Rate the latest movie you've seen.

[SGOS]

Black Sea  8/10

High tension sea faring heist movie.  Just came out on redbox.

[stromboli]

As far as "Androids" vs Bladerunner, I read the book long before I saw the movie. The movie was a disappointment. Every other Philip K. Dick book as a movie was a disappointment, with he possible exception of "A Scanner Darkly" which I haven't seen. Dick writes in layers, wrapping his ideas (with Android it was the nature of humanity/ the nature of human empathy/ and what makes us human/vs whether a human could learn to love a human construct; in that respect the movie was right)in such a way that you have to immerse yourself to get the whole effect. Part of the problem is the movie centers of Harrison Ford, but the real story is about the animals Deckard owns (his a malfunctioning fake) versus his neighbor, who owns a real one, a horse. That and the interplay between J.R. Isadore and the female android as well as the warrior droid played by Rutger Hauer. Why he kills humans and why he went rogue.

I think Dick is one of the greatest writers of that era, period. Read Ubik and then spend the rest of your life trying to figure it out. Ubik is still being discussed by forums on the internet. He is that deep. Bear in mind that Dick was one fucked up monkey drug wise. A Scanner Darkly probably comes closer to identifying him as a person. V.A.L.I.S the first of a 3 part series still rates as one of the best- a treatise on god and whether god is good or evil. I read his stuff when I was a teenager, so maybe that explains all my quirky behavior......

[Savior2006]

Hellraiser 1 2 and 3. I wanna say 7, 7, and 6. I'm more of a fan of horror books than I am horror movies because often times even the ones that aren't pure slashers have enough of their tropes and cliches to make me roll my eyes.

By the third film, the pattern is all but clear:

1. Blood gets on Artifact of Doom, partially reviving a soul in Hell that activated the Artifact of Doom before hand,

2. Soul is trapped to artifact and managing to convince the fucking idiot/villain who witnessed the event to bring the soul more blood (with murder).

3. Soul is momentarily completely revived.

4. Then gets thrown back into hell, either getting fucked by the Cenobites, or fucked by the main Artifact of Doom (the puzzles) being reversed into their original positions.

When it comes to gore in movies, less is more if you are trying to scare people. Cube was a lot scarier BECAUSE there was less gore, because there were extended lulls which could give way to a nasty shocking death as a trap was activated; which would happen even when the prisoners thought they had a safe way of determining trapped rooms. It also helped that the main cast wasn't full of idiotic pricks with shitty decision making skills and motivations.

In the second movie, the evil doctor antagonist falls in love with the villain Julia from the first film. Why? No clue. He partially revives her for what seems like little more than curiosity, and starts making out with her skinless body not long after that.

The concept of Hell is interesting, and I wish more of that world was explored rather than, "Okay, now THIS guy is going to kill people to revive the villain. Now THAT guy is going to do it." In the third film, TWO people are convinced by the villain to sacrifice people to him/her/it/I don't care.

Um....yeah. I told my dad I probably wouldn't watch any of the other sequels with him, because after the third one is where they started to suck more ass than Michael Jackson. Probably for the best.

[Savior2006]

AI: Artificial Intelligence gets a 9 out of 10 from me. The ending was very bittersweet, and would've been a downer ending if not for the emergence of the advanced robots at the end.

There's an interesting shift in tone, from a women adjusting to this robot boy in her home to the boy's fairy-tale like quest.

[SGOS]

AI: Artificial Intelligence gets a 9 out of 10 from me. The ending was very bittersweet, and would've been a downer ending if not for the emergence of the advanced robots at the end.

There's an interesting shift in tone, from a women adjusting to this robot boy in her home to the boy's fairy-tale like quest.

I liked that movie too.  I heard it didn't fare well at the box office, but I checked Rotten Tomatoes:  Critics-73, viewers 64, so it wasn't a bomb.  I must have read some comments once from people who hated it.  Rotten Tomatoes also notes that it was one of Stanley Kubrick's projects, which is something I didn't know, but the film was taken over by Spielberg when Kubrick died.  I was totally blown away by Dr. Strangelove back in the 60's, and later came 2001 Space Oddessy, and I became a Kubrick devotee.  I think he may be one of the most important directors in film.  Well, for my tastes, anyway.

[Savior2006]

Matrix 1 and 2.

Great blend of philosophy and kick-assery. I do think that perhaps Neo powers up too quickly, being able to fly at the end of the first movie when he's in the Matrix. And prophecies and Chosen One stuff is kinda lame; that's what I feel nowadays. It's more interesting when someone makes their own decisions and gets their own special powers. Not when "fate" does it for them.
Otherwise, 10 out of 10 for both.

[Solitary]

https://youtu.be/l6bmTNadhJE  Worth seeing. If these ever come to be, we are in trouble.

[trdsf]

Well, last night for me was the 24th Annual Smithee Awards, so the last movie I saw (clips of) was utter crap, but hilariously crap.  :)

[Savior2006]

I liked that movie too.  I heard it didn't fare well at the box office, but I checked Rotten Tomatoes:  Critics-73, viewers 64, so it wasn't a bomb.  I must have read some comments once from people who hated it.  Rotten Tomatoes also notes that it was one of Stanley Kubrick's projects, which is something I didn't know, but the film was taken over by Spielberg when Kubrick died.  I was totally blown away by Dr. Strangelove back in the 60's, and later came 2001 Space Oddessy, and I became a Kubrick devotee.  I think he may be one of the most important directors in film.  Well, for my tastes, anyway.

The funny thing is, it's been said that many of the warm-fuzzy moments came from Kubrick and not Spielberg.

[trdsf]

I liked that movie too.  I heard it didn't fare well at the box office, but I checked Rotten Tomatoes:  Critics-73, viewers 64, so it wasn't a bomb.  I must have read some comments once from people who hated it.  Rotten Tomatoes also notes that it was one of Stanley Kubrick's projects, which is something I didn't know, but the film was taken over by Spielberg when Kubrick died.  I was totally blown away by Dr. Strangelove back in the 60's, and later came 2001 Space Oddessy, and I became a Kubrick devotee.  I think he may be one of the most important directors in film.  Well, for my tastes, anyway.

Agree 110%.  Kubrick is absolutely my favorite director, and if you've ever seen his photography for Look in the late 1940s, you can see his director's eye (and love of natural light) developing.

[SGOS]

The funny thing is, it's been said that many of the warm-fuzzy moments came from Kubrick and not Spielberg.

I don't usually associate Kubrick with warm-fuzzy, but I never know what to expect from him.

[SGOS]

Fifty Shades of Grey 5/10

I feel like I'm supposed to give this a higher score, but I had to struggle through it.  I actually turned if off midway, and took an hour and a half to take a flight with my Flight Simulator from Chicago to Cleveland.  The sex was too complicated for my taste.  While it was different, it wasn't very thought provoking, although I'm not sure if it was supposed to be thought provoking.  I thought the acting was convincing enough, but the story, not so much.  I kept wanting the plot to move along faster.

I liked an older movie called Secretary much more.  While the sadomasochistic sex was stranger, cruder, and more disturbing in Secretary, it gave me a deeper appreciation of the nature of consensual sex between what we would normally consider dysfunctional adults.  But Shades of Grey, was just something odd to watch.  I think it was supposed to be erotic, but I'm not really sure.  It seemed to miss the mark if it was.

[GSOgymrat]

Spy is one of the funniest movies I have seen in a long time. We were laughing so much I was concerned we were disturbing other people in the theater.

[the_antithesis]

Creature From the Black Lagoon

Sigh.

I wanted to like this one. I really did. It's a classic and the introduction of the last classic Universal horror monster after Dracula, Frankenstein, the Wolf Man, etc. I wanted to like it, but didn't. It lacks the atmosphere and style of the others. I was just so bored!. God damn!

I think deal is this movie has two things going for it.

A cool-looking monster.

It was in 3D, but my DVD isn't in 3D.

I know I've ranted about how shit 3D is before and no doubt will in the future, but I do like 3D as a dead technology. That it's still being used as a sales gimmick and that people are still falling for it is disheartening. But if it was a gimmick that wasn't used anymore, I would kind of like it then as a curiosity. Like incandescent light bulbs.

I couldn't help but think that this flick would have benefited from having a headache because of the fake depth.

Without that headache, it's too straight and well done to be cheesy fun like some other 50's movies but not quite good enough to be a genuinely good movie, like Robinson Crusoe On Mars. It occupies that middle ground of decent, but not particularly memorable. Unfortunately, since it's a famous movie with a famous monster, it's also in the overrated camp.

[aitm]

I just watched about 95% of something called Jupiter Ascending…or something jupiter with the lil hottie Mila whatsherface……not a bad flick…if you like flicks where you have no fucking idea what the plot is. I mean, this is of the greatness of a 70's porn movie. Completely plot less and a whole lot of action that seems like a complete waste of time..only in the porn movie the guy squirts on the gals face, for some reason that even today 30 years later I have no idea the reason, and this show,,,which I have no reason..er….hell I can't even remember the reason for the revie…..shit man, I gotta go dig up my 70's videos.

so its like a 1 out of a 10. Not horrible, just really really bad in a weird sort of way.