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Which movie did you watch today and how would you rate it?

ZiprHead said:
Speaking of zombie movies...

Warm Bodies

A zombie starts regaining his humanity. He saves his pre-zombie girlfriend from other zombies and they rekindle their relationship.

It was a surprisingly heartwarming film watching the zombie's relationship with the ex as his humanity is returning and other zombies are inspired by the protagonist to redevelop their humanity.

Rotton Tomatoes gives it an 81. I'd go 75.
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I loved it!

"Don't be creepy. Don't be creepy."
 
Borrego, 6/10; Streaming on Netflix. A crime, desert survival thriller that doesn't manage to create the much suspense or thrills. A female botanist is studying plants in the remote Southern California desert. She sees a micro plane crash and goes to investigate. The pilot is lightly injured and is carrying drugs for the Mexican cartel. He take the girl hostage and to help transport the drugs to the intended meeting point, 50 miles away. It was ok but it could have been so much better.
 
The Ninth Gate

It's about a book either penned or co-penned by Lucifer. Johnny Depp, a grifting book expert and salesman runs into weird things and weird things happen.

That's pretty much it. I've tried to watch this movie multiple times and have never been able to finish it. I fool myself into thinking that maybe this time I'll like it, but then I'm reminded why I don't. It's beautifully shot and the atmosphere is intriguing, but to call it "slow paced" is in an insult to term. The good parts of the movie are ruined by agonizing boredom, predictability, and just plain stupidity. The mystery elements aren't interesting because it's impossible to give a shit because the film never escalates. It's reaches a certain level early on and never builds up from there on any significant level.

3/10
 
The Greatest Showman

I've never liked musical movies, probably from watching so many bad ones from the forties and fifties, but I found this one to be quite excellent.

It's been around for a while but if you get a chance to see it take it. Deserving of every accolade it has received.
 
A Simple Plan, 7/10; Stars Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thorton and Bridgette Fonda. Based in Minnesota, three guys are out in the snow and discover a crashed plane. Inside the plane they find a body and over $4m dollars. They debate about whether to call the authorities or keep the money. Figuring the money is probably drug money they eventually agree to keep the money. Paxton will store the money until after the spring and the plane is discovered and see what happens. If nothing is mentioned , they will split the money. Things start to go awry when one of the group is impatient and wants some of the money now. This sets of a string of events that results in death and destroyed lives. It's a decent watch, the plot has a few implausible parts to it but hangs together reasonably well.
 
Little Big Man (1970)...I need to watch this without waiting 15 years between views. What a knockout of a movie, with a cast of the wittiest (or, in the case of Chief Dan George, the most devastatingly plainspoken) actors you're likely to see.
 
TSwizzle said:
A Simple Plan, 7/10; Stars Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thorton and Bridgette Fonda. Based in Minnesota, three guys are out in the snow and discover a crashed plane. Inside the plane they find a body and over $4m dollars. They debate about whether to call the authorities or keep the money. Figuring the money is probably drug money they eventually agree to keep the money. Paxton will store the money until after the spring and the plane is discovered and see what happens. If nothing is mentioned , they will split the money. Things start to go awry when one of the group is impatient and wants some of the money now. This sets of a string of events that results in death and destroyed lives. It's a decent watch, the plot has a few implausible parts to it but hangs together reasonably well.
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I haven't seen the movie, but the book by Scott B Smith was a real page turner. One of the only 'can't put down' books I have read, but I'm thinking if someone had seen the movie first, the book would lack some punch.
 
Havoc, with Tom Hardy. Ten percent story, ninety percent frenetic gunfight bloodbath gorefest. Hardy does a good job with what he's got. 3/10.
 
Waterloo, 6/10; Streaming on YouTube, this epic movie was released in 1970 and stars Rod Steiger, Christopher Plummer, Jack Hawkins, Orson Welles and a very young Ian Ogilvy. A two hour extravaganza that is interesting and quite entertaining. Filmed before CGI, the movie uses thousands of extras to recreate some of the battle of Waterloo. The film is narrated by the two protagonists, Waterloo and Napoleon. The battle scenes are quite brutal, particularly on the poor horses.
 
Companion

This is an excellent movie about AI machines made to look and act like humans. It's been done many times, but only this and Ex Machina have so well captured the potential for use, abuse, and consequences of these potential eventualities.

I could give a lot of details, but when I think a movie is really worth seeing, I don't want to even hint at possible spoilers.

See it.

8.5/10
 
TSwizzle said:
The film is narrated by the two protagonists, Waterloo and Napoleon.
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Unusual to hear a village giving narration. ;)

I am fairly certain that Napoleon's opponent was Arthur Wellesley, First Duke of Wellington, at the battle of Mont-Saint-Jean, named for the hamlet near which it was fought, and later called the Battle of Waterloo by the British, after a rather larger village nearby. The Prussians called it the Battle of the Belle Alliance, after the name of the farm on whose land it was fought.
 
A Complete Unknown

They took some liberties with the history but overall an excellent movie. Highly recommended.

Note: Edward Norton learned to play the banjo for this movie.
 
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