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Last movie you watched......

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by Jenny Jobs, Dec 29, 2008.

  1. imjustagirl

    imjustagirl Active Member

    Just watched it. What a terrible movie.
     
  2. TigerVols

    TigerVols Well-Known Member

    So what's the most underrated movie of the year? Enquiring minds Webeditors at the LAT wanting to drive traffic want to know:

    http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/movies/2011/12/the-debt-chastain-rio-eisenberg-underappreciated-2011-fright-night.html
     
  3. NickMordo

    NickMordo Active Member

    Just got back from seeing The Muppets. I loved it, it brought back memories galore from my childhood. Seemed like many kids were there and their parents understood the jokes more than the kids. Jason Segel did a good job of going back to the Muppets' roots.

    I wish the show would come back...
     
  4. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    Same complaints I raised?
     
  5. imjustagirl

    imjustagirl Active Member

    Here's the thing: I'm not sure WHY I hated it. There were a lot of concerns raised over the lingo in Juno, that no kid that age talks that way. And it worked in that movie for me. And yes, I know this was noir, so it's not a simple x=y comparison. But the conversation was just hard to follow. It was short, and staccato, and mumbled at time, and I ... just didn't like it.

    JGL was fantastic, as always. And I kept feeling like Laura or whatever her name was was Mila Kunis, which distracted me. But I just didn't get any of it, I didn't feel any of it paid off, and it was just a huge reach that anyone was getting on the inside of that deal in like three days. Just ... bad to me.
     
  6. schiezainc

    schiezainc Well-Known Member

    Watched "Friends with Benefits" tonight. A good little flick to watch via Redbox.

    Only problem I had with it was it was pretty much like every other movie in the history of this genre.

    Yes, I understand there's a formula to follow but once, just once, I would like to see a movie like this veer off the easy path.
     
  7. Pilot

    Pilot Well-Known Member

    If anyone sees and likes War Horse, could you please pass along your reasoning to me? I saw it Christmas Day with the family and can't wrap my head around the glowing praise delivered by so many reviewers. I can't remember the last time I disagreed with Ebert as much as I do with this movie.

    It's not that it's terrible. There are a lot of beautiful, beautiful shots and scenes — many of which I assume make it the "old fashioned type of movie" that seemed to wow critics. And it's cheesy and all hell, but almost in a fun way. "Give in to it," the critics said, and I felt despite a few eye rolls, I did.

    But they really sacrifice the plot and often logic to set up those amazing shots and those corny/heartwarming moments. The plot at one points jumps maybe three years forward to align aspects of the story, and this creates massive plot holes. At another point, a TANK is chasing a horse through a TRENCH. What a tank was doing in a trench and why it apparently wanted to and couldn't kill a horse I have no idea.

    Ebert at one point says the movie compares favorably in terms of gritty realism to Saving Private Ryan's first 30 minutes. That is insane. Saying something is similar to the first 30 minutes of SPR means something. That was a freaking amazing 30 minutes of movie generally unmatched in terms of gore and realism. The WW1 scenes in War Horse are in no way similar. They go way, way out of their way to not show people getting their brains blown out. They treat such scenes very artistically, and that's fine. It works. But in no way is it similar to SPR. I really don't get it. He also frequently refers to "horses" when there was just one horse. There were several other strange things in his review that just made it feel like we saw different movies.

    The movie was fine. It was kind of fun. But I just don't see how it can be considered one of the year's best films.
     
  8. NoOneLikesUs

    NoOneLikesUs Active Member

    Avatar/post!
     
  9. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    I had to put the subtitles on a few minutes in.
     
  10. NDub

    NDub Guest

    I wasn't a fan of Brick either. I think I posted about it a few weeks ago. JG-L was good, as always, but it felt like trying to squeeze a square peg into a round hole.
     
  11. bigpern23

    bigpern23 Well-Known Member

    There has never been a good film made whose central character is a horse. Seabiscuit, Black Stallion, Black Beauty, Flicka, whatever. If your protagonist is a horse, your movie sucks.
     
  12. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    "The Descendants."

    Went to the New Year's Eve matinee show and were probably the youngest people in the theater by 30 years. Ah, well.

    I really liked it. I don't think it's Best Picture timber, but it was an enjoyable little film. The wife wore out the Kleenex, as I figured she would.

    Old people sure like to run their yaps during movies. More than teen-agers, in some ways. Teens do it for yuks and giggles. Oldsters do it because they are completely un-self-aware.
     
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