commonsense88 Posted June 13, 2014 Share Posted June 13, 2014 22 Jump Street 7:00 PM 30% Full Earth to Echo(No Response) Dumb and Dumber seq ( laughs) Sex Tapes ( laughs) Lets Be Cops ( lots of laughs) Deliver Us From Evil (No Response) Transformers ( No Respose) The Interview (laughs) Think Like A Man too ( couple of laughs) They accidentally started 21 Jump street before stopping it ten minutes in. Movie: Laughed the whole time, Crowd enjoyed it, Funniest credits since Hangover II, A+ 10/10 :-) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ACSlater Posted June 13, 2014 Share Posted June 13, 2014 22 Jump Street 7:00 PM 30% Full Earth to Echo(No Response) Dumb and Dumber seq ( laughs) Sex Tapes ( laughs) Lets Be Cops ( lots of laughs) Deliver Us From Evil (No Response) Transformers ( No Respose) The Interview (laughs) Think Like A Man too ( couple of laughs) They accidentally started 21 Jump street before stopping it ten minutes in. Movie: Laughed the whole time, Crowd enjoyed it, Funniest credits since Hangover II, A+ 10/10 :-) How does that even happen? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
commonsense88 Posted June 13, 2014 Share Posted June 13, 2014 How does that even happen? I have no idea, maybe there was suppose to be a double feature option and the theater decided not to do it 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blankments Posted June 14, 2014 Share Posted June 14, 2014 22 Jump Street June 13, 7:05 PM, 99% full (I ended up accidentally being that douche who holds seats until the friends show up literally two seconds before the movie starts) Cinemark, Valparaiso, IN Trailers - arrived late; no reactions Transformers: Age of Extinction Let's Be Cops - laughs at the herpes line Tammy - some laughs Dumb and Dumber To - huge laughs Sex Tape - some laughs Think there was another trailer but I can't remember it. Movie was freaking hilarious. Loved it, and so did the audience. This is the most laughter I ever heard in the theater. The after credits gag was disappointing, especially considering my group was the only one who stayed for it. Overall, great time 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
babz06 Posted June 14, 2014 Share Posted June 14, 2014 (edited) 22 Jump Street 7:30pm 98% Full Trailers: Earth to Echo % Edited June 14, 2014 by babz06 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tong kosong Posted June 16, 2014 Share Posted June 16, 2014 Edge of Tomorrow 16/06/2014 6 PM Hoyts Melbourne Central 25% full Trailers: Sin City Guardians of the Galaxy Transformers: Age of Extinction Jupiter Ascending Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Movie: Great movie, I really loved it. On par with CA2, just a bit below DOFP. 8/10 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
commonsense88 Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 How To Train a Dragon 2 9:25 PM Showing, 12 people missed the previews Movie. Crowd enjoyed it, Not as charming as the first one, but still good. B+ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blankments Posted June 18, 2014 Share Posted June 18, 2014 22 Jump Street June 18, 2:05 PM, 40% full Portage 16 IMAX, Portage, INTrailers - literally walked in once "SONY" appeared on the screen. Hilarious again. This audience didn't laugh as much but it cheered a lot. Fun way to spend the afternoon. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blankments Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 Maleficent June 18, 8:30 PM, (As it is a drive-in, I cannot judge how full it is) 49er Drive-In, Valparaiso, INTrailers (no reactions) Guardians of the Galaxy Big Hero 6 Surprisingly enjoyable, though not necessarily in good ways. Had some fun making fun of it with my friend Edge of Tomorrow June 18, 10:25 PM, (As it is a drive-in, I cannot judge how full it is) 49er Drive-In, Valparaiso, INTrailers (no reactions) Into the Storm Really liked what I heard of it; will try to catch it again to more adequately access quality. Of the crowd, I caught someone having sex in the car next to us 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blankments Posted June 20, 2014 Share Posted June 20, 2014 How to Train Your Dragon 2 in 3D June 13, 11:30 AM, 20% full Cinemark, Valparaiso, IN Trailers - no reactions Dolphin Tale 2 Annie Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Planes: Fire and Rescue 3D The Book of Life 3D Penguins of Madagascar 3D Movie was excellent, but the crowd sucked. To be expected on a Friday morning though. I still had a good time 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
commonsense88 Posted June 21, 2014 Share Posted June 21, 2014 TLAMT 7:55 PM Showing 80% full Tammy (few laughs) (best preview yet) Lets Be Cops ( Huge Hit) Equalizer (No response, I am interested) It was a lot of fun, crowd ate it up, very light on story but great time. B+ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tong kosong Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 Transformers: Age of Extinction 25/06/2014 5PM Hoyts Melbourne Central 40% full Trailers: Guardians of the Galaxy Into the Storm Dawn of the Planet of the Apes TMNT Movie: I enjoyed the movie. Better than TF2 and TF3, on par with TF. 8/10 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blankments Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 Edge of Tomorrow June 27, 10:00 AM, 1% full (my mom and me were the only people there) Cinemark, Valparaiso, IN Trailers - no reactions Transformers: Age of Extinction cell phone ad Get On Up The Expendables 3 When the Game Stands Tall Into the Storm The Judge Earth to Echo - this ad was fucking bizarre. There was celebrity endorsements and sold-out jokes. Hope it's on youtube because it was GLORIOUS Good movie. Crowd was nonexistent so not much to report 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BK007 Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 I wish this thread had more posts. Just like how everyone seems to review the movie in either the movie thread in the BO forum or in daily threads. Maybe there should be a special tag to collate all these reviews/crowd reports. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay Beezy Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 (edited) Too tired to do a complete report. Saw Transformers in IMAX 3D at 11:40 this morning. Theater was less than half full. Don't know if it was due to the IMAX 3D theater or Bay's penchant of upping the Bayhem with each passing movie, but my head still hurts from seeing it. That has never happened to me before. Anyway, consider me done with the franchise. Edited June 27, 2014 by Jay Beezy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Impact Posted June 28, 2014 Author Share Posted June 28, 2014 Transformers 4 3:45PM About 90% full (mostly younger people, though quite a few adults too) Trailers: The Giver Mokingjay 1 (got a few laughs at how they presented it along with "wow that was short" and "that was odd") Dracula Untold-Some uncontrollable laughter at one point. Into the Storm-Oh boy Twister as if that wasn't bad enough! I think I did get a little sick at the way this is filmed... Equalizer-Looks pretty good Apes 2-The only trailer that I've seen already out of all of these. Hercules-Some laughs and some "Has there ever been a good live action version?" Well I will say this much, looks better then the 1960s versions. TMNT Movie: Pretty good, better then the 2nd and 3rd for sure. Okay it felt a little long at a few points but not as near as bad as part 2. Acting was way better, and if anyone went for the story you saw the wrong film. (Sorry the critic reviews were so lame, then again they always have hated films like these even such great ones as Top Gun and ID4 as much as I hate to say that). Mark was enjoyable (and I did feel for him on his relationship I will admit) and Stanley Tucci was funny and the audience loved him. The visuals were great. And only Michael Bay can successfully make an entire cheesy scene enjoyable I think. B+ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Webslinger Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 Transformers: Age of Extinction (IMAX 3D) 3:30 About half-full in a 400-seater Trailers Dracula Untold The Equalizer Interstellar Guardians of the Galaxy (3D) Hercules (3D) (Kudos to IMAX for actually showing all-IMAX trailers for a change, even if Equalizer in IMAX makes precisely zero damn sense) Oh man... where to even begin with Transformers: Age of Extinction? (I would say that it's probably not best to type this review while under the influence, but let's be honest, that's really the best state for one to be in while assessing the artistic merits of Optimus and pals onscreen.) I really enjoyed the first film, but was greatly disappointed with each of the sequels, so I went into this one with very low expectations, and those expectations were mostly met (and man, if that's not a backhanded compliment, I don't know what is). Taken at a surface level, this movie is remarkably stupid. The plot - or what little of it surfaces over the course of an insanely-long 165 minutes (like, seriously, did no one at the studio suggest that this thing be a mercifully-short two hours?) makes no damn sense whatsoever. Despite resetting the universe as far as the human characters are concerned, the robots are still operating under the context of the first three films, and the background information to make these two storylines work with one another is as minimal as possible. As is customary with a Transformers sequel, plot holes dominate the majority of the running time. For example: why in the bluest of blue hells would a government that has seen firsthand the kind of destruction the Decepticons can put together want to hunt down every single one of the Autobots (y'know, the only beings that can realistically protect them from extraterrestrial beings with enormous guns?)? It's a question that lingers on the mind of every single thinking viewer who has seen the previous films, but never seems to occur to any of the characters in this film. Furthermore, many of the new characters suck. Bless Mark Wahlberg for instantly being a more capable protagonist than Shia LaBeouf in the last film, but I felt more sympathy for his Daniel Lugo in Pain and Gain (who, for the uninitiated, was the completely unsympathetic protagonist) than I did for the everyman protagonist in this film. The amount of blandness present from an actor who is usually so vibrant is shocking and saddening. Moreover, Nicola Peltz earns the dubious honor of being the most wholly misogynistic persona that Bay has ever depicted onscreen (honestly, would it kill the guy to have one strong female character? Just one who doesn't seem completely helpless? I'd love to see Emily Blunt's character from Edge of Tomorrow show up and kick the asses of every character onscreen). Even though her relationship to Wahlberg begins to oh-too-obviously mirror the one between Bruce Willis and Liv Tyler in Bay's Armageddon, the complete and total lack of depth ultimately makes that piss-poor relationship between Willis and Tyler look like Oscar material by comparison. As awful as the interactions between Willis and Tyler were in the aforementioned film, I could at least kind-of, sort-of believe that they were related (it helped that the boyfriend in Armageddon was played by Ben Affleck rather than the guy who plays the bf in this film), but I never believed it here for one of the film's many, many seconds. Naturally, given the weight that the film gives to the relationship between father and daughter in this film, I was left completely deprived of emotion during the moments that were meant to be intense between father and daughter. However, if there's anything that almost singlehandedly saves the film, it's the midway entrance of Stanley Tucci. Wahlberg appears to acknowledge that he's in a terrible film for a paycheck (or that he's willingly working once again with a director who got a great performance out of him - seriously, go watch Pain & Gain, y'all), but Tucci owns every second that he's onscreen with an amount of cynicism and lack of guilt that seems to fit this project perfectly. He knows that he's in a film with a terrible script, and as such, he heightens the utter cartoonishness of the situations admirably. Unlike Wahlberg - whose performance admittedly isn't bad so much as misguided - Tucci appears to be having fun and to be winking all-so-knowingly at the audience to not take the proceedings too seriously. And man alive, the casting of John Goodman as one of the Autobots was genius. If only one of his lines had been "Smokey, you're entering a world of pain..." As a film with a story to tell, Age of Extinction is a reeking piece of shit. The production value is obviously impeccable (any Oscar nominations for sound or visual effects will definitely not be unearned). That being said... was anyone really expecting anything good out of it? Even with the change of scenery, it's clear that Bay's heart was more in (the still very underrated) Pain & Gain than it was in this film, and it doesn't work at all on any legitimate levels. All of that said, as someone who went in expecting a crappy movie and to come out with little more than rules for future drinking games, I enjoyed it thoroughly. For all of the wrong reasons, this movie may well be the most enjoyable of 2014. As a movie in its own objective right, it undeniably sucks. As something that can provide future enjoyment for all the wrong reasons (or, hell, given the cynicism that permeates Hollywood, maybe these reasons were the ones that the filmmakers intended all along), I have to give it some credit for being enjoyable on a wholly ironic, postmodern level, even moreso than its two most immediate predecessors. D+ (although, honestly, as I hinted at during multiple points in this elongated review, this thing defies a proper letter grade) Some audience members applauded when the credits and requisite whiny song by Imagine Dragons (which I guess has replaced the requisite whiny song by Linkin Park - oh, how times have changed since the late-2000s, and damn, do I feel way older than I realistically should) began to play. Admittedly, I was somewhat positive about it, too, albeit for the doubly ironic reasons that: a.) the movie was finally fucking over, and b.) it was enjoyable on an ironic level that has not been so notable since the final Twilight movie. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superstancer Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 Watched TF4 on big screen....first TF movie Theatre:PVR IMAX bangalore status: 90% Man, this movie was bad very badd.....too long no content jus explosions action scenes....these stupid machines coming out of no where......badd Not my kind of movie.....visuals were good....Mark wahlberg performance was 4/10......2 for visuals 2 for IMAX 3d effects in theatre 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tong kosong Posted June 29, 2014 Share Posted June 29, 2014 How to Train Your Dragon 2 29/06/2014 6.25 PM Hoyts Melbourne Central 100% full (It's a very small studio) Trailers: An animation movie about cat (I missed the name) The Boxtrolls Rio 2 Annie Movie: Solid movie, good but not great. I like the first one more. 7/10 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blankments Posted July 2, 2014 Share Posted July 2, 2014 How to Train Your Dragon 2 July 2, 11:30 AM, 20% full Cinemark, Valparaiso, IN Trailers - no reactions unless stated Transformers: Age of Extinction cell phone ad Planes: Fire and Rescue Dolphin Tale 2 Annie Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - murmurs Home - some laughs Penguins of Madagascar Earth to Echo Celebrity endorsement Fantastic once again. Some kids laughing and declaring stuff is cool in a cute way. Decent time. The Fault in Our Stars July 2, 4:05 PM, 15% full Cinemark, Valparaiso, IN Trailers - no reactions If I Stay cell phone ad If I Stay The Best of Us Begin Again What If Begin Again Earth to Echo Celebrity Endorsement Enjoyable, but there was an asshole who cheered when kissing happened. A phone also went off early into the movie. Still, okay time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
