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

[credoconsolans]

A Day in the Death of Joe Egg. They made some good movies in what I assume was the 60s. 8/10

Is that based on the play Joe Egg?

Probably, I'm not familiar with the play. It had the feel of a stage play adapted. About a couple with a severely disabled 10 yo.

Yeah, that's it.

 

[spikepipsqueak]

I googled it after you asked the question. The shortened title seems to be from a Broadway production with Eddie Izzard in the Alan Bates role.

You'd need someone with superb comic timing to pull it off and I wish I had seen the Izzard production.

Have you seen it?




Thread response.

I watched Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy last night and was REALLY disappointed.

The books were great. The radio shows were groundbreaking. The TV series was quirky and well adapted from the page and the film just sucked.

How could they do that?

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Who Framed Roger Rabbit
6/10
So I remember this one from when I was a wee lad
And it still holds up pretty well today
The characters are generally funny, the acting is all good and the blend of animation and Live action is pretty darn impressive
I think the plot is a bit shorter and sparser then I remember it
But in the end it was a fun little movie overall

Funny. Just watched this again. I think the movie does pretty well for a Cartoon film noir. It still looks pretty good too. They did a great job intermingling the cartoons with the reality... it is the 80s Mary Poppins, but a joy to watch.
3 of 4

 

[Ford]

Captain America: The Winter Soldier.

Okay, I give up. From here on out if the Marvel logo is emblazoned on the screen I'll know to just shut my brain off, enjoy the stunning visuals, and wait patiently for the inevitable Stan Lee cameo. The movie sure looked good, was filled with good looking people, and had lots of exploding stuff, but it was ridiculous. 5/10

Of course I admit my opinion may have been soured a bit going in. See, this is the first time in years I've gone to see a movie in anything other than the dollar theater. I had a free pass for the ticket, but the snack bar...wow. Ten bucks for a small popcorn and a small drink? And I thought the concession stand at the ball park was a scam!

Today I watched Melancholia.

Amazon Prime trial membership. Cost: Nothing. Yet I could have easily eaten twenty dollars worth of popcorn (I think they call that "medium" at the theater) trying to kill time waiting for something to happen in this film.

Kirsten Dunst stars as a woman on her (very expensive) wedding night who clearly has issues, while a rogue planet (Melancholia) is approaching Earth for a close pass by (or collision?) in a few days. A few days is how long the first act seems to be. The wedding is a slow moving disaster, and it takes an hour to play out on screen. It was such a relief when the next act (and there's really only two) dawned, if for no other reason than the wedding was finally over. From that point it was just a matter of waiting to see if the planet crashed into the Earth and ended the lives of these insufferable people.

Other than that, I liked it. 2/10.

 

[angelo]

Wayne's World Is there something wrong with me or is this highly rated so-called comedy crap of the highest order? How can others see humour while I see nothing but pure shite! 1.5/10

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Wayne's World Is there something wrong with me or is this highly rated so-called comedy crap of the highest order? How can others see humour while I see nothing but pure shite! 1.5/10

The movie may not have aged well. It could be stuck in a comic time warp, as some forms of comedy do. The movie wasn't absurdly funny, but was pretty good at the time. The sequel didn't amount to much.

 

[Keith&Co.]

Freebie and the Bean.
Cops protecting a criminal until they can get the evidence to arrest him.

1974, the humor stands up a lot better than the fashions do. Some excellent chase scenes, huge piles of wrecked cars, corruption at almost all levels... Mostly a love story between James Caan and Alan Arkin's characters. When they're not trying to kill each other. Caan makes calling for a tow-truck funny.

I'd go 8 out of 10.

 

[Petrel]

I watched Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy last night and was REALLY disappointed.

.... the film just sucked.

How could they do that?

I liked the dolphin song and the improbability drive. Everything else sucked. They could have taken any of the books or even just parts, and made a good film - there was enough story! Instead, they tried to jam all the concepts into too small a production, and failed miserably.

Would I get marshmallow-fluffed if I admitted to liking Despicable Me? I'm not a big fan of children but this is funny.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

I watched Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy last night and was REALLY disappointed.

.... the film just sucked.

How could they do that?

I liked the dolphin song and the improbability drive. Everything else sucked. They could have taken any of the books or even just parts, and made a good film - there was enough story! Instead, they tried to jam all the concepts into too small a production, and failed miserably.

Would I get marshmallow-fluffed if I admitted to liking Despicable Me? I'm not a big fan of children but this is funny.

Despicable Me is cute and effective. Nothing wrong with that. The second film was arguably better.

 

[credoconsolans]

I watched Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy last night and was REALLY disappointed.

.... the film just sucked.

How could they do that?

I liked the dolphin song and the improbability drive. Everything else sucked. They could have taken any of the books or even just parts, and made a good film - there was enough story! Instead, they tried to jam all the concepts into too small a production, and failed miserably.

Would I get marshmallow-fluffed if I admitted to liking Despicable Me? I'm not a big fan of children but this is funny.

I loved The Hitchhikers Guide. My sister and I were laughing our guts out we thought it was funny.

 

[Daioh]

Would I get marshmallow-fluffed if I admitted to liking Despicable Me? I'm not a big fan of children but this is funny.

Despicable me is pretty good, and there is nothing wrong with liking it
If you like it then you will like the sequel as well though it is a little bit sillier in tone

 

[spikepipsqueak]

I watched Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy last night and was REALLY disappointed.

.... the film just sucked.

How could they do that?

I liked the dolphin song and the improbability drive. Everything else sucked. They could have taken any of the books or even just parts, and made a good film - there was enough story! Instead, they tried to jam all the concepts into too small a production, and failed miserably.

Would I get marshmallow-fluffed if I admitted to liking Despicable Me? I'm not a big fan of children but this is funny.

I loved The Hitchhikers Guide. My sister and I were laughing our guts out we thought it was funny.

I think there is a human tendency to love the first form in which you encounter something, if it is good. The film changed a lot of what had been good in the other formats, and not for the better.

It certainly still had its moments but was not what it could have been.

If you can, access the series. It's dryer.

 

[Thomas II]

Watched "HER"...Interesting...Reminded me a bit of Sophia Coppola's "Lost in Translation"...

 

[Petrel]

Lost in Translation was an incredible bore.

 

[Narapoia]

Lost in Translation was an incredible bore.

I have to agree, it's the only Bill Murray film I never actually finished.

 

[Ford]

Lost in Translation was an incredible bore.

I have to agree, it's the only Bill Murray film I never actually finished.

I must disagree. "Broken Flowers" makes Lost in Translation look like an action film.

At first I thought Lost in Translation was boring...that nothing was happening in the film. Then as it progressed I noticed that things were happening, but were very subtle. Most films nowadays are painted in broad strokes, but that one was almost all minute details.

The film I watched the other day - Melancholia - tried to catch that minimalist vibe. It tried to tell the story of the end of the world through a a few emotionally distant characters but failed miserably.

 

[angelo]

Wayne's World Is there something wrong with me or is this highly rated so-called comedy crap of the highest order? How can others see humour while I see nothing but pure shite! 1.5/10

The movie may not have aged well. It could be stuck in a comic time warp, as some forms of comedy do. The movie wasn't absurdly funny, but was pretty good at the time. The sequel didn't amount to much.

If that is so, how come comedies in the ilk of Flying High, Naked Gun, and their sequals are still fresh and hilarious today as the day they were released? Others that comes to mind are Caddy Shack, National Lampoon's Vacation and sequels just a few examples.

 

[angelo]

Lost in Translation was an incredible bore.

Worst film Bill Murray ever made. He should stick to comedy because this crappola was NOT comedy.

 

[Thomas II]

Lost in Translation was an incredible bore.

I have to agree, it's the only Bill Murray film I never actually finished.

I must disagree. "Broken Flowers" makes Lost in Translation look like an action film.

At first I thought Lost in Translation was boring...that nothing was happening in the film. Then as it progressed I noticed that things were happening, but were very subtle. Most films nowadays are painted in broad strokes, but that one was almost all minute details.

The film I watched the other day - Melancholia - tried to catch that minimalist vibe. It tried to tell the story of the end of the world through a a few emotionally distant characters but failed miserably.

Melancholia was worse...

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Wayne's World Is there something wrong with me or is this highly rated so-called comedy crap of the highest order? How can others see humour while I see nothing but pure shite! 1.5/10

The movie may not have aged well. It could be stuck in a comic time warp, as some forms of comedy do. The movie wasn't absurdly funny, but was pretty good at the time. The sequel didn't amount to much.

If that is so, how come comedies in the ilk of Flying High, Naked Gun, and their sequals are still fresh and hilarious today as the day they were released? Others that comes to mind are Caddy Shack, National Lampoon's Vacation and sequels just a few examples.

Because I said some comedies are stuck in a time warp.