Films The Official bit-tech Movie Thread - What have you seen lately?

I just saw Moon last week when I found it in a discount bin and bought it on impulse. I might even give it a 9/10 for the simple fact that this chamber play actually works and doesn't bore the viewer to death as this kind of movie usually does.


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Then I also bought Marvel's Avengers for thrice the price: 2-3/10

I don't even know where to begin. The good:
-Iron Man
-Hidden Scene

The bad:
-Lame Story
-Captain America
-Gay movie Thor
-The Scarlett Johansson character
-The flying ship (really...)
-Zero character developement
-More deus ex machina moments that one can recount
-Ultra lame ending (see above)
...

It's as if they just took the worst from every Marvel movie ever made to create this expensive POS, wrecking all childhood memories in of the super heroes involved in the process. All but Cpt. America of course. He 's been gay all the time.

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Schindler's List. Oh my god the tears.

9.5/10

 

Ah? Where's that to be found?

That was on the telly yesterday, didn't bother to watch till the end

 

Sword of the Stranger 9/10

a wandering ronin protects a boy who is on the run from the Chinese who want to sacrifice the boy to aid the life of their emperor.

bones do it again; limbs/blood flies and a banging ost make it a worthy watch. cracking animation during fights as well.

 

Is he referring to the hidden scene, or the hidden hidden scene... Everyone expects the hidden scene in the Marvel movies now, but the other one caught me out.

 

Best Chubby Brown Joke, my mate told me to watch Schindler's List but to keep a box of tissues to the side. Watched it, called him a liar as there was f@&k all to **** about

 

I watched Pitch Perfect last night and I felt good after. I think this is what this movie is about. I also wanted to listen to music non stop afterwards, which I did until i fell asleep

 

I'm not sure it's worth watching just to bring that joke afterwards.

 

Going to the Galla premiere of Kon-Tiki this evening. Will report back.


Edit: Have watched it now.

Kon-Tiki 8/10

For a movie essentially about 5 guys on a timber raft in the middle of the pacific ocean it is a great movie. It has action, suspense and that "oh dear god I know how this is gonna end but might that character really punch the ticket?!".

Go watch it in the theaters, some of the shots deserve to be blown up on a 5x10 screen with the accompaniying audio!

 

Comme un chef 5/10
Cooking Comedy starring Jean Reno, not bad but nothing exciting either.
A light comedy for snuggling up onto the couch.

Stolen 6/10
Nick Cage...you know how he switches between great, mediocre and bad productions? (i suspect he has a lot of fun doing that)
This is one of the mediocre ones.
Got it nearly right though, starts well, good characters (the bad guy is great, so is the weird policechief).
But somewhere in the movie the care-o-meter just stops twitching.

 

Rise of the Planet of the Apes 8.1/10

In the last 10 minutes of this film the word that repeatedly came to my lips was 'wow'. Don't let me fool you, it wasn't amazing, but there definitely multiple scenes/shots/ideas that had me dumbly rotating 'wow' in my head. The finale of the film really is very good.

I'd give the second half of the film 9/10, but the overall score is brought down, not cos the first half is bad, but there's just a few aspects to it where it seemed the makers were cutting corners that took the edge off.

To me it was an original (I say original, but I don't know the plots of all the old Planet of the Apes stuff) idea well told. Check it out if you haven't seen it.

 

I guess I would have to watch it again then because I was never 'wowed' a single time during the whole film. I thought it was quite generic, which was a surprised because of how hyped the film was

 

I watched that years ago with a Polish woman I was living with....not a good idea.

At the end when I turned on the lights she was a mess.

 

Watched the Hobbit.

It was ****. Boring, generic, lame, too long. I was just so disappointed. No idea where its imdb score has come from?! I guess the eyecandy is enough for most viewers.

 

Must have been enough for me then! I loved it when I watched it with my 8 year old, apart from the questions!

 

I think it depends on whether you were expecting something significantly different than the LOTR trilogy. I wasn't, and enjoyed it (even if it was a bit boring in parts), but I can easily see how you wouldn't like it.

 

i enjoyed the hobbit, but theres been alot of peeps who claimed to have read the book and gone into expecting something very different.

 

Most people's problem with the Hobbit seems to be that they expected the moodiness and darkness of the LotR films, while the book's actually meant more as a fun, classical fairy tale mostly aimed at children.
I personally found the film a bit meh though, it had its good parts, but some others felt terribly stretched out, like the dwarves' stay in Bilbo's house. It wasn't bad, just unremarkable.

 

I enjoyed avengers assemble.

I think people should pull their heads in and not expect every movie to be an oscar winner.

I mean since when did an action move ever win an oscar, they are fun to watch end of.

Just watched dredd which seemed to have good reviews and to be honest...... meh, prefered stallones version, this one was more about gore.

 

the 90s dredd flick was some what disney-fied if you get what i mean, not watched the new one as there are alot of peeps saying its a direct ripp off of the ace film The Raid