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Last movie you saw?

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WolverineMike said:
anybody see John Wick or Kill the Messenger? Both get good scores on Rotten Tom, just trying to figure out which one to watch first.
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See comments (below) on John Wick. It was a good movie:

ScriptOhio said:
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The son of the Russian mafia "godfather" and a couple friends beat up a retired hit-man, steal his car, and kill his dog. How he let this happen is a mystery to me; since the rest of the movie is the hit-man overpowering, beating up, and killing everyone in the Russian mafia. John Wick sustains some wounds but like the EverReady Bunny, he keeps on going and going and going. The Russian mafia "godfather" points out that John Wick isn't the boogeyman, he's the man that you hire to kill the boogeyman. It's definitely a shoot-em up action picture.
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WolverineMike said:
American Sniper...........


Fuck me. I had no idea that was a true story. That ending. wow.
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Wife and I saw that last night. My wife didn't know the ending. Very interesting story and life. I did some reading and their are some mixed responses from military personal. I know his book had some "challenges" with some of the things that were said to have been done stateside.

side note... only shit Bradley Cooper HAD to be on roids for that movie... that dude got thick for the movie.
 
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AuTX Buckeye said:
Wife and I saw that last night. My wife didn't know the ending. Very interesting story and life. I did some reading and their are some mixed responses from military personal. I know his book had some "challenges" with some of the things that were said to have been done stateside.

side note... only [Mark May] Bradley Cooper HAD to be on roids for that movie... that dude got thick for the movie.
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From some of the research I did after seeing it, they seemed to change him a little to make him more sympathetic to the audience. In the movie he seemed torn by the killing, but in his own book he said he loved it. He also wrote in his book that he personally looted some of the bodies of people he killed. They left that out too. They also made it look like he joined the service AFTER 9/11 happened. But in real life he joined a year or two before that.


Still a great movie. I'd give him an Oscar for it, but I haven't seen Birdman yet, and Michael Keaton is getting high praise for tht.
 
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WolverineMike said:
From some of the research I did after seeing it, they seemed to change him a little to make him more sympathetic to the audience. In the movie he seemed torn by the killing, but in his own book he said he loved it. He also wrote in his book that he personally looted some of the bodies of people he killed. They left that out too. They also made it look like he joined the service AFTER 9/11 happened. But in real life he joined a year or two before that.


Still a great movie. I'd give him an Oscar for it, but I haven't seen Birdman yet, and Michael Keaton is getting high praise for tht.
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yeah... great movie but with all movies Hollywood takes creative license.

not sure where you got that (Bold)... pretty clear it was after the bombings in Kenya and Tanzania in 98 - might because I just saw it last night and that was pretty early on in the movie.
 
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I thought they showed him and his wife watching the Twin Towers fall and then he went and joined. It's a been a couple weeks, so maybe I'm confused. Now that I'm typing that I realize that makes no sense because he met his wife at the bar when he in the SEAL training.......:lol: My bad
 
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WolverineMike said:
I thought they showed him and his wife watching the Twin Towers fall and then he went and joined. It's a been a couple weeks, so maybe I'm confused. Now that I'm typing that I realize that makes no sense because he met his wife at the bar when he in the SEAL training.......:lol: My bad
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No worries... if i hadn't just seen it I wouldn't have known
 
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Train: I had read a lot about how people said this was the goriest or most disturbing movie they'd seen. Instead, it fell pretty flat for me. It was kind of like Hostel meets Hostel II meets Turistas. The chick from American Beauty did herself no favors by being the lead. There were a few decent moments and one very disturbing one for me, but otherwise I wasn't especially impressed. 1.5/5
 
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Muck said:
I have mixed feelings about the Sherlock Holmes movies. I like the change from the stereotype of the deerstalker wearing, staid upper crust Brit wielding a magnifying glass...but they did tend to get out of hand trying to be action flicks (big studio influence and all that).

My favorite Holmes is the contemporary BBC series. Benedict Cumberbatch is perfect.
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I liked the Guy Ritchie Sherlock until I saw the BBC version. The BBC version blows it away.

WolverineMike said:
I really enjoyed The Imitation Game. Cumberbatch is quickly becoming one of my favorite actors. I need to look up some of his earlier work and check it out.
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The Imitation Game is fantastic. The story of Alan Turing and what he accomplished through his work is one that needs to be told more widely. Everybody knows about the likes of Einstein, the Wright Brothers, Edison, Newton, etc... how many people using computers and smartphones know about Turing?
 
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So I've seen a few of the Oscar contenders in the past week or so...

The Imitation Game - My favorite along with Grand Budapest Hotel among the contenders. I'd also give the Oscar to Cumberbatch for the range he displayed. Always intersting to see different, less publicized events of WWII.

American Sniper - Very solid, intense movie, and Cooper is excellent. Ending was ruined for me by someone who had read the book so that may be why I'm not as high on it as most. Also, the war movie genre has been done so well so many times that it is becoming harder for one to stick out to me.

Birdman - Can't say I'm a huge fan. Keaton is pretty much as good as advertised, but the story is way too serious and sometimes depressing for me to see it as a comedy. The big jokes also have too much of a lead-up that they become obvious before they occur.
 
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