What movie did you last watch?

[presto123]

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Captain Phillips(2013) Secret Life Of Walter Mitty(2013)


I was a little disappointed by Captain Phillips. It's a good film, but I don't think it's a great film like it has been hyped up to be. I know it's based on a true story, but it almost feels like an American propaganda film to me. Considering the exciting storyline, I found the film to be slow and prodding at times. Don't get me wrong, I liked the film, but it is not up there among the best I've seen all year.


The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty is in the same category for me. I thought I would like it a little better than I actually did. Considering all the places and things they could have done with this movie with Mitty's daydreaming, I found it a little slow and short of the mark. Like Captain Phillips, it's a movie I like but not love. I'll forgive Captain Phillips for it's shortcomings as it's based on a true story. Walter Mitty, not so much.

[spreedom]

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Going for the McConaughey double feature tonight: Mud, followed by Dallas Buyers Club.

[Flibertygibits]

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Not sure if documentaries count, but I watched the 30 For 30 on Bo Jackson and that was beyond words amazing. I was a little kid when he was coming up and barely getting into baseball when he was in the majors. If they would have shown the Royals on TV when I was little he would have been the guy I would have modeled baseball after.

On a different note, he was the living day Greek Mythology kind of person. He's the only person to play in a baseball All-Star game and to be voted into a Pro-Bowl. I just wish i could have appreciated him in his playing career...amazing athlete.

[Steagles]

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This is my review of the movie "Her"




When I decided to go see the movie "Her", I went based on one reason,
and one reason alone: Joaquin Phoenix, my favorite actor, was in it. Because I have seen all of his movies, I needed to see this one. I never thought I would like it, in fact I assumed it would be one of my least favorite of his movies.

I read the reviews online, and it was very highly rated among critics and online reviewers alike, so that made me slightly more optimistic for a promising picture.

Here is some background into the movie before I start the review itself.

The movie is set in Los Angeles in a semi-futuristic society. I would guess it to be about 2018 or 2020. It's in the future, but not that far into the future. Theodore Twombly (Joaquin Phoenix) is a writer for an online service where one can hire someone to write loving letters to their life partner. Anyway, he has a best friend named Amy (Amy Adams) and they seem to have been friends for a long time. She's married to this other guy, and Theodore is going through a divorce. He has trouble letting go. About this time, he gets this new operating system. Samantha the OS (Scarlett Johansson's voice) quickly becomes his friend and convinces him to let go, and he does. Meanwhile, Amy goes through a split of her own, and befriends the unnamed OS left by her husband when he moved out.

Now, on to the review.

The first thing that I feel I should mention is that not once did it lose my attention. What Spike Jonze did with this picture as the writer and director was he made the picture completely immersive. You become keenly aware of the world of Theodore Twombly. Every time he feels an emotion, you feel the same emotion for him. That is not only a testament to the production of the movie, but to Joaquin Phoenix as an actor. The characters are very genuine and the way they are developed is phenomenal. I'll touch more on this later.

The plot of the movie is absolutely genius. This is because it is not the plot you would expect walking into the theater. I expected, just as everyone on social media, that it would be about this weirdo guy falling in love with a computer. However, it was much more than that. The relationship between Theodore and Samantha was a bit of a sci-fi twist in a movie that to my surprise, was not hardly at all sci-fi. Is it weird? Yes. Just a bit. But because the plot is much more developed than the theme of the movie suggests, it works very well. What I like most about the plot is that it is not about Theodore loving his computer/phone OS. In fact, that is used almost solely as a way to develop the friendship of Theodore and Amy.

This I think was what I loved most about the movie. The plot of the movie was in direct relation to the development of the relationship between the characters Theodore and Amy. Nothing progressed to slowly and nothing felt rushed, either. Even though the OS's played a vital role in the movie, it was still based around Amy and Theodore.

As far as the actors go, Joaquin Phoenix was brilliant. This was another stellar performance for him. Amy Adams and Scarlett Johansson were both great as well, but they did not blow me away.

All in all, I was very pleased with the movie "Her". It was a touching insight into the human emotion, and it was done with a little bit of sci-fi, a little bit of romantic comedy, and a little bit of drama all rolled into one package. I give this movie a 9/10 and would highly recommend it to those mature enough to handle the many adult themes and scenes that are portrayed in the picture. They say don't judge a book by it's cover, and definitely don't be quick to write this movie off. It is a fantastic production and I would highly recommend it.



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[ilive4sports]

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American Hustle

Fantastic movie. Really enjoyed it.

[Unclebuck]

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American Hustle is really really good. Amy Adams IMO is the best female performance I have seen in a movie all year.

All the acting was superb. Just an outstanding movie.

[Sparhawk]

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American a Hustle is really really good. Amy Adams IMO us the best female performance I gave seen in a movie all year.

All the the acting was superb. Just an outstanding movie

This must be the generation of the female actresses. Just so many really really actresses like Amy Adams (holy crap, she's not as young as I thought), Jennifer Lawrence, & Chloë Grace Moretz, Kristen Wiig, Emilia Clarke, etc.

[presto123]

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That's why movies are subjective. I guess we'll agree to disagree on 12 Years A Slave. I know a lot of people agree with me as 12 Years is sitting at 8.6 on IMDB. Highest rating I've seen from this year's films.

12 Years A Slave wins Golden Globe for best picture.

[presto123]

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Wolf Of Wall Street(2013)

Very much over-rated IMO and not near the best films I've seen this year. It is a very stylistic film with a certain flow and good performances, but the story is lacking and everything is too over the top which makes for an "attention whore" of a movie.

We get it. Hunger for big money can lead to bad morals and excess in everything. The characters are not likable and pretty pathetic actually. I think that Scorsese was going for that, but like the characters in his movie, the actual movie took everything too far as well as repeated the behaviors way too often to make up for lack of script. It has it's moments, but I was still a little let down.

[Bball]

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I saw Gravity and I liked it. I think the 'birth' and 'rebirth' metaphors were a little overdone, or not really necessary at all for that matter.... Or maybe didn't achieve what was intended because they never really worked things up beforehand to setup that type of depth of thought to begin with. But overall I found the movie entertaining. They didn't distract from the movie either even if they didn't really IMO give it more gravitas. Hmmm pardon that pun!!

[Sparhawk]

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I saw Gravity and I liked it. I think the 'birth' and 'rebirth' metaphors were a little overdone, or not really necessary at all for that matter.... Or maybe didn't achieve what was intended because they never really worked things up beforehand to setup that type of depth of thought to begin with. But overall I found the movie entertaining. They didn't distract from the movie either even if they didn't really IMO give it more gravitas. Hmmm pardon that pun!!

Wife loved the movie and I hated it. The birth and rebirth metaphore was just so *****ing dumb.

[presto123]

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O Brother, Where Art Thou(2000)

Every time I watch this movie, I always forget just how good it is. I never thought George Clooney would work in a piece like this, but he is perfect. The storyline, the settings, the soundtrack, the subtle and many times not so subtle humor, just perfect. I cannot recommend this movie enough. It's a movie I can watch over and over and I can't say that about too many movies.

[AesopRockOn]

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All in all, I was very pleased with the movie "Her". It was a touching insight into the human emotion, and it was done with a little bit of sci-fi, a little bit of romantic comedy, and a little bit of drama all rolled into one package. I give this movie a 9/10 and would highly recommend it to those mature enough to handle the many adult themes and scenes that are portrayed in the picture. They say don't judge a book by it's cover, and definitely don't be quick to write this movie off. It is a fantastic production and I would highly recommend it.

Good review, Steagles. I agree with pretty much all of it, though I would say that this is by far and away Scar-Jo's best role and performance. So refreshing after Don Jon. You're right on Joaquin; dude was basically going from set to set talking to no one for most of the movie. You feel a rush of relief when he gets yelled at by Rooney Mara. The sci-fi in this movie is such an interesting contrast to the sci-fi in Gravity. Her is so cerebral while Gravity is so viceral. Gravity is almost impossible to misinterpret, while Her is one of the more misinterpretted movies in recent memory. (Anyone who thinks this movie has a full-on message is a little too uncomfortable with the idea of a nuanced world without big, all-encompassing statements.)

The main thing that attracts me to a movie, book, album, etc is whether it seems like it's coming from a unique and interesting place. And you know that Jonze's mind is a unique place. He's done Jackass, a uniquely-envisoned children's story (WTWTA), and adapted two Charlie Kaufman scripts successfully (which IMO no one else has done for a whole movie). Like Steagles said, Her maintains elements of many different genres, but still feels like its own thing; the Alan Watts reference is so weird, but fits perfectly into this movie. With Her, Jonze joins Paul Thomas Anderson (and that's pretty much it) in the group of filmmakers who create movie universes that are timeless, genre-less, and ambiguously beautiful. Extremely highly recommended, although it may be inappropriate to show some parents because of the phone sex (meow).

[Unclebuck]

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Oscar nominations. Looking at the list of best picture noms and the best director. I think it is between 12 years a Slave and American Hustle. Although would not be completely shocked if Gravity won.

Surprised Tom Hanks was not nominated. Not because he is Tom Hanks, but because I thought he was fantastic in that movie and the scenes towards the very end was some of the best acting I have ever seen by him.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2014/01/16/2014-oscar-nominations-announced/4476513/

[Suaveness]

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Tom Hanks should have been nominated, though it's hard to not say the ones who did get nominated didn't deserve it. That said, I think Ejiofor or Leo are going to win anyway