Topic: Rate the last movie you just saw.

[superdave]

The Fly  9 out 10

It's a classic, but hadn't watched it in years. It holds up really well, despite the big hair it's a fairly timeless story. Gina Davis, rawr, such a foxy and classy lady.

I don't remember if i ever posted about this but I watched it a few months ago for the first time in a while.  Very good movie.  They do a great job of making the story about the people first and the monster second.

[teethering]

Chronicle

I'm really tempted to give this one a 10 out of 10.  I don't remember the last time I was engrossed in a movie this much.  I liked the characters, I liked the conflict, I liked the things that were left unsaid.  It's damn near perfect.

There's apparently a sequel in the works and I have mixed feelings about that.  I don't think you can do another movie like that, but I sure wish they could.

[Karyn]

The Wrath of Kahn:  7/10.  We went to see this in the theater.  Their copy was clearly several old, worn copies that had been spliced together.  The seams were disappointingly obvious.  The title screen, which was supposed to be black, was faded red.  All the colors were going brown.  The sound effects were extremely loud, while the voices were extremely quiet.  Seeing it in a sold out old-style theater surrounded by Trekkie nerds, many in costume, made up for most of that.  The movie its self:  excellent acting, excellent psychology, piles of plot holes, a little slow at times and where the fuck did the planet and sun come from in the middle of that nebula at the end?

[Vincegamer]

they came FROM the nebula.
A lot of people seem to miss this.
Kirk and Kahn are flying around in that dust cloud that blocks their sensors and Kirk fatally damages Kahn's ship then Kahn releases the Genesis device. Kirk hightails it out of there.
The Genesis device goes off and creates a massive gravitational field that pulls all of the dust of the nebula together into a star and planet (maybe not the entire nebula, but enough - since that's what nebula do: give birth to stars)
In the end there's a star and planet where there used to be dust.

Kirk shoots Spok's body into the void but the coffin gets caught in the Genesis gravitational field and lands on the newly formed planet that Kirk didn't yet know was there.

[Karyn]

they came FROM the nebula.
A lot of people seem to miss this.
Kirk and Kahn are flying around in that dust cloud that blocks their sensors and Kirk fatally damages Kahn's ship then Kahn releases the Genesis device. Kirk hightails it out of there.
The Genesis device goes off and creates a massive gravitational field that pulls all of the dust of the nebula together into a star and planet (maybe not the entire nebula, but enough - since that's what nebula do: give birth to stars)
In the end there's a star and planet where there used to be dust.

I figured that's what it was, but that's some seriously bad physics, especially the bit about the sun.  What, it created 2 gravitational voids, appropriate distances apart, in just the right mass ratios, and THEN magically created the centrifugal force to get the system spinning that would need to happen to have life survive?  If they thought all that shit could happen, why were they looking for a dead planet in the first place?  That's even worse science than Fringe and The Day After Tomorrow put together.  I'm going to have to take off a point for that.

[Eternally Learning]

That's funny, they just talked about this on [ur=http://transporterroom3.blogspot.com/l]Transporter Room 3[/url] and the general consensus seems to be that the precise mechanism for star and planet creation in such a way as to allow for life was writers not giving a shit.  Everything about the Genesis planet, from creation to destruction, makes no sense.  In fact, I think that its quick destruction is about the only thing that does make any sense.  My theory was that the sun was the same one Regula was orbiting since it seemed to be a long distance away from the Genesis planet.

[Eternally Learning]

Citizen Kane - 8/10

This was a really, really tough one for me to review having never seen it before and not really being familiar with it other than it topping a great many lists of the best films of all time.  Wells was excellent in it I thought and really stands out from the rest of the cast in talent and sheer gravitas, but the others were very good as well.  I particularly enjoyed the method he chose for exploring Kane's life in both conception and execution.  It was an especially nice touch to see the people's current perspective compared with their earlier versions.  I also enjoyed the famous ending and the many messages it relayed.  Still, the pacing was a little slow and some parts of it were a little melodramatic, but I guess that was par for the course at this point in time.  It's certainly not for everyone in this modern audience, but it's nice to have a movie not talking down to me and not being just plain mindless.

[Vincegamer]

That's funny, they just talked about this on [ur=http://transporterroom3.blogspot.com/l]Transporter Room 3[/url] and the general consensus seems to be that the precise mechanism for star and planet creation in such a way as to allow for life was writers not giving a shit.  Everything about the Genesis planet, from creation to destruction, makes no sense.  In fact, I think that its quick destruction is about the only thing that does make any sense.  My theory was that the sun was the same one Regula was orbiting since it seemed to be a long distance away from the Genesis planet.

oh, that could be. I was going to suggest the Genesis device was a time bending device. It made things develop at phenomenally accelerated rate and Kahn pushed it to 11

[EhJayArr]

Tropic Thunder - 8/10

Pretty goddamned funny.

[superdave]

Tropic Thunder - 8/10

Pretty goddamned funny.

It could have been better, but it was a solid comedy.

[David E.]

Tropic Thunder - 8/10

Pretty goddamned funny.

A movie that was funny in spite of Ben Stiller.

[SQ the ΣΛ/IGMд]

Tropic Thunder - 8/10

Pretty goddamned funny.

A movie that was funny in spite of Ben Stiller.

 
I <3 Ben

[seamas]

Blood Mania (1970) 3/10
This is a pretty trashy thriller. I was expecting a little more horror, psycho killers, or maybe vampires or something. Each time my wife walked in the room, one of the actresses was removing her blouse, taking a bath, skinny dipping or knockin' boots with the lead actor. Trivia: the lead actress in this flick also played Creedo in Star Wars. Though it pains me to say this, I will admit that Star Wars is a better movie than Blood Mania. Only slightly so, because this movie has lots of boobage, where the only boobs in Star Wars are Luke, Jawas and C3PO.

[seamas]

Citizen Kane - 8/10

This was a really, really tough one for me to review having never seen it before and not really being familiar with it other than it topping a great many lists of the best films of all time.  Wells was excellent in it I thought and really stands out from the rest of the cast in talent and sheer gravitas, but the others were very good as well.  I particularly enjoyed the method he chose for exploring Kane's life in both conception and execution.  It was an especially nice touch to see the people's current perspective compared with their earlier versions.  I also enjoyed the famous ending and the many messages it relayed.  Still, the pacing was a little slow and some parts of it were a little melodramatic, but I guess that was par for the course at this point in time.  It's certainly not for everyone in this modern audience, but it's nice to have a movie not talking down to me and not being just plain mindless.

I can't take my eyes off that movie. 10/10 for me.

[teethering]

Citizen Kane - 8/10

This was a really, really tough one for me to review having never seen it before and not really being familiar with it other than it topping a great many lists of the best films of all time.  Wells was excellent in it I thought and really stands out from the rest of the cast in talent and sheer gravitas, but the others were very good as well.  I particularly enjoyed the method he chose for exploring Kane's life in both conception and execution.  It was an especially nice touch to see the people's current perspective compared with their earlier versions.  I also enjoyed the famous ending and the many messages it relayed.  Still, the pacing was a little slow and some parts of it were a little melodramatic, but I guess that was par for the course at this point in time.  It's certainly not for everyone in this modern audience, but it's nice to have a movie not talking down to me and not being just plain mindless.

I can't take my eyes off that movie. 10/10 for me.

Yeah, it's one of the movie-buff movies which I think is actually worthy of its reputation.