Rate the last movie you saw please

[TMI]

Have you seen Kung fury??

no. but with your 12/10, i definitely will now

[Dipstik]

It's on demand on Netflix. You WONT be disappointed!

[sister morphine]

Gamera vs. Barugon (1966) 7/10

Mindless fun daikaiju eiga movie. :-)

[The Movie Critic]

Trumbo: 6/10

[The Movie Critic]

The Big Short: 7/10
Steve Jobs: 8/10

[The Movie Critic]

The Iceman: 7/10
Insidious: Chapter 2: 6/10

[The Movie Critic]

Paranoia: 5/10

[The Movie Critic]

The Last Stand: 6/10
Machete Kills: 4/10

[Max Power]

The Last Stand: 6/10
Machete Kills: 4/10

I am disappointed in your Machete review.

[Dipstik]

I want to hear tmc's review of Kung fury

[The Movie Critic]

I am disappointed in your Machete review.

It's dumb fun and the OTT violence makes it pretty hilarious actually, but other than that it's pretty awful.


2 Guns: 7/10
The Family: 5/10
The Conjuring: 8/10
Nebraska: 8/10

[Max Power]

It's dumb fun and the OTT violence makes it pretty hilarious actually, but other than that it's pretty awful.



The awfulness is part of the schtick, and largely why I enjoyed it.

[sister morphine]

The awfulness is part of the schtick, and largely why I enjoyed it.
Absolutely. I've not seen 'Machete Kills' but loved 'Machete' for the same reasons. It's a 'grindhouse' movie, not Citizen Kane! :D

[The Movie Critic]

The awfulness is part of the schtick, and largely why I enjoyed it.

True, true but sometimes it was a bit too much. I enjoyed the Machete Kills Again......In Space! fake trailer at the beginning. I will admit I may have been a bit harsh with my rating. It's one of those so bad it's good movies.


Batman v Superman: 7/10, the critical thrashing was a bit excessive. I went in expecting it to suck and it didn't so I guess that must've inflated my score for it.

[sister morphine]

Gamera vs. Gayaos (1967) 7/10

Standard Japanese giant monster movie fare. Gayaos is a bit cheap, but some of the battle scenes are excellent.

Gamera vs. Viras (1968) 4/10

By contrast this fourth outing for the giant turtle is pretty dreadful. It's 86 minutes long, of which around a quarter is footage recycled from the previous three films in the series. Also far too much pre-pubescent kids running around shouting "Gamera" and some hapless attempts at comedy. Four out of ten might be generous!

[The Movie Critic]

Her: 10/10
Pain & Gain: 8/10

[DragCro]

Hunger Games:
Last movie:

The plot was terrible.I expected more from the movie itself.

My rating: 4/10

[The Movie Critic]

American Hustle: 8/10
The Place Beyond the Pines: 9/10

[PC77]

Batman V Superman 5/10
Very disappointed with it. Unlike you, I went in expecting it to be excellent and it failed IMO. Biggest flaw was Affleck as Batman, didn't work for me. It had almost impossible job of following the last 2 Batman movies to be fair but didn't even come a mile close to them
One +, Wonder Woman was hot

[Max Power]

Batman V Superman 5/10
Very disappointed with it. Unlike you, I went in expecting it to be excellent and it failed IMO. Biggest flaw was Affleck as Batman, didn't work for me. It had almost impossible job of following the last 2 Batman movies to be fair but didn't even come a mile close to them
One +, Wonder Woman was hot

Not sure why you had high expectations. Almost universally, the press and critics warned you not too.

[Evan1000]

Deadpool: 9/10

They did great considering the budget they had

[PC77]

Not sure why you had high expectations. Almost universally, the press and critics warned you not too.

Truthfully didn't see or hear a single review of it before I went to see it. Just annoying to have waited so long to see it for it to be a letdown

[The Movie Critic]

The Collection: 1/10
The Dictator: 6/10
Safety Not Guaranteed: 7/10

[The Movie Critic]

99 Homes: 9/10
Project X: 6/10

[Dipstik]

The man with the iron fists (2012): 6/10

Needed moar boobs.

[Rodimus]

HARDCORE Henry 10/10

An action packed 1st person thrill ride of nonstop action!

[The Movie Critic]

Creed: 7/10

[Dipstik]

Ant Man: 5/10. It's as bad as the comic books.

[The Movie Critic]

Nazis at the Center of the Earth: 2/10

Something I learned from this movie: You can use an aborted baby's stem cells to create Mecha Hitler.

[Dipstik]

And that's why I'm pro-life!

[The Movie Critic]

Compliance: 8/10

[The Movie Critic]

In the Heart of the Sea: 7/10
Back to the Future Part II: 8/10
Back to the Future Part III: 8/10

[Dipstik]

Dudes and Dragons: 3/10 - I kept waiting for some sign that this movie understood it was a parody, but I'm still not sure it knew that.

[The Movie Critic]

Ashby: 7/10

[Dipstik]

Terminator genesis. 5/10. Guess they got sick of trying to work within the timeline and they're just making movies about killer robots now.

[Red BD]

I don't watch movies anymore all I do is play Crime City

[The Movie Critic]

Escape Plan: 7/10

[Max Power]

John Wick 7/10

Very formulaic, Keanu can't act, but it is my kind of formula, so 7 it is.

[The Movie Critic]

Captain America: Civil War: 7/10

[Max Power]

Man from UNCLE. 8/10

liked this waaay more then I thought I would. Its a period piece, I had no idea. And Alicia Vikander is absolutely delicious.

[Dipstik]

Captain America Civil War: wtf?

[LüK€¥]

Captain America-Civil War 9/10

9/10 cos I went to toilet and missed like 5 mins of it

[Max Power]

Saw Ant Man over the weekend on free download. It was better than I though, so I will reluctantly give it a 7/10, mostlly because Evangaline Lilly is so friggin fine.

[Dipstik]

I imagine the brainstorming session for Civil War went something like this: "Hey you know what would be cool? If we had the Avengers fight each other!" "Yeah... how would we set that up?" "Does it really matter?"

Seriously... without going into details that would involve spoilers, there was absolutely no plot development to support any of that infighting. The whole movie was based on an unsupported premise. Beyond that, yeah... cool fight scenes, bro.

[Max Power]

I imagine the brainstorming session for Civil War went something like this: "Hey you know what would be cool? If we had the Avengers fight each other!" "Yeah... how would we set that up?" "Does it really matter?"

Seriously... without going into details that would involve spoilers, there was absolutely no plot development to support any of that infighting. The whole movie was based on an unsupported premise. Beyond that, yeah... cool fight scenes, bro.

I was worried about that to some extent, and it is why I am less enthusiastic about this one than any of them. I understand the upcoming X-Men is even worse, just a contest to see how many super heroes you can fit onto one set.

I also think the last Avengers was a step down from the first one. The robot villain did nothing for me.

[The Movie Critic]

The Orphanage: 7/10

[Dipstik]

If you've ever read the comic books, you'd know that the movie version of ultron was about a 1000% improvement over the actual character. His comic book persona is the equivalent of a futurama killbot chanting "kill all humans."

[Max Power]

If you've ever read the comic books, you'd know that the movie version of ultron was about a 1000% improvement over the actual character. His comic book persona is the equivalent of a futurama killbot chanting "kill all humans."

Perhaps. I haven't read comic books in over 40 years.

[Dipstik]

Your loss. Go pick up the "infinity gauntlet" crossover series before the movie comes out.

[Dipstik]

Zoolander: Gets better every time.

[sister morphine]

Lifeboat (Alfred Hitchcock, 1944) - 8/10 under-appreciated classic by Hitch

Scarface (Howard Hawks, 1932) - 8/10

[Dipstik]

Wasn't scarface done by Howard Hughes? I only know that from watching the aviator (5/10)

[sister morphine]

Wasn't scarface done by Howard Hughes? I only know that from watching the aviator (5/10)
Hughes hired Hawks! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Hawks

[Dipstik]

Not a movie, but I saw the Book of Mormon yesterday. Funny, but not as clever as I expected. And don't get me wrong, I love South Park, and I thought Bigger, Longer, and Uncut was amazing, but there's something out of place about seeing south park humor (especially the toilet kind) performed live in theater with the cheapest tickets being over $100 each. I dunno... everyone was cheering and laughing, but I thought it was a little embarrassing in a couple places.

7/10.

[Dipstik]

Guess I was wrong about civil war... It was actually based on a comic book plot from 2006 or so. Wish they had fleshed it out a bit more though.

[sister morphine]

The Petrified Forest (Archie L. Mayo, 1936) - 8/10

[Max Power]

Your loss. Go pick up the "infinity gauntlet" crossover series before the movie comes out.

Meh....I publish for a living, and as such, read a LOT, so I don't really feel like I am missing out. The graphic novel category has become pretty big, adult coloring books are blowing up right now, and every city seems to have a comic con where adults dress up like Halloween in super hero costumes. It's just not my thing, seems like a whole generation of people who have no interest in growing up, and nobody is forcing them too.

Not to bag on them or anything, I like the Marvel movies and occasional video game, etc, but I do draw the line.

[Dipstik]

I buy the ones I like out of a bargain bin for a quarter apiece and read them all out of order... you don't have to be "comic book guy" to read them. A lot of the marvel titles are really good.

[sister morphine]

Bullets Or Ballots (William Keighley, 1936) - 8/10

[Dipstik]

Join the 21st century, sister...

[sister morphine]

Join the 21st century, sister...
If it's a crime to enjoy movies that aren't padded out to ridiculous length; aren't dependant on special effects to carry the thin plot (and don't have soundtracks with the reverb rammed up to maximum to make them louder, sorry LOUDER!!!!!!!), then I'm happily guilty. :)

[Max Power]

I buy the ones I like out of a bargain bin for a quarter apiece and read them all out of order... you don't have to be "comic book guy" to read them. A lot of the marvel titles are really good.

I will have to take your word for it, I have stacks of novels waiting for me to get to them. just not enough time in a day.

[sister morphine]

The Man Who Laughs (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Laughs_%281928_film%29) (Paul Leni, 1928) 8/10

No apologies for posting another old film. I was initially drawn to this one by the claim that the hideous grin carved onto the face of the title character was one inspiration behind 'The Joker' in the Batman comics, and you can definitely see that; although that's as far as it goes with that particular connection. This one is sometimes cited as being a horror film, but it's not. What it is is a melodrama, but with a gothic German expressionist visual palette, so in the same category as 'The Hunchback Of Notre Dame' and 'Phantom Of The Opera' really. Worth seeing. The acting from the principals is terrific, especially leading man Conrad Veidt who has to do most of his facial acting with eyes alone because of the large appliance over his mouth to create the grinning disfigurement.

Interesting also as a halfway house between the silent era and talkies; the film has a movietone soundtrack which features crowd noise and sound effects alongside the musical score. Dialogue is still on inter-titles.

The only real disappointment with the DVD is that it lacks the tinting of the original film. Hopefully someone will restore that sometime.

[Dirty Larry]

BLOODSPORT staring JCVD

16/10

[sister morphine]

San Quentin (Lloyd Bacon, 1937) - 8/10

Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse (Fritz Lang, 1933) - 9/10

[sister morphine]

For a change I'm revisiting classic UK sci-fi series Sapphire & Steel (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapphire_%26_Steel). For boring reasons to do with ITV franchise changes, these have never been repeated on terrestrial telly since they went out 1979-82. A shame, as they're still wonderful and wonderfully weird.

[Max Power]

Mission Impossible 5: Rogue Nation. 7/10

They only went to the stupid mask trick 1 time, Jeremy Renner had a stronger role, and Rebecca Ferguson stole the movie from Cruise, which is good for everybody involved.

Normally. the MI moves are 5/10 worthy, but for the reasons above, this one was better than most of them.

[montecore]

I would give the last movie I saw an 8/10.

[The Movie Critic]

Mean Girls: 7/10

[Vile Lynn]

Finding Nemo 10/10

[The Movie Critic]

Daddy's Home: 6/10

[sister morphine]

A Slight Case Of Murder (Lloyd Bacon 1938, 9/10)

Gangster comedy starring Edward G Robinson. Still has lol moments even after 78 years(!)

[The Movie Critic]

Legend: 7/10

[The Movie Critic]

The Angry Birds Movie: 5/10

[Max Power]

Momentum 3/10

Olga is hot, little else to like. Just plain amateurish.

[Dirty Larry]

Thread deleters 1/10

[The Movie Critic]

X-Men: Apocalypse: 7/10

[sister morphine]

Way Out West (James W. Horne, 1937) 9/10

Each Dawn I Die (William Keighley, 1939) - 8/10

Also a DVD of Disney Silly Symphonies (from 1929-39). Some have aged better than others, but the finest are 10/10 still.

[sister morphine]

City For Conquest (Anatole Litvak, 1940) - 7/10

[sister morphine]

Freaks (Tod Browning, 1932) 7/10

I'd give this a higher rating if it weren't for the flaws. The central 'little people' roles are taken by Harry Earles and his sister Daisy. They were German and although their English is perfectly good, they weren't actors by profession so much of their dialogue comes across a bit wooden; Daisy especially - she has a tendency to talk like Yoda; I suspect she was thinking her lines in German before speaking them in English, so the phrasing is odd.

Harry had been in an earlier Browning silent movie (The Hateful Three, 1925), where he's terrific I hear. He's probably best known now for his role in The Wizard Of Oz. Olga Baclanova as Cleopatra rather overacts during some of her speeches I think.

In the original uncut film, Hercules the strong-man is emasculated at the climax. That got swept away in the 30 minutes of cuts (one third of the film's uncut duration!) demanded by New York. I can't say I missed it; he is last seen scrabbling in the mud and rain with the vengeful freaks advancing on him. His uncertain fate is probably better than what would have been seen.

[name]

Deadpool 8.5/10 (You just gotta love him)
X-Men: Apocalypse, 7.5/10.

Sorry Sister, I do like LOUDER / refuse to see any movie made before the 80's. Cool that you do though (and I'm impressed that you went polite on Evan, I wouldn't be able to bring up the patience for that guy).

And Free Dippy, afaik advising people to buy henchmen is a pretty smart idea / shouldn't be moderated.

[sister morphine]

Deadpool 8.5/10 (You just gotta love him)
X-Men: Apocalypse, 7.5/10.

Sorry Sister, I do like LOUDER / refuse to see any movie made before the 80's. Cool that you do though (and I'm impressed that you went polite on Evan, I wouldn't be able to bring up the patience for that guy).

And Free Dippy, afaik advising people to buy henchmen is a pretty smart idea / shouldn't be moderated.
Hey there, I don't refuse to watch modern films, but it would be so nice if they laid off the reverb. Remember all those 80s records which are tough to listen to now because of the awful production techniques used back then; I suspect the same might happen with films if the tide should turn at some point.

Is Dippy banned still? I'm appalled. Let him out! :)

[sister morphine]

Battles Without Honour And Humanity (Kinji Fukasaku, 1973) 10/10

This film and its four sequels are sometimes called the Japanese "Godfather". A groundbreaking, documentary style Yakuza movie series based on the testament of a real Yakuza member as published in a series of articles in a newspaper. There are a lot of characters in here so I'll probably need to see it again to really get my head around everything.

[Max Power]

American Gangster: 8/10.

[xWolfSlayerx]

Dead Silence: 2/10

Horror movie, but too predictable and the dialogue was boring.

[sister morphine]

Kind Hearts And Coronets (Robert Hamer, 1949) - 10/10

Probably the most perfect of the Ealing Comedies. Not an ounce of padding, and not one but two delicious twists at the end.

[SonsOfAlex]

13 Hours - The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi 10/10. One of the best movies I've seen in a very long time.

[sister morphine]

The New World (Terrence Malick, 2005) - on first viewing 7/10 but that could easily improve. Very beautiful as with any Malick film.

[The Movie Critic]

Blade Runner: 9/10

[sister morphine]

Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941) - 10/10

[sister morphine]

To Kill A Mockingbird (Robert Mulligan, 1962) - 10/10

[sister morphine]

Ivan's Childhood (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1962) - 10/10

Tarkovsky's first 'real' film, and one he had to make with only half the allotted budget after a previous director spent the other half on footage that was rejected.

[sister morphine]

Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders, 1984) - 10/10

[sister morphine]

Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, U.S. theatrical release version 1982) - 9/10

Loses a point for the Hollywood 'happy ending' imposed on the director!

[Max Power]

The Drop 9/10

Tom Hardy is outstanding, James Gandolphini's last role.

This turned out far better than I thought it would. And in the end, you learn that things weren't necessarily as portrayed as in the beginning. I haven't been fooled in the end of a movie since the Usual Suspects like I did in this one. I loved it.

[sister morphine]

Daredevil: Director's Cut (Mark Steven Johnson, 2004) - 9/10

I never saw the much criticised theatrical version, so no comparison. However that one was, this version is great.

[Nighteg]

Star Wars - The Force Awakens - 6/10

[The Movie Critic]

Independence Day: Resurgence: 5/10

[Max Power]

What we do in the Shadows. 8/10

A mockumentary of 4 modern day vampires sharing a flat. Surprisingly funny.

[The Movie Critic]

Get a Job: 6/10

[sister morphine]

Thor (Kenneth Branagh, 2011) - 8/10

Let down a bit by the earthbound sequences. I do prefer my superheroes to have some sense of loss or regret driving them on; viz Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, Daredevil. Thor is cool but doesn't have that so much.

Dredd (Pete Travis, 2012) - 8/10

Infinitely better than the dreddful Stallone film. The plot is rather too linear to make it a great movie though.

[sister morphine]

Superman And The Mole Men (Lee Sholem, 1951) - 5/10

[sister morphine]

Superman (Richard Donner, 1978) - 9/10

[mnju_03]

Conjuring 2, 10/10

[sister morphine]

Andrei Rublev (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Rublev_(film)) (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1966) - 8/10

A fictionalised biopic of the 15th century Icon painter, the film is not so much a continuous narrative as a series of tableaux (all details in the link) in the painter's life, his loss of faith and regaining of it, all set against the turmoil and brutality of medieval Russia.

[The Movie Critic]

Cleopatra (1912): 6/10
Star Trek Beyond: 7/10
Atlantis (1913): 7/10
The Student of Prague (1913): 8/10
The Avenging Conscience: 7/10

[sister morphine]

Monty Python & the Holy Grail (Terry Gilliam/Terry Jones, 1974) - 8/10

The Plank (Eric Sykes, 1967) - 7/10

"The Mutual Comedies" (Charlie Chaplin, 1916-1917) - 7/10 (a collection of the 12 shorts Chaplin made for Mutual. The earliest ones are basic slapstick fare, but it's during this period the great man really found his signature style)

Justice League: Crisis On Two Earths (Sam Liu/Lauren Montgomery, 2010) - 8/10 (Animated movie from the DC Universe series)

Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975) - 9/10

[sister morphine]

The Butcher Boy (Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, 1917) - 7/10

The first appearance on-screen of Buster Keaton

[sister morphine]

Gamera vs. Guiron (1969) - 5/10

Fifth in the monster turtle series. Frequently in the 'so bad it's good' stakes this one. Two annoying children get abducted to a planet on the other side of the sun, where they fall into the hands of a pair of seemingly nice ladies who secretly plan to consume their brains and then travel to earth, where presumably they will do the same thing to the rest of the human race!

[The Movie Critic]

"The Mutual Comedies" (Charlie Chaplin, 1916-1917) - 7/10 (a collection of the 12 shorts Chaplin made for Mutual. The earliest ones are basic slapstick fare, but it's during this period the great man really found his signature style

Check out his Keystone comedies. I've spent the last few days watching those too. A lot of good ones in there, but on this thread I've only been rating the feature length films I've been watching. I do have my ratings for those shorts saved somewhere else though.

[sister morphine]

Check out his Keystone comedies. I've spent the last few days watching those too. A lot of good ones in there, but on this thread I've only been rating the feature length films I've been watching. I do have my ratings for those shorts saved somewhere else though.
I'll be doing that sometime. Have got the new set of Keaton's shorts to watch first though.

[The Movie Critic]

The Birth of a Nation: 7/10
Regeneration (1915): 7/10

[The Movie Critic]

Midnight Special: 8/10

[sister morphine]

Two more turtle movies

Gamera vs. Jiger (1970) - 5/10
Gamera vs. Zigra (1971) - 5/10

Shame the studio decided to orient this series so hard at young children.

[Lulubelle]

Florence Foster Jenkins-excellent-max star rating.

[sister morphine]

Deadpool ('overpaid tool' Tim Miller, 2016) - 10/10

Break out the chimichangas for a great night! :)

[sister morphine]

Battles Without Honour And Humanity (Kinji Fukasaku, 1973) - 10/10

[sister morphine]

Hiroshima Death Match (Kinji Fukasaku, 1973) - 10/10

Second instalment of the "Battles Without Honour..." series. Terrific.

[sister morphine]

Proxy War (Kinji Fukasaku, 1973) - 10/10

Third part of the "Battles Without Honour And Humanity" series. I'm continually amazed how writer and director manage to maintain such standards at a furious pace. This was the third film to come out in 1973, with the last two in 1974. Not quite so much violence in this movie, which concentrates more on the politicking and factionalism within the yakuza gangs of western Japan in the early 60s.

[sister morphine]

Police Tactics (Kinji Fukasaku, 1974) - 10/10

The fourth (and intended to be the final) part of Battles Without Honour And Humanity. Police Tactics is in effect, Proxy War, Part 2. It was so successful a fifth film was made later in '74.

[sister morphine]

Battles Without Honour And Humanity: The Final Chapter (Kinji Fukasaku, 1974) - 9/10

A perfectly fine film in its own right, but does feel like a slight afterthought to the series, which it was really. It's interesting that when the Toei company made a 224 minute combined saga of the whole series in 1980, they didn't include any of this film in it. Great series of films.

[The Movie Critic]

The Artist: 7/10
The Greatest Movie Ever Sold: 6/10

[sister morphine]

Lady Snowblood (Toshiya Fujita, 1973) - 10/10

Classic Japanese revenge movie, and one of the biggest influences on Kill Bill.

[Dirty Larry]

Batman Begins 8/10

[The Movie Critic]

Intolerance: 9/10
The Passion of Joan of Arc: 8/10

[name]

Nope, everything before 1990 gets discarded. I've watched pretty much all of the IMDB top 250, with a lot of movies I really didn't like that much.

X-Men apocalypse: 7 (I am a big fan of x-men).
John Wick (again): 8. I really want a mustang.
Now you see me two: 5. The first was far better.
Deadpool: 8. Nice, refreshing.
Captain America, winter soldier: 6.
Batman vs superman: 6.5.
Independence day resurrection: 3.

[Dirty Larry]

Star Trek the newest one 7/10
Suicide Squad 8.5/10
Jason Bourne 9/10

[The Movie Critic]

A Romance of Happy Valley: 6/10

[The Movie Critic]

Pink Floyd The Wall: 10/10

[The Movie Critic]

Dazed and Confused: 7/10
The King's Speech: 6/10

[The Movie Critic]

The Accountant: 7/10

[The Movie Critic]

Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back: 6/10
Clerks: 7/10

[The Movie Critic]

If....: 8/10
London has Fallen: 4/10
Road Trip: 5/10

[The Movie Critic]

South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut: 7/10
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street: 7/10

[The Movie Critic]

The Da Vinci Code: 6/10
Hugo: 9/10
Top Gun: 6/10

[The Movie Critic]

Sleepy Hollow: 7/10
Kingpin: 5/10
Tucker and Dale vs. Evil: 7/10
The Face of Another: 8/10

[The Movie Critic]

The Crow: 7/10
Possession: 8/10
Hellboy: 7/10
Oldboy (2003): 9/10
The Lovely Bones: 6/10

[The Movie Critic]

Children of the Corn: 4/10
Doctor Strange: 6/10
The End of the World: 7/10
Big Trouble in Little China: 7/10
Good Will Hunting: 8/10
Amarcord: 7/10

[The Movie Critic]

Playtime: 8/10
Heathers: 7/10
Arrival: 8/10
The Queen of Spades: 8/10
Hot Fuzz: 8/10
Sing Street: 8/10
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: 9/10
Our Hospitality: 7/10
The Cremator: 10/10
The Machinist: 7/10
The Doors: 8/10
Elvis & Nixon: 6/10
Swiss Army Man: 7/10
The Nice Guys: 7/10
Hell or High Water: 8/10
Moana: 5/10
Money Monster: 7/10
War Dogs: 7/10
The Lobster: 10/10

[mistech]

When you review a movie you have to rate it based on year it was made, Genre and what else was being made in the time I think. To give top gun a 6/10 now would be like watching ice pirates 3D vs Avatar, but both were ahead of thier time granted avatar was tons more polished but look at the technology difference between 1982ish and now.

Top Gun is a classic in its era, is there one person who saw it then and hears Kenny Logins and Danger Zone that doesn't think of that movie and smile, that makes it a 8.5-9 min.

Like Footloose, the original, you hear footloose somewhere playing and you think of that movie, which was good in its time but would likely seem "cheesy" to someone younger.

Just my thoughts on reviewing. :)

[sister morphine]

Suicide Squad - 8/10 for the theatrical version, 9/10 for the extended.

[montecore]

Last movie I saw was a solid 8/10, maybe higher.

[sister morphine]

Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (Robert Weine - 1920)

9/10. Beautifully restored; it quite possibly looks better than cinema-goers in 1920 would have seen the film.

[sister morphine]

Delinquent Girl Boss (Yasuharu Hasebe - 1970)

7/10. First in the Stray Cat Rock series.

Wild Jumbo (Toshiya Fujita - 1970)

8/10. Second in the the Stray Cat Rock series.

Sex Hunter (Yasuharu Hasebe - 1970)

8/10. Third in the Stray Cat Rock series.

Machine Animal (Yasuharu Hasebe - 1970)

9/10. Fourth in the Stray Cat Rock series

Beat '71 (Toshiya Fujita - 1971)

7/10. Fifth and final in the Stray Cat Rock series

[sister morphine]

Retaliation (Yasuhara Hasebe - 1969)

10/10

[sister morphine]

Voice Without A Shadow (Seijun Suzuki - 1958)

8/10

[crime cow]

Saw it a while back, but:

Sing 7.6/10

[sister morphine]

Red Pier (Toshio Masuda - 1958)

A curious film, which starts off rather lightweight for the first half, and I was thinking maybe 6/10 but then it got a lot darker and more gritty; which was more 8 or 9/10. So maybe 8/10 overall

[sister morphine]

The Rambling Guitarist (Buichi Saito - 1959)

7/10

[sister morphine]

The Wind That Shakes The Barley (Ken Loach - 2006)

8/10 Like most freedom fighter films, this isn't without problems - the usual one of the 'bad guys' being presented as one dimensional thugs being foremost. Some of the actors are not professionals I don't think, and that does show occasionally. When the focus changes from the fight against the Brits to the internal divisions after the treaty, the film maybe asks too much knowledge of a confused period in Irish history from the viewer.

Even with its faults, this film still kicks butt out of any dreadful Hollywood schlock like Revolution or Braveheart. ;)

[sister morphine]

A couple more Japanese films

Branded To Kill (Seijun Suzuki - 1967)

9/10 Dismissed as 'incomprehensible' by the studio head, the director was fired. The film is now regarded as his masterpiece.

Trapped In Lust (Atsushi Yamatoya - 1973)

A 'Roman Porno' remake of the above, ie with a lot of sex scenes that don't really add much to the storyline at all. Sadly by this time Japanese cinema was in steep decline from a combination of Hollywood movies and, even more so, competition from television. These soft porn vehicles were one sector that maintained any audience.

7/10 As said, the sex doesn't really add much to the story. The film is not as satisfying as the original film despite some good things in it. There is one outstanding feature though; the number one baddies are what appear to be a very tall guy who goes around with a walking midget size ventriloquist's dummy. Very creepy indeed. Not all is as it seems though.

[sister morphine]

Man Of Steel (Zack Snyder - 2013)

9/10

[Bea]

I'm not much of one for films, I like my games but I sure wouldn't want to break any rules and talk about other games!!

Imagine there was a film called Walking Dead: Road to Survival ;) I'd give it a 10/10

[sister morphine]

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (Zack Snyder - 2016)

9/10

[sister morphine]

Vampyr "The strange adventure of Allan Gray" (Carl Th. Dreyer - 1932)

8/10

[sister morphine]

Resident Evil: Apocalypse (Alexander Witt - 2004)

10/10

[sister morphine]

The Human Condition, Part 1: No Greater Love (Masaki Kobayashi - 1959)

9/10 The first film in an epic nine hour trilogy, acclaimed as one of the greatest masterpieces of Japanese cinema.

[sister morphine]

The Human Condition, Part 2: Road To Eternity (Masaki Kobayashi - 1959)

8/10

[sister morphine]

The Human Condition, Part 3: A Soldier's Prayer (Masaki Kobayashi - 1961)

10/10

[I Love Money]

American Beauty: 10/10

Superb method acting by Kevin Spacey, taking past experiences and acting them out here. Bravo!

[Vile Lynn]

Thread looks unlocked to me :confused:

[The Movie Critic]

Oh the thread isn't locked, cool. Gonna make a few posts, watched a bunch of stuff since I last posted, finished watching stuff for 2017 and finished my 1910s watchlist. Gonna start with everything I watched since I last posted.

Deadpool 2 (2018): 7/10
J'accuse! (1919): 8/10
Call me by Your Name (2017): 7/10
The Florida Project (2017): 8/10
Lady Bird (2017): 8/10
Phantom Thread (2017): 9/10
The Shape of Water (2017): 7/10
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017): 8/10
The Disaster Artist (2017): 7/10
Split (2016): 6/10
Lucky (2017): 7/10
I, Tonya (2017): 6/10
The Death of Stalin (2017): 9/10
Darkest Hour (2017): 6/10
Madame DuBarry (1919): 7/10
Victory (1919): 5/10
The Wicked Darling (1919): 6/10
Back to God's Country (1919): 7/10
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920): 7/10
The Penalty (1920): 7/10
Outside the Law (1920): 5/10
The Parson's Widow (1920): 8/10
From Morn to Midnight (1920): 8/10

[The Movie Critic]

I've also finished watching stuff from 2017, here's the Top 20 movies of 2017:

1. Dunkirk
2. The Killing of a Sacred Deer
3. Phantom Thread
4. The Death of Stalin
5. Blade Runner 2049
6. Baby Driver
7. Wind River
8. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
9. Good Time
10. Detroit
11. It
12. Molly's Game
13. The Florida Project
14. Free Fire
15. Lady Bird
16. War for the Planet of the Apes
17. Okja
18. Wonder Woman
19. mother!
20. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

[The Movie Critic]

And I finished my watchlist for the 1910s. I watched 23 feature length films and 113 short films from this decade. I'll rank the feature length films

9/10
Intolerance (1916)

8/10
The Outlaw and His Wife (1918)
J'accuse! (1919)
The Queen of Spades (1916)
The Student of Prague (1913)

7/10
The Birth of a Nation (1915)
Back to God's Country (1919)
The False Faces (1919)
A Man There Was (1917)
L'inferno (1911)
The President (1919)
Regeneration (1915)
Hearts of the World (1918)
Atlantis (1913)
The End of the World (1916)
The Avenging Conscience (1914)
Madame DuBarry (1919)

6/10
The Wicked Darling (1919)
The Whispering Chorus (1918)
A Romance of Happy Valley (1919)
The Little Princess (1917)
Cleopatra (1912)

5/10
Victory (1919)


I'll be blitzing through the 1920s now, as you can see since the last 5 movies I watched are all from 1920. I'll get into more detail on that stuff later.

[Vile Lynn]

Skyfall 9/10

[sister morphine]

Grindhouse 8/10