What is the latest movie you watched and what did you think of it?

I watched rise of the planet of the apes and Holy Moses was it ever good! It was a slightly different take on the old movies involving a super cure that amped up the brain :) Story is really good heart warming and dramatic while the main character Ceaser tries to find his place in the world somewhere between humans and apes, it is totally action packed too. Very cool film :)

Thor 2011 - watched it only for natalie portman.

Was she too busy to watch it for herself?

the Lord of the rings for me,the greatest movie ever!!

Which Orc was your favorite?

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Which Orc was your favorite?

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i think you might have him there.
on another note i bought the box set and haven't even got round to watching any of them. call me stupid or what....

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Which Orc was your favorite?

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i think you might have him there.
on another note i bought the box set and haven't even got round to watching any of them. call me stupid or what....

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What.

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A stupid person would of went to the cinema when they were screening the LOTR marathon :whistling

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i think you might have him there.
on another note i bought the box set and haven't even got round to watching any of them. call me stupid or what....

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What.

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A stupid person would of went to the cinema when they were screening the LOTR marathon :whistling

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what is a cinema?

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What.

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A stupid person would of went to the cinema when they were screening the LOTR marathon :whistling

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what is a cinema?

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You'll have to forgive him, he's Australian....

^^^^^^^^^^
oh i didn't know that
ok he is forgiven. looks like i have a free week end so i will dust down that Lord of the rings boxset and finally watch them..

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looks like i have a free week end so i will dust down that Lord of the rings boxset and finally watch them..

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Keep your eye on the third Orc from the left and see if you don't agree he's doing some fine actressin'.

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looks like i have a free week end so i will dust down that Lord of the rings boxset and finally watch them..

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Keep your eye on the third Orc from the left and see if you don't agree he's doing some fine actressin'.

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thanks for the tip will do.and i had to google to see what an Orc was......

Me too.

Super 8 - overhyped piece of shit lol don't waste your time or ratio.

3/10

Friends With Benefits- Mila Kunis, Justin Timberlake.

First let's ponder the elephant in the room.
Friends With Benefits is a romcom and closely adheres to the genre.
Every beat/trope/meme is exploited and abused.
I don't even need to summarize the plot because the title is the ultimate spoiler.
Had it starred Katherine Heigl, I'd have hated every glossy frame but it doesn't, and therein lies it's salvation.

Mila Kunis channels Bette Midler and Carole Lombard to become a "broad"...her character has far more personality than the writers created.
She is ace at quick bawdy repartee and seems supremely comfortable mocking herself, very approachable.
A dirty Sandra Bullock, if you will.

Objectively, FWB is a predictable summer chikflik but thanks to Mila it was an enjoyable way to hate a movie.

Attack the Block- nobody you've ever heard of.

Aliens attack an English housing estate (a high rise, basically) and the only ones who know about it are a gang of young thugs and the woman they've just mugged.

Attack the Block is a low budget British film (most of the special effects money went to dentistry, I think) with a smart concept, interesting soundtrack and huge heart.
The gang- whom the opening scene prepares you to hate- turn out to be resourceful, brave and intensely loyal but mostly, fearless in the way only children can be.

The writers also made a very smart choice by creating aliens who are frightening but not invincible.
This means there's no Hail Mary MacGuyvering of lasers or the like, the kids are fighting with the same pathetic weapons they use to terrorize lone women in dark alleys...a tiny switchblade, a few pipes an a metric shitton of attitude.
It works quite well.

"Small" films like Attack the Block cannot spackle over creaky plots with multi million dollar CGI budgets (Looking at you, Avatar!) and must depend on character development to engage the viewer.
This one does.

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Question for those who watch this...
Does Moses turn into Hi-Hat?

I just stole that a couple of hrs ago and was going to see it in a few minutes. After watching the sample it looks liek I'll need subtitles.

Y'akno' wha' I mean bluud?

edit: At least the kids seem a bit more educated than the pommy drama Kidulthood and Adulthood :huh:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bZa2efcNqk

I fort wen muldy was talkin', lyk, he was takin da piss. dinnt kno dat how dey talk ova dere.

Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)
6.5/10

I had really enjoyed watching the first part.
Dark of the moon was the final part of transformers series and I think it was ok.I think there was too much action and less story.The first part had action combined with great story.
Watch it if you prefer action over story.

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Attack the Block

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Heard good things about this movie but haven't gotten around to watching it.Hopefully I will and your review will get at least a couple more people to do so as well.The film industry could certainly use more movies like this and fewer witless movies like Cowboys vs Aliens.

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

Hangover 2 - 9/10 - it had some very funny moments :D

X-men First Class

8/10

Both your accounts have been suspended.

Didnae ken I could do that, didya?

Super 8 - Biggest over-hyped piece of crap ive seen to date!! Ok, it might be interesting for sci-fi fans but this movie was so boring, i almost fell asleep half way through.

3/10

after reading clockers review i have just finished watching Attack the Block. and it was quite a descent film.
it reminded me a bit of shaun of the dead only because of nick frost being in it and acting like he did in the for-mentioned film.
overall if you can get past the lingo the young kids of today spoke in the film.it was very enjoyable a good 8/10 from moi..

A holiday trifecta:

Pirates of the Caribbean: Johnny Depp Goes Full Retard.
I shamelessly admit to being amused and entertained by the first Pirates, Depp's Captain Jack Sparrow was quite the unexpected Disney hero.
All the movies since are unmitigated shit, this last so wan and listless that I was embarrassed for all of us.
The sidestory of the mermaid and the Jehovah's Witness (I'm assuming) was far more compelling than anything Depp and Cruz could spark and having seen one Disney swordfight (which involves much brandishing of sharp, pointy things but remarkably little blood and fewer severed limbs...), I've seen them all.
Johnny, please find a new franchise.

Columbiana- Zoe Saldana.
The lead up to this movie's release has focused on whether or not Zoe Saldana could open an action hero movie.
Without even seeing the film I can answer the question...of course she can.
Given today's fondness for epileptic editing and pervasive use of standins, Kermit the fucking Frog could be convincingly cast as an action hero.
The question should be can Columbiana open as an action film, regardless of the star?

I think not.

I did like the girl who played the young Zoe and really, I liked Zoe herself well enough too.
I did not for one second buy into any of the Mission Impossible shit (I should tell you my architect friends story someday) and the whole "avenging the family" schtick is really getting old.

So yes, Zoe Saldana can kick some ass.
I just don't care enough to watch.

Fast & Furious- Fast 5- Koenigsegg CCX and an amazing amount of new Detroit iron in Rio.

Sshhh, don't tell anyone but while everyone else was asleep F&F- F5 snuck in and stole well, basically everyfuckingthing from George Clooney's Oceans franchise.
Clearly, there would have to be more car stuff...and there is.
The film's real MacGuffin is the addition of Dwayne "The ROCK!" Johnson as a borderline insane G-man.

Shared screentime between Vin and Dwayne is of necessity rather limited.
I assume that their combined presence would create a testosterone fueled black hole that could quickly lead to fiery death!, so The ROCK! is kept sidelined till Brazil raises a new generation of cannon fodder for his rogue agent to mow down.

That's alright though cause Vin and his generically good looking sidekick (Google it if you care, which I don't) need the time to break the laws of physics so the final setpiece can transpire.
Be assured that the final setpiece does transpire (your $15 ticket fee includes the Happy Ending), so I'm assuming that during one of the Rock's few scenes (probably the really inane one where he makes his crew reassemble a GT40 from pieces for no good reason) Vinnie and Tonto (citation needed) go back in time, murder Albert Einstein and warp the laws of the physical universe.
They return in time to pilot two Dodge Challengers sourced from a Lee Iaccoca wetdream and perform a lot of Rio's Olympic pre-construction demolition.
Such thoughtful boys, always have been.

This is another action movie that wants to cut the reek of Axe Body Wash by slathering "familia" over the sociopathy...oh yeah, family means everything to Dom and the gang.
Well, their family means a lot...the thousands of bystanders -one or two of whom might have families of their own- don't much matter and Dom is willing to risk his sister- his PREGNANT sister (but don't worry, she doesn't drink!)- in his suicidally harebrained assault on Precinct Trece but don't question his motives cause it's FAMILY!, motherfucker!
If that ain't enough, tough.


It ain't.

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Awayanbileyerheid.

I think you just made that up so, whatever.

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I think you just made that up so, whatever.

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Hactually since you were putting on a faux Scottish accent I used an old Glaswegian curse, literally 'go away and boil your head', T'was a joke based on your slang.

I'm American so of course I "dinna ken".
Much like "British food", we don't believe the Scottish language really exists, being an elaborate put on to fool Donald Trump.

I'm an export myself, I was born in Scotland but do not remember much, I came out as a young child. My family and my wife's family are all from northern Scotland and the Shetlands so I get a steady diet of Scottish slang, it's not the language but some of the food I object to.

Ooh, the Shetlands!
That's where the famous wool bearing miniature ponies come from, right?

Yesterday I saw Kill The Irishman. The story is not bad, maybe too many explosions. It's a bit boring

sanctum !

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sanctum !

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You know I gave the exact same review to The Informant! and people that were unaware of the exclamation mark in the title just thought that I really, really liked the movie.
Same sort of thing basically fucked up my attempted trashing of Moulin Rouge! though.

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sanctum !

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You know I gave the exact same review to The Informant! and people that were unaware of the exclamation mark in the title just thought that I really, really liked the movie.
Same sort of thing basically fucked up my attempted trashing of Moulin Rouge! though.

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But think of the amount of effort that was saved by simply typing the movie title without even blessing us with a thought as to it's worth. It took exactly 10 keystrokes to complete that post and then on to the next one somewhere else on the board, he probably won't even need a snack after that effort.

X-Men: First Class- Many mutants, some stock Cold War era Russkis and Kevin Bacon. Oh, and that weenie from Wanted.

Movies like this aren't aimed at me.
I am not particularly attracted to movies like this.

Good, now that's out of the way, let's trash this bitch.

So, as I understand it, nuclear testing has somehow accelerated human evolution, evidenced by the growing number of weirdly mutated people hiding amongst the population.
The mutants long to be "normal" and just fit in.
It is hard to be a special snowflake, especially a scaly blue one.

It must be really difficult to be an outsider stigmatized by a ridiculous power, which is basically how these folk are afflicted.
Let's see, one guy can fly but only whilst screaming.
One guy has hands for feet but he's also really smart, ultimately he turns into a wolf/creature (and presumably leaves to pursue Bella).
One girl is literally Tinkerbell and can spit little fireballs (a trick that Disney totally missed...).

All of these skills are absolutely useless and frankly, a little embarrassing.

That's OK though because First Class also features a healthy dose of monomania, which is a trait absolutely integral to a "superhero" mythos.
Super/mutant folk are really terrible at multitasking, only one thing (World Domination!) animates your average tainted mutant and this singular focus makes for cardboard characters with an odd penchant for silly names ("Don't call me Eric, I prefer MAGNETO!" Really? Magneto? What are you, three?) and burlesque costumes (where is Tim Gunn when you really need him?).

There was a lot of strident music to alert me of impending CGI-gasms, which I found useful so I could preemptively shut down higher brain functions and enjoy the (rather weak) computer generated spectacle with my lower brain stem.
My lower brain rates First Class a solid 5/10.

My upper brain can't remember a single thing about the movie and thus feels unable to provide a rating at this time.

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My lower brain rates First Class a solid 5/10.

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It is a little known culinary fact that lower brain stems are actually quite tasty. You just have to remember that they get very chewy, so you need to marinade them in a high-concentration of Hollywood for at least 2 hours before cooking. Done properly, they come out as soft and flavorful as bone marrow.

That's really good to know, so thanks for sharing.

Totally disgusting, too.

No problem, clocker. It's from an old recipe given to me by a zombie friend of mine. :P

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....... It's from an old recipe given to me by a zombie friend of mine. :P

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