Amph What was the last movie you saw?

Looper. Not the masterpiece I was hoping for, but damn fine nonetheless.

 

A Very Long Engagement

This was the second time I've watched this movie. The next time I want to watch it I'm going to buy it.

 

Dark Knight Rises for x5 x6 on monday ooo I love me some second run baby

 

Dark Knight Rises for x5

DAGNABIT WHAT THE GLITCH COMPUTRON

 

Fearless (Huo Yuan Jia). Featuring Jet Li as the titular Huo Yuan Jia, this film is a biopic of sorts, based on true events. The fight scenes are exaggerated with wires, but not stylized to the extent of the likes of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. They are intense and highly kinetic. You are in for a visual treat as the film features many of them, and they are well choreographed. One of them, I found to go a little overboard compared to the others, but to each his own. Jet Li is obviously not from an acting background and that is apparent, but his performance is not distracting. He still manages to carry the film, IMO.

4 out of 5.

 

Do The Right Thing

Still my favorite Spike Lee Joint.

 

I had to watch Do The Right Thing for a Intro to Film class in university. It was really good movie.

 

Seven Psychopaths

Not sure what to think about this one. It was pretty good at times, not so good at others. Very gory, which I didn't expect. Very dry humor, though, and lots of great obscure movie references. I kinda want to see it again to see if I can pick up anymore references I missed the first time through, but on the other hand, I don't see much of a need to see this movie again from a general perspective.

 

Highlander (not for the first time) for the first time in a long long time!

How did Ramirez survive to be in the second one? Off to Google for me!

 

American Graffiti

I can't believe I haven't watched this before now.

 

Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted

It was certainly a fun movie, lots of spectacle and good voice acting. If you like the other two you will undoubtedly like this one, the 3D was decent also.

My only real problem with the movie is the message it sends out. Animal circuses are all but obsolete now for good reason, they were on the whole cruel institutions with no regard for the happiness of the animals which they kept. Making the circus out to be great when it is solely animals-only, and given the decision of the main characters at the end of the movie, is promoting an outdated unwanted thing which no longer has a place in the world.
That and the fact that the main animals are obsessed with going back to the Zoo instead of remaining free in Africa. What kind of message is that? I'm all for zoos because they do an important job, but they should never ever be championed as a place animals should be if they can live wild and free as intended.

I'm not sure if the film-makers had an agenda or were being paid by the wrong people, but on the whole the movie was pretty good.

 

The Social Network

 

I'm watching Rock of Ages right now. I'm not really sure why, it's worse than Mary Poppins.

 

How could any movie that featured "Pour Some Sugar on Me" in its trailer be bad?

 

The trailer was totally misleading.

 

Ok, the Russell Brand / Alec Baldwin duet totally made the film worth watching.

 

Looper. So good.

 

Taken 2. It wasn't great, but it was entertaining...a good action flick.

 

Prometheus. It wasn't as bad as people had made out, though the plot holes were ridiculous.

 

Audition, wow didn't know what hit me with this one. It is all about build up and it is done so well but the build up is to a really extremely grisly torture sequence. I kind of dug a lot of it but it really requires a major suspension of belief for it's grim final act

 

The Kite Runner. Highly recommended. A 5 out of 5 from me.