What was the last movie you watched? III

[Fernando]

Was going to continue my Ridley Scott Marathon but noooo, I had to watch this lame-ass "movie":

Battleship
1/10

This movie made Transformers 3 look good. The aliens' motives were never explained, I think I heard the line "What/What the hell/The hell is that?" about thrice per minute, the sailors were surprisingly chill with fucking extraterrestrials blowing the shit out of their ships, the lead actor looks and acted like a douche, rendering him completely unlikeable, Neeson seemed high, Rihanna was annoying, why the hell would they put a drunk, poor loser like the main character as second in command for a huge ship like that, and the film shamelessly used a great song (Fortunate Son) as the end credits.

There were so many 'splosions that they were no longer impressive (they never were, but eventually they don't even make you bat an eye), the fake long takes did not make it "cool", what the FUCK was wrong with that random-ass scene where he breaks into a gas station for a burrito, set to The Pink Panther for fuck's sake.

One of the worst movies I've ever seen, really.

There was also a horrifyingly surprising amount of racism against Asians in it, seriously. The director seemed to enjoy including Asian jokes (Ka ni chi wa? Seriously?), constant "It's the Koreans/Chinese, I know it!" accusations, glorified bias against Asian soldiers, and the 9/11-ish attack on Hong Kong, which lasted wayyy longer than it should have. Really, out of all the cities being attacked, two minutes were spent seeing a bunch of Asians get blown sky high, what the hell.

[dafox]

8.8/10

There were a lot of things I liked and a lot of things I didn't like. It was probably the accents and that one annoying song that pissed me off

[Fernando]

Fox, you're gonna have to specify which song it was

[DoubleD]

9.0/10

[dafox]

Fox, you're gonna have to specify which song it was

[RIFA]

6.8/10

Okay. This movie was fun at the beginning. Bringing out all the issues and stereotypical situations America has to deal with and how painful sometimes it is to actually seeing all these problems daily. However, this movie leads to nothing. It's basically the definition of a movie which has a form but no substance. It's pleasantly rolled up in a sleeve full of things you could relate to but the course this movie takes is nonsensical in a way and feels too personal. It feels like this is a movie made out of someone's personal frustration. It's basically a collection of thoughts. It's a personal film that's saying nothing new and resumes to deliver the old in a newly frustrating fashion. We all thought sometimes of killing someone because he's doing some stupid shit... However, I never thought I'd see a movie spending all the time showing that.

[Mr. Caine]

Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back-good dumb fun/10

[Bacon]

The Iron Giant
My favorite animated movie of all time. Fantastic script, great animation.

The Road to El Dorado
Another of my favorites. Hilarious and has great animation.

[Liron]

Haven't seen this one in about a decade, still have it on original VHS.

Anyway, while I remembered many scenes I forgot the main plot. So this was as enjoyable as before. I always saw this movie as the one that 'describes' LA perfectly. Or at least the way I felt there.
The cast is absolutely phenomenal. While Russell Crowe is the only one that stuck to my mind all these years (mainly cos I love his character), the rest were all so impressive. Definitely one of my fave 90s films.

I'm not much with ratings but I'd give it 8.8/10.

[christophmac]

The Dictator - 7/10 funny quite a lot of the time but the jokes felt either obvious (all dictator stereotypes rolled into one in a way that was sometimes boring), crude or expositional (characters say things needlessly to enforce their stereotypes like 'don't you remember, you executed this guy...' or 'I rigged this award show') in ways that were totally unbelievable and rehearsed. As a result, there was no subtlety to the observations or the characters and I like comedies which are subtle and have well observed characters (basically British TV comedies like The Office or I'm Alan Partridge). Only bit that made me laugh ridiculously was the bit on the helicopter.