Rate The Last Movie You Saw

Glad to see someone else enjoyed Pig. I liked The Holiday, even if Cameron Diaz' character was kind of all over the place.

I thought Cage was great, and Wolff was quite good as well. (Took me a moment to realize "It's the kid from Hereditary!").

I had a feeling I knew where the film was headed, but it was so lovely and slow and thoughtful that I didn't care, and it still managed to land a few surprises.

The Phantom of the Opera (1925)

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Return of the Jedi (1983)

Classic.

Although less epic and grand than the other two, its the more intimate scenes with Lord Vader and the Emporer that make up for it. This closes the trilogy well and makes you regret that was the end.

10/10

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Coffee and Cigarettes (2003) - 7 / 10

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The Expendables (2010)

A traditional style action movie. Mercenaries, guns, explosions, fights and plenty of smart cracks. Not many of these sort of movies anymore. What's missing is an ultra huge scene, but there's plenty here to make an action fan happy.

8/10

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The Creator - (2023)

I have a lot of admiration and respect for what The Creator does, framing the topical A.I. debate in relation to the more primal and savage laws of evolution, competition and extinction. It does this by making this film more or less resemble one about a new species, and our antipathy towards what's different similar to a racial issue. In a very believable future, three decades from now, the United States military are on a mission to wipe out all forms of A.I. after the nuclear destruction of L.A. - purportedly carried out by anti-human A.I. entities. Joshua Taylor (John David Washington) is working undercover, close to the spiritual leader and lead architect of all A.I. on Earth, Nirmata, when an overzealous chain of command ends up killing his pregnant wife using NOMAD - a Death Star-like orbiting platform capable of search and destroy missile launches. 10 years later he's called upon again, reluctantly at first, to infiltrate an A.I. base and obliterate a new weapon they're developing which will turn the tide of the war. He agrees more readily when he finds out a woman bearing the exact likeness of his dead wife is working on the weapon. The weapon itself turns out to be a mysterious young boy. I have to say there's not much in this film that I haven't seen many times before - but The Creator is so well thought out and interesting that I didn't care. It's very nice looking at the same time, with modern technology so very pleasing to the eye. It's one of the first science fiction films I've seen where A.I. is seen from a more sympathetic standpoint, and will have you seeing the debate from a quite different angle. Not a movie I'd see many times, but one that's definitely worth seeing.

7.5/10


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It's Complicated - (2009)

Jane Adler (Meryl Streep) and Jake Adler (Alec Baldwin) have been divorced for 10 years when, during their son's graduation ceremony, they start having an affair. It's complicated due to the fact that Jane has just started dating her architect, Adam Schaffer (Steve Martin) and Jake is married to Agness (Lake Bell). I have to admit that this was fun. There are a few riotously funny jokes that pop along when you're least expecting them, and the likes of John Krasinski making the absolute most out of a relatively small part - that of future son-in-law Harley. Streep and Baldwin seem to have been picked to play this from their comfort zones - so Streep does a typical 2000s Streep character and Baldwin does pretty much the same, accentuating their spritely, at times goofy, energy (the same can't be said for Steve Martin however.) It's a movie that had me on it's side for 2 hours, with it's good-natured probing of middle-age relationships and regression. A bit of a surprise for me. It feels like something that was meant to be seen at cinemas on release, liked, and then discarded - never to really be fodder for film buffs and cinephiles - but it's another movie I was happy to see once.

6/10


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Cruel Intentions - (1999)

I guess a lot of people look back on their college days with fondness - but it's a fraught time in a person's life that can turn into a nightmare. There's sex, drugs and bad people - a volatile mix. Kathryn Merteuil (Sarah Michelle Gellar) and Sebastian (Ryan Phillippe) - step-brother and sister - come from a wealthy family and play with the lives of new, naïve students for sport, or as wagers. When the wicked Sebastian falls in love for the first time in his life, he at once realises that his wayward ways have doomed any path towards happiness that might have been with Annette Hargrove (Reese Witherspoon) - the subject of a wager between the incestuous, evil pair. Cruel Intentions is based on old French novel Les Liaisons dangereuses, which has been adapted to film as Dangerous Liaisons a few times. You need a strong stomach for how icky it's two protagonists are (Sebastian comes of as an antisocial psychotic in the film's first scenes, which always made me question his sudden turnaround) and how icky the film as a whole is - but the great soundtrack and strength of it's ending earns it points with me. This has turned into something of a cult classic.

6/10


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Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs - (2009)

These Ice Age animated films are all getting a bit samey for me - but this one does have the requisite amount of funny Sid the Sloth (John Leguizamo) moments in it, and that's all I'm asking for really. I think I'm watching the whole series just for that one character. His yearning to be a parent - to the point of adopting three eggs, and seeing everything through even when they bizarrely turn out to be dinosaurs - was a gas, and I liked it. Everything else in the film : eh.

5/10

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The Expendables 2 (2012)

Action packed but loses its grip and starts getting into parody terrirory, but thats okay because its done by all the big action stars so it doesn't get bad. This seems to be under the surface like an excuse to have a good time and not take action too seriously since all the biggest stars are in it together. Hopefully though #3 doesnt take this further because I like a good real action movie. Take my statements on #1 and add "all-star" and "light parody" to it.

You'll laugh and be happy to see all of them on the screen together, duking it out.

7/10

I wanted to explain that I'm rating modern action movies against Olympus Has Fallen as that seems to be the best of the modern action films I've seen yet. It wasn't perfect but it was sure damn good.

Last day I watched star wars. Star Wars is my favorite. The Force Awakens. It was the greatest part of star wars for me because of Harrison Ford. I liked his acting and character very much. Moreover, I was amazed by the proffie lightsabers used by the characters. This is what makes this movie more exciting and phenomenal.

No One Will Save You (2023)


I really enjoyed the first half of the movie building suspense, but things got a little off the rails once the action picks up. I had similar criticisms of A Quiet Place. The ending drags on a bit too long as well...

Some of my favorite modern action movies:

Mad Max Fury Road
Dredd (2012)
The Raid
The Raid 2
John Wick 1-4

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This Happy Breed (1944)

This is pretty good in a very talky, but quiet, British, reserved way - Ralph Fiennes and Carey Mulligan in The Dig, on Netflix. Set in 1938 in UK, an archeologist begins excavation of the Sutton Hoo site, a treasure trove of dark age Anglo-Saxon artifacts including an entire wooden ship that was buried there. It's sooooo English, done with minimal FX, just acting and props and lots of accents that I don't recognize, various sub-dialects of rural English English. It's full of cloudy, muted colors and quiet, rural scenery of the 1930's..... - IMDB - "There is a lot I can say about this film, but I'll keep it short. If you love simple stories being told in a beautiful and clear manner, and if you like Archaeology, then this is the film for you. All of the actors have done a wonderful job."

The Expendables 3 (2014)

That was an awesome gritty movie. They layed it on thick with the ending sequences. I would say the best of the three. The amount of action and stunts and expert fighting they crammed into the action scenes is amazing. Not a lot of deep dialogue but the line, "You ffkd up and I'm wearing it." struck a nerve.

9/10

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Fantasia 2000 - (1999)

With what I've seen in animation over the years, I have to say that Disney's follow-up to Fantasia didn't quite live up to my expectations. The best segment is, ironically, the one carried over from the previous film - Micky Mouse and his antics in The Sorcerer's Apprentice, but one other segment had me glued to the screen - the 1930s New York animation set to George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. The rest is all pretty abstract, with the next notable an animated piece based on "The Steadfast Tin Soldier" by Hans Christian Andersen scored with a Dmitri Shostakovich concerto. There's Daffy Duck as Noah, fire birds, whales and all kinds of imaginative dreamlike imagery - but somehow I expected a little bit more. I'd still go see this in an IMAX theater for the full effect though - which I figure might transform my experience significantly - it's the way it's meant to be seen.

6/10


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Bill On His Own - (1983)

The last we saw of Bill (Mickey Rooney) in 1981 telemovie Bill he was working at a coffee shop on a college campus after being befriended by novice filmmaker Barry Morrow (Dennis Quaid). In this sequel, a very young Helen Hunt (she was 19 or 20, but already a television veteran!) features as a student named Jenny Wells, who wants to teach Bill the basics of reading, adding and using the telephone - writing up the results for her sociology course. Harry Goz and Quaid return with small roles in this, but it's Mickey Rooney's performance as loveable scamp Bill that makes this tolerable. Hunt is very energetic and is also a commanding presence. At the end of the film we're informed that the real Bill died in 1983, the year this was made and broadcast, which is a bit of a dampener on our fun. Nothing like bursting into the room when we're all happy and saying "He just died."

5/10


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Ice Age : Continental Drift - (2012)

I'd just like to say title-wise that in Australia, the Ice Age films are numbered. So, the last one was Ice Age 3 : Dawn of the Dinosaurs and this one Ice Age 4 : Continental Drift. Anyway - we're getting far, far too many characters now. They're accruing as we go along - remember that in the first Ice Age we had our group of three protagonists, a human baby macguffin, and a group of saber tooth tigers on the periphery. Now the number of protagonists has swelled to seven, and the villains are more pronounced - including a star turn from Peter Dinklage as Captain Gutt. The story is the usual - escape the predators and find a safe home. But absolutely none of that matters - I only want to know how much Sid the Sloth is in this - and it's not enough. This is a bright, if crowded, entry into the series - but setting aside how great the original is, the third film is shaping up as my favourite out of the sequels. This one, the least.

4/10