What's the last movie you watched (2010)?

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The Expendables – A skimpy threadbare by-the-numbers plot is the frame around which this self-indulgent movie is made. There are many better Mission Impossible television episodes although admittedly with not as many mindless action interludes and explosions. Only two minutes of film are worth watching in this movie—probably on Youtube.
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I have a friend who read the screenplay of the movie and said the removed about 4 subplots which would have tied things together nicely. They also took out a key role which would have explained things better.

For me it was a mindless shoot 'em up except that the CGI blood ruined even that for me. Every time I saw the CGI blood I was disappointed. Leave the CGI for dinosaurs and blue 9 foot tall aliens. Use red Karo syrup for blood.

The last movie I saw was The Last Airbender, I spend the last five days watching the entire TV series only to be hugely disappointed with the movie. Aside from not pronouncing many of the characters names properly, they also managed to mess up a lot of other details. They just assumed audiences knew who some of the supporting cast were (which is a mistake considering I am watching this in South Korea where Airbender never aired).

Considering that the movie is to cover the entire Book 1 or the first season which consists of 10 hours of programing. M. Night Shamalamadingdong couldn't even make a 2 hour movie but instead jam packed enough disjointed images into just over 90 minutes. While he is to blame for many of the issues I had with the film the editors made it into a bloody mess.

On a side note since the series is about Asian people, I would have like to have seen Asians playing the rolls instead of a bunch of white actors pretending to be Asian.

Overall, it was a huge disappointment. Looking at what else comes to the Korean theatres in the future it looks as if I am in for some more pain.
 
DurzoBlint said:
Considering that the movie is to cover the entire Book 1 or the first season which consists of 10 hours of programing. M. Night Shamalamadingdong couldn't even make a 2 hour movie but instead jam packed enough disjointed images into just over 90 minutes. While he is to blame for many of the issues I had with the film the editors made it into a bloody mess.
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What a twist!

Kudos if you get the reference.
 
Some of the big blockbusters I've seen recently are similar enough to each other that I'm getting a weird sense of déjà vu:

The Expendables / The A-Team – Preferred The A-Team

Knight and Day / Salt – Preferred Salt
 
I always have mixed feelings about movies based on television shows (or comic books, for that matter) that I really enjoyed. Some I've enjoyed, but others have tried to "improve" on the TV show or comic book, and the film makers never seem to capture the essence of what I enjoyed about the original. Ah, well ...
 
Dungeons & Dragons: Wrath of the Dragon God (2005) I have not laughed so much in ages. It was like a parody of every overblown bollocky pseudo medieval teenwank fantasy cliché in the book (or three books). I especially loved the villain played by Bruce Payne who so wonderfully personified evil by dressing in black, assuming a gay smirk, and then doing pure Joey Tribiani style "sniff your own farts" acting. Amazingly awful.
 
JunkMonkey said:
Dungeons & Dragons: Wrath of the Dragon God (2005) I have not laughed so much in ages. It was like a parody of every overblown bollocky pseudo medieval teenwank fantasy cliché in the book (or three books). I especially loved the villain played by Bruce Payne who so wonderfully personified evil by dressing in black, assuming a gay smirk, and then doing pure Joey Tribiani style "sniff your own farts" acting. Amazingly awful.
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On the contrary, I absolutely loved it. Certainly better than the first film that was done in 2001 (I think).
 
I'm convinced that with movies, there is such a thing as being so hideously bad it's good.
 
plblair said:
I'm convinced that with movies, there is such a thing as being so hideously bad it's good.
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There is! Don't get me started on why, I could bore the pants off you about why Ed Wood, Ted V. Mikels, or Al Adamson are geniuses and will be remembered long after many of their more competent contemporaries have faded into obscurity.

Put it this way. I never want to see A.I. ever again but could watch Astro-Zombies twice a week for the rest of my life.
 
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I have bought the DVD of Avatar just for $4.99 and free shipping.But now the last movie I watched was Tang Shan Earthquake which directed by Feng Xiaogang.It is really very moving film.If you want to see it,don't forget bring tissue with you.
 
I watched Precious and it was brutal. I swore I would not watch it but my wife really wanted to check it out. I flinched away from the screen several times and closed my eyes. They cant make a horror movie that scary.

But I did not like it. Not b/c of the brutal factor - in that regard I give the movie high marks. The subject matter warranted it. I thought the ending was bad. A 17 yo girl walks out of her "Social Worker's" office declaring she does not need anyone, only she can do it (somthing like that any way). Cut to her walking triumphantly up the street with her two children with a very determined/triumpant kind of expression. Yea right. Two children for any teenage mother would be a struggle never minding one of them has Downs Syndrome who she just had passed to her at the SW's office. Oh and the small matter of her being a victim of horrific abuse, having HIV. Yes that is one happy ending folks. Doomed to failure as far as I could see. I saw the train starting to wreck all over again for the children and herself.

I wanted to wash my eyes.
 
The Box - I really liked it. The filmakers created a nice tension laden atmosphere which never really broke. The 70s era felt pretty genuine also. This movie was based on a short story which the creators/writers ran way past. A nice sci-fi story over all that was not all explosions and chases. More of a psychological story for the main characters with them having to in the end make the most impossible of choices. I would give it a watch if I was you.
 
Just watched Zombieland after picking it up for £5 at Tesco. It was better than that Superbad trash that was released a few years back, although I wouldn't say it was the best movie ever. Like a lot of films of its calibre, it's story-lite and really just goes for the laughs, though none had me choking on my drink with mirth.

One great thing about it is how Abigail Breslin has matured as an actress. As far as I'm aware, I first saw her in Little Miss Sunshine a few years back and she gave a stellar performance for someone of her age (although I must confess I despised her major plot 'device', i.e. the child beauty contest) and in Zombieland she was excellent once again. She's very good at acting more mature than she should be, and it worked for her in this film.

Overall, it's a watchable film that's a far cry from the terrible nature of films of its ilk. You'll get more laughs from Shaun of the Dead, certainly, but if you want a similar(ish) film that's not terrible, or if you want something that reminds you of Left 4 Dead (Specficially the second game) then Zombieland's a great purchase. You can just sit back, turn your brain off and you'll be entertained. However, I will say that if you see a film you want more than you want Zombieland, chances are you'll enjoy it more. Impulse buys or acts of desperation also apply ;)

P.S. Must confess I didn't like the level of gore. That sounds really odd coming from someone my age, and from someone who's used to it by now, but something about the gore in Zombieland bothered me.
 
Can't say that I enjoyed it exactly ... 'cause it creeped me out ... but I finally worked up the courage a while back to watch The Ring.

That's the movie in which the characters watch this weird video ... then receive a telephone call ... and they die within a certain number of days after that.

Maybe the really spooky part was ... after I watched the movie ... alone at night ... and I'm watching the credits run and thinking what a strange movie it is ...

My phone actually did ring! Okay, I'll admit it: I almost had one of those underwear-changing experiences.

My sister - who was the caller - will never know how close she came to giving me a stroke.

Oh, yeah, I also finally got around to watching The Blair Witch Project a while back. (Wouldn't you be curious, if your last name was Blair?) Weird, not really so creepy.
 
Saw Sunshine again, underrated film. I enjoyed it.

Predators, wasn't all that impressed, but nonetheless happy to see my favorite alien hunters again.

Watched Avatar a 2nd time with my Mom. The graphics were still pretty, but the plot still horribly lame.

I want to rent District 9 for a 2nd watch because I loved the prawns. Those were aliens with character.

Watched Millennium Actress, and The Girl Who Leapt Through Time in the last couple of weeks. Both great films.
 
The Time Travellers Wife - Loved it. Now I want to read the book. Most movies these days do not have much of an emotional impact on me. In fact that more likely comes from the animated movies I watch with the kids lately. So it was awesome to get a lump in my throat from an honest to goodness for adults movie.
 
Inception

The last movie I saw was Inception. It was much better than I thought it was going to be. I had low expectations probably because Leonardo Dicaprio was in it and I can't stand him. If you can get past his presence in the movie, I thought it was excellent. The concept of getting into the dreams was good. I enjoyed the complexity of the storyline and the effects.
Carl Alves
 
I just saw Coraline for the first time. Probably one of the best films I've seen this year, and it was incredibly cute but also rather twisted. The attention to detail in (most) of the animation and characters was just unreal, and I don't remember noticing any mishaps (such as a glove switching hand or something silly).

I loved how they twisted Jennifer Saunders and Dawn French (Saunders is the taller and thinner of the two, Dawn French is the shorter and larger) so they voiced the "opposite" character, although I felt everyone was great. Oh, and it was funny for me as Keith David (who voiced the cat) voices Captain Anderson in the Mass Effect series of games. Half expected him to punch someone in the face!

On the contrary, I wasn't keen on the story-based changes to the book as I felt they didn't really add anything important, and as such they came across as a bit pointless. During a few scenes the animation seemed to descend in quality a little (they stood out to me) but overall the quality was extremely high. Must confess I wasn't keen on the changes to Coraline, either.

I'm concerned that the BBFC rated it too lightly, as well. I think Coraline's closer to a 12 than it is a PG because some of those scenes (especially with French/Saunders' characters) were perhaps a bit much. If you combine those bits with the rest of the film, I think it's perhaps more for older children.

Spoilerific review:
Amazing film, if one gets past the flaws.

The changes I remember are:
1. Mr Bobo getting a name change and becoming Russian, although his relation to the story remains the same.
2. The rats don't sing.
3. How Coraline bests The Other Mother's hand.
4. The interlude between Coraline finding souls #2 and #3.
5. The introduction of Whybe, who was a pointless addition.
6. The story behind The Other Mother.
7. Coraline's attitude and behaviour.
8. Removal of some scenes (such as Coraline walking the forest), less important replacements.

There was a bunch of other changes, too, but they're the biggest ones I can think of. I don't understand why Coraline and her motivations changed. In the book, she came across as largely a loner who'd matured past her age. She was skeptical but curious, she wasn't naive and she never experienced the switch in personalities that she did in the film. When she first met The Other Family, she seemed over the moon and really happy, whereas in the book I'm sure she was more skeptical but less of a pushover.

The addition of Whybe really threw me, though. Was he there to make up for the change in Coraline's personality, or was it something else? I didn't buy him as a character and I'm stumped, really. The book version of Coraline coped fine on her own (and with the cat, of course), so why couldn't the film interpretation?

If you take this film seperately to the book, it's an excellent film. If you take it as an adaptation of the book, it's excellent. If you take it as the movie-of-a-book, it's great but the changes seemed largely pointless.
 
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