Last OK Movie You Saw

[Hot Heart]

To me at least, Pegg and Frost have always seemed more like sketch/gag-writers whereas Wright has the stronger film background.

[Yantelope]

Yeah, I'm sad that it seems Hot Fuzz may be the pinnacle of Pegg's career.

[TheFlyingGerbil]

Spaced is the pinnacle of Mr. Pegg's career so far.

[Johnny]

I'm one of those heathen who prefers Shaun of the Dead to Hot Fuzz. =P

[Hot Heart]

I couldn't really pick one over the other, although Hot Fuzz certainly has a more 'positive' ending...

[Mr W Phallus]

I'm one of those heathen who prefers Shaun of the Dead to Hot Fuzz. =P

I don't know anyone who would say otherwise.

 

Hot Fuzz was alright but it pales in comparison to the brilliance of Shaun of the Dead. I always thought that was a given. Maybe it differs across the pond.

[CorgiShinobi]

I've seen Shaun of the Dead three times.

 

I've only seen about 20 minutes of Hot Fuzz; I'm going to rectify this as it's next in my Netflix DVD queue.

 

So yeah, Shaun of the Dead is spectacular. I think one of my favorite parts is when they're tossing vinyl records at two zombies.

[Yantelope]

I watched Limitless last night. It was ok but I don't understand :

if that medicine helps him get out of danger and makes him almost invincible as a result how does he manage to kill the bad guy with the kitchen knife and how do they manage to kill the lawyer who is using it so easily and why is he the only one to perfect the drug? Wouldn't the original creator have perfected by himself already?

 

 

bad writing ruins movies. Hollywood, get them memo already.

Edited August 30, 2011 by Yantelope

[Thorgi Duke of Frisbee]

I saw In The Mouth of Madness. Very, very cheesy 90s horror movie made by John Carpenter. Books are treated like some mind-altering drug, and Sam Neill (who is unbearably atrocious as the lead) acts all cool and brags about how he doesn't read. They treat book-readers like they're juvenile humans even before the book starts driving people mad, which got some good chuckles out of me.

 

It tries really hard to be an H.P. Lovecraft movie. The author, Sutter Cane, writes novels that share titles and covers remarkably similar to Lovecraft's work. Many of the monsters have a Lovecraft feel to them. They even rip some lines right from a few of his books. The big problem is that it just sort of stumbles in the execution. The scenes go on for too long (there's one part where Sam Neill goes through the same motions five or six times in a row, past the point where you're screaming "OH FOR FUCK'S SAKE, GO THE OTHER WAY!"), characters appear and disappear on a regular basis without much explanation, and some of the lines are so terrible that they could be considered purposefully cheesy or jokey, if the actor delivered it another way.

 

And the ending? The ending is the dumbest thing I've ever seen. The ending is like this one big joke, or wink to the audience, and then it just abruptly stops. It feels like they didn't have anything close to the proper budget for this movie, or they think shooting what needed to be shown for the ending wouldn't have done it justice (and they'd be right; the effects, even for a movie in the 90s, are garbage).

 

I would love it if someone decided to remake this, change the ending, rewrite the dialog and give it a clearer focus. As it stands, this movie is a sad example of a great premise ruined by poor budget, bad writers and Sam Fucking Neill.

[Faiblesse Des Sens]

There's a Lovecraft title "In The Mountains of Madness." I'd say it's a direct tribute.

 

and some of the lines are so terrible that they could be considered purposefully cheesy or jokey, if the actor delivered it another way.

 

For max enjoyment, I took everything as cheesy!

 

 

Anyways, I liked it, but agreed that some of the scenes are just too damn long.

[Mr W Phallus]

Steamboy. The film was ok, nothing special, but boy was the voice acting terrible. Whoever thought it would be a good idea to cast a Canadian/New Zealander actress as a Mancunian boy needs their head examined.

[deanb]

Thor.

 

It was okay, but I have a feeling it was aimed at 12 year old boys compared to stuff like First Class. There was a fair bit of over-acting n massive cliche n shit that made it way too predictable. I did get annoyed midway through when I realised that Thor didn't seemed upset at all about his father death and his permanent exile.

[BrainHurtBoy...2]

The Marvel Cinemaverse movies to me seem more targeted at younger audiences than stuff like First Class, the Dark Knight, and (at this point, this is how it seems) the Amazing Spider-Man.

They're good movies, often, but I go in expecting cliches and plot holes. Iron Man 1 wasn't like that, but the rest were. I dunno.

[deanb]

The Three Muskateers.

 

So it wasn't helped too much by the fact I wanted to watch Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. It's all the usual camp and silly type stuff you get in Pirates of Caribbean and Sherlock Holmes. The cast was strange as hell. Dude from Inglorious Basterds, James Corden, Orlando Bloom, Milla Jovovich, Percy Jackson, Dexter Fletcher, a guy who turns out isn't Mickey Rourke. It's a real "okay let's pop on IMDB" type film (which is where you also learn a lot of these guys have been on similar films, mainly Clash of Titans, Inglorious Basterds, and Robin Hood. Oh and apart from Orlando Bloom (playing an English dude) and Jovovich (playing an un-nationed character, or at least nothing I remember being mentioned) all these characters are playing French people. Including Corden.

I believe I said it looked like "Assassins Creed: The Movie" in the Trailer thread. The start is very much so. Especially with the Venetian setting. The rest not so much.

 

The swords fight were pretty good, albeit the director liked to twiddle with the slow mo knob a lot in editing. Actually the editing is where it really falls apart. Especially with this whole "three days later" shit it throws up every now n then. We know geography, we know it didn't take the 2 second cut between scenes for him to end up in Paris. I did like the cuts from the kind of Total War like scenes of the battlefield of Europe with the pieces moving then it'd cut to the actual pieces on the board in live action very smoothly. There was a lot of moving people into the right places so that the plot can move forward and it doesn't done with too much elegance. The actors didn't seem to be giving it their all much either. I mean James Corden gets a free pass cos we all know he's shit anyway. But the rest didn't seem to put much gusto in it. Especially the Muskateers themselves. I always feel a film watches best when they actors are quite into it. Especially this type of film, they should seem like they're having fun.

 

Oh and they set it up for a sequel so I guess we'll see more.

 

It's a fun frollick but cliched to hell . The cast is weirdly mixed too, so it's worth it just for that.

[TheFlyingGerbil]

I just watched the Swedish version of Let The Right One In. I think I may have enjoyed it more if I hadn't just read the book as whenever I do that all I can think is 'that isn't anything like the book' plus I think Oskar was just so different from how I imagined him (and Eli to a lesser extent) that it hampered my enjoyment. I did read that Eli's voice is dubbed over by an older actress which I could hardly believe as I was watching it.

[CorgiShinobi]

The Grudge

 

I have to say, aside from the jump scare in the beginning, this movie didn't scare me in the slightest. Seriously, (if you've seen it) the scene where the girl is on the bus and sees the "croaking" women ghost-thing, my friends and I began cracking up. Like, it really became predicable as well, but I have to say I did like how it made our typical "safety" places into death pits, i.e. a bed.

[Thorgi Duke of Frisbee]

We did the same thing when we watched The Grudge 2 on some cruise ship. The girl would appear under someone's desk and we just kept snickering.

[toxicitizen]

Finally got around to watching All-Star Superman a few days ago. It had been sitting on my hdd for a while now so it was either watch it or delete it.

 

I'm not really sure how I feel about it. It wasn't great, but I don't think it was bad either. It was just... weird.

[TheFlyingGerbil]

I just watched "I Killed My Mother". The lead actor wrote it when he was 16 and produced and directed it too, so from that point it is quite impressive, but it's semi-autobiographical and I'm guessing he was a gigantic arsehole to live with. There was just too much shouting without any real explanation as to why they were angry. I guess that is actually pretty much the teenage thing - unarticulated anger. but it doesn't make for a very satisfying film or sympathetic main character. though I guess it had a happy ending of sorts. I'm guessing it was OK because I'm glad I watched it but I don't fell a desire to watch it again or own it on DVD.

[deanb]

Super. Its main bonus keeping it from the other thread was Ellen Page was in it and she's kinda awesome. But other than that it was pretty naf. I think the main guy is from US office, so maybe that might make it better. Dunno. The dude was clearly mentally deranged, having visions of god telling him to do stuff etc. I thought maybe ellen pages character would act as a mirror to this and show that his form of crime fighting is a bit iffy, since she's even more off her rocker than he is, but that never happened. In fact it ended on a monologue which was rather anti-climatic, not even the good kind. Like Brazil. "He's got away from us jack". That was a good "dude who is a bit doo-lally, has visions, fights corruption in his own way" film. Or kick-ass, which I don't like to draw comparison too since it's clear they're not meant to be the same film but as far as regular person becomes 'super-hero' to fight crime n get the girl goes, it was a much better film and one I'd watch again. Unlike Super.

[P4: Gritty Reboot]

Saw Tower Heist with some free passes that wouldn't work with the Muppets. Eddie Murphy was surprisingly funny, but the plot was a little too ridiculous, and it's a slow builder. Worth a rent/netflix/torrent later on I'd say.

[deanb]

You've seen the other thread, you know what this is. MIB II's problem was it got too silly. (also it's really damn short. Only like 10 minutes or so shorter, but as I said before MIB felt short) The gags weren't exactly smart. Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith were two guys acting out the first movie, while everyone else around them kinda did their own thing. It's not even like the whole Batman/Batman Returns into Batman Forever/&Robin thing either cos it has the same director. (the again this guy has Addams Family/Values(great film, great lines), as well as Wild Wild West. So I guess it's a bit spotty)

 

The ending was better, with the cheap sci-fi show thing to get you to the chase, as opposed to the fly which I think was a fly for flys sake, it didn't really add anything.

[CorgiShinobi]

Came back online simply to rant about this movie: Tales from Earthsea

 

Ugh, I really expected more out of a Studo Ghibli film. Supposedly this movie doesn't even follow the book series it was based on, remotely.

 

First off, context! What is the significances of someone's true name? Is one person trying to stay alive really enough to destroy the balance so no one but the most powerful of wizards can use spells? There are dragons, but why only two minutes of screen time?

 

Just, there's too much unanswered and not in the good "own interpretation" way. Was Tennaru really a dragon or just a human capable of turning into a dragon?! Why did Gob need to sell slaves? Because he's evil and that's it?!

 

If it weren't for the music and animation (which kinda fails in select moments), this would belong in the "Terrible" pile.

[deanb]

We were channel hopping and ended up watching King Ralph.

 

It's not bad, mainly helped by the rather sterling cast (O'Toole, Goodman, Hurt, it's hard to cock up). It's meant to be a comedy but it doesn't have many laugh out loud moments. Oh cos I've not seen it for aaaggges when "Flamingo" shows up I'm "That's Jackie!" (Roses mum in Doctor Who.) The King from...Zimbabwe(I think it was actually a made up country iirc) is now a shop owner on Eastenders. I did however remember, and pre-emptively flinch, the part where he slices the guys ear while Knighting him.

[Hot Heart]

Cold Souls

 

This is a tough one. I want to say it's 'good' but it left me, well...cold. It has a neat idea and some good performances but it feels a little underdeveloped. I found David Straitharn's character a little ill-defined and there didn't seem to be much to it. Sometimes, that can work, but it didn't feel that way for me here. Still, it is funny and moving enough, so I'd recommend checking it out.