Last Seen Movie - The Latest Movie You Have Seen; ratings

[Precious Doll]

He's Just Not That Into You (2009) Ken Kwapis 4/10

Liliom (1930) Frank Borzage 6/10

The Confession (2002) Zeki Demirkubuz 6/10

Lucky Star (1929) Frank Borzage 6/10

[Penelope]

Friday the 13th (2009; Marcus Nispal) 3/10

I usually don't go to slasher films (and I refuse to watch any of the torture porn flicks), but I was curious to see this one because the 1980 original was such a pivotal part of my youth. That isn't to say that the first one is any kind of masterpiece: it doesn't reach any kind of greatness until the last 20 minutes or so, when Betsy Palmer turns up and makes it very memorable.

This one isn't a remake but rather a "reboot" of the series: Mrs. Voorhees gets her head chopped off before the opening credits are even done, then we have Jason taking over for his mom. The usual assortment of dumb but beautiful young people turn up, hoping for sex and drugs, but wind up impaled on the wrong side of machetes, axes and arrows.

So the movie sticks to the basic tropes of the franchise, but doesn't offer anything new aside from a higher budget and a director who clearly shows the influence of producer Michael Bay: excessive close-ups, rapid-fire editing and a louder soundtrack. It gives the film an unfortunate sense of mechanical, going-thru-the-motions blandness; at least the original had a sense of fun about it. Lacking any wit, any kind of inspiration, this one just bumps from bloody death to bloody death.

[Reza]

Untraceable (Gregory Hoblit, 2008) 3/10

Gran Torino (Clint Eastwood, 2008) 4/10

Shoot on Sight (Jag Mundhra, 2007) 6/10

[Okri]

I liked it. I don't think it's a great movie; it's more Bronte than Austen, but it's actually a surprisingly fresh take on the story - it feels very lived in (I don't like it as much as say Persuasion or Mansfield Park, but I'd put it on the same territory as Lee's Sense and Sensibility). Donald Sutherland's quite good. Knightley's miscast. I will say that I was very excited when Wright was doing Atonement and that excitement was on the basis of his work here.

[FilmFan720]

Pride & Prejudice (2005)

9/10

Beautiful.

I don't want to sound rude with this comment, but what in God's green Earth could you find beautiful about that film?



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[Sonic Youth]

Coraline - 9/10

[Zahveed]

Hamlet 2 6/10

[dreaMaker]

Pride & Prejudice (2005)

9/10

Beautiful.

[Big Magilla]

The Woman on the Beach (Jean Renoir) 5/10

OK but bland 1947 noir from the usually brilliant Renoir. Joan Bennett in a milder version of the femme fatale she played in The Woman in the Window and Scarlet Street is unhappily married to blind man, Charles Bickford, a former renowned artist. Robert Ryan is the local Coast Guard commander who falls under her spell. The actors give it their all but it doesn't add up to very much. Ryan and Bickford were nominated for Oscars that year, albeit for different performances - Ryan in Crossfire, Bickford in The Farmer's Daughter.

[Sabin]

I think there are certain things I'm just predisposed to enjoying. Anything about memory or time travel, I'm pretty much down with in some capacity. Anything that uses an abstract, fantastical concept to reveal something human has to squander its potential pretty fantastically (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) for me to jump boat. I even kind of enjoy the mediocre Stranger than Fiction.

I haven't seen it in a year or so, but I remember Bender's Big Score being completely absurd and very entertaining. It revels in glorious and ridiculous paradox like Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. It very much felt like a movie with highs and lows, but I think I prefer Beast with a Billion Backs.

[Franz Ferdinand]

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (David Fincher) 5/10

Passing grade because it is great to look at, but left me cold and uninvolved. Also thought the framing device with Hurricane Katrina was a little inappropriate and unnecessary.

[Zahveed]

What did you think of Bender's Big Score?

[Sabin]

Every line of dialogue in a Futurama episode is designed to be a joke in a different way than Family Guy in that it's pertinent to the story or early Simpsons in that it's more anarchist and less mundane. It's the rare contemporary animated series that is not composed of talking heads featuring dynamic and genuinely creative animation: new worlds, asinine species. It took me a while to get into Futurama but I'm inclined to say that it's entire run is stronger than The Simpsons has been since the mid-90's and better than Family Guy ever was.


Futurama: Bender's Game - 6

What defines a solid episode of Futurama is outlandish new landscapes subverted by gags and a sweetly dim view of humanity. Bender's Game has a lot of the former but precious little of the latter. It's consistently funny but the plot never entirely coheres. If anything it feels like the work of a bunch of nerds all too enamored with D&D. Entertaining but a little all over the place.


Futurama: Beast with a Billion Backs - 8

Now we're talking. There is so much creative animation in this episode that manages to satirize religion, polygamy, and Skull & Crossbones. It feels as efficient as a twenty minute episode of Futurama and breezes by as quickly. I was shocked at how much I really, really liked this movie.

[Zahveed]

It really is pretty ambiguous.

[OscarGuy]

The film starts off with an anti-war bent. But, as Lawrence learns more about things, it seems to be more a film about using war as a means to an end. It may not be pro-war, but it's not entirely anti-war either.