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What movies have you seen lately? Now with reviews!Movies
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Felt Tom Hardy did a decent interpretation of a Villain, different than Ledger's Joker yes but that's not an entirely bad thing.
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Tom Hardy wasn't the issue.
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Watched the new bond yesterday. I think it was good and I'm liking this new bond a lot however there isn't enough gadgets anymore. This was barely a bond movie. You could of changed the title to anything as it felt like any other shoot em up movie. He had a gun that used only his palm print in order to shoot and that was like the only thing. Movie was good just not impressed as something under the bond franchise.
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Premium Rush.
This is pretty much a bike movie set around a bicycle messenger who is chased around New York City by a cop who wants an envelope the messenger has. It's a non-linear film featuring plenty of cool stunts and so pretty good action shots. The story is so-so but appealed to me because I'm a biker and also because I fully understood the Chinese parts
(it features some Chinese people in the plot). Overall a great film for biking fans or good film if you're looking for something to watch.SuperShouden
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The Dark Knight Rises - This movie...I don't know. There were some really STUPID moments in it, like the most stable nuclear bomb ever, the useless ramped police baracades and the police officer calling Bane "some robber" after he robbed Wall Street. And...I'm not sure about the ending. I won't say more because of spoilers...but...it could've been better. A 4/5
Looper - A mind trip, really. It take place in the future...but it's about...the future. It also takes a couple things from Cowboy Bebop. mainly, the eye drop drugs. They didn't make anyone go insane, but it only took a day for Joe to go into major withdraw symptoms. I don't know...I'll give it a 3/5.
Resident Evil Retribution - Confusing. It's like they wanted to include everyone from the video games and bring back Michelle Rodriquez and the result was terrible. And Leon hardly said a thing...and doesn't look like the Leon from the video games. A 2/5
Looper - A mind trip, really. It take place in the future...but it's about...the future. It also takes a couple things from Cowboy Bebop. mainly, the eye drop drugs. They didn't make anyone go insane, but it only took a day for Joe to go into major withdraw symptoms. I don't know...I'll give it a 3/5.
Resident Evil Retribution - Confusing. It's like they wanted to include everyone from the video games and bring back Michelle Rodriquez and the result was terrible. And Leon hardly said a thing...and doesn't look like the Leon from the video games. A 2/5
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You mean to tell me there's a future...after the future!?!?
Whoa...
Anyway, I recently caught 21 Jump Street. Good movie, that. The jokes were funny and the characters were just the right kind of exaggerated. The story was pretty entertaining and the references to the TV show were enjoyable even if I never did watch much of it. Johna Hill and Channing Tatum were awesome in this as well, they work better as a pair than I thought they would going into this. There are a few things I could've enjoyed more but I won't really go into it as they're just minor nags.
I'd give it a 4/5.
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You mean to tell me there's a future...after the future!?!?
Whoa...
I know, I know. To be fair, the previews made it seem like the young Joe was maybe from present day or earlier. Which...is kinda how it played out in the film. It didn't really ever FEEL like 2044...it felt like 2012/2013. There wasn't that much explanation about the world Joe was in or the future. Just some images and the random futuristic tech, which almost felt out of place.
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Finding Nemo 3d
WOW just wow. We watched this in 3d last night on our Sony Bravia 3dtv and words can not express how incredible it looked in 3d. Easily THE best looking movie I have seen so far in 3d. The depth perception and layers of characters and foilage was just beyond phenomenal.
WOW just wow. We watched this in 3d last night on our Sony Bravia 3dtv and words can not express how incredible it looked in 3d. Easily THE best looking movie I have seen so far in 3d. The depth perception and layers of characters and foilage was just beyond phenomenal.
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a bit of what I've seen over the holidays:
El Espinazo del Diablo (a.k.a. The Devil's Backbone) (Guillermo del Toro, 2001) -- After Carlos, a 12-year-old whose father has died in the Spanish Civil War, arrives at an ominous boy's orphanage he discovers the school is haunted and has many dark secrets that he must uncover. As it so often happens with most ghost stories, this one starts out quite frightening, but as the mystery unravels, it actually gets more innocent and childish. The story is pretty unoriginal for the most part, but towards the end it becomes lovable and you want to see how it turns out. Art direction is probably this movie's greatest asset, followed by child acting. But the common theme with del Toro is also present, where a horror movie isn't only that, but also a love story and a movie about the grace of sacrifice and the depths of both human cruelty and kindness. A good movie because of it's budget and origin, but also an average one due to its theme. 6.5/10
Tetsuo (a.k.a. Tetsuo: The Iron Man) (Shin'ya Tsukamoto, 1989) -- A strange man known only as the "metal fetishist", who seems to have an insane compulsion to stick scrap metal into his body. I have to admit, I didn't make it to the end of this one, but found it worthy of watching due to overall weirdness and possible sci-fi value. I've never had any doubts that the Japanese are strange in their use of the media, and this movie further proves that point. From an artistic point of view this movie can be seen and the perfect welding between Japanese millenial tradition and the new Japan, full of technology; yet the movie is a weirdfest of seemingly unconnected scenes full of gore, hallucinations and overall WTF-ness that really seemed tiresome after an hour. I'm still trying to figure out the value of this movie, aside fomr it rating very high on the weird and disturbing scale. 4/10
Funny Games (Michael Haneke, 1997) -- Two psychotic young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic "games" with one another for their own amusement. As far as psychological horror movies go, this is a masterpiece that at first doesn't really seem that interesting or original, especially when you take into account that the movie is almost two hours long and most of it takes place in one room, but the truth is that it's very hard to sum this movie up without making it sound like a highly unoriginal piece of trash, but there can be no question it is anything but.
Still, the script is amazing, with so many subtle hints of horror that make the viewer cringe at not only their circumstance, but also the coldness at which they are spoken. When things go further, and violence joins in, it takes the trauma to a new level, but the movie remains gritty horror rather than a splatterfest. Aside from this, it's the type of movie I'd only watch once, as it's incredibly terifying. 8.5/10
El Espinazo del Diablo (a.k.a. The Devil's Backbone) (Guillermo del Toro, 2001) -- After Carlos, a 12-year-old whose father has died in the Spanish Civil War, arrives at an ominous boy's orphanage he discovers the school is haunted and has many dark secrets that he must uncover. As it so often happens with most ghost stories, this one starts out quite frightening, but as the mystery unravels, it actually gets more innocent and childish. The story is pretty unoriginal for the most part, but towards the end it becomes lovable and you want to see how it turns out. Art direction is probably this movie's greatest asset, followed by child acting. But the common theme with del Toro is also present, where a horror movie isn't only that, but also a love story and a movie about the grace of sacrifice and the depths of both human cruelty and kindness. A good movie because of it's budget and origin, but also an average one due to its theme. 6.5/10
Tetsuo (a.k.a. Tetsuo: The Iron Man) (Shin'ya Tsukamoto, 1989) -- A strange man known only as the "metal fetishist", who seems to have an insane compulsion to stick scrap metal into his body. I have to admit, I didn't make it to the end of this one, but found it worthy of watching due to overall weirdness and possible sci-fi value. I've never had any doubts that the Japanese are strange in their use of the media, and this movie further proves that point. From an artistic point of view this movie can be seen and the perfect welding between Japanese millenial tradition and the new Japan, full of technology; yet the movie is a weirdfest of seemingly unconnected scenes full of gore, hallucinations and overall WTF-ness that really seemed tiresome after an hour. I'm still trying to figure out the value of this movie, aside fomr it rating very high on the weird and disturbing scale. 4/10
Funny Games (Michael Haneke, 1997) -- Two psychotic young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic "games" with one another for their own amusement. As far as psychological horror movies go, this is a masterpiece that at first doesn't really seem that interesting or original, especially when you take into account that the movie is almost two hours long and most of it takes place in one room, but the truth is that it's very hard to sum this movie up without making it sound like a highly unoriginal piece of trash, but there can be no question it is anything but.
Still, the script is amazing, with so many subtle hints of horror that make the viewer cringe at not only their circumstance, but also the coldness at which they are spoken. When things go further, and violence joins in, it takes the trauma to a new level, but the movie remains gritty horror rather than a splatterfest. Aside from this, it's the type of movie I'd only watch once, as it's incredibly terifying. 8.5/10
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Dreed.
8.5/10
Idea was not new. There's an asian flick featuring the same story line. Cop stuck in a tall building with villans trying to kill them. But duck, it's Dreed, it was awesome. Budget was small, so it was even more impressive. Probably the best comic adaption I have seen in a long time (yeah all DC included, this is way more raw, love that). Very graphical, lots of CGI blood and flying limbs and half shoot off heads. Dreed was perfect in his caracter, cold, controlled, brutal.
If you like action movies, this is a must.
Felon:
8.0/10
Normal guy gets arrested due to bad cirumstances after a buglar comes into his house. Then he lives through the brutal life of the US correctional system.
Nothing new, Fresch flesh, comes into prison, makes some friends, makes some foes, tries to survive bad prison personal...
But it is never the less a very good interpretation of it. Stefan Dorff and Val Kilmer, and the guy from Lost shine in these roles. Really. Acting is surperbe. WAs shot on location in New Mexico (it feels autentic). The movie never gets slow. You feel for the caracter. It feels real what he goes through most of the time.
A massive underrated or not well known movie.
Recommended!!!
Better synopsis on imdb
8.5/10
Idea was not new. There's an asian flick featuring the same story line. Cop stuck in a tall building with villans trying to kill them. But duck, it's Dreed, it was awesome. Budget was small, so it was even more impressive. Probably the best comic adaption I have seen in a long time (yeah all DC included, this is way more raw, love that). Very graphical, lots of CGI blood and flying limbs and half shoot off heads. Dreed was perfect in his caracter, cold, controlled, brutal.
If you like action movies, this is a must.
Felon:
8.0/10
Normal guy gets arrested due to bad cirumstances after a buglar comes into his house. Then he lives through the brutal life of the US correctional system.
Nothing new, Fresch flesh, comes into prison, makes some friends, makes some foes, tries to survive bad prison personal...
But it is never the less a very good interpretation of it. Stefan Dorff and Val Kilmer, and the guy from Lost shine in these roles. Really. Acting is surperbe. WAs shot on location in New Mexico (it feels autentic). The movie never gets slow. You feel for the caracter. It feels real what he goes through most of the time.
A massive underrated or not well known movie.
Recommended!!!
Better synopsis on imdb
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Ohhh, wan't sure, should have googled it quickly...
, I googled it, it's called the Raid, excellent movieawesome fight scenes
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Sympathy For Lady Vengeance
Great movie, Oldboy is still better but this is too close.
Les Miserables
Was nice, except that it's too long and Russell Crowe
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Great movie, Oldboy is still better but this is too close.
Les Miserables
Was nice, except that it's too long and Russell Crowe
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Lion King 3D
Actually looked a lot better than I expected in 3d on my tv considering how old the movie is. Such a great classic.
Actually looked a lot better than I expected in 3d on my tv considering how old the movie is. Such a great classic.
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Kiss of the Spider Woman (Hector Babenco, 1985) -- Luis Molina and Valentin Arregui are cell mates in a Brazilian prison. Luis, a homosexual, is found guilty of immoral behaviour and Valentin is a political prisoner. To escape reality Luis invents romantic movies, while Valentin tries to keep his mind on the situation he's in. During the time they spend together, the two men come to understand and respect one another. The first indie movie to be nominated for an oscar, this one is a very emotionally draining one from the start, where both characters are really outcasts from society for very different reasons, but still it's one of thos simple movies that excels thanks to the quality of the acting and directing, since there really isn't that much of a story to it. And in the end that's what it is, William Hurt received the Oscar for his performance, but the rest of the movie remains a bit forgettable.
Glengary Glen Ross (James Foley, 1992) -- Times are tough in a Chicago real-estate office; the salesmen are given a strong incentive to succeed in a sales contest. The prizes? First prize is a Cadillac El Dorado, second prize is a set of steak knives, third prize is the sack! There is no room for losers in this dramatically masculine world; only "closers" will get the good sales leads. There is a lot of pressure to succeed, so a robbery is committed which has unforeseen consequences for all the characters. Despite being a compeltely different movie from Spider Woman, this is also a movie which devotes all its quality to the acting, yet in this one every songle characters is incredible, even if the movie's biggest moments come directly from a straight dialogue between a group of people. It's a gripping movie that just left my jaw hanging open thanks to the amazing quality of the actors in it. There is no sex, no violence, no car chases, no action - but absolutely the most powerful acting I have ever seen.
The cast of actors is enough to amaze anyone, including Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Ed Harris, Alec Baldwin, Alan Arkin, Jonathan Pryce and a then-relatively-unknwon Kevin Spacey. If you're a fan of powerful acting and don't mind a movie with very little scene-changing, and also don't mind the avalanche of F-words, this is a movie you must watch. 8.5/10
In The Company of Men (Neil LaBute, 1997) -- Two business executives--one an avowed misogynist, the other recently emotionally wounded by his love interest--set out to exact revenge on the female gender by seeking out the most innocent, uncorrupted girl they can find and ruining her life. I watched this movie because a lot of controversy surrounded it, about how much of a misogynistic piece of garbage this was, but I still found it and endured watching it.
With that said, this is a movie also full of excellent performances, with sharp and inciteful dialogues, but I really didn't find it as much of a misogynistic movie; sure there are a few points in it, but for the most part it could just be any other movie about two guys exacting revenge on the female gender in general. The picture it paints of the male-dominated workforce with all the testosterone levels on the rise and everything else worked great, but the character's behavior is such that I could not empathize with any of them. The movie more or less ends about 20 minutes before the actual ending, and those 20 minutes are full of some odd self-justifying crap that really didn't leave much space for me to like it more. 5.5/10
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Didn't think much of the movie at first, thought it would be just another one of those cage fighting films.
It definately surprised me, great acting by Nick Nolte who plays the father of two brothers in a family torn apart by his drinking in the past.
The brothers who lived very seperate lives since then both train for the same tournament where they meet after years of not seeing each other.
Good fast paced fighting action and a certain amount of drama, nice combination. 8.5/10
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^I personally think Warrior is one of THE best fighting movies I have ever seen. Very very good!
Been watching quite a few movies in 3d lately on my Sony tv.
Underworld Awakening 3D
This looked pretty good in 3d. One of my favorite Underworld movies with or without 3d. The 3d is just an added bonus.
The Avengers 3D
This looked REALLY good in 3d. Especially the CGI moments. Such a great movie and the 3d made it even better.
Been watching quite a few movies in 3d lately on my Sony tv.
Underworld Awakening 3D
This looked pretty good in 3d. One of my favorite Underworld movies with or without 3d. The 3d is just an added bonus.
The Avengers 3D
This looked REALLY good in 3d. Especially the CGI moments. Such a great movie and the 3d made it even better.
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I watched looper. I started to watch this than my internt died. Wasn't super thrilled from the beginning so I wasn't too mad it stopped. Than a couple days later I figured I'd give it a second chance since I already put 10min of my life into it but sadly again internt was too slow and I couldn't wait. Than finally like a month after all was well and I got to watch it. It was ok. People rating it really high but to me it was a 7.5 max. Acting was good and whole idea is different but something about it just wasn't super exciting to me.
This Property is Condemned. 1966
Man, this was quite a good movie actually. It stars Robert Redford and Natalie Wood. It's set in the 1930's depression era and is about a man called Owen (Redford) who moves to a small railway town in Mississippi, from the city of New Orleans. He's there to make cutbacks, basically, on the towns biggest income, which is ofcourse the railway road. It's a comical, silly kind of movie that's actually based on a play from 1946. You're introduced to a women called Alva (Wood) who's the main attraction. All the men in the town are after her for her stunning looks, even though she's incredibly high maintenance, and rarely gives any of them a second glance. That is until her and Owen meet. He's different to all the other men in that, he doesn't give her the same attention as everyone else, and gets on with his own business. This is what attracts her to him, and eventually, him to her. What the movie is about though, is their love for one another, much to the displease of Alva's mother, and pretty much the rest of the community. How do they make it work when he's leaving almost immediately after his business is done, moving from one town to the next. I won't spoil it on you
Man, this was quite a good movie actually. It stars Robert Redford and Natalie Wood. It's set in the 1930's depression era and is about a man called Owen (Redford) who moves to a small railway town in Mississippi, from the city of New Orleans. He's there to make cutbacks, basically, on the towns biggest income, which is ofcourse the railway road. It's a comical, silly kind of movie that's actually based on a play from 1946. You're introduced to a women called Alva (Wood) who's the main attraction. All the men in the town are after her for her stunning looks, even though she's incredibly high maintenance, and rarely gives any of them a second glance. That is until her and Owen meet. He's different to all the other men in that, he doesn't give her the same attention as everyone else, and gets on with his own business. This is what attracts her to him, and eventually, him to her. What the movie is about though, is their love for one another, much to the displease of Alva's mother, and pretty much the rest of the community. How do they make it work when he's leaving almost immediately after his business is done, moving from one town to the next. I won't spoil it on you
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I saw Django: unchained 2012
Best movie i have seen in a while, it was truly a masterpiece. It had great comedy, gore, and varying emotional scenes.
If nobody has seen or heard of that movie a quick summary of it is: A slave named Django is planned to be sold at a slave auction, however, a German bounty hunter buys him in hopes of capturing a certain bounty. Django is given the opportunity of freedom but decides to stay with the Hunter in order to find his wife, who is still a slave. The two go on many bounties and becomes the ultimate duo. The two eventually finds the wife of Django in a plantation known as "candyland". One thing lead to another and there is a HUGE shootout in candyland.....
That is all i will tell as the movie is very good and telling the ending (and who dies) could spoil it a bit.
Best movie i have seen in a while, it was truly a masterpiece. It had great comedy, gore, and varying emotional scenes.
If nobody has seen or heard of that movie a quick summary of it is: A slave named Django is planned to be sold at a slave auction, however, a German bounty hunter buys him in hopes of capturing a certain bounty. Django is given the opportunity of freedom but decides to stay with the Hunter in order to find his wife, who is still a slave. The two go on many bounties and becomes the ultimate duo. The two eventually finds the wife of Django in a plantation known as "candyland". One thing lead to another and there is a HUGE shootout in candyland.....
That is all i will tell as the movie is very good and telling the ending (and who dies) could spoil it a bit.
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It has been nominated for many, and already won some, awards.
Anyone who pays attention to movies has heard of it.
I also enjoyed it. Christoph Waltz was fully deserving of his Golden Globe win. He makes that movie. Not 100% sure on the best screenplay though.
There was a bit of a drag in the middle where there was a ton of exposition designed solely to give Leonardo DiCaprio more screen time, even though his character didn't require it as well as a few scenes and bits of dialogue where you can tell Tarantino was giggling to himself as he wrote it, but the final product on screen felt odd. And Tarantino also got caught up in loving writing dialogue that left a moment where I wanted to yell at them to get on with it.
None of that is enough to ruin the overall effect of the movie, as the rough scenes are fortunately also forgettable scenes. And they aren't horrible, but just the kind of thing where you know Tarantino needs to hire a guy whose sole job is to speak up when Tarantino has a questionable idea.
But ultimately, I say go see it.
9/10
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