Rate the latest movie you've seen.

[Nam]

Saw Thor:  Dark World.  7/10.  It was entertaining and it had its moments, but it needed a rewrite.  Badly.

Then it's not a 7/10. That would be more in line with 4/10. 7/10 is considered to be "above average" and teetering on "good". An opinion from someone who has rated over 7,400 films, TV shows (including episodes), documentaries, short subject, video games, and pornography combined.

First off, I hate all the humans in this movie.  There was no real point in having Earth be a part of this story anyway.  Stupid love triangle was stupid.  And they basically turned her (I don't care enough about her to bother learning her name) into a living macguffin, which was horrible, but a million times better than watching her try to date some poor schmuck.  And frankly, the whole damn science team was physically painful to watch.  The cell phone reception scene alone made me facepalm so hard, let alone the weaponized portals.  These characters actually distracted from the story, which easily could've been just about the Asgardians and the Dark Elves.

And speaking of the Dark Elves, I actually really liked them.  Their ships are cool.  Those implosion grenades are cool.  Their Black Rage powerup crystal thingies are cool.  Their armor is cool.  Those creepy masks are creepy.  And their motivation is only mildly cliched - they don't do evil for evil's sake, don't want to conquer Earth or anything (in fact, they don't give two craps about the Earth, which makes their presence on Earth really puzzling) - they just want to unmake existence and return it to primordial chaos.  Now there's a goal I can get behind.  And best of all, they're led by the 9th Doctor.  Awesome.

I also really liked the Asgardians.  The part where Loki "dies" was great.  Their dynamic was great, let's see more of that.  But there were two things I really didn't like about them - Thor is apparently quite the trickster himself, which really threw me for a loop as it didn't seem to fit with this characterization at all.  He's a stern, duty-bound warrior with all the subtlety of a 2x4.  He's very much like his weapon - blunt, powerful, and very straightforward.  This is the kind of guy who not only does not use deceit, but looks down on it.  The second thing is Loki's offscreen coup d'etat.  Wtf.

And some of the acting seemed kinda off.  Volstagg had what could have had a great You Shall Not Pass moment, but his lines were delivered like he's responding to a questionnaire.  A lot of the characters were like that.  What gives?

Definitely not a 7/10.

-Nam

[Hydra009]

Yeah, I tend to 8/10 everything that I don't hate.  Apologies.  Yeah, realistically, it's more like 5/10.  It's basically a badly executed good movie.  Great special effects, though.

[Notthesun]

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes - I loved it. Even more than the 1st. Ceasar is the best!

Grade: A-

[Nam]

All is Lost (2013) -- 7/10.

-Nam

[the_antithesis]

Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World

Eh, it was alright. I like the aesthetic. i would like to see a super hero movie that uses it. But the story is about a whiny twentysomething who doesn't know how to handle his love life. So it's a universal story, I guess. It's just trite, is all. I didn't enjoy it.

But as I said, I would like to see a super hero movie with this aesthetic and until recently, director Edgar Wright was set to make Ant-Man. I can only conjecture that he was planning to do just that with Ant-Man and Marvel nixed it because this someone goofy, overblown look wouldn't fit with the rest of the Marvel movie. If that's true, it's a shame but understandable. Also if true, hopefully Wright won't give up on the idea and make a super hero movie with this kind of energy and excitement. There are plenty of public domain super heroes these days. So why not dust one of them off and have real fun without the bollocks of continuity?

[stromboli]

Seven Psychopaths  7/10

Good cast, but some loopy plot twists. A lot of odd behavior from notable odd character actors. but the plot twists should have been less predictable.

[SGOS]

Yeah, I tend to 8/10 everything that I don't hate.  Apologies.  Yeah, realistically, it's more like 5/10.  It's basically a badly executed good movie.  Great special effects, though.

Yeah, I tend to 8/10 everything that I don't hate.  Apologies.  Yeah, realistically, it's more like 5/10.  It's basically a badly executed good movie.

I actually understand what you mean.  I like movies in general, so I tend to score them higher than what they deserve.  But for accurate comparisons there should be as many 1/10 movies as there are 10/10 movies, and most movies would rank somewhere in the middle like a standard Bell curve.  But if someone were to give a really average flick a deserved score of 5/10 around here, it would give the impression that the movie just plain sucked.  If you give a movie an 8/10, someone would be sure to ask, "8/10?"  What was so bad about that movie?"

We could use a new scoring system in the forum.  You would have to be honest:

I walked out of the theater half way through in utter disgust
Movie was OK, but I slept through a lot of it
Movie held my attention, and I didn't go to the lobby for popcorn
Movie was so good, I cried and made a fool of myself in the theater
or
Movie was so funny, I pissed my pants
or
On the way out of the theater, I kept pestering strangers with how I loved the movie more than anything else in the world, until people started telling me to get a grip on myself and quit acting like a possessed Pollyanna.

[Nam]

Out of the 7400+ ratings I have at imdb.com I've given 103 movies 10/10 and 6 movies 1/10 (used to be seven but I recently rerated "Surf Nazis Must Die (1987)"  3/10 based on the performance of Gail Neely who really is the only person worth watching in the entire film).

I've rated 24 films 2/10, and 89 films 3/10. So, if you can do the math on the progression (I can't) and it may rest between me mainly rating films 6/10-7/10.

-Nam

[Solitary]

I just finished watching the final episode of Lilyhammer from NET FLIX. It is hilarious.

[Nam]

Spitfire (1934) -- 6/10

Katherine Hepburn plays a Faith healer.

-Nam

[Nam]

The Shopworn Angel (1938) -- 8/10.

The acting is mildly okay (except by James Stewart) but it's an overly bittersweet film.

-Nam

[Nam]

Le million (1931) -- 7/10.

-Nam

[Nam]

Le manoir du diable (1896) -- 7/10.

Silent films aren't really my thing, and I almost didn't watch this but then it said it was only 3 minutes long, so I did. Very entertaining short film. Good special effects, for 1896, and I guess it could be considered "horror" since it's apparently about a vampire.

I enjoyed it.

-Nam

[Nam]

The Toxic Avenger (1984) -- 8/10.

It's just so damn hilarious.

-Nam

[SGOS]

Le manoir du diable (1896) -- 7/10.
Silent films aren't really my thing

I was wondering how far back you would go.  You sure have been on an "old" movies binge lately.