The Movie Review Thread

[MattG12]

I'm glad people agree with me, I feel like a wuss.

[Fan from VT]

Alright, I'll try to rank the 2008 movies I've seen:

1. Dark Knight. Hard to beat.
2. Role Models. Love those guys (Stella, Wet Hot American Summer.) Laughed the whole time.
3. Rachel Getting Married. Incredible acting, great capturing of family dynamics and a very good portrayal of the disease of addiction and the swing of emotions that you, the viewer, goes through when dealing with an addict and the fallout thereof.
4. Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Puppets of Dracula's babies in a musical number? Fell out of my seat laughing.

5. Doubt

6. Wrestler

7. Hellboy 2. Love Del toro's stuff. Great imagery, and a fan of Hellboy in general

8. Pineapple Express. Another ridiculous, incredibly enjoyable comedy.

9. Appaloosa. Cool, fun Western take on the "Buddy" movie.

10. The Reader. Great acting, emotional, and difficult.

11. Hancock. Cool take on an action hero perspective.

12. Ironman

13. Hulk

14. Step Brothers. Fun.

15. Revolutionary Road

16. WallE


Tied for nearly unwatchable:
Taken, Burn After Reading*, Zach and Miri, Jumper.




*You may be surprised by this. I know I was surprised. I love comedies, I love quirky comedies, silly comedies, intellectual comedies, touching comedies ("dramadies"), etc. and I love the Coen brothers (Miller's Crossing, Lebowski, No Country, Hudsucker proxy, crimewave, barton fink, Raising arizona, fargo, are all among my favorite movies.). But I just did not like it at all; i thought about stopping it early and just shipping it back to netflix. couldn't connect to any character, hardly laughed at all, plot went nowhere (and not even in a good way, which is possible). Couldn't stand it.

[Rondo2287]

Alright, I'll try to rank the 2008 movies I've seen:

1. Dark Knight. Hard to beat.
2. Role Models. Love those guys (Stella, Wet Hot American Summer.) Laughed the whole time.
3. Rachel Getting Married. Incredible acting, great capturing of family dynamics and a very good portrayal of the disease of addiction and the swing of emotions that you, the viewer, goes through when dealing with an addict and the fallout thereof.
4. Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Puppets of Dracula's babies in a musical number? Fell out of my seat laughing.

5. Doubt

6. Wrestler

7. Hellboy 2. Love Del toro's stuff. Great imagery, and a fan of Hellboy in general

8. Pineapple Express. Another ridiculous, incredibly enjoyable comedy.

9. Appaloosa. Cool, fun Western take on the "Buddy" movie.

10. The Reader. Great acting, emotional, and difficult.

11. Hancock. Cool take on an action hero perspective.

12. Ironman

13. Hulk

14. Step Brothers. Fun.

15. Revolutionary Road

16. WallE


Tied for nearly unwatchable:
Taken, Burn After Reading*, Zach and Miri, Jumper.




*You may be surprised by this. I know I was surprised. I love comedies, I love quirky comedies, silly comedies, intellectual comedies, touching comedies ("dramadies"), etc. and I love the Coen brothers (Miller's Crossing, Lebowski, No Country, Hudsucker proxy, crimewave, barton fink, Raising arizona, fargo, are all among my favorite movies.). But I just did not like it at all; i thought about stopping it early and just shipping it back to netflix. couldn't connect to any character, hardly laughed at all, plot went nowhere (and not even in a good way, which is possible). Couldn't stand it.

I thought jumper was real solid, and I agree burn after reading kinda stunk

[indeedproceed]

Alright, I'll try to rank the 2008 movies I've seen:

1. Dark Knight. Hard to beat.
2. Role Models. Love those guys (Stella, Wet Hot American Summer.) Laughed the whole time.
3. Rachel Getting Married. Incredible acting, great capturing of family dynamics and a very good portrayal of the disease of addiction and the swing of emotions that you, the viewer, goes through when dealing with an addict and the fallout thereof.
4. Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Puppets of Dracula's babies in a musical number? Fell out of my seat laughing.

5. Doubt

6. Wrestler

7. Hellboy 2. Love Del toro's stuff. Great imagery, and a fan of Hellboy in general

8. Pineapple Express. Another ridiculous, incredibly enjoyable comedy.

9. Appaloosa. Cool, fun Western take on the "Buddy" movie.

10. The Reader. Great acting, emotional, and difficult.

11. Hancock. Cool take on an action hero perspective.

12. Ironman

13. Hulk

14. Step Brothers. Fun.

15. Revolutionary Road

16. WallE


Tied for nearly unwatchable:
Taken, Burn After Reading*, Zach and Miri, Jumper.




*You may be surprised by this. I know I was surprised. I love comedies, I love quirky comedies, silly comedies, intellectual comedies, touching comedies ("dramadies"), etc. and I love the Coen brothers (Miller's Crossing, Lebowski, No Country, Hudsucker proxy, crimewave, barton fink, Raising arizona, fargo, are all among my favorite movies.). But I just did not like it at all; i thought about stopping it early and just shipping it back to netflix. couldn't connect to any character, hardly laughed at all, plot went nowhere (and not even in a good way, which is possible). Couldn't stand it.

you see push?

[Fan from VT]

No, no push.

[indeedproceed]

Jumper was so bad I cried. Push was a lot like Wanted...ie a good idea that came off as kind of rushed.

[dark_lord]

Jumper was so bad I cried. Push was a lot like Wanted...ie a good idea that came off as kind of rushed.

i thought jumper was enjoyable.  not the best movie in the world, but a good dvd to rent.

push i thought was terrible.  hated everything about it.  the star wars geek in me cant like a movie that blatantly is based around the force and the force push.

[Chief]

I watched 2 this weekend.

Soloist-This is that Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey Jr. movie about the musician. I thought it was good if you like dramas. I give it 3 stars.

Battle for Terra- This CGI movie really took me by surprise. It has the best sound I've heard on my hd audio system. The story is also not too bad. I give it a solid 3 stars.

http://www.moviefone.com/movie/the-soloist/30936/video/the-soloist-trailer-no-1/2253517

http://www.moviefone.com/movie/battle-for-terra/36649/video/battle-for-terra-trailer-no-1/2430396

[Chief]

Jumper was so bad I cried. Push was a lot like Wanted...ie a good idea that came off as kind of rushed.

i thought jumper was enjoyable.  not the best movie in the world, but a good dvd to rent.

push i thought was terrible.  hated everything about it.  the star wars geek in me cant like a movie that blatantly is based around the force and the force push.

Dark Lord, I 100% agree.

[indeedproceed]

Jumper was so bad I cried. Push was a lot like Wanted...ie a good idea that came off as kind of rushed.

i thought jumper was enjoyable.  not the best movie in the world, but a good dvd to rent.

push i thought was terrible.  hated everything about it.  the star wars geek in me cant like a movie that blatantly is based around the force and the force push.

I didn't get the star wars thing. What is the difference between the force and the force push?

Cuz by push they didn't mean telekineisis

I probably just dunno what the force push is (i'm basing my knowledge here off of the KOTOR game)

[Bahku]

Jumper was so bad I cried. Push was a lot like Wanted...ie a good idea that came off as kind of rushed.

i thought jumper was enjoyable.  not the best movie in the world, but a good dvd to rent.

push i thought was terrible.  hated everything about it.  the star wars geek in me cant like a movie that blatantly is based around the force and the force push.

Yup ... I'm with ya Bud ... I actually loved Jumper, and I really didn't think I would ... but Push left me unimpressed ... to me it was just a cop of every "popular" sci-fi idea possible, thrown into a pot and stirred, and dumped out onto cels.

[Evantime34]

I just saw Where the Wild Things are and I thought it was great. If someone else has seen it pm me because I have a theory about it but I don't want to post it in case people haven't seen it yet.

[Chief]

Jumper was so bad I cried. Push was a lot like Wanted...ie a good idea that came off as kind of rushed.

i thought jumper was enjoyable.  not the best movie in the world, but a good dvd to rent.

push i thought was terrible.  hated everything about it.  the star wars geek in me cant like a movie that blatantly is based around the force and the force push.

Yup ... I'm with ya Bud ... I actually loved Jumper, and I really didn't think I would ... but Push left me unimpressed ... to me it was just a cop of every "popular" sci-fi idea possible, thrown into a pot and stirred, and dumped out onto cels.

The setting was not for me. I probably sound like a dumb American but I'd have preferred the story taking place in NY or LA.

[Redz]

My wife and I watched Let the Right One In last night.  It's a foreign film (Sweden I think), with either voice over (pretty decent voice over in English actually) or subtitles.

It is the tale of a 12 year old boy living in an apartment complex with his Mom, and his neighbor - a vampire who is eternally trapped in the body of a 12 year old girl.  They form a very sweet friendship as he copes with bullies and puberty, and she deals with the lonely realities of survival as a vampire.

It was definitely not your typical vampire movie.  It was a mostly believable look into what it might be like to be a vampire in modern times (or to have your first crush/odd girl next door be a blood drinker).

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1139797/

[indeedproceed]

I watched Rocknrolla by Guy Ritchie.

I loved it.

Everything you WANTED Smokin' Aces to be, but Smokin Aces wasn't (that movie was god awful) RocknRolla was.

Typical Guy Ritchie with a definite splash of rocknroll.

It's on HBO's rotation now. Watch it.