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

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Originally Posted by IdolEyes787

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Originally Posted by AbyBeats

A good movie,great sound track and a nice visual treat.

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You've just basically summed up Ridley Scott's career.

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Alien was pretty good, so it should be two good movies.

Yeah i was going to include a special exception for Alien but I decided that the post read better without it.:idunno:

And I think that you've been proven right on that point but obviously you already knew that hence the whole post thing.

Aren't you gonna ask which movie the other one is? :unsure:

Also. The last movie I saw: The Boat that Rocked.

It made me laugh a few times. Not the best thing I ever saw, but it did have two thirds of the IT Crowd in the ensamble whilst being amusing in a mellow feel-good sort of way, I thought.

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Aren't you gonna ask which movie the other one is? :unsure:

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Since it was good and entailed aliens I was assuming Borat.

As for The Boat That Rocked I was going to download it as the topic and cast interested me and then I read a bunch of unfavourable reviews and decided against it. :frusty:
So I guess I missed out then didn't I since I like mellow and feel-good.
Is the music featured much? I'm a fan of 60's music .I just downloaded some Walker Brothers onto my Ipod in fact.

Well. I ended up adding a few tunes to my spotify playlist while watching that, so I'll say it featured some classics I know I heard growing up.

I'm sure that had I been a bit older or more knowledgable about music from that era I'd recognised and appreciated the selection even more.

Also. Blade Runner. Might not be to everyone's taste but I consider it a classic, visions of unicorns and all.

EDit: I don't think I really answered the question. So: Yes, there was music, and you noticed it. But mostly other things distracted me, and I can't say I'd describe the movie as being about the music primarily.

The Hurt Locker - It has its moments.I can see why it has such a high rateing but it wasnt annything special.They did'nt try to make me cry.Maybe the sceene with the little kid "beckham" was but it didnt:dabs:

It's not suppose to make you cry, it's a character study of a man who finds that in life you don't get to choose what you love.
It's also brilliantly directed so much so that you can actually feel the heat and taste the dust if you try hard enough.
And the whole point is that there are no easy answers or quick and tidy solutions.

Just go and watch Avatard

Well it should have.I still remember bambie,crash, and king kong for that fact.Can you really say that you liked it better then jarhead?It wasnt emotional but it was fuuny.Saying that.I know what you mean by "you can actually feel the heat and taste the dust if you try hard enough."I felt that also but quickly got bored of it.Only took about a half hour,Gotta give them credit for not trying this effect with a shakky cameria.I know why its highly rated and i do like it.But its just alright.

The Other Guys - 2010

horrible film with shitty everything. well, not everything for eva mendez is super hot. i thought i was gonna like the show @ the start when sammy j and the rock go guns a blazing and super chargers a flying, but that didn't last long. will ferrells a hit and miss actor for me and this one's a total miss. marky mark and the funky bunch usually has some decent action stuffs going on, but this again wasn't one of them. some of the crappy dialog between will and eva was smirk worthy that didn't last all but a couple of secs. if u liked grown ups u'll prob love this crap too. desk pops, bipolar disorders and the better batman. 1.5/10

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The Other Guys - 2010

horrible film with shitty everything. well, not everything for eva mendez is super hot. i thought i was gonna like the show @ the start when sammy j and the rock go guns a blazing and super chargers a flying, but that didn't last long. will ferrells a hit and miss actor for me and this one's a total miss. marky mark and the funky bunch usually has some decent action stuffs going on, but this again wasn't one of them. some of the crappy dialog between will and eva was smirk worthy that didn't last all but a couple of secs. if u liked grown ups u'll prob love this crap too. desk pops, bipolar disorders and the better batman. 1.5/10

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I knew when they were promoting the fuck out of it on any show that would have them ( just like in Sandler's case with the equally unfunny Grown ups) that the movie was going to suck big time.
Doubly so when all their appearances and attempts at promotional funny didn't generate a single laugh even on shit like the Teen Choice Awards where the bar is set incredibly low to begin with.

Red Belt (2008) - David Mamet doing MMA I suppose isn't any weirder than David Mamet doing The Unit ( which I like(d) btw).
Sort of mixed feelings on this one. The good almost entirely being lead Chiwetel Ejiofor who is both utterly believable as the "gentle warrior" and incredibly likable in the part - since both are pretty important given the storyline.
Other than that the questions of morality brought up don't fit in well with what basically,like it or not , has to end up being a martial arts flick and the story sort of winds to a cresendo only to fall flat at the end.
So I guess for me the biggest problem is that the story of corruption and betrayal - staples of chop-suey as they are - just didn't work or maybe took way too long and consequentially didn't leave enough time for a proper the pay-off

Saw To Kill a Mockingbird.It was nice watching a movie in black and white for a change,the movie was simple and portrayed the life of a family and the happenings in their daily life,a weird neighbour and showing the discrimination against negroes.I haven't read the book yet so I dont know if the movie came par with it or not.It was a welcome change and I will be watching some more on my "to watch list" which Idol gave,slowly :P.Old films has an unusual way of getting under the skin when showing suspense scenes with transition of music and sudden body movements lol.

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Saw To Kill a Mockingbird.It was nice watching a movie in black and white for a change,the movie was simple and portrayed the life of a family and the happenings in their daily life,a weird neighbour and showing the discrimination against negroes.I haven't read the book yet so I dont know if the movie came par with it or not.It was a welcome change and I will be watching some more on my "to watch list" which Idol gave,slowly :P.Old films has an unusual way of getting under the skin when showing suspense scenes with transition of music and sudden body movements lol.

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Have you ever seen the original Psycho?
I forget the whole story but it goes something like Hitchcock have a whole Janet Leigh torso built up for the infamous shower scene and filmed a rather( for the day) gruesomely explicit scene but in the end went with just the shots of the knife in the hand going back and the blood swirling down the drain as he deemed them more effective.

Spoilers above.

Kinda similar to the Speilberg/ Bruce the shark story - nothing is as frightening as your own imagination.

Finally got around to watching Once Upon A Time In The West (1968). It's #24 on IMDB's Top 250. I believe it is one of those movies that actually merits its spot- how can a movie that has been in the theaters for 2-3 weeks be worthy of a top 10 spot? I digress...

The film (and it was) makes its mark with all of the subtle details that a great movie should contain- classic (yet a bit overly repeated) music, flawless lighting, memorable characters, a stunningly beautiful female lead (prior to all the cgi and silicone- hence a REAL woman) and a story that will keep you interested for its full 2 hour 38 minute run time.

If you haven't seen it, you should. Otherwise, you can stick to Adam Sandler's later work, or anything done by a millennial generation SNL cast member. Or just kill yourself.

Whats with the grown ups bashing?

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Marcus Higgins: Hey Lenny, remember when we'd come here after we got wasted?
Donna Lamonsoff: [Hearing what Marcus just said] What's wasted?
Lenny Feder: Nice one, Higgins. Wasted is when you have a hankering for ice cream.
[All the kids are talking about wanting to get wasted]
Donna Lamonsoff: I want to get wasted every day of my life.
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OK just for the record ziggyster, did you find Bedtime Stories or Cop Out funny ?

I dont know the first movie but Cop out was a dissapointment.I could not dislike SNL any more then i do.

I wrote this for another site tonight, but will repost a slightly lengthier version here, because only a handful of people will visit that section on the other site. Reposted text begins at the *.

The Expendables (2010). I have seen some people criticizing this for quite a while, and have not really been looking forward to watching the show regardless of its star-packed cast. After seeing the criticisms and finally watching the show, I have to ask, * "Did anyone watch this for its Academy Award potential"? I sure didn't. I wanted to see: Explosions. Check. Fight scenes. Check. Testosterone limited dialog. Check. Action movie, sports celebrities, has-been-but-now-revitalized and likable stars. Check. Big guns and knives. Check.

The movie, oddly enough, also had Eric Roberts. *shrug*


It was an action movie- it accomplished what it was meant to. 8.5/10 for being just that.

Julie & Julia, gf made me watch it last night with her - better than I thought it would be but that chick who played Julie was kinda creepy. Julia parts were funny.

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Originally Posted by Idoleyes

Have you ever seen the original Psycho?

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Yea parts of it.I used to watch a channel called MGM which showed old movies,when I used to sit infront of TV that is.

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Originally Posted by Idoleyes

Spoilers above

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FU

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Originally Posted by megabyteme

a stunningly beautiful female lead (prior to all the cgi and silicone- hence a REAL woman)

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So true.

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Originally Posted by megabyteme

Did anyone watch this for its Academy Award potential?

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Thats the problem with critiques and people these days.They evaluate all the movies on the same level.Why cant entertainers be seen as an entertainer instead of expecting it to be an oscar nominee or something.

Saw Remember Me.Typical romance drama stuff.Same old story of boy meets girl and the story continues with expected stuff like sex,breakup and back to lovey dovey,father problem etc.Its a nice time pass if you have nothing good to do but the ending was kinda unexpected thou.Robert Pattinson is there to attract chicks and Pierce Brosnan is starring as his father.

P.S:megabyteme,I am in mood to spam the drawing room,wanna join? :whistling

Saw Prince of Persia yesterday. Not as good as I had hoped. A bit too much matinée for my taste.

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Originally Posted by AbyBeats

megabyteme,I am in mood to spam the drawing room,wanna join? :whistling

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Now, you've gone and made me bite my tongue... See ==> :P

The Expendables, is a film that will not one day be praised for its acting and storyline. Nah not gonna ever happen. But if you liked pure action films during the era of Commando, Bad Cop, Action Jackson, Universal Soldier and the rest of the late 80's/early 90's action film madness then you will thoroughly be entertained by this flick. I felt like walking outside and shooting 50 shotgun shells off after seeing this madness. But there were no skinnies, latin guerrillas, or even street thugs around so i had to settle for a cold shower.

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But there were no skinnies, latin guerrillas, or even street thugs around so i had to settle for a cold shower.

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Not even a slope or a towelhead?:(

Couldn't you just pretend someone was looking at you funny then?

nah none of those peeps around, for I live in a nice boring suburb so all i had were birds staring at me. But believe me they could sense the madness i had just experienced and were very cautious as a result.

Saw Prince of Persia: Sands of Time and thought it was great. Nearly everything was perfect. I personally did not think that the princess was hot; the other actors there overhyped that.

I also saw The Other Guys. Laughed my ass off. There's something about Will Ferrel and the producer from entourage being in the same movie that cracks me up. Wasn't any different from the Steve Carell spy movie, just a little better.

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Originally Posted by megabyteme

It was an action movie- it accomplished what it was meant to. 8.5/10 for being just that.

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Now here's what I wrote someplace else that is not fst:

Terrible movie with terrible stunts, terribly slow acting, terrible amateur direction that doesn't take any chances, but is a culmination of cliche cuts and weak jokes one after the other.

Arnold being in the movie for less than an entire minute seemed incredibly pointless and the catch phrases got weaker with every single scene.

This seemed like a cheap shot at the A-Team/Inglorious Basterds comedy/actions genre that went terribly wrong.

Fight scenes were slow, and the bad acting was covered by inanely quick paced shots, and when those slowed down you could clearly tell that 2nd class actors stood at where they were supposed to waiting for cues as opposed to going with the flow.

The hilarity came not from the weak script, but from the terribly cheesy moments that came within close succession of one another. "See you in a thousand years ... Because you're small ... I came for the girl," are just some examples of lines you should expect.

The highlight of the movie, dare I say, was a single moment of retributive epiphany by an ex-expendable, not that monotonous, terribly acted action scenes that you'd go to such a movie to see.

Ringhunter posted in the movie section ,I'm both confused a a little scared.

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Originally Posted by ringhunter

"... Because you're small ...
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Small:glag:
See Jet Li he's short :glag::glag::glag:
Gold I tell you.:glag::glag::glag:

Have I never posted in here before? I've made it a habit reading the music section and this one for a while now, so it's weird that that is my first post here. Let's just blame it on me never finding a suitable "in".

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It was an action movie- it accomplished what it was meant to. 8.5/10 for being just that.

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Now here's what I wrote someplace else that is not fst:

Terrible movie with terrible stunts, terribly slow acting, terrible amateur direction that doesn't take any chances, but is a culmination of cliche cuts and weak jokes one after the other.

Arnold being in the movie for less than an entire minute seemed incredibly pointless and the catch phrases got weaker with every single scene.

This seemed like a cheap shot at the A-Team/Inglorious Basterds comedy/actions genre that went terribly wrong.

Fight scenes were slow, and the bad acting was covered by inanely quick paced shots, and when those slowed down you could clearly tell that 2nd class actors stood at where they were supposed to waiting for cues as opposed to going with the flow.

The hilarity came not from the weak script, but from the terribly cheesy moments that came within close succession of one another. "See you in a thousand years ... Because you're small ... I came for the girl," are just some examples of lines you should expect.

The highlight of the movie, dare I say, was a single moment of retributive epiphany by an ex-expendable, not that monotonous, terribly acted action scenes that you'd go to such a movie to see.

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It was directed by Stallone. Were you expecting witty dialog? The characters were all "hardened" mercenaries. You want warm, fuzzy lovable characters who realize that there is more to life than what they do? They blow stuff up, ride motorcycles, and hang out drinking beer while throwing knives.

If the characters had any real feelings, strong dialog, or existential awakenings- it would be a drama. It was solely about blowing stuff up and killing the enemy. Any of the cast's other movies lead you to believe this show would be anything else?

This movie was meant to be fast food for fast food eaters*. If you go to McLand looking for fine dining, you will be disappointed there too.

*Fast food eaters can also enjoy a nice meal, but at least know what they are getting when they leave the house. Base your expectations on what you ordered- not on what you got...

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*Fast food eaters can also enjoy a nice meal, but at least know what they are getting when they leave the house. Base your expectations on what you ordered- not on what you got...

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LoL :D good one, last movie was Inception. really liked the movie and ended up at the last scene - srry wont be spoiler - an gone through the same strugle over the internet to see what i should "Do" or "Think" :S but other than that i liked the movie alot

What I ordered was an action movie that asks me to check my brain at the entrance, then provide me two hours of senseless, pointless massacre.

What I got was a wimpy damsel in distress scenario, with minimal unique scenes (the only action sequence that was unique to this movie was the wreckage by the plane shooter and that wasn't worthy of being their signature strategy) and HORRENDOUS acting. It was like Mission Impossible three, minus the good reason to watch it (completing the trilogy). Hardened mercenaries that cry about being small in stature, go back to an island for a girl, and quit the team because they lost a fight? No matter how you argue, that's not "hardened" mercenaries material.

There's a fine line between a good comical action movie (as I mentioned earlier on, A-Team (their unique move was flying a tank) and Inglorious Basterds (theirs' being the scalp incidents)) and a movie that doesn't know when to quit with a joke/what constitutes motivating dialogue.

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There's a fine line between a good comical action movie (as I mentioned earlier on, A-Team (their unique move was flying a tank) and Inglorious Basterds (theirs' being the scalp incidents)) and a movie that doesn't know when to quit with a joke/what constitutes motivating dialogue.

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Roger Ebert and I beg to differ on that point. Actually I just rewatched Inglorious Basterds and while I now more appreciate what Tarantino accomplished as a director there I am still of the opinion that a couple great performances a good scene or two aside the movie still isn't up to much.
Btw if you want seriously heartless,merciless bastard mercenaries then probably The Wild Geese is the way to go.They are purportedly the good guys and yet they kill without conscious. Don't look at the score but read the reviews at IMDB.

Grabbing Wild Geese now, Idol. Thanks for the rec! Looked around and only found seeded HD versions. Demonoid has a quality 1.36GB version if anyone else is interested.

Well thanks for the heads-up, Idol. It's queued in this night's downloads.

If anyone wants a reference version for download/search parameter facilitation: The Wild Geese 1978 1080p Blu-ray GER AVC DTS-HD MA 2.0

EDIT: Idol, as for Tarantino, I usually get that sense from all of his movies. The unique thing about him is that he introduces the concept that direction is an art to the average viewer. No matter how many times Shyamalan/Bay/Cameron give long speeches about it being an art/requiring skill, the average joe never sees past the fact that it's all relatively simple cuts that take no chances. On the other hand, Tarantino (especially in Inglorious Basterds the remake) introduces chapters, scenes, moving the whole play experience into the theater hall. That comes with its gifts/curses, the curses being that it plays out as any play would, leading up to a climactic moment where few would argue that it was a burning bloodbath worthy of the ticket's price, and yet, for the rest of the movie, it feels like the lack of corner stone events causes it to feel like it lacks substance.

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leading up to a climactic moment where few would argue that it was a burning bloodbath worthy of the ticket's price, and yet, for the rest of the movie, it feels like the lack of corner stone events causes it to feel like it lacks substance.

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Actually except for the twist in the way that it plays out --definitely not going according to plan- the bloodbath/conflagration is a big nothing .The worthwhile moments are ,as with most Tartintino movies. in the dialogue and characterization ( excluding the "basterds " -except for the less psychotic one who dies in the cellar bar and to be honest even much lauded Waltz got too over the top and out of character near the end) .So obvious good : the whole opening sequence ,pinched as it were from Sergio Leone.The extended cellar scene for numerous reasons . Everything with Melanie Laurent.Other than that meh.
Ironically considering the title , except for the cellar scene the "basterds "are the most ineffectual part of the whole movie.

Again if you want to see this concept played out much better at least as a war/action film watch The Dirty Dozen instead.I actually cared ,unlike here , what happened to the "basterds" in that one .

Jaws (1975) - Yay, finally seen jaws.Heres what i thought:
They take time to show the great white aka jaws but it only makes it better when you do.They also kill a few people (Some hot chick and some kid) in the first half hour.So it doesnt seem lenghy as it is, Being two hours.The last 40 minutes is what makes the movie.I wanted that fucking shark dead!With each stabb i was happier because i felt as if he was closer to death.This so classic does not dissapoint.

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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (2009). Swedish film from a popular writer there.

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They're doing a big Hollywood remake ,actually they are planning on doing the whole Millennium trilogy.The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,The Girl Who Played with Fire,The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest
David Fincher of Fight Club fame I believe is set to direct and Daniel Craig is definitely signed on to star.