Up in the Air - 9/10 - great film. really liked anna kendrick's performance. Alice in Wonderland - 6/10 - saw this in 3d great visuals and the girl playing Alice was pretty good, that bout the only positives. I normally like Johnny Depp, but he was pretty bad in this imo. Shutter Island - 8/10 - Fantastic plot but not as good as Scorsese's previous films Precious - 7/10 - Kinda overrated but very good performances
That was great movie too. The guy did a very good job as well. Not a typical romantic comedy. Should have won the golden globe over the hangover
I know it is. Scorsese is one of my favorite directors, but he literally stole shots (along with the storyline, obviously) directly from Infernal Affairs. He used the same camera angles, the same editing style, etc. Why? I don't know.
Shawshank Redemption: 10/10 Great movie. If you really get into it, like I did, you really feel like you are a part of the movie. Cast Away: 7/10 Meh. It was okay. I think a bit overrated.
just got around to watching fargo and i loved it. i thought the performances were outstanding, the writing was o.k but the quality of the performances compensated for any holes in the film. i give it a 9.5/10
This is one of the few times the movie is better then the book. It is one of my all time fav. movies.
Anyone seen Green Zone? I'd give it 6.5/10 An Iraq film about the truth behind WMD's. A rather pointless exercise this many years later, but there were some good scenes that kept it entertaining enough.
The Road -- 7/10 -- not much happens but what little occurs is intense. Every bit as miserable as the novel.
Just going through the list of old time classics and AFI top 100 film list, I just watched The Deer Hunter for the first time. Very intense movie, and definitely can see why it's great. What I really enjoy doing is going back and watching all of the best received and/or classic (that includes non-American) films of a particular decade and trying to figure out what people must have been thinking at the time. The '70s are fairly obvious, but the '90s are still somewhat of a mystery. Both decades seemed to be equally angry and self-reflective, and I'm not quite sure why. The '70s had Vietnam and a whole lot of upheaval, and the '90s had, what... the Gulf War, grunge music and reality TV? Anyways I give the Deer Hunter a solid 9.2/10. Pretty long movie and is not for everyone.
Its not a bad movie its just slow and grim. Mortensen puts on a great performance as well. Oscar nomination snub, IMHO.
Last movie I watched was Changeling. It was a lot better than I thought it would be. I'll give it a 9/10.
ZMD (Zombies of Mass Destruction) -- 6/10 -- some genuinely funny moments in an otherwise bland B-zombie film. The Iranian father character is almost unintelligible--no surprise he is a relative of the director and an exec. producer.
Not as over emotional and sappy as I thought it was going to be. Not as good as the Danish version either but the performances are rock solid. I never liked the Spidey kid, but he plays his role pretty well in this. The plot is foreseeable though and it's nothing new from a character study on post-traumatic war effects.
