Burk Posted October 17, 2016 Report Share Posted October 17, 2016 Pitch Perfect 2 3/5 not as good as the first, but still watchable. Notice, I said Tim Robbins..... Costner has played. He does a good job. Robbins can barely throw the ball...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purplepeopleeater Posted October 17, 2016 Report Share Posted October 17, 2016 Notice, I said Tim Robbins..... Costner has played. He does a good job. Robbins can barely throw the ball...... Survey says....wrong again.. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burk Posted October 18, 2016 Report Share Posted October 18, 2016 Survey says....wrong again.. ill counter with: <iframe width="854" height="480" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/6-6GbSy7x_k" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InfestedKerrigan Posted October 18, 2016 Report Share Posted October 18, 2016 IDGAF what critics rated a movie. I come to this thread, because of what YOU rated the last movie YOU saw. C'mon peeps, on topic!!! Cowboy Bebop: The Movie 4/5 Basically a long Cowboy Bebop episode, nuff said. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WestRider Posted October 18, 2016 Report Share Posted October 18, 2016 The Damned (2013) I'm pretty sure that the lead was cast more for his ability to stand in the rain looking tormented than his actual acting skills. I might have enjoyed this more if I'd been more awake; a pretty good chunk of it is in Spanish, and I wasn't doing a very good job of paying attention to the subtitles. On the other hand, given what the English portion of the dialogue was like, maybe that wouldn't have made anything better. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WestRider Posted October 19, 2016 Report Share Posted October 19, 2016 Last Shift: Very creepy. A lot of it is pretty low-budget effects, but the camera is used very well, and whoever did the sound really knows their stuff. That one's gonna stick with me for a while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tombking Posted October 19, 2016 Report Share Posted October 19, 2016 Without Warning (1980) 5/10 An alien is out hunting humans with flying creature things that chew into you and send out tendrils under your skin... Predates Predator by 7 years too. Typical teenager scifi/slasher schlock. It does have a Larry Storch as a Cub Scout leader a young David Caruso and what makes it bearable is Jack Palance and Martin Landau doing the crazy local townies that know what is up but nobody believes them schtick. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WestRider Posted October 21, 2016 Report Share Posted October 21, 2016 Dracula A.D. 1972: Hilariously bad. This is partly just due to it aging badly. What was edgy and wild and extreme in 1972 is the kind of stuff that my parents were in to. The music is the best example. It's all totally mellow "dad rock", but everyone thinks it's so hardcore. The soundtrack is actually the other major contributor to it being hilariously bad. Jazzy funk does not make good backing music for what are supposed to be dark ominous vampire fight scenes. On the flipside, it is one of the ones with both Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, so their parts are great. Honestly, in a lot of ways, this is pretty much exactly what I've been looking for in my horror movie trawl of the last couple of months. Terrible movie, but a fun watch. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PourSpelur Posted October 22, 2016 Report Share Posted October 22, 2016 Dead Snow: Dead vs. Red Fantastic! It's a sequel but that's ok, they show all the good stuff from the first one in the beginning 5 minutes. Then it's just silly zombie splatting for an hour. Clever use and avoidance of tropes. Really surprised me with how much fun it was. 10/10, it isn't Casablanca and doesn't try to be. They knew what kind of movie they were making and nailed it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tombking Posted October 22, 2016 Report Share Posted October 22, 2016 Magnificent Thief (the pilot film for the series It Takes A Thief) : 7/10 : A fun spy/caper tv movie with Robert Wagner in the lead with character actor Malachi Throne as his agency boss and John Saxon as the villain. Great bit parts by Raymond Burr, Leslie Nielsen, Rochester, Doug McClure, Wally Cox and Stuart Margolin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tombking Posted October 22, 2016 Report Share Posted October 22, 2016 Dracula A.D. 1972: Hilariously bad. This is partly just due to it aging badly. What was edgy and wild and extreme in 1972 is the kind of stuff that my parents were in to. The music is the best example. It's all totally mellow "dad rock", but everyone thinks it's so hardcore. The soundtrack is actually the other major contributor to it being hilariously bad. Jazzy funk does not make good backing music for what are supposed to be dark ominous vampire fight scenes. On the flipside, it is one of the ones with both Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, so their parts are great. Honestly, in a lot of ways, this is pretty much exactly what I've been looking for in my horror movie trawl of the last couple of months. Terrible movie, but a fun watch. Christopher Lee basically snarling his entire dialog is a bonus fun bit of this film. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sorienor Posted October 23, 2016 Report Share Posted October 23, 2016 Real Steel 6/10Wolverine controlling rock'em sock'em robots. Totally predicable story. Average acting. The finally broke convention, only thing that bumps it up a notch. Still a fun thing to watch while painting. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WestRider Posted October 23, 2016 Report Share Posted October 23, 2016 Christopher Lee basically snarling his entire dialog is a bonus fun bit of this film. Dracula: Prince of Darkness is my favorite for that sort of thing, when he completely gave up on the script altogether and just hissed instead of actually saying any of his lines :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romans832 Posted October 24, 2016 Report Share Posted October 24, 2016 Magnificent Seven - 9/10 - 1960 version - Not half bad, I love the good old nostalgic spaghetti westerns! Now I'm prepared for the 2016 release. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VonVilkee Posted October 24, 2016 Report Share Posted October 24, 2016 Magnificent Seven - 9/10 - 1960 version - Not half bad, I love the good old nostalgic spaghetti westerns! Now I'm prepared for the 2016 release. Watching through the 1960 after seeing the new one. Very much like the ocean's 11 remake situation. Original really good, and the new one really good, with no real way to compare them. Same basic principal and some key likenesses but man what a change tech wise... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romans832 Posted October 25, 2016 Report Share Posted October 25, 2016 Watching through the 1960 after seeing the new one. Very much like the ocean's 11 remake situation. Original really good, and the new one really good, with no real way to compare them. Same basic principal and some key likenesses but man what a change tech wise... Awesome dude! Don't know when we'll get to see the new one... but we'll get there! hehe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 25, 2016 Report Share Posted October 25, 2016 Home 5/10: Films constantly goes back and forth between being horrible and being good. I was entertained enough to finish it, but I definitely won't watch again. I'll also note that I feel the film has very mixed morality - I do not recommend for children, even though this film is definitely meant as a kids film. Just back and forth on everything. You love it, then they do something stupid, or wrong, or horrible, and then switches to a good film again. Half of this film is 10/10, but it's very mixed with a 1/10 film, so 5/10 seems fair. Chicken Little 3/10: Bad film with characters you don't really care about and a very lacking plot. I was not entertained enough to finish this one, gave it a good half hour and was not endeared enough at that point to keep watching. I would rate it lower, but I've seen much worse films before, so 3/10 is fair as I wasn't offended or horrified (In a bad way) by the film, just bored and disinterested. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VonVilkee Posted October 25, 2016 Report Share Posted October 25, 2016 Awesome dude! Don't know when we'll get to see the new one... but we'll get there! hehe Final decision, new one is better on the magnificent seven front. We prefer our bad guys bad. The original has some very intriguing choices in it both in the upper echelons of grading scale. On related note we prefer the original rat pack ocean's eleven to the remake by a slim margin. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMGraham Posted October 25, 2016 Report Share Posted October 25, 2016 Magnificent Seven - 9/10 - 1960 version - Not half bad, I love the good old nostalgic spaghetti westerns! Now I'm prepared for the 2016 release. Now you have to watch the (far superior) movie upon which the Magnificent Seven was based ... The Seven Samurai (Kurosawa's masterpiece, IMO). I love the back-and-forth that happened between Samurai and Western filmmakers during that time period. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romans832 Posted October 26, 2016 Report Share Posted October 26, 2016 Now you have to watch the (far superior) movie upon which the Magnificent Seven was based ... The Seven Samurai (Kurosawa's masterpiece, IMO). I love the back-and-forth that happened between Samurai and Western filmmakers during that time period. Yes! That IS the plan! Pumpkinhead is hunting it down... though we're unsure with 2 kids how we'll find time to watch all 3 hours at one sitting... may have to split it up 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VonVilkee Posted October 26, 2016 Report Share Posted October 26, 2016 Yes! That IS the plan! Pumpkinhead is hunting it down... though we're unsure with 2 kids how we'll find time to watch all 3 hours at one sitting... may have to split it up Our issue as well! After finding out about the basis our plan is to watch the one that started it all... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romans832 Posted October 26, 2016 Report Share Posted October 26, 2016 Our issue as well! After finding out about the basis our plan is to watch the one that started it all... WOOT! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WestRider Posted October 26, 2016 Report Share Posted October 26, 2016 The Core: That was pretty terrible. The science was as bad as the "Oxygen Destroyer" from the original Godzilla, but without the excuse of having been written in 1954, and I think most of the computer hacking scenes were just re-use of stuff that got cut from Hackers. Most of the dialogue and acting were about on par, too. The only real light in the darkness is Stanley Tucci. Even he couldn't actually save this trainwreck of a film, but he was at least aware that his role was terrible, and made it entertainingly so. All that said, there was some cool visual spectacle, and as something to have on in the background while I wrote up a tournament report, it wasn't so bad that I felt the need to get up and turn it off. EDIT: I should probably mention that that last bit isn't just an entirely random bit of damning with faint praise. I've actually had a flick (Visions) fail to clear that very low bar recently. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WestRider Posted October 28, 2016 Report Share Posted October 28, 2016 At the Devil's Door: Some great performances and a solid overall story that are unfortunately buried under a very poorly executed attempt at non-linear storytelling, leaving much of it just a confusing mess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romans832 Posted October 28, 2016 Report Share Posted October 28, 2016 The Huntsman: Winter's War - 8/10 - Impressive way of prequel/sequel in one movie. I was happily pleased with it 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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