[Movies] Talk about the last movie you saw 2: Electric Threadaloo

LittleSin

LittleSin

Jet has been on a Godzilla kick. Where the rest of kids are obsessed with Cars or My Little Pony my kid loves monsters....and Winnie the Pooh.

Any ways. We watched Son of Godzilla today. Everything was gonig fine...up unti lthe very end of the movie. Jet said, sadly, "Bye Godzillas...." in the way he's taken to ending Godzilla movies. Except this movie ends on a rather bitter sweet note.

Jets face turned red...his eyes misted over...and he sobbed loudly, "BYE GODZILLAS!" and jumped into my lap, sobbing.

I guess it is a rather sad ending.

He kept asking if they would be okay, and if the baby "went away" which I guess is his words for 'died'. I just had to hug him tight and keep telling him that they were both going to be okay and that they'll be back in another movie.

In the end he didn't want to watch another. I just gave him his fathers Godzilla action figures...and we turned on Winnie the Pooh.
 
@Li3n

@Li3n

Cajungal said:
Visually, yeah it was.
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Visually i found Alien to be better most of the time... well made props >>> CGI.

Plus, monsters that hulk out in a few hours while feeding on nothing but bug spray weren't something i was expecting from the prequel to "In space no one can hear you scream."...

Wasn't bad by any means, but i was expecting more subtlety...


Also, having it only be a suit makes the space jockey 10 times less cool...
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

LittleSin said:
Jet has been on a Godzilla kick. Where the rest of kids are obsessed with Cars or My Little Pony my kid loves monsters....and Winnie the Pooh.

Any ways. We watched Son of Godzilla today. Everything was gonig fine...up unti lthe very end of the movie. Jet said, sadly, "Bye Godzillas...." in the way he's taken to ending Godzilla movies. Except this movie ends on a rather bitter sweet note.

Jets face turned red...his eyes misted over...and he sobbed loudly, "BYE GODZILLAS!" and jumped into my lap, sobbing.

I guess it is a rather sad ending.

He kept asking if they would be okay, and if the baby "went away" which I guess is his words for 'died'. I just had to hug him tight and keep telling him that they were both going to be okay and that they'll be back in another movie.

In the end he didn't want to watch another. I just gave him his fathers Godzilla action figures...and we turned on Winnie the Pooh.
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Show him Godzilla's Revenge.

It's a terrible movie, but the little Godzilla can change size and befriends a kid, and can talk to him.
 
FnordBear

FnordBear

Just watched Superman vs. The Elite.

Holy crap this movie was awesome. Now I will say while I recommend it to any DC fan I put a honking huge * on it.

*This movie is packed to the brim with political commentary.

On to specific things. The animation is top notch, a good blend of traditional and CG animation. The voice acting was well done with no performances feeling "phoned in". The story itself felt "real" for the setting. The themes explored of power vs. responsibility and mercy vs. an iron fist were pretty intriguing. The centerpiece of any animated DC movie are the action scenes. These I felt were very well done. The direction the action took played well to the intended tone of the scene.

Overall I give it 4 bear paws up.
 
Frank

Frank

For being Authority analogs they seemed really amp up their dark side while playing down their strengths. It cheapens the movie to me. I've never read the original comic story (What's So Funny...etc.) so I don't know if it's the same but I really dug the original run of Authority by Warren Ellis (I didn't hate it after Millar took over but he's not the same level as Warren Ellis by any means).
 
Cajungal

Cajungal

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Awww, LittleSin, that's so sweet. You just gave me a wonderful flashback to my childhood. Trey, my little brother, was obsessed with Godzilla and saw all the movies. We used to watch them together and cheer during the big battles.
 
M

Magister Moonie

I liked the part in Magnolia where that person was really sad.

edit: I will not just make a stupid joke. I remember assuming (and being told I was correct) that the kid's rap's to sad sack police officer were actually clues to who committed the murder, but I never took the time to analyze them. Anyone know who the killer was?
 
Charlie Don't Surf

Charlie Don't Surf

It didn't really matter to the film. It just helped portray the cop as a little dorky and very out of touch. He was more interested in stopping his dirty language and saying stay in school.
 
checkeredhat

checkeredhat

Reservoir Dogs

Don't know why it's taken this long to see, it just has. But I loved it.


Also I never updated this after having seen
The Believer
It's in the same veign as American History X, it's very difficult to describe. Ryan Gosling plays a Jewish man whose education in the Jewish faith has actually led him to an extreme hatred of Jews, and he becomes a nazi. As he's well educated on the subject and well spoken, he becomes something of a leader to new members of this growing nazi party, but throughout the film he struggles internally with these two opposing sides of himself. It's a very uncomfortable experience. But it's done very well.
 
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Ahh! Zombies

This movie is terribly acted (except for the guy who kind of looks like Joel McHale) ... but it's a really cool concept, and a neat twist on the zombie genre.
The main characters are the zombies, but to them, the rest of the world looks like they're infected. Since the zombies originated from a super-soldier serum experiment, the zombies think they have superpowers. They still see each other as normal, but the world looks sped up. It's a comedy, so hilarity ensues of course.
 
checkeredhat

checkeredhat

I tried to watch that one on Netflix once before. I think I got like 20minutes in and just couldn't deal with it anymore. When you say "terribly acted", you're still making the performances sound too good.

AdventurelandUngh. Just an incredibly dull love story. I was under the impression that this was a comedy, but it is not. At all. And I don't say that in a mean spirited "None of the jokes were funny" sort of way. I say that in a "I don't even recognize anything in the movie that might have been intentioned to be a joke."
 
checkeredhat

checkeredhat

I guess I've been catching up on Quentin Tarantino movies I hadn't seen, cause I also recently watched
Jackie Brown
Bit disappointed in this one. It was okay, but could have been way better. I don't know, it also didn't feel Tarantino-esque, somehow. Like if I had watched it without knowing it was one of his, I probably wouldn't have guessed it.

and
Four Rooms
I guess this is a bad movie and I should feel bad for liking it, but I dug it. Tarantino's portion was probably the worst of the 4 segments though. And a large part of that is because he cast himself in a rather large role. I don't mind that he puts himself in cameos in a lot of his films, but in this short, he's got a bigger part to paly than BRUCE FUCKING WILLIS. The character he gave himself is the second most important character in the scene, really, after Tim Roth. And he can't carry it on his own. But the rest of the shorts were far more entertaining. Robert Rodriguez' in particular, with Antonio Banderes, is hilarious.
 
filmfanatic

filmfanatic

The Amazing Spider-Man

It was alright. There are aspects to this that are an improvement over Raimi's films, such as shooting styles, Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker and setting it in Parker's high school years that do work. However, the studio influence can be felt firmly in it and the script itself is not exactly stellar. That said, I did enjoy it and will be interested to see what they do for a sequel. I just hope that the studio loosens their grip and allows for more interesting developments than what they have here.
 
Shegokigo

Shegokigo

Skipped an opportunity to see Spider-Man tonight and opted for Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter instead.

I am a happy happy violence loving girl.
 
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filmfanatic said:
The Amazing Spider-Man

It was alright. There are aspects to this that are an improvement over Raimi's films, such as shooting styles, Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker and setting it in Parker's high school years that do work. However, the studio influence can be felt firmly in it and the script itself is not exactly stellar. That said, I did enjoy it and will be interested to see what they do for a sequel. I just hope that the studio loosens their grip and allows for more interesting developments than what they have here.
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How were the night scenes? I tell one thing I loved about Raimi was that he did not use the friggin' blue filter that has been so popular since like the mid 90s for night scenes.
 
filmfanatic

filmfanatic

fade said:
How were the night scenes? I tell one thing I loved about Raimi was that he did not use the friggin' blue filter that has been so popular since like the mid 90s for night scenes.
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The night scenes were good. No blue filter for that. The technical stuff for this film was good and aspects of character and story were good. It's just that the script as a whole was somewhat weak.
 
Fun Size

Fun Size

checkeredhat said:
Four Rooms
I guess this is a bad movie and I should feel bad for liking it, but I dug it. Tarantino's portion was probably the worst of the 4 segments though. And a large part of that is because he cast himself in a rather large role. I don't mind that he puts himself in cameos in a lot of his films, but in this short, he's got a bigger part to paly than BRUCE FUCKING WILLIS. The character he gave himself is the second most important character in the scene, really, after Tim Roth. And he can't carry it on his own. But the rest of the shorts were far more entertaining. Robert Rodriguez' in particular, with Antonio Banderes, is hilarious.
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God I loved this movie, and I have to vehemently disagree about the fourth room.

This is probably not a real spoiler, but for the sake of those who haven't seen it, I felt like Tarantino's segment was one of the best set up and executed jokes I had ever seen on film. It was one of the few times I have laughed out loud that hard at anything on film.
 
Chad Sexington

Chad Sexington

Shegokigo said:
Skipped an opportunity to see Spider-Man tonight and opted for Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter instead.

I am a happy happy violence loving girl.
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I saw a review that wrote "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is literally the worst thing to happen to President Lincoln in a theatre."

(I have no idea how good the film is, but I really liked that quip)
 
Shegokigo

Shegokigo

ThatNickGuy said:
:eek:....

So basically, what you're saying here is it's FUCKING AWESOME?
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I'm purchasing it and adding it to my "mindless badass action" film genres.

Granted my tastes in films varies, but that genre of my film collection is pretty small since it really has to go over the top to get there.

The acting, storyline and characters are on par with Crank style films, however, so was the action.
 
sixpackshaker

sixpackshaker

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter Stupid but fun, like my last GF.

At the end of the movie where Lincoln stepped out onto the balcony of the White House to speak to Mary... I nearly screamed "THAT BALCONY WILL NOT BE BUILT FOR ANOTHER 90 YEARS!!!!
 
Shegokigo

Shegokigo

sixpackshaker said:
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter Stupid but fun, like my last GF.

At the end of the movie where Lincoln stepped out onto the balcony of the White House to speak to Mary... I nearly screamed "THAT BALCONY WILL NOT BE BUILT FOR ANOTHER 90 YEARS!!!!
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I loved how they "tried" to mix Historical Facts with the movie, made for a few good laughs.
 
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Chad Sexington said:
I saw a review that wrote "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is literally the worst thing to happen to President Lincoln in a theatre."

(I have no idea how good the film is, but I really liked that quip)
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That joke was stolen from American Dad. And probably 20 other places before that.
 
ThatNickGuy

ThatNickGuy

Finding Nemo

I was in an animated mood tonight and this fit the bill perfectly. And by gosh, this still holds up. No surprise there, I'm sure.

And now, since I'm in the mood for another, I'll watch another Pixar movie. Just not sure which one to wa....SQUIRREL!
 
Gryfter

Gryfter

filmfanatic said:
The Amazing Spider-Man

It was alright. There are aspects to this that are an improvement over Raimi's films, such as shooting styles, Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker and setting it in Parker's high school years that do work. However, the studio influence can be felt firmly in it and the script itself is not exactly stellar. That said, I did enjoy it and will be interested to see what they do for a sequel. I just hope that the studio loosens their grip and allows for more interesting developments than what they have here.
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Saw it and mostly agree with this assessment, though I wasn't as crazy about Peter Parker. I felt they turned up the angst a bit too loud and too often and he came off as more of an outsider than a science geek. Loved the fight sequences though and the scenes with Spider-man in them were good but I really wish we'd seen him sooner than almost an hour into the film. Also, way too much time spent on the origin again.
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

Ice Age: The Meltdown

Plays out more like a sketch piece, with little vaudvillian episodes (such as the Scrat appearances and the hilariously whimsical vulture chorus number) strung together by the plot, and the movie can't stay in the same genre for more than 5 minutes, but it was entirely entertaining, and in that, it wholly succeeds. I can't say why I liked it, I just did.

--Patrick
 
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