Dark Knight Rises 3.5/5 is just lol.

What's more surprising is that you would give it such a high rating, Baltimore. It's the most politically right movie in Nolan's filmography.

Eh...These two were both alright I guess, but Jason X is obviously the best sci-fi movie of all time LDO and is easily a perfect 5/5, not one thing wrong with that gem of a movie imo. So you know, just kind of seems like a moot discussion to have after that.

I found them both totally forgettable bordering on unwatchable.

I kind of agree

I addressed that a week or two ago when I wrote about it. I'm not smart enough to have figured out the politics after one viewing, so I considered the "complexity" of the politics a positive thing (better than the obvious authoritarian fascism of TDK).

Story was also differenter and interestinger than the vast majority of mainstream superhero movies we get to see.

Interstellar was one of my top theater-going experiences in my life. A 3 hour intergalactic adventure in IMAX--sign me the f*ck up, I was completely engrossed in it. But I watched it at home recently and it didn't hold up nearly as well.

I guess we'll have to agree to disagree. To me, Rises was easily the most pro authoritarian movie of the series.

Everyone is entitled to their opinion but some opinions are wrong. There is now way a movie with such a lack of narrative rigour, bad dialogue, emotional sterility and utter silliness is 4.9. I have a theory that Christopher Nolan was smoking from the same crack pipe Luc Besson used when he made Lucy. "Im using 80% capacity!!!!" is prob what they were thinking. That stupid Anne Hathaway speech about love and physics is enough to condemn the movie to a C.

Jesus... who cares if anyone else liked a movie you love. That makes it all the more special.

Less sheep... more sweet.

so deckard is in the new blade runner but no Rachel? what's up with that?

Not a big enough lol on earth. It's awful. Really awful.

This is just hipster nonsense. By no measure other than your worthless opinion is Interstellar awful.

With that said I'll let you go back to jerking it to triangular tits and overgrown bush like they had back when films were worth watching.

That's a bad post in more ways than one, blackize.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier - 2/5. Nothing interesting happens until ~28 minutes into the movie. At least 40 minutes should have been cut from this 136 minute film.

I would have eliminated the terribly standard opening action sequence, and instead turned the 10-15 wasted minutes of screen time into a few funny lines of dialogue right after they've returned from that mission, bickering about what the mission was supposed to be and who messed it up. The best and funniest parts of the movie were when they "subverted" the usual tropes by not doing the stupid obvious action movie cliches - like the mall scene, the escape from the jail car, etc.

Longer fights against super-beings, and super-beings fighting other super-beings, is boring and bad unless you do something interesting with it. There's way too much of all of that, and again it's disappointing because it happens in a movie that in many cases understood that doing the expected thing doesn't make for the most interesting thing.

Bullets flying everywhere for 30 minutes straight should have been dead and buried with Jason Bourne.

Guardians 1 is up next, but if Captain America 2 was supposed to be a "95% Rotten Tomatoes" critical darling, superhero movies can go **** themselves.

The frustrating thing about Winter Soldier was that it was so afraid of being more than a "shoot, punch, fly, explosion explosion explosion" superhero movie. There were moments when it was on the verge of exploring more substantive social or emotional issues but it was as if the creators thought "uh-oh, we're showing signs of intelligence! The 15 year olds won't like that, quick, blow something up!"

A lot of that is probably producer Kevin Fiege fault; he's a bean-counter determined to stick to a formula, creativity be damned. The Russo brothers said in an interview that Fiege would pop his head through the door and say things like, "I want helicarriers dropping out the sky!", or "I want Spiderman in this movie!" And they'd have to go along.

They were on the verge of exploring substantive social issues but then they remembered that superhero movies are made for twelve year old kids.

I'll be extremely surprised if you don't like Guardians 1. I'm not a superhero movie guy and have never even seen any Captain America, Thor, or Avengers movies. In fact, I had never even heard of GOTG before watching the flick, and I absolutely loved it. And based on your criticisms of Winter Soldier, I predict that you will, too.

Bad Day at Black Rock... just released on disc.
Spencer Tracy as a one armed Bushido expert... I'm in!

I've talked about this before... this movie plays out in a much better way than a movie like The Magnificent Seven, BDABR is more zen in it's Americanized portrait of a Japanese ideal.

The movie has never looked so good as it does on this Bluray... though textural film stock short comings still apply.

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I also got all the Terence Malick films I was missing (except Song to Song which comes out next month) on Bluray... A great body of work from TM. I hadn't seen Tree of Life in a long time... An amazing work.

Do you mean the original color?

1) I don't know how you could make a post like this when the Nolan Batman trilogy are among the most successful and well-regarded [by the masses] movies of all-time, and they have plenty that they want to say about society and politics (whether poorly and wrong or not).

2) Your post is essentially "false", because the Nolan and Marvel movies are extremely popular with everyone up through age 50.

3) If your position is that we as grown adults shouldn't be interested in superhero movies and that you aren't, that's fine and I'd lean towards agreeing. I enjoyed a few of the earlier Marvel movies, and adults still go gaga over the new releases, so I wanted to catch up. I made the rookie mistake of thinking adults' opinions and Rotten Tomatoes ratings were at least somewhat reflective of film quality.

4) We shouldn't be telling 12 year olds how cool violence is or presenting bad politics as good, so "they're for 12 year olds" is not enough to get me to look the other way and disallow criticism as it might be with Barney episodes or Sesame Street.

5) I'd add "doing anything interesting and different" along with Rooks's "social and emotional" issues. It doesn't have to be trying to "say" anything, just be fun.

Bad Day is a favorite of mine. Sturges really is underrated. And I love the line, "You're not only wrong. You're wrong at the top of your voice."

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I'm way behind the curve but I agree substantially with Biggerboat's criticism on La-La Land. I just saw this it at home last weekend. But I did enjoy the movie and thought it was done well with the talent they used. I really liked the opening dance/song number. The only one that was a bit worthy of old Hollywood.

Be interesting if Hollywood could put together something that would rival some of the best song and dance musicals of the 40's and 50's. Don't know if they have the talent, or the writers (songs and dialogue).

No... the original is somewhat overly saturated and at times very uneven from scene to scene,but the resolution is great where resolving can actually make a difference...close ups etc.

I think I was speaking mainly to the film grain.

Its not a high level technical film, yet it is "period" in its feel which I like.

I love this movie.

Jos Whedon to to kill 2 birds with one stone and write a Marvel musical, aping the best episode from the most under-rated TV show of all-time: