NOW CLOSED ; List some movies you've watched recently. Theatre, rental, TV... and give a */10

[slayer202]

I think I've only seen bits and pieces, including the ending. I have to watch the whole thing some day.

But god damn can someone give the man some more good roles? I hope he'll have a decent part in Cogan's Trade. Big potential



The Oscars have had some poor choices in the last 15 or so years. A bunch of solid good but not great movies. Stuff that will look awfully stupid as more time passes

 

[busydude]

I have to watch the whole thing some day.

There is very little of Sam Rockwell in that movie.. IIRC.

 

[KeithTalent]

Brother's Keeper - 8/10: A documentary following the death of one of the Ward brothers, who are a family of very simple farmers in rural New York. This is a pretty simple documentary, looking at the lives of these destitute brothers, and the circumstances around the death of William Ward, leading up to the trial and the verdict. It's a pretty fascinating story, seeing not only the differences of between the big city fols and those out in rural New York (a part of the state I never really think about, I always just think of the major cities) but also how the small town of Munnsville rallied around Delbert Ward, even though they had been all but completely ostracized from the community, when the accusations came out. Not a great looking doc and I have to admit I had difficulty hearing and understanding the brothers at times (no subtitles on the disc either :\) but it's an interesting story and I definitely became enthralled with the whole thing.

Paper Man - 6.5/10: An indie dramedy with Jeff Daniels moving to a small cottage to try and work on his second book, while his surgeon wife Lisa Kudrow leaves him alone. Daniels then ends up hanging out with youngster Emma Stone. This is a relatively paint-by-numbers indie drama, with some silly affectations, and some underlying dark emotion. I liked this enough, as I'm kind of a sucker for these types of indie movies, and while I laughed in several parts and really enjoyed Stone and Daniels together, it was a lot of the stuff surrounding them that I did not love. Ryan Reynolds and Kieran Culkin are both a waste of time here; I know what they were doing with those two characters, but I could have done without them. Passable movie, but not great.

KT

 

[slayer202]

Paper Man is on Netflix streaming. Might give it a shot. Sounds like there might be enough to be worth watching. Brother's Keeper has been on my queue forever, along with many other docs. Not sure I'll ever get through them

 

[KeithTalent]

Paper Man is on Netflix streaming. Might give it a shot. Sounds like there might be enough to be worth watching. Brother's Keeper has been on my queue forever, along with many other docs. Not sure I'll ever get through them

It's not without its charms, but as I said I'm generally a sucker for those types of movies.

There so many damn documentaries out there it's hard to get through them. Really need to pick and choose.

KT

 

[KeithTalent]

Collapse - 7/10: A documentary which is essentially an 80 minute long interview with one guy, Michael Ruppert, who seemed to predict the financial crisis and has various opinions on oil and politics, etc. I did find this pretty interesting, particularly as I vacillated back and forth between thinking of him as an intelligent guy with great ideas, and a paranoid, conspiracy theorist nutjob. I'm still not entirely sure where I ended up, but I did enjoy listening to what he had to say.


Oh and I got my Blu-ray of Drive last night. I think I love the movie even more now after the re-watch. It felt like it was about 45 minutes long, it totally flew by, and as I was watching, I kept thinking "oh sweet, this next scene is awesome" then the scene would happen, then I would think again "oh sweet, this next scene is awesome" and again another awesome scene. I swear had an erection for the entire hour and forty minute runtime. Love that movie.

KT

 

[slayer202]

I swear had an erection for the entire hour and forty minute runtime.

KT

Hahaha. I've been itching to watch it again. Probably will try this weekend

 

[KeithTalent]

Hahaha. I've been itching to watch it again. Probably will try this weekend

Do it! My plan is to watch Moneyball and Midnight in Paris. Almost Oscar time!

Hey did you ever re-watch Exit through the Gift Shop? Was re-reading your old review which gave it sort of an incomplete. Was cool that so many people watched the movie after seeing it mentioned in the thread.

KT

 

[HardcoreRobot]

Get Him to the Greek - 6.0 / 10 - Blah. Basically one-dimensional characters, minimal plot & conflict, and just not that funny.

Super 8 - 8.3/10 - Really liked it. My wife was getting irritated with the slow pay-off on the reveal, but I liked it. Definitely threw some

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Goonies and ET

vibes, as the director intended. Some slight PG-13 type cheese kept the rating lower on this for me, but I just prefer my movies to be grittier.

 

[KeithTalent]

Super 8 - 8.3/10 - Really liked it. My wife was getting irritated with the slow pay-off on the reveal, but I liked it. Definitely threw some

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Goonies and ET

vibes, as the director intended. Some slight PG-13 type cheese kept the rating lower on this for me, but I just prefer my movies to be grittier.

Big fan of this movie. I really want to get it on Blu, but it's still damn expensive here.

KT

 

[busydude]

Big fan of this movie. I really want to get it on Blu, but it's still damn expensive here.

KT

I felt disappointed... frankly. I never truly like ET either.. and this one felt like a darker/modern ET.

 

[KeithTalent]

I felt disappointed... frankly. I never truly like ET either.. and this one felt like a darker/modern ET.

I loved the kids, which for me is pretty rare because I generally find kids annoying. Some of the other stuff was only ok, but the kids were the driving force behind my enjoyment of the film.

KT

 

[slayer202]

Do it! My plan is to watch Moneyball and Midnight in Paris. Almost Oscar time!

Hey did you ever re-watch Exit through the Gift Shop? Was re-reading your old review which gave it sort of an incomplete. Was cool that so many people watched the movie after seeing it mentioned in the thread.

KT

I never re-watched it, no. Not without effort though, I gave the gf the option since she didn't watch it with me the first time. I even asked a couple of other people if they had any interest, but no. Thinking back, I don't think I liked it very much. There are too many other great documentaries out there. This one was clever and unique, but it didn't work for me I guess.

I do remember the discussion in the thread though, that was cool indeed.


I wonder how you'll like Midnight in Paris. I can see you going either way or even neutral. I might try to watch Take Shelter again before watching Drive a third time. MMMM is next week. Tonight, however, is A Separation, yay! Driving 45 min away to see it, hope I'm not disappointed. I'd love to see Bullhead but that's not happening without going to NYC.

 

[KeithTalent]

Gah, I need to get to A Separation. I want to see it and I don't want to see it all at the same time. :hmm:

KT

 

[slayer202]

Any reason why not?

 

[KeithTalent]

Any reason why not?

The subject matter does not really appeal to me. An Iranian divorce movie? Not so excited about that, but has been pretty much universally praised as fantastic, so I will get to it at some point.

KT

 

[slayer202]

I'm excited about it. I love a great relationship film and the Iranian aspect seems like an interesting twist. And of course the acclaim helps. I shall let you know what I think, of course

 

[GustySoul]

Super 8 - 8.3/10 - Really liked it. My wife was getting irritated with the slow pay-off on the reveal, but I liked it. Definitely threw some

Spoiler

Goonies and ET

vibes, as the director intended. Some slight PG-13 type cheese kept the rating lower on this for me, but I just prefer my movies to be grittier.

I enjoyed this movie quite a bit... but I can scarcely imagine a film more characteristic of it's director & producer.

If you took

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Goonies

,

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ET

, and

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Cloverfield

and smashed them together.... this movie would pop out.

 

[slayer202]

A Separation - 7.5/10:
Sigh. Big let down. This movie surely was not entertaining, so that puts all the pressure on the message, and it missed with me.

The movie started slow, the first third was basically setting the stage for the rest, showing us a bit about Iranian culture. I felt like it was trying a bit too hard to show that they aren't too different from the western world, but I'm not sure what it's really like over there. The middle of the movie gets a little interesting, I can't really explain why without giving anything away, but things happen and the movie picks up a little.

The rest sort of fizzles. There are some relatively powerful moments here and there, but not really. More like a few decent moments that actually convey some sort of message. What this message is, I'm not completely sure, nor did I really care. I wanted to, but unfortunately I didn't. Maybe this movie works as some sort of political message, but if so it went over my head. At least the acting was phenomenal all around

morning after edit: to expand a little bit, the whole thing was a little one note and very straight forward. Maybe I couldn't relate to the movie(as I couldn't with The Descendants) , or maybe this was an achievment in Iranian filmmaking. The story did feel very real but I found myself bored

 

[GustySoul]

The Tree of Life - 3.0 / 10

Oh gosh what a let-down.

I was hugely looking forward to this movie as sci-fi dramas are far and away my favorite movie genre. 2001 is fantastic of course, and a few years back Aronofsky's The Fountain left me dumbstruck and is now my favorite movie ever.

Tree of Life however I found dull and I just couldn't get invested in the characters or story. That, and the inclusion of lots of overly hazy metaphorical imagery made it feel as if someone was beating me over the head with firm pillow while yelling "This movie is profound!".

I think I see that the film was showing how all the stages of one's life, the events and emotions one experiences, and time and the greater cosmos are all connected; and indeed it was successful at that.

But man, it's a movie and you should enjoy watching it.

 

[OCNewbie]

Take Shelter - ~6/10

I dunno, I just wasn't as impressed by this movie as some of those who previously posted about it. The pace of the movie was uncomfortably slow for me. I honestly can't think of too many good things to say about it. 6/10 might even be a tad too generous.

 

[OILFIELDTRASH]

The Rum Diaries 10/10

Writer Hunter S. Thompson's The Rum Diaries put to film. Classic Johnny Depp. Was kinda depressed as it ended. Not because of the way it ended just because I could of watched for 5 hours that's how captivating it was.

Would like to hear you guys thoughts on it.

 

[Dr. Zaus]

The Rum Diaries 10/10

Writer Hunter S. Thompson's The Rum Diaries put to film. Classic Johnny Depp. Was kinda depressed as it ended. Not because of the way it ended just because I could of watched for 5 hours that's how captivating it was.

Would like to hear you guys thoughts on it.

It wasn't nearly as gun as fear and loathing but it was much more engaging, despite the difference I would give both movies the same score 9.5/10

 

[busydude]

How I met your mother (S1)- WTF is this shit/10

Will post review later tomorrow.

 

[Locut0s]

See all of the schizophrenia works for me. I love the absurdity and insanity and I get caught up in all of it. Still one of my favourite movies.

KT

I respect that you and others like it. I can see what Gilliam was going for and 1/2 of it works. As a whole it just doesn't do it for me though.