The last movie you saw

[Plan B]

Oooh, "No Country" is deninately a 'single watch', IMO...

[Tsakali]

In Bruges: 7/10 highly recommended. This is certainly Farrell's best performance in some time.

"This is for John Lennon you fucking yankee cunt!"

Trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoE9edjEDCI

I took your recommendation and I was very pleased!
serious and brilliantly funny all at the same time

8/10

[Dr_Watson]

I am Legend - 5/10

The premise was good, but the execution kind of crap. The CGI "monsters" were computer game quality at best. Wtf is wrong with traditional makeup?

I didn't care much for the religious clichéed bullshit either. Was that in the book, or did they invent it for the movie?

no it wasn't, the book is infinitely better.
amazing how badly they fucked up with the translation to film, they only really kept the basic idea, title, and main character name. Though... not much quality could really be expected from a director who's only previous work was Constantine and some Brittney and J-Lo videos.

[andyman]

The Dark Knight

10/10, best movie ever, if you don't like it fuck you

[Tsakali]

The Dark Knight was indeed very nice work, although the action wasn't mind blowing...but truly a movie with such strong storyline would only be distracted by any 'over the top' action.
9/10

[AmIdYfReAk]

when they the fuck did you give it a 9/10?

[Tsakali]

not sure... I personally liked Batman Begins better in a sense, because of the storytelling of his beginnings.
and on top of that (if moron reasoning applies) my personal experience wasn't perfect because of the aggravating teenagers I had to endure in the theater.

but yeah I could give it a 10 if I must, it deserves it. Comic translations have not gotten better than this.

[andyman]

not sure... I personally liked Batman Begins better in a sense, because of the storytelling of his beginnings.
and on top of that (if moron reasoning applies) my personal experience wasn't perfect because of the aggravating teenagers I had to endure in the theater.

but yeah I could give it a 10 if I must, it deserves it. Comic translations have not gotten better than this.

there was a group of clappers that wouldn't stop when i saw it... plus an hour into it i had to piss so bad... but i weathered the storm as usual

[andyman]

The part where the hospital blows up, later on in the story (after the movie ends) the governments official claim is that a ryder truck parked in front of it and asploded

[Tsakali]

speaking of which, I think they actually filmed a building being taken down, because quite frankly everything about that scene looked authentic.

[andyman]

speaking of which, I think they actually filmed a building being taken down, because quite frankly everything about that scene looked authentic.

I'm sure it was, definitely looked like it. ledgers reaction was probably real too

like that part in t2 when sarah cracks the broomstick over the janitors face, and breaks his nose with blood everywhere... that whole scene was live and real

[charliealpha]

In Bruges: 7/10 highly recommended. This is certainly Farrell's best performance in some time.

"This is for John Lennon you fucking yankee cunt!"

Trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoE9edjEDCI

I took your recommendation and I was very pleased!
serious and brilliantly funny all at the same time

8/10

Same, watched it last night. Excellent film. Laughing one minute, shocked the next.

[sliver]

Batman Begins: 10/10

From its opening shot, an aerial view of Chicago—errr, Gotham—which sets into motion a daring bank heist, The Dark Knight sets itself emphatically in the real world instead of a fantastical universe accustomed to superheroes and hokey comic book mysticism. Stripped of the camp which previously adorned and defined the franchise like the nipples on Clooney’s bat-suit, Nolan’s sophomore entry in the Batman story is as serious as Michael Mann’s Heat, and even more deadly.

To get it out of the way up front, Heath Ledger more than lives up to the impossible hype generated for the film partly as a result of his tragic and untimely death. Jack Nicholson’s Joker was the most iconic series villain to date—up to and including Batman Begins—but he was rooted in that self-same camp, a caricature of evil, a mere parody. In Ledger’s hands, licking ever-dry lips with lizard-like flicks of his tongue, walking with a peculiar, waddling gait, defined and unbound by his massive psychoses, the self-described agent of chaos is a force of nature, an avatar of all that is wrong and dirty and criminal in the minds of Gotham’s citizens. Simply put, this Joker is the best antagonist put to film since Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs. It is a performance for the history books.

There are plot points enough for two films, but the long and short of it is that the Joker arrives on the scene just as Gotham’s white knight, District Attorney Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart) is on the verge of cleaning up the mob, rendering Batman (Christian Bale) obsolete. Like the serpent in Eden, the Joker is a harbinger of evil, and brings the Fall to everyone he can, which is essentially the entire populace except for Batman/Bruce Wayne, Police Lieutenant James Gordon (Gary Oldman), and attorney Rachel Dawes (Maggie Gyllenhaal, taking over the role from the listless Katie Holmes), Wayne’s former love interest, who is now attached to Dent.

Unlike previous villains, the Joker has no grand desires, no ideological affiliations, merely an unquenchable thirst for destruction and anarchy. He is a terrorist in the truest possible sense, at one point telling Gotham he will blow up a hospital if one specific man, chosen nearly at random, is not killed—by anyone willing—in the next hour. What ensues is a terrifying episode in which citizens at random, fearing for their loved ones and themselves, seriously consider (and in more than one case, attempt) killing the man. This is why The Dark Knight is so deadly serious: rooted in the horror of September 11, in the chaos and terror of senseless death, it is a film about the most difficult choices, and the consequences of choosing at all.

Batman’s moral compass is still Lucius Fox (Morgan Freeman), his confidante his butler Alfred Pennyworth (Michael Caine), and it is talking to them that brings him to realize his beneficial influence in Gotham created the Joker, the equal and opposite reaction. Two sides of the same coin (an appropriate metaphor for the second film to feature Two-Face), they see their final battle play out simultaneously on a grand scale across the city as they fight, literally, for the collective soul of Gotham City.

This is the rebirth Batman needed and deserved. Cillian Murphy’s brief reappearance as the Scarecrow in the opening scene underscores how much better Batman Begins could have been (one bad guy was a tired cliché and the other escaped without death or imprisonment). If Nolan, who also co-wrote the screenplay with his brother Jonathan, had the audacity to simply pick up in medias res and begin with The Dark Knight, the rebooted series could have been that much more epic. But as things stand, this is still far and away the best comic book movie ever made, a film without weak points, much less serious flaws. If Iron Man was the pinnacle of the conventional, flippantly campy comic universe, The Dark Knight reaches new heights on its lethal earnestness. The only regret is that Joker won’t be back for number three.

[saturn]

No Country for Old Men - 8.5/10

I'm very intrigued by this Coen's movie. I can't stop thinking about it. Javier Bardem has to be the creepiest, evilest, psycho-est psychopath killer ever. Props to the actor.

[Silicone_Milk]

Way of the Peaceful Warrior - 7/10

Cheesy but better than I thought it would be.

[Tormentius]

Batman Begins: 10/10

I usually disagree with your reviews but this was decently written. Can't wait to see this one.

[bork[e]]

Sideways 4sh maybe

Was a nice thing to have going on in the background while I was doing other things.

[tnf]

Batman Begins: 10/10

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Don't you mean dark knight?\

[Therac-25]

Hellboy II.

10/10, pure awesome.

[GONNAFISTYA]

Hellboy 2 = 7/10 - Better than the first but still too many "camp" moments.

P2 = 3/10 - A collection of every single "kidnapped" movie cliche ever made. Fucking stupid and gory for the sake of being gory.

Doomsday = Fuck off/10 - A completely worthless movie overrun with thunderdome rejects.

Fool's Gold = 2/10 - The only enjoyable part of this movie was the 3 seconds the bimbo chick spread her legs.

In Bruges = 8/10 - Hilarious but fucked up at the same time.

[Grudge]

Constantine - 6/10

Not the best comic book adaptation out there, but certainly not the worst either. A big bonus point for having Peter Stormare plaing the devil, and Tilda Swinton is excellent as Gabriel. One of the few movies where the ending is actually better than expected.

Army of Darkness (Directors cut) - 7/10

Although there isn't much of a story, the production is rather amateurish, and many of the jokes are very extremely silly, it's still hilarious and it cracks me up every time I see it. You can see in every scene that they must have had so much fun shooting it. Also, Bruce Campbell is awesome. "Well hello Mister Fancypants. Well, I've got news for you pal, you ain't leadin' but two things: Jack and shit... and Jack just left town."

Broken Flowers - 7/10

As all Jim Jarmusch films, it's got that special slow pacing and independent-vibe to it. This one is maybe not my favorite, although I'm a big fan of Bill Murray. I do like the subtleties, but maybe some of it is a bit too subtle. Anyway, you really need to be in the right mood to appreciate Jim Jarmusch's films.

[Jackal]

The Dark Knight - 9/10

I didn't care about Ledger's passing until after I'd seen this movie. I've never been so delighted watching an actor do his thing until I saw this movie. The closest thing I've seen to it so far has been Daniel Day Lewis in "There Will Be Blood".

[MKJ]

Kung Fu Panda

excellent art and art direction. amount of detail put into the fightscenes is also great. i would go as far as to say this movie would be better if they'd left out the obligatory slapstick.

[obsidian]

Where's your rating, MKJ?

Wall-e - 8/10

It's as good as your normal Pixar film. I was impressed some of the graphics which looked photo-realistic in parts, namely when he was on desolate earth and trailing dust around. The mechanics and physics movement just looked really natural.

I was a little annoyed by how many times I had to hear them squeak, "Waaaallleeeee" only to have some kid behind me repeat, "WAAALLLLLLLEEEEEEE!!!"

Every. Single. Time.

[Tsakali]

lol