Rate the latest movie you've seen.

[Shiranu]

I actually really liked 47 Ronin. Not nearly as bad as the critics are making it out to be. I would give it a 7.0-ish as opposed to their 1.5.

[Notthesun]

The Wolf on Wall Street - I fucking loved it. 3 hours and I was not bored for a second. Leo is amazing.

Grade: A


@caseagainst

I don't see how it is not possible for the president to not visit Katniss.

[caseagainstfaith]

I don't see how it is not possible for the president to not visit Katniss.

He didn't even have a bodyguard.  Visiting someone alone, who is famous for their ability to kill people?  He's the President, doesn't he have a booked schedule?  He doesn't have assistants to give her the message?

[Jutter]

Monthy Python and The Search for the Holy Grail.
(it's on Youtube in full)

How does a movie this shitty manage to crack you up with an unrelenting barrage of memorable quotalicious bits? Because Monthy Python.
Life Of Brian has the pollish, the cultural rellevance, and the depth, and the laughs......but SftHG has your sides splitting.
Verdict: NI !!

[Notthesun]

@case his bodyguards were outside. He knew she wouldn't try and kill him. That would mean her entire district would be killed. Much of what she does is for Prim. She wouldn't throw away both their lives like that. Snow is a devious motherfucker. He wanted to do it in person. Make it more effective. Which it was. He fucks her up with that conversation.

@jutter don't fucking call that movie shitty!

[aileron]

Frozen.  It seemed like a nice movie for little girls on Christmas day, and it got good reviews from critics and viewers.  I think it had a convoluted plot line with lots of holes in the plot, but I fell asleep during it several times so maybe that's why.  The computer animation is stellar and it had some funny moments, but the plot wasn't interesting to me at least.

@Jutter... For Christmas, I bought my girls a plushy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch and Killer Bunny.  They love Search for the Holy Grail.

[mykcob4]

Captain Phillips: About Somali pirates based on a true happening. Excellent acting all around, a tight script, and a lot of tense moments. Worth seeing. Solitary

I'm sorry Solitary, I didn't find it that good. 1) it wasn't very accurate. 2) it seemed that the actors were merely trying for an oscar instead of being true to the story.

[SGOS]

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty  5/10

The movie wasn't bad.  But as it states at the beginning, it was "inspired" by James Thurber, not "based on a short story" by James Thurber.  It doesn't follow the book at all, except for a few day dreams that Walter has at the beginning of the movie.  After that, he partakes in a real adventure that uses up about 3/4 of the film.  The adventure outdoes his daytime musings, and gets him the girl.  One gets the impression that after a dose of heavy real life adventure, Walter is cured.

This of course, misses the whole point of the original story. The writers seem to have misunderstood the original, or thought it was lacking.  They wrote an entirely new story, and tried to garner audience attendance by stealing the title of a humorous classic.

This doesn't make it a bad movie, but it can't be compared to anything James Thurber ever wrote.

[Insult to Rocks]

I just saw Donnie Darko the other day. Honestly, I'm disappointed. It seems like it was trying waaaay too hard to be deep, and I just stopped feeling attached to the narrative after awhile. Also, for a self described "psychological thriller", it wasn't very thrilling.

[Insult to Rocks]

Damn, double post. Well, I also saw "Life of Brian" recently. It was...okay. The main problem is with this pacing. The movie just kinda dragged itself along. Oh, and the "Biggest Dickus" scene? Really scraping the bottom of the barrel in terms of comedy when you resort to penis jokes.

[GrinningYMIR]

I watched the secret life of Walter Mitty yesterday, I was pleasantly surprised by it. I went in expecting a sucky movie but I had a really good time with it. Ben stiller did a good job with the more serious role that it offered.

I'd give it a 7.5 out of 10, worth renting if nothing else

[Aroura33]

Gravity, 8/10
Very good movie. I never would have guessed Sandra Bullock could pull off such a performance.  Don't get me wrong, I love her in things like Demolition Man, but I have not been too fond of her dramas (they tend to be too sappy for me), so this was a really pleasant surprise.

[Aroura33]

Also saw Elysium recently.  Not even sure how to rate this movie.  It has a great idea, but the vehicle it delivers it in is so predictable, so lacking in depth, I just barely was able to choke it down.  Supposedly, the director was trying to make a big point about society today as well as the direction it is headed, but instead this movie comes off as just another action movie with too much CGI and not enough plot, with a case of shoving the moral down your throat at the end for good measure.   It could have been done MUCH better.  I did not care if Matt Damon's character (Max?) lived or died.  Jodie Foster played a great bitch, but her motivations were flat, and again, I didn't even care enough to hate her. And I get emotional about almost everything in movies!

So, 4/10.  
Potential 9/10 totally wasted into garbage.

[Sal1981]

Looking forward to this, but going on the trailer, it might not deliver.

[youtube:1vl0z9j1]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCTen3-B8GU[/youtube:1vl0z9j1]

[GalacticBusDriver]

Recently saw:
"Despicable Me 2" -
Better than the first, but not terribly original. Good pacing and a decent (for a kids animated movie) plot. Overall, worth watching. 7.5/10

"Thor: The Dark World" -
Was a little disappointment with this one after the recent awesomeness that has been present in the other "Avengers" movies. Still had it's points. Loki was great, as usual, and there were some twists that surprised me. Again, worth watching. 7/10

"Ender's Game" (second viewing) -
This movie is much, much better the second time around. I still think people who've read the book will enjoy it more than those who haven't because so much of the depth in the development of Ender's character is missing. I can't figure out how "The Hobbit" is getting three overly long films to tell one simple story and a story that NEEDS an extra hour doesn't get it. 9.2/10. Hopefully this one will get a "Director's Cut" edition that adds more of the battle room and the strife between Dragon Army and the others as well as the build up to Ender's emotional break-down. If so (and if it's done as well as the rest of the film), it'll be worthy of a 10/10.