Movies you've seen recently

[LadyCrimson]

Never Let You Go.

 

Deliberately slow paced, and for the most part a bit emotionally stand-offish, so it takes a bit before I "got into" it. Certainly not a cheery movie, but I liked it a fair amount. The premise isn't anything I haven't seen before in alternate/future reality type writing but I did like the perspective it was told in. It's not a sappy romance, btw...some of the descriptions make it sound like one, but it's not.

 

If this Andrew Garfield is going to be the new Spiderman, I hope he worked out a little, because he is one super-skinny dude. I know Spiderman isn't Hercules but...at any rate, I was impressed with him and I can totally see him as Peter Parker.

[Blarghagh]

Yeah...not that atypical at all these days. No different, really, than pitching something verbally using other shows as examples (ala "It'll be like Wagon Train to the stars!"). Easier these days to give a visual impression on a no to low budget. Altho, I'd consider it likely they'd have some rough art drawings and maybe partial storyboards to go along with the video too.

 

But can anything beat Joss Whedon's approach of "Cowboys and Hookers.. In Space!"?

 

There's a story that after Die Hard came out, every action movie was pitched as being "Die Hard in a....................". A lot of these actually got made, such as Die Hard on a plane (Air Force One) or Die Hard on a Bus (Speed). Now, nobody pitches it that way anymore. This is because some dumbass pitched something as being "Die Hard in an office building".

[Tale]

Cabin in the Woods

Not very scary, but still very good. It felt like SCP: The Movie.

[Amentep]

The Three Stooges.

 

While not up to the mastery of the original film crew, the movie does a good job of delivering on the kind of things that the Three Stooges have always done (generally beating the heck out of one another). The through story is probably a bit more emotional than a real Three Stooges short would have been (Moe, Larry and Curley pretty much lived unexamined filmic lives not ever needing to give time to ponder how much destruction they've left in their wake) but given that you can't make a modern film without having some sort of emotional through story they at least keep its impact to a minimum.

 

A couple of the sequences (the attempt to get into the hospital - particularly the diaper changing bit leaps to mind) are pretty darn hilarious.

[Calax]

Not a movie, but started digging into Rome and can't help but wonder

 

why does EVERY SINGLE WOMAN who you see on the show has a "landing strip"?

[Rosbjerg]

It was obviously high fashion at the time.. also stop analysing and enjoy the nudity!

[Calax]

It is slightly hilarious that i just saw Bunkaru recently (it's INSANE...), and find that the same guy who plays "Killer number 2" is also Lucius Vorenus in Rome.

 

[Gorgon]

Late of the 13th legion. Ron Pealman is the badguy. Like the good old kung fu movies it's built like a musical, but instead of bursting out in song they kick asses. It's all kinds of awesome.

[Calax]

Ron is a bad guy who shaves with a bearded Axe... and it's more stylized than Mulon Rouge

[obyknven]

Real Life

 

Hollywood brainwashing interpretation

http://youtu.be/9nUsUV2yUdY

[Raithe]

The Admirable Crichton was on tv in the background today.

 

Now that's a classic film from '57, based in turn off a play from 1902. A nice, old-fashioned light-comedy.

 

Lord Loam has modern ideas about his household; he believes in treating his servants as his equals - at least sometimes. His butler, Crichton, still believes that members of the serving class should know their place and be happy there. But when the Loam family are shipwrecked on a desert island with the self-reliant Crichton and lady's maid Tweeny, the class system is put to the test. Crichton being the only one with the practical knowledge of how to survive, ends up in the position of leading the small community...

[Pidesco]

It is slightly hilarious that i just saw Bunkaru recently (it's INSANE...), and find that the same guy who plays "Killer number 2" is also Lucius Vorenus in Rome.

 

 

I had never realized he was also Tommy in Trainspotting.

[Gfted1]

Caught Predators on HBO the other day. Not terrible with a few nods to the original.

[Raithe]

It is slightly hilarious that i just saw Bunkaru recently (it's INSANE...), and find that the same guy who plays "Killer number 2" is also Lucius Vorenus in Rome.

 

 

See, to me he's always going to be the guy from "Dog Soldiers".

 

Actually this inspired me to pick up a copy of Bunraku and watch it myself. A fairly enjoyable flick.. And the Narrator has some nice lines..

[Monte Carlo]

^ That picture reminds me of a job interview I once attended.

[LadyCrimson]

Kevin McKidd is awesome. Mostly because he's a hunk, but ok, he's not bad in the right roles too (Rome was definitely one of them). The last thing I saw him in was Percy Jackson/Lightning Thief, and when I saw him as Poseidon I .... laughed. I wish he'd get better roles but oh well. He had that short-lived TV series where I think he did fine but the show itself wasn't good. I'm going to have to check out this Bunraku thing now myself.

[Raithe]

Kevin McKidd is awesome. Mostly because he's a hunk, but ok, he's not bad in the right roles too (Rome was definitely one of them). The last thing I saw him in was Percy Jackson/Lightning Thief, and when I saw him as Poseidon I .... laughed. I wish he'd get better roles but oh well. He had that short-lived TV series where I think he did fine but the show itself wasn't good. I'm going to have to check out this Bunraku thing now myself.

 

For the danger zone then.. he's current starring as an ex-military doctor turned trauma specialist turned chief of surgery in Grey's Anatomy.

[Raithe]

One of the channels has been reshowing "Shogun" this last week.

 

Have to say, it is a damn good mini-series. There's not a bad actor in it.

[Pidesco]

Avengers is pretty damn awesome.

[LadyCrimson]

One of the channels has been reshowing "Shogun" this last week.

 

Have to say, it is a damn good mini-series. There's not a bad actor in it.

I love love that mini-series. I had to "beg" my mother to let me watch it at the time (they were strict about TV ).

It made such an impression on me that it's what I always think of every time John Rhys-Davies name comes up. Not Raiders of the Lost Ark...or LotR...Shogun. Good show of a very awesome book. I wish they still made mini-series like it.

[Raithe]

I love love that mini-series. I had to "beg" my mother to let me watch it at the time (they were strict about TV ).

It made such an impression on me that it's what I always think of every time John Rhys-Davies name comes up. Not Raiders of the Lost Ark...or LotR...Shogun. Good show of a very awesome book. I wish they still made mini-series like it.

 

Yeah, I read the book when I was around 10-11. So when they reshowed it on british tv they were fine with me watching it. Man, it's odd to think the series is only a year younger then I am.

[Labadal]

Shogun was (is) a great mini-series. Bought the box 2 or 3 years ago because I remember liking it when I was younger. After I watched it, I know that my memory served me right.

[LadyCrimson]

Yeah, I read the book when I was around 10-11. So when they reshowed it on british tv they were fine with me watching it. Man, it's odd to think the series is only a year younger then I am.

I had the type of old-fashioned parents that didn't seem to mind me spending all my hours reading all kinds of fantasy, fiction, spy etc. books, but thought too much TV was bad for me. Books=good, TV=the devil.

[HoonDing]

Saw the Avengers yesterday night. First half of the movie was pretty boring, but second half was really good.

 

Captain America was even more of a lame douchebag than he was in his own movie, Thor was lame as well (at one point getting kicked around by Iron Man, while in the comics it took the entire Dark Avengers team to -temporarily- subdue him), but the Hulk made up for it all. Black Widow had a couple of good scenes as well.

 

Overall, it is the superhero movie of the decade.

[kirottu]

Saw the Avengers yesterday night. First half of the movie was pretty boring, but second half was really good.

 

Captain America was even more of a lame douchebag than he was in his own movie, Thor was lame as well (at one point getting kicked around by Iron Man, while in the comics it took the entire Dark Avengers team to -temporarily- subdue him), but the Hulk made up for it all. Black Widow had a couple of good scenes as well.

 

Overall, it is the superhero movie of the decade.

 

Well, I think the Nolan Batman movies are better and I'd say Captain America is just really boring good guy, not douchebag. But to everything else I agree.