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

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Serenity (Joss Whedon, 2005) -- Being a complete ignorant regarding the whole Firefly thing and knowing nothing before hand regarding the Serenity saga, I decided to give this movie a shot, taking it at face value and assuming I was going to miss a bunch of references. With that said, I have to say the movie is pretty good! I thought it was light enough to have me following the plot well enough and not boring me with details abut stuff I had no clue about. The movie is intense from start to finish and has not dull moment, it has very good writing, humor, excellent acting, plot and excellent cgi. If there's something wrog with it, I'd say it's the editing, but that's just a personal opinion as I was lost at times due to it. I'm sure there's much more to this movie than just it, but I had a pretty good time watching it nonetheless. 7.5/10
 
Tom Servo
I'm sure there's much more to this movie than just it, but I had a pretty good time watching it nonetheless. 7.5/10
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It is good sci-fi on its own, but you do lose a bit of the emotional attachment fans of the series have for Shepherd Book and Wash, or why the situation with Inara is so tense for Mal.

But it does a great job of completing the story of River and giving new audience members a chance to get caught up on her backstory.

Blitz187
VCRs still exist....???? :p
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I keep one under my computer desk for those times when I need to digitize a tape for some old person.
 
Tom Servo


Serenity (Joss Whedon, 2005) -- Being a complete ignorant regarding the whole Firefly thing and knowing nothing before hand regarding the Serenity saga, I decided to give this movie a shot, taking it at face value and assuming I was going to miss a bunch of references. With that said, I have to say the movie is pretty good! I thought it was light enough to have me following the plot well enough and not boring me with details abut stuff I had no clue about. The movie is intense from start to finish and has not dull moment, it has very good writing, humor, excellent acting, plot and excellent cgi. If there's something wrog with it, I'd say it's the editing, but that's just a personal opinion as I was lost at times due to it. I'm sure there's much more to this movie than just it, but I had a pretty good time watching it nonetheless. 7.5/10
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I watched this without seeing Firefly too, and then I watched Firefly, and then I had to watch Serenity again. I enjoyed the movie quite a bit more the second time.
 
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Overall pretty good for a psych/thriller . Really enjoyed it and I don't want to give away any details. The extras on the blu-ray really helped point out some stuff after watching it. One thing is for sure, I couldn't predict the ending. 7.5/10
 


They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (Sydney Pollack, 1969) -- The lives of a disparate group of contestants intertwine in an inhumanely grueling dance marathon, and thus the Reality Show is born. Really, this movie is little else than a study of human misery while taking place ina contest of physical and mental endurance. The actual marathon dancing activity that took place in the 1930s was as cruel and devious as being thrown to the lions was in ancient Rome. Needless to say, this movie isn't for everyone, as it depicts the social pathology that allows human suffering to become a form of amusement, as well as harsh realities of the 1930s depression era in the US. 7/10
 
Watched Alice In Wonderland in BD. Actually a pretty good movie. Much better than I expected.
 
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^ Well that's a relief...... My better half has been wanting to watch it for a while now and I've been pretty hesitant because of all the bad reviews.
 
Well its not the greatest thing ever but it was much better than I expected. I dont even like Jonny Depp but the movie is pretty good for what it is.
 


Sherlock Holmes (Guy Ritchie, 2009) -- Further proof that great literature seldom works for great movies, and thus, writers and directors are forced to recreate a whole new set of stuff to go along with the movie and make it appealing to everyone else. I can't seem to recall Holmes being superhuman, extra strong and so cruel in the original stories, but at least his super sense of detail is there. Still, the story is entertaining enough as well as fun to merit a good score, despite the artistic licensing that's been taken. 6.5/10
 


Up in the Air (Jason Reitman, 2009) -- A story about a man who leads an otherwise empty life, traveling around the US firing people. The characters lives his life out of a suitcase and is quite content by it, until his company does the unexpected: they ground him. Now he must learn about life on the ground. What I really liked about this movie is that it sort of has two parts, the first half is about the character's way of life and how manages to be content with it, and this is a part Clooney does well enough. The second part is about how we all feel isolated and alone at times, and I was surprised to see Clooney act the part. I could've done without some of the plot twists, especially towards the end, but the movie is something really good and very subtle that doesn't feel as heavy as a movie about the miseries of life usually is. 7/10
 
When did they finish it?^
astrosdude91
I saw Avatar for the first time. I wasn't all that impressed. I know some people would like to have me condemmed for giving it anything but 10/10 or better, but I'm going to give it a 4/10.
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I hate that movie....Watching Dances with the Wolves was better.
 
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The Shop Around the Corner (Ernst Lubitsch, 1940) -- Otherwise known as the movie behind You've Got Mail, it's about two employees at a gift shop can barely stand one another, without realizing that they're falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal. The beauty of this movie is that there's no extraordinary turn of events to push the story, but rather has a whole normality aura to it, in which love just develops because it's bound to. As a viewer, one gets to know everyone who works in this shop and we eventually notice something is sparkling between two of the employees, but unlike the remake, it's not something blatantly obvious. Despite the movie pushing for a happily-ever-after conclusion for almost all characters, at no time does it feel forced. Lubitsch has always been a director who thinks about the audience and wanted them to leave with a smile on their faces and feeling good. Probably one of the better romantic comedies in history. 7.5/10



Mamma Roma (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1962) -- The story of an ex-prostitute who moves to the city (Rome) and tries to make a life for her and her 16-year-old son. But her son is almost used to living without her, yet she tries and tries for him to lead a better life than she has. It's not easy for either, yet the keeps on trying. In the end it's a movie about that struggle that only a mother knows of trying to make their children better in life. Pasolini's style usually brought out the worst of human misery and exploited it, and this movie is no exception. The movie is filmed in a new building site, so most of the shots are among construction areas, like where the lower classes would live by the thousands in the near future, which also gives the movie a sense of being within ruins. The boy's life is as bitter and detached as most boys that age are, especially if they've lived on their own, but at the same time the mother's love expressed by Mamma Roma is unconditional. 7/10
 
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For the first time, I don't need to explain it to you guys.

10/10
 
Clash Of The Titans For some reason I just did not really enjoy this movie at all. Could not get into it.

Started watching Sherlock Holmes and so far it has been really good. About an hour into it.
 


Die Welle (a.k.a. The Wave) (Dennis Gansel, 2008) -- Based on real-life events, it's about a high school teacher's unusual experiment to demonstrate to his students what life is like under a dictatorship spins horribly out of control when he forms a social unit with a life of its own. Very well acted, written and directed... it really produced believable social circumstances in a society where kids are marginalised for the dumbest reasons, and finding something to belong to is quite difficult. Past a certain point, the movie has a feel of being a modern age Battle Royale, but the movie in itself is superior and more plausible. A great movie to watch. 10/10



Law Abiding Citizen (F. Gary Gray, 2009) -- A frustrated man decides to take justice into his own hands after a plea bargain sets one of his family's killers free. He targets not only the killer but also the district attorney and others involved in the deal. The movie could've worked out so much better were it not for Jamie Foxx, who is probably one of the cockiest actors out there and his acting is intensely poor. He seems like a glorified Denzel Washington and I don't think there was a scene in which he spoke more than three words in a row. Also, it sufferes from what a lot of movies suffer these days: it starts out very suspenseful and psychologically relevant, but the end is just too absurd, outlandish and unthought-out to be in any way plausible. Jamie Foxx's character is a lawyer who fights to win every case and has a very high win ratio and that's his problem, because he does anything he can to get himself a prosecution, yet in the end, after almost 2 hours of psychological suspense and the movie proving why that is wrong, Foxx's character does the unthinkable and continues down the same path to get his own revenge. Pathetic. 3.5/10
 
Alex.
For the first time, I don't need to explain it to you guys.

10/10
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Dude, remember the first rule...sshhh :D

Tom Servo
Die Welle (a.k.a. The Wave) 10/10
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Heard good things about this so on your recommendation it's another one to add to the list. 👍

Tom Servo
Law Abiding Citizen
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This one won't be added to the list :sick:

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Run Fat Boy Run Meh! Simon Pegg basically rewrote the script for this film and it was still just average. You can guess the story by looking at the poster and my 2 year old son could work out the ending by the end of the opening credits. You could tell it was directed by David Schwimmer which isn't a good quality for a movie. There are hundreds of better films to spend time watching than this so I won't be watching it again. 4/10.
 


Il Portiere di Notte (a.k.a. The Night Porter) (Liliana Cavani, 1974) -- Thirteen years after WWII a concentration camp survivor and her tormentor, currently the night porter at a Vienna hotel, meet again and fall back into their sado-masochistic relationship. Definitely a disturbing and fetish movie about how sadism-masochism can be a vice for some people even when their lives my be in danger. This is a definite movie to watch if you're into disturbing movies, and when this one came out, since it was very rare for a woman to direct a movie, especially of this type, it seems she (the director) went a bit overboard with it, for pure shock value. The cinematography and the soundtrack are great, but the scripting is very flawed. The plot is hard to follow and as I said before, many scenes are done only for pure shock value, while they apparently sacrificed time in showing characters better. The nude cabaret scene is one of the greatest in iconic cinema history, but the flaw of the characters make it fail considerably. 7.5/10
 
Just saw Toy Story 3. Great movie. Mr. Potato Head was the best part. :lol:

It's Toy Story, so you have to see it. I saw it in 3d, and given the choice again I would probably opt for the 2d. 3d doesn't have that crispness. Maybe it would've been different in IMAX, but RealD 3D kind of sucked. Also, it really pays to see the first 2 movies first. Again, it's toy story-- you kind of have to.
 


A Patch of Blue (Guy Green, 1965) -- A blind, uneducated white girl is befriended by a black man, who becomes determined to help her escape her impoverished and abusive home life. One of those genuinely moving and emotional films that toes the line to excellence and almost succeeds. Sidney Poitier plays the man who decides to help Elizabeth hartman's character (she received an Oscar nomination for it) into improving her life and escaping her abusive mother, played by Shelley Winters (who won an Oscar for her acting). It's a movie about two people who are able to overcome the cruelty of others and do the right thing. It is one of the better films of the 1960s. 8.5/10
 

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