Watched X-Men: First class and enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would, 3.5/5. Makes me really want to go read some X-Men.
Rate the last movie you watched.
Man of Steel: On a scale of Jimmy Olsen to Batman, it's a solid Aquaman.
I don't even know what that means.
Man of Steel: On a scale of Jimmy Olsen to Batman, it's a solid Aquaman.
I don't even know what that means.
You're saying it scored in the negatives? O_o
Man of Steel: On a scale of Jimmy Olsen to Batman, it's a solid Aquaman.
I don't even know what that means.
You're saying it scored in the negatives? O_o
I'm saying it's a little fishy, had potential, and is overall okay.
I went and saw This is the End last night. 5/5 it was great. If you like any of the dudes in it go check it out. If you don't then like whatever i srsly dont even care ok
I rewatched The Crow most recently. I love the setting, soundtrack and general atmosphere. It's got all the late 80's/early 90's aesthetics exactly like I want them, but, yeah, the editing, script and a bunch of other stuff could probably have used a bit more work. A solid 9C/FF.
I went and saw This is the End last night. 5/5 it was great. If you like any of the dudes in it go check it out. If you don't then like whatever i srsly dont even care ok
Saw it last night also. Bat-shit crazy and super funny. I was in tears. I love how Danny McBride is always a piece of shit.
5/5
Iron Man 3? Umm. 3/5, I suppose. It was alright, but it kinda dragged and I wasn't a huge fan of how they portrayed Mandarin.
I believe the last movie I saw was Kumare. It was an alright film, kinda preachy and looked very, very staged, but I enjoyed it and it gave a bit of food for thought.
3/5
Man of Steel. It was okay, plot was nothing special, action sequences was over the top crazy, lack of chemistry btwn Lois and Clark. 4/5
Byzantium.
Seems to have a decent reception on Metacritic, but I thought it was a real shitshow. Thumbs down.
The Hangover 3.
Strangely, it's more of a gritty crime drama than a comedy. Unfortunately, it probably would've been better if they just went with the same formula. Not actually good, mind you, but better than what they actually made. The amount of time given to Ken Jeong made parts of it almost unbearable.
2/5
last movie I saw was Finding Nemo an it never sucks..its always like a 5/5
last movie I saw in theaters was This is the End, was freakin awesome! noo joke..def a 5/5
if u havent seen it..see it, like NOW!! er else...
I've recently gone back to some of the older Roger Moore Bond movies, just because they're the ones i often always forget what happens in which. Only rewatched two so far as of yet:
The Spy Who Loved me -- Roger Moore was at one point my favourite Bond (back when I was in my teens), so it was a surprising revelation for me to find that in this one at least he comes across as a smarmy gimp. The actress for XXX is also really bad and the action scenes don't hold up at all. Great soundtrack, though, and Jaws is still one of the better and most memorable henchman of the series. Stromburg seemed like he could have been a decent villain, but he unfortunately had so little screentime. The underwater car's pretty cool, though.
3/5
For Your Eyes Only -- Said to hark back to the less goofy Connery bonds, it definitely shows. It's not as flashy as a lot of the other Moore movies, and that's part of why I liked it. The action rarely ever ages well, so the classic Bond movies that put more emphasise on the espionage and dialogue are often the best. Roger Moore isn't quite as OTT and actually comes across as the sorta guy you could rely on; I also liked how he kept pushing away the advances of the ice-skater. His delivery overall was pretty good and his dialogue wasn't peppered with one-liners as much as in The Spy Who Loved me. Action scenes are again kinda so-so when watched in this day and age, but there's not as many of 'em and in fact, the car chase and the rock climbing segments weren't half bad. Solid supporting cast with that Columbo guy and... the parrot.
It's also bookend by two superb scenes, with the opening Not-Blofeld guy (his laugh was genuinely rather disturbing) and the Margret Thatcher cameo (played by an impressionist mind) at the end.
4/5
Gravity, I give it 5/5 satellites.
Didn't really know what to expect as the trailers weren't so good, there was something about it though that caught my eye and I'm very glad I went to see it. :) Sure it has some stupid holes, but as a cinematic experience I enjoyed it a lot.
After Earth
Watching this movie is like letting Will Smith and his son bukkake you in the eyes and ears over and over for an hour and half. It seriously turned me off movies: I haven't watched one in the month or so since I watched it.
A thousand years in the future mankind is threatened by mindless beasts that can smell the pheromones that you release when you're afraid; however, they can only smell you and are otherwise completely incapable of sensing a person, so if you can learn to control your fear, you can walk through a horde of them and cut them up like nothing. Only a select few have learned to control their fear and are valued warriors. Will Smith's son *spoiler* learns to control his fear after they crash land on earth where "Everything has evolved to kill man" (somehow over a mere 1000 years, and it's not true anyway when one of the said man-killers actually sacrifices itself to save Will Smith's son, whose name I can't remember and can't be arsed to look up.)
Despite having "smart cloth" that can sense "danger" at a distance, and being able to make advanced spaceships capable of interstellar flight, mankind can't make a simple airtight suit that would make everyone wearing one capable of the badassery we see Will Smith - able to control his fear - perpetrate against the monsters. It's a thousand years in the future and despite all that other fancy tech, the only weapon anyone ever uses is some morphing knife/spear thing. Seriously mankind, get your shit together!
I don't want to try to remember any more of this movie. It sucks. Royally sucks. Jaden Smith's (hey, I remembered!) voice is either lulling you to sleep or stabbing acid-filled syringes into your ears. Will Smith spends the vast majority of the movie being super serious and sitting in a chair with a busted up leg. This movie has absolutely zero redeeming qualities.
Rating: this movie doesn't deserve a rating, no mere number can convey the outright fucking terribleness of this movie. DON'T WATCH!!
Carrie- 1/5 (yes seriously)
Perhaps the most pointless remake since the 1990 frame-by-frame remake of Psycho. There's nothing here that's as good or better than the superior original. Rent the original on Netflix if you're interested.
Last movie I saw was Gravity in IMAX 3D with my wife. We usually HATE 3D, as a rule (gives me major headaches), but this was the first time I felt it added something to the movie.
Overall, I really enjoyed Gravity for what it was.
Skyfall- 006/007
I thought it, to its detriment, felt like it was taking a page out of Naughty Dogs book when it comes to uncharted (uncharted works because youre controlling it). Especially the train chase and the last fight at skyfall (helicopter boss battle and enemy waves). I thought some of the pithy quips were very off putting, and there were too many of them. Still, it was a fun movie and the stuff with M and going into Bonds back story was legitimately interesting.
Casino Royale is still the best, imo.
PI - Not Life Of PI.
Film was weird, I think I enjoyed it, not in a conventional way however, I remember getting very immersed in it and also quite nauseous... I give it 3.14159265359... out of 4.
End of Watch - I gave it an 8 on IMDB. I really liked the chemistry between the two characters and the relatively fun opening made the ending that much more impactful.
I watched Prince Avalanche yesterday. Paul Rudd is charming as always. He kind of plays a flawed prick in this. The kind I appreciate when I see it portrayed in film. The guy who is clearly really unhappy and unhealthy, but masks it with other behavior.
I give it eight devastated Alpine villages out of ten.
Hobbit 2 - It's pretty good. Sometimes the insanely scripted action scenes can be a bit much. I also still prefer non-cg orcs.
Hobbit 2 - It's pretty good. Sometimes the insanely scripted action scenes can be a bit much. I also still prefer non-cg orcs.
Well, it's a movie after all. There won't be any downtime while you and the audience pick dialogue options.
Hobbit 2 - It's pretty good. Sometimes the insanely scripted action scenes can be a bit much. I also still prefer non-cg orcs.
Hobbit 2 - It'd be pretty good if it wasn't for the bullshit. Whoever's on Jackson writing team and is in charge of the additions is a competent Hollywood writer, but that doesn't get you far next to a Tolkien plot. Tauriel the Overacting and the Interspecies Romance Line was terrible, while Beorn mostly getting shoved aside in a movie in desperate need of some slower, more building scenes to control the pacing is a shame. The Mirkwood dungeons, which could have been expanded into a really cool heist-breakout sequence, becomes yet another too-long action sequence. Smaug is gonna get defeated by a +5 Dwarven Crossbow of Dragonslaying. Also, Smaug? Great design. Great capture and voice. (It's Benedict Cumberbatch!) But rather than have him be outwitted in a riddle game and fast-talked into exposing a weakness, which would have been cooler and set-up the moral ambiguity of the dwarves better for the next film, he's just another too-long fight scene, and frankly probably the film's worst. Watch how many times the great intelligent beast forgets he can breathe fire! Or gets outwitted by the "Let's split up and he'll get so confused that he can't handle it as we run right past him" gambit.
I know, I'm a Tolkienite going on and on, what's new. In LOTR, it felt like many of the changes were necessary for the transition to the medium of film, but they kept the tone and pacing mostly intact and they were very good. Here it feels like they're adding more to try and force the tone and pace of LOTR onto the hobbit, and the films are worse for it because it's not a good match to the actual story. I don't think you have to be familiar with the books to recognize that this is a second-rate LOTR, and while that's still pretty good, it's depressing because it's easy to see a first-rate Hobbit peeking through.
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