said Boyhood is.a 10 and Kill list is a masterpiece of horror. (do not agree that Hawke is only good with Linklater though) speaking of Ethan Hawke and great horror films.... [B]Sinister (dir. Scott Derrikson, 2012) - 8/10 [/B] Did not expect to love this film but I did. The first 30 minutes or so I really liked but also their quality made me fear for what to come. I knew it was a ghost story and I wanted it to just remain this detective thriller where he busts open a case via his book research and it'd be great story. But thankfully the supernatural stuff was very low key and never felt forced or cheesy, the film does a great job at avoiding tropes. It's story basis is reasonably straight forward but the execution is not. Its direction is visually great and meditative and calm and tense. Ethan Hawke brings a lot to his performance and this is no career best but it's a great performance. Really liked how as well as not being over the top with its supernatural horror it didn't abandon the mystery and it still was given lots of attention. In fact its prominence is inherent given Hawkes character and the method of the ghosts' workings. I appreciated and enjoyed its delving into the mythos of the ghosts and making the film feel.more occult than supernatural. The tapes were brilliantly done and really creepy, but it did cut away a little to sheepishly for my tastes (not out of.bloodlust but of the feeling the cuts were.forced for censorship) and the ending was a fresh one that I actually didn't expect. Highly recommended if you want a good horror movie, this is fresh and subversive wirh great visuals and lead performance by Hawke. Great horror film.

In The Loop - 10/10 Fucking brilliant and hilarious. Now I gotta find me a bluray of 'The Thick of It' Non-Stop - 6/10 An alright film. I forgot how shitty Liam Neeson can be at acting.

[QUOTE=cqbcat;45399330]Rise of the Planet of the Apes Apes dual wielding M4s on horseback/10[/QUOTE] you mean dual-wielding M249s

I hate the theaters around me. They never have anything good. I've missed Grand Budapest Hotel, Snowpiercer, and am going to miss Boyhood because they only ever get the big huge blockbuster movies.

the closest theater to me had the grand budapest hotel on for like a month, maybe more [editline]16th July 2014[/editline] it never had snowpiercer on and edge of tomorrow only stayed on it for a week, so idk if they're gonna be playing boyhood

[B]Rifftrax Live: Sharknado: Ian Ziering Jumping Into A Shark While Armed With A Chainsaw/10[/B] Okay, seriously, even with the familiar voices of Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy, and Bill Corbett to guide me through this joke of a movie, Sharknado was the most painful thing I've ever had the misfortune of sitting through. Yeah, it made the riffs even funnier, but god damn, it was almost an improvement when a power surge took out all the projectors in the theater for a few minutes (though the audio was still on). This was more painful than The Room, Birdemic, The Star Wars Holiday Special, and Santa And The Ice Cream Bunny all combined. So fuck you, The Asylum, for making this movie, and thank you, Rifftrax, for making it bearable enough for me to not run straight out of the theater to shoot myself.

[QUOTE=cardfan212;45403095]I hate the theaters around me. They never have anything good. I've missed Grand Budapest Hotel, Snowpiercer, and am going to miss Boyhood because they only ever get the big huge blockbuster movies.[/QUOTE] I have one theatre in a 90 mile radius but it shows everything.

[QUOTE=TheFilmSlacker;45403470]The nearest theater to me is an hour away, it has 8 screens and movies never play for any longer than 2 weeks. And they're ALWAYS big blockbusters. I don't think I've ever seen a movie on a limited release get a screening there and I've lived here for almost 2 decades.[/QUOTE] wow that kind of sucks, i feel spoiled now for having a ton of nice theaters around me plus an indie one that shows all those wes anderson movies. do you live in a rural area? [QUOTE=A B.A. Survivor;45400775][I]Riddick[/I] Made-for-TV movie/10 I think that Vinn Diesel thinks that Riddick is way cooler than he actually is.[/QUOTE] vin is one of those guys that really loves what he does and has a great time doing it, that's cool by me. i think riddick is good for what it is and despite being pretty corny it works

watched the SMB movie again, from a cult standpoint I still like the movie. It saddens me though that the movie itself reminds me of Hoskins, RIP good man.

I need to see that, if it's anything like the Street Fighter movie (i.e. campy as all hell and so far removed from the source material it's practically parodying it), I'm sure to love it.

I've slept on it and I only have two criticisms of Boyhood - Linklater's daughter was great when she was young but got worse as she grew up. Still not as bad as Sofia Coppola in The Godfather Part 3, though. - I didn't really appreciate some of the things that happened and only seemed to happen to create some drama [sp] the drunken husbands (I'm fine with the teacher guy but the third husband was just a bit forced imo) and the Mexican plumber guy spring to mind [/sp]

[QUOTE=ElectronicG19;45407302]I've slept on it and I only have two criticisms of Boyhood - Linklater's daughter was great when she was young but got worse as she grew up. Still not as bad as Sophia Coppola in The Godfather Part 3, though. - I didn't really appreciate some of the things that happened and only seemed to happen to create some drama [sp] the drunken husbands (I'm fine with the teacher guy but the third husband was just a bit forced imo) and the Mexican plumber guy spring to mind [/sp][/QUOTE] I think the focus steered well away from her and it became a totally different film half-way in. I definitely have to see it again.

[QUOTE=AK'z;45407310]I think the focus steered well away from her and it became a totally different film half-way in. I definitely have to see it again.[/QUOTE] Yeah when she got to high school age the film definitely stopped paying as much attention to her which was good. I really didn't like the scene in the bedroom where she's with her friend, though. She was quite bad.

I feel the [sp]second drunk husband[/sp] worked since it was a part of Arquette's character that she makes consistently bad decisions without meaning to. Even Ethan Hawke was not a good match (in that, imo, he was probably not a reliable and stable worker/person with an understanding of responsibility to be a long term partner) and they broke up because of it. I did very fleetingly notice what you mean though but it didn't really bother me too much. It also worked as a showing of Mason's growth as he deals with difficult situations (and the growth of the mother- she doesn't take shit second time round, she's learnt to love herself more and be a stronger person. The parents are equally important to the story imo and the film would be significantly less interesting did it not deal with their struggles and growth too)

Yeah, I get what you mean about the parents growth being important, but I disagree with what you've said about Hawke. There wasn't really any change in his character at all, the first time we meet him it's clear that he loves his kids and wants to be a part of their lives again after his absence in [sp] "Alaska" [/sp] but he doesn't really change at all from that point on. [sp] The bumpers thing at the bowling alley shows that he isn't really cut out to be a parent because he doesn't have a filter for his kids, sure, but that style sort of fits and molds Mason into the person he becomes, Hawke never changes from that straight talking liberal, though I suppose he does become more accepting as shown by his marriage to the religious woman [/sp]

[QUOTE=ElectronicG19;45407445]Yeah, I get what you mean about the parents growth being important, but I disagree with what you've said about Hawke. There wasn't really any change in his character at all, the first time we meet him it's clear that he loves his kids and wants to be a part of their lives again after his absence in [sp] "Alaska" [/sp] but he doesn't really change at all from that point on. [sp] The bumpers thing at the bowling alley shows that he isn't really cut out to be a parent because he doesn't have a filter for his kids, sure, but that style sort of fits and molds Mason into the person he becomes, Hawke never changes from that straight talking liberal, though I suppose he does become more accepting as shown by his marriage to the religious woman [/sp][/QUOTE] I didn't say that Hawke changed? I know he didn't. He did mature a bit though and managed to find someone who he could live with (for now at least) But to elaborate on what I meant with Hawke, it's more, he clearly didn't bring in money and likely was often between jobs (as hinted several times, and when we first meet him he doesn't actually have a job- and the fact that Arquette was asking means he clearly doesn't have a stable job or career. Plus he [sp]sold the car[/sp] and stuff) and while he was great with the kids he didn't have a filter and I feel like he and Arquette rubbed wrongly as they are two very different people, and opposites attract is just something for storybooks. It wasn't that he was a bad parent, it was that for who Arquette was he was a bad partner. They didn't click, they were too different to live together without tension. We can see from who they are post-marriage that their marriage was doomed from the beginning. They simply didn't work together and you don't even need to see their married life to know that. And that is clearly a flaw with Arquette's character, that she picks people who don't match with her. Maybe for excitement, or change, I dunno. Honestly I do agree that [sp]army husband man[/sp] was a bit of retreading but ultimately a minor issue and it did allow for some more character exploration and a showing of their maturity as they aged. (by revisiting something similar to what Mason experienced as a young child when he's now a teenager we can see a big transformation in him and understanding who he's becoming, as well as seeing Arquette's character growing stronger and more independent as she appeared to have a reliance on having someone else around even if they are not someone good for her)

hawke was solid as a dad but he was already well established as a Linklater veteran with the Before series, he brought to the plate what I expected and it was still very good. I thought the mother's performance was really good though.

Screw you guys, I have to wait one more month for Boyhood ;-;

It's already playing here in the states. in five theaters... somewhere... [editline]16th July 2014[/editline] somewhere far, far away from me

I finally found a theater that is playing it. Sadly, it's in Chicago, and I don't feel like driving 3 hours just to go see a movie, no matter how good it is.

Rushmore 5/5 Not as funny as the other Wes Anderson movies I've seen, but very rewarding.

I hope you can talk about theater here. Just saw [I]The Cripple of Inishmaan[/I] in NYC tonight. The basic premise is that in depression-era Ireland, a cripple boy learns that a filmmaker is in town so he takes his chance to rise above what everyone expected of him. It was billed as a black comedy buy boy was it [I]dark[/I]. I'm usually okay with dark comedy but this was just bleak and soul-crushing. It basically explores just how bad one kid's life can get. It also explores precisely how cruel humans can be, and how people are not always all that they seem. One particular case of irony I noticed was how the one guy whom both the protagonist and the audience expected to have the kindest heart wound up having the absolute worst, and vice versa. It's not totally without happiness but it has one of the most bittersweet endings I've ever seen in my life that tempers his biggest dream coming true with a harsh and bleak reality and an all-too-real sense of mortality. Daniel Radcliffe was stellar in this play. The role of the cripple was obviously very physically demanding, and he walks with a very realistic, almost surreal, gaunty hobble. At one point he has a severe coughing fit and he stays totally motionless in his bed with no shifting like you would expect someone of his condition to behave, save for almost terrifyingly convincing spasms and tremors. He does this all with his thick Irish accent the play demands. The guy has serious acting chops and totally has risen above being just that kid who played Harry Potter, there's no doubt about that in my mind. If you can get your hands on tickets and are in NYC I would recommend it. It will be on Broadway until July 20th.

[B]Grand Piano:[/B] 6/10 - decent flick if there is nothing else on. Perhaps I'm just not in the mood for it but it didn't do much. [B]Out of the Furnace:[/B] 6/10 - extremely slow show with not much development in my opinion. I spent most of the time skipping through bits of it as I got bored. [B]Mandela Long Walk to Freedom:[/B] 7/10 - I felt that it did a decent job though in parts it felt like it was almost hitting the right mark and then it fell away. Too much of one man's life to cram into a movie. But a great man he was and his fight, was the right fight. If we don't fight for freedom, then who are we exactly? [B]Jack Ryan Shadow Recruit:[/B] 6.5/10 - decent show to help time pass along if nothing else. [B]Robocop:[/B] 7/10 - I thought this was a pretty good show with decent action along the way. Watched purely because I caught the first two when I was younger and I'm pretty happy I caught this one as well. [B]The Monuments Men:[/B] 6.5/10 - this is by no means anything like the Oceans trilogy despite making an attempt to do so with the wit and the camaraderie. I'd love to see something like Oceans again though. [B]Frankenstein:[/B]7/10 - I'd watch it just for the action, all good fun. Not much of a plot line, but in the Underworld mould.

you want a good mandela, try Invictus.