Rate the latest movie you've seen.

[Nam]

Recently watched Australian films some by Peter Weir:

Walkabout (1971) -- 8/10
The Cars That Ate Paris (1974) -- 6/10
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) -- 8/10
The Last Wave (1977) -- 7/10
Newsfront (1978) -- 6/10
Lonely Hearts (1982) -- 6/10

[AllPurposeAtheist]

Back to 1942
Subtitles from Chinese
About the Henan famine and Japanese invasion during WWII and a old man who lost everything and had to sell family to survive. Probably the saddest movie you'll ever watch and a reminder just how cheap life can be on this planet.
Dialog moves quickly so have your reading glasses on.

[Nam]

Back to 1942
Subtitles from Chinese
About the Henan famine and Japanese invasion during WWII and a old man who lost everything and had to sell family to survive. Probably the saddest movie you'll ever watch and a reminder just how cheap life can be on this planet.
Dialog moves quickly so have your reading glasses on.

Dare mo shiranai (2004)

Is the saddest movie I have ever seen.

-Nam

[AllPurposeAtheist]

Odd part of watching a movie about famine is I feel hungry and end up munching on snacks then feel bad afterwards.  Somehow I feel like I shouldn't eat for a few days, but I will anyway.

[Aroura33]

Recently watched "Her".  9/10.
I thought it might be trite or boring, but it was neither.  The pace is slow but steady, and keeps you interested in what is going to happen next.  The dialog is thoughtful.  The movie is a lot deeper than I would have expected.

[SGOS]

Recently watched "Her".  9/10.
I thought it might be trite or boring, but it was neither.  The pace is slow but steady, and keeps you interested in what is going to happen next.  The dialog is thoughtful.  The movie is a lot deeper than I would have expected.

I'm going to watch the DVD later tonight, unless I get sidetracked.  I have the same trepidations you described, but I see that viewers seem to think it's a fairly good flick.

[Nam]

Just watched The Natural for the first time, I give it 9/10.

-Nam

[SGOS]

Her  9/10

Granted, I've been in the mood for a unique movie after reaching a summer saturation point with Superhero action films.  I like those too, but there's a lot of other worthwhile subject matter besides that, and I've had a craving for something like Her for awhile now.  I was able to identify with a lot of Her on a psychological level from my own experience, rather than engaging myself in something that I can only relate to as fantasy.  Actually, Her is sci fi and consequently has a fantasy component, but it is more cerebral and was a welcome change of pace.

[Aroura33]

I'm glad you enjoyed "Her" SGOS.  There is a crowd out there that doesn't seem to get it. Perhaps it is simply that they cannot relate.  I also felt pretty connected to it, not just the main character (though he is a man, and I am a woman, his character has some universal traits that I think either gender and any sexual orientation could relate to), but also the side characters.
There is a lot being said in this movie, and not all of it is on the surface.  I noticed the background images and people quite often as part of the story. The elevator stands out the most in my memory, I thought it was quite strikingly done.

I'm going to see How to Train Your Dragon 2 this afternoon with my daughter. I hear it is pretty dark, so I hope she enjoys it.  It is getting pretty good reviews from critics and audiences, so my hopes are up. :)

[Berati]

the LEGO movie
9/10

This movie wanted to be (mostly) fast paced AND create the illusion of LEGO-stop-motion... that means blocks, which means increments, and that means the animation can't help but have a frantic choppyness that some might find hard to get into. Hense the one point reduction.
But it's also a loveletter to all those who've build stuff and played with LEGO, with lots of clever jabs at movie clichés, and an underlying message of letting your unique creativity shine by abandoning instructions that'll really pull at your heartstrings. This movie glances over it's products on sale with such deliberate dismissiveness, it understands it needn't plug a product that sold itself just great for decades. The emphasys was placed on fun and creativity where it belonged, and I think the filmmakers avoided the pitfall of losing the audiences respect with overt commercialism with style.

Something eighties spaceguy Benny, who's yearning to build a spaceship SPACESHIP SPACESHIP!!!, had a worn out decall and (sure enough) that crack across the chin in his helmet, so that gave me a nostalgasm. Also: secretly this is the best movie with Batman in it... ever.

Final verdict: everything is awesome!

Just saw the movies and I have to agree. This is the best movies I've seen in years.

[Nam]

Emperor (2012) -- 5/10.

So, they took an actual general from WWII, who was also married and his wife was stationed with him many places during the war, and gave him a fictional affair with a Japanese woman, which was filler throughout the film.

It's not the only reason why this gets a 5/10 but it's at least 80% why.

-Nam

[Nam]

Bus Stop (1956) -- 5/10

This movie annoyed the hell out of me. Especially the lead male character.

-Nam

[Gawdzilla Sama]

As a cousin of mine says a lot: "Just 'cause she's off the menu don't mean you can't look."

-Nam

True. I had a fifteen year old girl determined to ____ me when I was 28. I had some fun messing with her head, but I avoided any possible jail time.

[Mr.Obvious]

Went to watch Maleficent in theatres yesterday. Not really my thing to start with, so perhaps not a fair judge in this.

Yet all in all I would give it a decent 7/10. If you like these 'darker' fairytales/disneymovies, I could even understand you giving it an eight.

The film gets progressively better. The child-acting in the first ten minutes is atrocious. But as the movie grows darker and more violent, it gets more entertaining. And the CGI which first looks childish and dodgy becomes more convincing in less light.

I personally think the leap to 'evil empress' that the title-character makes is kind of a non-sequiter, even though the cause is a terrible cause. But then again, this is a children's movie and I suppose I can't really fault it for that. All in all, the story actually seems like a good way to teach young kids that good and evil isn't the black-and-white version they were told as kindergardeners.

I did not care for the narrator, however, nor the part it played in the predictable ending. Of course, these kind of movies can't really be blamed to have a standard-happy-ending, but with a movie that toyed with darkness and gave twist to thte most known part of the story (though you can see it coming) and tried to stand out from the average disney-movie, I'd hoped for a more unique ending.

But all in all, not a bad movie and definitely something a guy can suffer through when trying to score some points with his date.

[Nam]

Legend of the Sea (2007) -- 2/10

Awful film.

-Nam