Review the latest movie you have seen

[THeTA0123]

I  began watching

The strain

A tv series made by Guillermo del Toro, this serie actually has horror compared to the walking dead

So long story short, plane lands on tarmac. everyone is dead exept 4 passengers. inside is a mysterious coffin wich contains some guy who is the master of a whole bunch of vampiric like creatures who become a plague and begin to spread in new york city

Now this arent your dracula type vampires. No this one actually makes some sort of sense..And god this is a great series. Lots of gore, massive 6 feet tongue leeching vampires and moments that make you grab your balls
Also, it has Nazi background

8.5/10 so far. Really enjoying it

[Matthew_Baker]

The Revenant

8/10

Wow that movie was insane. I knew this movie was gonna be some juicy Oscar bait from the time it was announced, and it mostly lived up to that hype. My only complaints were a few times where the story got a little slow for me. Everything else tho was amazing. Both Tom Hardy and Leo's acting. The incredible cinematography, it was very well done.

The movie was A LOT more gory than I thought it would be. Bear attack scene aside, almost every animal and person in this movie gets dismembered in some way. The Bear attack scene was intense tho. Idk how exactly they filmed it, but it was amazingly well done.

My only real complaint is the girl in front of me that I overheard saying "that movie was almost as boring as Star Wars"  I guess if you're a 17 yr old girl, it won't live up to the "Magic Mike" style of entertainment you're after. but I recommend it for everyone else 

[Captain Pyjama Shark]

Magic Mike is a good movie!

[Pappa_bear]

Office space
8,5 / 10

After a week of thesis writing and working on excevators, watching a movie about basicly nothing is the best medicine. The film follows an unmotivated men in his daily struggle, working at an IT office, and hearing shit from his supervisors all day. He changes into a relaxed men after hypnosis, and his relaxed style of work is hilarious. Not the best movie, but sure one to be listed in top 100 movies of all time. Acting is simple and good! Good script with a story we can all imagine. Thanks for your shares. Regards

[Roughbeak]

Office space

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNuu9CpdjIo

 

[Zoologic]

I have to watch Office Space then. Since I am basically making a living as an IT Consultant and currently quite desperate for a change.

[Captain Pyjama Shark]

I have to watch Office Space then. Since I am basically making a living as an IT Consultant and currently quite desperate for a change.

You will love it, it is right up your alley. 

[Zoologic]

I watched The Big Short (2016) instead.

It is actually my brother and sister's profession. And yes, they confirm it to be accurate enough, people around them are wilfully being ignorant to a systematic problem in order to secure their positions. My brother tried his idealism once, and called a bullshit on a client company, he got reprimanded for his actions, because the client become unhappy. He was quite shocked for a while, but nevertheless proud of what he have done.

Now the movie itself, according to my favourite American Real Estate Investor is recommended.

http://johntreed.com/blogs/john-t-reed-s-news-blog/82791939-comments-on-the-movie-the-big-short

Although tremendeously accurate for Hollywood standards, there are a few weird things:

- Adjustable interest rate (on mortgage loan), is it not common in USA? I thought this supposed to be normal, especially with the ridiculously long installment period in the US. The character Mark Baum seems surprised when he talk about this to a "CDO Manager" in Las Vegas.
- Blaming on Immigrants & poor people. Well, Wall Street is far more diverse than the "leftist" Hollywood themselves (where there are just too many anti-immigrant trade unions), with the exception of African Americans (there are more real Africans there). And never once they did blame immigrants as far as I know, these economic liberals love immigrants more than Angeline Jolie ever could. I think greed translates well across the world.

I like the story and how they compress it. But I hate the cameo explanation part. So I give it 7.5/10. But you should watch it to understand why some people are just behaving like an arsehole.

My own personal takings (after experienced being an auditor an such)
Like the Army, sometimes you have incompetent superiors that you must obey. In the military you go with the leader for the sake of "Chain of Commands". In civilian world, you go with the stupid guy for the sake of your livelihood. The system is wrong, yes. The police are paid by tax money, which paid the most by few. Regulators as wel, they are funded by you-know-who. Every problem arises because people seeks money instead of fulfillment from their job. Like my brother said, if you go for the money, the job either eats your morality out, or reduced your sanity slowly every day.

[RAnDOOm]

Yesterday night saw Legend.

"The film tells the story of the identical twin gangsters Reggie and Ronnie Kray, two of the most notorious criminals in British history, and their organised crime empire in the East End of London during the 1960"



Another great performance by Tom Hardy and the portrait of London in the 60s is very well done.

8/10

[th_battleaxe]

Heh, the original Doug and Dinsdale Piranha. Looks like a nice film, but I'm waaay behind the new movies already. No Spectre, no Star Wars, yeah, I need to go to the theatre soon.

[Ts4EVER]

Watched The Big Short, and would recommend it. While I knew the basic outline of the goings on in 2007/8, it was presented very entertainingly here and in the end you didn't know whether to laugh or to cry...

[THeTA0123]

Deadpool

9/10

Cliches, humor, sarcasm, puns, puns towards Marvel, Xmen & dc, spoofs...This movie has it all and this packed with great action but a rather lowish story

Altough the story doesnt matter. The humor alone, is worth going to see this movie.

Wil watch again for sure

[Zoologic]

Revenant is okay.
If it wasn't for Leo and Mexican producer, people would have been "OMG, another white man being native"
But the movie itself is boring. The acting is great, probably because the plot line requires him to do so for most of the 2 hours + movie. Tom Hardy's character is a real jerk and arsehole there. But successfully doing so proves that he is a really talented actor.

+ instant plus for every movie that let the character speaks the original language, not some accented English
+ realistic scene, artistic cinematography, scenic symbolism, setting, ambiance
+ character's emotion, the hardest thing to caught Asian parent's attention is Western movies' too lively actors & actresses. But in this movie, my parents sit tense, watching Leo grit his teeth.

- oscar-bait material (boring), dragging plot, Cast Away-like character development (they really want him to get an Oscar, don't they?)
- implies deep meaning, yet shallow story (revenge, that's all)

Deadpool is as expected
Marvel knows their game. Some movie just tries too hard to be not-so-Hollywood. I think "The Big Short" tries slightly too hard from that cameo scenes. I am afraid that Deadpool will be spreading cheese on top of melted cheese. But the actual Deadpool? It barely avoids "cheesy". You will feel good when you left the cinema, because the movie never really promise you anything more. Cheers for Marvel allowing directors to create whatever they want, as close to the source material as they feel comfortable. Every Marvel movie feels different, MVU, GoTG, X-Men, and Deadpool. Meanwhile, in Warner Bros' DC camp, Supes tried so hard to be gritty like Batman, I just hope the next Batman vs Superman doesn't try the same old tired formula that worked very well in the last decade.

+ self-depreciating humour for actually a quite good material (not beating a dead horse).
+ actually a pretty good "movie-making-101" story, especially for a deadpan movie. Indeed a Valentine movie it is

- too many in-jokes. You have to be 50.09% American to "get it"
- I am not convinced that Ryan Reynolds = Deadpool, the way other Marvel casts fits their character, means acting not good

[Zoologic]

Spotlight

I couldn't care less about another Oscar-bait movie. It would be boring, full of other-worldly dialogue only poets and literature students cared. The more annoying thing is, this is "based on real events".

But my, the movie seems normal: you can feel the tension, the passion these people put into their work, and the only downside is how they conclude the ending. But the brewing of the plot is pretty good for a drama movie. I was expecting nothing.

8/10

[Zoologic]

The worst movies of 2015 that I happen to watch:

Mortdecai
By David Koepp
An art thief adventuring around the world to retrieve stolen painting. Pink Panther-like, but too sanitised. I am not finishing the whole movie. Every time Johnny Depp tries to quip a smart lines, I begin to imagine more witty remarks than what he uttered a few seconds later. Honestly, the dialogue lines are massively disappointing. It is as witty as a Southern Californians film crews can get. Nevertheless, you got occasional brilliant Johnny Depp's signature acting, turns of emotions, sudden change of characterisation. Forget about the rest of the cast.

3/10, a pathetic attempt at remaking a relatively unknown British comic book character into cinema. The last attempt that is passable, Avengers (2000), is alright. Ralph Fiennes and Uma Thurman, coupled with Sir Sean Connery quite work the British comical stereotypes pretty well. The Hollywood needs to eventually learn that what's inside the mind is more important than Johnny Depp's colourful expressions. I don't expect much from Director who made Premium Rush, a millennial sorts of thing. But Mortdecai is awful.

Fifty Shades of Grey
by Sam Taylor-Johnson
Some rich guy with kinky passion, hired somebody to be the outlet of his desire. They must discover if the feeling is mutual, through series of poorly acted hardcore scenes. Big budget amateur porn with unwilling cast. There are a lot of free porns with better plot and acting than this overhyped out-of-mainstream movie genre. It seems that nobody in the film making team understand BDSM. Dakota Johnson is more unrealistic than a typical German porn film participants. Jamie Dornan? There is nothing normal about that guy, he is can be instantly identified as a creep in the real world. Basically, the movie fails.

4/10 - bonus point for successful soundtrack and a little bit of experiment from the Hollywood. But, when you are doing a provocative subject, please make sure your are not hiring a bunch of first-timers. As if, the script writers are a group of elementary school students who have just received their first sex education on the day before. Just looking for boobies? There are a lot of free hardcore porns out there, right? I never read the book BTW.