What was the last movie you've seen?

[Luke]

Quit edit...Stay-Puft, not "puff"

Damn Word. It stubbornly kept auto-correcting against my objections and I missed it.

Just wanted to kindly be in before the wrath of the nerds.

Did the original release of GHOSTBUSTERS give an actual live phone number? I remember it not being a 555- number in the theatrical release, and even to this day home and theatrical releases are subject to heavy editing.

[Luke]

Wow.

http://consequenceofsound.net/2015/04/h ... tion-film/

[Exhuminator]

I give this film props for simply being able to pull off its base concept. No easy feat I am sure and involved a lot of sacrifice and dedication from many people. However the movie itself wasn't all that involving or moving for me. The main character was chosen at a young age with no one's ability to know how much of a charismatic actor he might grow up to be. Turns out not so much. Still I respect he stuck with it for 12 years.

As for the plot itself, it weaves a tale that's not too surprising or all that engaging. Maybe that's for the better because it comes off as actual reality. Unfortunately the director goes out of his way to preach at the viewer constantly in symbolic and metaphoric ways that felt belittling to this viewer. Nothing represented existentially here was all that revelatory to me, but I'm a crotchety bastard so take that with a bucket of salt. (Then again when Werner Herzog can do that in his movies with high consistency, perhaps it's a point worth noting here.)

Is this a good movie? Yes. But it's good for conceptual reasons, not for dramatic ones. I couldn't get invested in any of the characters on display here. But maybe that was never the point. If the point is to see growing up again from a young man's eyes to invoke nostalgia for the virtues of ignorance, job well done I guess. But this movie could have done that and still been an hour shorter.

[Luke]

Is this a good movie?

That question will be debated for quite some time for quite a many reasons.

[Exhuminator]

I'd say it's a good movie but not a great one. I agree though this is a film that will be debated for years to come.

[Forlorn Drifter]

I Saw The Devil

Just watched this after reading your write up. You hit the nail on all accounts. This is the first thing I've seen in a while where I've actually cringed at some of the the moments, because of how much thought was put into them.

Such as when the lead cuts the tendon near the killer's ankle. That got me, just because the normal old stabbing and brutalizing is one thing, that's a whole 'nother level in my mind.

I would argue that the lead's lack of emotion in the majority of the movie is actually appropriate. He's so broken he can't feel until... well Michi knows when.

[J T]

Better than I'd expected, given the lukewarm ratings. It could have been better by avoiding preaching those mixed messages in the final segment.. More drama than "authentic" scifi.

I'm really looking forward to this film. I've been reading a lot about the singularity recently and I saw The Transcendent Man, a documentary about Ray Kurzweil, recently.

[Gamerforlife]

On my to watch list for this week:

The Grandmaster
Kundo: Age of the Rampant
Man of Tai Chi

[Luke]

I'm about to tend to dinner, but I should say that EX MACHINA is klutzy but worth watching.

Terrible analogy, but it reminded me of RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES, as you've seen it, you know what to expect, but it is an improvement on the story. Barely, but still an improvement.

It is formulaic as my friends honestly pointed out. But there is something to say about movies that keep you thinking "I know what's going to happen" and it does, but remains satisfying.

Pretty sure the focus of the visual team was "make it obviously fake, but don't". And spoiler alert, that is kind of the movie summed up in a succinct blanket. Fans of Sci-Fi Head Scratchers will love this. Dudes who would like to have carnal activities with robots might leave halfway through the movie to relieve themselves.

Hard to give a movie like this a solid 1 to 4 as you do need to think it over. But as of now I would say a 3.5 out of 4.

[Gamerforlife]

I watched The Wolverine

I guess I'd call this a decent X-Men movie. It's not as great as X2, First Class or Days of Future Past, but it's much better than X-Men 3 and Wolverine Origins

I'd rate it a 7. It's not a must see X-Men movie, but it's not a bad way to spend an afternoon either.