Review the last movie you viewed (NO LISTS)

[Lancemc]

Casino Royale - 9/10

Not only the best Bond film, possibly ever, this movie raises the bar for all subsequent films of the genre. Clever plot mechanics, marvelous dialog, fine acting from the entire cast, pulse-pounding action sequences, stunning visual effects and stunts, and above all else, a revisioning of the style and cinematography that will ensure the vitality of the Bond franchise for years to come. Nearly perfect in every way.

 

[angelordevil]

Casino Royale - 6/10

Good, but not great. A couple of the scenes will take your breath away, but a great deal of the movie is cliched and formulaic --especially the on-the-sand dialogue between Bond and his love interest.

I liked it, but fell short of loving it.

 

[angelordevil]

Babel

9/10

Whether it was something in the air or something in the Coke I was drinking, I left the theatre the other night thinking Babel just might be the best movie I've ever seen. It deals with separate stories within the same movie, but the characters are interconnected in a way that makes you think about communication and how we all relate to each other. It's dark and dreary at times, but completely riveting.

 

[corianderstem]

Superman Returns

6/10

I got a few goosebumps hearing that familiar theme music and seeing Superman return, but other than that, it was kind of meh overall.

But how spookily like Christopher Reeve does Brandon Routh look?

(Wow, that was maybe the most poorly constructed sentence ever.)

 

[Lancemc]

My favorite part of Superman Returns was the theme music and hearing Marlon Brando again. That was amazing.

Like you said though...the rest was pretty "meh".

 

[LMP]

My favorite part of Superman Returns was the theme music and hearing Marlon Brando again. That was amazing.

Like you said though...the rest was pretty "meh".

WRONG!

 

[corianderstem]

Okay, I did like Kevin Spacey. He was one of the best things in the movie.

 

[Lancemc]

Yeah. I loooooove Spacey. But he wasn't even half as good as Hackman in that role.

 

[LMP]

Yeah. I loooooove Spacey. But he wasn't even half as good as Hackman in that role.

You cannot top Gene Hackman as Lex Luthor, I agree.

But his Luthor was definitely different than his.

I think it would be like comparing Jack Nicholson as The Joker to whatever Heath Ledger does in The Dark Knight.

 

[Lancemc]

That's definitely true.

Oh and The Dark Knight.

 

[corianderstem]

I put the original Superman into my Netflix queue. It's been YEARS since I've seen it, and I don't remember much about it.

 

[LMP]

I still need to have my Superman: The Movie, Superman II: The Donner Cut, Superman Returns marathon.

III and IV never happened, you hear?

They're like Batnipple and Robin on crack.

 

[WinnieThePoo]

Scanner Darkly , more then a movie , more like a book , scarry , funny and shocking , all in all , just the right one , real art survives , Phillip K.Dick is a genious

 

[RedRocksU2]

Casino Royale - 6/10

WHAT?




It was more like 9.5/10

 

[Cin]

"The Goonies" The best adventure movie ever.. A classic that does'nt seem to date. As a 29 year old woman you think that I'd be too old for this but no way. Goonies are good enough for me, yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah.

 

[U2girl]

V for Vendetta 9/10 (a comic based movie, but scarily relevant story)
United 93 7/10 (really, about the only type of movie worth making on that event)

on the "past Oscars winners" Crash 7,5/10 (a tad overtly PC) vs Brokeback Mountain 6/10 (Heath Ledger's charater's wife saves the movie)

 

[Babydoll]

The Breakup.

 

[corianderstem]

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaand what did you think of it?

 

[Babydoll]

Thought it was far less of a comedy then it was advertised. It was ok, not as horrible as most people made it out to be.

 

[corianderstem]

Not so much a comedy - that's what I had heard about it. Maybe I'll have to throw it into my Netflix queue.

 

[Lila64]

meh

Saw it on the flight back from Hawaii. Should have picked a different movie

 

[anitram]

I thought The Break Up was really, really boring.

Saw The Last King of Scotland tonight. There is an astonishingly gruesome scene towards the end. Apart from that, Forest Whitaker was incredible - anyone at all familiar with the footage of Idi Amin would see how great of a job he did. The rest of the movie was alright, but it's his performance that is the best part.

 

[angelordevil]

Pan's Labyrinth

8/10

I really enjoyed this movie

Set in the 1940s, it's basically a good vs evil story set in Spain. While the fascists battle the anti-fascists, a little girl uses the power of her imagination to rise above it all (he said, in a deep, movie-man voice).

It's subtitled in English, which is a little distracting for about two seconds. After that, the story really pulls at you at makes you think.

 

[corianderstem]

Running With Scissors

6/10

I enjoyed this movie more than I was expecting to see it. I liked the book and was curious about the movie, despite the negative reviews I'd read.

The story (as in the book) is almost too hard to believe, but once I got past that, I was able to appreciate it. Annette Bening was VERY good. She deserved her Oscar nod.

Or was it a Golden Globe nod? Maybe she wasn't nommed for an Oscar. Oh well, whichever it was, she deserved it.

 

[No spoken words]

The Live of Others.

9/10.

ETA - This is a German film with English subtitles.


Set in the GDR in 1984, when the state employed 100,000 people in the Stasi (E German secret service) and use another 200,000 people as official informers (That 300,000 total meant that one in every 50 East Germans worked or informed for the Stasi, unreal), story follows a Stasi member's surveillance of a playwrite who is living with his lead actress. The man watching them eventually, for reasons revealed in the film, becomes disenchanted with why he is watching the writer and the tension slowly builds from that point on.

It's just over 2 hours, and it is 100% plot and dialogue driven, and so some might deem it slow. I loved it, and it got a huge round of applause from the audience I watched it with, so they seemed to love it as well.

 

[corianderstem]

Flags of our Fathers

8/10

I'm not a big fan of war movies, but in the spirit of the Oscars, it was on my list. It touched me more than I expected it to.

I would also like to see Letters From Iwo Jima, but I'm waffling between seeing it in the theaters before the Oscars, or just waiting for DVD.

 

[BonosBaby12]

The Guardian 8/10

A movie with a lot of heart to it and was really enjoyable to watch. Was reminded a few times though of "Officer and a Gentleman" with the similarities.

 

[deep]

Flags of our Fathers

8/10

I'm not a big fan of war movies, but in the spirit of the Oscars, it was on my list. It touched me more than I expected it to.

I would also like to see Letters From Iwo Jima, but I'm waffling between seeing it in the theaters before the Oscars, or just waiting for DVD.

Letters is at least 1 to 1.5 points better than flags

make the efford to see it on the big screen

 

[corianderstem]

I had indeed heard that Letters is the better of the two. 8/10 might have been high for my rating ... maybe it was more of a 7/10. I shouldn't rate a movie when I'm still choked up over it.

 

[deep]

Letters could be a 9

I liked Flags ok, too.