As long as people go to them they will keep making them.

Brick Mansions (2014)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1430612/

Why would Luc Besson produce and write a remake of his own District 13 and come up with an inferior product?

It's a shame that Luc Besson has been putting his name lately on too many inferior products!

What happened to the Luc Besson that made The Fifth Element and Léon: The Professional and La Femme Nikita 1990?

I have a feeling this movie would never even gotten a theatrical release if Paul Walker was still alive and it would had gone straight to DVD.

2/5

A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2557490/

OMG!

I haven't laughed this hard watching a comedy in years!

9.5/10

X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1877832/

First this movie makes absolutely no sense.

Second, enough with the time travel story arch.

There has been too many films lately using the time travel story line.

It's been done to death and it only results in a big ugly mess of a movie!

Time to let the X-Men film franchise die.

They couldn't come up with anything original so they went back in time with First Class and now they used the same time travel arch in this sequel:

how so not original!

Then at the end after the credit stopped rolling, they want to take this franchise to the next level of bad:

let's make the next film religious and maybe offend a few Muslims and Arabs in the process.

1/5

Jack the Giant Slayer (2013)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1351685/

It wasn't a BAD movie but it wasn't a GREAT or GOOD movie either.

Just marginally average with some recycled material from all the other Fantasy genre movies made before it.

3/5

I LOVE Charlie Brown and Peanuts but this animation just looks plain very weird.

Have you seen the new Donald Duck cartoons lately on TV?

They look weird too because of the new CGI artwork!

I like old style animation using paper and transparency and hand drawn.

Looks like PIXAR does it again!!

The more trailers I see for this movie the less I am figuring out what this movie is about aside from the fact that Earth is dying, the Human race is facing extinction and a space mission may save mankind.

But from the 4 trailers I've seen so far one after another, it looks like Nolan is setting us up for an Inception Deception!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vxOhd4qlnA#t=12

YAY! I know where I will be on Christmas Day! Another great movie by Clint Eastwood!

Who would had thought he would had gone from playing great movie heroes to becoming a great director!

The Zero Theorem (2013)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2333804/

Only director Terry Gilliam can turn the universal question "What is the meaning of life?" into a harsh Dystopian Orwellian social critique.

This movie goes hand in hand with Brazil and 12 Monkeys.

If you don't like movies that make you think, stay away from this.

But if you like movies that are beautiful and cerebral and deep and have hidden symbolism and at times defying logic, this is the movie for you.

4.5/5

Mr. Majestyk (1974)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071866/

The good old days when actors like Charles Bronson, James Coburn, Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood, Steve McQueen, Paul Newman were tough guys heroes on screen without the help of CGI and many times without body doubles doing stunts for them!

Today's actors like Tom Cruise, George Clooney, Michael Fassbender, Llam Neeson, Christian Bale, Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth are all Wimps!

They use stunt men and CGI and they are afraid to get their clothes dirty!

4/5

The Purge: Anarchy (2014)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2975578/

Definitely better than the first one.

4/5

I'm excited for the next Hunger Games movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6srDbQqlss

Hercules (2014)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1267297/

By the number we've seen it before formulaic sword and action and adventure fantasy movie.

It's alright if you have nothing to watch including TV reruns and you have about 100 min to waste.

3.5/5

Into the Storm (2014)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2106361/

...and here for the past 18 years I thought Twister was one of the biggest cinematic insult to my intelligence that I'd ever seen.

This movie just beat Twister to win the grand prize for STUPIDEST MORONIC disaster movie ever.

It was so bad: script, acting, dialogue, etc, etc.

I HAD to skip forward just to watch the tornado scenes.

0.5/5

Into the Storm (2014)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2106361/

0.5/5

I almost considered going to see this in the theater. I'm glad I passed on it.

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2103281/

Not impressed!

The first one was so much better being an origin story.

This one is just an excuse to have lots of machine gun fire and explosions and a bigger CGI SFX budget!

2.5/5

I gave the first film 4/5 here:

http://www.movie-list.com/forum/showthread.php?6025-what-wuz-the-most-recent-movie(s)-you-have-seen&p=218390#post218390

I liked it a lot. I thought it set the wheels in motion for the next one.

Nightcrawler (2014)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2872718

Good performances by Russo and Gyllenhaal YET the only way I can explain this movie is by comparing it to a Michelin-starred fine dining restaurant:

You spent $600 on dinner per person and you still walk away afterward feeling hungry and empty inside:

the dishes are beautifully presented like a priceless work of art, the service is impeccable, but the portions are small and not filling and you don't get seconds.

3/5

Go to Longhorn next time.

Go to Longhorn next time.

Tom silly!

Lucy (2014)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2872732/

Shame shame on Luc Besson and Scarlett Johansson and Morgan Freeman for attaching themselves to this waste of time!

2/5

Edited November 9, 201411 yr by J7Dadda

Yeah I expected more from the film too.

At least it was sort of an original concept rather than a remake or reboot.

Watching Guardians Of The Galaxy and trying to make any sense of it!

So confusing!

I looked it up on IMDB and according to IMBD FAQ section for this film:

Does this have a connection to the other movies? (the Avengers etc)

Yes. This film is part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the same universe as Iron Man (2008), The Incredible Hulk (2008), Iron Man 2 (2010), Thor (2011), Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), The Avengers (2012), Iron Man 3 (2013), Thor: The Dark World (2013), Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) and Ant-Man (2015). This film will be part of Phase 2 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe setting up Avengers: Age of Ultron. It will take place largely in outer space (as does the comic book). In the mid-credits scene of Thor: The Dark World, Lady Sif and Volstagg bring the Aether to The Collector, who is played by Benicio Del Toro. When The Collector asks him why they are giving him the Aether, Lady Sif and Volstagg respond that they already have the Tesseract in Odin's vault on Asgard, and it would be unsafe to keep two Infinity Stones in one place. After Lady Sif and Volstagg leave, The Collector says, "One down, five to go". This scene serves a link between Thor: The Dark World and Guardians of the Galaxy. One important highlight of this scene is Adam Warlock's cocoon, which can be seen when Volstagg and Lady Sif are entering The Collector's vault.

In the comics, the stones were fastened to the Infinity Gauntlet, which is also stored in Odin's vault and was briefly seen in Thor. Thanos gets hold of the Infinity Gauntlet and has fought The Avengers on many occasions. Gamora is also Thanos' adopted daughter, which could have implications to her background as an assassin. It is possible that the film and the Marvel Cinematic Universe could follow this trend. Since this film takes place in outer space, referencing other characters and films was somewhat difficult. Most of the action that's happening in the Marvel Cinematic Universe occurs on Earth, so it seems there won't be any interaction with the Avengers for now. Even though this film has limited references compared to the rest of the films, there are still some that help establish a connection between them. During a scene when the Guardians visit the Collector, a Chitauri mask can be seen, referencing the events that took place in The Avengers. There is also a Dark Elf mask from Thor: The Dark World, which is shown while Carina is cleaning the cage. In the after-credits scene, Adam Warlock's cocoon is seen again, this time in the background, but it is now open, probably due to the explosion after Carina touched the Infinity Stone. Shortly after the film's release, director James Gunn confirmed that Adam Warlock will now be a part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

So nowadays if you miss out on one of these 'comic books' based films, you won't know what the heck is going on with the next one because they are all connected to each other in one way or another.

For instance, back to the QUOTE from IMDB above:

Yes. This film is part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the same universe as Iron Man (2008), The Incredible Hulk (2008), Iron Man 2 (2010), Thor (2011), Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), The Avengers (2012), Iron Man 3 (2013), Thor: The Dark World (2013), Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014),

I have seen all those films one time and one time only.

I don't remember them in details so how am I supposed to make sense of anything or see a connection between them and with Guardians Of The Galaxy?

Just a ploy from these film-makers to want you to watch these movies several times and spend the $ to do it.

Can we have stand alone movies?

The only one of those films I've seen is Thor. But I was still able to enjoy Guardians of the Galaxy. For some reason the Marvel films haven't appealed to me very much.