What's The Last Movie You Watched? - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Part 31

[-Arya-]

Batman: Under the Red Hood

 

[NDX]

Washed the taste of Repligator out of my mouth with Machete Kills. Delicious.

 

[MMMMM...Pancakes]

Blade II
The Naked Gun
The Dictator

 

[NewYorkSpider]

Wedding Crashers

 

[charl_huntress]

Gravity - phenomenal. I plopped down nearly forty buck for the bluray/3D and it is truly worth every penny.

 

[psylockolussus]

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes! Best movie of the year after X-Men: Days of Future Past, imo.

 

[StarkTheProdigy]

Zodiac. Another great film by Fincher

 

[dude stannis]

Minority Report (2002)

Awesome.

War of the Worlds (2005)

Awesome. Should've been the daughter, the son was annoying and added nothing.

3 Days to Kill (2014)

Costner was great in this. I'm beginning to think McG is incapable of basic film making. Both this and Terminator Salvation have major editing gaffs, bad continuity and bizarre shots.

Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)

Yes, this is my first viewing. Yes, I loved it. Much like the recent Godzilla and the aforementioned War of the Worlds, I love the emphasis on character and the story. It's every bit as good as the original Planet of the Apes. Absolutely cannot wait to see Dawn on Friday!

 

[MMMMM...Pancakes]

Scott Pilgrim vs. The World

 

[Figs]

4/5

I like this movie a little more each time I watch it. Not sure if it will be that way with Thor 2.

 

[hammerhedd11]

The Empire Strikes Back

 

[BH/HHH]

Pacific Rim, my first time seeing it and I really enjoyed it. I don't see the point in a sequel though 8/10

 

[A Necessary Evil]

4/5

I like this movie a little more each time I watch it. Not sure if it will be that way with Thor 2.

Yeah, ever since Day 1 IM3 has been massively entertaining to me. I didn't like TDW that much the first time watching it, when I bought the bluray I couldn't make it through it. Sold it on EBAY and got $40 haha

 

[Figs]

Yeah, ever since Day 1 IM3 has been massively entertaining to me. I didn't like TDW that much the first time watching it, when I bought the bluray I couldn't make it through it. Sold it on EBAY and got $40 haha

I've seen TDW three times now. I do enjoy it but it needed less Darcy, no intern, and the fights between Thor and Kurse and Malekith should have been a lot longer.

 

[NewYorkSpider]

Arthur

 

[Frico]

The Day of the Jackal

 

[Sculder]

Chinese Zodiac



We Bought a Zoo



Transcendence

 

[DyeLorean]

Horrible Bosses.

 

[StarkTheProdigy]

Panic Room and Iron Man 2

 

[-Arya-]

I really liked this. Good, lighthearted, and hilarious. The only bad thing I have to say about it is the choppy animation, and derivative plot. Regardless, I'd recommend watching this instead of the New 52 inspired movies any day of the week. I just hope DC doesn't abandon this tone with their DTV movies altogether.

 

[Panthro]

Top Secret! (1984)

I really liked this. Good, lighthearted, and hilarious. The only bad thing I have to say about it is the choppy animation, and derivative plot. Regardless, I'd recommend watching this instead of the New 52 inspired movies any day of the week. I just hope DC doesn't abandon this tone with their DTV movies altogether.

I liked it more than I thought I would. Fred Tatasciore (AKA: The Hulk) was an awesome Lex Luthor.

 

[tzarinna]

Hardball, annoying little film.

 

[-Arya-]

Top Secret! (1984)



I liked it more than I thought I would. Fred Tatasciore (AKA: The Hulk) was an awesome Lex Luthor.

The voice acting in general was okay or the most part, but I'll always prefer Clancy Brown for Lex just like I prefer Kevin Conroy, George Newbern and Mark Hamill.

 

[Heretic]

After the Dark (2014) a "sci-fi/fantasy" movie about the end of the world where none of the sci-fi/fantasy elements actually happen and the world is not ending. The only thing at risk is whether or not the students will get an A+ or maybe as low as a C. I know, high stakes at play here!

It's basically about a final exam, where a high school philosophy class that apparently is full of the greatest students ever does something that I did in middle school...a thought experiment where they imagined an apocalypse where there was a bunker that could fit 10 people, but there were 21 people. Each person was assigned traits (one guy was a carpenter, but was sterile, for instance) and they had to decide who gets to live to repopulate the earth and rebuild society. The teacher keeps throwing curve-balls at them to make them fail, so they have to redo the experiment to try to get it right.

I had prepared myself for the fact that this was just going to be a bunch of basic philosophy nonsense with no real threat involved. I accepted that and watched the film. About midway through I actually found myself intrigued, despite the over-dramatization of students playing out the roles of apocalypse survivors.

My big problem came later...when the students just decided to stop playing by the rules. Heck, if they could do that, why didn't they from the start? One guy was assigned the status that he was gay and would NOT have sex with a woman to repopulate the earth...and then later he just ditches the card info and decides to be straight. Info they learn in one test carries over to the future tests...which makes no sense since each situation should reset the "characters" minds. You can't die in an apocalypse AND remember details from it for the next apocalypse. Somehow, all of this is okay with the teacher who had been working so hard to make them fail. Heck, the problem existed early...since some of the cards would say that a person has some skill...but will die of an undiagnosed cancer in three years. How in the heck could they know that at the time of choosing who would go in the bunker? That is info that no thought experiment should include, since it requires supernatural powers. Eventually the experiment just peters out because of some really stupid rationalizing that would in a real world situation doom the entire human race, while the students just rewrite the rules as they go.

In the end they introduce a twist that was meant to explain some motivations...but it just fell flat for me because I didn't care about the characters and wanted the film to be about how to actually decide who would be chosen to live in an apocalypse.

Oh yeah...they never bother to tell us whether or not the students pass or fail the test.

Ultimately, this movie is asking a very different question than what is presented to the students. The problem is that the answer for our daily lives is certainly not the same answer as to what would work in an apocalypse scenario. In an apocalypse, you don't pick the poet over the scientist because the poet will entertain you in the bunker, and you can't just wish away your problems.

 

[psylockolussus]

Green Lantern