What's the Last Movie You Watched?

[tigstah]

The extended Cut of The Town might have vaulted its way into my top 9 movies of 2010.

didnt know there was an extended cut....now i want too see it.

 

[tigstah]

Finally saw the Justin Beiber movie with my girl. It actually wasn't that bad, the kid gets messed with so bad because hes so famous and his fans are crazy. I had no idea he was famous from youtube. Its not a bad movie if you don't have crazy hate for him.

a friend of mine took her daughter to see justine.....
man he looks like a teenage girl, especially with that new haircut.

 

[SOS4Prez]

Hall Pass

By now, the Farrelly Brother’s routine should be fairly obvious. Take a couple of goofballs who don’t exactly know what they want, feed them to the sharks and come out better from the experience. For the Brother’s, this cinematic formula quickly won over audiences in the 90’s, yet has faulterd through the past decade. As filmmakers focused on human interaction, the Farrelly’s are surprisingly underrated. Several of their films are heart-warming, sweet and send a good message. The problem is that they’re constant toilet humor and gags have run dry. Enter: 2011’s Hall Pass.

In a year that has featured nothing but flops, disappointments and no laughs to date, Hall Pass was the first of the movies that one could turn to your friend and say “I can’t wait to see it!” Looking back, it’s mediocrity should have been obvious, but this blackhole of a movie year (one that’s featured masterpieces such as Season of the Witch, The Roommate and Big Momma’s House 3) it was easy to hop on the Hall Pass bandwagon. Hall Pass featured the makings of the average raunchy comedy: the familiar face of Owen Wilson, the up-and-coming face of Jason Sudeikis, two attractive female leads (Jenna Fischer and Christina Applegate) and a plot revolved around sex. Oh, and a random appearance from Dwight Evans.

Much like The Dilemma of a month earlier, Hall Pass gets tangled in its direction. Unlike The Dilemma, the plot and situations of Hall Pass aren’t powerful enough to overlook the inconsistencies. Early reviews deem Hall Pass as a dud of a comedy film. Those looking for an entertaining night out with some friends fear not, Hall Pass will bring plenty of laughs, regardless of how cheap some of them might be. From the perspective of one who breaks down films, Hall Pass won’t be as enjoyable. While some of the back-and-forth dialogue between Wilson and Sudeikis is hilarious, most of the physical humor is recycled and simply can’t support the film as a whole.

As it is the story of two married couples taking a week off of marriage to try and regain their spark, Hall Pass includes its share of touching moments. Sadly, the Farrelly Brothers don’t cash in and try to overshadow the heart of the film with the antics of its characters, both leads and supporting cast. Wilson, Sudeikis, Fischer and Applegate carry the load well enough (although at times the artificiality of the story is blatant), but they receive no help from the supporting cast. Wilson and Sudeikis’ gang of friends gets written out before the movie even really has a chance to get going. The same goes for the friend of Fischer and Applegate. Had this been a film centered more on the relationship of the characters, this would be forgivable. After all, love and marriage is strong topic and the leads should be the focus. However, Hall Pass is heart set on placing their humor in the foreground and the disappearance and overall lack of screen time for the supporting cast almost runs the main characters into the ground. Richard Jenkins turns out a great performance as Wilson and Sudeikis’ party-crazy friend, but his time on screen is limited to the point of his character being pointless. Ultimately, the writing of the characters is to blame.

Bottomline, Hall Pass is a fun experience. Not every second of the film is laugh-out-loud humorous, but it’s a entertaining way to spend an hour and a half. From an aspect focused on cinematic quality, Hall Pass can’t find a proper balance between heart and humor and the Farrelly Brothers fall back on redundant jokes and overused toilet humor to push some of the scenes forward.

Score: 5.2/10

 

[padman59]

The Next Three Days - Solid thriller. The final parts of the movie had me guessing what was going to happen.

 

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

Let Me In - lacked the subtlety, innocence, and simplicity that made the first film remarkable. Although I like Chloe Moretz, it was off-set Kodi Smit-McPhee, who is am awful and unbearable child actor. Brutal. Can't stand him. See The Road for further proof of how annoying he is.

Although, I will say, it introduced a nice twist to relationship between the vampire and her assistant that wasn't actually touched on in the original film, but I felt this was typical Hollywood, expounding on something that didn't need to be expounded upon (like the shit they did with the Nightmare film...just unnecessary), though. Overall, really a chore to get through. It lacked all of the simple charm the original did. Par for the course for Hollywood remakes, I guess.

 

[SHOGUN]

Jungle Fever

:4star:

Another good showing from Spike, but Samuel L. Jackson's portrayal as Gator is my favorite part of the movie.

 

[KINGOFOOTBALL]

The Road - Dismally depressing.
Great atmosphere of sadness and hopelessness. Probably a darn realistic take on post apocalypse as everyone will look and smell like homeless folks.
Not sure what the point is other than 2 hours of getting you sad. I think there was some lessons in there but not really ?


Observe and Report- Fuck me in the ass with a maglite.
Id prefer that to watching this movie again. Made Paul Blart Mall cop look like an oscar worthy film. Everyone was terribly unfunny. I like Seth Rogan but the whole movie was like recording someones really bad day in an improv class. Everyone was "off" and just a terrible movie.

 

[padman59]

Get Low - Good movie. Interesting story. Solid acting all around, but Robert Duvall steals the show.

 

[NAHSTE]

Let Me In - lacked the subtlety, innocence, and simplicity that made the first film remarkable. Although I like Chloe Moretz, it was off-set Kodi Smit-McPhee, who is am awful and unbearable child actor. Brutal. Can't stand him. See The Road for further proof of how annoying he is.

Although, I will say, it introduced a nice twist to relationship between the vampire and her assistant that wasn't actually touched on in the original film, but I felt this was typical Hollywood, expounding on something that didn't need to be expounded upon (like the shit they did with the Nightmare film...just unnecessary), though. Overall, really a chore to get through. It lacked all of the simple charm the original did. Par for the course for Hollywood remakes, I guess.

I actually thought this was a pretty solid remake, but I agree it lacked the subtlety of the original. I was disappointed/surprised at how explicitly it had to spoon feed the relationship of the old man and the female lead. But I suppose American audiences are less trustworthy in picking up on subtext, so the filmmakers felt they had to spell it out a bit more. The ending of the original is much more powerful because it's the first time you really grasp what the previous relationship really was all about, whereas in the remake you are told this 2/3 through.

 

[Houston]

I'm amazed at how they managed to keep her body hidden the whole movie.

 

[Palooza]

127 Hours -:jhenbeatkwon: x1000 /10

 

[strahanfan92]

Get Low - Good movie. Great song.

fixed.

 

[BrntO4Life]

Finally got around to watching The Social Network. It was good.

 

[Scorask]

Watched The Runaways this weekend, pretty good movie:golfclap:

 

[KillaK]

Went to my first roller derby the other day and thought it was time to watch Whip It, pretty good movie. I also saw Purple Rain too, I'm starting to become a Prince fan.

 

[mgoblue2290]

Cinderella Man- 8.5/10

 

[j.hen]

Just watched 127 Hours last night on blu ray. First time I've seen a blu ray movie. I liked it but if anyone but Franco would of been the lead I probably would've got bored with it.

 

[padman59]

Tron: Legacy - Decent movie. Good visuals and soundtrack. Not much to the story.

 

[BrntO4Life]

Watched Jackass 3. Meh.

 

[CaribbeanJoseph]

I Love You Phillip Morris, wasn't as good as I thought it would be but decent.