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Because it's fun to see superheroes on a big screen? Some of you try too hard.

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Just saw Men In Black 3.

9/10, would give it a ten but despite the time traveling, the plot is a bit similar to the first movie (must catch a killer alien), and the O / K subplot is never really resolved, or goes anywhere at all (K just dismisses it with a "agents can't get involved with each other" a minute before the credits). They also don't explain how or why that random woman comes all the way to the moon to release the bad guy (I suppose she's one of those, but the moon prison's existence was obviously a secret and she was too young to know him from before he got arrested, so...what the fuck?)

The Divide - total fucking garbage.

Movie fails everywhere.

If you gave it a 6.5, you are a certified moron.

Black Mirror 1-3. Not adventure games but British mini series. It shows how could our future look like. It scared a shit out of me...

Saw Dark Shadows last week with my dad (we're both into movies, so we see a one every few weeks).

5/10, average Tim Burton/Johnny Depp fare, characters are two dimensional and bland, Johnny Depp is Johnny Depp, half the cast do nothing (Chloe Moretz in particular), there's abso-fucking-lutely no chemistry at all inbetween Johnny Depp (no, I will not refer to him by his character name, because he wasn't playing a character) and that one girl the audience tried to trick us into believing was the main character, tons of plot threads introduced, some within literally the last 5 minutes of the film, and are promptly discarded, the film veers awkwardly from a fish-out-of-water comedy to a somewhat violent dark comedy (it's hard to sympathize with Johnny Depp when he's coldly murdering people left and right), lots and lots of contrasting colours. Only thing missing is the standard Tim Burton gothic choir soundtrack.
From what I understand, the movie's based off a show that spanned over 1000 episodes (apparently Johnny Depp, the supposed main character, only appeared a good 200 episodes in) so I can assume all these problems are related to Burton trying to cram all the information and plot from these 1000 episodes into a 110 minute film, same problem with The Last Airbender.

John Carter

Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote grand, incendiary pulp. He in fact defined pulp for me as a kid, not so much with his Tarzan, but with his Barsoom. I remember the Gino D'Achille covers for the Ballantine run of the books, all eleven of them, and I remember how excited I felt once I finally completed my collection of them at a mildew-smelling (delicious) used bookstore that didn't know what it had. It's easy to forget the thrill of those discoveries in the pre-Internet bazaar. When I was on the fence about buying a Kindle last Christmas, I saw that Burroughs's complete run of Barsoom (i.e., John Carter of Mars) novels was available for free; now I own a Kindle. Rereading the series this past year in preparation for Andrew Stanton's John Carter, I was reminded of the scope of Burroughs's work--its sociology, its uncompromising stance on religion, its unabashed chivalry and romance; when I read Sir Walter Scott years later, it couldn't hold a candle to Burroughs. Barsoom was my gateway to works by Burroughs contemporaries H.P. Lovecraft (compare what Carter finds at the gate of the River Iss with the arctic nightmare of At the Mountains of Madness and tell me they didn't influence one another) and Robert E. Howard, but at the end of it all was always, for me, Barsoom. I've been waiting for a big-budget, prestige presentation of this property for almost as long as I waited for the Star Wars prequels--and if I'm not as disappointed, it's only because Episode I killed much of what was disappointable in me. John Carter is garbage.

Not good garbage, either: John Carter is mopey and ruined by backstory and modern sensibilities. What should be full-throated and choked with Old Southern testosterone is smothered beneath sulky smarm'ing and the same sad-bastard flashback motivation as any dozen identically-useless pomo heroes. That John Carter reminds a great deal of Jonah Hex says too much. John Carter also reminds of David Lynch's Dune and, now and again, The Chronicles of Riddick--both films I like, neither of which makes any kind of sense outside its very particular context. I hate this movie, I really do. I hate that the six-armed, green, nomadic Tharks call Carter "Virginia" for cheap, emasculating yuks. I hate that Carter is played by frickin' Taylor Kitsch (better Taylor "Shtick," though I guess "Kitsch" works fine), who can't play a Confederate gentleman any more than Glenn Close could play an English butler, and I don't like that Princess Dejah Thoris (Lynn Collins) is suddenly a scientist and I think a middle linebacker. I abhor a framing story that inserts Burroughs (Daryl Sabara) as a young, aspiring writer who inherits uncle John's journal; and I resent the movie's representation of holy fakers the Thurn--led by Matai Shang (Mark Strong)--as omniscient idiots à la The Adjustment Bureau. It's not just that John Carter deviates from Burroughs, not just that its hero is a simpering little shit without a chivalrous bone in his effete body (who needs to be coaxed into courting the princess), or that the Woola beast is distilled into another adorable Disney sidekick, or even that the Thark are reduced to ooga-booga natives. It's that John Carter is boring and almost entirely without a spark discernable anywhere in the meat of its health-club glow.

I have no idea what this movie is like for someone unfamiliar with Burroughs's Barsoom books, why pretend, but I do have an idea that even if John Carter were not the Barsoom I know, I would've enjoyed it anyway had it not sucked. There are two nice moments, maybe three: one takes place early on, when Carter learns that he's superhuman in the Martian low-G; the second involves the discovery of a hatchery; and the possible third has Carter taking on a horde of baddies and building a foxhole of their corpses. The rest of it is lots of talking and walking. In place of cliffhangers and sudden betrayals, John Carter offers political blather and xeno-babble--come to think of it, all that's missing is a senate debate and a pod race. I hate when Carter's honorarium "Dotar Sojat" is translated as Jeddak Tars Tarkas's (Willem Dafoe) "right arm" (another term for "bitch" after spending the first part of the film being called a virgin queen) instead of "the surnames of the two warrior chieftains whose metal I had taken." I hate, in other words, the reconfiguration of this quintessential hero into Ashton Kutcher in a loin cloth. The worst, however, is when noble nurse Sola (voiced by Samantha Morton, who's completely squandered) embarks on a life-ending pilgrimage to discover not that her religion has been a lie (as it is in the novels), but that Carter's intergalactic doohickey is the MacGuffin supreme in a script that feels like it needs to explain everything in as granular and unimaginative a way as possible. It's a movie for simpletons and those of delicate constitution, a weak story for a weak time--it's no wonder, really, that it's a Disney film. The greater tragedy is the involvement of talents like Stanton and Michael Chabon in a project this carefully deboned and filleted, featuring a sensitive, New Age hero who'd be wearing a scrunchie to keep his hair out of his stubbled face at the centre of any cosmology seminar--the Han Solo who shoots back rather than the one who shot first. If you like this bullshit, you know what? You can have it.

http://www.filmfreakcentral.net/ffc/2012/05/john-carter.html#more

John Carter had some good special effects and fuckable main actress: http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3135747584/nm1211488
Is made by Walt Disney, therefore is pretty much a gay product. And my inculture prevents me from understanding the rest of your ramblings.

Back on topic. Last movie seen was Haywire (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1506999/). 6.5 seems fine for this one also.
It's an action flick with some small small resemblance to Traffic. After all, it's from the same director and with a great cast. There are 1 or 2 plot holes the size of Canada, but nothing repulsive.
And is nice to see a movie in which the main heroine seems able to hit a guy. This one has some meat on her, cause I'm so sick of skinny little sluts trying to look tough.

Also tried to see Coriolanus and ... this is a real mess. I cannot rate this clumsy shit, I understand that the purpose was to present the universal themes of Shakespeare's works.
But come on, using archaic language in a new context is like watching a phony theater performance. Ralph Fiennes is a splendid animal, but this effort is in vain. Avoid, unless you are a diehard Shakespeare reader.

Watched ‘The Grey’ the other night. Not terrible but not great. I was hoping for Taken in the woods but this was much more about survival and regret. I did get a little teary eyed at the very end when he basically has failed - all the men are dead and he is stacking the wallets as some sort of shrine when the wolves come for him. If you need to go down go down fighting.

Anyway 6/10.

The Fall

A story within a story about an injured early 20th century stuntman in hospital telling a 6 year old girl a fantastical tale in order to gain her trust and get her to steal morphine for which to commit suicide. A simplistic outline but it's the kind of simplicity that works; the tale is a collaboration between the stuntman and 6 year old girl and the childlike naivete with which the tale is about and the stunning visuals revert you to a wide-eyed child-like sense of mind so that it affects you as powerfully as a simplistic fairytale can possibly do without your "adult" mind ruining the purity of the experience.

A must watch.

Yeah, it looked really nice but that was about all that the movie did for me. Neither of the two protagonists are people I could identify with and the teary confession towards the end was so over the top that I didn't know whether to laugh or roll my eyes. Might be nice as a screensaver.

The Divide

Heh heh. The movie was pretty stupid in the beginning, but as things started falling apart I started enjoying it more and more. Mostly in ways that probably were not intended. None of the characters are likeable in any sort of way, much in a horror flick fashion. The ending makes it well worth a watch. Would be intriguing to hear what is the actual message the makers of this movie actually want to deliver?

Iron Sky
1/5

What a let-down. I didn't even have high expectations either. Not a single laugh was given. It simply tries too hard to be cult.
Felt like watching a porn parody without the porn.

Carnage (2011)

Entertaining as all hells movie by Polanski. Great actors, great dialogues, great personalities. I think it was a little one sided, however. In the end, I despised one pair more than the other (while a friend of mine who also watched it, hated the other pair more).

5/5, me thinks.

Dylan Dog: Dead of Night (2011)

3/10

The movie is a trainwreck any way you look at it, and if you're a fan of the comic it's a travesty. Dellamorte Dellamore (Cemetary Man) wasn't a great adaptation but it was leaps and bounds better than this junk. Everything about the movie - with the possible exception of rather competent photography - is just bad: plot, writing, acting, special effects...

Nixon (1995) 7/10

I don't like Oliver Stone films but this one was quite satisfying. Personalities like Nixon are hard to play, but Anthony Hopkins really applies himself to this role. The film is long enough, not confusing to follow, and gets a rather simple message across: basically, how Nixon came to power, how he failed, and what was special about it. I didn't sense anything deeper than that, but as a history lecture it was ok. Only in the last 1/4 things gets a bit retarded, like Nixon went insane.

White Dog (1982) also 7/10
Thanks for Wyrmlord for bringing this up in another thread. It was a lot shorter and less impressive than I remember, and some parts of it were not logical ( especially the part where the dog kills a black man but they still continue to recondition him, and the end where Fuller really lets his imagination run ) If you like 80s cinema this is still a recommmendation.

The Last Lovecraft: Relic of Cthulhu (2009)

4/5 (great for what it is)

Ignore the IMDB comments (butthurt nerds), this film is great. I was up late one night browsing crap shows, and I saw this on and figured why not, it's been a while since I've seen Lovecrafting horror. Needless to say, it was not what I expected. Very funny film, makes fun of Cthulhu nerds everywhere, but still treats the mythos with respect, so you get the best of both worlds.

Just the fact it makes fun of the overtly serious Lovecraft fanboys makes me want to watch it. Shame Codex Movie Night is on hold until further notice.

Have you seen Frost/Nixon?

Nokas, has a little bit of Fargo in it. 6.5/10. I think I found my new lucky number.

Yes it is. But Gregz is wrong, so wrong. Last Lovecraft is painfully bad and shame on me for watching as much as I did. Gregz, as far as low budget semi amusing, nothing better to do at 3 AM movies...check to see if Dead Birds
is still listed (I saw both movies on free On-Demand around the same time several weeks ago). While not so much Cthulhu, I did get a nice Alone in the Dark vibe from it and that game ... like, um, had Cthulhu vibes itself . Dead Birds is also not so great in quality and I don't really know why I am talking right now. I really miss Codex movie night is all.

No, but thanks, it sounds very interesting.

Yeah. I believe it would be worthy of CMN.

Gotta disagree bro, any movie that has me laughing out loud more than once per minute is totally worth seeing. But yeah, it's a "low budget semi amusing, nothing better to do at 3 AM movie film" that "makes fun of the overtly serious Lovecraft fanboys". That is indeed what it is. Will check out Dead Birds!

God Bless America 6.0/10
It's a broken movie, opening some dark themes, but never delivering on them. Bouncing between fantasy and cold cynicism, I'm not sure what the director wanted to say.
There are too many alien nuances in the movie: Natural Born Killers, Falling Down, Network, Leon and Little Miss Sunshine. Overall is worth one view.

Anyway this song is in the soundtrack:

Inside Job 5/5

Documentary of what led up to the financial crisis and what it's consequences were.
The only things I'd criticize is that the movie clearly takes position in the end. I prefer when they present facts and let the viewer figure out what to think about them themselves. The topic of derivatives other than CDOs and CDSs was insufficiently covered.
But those points are not enough to detract a single point from the overall score. A concise and understandable summary of what happened and still is happening. I was also very about assholes trying to weasel out of questions and failing.

And since media has already forgotten why Europe is in a "debt" crisis and the whole world on brink of recession, now is probably a good time to watch Inside Job. Makes me want get my pitchfork and torch.

Prometheus

Well... I didn't have high expectations for this one and they certainly were met. There are quite a few things I could say, but let's stick to the core.

It is a pretty movie. 3D didn't add much, in fact it would probably be better in 2D.

It is not smart movie by any degree, no matter how much you pretend.

Mainly what bothered me was the fact that a whole lot of things felt rushed - despite the fact that it is pretty long movie. The cast is supposed to consist of scientists, yet they rush into things and make real fucking dumb choices. Like teenagers in a horror movie would.

I couldn't relate to any of the cast, nor did the events surprise me - even the actors approached the plot twists with a certain degree of jaded boredom.

I've only given it this generous rating, mainly due to the fact that at least it didn't make the mistake of trying to have too many action scenes. Unfortunately the makers didn't have the balls to go all the way to the artsy/philosophical direction either, but instead compromised with the straightforward path instead.

Chronicle

Pretty fun movie - the definition of good for what it is.

7/10