[OT] The Movies Thread III: Watch, Discuss and Have Fun! No Open Spoilers!

[Gizmo]

A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES (2014)​

What does it take to be a good detective? A strong bladder. Aha, He jokes. -_- Or maybe not. The movie is as dark as it gets, like a usual thriller. We have an alcoholic cop; Liam Neeson, makes a mistake which takes an innocent life, retires and starts moonwalking as a private eye. Meets a homeless brat, trains him as associate. Girls being slaughtered, resting in pieces. The better advice Neeson gives us, is "Take it easy". Oh and there is also a scene where Liam Neeson is walking among the tombstones, right before he meets up with the "bad guys". Go figure :gg:

Apart from some good stuff, like 'Counseling the kid with the gun (shoot yourself in the head)' or some 'Taken' shizz when 'negotiating with the mofo kidnappers'; which was mildly cold; there isn't a reason which warrants Neeson's presence. Not that he doesn't successfully makes his presence noted, which he does, brilliantly. His character is brilliant, but poorly executed. The script holds him back, and weak psycho villains, and zero involvement of female actors, that is when they are not busy getting cut piece by piece. Yeah, its disturbing, even more so when everything is left to our imagination.

I like A Walk Among The Tombstones. I loved the cinematography even more. The shots of Neeson walking places, investigating, give a great feeling in the ominous atmosphere. Not to forget that creepy van and creepier mofos. Loved that slow motion scene of that 'young target walking by'. Shocking how 'smoothly' they managed to grab her from inside her house. Also liked Neeson's haircut in the beginning ... and yeah, the punchy gun sounds.

Its a good thriller. But a clichéd ending didn't do it any good, yet was satisfactory and badly needed. Afterall, Neeson had to be declared a bad-ass. The 'mystery' is still there, but its mostly infront of us. 7/10 Hm, not bad.

I saw this one a couple of days ago, I kept asking myself, what is the fucking point of this fucking mvoie and why the fuck am I watching this? Such a dull and boring movie with a story that goes absolutely nowhere, makes no point and then just ends. Don't watch this movie.

 

[cobby]

Peekay

Good comedy , but not 9/10 material

7.25/10

The Interview

lots of laugh and over the top stuff that what seth rogen movies are all about , and comon james franco didn't over acted his comedy is always like that . The movie got lot of limelight cause of hack but its not the best stuff or neither any good than previous james and seth movies .

7/10

 

[abobobilly]

THE FAMILY (2013)

"Welcome to Cholong, Yankee!"​

I feel HAPPY. So happy that even after 24 hours, i am still in a state of love with The Family. With garnished comedy, charming soundtrack, and mind blowing portrayal of a surviving snitch Mafia 'family', It dazzled me completely. De Niro's character, 'One of the nastiest bastards ever to walk the earth' was lovely, and funny in a serious way. His moments spent with his family, refreshing his past life, or even describing the "10 Points for Why-he-is-a-good-man". Impressive for someone 'able to express every single thing with one word; FUCK'. Priceless expression by De Niro on Goodfellas' intro. "Asking polite with a gun in your hand, is better than asking polite."

Oh, and The Family. YEAH. F*CK YEAH. Brother & sister, and the mother & father ... electric chemistry between them all. A sense of badassness bonding them all together. Loved the 'fucking compliments at the dinner table'. Focus on their individual lives was the most awesome thing. Kids in school, doing recon, playing gangster, daughter Belle playing cutie, teaching 'how to approach women' ... and brother Warren following the footsteps of his father. What a great performance these kids put through. Beautiful and Strong relationship they had, always backing up each other. 'So f*cking good'.

Anyone else noticed that Warren (John D'Leo) was sounding too much like Jay Baruchel? Dianna Agron as Belle, rather weak acting, but she was a bit too cute, if you know what i mean. Michelle Pfeiffer as their mother, well she has a striking presence in every movie. Job well done 'at the supermarket'. And Lets not forget her moments before she was about to get 'dirty'. Tommy Lee Jones, no praise needed for this guy and you know it.

I don't know about you, but the state of danger was making me sweat, when

Spoiler: show

those hitmen found out The Family's location. I didn't expect Mafia people to act like Commandos, planning, sabotaging police/fire stations etc. Anyway, Interesting choice of soundtrack for their arrival, though. (Clint Eastwood by Gorillaz).

Kept things badass, yet comedic. Before the firefight begins, it is such a beautiful shot scene, that i couldn't stop to clap (you know, Mafia guarding the streets, and all). I just didn't want it to end bad, and it stayed happy till the very end. Thankfully.

Violent but Charming, and Inadvertently funny at many occasions. I loved The Family to death. I know i'll watch it again and again. DEEPLY ENTERTAINING AND VERY VERY ENJOYABLE. 8/10 Critics can go suck it.

Beautiful ending song. To Binge feat. Little Dragon by Gorillaz

 

[crazyhassan]

need suggestions for movies

 

[Fkhan]

need suggestions for movies

Bro, Please specify atleast genre, you need recommendation from latest movies or from all time favorite list?
Recent: Nightcrawler, predistination, dumb and dumber to, gone girl, edge of tomorrow
All time favorite : (I dont know where to begin with ) Shawshank redemption, Pretty woman, Cassablanca, While you were sleeping, Groundhog Day, Notorious, Rebecca...

 

[crazyhassan]

Bro, Please specify atleast genre, you need recommendation from latest movies or from all time favorite list?
Recent: Nightcrawler, predistination, dumb and dumber to, gone girl, edge of tomorrow
All time favorite : (I dont know where to begin with ) Shawshank redemption, Pretty woman, Cassablanca, While you were sleeping, Groundhog Day, Notorious, Rebecca...

thanks for suggestions... but i like comedy type movies like american pie , zack and smith , sex tape , inbbetween 2 etc type

 

[puppet]

I saw this one a couple of days ago, I kept asking myself, what is the fucking point of this fucking mvoie and why the fuck am I watching this? Such a dull and boring movie with a story that goes absolutely nowhere, makes no point and then just ends. Don't watch this movie.

agree when i watched the first scene i said nice its gonna be good, but story was not that much bad but kinda so simple , with which nothing happened good , no thriller and no bang bang , just too much simple plot n action :/

 

[crazyhassan]

in predestintation she looks like freaking " Leonardo D'Caprio "

 

[abobobilly]

JACK RYAN: SHADOW RECRUIT (2014)​

Ookay. Tom Clancy, "Jack Ryan". You know the drill. The Hunt for Red October (1990), Patriot Games (1992), Clear and Present Danger (1994), The Sum of All Fears (2002). But Shadow Recruit (2014), a pathetic excuse of a Reboot, unworthy of Jack Ryan's name; WHAT THE F*CK *pause for effect* IS THIS SH*T?? Gone are the days of some proper espionage-thriller movies, stamped from Tom Clancy's engaging name and love.

The previous lot Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford or even Ben Affleck had put some soul in their take on Jack Ryan, and it was pretty successful. Now, Jack Ryan isn't an analyst anymore, and probably thats why HE SUCKS. Chris Pine in Shadow Recruit, is the same Captain Kirk he plays in Star Trek (2009) Reboot, or its sequel. Charismatic, competent, admirable performance. Is it bad? Not at all, 'if we consider it just another action thriller'. He isn't 'spy' stuff. Kevin Costner is practically non-existent, and is 'just some CIA gun'. No mentor for Jack Ryan this time, i guess. >_>

Shadow Recruit is too careful not to hit a nerve. Hitting the CIA with just "People don’t like you these days; Water boarding, rendition!". It focuses on a peculiar subject of Economic Warfare, which i can appreciate, but its too dumbed down. Computers have replaced 'People's Espionage'. 'Coordinated plot within Russia to collapse the dollar and crash the US Economy', too good in theory. In practice, '2 Trillion Wipeout?' Meh. Racist jabs are like non existent. Let me put down an exchange of words between our dear Jack Ryan and the Russian Viktor Cherevin ...
~Cherevin: "You americans like to think of yourself as direct. I wonder if you are perhaps just rude."
~Ryan: "You Russians think of yourselves as a Poets, but perhaps you are just touchy."
Learn something from from that Mister f*cking President in "Clear and Present Danger".

Cooling it down a little bit, it liked it more during its 'calmer' moments. The calm here is not the 'calm' calm, its the 'calm-before-a-storm' calm. 'Attack in the hotel', 'Call of Cathy right after', seeing 'Ryan trying to track down the threat' or simply 'playing @$$hole at that dinner table' ... 'closer' moments with both loved ones and villains have more meaning than those Shaky-Cam infested gawd-awful action scenes. 'Havoc for 40 watts', is that it? Learn from that Nuke in "Sum of All Fears" you morons. Talking about Action Scenes, Everything just happens to be there, whenever jack wants something to happen. Chasing down Cherevin to get his Cathy back, That table during attack in the hotel, That bike chasing that fake police van ... watch closely to discover more. Everything just follows a pre-programed path. Heck the feeling of tension between the countries was non existent.

I get it. After the financial success of "The Sum of All Fears" (2002), all their desperate attempts for a "Jack Ryan" movie were fruitless. So they had to think of something. Its has right ingredients, but weak execution. Character's choices are horribly wrong. Keira Knightley as Cathy Muller, Ryan's Girlfriend, is like heartless. The Director playing the 'dangerous' Russian billionaire mastermind ... okay that wasn't so bad -_- Kinda liked his straight face. Didn't quite like how easily he got 'robbed', twice. Seriously, thats just ridiculous.

Anyway, good thing its not 'actually' based on a Tom Clancy's novel, and is an "original" story ("very original"; that final bomb chase scene; Meh). 6/10 I am glad it doesn't wear off either Tom Clancy, or his marvelous character. I don't quite hate Shadow Recruit, but i do hate it for the name its bearing. Take that off, and its an OK-ish thriller. Kinda.

 

[shahbakht]

White Bird in a Blizzard (2014):

This movie has THREE major themes going on at the same time: the boring and monotonous life of suburbia and how it affects people, a missing person mystery and a coming-of-age sex drama and it is not entirely a mess. But that is not to say that it is not somewhat of a mess. There were some bits that seemed to work really work and some that seemed waayyyy too forced and phony (Woodley's conversations with her friends, they were right outta textbook coming-of-age movies, teenagers talking about getting laid). And it would have really worked for the movie had the narration not told us every five minutes or so that Eve Connor (Eva Green in one of her most OTT performances of the year. Yes, even more so than 300 : Rise of an Empire) was bored out of her fucking mind and that is why she left. American Beauty did it so well. Sigh.


P.S. Pictures of You....it was so good to hear this song. I first heard it in one of my favorite movies Starter for 10. It was a pleasant surprise hearing it here.

5.5/10

 

[crazyhassan]

The Fluffy Movie Unity Through Laughter (2014)

i dont know what this movie is about... a whole movie he's standing at stage and telling some jokes.. no scenes,,,,,

3/10

 

[afeef]

So finally i watched Lawless, Man it's one hell of a movie, the accents, the acting, the styles, totally loved it, story was pretty epic which revolves around 3brothers and their legend.

 

[Fkhan]

The Fluffy Movie Unity Through Laughter (2014)

i dont know what this movie is about... a whole movie he's standing at stage and telling some jokes.. no scenes,,,,,

3/10

so u asked for recommendation, then watched some random unrated D class movie, 3 is even most generous for fluffy movie
for time pass comedy watch, tomcat, euro trip, road trip, dumb and dumber to....

 

[crazyhassan]

so u asked for recommendation, then watched some random unrated D class movie, 3 is even most generous for fluffy movie
for time pass comedy watch, tomcat, euro trip, road trip, dumb and dumber to....

lol i watched Predestination , this is the end , gone girl , all are good movies though...

but couldn't get the ending of predestination

 

[Yasir]

Whiplash: Blew my f*cking mind. J.K Simmons is up for a whole slew of awards after this jaw-dropping performance. This movie is gonna go down as a classic, for sure. 9.5/10

 

[cobby]

The Fluffy Movie Unity Through Laughter (2014)

i dont know what this movie is about... a whole movie he's standing at stage and telling some jokes.. no scenes,,,,,

3/10

U want comedy last year i mean 2014 had two great comedy movies , 1) Redirected awesome movie just like snatch , rock n rolla etc
2) What we do in the shadows awesome vampire mockumentary

 

[Chandoo]

So I saw the last Hobbit movie in the cinema.

I can't help but feel the movie was padded to shit. There are MANY long shots of people's faces. Shots that are usually 1 to 2 seconds in any other movies, it takes 10 to 15 seconds in this movie. It shows because they needlessly made a 2 part series into a 3 parter. This also shows why this is the shortest movie of the 3. If they cut the face closeups to half the time, this would be a 90 minute movie.

This surprises me because Peter Jackson says the extended version for this movie will add 28 minutes, if its all new content and not more facial closeups, they SHOULD have added that stuff in the movie itself.

Furthermore, the 'battle of 5 armies' doesn't have 5 armies at all -_- .. the humans are a bunch of militia only, and the goblin army is mixed with the orcs .. i thought it would be a 5-side free for all.

The fight itself felt completely hollow, it didn't have the tension or awe of any of the big battles in the LoTR trilogy. If the final fight in Return of the King is a 10 out of 10, this is maybe a 2 at best.

Overall, very disappointed with the movie. The first 10 minutes with Smaug were the best and most entertaining part of it.

5/10

 

[abobobilly]

JAI HO (2014)​

Meh. Thats the only impression i have for Jai Ho. The 'good' message it tries to convey about 'helping three more people instead of saying Thank You', might work in a 100% ideal world, which is exactly the world Jai Ho creates. Where else would you have Salman Khan act like Sunny Deol? Also, its ironic to see just one message of 'good' being covered by many other useless acts of 'suicide', and/or 'fist justice'.

The 'political aspect' of the movie reminds me of Pakistan's. The 'VIP Protocol', 'corrupt politicians', 'armed wings of political parties', and 'servant police' ... it was a pretty accurate representation. Their evolution, or end ... not so much, since they almost always prevail in the real world. That home minister's daughter though ... well, lol -_-

I loved the wee bit of sassy humor. Had a pretty good laugh at 'pinky' every time. Also, that child star, Naman Jain as Kabir, WHAT A KID lol. 'Luteri Canteen', 'Pink Panther', 'Dhandora Peeton Gaaaa' ... the best part is that even on his loudest (supposedly disrespectful) voice, he was actually cute, and hilarious.

Tabbu is one of my favorite stars of all time. It was very engaging to see her whenever we could. But it was obvious she is struggling to put some life in her character. Oh, and that 'collar grabbing scene', and the reaction of Salman Khan ... lets embrace the super cheese, and enjoy the intense 'hungry lion' face Salman pulls off :S

Between all the melodrama, there are actually pretty decent Bollywood action. That 'trail bike chase' was shot beautifully well. And a handful of moments during fist fight were nice. Not all the time, though. Most of the fist fight is just plain torture, with 'hundreds of camera angles rolled-in-your-face in one minute'. Mostly it feels like a cheap knockoff of Wanted (2009) and Dabang (2010).

Hm, what else. Songs were f*cking useless, both lyrics wise and choreography wise. Gone are the days of some PROPER music and PROPER Bollywood movies. They now over do such stuff to a great extend, wearing too much blind, and large sets including hundreds of people to project a beautiful picture, which falls flat.

Daisy Shah as Rinky has transitioned from a Backup dancer, and it was evident from her cheap acting skills and overflowed dance moves. Rest of the cast including Mahesh Manjrekar (that rickshaw driver), Danny Denzongpa (home minister Singh) and Genelia D'Souza (that disabled girl) are such a wasted talent. They are brilliant actors, without a doubt.

Its been a while since I have watched a Bollywood movie, so the transition was a little difficult, and dramatic. And i am not really satisfied by the end result. The ending was plain stupid.

Spoiler: show

- Salman Khan doesn't fall with hundreds of people attacking him, but does with a piece of metal penetrating his abdomen. Only in Bollywood.
- Daughter of Home Minister Sigh is killed by his own brother. Great timing for her to come behind them fighting 'bros'.
- Who the f*ck allowed that Army Tank to come on road *facepalm*

Also, Salman taking his shirt off, its getting old. Okay, maybe not. But timing is always wrong :S

All in all, it was a torture to watch. I only enjoyed it during action, or romance ... rest of the 'goodness' is just a torture to go through, including the overly sentimental moments. 5/10.

 

[Gizmo]

Just watched SELMA.

Awesome, awesome movie, made all the more relevant by last year's Ferguson incident, America has come a long way since then, but they've still got alot farther to go. This'll probably be a nominee for the best film oscar this year.
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[ashahzadpk]

JAI HO (2014)​

Meh. Thats the only impression i have for Jai Ho. The 'good' message it tries to convey about 'helping three more people instead of saying Thank You', might work in a 100% ideal world, which is exactly the world Jai Ho creates. Where else would you have Salman Khan act like Sunny Deol? Also, its ironic to see just one message of 'good' being covered by many other useless acts of 'suicide', and/or 'fist justice'.

The 'political aspect' of the movie reminds me of Pakistan's. The 'VIP Protocol', 'corrupt politicians', 'armed wings of political parties', and 'servant police' ... it was a pretty accurate representation. Their evolution, or end ... not so much, since they almost always prevail in the real world. That home minister's daughter though ... well, lol -_-

I loved the wee bit of sassy humor. Had a pretty good laugh at 'pinky' every time. Also, that child star, Naman Jain as Kabir, WHAT A KID lol. 'Luteri Canteen', 'Pink Panther', 'Dhandora Peeton Gaaaa' ... the best part is that even on his loudest (supposedly disrespectful) voice, he was actually cute, and hilarious.

Tabbu is one of my favorite stars of all time. It was very engaging to see her whenever we could. But it was obvious she is struggling to put some life in her character. Oh, and that 'collar grabbing scene', and the reaction of Salman Khan ... lets embrace the super cheese, and enjoy the intense 'hungry lion' face Salman pulls off :S

Between all the melodrama, there are actually pretty decent Bollywood action. That 'trail bike chase' was shot beautifully well. And a handful of moments during fist fight were nice. Not all the time, though. Most of the fist fight is just plain torture, with 'hundreds of camera angles rolled-in-your-face in one minute'. Mostly it feels like a cheap knockoff of Wanted (2009) and Dabang (2010).

Hm, what else. Songs were f*cking useless, both lyrics wise and choreography wise. Gone are the days of some PROPER music and PROPER Bollywood movies. They now over do such stuff to a great extend, wearing too much blind, and large sets including hundreds of people to project a beautiful picture, which falls flat.

Daisy Shah as Rinky has transitioned from a Backup dancer, and it was evident from her cheap acting skills and overflowed dance moves. Rest of the cast including Mahesh Manjrekar (that rickshaw driver), Danny Denzongpa (home minister Singh) and Genelia D'Souza (that disabled girl) are such a wasted talent. They are brilliant actors, without a doubt.

Its been a while since I have watched a Bollywood movie, so the transition was a little difficult, and dramatic. And i am not really satisfied by the end result. The ending was plain stupid.

Spoiler: show

- Salman Khan doesn't fall with hundreds of people attacking him, but does with a piece of metal penetrating his abdomen. Only in Bollywood.
- Daughter of Home Minister Sigh is killed by his own brother. Great timing for her to come behind them fighting 'bros'.
- Who the f*ck allowed that Army Tank to come on road *facepalm*

Also, Salman taking his shirt off, its getting old. Okay, maybe not. But timing is always wrong :S

All in all, it was a torture to watch. I only enjoyed it during action, or romance ... rest of the 'goodness' is just a torture to go through, including the overly sentimental moments. 5/10.

[MENTION=8060]abobobilly[/MENTION] i think u have spare 5 to rate this shit....it doesnt deserve more than 2