Movie Review Thread

[The Lurker Below]

Burn After Reading - Coen brothers, big league cast, bush league story. This ain't no Fargo.

[Hooahguy]

End of Watch

I thought it was pretty good, I felt it went very quickly, but in the end it felt somewhat empty, like a "thats it?" at the end. Maybe its a story of brotherhood, but I didnt feel that.

7/10

[Vuk]

Star Trek: Into Darkness
6.5/10
I hate sci-fi. I hated Battlestar Galactica and hated the little of Star Wars I saw. I have never seen the original Star Trek, but I gotta admit that the new one intrigued me enough that I plan to. The movie was riddle with problems and is no masterpiece by any stretch. Still though, it was entertaining.

[Ibrahim]

@ Vuk: go with Wrath of Khan. it's the best Star Trek movie IMHO. If you don't like it, then you won't like any of Star Trek, either as movies or series (Into the Darkness is a pale version of this).

it's the only one I ever really liked--it and the sixth movie.

[Vuk]

@ Vuk: go with Wrath of Khan. it's the best Star Trek movie IMHO. If you don't like it, then you won't like any of Star Trek, either as movies or series (Into the Darkness is a pale version of this).

it's the only one I ever really liked--it and the sixth movie.

Thanks. I was gonna see them in order, but I may see this one first now.

[Fragony]

Vengo, pure awesome. Awesome music, awesome look into Spanish music-culture. I really enjoyed it it's quite intoxicating

FLAMENCO!!! http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=huwGeNUK6Os

Slick and sexy movie that just sweats nostalgia

Edit: FLAMENCO! Arab style. God she's hot http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Yng0n_-_UV0&feature=fvwrel

[Fragony]

Rob Roy, awesome. Tim Roth is really good villain. Some really awesome fighting scenes. Another plus, call me a sick puppy but the wounds inflicted look awesome, you really see the sword slicing through, don't know how they did it but it's awesome

[Vuk]

Gangster Squad - 7.5/10
An excellent movie. I wish I caught it in theatres.

[Vuk]

Man of Steel - 6/10
I kept my hopes down for this movie right up until three days before release when I started reading all the critic's reviews. When I saw how much they hated it I thought that it had to be excellent. I was wrong.
The movie was absolutely aweful.
Story
Their efforts to create a unique twist on the classic Superman story was disasterous. The plot was full of holes and headscratching moments, and it did not add any depth to Superman's story or bring out the emotional responses they wanted to. The characters were horribly written (the villain esp), and some poorly acted.
Costumes and make-up
The costumes in the movie were ridiculously cheesy. It looked like some B-rated sci-fi flick from the 70's.
CGI
At times the CGI was fantastic, but other times it looked like it was dated by a few decades. I guess that is to be expected when 90% of the movie is computer generated!
Score
How could you go wrong with a Hans Zimmer score? They found a way. The score was loud...really loud, but not powerful at all. It just seemed very cheap.
Acting
The one highlight of the movie was that the actor who portrayed Superman did an excellent job (still hoping that the Justice League will be good), but the same cannot be said for Russell Crowe. Crowe who has delivered excellent performances in the past seems to have confirmed that his acting days are at an end with this role (as if Les Miserables wasn't proof enough). The other actors were mostly tolerable, though some of the reporters were awful actors.

Overall
About as exciting as scraping dirt from under your toenails. The movie would put you to sleep if it weren't for its obnoxious, over-the-top score giving you a headache and jolting you to wakefulness every two seconds. The movie lacked all the sublty that makes a movie something more than cheap entertainment. Your kids will probably like it, but I don't recommend it for adults.

[Lemur]

Upstream Color—caught it on Netflix, still felt robbed.

This film is trying to do roughly four difficult, hard-to-convey things, all without a strong story to tie everything together. As I remarked to Mrs. Lemur, "It's like a jazz song where everybody is soloing at once. What an unbelievable mess."

Maybe if I were high or drunk or suffering a recent head trauma I would have found it profound. Instead I was angry about the two hours I would never get back.

[Fragony]

Leningrad, no not Stalingrad. Very good Russian movie about the siege of Leningrad. Wins credits for REALLY disturbing me I like horses, you'll know it when you see it. I read a diary of a French soldier during Napoleon, forgot the name of the book, but they also cutted pieces out of horses while they were still alive but too weak to move on, they didn't even bother killing them first anymore. Yikes. Nasty.

[The Lurker Below]

The Lucky One - book based chick flic. the bad guy is way too cliché, detracts from an already predictable story. dunno the director but it seems whoever it was mailed it in on this one.

[rajpoot]

Man of Steel

Caught it in 3D. Good movie. Lots of action as expected from a Superman flick.
I mean hell, who would want to watch Superman brood around like Batman. Thank God that did not happen. Although there was quite a lot brooding, they kept it in control.
That said they skimped out on the fights. Too many buildings getting smashed, too few one on one fistfights. They really should've done a few more hand to hand fights, Superman vs Zod's minions, similar to the one Superman has with Zod at the end, trading punches and all that. Better than all the buildings they smashed.

[Vuk]

Just saw the zombie chick-flick (yeah, you read that right) Warm Bodies. It was actually pretty good. Had a lot of funny parts.

[Fragony]

Sonny Boy, good Dutch ww2 era movie. Something confused me, it's about a suriname black who has a relationship with a Dutch woman. It's based on a true story. Nazi's didn't harm blacks?

[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.

[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.

[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..."

[komnenos]

I may get the movie : Byzantium( a fantasy thriller movie) and watch it. Have you heard it? Is it worth to watch?

[Fragony]

Wrong topic bad frag

[Vuk]

I just saw Fast and Furious 6. I have never seen any of them before because they looked really dumb, but decided to give this one a go when I found out that Gina Carano *wipes drool off lip* was playing in it. Gina was excellent as expected, but the movie was ultimate garbage. It was very sexist, first of all. Second of all, it was extremely, cosmically unrealistic and juvenile. I expected a movie based around car chases to at least have good car chases, but it did not. Everything about the movie was just total garbage, except the performances of Dwayne Johnson and Gina Carano. Unfortunately, they could not save a movie that bad.

[Vuk]

Million Dollar Baby - 10/10
I finally got around to seeing Million Dollar Baby, and was very impressed. I generally stay away from movies about female fighters because they are usually just some old man's wank fodder. This is not the case with this movie.

Gran Torino - 8/10
An excellent movie I thought, but some inaccuracies when portraying Hmong culture. Still though, it is Hollywood and I didn't expect 100% accuracy.

[Fragony]

Million dollar Baby is great, like most of the movies from Clinton it has this shut up and listen quality to it. The fights are secondary to the story. Tip: The Wrestler.

[Vuk]

The one with Mickey Rourke?

[Fragony]

The one with Mickey Rourke?

Yeah,it's fantastic