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mikedanger
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Well it's a movie about a war that was unpopular with the Hollywood crowd to begin with, directed by one of the few openly right wing people left in the industry. Some people just get their political boner raging so hard that they can't sit back and enjoy a movie. I am glad that my mind doesn't function like that...it would drive me insane.
End of Watch- 7.5/10 Not gonna lie, my eyes watered a little bit
Morgul Matt
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The Amazing Spider-Man 2. 7/10.
I'm not a fan of Jamie Foxx (although he was awesome in The Great White Hype) but I really liked him in this film. I wasn't expecting him to be as nerdy & awkward as he was at the start of the film, so that was a welcome surprise. & as Electro he was pretty bad-arse. I'm really not sure why Paul Giamatti or the character he played was even in this film. So, that seemed rather pointless & a complete waste of screen time.
But, overall, while not as good as the first, I still liked this as I think that Andrew Garfield still made for a very likeable Peter Parker/Spider-Man & Emma Stone was still equally likeable as Gwen Stacy.
I'm not a fan of Jamie Foxx (although he was awesome in The Great White Hype) but I really liked him in this film. I wasn't expecting him to be as nerdy & awkward as he was at the start of the film, so that was a welcome surprise. & as Electro he was pretty bad-arse. I'm really not sure why Paul Giamatti or the character he played was even in this film. So, that seemed rather pointless & a complete waste of screen time.
But, overall, while not as good as the first, I still liked this as I think that Andrew Garfield still made for a very likeable Peter Parker/Spider-Man & Emma Stone was still equally likeable as Gwen Stacy.
YankeesFanboy
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Adult World - 71/100
Michael Crawford
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Gone Girl - 7/10. Huge plot holes in a Lifetime Movie of the Week, but entertaining if you switch your brain off. Solid performances all around.
Lucy - 6/10. I love Scarlett, but otherwise a weak attempt at sci-fi philosophy.
Lucy - 6/10. I love Scarlett, but otherwise a weak attempt at sci-fi philosophy.
Centurion
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Wow, that's a high score. I might be watching this one tonight.
GasparZizou
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This reminds me of a movie (and I'm betting the book too) where someone came up with this cool idea for an ending, and wrote backwards. When things didn't quite fit, they merely glossed over it, more interested in creating the final scene than getting there cleanly.
So yea, it was entertaining, there's some solid acting, but the plot is poorly executed overall.
Everything in this movie screams set up - there's no surprise to that at all. The fact that the detective can't see it gets beyond ridiculous, and we're supposed to believe that the cops won't check out her story at all? First, they like the husband for it because it's a crime of passion, bludgeoned to death in the kitchen. Poorly cleaned up - so poorly that the murder weapon is left laying in the fireplace, barely burned. Then, when they find the stuff in the shed, he's suddenly plotting to kill her? And how could they even be so stupid as to think they'd interrupted him burning the diary - he was in the kitchen when they came in, and never went down to the basement. He had to turn off the furnace to not burn it. Why would he do that before it was incinerated?
Worse, our evil genius seems to make plenty of mistakes. She has everything plotted to every detail, complete with sticky notes on a calendar (which conveniently disappears somewhere along the line), and yet only has a single source of money, what she has on her in her money belt? She has to turn to her ex, and then sets him up - except, either she was smart enough to hack into his security system and remove all traces of them coming to the house, her completely willing, or the cops are once again so stupid that they wouldn't even check the recordings...although they are a big part of her excuse for killing him. Even if she did erase them, that would be another huge red flag that something was wrong with her story. She's even seen by multiple people - the people that rob her, the guy at the casino - and yet when the 'murdered' wife reappears to huge fan fare on tv, nobody recognizes her? Any episode of NCIS or Elementary has a tighter plot.
Worse, our evil genius seems to make plenty of mistakes. She has everything plotted to every detail, complete with sticky notes on a calendar (which conveniently disappears somewhere along the line), and yet only has a single source of money, what she has on her in her money belt? She has to turn to her ex, and then sets him up - except, either she was smart enough to hack into his security system and remove all traces of them coming to the house, her completely willing, or the cops are once again so stupid that they wouldn't even check the recordings...although they are a big part of her excuse for killing him. Even if she did erase them, that would be another huge red flag that something was wrong with her story. She's even seen by multiple people - the people that rob her, the guy at the casino - and yet when the 'murdered' wife reappears to huge fan fare on tv, nobody recognizes her? Any episode of NCIS or Elementary has a tighter plot.
This reminds me of a movie (and I'm betting the book too) where someone came up with this cool idea for an ending, and wrote backwards. When things didn't quite fit, they merely glossed over it, more interested in creating the final scene than getting there cleanly.
So yea, it was entertaining, there's some solid acting, but the plot is poorly executed overall.
CriterionCollector
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Quite the contrary. Whenever Eastwood poops out a new movie Hollywood, critics, etc., fall all over themselves to give him high as the sky praise. I personally haven't ever seen an Eastwood directed film that I've ever liked and even though Eastwood's politics are right-wing most of his stories can be said to have more of a left wing bend to them.
GasparZizou
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Wasn't it supposed to look staged? By him? Also, the weapons wasn't supposed to be burned, just lying there.
The detective tried to question her story but the police wouldn't let her, because the police wanted to close the case ASAP before keep looking incompetent.
Didn't the detective mention how odd the whole diary thing was?
You may have a point about the money though, but isn't it safer to keep your money with you, hidden at all times?
The camera part was a problem for me too, that one is indeed a big PH
The detective tried to question her story but the police wouldn't let her, because the police wanted to close the case ASAP before keep looking incompetent.
Didn't the detective mention how odd the whole diary thing was?
You may have a point about the money though, but isn't it safer to keep your money with you, hidden at all times?
The camera part was a problem for me too, that one is indeed a big PH
I may have to downgrade my score to a 7 as well, hmmmm, that's a 1st.
The Clown Prince of Crime
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Son of Batman - 6/10
I absolutely loved it !! So well made. Let me know what you think when you see it.
Plastic Bateman
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Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof - 4/10 and all four of those points are for Kurt Russell.
What a horrible, joyless, disjointed, incoherent, tonally-schizophrenic mess of a film. I want the two hours of my life back, frankly.
What a horrible, joyless, disjointed, incoherent, tonally-schizophrenic mess of a film. I want the two hours of my life back, frankly.
Kurt is the only reason to watch that.
Mad Old Lu
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Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug: 7/10
Really enjoyed it! I only saw the first one once in the theater when it first came out, so it had been a while for me outside of that world. Didn't enjoy it that much, which made me drag my feet in watching part 2. But I liked this one much much better than the first. Looking forward to the third one now.
Captain America Winter Soldier: 9/10
Watched it again. Wow. What a fantastic movie. And still makes me angry and dislike the first one even more.
Really enjoyed it! I only saw the first one once in the theater when it first came out, so it had been a while for me outside of that world. Didn't enjoy it that much, which made me drag my feet in watching part 2. But I liked this one much much better than the first. Looking forward to the third one now.
Captain America Winter Soldier: 9/10
Watched it again. Wow. What a fantastic movie. And still makes me angry and dislike the first one even more.
Centurion
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Fury.
Saw it late last night. I enjoyed it, but not as much as I was hoping.
It was difficult for me to believe in Shia Labeouf's character. His accent was really forced and I'm use to seeing him play a goofball character. But that's my fault for not being able to watch this with a clean slate. Jon Bernthal did a great job. He seems to be very good at playing an @ss hole.
One scene that struck me as being weak... (spoiler alert)
They roll into a neighborhood. War Daddy (Pitt) and Norman (the scared young soldier) find 2 beautifully dressed women. I mean, they were dressed in bright colors and seem to be from a different time or place compared to everyone else in that same town. Furthermore, they didn't appear to be as resistant or scared as you would expect them to be considering their town was right in the middle of a battlefield. They honestly looked like they were ready for a party.
At any rate, the action was intense, and I enjoyed the special effects, but I can't see myself re-watching this again. 6/10.
Centurion
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While I agree with you both, I will add that the final car chase was f00king awesome!
Zoe Bell did her own scenes. Rightfully so as she is a stuntwoman and that entire sequence, with her on the hood, kept me at the edge of my seat.
Fury.
Saw it late last night. I enjoyed it, but not as much as I was hoping.
It was difficult for me to believe in Shia Labeouf's character. His accent was really forced and I'm use to seeing him play a goofball character. But that's my fault for not being able to watch this with a clean slate. Jon Bernthal did a great job. He seems to be very good at playing an @ss hole.
One scene that struck me as being weak... (spoiler alert)
But I understand the purpose of that scene. It's a turning point for the young soldier.They roll into a neighborhood. War Daddy (Pitt) and Norman (the scared young soldier) find 2 beautifully dressed women. I mean, they were dressed in bright colors and seem to be from a different time or place compared to everyone else in that same town. Furthermore, they didn't appear to be as resistant or scared as you would expect them to be considering their town was right in the middle of a battlefield. They honestly looked like they were ready for a party.
At any rate, the action was intense, and I enjoyed the special effects, but I can't see myself re-watching this again. 6/10.
Wow, that low hey ? I know what you mean about that scene, but it didn't bother me at all. I just really loved the movie for some reason. I love WWII movies in general though.
Plastic Bateman
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While I agree with you both, I will add that the final car chase was f00king awesome!
Zoe Bell did her own scenes. Rightfully so as she is a stuntwoman and that entire sequence, with her on the hood, kept me at the edge of my seat.
Zoe Bell was the only character I liked in the whole thing, and even then she a) stole someone's valuable car to perform a dangerous stunt with, and b) left her friend alone with a potential rapist.
Someone tell Quentin that while not all films need likeable characters, even flawed and morally-ambiguous characters need something approaching a redeeming feature for the audience to connect with, even if it's just a charismatic personality. They also need to be consistent, which Stuntman Mike certainly wasn't - apropos of nothing turning into a blubbering, whimpering mess over being shot in the arm and encountering some small degree of resistance.
But yes, that final car chase was pretty fantastic.
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