Official Rate The Last Movie You Saw Thread

[spawnofthesith]

Speaking of Scarlett Johansen....


Lucy - I was too drunk to comprehend the plot, seemed a bit goofy, but there was some cool fx and SJ

[Ruiner]

you know gary clark jr?

When he was 20, my old band would play with him every Wednesday at a little club in Austin called Agave. This was when he was performing as a one man band (guitar, harmonica, vocals and kick drum and hi hat with his feet). We were a pretty crappy Sublime-esque band but he loved us for some reason. We'd buy him drinks since he was underage and for years after that we would all hang out. Some of the best memories are at his house in the early morning hours and he would show us the hip hop beats he was recording and we'd all take turns rapping over them.... man i wish i still had those recordings. hahaha

Now he big times me and doesn't return my texts (sure he doesn't have the same number anymore anyways) but when i see him around town at a bar we hang out and chat... so KNEW him would be a more accurate statement.... but we still coo'

[Ruiner]

Speaking of Scarlett Johansen....


Lucy - I was too drunk to comprehend the plot, seemed a bit goofy, but there was some cool fx and SJ

Yeah, i mean i love Luc Besson films... you can't get much better than Fifth Element, but this one's plot was super week and unbelievable. I still really enjoyed it as a fun popcorn flick with cool effects and yes...... SJ

I used to know Scarllett J as well... we'd hang out in her garage and..... oh wait, wrong story

[Dickarms]

rad. i cant wait to big time people

[primeholy]

The Captive 5/10....don't watch this. I hate child exploitation/abduction movies. This thing made me so fuckin tense I have muscle aches everywhere. Ryan Reynolds was actually pretty deep and intense in this movie...pretty far cry from the explicitly witty guys he's been playing lately...he keeps this up be could end up a great actor.

Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy 10/10...every time. This is fantastic. It's so over the top and random; there isn't a scene in this movie that something weird isn't going on and the dialogue kicks ass. Sam Rockwell as Zaphod Beeblebrox is nothing short of hysterical. Damn I love this movie. It's just so weird I can't not watch it. Plus, John Malkovich, and Mos Def with this really low key brand of humor just slays me every time.

I love Sam Rockwell. I do believe he is my favorite actor.

[clipless bumper]

you know gary clark jr?

When he was 20, my old band would play with him every Wednesday at a little club in Austin called Agave. This was when he was performing as a one man band (guitar, harmonica, vocals and kick drum and hi hat with his feet). We were a pretty crappy Sublime-esque band but he loved us for some reason. We'd buy him drinks since he was underage and for years after that we would all hang out. Some of the best memories are at his house in the early morning hours and he would show us the hip hop beats he was recording and we'd all take turns rapping over them.... man i wish i still had those recordings. hahaha

Now he big times me and doesn't return my texts (sure he doesn't have the same number anymore anyways) but when i see him around town at a bar we hang out and chat... so KNEW him would be a more accurate statement.... but we still coo'

Good story - awesome memories!!

[Steinmetzify]

The Captive 5/10....don't watch this. I hate child exploitation/abduction movies. This thing made me so fuckin tense I have muscle aches everywhere. Ryan Reynolds was actually pretty deep and intense in this movie...pretty far cry from the explicitly witty guys he's been playing lately...he keeps this up be could end up a great actor.

Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy 10/10...every time. This is fantastic. It's so over the top and random; there isn't a scene in this movie that something weird isn't going on and the dialogue kicks ass. Sam Rockwell as Zaphod Beeblebrox is nothing short of hysterical. Damn I love this movie. It's just so weird I can't not watch it. Plus, John Malkovich, and Mos Def with this really low key brand of humor just slays me every time.

I love Sam Rockwell. I do believe he is my favorite actor.

Dude, that scene in HGTTG where he thinks they're at Magrathea and it turns out they're not.....his face runs thru this entire gamut of emotions and he's so good you can pick them out separately. He's got one of the most expressive faces I've ever seen. He's awesome.

[Noah]

Speaking of Scarlett Johansen....


Lucy - I was too drunk to comprehend the plot, seemed a bit goofy, but there was some cool fx and SJ

She's good in that Hitchcock movie about the making of Psycho. Kind of a minor role.

[JerEvil]

St. Vincent - Solid 8.5/10

Bill Murray was great. The kid was funny and Melissa McCarthy was good. It wash;t her just "doing her" like she usually does. I find her funny but the schtick gets old after a while.

This was a real good feel good movie that was done quite well.

[Steinmetzify]

Melissa McCarthy was great in Gilmour Girls. So what, I liked it. She was nice and sweet and played a chef. I don't know what happened that she decided she was the hefty angry woman but I can't even watch her like that....once in a while, sure. Every damn role? No. She's like a female Adam Sandler from 20 years ago.

[nightflameauto]

Nah, she wants to be Roseanne but doesn't have the obliviousness to pull it off. Granted, neither does Roseanne these days, but that's beside the point.

I can't watch her in anything at this point. My wife was into that stupid show where she's with the cop and living with her mom and smoked out sister (who is twenty-five times the actress McCarthy is) and her role there was just too much. And everything I've seen her advertised in she's playing that same role. It finally got to the point where I see she's a main actor for something and I just block it out. Too annoying, not funny.

[JerEvil]

Nah, she wants to be Roseanne but doesn't have the obliviousness to pull it off. Granted, neither does Roseanne these days, but that's beside the point.

I can't watch her in anything at this point. My wife was into that stupid show where she's with the cop and living with her mom and smoked out sister (who is twenty-five times the actress McCarthy is) and her role there was just too much. And everything I've seen her advertised in she's playing that same role. It finally got to the point where I see she's a main actor for something and I just block it out. Too annoying, not funny.

Yeah, this is actually why I LIKED her in St. Vincent. She is actually decent enough of an actress to not have to play what she has been pigeon holed into.

[Ruiner]

She always plays the same character and while I loved it at first it's starting to wear thing and the material is getting worse like in her new one Tammy. I'd like to see some character evolvement / changes... Just a little variety. That being said, I absolutely love watching the outtakes from her movies where she's just improvising and it's so damn funny that the other actors just start laughing and ruin the take while she just keeps going.

[100 watt]

I'd do her, just for fun

[JiveTurkey]

Jersey Boys - 7/10

I haven't seen the musical so I can't compare the two. It follows the story of Franky Valli & the 4 Seasons. Its pretty darn good. It certainly captures the spirit of a musical. The problem is since you're watching a movie you sort of expect normal movie things like an indication of how much time has passed.

It's entertaining and the actors were great picks. Just felt a bit disjointed which I'm thinking it wouldn't watching it as a live show instead of a movie.

Finally got a chance to watch this. I would agree with your rating. I think it was definitely well made. The characters talking to the camera for narration gimmick worked really well for me. I feel like to tell their entire story would have taken another hour, and the weight of the story might not have been able to carry it. I will say I was disappointed that they skipped over 1963 and the Grease soundtrack. I really would have liked to see what was going on with them during that era. The ending came a little abruptly imo. Otherwise; good flick.

[ovid9]

Jersey Boys - 7/10

I haven't seen the musical so I can't compare the two. It follows the story of Franky Valli & the 4 Seasons. Its pretty darn good. It certainly captures the spirit of a musical. The problem is since you're watching a movie you sort of expect normal movie things like an indication of how much time has passed.

It's entertaining and the actors were great picks. Just felt a bit disjointed which I'm thinking it wouldn't watching it as a live show instead of a movie.

Finally got a chance to watch this. I would agree with your rating. I think it was definitely well made. The characters talking to the camera for narration gimmick worked really well for me. I feel like to tell their entire story would have taken another hour, and the weight of the story might not have been able to carry it. I will say I was disappointed that they skipped over 1963 and the Grease soundtrack. I really would have liked to see what was going on with them during that era. The ending came a little abruptly imo. Otherwise; good flick.

I thought so too, but yeah, it was entertaining.

[fretless]

Third Person 1.5 / 10 it gets a .5 because you get a tit shot from Olivia Wilde but this was a waste of whatever media was used in the making of and should have been called "WTF" or "how to clear out a theater "

[Ruiner]

St Vincent - 7.5 / 10
Thoroughly enjoyed it. Bill was excellent and the kid was surprisingly good. Super funny but hits you right in the feels.

[Elessar [Sly]]

Mr Turner 5/10. Good acting. Far too long... felt like it should have been a 2 part BBC film.

[Dickarms]

avengers:
thought yall comic nerds was smokin dope til the second half. dat action.

still need to see interstellar and st vincent

[ovid9]

Ragamuffin- -/10 Gave up about 1 hour into it so I can't fairly rate it.

Its a bio-pic about Rich Mullins, a Christian singer/song writer who left Nashville to live on a Navajo reservation. Dude was amazingly talented and not just in the CCM world, just a hell of a musician. (If you've ever heard the song "Awesome God" that was one he wrote, far from his best, but probably his most famous.)

Anyway, he had a pretty rough life as he struggled with his faith, with relationships, with alcohol, basically with being human. He was killed in a car accident about 30 minutes from where I live 15 years ago at age 41.

I was hoping this wouldn't be your typical "Christian" movie, overly sanitized, awful pap. It wasn't, it was just not good. The writing and acting were just gawdawful. I mean, horrible. And, much of the early portion of the movie is set in the 70s/80s. Well, the arbitrarily picked some stuff to do period correct and if they couldn't find enough stuff to be period correct apparently said "F it" and went on with their lives. It'd have been better if they didn't even try as it was very distracting.

The movie was also about 2.25 hours long. Which for the ability of the actors and writer was far too long.

It probably would've been better if they'd just made a documentary. WHICH, upon leaving an IMDB review I discovered they DID! By the same people. I wish they'd just made the documentary OR a decent movie instead of both but hey, they know the church crowd will pay no matter how bad the product is.

Its doubly frustrating because Rich was a perfectionist, I can't imagine he would've approved of something this poorly done. Oh well.

[Ruiner]

Hunger Games The Mocking Jay Part 1

6.5 out of 10

It was ok. Pretty slow build and ends like a "Part 1" of anything would. They're just stretching it out and would have been a lot better if they just cut out the unnecessary stuff, combined the two into one longer movie. Fun, popcorn flick on a Sunday afternoon either way.

[nightflameauto]

Tim's Vermeer - 5/10
The premise made it sound really cool. And the first half or so of it was every bit as good as the preview let on.

The idea was a modern day graphic and CGI dude (one of the makers of Lightwave 3D) is studying paintings by Vermeer and saying it looks so much more realistic than his contemporaries. So he poses the question, could this have been done using mirrors and lenses instead of just free-hand. He develops a method of painting himself using a set of tools he develops where a mirror sitting over what you are painting contains the image in a way you can move around, and the paper/canvas behind the mirror that you work on moves in the same way so you just paint/color/shade until you can't see the edge of the mirror, then move on to the next bit and do the same. What you end up with is a near photographic quality painting. It's genius at a certain level, and it's cool he took the time to develop it as a workable theory to the point of actually using it.

The movie could have stopped there and I would have felt it was pretty cool. Or the second half of the movie could have been much less self indulgent.

Where it turns it basically becomes about how much money and free time this guy has, and how much of a whiny bitch he is about spending all that money and free time to literally build a room, from scratch, in a warehouse he owns, to replicate one of the Vermeer paintings. It was brutal watching the day count and realizing, this dude literally has all this free time and NO IDEA what to do with it. I really doubt Vermeer built his own room from scratch. The way he protrayed himself as basically being on the verge of giving up over and over again just annoyed the hell out of me. And it wasn't just me, my wife started screaming, "OH YOU POOR BABY!" at him about 3/4ths of the way through the film. I don't know if he was that way all the time or it was just the way it was edited.

The last little bit of the movie he speaks with some actual art critics and shows them his result. Their conclusion was his painting was at least as good, possibly better than Vermeer's had been. That would have been a nice tagline if you hadn't just spent forty minutes watching the rich boy whine about how horrible his life is being able to spend an entire year doing nothing but pursue a hobby.

I'd watch the first half of it again, then burn the disc to avoid seeing the second half. Great concepts discussed, and fascinating for someone that tries and more often than not fails, at creating their own art, but extremely self indulgent.

[spawnofthesith]

Pandorum - I could nit pick at it, but I was drunk and entertained so 7/10

[Marc G]

Interstellar... 8.5/10...... great movie... it got a little TOOOO far fetched even by Sci-fi standards for me towards the end but none the less a really great movie... I would have preferred a slightly different ending but that's just me nitpicking..