rate the last film you watched

Phoenixx

Phoenixx

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Happy Feet 2 - 7/10

It wasn't bad, I was actually surprised. Usually sequels tend to suck, and I thought this would especially since it had some new voices and Brittany Murphy was no longer part of the voice casting (RIP). But among those new voices they still had all the same past voice casters and it was actually really enjoyable. Not as good as the first, no, but I still liked it. 'Twas cute and kinda funny.


Snow White And The Huntsman - 6/10

This movie would've been a whole lot better if the storyline wasn't so loose. To me, I felt like the producers spent more time on special effects than really solidifying the overall story. Don't get me wrong, the special effects were awesome, and the darker perspective and twists they took the usual Snow White storyline were great, but I felt it was so jumpy and loose in parts. I sometimes got lost in between, going from one scene to another completely different scene left me wondering how I got from Point A to Point B to begin with. All it really needed was a few more scenes here and there, less narrative in the beginning, and more explanatory scenes instead of action and wonder. The casting wasn't bad either, Charlize Theron rocked her role, but I'm not really sure about Kristen Stewart for this movie. I do not think she's a bad actress at all, I actually think she's rather good (I am not referring to Twilight here), but as her playing Snow White I don't think really worked. I kinda got the same vibes like I did with Tom Hanks playing Robert Langdon in The Da Vinci Code. Tom Hanks = good actor. Robert Langdon = good character. Tom Hanks as Robert Langdon = what? Not sure why, but it just doesn't work for me. Overall though the movie is worth a watch, just don't expect to be that impressed. The trailer was more impressive than the movie.
 
blue_eyes

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Evil dead - Haven't watched the original because what i did see of it was just ridiculous. I liked this remake a lot though, it kept me interested & there was some good ol' gore, some creepy moments, acting was OK/quite good. 7/10
 
vj288

vj288

not actually Fiona Apple
Phoenixx said:
I kinda got the same vibes like I did with Tom Hanks playing Robert Langdon in The Da Vinci Code. Tom Hanks = good actor. Robert Langdon = good character. Tom Hanks as Robert Langdon = what? Not sure why, but it just doesn't work for me.
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Oh really? I've never read the books (shame on me) but I saw The Da Vinci Code as well as Angels and Demons and enjoyed his performance. Is the character a lot different in the books? I totally agree about Kristen Stewart though, when I saw that movie I was so distracted the whole time by how unfitting she was for the role, she plays a much better Joan Jett. :perfect:
 
Phoenixx

Phoenixx

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vj288 said:
Oh really? I've never read the books (shame on me) but I saw The Da Vinci Code as well as Angels and Demons and enjoyed his performance. Is the character a lot different in the books?
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^ I read The Da Vinci Code before I saw the movie, so I was a lot more critical about everything. I thought the book was a lot better. Robert Langdon is a bit different in the book than what Tom Hanks portrayed him to be. I felt Tom Hanks' Robert Langdon was too stiff, and maybe even fairly one-dimensional. Book Robert Langdon is more.... I don't really know how to describe it... more aloof, I think. He's quick-witted and highly intellectual, but I thought he came across as a slightly anxious person too, but not overwhelmingly so. Tom Hanks doesn't seem to portray this nervousness, nor did I feel he really grasped Langdon's claustrophobia (elevator scene in the movie). I just felt Hanks only displayed Langdon's intellect and not much of anything else. Even with looks I found it to be really different. I'm sorry, but as much as I love Tom Hanks, I felt he was actually looked too old for the role. I also don't even like the book's description of him as looking like "Harrison Ford." Harrison Ford, really? Because to me, I pictured him as tall, lean, maybe lanky, not such a wide face but kinda thin with a few age lines, clean shaven or just barely, and he has dark hair with some gray. Obvious he's getting older, but still looks fairly young. Isn't husky or obviously handsome, but is still pretty good looking in a simple natural way. Now that I think about it, Noah Wyle probably would've been much better fitting. That's just my vision and my opinion though. This wasn't meant to be a Tom Hanks bashing post, I still love him as an actor and I do enjoy all of his other films.

I totally agree about Kristen Stewart though, when I saw that movie I was so distracted the whole time by how unfitting she was for the role, she plays a much better Joan Jett. :perfect:
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^ Oh I totally forgot she played Joan Jett in another film. What film was that again? I remember seeing the trailer for that film before and I thought she looked pretty fitting for the role. I remember first seeing her in Zathura. I didn't like the movie, but I thought she was good. Plus Josh Hutcherson as a kid was so darn adorable.
 
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neardeath

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Planes, Trains, & Automobiles gets 5 stars because my 90 year old Mom with dementia laughed hysterically when the woman at the car rental place said to Steve Martin, "You're F'd!"

And here I thought she was going to tell me to turn it off when he started his f'n harangue at the counter. It was priceless.
 
vj288

vj288

not actually Fiona Apple
Phoenixx said:
^ Robert Langdon decsription
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Ah, yes that doesn't sound much like a Tom Hanks to me, he's plays the wrong kind of awkward! I wonder if Harrison Ford was considered for the role, even though you don't think it was fitting it appears the author thought so :bigsmile:

^ Oh I totally forgot she played Joan Jett in another film. What film was that again? I remember seeing the trailer for that film before and I thought she looked pretty fitting for the role. I remember first seeing her in Zathura. I didn't like the movie, but I thought she was good. Plus Josh Hutcherson as a kid was so darn adorable.
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It's called The Runaways, and is very good and I would highly recommend it :thumbup:
 
Phoenixx

Phoenixx

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(500) Days Of Summer - 8/10

If it wasn't for Tumblr, I probably would've never found out about this film. (Or at least not for a long while) Is it supposed to be like some sort of indie movie? Because I had never heard of it or seen anything about it before. Surprisingly too since it has both Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel.

I really liked how this movie was produced and directed. It had cute parts, but it obviously wasn't a romance film, and it clearly stated that in the beginning it wasn't a love story. (Yet all the screen caps and gifs I find on the internet are nothing but the cutesy ones... What? :idontknow:) It had some wry humor, which I like. I really just liked the perspective of it though, from JG-L's character. A character you want to hate, but hate to feel sorry for. He played that "please-feel-sorry-for-me/I-want-you-so-you-need-to-be-with-me" kind of person (douche?) so well. It was a good balance of pathetic, selfish, yet just enough humor and cuteness to cover up those negative aspects of his being. That's not something I often see from him, as most of his characters I've seen are smart, level-headed, nice, and/or just an all-around average guy. I'd like to see more of that kind of character from him because he played it so flawlessly. Zooey's character, on the other hand, is exactly what I expected from her, and she was adorable as always. Chloe Grace Moretz was a nice surprise too.
 
Odo

Odo

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Belle De Jour-- 10/10.

It's a classic, pretty much a flawless film. I'm not sure if you could consider it misogynistic or not-- I would say not.

The story revolves around a bored upper-class trophy wife who decides to become a prostitute. Of course, you can't exactly throw yourself into that kind of double life and expect to avoid disaster. There were several things that could go horribly, horribly wrong in that kind of situation, and while watching I kept trying to figure out which one of them would eventually happen... or maybe it would be several, or maybe none.

Like all great films, this one avoids making the obvious judgments and creates rich, complex characters and leaves the discussion up to the audience... I couldn't tell if Belle was selfish, naive or simply out of control... but then, I guess that what drives people into those kinds of situations probably can't be attributed to just one driving factor. I would say that the lack of control was probably integral to Belle's fetish.
 
Odo

Odo

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I saw Man Of Steel.

The acting was alright, but pretty much everything else was awful. The tone was all wrong. Practically everything in the film was needlessly ugly... especially the bits on Krypton. I kept asking myself why they wanted it to look like the machine world from the Matrix. I think they should have just cut it out completely. They could have even saved themselves some money and not hired Russell Crowe at all... but then a lot of people probably wouldn't have wanted to see it.

Zack Snyder has to be my least favorite director at the moment... Watchmen was horrible, and now this. And now apparently he's going to do one with Batman and Superman together, which is probably going to be even worse. I wish that all of these comic book movies would stop... they all follow exactly the same basic blueprint, so there's really no need for any more-- but they just keep on churning them out and people just keep on showing up.

3/10.
 
Flanscho

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Pacific Rim

7/10

It's good in so far as you get what you expect: a trashy action movie. The plot sucks, it's 100% predictable, and once every minute you groan as the movie defies all logic. You get monsters and robots. If you want those: great movie. But don't expect anything else.

Like... if you can mind melt two humans into a machine, and the people are in each others brain, why do they still need to talk to communicate? And why would they have a voice interface with the robot, the clunkiest most unreliable interface there is, if they are mindmelted with it. And how can they have a wi-fi connection through the deepest ocean into another universe? And if they have such powerful connections, why can't they remote control the robots? And how does the sentence "they are digital, this one is nuclear" make any sense? And why does a skyscraper sized robot used an old huge ship as a sword? A ship that would break apart in any rough ocean. But there the robot uses it as a sword and the ship doesn't break apart, despite being flung around and used to smash stuff with? And why would a robot do that even though he has a perfectly functional super modern hugeass sword on it's back, waiting to be used? And how can a flying 500 ton monster carry a robot out of the atmosphere? If there is no atmosphere, there is no air which would carry the monster and allow its wings to carry it up there. How does that make any sense at all? And why did that one dude keep the shoe of that girl for several decades, instead of giving it back? And why do they think that, if skyscrapersized robots won't stop 500 ton monsters, that a lousy wall will do? And so on and so on. Nothing in the movie makes any sense.
But, it's a trashy action movie, so don't expect logic.
 
mikebird

mikebird

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OK I'm sure it'll be all over this thread but I haven't got time to look for it

I was randomly prompted to see Fight Club again. I saw it. It was .. OK

Made in 1999, it was 2001 where all of life got a lot worse, being alone

Good to be worth another watch. I never remember any scene or story once it's been about 10 years or if I didn't see anything in the last few years. About 5 minutes into it

Now relevant to my situation when I might have not taken it seriously last time

I forgot that my friend looks exactly the same as Brad Pitt and does the same way he acts. Probably everyone says that. He married my girlfriend after she left me. I think because I didn't come from this town. I arrived here in 1994

That's not good enough. Nobody likes you if you're from somewhere else. Not allowed to work for a company if you didn't already work there for 50 years
 
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The Getaway-1972 not the remake. 10/10. Steve McQueen starred in this movie, automatic 10/10 from me because of that plus it's a great movie.
 
Odo

Odo

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Oblivion

It looked nice, but pretty much everything else was bad. The dialogue was awful, and I hated every single character. I think what I hated the most was that the main character's name was Jack Harper. Seriously? It sounds like a porn star name... possibly a gay porn star name. No, actually it sounds like an extremely gay porn star name. They might as well have called him Max Johnson or Rick Awesome.

Tom Cruise isn't exactly DeNiro, but in this it was like he wasn't even trying. I think that this might have been his worst performance ever. And then Morgan Freeman comes in and his job is to wear sunglasses and smoke a cigar. On the other hand, it was a pretty bad character to begin with so you can't really blame him.

1/10.
 
mikebird

mikebird

Banned
I keep getting reminders to review
or see movies on TV I never saw

Jim Carrey's best: Liar Liar (100% - even better than Back to the Future or Terminator 2) was made the year before I graduated, so had a lot more the think about in 1998 than movies. Exactly what he says is how I react in any office - sarcasm. Outright critism. Trying to shoe people the light. I'm more reserved than the character but it's how office and interview or recruiters - they don't get my frustration and see me as strange - as if it's not valid to be creative. Everyone must talk like everyone else, or you lose your job. 2004 was my year of decline. Rejection

Forrest Gump
seems to have a lacking understanding of people - I'm like that. Rain Man. Mum's death is an issue

I need the right people. Age doesn't matter. But my family don't get me.
See the way Forrest stares at people as they talk. His speech of "That. That is all I can say" That is a pure statement to everyone. I always have plenty to say. It's not for them. I need someone to listen. They are the freaks. Not me
 
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