The "I just saw a movie" thread

[stika]

Just saw a movie new or old and want to share your thoughts about it? Then why not here?

I'll start with one I saw today: Elysium.


My thoughts? It was a flawed movie but still made for an enjoyable watch. Ocasionally there were a few leaps in logic and pointless scenes, but the action was superb and depection of life on Earth was depressing, but in a good way.

Not going too far into it for now, but by leaps in logic or pointless scenes I mean stuff like:

[spoiler]When the small girl tells her story to Matt Damon, it really didn't add anything to the movie, it didn't influence his decision or motivations.[/spoiler]
Or [spoiler]When the secretery of defense or whathever is extracting information from Matt Damon, why didn't she post guards in case he tried to escape? For that matter why didn't she send the two girls to prison? Why were there next to him? That really didn't make much sense[/spoiler]

But these are minor nitpicks for the most part.

[Cathenah19]

The last movie I saw was Thursday's airing in movie theaters of the RiffTrax Live performance of Starship Troopers. I remember when the movie came out when I was in high school and everyone was talking about it being a great movie that I had to see, but I never saw it until the RiffTrax show, and I'm glad I waited because that is one movie that deserves jokes to be hurled at it throughout the show.

On a side note, Starship Troopers was the live riffing of the movie they gained the rights from after a Kickstarter campaign this spring, which aimed to get the rights to riff Twilight. When that fell through, Starship Troopers was the next option.

For those who have never heard of RiffTrax, it's the same guys from Mystery Science 3000 doing their same riffing of bad movies, but there are also some modern monstrosities amongst the B-flicks from ages past. The only difference is that there is not the MST3K framing of riffing the movies. I highly recommend all of their stuff.

Before that, the last movie I saw in theaters was Dark Knight Rises, which tells you how often I go to the movies.

[stika]

I like Starship troopers, it's an movie, full of violence and action but also pretty campy.

Never saw any RiffTrax movies, but I usually don't let riffs color my impression movies, they're funny to listen to, but they're usually nitpicky

[KatieHal]

Some friends of mine went to that live RiffTrax too! I love RiffTrax. Snark is an art close to my heart, of course, so that stuff is right up my alley

I saw Kick-Ass 2 yesterday. It was okay. The first one hit the balance of comic book style vs. realism better, though, and this one had some aborted and rushed characters arc.

I also then watched Gosford Park after wanting to for quite some time. It was also kind of disappointing. For a murder mystery, it really lacked any sense of urgency, and even turning the volume up pretty high it was hard to hear a lot of it.

Then I watched some SeaQuest.

[Numbers]

I just saw The Bourne Legacy. I heard an awful lot of complaining about it, but I didn't think it was that bad. The acting was still good, the writing was good (aside from a couple of really boring scenes), and the action scenes were intense. My main issue with it was that the plotline was very hard to follow unless you had just watched the previous movie beforehand, which thankfully I did.

I take issue with the people who claim that Jeremy Renner "replaced" Matt Damon, when he was clearly supposed to be a completely different character, and not replace anybody. I also applaud the Bourne movies for not sexualizing the female characters, and making them seem more real...which you don't see very much of anywhere else.

[Mildred]

Long time didn't go to the movies...

[HitBattousai]

The Bourne Legacy was decent(also saw it recently).  Solid action, acting, and writing.  The issue I have with it is that it straight rips a lot of its beats out of The Bourne Identity, so much so that it seems kind of pointless at times that they made this movie.  That said, from an overall perspective it is a solid film.

Last movie I saw was Upstream Color, a film by the creator of Primer.  Primer was really good in my view, Upstream Color the best I can say for it is that it is ambitiously boring.  Has some good ideas in there and manages a nice creepy/mysterious atmosphere, but is one of those films which is super minimalist in terms of the dialogue to the point where it is very slow and frustrating.

[stika]

surprisingly, I never saw a single Bourne movie.

Don't know why, I guess they just never appealed to me

[KatieHal]

I like Bourne Legacy as well, although it ended very abruptly I thought. I felt like there was still a half hour left, since not all plots got wrapped up (which is fine), and then the credits were rolling. I definitely like Renner, he's a good for action movies and can act as well.

[stika]

I will give it this: I'm sure the Bourne movies aged better than the Pierce Brosnan  James Bond movies

[Blackthorne]

Just saw The World's End with Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, et al.

I laughed, I cried, I laughed some more.  Good times.


Bt

[stika]

I don't think I've ever even heard of that movie o.O

[Numbers]

It's a European movie. You have no excuse for not having heard about it. Jerk.

[stika]

Pfftt... Europeans make the worst movies

kidding kidding