What's The Last Movie You Watched? XIV

[Doctor Jones]

The Girl with The David Fincher Tattoo

I think I liked this one a little more than the original. The first did do some things a little better, like not having some of the extraneous stuff that this suffered from (The tattoo parlour in particular). Fincher unleashed his inner Roman Polanski, the story in all it's iterations has a lot of themes common Polanski's films, sexual crimes, misogyny, an isolated wandering protagonist, so Fincher took some queues from him visually. Of course overall visually it's amazing. It's Fincher.

Rooney Mara's Salander feels more sympathetic than Rapace's iteration, not necessarily saying the performance was better, but more-so the script. Combining two characters from the first into one, served to add some loneliness to Salander. Mara's Lisbeth genuinely wishes people would accept her and be friends with her, Rapace's was a *****ebag. In fact Steve Zalian and David Fincher are smart to use the characters sadness as an excuse for the completely improbable and dumb May-December romance.

One thing I'll agree with that I've heard, is that some of the music sounds like off cuts from The Social Network. It does.

Good stuff.

I seem to be the only one here who wasn't a fan of Fincher's film. You didn't think the stuff after the case felt tacked on? I still don't know what the hell she was trying to do for him and I didn't really care that much because the movie should have ended already.

 

[ShaneHelms]

Batman: Mask of The Phantasm

The Town

 

[Mandalore464]

Cronenberg's Cosmopolis.

Really disappointed with Cronenberg. The dialogues were absolutely awful. I know they're straight from the book. They're still God-awful.

Awful awful awful dialogues.

Oh and the whole movie relies on the afore-mentioned dialogues to make its point, so... Awful movie.

And that comes from a Cronenberg's fan.

 

[Crockett]

Cronenberg's Cosmopolis.

Really disappointed with Cronenberg. The dialogues were absolutely awful. I know they're straight from the book. They're still God-awful.

Awful awful awful dialogues.

Oh and the whole movie relies on the afore-mentioned dialogues to make its point, so... Awful movie.

And that comes from a Cronenberg's fan.

I've read a few reactions similar to yours. Cronenberg insisted on sticking to the dialogue in the book and how it is dictated faithfully, and there's where the polarizing reactions hinges on. There lies the film's originality but it's also its greatest weakness to some since it limits the appeal of the film, also that it feels misaligned and artificial. Despite that I've read the book I still want to have faith that I'll like the film but it's disheartening to read this from a fellow Cronenberg fan. You saw this on Cannes or on the cinemas since it's already out in France?

 

[CConn]

The Woman in Black.

It was pretty good. Phenomenal art design. Although the first half of the movie is pretty boring.

 

[StarLord]

'The Lincoln Lawyer'

I liked it. Rare for me, considering I'm not a fan of McConaughey at all.

 

[LOBO3315a]

The Woman in Black.

It was pretty good. Phenomenal art design. Although the first half of the movie is pretty boring.

Just finished watching that myself. I think it was a great role for Daniel. Kind of shows that he can do more than wave a wand and say incantations.

The ending was rather interesting as well. I was reminded of The Others.

 

[CConn]

He was good, but I do think he was a bit too young for the role. The guy is 22 (and looks it), yet has a 4 year old son and is a lawyer. That's a bit unrealistic.

 

[LOBO3315a]

Well, remember, the average life expectancy back then was 40 or so. Being married and having a child was the norm by the time you were 16 or so. But being a solicitor at his age was pushing it a bit. I got the feeling he was a solicitor in training, at best.

 

[CConn]

Plus, even when it makes sense, I think you have to always take into consideration how modern film and tv always skews older. They'll usually have 25yos playing 16yos, and whatnot, so when you see an actual 22yo playing a 22yo, he just naturally appears to be incredibly young.

Again this, that's no fault of Radcliffe's. He did a very good job.

 

[3dman27]

films of fury

 

[childeroland]

Decent, though the first half hour is really shaky.

Of a badness that has to be seen to be believed.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

The Avengers
First view rating: 9.5/10

Start was slow, it improved progressively
LOL @Indian Iron Man poster

 

[LOBO3315a]

Sherlock Holmes II. It may be the beer talking, but I thought it was a smidgeon better than the first one. I really hope they don't try to make a trilogy out of it, though.

 

[StarLord]

'Real Steel'

Loved it. Even shed a few tears.

 

[Doctor Jones]

X-Men Origins: Wolverine - 3/10

Oh, how I hate this movie. Oh, don't get me started. Don't get me ****ing started. I rarely have nerd tantrums, but this is really the only film that will make me shout in immense anger at the screen. Now I like some lines and Logan's "forgot my instincts" line but other than that, this movie makes me want to actually scream into the sky, but this time it's actually justified.

Who can forget the great character development moments like Wolverine boxing Blob? Oh. My. God.

Everyone has their bane superhero movie that just brings them pain. This is mine. I can at least enjoy Batman & Robin for the massive lolz, but not this... not this. X-Men 3 is better. I never thought I'd actually had to choose between liking X-Men 3 over another movie yet here I am, and it just had to be a Wolverine film.

I'm just gonna stop before I punch my own laptop.

Valhalla Rising - 6/10

I loved Drive but Refn's syle here was just boring and off putting. I really didn't care what was going on. It had high points like the violence and Milkensen but other than that I just wanted it to end. At least it's not ****ing Wolverine.

 

[Figs]

It's definitely worth checking out, Figs.
Remember though, it's pretty low budget. During the first 10 minutes, you might think: 'Is this a syfy original movie or something?' but when it gets going and the scares start, all of a sudden it turns into something special.

I watched Session 9 and liked it. Only question I have is,

Spoiler

was the Mary character just there to fake the audience into thinking it was her ghost the whole time until the reveal at the end?

Had no idea Josh Lucas was in this, whenever I see him in a film I can't help but think of him in American Psycho. "Do you want me to fry you up some ****ing potato pancakes ? Some latkes? "

 

[Punisher Rising]

7/10

 

[StarLord]

X-Men Origins: Wolverine - 3/10

Oh, how I hate this movie. Oh, don't get me started. Don't get me ****ing started. I rarely have nerd tantrums, but this is really the only film that will make me shout in immense anger at the screen. Now I like some lines and Logan's "forgot my instincts" line but other than that, this movie makes me want to actually scream into the sky, but this time it's actually justified.

Who can forget the great character development moments like Wolverine boxing Blob? Oh. My. God.

Everyone has their bane superhero movie that just brings them pain. This is mine. I can at least enjoy Batman & Robin for the massive lolz, but not this... not this. X-Men 3 is better. I never thought I'd actually had to choose between liking X-Men 3 over another movie yet here I am, and it just had to be a Wolverine film.

I'm just gonna stop before I punch my own laptop.

Valhalla Rising - 6/10

I loved Drive but Refn's syle here was just boring and off putting. I really didn't care what was going on. It had high points like the violence and Milkensen but other than that I just wanted it to end. At least it's not ****ing Wolverine.

I suggest you go watch something that you really love. It will make you forget about W______ for a while.

 

[Immortalfire]

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

 

[childeroland]

Blind. Excellent crime thriller by Ahn Sang-Hoon. A female college student goes missing one day and is later discovered as a victim of a hit-and-run. The police think the kidnapper and driver are the same person and they begin investigating the case and find two witnesses who were at the scene: Soo-ah, a blind woman who was a promising student at a national police university, and Gi-seob, a young man who was near the scene of the hit-and run. But the two witnesses tell different stories about the accident...and then the kidnapper resurfaces and turns out to be more than a kidnapper. Really, really good.

 

[Figs]

4/5

 

[Panthro]

Ah! My Goddess The Movie (2000)

The Secret of NIMH (1982)

 

[Lobo]

Empire Strikes Back

 

[TX85]

3.5/5