i love karate movies and netflix has 2 that i watched recently. IP man 1- 8.0 great story about the master of wing chun that made the art popular all of the world and was bruce lees teacher. IP man 2- 7.5 Same charc as the first and was made last year not as good as the first but still a good movie overall.
The Avengers: 9/10, I really enjoyed it One Day: 7.5/10, decent love story... Sanctum: 6.75/10, actually liked this one... The Change-Up: 7/10, laughed my arse off
The Hunger Games 5/10. What an over hype teenage turd of a movie. Terrible directing and pretty bad CGI/visual on par with Twilight. I knew I shouldn't have gone but was drag to see it by my brother-in-law. Battle Royale crap all over this teenage bopper of a movie. The Avengers 7.5/10. Top notch actions and visual. This is how a super hero with super strength movie should be directed but the story was just too formulated that's been done to death.
Tinker Tailor Soldier Boy: 5.5/10 Was slow at times, not too bad... Twelve: 4/10, 50 cent was in it and well, at least there were hot chicks
Oldboy A lot of CFers have mentioned this movie in previous pages of this thread, even rating it a 10/10. So I got the movie a while ago and finally got around to seeing it. so... what... tha... faaa.... did I just watch?? It was really disturbing. The acting, the whole camera work and all those artistic stuff was brilliant. The story was really ****ed up. I sort of figured it out about 2/3 of the way but didn't want to accept it. I dunno, I think I would classify this movie as borderline horror. I don't even know what to rate it. I think I'll just leave this one blank.
21 Jump Street - 8/10 Loved it. Maybe it was because I was in such a good mood when I watched it, but I lol'd throughout the movie. Maybe they could have found someone better to play Channing's part because you could still tell he was "acting," but nonetheless much better than his GI Joe role. Jonah Hill carried the movie.
Damsels in Distress. Playing for a few more nights at the Sundance Cinema in Houston. Whit Stillman is the Terrence Malick of comedies of manners. It's been more than a decade since Stillman, one of my favorite directors, made a movie, and the result was endlessly endearing. This is only his fourth film (Metropolitan, Barcelona, Last Days of Disco). You know how you meet someone new, and she is charming, and witty, and you find yourself struggling to keep up, and you end up having to raise your game as a result? And by the end of the conversation, and those to follow, you actually find you're a better person? Whit Stillman's films are the movie equivalent to that. No one writes dialogue so impeccably. He's a modern day Oscar Wilde, without all the homoerotic subtext. He's a 60% less neurotic Woody Allen. Greta Gerwig. former mumblecore It Girl: so hot. Fast-talking Dudeboar from The OC, a Chris Eigeman stand-in, was also born to read Whit Stillman dialogue. You leave the movie, seriously questioning: who had the greater impact on society: Jonas Salk, or the dude who invented the Macarena? 4/4.
Is this the one with Thor in it? Are you being sarcastic with that rating? If not, do give us some comments about the movie.
Cabin in the Woods? Different poster: I'd say 3.5/4. Even when it fails, it's totally worth it, because it is so utterly audacious as a horror/comedy horror film. This is something new in the horror genre: it uses every trick in the book, as it's telling you it's about to use those tricks. I didn't like the ending, but so what? It had the courage of its convictions: it went there. It does have Thor, and it was produced by Joss Whedon, who directed the Avengers, though it was co-written/directed by one of his longtime writing/producing partners from his Angel/Buffy days, Drew Goddard. Whatever you do, don't read anything about it. Don't watch trailers. Don't read spoilers. Go in fresh. It's totally worth your time.
Avengers - 9/10, but I really want to rate the Sundance Movie Theater downtown. 10/10, I'd give it higher if I could. Fantastic movie watching experience. Reserved my seats ahead of time, and had the best seats in the place. Comfortable seats, decent beer selection (although I didn't drink). This is my new favorite theater, easily.
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Battleship: 4/10, decent action at times, slow start weak story, cliche but patriotic as there are past army and navy servicemen as characters, but sad to say they cant' act...Maybe i'm wrongly comparing it to the quality of the movie the Avengers was, but that's a hard bar to reach for any movie...I kept waiting for it to get better but it didn't...
True that. It costs a few bucks extra, but reserved seating is the way to go. No need to get there early. No mad dash to get the best seats, no saving seats, period: no coats/scarves/rolls of toilet paper unfurled by a single member of the party, taking up two rows. Plus, every once in a while you get to totally pretend you're in the movies, when you kick out the riffraff freeloaders: "Excuse me, sir, but I believe this space is taken." Mini-tables to avoid claustrophobia, every two seats; no rubbing up against anyone but your date. Fresh baked goods. Want champagne, on ice, at your seat? Done. Centrally located in downtown. 9.8 out of 10, but just because they only serve Sweet n' Low (no Equal/Splenda/etc.) for their piping hot beverages. Also: Hunger Games. 3.25/4. Everything about it was well-done, handsomely made, effective. But it seemed a bit too rote, too staid to truly aspire to any sort of greatness.
A couple of nights a go I couldn't sleep. I found a movie with Batista from WWF in it, called House of the Rising Sun . Good lord did it suck. For some reason though it was one of those movies that was so bad, I couldn't stop watching. It was 3 AM and wasnt s**t on, so I watched the whole thing. Spoiler Batista is a crooked cop, that gets out and starts working for the Mafia, at an illegal casino etc. The action was kind of OK, and it had Danny Trejo in it. The cheesy ass storyline, and bad acting just killed it though. 3.0
The Intouchables - 8/10 A very simple movie about some rich quadriplegic dude and his care taker. That's pretty much it. It's not sad nor is it particularly touching. I found myself laughing most of the time. The only downside is that it's in French and I have to read subtitles.
Goon - 3/10 I looked up some hockey fight clips on youtube after watching this movie. It's not as exciting as they made it seem. Plus Stiffler trying to portray a serious character is weird.
