Movie Review Thread

[naut]

A lesser version?

Yes. Same sort of plot as Man on Fire, but nowhere near as good.

[Strike For The South]

Yes. Same sort of plot as Man on Fire, but nowhere near as good.

You're lucky you're cute

[naut]

Finally saw Magnolia.

I can't let you go. Now, you... you listen to me now. You're a good person. You're a good and beautiful person and I won't let you walk out on me. And I won't let you say those things - those things about how stupid you are and this and that. I won't stand for that. You want to be with me... then you be with me. You see?

[Fragony]

Finally saw Magnolia.

I can't let you go. Now, you... you listen to me now. You're a good person. You're a good and beautiful person and I won't let you walk out on me. And I won't let you say those things - those things about how stupid you are and this and that. I won't stand for that. You want to be with me... then you be with me. You see?

The many times people tried to copy that GUESS WHAT EVERYTHING IS CONNECTED would almost ruin that movie for ya, but it doesn't it is pure class.

[Beefy187]

Butterfly effect 3

Now that was a decent ending
Great plot, different from the previous movies. Great movie

[Fragony]

Comorra insanely violent Italian mafia-flick, nice place

[Fragony]

Rightious kill, what a letdown. A movie with de Niro and Pacino shouldn't be this bland. Silly twist at the end, meh

[Fragony]

Let the right one in. Swedish vampires! Excellent movie, I think we can speak of 'Scandinavian style' by now. They have it.

[Fragony]

The Spirit, uninspired and dumb. Stupid dialogue, uninteresting hero, stupid villain. A criminally miscasted whatshisname, the pulp fiction guy, can't save this movie. The attempts at comedy are just pathetic, so terribly unfunny. A huge faillure and absolute turd of a movie.

[Wishazu]

Obviously a very late review, but what the hey....



Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen


What complete and utter rubbish. Michael Bay took just about everything that was good from the first movie (pacing, humor, an at least marginal semblance of storyline and character development) and threw it out the proverbial window. The only new character to be even mildly amusing and/or interesting was Jetfire, and even he was completely nullified by the highly offensive (not to mention *unbelievably* irritating) "gangster" Autobots Mudflap and Skids. I was pleasantly surprised to see Frank Welker reprise his original series role as the voice of Soundwave, but that's one of the very few positive things I can say about this "movie".

This was far and away one of the worst films I've ever seen. I'm very glad I waited for it to come out in the dollar theater.


Final score: 1/10.

I pretty much agree with everything you said about the movie. However, personally going to watch it was a great fun experience for me as my two older boys, ages 4 and 5 are transformers fanatics. Taking them to see this film was the first time they had been to the cinema and was a brilliant experience for them. The looks on their faces was worth the £20 I paid for the family tickets.

[Hooahguy]

Avatar
personally, i liked it. very good visuals, and a story thats not completely new, but not old either.
i thought it was refreshing, and it really drew me into the story.
but i did think it could have gone a bit more into the beginning of the story, but then again, the amount of time that would have taken would have been too much.
9/10

[naut]

Avatar
personally, i liked it. very good visuals, and a story thats not completely new, but not old either.
i thought it was refreshing, and it really drew me into the story.
but i did think it could have gone a bit more into the beginning of the story, but then again, the amount of time that would have taken would have been too much.
9/10

Meh. I give it 4/10.

Yes it's a spectacle, a visual marvel. But, if I want to have a 3-D world with corny, predictable characters and a tacky, stolen, unoriginal story I'll play a computer game. Actually, this movie really grinds me. It starts of ok, with a slight sense of awe, but as it progresses it wears off. The characters begin to irritate, their performances are haphazard and inconsistent. Having seen Dancing With Wolves probably skews my reception somewhat, because it was always in the back of my mind, and with that the narrative is lacking and by the ending (i.e. the last 40 minutes) the movie has dragged on too long and I lost interest, despite all the CGI. The dialogue was embarrassingly awkward and the characters are weak.

In summary: it's beautiful, banal, trite and over-hyped. And in the end it takes itself way to seriously, like its some grand social commentary --- there are no cute, funny or other endearing moments, and that, that is what killed it for me.

[Fragony]

Le temps du Loup, excellent WORLD IS SCREWED in the same genre as 'The Day After' (no NOT the day after tomorow) and Threads. Very depressing as it should be.

[Scienter]

Let the right one in. Swedish vampires! Excellent movie, I think we can speak of 'Scandinavian style' by now. They have it.

I love this movie! I'm a little sad that Hollywood is making an American remake. I really hope they don't Twilightify it.

[Scienter]

Avatar. The story is nothing new. Think Dances with Wolves with Aliens and Military Bad Science Good. But, the special effects were revolutionary and the 3D was very well done. Overall I found it really enjoyable. I was worried because of the hype that it would be Dances with Jar Jar Binks, but was pleasantly surprised.

[Ronin]

Avatar

Impressive 3D visuals, very good visual design for the planet and the fauna and flaura.
the plot is a copy of things we have all seen before, and you can guess everything before it happens, the characters are cliches and the dialog is wooded.

7/10 for the 3D version. (this is the version I saw)
I would say the 2D version will be worth 6/10 or maybe 5.5/10

the lesson here is...next time you invest 10 years in making a movie don't hurry off a script in a month.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

I don't know, criticizing the plot as unoriginal seems kind of short sighted. Guy meets girl, they have problems, they end up together could be the plot of a 1000 stories. There's a limited number of stories. The last samurai, dances with wolves, sign of the beaver, the emerald forest, have similar plots it's true. But if you are going to have a movie about a culture clash, which is a bit unavoidable if you are having an alien movie (unless you want everything to go smoothly no problem?) basically the coolest way to do it is to have the main character live as part of the other culture. It works really well, that's why the plot is often used. There are a ton of great movies with an unoriginal plot, knowing the basics of how stories work doesn't make you smart.

Avatar's version worked well because it didn't try and do a lot of social commentary, and they gave a solid reason for why the alien culture was worthwhile and not silly.

[Snite]

The name of the mineral is unobtanium. Or at least that's what I read in a review. I'm sorry, but how can anyone have a shred of respect for this film after hearing/seeing that?

[Ronin]

I don't know, criticizing the plot as unoriginal seems kind of short sighted. Guy meets girl, they have problems, they end up together could be the plot of a 1000 stories. There's a limited number of stories. The last samurai, dances with wolves, sign of the beaver, the emerald forest, have similar plots it's true. But if you are going to have a movie about a culture clash, which is a bit unavoidable if you are having an alien movie (unless you want everything to go smoothly no problem?) basically the coolest way to do it is to have the main character live as part of the other culture. It works really well, that's why the plot is often used. There are a ton of great movies with an unoriginal plot, knowing the basics of how stories work doesn't make you smart.

Avatar's version worked well because it didn't try and do a lot of social commentary, and they gave a solid reason for why the alien culture was worthwhile and not silly.

you can tell the same story again if in the very least you have interesting characters and good dialog, this movie has none of the 2....hell...the main suit-an-tie bad guy is copied right out of Aliens for crying out loud!

and also...no social comentary???...where we watching the same movie?...this is nothing but social comentary....."we want what's under them and so we find a justification for why it´s just for us to take it!" I'm paraphrasing but still...it´s pretty obvious social commentary......
not that I don´t agree with the gist of what is being said...but that alone does not make this a good movie.

[Fragony]

I love this movie! I'm a little sad that Hollywood is making an American remake. I really hope they don't Twilightify it.

Won't make the original suddenly disappear, remakes of 'foreign' (well to you) movies have been pretty good really, pleased to see the USA market is opening up for stuff like that. USA cinema really took a nosedive in the eighty's and the nineties but it has recovered brilliantly, Euro elitists can shove it up.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

you can tell the same story again if in the very least you have interesting characters and good dialog, this movie has none of the 2....hell...the main suit-an-tie bad guy is copied right out of Aliens for crying out loud!

Read a book.

Movies are a different medium, and most of them aren't character studies. You can't try and shove a square peg into a round hole, fail, and then disparage the square peg.

and also...no social comentary???...where we watching the same movie?...this is nothing but social comentary....."we want what's under them and so we find a justification for why it´s just for us to take it!" I'm paraphrasing but still...it´s pretty obvious social commentary......
not that I don´t agree with the gist of what is being said...but that alone does not make this a good movie.

That's like saying "live free or die hard" was social commentary about how the US is vulnerable to hackers. The closest it came was "they don't understand, they killed their mother" which seemed really out of place.

[seireikhaan]

GI Joe: Rise of Cobra 3/10




1) I yawned through the first 2/3 of the movie.

2) Excessive CGI and inconsistent physics.

3) Utter defiance of reality for the last 1/3 of the movie. Where the heck were the French Natty Guard/police/SOMETHING during the whole Paris scene? And beneath the arctic ice is NOT the perfect place for a secret military base! Gah!

[Fragony]

Hmmmm watched it (Let the right one in) again to make sure this is the greatest love story ever and the best movie of the decade. It is I love it, my new all time favorite makes me cry like a baby.

'oskar, I am not a girl'

poor thing, so very dangerous, so very scared. He needs her to be strong, but she needs him much more to pretend she's a normal girl and does she try, even tries to buy his friendship when he starts to realize what she is, she's so very vulnerable, but she's a predator and can't help it she needs to kill to survive. How very tragic. When she hugs him has to one of the most heartfelt scenes ever. Wait it is.

11/10

[Hooahguy]

saw 3 films:

The Great Raid
this was a "meh" film. the actual raid was very well done, but there was an element of cheesiness throughout, as well as some parts not corresponding to the book, which was excellent. well, thats hollywood for ya.
7/10, only because the actual raid was done so well.

Full Metal Jacket
currently my favorite film, so many amazing quotes from Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, not to mention a few others!

"Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: How tall are you, private?
Private Cowboy: Sir, five-foot-nine, sir.
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: Five-foot-nine, I didn't know they stacked that high. "

10/10


Love, Actually
pretty much a british porno with so many twisting storylines in between i was pretty much just looking forwards to more nudity about a half hour in.
pity the girls i watched it with didnt agree.

[Beirut]

All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)

Great movie. Love the stilted old-fashioned acting. Excellent moral value to this movie as well. It rings true on every level. Some good battle scenes as well. I was surprised at that.

10/10 A classic.

[Fragony]

currently my favorite film, so many amazing quotes from Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, not to mention a few others!

He is actually really a drilling whatsitcalled, he was only supposed to be involved in giving advice to the actors but what can be better than the real thing?

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Sherlock Holmes: excellent, a modern sherlock holmes story.

[Fragony]

Surviving Evil, deliverance with supernatural baddies, They do a great job at making the baddies really scary and evil. A fun watch, not great, but fun.

[seireikhaan]

Avatar- 9/10. Granted, I'm not really hard to please as a critic(see below), but I thought the movie was quite enjoyable. My only real gripe would be:

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The Ultra-Mega Chicken plot device, mainly for being so transparent and not showing the actual wraslin'. In a near three hour movie, what would another 5 minutes have been?

Other than that, visually spectacular, and the plot was delivered in a satisfactory manner for the most part. I tend to grade movie plots for how hell they deliver it and its plausibility, rather than how much I like it, and Avatar did pretty well, I thought.


Komodo vs Cobra- 8.5/10. Pretty enjoyable B movie. Effects are suitably terrible, the women are suitably attractive(especially the scientist in low-rider jeans and a tank top), the ex-military man is suitably manly, and the military complex is suitably incompetent. Overall, its everything I expect from a B movie, and a bit more.


Snake Island- 8/10. Not quite as highly rated as Komodo V Cobra, because the first half of the movie is a drag to get through. Honestly, its a bit of a miracle I made it through that first half. Glad I did, though, because the last half is pure, B movie brilliance. Horror/comedy movie about tourists and their guides on (you guessed it) Snake Island, which turns out, funnily enough, to be occupied by a horde of venomous snakes. Lots of good humor in the 2nd half, including snakes dancing to bad techno music, snakes copping a feel on one of the lasses in the movie, and general rubber snake hilarity. Plus, of course, the familiar run of a good B movie, complete with all the usual cast. If you can bear through the first drag of the movie, its good fun.

[Crazed Rabbit]

I liked Avatar - mainly because it was simply amazing visually. Every scene seemed to show something new and wonderful. Well, directed too, with good acting.

The plot - well that was the weak point. The alien natives (Heehee) were more stereotypically native American than actual, you know, Indians. And the theme was anvilicious - that is, delivered with the subtlety of a half ton anvil dropped on your head.

Most of the characters didn't have much depth, either.

CR