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

[Angel Park]

Originally Posted by steve gelder

Saw Prometheus last night. Under embargo not to discuss it till next week.

gelder

WHAT? HOW? I-

*grumbles*

[Flicker Pictures]

HOT FUZZ was so much fun! PAUL was unbearable. We turned it off about 30 minutes in.

Simon Pegg's talent meter is steadily in the red.

[steve gelder]

Originally Posted by NickClapper

How is it under embargo given that it's on general release in the UK already?

Dunno. My girlfriend is a movie critic, so we went to the screening, but we're under embargo not to talk about it. Don't want to put her job in jeopardy, so I don't try to apply logic to studio requests...

gelder

[fernando97echeverria]

Magnolia- 10/10

The definition of a complete masterpiece. Absolutely brilliant and ridiculously ambitious cinematography, gritty and real performances from absolutely everybody, and possibly the most emotion I've ever seen packed into one film. Less of a movie than it is an experience or artistic awakening.

Anderson's flawless and unmatched direction took everything I believed about filmmaking and its constraints and turned it upside down. A colossal inspiration and one of the best movies I've ever seen. Definitely the best of the last two decades.

[fernando97echeverria]

whoops, double posted review.

[rayw]

Black Moon - WTF?/10
Uh... yeah.
Them funny Frenchies and their perfume commercials. Yeah. That.
http://www.dailyfilmdose.com/2011/08/black-moon.html

Thanks, Dennis!

[fernando97echeverria]

Punch-Drunk Love- 8/10

I don't know, man. First viewing and I don't know what to think. It was extremely powerful, once again was extremely well-crafted and had a brilliant Jon Brion score. Sandler was unexpectedly moving. But at the same time the film felt half-baked at moments and scenes ended too early/abruptly. Plus I was confused as hell by the strange mood of the film, although I know it was meant to be different. Overall probably Anderson's weakest film, but that's still saying a lot.

[NickClapper]

Originally Posted by steve gelder

Dunno. My girlfriend is a movie critic, so we went to the screening, but we're under embargo not to talk about it. Don't want to put her job in jeopardy, so I don't try to apply logic to studio requests...

gelder

Fair enough

I have yet to see it but the reviewer for my website (and almost all of my reviewer friends) were a bit disappointed by it. I predict that you enjoyed the visuals and direction but found the script unconvincingly and the logic hard to follow...

[steve gelder]

Originally Posted by NickClapper

I predict that you enjoyed the visuals and direction but found the script unconvincingly and the logic hard to follow...

You're half right.

gelder

[NickClapper]

Originally Posted by steve gelder

You're half right.

gelder

Ahh... you liked it

Maybe it'll fly better in America than here in the UK.

[steve gelder]

Originally Posted by NickClapper

Ahh... you liked it

That's just a guess. This in no way, shape or form, should be construed by the good people at 20th Century Fox as my review of the film.

Mathematically, I could hate the visuals, follow the logic like a rabid bloodhound, love the direction and be completely unmoved by the script, and still have responded "half right". Or any other combination thereof that breaks things down in such a 50/50 manner.

There were more reviewers at the screening I was in, and I think there was a definite consensus among them, but, hard to say. Especially when you're not supposed to talk about it.

gelder

[richy]

Finally saw Sphere. Yeah. Hmmm. Something went wrong there. I suppose they were trying to bake a trippy film, and sadly, it just didn't come out of the oven right. Too bad. Good people involved. I've shied away from it all these years knowing that it's supposed to be disappointing. But sooner or later the sci-fi lover in me had to see it.

Snow White and the Huntsman. A pretty decent film, not bad. I like the supporting cast of dwarfs especially. It did remind me quite a bit of what is for me a much better and more satisfying film, Stardust.

[Zensteve]

Pirahna 3DD -

It's essentially a lower budget scenario of the first film in this new rebooted series.

Hasselhoff saves the film singlehandedly, with his parody of himself. Otherwise, nothing much new. It's fairly short, but with many funny gags worked in. It just doesn't have the "grand" scale of its predecessor.

What was most interesting was the distribution model. It was originally slated for wider theatrical release, but apparently cinemas are not freeing up screens while Avengers & a few other 3D flicks are still bringing in the bacon. So Pirahna-peeps released the film (as a rental only) to iTunes on the same day as the very limited theatrical release. Dunno how that's gonna work out in the long run, but that's how we saw it. Buddy rented the film for $8 via iTunes, and had a bunch of us over to watch it on the bigscreen.

Oh, we saw it in the 2D version, btw. Not available to rent in 3D, and don't really care for 3D anyway. There were many obvious 3D gags in your face in the 2D version, fwiw. I remain very unimpressed with the 3D revival.

[arrodiii]

Silent House - 7/10 - interesting film. Supposedly done in a single-shot, though some of the camera work was reminiscent of Irreversible

[Budget:0]

Dark Shadows 7/10

While many probably won't like this film, for me it delivers solid action, humor, and enough puns to at least keep me smiling.