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

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Finally got around to watch this movie which I was highly looking forward to when it was released but never managed to catch in the cinema.

Did I like it? Oh 🤬 yes I did! What an epic movie! I got completely mind-****'ed at the end, though. Did the damn totem drop or not?!

Anyway, I just adore the effects used in the movie. The scene in which the van hit an abrupt turn and gravity in the hotel corridor got all funky was downright awesome! Oh and Leonardo's acting keeps getting better with every movie he does 👍

Oh, and Blu-Ray is awesome.
 
Watched Dinner For Schmucks.

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I'd be lying if I said I didn't laugh a little bit in this movie, but in large I found this movie to be very repetitive and stupid. The casting and premise made it seem like it would be a homerun, but the final product was nothing but a foul ball.

3/10.
 
Garden State - been wanting to watch it for a while, and once i got passed seeing ZB as "JD", I got into it more. Quite depressing, but at the same time, a good watch. 7/10
 
The Social Network

We went and watched this at the local cheap theater yesterday. Excellent movie about the making of Facebook. I dont have Facebook but still found the movie very enjoyable.
 


Art & Copy (Doug Pray, 2009) -- A documentary about the ins and outs of advertising starting from the so-called 'golden age' of it (early 60s) up to nowadays, the founders of the biggest shops (DDB, TBWA, JWT, BBDO, CPB, etc.) and the current CEOs of them as well. It also does a bit of insighting to the greates advertising ideas and commercials to sprout from the business. There is a lot of material to appeal and make the campaigns understandable to the common public, but more importantly, why would the common consumer even care? That's basically the biggest flaw in this documentary. Fortunately, it does make a decent difference between the art director and the copywriter (which is my career) and as an advertising guy I enjoyed it, but I do't see anyone who isn't in the business enjoying it as much. 7.5/10



Inception (Christopher Nolan, 2010) -- Amazing movie not only because of its action, suspense, acting and art direction, but because of its originality. In a world where technology exists to enter the human mind through dream invasion, a highly skilled thief is given a final chance at redemption which involves executing his toughest job to date: Inception. So many realities existing at the same time within the realm of dreams, I was just amazed that the movie could make a logical progression of all and make the viewer understand it easily (at least I did). A second vieweing is prehaps in order, but just to take in the tidbits off it, just like it happens with most of Nolan's movies. Definitely one to keep in the permanent collection bin. I was reminded at times of Satoshi Kon's
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, if only through the whole manipulation of dreams by a third party. Still, Inception remains a very original movie worth every watch. 10/10
 
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Garden State - been wanting to watch it for a while, and once i got passed seeing ZB as "JD", I got into it more. Quite depressing, but at the same time, a good watch. 7/10
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This is one of my favorite movies. Very nice blend of drama and comedy. It also has Natalie Portman, who is my favorite actress. She's got a lock on this year's Best Actress Oscar for Black Swan, btw. It's no contest like when Ledger won Best Supporting Actor for his role as The Joker. I don't even have to see the other nominees to know she's going to win it. She was that good.
 
Chaos Theory - 7/10

A dark comedy starring Ryan Reynolds. This modernized take on "A Comedy of Errors" tells the story about time management consultant who lives his life by a strict routine, but has his day messed up when his wife adjust his schedule by 10 minutes. It throws him completely off for an entire day and the consequences of that nearly destroy his entire life.

It was an interesting story and I liked the concept of a man learning to let go of control. Meanwhile, the surrounding MacGuffin is him trying to gain some semblance of control in his life. The chain of events being off by ten minutes creates is presented in a way to push being unbelievable but the story stretches over a long enough time period so that you don't think it all happened at once.

The biggest downfall is that Ryan Reynolds seems to have trouble pulling off depressed or downtrodden in a good way. Whenever he has a moment where the character has a chance to express emotion it suddenly seems like you walked into a Van Wilder film. His personality is best suited to outgoing characters and this guy is a bit of a quiet and brooding type. You can almost feel him being out of his element. Ryan Reynolds is good for comedy and fun popcorn flicks, not for darker films.
 
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Inception (Christopher Nolan, 2010) -- Amazing movie not only because of its action, suspense, acting and art direction, but because of its originality. In a world where technology exists to enter the human mind through dream invasion, a highly skilled thief is given a final chance at redemption which involves executing his toughest job to date: Inception. So many realities existing at the same time within the realm of dreams, I was just amazed that the movie could make a logical progression of all and make the viewer understand it easily (at least I did). A second vieweing is prehaps in order, but just to take in the tidbits off it, just like it happens with most of Nolan's movies. Definitely one to keep in the permanent collection bin. I was reminded at times of Satoshi Kon's
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, if only through the whole manipulation of dreams by a third party. Still, Inception remains a very original movie worth every watch. 10/10
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I got this for my Xmas/birthday and watched it a couple of weeks ago... I remember thinking at the time that I wondered what you'd make of it, not expecting a top marks rating. I personally thought it was great, but I was a little suspect of the number of 'rules' and seemingly ah-hoc little explainers that were necessary (which often sounded quite stilted). Ironically, despite these, I found the film less clear cut - although I have yet to watch it again. I did get the strong feeling that certain comments were designed to make considerably more sense the second time around, though. I'd give it an 8/10 or maybe a 9/10 - very good, but not life-changingly good.
 
Touring Mars
I got this for my Xmas/birthday and watched it a couple of weeks ago... I remember thinking at the time that I wondered what you'd make of it, not expecting a top marks rating. I personally thought it was great, but I was a little suspect of the number of 'rules' and seemingly ah-hoc little explainers that were necessary (which often sounded quite stilted). Ironically, despite these, I found the film less clear cut - although I have yet to watch it again. I did get the strong feeling that certain comments were designed to make considerably more sense the second time around, though. I'd give it an 8/10 or maybe a 9/10 - very good, but not life-changingly good.
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I made it a point to not know anything about the movie before watching it. I heard a few comments saying it was awesome, but I stayed as far away as possible from people talking about the plot. Coming from Chris Nolan, I was already expecting something awesome, though.
 
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We watched it in the cheap theaters. This ended up being better than I expected. I actually laughed really really hard a few parts in this movie.

Then we started watching Avatar in blu ray again for about the 10th time. Just cant get enough of this movie. Looks so incredible in Blu Ray.
 
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Driven

This is quite possibly the worst film ever made. Maybe I'd like it more if I weren't a dedicated racing fan, but then the film would have no appeal to me at all. The problem with this film is that it's so bad it literally bends the laws of physics. According to DRIVEN, if a racing car gets to much as the slightest puff of air, it will launch into an impossible series of spectacular somersaults, completely disregarding the fact that aerodynamic grip keeps the car firmly planted on the road. This is also a film where a car can not only drive with a bent suspension rod, but it can drive at racing speeds. And then there's the way it ignores its own geography; sharp-eyed viewers can clearly see that the race in Germany is supposed to be at the Nurburgring, but the circuit they race on is clearly not the Nurburgring. Likewise, the final race is at Belle Isle in Detroit, but in the middle of the race, shots of cars at Surfers' Paradise and the previous race in Germany randomly pop up. But perhaps most telling of all is the way the commentators describe the cars as being on the main straight on the final lap of the race, but when we cut to the driver's perspective, they've still got three more corners to go! And then there's my personal favourite: the main straight at Belle Isle is shown to be narrow and in the middle of parkland, but when the cars cross the line for the final time, the straight is three times wider and lined by massive grandstand. It just does - not - make - sense. No wonder Stallone said this was one of the films he regretted doing ... but then, he's the one who wrote it and acted in it.

Bram Turismo
Did the damn totem drop or not?!
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It doesn't matter because Cobb is not looking at it. He no longer cares whether he's in limbo or reality. Although one theory suggests that the spinning top is not his totem at all - I'm yet to see for myself, but apparently his wedding ring is his totem because he only ever wears it in the dream.

And Michael Caine has said that every scene he appears in is reality, athough that seems to be his personal belief more than anything else.
 


La Vita è Bella (a.k.a. Life is Beautiful) (Roberto Benigni, 1997) -- A Jewish man has a wonderful romance with the help of his humour, but must use that same quality to protect his son in a Nazi death camp. Truly a beautiful movie showing the sacrifices a father is willing to make in order to avoid letting his son witness the horrors of living in a concentration camp during WWII in Italy. Benigni's clownish behavior is really what makes this movie shine since he can be very funny but also use that funnyness to win the hearts of the viewers and make them shed a few tears through such beauty as being a good actor and a wonderful comedian. The humaniy he put into his characters is simply incredible, which makes the movie seem a bit unrealistic, but I'm sure that was the idea all along. The whole point to the movie is to show what love is capable of. 9/10



Le Dernier Metro (a.k.a. The Last Metro) (François Truffaut, 1980) -- Paris, 1942. Lucas Steiner is a Jew and was compelled to leave the country. His wife Marion, an actress, directs the theater for him. She tries to keep the theater alive with a new play, and hires Bernard Granger for the leading role. But Lucas is actually hiding in the basement... A film about art and life that seems too banal to be taken seriously, yet achieves truly remarkable human greatness because of the naturality of the characters. The movie also acts as a sort of tribute to theater as a form of free expression that has always been able to work out even in the oddest circumstances. It's the type of movie that makes us believe in human virtues which are present in anyone thanks to the naturalness with which Depardieu and Deneuve can act. 7/10
 
A Place Called Chiapas. It a documentary about the EZLN, the mexican revolutionary group that formed opposing NAFTA.
 
astrosdude91
Watched Dinner For Schmucks.

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I'd be lying if I said I didn't laugh a little bit in this movie, but in large I found this movie to be very repetitive and stupid. The casting and premise made it seem like it would be a homerun, but the final product was nothing but a foul ball.

3/10.
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Totally agree. Parts of it were funny, but got kind of annoying towards the end. Especially the stalker chick.
 


Crazy Heart (Scott Cooper, 2009) -- Starring the always awesome Jeff bridges as a faded country music musician who is forced to reassess his dysfunctional life during a doomed romance that also inspires him. Seeing Bridges play a down-and-out alcoholic who is ready to start again his life is awesome indeed, because Bridges is just that kind of honest and powerful actor that will drive a movie to success. And that's exactly what he does here: the movie itself is no big deal, though it can get sentimental and significative enough at times, it is Jeff Bridges who makes the movie work and the sole reason really to watch it. Crazy Heart (and the award he got for it) just proved yet again that he is one of the greatest American actors who still roam the screens. 7/10
 
In the last week I've seen shutter island and superbad - loved them both. also iron man2 which is currently my favourite film of all time ( possibly something to do with scarlett johannsen in a VERY tight outfit :D) yes I am that shallow...
 


This is Spinal Tap (Rob Reiner, 1984) -- In 1982 legendary British heavy metal band Spinal Tap attempt an American comeback tour accompanied by a fan who is also a film-maker. The resulting documentary, interspersed with powerful performances of Tap's pivotal music and profound lyrics, candidly follows a rock group heading towards crisis, culminating in the infamous affair of the eighteen-inch-high Stonehenge stage prop. First off, the entire film is ad-libbed except for the songs and a few lines, and it certainly helps to be a fan of the rock genre to enjoy the film, or you will miss out on some significant references and the basis for each of the band members. Spinal Tap is a comedy to be seen over and over to catch all of its bliss and laugh out loud every damn time at it. An awesome movie that really shows all the glam-rock and the effects fame and fortune could have on people. 8/11
 
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Red Dawn (John Milius, 1984) -- Talk about a blast from the past, this is cold war excellence! It is the dawn of World War III. In mid-western America, a group of teenagers bands together to defend their town, and their country, from invading Soviet forces. It's amazing to watch movies like these and see what the hype of the 1980s was like and all the fears of nuclear annihilation. The plot is insane, acting over-the-top, but the historical commentary is amazing. To think that in the pre-Gorbachev era such a scenario was actually believable is just phenomenal. Aside from Independence Day and most of Michael Bay's movies, this is probably the most pro-USA movie I've seen. Although the movie is a great example of the height of the US-Soviet tensions that rose in the 1980s, the movie itself is a bit defficient in every other aspect. There's a bunch of young actors who became big later on, but nothing much to see here. 4.5/10
 

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