What was the last movie you've seen?

[prfsnl_gmr]

The first half of this film is a pale imitation of The Hustler. The second half is one long, incredibly intense poker game featuring Steve McQueen(!), Edward G. Robinson(!), Karl Malden(!), and Cab Calloway(!). Each member of the film's superb cast gives an inspired performance in the second half of the film; so while it is a bit uneven, it ends up being the very best "poker" film. (Roundersis three of a kind at best. This film is more like a full house.) Finally, Edward G. Robinson delivers one of his best lines in this film, and it worth watching just to hear him deliver it:

I didn't get the message of this film

There's no message. It is just entertaining.

[Pulsar_t]

Anyone seen this yet?

[Fragems]

Just watched this last weekend. Fantastic stuff. Those poor rednecks thinking they're helping themselves by not unionizing ;_;

Wow...

Also finished up watching the 8 episodes of Morgan Spurlock's Inside Man that are currently available on Netflix. The episode devoted to Unions was pretty interesting and well worth watching. Overall the whole series was pretty good the best episodes by far were Marijuana, Bankruptcy, Immigration and Unions though.

[Sload Soap]

Against my better judgement I watched Advent Children. I wish I hadn't now.

The movie is intensely boring, so I spent my time guessing what element from FF7 they were going to shoehorn in next. Unfortunately there wasn't a section where Cloud cross dresses. You had one job, movie.

It's written like the Star Wars prequels, in terms of overvaluing the special effects and undervaluing the characters. These are not the same people we ended the game with, they are caricatures. It does that thing Lucas did where the abilities of the cast are taken to ludicrous extremes because the effects department got given too much money and the writer couldn't be bothered to type up anything more engaging than "Cloud jumps a thousand feet into the air and has two swords" over and over. Nomura also seems unable to stop drawing lines and zippers on everything, to the point Cloud's original Buster sword looks like it's been scribbled over.

I don't get who this film is for. If you've played the game and liked it, you should be offended by how stupid the characters and plot are. If you haven't, why watch it to begin with?

[Luke]

There's no message. It is just entertaining.

I'm short on time (so I may not even get the movie title correct), but my Mother in law asked "What was the point or message of that movie?" after watching Inside Llewyn Davis.

My wife and I both found that to be silly.

What's the point of questioning the point of a movie? Some movies are like Nolan's Joker: They're just there. No plan, no reason, they just exist for the sake of it. And believe you me, there are plenty of mind blowing films that have no point, no reason, and no ending for that fact. They solely entertain.

The question to follow will be: "If it doesn't have a point, how can it be worth my time?". To answer that I would say "Mona Lisa". Movies are an art (let's not do "the genre dance" again) and don't need a purpose to make them worthwhile.

"Business Luke" always asks "why?" because I want to know if I'm spending my time wisely. When I'm off "business mode" I have no cares or wonders if something makes sense or not, but if it was worth the money (okay, so maybe I'm never "off" of business mode) and if it was entertaining.

[fastbilly1]

There's no message. It is just entertaining.

I'm short on time (so I may not even get the movie title correct), but my Mother in law asked "What was the point or message of that movie?" after watching Inside Llewyn Davis.


My wife and I both found that to be silly.

What's the point of questioning the point of a movie? Some movies are like Nolan's Joker: They're just there. No plan, no reason, they just exist for the sake of it. And believe you me, there are plenty of mind blowing films that have no point, no reason, and no ending for that fact. They solely entertain.

The question to follow will be: "If it doesn't have a point, how can it be worth my time?". To answer that I would say "Mona Lisa". Movies are an art (let's not do "the genre dance" again) and don't need a purpose to make them worthwhile.

"Business Luke" always asks "why?" because I want to know if I'm spending my time wisely. When I'm off "business mode" I have no cares or wonders if something makes sense or not, but if it was worth the money (okay, so maybe I'm never "off" of business mode) and if it was entertaining.

Because one of the directors/writers made these comments:
"It’s kind of a movie about nothing except this guy who’s a musician, and you want to see what he does as a musician,” "
"It became clear early on that it [had no plot]"
Source - http://arts.nationalpost.com/2013/12/19 ... ake-it-up/

It was a super big let down from the brothers Coen. A duo that usually have very plot driven movies and this was drivel. It was slice of life to the nth degree and was more like watching some ones home movies than a film.

[Luke]

It was a super big let down from the brothers Coen.

Critics like myself would strongly disagree with you.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/inside_ ... avis_2013/

[Jmustang1968]

Maybe I am in the minority, but I have never much cared for movie critic reviews. They range so widely and is just basically did they like it or not? Who is to say since that guy liked it I will too? I give them respect in that they get paid to tell people if they liked a movie or not, as that seems like a nice gig.

I guess the only time I pay much attention is if everyone is saying the movie is awful and I am considering going to the theater to see it.

[catnip]

Maybe I am in the minority, but I have never much cared for movie critic reviews. They range so widely and is just basically did they like it or not? Who is to say since that guy liked it I will too? I give them respect in that they get paid to tell people if they liked a movie or not, as that seems like a nice gig.

I guess the only time I pay much attention is if everyone is saying the movie is awful and I am considering going to the theater to see it.

I like reading critic reviews, but I always take it with a pretty big grain of salt. I think that critics can have some good insight into why they think some movies are good or bad, which is what I look for; for example, I really want to watch House of Flying Daggers now, because I read a critic review online and they said they really liked the cinematography/use of colors (specifically red) in the movie. I like that sort of thing. Something I wouldn't have caught that I can look for now.

On the flip side of the coin, take the Anchorman and Anchorman 2 movies (a 66 and 75 on RT, respectively). Personally, I think Anchorman is the perfect comedy. 100/100. I adore everything about it. I also think the second one sucked.

I dunno. I don't listen to critics more than anyone else, but I like hearing others' opinions on stuff before I drop money to see it, basically.

[fastbilly1]

It was a super big let down from the brothers Coen.

Critics like myself would strongly disagree with you.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/inside_ ... avis_2013/

Many in the film industry strongly agreed with me.