[Movies] Last Movie You Saw and What You Would Rate it Out of 10

[Defengar]

Fern Gully with 3D CGI everywhere does not = a masterpiece. Avatar is WAY over hyped and always has been. Its plot is one of the most basic and overused out there. Seriously, just look at the cartoon Fern Gully and you'll realise Avatar's basically that, for teens.

Anyways.

Contagion: 9/10

The story, although an extremely old one, was decent enough to get by(fern gully is in no way the first to use the "bad guy comes over to the good side and fights against overwhelming odds to help the underdog dog good side" theme, hell, Dances with Wolves did it 2 years before Fern Gully was even made). The main draw and attraction was the arguably best CGI ever used in a movie and the best use of 3-D in years, possibly ever.

All that coalesced into a true cinematic experience, and its why it made nearly 2.8 BILLION dollars at the Box office. Movies are not always supposed to have some sort of deep message or engrossing story, they are first and foremost supposed to be entertainment, and that's what Avatar was, pure entertainment. For tens of millions of more people than the Hurt locker was I might add. The hurt locker was, for the most part, not entertaining, and carried no real deep message, it was basically trying to one-up Jarhead, which was head over heals a better film, yet didn't win best picture.

Cameron actually started writing Avatar in middle school, he even showed the binder full of line paper he wrote all his ideas and scripts on during an interview a while back. He wanted to start making it before he even finished Titanic, but he realized he needed to wait until special effects had matured enough for the film not to look dated and crappy a year later.

[Waaldo]

Skyfall: 5/10, and that is being generous.

It was a decent secret agent movie... But James Bond? lol
James Bond has always been about a secret agent with awesome gadgets that we think could never be possible, all this guy had was a palm reading gun, a gps, and machine guns on his car. Nothing impressive, the palm reading gun was the only thing that seemed half decent. Thank god I didn't pay for that shit. Yay internet!

Oh and I laughed hard at 007 getting out of a choke hold under freezing cold water, and Daniel Craig runs like a retard.

I also watched District 9 again on TV, still the best movie of all time, 10/10.

[Saturate]

The Hobbit - 9/10


Only CGI orcs and 3D brought down the grade. Can't wait to see the extended bluray edition.

[Shinzai]

The story, although an extremely old one, was decent enough to get by(fern gully is in no way the first to use the "bad guy comes over to the good side and fights against overwhelming odds to help the underdog dog good side" theme, hell, Dances with Wolves did it 2 years before Fern Gully was even made). The main draw and attraction was the arguably best CGI ever used in a movie and the best use of 3-D in years, possibly ever.

All that coalesced into a true cinematic experience, and its why it made nearly 2.8 BILLION dollars at the Box office. Movies are not always supposed to have some sort of deep message or engrossing story, they are first and foremost supposed to be entertainment, and that's what Avatar was, pure entertainment. For tens of millions of more people than the Hurt locker was I might add. The hurt locker was, for the most part, not entertaining, and carried no real deep message, it was basically trying to one-up Jarhead, which was head over heals a better film, yet didn't win best picture.

Cameron actually started writing Avatar in middle school, he even showed the binder full of line paper he wrote all his ideas and scripts on during an interview a while back. He wanted to start making it before he even finished Titanic, but he realized he needed to wait until special effects had matured enough for the film not to look dated and crappy a year later.

As I said, it's by no means a masterpiece and there were films out that were better all round than it. If you took the 3D CGI away, it wouldn't have gotten any where. Avatar was just a popcorn piece with little other purpose. It had some new and shiny tech and that drew the crowds in their millions.

The acting's average, mostly over the top, the story is average, the action is good and the visuals/special effects pretty much carry the film. Such an unbalanced film simply isn't going to win best picture. I would've given District 9 best picture before Avatar.

[Defengar]

At least we can agree that Hurt Locker didn't deserve the award that year.

I feel avatar deserved it not only because it was a technological milestone in film making, but because it was arguably the biggest film of the century. The only other movies that comes close in my mind to hype it generated is Gone With The Wind, and Star Wars A New Hope, and only Gone With the Wind (adjusted for inflation) even comes close to its box office record. For about 6 months people were going bonkers for avatar. Everyone was talking about it, there were news stories on it, hell, when it was temporarily banned from theaters in china, one city there renamed a freaking mountain after it in protest.

[Algore]

Once Upon A Time In Anatolia - Turkish movie.
Fantastic experience both intellectually and emotionally. The cinematography was impressing and also, to my surprise, shot in digital.

8.5/10. In my top 10 of 2012.

[galimim]

Cloud Atlas 9/10

One of the best movies I have seen in a long long time. It is not for people with short attention span. It is a thinking mens movie. I havent read the book so I will leave comparison to someone else, but if the movie is so amazing I cant wait to get my hands on it.

[Mear]

Kara no Kyoukai 2: Satsujin Kousatsu
Kara no Kyoukai 3: Tsuukaku Zanryuu
Kara no Kyoukai 5: Mujun Rasen
Kara no Kyoukai 7: Satsujin Kousatsu

But non animated, I don't really know, hard to keep track on things when I don't have list on them but what comes up on my mind is Shawshank Redemption, have prbly seen more 10s since then, maybe.. 9s I have a few tho.

[Orby]

The Hobbit 8/10

Really really enjoyed it, great fun and a great start to whats going to be an awesome a better trilogy

[Majad]

I just watched Closer.

My god, I wasn't expecting to like it, at all, but it was a lot better than what I thought. My brother told me there was only 4 actors in it and I was like, "meh, only? Movie will suck because of that, I'm sure!" And no, movie was just fantastic.

Natalie's acting was pretty amazing, Jude's too, all 4 actors, it was simply amazing and the sudden realization at the end of the movie was pretty fantastic too.

Just an amazing movie, easily a 10/10 for me.

[Shiny212]

Die Hard 3 - 8/10

It's Die Hard! 3 also, wich i think is the best one. Jeremy Irons is so freaking good as Simon!

"As I was going to St Ives
I met a man with seven wives
Every wife had seven sacks
Every sack had seven cats
Every cat had seven kits
Kits, cats, sacks, wives.
How many were going to St Ives?

Call me in thirty seconds or die"

You're right, die hard 3 is awesome, and because you mentioned it I had to see it again and 10/10, action at its finest.

[Felir]

Going to see The Hobbit today with my girlfriend - any honest reviews I can read or can someone post one?

[Led ++]

Jack Reacher 5/10

Retarded acting, the whole plot was just "meh" too. Tom Cruise playing the retard who's just beyond good at everything he does. No thank you.



Interview With A Vampire: 8.5/10

One of the best Vampire movies around imo. Now this is a movie where Tom Cruise shows that he CAN act, and damn good. Was a long time since I saw this movie, I hated Kirsten Dunst since her role in Spiderman, but it seems that when she was a kid, she could actually act.

[Eminemenemese]

Django Unchained

10/10

Quentin Tarantino outdid himself yet again. 2 hours and 45 minutes of awesome drama, bloody action, and unforgettable characters. There was nothing I didn't enjoy about this movie.

[Defengar]

Something awesome about Django. (small spoilers)

When DiCaprio's character slams his hand on the table and it starts bleeding, thats real blood. During the shooting of the scene, when he slammed his hand on the table, he accidentally smashed a shot glass and cut his hand open, but instead of stopping, he was so "in the zone" he kept right on rolling and even used the injury to help illustrate the guys craziness. When he rubbed blood all over Brunhilda's face, that was him ad libbing the scene, and her freaking out was an actual reaction.

[wynnyelle]

Something awesome about Django. (small spoilers)

When DiCaprio's character slams his hand on the table and it starts bleeding, thats real blood. During the shooting of the scene, when he slammed his hand on the table, he accidentally smashed a shot glass and cut his hand open, but instead of stopping, he was so "in the zone" he kept right on rolling and even used the injury to help illustrate the guys craziness. When he rubbed blood all over Brunhilda's face, that was him ad libbing the scene, and her freaking out was an actual reaction.

That's actually really cool! Kind of feel bad for the actress though, haha. I probably would have been revolted.

[smegdawg]

Well last movie I watched was the Incredibles 10/10, But i have seen that movie many a times.

So instead I'll go with the last movie I saw for the first time.

Total Rekall - The new one, honestly it wasn't a terrible movie. It scratched, my sci-fi itch at least. 7/10

[notorious98]

That's actually really cool! Kind of feel bad for the actress though, haha. I probably would have been revolted.

Hope he's been checked out for the HIV.

[Fahrenheit]

The Hobbit

Probably an 9. Only thing holding it back was it seemed just a little too familar, if that makes sense... like numerous scenes from the movie were very similar to scenes from the LotR trilogy.

[saberon]

Going to see The Hobbit today with my girlfriend - any honest reviews I can read or can someone post one?

I loved it. You'll hear some people complain about how there was too much talking, or it dragged on a bit, and while they are certainly valid points, it personally didn't bother me.

When I first saw Fellowship, I thought much the same. But, like Fellowship, I suspect the Hobbit is a) setting up for an awesome trilogy, and b) only gets better with repeated viewings.

Also, watch it in 3D/48fps if you can. It took me a while to adjust to it, but fuck me it's something special to look at.