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What Was The Last Movie You Watched and Rate it!

Its the first of a trilogy.... soo

If the first one in a trilogy is a great movie, it makes it much more likely the others are even made and are successful. This movie does not make me look forward to part 2 or 3.
 
Miller's Crossing - early Coen Bros movie - 6/10. Good but flawed.

The Coens are hit and miss. When they hit (O Brother, Raising Arizona), they knock it out of the park. But when they miss (Intolerable Cruelty, Burn After Reading), good lord, do they miss.
 
The Coens are hit and miss. When they hit (O Brother, Raising Arizona), they knock it out of the park. But when they miss (Intolerable Cruelty, Burn After Reading), good lord, do they miss.

I happened to love Burn After Reading myself.
 
The Coens are hit and miss. When they hit (O Brother, Raising Arizona), they knock it out of the park. But when they miss (Intolerable Cruelty, Burn After Reading), good lord, do they miss.

Agreed. Best three for me are The Big Lebowski, Fargo and O Brother. The worst are Burn After Reading, The Ladykillers, Barton Fink.
 
Melancholia, by Lars Van Trier.

I really liked it, from the claustrophobic first shots that set up a tone of interpersonal dysfunction to the transformative ending. The odd tension he created in the movie was such that it seemed the film could shatter at any moment just as the theme of the end of the world was unfolding.

I'd give it a thumbs up.

That's the only good movie I've seen in at least a couple years.
 
50/50. It was so-so.
 
I tried watching Meloncholia and I thought it was awful. I tried, and got about an hour into it, and finally cursed myself for wasting an hour of my life and changed the channel.
 
i think it was either 'scream 4 ' or 'unknown' with liam neeson and diana kruger

both of them were good films

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I watched Unknown recently (though not the last movie I saw) and it was okay. I thought the ending was a little predictable.
 
Watched 13 Assassins via Netflix - a 6.5 out of 10. Entertaining in a rather mindless way. An action movie, mid to late 1800's and the Shogun wants his brother dead - unofficially of course. So it's 13 samauri against seemingly thousands of enemy sword fodder. Not Kurosawa - not even bad Kurosawa but mindless entertainment with subtitles.
 
Last movie in theater:

Act of Valor

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Last movie in theater:

Act of Valor

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Saw that last week. I couldn't work out if it was a spoof like Tropic Thunder, or deadly serious, which ultimately I think it was. As a spoof 8/10, as a serious action pic 3/10.
 
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo the Hollywood adaption.

I had viewed the whole series in the original Swedish version. The original Swedish version and the Hollywood adaption are true to the books
 
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Just watched "Where Eagles Dare".

4 out of 5.
 
Just watched In Time. Thought it was a great idea for a movie.

Didn't realize Cillian Murphy was in it. *bonus!*
 
The Island On Bird Street.

Excellent movie based on a true story.
 
Act of Valor

great film-high bodycount, no down time, cool weapons
 
Just watched "Where Eagles Dare".

4 out of 5.

my favorite Richard Burton film other than "The Wild Geese"

the scene where they double cross the German's into giving up spy names is massive cool
 
Battle Royale (8/10), Pretty much what the Hunger Games ripped off of, but with an R rating and not too far in the future. Pretty entertaining, also my first foreign film in my Blu-ray collection.
 
Hunger Games-tonight

A-

IN the last two months (a huge amount of theater attendance for me) I saw War Horse, Red Tails, Act of Valor and Hunger Games

Act of Valor-A
Red Tails-A-
Hunger Games-A-
War Horse B+
 
"Hot Fuzz"


A+. It had me laughing from beginning to end. Just my kind of humor. :)
 
in time; dystopian sci fi movie in which no one ages past 25, but are engineered to die once they run out of time. time becomes the currency; some have a lot, some live hour to hour.

good premise, mediocre execution. certainly an aspect of the film is that it is a thinly veiled critique of capitalism; albeit a flawed one.

i'd give it maybe a 5.5 out of 10. better than some sci fi movies; not as good as GATTACA, which i'd probably give at least an 8.

This sounds like a rip-off of Logan's Run.
 
My son and I just watched Hunger Games last night at the theater, and discussed it afterwards.

On the whole I have to agree on the 7 of 10 rating you give. I was surprised and disappointed at the PG13 rating; seems to me the point of the thing was to emphasize the horror of the Games and how the society had grown accustomed and hardened to it, and the antiseptic cut-away death scenes totally blew that aspect of it. The blurred and shaky-cam sequences made it hard to tell what was going on during some combat sequences which was a bit of a downer also.

Even so, it was good. Pretty good acting, scenery, dialog, and so forth. The ending was slightly abrupt but it was already a long movie I can see why.

Enjoyed it quite a lot overall, despite the above-mentioned flaws.

Loved the books and the movie, but I am a sucker for strong female roles. I am really happy to hear that you discussed the movie with your son. I wish more people would have "discussions" instead of "did you like it". I don't remember my parents ever getting into the philosophical and deeper meanings of things we watched.
 
Malick's Tree of Life.

On an cinematic level, it sucked.

On a directorial or acting level, it has some interesting scenes. Brad Pitt seems like he can act in it. Not bad on those respects.
 
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