Rate the last movie you saw

[Aikmaniac]

The Bourne Legacy 6/10

Huge fan of the first trilogy.

The story has become so convoluted that even the most faithful of fans would have trouble following along with the Treadstones, Blackbriars, Blue/Green Chems, etc.

Jeremy Renner appears to be on the rise as an actor in the action genre. Loved Hurt Locker and have followed him since then with this and The Avengers.

Action had good spurts but the ending was so abrupt...and that's saying something for a movie that runs passed two hours. If there was a payoff, I still haven't figured it out.

Good for a viewing or two, otherwise I'd say the trilogy is fine on its own.

[ajk23az]

trouble with the curve: 6.5/10. pretty predictable movie. I love Eastwood though and had to watch it. they could have explained how a few parts happened better.

Dredd: 7/10. good action movie. again, they skipped a lot of explanations of how something happened.

Bourne Legacy: 8/10. I liked it. It was definitely different than the others and I didn't find it that confusing.

Taken 2: 7.5/10. I enjoyed the first one more but this was still a good action flick. the girl is still intolerable lol.

going to watch Abraham Lincoln vampire Hunter & lawless yet.


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[ChldsPlay]

Les Miserables - 4/10. Not really a fan of musicals to start with (South Park in an exception), but i was with a girl so I went. It's way too long, the story wasn't all that great, and a lot of it seemed pretty irrelevant. And the story dynamic between Hugh Jackman's character and Russel Crowe's just seemed absurd to me. And the songs weren't all that great for the most part IMO. Anne Hathaway's performance (both acting/singing) in a limited role is the highlight of the movie.

Not sure why this is a classic musical.

[windward]

Les Miserables 9/10

Jackman nailed the essence of Valjean's character. Hathaway as Fantine was the best I've seen/heard. Great score, great thematic questions to ponder. Russell Crowe was ok. Acted well, can't sing at the caliber needed for Javert.

[LatinMind]

Flight 5/10

I thought it would be better. On the boring side

[Cajuncowboy]

Took the wife to see the Hobbitt. 6/10

However my wife is the big LOTR fan. Not me. I enjoyed it enough but the first 30 minutes of the movie was SLOW.

My wife however loved it. I asked her what she would score it and she said 8/10.

[REDVOLUTION]

Originally Posted by windward

Les Miserables 9/10

Jackman nailed the essence of Valjean's character. Hathaway as Fantine was the best I've seen/heard. Great score, great thematic questions to ponder. Russell Crowe was ok. Acted well, can't sing at the caliber needed for Javert.

And you nailed the review.


But, I think it was very silly to "video" a plays performance. In essence thats all they did.

I saw Jackman in a play called "The Boy From Oz" - He is an AMAZING special of acting/theatrics/physicality.


Crowe should not have been cast - AT ALL!

[viman96]

The first 40 minutes of the Hobbit was character and plot buildup. I enjoyed the movie. 8/10 for me.

[Hoofbite]

Saw Django.

Thought it was very good.

Cristoph Waltz made the movie for me just as I thought he made Inglourious Bastards to a great extent.

[Hopeuhavechange]

"The Next Three Days" with Russell Crowe. Yawn. Somebody needed to crank out another film it seems. Streamed on Netflix. Win some, lose some.

[Rynie]

Originally Posted by Hoofbite

Saw Django.

Thought it was very good.

Cristoph Waltz made the movie for me just as I thought he made Inglourious Bastards to a great extent.

Yeah man, he is phenomenal. I wasn't a huge fan of Inglorious, but he was brilliant in that too. I love the dialogue in Django..just like True Grit re-make the Coen brothers did.

[Idgit]

Originally Posted by theogt

My take is if you like a book, read the book. If you want to see a movie, watch a movie. No movie should ever be faithful to its source for the sake of being faithful.

Plus, The Hobbit is a children's book (in contrast to the LOTR books, which were written as fiction for adults). There's zero reason to translate The Hobbit directly when creating of movie of this nature.

I don't agree. There's an art to story telling. You can ameliorate the material without dramatically changing the origina story line. And you should, unless you want to take the knock and actually call the movie an adaptation or acknowledge that it's only based on the source material. If you're using the name of the original book, any changes for the sake of the movie should be for the sake of advancing the experience or be required because the mediums are different.

In this case, the storyline was changed in order to spread the source content over an additional four or five hours in order to make three movies out of what should have been one or two. What's worse, it was sloppily-done, because the added scenes could easily have been added in the form of flashbacks in a parallel storyline that would not have required changing the original so dramatically. It was authorial laziness and not a necessary compromise that was necessary in order to bring the childrens' story to the big screen.


Saw 'This is 40' this weekend, too. Scary how much it looked like my own marriage. Even the little details. The wife was in stitches--people were looking at us. I thought it was a bit spotty and long, but a good flick for parents in their early 40s.

[Hoofbite]

Originally Posted by Rynie

Yeah man, he is phenomenal. I wasn't a huge fan of Inglorious, but he was brilliant in that too. I love the dialogue in Django..just like True Grit re-make the Coen brothers did.

I agree. His delivery is exceptional. After watching Django I wanted to go watch the Bastards again.

[Joe Realist]

Lincoln - awesome 9 out of 10

[Heisenberg]

End of Watch - 10/10

That very well might be the best/most realistic cop movie I've seen in a LONG time.