What movies have you seen lately? Now with reviews!Movies 

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Really? And I used to think I liked porn!
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It's not like noral porn. Seriously, I would prefer to have my parents catch me looking at porn than to catch me watching torture-porn, even if there is no nudity in the likes of FINAL DESTINATION 3.
 
Watched Sherlock Holmes last night. I wasn't expecting much giving the opinions I've read over here but I enjoyed it. I like Downey Jr.'s acting and I find him funny so that helped too. Also, the movie reminded me of The Mentalist, a TV show I like.

My girlfriend was more inclined to watch Avatar, but both rooms showing it were sold out, which was ok because I think I wouldn't have enjoyed Avatar as much.
 
I saw on the news this evening that some guy in China died after watching Avatar in 3D. Apparently the excitement was too much for him and his brain ruptured or something.
 
I thought Cube was awesome... the orignal 1997 one... the sequels were pretty lame. Again, same reason as [REC]; it was original and not Hollywood-esque.
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I was pleasantly surprised. Going into "Cube" I had pretty low expectations. That probably had something to do with it, but nonetheless, the concept was interesting, and despite some dodgy acting ended up impressing me, and I'm notoriously difficult to please.



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Watched Conan The Barbarian - terrible. Now I know why I never watched this movie.

And watched Assassins. Not to bad.
 
Saw this one a couple of nights ago, but forgot about it.



Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (Carl Reiner, 1982) -- One of those classic bad movies so bad they're... not good. being a Film Noir fan, I couldn't let this one go by, it's actually a film noir parody with a detective uncovering a sinister plot. Characters from real noirs appear as scenes from various films are intercut, so there's more than a few scenes with Humphrey Bogart, Ava Gardner, Ingrid Bergman, Cary Grant, Bette Davis, Lana Turner, etc. The movie's funny enough and the 'cameos' are pretty clever. But the movie's little more than an interaction between Steve Martin and these noir stars. So in short, the movie would be fun for Film Noir fans like myself, but otherwise pretty convoluting for anyone else. 6.5/10
 
Definitely an enemy 👍

Funniest part has to be "What does FOC mean?"
 
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9 👎👍

Very creative movie but they forgot to add an ending. Just when you think the plot is going somewhere - it doesn't. This is a movie that was made from an animated-short and it really shows in the storyboard. 👍 for creativity, 👎 for a lack of ending. To summarize, the movie had

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Jennifer's Body 👎👎

I had low expectations going into this movie. I was hoping to see Megan Fox get shown off a bit and have a good laugh at the plot. The plot was indeed awful, but never really quite hit that funny campy note - so it wasn't enjoyable from that point of view either. Also, a huge lack of Megan Fox getting shown off absolutely destroyed this movie. I thought for sure I could count on this movie for that... nope.

There was one rather comical scene in which Megan Fox is coming out of a lake totally naked. There's a guitar going in the background and the scene is supposed to be entirely about how fantastic she looks. We get to see her face and shoulders... and her feet. That's it. Comeon people! You can do better than that! You get to see more of her in Transformers, which was far more enjoyable all the way around.
 
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Low budget, most of the film takes place in one house, a few questionable turn of events in the plot. This is a hard one, because the film is very well put together for an independent flick, and the acting, most parts, is just superb.

I'm gonna give it a "C", because I strongly disagree with some parts of the plot. I still recommend you guys rent this, however.
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And watched Assassins. Not to bad.
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One of my favorites. Very underrated, I think. 👍
 
Captain America - 1990

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Steve Rogers is chosen to become Captain America to battle the Red Skull in 1943, gets strapped to a rocket headed from Italy to Washington D.C. but miraculously thwarts that demise only to end up frozen in the ice in Alaska until 1993. The Red Skull is still alive and once word get out that Captain America is, too, he sends his goons to kill him but they just end up really pissing him off so once again Captain America and the Red Skull battle. Only this time... it's personal.
  • Typical 90's movie with numerous nods to 80's tech - the sound effects are terrible, as are the visual effects, even by 1990's standards.
  • When you can't find an actress, reuse one to play her own daughter (must have been the thing to do in the late 80's and early 90's)
  • Apparently all vehicles (at least FIAT's and Porsche's) in Italy are right hand drive.
  • The manly thing to do when you're Captain America is let the 65 year old President lead the way through the castle while you're getting shot at.
  • Captain America can take numerous hits from a Supervillan and lead pipes, but getting hit in the head with a 6 pack lays him out. He should have remembered to bring a case of Molsen with him for fighting the Red Skull...
You certainly aren't missing anything by skipping this one, but I don't think it quite deserves the 2.8/10 that imdb gives it. If Bad Girls from Mars can get a 3.4, surely this deserves a better score than 2.8. I'd go so high as an even 3.0.
 
Sunshine (Danny Boyle, 2007)

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I've seen the first half of this film about three times, but finally had a chance to watch it all last night, and I enjoyed it. As Shintaro has said of the film previously, there are definite elements of Event Horizon in there, but fortunately it isn't quite so outlandish. I have to admit, I am always a bit disappointed when a science fiction film starts off in the realms of the realistic and the plausible and then veers off into the slightly ridiculous, but then again, if it stayed "plausible" then it would lose much of its dramatic edge probably. Entertaining, gripping and visually stunning - but ever so slightly predictable and not entirely original.

7.5/10, and a likely future Blu-ray purchase.


Yes Man (2008)

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Hmmm. Chucklesome and light-hearted, and not a bad way to spend a couple of hours, but it's also incredibly sappy and instantly forgettable. Carrey does his best with flimsy material. I'm just glad I didn't know it was written by Danny Wallace before I started watching the film.... 4/10
 
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Captain America - 1990

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Steve Rogers is chosen to become Captain America to battle the Red Skull in 1943, gets strapped to a rocket headed from Italy to Washington D.C. but miraculously thwarts that demise only to end up frozen in the ice in Alaska until 1993. The Red Skull is still alive and once word get out that Captain America is, too, he sends his goons to kill him but they just end up really pissing him off so once again Captain America and the Red Skull battle. Only this time... it's personal.
  • Typical 90's movie with numerous nods to 80's tech - the sound effects are terrible, as are the visual effects, even by 1990's standards.
  • When you can't find an actress, reuse one to play her own daughter (must have been the thing to do in the late 80's and early 90's)
  • Apparently all vehicles (at least FIAT's and Porsche's) in Italy are right hand drive.
  • The manly thing to do when you're Captain America is let the 65 year old President lead the way through the castle while you're getting shot at.
  • Captain America can take numerous hits from a Supervillan and lead pipes, but getting hit in the head with a 6 pack lays him out. He should have remembered to bring a case of Molsen with him for fighting the Red Skull...
You certainly aren't missing anything by skipping this one, but I don't think it quite deserves the 2.8/10 that imdb gives it. If Bad Girls from Mars can get a 3.4, surely this deserves a better score than 2.8. I'd go so high as an even 3.0.
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:lol: I didnt even know this movie existed until now... However I vaguely remember something from my childhood, but not sure if it was this... 1990 I was 6 or 7... So thats been a while... Remake in the works? :p
 
Watched Pandorum last night.

**slight spoilers but not really**
It was an ok movie but overall actually quite disappointing. Its basically a huge rip off of The Descent. I thought The Descent was very good and this is almost exactly the same thing. But instead of being in a cave you are on a ship. Pandorum is worth watching but if you have watched The Descent, then this will seem very familiar to you.
 
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I also watched this film last night. It was better than I expected. I thought there was a couple of good plot twists that I didn't see coming. Acting was alright considering I don't really care for Dennis Quad. All in all 7.5/10
Sorry for the bad review(if that's what you want to call it) Not used to doing it.
 
TB
Captain America - 1990
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And not a single mention of a bad rubber Halloween mask?
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I was in the hospital when I was 14 and this movie was on HBO about five times a day.

Blitz187
I was joking, but I guess Hollywood isnt.. :p Thanks for the info...
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If you liked iron Man and The Incredible Hulk it is tying into those films. And if you saw The Incredible Hulk you saw a preview of what Captain America will look like.


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Zoom: Academy for Superheroes (5.5/10)

I was hoping for a Galaxy Quest style superhero film, but instead got one modeled after Spy Kids. Courtney Cox can't act. Tim Allen mailed it in. I think kids that don't over-analyze it will like it. The more complex evil military actions might be too complex for a child, but the giant and scary machine that is involved will get the message across to them.
 
Tom Servo
Whoa, I thought I was the only one who wateched crappy films regularly... :bowdown:
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Netflix, it's like B-movie crack. And with Netflix Instant Streaming on the PS3 and XBox 360 it is like they just gave us an IV drip of it.

I have about 135 movies on my Instant Queue and maybe 10 are considered to be good. I'd be listing at least one movie a week but I got distracted by Farscape.
 
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Zoom: Academy for Superheroes (5.5/10)
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I saw that once, it was a Sunday where there was nothing but infomercials and a crappy movie. I chose the crappy movie since you can only watch the Swivel Sweeper infomercial so many times. I need cable.

I really don't think that movie could be more predictable.
 

Låt den rätte komma in (2008)

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Didn't know anything about this except that it is up for a BAFTA award for best film in a foreign language, and on this viewing, I can see why. Since the film is so new and others are likely to see it, I'll say nothing about the plot etc.. One highlight for me was the subtlety of the special effects, you'll see what I mean when you watch it! A disquieting but really enjoyable movie. 9/10
 
Ya, I have that one in line already! IMDb rates it quite high as well and that had me wondering.
 
I've had that one in my Netflix queue forever. I think TheCracker reviewed & recommend that one in here before.
 
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O Ano em Que Meus Pais Saíram de Férias (a.k.a. The Year My Parents Went on Vacation) (Cao Hamburger, 2006) -- Really good Brazilian movie set in 1970, during Brazil's race to win the football world cup amid the dictatorship within the country. Mauro's (the kid in the movie) parents are politically active leftists in a time of political intolerance and they decide to leave the country and leave Mauro in care of his grandfather... who dies just before he arrives. What follows is a very good coming of age film of Mauro coping with living in another city, in a highly Jewish Orthodox society and always in the hope that is parents will arrive.

I don't know how or if it's possible for the rest of you's here to see it, but I'd definitely recommend it. The cinematography is amazing,camera angles and colours are great (as it happens with most new filmmakers) and the story doesn't get boring. However, as it happens with many Latin American movies, there are a few non good actors and some scenes tend to be overdramatic or underacted. But it's still a very good Brazilian flick. 8.5/10
 
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"The Jerk" - 1979​

This movie is one of my dad's favorites. And I can't see why not because I was in stitches through (almost) the whole movie. Steve Martin does a good job at playing a simpleton. One thing that got me however is the fact that the other people weren't talking to him like he was a simpleton. This threw me off a bit, because I was thinking people would be taking advantage of his lack of intellegence. Anyway, a hilarious rags-to-riches-and-back-to-rags story that's great for a Saturday night alone, (or with friends. Or a thermos. Just stay away from the cans.)

I give this a 4 out of 5.
 
Tom Servo
However, as it happens with many Latin American movies, there are a few non good actors and some scenes tend to be overdramatic or underacted.
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And that's why I avoid watching Brazilian movies and TV series in general. I just can't get into the story because of the bad acting. But the story seems interesting, maybe I'll rent it.
 

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