Rate The Last Movie You Watched - April V3 - no tv shows
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Predator
Goddamn sexual tyrannosaurus/10
V for Vendetta - I'dratherwatchgodzillatbh/10
I mean I guess it's sort of a cool film just by itself but considering it touts itself as a movie that is supposed to have a smart message and almost like a warning of what could happen and etc. it seems kind of... lacking, to say the least.
A message of "government is bad when it restricts your rights, rich politicians are corrupt, anonymity is power, people can do great things when they're empowered" is such a played out and boring theme all around in movies (possibly because this movie managed to get so popular for reasons unknown to me)
I mean there's not really a way I could see something similar happening considering the PAINFULLY obvious parallels to the Third Reich that the whole world would probably look at and realize is a bad thing and would be stamped out before it could totally assimilate the entire world because it's convenient for the plot. Not to mention that the ~~incredibly inspiring~~ acts of the main character would just leave a fuck huge power vacuum in the government for people just as garbage to get in, would probably shut down the government effectively and grind the day to day logistics of a government to a halt for a huge amount of time but that's ok because uh???
I dunno I just found myself supremely disappointed by it, I hope I'm just missing some huge plot devices and etc. but this movie seems pretty not good
now that you've seen the movie
go read the graphic novel
[QUOTE=Robber;45970101]How's Expendables 3? I'm just looking for some stupid, but fun movie. Last time I thought I was going to a stupid, but fun movie I got Transformers 4 and I'm still dealing with PTSD from that. :([/QUOTE]
I watched Expendables 3 anyway because the alternative was sitting at home alone or watching....Sex Tape
[B]Characters:[/B] Some of the characters were actually likable (unlike Transformers) and the others just didn't talk much (unlike Transformers where every character was the most obnoxious version of itself it could possibly have been).
[B]Story:[/B] Extremely predicatable, but it served it's purpose and it was clear why they were doing what they were doing.
[B]Action:[/B] Some scenes were really awesome, some scenes dragged on a little bit too long.
[B]Overall:[/B] It wasn't too long, it wasn't 3D, it wasn't annoying. It was okay. I got exactly what I expected: Tons of action, some cheesy one liners and some braindead fun. I also liked how they handled the female Expendable compared to how they handled the female character in T4. She wasn't useless, she wasn't annoying, she wasn't sexualized and she didn't have a romance subplot/love interest (WHY DO SOME ACTION MOVIES HAVE THESE!?!?)
FarbetterthanTransformers4/10
[QUOTE=Pops;45975765]now that you've seen the movie
go read the graphic novel[/QUOTE]
This. The movie itself is fine on its own, but the graphic novel is so much better. The biggest problem I had with the movie (along with many other people) is that they changed the incredibly fascist government from being openly racist and violent into a 9/11 conspiracy. The whole St. Mary's incident in the film is meant to resemble the Bush Presidency when the World Trade Center was attacked. It's incredibly stupid, in my opinion. That being said, Hugo Weaving was great as V. I can't imagine anyone else in the role.
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True Grit
5/5
It's not the best Coen Brothers movie, but it's still a great western and a great remake. Plus, Jeff Bridges has some wonderful lines.
"Why did they hang him so high?"
"I do not know. Possibly in the belief it would make him more dead!"
"That chinaman's been running them cheap cartridges on me again."
"I am struck that LaBoeuf is shot, trampled, and nearly severs his tongue, and not only does not cease to talk, but spills the banks of English!"
Only thing I don't like about graphic novel, is that V is sort of a heartless person while in the movie they made him a little caring about people. The graphic novel is worth a read though
Taxi Driver
5/5
Still a great movie by Scorsese. I don't know exactly why, but I've been wanting to watch this lately, so I did.
I can't believe I never realized this until now, but this guy
[IMG]http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9ItGfVLx0sk/T98tqQo-GmI/AAAAAAAADQI/ub3hkRp89QA/s1600/bump2.jpg[/IMG]
became this guy
[IMG]http://www.newyorker.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/albert-brooks-drive.jpg[/IMG]
Shit, Albert Brooks is good.
I hear The Drop is really good
[QUOTE=TheKritter71;45977989]Only thing I don't like about graphic novel, is that V is sort of a heartless person while in the movie they made him a little caring about people. The graphic novel is worth a read though[/QUOTE]
he seemed kind of the same to me, although i guess they expanded more on the "i love you evey" part. dude was still every bit twisted as he was in the comics with all his victims except the voice of fate guy, he went soft as shit in the movie, thought i feel that the whole "he was just a regular joe" didn't have the same effect in the movie as it did in the comic.
Ding Ding! Time for the man with no life to reaffirm the fact that he has no life!
And by that I mean I got more Godzilla movies to review.
[B]Godzilla 1985:[/B] Oh hey, it looks like the concept of rebooting franchises has existed for a while! Anyways, this movie (the beginning of the second "Hesei" series of movies) completely ignores all the previous movies except the original and returns to the darker tone of said movie where Godzilla is a menace instead of a hero. And Godzilla's role as a nuclear-powered menace becomes even clearer with the heavy Cold War themes (in fact, the Cold War actually plays a huge part in the plot, with Godzilla causing some tension between the US and the Russians and their itchy trigger fingers). Like the first movie, Godzilla is the only monster around, and the focus is on his destructive power, although I hear that in the Japanese version Godzilla is portrayed more like a confused animal exploring a strange environment than an angry menace, and the American cut edited a lot of that out. Edited in is the return of Raymond Burr as his character from the American version of the first movie, the reporter Steve Martin. Burr doesn't get to do much, but he does make a powerful monologue at the end of the film about how powerless mankind is compared to destructive forces of nature like Godzilla ("That strangely innocent and tragic monster" he calls Godzilla). All in all, a good entry to a new series.
[B]Godzilla Versus Biollante:[/B] Biollante is an interesting monster, although she doesn't get as much screentime as the movie's title would have you assume. The final battle between her and Godzilla is awesome, though. Still, more emphasis is put on Godzilla as a menace, with the majority of character interactions concerning how to defeat him. This is one of the few movies with a memorable and likable human character, by the name of Gondo. He's a total badass, the Japanese take on the 80's action hero, complete with witty quips and a cool demeanor even when the heat is on. Also in this movie is the first (and so far only) major recurring character in the franchise, the psychic Miki Saegusa, who remains in the series for the next five movies as a major supporting character. She's decent I guess. She rarely does something actually worthwhile to the plot aside from "sensing" when Godzilla is near and other psychic-related stuff.
[B]Godzilla Versus King Ghidorah:[/B] This is my personal #1 favorite Godzilla movie of all time. Godzilla and Ghidorah are both certified badasses, and the plot's a neat-o sci-fi time traveling thriller, although the mechanics of the time travel parts don't make sense taken at face value (the only way it makes sense is if you believe certain fan theories that state that all they did was create a stable time loop). I also like how this movie subverts the "Godzilla as a hero" theme the previous series had taken on in the later half of it's run. Godzilla is brought in to deal with Ghidorah, but then he goes on to cause even more of the death and destruction Ghidorah had started, so it's like "why did we even bother? We cleaned up one mess but created another!"
[B]Godzilla And Mothra: The Battle For Earth:[/B] Meh. I like Mothra but the fight between her, Battra, and Godzilla just seemed way too fakey because the props for her and Battra just looked so stiff and lifeless. I gotta call out the movie for one moment where the main character gets caught by his ex-wife and kid doing a bad thing in the middle of a monster attack. They scold him for doing the bad thing and he pretty much goes "yeah I fucked up, but you brought our kid into the middle of a friggin' war zone!" and the wife just deflects it with a "where's my alimony?" Fuck your alimony, asshole, he made a very good point! Yeah, this movie had an annoying child in the cast, but at least she isn't in your face (much) like the kids from the earlier series. And I guess it's kinda demanded since this movie has a lighter tone in comparison to the rest of the second series. Eh, fuck it.
[B]Godzilla Versus Mechagodzilla II:[/B] This is probably the last in the Hesei series where Godzilla is considered the number one bad guy, and even then he's portrayed more sympathetically than he was before, because this movie decided to reintroduce the concept of Godzilla having a child (somehow, against all odds). At least the child isn't an ugly misshapen unlikable sack of potatoes like Minilla was. It's actually kinda likeable and relevant to the plot. Rodan makes a return, too, and he does some cool shit. The main attraction is Mechagodzilla, this time an earth-based invention meant to defend Japan rather than destroy it. Too bad he looks too bulky and blocky to be much use, although he does get pretty damn close to killing Godzilla (it would have been a definite were it not for Rodan). Overall, though, the movie is kinda bland like the previous one. It brings nothing new to the table and even the fight scenes aren't really exciting.
That's it for today. Maybe tomorrow I'll get too much shit to do to watch many movies tomorrow, but judging from how classes have been so far I might end up squeezing in 2 or 3 movies, depending on how long they are. God damn do I need a hobby...
I remember liking Godzilla '85. The ending made me cry, even if he was the bad guy.
So I've seen [b]Total Recall (1990)[/b] and I really liked it. Does anyone have any recommendations? I've only recently started on catching up with the 80s and 90s and it feels great.
[B]Serenity (Dir. Joss Whedon, 2005)- 9/10[/B]
What a fucking great movie. I adore the TV show Firefly, it's one of my favourites, and I consider it to be by FAR Joss Whedon's best work (and he is for the most part very good). Imo it is the best sci-fi of all time (yeah its better than star wars) and if you've not watched it but love stuff like The Avengers (also Whedon, significantly worse than Firefly in pretty much all ways except visually cos big budget. And the avengers is still pretty good so there you go.), Sci-fi, or Westerns (it's a western in space), [I]watch it.[/I]
Whedon pulls all the punches here, both as a director and writer. No corners are cut. It's ballsy as hell. It is definitely made for fans of the cut far too short series (cancelled after one season cos Fox sucks) and was made to mostly tie up the series to give a bit of finality, but absolutely works well as a standalone film. It doesn't fan-service to hell and it introduces the characters nicely with a single take the first time we see them as we follow Captain Malcolm Reynolds (played amazingly by Nathan Fillion) giving orders etc. A lot of the time when a tv show moves to feature length people criticise the film for "just being another episode" but I absolutely do not consider that a downside here. It [I]feels[/I] like Firefly, but it is longer and bigger. The stakes have never been higher but it makes sense for them to be as high as they are.
The film is a little bit darker than the show as well and fuck Mal has to make some goddamn tough choices. A lot of what he said comes as a shock, but not because it doesn't feel right. Because this is a man who has lived a hard life and has been pushed further than ever before. At the same time, Whedon's fantastic comedy is still here and sharper than ever. I wasn't big on his dialogue in The Avengers, it came off pretty hammy, but here it works so well. Even River has some hilarous moments ("...Am I talking to Miranda now"? and her look had me pissing myself). its action is solid and plentiful but the characters are where Firefly and Serenity shine. The crew of Serenity are a total mixup of people, there aren't really any big stereotypes, there are archetypal roles but each character is unique and well portrayed enough to not feel it at all, and Whedon's dialogue keeps them from feeling uninspired too.
Also the entire third act is [I]phenomenal[/I].
I could go on but yea damn I fucking loved this actually more than I expected and I might binge the entire show now lmao
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I saw the film in the cinema btw cos of this new thing called Our Screen where like people pick a film and an involved cinema and a date and if enough people buy tickets it gets shown and if they don't they get refunded. Very cool. Brilliant film to see in the cinema for sure, too.
[QUOTE=Demeschik;45985612]So I've seen [b]Total Recall (1990)[/b] and I really liked it. Does anyone have any recommendations? I've only recently started on catching up with the 80s and 90s and it feels great.[/QUOTE]
Watch pretty much everything from Arnold from that era and also Die Hard 1, 2 and 3 for a start.
[QUOTE=Demeschik;45985612]So I've seen [b]Total Recall (1990)[/b] and I really liked it. Does anyone have any recommendations? I've only recently started on catching up with the 80s and 90s and it feels great.[/QUOTE]
Watch the original RoboCop if you haven't already.
12 monkeys: 8.5/10
Really liked this, acting was superb in most places, though the plot and ish did get confusing at times. Also one of the only movies involving time travel where the ending was relatively good and made enough sense to not warrant much criticism. Went in expecting something completely different but came out pleasantly surprised either way, would recommend.
Snowpiercer: 9/10
I thought this was going to be good, but not this good. First thing that hit me was Evans' acting, was absolutely phenomenal in my opinion and he really fit the character well. Best example for me was probably when Evans and the other guy were having a conversation outside of the main engine room door. Plot was interesting and captivating as well, though the end felt a little out of place for some reason, like a bit too abrupt or something. Another recommendation
[QUOTE=TheFilmSlacker;45986534]I know that everyone and their dog has seen it, but if you haven't check out Forrest Gump.
It's a coming of age movie, a 60s movie, a war movie and a 90s style movie all at once. It's the perfect package.
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And the soundtrack is pretty much unmatched.[/QUOTE]
I haven't seen Forrest Gump.
It's gotten to the point where I somewhat pride myself on not having sat down to watch it yet.
why pride yourself for missing out
I guess because they know they can still experience it for the first time and that makes other people envious
Lucy. It was silly... sometimes very silly... but it was pretty cool/badass in a childish way. It's Luc Besson's style I guess. Basically if you liked The Fifth Element you will like it as well. 8/10.
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Also I watched Constantine a while back and I really liked it as well (but that's probably because I didn't read the comic book series it's based on)
[QUOTE=MaxOfS2D;45987088]Basically if you liked The Fifth Element you will like it as well.[/QUOTE]
this is blasphemy
don't you dare compare besson's only good film to fucking LUCY
10/10 it was pretty good
[QUOTE=Diet Kane;45987221]this is blasphemy
don't you dare compare besson's only good film to fucking LUCY[/QUOTE]
If anyone is blasphemous it's you by forgetting Leon The Professional.
I think his best film is Le Dernier Combat (except the cheesy 80's music)
[QUOTE=Diet Kane;45987221]this is blasphemy
don't you dare compare besson's only good film to fucking LUCY[/QUOTE]
I think they're similar in how it's basically Luc's own little fantasy and you just roll with it
So I finally saw [B]X-Men: Days of Future Past[/B]. I was a bit afraid. First Class was first X-Men I honestly enjoyed and seeing Singer returning I didn't know what to expect. In the end it was pretty cool, I even think I liked it more than FC.
[QUOTE=MaxOfS2D;45987088]Lucy. It was silly... sometimes very silly... but it was pretty cool/badass in a childish way. It's Luc Besson's style I guess. Basically if you liked The Fifth Element you will like it as well. 8/10.
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Also I watched Constantine a while back and I really liked it as well (but that's probably because I didn't read the comic book series it's based on)[/QUOTE]
jesus fucking christ this post
A Most Wanted Man - 8/10. Great send off for Philip Seymour Hoffman. Tense as fuck throughout, don't go in if you want any action at all though. I loved this film. Right up my street.
The Road - 7/10. Depressing and good. The kid annoyed me.
Unbreakable - 7/10. This depressed me as much as The Road seeing how good Shamalammadingdong used to be.
[QUOTE=Wingz;45987004]why pride yourself for missing out[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=PollytheParrot;45987074]I guess because they know they can still experience it for the first time and that makes other people envious[/QUOTE]
Polly is kind of right, but it's more now that I like to use it as a shocker to people who somehow just get in an uproar about it. For example, back when I was in college my friend Mike and I showed our friend Dan Rocky Horror. After that was over, Dan simply commented the film was alright but not really his style. We switch back over to TV, Forrest Gump starts playing and I mention how I have never seen it through and through. Dan instantly flips, complaining how I've seen RHPS a hundred times (I've only seen it once all the way through actually, and then he went on to call it a piece of shit) while being seriously pissed that I hadn't seen Forrest Gump once. Then, just a few weeks ago my co-workers and I were discussing movies, FG gets brought up and I once again let it slip and they start hating on me for never having seen it. It really brings out the dark side of people, I ought to make a documentary on this type of reaction.
I know the good quotes from it, I've seen bits and pieces through TV and YouTube clips, but have never sat down and watched it from start to end. Not with friends who own it on video, not with Netflix or other internet methods, I honestly just don't even feel the need to see it at this point. Someday I'll see it though, maybe with a girl or something, I really don't care.
