Official Rate The Last Movie You Saw Thread

[nightflameauto]

The Lego Movie 12/10
Seriously. Just plain awesome.

I need to see this. Wanted to hit it in the theaters and life got hectic. I may just buy it unwatched. My wife might hate me for it, but fuck it. I need more awesome in my life.

[Telephant]

Lego Movie was way better than expected. Solid 9/10.

[fretless]

Tim's Vermeer

8/9 very eye opening

[Reverse Entropy]

Edge Of Tomorrow - much better than expected. Superb directing, tightly paced, tightly scripted. I'm not a Tom Cruise fan in general, but he made me forget he was onscreen in just a few minutes, and that's what I like from an actor. EoT starts to feel like a first-person experience, with TC as your onscreen persona. Emily Blunt is superb as a hardass soldier. Some of the humor is pretty clever, more than once a scene change is the punch line - very nice.

Some viewers (ladies, typically) may want more character development, but to be honest it's there as an underlayer. There isn't enough runtime for the dialog to be overt about the characters' backstories. If anything the events of the film are so opressive that individuals don't really matter; they're all just soldiers and there's no time for anything else.

It's been called a sci-fi Groundhog Day, but all it shares with that classic is the need to be master of a moment. RECOMMENDED.

[Marc G]

^ that's great to know... been on the fence about going to see it

[Dickarms]

World War Z:
i went into this one with no small amount of apprehension. Heard a lot of bad things. and i held the book dear. unlike his other one, the pedestrian-at-best zombie survival guide, WWZ was really good and i really enjoyed the scope of it. which i had heard was totally obliterated in the film. le sigh. i also figured from the trailer that it was a I Am Legend affair, with hordes of horribly animated cartoon zombies. i also love, am nerdy about, and therefore very picky about, movies regarding the living dead.

not so at all.
while not adhering to the multiple-viewpoint layout of the book, the scope was maintained through homie's travels. even in a somewhat plausible way.
some of the takes on how the "zeke" operated were fresh too, and not overly cheesy (the sound thing, the sickness thing)
some of the zombie imagery was pleasantly fresh and got my blood pumping with excitement, which hasn't happened in a while (the way they moved, the reckless abandon)
CGI was used appropriately and to great effect (its hard not to make such large hordes not look shitty and they pulled it off flawlessly)
8.5/10

TV bonus: the Last Ship
knew it would be cheesy, but c'mon, what am i going to do, NOT watch a series involving the type of ship i spent 5 years on?
the pilot set out the somewhat ridiculous plot well enough....world has contracted a pandemic, killing 2/3 of the world's population and rising fast. a destroyer had been dispatched with some scientists to develop the beginnings of a cure...governments fall...wat do?
its actually filmed on a real flight IIA burke class destroyer, for the most part, which pleased me.
as ALWAYS in military media (always. every time. wish they would fix this) the displays on weapons and radr screens are blown way out of proportion and look like the computers on CSI miami....ultra modern neon bullshit.
they went through the gamut of the ship's weapons systems surprisingly quickly for a pilot...phalanx CIWS, 5" gun, chaff/flares, crew served weapons, tomahawks (spun not launched) and with a varying mix of accuracy (was surprised some of the accurate tomahawk jargon used...they obviously spent some time with consultants
CGI wasn't terrible considering it has the budget of fallen skies. they used it to show some aircraft that they didnt have the budget to fly and/or blow up, which is how you're supposed to use it in this case
so far entertained and not COMPLETELY annoyed by fake navy stuff.
6/10

[Dickarms]

Lego Movie was way better than expected. Solid 9/10.

i actually wanted to see this lol legos ftmfw

[Dickarms]

some piece of shit from 8 years ago called see no evil: gf landed on this one the other night. lol. i love horror, i even love SOME campy cheese horror. but this was inexcusable. its pretty safe to say that if it involves a group of people stuck in a situation, im predisposed to hate it. piece of shit until proven innocent. this was not even close.

Was this the fuck-awful WWE movie with Kane as the main baddie? That movie was dumber than a box of rocks and twice and useless.

yes. and very much so. it was on in the background thanks to vc.

[ovid9]

Youngblood, I'm getting concerned. WWZ was an utter steaming pile of shit even if it hadn't taken the title of a pretty good book.

Seriously, you thought the CGI zombie groups looked good? Bleah. BLEAH I SAY!


Invincible: Yes, the football movie with Marky Mark. Pretty decent except Disney, being Disney had to change what was already an incredible story and make it even more amazing. Why? I dunno, they're Disney. Having 5'8 Mark Wahlberg play 6'3 Vince Papale so he looked dwarfed by every other player out there was just one minor quibble among many.

Greg Kinnear does a great job as Dick Vermiel.

That said, I expected to be bored or the movie to suck, but for a live action Disney movie it was pretty decent and I was entertained. 7/10

[Elessar [Sly]]

Live long and prostate

[Dickarms]

see im starting to think that people are so used to shit cgi that they dont recognize good cgi. really look....the movements and textures are raitonal and appropriate. no out-of-proportion body parts, joints move correctly, obvious time was spent on each individual and not just c/p'ying masses. no HDR lighting faux pas. no stretchy faces.
what else didnt you like about it?

a lot of people dont like the fast, rageing, 28-days-later style zombies either.

and it had some of the best closeups that actually held up (i.e. looking at a zombie for an extended period of time without laughing) in any zombie movie i've seen.

[atrox]

Seeing as this is what i do for a living, i can tell you that they were lit with HDR lighting for certain. It's the best and only really accurate way to do it. They were also cloned to a degree. Lots of instances and tricks with time adjusting each clone. You are right in that there probably were maybe 60 - 100 or so individual models. Definitely using different motion tracks for their movements.Then you can adjust shadings and time remapping to make them all look different to some degree. Many, probably lower poly with a few high poly models in focus.

I thought it was done very well regardless. That is the way you have to do these things and I'm certainly glad i have never had to create a hoard of 1000's of zombies running around.

The movie was shit though.

Edit: Though i have not seen the extended version. The last 30 minutes or so of that movie was unbearable. I actually enjoyed the first half or so.

[ovid9]

I think I just hate CGI masses of anything anymore and it colors my view. I thought it looked awful and I hated pretty much everything about the movie.

I should remember I did not see it on a big movie screen or even all that big a screen TV. I should keep in mind this probably skews my opinion as well.

And how bad the movie was. :P

[Marc G]

TV bonus: the Last Ship
knew it would be cheesy, but c'mon, what am i going to do, NOT watch a series involving the type of ship i spent 5 years on?
the pilot set out the somewhat ridiculous plot well enough....world has contracted a pandemic, killing 2/3 of the world's population and rising fast. a destroyer had been dispatched with some scientists to develop the beginnings of a cure...governments fall...wat do?
its actually filmed on a real flight IIA burke class destroyer, for the most part, which pleased me.
as ALWAYS in military media (always. every time. wish they would fix this) the displays on weapons and radr screens are blown way out of proportion and look like the computers on CSI miami....ultra modern neon bullshit.
they went through the gamut of the ship's weapons systems surprisingly quickly for a pilot...phalanx CIWS, 5" gun, chaff/flares, crew served weapons, tomahawks (spun not launched) and with a varying mix of accuracy (was surprised some of the accurate tomahawk jargon used...they obviously spent some time with consultants
CGI wasn't terrible considering it has the budget of fallen skies. they used it to show some aircraft that they didnt have the budget to fly and/or blow up, which is how you're supposed to use it in this case
so far entertained and not COMPLETELY annoyed by fake navy stuff.
6/10

I watched it yesterday... 6/10 is about right... I'll give it a chance but it won't surprise me if it turns out to be a pile of shit

[JiveTurkey]

Seeing as this is what i do for a living, i can tell you that they were lit with HDR lighting for certain. It's the best and only really accurate way to do it. They were also cloned to a degree. Lots of instances and tricks with time adjusting each clone. You are right in that there probably were maybe 60 - 100 or so individual models. Definitely using different motion tracks for their movements.Then you can adjust shadings and time remapping to make them all look different to some degree. Many, probably lower poly with a few high poly models in focus.

I thought it was done very well regardless. That is the way you have to do these things and I'm certainly glad i have never had to create a hoard of 1000's of zombies running around.

The movie was shit though.

Edit: Though i have not seen the extended version. The last 30 minutes or so of that movie was unbearable. I actually enjoyed the first half or so.

WWZ, for me, was almost Redbox-worthy A movie has to be utterly atrocious for me to not want to spend the $1.28 on it I never finished the book (which is actually surprising as it is right up my alley, genre-wise); so it is not like they were messing with sacred text or anything. I liked it better than I thought I would initially then ended up not liking it by the end

Your earlier review of the Oldboy remake has me thinking I need to maybe break my promise to myself and go rent it. I don't like Josh Brolin or Spike Lee but I know you reverence for the original; so your review is actually pretty complimentary.

Watched Lego movie with my kids last weekend and we loved it. Lots of good, adults-can-laugh-too humor without being inappropriate for the kids.

[atrox]

Your earlier review of the Oldboy remake has me thinking I need to maybe break my promise to myself and go rent it. I don't like Josh Brolin or Spike Lee but I know you reverence for the original; so your review is actually pretty complimentary.

Watched Lego movie with my kids last weekend and we loved it. Lots of good, adults-can-laugh-too humor without being inappropriate for the kids.

I had promised not to watch it either, but it was on Netflix, so fuck it. It doesn't feel at all like Spike Lee. Not in the slightest. It seems he actually took some time to research the original and pay homage to it.

There are a lot of changes in the flow and story. Again, the end result is the same. I didn't feel at all like i was watching Josh Brolin in a Spike Lee film. They did a decent job. It's not amazing, but it's a decent flick.

Lego movie rules

[JiveTurkey]

Your earlier review of the Oldboy remake has me thinking I need to maybe break my promise to myself and go rent it. I don't like Josh Brolin or Spike Lee but I know you reverence for the original; so your review is actually pretty complimentary.

Watched Lego movie with my kids last weekend and we loved it. Lots of good, adults-can-laugh-too humor without being inappropriate for the kids.

I had promised not to watch it either, but it was on Netflix, so fuck it. It doesn't feel at all like Spike Lee. Not in the slightest. It seems he actually took some time to research the original and pay homage to it.

There are a lot of changes in the flow and story. Again, the end result is the same. I didn't feel at all like i was watching Josh Brolin in a Spike Lee film. They did a decent job. It's not amazing, but it's a decent flick.

Lego movie rules

If it's still on Netflix, I will give it a go. That will be one for when the wife falls asleep as she isn't one for that kind of storyline

[Dickarms]

Seeing as this is what i do for a living, i can tell you that they were lit with HDR lighting for certain. It's the best and only really accurate way to do it. They were also cloned to a degree. Lots of instances and tricks with time adjusting each clone. You are right in that there probably were maybe 60 - 100 or so individual models. Definitely using different motion tracks for their movements.Then you can adjust shadings and time remapping to make them all look different to some degree. Many, probably lower poly with a few high poly models in focus.

I thought it was done very well regardless. That is the way you have to do these things and I'm certainly glad i have never had to create a hoard of 1000's of zombies running around.

The movie was shit though.

Edit: Though i have not seen the extended version. The last 30 minutes or so of that movie was unbearable. I actually enjoyed the first half or so.

no HDR faux pas, meaning the HDR was done well... no crazy glows or blooms.
the cloning, yes, but not nearly as bad as some i've seen. it was done with some cunning.
im interested in knowing, what were y'alls other bones with WWZ? the three of you hated it, and i am the FIRST to shit on cgi-laden blockbuster bullshit (remember the pacific rim debate? which i ended up enjoying, but def only a one-time viewing), and i have the added bias of loving the book, and the HUGE added bias of holding zombie fiction quite dear, and i liked it.

[atrox]

Seeing as this is what i do for a living, i can tell you that they were lit with HDR lighting for certain. It's the best and only really accurate way to do it. They were also cloned to a degree. Lots of instances and tricks with time adjusting each clone. You are right in that there probably were maybe 60 - 100 or so individual models. Definitely using different motion tracks for their movements.Then you can adjust shadings and time remapping to make them all look different to some degree. Many, probably lower poly with a few high poly models in focus.

I thought it was done very well regardless. That is the way you have to do these things and I'm certainly glad i have never had to create a hoard of 1000's of zombies running around.

The movie was shit though.

Edit: Though i have not seen the extended version. The last 30 minutes or so of that movie was unbearable. I actually enjoyed the first half or so.

no HDR faux pas, meaning the HDR was done well... no crazy glows or blooms.
the cloning, yes, but not nearly as bad as some i've seen. it was done with some cunning.
im interested in knowing, what were y'alls other bones with WWZ? the three of you hated it, and i am the FIRST to shit on cgi-laden blockbuster bullshit (remember the pacific rim debate? which i ended up enjoying, but def only a one-time viewing), and i have the added bias of loving the book, and the HUGE added bias of holding zombie fiction quite dear, and i liked it.

Blooms and flairs are evil and should be banned. I despise that most professional renderers offer these as post options and they all have very little control.

My main gripe is, i don't remember a fucking thing about the movie, therefor i can assume it was not good. I do remember the last 30 minutes being a borefest though. Just couldn't tell you what happened.

[nightflameauto]

WWZ was like two movies. The first chunk of it was pretty decent, though they spent a little too much time fucking around with the military/leadership being buttholes. We already know that plot, it's been done a bazillion times. Skim over that and leave room for actual plot development.

Then the second half went full snore. They either did nothing, or exactly the opposite of what they should do, for almost the entire time they were in that shit-awful compound/disease center/what the fuck ever it was. Just straight up herp-a-derp WHY THE FUCK for over forty minutes. Bleh.

It's tough to walk away impressed when the last big chunk of the movie either puts you to sleep or makes you wanna toss things at the tube for reasons other than a character being an asshole in a love-to-hate way.

[JiveTurkey]

WWZ was like two movies. The first chunk of it was pretty decent, though they spent a little too much time fucking around with the military/leadership being buttholes. We already know that plot, it's been done a bazillion times. Skim over that and leave room for actual plot development.

Then the second half went full snore. They either did nothing, or exactly the opposite of what they should do, for almost the entire time they were in that shit-awful compound/disease center/what the fuck ever it was. Just straight up herp-a-derp WHY THE FUCK for over forty minutes. Bleh.

It's tough to walk away impressed when the last big chunk of the movie either puts you to sleep or makes you wanna toss things at the tube for reasons other than a character being an asshole in a love-to-hate way.

What he said. Too much dramatics. Pitt usually does good, even in . This movie was no exception. I didn't hate the movie but the slower pacing in the second half and the "happy", quick yet over-explained ending was pretty much a dealbreaker.

[nightflameauto]

What he said. Too much dramatics. Pitt usually does good, even in . This movie was no exception. I didn't hate the movie but the slower pacing in the second half and the "happy", quick yet over-explained ending was pretty much a dealbreaker.

Oh gawd. I had forgotten the ending. I think I purposefully blocked it from my mind. Nothing aggravates me more than a post-apocalypse movie ending on one of those, "new beginning" speeches that goes WAAAAAAAAAAAAAY too far into detail, while actually saying nothing at all.

[ovid9]

WWZ was like two movies. The first chunk of it was pretty decent, though they spent a little too much time fucking around with the military/leadership being buttholes. We already know that plot, it's been done a bazillion times. Skim over that and leave room for actual plot development.

Then the second half went full snore. They either did nothing, or exactly the opposite of what they should do, for almost the entire time they were in that shit-awful compound/disease center/what the fuck ever it was. Just straight up herp-a-derp WHY THE FUCK for over forty minutes. Bleh.

It's tough to walk away impressed when the last big chunk of the movie either puts you to sleep or makes you wanna toss things at the tube for reasons other than a character being an asshole in a love-to-hate way.

It wasn't cheesy enough to be fun bad and it was too stupid and boring to be good.

[Dickarms]

man maybe i was drunk or something....
there were some WTF moments...grenades on a plane, etc.....
i thought the second part as pretty suspenseful though

man, i'm usually the one saying what y'all are saying. may have to rewatch at some point to reevaluate.

but it also sounds like y'all didnt pay a whole lot of attention either

[nightflameauto]

I watched it pretty thoroughly up until about thirty minutes into the disease center boredom. Then I kinda zoned out.

I think you may be on opposite trajectories from us riff-raff around here when it comes to movies though.