I actually like The Last Exorcism. I had no idea what it would be like going into it. No idea it was going to be found footage style documentary. When I heard a sequel was coming.. I was like what? How do you even make a sequel to this... not because of the title of the movie, but the way it ended. Watched the trailer and already knew it was going to be garbage. It went back to a regular style movie, the same way the Blair Witch handled its sequel. I guess if you're a fan of found footage style movies, it's more redeeming.
I found the first one confusing at times which may have affected how I felt about it, to this day I am still not sure if Nell really was possessed or whether it was all in her head. I know there was the whole baby thing so was that what was controlling her? It really didn't go the route of most of your possession films with people crawling up walls all the time etc. Part II was just a continuation of the first story but it got more generic. Annabelle A prequel to the conjuring, it was OK, nothing special but probably worth a watch.
Hercules It was really dumb, but also fairly entertaining. I would say that The Rock was perfectly cast. It was more that movie itself felt like a cheap, slapped together B-movie.
X-Men Days of Future Past It was alright but not great. We finally got an X-Men movie with sentinels, so it had that going for it at least. They used a time travel plot to retcon everything, which is probably good because I remember X-Men 3 sucking and ruining the franchise.
Jason X This was on in the middle of the night on AMC. It was probably the most aggressively stupid movie I've seen since The Room. Jason gets cryogenically frozen and comes back in the future to kill attractive Canadian extras with his machete on a space ship. A girl doing her best robot impression manages to take him out, but they leave him in the nanomed bay thing, and he gets upgraded to robot Jason and does even more killing. This movie actually seemed somewhat self aware of its own badness. I laughed my ass off at it. A true masterpiece of shit cinema.
Yeah somehow it wasn't on my radar as it wasn't low enough on IMDB. As so bad it's good movies go, I actually think it's a bit underrated. It has a 4.3 now, but should probably be closer to a 2. I mean it's no Troll 2 or Manos, but it's still pretty goodbad.
Alexia Doigs tits probably caused an artificial rating bubble. Hyperboobinflation is a serious problem on IMdB, it's why ScarJo's movies all score above 5.
The Purge The premise of a night where all crime is legal as a way to solve society's problems was kind of interesting. The problem is that the movie doesn't really do much with the premise. It kind of just degenerates into a generic home invasion horror movie.
Dumb and Dumber To - pre-release It was surprisingly good. Jim Carry really made the movie. He successfully goes back 20 years to his old school form like we saw in Dumb and Dumber and Ace Ventura. Jeff Daniels wasn't very funny but he played a good strait-man sidekick. They both looked like crap. A lot of the humor was really inappropriate which was hilarious. There were many, "Oh my god did he really just say that? moments". Aside from the funny stuff the rest of the movie kind of stinks but it's all just a stage for Carry. Be prepared for stupid and watch with friends that are easily offended. Two thumbs up.
Godzilla: a bit of a disappointment really. Didn't mind the slow pace but the momentum of the film felt off; a lot of the build ups go nowhere - it just cuts away. Shame. @cmdrmonkey: agree about The Purge. Thought it was an interesting concept but felt it didn't really do a good job with it.
Boyhood A great film about growing up, getting older, and life in general. It was unique in the way it was filmed over the course of more than a decade. It was interesting seeing how everyone involved aged. I found the characters and situations really relatable. The great acting combined with watching people actually age made it feel very real and like you were watching a big chunk of someone's life unfold. I highly recommend it.
Detention of the Dead Sometimes a film is so bad it is good, this isn't one of those films. All the characters were stupid and unlikable. It was filmed surprisingly well though.
Lucy It's half acid trippy sci-fi movie, half Luc Besson gangster shoot em' up, but neither part of it works very well. The premise, that humans only use 10% of their brains, has been disproven. And even then, Limitless already took this stupid premise and made a better movie out of it a few years ago. About the only good thing I can say about it is that ScarJo looked really good in it. Her acting was totally phoned in though. She spends most of the movie spouting bad philosophical musings while sounding like an autistic person.
Indie Game Pretty cool movie about maladjusted nerds. Chronicles their trials and tribulations of developing small video games out of their homes. Not sure if the movie is MS funded, as all of them were developing for Xbox Live Arcade circa 2008-2011.
I hadn't watched many movies lately, but I did watch Snowpiercer on netflix. I'd never really heard anything about it before watching it. It had some interesting ideas, but it was often so outrageous and campy that it seemed more cartoony than anything in the "serious" moments. It seems like a decent movie that could have been much better with improved direction. This is the same guy who did Memories of Murder, so I don't know what happened. I'd give it maybe 6 to 7 out of 10 I guess. Tilda Swinton plays a really repulsive character; it took me a few moments to decide whether it was really her. I'm used to seeing her in roles like in We Need to Talk About Kevin, The Deep End, or something of that nature.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Fucking terrible... I got 30 minutes in mainly because of Megan Fox but that wasn't enough.
I found it entertaining when I watched it the other day as I had the Flu but it ruined my childhood. They ruined Shredder with that robot shite. The only good bit was when Splinter was fighting the Shredder.