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04-10-2014, 10:16 AM
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What recent movies have you seen, were they any good? How would you rate them?
The 5 star rating system seems popular so we'll go with that and half stars are allowed (which makes it a 10 point rating anyhow).
Off you go!
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Weren't you scheduled to get your claws today? What are you doing posting?
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Internet Telepathy? Boredom in the waiting room? Learning that no information is better than misinformation. Wondering when the bionics kick in? "Operating" on false assumptions?
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Upside Down (Romantic Sci-Fi) - It was very average. Watchable but nothing special. 2.5/5
Captain America: Winter Soldier 3D (Comic - MCE) - I very much enjoyed this. It was far superior to the first one IMO but the action scenes were not optimized for 3D and the camera seemed very shaky at times. Outside of the action the 3D shows that they're improving the effect. It felt like a long movie with some slow spots but overall I was really happy with it and it felt more like the Captain America I knew in the 80s and early 90s. 4.5/5
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I recently reacquainted myself with the Garbage Pail Kids movie. This was brought on because I was working on selling some collectibles my grandparents had that have been sitting in an attic for the past 15+ years since their deaths, and among their collections were some of the actual physical Garbage Pail Kids cards I personally collected as a child.
As for the movie, I only had the vaguest of memories about it, so I was really watching it with fresh eyes. I fully expected it to be cheesy. I remember very little about it except that I wasn't crazy about the movie when I first saw it as a kid.
And it was cheesy. But I was also pleasantly surprised. It didn't quite follow the formula of cheesy movies of its era. It had all the right cheesy character archetypes, but there were a couple of times when you could see the movie unfolding to a happy ending and all of a sudden the story line would bang a hard left. The actual ending itself has an actual shred of complexity to it--not much but some--even as it crams the moral of the story down the audience's throats.
I'd give it 3 out of 5. This sort of movie would normally deserve a 1, but this particular one deserves a 2. The fact that I was genuinely surprised (a pretty hefty task for a movie I've seen before), and I love surprises that actually make sense more than anything else bumps it up to a 3.
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Frozen (2013) - Honestly, I quite liked this. I have a bias toward Northern/Cold Weather stories and this is probably one of, if not my favourite Disney animation since Walt was alive. It was a solid movie through the climax however the way the "solution" occurred was a little anticlimactic and the epilogue wasn't very good. All in all though 4/5
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