Last Movie You Watched V. 1.0

[JediKooter]

Originally Posted by chadritt

It actually got mostly really good reviews, though they almost all said they'd rather have seen the non shaky cam version, and jumpstarted a bunch of careers.

I saw some of the reviews too and was shocked. I thought the acting was horrible, especially the kid that 'went bad'. I went with my friend and his two daughters and afterwards they were as unimpressed as my friend and I. It had potential, but, I think the people that really like the movie were ON chronic.

[Honolulu_Blue]

Originally Posted by JediKooter

Wow. I couldn't stand that movie. Probably the worst movie that I saw last year. I didn't know people liked it, haha!

I thought it was all right. I saw it on an ariplane, so my standards were a bit lowered, but I enjoyed it well enough.

[Groundhog]

Originally Posted by Julio Riddols

Grave of the Fireflies: 8/10 - The most saddening, depressing, hard to watch film I have ever seen, and its animated. I will never watch it again if I don't have to, but I'm glad I did once.

Yeah it's probably a 10/10 for me based on emotional impact. Saw it probably 10 years ago, can't see myself watching it ever again. My GF made it only 15 mins in before she had to turn it off.

[Bigsmooth]

Side Effects: 7/10 - I don't think the trailer does this movie justice. I was surprised at how much I enjoyed it. Rooney Mara was great.

[JediKooter]

Originally Posted by Honolulu_Blue

I thought it was all right. I saw it on an ariplane, so my standards were a bit lowered, but I enjoyed it well enough.

And I do have to admit, I give movies a lot of slack usually. Something tells me the script was probably pretty decent, it's just (to me) the execution that fell flat.

[IlliniCub]

I really enjoyed OZ The Great and Powerful today. Seems like its been all or nothing with critics they either give it a great score or a horrible one very polarized, I imagine due to comparing to the original. I really liked it. The visuals were just beautiful and made great use of 3D. It's not necessarily deep or meaningful but I'd give it a solid 8/10 on fun factor alone!

[korme]

Side Effects - Didn't know much about this going in, other than that it was Soderbergh's last major motion picture. I thought the first half of the movie kind of dragged, didn't really know where the story was going... then BOOM, the whole movie turns around and the second half was incredibly satisfying. Liked it a bunch. 7/10

Worth noting that an old man fell asleep during the movie, and whenever he woke up he made a loud noise that scared the hell out of most of the people in the theater.

[NorvTurnerOverdrive]

Panic Room (aka 90 minutes of Jodie Foster's surprisingly ample cleavage)

5-ish/10 skipped watching it a million times but it was on bravo early this morning so... i'd call it a turd that fincher polished to a mirror shine

[chinaski]

Blancanieves (2012) - IMDb

Black and White, silent film retelling of Snow White. Easily 10/10.

[stevew]

The Master-?

I'm not sure how to rate it, but it's probably my least favorite PTA film. Maybe I need to see it again. The individual performances were great but the overall story was nowhere as good as I thought it would be. I didn't like Joaquin Phoenix at all, perhaps I would have preferred to see the story told through the eyes of the Master.

[stevew]

Originally Posted by larrymcg421

Safety Not Guaranteed 9/10

Really enjoyed this. It's got a very original idea for the story and really good performances from the cast. Aubrey Plaza from Parks & Rec was so good in this. The story really goes in places that you don't expect. Highly recommended if this comes to your area.

Finally caught up to this at redbox and I agree that it was a great movie. Good casting of Mark Duplass, Jake Johnson and Aubrey Plaza. Maybe the ending could/should have been a bit more ambiguous but it's definitely worth checking out and one of the more original things I've seen in a long time. 8.5/10

[stevew]

Savages-7/10. I love Taylor Kitsch so I'm probably biased. There were some pretty big flaws here, and I really wish Stone was still a young filmmaker who didn't give a fuck. First off, Blake Lively not doing nudity is just dumb. She had at least 3 different sex scenes where she was basically fully clothed. Salma Hayek was pretty solid. I guess I was hoping for some frenetic true crime type movie and they didn't really push the envelope as much as I would have liked. The double ending is pretty iffy as well, I was fine with either ending but showing both is pretty silly.

[albionmoonlight]

Olympus Has Fallen

5/10

Mrs. A and I had had a rough week, and we were looking for escapism. And this movie gives it to you. Bad guys take over the White House and capture the President. A (semi)disgraced Secret Service agent is trapped inside and is the only one who can stop them. It checks all the action movie boxes.

But, that's all it does. It does not add one thing to the action-blockbuster canon that was not there already. Also, I don't expect a lot from my plots and characters in action movies, but this one really made it hard to suspend disbelief at some of the choices the characters made and their motivations for doing so.

Also, the whole premise of the movie (guy trapped in a building trying to stop evil plot taking place inside that building) made you think of Die Hard. Which did not help this movie. To paraphrase Lloyd Bentsen: "Movie, I watched Die Hard. I grew up with Die Hard. Die Hard is a favorite movie of mine. Movie, you are no Die Hard."

[rowech]

Wreck-It Ralph (10/10) -- absolutely perfect movie for a kid of the 1980s and a good movie for everyone else. Unbelievable imaginations shown by the minds that made it.

Argo (10/10) -- great movie. I really had never heard of the story until the movie came out. Just amazing that it worked.

[korme]

The Place Beyond the Pines - So much here. This is Derek Cianfrance's sophomore follow up to Blue Valentine, a movie that personally moved me and I contend it's a top tier movie from 2010. TPBtP fails a little bit for me, trying to do so much (it's really 3 40-min movies) with not a whole lot of story to work with. There are parts in the movie that I absolutely love (the car chase scene, Brad Cooper's "predicament"), but too often the movie drags and you can see Cianfrance really doesn't know how to end the movie.

It has it's moments and it's not completely off the rails, but at best I'm giving this one a 6/10.

[Buccaneer]

Finally watched Brave. Would I be considered a creepy, old man if I really liked it?

[Edward64]

Battle Los Angeles.

A fun mindless action movie, take it for what its worth. Modern version of Clint Eastwood's Heartbreak Ridge.

[Groundhog]

Watched a bit over the past couple of weeks.

Safety Not Guaranteed - 10/10
Saw it without know anything about it, and absolutely loved it. Small cast, but everyone was great. Fun plot, fun characters, fun movie. My gf was asleep when I watched it, but I made her watch it the next day - even watching it again myself - and she loved it too.

Savages - 5/10
Just plain OK for me. Some decent action scenes and the like, but I just plain didn't like or care about any of the characters and yeah, the double ending thing was a bit of a miss with me.

Red Eye - 6.5/10
Caught this on TV having never heard of it before. A few years old and some horribly cheesy acting by just about every member of the supporting cast, but despite that it was surprisingly entertaining for a fairly straight-forward and one-dimensional thriller.

Cabin in the Woods -7.5/10
Interesting take on the typical teen slasher flick. My enjoyment was probably diminished a little by some spoilers I'd heard since it had been released, but overall I thought it was a good film, but I feel like, given the premise, there were so many cool places to go with the idea and they didn't quite get there.

Wreck-it-Ralph - 8/10
I wanted to love this film, but after a fantastic first half of the film, I found the Candy Racer land to be the least interesting in the movie. Still, a very enjoyable picture, but just didn't maintain the momentum all the way through for me.

[sterlingice]

Originally Posted by Buccaneer

Finally watched Brave. Would I be considered a creepy, old man if I really liked it?

I can't see how. I'm a fan of most things Pixar. However, I thought this was one of their weaker outings.

SI

[Easy Mac]

Oblivion - 3/10

Unbelievably boring. It was like a cobbling together of every sci-fi movie ever made. It was like a dumb version of Moon cobbled together with Wall-E. I was checking my watch after 35 minutes, but I still had 90 to go. Completely wasted Jamie Lannister. The women are pretty though.

[Buccaneer]

Originally Posted by sterlingice

I can't see how. I'm a fan of most things Pixar. However, I thought this was one of their weaker outings.

SI

It was a traditional Disney princess movie (albeit quite dark) which Pixar had not done before, so that was cool. Also, I think the production value, esp. the lighting and water, was beyond extraordinary.

[rowech]

Django Unchained (10/10) -- I like Pulp Fiction better but as a "traditional" movie this is probably Tarantino's best.

[Groundhog]

The Man With The Iron Fists – 7/10

Yeah, it’s dumb and makes no sense, but that’s kinda the whole point. If you watched bad kung-fu movies as a kid, well, this is what they woulda liked like with big Hollywood budgets. A whole lot of fighting and fun and pretty ladies, and shot beautifully. Russell Crowe must have chuckled to himself after reading the first 3rd of his script, and thought to himself “they are going to pay me for this????”.

[Butter_of_69]

Originally Posted by korme

The Place Beyond the Pines - So much here. This is Derek Cianfrance's sophomore follow up to Blue Valentine, a movie that personally moved me and I contend it's a top tier movie from 2010. TPBtP fails a little bit for me, trying to do so much (it's really 3 40-min movies) with not a whole lot of story to work with. There are parts in the movie that I absolutely love (the car chase scene, Brad Cooper's "predicament"), but too often the movie drags and you can see Cianfrance really doesn't know how to end the movie.

It has it's moments and it's not completely off the rails, but at best I'm giving this one a 6/10.

If they had stuck with the first 40-45 minutes and just made THAT a movie, I would've given it an 11. It was that good. Sadly, I agree with you that it drags a lot, and the last third is by far the worst. Based on the strength of the first third of the movie, though, I would give it an 8.

[korme]

PAIN AND GAIN - Michael Bay, everybody! I find these movies the hardest to rate because I'm not grading them on an 'Oscar-scale'. Look, it's mindless big-budget action. I enjoyed it, it took me on a ride and for 2 hours and 9 minutes I wasn't bored at all. My only qualm is that they really drum up and have fun with some stuff that is actually pretty grotesque and morbid.... this movie could probably also be made as a serious thriller in the right hands (not Bay's). 6/10

[Suicane75]

2 Hours and 9 Minutes? Jesus.

[korme]

It was long, but it didn't feel long. Lincoln was obviously a much better story, but that felt long. This didn't feel long.

[ISiddiqui]

42 - 7/10: Good, not great movie about Jackie Robinson. There were a ton of cheesy moments (complete with the swelling music) that made me roll my eyes. However, I was happy that they showed how essential Branch Rickey was (I feel he tends to be forgotten in the drama). The leads were excellent and some great acting by the other players, at times surprising (wait, is Wash from Firefly calling Robinson those names ).

[korme]

I haven't seen it yet, but I think the biggest compliment Iron Man 3 can get is that it feels very Shane Black-ian, who happened to also write/direct Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. So that makes me much more excited than I was.

[Neon_Chaos]

I was disappointed with the "twist" in Iron Man 3. It was very smart, very funny... but... bleh.

[rowech]

This is 40 (7/10) -- This is a tough one to rate. I got a lot of laughs out of it but the movie was too long and didn't have much on plot. It felt more like a series of skits. I also appreciated it for the fact it made me feel my marriage might not be all that abnormal at our age if people are making movies of some of these things.

[PurdueBrad]

Django Unchained (9/10)- Watched it, finally, last night and found it to be Tarantino's tightest film in regards to story. I really appreciated some of the cameos and the throwback scenes to some of his old movies (in particular the recreation of the Reservoir Dogs ear scene between 'Moonlight' and Django as well as the Western version at Candyland of the huge kung-fu brawl from Kill Bill). Really an enjoyable flick and I thought that Waltz was truly awesome.

Edited to add: I normally am not a Dicraprio fan because I feel like he can't shed his persona with a lot of his roles BUT I think he was very, very good here. I enjoyed the bi-polar nature of his character and he played it well.

[law90026]

Personally didn't enjoy Iron Man 3. Way too cheesy and there was a whole section in the middle that I felt was just a waste of time. Way too much Tony Stark out of the armour as well.

The twist was funny to an extent but as a comic book fan ... ugh.

[Buccaneer]

Originally Posted by law90026

Personally didn't enjoy Iron Man 3. Way too cheesy and there was a whole section in the middle that I felt was just a waste of time. Way too much Tony Stark out of the armour as well.

The twist was funny to an extent but as a comic book fan ... ugh.

That's encouraging to me as I am decidedly not a comic book fan.

[GrantDawg]

I loved Iron Man 3.

[revrew]

Originally Posted by Buccaneer

Finally watched Brave. Would I be considered a creepy, old man if I really liked it?

Nope. Brave was one of the best movies of the year last year. For the record, I really liked Argo, too.

Iron Man 3: 8/10 - Solidly entertaining, funny, blockbuster fun. Better than Iron Man 2. Would have liked more Ben Kingsley, but otherwise a good night out movie. Wife loved it.

And for the record: I don't give a flying f$%# about you comic book fanboys, b$%#^# and whining about how the Mandarin didn't live up to his comic book persona. Holy crap, people. If the comic books are so precious to you, by all means, it's not like they erased them and you can't still read them in your mother's basement.

It's not a faithful rendering of the story. Heck, he isn't even Chinese. He has no rings of power. In fact, the ONLY thing he has in common with the comic book is his name. So get over it.

end rant.

[chadritt]

What if I was just bothered by the fact that

Spoiler

he was fighting FIRE BREATHING INDESTRUCTIBLE SUPERMEN?????

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[revrew]

Originally Posted by chadritt

What if I was just bothered by the fact that

Spoiler

he was fighting FIRE BREATHING INDESTRUCTIBLE SUPERMEN?????

.

Well, that I can understand.