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What film did you recently see ? Do not forget to rate it

Double header this evening -

1st - How to Train Your Dragon - good solid A
It probably would be better in 3-D.
Predictable but the characters are colorful and engaging.

2nd - Clash of the Titans
Well, hmmmm.... I really wanted to like this movie -
the guy from Avatar
Liam Neeson
special events done well
movie looked good
exciting story line
but ... well, hmmm ...
I'll be generous and give it a B.
 
Last one in the theater: Alice in Wonderland. 7.9 out of 10 because a couple of things REALLY annoyed me.

Last ones not in the theater: Quantum of Solace: 7.5 out of 10 because the first half was 90% mindless action scenes with 10% of anything resembling a plot but the second half almost made up for it.

Shutter: 8.0 Good creepy movie albeit slightly predictable. But I very much enjoyed it.
 
Una Salus Lillius said:
Last one in the theater: Alice in Wonderland. 7.9 out of 10 because a couple of things REALLY annoyed me.

Last ones not in the theater: Quantum of Solace: 7.5 out of 10 because the first half was 90% mindless action scenes with 10% of anything resembling a plot but the second half almost made up for it.

Shutter: 8.0 Good creepy movie albeit slightly predictable. But I very much enjoyed it.
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I've got mixed feelings about going to see "Alice in Wonderland." I like many of the featured actors very much. I'm just worn out on seeing Johnny Depp in bizarre costume.

Agreed on Shutter Island.
 
No no not Shutter Island (oddly I'm not interested in that one), Shutter, with Joshua Jackson.

I'm convinced that Tim Burton is Louis Carroll reincarnated so I think it's a marriage made in...wherever. But there are two things that are just annoying (not Johnny Depp btw). The star for me is Helena Bonham Carter, who I expected not to like but she was terrific. The FX would have been called ground breaking if this movie preceded Avatar but alas. Though it's got MILES more substance than Avatar.

I also saw "Passengers" with Anne Hathaway (On Demand come through again) and I liked it a lot.
 
How To Train Your Dragon - 9/10. Not quite Pixar-perfect but very good. Solid characters, story & visuals (3D must lend itself to flying-dragon imagery, a la Avatar.) Also, if you have a dog or a cat you'll get a big kick out of this, trust me.
 
Archibald Nixon said:
How To Train Your Dragon - 9/10. Not quite Pixar-perfect but very good. Solid characters, story & visuals (3D must lend itself to flying-dragon imagery, a la Avatar.) Also, if you have a dog or a cat you'll get a big kick out of this, trust me.
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I was thinking that about the pets too - a nice touch.
 
My movie budget is nil right now, so all my latest are dvd style.

1. Event Horizon: 1/10. This might be the worst sci-fi movie I ever saw, and I've watched sci-fi channel originals so that's saying something. How does a movie with Sam Niell and Larry Fishburne in prominent roles suck SO badly? I actually had to hit the skip scene button a couple times, it was so painful to watch.

2. Beowulf 2009: 6/10: odd and disjointed. The computer animation looked so much like dreamworks stuff I kept expecting Shrek and the donkey to jump out. Pluses, Anthony Hopkins and John Malkovich. Minuses, the lead role guy (forgot who) and Robin Wright Penn. The story got a major plus for addressing a theme I called out in college and got roasted for, the idea that most of Beowulf's claims of glory went unwitnessed and had a good chance of being pure bullshit, and the notion that stories get bigger than life with time. Also, the drunken state of the warriors when fighting Grendel was featured and I liked that.

However, the movie added some sort of extra plotline about Grendel being the twisted offspring of the king and the witch, and a whole nonsensical storyline about Grendel's mom bewitching successive heroes just to get knocked up and produce powerful monster babies which then eat the kingdoms. Why, exactly? Big boo for adding stupid hollywood shit to a perfectly good epic legend.

Although computerized nearly nekkid Angelina Jolie was nice...
 
Be kind, rewind 0/10

Couldn't make it though more than 40 minutes of this bilge, I'm sure it was funny to make, but its damn painful to watch.
 
I almost forgot District 9: 8/10. Excellent realistic style sci-fi that borrows HEAVILY from Kafka's Metamorphosis for its thematic elements and moral center, with strong shades of anti-apartheid messaging thrown in. I had resisted seeing this because ordinarily I hate "shaky-cam" style filming and moral message movies give me hives, but this one was extremely well done based on the subtle acting skill of the lead. That character starts out as a witless dunderhead somewhere between Steve Carell's Office character and the vile character from the dept of health in Ghostbusters (Yes this man has no dick).

But by the end of the film we not only feel completely sorry for this guy, the moviemakers manage to make us love the cricket people as well, and we even forgive a little over the top action battle sequence because the bad guys deserve to get their shit blown up Just. That. Much.

Excellent movie, worth checking out...
 
That Beowulf was made in like 2007, man. In '08, my worst professor of all time, bar none, had us watch it in a Western Civ class.
 
Una Salus Lillius said:
Why????
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I couldn't even begin to speculate on her internal thought processes, but she was totally and utterly incompetent to the point where anything she taught would be wrong in almost every imaginable way. One segment of a lecture that stands out in my memory was on the Battle of Taginae. According to her, Iustinian himself lead the Byzantine army and died in battle, leading to an Ostrogothic victory over Constantinople. Now, that's almost humourously (and literally) backwards, and would indeed have been amusing if she wasn't teaching it as factual history. :S:
 
Where The Wild Things Are

It was almost there. I hated the kid and if it wasn't for Tony Soprano, it would have totally sucked.

7/10

Shutter Island

I kept falling asleep during it, but my wife said that I missed all the shitty stuff. She said it was too long and boring. I liked it.

8/10
 
Wait ... Beowulf isn't a documentary and Xena isn't based on a real historical figure? I don't believe it.
 
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