Last movie you've watched and rate it

[Dave Miles]

I think we need a dedicated thread for movie discussion/reviews, since most of us here watch a ton movies and are passionate about film, lets get this party started



The Act of Killing: this is quite a disturbing documentary but really fascinating to watch. After I read the synopsis I had to watch it.

"A documentary which challenges former Indonesian death-squad leaders to reenact their mass-killings in whichever cinematic genres they wish, including classic Hollywood crime scenarios and lavish musical numbers."

I found some of the reenactments were way too long and seemed a bit unwarranted, the film itself I think could have been a little shorter. I also wanted to know why that one guy always dressed as a woman in nearly every scene. 4/5

[Dungeon Snake]

the last movie i watched was 13 Assassins. i've seen it before but i decided to watch it again. it's basically Takashi Miike's take on 7 Samurai.
the first time i saw it, i didn't really care for it. I'm not a huge fan of Takashi Miike; i just find his shock / torture films kinda boring. i mean they're effective for what they are but i just find them sorta simultaneously pretentious and shallow, and grotesque without being very interesting.
Now the last time i saw this movie was quite a few years ago before i had really gotten into Japanese cinema. upon rewatching, i liked it. the battle sequence at the end was pretty sweet. there is NO competition between this and 7 Samurai though, the latter is a masterpiece. if you're into action and samurai fights, i think you could pretty safely skip the first hour of this movie without regretting it.

i saw Act of Killing, it was good

[Dungeon Snake]

agh dp

[Bown]

I really want to see Act of Killing. How long was the version you guys saw? Thinking about the 2.5 hour one.

I already covered Ghostbusters in the Ramis thread but before that it was The LEGO Movie, which is fucking awesome. New children's classic right here - it's up there with Toy Story. Was generally funny as hell (minus a few super kiddy lines), gorgeous to look at, and has a perfect cast, while the plot manages to be far deeper than it should be for a gigantic advert as well as being very cleverly intertwined with the actual idea of lego. Phil Lord and Chris Miller are the shit. I dunno I just did not have a problem with this movie, people have criticised the third-act twist but I tore up, not even gonna lie

[Slime]

2001: A Space Odyssey

i think i went into this expecting too much of a story. i expected the whole movie to be set up how the Jupiter Mission section was (that part was great). but this movie has so many extended scenes with just like, a spaceship moving incredibly slowly across the screen, etc.
lots of individual interesting bits throughout though.
wasn't expecting it to have like 10 minutes of a guy traveling through space looking at colors so close to the ending.


this is now the 2nd Kubrick movie in a row that i've been less into than i'd expected. last was Clockwork Orange. that movie was more enjoyable to me. but i just didn't like it as much as Dr Strangelove, The Shining, and Full Metal Jacket, 3 movies that i loved.
Clockwork Orange and 2001 were only 3 years apart, might have something to do with it.

i think im gonna watch Spartacus next.

[Pizza The Hut]

2001 is basically my fav of all time fuck the haters fuck the naysayers fuck the "I don't have a favorite movie"ers

uh i was just watching fight club earlier at my friend's cuz it was on tv, but i didn't watch the whole thing. honestly i hadn't seen it in a long time, better than i expected it to hold up today.

[Slime]

Just watched Eastern Promises and History of Violence because I'd just seen LOTR for the first time and wanted to see more of Viggo Mortensen cause I thought he had potential to be badass and I've never seen him before.

History of Violence was good, but Eastern Promises was way better imo. Both sorta forgettable to me though.

Even though I already posted it in Bomb This Thread, to continue my "enjoying classic movies less than everyone else," I watched LOTR for the first time last week or two...
These movies just made me want to read the books. Now I'm mad that I didn't read them first. Wasn't bad, but... could have been way better. WAY too much focus on combat and on rendering 1000000 actors at once with their new technology. I just want story development. I almost fast-forwarded some of these scenes, but then something cool/fun would happen (like Legolas skating down the stairs on his shield).

I got pumped up every time the movies cut back to the trio of Legolas + Aragorn + Gimli. Best parts by FAR.




edit: i am still waiting to like a movie as much as Blade Runner, which i first saw like 8 months ago.

[Dungeon Snake]

Spartacus fucking rules. i dont like 2001 space odyssey but i love the shining, probably my favorite horror movie. or maybe it's the Exorcist. or Night of the Living Dead. i dunno. anyway Full Metal Jacket, i love the first half where they're in boot camp but the rest of the movie sucks. interesting factoid, i was watching the boot camp sequence when i got my tattoo so....... .yeah

[Bown]

I appreciate 2001 more than I like it but it is a hell of a movie. Shining is probably my favourite Kubrick, he captures such an amazing unsettling tone. Even if he did do it by basically torturing his actors.

[Dave Miles]

Originally Posted by Lohr

this is now the 2nd Kubrick movie in a row that i've been less into than i'd expected. last was Clockwork Orange. that movie was more enjoyable to me. but i just didn't like it as much as Dr Strangelove, The Shining, and Full Metal Jacket, 3 movies that i loved.
Clockwork Orange and 2001 were only 3 years apart, might have something to do with it.

i think im gonna watch Spartacus next.

Have you seen Paths of Glory? that might be my favorite Kubrick film, it has a different feel than his other films, it's a little more traditional,and Kirk Douglas is great in it. (he looks and talks eerily like Michael Douglas.

bown, the version I watched was 2 hours I think.

[Bobby Swisha]

Lego Movie 3D

2.5/5

Enjoyable but ultimately pointless and forgettable. Cool 3D effects, though, and possibly sets up the stage for some interesting future 3D movies.

[Dave Miles]

Originally Posted by Lohr

I almost fast-forwarded some of these scenes, but then something cool/fun would happen (like Legolas skating down the stairs on his shield).

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haha, i've heard quite a few fans complain about how ridiculous this scene is. I kind of agree...helms deep is such a gritty scene and then Tony Hawk shows up and kills 3 orcs while doing a board slide. the battles in the books are really modest compared to the films

[Justin Wawrzonek]

Star Trek (Reboot) - Seen it a bunch of times, but the GF wanted to see it. I personally love this movie. It's a very fun movie to watch, and has some great action. The whole time travel, alternate reality thing works pretty well. My only real gripe is the villain is really not that interesting. Although Eric Bana chewing the scenery is always entertaining.

[Dungeon Snake]

Originally Posted by Dave Miles

haha, i've heard quite a few fans complain about how ridiculous this scene is. I kind of agree...helms deep is such a gritty scene and then Tony Hawk shows up and kills 3 orcs while doing a board slide. the battles in the books are really modest compared to the films

nah fuck you guys, that sequence was gnarl. i mean i get what you're saying, but like..... FUCK that. it's a sick sequence and legolas slays like a boss and that's exactly how it should be.
honestly my biggest beef with the Helm's Deep scene is Gimli being Comic Relief. in the books, the Battle of Helm's Deep (actually, that is the wrong name - it is called the Battle of Hornburg) anyway, the battle is partially a showcase between friendship/competition in the differing styles of Legolas and Gimli (and of course Aragorn, the King-to-Be). Legolas stays atop the walls, groping for spent arrows to send towards the enemy and making work with his knife; meanwhile, Gimli forms a single-man rearguard and fights a delaying action into the Deeping-Coombs, where the women and children are hid. There, he alone protects the helpless with his axe. In his native environment, he is unmatchable. Aragorn even says, "Never have I seen an axe so wielded."

at the end of the battle, Gimli's "score" of orc-kills is one more than Legolas - the only reason he was not able to slay even more was because one orc he slew wore an iron collar around its neck which notched his axe - whereas Legolas ran out of arrows. The two are an equal pair, both equally deadly in combat despite totally opposite styles.
instead, in the movie, Gimli is a fuckin clutz who can't even see the enemy without a box to stand on. i thought that was bullshit. Legolas is sliding down stairs and slaying motherfuckers and meanwhile Gimli is making dick-jokes and complaining about his beard. Legolas's board-slide and that one move where he stabs an orc with an arrow, pulls it out, and then pierces two orcs at once with the same shot is fucking bad ass and accurate to his character. i just wish Gimli had similar glory. there's so much you could do with an action-character like that - hewing legs, beheading foes, etc. but instead they just made him look like a bitch compared to *ULTRA SUPER HERO LEGOLAS*. i don't hate on Legolas, i just think they BOTH should have been *EQUALLY* ULTRA BAD ASS NAME-TAKERS.

[Cubert]

I've never heard that side of Gimli (didn't finish the books, I was too young to have the patience for his descriptions/lore), but that's pretty interesting.

The last film I saw was Melancholia; I fucking loved it, and normally I hate Lars Von Trier films (almost as much as I dislike David Lynch films, hello Bown!) but yeah Melancholia, the first half was well quite domestic and very, very Von Trier in my opinion. Well crafted but a few times I doubted whether I was going to enjoy myself (not because it was dreary, I just don't like his specific dreary, if you follow me).

Is it an regular thing that he just displaces himself into a character in his films because I really feel like the Bride was just him? Anyway even if was a maybe-intentionally-tiresome (again, it's not the negative undertone that put me off, I'm not that shallow, I just didn't care too much for the execution) for most of the first half, the amazingly grandiose metaphor he writes for the main character's depression in the second half is, multiple times, mind-blowingly well done. To his credit, with ANY other director it'd probably be goofy as all fuck but he somehow pulls off this, literally colossal, metaphor and it is really really exciting to watch. Which is something I didn't think I'd ever say about any of his films because they so often seem to be doing the exact opposite.

Perhaps it speaks more of me than it does him that the underlying message to most of his work is something I find tedious when done subtly (...or overwraught, even?), but then when he does largely the same thing with a big shiny CGI I'm entertained ...Yeah, that's probably more of a reflection on me as a viewer. Still, great film, four tunas.

[Bown]

Melancholia is ace. LVT's leads aren't always self-inserts but in this one definitely.

and I really don't care if you don't like David Lynch. It's your loss.

[Slime]

Originally Posted by Dave Miles

Have you seen Paths of Glory? that might be my favorite Kubrick film, it has a different feel than his other films, it's a little more traditional,and Kirk Douglas is great in it. (he looks and talks eerily like Michael Douglas.

no i haven't, maybe i'll see this after Spartacus

Originally Posted by Dave Miles

haha, i've heard quite a few fans complain about how ridiculous this scene is. I kind of agree...helms deep is such a gritty scene and then Tony Hawk shows up and kills 3 orcs while doing a board slide. the battles in the books are really modest compared to the films

the thing is, the only other movie from Peter Jackson that i'd seen was Dead Alive (Braindead), which i've seen more times than any other movie, so i expected a whole lot MORE little wacky bits thrown in.

like the priest scene



so stuff like skateboard legolas actually made me happy

[Bown]

There are lots of LotR shots that are really B-movie-esque, crazy dutch angles and stuff like that. I like it, it gives you a sense of where he came from.

[Dominator Dan]

Last movie I watched was Castaway, I think it was the first time I've ever watched it all the way through. It was cool, I mean, I didn't get too into it. The Wilson thing was fun, that was probably my favourite aspect of the movie. Solid movie, but nothing really made me go OHH MANN SO GOOD.

[Dave Miles]

Bernie: I really liked this. The film has a charming and genuine feel to it. Jack Black is great as Bernie, maybe the best acting i've seen from him, and his singing voice is put to good use here.

[Pizza The Hut]

I really wanna see that, linklater is top

also seconding paths of glory, one of my favs as well

[Dave Miles]

one thing that bugged me about watching 2001: A Space Odyssey is that the soundtrack was used in so many spoofs and parodies that by the time I saw the film for the first time, the music didn't have much dramatic effect on me. the film itself is cool in some parts, I liked the realistic portrayal of space which many movies don't bother with, but some of the film was lost on me and some scenes just dragged on forever

[Dungeon Snake]

2001 has some definitely outstanding moments, don't get me wrong, but the whole ending is just one giant 30-minute blowjob from stanley kubrick to himself. like "oh great.... a bunch of chakras and colorful star-patterns. awesome. so glad to see this, and then see it again.... and again.... and again and onwards for the rest of my life. So glad that this was included in an otherwise-pretty-cool movie."
like maybe it was mind-blwoing at the time?? i dunno. i don't care. that sequence is a half-assed handjob in film form

[Bobby Swisha]

I'm pretty sure that's like... the original film to do a sequence like that, that's been copied a bunch of times since.

[Cubert]

I'm shocked at how few people enjoy 2001, it's such a great film.