rewatched Rocky. he says "you know" a lot.
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I generally could care less if some one does not do an accent in a movie, unless they are speaking the language in question. The question should be why did they not speak German for the whole movie? Only two people bothered to do an accent for their roles, and they were German Actors speaking English.ElJuski said:Oh god, I hated Valkyrie, and I forgot all about it until you just brought it upNobody even tried to get a German accent right, from what I remember. I also remember that it should have been called "Tom Cruise Does History!" for how shallowly he jumped into his character. I will agree seeing something else from WW2 was interesting. If it's not the US Comes to Save the Day, its about the horrors of the Holocaust. Not saying the Holocaust wasn't a horrible thing, but there are different genocides / angles to take World War 2.
The accents weren't the point. They even illustrate what they were going for with the switch from German to English. I agree with Tom Cruise being one of the weak points of the movie though.ElJuski said:Oh god, I hated Valkyrie, and I forgot all about it until you just brought it up
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Hey but all the main protagonists die at the end of the film so it wasn't all that bad.
Watched Ice Age 3 and Night at the Museum 2 at the drive in last Friday. They were enjoyable, and the kids had a good time. Ice Age is on par with the previous movies, so you'll probably feel the same about this one as you felt for the previous two.
Night at the Museum 2 was reasonably enjoyable, but not as good as the first one, so...
There was nothing in either movie that particularly warranted a big screen though, so you could wait for the DVD unless you really enjoyed the originals.
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Night at the Museum 2 was reasonably enjoyable, but not as good as the first one, so...
There was nothing in either movie that particularly warranted a big screen though, so you could wait for the DVD unless you really enjoyed the originals.
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Public Enemies - needed a way tighter screenplay. A lot of time was spent on (historically inaccurate) cameos of famous criminals of the day instead of developing the main characters and plot. Just ends up being generally disasisfying. Also, there were some weird sound issues.
Still, Mann knows how to shoot a gunfight, and I have a thing for the general look of that time period. I don't regret seeing it, but I can't recommend it.
Still, Mann knows how to shoot a gunfight, and I have a thing for the general look of that time period. I don't regret seeing it, but I can't recommend it.
Yes. It seemed like every 5 minutes someone new was introduced, for 140 minutes straight. I just kinda stopped caring about a lot of the characters because of it. I want to watch it again just so I can get everyone straight. I really did like it, but like others have said it could have been a lot better.Alex B. said:
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I'd love for Mel Gibson to do Valkyrie, because Hitler speaking English takes too much away from the experience, and he knows how to casts unknowns who can pull off complicated roles.Frankie said:The accents weren't the point. They even illustrate what they were going for with the switch from German to English. I agree with Tom Cruise being one of the weak points of the movie though.ElJuski said:Oh god, I hated Valkyrie, and I forgot all about it until you just brought it up
And he wouldnt have taken away qualities from historical figures (like Stauffenberg's refusal to accept morphine, hatred for Wagner, or his political manipulation)
This the best way to look at the series:fade said:
Resident Evil 1: bad video game movie, a bad action movie, but a good zombie movie.
Resident Evil 2:bad video game movie, a good action movie, and a good zombie movie.
Resident Evil 3: good video game movie, a bad action movie and a bad zombie movie.
There was nothing good about Resident Evil 2.
Please, do explain, I feel those critiques were very much in order.Frankie said:
I care to disagree, there were alot of great action scenes in that film. If they'd have taken out the name "Resident Evil" and made it some nameless corporation doing the evil deeds, it would have been fantastic action/zombie flick.Charlie Dont Surf said:
Ahh opinons, how they can differ so:Shannow said:
Humor? Agreed, no funny.
Horror? Maybe not "terror" but it had its horror elements as a zombie flick.
Gore? Defenitely could have used more gore, especially with its R rating.
Action sequences? There I'm gonna completely disagree, I thought they were perfectly in line for a zombie flick, as well as some more martial arts goodness from Milia.
The name "Resident Evil" or any expectations had no effect on me since I've never played any of those games.
Like I said, different tastes.Charlie Dont Surf said:
Also, it's no surprise, we hardly ever see eye to eye on almost any subject. So pretty much if I dislike/like something, I can pretty much count on you to feel the opposite. Which pretty much goes for Krisken, Kissinger and Shannow as well.
How was it a good zombie movie? A buddy of mine said it best, "When a zombie movie needs Milla Jovovich's naked bits to hit that R rating, something is wrong."Shegokigo said:
How was it a good zombie movie? Was it the part where she crashed through the church in a motorbike, did a bunch of flips and shot all the non-zombies? I also really liked the fist fight with Nemesis.....God I hated that movie.
Infinite. Zombie. Train car.
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I liked Resident Evil... :smug:
Good zombie movie = lots and lots of zombies, people getting eaten left and right and people fighting for their lives, toss in a little gore, some nakedness, and a nice finish with only 1-2 survivors.Frankie said:
Obviously you've forgotten the entire schoolhouse scene and the city wide buffet.Frankie said:
"Good video game movie"Frankie said:
The entire last hour felt pulled straight out of any of the series of games. The creepy lab, the final battle, the entire atmosphere was dead on.
Public Enemies: over all good. but I just felt like this one was just phoned in... One thing that just glared out at me was - there was no score to speak of. Sure they would play a verse or refrain from a Billie Holiday song, then cut over to 3 bars of techno and then 15 minutes of silence. The love scene was well shot but 10 seconds of Billie and 5 seconds of electric organ for a 5 minute long scene.
The earlier complaint about the digital camera, there were too many times that they did not get some thing right in the view finder and just cropped the image down to what they wanted. Which just distorts and loses too much resolution making odd looking scenes.
The main good point is that they did not make Melvin Purvis out to be a bad guy. A lot of revisionist history does.
The earlier complaint about the digital camera, there were too many times that they did not get some thing right in the view finder and just cropped the image down to what they wanted. Which just distorts and loses too much resolution making odd looking scenes.
The main good point is that they did not make Melvin Purvis out to be a bad guy. A lot of revisionist history does.
In regards to all of this RE talk, there were plans to make the film back in 1999. It was to be directed by George A. Romero and follow the plot of the first game. I've actually read the script for this version and it's floating out there in the internet.
Wonder Woman
Watched it for the second time yesterday, since a friend of mine hadn't seen it yet. I still wholeheartedly stand behind the believe that they could have easily, EASILY, released this in theatres. It was just as good, if not better, than a LOT of live action superhero crap that we've gotten over the last few years.
Fanboys
Are you a fan of Star Wars at all? Then, by god, get this movie. My friend and I were dying with laughter through the whole thing, laughing at all the in-jokes and references to the movie. Hell, there were even appearances by Carrie Fisher, BILLY FUCKING DEE WILLIAMS and William Shatner. George Lucas kind of makes an appearance, too.
The one surprise I had about this movie was the total lack of Mark Hamil. I thought, of anyone who would love to be a part of this movie, Hamil would be at the top of this list. He supports this kind of stuff just as much as his fellow actors and Lucas himself do.
Watched it for the second time yesterday, since a friend of mine hadn't seen it yet. I still wholeheartedly stand behind the believe that they could have easily, EASILY, released this in theatres. It was just as good, if not better, than a LOT of live action superhero crap that we've gotten over the last few years.
Fanboys
Are you a fan of Star Wars at all? Then, by god, get this movie. My friend and I were dying with laughter through the whole thing, laughing at all the in-jokes and references to the movie. Hell, there were even appearances by Carrie Fisher, BILLY FUCKING DEE WILLIAMS and William Shatner. George Lucas kind of makes an appearance, too.
The one surprise I had about this movie was the total lack of Mark Hamil. I thought, of anyone who would love to be a part of this movie, Hamil would be at the top of this list. He supports this kind of stuff just as much as his fellow actors and Lucas himself do.
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Watched "The Hangover" last night, pretty good movie and one of the better comedies that I´ve seen recently.
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Today was my 4-year anniversary with my boyfriend, and we had never gone on a date to the movies before (he hates going to the movies for various reasons) so we went to a 10 AM showing of The Hangover and were the only two in the theatre. 
It was hilarious!
It was hilarious!- Status