Movie Review Thread

[Marshal Murat]

I'm seriously considering going to see Star Trek movie. I actually looks like something that is both action-packed and non-geeky. While I may not have room to talk being a closet Firefly/Dune fan and all, it's not the coolest thing to go and say "I went to a Star Trek convention" either. This one, though, it's not canon and I hope I won't be required to wear eight fore-heads and carry a scythe or whatever y'all call that weapon thing.

[Hooahguy]

Yes man
YES!
9/10

[Mouzafphaerre]

Movie series which stays successful is very rare as in most sequals, second one is pretty dissapointing.

Not only Bourne Supremacy was great, Bourne Ultimatum also kept the spirit going. Every minute was worth it.

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Seen the Ultimatum a few hours ago. Overall, I like the trilogy.
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[Fragony]

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Seen the Ultimatum a few hours ago. Overall, I like the trilogy.
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Hollywood at it's finest, the Bourne movies are great. Matt Damon was an odd, yet good choice.

[Decker]

Hollywood at it's finest, the Bourne movies are great. Matt Damon was an odd, yet good choice.

Yeah. One of the few solid series that kept itself going strong and stronger through each movie... sadly I heard they were looking to do a 4th which was kinda disappointing since I feel they ended at the top of their game.

[naut]

Wolverine. Distinctly average, too many special effects. And the action scenes, well the good ones are few and far between and the bad ones are way too over the top. Plot, not that great. Pity it did have potential, but they threw it out the window.

[Hooahguy]

Hollywood at it's finest, the Bourne movies are great. Matt Damon was an odd, yet good choice.

AHA! thats the the guy who playes Private Ryan! i was trying to place his name for another movie!
thank man!

[Crazed Rabbit]

Just saw Star Trek.

A bold new revamp for the series as a action-adventure movie. And this movie succeeds. It's exhilarating, great special effects, a good story with no glaring holes. Quinto was good as Spock. I'm not sure about the guy who plays Kirk. There was something Shatner had that this guy just doesn't bring.

Still three out of four stars.

CR

[Decker]

Just saw Star Trek.

A bold new revamp for the series as a action-adventure movie. And this movie succeeds. It's exhilarating, great special effects, a good story with no glaring holes. Quinto was good as Spock. I'm not sure about the guy who plays Kirk. There was something Shatner had that this guy just doesn't bring.

Still three out of four stars.

CR

I can't wait Good to see it got good reviews :)

And he's probably missing this:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

[naut]

Star Trek. The plot was good enough, a tad cliche, but it held up fine. Acting solid. Action scenes were somewhat blurry, and could have been better. Had it's funny moments too. Effects pretty good, on the whole. I agree with CR, the guy who played Kirk was missing something. And I was distinctly disappointed that there was a lack of any really stunning women. All in all, it was fairly good, could have been better. 3 out of 5 for me.

[Decker]

Star Trek- I found the movie to be quite enjoyable, tho the time travel thing is getting old imho. I think I've seen something like 2-3 Star Trek movies (I really don't know how many involved some time- travel business) that dealt with time travel. It gets kinda old. I will say the action was nice as always, but I could see they watched BSG with the no sound in space bits. I also found it a bit cliched with the bad guy out for vengeance against the Federation what-not. Initially I enjoyed the heck outta the movie, but now thinking about it... I'm prolly gonna give it a 6/7 outta 10

[Dutch_guy]

Would you guys say you have to be a fan to enjoy the movie or not ? Rather interested in the movie, but never actually been that interested in Star Trek. Always more of a star wars guy myself

[Fragony]

Would you guys say you have to be a fan to enjoy the movie or not ? Rather interested in the movie, but never actually been that interested in Star Trek. Always more of a star wars guy myself

Of course you are, does starteck have jedi's? Deathstars? Rancors? Tie-fighters? Wookies? Is there an end to this serial-faillure, I think not

[Crazed Rabbit]

Would you guys say you have to be a fan to enjoy the movie or not ? Rather interested in the movie, but never actually been that interested in Star Trek. Always more of a star wars guy myself

No, you certainly do not. There's some lines that fans will appreciate, but since this is a sort of introduction to the crew for the first time, knowing the old series is not needed.

Is there an end to this serial-faillure, I think not

I don't know; Lucas finally did stop making new star wars movies, so I think we've got a new hope for it to end.

CR

[Fragony]

The Killing Fields

Holy crap. Hard to watch.

[Decker]

Would you guys say you have to be a fan to enjoy the movie or not ? Rather interested in the movie, but never actually been that interested in Star Trek. Always more of a star wars guy myself

Not imho, I don't think you need be a fan to enjoy it. I enjoy Star Wars but I don't let that get in the way of another good sci-fi series Just go for what it is, a movie about space and space ships, and planets imploding, people.... getting shot, and very pretty explosions and nice effects

[AlexanderSextus]

Star Trek. The plot was good enough, a tad cliche, but it held up fine. Acting solid. Action scenes were somewhat blurry, and could have been better. Had it's funny moments too. Effects pretty good, on the whole. I agree with CR, the guy who played Kirk was missing something. And I was distinctly disappointed that there was a lack of any really stunning women. All in all, it was fairly good, could have been better. 3 out of 5 for me.

seriously, dude the chick who played uhura was fine as hell man!

[Decker]

seriously, dude the chick who played uhura was fine as hell man!

Am I the only one that didn't? And even the half-naked gingerfied she-hulk was subpar... I was wholly disappointed by the ladies overall

[Sasaki Kojiro]

I liked Wolverine. It's as good as the other x-men movies.

[Hooahguy]

Driving Ms. Daisy

9/10

since we finished our APs a few weeks ago, so we watched some classic films in our AP US history class. this was one of them.
this, even though it was kinda boring at times, was a very good film. its about an old Jewish woman and her black chauffeur. i wont spoil it for everyone, but i will say this:
the one scene that touched me most was when The Temple was bombed she says "who would do such a thing?" and the chauffeur replies "the same people who hate me." or something like that. i dont have the exact quote.

[Togakure]

The Killing Fields--excellent movie, 8.5/10.

Driving Miss Daisy--very good movie, 8/10.

Star Trek--thanks for the comments, all. I think I'll break my 5-year hiatus from the movie theaters to see this one on the big screen.

Have to admit, I was a geeky trekkie in my youth. Formed a Star Trek club in the 7th grade and threw a costume party (I went as "Mirror Mirror" Spock), complete with a 3D chess contest (which I won ), and Romulan ale (7-Up with blue food coloring). A friend took a picture of me in pose and costume, and then the following year, after I'd closeted my love for Star Trek in favor of long hair and my trusty long-handled, back-pocket Goody comb, super-bell-bottoms, herb, females, and Led Zeppelin, that so-called friend put the picture in the 8th-grade year book. I just forgave him a month ago when I found him on Facebook. I'd have killed him back then if I could run as fast as he could.

I did go to Star Trek conventions, got the autographs of most of the original stars, collected every James Blish and Alan Dean Foster book, bought the original Enterprise blue prints and technical manual, and had every model there was to have back then. I have been cautiously skeptical of this new movie, but it seems to be getting decent-to-good reviews across the board. Think I'll have to give it a watch.

[Fragony]

Dead Space downfall. A movie to promote a videogame? How things change. It was really much more fun then I expected, not really into manga/anime but it has some great animation and a lovable heroin, sounds like she is voiced by the angry mexican girl from Lost that looks so cute with a gun, always liked her want to cuddle her.

[Decker]

Dracula- This is with Beli Lugosi. I enjoyed it for what it was and Beli and the guy playing Renfield were great... Now time to watch Dracula Dead and Loving It.
8/10

Doubt- I had the fortunate chance of reading the stage version of Doubt last year and seeing it in this form of medium with the great cast that played the characters was a nice thing to see.
Meryl Streep kicked some serious rear-ends
9.5/10

[The Spartan (Returns)]

Terminator: Salvation

AMAZING film. I really didn't think it would have been really good, but it was just awesome. Great dialogue, great acting, awesome action scenes and special effects... I really don't think the next Transformers can be better than this.

Since I just saw it today, and the I still have the hype effect... I can't think of any flaws.

5/5

[Fragony]

I really don't think the next Transformers can be better than this.

Well if it is at least as good as the first

[Sasaki Kojiro]

The new transformers trailer has the most epic music I've ever heard...

Star Trek was very good. As was night at the museum two.

[Crazed Rabbit]

Saw Sunshine, from Danny Boyle.

Bah. BAH!, I say! Basically of series of things going wrong in increasingly far-fetched ways, and a complete and utter ignoring of the basic laws of physics.

It fails to suspend disbelief right off the bat when most of the astronauts are in their 20s. They proceed to do stupid, stupid things again and again. It just doesn't stop. At the end it gets really ridiculous as the laws of physics are so completely violated I think they'll need post traumatic stress counseling. It's got some nice images, but not much else. The story and dynamic of the movie are weak.

CR

[Fragony]

Saw Sunshine, from Danny Boyle.

Bah. BAH!, I say! Basically of series of things going wrong in increasingly far-fetched ways, and a complete and utter ignoring of the basic laws of physics.

It fails to suspend disbelief right off the bat when most of the astronauts are in their 20s. They proceed to do stupid, stupid things again and again. It just doesn't stop. At the end it gets really ridiculous as the laws of physics are so completely violated I think they'll need post traumatic stress counseling. It's got some nice images, but not much else. The story and dynamic of the movie are weak.

CR

Really liked it personally. Good acting, good special effects, and a twist I didn't see comming. Of course I don't see it really happening, but hey it's a movie!

[Crazed Rabbit]

Really liked it personally. Good acting, good special effects, and a twist I didn't see comming. Of course I don't see it really happening, but hey it's a movie!

The twist?

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

You mean the crazy guy from Icarus I getting on to their ship and running around killing them? First thing I said when they docked with Icarus I was that there would be some body or thing on the ship that would run around and kill the crew. The acting wasn't bad; I liked the psychiatrist, especially when he was asking the captain what the sun looked like. But it was spoiled often because of the young male crew resorting to fighting like violent gradschoolers, which was simply ridiculous.

CR

[seireikhaan]

Bit Parts: ???/10. Movie description: lolwut?


Seriously, though, really bizarre movie. Mostly idiotic and demented. Can't figure a rating for it.