list/discuss/rate - your recently watched movies

Yeah, I got bored during the chase scene, skipped ahead and John was being obnoxious, and I think that's enough. On a lighter note, James Cameron congratulating Katherine on her Oscar

A Person wrote: Henry Plainview wrote: That depends how you define near universal, according to Metacritic the NY Times hated it. :P And, to be fair, I've only seen parts of each Terminator, so I'm probably mentally transferring the complete awfulness of T3 onto the other ones, which I admit is not fair, although what I can definately remember of T2 and T1 doesn't inspire me to want to watch the whole thing. I don't see how having a general distaste for big budget action movies renders my opinion incomprehensible. And I would say it's a wonder that anybody actually likes anything at all. ;-)   Here stonie, just for you I'll Netflix Aliens, which I haven't seen yet, and if I don't like that either, maybe I just hate James Cameron? I too T2 is by far the best Terminator movie. And as far as Aliens goes, I'm just not a fan, I mean as far as sci-fi action goes, it was amusing, but I just don't have any endearing love for it. I haven't seen any other movies from that series, but I don't know if I want to.

Vompatti wrote: Just saw Princess Mononoke. Stunning!

Where the Wild Things Are

5/10

I love the design and characters of the things, but honestly the kid annoyed me most of the time. I guess the main draw of the story if for people to feel a connection about their own childhood and get some reaction out of that. I had a bit of a connection, but I've glanced at the story no more than once more than 10 years ago and can't feel any nostalgia there. The movie just...doesn't come together. It has good parts but a mediocre whole. The music annoyed me, constantly reminding me that this is so quirky indie lol. It would have been better and would have been a more emotional experience with a Lemony Snicket style, orchestral soundtrack with maybe less gothic influence (that movie is much better than this one, by the way). The way the music abruptly stops in a scene or when the scene is cut right in the middle of the action reinforces the forced quirkiness with an added plus of annoying, jerky cinematography. So, great art direction here, good (thing) character development, mediocre everything else.


Edited by stonebeard - March 10 2010 at 14:16

^^ Yeah, this movie really failed to click with me. It kinda just drooled a little bit of sadness on me and then waddled away mysteriously, leaving me to think "......What the hell was that?"

Extract-
never have I been so bored by a movie.  I do not mind the actors involved (well except for that chick from Saturday Night Live- who I cannot separate from her annoying-as-hell characters on SNL- Mila Kunis is annoying too), but this film was NOT clever.  it was NOT funny.  I did not laugh once.  just agonizing.  predictable, stupid.... I could go on and on.  I don't mind Mike Judge.  I like some of the stuff he has done... namely Idiocracy. 

1/10

You Kill Me

Quirky little film with Ben Kingsley as a recovering alcoholic hitman working as a mortician and Téa Leoni his quick-witted love interest.  Intelligent and funny, great cast, worth catching.

harmonium.ro wrote: Kingdom Of Heavens, director's cut - 5 or 6 out of 10, he completely ruined it. I raged.

The Prestige

Fascinating tale of two magicians in old London (Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman) and the deadly rivalry that develops between them.  Wonderfully plotted and full of great twists and turns, brilliantly directed by Christopher Nolan, and David Bowie is great as Nikola Tesla.  From Chis Priest's novel.  Highly recommended.

People Who Do Noise--It's an interesting look at the people behind the noise scene in Portland, Oregon, but you do have to like noise to some degree to get any enjoyment out of it. One thing that shocked me was how juvenile so many of the performers were: almost all of them mentioned that they were convinced that society is going to collapse within 15 years and so they're trying to reflect that in their sound (or just party), and they all seemed to agree that "noise is the new punk rock" or "noise is the most punk music possible". But noise was around a long time before punk! And the world is probably not going to end! It also dragged a bit because so much of it was people just screaming into a microphone with lots of distortion and feedback, and if you want to do that for your personal catharsis that's fine, but don't pretend that you're being original and changing the world. But I guess any movie covering local bands would have that problem since most local bands suck.

Edited by Henry Plainview - March 19 2010 at 21:59