The Cinema / Rate the last movie you saw

[Ace Flibble]

And luckily, now, The Hobbit!

's a'ight.

[vJ!]

Watched Moneyball.
The movie was all great and stuff but

Spoiler!

why did the end song had the lines, "You're such a loser, Dad."

[ZombiePlatypus]

Because Clint Eastwood is such a loser.

Duh.

[Celi]

Finally saw the Hobbit, and it was good! Haven't seen or read LotR yet, but I have read the Hobbit, and for obvious reasons I was expecting it to be full of fluffy filler. It was full of filler but the filler was mostly either great action scenes tied into the story well, stuff that's leading up to LotR, or stuff about the Necromancer, who was mentioned only in passing in the book and, I'm assuming, has some larger role in LotR. Also, I absolutely love the guy who plays Bilbo. And Gandalf.

[ZombiePlatypus]

I finished watching 'Dredd' last night, having started it the night before. I dug it, but the whole thing felt very "cheap" overall. The sets, the effects, the actors that weren't "names". It seemed like a low budget affair from the '80s with a modern spit-shine. This is fine with me, but I just don't think they used their money effectively if it cost between forty-five and fifty million to make.

'Dredd' has been compared to 'The Raid', and for obvious reasons. The basic plot is the same, cops need to get to the top of a run down apartment building to kill a gang leader. There's even a big fight in a drug lab towards the end of both flicks. It just so happens that in one movie our lead cop is Judge Dredd, while in the other it's a relatively unknown martial artist. The point is, the movies really had the same scale, but 'Dredd' was had a few "names" and layer upon layer of CGI and pointless 3D stacked on top. Not to mention the "slo-mo" drug plot device which comes across as a gimmick made just to further enable the 3D gimmick. So the flick without all the gaudy "enhancements" ended up costing well below two million and to me was the better, and more entertaining, movie.

I'm not shitting on 'Dredd', not really. I liked the movie, honest! I like Carl Urban. I just think that for all of it's attempts to feel big, it came across as cheap compared to the smaller film that knew exactly what it was.

[umberhulk]

Finally saw Skyfall. Hands down the best Bond film ever made. So fucking much. Only criticism I can accept is pacing, but that is for people who care too much about film structure who are not me.

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Great movie. But M's sins feel too much like an after thought, and they pull a massive punch during the trial. Instead M's last scene in the film was awkward.

Casino Royale > Skyfall > Goldeneye

[Sir Legendhead]

Great movie. But M's sins feel too much like an after thought, and they pull a massive punch during the trial. Instead M's last scene in the film was awkward.

I saw this and was sure you were talking about the movie M.



...and then I posted the whole thing because it's awesome

[Gorilla Gravy]

'Dredd' has been compared to 'The Raid', and for obvious reasons.

Keep in mind that Dredd was in the works for years and an early draft of the script was leaked onto the net around '07/'08, long before The Raid was made.

[ZombiePlatypus]

Keep in mind that Dredd was in the works for years and an early draft of the script was leaked onto the net around '07/'08, long before The Raid was made.

I'm not saying that one rips off the other, just that they are essentially the same plot-wise. Which makes the "trying too hard but coming up short" feeling of 'Dredd''s scenery and effects hurt it more when compared to the micro-budgeted 'The Raid'.

Again, I like 'em both, but 'Dredd' felt like the lesser movie.

[Panzadolphin56]

What did you watch it on ZP? DVD?

[ZombiePlatypus]

BluRay.

[umberhulk]

Most movies are lesser compared to The Raid.

[GlowBear]

Watched the Exam last night. Was ok, bit frustrating though and I'm not sure if it pulled off being as smart as it wanted too.

[Aaron Mxy Yost]

Watched Rubber, and it's exactly as insane as you'd expect from a movie about a telekinetic tire that goes on a murder spree.

[Stevil]

Most movies are lesser compared to The Raid.

Unless it's Die Hard.

Watched Rubber, and it's exactly as insane as you'd expect from a movie about a telekinetic tire that goes on a murder spree.

And twice as boring!

[GlowBear]

I can't believe how pretentious a film about a murderous tyre, was.

[Stevil]

If I hadn't gone to film school, I probably would have thought it was the bees knees, but you see so much of this shit in uni that it was another one for the slush pile. Seriously, when the time came, I had to sit through a dozen of these movies a day and couldn't leave because my overwrought emo movie was usually last on the list.

[ZombiePlatypus]

I didn't go to film school, and I knew I didn't like it. I loved the opening monologue, but I was not a fan of the rest of the flick.

[Stevil]

Yeah, it felt like a 15 minute short that outstayed its welcome after the second killing. It's not even good at being a horror movie, either. There's zero tension in every scene.

I hated the audience part, too. I got the irony (we're watching them as they watch the movie), but it was so unsubtle compared something like Lady Vengeance (the parents = the movie's audience) that I finally switched off when they woke out of their sleeping bags.

I went back to it, months later, and skipped to the end. I don't think I missed much.

[ZombiePlatypus]

I did kinda like when they poisoned the audience, but that was too little too late. The movie as a whole just didn't work.