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

[mikeymikec]

Gangster Squad - 8/10

Don't know if it's fictional or not, but it's about a group of cops going vigilante on some east coast mob boss. Good action. Not bad at all. Emma Stone is so pretty in this movie.

I thought this film didn't do anything new and everything it did do had been done better before. "The Untouchables" for example, gives it a sound thrashing IMO in every way.

And GS is utterly fiction, as in, Mickey Cohen had very little to do with anything that film suggested he had. I'm not saying that "The Untouchables" isn't a work of fiction, but I know it had at least one factual element

Dredd (2012)

It was an OK action flick, but I thought it was pretty dull. One scene made me wonder what was going to happen next, the rest of the time Dredd just looks bullet proof. 6/10?

Tron: Legacy (2010)

Incredibly dull, and what plot/setting there is doesn't make much sense. The original was pretty simple and reasonably entertaining - the 'computer world' was a representation (with a fair bit of poetic licence) of what was going on in the computer system at Encom in the real world. I don't know what the 'computer world' was meant to represent in this film, but it really didn't make any sense at all. Plot elements are inserted purely to drive the plot and audience like a herd through a maze without any real rhyme or reason. I can imagine an average early/mid teen being entertained by this film and that's it. No surprises to be found in this film whatsoever. 4 or 5 out of 10.

Django Unchained (2012)

Compared to the previous three I've mentioned, this film is great. However, compared to the rest of Tarantino's work, it doesn't measure up IMO. It was entertaining certainly. I rate QT quite highly, some of my favourite films are by him, so I'll give this film a rating relative to his other films: 7/10

I've just watched Kill Bill 1 & 2 again, which IMO stands head and shoulders above DU.

Silver Linings Playbook (2012)

I noticed this when its trailer did the rounds on the front page of IMDB and it caught my attention. I enjoyed the fact that it wasn't some romantic movie where the entire plot revolves around the fact that the management board decided to get x and y actors together to get all the women to watch a film. The two main characters had (unusual for Hollywood) flaws, they were more believable. It demonstrated that normal people can be arseholes sometimes without that being their defining character trait. Sometimes that's just the way people are. Someone mentioned the parlay, I thought that was a bit unnecessary too and who the hell is stupid enough to do something like that? I'd probably give this film a 7.

 

[bigrash]

Hangover 3: 6/10. Not as good as the 1st one, but not as bad as the 2nd.

 

[HardcoreRobot]

Warm Bodies - 8/10 - I thought it was creative and cute. Yes, another zombie movie, but really not one in the typical sense.

 

[thestrangebrew1]

Escape from Planet Earth: 6/10 - Had some funny parts, pretty predictive plot etc. Not too bad for a kids movie, probably a little over the head for my 3.5 yr old as far as the jokes went. I can't stand Brendan Frazier though. Anitmation was decent.

 

[Kev]

Anchorman - 7/10
I never found Will Ferrell funny. He's low-brow predictable crap humor that requires zero wit. And unlike a real lowbrow stuff like Dumb & Dumber, it's just lame all around. EVERY MOVIE he plays the same character of a bumbling idiot. You could ALWAYS call what he'll do next.

I saw this movie because of all this Anchorman 2 hype. I didn't even know the original was considered good. It's nothing special. Few snickers here and there.

Anchorman was his first big movie, and I loved it at the time. But yeah, since then he has played the same character in every movie and it gets old. I could see how if Anchorman is the last one you saw out of his movies you wouldn't like it as much.

 

[Dr. Zaus]

Anchorman - 7/10
I never found Will Ferrell funny. He's low-brow predictable crap humor that requires zero wit. And unlike a real lowbrow stuff like Dumb & Dumber, it's just lame all around. EVERY MOVIE he plays the same character of a bumbling idiot. You could ALWAYS call what he'll do next.

I saw this movie because of all this Anchorman 2 hype. I didn't even know the original was considered good. It's nothing special. Few snickers here and there.

Stranger than fiction was a good movie.

 

[mikeymikec]

Stranger than fiction was a good movie.

+1

I liked Blades of Glory as well.

 

[JBT]

Man of Steel 10/10
The Hobbit 7/10
The Hunger Games 7/10

 

[busydude]

Stranger than fiction was a good movie.

So is everything must go and Talladega Nights.

 

[Insomniator]

Star Trek 8/10

 

[Aikouka]

Stranger than fiction was a good movie.

This might sound odd to others (well... maybe not so much in this thread), but that's probably my favorite Will Ferrel movie.

 

[SP33Demon]

Man of Steel 10/10
The Hobbit 7/10
The Hunger Games 7/10

Man of Steel 10/10 wow. Tell us more why thought it was flawless. I'm seeing it tomorrow.

 

[Ichinisan]

Gangster Squad - 8/10

Don't know if it's fictional or not, but it's about a group of cops going vigilante on some east coast mob boss. Good action. Not bad at all. Emma Stone is so pretty in this movie.

I haven't seen the movie, but: West coast.

 

[T9D]

"Once upon a time in the west"

Oldie but flipping awesome. For what it is i'd say 9/10. Don't know how I never heard of that movie before.

 

[KeithTalent]

Man of Steel 10/10 wow. Tell us more why thought it was flawless. I'm seeing it tomorrow.

Just got back from it. I'd probably give it a 7/10. I liked most of it, but it jumped around quite a bit which made it feel a little disjointed and incoherent. Zod and Faora-Ul were amazing villains and Superman and all of his family, both genetic and adopted, were great, but I found the whole Lois Lane/Superman story kind of dumb and it all happened way too fast. Definitely worth a watch though.

KT

 

[KeithTalent]

"Once upon a time in the west"

Oldie but flipping awesome. For what it is i'd say 9/10. Don't know how I never heard of that movie before.

It's a classic. Have not seen it years, but it's an all time great and I don't even really like westerns.

KT

 

[pcslookout]

Just got back from it. I'd probably give it a 7/10. I liked most of it, but it jumped around quite a bit which made it feel a little disjointed and incoherent. Zod and Faora-Ul were amazing villains and Superman and all of his family, both genetic and adopted, were great, but I found the whole Lois Lane/Superman story kind of dumb and it all happened way too fast. Definitely worth a watch though.

KT

The flashback scenes were the best part!

 

[Printer Bandit]

Phantom (2013):

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1922685/

damn soviets have american accents.

 

[notty22]

Saw Man of Steel, Imax/3D. First movie been to in a couple years.
The experience was awesome. Non-stop visual overload(in a good way).

 

[Printer Bandit]

Searching for Sugar Man - 8.5/10

Documentary about a guy who was famous and didn't know it.

Singer from the USA becomes a music icon (like bigger than Elvis) in South Africa and no one bothers to tell him. Shysters and idiots collect and pocket the royalties and the guy lives his entire life in poverty working house demolition. 2 guys from South Africa want to write about his life story including how he died, but they find him alive and he ends up playing to numerous sold out concerts in South Africa.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5PF8ykKUWE

 

[mikeymikec]

"Once upon a time in the west"

Oldie but flipping awesome. For what it is i'd say 9/10. Don't know how I never heard of that movie before.

I'd also recommend "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly", if you haven't already seen it. Those two are the best Westerns, IMO. "Unforgiven" would make the top ten IMO.

I personally like "For A Few Dollars More" as well.

 

[ImpulsE69]

Room 237 - Still not sure/10 - I never was a fan of The Shining. It just bored me, however the trailers of this documentary about the hidden meanings of The Shining intrigued me. From the moment it started I was like WTF is this? All I could think was "these people are reaaaalllly reaching".

It only got crazier as it went on. At some point I was like, ok, how was this in theaters? So when it was over, I googled to see if I was alone in this, and saw that on RT it had a 94%??? Wut? Then I read the description. It seems I went into watching this movie from a completely wrong perspective. I thought this was a serious deep look at The Shining. What it actually is doing is poking fun at obsessive movie watchers who go to extremes to find hidden meanings in films. This is a film about THEM, not The Shining. It clicks for me then.

As much as it had me scratching my head, it did what many films cannot do these days. It kept me watching. Thus I'm not sure what to score it. I wouldn't say it's a great movie, but it does it's job and makes you think (like..wtf are these people smoking?).

 

[richardycc]

what's your number 6.5/10 - typical chick flix with predictable ending. The female character was cute, but there is something about her that I didn't care for her. I think She kinda looks like Lindsay Lohan, but the real Lindsay would've done a better job for this movie.

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

Man of Steel - 6/10 - I can't believe this. Half way through the movie I was thinking how wrong all these reviews are. I seriously thought it was the best movie of the summer half way through. After the movie, my brother in law (who I saw it with) said the same exact thing. The problem is that this movie half way in devolves into a shit fest.

Spoiler

It just turns into "fight/chase scenes" for lack of a better term. The thing is, these scenes lasted way to long. If you don't care about special effects and story matters, this half of the movie will piss you off. This movie's second half should have had literally half of the footage cut.

Oh, and the plot was stupid. Bonus! Did everyone see the flying penises scene? My brother and I both laughed.

 

[syd2oo2]

Fast and Furious 9/10.
Would have been 10/10 but that tank scene when Dom catches Letty was too much .