Rate The Last Movie You Saw

I gave it 4.5. Eff da haters.

Last movie I watched...

Afflicted - , maybe

Definitely feels like the elevator pitch was "Chronicle with vampires", but it still has its moments.

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City of Ghosts

Documentary about Raqqa Is Being Silently Slaughtered (RBSS).It's an underground resistance movement that primarily used the media to show what ISIS controlled areas are really like to fight back against their propaganda. It started inside Raqqa (ISIS Capital inside Syria which thankfully it looks like it's losing atm) from mostly former Anti-Assad students, teachers, policemen, etc; before ISIS started assassinating members. Most members then moved away to places like Turkey and Germany with spies left there to get them information.

Yeah i dunno it's a very depressing and shocking documentary that i won't watch again but it was very good. This was the closest i got to watching any of the ISIS murder videos which are thankfully cut out just before the killing happens, but even hearing the gunfire after you see the lead up is so brutal. Don't really want to go into the politics of the members but i largely agree with them even though it's essentially a pipe dream at this point. So many tough moments like the brothers who regularly watch their fathers assassination video for inspiration in continuing to fight back; an attitude that's completely foreign to me i wouldn't be able to watch it once but these guys have obviously been through so much and they have such a different mindset. I do have a few problems none major, actually one really; it was overly dramatised at times. The end especially with the dude shaking with all the dramatic music as well as some of the stuff featuring the guys just living their lifes, the guy and his wife and stuff i dunno. I definitely think the director was trying to make this cinematic which works alot of the time for documentaries but considering the subject matter and the amount of story there was to tell i'd have rathered a barebones information presentation like LA 92 from this year.

This would be a great movie if it weren’t for the kids.

Blade Runner 2049

I felt ambivalent about the original and want to revisit it. I have the same mixed feelings about this new iteration and want to revisit it but not right away. What I really liked....the romance, I thought it was unique and special.
The visuals and sounds created an interesting tone and world. The acting was also very good. The world, the tone, the characters, some aspects of the story were thought provoking, which is a good thing.

Can’t say I liked the length. Nor the action. Aside from the romance I didn’t feel the story elicited much emotion from me, overall, whilst watching however, as mentioned, it was thought provoking as an after affect.

I can’t rate it without watching a second time although it would be difficult for me to sit through this again so soon.

Destination Moon (1950)

Sinbad! Sinbaaaaaaad!
THE GOLDEN VOYAGE OF SINBAD (1973)

Unbelievable! What a film!

Rating: 8.0 / 10

A New Dimension! Dynarama!

Went to the cinema today to see Happy Death Day. Groundhog Day meets Scream in this entertaining tongue in cheek horror flick as a bitchy college girl finds herself endlessly reliving the same day over and over again - the day that, no matter what she does, always ends with her being brutally murdered by a mysterious masked killer. This is an unremarkable but still fun piece of fluff that almost feels like a throwback to the late 90s post-Scream run of 'yoof' horror flicks, and there are worse things to be, it has to be said. Not great but perfectly watchable.

Contact (1997) -
The Child in Time (2017) -
Europa Report (2013) -

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Watched Half Nelson last night for the 2nd time. Excellent movie! Ryan Gosling's performance was Oscar Worthy.

8/10

Olympus Has Fallen -

not enough Channing Tatum, Jamie Foxx, or quality

Antman 7/10

That's a shame you didn't like this movie as much as I did. I remember seeing this on IMAX and the visual and sound effects were so unbelievable. I don't know if that alone makes the difference.

The next movie on my list is actually Patriots Game, which I certainly have some good hope on.

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I rated Patriots Game the same as Deepwater Horizon but I think Patriots Game is a MUCH better film, much more engaging, and for the chase part of it, it kept me on the edge of my seat. The reason I rated it so low was, partially, I had a moral objection to the way the real events were shown. But it was intense. Most people have really liked Patriots Game, so you might like it too.

The Thin Blue Line

Very good documentary... Strange case, but not surprising when you have the same Chief of Police when JFK was killed... Dallas is dubbed "The City of Hate"

Mauvais Sang [Bad Blood aka The Night Is Young] (Leos Carax, 1986)
Oddball and self-indulgent at times but there's good blood in there too.

I wish I could like this post 7 times.

Agreed with every word.

And yes, Peter Berg certainly isn't the best film maker... although, I did like Lone Survivor and Friday Night Lights.

Wonder Woman (2017)





Origins story for Diana... some of the feminist stuff I was afraid the movie would be packed with, isn't actually there and what is, isn't something that is heavy on the viewer or the story. The thing about the treatment of Diana, being a strong woman in 1917, when women weren't taken, well, seriously, was handled absolutely perfectly.


Diana's babe-in-the-woods thing (as mentioned by Bruce Wayne in BvS, although in BvS it was an act, whereas in WW she genuinely is a fish out of water) also makes Diana a highly endearing and enchanting character, and is played wonderfully (ahem) by Gal Gadot.
Gadot also plays the more emotional scenes brilliantly, showing Diana's softer, humane, and for want of a better word "feminine" side.


Also, when the action hits, Gadot shows her worth yet again.
Proper kick-ass heroine.


Exciting, intriguing, and it's paced absolutely perfectly.


The only faults... a little too much CGI in just one of the battle scenes. The rest of them were top notch though... and the other thing was the treatment of Danny Huston's character... I mean, what was he? What was that potion he kept sniffing?


Overall, I'd say Wonder Woman is up there with the tippy-top of Superhero Movies.
Possibly even in the Top 10 Best.


Let's just hope Patty Jenkins' influence can be brought into the rest of the DCCU.


Easily a

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