Last movie you watched, and your critique of it

[KUSA]

Agreed on x-men. It truly was good. Them sentinels were scary.

[c172]

I went out to see Grand Budapest Hotel yesterday. It was not bad. Entertaining at times, but I also fell asleep for ten minutes, and woke up a bit confused.

[Esquilax]

X-men: First Class: Well, since I got a freebie ticket due to how screwed up my showing of Godzilla turned out to be, I'll be seeing the new X-men pretty soon, so I figured I'd watch the one before it in preparation. I still really like it, it's still my favorite X-men movie, I think because it doesn't feel as dinky or faux-blockbuster as the other ones. That's because it's a smaller, more personal story that's told in an interesting setting with a much more likable set of characters than the last few.

Still a total thumbs up from me.

[Tonus]

Godzilla (2014): The 45-year-old Tonus liked the movie, though he felt there should've been a lot more Godzilla and a lot less of the sub-plots, which consisted of putting people I didn't care about in danger. On the other hand, the premise and story helped wash away some of the bad taste left by the 1998 travesty. I like that they moved away from the standard "reboot" premise of 'monster awakened by nuclear testing, wastes city, is killed in exotic manner but we know he'll return.' Sure, the premise is kind of silly (Godzilla as a sort of Gaia super-cop) but it has a nice sci-fi flavor to it that reminds us that we're no longer in the real world, we're in a world where 350-foot-tall monsters breathe fire and snack on nuclear matter.

The 8-year-old Tonus was utterly enthralled the whole time because YEAH BABY GODZILLA OMG DID YOU SEE WHAT HE JUST DID OMG OMG... and so on. I think movies like this really work best for the very young and for those who can remember what they were like when we were very young. I have at least 85% of the Godzilla films on DVD, and honestly they're difficult to sit through now, whereas I could watch them every time they were on TV as a child. The build-up to showing the actual monsters was always worth it as a child, but these days I just want to fast-forward to the action, and that just highlights how little of it there traditionally was, and is.

(It was particularly aggravating that the first couple of monster fights are used as teasers and build up to a couple of fights that have some very cool moments but just can't deliver after I've been sitting there for some 80-90 minutes of build-up. Honest, guys: I do not care about the fate of the minor characters. Never did. It's like a pro-wrestling card where every fight has a long build-up and the fight itself is... oh, I see. Sigh...)

[Tonus]

X-Men: Days Of Future Past: Now this is how you plot a super-hero movie! Short, action-packed intro that very quickly and efficiently sets up the action-packed main story that leads to an action-packed climax and... sorry, can't give away the ending except for the obvious fact that the movie offers up a fairly new way of rebooting a super-hero franchise.

This might be the best film in the series, certainly top-two in my mind.

[Silver]

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

I was certain this was the last installment of the movie, but it appears there will be a third film.
There is so much happening in the movies that I do not recall having read in the tiny book.

[c172]

Next thing I want to see is Palo Alto. Not sure why I am drawn to coming of age movies, but the trailer looked good.
https://www.yahoo.com/movies/film/palo-alto-2014

[Zidneya]

What if the last movie I saw and liked and a acquaintance of mine draw a comic strip criticizing that movie and then I criticized his opinion does that count?

http://collectedcurios.forumotion.net/t9...characters

[tommynba]

I've seen "Non-Stop" yesterday, an action / thriller movie with Liam Neeson and Julianne Moore.
In my opinion the movie is much better than "Taken". The plot is much more interesting, you never know what to expect untill the last minutes of the movie, and almost the whole action takes on a plane flying to London.
I won't post the trailer link, cause it reveals too much in my opinion. So if you wanna enjoy the movie i would recommend not to watch the trailer.

I'm gonna give it 9/10 for an action-thriller movie.

[Aractus]

Phenomena (1985) -

Great movie like all of Dario Argento's early work. Like many of his films he makes use of a strong Female lead, which of course is quite in contrast to Hollywood which almost never does this. Also, like his other paranormal movies (Suspiria and Inferno) there's no use whatsoever of Catholicism which is one of the other things that sets it apart from how Hollywood would have handled such themes or stories.

I'd describe this movie as a better way to go about the themes that Exorcist II tried to do, with respect to the fact that Argento's films never fall apart at the end and have consistent three act story structures.