What Movie(s) Did You Watch Today?
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DIYer said:Europa Report
I've heard some praises so I decided to give it a try. I would say it's about 75% sci-fi and 25% horror movie. It's pretty good if you like this type (space travel) of movie.
The story is about a mission to one of Jupiter's moons, Europa which is covered with ice. The scientists speculated that underneath that ice, there is water and when there is water, there is a chance that the life form can exist. This movie has good amount of homage paid to currently known space science and the special effects are good to a point of being indistinguishable from the real NASA footage of space missions. It was entertaining. As for the audio, there isn't anything really outstanding but the surrounds are decent.
3.5 stars out of 5 from me. It would have been 4 if the ending was little more complex.
it was pretty entertaining, but a bit on the bland end. at one point i was lost in its timeline, but made sense towards the end. i would cut it more or less 85% scifi and 15% horror. There wasnt much to be horrified about, aside from the paranoia it instills in you knowing something was or possibly is there.
it did give a good stomach cringing from time to time, not out of gore or horror, but of anticipation.
a good rental.
numbers station
in a nutshell, think of it as having grosse point blanke being serious. it wasnt as bad as id believe it would be, but thats the thing about b movies, you always surprise yourself with the results when you're expecting something substandard.
currently on netflix streaming, 'superhd' 5.1.
one thing blu-ray.com got right, it DID give my subwoofer a good workout. some of it was from the score, others, simply from ambiance. very good low end stuff.
After earth.
well, we can ridicule it all we want. but essentially, i think it was meant to be. it wasnt a bad movie, but with so much hype so much expectations from it, it felt flat and well, the tone of it wasnt up to par. its not a will smith movie. its a movie with will smith in it. and his son trying to ride on his streamline.
the accent? terrible. i cant stand it. i cant stand his son playing the bickering spoiled kid. again.
rental.
in a nutshell, think of it as having grosse point blanke being serious. it wasnt as bad as id believe it would be, but thats the thing about b movies, you always surprise yourself with the results when you're expecting something substandard.
currently on netflix streaming, 'superhd' 5.1.
one thing blu-ray.com got right, it DID give my subwoofer a good workout. some of it was from the score, others, simply from ambiance. very good low end stuff.
After earth.
well, we can ridicule it all we want. but essentially, i think it was meant to be. it wasnt a bad movie, but with so much hype so much expectations from it, it felt flat and well, the tone of it wasnt up to par. its not a will smith movie. its a movie with will smith in it. and his son trying to ride on his streamline.
the accent? terrible. i cant stand it. i cant stand his son playing the bickering spoiled kid. again.
rental.
WWZ
I wouldn't say it's one of those typical zombie movies. It's better. It's got drama, sci-fi, good action / suspense, some philosophy and you can see the relatively high budget. I found it entertaining. PG-13 reduced some of the gore compared to R rated zombie movies but didn't reduce the impact much to me even though I've seen negative reactions from the fans of this genre.
3 stars out of 5 from me.
I wouldn't say it's one of those typical zombie movies. It's better. It's got drama, sci-fi, good action / suspense, some philosophy and you can see the relatively high budget. I found it entertaining. PG-13 reduced some of the gore compared to R rated zombie movies but didn't reduce the impact much to me even though I've seen negative reactions from the fans of this genre.
3 stars out of 5 from me.
Tom Seven Psychpaths is a good movie (not great) but is worthy of a rental. I loved Psychopath #1 (Harry Dean Stanton) the Amish father. That whole mini story was awesome. The movie had a lot of stars (Woody Harrelson, Colin Farrell, Sam Rockwell and Tom Waits). I enjoyed watching it but not sure if I'd ever go out of my way to watch it again now that I know how it ends.
Srvy
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DIYer said:^ I saw Stand Up Guys and agree with heeman on the pace. Before that, I picked A Late Quartet from Netflix thinking that it was Stand Up Guys (C. Walken in it). Totally different movie but not too bad.
PSH and Walken cant go wrong ill put it in my Netflix must see.
