list/discuss/rate - your recently watched movies

Much better than I expected it to be. Yes, it has a pretty high kitsch factor with a record number of improbable "how the hell did they survive that?" cliffhangers and generally priorizes cool special effects over storytelling competence, but the cast and SFX are good enough to make the whole thing come across as occasionally suspenseful. Later on the story also begins seriously tackling some of the ethical dilemmas that an end-of-the-world situation like that would realistically create, maybe not as well as the more highbrow apocalyptic sci-fi out there but it's the sort of stuff that's positively surprising in a populist spectacle like this. 7/10

^ try Touch of Evil

Tarquin Underspoon wrote: Well, I finally did it. Watched the granddaddy of them all, as far as American film.   Citizen Kane.   My overall impressions? Well...after having it hyped up so much for me, I can't say it met my expectations. I thought it was visually cool, yes....heck, for 1941 it's downright brilliant....but to me, the MOVIE itself lacked real substance. It lacked the type of characterization, story, etc. that makes audiences worldwide sit back and say "now THAT'S a good movie". It seems like the movie made for film students.   I guess it was too much style over substance for my tastes. Not that the style wasn't fantastic.

The f**k?

gottagetintogetout wrote: manofmystery wrote: Dead Alive   Zombie gross out humor at its best. I still prefer Bad Taste and The Frighteners so I would rate this as Peter Jackson's 3rd finest work.   All three of those films are better than "Lord of the Rings" and "District 9?"  Are you serious?

 

In the Valley of Elah

Quiet and moving mystery about a murdered soldier recently back from Iraq and his father's meticulous hunt for the killers. Tommy Lee Jones continues his stellar career with authenticity and Charlize Theron perfect as a local detective.

^ "It was all just a dream?"

Flightplan

Completely implausible and extremely suspenseful story of a woman's daughter gone missing from a plane during flight. Widely panned but very entertaining escapist thriller, with Jody Foster's seasoned presence keeping things believable.

^ very pulp fiction-y at times, and just as darkly funny. i think i might have liked it more in fact but ive only seen it once and ive seen pulp fiction about 100 times. sort of like snatch at times too. love this movie.

One Minute to Nine

One of the most disturbing and moving documentaries I've ever seen about a mother just before going to prison for killing her abusive husband. Not for the faint-hearted but a very important film.

Straight Time

Dustin Hoffman as an ex-con just released and struggling to make it on the outside. Painfully real, heartbreaking, one of Hoffman's best performances and among the great street films of the 1970s along with Taxi Driver, Panic in Needle Park, Mean Streets and The French Connection