Rate the last movie you saw

[Nicky]

Took a study break and decided to watch Platoon -- This was the first time I've seen the movie. My father would always mention how great he thought Willem Defoe was in this movie. 8.5/10 -- Charlie Sheen was really good in this, especially towards the end.

Adagio for Strings is one of my favorite string quartet pieces.

Thanks Jigo.

 

[The Voice]

Grown Ups 2 is terrible.

Did you not watch the first movie?

 

[The Voice]

Dave, I've seen Pitch Perfect-- did not like it. I don't like "cheesy".

There is a great deal of hype when it comes to comic book movies. They are littered with CGI and loud noises and color. They are very stale and one deminsional. When you see a comic movie outside of the theater, you see it for what it really is. The audience is always overhyped and will clap at anything.

I loved the Spider-Man with Tobey... at least the 1st one. When they do sequels and prequels.... it becomes unbearable for some. And they love to re-boot movies within a 5 year span, because they know it'll make money.

My friend and I disagree on the last Batman film. I couldn't stand it, but to my friend, it was so great. I honestly dislike the comic discussion because the movies are really so simple and don't require much thought.

Gotta disagree, the batman movies have been good. All three Ironman movies have been good. The first two kick-ass movies have been great as well.

"This is 40" gonna rate this a -3/10. Not remotely interesting or funny. Paul Rudd seems to go in reverse with his aging. But the movie should have never been made.

Gotta agree and how the fuck is that the sequel to knocked up?


Silver Linings Playbook was God damn awful.

 

[The Voice]

Trying to figure out what the best "gangster" movies are.
I'm thinking beyond "The Godfather"

I'm watching "Kill the Irishman".
There has to be other movies that seem to rival this.
I've seen and loved "Casino" "Good Fellas", "The Departed".

On a side note - Vincent D'Onofrio is such a fantastic actor.

Gotta say that Eastern Promises is probably the most underrated gangster movie of all time. It's great and people seem to always forget about it. The opening scene is fucking epic in the barbershop.

One that you forgot is Scarface though.

 

[Nicky]

Gotta say that Eastern Promises is probably the most underrated gangster movie of all time. It's great and people seem to always forget about it. The opening scene is fucking epic in the barbershop.

One that you forgot is Scarface though.

Didn't forget Scarface. I never liked that movie. It took me multiple times to make it through. Not taking away from Al Pacino (great actor), but that movie is extremely overrated, in my opinion.

Love Eastern Promises-- Viggo is great in that.

 

[The Oi]

Scarface is the ultimate overrated movie.

John Mulaney put it pretty well when he described how people lump it in with true great movies like Godfather. Saying your favorite movies are The Godfather and Scarface, is like saying your favorite foods are lobster and skittles.

 

[David.]

ill eat skittles all day and wont touch lobster

 

[The Oi]

Does anyone have a friend or family member that they get true joy out of choosing movies that they'll like?

I'm on a 4/5 streak with my bro in law of The Shining, Heat, Life of Brian and Best In Show. Dude is impossible to peg and it almost seems arbitrary if he'll like a movie or not. The only one I've missed on recently has been Gravity and he can go fuck himself for not liking that.

 

[The Oi]

Max just thanked my last post so he's obviously in here and presumably drunk. Here comes he joke about me having sex with my male in laws...

 

[Pronk48]

lol racism

 

[gourimoko]

Does anyone have a friend or family member that they get true joy out of choosing movies that they'll like?

I'm on a 4/5 streak with my bro in law of The Shining, Heat, Life of Brian and Best In Show. Dude is impossible to peg and it almost seems arbitrary if he'll like a movie or not. The only one I've missed on recently has been Gravity and he can go fuck himself for not liking that.

My problem is that I've seen so much shit, I'm looking for obscure titles, or something that may have slipped through the cracks. I also dislike most comedies.. Really love horror, thrillers, and suspense movies.

 

[The Oi]

My problem is that I've seen so much shit, I'm looking for obscure titles, or something that may have slipped through the cracks. I also dislike most comedies.. Really love horror, thrillers, and suspense movies.

You and your distaste for comedies. What a humorless twat you are. I know we've gone over this before but...there have been exceptions, correct? Like do you enjoy stand up comedy? Any comedians in particular that hit with you? There has to be some kind of comedies that you would enjoy.

As far as horror goes...it is my favorite genre, but also probably the genre that's most difficult to be fresh and still frighten people with. Did you see The Conjuring? Great example of a movie that didn't bring any new concepts to the table, but did a great job of rehashing the traditional scare tactics in a novel way, by using a very good cast and great atmosphere.

The best horror around over the last three years has been American Horror Story. It's really the only horror around that offers consistently new takes. It's using old themes (haunted house, haunted nunnery, aliens, voodoo, serial killers, etc) but it's presenting them without any filter whatsoever, minimal plot armor and doing it in a very stylized but not over the top way.

 

[gourimoko]

You and your distaste for comedies. What a humorless twat you are.

Fuck that.. it's because most comedies are base and rehash the same tired jokes. Comedy that is too obvious just isn't funny to me.

I know we've gone over this before but...there have been exceptions, correct? Like do you enjoy stand up comedy?

Yeah, of course.

Any comedians in particular that hit with you?

Richard Pryor
Rodney Dangerfield
Red Foxx
George Carlin
Bob Saget
Dom Irrera
Lewis Black
Bill Maher

But more importantly, people I can't fucking stand:

Dave Chappelle.. if you don't know why, then read up on his own opinions of his comedy in retrospect.
Kat Williams.. fuck this guy.
Kevin Hart... tired..

There has to be some kind of comedies that you would enjoy.

Clerks is my favorite comedy. Stepbrothers was hilarious. Anchorman was good too. Going to go see Bad Grandpa tomorrow..

As far as horror goes...it is my favorite genre, but also probably the genre that's most difficult to be fresh and still frighten people with. Did you see The Conjuring?

That's the problem.. I've seen anything that would come to the top of your head. And I feel like I'm in hell, because there's nothing new. I saw the Conjuring when it came out.. twice.. Great movie. Insidious 2 was fucking garbage. But I've seen most (if not all) A-list horror movies. And yeah, it's my favorite genre too.

Great example of a movie that didn't bring any new concepts to the table, but did a great job of rehashing the traditional scare tactics in a novel way, by using a very good cast and great atmosphere.

That's exactly what made it so good. It was refreshing to get that late 1970's horror movie feel. The slow zooming panoramic shots, the use of natural lighting for much of the movie. It was so well done, from a cinematic and directorial standpoint, that they really deserve a great deal of praise. The atmosphere in that movie is enveloping, and that's really what I want from a good horror movie.

The best horror around over the last three years has been American Horror Story. It's really the only horror around that offers consistently new takes. It's using old themes (haunted house, haunted nunnery, aliens, voodoo, serial killers, etc) but it's presenting them without any filter whatsoever, minimal plot armor and doing it in a very stylized but not over the top way.

I've never seen it. I don't want much TV at all. It's interesting that it's a miniseries. The only problem with series is that I rarely have time to watch them in any continuity, because I'm always working.

Tell you what.. Here's a copy paste of the movies on my media server that I've watched recently.. I'll go down and rate them.

Mine:
1) Insidious --9/10
2) In the Mouth of Madness --10
3) The Thing --10
4) Texas Chainsaw Massacre --10
5) The Conjuring --9
6) Rosemary's Baby --10
7) Saw --7
8) Hostel --6
9) VHS --5
10) The Cell --7
11) Dawn (or any) of the Dead --6.5
12) 28 Days/Weeks Later --7
13) The Fly --10
14) Innkeepers --4
15) Inside --7.5
16) Last Exorcism --7
17) The Mist --8.5
18) Pulse --5
19) Woman in Black --5 (boring)
20) Apartment 143 --5
21) Carriers --6.5
22) The Collection --6.5
23) Chernobyl Diaries --5
24) Final Destination --4
25) Evil Dead --7
26) Event Horizon --7.5
27) Exorcist --10
28) The Eye --4
29) Grave Encounters (love these movies) --8.5
30) Let Me In --6
31) The Omen --10
32) The Ring --10 (amazing movie)
33) Rec --6
34) Quarantine --7
35) World War Z --7
36) You're Next --4
37) Ethan Hawke's horror movie --8
38) Blair Witch Project --9

...Yeah, so anything not on that list would be great!

 

[The Oi]

Hm, you've got 28 Days Later rated low for a guy that's clearly focused primarily on atmosphere. Thought the atmosphere in that movie was top of the line.

Love that you rated The Mist that high. Atmosphere all the way. I did not like the ending, because I had read the book and liked that ending/not ending much better.

Have you seen 1408? Love it. It's all atmosphere and John Cusack getting rained on again. :chuckles:

I cannot find anyone else that feels the same way about The Ring. I was obsessed with it for weeks...in a bad way. It had me terrified. Amazing horror movie.

Have you seen Fire in the Sky? It's all about one scene, but that one scene is fucking terrifying. I was fascinated with/terrified by aliens as a kid after watching that movie.

I prefer horror movies and any movies for that matter to have unhappy endings. It's so rare and it takes serious balls to finish that way. Sinister did this. Ending was better than the rest of the movie, which I thought was actually pretty good.

Totally different topic...you ever read Scary Stories To Tell in the Dark as a kid? I like to do a dramatic reading from them every Halloween and I'll be doing one this year at our inaugural PA Halloween party tmrw. The drawings in those books were more nightmare-inducing than any movie I've seen and I still go back through those stories for a horror fix from time to time.

 

[gourimoko]

Hm, you've got 28 Days Later rated low for a guy that's clearly focused primarily on atmosphere. Thought the atmosphere in that movie was top of the line.

28 Days Later started out amazing. The entire first act of the movie is a 9/10 easily. The second act requires the audience to accept quite a bit of expositional plot and dialogue that sets up the two protagonists in what seems to be a very artificial way. This part of the film would have been better served had the guy who died had a bit more of a role rather than being summarily dispatched just to make room in the story.

However, the entire movie is let down by the third act, taking place at the military encampment, which was just fucking awful. In 1 month, these people had completely lost their humanity and we're required to not question any of this in anyway at all, without much explanation.

Frankly, there was no real need for their rash methods, and they could've achieved the same ends, so it just seems gratuitous. That level of artificiality really destroys the atmosphere they worked so hard to create in the first two acts.

Love that you rated The Mist that high. Atmosphere all the way. I did not like the ending, because I had read the book and liked that ending/not ending much better.

The ending in The Mist did kinda suck..

Have you seen 1408? Love it. It's all atmosphere and John Cusack getting rained on again. :chuckles:

1408 is one of my favorite movies of all time. Very underrated.

I cannot find anyone else that feels the same way about The Ring. I was obsessed with it for weeks...in a bad way. It had me terrified. Amazing horror movie.

The Ring is easily in my Top 5. People just don't really get it, and that's a shame, but it does absolutely everything right from start to finish. It's not over the top with gore, the scares aren't dragged out to the point of desensitization, and the danger presented seems very real (in the sense that it's not just the protagonist, but that this thing will kill her son to).

Also, the ending in The Ring, unlike the last two movies above, was amazing. Totally unexpected, and exactly what anyone would do in real life rather than watch their son be killed. It came full circle, but not in a bad way.

Have you seen Fire in the Sky? It's all about one scene, but that one scene is fucking terrifying. I was fascinated with/terrified by aliens as a kid after watching that movie.

Saw Fire in the Sky in theaters and I swear it fucked me up. I've seen it a dozen times at least since. Great movie.

I prefer horror movies and any movies for that matter to have unhappy endings. It's so rare and it takes serious balls to finish that way. Sinister did this. Ending was better than the rest of the movie, which I thought was actually pretty good.

The ending in Sinister was good, but I just thought the guy would've figured it out just as the audience did. To me, that was the only reason Sinister wasn't a better movie. The 100 missed phone calls, the total change of character, the ostrich syndrome to move the plot forward, and totally ignoring his daughters bedroom - when one of the two parents surely should have noticed her drawings and odd behavior.

I just felt the ending didn't come about naturally, and that they twisted it into the movie at the expensive of plot cohesion.

But nonetheless, I liked the movie a great deal.

Totally different topic...you ever read Scary Stories To Tell in the Dark as a kid? I like to do a dramatic reading from them every Halloween and I'll be doing one this year at our inaugural PA Halloween party tmrw. The drawings in those books were more nightmare-inducing than any movie I've seen and I still go back through those stories for a horror fix from time to time.

Jesus Christ that is weird. I still have the audiobooks on tape at my mom's house. I would put them on to go to sleep to.