What Did You Watch Today?

[Gongsun Zan]

Saw: 9/10

Easily one of the most disturbing movies of the year. The acting is a bit stiff at parts, but the rest of the show more than makes up for it.

[Hugar Twriker Eats Spam]

SAW 9/10

-Saw it halloween night and was it a halloween to remember. Had me and my friends freaked out to say the least. Now, everytime I see the comercial for the movie I get freaked out.

Ray 9/10

-Good movie, but what made it better is that I am an ectra in it.

Battle Royale 8/10

-Good movie, you should try to see it if you haven't already. Nothing that made me jump out of my pants or anything but great movie. Good plot and nice killing so good overall movie.

[zero]

Finally caught up on some movies I've been meaning to see:

Jackie Brown - 8.0/10

Good stuff, no Tarantino's best work, but that's like saying it's not Da Vinci's best painting. Pretty long though, so if you're like me and are one of the few people that have never seen this one, cook some popcorn and be ready for a long ride.

True Romance - 8.5/10

Wow, just wow. Now if only every love story can be told like this. The only thing that holds this back from getting in the 9 range is the obvious parts where the director wanted to make the movie more of a "high impact hollywood thrill ride!!!" as opposed to Tarantino's original script.

Videodrome - 4.0/10

Uhh.... huh?

[GoGo Yubari]

You Got Served: 3/10

Nope, this doesn't outsuck Van Helsing, primarily because Van Helsing had a huge-ass budget, a-list actors, and a ton of hype and it was still an abomination, as opposed to You Got Served, which clearly the directors/writers had little aspirations for outside of "Breakdancing is cool!" So while the acting is pretty mediocre to bad and the plot is terrible cliched stuff, the breakdancing IS capable of being legitimately fun to watch at points, whereas all Van Helsing has going for it is a really cool Frankenstein.

The Iron Giant: 9/10

Whoa. This is so awesome. I can't believe I hadn't seen it until now. The only thing keeping this from being higher is that the ending is a little disappointing, but at the same time it did put a smile on my face.

[ROC]

The Prince of Egypt - 6.5/10 or (**1/2) It risks going over-elaborate in its opening, which also copys the Lion King-style of a massive musical number opening the feature and fading to black and to the film. That said, it's a decent picture, though a bit nightmarish for little-ones.

Smokey and the Bandit - 7.5/10 or (***) Fast cars, good jokes, and a sense of entertainment. What more could you want from an action/comedy?

[Your Mom]

American Wedding: 1/10: The only thing that keeps this movie from getting the dreaded zero is that I actually thought the last 10 minutes or so was ok.

[punky]

National Treasure - 7/10

Perfectly acceptable cinema. I thought it was pretty good, even though I think they could've gotten someone better than the kid from Gigli to be Cage's right hand man.

[reyrey619]

Saw- 9.10 What a great film. I was surprised at the ending as well, which definitley adds to it. Nowadays, when a film's ending surprises me, I appreciate it greatly.

[tristy]

National Treasure - 9/10

Unlike CM Punk there, I loooove this movie.

Wicked movie. I'm definately buying this when it comes to DVD. Nicholas Cage was awesome in it, and he "sidekick" in the movie (Justin Bartha) was hilarious at all the right times, and is a future star, IMO.

Only reason I didn't give it a 10/10 was because of the girl I went with tonight kept talking throughout the movie, so I missed some important parts thanks to her.

Good movie though. Highly suggest you see it.

[maddog]

Mel Brooks' Blazing Saddles 8/10

The Godfather 9/10

The Godfather II 9.3/10

The Godfather III 6/10

Lupito's Murder 3/10 [it's a movie that me and my friends made for English based on a book.. Yes it sucks ass.]

Edited November 24, 2004 by maddog

[Mysterio2000X]

Resident Evil: Apocalypse - 5/10

I'm one of the few that like the first one, and this one WAS turning out to be good, until those cemetary zombies. That's just a huge loop hole that even I can't get over. And Nemesis wasn't as bad ass as I thought it would be.

[ROC]

Cube 2: Hypercube - 5/10 or (**) What a confusing, stylized mess.

Bridget Jones's Diary - 7.5/10 or (***) A film that works because Renee Zellweger makes her character lovable and relatible. Grant and Firth also turn in good performances, as well. God, between this and my liking of Secretary, I might be becoming a sucker for rom-coms. Yeah, I'm a pansy.

[reyrey619]

Seed of Chucky- 2/10 EWW. This movie was just horrible. I thought that I would at least think its funny, but no. I didn't laugh once.

[reyrey619]

The Terminal- 7.5/10 I liked it. Very good movie. The plot to me seemed kind of boring at first, but Speilberg and Hanks make it interesting.

[Numbahs]

Alexander - 4/10

Finding Neverland - 8/10

[y2jerichoholic]

Christmas at the Kranks 3/10

I didn't want to see it, the girlfriend did

Also, I saw this preview that had something to do with The Longhorns and its Cheerleaders, does anyone happen to know the movie?

[Laice07]

Alexander 5.5/10

Score might be low but I still liked it, and I loved how he was portrayed....at least he doesn't think all of Persia was filled with barbarians! Its a sad ending though....knowing the fate of everyone in the end. Battle Scenes were better then Troy, even the entire movie was better then Troy. The main problem was the film wanted to tell us too much when it could of shown us. The battles were great but there were only like 2 out of the 50+ he fought. The "sex scene" was extremely weird, but good nonetheless (for specific reasons ). The movie could've been soo much more. Babylon was pretty, acting was good (some amazing performances though, but only in moments).

If you don't mind Numbahs, I'd like to know what you liked/disliked about the movie, just a little snippet. Please Numbahs-one of the great and powerful critic!!

[Numbahs]

Quickly, the pros and cons of Alexander as I see them.....(no order, SEMI-SPOILERS)

Cons:

1. 3 hour length. I normally wouldn't have any type of problem with a runtime this long when it has to do with this certain genre, but this movie is so badly paced that it actually feels like you are trapped in the theater for about half a day.

2. Speaking with accents. Colin Farrell just wings it with his own weird accent.....and while that isn't bad in any way, the fact that every other actor in the film decides to attempt to imitate him makes for some pretty laughable material. Jolie is a completely different story. She sounds like she is trying to do a bad Bela Lugosi impression.

3. Homo-love. Just come out and have him fuck Leto in the ass....don't beat around the bush. It's almost confusing the way their relationship is presented.

4. Hopkins' voiceovers(and some other spots of dialogue) sound like a book on tape. Man, I wanted a button to press to fast forward through some of the endless talking.

I have many more gripes, those are pretty much the only ones that really don't have me comparing the film to Troy(a far worse movie, IMO).

Pros

1. Farrell. I like him, he's a fine actor. Does alright here.

2. The last battle. I give "mad props" to whoever decided to pull the trigger on the massive amount of animal violence in this picture. The whole last battle(w/ the elephants and Farrell eating it) was well done in every way possible. The pink and yellow colors, the slow motion shots, the music, everything....

Lame little pro-con list, I know, but I pieced this together real fast. I disliked the movie a lot(as shown by the 4/10 I gave it), but I tried to touch on the big things I liked as well.

[Laice07]

4. Hopkins' voiceovers(and some other spots of dialogue) sound like a book on tape. Man, I wanted a button to press to fast forward through some of the endless talking.

[cthemason]

Jacob's Ladder- 8.5/10

Ju-On - 5.5/10 (dissapointing)