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

[video=youtube;QEZBhL5lpqg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEZBhL5lpqg[/video] every time I see this it makes me so upset it was never used [editline]21st July 2014[/editline] here's my pitch: it's already shown in the movie that Norman has a mask collection - the goblin mask is one of them (P.S. the movie never shows us where the goblin mask comes from, only the suit and glider). Now, we could suspend our disbelief (like how everyone's okay with a broke college student making a AAA-movie quality superhero costume all on his own) and just say it's a fancy mask that can carry over Norman's expressions. But if that's too hard to accept, how about this... The glider is constantly spewing smoke, and we see that the Green Goblin can spray out a nerve gas from his suit. Additionally, the suit was developed for military use. So the Goblin - either through his suit or the glider - has the ability to spray out a hallucinogenic gas (like the fear toxin from [I]Batman Begins[/I]) that makes people 'see' the goblin face talking and emoting as if it was a real face.

looks too lord of the rings for me would rather have robo goblin [editline]22nd July 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=Corndog Ninja;45462742]here's my pitch: it's already shown in the movie that Norman has a mask collection - the goblin mask is one of them (P.S. the movie never shows us where the goblin mask comes from, only the suit and glider). Now, we could suspend our disbelief (like how everyone's okay with a broke college student making a AAA-movie quality superhero costume all on his own) and just say it's a fancy mask that can carry over Norman's expressions. But if that's too hard to accept, how about this... The glider is constantly spewing smoke, and we see that the Green Goblin can spray out a nerve gas from his suit. Additionally, the suit was developed for military use. So the Goblin - either through his suit or the glider - has the ability to spray out a hallucinogenic gas (like the fear toxin from [I]Batman Begins[/I]) that makes people 'see' the goblin face talking and emoting as if it was a real face.[/QUOTE] nevermind thats a 10/10 idea

[QUOTE=Corndog Ninja;45462742][video=youtube;QEZBhL5lpqg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEZBhL5lpqg[/video] every time I see this it makes me so upset it was never used [editline]21st July 2014[/editline] here's my pitch: it's already shown in the movie that Norman has a mask collection - the goblin mask is one of them (P.S. the movie never shows us where the goblin mask comes from, only the suit and glider). Now, we could suspend our disbelief (like how everyone's okay with a broke college student making a AAA-movie quality superhero costume all on his own) and just say it's a fancy mask that can carry over Norman's expressions. But if that's too hard to accept, how about this... The glider is constantly spewing smoke, and we see that the Green Goblin can spray out a nerve gas from his suit. Additionally, the suit was developed for military use. So the Goblin - either through his suit or the glider - has the ability to spray out a hallucinogenic gas (like the fear toxin from [I]Batman Begins[/I]) that makes people 'see' the goblin face talking and emoting as if it was a real face.[/QUOTE] the fact that they can make the green goblin look sad should have been reason enough to use it instead of the helmet.

Jurassic Park 5/5 Great movie. It's amazing how well a lot of it holds up after 20 years, though I did notice that on the T-Rex animatronic, the eyes didn't actually focus forward, but that was only once and really not a big issue. There's still so much to love about this movie. I really hope Jurassic World can live up to it.

Ernest & Celestine - A charming and warm movie. The animation is pure storybook and the story is a simple one of friendship, unfolding at a relaxed pace. Recommended for blue days. Sleeping with the Enemy - The titles makes it seem like it'd be a spy movie, but it's essentially a higher-class Lifetime movie. It has some legitimately tense moments, but it's a very Hollywood representation of an abusive relationship. The Visitor - A boring and muddled movie about an evil reincarnated alien. It sounded much more interesting than it ended up being. But you do get to see a blatantly-plastic bird spear a guy in the neck.

This weekend I watched a recent action movie for the first time. Elysium- 5/10. Really just found it average. It's underlying 'themes' never felt explored and I didn't find it as grounded as District 9 was. The last third of the film is all shootbang like District 9 but it didn't feel like much was at stake. Also Jodie Foster gave the most cringeworthy performance I have seen in a long time.

Yeah Elysium was a disappointment [B]Fallen Angels (Dir. Wong Kar-Wai, 1995)- 8.5/10[/B] What an absolutely wonderful film. This is my first venture into the acclaimed Chinese New Wave director, and it's just brilliant. It's a tale of two stories that only fleetingly cross together, both of a strange but loving relationship. One of a hitman and his partner, who does clean-up/gives him info on his jobs. They have worked together for 155 weeks, but have never really met. She follows him to places he regularly goes sometimes, and he knows. She's in love with him and he leaves her clues about who she is. Their relationship is majorly affected when the hitman meets a full of life prostitute and they form a relationship. The second story is about a crazy young guy who escaped from prison and lives with his dad. He's mute after eating out of date pineapple as a kid. Since he's a convict he can't get proper work (I assume) so he breaks into shops and sells stuff on the black market at night, only he forces people to do it (eg. he makes a guy eat loads and loads of ice cream until he's willing to pay for it all) and he continually runs into a woman who can't stop thinking about her ex boyfriend. Together they go all around Hong Kong to find the woman who stole her lover. The film is just so lovely and romantic despite every character being pretty dysfunctional and broken, but that's part of the charm. Anyone can fall in love under any circumstances, it's a look at strange love and strange people. Hong Kong is not really Hong Kong in this film, it's a dreamscape. The world is seen only through handheld, wide angle lenses, with bright colours and dark blacks. The shots are very kinetic and consistently interesting and some of the fun in this movie comes from just seeing how the camera captures what's going on, it's so unique and fresh. Of course Hong Kong is massive but it feels like a little town in this film. The stories are, while kinda unique, very basic and simple. Not a whole lot happens in the film. To write down the stories even in their true form would make them seem not that engaging, but Kar-Wai's genius here is that he doesn't need it. He creates depth and atmosphere with the beautiful cinematography, wonderful use of music and the great characters. That turns simple stories into deeply engaging ones. He's not trying to write a deep film or a plot with interesting arcs or anything, he wants to explore character and atmosphere, and he does it brilliantly. The editing here is utterly masterful as well, the way the four characters blend together and how he puts together these wonderful and inventive shots to create such a great world. I love it. The ending shot will probably go down as one of my favourites ever. Just masterful. Cannot wait to explore this director's work further, I've consistently heard great things for a while and decided to plunge in with a random one of his films that was on Netflix. I had no idea what it was about but I loved it. [editline]22nd July 2014[/editline] One of the best things about watching this first is that most people consider it one of his less noteworthy films, or the one that isn't really that great. Which just makes me super excited to watch everything else he's made. I'm aware that his films Chungking Express (Fallen Angels is apparently a kinda companion piece to it, meant to be two other stories fitting into the two in Chungking Express, but he decided to make two seperate films instead. I guess he felt they didn't all fit together, or it was too bloated or something. Makes sense, four barely connected stories in one could be a bit much. I'm not big on that. hated Inarrutu's Babel for it (but loved Amores Perros), but this is ambitious enough to be interesting and great and restrained enough to be easy to follow and engaging with developed characters and a slick running time of under 100 minutes.

The Evil Dead 4/5 Still one of the best horror films you can watch. Yeah, it's a bit dated to the point where it's comical (or maybe that was the point?), but it's still holds it's own. [editline]22nd July 2014[/editline] It is a shame to think that directors like Sam Raimi and Peter Jackson don't make splatterfests or straight horror movies any more. Sure, Raimi did make Drag Me to Hell, but it just wasn't the same.

I don't think it's 100% intentional comedy but it's meant to be a lot of fun and be ridiculously over the top. Evil Dead II is better and totally capitalises on the comedy aspect and if you've not watched it it's the best horror-comedy out there and is some kind of auteur B-movie masterpiece [editline]22nd July 2014[/editline] god i so want Peter Jackson to go back to making cool and ridiculous horror flicks instead of trying to cash in with honestly really quite bad epics. I like the LOTR trilogy but King Kong and the Hobbit films are actually really fucking shitty movies. The Hobbit films are pathetic.

Currently watching Evil Dead II now. It's been a while, but it is legitimately brilliant.

Yeah I've seen it on an offensively large list of "best worst movies", people seem to think its greatness and hilarity are an accident. It is so so so deliberate and well-done. You can't make Evil Dead II by accident, Raimi set out to make one of the most ambitious B-movies ever and totally pulled it off and escalated the film from B-movie territory to A-level and legitimate brilliance. He just happened to make a brilliant film in a way reminiscent of bad ones. Doesn't mean the film itself it bad. I hear no one calling Psycho bad because of its B-level source material (from what I can tell? I've not read it. My old media studies teacher said it wasn't much more than some pulp fiction novel) and its heavy borrowing from B-movies from the 50's. Film's still legitimately fantastic despite where it come from. Literally all Hitchcock was trying to do in Psycho was make a film like those B-movies cos he liked them and decided to do one himself.

[QUOTE=The_J_Hat;45468439] Raimi did make Drag Me to Hell, but it just wasn't the same.[/QUOTE] nah mate drag me to hell was an awesome return to classic raimi

Blood Car 5/10 [t]http://www.chrisandphilpresent.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/CarDVD-1024x1024.jpg[/t] Expected this to be some supertrashy stuff by purpose but it was just bad. Bad script, bad dialogue, bad acting. I'm just willing to give this a 5 because apperently it's an absolute indie movie with a budget of 14k $. So I can understand the effects, the scenes that show stills insead of action and a lot of "tricks" to stay in budget. But I can't forgive how it doesn't decide what it wants to be, sometimes it has the tits and the gore of trash genre, at the same time it wallows in a really badly acted scene where the vegan protagonist has to shoot a dog with a pelle gun for whatever reason, the dialogue that fliflops between just bad and pretentious. Don't get misleaded by the cover(which by the way shows the tits in Germany), it's NOT trashy fun, in it's core it wants to be some statement about oil and gas and it's just .... meh.

[QUOTE=Killuah;45469845]Blood Car 5/10 [t]http://www.chrisandphilpresent.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/CarDVD-1024x1024.jpg[/t] Expected this to be some supertrashy stuff by purpose but it was just bad. Bad script, bad dialogue, bad acting. I'm just willing to give this a 5 because apperently it's an absolute indie movie with a budget of 14k $. So I can understand the effects, the scenes that show stills insead of action and a lot of "tricks" to stay in budget. But I can't forgive how it doesn't decide what it wants to be, sometimes it has the tits and the gore of trash genre, at the same time it wallows in a really badly acted scene where the vegan protagonist has to shoot a dog with a pelle gun for whatever reason, the dialogue that fliflops between just bad and pretentious. Don't get misleaded by the cover(which by the way shows the tits in Germany), it's NOT trashy fun, in it's core it wants to be some statement about oil and gas and it's just .... meh.[/QUOTE] try drive angry

Oh I just saw the discussion above. Yeah it's like some wannabes who got the tone of "B-Movie" somewhat down but ultimately failed because they somehow wanted to be "deep with a message" and then the marketing companies decided it would be a good idea to market it as super B-Movie trash with gore and tits.

[QUOTE=Killuah;45469845]Blood Car 5/10 [t]http://www.chrisandphilpresent.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/CarDVD-1024x1024.jpg[/t] Expected this to be some supertrashy stuff by purpose but it was just bad. Bad script, bad dialogue, bad acting. I'm just willing to give this a 5 because apperently it's an absolute indie movie with a budget of 14k $. So I can understand the effects, the scenes that show stills insead of action and a lot of "tricks" to stay in budget. But I can't forgive how it doesn't decide what it wants to be, sometimes it has the tits and the gore of trash genre, at the same time it wallows in a really badly acted scene where the vegan protagonist has to shoot a dog with a pelle gun for whatever reason, the dialogue that fliflops between just bad and pretentious. Don't get misleaded by the cover(which by the way shows the tits in Germany), it's NOT trashy fun, in it's core it wants to be some statement about oil and gas and it's just .... meh.[/QUOTE] that film is so shit back when some of my friends shared a flat together we'd always have a movie night (or just general gettin together night) and we'd often watch trashy movies we found in like CeX or whatever, and we put this on expecting a ridiculous and violent B-movie but really it's a horrifically bad "comedy"/drama that sometimes has gore in it when hes putting dudes in the car but it's not entertaining at all. That was a big disappointment especially given how it was advertised. [editline]22nd July 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=Wingz;45469885]try drive angry[/QUOTE] this however fucking owns. Probably the best of Cage's dumb action films.

[QUOTE=mikeyt493;45470085]that film is so shit back when some of my friends shared a flat together we'd always have a movie night (or just general gettin together night) and we'd often watch trashy movies we found in like CeX or whatever, and we put this on expecting a ridiculous and violent B-movie but really it's a horrifically bad "comedy"/drama that sometimes has gore in it when hes putting dudes in the car but it's not entertaining at all. That was a big disappointment especially given how it was advertised. [editline]22nd July 2014[/editline] this however fucking owns. Probably the best of Cage's dumb action films.[/QUOTE] To be honest I think the marketing fucked this up a lot too. The movie itself is made by absolute amateurs doing their first "full length" with dedicated special effects, I'm willing to give them credit for that but like I said not for the shit dialogue, acting and script.

I agree but low budget doesn't mean any of those have to be bad at all. I've seen films made for less that are way better in all aspects (but being first-timers or at least young filmmakers definitely gives them some excuse, you can understand it at least)

idk, I don't think being inexperienced and young is really an excuse. I can't think of any big named/good directors that had a shocking debut. The one that springs to mind is Ayoade. No prior directorial experience(apart from music videos), made a cracking debut with Submarine, then followed it up nicely with The Double.

el mariachi was a great debut as was reservoir dogs (unless you count my best friends birthday, then idk)

Evil Dead II 5/5 I was going to post this, but I had to go to work and forgot about it. Anyhow, much superior to The Evil Dead. The slapstick comedy in this movie is fucking brilliant, and the horror elements, while toned down, still work marvelously.

[QUOTE=ElectronicG19;45471485]idk, I don't think being inexperienced and young is really an excuse. I can't think of any big named/good directors that had a shocking debut. The one that springs to mind is Ayoade. No prior directorial experience(apart from music videos), made a cracking debut with Submarine, then followed it up nicely with The Double.[/QUOTE] So did Nolan, Wes Anderson, PTA, Cameron and Polanski. It's actually more rare to find a director with shitty beginnings that suddenly later turned out to be good.

Citizen Kane was Orson Welles' debut movie.

holy moley I never realised that... :pwn:

Lord Of War 9/10, one the darkest films I've seen in a while, probably Nicholas Cages best performance

uhh guys? that's the point i'm making. great directors have great debuts, "oh he's a new director" isnt an excuse to be shit

I think they were just enforced your point, and btw Ayoade had a fair bit of directorial experience before making Submarine. He directed (and wrote and played a supporting role in) the whole season of Garth Marenghi's Darkplace (do NOT sleep on this show it is insanely underrated but fucking amazing, easily one of my favourite comedy shows. Shame it only got 1 season.). And according to wikipedia he also directed a tv movie called AD/BC which is a parody of 70s rock bands/stars? idk i've not seen it. But he had directed a fair bit of stuff. Still, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace was fantastic and it was the first thing he directed. I also can't think of any good directors that had really shitty first films at all. Some people are (to put it very plainly and bluntly) kinda just better filmmakers than others.

[QUOTE=mikeyt493;45467241] -Fallen Angels-[/QUOTE] Chungking Express is one of my favourite movies, you're in for a treat. [editline]23rd July 2014[/editline] Miami Connection - 2/10 for Production values, 8/10 for Entertainment value. This film is horrible in just about every conceivable way but it was made with such heart and is so completely ludicrous ([url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpZu69OB2KM]NINJA BIKER GANGS[/url]). The acting is terrible, the editing is baffling and the audio is so inconsistent that it makes my brain cry, but it all combines into a really charming badgood movie that has a heartwarming message - that sometimes to achieve peace you need to kill a lot of ninja drug dealers. Y.K. Kim is apparently a pretty swell guy too so there's that. His english is godawful in this movie which is a plus.

saw The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly and Silence of the Lambs today. Great films, both of them. I don't know if it's an unpopular opinion or not, but I really like Jodie Foster as an actress :v:

Who doesn't like Jodie Foster? She kinda sucked in Elysium with her bad accent tho. Love her in Taxi Driver. She is a director as well apparently, got a bunch of feature films under her belt. Didn't know this until recently, when I noticed she directed the first episode of Season 2 of Orange Is The New Black (one of the best shows going right now. It just does everything right in so many ways and from so many angles. Such a great middle finger to gender and race roles in cinema/tv as well as so many more things. Love it. ) and it was one of the better episodes in the series (not finished it yet but still). So she appears to be a good one.