The "Last Movie You Watched" thread

[Patr1ck]

I've just seen Donnie Darko.

It's a good mindfuck, huh?

[Lean]

Indeed. It was very driving. And Frank the Bunny, I like the costume.

[el badman]

I've just seen Donnie Darko.

I really need to see that one, I always forget to rent it.

I've been watching a bunch of flicks lately, among which Milk and Changeling were certainly the most memorable. I almost thought they were more worthy of the "best movie" Oscar than Slumdog, even if that one was good too. They were both incredibly compelling, and very efficient at keeping you absorbed by the story.

I was a little disappointed with Doubt (which is the first Blu-Ray I saw since I bought my new player). The acting was obviously phenomenal but the story did not really keep my attention at all times, I was a little bored after a while.

[benji]

Star Trek.

Which like The Dark Knight is popular among people who like films without entertaining stories that contain shaky-cam chaos-fests with characters they vaguely recognize. Only Trek throws in tons of lens flare to compliment the endless cuts and mindlessly moving shapes.

Like The Dark Knight, I can't give it lower than 2/5 (and hover around 3/5 depending on my mood) simply because of the license and the fact that while used mainly as a skin for a generic action film, is still a skin I love and has some good performances.

Chris Pine is just brilliant, Pegg and Urban knock it out of the park. Quinto is overrated but delivers. The guy playing Pike was great as well. Although Uhura, Sulu and Chekov are either bad or abhorrent. (Cho is a better actor than what he's given. Sulu is basically Harold in space here.) If Eric Bana was in the film for more than ten minutes of screen time I'd be surprised. He was a worse villain than Sybok or Soran. (And I read and enjoyed Countdown, the comic prequel, I can't imagine people who haven't caring about his character at all since his entire backstory and fleshing out is pushed into that. He's supposed to be a sympathetic villain.)

They should have ditched the time travel crap and just rebooted the series. Then it'd be a separate canon instead of a stupidly tied one that ultimately rejects half of the canon rendering the reason for the time travel meaningless.

But what can you expect from the writers behind Transformers except a bunch of worthless and boring story around action scenes with a bunch of lame in-references for the fanbois.

I love reading the "after Nemesis, Trek needed this" type of comments. When Star Trek HAS THE SAME EXACT PREMISE AS NEMESIS BUT WITH TIME TRAVEL THROWN IN. Only it gets a better actor to portray the villain (and then uses him in a manner that should have been done with Shinzon but not with Nero) and removes any good space battles from the film. (Nemesis had probably the second best battles of the eleven films.) Also, it wastes our time with a bunch of boring back story. (Which takes place in an Iowa that for some reason has GIANT CANYONS!)

Like The Dark Knight, this is a film with half a story that completely falls apart the farther it goes, culminating in an absurd finale that shits on any good that came before it. (Although Trek doesn't do this anywhere near as bad as TDK does.)

Oh, and Tyler Perry is in it.

[Joe the Space Marine]

entertaining review. I only a glimpse of star trek on justin.tv and wondered if it would be worth my while. I am a big tng generation and ds9 fan, but I guess I don't have to rush to go see it then.

[benji]

It can hardly compare to DS9. Probably more like Voyager.

It's closer to III or Insurrection than it is to the best Trek films, let alone series.

[NovU]

I'm starting watch some international films. One Aussie movie I watched was Revelation of the book or something, and it turned out to be ugly. Also some films from India called Gahjini or something and of course slum dog was a good one. Also some Jap movies which didn't turn out to be good experience. However, it's somewhat entertaining to experience movies from different cultures. Very unique...

[el badman]

I finally got to see Stranger Than Fiction and I thought it was quite brilliant. It was nice to see Ferrell in a slightly unusual role like that. The whole thing was just very pleasant to watch.

[Lean]

Just saw Tropic Thunder. Robert Downey Jr. pretty much carried the acting part with the Lazarus character.

"I know who I am: I'm a dude playin' a dude disguised as another dude." Best line in the movie.

[shadowgrin]

http://www.theonion.com/content/video/t ... _trek_film



Just saw Mirrors.
It's not a good horror movie, not even a suspense or action movie. I can't help but think to myself that it's basically an episode of 24 with an addition of the supernatural. No one messes with Jack Bauer. No one I says.

[Andrew]

Finally got around to watching The Dark Knight last night, having never gotten around to seeing it in theatres and only recently borrowing the DVD from a friend. I'd have to say it lived up to all the good things I'd heard about it.

[Jackal]

That's okay Andrew, I made up for that. I saw it in Imax twice and once in a regular theatre.

Then once on DVD and then recently on Blu-Ray just to see the difference.

Crazy? I'm not. No...I'm not.

[el badman]

I'm quite tempted to buy it on Blu-Ray too, must be pretty mind blowing stuff.

[Jackal]

Honestly it is, even the Matrix Trilogy is some awesome stuff to watch on Blu-Ray.

[cyanide]

Honestly it is, even the Matrix Trilogy is some awesome stuff to watch on Blu-Ray.

That's on my wish list, along with Blu-Ray Planet Earth. I just got a new HDTV and a BluRay player to go with it, and the detail on Sin City is amazing. As if I'm actually watching the actors move in front of me. I had to change the motion jutter and smoothness so I can watch a movie rather than a bunch of costumed guys acting.

[shadowgrin]

detail on Sin City is amazing. As if I'm actually watching the actors move in front of me

Just go to a real strip club cy, instead of watching that Jessica Alba scene.

[Lamrock]

Star Trek.

Which like The Dark Knight is popular among people who like films without entertaining stories that contain shaky-cam chaos-fests with characters they vaguely recognize. Only Trek throws in tons of lens flare to compliment the endless cuts and mindlessly moving shapes.

Like The Dark Knight, I can't give it lower than 2/5 (and hover around 3/5 depending on my mood) simply because of the license and the fact that while used mainly as a skin for a generic action film, is still a skin I love and has some good performances.

Chris Pine is just brilliant, Pegg and Urban knock it out of the park. Quinto is overrated but delivers. The guy playing Pike was great as well. Although Uhura, Sulu and Chekov are either bad or abhorrent. (Cho is a better actor than what he's given. Sulu is basically Harold in space here.) If Eric Bana was in the film for more than ten minutes of screen time I'd be surprised. He was a worse villain than Sybok or Soran. (And I read and enjoyed Countdown, the comic prequel, I can't imagine people who haven't caring about his character at all since his entire backstory and fleshing out is pushed into that. He's supposed to be a sympathetic villain.)

They should have ditched the time travel crap and just rebooted the series. Then it'd be a separate canon instead of a stupidly tied one that ultimately rejects half of the canon rendering the reason for the time travel meaningless.

But what can you expect from the writers behind Transformers except a bunch of worthless and boring story around action scenes with a bunch of lame in-references for the fanbois.

I love reading the "after Nemesis, Trek needed this" type of comments. When Star Trek HAS THE SAME EXACT PREMISE AS NEMESIS BUT WITH TIME TRAVEL THROWN IN. Only it gets a better actor to portray the villain (and then uses him in a manner that should have been done with Shinzon but not with Nero) and removes any good space battles from the film. (Nemesis had probably the second best battles of the eleven films.) Also, it wastes our time with a bunch of boring back story. (Which takes place in an Iowa that for some reason has GIANT CANYONS!)

Like The Dark Knight, this is a film with half a story that completely falls apart the farther it goes, culminating in an absurd finale that shits on any good that came before it. (Although Trek doesn't do this anywhere near as bad as TDK does.)

Oh, and Tyler Perry is in it.

That WAS Tyler Perry! Despite that, I liked it. I've never seen any other Star Trek movies, so I was probably the target audience for it.

[benji]

I've never seen any other Star Trek movies, so I was probably the target audience for it.

But you have knowledge of Trek and the characters. Kirk, Spock, the Enterprise, etc.

The problem with Trek is, without the license and the background provided by it, it's just a terrible story and bad directing with some good performances. Just like The Dark Knight and so many others.

When they're just using the license as a skin for a generic meaningless action film and not using the license to take advantage of the background, they're wasting it.

[NovU]

That WAS Tyler Perry! Despite that, I liked it. I've never seen any other Star Trek movies, so I was probably the target audience for it.

I've never watched any Star Trek movies before. Maybe I will give it a shot since you were able to like it.

[Patr1ck]

^It's a good flick, definitely worth the watch.

[mvpshaq32]

Saw Star Trek today and it was decent, but it felt like they were more focused on action instead of an actual story plot. When Uharra kissed Spock after all that flirting between her and Kirk in the beginning, I was just like did I miss something? But I was too busy looking at Uharra anyways to pay attention to the movie.

Right after I went to watch Terminator and it was better than I expected, but still somewhat dull.
And my friend pointed out to me that guy who plays Chekov in Star Trek plays Kyle Reese in Terminator.

[Doobie]

Anyone see American History X? I just witnessed it the other day and I am going to say this this movie is incredible. Goes to show the fucked up shit going on in the world and how one life experience can change your life.

[benji]

Despite fears of revisiting the first page of this thread.

Anyone see American History X? ... shit

About sums it up. When your director wants his name taken off the film, that's a pretty good sign.

Although Avery Brooks can do anything damn thing he wants. Any. Damn. Thing. He could've saved the movie if he was playing the lead role. Yes, Avery Brooks could not only play a white supremacist, he could do it while doing your mother. And your father. And "solving" string theory.

[Jackal]

When your director wants his name taken off the film, that's a pretty good sign.

In most cases I'd agree, but Kaye brought a monk, a priest and a rabbi to one of the meetings regarding the movie so it would be more spiritual. So yeah...not a pretty good sign after all.

[benji]

Why do you have to get on a guy just for setting up a joke?