The Movies Thread

Watched an 1988-movie with Winona Rider and Christian Slater: Heathers: Didn't expect much, but it was a great highschool-satire. 9/10
 
Kick-Ass 2: 9/10

Really great film. Not as predictable as I thought it would be.
 
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I really enjoyed this film. It's a solid mix between comdey and apocalypse movie. Good thing: most of the trailer scenes are to be seen at an early stage of the movie. Liked that they are taking themselves not too serious. :D

6.5/10
 
what a shit movie... one of the worst motion picture comedy in general from my fav actors, basicly the quality is like the short movie sequel they made for Pineapple Express in the movie but in 90 minutes
 
jihado86 said:
Pain & Gain : 8.75/10
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Coopz said:
Not a bad film but should have been a lot more serious than it was and not a comedy due to it being based on a brutal true story.
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I didn't like how the characters were presented. I doubt that the reality back in 1995 was such a kind of dumb-comedy scenes.
The movie itself is not that good for me: 4/10
I think a little bit more seriousness would have been better.

But nevertheless I liked the acting of Wahlberg, Johnson, Shalhoub und Harris.
 
World War Z - 5/10

Loved the book, kinda hated the movie.

Now You See Me - 8/10

Clever film, kept me entertained the whole way through.
 
Watched some movies lately:

Now you see me
The first two thirds of the movie were imho pretty good, very entertaining , but in the last third it didn't really pay off:
1. I love the idea of using magic-shows to rob a bank in the public and the police/courts not being able to judge them because it would mean they would have to admit that magic were real. 2. The second magicshow was really entertaining stuff. 3. I also liked how they tricked Michael Caine's character into giving out personal information with which the group could get access to his bank-accounts.

But the last third where everything would come into a finale and where everything gets solved was imho a let-down: The last magic show was very lame. The idea to frame Morgan Freeman's character as being the one behind the money-thiefing was unbelievable. Just because the money ends up in his car doesn't mean he is guilty, considering all the magic-stuff going on.

But worse is the explanation for all this robbing: Apparently it was a revenge-trip to get Morgan Freeman's character punished for his deed decades ago when he showed how a famous magician did his tricks and which drove him to make an even more spectacular trick that killed him. Morgan Freeman's character is far from being responsible, it was an accident or a dangerous adventure by the one who died, doing it voluntarily.

But even worse is that the one who is behind all the magic-robbing is the policeman who hunts the magicians throughout the movie. It might be a plot-twist, but not a good or wise one. The policeman was the one actually caring and obsessed with getting them hunted down , he is the antagonist that carries the movie. It was a really bad choice to make him the one behind all this and therefore nullifying all his engagement throughout the movie in retrospective.

This drags down the movie imho considerably.

6.5/10

Pain and Gain: Very creepy movie that was all the creepier because it was made to be a fun and enjoyable ride. Very wrong. Left a really bad taste, even though it was pretty well made. 5/10


But we have a real winner:

Oblivion Wow, wow, just wow. Imho this is the best science-fiction-movie in years.
Some of the central themes reminded me strongly of "Moon", another great movie by the way. In a way Oblivion is like "Moon" but much bigger, more spectacular... And yet Oblivion has enough distinctive things to separate itself from Moon. The ending alone is so satisfactory, and then there is the awesome cinematography... Awesome.
9.5/10

Edited to remove some misinformation in the Spoiler to Oblivion.
 
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Sure, but... There is only one good Jurassic Park movie out already. Admittedly, that one is fantastic (the first one, obviously).

Saw Elysium, it's pretty cool but so by the numbers in every way that it becomes rather "meh". It's still fine for that hard second movie, Blomkamp will learn from it and make a better movie next time.

Star Trek Into Darkness: Very good.

Kick Ass 2 - Haven't actually seen it! But I'm not sure I want to. I loved the first comic and the film, but I just read the second comic and dear God that thing is MESSED UP! Kids butchered, rape, obscene, brutal murders of innocent people, most of it purely for shock value.
 
henrys hand said:
Watched some movies lately:

Now you see me
The first two thirds of the movie were imho pretty good, very entertaining , but in the last third it didn't really pay off:
1. I love the idea of using magic-shows to rob a bank in the public and the police/courts not being able to judge them because it would mean they would have to admit that magic were real. 2. The second magicshow was really entertaining stuff. 3. I also liked how they tricked Michael Caine's character into giving out personal information with which the group could get access to his bank-accounts.

But the last third where everything would come into a finale and where everything gets solved was imho a let-down: The last magic show was very lame. The idea to frame Morgan Freeman's character as being the one behind the money-thiefing was unbelievable. Just because the money ends up in his car doesn't mean he is guilty, considering all the magic-stuff going on.

But worse is the explanation for all this robbing: Apparently it was a revenge-trip to get Morgan Freeman's character punished for his deed decades ago when he showed how a famous magician did his tricks and which drove him to make an even more spectacular trick that killed him. Morgan Freeman's character is far from being responsible, it was an accident or a dangerous adventure by the one who died, doing it voluntarily.

But even worse is that the one who is behind all the magic-robbing is the policeman who hunts the magicians throughout the movie. It might be a plot-twist, but not a good or wise one. The policeman was the one actually caring and obsessed with getting them hunted down , he is the antagonist that carries the movie. It was a really bad choice to make him the one behind all this and therefore nullifying all his engagement throughout the movie in retrospective.

This drags down the movie imho considerably.

6.5/10
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the explanation for the chase scene destroyed the whole movie for me. relying on too many unpredictable things there for the sake of making the movie work. nope, not a very clever plot.

4/10.
 
OPM said:
the explanation for the chase scene destroyed the whole movie for me. relying on too many unpredictable things there for the sake of making the movie work. nope, not a very clever plot.

4/10.
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I agree I started off liking it, but just got annoyed by the whole thing after a while. It was a good idea though :))

I would give it a 6.5-7
 
World War Z

6.5/10

Not bad - I like the idea of it, but some silly little things annoyed me. (i.e. how come no one runs out of ammo or ever reloads?)

Other thing that annoys me is how everyone calls it a zombie movie. Zombie movies should only refer to the undead. This is an infection movie, like 28 days later!
 
Milanista said:
World War Z

6.5/10

Not bad - I like the idea of it, but some silly little things annoyed me. (i.e. how come no one runs out of ammo or ever reloads?)

Other thing that annoys me is how everyone calls it a zombie movie. Zombie movies should only refer to the undead. This is an infection movie, like 28 days later!
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I would give it an 8 I enjoyed it, especially the opening parts.
 
I liked Brad Pitt as the lead - did you notice how
actors like Matthew Fox (Lost) are the names on the top of the cast list, but only featured for like 2 minutes!???
 
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