What's The Last Movie You Watched? - - Part 19

[Hunter Rider]

I appreciate the quality of the directing and acting, and I respect the historical importance, but I found it pretty dull. 6.5/10

 

[Kane52630]

The Paperboy

A pretty solid cast with Kidman, McConaughey, Cusack, Oyelowo, and shockingly Zac Efron. While they gave great perfoamces, the story is a bit over dramatic and almost silly at times. They try to make you care what's going on but there's little weight to them.
6/10

 

[dude stannis]

The Expendables (2010)/The Expendables 2 (2012) back to back.

These films, regard a series of tangentially related events, ultimately all of them resulting in prolonged and excessive acts of violence. I find this to be a depressing criticism on the nature of man and the futility of mans life, in the vein of Sam Peckinpah. Man’s inhumanity to man laid bare to see.

The greatest example presented in the film is the death of the sole Expendable to die thus far. Any other film and this scene would be shot in a manner noting the tragic circumstances. In this movie he’s just another victim, the film itself being more concerned in heroically framing Jean Vilain (The villain of the piece), bathing him in sunlight with a loving close up while he bellows an epic one liner and performs an overkill that otherwise would be the climactic kill in a normal film. Here it’s another in a long line of sickly humorous deaths presented without dramatic weight. The Battle of Vilena (The nation where the villains live) serves to further highlight this to pornographic excess. Despite General Garza repenting his sins, the main characters (I refuse to call them protagonists) still proceed to hack, slash, shoot, immolate, dismember, hands, feet, implode and explode, the husbands, sons, fathers and brothers of Vilena with extreme prejudice.

It is noteworthy that at no point during the films are the main characters actually refer to themselves as The Expendables, all of that being left on the cutting room floor. On the films posters, Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Steve Austin, Jean-Claude Van Damme and Chuck Norris are lumped together with the mercenary group, with no discernment. That’s because we’re ALL expendable. Note the characters tattoos say ‘expendable’ not ‘The Expendables’.

At no point can these films be accused of having a coherent story. But then, could the events of life be considered coherent? If one were to snip a line of dialogue in each film, one could easily jumble both films together in an editing room. In the promotional lead up to Cloud Atlas, Lana Wachowski stated that the future of storytelling will be less traditional and more fragmented. It is this statement that leads me to believe that The Expendables franchise will usher in a new era of cinematic storytelling.

 

[Lasirius]

2012

5/10

 

[CapedCrusader14]

The Terminator: 4.5/5

Recently purchased the film on Blu-Ray and I hadn't watched it in years. Still a classic to me even if it feels dated.

 

[TheGuy]

The Age of Innocence

I had some problems with the narration. There were scenes that should have been carried by the acting and score instead of the narration. It took some of the film's emotional weight. 8/10

 

[Soapy]

A really underrated film that had the misfortune of going up against some pretty insane competition and coming out a time when most people were rather tired of Star Trek. I like to think of Nemesis as the best of the middle tier of Trek films.

4/5

 

[CrypticOne]

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Great film. Loved it.

 

[psylockolussus]

Harry Potter: Deathly Hallows Part 2

 

[Nightwing 52]

Unknown

 

[3dman27]

films of fury

 

[DCW]

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 9/10.

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull 7/10. Not near as bad as people have said.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter
8/10

Pretty good film. Later with silver it gets disorienting, but the overall movie is good

 

[CConn]

Heavy Metal.

One of the best films of all time.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

Heavy Metal.

One of the best films of all time.

Is that the comic animated film with creepy looking art and all those nipples?

 

[craigdbfan]

It's honestly one of the best films of all time. One of my favorites.

 

[SWAT]

Jack Reacher.

IMO, one of the best characters Tom Cruise has done in a long time.

 

[Marx]

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Great movie, but do not see it in the "high frame rate" format.

 

[Terror Inc.]

Cloud Atlas. A wierd, tragic, sometimes confusing, but genuinely interesting movie. I loved it. A nice breath of fresh air compared to the same ol' humdrum formula Hollywood seems to spew out and people eat up these days.

 

[hammerhedd11]

The Hobbit

 

[bullets]

The Expendables (2010)/The Expendables 2 (2012) back to back.

These films, regard a series of tangentially related events, ultimately all of them resulting in prolonged and excessive acts of violence. I find this to be a depressing criticism on the nature of man and the futility of mans life, in the vein of Sam Peckinpah. Man’s inhumanity to man laid bare to see.

The greatest example presented in the film is the death of the sole Expendable to die thus far. Any other film and this scene would be shot in a manner noting the tragic circumstances. In this movie he’s just another victim, the film itself being more concerned in heroically framing Jean Vilain (The villain of the piece), bathing him in sunlight with a loving close up while he bellows an epic one liner and performs an overkill that otherwise would be the climactic kill in a normal film. Here it’s another in a long line of sickly humorous deaths presented without dramatic weight. The Battle of Vilena (The nation where the villains live) serves to further highlight this to pornographic excess. Despite General Garza repenting his sins, the main characters (I refuse to call them protagonists) still proceed to hack, slash, shoot, immolate, dismember, hands, feet, implode and explode, the husbands, sons, fathers and brothers of Vilena with extreme prejudice.

It is noteworthy that at no point during the films are the main characters actually refer to themselves as The Expendables, all of that being left on the cutting room floor. On the films posters, Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Steve Austin, Jean-Claude Van Damme and Chuck Norris are lumped together with the mercenary group, with no discernment. That’s because we’re ALL expendable. Note the characters tattoos say ‘expendable’ not ‘The Expendables’.

At no point can these films be accused of having a coherent story. But then, could the events of life be considered coherent? If one were to snip a line of dialogue in each film, one could easily jumble both films together in an editing room. In the promotional lead up to Cloud Atlas, Lana Wachowski stated that the future of storytelling will be less traditional and more fragmented. It is this statement that leads me to believe that The Expendables franchise will usher in a new era of cinematic storytelling.

Last movie Watched:


Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3D (2012)

I want my money back!!

 

[Panthro]

Race To Witch Mountain (2009)

 

[Figs]

1.5/5

3.5/5

 

[hammerhedd11]

Moon Rock (short)

 

[Thundarr]

Conan The Barbarian (1982)


Conan The Destroyer