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

Ford said:
Forks Over Knives

A "documentary" that makes the case for avoiding animal protein and processed foods in favor of a "whole food, plant-based diet."

As with all such films (or at least all the ones I've watched) it employs some dodgy science in the name of convincing people to eat more healthy foods and shy away from the processed crap like Cheetos.


But as I sit here munching on raw vegan kale chips loaded with garlic and vegan cheese, I can't help but wonder...


Thanks to food science, we can make a glob of...well...whatever it is that Cheetos are made from...taste like heaven on earth. We can take barely edible cuts of meat or stuff that isn't even food (cellulose, anyone?) and turn it into a product that is not only tasty, but downright addicting.


So why is it that we can't make kale taste good? Why can't we employ the same technology that makes partially hydrogenated oils and high fructose corn syrup yummy and apply that science to make kale, spinach, and soy products taste so absurdly good that people become addicted to eating them?



Oh...the movie? I'd give it a 5/10.
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Because they've already got us hooked on this crap. Because they're already making a buttton of money doing what they're doing. If they were to change, what's the upside for them? Your good health? Less money going to the medical industry to unfuck your arteries? I fear that change will have to come from within Grasshopper.
A good follow-on is Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us. Not a very adventurous book. A bit sterile in it's presentation. The author never goes in to accusation mode. Just puts out the info in a take it or leave it style. It's worth reading just to learn about "bliss point" as it pertains to food.

Now back to the show.
 
DrZoidberg said:
Thomas II said:
Mad Max: Fury Road Opens May 15



This is going to be non stop epic action...:eating_popcorn:
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Prediction: will suck more than original, (ie Mad Max 2. Mad Max 1 doesn´t count)
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Agree. The minute they put a strong and famous female lead in the movie, I knew it was going to suck. Max is a loner. Him against the world.
 
Apocalypse Now Redux. 1979 movie starring Marlon Brando and Martin Sheen. Robert Duvall. A war drama worth watching even just for the actors and acting alone.
 
Kingsman: The Secret Service
based on the movie in terms of a film relative to all film: 8/10
based on my expectation going into it relative to my experience in watching it: 845,295,194/10

ho. ly. SHIT!
this movie is AMAZING!
i basically sat in slack-jawed awed from about 5 minutes in until the very last shot, i had more fun seeing this movie than just about anything i've seen (short of the avengers) in the last decade or so.
if you've seen the previews, it looks like a pretty generic family friendly Agent Cody Banks sort of BS... but oh my god it's NOTHING like that.
it's insanely cartoonishly violent, wall-to-wall swearing, has a ton of just totally awesome performances by well known and little known actors alike, and is full to the brim with great little homages to james bond and spy thrillers in general.

this was such a delight, and so unexpected, i can not say enough good things about it, everyone should go and see it right away.
 
prideandfall said:
Kingsman: The Secret Service
based on the movie in terms of a film relative to all film: 8/10
based on my expectation going into it relative to my experience in watching it: 845,295,194/10

ho. ly. SHIT!
this movie is AMAZING!
i basically sat in slack-jawed awed from about 5 minutes in until the very last shot, i had more fun seeing this movie than just about anything i've seen (short of the avengers) in the last decade or so.
if you've seen the previews, it looks like a pretty generic family friendly Agent Cody Banks sort of BS... but oh my god it's NOTHING like that.
it's insanely cartoonishly violent, wall-to-wall swearing, has a ton of just totally awesome performances by well known and little known actors alike, and is full to the brim with great little homages to james bond and spy thrillers in general.

this was such a delight, and so unexpected, i can not say enough good things about it, everyone should go and see it right away.
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I gotta see this one...:)
 
Chronicle 6/10 (2012)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1706593/

This is a what-if-you-got-super-powers-what-would-you-do-? movies. Three kids one day get super powers and they explore them. It´s well made and they play it out well. The story is great. The frame story is awfully derivative. You´ve seen it all before. It´s clearly made for teenagers so the conflicts are teenage issues. The name of the film is silly. But the super powers are well played out. I loved that they didn´t bother explaining the super powers. It was just a fact and they ran with it. The acting is fine. The shaky hand cam videoblog camera perspective did nothing for the movie. Occasionally it was used well. But mostly it was just stupid and contrived. It adds nothing. They´d been better off just shooting it straight.

I recommend it. But don´t expect to be blown away.
 
I really dislike the 'shaky cam' in movies. Except for movies like "Cloverleaf" and "Blair Witch Project" in which the footage being filmed on a hand cam is integral to the plot.
 
Elektra
1/10
This is a movie about the worlds most incompetant assassin
Seriously it seems that 99% of this movie is just Elektra running away or getting her posterior handed to her by the villains
I think only once does she legitimately take out a bad guy (The cheap Poison Ivy knockoff) as the rest of the villains are incompetantly committing suicide just so Elektra can "win"
And Jennifer Garners performance doesn't help as she portrays Elektra with all the drive and passion of a baked potato
Now it isn't to say that the rest of the movie comes off smelling of roses
Because the villains are about as fun to watch as paint drying
The "Good guys" (some sort of army of good? it isn't explained and is pretty much irrelevant to the plot) are non entities as characters
And the script is a slow slog of mopiness and boredom
I will give it one point for Kirsten Proust, who honestly seems to be at least trying to do.......something... with the bowl of bland she has been served
And honestly the movie would have been alot better if she was the the main character
Not great......but better
So in the end this movie was pretty much rubbished and forgotten, spoken of only in snorted derision by other comic movies and honestly it kinda deserves it
It isn't a movie that is "so good it's bad" and is pretty much just a waste of 90 minutes
Just avoid this

Good Will Hunting
6/10
Ok to be honest I don't think this movie had a particularly strong script
I found the characters to be a little bit either underdeveloped or kinda cliched
And the I had trouble rooting for the main character as his development was a little inconsistant and rushed at the end
However this movie has also got an amazing cast of actors who I think save this movie
And I would say pretty much all of them
Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Robin Williams, Minnie Driver, Stellan Skarsgård and all the supporting actors
They all deliver great performances and easily take what was a kinda underwhelming script and deliver a good movie
 
Daioh said:
Elektra
1/10
This is a movie about the worlds most incompetant assassin
Seriously it seems that 99% of this movie is just Elektra running away or getting her posterior handed to her by the villains
I think only once does she legitimately take out a bad guy (The cheap Poison Ivy knockoff) as the rest of the villains are incompetantly committing suicide just so Elektra can "win"
And Jennifer Garners performance doesn't help as she portrays Elektra with all the drive and passion of a baked potato
Now it isn't to say that the rest of the movie comes off smelling of roses
Because the villains are about as fun to watch as paint drying
The "Good guys" (some sort of army of good? it isn't explained and is pretty much irrelevant to the plot) are non entities as characters
And the script is a slow slog of mopiness and boredom
I will give it one point for Kirsten Proust, who honestly seems to be at least trying to do.......something... with the bowl of bland she has been served
And honestly the movie would have been alot better if she was the the main character
Not great......but better
So in the end this movie was pretty much rubbished and forgotten, spoken of only in snorted derision by other comic movies and honestly it kinda deserves it
It isn't a movie that is "so good it's bad" and is pretty much just a waste of 90 minutes
Just avoid this

Good Will Hunting
6/10
Ok to be honest I don't think this movie had a particularly strong script
I found the characters to be a little bit either underdeveloped or kinda cliched
And the I had trouble rooting for the main character as his development was a little inconsistant and rushed at the end
However this movie has also got an amazing cast of actors who I think save this movie
And I would say pretty much all of them
Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Robin Williams, Minnie Driver, Stellan Skarsgård and all the supporting actors
They all deliver great performances and easily take what was a kinda underwhelming script and deliver a good movie
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The biggest problem I had with this movie.

I watched this with a friend and told him I saw a better

'breakdown at the psych's office' scene in the movie Ordinary People. So we watched that and he agreed.

 
Daioh said:
Good Will Hunting
6/10
Ok to be honest I don't think this movie had a particularly strong script
I found the characters to be a little bit either underdeveloped or kinda cliched
And the I had trouble rooting for the main character as his development was a little inconsistant and rushed at the end
However this movie has also got an amazing cast of actors who I think save this movie
And I would say pretty much all of them
Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Robin Williams, Minnie Driver, Stellan Skarsgård and all the supporting actors
They all deliver great performances and easily take what was a kinda underwhelming script and deliver a good movie
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I did not find Minnie Driver's character compelling at all and just seemed out of place as a love interest for the lead.
 
The East

Starring Brit Marling (Another Earth), Ellen Page, and Alexander Skarsgard. Marling plays an agent of of a private corporate security outfit who infiltrates an anarchist/environmental terrorist group. She starts out dutifully reporting back to her bosses, but eventually starts to sympathize with her marks.

I really wanted to like it, because Marling is just captivating on screen, but it just fell flat. It was supposed to be a thriller but was rarely thrilling.

4/10
 
The Last of Robin Hood (6/10) 2013

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2450440/

The film is about Errol Flynn´s last year before he died. In this year he developed a relationship with a 15 year old dancer. Kevin Kline plays a convincing Errol. An utter and complete douchebag. Susan Sarandon plays a fantastic alcoholic mother who tosses her daughter to the wolves in order to get to rub shoulders with celebrities. The material should produce a fantastic movie. It´s all there. I still didn´t think it was awesome. It´s hard to put my finger on exactly what. But it´s something in the dramaturgy. They fail to build tension and drama. So it just becomes a group of people doing stuff, and then one of them dies. A shame.

I do recommend reading up on Errol Flynn. He is a remarkable individual with an amazing life story. He really was an awful awful person. Morally debauched in every way. A huge child who only cared about pleasure and being famous. He was the man who had everything but still managed to feel sorry for himself because he didn´t have more. He´s the perfect poster boy for, absolute power corrupts absolutely. Here´s a good documentary:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzFcq61GGw8
 
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