Movies You've Seen Recently

[Calax]

Mogo is dead now so the only requirement now is the ability to overcome fear again.

Didn't they reboot from the ground up so nobody is around anymore except the "core" characters?

[Gorgon]

Star Trek.  Liked Benedict Cumbersomesurname  didn't care if Kirk or Spok lived or died. Peter Weller has come a long way since Robocop.

 

 

Must be all those David Lynch movies, he had a lot of presence.  I was actually rooting for him.

 

 

 

 

Why is the formatting doing that ?

[Gorgon]

It's a shame when you have a real actor or two, I mean above the skill of good enough for TV, or suitable for the attention span of a 13 year old, that there is no time to let them strut their stuff.

[Hurlshort]

I'm excited that when I show my Engineering an Empire movies in class, many of the students will now know who Peter Weller is and not look at me blankly when I yell about Robocop.

[Amentep]

Hotel Translyvania: Eh. Meh. Bleh.

 

I liked it - laughed a lot during it actually (so much I hurt, to be honest).

[Oerwinde]

 

 

Mogo is dead now so the only requirement now is the ability to overcome fear again.

Didn't they reboot from the ground up so nobody is around anymore except the "core" characters?

Green Lantern and Batman were their top selling books so they maintained the continuity on those.

[LadyCrimson]

The Impossible - good acting (especially the young guy playing the older son), didn't seem too Hollywood for a based on true life disaster tale (a bit, but not as bad as some), tho a bit too much human drama for me (but it's well done human drama). It did, however, do what I wanted it to do ... make me go "can't even imagine...at least my life doesn't have/never had those kinds of problems."

 

Still, I think I'll stick to The Shawshank Redemption when I need a human spirit type of lift.

[Raithe]

The Great Gatsby.

 

It's a beautiful film, strongly acted, some incredible sets.

 

But yeah, by the end of the movie you pretty much loathe all the characters in it bar one.

[Labadal]

Watched Ted.

 

I liked it, made me laugh on several occasions. It didn't hurt that there were a lot of hot girls in the movie.

[Volourn]

"But yeah, by the end of the movie you pretty much loathe all the characters in it bar one."

 

Eh. The only ones I end up hating wholeheartedly are Wilson and Tom. The others don't do anything worth 'loathing'.

 

But, otherwise, agreed.

[Oerwinde]

Jack, a CBC tv movie based on the life of Jack Layton, a prominent Canadian politician who died shortly after pulling the NDP out of what everyone thought was a perpetual third place position and into the official opposition spot.

 

I liked it, the guy who play Layton did a fantastic job, had his speech patterns and such down pretty much exactly. I do think it painted a slightly too rosy picture of Layton though. It pretty much just gushed about him the whole run time.

[LadyCrimson]

Trouble w/the Curve.

 

After the reviews/ads made it seem too smaltzy for my tastes, turns out it wasn't like that. Father/daughter drama and other stuff, but not overdone. So while not even close to Eastwood's best or even 2nd best work, it was a nice little picture, with baseball as a backdrop. The arrogant young batter who was the focus of the 1st pick contention was hilarious in his non-likability. Timberlake did ok (seen him do better) and I liked the overall ending of the film.

 

And Clint Eastwood can still say more with a single growl-sigh of a "hurrrr" than anyone.

[Raithe]

"But yeah, by the end of the movie you pretty much loathe all the characters in it bar one."

 

Eh. The only ones I end up hating wholeheartedly are Wilson and Tom. The others don't do anything worth 'loathing'.

 

But, otherwise, agreed.

 

Wilson and Tom are pretty much loathesome on their own.

 

Hm, for those who don't know the story yet I'll throw this behind a spoiler to be safe..

 

 

 

Daisy for being so damn wishy-washy and utterly shallow, having that step back from the person she loves and then ignoring it all at the end.

 

Jordan is kind of so so, but she also has that shallow element and doesn't actually help Carraway, and again, ignores everything once that moment blows up and the deaths occur.

 

Gatsby, while likeable for the most part just hits the buttons because for a man as smart and capable as he is to be so idiotic on trying to recreate that one perfect moment from the past. I mean, sure there's being unable to let go of the past and trying to create a new future with the woman you love, but he isn't trying that. He's stuck on recreating it exactly as it was.

 

You get left with Carraway as the only character who really has any serious level of principles or likeability.

Everyone else I'd be pretty happy just throwing off the end of that dock.

 

 

[Volourn]

 

Diasy - I don't think she is shallow. I think she is spoiled, sheltered, and careless. The fact that she isn't willing to thro her life away in the end just because Gatsby wants her to doesn't make her shallow. IMO, She is the most complex character. The only thing agaisnt her is leaving the swcene of the accident but Gatsby is just as much at fault.

Jordan - She is as shallow as a pool of rain water. She basicaly has no emotional reaction to anything.

Gatsby - I think he's very likeable but there is a lot of patheticness behind his surface success and charm. This is shown in the intiial meeting with Daisy as literally acts like a 10 year old boy with his first crush not a grown 32 year old man meeting an old love. I understand nervvousness but that ws Peter Pan like.

Myrtle - Yeah, she is a cheater but, hey, unlike her husband, at least she didn't lock anyone up like a prisoner. She should have simply gotten a divorce.

Calloway - Yeah, he can be likeable but he doesn't do anything. He just picks his nose. Maybe if he was more of a man and did something the tragedy at the end could have been stopped.

 

[Walsingham]

Isn't that rather the point?

 

I was curious to see how a modern audience of youngers would react.

[HoonDing]

Mogo is dead now so the only requirement now is the ability to overcome fear again.

How do you kill a planet? Did Darth Vader pass by?

[Oerwinde]

 

 

Mogo is dead now so the only requirement now is the ability to overcome fear again.

How do you kill a planet? Did Darth Vader pass by?

He was posessed by Krona who was making him create thousands more green lanterns under his control, so John Stewart, who had an indigo ring at the time, which can mimic other colors powers drew on the black energy to create a giant gun that he fired at mogo's core, causing him to explode.

[CoM_Solaufein]

Jack Reacher on Blu-ray. Good movie, I hope they make more Jack Reacher movies.

[Oerwinde]

Benicio Del Toro signed a multi-picture deal with Marvel for a leading role in Guardians of the Galaxy. Supposedly his role will make a major impact on the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Theory most people are going for is he's Thanos. I'm holding out hope for Adam Warlock.

[HoonDing]

Isn't Thanos going to be Avengers 2 main villain?

[Oerwinde]

Isn't Thanos going to be Avengers 2 main villain?

that's the general belief, but because he doesn't have a lot of recognition outside comic readers, some people think they will introduce him in Guardians so they can get right to it in Avengers 2. The major theory is Avengers 2 will deal with the Infinity Guantlet, so setting up Adam Warlock and Thanos in Gurdians would make sense, so Avengers 2 isn't bogged down with origins.

[Labadal]

The Expendables 2.

 

Boom, boom,boom and some more boom. That's how I'd sum up this movie. Video game violence has nothing on this. 

[Kor Qel Droma]

I watched the Seven Samurai the other day. It was great, but kinda long.

[LadyCrimson]

The most recent Die Hard movie. I wasn't expecting much, but I figured at least it'd have that Die Hard fun action. Instead it felt like rather random explosions and chases, wrapped around a poorly written plot and seasoned with dull dialogue bits. Bruce Willis felt like he was just "phoning it in." Not much life there.

 

The actor playing his son wasn't too bad, with the thin material he was given. Looking him up, I guess he's pretty new to the US acting scene. Maybe he'll go somewhere.

[Walsingham]

The most recent Die Hard movie. I wasn't expecting much, but I figured at least it'd have that Die Hard fun action. Instead it felt like rather random explosions and chases, wrapped around a poorly written plot and seasoned with dull dialogue bits. Bruce Willis felt like he was just "phoning it in." Not much life there.

 

The actor playing his son wasn't too bad, with the thin material he was given. Looking him up, I guess he's pretty new to the US acting scene. Maybe he'll go somewhere.

 

That's why I steered clear. Thanks for confirming. Annoying how Hollywood can reduce films down to the WRONG bare essentials. Like somebody reducing spaghetti sauce to just tomato seeds.