What's The Latest Film You Have Seen?

**Exo** · 06-09-2013, 04:21 PM

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Originally Posted by LoathsomePete

The Purge (2013)

Goddamn was this ever a piss poor movie with such a wasted premise. Basically it's the near future and America has been reborn as it were with a new government faction called "The New Founding Fathers" wants to keep crime and unemployment low by making all crime legal for a 12 hour period. Now this setup offers up a plethora of questions the film could answer like if scientists use this time to do experiments they otherwise could have done, do hackers or black marketers do their work during this time, wouldn't this be a perfect moment for a country to attack the US, etc. Instead we get The Strangers and Straw Dogs human centipeded together with an incredibly heavy handed message that is quite literally stated directly to the camera.

I really hate when good ideas get wasted.

I'm reviewing this this week. Looks like I'm going to go to my old theater so I don't have to pay for garbage. Thanks for the heads up.

NSW · 06-09-2013, 06:39 PM

I saw The Purge earlier today and thought it was pretty good actually. Simple, pretty straight forward horror movie.I like that it relied on suspense to make it worth watching, and not over the top gore. I thought it was pretty old school and I liked that. Was the acting fantastic? No. Was it a bit predictable in spots? Sure. But its horror and really there arent any horror movies winning an Oscar, you know? Anyway, it would be a fun movie to watch if someone was planning to stay in and watch scary movies all night or something. Good times.

jackhammer · 06-10-2013, 07:41 PM

Surely there has to be around 20 mins running time missing from this film as it clocked in at a mere 83 mins and feels rushed. The budget for this was less than half of the original so maybe that's it which is a shame. The direction and set design was decent enough but it severely lacked atmosphere and the fact that the characters used exposition dialogue every ten minutes robbed the film of any sense of foreboding and interest. Shame.

I lasted about 25 mins so maybe this shouldn't be posted but note to film makers : if you are going to use hand held cameras constantly then don't have scenes in the film where the shots are seemingly not from any camera source at all. It defeats the purpose and Gyllenhaal looks terrible with a shaved head.

~~Sansa Stark~~ · 06-12-2013, 11:54 AM

It's shark week and I wanna watch romance movies and eat sweets, idgaf

CrazyVegn · 06-12-2013, 02:29 PM

"Dangerous Child" Starring Delta Burke - YouTube
^ Last wk I watched this bc without Netflix working I'm severely limited but it WAS pretty good, by my standards and interests. I like her in another psycho movie called Motherly Instincts that I watched early this yr:

Maternal Instincts (1996) (Full Movie) - YouTube

Mojo · 06-13-2013, 07:23 AM

Football films are often turds. This one was quite predictably structured and rather cliched in places, but was actually rather decent. It's a rags to riches kinda thing. Mexican immigrant living in LA, meets an English former scout who invites him to England for a trial at Newcastle united. It features little cameos from some of the Newcastle squad of the time such as Alan Shearer, Jermaine Jenas, Lee Bowyer etc, as well as David Beckham, Zinedine Zidane and a few others. Not amazing but I liked it.

I hadn't seen this for ages. It has a decent enough cast, but its kind stupid in places, as over the top as you might expect from a typical action film and why, oh why has Cage been a cast in a role where he needs to put on a horrible, southern American drawl? It's been so long I'd forgotten just how bad the accent is.

Urban Hat€monger ? · 06-13-2013, 07:34 AM

They really need to make a football movie based on Robin Friday.

Justthefacts · 06-13-2013, 03:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Hermione

It's shark week and I wanna watch romance movies and eat sweets, idgaf

Holy shit it's shark week?! I'm canceling all my plans for the week now.

**Exo** · 06-13-2013, 03:55 PM

When I first saw the trailer for this one I was anxious to see it but also skeptical. I’m always skeptical when it comes to comedies. I have favorites but most were made in the 70s and 80s such as Airplane! and basically anything Bill Murray touched. Today there have been a few I liked such as Anchorman, Step Brothers, Superbad, and Pineapple Express, but there have been some horrible ones such as anything with Vince Vaughn or Adam Sandler. This is the End is joining the former group. I loved it. It’s so off the walls bat**** insane that it’s hard to believe that some of the scenes actually made it into the film instead of being deemed too ridiculous. Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg make their directorial debut and also pen the film. It centers around a party at James Franco’s house and that’s all you should know. Watching the trailer isn’t a bad thing but man does it help not knowing much. Every funny person under the age of 35 is in this film and it really helps that they’re all playing themselves. This is a movie where the actors can actually joke about their own careers and the careers of others. They know what people say about them and now it can all come out. It was a great experience to see a bunch of real life friends make a crazy ass hysterical movie like this. Michael Cera is the only one who doesn’t play himself, at least I hope it’s not himself. The end might be the funniest part of all. It’s a cameo you did not see coming. Hysterical. It’s one of the funniest movies to come out this decade. I mean that. See it with a bunch of people. Oh god Michael Cera…what have you become?

4.5/5

debaserr · 06-13-2013, 05:27 PM

I've loved every bit of promo material they have released for that one. Stoked.

06-09-2013, 06:39 PM	#13262 (permalink)
NSW Bigger and Better Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Texas girl living in the UK Posts: 2,596	I saw The Purge earlier today and thought it was pretty good actually. Simple, pretty straight forward horror movie.I like that it relied on suspense to make it worth watching, and not over the top gore. I thought it was pretty old school and I liked that. Was the acting fantastic? No. Was it a bit predictable in spots? Sure. But its horror and really there arent any horror movies winning an Oscar, you know? Anyway, it would be a fun movie to watch if someone was planning to stay in and watch scary movies all night or something. Good times. __________________ Hi.

06-10-2013, 07:41 PM	#13263 (permalink)
jackhammer Ba and Be. Join Date: May 2007 Location: This Is England Posts: 17,331	Surely there has to be around 20 mins running time missing from this film as it clocked in at a mere 83 mins and feels rushed. The budget for this was less than half of the original so maybe that's it which is a shame. The direction and set design was decent enough but it severely lacked atmosphere and the fact that the characters used exposition dialogue every ten minutes robbed the film of any sense of foreboding and interest. Shame. I lasted about 25 mins so maybe this shouldn't be posted but note to film makers : if you are going to use hand held cameras constantly then don't have scenes in the film where the shots are seemingly not from any camera source at all. It defeats the purpose and Gyllenhaal looks terrible with a shaved head. __________________ It be my music and film collection. “A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.”

06-13-2013, 07:23 AM	#13266 (permalink)
Mojo Melancholia Eternally Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: England Posts: 5,018	Football films are often turds. This one was quite predictably structured and rather cliched in places, but was actually rather decent. It's a rags to riches kinda thing. Mexican immigrant living in LA, meets an English former scout who invites him to England for a trial at Newcastle united. It features little cameos from some of the Newcastle squad of the time such as Alan Shearer, Jermaine Jenas, Lee Bowyer etc, as well as David Beckham, Zinedine Zidane and a few others. Not amazing but I liked it. I hadn't seen this for ages. It has a decent enough cast, but its kind stupid in places, as over the top as you might expect from a typical action film and why, oh why has Cage been a cast in a role where he needs to put on a horrible, southern American drawl? It's been so long I'd forgotten just how bad the accent is. __________________ Last.FM \| Echoes and Dust

06-13-2013, 07:34 AM	#13267 (permalink)
Urban Hat€monger ? The Sexual Intellectual Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Somewhere cooler than you Posts: 18,605	They really need to make a football movie based on Robin Friday. __________________ Urb's RYM Stuff Most people sell their soul to the devil, but the devil sells his soul to Nick Cave.

06-13-2013, 03:55 PM	#13269 (permalink)
Exo All day jazz and biscuits Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: NJ Posts: 7,354	When I first saw the trailer for this one I was anxious to see it but also skeptical. I’m always skeptical when it comes to comedies. I have favorites but most were made in the 70s and 80s such as Airplane! and basically anything Bill Murray touched. Today there have been a few I liked such as Anchorman, Step Brothers, Superbad, and Pineapple Express, but there have been some horrible ones such as anything with Vince Vaughn or Adam Sandler. This is the End is joining the former group. I loved it. It’s so off the walls bat** insane that it’s hard to believe that some of the scenes actually made it into the film instead of being deemed too ridiculous. Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg make their directorial debut and also pen the film. It centers around a party at James Franco’s house and that’s all you should know. Watching the trailer isn’t a bad thing but man does it help not knowing much. Every funny person under the age of 35 is in this film and it really helps that they’re all playing themselves. This is a movie where the actors can actually joke about their own careers and the careers of others. They know what people say about them and now it can all come out. It was a great experience to see a bunch of real life friends make a crazy ass hysterical movie like this. Michael Cera is the only one who doesn’t play himself, at least I hope it’s not himself. The end might be the funniest part of all. It’s a cameo you did not see coming. Hysterical. It’s one of the funniest movies to come out this decade. I mean that. See it with a bunch of people. Oh god Michael Cera…what have you become? 4.5/5 __________________ LastFM SUPREME POO BAH MODERATOR EXTRAORDINAIRE**

06-12-2013, 11:54 AM	#13264 (permalink)
~~Sansa Stark~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: The Eyrie, Vale of Arryn, Westeros Posts: 3,234	It's shark week and I wanna watch romance movies and eat sweets, idgaf

06-12-2013, 02:29 PM	#13265 (permalink)
CrazyVegn Left due to ban epidemic Join Date: Mar 2013 Posts: 498	"Dangerous Child" Starring Delta Burke - YouTube ^ Last wk I watched this bc without Netflix working I'm severely limited but it WAS pretty good, by my standards and interests. I like her in another psycho movie called Motherly Instincts that I watched early this yr: Maternal Instincts (1996) (Full Movie) - YouTube

06-13-2013, 05:27 PM	#13270 (permalink)
debaserr eat the masters Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 5,470	I've loved every bit of promo material they have released for that one. Stoked. __________________ Last.FM