What Movies Have You Seen III

[Eddie Lab]

great time traveling movie. should crack that out again and have a time travelling marathon. on time travel, I've just started listening to Stephen king's 11/22/63. hell of a book so far if anyone is interested.

 

[Chicken_Hunter]

Have any of you seen The Langoliers???

Saw it once about 15 years ago. Enjoyed it. Don't mind the low budget Stephen king flicks.


Watched Lucy the other night. Amazing movie, probably movie of the year 9/10

 

[alien]

great time traveling movie. should crack that out again and have a time travelling marathon. on time travel, I've just started listening to Stephen king's 11/22/63. hell of a book so far if anyone is interested.

I watched Frequency online for free a few weeks ago.

 

[alien]

on time travel, I've just started listening to Stephen king's 11/22/63. hell of a book so far if anyone is interested.

I haven't read it. There's a time travel novel by Dean Koontz called Lightning which I am reading. You might enjoy that.

 

[alien]

For those who haven't watched The Langoliers you can watch it for free here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSSPVUvbvAA
Mr Toomey in the movie should make you laugh.

When that Malaysian airliner disappeared, it reminded me of this movie.

 

[bileduct]

Gone Girl.

I was really enjoying it but then the last 20 or so minutes was just complete shit.

The more I think about this film the more plot holes become apparent.

 

[bileduct]

I've heard nothing but good things about it from mates, but have also unwittingly been spoiled on a couple of major plot points (one via mates partner talking about the movie while I was there for league, and again recently on the comments of a youtube video that was unrelated to the movie), so I'm thinking I'll just forgo paying for this at the movies and watch at my own leisure when available.

That's the problem about movies with potential twists and reveals that are intended to shock or surprise if you've been pre-spoiled, while you can still enjoy the film there is something diminished in that first viewing experience knowing what is coming compared to getting that legitimate shock/surprise which is an awesome feeling when watching for the first time.

Other examples where I enjoyed the film, but really wished I hadn't found out the key twists/reveals beforehand include Scream, Sixth Sense, The Usual Suspects, Seven (what's in the box) & Fight Club.

I remember seeing a telesync of the Sixth Sense on VCD about a week after it came out in the US. A mate handed it to me and all he said was "watch this." I'd never heard of it and didn't know a single thing about it.

I remember having a massive "WTF!" moment when the plot twist was revealed. I never saw it coming at all.

A few months later it gets released here and was advertised as having this massive plot twist, blah blah blah. There were dickheads at work who came in after seeing it, saying how lame it was because they predicted the plot twist in the first five minutes of the film.

Previews do a pretty good job of ruining films too. The previews for The Bone Collector had the antagonist providing a monologue which was really f**king stupid because the actor in question has a really recognisable voice. So when he turns up really early in the film (the first few scenes from memory) as some random background character it completely undermined his later being revealed as the bad guy.

 

[WaznTheGreat]

22 Jump Street

Not as good as the 1st but not bad,some decent laughs

6 Freddie Prinze Jr's out of 10

 

[Chicken_Hunter]

Ninja Turtles - was entertaining, can't wait for all the sequels. Like transformers this is a franchise that will get better with each movie.

 

[bileduct]

Ninja Turtles - was entertaining, can't wait for all the sequels. Like transformers this is a franchise that will get better with each movie.

Thankyou for your review. I can now avoid this movie knowing that it is complete and utter shit.

 

[Chicken_Hunter]

Thankyou for your review. I can now avoid this movie knowing that it is complete and utter shit.

It's probably the best out of all the ninja turtles movies and I watched the original easily over 100 times.

 

[bileduct]

It's probably the best out of all the ninja turtles movies and I watched the original easily over 100 times.

 

[mackdadday]

Interstellar..enjoyed the first 6 hours but..got quite ridiculous in the final 11 hours.

 

[alien]

22 Jump Street

Not as good as the 1st but not bad,some decent laughs

this is the best parts, especially from 3 mins and 8 secs in
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yLZjiowQIU :lol:

 

[elyod138]

Gone Girl.

I was really enjoying it but then the last 20 or so minutes was just complete shit.

The more I think about this film the more plot holes become apparent.

Like what?

 

[Aragorn]

The Homesman starring Hilary Swank & Tommy Lee Johns.

7/10.

A bit disturbing but worth the watch.

 

[ElectricEelMan]

Boyhood.

Coming of age movie filmed over 12 years with the same actors playing the characters. So the 6 year old boy you meet at the start and the 18 year new university student at the end is played by the same actor. Same with the sister and the parents (Patricia Arquette and Ethan Hawke).

I couldn't stop watching. Not a particularly unique or special story. Not amazing acting or direction. But the use of the same actors in a movie that spanned 12 years, especially the two kids, gave the movie an authenticity lacking in any movies where they use different actors to play the same character. You can even notice the aging of parents.

At the end I went back to the start and watched the opening scene just to let it soak in. Its hard to explain.

A landmark/groundbreaking film no doubt.

Almost certainly will feature prominently at next years Oscars.

 

[madunit]

Gone Girl.

I was really enjoying it but then the last 20 or so minutes was just complete shit.

The more I think about this film the more plot holes become apparent.

I'm with you on this.

The ending alone is flimsy at best.

It seemed ever increasingly, to be a commentary on media. How it pesters celebrity & how it can be manipulated.

 

[Bulldog Force]

Last few I've seen...

• Exit Wounds
• Payback
• My Fellow Americans
• Furious 6

 

[bileduct]

Like what?

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.