Rate the last movie you watched V2 - General

The Sandlot - 5/5 If anyone says I rated this high because of nostalgia, you missed the entire point of the movie. It's a movie about remembering what it was like to be a kid. Whether you saw this as a kid or an adult, it will have the feel. Nostalgia is the feeling this movie is supposed to invoke, much like A Christmas Story. I like this movie a little more than A Christmas Story though. Probably mostly personal reasons as I never was quite as into christmas as most people so summer was more my thing, but also it didn't have the nearly as embarrassing sides of being a kid. The kids were better actors in much less humiliating situations. Some might say that this is just a 1 sided story of being a kid but I like to not remember that time I whined like a spoiled brat for not getting that present I thought I always wanted and instead remember that time I was playing tennis with some friends and talking about n64 vs the ps1. What I liked about it: -Perfectly inflates the rather small problems of kids into lovable little adventures. -Catches that 60s feel amazingly but applies to almost any pre-internet/cell phone generation. I'd say it was timeless but kids these days are probably a bit different now with how abandoned my old streets and backyards have become. -Great mix of cartoonish style and real world. -Child actors that dodge the usual annoyances of kids in movies. What I don't like about it: -As fun as it was, the end chase was a bit too cartoonish. -The epilogue was a bit cheesy and obviously blown a bit out of proportion. Might've been nicer just to get a more realistic story of where they ended up after being friends.

I watched it as a kid, didn't think it was great. I never did like baseball though

[QUOTE=Lambeth;33083506]I watched it as a kid, didn't think it was great. I never did like baseball though[/QUOTE] It wasn't really about baseball. Only the first part really focus's on them playing. The same movie probably could have been set in the 90s about videogames. Though I would find it hard to lose a videogame in a dog's yard.

"why are you hitting videogames with bats goddamn you kids are so goddamn stupid these days"

Red State. 2/10 Horrible. The ending sucks, the plot is crap. Seems like the director just wanted to make subtle statements about the world we live in, instead of create a cinematic film.

[QUOTE=Reserved Parkin;33083825]Red State. 2/10 Horrible. The ending sucks, the plot is crap. Seems like the director just wanted to make subtle statements about the world we live in, instead of create a cinematic film.[/QUOTE] Mmm man I hate this post ^ [editline]2nd November 2011[/editline] Yeah fuck statements and messages!!! it has to be CINEMATIC!!!

Dead Set 9/10 Only zombie film were the zombies actually freak the shit out of me.

but dead set is a mini series

Its still very good.

[QUOTE=Rusty100;33084091]but dead set is a mini series[/QUOTE] Das Boot was also technically a mini-series.

Drive 10/10. All I will say is if you haven't yet seen it, go. For those that have you know why I've given it a 10.

[QUOTE=Rusty100;33084091]but dead set is a mini series[/QUOTE] I know, but you can watch it all together seamlessly on DVD. Still awesome.

Captain 'Murrica again - 6.5/10

Inevitably, if a TV show is popular enough, it WILL have a movie. Well is pokemon is popular enough for a theme park, you better believe it's popular enough for a movie. There are 2 ways this could go. They could increase the scale of the original show, put in a cinematic budget and sum up what might have been an entire tv seasons of storylines into 1 well done movie. Or they could just extend an episode of the show to be longer, get slightly dated pop songs for a soundtrack, and try to sell you toys. Lets look at the former and the later. Pokemon: The First Movie - 3/5 I was never a huge fan of pokemon but I watched it. It was just kinda what was on TV an hour before toonami and during the school week before all the new episodes of the good shows would actually air. However the movie actually was really good. It had much better animation, they didn't waste as much time, didn't reuse the same clips over and over again. I actually got chills watching some of the action here. Not to say it's a great movie but lets just get to the good/bad. What I liked: -Great music. -The action is much more what I imagined a pokemon fight being and much less seizures/time fillers. -You actually have the feeling that this movie has the balls to do something big right off the bat rather than the typical cartoony antics of the tv show. What I didn't like: -The mewtwo story is actually pretty interesting, but too bad they had to just wrap up the story and not actually answer some of the meaningful questions it brings up. -Pokemon fighting is both posted as good and bad in some confusing strange logic. Strangest morals I've ever seen. -Why is this movie only an hour + a thirty minute short of silly kindergarten antics? They completely contrast eachother as well. On 1 hand we have a story of a confused man with too much power that kills an entire island of scientists out of anger, and on the other hand we have kids in a playground taking care of a crying baby. -------------------------------- Digimon The Movie - 1/5 This has to be as bad as TV to movie cartoons get. Right off the bat you get an idea of how low budget this is by the basically windows movie maker style opening credits. Which is really depressing, I liked Digimon a lot more between the 2 tv shows. The movie is basically split into 3 parts, and by split I mean there is an iron wall between these storylines and a thin piece of string connecting the 3. I had the vague suspicion this entire movie was just to create 4 new action figures, and then it happened. One of the cast members in the third part of the movie just flat out says to no one in particular "Now isn't that the coolest thing you've ever seen?!" as 2 of their monsters merge. Way to be subtle there. What I liked: -The soundtrack is kinda hilarious. It just pops up every now and then with no rhyme or reason and it's all horribly dated music. Like those things you remember hearing all the time on radios you'd pass by but never really liked enough to put on your MP3 players. It's bad in a funny way how little it fits in. -I guess it was nice in the middle of season 2 to see a couple of the old cast have their own adventure apart from the newbies. What I didn't like: -The first segment is pointlessly trying to explain digimon to anyone who doesn't get it, and fails horribly at it. -Where's everyone in the second segment? Did they not get the cast of voice actors to get together again? They just kinda throw half the cast out the window. -The last segment ends in such a strange way that it really has to be seen to be believed. I can't even begin to explain it, and it is so bad. I can write a paper on how "What?" it was. -It's exactly the same quality as the show but with a more rushed plot, right down to wasting time showing us the transformation shit we've all already seen a million times. -Why is it the answer to every problem in this show is to make a new action figure to sell us? You had 2 stories. You could have sold us shit in 1 and gave use a real story in the other.

that's probably the biggest review this thread had in many pages

[QUOTE=DrBreen;33091783]that's probably the biggest review this thread had in many pages[/QUOTE] Well technically it's 2 reviews. I just watched these back to back for comparison's sake. Didn't remember either of them too well.

[QUOTE=DrBreen;33091783]that's probably the biggest review this thread had in many pages[/QUOTE] Shame it's Pokemon and Digimon movies. No offence, but I saw them when I was about 8.

Another Earth a weak 6/10 This movie felt like the sub plot was the entire movie. Alot of artsy fartsy parts. If this movie would've been more focused on the Sci-fi part instead of the drama part. It would've been so much better. This movie had so much potential, but all was wasted. And it contains a fuckton of loop holes. And it ends when it becomes interesting. [B]Don't[/B] watch this movie expecting it to be an adventure to a replica earth, because it isn't.

Damn that's really disappointing.

Watched American Beauty last night, 9/10. Kevin Spacey has become one of my favourite actors recently. Watched Road to Perdition today, 8.5/10. A couple of very moving parts, and a nice balance of drama and action. The gunshots had real impact.

I watched the extended two and a half hour version of Metropolis until the Intermission point. It really is great, I thought I wouldn't enjoy it as much as I did. 1927.............................

[QUOTE=dirty harry;33094460]Watched[B] American Beauty [/B]last night, 9/10. Kevin Spacey has become one of my favourite actors recently. Watched Road to Perdition today, 8.5/10. A couple of very moving parts, and a nice balance of drama and action. The gunshots had real impact.[/QUOTE] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGWU4QhJ4L8[/media] Extremely memorable scene. Definitely one of the best uses of a song ever. (Vanilla Sky ending still has #1 when it comes to climax songs)

harry brown 8 out of ten. i always loved alfred

[QUOTE=TheFilmSlacker;33081740]The Human Centipede isn't that bad. Try "Salo: 120 Days Of Sodom" someday. That's the most disgusting/disturbing movie [I]I've[/I] ever seen. The director was apparently murdered for it. [img]http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTQyMDQ4NTY2Nl5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMjk2NDQ3MQ@@._V1._SY317_CR5,0,214,317_.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] eh, not as bad as a funnel being stuck up somebodies ass the dropping a centipede in it. lets see what else. Being staple gunned to somebodies ass then they are given laxitives and shit explodes into your mouth and face, you knee tendons are snipped, one ladys tounge is pulled out, a baby's skull is crushed and it splatters and it goes on and on [editline]3rd November 2011[/editline] oh yea, and teeth are knocked out with a hammer

Rewatched yesterday Big Lebowski for the third time, still very intriguing story. 8/10

Saving Private Ryan: 10/10 Man that was a good film. Every scene was done brilliantly.

[B]Evil Dead[/B] 9/10 Impressive, but i can't see how you can call it a "comedy" horror. It seemed like an ordinary scary movie, which was actually quite frightening in my opinion. It had a few scenes in which i chuckled, like the tree rape scene. Please explain.

[QUOTE=KlaseR;33104432][B]Evil Dead[/B] 9/10 Impressive, but i can't see how you can call it a "comedy" horror. It seemed like an ordinary scary movie, which was actually quite frightening in my opinion. It had a few scenes in which i chuckled,[B] like the tree rape scene. Please explain[/B].[/QUOTE] That's what hentai does to you man. It fucks your head up.

[QUOTE=booster;33104529]That's what hentai does to you man. It fucks your head up.[/QUOTE] LoL i meant please explain why people define it a "comedy" horror. A part from that particular scene i can't find anything actually funny in the movie. Honestly it's quite scary.

Well in my opinion it goes like this: Evil Dead 1 is not very comedic. Evil Dead 2 has a perfect balance of comedy and horror. Evil Dead 3 is not very scary. Please don't rape me with a rake if you disagree.