Last Movie You Saw/Recommendations

[nix]

Firstly, The amazing Spiderman, have to disagree with everybody elses reviews of this, i felt it was more disappointing in most parts. From what i was expecting from seeing the trailers was a darker version of the previous Spidermans and going back to the actual Spidey that use the web cartridges etc

So what did i get?

Spoiler: The same story being told yet again, it was pretty much the same as Spiderman 1 except worse, The villan (The croc) just done nothing but remind me of the green goblin from the first one. Scientist desperately trying to make a break through in their field of expertise. Scientist uses himself as the human test subject in a desperate act to speed up his work process so he doesn't lose it all. Scientists test works but with drastic side effects, both of them developing a malevolent split personality, both end up arguing with themselves. And then we have the cheese, I'm sorry but the cheese in this movie was OTT, and not in a good way, they took me out of the thrall the movie had for me to say under my breath "Ah for fook sake" and i hate when a movie does that, Thats where i think Raimi shined, his cheesey scenes/lines were bang on the nail for the spideyverse and were actually humourous in most parts. For an example of the crap scenes im referring too, ill just say cranes....Nearly walked out of the theater at that part... Now the one thing ill say was spot on, was the acting. Loved the whole cast pretty much except Denis Leary, i just hate that guy though, joke stealing undeserving fame mofo! I disliked it mostly as ive seen it before, lets hope the next one sees us with new scenes and not just another rehash of the "old" Spiderman..Frankly i think they should have held off on this reboot for another 10-15 years atleast as in my opinion it took ALOT away from the movie..

Now onto my actual recommendation:

We need to talk about Kevin



Don't really wanna go into much as i don't want to give anything away, The scenes are basically memory fragments of the mother of Kevin and the difficulties she has in raising her child as he doesn't seem right to her pretty much from the get go..

Its a very moving, taught provoking film that has left me wanting to go back, which i will do soon, Amazing movie and its sad movies like this are too far and between, last movie to impact me like this was Drive and that was over a year ago o_O

Its not your typical Hollywood movie so i would recommend this movie to anybody who likes movies with a great script, actors and and a director whos not afraid to stray away from your typical movie cinematography.

I'm not into ratings so ill just give it two thumbs up!

[Rowan]

Dog Pound

A film about 3 youths who've been sentenced to a juvenile correction facility for various crimes. Pretty much your standard prison film. Has some great parts that make you say "HELL YEAH!" and great acting from the main cast. Wish I could say the same for the warden, but I cannot. The film gives you character profiles of the 3 main characters within the first 10 minutes of the film which successfully reflects their personalities throughout the rest of the film. Its got a good balance of drama and action. I've been told this movie is an almost exact ripoff of another movie, but since I have not seen said movie, I was able to enjoy this film.

I give it 7/10

Heres a trailer.

[Xanatos]

Nolan, you sick son of a bitch, you did it again. Just came home after seeing The Dark Knight Rises, full of impressions right now, really need to cool down before doing something as rash as calling it the best comic book movie ever. Bane's pretty badass, love his background story, at one point I even felt sorry for him, I kinda wish they didn't change his original voice though. I knew...

Spoiler: ... Miranda was Talia al Ghul right from the start, I just didn't expect her to have such relationship with Bane...

... superb twist right there. Michael Caine at his best, he almost made me cry. The ending was great as well, well thought out,...

Spoiler: ... a lot of room for potential sequel, if Nolan, and only Nolan, ever decides to do one.

As for the strongest point of The Dark Knight Rises, music hands down, Hans Zimmer outdid himself this time. 10/10 from me (my biggest recommendation so far).

[Xanatos]

Firstly, The amazing Spiderman, have to disagree with everybody elses reviews of this, i felt it was more disappointing in most parts. From what i was expecting from seeing the trailers was a darker version of the previous Spidermans and going back to the actual Spidey that use the web cartridges etc

So what did i get?

Spoiler: The same story being told yet again, it was pretty much the same as Spiderman 1 except worse, The villan (The croc) just done nothing but remind me of the green goblin from the first one. Scientist desperately trying to make a break through in their field of expertise. Scientist uses himself as the human test subject in a desperate act to speed up his work process so he doesn't lose it all. Scientists test works but with drastic side effects, both of them developing a malevolent split personality, both end up arguing with themselves. And then we have the cheese, I'm sorry but the cheese in this movie was OTT, and not in a good way, they took me out of the thrall the movie had for me to say under my breath "Ah for fook sake" and i hate when a movie does that, Thats where i think Raimi shined, his cheesey scenes/lines were bang on the nail for the spideyverse and were actually humourous in most parts. For an example of the crap scenes im referring too, ill just say cranes....Nearly walked out of the theater at that part... Now the one thing ill say was spot on, was the acting. Loved the whole cast pretty much except Denis Leary, i just hate that guy though, joke stealing undeserving fame mofo! I disliked it mostly as ive seen it before, lets hope the next one sees us with new scenes and not just another rehash of the "old" Spiderman..Frankly i think they should have held off on this reboot for another 10-15 years atleast as in my opinion it took ALOT away from the movie..

I never got to nitpick your opinion on The Amazing Spider-Man, primarily first few points, and after seeing it again recently I feel "obligated" to do so...

- It's not even funny how many comic book villains your first few lines summarize. It's a comic book thing, really. As for Lizard being similar to Green Goblin, I don't see it. In all honesty, both as a person and a villain Curt Connors shares far more resemblance with Dr. Otto Octavius, both in comics and film. Everything Norman Osborn did, both as a person and a villain, was purely out of selfish reasons, totally opposite to Curt Connors. You could say Curt Connors was desperate to save his own arm and nothing more, thus in a way being selfish himself, but as you see later that's not really the case. Even as a Lizard he was bent on saving humanity in it's own twisted way by making all humans equal, without deformities, arguably even better. Not to mention he actually somewhat redeemed himself. Curt Connors's conection to, and relationship with Peter Parker is vastly different as well. As for your, I assume, Killer Croc refrence, comic book Lizard actually had shorter snout at first, it was only later in comics that his appearance changed into what most people know him as.

Aside somewhat similar origin, not just between these two, but dozen comic book villains I know at least, Lizard and Green Goblin are in nature and motives different villains, same goes for their alter egos.

While these two movies are indeed similar The Amazing Spider-Man goes into far more detail regarding nearly everything, including the origin story and setting path for future films. Not to mention it's far more faithful to its original source, taking best of both Ultimate and original comics, thus as a comic book fan I apreciate it a lot more. That being said both movies have nothing on Raimi's Spider-Man 2 even though part of it did not age well.