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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

In 2006, a movie was released in which an evil AI is defeated by Shia LeBouf.

The evil AI's plan? Kill the president!

Why does the AI want to kill the president? he has too much unchecked power and bombed village of innocent people in the middle east and the AI told him not to because it could not confirm if there was actually a terrorist there.

How does Shia LeBouf defeat the evil AI? Opening fire at the capitol to cause a panic.

The war in Iraq was ramping up at the time, how was there not rioting at screenings? How is this not a controversial movie?

The acting is not great, but it deserves better than 27% on Rotten Tomatoes when the message of the film is the government does bad stuff and should be persecuted for it

Eagle Eye | Rotten Tomatoes

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

I like comedies, dumb action movies and horror. So it's almost everything, just like the person in the meme. lol

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago

Hey man like what you like. Most reviews are done by people who are WAAAAY to into cinema.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

For me it was Alice in Wonderland (2010). I really enjoyed the whole "I do six impossible things before breakfast" thing. I was also really drunk when I watched it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

That's my sister's favourite movie!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Batman V Superman from 2016.

My local theatre had an early early show: an early morning premiere, a day earlier than the official release date.

In spite of the, frankly, stupid trailer #2, I was still excited to see the first live action movie with Batman and Superman with my fellow nerds.

We came out of the theatre thinking it was a good movie, with Lex Luthor’s odd shenanigans aside (mannerisms, maintaining tabs on meta humans with well designed logos, etc.).

I specifically remember appreciating and talking about the movie’s score (Hans Zimmer), cinematography (Larry Fong), and costumes (Michael Wilkinson and Ironhead Studios).

While driving back, one of us checked the reviews and box office indications, and it was abysmal. The reaction was so bad that there was unspoken agreement between us to never talk about it again in public.

I still like the movie, and like the Ultimate Edition even more. But I wasn’t a fan of all the movies that followed.

E: grammar

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Second Bayformers movie here

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

2003's the core. I always loved the semi friendly rivalry between Zimsky and Brazz. And how Keys (the main character) is sort of the glue that holds the team together and I think the cast has a good energy together as a whole. Combine that with genuinely enjoyable yet ridiculous 90's style end of the world action / world destruction scenes and you got a 10 / 10 in my book.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

I like The Core but omg it's objectively terrible. "Unobtanium" is just a buckyball. The random kid drawing in the notebook just for heartstrings. Them welding power connectors right next to each other on the hull so that even IF their nonsense theory was correct they'd only be 0.01% efficient. Oh, and if the core stopped spinning it wouldn't get the planet roasted anyway.

But hey, it's a B movie so I give it some slack.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 hours ago

Joker 2. Laughing my ass of to all the people complaining about how it ruined the image of the joker for them.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I watched Last Action Hero a few years ago for the first time, and it honestly didn't even feel that dated. It held up!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I think Last Action Hero is an overall good movie with some flaws.

It takes a little too long to get going, the bit at the front that mostly establishes that his life is kind of dull and he prefers to go to the movies drags a bit. They play the "BECAUSE THIS IS A MOVIE" note a little too often and Slater just outright doesn't believe him for a little too long, he should have started to buy it before they go out into the real world. And the ending kind of just putters out? The bits where it's a send-up of action flicks is really fun and it's worth seeing for that, though I think True Lies is a better loving send-up of action flicks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

Haha, we need to open source movies before production. Put the script on GitHub and check those pull requests!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 hours ago (8 children)

The butterfly effect.

I saw it when I was rather young but I thought it was pretty good, apparently people thought it’s edgy.

Should watch it again now and see if it holds up.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

Saw it as a teenager. Its edgy but I enjoyed watching it.

Until the prison/stigmata scene that completely broke the movies own rules. The whole fuking point is he goes back in time to change something and he is the only one who knows it. To everyone else that is just how the past has always been. But not in that scene! People actively see the world change due to him changing the past. (Oh and him mutilating himself as a kid changes nothing about his live except for the scars? He ends up in the same jailcell with the same cellmate 25 years later? Sure.) Even as a teenager i realised the gigantic plot hole.

With that scene its a 3/10 movie for me. But not because it is edgy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

saw it a week ago. found out there are 3 different endings. holds up with a few plot holes, but decent.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah... I don't care. I watch a movie and accept it for what it is. If I'm entertained for a few hours, great. If not, meh. I don't need critical opinion.

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