Rate The Last Movie(s) You Watched

[mgrant]

Originally Posted by Comrade Pants

I would, but every time I sing an angel not only loses its wings; but is torn asunder by the Deep Ones. These are facts.

If it makes you feel any better, I would totally have you sing more if it meant I could watch the Archangel Michael try to fight off Dagon.

[Secret Fawful]

Shutter Island - 11/11 - A brilliant film.

Young Sherlock Holmes - 8/11 - A great adventure/mystery movie. Better than but similar to the Downey Jr. take. Yes I know of the similarities to Temple of Doom. They're small at best.

6 Guns - 0/11 - Piece of shit. Look this up just so you can know the company that made this, then if you ever see one of their films take it off the rack, put it on the ground, pull down your pants, and take a big shit on it.

The Billion Dollar Hobo - 3/11 - I'll watch almost anything with Tim Conway, but this is boring as hell. The music is the best part.

The Quest - 5/11 - A ridiculous Jean-Claude Van Damme action movie. The tournament is the only good part. And Roger Moore.

Defendor - 8/11 - What Kick-Ass should have been if it was worth a shit. Woody Harrelson is starting to grow on me as an actor, with this and Zombieland both being great cult material.

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation - 8/11 - Love it. Don't need to say anymore; most people have seen this.

Congo - 2/11 - Bruce Campbell dies in the beginning. I don't need to say anymore. Only worth watching for Ernie Hudson and Tim Curry.

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery - 9/11 - One of those guilty pleasure movies. I enjoy the character of Austin, but not everyone would.

Almost Heroes - 6/11 - A definite guilty pleasure movie that a lot of people probably don't like. A lot of the jokes fall flat on their face, yet somehow I laugh at this movie every time.

McHale's Navy - 9/11 - This is a movie everyone hates, always rates low, always bashes, and I feel like I'm totally alone in loving. I actually like Tom Arnold. Maybe that's the first difference between me and most people. I also adore Tim Curry in this. He's hilarious. Absolutely hilarious. Bruce Campbell is in this too, so honestly...what do people hate about this film? It's silly as hell, but I'll take it at that. Maybe people just hate navy comedies nowadays, but I like them a lot. I also liked Down Periscope. Sue me.

Also, I've decided to give Citizen Kane another viewing. Oooooh. *waves hands around mystically*

[taumel]

Yeah, Shutter Island was a very good creepy movie, 8.5-9/10. Scorsese made quite some good to very good movies: The Departed, Aviator, Casino, Gangs of New York, Good Fellas, Taxi Driver, The Color of the money.

[DrRocketGenius]

Planes, Trains and Automobiles - 8.5/10

Great movie. I figured out Del's wife was dead long before they revealed it, but it was still enjoyable.

[DoctorCello]

Originally Posted by TentuZero

Tron 8/10

I thought it was okay. This shows that the critics have lost their touch.

I'm not sure what you mean by this. When Tron was released, it got mixed reviews, being praised and criticized for... pretty much the exact same things Tron: Legacy is being praised and criticized for.

[alphagirl]

the whole nine yards 7.5/10
The town 7.2/10
Inception 9.5/10

[JedExodus]

I shall limit my reviews to 5 words

District 9 - Man turns into an alien - 8/10

Downfall - You'll feel bad for Hitler - 8.5/10

[taumel]

@DoctorCello
That's not quite right. I as well as many others went into TRON for several times because it was so awesome. Tron Legacy lacks on several levels compared to the original and wasn't able to gave us the same feeling nor have i seen youngsters beeing excited about the movie the way we once were. Maybe things work different in Mormonland.

Oh and as for new movies, i've finally seen Dick's A Scanner Darkly. After some warming up, i found the visuals interesting and pleasing but also stressful, 8/10.

[ShaggE]

I was in the mood for some bad direct-to-DVD horror... I guess I should be careful what I wish for, because "bad" doesn't even begin to describe these two films.

Terror Toons - 1/10
You know a movie's bad when you're facepalming before it even starts. Right off the bat, you're greeted with a guy standing in front of a cheap video camera and speaking in a hilariously awful "menacing" voice about the "nightmare world" you're about to enter.

Dude, you're introing a movie with a giant ape man called "Max Assassin". That's not a nightmare world for anybody but the people who probably now regret using their real names in the credits.

Anywho, once that schlemiel finally stops yapping, the feature presentation begins. I've got to give them credit here: they cold-open into a sequence that basically throws the entire bag of tricks at you right away. A cartoon world mad scientist (a guy in a rubber mask with googly eyes... no joke) tortures and kills a little kid (played by a 20-something man... again, no joke) in wacky cartoonish ways. So within five minutes, you've got the gist of what's going to go down for the rest of the movie, and you can safely throw the DVD in the trash and get on with your life. Sadly, I have no life to get on with, so I kept watching.

I'm tempted to outline the cinematic atrocities scene by scene here, but I'm not that cruel. So here's the quick rundown: An 8 year old girl played by a 30 year old porn star (!) receives a mysterious DVD in the mail called "Terror Toons" (just like the movie we're watching! Hyuk hyuk!) which was created by Satan to kill people and make the world's children into sinners and abuse MS Paint and photo morphing software and green screens and clip art. (Seriously, there are no words to describe the eyerape that is "Terror Toons")

So some 20-30 year old "teenagers" have a house party while the kid watches the DVD in her room. One thing leads to another, and the mad scientist and his ape pal come out of the TV and start slaughtering everybody in extremely graphic yet childish ways. An incoherent mess of a plot starts forming near the end, but is cut abrupt by further insanity.

That's it. That's really all there is. Clip art, obnoxious sound effects, rubber masks, admittedly interesting kills that hearken back to H. G. Lewis, and the stiffest acting in history. Did I mention clip art?

Terror Toons 2: The Sick and Silly Show - 0/10
Ever the masochist, I immediately chased Terror Toons with it's sequel. "Maybe they learned from their mistakes", I foolishly thought. HA! Everything bad about the first movie returns here, except much, much worse. Same exact plot, different setting. This time it's Hansel and Gretel instead of Doctor and Ape, a much larger body count, Damien instead of Satan, and MORE CLIP ART.

The acting is marginally better, but only in the way that Miley Cyrus is marginally better than Justin Bieber. It's still pure shit. And I do admit to chuckling at the musical chairs scene and Damien's plans for the "ultimate monster". Any improvements made were immediately nullified by everything else, though.


*My apologies for the length, but I find it impossible to review these movies without at least trying to convey the utter mess they consist of.

[DoctorCello]

Originally Posted by taumel

@DoctorCello
That's not quite right. I as well as many others went into TRON for several times because it was so awesome. Tron Legacy lacks on several levels compared to the original and wasn't able to gave us the same feeling nor have i seen youngsters beeing excited about the movie the way we once were. Maybe things work different in Mormonland.

I was talking about critics specifically, not the moviegoing audience in general. HUGE difference there. And I've seen and talked to a LOT of people who absolutely loved the film, and not just in Mormonland. Maybe things work differently in, uh, Taumelland. :P

[Secret Fawful]

Seeing as this is my topic and I can do whatever the hell I want, and since this is technically rating movies that I saw last....year, I'll just go ahead and post this.

Secret Fawful's Top Five Movies of 2010
Oh, the ego of it all.

Why top five? Because there's only five movies on the list, you dumbass.
Also, I didn't see very many movies that came out last year.

1. Shutter Island
2. Batman: Under The Red Hood
3. Defendor
4. True Grit
5. La Herencia Valdemar

Just thought I'd throw that out there. And before you point out the 2009 date on it on IMDB, Defendor came out in the USA in 2010. And yes, my rating on True Grit was higher than my rating on Defendor and Valdemar before, but since I've seen True Grit I've mentally lowered my rating on it somewhat.

[Hayden]

'District 9' - 97% - few movies are this good, I thought it was brilliant. It was exciting, it was intriguing, it was interesting, compelling, intelligent, enjoyable, I actually cared about the characters. The storyline and the concept were great; it just did everything right. It wasn't just another generic, dumb Hollywood flick. It blows most sci-fi films I've seen out of the water. It's just good; it's a good movie that I have very few complaints about. I usually only rent films, but I might actually buy this one.

'How to Train Your Dragon' - 95% - I've actually seen this one three times now, most recently last night. It's one of my favourite animated films ever, and perhaps the best Dreamworks production ever. It's another film where I actually cared about the characters involved, which gives all of the events so much more meaning, and makes the film that much more exciting. It had a great story, it looked brilliant, it was fun - what more could you really ask for? It had some corny moments, yes, but they're forgivable in a film like this.

'The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor' - 68% - Look, it's a Mummy film, you either admit that it's bad and just enjoy the ride, or you admit that it's bad and despise it. This film is no different to the last three films in that regard. I went in looking for a fun movie with dumb humour, absurd occurrences, unexplained plot-twists, far-fetched action, and an overall completely stupid and nonsensical series of events, and that's exactly what I got. Yes, the Mummy films are crap, but they're fun. I enjoyed this one .

'Defiance' - 65% - Let's just say that it could have been a lot better than it was. I found that everything moved far too quickly; nothing was given time to actually sink in, and none of the elements of the film were able to be developed properly (such as characters, character relationships, story, plot, etc.), which is strange, seeing as how the film surpasses the 2-hour mark. Don't get me wrong, this was a good film and there was a lot about it I liked, but it could have been so much more.

Family Guy - 'It's A Trap!' - 71% - Not quite as enjoyable as the second film, and certainly not at the same level as the first film, but it was still fun and it still had it's laugh-out-loud moments, even if there were fewer of them this time around. A good enough finale to a pretty good parody series.

[taumel]

@DoctorCello
Oh i wasn't aware that you were talking about professional movie critics and i can't compare them as they've never interested me, although i would be surprised if they wouldn't rate the inventions TRON introduced visually and its ideas much higher than what Tron Legacy delivered.

Anyway i've also talked to my friends about the movie and as some of them are a little bit scattered around the globe they at least physically aren't citizens of the for sure mesmerizing taumelland ;O) and we mostly came to the same conclusions. TRON once was a exceptional movie whilst Tron Legacy mainly dissapoints with the lame story, a lack of creativity and slightly also the spirit TRON was about. I can't imagine that Tron Legacy will have the same impact on some people's lifes TRON once had.

[GuruGuru214]

Maybe that explains why I was able to enjoy Legacy. Tron is five years older than I am, and the first time I ever heard of it was in this Penny Arcade strip (the three previous references they made to it going over my head). As I didn't play the first Kingdom Hearts until six months later, I didn't have any experience with it until at least a good three years after that, when I got to play Kingdom Hearts II. At some point after that, my curiosity was piqued enough to find out what this movie was about (Tron being the only film that I had not seen with a world in Kingdom Hearts), and while I did enjoy the film, by the time I saw it, it was more of a novel than a technological wonder, Kingdom Hearts had already pulled off the concept with better visual appeal, and I had missed the opportunity to feel any nostalgia towards it.

That's not to say that the flaws pointed out in Legacy aren't valid, they just don't bother me, and I honestly wouldn't have even taken notice of any of them if not for others complaining. The point is that without nostalgia goggles, the first film isn't exactly some pillar to which the sequel had to aspire in order to be acceptable, and I actually managed to prefer Legacy, if only because the original had already become so dated as to be laughable by the time I saw it.

[taumel]

I think it's hard to oversee that quite some of the scenes in Tron Legacy are very much inspired by what you're used to from bad TV series and movies these days, regarding the cut, the scenes, the acting, the dialogues. TRON in comparison is really a novel with more depth which also takes its time in certain moments to evolve and which also raised philosophical questions. Tron Legacy mainly is a flat, uninspired, visual popcorn trip with zero depth, exactly what you're used to from many video games today.

Oh and on a more pacifistic note, i hate everyone who likes Tron Legacy! :O)

[Remolay]

Okay, so Soylent Green.

What. Was. That. Not bad at all mind you, but just wow.

That ending resolved absolutely nothing, yet it was the only way it ended. The fact of how the ending credits looks makes me think even more

I don't even know how to rate this/10

[Gohaku]

Raging Phoenix features some of the best martial arts choreography I've ever seen; AT THE END of the movie.

I swear the whole movie features lackluster drama that undermines all of the amazingly unique fights that are so far and few in between.

As soon as the final battle takes place, I'm literally on the edge of my seat. Jeeja Yanin is a Muy Thai genius. She's incredible.
If you care to watch; it's only 7 minutes of awesome

[Gman5852]

Ok I actually watched tron the day it was out, but ill review it now.

First off only 2 parts were in 3d, the credits and the previews(by the way that green lantern or whatever movie had good effects in the preview)
Second it felt like they acomplished nothing.
[spoilers]he was supposed to save his dad and the tron world, and it was destroyed with his dad in it. Good job.[/spoiler]
Then there is everything the penny arcade men already said.
other than that good movie.

[DrRocketGenius]

Originally Posted by Gman5852

First off only 2 parts were in 3d, the credits and the previews(by the way that green lantern or whatever movie had good effects in the preview)

What? Stuff didn't pop out at you, but it still had 3D depth.

Second it felt like they acomplished nothing.
he was supposed to save his dad and the tron world, and it was destroyed with his dad in it. Good job.

Yes, but they did save the outside world from the Grid.

other than that good movie.

Good boy.

[Origami]

Last movie I watched was Metal Gear Solid 4.

Pretty epic! 10/11