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What was the last movie you watched and how would you rate it?

  • Heretic
    Mulva;1795191 wrote:I watched the mist last night. It sucked.
    THE FUCK???????
  • Mulva
    Heretic;1795205 wrote:THE FUCK???????
    Is that directed toward my decision to watch the mist or my negative review?
  • Heretic
    The negativity. I loved it, lol.
  • Laley23
    Seeing Civil War tomorrow. Wasn't looking forward to it when it was announced, but previews and reviews have me much more excited.
  • O-Trap
    Laley23;1795479 wrote:Seeing Civil War tomorrow. Wasn't looking forward to it when it was announced, but previews and reviews have me much more excited.
    Saw it yesterday. It was good. There was one plot element that just didn't seem believable, but it didn't ruin the movie. It was really light on "villainy," but I get that that wasn't the point of the movie. I liked the grafting in of new Avengers into the previous cast. I'd give it 8.5/10, or maybe even 9/10.
  • jmog
    O-Trap;1795495 wrote:Saw it yesterday. It was good. There was one plot element that just didn't seem believable, but it didn't ruin the movie. It was really light on "villainy," but I get that that wasn't the point of the movie. I liked the grafting in of new Avengers into the previous cast. I'd give it 8.5/10, or maybe even 9/10.
    I agree, some holes but overall good.

    I am not a comic book person, but from what I have heard the comic book version of Civil War was much more "dark" and a key character in the MCU died at the end of it (don't want to spoil the movie) but the movie was much more "child friendly" than the comic book version.
  • TedSheckler
    O-Trap;1795495 wrote:It was really light on "villainy," but I get that that wasn't the point of the movie.
    Exactly. It's setting up for Infinity Wars.
  • O-Trap
    TedSheckler;1795623 wrote:Exactly. It's setting up for Infinity Wars.
    Sure. Under those circumstances, though, I think they could have cut out a solid half hour, though.

    As for the plot hole that bothered me, I suppose it wasn't some huge hole, but with the amount of hubris that Stark has always shown, it seems so out-of-character for him to want oversight from another entity, even under the circumstances explained in the movie. That seemed like a forced personality change. Didn't care for it.
  • Laley23
    Civil War. Meh. Not bad, but didn't like near as much as some of the other Marvel movies.
  • Sonofanump
    Terry_Tate;1794792 wrote:Never watch movies but actually watched 2 last weekend.

    The Wolf of Wall Street - 6.5/10.
    Thought the movie was decent, but Margot Robbie, wow.

    Scarface - 7/10.
    Saw it was on Netflix and never seen it so wanted to check it out. Knew the big quotes so was cool to actually see them used in the movie.
    IYO Scarface is .5 better than Wolf?
  • kayo
    O-Trap;1795495 wrote:Saw it yesterday. It was good. There was one plot element that just didn't seem believable, but it didn't ruin the movie.
    Ah, glad to hear the rest of this SUPERHERO MOVIE was believable.
  • Mulva
    Sonofanump;1795655 wrote:IYO Scarface is .5 better than Wolf?
    I double-checked the math, and that's how it plays out.
  • O-Trap
    kayo;1795659 wrote:Ah, glad to hear the rest of this SUPERHERO MOVIE was believable.
    Good grief. In the fictional Marvel universe, there are superheroes, so that part of the movie is believable for the fictional movie.

    There was an element to one of the characters that seemed very counter-intuitive for the groundwork the writers had already laid for the character.

    Hell, I didn't think I'd have to spell that out.
  • Terry_Tate
    Sonofanump;1795655 wrote:IYO Scarface is .5 better than Wolf?
    Really thought it was 1.5 better, but Wolf got a 1 point bump because of Margot Robbie.
  • Sonofanump
    Terry_Tate;1795667 wrote:Really thought it was 1.5 better, but Wolf got a 1 point bump because of Margot Robbie.
    I could see that, a 25 year old Michelle Pfeiffer was not bad to look at though.
  • raiderbuck
    O-Trap;1795648 wrote:Sure. Under those circumstances, though, I think they could have cut out a solid half hour, though.

    As for the plot hole that bothered me, I suppose it wasn't some huge hole, but with the amount of hubris that Stark has always shown, it seems so out-of-character for him to want oversight from another entity, even under the circumstances explained in the movie. That seemed like a forced personality change. Didn't care for it.
    I noticed that too. But then I thought, maybe there's some kind of ulterior motive for Stark? I don't read the comics so I have no idea if that's true or not. Just my theory.
  • jmog
    O-Trap;1795648 wrote:Sure. Under those circumstances, though, I think they could have cut out a solid half hour, though.

    As for the plot hole that bothered me, I suppose it wasn't some huge hole, but with the amount of hubris that Stark has always shown, it seems so out-of-character for him to want oversight from another entity, even under the circumstances explained in the movie. That seemed like a forced personality change. Didn't care for it.
    I agree, from what I understand the comic book folks thought the same thing back when the book(s) came out like 10 years ago. They didn't understand why Stark would be all for oversight by the government.
  • jmog
    Laley23;1795652 wrote:Civil War. Meh. Not bad, but didn't like near as much as some of the other Marvel movies.
    I put it better than most of the single character Marvel Movies (Thor, Hulk, etc) but not as good as any of the Avengers or even Iron Man.

    It was definitely not better than Guardians of the Galaxy either or Deadpool.
  • O-Trap
    jmog;1795704 wrote:I agree, from what I understand the comic book folks thought the same thing back when the book(s) came out like 10 years ago. They didn't understand why Stark would be all for oversight by the government.
    The only thing I could come up with was that his origin story was, at least in the films, about defying oversight. Perhaps this was him coming to grips with what had resulted from something for which he had fought ever since he became Iron Man.

    It's a stretch, no doubt, but it was all I could come up with.
  • Laley23
    jmog;1795705 wrote:I put it better than most of the single character Marvel Movies (Thor, Hulk, etc) but not as good as any of the Avengers or even Iron Man.

    It was definitely not better than Guardians of the Galaxy either or Deadpool.
    Agreed. But I'd even add a few other solos that I liked more.

    Captain America 1
    Ant Man

    I don't know what it was, but something was off about the movie. Just didn't click for me, and I thought it dragged along.
  • FatHobbit
    Laley23;1795720 wrote: I don't know what it was, but something was off about the movie. Just didn't click for me, and I thought it dragged along.
    I definitely expected more. I think if I would have gone in expecting a captain America movie I would have enjoyed it more. I agree with everyone about iron man not being the one who would welcome govt oversight. It also lost me after the airport fight scene. To much of that didn't make sense.

    Finally I think dead pool raised the bar for comic book movies. It was damn good and I expect that now from all of them
  • jmog
    FatHobbit;1795733 wrote:I definitely expected more. I think if I would have gone in expecting a captain America movie I would have enjoyed it more. I agree with everyone about iron man not being the one who would welcome govt oversight. It also lost me after the airport fight scene. To much of that didn't make sense.

    Finally I think dead pool raised the bar for comic book movies. It was damn good and I expect that now from all of them
    My biggest problem with the airport scene was they were almost all 'joking' and not really fighting to 'win' or hurt each other.

    The final battle with IM/Cap/Winter looked like it was going to go to the 'death'.
  • Ironman92
    Is Deadpool worse than There's Something About Mary for being appropriate for a preteen?
  • FatHobbit
    Ironman92;1795803 wrote:Is Deadpool worse than There's Something About Mary for being appropriate for a preteen?
    Way way way more blood. Also full frontal nudity.
  • Ironman92
    FatHobbit;1795873 wrote:Way way way more blood. Also full frontal nudity.
    Yeah, daughter watched it this afternoon. Wasn't in movie mood but had some funny stuff and some iffy scenes for youngsters