Movies Discussion Thread V1: Ratings and Opinions

[10 numberi]

Indian cinema had its Golden times during 40s, 50s, 60s and partially in 70s, after that it declined badly, the worse time was in 90s, and then now.

Actors during earlier era were not much exposed to western style or were not into masala movie making, for them it was new thing, so they acted naturally hence they were able to give excellent performance, also they were very much Indian from their education, background and behavior.

You have just have to watch movies like Kitaab (1977), Koshish, Dastak, Guide, etc to know that India had very talented filmmaker and actors, but as times passes things starts getting worse, so as the indian started getting exposed to western music, movies, and culture, (that started in late 70s) it showed in our society
just have a loook at the above video, and just listen the last line at the end by the boy "sorrry masterji, center of gravity miss ho gaya tha"
you will forget "Tare Zameen Par"
Watch this wonderfull scene

it was the best time

Yes you are right & I think we all know that thats why here when some one says bollywood I think he means current bollywood movies. Not those old classics.

"Tare zameen par" is less about child psychology & more on parent psychology. Kitaab is some what reverse of it. Anyways both are different & are good in their own places.

These khans also did some good movies during their earlier days. However the scenario is now different. Most people don't want to touch their brains. They want to touch their "center of gravity". These filmwalas knew that from the earlier days but due to strict restriction from the censor board they couldn't do much. But after doing lot of research they found a loop hole the name is "item song". put a popular hero & a itemsong wali heroine tease the center of gravity & money will flow in.

If the censor board of india becomes more lenient. I am sure this mahesh bhatt will be the first one to jump into porn making business.

Lunch box is just an average movie. It gained too much popularity because "in regione caecorum rex est luscus". which means "in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king".

Anyways hollywood was better during the 90s. It was even good in the 2000. There were so many good movies. But now every now & then
marvel releases some crap having same old **** boring special effects. Well not much complaints here at least the children have something to watch. Even avatar is a stupid movie if we compare it to cameron's past projects.

I would say we cannot blame these filmmakers too. They make these garbage because the public is buying this garbage. Thus they also have to do business. If they make a good movie & if people don't see it then it will be a loss for the producers. It is just stupid to think those people who are investing so much & those who are in the industry for many years don't know what they are doing. If you have to blame anybody blame the public.

 

[TheFallenLord]

^^Couldn't have put it better myself. I agree with you completely man. But all marvel movies are not crap. I think GotG, Cap2 and IM1 were quite good (I'm not a kid ). All others were crap, I agree.

 

[10 numberi]

^^Couldn't have put it better myself. I agree with you completely man. But all marvel movies are not crap. I think GotG, Cap2 and IM1 were quite good (I'm not a kid ). All others were crap, I agree.

That was just an example. However many of their films are. I liked captain america the first avenger too where as many didn't I don't know why? Then those same guys says winter soldier is better. I have seen both in theaters & I can say both looks almost the same to me. Even some of my friends found the winter soldier to be an average flick & I totally respect their views too as there are certain scenes in the movie which are down right boring.

Anurag kashyap made "no smoking" in 2007 & people bashed him. Honestly I liked no smoking Not because it was a good movie but because it was a good experimental movie. His main fault there was he made the subject too complex to understand. After reading his explanation about the movie I came to know certain things which I couldn't decipher when i saw it first. However they were very complex to understand even for a good movie viewer.

Gangs of wasseypur is no doubt a good movie but it is also not completely original. Somewhere down the line I think "The godfather" fans can draw some similarities between them. Anyways who cares when the movie is good.

 

[Vyom]

Watched Hunger Games just now. It was a long movie, but didn't feel like it. It was worth watching. Despite the fact that is was Sci Fi, the sci fi element was not over done. Futuristic environment looked believable, where reality shows goes as far as putting the lives of real people at stake for mere entertainment.

Eager to watch Hunger Games: Catching Fire (Part 2) next week.

 

[icebags]

so nobody saw "If I stay" this week ?

or mutant turtles ?

 

[srkmish]

Watched Hunger Games just now. It was a long movie, but didn't feel like it. It was worth watching. Despite the fact that is was Sci Fi, the sci fi element was not over done. Futuristic environment looked believable, where reality shows goes as far as putting the lives of real people at stake for mere entertainment.

Eager to watch Hunger Games: Catching Fire (Part 2) next week.

I hold the complete opposite opinion. IMO nothing about Hunger games was believable. Come on!, in future districts organize competitions to make children fight to their deaths and people dress like Lady Gaga's rejects??? ( as per Honest Trailers). At best, i was amused by this movie like watching a cartoon.

 

[TheFallenLord]

Actually now that I think of it, Cap1 wasn't bad. I actually kinda liked it, especially for the WW2 era setting but for a superhero flick it's action sequences were lame. Marvel got it right in the 2nd installment. May be that's why I liked it more. Here's how I'd rate the marvel movies: [GotG/Cap2 >> IM1] Good >> [Cap1 >> TIH/Thor] Average >> [The Avengers >> IM3/Thor2 >> IM2] Crap.

I like Kashyap's movies. Eagerly waiting for Bombay Velvet.

 

[Vyom]

I hold the complete opposite opinion. IMO nothing about Hunger games was believable. Come on!, in future districts organize competitions to make children fight to their deaths and people dress like Lady Gaga's rejects??? ( as per Honest Trailers). At best, i was amused by this movie like watching a cartoon.

Well, I actually meant the premise of playing with human life for Rich's entertainment part. Similar premise was that in "Gamer".
This is just an extension to the world like shown in "Elysium", where Earth was only a planet of those who couldn't afford living on a man made planet/spaceship.
And it's all seems too real in future.

 

[sam_738844]

Friends of Hercules (3d) -- 5/10

Spoiler

@Brett Ratner if you really had expected that sensationalizing an unknown, banal truth about Hercules would bring enormous crowd into the halls, you would best leave the direction to Snyder or Nolan

Chef --8/10 One should not watch this movie in half-stomach.

7500 --6.8/10 Not so Scary. Ending flick was impeccable though.

 

[Anorion]

If you have to blame anybody blame the public.

Bingo.

Marvel seems to have done tons of good with Guardians of the Galaxy

Playing Groot helped Vin Diesel grieve Paul Walker's death
Vin Diesel reveals how his Guardians Of The Galaxy role helped him deal with grief over the loss of Fast & Furious co-star Paul Walker | Mail Online

Howard the Duck's legal mess between Lucasfilm, Disney and Marvel got sorted
How Howard the Duck crashed Guardians of the Galaxy's opening weekend - Vox

The lawyers went out of their way to have a special screening in the hospital for an ailing Rocket Racoon's creator
Marvel Screened Guardians of the Galaxy for the Co-Creator of Rocket

And they discovered Dave Bautista, who turned out to be an awesome actor. Dancing Groot mid-credits scene, he did so much with just his eyes! Really liked the movie, now I'm liking it even more

 

[sam_738844]

Bingo.

And they discovered Dave Bautista, who turned out to be an awesome actor. Dancing Groot mid-credits scene, he did so much with just his eyes! Really liked the movie, now I'm liking it even more

He's not used in this movie properly, he is a friggin beast, and i liked him in the days of good ol' RAW, it was painful to see him got beat up a number of times by some ink-face punk. He could have shown delivering a few punches to that b***h at least.

 

[abhidev]

TMNT - 7.5/10 for gr8 CGI effects and fight scenes, good comedy, Megan Fox looks little old but good and for the fast pace.

 

[SaiyanGoku]

He's not used in this movie properly, he is a friggin beast, and i liked him in the days of good ol' RAW, it was painful to see him got beat up a number of times by some ink-face punk. He could have shown delivering a few punches to that b***h at least.

Drax the Destroyer was born to stop/kill Thanos, as usual they nerf'd him in the movie. -_-

 

[rhitwick]

Why is it out of 'Sticky'??? Come on!!!. Do I have to start the fight again?
How many times do I have to justify to the higher powers that there is no harm in keeping this as a sticky and this deserves to be a sticky.

Please bring back its old glory.


Oculus 8/10

Ah, best horror movie of this year. No gore, no sudden ghost appearance just pure-authentic-old fashioned environment horror movie.
Must watch for all horror fans.

b/w, its already half past 2014 but very few horror recommendations here. Aren't there good horror movies this year?

 

[rajatGod512]

Actually now that I think of it, Cap1 wasn't bad. I actually kinda liked it, especially for the WW2 era setting but for a superhero flick it's action sequences were lame. Marvel got it right in the 2nd installment. May be that's why I liked it more. Here's how I'd rate the marvel movies: [GotG/Cap2 >> IM1] Good >> [Cap1 >> TIH/Thor] Average >> [The Avengers >> IM3/Thor2 >> IM2] Crap.

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[theserpent]

Watched back to the future again what a classic.
A million ways to die in the west does have a cameo of the doctor from Back to the future
Wish BTTF 4th part comes

 

[Vyom]

Watched back to the future again what a classic.
A million ways to die in the west does have a cameo of the doctor from Back to the future
Wish BTTF 4th part comes

NOOOOooo! You can't spoil the Best Trilogy with a sequel!

 

[TheFallenLord]

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Yeah, I didn't like The Avengers. Here's why:

Spoiler

Generic plot - Guy wants to conquer and rule the earth with the help of an alien army and a group of super-powered earthlings assemble
to stop him.

Underwhelming bad guys - The mighty Chitauri army which basically consists of generic pale-faced gray aliens who get easily taken down by the

likes of Barton and Widow i.e. they don't even have sufficient armor to protect themselves from arrows and low-caliber bullets. Even worse, they

prefer to engage in close-combat instead of using their laser-guns (with exceptionally low rate of fire) and then again they get taken down by a

woman half their size and a guy who got his a$$ kicked by the same woman earlier in the movie. Then we have the chitauri air force which

consists of hoverboards equipped with the same generic laser-guns. Only the leviathans were somewhat of a challenge for the avengers.

Badly choreographed action sequences - This point is difficult to explain so I'd just say that personally I'm not a fan of the fight choreography

in the movie (especially during the climactic battle).

Cheesy costumes - They totally messed up Cap's and Hawkeye's costumes (especially Cap's) IMO. Cap basically looked like a rag doll.

Bad logic - So shield decides to nuke Manhattan with all the people in it just because they think that the alien army can't be stopped. That

pathetic excuse of an alien army could've easily been taken care of by the regular US army and air force and then they also had a demigod, a

couple of master assassin's, a super soldier, a hulk and a genius billionaire playboy philanthropist to aid them.

I really hope that the second one is better because if it's not then I'd like to see Joss Whedon quit and James Gunn direct Avengers 3 instead.

 

[johnjoyjoe1979]

Evil Dead (1981) -9/10,
Saving Private Ryan (1998) -9/10
The Longest Day (1962) -8/10

 

[icebags]

donno what was the fuss about Peggy Sue, BTTF is miles ahead anyday, anytime. the adventure, humor, plot, story, experience, everything was much better.

p.s. did anyone have a feeling, some elderly people are sitting in a high school class ?

TMNT - 7.5/10 for gr8 CGI effects and fight scenes, good comedy, Megan Fox looks little old but good and for the fast pace.

atlast, someone saw tmnt. congos.