Re: What was the last movie you watched?
Kinzcove, are these mostly first-time watches for you? If so, good job! 
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Kinzcove, are these mostly first-time watches for you? If so, good job!
Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World 
- 9/10
One of the must see movies of this year. Absolutely fantastic, hilarious, clever, and often touching.
Edgar Wright writes and directs, bringing his frenetic fast-paced style to some comics I'd never heard of.
IT'S FREAKING AWESOME, and deserves to be talked about and recommended to EVERYONE before it dies a slow death at the box office. (Alright so the box office death wasn't so much slow as "grossed the least percentage of its budget since they started recording that type of thing")
This is not another Michael Cera movie, in fact, Cera is as far from the typical Cera character as he's ever likely to get. His career is basically finished at this point though, which can't have helped the film's success.
This movie didn't make any money, just like Kick Ass. So now when someone else wants to get a movie like Kick Ass or Pilgrim greenlit, the suits are going to go "No way, look at these two similar films which didn't make nearly enough money" and the world will be without another dose of liquid awesome to inject directly into your eyeballs. It is an absolute disgrace that the Expendable hit the top of the US box office the weekend where Pilgrim came 5th.
And speaking of the Expendables...
The Expendables 
- 5/10
Waste of money. It's not bad, so much as extremely average. Everything about this film is average, the acting, the script, the cinematography, the action. I know this film isn't trying to be anything other than a big silly entertaining explosion-fest, but it isn't even very good at doing that. It's not a good bad movie, or even a bad bad movie, it's just boring.
And if you want to see all of the biggest action stars fighting together on the big screen, this movie isn't even that. It's Stallone and Statham, a bit of Micky Rourke with a bunch of C-list nobodies, Jet Li relegated to jokes about how short he is and a couple of big name cameos.
Go see Scott Pilgrim instead.
Toy Story 3 - 10/10
Hilarious, tense, touching, exciting, mature, and generally incredible.
I know this has been out a while, but it's amazing. And when...
all the main characters resign themselves to death in the gigantic trash compactor
...it's a full on edge of your seat nail biting moment! I felt like screaming at the screen "You can't do that! This is a kids movie!", but of course they can and they did and it was one of the most emotionally intense scenes I've seen in a movie in years.
I thought a lot of the "heartfelt" moments and the bits were the toys go on and on about how much Andy means to them were a bit overly-sincere, but I understand a lot of people cried a lot at this, particularly in the end, so I guess that's just a matter of taste.
It pretty much goes without saying that if you didn't like this movie, you have no soul.
Oh, and the animation was incredible! Particularly that scene I mentioned before.
Kinzcove, are these mostly first-time watches for you? If so, good job!
Yep, 99.9% are first time watches for me, the other tiny percent is movies I've seen before but don't remember quite well or have only seen parts of them.
8 1/2 is great; I biked for an hour last spring to see it in a theater. Very worthwhile.
I'm a projectionist for a film professor; I just got the syllabus for the semester and it's pretty amazing. A lot of 16mm and 35mm prints.
Wait, as apposed to what? I was under the impression 35mm was the norm.
Centurion
Paul Blart: Mall Cop
Never have I watched a movie that tries so hard to be funny, but completely fails. I mean COMPLETELY. I laughed at like...one joke, and that was the one explosion in the movie. I'm laughing at explosions. I have been reduced to such a low level of failed 'comedy' that I'm actually laughing at an explosion. Thats how unfunny this movie is.
The main joke of the movie is Paul Blart is fat. Geddit? Because....fat people are funny, right?
And the second act is basically a rip-off of 'Die Hard'. Only, you know, without the memorable lines, great actors, action, suspense, or....anything that made 'Die Hard' worth ripping off.
This is the most painful part of the movie, because despite 'Die Hard' containing a lot of humour (meaning it is very hard to parody), there is still a lot of potential. I wouldn't have cared if they just copied the script from 'Die Hard' because it would have been so much more funny. I wanted more than anything for Blart to say "yipee ki-yay mother f**ker" because even though that just directly referencing....its more funny than the humour in this movie. The concept of a group of fraudsters taking over the mall - no matter how stupid it is (why would you get everybody out of the mall - which attracts the attention of every emergency service in America - when your just trying to steal some money from the computers?) actually had some kind of potential. But, like Blart, they still messed it up. Blart epically failing at everything - which at first does make you pity him (he's a likeable enough guy), but then it just becomes over the top - sums up the writers.
And the villain-who-you-don- think-is-the-villain-but-then-reveals-himself-that-he-is-the-villain SUCKS. When he threatens to put a bullet through Blarts brain, you do not feel threatened at all because the guy is a wimp who has probably never shot a guy in his life. And why should he - HE'S A FRAUDSTER NOT A FREAKING TERRORIST!!! He just wants enough money to retire on an island. I dont get why he needs to attract the attention of SWAT who are so obviously going to follow him and hunt him down even if he does have hostages.
Bottome line - AVOID!! There is nothing salvageable at all....which is saying a lot from a guy like me who always finds something salvageable even from such horrors as 'Eragon' (the villain) and 'Star Wars Episode 1' (the end lightsaber battle)
-MRB
Network
HILARIOUS.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
One of the few romantic comedies I actually liked.
My parents liked Paul Blart ... which means it must really suck.
! I felt like screaming at the screen "You can't do that! This is a kids movie!"...
They can do that, and it's not a kids movie. It's a family movie. There's a difference. [/berserkbutton]
SquareShapedSoftness wrote:! I felt like screaming at the screen "You can't do that! This is a kids movie!"...
They can do that, and it's not a kids movie. It's a family movie. There's a difference. [/berserkbutton]
You do realize that he went on to say that they CAN do that, right? *kicks Littlebrick's beserkbutton*
A Serious Man
Somebody please explain to me how that was a good ending.
Littlebrick wrote:SquareShapedSoftness wrote:! I felt like screaming at the screen "You can't do that! This is a kids movie!"...
They can do that, and it's not a kids movie. It's a family movie. There's a difference. [/berserkbutton]
You do realize that he went on to say that they CAN do that, right? *kicks Littlebrick's beserkbutton*
Yeah I know it isn't really a kids movie, its a Pixar movie, and therin lies the difference. 
A Serious Man
Somebody please explain to me how that was a good ending.
It was a great ending. There's a sense that even if he finds a kind of temporary balance in his life, human existence is too unpredictable. More importantly, it doesn't cease until death; a traditional movie ending would be a denial of that fact.
That's fair enough I guess.
The Matrix Returns- 
- 8/10
Great action, weak plot. Just how I like it, as you can see in all my brickfilms.
Dog
I rewatched The Way We Get By again last night; still a powerful little film.
My review of it can be found HERE.
Ah I forgot to post what I watched yesterday, here we go:
Scream 3
It was not as good as the first or second.
Good Will Hunting
Fantastic.
Hell Night
The cheesiness of this horror flick is hilarious.
The Matrix Returns-
Great action, weak plot. Just how I like it, as you can see in all my brickfilms.Dog
Night Owl would cry if he saw that.
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