do us a favour and don't post a score. scores are shitty. especially numbered ones.

I would think that "sorta interesting" would be more around a 5 and "bland and boring", which are BAD attributes, would push it below average.  The only reason bland and boring shouldn't be under a five is if your ideas of the average movie are that they're all bland and boring, in which case watch some better movies???

But really:

do us a favour and don't post a score. scores are shitty. especially numbered ones.

I agree with this because obviously these numbers don't mean the same thing to everyone and so they're pretty useless.

maybe he uses the games rating system of the average people on Metacritic. Anything with a 7 or below suck.

Yeaster did come up with redeeming qualities of it that may explain why he would give it above average, but when a review starts with "Too bland, boring and cliched for my taste", I would expect it to fall below average.

Basically the number and the review didn't add up and that is why I hate numerical ratings.

I'm going to be fair, we all know 5 is average. But what is average? As previously said in the thread:

Why exactly does it get a 6.5 if it was bland and boring but with a handful of redeeming scenes?

What sorts of other movies are you watching if that review means its above average?

bland and boring (to me) pretty much seem the definition of average so a few redeeming scenes + cool cg would put it above average, what is your problem with this score?

like if i saw a movie that was bland and boring in every possible way i would probably give it a 5, but if it has stuff that is not boring it would get a better than average score, this is pretty common sense!

we all have different interperetations of what average is and how MUCH better it has to be, to be a 10.

i think the issue is if your post is like six sentences long you have no reason to sum up your review with a fucking score.

Dragonball Evolution.. Ugh. I thought it would at least be hilariously bad but it was just complete shit no matter how you looked at it. Goku had his comedic moments but the movie overall completely falls falt on it's face.

Che movie was good..ill give it a 8.53134/10 stars

Just saw Kleine Freiheit, probably would be able to say more about it (and be more fair about it) if I had understood much of it, but we were watching it with no subtitles.  I probably could have understood at least a LITTLE more if the main characters weren't young immigrants who mumbled all the time (much like the characters in Kebab Connection, but at least we had subtitles with that).  I was liking it to begin with but then some parts later on just seemed...completely useless?  Like, suddenly the two main characters are gay, which I knew would happen because of the Wikipedia summary, but unless I missed something with the dialogue then the African guy suddenly starts touching the Kurdish guy (forgot their names but I do this with a lot of films) and then...that's all.  That seemed to be the only piece of their relationship that we ever see.  It feels almost like it was just thrown in.  Also, the ending was kind of vague, I couldn't figure out what was going on with that.

I mean, like I said, I couldn't understand much of the dialogue, but my professor was stopping it occasionally to recap and since a lot of this stuff is visual anyway I'm not sure what I missed with those things that would fix them.  But, I guess I'd have to see it subtitled to really know.  I'm going to grab it off netflix and watch it again, I don't know if maybe my professor only had a version of the DVD with no subtitles or if he just turned them off for this particular movie for some reason (it seems counterproductive if he was still stopping it to explain it to us) but fuck that I want to know what I'm watching.  If nothing else I want to rewatch it because Wikipedia says three of the characters were gay and I don't know who the third was (crazy old man at the bus stop???? who knows?!)

I just watched Ghostbusters.

My god, that movie really does stand the test of time. Haha.

i saw aliens 3 yesterday. not as good as the first two! it seemed kinda like nightmare 3000 or whatever where jason voorhees is in the future. in space.
this is what's it's like both the characters and the aesthetic. i hope ressurection is better. also i hate the attitude of everyone in late 80s early 90s action movies, everyone's an angry dick.

Insanitarium is a movie. Yup, that about sums it up.

NO NO NO NO, will not do one line posts. Bad Mamamack!

Insanitarium casts some folks including someone from Desperate Housewives and the chick from Attack of the Show. The premise is this: Sister tries to kill herself and gets committed, brother fakes his way into insane lock-up to find his sister, discovers (from a conveniently placed neurotic geek) that the doctor of the funny farm is conducting experiments on his patients, attempts to break sister free and succeeds but only after about a hundred people get eaten by the doctor's 'patients' who are hyped up on some drug that makes them want to eat people. Oh yeah, and their eyes turn white. And Quark is there, too. Did I mention the chick from Attack of the Show?

Anyway, this movie was, at best, decent. The longer it got, though, the cheesier it became. OK, we get it, the patients are cannibals. The doctor is crazier than the people he's taking care of. Quark is creepy even without his Ferengi make-up. Eye candy comes in the form of the dude from Desperate Housewives and the chick from Attack of the Show, but that's about all this movie has going for it. With a bit more script work and a bit more time, this could have been a good movie. As it stands now, it's a 'meh.' Decent enough to recommend a rental, but don't waste your money buying it.

hm... this sounded good until you said it was decent at best... i'll probably watch it still aynways

i just watched naked lunch. it was awesome

i also watched one of the qatsi trilogy movies this weekend. was aewsome. phillip glass is my hero.

i hope ressurection is better

it's not.
has winona ryder been in anything decent? this is the first movie i've seen her in iirc, apart from the closed circuit tapes.

also saw 21 the other day. i think it's meant to be a dumb movie about smart people but it's a dumb movie about dumb people. there seemed to be a lot of forced diamonds in the shots of the first half of the movie, and he worked in a SUIT store har har. altogether i'd give it a 52/100.

has winona ryder been in anything decent? this is the first movie i've seen her in iirc, apart from the closed circuit tapes.

A Scanner Darkly was the first movie with Winona Ryder in it that popped into my head. It's actually not a half bad movie, if a little bit... uhm, odd. Edward Scissorhands also came to mind, as did Dracula. However, as of late... yeah, she's in the new Star Trek movie.

Race To Witch Mountain Casts the Rock -- excuse me -- Dwayne Johnson, as an ex-con turned honest cab driver dude named Jack, who manages to get wound up in some sort of alien conspiracy thing. Suddenly, he becomes the big manly adult who pretends like he's vital to the safety of two extra-terrestrial kids who possess crazy ass powers.

The plot is supposed to be about Jack keeping these alien kids safe while they retrieve some sort of experimental data and then get it to their space ship, but as soon as the first major action scene took place, I had to wonder what, if any, reasons the kids would have to keep the Rock -- excuse me -- Jack around. One kid is telepathic and telekinetic, and the other is the male version of Kitty 'Shadowcat' Pryde; what good does it do to keep a meathead human cabbie around? OK, so neither of them can drive a car, so that's what Jack is for, right? Oh, wait. The kids came to Earth on a spaceship that THEY FLEW THEMSELVES.

Gaping plot issues aside, this movie serves the purpose of semi-campy tween-friendly entertainment and I have to admit that the fight scenes were better than I expected them to be. The Predator made a cameo appearance as some sort of an armored assassin dude and the Storm Troopers were a nice touch. In fact, this whole movie kind of struck me as "Star Wars: The Way Disney Would Have Done It If Given The Chance." It's not worth the price of admission, and I certainly wouldn't buy this movie, but it might be worth a rent if you like watching the Rock -- excuse me -- Dwayne Johnson get upstaged by a couple of kids with super powers.

I just saw "Knowing" on sunday, and jesus christ what a ripoff.

I went in expecting crap (it's a Nick Cage movie) and was pleasantly surprised when the movie had really awesome scenes, like when the airplane comes from out of nowhere and crashes right behind Nick Cage. Pretty awesome. The effects and everything were done really well. Then the plot twist comes, and everything starts making sense, and you find out this whole time you've been buying into metaphors and imagery all very well disguised. It's a fucking christian movie. If you thought Signs was bad, this will blow your mind. THe last half hour of the movie loses all subtlety. Suddenly there are angels flying around, the garden of eden story is retold, and I shit you not, there is an actual tree of knowledge in the movie.

I really would've enjoyed this movie much more if they could've either went all in the christianity bs, or left it out. At one point I actually thought a reincarnation of Jesus might show up. Terrible movie.

I'm really looking forward to this movie coming out on DVD.

I'm dying to do my own personal Director's Cut on it.

I liked the movie.

Everything except the symbolism and alien crap.