Movies Discussion Thread V1: Ratings and Opinions

[quan chi]

Date night

not as good as i had expected it to be.
moreover i dont understand how it got a U/A or PG13 rating.when it should have been rated A or R.

 

[a_medico]

Wolf Creek - Awesome movie. Not very gory, still so effective. Brilliant direction. Thanks Sam for the recommendation. Even the first half when nothing happens is interesting. Something like, The Descent.

Only if - Expectations killed it for me. Average stuff.

Boogie nights - Same as above. The movie was quite retro and offbeat. Couldn't finish it. Heather Graham has great legs apart from other things.

 

[Ethan_Hunt]

Let The Right One In - Pretty good. A bit slow paced at times and the length could have been cut down. I was amazed by the make up job which was done on Håkan's face when he burns it with acid. Brilliant work. Although, I'm confused about the part when *SPOILER* Oskar's mother starts hitting him right after the scene when Eli murder's the man in her apartment (who arrives to kill her). Does Oskar's mother know that the person has been murdered? Also why does Eli call Håkan her father? Is it just to gain entry into his hospital room? *SPOILER*

It seems that the Americans are making a remake of this movie called "Let me in" and Chloe Mortez (Kick-Ass fame) is supposed to be the vampire girl. The remake hate wagon have already plagued IMDB message boards.

Poltergeist - Average horror flick. Drags too long and most of the horror sequences are down right kiddish.

Stephen King's Pet Semetary - Sub-par horror flick. Better than Poltergeist as the location & horror elements were relatively better.

The Book of Eli - Not bad, not bad at all. The cinematography was excellent and the post-apocalyptic look was well delivered. However, the end could have been moulded in a better way. The vocals were extremely low in this movie. It was very hard to hear some of Denzel Washington's Bible quotes without subtitles.

Party Animal - 80's comedy about a looser who can't get laid and tries pretty much every formula and fails miserably. Decent watch, nothing special or memorable.

 

[quan chi]

Kites

what went wrong:-
alright the story is a simple love story.They unnecessarily made it a action thriller love story.which in the end spoiled the entire story.

The direction was good.but was too slow here and there which was not at all required.(again its the story's fault)

they wanted to make a melodramatic action thriller.But didnt paid much attention to the story at all.
the screenplay was also a bit cheesy here and there.
but the cinematography i should say was quite good.

had the story been better this film could have done better.

 

[Neuron]

My favourites are the Matrix series.I really like the concept.
Also,
1408(kind of horror)
Batman Begins
Horton Hears a Who (Animation)
Pay check(sci-fi,action)

 

[rhitwick]

Ils (THEM) well I had high expectations from this one, and maybe that ruined it.... it also said to be based on tru events and that actually brings a shock when the movie ends. tension is maintain but I still say the tricks used to bring the thrill was old and used........6/10 for me

Read in IMDB, isn't it a bit similar to The Strangers ?

 

[a_medico]

Yes. After watching Wolf Creek I thought of watching Ils. But then the script seemed similar to The Strangers and Eden Lake, so dropped the idea. I am taking a one week break from the movies now. Just like that. No reason as such.

 

[Ethan_Hunt]

Crossing Lines - Predictable film about people wanting to obtain green card in US and also illegal immigration issues. It doesn't provide a huge impact in anyway.

Zapped! - Average 80's comedy flick about a boy who obtains the power of Telekinesis due a screw up at his lab experiment.

John Carpenter's The Fog - Very atmospheric film, but sadly doesn't provide the scares and held by a poor storyline.

 

[a_medico]

Zapped! - Average 80's comedy flick about a boy who obtains the power of Telekinesis due a screw up at his lab experiment.

Nostalgic! It was my first 'English' film ever!! Watched it some 20 years(maybe more) back while in school with friends. It was an 'adult' film (9 am show) and we used our contacts to gain entry in the cinema hall! And it was an awesome experience. Lol.

 

[Ethan_Hunt]

Nostalgic! It was my first 'English' film ever!! Watched it some 20 years(maybe more) back while in school with friends. It was an 'adult' film (9 am show) and we used our contacts to gain entry in the cinema hall! And it was an awesome experience. Lol.

Holy cow! Really? It would have seriously been an awesome experience indeed. I have probably seen so many 80's comedy flicks by now that this one just paled in comparison to some of them. It still had those hilarious moments though. BTW I didn't know these movie used to release in our theatres. Which cinema was it and it's location?

 

[a_medico]

^^^ They used to be released as porn movies in the cinemas..not the mainstream movies. An english movie at 9 or 10 am show invariably was synonymous with an adult soft porn. This was in all the cities except probably in the metros.

10-12 years back I went to watch American Beauty in the cinema. A man, probably from a village expected it to be a porn(maybe the rose petal poster effect). He was so frustrated after 1 hour that he screamed at Kevin Spacey on the screen "jau kya bhai abhi?? kuch to kar na!" ..... We nearly died laughing.

I guess internet killed that era!


p.s. - is this for real? *www.indiatimes.com/photostory/6046209.cms

 

[confused]

maybe this helps: *forum.xcitefun.net/james-cameron-deception-starring-shahrukh-and-aamir-khan-t45860.html

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look at the date, 5th april. any guesses when it originated? my money is on 1st april....

 

[a_medico]

^^ But the thing is, its posted in the section - Indians in hollywood movies along with Mallika Sherawat in Hisss and Obama movie, John Abraham in some movie, Freida Pinto and Neha Dhupia in their respective movies....so seems unlikely like an April fool.

 

[Ethan_Hunt]

Wes Craven's The People Under the Stairs - Awesome movie! Saw it last night albeit I had caught a bad cold. It was unlike any Wes Craven movie I have seen. It was a blend of comedy and horror. Great acting pulled off by everyone in the movie. A must watch for sure.

 

[rhitwick]

/offtopic but, I've a serial killer movie concept in my mind. As the trend is now "what has never been tried ever", I think it fits.

Well, a psycho serial killer who is a ghost and who roams in a disguise of a cat. This way the killer would be untraceable as long as u want the movie to stretch

 

[gopi_vbboy]

i saw american psycho...i dint understand the climax

 

[Krow]

Saw Jackie Brown and Terminator Salvation. T4 is good on the sfx, the plot may be average, but fun to watch nonetheless. Don't bother to raise your expectations. Jackie Brown is a good film, my favourite QT movie remains Reservoir Dogs and I'm glad that it is the first QT movie I saw, else maybe I would have appreciated Pulp Fiction more.

 

[rhitwick]

27 Most Boring movies

A few excerpts from the link,

La Belle Noiseuse (1991)

Why So Boring? By rights, any film in which we can see the incomparably gorgeous Emmanuelle Beart standing stark naked for two hours while modelling for a painting, should have no place in this list.

Unfortunately, the film is four hours long.. and the other two consist of close-ups of the painter at work. The only film in this list that allows you to actually watch paint dry.

How To Add A Bit Of Excitement: At least have Beart do star-jumps. You know, for the jiggle.

Satantango (1994)

Why So Boring? The first shot shows a herd of cows walking along a muddy track. The first shot lasts eight minutes.

However, at least the camera moves. For most of the following seven hours of glacial action, gloomy art direction and Communist farm co-operatives, the camera remains obstinately rooted to the spot.

At that length, you'd have to take the day off work to watch it...but you'd rather go to work, wouldn't you?

How To Add A Bit Of Excitement: Hire an editor.

and the less-epic

Blue (1993)

Why So Boring? It seems unfair to penalise a film made by a dying man, who found a creative way of overcoming blindness to bring his highly personal meditations on mortality to the movie screen.

At the end of the day, however, it has to be pointed out that Derek Jarman's final film consists entirely of a blue screen, onto which an 80 minute soundscape of narration and music is overlaid.

The fact that it premiered on radio at the same time as TV says it all.

How To Add A Bit Of Excitement: At least change the colour occasionally. It's not much to ask, is it?

and the EPIC

The Cure For Insomnia (1987)

Why So Boring? Running at 87 hours - that's over three days - this is officially the world's longest movie, and very nearly the most boring.

Consisting mainly of a static shot of an artist reading a 4000 page long poem in its entirety, it's less a recital than the terminal challenge in a deadly version of Big Brother.

However, it does contain occasional cutaways to pornos and heavy metal videos, so there's at least some effort to jolt you back into wakefulness.

How To Add A Bit Of Excitement: Prizes for whoever in the audience lasts the longest.

Have fun

 

[confused]

^lolumad. Last line of Satantangotakes description takes the cake though.

 

[Psychosocial]

Taxi Driver :- 8/10

Wow, I ignored it all this time! The movie's quite good! Scorsese is indeed awesome. There a few parts where the movie loses it's pace but apart from that it's really nice.