What's the last film you watched? And rate it!

[fernando97echeverria]

Blue Velvet
10/10 Disturbing, but brilliant and one of the best movies of the 80's.

Mulholland Drive
8/10 What. Anyway, genius.

[justinisfilming]

Just watched ATTACK THE BLOCK in film class today and I'll give it: /5

It's freaking hilarious and also somewhat thrilling. Plus, Nick freaking Frost is in it...

[rayw]

The Tree of Life - Depends. 9.5/10 if you know what you're looking at and get it, 4/10 if you don't and don't.

A few months ago I finally developed the distinction between a film that is good and one that I enjoy.
This is a good film and I sort of enjoy it, kinda like Valhalla Rising.

While watching what Terence Malick directed I want to slap a wide angle lens on my camera and run around in the shade after my kids.


I very much enjoyed Malick's work in The New World and can see the evolution of his story telling into Tree based on some of the camerawork from World.





Also: It's absolute bullsh!t only Pitt & Penn received any attention about this film. Jessica Chastain was every bit as important as the father and son relationship conflicted with the mother and son relationship.
Complete rubbish.
She is delightful.



http://collider.com/jessica-chastain...of-life/93397/

[Ceolwulf]

Last watched Robert Redfords `The Conspirator`

Nice film, 8/10 had some gorgeous looking shots and an interesting story

[justinisfilming]

Just got back from seeing THE AVENGERS. I'll give it a 9/10.

The action was amazing, and it's hilarious! Watch out for some other movie reference too.

BTW, I just looked at the technical specs in IMDB and found out some of the movie was shot with the Canon 5D! Purty cool!!

[richy]

Me too on The Avengers. Good good. That's Joss Whedon for you. I might give it a more conservative 8 though. But, whatever. I really don't like to be pinned down with a evaluative number rating. Oh well.

You know, the spectacular final act suffers a teensy eensy bit from the common ho-hum doldrums that spectaculars often suffer from. But those ho-hums are barely measurable or at least survivabley tolerable, thanks to Whedon's helmsmanship and a fun cast.

How do we feel about the same actor (Chris Evans... not that I'm not glad for him getting the work) playing two different characters in the same Marvel Universe? Is it a bit like... Harrison Ford playing both Han Solo and Qui-Gon Jinn etc?

[JoshL]

I also caught Avengers (jeez, who didn't! Look at those box office numbers! So now that Joss Whedon has All The Money....Serenity 2?) and, of course, had a blast. Good balance between the characters, though for me, that wasn't always a plus. I continually fail to care about Captain America, though his workout/punching bag gag was one of my favorite scenes. But anyway, that's personal tastes, not a reflection of quality of the film. Loki's descent from scheming tragic figure in Thor to all-out comic book antagonist was great (though possibly off-putting if you hadn't read the comics). Great stuff, and lots of fun, and nice setup for Avengers 2 at the end. Spoiler: Thanos is awesome.

richy, I wasn't distracted by Evans' dual roles. While it might make any crossovers odd to say the least (if they don't just recast), I didn't see him as anything other than Steve Rogers while watching. But as a long time comic geek, I'm used to different artists, and characters looking a little different or sometimes similar. Note to hollywood: we're used to that, so recast rather than reboot ;-)

Addendum, related to point 2: Ryan Reynolds. Deadpool. Needs to happen, and it doesn't matter how many other comic roles he plays. I also wouldn't complain about Nathan Fillion as Hank Pym in Avengers 2. Just saying.

[arrodiii]

Session 9 - 4/10 - awful, just awful...

[richy]

Originally Posted by JoshL

Addendum, related to point 2: Ryan Reynolds. Deadpool. Needs to happen, and it doesn't matter how many other comic roles he plays. I also wouldn't complain about Nathan Fillion as Hank Pym in Avengers 2. Just saying.

Deadpool (2014)



Ant-man (2014)

But Fillion's name isn't attached? Time to start a letter writing campaign?

Dreams can come true/ It can happen to you/If... Josh marshals his hundreds(?) ...his thousands(?) of Twitter followers to write Marvel Studios to cast Nathan Fillion as Hank Pym.

But, uh, eh-hem, as long is his participation doesn't interfere with his commitment to reprising his role as Mal in Serenity II, right?

[arrodiii]

Cowboys and Aliens - 6.5/10 - mindless entertainment and explosions

[Techno]

Today I saw "A Dangerous Method". Focusses on the life of Carl Jung, and his interactions with Freud and one of his patients played by Keira Knightly.

I have subtitled it "The Jung and the restless".

I would give it 6.5 out of 10.

Knightly gives a very compelling rendition of a mad woman, particularly in the early parts of the film and her first few sessions with Jung. I found it disturbing and uncomfortable to watch.

Best line in the movie goes to the character Otto Gross who comments the Freud's obsession with sexual explanations for behaviour is because he is not getting any.

I don't think Viggo Mortensen has a scene in the movie when he is NOT smoking a cigar.

Interesting insight into the personalities but only if your into that kind of thing.

[rayw]

MI4: GHOST TURD-IN-THE-HALL - 5/10
I like action movies. A lot.
I can't stand drama snore-fests.
But this one had me fast forwarding 2X with subtitles and clicking on the time counter within thirty minutes.
Too many preposterous deus ex machina tech toys.
Maybe I'd call it "tech ex machina" save@ss complacency.

Gotta love the profitability on this gig, though.
Budget $145 million
Box office $693 million

WTH are people so delighted over?
I turned it off during the Dubai to Mumbai air hop aboard the GS. Snore....


A DANGEROUS METHOD - 6/10
It was fairly interesting, but I still FF@2X w/ sub-tittlies after the first half hour.
(KK's bubbies, such that they are, zipped right on by, thank God!)

Two points I found myself distractedly interested in were that historically the development of "the talking cure" as opposed to mechanical or chemical "cures" was revolutionary, and that our self-righteous society of "freedom" absolutely dismisses that not all "sex" is about sex or that some things which do not at all appear to be about sex are indeed quite about sex.

I was most impressed with Knightly's performance. It was a tough role to accept.
Kudos to both her and the director.


MARGIN CALL - 9/10
A very nice film.
Hoorah for another excellent indie film.
Maybe it's because at heart I am a numbers guy and clearly understand how digits on a screen or paper have a real life impact - but the tension of the responsibility to exactly "whom" do employees in this position have was meaningful to me.
At what point is technically legal behavior socially criminal?

I know they made money on this (barely), but I'm disappointed more people weren't interested in it.
Budget $3.4–3.5 million (est.)
Box office $11,507,328 (worldwide)

This is what I would call "a good movie that I didn't enjoy."
My nerves were a wreck during and afterward.


https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/...hZDNzMGc#gid=0
Of the 2011 Sundance features that received distribution, Margin Call & The Guard are the only two I'd recommend watching.
I'm still waiting for Trollhunter to stay on the library shelf long enough to snatch it up!




Hey, Pete! (below) -
What makes for a good Guy Ritchie trifecta is to watch his progression from LOCK, STOCK, AND TWO SMOKING BARRELS, when he had no financing, to SNATCH, when he did have better financing - but received a lotta grief over just a remake of the LS&TSB formula with cash, to ROCKNROLLA, where he ditched the "fun" and just caught grief for being poor at being serious.
And if you can, try to catch up with DEFENDOR back to back with SUPER.

>> http://www.crackle.com/c/Defendor

[Ewan]

Just seen The Avengers! Great film. 9/10. Visual effects and humour was top notch.

Like Justin said, suprised that some of it was filmed on the 5D, a great encouragament to indie filmmakers.

[Pete]

Apparently YouTube cycles out the free movies in their "movies" section (I reviewed Defendor from that but now it isn't available).

Snatch. - 8.5/10 (you can see it here: http://www.youtube.com/movie?v=preWi1lCHaw)

This is a stylish and darkly funny film. The style reminds me a lot of Tarantino, but maybe a bit more "grounded". The cinematography is great, especially in the last fight scene. And the characters are excellent, every one of them with their own quirks. The style may not be everyone's cup of tea, but I highly recommend it!

[rayw]

The Avengers - 9/10
Very nice.
Good story, acting, action, dialog was fair.
Favorite scene was between Tony Stark, Pepper Potts, and agent Coulson.

Pepper - Phil!
Stark - I thought his first name was "Agent?"

And the dynamic between Stark and Banner was great, too.

Stark - Dr. Banner, your work is unparalleled. And I'm a huge fan of 
the way you lose control and turn into an enormous green rage monster.

I don't think the 3D added anything to it, though.
Often it just irritated me when gratuitous 3D shots were included.

And is it just me, but does 3D bugger with the perspective, making some shots look like they should be tiny little "bug on a blade of grass"?