Rate The Last Movie You Watched

[MikeVic]

Wall-E - 9.5/10
A very solid 9.5. If I could give it a 9.6 or 9.7, I would. A very touching, nice story about a little robot. The story contains some messages about destroying the environment and machines, and I thought it all worked well. There were funny, cute moments and touching moments. The music used in the movie fit well too. Only complaint I have is that using real and fake humans in the movie seemed kind of weird. Other than that, I can't find anything to complain about. The side characters were also great, and I found the lack of dialogue refreshing.

[Vince]

Wanted - 9/10
The rating above assumes you're going in with a check-your-brain-at-the-door mentality. If you're not ok with completely unrealistic stuff happening, avoid this movie. With a firm suspension of disbelief however, this movie flat-out rocks. The special effects are phenomenal, Angelina Jolie's ass is also phenomenal and outside of a slight lull in the middle, the movie maintains a good action-packed pace throughout. A fairly predictable plot and some overly gratuitous gore near the end of the movie is the only thing keeping this from a 10 in my opinion.

[Chief Rum]

I have been looking forward to this weekend for some time, as both Wall-E and Wanted were high on my list of summer movies to see. Too beat from the work day to go to one tonight, though. Won't be long, though. Nothing I have seen here or from critics tells me they are anything except what I expect.

Heck, I even want to see Beatie Boy Adam Yauch's documentary on 2006 high school phenoms during their recruiting, including four players drafted last night.

[Pyser]

Originally Posted by MikeVic

Wall-E - 9.5/10
A very solid 9.5. If I could give it a 9.6 or 9.7, I would.

uh...who exactly is stopping you?

[Flasch186]

Charlie Bartlett 7.5/10

It was a good lighter flick and the acting was pretty good although at some points I felt like the main actors were told to underplay, everything. The movie was good, the music was good, and the story was quick and decent.

[ISiddiqui]

Originally Posted by Pyser

uh...who exactly is stopping you?

House rules .

[Mustang]

Originally Posted by ISiddiqui

And I don't need to see a jerk off to killing flick, but I'm not going to shit on people liking Rambo.

I didn't jerk off to Rambo.

I may have caressed my nipples a bit though.

[ISiddiqui]

Was this before or after looking at a Pumpy pic?

[MikeVic]

Originally Posted by Pyser

uh...who exactly is stopping you?

I forget who compiles FOFC ratings, but they said to do a 10-point scale and increments of .5.

[RendeR]

Saw Ironman last night, must say I hate RD Jr, but he was perfect for the role of Tony Stark. Its not like he actually has to ACT...he IS the role....


anyway, great lead in film for a future series of movies. Loved the development of Stark and Pepper. Can't wait to see the next one.

8.5/10

[Cringer]

The Incredible Hulk - 8.5/10

Loved the movie. My daughter liked it "one extra super great" more then Iron Man, which got about 50 I think.

[Alan T]

Went and watched Get Smart tonight with my wife.. I'm not much for number ratings since I seem to tolerate or like alot more than most people do... but I really enjoyed this movie. I went into see it with a fairly low bar though, but left pleasantly surprised. Both my wife and I were laughing a good majority of the movie.

[sabotai]

Rambo - 6.5/10

I thought it was a good action movie, but it also felt too short and I wasn't very impressed with the battle at the end. Not that is was anti-climactic, but I've seen much better battle scenes. I doubt I'll be wanting to see it again soon, but it's worth a rental.

[Doug5984]

10,000 BC - meh

[Karlifornia]

Originally Posted by Doug5984

10,000 BC - meh

That is not a number, sir!

[korme]

Wanted getting a 9/10 here means I've almost lost faith in this thread, sorry Vin

[Pyser]

Originally Posted by korme

Wanted getting a 9/10 here means I've almost lost faith in this thread, sorry Vin

word. 4/10.

[Chief Rum]

Originally Posted by Karlifornia

That is not a number, sir!

Actually, 10,000 is a pretty big number.

[Chief Rum]

Originally Posted by korme

Wanted getting a 9/10 here means I've almost lost faith in this thread, sorry Vin

Oh come on, it wasn't that bad.

You're right, though, I don't think it was a 9.

I put it at 7/10. I enjoyed the action scenes. Angelina is hot. Knowing it was going to be ridiculously over the top made it a lot easier to accept the "unlikely" stuff and just watch it for what it is.

All that said, really the plot is fairly derivative and unoriginal. I'll mostly remember this one for individually cool scenes (mostly involving cars).

[Doug5984]

Originally Posted by Doug5984

10,000 BC - meh

4/10

[oliegirl]

I watched 10,000 BC last night and totally agree with Doug5984. My husband and son saw it in theaters and for months I've been hearing about how I'll love it b/c it's a love story, blah blah blah...got it on DVD last night, and meh is about the best I can do as well. I thought the story was VERY predictable...

Spoiler

as soon as it was clear he wasn't going to kill the tiger I rolled my eyes and told my son exactly what would happen in a few scenes

...of course I was right. And the end - again, called it very early on in the movie.

The only good part of the movie for me was turning the TikTik guys name into Tic Tac and then making an assortment of breath mint references throughout the movie. Like when my son pointed out the bone thingy in the guys ear, I said it wasn't a bone, it was a giant hunk of breath mint, they had to wear them like that b/c they hadn't invented the machine that made them small and conveniently packaged for personal use

4/10

[Chief Rum]

Originally Posted by oliegirl

I watched 10,000 BC last night and totally agree with Doug5984. My husband and son saw it in theaters and for months I've been hearing about how I'll love it b/c it's a love story, blah blah blah...got it on DVD last night, and meh is about the best I can do as well. I thought the story was VERY predictable

Spoiler

...as soon as it was clear he wasn't going to kill the tiger

I rolled my eyes and told my son exactly what would happen in a few scenes...of course I was right. And the end - again, called it very early on in the movie.

You probably want to spoiler that for future reference. Not saying I was going to rush out and see it anytime soon, but I probably would have seen it eventually. I am guessing this is a major plot point?

[oliegirl]

Originally Posted by Chief Rum

You probably want to spoiler that for future reference. Not saying I was going to rush out and see it anytime soon, but I probably would have seen it eventually. I am guessing this is a major plot point?

I'll spoiler it, sorry

[Chief Rum]

Originally Posted by oliegirl

I'll spoiler it, sorry

Don't worry about it. Not like that spoils a great movie, from everything I have heard.

[Vince]

Originally Posted by korme

Wanted getting a 9/10 here means I've almost lost faith in this thread, sorry Vin

Meh, I'm a sucker for special effects. My favorite movie of all time is probably the first Matrix Movie.

[rowech]

Wanted (7/10) -- Okay. Blood and slow motion shots were just way over the top. Perhaps I'm just getting too old.

[MikeVic]

Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs - 7.5/10
I didn't find this movie to be better than the first, but it was still alright. Maybe I need to watch it again, but for a first viewing it felt more like a show than a movie, while the first one (at least to me) felt more like a movie.


An American Crime - incomplete
I wanted to catch up on Ellen Page movies, and this was next on the list. I found it good, up until they get to a bunch of torture stuff. I actually couldn't keep watching, as stuff that was happening in the story was just horrible. So I watched about 50 minutes of it I think, and don't think I will ever finish it. If you get emotional about movies I would recommend staying away from this.

Acting was great from multiple parties from what I saw, but at the point I got to there were just waaaaay too many "bad guys." I hated every character at that point except for the geeky-looking kid in the glasses and Ellen Page's character.

[molson]

Michael Clayton 5/10

Very dissapointing.

I'll give it another chance someday, as I was a little sick and distracted and when I saw it and that no doubt impacted my enjoyment of a movie like this. It's very possible I missed quit a bit.

But I found neither the story nor the characters particularly interesting at all.

Spoiler

And I just couldn't buy chosing to murder the lawyer on your case when he's come across incriminating information, contacted a plaintiff directly, and is building a case against you. The company should have saw that as an opportunity. Get the lawyer in trouble with the bar (and potentially the DA), drag out the case for decades, and sue the firm for malpractice. In the chaos and delays, obtain a favorable settlement. Everybody in the firm knew the corporation was potentially liable.

A company kills its own lawyers because the lawyers know that that the company is liable and may make that public somehow? That's just silly, I guess because I see the lawyer as the bad guy in that scenerio.

And I agree with an earlier comment that Michael Clayton is one of the the puzzingly least-impressive attorneys ever portrayed on screen. We hear he's a "fixer", but he doesn't seem particularly good at fixing anything.

Wanted 6/10

It killed a couple of hours and kept my attention, nothing more. That's the default a movie should do, and I think that earns a 6.

[Flasch186]

Rails and Ties 8.5 /10

watching it now and I gotta say WOW. Ill score it when its over but im enraptured.

I thought the acting was awesome, the character arcs were incredible, the emotional tension was awesome. My wife thought it was slow but I thought that that added to the tension and reality. I thought it was great.

[fantom1979]

GET SMART
(7/10)

It really has some funny parts, and the story flows pretty well. I have never been a huge Steve Carell fan, and I would imagine that people that love him, will love this movie. Anne Hathaway is a pleasure to watch. For not being a Carell fan, and I never watched the original series, I still thought the movie was quite enjoyable.

[KWhit]

300
(7/10)

Finally got around to seeing this one and it was about what I expected. I loved the style and thought the fight scenes were really well done, so I enjoyed it, but there's not a whole lot of "there" there. As an aside, since we had a bit of Gladiator discussion recently, I thought this was a much better movie than Gladiator because 300 embraced what it was trying to do. It was extremely silly and contrived, but it wasn't trying to be serious like Gladiator was (which was also very silly and contrived and missed the mark for the tone it was presented in).

[Lorena]

Rounders 7/10

Pretty solid film, but would have enjoyed it more if I understood poker.

[Lathum]

Originally Posted by Lorena

Rounders 7/10

Pretty solid film, but would have enjoyed it more if I understood poker.

best movie ever.

Ed Norton as Worm has the seedy poker playing degenerate down to a science

[RomaGoth]

Originally Posted by MikeVic

Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs - 7.5/10
I didn't find this movie to be better than the first, but it was still alright. Maybe I need to watch it again, but for a first viewing it felt more like a show than a movie, while the first one (at least to me) felt more like a movie.

There is a first one? I watched the show for a long time, never knew there was a movie.

[rowech]

Originally Posted by Lathum

best movie ever.

Ed Norton as Worm has the seedy poker playing degenerate down to a science

Great movie but don't go overboard.

[Bad-example]

Originally Posted by RomaGoth

There is a first one? I watched the show for a long time, never knew there was a movie.

Second movie. Both are good but I thought the second was better. Both have loads of laughs. The first one suffered a bit from a confusing plot and a couple bad songs.

[korme]

Hancock - Found out that it was showing in advance today so I went and saw it. It was about what I expected, with a few surprises and a more decent story arc than I anticipated. It was good, not great. 7/10

[Lorena]

The Amazing Screw-On Head - 9/10

Very short film (under half an hour) based on a comic. I believe Screw-On head is some kind of secret agent that changes body, based on the crime. Paul Giamatti plays The Amazing Screw-On Head, David Hyde Pierce (from Frasier) plays the zombie, and Molly Shannon plays the vampire.

Great characters and the lines were nicely delivered. I hope they make more of these as this "episode" was highly entertaining.

[Johnny93g]

Wanted 3/10

First half hour was actually good. Very Good. Then it all went to shit.

This movie had no logic behind it. It didnt make sense. Now by logic, I'm not talking about bullets bending and all that stuff. I can accept that stuff as the reality the movie is set in. I'm talking about the logic behind the story, why characters do what they do, logic to move the plot along. There was none of that.

For the most part, character development was poor, way too much slow motion, and James Mcavoy, who i think is a great young actor, looks very out of place. I think this was a very poor casting decision.

The saving grace................Angelina Jolie's body....wow.

[Schmidty]

Spirited Away - 9.5/10

I saw it years ago, and liked it, but watching it again just blew me away. It's my daughter's favorite movie at the moment, and I don't even mind seeing it at least once a day.

[Greyroofoo]

Originally Posted by Greyroofoo

[b])

This is a pretty good movie. However it lasts an hour too long for its own good. I hope that the adventurer keeps the secret.

[MikeVic]

Originally Posted by Greyroofoo

This is a pretty good movie. However it lasts an hour too long for its own good. I hope that the adventurer keeps the secret.

What.

[molson]

Downfall

9.5/10

The last days of Hitler and his inner circle in and around his Berlin bunker. Great movie. Best portrayal of Hitler that I've ever seen on the screen. I've read some criticisms about how Hitler is portrayed here, as merely a flawed human that we almost have sympathy for. I didn't see that, we already knew that Hitler loved dogs, was polite to his secretary, etc. I enjoyed that Hitler was portrayed accurately, as a flawed man, not as some kind of evil god-like super villain.

[thesloppy]

Originally Posted by molson

Downfall

9.5/10

The last days of Hitler and his inner circle in and around his Berlin bunker. Great movie. Best portrayal of Hitler that I've ever seen on the screen. I've read some criticisms about how Hitler is portrayed here, as merely a flawed human that we almost have sympathy for. I didn't see that, we already knew that Hitler loved dogs, was polite to his secretary, etc. I enjoyed that Hitler was portrayed accurately, as a flawed man, not as some kind of evil god-like super villain.

There are some truly inspired (and many stupid) re-dubbings of this movie on youtube, if you've never seen them.

[MikeVic]

Poolhall Junkies - 7.5/10
A young kid has great pool talents, but it's being wasted as he's a hustler instead of being a pro player AND hustler. That's the basis of the movie. It was enjoyable enough to get through it, and I liked the main guy's smug look throughout the movie. Some of the "trickery" throughout the movie is kind of lame, and I knew what would happen before it did. The ending sequence also contains quite a bit of convenient events, but Walken's short stint in the move makes up for some of it (although it takes awhile for him to make his first appearance). All in all, a decent movie.

[terpkristin]

Hancock - 7/10
It was better than I thought it'd be. The twist was kind of cool, though to some extent I thought the movie lasted a little too long. Also, some of the action scenes were so enhanced/CG that I really couldn't tell what was going on. Still a decent flick. Nothing in the realm of MIB or anything, but entertaining enough.

Spoiler

I think they could've done without the whole "one month later" thing at the end and instead just had the little thingie in the credits. The "one month later" thing was too freaking cheesy.

/tk

[korme]

Originally Posted by MikeVic

Poolhall Junkies - 7.5/10
A young kid has great pool talents, but it's being wasted as he's a hustler instead of being a pro player AND hustler. That's the basis of the movie. It was enjoyable enough to get through it, and I liked the main guy's smug look throughout the movie. Some of the "trickery" throughout the movie is kind of lame, and I knew what would happen before it did. The ending sequence also contains quite a bit of convenient events, but Walken's short stint in the move makes up for some of it (although it takes awhile for him to make his first appearance). All in all, a decent movie.

Maybe the story was good, I don't remember it that well now, I just remember that it was terribly painful to watch, the production was awful.

Originally Posted by terpkristin

Hancock - 7/10
It was better than I thought it'd be. The twist was kind of cool, though to some extent I thought the movie lasted a little too long. Also, some of the action scenes were so enhanced/CG that I really couldn't tell what was going on. Still a decent flick. Nothing in the realm of MIB or anything, but entertaining enough.

Spoiler

I think they could've done without the whole "one month later" thing at the end and instead just had the little thingie in the credits. The "one month later" thing was too freaking cheesy.

/tk

The movie was incredibly short...! I felt it was almost too short, almost as long as a romantic comedy. Without looking, I think it was right around an hour and a half.

[Neon_Chaos]

Hancock - 6/10

Spoiler

A superhero movie without a supervillain is not really a superhero movie now, is it?

The first 30 minutes was so promising, the plot twist was great, but how they handled and resolved the plot twist was just too awkward for me. The first half was an excellent origin-type superhero story, and then it devolved into something like My Super Ex-Girlfriend.

[terpkristin]

Originally Posted by korme

The movie was incredibly short...! I felt it was almost too short, almost as long as a romantic comedy. Without looking, I think it was right around an hour and a half.

I agree, it was "short," but I guess I meant my statement to say it felt long. Like towards the end, it felt a little dragged out, I was ready to move on. Not terribly so, but definitely noticeable for me. Each their own.

/tk

[weegeebored]

Wanted - 4/10

It got an extra point from me 'cuz Angelina was in it, but man...McAvoy was brutal as the lead. It sure seemed liked all of the actors phoned it in. The action sequences were decent but not in the OMG category.

Ironman - 8/10

Movies based on comic books have to have stand-alone merit for me as I'm not a comic book (umm...graphic novel) guy. Downey was excellent but as someone mentioned probably was just playing himself. A very pleasant surprise for me.