Movie Review Thread

[Ramses II CP]

Children of Men- Took the third time to watch it to really appreciate this movie. I kinda have a thing for dysotopic(I hope I spelled that right lol) movies n what not. Clive Owen is excellent in this movie imho and does a great job from scene to scene. I will say that the one of the last scenes in the movie is brilliantly done, from beginning to end.

8.5/10

I love this movie, it does a wonderful job of moving from still, apathetic, blank environments seamlessly into chaos, fear, and violence. Even if you find the plot a little hackneyed and the characters a little contrived the way the movie is shot is absolutely compelling and brilliant. Every time I find myself overanalyzing the characters I just tell myself to shut up and enjoy the flow.

I hate to analyze it any more, but I will say that in my experience women do not care for this film at all. It can be read as a rather sexist fable of male protectionism (Despite some token elements to the contrary, i.e. random female rebels). Personally I love that kind of thing, women and children are precious and to be cherished, but modern sensibilities may reject the message because it's fairly overt.

Still, highly recommended. I have it tivo'd now and I'll probably watch it another time or two in the next few weeks before I delete it.

[The Fuzz]

I hate to analyze it any more, but I will say that in my experience women do not care for this film at all. It can be read as a rather sexist fable of male protectionism (Despite some token elements to the contrary, i.e. random female rebels). Personally I love that kind of thing, women and children are precious and to be cherished, but modern sensibilities may reject the message because it's fairly overt.

Still, highly recommended. I have it tivo'd now and I'll probably watch it another time or two in the next few weeks before I delete it.

I'm not so sure - my girlfriend was the one that introduced me to it! :P You're definitely reading too much into it - she's a pregnant woman, she needs protection. I think the children message is correct, though.

What I love about the film is how they proceed for so long without cuts. The epic scene where they're going to the coast and are attacked by the "bandits" - well, as I said, epic.

Michael Caine is also great in this one. If some of you haven't seen it - watch it. It's very good.

As a sidenote..I enjoyed your BC AAR. :)

[Hooahguy]

Wanted
my rating 8.5/10
jolie is hot, good action. what more can you want?

[desert]

Shichinin no Samurai/The Seven Samurai

I'm watching it right now. From what I've seen so far, it gets a 6...out of 7.

(This rating is subject to change)

Oh yeah, sorry, I forgot to update this.

I give it 9/10, if only because the movie was a bad quality download that looked like someone had gone back to 1956 and recorded it with a cell phone, and sometimes the subtitles were missing. But it was the full 308 minutes with intermission, so I guess I shouldn't complain too much.

But otherwise, yeah it's good. The end depressed me.

[Tratorix]

Underworld: Rise of the Lycans: Not exactly what I'd call good. The plot is rather ridiculous, the acting is overdone and the action scenes are repetitive. Still it does have some unintentional humour (anything Victor says or does is so horribly overacted its hilarious) and some neat action bits in there. Wouldn't recommend spending money on it though. 2/10

[Decker]

Shichinin no Samurai/The Seven Samurai

I'm watching it right now. From what I've seen so far, it gets a 6...out of 7.

(This rating is subject to change)

I've been looking all over for that dang movie...

Slither- Pretty stupid story line and everything. The main actor Fillion was just the same as he was in his series Firefly and movie Serenity. But other than him... it sucked...
3/10

The Other Boleyn Girl- Saw this and it's okay... nothing particularly special about it.
6/10

Superbad- Gets funnier every time I see it. "McLovin.... WHYYYYYYY"
8.5/10

Gran Torino- Clint is awesome as ever and never stops with the laughs...
9/10

[seireikhaan]

Slither- Pretty stupid story line and everything. The main actor Fillion was just the same as he was in his series Firefly and movie Serenity. But other than him... it sucked...
3/10

Question- WHY would you even bother to watch a movie that was titled "Slither"? That sounds like something sci-fi channel would cobble together....

[Decker]

Question- WHY would you even bother to watch a movie that was titled "Slither"? That sounds like something sci-fi channel would cobble together....

Cuz it was 1 in the morning, nothing was on and it had all the makings of a sci-fi channel movie except with a somewhat better cast.

Forrest Gump- Classic...
10/10

[Puzz3D]

I've been looking all over for that dang movie...

You can get the new 3 disk Criterion edition of Shichinin no Samurai/The Seven Samurai from Amazon for $30. That's a good buy since full retail price is $50. The new edition has better picture and sound than their 1999 release because Toho has finally made their best source copies of Kurosawa films available to DVD publishers. There are many special features on the 3rd disk, and an all new second commentary track by several film historians. The narrative is a slow developing story of over 3 hours with the action coming at the end of the film. It takes patience to watch it. It's a very good film which, as a consequence of Japan loosing WWII, challenges the traditional pre-WWII view of the samurai class, and is historically important in film history for its influence on subsequent action films.

[Decker]

Thank you very much for the info Puzz3D

Live Free or Die Hard- Reminded me more of the original but it doesn't top the original for me which is a classic action movie imo
8.5/10