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Veryslightlymad · « **Reply #25 on:** December 29, 2007, 04:32:06 AM »

National Treasure: Book of Secrets

If you can suspend disbelief, including the ability to take Nicholas Cage seriously, you will like this movie just fine.

If you can't, for the love of god do not see it.

superaielman · « **Reply #26 on:** December 31, 2007, 12:10:42 AM »

Big things in little china- Okay. Funny at points but I had trouble paying attention to the story. It did pick up later on, Kurt Russell was awesome.

Clue- Was Clue. Just had random pantyshots this time.

CompmanJX3 · « **Reply #27 on:** December 31, 2007, 03:43:52 AM »

I Am Legend. Decent, but too short. The plot is pretty awesome but I don't feel that it's fully explored. It seemed like we were rushing through plot at points. I like Will Smith but I don't understand the acclaim for this performance. He was alright, but not earth shattering. I always thought his interactions with the other characters in his movies was his strength, and he doesn't have that here.

Shale · « **Reply #28 on:** December 31, 2007, 03:22:43 PM »

Big Trouble in Little China - Fun, funny, totally impossible to take seriously. So, exactly what it was trying for. Kurt Russell was great.

Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Good movie, and from what my uncle (a big fan of the play) said, a solid adaptation. Loved the style, and the casting was dead-on. It's also very, very, very bloody, far more so than I understand any staging of the play has been. I lost my appetite for the last forty-five minutes or so. Other than that, good movie!

Meeplelard · « **Reply #29 on:** December 31, 2007, 06:12:01 PM »

Big Trouble in Little China: ...what Shale said.

Planet of the Apes: No, not the remake. I finally got a chance to see the original...well, not the whole thing since I started watching it somewhere in the middle, but still saw a majority of the movie, instead of merely the last half hour like I'd always see (and last saw when I was...god, 10?)

...yeah, easy to see why that movie's a classic. Yeah, I know, a bit pathetic I haven't seen this til now, but whatever.

Hunter Sopko · « **Reply #30 on:** January 01, 2008, 04:30:38 AM »

Watched Superbad today. Awesome. Needed more McLovin and also some epilogues too though. Michael Cera is seriously gonna be typecast until he's like, 30 though.

BaconForTheSoul · « **Reply #31 on:** January 01, 2008, 02:17:08 PM »

Watched Sin City again due to not wanting to sleep... still fucking awesome.

New stuff

National Treasure 2- The Treasure Hunt itself was pretty cool, although the puzzles all seemed a hell of a lot easier to figure out (they make a reason why no one found it before despite the ease.) However, the bad guy sucked...

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One minute he's ordering his men to shoot to kill at Gates, the next minute he's working with Gate's and saving his life, despite the treasure being found, the next minute he's holding a knife to someone's throat, and then he goes on a rant about how he just wants his families names to live on.  Not to mention he wants Gates to do the work for him, but umm... bullets can kill people, especially when they're driving cars.

Other than that it was pretty cool, even ignoring the fact that Gates can get away from the CIA/SS/FBI etc. in a car.

Saw Alien vs Predator 2 the same day. I know AvP plot is going to be chessy, but regardless, I still enjoyed the first one. This one fucking sucked. That's all that can be said about it. Despite the "cool" special effects that they kept having predator use, the movie looked low budget. Then instead of plot, storyline, good fights, etc. they throw in about 15 random people to just die instantly. The movie was already shortish (90 minutes?) and yet they have so little plot that they need to waste 20 minutes killing random people. Also, WE GET IT ALIENS POP OUT OF STOMACHS! We don't need to see every damn alien baby born. Speaking of alien babies, they now reach full size in a matter of hours, which makes no sense at all. Now some real spoiler stuff that pissed me off.

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1. Colonel guy is like "What the hell are those."  Well who the fuck cares what they are, we're nuking the city!
2. Some aliens kill someone, and instantly chase whoever saw it and tried to run.  Some aliens kill someone, and let spectators run and hide (if they are a main character of course.)  Main character clauses like this normally don't bother me, but this movie took it to an extreme.  Such as mains being in sewers and living, main getting stabbed by boss alien and living (everyone else takes it through the heart), main having alien staring down at him and not doing anything, and probably more I missed.
3. Who turns around and gets punched in the face by a guy running at full speed?  How the fuck do you now hear him coming, especially when he and his friends are loud assholes.
4. Helicopter flies away from nuke... okay that works, even though I think nukes cause a largescale EMP that woulda knocked the thing out of the sky?  I could be wrong there.  However, the explosion catches up with them and causes them to crash.  Wouldn't the fallout from a nuke extend waaayyy beyond the explosion... or have nukes changed since I last checked?  In other words... all the people who survive at the end should die a horrible death!
5. Alien spawn from a predator looks like a predator kinda, why doesn't it work that way with humans?
That works for now.

Fuck this movie.

Otter · « **Reply #32 on:** January 04, 2008, 06:17:01 AM »

I finally saw No Country for Old Men. It was extremely good. Anton Chigurh (played by Javier Bardem) is the most compelling on-screen villain I've seen in as long as I can remember right now. If I were Bardem, I would spend the next few years just driving around Texas scaring the ever-loving shit out of people.

Grefter · « **Reply #33 on:** January 04, 2008, 01:36:37 PM »

I am Legend - Watched from the second row in the cinema due to new retarded seating booking bullshit that can fuck right the hell off.

Movie was alright though. It wants to be a cross between Children of Men (setting established through shot, it fails at it though by bludgeoning you with it 10 minutes later) and Land of the Dead (The main plot of Land of the Dead without actually saying it. Seriously why have a leader of the zombies and it not have a point? Why have the zombies grow more intelligent than previously thought and not comment on it? Or were we supposed to assume they were always capable of using tools and laying traps? If so, this was poorly expanded upon). It is worse than Children of Men (Hollywood ending, automatic loss there, take a cue from Man on Fire, write one and then drop it in spite of focus groups), but probably better than Land of the Dead which is only alright and only for people into zombie movies really.

Prooobably not worth normal ticket price, worth going to it for that price with friends though. Would be worth tightarse Tuesday ticket prices.

Edit - Oh yeah, buy Apple computers and Ford motor vehicles are so good that they come out of an apocalypse in MINT condition. It wasn't I, Robot level, more Transformers which is kind of acceptable but still annoys me.

We were going to go to the 9:00 session, but it was sold out, so we went to the 8:30 one. The movie started at 9:00. Cinemas have failed to do Cinema their rightful duty. Half an hour of advertisments is unacceptable. Half an hour of them from 2 fucking metres from the screen is torture. Especially when they have one for Cloverfield. That almost made me throw up and I don't get motion sickness. Seats should not be that close to the fucking screen and people need to get over "action" camera work and flail the fucking things all over the place. That isn't even a great way of pretending to be amateur footage. You should have people randomly filming only from the neck down or on a slight angle and have people point the camera at their feet while it is running. As opposed to putting the camera in a gyroscope and hitting record. Fuck Blair Witch Project.

I will try and see No Country For Old Men soon.

AAA · « **Reply #34 on:** January 04, 2008, 07:16:04 PM »

Did you ever read the book, Gref? You should try it sometime.

I am Legend, I mean, I dunno about No Country For Old Men.

OblivionKnight · « **Reply #35 on:** January 04, 2008, 11:33:13 PM »

I Am Legend was a better book. The movie was a bit too happy.

I've seen a lot of movies recently. Do I feel like commenting on them all? Eh, sure.

The Mist - Wow. What a "fuck you" ending. The movie was pretty decent all things considered. The short story was much, much happier (wow...who would have guess), ending at the point where the group goes into the car to leave to places unknown. In the movie...well...

[The group rides out to David's home to find his wife dead and house destroyed. The group continues until the car runs out of gas, at which point, David uses the 4 bullets left in the gun to kill his would-be new girlfriend (Amanda), son (Billy), kickass old lady (Irene) and average old man (Dan). Literally 1 minute later, a military tank and a truck filled with survivors follow behind, the way he had been coming. The Mist starts to fall back, and a bunch of the monsters start dying as the military starts killing them. Also included on the truck is a woman who left solo at the start of the movie, who walked in the opposite direction that the car drove. Poor bastard drove the wrong way the whole time

As a random note, I got a massive applause started when Mrs. Carmody was shot by Ollie the awesome mentally slow grocery manager. She got shot, I started clapping, and the entire audience (nearly packed house), starting joining me. Best part of the fucking movie. Really, really succeeded in making a vile villain that made me prefer the extra-dimensional beasts to her.

So I generally liked it overall, but wow, what a depressing ending.

Enchanted - Pretty awesome. The music was fantastic (That's How She Knows for Godlike) and the movie itself was pretty funny. Hell, they even made fun of the movie being so generally cheesy and easy to read, which I never thought Disney would do. Just overall cool. I laughed at the cheesiness and thoroughly enjoyed it a lot. Best Disney movie in ages.

National Treasure 2 - Ugh. Ok, I thought the first one was decent enough. Not great, but it wasn't sucky. But the second one...it was a long, boring adventure. Most of the puzzles, as mentioned, were pretty boring and self-explanatory (very little thought necessary in them). Also...hell, Mep covered it well. The villain was idiotic.

Oh you guys will all die here! *seconds later* I WILL SACRIFICE MYSELF BECAUSE I LOVE YOU!!!

Just...boring. It felt like they didn't try to explain things either at points, and just jumped into things without giving some meaninful background. For example, it never explains how the villain, well...

Gets out of jail from the first movie. He just kind of appears.

So yeah, not exactly the best movie I've seen in a while.

Transformers - Hah. I liked this. The Transformer stuff was minor, all things considered, but I think it stayed pretty true to the theme of the cartoon - the humanity was the focus of the show, and how it responded to the Transformers on Earth. Anyway, good action scenes, and the human characters were all well-done (basically split into the nerd and his hot girlfriend and the military group). Very good - the movie was also pretty good about making some awesome random references to the cartoon itself, which made me giggle with glee.

Mmm..could have sworn I saw more than that. Probably just can't remember them. Those are all the recent ones (2007 or so).

Shale · « **Reply #36 on:** January 04, 2008, 11:35:53 PM »

We need us some actual spoiler tags.

Grefter · « **Reply #37 on:** January 05, 2008, 01:03:33 AM »

Have not read I am Legend, heard it is very good and lots more bleak.

OblivionKnight · « **Reply #38 on:** January 05, 2008, 04:42:51 AM »

Also a hell of a lot more symbolic, I think. The movie does a good job of twisting that symbolism into something meaningful and happier, but the book just does a better job of that, I feel.

Grefter · « **Reply #39 on:** January 05, 2008, 09:22:21 AM »

Speaking of Symbology, had someone who hadn't seen it before watch Boondock Saints the other week. It is nice to see someone's reaction to it for the first time cause it is a film of pure class.

Strago · « **Reply #40 on:** January 05, 2008, 03:48:38 PM »

Stop typing and watch No Country, Grefter.

Grefter · « **Reply #41 on:** January 06, 2008, 09:07:37 AM »

No Country For Old Men - I came out of this all "Fuck yeah this is awesome kick arse in my head" listening to people around me saying the ending was silly and didn't make sense "That is how movies are these days they don't know when to end it so they just stop abruptly".

They missed the point. The point of the movie is in the title, it is all about No Country For Old Men, not Guy Shoots People For Cocaine Money. Tommy Lee Jones is the lead character freaking noobs.

AndrewRogue · « **Reply #42 on:** January 06, 2008, 09:19:08 AM »

Juno- Probably one of the most likable entries in this particular genre... it also seemed to focus oddly on the adult characters over the highschoolers. It was weird. Best when it wasn't pretending to be Napoleon Dynamite/Superbad though. Enjoyable overall, definitely places above both of those in my book.

OblivionKnight · « **Reply #43 on:** January 06, 2008, 10:25:04 PM »

More movies!

Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Damn straight this was awesome. Fantastic and flawless transition from the theatre to the screen. Johnny Depp also has an excellent voice, which surprised me a bit. The singing was great (though sometimes hard to understand - the enunciation was the weakest part, but still above par overall), the music itself was fitting, every costume was eerily fitting...amazing. Everyone should see this. A bit bloody, but great nonetheless.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer - It's about time for my yearly rewatching of the series, so I figured I should watch the original movie. Delightfully campy. Acting is pretty good for an older movie, and overall was enjoyable.

AndrewRogue · « **Reply #44 on:** January 11, 2008, 09:36:34 PM »

Apparently forgot to mention it! I saw The Orphanage last week.

Solid movie all around that understood the basic elements of horror quite well. Might have been a little better as a thriller rather than horror, but it had some severely shocking moments. It was fairly minimalist as horror goes, relying more on atmosphere than SHOCK moments (not that they weren't there, but here was literally just a handful in the whole movie).

7/10-ish, I think.

Ranmilia · « **Reply #45 on:** January 11, 2008, 10:34:18 PM »

The Navidson Record - Quite good, manages to be both a great horror movie and a good relationship drama at the same time. Could have done without the escape part, that started ripping off Poltergeist a bit much (to say nothing of the Blair Witch stuff everywhere), but otherwise very solid.

Strago · « **Reply #46 on:** January 25, 2008, 02:08:25 AM »

Let's see here...

Cloverfield - Vaguely bad. Worse than I was expecting/hoping for, certainly, not nearly as bad as Mahnola Dargis's NY Times review made it out to be. I think the director must have wronged her personally in the past, or something.

There Will Be Blood - I wanted to like this so much! Daniel Day Lewis is an extremely rad actor, and the kid who played his son is talented beyond his scant years. Much of the movie is visually/aurally stunning. That's... pretty much all the good things I can say about it, though. Too many plotlines that really didn't interact in interesting ways, and the movie didn't seem able to choose between them. I liked the final scene, but the one right before it with D-Day Lewis and his son really just should have been cut. It... hmm. Was less than the sum of its parts, I felt. The worst aspect of it was almost certainly Paul Dano. The guy just did not have the chops for the big sermon scenes, and the idea that he could at any point have stood up to D-Day was pretty laughable. Horrible miscasting there, I thought.

Juno - Another movie I wanted/expected to like more than I did. The good first, though. Ellen Page has quite a bit of talent and I look forward to seeing her in films in the future. Michael Cera is as brilliant as always, for all that I worry that he's just going to be typecast forever. That would suck, because he seems skilled enough to do a fair bit more if he was pushed to do it. The whole Jason Bateman part of the movie was really excellent, I thought; his relationship with Juno was pitch-perfect in its vaguely creepy sadness. J.K. Simmons and Alison Janney were awesome, as they always are.

Yeah, that's actually quite a bit of good, isn't it? Unfortunately, I thought the writing was pretty dreadful. I might honestly punch the screenwriter in the eye if I ever met her. Bleh bleh bleh. Every single character was so self-consciously hip even when it made no sense for them to be so. The script seemed to hold everyone's acting back, which is a shame. Ah well.

Strago · « **Reply #47 on:** January 25, 2008, 02:55:49 AM »

Oh, yeah, and I had a Best Buy gift certificate so I bought the Bladerunner Final Cut. Bladerunner is excellent as always. Been a long-ass time since I had seen it.

Sierra · « **Reply #48 on:** January 25, 2008, 09:28:34 AM »

Quote from: Strago on January 25, 2008, 02:08:25 AM

Let's see here...

Cloverfield - Vaguely bad. Worse than I was expecting/hoping for, certainly, not nearly as bad as Mahnola Dargis's NY Times review made it out to be. I think the director must have wronged her personally in the past, or something.

Haven't seen the movie myself, but I will say that Mahnola Dargis is kind of an asshole in general. She doesn't like much of anything.

Grefter · « **Reply #49 on:** January 25, 2008, 11:48:43 AM »

People thought that was going to be good? It gives me Blair Witch vibes.

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