Movie Review Thread

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Originally Posted by Tiaexz

Gravity: Mediocre

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I loved it.

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Originally Posted by Gelatinous Cube

Ender's Game sucked. Very faithful to the book but it has the acting and soundtrack of a bad marvel superhero movie. The book was about exploring the mind of Ender and did a decent job of it, but the movie managed to make him just another movie character with exceptional insight right when the plot demands it.

Can't recommend it. :shrug:

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When I first watched it, it was good as a movie and concept. But it loses a lot of the charm once you read the books and you see things in a different light. They do miss out a lot of the psychological elements and it is a lot more action based with "this is our man" with a long montage.

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Originally Posted by rvg

I loved it.

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Seem to be having some conflicts here with other people opinions, and since you are the first I have spoken to who has watched it, and say you loved it as in some disagreement, I will engage with you a little on it. (I only had people disagree with me friend of a friend-style)

The special effects were good, so lets completely sideline them, I don't think we would disagree here, however, I found the story to be rather unimpressive. Here is a brief overview in spoilers:

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Basically, she is doing some upgrade to the hubble telescope whilst George Clooney fannies around with a jetpack going "wheee". The Russians end up blowing up one of their own satellites (stop evil americans from getting ahold of secrets and what not), and it starts off the Kepler effect (basically, it all turns into high speed debris, surrounding the world, destroying everything for at least a decade). The shuttle they were on gets hit and destroyed, they are stranded in space. She is groaning a little, going quiet, giving up hope, as George Clooney comes with his jetpack, fastens her onto it, and starts a long journey to the ISS. You find out SB has no will to live, because of her daughter dying in an accident, George Clooney attempts to keep her from drifting in despair. They get to the ISS, but it goes wrong (theme of the film), so in one of those cliche 'drop' moments, he lets go of SB to sacrifice himself for her. She is affected by this but still manages to get into the ISS. The ISS isn't damage-free, with one escape pod used, the other broken. The ISS turns into an inferno as she rushes to the broken escape pod so she can try to make it to some chinese station. A wave of debris comes which obliterates everything except for our starring character and her pod, who was tethered to the station by the already opened parachute, which she manages to snip-off. Basically she is now free and heading off to this chinese station, but she knows nothing and decides to commit suicide, when all she can get ahold of is a family in Mongolia on the receiving side of the radio and soothing childs singing in the backdrop. finding the restful music a good way to 'go out' with. Then out of no where, George Clooney rips open the door and gets inside, trying to turn fortunes aside, telling her how to pilot and survive. She wakes up, it was a dream, high CO2 levels and no oxygen. She turns life support back on, then does what George says to do in the dream. She gets to the chinese station, gets into their cockpit, which is identical almost to the Russian, except it has a buddha instead of orthodox cross and stuff written in mandarin script, and somehow manages beyond believe (we are led to believe) she gets to Earth by randomly pressing buttons. landing in the ocean, she refuses to respond to Houston on radio, almost drowns herself, is near some island, it ends rather suddenly.

When me and the two others watched it, we were all disappointed with the movie, as we were expecting something good, but it was simply mediocre and I wouldn't watch it again. Only reason I can assume people "loved it" in reviews was because they spent their entire budget on special effects and hiring George Clooney and Sandra Bullock as the only actors in it.

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Originally Posted by Tiaexz

When me and the two others watched it, we were all disappointed with the movie, as we were expecting something good, but it was simply mediocre and I wouldn't watch it again. Only reason I can assume people "loved it" in reviews was because they spent their entire budget on special effects and hiring George Clooney and Sandra Bullock as the only actors in it.

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I loved it because it was a movie about a genuine tragedy, self-sacrifice, utter loss of hope, reflections on life and death, and triumph against overwhelming odds. To each their own though.

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Originally Posted by rvg

I loved it because it was a movie about a genuine tragedy, self-sacrifice, utter loss of hope, reflections on life and death, and triumph against overwhelming odds. To each their own though.

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I felt it lacked genuine tragedy, self-sacrifice and utter loss of hope.

There was no 'genuine tragedy' involved in the movie. It is too artificial and no gritty realism involved as what occurs in real life all the time with human trafficking, warzones, people dying of curable illnesses.

The 'Self-sacrifice' couldn't be any more cliché-hollywood if they even tried. A complete lack of imagination in the setting specially as George Clooney wouldn't be 'dragged off' like that, considering Sandra Bullock cancelled out the momentum, all she would have needed to do is pull him up towards her and he would have headed towards the station, so the death was merely in the writing and not reality.

As for 'Utter Loss of Hope', it would have had more of an impact if Sandra Bullock had any originally. Funnily enough, she 'gives up hope' after avoiding complete and utter annihilation without barely a scratch on at least 3 occasions. Avoiding 5 'possible death sentences', she does it whilst she is sitting comfortably in a spacecraft with functioning systems (which she later uses to get home). If it was 'Utter loss of hope', she would have gone long before this moment ':daisy: this' and removed her space helmet, now that would have had impact of grim reality.

Reflections on life/death is that George Clooney apparently bores everyone with pointless stories and that Sandra Bullock's daughter died whilst she was driving the car and listening to the radio, thus ever since then, she just goes to work, sleep and just drive around listening to the radio. There is the absence of depth.

I can only agree with the 'triumph against overwhelming odds' as they are incredibly over whelming and it is amazing they were anywhere near as successful as they were. In reality, after Sandra Bullock ended up cast out in space, she was a 'gonna'. So no disagreements.

So would you say it lacked - gravity?

Ahuh ahuh ahuh

Beautifully shot, but I couldn't get past the liberties taken with orbital mechanics.

GI Joe, big, loud, awesome.

Watched Jack Reacher. Still bleeding IQ points. Profusely. It's one of those "so bad it's actually kinda good" movies.

More like Jack Reacharound.

In this World, good movie about the hardships of Afghanistan refugees travelling to europe. What the movie tries to evoke in me, well it doesn't, but that's more for the backroom.

Running Scared, seen it before. Great movie, with a really good soundtrack http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1toQiKtC01A

I would rate only Inception or The Godfather for having a better one.

A shame about Tom Walker, goodlooking guy, seems nice

Seen 300: Rise of an Empire

It's not supposed to be a documentary, so I won't even bother pointing out how utterly ridiculous in terms of authenticity. Just like the previous film, if you're looking for historical drama, you will be disappointed, and you should skip this.

Otherwise, it is a really good movie, maybe even slightly better than the first one. It also deals with Xerxes' invasion, but focuses on the Athenians and Themistocles. One of the reason I believe it's better than the first is the magnificent Eva Green in the role of arch villain Artemisia. She played the role perfectly and basically owned the film from the beginning to the end. Not to mention that even in her advanced years, she's got so much sexy you could make three hot women out of it. Dark, mysterious, seductive and powerful... Next to her, women from my fantasies look like short, chubby, bald men.

If you liked the first one, you'll like this one.

Advanced years? She's all good. Ironically the worst Bond-girl ever imho, she's too cute, Bond-girls should be seductive and dangerous, not cute. Loved 300, it's so rediculously homo-erotic. Certainly going to watch this.

Ooops, she's only 34. I though she was over 40. That's better.

Saw The Grand Budapest Hotel. Loved it, as always. Please watch it.

Watched "Flight" with Denzel Washington. Beh. Lots of tits though.

Seen Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues

It's better than the first. I've laughed so hard my stomach hurt. They've moved on to the 80's and the birth of the "modern" news.

The humour is similar in type to the 1st film. That can give you an inclination what to expect. I've seen the 1st film being rated better generally, while the 2nd one is way funnier to me. Might be because it took some time to get to know the characters and familiarize myself with the 70's news so I can understand the parody of it.

This time I jumped straight in, and it was really worth it.

Donnie Darko - some Org member talked up this movie. Might not have been in this thread, but it happened at some point, so it was put at the end of a long Netflix queue, showed up a couple nights ago, and was watched. As usual the wife fell asleep before the movie was over. However, three teenage boys who seldom watch what their parents are into, at some point or another checked to see what we were watching, and all three finished the film.

Yesterday I looked up other reviews and it was suggested that people would better understand the directors cut. I don't know that that's necessary. For myself, an experienced movie watcher, I recognized that not all should be blatantly explained and that the viewer should bring a little thought and imagination for themselves. Also, sometimes, it's fine to leave a little bit of mystery. I enjoyed it.

The Big Kahuna.

One room. Three actors. Some of the best dialogue ever written.

De Tweeling, good Dutch/German WW2 drama. Kinda surprised I never heard of it. Two twin sisters get seperated and end up on different sides of history, and later meet again. Good stuff.

Divergent

Yeah, not really sure why I watched this. Interesting story line, though the execution of it wasnt very well thought out. They spent so much time building up to the climax that it felt rushed, or even tacked on. But I suppose thats to be expected from a poor man's Hunger Games.

5.5/10

Shutter Island. Not bad, wicked obvious, but not bad.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier

Actually not bad, I enjoyed it. Good action, decent acting, and an actually good plot. Though the whole "random veteran flying a wing suit" thing felt off, but didnt detract too much from the scene.

7.5/10

21 Jump Street was hilarious.

Alex Cross, pretty decent actually.

Made in Dagenham

No exactly fresh, since it came out in 2010 but I just got around to it.

The film itself is a dramatization of a women's protest about poor working condition in Ford's factory in Dagenham, UK in 1968, that quickly grew into something bigger.
They got the 60's vibe right, at least I hope so, since I was born in the 80's. Great film overall - great acting, good directing, interesting characters, interesting plot... There sad and happy moments, but there will also be a few laughs.
I can heartily recommend it - it's good to remind ourselves that even though women are considered equal to men in most of the world and most the things, it wasn't always like it. Just so we don't forget that they had to fight for things we take for granted.

7.5/10 from me.

Her Name was Sarah, you immediatly give a crap, very good opening.

The Keeper, good thriller. Dennis Hopper plays a pretty damn creepy psychopath.

Divergent. Total teenage girl movie. Gaping plot holes. Good camera, some eye candy, horrible Twilight-esque sound track. Ok for a date movie

Balibo. Not that it's bad but I wonder what the family of the guy who got killed there thinks of the end. I doubt a seasoned warjournalist is all that surprised that he gets killed just like everybody else. I AM AUSTRIAN!!! whimper mode all tears // i am Australian... BAM

There is nobody to see how he died, doubt he was such a wimp