Topic: Movie thread.

Earlier tonight I watched The Admiral: Roaring Current (Netflix/Korean/Japanese language film).

Set during one of Japan's incursions into Korea in the 1500's, it centers around a Korean admiral who must find a way to turn back the numerous (and recently reinvigorated) forces of the Japanese navy, with only 13 ships.

There's a lot of buildup (lots of strategy meetings & the like, in both sides) in the first half of the film, but the final hour is one long, nonstop naval battle that never lets up, and it really pays off.

Last night I saw one of the many teen romance films to spawn due to the success of The Fault in Our Stars, Paper Towns. I must say how surprised I am about how good this movie is. Basically the main character goes on this scavenger hunt to find this girl. Now most people would wonder why he is going though so much trouble over a girl? Well the film actually addresses this point and even makes it serve as a key idea to take away from the while film. Very refreshing movie.

@GamecubeMan: The Fault in Our Stars was overbearingly sentimental whereas Paper Planes does well to stick to the book without resorting to the usual melodramatic fluff.

Both books are worth reading considering both films (annoyingly) go off on their own paths from time to time; An Abundance of Katherine's is John Green's best (so far).

Last night we watched Home (Netflix).

It's the one that has Jim Parsons (Sheldon from the Big Bang Theory) voicing an alien who befriends a human girl. Like most of Dreamworks' catalogue, it's pretty decent if you're in the mood for an animated movie, but it's not top tier level stuff.

I just watched 'Coherence' on the UK Netflix (tho it may be in other regionsay - a group of 8 friends meet for a dinner party during the night when a comet passes over. When the lights go out they are surprised to see one house on the block still with its power. However, when two of them decide to go to the house, they are shocked to discover it's actually another parallel reality of their own dinner party. I wish I could say more but that would be giving away the twists! It's an independent film with a lot of improv but played out so brilliantly, this has quickly become one my favourite films! I still need to watch it again though to figure a few things out...

Tonight I watched American Wedding (Netflix)!

I watched American Pie about a month ago & liked it, so I figured I'd try another in the series. Netflix didn't have the second, so I jumped into the third. Just as crass as the first one, and to humorous effect.

Last night I watched Fantasia 2000 (Netflix)

It was pretty neat, and overall I thought it was better than the original. I don't think there was a single short I disliked.

Watched The Good Dinosaur in the cinema and thought it was really good. It was well made, beautiful, and with the usual emotional-Pixar angle. Not as good as Up or Toy Story 3 which I feel are Pixar's best films, but definitely on the level of Inside Out.

I've watched Sonic the Hedgehog the Movie (1996). I think it's a really good adaptation of the game. I like the characterization, the action scenes, and the soundtrack that sounds a lot like you'd find in the Japanese Sonic CD OST. It can be chiché sometimes. But still, great movie.

I have a couple of questions if anybody has seen these newer movies yet. My wife got me 12 movie tickets for Christmas to go to one a month. For January, I am trying to decide between The Revenant and The Big Short. Can anyone comment on either of these? I am leaning towards The Revenant now just because it swept the big awards at the Golden Globes. Which leads to my second question. I haven't seen it, but why on earth was The Martian nominated as a comedy in everything? I can't help but think The Big Short may have gotten a raw deal because it lost all the awards to The Martian.

@Xyphon22: I have not personally seen The Revenant but my closest friends have seen it and they are big Leo fans and they said it was good movie if that helps.

I was up for The Revenant until they announced this...
http://variety.com/2015/film/news/the-revenant-bear-rape-fox-...

...if they had included that it would have beaten Star Wars!!!

I recently saw Inside Out. Great movie and it made me cry to be honest. My only complaint is that it seemed to be the exact opposite of dexus machina if I am spelling that term correct. Basically the movie would have been a lot shorter if they realized early on the solution they figured out regarding using the tubes. Even then, whenever they found a solution, it immediately backfired over and over again.

Really? I'm a huge Keaton (Batman) fan, but I thought the movie was terrible, one of the worst I've ever seen.

2. Inside Out

Agree, although not original, it was well executed.

4. Creed

One of the best, I agree... Stallone deserves the oscar.

8. Martian

Extraordinary Ridley project, who deserves the oscar for best director.

@dumedum How did you not like Birdman? I thought it was an excellent movie, and my second favorite of 2015 behind Force Awakens.

He went in thinking it was a superhero movie

I found it extremely boring, that it didn't make sense at all, and seemed like they were just making the stuff as they go along. I heard there was supposed to be a different ending too in the beginning (which sounded terrible) and that just reinforced my belief that this was over hyped, overrated, pretentious, phony, and the kind of movie i can't stand.

As for the superhero, I actually thought this was just a regular has been actor situation, but when they started with the super powers, it was a surprise, and then keep wondering whether that was real or not was seriously annoying. I'm annoyed just thinking about it lol.

The new Captain America Movie looks cool and I really hope there are actually consequences to this movie unlike most superhero movies everyone live happily ever after.

What is Jupiter Ascending and Mortdecai

@DiscoDriver43: Jupiter Ascending was a sci-fi movie with Mila Kunis that looked intriguing but evidently didn't live up to its hype. Mortdecai is something that should never be spoken of again.