CorgiShinobi Posted January 15, 2013 Report Share Posted January 15, 2013 Kick-Ass a.k.a. I watched a preteen girl kill 60 men, some nerd flew a jetpack, and a burning Nicolas Cage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Hot Heart Posted January 15, 2013 Popular Post Report Share Posted January 15, 2013 a.k.a. I watched a preteen girl kill 60 men, some nerd flew a jetpack, and a burning Nicolas Cage. And your thought was "Hmm, that's OK, I guess"?! 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CorgiShinobi Posted January 15, 2013 Report Share Posted January 15, 2013 a.k.a. I watched a preteen girl kill 60 men, some nerd flew a jetpack, and a burning Nicolas Cage. And your thought was "Hmm, that's OK, I guess"?! I guess I was expecting more, though I will admit the burning Nicolas Cage was quality stuff. It's just, any time it went back to Kick-Ass (the character), it was underwhelming to me. It wasn't until the end that the movie picked up and ended with some drug lord flying outside his office on a missle and thus blowing up. Like, if you're going to be campy, stick with it. Don't go back to reality every 10 minutes telling me, "Man, being a superhero sucks." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faiblesse Des Sens Posted January 22, 2013 Report Share Posted January 22, 2013 The Loneliest Planet Basically: Indie film that follows this couple as they hike through Georgia (the country) and one little event tears them apart. So there isn't much dialogue, especially after the event, but it's well acted enough that you get what's going on. So it was enjoyable to some degree, but was a bit too predictable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted January 22, 2013 Report Share Posted January 22, 2013 Puss in Boots Not quite as good as the shrek films that spawned it (minus Shrek 3, that one sucked) but fairly watchable. Probably a great films for the kids. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CorgiShinobi Posted January 22, 2013 Report Share Posted January 22, 2013 The way I would rank the whole Shrek series (minus holiday shorts): Shrek Shrek 2 Puss in Boots Shrek Forever After Shrek the Turd Because while Forever After was unarguably better than the one before it, it still featured Shrek having orge issues and seems to suffer from "grass is always greener" syndrome. Really it goes like: I'm an ogre; who could like me, let alone love me. Uh, we're ogres. Do you really think they'll accept us and our love? I'm an ogre and because of that I need to find a brat to be king because I'm an ogre. Remember when people use to fear me and hate every once of me? Yeah, I wanna go back to that before I had a wife, a best friend, and offspring! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Jack Posted January 23, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 23, 2013 I actually liked Shrek 2 more than the first one, but yeah the last two movies were crap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted February 2, 2013 Report Share Posted February 2, 2013 Saw Warm Bodies last night. I enjoyed it fine while I was watching it, but I also wouldn't be upset if I never see it again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CorgiShinobi Posted February 3, 2013 Report Share Posted February 3, 2013 Hotel Transylvania I always wanted to see it at theaters, but never did. Father wanted to buy it, kept forgetting so I bought it as a way of saying, "I eat your food and sleep for free, so here." Got it cheap, and not to say glad, but I doubt I'm going to watch this movie again. Trust me, it could have been a lot worse with all the troubles it went through, but at the same time it's not really going to be considered a classic. If there where NO songs, and if Adam Sandler could emote better as a frantic emotional father, it would be better. Really, I don't need that much intentional auto-tune in one sitting. On an unrelated note: Still can't stand watching movies with the parents. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Jack Posted February 7, 2013 Author Report Share Posted February 7, 2013 Men in Black 3. It was better than the second one, so I'll give it credit for that. A lot of the jokes felt like low-hanging fruit, and most of the alien designs are a little too human based. Still, it could have been a lot worse. I'm not sorry I saw it or anything. I just don't think I need to watch it twice. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waldorf and Statler Posted February 7, 2013 Report Share Posted February 7, 2013 I think this is the main reason I haven't watched MIB3. If after many years the best they can do is "slightly better than the second but nothing I need to watch twice" then I don't wanna give them my money 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madbassman39 Posted February 7, 2013 Report Share Posted February 7, 2013 As someone who enjoys Will Smith's movies and time travel as a premise (no matter how poorly implemented it is). So I saw this movie in theaters. It was exactly how Mister Jack described it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waldorf and Statler Posted March 11, 2013 Report Share Posted March 11, 2013 Oz the Great and Powerful. If I can give you a recommendation I'd say go watch it with family members, especially if women are involved. If I had gone with my cynical group of college buddies I would have probably thought it was eh, but I went with my family and I enjoyed everything about it but even then admit it could have been better. Kids will especially love this. Also Zach Braff may not have many fans with critics but man, he played the cute monkey assistant perfectly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted March 11, 2013 Report Share Posted March 11, 2013 Zach Braff seems like he was probably born to play a talking monkey. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CorgiShinobi Posted March 11, 2013 Report Share Posted March 11, 2013 I haven't seen the film yet, but every time I see that flying monkey on television, I lose interest in the movie. It looks like he's a sidekick and I have a strong feeling I'm going to hate that monkey. My family wants to see it though, so I guess I'll deal with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waldorf and Statler Posted March 11, 2013 Report Share Posted March 11, 2013 Well the main side kicks are the monkey and the china doll girl. Then you get a third character in Glynda/Glenda. And like I said you have to go without cynicism or you won't enjoy it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted March 11, 2013 Report Share Posted March 11, 2013 Well the main side kicks are the monkey and the china doll girl. Then you get a third character in Glynda/Glenda. And like I said you have to go without cynicism or you won't enjoy it. Nope, no can do. That's asking too much. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waldorf and Statler Posted March 11, 2013 Report Share Posted March 11, 2013 (edited) I thought so too but sitting next to my older sis and hearing her snort and giggle at virtually everything made me enjoy the movie more than I would have by myself. It's a children's movie directed at family and children. There are some adult jokes, like Oz and the shit he does as a sleazebag Either ways I'm not gonna try to convince you guys to watch it. I just thought it was enjoyable and I love Zach Braff enough to forgive him for Garden State. Plus he has a very cute French Bulldog. Edited March 11, 2013 by Waldorf And Statler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waldorf and Statler Posted April 7, 2013 Report Share Posted April 7, 2013 Evil Dead [remake] It's an ok movie. Entertaining enough and worth a watch. And I'm all for female empowerment and twists but... When the badass of the movie has been one guy the whole way through and during the last scene they decide to kill him and switch him out with the one that was possessed the whole movie, you can't pretend that I'll enjoy the transition whether it was a girl or a guy. I understand you were trying to break established ideals but that was cheap Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faiblesse Des Sens Posted April 10, 2013 Report Share Posted April 10, 2013 Room 237. I'm not sure if it was a documentary about The Shining or a documentary about people who obsess over The Shining. It's a way better film as the latter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waldorf and Statler Posted April 21, 2013 Report Share Posted April 21, 2013 Oblivion. It's by no means a bad movie unlike what reviews want you to believe, but it feels like a movie you've seen a thousand times. The 'twists' were predictable if you've ever seen a sci-fi movie in your whole life. Tom Cruise isn't exactly bad or good. He's ok. This whole movie. Is Ok. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Jack Posted May 1, 2013 Author Report Share Posted May 1, 2013 Evil Dead remake. It didn't shit all over the franchise but it didn't really add anything special to it either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted June 13, 2013 Report Share Posted June 13, 2013 Oz the Great and Powerful It was a fun watch and all, but it seemed a bit too flat* like the actors (witches especially) were going through the lines. The sounds for the baboons were pretty terrifying though, the good old "don't show the scary things" worked well for a fair while. Certainly a spectacle though. *well..except when it throws in a lot of forced 3-D that I thought industry had gotten over a couple years back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted June 15, 2013 Report Share Posted June 15, 2013 (edited) Decided to write a lot of words about this one to try and explain... Man of Steel. Decided to be a bit little less forgiving after Star Trek Into Darkness, so this goes here. If you're a fan of Superman, you may find this enjoyable. I've never really been interested in the character or the mythology, though I feel the film did a fair job of translating that to the screen. Superman, in many ways, has been given the Batman Begins/Nolan treatment, albeit with less smarts. Unlike a lot of recent blockbuster trash, you can see that at least some attention has been paid to the script. The characters really are the focus and there's a clear plan behind it all, so much that I was OK ignoring some of the little missteps with plot logic/convenience. Essentially, my main problem is that there are a few stretches where I just got bored and the actual themes of the film were about as subtle as Superman's fist. Nolan's films were never cryptic with it, but they were usually done quite cleverly via callbacks and such. Here, characters are just repeating the same things (even plot points) and Jor-El the Friendly Ghost is doing too much of the work. Doesn't help that Russell Crowe just seems to be on auto-pilot...or his character is just boring. My friend actually really liked the opening and not the rest of the film, whereas I thought it dragged on too long and wasn't very interesting overall. It does a lot of setup for later though, so it's not as if it's completely redundant. It's just that you see a bunch of stuff...and then since Superman is in the dark, a lot of that then has to be repeated. At one point, Zod actually says, "You want to know how I found you?" and goes on to explain that and his master plan. I can't help feeling there was a better way to achieve a lot of things the film was trying to do. And I guess that's my biggest complaint. At many points, I was wondering why they went a certain route and felt that a lot of potential was wasted. I'll put these in spoilers, just in case. It's not so much that the plot holds many surprises, but that you may wish to know less going in. It's Superman and Zod with whom I have the most issues, and considering they're the protagonist and antagonist, that's a big problem. Superman never interested me, and here they've not really done anything interesting with him past why he's 'good'. Maybe they're saving that for later, but he's still just too dumb. His only solution is to punch things until he wins. As for Zod, while I felt they did a good job of ensuring Zod wasn't one-dimensional, I never really got that from Michael Shannon's performance. I would've expected to see at least a hint of desperation from a man who has thrown a coup in hope of leading his race away from extinction, but that only surfaces right near the end of the film. I don't doubt that he's a capable actor, it's just that the script emphasises his typical grumpy villainness, rather than making any attempt at evoking sympathy for him. After all, it's Jor-El who ultimately decides that Kryptonians as they are, aren't worth saving and so dooms them to their fate. Not knocking Jor-El's intentions so much (along with the whole planetary collapse, Kryptonians had reached a point where they were all engineered to fulfill specific societal purposes, which is also why it's incredibly stupid that his 'military scientist' beats 'the military's general' in a fistfight and is then surprise-stabbed rather than being killed in a desperate struggle, for example), but it feeds into the situation at the end, and what actually ruins it. So...come the end, Zod has lost all hope (he explains as much, in his first sign of an emotion besides anger) and a massive fight ensues. I was hoping they would play up that old Western trope of a man finding himself out of step with the world, just a relic of the past (what Zod had become) and that Superman could convince him to give up or...something. Just something to show Superman as the shining hero he's supposed to be. But, nope, he just has punch better than Zod. Big whoop... As for the good stuff, the action was really well-done. The flying looks cool and there's a real primal satisfaction from seeing Superman thump the hell out of Zod and other Kryptonians, or seeing these superbeings crashing through buildings and causing untold destruction. Everything has a real heft to it. Some of the action sequences may seem a little messy at times, and perhaps drag on too long (there is one particular instance where it's intercut with some other characters about whom I didn't actually care outside of earlier incarnations) and there are some neat visual touches. Overall, though, I'd have a hard time recommending it to the average viewer who has no interest in Superman. Edited June 15, 2013 by Hot Heart Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted June 25, 2013 Report Share Posted June 25, 2013 Cowboys & Aliens. Cool concept, good cast, rote and fairly humourless Hollywood blockbuster. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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