Avengers: Age of Ultron. I'd give it a 4/5. Not as good as the first, but still pretty fun, and it headed in a couple of very unexpected directions, which was nice.
Chappie: Man. I'd heard this movie was disappointing, but I wasn't expecting it to be this bad. Aside from the neat robot designs and maybe the car theft sequence, I can't think of a single thing that works. It's like Blomkamp just lifted the concepts from RoboCop and Short Circuit and didn't care that they actually didn't blend that well. The characters are thoroughly unlikable, the action scenes are pretty bland and the dialogue is just embarrasing. Why do Ninja and Yolandi from Die Antwoord play themselves? It's super-distracting. It's kinda puzzling to me that they bothered casting A-listers like Sigourney Weaver and Hugh Jackman, since neither of them get much screen time and their characters are completely one-dimensional.
1/5. I don't think I want Blomkamp to make the next Alien movie anymore. :(
It was alright. I expected the absolute worst given how much I hate found footage films and M. Night Shyamalan's recent batch of dissapointments. It helped that I went in not knowing what to expect, much like the movie The Guest.
I never watched this back when it was out. For some reason, I felt like watching it though. There's certainly some funny stuff, but also a lot of garbage and cringe moments. I suppose it's more or less what I was expecting though...
For most people, this is definitely not a 4-star movie, but it's completely up my alley. It's very much in the same vein as Saw or Cube (or the Zero Escape series): a bunch of random-ish people wake up in a life-or-death situation. In Circle, the basic premise is that there are 50 people in a room and every 2 minutes one of them dies.
Like I said, I really dig this kind of thing; a lot of the movie feels fairly flimsy though, especially the world-building and the characters' reactions to various things (or lack thereof).
I don't really like Chris Nolan's direction for some reason. He always seems to have some great ideas, beautiful cinematography, and awesome actors. But the films comes off as dull and pretentious to me. And I even love Bergman and Fellini. What the hell. Nolan could do with more humor.
"Once you're a parent, you're always a ghost to your children" is the best message this movie has (incredible even)
Chris Rock was OK. the story was OK liked the scenes where he is hanging with his old crew, Tracy Morgan, Leslie Jones... Those were probably the best scenes.
Wow. That did not work for me at all. Sure, Nic Cage, Connery and Ed Harris had their moments, but everything else was just pretty damn weak.
Standing one foot in dumb action movie, one in Tom Clancy-esque thriller, but unable to deliver on either. I'd try and elaborate more on my feelings, but I've damn near forgotten most of it.
I watched Neil Blomkamp's Chappie the other night. It wasn't downright terrible, but I wasn't all that impressed. The robot effects looked great, but what bugged me was that the audience is expected to sympathise with these drug dealing and car-jacking thugs, who really do nothing throughout the movie to redeem themselves. They were selfish assholes when the movie introduced them, and by the end they still were... so remind me why should I feel sad for them? Also, the various attempts at "sci-fi talk & techno-babble" were downright laughable, and the very blatant Vodaphone/Vodacom & Sony product placement got rather obnoxious after a while.
Don't worry about skipping it, would be my verdict.
Just barely a 3/5. I blame Alex and Press X to Not Die for prompting me to watch this. Unlike that guy from Press X to Not Die, I wouldn't call it 'shitty'. I might call it 'forgettable' though.
My biggest gripe would be Mark Wahlberg's half-assed acting. I'm sure that most of the actors in Press X to Not Die could do a better acting job than he did...
Maybe it was because my expectations were very low, but this movie was alot better than i expected, still nothing to write about, it was pretty average.
I was surprised how much I enjoyed it. I thought it had good pacing and a solid mix of drama with lighter moments. I was a bit worried it'd be a bit too over the top with CATASTROPHIC SPACE DRAMA or something but it wasn't that way at all.
Crimson Peak 3/5. It's not bad, but I was expecting more of a 'bad house' or evil spirits and trapped people movie, than what was on screen. I blame the marketing for making it look like an evil house / evil spirits sort of movie.
Hotel Transylvania 2: has one really well written character in a awful movie, i enjoyed the first one however this was pretty bad. the plot was basically the episode of the Simpsons where homer thought Bart was gay where they swapped references to being gay or masculinity to being a monster. 5 angry bats out of 10
Saw Bridge of Spies last night. It was.... pretty good. I'd give it a 3.5/5
A little over-long, some strange pacing issues, but still a really good story and an interesting look at an important aspect of the Cold War (prisoner exchange). I was a little troubled with the lack of story subtlety in a movie about spies, but I forgave it because it did what it was doing really well - just a little obvious in how it went about.
It felt a little weird how patriotic the movie was though. The whole movie was super pro-american, which felt like a weird viewpoint to take in a modern film about the Cold War. Is the USSR still heavily demonized in the USA?
Far better than that piece of shit Troll 2, even a bit better than The Room and Birdemic I would say. Still doesn't beat Howling 2 when it comes to 'so bad they're good' movies, but it's up there.
MOTHER SUPERIOR! ha ha ha ha....
Also saw Werner Herzogs great remake of Nosferatu. Not quite as scary as the original, but man Klaus Kinski is still just an incredible presence and the story is much better than the original Dracula, focusing more on the ultimate victim, Lucy, and her relationship with Dracula than it does the men of the story. It even casts Val Helsing as a bumbling idiot which is kind of amuzing. Still like Coppolas version the best though.
Also saw Werner Herzogs great remake of Nosferatu. Not quite as scary as the original, but man Klaus Kinski is still just an incredible presence and the story is much better than the original Dracula, focusing more on the ultimate victim, Lucy, and her relationship with Dracula than it does the men of the story. It even casts Val Helsing as a bumbling idiot which is kind of amuzing. Still like Coppolas version the best though.
The way Kinski acts with his hands in that movie is amazing.
Also saw Werner Herzogs great remake of Nosferatu. Not quite as scary as the original, but man Klaus Kinski is still just an incredible presence and the story is much better than the original Dracula, focusing more on the ultimate victim, Lucy, and her relationship with Dracula than it does the men of the story. It even casts Val Helsing as a bumbling idiot which is kind of amuzing. Still like Coppolas version the best though.
The way Kinski acts with his hands in that movie is amazing.
I bought the recent BFI box set of Herzog's films, and I'm really looking forward to this one. I've been trying to get my girlfriend to watch it with me but she thinks she'll be too scared by it (the original Nosferatu freaks her out).
It reminded me of that daft Robocop reboot. Whenever it touched on the original film, or played a theme from it's soundtrack, I winced and thought "You didn't deserve that."
And that's about all I can think to say, despite having credits roll not 10 minutes ago. Came and went leaving little impression.
Do kids like this kind of thing? The first film was amazing when I saw it in 199. Captured both the awe and imagination, along with being scary, funny and heartfelt. I'd hesitate to call it a rose tinted glasses thing, as I had watched it just the other month and it still impressed me to no end.
This didn't go much beyond being a long expanse of aimless rambling that falls into noise and chaos slathered in unreal looking computer graphics.
Besides the intro making the twist a little too obvious, the acting, how the family interacts , and the way it's all explained/resolved in the end pretty much ruined it.
Also saw Werner Herzogs great remake of Nosferatu. Not quite as scary as the original, but man Klaus Kinski is still just an incredible presence and the story is much better than the original Dracula, focusing more on the ultimate victim, Lucy, and her relationship with Dracula than it does the men of the story. It even casts Val Helsing as a bumbling idiot which is kind of amuzing. Still like Coppolas version the best though.
The way Kinski acts with his hands in that movie is amazing.
I bought the recent BFI box set of Herzog's films, and I'm really looking forward to this one. I've been trying to get my girlfriend to watch it with me but she thinks she'll be too scared by it (the original Nosferatu freaks her out).
Nosferatu is great, but Fitzcarraldo is my favorite of the Herozg/Kinski movies. I think Cobra Verde is pretty underrated. The narrative is a bit of a mess, but the cinematography is mindblowing.
@zeroyaoi: If you like light-hearted sci-fi movies that don't take themselves too seriously, you'll enjoy them, specially the first two (the third is nice but the weakest of the trilogy). The cgi hasn't aged well on some parts and some of the acting is a bit campy for today's standards, but they're still really fun movies to watch and it's cool to see how they imagined things back then.
As for my ratings, yeah, I am quite critical about movies.
Also saw Werner Herzogs great remake of Nosferatu. Not quite as scary as the original, but man Klaus Kinski is still just an incredible presence and the story is much better than the original Dracula, focusing more on the ultimate victim, Lucy, and her relationship with Dracula than it does the men of the story. It even casts Val Helsing as a bumbling idiot which is kind of amuzing. Still like Coppolas version the best though.
The way Kinski acts with his hands in that movie is amazing.
I bought the recent BFI box set of Herzog's films, and I'm really looking forward to this one. I've been trying to get my girlfriend to watch it with me but she thinks she'll be too scared by it (the original Nosferatu freaks her out).
Nosferatu is great, but Fitzcarraldo is my favorite of the Herozg/Kinski movies. I think Cobra Verde is pretty underrated. The narrative is a bit of a mess, but the cinematography is mindblowing.
Yeah, that doesn't surprise me. I'm mostly interested in Nosferatu for the rat swarm to be honest! Fitzcarraldo is great, but honestly I preferred Aguirre - totally crap production values aside.
I've got a lot of films still to watch, but so far my favourites have been Lessons in Darkness and Fata Morgana...
I had never watched a Troma movie before, and I thought this would be a good place to start. Well, as it turns out, the movie is complete garbage - amazing garbage. I'd say this is a pretty much the epitome of 'so bad it's good'.
It was surreal and I really dug the Popol Vuh synth score is certain scenes. In a weird way, it reminded me of Picnic at Hanging Rock with its dream-like quality.
Like It Follows, this movie caught me by surprise. A weird mix of horror and western, it had great acting and strange witty writing for how somber the tone was. Also; when shit hits the fan, it is quick, brutal, and when you least expect it to be.
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein: pretty good. Oddly titled in that they actually meet Dracula, the Wolfman and Frankenstien. And Frankenstein is asleep for most of the movie.
Edit: Also, I guess technically they never meet Frankenstein. Only his monster.
Finally got around to seeing this yesterday. A nice thread of hope throughout this film really highlights the cynicism of the majority of modern blockbusters. Solid performance by Matt Damon with some tense sequences and a fantastically uplifting score.
I think it was Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation. It was a cool action movie with a some spectacular moments but not much more than that. It was all pretty predictable and with the exception of the underwater scene I was never really on the edge of my seat. For that matter, I was never really surprised at the plot twists that they tried to throw in, except for maybe the very last part. But that was more of a "heh, nice" than a "omg I can't believe that just happened".
Better than I was expecting, for coming 10 years after the (not so great) previous entry. The self-aware moments don't feel hamfisted, even though acknowledging tropes has basically become a trope at this point. I think it's a fun movie. If you liked the other Scream films, I see no reason to skip out on this one.
The last time I watched this must have been 5 or 6 years ago, turns out that I still really love this movie. I'm in such a good mood after watching it; Frances McDormand's character is so adorable. My second favourite Coen movie.
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