Rate the last movie you watched.

[Desmo]

Seven Psychopaths

Loved it. Love the characters and the way they come together and their stories slowly intertwine. It's funny with some great lines without being an out and out comedy and the way the script unfolds and you get to that point where it all clicks in to place (hard to explain without spoilers).

8/10

[Belmit]

I found Chronicle fairly acceptable. A bit 'teeny' and US-branded for my taste but not unenjoyable.

Saw Margin Call the other day - had no idea what to expect but very entertaining. Jeremy Irons almost sounded like he was parodying himself though!

[Garp]

13 Assassins

Evil Half-Brother of the Shogun who rapes and murders at whim is set to take on a position of authority, which he'll use to completely destabilise Japan after decades of peace.
13 Assassins set out to kill him.

Pretty good film, with some shades of "7 Samurai". Great cinematography. The subtitles were slightly annoying in places. I'm not sure quite what it was, either they're English as a Second Language, or someone trying too hard to get a literal translation. More than a few times I found myself re-phrasing translations into something more natural.

At one point they almost literally lifted a line from "The Charge of the Light Brigade", with one of the Samurai commenting about them "ours is not to wonder why, ours is to obey and die" (compare to "Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die").

Worth a watch, but in places it's quite gory so if you're of a sensitive nature maybe it's not for you.

[Justsomebloke]

Stitches

Awesome Horror/Comedy with Ross Noble playing Stiches. Never heard of it before I watched it but enjoyed every minute of it.

[A Place of Light]

Originally Posted by Garp

Prometheus

Great potential, totally wasted.

Totally agree. Assuming the sequel does indeed happen we can only hope it has more substance and, dare I say it, more story.

[Garp]

Moneyball

Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill and mostly baseball people from what I understand.

Mostly True story based on the book of the same name. Brad Pitt is the General Manager of the Oakland Athletics team, a team which has only a 'small' budget ($40m), compared to the big teams ($120m+). He's tired of losing guys to the big teams, and starts to question whether they're on the right tracks. Jonah Hill's character, an economics major from Yale, starts talking about a whole new model that threatens to shake up everything everyone knows about running and playing a team.

Pretty good drama, you don't have to be interested in baseball much to watch it (I sure as heck am not). Bradd does a great job, really seems to get his teeth into the role. Jonah does well I guess, but the character doesn't really go anywhere.

[Garp]

Lockout

In the near future, they have a giant prison in orbit. The prisoners are stored in some form of suspended animation. I have no idea how that makes any sense.

US Presidents daughter (played by Maggie Grace who you might recognise as the daughter from Taken, only this time not so annoying) get's sent up to do some psychoanalysis of the inmates to establish whether or not the US want's to use the facility. Surprise plot twist, she get's taken hostage and only one man can save her (played by Guy Pearce), a man who is in prison having been framed for murder.

Apart from the plot making very little sense, it's okay as an action film. The only problem is the anti-hero protagonist. He has almost no redeeming features. He's a misogynistic, almost unrelentingly selfish bastard. He just happens to be good at being a one man army.

6/10. I don't regret watching it per se.. I just didn't see much to particularly say "You should watch this!!!!!"

[BBx]

Long flight = uber amounts of films! albeit cut to shreds.

Twilight Breaking Dawn Part 2
Final part of the saga, so more of the same. If you have read the books you know what's coming. If you haven't, you probably won't be watching it anyway

8/10 - because I liked the series!

The Invasion
New take on 'The Invasion of the Body Snatchers' was quite eerie (I am scared easily). An Alien spaceship crashes and manages to get into the bloodstream of a guy who starts to infect everyone else... turning them into emotionless zombies. Only activated when you hit REM sleep. Story is about a Dr (Nicole Kidman) and her fight to stay 'normal' and find a cure.

7/10 - Good film probably won't watch it again

12 Rounds
A guy who looks like 'The Thing' from Fantastic Four (he's a WWE wrestler or something) has his girlfriend kidnapped from an old crim he banged up. Crim gives him 12 challenges to fulfill in order to get her back.

Crim is the rich gay one from Queer as Folk - he's done well for himself!

Was ok, reminded me of Speed. Main character was definitely a cross between The Thing and Christian from Eastenders.

6/10 - was ok to watch won't bother again.

A Cinderella Story
Not sure why I watched this one :/ seriously... think I was getting a bit deluded at this point. It's the modern day version of the Cinderella story. American High school light hearted.. blah blah.. no one that famous in it.... apart from Stifler's mum.

3/10 - for Stifler's mum. Should have watched Silver Lining's Playbook.

Return journey was somewhat better:

Lockout
Jarp has discussed the plot above. I enjoyed the comments on imdb (always look at the trivia/forums after a film). The President's daughter is a human rights activist type but she knows how to shoot a gun? Also she is capable of running around a space station having had a bullet through her leg. There are more goofs than this, but it was a good no brainer action film to watch.

Guy Pearce has come a long way from Neighbours and I actually found his character quite funny.

7/10 - for 'I guess that's why they call it the punch line'.

Jack Reacher
I don't like Tom Cruise much. Have read a few of the Lee Child books so when I saw the trailers and saw that he was playing Jack Reacher I wasn't convinced. He was ok. Hugh Jackman would have been better in my opinion. Good film and enjoyed it.

5 random people are shot in America. The police arrest a suspect who tells them to Get Jack Reacher. Why? The film tells you why.

8/10 - because the storyline was good and I like the books

Hitchcock
The story about the making of Psycho and its effect on the relationship between Hitchcock and his wife Alma.

I studied a lot of Hitchcock at uni so it was actually a good film for me to watch Hopkins is great as Hitchcock, as is Helen Mirren as his wife. Scarlett Johanson and Jessica Biel are also in there.

7/10 - good but wouldn't watch again.

Crazy Stupid Love
Steve Carrell and Julianne Moore are living the American Dream but then she announces she wants a divorce. Ryan Gosling is the hot shot Christian Grey (sans chains and whips) type who gets all the ladies and helps Carrell to reinvent himself to help him win back his wife.

Was quite a good RomCom I enjoyed it.

8/10

BB x

[Toby]

A Good Day To Die Hard

Oh dear god. Really quite awful I'm afraid. The main problem is that it just isn't a Die Hard film, but rather a (distinctly average) action film which happens to star Bruce Willis.

The fourth film had its failings and critics but still qualified as a Die Hard film for me. IMO, what makes a DH film is the villain. In each of the first four films, the focus was on a single villain throughout the film, and the plot developed into pretty much a one-on-one "grudge match" between McClane and the villain. After Alan Rickman, William Sadler, Jeremy Irons & Timothy Olyphant, this film has none of that and thus totally fails to keep your interest. It all just rushes by and is over fairly quickly (it's not a long film). If I'd seen this at the cinema I'd have felt like I'd wasted my money.

2/10

[Toby]

Pacific Rim

Liked this quite a lot I must say. Of course there's no involved plot or much thinking required but then that's not what this kind of film is about. It's a big summer blockbuster in the mold of Transformers and, as such, it succeeds pretty well.

Only real down-side was that it's sometimes hard to keep track of what's happening in some of the big set pieces, there's so much going on, but that doesn't really detract from the film. I'd imagine it might be worse in 3D but I couldn't tell you as I detest 3D and saw it in 2D instead.

Oh, and Rinko Kikutchi is seriously cute! I'm not normally attracted to oriental women but she's hawt!!

8/10