Movies

[Idun]

3/5 is still a good rating. Brad Pitt's character was awesome. I favor Malkovich's character because he has a bit more fleshed out transitioning in the movie - well-to-do instantly fucked over to walking scruffily from a boat in nightwear with an axe? Matter-a-fact, one of my favorite scenes are when Pitt and Malkovich are in the car and both of their characters collide.

[Meeplelard]

You know, I don't think I said this in the topic yet so...

Shrek 4: Saw this on the plane.  Better than Shrek 3, worse than the first two.  It was decent enough, though still had that "Can we stop making these movies?" feeling.  I mean, yes, the 2nd movie was a good sequel, but that doesn't mean you have to make another sequel!  And then making a 4th one after the 3rd wasn't even that good was weird, even if they learned from their mistakes.

...whatever, it wasn't bad or anything, as I said.

Clash of the Titans (remake): Also saw this and...kind of crappy.  "Hey look, remember that 1980s classic with cool stop motion that was about the story of Perseus, if screwed up a bit for the sake of Hollywood? Lets add BETTAR SPECIAL EFFECTS and FUCK THE STORY SOME MORE!"

For example, they arbitrarily changed the villain from Thetis and her son Calibus to Hades for no good reason.  Honestly, I can't stand when they just go "yo, Hades is god of the dead, HE MUST BE THE VILLAIN!"  I mean...ok, it worked for Disney since Disney fucks everything up anyway, and Hades was at least made one of their fun Comedic yet Threatening Villains, but here they just made him a Generic Evil Overlord.  See, much as I rant about God of War, at least GoW did one thing right and that was "Hades never openly opposed Zeus."  Just doing the "Hades is jealous of Zeus, WAR!!!" is honestly not a fun plot if played seriously, cause all it does is depict Hades in your typical angry vengeful villain light.

They also made the story a whole "MORTALS VS. GODS!" and "Hey, Perseus must be a mediator even if he's clearly COMPLETELY PRO HUMAN AND JUSTIFIABLY SO! HE'S A DEMI-GOD!"  I know the Perseus in the original Clash of the Titans was just a Gary Stu, but at least the story here was just "Lets save the princess from a jealous Goddess", and the movie didn't pretend to make Perseus anything other than a cliched super hero with the Gods on his side.  The humans were more believable in the original, since it...fit with Greek Mythology, with the whole "Ha! My daughter is better than one of the Gods...oh shit, I pissed one of them off, we're screwed!" and Perseus was primarily helping here cause the means of the sacrifice happened to be the girl he just got engaged too. 
Remake? HUMANS THINK THEY'RE BETTER THAN GODS CAUSE THEY SAY SO IN A SETTING THAT KNOWS GODS EXISTS!  AFTER ONE GOD KICKED THEIR ASS IN A RECENT BATTLE...VERY VERY BADLY AT THAT.

Don't get me started on the "Character added in only so feminists won't whine" Action Girl or the Perseus wangst regarding refusal to use his awesome magical weapons the gods handed to him. 

The movie was watchable, but its just so blech compared to the original, which was a cool movie.

[Anthony Edward Stark]

The movie was watchable, but its just so blech compared to the original, which was a cool movie.

"I don't wanna sound like a queer or nothin', but I think unicorns are kickass."

Funny you should mention Clash of the Titans, I watched Orgasmo again this morning.

[Captain K.]

Expendables:  Still boggling over Super choosing Julia Roberts over Dolph Lundgren.  Anyway, great movie, although I can see where the complaints about lack of realism come from.  I mean, Steve Austin getting jobbed by Randy Couture?  Yeah, right.

[Idun]

Season 1 of Veronica Mars finished as of earlier this morning. 5/5. STFU, I like it.

[Idun]

Saw Resident Evil in 3D. Never seen a movie in 3D. Layering effect made multiple on-screen people stand out, but when there was only one and a background, it was an odd 2D experience. I can tell they put more focus on the explosives/rain/etc. Still a fun movie. Plus I have a queer lesbo obsession with Jovovich, so I gasmed at 5 stars despite the lack of action that was awesome from RE3. En media res ending fucking pissed me off.

[Idun]

Amelie was delightful. 5/5. Plus, parce que c'est-il en française, je peut travailler en mon LISTENING SKILLZ.
Re-watched first Child's Play. Meh. Slapstick-orama, but still full of some sort of awesomeness. Debating on whether this awesomeness derives from nostalgia?
Tried to watch Lolita twice, but a- Netflix envelope came EMPTY, second - the replacement disc was unplayable. Queer up until the telephone conversation scene.
Fargo - 3/5. Like usual, love Coen brother's characters, but don't really like the execution of plot.
The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard - Charles rated this 5/5. I thought it was 3/5.
The Warlords - 3/5. Still not used to Jet Li being evil. Technically, he wasn't. . . "evil," but still.

[Idun]

He's Just Not That Into You - 4/5.

A good enough movie to initiate dialogue between the sexes. Plus, I love Drew Barrymore.

[Shale]

The Book of Eli: Pretty slow, but overall entertaining. The very end, with the old guy putting the Bible on the shelf, was unintentionally hilarious, though. We got that reverent scene of Washington dictating the first chapter of Genesis, the old british guy transcribes every word like it's...well, the word of God, they finally print it and bind it....and then they set it next to the book that has the exact same stuff in it. You'd think somebody would have said "Uh....we've already got this. Would you mind skipping ahead to Jesus?" sometime while he was putting the entire compound to sleep with Numbers.

[Idun]

Shutter Island -



5/5.







My brain is trying to restructure itself at the moment.

[OblivionKnight]

Shutter Island is awesome.  Leonardo Dicaprio's last couple movies (Inception, Shutter Island) have been awesome.

[Grefter]

Have you seen The Departed yet OK?  He is amazing in that as well (as are most of the performances).

[Idun]

I'm amazed at his versatility of accents, as his performance (at a younger age of course) in Man in the Iron Mask was questionable.

I doth believe Inception is available at the dollar theatres, so I must hussle to see it. [checking] Oh wait, it's not. Officially down to two show times at regular theatres. The Last Airbender for .75 cents? I just may. . .

[Cmdr_King]

It's a trap!  (or so I'm told)

Instead watch the excellent series.

[Sierra]

It's a trap!  (or so I'm told)

Instead watch the excellent series.

Quoting for veracity.

[OblivionKnight]

Yes.  The series is AWESOME.

*waves his Azula flags*

We'll have to see about the sequel series, but it should be good too.

[Idun]

I need to see the series in proper chronological order, and if no one is willing to commission this procedure, I'm just going to stick with the .75c movie.

[Shale]

You'd be better off spending the 75 cents on a candy bar, or a wishing well, or in a last-ditch effort, just eating three quarters. It's not that the TV show is better than the movie, it's that the movie is really really bad and should not be watched, and the TV series also happens to be good, so hey, you should watch it sometime.

[OblivionKnight]

Come on up here sometime, girlfriend, and I'll show it all to ya'!

[Grefter]

For reference, http://thecinemasnob.com/2010/07/03/the-last-airbender-review.aspx Here is a good reviewer ranting about how bad it is for like 20 freaking minutes.

[Idun]

Come on up here sometime, girlfriend, and I'll show it all to ya'!

Your willingness to show me yours is baffling.

[OblivionKnight]

You show me yours and I'll show you mine

[Idun]

That didn't seem part of your aforementioned agreement, so no.

[Tide]

Let Me In:

Loved it. The only problem is, its not really a horror, which it is somewhat classified as. Yours personally considers it as more of a drama/thriller - I'm guessing they just slapped Horror on it because there is gore.  So what is there to say? The acting's great, the story retains true to the novel (which I should pick up sometime...) and it's a good plot to start off with. Very touching towards the end and how the story concludes. Would definitely recommend it unless you seriously cannot stand gore of any kind.

[Grefter]

Buried - Hard movie to really get a take on.  I have decided that I enjoyed it even if yeah the criticism is spot on that it feels longer than it is.  Setting the entire movie in a box is just straight up a rough movie.  It is really good, but I have trouble reccomending it.  If watching Ryan Reynolds in a box for 90 minutes sounds difficult then give it is skip.  If you are looking for a relatively experimental movie done on a Holywood budget (2 million, so not super huge for Holywood, but no 50k indie flick) then give it a shot.