Dude Rates Movies
This is literally the western version of John Wick. Like, literally. The tiny bits of story you can find in John Wick. Literally. As a western. Therefore a wonderful movie.
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<spoiler>It looked to me that the movie didn’t realize the implications of the resolution. If each new try from Gyllenhall was happening in a new stand-alone parallel universe, then by trying again and again he just generated copies of the same bombing and added more and more victims across the multiverse. So if at the beginning of the movie there were 1000 people sad from having lost a family member, after 5 failed tries now there are 5000 people sad. The only procedure that minimize the loss is to succeed on the first try, or to stop.</spoiler>
Journalist (pointing at a big poster on the wall): “Who is this one?” Steve: “Alan Turing. Single handedly won World War II and for an encore invented the computer. He won’t be part of the campaign though.” Journalist: “Why?” Steve: “Because you just had to ask me who he was.”
When I was in college a guy in the class said that Steve Jobs was such an historical figure because he invented the computer. Since he was a Job fan I hope he went to watch this movie.
I was blown away by the CGI. This is beyond anything that had been done so far. The adaptation is quite good overall.
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I don't know why this movie received such negative reviews. It’s not outstanding but it’s a nice little thriller.
Jason Bourne it’s Jesus Christ!
I’ll spare you the movie with a simple Today I Learned: 999 is the police code for officer down. And the oscar for the most ridiculous casting goes to Kate Winslet’s role in this film.
Exactly like Monsters University: good but unremarkable because it relies on the originality of the previous episode.
No more no less than torture porn. It’s stylised enough so that it isn’t creepy, just utterly violent. I don’t know what to think of that. This is kind of films I rate 5 just in case. In case of what, I don’t know. But just in case.
Excellent discovery of The Exciters and their song Tell Him. Shake that ass, Goodman!
Keanu Reeves guns down everybody that is linked to the murder of his poor cute dog. Shut up and take my money.
It's about the only heavy-action franchise that hasn’t self-alienated itself and that still delivers solid entertainment with decent directing and even some artistic attempts, like the mixing of Turandot opera main theme (the opera that takes place during an action scene in the first act) into the soundtrack. Tom Cruise seems to have this thing under control.
In one scene of this movie, we can witness how John Carpenter low-budget creative special effects gives better results than modern computer-based ones.
As it happens, this has nothing to do with the cult Bad Lieutenant, if not for the theme of corrupt police. I like to think of Nicolas Cage as as crazy in real life as he is in this movie.
Harvey Keitel performance is off the chart. I’m not especially a fan of the direction the plot was taking, but the dark and captivating atmosphere of the movie will make me dig more into Abel Ferrara filmography.
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Disney definitely stepped up their animation movie game.
I could spend the rest of my life listening to Penelope Cruz speaking to me in Spanish.
What a fucking nightmare. Spending like 10 damn minutes waiting for them to cross that bridge with this horrible sound quality from the 70s.
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I never realized how the process of becoming homeless plays out before seeing this movie. Will Smith at his peak.
Silicon Valley’s TV series creator first movie about office workers that piss code and change date formats in endless source code to prepare for the 2K bug. This is delicious and still curiously relevant.
This movie could have been a 10 if its ambiguous ending wasn’t that underwhelming. I KILLED A LOT OF PEOPLE.
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First episode of the 30-years Before trilogy of Richard Linklater. The three films (Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Before Midnight), featuring Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, are about a couple of strangers who briefly meet 3 times in their life, 10 years apart, everytime proving to be a love escape. Linklater being Linklater, the 3 movies were actually shot 10 years apart each. I’m sold.
Let’s take a minute to praise Jake Gyllenhaal’s agent, who is, in those recent years, finding him roles that rocks! This Dan Gilroy director is also to be kept an eye on! So many exclamation marks!
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This is the perfect movie to watch when you’re sick in the middle of winter. At least it worked very well for me.
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I’m not gonna denied that this was original, but this was weird as fuck. Mud, the previous movie from Jeff Nichols, already flirted with the fantastic, or at least with a tale-like storytelling. This one goes full-in, and I find the result quite awkward.
Once you accept the fact that this is nowhere near the elegance of the Steven Spielberg ones, but just a dummy blockbuster, it can be quite enjoyable.
This is a poor reminiscence of The Exorcist but it still delivers a fair amount of chills.
Not only did this taught me about this massacre I didn’t know about, but it’s also a very poignant depiction of it. Dennis Villeneuve is such an excellent director.
Why is Sean Connery, from Scotland, playing a Russian officer? Why do the Russians even speak English. Alright I quibble. Actually, the first few dialogs of the movie are in Russian but then they switch to English on the word « Armageddon », which is the same in English and in Russian, and also a Michael Bay movie, although this has nothing to do with this trivia.
This is probably the saddest movie I’ve ever seen. One of the peculiar aspect of it is that it’s a drama about people turning against an innocent man, but there is no one you can truly blame for this behavior. It’s just a human relationships total clusterfuck with heart-wrenching consequences. It conveys such strong emotions. This is what I look for in cinema.
I like the western vibes around the theme of space exploration, but this is sooooo looooong.
Disaster or survival movies often come out as sort of TV movies to me. No exception here.
So this is my least favorite Dennis Villeneuve movie.
What is remarkable with this movie, apart from being an excellent drama in a first place, is how contemporary the camera work is. It’s unbelievable that this was shot in 1941.
Best movie from Denis Villeneuve in my opinion. Not as epic or ambitious than Blade Runner 2049 or stuff like that, but it is such a powerful and solid thriller.
The second Michael Bay’s escape from his Transformers franchise jail happens to be a pretty effective action flick. As expected there is zero subtlety in the treatment of an actual event, to the point where defending a military base against terrorists looks like defending it against zombies. Very cool.
This was so violent it repulsed me. Looks like the kind of fucked up story you can hear about on the news bulletin. Nightmarish, not entertaining.
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?????? 5 just in case
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One of the best recent horror movie. The concept is original, it goes directly against the traditional codes of the genre, and the director plays with our nerves by distilling such a frightening atmosphere even in normal scene.
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This is the worst Pixar movie, which means it’s an average animated movie. You couldn’t make the story any less dull in its themes and morale and some moments are particularly awkward. Apparently the production suffered big turmoil, with major story revisions, turn-over in the crew, and so on. It shows.
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I see that Wilson went for method acting. Too bad he got lost in the Pacific Ocean for real, we couldn’t give him the Oscar.
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The fundamental problem is that the implementation doesn’t bring any more details than the abstraction. You have characters in the brain that are supposed to be the « internals » of the high-level emotional result and it just turns out that those characters are… emotions. Well thanks but this is useless, I can see the emotions directly by looking at the girl’s face and reactions. The movie gets it when Joy gets lost out of the headquarters which therefore creates a depressive state in Riley. Here we have a non-trivial low-level mechanism that creates a high-level emotion. I also just moderately liked the sort of catalog of the different brain places (memories, abstraction, etc). It’s like we’re on an educative attraction for kids about psychology in Disneyland.
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Tom Hanks, Aaron Eckhart, Laura Linney
Sunday 22 January 2017
permalinkThe movie is good. It’s just sad it’s entirely based on false drama. In real life the pilot had the support of the aviation and the investigation was a formality.