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I give Five Armies a certain amount of credit for fully committing to its own ridiculousness. I mean, Shai-Hulud even got in on the action.

ray_afraid said:

LuckyGungan2001 said:

ray_afraid said:

LuckyGungan2001 said:

The Big Lebowski (1998): 9/10

Really great. I loved the direction, the acting, the story and the characters.

One of my favorite movies. Gets better every time ya watch it.

Also, Yeah, Evil Dead 2 and Shaun of the Dead are also great. More of my favorites.
I don’t care much for Army of Darkness (loved it when I was a teenager, but find it painful now), but Evil Dead is one of my favorite horror films (one of my absolute favorite films flat-out) and Evil Dead 2 is one of my favorite horror comedies.

I haven’t seen the first Evil Dead yet, it’s just the one that appealed the least to me. I’ll probably get around to watching it soon. Also, why do you find Army of Darkness painful?

The comedy is stupid. The jokes are lame. The one liners wore out their welcome 15 years ago. It’s also pretty boring.

I don’t believe you! It’s another trick!

As someone who read the hobbit many times as a d, and watched that animated movie several times, I was more annoyed by the story changes than I was by anything else.

The first one (as I sat in the theater) started disappointing me right around the cave troll scene when gandalf showed up to save the day. Bilbo was the one who solved it, thereby gaining the respect of the dwarves.

Now if they would just do the hobbit as a more faithful adaptation that would be excellent, but won’t happen for 10 years

I also really liked enders game the movie, my only wish was that they had made it a two part movie, and included more of the plot from the book like Locke and Demosthenes.

Ender too little, but good. Hobbit way way way too much, some good lost in a lot of meh and sigh.

Ender’s Game was better than I expected.

Smithers said:

The hobbit movies on the other hand are a mixed bag, part 1 spends way too much time doing absolutely nothing, the second one is pretty good save for a few really dumb moments and the third one is a bloated cgi-filled mess with tensionless action. Watch spence’s version, it solves all of my issues with it

Why should we watch something that solves your issues with it? I would rather watch something that solves my issues with it.

Just kidding, I don’t have issues with it.

Trainspotting.

It was fine, but eh, what was the point?

7/10.

Choose a fucking big television?

Inherent Vice - I enjoyed this quite a lot. I guess I understand why reviews were so tepid, but really the only sin it’s guilty of is not being as good as most of the rest of Paul Thomas Anderson’s filmography. I think it would’ve been better received if it wasn’t destined from the start to be compared to Boogie Nights, Magnolia, There Will Be Blood, and The Master.

I’ve decided that from here on out, I’m going to rate every movie I see 1-5. Not only is it simpler, but it allows me to curb some of my obsessive-compulsive tendancies (What with the other rating systems being so large, enabling me to split finer and finer hairs, turning what should be a simple affair into a minor chore, thus causing me no small frustration and on and on and on …).

Anyway …

Body of Evidence (1993) – 2/5

Past Midnight (1991) – 3/5

The Love of Zero (1928) – 5/5

Phone Booth (2002) – 3/5

An American Tail (1986)

Bless that Bluth – he’s such a good animator. That’s why I’m going to allow this cat-demonizing, vermin-glorifying … film … a pass – a very, very, verrrry minor pass though it may be.

3/5

Reservoir Dogs (1992)

I think I’m gonna have to watch this again. I tried watching it yesterday while I was exhausted, and so I kept slipping in and out of sleep while it was playing. Until I can watch it again to properly gauge its merits, my temporary rating will be

3.5/5

Sometimes They Come Back (1991)

Stick with the original short story.

3/5

The Ring (2002) – 3/5

Between the ugly colour grading and the bland love interest who does jackshit throughout the story, I’d say stick with the original Japanese film.

Ringu (1998) – 4/5

Kissing Time (1993) – 5/5

TV’s Frink said:

The worst part of Army of Darkness is the helicopter shot at the end, when Ash doesn’t say anything at all.

Being in the UK I’m more familiar with the Big Ben ending where he screams about oversleeping (which would make a good alarm clock noise)

Tobar said:

DuracellEnergizer said:
Sometimes They Come Back (1991)

Stick with the original short story.

Hmmm…

I love that short.