What Movies Have You Seen III

[Aragorn]

Lucy.

A little ridiculous.

4/10

 

[alien]

Lucy.

A little ridiculous.

4/10

yeah it was alright for a while but then it did get a bit ridiculous

 

[madunit]

Spoiler: Gone Girl spoilers

After the meticulous planning involved in framing Nick for Amy's murder, pointing the finger at Desi pretty much on the fly seems way over the top. It is far too convenient for new cops to come in and pretty much just close the case straight away despite there being so many questions over how Desi managed to kidnap Amy.

Desi's name was dropped early on as a potential suspect because of his past relationship with Amy. Did the local cops bother to follow up on this and check for his whereabouts the morning Amy disappeared? When Amy returns the cops (now the FBI, mind you) are conveniently more interested in just having the case go away rather than checking out Amy's story.

Desi himself would have an army of alibis for the entire duration Amy was missing, most likely including the morning she disappeared. The security camera footage would show that Amy didn't turn up at the vacation house until well after she went missing, so where was he supposed to have kept her all that time? There wouldn't have been any traces of her presence at his other place of residence. You could argue that Amy deleted the security camera footage, but this raises even more suspicion.

If the cops had bothered to look into Desi's whereabouts for the entire duration I'm sure it would have been easy to notice that Desi was nowhere near Amy the morning she went missing, and they may well have tracked him to the casino where they met and looked at the security camera tapes that would have shown him meeting her.

The "murder" scene is just ridiculous if we are expected to believe Desi was responsible. Why would he go to the effort of cleaning up all the blood and then staging a crime scene? Why doesn't Amy have wounds that are consistent with spilling that much blood?

The "murder" weapon? The disposal of the diary at Nick's father's house?

And before anyone mentions it, yes, some of these are acknowledged in the movie itself (like when Nick asks how she manages to get a blade and cut Desi's throat if she was tied up the whole time). But in doing so the author is basically giving us the finger directly in the face and saying "f**k you!" while playing out the old "dumb cops" routine.

Spoiler: Gone Girl Spoilers

There's also the red panties, her miraculous 2nd pregnancy, and the whole debacle of her return when her diary full of evidence stating that her husband causes her to fear for her life, yet the FBI let her go straight home with him. The story around the third clue is flimsy and the husband deciding to stay with her for a child which he doesn't believe is his (rightfully so) while in the previous scene he was pleading with the police to continue the investigation & have her tried for a number of crimes.

 

[snoozer]

total recall. (the remake)

if it wasn't called total recall i would've quite enjoyed this. some great concepts(mainly the tube through the earth) and not bad generally, but suffered from the expectation of going to mars and aliens being involved.

 

[Zoidberg]

Interstellar. Very good movie that's just too long. It's worth seeing but because of its length it won't be one I would see too often. 3rd act was a little out of left field but I bought into it.
A big stars appearance caught me by surprise as I'd seen no mention anywhere of their involvement in this.
Great music too.
8.5/10.

 

[bileduct]

Yeah I really enjoyed Interstellar too.

 

[Lemon Squash]

Watched 'Her' last night- not my cup of tea but it is very clever and witty I can understand the accolades.

So hard to imagine it was written and directed by the same guy who brought us the 'Jackass' franchise

 

[InFlames]

Finally saw 'Frailty' last night, only 13 years late I know.

I thought it was awesome though, despite being one of those films where the dialogue volume is really low and the sound effects are way too loud. IMO that works in the cinemas but watching at home is frustrating turning it up and down all the time.

 

[Evil_Mush]

total recall. (the remake)

if it wasn't called total recall i would've quite enjoyed this. some great concepts(mainly the tube through the earth) and not bad generally, but suffered from the expectation of going to mars and aliens being involved.

Yeah exactly what I thought after I came out of the cinema for this one, should've just been called Rekall or something. Was quite entertaining as long as you weren't thinking about the Arnie version of the story! The climax with the main antagonist was a bit underwhelming though.


Looking forward to watching Interstellar & Dead Lands (Maori-subtitled 'action' movie set in pre-settler New Zealand, former Warrior Wairangi Koopu plays an actual Warrior!) before they leave cinemas.

 

[alien]

Anyone seen the trailer for Exists? It's coming out on Thursday. It's about a group of young adults who stay in the woods and they are being terrorized by a bigfoot. Why can't they all be nice like Harry???

 

[veggiepatch1959]

Rewatched Prometheus after a year or more. Damn good movie that copped a bit of flak for reasons unknown to me.

Apparently Prometheus 2 is in the pipeline for 2016.

 

[snoozer]

Rewatched Prometheus after a year or more. Damn good movie that copped a bit of flak for reasons unknown to me.

Apparently Prometheus 2 is in the pipeline for 2016.

yeh rewatched that too just recently and was surprised how good it was the 2nd time round.

 

[legend]

Watched Interstellar in Imax today in Anaheim. Great experience! Loved the concept and bought into the emotional aspects of the film and even though it went for three hours, it never felt that long. Special effects were incredible. I'm a bona fide Christopher Nolan fan. Love his work!

 

[alien]

bought JOHN Q on dvd today for 5 bucks at target. about to watch it now...

 

[alien]

if you watch this is and you don't feel a bit emotional then you've got no heart

 

[Wizardman]

Im watching Superman 2 at the moment and realizing two things

1) What a classic it is and what a mess the remake was. The remake just had no heart and soul.

2) Christopher Reeve was an underrated actor.

 

[alien]

i kind of liked the last superman movie they made

 

[alien]

did anyone watch The Last Samauri tonight after the 4 nations? not a bad flick

 

[LESStar58]

This Is Where I Leave You.

Tina Fey. Connie Britton. Rose Byrne.

'Nuff said.

 

[Game_Breaker]

i kind of liked the last superman movie they made

Nuclear man, really?

The first 2 are classics, I can't say the same for 3 and 4