Thread: Rate the Last Movie you Watched

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, 8/10
(wikipedia)

Anime classic. Scifi adventure with themes regarding environmental problems of our planet. Brilliant story and characters, bad music. Comic is still much better.

John Carter.

Eh, 7.5 0r 8. It was okay. Some cheesy lines here and there, but other than that I don't have any complaints.

John Carter, 5/10
(wikipedia)

Typical mainstream film. It has something for everyone (= complete mess of humor, action, romance and scifi). Couple likable side characters. Absurd plot and original idea made it entertaining, but I wouldn't want to see it twice.

Kung Fu panda 2: 8.7/10

good music, lovely landscape and a few good funny moments.

The Final Destination.

The plot and set-up of these movies is getting very predictable now, but it's still a lot of fun to see the creative and ridiculous deaths the characters suffer.

7/10

I watched four films yesterday.

Prince of Persia: Sands of Time - 4/10 Movies based on video games are usually not too good. Good action I guess, and Jake Gyllenhaal is a cool dude.
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides - 5/10 Stupid convoluted plot, horrible ending and no main character, but Johnny Depp made me chuckle a few times.
Salt - 6/10 Typical summer action movie.
JFK - 7/10 It was a well done film with great acting, even if some of the facts weren't totally on. I suppose it is a Hollywood movie after all.

Batman

Sam Hamm and Tim Burton's Batman movie from 1989. Burton himself is indifferent toward it, and I can see where he's coming from. He said it was okay, and there were parts that he liked, but he mainly sees the film as boring. Just okay. Now, I wouldn't call it boring, but I can understand him.

It's just a bit overrated, is all. When it was released back in 1989, it was lauded as one of the best superhero movies ever made. Which is true, it was one of the best back in 1989. Back then, superhero movies were a fairly recent thing, and it was really this movie and Superman in 1978 that made them popular. Even today, superhero movies are a bit of a niche genre.

It's also aged. But it's aged nicely. You can hear the exact same gunshot sound effect, like, ten times during the same firefight. Michael Keaton's Batman costume was not the most practical during shooting, and so if he wanted to look to his side, he would have to practically turn his whole body to the side. This effect made for some unitentionally funny shots of Batman looking around for something to throw at the bad guys or something of that nature (one scene where Batman tries to escape from police in the Axis Chemicals building comes to mind). In fact, the added cheesiness that comes with age compliments it, in my opinion, because at its core, this movie is a pretty straightforward superhero flick. The overall story was decent enough, but it was rather cliche at some points and in some areas.

So as for the people back then (and now) who praise it as a wondrous, four-star movie: nah. It's just a really nicely-told, classic Batman story. (Jack Nicholson is great as the Joker, too.)

7.5/10

Real Steel

It was actually really good. My only complaint was that it took 1/3 of the movie to actually set up the main story, but whatever.

Nice plot, great CGI, decent soundtrack, great actors.

8/10

28 Days Later

I've wanted to watch this movie for some time now, and now I have.

It lived up to the things I'd read about it, played through the way I imagined it would. There's one big issue I have with it, though: the escape from the army battalion outside of Manchester. I don't think the following would spoil too much, but just to be on the paranoid side:

Was I supposed to be rooting for Jim when he pretty much went bat-s*** insane? Because I wasn't. It was excruciating, really.

I mean, really, escaping from them? Sure, I could understand that. But doing what he did? A part of me wanted the army to kill him. I was sympathizing more with the commander (I forget his name already) than Jim. To be fair, the lesser soldiers were complete ass holes, but I liked the commander.

That was a big detractor, in my opinion. It seriously lessened my respect for the movie.

The rest of it was very nice, though.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - 9

Just really, really charming and poignant. Jim Carrey was amazing in how he did all the little things so well and so real. Like his whole body language and how he delivered certain lines, he was so pitiful and shy. Kate Winslet was fantastic too, one of her best performances. Caught me totally off guard how good it was. Nice to see Tobias from Arrested Development (David Cross) in it as well.


Sucker Punch - 4

It looked really amazing, I'll give it that. Very much like a video-game with incredible graphics. But the thing is, the story was just non-existent and the crazy, high-graphic dream sequences got kinda boring quickly and I just really didn't care about the characters at all. Disappointing.

Pokemon: Arceus and the Jewel of Life

10/10

This pokemon is my most favorite Pokemon movie and its even better because Arceus is my most favorite pokemon of all time. I have watched that movie alot and I can remember almost every quote from the movie and I started writing fanfics a year later because of it. Arceus has been my main character for a long time.

[REC]³ Génesis - 8/10
Fritz the Cat - 9/10
The Lion, the witch and the wardrobe (1979) - 9/10
The Zookeeper 7/10
Free Willy 2 - 8/10
Machete 9/10
The Exorcism of Emily Rose 7/10
Paranormal Activity 2 - 9/10
Season of the Witch - 7/10
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans 7/10

"Holes" - 9/10

Almost fit the book to a "T"

Mega Shark VS Crocosaurus 2/10

Only reason I did not give it a 1 is because I laughed my ass off at how bad it was.


Your Highness 5.5/10

Lots of gross humor and bad effects but still did have some very funny moments.

A Matter of Loaf and Death.

I'm not the biggest W&G fan, but i enjoyed it all the same.

8/10