The movie review thread

Here’s a shot in the dark. Since my other thread on here is so popular (:rolleyes:), I figured I’d open up another one devoted to current in-house or DVD movie reviews. Feel free to contribute your opinions to recent flicks you’ve seen, use thumbs, stars, numerical ratings, elaborate in words, whatever you want. If this thread fails, it can just fall by the wayside and I’ll keep posting my reviews in my other dwelling.

Here’s a quick one-second recap of movies I’ve seen in the past week or two:

Where the Wild Things Are: ***
A Serious Man: ***
Law Abiding Citizen: ***
Couples Retreat: **
The Stepfather: *
Saw VI: *

(out of a possible 4 asterisks)

Needs moar TV/Movie Forum

Yeah, I know, but that’s so far away…

Ah well. My mistake. Disregard.

Disregard.

done.

Needs moar TV/Movie Forum

But where would we put it??? (http://forums.ffshrine.org/forumdisplay.php?f=76)

I’ve started a movie review series on Youtube where I give completely misguided opinions on purpose. I’ll give bad reviews to good movies and vice versa, confuse the plot and characters for those from other films, and often get overly passionate about one minor nitpick. Some people don’t get it, but I think it’s fun, and far too obvious to actually offend anyone, but oh well. People can be goofy.

Here is my latest, a review for the new Astro Boy movie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZPH65SHinM

I subscribed

This sums things up rather well. But I did like Lost World a bit more than Jurassic Park, Can’t beat a team of Jeff Goldblum, one of his daughters, Julianne Moore, & Vince Vaughn.

I have to comfess I’ve never "seen" The Godfather, but I will aventually.

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I totally disagree with that meters rating of Spiderman 3, it really wasn’t that bad.

Matrix Revolutions is the greatest movie ever. FUCK THAT CHART 😡

I think that chart is pretty damn accurate, sept for the spiderman thing of course.

[INSERT COMMENT ABOUT TM’S TASTE IN MOVIES]

Also, Spidey3 is awesome.

Well, remember I haven’t seen everything on there, but out of everything I have seen, it is pretty much what I would have given them.

I don’t agree with almost anything on that list. But it makes me want to watch the Star Wars trilogy right now

There’s only one return and it’s not of the King, it’s of the Jedi~

etc., etc.~

No

i completely agree with the x-men 3

And yet, you own it on bluray….

I totally disagree with that meters rating of Spiderman 3, it really wasn’t that bad.

Spider-Man 3 review :

well, it was a long, long wait for the 3rd outing of everyone’s favorite marvel. now, I just wanna say, this is easily, my favorite of the trilogy. flawed? yes. but so were the 1st two, which everyone pretends they aren’t. and this is coming from a HUGE spidey fan. Venom (while forced in the movie) was fantastic, and the whole revenge / forgivness thing, IMO, ONLY works with the symbiote. Sandman’s story was tragic, and I really actually felt for a character, that, in the comics (until after SM3) i didn’t care for that much. didn’t hate sandman…didn;t really consider him a top tier in my favorites of spidey’s foes though. The special effecs were amazing, Chris young’s score REALLY stood out to me (I WANT THAT DAMN SCORE, RELEASE THAT SHIT SONY, CHRIST!!). now, while i’ll be 1st in line for SM4, i think we shoulda stopped at three. simply because, everything was tiedup, and there were no loose ends to the story.

Final words :

While some people nitpick this thing to death, I consider it a vastly underrated movie,and one of the finest superhero movies of all time.

8/10

1st Rocky deserves a full bar on that trilogy meter thing, as does Alien and Back to the Future

:disgust:

All Rockies deserve a full bar. Except 5.

:disgust:

is that the guy who plays Ethan on Lost?

is that the guy who plays Ethan on Lost?

Hah! No, but he played Lomax on Grounded for Life.

bump

There’s only one return and it’s not of the King, it’s of the Jedi~

etc., etc.~

Clerks II ftw!

Recently I saw Star Trek and Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen. My opinions on both are as follows…

Star Trek
Speaking as a huge ST fan (I do favor ST DS9 more) I was on the fence about this movie when I first heard about it. Then when more info came out I admit, I turned my back on it, however how the plot was carried out (what with alternate timeline, which lets face it, the timeline/dimensional barriers have been repeatedly torn apart in the ST universe) I have to admit I did start to get interested in it again. I didn’t like the actor who played Kirk too much though, but Karl Urban did a brilliant job as Dr Leonard ‘Bones’ McCoy imo. The starship designs were revamped and did have a grace to them and the battles were very good to. All in all, I’d say Star Trek is a movie anyone can watch, from your average joe to full hardcore Trekkie.

Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen
… As a hardcore Transformers Generation One fan, I admit I was chomping at the bit for a live action TF movie. First… was ok (I could go into more detail, but I want to focus on the second), but the second… Well… where to begin…

Bringing in the Fallen as well as the Legacy of the Primes, ties in (to a degree) with the Transformers history, that the Transformers were created by the God Primus etc etc. Taken from Wikipedia:

Although the Fallen’s origins are only suggested in his comic book appearance, they would be fully explained in Dorling Kindersley’s Transformers: The Ultimate Guide. One of the original thirteen Transformers created by Primus, the robot who would become the Fallen betrayed his creator by siding with Primus’s dark twin, the malevolent planet-eater Unicron. In the final battle between Primus and Unicron, the Fallen fell victim to the same fate as his master, sucked through a black hole into another dimension. However, while Unicron emerged in another universe, the Fallen was not so fortunate, finding himself trapped in the "underspace" between dimensions.

I can’t help but wonder… IF for the third film, Unicron (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicron) appears in it, although I have misgivings about that for multiple reasons. All in all though, bringing the Fallen into the live action movie did add some more to the Decepticon cause. Though… why not bring in more Decepticons? Had Soundwave, what about the rest of his casettes? Rampage was in it, and he was part of the Predacon subgroup who formed the gestalt Predaking, but where are the other Predacons? Sideswipe was in it, but his twin Sunstreaker wasn’t. I could go on, but I won’t.

WTF is up with Devastator? THAT THING IS NOT DEVASTATOR! A fuckin CAT?!?! Ok, it WAS made up from construction vehicles so I’ll give points for that… but making it a fucking CAT?!?! IMO, the first Decepticon gestalt to appear in the live action movies SHOULD’VE been more like how he was in the original 1986 movie/comics/cartoon etc. I suppose I can understand why they had to change him… but it’s the same thing regarding Bumblebee… he was a Volkswagen Beetle and was one of, if not, the weakest Autobot. Yet in the movies he’s portrayed as a battle hardened warrior…

Sorry… just find a lot of little inaccuracies that irk me. Guess I’m a traditionalist in that regard…

While not "movies" I did start watching the new "V" as well as "The Prisoner" maybe it’s because I’ve been sick but I lost interest pretty fast.

This sums things up rather well. But I did like Lost World a bit more than Jurassic Park, Can’t beat a team of Jeff Goldblum, one of his daughters, Julianne Moore, & Vince Vaughn.

I have to comfess I’ve never "seen" The Godfather, but I will aventually.

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Something just occurred to me, the actual Star Trek "Trilogy" is Wrath of Con, Search for Spock, & The Voyage Home not Motion Picture, RoC, & SfS in which case 1 and 2 should be switched.

Something just occurred to me, the actual Star Trek "Trilogy" is Wrath of Con, Search for Spock, & The Voyage Home not Motion Picture, RoC, & SfS in which case 1 and 2 should be switched.

It’s actually called Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn.