[Movies] Talk about the last movie you saw 2: Electric Threadaloo
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Wyrminarrd
"Hellboy: Sword of Storms" This is an animated movie with the voices from the actors in the live action movie. Pretty good movie though I found the design of Hellboy a bit weird as his legs were incredibly small compared to the rest of him. Admittedly I don't know much about how he's drawn in the comics so this might have been accurate but it didn't work for me.
Tenchi was the first I saw, too. The Ryo-Ohki OVAs. One thing to be sure of is that she knows there's multiple continuities. The Universe and movies are one, while the Ryo-Ohki OVAs (3 sets) and GXP are another. Tenchi in Tokyo is its own also.
The name sounds girly, but Ah! My Goddess is another good one (in the same type of show) if you like Tenchi. There's an OVA and two seasons, plus a movie.
Babies. It was excellent. I've been telling everyone to go see it. The similarities and the differences between the babies in each corner of the world are just so great. My only complaint is that the family from San Francisco were a bunch of hippies, but they're not featured enough for it to be a real complaint. I just got uncomfortable when they were singing with their daughter "The earth is our mother, we must protect her." for some reason.
Totally should've been singing "To God be the glory", yo am i rite lol?
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors: To my surprise, I actually liked this a lot. It was imaginative, actually made use of being set in dreams, and had a lot of great moments. The acting wasn't always at its best, and the music was typical 80s synthesizer garbage, but none of that ruined the movie. The dream sequences were well-paced, coming quicker as the movie got longer, and I was impressed that the bit in the junkyard didn't invalidate the dream climax. I also love when Freddy first sees Nancy early in the movie, and his face curls into a snarl, "YOU." I had written off the franchise because I thought the original wasn't any good, but this proved me wrong.
I like Nightmare 3 a great deal. I disagree that the first one is garbage though
I saw The Ten, and it was awesome and about what I expected. It's basically the closest thing we'll get to a full-length Stella movie. I loved recognizing everyone from The State and their circle of friends. It was really funny and there weren't any really weak segments.
Also we tried to watch the terrible action/b-movie with Dolph Lundgren Diamond Dogs. If you get the wild hair to watch this on Netflix.....uhhh.... don't bother.
There's a few movies in theater I am interested in seeing in the next week or so: Toy Story 3, Jonah Hex, Knight and Day, A-Team, and Greek. Hopefully I will follow through on these!
I saw The Ten, and it was awesome and about what I expected. It's basically the closest thing we'll get to a full-length Stella movie. I loved recognizing everyone from The State and their circle of friends. It was really funny and there weren't any really weak segments.
Also we tried to watch the terrible action/b-movie with Dolph Lundgren Diamond Dogs. If you get the wild hair to watch this on Netflix.....uhhh.... don't bother.
There's a few movies in theater I am interested in seeing in the next week or so: Toy Story 3, Jonah Hex, Knight and Day, A-Team, and Greek. Hopefully I will follow through on these!
I don't think it was garbage, I just didn't think it was very good. It didn't make good use of taking place in dreams; instead it seemed more to focus on fooling with the audience, whether the person was dreaming or not, and I think that concept was better realized in the third film. I would say the original had a lot of good ideas that were not well-executed, and that the third one took those ideas and did them right.I like Nightmare 3 a great deal. I disagree that the first one is garbage though
Also, I hate the first one's ending, though I know it's not what Wes Craven intended. I'm not even sure how you connect the continuity of that one's ending to this film, unless it just didn't happen, and Nancy's line about what happened to her mother was just coincidentally "in her sleep".
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs: I'm surprised that I've heard such praise about this film. I watched it and felt like I must have been missing something that others were seeing. I thought the plot and characters were fairly underdeveloped. The relationship between Flint and Sam is awkward and completely humorous in a bad way. There's that Brent guy, who comes off as a complete throw-away character who eventually, and completely randomly, wants to help them save the world during the climax even though as a viewer I would have preferred he be squashed by a large sardine in a grand moment of poetic irony. It is also a film that doesn't give the younger audiences enough credit. Everyonce in a while something would happen that would make a situation seem dangerous, or a to character to feel like they were actually in peril. But seconds later the situation would be unveiled to be not at all dangerous and that person could easily bounce back as if nothing had happened.
Example: Mr T's kid is unconcious and they are scared for his life. BUT turns out it was just a food coma and a snap of some celery was enough to bring him back. At that point it was clear that even if they failed to save the world from the food machine and everything was squashed, folks would just cope with it and probably figure out a new sports event involving brocoli.
Pixar has proven time and again that you don't have to make everything kid friendly to be a wonderful kids movie. I'm not sure why Sony couldn't figure it out with this one.
Example: Mr T's kid is unconcious and they are scared for his life. BUT turns out it was just a food coma and a snap of some celery was enough to bring him back. At that point it was clear that even if they failed to save the world from the food machine and everything was squashed, folks would just cope with it and probably figure out a new sports event involving brocoli.
Pixar has proven time and again that you don't have to make everything kid friendly to be a wonderful kids movie. I'm not sure why Sony couldn't figure it out with this one.
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Wyrminarrd
Went to see "The A-team" last night. The movie was an ok dumb action flick though I found the constant explanations during the action sequences were a bit annoying.
Grown-ups = shit.
The Place Promised in Our Early Days: I must say I thoroughly enjoyed this movie. The animation and music was outstanding and the story while shaky in a few parts was engrossing and enjoying. The characters where developed fairly nicely throughout the movie and I was felt longing for more which is definitely more than I can say for some other movies I have recently watched.
Hahahahah what on earth led you to believe this wouldn't be the case?
A-Team saved the summer for me pretty much. I can't say enough about how much I loved this movie.
Knight & Day was kind of standard, but not as bad as a lot of people were saying. Some kind of weirdly terrible effects shots though in the climax.
Toy Story 3 was completely unfair and had me teared up pretty good through the entire ending. I was thankful to have the funny parts over the credits to get it together before I took the 3D glasses off.
Knight & Day was kind of standard, but not as bad as a lot of people were saying. Some kind of weirdly terrible effects shots though in the climax.
Toy Story 3 was completely unfair and had me teared up pretty good through the entire ending. I was thankful to have the funny parts over the credits to get it together before I took the 3D glasses off.
ElJuski
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Just caught up with No Where to Run last night. Pretty awful movie, even by Van Damme standards, though there are some glowing moments, and of course, per usual Van Damme standards, a girl stripping down to her panties and one Van Damme sex scene.
There was one scene that surprised me though, towards the beginning, that actually showed some tension and nuance. Alas, that moment was fleeting, and the movie went back into the cheese and camp it rightfully deserved to exude.
There was one scene that surprised me though, towards the beginning, that actually showed some tension and nuance. Alas, that moment was fleeting, and the movie went back into the cheese and camp it rightfully deserved to exude.
Youth in Revolt. Funny stuff, but it felt kind of rehashed at times.
I knew it wouldn't be anything special, but it was all kinds of terrible. We went to catch Toy Story 3. It was sold out. Though, now that seems like a terrible excuse.
Hahahahah what on earth led you to believe this wouldn't be the case?[/QUOTE]
I knew it wouldn't be anything special, but it was all kinds of terrible. We went to catch Toy Story 3. It was sold out. Though, now that seems like a terrible excuse.
^This, pretty much exactly. I knew I was gonna be in trouble from the beginning sequences. My wife knows how I am at movies, and has pretty much given up teasing me about it. *wry grin*
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Soliloquy
After Toy Story 3, I think it's safe to say that the Toy Story series is one of the best trilogies ever made.
Cajungal
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Rented Shutter Island earlier this week. It totally tricked me!
Really really cool. I'm watching it again with Jake this weekend. I was chatting online with him while I watched it, and my reactions made him curious.
I guessed the ending at the beginning of the movie about the main character being crazy, then I reconsidered after a few other things happened, then the movie was like, FOOLED YOU.
Really really cool. I'm watching it again with Jake this weekend. I was chatting online with him while I watched it, and my reactions made him curious.
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wana10
Just got back from the good the bad and the weird. it was lots of fun.
figmentPez
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I watched The Fantastic Mr. Fox a couple days ago. It was really good. It's very different in tone and style from most stop-motion animated movies, but that works so well for it. The visuals are amazing, the voice acting is superb and it's a very well paced movie.
Except it was only very loosely tied to the plot of the book, and went into some VERY weird places at times. I'll admit I liked it, but having read the book as a child, I was kinda scratching my head at parts.
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Philosopher B.
Whip It
Better than I anticipated. The end felt a little too manufactured, but otherwise it was pretty good.
Better than I anticipated. The end felt a little too manufactured, but otherwise it was pretty good.
People have expressed the opinion to me that The Last Airbender's problem was the acting. The acting left something to be desired, but the real problem was pacing. I appreciate that you're trying to fit an entire season's worth of plot into an hour and a half, but you've got to do better than that. You left plenty of stuff out, but you could have left out more in lieu of some exposition.
Seriously, I did not care about any of the characters. At all. The character I came closest to caring about was Zuko, and that was only because he was trying to put an end to all the other characters I didn't care about.
Seriously, I did not care about any of the characters. At all. The character I came closest to caring about was Zuko, and that was only because he was trying to put an end to all the other characters I didn't care about.
I saw Cyrus, and it was just okay. I left the theater a little underwhelmed by it. It was pretty funny, but it really didn't feel like there was much there. It wasn't really bad or anything, I just thought it was okay.
Then I saw Predators, and well. I guess I have to concede it was well-made, but fuck did it treat the audience like they were idiots. All the homages/exact same scenes as Predator felt really forced and especially like they didn't really earn it. Some of it was insulting. The whole alien world never really got interesting or felt that alien at all. There were a lot of twists thrown in for reasons unknown to me. In fact, one of the climactic turning points of the movie, I honestly had no clue what was happening, and even afterwards, I have no idea what happened or what some character said in a big monologue. But it didn't matter, since the movie didn't really care about it either! I guess it was worth it for the
part. But most of it just felt like the movie talking to me like I was a 3-year old. I might have liked Predators more if it were the first movie I ever saw in my life.
Then I saw Predators, and well. I guess I have to concede it was well-made, but fuck did it treat the audience like they were idiots. All the homages/exact same scenes as Predator felt really forced and especially like they didn't really earn it. Some of it was insulting. The whole alien world never really got interesting or felt that alien at all. There were a lot of twists thrown in for reasons unknown to me. In fact, one of the climactic turning points of the movie, I honestly had no clue what was happening, and even afterwards, I have no idea what happened or what some character said in a big monologue. But it didn't matter, since the movie didn't really care about it either! I guess it was worth it for the
Adrien Brody appearing, shirtless, covered in mud with a flaming torch, supposed to be like Arnold, and the theater laughing derisively
Just got back from Despicable Me. 3D was better used than in most of the animated films lately. It utilized the depth behind a screen that can be created with this version of 3D, another movie that employed
the technique effectively was Coraline, which few other animated films seem to use instead opting for the more common place crap flying out at you use of realD. That said it's most definitely not needed to enjoy the film. The voice acting was quite good. Gru was a decently developed character. The minions steal the show at times as does the youngest of the three girls.
Tuesday I'll be seeing The Girl who played with Fire, only after having to endure...eclipse.
the technique effectively was Coraline, which few other animated films seem to use instead opting for the more common place crap flying out at you use of realD. That said it's most definitely not needed to enjoy the film. The voice acting was quite good. Gru was a decently developed character. The minions steal the show at times as does the youngest of the three girls.
Tuesday I'll be seeing The Girl who played with Fire, only after having to endure...eclipse.
I also saw Despicable Me tonight. I wasn't blown away in the same way that I was for Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs or How to Train Your Dragon, but for both of those I had lower expectations going in.
It was great fun, and I'd like to see it again. My friends all agreed that Gru's frequent mistakes while saying common expressions were a great touch.
"There are pins and needles, which I am sitting on." or something like that.
It was great fun, and I'd like to see it again. My friends all agreed that Gru's frequent mistakes while saying common expressions were a great touch.
"There are pins and needles, which I am sitting on." or something like that.
Cajungal
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I saw it too! So cute! I loved it. 
Steve Carell makes me laugh, even when he's talking from behind a cartoon character. ^_^ The opening sequence made me laugh out loud. I was laughing the whole time, really... except at the heartwarming parts. Those times I was going "aw."
Steve Carell makes me laugh, even when he's talking from behind a cartoon character. ^_^ The opening sequence made me laugh out loud. I was laughing the whole time, really... except at the heartwarming parts. Those times I was going "aw."