The Last King of Scotland
1/10
that's not a reviewOriginally Posted by vdzele
Oh yeah, I saw an ad for Crank and was vaguely interested, I should grab that next time I'm in the video store.
Well, it's a documentary, it's kind of different to rating a movie.
As I recall it did not impress me. Honestly, for the last decade or so I've found myself rolling my eyes at documentaries more and more. Or outright shouting at the screen. David Attenborough still makes entrancing documentaries, that's about it.
LOL, Baise Moi at work... yeah, just a little inappropriate.
They made a sequel to the Grudge? Ew. I was pleasantly surprised with the first one, I was expecting awfulness but it was pretty entertaining.
After reading through all these posts, I am very disappointed that most of
the movies mentioned are not worth seeing. However, what was I expecting on this game site?
Here are a some of my favorites that I highly recommend that you guy's/girls see and I rate them all 9 or 10/10.
Perdition Road
Crash
Departed
The entire Matrix Series
Ray
Walk The Line
The Godfather Series
Casino
Gangs Of New York
Raging Bull
Million Dollar Baby
Braveheart
ETC., I could go on and on with great movies.
And don't tell me to review all of these, just go see them if you have not.
Because they're all older movies, so i either saw them a bunch of times already or saw them a really long time ago. Crash, the Departed, Godfather movies, and especially Casino i would also give really high scores to. Rest of them were either good but not a really high rating or really overrated (Matrix).
The humour was aimed at 13 year olds who think GTA is a good video game. The movie blew and the 'humour' didnt even get a chuckle out of me. The acting was brutally terrible and the action sequences were bland at best. Transporter 2 looked like Silence of the Lambs or Shawshank Redemption in comparison.
Manhunter (1986)
Directed by Michael Mann
8/10
This is the prequel to Silence of the Lambs, and the original film that Red Dragon covered. Actually, Red Dragon is very close to the same script for large portions of it. The man who portrays Will Graham is this movie, William Peterson, is very intense although sometimes when he yells out what he's thinking, it comes off as a little unbelievable. The serial killer in this is way more believable, however, than Ralph Fiennes. He's tall as hell and creepy looking. The final scene was fun as hell to watch (and intimidating as well), but I think I prefer the ending to Red Dragon more. And Lecter is portrayed in this film by Brian Cox. How freaking cool is that?
All in all, I enjoyed this movie immensely, and I recommend it to anyone who has or hasn't seen any of the later Hannibal Lecter movies. Also, there's a nice and heavy 80s soundtrack that goes well with the movie.
Perdition Road - crap
Crash - crap
Departed - good
The entire Matrix Series - 2 craps out of 3
Ray - boring
Walk The Line - boring
The Godfather Series - 2 goods out of 3
Casino - boring
Gangs Of New York - boring
Raging Bull - boring
Million Dollar Baby - boring
Braveheart - ok
I liked Manhunter other than the stupidtarded ending of crappity crap
Stay Alive
Synopsis - The Ring, but with a video game instead of a video
Review - I liked it, it was a total by the numbers teen horror movie that followed every genre standard without deviation, borrowing a bit from Halloween, The Ring, Dracula, and Suspiria, but it sprinkled in some amusing jokes for gamers and it had a nice setting in Louisiana. It's fun, but quite stupid too, you have to be a fan of these kinds of movies and be willing to let alot go to enjoy it.
6/10
*Shudder*
It seemed so much better when I first saw it, I rewatched it recently and thought it was actually pretty lame. My hatred of Mel Gibson grows in leaps and bounds.
WTF? Which GTA are you talking about?
Ah, I too loved Manhunter. Brian Cox was a great Lecter, in a different way to Anthony Hopkins. Yes, the original guy was much better than Fiennes. Although interestingly, I thought William Petersen and Edward Norton both covered one half of the lead character well, and didn't do the other half so well; Petersen got the hard-bitten cop part right, Norton got the sensitive and gifted profiler part right.
Hey, wow:
John Lithgow as Hannibal Lecter? Yeah, I'd pay to see that.
The Science of Sleep
Directed by Michael Gondry
4/10
Going against the grain that practically all of my friends subscribed to, I did not like most of this movie. In a nutshell, the movie is about a half Spanish, half French college aged kid living in France who has a tough time telling the difference between reality and his dreamstates. This leads to major complications when he begins to fall for his female neighbor, as he has a hard time deciphering whether her affection for him is genuine or all in his head.
I was annoyed by the actions of the main character, and the reactions of the other characters towards him. I was especially annoyed by the fact that noone seemed to realize this guy needs serious psychiatric help. There's a lot of switching from English to French in this movie, and even some Spanish thrown in there for good measure. True to his form, Gondry puts in a lot of innovative stop-motion camera action, but it begins to play like an elongated music video after a while (a medium that Gondry is all too familiar with). Oh yeah, and there's no ending. I think Gondry forgot to add that part in. A real disappointment of a film overall.
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