Guest Posted June 5, 2015 Report Share Posted June 5, 2015 Age of ultron 3/10 Got bored. Bland movie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romans832 Posted June 6, 2015 Report Share Posted June 6, 2015 Seventh Son - 7/10 - I thought it was an interesting movie... but it made some jumps and assumptions that left you asking questions... Good movie, it was exactly what I hoped it to be, just surprised at some of the leaps it took. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WestRider Posted June 6, 2015 Report Share Posted June 6, 2015 Mad Max: Fury Road. Not much to say that hasn't already been said. This movie goes to 11. The Orkiest thing I've ever seen. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dkieft Posted June 6, 2015 Report Share Posted June 6, 2015 Mad Max: Fury Road. Not much to say that hasn't already been said. This movie goes to 11. The Orkiest thing I've ever seen. I pretty much wanted to shout "GORK GORK GORK!!!!" during most of the vehicle fights. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mr. Bigglesworth Posted June 7, 2015 Report Share Posted June 7, 2015 Anyone dislike mad max? I have only heard absurd praise on this board for it. Mind you, it deserves every bit and your a terrible person if you didn't like it. ;) Night at the museum 3, 2/5 just not sure why they keep making these. Pitch perfect 2 was disappointed, really like the first. This was filled with more dumb humor, and plot was extremely petty. 3/5 Pound of flesh. Van Damme is old, and his accent has become more annoying. 1-5 couldn't finish. Sharks of the lost ark 1-5. Megaladon in the lake, and terrible cg. Didn't even try Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indytims Posted June 7, 2015 Report Share Posted June 7, 2015 Anyone dislike mad max? I have only heard absurd praise on this board for it. Mind you, it deserves every bit and your a terrible person if you didn't like it. ;) I liked it - but not near as much as everyone else did, apparently. I gave it an 8/10, the lowest score on the forum so far, I think. :) -Tim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 7, 2015 Report Share Posted June 7, 2015 Seventh Son - 7/10 - I thought it was an interesting movie... but it made some jumps and assumptions that left you asking questions... Good movie, it was exactly what I hoped it to be, just surprised at some of the leaps it took. Watched it after this review. 1/10 for me. It's probably a very good book, but the plot just jumps around from cliche fantasy subplot to the next with a rushed pace. Maybe there's a director's cut that's awesome, but this one just hops around too much to be enjoyable. Example, old guy shows up at their farm and demands their seventh son. The farmers to not even question why a 7th son of a 7th son would be special. The movie does not explain, they just assume you've watched other fantasy movies and understand that dynamic. The son is bought and they go along their journey. This is probably a really well written chapter in the book, but it makes for a horrid movie scene. Entire movie feels poorly stitched together. The CGI is awesome, but a pretty movie is not a good movie. They even did a good job with the four armed swordsman CGI, avoiding making the 2 extra arms seem redundant, but actually fighting as if trained using 4 at once. I really wish they fleshed out some of their characters, as they clearly had some interesting visual concepts which they didn't bother explaining. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WestRider Posted June 8, 2015 Report Share Posted June 8, 2015 Anyone dislike mad max? I have only heard absurd praise on this board for it. Mind you, it deserves every bit and your a terrible person if you didn't like it. ;) Apparently a bunch of misogynists dislike it because it has women with major roles, and I've heard from a couple of people who it was just too intense for, but other than that, not that I know of. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pretre Posted June 8, 2015 Report Share Posted June 8, 2015 Pax, did you see mad max yet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WestRider Posted June 8, 2015 Report Share Posted June 8, 2015 Example, old guy shows up at their farm and demands their seventh son. The farmers to not even question why a 7th son of a 7th son would be special. The movie does not explain, they just assume you've watched other fantasy movies and understand that dynamic. The 7th son of a 7th son thing isn't just from fantasy movies/novels. It's a bit of folklore that goes back pretty much as far as we have recorded evidence, across a great many cultures. Assuming people know about it isn't much more of a stretch than assuming they know what a vampire or a werewolf is. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indytims Posted June 8, 2015 Report Share Posted June 8, 2015 The 7th son of a 7th son thing isn't just from fantasy movies/novels. It's a bit of folklore that goes back pretty much as far as we have recorded evidence, across a great many cultures. Assuming people know about it isn't much more of a stretch than assuming they know what a vampire or a werewolf is. I pretty much took it that the family knew what it meant, and that was good enough for me. :) I thought it was an ok movie, myself, I would have given it a 5/10 probably. I loved Jeff Bridge's character, and I was surprised they got him and Julianne Moore to do it. I know it was at least delayed for a full year so they could go back and re-do the FX, but those turned out fine, as Pax mentioned. There were some 'shake your head' moments, of course. I loved the boggart, and I just wish that Tom Barnes and Kit Harrington had their roles reversed, and I think it would have been a lot better. :) Popcorn fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romans832 Posted June 8, 2015 Report Share Posted June 8, 2015 District 9 - 7/10 - Interesting movie, but it seems like the writer knew no other word that F***... That was a HUGE distraction to this movie. Iffy on how I feel about this movie. So many bizarre questions to say the least Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 8, 2015 Report Share Posted June 8, 2015 The 7th son of a 7th son thing isn't just from fantasy movies/novels. It's a bit of folklore that goes back pretty much as far as we have recorded evidence, across a great many cultures. Assuming people know about it isn't much more of a stretch than assuming they know what a vampire or a werewolf is. But in every vampire or werewolf TV show or movie, they explain the concept if it is central to the plot. Anyway, I looked it up on Wikipedia. Book is "The Spook's Apprentice" which Wikipedia sums up like this: The Spook's Apprentice (American title: The Last Apprentice: Revenge of the Witch), written by Joseph Delaney, is the first story in the series "The Wardstone Chronicles". The plot is centred on a 12-year-old farm boy named Tom who lives in the countryside of The County, loosely based on the English county of Lancashire, where the author resides[1] with his large family. As Tom is the seventh son of a seventh son he is able to see things others cannot, such as boggarts, ghasts, ghosts and others, which is traditional in the County. In this short blurb, they explained far more of the plot than I grasped from that entire movie. Heck, him being 12 makes so much more sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raindog Posted June 9, 2015 Report Share Posted June 9, 2015 Taken- It was $5 at Target. That's about the cost of renting the movie. It was as advertised: a singular movie. The gal was taken. He told them he would kill them and he did in huge numbers. 7/10. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sorienor Posted June 10, 2015 Report Share Posted June 10, 2015 GI Joe - Retaliation. 3/10. Cool explosions, not much else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indytims Posted June 14, 2015 Report Share Posted June 14, 2015 Jurassic World - 7/10 Pretty much what I expected, which also made it feel very deja-vu, since a lot of the action happens in areas we've all seen before. Still, the FX are awesome - mind-blowing in the early 90's, still decent today - and Howard/Pratt make a pretty good team, in my book. Lots of things that happened made me scratch my head, though, but there were a couple nice, tense moments as you'd expect. Overall, good popcorn fun, but not as fun (to me) as Mad Max or Avengers 2. -Tim 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doc Posted June 14, 2015 Report Share Posted June 14, 2015 Mad Max: Fury Road 11/10. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mr. Bigglesworth Posted June 14, 2015 Report Share Posted June 14, 2015 Chappie 4/5 I really like the director, his style is very engaging. And it was awesome to see the most popular rap duo from South Africa act. Daddy Ninja and Mommie Yolanda did a great job. I really was worried about Chappie's well being. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romans832 Posted June 14, 2015 Report Share Posted June 14, 2015 BlackHat - 6/10 - Interesting movie... Didn't see it going the way it did. Happy for the ending! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romans832 Posted June 18, 2015 Report Share Posted June 18, 2015 American Sniper - 9/10 - Wow, how sad he was taken out by one of his own :( Chappy - 8/10 - Concerned it may be slitely slow for some... And wow to the ending... crazy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purplepeopleeater Posted June 18, 2015 Report Share Posted June 18, 2015 Chappy - 8/10 - Concerned it may be slitely slow for some... And wow to the ending... crazy I just watched Chappy as well and didn't know what to expect and was happily surprised. 9/10 for me. Taken 3 - Way better than Taken 2. I also like how the police and LIam's friends were more involved. 7/10 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dashneeb Posted June 19, 2015 Report Share Posted June 19, 2015 American Sniper - 9/10 - Wow, how sad he was taken out by one of his own :( Spoiler alert! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rudra34 Posted June 20, 2015 Report Share Posted June 20, 2015 Finally saw two movies that I have been waiting for. Fury Road: 9.5/10 Awesome flick, I would watch it every day if I had the time and the cash. It would get a full 10, but there are occasional moments that I had to suspend so much belief in reality that it took me out of the experience. Jurassic World 8/10 Finally, a Jurassic park sequel that wasn't a sad letdown! I wasn't big on the female lead, but it's because I'm not real big on the actress. The tiny sub-plot of the kid's parents getting divorced was useless to the story, and added what was essentially unneeded emotional baggage. The science I will overlook, because dinosaurs. Definitely worth seeing, will end up getting it for home when it comes out. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mr. Bigglesworth Posted June 21, 2015 Report Share Posted June 21, 2015 Jurassic world 2/5 Wow what a let down. The fact the female lead ran from a T. rex in heels was the final straw. I think that illustrates the kind of details they were peddling in this movie. Utter junk no intent to see again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raindog Posted June 21, 2015 Report Share Posted June 21, 2015 Rise of 300. Boring. Tedious. Violent sex. Meh. 5/10 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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