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

The Vortex
6/10
Is this movie really stupid?......yes
Are the effects really bad?.....yes
Is the acting terrible?.....yes
Is the script mostly just cheesy dialogue and bad one liners?.....heck yeah
Cliches?.......plenty of them
Does this movie become so bad that it swings back to good again?......pretty much
Worth watching?.......if you can handle it:cool:

Scars Of Dracula
6/10
So another of the older Dracula movies
The acting is all fine, the script is well put together and everything fits well enough to entertain
About the only noteworthy aspect is the Bat which is hilariously funny (Just a puppet on some string:p)
So while it isn't brilliant it is definitely worth the watch

Dracula 2000
5/10
So this movie had me wavering between being just a little bit disappointing and being ok with it
The acting is all good, but sometimes it just falls flat because the characters are often just not filled out and so it just feels like I have no reason to care what happens to most of them
The script is good, but then again the problems with the characters crop up and also it never really develops some of the more interesting aspects that it presents
And Gerard Butler as Dracula was good......But..... he just never seems to have the menace and so doesn't really come across as scary
Maybe it is just me, but I wanted to like this movie and in the end I just couldn't

Clueless
5/10
It's ok
The acting is all solid
The script is decent enough
But maybe I am just out of touch with the time period and culture or this just isn't my kinda film
In the end it was good but not really for me
 
The Last Boy Scout

7/10

A Tony Scott film, so don't expect the story and action to be plausible--exciting, with lots of stuff blowing up, but not plausible. A "buddy movie" in the Lethal Weapon line (complete with screenplay by Shane Black), but with cops replaced by a Secret Service agent turned PI (Bruce Willis) and an ex-NFL quarterback (Damon Wayans). Surprisingly, it works relatively well, largely because Willis was very good at this sort of thing and he and Wayans play off each other pretty well.
 
Komodo vs Cobra
3/10
So evil government/army guys make giant animals because.....uh they wanted to...no....wait.....because thats what evil guys do I guess
Cue the tough boat captain and group of environmentalist cannon fodder going to the island because......."hey the military has the island therefore they must be doing something evil"
then have the attack of the giant CGI monsters
hit every cliche you can find with some bland acting
and you are done
Now you could do worse then this movie, it doesn't come off as insultingly bad
it's just kinda bland

1612
1/10
Blah blah blah Russian politics blah blah blah slave dude blah blah blah something about a princess blah blah blah
I didn't fully get what this movie was about because frankly I was bored out of my skull
A few decent moments with lots of booooooooooooring holding it all together
 
GoldenEye

8/10

Pierce Brosnan's first and best outing as James Bond has a very telling moment. Bond and a Russian official are verbally sparring, when Bond Girl Natalia (Izabella Scorupco) rips into them both for being nothing but "boys with toys." That pretty much sums up Brosnan's Bond--despite the occasional nods towards a serious tone in his four films, his Bond was the ultimate boy with toys. Taken at that level, this one works well. Martin Campbell, a first-rate action director, supplies plenty of thrills. Scorupco is a very good Bond Girl who rises well above the "Oh, James" norm--her character has a useful, plot-relevant skill (computer programmer), a sassy attitude, and even her own catch phrase ("By the way, I'm fine, thank you very much!"--it makes sense in context). Sean Bean is a formidable villain with Famke Janssen as his right-hand woman, while Judi Dench makes her first appearance as a weighty M.
 
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GoldenEye

8/10

Pierce Brosnan's first and best outing as James Bond has a very telling moment. Bond and a Russian official are verbally sparring, when Bond Girl Natalia (Izabella Scorupco) rips into them both for being nothing but "boys with toys." That pretty much sums up Brosnan's Bond--despite the occasional nods towards a serious tone in his four films, his Bond was the ultimate boy with toys. Taken at that level, this one works well. Martin Campbell, a first-rate action director, supplies plenty of thrills. Scorupco is a very good Bond Girl who rises well above the "Oh, James" norm--her character has a useful, plot-relevant skill (computer programmer), a sassy attitude, and even her own catch phrase ("By the way, I'm fine, thank you very much!"--it makes sense in context). Sean Bean is a formidable villain with Famke Janssen as his right-hand woman, while Judi Dench makes her first appearance as a weighty M.
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My favorites of the Brosnan series.
 
Iron Man (2008) 8/10
District 9 (2009) 8/10

A couple of solidly directed and produced action movies. I'd been recommended then both and was waiting to see them when they came on TV tonight back to back. Good solid harmless action hokum that made for a truly enjoyable 4 hours of TV tonight.
 
Good Will Hunting - 8/10

I liked it. Some clever writing, and great performances. I also liked that, spoiler:


The movie wasn't about Will being a young genius. It was about him finding contentment in his life and not being used to further the fame of a Fields Medal-winning MIT professor with a massive ego.



Not much else I can really say about it.
 
Iron Man 3.

There was a point in this movie where, for a brief instant, I thought

"this is the part where Tony Stark finally realizes his genius and defeats the bad guys not with brute force, but with some really clever way to shut down the genetically engineered super soldiers. Where he overcame his dependence on technology and beat the bad guys not as a machine, but as a human."



Well that didn't happen.

The entire third act was a sort of deus ex machina. Very disappointing.

5/10
 
Robocop (2014)
3/10
So this movie is mostly a cast of great actors giving some good performances to shallow and boring characters is a boring script
This movie just drags its heels for a long time and when we finally get Robocop being Robocop it has some cool ideas but it just becomes a new type of drag as he never has any awesome moments like the original
I also don't think that being a fan of the original will change your opinion on this movie either
everyone will likely just be bored with this movie
So a disappointing movie with some good acting in it
 
The Caine Mutiny (1954)

Great performances by Humphrey Bogart and Jose Ferrer (and a pretty good performance by Fred MacMurray) are spoiled somewhat by 3 things:

1) An overbearing musical score
2) An opening act that borders on comedy
3) An awkward romantic subplot involving the young ensign. And he's having some very obvious Oedipal issues, too.

If they had trimmed down the opening act, turned down the music, and eliminated the stupid attempt at romance, I'd call this a 9/10. But those three things spoiled the movie for me. 6.5/10 when all things are considered.
 
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Road House

7/10

This is the 1989 film with Patrick Swayze as a bouncer extraordinaire, not the 1948 film with Ida Lupino. Many viewers might not rate this one as highly as I did, but I find it interesting because the mood and visual style are so quintessentially 1980s, plus Sam Elliott has a major role, which for me adds a point right there.
 
The Buttler 10/10

It's a cheesy drama about the civil rights movement (of USA). Still extremely well written dialogue. I love good writing. It explores the difference between doing what is right and doing what you need to do to survive. It's a cheesy movie so it's pretty obvious what the film is pushing.

It doesn't try to be cutting edge or experimental. It's a pretty straight no-frills movie. But very well made.
 
Jodorowsky's Dune I watched this last night - really interesting documentary about a surrealist directors' attempt to make an utterly grand version of Dune in 1974. Funny thing is I probably would have hated it as a version of the book itself - but it seems like the world missed out on a piece of truly unique piece of film-making. Jodorowsky really drove the formation of an unbelievable team to create this film - and in the end it didn't happen because the studios were too reluctant to give him the money it needed with him at the helm. I don't know how well it would have turned out with the special effects of the time but still would have been a special film and much better than the Lynch turkey.

Details of who was to be involved are hidden below as they are spoilers to the content of the doco.


Carradine was cast as Leto, Salvadore Dali the Emperor, Mick Jagger as Feyd Rautha and Orson Welles the Baron. Paul was to be played by the director's son, who had been in his other films and was put through 6 hours of martial art and weapons training a day for 2 and a half years as preparation.

Pink Floyd had signed on to write all the music for the Atreides' scenes and a band called Magma for the Harkonnens, with the latter sets and costumes by H.R Giger. Special effects were to be done by O'Bannon - the chap from Dark Star and Alien (Which of course included Giger's classic and fucking terrifying design and would not have happened if not for this project). Design of all the space ships was by Chris Foss, who did those 60-70s era SciFi novel cover art pieces, the geometrically painted ships in bright colours. There are more but I can't remember them.



Fascinating documentary 8/10
 
Lake Pacid: The Final Chapter
6/10
So I was not expecting a Lake Pacid Sequel to be this entertaining
For those that don't know Lake Placid is all about Giant Crocodiles eating people
And this movie (number 4 I think) has a cast of pretty well acted and solidly written characters (Although some characters are there to drive stupid plot developments)
And the script provides a good story that moves along well and sets up some good times with the giant crocs
Now being a low budget movie the crocs are a bit silly
But it has some good practical effects and the CGI is at least trying to be consistent so it doesn't become too distracting
So ultimately I would say that this sequel is actully worth the watch
 
Les aventures extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec/The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec

8/10

The plot of this one is pure fantasy but I found it hard not to like it; it's an adaptation of a French comic book series by Jacques Tardi. It works because Luc Besson directs with a very light touch (this is the best I've seen from him, as either director, writer or producer, in a very long time), and even more so because Louise Bourgoin is terrific as the title character, an adventurous journalist in pre-World War I France. She's easy on the eyes, sassy and spirited--a very winning screen personality.
 
Bats 2
1/10
This movie seems to have absolutely nothing to do with the original Bats movie
And this one is full of idiots and stupidity that never really goes anywhere and isn't particularly good
So just skip this one

The Rocketeer
6/10
A bit of good cheesy fun
The characters are all done well, the acting is good and the effects hold up pretty well today
It also doesn't take itself too seriously and so the goofier moments are easily swallowed
So give this a watch for a good old movie

Carry On Henry
5/10
In terms of the Carry on movies and their mountains of sex jokes and innuendo this one is somewhere around the middle
Funny and well done overall, but maybe lacking the flair of some of the better Carry On Movies
Still worth a watch
 
Bobby Fischer Against the World

8/10 (probably less if you don't have much interest in chess)

A documentary about the first, and so far only, American to win the world championship in chess. Liz Garbus's film gives quite a bit of coverage, naturally, to Fischer's famous 1972 title match with Boris Spassky, and also deals with Fischer's descent, over the rest of his life, into a reclusive, anti-Semitic paranoid.
 
Ernest and Celestine Nice to have a break from CGI.Loved the tooth mouse angle.

7/10
 
Zombieland

9/10

Despite the title, this is not a horror film, it's an action comedy which just happens to involve a lot of zombies. And it's a good one, too. The script by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick is witty, director Ruben Fleischer supplies fast pace and a light touch, and the four leads--Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone and Abigail Breslin--are all in the spirit of things and work well with each other. Very enjoyable.
 
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