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

[QUOTE=Pops;45990812]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.[/QUOTE] bro, how can you not see the point in watching it obviously your friends/co-workers and this thread think you should its a great movie and you're really hurting no one but yourself for not watching it what you need to do step-by-step 1) get in the mood to watch a movie 2) pick out a movie to watch 3) get rid of it 4) grab forrest gump 5) watch forrest gump thank me later

[QUOTE=ElectronicG19;45990723] The Road - 7/10. Depressing and good. The kid annoyed me. [/QUOTE] The Road is one of the few book to movie adaptions that was actually done pretty accurately while still preventing the movie from taking too long. They got the setting perfect imo.

[B]Godzilla Versus Spacegodzilla:[/B] Like Mechagodzilla II, this was pretty "eh". "Oh no, a Godzilla FROM SPACE wants to take over the world!" The heavy-handed "fighting to solve your problems is bad" message was also pretty lame, as was Godzilla's son, who had grown into a Minilla clone. I did like how they made a few callbacks to Biollante, two of the main characters were friends with or related to Gondo from that movie (the guy I said was a total badass in my review of that movie), and Biollante herself was used as a possible origin for Spacegodzilla (since she, a plant-based clone of Godzilla, had launched herself into space at the end of her movie). Still, the overall rating is "eh". [B]Godzilla Versus Destroyah:[/B] First off, the name is pronounced "Destroyer", but Toho had rights issues with that word so they settled for the alternate spelling. That said, holy shit this movie is depressing! This was meant to be the Grand Finale, so the best way for Toho to give that feeling is to have Godzilla fight the living embodiment of the superweapon that killed his predecessor in the original movie, then DIE. And he didn't just die like "oh, he died from his wounds, or of old age, or something like that", he fucking [I]melted[/I] because he was overheating from his naturally occurring nuclear fission reactor of a heart having gone out of control. Oh, and his son dies too (just after he had grown to become a badass on his own). And Tokyo becomes a graveyard. But hey, Destroyah get's killed, too, so that's cool. Still, I loved this movie. It felt new, the new monster made the series come full circle, the action was exciting and it's just great in general. It's too bad that it got followed up by... [B]Godzilla (1998):[/B] I don't know why I thought it was a good idea to include this movie in my little bingewatch, but I surely regret it now. Don't get me wrong, it's a decent monster movie, but it should have never been called Godzilla. It's been discussed time and time again why people hold this attitude, so I won't go into that right now. Suffice it to say, the last time I found myself truly enjoying this movie was when Rifftrax did their live riff on the movie last month. I haven't been able to enjoy the movie itself since I was a young and naive child. Still, the special effects are good for it's time. It still holds up in some aspects, which is more than I could say for any of the Japanese films which stubbornly stick to the "man-in-suit" method of bringing monsters to life. There are other times where the effects fail pretty spectacularly, mostly concerning the baby 'zillas. Tomorrow holds the promise of more Godzilla reviews, so... yay? Maybe?

[QUOTE=MaxOfS2D;45987088] Basically if you liked The Fifth Element you will like it as well. 8/10.[/QUOTE] everyone liked the fifth element though (except garry oldman) and nobody likes Lucy (except you) so thats wrong? [editline]16th September 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=MaxOfS2D;45987466]I think they're similar in how it's basically Luc's own little fantasy and you just roll with it[/QUOTE] this just in, movies are fantasy, doesn't excuse them from being shit. more at 11

[QUOTE=Diet Kane;45987221]this is blasphemy don't you dare compare besson's only good film to fucking LUCY[/QUOTE] did you really just call leon shit?

I don't know what Luc Besson was trying to prove with Lucy

[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 some John Carpenter. [I]The Thing[/I], [I]They Live[/I], and [I]Big Trouble in Little China[/I] are my favorites of his.

dont forget vampires

Watched [B]Snowpiercer [/B]yesterday after Waterpi praised it so much. I guess the concept was very original and it was kind of cool how they fought through the different wagons. Something was really off about those characters though. I don't think the acting is the problem, but the way the characters are written. It all feels very weird. Like they found the [sp]clairvoyant girl and never used her to find out what's going to happen next? The main guy only asked her a single time and that time it was too late anyway.[/sp] The other thing that was really strange were a lot of the things about the train. It seemed like the tail end passengers actually had more room to sleep than the first class passengers. They had a fucking dentist, but no space to live. And where are all these chickens and MOTHERFUCKING COWS coming from? Also, why does the train have to keep driving at all times? They just need the heat from the engine to live. Why not just leave the train in the rail station and live there? It would save a lot of fuel (I don't even know what fuel that engine is using, but I'll just assume it's nuclear powered). This brings me to my next point. Why are they always pretending like there are no other human survivors outside the train. There would be hundreds of nuclear powered shelters all over the world housing far more humans than that weird train. How is nobody acknowledging that? [sp]Also, if they really believe that they are the last humans after being brainwashed by Wilford, why is that girl blowing up that train at the end and from her perspective killing of humanity just because...? I don't even know what her motivation was.[/sp] I'm having a hard time rating it because I did enjoy the movie, but the concept and the characters were incredibly flawed. [B]5/10[/B] I guess?

well damn I was about to dl and watch snowpiercer

snowpiercer is sick that dude is wrong

[QUOTE=MaxOfS2D;45987088]Lucy. It was [sp]silly... sometimes very silly... but it was[/sp] [sp]pretty cool/badas[/sp]s[sp] in a c[/sp]hi[sp]ldish way. I[/sp]t[sp]'s Luc Besson's style I guess. Basically if you liked The Fifth Element you will like it as well. 8/10.[/sp][/QUOTE] Made a couple adjustments otherwise I completely agree with your review

okay i'll dl it now, review coming later tonight

The Untold Story: Eight Immortals Restaurant I usually don't put the movies I watch in this thread, but this one needs to be noted, because it contains the sickest character in any movie, it needs to be seen to be believed It's gory and pretty disturbing, containing rape, cannibalism, torture and child murder, though it didn't disturb me that much, mostly because of the shitty 90's synthesizer music The [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTLcDMBcPRc]full movie[/url] is on YouTube, but unfortunately, the video and sound quality sucks ass 7/10

I just saw A Field in England after ElectronicG19 recommended it and god damn I liked it a lot

[B]Godzilla 2000:[/B] This movie marks the beginning of the Millenium series, making this another reboot that ignores all previous movies aside from the first. Compared to the '98 movie it's awesome, but when you take a break between and take G2K as just another Godzilla film, that's really all it is. There are some improved effects over the Hesei series, but there's also some downright craptastic effects (the alien spaceship looks like it was modeled over the course of a single hour on an extremely shitty model-maker). The dubbing's pretty damn cheesy ("This missile will go through Godzilla like CRAP through a goose!"), and the plot is pretty standard G-fare. Gotta give it props for introducing a new monster rather than re-hashing an old one, I figure the temptation to throw in Ghidorah or Mothra just to please fans must have been pretty high. Overall rating is "eh". [B]Godzilla Versus Megaguirus:[/B] Strangely enough, this too was a reboot, not being a sequel to G2K but instead ignoring all previous movies aside from the first (which it also retconned into having the original Godzilla survive and not be killed by Dr. Serizawa's Oxygen Destroyer). Similar to G2K above, it rates pretty "eh", but it is notable for having the franchise's first Strong Female Protagonist, a soldier by the name of Kiriko Tsujimori. She leads this continuity's anti-Godzilla force and does a lot of the heavy lifting, and does not submit to any flirtation's from the goofy-yet-brilliant supporting male lead. Pretty progressive for a monster movie. The new monster, Megaguirus, is the "queen" form of those overgrown maggots from Rodan way way back, and she's pretty cool. The final fight between her and Godzilla gets pretty exciting, which is hard to pull of with a fully-airborne monster like Megaguirus. So maybe I should change my rating to "slightly less 'eh' than G2K". [B]Godzilla, Mothra, King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack:[/B] Long-ass title. This movie is yet ANOTHER reboot, but this time it tries to do something different with Godzilla, making him a completely evil embodiment of all of the forgotten lives taken during the Pacific Theater of World War II. Considering Japan's stubborn refusal to acknowledge the shit it's pulled during that war, this is extremely poignant. It's really too bad that most fans ignored that and rooted for Godzilla anyways even though he's supposed to be evil. Likewise, the two other monsters in the title (along with Baragon, who apparently doesn't deserve to be mentioned in that long-ass title) are changed to be Guardian Spirits of Japan, which really doesn't change that much for Mothra, but considering how Ghidorah is usually the evil one it's a massive change. This movie also features another female protagonist who drives most of the plot, a journalist from BS Digital Q, "The bargain basement of the airwaves", who typically does bullshit (heh) docu-dramas on supernatural crap but sees Godzilla as her big break. All this makes for a unique and imaginative Godzilla movie, but the effect is ruined by Godzilla's design. His pure-white eyes were supposed to reflect his menace, but when coupled with his elephant-like skin, huge-feet, and bulging gut, he instead looks like a grumpy old man looking to get those dern'd kids offa his lawn! Still, the fights are pretty cool, so the movie rates as pretty damn good. I do think it's a bit over-rated, though, since most G-Fans consider it one of the best Godzilla movies (although I think that opinion has been waning recently). [B]Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla:[/B] Fucking hell, ANOTHER REBOOT? This new series is fulla them! But honestly, I think this was the best movie in the Millenium series, and one of my personal favorites from the franchise as a whole. Another female protagonist, Akane Yoshito, who gets chosen to pilot Mechagodzilla (called Kiryu in the Japanese version, which translates to "Dragon", IIRC), who was constructed using the bones of the original Godzilla. Akane is ostracized by her peers for accidentally causing the death of some of her comrades when a new Godzilla emerges, and has to regain acceptance with the help of one of the scientists who designed Kiryu. There was a cool subplot where the use of the old Godzilla's bones caused Kiryu to believe it really was Godzilla when it hears Godzilla roar and attack Japan itself, but it was only used once before being fixed. Very underutilized. Still, the final battle is awesome, and it really leaves you wanting for more. And fortunately... [B]Godzilla, Mothra, Mechagodzilla: Tokyo SOS:[/B] The first (and only) Millennium-series movie that's a direct sequel to any Godzilla movie aside from the original itself (the movie it's a sequel to being, of course, the previous movie). It's also a sequel of sorts to the original Mothra. It even brings back one of the characters from that movie, the character Dr. Chujo. This movie makes an attempt to explore the ethics of using a creature's very bones to create a Weapon Of Mass Destruction, with Mothra's fairies saying that it was wrong to do such a thing to the original Godzilla's bones to make Mechagodzilla (Kiryu). But that subplot gets pushed aside once the main battle starts, where the movie then turns into a near shot-for-shot remake of the original Mothra Versus Godzilla, except with Mechagodzilla added in. It's pretty damn awesome, I have to say. This rates just as highly as it's predecessor does. They're the best movies in the Millennium series. So that leaves 3 last movies for me to rate: Final Wars, the Japanese version of the 1954 original, and the 2014 movie. I still haven't gotten the 2014 movie delivered yet, so depending on when it comes I'll finish this up either tomorrow or some later day. I mean, I'm still going to do the other two tomorrow, but I won't consider this journey completed until I see the 2014 movie again and be able to compare it to the other Godzilla movies with said movies actually fresh in my mind (before now I hadn't seen a Godzilla movie aside from the 2014 one in a couple of years).

Thanks for those reviews. I've been meaning to watch some Godzilla movies..

Final Wars is my least favorite Godzilla movie

Edge of Tomorrow Not gonna give a rating because it's either 9 or 10/10 if I liked it or 2 or 3 if I didn't. But this would be the former. Initially I wasn't sold on the whole "groundhog day" concept, but it's a pretty original take on it, it doesn't get tiring and as far as I know it's also the only film to have done it in a military context. The first act, in fact the entire film reminded me of failing to get through a level in any FPS and having to restart from the beginning. The visuals are great, the near-future technology was awesome, Tom Cruise saying clip when referring to a magazine had me recoil in disgust. I just don't know how films keep making that mistake. For that, I'm actually going to give it a rating of -1/10. Just kidding, I guess within the plot it makes sense -[sp]Cruise's character isn't a trained soldier, he's pretty much just a PR guy for the military[/sp]. I'm not one for romance sub-plots but it surprisingly wasn't very intrusive or out of place. Overall good film, would recommend if you're a fan of military sci-fi/action in general

So I don't watch really watch movies, but for the past few weeks I've been trying to watch 1-2 films a night. For some reason I'm watching newer movies instead of classics, but I'll get around to them eventually. I meant to post the reviews here when I started doing this but I forgot. Mind you most of these I have either never watched before or watched bits and pieces of. Forgot what order I watched them in so I guess I'll go alphabetically. [B]Argo (2012)[/B] - 9/10 (If anyone knows more films like this, let me know.) [B]The Avengers (2012)[/B] - 8/10 [B]Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)[/B] - 6/10 - Boy is Captain America's backstory uninteresting. [B]Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)[/B] - 7/10 - Somehow between World War 2 and modern times, Captain America has been shot a total of 3 times apparently. [sp]All by the same guy, too.[/sp] [B]Captain Phillips (2013)[/B] - 9/10 [B]Casino Royale (2006)[/B] - 8/10 [B]Divergent (2014)[/B] - 4/10 - Not sure how much more this could rip off from books and movies aimed at teens. Hunger Games as fuck. [B]Django Uncahined (2012)[/B] - 10/10 [B]Edge of Tomorrow (2014)[/B] - 8/10 [B]The Great Gatsby (2013)[/B] - 9/10 - I tried watching this before and something about the pacing threw me off, but I really do thank myself for forcing me to watch it again. [B]Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)[/B] - 10/10 [B]Iron Man (2008)[/B] - 7/10 [B]Iron Man 2 (2010)[/B] - 6/10 - For some reason, I remember absolutely nothing surrounding the release of this. No advertising or anything, yet it apparently did super well. Also Marvel movies have a weird thing in them that I'm not sure how to explain. I take a look at how much time has passed and it seems like nothing has happened since the start of the movie even 1 1/2 hours in, yet it also feels like 30 minutes can pass by in a second. Their movies feel longer than 2 hours yet shorter at the same time. No idea. [B]Need for Speed (2014)[/B] - 2/10 - Crashing cars is cool I guess. [B]Non-Stop (2014)[/B] - 7/10 - It managed to totally steal the House of Cards texting thing that appears next to the person when they text, yet they did it way better. [B]Now You See Me (2013)[/B] - 1/10 - Morgan Freeman is cool I guess, but I think he is the bad guy. Or the magicians are. Or the cops are. I really don't know. [B]Quantum of Solace (2008)[/B] - 7/10 - It certainly wasn't Casino Royale but it was still good. [B]Reservoir Dogs (1992)[/B] - 10/10 [B]RoboCop (2014)[/B] - 6/10 - Not having seen the 1987 RoboCop, it was alright. I'm sure it ruins everything from the original, though. [B]The Rock (1996)[/B] - 5/10 - What a dumb movie. [B]Ted (2012)[/B] - 7/10 [B]Transcendence (2014)[/B] - 8/10 [B]The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)[/B] - 9/10 - This doesn't feel like a 3 hour long movie at all. Odd that DiCaprio stars as similar people in similar movies both released in 2013. [URL="http://i.imgur.com/to2nrCK.jpg"]Same pose for the posters, too.[/URL]

[QUOTE=The freeman;46000956][B]Argo (2012)[/B] - 9/10 (If anyone knows more films like this, let me know.) [B]Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) - 6/10 - Boy is Captain America's backstory uninteresting. [B]Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) - 7/10 - Somehow between World War 2 and modern times, Captain America has been shot a total of 3 times apparently. All by the same guy, too. [/B][/B] [B]The Great Gatsby (2013)[/B] - 9/10 - I tried watching this before and something about the pacing threw me off, but I really do thank myself for forcing me to watch it again. [B]Iron Man (2008) - 7/10 [B]Iron Man 2 (2010) - 6/10 - For some reason, I remember absolutely nothing surrounding the release of this. No advertising or anything, yet it apparently did super well. Also Marvel movies have a weird thing in them that I'm not sure how to explain. I take a look at how much time has passed and it seems like nothing has happened since the start of the movie even 1 1/2 hours in, yet it also feels like 30 minutes can pass by in a second. Their movies feel longer than 2 hours yet shorter at the same time. No idea.[/B][/B] [B]Now You See Me (2013)[/B] - 1/10 - Morgan Freeman is cool I guess, but I think he is the bad guy. Or the magicians are. Or the cops are. I really don't know. [B]RoboCop (2014)[/B] - 6/10 - Not having seen the 1987 RoboCop, it was alright. I'm sure it ruins everything from the original, though. [B]The Rock (1996)[/B] - 5/10 - What a dumb movie. [/QUOTE] i have opinions about some of your opinions Argo is overrated murica stuff, Great Gatsby 2013 is actually awful, Iron Man is [U]way[/U] better than Iron Man 2, and CapAm 2 is [U]way[/U] better than CapAm 1, I'm sorry you saw Now You See Me (just wanted to offer my condolences, this is actually a correct opinion), as for Robocop, watch the original and then give the remake an even lower rating, and then your opinion on The Rock is just wrong

[QUOTE=The freeman;46000956] [B]Argo (2012)[/B] - 9/10 (If anyone knows more films like this, let me know.)[/QUOTE] Munich maybe? Syriana perhaps, but that's got a more geo-political fusion kind of thriller. Plus it's not funny at all but Clooney is a Gr8 blOKe in it. Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen), but I haven't seen it so it's a blind recommendation :) [editline]17th September 2014[/editline] or even Raid on Entebbe, I'd even say the film called [B]NO[/B] is a great film but different.

[QUOTE=AK'z;46001420] Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen), but I haven't seen it so it's a blind recommendation :) [/QUOTE] Not really similar to Argo but a good movie all the same

Sitting in a train and being bored I decided to watch Machete. I already knew what to expect going into the movie, but my expectations where still blown away. The action is even sillier and more over the top than I expected, the dialog is even cheesier, the humor was great (and stupid). I can't really rate it anything, because what it tries to be it does perfectly, but I don't want to give it 10/10. I guess I'll have to watch Machete Kills on Saturday during my next train ride.

I thought Machete was a lot of fun, thought Jessica Alba's character was pretty fucking awful. Also it was really fun seeing Jeff Fahey be a badass. Machete Kills wasn't very good indeed though.

[QUOTE=The freeman;46000956] [B]Divergent (2014)[/B] - 4/10 - Not sure how much more this could rip off from books and movies aimed at teens. Hunger Games as fuck. [/QUOTE] For the record, Divergent was based off a young adult book series. Still a shit film, though.

[QUOTE=The_J_Hat;46003089]For the record, Divergent was based off a young adult book series. Still a shit film, though.[/QUOTE] that means teens, dude.

are there actually any good YA novels? i know for a fact theres no good YA films

[QUOTE=mikeyt493;46003274]are there actually any good YA novels? i know for a fact theres no good YA films[/QUOTE] Does Harry Potter count? The latter books certainly aren't for children

[QUOTE=ElectronicG19;46003261]that means teens, dude.[/QUOTE] He said it was a rip off the YA novel movies when it was a YA novel movie itself. That's all I'm trying to say.