Hot Heart Posted August 11, 2012 Report Share Posted August 11, 2012 Cos of the naming I have no idea which of the Bourne films I've seen and which I haven't. They're all pretty much the same... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorgi Duke of Frisbee Posted August 11, 2012 Report Share Posted August 11, 2012 Cos of the naming I have no idea which of the Bourne films I've seen and which I haven't. They're all pretty much the same... Yup. The gist for every single Bourne movie; 1. Someone messes with Bourne (or in this case Jeremy Renner's character, I can't remember his name, which is already a wonderful sign) 2. Dudes in suits constantly remind the people that messed with Bourne that they fucked up big time and have unleashed something beyond their control etc. etc. YES WE GET IT BOURNE IS UNSTOPPABLE 3. Lots of scenes of Bourne collecting information, running, and incapacitating his pursuers. 4. After a set amount of time/damage has been done, he disappears into the shadows until Universal decides they want a new mo... I mean, until the government messes with Bourne again. Yes, there's an overarching narrative in the original trilogy, but the reveal behind the curtain is rather boring. It's mostly a chance for Universal to get some Bond action in without owning the rights to Bond. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danielpholt Posted September 15, 2012 Report Share Posted September 15, 2012 Lawless. I went in expecting a fair amount, and unfortunately it didn't deliver. Don't get me wrong, its an enjoyable film, but it feels smaller than i was expecting. A few characters felt hacked on and nothing really happens. Still i'd recommend it for Tom Hardy alone. He was again, fantastic. Just a tip to anyone who does see it. Prepare to suspend your disbelief. It gets a little crazy at one point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mal Posted September 26, 2012 Report Share Posted September 26, 2012 Highlander. The fights are actually alright but the back and forth of the storyline is kind of confusing. The badguy is just so typical too, Also the badguy's sword is apparently made in sections, including the blade, of which I wasn't aware was a thing. The soundtrack I have no issue with since it spawned this wonderful song by Queen: With that, I don't understand why they made sequels but I'll go watch them in due time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted October 7, 2012 Report Share Posted October 7, 2012 Prometheus. It's neat and sparkly but it's at least three films crammed into one, and I'm pretty sure one of those films is an Alien film to please studio heads. The film crammed way too much stuff in, after a fairly slow start, to such a degree no one stops to ask what is going on. Except the ginger lass, and that's cos Weyland is on board and no one stops to ask her why she has blood all over her and stomach staples. Fassbender was neat albeit he was a 2-dimensional ridley scott Alien franchise android which means his plot points were telegraphed several decades ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waldorf and Statler Posted October 7, 2012 Report Share Posted October 7, 2012 Taken 2. It's not nearly bad as reviews make it out to be, but then again the first taken wasn't exactly loved by critics either. If you enjoyed the first and like Neeson Season, then watch it it is worth your money. The movie is made more enjoyable if you consider the idea that Liam Neeson hates minorities/foreigners. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted October 15, 2012 Report Share Posted October 15, 2012 Pom Poko It's weird more than anything. And very very preachy. Which I can be fine with but this struggled to work out of it was trying to teach you to care for wildlife or if it was going to have tanookis sail off in giant scrotum ships and going all DBZ style on Tokyos ass. Current housemate only has a small selection of the Studio Ghibli collection compared to Tom though. Which at least makes avoiding Grave of Fireflies kinda easy (except she has said about actually picking that and tissues up). I might suggest Totoro next, since that seems to be one folks like. (Though that's "next..in the Ghibli stuff", cos I'll probably aim for something hollywoodish next film) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mal Posted October 22, 2012 Report Share Posted October 22, 2012 (edited) Tales From Earthsea I caught it on Starz Family so here I am. I never read the books but I love the setting I saw in the movie. I'm not too sure about how I feel about the characters. Sparrowhawk is a fine dude though. This movie suffers from stuffing such a rich world into a movie. Cowboy and Aliens Odd film but it was fine. Can't say I paid too much attention... Edited October 22, 2012 by MaliciousH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madbassman39 Posted October 22, 2012 Report Share Posted October 22, 2012 Argo. The dialogue was good, the actors were great, the story and premise was good too. It suffered from an identity crisis, it was funny and almost Oceans 11 at times, then it was serious and really dark, then funny again, then serious. It also suffers from being based on a true story, so the ending is known before hand therefore the tension has to be exaggerated in the middle. Over-all the movie is one long suspense movie, meaning that things always go wrong at the worst possible times, and its very predictable. The movie drags on the suspense so long that I started to really get irritated at the end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted October 22, 2012 Report Share Posted October 22, 2012 I've seen movies like that where they don't relax the tension often enough so by the end I'm too emotionally exhausted to care about it anymore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waldorf and Statler Posted October 22, 2012 Report Share Posted October 22, 2012 There was one particular scene in Argo where it was stressful, but besides that nothing you wouldn't expect in allah-llah-land Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted October 27, 2012 Report Share Posted October 27, 2012 The Amazing Spiderman. Everyone is largely stupid and the film writes a lot of the plot out in big bold letters. It is also a shame that it spent so long going over the origin stuff again. I think Incredible Hulk did the whole "reboot within a decade" thing rather well by just diving straight into it being Hulk and skipping the Gamma radtion stuff. Spiderman was flash, had some good action in it, but yeah way too much stupidity. Such as And folks used to say it was stupid that Doc Ock threw a car at Peter Parker. I do like the Lizard though, the original trilogy always teased him, but never used him. In retrospect of all the films coming out between the last Spiderman, and that includes the introspective ones like Kick-Ass, it's quite amazing how not-good a film this is given all the other films to work from for advice and tips. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyber Rat Posted October 27, 2012 Report Share Posted October 27, 2012 Law Abiding Citizen. Was interesting, just not interesting enough. Decent watch. Shame they had to go the "villain makes obvious mistake he wouldn't have made, just because nobody knows how to stop him otherwise". 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted November 18, 2012 Report Share Posted November 18, 2012 Looper I just didn't feel like it did much. The "closing the loop" bit with Seth was about the only special part of the whole "time travel" side of things. The TK stuff felt kinda randomly lumped on. The film made a point of just not really explaining these elements of itself. Just cuaslly mentioning "of TK exists" and yet it becomes a somewhat important part of hte plot later on, and with time travel Bruce Willis getting angry at the concept of even having to explain time travel. Also Levitts face was just waaayy too distracting throughout, neat they put the effort in to make him look like a younger version of Willis, but it just doesn't work too well. Especially as there's more to it than just make-up, and there didn't seem to be much effort in making them seem similar people, just similar looks. Also Willis cares for Levitt way less than he should. While he's aware he wants to kill him he must also be aware that should Levitt be captured they'll mutilate him which in turn reflects on to Willis, thus kinda fucking up his plans to kill child version of the Rainmaker. So it's in his best interest to keep Levitt safe. The moment he gained the scars from the shotgun blast should have been the moment he immediately beelined for Levitt. Also the film maker did not care for kids at all, but that doesn't really weigh in the good/bad scale of things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chewblaha Posted November 19, 2012 Report Share Posted November 19, 2012 Looper I just didn't feel like it did much. The "closing the loop" bit with Seth was about the only special part of the whole "time travel" side of things. The TK stuff felt kinda randomly lumped on. The film made a point of just not really explaining these elements of itself. Just cuaslly mentioning "of TK exists" and yet it becomes a somewhat important part of hte plot later on, and with time travel Bruce Willis getting angry at the concept of even having to explain time travel. Also Levitts face was just waaayy too distracting throughout, neat they put the effort in to make him look like a younger version of Willis, but it just doesn't work too well. Especially as there's more to it than just make-up, and there didn't seem to be much effort in making them seem similar people, just similar looks. Also Willis cares for Levitt way less than he should. While he's aware he wants to kill him he must also be aware that should Levitt be captured they'll mutilate him which in turn reflects on to Willis, thus kinda fucking up his plans to kill child version of the Rainmaker. So it's in his best interest to keep Levitt safe. The moment he gained the scars from the shotgun blast should have been the moment he immediately beelined for Levitt. Also the film maker did not care for kids at all, but that doesn't really weigh in the good/bad scale of things. 100% agreed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorgi Duke of Frisbee Posted November 21, 2012 Report Share Posted November 21, 2012 Skyfall. The actors do a fine job, but it felt like it was more focused on paying homage to the Bond legacy than actually making a good story. The nostalgic wankery ruined a lot of the movie for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madbassman39 Posted November 27, 2012 Report Share Posted November 27, 2012 The Amazing Spiderman. Everyone is largely stupid and the film writes a lot of the plot out in big bold letters. It is also a shame that it spent so long going over the origin stuff again. I think Incredible Hulk did the whole "reboot within a decade" thing rather well by just diving straight into it being Hulk and skipping the Gamma radtion stuff. Spiderman was flash, had some good action in it, but yeah way too much stupidity. Such as And folks used to say it was stupid that Doc Ock threw a car at Peter Parker. I do like the Lizard though, the original trilogy always teased him, but never used him. In retrospect of all the films coming out between the last Spiderman, and that includes the introspective ones like Kick-Ass, it's quite amazing how not-good a film this is given all the other films to work from for advice and tips. I actually am on the fence with that movie. In some respects it improved so much on the most recent spiderman movies. Gwen Stacy was actually a worth while love interest, captain Stacy was a bit of a defensive prick for no reason. I on the other hand felt like the Lizard felt almost like a re-imagining of the Green Goblin, but no where near as good as DeFoe was. (I may have this opinion because he resembled the Ultimate Spiderman Goblin. Bendis having been a major part of writing the script may have something to do with this) Overall I felt that even though this was a better move than the previous intro to spiderman (the way Peter discovered his powers was very funny and somewhat more reasonable than it was in the first intro movie) I just couldn't get behind it because I had seen this movie already. I do think that the sequel will feel new and fresh and we will start to get a great series from there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted November 28, 2012 Report Share Posted November 28, 2012 Yeah, I just watched this last weekend and this is the perfect thread for it. Though I will say that him smashing the alarm clock was pretty much the greatest thing that ever happened. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted November 28, 2012 Report Share Posted November 28, 2012 I think this sums it up best. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waldorf and Statler Posted November 29, 2012 Report Share Posted November 29, 2012 I want to thank you for introducing me to these. I was showing the best to my friends today and they were in tears. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted December 20, 2012 Report Share Posted December 20, 2012 Cyrus. Part of me wants to put this under 'crap' but another part of me really wanted to like this film. It has a good cast ("MARISA TOMEI!") and the concept has potential, but the actual story doesn't really start until two-thirds of the way through. It takes forever to introduce any conflicts, and those are usually resolved with a simple conversation, where contrivances are matched up against naturalism. It does have its moments though, and the performances are solid; just a shame a lot of it seems a waste. I do actually want to punch the reviewer who described it as 'supremely funny' though. It's far closer to 'gently amusing'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chewblaha Posted December 29, 2012 Report Share Posted December 29, 2012 The Avengers. Too much CG (uh, everything), too many obvious (read: bad) Whedon jokes (Anything Robert Downey Jr. said, the clip after the credits), lots of plot holes (lolThorgotbacktoearthHULKCANCONTROLHIMSELFRIDESMOTORCYCLETOCITYFROMWEST JESUSANDSURVIVESWITHOUTTURNINGINTOHULKDURINGWARTIME), and meh. It reminded me of Transformers. Shrug. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chewblaha Posted December 29, 2012 Report Share Posted December 29, 2012 Robin Scherbatsky has a boulder fall on her car and she survives. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waldorf and Statler Posted December 31, 2012 Report Share Posted December 31, 2012 John Dies at the End I loved the book and its sequel, but the film is pretty.. meh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted December 31, 2012 Report Share Posted December 31, 2012 Despicable Me. It seems really directionless for the first half of the movie, but picks up in the second. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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