Good review, crux. Well done.

Hitman: Agent 47 (2015)

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>>: C+

Thanks ::smile::

Hail, Caesar! (2016)
Well made, decent cast, solid acting but there's little going on and it's not even interesting.

High-Rise (2015)
Turned it off about 15-20 minutes before the end. Already fastforward some bits but I couldn't be bothered anymore. The plot was too much of a mess.
Too bad, had potential if it was more straight forward and shorter.

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Transformers Age of Extinction

"The Boss" 7/10

Worse than Spy and better than Tammy, but that doesn't say much. Tammy was awful.

High Rise, 2015. 7.5/10


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The Grudge, American version

The Exorcism of Molly Hartley-2015. Total waste of time.


Dr. Giggles-1992. I forgot all about this movie, glad I found it again. Childhood memories. ::love:: Ridiculous 90's fun. I've heard there's an uncut version someplace???? IDK. I'd like to see it if so.

Krampus (2015) - 8/10

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The Descent 8/10

The Boy 2016

Astro Boy 2009

Dope-2015. 7/10.

Tarrentino's Hateful Eight.....High marks fer this flick by me.
Really liked the part where they were throwin' up blood! ::big grin::

Yeah it was surprisingly graphic. I saw it in 60mm on the Traveling Roadshow, which was pretty fun.

Krampus

A-

Hoarder

C

Jane Got a Gun

A

Flight 7500

D

Backtrack

B

Sacrifice, 2016. 5/10




Very unexciting film but nice to see the scenery of Scotland and hear their accents.. ::love::

Yah. When it comes to accents from the UK i'm a total Scott/Welsh/Irish/Anglophile.

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Average film. The scenes shot outside of the house are lovely. The acting was acceptable, but not special. Something that almost made me stop the film was the choice of characters. The situation they're thrust into, awaking on a beach and finding a house their only refuge, does not lend itself to their reactions. For example, one woman is the 'stuck up bitch' archetype. She'd just woken up on a beach, no idea how she arrived there. One moment in a dance venue, next on the beach and yet she's a relaxed snarky. Not scared/traumatized defensive. Also 3 of the 5 characters were pristine while two come out soaked.
Its a typical find out why we're here when we have no idea why film. Putting clues together and so forth. I do not want to say, so as not to ruin the film more except that the ending was actually a nice surprise.

5/10

Megamind
Wrong Turn 4

Seen The Acid House?
Also check out Kevin Bridges and Frankie Boyle.

Then you should really check out Shameless UK.
Lots of lovely accents and colourful characters.

New Nightmare (1994)

I've heard this called the best Nightmare on Elm Street sequel and some have even called it better than the original Nightmare film. I can't say it's any of those things, but New Nightmare is one of the better movie in one of my favorite horror movie franchises and a refreshing entry after the abysmal Freddy's Dead. New Nightmare departs from Springwood, Ohio and instead takes place in the "real" world. Heather Langenkamp, the actress who played Nancy in the original film, is now a married mother, and she is contacted by Wes Craven to be in the definitive final Nightmare on Elm Street film. However, Heather has been having increasingly terrifying nightmares and phone calls that sound suspiciously like the films' iconic villain, Freddy Krueger. Her son's disturbing behavior also leads her to believe that the script that Wes is writing may not be just another movie. Arguably the best part about New Nightmare is all the nods and winks to the original film sprinkled in there. The phone gag from the first one is in there (which I admit still scared the crap out of me), and a majority of the deaths are reminiscent of other deaths in the series, particularly Tina's infamous death from the first movie and the motorcycle kill from The Dream Child. Wes Craven and Robert Englund also make cameo appearances in the film, although their subplots just sort of fizzle out towards the end. I also wasn't a big fan of Freddy trying to get a hold of Heather's son. The "creepy kid" scenes didn't really unsettle me and instead came off as hammy. But Wes obviously had a lot of fun with New Nightmare and ended the series with a clever take on the slasher film that would be replicated in the future with flops like Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2. Personally, the criminally underrated The Dream Master will always be my favorite Nightmare sequel, but New Nightmare is a fun and sporadically scary slasher flick.

7/10

The Sand (2015)

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>>: C+


10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)

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>>: B+


All Cheerleaders Die (2013)

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>>: C

Captain America - Civil War

Yknow, I think I enjoyed this a touch better than the other "VS" film this year...
Wasn't bad. They did a fairly good job compressing the events of the civil war storyline into one feature film, while tying it into the existing movie continuity.
I'm assuming the events in this movie are very much "to be continued" though, perhaps another film under the civil war banner?

Anyways, for me this was probably Marvels best since Winter Soldier which I currently rank pretty highly.
It felt like the most "full circle" of the MCU stuff to date.
The surprise character that I'm sure everyone is aware of by now, did feel a touch "forced" into the storyline, but hey, it is what it is - he was for the better part enjoyable to watch and probably captured the persona better than any other attempts have managed - and the fighting style. Great.

It was a solid movie though. More Avengers 2.5 than as standalone a Cap film as winter soldier...but all in all, very well tied together, and the depth of character interactions and relationships grew.
It was jarring at times, actually pretty emotional at others.

The action sequences were without peer.
The hero on hero stuff wasn't bad.
The villain/s might not be what you'd expect either, but not in a bad way.

I feel like they did a great job here.

Special Correspondents (2016)
So very meh.

Sheep Skin, 2013. 6/10

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Manuer, 2014. 7/10


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Sunshine (2007)
Meh.
Sci-fi drama. Not my cup of tea. And I expected something else because I got some wrong info on this one.

The Bay (2012)
B/C
Decent found footage/fake docu.
Angra, if you haven't seen this one, the shaky cam bits are quite limited.

Didn't like it.

"The Witch" 6-7/10

The acting was the highlight of the movie. Especially the boy was damn good. If he wants to continue acting he might have a bright future ahead of him.

Then there's the rest of the movie. Well, considering it was made on a budget of 3,5 million dollars, the director and cinematographer managed to make it look far more expensive.
Sadly, the most disappointing about The Witch was the story that was slow and not very deep, and really just underwhelming throughout.

But the acting was good.

Finally broke down and watched Let Me In, the Americanized version of the wonderful swedish film. Let The Right One In.

It has none of the original's subtlety and, of course, this flaw turns the characters into cookie cutter poop.

The Witch (2015)
Overrated. It all looked good and the acting's good but that's it.
It reminds me of the Babadook and It Follows.
Seems to me that for a horror movie to get some praise it's needs to look artsy on a limited budget and the story has to be vague.

The Hospital 2, 2015. 7/10

Ghost of Mars - Now I Get it Review!

I've been watching / listening to this movie on demand and now I finally get it. This was my old review of it.

But now I realize what this movie is and how it works. It's like a Night of the Living Dead type with a sci-fi comic book movie twist. If I saw this movie back when I saw Night of the Living Dead 1990, I would probably like it even more. Back when I originally watched Ghost of Mars, I don't think I realized how cool the actress that played Jackie Brown is. She was in a bunch of old action movies. So her as the leader of this group of space cops is supposed to be another cool role for her. Jason Statham is the wise cracking cop like the Hudson character in Aliens. Of course this is before The Transporter but here you can see how cool the guy will be. And Natasha Henstridge is almost like the MacReady character from The Thing. She doesn't want to be bothered but takes up the lead when trouble hits. I think most know Natasha Henstridge from Species. I never liked those movies that much. I thought the Species Alien design was a rip off of Alien. I didn't know that they were by the same designer. But this is probably the best movie I've seen Natasha Henstridge in. Ice Cube is the bad ass prisoner, like Snake Plissken in from Escape from New York. Once things go crazy, they need him to get out of there.

I still don't think Ghosts of Mars is as fun as Doomsday. But Doomsday took so much from Carpenter and other movies of that time. Ghosts of Mars is just a few twists on the formula. At the end, I think we are supposed to want to see a continuation in comic book or other format. Like how Ice Cube's Desolation Williams character (I love that name) smiles at the screen. This is supposed to be a fun time at the movies. And unlike zombies getting inside a house, which is scary, this is supposed to be both fun and scary. A good movie to watch in the middle of the night.

10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)
Has a couple of moments but overal it's a feckin' rip-off.
And the Cloverfield link supposed to explain the creature from the original but it's doesn't make a lot of sense imo.
I really wish I didn't see this movie.

Note: what idiot came up with the full-on spoiler poster?

Triple 9 (2016)

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>>: B-

Spooks: The Greater Good aka MI-5 (2015)

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>>: B-

Ditto!

**MINOR SPOILERS WARNING**

I understand your frustration. The thing is (according to wikipedia) the original title of it was The Cellar; then it seems they thought the idea can serve as a cashing in opportunity following the success of original CLOVERFIELD (2008) and labeled or calling it as a "Spiritual Sequel"(a successor to a work of fiction that does not build upon the storyline established by a previous work as do most traditional prequels or sequels, yet features some or many of the same elements, themes, and styles as its source material, thereby resulting in it being related or similar "in spirit" to its predecessor).
Therefore, other than having an alien invasion sort of apocalyptic scenario & the name 'Cloverfield' in its title, there weren't much similarities actually lies between the two films but still there is a little chance that may be a future sequel can give the answer(s) and bring some ties between these films.

But yeah...it'd be better to be a standalone film other than releasing it sort of a loose sequel of a popular flick. I enjoyed it. Liked the character driven, bit psychologically twisted story.

Do you like anything??

I probably would've like it more if it was a standalone film.
The forced Cloverfield link was just wrong. And the ending ruined everything.
And, spoiler in white, "The aliens and how she destroys a big ship with a molotov..."

You're younger and less critical. Wait 15-20 years and you won't be giving 9s and 10s that easily.
Btw, I have about 200 movies on dvd and over 1000 on my hard drive.
Maybe not much compared to others but I think it shows I like movies.

I don't doubt that you've seen more movies than me, but I just don't understand how you dislike so many movies that people much older than me have enjoyed.

I'd also like to point out that I own about the same number of movies as you. You also seemed to love Deadpool while I just thought of it as enjoyable, yet Deadpool was more aimed at people my age.

I don't always understand either but you can't choose what you like/dislike.
One man's trash is another man's treasure...

Don't know about the target audience for Deadpool.
I'd like to think it's aimed at adults too. People who are fed up with the watered down bloodless action, non-swearing adults and stupid decisions. Spoiler "Like letting the bad guy live. I was so happy Deadpool killed the bad guy. And I laughed out loud when Colossus puked." That's a logical decision followed by a natural, realistic reaction.
I appreciate stuff like that. But I'm wired a little differently so I pay attention to or care about certain things others might find trivial.