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The Last Movie You Watched; And how was it?
Topic Started: Mar 29 2011, 10:37 AM (20,122 Views)
Asfan
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YOU HAVEN'T READ THE GREAT GATSBY WHAT
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I will. Maybe this summer, but it's required reading next year anyway.
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Ugh, I hated that book so much. It was easily the most boring piece of literature I was required to read in high school. I'd expect the movie to be equally boring.
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Ugh, I hated that book so much. It was easily the most boring piece of literature I was required to read in high school. I'd expect the movie to be equally boring.

To each his/her own, I guess.

I still haven't seen it, but I liked the book and have made plans to see it this weekend with some friends.
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I saw Star Trek Into Darkness.

[spoiler=Star Trek Into Darkness Spoilers]KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN![/spoiler]

So overall it was pretty good. I felt like there wasn't enough Sulu (and probably Chekov but I don't really care about him that much). All of the actors were great, especially Benedict Cumberbatch. You should see it if you have any interest in the movie. Also, if you're upset about Gatsby not being great (oh hey a pun), then you can see this and be happy because it's a good movie. Yay!
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I saw Drive last night. It was my first run in with a Nicholas Winding Refn movie, and I was not disappointed. It was an interesting take on Neo Noire with obvious Noire elements implemented throughout the film.

I had heard about Gosling's performance in this being great, but it was a movie of few words. Refn made every action do the speaking, and made sure no single shot was wasted. Gosling had little to no dialogue that was more than 2 or 3 words. He still pulled off the calm, almost emotionless character pretty well.

The plot was pretty good, perhaps a bit over done ("GIVE ME MY MONEY!" etc.), and really tied in well at the end. The cast was great with bigs like Gosling and Cranston, along with Carey Mulligan, who is in the new Gatsby movie assuming the role of Daisy. Also, Christina Hendricks was in it, which was pretty hot. A couple minutes after she was introduced, though, she got her head blown off, which wasn't as hot. (Still kinda hot)

All in all, it was a very well made movie paying homage to the Noire films of the olden days. Perhaps its biggest weakness is that it is a tad cliche, but what movie isn't these days.

I give it a solid 9/10.
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I just saw Star Trek and didn't like it. Predictable storyline, cliches out its ass and honestly quite bad set designs in places. The acting and CGI was top notch and it wasn't boring... I'd still recommend it to any fans.
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I honestly loved the new Star Trek film. Yeah the plot was fairly predictable, but it's Star Trek. It's not known for being plot twisty. Not to mention, a lot of plot points were taken from Wrath of Khan, since, you know, Khan. The references were good, the acting was pretty great, and I still love Benedict Cumberbizzle.
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Just got back from watching Iron Man 3 and Star Trek: Into Darkness. Hella expensive night.

Iron Man 3 was great. Not better than the first one, but definitely better than the second. Robert Downey Jr.'s acting is still top notch, gonna miss him if he decides to not come back. The Mandarin was a really cool villain too. Wasn't what I was expecting at all (not a comic book freak, so I'm fairly oblivious to most superhero lore).

Star Trek was just straight up fun. Abrams Trek still isn't as good as actual Star Trek, but it's definitely enjoyable. The entire main cast worked together very well in the last movie, and it's refreshing to see them in action again. I didn't expect to see Khan, though I probably should have because of the whole reboot thing. I was pretty happy to see him as a villain again. There was also noticeably less lens flare; I guess Abrams took a hint. P:

Neither film had groundbreaking plots, but they were definitely enjoyable. I'd recommend seeing both of them. They're both exciting, and they should be watched purely for entertainment. If you want deep plots from Star Trek, watch the series. If you want deep plots from Iron Man (or any super hero movie), you're a silly willy.
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Finally got around to seeing star trek tonight, so now I can read this thread (I've been avoiding it so as to not spoil the movie for me).

I had a mixed bag of reactions throughout the movie. The pure moviegoer part of me was all "woot woot action", while the star trek fanboy part of me was all like "NO NO NO NO NO THIS JUST AIN'T RIGHT". Still all in all, it was a good movie! :)
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So I haven't really posted a review on here in forever so I'll just say something brief about the movies I saw a long time ago and then more lengthy reviews about the more recent movies I watched.

Ted: My roommate was going on and on about this, saying basically saying it's the greatest thing to ever come out of anything. Didn't buy it. Let him show it to me anyway. I thought it was kind of boring and not very funny (and the things I did think were funny, my roommate either didn't understand or didn't think was funny). So yeah, not that great.

The Seventh Seal: It was all right. It had some interesting stuff going on and asked some interesting questions, but since none of the questions were ever really answered (not that they could be, considering the questions that were asked), it seemed like it was just there to get people to ponder them. In that sense, to me the film didn't do much since those are questions I ask myself anyway (though I'm a bit less angsty than the character in the movie). For others, maybe it would be better.

Rashomon: I was really intrigued by this movie when I first heard about it (same story told from different points of view), but when I saw it, it disappointed me a bit. The story as a whole kind of disinterested me and only one of the versions captivated me at all. Perhaps if I were more into/understood more about Japanese culture I would like this more, but I'm not/I don't, so yeah.

Boogie Nights: This movie greatly surpassed my expectations. Everyone was raving about it to me but couldn't explain why too well. Understood when I saw the movie. It's kind of depressing in a way, but not in an empty kind of way. It kind of reminded me of Goodfellas (not sure if you all know this but Goodfellas is one of my favorite movies ever) except with pornography instead of the mafia. It was sure worth watching and probably my favorite movie of all the ones I'm reviewing here. In other words, WATCH THIS.

Inland Empire: Honestly, I couldn't follow this movie at all. I love David Lynch and this is the first time I watched one of his movies and didn't understand at all what was going on. I think it was about an hour in when I lost where I was (the movie is three hours long). I started to get it later on, but close to half the movie I didn't understand what I was watching at all. Read about it on IMDb right after and I understood it a bit more, but man. It was a lot weirder than even Eraserhead, and that's saying something.

Scream: Maybe I "cheated" a bit since I saw the last hour or so of the most recent Scream movie on HBO a while before I saw this and I guess a lot of it was doing a bit of a callback to this one, so it seemed really predictable to me. Other than that though, it was all right. I liked the idea of sort of parodying horror movies but not being a comedy at the same time, and it did a pretty good job of balancing that line.

A Clockwork Orange: This movie was also kind of weird and super messed up, but it was awesome too. And yeah. That's pretty much it. Awesome.

Amélie: Speaking of weird. I don't think I've seen a movie ever that shared the style of this movie. Very quirky. Which kind of fits the super random/weird plot and super weird characters. Vibrant too. I liked it.

Life is Beautiful: I tried so, so hard to find an Italian stream with subtitles, but I couldn't. So I just watched the dubbed version, but it was dubbed very well for how difficult it must have been (when they're speaking different languages sometimes it was difficult to understand what languages were supposed to be spoken and who could/should understand what, but other than that, not many problems- it was synchronized with the lips very well). The beginning I wasn't too fond of (so contrived and unrealistic with the main guy wooing his wife-to-be), but after that I really thought it was good and did a great job of balancing goofy with sad. And somehow it never got too cheesy. I don't know how, but they avoided that really well. Good movie. Some manly tears may or may not have been nearly shed.

Oblivion: I really liked this movie. I didn't know what people were complaining about. Then we reached the halfway point and I got it more. It was sort of like I, Robot meets The Island (meets The Matrix?). I thought both of those were all right on their own, but really this movie got kind of cliche and predictable after the halfway point (maybe it wasn't even the halfway point). It never really got bad, it just didn't hold up to what I thought was a great beginning. Tom Cruise did a great job, but it wasn't enough. Kind of disappointed me once I thought it would just be something I disagreed with everyone with and would enjoy a lot.

Disconnect: This one was cool and stuff, but it kind of had the same problem as Oblivion. Really, I think it may have just ended too soon (which is refreshing to say considering the movies and shows that drag on too long). The problem for me was that a lot of the storylines weren't wrapped up to my satisfaction. A few of them were (and I get that it wasn't the plot that was important to the director, and that it was the emotional stuff and the messages getting across), like the webcam guy/reporter story and the cyber investigator, but most of them didn't get very good resolutions. I understand why the director chose to leave some of the plot unresolved, and in some cases I don't mind that too much, but in this case it really just left me unsatisfied. So it was good, but it just seemed kind of unfinished.

Edit: Also thought I'd add that the cold open is one of the best I've seen in a while. Probably best since Beasts of the Southern Wild.
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Yeah, the first half of Life Is Beautiful is kind of pointless and annoying. Not because it exists, but because it takes up half the movie for no reason. That whole part could have easily been condensed to like 20 minutes if Benigni didn't insist on being so...Benigni.
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Watched The Place Beyond the Pines yesterday. It was definitely not what I was expecting. It was a very interesting set-up as far as the structure goes. It's pretty much split up into three pretty distinct acts (I feel like I've seen a movie do that before, but I can't think of what it may have been). So for a while, I'm wondering where Bradley Cooper is and why he's featured so prominently in the poster/trailer/general advertising. But yeah, he's big in it. And it's a pretty original story, so credit there. There were a couple of assholes talking the whole time somewhere in the theater almost the entire movie so I wasn't in the best of moods while watching it, but I still enjoyed it. It has some pretty compelling stuff in it and definitely takes some turns I thought were pretty unexpected. Pretty unpredictable movie.

DISCLAIMER: The movie is a bit different from how it appeared to be (at least to me) in the trailers, so don't expect it to be exactly like them.
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Ferris Bueller's Day Off. So good. idk if that movie, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, or Back to the Future is the signature 80's movie.
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Iron Man 3: This movie really did not do it for me at all. There really was pretty much nothing about it that I liked. The voice-overs didn't add anything, it was all pretty dull and predictable (I guess there was the one twist about the Mandarin but I thought that was pretty lame) and, I guess not unlike a lot of super hero movies, they sacrificed potentially good/interesting moments for cheap thrills and cheesy lines. Basically, I didn't see anything from this movie that I hadn't seen before.

In the House: Wooo yay not just a downer post. I really enjoyed this one. It hasn't been advertised at all so for those who don't know it's basically about this high school kid who spends all of his time at this other person's house and writes about that family for his homework assignments and his teacher and his teacher's wife's reactions to what he writes. It was a little creepy and probably the most voyeuristic film I've ever seen, but it was really interesting and if it's playing in a theater near any of you guys, you should see it. The year is early and I haven't seen everything, but of all the movies I have seen, this is my favorite so far of 2013. Also I felt a lot more tension, excitement, and suspense in one scene from this movie than all of Iron Man 3 combined, so take that as you will.

Edit: So it turns out that In the House was technically released in 2012, but I guess not in the United States until 2013, so I don't know if it counts for 2013. But I'll just say it does.
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