Recently watched movies

[J.P.]

After watching the documentary in class and seeing actual footage of the event, i wanted to finally watch this movie plus it had been on my watch list for too long anyway.

 

127 hours - 8/10

 

If I would have to describe this movie with one word, it'd probably be "Experience". It's not just a movie, it's an experience and the knowledge that the events actually took place, that this isn't even just based on something but is the actual true story of Aron having to amputate his arm in order to survive, makes this movie hard to watch for some people.

 

Great performance by Mr. Franco and great directing by Mr. Boyle.

 

I've read an article about the guy years ago, and to be honest, it was experience enough for me. But I've seen it had good reviews.

[Detective]

I've read an article about the guy years ago, and to be honest, it was experience enough for me. But I've seen it had good reviews.

It does, very deserved so.

And to be honest the film isn't very graphic, we don't see too much of the cutting off process but the sound design and like I said, knowing that this really happened make it a little much for some. I still recommend the movie though, makes you never forget your pocket knife again. ^^

[Arcadia]

Eternal Sunsine 5/10

 

This is a movie I've thought about watching several times, but it always gets such poor reviews.... :(

[Patrick Jane]

IT 

[Doe]

Hi @Pseud,

 

You offered me Ex Machina. This is perfect. Very simple and good.

 

Thank you 

 

Ex Machina 9/10

[Pseudonym]

Ah good, I'm glad you enjoyed it! :D

[Pseudonym]

Has anyone watched the documentary Unacknowledged? It's a UFO documentary but I found the bits about the amount of classified technology (Tesla's work etc) the most disturbing. 

[Detective]

 

Eternal Sunsine 5/10

This is a movie I've thought about watching several times, but it always gets such poor reviews.... :(

Wait.. are you talking about ‘Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind’?

Because that one is so good! And the reviews are excellent too.

[Arcadia]

Oooh, not the ones I've read. But that shouldn't really make a difference, most reviewers and I have different ideas about what makes a god film.

[Artemis]

Not movies, but I tried out "Fargo" and "Bates Motel".  "Fargo" was okay, but I liked the characters better than the story.  Even then, I wasn't quite sure who to root for, lol.  Felt kinda the same about "Bates Motel".  Haven't seen the latest season of either.

 

The most recent movie I've seen is "IT".  I prefer the original.  This will probably make me sound prudish, but the swearing and crass humor was too much.  Normally I can just tune that stuff out, but it was almost non-stop, and that ruined it for me.  At times I felt more like I was suffering through the movie rather than enjoying it, which is a shame, because I think I would have liked it otherwise.

 

 

[J.P.]

Child in Time

It wasn't bac but didn't really move me. Felt distant. Reminded me of Wreckers very much.

[Arcadia]

Not movies, but I tried out "Fargo" and "Bates Motel".  "Fargo" was okay, but I liked the characters better than the story.  Even then, I wasn't quite sure who to root for, lol.  Felt kinda the same about "Bates Motel".  Haven't seen the latest season of either.

 

The most recent movie I've seen is "IT".  I prefer the original.  This will probably make me sound prudish, but the swearing and crass humor was too much.  Normally I can just tune that stuff out, but it was almost non-stop, and that ruined it for me.  At times I felt more like I was suffering through the movie rather than enjoying it, which is a shame, because I think I would have liked it otherwise.

 

​Yep, I've seen a few like that ... I might have liked them except they were too foul ... I ended up feeling sullied instead of enjoying myself. If that makes me a prude, so be it ... there's plenty of other things I can watch instead.

 

Child in Time

It wasn't bac but didn't really move me. Felt distant. Reminded me of Wreckers very much.

Yeah, I'm afraid it doesn't look like the kind of thing I normally would choose to watch either. But I will.

[Van Buren Supernova]

It does, very deserved so.

And to be honest the film isn't very graphic, we don't see too much of the cutting off process but the sound design and like I said, knowing that this really happened make it a little much for some. I still recommend the movie though, makes you never forget your pocket knife again. ^^

I'd recommend it also. Yes, there is hardly anything graphic as far as I remember, it's more psychological which could be worse or better depends on what ticks you. I remember it has gorgeous scenery, and just like many disastrous event movie, like Everest it actually makes me want to visit the place.

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Eternal Sunsine 5/10

 

This is a movie I've thought about watching several times, but it always gets such poor reviews.... :(

I like Eternal Sunshine, Jim Carey is actually good in serious role like this. I love that it makes me think, and kind of realistically sad in a way. I'd give it 7.5 or maybe 8.

 

However, many times my movie taste doesn't seem to be popular. I enthusiastically recommended Dunkirk and a colleague told me she hates it and doesn't understand the point of the movie (but..but!!.. nevermind) To my defense, I didn't recommend it to her, but to someone else and she happened to be in the conversation and hold my word on it.

 

On Nolan's work, I finally watched Interstellar. Couldn't get through it when I tried back then because my audio system at home sucks and I couldn't concentrate. It is good, although not the best of Nolan. I went to great length to avoid being exposed to anything about it that I went in only knowing that it has something to do with space from the poster, didn't even know the casts so it was great. And Hans Zimmer, again, great collaboration, although I have to admit I hate the score at some point in a good way because it's hauntingly disturbing but fitting.

 

I'd give it 7.5 though. It could be higher but two things don't really go well with me but it's nitpicking:

 

 

1. Not a fan of 'love' theme. It's true in a way, but a bit cheesy to me.

2. I know a lot of scifi element are, well, scifi, which I like, except one glaring thing that somehow a bit too fiction to my liking despite my limited knowledge (that could be inaccurate too!).

The water planet, why on earth (ops it's not earth) such shallow water creates that gigantic wave?

And if I remember correctly, the relativity of time in the planet is extreme because of strong gravitational pull, but then it would be contradictive with the size of the wave. I would think the gravity pull of the planet would cause that kind of wave to neighboring planet instead? Gah.

 

 

 

Others, watch Baby Driver. Enjoyed it. Enjoy the music without it being musical, it's great. The setback is

Kevin Spacey's character is 'out of character' at the end it's quite ridiculous.

 

It gets 7.8.

[Pseudonym]

I really didn't like Interstellar. I was bored beyond belief through most of it, and then the twist (I don't think it's giving too much away to mention the books) just seemed stupid to me. 

[Van Buren Supernova]

Yup. That actually gets me too, but I'm willing to brush it aside and put in Fiction part of the scifi, hoping the unknown world out there is as rich as our imagination being the self proclaimed nerd as I am, but the one with gravity and blackhole.... we at least know a bit so the Science part should be more considered.

 

I get that it's not an easy to like movie, it took me awhile to sort how I feel about it, but I do like the story telling, the hypothetical world they create. I like that it makes me think of what-ifs.

[J.P.]

Um, well, fiction is not equal to nonsense.

Many of the time tricks seemed more like the total ignorant's idea of relativity, but I didn' even bother to look up. Also the robots irked me, they couldn't walk the way it was shown. I remember being bothered by thousand little things almost consantly, and there was not enough entertaining stuff to make me like it. Even watching it again in TV - which usually makes me much less fussy about movies - didn't make watching it any better.

[Doe]

 

 

Eternal Sunsine 5/10

This is a movie I've thought about watching several times, but it always gets such poor reviews.... :(

Wait.. are you talking about ‘Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind’?

Because that one is so good! And the reviews are excellent too.

 

 

I am sorry. I don't like.  :(

[Doe]

Child in Time

It wasn't bac but didn't really move me. Felt distant. Reminded me of Wreckers very much.

 

Did you watch the film? Did the movie show up?

[Doe]

Oooh, not the ones I've read. But that shouldn't really make a difference, most reviewers and I have different ideas about what makes a god film.

 

me too

[Doe]

Not movies, but I tried out "Fargo" and "Bates Motel".  "Fargo" was okay, but I liked the characters better than the story.  Even then, I wasn't quite sure who to root for, lol.  Felt kinda the same about "Bates Motel".  Haven't seen the latest season of either.

 

The most recent movie I've seen is "IT".  I prefer the original.  This will probably make me sound prudish, but the swearing and crass humor was too much.  Normally I can just tune that stuff out, but it was almost non-stop, and that ruined it for me.  At times I felt more like I was suffering through the movie rather than enjoying it, which is a shame, because I think I would have liked it otherwise.

 

Yes indeedy do

 

Absolutely yes all of them

[Doe]

Child in Time

It wasn't bac but didn't really move me. Felt distant. Reminded me of Wreckers very much.

 

 

"We're sorry, but this video is not available in your region due to right restrictions."   :( 

[Van Buren Supernova]

Um, well, fiction is not equal to nonsense.

Many of the time tricks seemed more like the total ignorant's idea of relativity, but I didn' even bother to look up. Also the robots irked me, they couldn't walk the way it was shown. I remember being bothered by thousand little things almost consantly, and there was not enough entertaining stuff to make me like it. Even watching it again in TV - which usually makes me much less fussy about movies - didn't make watching it any better.

Ohya, the robot looks dumb but eventually I was okay with it. Watched the movie in the plane in two parts four days apart, not sure if that affects how I feel about it.

 

There are little things that annoyed me, but other than two mentioned I can live happily with the rest.

I suppose my idea of fiction and nonsense here is quite different with you.

 

To me, fiction for the unknown is fair game for interpretation and imagination. If it's unknown, I wouldn't call it nonsense as many of the proven science could be indeed very weird and considered nonsense too before it was proven. So I'm very forgiving to those, there are a lot of surface science theories that are not proven yet as they need more proves, a lot of studies, but many of them are pretty bizzare. Those are very interesting to me and the reason I enjoy scifi.

There are various quality of scifi imagination, but for the very shabby one, most likely I'd use "rubbish", instead of nonsense. Does that make sense? :p

But to me, Interstellar, eventhough I feel weird about it, is in my good side.

 

Having said that, I do have nonsense genre for movie, mostly for romcom and dramedy.

 

Gal having bad boyfriend but doesn't realize it until knight in shinning armor comes along the stars align they are trapped in elevator trapped in a storm and he is not creepy psychopath but perfect gentleman or something chemistry happens bla bla bla gals realize boyfriend is crap run then decide to run away from wedding to find the other guy she knows for two day but wait he was on the way to board a plane but real world doesn't apply because the plane would wait for cheesy words and wait he also has exact same scenario and attached to another gal but apparently he shares the same feeling and then he is mr perfect and they live happily ever after have babies afford good home everything works out well at work credit roll....

THAT,

is nonsense to me.

[Doe]

Child in Time

It wasn't bac but didn't really move me. Felt distant. Reminded me of Wreckers very much.

 

I watched at last. 

 

I haven't comment because Our Sherlock has played.

[Arcadia]

That's okay, I'm curious to know if you liked it, Doe.

[Doe]

I watched The Departed. I like it.

 

9/10