What film did you watch last night?

The Giver - 5/10

I'm scraping the barrel of my NowTV subscription now :p

The ending makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. I feel insulted.

I don't know why people bother creating a premise for a film which is even 20% believable, only to tack on an ending which is so silly it makes your insides hurt.

Imagine if near the end of "Return of the Jedi", we learn that the dark side of the force is really susceptible to lemons. Luke covers himself in lemon juice, and when the Emperor attacks him he turns into a penguin.

That's how bad the ending of this film is. It makes no sense.
 
Terminator Genisys.

Completely flies in the face of a logic and brilliance of it's 2 worthy counterparts.

Jai Kourtney ffs!!!

2/10 Judgement day is inevitable.
 
Terminator Genisys.

Great return to form after the failures of T3 and Salvation. Okay it's not as good as the first and second films but neither is Return of the Jedi and that's still pretty damn good too :D

7/10

Did have a couple of complaints however:

1: I cannot kill Sarah Connor because I am programmed to protect Sarah Connor, here please take this and kill Sarah Connor - >.< This one scene is so stupid it almost brings down the whole film with it's stupidity, I mean did nobody seriously proof watch this?

2: The start of the film with the T-1000 scenes were AWESOME, I genuinely believe that the story of the T-1000 coming for Sarah, being stopped by Arnie then going after Reese would have been strong enough for a film, they didn't need to take the plot full retard. Terminator 1/2 worked because they were simple, this would have worked too without Robojohn.
 
Are you joking? It was awful. Half of it was written as a comedy. It's storyline was farcile and the actors were mostly terrible. Of course this is my opinion, but I'm sturggling to see how anyone could have thought it was 7/10
 
/shrug, I liked it, everyone I was with liked it, everyone else in the cinema seemed to like it, I felt 7/10 was warranted for a very entertaining film with many cool bits but a couple of flaws, which was also significantly better than the last two and a great return to form. For ref I consider T1 a 9/10 and T2 a 10/10.
 
I can see why Chronic is exasperated at the casting of Jai Courtney as Kyle Reese. The guy brings nothing of worth. I felt the same when George Lucas cast Hayden Christensen as Anakin. George, WTF were you playing at, man? The films were likely to end up turd regardless of the casting, but to have such an iconic character played by Hayden Christensen? :(

Kyle Reese while not as iconic as Anakin/Vader, was very well played by Michael Biehn, and an important character in the Terminator universe and certainly deserved better casting than Jai Courtney. :mad:
 
Marsman said:
I can see why Chronic is exasperated at the casting of Jai Courtney as Kyle Reese. The guy brings nothing of worth. I felt the same when George Lucas cast Hayden Christensen as Anakin. George, WTF were you playing at, man? The films were likely to end up turd regardless of the casting, but to have such an iconic character played by Hayden Christensen? :(

Kyle Reese while not as iconic as Anakin/Vader, was very well played by Michael Biehn, and an important character in the Terminator universe and certainly deserved better casting than Jai Courtney. :mad:
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Absolutely, if anything it's the role reversal that I also disliked. Kyle was strong headed and determined, where with the storyline change (which makes no sense and seems like a 10 minute segway from the other films into this pile of turd) kills his character and makes Sarah the strongheaded one, Jai through-out this film seems like a lost puppy, however Emilie Clark just doesn't have that grit that Linda Hamilton had from T2 to pull off a strong woman, so you never feel for the characters. T1 and 2 were great as a slowly matured the story into something great but this suffers from the 21st century writers adhd of every scene must be epic, transformers style crap.

and (film spoiler)

Who the hell sent the terminator back to her when she was 9, does that mean they set this up for a full on matharon of rebooting the storyline. Why the hell did every character from every film all turn up at the same time, T1, T2, Kyle, such a terrible way to tip the hat to the other films by destroying them both within ten minutes
 
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Dawn of the Planet of the Apes - 7/10

My only complaint was the dialogue, which was pretty stilted during certain scenes.

Other than that, much better than I was expecting.
 
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Red Tails - 8/10. Surprinsingly good film, wasn't expecting a lot. Liked the cast. The usual american bravado as usual.
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Watch "The Tuskegee Airmen", it's older but a much better version with real aircraft and much better actors. I had seen it long before Red Tails so when Red Tails came out I was interested to see how the CGI would hold up. For me it held up (a bit too cartoony possibly) but the acting, script and everything else was awful, truly awful.
 
ubersonic said:
/shrug, I liked it, everyone I was with liked it, everyone else in the cinema seemed to like it, I felt 7/10 was warranted for a very entertaining film with many cool bits but a couple of flaws, which was also significantly better than the last two and a great return to form. For ref I consider T1 a 9/10 and T2 a 10/10.
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imho, it was an absolute abomination of a film and along with Jurassic World shows that Hollywood seems determined to soil so many franchises.

I'm awaiting the opinion of some of my professors of film at Uni; many of which hold the first two Terminator films and Jurassic Park as some of the high points of Hollywood blockbusters.
 
After seeing 2 Kajaki ratings, I thought I would purchase it yesterday and watched it last night.

I think this was one of the best movies I have seen in a while. It will definitely be on my recommend list.
 
The Day After. The infamous nuclear holocaust movie from 1983! Holds up reasonably well after 30+ years but appears far too theatrical when compared to the brutal realism of The War Game, which was made 18 years earlier and remains the definitive work in this genre. 7/10.


25th Hour. Dragged myself through the first hour, then put a bullet in its head and walked on. 0/10.


The Bourne Ultimatum. Matt H. Damon runs around for 2 hours in search of a stable camera. 7/10.


The Bourne Legacy. Jeremy L. Renner channels his inner Liam J. Neeson in a tense battle of wits against Edward H. Norton. 7.5/10.


The Manchurian Candidate. Stars Jonathan V. Voight, Mary L. Streep and Simon M. McBurney, with Denzel H. Washington in his first major black role. Not bad, not bad at all. 7.5/10.


Goo-reu-meul Beo-eo-nan Dal-cheo-reom. Above average for this genre. I've seen better though. 6/10.


Kundo: Min-ran-eui Si-dae. Jong-bin Yun ('the Korean Tarantino') shows why he's the still the master of jeongol yeok sa cinema. 7/10.
 
It Follows

I was looking forward to this after seeing the good reviews and hype.

Was this supposed to be a scary film? It was a fairly good story I guess but I didnt find it scary at all, which I thought it would.

5.5/10
 
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John Carter.

Recorded from the weekend. Every review I've read about this ****s it off but I thought it was well paced and pretty entertaining 7.5/10
 
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