This was way better than I remember it being, but full of weird holes that make just no sense at all. There's no reason for people to behave the way they do in this movie, except Adrien Brody. He was great.
Actually enjoyable! I took issue with the styling, which distracted at times from what was actually going on, but overall a good action space movie. I have more good to say about it than bad, and that's way more than I can say than the last one.
RDJ's charm makes up for a lot of this movie, but it was sort of bizarre. I was enjoying it up until the last big battle, when.. well. It's like they forgot what the whole movie was about up til that point an hoped you would too.
The Killer Eye doesn't actually kill anyone, it just sort of .. does sex on them. That, he does a lot. Of it's 72 minute runtime, probably 35 are absurdly long scenes of young women rubbing eyetentacles on their nipples, or men rubbing their tummies.
It is what it is.
I often find myself watching these GRID-days documentaries and getting angry. This one, though, made me sad. A far more emotional movie than I was expecting.
Not in the cream of Asylum flicks, that's for sure. A supervolcano creating a super cyclone (that's a storm with the strength of five Katrinas) threatens.. not that much. Mostly enjoyable for it's utter lack of consistency.
This movie was great. Clearly made by someone with a love of movies and their clichés, great puppets, filled with laugh-out-loud lines. I wish - WISH - I could've seen it in all its 3D glory, but on its own it was fantastic.
I was expecting something about the state of farming and got "Juice is soooo great!" "Sugar = Cocaine" so that was not the best. However, if I can make myself watch two of these juice movies a month I bet I would do it.
This doc was very irritating. About halfway through, I realized the main family was Canadian and then it was even more vexing - You know when you see something and get a little bit of jingoistic pride? This movie does the opposite.
Trying to recall enough of this picture to review it is bringing up only memories of the severed head kissing up on the nice naked lady. So, I guess, parts of it were memorable. And strange. And unpleasant. But good? Somehow.
One of those movies so filled with tension that my whole body ached upon leaving the theatre. Absolutely fantastic pacing, actoring, and incredible sets. Goopy villains are due for a comeback, I feel.
I put off seeing this for a long time because I don't care about boring political dramas, but it totally wasn't. I left the theatre with tensey shoulders. Really great.
Everything Bruce Willis does in this could be attributed to senility, and not in a good way. Old man spouts old catchphrases while flipping off an explosion. Obviously, I loved it.
Horse-death, passive suicide, and other terrible things fill this "children's" movie. Honestly, people a little bit older than me watched some MESSED UP things as a kid.
I'm always pleasantly surprised when a favourite movie is better than I remember it. 20 years later, this movie is as great or better than it was. I still have the BIGGEST crush on Mr Blonde, and Tim Roth is absolutely captivating.
By far my favourite of the trilogy. Sean Connery is impossibly charming and works as the idiot-woman character. Indy is finally taken down a peg, and I finally understand why he's such an OTT showoff.
I found this one a little bit painful to watch. It was long and drawn out and boring. I absolutely understand why people love it, but I can't. There's a super-cool, handsome, debonnaire adventurer stealing hearts and treasures, and followed by a shrieking, useless, idiot-woman.
I'm going to get this out first: I didn't like this movie. However, it is fantastically executed. The characters are rich and dimensional, the story is told without too many exposition breaks, and the shot compositions are beautiful. It's just not for me.
Terminator it is not, but a reasonably enjoyable terrible action film. I think I'd have preferred it were I not in a theatre afraid to ruin it for other people with heckles. Johnny Knoxville was surprisingly not the most irritating thing ever.
Stake Land was kindof a mess, but I spent the whole time thinking "This is a mess, but I don't hate it." Until the end. I hated the end. It's a mess, with no story, half-assed characterizations, and a terrible, terrible end.
Overly violent at times, but generally really enjoyable, and touching, and engaging, and all those things good movies are. Also, he's a ROBOT and a COP. What's not to like?
I was looking forward to this so much. I loved the preview, I watched the promotional interviews on the Youtube. It was going to be fun, funny, charming and sassy.
It was crap.
I was ready to hate this, and I didn't. Preachy but not overbearing, propaganda without seeming like it. It manipulated me into feeling proud for Phil, and that's pretty neat.
I watched a lot of good documentaries this weekend, apparently. This was short, but a nifty look at what goes into the process of creating South Park. The amount of work that gets done so quickly is pretty baffling.
I'm going to go out on a limb and call this the weakest of the three. Fewer puns, an even more absurd premise than giant turtles in New York, and no Vanilla Ice meant there was nothing here for me.
I came to Ghostbusters late, so I don't have the same nostalgia that is so common, but it's still a great movie. Funny, and a little bit scary. Sometimes I dream about that library ghost.
This movie has everything, it's a love story, and a war fleeing type story, and there are songs and precocious youngsters and nuns, and nazis, and evil plotting baronesses! It's great. Just great.
Absolutely delightful. I can't be sure that I would love it as much as I do without the nostalgia factor, but I'm going with yes. It's the puns that get me. I love puns.
I went into this expecting a lot, having heard fantastic reviews about how 'shocking' the content is. I wasn't surprised, shocked, appalled. It's a business. It was okay.
The filmmaker takes "three New Yorkers from different backgrounds, and converts them to a Vegan lifestyle" - only she doesn't. She takes three people who eat junk and do no physical activity, and feeds them kale and the gym. And wonders why they feel better. Propaganda.
Jacob still has really straight teeth, I don't know how they're that white. Also he's in love with a baby. Some people stand around, and then a thing doesn't happen. Pointless, terrible, hilarious.
I feel really bad about making aaron watch this one, but I did laugh at the physical comedy sometimes. Weird that Rob Schneider was the sympathetic, normal character.
I honestly don't know how to rate this. It scared me so much I screamed out loud in actual terror, prompting aaron to laugh at me, a lot. The premise was good. It was too scary for me. Edit: Thinking about it now, I'm scared in my house in the middle of the day. Fuck this movie.
Starts very slow, picks up a little bit in the middle, and then gets stupid. Well, really the whole thing is a little bit stupid - like, why are there only two guards in this Asylum for the Batshit Insane Criminals? Tolerably stupid until the end, though.
French comedy is apparently not my thing, though it did have a few moments of laughter: 1. It's set in the Stone Age and everyone is named Pierre. 2. A penis joke.
I watch this every year, just about, and this is the first year I've been really put off by it. Still, the costumes are great, the musical numbers fantastic, and it's a classic.
I don't think I got it. The first half was pretty incoherent, no distinction between flashbacks and present led to a lot of 'i have no idea what's goin on' moments. It was imaginative, and original, I guess, but not good.
I liked & disliked this. There was a tonne of spectacle, skintight suits and napkin-based dresses, splosions and groan-worthy dialogue, and absolutely no plot that I could discern beyond "Milla punch things."
Over-the-top violent in places, I do not need to see that many heads explode so graphically, but all in all it was enjoyable. My immediate reaction was not favourable but as the days wear on, I enjoyed it. MaMa was particularly good, as far as villains go.
The STUFF is snackfood that comes from the ground and may be evil. Interesting to see a monster-movie whodunnit style, but there's so much going on at once that quite a bit is lost. It's definitely worth watching, though. Just watch the first five minutes, you'll be hooked.
Such a disappointment! Troll was supposed to be fun, and with the exception of an awesome (awesome!) scene where Ben Stone inexplicably dances his little heart out it was entirely without personality or substance or worth-watchingness.
I love buddy cop movies. This is the first time I've found Will Ferrell to be remotely enjoyable or charming, and I adore Marky Mark. Weak on story and the like, but it's a buddy cop movie.
Re-watched this after seeing TDKR since it seemed like I didn't recall a thing about it (Like, for example, Liam Neeson existing), and boy howdy was it good. Near-perfect introduction to the man who dresses up like a bat.
Okay, I reserve the right to change this review after re-watching the first two movies, but I was really, really disappointed. There was nothing terrible about this, but it was so very, very mediocre. Except for JGL and Anne Hathaway's teeny waist; those things were great.
Surprisingly entertaining, original and a good time. Moderately predictable toward the end, but for the most part kept us engaged and guessing. I really liked it.
I didn't hate this, but I didn't love it like I expected to. There was too much "See how clever we are? Look how clever." and not enough actual cleverness. It was entertaining enough, and really quite pretty, but overall just meh.
A lot of thought went into this, even though it's a movie with Arnold on Mars. It's great. ALSO, you must watch the commentary. If you're with friends and getting your drink on, every time Arnold says "Yeah, Exactly" - drink. When he says exactly what is going on onscreen, drink.
I really did not like this, overall. There were good things: it's beautiful. The cities are really nice looking, Walter White is great, there's a lady with three breasts. The rest was not good.
Uncomfortable nazi/zombie rape and a babydaddy aborting his newly discovered child to create robot Hitler may sound like fun, but it's just unpleasant.
Immersive, interesting, and clearly made with passion. On the other hand, it seems one-sided and sensationalist. I didn't dislike it, but neither did I enjoy it.
Good story. I didn't really buy Anne Hathaway as a gangsta-teen but it may be that I wasn't supposed to. JGL on the other hand was magical, even though his part was tiny. Overall, not terrible.
At some point I realized I had reached the climax of the movie - all the 'Joes' were cheering and clapping,and I was sort of confused - had I really endured all two hours? I couldn't remember an established plot or point. There sure was a lot of firey explosions, though.
Started out really strong - funny and imaginative, reasonably good actors, and around the 40 minute mark goes sharply downhill into an incoherent mess. Seriously disappointing.
This was better/worse than the first one. The movie part was worse, the spectacle bits were better. I may watch the third one, and the fourth. Why? Because I hate myself.
(spoilers) I'm about to lose all credibility in rating this high. Classic boy-meets-boy / boy-becomes-stripper / boy-becomes-addicted-to-drugs-and-ods-learning-nothing tale. Kind of tragic, really. Also, bums.
Intelligent sci-fi always makes me happy. This was so well-written it was almost too realistic. My one complaint is the version I saw was recorded in English, French, and German, and dubbed in German, with English subs. I kept reading their lips and found it mildly distracting.
The most boring Asylum picture I have ever, ever seen. Found footage of soldiers trekking through the jungles of Belize. Vacation Slides meets grainy shaky cam, with less chance of a nip slip. Do not watch.
Sortof heartwarming, but also quite sad. Follows the star of Troll 2 as he travels about to screenings, reliving his glory days, bringing the band back together.
This movie is an absolute gem. The acting is hilarious, the plot is ridiculous beyond compare, and some of the lines are amazing (I'm looking at you, "If my father discovers you here, he'd cut off your little nuts and eat them.") A must see.
It had a beginning, middle, and end. The characters all had names. It was interestingly composed, and there was a story. It was terrible, and great. I was at once thinking 'I am having such fun' and 'This is among the worst movies I have seen.' I loved it, would not recommend it
Good: Tony Stark, Bruce Banner, Bruce / Tony, ScarJo's bum, the scene with no cuts during the climax, lots of splosions and stuff. Meh: Pretty much everything else.
I left feeling like the spent more time trying to make it feel like 'Alien' than actually developing the story. Visually stunning, with a great tone and perfect pace, it was immersive, but filled with two-dimensional characters and half a story.
Netflix has been recommending me this for ages and I've no idea why. It wasn't engaging, the people weren't likable, and it all-around wasn't an enjoyable watching experience. It was somewhat interesting, subject-wise.
This was the first foreign-language movie I ever saw, and it is the one which made me reconsider my 'no-subtitles' policy. The story is fascinating, the directing is beautiful, and the actoring is amazing.
This was absolutely excellent. It felt authentic, like everyone involved had spent ages observing actual teenagers and how they react to things. For me, it was a depressing look at losing everything over some trivial event.
Surprising absolutely no one, I loved this. It's over the top, it's cheesy, it's fun, and most importantly, the main character exclaims "I'm tired of these motherf$#king zombies in my motherf#$king hood!"
alien + zombie + group of ragtag rednecks, stripper, priest, ninja looking fellow, cheerleaders and sports teams + splosions + mediocre/poor special effects? Fuck. Yeah. Watch the commentary!
AWESOME. This movie is absolutely beautifully shot. The use of sound is really striking - there's very little dialogue, but tonnes of sound cues. The action is fluid and not jerky aroundy. Kicking, punching, yelling, shooting, mayhem mayhem mayhem!
I dislike documentaries where the filmmaker is always present in frame - 'Here is me filming Dawkins', 'Here I am walking in front of the Taj Mahal' - too much like vacation slides, but it seems excusable here, an interesting look at the beliefs and non-beliefs of the world.
I don't hate this, but it's not great. I don't object to the use of lesser-known characters, but it was irritating having to explain them all to my watching-partner, and the movie didn't really take care of that part for me. Ultimately unexceptional and uninteresting.
I wanted to like this! I love James Corden and his squeaky voice and delightful little face, but there's just not enough here to enjoy. Some clever British humour, but overall not engaging.
I expected to hate what they had done to an excellent 80s teen drama, and was pleasantly surprised. It was actually funny. Jonah Hill has charm falling off of him, and great chemistry with Channing Tatum. The story was very much lacking - enough to take it from good to mediocre.
I'm not one to bitch about movie/book changes, because they're necessary. The two and a half hour runtime is filled with action! adventure! and excitement! and what's left behind is the story, the friendships, and any indication that the main character has a mind of her own.
About twenty minutes into it, I realized I was watching the single worst thing I have ever seen. I finished it anyway, but I couldn't tell you what it was about, or why I watched it, or anything other than it made me sad, and a little angry.
I love terrible zombie movies, and this one is no exception. Funny, relatable protagonists (even though one is a serial killer), a few interesting shots, and excellent dialogue.
Paul Newman is exactly what he should be for the role of did-he-or-didn't-he murderer. Charming, funny, and vulnerable. The two-hour runtime seems excessive for the story, though.
Hilarious, brilliant, aware of what it is. Fantastic, lovable characters, including an awesome pimp - Johnny 'Backhand' Vegas who fights off zombies with - what else? - backhands.
Maybe it's because I've seen a LOT of terrible movies lately, but I thought this was really good! I'm not a big fan of the handheld-style, and it didn't seem necessary here, but the characters really took me for a ride with them and I happily went. Really great, emotional, fun.
Audrey Hepburn saying (of herself) "How can you possibly make a model out of that?" is laughable, but aside from having to accept this beautiful creature as an uggo, it was a fun movie with great dance numbers and catchy songs.
Every character feels real and charming and lovely, with genuine emotions and reasons for behaving the way that they do. Definitely one of the best movies I've seen.
What could have been a powerful documentary ends up with literally an eight-minute scene where the victim extolls the virtues of the interviewer, instead of telling her story.
Katharine Hepburn coaxes Humphrey Bogart to sink a German ship using his beat up old steamboat type dealie, and homemade torpedoes. Really great pacing, dialogue, and awesome old-timey actoring.
The Tooth Fairy, made scary. But not as scary as Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson in oversized wings. Constantly flickering lights ruined the tension and made it funny, but not so funny as to be good.
This is Adam Sandler's "good" movie. I expect people remember it that way because they were thirteen at the time. It's not good. It's not funny. It's angering, it's stupid, it hurts me.
If you tell someone the movie is about a sentient lady-car who kills people, they'll probably pass. Competent writing, realistic acting, and excellent directing makes it somehow believable, suspenseful, and ultimately enjoyable. Score needs more synth, though.
The ending I thought up for this was way, way better than the ending they went with. Straightforward werewolf-meets-courageous-teen story. Still better than any of the werewolf movies of the '00s.
First watching left me enchanted, second brings out the flaws. Too many fart jokes, but fantastic imagery and world-building. Muppets are so much better than CGI.
I had moderately high hopes for this, and came away utterly disgusted. Absolutely no plot, characterization, or dialogue that wasn't patting Sherlock on the back or sub-par exposition.
