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

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Originally Posted by megabyteme

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Originally Posted by mr. nails

Repo Men

i thought it was pretty good and i liked forest whitaker too. i dug the fast action dagger kills too. lol, reminds me of my rogue in WoW! :p Movie offers a lot of blood, some crazy barcode scanner action and a twist ending. 7.5/10

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Have to agree with you, nails. Not a great movie by any means, but kept itself going and had lots of anti-corporate sentiment to mirror the times. Funny that the movie was made by Hollywood corporate whores. Just shows they can make a movie and still miss the message entirely. :lol: Yep, 7.5/10 from me as well.

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Originally Posted by ted

Repo Men. I felt like the movie was trying to do too much. There are loads of eye candy mixed with attempts at conveying deep moral themes, but for some reason the whole thing felt shallow. There's so much action throughout the film, but at the end (especially after that ending) I felt like 'wtf did I just watch?'.

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Finally got around to watching this movie and while I seemed to have missed the "attempts at conveying deep moral themes" - I think the whole plot was structured to the action not to make you ponder morality - I would have to say that I would have liked the movie if not for the incredibly off-putting last 2 minutes .
Someone tried to get too clever by half and instead of giving the audience payback for their investment decided that it would be "brilliant" to spit in their faces instead.

Without the last scene I'm falling in line with a 7.0 ( good action and it did a good job of a difficult task of making me root for a previously reprehensible human being) .
With the last 2 minutes a 0 as it left a foul and lingering taste in my mouth.

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Originally Posted by hulabula

Airplane! (1980)
Extremely cheesy humor.

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That's the whole point.:unsure:

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Originally Posted by hulabula

Airplane! (1980)

Complete waste of bandwidth and time. Extremely cheesy humor. I kept searching for a gem somewhere in the drag (considering on how many all-time-favorites lists the title has appeared) but the most exciting thing about it was a bare-chested woman...

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I remember liked it back then. It wasn't as good as Top Secret but not a waste at all

On the other hand I certainly feel sorry for the time I spent watching Dogtooth. The idea is clever, a father decide to isolate his family in order to protect them from the unknown, the photography is artistic but that's all at least IMHO. Not my type of art

yes man, nice one :D

Inception (2010)

Good film. It makes you think about the power of the mind and how relative the concept of reality is. The plot is so well thought out that I'm nearly certain it's taken out of a book. If you haven't watched the movie yet, when you watch it be sure to keep track of every new piece of information as it becomes available, because you'll have trouble understanding parts other wise. I managed to keep up until the ending, which is still something of a mystery to me.

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Originally Posted by IdolEyes787

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Originally Posted by hulabula

Airplane! (1980)
Extremely cheesy humor.

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That's the whole point.:unsure:

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No, I think they wanted to go for the sort of mock-comedy that the 1st Scary Movie nailed. Airplane fell short imo, because the comic scenes were over-stretched, overly simplistic, or downright tasteless.

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Originally Posted by hulabula

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Originally Posted by IdolEyes787

That's the whole point.:unsure:

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No, I think they wanted to go for the sort of mock-comedy that the 1st Scary Movie nailed. Airplane fell short imo, because the comic scenes were over-stretched, overly simplistic, or downright tasteless.

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I think that's the whole point.:unsure:

Scarey Movie ? Yes the Wayans and Carman Electra are deep and tasteful.:mellow:

Middle Men- Luke Wilson, James Caan, Giovanni Ribisi.

"Based on true events".
Wilson plays Jack Harris, a calm and determined "fixer"...the man called in to help a struggling business identify it's problems and overcome them.
He is introduced to two crazy stoners (Ribisi & Gabriel Macht) by a lawyer friend, Jerry Haggerty (Caan).
The two have a dream of selling porn on the internet, do a half assed startup and are soon inundated by the response.
Along the way they make some very dubious connections with the Russian Mob and attract the attention of the FBI.

Harris (played with perfect stoicism by Wilson) realizes that the product (porn) is actually secondary...the real money is in the "pay per view" middle transaction (where a fee is assessed both parties) and he forms the first company capable of handling anonymous credit card transactions on the internet.
Money pours in, which attracts a lot of attention from people Harris- who fancies himself an upstanding family man- would prefer not to know.
His two partners never manage to grow up and make increasingly bad decisions, fueled by an ocean of coke and liquor.

I'm not sure how closely the movie hews to fact...Christopher Mallick, the real life Harris, was a producer on the movie and helped shape the script (no doubt, semi-whitewashing himself in the process), but it really doesn't matter.
The movie stands on it's own and is quite entertaining whether true or not.

Would do well paired with Blow, a similar story of improbable success (and failure).

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Originally Posted by IdolEyes787

Scarey Movie ? Yes the Wayans and Carman Electra are deep and tasteful.:mellow:

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Haha, well blame the genre.

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Originally Posted by hulabula

Airplane! (1980)

Complete waste of bandwidth and time. Extremely cheesy humor. I kept searching for a gem somewhere in the drag (considering on how many all-time-favorites lists the title has appeared) but the most exciting thing about it was a bare-chested woman...

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You sir, are insanely wrong. It's my favorite movie of all time. Why can't you connect with laughter?

Who is the boss of cheesy these days? Dump him. It's the ultimate feel good comedy. Don't tell me you don't laugh when the guy say he has a drinking problem.
***** I shit on political correctness, and so should you.

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Originally Posted by hulabula

Airplane! (1980)

Complete waste of bandwidth and time. Extremely cheesy humor. I kept searching for a gem somewhere in the drag (considering on how many all-time-favorites lists the title has appeared) but the most exciting thing about it was a bare-chested woman...

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You are almost certainly too young to appreciate it.
(Not "too young" as in "years old" but too young as in "born too late").
Half the humor was "meta" in nature...the Beaver's Mom (Barbara Billingsley) speaking jive?
Peter Graves (Mission Impossible) as a pedophile?
Had you not grown up with these folks' crafted screen personas, the bizarre juxtoposition of their characters in Airplane! would fall flat.

Airplane! is an ur-comedy, much of the humor we enjoy today sprang from it's cheezy loins.

the latest one I watched is RED and I really liked it, it's better than Cop-Out with Bruce Willis I wathced earlier.