Movie Review Thread

[Fragony]

We need to to talk about Kevin 10/10

Really gripping.

[rajpoot]

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.

Hey it's Clint Eastwood.
Everything he's made is gold. Including that sissy romantic movie with whatshername

[Fragony]

Carnage, another great movie, thx mom

[The Lurker Below]

Pacific Rim - eh, suppose I didn't hate it. Rolled 2 four sided dice and came up with 5. 5/10.

[Major Robert Dump]

Pacific Rim was terrible.
Huge plot holes, like not even knowing what weapons your mech has..... oh wait, lets remember and use the sword 3/4 of the way through the movie..... hey we have this gun, instead of using it at range lets use it during grappling..... the way the other pilots went down was corny and typical "americans as the hero" crap...... no fire support from the air units dring the fights?..... they finally figure out to shoot an eye 3/4 through the movie (took them 3 transformers movies to figure this out)..... they don't have rescue on standby, so after the last fight when the pilots are stranded in the middle of the ocean they say "get to the choppers"...really? shouldn't the choppers already be there?

Corny movie. hominy grits. The only saving grace was a cute Asian.

[rvg]

Death to Smoochy.

One of the best dark comedies imho. I'm surprised this movie didn't do well at the time of its release.

[Crazed Rabbit]

I enjoyed Pacific Rim. It wasn't great, but it was nice to see a big budget movie in the genre that wasn't a toy company tie in or sequel.

CR

[Xiahou]

I finally got around to watching "Django Unchained". Freaking awesome movie.

The "It's a raid" scene...

[Fragony]

Loved Django Unchained. It's hard to pick my favorite character as they are all awesome. Best scene is Jamy Fox standing in his purple outfit like manliness itselve before killing the guys that hurted his wive. But there are so many great scenes. Earlier in this thread I claimed Tarantino made only 2 truly great movies, I was wrong he made three

[Major Robert Dump]

I enjoyed Pacific Rim. It wasn't great, but it was nice to see a big budget movie in the genre that wasn't a toy company tie in or sequel.

CR

I amend my previous statement. I also liked the guy who played the commander, particularly his speech about being a "fixed point"

[Lemur]

I finally got around to watching "Django Unchained". Freaking awesome movie.

The same scene had me rolling.

"I watched my wife work all day makin' 30 bags for y'all, and all I hear is criticize, criticize, criticize ..."

"I think ... we all think ... the bags was a nice idea. But not pointing any fingers ... they coulda been done better. So how 'bout no bags this time. But next time, we do the bags right, and then we go full regalia."

[a completely inoffensive name]

The movie industry is garbage right now.

I seem to recall reading somewhere that the line up of movies for 2015 is something along these lines:
Man of Steel 2, Avengers 2, Star Wars 7, Avatar 2, Pirates 5, Terminator 5, Die Hard 6, Jurassic Park 4, Independence Day 2, Finding Nemo 2, Mission: Impossible 5, Hunger Games 4, Ant-Man, Fantastic Four, Tintin 2, Bond 24, Bourne 5, Snow White 2...

F-that.

[Fragony]

Better than ever I'd say, there aren't any bad movies made anymore. You know what you are getting, a really slick production. If you are more into serious stuff there is plenty of arthouse ripe for the picking. It has never been better really.

[Major Robert Dump]

The movie industry is garbage right now.

I seem to recall reading somewhere that the line up of movies for 2015 is something along these lines:
Man of Steel 2, Avengers 2, Star Wars 7, Avatar 2, Pirates 5, Terminator 5, Die Hard 6, Jurassic Park 4, Independence Day 2, Finding Nemo 2, Mission: Impossible 5, Hunger Games 4, Ant-Man, Fantastic Four, Tintin 2, Bond 24, Bourne 5, Snow White 2...

F-that.

Or maybe Americans don't know what is good. You pretentious people and your art films and what nots need to get over yourself and go pay $12 to see Jack Sparrow do that thing with his hand that gets so much funnier every time he does it.

America deserves this. And Storage/Shipping/Fishing/Mining/Repo/DogCatcher Wars on every channel 24 hours a day

[a completely inoffensive name]

Better than ever I'd say, there aren't any bad movies made anymore.

Is that true, or are the movie companies just fooling you?

[Fragony]

Is that true, or are the movie companies just fooling you?

What does it matter, blockbusters just give art-house productions more air to breath as they are operating in a different realm of question and demand. It's like saying Call of Duty killed gaming, but the indie industry has never had more momentum.

[a completely inoffensive name]

What does it matter, blockbusters just give art-house productions more air to breath as they are operating in a different realm of question and demand. It's like saying Call of Duty killed gaming, but the indie industry has never had more momentum.

The indie industry for both movies and video games is due to entirely to the easy availability of recording/programming tools and the software to manage the two products respectively.

The fact is, it is unhealthy for the movie industry to be almost completely reliant on never ending sequels and constant rehashing of things from the last 40 years. Likewise, it is unhealthy for video game companies to be reliant on putting the same series of games out every year. Eventually, it all ends up being another Guitar Hero disaster.

Which brings me to a video that can be compared to the current movie industry, are FUGPUSC's really the best way to do business?

[Fragony]

But big budget summer-blockbusters and art-cinema don't get in eachothers way, there is enough demand for both. The 'big' movies are mostly gloriously entertaining compared to the movies made in the eighties or nineties, they are just really well made. Very formualistic of course but it's a good formula to make great entertainment. Popcorn-movies aren't really my thing but I expect that 90% of my pretty impressive movie collection is from the US. Really good movies, most of them at least.

[a completely inoffensive name]

But big budget summer-blockbusters and art-cinema don't get in eachothers way, there is enough demand for both. The 'big' movies are mostly gloriously entertaining compared to the movies made in the eighties or nineties, they are just really well made. Very formualistic of course but it's a good formula to make great entertainment. Popcorn-movies aren't really my thing but I expect that 90% of my pretty impressive movie collection is from the US. Really good movies, most of them at least.

It's very difficult to make a living solely off of indie productions. If the "Big Movies" start failing for a number of different reasons, there is no cushion for indie movie producers to fall back on if they need to make some money. The industry becomes a lot more cut-throat.

Or in another way, if the Call of Duty franchise were to fail right now and all those programmers decided to stick in the business by making their own indie games, what do you think would happen to the indie scene with that influx?

[Fragony]

It's very difficult to make a living solely off of indie productions. If the "Big Movies" start failing for a number of different reasons, there is no cushion for indie movie producers to fall back on if they need to make some money. The industry becomes a lot more cut-throat.

Or in another way, if the Call of Duty franchise were to fail right now and all those programmers decided to stick in the business by making their own indie games, what do you think would happen to the indie scene with that influx?

Very little as they wouldn't have the budget to be competitive in the top tier. Whole different market, and that's a good thing

[Major Robert Dump]

World War Z was lametastic,

Please Hollywood, continue pissing on my childhood and my literary favorites.

Nothing like the book. Zero. Might as well have named it something else. 2 hours of Brad Pitt barely escaping while everyone else dies. Scene after scene after scene.

Thankfully, I watched it in a hotel room on my laptop, so it only cost me 50 cents paid to the bootleg man

[Fragony]

Watching second season of The Walking Dead, I never noticed that there are two more DVD's. It's awesome, characters are getting better. Still rooting for the hillbilly who can't help being a really good person.

[a completely inoffensive name]

Idk if this counts as a movie, but on Netlflix I watched The Captains, a series of interviews by William Shatner with every other Enterprise captain over the decades.

It went about as well as you would expect.

[Major Robert Dump]

did he sing or try to sell them plane tickets??

[TheLastDays]

Idk if this counts as a movie, but on Netlflix I watched The Captains, a series of interviews by William Shatner with every other Enterprise captain over the decades.

It went about as well as you would expect.

Gotta find those myself

I just watched "Warrior" with Tom Hardy and Joel Edgerton. Interesting movie, I liked it a lot actually. Really liked Nick Nolte as their father

[Vuk]

Gotta find those myself

I just watched "Warrior" with Tom Hardy and Joel Edgerton. Interesting movie, I liked it a lot actually. Really liked Nick Nolte as their father

Yeah, Warrior was a classic.

[The Lurker Below]

Starting with Django using the 5/10 from Pacific Rim as a starting point give it +1 for PLENTY of Tarantino blood (I suspect the local grocery ran out of catsup). +2 for an interesting story, +1 more for good actors, then subtract 1 for lack of robots and minus one more for no Godzillas = Django 7/10.

Men in Black 3 was worse than cleaning out the sheep barn in July in every possible way but gains a 2/10 rating for reminding me of a prior charming little flick.

[TheLastDays]

It was a fun movie imo - not Pulp Fiction but also not... dunno... Lady in the Water (yes, I know that's not Tarantino)

[a completely inoffensive name]

I enjoyed Lady in the Water. Bring the haters.

[TheLastDays]

I enjoyed Lady in the Water. Bring the haters.

Why should anyone hate you for that. I didn't and from past conversations I have the impression that this is the majority's opinion so it was adequate for what I was trying to say, still tastes are different and you should enjoy whichever movies you like