Rate the latest movie you've seen.

[Munch]

I take umbridge (ho ho ho) being referred to as a Sarkeesian, being that I love men.. I Looove men... LOOOOOOOOOOVE em!!

I've also never been a fan of blood and Gore, the evil dead movies are just silly to me, and cheap jump scare films are off my list to. I browse a lot of horror movies looking for something with subtly, where the jump scares are earned.

[Hydra009]

While people were killed in traditional horror movies, there wasn't a lot of time devoted to a graphic depiction of the means of death until 30 or 40 years ago when the slasher genre came into its own.  In my mind, I've always separated the two types of films as distinct categories, although somewhat distantly related.  Traditional horror relied on fantasy, the occult, and the unseen.  The monsters didn't often show up until the last 30 minutes of the movie.  Slasher movies replace fantasy and the unseen with a graphic dose of reality.  Fear takes a back seat to revulsion as a means of pulling on the viewers emotional chain.

I was watching some old TV programs, and yeah, I've noticed that the violence is incredibly tame.

A guy'll get run through with a greatsword - spilling surprisingly little blood - and he'll linger for a few seconds with this expression of mild discomfort and his last words will be something like "Here, take the Amulet of Tzen'tulu to the Tanagran Pass over the Plains of Aeuris.  The fate of the Realm of Bob depends on it"  And he just closes his eyes, dying incredibly suddenly and remarkably peacefully.

And I'm sitting there watching with incredible disbelief.

That's more of a fantasy example.  Some of the horror stuff is almost as bad.  Someone will lose their whole family and be mildly distraught.  Or get cornered and scream while standing helpless, giving no resistance whatsoever to the killer.

A lot of the older tropes seem incredibly strange now.

[SGOS]

I was watching some old TV programs, and yeah, I've noticed that the violence is incredibly tame.

A guy'll get run through with a greatsword - spilling surprisingly little blood - and he'll linger for a few seconds with this expression of mild discomfort

Yeah, and then they just tip over.

[drunkenshoe]

I take umbridge (ho ho ho) being referred to as a Sarkeesian, being that I love men.. I Looove men... LOOOOOOOOOOVE em!!

I've also never been a fan of blood and Gore, the evil dead movies are just silly to me, and cheap jump scare films are off my list to. I browse a lot of horror movies looking for something with subtly, where the jump scares are earned.

Umbridge? Umbridge is the original Nazi sample, Munch and she loves men. What does this even have to do with your sexual orientation? She would be the first to tortute and then hang you for it in real life, simply just because you are 'different' than the what mainstream offers. You cannot breath anywhere near that evil, psycopathic cunt, let alone take her being compared to Sarkeesian. Don't let the tamed version Imelda Staunton pictured in the movie fool you. She had no choice with what was given to her and did a vrey good job in little space. Comparing Sarkeesian to Umbridge...pffft what bollocks.

I simply demand you get informed with the basic information regarding the material at hand, sweety. You are criticising a movie and calling it Potterverse. Please make it worthwhile, next time. 

[Baruch]

I don't really watch much horror..I find just waking up in the morning frightening enough most days.. I tend to gravitate towards movies that are actually plausible. If you want a really scary movie wait for the one about the night of November 8, 2016.
Lately I've gone back to watching old spy movies of the 40s and 50s.. There's plenty of them on YouTube.

The very first Casino Royale, was a James Bond who wasn't Sean Connery, and the character was an American (CIA).  This was in the 1950s, and I saw it on Youtube.  Fascinating comparison.

[Baruch]

I've been debating about going to Hacksaw Ridge, but I'm a bit hesitant.  Mel Gibson has a tendency to glorify death in unrealistic ways, much like we did as kids playing soldier.  Here's a user review I found at IMDb.  I would agree that Vince Vaughn doesn't seem like he should be in a war movie, but the part about the Bible is real barf bag material, again typical of Gibson.

"I kneeeed my Bible...,"  brings to mind another Gibson war movie, where a gut shot soldier, with entrails dragging on the ground, grasps his buddy's arm and says, "I'm so happy I could die for my country." 

Yuck!  Gimmie that barf bag for a minute.

Most guys dying in war, are young and unmarried.  They call out for their mom or their sweetheart ;-(  The chaplain is there for morale before the killing starts ... and to give final rights to Catholic soldiers.  The "happy to die for my country" is a trope going back to Rome.

[Munch]

Umbridge? Umbridge is the original Nazi sample, Munch and she loves men. What does this even have to do with your sexual orientation? She would be the first to tortute and then hang you for it in real life, simply just because you are 'different' than the what mainstream offers. You cannot breath anywhere near that evil, psycopathic cunt, let alone take her being compared to Sarkeesian. Don't let the tamed version Imelda Staunton pictured in the movie fool you. She had no choice with what was given to her and did a vrey good job in little space. Comparing Sarkeesian to Umbridge...pffft what bollocks.

I simply demand you get informed with the basic information regarding the material at hand, sweety. You are criticising a movie and calling it Potterverse. Please make it worthwhile, next time. 

Calm down dear calm down, little bit of dry humour is no reason to such decorum. Umbridge was the real evil in Harry potter, worse then voldiworts, because I wanted to beat her in with a cinder block. Sarkeesian is just an annoyance in comparison

[SGOS]

Independence Day   6/10

It held my attention, because it was a blaze of action, except for one time when I nodded off for like 5 minutes during some explosions.  It was pretty lame, really, but at least it wasn't very intellectual.  It didn't require any concentration, so I gave it some points for that.  A high school student may have written the script, but not the one that was the valedictorian.

[drunkenshoe]

Calm down dear calm down, little bit of dry humour is no reason to such decorum. Umbridge was the real evil in Harry potter, worse then voldiworts, because I wanted to beat her in with a cinder block. Sarkeesian is just an annoyance in comparison

I take my fairy tales very seriously...mister.

[Hijiri Byakuren]

Just re-watched Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. Though it's part 2 in a duology of movies, Tokyo S.O.S. is watchable on its own, and it's among my favorite Godzilla films.

When a second Godzilla attacks Japan in the 90's, the bones of the first creature are exhumed from Tokyo Bay. DNA is extracted from the spines, and a cyborg is constructed around the skeleton of the first Godzilla: a Mecha Godzilla known as Kiryu. Kiryu's soul is still hanging around, though, and can't quite decide if it wants to protect Japan from its brother, or pick up where it left off in 1954.

Now in part 2, Mothra has joined the fray, threatening war upon humanity if Kiryu isn't shut down and returned to the ocean. However, it soon becomes clear that Mothra isn't strong enough to protect Japan from Godzilla herself, and Kiryu is scrambled once again. After a long fight, Kiryu's spirit grows tired, and rather than killing Godzilla decides to take the beast out to sea and sink itself; allowing Kiryu to rest in peace, and causing Godzilla to stop looking for its dead brother.

As far as monster action goes, this movie doesn't beat around the bush: the last two thirds can pretty much be summed up as, "Fight fight fight, fight fight fight, fight fight, fight fight." It's awesome. The story is also interesting, as the film is a follow-up to 1961's "Mothra" as well as 1954's "Godzilla." Japan and America are seen to be taking the kaiju threat seriously and attempting to develop countermeasures; there's even a neat little scene where soldiers are being shown a dead Kamoebas and getting the "this is what we're up against" speech.

That said, I do have a couple criticisms. For one thing, Godzilla's eyes look so fake it's distracting.

I am Derp, hear me roar!

Mothra's twin fairies are also preachy to the point of being nauseating. Alright girls, I get it, humans shouldn't practice necromancy on kaiju, I heard you the first thousand times, now please shut the fuck up!

Overall, it's a good movie that I would recommend to anyone who enjoys watching two men in rubber suits duke it out for and hour.

[Shiranu]

Overall, it's a good movie that I would recommend to anyone who enjoys watching two men in rubber suits duke it out for and hour.

[Cavebear]

I accept superhero movies in "the willing suspension of disbelief". I temporarily enjoy the irrational premise AS IF they existed.  That causes me no problems at all.  I have 60' shelf space of sci books, LOL!

But I never mistake fiction as real.

[SGOS]

Indignation  I rented it at Redbox this week
9/10 (without the 5 minute ending)
7/10 (with the ending)
So I was deeply engrossed, uplifted, and sometimes curious for 85 minutes of the 90 minute film that will surely be of interest to atheists.

Depending on what you expect, it might be a good ending.  The ending does qualify as thought provoking and drives home a worthwhile  life message, and it clarifies the whole point of the movie.  I would have written a different ending if I could think of a better one, but I guess I can't.

A young man who goes off to college in the 1940s seeking a path to a better life, where he excels at his studies.  His friends are getting killed in the war, and it seems like the main reason his parents are so happy about him going off to college is that it defers him from the draft.  Other than that, his father would probably prefer that his son spend the rest of his life working in the family butcher shop that specializes in kosher meats.  His discussions with the 1940s style dean of students are especially excellent dialog.  He falls for a nice coed, who introduces him to things that his sheltered life never imagines, and he quickly adjusts to the unfamiliarity of it all and becomes smitten.  The movie is an example of good storytelling, told in linier fashion, and discloses everything clearly at the proper times.

[Blackleaf]

It was a little while back, but I saw Shin Godzilla during its limited American debut. I greatly enjoyed it. Godzilla was very creepy in this movie, and seemed like a nearly unstoppable force. There are no other monsters in the movie. It's similar to the original Godzilla, which was a representation of the nuclear bombs that America dropped on Japan. It's just Godzilla causing massive destruction, and humanity desperately scrambling to find a way to stop him.



Besides the monster himself, the human characters were also entertaining. Usually in a Godzilla film, the human characters are just there for exposition and to distract from the action. This movie takes humorous jabs at the Japanese government, which has meeting after meeting to decide how to deal with the new kaiju threat. The movie does a good job at making the audience feel for the emotions of the heroes. The movie gets very tense at times.

My biggest complaint is that one of the supposedly American born and raised characters speaks with a heavy Japanese accent when speaking English, which makes it hard to take her character seriously. There are times when the special effects aren't quite up to par with American effects, but it was never too distracting for me.

[SGOS]

Papa  8/10
Ernest Hemmingway in Cuba during the revolution.

Our Kind of Traitor  9/10
Nail biting spy movie.

Fantastic Beasts and....  5/10
Plenty of action and wizardry, but not much of a story.  I wasn't much on Harry Potter either.