Critically Evaluate the last movie you saw.

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Originally Posted by Artemis

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Originally Posted by Stehle

...(Really wanted Bill Paxton to say, "Game Over Man, GAME OVER!" like he did in the "Aliens" movie for those who viewed it way back when.) :alien:

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I've read your review a few times Stehle and gone away going be nice, it was a good movie, be nice, it was a good movie and it's true it is a good move but a unique story.... honestly all the way through I was going this is Groundhog Day with big fuck off guns and armoured suits. The movie is a pastiche of a lot of other ideas and there is the all pervading feeling that you have seen it before.

There was also one massively gigantic plot hole at the start. The General thanks his advertising genius who has just given him thousands of new recruits by falsifying reports of him impersonating an officer and sending him to the front line as cannon fodder.... really....??????? Why exactly would he do that? embolism? :blink:

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Yes, I do agree with many of your sentiments and I thank you for pointing them out. My critical evaluation was perhaps swayed by the entertainment value, (that I experienced) and the fact I hadn't heard Bill Paxton's statement from a previous movie, (running joke / catch phrase in my family since watching the "Aliens" movie). I am sorry I was so narrow minded in my evaluation and hope the members can excuse that narrow mindedness. :(

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Originally Posted by Stehle

My critical evaluation was perhaps swayed by the entertainment value, (that I experienced)

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I'm with you on movies receiving extra leeway for entertainment value. Idol and I have gone rounds over this. Of course, he's about as much fun as a bag of wet cement.

Unfortunately, Cruise's version of Groundhog Day was about as charming. I simply could not care for the characters, nor their plight. Their deaths were repeatedly unemotional.

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Originally Posted by megabyteme

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Originally Posted by Stehle

My critical evaluation was perhaps swayed by the entertainment value, (that I experienced)

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I'm with you on movies receiving extra leeway for entertainment value. Idol and I have gone rounds over this. Of course, he's about as much fun as a bag of wet cement.

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You seemed to have missed the "critical " part of "critical evaluation". There's a big difference between liking something and seeing the true worth of something.If you don't believe me then just ask your children. :mellow:

Anyway I suggest you start a thread entitled "movies that are sort of shite but I still like them anyway :):):)" because I'm sure we all have seen more of those than we have the good ones.

I "believe" that was meant as a dark sort of humor or comic relief than graduating into his reluctance to lose forever his as of yet unrequited lady love.

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Originally Posted by IdolEyes787

MEMBERS that are sort of shite but I still like them anyway :):):):

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Idol

I Watched Annabelle. Well it is definitely scary enough for the faint-hearted like me!

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Originally Posted by MyExclusiveCondo

I Watched Annabelle. Well it is definitely scary enough for the faint-hearted like me!

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You say that you're illiterate fainthearted so I'm going to need you to quantify things to get a better understanding exactly how scary it was.

Did you pee your pants 6 or more times? 3-5 times ? Less than 3 times?You did pee yourself but that is a regular occurrence and had nothing to do with the movie?

As always,thanking you in advance because apparently that's a thing.

WOW!.. I need to see that movie! :blink:

(Having urination problems now stating with my advance age... that movie may break that streak! (Pun Intended) ) :alien:

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Originally Posted by Stehle

WOW!.. I need to see that movie! :blink:

(Having urination problems now stating with my advance age... that movie may break that streak! (Pun Intended) ) :alien:

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Nah, you are just too onboard with Florida's "conserve water" campaign. :drummer:

FYI... Tropical Fish (as most if not all fish), without watching scary movies swim in there own urine. :pinch:

(Feces too, but to dispel the misnomer there are NO species that actually eat it.) :alien:

Like toddlers taking swimming lessons at the local YMCA...

If you bathe instead of shower you are literally swimming in your own filth ..........only with bubbles.:)

Saw The Dark Knight Rises again. This was my second time as I haven't seen it in a while.

It still holds up pretty well. I do have a problem with Bane's voice. Not intimidating at all. That might have been the whole point (the give them a bit of hope BS), but I'm just not seeing it. Other than that very good. For a mainstream Hollywood flick.

I found Stretch (2014) to be entertaining. It has a solid cast who play interesting characters. It is about a hard-luck limo driver who desperately needs to make a large sum of money before his shift ends.

Any kind of in-depth analysis stands to spoil some of the fun. The show has momentum, which many cannot pull off. It has been available for download for the past week. Grab it and enjoy the ride. :)

Thanks Meg... I will! :)

(I was looking this weekend to get the taste of "American Horror Story" out of my brain.) :alien:

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Originally Posted by Stehle

Thanks Meg... I will! :)

(I was looking this weekend to get the taste of "American Horror Story" out of my brain.) :alien:

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Not sure what it is, but I'm just not "feeling it" with AHS Season 4.

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Originally Posted by megabyteme

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Thanks Meg... I will! :)

(I was looking this weekend to get the taste of "American Horror Story" out of my brain.) :alien:

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Not sure what it is, but I'm just not "feeling it" with AHS Season 4.

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Ryan Murphy along with M Night Shyamalan trying to disprove the adage that even a broken clock is right twice a day.:mellow:

Anyway my thoughts on the show......

Grotesque doesn't equate to horror.Grotesque turns people away,horror draws them,willing or not, in .

Repeat after me, sex and violence,sex and violence,sex and violence.
Besides being a staple of almost every horror movie well,ever,sex sells.I'm pretty sure that only a flaming ghey such as Murphy would populate his show with leads like Jessica Lange,Kathy Bates(in a beard no less) ,Angela Bassett(penis optional) and Gabourey Sidibe and expect it to play to anybody except housewives and homosexuals like himself.

No balance.
Well there's the bad and the ugly but I seem to be missing the good.To care,people need someone to root for.If not a "good" guy then at least a charismatic villain.

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Originally Posted by megabyteme

I found Stretch (2014) to be entertaining. It has a solid cast who play interesting characters. It is about a hard-luck limo driver who desperately needs to make a large sum of money before his shift ends.

Any kind of in-depth analysis stands to spoil some of the fun. The show has momentum, which many cannot pull off. It has been available for download for the past week. Grab it and enjoy the ride. :)

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Tempted as good cast/good if overused premise but strikes me ,especially from a guy like Carnahan,as being one of those overly busy stories where you have a bunch of unrealistic albeit colourful characters run around screaming a lot without ever actually doing anything of consequence so in the end you're left exhausted but empty.

The Interview

Like watching a comedian do stand-up and sitting there with this silly grin on your face waiting for a punchline that never comes.One of those movies that you're fairly sure that they had a story but no actual script and just improvised most of the dialogue.

While not a horrible movie it is a relentlessly unfunny one and I defy anyone to show me one scene that was actually truly humourous.
It's also not "bold" or insightful as all of the targets are of the easiest variety possible.

On a side note I honestly think that the people who rated it so highly on IMDB should have their posting privileges revoked. There's entitlement to your own opinion and then there's blatant stupidity.

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Originally Posted by IdolEyes787

On a side note I honestly think that the people who rated it so highly on IMDB should have their posting privileges revoked. There's entitlement to your own opinion and then there's blatant stupidity.

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4chan'ers trolled the rating.

not going to give detailed critiques here, but will throw out a few of the movies I've seen lately that have been worth watching. Perhaps a couple will help entertain you as the new year rolls in. :) In descending order...

Book of life Let me just say that this is one of the better movies I've seen as a whole this year. Look at the cast behind it. This movie deserves more recognition than it has received.

Fury A big budget movie that delivers. I'm not a huge fan of war movies, but my hesitation towards this was not deserved.


The Drop Worth the watch. I enjoyed the under-played characters performed by A-listers.

Miss Meadows Katie Holmes shows that she can still sparkle even after posing as Cruise's beard for several years.

Son of a Gun Brenton Thwaites takes the lead role in this with Ewan McGregor doing what he's been good at in previous movies.

Tusk A quirky low-budget horror/comedy directed by Kevin Smith. Michael Parks' role makes it worth the watch.


Hope this helps you decide which shows to steal in the near future. Happy New Years!

Cartoon.Last one I tried to watch was the universally praised Frozen and I couldn't even make it through five minutes of that.True story.

Been tempted as good War movies are really about friendship and courage more than guns and killing.

No thanks I get quite enough of low-lifes with no redeeming qualities here.

I make it a rule never to watch stuff containing the now haggard form of a formally nubile young woman I once had a crush on as it's too depressing.
Believe me this is quite limiting so I'd appreciate it if they would stop making movies with women over 30 in them.

See low-life comment.

Not unless in was the last movie on Earth and then I'd probably still do the judicious thing and kill myself first.

Btw this is obviously all based on wild speculation and personal prejudice so odds are it's accurate.:)

If it helps, Frozen has been played over 2.7 brazillion times here, and I have not managed to sit through it all yet. Book of Life is FAR superior, IMO. In fact, I believe you will especially like the themes. Give it 30 minutes of your attention, and see if you don't keep watching.

Does Tatum O'Neal's Carol Channing's Tatum Channing's Channing Tatum's character die?If not give it up,cartoon boy.

One of the most gruesome deaths ever filmed in a cartoon. In fact, it is rumored the film was given an NC-17 rating prior to final editing... :O

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Originally Posted by IdolEyes787

I'd appreciate it if they would stop making movies with women over 30 in them.

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But they play totally convincing teenagers. :yup:

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Originally Posted by megabyteme

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Fury A big budget movie that delivers. I'm not a huge fan of war movies, but my hesitation towards this was not deserved.

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OK so I watched Fury and while not a bad film it seemed to fall into the current trend of films with no real ending.I mean if basically your whole movie is a setup for this heroic last stand those fortunate to be left standing deserve some better closure.

Look I and presumably anyone old enough to realize that CoD isn't real realize that war is Hell so if that was the intent of the blank space where an epilogue should have gone then that was two hours wasted on telling everyone something they already knew.

Basically this was Band of Brothers in a tank but with less likable characters.So at least for me at least it was sort of pointless.
Personally I'd rather watch Audie Murphy in To Hell and Back because at least the lone guy on top of a tank improbably holding off an army while hokey is true.

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Originally Posted by IdolEyes787

OK so I watched Fury and while not a bad film it seemed to fall into the current trend of films with no real ending.I mean if basically your whole movie is a setup for this heroic last stand those fortunate to be left standing deserve some better closure.

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What? Didn't you see him ride off over a candy-sprinkled rainbow riding a unicorn? Obviously, you didn't watch all the way through the credits. :no:

All I'm saying is if this were a novel it would be missing the last chapter or at least the last paragraph.

There's a saying that goes "It's not how you start but how you finish".After sitting through two hours of murder and mayhem I think the audience deserves a little better than to be left with just some vague sense of ennui.

Anyway as you know it's entertainment so I don't like downbeat.If I need to be depressed I'll watch the news or log onto FST.Only an idiot wants something other than to be left with a feeling of satisfaction.

Boyhood was not as good as I was expecting it to be. I never got to see anyone's boyhood... what a fucking ripoff.

So, the story had a lot of scenes that very nearly paralleled my upbringing, but they in no way resonated with me, at least not the way Radio Flyer had done in the past. Maybe the magic is gone because I'm less impressionable, which means the world is only going to suck more. Yay.

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Originally Posted by mjmacky

So, the story had a lot of scenes that very nearly paralleled my upbringing, but they in no way resonated with me, at least not the way Radio Flyer had done in the past.

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Radio Flyer is a special story told in a very unique, touching way. I am teetering on seeing Boyhood, and will probably do so in the next couple of days.


Watched Poker Night (2014) last night. Had strong hopes for it during the first 1/3, but the method used to tell the story (which was initially strong) fell apart and got a bit tedious. I think a better editor on the project could have made a stronger show. Seems like they were trying too hard to create another Saw series, which wouldn't really work with the narration. Good cast of "B" actors who were not at fault, IMO. 5/10.

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So, the story had a lot of scenes that very nearly paralleled my upbringing, but they in no way resonated with me, at least not the way Radio Flyer had done in the past.

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Radio Flyer is a special story told in a very unique, touching way. I am teetering on seeing Boyhood, and will probably do so in the next couple of days.

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Award-wise it's cleaning up and stands a good chance of winning at least a couple Oscars which is a good indication that it's pompous drivel that artless industry types latch onto in the hopes of seeming less artless.:)

Anyway for what it's worth and because clearly I don't know what I'm talking about........

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1065073/...?ref_=tt_ov_rt

Btw this is a fascinating insight into the human psyche where a bunch of people slag a guy while at the same time trying to say something like" if you haven't got anything good to say then don't say it".:unsure:

I guess opinions are wonderful just as long as they don't happen to differ from your own.

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Originally Posted by IdolEyes787

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1065073/...?ref_=tt_ov_rt

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Wow, 100/100 Metacritic score. Guess we've learned that movie critics have a thing for young boys. :idunno:

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Originally Posted by IdolEyes787

where a bunch of people slag a guy while at the same time trying to say something like" if you haven't got anything good to say then don't say it".:unsure:

I guess opinions are wonderful just as long as they don't happen to differ from your own.

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and THAT, my friend, my pal, my SO, my soul mate, my secret Dildo Clause, is THE Internet.

You've never seen me commit such a capital offense before.

I shall always be Spam Gamgee to your Dildo Baggins.

Yes I know that like life that technically that makes no sense. Someplace else I might even actually care.

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and THAT, my friend, my pal, my SO, my soul mate, my secret Dildo Clause, is THE Internet.

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That sort of herd mentality is what led to the demise of Frankenstein's monster.Something I still haven't forgiven the peasants for.
Why even to this day I can't pass someone carrying a torch without wanting to punch them.

What about people with lighters?

Yeah them too.I don't discriminate and that's why I'm better than most foreigners.

I sort of watched The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies.I say "sort of" because overblown and given to taking itself so painfully seriously as it was it failed to really hold my attention and my mind kept drifting off.

I'm pretty sure somebody died and good triumphed over evil and all involved went home rich but other than that I'm fuzzy on the exact details.

I also watched American Sniper which was good if making up stuff as opposed to telling how things actually happened in a supposed biography is good and I'm pretty sure all politicians agree it is.:)

Anyway for anyone, that being no one who cares.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentis...ero-chris-kyle

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Originally Posted by IdolEyes787

American Sniper

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I'm pretty sure somebody died and good triumphed over evil and all involved went home rich but other than that I'm fuzzy on the exact details.

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Same ending, then.

Anyway, shallow fanaticism with gunplay. I'm in. :w00t:

Then you'll love what just happened in France.


If I'm ever confronted by a hostile force I'd rather have it be some atheist with no country because apparently thinking your cause is just makes doing really terrible things a lot easier.

Actually American Sniper is a pretty good movie if a little unevenly paced but I guess that was sort of the point.Showing the sharp difference between Kyle's two realities although The Hurt Locker already did that sort of thing already and better .
The Hobbit on other hand could have been directed by Michael Bay and would have played basically the same.

That's code for it's basically a total piece of shit .Some of the big fight scenes are almost farcical how they just keep going on and on like the Black Knight in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.:mellow:

What do you expect? 1 movie was stretched into 3. The battle scenes and piles of gold were all that really mattered in the last one. Getting you to watch the other two was the reason for the first 2.

Whiplash (2014) . I loved this movie. It is a well-done drama of a talented, young drummer who is pushed to his limits by his teacher. Kind of like a dark version of Dead Poet's Society. For a drama about music (it is actually more about what it takes to become great), the story flows quickly. J.K. Simmons plays an AMAZING character as the hard-nose teacher. I don't believe I've sen such a convincingly played hard ass since R. Lee Ermey traumatized the young Marines in Full Metal Jacket.

See it, or miss out on one of the best filums of the year. Don't take my word for it:

Whiplash (2014)

107 min - Drama | Music - 15 October 2014 (Philippines)

8.7

-/10

Ratings: 8.7/10 from 20,605 users Metascore: 88/100
Reviews: 107 user | 216 critic | 47 from Metacritic.com

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In stark contrast, I finished watching 'Merkin Sniper last night. Not impressed. Would not have known Eastwood directed it, since his other movies have been far more engaging. This one left me cringing after Bradly Cooper (in an almost comically bad attempt at a Texas drawl) declared that " 'Merika is the GREATEST country on Earth" runs off to join the Navy SEALS in spite of not liking water.

More of a propaganda film for a decade+ old war nobody cares about anymore than entertainment. I give it about 5.5/10. Would not play it for a friend if we were bored and looking for something to watch.