What was the last movie you watched? (2013 Edition)

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6.8/10. Javier Bardem saved the movie; Fassbender did his part well; Brad Pitt was useless; Cruz & Diaz should retire - both are getting old, ugly, bored and boring; and finally Ridley Scott - WTH?

 

If you're mad at Ridley Scott now, please don't look up the alternative Prometheus screenplay. :cry:

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Ender's Game

 

Another disappointment.

 

Poor casting, unlikable characters, weak story.

 

They should really stop casting based on who they think will draw a big audience.

 

Doesn't seem faithful to the book.

 

The implied teenage romance was distracting.

 

Ender did not discover or do anything 'brilliant'.

 

I've seen better battles, [more enjoyable] on Star Trek TV shows.

 

Harrison Ford & company acted like they just knew it all, but couldn't win a battle by themselves.

 

We don't learn anything about the supposed Enemy, or why they are attacking, or must be destroyed.

 

Another movie that relies solely on razzle-dazzle special F/X, and nothing more.

 

1/5

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Machete Kills.

 

Definitely worth a viewing if you liked the first one.

 

Mel Gibson was really good as the bad guy. Carlos Estevez was great too, he's going places!

 

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Also watched this, loved it so much im rating it out of 10 instead of 5. 8/10

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I watched Thor: The Dark World. Since I consider Thor to be the weakest of the Marvel "stage 1" movies, this sequel surprised me a lot. Very nice improvements, no doubt gleaned from The Avengers and Man of Steel.

 

Don't forget to watch the after credits scenes, they're worth it (unlike Iron Man 3...). I was the only one to watch it, everyone else walked out... maybe it was their first Marvel movie?

 

Also: needs more Jaimie Alexander ( :wub: )

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I went to the cinema to see "The Counselor" expecting to watch a crime almost as entertaining as the old school Scorcece. It ended up being a fantastic and sublime (using the word in its Kantian definition: Any phenomena that surpasses our imagination and make us watch in anguish) meditation about the process of dehumanization that drug trafficking detonates. Fantastic dialogues, which although unlikely because we will never find lawyers and killers as poetic as the ones depicted on this movie (Cormac McCarthy, after all, is a great writer) summarize and propose precise reflections on how little we really understand about the violence and brutality of drug trafficking.

 

Adding that the violence displayed in the film is unbelievably cruel considering that this is a AAA movie ( big budget, great director, big-name casting, famous writer, etc), this become the most pleasant surprise I've watched this year.

 

I do not recommend it as a film that intents to be realistic. Scott never wanted to do that. The intention of this film is to be a poetic articulation of the distance between humanity and inhumanity and the process that transforms one into the other.

 

10/10 The movie of the year for me.

 

I don't care the critics are destroying it. This is one of those moves that will make me seem like a hipster (Maybe I am one): People are simply not getting it.

 

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BTW, my review for The Counselor made it to the top 10 user reviews for the movie on imdb. A trivial small feat, but I like that it's being taken seriously. This move deserves a better look by the prude minds of Hollywood.

 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2193215/reviews-154

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Seven Psychopaths (2012)

 

3.5/5

 

Nice and enjoyable movie. Probably the closest in style to a Guy Ritchie movie since he started working on Sherlock Holmes. Still not quite there yet. Colin Farrell was the weakest link in the movie. The movie deserve a prize for the best scene of 2012 when Billy (Sam Rockwell) starts eating chips out of nowhere while talking psychopath **** to his supposed girlfriend Angela (Olga Kurylenko :wub:).

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BTW, my review for The Counselor made it to the top 10 user reviews for the movie on imdb. A trivial small feat, but I like that it's being taken seriously. This move deserves a better look by the prude minds of Hollywood.

 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2193215/reviews-154

 

I watched The Councelor today. The feeling I had when it was over reminded me of when I watched Drive for the first time in the teather, completely by myself. That I had just witnessed something special, that filled me with a sense of wonder, joy, and pure amazement. Probably the most well written movie of all of 2013. Amazing. Still, people leaving the teather were quite displeased with it, and vocal about it too. :/  Probably won't get a Blu-ray edition in my country, but I'm sure I'll manage.

 

I'd also buy it in book form in a heartbeat.

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I watched The Councelor today. The feeling I had when it was over reminded me of when I watched Drive for the first time in the teather, completely by myself. That I had just witnessed something special, that filled me with a sense of wonder, joy, and pure amazement. Probably the most well written movie of all of 2013. Amazing. Still, people leaving the teather were quite displeased with it, and vocal about it too. :/  Probably won't get a Blu-ray edition in my country, but I'm sure I'll manage.

 

I'd also buy it in book form in a heartbeat.

 

It's one of those movies that angers people because it manages to reveal the audience's paradigms about a subject as trivial and shallow.

 

The movie and it's script will gain cult status with time.

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