Rate The Last Movie You Watched
 

I'm going to kick this off, all this requires is that you post the last movie you watched, and rank it out of 10.

I just watched Four Brothers yesterday, happens to be a new movie. 7.5/10

Unforunately, it was Sideways last night. 1/10

I didn't like it much at all.

Teenagers From Outer Space-0/10

in theaters: Skeleton Key-6/10 (I think voodoo is cooldood)

Star Wars - 9.5/10

Oh, man, you're killing me! That was a great flick.

I'm embarrassed to say this, but...

Constantine = 2/10

Contact - 8/10

Mr. 3000

4/10...funny but predictable

I Spy (w/ Eddie Murphy and Owen Wilson) 6.5/10


Had a few great scenes where Eddie was his old self. I'm talking 48 Hours/Beverly Hills Cop Eddie funny. Owen was his normal funny self, but the movie needed a little bit more to get a better rating from me.

Im with you, it was one of the very few movies ive ever had too turn off. I wasnt expecting much, i just wanted to be entertained on a lazy sunday, but my god does it suck balls. If only the whole movie could have been like the 1st 10 minutes.

Easily, 0/10.

Mr. & Mrs. Smith 6/10 - Fun movie, but nothing that sticks with me. I doubt I'll have any interest in owning it or watching it again.

(It was part of a double feature with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, which I would give 8/10.)

War of the Worlds
5/10
Good special effects, but I thought there were some holes in the story.

The Aristocrats
8.5/10

Tears of the Sun
7.5/10

Marci X: 4/10 (It could have been lower, because it was a really dumb movie, but there were a few lines/parodies that made me laugh, so I can't completely kill it)

Alexander (roommate rented it and left it out) 0/10

Turned it off midway. The History channel special was more *entertaining* then this, not to mention the historical inaccuracy. When Gaugamela is over in the first 45 minutes, you know it's going to suck.

War of the Worlds
5.5/10

You War of the Worlds raters, can you explain what you didn't like? I'd probably give it a 7 or 8 myself.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: 4/10

Saw - 8/10

Re-watched Boondock Saints. 10/10.

Recent new movie I watched -- Fantastic Four. 6.5/10 -- solid, but unspectacular.

DVD: Hostage 7/10
Theatre: Charlie & the Chocolate factory 8/10

Judging by the score, I'd venture to guess that you'd recommend this. What I want to know is if it's worth going to the theater to see, instead of waiting to pay half price at the video store?

Spanglish - 6.5/10 (or 6/10 if we're not allowed to give half points. :) )

It was decent, but nothing all that special.

mauboy, you have reminded me:

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Still one of my favorite exchanges from the FOFC forums.

It's funny as hell, pretty much as billed. There's certainly nothing so special about it that makes it a "big screen" type of movie (no spectacular scenery, stunts, or sound of course) - I just couldn't imagine waiting months to see it to save a few bucks. Mrs. Q also insisted that we go - she loved it, too.

Downfall- 8.9

Not really sure what to say about this one, great all around. Great casting, excellent performances, very tense, and just an all-around interesting story, and done very well. Highly recommended

Below (DVD)

7/10

TV : Once upon a Time in China - 8/10 - Early Jet Li
Theater : Mr. & Mrs. Smith - 8/10 - I had low expectations, but found that I enjoyed it more than most other movies that my wife picks out.

The Day After Tomorrow - 5/10

Must Love Dogs - 6.5/10

Downfall

Movie itself = 9/10
Being in German and having to read subtitles = 7.5/10 :(

50 First Dates - 6/10

Not one of Sandler's best, but still entertaining. It exceede my expectations, but my expectations were set at 3/10. Funny movie, worth catching on cable.

Cheap Theatre - Dark Water 1/10
Real Theatre - Devil's Rejects 5/10
DVD - Undertow 8/10

I want to go see Broken Flowers and Junebug if they ever come around here.

Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle

7.5/10 - Close to perfect execution, but overall score reduced by inherent limitations of the stoner adventure genre.

Good
Big alien thingies blow up lots of stuff.
(I thought the alien tripod thingies were awesome.)

The way the movie captures the confusion and fear of the invasion.
(The whole storm, alien's erupt from Earth touch was well done, I thought. The scenes of destruction were well done.)

Some action sequences and the special effects that went with them.
(I thought some of the action sequences were spectacularly well done.)

Bad
The ending
(Not sure why it bothered me now. I liked the original version and assumed this one would end the same way. Somehow it seemed more contrived this time. Almost as if it were a cop out.)

The sub-story
(The "deadbeat dad becomes hero/go to Boston" story seemed jumbled, weak, clunky, and unconvincing. And where was everyone going anyway? Were they all trying to go to Boston? Why? I'm not sure I ever figured that out. Maybe it had something to do with the Red Sox?)

Pacing of movie. Too much time in basements
(In particular, the Tim Robbins episode in the basement. Much too long, and didn't really do much, IMHO, to advance anything in the story. Almost felt like the movie went on pause here.)

Scope of movie
(Although in many ways, I think they captured the fear and confusion of the invasion well, I think they should have done more to give a sense of the global scale of the invasion other than the various rumors and one scene in the news truck. I admit, the way they played the story out it would have been unlikely that the characters would have access to this info, but still, I thought they should have captured the invasion on larger scale.)

Acting
(None of the actors seemed to reach anything close to their potential here. I actually like some of Tom Cruise's work and really enjoy a lot of Tim Robbins' stuff, but neither of them seemed particularly effective here. The kids were, well, kids. Neither impressed me.)

No Godzilla Appearance
(As my good friend Yuusui says, "Think of any movie you know. Now add Godzilla. Better movie." This movie, especially, had tons of Godzilla potential. If it were my movie, I would have had Godzilla sweep in and kill all the aliens at the end. That would have rocked. You know it.)

Theatre - Skeleton Key 5/10
DVD - Donnie Darko 8/10

Wow, I never see double features for big movies around here. That's cool.

Wedding Crashers 7.5/10

Memories of Murder. A Korean film I found on comcast On Demand. 8/10

Ok, so they had to cheap it out on the monster, but this is pretty good 50's B-Grade sci-fi. Not campy, but an intriguing story of an invader from a conformist society to learns to question authority.

Anyhoo,
Fantastic Four (Roger Corman version) 7/10, helluva a good job for $2 million and his Thing looks better.

The machinist 7/10.

Pretty weird - with a rather disgusting, but amazing portrayal by Christian Bale (Batman). Not quite the huge payoff I was hoping for, but solid flick.

I saw that recently and was struck at how thin he looked, it sure didn't look healthy. I enjoyed the story though. I watched The Jacket the same night, and my mind was all messed up.

Um, Sideways was a 9 easy. I've seen it at least a dozen times.

Anyway, I ordered some DVDs the other day, stuff I've been meaning to watch for a long, long time.

Love Wes Anderson but hadn't seen Bottle Rocket--was underwhelmed by it: 6/10.

Love PT Anderson but hadn't seen Hard Eight--it just further cemented my opinion that he's the greatest writer/director around: 8/10.

Had never seen a Todd Solondz movie so I got Happiness--pretty thoroughly detested it: 2/10.

Watched that the other night also, I really enjoyed it. It was so...off, but I really liked how it wrapped up, interesting take.

Yeah I was reading that he dropped liked 65 pounds for the role, he was at about 120 for filming, and he looked disgusting. Was really creepy, being a big Christian Bale fan, to see him look that disturbing. I can understand people packing on some pounds to do a role, but I hadn't seen anyone get that sickly skinny before.

American Movie... 5/10

Interesting story to some extent, but you have to be REALLY into the pothead caricature to enjoy the film. Basically Ed Wood, except stoned out of his mind.

And I agree with the above poster -- Teenagers From Outer Space, while incredibly cheesy, is one of the most watchable MST3K movies they ever did.

The Grudge: 3/10. It was predictable and wasn't scary. Not good for a horror movie.

Damn, and I was going to watch this tonight. I think I will check out Hotel Rwanda instead.

Hotel Rwanda is highly recommended, Seg.

Just saw The Longest Yard - 8/10...I really enjoyed it...

I thought Constantine was ok. Not great, but worth a rental.

Yeah, Bale looked nasty. I have a feeling he was barfing in order to get that thin.

Frida

The movie itself, 5/10.

Salma's nudity, 25/10. I don't care if she DID have a unibrow in it...

DVD - Sideways 8/10 (although it might get bonus points because I was unable to watch it without drinking large amounts of wine)
Theater? Can't remember - it's been a while.

Richard III - Comcast On Demand

9/10 - Based on the Shakespeare play and set in a 1940-ish time period, this is a lavish and intense movie that shows Ian Mckellan at his very best. Fantastic art direction.

American Movie is 10/10 for me.

American Movie is a 10. No question about it. One of the funniest movies ever made.

I get the urge to watch it all the time, but I let somebody borrow the DVD a few years ago and never got it back. It's like $25 for a new copy, which is a steep price to rebuy at, so I've been American Movie-less for too long.

Just watched Collateral again.. 9/10. Very good flick.

Supertroopers: 8/10.

Easily one of the funniest movies I've seen in years. I feel stupid for having waited so long to actually see it.

It: 7.5/10

It was originally a TV movie, and the adult actors aren't nearly as good as the child actors, but hey, Tim Curry makes a freaky ass clown. Also, bonus points for being a Stephen King adaption that isn't completely terrible, though I haven't read the book.

Sin City

6 out of 10 as a movie 10 out of 10 for gore factor and innovation.

Huh? What have you been smoking?


Ah, now I understand...

The Great Raid

I was dragged out to this movie without knowing anything of it. Sometimes not seeing a trailer, or knowing the plot or cast can be a good thing. I entered the movie with no expectations and they were met with a boring, dull snoozefest. Felt like a documentary on the history channel without commercials. Highly not suggested. 2.5 / 10

Dead Poets Society

8/10

Ugh. 1/10.

Last night's DVD of choice....the all powerful Sneakers.

7.7405050505022285929505924421783/10.

Hater. ;)

Last Movie at home: Spanglish - Overall 5/10, first 90 minutes 7/10 last 30 minutes 1/10

Last Theater Movie: Batman Begins - Overall 9/10, would have gotten a 10/10 if they got rid of that lame ass unrealistic car.

I liked this:

This is my favorite Ebert work of late:

Basic

bleh

2/10 and that's being generous.

Spicy Latins 10/10

I saw 4 brothers. 6.9/10

6.9?

The Life Aquatic

I gave it a 7/10, but I really like Bill Murray

the wife gave it a 2/10, but she liked how it looked.

Good Will Hunting Last night...10/10

Ebert is the most worthless "reviewer" ever. He lets his politics cloud every single movie he sees and then reports on. Not only that, but he's a hypocrite. He dogs certain movies for being commercial and shallow, yet he is both of those things himself. The fact that people like him alledgedly get paid to give "thumbs up" on certain movies makes every single thing else that he comments on worthless.

I guess you could say that I dislike him intensely, and critics as a whole maybe a little less intensely.

Ebert is awesome.

He's nowhere near as bad as Rex Reed or the Medvid/Lyons combo. Ebert at least knows how hard it is to make a bad movie (Beyond the Valley of the Dolls).

And if his politics influenced all of his reviews, he would have loved "The Life of David Gale."

I actually thought this was surprisingly decent, say a 3/10. Of course it was B-grade with howlingly incompetent FX, but the director managed to create a feel of surrealism with the zombie-like hero, the strikingly odd-looking heroine, and the perpetual late afternoon lighting. Plus, it has King Moody of Get Smart!

Every single movie? Really? Can you name five?


Um, Ebert is probably one of the friendliest of any respected film critic to major Hollywood films.


Wait, the fact that people "like him" (not him) "alledgedly" (apparently you have no evidence) get paid for a "thumb ups" (which has nothing to do with his pieces for the Sun Times) makes everything he says worthless? That makes a lot of sense. Thanks for sharing your extremely rational opinions.

Your welcome. :)

finally watched Collateral last night for the first time. 8.5/10.

If you guys don't mind reading sub-titles, you should check out a movie called City of God. It's very good. I give it a 8.5/10 also.

just watched the DVD of Kung Fu Hustle, Chow is the BEST! Hollywood needs to take some serious notes.

9/10

Just watched House of Flying Daggers

7/10

Big Fish. One of the most mixed reviewed movies I've ever heard about. Finally watched it.

Solid 6.5/10. Nice touching story, but nothing overwhelming. Helena Bonham Carter and Alison Lohman are winners.

Kind of a sad unusual moment. I was looking at Big Fish on IMDb, and checked out Karl the Giant's bio. He died 8 days ago.

Shaun of the Dead - 6/10

There are some very funny moment, but too damn often I couldn't understand a word of what was being said...

Coach Carter

8/10

March of the Penguins
9 out of 10 ice floes

In the theatre: The 40 year old Virgin - 8/10
DVD: Troy - 4.5/10

Hostage 8/10

Bruce Willis rocks although some things in this movie didn't make sense.

DVD - Million Dollar Baby - 5 out of 10. Not sure what the big hub-bub was about, boss.

Redeye - 7/10

Decent enough movie but some of the acting was overdone and and the plot was kinda out there...

Just saw it and suprisingly really liked it. 9/10. I say suprisingly, because I normally hate Tim Burton's directing.

Also saw Sin City and I'd give it a 7/10 having never read the comics. A couple of the story lines were good, but I thought the Del Toro one about the peace between the cops and old town dragged.

Next up: Kung Fu Hustle and Oldboy.

I saw this in the theater and LOVED it... but I lived in Europe for a while and didn't have an issue with the dialog.

solid 8/10 for me...

I saw Skeleton Key a couple weeks back... It was ok, ending was bleh... 5/10.

-Chas

4.5 for Troy? Ugh! That movie rules.

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House of Flying Daggers - 2/10, hot chick and that's about it. I couldn't get over the stretch of the imagination type stuff, such as a blind girl who happens to be the most baddest fighter in the land.

Bradwhore

I love him

Unfortunately, it was Four Brothers.

3.5/10 (with the 3.5 for a good performance from Andre3000)

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