Rate the last movie you saw

Just watched John Wick last night. Not sure how I missed out on this. Acting isn't particularly great at all times, story isn't terribly original (but has some great moments regardless), yet man it has some of the best action sequences I've seen in a long time. Really enjoyed it thoroughly up until near the end where I felt a final act was tacked on and did not feel satisfying at all.

I'd give it 8/10. Nightclub shootout one of the best I've seen in a film.

The Judge

A very good performance by Downey Jr in my eyes, liked it more than I thought I would.

Just saw kingsman. Very good fun. Like a kick ass James bond mash up. Great direction by Matt vauhn great action and some ludicrous sequences that take you by surprise.8/10

Ordered "the captive" last night on tv. Pretty bad. Ryan Reynolds did his best to save this one. He was really good. I'm normally into kidnapping and shit lol (that doesn't sound good) , but this was dumb. 5.5/10

I like to put .5's. Makes me feel more like a critic

John Wick - 7.5
Gone girl - 7
Fury - 8

Frank - 8/10 Quirky movie about a keyboardist joining an odd band where the lead singer wears a giant fake head. Very funny at times.

For those that care, Marvel acquired Spiderman's rights and he will appear in a soon to be Marvel film as a cameo and his own film in 2017. They stated they want him established in the role of hero so no straight reboot for the 3rd time in 15 years. Also Andrew Garfield is no longer Peter Parker.

I love superheroes, I liked the last 2 spidey films with Garfield. I don't want another Peter, just act as if the last 2 films happened in the Marvel universe and bring back Garfield.

That would be like saying no to Bale if he actually approached the studio to be Batman again. He never did, but why would you say no to him? He IS Batman to a lot of people.

Andrew said:

For those that care, Marvel acquired Spiderman's rights and he will appear in a soon to be Marvel film as a cameo and his own film in 2017. They stated they want him established in the role of hero so no straight reboot for the 3rd time in 15 years. Also Andrew Garfield is no longer Peter Parker.

I love superheroes, I liked the last 2 spidey films with Garfield. I don't want another Peter, just act as if the last 2 films happened in the Marvel universe and bring back Garfield.

That would be like saying no to Bale if he actually approached the studio to be Batman again. He never did, but why would you say no to him? He IS Batman to a lot of people.

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I don't really think you can compare Bale and Garfield at all in this case. Bale's batman movies are universally acclaimed as perhaps the greatest superhero movie trilogy of all time, I mean we're talking as close to unanimous critical acclaim as possible. Garfields performance and movies have not been nearly as high profile or nearly as impactful, not even close.

It's not even a question of quality, The Dark Knight series are just held in such a high esteem that it would be insanity to take someone else for that role if Bale made his talents available. Garfield's movies and his performance have not had that impact so it is far easier to justify the re-casting of the character.

I thought Garfield was great as Spider-Man. The second movie sucked, but that wasn't his fault. It just had a dumb scripts. He nailed the character and he was much, much better than Maguire. I'd be fine with them keeping him around, even if they do reboot the franchise for the Marvelverse.

I do tend to agree that we really don't need another goddamn Spider-Man origin movie at this point. Everyone knows how he got his powers. If you really need to show Uncle Ben getting shot again, make it a flashback.

I wasn't really trying to compare Batman to Spiderman, I just meant the comparison personally to me as I have become accustomed to 1 actor as that character and it's changing again so quickly, that is what I meant.

I never was truly a Batman fan until Bale and Nolan and I was completely dumbfounded when Afflec was cast, even for the sake of continuity and to try and capitalize on the money that trilogy made, there were hints left and right in Rises that JGL's character was going to done the cowl and they could have just did a Batman Beyond.

Nightcrawler - 9.9

This is one of the most well-executed movies I've seen in probably the past decade. The concept of a sociopath doing horrible things has been done to death but not like this.

Watch it.

Jupiter Ascending: 2.0/10.0

My review: Shit Ascending.

Garfield was a great Spider-Man.

In fact to address @blommen 's and @Andrew 's / @Jack Brickman 's points, I think Garfield was a better Spider-Man than Bale was at being Batman. In fact, he was as close to perfect at being Peter Parker / Spider-Man that I think any actor could reasonably be.

Makes no sense to replace him, at all, unless they feel he's too young to play an adult Parker (Parker who was a bit older, engaged/married, etc). If that's the direction they want to go, I'm fine with it.

But regarding Batman, I never liked Bale's rendition of Batman. I thought it was forced. His voice was simply, annoying; almost laughable. He did a good job as Wayne, but as Batman?? Nah... Those movies were good not because of Bale as Batman, but because of Nolan being this generations Kubrick. And Dark Knight was what it was because of the supporting cast, not necessarily because of Bale.

I also don't think Begins or TDKR were all that great. I prefer Amazing Spider-Man 1 to Begins. AS2 was an abomination.

Lastly, I'll say that I prefer DC's approach to the Batman / Superman franchises than I do of Marvel's with Ironman / Avengers. Nolan and Snyder's movies, I think, are just better all around action films than anything Marvel has produced so far, and I'm a huge Marvel fan.

Those Avengers movies, are frankly boring CGI fests. Same goes for Ironman. Just, boring... lots of CGI. Age of Ultron looks to be the same thing. Too much imaginary CGI - like I'm watching Toy Story or something.

/rant

gourimoko said:

I also don't think Begins or TDKR were all that great. I prefer Amazing Spider-Man 1 to Begins. AS2 was an abomination.

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Meth is a helluva drug.

King Stannis said:

Meth is a helluva drug.

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Don't get me started... lol.

I already tore apart TDKR, especially the ending.

Begins was.. okay, but just didn't find it all that appealing of a movie. Totally willing to call it a personal preference, but I thought it was too long and disjointed.
I also didn't like the revisioning of Wayne's "beginnings." Could've been done a lot better.