Terrible doesn't even come close to describing it. Every single possible thing that this movie has is bad, bland, ugly, generic, poor, and boring. The lighting is bad. The music is bad. The characters are bad. The plot is bad. The aliens are bad. The ideas are bad. The action is bad. The dialogue is bad. The costumes are bad. The sets are bad. The cinematography is bad. The ending is bad. The opening is bad. The middle is bad. This movie makes no sense!
But thanks to this movie, I know I'm not supposed to yank a gun, because it's not my pecker. Shoot me.
From what I can tell, it's Avatar all over again - a movie driven entirely by hype (I mean really, how many movies do you still see theatrical trailers for as late as the week before release?) - except at least Avatar had the decency to rip off the plot of a semi-decent movie.
Terrible doesn't even come close to describing it. Every single possible thing that this movie has is bad, bland, ugly, generic, poor, and boring. The lighting is bad. The music is bad. The characters are bad. The plot is bad. The aliens are bad. The ideas are bad. The action is bad. The dialogue is bad. The costumes are bad. The sets are bad. The cinematography is bad. The ending is bad. The opening is bad. The middle is bad. This movie makes no sense!
But thanks to this movie, I know I'm not supposed to yank a gun, because it's not my pecker. Shoot me.
You mean with a gun right...not your pecker? o.O
Hey, at least you didn't mention actors. That's something.... right?
You mean with a gun right...not your pecker? o.O
Hey, at least you didn't mention actors. That's something.... right?
No, I mean this awkward stupid bit of dialog a preacher says to Sam Rockwell's character while teaching him to shoot- "Don't yank it. It's not yer pecker." which is the stupidest, borderline creepy thing I've heard in a long time from a movie character.
The actors were decent, even Ford. Even Ford was just okay. Sam Rockwell was the best. Daniel Craig was okay. Olivia Wilde was rotten. I just don't understand this. The only good scenes were the early ones, but they were hardly what I expected the movie to show off as it's best. There is no reason this movie had to be bad, or even this bad.
Source Code is an ingenious thriller that comes billed as science fiction, although its science is preposterous. Does that matter, as long as everyone treats it with the greatest urgency? After all, space travel beyond the solar system is preposterous, and yet we couldn't do without "Star Trek." The "science" in this case is used to prop up an appealing story of a man who tries to change the past.
Shaun of the Dead 8.5/10
If the zombie genre steadfastly refuses to die, we can be grateful to "Shaun of the Dead" for breathing fresh, diverting life into the form, with subtle visual humor and a smart, impish sense of fun.
Limitless 9/10
Bradley Cooper manages to pull this metamorphosis off with humor and aplomb - there's a lot going on with his character, and the actor convincingly conveys both the old Eddie's total loserness and the "enhanced" Eddie's swagger and acumen. More than The Hangover (and certainly more than The A-Team), this is the movie that proves Cooper has the stuff of a leading man.
Scream 4 7.5/10
the movie is for all intents and purposes carried out on a stretcher, just like one of the characters. But not before it has accomplished one of its most melancholy-inducing feats of meta, something with which no previous Scream has ever had to grapple. The truly frightening killer this time isn’t Ghostface, but time. The real Grim Reaper. The ticktock no successful movie franchise can escape. Sidney is a woman now, no longer the girl she was, and Neve Campbell is no longer the ingenue. The pretty young players who populate Woodsboro 2011 know it’s their turn now, thank you very much. “You were my ’90s!” one of those young things says to Cox’s Gale. Nostalgic for the days when Ghostface was everyone’s ’90s, the makers of Scream 4 revisit old haunts where, it turns out, the technology is newfangled but Ghostface is long in the tooth.
Quick runthrough of a few movies I've watched recently:
Captain America - 7/10
This was a fairly enjoyable popcorn movie. A lot of the movie, for me, was carried by the 1950s Americana aesthetic, which frankly I love. For example, a highlight of the film for me was this song, a bombastic musical number done in just the right style for the era. Still, the film was held down by a lot of issues for me:
1. Why are we essentially replacing Nazis with HYDRA? We get a couple administrative and scientific people that consider themselves Nazis, and Hitler is mentioned, but you will not see a single German troop nor will you see much mention of Nazis in the film. It seemed like, while willing to acknowledge the era in some ways, it was too afraid to do so in others. Much like X-Men: First Class, we find ourselves looking at Super Nazi villains, guys who get kicked out of Nazism for being too evil, and the heavy presence of these HYRDA agents during the war and the strange lack of Nazi forces on the front lines of World War II right around Berlin is somewhat odd.
2. OH MY GOD THIS MOVIE IS NAIVE. Seriously, it's like watching a children's cartoon. Bad guys are for real bad, good guys are all super good, there is nobody on the "Good Guy" side who has a fault and nobody on the "Bad Guy" side who has a redeeming quality. Red Skull sees Hitler as unambitious and weak, his scientist(the closest to a CHARACTER we get on the HYDRA side) is a two-timing coward, and everyone else is an evil cult member straight out of a Chick Tract against Dungeons and Dragons.
3. If you mapped out the character arc of Steve Rogers, you'd get a flat line. He starts out as a perfect poster boy for the very best in American WWII sentiment, and ends the very same. His idealism is never challenged, and any obstacle is set up in such a way that his Golden Boy idealism is reaffirmed in a very simple way, and we see how great and awesome he is. In a way, his love interest has a slightly more interesting arc, in that at least she is forced to think that Steve is dead and has to reconcile her idealistic faith in his abilities with her choice to send him to his death, leading to the one scene in the whole film that even pretended to have something approaching emotional depth. In comparison, Steve's best buddy dies in a fast, undramatic way, and the only means by which the film acknowledges it is by having Commander Tommy Lee Jones TELL us that Steve is(probably) a bit mad about that.
4. The musical number I loved, but the sequence with Captain America going around selling war bonds is frankly stupid and ridiculous. They had to find a way to give him a stupid costume, I get that, but the show he's in doesn't actually utilize any of his powers in any way. They could dress up any soldier like that. Furthermore, yeah I know government spending and appropriations are idiotic, but the idea that they'd just drop this guy in a lab and constantly treat him like he doesn't matter really doesn't make any sense, unless they were planning on putting up "adversity" where he had to "choose to do what's right because it's right". This whole dancing monkey setup just doesn't make any sense, and is there because it has to be, not from anywhere that's really organic.
5. The secondary cast is dull. They're a bunch of cardboard cutouts with their role scrawled on them with marker. You have the "badass female who can do what all the boys can do but better so there, but also she has the hots for the hero", Tommy Lee Jones plays every drill sergeant ever, not many people in the cast feel "real", they're just roles on sticks. Howard Stark and the German scientist are the worst offenders in this regard, to me, since he seems like a really cheap knock-off of the Iron Man films' Tony Stark, while the German scientist that developed the serum is basically the SAME GUY that died in this EXACT SAME WAY in the first Iron Man movie.
All the same, the film is quite fun if you can get past that. It's just a dumb action movie that doesn't take an opportunity to really say anything of value. Well, I suppose it does say "GO SEE AVENGERS HEY GUYS AVENGERS IS COMING OUT GO GO GO GO AVENGERS NEXT SUMMER WOO AVENGERS", but that's not a compelling message. The action scenes are well done. For one, you can actually follow them. For another, the film simply does a good job of making Captain America feel "Super" out the gate. He gets his powers, and BAM, does something super. The cinematorgraphy and effects for this chase sequence make it feel like what he's doing is incredible, when a lot of superhero movies just "feel" like the heroes are barely even trying or fail to deliver the grandiose feeling to grand actions. The performances, while based on a script with bland characters, are all really well done. Set design is excellent, as is the ambiance for the film. It ties rather well into the larger Marvel Cineverse while expanding it quite a bit, props up the Avengers film fairly well, and really does take advantage of its place in a larger universe in a way that none of the other Marvel films really do, which gives this a feeling that it's tied into something far larger and greater. This is it, Marvel's done it, we have continuity and a proper, continuous comics-based universe in Hollywood movie form. Overall, I left the theater having enjoyed myself, even if the movie avoided doing anything truly great at every possible turn.
Duck, You Sucker - 9/10
It's a Sergio Leone film. If I have to say more, you should be punched and then forced to watch the Dollars trilogy to learn why you deserved to be punched.
Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain - 9/10
An excellent film that changed the face of an entire genre. There's a certain glee in the sheer kinetic force of a film made entirely with martial artists and wire that you just don't get when you can make any actor fly and do amazing things with a computer. The wild changes in tone provide a show that provides great action, drama, and comedy all in one package that provides a really epic feel while delivering a great, optimistic message about future generations and not allowing yourself to become stagnant and self-absorbed when faced with an unfair world.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II - 4/10
Dear God was this boring. I was quite happy to not see this one, but a social obligation to a cousin that just got out of Basic Training got me to break my four-movie non-watching streak for these films. I wasn't even impressed with the effects and set design anymore. The whole film was just a series of big things happening one after the other. It's half a book in a two-hour film and it still feels rushed. Even the score, which was a highlight of the prior films in this series that I've actually seen, just felt dull and lifeless.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II - Now a 3/10. What a boring piece of commercial bullshit that was. I need to drink a bottle of paint thinner just to blot out the memory. Thanks, Pantsman for correcting me.
All the same, the film is quite fun if you can get past that. It's just a dumb action movie that doesn't take an opportunity to really say anything of value. Well, I suppose it does say "GO SEE AVENGERS HEY GUYS AVENGERS IS COMING OUT GO GO GO GO AVENGERS NEXT SUMMER WOO AVENGERS", but that's not a compelling message. The action scenes are well done. For one, you can actually follow them. For another, the film simply does a good job of making Captain America feel "Super" out the gate. He gets his powers, and BAM, does something super. The cinematorgraphy and effects for this chase sequence make it feel like what he's doing is incredible, when a lot of superhero movies just "feel" like the heroes are barely even trying or fail to deliver the grandiose feeling to grand actions. The performances, while based on a script with bland characters, are all really well done. Set design is excellent, as is the ambiance for the film. It ties rather well into the larger Marvel Cineverse while expanding it quite a bit, props up the Avengers film fairly well, and really does take advantage of its place in a larger universe in a way that none of the other Marvel films really do, which gives this a feeling that it's tied into something far larger and greater. This is it, Marvel's done it, we have continuity and a proper, continuous comics-based universe in Hollywood movie form. Overall, I left the theater having enjoyed myself, even if the movie avoided doing anything truly great at every possible turn.
This is the only part I agree with at all. Well, and 1 and 2, but I liked all of that.
Seeing this, I am now going to adjust my scores to provoke more discussion:
Captain America: :First Avenger - 0/10
This movie was shit and anyone who likes it is dumb.
Duck, You Sucker - 10/10
This movie is old so it's great. Your new movies suck.
Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain - 10/10
This movie is great because YOU, the IDIOTS, probably haven't seen it.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II - 0/10
Only given because there are no negative numbers on my scale. I'd rather let a rabies-infested raccoon devour my scrotum than watch this again. If you enjoyed it, you are not only an idiot, but you are also not allowed to ever state an opinion on film ever again without someone screaming in your face that you are wrong.
The only thing I didn't really like about the latest Harry Potter movie, was that the final battle was very anti-climatic.
I mean you have all this build up, and then the ACTUAL final battle is short and dull.
Never got a true sense of power from "he who shall not be named".
And the ending.
19 years later, and they decided to use the same actors??!
They didn't even look older!
They could've got any group of adults to do that bit, and it would have been better.
Well, they had to make the epilogue horrifically disappointing, rushed, and poorly made in film form in order to match the ambiance of that part of the book.
Not bad at all. I still haven't seen Manhunter, so I can't compare the two, but it's quite enjoyable on its own merits. It does feel a little rote, though. Serial killer kills serially, Hannibal (in his roundabout way) helps the FBI, serial killer gets got. I realize that it's funny to call it "rote" when it's based on the first book, but it *is* the fourth movie, so yeah.
It just doesn't really aspire to anything. It takes a typical anti hero and scopes his progress but uses gantz as a mcguffin, doesn't reveal much in terms of why these things are happening, and besides being a negative piece, it just fails so often. Long stretches of pretty much nothing happening, even in the middle of the action. Just minutes of screaming and not much else. Show's culmination is with a suddenly erected foil that doesn't play out because there's neither emotional connection to the hero or enemy. It also gets bizarrely political in the final episode that doesn't serve the story. The most intriguing moments of the show were when it stopped to discuss why do we kill and who do we deem worth killing, but these moments are swallowed in a sea of nonsense, angst, and cliche. The protagonist needed far more development far earlier. Plus the homophobia and misogyny could have been used for a point but were instead pathetically out of place and blatant.
Not bad at all. I still haven't seen Manhunter, so I can't compare the two, but it's quite enjoyable on its own merits. It does feel a little rote, though. Serial killer kills serially, Hannibal (in his roundabout way) helps the FBI, serial killer gets got. I realize that it's funny to call it "rote" when it's based on the first book, but it *is* the fourth movie, so yeah.
I'd even give it an 8. The only thing that brought me to vomit is the last minute of that movie, which ruined both the book's ending with a vengeance AND tried to lead over to The Silence of the Lambs movie in an utterly unbelievable and glued-on way. Big hate.
Moon 8/10
For the confined space and limited actors, something I normally don't like, this is an exceptional movie. It's a Sam Rockwell one-man show, but a good one. If you happen not to guess what's actually going on too soon, the story keeps you out of breath for quite some time. Hell, even the all-knowing computer doesn't act like you think it would. It's just that I
just can't watch people losing their teeth. Any kind of violence and gore no problem, I've been force-fed horror/splatter movies by a friend in my youth, but I just can't stand that.
I'd even give it an 8. The only thing that brought me to vomit is the last minute of that movie, which ruined both the book's ending with a vengeance AND tried to lead over to The Silence of the Lambs movie in an utterly unbelievable and glued-on way. Big hate.
That definitely felt forced. "Oh boy, he's talking about Clarice! That's a character in a movie/book I saw/read, AND it fits the timeline! Give that writer an award!"
Silent Hill - 6/10
Oh god, this movie... every time I see it, I'm completely torn as to how I feel about it. I *hate* everything that happens once they enter the church, and enjoy most of what happens before, but that splits the runtime right down the middle. It's certainly my favorite vidjamagame movie, but that type of movie is not exactly in the company of kings.
I'm still excited for Silent Hill 2. If the first was half a good movie, then maybe the second will be too, and I'll get one good Silent Hill film out of the whole deal. One bad one as well, but hey.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II - 11/11
Holy shit. This is one of the greatest films I have ever seen. I was completely wrong to avoid this one before. The cinematography, the sets, the effects, the characters and their development, the action, the music, the acting, the story....everything was perfect. This is easily in my top ten favorite films now.
No shit. The entire history of cinema has been building up to one beautiful perfect messiah of cinema, and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 is it. If this is the perfection they could come up with for this series, I'm sorry this is the last film.
I loved the plot twists in this film, especially the one where
Psych. This movie is a piece of horrid shit, fanboys. Porblem?
I was disappointed. I was bored. I didn't like the portrayal of the character after he "buffed" up. The villain should've been more interesting. *sigh*
I don't give really high scores unless a movie blows me away, but an 8 is still pretty good from me. It's a good film, and I really enjoyed it. Certain aspects felt a little rushed
(Bucky's death never really got much more than a cursory mention after the fact, which was a little disappointing)
and the characterization fell a tad flat at times, but overall it was a great film and I would happily go see it again.
And for god's sake, wait until the credits are over. F**k me that tail-end bit was awesome.
Crazy Stupid Love - 2/5. Really boring, and the involvement of Emma Stone relies on you spending the entire movie thinking her plot has nothing to do with the rest of the plot. Also ran for more than 2 hours, which is unacceptable in a Romantic Comedy.
Comments
I don't even know what to think about this movie.
Gee, who could've foreseen that?
Oh, right.
Terrible doesn't even come close to describing it. Every single possible thing that this movie has is bad, bland, ugly, generic, poor, and boring. The lighting is bad. The music is bad. The characters are bad. The plot is bad. The aliens are bad. The ideas are bad. The action is bad. The dialogue is bad. The costumes are bad. The sets are bad. The cinematography is bad. The ending is bad. The opening is bad. The middle is bad. This movie makes no sense!
But thanks to this movie, I know I'm not supposed to yank a gun, because it's not my pecker. Shoot me.
You mean with a gun right...not your pecker? o.O
Hey, at least you didn't mention actors. That's something.... right?
No, I mean this awkward stupid bit of dialog a preacher says to Sam Rockwell's character while teaching him to shoot- "Don't yank it. It's not yer pecker." which is the stupidest, borderline creepy thing I've heard in a long time from a movie character.
The actors were decent, even Ford. Even Ford was just okay. Sam Rockwell was the best. Daniel Craig was okay. Olivia Wilde was rotten. I just don't understand this. The only good scenes were the early ones, but they were hardly what I expected the movie to show off as it's best. There is no reason this movie had to be bad, or even this bad.
Anyway, I wouldn't go see Cowboys and Aliens for the simple reason that last time Indiana Jones Harrison Ford met aliens, it was a trainwreck.
Source Code is an ingenious thriller that comes billed as science fiction, although its science is preposterous. Does that matter, as long as everyone treats it with the greatest urgency? After all, space travel beyond the solar system is preposterous, and yet we couldn't do without "Star Trek." The "science" in this case is used to prop up an appealing story of a man who tries to change the past.
Shaun of the Dead 8.5/10
If the zombie genre steadfastly refuses to die, we can be grateful to "Shaun of the Dead" for breathing fresh, diverting life into the form, with subtle visual humor and a smart, impish sense of fun.
Limitless 9/10
Bradley Cooper manages to pull this metamorphosis off with humor and aplomb - there's a lot going on with his character, and the actor convincingly conveys both the old Eddie's total loserness and the "enhanced" Eddie's swagger and acumen. More than The Hangover (and certainly more than The A-Team), this is the movie that proves Cooper has the stuff of a leading man.
Scream 4 7.5/10
the movie is for all intents and purposes carried out on a stretcher, just like one of the characters. But not before it has accomplished one of its most melancholy-inducing feats of meta, something with which no previous Scream has ever had to grapple. The truly frightening killer this time isn’t Ghostface, but time. The real Grim Reaper. The ticktock no successful movie franchise can escape. Sidney is a woman now, no longer the girl she was, and Neve Campbell is no longer the ingenue. The pretty young players who populate Woodsboro 2011 know it’s their turn now, thank you very much. “You were my ’90s!” one of those young things says to Cox’s Gale. Nostalgic for the days when Ghostface was everyone’s ’90s, the makers of Scream 4 revisit old haunts where, it turns out, the technology is newfangled but Ghostface is long in the tooth.
Are you sure about that?
Captain America - 7/10
This was a fairly enjoyable popcorn movie. A lot of the movie, for me, was carried by the 1950s Americana aesthetic, which frankly I love. For example, a highlight of the film for me was this song, a bombastic musical number done in just the right style for the era. Still, the film was held down by a lot of issues for me:
1. Why are we essentially replacing Nazis with HYDRA? We get a couple administrative and scientific people that consider themselves Nazis, and Hitler is mentioned, but you will not see a single German troop nor will you see much mention of Nazis in the film. It seemed like, while willing to acknowledge the era in some ways, it was too afraid to do so in others. Much like X-Men: First Class, we find ourselves looking at Super Nazi villains, guys who get kicked out of Nazism for being too evil, and the heavy presence of these HYRDA agents during the war and the strange lack of Nazi forces on the front lines of World War II right around Berlin is somewhat odd.
2. OH MY GOD THIS MOVIE IS NAIVE. Seriously, it's like watching a children's cartoon. Bad guys are for real bad, good guys are all super good, there is nobody on the "Good Guy" side who has a fault and nobody on the "Bad Guy" side who has a redeeming quality. Red Skull sees Hitler as unambitious and weak, his scientist(the closest to a CHARACTER we get on the HYDRA side) is a two-timing coward, and everyone else is an evil cult member straight out of a Chick Tract against Dungeons and Dragons.
3. If you mapped out the character arc of Steve Rogers, you'd get a flat line. He starts out as a perfect poster boy for the very best in American WWII sentiment, and ends the very same. His idealism is never challenged, and any obstacle is set up in such a way that his Golden Boy idealism is reaffirmed in a very simple way, and we see how great and awesome he is. In a way, his love interest has a slightly more interesting arc, in that at least she is forced to think that Steve is dead and has to reconcile her idealistic faith in his abilities with her choice to send him to his death, leading to the one scene in the whole film that even pretended to have something approaching emotional depth. In comparison, Steve's best buddy dies in a fast, undramatic way, and the only means by which the film acknowledges it is by having Commander Tommy Lee Jones TELL us that Steve is(probably) a bit mad about that.
4. The musical number I loved, but the sequence with Captain America going around selling war bonds is frankly stupid and ridiculous. They had to find a way to give him a stupid costume, I get that, but the show he's in doesn't actually utilize any of his powers in any way. They could dress up any soldier like that. Furthermore, yeah I know government spending and appropriations are idiotic, but the idea that they'd just drop this guy in a lab and constantly treat him like he doesn't matter really doesn't make any sense, unless they were planning on putting up "adversity" where he had to "choose to do what's right because it's right". This whole dancing monkey setup just doesn't make any sense, and is there because it has to be, not from anywhere that's really organic.
5. The secondary cast is dull. They're a bunch of cardboard cutouts with their role scrawled on them with marker. You have the "badass female who can do what all the boys can do but better so there, but also she has the hots for the hero", Tommy Lee Jones plays every drill sergeant ever, not many people in the cast feel "real", they're just roles on sticks. Howard Stark and the German scientist are the worst offenders in this regard, to me, since he seems like a really cheap knock-off of the Iron Man films' Tony Stark, while the German scientist that developed the serum is basically the SAME GUY that died in this EXACT SAME WAY in the first Iron Man movie.
All the same, the film is quite fun if you can get past that. It's just a dumb action movie that doesn't take an opportunity to really say anything of value. Well, I suppose it does say "GO SEE AVENGERS HEY GUYS AVENGERS IS COMING OUT GO GO GO GO AVENGERS NEXT SUMMER WOO AVENGERS", but that's not a compelling message. The action scenes are well done. For one, you can actually follow them. For another, the film simply does a good job of making Captain America feel "Super" out the gate. He gets his powers, and BAM, does something super. The cinematorgraphy and effects for this chase sequence make it feel like what he's doing is incredible, when a lot of superhero movies just "feel" like the heroes are barely even trying or fail to deliver the grandiose feeling to grand actions. The performances, while based on a script with bland characters, are all really well done. Set design is excellent, as is the ambiance for the film. It ties rather well into the larger Marvel Cineverse while expanding it quite a bit, props up the Avengers film fairly well, and really does take advantage of its place in a larger universe in a way that none of the other Marvel films really do, which gives this a feeling that it's tied into something far larger and greater. This is it, Marvel's done it, we have continuity and a proper, continuous comics-based universe in Hollywood movie form. Overall, I left the theater having enjoyed myself, even if the movie avoided doing anything truly great at every possible turn.
Duck, You Sucker - 9/10
It's a Sergio Leone film. If I have to say more, you should be punched and then forced to watch the Dollars trilogy to learn why you deserved to be punched.
Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain - 9/10
An excellent film that changed the face of an entire genre. There's a certain glee in the sheer kinetic force of a film made entirely with martial artists and wire that you just don't get when you can make any actor fly and do amazing things with a computer. The wild changes in tone provide a show that provides great action, drama, and comedy all in one package that provides a really epic feel while delivering a great, optimistic message about future generations and not allowing yourself to become stagnant and self-absorbed when faced with an unfair world.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II - 4/10
Dear God was this boring. I was quite happy to not see this one, but a social obligation to a cousin that just got out of Basic Training got me to break my four-movie non-watching streak for these films. I wasn't even impressed with the effects and set design anymore. The whole film was just a series of big things happening one after the other. It's half a book in a two-hour film and it still feels rushed. Even the score, which was a highlight of the prior films in this series that I've actually seen, just felt dull and lifeless.
Fixed that for you, buddy.
This is the only part I agree with at all. Well, and 1 and 2, but I liked all of that.
Well then you better fix all of these too.
Captain America: :First Avenger - 0/10
This movie was shit and anyone who likes it is dumb.
Duck, You Sucker - 10/10
This movie is old so it's great. Your new movies suck.
Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain - 10/10
This movie is great because YOU, the IDIOTS, probably haven't seen it.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II - 0/10
Only given because there are no negative numbers on my scale. I'd rather let a rabies-infested raccoon devour my scrotum than watch this again. If you enjoyed it, you are not only an idiot, but you are also not allowed to ever state an opinion on film ever again without someone screaming in your face that you are wrong.
I mean you have all this build up, and then the ACTUAL final battle is short and dull.
Never got a true sense of power from "he who shall not be named".
And the ending.
19 years later, and they decided to use the same actors??!
They didn't even look older!
They could've got any group of adults to do that bit, and it would have been better.
Actually, I thought they aged them pretty well, except for Hermione who looked exactly the frigging same.
Not bad at all. I still haven't seen Manhunter, so I can't compare the two, but it's quite enjoyable on its own merits. It does feel a little rote, though. Serial killer kills serially, Hannibal (in his roundabout way) helps the FBI, serial killer gets got. I realize that it's funny to call it "rote" when it's based on the first book, but it *is* the fourth movie, so yeah.
GANTZ - 6/10.
It just doesn't really aspire to anything. It takes a typical anti hero and scopes his progress but uses gantz as a mcguffin, doesn't reveal much in terms of why these things are happening, and besides being a negative piece, it just fails so often. Long stretches of pretty much nothing happening, even in the middle of the action. Just minutes of screaming and not much else. Show's culmination is with a suddenly erected foil that doesn't play out because there's neither emotional connection to the hero or enemy. It also gets bizarrely political in the final episode that doesn't serve the story. The most intriguing moments of the show were when it stopped to discuss why do we kill and who do we deem worth killing, but these moments are swallowed in a sea of nonsense, angst, and cliche. The protagonist needed far more development far earlier. Plus the homophobia and misogyny could have been used for a point but were instead pathetically out of place and blatant.
I'd even give it an 8. The only thing that brought me to vomit is the last minute of that movie, which ruined both the book's ending with a vengeance AND tried to lead over to The Silence of the Lambs movie in an utterly unbelievable and glued-on way. Big hate.
Moon 8/10
For the confined space and limited actors, something I normally don't like, this is an exceptional movie. It's a Sam Rockwell one-man show, but a good one. If you happen not to guess what's actually going on too soon, the story keeps you out of breath for quite some time. Hell, even the all-knowing computer doesn't act like you think it would. It's just that I
That definitely felt forced. "Oh boy, he's talking about Clarice! That's a character in a movie/book I saw/read, AND it fits the timeline! Give that writer an award!"
Silent Hill - 6/10
Oh god, this movie... every time I see it, I'm completely torn as to how I feel about it. I *hate* everything that happens once they enter the church, and enjoy most of what happens before, but that splits the runtime right down the middle. It's certainly my favorite vidjamagame movie, but that type of movie is not exactly in the company of kings.
I'm still excited for Silent Hill 2. If the first was half a good movie, then maybe the second will be too, and I'll get one good Silent Hill film out of the whole deal. One bad one as well, but hey.
'nuff said, an evening well spent.
Holy shit. This is one of the greatest films I have ever seen. I was completely wrong to avoid this one before. The cinematography, the sets, the effects, the characters and their development, the action, the music, the acting, the story....everything was perfect. This is easily in my top ten favorite films now.
No shit. The entire history of cinema has been building up to one beautiful perfect messiah of cinema, and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 is it. If this is the perfection they could come up with for this series, I'm sorry this is the last film.
I loved the plot twists in this film, especially the one where
8/10
Holy Crap! This film is pretty damn good.
You know a film is good when someone puts it on, while you are doing something, and YOU end up being the one sitting there watching it till the end.
Nothing wrong with having a little faith, baby.
This ripped the faith out of me and beat it to death.
That's all you guys got, huh? I need a drink.
6/10
I was disappointed. I was bored. I didn't like the portrayal of the character after he "buffed" up. The villain should've been more interesting. *sigh*
Just 2 hours of fun Western goodness but there were no penguins
I don't give really high scores unless a movie blows me away, but an 8 is still pretty good from me. It's a good film, and I really enjoyed it. Certain aspects felt a little rushed
And for god's sake, wait until the credits are over. F**k me that tail-end bit was awesome.
an unexpected one and one that is hugely anticipated.