Movies you have seen recently

[Walsingham]

I think you guys are mental. I loved Pineapple Express for its comedy script, timing, and great fight sequence at the end. Nor am I a drug-taker, besides alcohol.

[Kelverin]

Nor am I a drug-taker

Maybe you should start if you liked this piece of garbage

[fastpunk]

Pineapple Express is a bit overrated indeed. It was mildly entertaining, but not really as good as they say.

 

Staying in weed-related territory, the last movie I saw was Dub Echoes... it's actually a documentary, about the origins of Dub music and it's influence on modern music and music making techniques. The documentary was not particularly well made, but the subject itself was interesting enough to keep me watching.

[Krookie]

I think you guys are mental. I loved Pineapple Express for its comedy script, timing, and great fight sequence at the end. Nor am I a drug-taker, besides alcohol.

 

I think every movie attatched to Seth Rogan is hysterical. He could have made Titanic funny.

[Kelverin]

I think every movie attatched to Seth Rogan is hysterical. He could have made Titanic funny.

Superbad was funny as hell until about the time Seth Rogan showed up but yea most of the movies he has been in so far are funny, just not PE. You, Me and Dupree was a baaaaaaaaad flick in a not so good way. Haven't caught Zack and Miri Make a Porno yet

[Walsingham]

Nor am I a drug-taker

Maybe you should start if you liked this piece of garbage

 

Care to elaborate? You can't because _I_ am the comedy genius who allowed the Onur the Courageous postings, while you, sir are a singed baboon of no comedy repute.

[Kelverin]

Nor am I a drug-taker

Maybe you should start if you liked this piece of garbage

 

Care to elaborate? You can't because _I_ am the comedy genius who allowed the Onur the Courageous postings, while you, sir are a singed baboon of no comedy repute.

Oh I'm just ****ing with you. Lighten up Francis. To each their own and all that.....

[Gorgon]

It as pretty funny. About what I expected, but hardly comedy gold.

[Kor Qel Droma]

I watched The Hangover this weekend past. It was pretty funny.

 

For me personally, the funniest movie in the past three years is still StepBrothers, hands down.

[Krookie]

I watched The Hangover this weekend past. It was pretty funny.

 

For me personally, the funniest movie in the past three years is still StepBrothers, hands down.

 

Yeah me too, but Superbad is still way funnier.

[Kor Qel Droma]

Jonah Hill annoys me enough to rank Superbad a few notches lower.

[Asol]

Jonah Hill annoys me enough to rank Superbad a few notches lower.

 

The wang doodling boy joke had meaing in the context that <3hearts are vagina symbol girls may typically cover a peice of paper with... The rest was contrived youth adventure in a suburban opium den and I can't stand buddy/mook player Seth Rogan.

 

filter pft.

Edited June 15, 2009 by Asol

[LadyCrimson]

Fever Pitch.

Yes, I watched it because it's a Red Sox themed film...kind of. It was ok. I think While You Were Sleeping made a better romantic comedy, since Fever Pitch didn't really hit my funny bone that often. But it was watchable. Although I have to say...I can be an obsessive nut at times, but even I wouldn't go as far as Jimmy Fallon's chr. in the movie.

[Hiro Protagonist]

Started watching the TV show, The Mentalist. Have all the episodes and halfway through Season 1 at the moment. It's a bit like a modern day Sherlock Holmes seeking out his enemy Red John (Moriarty/Jack the Ripper type) and solving cases along the way.

 

Tim Kang, the guy who plays Cho, is hilarious on the show. It's like his character should be on Dragnet instead.

 

Cho is brilliant. The way Jane dresses him up as a pick up artist and he struts through the bar was hilarious. And the way he walks over and talks to the two girls (and Rigsby taking notes) was gold. Also how Cho interrogates people behind the desk, you wonder how the actors playing the criminals don't burst out laughing.

 

After watching the Mentalist, I started and finished watching Legend of the Seeker. Great Show. Not sure what they're going to do with Season 2 as the end of Season 1 pretty much wraps up the story.

[ShadySands]

What's Legend of the Seeker about? I've never heard of it.

 

I watched Nomad last night. It could have been a lot better but it wasn't bad. I'm also not very picky ... and it's in Kazakhstan.

 

Greatest country in the world

All other countries are run by little girls

Kazakhstan number one exporter of potassium

Other countries have inferior potassium

[Hiro Protagonist]

A quick google search states Legend of the Seeker is a fantasy series based on Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth novels. Never heard of Terry Goodkind or the novels.

 

I heard from word of mouth that it was a pretty good fantasy series sort of like Hercules or Xena but without the camp. Terry Goodkind has been heavily involved with the TV show which is why it's serious and not campy. It's about a guy who becomes a warrior accompanied by two people with one being a wizard. I was a bit sceptical going into it but it's actually pretty good. Special effects are top notch, especially with the magic. It's the way it should be done.

 

There are 22 episodes in the series and well worth the download. Here's the offical website. http://www.legendoftheseeker.com/

[Purkake]

I just saw Terminator Salvation. What a sellout!

 

They took all the "iconic" stuff like "I'll be back" and robots stepping on bleached skulls from the first two movies and scrapped anything good. Then they inserted it randomly between explosions and thinly veiled holocaust references(It's like no movie is complete without them).

 

Being human is apparently about having a "strong heart", yay!

Edited June 17, 2009 by Purkake

[Nihilus5078]

What have I seen recently,

Edited June 17, 2009 by Nihilus5078

[taks]

smokin aces: over the top violence though underneath the hood, there was a reasonably interesting twist and a bit of a story. well, interesting for such an otherwise messed up movie. i found it entertaining enough to watch from about a half hour in till the end. started watching right before all the killing began. needless to say, i missed enough that i had zero clue what was going on and was simply amused at the cluter f*** on the screen. it's one of those everybody dies, even the ones with significant roles, type flicks. it was almost funny, but not quite. lots of mid-level stars in the movie. of course, i watched it on tnt or something similar so every other word was bleeped out and all the boobies were fuzzied over, hehe.

 

finally watched taken the other night, too. worth the rental fee, but nothing i'd want to watch repeatedly. cool action flick with zero plot.

 

taks

[radnam]

Wolverine

[Oerwinde]

A quick google search states Legend of the Seeker is a fantasy series based on Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth novels. Never heard of Terry Goodkind or the novels.

 

I heard from word of mouth that it was a pretty good fantasy series sort of like Hercules or Xena but without the camp. Terry Goodkind has been heavily involved with the TV show which is why it's serious and not campy. It's about a guy who becomes a warrior accompanied by two people with one being a wizard. I was a bit sceptical going into it but it's actually pretty good. Special effects are top notch, especially with the magic. It's the way it should be done.

 

There are 22 episodes in the series and well worth the download. Here's the offical website. http://www.legendoftheseeker.com/

 

Avoid if you've read the books though. It will just make you angry. They mostly base the first season on the first book, cherry picking a couple moments from book 6 and such though. And they completely change huge plot points, major characters who appear throughout the book series are relegated to cameos in single episodes, dead characters are alive, live characters are dead, that sort of thing. Terry Goodkind was supposed to be heavily involved in the show but he wasn't.

[Shryke]

eternal sunshine of the spotless mind

 

good - and also nice to see jim carrey doing something other than being absurdly silly

[Amentep]

I've never really understood the argument of disregarding the source material when evaluating a movie.

 

If the director/producer/screenwriter has choosen to use previously existing a source material, then that source material is part and parcel of the criticism.

 

If the film wishes not to be criticized at least partially based on source material, then it should do something original instead.

 

I'm not saying that a film should/should not be a slave to source material, only that it seems completely fair to use the source material as part of ones criticisms, either positive or negative toward a film.

 

IMO, the important question about a film is "Is it a good film?" not "does it stay true to the source material". Because at the end of the day its more important for the film to work on its own terms.

 

The example I liked to use is Hitch****'s Young and Innocent. Based on the book "A Shilling for Candles" by Josephine Tey, the movie drops the Inspector character, changes the plot from a Whodunnit to a Double Chase and is generally a completely different story. So as an adaption its not faithful, but as a film on its own its one of Hitch's stronger British films.

 

At the end of the day, I think being a good film will ultimately triumph over being a faithful adaption but a weak film because of it.

 

I saw Terminator Salvation last night and have to say the ending was a bit iffy.

 

I would have preferred the ending be

have Marcus detonate the bombs from within the factory to redeem himself. No need to put John Connor in mortal danger and have him spiked through the heart. Bad idea. Heart Transplant bah.

 

As I understand it

the original end for TERMINATOR: SALVATION had Connor being killed in the final fight and the remains of the Resistance altering Marcus to look like Connor and take over as their leader.

 

 

Rented The Spirit.

 

Based on both critical reviews and average reviews (imdb.com) I'm a totally bat **** crazy nutzoid because this movie has been almost universally slammed for sucking yet...

 

I LIKED IT! Even more so than Sin City. Is there something wrong with me?

 

They're coming to take me away, ha-haaa!!

They're coming to take me away, ho-ho, hee-hee, ha-haaa

To the funny farm. Where life is beautiful all the time and I'll be

happy to see those nice young men in their clean white coats and they're

coming to take me away, ha-haaa!!!!!

 

 

*backs away slowly*

 

The Uninvited Not scary at all but at least I didnt see the end coming.

 

Role Models Pretty good and several spots had me laughing out loud.

 

I liked The Uninvited too; although I knew the twists because I'd seen the original Korean film, A Tale of Two Sisters.

[Hiro Protagonist]

As I understand it

the original end for TERMINATOR: SALVATION had Connor being killed in the final fight and the remains of the Resistance altering Marcus to look like Connor and take over as their leader.

 

I understood that as well and they changed it because of the fan backlash.

[Amentep]

Thing is the film is totally moving towards that plot end; that's what I felt when seeing the movie before finding out about the leaking of the end and fan backlash.