Recently watched movies!

[MekaGojira3k]

Watched Robocop and Robocop 2 for the first time since childhood.
Robocop 2 was just as dumb as I recall.
I liked Robocop well enough, nothing spectacular, but I like it.

I've never seen Robocop 3, but I thought I'd watch it anyway and finish off the trilogy.

[Dr Kain]

The Boondock Saints - One of my friends brought this over since we had never seen it before and it was pretty good. It isn't anywhere near being one of my favorite movies, but it was definitely worth seeing and maybe a repeated viewing several years from now. I really like the way the movie was done with having the crime scenes investigated BEFORE we actually saw what happened in them, especially the last one where we saw them combined. The ending was good and the movie had some great dialog in it. Overall, I'd give it a 7/10.

[jellydonut25]

[klen7]

I remember liking it quite a bit when it came out. Not sure how its aged though.

[XvGojira]

I've found it to be a fairly polarizing movie. It's very popular for being an action heavy with a veneer of smarts. Some find it pretentious. Those how love it tend to over hype it to others. I was thrown to it blindly and found it fun. Hell its worth a watch just for Dafoe in drag.

I'm not sure if it was the success of the first film or not, but the director is apparently a giant pompous ass.

[jellydonut25]

[jellydonut25]

All is Lost - I was all prepared to just ignore this movie, but then it was getting rave reviews and I figured I'd check it out. It stinks. The crux of the movie is that we're supposed to buy into a guy who is an experienced sailor with the ability to run a sizable sailboat on his own, who can use a sextant after a brief refresher, and had solid survival skills would do some of the following things: have no water-proof communications devices on his boat, patch a hole in his boat using duct tape, leave his boat to fend for itself by going below deck during a storm, wait until the middle of a storm that he saw coming to switch out his main sail to a storm jib, and many more stupid decisions, poor pieces of equipment and lack of preparedness WHILE SAILING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE OCEAN!

Boo. Boo, I say.

Blue is the Warmest Color - Awful. I've seen better porn, and this bordered on porn, and porn isn't 3 hours long.

[Dr Kain]

[jellydonut25]

[eabaker]

[XvGojira]

[eabaker]

Watched a couple of flicks over the weekend.

Watched Mrs. Brown on Friday night. That was a damned fine flick. Judi Dench as Queen Victoria may be the most obvious piece of casting in the history of cinema (alongside Geoffrey Palmer playing - gasp! - a stuffy bureaucrat), but that's hardly a bad thing, and Billy Connolly was downright fantastic - I've been a fan since he took over Head of the Class, but I really didn't know he had that in him. And it's one of those rare movies featuring Gerard Butler where he's not clearly too good for the material.

Watched The Amityville Horror (1979) last night. I know, I know, it's absurd that I hadn't seen it before, considering that the movie came out the same year that I did... Anyway, it had a lot of really good individual moments/sequences, things that have really stuck in my head into today, some wonderful atmosphere, great use of of sound, excellent performances, and fantastic photography and editing. However, structurally, it has some big issues. There are developments that should completely alter the flow of the narrative, and then just... don't, and there are threads that never tie back. Pretty good, definitely unnerving, very glad to have finally seen it, and there's definitely a lot to love in the style of it.

[jellydonut25]

Dallas Buyers Club - It never quite packs the emotional punch you feel that it should. Something's missing, and I think it's the score, which is basically just an occasional high-pitched whistle whenever Matthew McConaughey gets a really bad headache. The ending is also very lacking and it's almost a comically one-sided film. The performances all-around are great and it's certainly interesting and entertaining enough, but it left me rather cold.

[Dr Kain]

[klen7]

Didn't Mr Banks suffer from the backlash of being considered pretty revisionist?

[jellydonut25]

[jellydonut25]

ABCs of Death –It’s a helluva an idea to give everyone involved complete artistic freedom, but then I think it’s the producers’ responsibility to find directors who have similar-ish voices and styles. I think my biggest issue is that at times it really doesn’t feel like the ABCs of Death….rather like the death is just a tacked on afterthought the director did to make the movie fit in with being in a movie with this title. Take for example K is for Klutz. It’s a segment about a woman trying to flush her poo. It’s amusing I suppose, but at the end, the death is that the poo shoots itself back up her butt and she dies. That’s not to say all the funny ones are bad or anything (I loved H is for Hydro-Electric Diffusion), or all the serious ones are good (P is for Pressure is pretty lame and overlong for what it amounts to, and again one where the death feels like it was just tacked on)….just that some of these work really well and others feel like the directors didn’t understand the kind of mini-film they should have done

[Dr Kain]

[XvGojira]

So I watched The Croods the other night because there was nothing else to do before the Beatles thing on TV. I saw the ads and even though it has my main man Nic in it, it didn't look all that interesting. But it was great. Vibrant and funny and a score from Alan Silvestri that actually reminded me of old school Silvestri scores. Guess I should have looked at who directed it before dismissing it, Chris Sanders usually hits the mark with his films.

[lhb412]

The Ladykillers (1955)

A bunch of crooks posing as musicians (Alec Guinness! Peter Sellers! Herbert Lom!) use a sweet old lady's room from rent as their HQ in order to pull off a daring heist, but when said old lady discovers what's going on things get really crazy.

This is a great film. Great acting, smart, wonderfully photographed, and it has one of the best endings of any movie ever. The last ten minutes are just about perfection.

[KJ Corp]

I recently watched Robocop 2014, I haven't seen the original but [b]In my opinion[b] it was so awesome! Much better than most superheroe movies. Everybody killed it in their roles, Sam Jackson kicked off and ended the movie perfectly. I saw few flaws and the 1 human hand doesn't bother me. Feel free to disagree.

[lhb412]

^The reason fans of the original Robocop have been hesitant to even give the new one a chance is because the original was very harsh (violent and profane worthy of its R rating and the entire movie colored by an incredibly dark sense of humor) and they feel, correctly, that the remake has been whitewashed to make it nicer and more acceptable (and PG-13).

Even though it's gotten some good reviews I don't think the remake will ever escape this resentment from fans and critics.

[jellydonut25]

I won't be seeing it because while there are few franchises where I feel like the MPAA rating matters, Robocop what ain't rated R ain't Robocop.

[KJ Corp]

^haha! This movie is rated R, for Robocop. On a serious note, i'm going to go watch the original when i get my hand on it. +Question, are there nude scenes in the original or is it just bloody violence?

[XvGojira]