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[terminator363]

Layer Cake - 9.5/10

I loved Daniel Craig's seemingly serious but clumsy main character in this movie. A superb film.

 

[shmogt]

Layer Cake - 9.5/10

I loved Daniel Craig's seemingly serious but clumsy main character in this movie. A superb film.

This was a cool movie.

 

[Diego440]

One Point O (Jeff Renfroe, Marteinn Thorsson, 2004) -- er... WTF did I just watch? After receiving mysterious empty packages inside his apartment, a young computer-programmer begins a personal investigation into their origins. I have to admit I'll sometimes watch a movie and if by the 30 minute mark I don't know what's going on, I'll probably restart it, which is what I did with this one. The movie tries to show the fear of biotechnology and the way it acts on certain people, but it then becomes a movie that raises a bunch of questions, yet doesn't provide any answers. So as a viewer, you're forced to make up your own mind and try to figure out what's going on. Nice obscure characters and reliable acting by most of them, although the dialogues could have been better written, since many sound ad-libbed. If you like movies that have you searching for answers and will not give you all of them, see it. If you want to be entertained and relaxed, don't. 4.5/10

Logan's Run (Michael Anderson, 1976) -- An idyllic sci-fi future has one major drawback: life must end at 30. This movie is absolutely drenched in the seventies, from the hip music and sets to the 'revolutionary' concept of free sexuality and a new face at the flick of a switch. Yet the concept of a society discarding anyone over the age of 30 seems eerily current, given that I've even heard Britney Spears derided for being 'old'. But as far as the movie itself, it does suffer from what many movies did in that era, and it's that while most current movies would've stopped at a certain point (like THX1138 did), Logan's Run keeps dragging along, and stops being interesting like 40 minutes before the end. After all Logan did to escape, what happens later gets worked out in a few minutes and just didn't feel with the same force and emotion as before. 5/10

Men in Black 3 (Barry Sonnenfeld, 2012) -- Agent J travels in time to M.I.B.'s early days in 1969 to stop an alien from assassinating his friend Agent K and changing history. What can I say? This is a friday night turn-off-brain movie with lots of action, some fun moments and a mildly interesting plot. While the whole movie seems a bit dated and that's its main problem, and the Agent J-Agent K duo just seems to not work anymore, even if there's a new/old Agent K in place, the movie is just for what I said: turn off your brain and try to enjoy the ride. 6/10

Killing Them Softly (Andrew Dominik, 2012) -- Jackie Cogan is an enforcer hired to restore order after three dumb guys rob a Mob protected card game, causing the local criminal economy to collapse. What was this about? The amount of great actors (Brad Pitt, James Gandolfini, Ray Liotta) made me want to watch it, as did the muscle cars in it, but the movie really tried to take off but failed miserably. What I'm saying is that by the time the final credits roll out, you're thinking "hey, where's the other half of this movie?"... I'm not sure if it's an editing issue or if the movie is made to be a two part, but come on! There's veyr little thinking in the characters and some scenes just *happen* without much explanation. This movie could've been so much, much more, but it wasn't. It's just insane violence with good actors. 4/10

Crazy, Stupid, Love. (Glen Ficarra, John Requea, 2011) -- aaaaand I guess I didn't like anything. A middle-aged husband's life changes dramatically when his wife asks him for a divorce. He seeks to rediscover his manhood with the help of a newfound friend, Jacob, learning to pick up girls at bars. Steve Carell is one of those actors I've NEVER found funny, so I try to focus on his acting abilities, which in this movie completely sucked. Ryan Gosling is still managing to lose my interest as a good actor. I haven't seen Drive yet, but since his acting in Lars and the Real Girl, I haven't seen him perform well or have an interesting character. The movie apaprently tries to focus the attention on the superficiality of relationships nowadays, and appears to criticize them, yet towards the end of the movie, it glorifies them, so really, what? 4/10

 

[jacnob]

The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya - 9.5/10

Animation was superb, story was probably the best in the whole series, and a twist near the end that, assuming you haven't read the book or spoilers by now, is really quite surprising. Easily the best and most faithful book-to-movie adaption ever (not saying much is that?).

 

[CAMAROBOY69]

Pain & Gain
I really did not care much for this movie at all. I know it is based on a true story but it is just such a strange film. Just could not get into it at all.

 

[dxm8975]

"Man of Steel" - 8/10

The one that I chanced to watch these days - was the one titled "Man of Steel" featuring a male protagonist being gifted with an unearthly power for struggling against extraterrestrial aliens that dropped by to invade the earth, following an internal explosion of their own planet called "Krypton", where is also his birthplace and previously got sent back to earth fleeing out of the planet that was just in the blink of extirpation.

He fights against those enemies transforming himself to a so-called "super man", basically pursuing pre-summarized settings in the plot in previous instalments of movies - a guy with an immense strength, to be capable of muddling through against those from extraterrestrial places, with unearthly force and armaments that no one on the earth can reach up to their heels at all.

And then, alluding to my take as to content of the movie, it honestly rendered me delighted to watch quite a lot. At the first 20~40 minutes it was kinda full of bustles present in stuff of real life-alike, so those cut scenes made me feel bothered at the very beginning, to say the truth. However, what diverted my mind was the featuring of the punchy battles of Super Man against those creatures and his unshakable will to keep your lover in a guard in any threat-posing circumstances.

Afterwards, the aliens are poised to destroy the entire world of the earth thoroughly and people were totally coming to a stalemate to eradicate them in some manner. Fortunately however, the Super Man protects the earth in the face of their inroad, having subverted their improvised fort just above the downtown as an irreplaceable base. And having pushed through protecting his beloved lover from the menace.

And ultimately, taking the views into accounts I'm giving it a mark of 8 of the 10. Relatively a good stuff they've offered to me.

 

[jeffgoddin]

Is that what Japanese through a web translator looks like?

 

[Diego440]

Is that what Japanese through a web translator looks like?

basically pursuing pre-summarized settings in the plot in previous instalments of movies

A Boy and His Dog (L.Q. Jones, 1975) -- A post-apocalyptic tale based on a novella by Harlan Ellison. A boy communicates telepathically with his dog as they scavenge for food and sex, and they stumble into an underground society. Starring an apparently 16-year-old Don Johnson who looks very funny, to be honest, in a decent movie with a more or less decent plot that takes a lot from the rest of the movies from the era, but in a post-apocalyptic setting and a very flawed movie, but mostly due to the time it came out and not so much because of everything else. Keeping in mind that Star Wars came out two years later, when the sci-fi/apocalyptic genre was quite dried out by the mid-70s (more reason for everyone's surprise at the excellence and success of Star Wars, but that's not for now). Still, this movie was done on a very tight budget, and it's no surprise that since Star Wars, many people expected other movies from the same era to look similar. Nevertheless, I saw this movie and liked it with great affection, since it was a sincere attempt at doing something different, but which probably only worked for a couple of years. The story is provocative and heartfelt, with a good amount of creativity. Oddities like this should be treasured, not buried in the deepest part of the interwebz, where no server can find it. 6.5/10

Nineteen Eighty-Four (Michael Radford, 1984) -- George Orwell's novel of a totalitarian future society in which a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love. A wonderfully gritty, dark, foreboding movie that still remains an eerie parallel to our lives today, but which as a movie remained too slow and repetitive for me. Indeed it's a great adaptation of a wonderful novel and it's so full of wisdom that it really goes by you and there's a lot to recall and a lot that should be memorized about it, but after a certain point it just becomes too dense and with no real conclusion... to the lives of the characters, yes... but not to everything else. 5.5/10

Rush (Ron Howard, 2013) -- A re-creation of the merciless 1970s rivalry between Formula One rivals James Hunt and Niki Lauda. I've heard a lot of people saying this movie is "great", it's "wonderful", it's "epic".... the truth is that they all fall short. It's is excellent! I was more or less cringing when I heard about Chris Hemsworth playing James Hunt and was expecting some over-the-top romantic attempt at bleh, but the truth is that the boy can act and everything else in the movie made it worth it. I came out of the movie theater loving it (the movie, ha!), but was kinda curious because my girlfriend isn't a car buff as myself, but she loved it as well. The camera work is spectacular and you really get the sense that these are real cars and the time is the 70s... and the sounds... oh my.

The main facts of the '76 season are handled pretty accurately, and though some liberties are taken, keep in mind this is still a scripted movie and not a documentary. The liberal use of period machinery being recorded at pace on real asphalt is enough to keep the sport well represented. I'm also convinced the actors did a great job and really, there isn't anything wrong with this movie, in almost any aspect. 10/10

 

[Diego440]

Sleeper (Woody Allen, 1973) -- A nerdish store owner is revived out of cryostasis into a future world to fight an oppressive government. Typical Allen funny movie from the early '70s, before he became an existentialist but from when he still found love in the amrs of Diane Keaton. The movie is fun and entertaining and I had a few laughing moments, but for the most part it seemed overdone and too dumbed down, suffering from the same issues as other modern features that just extend too much the length of a short gag. There are many one-liners that warrant a write down, but at the 60 minute mark I was ready for the movie to end, since it just launches on separate tirades that don't really achieve anything, even the end is just like "oh hey, I like sex" *poof* 5/10

Banlieue 13 (a.k.a. District B13) (Pierre Morel, 2004) -- Set in the ghettos of Paris in 2010, an undercover cop and ex-thug try to infiltrate a gang in order to defuse a neutron bomb. I thought this would be a brain-off movie and for a time it was, but when the overall parkour image of the pursuits that make the movie entertaining and fun to be seen by almost anyone is overshadowed by the too gratuitous violence, it doesn't seem for everyone. Hence, there's a bit of a problem regarding target audiences and purpose, that make it too sophomoric for mature audiences, yet too heavy for younger viewers. 6/10

They Live (John Carpenter, 1988) -- A drifter discovers a pair of sunglasses that allow him to wake up to the fact that aliens have taken over the Earth. One thing I've never really appreciated from Mr. Carpenter is his intense need to put his name on every movie he makes, making it have to be John Carpenter's Whatever. Despite its strange plot, the movie starts out serious enough and stars an apparent bad boy who's going to kick ass, but it later becomes too goofy and the guy's mullet haircut and his backward ideas make for a very unlikeable characters that you just wish will die soon. The whole dystopian atmosphere of the world looked great, but when mixed with the cheesiness of the characters, it just crashes and burns. 4.5/10

Escape from New York (John Carpenter, 1981) -- In 1997, when the US President crashes into Manhattan, now a giant maximum security prison, a convicted bank robber is sent in for a rescue. Seeing as this movie is 1981 and They Live is 1988, it seems pretty sad that Carpenter aimed to recreate the same character in a movie seven years later, but hey, this movie actually had a sequel in 1996. Even more amazing, and this is an issue I have with other movies of the genre as well, is that this guy Snake is accused of robbery, yet he's treated and expected and assumed to be a cold hearted assassin, who actually does kill everyone in sight without so much as blinking. It is indeed a movie generalization and I won't go into much more detail on it, but it still makes me wonder. The movie itself is as cheesy as you'd expect Carpenter to be, with a horrible soundtrack and too much predictability. Definite cult material. 5.5/10

Kon-Tiki (Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg, 2012) -- Legendary explorer Thor Heyerdal's epic 4,300-mile crossing of the Pacific on a balsawood raft in 1947, in an effort prove that it was possible for South Americans to settle in Polynesia in pre-Columbian times. This is an awesome story about determination and courage, faced by six men aboard a balsawood raft, in a movie that at first I thought would be similar (at leats in story) to Life of Pi, but was much more real and so much more intense (relating to tension, not depth). Great acting and very tense moments work to make the story seem all the more real and amazing, plus the music is great and the sceneries incredible. The movie was Norway's entry to the Oscars and I was always curious about watching it, after only seeing the very short mention it received when it was being nominated. I'm not going to go into more detail regarding the plot and the outcome of the characters. 8/10

 

[CAMAROBOY69]

After Earth Really didn't care much for this movie. Will Smith is one of my favorite actors but this wasn't too good at all. I understand he is trying to get his son into more and more movies, but this was still a bit rough.

A good day to die hard While some of the acting was a bit rough, there was a ton of action. The first major action scene was insane. I don't think I have ever seen this many vehicles destroyed in a movie. I enjoyed this quite a bit just for the action and destruction.

Pacific Rim [3D] Some more bad acting but the CGI was quite impressive especially in 3D. For what it was, the movie wasn't too bad. The excellent CGI helped a lot.

Fast n Furious 6

I stopped watching after it became apparent that a Camaro was being portrayed to keep up with a GT-R on a twisty mountain road, which was after the first 3 mins....0/10.

It wasn't a Camaro. You must not have watched the other movies, especially if you thought that was a Camaro.

 

[jeffgoddin]

[insert any American car here, except a Viper ACR or ZR1] keeping up with a GT-R is absurd, assuming equally competent drivers. I'm forgetting, wasn't it a Challenger? But I hope you don't think a (untuned) Camaro would've done better, not even a ZL1. Which is why I took from that scene that the GT-R was stock and the other car tuned.

 

[Bopop4]

As if any car in a F&F movie is going to be stock.

Watched "God Bless America".

Awesome movie, the first half hour is just perfect, it's like someone was reading my mind.
The whole premise of

Spoiler

going around killing terrible people

is simple, but highly enjoying, because I've always wanted to see something like it in a movie, but the way they did it with the darkness and comedy is just awesome.

 

[CAMAROBOY69]

The Heat
This was okay. Some funny parts here and there.

 

[terminator363]

7/10 Redemption/Hummingbird

I actually really enjoyed this movie contrary to almost every review out there. I definately think a lot of unnecessary plot could have been removed. Even the whole "Hummingbird/UAV" thing didn't have to be in this film. I felt as if there was too much going on at the same time, and a lot of it wasn't all that important. The movie is very very cluttered and Jason Statham's character having a close relationship with his family, the girl on the street he lived and the nun was too much. Honestly if the movie was just Jason Statham ending up in a rich dude's apartment trying to figure his life out with the nun character; it might have been a better movie. I still really liked it.

 

[jeffgoddin]

Don't know how I missed this... but am watching Ong-bak for the first time. Brilliant stunts, better than Jackie Chan, almost like watching sports hi-lights. And beautiful, authentically Thai in many ways (I had a Thai roommate in college), not just a martial arts movie. Yes, cheap and easy subject, but made to reach a wide audience. For what it is, surprisingly well done. 9/10. And tuk-tuk chase scene ftw!!!!

 

[Jay.]

"Man of Steel" - 8/10
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And ultimately, taking the views into accounts I'm giving it a mark of 8 of the 10. Relatively a good stuff they've offered to me.

Sorry Sneaky, a long post to quote everything.
Man of Steel - 2013 - Better than I expected. I saw the 2006 renditions but they seemed wet compared to the 1978 originals. 2013 however gave us a better view. A more believable background start for Clark and Krypton, and Lois is no longer the half blind blonde that all the other films portray her to be.
Agreed - 8/10

2. World War Z - 3D
This was surprisingly an EXCELLENT zombie movie!! It was like a perfect mix between Resident Evil 1 and Dawn of the Dead 2004. Excellent movie with a nice little twist at the end.

World War Z - 2013 - A great take on the zombie genre of movies. A good story and explanation with a good twist at the end. Graphics are fairly well done too.
Possibly one of the best of this genre I've seen this year. 9/10

Kill Bill Vol II - 2004 - Only just got round to watching this one, and I was a little disappointed. Yes Uma played her role well, yes the action was pretty good, but to me it seemed like a selection of cutscenes from the first film that weren't good enough for the release. Let down by the repetitive story. 6/10

Django Unchained - 2012 - A great cast and a great film. A German bounty hunter in the wild west? ... but it worked. A good turn on the stories of Negro slaves in the late 1800s. Add a few brilliant six-shooter gunfights, Tarantino style, mixed with the directors usual twists of humour, and this one is close to top marks. 9/10

 

[terminator363]

Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa 5/10

There were some good jokes, but it was a bit too much for meat times. I don't mind the dirty jokes, it was just like some of it was a little too goofy. It was still really well made. Simple American humor really.

 

[CAMAROBOY69]

The Internship
This truly was an excellent movie IMO. I think this is one that everyone can enjoy of all ages. Anyone that has experience with programming will also really appreciate this movie. Plus I learned a few things about Google that I didn't know.

Olympus Has Fallen
Pretty good movie. A lot of action. However a few parts toward the end were a little cheesy.

This Is The end
Really did not enjoy this much at all. A few funny parts but just such a corny concept. I just had no idea this was what the movie was about. I just thought it was going to be a typical comedy. I guess not.

 

[terminator363]

Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels 8.5/10

I really liked this film, the characters were likeable and it was a proper gangster flick. The ending is what won it for me.

Killing Them Softly 6/10

Just a bunch of dudes killing other dudes. The movie was pretty bland but it did have a few promising traits.

 

[Waheed]

Going to watch North by Northwest, anybody seen it?

 

[nk4e]

Black Rat (2010)

A film about group of friends who receives a strange text message from one of their late friend. The surviving group of friends follow the text message just to see something shocking.
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It is a pretty short film, I had to watch it twice in order to get the movie but overall; it is a good slasher film.
7/10

 

[Adamgp]

Death Wish 9/10

A good old 1970's Charles Bronson "Somebody killed my wife so I'm going to kill anyone that even looks at me weird." type of movie.

 

[Waheed]

Death Wish 9/10

A good old 1970's Charles Bronson "Somebody killed my wife so I'm going to kill anyone that even looks at me weird." type of movie.

I love that movie.

Just seen The Kings Of Summer (2013)

Score: 2/5

 

[Mike Rotch]

Pain & Gain
I really did not care much for this movie at all. I know it is based on a true story but it is just such a strange film. Just could not get into it at all.

Yes, A good way to describe it. I just couldn't get into it and thought Wahlburg and The Rock were playing up their roles too much.

I also didn't really appreciate the glamourisation of what was essentially premeditated kidnap and murder. 4/10

 

[Diego440]

Going to watch North by Northwest, anybody seen it?

Only about 4 times One of the best Hitchcock movies.

Oh, by the way, the new GTP and I don't really get along, so I-ll just link the reviews to my blog (yes).

Elysium 7/10

Green Zone 6/10

 

[Waheed]

Only about 4 times One of the best Hitchcock movies.

Oh, by the way, the new GTP and I don't really get along, so I-ll just link the reviews to my blog (yes).

Elysium 7/10

Green Zone 6/10

Nice reviews 👍

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[Diego440]

Got it. I use other methods to watch movies, but thanks for this one.

 

[Waheed]

Got it. I use other methods to watch movies, but thanks for this one.

Well this is not for watching movies, it's like a social site but for movie lovers

 

[Diego440]

Ahh... I thought it was for watching movies. I'll have a look at it later today. Thanks!

 

[nk4e]

Ender's Game (2013)

(9/10)
I thought the movie was a fantastic
interpretation of the book, I wanna watch it again and find the mistakes that the book kind of pointed out. It seems like this movie is this year's hidden star. Though they did zoom in when Harrison Ford was pointing his finger