"The last movie you've seen" thread

Hancock

A truely enjoying and engrossing film, as with a lot of Will Smith, he has flourished to be perhaps one of the best actors todate!

You are thrown into this movie without a clue, and bewilderd by the whole of it, but by doing that it puts you in the shoes of Hancock the super-to-be-hero.

Charlize Theron, plays an magnificent and convincing part, I am yet to find any fault with her acting within any movie really, she really applies her talent 110% a truly believable effort

I wont ruin the movie, but it gets a Zetty Score 8.5 out of 10

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Wall.E

It never ceases to amaze me how one can endear emotions from something that emotionless, Although this is a kids film, I found it quite slow in the begining for kids to be honest..

Its light hearted, cute in a lot of places and a sweet movie, and if at times a little crass in how it puts ITS MESSAGE accross.. however, one not to miss me thinks Zetty Score 6.5 out of 10

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The Dark Knight

For all that has been said by v85, clearly has only just begun, a fantastic movie, absolutle scene stealing from both Heath Ledger and Aaron Eckhart, not by foul but by true acting tallent and role assumption... I have to admit i am in awe by both their performances.

A must see Zetty Score 9.5 out of 10

Noriko no shokutaku (Noriko's Dinner Table)

Genre: Drama (Horror)

Plot: A teenager called Noriko Shimabara runs away from her family in Tokoyama, to meet Kumiko, the leader of an Internet BBS, Haikyo.com. She becomes involved with Kumiko's "family circle", which grows darker after the mass suicide of 54 high school girls.

Japanese movie, which is the sequel to Suicide Circle (Suicide Club). The movie is quite good, although it's a bit like a book. There's not much dialogue, but the story is told and led by different protagonists, and the whole comes in a very poetical package. It is also very long with 159 minutes, so you can already guess that it is very story driven. There maybe some lenthgs in the movie, as with a lot of movies, but the twists will keep you interested until the movie's over. 7/10

Rinjin 13-gô (Neighbour No. 13)

Genre: Thriller/Horror

Plot: Jûzô Murasaki is a boy miscast in his classroom, being frequently abused, tortured, beaten and humiliated by the bully Tôru Akai and his gang of juvenile punks. After years of repression, rejection and fear without facing Akai, he develops a psychopathic dual personality with a violent alter-ego. While living in the apartment 13 of a tenement building, he becomes unable to control his violent dark personality, who plots an evil revenge against his upper floor neighbor Akai and his family.

Another japanese movie which was worth watching. 6.5/10

3:10 to Yuma

Genre: Western
Starring: Christian Bale, Russell Crowe, Ben Foster

Plot: The rancher Daniel Evans, who lost part of his leg in the Civil War, is broken and owing a large amount to a powerful man in Bisbee. When the outlaw Ben Wade is captured after the heist of a stagecoach, Dan offers to escort the cold blood killer to the city of Contention to take the 3:10 PM train to Yuma to be sent to trial. In return, he would receive US$ 200,00, enough to save his land and give a better life to his family. During their journey, Ben gets closer to Dan while his gang of criminals follows the group to rescue their boss.

Although I'm not the biggest fan of western movies, I quite enjoyed this one. 7.5/10

The Heartbreak Kid

Genre: Comedy
Starring: Ben Stiller, Michelle Monaghan, Jerry Stiller

Plot: The story centers on a man who is convinced that he has finally met the right girl and marries too quickly. While on his honeymoon and in the process of discovering that his new bride is a nightmare, he meets the girl of his dreams.

Well, I'm no comedy fan either, so it has to be good to convince me, but this one wasn't. There are some good jokes here and there, but I have seen a lot better. 5/10

The Marine

From the trailer, it looks like a big brainless action movie but it's far from looking as bad as the movie really is. Thank god it was only 1h20' long.
The actors are bad (except maybe the bad guy from terminator 2) and the scenario is even worse.
Basically, an ex-marine and his wife are on a vacation trip when they cross the path of some gangsters. The rest of the movie is only about the guy going through all kinds of stunts to get his wife back (she has been taken hostage). Really, the first thing that come to your mind when the movie is over is: "omg this was bad".
I'm gonna give it a 2/10 only because, at the begining of the movie, the guy has to help a bunch of prisoners to escape from an al quaida camp and he says one of those killing one-line:

The prisoner: "how are we gonna go around these guys?"
The marine: "We don't. We go through them!"

Planet Terror

Another movie from Grindhouse... When Death Proof didn't really impressed me, i must say that i had a really great time with Planet Terror. The scenario is pretty basic: Zombies are in town, people have to escape, alot of gore and babes. You really have the feeling to read one of those old stories with the pages yellowed by the time.
The 2 main actors, Freddy RodrÃ*guez (from 6 feet under) and Rose McGowan, were really great.
What woman doesn't dream to have one of her legs replaced by a machine gun? 8/10

Spiderman 3

We really didn't have a great time watching it, we even stopped it before the end. My wife and i are great fans of spiderman (the comic books) but this movie sounded too much like a weird version of "the mask" (but without Jim Carrey). I couldn't stand Tobey Maguire after 20 minutes and i wonder how i made it to 1h20'. Even Kirsten Dunst was disappointing. She was completely charmless. (man, i still remember "the virgin suicide").
1/10 (the black costume is cute...)

Star Trek Enterprise - pilot

We were scared of this. It's been 3 years now that every sunday and wednesday eve is Star Trek evening for us.
We had first bought the complete "Voyager" serie and we had such a great time with it that we directly bought "The Next Generation" and lately we have done the same with "Deep Space Nine".
My wife completely converted me into a trekkie. And when we realised that we were getting close to the end of all our dvds, we started to think about "Enterprise" but so many people have said bad things about it... We were afraid to buy all the seasons without having, at least, tried it once. So last week-end, we rented the first dvd and we watched the pilot episod.
When the opening credits started, we were like "wtf is that for some crap music, is it Bon Jovi or something?". But we really enjoyed the episod. The crew seems great and the scenario gave us the "Star Trek" feeling enough to be sure that we'll get that serie too (when we'll have seen the end of DSN). I'm happy to know that there is more Star Trek to discover :D
8.5/10

The first pilot episode of Enterprise is really good. Sadly the first series doesn't quite live up to that first episode, but it is worth persevering with the series as the final series is very good, especially with the mix of Klingons and other races.

Submarine 707 Revolution

Plot Summary: To combat the terrorist organization known as "USR", eleven countries combine their naval forces to form the Peace-Keeping Navy (PKN). However, all hell breaks loose when Admiral Red and his USR submarine UX crash the PKN's inaugural ceremony and destroy majority of the fleet. At the last minute, when the UX lands the final blow on the aircraft carrier Apollo-Norm, the obsolete Japanese submarine 707 (a.k.a. "Snapping Turtle") appears from out of nowhere and sacrifices itself to save the PKN flagship. Six months later, Captain Youhei Hayami is called back to duty to lead a new group of recruits and captain an all-new 707 in the war against terrorism underwater.

This has to be the most un-anime anime i've ever seen. The starting credits aren't big and flashy, the music isn't loud and brash. There are very few action scenes and even then they are at a more sedate pace. However all this doesn't matter because everything is perfect for this DVD. The only bad thing about this is that it was never completed as a story. This should easily have been 6 hour long episodes but unfortunatly they only made the 2 so the story doesn't so mush as end as finishes. Other than that i would say this is a must buy.

9/10

WALL-E

Starring: Robots
Seen at: Cinema

Going into the movie, I had doubts as to how Pixar could tell an 1.5 hour story essentially without dialogue (the stars of the show are robots, and as such, do not speak), but somehow, they pulled it off. It's a touching, exciting tale with plenty of laughs to be had. Oh, and the CG isn't half bad either!

Definitely recommended, and not only for the kids either.

Score: 9.2 out of 10

The fantastic 4 - Rise of the silver surfer

The movie wasn't bad, we even had a good time. But when it was over, we didn't really have the feeling to have seen a movie, more a long trailer. I just think that it was missing depth in the scenario, it seems to start in the middle of something and to end the same way. The cast was ok, the effects were ok but really nothing impressive.

6/10

300

It was better than i thought. I had heard a lot of comments like "it's for gays, full of naked muscle men",... But i found the scenario really nice, the slowmotions and the effects were pretty neat and i also found the main character attaching (i thought he would be irritating). I found myself willing to scream "THIS IS SPARTAAAAA!"

8/10

I was very disappointed when I saw Fan4 - Rise of the Silver Surfer. It did not meet the same standard as the first Fan4 film. The silver surfer was very well done, but the rest of the film and the main actors just didn't seem to be trying or really wanting to be in the film.

What dissapointed me most about FF-ROTSS was how short it was. Galactus the devourer of worlds comes allong as a pile of gas and SS comes along and flies ointo it and then the earth is safe all done in about 1 min. The other thing that pissed me off about it was that Ben Grimm was the least orange person in the FF.

The last movie I seen? The one with Heath as the Joker. :coffee:

30 Days of Night

Genre: Horror/Thriller
Starring: Josh Hartnett, Melissa George, Ben Foster

Plot: This is the story of an isolated Alaskan town that is plunged into darkness for a month each year when the sun sinks below the horizon. As the last rays of light fade, the town is attacked by a bloodthirsty gang of vampires bent on an uninterrupted orgy of destruction. Only the small town's husband-and-wife Sheriff team stand between the survivors and certain destruction.

Decent vampire movie with a good setting. I'm no huge fan of vampire movies, but this one was Ok, not the traditional vampire movie. 6.5/10

Just got back from the European Premiere of Gamers 2: Dorkness Rising.

All I can say is that if you are a gamer (CRPG, RPG or LARP), then this movie is for you.

The acting is certainly not Oscar-worthy, but in the whole element of the movie it adds to the charm. The humour is everywhere, along with some very nice touches (the tribute to Gary Gygax is especially well done, if you can spot it). The cast are very down to earth in their appearance, befitting the fact that they are ordinary people enjoying an ordinary hobby.

The quality of the movie's sound and vision are adequate, but, again, it all just adds to the atmosphere that helps to define this movie as being the Dungeons and Dragons movie, written and performed by gamers for gamers.

Not afraid to use terminology specific to one system, they still manage to allow product placement to be a part of the movie, but in a very understandable and utterly fair manner. It also touches on some of the perceived prejudices that some gamers can have about other gamers and deals with that quite well.

All in all the movie is very much driven by an well-thought-out equal balance of character, plot and entertainment (the Bard is amazingly good value-for-money).

In the end it does make scoring this movie quite hard, so I have given it 2 scores.

Score (for non-RP'ers): 7/10 (A few moments could go way over your head, but the main sections of the movie just work so hard and achieve so much more.)

Score (for RP'ers): 10/10 (Everything fits together, in the perfect quantities, and with the perfect charm and sentiment)

The Kingdom

Starring: Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Garner
Seen at: Home, DVD

Not bad.

[The film is fictional, but inspired by bombings at the Riyadh compound on May 12, 2003 and the Khobar housing complex on June 26, 1996 in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The story follows a team of FBI agents who investigate the bombing of a foreign-workers facility in Saudi Arabia.] [Wikipedia quote]

Typical Hollywood action, with plenty of explosions and gunfights to satisfy even the most hardcore action-fanatic. The best performance comes not from the American cast, but from Ashraf Barhom, an Israeli Arab actor who plays the role of Col. Faris Al-Ghazi, a dutiful Saudi army officer bent on bringing the cowardly terrorists to justice.

Worth a watch.

Score: 6.8 out of 10

Wanted

Starring: Morgan Freeman, James McAvoy, Angelina Jolie
Seen at: Cinema

Quite a cool movie. Semi-original story, good performances, good humour and above all, non-relenting, over-the-top action. Could easily have been a Jerry Bruckheimer / Michael Bay flick.

"A young man finds out his long lost father is an assassin. And when his father is murdered, the son is recruited into his father's old organization and trained by a man named Sloan to follow in his dad's footsteps." (IMDB quote)


Score: 7.7 out of 10

We Own the Night

Genre: Drama/Thriller
Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Mark Wahlberg, Eva Mendes

Plot: Brooklyn, 1988. Crime is rife, especially drugs and drug violence. A Russian thug is building his heroin trade, while everyone laughs at the cops. Brothers have chosen different paths: Joe has followed his father Bert into New York's Finest; he's a rising star. Bobby, who uses his mother's maiden name, manages a club. Bobby too is on the rise: he has a new girlfriend and a green-light to develop a Manhattan club. Joe and Bert ask him to help with intelligence gathering; he declines. Then, Joe raids Bobby's club to arrest the Russian. From there, things spiral out of control: the Russian puts out a hit on Joe, personal losses mount, and Bobby's loyalties face the test.

Good film, worth a watch. Just watched it on TV. 7.5/10

I saw We Own the Night recently on TV too. Was a good film.

Death Race

Starring: Jason Statham, Tyrese Gibson, Ian McShane

This is, to be honest, not the most though-provoking of movies. But what can you expect from a movie that is a combination of Carmageddon, Twisted Metal, Full Auto et al.

Lots of action, guns, explosions, foul language, amusing lines, amusing moments and extremely OTT sequences. At an hour and 40 minutes, it's an enjoyable, popcorn movie for the boys. Not that girls will not enjoy it, but it certainly does cater more for the men.

A lot of people have moaned that it is not as good as the original, but I say, who cares. It's not trying to be a remake, or even a re-imagining. It is, to all intents and purposes, a sequel to the 1975 cult classic.

I reckon most people who have played games like the ones listed above will get a lot of kicks from this movie. And I sense that if it does well, you may very well see some of the Carmageddon games making a re-appearance on one of the virtual consoles.

Overall 7.5/10. (Lots of fun, but no brain strainer...)

No Country For Old Men

Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin, Javier Bardem
Seen at: Home, Blu-ray

This, on the other hand, requires a bit more thought in order to fully enjoy.

"After stumbling across a case of money among dead bodies, Llewelyn Moss thinks he can keep it quiet, but when silent killer Anton Chigurh locates Moss and his money, Vietnam veteran Moss makes a run for it. With bodies falling everywhere Anton goes, it's only a matter of time before he catches up with Llewelyn. Whilst all this is going on, Sheriff Ed Tom Bell is overseeing the investigation and begins to see the country in a different light than it once was."

Javier Bardem is incredible in his role as the main antagonist - a sociopathic killer that feels absolutely no remorse as he relentlessly chases after his target, leaving a path of death in his wake. Had Heath Ledger not played the role of the Joker in the latest Batman film, I think this guy would've done an equally great job. Some scenes were simply unnerving.


Score: 8.0 out of 10

Hancock

I think this has already been talked about and everybody here knows what the movie is about. I give it a 6/10.

There Will Be Blood

Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis
Seen at: Home, Blu-ray

I was impressed with Daniel Day-Lewis in his role as Butcher Bill in Gangs of New York, so I was curious to see how he'd fare in this movie. Suffice to say, he's again delivered a star performance. Definitely one of the best character actors at the moment.

"In the 1890s, Daniel Plainview, a struggling silver miner, finds his true wealth in petroleum extraction while taking the orphaned child, H.W., as his own for a valuable family man image. In 1911, Plainview gets a tip on a valuable supply on the struggling Sunday family ranch in the impoverished Little Boston, California. In his quest to acquire the property, Plainview meets the sanctimonious Eli Sunday, the young reverend of the local church with his own ambitions for his diocese and the profit from the oil. As the oil wells begin, an escalating conflict arises between exploiters of many kinds while Plainview's canny ruthlessness gradually sinks into a slowly mounting malevolent madness. In doing so, it begins to drive every emotional bond away that all the wealth he gains can never replace."

It's a very slow-paced movie, but definitely worth a watch for the stellar performances.


Score: 8.2 out of 10

I watched There Will Be Blood last week on TV, and I kinda liked it. Daniel Day-Lewis does indeed a great performance. I'll rate the movie 7.5/10.

Two Girls, One Cup (by accident, I hasten to say)

er... DON'T!!!!!!!

EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And I mean EVER!!!!!!!!!

http://media.ebaumsworld.com/2008/04/2Girls1Cup.jpg

it w\s some one about gangs cant even remember the name of it
some woman was in it lol this is bad
then cars before that and it was no good

Watched Click with Adam Sandler on Saturday and the best I can give it is probably 4/10.

The concept is a good one. Being given a remote control that allows you to control every aspect of reality and your life. However quite early on in the film it becomes quite clear that it is obviously a rip off of It's a Wonderful Life and this makes the rest of the film completely predictable and quite boring.

I agree with Click, it's just another "not so funny" Adam Sandler movie.

The problem with Adam Sandler is that he can be really good in some films, but equally really bad in others. No consistency in his acting at all. And definitely more bad films than good!

But I think the script was what let this film down more than Sandler himself. There were enough great actors co-starring alongside him in Click and yet none of them really shone. Christopher Walken for example is a great actor, and Kate Beckinsale has made some great films too.

About the only redeeming feature of the whole film is getting to see David Hasselhoff paused and beaten.

The only actor who i thought did put in a good performance was Henry Winkler.

Hellboy II: The Golden Army

I don't think I have to explain what this movie is about, and when I had to describe it in one word:

Brilliant!!!

9/10

I was unsure from the trailers if Hellboy II was going to be any good. I'm not yet seem it, but I've heard people saying its good so I will definitely have to see it now.

It has a lot of funny quotes and is also nicely done. I prefer the first half of the film though, as later comes a small step into :wub: but nothing to worry about, it's not like the love story in the Spiderman movies ;)

Vantage point

In this movie the attempted assassination of the american president is told and re-told from several different perspectives. Good movie, stays gripping until the last minute.

7.5/10

From the trailers I avoided that film on release, and the reviewers didn't like it. I will probably wait until it's out on Sky and then watch it.

I also watched it on TV (Premiere), and it wasn't bad at all, the beginning is slow, and I already thought this one's gonna get boring, but once you see the same 23 minutes from different views and angles, it gets interesting and keeps you guessing what really happened.

Grim Reaper

I watched this the other night on TV and I would definitely recommend you don't bother. The acting is really bad, bordering on amateur. The camera work is also quite bad. You can see they have tried to make it look better with some low down skewed angles but it has the quality of a low budget TV movie.

*Spoiler*

The story isn't much better. A stripper leaves the club she works at to wait for her boyfriend to pick her up. While waiting she is hit by a taxi. She wakes up in a hospital and then everyone vanishes and she gets knocked out by a nurse. She then wakes up again in a mental institute cell with seemingly only one doctor on duty and no other staff. Soon discovering there are others there trapped like her. They quickly find out that the doctor was dying of lung cancer caused by smoking, but sold his soul to the grim reaper in exchange for him finding other souls trapped in limbo (should have died in accidents but somehow lived). And the stripper is one of them.

The film continues with her boyfriend trying to find out what has happened to her and eventually finding his way to the hospital and getting inside. During which each of the inmates is killed one by one by the grim reaper in very cliche ways. Finally the girl works out the only way to escape death is to die. So she makes her boyfriend kill her, then bring her back.

End of film. Well the end is her in a bath, talking to her boyfriend in the other room, she falls asleep, slips into the bath, drowns, and the grim reaper gets her anyway.

2/10

Poor Harrison, I just saw that it got 2.4/10 at IMDb, in that case I wouldn't even have bothered to watch it. Seems like 82 minutes of your life are forever gone ;)

Iron Man

I found it very good, although not throughout the whole movie, so I give it a 7.5/10, I prefer Hellboy as comic translation, but with Iron Man following as 2nd.

Iron Man was a very good film, but I also agree that this wasn't true throughout the whole film. I think the end let it down especially as it did end up being a super hero film by numbers, with Iron Man facing off against a less evolved, but stronger opponent. They really could of created an amazing Middle East combat finale to the film rather than wrapping that part up as an aside to an internal company link.

It was indeed the ending that was rather disappointing, and as you said, a less powerful opponent being stronger, but why??

21

"21" is the fact-based story about six MIT students who were trained to become experts in card counting and subsequently took Vegas casinos for millions in winnings.

The film is not bad, only lacks a bit here and there, but overall decent. 6.5/10

I haven't seen that film as I used to be a croupier and know all about card counting and how easy it is to spot. It's the only way to turn the odds in a casino in your favour but is easy to spot and relies on the other players being able to play the right way and TBH a plumber would not want to watch a film about plumbers which is why I'd never watch it as I'd spot too many mistakes.

Tropic Thunder

I liked it, although no masterpiece, it has a lot of funny moments. I especially liked Robert Downey Jr. Would rate it 7/10

Saw V

And the hunt for Jigsaw continues, part 5. Meanwhile the movies tend to get a little bit boring as it's always the same, but they are still enjoyable to watch. I'll rate it only 6/10 though, as the suspense almost gets lost immediately.

Max Payne

Not a lot to tell you about this one, it was very disappointing. I'll rate it a 5/10 at best, and if you wanna watch it, rent it or just d/l it, but don't waste too much money for it.

I'm not gonna explain what the movies I watched lately are about, as surely everyone should know these films, I'm only gonna rate them shortly.

Babylon A.D. - 5.5/10
Indiana Jones 4 - 6.5/10
Eagle Eye - 7/10
The Mummy 3 - 6/10

I also watched the new Bond movie, but that was on Sunday evening, I was drunk, and honestly, I cannot remember one single action of the movie :lol: have to rewatch it.

I would have given Indiana Jones 4 much lower than 6.5. I was very disappointed with that film. Not anywhere near as good as the old trilogy. Where I would have given Mummy 3 more. Although changing the leading lady ruined it a bit for me.

I was also disappointed with Indy 4, but it wasn't that bad, just a little overdone.

A little overdone? Some parts were completely stupid. The part where they were driving through the jungle having a gun fight with the other car. How none of the bullets hit them is impossible. And the ants attacking them was just as silly. In the original films it was all tongue in cheek, and did stretch the realms of reality, but not quite to the cartoon style action of the last film. For me it ruined the series more than added to it.