'Nineteen Eighty-Four' (1984) 10/10: Faithful to the Orwell book, montage of Oceanian soldiers was epic.

Boyhood: 8/10 - A very nice movie to watch at home. The most interesting thing to see is obviously the characters' actual aging, but it's also nice to see a story that is as down to earth as it gets, extremely simple, almost bland but at the same time very powerful and effective.

Gone Girl: 8/10 - This is a movie you're only supposed to watch once, I guess, but boy isn't it shocking in some parts!! Also almost made me reconsider Ben Affleck as an actual actor.

Jurassic Park: 9/10 - This is still as good as it gets. I've probably watched this more than 20 times. I'm very excited for Jurassic World, even though I am positive it's not going to be nearly as good as the first one, but still... Chris Pratt and dinosaurs combined seem a pretty good deal to me.


Since I am on this thread, can you guys suggest some must-see movies that are most likely going to get Oscar nominations?

Reign Over Me - 8/10

It was a really moving movie but very sad. I didn't cry though, which isn't surprising since I've never cried over a book or movie, but if you're prone to crying you probably would.

The Theory of Everything - 9.5/10
Aaah it was brilliant! Anyone who was half interested in seeing this film, you definitely should! It was really beautiful, and incredibly moving. I went with my parents, and we all felt the same. Bring tissues -- I nearly choked on my popcorn while crying! And I caught a few tears going down my dad's face, which was sweet. I really enjoyed it and would definitely recommend. The plot was really great and very gripping throughout. The cast were fantastic, particularly Eddie Redmayne who was spectacular as Stephen Hawking. Definitely worth watching!

Two Night Stand (2014) - 5/10
Into The Woods (2014) 6/10
I had such high hopes for this film,I love musicals but half way through this film I was begging them to stop singing.
TMNT (2014) - 4/10
Laggies (Say When) (2014) - 5/10
Yes Or No 2 (2012) - 5/10
Wolf Creek (2005) - 1/10
The Longest Week (2014) - 3/10
The Ant Bully (2006) - 2/10
Behaving Badly (2014) - 4/10
The Boy In The Dress (2014) - 6/10
Moms Night Out (2014) - 5/10
Lap Dance (2014) - 3/10
On The Buses (1971) - 7/10
We are the best (2013) - 5/10
Perfect sisters (2014) - 5/10
The Moth Diaries (2011) - 4/10
Pride (2014) - 8/10

Nightcrawler (2014), 9/10. I felt really conflicted in the end.

A Beautiful Mind - 8/10. Really good movie. I could relate to it a lot as someone who has delusions myself but I don't think I could manage them without medication, and I'm not a mathematical genius either. :P

The Overnighters - Documentary - 2014 - 8/10
I thought it was a documentary about people converging on Williston, ND to find jobs in the shale oil industry, and a minister who opens his church to those who don't have shelter. But the story gets a lot stranger as it goes along. It left me with a lot to think about.

I absolutely love this movie. I think that the professor was incredibly brave to face life with such uncertainty. My heart broke for his poor wife and I admired her equally. It's a beautiful film.

The Interview (2014)- Hmm. I don't know yet. It was a really funny movie, but the overhype (could you even call it that?) kinda blew it out of proportion. I'd say maybe an 8/10.

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (2014) - 5/10

Guardians of the Galaxy
7/10
it was okay but it wasn't as good as I thought it would be. I didn't really understand the film that well my dad said that there is going to be 5 parts of the film made so hopefully I will understand it more as each film comes out. baby Groot is so cute at the end when he was dancing in the flower pot.

The Incredibles 7.5/10. Overall, I found this film quite enjoyable but am unclear about why people rave about it. While I enjoyed the theme of washed up hero, I wondered if that would get to be a bit boring for the little ones. I also thought it went on a bit too long on that part, but overall was very creative and fun.

The Amazing Spider-man 2
8/10
I thought this was a really good film until something really devastating happens at the end which is why I didn't give it a 10/10. click spoiler if you want to know what happens

The Maze Runner - 2/10. What the heck was that? It was hard to follow and made no sense.

Killuminati
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v00j2JO2gI

Why not just call it Illuminati? Smushing the word KILL into it just brings hope that it's all tongue in cheek. But no, they're serious. The only value for me seeing this is to test my bs detector and resistance to crap. Some of my brain was accepting it before the end of the first hour. This is a heavily edited bag of mixed trickery and all the audio taken from media sources is consistently lousy and out of sync to hide the spoken audio not matching the lip movements of whoever is supposed to be talking. But don't worry, the biggest trick is that it's three hours long to wear you down. Worth watching to see how long it takes for their fear techniques to start grabbing you. The disclaimer at the beginning pretty much says: You have no business watching this if you don't agree to believe what you're about to see because then you are a rigid-minded sheep. I only watched the first hour because it was already getting toxic in my head, but saved the link to text file for future revisiting.

So, pretty much you are going to see and hear ( in the first hour ) appeals to your apophenia by showing images from the past being coincidentally similar to images later in history, tons of eyes and creepy sound effects from sounddogs.com, George Bush Jr and Sr talking about the New World Order, "experts" that you have probably never heard of because they are so deep they drowned in the earth's magma, world trade center stuff about thermite, the argument that you can't trust the government because they always lie to you and therefore can only be the work of the Killuminati because the government wouldn't lie on their own, George Carlin doing his standup routine but this time with music in the background, Bush Jr making a joke about not finding wmd's superimposed with video of soldiers dying, a clip from the Daily Show, botched audio edits and sneaky pull out to image on bulky television set shots, and lot's and lots of dollar bills.

Rating: 6.66 Eyes of Sauron out of 10

"Fury" (2014) with Brad Pitt. After seeing the previews we were looking forward to watching this...2 hours, 14 minutes later I wished I had my wasted time back. I'll give it 2/10 because we stuck it out until the end.

On the up-side, I get to select the next movie : D

Fury 7/10
I like WW2 movies. Fury turned out to be better than I'd expected. I can only describe it as a really American?
Also, lots of explosions :D

I last saw Sense and Sensibility and I'll give it at 3 out of 5. It was okay; the story was fine, but I was really just bored and was wondering when it would be over about halfway through the movie. I'm just glad I didn't have to read the novel for class, though Zofloya, or the Moor is giving me a run for my money too.

Goodfellas - 9.5/10

Guardians of the Galaxy. 5/5. I never watch movies. So really, my opinion really shouldn't count because apparently I have horrific taste. However, it was really well done, and I loved Vin Diesal

Horrible Bosses 2 (2014)- 7/10

It was eh. Did they really need to make a second one? I at least thought it would be continuing from the last one, which it didn't really. It made me laugh, so I give it a 7 instead of 6.

Big Hero 6- 10/10
Initially I hadn't felt the need to watch it in the cinema, but I went anyway. Best decision this year!

Hobbit battle of the 5 armies

Tolkien lover- 2/5-- as a tolkienaholic, the entire Hobbit franchise has ticked me off from the first movie. The entire premise of this film isn't even in the original book! The entire climax of the book happens in the first 15 min of the movie and the rest is fluff.

entertainment value- 4/5-- However, as a fan of just good movies and not being a Tolkien fan, this is a good movie. Obviously it is no where near the scale of LOTR but it was very entertaining. Hands down the best of the 3 movies. The story was good, the acting supurb, the battle scenes, eh good but didn't have the break up like how they did in LoTR which hurt it. But a very good movie all in all.

The Vow (2012) - 7/10
I really enjoyed this film although it wasn't what I expected. I expected the sort of film I love - cheesy romance. This Nicholas Sparks novel inspired movie actually takes a slightly different direction. Based on true events, the couple are in a car accident and it leaves Paige (Rachel McAdams) with memory loss. Her husband Leo (Channing Tatum) works to win her heart again. Quite touching at times and I enjoyed it..

Dreamgirls (2006) - 6/10
I expected to fall fully in love with it, as it's all about music, but didn't. It is definitely not a bad film though as there are some great parts. Jennifer Hudson was amazing. The singing in it is insane. Eddie Murphy is as brilliant as ever. Beyoncé as well. Jamie Foxx's character was convincing. Basically all of the actors/actresses were brilliant. Some really gripping parts in the storyline too.