sexton said:

Very good, surprisingly.

Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me (2014) - As he struggles with Alzheimer's disease, country-music legend Glen Campbell embarks on his farewell tour in the U.S., Australia, and Europe.

Very moving documentary. I can see why its song received an Oscar nomination. 4/5

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First half, 7/10. Second half, 3.5/10 at best. Overall enjoyable enough, but the story sucked ass.

Spectre:

Beautifully shot. A bit of a snoozefest. I groaned when Lea Seydoux's character told James
"I love you" after knowing him for one day.

6.5/10

Lianachan said:

Very good, surprisingly.

9/10

sexton said:

Finding Vivian Maier (2013) - A documentary on the late Vivian Maier, a nanny whose previously unknown cache of 100,000 photographs earned her a posthumous reputation as one of the most accomplished street photographers.

Great photography and I liked the slow unraveling of the mystery about who this person was. 4/5

That's actually a film I have on my list of "Women's Stories" to watch!

duccichucka said:

Spectre:

Beautifully shot. A bit of a snoozefest. I groaned when Lea Seydoux's character told James
"I love you" after knowing him for one day.

6.5/10

Right! I really don't get that, it's soooo lazy writing... Is that the best they could come up with? After the fight on the train the movie really takes a nose dive.

Always trying to deconstruct where the tv shows Scandal and Empire borrow plot concepts from, I've taken to diving into historical and mythical dramas about royal courts and empires. Lately my memory is so bad though, whichever one I saw first or last is totally a blur at this point :

Phishanga said:

Danny Collins, the new Al Pacino movie, 10 out of 10, he is brilliant in it!

morningsong said:

[img:$uid]http://i267.pho.../img:$uid] Circle (II). 3.5/5 -- Held captive and faced with their imminent executions, fifty strangers are forced to choose the one person among them who deserves to live. Ending left a lot of questions, but I was intrigued by the movie.

Oh I hate that! I need clear conclusions because I like neat sewn up endings.

The Road Within ... EXCELLENT Movie /5

This movie pulled emotions out of me... any movie that can make me feel laughter and sadness, giggles and tears is a great one IMO.

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Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine 5 stars out of 5

As opposed to the highly fictional Steve Jobs, this documentary tells as close as possible to the real story of Steve Jobs life. It just hammers home how the psychosis of large corporations can take hold.

five laughing faces

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this movie is light and funny. good entertainment.

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I watched most of "Kill Bill Vol. 2" yesterday. Here's how much I liked it:

I would switch the channel periodically because "Rambo II" was playing on a Spanish station.

That's right - I would choose Sylvester Stallone mumbling in Spanish over Uma Thurman doing whatever it was she was doing.

Now, I get that the "Kill Bill" movies (it was supposed to be one movie) were Tarantino's homage to karate flicks. But it wasn't a very good homage, IMO. He switched from old-school-karate movie style to American movie style too many times. Heck, even one switch of styles would have been too much.

The story was not very good. Of course, keep in mind that I've never seen Vol. 1. Who knows, maybe all questions are answered. But I read the plot summary and don't feel like I am lacking any essential knowledge.

What happened to Darryl Hannah after she got blinded? She was one bad b**** but Michael Madsen didn't see the black adder coming? C'mon! Dude had just offed Uma (so he thought). Surely he had some game. He HAD to know that a badass killer like Darryl Hannah wasn't going to let him keep a suitcase full of money. Why he didn't spike her margarita I don't know. But I knew for sure there was no way Hannah was letting him keep that suitcase.

And again - what happened to Hannah after she was blinded? Major plot hole because you know that after she got her eye hole closed up, she was going to figure out some way to kill Uma. The last scene shows Uma and her daughter driving away, living happily ever after. But no way! Not with Darryl Hannah still alive. Heck, the last thing Uma heard Hannah say was "I'm going to kill you! I'm going to kill you!" It's like Tarantino just forgot about Hannah. Oops.

The final scene was stupid, too. "I love you but I am going to kill you" never plays well. So Uma gives Bill the Five Fingered Death Move and then cries about it? And you take five steps and then die? Bull hockey! If I ever got the Five Fingered Death Move, I'd just sit down and not take any steps. I'd call the doctors and have them come get me. Then I'd go to the hospital and either get my heart fixed, or get a new heart. All without taking those five steps.

But Bill just gets up and walks away? "How do I look?" he says. "Like you're ready" Uma says. Give me a break! So Bill, who loves his daughter, is just going to take those five steps, instead of activating the RodeoSchro Five Fingered Death Move Survival Strategy outlined above? I'm not buying it.

I give "Kill Bill Vol. 2" only 1 1/2 Fingers of the Actual Five Finger Death Move. And I am really glad I got to watch Sylvester Stallone lay waste to the North Vietnamese Army, and it didn't matter that they all were speaking Spanish.

XxAxX said:

five laughing faces

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this movie is light and funny. good entertainment.

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I LOVED this movie. I laughed my butt off. Drew is awesome and the old lady was priceless!!

RodeoSchro said:

I watched most of "Kill Bill Vol. 2" yesterday. Here's how much I liked it:

I would switch the channel periodically because "Rambo II" was playing on a Spanish station.

That's right - I would choose Sylvester Stallone mumbling in Spanish over Uma Thurman doing whatever it was she was doing.

Now, I get that the "Kill Bill" movies (it was supposed to be one movie) were Tarantino's homage to karate flicks. But it wasn't a very good homage, IMO. He switched from old-school-karate movie style to American movie style too many times. Heck, even one switch of styles would have been too much.

The story was not very good. Of course, keep in mind that I've never seen Vol. 1. Who knows, maybe all questions are answered. But I read the plot summary and don't feel like I am lacking any essential knowledge.

What happened to Darryl Hannah after she got blinded? She was one bad b**** but Michael Madsen didn't see the black adder coming? C'mon! Dude had just offed Uma (so he thought). Surely he had some game. He HAD to know that a badass killer like Darryl Hannah wasn't going to let him keep a suitcase full of money. Why he didn't spike her margarita I don't know. But I knew for sure there was no way Hannah was letting him keep that suitcase.

And again - what happened to Hannah after she was blinded? Major plot hole because you know that after she got her eye hole closed up, she was going to figure out some way to kill Uma. The last scene shows Uma and her daughter driving away, living happily ever after. But no way! Not with Darryl Hannah still alive. Heck, the last thing Uma heard Hannah say was "I'm going to kill you! I'm going to kill you!" It's like Tarantino just forgot about Hannah. Oops.

The final scene was stupid, too. "I love you but I am going to kill you" never plays well. So Uma gives Bill the Five Fingered Death Move and then cries about it? And you take five steps and then die? Bull hockey! If I ever got the Five Fingered Death Move, I'd just sit down and not take any steps. I'd call the doctors and have them come get me. Then I'd go to the hospital and either get my heart fixed, or get a new heart. All without taking those five steps.

But Bill just gets up and walks away? "How do I look?" he says. "Like you're ready" Uma says. Give me a break! So Bill, who loves his daughter, is just going to take those five steps, instead of activating the RodeoSchro Five Fingered Death Move Survival Strategy outlined above? I'm not buying it.

I give "Kill Bill Vol. 2" only 1 1/2 Fingers of the Actual Five Finger Death Move. And I am really glad I got to watch Sylvester Stallone lay waste to the North Vietnamese Army, and it didn't matter that they all were speaking Spanish.

Yeah, I didn't make it very far through Kill Bill (Vol. 1?), either.

Saw this for research purposes (no, I have not applied for Mars One ).

I'm not the best person to judge this kind of thing, as I'm not a science fiction fan. But I did find parts of it cartoony and pandering. I prefered the first half, where it's more Damon-trying-to-survive.

I guess I'd recommend it if you enjoy Matt Damon and/or "space" movies.

P.S. I thought Damon was very good, though.

Ace said:

Saw this for research purposes (no, I have not applied for Mars One ).

I'm not the best person to judge this kind of thing, as I'm not a science fiction fan. But I did find parts of it cartoony and pandering. I prefered the first half, where it's more Damon-trying-to-survive.

I guess I'd recommend it if you enjoy Matt Damon and/or "space" movies.

I saw this recently as well. The ending was a little too Hollywood for me, (comparing recent astronaut movies, the ending to Gravity was better) but other than that, I liked The Martian very much.

sexton said:

Ace said:

Saw this for research purposes (no, I have not applied for Mars One ).

I'm not the best person to judge this kind of thing, as I'm not a science fiction fan. But I did find parts of it cartoony and pandering. I prefered the first half, where it's more Damon-trying-to-survive.

I guess I'd recommend it if you enjoy Matt Damon and/or "space" movies.

I saw this recently as well. The ending was a little too Hollywood for me, (comparing recent astronaut movies, the ending to Gravity was better) but other than that, I liked The Martian very much.

Yeah, the ending was very "Hollywood". Again, I enjoyed the more "humorous" Damon stuff.

And I think I, too, preferred Gravity's ending. ...Although I was disappointed by that movie. Having avoided the reviews, I went in expecting something more profound and it turned out to just be a 'get-out-of-a-jam movie, set in space' (to paraphrase my shrink).

Ottensen said:

Always trying to deconstruct where the tv shows Scandal and Empire borrow plot concepts from, I've taken to diving into historical and mythical dramas about royal courts and empires. Lately my memory is so bad though, whichever one I saw first or last is totally a blur at this point :

One of the best-scripted films ever made, and in my top 5 of all time.

The TV show Empire borrows HEAVILY from this film.

Gone Girl (2014)

Not a bad film, not a great one, glad I didn't pay to see it.

1/2

Under The Skin (2013)

I'd love to be able to say it was an insightful critique of standards of beauty. Or something. But it fell apart despite ScarJo's valiant effort to carry it.

1/2

namepeace said:

Under The Skin (2013)

I'd love to be able to say it was an insightful critique of standards of beauty. Or something. But it fell apart despite ScarJo's valiant effort to carry it.

1/2

That theme may have been prominent in the book, but for me, the movie was all about turning the tables between predator and prey. (For those who have not yet seen it, I'm going to throw out some spoilers here.) In the beginning, the alien has no empathy toward humans, seeing them only as food--she showed more interest in an ant that the crying woman from whom she was stealing her first set of clothes. When she later tries to learn what it's like to be human, it works out all too well as she in turn becomes prey and suffers the same fate as the humans she hunted earlier. One of my favorite films of 2014, I've already watched it multiple times. 5/5

Sicario (2015) - An idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by an elected government task force to aid in the escalating war against drugs at the border area between the U.S. and Mexico.

Its itensity reminded me a lot of The Hurt Locker--a thrill from beginning to end. 4/5

Just saw Bessie--an excellent film from Queen Latifah, Mo'nique and the entire cast. I particularly enjoyed Queen Latifah singing Bessie Smith's songs. This is the kind of movie I wanted her to do since I saw her perform in Chicago.

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