Movies you have seen recently

[taks]

huh... i had gotten the impression that the avengers was planned to precede iron man 2. guess not. quite frankly, i never liked CA, nor thor, so the avengers barely seems interesting.

 

i never was into comic book heroes in general, so my opinions on the matter are borne of ignorance anyway. not sure why not, i just wasn't. none of my friends were, either.

 

taks

[astr0creep]

Death Race - 7/10 For the gore, the nice cars and Natalie Martinez.

 

Punisher Warzone - 4/10 Just an empty shell of a movie; useless production and a waste of talents. Very gory though.

[Laozi]

Slumdog Millionaire ~ I was remarkably unmoved by this film.

[Monte Carlo]

Gadzooks I'm bored of comic book movie adaptations. Yawn.

[Amentep]

Gadzooks I'm bored of comic book movie adaptations. Yawn.

 

That's a bit like saying you're tired of them adapting novels into movies, innit?

 

Why would the source matter?

[Monte Carlo]

OK, I didn't make myself clear - I'm bored, mightily, of superheroes. Especially Marvel superheroes. I wish Hollywood could give it a rest for a couple of years.

 

Cheers

MC

[Trenitay]

I wish hollywood could come up with something original instead of a remake.

[Amentep]

OK, I didn't make myself clear - I'm bored, mightily, of superheroes. Especially Marvel superheroes. I wish Hollywood could give it a rest for a couple of years.

 

Cheers

MC

 

Marvel is making their own films, and since they leveraged the rights to certain characters in order to make sure that they got the financing, they kinda have to make a bunch of movies.

 

But they also seem to be an easy blockbuster these days, there are tonnes of superhero characters licensed for movies. Tonnes!

 

Of course there are some non-superhero characters that have been licensed as well. Josh Brolin in horror-western Jonah Hex for example.

 

I wish hollywood could come up with something original instead of a remake.

 

When has Hollywood not made remakes (or adaptions from other sources)?

Edited March 13, 2009 by Amentep

[Hell Kitty]

Originality is overrated. And vague to the point of being useless.

 

I like my movies to be entertaining, sometimes thought-provoking. Whether or not they feature stories that have been told before in the same is ultimately irrelevant.

[Trenitay]

Movies stop being entertaining as soon as I know the ending. If I know the ending before I go in, the movie sucks.

[kirottu]

Push

 

I don

[Kelverin]

OK, I didn't make myself clear - I'm bored, mightily, of superheroes. Especially Marvel superheroes. I wish Hollywood could give it a rest for a couple of years.

 

Cheers

MC

Boo! There are so many untapped stories. More superheroes true to the source please.

 

OT

10,000 BC (2008) 4.9 on IMBD, I enjoyed it for what it was an action/fantasy that kept me entertained.

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)

Illegal Tender (2007)- Deserving of it's 5.2 rating

The Babysitters (2007) - Hot teenage girls are the only redeeming quality to this "film"

[LadyCrimson]

I'm kinda bored of superhero movies too...but probably because at this point they mostly feel the same. The effects/cinematography is cool, but the rest is eh. Movie companies always do that, tho...make a thing to death until they move on.

 

Think I'll go see the new Witch Mountain movie this weekend. Hey, I grew up on the original Disney film. Ike Eisenmann was the cuteness as a kid. Ah, memories. The new one is getting ok reviews, too, for what it is.

[Kelverin]

I'm kinda bored of superhero movies too...

Curious. Where is the I'm sick of chick flicks, action films, westerns, dramas......?

For a genre that has not been around that long and a relative small number of films (50 - 75) there seems to be some negative backlash the rest of the movie industry does not suffer from. I mean if I never see another horror flick I won't complain, but you won't hear me winning about there being too many. I don't get it.

Edited March 13, 2009 by Kelverin

[Meshugger]

Twilight

 

I expected "this-is-so-bad-it-is-funny", but dissapointment ensued. It was just bad beyond redemption, the main characters, the vampire mythos and most of all: The underlying message. I have experienced movies that bored me to death, but this was something different, something special. Not even "From Justin to Kelly" was this bad or even "Glitter". This has to be the worst movie that i have ever seen.

[taks]

tell us how you really fee about twilight, mesh. no holdin' back now, got it?

 

taks

[Asol]

There is a lot of symbolism going on in the watchmen, superheroes and supernatural as a medium are generally saturated with meaning.

 

The story arc and relative power of each character is completely symbolic of the role and result of the ideology the character expresses verbally. In that sense even minute changes in events can put a real twist on what may have been the authors intent.

 

It was pretty faithful, but some end changes were not a surprise.

Edited March 14, 2009 by Asol

[Meshugger]

tell us how you really fee about twilight, mesh. no holdin' back now, got it?

 

taks

 

Those who complain about spoilers should get themselves a soul, i am doing you guys a favour. Really.

 

- The main character (Bella) has to be the most nonsensical person ever to hit the screen: No interests, no own thoughts or aspirations, nothing. Her only purpose is to be in love forever and ever with a stalker that has murdered, likes to murder (except her), drink her blood and **** her while he's at it. But nooo, the guy is sooo dreamy and he literally sparkles in the sun like a million diamonds, not mentioning that he sees himself as a vegeterian. What.the.****. What kind of vampire is this? Did i mention that he likes to see her sleep and has done that a couple of months without her knowing? The guy even had the nerve to mention that he "hasn't the strength anymore to keep himself from her", and this is due to her smell and that he can't read her mind. Lets rephrase that last line again: He finds her interesting because he can't violate her most private area: her own mind. How nice of him, how ****** romantic. The guy is more invading than the Gestapo and gets a blank check? ****. Finally, he tells her that she smells nice too boot, like a really nice steak, i gather. What a guy.

 

BUT SHE STILLS FALLS FOR THE HIM AND DECLARES HER UNDYING(not really) LOVE FOR HIM?!

 

Ehum, leaving the story and characters aside lets go to the actual acting. Even if love can be blind, or more like deprived of all sanity, there has to be passion, chemistry and suspense. Well guess what, due to the horrendous dialogue and bad acting, everything turns really awkward. Every scene with the main couple is uncomfortable and uneasy. The guy looks like he constantly has to take ****break and the other is drugged on zoloft, rendering her completely emotionless. It is not bad in a funny way, it is bad in a very, very bad way.

 

And what is with this constant atmosphere of supressed teenage sexuality? What is the message here? Don't have sex because just because it is "wrong" without any reason? Didn't you love her unconditionally? What better way is there to express these flows of passion? By being masochistic? Don't give me the "I wouldn't be able hold back my urges"-bull****, it is supression of the only good attribute, considering everything else that was previously mentioned about him, that he could give her but he couldn't. **** this ****. This is so disturbing on so many levels.

 

Did i mention that this "vampire"-movie has almost no blood or violence whatsoever? Buffy the vampire slayer is Evil Dead compared to this.

 

The rest, like music, camera and such doesn't add anything really. The direction has no redeeming features either.

 

I know that i shouldn't be angry about just a movie, but i think that this is more than just a movie. This is SATAN's direct communication to mankind in order to destroy our capability of critical thinking, enjoying greatest of pleasures, remove any conduct of intellectual discipline and to eliminate any appriciation of the finest of arts. Avoid.this.at.all.costs. And to all parents out there: Guns and violence on the news and in the movies aren't your child(ren) enemy, and neither is porn, most definately not. "Twilight" however, is.

 

The message of this movie is to annihilate your soul, your very being. And for the millions of girls that love this movie/book, SATAN is very pleased, very pleased indeed.

 

There is more, but i think that i will get an auneuyrism if i continue.

 

/Meshugger goes for a smoke.

Edited March 14, 2009 by Meshugger

[Enoch]

Caught Watchmen this afternoon. I really liked about 85% of it. They nailed most of the characters pretty well, and the imagery was probably a little too faithful to the comic, but still well done. I actually liked the way they made the ending work.

 

What sucked was: Every fight scene. I know this is kinda this director's "thing," but I hate, hate, hate how he shoots action scenes. The ridiculously over-magnified sound effects on every punch (and worse, every *crunch*), the slo-mo/fast-mo shifts, the crowds of 6 easily-dispatched assailants for every hero, the over-focus on the gore. Awful. It worked for 300, because 300 was a comedy.* But in a film where the audience is supposed to be following the characters and the story with interest, it just reminds them that they're in a theatre, watching a movie directed by a guy who is a little too impressed by his own clever tricks. Oh, and what goes for the fight scenes goes X10 for the sex scenes. The, erm, unconsummated scene was good, with some solid acting true to the characters. The other bootyknockin' scenes just made me embarrassed for the actors involved.

 

What also sucked: Pretty much all of the music. It's like they spent about 10 minutes picking the first popular song to come to mind for each scene, and didn't think about the music at all after that. Almost none of it fit particularly well with what was going on up on the screen, and the ultimate effect was distracting, diminishing the impact of the film rather than increasing it.

 

 

 

* I really don't see how anyone could possibly take 300 seriously at face value and not walk out of the theatre about 10 minutes in. As a comedy, though, it's quite entertaining, so I give the filmmakers the benefit of the doubt and assume that they intended it as such, with all the advertising, press, etc., supporting it as part of one big Andy-Kaufman-style joke at their audience's expense.

Edited March 14, 2009 by Enoch

[taks]

i think you're holding out on us, meshugger... dunno, maybe it's just me.

 

 

taks

[Monte Carlo]

Enoch, 300 is all about Myth, a battle as told around campfires by people who knew someone who knew someone who knew someone there. I can understand why people loathe it, but personally I thought it was stylish, visceral and interesting. From a historical perspective, it's also one of the most important battles in history: if you wanted to play a counter-factual around what would have happened if Xerxes' army had won...

 

Right, another movie review:

 

Pineapple Express

 

I liked Knocked-Up, where Seth Rogan was a breath of fresh air. I liked his dumb cop in Superbad. He tries to push this persona a bit too far in Pineapple Express. The plot? Slacker process-server Seth Rogan and his dope dealer buddy get involved in a feud between rival drugs gangs. The comedy potential is obvious but unfortunately the movie is about as funny as an afternoon locked in a secure unit. Why? It's self-regarding, lazy and has no discernible plot. Rogan's lovable wise-cracking slacker meme is wearing dangerously thin - in this movie he isn't as funny or as talented as he seems to think he is (his names are all over the credits, which at least suggests that he is prepared to take responsibility for this car-wreck of a movie). Watching this, I was reminded why Cheech and Chong aren't funny (when the entire comedic narrative is 'WE ARE STONED. AGAIN.' you know you're losing) and why Clerks is (and, boy, do these guys want to achieve Clerks, or even Swingers levels of indie comic hipness). To give you an idea of how bad this movie was, ten minutes before the end, when there's a mildly amusing attempt at referencing the 'You Only Live Twice' ninja assault, I sighed and went and did the washing up instead.

 

I'm not even giving this movie a rating. Maybe it wasn't aimed at me.

 

Cheers

MC

[Hiro Protagonist]

It worked for 300, because 300 was a comedy.*

 

* I really don't see how anyone could possibly take 300 seriously at face value and not walk out of the theatre about 10 minutes in. As a comedy, though, it's quite entertaining, so I give the filmmakers the benefit of the doubt and assume that they intended it as such, with all the advertising, press, etc., supporting it as part of one big Andy-Kaufman-style joke at their audience's expense.

 

300 isn't a comedy. It's Frank Miller's interpretation in comic format transferred to film. 300 is a rare, surprisingly good and faithful adaption of the comic. If you read the comic, you would see how good of a film it is.

[Pidesco]

I didn't realize 300 the comic book was that bad.

[Blarghagh]

It worked for 300, because 300 was a comedy.*

 

* I really don't see how anyone could possibly take 300 seriously at face value and not walk out of the theatre about 10 minutes in. As a comedy, though, it's quite entertaining, so I give the filmmakers the benefit of the doubt and assume that they intended it as such, with all the advertising, press, etc., supporting it as part of one big Andy-Kaufman-style joke at their audience's expense.

 

300 isn't a comedy. It's Frank Miller's interpretation in comic format transferred to film. 300 is a rare, surprisingly good and faithful adaption of the comic. If you read the comic, you would see how good of a film it is.

 

Personally, in 300 I only found proof that comic books and movies are entirely different media in which entirely different things work. As a movie, it didn't. Hell, 300 is basically the reason I have very little interest in the Watchmen movie. Because exact page to film transition looks like a recipe for the ridiculous.

[Meshugger]

i think you're holding out on us, meshugger... dunno, maybe it's just me.

 

 

taks

 

If i would unleash my true feelings for this film, i would go out on Hollywood in a mushroom-cloud fashion. But that would be counterproductive in the long run, so i will stay status-quo, for now atleast

 

And 300 is a movie for the lulz, i do not see it as a serious adaption of anything, really. Who would anyway?