NOW CLOSED ; List some movies you've watched recently. Theatre, rental, TV... and give a */10

[Eug]

Didn't know Chris Pratt was in Zero Dark Thirty. Funny seeing him there, just after seeing Guardians of the Galaxy again last week.

Also fun to see Stannis Baratheon and Malcolm Merlyn. Same with the guy from Human Target and Fringe, basically in a bit part.

 

[KeithTalent]

Yeah, Argo is on my list.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/click/2013/02/jimmy-carter-argo-great-but-inaccurate-157592.html

Since I'm a canuck though, I wonder if I'm going to be biased. The Canadian media, and Jimmy Carter, also said it was good, but criticized it for leaving out so much of the Canadian component.

I'm Canadian and thought it was very mediocre, but not because of any political stuff, I don't care about that shit. I just thought it was a very average, at best, movie.

KT

 

[n7]

Ex Machina - 10/10 - I have to watch this again. This movie is one of the best sci fi films ever. Best I have seen in a few years but I am putting this up there with the best of them. Wow. I'll get long winded in a review if I watch it again. It is a thought provoking sci-fi movie. You need to watch this with your brain turned on!

OK ... I wrote the above with 15 minutes left to go. And I will now give it an 8/10. Wow .... The ending needs a rewrite. Will watch again.

WTF would you post a review before finishing the movie?

And i'm really curious, what is wrong with the ending?

 

[clamum]

The Gunman - 8/10

While I found this to be pretty average in the plot department, I thoroughly enjoyed the movie. If you like action movies, I would think you'll like this one. Penn did a pretty good job and man he was frickin jacked, lol.

 

[Bubbleawsome]

You guys think Jurassic World was borderline R violence? Hm.

Also, what's with the heels? Wasn't that taken care of in the movies? What are you guys on about?

 

[RampantAndroid]

You guys think Jurassic World was borderline R violence? Hm.

Also, what's with the heels? Wasn't that taken care of in the movies? What are you guys on about?

She ran through the whole movie with them. Including in the jungle. And from a large dino later on.

 

[Aikouka]

She ran through the whole movie with them. Including in the jungle. And from a large dino later on.

When I was leaving the theater, a group of guys and girls were behind me, and what was their topic of conversation? "There's no way you could do all that in high heels!" (It was really the girls talking about this.)

 

[MongGrel]

It was funny when my wife and some of her girlfriends went and saw King Kong at the time, they remarked to each other a lot that Naomi Watts must have had on Kevlar lingerie or something she told me...

I guess they were pretty much laughing about that one.

 

[Harabec]

Jurassic World:

1)These people never learn. You make dinosaurs, dinosaurs eat you.
2)High Heels enhance running ability.
3)Why are kids always depicted as stupid idiots, until something bad happens, then they're geniuses?
4)You can always use a Mosasaurus as a form of garbage disposal.
5)Zara wasn't some random guard that needs to be sacrificed for the main characters' invulnerability. Boo!

 

[ImpulsE69]

I didn't hate Jurassic World, but if you blasted Prometheus for it's blunders and liked this movie, you are a hypocrite

 

[Majcric]

The Loft 8/10. Solid suspense movie.

 

[sdifox]

Ex Machina 7/10 simple story well told. The ending was not well done or I would have given it a higher score.

 

[smackababy]

WTF would you post a review before finishing the movie?

And i'm really curious, what is wrong with the ending?

I'll answer the second question: the AI had simply no real motivation to kill or hate the creator, nor did the helper AI (mute, Asian girl with some gnarly ass dance moves) have any reason to stab the programmer. That killed any thought provoking ideas. Well, that and the idea that someone could recode the security system, deploy the new code, and have it work flawlessly in the span of a night. If they removed the ending or staged the escape to see how the AI reacted without killing anyone, it would have been great.


Finally saw Tomorrowland and I give it a 5/10. - Started out decent enough and went along fine, but the overall idea really irked me, not to mention the ending was terrible. Just being special and having "ideas" is not enough to do anything. If you don't have the drive to actually START making those things happen, you're not particularly important. The recruited people shown at the end really pissed me off. If you're trying to find people to solve real world problems, I don't give a shit if the guy is the next Mozart and Picasso, a street musician and a street artist aren't valued assets. The only acceptable "artist" would be a scifi writer; someone actually dreaming new things that can change the world. Some of the others were terrible choices as well. A game warden? A judge? Hell, a judge is simply someone who has spent a significant amount of time and resources learning the laws of a particular area and how they should be applied. They don't solve problems. They add their personal slant to laws. They are lawyers... Not problem solvers.

 

[gdansk]

Instructions Not Included: 7/10. I didn't watch it by choice. It was a bit too dramatic but it was funny.

 

[MongGrel]

I didn't hate Jurassic World, but if you blasted Prometheus for it's blunders and liked this movie, you are a hypocrite

 

[DigDog]

i watched .. tried to watch .. The Babadook. terrifying. traumatizing piece of film.

however .. i'm not sure i would recommend it.

Spoiler

The Babadook is a horror film, however the vast majority of the film is filmed in a way that it seems like the main characters are hallucinating the events, or either of them are insane, and it truly looks as a - very intense - human drama.

now, in my very humble opinion about horror films, they should feature big scary monsters that we cannot relate to, such as clawed nightmare burn victims, or undead hockey machete murderers.
because escapism, and essentially, fun.

The first, and larger part, of the babadook is truly hearth wrenching, so much so that it hurts, because, instead of big giant monsters, it uses human emtions.

The ending and the final reveal, with a genuine monster, is actually a real relief, because reality hurts much more than fiction.

In other words,

it's too much.

 

[MongGrel]

i watched .. tried to watch .. The Babadook. terrifying. traumatizing piece of film.

however .. i'm not sure i would recommend it.

Spoiler

The Babadook is a horror film, however the vast majority of the film is filmed in a way that it seems like the main characters are hallucinating the events, or either of them are insane, and it truly looks as a - very intense - human drama.

now, in my very humble opinion about horror films, they should feature big scary monsters that we cannot relate to, such as clawed nightmare burn victims, or undead hockey machete murderers.

The first, and larger part, of the babadook is truly hearth wrenching, so much so that it hurts.

The ending and the final reveal, with a genuine monster, is actually a real relief, because reality hurts much more than fiction.

In other words,

it's too much.

Yeah, right.

I did like it though when I watched it the first time.

 

[JEDI]

These Final Hours 7.5/10

I liked it.
a doomsday meteor has struck the Earth's Atlantic ocean.

Everyone's going to die within a day. there's nowhere to flee to.

what happens after you've had your fill of sex + drugs, yet you still don't want to die?
Follow the main char in Australia and those around him during their final few hrs

 

[smackababy]

Ballers ep1 7/10 - If you like sports, this will likely be pretty good. It is a bit slow starting up, but I like the cast so far. I am looking forward to more.

True Detective ep1 9/10 - Good set up, in my opinion. I actually like Colin Farrell as the total scumbag guy. Vince Vaugh wasn't totally annoying like he usually was, so that helps. Certainly looking forward to more.

 

[n7]

I'll answer the second question: the AI had simply no real motivation to kill or hate the creator, nor did the helper AI (mute, Asian girl with some gnarly ass dance moves) have any reason to stab the programmer. That killed any thought provoking ideas. Well, that and the idea that someone could recode the security system, deploy the new code, and have it work flawlessly in the span of a night. If they removed the ending or staged the escape to see how the AI reacted without killing anyone, it would have been great.

Spoiler

No motivation? You don't remember the videos showing the earlier AIs desperately trying to escape, breaking off her hands against the glass trying to get out?

Ava had all kinds of motivation to escape. She played Caleb in the hopes he'd help her, since she knew Nathan wouldn't ever let her go.

Ava gets Kyoko to help her with dealing with Nathan. Kyoko isn't as smart as Ava, but she's clearly not just entirely a dumb AI (which they make pretty blatantly clear with all the scenes we see her in where she's coyly listening).

I'm not sure how the desperation to escape cannot be more obvious. It's pretty much Ava's entire goal: to get outside and be "free" to make her own choices.

So i guess i'd have to 100% disagree, but thanx for sharing your take on it.

 

[KeithTalent]

^^ completely agree with n7. The motivation was quite apparent to me.

KT

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

WTF would you post a review before finishing the movie?

And i'm really curious, what is wrong with the ending?

re: Ex Machina

1) The movie was that good. I thought the ending would be epic. And the thing is, I said exactly what I thought 90% of the way through.

2)

Spoiler

The ending was hokey. The Androids/robots/whatevers killed their maker using what has to be the strangest stabbing motion ever. Was that supposed to be artsy? I just don't get it. The first stab looked like it would have hit the heart. Which would be pretty much instant death. But that was not the case. You might as well have had them stab the leg or atleast the lower abdomen off center. And I also didn't see the motivation to murder and escape instead of just escape. What was the "attachment" between the two droids that never saw eachother till nearly the end of the movie to kill their maker? It just felt strange. All they needed to do is have the robots escape with the aid of the male protagonist in an intelligent manner and it would have been perfect. But all the story of manipulation by the droid would need a rewrite and that was the 90% of the good piece. Oh, I should add that I thought the male antagonist was the actual droid being tested half way through. That would have been an even better story. Because he was also being manipulative.

 

[Perknose]

^^ completely agree with n7. The motivation was quite apparent to me.

KT

Not a huge fan of the movie, but, yes, the motivation was blindingly clear.

 

[SMOGZINN]

i watched .. tried to watch .. The Babadook. terrifying. traumatizing piece of film.

however .. i'm not sure i would recommend it.

Spoiler

The Babadook is a horror film, however the vast majority of the film is filmed in a way that it seems like the main characters are hallucinating the events, or either of them are insane, and it truly looks as a - very intense - human drama.

now, in my very humble opinion about horror films, they should feature big scary monsters that we cannot relate to, such as clawed nightmare burn victims, or undead hockey machete murderers.
because escapism, and essentially, fun.

The first, and larger part, of the babadook is truly hearth wrenching, so much so that it hurts, because, instead of big giant monsters, it uses human emtions.

The ending and the final reveal, with a genuine monster, is actually a real relief, because reality hurts much more than fiction.

In other words,

it's too much.

Spoiler

Is the monster real? I came out of the movie seeing it as shared delusion. Either the mother of child was insane, and drove the other insane as well. I think the mother's insanity latched onto the child's childhood fear and made a monster out of it, she then taught the child to see the monster in a demonstration of the concept that reality is very much subjective.

 

[clamum]

These Final Hours 7.5/10

I liked it.
a doomsday meteor has struck the Earth's Atlantic ocean.

Everyone's going to die within a day. there's nowhere to flee to.

what happens after you've had your fill of sex + drugs, yet you still don't want to die?
Follow the main char in Australia and those around him during their final few hrs

Cool, apocalypse movies are right up mah alley. I will check this one out.