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

[IdolEyes787]

Wonder how the Africans survivors are going to feel about being overrun by a bunch of non-native outsiders who, judging by their actions during the rest of the movie, are going to be feeling pretty damn superior and self-righteous and not about to let a bunch of indigenous savages get in the way of their plan for repopulating the world.

Probably pretty much the way they felt the first time.

Hey i saw 2012 last saturday an awesome movie.

Your use of the word "awesome" totally makes my point.

Initial post was awesome btw.I especially like the use of the word fuckatated .Hard to work that into most conversations.

[clocker]

I especially like the use of the word fuckatated .Hard to work that into most conversations.

Depends on who you're talking to.

Rereading the initial post, I think it's not as coherent as it should be but the movie simply doesn't justify more effort on my part.

I really have no problem with blockbuster/special effects heavy movies...I'm totally willing to suspend belief and go along for the ride.
What kills me though is that most films of this genre spend so much energy/time/talent on the effects and then hang them on a script scribbled on a bar nap.
There was more thought given to the physics of cars tumbling through space that the motivation and actions of the protagonists.

I spent a lot of time- while watching the movie- thinking that the whole thing would have been far more entertaining if Woody Harrelson's character had been the focus...he had the requisite insanity and resourcefulness to maybe survive the catastrophe but no, he delivers the necessary plot point and gets discarded early.
Meanwhile, the prototypical middle class American family- who struggle to survive for ONE GODDAMN DAY in a national park- somehow find the reserves needed to navigate an epic upheaval.
Credit PBS and NPR for this, I suppose.

Sigh.

[brento]

I Confess (1953)
8/10

[IdolEyes787]

This part just struck me " the majority of the survivors bought their way onto the ark ".In the context of the movie does that make any sense seeing as monetary system as we know it would have a hard time withstanding the end of the world?
I mean even if you are the most corrupt asshole on the planet it would make little sense in taking anyone who isn't directly going to contribute to your future well-being.Doctors and builders and farmers and the like.
Comes right down to it I wouldn't even take like Playmates or anything because chances are the floozies would just leave me for someone else.

[clocker]

I understood- as much as anything in the film is comprehensible- that the tickets were sold to finance the construction, not that the wealth would be of any use afterwards.

This is of course absurd, since you're now saving a class of people who are used to being cared for/waited on, hardly the brave pioneer type that would be needed.
Saving the workers who actually built the arks would make more sense.

Did you wonder what the hell they thought they were going to do with the Mona Lisa in the post-apocalypse world?
Rebuild the Louvre so all the folks- with their massive amounts of leisure time- could ponder their former glory?
More likely, it'll get eaten, just like the giraffes and children.
The rich won't take to starving with grace.

But really, did you expect logic here?

[IdolEyes787]

They lost me as a potential viewer as soon as I saw this.

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I don't think Emmerich is exactly what you would call an actor's director.
"John look over here and show disbelief.Good,good .Ok now scream as loud as you can.No louder and more nonsensically and while you're at it wave your arms like an idiot "

[Slixx]

Watched 2012 finally!

Pretty good, my rating would be 8/10

Dont watch it if ur a sissy who likes lovey dovey movies!

[clocker]

Dont watch it if ur a sissy who likes lovey dovey movies!

So, 2012 is your litmus test, eh?
My, what a low bar you set.

[The_Martinator]

Clocker and Idol, what are you guys talking about??!! It's all about the effects after all. It's only a matter of time till we'll have movies with no actors at all. Just explosions and trance music!

[IdolEyes787]

I know that you're joking but for a disaster movie to work it requires a real investment by the audience in the principle characters.,otherwise you don't care what happens.
The same of course can be said about any movie but even it's more necessary in disaster films where it's literally a question of life and death.

Either that or put in a lot of gratuitous nudity .

Btw it doesn't necessarily take backstory or a ton of character development to get people to care about a character. Even dogs without the benefit of dialogue but with a decent story and director behind them can accomplish that in one scene.

Of course dogs are nude .