Movie Review Thread

[Fragony]

Yay, many more chapters to go, The Killing season 3 chapter 4 here I come. Great Danish series that never loses pace there isn't a dull moment to be found. Highly recommended.

[a completely inoffensive name]

This Is The End - Very good comedy. Still has its dull moments but they are used for the purpose of developing what is actually a somewhat clever plot. Lots of big laughs and poking fun of many Hollywood celebrities. If you want to watch a movie about a bunch of young comedians and actors killing each other, this is the movie for you.

[Montmorency]

Lost in Armenia

3/10

Very primitive form of comedy, to say the least. The only redeeming elements are the face and breasts of the female lead, and the opportunity to apprise the linguistic impact of Russian on Armenian.

[Fragony]

The Wrestler is awesome. I can kinda relate to main character as I have done fighting sports (jiu jitsu and kickboxing) and had an epileptic attack (not a heart attack) two years ago. Never happened before and it never happened again but these things are really scary. Got whacked on the head a lot but scans say I am fine. But it remains feeling like a sword of Damocles, I am still terrified it happens again.

[PanzerJaeger]

WWZ - 7/10 - Very cool set-piece action sequences. $220 million buys you a lot of CGI zombies and the ability to tear apart major metros on film rather convincingly. Still though, the movie had so much plot to pack in - so many places to go and things to do - there just wasn't any time left for character development. I know that's a typical snobby film critic cliche, and I certainly didn't go into a movie about the zombie apocalypse expecting deep, multifaceted characters, but this movie literally had none. They are empty vessels whose only purpose is to move the film from one hoard to the next, with no screen time used to draw the audience closer to them. This would be fine except that, for me at least, an emotional attachment to the main characters is a large part of suspense. I didn't really care what happened to Brad Pitt or his family, thus many of the scenes that would have otherwise been suspenseful and/or thrilling were just kind of whatever...Also, fyi, these are PG13 zombies, so we're not talking about a lot of gore if that's your thing. All that being said, though, the movie gets a rather positive score from me simply for its scale. I just feel like it could have been so much more.

[Strike For The South]

OOOOOOOOOOOOo

I'm seeing that on thursday

[The Lurker Below]

Saving that film would require Brad Pitt to have a line that goes "The first rule of the zombie apocalypse..."

[a completely inoffensive name]

Lost in Armenia

3/10

Very primitive form of comedy, to say the least. The only redeeming elements are the face and breasts of the female lead, and the opportunity to apprise the linguistic impact of Russian on Armenian.

It's like Siskel reborn.