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

[QUOTE=callumshell;46268715]I cant remember order of the phoenix or half blood prince at all.[/QUOTE] snape killed dumbledore and in the other one margaret thatcher drinks tea while torturing daniel radcliffe.

[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;46271529]Mel Brooks night last night. History of the World Part I - 7/10 11 years since the first time I saw this, it's still just as dumb as I remember but funnier. The puns and taking shit literally is still the same but some of the jokes are easier to understand now that I know of them, like the Oedipus cameo or Mel Brooks heading an anti-Jew inquisition. It's nonsensical, it's high-school level humor and I absolutely love it. Spaceballs - 8/10 Less of the silly puns and taking stuff literally but still a good dose of really stupid jokes (president Skroob? Really?). Rick Moranis as Lord Dark Helmet is hilarious, his scenes hit the right mark all the time, Michael Winslow does his shtick and gets a giggle, frigging Yogurt and the merchandising gag. It feels like HOTW but a little more refined. Also, I damn near cried of laughter during[sp]the Alien reference.[/sp]That went from 'funny cameo' to 'holy fucknuts what the hell is this' real fast.[/QUOTE] your next double feature should be young frankenstein and blazing saddles

[QUOTE=Pops;46271760]your next double feature should be young frankenstein and blazing saddles[/QUOTE] You mean Fronkenstien?

REC, it was a solid 7 or 8 out of 10 for me (but I have a thing for cheesy first person films), not a film I'd take very seriously but a really enjoyable watch none the less. I got so excited about it I downloaded the second one but it's utter shit.

rec 2 ain't that bad

[QUOTE=Hoboiam;46273116]rec 2 ain't that bad[/QUOTE] Maybe it's just me. The movie itself is still entertaining, but the dialogue and acting makes me cringe so hard.

Tremors 4/5 Tremors 2 4/5 Tremors 3 3/5 Tremors 4 3.5/5 So yeah, AMC marathoned all the Tremors movies. The first is, without a doubt, the best. Cheesy, yet solid film making. Tremors 2 is almost as good as the first, and for a direct to video sequel, it doesn't look stupid and cheap. That cannot be said for 3. Sure, it has its moments, but instead of cheesy fun like the others, it comes off as cheesy stupid at times. 4 is slightly better, but the whole "the legend begins" plot set in the old west comes off as contrived. However, it doesn't feel cheap. And most of all, Michael Gross is awesome in all four.

Just saw Fury, and I honestly have to say that it's a really good movie. Nothing exactly jumped out at me as being overtly wrong/out of place (aside from the extras playing the infantry, who were atrocious). I'm not a certified expert on armored warfare in the 20th century, but I do have an interest in it, and I do study about it a bit. The ending was kind of ridiculous, but it was still really enjoyable for me. Honestly, i'd say that if you liked Saving Private Ryan and you like tanks, you should go see it. Take this with a grain of salt, as i'm not really a movie person.

Fury - 4/10 I will start by saying my perceptions of this film are probably colored by the terrible fucking audience I saw it with. There was an old ass redneck couple with smoker voices sitting behind me that chuckled and talked their way through this film, and it got unbearable by the end. I regret not standing up and telling them to shut the fuck up. Ditto for the old vet in the audience who scoffed any time the Americans in the film did something bad. Under different circumstances, I might have liked this film way better, so I am probably being way harder on it than it deserves. Anyways, my general reaction could be summed up as thus: the first act was amazing, the second was terrible, the third was boring. Let me elaborate. The film starts out strong, which may be its problem. Its starts out with such steam and velocity, packed with action, character, and some very disturbing and thought provoking moments, and that may be the reason the rest of the film was bad by comparison. It speaks to me of a film that used up all its energy and ideas in the first act. Still, the first 45 minutes of this movie is easily the best war movie I have seen in my life. It is so grim and unapologetic in its portrayal. It doesn't favor one side or the other, but shows both as normal people pushed to radical extremes by the Hell that is war. It cuts down all the patriotic, nationalistic, glory-hounding bullshit depictions of the war and the "Greatest Generation" that we have and shows us the true colors of World War II: The greatest tragedy that has ever happened to man. To put it in simple terms, it's ballsy. The film collapses near the second act, after the battle for the village. There is a peculiar decision to halt the movie for 35 minutes so the main characters can fuck about in some German ladies house. I don't really understand the purpose of this scene or why it got so much attention. It is almost the exact same thing as the drawn out plantation scene in the Director's Cut of [I]Apocalypse Now[/I]: it is overly long, and whatever point it was trying to make is lost in how slow and padded it is. It fucks the movies pacing so hard and it could have easily been cut. It also introduces some stupid love-drama subplot for about 40 seconds before [sp]the girl dies[/sp], giving it no good build. It just doesn't exist for any sensible reason. But what really got me was the end. Although act 2 dragged this movie down a few points in my book, it could still be saved with a 3rd act as good as the 1st. Sadly, the 3rd act is very lacking. It starts out great with a [sp]tank on tank battle[/sp] that is supremely intense, but after that it slows down again for another 20 minutes when the characters just... faff about, really. Once again, that may have seemed longer than it was because the stupid fucks behind me wouldn't shut the hell up and it was getting grating by that point. But my problem with the 3rd act is that it eschews all the "war is hell" narrative stuff we got from the 1st act in favor of your typical "oorah" style military war movie bullshit. The tank crew are confronted by [sp]the SS[/sp] and even though the film has tried to make you sympathize with the Germans by this point, suddenly you aren't supposed to care about these ones because [sp]they're SS[/sp] like they cease being people or something. Meanwhile, the Americans are shown as heroic and glorious and shit, being roused by the main character's valiance. Suddenly, the whole point of the film flips on its head. It stops being a provocative take on how war makes men from even the "good side" into monsters and just becomes a big, dumb action movie. Sure, the action is masterfully shot, but it doesn't make up for the complete suicide of any ideas this movie had. And the abuse of dramatic slowmo and piano music every time [sp]a member of the crew is killed[/sp] was just painful and made an already overdone scene even pointlessly longer. It also seems to suffer from aborted plot arcs. I thought they were building to something with Brad Pitt's character's ability to speak German and the odd scene he has early on where he seems to be recalling the sound of marching, like he was secretly a Jewish refugee who assimilated himself into American culture after fleeing Nazi Germany in the 30's or something. It would give his character more sensible motivation and explain the 2nd act's existence, but sadly it never comes to fruition. This movie falls short of greatness because of the editing. While the cinematography is brilliant, the acting is strong, and the action and effects are superb (even though history connoisseurs will be disappointed by the complete lack of military tactics used by the infantry in this movie; seriously, some guys actually [I]hip fire M1 Garands[/I] and German tactics seem to be little better than "run at the enemy until they stop moving"), the complete collapse of the pacing and the 180 of the themes ruin it. If they had trimmed this movie down to something more manageable, made the finale less gratuitous, and removed the excessive scene in the middle, it would have easily been in the top 5 war movies. Once again, I will have to give this another watch sometime when it gets on DVD because the assholes in the audience fucked over my experience. It just goes to show that terrible people can ruin even the best things.

[B]Big Trouble in Little China[/B] - 9/10 [IMG]http://www.onesheetindex.com/pix/6767_1.jpg[/IMG] This movie is just so darn enjoyable. It's really weird and throws a lot at you, but if you're willing to roll with it it's a great time. I really enjoyed the production design this time around - all the Chinese designs in the outfits and the settings are fantastically designed.

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen 8/10 Fun and quirky in a good way Brazil 6/10 Odd and a bit hard to follow

[QUOTE=BananaFoam;46274948]Fury - 4/10 stuff[/QUOTE] My sentiments exactly, but I think your score is a bit off. How can it be that you thought that a collapse of pacing, which I felt as well, could make it that bad? I get that you're saying you hated the dumb motherfuckers in the theater but as a movie, your review reads like a 6 to me. It really feels like it was a greater film that suffers from the producers mangling the meanings of the film. Audiences don't typically like being confronted with thinking that anyone but the Americans were the good guys. While we were certainly the good guys in WW2, the point of the film did seem to want to have people sympathize with the germans to an extent. However it exists the part with [sp]the girl[/sp] that gives the main character some kind of "motivation". It is after this part that the film just...shits the bed in terms of story.

[b]Liam Neeson weekend[/b] Updated: Taken > Non-Stop > The Grey >>>>>>>>>> Taken 2

[QUOTE=Squad1993;46269705]can you elaborate? Im worried about seeing because I'm a history buff and I feel like the entire time I'll be screaming "THIS DIDNT FUCKING HAPPEN"[/QUOTE] well i'm no history buff, but i am a tank gore buff, and despite there being at least one ammo rack kill, there was no cookoff in the whole movie and that's my only gripe shane from twd was sick, even even stevens did fucking amazing, whole movie was tense as fuck

Devil's Pass I stumbled across this movie browsing wikipedia and having read about the dyatlov pass incident years ago I gave it a shot. I was sceptical going in given it was a found footage horror movie based on a true story, which never goes well, but I was pleasantly surprised. It started out how I expected, The Blair Witch Project in the snow, but around half way through shit started getting nuts. It was like if TBWP's ending was actually the midpoint. It was definitely cliche and fufilled most of the found footage tropes but it held my interest for the duration and had an ending that didn't leave a sour taste in my mouth. 6.32/10

I love Brazil [video=youtube;7xNnRBksvOU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xNnRBksvOU[/video]

[QUOTE=xBackfire;46275289]My sentiments exactly, but I think your score is a bit off. How can it be that you thought that a collapse of pacing, which I felt as well, could make it that bad? I get that you're saying you hated the dumb motherfuckers in the theater but as a movie, your review reads like a 6 to me. It really feels like it was a greater film that suffers from the producers mangling the meanings of the film. Audiences don't typically like being confronted with thinking that anyone but the Americans were the good guys. While we were certainly the good guys in WW2, the point of the film did seem to want to have people sympathize with the germans to an extent. However it exists the part with [sp]the girl[/sp] that gives the main character some kind of "motivation". It is after this part that the film just...shits the bed in terms of story.[/QUOTE] I always just a movie that is just shy of greatness harsher than one that will always be shit. I don't know why. I guess it's just my response to something so great being ruined. After all, if a shit film is shit, nothing of value is lost. But if a possibly great film is shit, than it has a whole lot more to suffer. It's just my black and white thinking; instead of praising a bad film that tries, I criticize it harsher than a bad film that doesn't. I know it isn't rational but that is just what my brain does I guess. Yeah, in retrospect it is really more deserving of a 6 out of 10. I feel like those shitfuck chuckleheaded backwater cletus motherfuckers sitting behind my ruined the experience completely.

[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a8/Sniper-2-movie-cover-1.jpg[/img] Better than the first, surprisingly. Oh, and motherfucking Johnny Cage is in it. [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c5/Sniper-3-movie-cover-1.jpg[/img] Meh, should have been better.

those are the worst covers ive ever seen

straight-to-dvd man

[QUOTE=Pops;46282857][img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a8/Sniper-2-movie-cover-1.jpg[/img] Better than the first, surprisingly. Oh, and motherfucking Johnny Cage is in it. [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c5/Sniper-3-movie-cover-1.jpg[/img] Meh, should have been better.[/QUOTE] Are you going to watch the reboot? [img_thumb]http://ak1.ostkcdn.com/images/products/5667365//bmmg/ent/Sniper-Reloaded-DVD-L043396356085.JPG[/img_thumb]

Man, why would you watch that? Wait, it's got Billy Zane in it? Watch!

Just watched Edge of Tomorrow 7.5/10, I'd say. Watched it right after reading the All You Need Is Kill manga, so I wasn't really sure what to expect. I think it adapted the story faaaaiirly well, but it's kind of obvious that they needed to change some shit to make it hollywood friendly, like having the actors' faces visible at all times so people would actually take their roles, more action, etc.. My biggest problem with it is that the big intricacies with the plot were revealed in the first half hour or so, and there wasn't much of a self discovery thing with the protagonist. Ending was better than I expected, but still fairly weak. I'd go check it out if you guys are interested, like at all.

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYOL6c6mPsE[/media] How do they do that? Or that Dr. Dre clip <Kush>

[QUOTE=Pops;46282857][img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a8/Sniper-2-movie-cover-1.jpg[/img] Better than the first, surprisingly. Oh, and motherfucking Johnny Cage is in it. [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c5/Sniper-3-movie-cover-1.jpg[/img] Meh, should have been better.[/QUOTE] Literally no way those films are anything above a 3/10

[QUOTE=Butthurter;46284408]umm are we forgetting about marvel movies[/QUOTE] those are 10000x worse than even marvel covers

[QUOTE=Rusty100;46284465]those are 10000x worse than even marvel covers[/QUOTE] [img]http://www.joblo.com/newsimages1/xmen-first-class-magneto-poster.jpg[/img]

[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;46283702]Man, why would you watch that? Wait, it's got Billy Zane in it? Watch![/QUOTE] But here's the real question: is Billy Zane reprising his role from the first movie?

Need an answer real quick, which version of Alien 3 is the best ?

[QUOTE=Ganerumo;46286130]Need an answer real quick, which version of Alien 3 is the best ?[/QUOTE] the version in the trash