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The Last Movie You Watched; And how was it?
Topic Started: Mar 29 2011, 10:37 AM (20,110 Views)
Granskjegg
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Man, "Love Actually" is such a good movie.
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Finally got around to seeing Whiplash and holy crap. If Locke and Force Majeure were two of the most uncomfortable movies I've ever seen, Whiplash was certainly the most stressful. I was getting antsy the whole movie. J.K. Simmons gave the best performance I've seen at the very least since Lupita Nyong'o in 12 Years a Slave. Maybe even better than that. Miles Teller was really good too.

Why do I have to put text here if everyone knows this box is just for spoilers and non-page-stretching and this is obviously going to be spoilers and not page-stretching?


Overall, my favorite movie of the year so far. Would absolutely recommend.
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Just got back from "The Battle of the Five Armies".

The movie was OK, but man, after seeing it I really, really, really wish they would have just made two movies. The amount of filler was too stronk...and then there was...the bridge scene with Legolas. If you've watched it, you know what I am talking about. What the fuck.
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Man Paal why you gotta be right?
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Guardians of the Galaxy
I've been watching fewer and fewer Marvel movies lately. I pretty much only go when people say one of the movies is really good. The trailer for Guardians didn't intrigue me very much. But everyone said they loved it, so I figured I'd see it. Only took about four and a half months to do it (though I was gone for just about all of the first month, so let's call it three). Turns out it was kind of like a better version of Iron Man, in that I liked it, but not as much as everyone else. There really wasn't much that this movie did that every other Marvel movie hasn't done (most notably, The Avengers, which was almost the same movie with slightly less humor). On its own though, Guardians did have some really good moments. The cast was excellent, and this review would not be complete without me mentioning how easy Chris Pratt made the movie to watch. Definitely made up for Bradley Cooper being confined to an animated raccoon's body. But yeah, basically, good stand-alone movie, but it brought very little new material to the table in the context of Marvel movies as a whole. Might see the sequel eventually, but I won't be in a hurry.

Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
Not my first time seeing this, but I haven't seen it in probably over ten years, so what the hell. I watched International Man of Mystery earlier in the fall and liked it. Intended on watching this one but forgot about it until last night. I always remembered liking it because it brought in two of the most iconic characters of the series (Mini-Me and Fat Bastard) and had one of my favorite moments of the series in the tent scene. After watching it again, I was really disappointed. I still loved Mini-Me and Fat Bastard. I still had a good laugh with the tent scene. I was even reminded of the penis rocket scene, which was great. Outside of those though, there really wasn't much. Plenty of boring jokes, filler scenes (I don't care that Austin Powers is feeling sad that he lost his mojo), and product placement. It seemed less of a parody of Bond movies, like the first one was, and more like they were trying to make a ridiculous comedy action movie series of its own. The result was a very hit-or-miss movie, which mostly missed.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Yay! Happy review! I found this one sitting on the DVR and remembered wanting to see it when it came out a couple of years ago, but never got around to doing it. So I watched it, and it was terrific. Like, this is my favorite movie at least since I saw Goodfellas about four years ago (and as far as release date goes, since The Dark Knight way back in '08). It's really hard to write something like this without it coming off as silly, pretentious, inauthentic, or all of the above, and I thought it was done masterfully. Apparently the guy who wrote the novel wrote and directed the film, so that must be why it was so well done, and, honestly, is one of the few movies that makes me want to go read the book. There were, occasionally, some of those stereotypical high school caricatures, but for the most part I found that it accurately depicted situations I experienced in high school and college. (Aside: my high school was disproportionately filled with nerds, so maybe that's why I think people making fun of others for being good at/enjoying academics is way overplayed in film.) There were some really high highs and really low lows and all of them seemed like they fit and none of them seemed forced. I'm probably a huge geek in that I could relate to so much of what went on, but that's fine. Great movie, 10/10, would watch again.
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Whoah, Rosemary's Baby (the original) was actually pretty good.
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Man Paal why you gotta be right?
I'm sorry.
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Y'all are full of shit, Battle of the Five Armies was great except for that one scene that shall not be named.
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It was solidly average for me. There were some really incredible scenes, and then some really corny scenes. At points the CGI seemed pretty bad. THAT BEING SAID, as a whole I really enjoyed the Hobbit trilogy.
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The Room just never gets old. Life is good.
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Finally saw Boyhood. It was alright
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Big Eyes: Probably the worst movie I've seen this year, and it was actually still all right. As always with Tim Burton, great visually. Somewhat interesting storyline (if dragged out a little too long- could have been about 20 minutes shorter). Just didn't have much outside of its awesome use of colors stand out.

Wild: I was actually surprised by Reese Witherspoon not having an incredible performance in this. It certainly wasn't bad by any stretch, but I wasn't wowed as much as I was expecting, after hearing so much about it. It was a nice, touching movie, and I love Laura Dern even more after seeing it. And I wanted to hug my mom. I will say this: Usually when a character like Reese Witherspoon's is in a movie, it's the poor protagonist's ex-wife, so it's nice to see something from that kind of character's POV (or perhaps I should say person, since Wild was based on a true story).
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Saw Whiplash last night. Fantastic, reaffirmed my love for both JK Simmons and jazz drumming.
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Inherent Vice: This was one strange movie. There was so much going on and I could really only follow what was going on after it all happened. Easily the most confusing movie I've seen since Inland Empire. I'm about 85% sure it was supposed to be that way too. But it was still pretty good. Very nicely shot. Came for the star power (and the generally positive reviews), stayed for Josh Brolin. There were plenty of memorable scenes, and he was in a lot of them. (Also shoutout to Katherine Waterston, whom I only remember from Boardwalk Empire. She was really good in this and set the mood perfectly in every scene she was in.) I'd really have to see this again to fairly evaluate it because only then would I understand what's going on while it's happening, but overall, pretty good movie.

Selma: I can see why everyone is pissed off that David Oyelowo didn't get an acting nomination now. I can't believe I've never seen a movie about MLK outside of documentaries, but he absolutely nailed the part. He sounded exactly like him and gave speeches just as I remember hearing MLK speak them. Some very powerful scenes in it. It showed simultaneously how far we've come from that period and how far we still have to go, with many people being able to draw parallels between what was on screen and what was going on in Ferguson a few months ago. Really enjoyed it start to finish.

American Sniper: Watched this right after Selma. This was a lot tougher to pin down. There was some really good stuff going on here. A lot of it was really tough to watch.
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That was messed up. The best scenes were when Kyle was at home and was showing effects of PTSD. Still, a lot of the movie was disappointing. Not sure how much of that was due to outside knowledge of Kyle being a liar/alleged asshole and all-around terrible person. (Aside: Tomorrow is Chris Kyle Day in Texas, as declared by Greg Abbott. Probably won't be celebrating it.) That scene with Jonathan Groff though? Man, that was painful to watch. He looked just like he did in any other show. No way I bought him as a Marine. The whole "your dad's a hero" thing always makes me cringe in movies too, and this was no different. So yeah. Not as crazy about it as the Oscars were though. Bradley Cooper is easily the weakest of the Lead Actor nominations (Ralph Fiennes should win it and he's not even nominated, which is bullshit) and the film itself is one of the weaker nominations in Best Picture. Good, not great.

Foxcatcher: At first I didn't want to see this. Then all the critics say wonderful things about it, which makes me want to see it. Then everyone I know says it's boring, which makes me go back to not wanting to see it. I go anyway, and it turns out it's quite good. I will say this: If you want to go see it, read up on what happened (if you don't know it already). It spoils the ending, but it's absolutely worth it. If I hadn't known, I probably wouldn't have focused as much on the relationship between Mark Schultz, du Pont, and Dave Schultz. Especially the relationship between du Pont and Dave Schultz, which didn't get much time until the second half. I've heard some people say that
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came out of nowhere, and I can see why they thought that (apparently that's how it seemed in real life), but looking at
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, I thought they set it up pretty well. Good acting from Carrell and Ruffalo. Channing Tatum always annoys me with his constant pouting so I feel like I'm not ever a good judge of how his performance is. But he was still pretty good, especially when he was being an asshole. Which was a lot of the movie. The film was always quiet, but never really dull. The tension it had throughout was good at keeping my attention. Not must-see, but would definitely recommend to anyone who is interested and has the time to watch it.
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Ralph Fiennes should win it and he's not even nominated, which is bullshit


Grand Budapest hotel ftw
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