Rate The Last Movie You Saw

[Dax Declan]

The Purge. 1/5. The idea was amazing. The plot was STUPID. "Hey lets stab this homless dude like 5 times the decide to NOT turn him in to the crazys raiding my house. Even though he just pistol whipped my daughter and caused the death of her boyfriend. " 
Spoiler to ending.

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The endimg was the WORST. The neighbors walk in and kill all the people who want the homeless guy dead. But they show up too late and the dad dies, then theyre like ''YOURE OURS. WERE GONNA CLEANSE OUR SOULS ON YOU'' Then the homless guy kills one and saves the day.

[anoni]

The Imitation Game 8.5/10

  Very good movie! It's about Alan Turing, the founder of computing, as he designs the very first computer for the military to decipher the "unbreakable" German enigma machine. It's a very interesting experience, full of struggles and hardships, then achievement and success. However, Alan Turing is another tale of genius man, who did so much for society, getting the short end of the stick.

Definitely recommend.

[MrRazot]

Maze Runner 9/10
Action, suspense, mystery, etc
Very very good

Catching Fire 7.5/10
Love the movies and hate the books. The movie could be so much more if the plot didn't have to be focused on the love interests of Katnis.

[anoni]

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) 9.0/10

  It isn't often that I leave a theater feeling "Wow", in fact I haven't done that in probably more than a year, yet this film managed to get that response from me. So before I start, I must say this is an arts film, it's an arty film but it's a fantastic film none-the-less, it is in watchmojo's words "The Art film artists response to the super hero movie craze". So the movie is strange in a lot of ways, like it can be a bit off-putting at first because it's strange, for example the entire film is made to appear it as all one long scene. Like, normally in a movie you'll have cuts, you might go from one camera angle to the next to the next, well in this film you look through one camera and don't stop looking through that camera until the end of the film (but the camera of course moves around). Now you might go "Well I guess that means the film takes place in real time", but you'd be wrong! It wasn't ACTUALLY taken in one shot, it is just made to appear that way and even going through this one-shot-like method you still have clever transitions from day to night, from past to future and so forth. The camera work is excellent because of this, it's very unique though, because you're not getting a cut you feel like you ALWAYS have to be paying attention and can be a bit stunting at first.

  This film also has relatively unexplained surreal moments where  things that aren't physically possible occur, but it's done in a way that's interesting. The film has a lot of DEPTH to it, it's a critic on the movie industry as a whole, it attacks actors, directors, producers, critics, the audience and everyone. It's a movie that you can't just watch the surface, it has so much deep stuff to it it's really clever and really well done. I definitely recommend this terrific movie.

[Trixsie Vixen]

I really want to see this film and the more I here the more I want to, but I am curious if you think it is a "Big Screen Movie" Anoni?

[anoni]

What do you mean by "Big Screen Movie"? Like a movie you'd watch in the big screen as oppose to like a TV or something?

Yeah, I'd so say, I mean I watched it in theaters and the experience was very good.

[Trixsie Vixen]

Yeah, I so rarely get to the cinema, I've become too fussy...

[MrRazot]

Saint Young Men: The Movie 10/10


A Japanese Animated feature-length comedy where Jesus and Buddha take a year long holiday in Japan.
I loved the humour in this film: from Buddha being tight-fisted with his cash and the revelation that Jesus has no idea how to swim.
All in all, it was lighthearted and was a pleasure on the eyes. I even found myself laughing profusely more than once.
Well worth a watch!

[Cifero Windtail]

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies


The third and final installment of the Hobbit trilogy, this movie was damn amazing. The filmmakers took the last five to six chapters of J.R.R. Tolkien's acclaimed book and managed to create a visual and emotional masterpiece which can bring tears to the eyes as much as it brings a feeling of excitement, even for those who have read the book and know how it's going to end. I actually watched The Desolation of Smaug right before going to see the new film and it was an amazing experience all in all. However, I am very glad that I did not go to see Desolation in theaters, because, being arachnophobic, I screamed when the spiders came on the scene of my mother's portable  DVD player (Our normal DVD player is broken). All three movies are exceptional, and are worthy of the name "The Hobbit" despite some slight changes to the plot to include some hidden LOTR lore and a new story which runs through the second and third movies. Anyway, check the whole Hobbit/LOTR series out, if you're into the medieval fantasy. You won't be sorry.

[anoni]

In contrast to Cifero's review, I had a very different opinion (but as someone who hasn't read the books).

The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies 6.4/10

  To sum this movie up, it is a two hour conclusion, that is the last part of the movie, the end, well this one goes for two hours. The movie has the great style, acting and general fantasy setting as you probably were hoping for a lord of the rings movie, but there are problems in it. The first problem is (and perhaps I'd put this in spoiler warnings, but it happens so early on in the movie, that there's barely any need), Smaug dies at the very beginning of the movie. That's right, two movies of epic introduction, he's finally going to **censor** some shit up and you're getting ready for this giant action scene and BOOM, he dies, almost immediately, I was very surprised. The rest of the 2 hour movie details the aftermath of all that's happened, which can basically be summed up as a fight scene. I mean, the movie has a straight 45 minute block of fighting, like NOTHING but fighting and war, no real dialogue or exposition, it's all just swords, arrows, fire and what-not, it's basically chaos. The movie is like a firework show, it may seem amazing while you there, but when you leave you leave with nothing really to think about, you leave unsatisfied. And when the fireworks keep going even after 45 minutes, you get bored of them and they become stale. Same scenario with this movie I thought. The Hobbit was originally meant to be only 2 movies and I can see why, the first two movies were fantastic, but this movie let them down by just being a movie that is almost entirely filler. That's my opinion.

[anoni]

American Sniper: 5.7/10

  War movies can do one of two things, they can either be awesome action romps with drama and dramatic scenes or they can be powerful political messages about the impact of war, American Sniper attempts to do both and spectacularly fails on both fronts. So lets do the rest of the review portraying each side of a war movie and describing how American sniper does such a poor job in conveying it.

  1. The Action side of war:
    American Snipers action was, quite frankly, boring. There was one scene, near the beginning of a movie, where the protagonist sniper (who is based on a real person) has to decide whether to shoot a kid or not, that was very dramatic and quite powerful. After that scene you see basically an hour of the sniper shooting people, no significant gore or impact, no good or realistic sound effects, not even really good camera work, it's just one guy shooting and another guy falling down, for the rest of the movie. Action either needs to be ridiculously over the top with gore and explosions and chaos (like Rambo) or tense, dramatic and scary (like Hurtlocker) and American sniper does neither. The movie just becomes a ridiculous shooting gallery with almost no impact of the bullets or anything, I found myself almost falling asleep through some of the action scenes because they just felt that generic. I didn't feel excited about explosions, nor did I feel tense and on the edge of my seat, its action was just boring.

  2. The Horror side of war:
    American sniper is not like Generation kill, Full metal Jacket or Apocalypse now, it is not about the horrors of war. The movie is summed up with one line near the beginning, "There are sheeps, who are naive and vulnerable, there are wolves who attack the sheep and there are sheep dogs who protect the sheep from the wolves". Well in this movie, EVERY iraqi is a wolf, they are all TERRORISTS and they all SHOULD BE STOPPED. So in comes our sheep dog, the American sniper, to stop all the evil muslims from destroying our sheep, but who are the sheep? The sheep is us, the people who question the war, even if they're soldiers fighting in the war, if you're unsure whether violence is the answer, WELL it looks like your a vulnerable, naive sheep and need to be protected by the sheep-dog from all the terrorists. That's the message this movie is trying to convey, it's a terrible message that basically believes in a black and white world where "IRAQIS ARE EVIL AND AMERICANS ARE GOOD, AND IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE US YOU'RE A NAIVE SHEEP WHO NEEDS PROTECTING". Seriously, if you're wondering whether this movie will have any sort of moral ambiguity in it, it doesn't, even that one scene where the kid is killed, it is showed explicitly and very matter-of-factly that if the kid wasn't killed than he would of killed all the marines, it would of been better if he had to struggle with that decision. What's even more insulting is how they MAKE UP STUFF about the Iraq war to make it more sympathetic to the American side, like that 9/11 was the reason the Iraq war was initiated, NOT threats of WMDs.

  I really didn't like the movie, it was boring and way too "MURRICA" for me.

[MrRazot]

Imitation Game - 8.5
Great movie that frames the stresses of a genius and the pressure of war.
Loses points for funny English Accents and despite the awe the movie puts you in, it's fairly predictable until it takes an unpredictable turn in the narrative and becomes predictable again.

American Sniper - 7.5
Also great movie. I don't get the same message from it as Anoni.
At first he joined to be a true patriot, but war changed him and he saw how terrible war was and how it changed everyone.
Loses points for not really bringing anything too new to the table.

Kill the Messenger - 6
Watch if you want to be a journalist, otherwise don't be a journalist.

DREAD - 9
I am the law.
Great action movie that has everything you could ever need. I love how much of a bad ass Dredd is.
Loses points for being a potential generic action movie.

[Trixsie Vixen]

The Odd Life of Timothy Green. - 1


A childless couple wish for a child and get a ten year old with magical leaves on his ankles that fall off every time he does a special thing for people.  Eventually all his leaves are gone and he returns to wherever he came from.


I was always gonna be a sentimental film and require a suspension of disbelief.


That's fine, so was Dumbo.


But this was the lamest crap I have ever seen, it was so badly executed, failing to hit the emotional notes required and with such a pedestrian script I would expect better from the dullest child.


I felt sorry for the actors who probably thought the premise was a fresh one.  Which it is.


So awful, I would rather watch infomercial repeats than see this film again.

[kalan]

Jupiter ascending

It has a whole lot of furry in it even the hero is a furry and there is one point that had a mobile gundam feel to it. The details of the plot line are a little hard to follow at times and im not really sure what channing tatum's characters back story is but i've figured out he's some kinda space werewolf. The visual effects however were awsome and the scale of the worlds and enviroments was epic. All in all the movie sin count can be offset abit by the fact channing runs around for a good twenty minutes without his shirt on bring this movie in at a

8/10

[TheEndIsNearUs]

C.R.A.Z.Y: 8 / 10

Very interesting film! I literally just finished it a half hour ago. It's a slice of life comedy / drama about the second youngest out of five brothers and his relationship with himself and his family. Subtle symbolism, realistic characters, and quite a bit of irony. Main complaint is that

Spoiler for Hidden:

the main character doesn't officially end up with anyone romantically at the end after he spends most of the movie trying to cope with the fact that he's gay, but it makes sense I suppose since it's about him finding himself, not someone else, but it would have been nice to see him get together with someone, partially because I just like romance.

But, as I said, I can see why that happened so it doesn't dampen my enoyment of the movie much. Definitely a film for more mature audiences; quite a bit of sex and drugs. Also, it's Canadian, and if you don't speak French you'll probably want subtitles.