The Last Movie You Watched

[Kristatos]

Oz the Great and Powerful, Sam Raimi's charmless, unnecessary prequel to the 1939 classic.

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[Omega]

I watched it in 3d it was fun. The story on second viewing was flat. What's her face Craig's wife didn't add to the movie, I also thought she was a non entity in the Bourne facsimile.


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[John P. Drake]

The Deadly Game

One hell of a cast and characters AND Movie! Toby Stephens was at his best in here!

[Daltonite Toothpaste]

The Deadly Game

One hell of a cast and characters AND Movie! Toby Stephens was at his best in here!

I've seen the adverts for that, and I was curious to see what it was like. I'll go ahead and get the DVD.

[Omega]

I hadn't heard of it


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[Jamesdude]

Evil Dead 2013

For a remake this one didnt stink at all, i loved how they used old school practical effects for the gore scenes instead of CGI.

[Daltonite Toothpaste]

Milla Jovavich kicking zombie ass in Resident Evil: Extinction.

[Capt. Sir Dominic Flandry]

I watched the television anthology movie Nightmares - 1980's US horror fun.

[Jamesdude]

Dillinger with Warren Oates.

Has to be the most innacurate portrayal of John Dillinger ever, people have said he never harmed people or was trigger happy with guns. Still a good movie though

[Kristatos]

Robot & Frank. A bittersweet, if somewhat slender, story enlivened by a terrific cast, including Frank Langella, Susan Sarandon, James Marsden and Liv Tyler. Best of all, it's only 85 minutes, which makes a refreshing change in an age when so many films are bloated and overlong. 7/10.

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[commander0077again]

The Big Sleep with Bogart and Bacall. I had just read the book, my very first Raymond Chandler. TBS was his first novel featuring Philip Marlowe. This movie certainly has plenty of Bond girls, it's worth it just for them Whenever they see Bogart, they fall all over themselves, it's like a template for Bond. It's interesting for a film made in the 1940s, and the girls are wearing short skirts and short shorts. One scene has a hatcheck girl with incredible legs. Not only that, but the actresses all could deliver their lines well, and you wonder what became of them. I only know the name Dorothy Malone: here, she plays a bookstore employee. A few minutes after Bogart walks in, she closes the shop and window, after he mentions he has a flask of gin or something in his pocket. Then she takes off her cheaters (glasses) and lets her hair down. Some fans assume that after that they make love; but in the last scene as he's leaving, he just pats her on the arm and says "See you, pal..." so it's a big assumption. As always it's fun to watch Bogie and Bacall. Bacall isn't a classic beauty, but she has her own style. She's able to play the world-weary courtesan-or? better than most. She and Bogart also have some 'hot' lines, like 'riding in the saddle...' There are plenty of 'ordinary' looking women who are more attractive than females with perfect features. This is more so in real life, rather than films, of course.

[FormerBondFan]

Kris is going to hate me for this, but I just watched this comic book movie, which I find as a guilty pleasure probably because I'm a Stallone fan and a 90s kid.

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[commander0077again]

Man of Tai Chi Directed by Keanu Reeves, teaming him with his stunt coordinator on the Matrix. He also plays the baddie and one of the stunt guys on Matrix is the lead. It's all about beat 'em ups, the combatants absorbing crushing blows with hardly a care. One of the fun things is to pause the frame as the hero's long hair flies and snaps back and forth. Dunno if Reeves has directed other films, but hope he chooses a better subject/script next time. The one saving grace is the cute girl.

[Omega]

Robocop 2014 -verdict -Mostly Sucked
I don't have it completely suck because it had cool CGI and decent acting, Robocop on a bike and moving like a ballerina, almost. It wasn't boring but wasn't great either.

When the original film is in the top 100 in so many list categories whoever is redoing it had better make d**n sure they do a good job retelling the story. What they did here was try to be different, but taking too much time to think about the new twists actually made the story weaker giving it less of an impact than intended.
OCP needs a Cyborg cop because they want to open up the American market for their flawless police state drones but a stupid law protecting citizens wont let them. A cyborg skirts the law (supposedly). As they build Robo the OCP executive (also known as Michael Keaton) is pissed because he wants the exact same performance as the AI. It's used to open the door for the whole playing with his humanity by denying what makes him human part of the story. Which ties in with emotions make the robo limbs malfunction, made no sense to me because if they are putting a human augmented by their technology on display it'd freak people out to see a soulless automation using a known mans face, I think the reason they did it was they needed it to make the argument for removing his humanity forcibly. Um, OK, but seriously, go back to the original, it's a perfect balance. This new story gets too clever and in its own way too many times.

The way he becomes robocop doesn't really work for me ether [spoil]can you say IED?[/spoil]. It's almost a out patient procedure, not really, but the trauma of the original is completely lost. Including the wife in on decision making and having his identity known from the start takes all the edge out of it. There is one scene where they blow the budget showing what was left of the original man, nice but I didn't feel it made sense from what his injuries were supposed to be. It did clear up some of the confusion between the various movies. Robo 2 he was supposed to be a brain in a jar, Robo 1 there might be original body parts left. New Robo they put all that's left on display.

In the new story Robo has a very limited battle to regain his humanity and we are asked to be shocked at the process, ok in the original now that was some f'd up sh**, so shocking it made you think. The new one I felt all he need do was call a press conference and tech support. Probably just need to rest his WI-Fi connection and he'll be right as rain,

Also OCP's goal was too occupy wall street oriented (standard greedy capitalists), along with getting the senate to pass an amendment or whatever, is nice but the victory lap the bad guys enjoyed was way too premature by anyone's standard.

Problems with the new film, they tired to out think the original being more physiological, in the end they were more interested in this that the rest of the story didn't matter, they dumbed down the film to play up some supposedly emotional topics. It didn't work for me, it was Six million dollar man meets battlestar galactica.
Also it was too run of the mill cop story for my tastes. Detroit of the future in the original (shocking accurate) was a place where the common rules were thrown out the window, it was the worst parts of the wild west where nobody was safe in a failing state. The sort of place where anything goes. So the world of the original robocop made perfect scene put in the terms the movie makers chose to put it.

The new one was so common place it had too many rules to follow. In trying to be too current we cant just accept this is how f'ed up it is, because it's not all that f'ed up to start with.

Last but not least Samuel L Jackson (one of my favorite actors), who tired valiantly to reinvent the comedic satirical parts from the original but ended up being a fox news wanna be with a bad hair pierce. But being who Sam Jackson is he still got the best line in the whole mother'fing movie even though it was bleeped out.

Last word it feels like a made for TV remake, to afraid to take on the original in it's well defined territory that it ended up being too common and pulling all it's punches. Even the new robo suit felt like he could slip out of it anytime he wanted and gone out to lunch with the wife in kid.

[John P. Drake]

Just like I expected it to be. Thanks for the review, Omega. At least I won't be going and wasting money on this "emotional" piece of nothing. How RoboCop supposed to be going emotional when he already is a cyborg? The original Robo merely had it but now, he looks like as if he slipped in a batsuit-like gear and pretending to be a modern-day superhero.

[Omega]

Just like I expected it to be. Thanks for the review, Omega. At least I won't be going and wasting money on this "emotional" piece of nothing. How RoboCop supposed to be going emotional when he already is a cyborg? The original Robo merely had it but now, he looks like as if he slipped in a batsuit-like gear and pretending to be a modern-day superhero.

Thanks! I wanted to try my hand a better review
The weird thing was there was no memory loss like in the original, It was like hospital drama with the doctor putting pressure on his wife to ok the procedure. So from day one they are calling him Murphy and he knows who he is. His wife is calling him and they do a face to face in their home later. only later do they start pulling his humanity away. Its a PR stunt for big company why the hell would OCP want him to become more zombiecop just in time for his public meet and greet with the whole town gathered to give "detective" Murphy a proper welcome back(WTF?!)

[John P. Drake]

Just like I expected it to be. Thanks for the review, Omega. At least I won't be going and wasting money on this "emotional" piece of nothing. How RoboCop supposed to be going emotional when he already is a cyborg? The original Robo merely had it but now, he looks like as if he slipped in a batsuit-like gear and pretending to be a modern-day superhero.

Thanks! I wanted to try my hand a better review
The weird thing was there was no memory loss like in the original, It was like hospital drama with the doctor putting pressure on his wife to ok the procedure. So from day one they are calling him Murphy and he knows who he is. His wife is calling him and they do a face to face in their home later. only later do they start pulling his humanity away. Its a PR stunt for big company why the hell would OCP want him to become more zombiecop just in time for his public meet and greet with the whole town gathered to give "detective" Murphy a proper welcome back(WTF?!)

My exact problems as I've seen in the trailer. Murphy in the original was almost brain dead, and he acted like a robot all the time. Only (and merely) 25% of his own was human. Some people just can't understand that this bloody "emotional dilemma" can't work on actioners. Imagine if Terminator started bursting in tears in a reboot... Enough is enough.

[commander0077again]

Galaxy Quest. Saw it last Friday. I saw this when it first screen. Then I wuz reading a book by David Mamet, screenwriter for the Untouchables Oscar-nominee twice. Well, writing about great movies, he said that a good script plus good actors equal a really good movie; a great script played even by ordinary actors can be a good experience. He asks, How many times have you heard someone see a high school play on Our Town and that person says, that was really good! So it starts with the screenplay.
So he goes on to list about four films as examples of 'great screenplay plus great actors = great movie' (of course, great director and crew, but that's a given): The Godfather, then two other films, and then: Galaxy Quest! Well, I then had to run to get the DVD. And then I went to IMDB and was surprised at the heavy in-favor comments. I didn't read all of the hundreds of user reviews but the first several had nine out of ten stars, I think another had ten stars. Well, it's rare I've ever seen that. Then another site goes on to mention the twenty great things about Galaxy Quest, of a few are:
(And I'll mix some of mine):
Top actors with a top script. It takes good actors to do comedy. One sees that good comedians can do drama, but not necessarily vice versa. Tim Allen does a great take off of Captain Kirk, he's got the Kirk swagger (Sulu and Capt. Picard also commented they loved the movie). Sigourney Weaver, at 50 years, plays a blond bimbo with great bounce. This is especially a wink because of her serious Ripley character. As the action escalates, she shows more and more cleavage. Alan Rickman (yes, one of the best of the baddies) plays a Spock-type alien, sneering in 'real' life that he was a serious actor and now he was opening shopping malls. The special effects were by Industrial Light, but again they take second tier to the script and what the actors did with it. JJ Abrams calls it "The best Star Trek movie ever made."
It's a gem. It touches the heart of fans. Star Trekkies catch a lot of 'superior' flak for their love of the genre (I suppose a bit like Bond fans), and this film goes to the heart. The only possible ending I would change would be for their starship to earth at the fan convention.

Fans wonder why didn't it smash at the box office? I would venture that it wasn't marketed well. People assumed it was just a comedy with Tim Allen. Trekkies may have felt it was a smudge on them. A great concept and execution: washed up actors are mistaken by hero-worshiping aliens for the real thing, and the actors have a chance to be real heroes. I think George Takei said that it was part documentary, too, that it really hits the marks.

Oh, and special mention to Tim Allen's 'Kirk Fu' as he roles around. Rickman's character later smugs, "I see you've removed your shirt."

[carl stromberg]

I watched the classic Stallone film Lock Up. It's now a cult film!

[commander0077again]

Ip Man Watched this a week ago, then rewatched it, and then loaned the dvd to a friend yesterday. On IMDB the first ten reviews or so has almost the full ten stars, which is rare. (The Legend of Hercules has been receiving one star, so the review section is rather on the money).
This is the fiction-story of Bruce Lee's first formal teacher, Yip Man (as Lee usually wrote it) or Ip Man. It's pronounced the same. This is a great action movie with an actual storyline, set in China 1940s. Pluses for the choreography, set design and the music*. It was filmed in Shanghai, although the story is set in Foshan (one of the sons of Ip Man remarked he was sorry they couldn't film some in the real places). The action is grade A mostly, except for a bit of wirework. However, there is a latter sequence where the hero fights ten Japanese guys, and this is grade A.... it's almost like watching Bruce Lee.

The character of Ip Man is a kind, decent guy who lives in a mansion, so he doesn't have to teach martial arts (he really did live in a mansion); there's lots of funny scenes with his little son and wife. One has a challenger coming into the house and insulting everyone, Ip Man doesn't want to fight.... the challenger insults some more, "Come on, I'm not going to kill him, just a fight, is all!" (it's dubbed in English).... and the wife says, "You shut up!" and she turns to Ip Man and whispers Just don't break the furniture.

The fight choreographer is Sammo Hung, who is a small legend in Asia. He was the guy who fought Bruce Lee in first scene of Enter the Dragon... and this is good stuff, except for some of the wire work -- although its fun to watch at times, it can be overdone. *The music needs special mention by Japanese composer Kenji Kawai, who wrote for Ghost in the Shell sort of an anime classic. I would hope this guy would write for Bond. Pierce, if you're going to make an action film, get this guy. As a musician I cheer for a film's music, so if you want to hear pulsing film music, this is the one.

Run, don't trot to your nearest DVD / blue ray.

Also, I'm going to watch the sequel, which is said to be almost as good.

This is a big hit in Asia ... too bad it wasn't released in theatres here. It beats Crouching Tiger film all to hell. It has to rank among the top ten of greatest martial arts films. Hope to see more from the producer/director.