Movies Discussion Thread V1: Ratings and Opinions

nac

Aspiring Novelist
Played it, slept, woke up and found still playing, closed and never tried again

:lol:

There was one other popular film I felt this way... The Good, The Bad and, The Ugly. May be old films are not for me, at least that is what I think.
 

Anorion

Sith Lord
Staff member
Admin
I dint like Prometheus at all. The visuals were nice and all, but this movie was made just to satisfy the whims of the director - Ridley Scott. He just needed to make a prequel to Aliens and dint bother explaining how life originated, who were these engineers, what is the purpose and method of propagation of life etc. Am not too hopeful about Prometheus 2.
was sufficiently intrigued by the premise to look over the cheese... event horizon is another good example. explaining Prometheus. it had shout outs to alien (the android throwing the basketball while cycling and at full court length) but mostly it's scope was much more epic
any civilization with capacity to spread life does so. these guys do it with black goo. (this works even if the engineers were born on earth!) any alien civilization that weaponises it's advanced tech, has these weapons turn on them. we dont need to know much more about the engineers than what was shown. humans are better of dead precisely because we desire and work towards this kind of power as a civilization. much more so because we openly humiliate and use violence for even simple things (as shown in the scene just before the engineer goes ape). if humans are on a path to create abominations and aberrations as the alien, even if it is close to us and saves our lives, we are better off exterminated. just so that other, simpler life who will never take such decisions has a chance of living in a universe without pure, unadulterated horror, which is ofc the natural consequence of weaponising bio-tech. these were the containers of weaponised black goo, that were depoloyed against earth. there is a specific incident that the directors intended to signify what earth did wrong (this was because we killed their emissary, a messiah) but I like to think of it more as a question of what humans are guilty of as a race.

ok so prometheus, event horizon, europa report, sunshine, pandorum, the fountain
except contact, cowboys vs aliens and john carter, is there absolutely anything else that has "the engineers" or superintelligent life? no dark city or fantastic planet too.
 

nac

Aspiring Novelist
After Godfather and good, bad, ugly I pretty much not interested in watching old films (released before 70's). I think Love Story is the oldest film I like. And not many films in the 70's too, may be about a handful of films.

Grease, Kramer vs Kramer, Rocky, Alien.
 

anirbandd

Conversation Architect
After Godfather and good, bad, ugly I pretty much not interested in watching old films (released before 70's). I think Love Story is the oldest film I like. And not many films in the 70's too, may be about a handful of films.

Grease, Kramer vs Kramer, Rocky, Alien.

Godfathers too? ????

Dayyyyyyum!!
 

flyingcow

Shibe
You guysneed to watch hunger games catching fire...9/10
the black bars at the top and bottom disappear during the "games" man. that looks so awesome
 

ZTR

Cyborg Agent
You guysneed to watch hunger games catching fire...9/10
the black bars at the top and bottom disappear during the "games" man. that looks so awesome

Have you read the books though?
Cause they have skipped a lot in the movies IMO
 

flyingcow

Shibe
Have you read the books though?
Cause they have skipped a lot in the movies IMO
yes they did skip many scenes..i read the books long ago, only 1 and half of 2nd, i will be reading them again before Mockingjay releases..mockingjay will have 2 parts in the movie, part 1 and part 2..so there will be 4 movies in all..
have you read the books?
 

rhitwick

Democracy is a myth
Dallas Buyers Club 7.5 + .5 = 8/10

Brilliant acting by the two leads but the story is not 'that' good. Its good but hardly justifies the conclusion.
 

harsh1387

Broken In
Pawn-
A good one time watch. Story is simple of a diner robbery gone wrong.
Rating - 3/5

The Hunger Games: catching fire-
I was expecting more from this one. The pace is a bit slow and drama is more than action. Nonetheless was entertaining except for climax which was very abrupt.
Rating - 4/5
 

rajatGod512

N00B Troller
You guysneed to watch hunger games catching fire...9/10
the black bars at the top and bottom disappear during the "games" man. that looks so awesome

It is the aspect ratio that changes cause the games part was shot by IMAX Cameras , as it has much bigger picture ... It can be easily shown in 16:9 format while not making it look slightly stretched , It was same in TDKR , TDK and Transformers 2 .

and the movie was awesome , much much better than part 1 which IMO was a borefest .

I liked the end logo , Changing from Hunger games to Catching fire and then Mockingjay Logo .
 

ZTR

Cyborg Agent
yes they did skip many scenes..i read the books long ago, only 1 and half of 2nd, i will be reading them again before Mockingjay releases..mockingjay will have 2 parts in the movie, part 1 and part 2..so there will be 4 movies in all..
have you read the books?

Yeah I have after watching the first movie recently
And I knew about the two part finale like Harry Potter and twilight lol
The first part comes q4 2014 I think
 

flyingcow

Shibe
Yeah I have after watching the first movie recently
And I knew about the two part finale like Harry Potter and twilight lol
The first part comes q4 2014 I think
imdb says its in post production...im guessing it means all the scenes are already done..now only post remains which may take sometime...but i didnt think it to be released in q4 :cry:

It is the aspect ratio that changes cause the games part was shot by IMAX Cameras , as it has much bigger picture ... It can be easily shown in 16:9 format while not making it look slightly stretched , It was same in TDKR , TDK and Transformers 2 .

and the movie was awesome , much much better than part 1 which IMO was a borefest .

I liked the end logo , Changing from Hunger games to Catching fire and then Mockingjay Logo .

yeah, i read somewhere about that imax thing..but looks so awesome tho, yeah part 1 was boring

Pawn-
A good one time watch. Story is simple of a diner robbery gone wrong.
Rating - 3/5

The Hunger Games: catching fire-
I was expecting more from this one. The pace is a bit slow and drama is more than action. Nonetheless was entertaining except for climax which was very abrupt.
Rating - 4/5

lol i though the pace was fast
 

a_medico

Chillum Baba
Ship of Theseus - Superb movie, superb subject but it drags on and on. Should have been some 30-45 mins less. Still, a unique movie from bollywood. Some on imdb even saying it should have been sent to oscars.
 

topgear

Super Moderator
Staff member
Insidious 2 - not good as the first but as a sequel it's good enough. 6.5/10.

The Lorax - Great film on the importance of saving tress :D Deserves 10/10 ;)
 
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