Nah, the slaughter doesn't really begin until 7... And I happen to agree with they "you're a heretic" crowd, but I can see why some wouldn't like it...

Nah, the slaughter doesn't really begin until 7... And I happen to agree with they "you're a heretic" crowd, but I can see why some wouldn't like it...

 

maybe it would've been different if i'd first picked them up when i was younger, but they really lack any subtlety and constantly beat you over the head with clues towards any twists

 

ie the movie i just watched

new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher (most of which have ended up being villains) constantly drinking some mysterious potion. maybe he's just a drunk? or just maybe it's the polyjuice potion everyone is constantly talking about. real shocking twist right there

Been musing on my favorite sci fi movies. This was the result.

 

http://www.imdb.com/list/7G2-Xed6MMo/

 

Slim considering the hundreds I watched. I guess there can only be a few of the best.

new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher (most of which have ended up being villains) constantly drinking some mysterious potion. maybe he's just a drunk? or just maybe it's the polyjuice potion everyone is constantly talking about. real shocking twist right there

 

There's using a Chekov's Gun.. There's using a Chekov's freaking Arsenal.. and then there's just widely beating the audience around the head with an obvious plot hook/item.. which happened an awful lot in those books..

 

What always bugged me with Harry Potter was just how similar the appearance and initial attitude was to the main character in Gaiman's Book of Magic.

Inception.

 

Pseudo intellectual garbage. Its Matrix all over again, only with less style and more bs.

Edited November 11, 201015 yr by RPGmasterBoo

She's Out of My League - Somewhat funny at the start, but my interest wavered at the end. Also, if you are going to release a movie like this with an R rating, I think you should have some obligatory nudity.

new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher (most of which have ended up being villains) constantly drinking some mysterious potion. maybe he's just a drunk? or just maybe it's the polyjuice potion everyone is constantly talking about. real shocking twist right there

 

There's using a Chekov's Gun.. There's using a Chekov's freaking Arsenal.. and then there's just widely beating the audience around the head with an obvious plot hook/item.. which happened an awful lot in those books..

 

What always bugged me with Harry Potter was just how similar the appearance and initial attitude was to the main character in Gaiman's Book of Magic.

 

Gaiman's said he feels its a coincidental, so I've never let it bother me.

May I remind you gentlemen that Harry Potter is for KIDS!

Edited November 12, 201015 yr by Walsingham

May I remind you gentlemen that Harry Potter is for KIDS!

 

So...what's your point?

Inception.

 

Pseudo intellectual garbage. Its Matrix all over again, only with less style and more bs.

 

I watched this too, and I'm astonished that it was totally NOT intellectual or difficult to understand. I didn't even notice any pretense of it either.

 

I actually liked it a lot, but it was just a heist movie with a gimmick. Watching this flick made me lose a lot of faith in humanity - I keep hearing from people that they didn't understand it, or that it was hard to follow. It wasn't. It was hella straightforward and everything was chewed up and fed to the audience. "You have to really pay attention", yeah, only because a lot of things happen. Not because these things are difficult to understand.

 

If you didn't understand it, I'm sorry, but you must have ADD or something, or you're just stupid.

This is the problem with making art a business. Businesses want money, and money flows towards morons the way the foamy torrent of the mountains transforms sluggishly to the idle brown mud of the estuary.

This is the problem with making art a business. Businesses want money, and money flows towards morons the way the foamy torrent of the mountains transforms sluggishly to the idle brown mud of the estuary.

The problem with not making art a business is that the artist can't make a living. Corporations making art or controlling it, it's the problem here yet at the same time it has it's benefits.

 

PS. watched "Beyond the Gates" very graphic tale about the Rwandan genocide starring John Hurt (love his voice).

Nah, the slaughter doesn't really begin until 7... And I happen to agree with they "you're a heretic" crowd, but I can see why some wouldn't like it...

 

maybe it would've been different if i'd first picked them up when i was younger, but they really lack any subtlety and constantly beat you over the head with clues towards any twists

 

At the beginning, yeah. But after... pretty much exactly where you ended, this stops happening. Also, it is somewhat less prevalent in the books than in the movies. In fact, the movies are in general just worse than the books.

 

ie the movie i just watched

new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher (most of which have ended up being villains) constantly drinking some mysterious potion. maybe he's just a drunk? or just maybe it's the polyjuice potion everyone is constantly talking about. real shocking twist right there

 

Yeah, the movie made that rather more obvious than it should have been.

I feel overall, most of the bad bits from the movies are also in the books. The books just have so much more good bits to make up for it.

 

The movies deviating from the books is not a bad thing - the third flick is still the best mostly because of the liberties Alfonso Cu

 

Oh, another Aliens vs. tough Marines movie. Gotta see that.

Hm, yes, that Battle:LA film looks interesting. There's another aliens vs. everyone movie I keep seeing ads for recently too, but the name keeps slipping my mind. I'm such a sucker for these type of movies.

^Skyline

Oh, another Aliens vs. tough Marines movie. Gotta see that.

Wow, that was almost Roland Emmerich kind of bad

 

Saw Conan the Destroyer. Cheesy in a good way, although not as good as Conan the Barbarian.

Oh, another Aliens vs. tough Marines movie. Gotta see that.

Wow, that was almost Roland Emmerich kind of bad

 

Saw Conan the Destroyer. Cheesy in a good way, although not as good as Conan the Barbarian.

Conan the Barbarian was good?

Oh, another Aliens vs. tough Marines movie. Gotta see that.

Wow, that was almost Roland Emmerich kind of bad

 

Saw Conan the Destroyer. Cheesy in a good way, although not as good as Conan the Barbarian.

Conan the Barbarian was good?

It was awesome

^Skyline

 

Anyone who is even thinking about seeing this movie. Don't. Just don't. It's not even good in a cheesy "explosions!" kinda way.

That's too bad about Skyline...oh well, I'll probably still catch it on cable.

 

I watched the 1st episode of the new AMC series The Walking Dead. Seemed to have a fairly high production value/quality and it wasn't too bad....but it's slow and the lead actor didn't entirely connect for me in the role. That and I'm really not into zombies all that much. But it might pick up as the plot moves along.

After 10 or so years I've re-watched Bill and Ted's Bogus Adventure.

Should've done it a lot sooner.

Finally got around to watching Predators. The first half was pretty groovy, but the 2nd half kind of lost me. They're so much more interesting when they're playing cat & mouse vs. showing their ugly faces and face to face fighting.