What was the last movie you watched? (2015 Edition)

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Interstellar

 

WOW, just wow!

 

It really makes you think about life and the universe. Truly outstanding master piece, the plot, the acting, the music, the representation of time and gravity.

 

REC 4

 

not as good as the first 2 but much better than the 3rd

 

Fury

 

Very good war film, I can't see Jon Bernthal playing any one else except Shane from the walking dead though  :D Whilst the "coloured" bullet tracers were kind of cool, it felt almost too star wars lol

 

John Wick

 

Not a bad action film

 

Birdman

 

Nicely shot and some good moments but over all a bit meh.

 

Whiplash

 

I can't help but feel that the only reason this was so good was purely because of J.K Simmons

 

Nightcrawler

 

Good film and once again amazing acting by Jake, a bit too slow though. Drive is a much better film imo.

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Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief

 

Very good documentary explaining the Co$ from it's inception up to it's present day lunacy.

 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4257858/

 

8/10

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Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief

 

Very good documentary explaining the Co$ from it's inception up to it's present day lunacy.

 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4257858/

 

8/10

 

 

I watched this as well, fantastic doc. I would also give it an 8/10

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Birdman 1 / 5

 

Nightcrawler 3 / 5

 

The Hunger Games Mocking Jay Part 1 3 / 5

 

Annebelle 4 / 5 (I'm not saying its better than the ones above, but i'm rating it for what it is as a creepy horror movie)

 

American Sniper 4 / 5

 

Whiplash 5 / 5

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Birdman 1 / 5

 

 

 

on that i agree. i don't understand people here who post they liked it.

as one review summed it up.   this movie has high critics ratings, because it is a movie about hollywood, made for hollywood people.

i tired to watch it twice with friends (different ones)  and both times we decided to switch it off, and watch something else after half way.

shame because i like the actor and acting.  but WTF... the story... nothing i wanna see.

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on that i agree. i don't understand people here who post they liked it.

as one review summed it up.   this movie has high critics ratings, because it is a movie about hollywood, made for hollywood people.

i tired to watch it twice with friends (different ones)  and both times we decided to switch it off, and watch something else after half way.

shame because i like the actor and acting.  but WTF... the story... nothing i wanna see.

I loved Birdman as I love cinema. Full disclosure, I am a movie snob. I admit it. I actually applied to NYU Film School and got accepted but I could not afford it. I applied in 1992 before digital cameras and it was the lab fees of the camera and the film needed that I could not afford. IIRC correctly they were estimated to be an additional $16,000 a semester just for film and a camera, so I went to Art School instead. I share this all just to really make the point that I definitely watch movies differently than others do. I study them as I watch them, especially from a cinematographic standpoint. So you are right, Birdman is definitely made for Hollywood people about Hollywood people. 

 

With that said I hated the story. It was pretentious as could be. I also tend to think actors are by and large idiots who are full of themselves. And I thought they story did a great job of confirming this fact. This is why it was easy to hate, as pretentious people are not likeable. I totally get why people hate the film as I believe they should. It features people who the only people that would like them are people who are like them. They are no longer capable of stepping out of their self absorbed world that they have created for themselves to all exist and look at things objectively. So it is a very easy movie to dislike as the characters are ######.

 

So keeping all of this in mind, I loved Birdman entirely for how beautifully it is filmed. I know from talking to other people who are also movie snobs that a lot of people who say they love Birdman love it for the same reasons I do, for how technically sound it is. It will be shown in film school for at the very least what it achieves as far as editing and cinematography. If you do not watch movies to appreciate them from a technical perspective, which most people do not, I can no doubt see how it is a movie most people will hate.

Anyway on to the actual reason I came to this thread to begin with (I just decided to respond to this comment as I saw it) but I came to share tonight I watched one of the better Sci-Fi movies I have watched in a very long time tonight. That movie is entitled Coherence.

 

Not a single special effect. A cast of 8 people for the entire film. It all takes place in the same house.

 

Just an incredibly solid, albeit it beautifully crazy, premise about time, space, and reality. If you do not mind a movie that makes you think, I highly recommend it. I will even say the ending was ever so slightly suspect compared to the quality of the rest of the movie, but the overall premise was so damn intriguing it gets a pass, and I may very well come to the conclusion the ending was actually brilliant. It is that type of movie.

 

I cannot wait to watch it again actually just to catch what I missed the first time around.

 

I have to guess they had no idea how to market the movie so the trailer makes it seem more like a horror/thriller movie, which it is definitely not. So keep that in mind while watching it, but if anything I said above sounds even remotely interesting, I strongly recommend it.

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Anyway on to the actual reason I came to this thread to begin with (I just decided to respond to this comment as I saw it) but I came to share tonight I watched one of the better Sci-Fi movies I have watched in a very long time tonight. That movie is entitled Coherence.

 

 

The problem with Coherence is the story is hard to follow. And even if you can soft of follow it you can still interpret the ending in a multiple ways without being wrong. I'm not even sure some of the things were really there for a reason or if they were just goofs.

I'm not 100% sure if at the end when the girl return in the house if she doesn't wear a jacket on purpose because it's another version of her or if it's just a goof. The end can really be interpreted in many different ways.

 

It's hard to follow a story when you need to watch for the color of some glowing sticks and the nature of an item in a box. Specially if you are 38 and watch it at midmight like i did ;)

 

You almost need to watch the movie twice with a pad and a pen to be sure who is who cause at the end the groups are all mixed up and it's sort of important to know who belong to which group. Problem is i personally did not like it enough to enjoy the second ride. Acting is average imo. Editing could have been better.

 

Still a nice movie but imo it relies too much on little details that could be just goofs or there for a reson. I don't like in your face movies but relying on glowing sticks and other small details like the nature of an item in a box or a girl wearing a jacket or not or a ring is not really a good way to develop a story imo.

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I loved Birdman as I love cinema. Full disclosure, I am a movie snob. I admit it. I actually applied to NYU Film School and got accepted but I could not afford it. I applied in 1992 before digital cameras and it was the lab fees of the camera and the film needed that I could not afford. IIRC correctly they were estimated to be an additional $16,000 a semester just for film and a camera, so I went to Art School instead. I share this all just to really make the point that I definitely watch movies differently than others do. I study them as I watch them, especially from a cinematographic standpoint. So you are right, Birdman is definitely made for Hollywood people about Hollywood people.

 

I am similar in that I study scenes, the shooting, the editing, the style of acting, the lighting, the use of sound.  I don't consider myself a "Hollywood person" but I have an appreciation for all of the above, I understand their uses and the motivations behind them.  I think Birdman is a film for movie snobs in the way that Tarantino wanted Reservoir Dogs to be (Said with no malice, I enjoy Tarantino: "Look how well I can control a movie with little to no direct narrative, implied purely via characters and referential radio clips - aren't I a Hollywood luvvie").

 

As I say, I appreciated all the above, but I simply didn't enjoy it.  That said, is it made to be "enjoyed" or "appreciated"?  And in that question is where I felt it just tried just a little too hard.  It unabashedly wants to be on every film-students "Must watch" list - which is absolutely fine, there is (thankfully) a place for that in modern cinema among the Michael Bay movies and so on (which I argue there is also very much a place for in the industry).

However, it seemed to come with the promotion of a less cerebral movie, and had suggestions of being more mainstream than it actually was.  Had it pulled back just a little, this wouldn't have been such an issue - but with it's almost camp levels of cinematic aspirations, alongside almost mid-Blockbuster promotion it's hardly surprising that so many people simply saw through it, wrote it off and didn't enjoy it.  It wasn't FOR them, and yet there they were.

Or, was that also the point?

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