What's The Last Movie You Watched? XIV - - - Part 16

[Prison Mike]

Batman The Dark Knight Returns Part 1 - 8/10

 

[hammerhedd11]

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Extended Edition)

 

[Lobo]

Wanderlust
The Three Stooges
The Darkest Hour
Take Me Home Tonight
Justice League Crisis on Two Earths

 

[Wesley Dodds]

Where The Truth Lies

Demolition Man

Both 4/5 for very, VERY different reasons.

 

[Laderlappen]

Martin Scorsese's After Hours.

Wow!

 

[Lady Marion]

Real Steel

 

[terry78]

The Master

 

[ShaneHelms]

50/50

Kick-Ass

Goodfellas

 

[DorneyDave]

Dredd. Was awesome.

 

[Panthro]

Mystery Science Theater 3000 The Movie (1995)

 

[BH/HHH]

The Cold Light of Day - it was pretty average but not as bad as people have been making out

 

[DarkSovereignty]

50/50

Kick-Ass

Goodfellas

sounds like a trifecta of great movies right there. I approve lol.

 

[DCW]

Jaws. One of the very best, 10/10.

 

[DyeLorean]

Moonrise Kingdom

The sweetest Wes Anderson movie yet.

 

[childeroland]

V/h/s

 

[Metallo]

Dredd 3D

8/10

It was good. REALLY good actually. It felt far far better and far truer to the source than the 95 film. I liked that it didn't cover any of the same ground. If felt plays kind of like a half reversed siege film. instead of defending against a horde of invaders its about Dredd and Anderson trying to survive and escape a building thats been taken over. It didn't have quite the level of satire I was hoping for but its there. The over the top bloodshed feels just right. It was appropriately violent and hard boiled when it needed t be though. holy f*** they got every last drop they could out of that R rating. Refreshing in today's world of PG 13 action films.

The production design of the film was more "now' and less futuristic than the Stallone film. Mega city one still had the decaying urban sprawl but it looked more like the world of today only bigger and more crowded and dirty. It reminded me of stuff like Children of Men meets Assault on Precinct 13 meets Nolans Batfilms in a lot of ways. Liked the Judges uniforms. They looked appropriately 'urban pacification." The whole film really did remind me of a 70's/80's Carpenter film. Even the music. It just has a really dingy low key urban feel. Some of the technology that we see the futuristic slant.

Urban was very in character. A real dry witted hardass. Anderson was a perfect partner for him as an innocent rookie. I liked Lena Headey as Ma Ma. They uglied her up fairly butchily but she doesn't chew scenery. She underplays Ma Ma as someone who loves using the grisliest kind of violence to send a message. She' sadistic but coldly in control.
The slo mo drug was little more than an excuse to work slow motion effects in to the film in an "in story" way. Its something the the plot builds on but it doesn't really tie into the story in much of a way other than a means to how Ma Ma starts getting control of parts of the city. Excluding the visuals it could have been any kind of drug.

The 3D wasn't very impressive IMO. Not worth the extra cost at all. Other than that its a good film. Better than expected thats for sure. Its a shame it looks like its bombing here in the US though. Its a pretty good movie. another adaptation done far better and more right. I think most people just wrote this off as a rental between the so so marketing and the late September dumping of it. There's not really a whole lot out right now that looks to be must see to me.

 

[Team Andino]

Cabin in the Woods

5/5

Wow I kept hearing it was crazy and it's something I wasn't expecting, even then I was still blown away. I loved it.

 

[DyeLorean]

Wow, Dredd is getting some great comments and reviews but it failed so much at the box office. I feel bad when that happens.

 

[Kane52630]

Moonrise Kingdom

A very lighthearted romantic comedy with amazing style and visuals from Wes Anderson. It captures that childhood of camping and pen pals and made it streamlined yet effective. The kids I found to be really mature and it's almost if they were also adults in this world. It's a good film but I don't think it will ever beat Fantastic Mr. Fox for me. Also, It was nice to see Bruce Willis, Ed Norton, and Bill Murray interacting with each other.
8/10

Cosmopolis

To use a line from Zapp Brannigan... Mr. Cronenberg, what the hell? It's a film with ham-fisted ideas of philosophy that makes no real connection. I don't really know what the point of this film or if Cronenberg wanted to pull a Andy Kaufman on us. There were points where it was getting a bit interesting but it goes no where.
3/10

 

[craigdbfan]

10/10

Poledouris creates one of the most beautiful scores of the 80's. Only matched by Robocops which he also of course created. The ambiance set by Milius is masterful and that goes along with the great landscape shots and outside sets and props. It all gels quite nicely.

Arnold and Bergman have great chemistry and Gerry Lopez is just a badass companion. Mako is just naturally appropriate for his role and Jones does great as the cold blooded Doom.

Love everything about this movie and is absolutely in the pantheon of great fantasy/adventure films for me.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

The Phantom mini series

 

[Team Andino]

The Crow

4/5

 

[Lunar_Wolf]

Warrior
I'm not a fan of sport films, but damn did Warrior impressive me. It plays so smoothly from start to finish.

Bronson
A phenomenal performance from Hardy that's worth the watch alone.

 

[ComicChick]

The Trouble With the Curve

 

[nightwing06]

Dredd

There were a lot of things i liked about the 1995 version of Judge Dredd which starred Sylvester Stallone. There
were interesting characters,Diane Lane,Joan Chen and even Armand Assante's overacting was amusing.Maybe the reason
i liked it so much because i had just watched Batman Forever.

This 2012 version is sleeker and provides some vivid eye candy and good use of 3D.There's also
an interesting villainess Lena Headey as Ma-Ma a sadistic drug lord,who would have made a great
Callisto in the X-men films.Karl Urban as Judge Dredd ,Olivia Thirlby as Judge Cassandra Anderson
and Wood Harris as Kay Ma Ma's henchman do their best with lacking in substance script.

In the end the film has ts moments but its basically The Raid Redemption with a much slower pace.
Wait for the DVD scale of 1-10 a 6½

THE MASTER

There has been a lot of hype that the film The Master is a complete mimic of the Scientology organaization.
There are a few moments that are similar to the tone of Scientology,but it could be any organization
that promises and promotes self healing,reincarnation and a variety of other concepts of the soul
and spirit.

The film focuses on the tempermental alcoholic Freddie Quell (Joaquin Phoenix) who is traumatized from the horrors
of World War II and Lancaster Dodd (Philip Seymour Hoffman), the leader of a philosophical movement known as The Cause.
Dodd is able reach that place within Freddie military analysts couldnt.It's his approach an open armed welcoming
as he invites him to his daughter's wedding aboard his yacht.He reveals to Dodd some of the things that has shaped him.
Dodd wants Quell to control himself and often scolds him
as if Quell is a child.Quell has respect for Dodd and The Cause and at times defends it.

Phoenix and Hoffman are mesmerizing in their scenes together,and it is two of the finest performances
i have seen this year.To watch Phoenix as Quell try to hold back from his vises but see it creep back in various sequences
is amusing and hypnotic.
The two are like night and day and it's what makes the film so watchable that and the stunning look of the film.
Amy Adams as Lancaster's wife Peggy Dodd is also good,at first welcoming Quell until she thinks he is diverting her
husbands focus,revealing herself as cold and controlling.

In the end i had hoped for more of a defining and confrontational conclusion.I wanted to
know more about The Cause.
The Master is a very good film with minor flaws.It left me with the question: Is a person better off left alone to wallow in his
or her own vises,or controlled by someone who is obviously a charlatan?
Scale of 1-10 an 8½