The Obelisk Forum
http://forum.theobelisk.net/

Movies you watched recently
http://forum.theobelisk.net/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=7045
Page 3 of 5

Author:  Mastodonkey [ Sun May 11, 2014 12:19 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Movies you watched recently

Nebraska 9/10 Loved it. It hit home in a lot of ways, lot of similarities living in a small town and some almost eerily hilarious similarities to my own family. Great acting all around.

eNemy 9/10 Brilliant film. I loved every second of it from start to finish. A really unique experience. Jake Gyllenhaal was mesmerizing. Not for everybody given it's strangeness but a true thriller.

Blue Ruin 8/10 Liked it a lot. It's a thriller set in the south.. great acting great characters.

3 damn good movies I've seen in the last few weeks.

Author:  flickzone [ Tue May 20, 2014 2:30 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Movies you watched recently

Watched Godzilla and the Amazing Spiderman 2 in the theatres. The TV has been showing repeats of Matthew Broderick's Godzilla (which you can't help but love, even if it was rubbish). There's a long list of movies I'm looking forward to in the summer though.
1. X - men, The Last Stand - Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6acRHWnfZAE
2. How to Train your Dragon 2 - Trailer: http://www.schoolofdragons.com/lang/how ... on/httyd-2
3. Box Trolls - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDr_ZY37RFg

My guilty pleasure is Men in Black though! I can't get enough of the Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith combo!

Author:  Karl Hungus [ Mon Jun 02, 2014 7:37 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Movies you watched recently

Godzilla..loved it
Cold in July...good flick
enEmy...good and wtf just happened..

Author:  vol.4 [ Mon Jun 02, 2014 11:06 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Movies you watched recently

Prisoners-did not like that one. especially for resemblance to The Killing overacting and just amount of bullshit in general. Jake Gyllenhal is good in everything, not much range but good at what he does.

Author:  rube [ Tue Jun 03, 2014 7:54 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Movies you watched recently

Super Duper Alice Cooper - really liked it. Very cool, innovative approach to using archive.

Author:  Mr Neutron [ Thu Jun 05, 2014 12:18 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Movies you watched recently

Speed Racer - visually very enticing, but skinny Christina Ricci kinda weirds me out.
The Glass Shield - I watched it because ice cube is in it. It isn't very good, and he isn't in it for long. Elliot Gould, M Emmett Walsh & Michael Ironsides are, though.
Ravenous - I had forgotten how darkly funny this movie is.

thinking about watching the lego movie now.

Author:  Ala [ Thu Jun 05, 2014 3:57 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Movies you watched recently

Watched a bunch of flicks on Netflix yesterday.

Shooter 3/5
Good action-movie. It doesn't try to be nything it isn't. Good, old fashioned action with big explosions and bad ass guys.

Gangster Squad 2/5
Overly sylized and Sean Penn is horrendous. But it had its moments. Watch The Untouchables instead.

The Hurt Locker 3/5
Modern war-movies has been done better before, i.e. Black Hawk Down. A good movie though, but maybe not worth 6 Academy Awards.

Red State 4/5
Fun little film from Kevin Smith. Starts out as a creepy cult-horror, but after about half it goes a whole other direction. You're not really ready for anything that happens in it. I dug it.

Author:  Dnice [ Thu Jun 05, 2014 11:29 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Movies you watched recently

Gravity

Was expecting a slow speed to this, and went in concerned I would get bored.

Boy, I was wrong. Very captivating. The visual of space was outstanding
Very good movie IMO

Author:  Mr Neutron [ Thu Jul 31, 2014 4:16 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Movies you watched recently

Southland Tales - a huge pile of WTF from the director of Donnie Darko. Needs to be seen to be believed.

The Zero Theorem - I have NO idea what it was about, but I adore Terry Gilliam.

Author:  vol.4 [ Thu Jul 31, 2014 1:39 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Movies you watched recently

Wolf of Wall Street -took me three nights to get through. I don't even know how to rank it. A lot was good. It's a male-bonding movie for sure which caught me by surprise. The delayed fuse 'lude scene was hilarious.

Author:  Mr Neutron [ Wed Aug 06, 2014 1:15 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Movies you watched recently

Captain America : The Winter Soldier

Say what you want about the plots of the Marvel Universe, they make some popcorn-eating movies.
Really looking forward to catching Guardians.... ASAP.

Author:  agent of change [ Thu Aug 07, 2014 1:37 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Movies you watched recently

Mr Neutron wrote:
Southland Tales - a huge pile of WTF from the director of Donnie Darko. Needs to be seen to be believed.

The Zero Theorem - I have NO idea what it was about, but I adore Terry Gilliam.


Donnie Darko is just about my #1. I tried on two separate occasions to make it through Southland Tales and just didn't care enough, I guess. Tried to force it the second time.

Author:  Mr Neutron [ Thu Aug 07, 2014 12:42 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Movies you watched recently

agent of change wrote:
Donnie Darko is just about my #1. I tried on two separate occasions to make it through Southland Tales and just didn't care enough, I guess. Tried to force it the second time.



I enjoy Donnie Darko as well. Southland tales is like a car crash, you cannot look away from it.
What is does have, though, is glorious overacting, and absolutely INSANE dialog:


Author:  Josh [ Thu Aug 07, 2014 1:39 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Movies you watched recently

The Grand Budapest Hotel. I've liked all of Wes Anderson's movies more or less, but this one is probably my favorite. Ralph Fiennes was so awesome through the whole thing.

Author:  vol.4 [ Thu Aug 21, 2014 8:37 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Movies you watched recently

Assault on Precent 13 (original) good not sure if terrible acting helps it or not.
48 hrs. this was a good time if you turn off your brain.
Starman - 7/10
Deathwatch - waste of a good idea
Another 48 hrs. everyone has terrible aim in this. can't believe this got made, it's decent but what the hell is the point. watched with low expectations and they were met so success?

Author:  Pure Rock Casey [ Tue Aug 26, 2014 12:37 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Movies you watched recently

Went and saw Guardians of the Galaxy last week. It was entertaining and all but I sure don't get everyone spaffing their pants over it. Definitely didn't need to rush out to the cinema for it, could've quite happily waited to DL it.

Watched the Zero Theorem the other night though and absolutely loved it. Best new movie i've seen in a loooooooong time.

Rewatched Chinatown for the first time since VHS days too. Amazing film and was great on Blu Ray and a big screen. Would love to see this in a cinema one time

Author:  Josh [ Tue Aug 26, 2014 7:53 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Movies you watched recently

A Most Wanted Man. Adapted from the John LeCarre novel. Directed by Anton Corbijn and starring Philip Seymour Hoffman in his last film.

I read the novel, and thought it was one of LeCarre's lesser books, but I gave it a shot because the cast was great and Corbijn's The American was pretty slick. Overall, I'd give it 3.5 out of 5 stars. It never really ratchets up the tension quite enough to get full attention and Hoffman, while good as always, didn't quite dominate like I'd hoped for his swan song. Still, not a bad flick. Notably, the theater I saw it in, I was easily the youngest person there. Everyone else was AARP age, FWIW.

Arzgarth, you can probably wait for this to be on demand.

Author:  Josh [ Fri Sep 12, 2014 12:17 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Movies you watched recently

Snowpiercer. Based on a comic I never read. The premise is a bit far fetched, but you get past that quickly because the characters and action scenes are so good. Recommended.

Author:  Ala [ Fri Sep 12, 2014 2:59 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Movies you watched recently

Re-watched The Road Warrior and Beyond Thunderdome this week. Brilliant.

Author:  vol.4 [ Fri Sep 12, 2014 12:20 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Movies you watched recently

Blue Ruin - great movie. story had tension and heart.
Death Wish - same
Star Trek II and First contact-II is better because of the brain bugs and early 80's spaceship decor. The first Borg ep. from TV had way more menace than the movie.
Ricky Jay - Documentary good for magic bits, you don't really get to know anything about him other than his love of magic. The bits are so good I can't even tell it's a trick half the time. The shower story though really got me. How?

Author:  Josh [ Tue Sep 23, 2014 3:07 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Movies you watched recently

The Rover. Guy Pearce and the guy from the Twilight movies. If you're a Road Warrior fan, or a fan of post-apocalyptic road movies in general, I recommend this. Guy Pearce is a haggard, haunted man who gets his car stolen by a bunch of bandits. He goes full psychopath in order to track them down and get his car back and has Twilight guy riding with him through the desolate Australian desert. Very bleak, minimal dialog, with a satisfying ending. Twilight guy actually is really good, too.

Author:  libertycaps [ Tue Sep 23, 2014 11:31 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Movies you watched recently

Ken Burns Baseball docu.

In the middle of the "Third Inning" episode. I'll prolly watch his Civil War docu next. I really like his pace and the way he frames the subject. Missed it the first time. Funny how some crossover appearances with his brilliant Jazz docu.

Author:  Crutch [ Wed Sep 24, 2014 5:21 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Movies you watched recently

libertycaps wrote:
Ken Burns Baseball docu.

In the middle of the "Third Inning" episode. I'll prolly watch his Civil War docu next. I really like his pace and the way he frames the subject. Missed it the first time. Funny how some crossover appearances with his brilliant Jazz docu.


His new one on the Roosevelt's is some his finest work.

Author:  libertycaps [ Fri Sep 26, 2014 1:57 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Movies you watched recently

Cool. Saw on wiki that Ken Burns has a Vietnam docu slated for 2015 release. That should be interesting. I'm definitely a docu>movie type. No need to "suspend disbelief" with docu's.

Author:  libertycaps [ Sat Oct 04, 2014 1:59 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Movies you watched recently

Ken Burns Civil War docu.

Missed out the first time cuz i was stationed in Panama att it was first released on PBS. Tear jerking stuff, esp. for an ex-soldier like myself. Recommended.

Page 3 of 5 All times are UTC - 5 hours
Powered by phpBB © 2000, 2002, 2005, 2007 phpBB Group
http://www.phpbb.com/