What's The Last Movie You Watched? - Part 17

[hammerhedd11]

The Dark Knight Rises

 

[uniqueweasel]

Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol

 

[TheIrishAvenger]

Grade: A

 

[3dman27]

the jaguar lives

 

[hammerhedd11]

The Fighter

 

[TheIrishAvenger]

Grade: B+

A simple yet brutal action film. Definitely deserved to do better at the Box Office.

 

[Figs]

3/5

Wanted to like this more after hearing a lot of people praise it. A few of the stories were either just weak or didn't exactly make sense.

Spoiler

Killer lesbians...lame. The one in the woods didn't make sense, why was that murderer all weird looking whenever he was recorded? The one with the girl skyping her bf...I take it those little kids were aliens.

The best were the first and last videos.

Spoiler

The Batgirl/Harpy was damn cool, absolutely loved it. Just when you first see her at the bar and she's trying to communicate with the guy with glasses I knew something was really wrong with her. Then later when you see her feet, that gave me the chills. The one with the four guys trying to find that Halloween party was pretty good too. My wife and I were trying to figure out at the end if those guys in the attic were trying to summon Satan/a demon or trying to expel it out of the girl.

I love anthology films and really wanted to like this on a level where I would add it to my movie collection but don't think I will since I would pretty much only watch the first and last stories.

 

[Lobo]

The Hobbit

 

[Kable24]

Dark Shadows 5/10

 

[Panthro]

The Name of the Rose (1986)

 

[Hunter Rider]

Autumn Reeser lights up this oldschool style Christmas flick. 7/10



Santa manipulates events in order to push a girl towards cheating on her boyfriend with a guy he thinks is the true love she asked for in a letter to him when she was 8, by stranding them in an idyllic small town, but it's ok because at the same time her boyfriend reconnects with his highschool sweetheart and realizes he still loves her, they all shake hands at the end. 7/10



One for the middle aged Christmas crew. 5.5/10

 

[Bruce Malone]

So it's the hallmark channel where once promising actors careers go to die? Now I know.

 

[tzarinna]

Fanboys.

 

[Kane52630]

INK

My all time favorite indie film that I must watch during this time of the year. In a way this is the modern It's a Wonderful Life.
10/10

Bad Santa

Still hilarious after all these years which is rare for a comedy.
9.5/10

Home Alone

A classic, pure and simple.
10/10

Home Alone 2

Also a classic and it's something I always watched when I was a kid on VHS.
10/10



December/Christmas Movie List
Tron: Legacy
Avatar
Batman Returns
Jingle All The Way
Ink
Home Alone
Home Alone 2
Bad Santa
Die Hard
A Nightmare Before Christmas
A Christmas Story

 

[CGHulk]

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Madagascar 3

 

[Mace Dolex]

The Under The Hood extra on the Watchmen DVD, I like the faux 80's style commercial intermissions.

 

[craigdbfan]

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy

 

[Lasirius]

The Impossible

8.5/10

 

[nightwing06]

Zero Dark Thirty

Most people thought and said Osama bin Laden's capture or death by the hands of those hunting him would never happen.
In fact the it became the punchline of many comedic routines ........but they still cant find bin Laden......it's easier finding
bin Laden.Those that dedicated their lives to finding him,never got the those punchlines,he became their obsession for
10 years and the film Zero Dark Thirty is a well crafted,intense and suspenceful view of The Greatest Manhunt in History.


Director and producer Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal instantly involve the audience with a dark screen
and only chilling audio from 9-11.The film mainly focuses on C.I.A operative Maya( an excellent Jessica Chastain) and her
gathering of intel on locating bin Laden.At first she seems stand offish,or taken aback by the interrogation tactics of fellow
operative Dan (the great Jason Clarke),but soon displays her defiant and relentless nature.
Not only does she have to get intel from shadowy figures connected to bin Laden,but deal with the politics and red tape involved
when fellow operatives begin to focus on the terrorist activity of the day,or feel the intel on bin Laden isnt accurate enough.

ZDT is right up there with ARGO as an involving look at a historic moment.The audiences knows the outcome,but it still manages
to stir them,and leave them in suspense.Lulled into a sense of security due to the casualness of a scene only to be completely shaken and riveted
within minutes.Every scene is detailed and crafted to involve ,mixing chilling real footage of old and recent terrorist activity.

The C.I.A and government higher ups have disavowed the film,saying its non factual particularly when it comes down to the
torture tactics displayed in several scenes in order to get intel on bin Laden,but there is no denying ZDT is a great and impressive
procedural and one of the best films of 2012

Scale of 1-10 a 10

 

[TheIrishAvenger]

GRADE: B+

 

[nite-owl]

8/10

Still my favourite Christmas movie of all time.

4/10

 

[3dman27]

the jaguar lives

 

[Panthro]

Batman Returns (1992)

 

[Kable24]

Three Musketeers (2011) 5/10

 

[hammerhedd11]

Dredd