Movie Review Thread

[a completely inoffensive name]

I think most Wes Anderson movies are pretty good, but I prefer his older ones, with Bottle Rocket being my favorite.

I really hate Owen Wilson now and wish Anderson would stop using him.

What's wrong with Owen Wilson? He is the only one that has been in every Wes Anderson film.

[Vuk]

What's wrong with Owen Wilson? He is the only one that has been in every Wes Anderson film.

Owen Wilson is a little too metro for my liking. I prefer my actors to act a little bit more like men. :P

[Fragony]

Owen Wilson is a little too metro for my liking. I prefer my actors to act a little bit more like men. :P

This is for YOU http://artofmanliness.com/

[Vuk]

This is for YOU http://artofmanliness.com/

lol, I already wrote the manly guide to picking up chicks, or do you forget? :P
Nah, I am not the macho type, I just don't have a lot of respect for people who deliberately act like wimps.

[Fragony]

'Adam's Apples' Danish black comedy. Very cruel, very good. It's about a neo-nazi who is baking an apple-pie, roughly

[PanzerJaeger]

Hey Frag - have you seen Winter in Wartime yet?

[Fragony]

Yeah, not a good movie, it annoyed me. It's a movie after a well (well here) known children's book, I'd skip it

[PanzerJaeger]

Yeah, not a good movie, it annoyed me. It's a movie after a well (well here) known children's book, I'd skip it

Ahh, good to know. I'm a sucker for anything with Germans in it, but I'll wait until it's super cheap on amazon or something...

[Vuk]

Yeah, not a good movie, it annoyed me. It's a movie after a well (well here) known children's book, I'd skip it

Really? I thought it was really enjoyable. What didn't you like about it?

[Fragony]

Not sure really, thought it was a bit forced and overly melodramatic. Main character is also very punchable

[Vuk]

Not sure really, thought it was a bit forced and overly melodramatic. Main character is also very punchable

lol Frags, you and my bro would get along well. He hated the main character.

[Major Robert Dump]

Human Centipede 2 was everything I epected yet so much more. Do not watch if you are a pansy.

[rajpoot]

Ironclad. Decent action flick as long as you can forget every single thing you ever learned in history class for two hours. Because well....heathen vikings fighting for King John in England and the Pope blessing them....I think my head will explode.

[Peasant Phill]

GI Joe: Rise of the cobra
I can't believe someone makes a living writing such a script. It' can't keep being consistent for more than 10 minutes. NeoVipers are supersoldiers without fear, without the drive for self preservation (is that desireable?). And in the next action scene a NeoViper fails to take a major supporting role out because he frantically wants to save himself. My scripts were just as good when I played with GI Joes.

[naut]

Is The Artist actually good. It's getting rave reviews, but IMHO it sounds like a pretentious concept. Example: Citizen Kane is "good", Gone With the Wind is "good", but are boring/pretentious movies. This concept (a modern day silent feature) just sounds like a critics wet dream and not something for your average punter.

[Fragony]

Got to up one as well. The Battle for Passendaele. It isn't the worst war-movie I ever saw. I think. Can it be the worst war-movie I ever saw, I mean it's Canadian, Canada is cool. If you saw the trailer and it wetted your appetite, well you saw all action already. So what remains, well nothing, a love story between a extremely punchable soldier who looks like a Dutch collumnist that I'll kill on sight, or at least a wedgie, and a nurse. After 1.5 hours of love story I was starting to feel cheated. But then YAY WAR finally! 10 minutes of it. Avoid at all cost

[Hamata]

Saw the first movie of back to the future in class today over all i think it was a good movie

[Fragony]

Classics all 3 of them


Flickering Lights, fun Danish crime movie from the same guy who made (the superior) 'Adam's Apples'. Matt Mickelson is turning into one of my favorite actors, he can play absolutely everything, you probably know him as the main villain in Casino Royale. You wouldn't expect he can be hilarious as a crazy priest, scary as white trash small criminal, pathetic as a loser, or absolutely badass as a warrior. He does it all, and he deserves a bigger stage as Denmark is too small

[InsaneApache]

Saw a couple of good movies this week. Right at Your Door; I didn't know the plot but it was enjoyable, if that's the right word. I love movies with a twist. T'other was Beneath Hill 60; good strong storyline and good characterisation.

Don't bother with Bad Teacher you will regret it despite Cameron Diaz.

[naut]

Mad Max Trilogy. Movies themselves are decent (standard B movies). But, seeing how much they influenced Fallout is absolutely awesome.

[Visor]

Mad Max Trilogy. Movies themselves are decent (standard B movies). But, seeing how much they influenced Fallout is absolutely awesome.

Mad Max = 10/10.

[naut]

Mad Max = 10/10.

HAHAH. The first is pretty hilarious, in a "what the hell is this?!" way. The second is a great B movie. The third is ok, some of the dialogue is incredibly bad... but the overall setting, etc is good.

[Fragony]

HAHAH. The first is pretty hilarious, in a "what the hell is this?!" way. The second is a great B movie. The third is ok, some of the dialogue is incredibly bad... but the overall setting, etc is good.

Shouldn't judge them with today's standards LIKE YOU DID WITH ALIENS. They are genre classics. Agree the second is the best

[Fragony]

Next he's going to say that Rambo: First Blood was a bad movie.

It's just 'First Blood'

Watch 'Doomsday' btw a loving ode to Mad Max. With medieval knights yay

[Prussian to the Iron]

I heard that "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" is pretty explicit and messed up, but good

[rajpoot]

I watched the Swedish one around an year back but found it just OK.
Still got to watch this one.

[naut]

Fear and Loathing. Without a doubt one of my favourites. I never fail to enjoy watching it. Depp is brilliant, the dialogue genius. Not to everyone's taste, but I love it.

[a completely inoffensive name]

So I saw two movies this week. Both sequels. Both surprisingly tied together by a single characteristic. That they were better than their predecessors.

I speak of the latest Sherlock Holmes movie and the latest Mission Impossible. Now I walked into Sherlock Holmes knowing that Downey would put up a performance that was worth the cost of admission, so I wasn't judgmental as I sat down. Luckily though, that was the more clear cut of the two as I felt that Game of Shadows was most definitely on top of the first one in terms of plot, pacing and the general puzzle solving theme.

However I was very, very critical of Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol when I walked in. First of all, the title just screamed "lame" to me and the plot in the trailer seemed to be one of those movies where the plot has potential but the execution of how it turns out in the movie has it all ****** up to the point where you don't understand what the writers were trying to do. But! Holy ****, the movie was over 2 hours and it went by quickly. That was a fast paced movie that did not seemed stretched at until the very, very, very end. The plot was for once a standard but well executed

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thriller where the motivations of the bad guy is given just enough time to be plausible but not dwelled upon or elaborated so you can see the ridiculousness of it all. Tom Cruise is funny in it, not creepy in any way unlike some movies where a female character....completes....him.....

But yeah, too tired to elaborate but I recommend both movies if you want decent entertainment.

[Fragony]

Fear and Loathing. Without a doubt one of my favourites. I never fail to enjoy watching it. Depp is brilliant, the dialogue genius. Not to everyone's taste, but I love it.

Suffers from Kid-syndrome, been there done that, but did it worse. Yet no movie about me

[Peasant Phill]

Just watched Fast times at Ridgemont High a movie from '82. Basically this is a slice of life movie about American teenagers. The multiple protagonists and their own stories gave a nice complete, although short, view on their lives.
The positive thing I found about this movie was that it touched on sex, abortion, drugs, ... without getting politically correct or getting preachy. Sure, the movie is somewhat outdated (It's even older than me) but you can still easily relate to/recognize some to all the characters. A classic teen movie if I ever seen one.