Movie Review Thread

[Motep]

I know this one is kinda old...The Inside Man I just love it. It is suspenseful...brilliant concept.

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

Battlefield Earth is just so terrible. Get a bunch of people together who appreciate and mock terrible films and watch it for entertainment.

[doc_bean]

I watched Superman Returns yesterday. it's a difficult movie to rate, since it does many things *so* right yet does some other things so *very* wrong.

I didn't know much about the movie so I was surprised that it was actually about Superman returning home after a search for his home planet, and not about the rise of Superman, although there were a few flashback scenes thrown in. Overall I think this was a good idea, since it makes the movie a little different from all those other superhero movies that have come out recently.

The good: the atmosphere, adding just the right bit of nostalgia, the action sequences

the bad: the overall plot, people act pretty 'unnatural' just for plot reasons, a lot of their actions really don't make sense, pretty much everything related to Lex Luthor feels wrong, especially his 'master plan'. Also, a car mysteriously changes colour as Superman lifts it up...

Overall I did find the movie to be enjoyable, there were quite a few things I wish they did differently, but it's fun none the less.

[Alexanderofmacedon]

I just rented Syriana and I liked it a lot. A bit hard to follow, but overall I got it.

[Puzz3D]

Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005) is a dramatic recreation which stays very close to the actual events of what happened to her for being caught distributing anit-war literature in Germany in 1943. It's based on the transcript of her interrogation and personal recollections of various people, and is very effectively portrayed by actress Julia Jentsch. The courage this young woman displayed is remarkable and very moving. There appear to be a few dramatic liberties taken but they are not overdone. The movie has an authentic and chilling feel to it especially when what is happening is legal. The interrogator, Mohr, survived the war and continued to be a policeman afterwards. His son said his father would never speak about his wartime service to the Nazis.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Just watched the Shawshank Redemption. It's a decent movie, but I'm amazed that it's #2 movie of all time on imdb. I can think of hundreds of better movies, it's about 7/10 I'd say. Half an hour too long and waaaaay to sappy. There was sentimental voice over during the scene in which he was being anally raped I kid you not. Three guys are kicking him and god knows what else and morgan freeman's voice comes on: "I'd like to say andy put up a good fight and drove the anal rapists off, but that would be a lie, in fact he's being raped right now which makes you wonder why I sound so happy"

*spoilers*

I also found it amusing that there were only 3 or 4 "bad" prisoners in the prison and all the others were just good guys, the kind of guys you'd want to sit around and have a beer with. The way the bad guys got their comeuppance was a huge stretch, the guard mysteriously became a good guy for a brief moment (in between brutally killing innocent people, prison guards are the real bad guys remember) to get upset by the way the one guy was picking on tim robbins and take him out. Then at the end they way the warden and him mysteriously get arrested for the murder which would have been impossible to prove is ridiculous. It also glosses over the way tim robbins is living off a bunch of stolen money now but oh the pacific is so beautiful

*/spoilers*

I don't mean to sound so down on it, I enjoyed it, but it has major flaws and it irks me to see it so highly rated.

[naut]

There was sentimental voice over during the scene in which he was being anally raped I kid you not.

Uhh...