Rate the last movie you saw

[col63onel]

I was referring to episode 4

 

[Sebastian]

The fight at the end of Jedi where Luke goes nuts and just wails on Vader is my favorite fight in the entire series because it feels the most real and has some actual emotion. None of the prequel fights feel like they matter because you don't give a shit about any of the characters, and they're all over-choreographed into oblivion. The fight at the end of Jedi is fucking awesome, and even has the great character moment where Luke sees his father's robotic hand and realizes what he's becoming.

There's not a single prequel fight with anywhere near that kind of depth. They're all just boring assholes dancing and swinging glowing sticks really fast to sell toys to five year olds.

 

[Chris]

Wind River

9/10

Great movie.

Spoiler

Never been in a real shootout but that ending scene where the deputies and security team unload dozens of rounds at point blank range at each other felt really realistic.

 

[DJTJ]

Wind River

9/10

Great movie.

Spoiler

Never been in a real shootout but that ending scene where the deputies and security team unload dozens of rounds at point blank range at each other felt really realistic.

Was sort of terrifying, wasn't it? Easily my favorite movie of the year. Severely underrated.

 

[Chris]

Was sort of terrifying, wasn't it? Easily my favorite movie of the year. Severely underrated.

Yeah, it was.

If I recall this director did Sicario, which makes perfect sense. The short spurts of brutal violence just have this really gritty realistic feel to it in both films. EDIT: My bad, looks like he only wrote Sicario, didn't direct it.

But anyway, yeah, really enjoyed this one.

 

[MGMT]

Three billboards outside of Ebbs, Missouri was..really, really good to me. This is just my personal favorite type of movie — the perfect blend of dark humor, emotionally-invoking moments and textured characters.

Unfortunate they didn’t more closely base it off the story by which it’s inspired but it’s just hard for me consider that an actual flaw when speaking strictly of film quality.

 

[Jack Brickman]

Three billboards outside of Ebbs, Missouri was..really, really good to me. This is just my personal favorite type of movie — the perfect blend of dark humor, emotionally-invoking moments and textured characters.

Unfortunate they didn’t more closely base it off the story by which it’s inspired but it’s just hard for me consider that an actual flaw when speaking strictly of film quality.

Yeah that was probably the best drama I watched from last year, although granted I still haven't seen several of the Oscar nominated movies. Sam Rockwell was fantastic.

 

[The Human Q-Tip]

The fight at the end of Jedi where Luke goes nuts and just wails on Vader is my favorite fight in the entire series because it feels the most real and has some actual emotion. None of the prequel fights feel like they matter because you don't give a shit about any of the characters, and they're all over-choreographed into oblivion. The fight at the end of Jedi is fucking awesome, and even has the great character moment where Luke sees his father's robotic hand and realizes what he's becoming.

There's not a single prequel fight with anywhere near that kind of depth. They're all just boring assholes dancing and swinging glowing sticks really fast to sell toys to five year olds.

My problem with both that fight and the fight between Obi-Wan and Darth in the first movie (I really hate this "Episode" stuff) is they both look like completely ordinary guys with no skills at all, swinging magic swords. There is absolutely nothing about those fights suggesting that either of them have 1) any special abilities at all, or 2) any swordfighting skills at all. Darth in particular looks stiff as hell, and Obi-Wan is just kind of prancing around. And that's wildly unrealistic if we're supposed to think a Jedi with a lightsaber is particularly dangerous.

The Darth Vader in Rogue One butchering rebel soldiers with a lightsaber would tear either of those guys apart. Including the more experienced version of himself.

 

[col63onel]

Was sort of terrifying, wasn't it? Easily my favorite movie of the year. Severely underrated.

Was in my top 5, for sure. And it starred 2 Avengers!

When people have asked me about it, I tell them "A woman is found raped and murdered on an Indian Reservation, but it plays way different that what that premise implies"

 

[Chris]

Was in my top 5, for sure. And it starred 2 Avengers!

When people have asked me about it, I tell them "A woman is found raped and murdered on an Indian Reservation, but it plays way different that what that premise implies"

Yeah, I recommended it to my brother and that was pretty much how I described it.

 

[Jack Brickman]

My problem with both that fight and the fight between Obi-Wan and Darth in the first movie (I really hate this "Episode" stuff) is they both look like completely ordinary guys with no skills at all, swinging magic swords. There is absolutely nothing about those fights suggesting that either of them have 1) any special abilities at all, or 2) any swordfighting skills at all. Darth in particular looks stiff as hell, and Obi-Wan is just kind of prancing around. And that's wildly unrealistic if we're supposed to think a Jedi with a lightsaber is particularly dangerous.

The Darth Vader in Rogue One butchering rebel soldiers with a lightsaber would tear either of those guys apart. Including the more experienced version of himself.

Yeah, they lack fancy choreography, but I prefer fights that actually have meaning and emotion to the boring, ball-numbing action scenes from the prequels. Personally, I think the perfect spot is somewhere between where the originals and the prequels were, with fights that would be a bit better choreographed but not looking like the guys involved are doing a complicated dance they spent weeks practicing, but given the choice I'll take the fights that have actual meaning over the ones that are just there to eat up big chunks of time and look fancy.

 

[The Human Q-Tip]

Yeah, they lack fancy choreography, but I prefer fights that actually have meaning and emotion to the boring, ball-numbing action scenes from the prequels. Personally, I think the perfect spot is somewhere between where the originals and the prequels were, with fights that would be a bit better choreographed but not looking like the guys involved are doing a complicated dance they spent weeks practicing, but given the choice I'll take the fights that have actual meaning over the ones that are just there to eat up big chunks of time and look fancy.

The weird thing is that I agree with you about fights in general. Far too much choreographing.

The problem is that in this particular instance, we're talking about people with what amount to super/supernatural powers, looking absolutely ordinary. And this is the one situation where looking ordinary undermines the entire legitimacy of the fight. To me, two Force-users battling out with lightsabers should be a "how the hell is that even possible" moment.

 

[Sebastian]

The weird thing is that I agree with you about fights in general. Far too much choreographing.

The problem is that in this particular instance, we're talking about people with what amount to super/supernatural powers, looking absolutely ordinary. And this is the one situation where looking ordinary undermines the entire legitimacy of the fight. To me, two Force-users battling out with lightsabers should be a "how the hell is that even possible" moment.

I thought the opening duel in ROTS between Obi-Wan/Anakin vs Dooku was well done.

No over the top gymnastics, just some fluid blade work by Dooku, and an excellent example of what a seasoned Sith Lord can do in terms of using force powers while still using the blade.

And then Anakin hulking out had clear parallels with Luke's burst of anger in ROTJ.

 

[The Human Q-Tip]

I thought the opening duel in ROTS between Obi-Wan/Anakin vs Dooku was well done.

No over the top gymnastics, just some fluid blade work by Dooku, and an excellent example of what a seasoned Sith Lord can do in terms of using force powers while still using the blade.

And then Anakin hulking out had clear parallels with Luke's burst of anger in ROTJ.

Agreed. And I'm one of the few who actually liked Yoda fighting. Have to say that playing Yoda in Lego Star Wars was pretty cool too....

One really good fight was between Liam Neeson and Tim Roth in Rob Roy. Roth was an effect little guy, but he made that blade pretty convincing.

 

[Sebastian]

Agreed. And I'm one of the few who actually liked Yoda fighting. Have to say that playing Yoda in Lego Star Wars was pretty cool too....

One really good fight was between Liam Neeson and Tim Roth in Rob Roy. Roth was an effect little guy, but he made that blade pretty convincing.

It is interesting that Yoda rarely uses the lightsaber in Clone Wars. Too powerful, no need.

We only seem him do it in the prequels because he fought two exceptionally powerful Force users that he couldn't rag-doll with powers alone.

Which in context makes the saber duels in TFA and TLJ fantastically lame considering Kylo Ren actually needs a blade against non-Force wielders. Bad face.