OzlemUcucu said:

morningsong said:

3/5 I liked it. Very low budget, handheld video camera intentially, used a lot of family, Grandma Betty was so cute. Gritty and very bittersweet.

THE AMER­I­CAN DREAM cen­ters on Luis, a young man who is rejected from USC’s School of Cin­e­matic Arts and decides to attend LA City Col­lege instead. Cir­cum­stances that seem to over­whelm his pas­sage into man­hood and his devel­op­ment as an artist force him to drop out of LACC and join the Marine Corp with his best friend Ronald. Armed with dreams that extend beyond their block, Luis and Ronald make a movie doc­u­ment­ing their last 36 hours before ship­ping off to Afghanistan. In their dark­est hour, they turn on the video cam­era for the last time and doc­u­ment the final moments of their jour­ney home. They soon real­ize that their dreams and promises of a new life mean noth­ing in a place called War.

Uh, I skipped that, I believe it's too patriotic for my liking.

The 39 Steps (1935)

3/5

Early British Hitchcock film before he went to America and made most of his films there. Even though it uses the same elements Hitchcock was known for (wrongly accused characher on the run), it doesn't have that highly stylized look that were familiar with like in films like North By Northwest.

ZombieKitten said:

The Big Year 3/5
Entertaining but ultimately unsatisfying too many birds mentioned but not seen

NDRU said:

ZombieKitten said:

The Big Year 3/5
Entertaining but ultimately unsatisfying too many birds mentioned but not seen

But they showed 750 in the credits alone!

ZombieKitten said:

NDRU said:

But they showed 750 in the credits alone!

Stills!!!!

doesn't matter, still counts!

The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus 2/5

not my cup of tea AT all.

Fell asleep before it ended. Frustrating. Loved the look of it, and some of the absurdity, but it was hard-going to watch.

ZombieKitten said:

The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus 2/5

not my cup of tea AT all.

Fell asleep before it ended. Frustrating. Loved the look of it, and some of the absurdity, but it was hard-going to watch.

I sort of liked it, but Terry Gilliam's movies are just aesthetically unpleasant! Interesting & creative, but gross, grating & disturbing

NDRU said:

ZombieKitten said:

The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus 2/5

not my cup of tea AT all.

Fell asleep before it ended. Frustrating. Loved the look of it, and some of the absurdity, but it was hard-going to watch.

I sort of liked it, but Terry Gilliam's movies are just aesthetically unpleasant! Interesting & creative, but gross, grating & disturbing

There were so many incidental dialogues all over each other I couldn't follow, or more that I stopped being interested enough to try following it. I had no problem with people turning into other people, that was fine with me lol

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Took the kiddies to see Ice Ice Age 4, I didn't think it was as good as the previous one, just a bit dark for a kids movie, a really mean pirate!!! Though the squirrel bits were as funny as per usual!! I think the kids were more excited over the preview for Madagascar 3, which is out next school holidays. 3/5

Also watched Interview with a Vampire, not with the kids, how yummy was Antonio Banderas as Armand and Brad Pitt - yum !!! Thought Tom Cruise was good as Lestat, but I didn't read the books until after I saw this movie. 4.5/5

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naffi said:

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Took the kiddies to see Ice Ice Age 4, I didn't think it was as good as the previous one, just a bit dark for a kids movie, a really mean pirate!!! Though the squirrel bits were as funny as per usual!! I think the kids were more excited over the preview for Madagascar 3, which is out next school holidays. 3/5

I knew I was missing something. Ice Age seems to the one kiddie movie I really enjoy.

ZombieKitten said:

Grave of the Fireflies 5/5 Just beautiful. Would you believe it didn't make me cry? Because it wasn't a manipulative tearjerker, desire it being a devastating story.

I don't think i made it twenty minutes into that movie. I found it far too painful to watch. Maybe I'll try one day, but I don't think it will be any time soon.

ZombieKitten said:

Last night I saw: Chronicle (the directors cut) 3/5 Very entertaining - I thought it would be crap Grave of the Fireflies 5/5 Just beautiful. Would you believe it didn't make me cry? Because it wasn't a manipulative tearjerker, desire it being a devastating story.

Such a superb movie. I nearly choked up on it myself @ one point....

damosuzuki said:

3/5. I liked it more than I expected, though some aspects did grate on me a touch.

Magic Mike (2012) - a known local stripper (Tatum) takes a newcomer (Pettyfer) under his wing & shows him the ropes to making easy money. I'd have given it 5 stars for Pettyfer's ass but 3/5

the only thing about it that felt like a Soderbergh film was the colour scheme, otherwise the bland story, poor plot & set of actors (McConaughey aside) must've been what caused it to be so uninspired.

damosuzuki said:

ZombieKitten said:

The Big Year 3/5 Entertaining but ultimately unsatisfying too many birds mentioned but not seen

I thought it was cute too, but you're right where were the damned birds?

morningsong said:

Re-watches

4.5/5 The rare movie I could just put on repeat several times.

Love this one.

I can't rememmber the last time I responded to this thread, so the last movie I meant to rate and put here was

A German businessman in New York for one day meets the woman of his dreams. 3.5/5

Charming in some spots. Just fine if you like Allen-esque movies with chatty, over-analytical, slightly neurotic characters with the city itself being the real co-star of the movie. I like Julie Delphy's work so I'll give it a 3/5.

Police Academy 4 2/5 I saw this at the movies when I was a kid, but couldn't remember much apart from loving bobcat goldthwait and that wet t-shirt scene

Junior 2.5/5

Only funny when Arnold Schwartzenegger in drag claims when he was a female athlete in east germany they gave him steroids like it was gatorade

Year One 2.5/5

Funny in parts but ultimately too long

It might get Loud 4/5

What a sweetheart Jimmy Page is!

I'm totally NOT into Jack White

ZombieKitten said:

Junior 2.5/5

Only funny when Arnold Schwartzenegger in drag claims when he was a female athlete in east germany they gave him steroids like it was gatorade

okay, it could be watching soley for that line alone

Isn't Jack White sort of like, a pompous ass?

NDRU said:

PurpleJedi said:

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MAN-!!!

I had forgotten about this movie!!!

What would you rate it nowadays???

I watched this recently. I like the songs, and I like the look. Some of it was cute.

The big problem is with the sound. It is really hard to understand Robin Williams, and not just because of how he is talking. They could have made his voice sound clearer. For some reason all of the audio has a very detached quality. It's weird, and makes it really hard to enjoy.

So...it was on TV this weekend, and I sat and watched it with the kids.

/ 5

It had potential.

The sets were great (amazing to think what Hollywood used to build).

But the plot was crappy (OK, kids movie, I get it, but still...), the music numbers were BORING AS HELL (most of them IMO), and (as you mentioned) the audio was terrible.

Shelley Duvall played a wonderful Olive Oyl and Robin Williams made a good Popeye. His mumbling was true to the original cartoons, but made for a poor big screen performance.

Watched Midnight in Paris for the secont time. I love that movie.

PurpleJedi said:

NDRU said:

I watched this recently. I like the songs, and I like the look. Some of it was cute.

The big problem is with the sound. It is really hard to understand Robin Williams, and not just because of how he is talking. They could have made his voice sound clearer. For some reason all of the audio has a very detached quality. It's weird, and makes it really hard to enjoy.

So...it was on TV this weekend, and I sat and watched it with the kids.

/ 5

It had potential.

The sets were great (amazing to think what Hollywood used to build).

But the plot was crappy (OK, kids movie, I get it, but still...), the music numbers were BORING AS HELL (most of them IMO), and (as you mentioned) the audio was terrible.

Shelley Duvall played a wonderful Olive Oyl and Robin Williams made a good Popeye. His mumbling was true to the original cartoons, but made for a poor big screen performance.

Yeah, I just don't really get that movie. You say it's a kids movie, but to me it really has nothing that kids are particularly going to like (or adults for that matter!). It looks like a kids movie, but is it? I don't know what they were going for!

Like you say, it has some good stuff, particularly visual, and Shelley Duvall is inspired casting, but overall, I agree. 2/5

Friends With Benefits

Kind of clever, kind of cute. But ultimately this is just another cliche romantic comedy. I also thought it was not particularly sexy. Mila Kunis is sexy, but the sex was not. I laughed a few times inside my mouth, but I don't think sound ever came out of me So not really hilarious.

Nothing exactly awful about it (compare to Ashton Kusher's emotional breakdown at the end of No Strings Attached ) but nothing to write home about.

And someone said "this movie made me feel fat, unsuccessful, boring, and old." So I suppose where it really fails is in bringing you into the fantasy.

2.5/5

damosuzuki said:

3/5. I liked it more than I expected, though some aspects did grate on me a touch.

I can't see this but I'm assuming it's this... which I saw and liked. It does say Another Earth next to the red x, but sometimes there are two movies with the same titles floating about, so I'm not sure.

Ottensen said: