Review the last film you watched

[Hootad Binky]

Found a good, quick movie review site on Yahoo (formatting didn't work, however). Here's an example ("Good Luck Chuck"):

Good Luck Chuck (2007) - Critics Reviews - Yahoo! Movies


Critics Reviews Average Grade: D
Source Brief Review Grade*

Boston Globe
Wesley Morris "...since there's no intelligence to drive the jokes, the gimmick turns tiresome quick." more... D

Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert "Here is the dirty movie of the year, slimy and scummy..." more... D

Chicago Tribune
Matt Pais "Hollywood should not allow any more Dane and Jessica movies." more... D+

Entertainment Weekly
Chris Nashawaty "Can we finally just admit that Dane Cook isn't funny?" more... F

filmcritic.com
Anne Gilbert "...hardly a good movie..." more... C-

New York Post
Kyle Smith "Good Luck Chuck,, a fungal little sex comedy, doesn't need a review. It needs a tube of ointment and a shot of penicillin." more... D-

New York Times
A. O. Scott "...even lowbrow comedy requires skill and intelligence." more... D

ReelViews
James Berardinelli "...the laughs are sporadic at best and there's no spark between the male and female leads." more... C

San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Hartlaub "Alba is so exceptionally challenged as an actress, it almost seems politically incorrect to make fun of her." more... D

Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold "...an unappealing abomination." more... D-

[GooMaiRoo]

"Childen Of Heaven" (Academy Award for best foreign language film, 1998). An Iranian movie about a schoolboy who loses his sister's only pair of shoes and tries to win a new pair of shoes for her in a footrace. A movie about a pair of shoes sounds pretty boring, but this was incredible. Well-directed, well-acted, well-written, poignant and uplifiting. I would give it 9 1/2 out of 10 stars, comparable in quality to 'Little Miss Sunshine' and 'Crash', two movies that really stood out for me in the past two years.


"Children of Heaven is very nearly a perfect movie for children, and of course that means adults will like it, too. It lacks the cynicism and smart-mouth attitudes of so much American entertainment for kids and glows with a kind of good-hearted purity. To see this movie is to be reminded of a time when the children in movies where children and not miniature stand-up comics."

— Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

[Looper]

Watched Spiderman 3 lastnight. What a load of shit

Seen any movies lately. Were they a load of shit or quite good?

[britmaveric]

3:10 Yuma - Russell Crowe/Christian Bale. Remake of an old Glenn Ford western. Basic premise famous outlaw is captured, and a rancher joins the posse trying to get him on a prison train to Yuma. While the outlaw's gang is out to free him from the law's hands.

8/10 - great acting and story, bit disappointed on how it ends, but def worth watching.

[buad hai]

Zeitgeist bills itself as "a non-profit filmiac expression to inspire people to start looking at the world from a more critical perspective and to understand that very often things are not what the population at large think they are."

It is, perhaps, the ultimate conspiracy theory movie. It posits that since the early 19th century a cabal of wealthy banks and bankers have used a variety of techniques to gain control of the world's population with the aim of turning all of us into non-thinking drones whose only purpose in life is to work, consume and accumulate debt which we pass on to our heirs. The movie starts out doubting the existence of the historical Jesus and claims that religion is just one of the tools used to put the masses into a brain-dead fog. The film also claims that all the major wars since 1900 have been deliberately started or provoked by this cabal because wars are enormously profitable for banks. The Lusitania was deliberately put in harm's way to bring the US in to WWI. Japan was provoked into attacking Pearl Harbor, bringing the US into WWII. The Gulf of Tonkin incident was faked to enable the US to enter in to a protracted conflict in Vietnam. The 9/11 attacks were staged to enable the cabal to secure a foothold in the middle-East.

Of course, it's easier to allege a massive conspiracy like this exists than it is to prove. You may draw your own conclusions.

The movie can be downloaded free and legally via a torrent you can find here:

Zeitgeist - The Movie, 2007

You can also watch it on Google Video:

ZEITGEIST, The Movie - Official Release - Full Film

[britmaveric]

Kingdom - An elite FBI team sent to find a killer in Saudi Arabia. Now they have become the target. Jamie Fox/Jennifer Garner. Ashraf Barhom who plays the Saudi Police Col who is working with the FBI team, steals the show in my opinion. 7/10

Black Sheep - mutated cannibalistic sheep on the rampage in New Zealand. One bite and you become infected and start mutating into a sheep creature. The premise alone is worth watching. I had a good laff when they attacked. Quite funny, even when the film takes itself seriously. 6/10

[Fstop]

Little Miss Sunshine

I watched this last night and was pleasantly surprised how good it was. Basic premise is that a family takes a road trip to California where the young daughter competes in a beauty pageant. Steve Carrell, Alan Arkin, Toni Collette star. The final performance of the beauty pageant was priceless.

8/10

[Some thing]

KING KONG

Short synopsis. Film crew got to island, find oversized ape, ape falls in love with human, crew takes ape back to America, ape gets shot and dies.

I tend to stay away from films whereby humans and animals foriage unhealthy romantic relationships such as Planet of the Apes and should have stayed away from this. Far too long. Far too boring. King Kong lacked Jackson's usual cinematic flair with rather bland overhead moving shots and the acting was terrible. Jack Black needs to do what he does best and just stick to comedies where he is the main laugh. Naomi Watt's acting is laughable as it always is and is the reason why you have to have more than just a pretty face in show biz.

Watch this movie if you think that real love can go beyond human/human relationships and have a morbid curiosity in beastiality..

[baldrick]

grindhouse - planet terror

twaddle

sad movie , the humor I think is supposed to come from the piss taking , but it was witless

[attaboy]

Alpha Dog

Ripped from the newspaper pages. A young fifteen year old is kidnapped because his older brother owes a drug dealer money. It's the story of kids spending too much time watching MTV and believing their own hype. It flopped at the box office but it's not that bad of a movie. You can definetly point to the characters in this movie and say, "Stupid Americans".

[ChiangMai noon]

1408

An adaptation of a Stephen King novel starring John cusack and Samuel L Jackson.

Cusack is a skeptical haunted house researcher that has failed to find a ghost i many years of scoping out the purported ghostly hot spots.

He ends up in room 1408 of the Dolphin hotel managed by Jackson who tries desperately to stop Cusack from staying there.

A lot happens during the night.

it goes from half decent to absurdly absurd.

Well reviewed in the main, I was dissapointed.
never scared.

Oh for another Blair Witch bit of genuine creepiness.

5/10

[Fstop]

Mini's First Time

Despite the title, this film is not about losing one's virginity. Nikki Reed (thirteen) stars as a high school senior in quest of "first times", which include posing as a call girl, shagging her stepfather, etc. It's wonderfully dark and very funny. The whole beginning has an "American Beauty" feel to it where the music matches the beat to the narrative. Very good performances overall by Reed, Alec Baldwin, Luke Wilson, and Carrie-Ann Moss.

9/10

[mrsquirrel]

Feed - odd odd odd odd odd.

Not a bad movie, not bad at all, but, odd.

All about feeders and gainers. Sexual fetishes.

I imagine that MTD is actually a gainer.

[mrsquirrel]

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Was terrible, fucking terrible movie.

1/10

[kingwilly]

A death at a funeral.

funny silly movie, you'll forget it in 17 seconds, but not a bad movie either IMO

[kingwilly]

here's a real movie critics review.

personally i thought there was too many 'fucks' in it alla 4 weddings and a funeral (but funnier and didnt suddenly turn myopic 1/2 way thru)

DEATH AT A FUNERAL
Rated:R

For movie details, please click here.

When one of the slamming doors is a coffin lid, you know you're in a proper farce. Death at a Funeral features a naked jumper, an incontinent gramps and a grifter dwarf, mixed in with a generous assortment of classic English types who supply delightfully absurd subplots involving hallucinogens, unrequited lust and sibling rivalries. All this daft business roughly unfolds in uproarious real time, a crisp and clever hour and a half that, like the best screwball comedies, barely pauses for laughs.

Muppeteer Frank Oz, who put his stamp on popular culture with Miss Piggy, Yoda and the Cookie Monster before he became a director (The Dark Crystal, Little Shop of Horrors, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels), was an inspired choice to helm Funeral. Born in Great Britain, he has the droll gene, necessary for a movie with throwaway lines like "I like to put pens up my bum," and a vaudeville sensibility well-honed during his years with Jim Henson. Screenwriter Dean Craig, scripting his first major feature, handles his eccentric characters and complicated scenario as though he had been writing for Ealing Studios for a half-century. And the cast...there's nothing like a comic English ensemble when it comes to inspired silliness.

Matthew Macfadyen, diffidently dashing as Darcy in Pride & Prejudice, is delightfully dowdy as Daniel, thirty-something son of the deceased. Rupert Graves plays Daniel's brother, Robert, the lecherous writer who interrupts his ex-pat partying in New York to fly home (first class) for the funeral. Daniel is jealous of his celebrity sibling yet petrified by the thought of delivering the eulogy. Meanwhile, he must reassure his wife, Jane (Keeley Hawes), that he will persuade Robert to take his mother (Jane Asher) back with him to America, so he and Jane can begin their life in their new London flat.

Standard obsequies, until cousin Martha (Daisy Donovan) innocently feeds boyfriend Simon (Alan Tudyk) a designer drug concocted by her aspiring pharmacist brother, Troy (Kris Marshall). Until a mysterious mourner, the diminutive Peter (Peter Dinklage), reveals a tawdry surprise about the dearly beloved, documented with compromising snapshots. Until misapprehensions of infidelity, suicide and murder turn the somber affair into an absurd burlesque. To quote the dourly sour Uncle Alfie (Peter Vaughan) as he struggles with his trousers above the commode, "It's touch and go! Touch and go!"

Death at a Funeral pulls off such inspired nonsense because the characters caught up in the chaos are eminently recognizable. The unctuous Justin (Ewen Bremmer) hits on Jane even as she struggles to keep Simon from losing what's left of his LSD-addled mind. Hypochondriac cousin Howard (Andy Nyman) is so obsessed with a rash on his wrist he has little empathy to spare for the grieving widow. And, inevitable in a British comedy, the exasperated vicar (Thomas Wheatley) once again discovers that it's easier to herd cats than gather his flock around the bier for a respectable sendoff.


Critic: Rex Roberts

[Hootad Binky]

Just saw Knocked Up, the one about the stoner who gets a babe pregnant. Very entertaining dialogue.

[unkleblacky]

Just watched the film today at MBK great film but cud not gt the underlying significance of the final scene and the wallet.

I can highly recommend this as a good film and insightful on an otherwise hidden subject.

on another fim is black family any good, my thai gf refses to watch it but it loooks like fun to me,

any reviews???

sorry if this is in the wrong section, i have just recently joiined and am gettinng to grps with the site.

[DrB0b]

Who r u?
Yr kybrd s brkn.

[Rigger]

Wolf creek a good Aussie movie where we cut up some pommie back packers

Wolf Creek (2005)

[Dalton]

I don't really know, so many good movies and lots of crap ones as well.
I recently saw The Sopranos, i took me several month, because I feel a sleep most of the times, not that the movie was boring far from, but I was dead tired.

[Fstop]

American Gangster

This is a great fucking movie. Denzel Washington and Russel Crowe star, although not together until the very end. It chronicles the story of Frank Lucas (Washington) who, during the Vietnam war, smuggled heroin into the US in quite an ingenious manner - inside the coffins of servicemen killed in action. He cut out the middleman, effectively selling heroin in its purest form, and reaped the rewards during the war. The cops are clueless on how he's doing this, and because everyone in NY is on the take, Lucas remains one of the most powerful drug lords in America at this time. Crowe stars as a cop from New Jersey who *gasp* is not on the take and spends years investigating the heroin problem. But Lucas is so good, that no one knows he's even involved.

This movie captivated me right up to the end. The suspense of this film is well-directed (Ridley Scott) and played, especially in the final moments. This is a triumph for all involved, and a great achievement for American film. Best of the year by far.

10/10

[ChiangMai noon]

^
thanks for that.
never even heard of it, that's why i love this thread.

off to demonoid to try and find it.

[mrsquirrel]

Black Sheep.

oh dear is all I ahve to say. Raved by the Kiwis. Sadlyu unless you like sheep in a big way you won't like this movie.

Tries to be Bad Taste but fails miserably.

2/10

[ChiangMai noon]

Just saw Knocked Up, the one about the stoner who gets a babe pregnant. Very entertaining dialogue.

Watched Knocked up yesterday.
I thought it stank to high heaven.

very well reviewed by 90% of the critics though.

Big fat bastard gets beautiful girl pregnant during one night stand.
For some reason, shy decides to keep kid, contact thew fat bastard and they somehow fall in love in the most ridiculous way possible.

Full of the usual crappy sterotypes that you get in "comedies" of this nature.

Absolute gash.

1-10