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

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TheCracker
And 40 Year Old Virgin. I guess he's a bit Marmite.
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Bizarrely that just made me think of the chest hair waxing scene...not sure what that says about me!...I should probably add I don't like marmite...
 
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Ah !! Steve Carell... i see now who he is... I really did block him out of my mind... ENTIRELY!...

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Shaun of the Dead (2004)
If you're looking for a serious zombie movie, without comedy, you're in the wrong place. If you're looking for laughs, you're in the right place. One bit I liked was how they over-dramatised some aspects of the film, e.g. randomly zooming in on random objects for a few seconds. You'll be thinking "what the 🤬," but relax, this is a comedy for crying out loud.
Score: 10/10
 
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Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)
I was left thinking "What the 🤬?!" after this. But then again, nobody, especially Uwe Boll, can make a good movie based on a video game. Possibly the only reason to watch this is if you find Angelina Jolie so attractive that you only watch movies if she's in it.

Score: 5/10 (may be lowered if I find that many of the things in the movie aren't actually in the games)

P.S. Is there anything in the movie (and its sequel) that isn't even mentioned in the games?
 
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Rush - Beyond The Lighted Stage (2010)

OK, so it's not a movie, but it is a feature-length documentary, and we don't have a "What feature-length documentary have you seen lately" thread. For fans of Rush, this is truly special stuff. For non-fans of Rush, you could do alot worse than watch this to see how Rock music is lived, evolved, played and appreciated. Trying to set aside the awesomeness for a minute, this is a comprehensive, enjoyable, personable and touching documentary about one of Rock's greatest bands. And if you don't like Rush, go watch something more befitting of you, like Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory. 0/10*

*(sorry, their sheer awesome broke the scale)
 


Dead Man's Shoes (Shane Meadows, 2004) -- A soldier returns to his hometown to get even with the thugs who brutalized his mentally-challenged brother years ago. Though it may seem as a simple revenge story, it's much more. It is also a very well done low budget movie with some amazing amounts of (slightly justified) violence and a very important part in xurrent British filmmaking. The music is spot on and really sets the mood, while the improvisational acting, though it may sound like something too far fetched to be considered good, works to the point that you genuinely feel as if you know these characters. Though the movie is dark and mysterious, it is never depressing. I felt the 90 minutes went by too fast and kept expecting more to happen. A definite recommendation. 9/10



Altered States (Ken Russell, 1980) -- A Harvard scientist conducts experiments on himself with a hallucinatory drug and an isolation chamber that may be causing him to regress genetically. Though it may seem more of a David Cronenberg movie, this sci-fi classic is one amazing piece of cinematic experience... that has not stood the test of time. I remember watching it about 15 years ago and thinking it was alright, but this time around I didn't like it as much. It's a bit too slow at times and the conclusion takes too little to draw out, leaving you with 95 minutes of many pointless scenes and an overall uninteresting aura of mystery that gets solved in the last seven minutes. 6/10
 
Actually... while I enjoyed Hot Fuzz, I've got that the other way around.

There's an epic genius in a scene where two guys sitting on the lawn, picking which LP from their vinyl collection to use to decapitate an attacking zombie that is slooooowly walking up to them.

Though the way in which Hot Fuzz gores the mystery genre (in the final scene where the villain goes into his monologue) is equally inspired

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Altered States (Ken Russell, 1980) -- A Harvard scientist conducts experiments on himself with a hallucinatory drug and an isolation chamber that may be causing him to regress genetically. Though it may seem more of a David Cronenberg movie, this sci-fi classic is one amazing piece of cinematic experience... that has not stood the test of time. I remember watching it about 15 years ago and thinking it was alright, but this time around I didn't like it as much. It's a bit too slow at times and the conclusion takes too little to draw out, leaving you with 95 minutes of many pointless scenes and an overall uninteresting aura of mystery that gets solved in the last seven minutes. 6/10
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If you like that sort of thing... have you watched Jacob's Ladder?
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niky
If you like that sort of thing... have you watched Jacob's Ladder?
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Jacob's Ladder is awesome. I've seen it about 4 times :D

As opposed to this crap I just saw:

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August Underground's Mordrum (Jerami Cruise, Killjoy, 2003) -- It wasn't just that this film was painfully boring, it was also incredibly annoying. There is no plot to talk about. This was hands down the worst movie I have ever seen in my entire life, I've seen 'sci-fi originals' better then this sorry excuse for a "film". The acting was terrible, the effects were terrible, and it wasn't even "shocking" just gross. If you're going to watch this because you like "extreme movies" pick something else, this is extremely boring. Unless you want to see two guys and a chick with anger issues act like they're disturbed and laugh while the camera goes all shaky, speaking of which, the jumpy camera made me lose interest after ten minutes. After a while I had to watch it on mute as the constant swearing and screaming to fill in time was so irritating

This movie seems to be developing a cult status amongst gore fans that it certainly does not deserve, a lot of the depraved acts appeared to be put in for no reason other than as an attempt to shock, however the emphasis has to be on the lack of plot. This really is just a long, boring collection of gory acts. 0.17/10
 
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The Dark Knight (2008)

It's Batman and he's fighting the Joker, not sure what else you need as far as the story summary. I'm not sure if I just let this film get over hyped over the years, but it wasn't all that great. Heath Ledger did do an awesome job portraying the Joker, but that is really the only stand out part of the whole movie, Bale wasn't as good as he was in Batman Begins and Maggie Gyllenhaal wasn't much better than Katie Holmes playing Rachel Dawes . I will elaborate a little more in the spoiler text. Overall it was a good film, I just didn't find it to be as good as people made it seem. 7/10

There were several parts I just couldn't get my head around in this film. I know it's set in a comic book world, but if someone gets half their face blown away it would still probably cause some speech issues. I also didn't like how they made the whole "Gordon was just faking dead" thing feel like some crappy magic trick. One last thing that annoyed me is the whole "will Batman quit or not?" angle, I get enough of that from reading the sports section(Thank you Brett Favre) I would like it to stay out of movies.

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Bandit Queen (Shekhar Kapur, 1994) -- My first hindu movie! The movie tells the story of the bandit queen Phoolan Devi and her life from age 11 (roughly 1968), when she was sold to a man in exchange for a cow and a bicycle, until she's incarcerated in 1983. Her life was turned into a legend by the Indian press, as a blue-eyed, tall, goddess, when in truth she was very average and of low caste. The movie is also very disturbing, with quite graphic scenes of rapes and violence, completely unlike what we've known as Bollywood cinema. Acting is not really good and there's a lot of screaming. Yet this horrible movie to watch is quite inspiring as she could survive through such events in a society that treats women on the same level as drums and animals. Devi lived through things the vast majority of us will never imagine, and not only did she survive it, she stood up against amazing odds. In general, it's a movie worth watching at least to be aware of the rest of the world and to at least generate a bit of empathy towards others in all situations. 7/10



Inside Man (Spike Lee, 2006) -- A cop has to talk down a bank robber after the criminal's perfect heist spirals into a hostage situation, yet nothing is what it seems and it would look like that's how the robber planned the heist all along. At first this movie seems it'll be a remake of Dog Day Afternoon, but it quickly becomes obvious Spike Lee thought of making it a grander movie and include a few hints at racism in America while at it. The end result is terrible, to say the least. We get Denzel Washington acting once again as Denzel Washington, Clive Owen speaking American English (horribly), and Jodie Foster seemingly not knowing what to do. There's so many plot holes in it that the movie just becomes annoying, and the whole premise is over about 30 minutes before the end. By the time the ending credits are rolling, you notice you just sat through 30 minutes of needless closure that just seemed to justify the disaster the rest of the movie turned out to be. 3.5/10
 
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I think you were being generous giving Inside Man 3.5/10! It has to rate as one of the most disappointing films I've ever seen and I wasn't expecting greatness to begin with.

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Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese)

Scorsese's attempt at a B-movie(ish) horror film with current favourite Leonardo DiCaprio was a pretty successful one. It took me a little while to get into it but once it got going it was really good fun with plenty of scares and suspense and decent acting. The cinematography was great with excellent use of "stylised weirdness" that the meaning of became apparent towards the end of the film. The music score was a bit melodramatic at times but it served a purpose and wasn't too distracting. Overall a well written, directed and performed movie that hit all the right notes with nothing much to criticise 8/10
 
EvilNeal
I think you were being generous giving Inside Man 3.5/10! It has to rate as one of the most disappointing films I've ever seen and I wasn't expecting greatness to begin with.
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Funnily enough, IMDb gives it a 7.7
 
I'd rate it higher.

Bearing in mind that I dislike Denzel, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster and Willem Defoe (and Chiwetel Ejiofor), it's remarkable I actually enjoyed it at all - but it's one of my films of 2006.

That said, one of the fundamental premises behind the film is given, and dismissed, in the first 10 minutes of Quick Change, 16 years previously.
 
Saw the new Twilight movie with a girl who wanted to see the new Twilight movie. I am here because I needed to tell *someone* how very badly it sucked. Turns out vampires drive Volvo C30's. Who knew?

... And it's SO long.
 
TB
I liked it enough to start a thread on it.

That's what they're supposed to do! :p
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Hahaha:tup:

I just saw this movie on the tely



it's a true story about a some younsters bored to death knowing only druging and sexytime. One of them being a total a-hole, beating, violating, and taking the others down moraly until the others decide to murder him.
I liked this movie so much during watching that i google it to see the true facts. Some American site didn't give it that good reviews due to a lot of explicit nudity, but european site are praising it high, as i do.
It shows a good portrait of downcome suburbs during the 90's.

I give it a solid 8/10
Acting for younsters is good.
Camera views are good
Soundtrack is good.
Had nothing bad to report

I would like to get this movie in HD. But it is still not out on BR

If you like movie like KIDS, and requiem for a dream, american history X this is a must watch. (not as good as those, but still a good flick)
 


Baarìa (Giuseppe Tornatore, 2009) -- Baaria is Sicilian slang for Bagheria where Tornatore was born and this is an autobiographic epic of three generations in the Sicilian village where he was born. It follows the life of Peppino, from his childhood until he's old enough to be a grandfather. However, given that it shows itself as being a biographical movie, it's more like a recount of the 1900's without getting in very deep and with a great deal of Morricone music. The movie turns out to be a pretty succession of images, too pretty and too many, that hide, while you're watching it, a total emptiness. In the end it's a veruy beautiful film, with amazing photography that just tells the story of Bagheria, through its inhabitants. 7/10
 
I saw last, last week. At my youth group, the Book of Eli. Quite cool.
And last Sunday.. Inception. Couldn't get my head around the whole dreams thing, as I missed the first 20 minutes...
 
TB
I liked it enough to start a thread on it.
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:odd: Maybe I was looking into it too much...or not enough...it's hard to say as I appear to have erased most of it from memory in a case of "when the bad thing happened" but just know I wouldn't want to experience it again...or maybe it's just my memory failing me in my old age ;)
 
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Casino Royale (2006)

I have never been a huge 007 fan but I figured I would give it a shot. It was actually fairly good, although as with most Bond films it felt a little long. One gripe I do have though is that Bond has always been sort of an emotionless person(at least in the ones I've seen), but in this one he gets rather emotional. It was a good movie, but I found myself losing interest a couple times. 6/10

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Paths of Glory (1957)

Following a failed French military attack during WW1 3 of the soldiers are tried for cowardice. It's an extremely well done film and you can see where Kubrick got some of his inspiration for "Full Metal Jacket". It is in black and white, but I think it makes the movie that much better. Some of the acting was rather weak, but for the most part it was top notch. Other than some weak acting the ending was just plain bad, possibly one of the most anti-climatic endings I've seen. It is a very good film though, perhaps one of Kubricks best right up with "Full Metal Jacket" and "Clockwork Orange". 8/10
 
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Who Killed the Electric Car? (Chris Paine, 2006) -- A very well done, though controversial documentary about electric cars and their disappearance from the US market in the late 90s, despite the obvious environmental advantages. The movie really gives you a bit of a glimpse abut who's really in charge of the economy and the extents they will go to keep the status quo. Still, from what I've read, the facts have been checked so there's no biasing them, but the movie has nothing to do with the current price of gas and everything to do with corruption on many levels. 7.5/10



La Nana (a.k.a. The Maid) (Sebastián Silva, 2009) -- Probably one of the least traditional stories about something I haven't seen any movie being about: a maid in an upper class family. Welcome to Raquel's world. She is a 41-year-old maid for an upper middle class family in Chile, who has been with them for 23 years of joyless existence. Raquel is a loner showing signs of fatigue as her work never stops. Other than being with this family, she has no life of her own. The family decides to hire someone else to help Raquel with her demanding job, after a few failures to get through Raquel's badly tempered life, they hire an assistant who proves to be the perfect foil for Raquel's objections. Lucy is the assistant who sees Raquel as a good person waiting to emerge with the right kind of approach. They end up stirking with a good working relationship. Of course, there's a whole lot more existential drama going on in this movie that you'd just have to watch it to find out.

The writing is something only someone who's lived in a house with a live-in maid could know about and the acting by Catalina Saavedra as Raquel is charismatic and mean spirited in her attitude towards the rest of the family which can be seen in how she measures herself against everyone else. Truly one of the best Latin American movies of the decade. 9/10
 
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The Machinist
I started watching this last night just to mainly see the transformation of Christian Bale. He lost 63lbs and was down to 122lbs for this movie. I plan to finish up the movie tonight but dang its just insane to see him like this.
After this movie he put on 100lbs for Batman .
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