The last movie you saw

[Whiskey 7]

I can offer my slant on answers Foo, others welcome

Spoilers (maybe)

The drill thing. He uses his small craft to take it out... why didn't the vulcans raise a finger against it if that's all it would have taken?

I imagine they would have when the craft first appeared, but all their forces were taken out in a few minutes, doesn't explain the request to Star Fleet (mentioned seismic disturbances and not invasion)

Chekov can beam 2 guys in freefall but can't beam someone when they fall off a ledge?

Well, the singularity was forming in close proximity making the teleporter lock on difficult.

Also if they've come back from the future with this red matter stuff, why not just go back to the star which is about to go supernova, and use the red matter to avert disaster?

Er, (old) Spock came back too early (evident by a much younger Spock) and was captured. The supernova is some years in the future (from the movie date). Yes, Nero should have thought, shit I'll hang around and prevent the same catastrophe happening. I'll grab the red stuff off Spock (which he did)... Even thought he saw his planet destroyed he traveled back and could have saved his own planet instead of going on his vengeful quest.

The film had that usual jj abrams polish and 'big' feel to it, but the plot wasn't really thought through that well so it ended up being all pretty effects and not much to chew on.

I disagree. The timeline was preserved and plot OK IMO..... but do remember it is still science fiction

[Mat Linnett]

Watched Taken on Friday and was well impressed. Why can't they make a Punisher film of this quality?

Watched The Fall last night, which was incredibly pretty. Directed by the same guy who directed The Cell, it had his signature visuals all over it.
Quite a touching story too, but overall the film's maybe a little too arty for its own good. Still enjoyed it though.

[Pauly]

I like Pegg but thought he was pretty shit in Star Trek. Embarassingly so.

[R00k]

I agree. I thoroughly enjoyed Star Trek, but Simon Pegg's part in the movie was nearly ridiculous. He just happened to turn up and had the solution to every problem they were facing in the entire story, but his character (along with his Jar-Jar-esque sidekick) was nothing but comic relief. Bad comic relief at that.

So is he supposed to be a genius or an idiot? I never watched much of the television series, but I didn't remember Scotty being like that.

[menkent]

minus the pet ewok, that's pretty much how i remember scotty from the old movies.

[axbaby]

other then the ewok , Uhuru's love life and the stupid Xbox tatooed nosed villain "anyone else notice the blatant advertisment for Xbox" i really loved the movie and i'm glad the franchise is back.

long live Star Trek and many sequels to come.

[menkent]

and long live gratuitous nokia placements!

[Don Carlos]

Taken - 7/10

Mindless fun, though Liam Nesson needed to anger up a little considering what was happening. I did like the light switch bit and I like the fact he showed no mercy at all.

I would also like to rescore Wolverine:

Wolverine 6/10 - I wrote a little bit at a website and I realised I was not as impressed as I first thought

DC at another website:
Id say that Wolverine was everything I expected. If you were expecting a Dark Knight style film then you need a word with yourself. Look at the director and look at what he has worked on; nothing is remotely dark and moody. I would expect that if you gave Wolverine to someone like Alfonso Cuarón then you may have gotten the film you wanted.

This is not to say I am not slightly disappointed with the film. I do feel that the entire section around the inserting of the adamantium into Logan could have had a lot more grit in it as it does come across as slightly wishy-washy. Also the creation of X11 (Deadpool) could have been far more gruesome and commanded a lot more screen time than was given. It was kind of like they sat down and thought Oh we created a super mutant – lets see of he can break the unbreakable man that we know is unable to be killed a little pointless really.

Jackman has played the part of Wolverine well once again, although he does lack some of the brooding and moodiness that he generated in the first film. Even so, hats off to him for training like a beast (ha!) and getting it right for the most part. The inclusion of Gambit is the part of the film I have the most issues with. Gambit, being one of my favourite X-men characters was done an absolute dis-service. Why would you bring Gambit into the Wolverine story when he has had no part in any of the X-men films? Gambit was a member of the blue team of X-men headed by Cyclopes…you can see where that has gone, yes?

Never mind – perhaps the writers of the next film can do a little more research or hire some super nerds to ensure that the script is correct and they dont mess anything else up.

All in all though, as a mindless action film it did the job.

DC

[xer0s]

Star Trek 9/10

Awesome.

[Hannibal]

Taken: 7/10 Liam Neeson owns as a tough guy. The beginning dialoguey shit with Famke and his buddies felt retarded and poorly written/directed. Once the ball starts rollin with the kidnapping, it's a fun ride to the finish. I dig revenge flicks as a rule and this one was pretty good.

[Tormentius]

Star Trek 9/10

I couldn't have been more surprised or impressed with how the writers and cast were able to breathe new life and hope into the Star Trek series. Great flick and well worth seeing more than once in the theatres. I'm already looking forward to the next one.

[GONNAFISTYA]

Star Trek = 8/10 - Good to see anamorphic lenses being utilized so nicely. The action, dialogue, visual effects and cinematography were all top notch but it still had that cheesy "Star Trek" vibe to it in too many scenes. Carl Urban did a good job as Bones. It's quite clear you don't have to be a Trekkie to enjoy this one.

Knowing = 7/10 - Entertaining movie as far as disaster movies go. One of the better ones of the genre from the past few years (fuck you fans of The Core and The Day After Tomorrow)

The continuous-shot plane crash scene is worth it all by itself.

[GONNAFISTYA]

Taken: 7/10 Liam Neeson owns as a tough guy. The beginning dialoguey shit with Famke and his buddies felt retarded and poorly written/directed. Once the ball starts rollin with the kidnapping, it's a fun ride to the finish. I dig revenge flicks as a rule and this one was pretty good.

I agree 100% with this review but I'd score it an 8/10 because it just wouldn't let up and continued it's hold on your testicles all the way through....the intensity and urgency surpassed the Jason Bourne series.

[seremtan]

star trek - 8/10 - pretty damn good, with lots of in-jokes for anyone who's remotely familiar with the old trek stuff (i.e. "nuclear wessels", etc). fell short of a 9/10 on account of a) the silly time travel/alternate reality thing, b) the 'red matter' (wtflol) and c) when stars go supernova they don't threaten to destroy the entire galaxy (iirc supernovae are observed on average once every 4-5 years and the worst that happens is a cosmic ray shower. however zachary quinto was good, and karl urban etc

[+JuggerNaut+]

Tekkon Kinkreet - 8/10

[feedback]

Gran Torino
Awesome/10

[axbaby]

Slumdog Millonaire .. great music , great story , just a joy to watch .. i cried at the end because i got dust in my eye.
9/10

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button .. mixed feelings on this one .. i'm glad i watched it, everyone should but i was expecting a movie that the ages will remember like Forrest Gump.
6/10

I watched Star Trek again .. that's how good it is.
8/10

[Grudge]

The Day the Earth Stood Still - 5/10

meh

[o'dium]

Starship Troopers 3 - I want my hour 45 back ffs...

[Grudge]

Angels & Demons - 6/10

They changed quite a lot of details from the book, but that actually turned out to the better in the end. Simple entertainment, nothing else.

[4days]

crank 2 - high voltage 9/10

90 minutes of awesome.

lengthy review from http://www.flickfilosopher.com/blog/200 ... eview.html

Oh, I know we’re not supposed to intellectualize a movie like this one, because it’s all just baddest-of-badasses Jason Statham running around Los Angeles giving himself electric shocks every five minutes just to stay alive (see, cuz his heart has been involuntarily donated to-- well, I’ll get to that) and man! it’s just so cool that he is one crazy-ass motherfucker! shit! But I can’t help it: there’s reasons why I can laugh spontaneously at the mayhem and the murder and the sweeping just-plain-wrongness here when most other iterations of similar stuff leaves me cold. And I think I owe it you, dear reader, and to anyone who relies on me for moviegoing advice, to explain.

Mostly, it’s because the writing-and-directing team of Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor are crazy-ass paradigm-busting convention-ignoring badass cinematic motherfuckers. Shit! They ain’t having fun with vulgarity or violence: vulgarity and violence are merely their medium. They are having fun with movies, and with what we think movies can do or are supposed to do.

Look: When we left Statham’s (Death Race, The Bank Job) Chev Chelios at the close of Crank, he was falling out of a helicopter. He was falling out a helicopter. And High Voltage picks up right there. Chev Chelios is still falling out of that helicopter. And Neveldine and Taylor do not cheat by having Chelios wake up out of dream -- ha ha! he wasn’t actually falling out of a helicopter at all! -- or by letting the whole rest of the movie unfurl as a flashback that happens just before Chev hits the ground. No: Chev Chelios hits the ground. And then he is, um, collected off the street in a manner that would more befit something the Road Runner might do to collect a flattened Wile E. Coyote off the pavement. Holy Chuck Jones, but I laughed at that: They used a what? No!

This is when, of course, that Chev Chelios is elevated to a sort of cinematic godhood, becomes the apotheosis of the indestructible action hero: when he does not die after plunging to the earth from a helicopter high above Los Angeles. Neveldine and Taylor have given themselves the freedom to do whatever they fucking want to Chelios after that, and it’s cool, and we can’t complain about it. And that’s okay too, because Neveldine and Taylor explicitly call bullshit on themselves before going any further, which then allows them to actively dispense with plausibility and make a virtue of outrageous coincidence. Which they do, again and again, up to the point and then beyond the point at which you can’t believe they thought they could keep getting away with it.

The constant escalation to their inventive insanity is so breathtaking, it’s like a slap in the face to the tired hacks who make the glossy hidebound junk that passes for an action movie these days. Amping up the explosions and crashing a wider variety of vehicles into one another does not constitute “taking the action movie to a new level.” Fucking pulling your hero’s heart of his chest and forcing him to chase after it does.

And I haven’t even mentioned how Neveldine and Taylor made their magnificently godforsaken little sequel on the cheap with camcorders they bought at Best Buy. Take that, Michael Bay.

Right: so Chev wakes up after the helicopter plunge to discover that his heart is being stolen to be transplanted into the 100-year-old Chinese mobster who’s impressed that Chev survived that cocktail of poisons he’d been injected with in the first movie. And by “wakes up to discover,” I mean, of course, that Chelios awakens during the course of this demented surgery to see his own ticker being lifted out of his chest, and a battery-powered artificial heart being dropped in. (Why not let Chelios die? Oh, you’ll see.) But this is hardly a thing for a man who survived falling out of a helicopter, and it’s barely the beginning of the crazy shit that Neveldine and Taylor will put him through.

There’s an ugly-beautiful inevitability to Crank: High Voltage, as if this is where The Movies had to go, as soon as someone had the balls to take them there. Thank Chuck Jones for Neveldine and Taylor. I can’t even begin to imagine what they’ve got in mind for Crank 3.

[Whiskey 7]

Angels & Demons - 6/10

They changed quite a lot of details from the book, but that actually turned out to the better in the end. Simple entertainment, nothing else.

Got to agree there Grudge

Saw it this afternoon. Simple entertainment, nothing else

I'd give perhaps a 7/10 but only 'cause of Tom and a couple of other minor actors performances.

[Foo]

Crank 2

lol out of lol.

Complete shit, but fun if you can get over it.

[GONNAFISTYA]

Terminator Salvation = 6.5/10 - Great action sequences, bold cinematography and absolutely spectacular audio design. Since this is obviously set up to be a series of movies the overall plot really suffered from the "humanizing" story of the newest Terminator model. They should have just stuck with a straightforward war flick and it would have totally blown me away.

Much better action than the Star Trek movie and the opening 10 minutes are fucking awesome. Throughout the movie they touch on all the things that made the original film so cool but then kill the momentum with a killing machine suffering from self-loathing angst.

Like the video game...it could have been so much better.

[Peenyuh]

...bold cinematography...

Really?! Yer gonna use that phrase?

I'm gonna go see that movie, because yer review is indicative of an awesome movie experience. I'm just sayin... Do you really think it's better than Star Trek? Okay. I'm there.