[quote]AngryVader wrote:
Professor X wrote:
p-dubs wrote:
Idiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - I watched this yesterday and was very disapointed. I thought the acting was pretty bad and nothing was explained very well. I felt like the whole movie they were running around for no apparent reason. Then the whole sci-fi thing just kind of annoyed me.
I haven’t seen it yet because everyone keeps saying the same thing. I would rather remember Indiana the way he was when I was a kid…invincible and cool as hell.
I admire your restraint. [/quote]
I have it coming up soon on Netflix, but I might knock it down some notches. I don’t want to be disappointed.
Quantum of Solace - I’ll give it a B+. There were some great action scenes, I just wish there were some(any) gadgets. The plot was a lot to absorb. I will be going back to see it again. Maybe tonight:)
No Trek trailer though, kind of bummed about that. Did get Watchmen though, and some goofy 2012 end of the world teaser.
I just watched the movie Candy last night.
I thought it was going to be some gay chick flick cause of the name and the fact that my gf rented it.
Its not, although it is a drama.
Aussie flick with heath ledger in it, about a couple who are fucked up on drugs. Bit dark, but well done and interesting.
Also the chick that plays Candy is hot and get her tits out several times.
I saw Quantum of Solace yesterday. I really enjoyed it. The movie has like 5 chase scenes, some ridiculous stunts, and an even grittier Bond than Craig portrayed in Casino Royale. I won’t go too much into the storyline because I’m the bastard that ruins the entire film without realizing it. I’ll leave the spoilers for someone else to cover. ^.^
BTW, Craig got into great condition for the movie. He’s not carrying a ton of muscle mass, but it looks like he lost ~10 lbs. of fat since Casino Royale. I think this may be the first legitimately athletic looking Bond.
BTW, Craig got into great condition for the movie. He’s not carrying a ton of muscle mass, but it looks like he lost ~10 lbs. of fat since Casino Royale. I think this may be the first legitimately athletic looking Bond.
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His interview in Playboy said he did some ring training and can do an iron cross.
BTW, Craig got into great condition for the movie. He’s not carrying a ton of muscle mass, but it looks like he lost ~10 lbs. of fat since Casino Royale. I think this may be the first legitimately athletic looking Bond.
His interview in Playboy said he did some ring training and can do an iron cross.
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I don’t doubt that. He got pretty ripped.
Maybe the first bond with abs too. I wonder how long-time fans feel about that.
Watched Point Blank, staring Lee Marvin. This was recently remade as Pay Back with Mel Gibson. Pay Back was alright, but I like Point Blank a hell of a lot more. Mel Gibson always seemed kind of high-strung and emotional, like the kind of man who would cry rather easily, while Lee Marvin was just a cool, pimp motherfucker. I don’t need to explain the plot because everyone’s seen Pay Back.
I don’t think Point Blank would appeal to everyone. There’s a few scenes that are handled in a very interesting way, cinematically, and of course most idiots are easily confused/frightened by anything slightly new or different. There are also a few scenes where Marvin’s character wisely avoids violence in favor of letting his enemies shoot themselves in the foot, so to speak. Again, smart protagonist, avoids conflict, not popular with the masses.
Went and saw Quantum of Solace. It was alright. The plot was really fucking stupid, I’m not going to give anything away, but if you thought the bad guys plan was genius, please PM me so I can lay out how fucking stupid you are.
The action scenes were thrilling but cheap. What I mean is, if you watched The Bourne Ultimatum you remember that scene where Bourne was chasing that guy through the apartments in Algeria and he jumped from one window to the other and the camera followed him? Someone actually did that, that was a real stunt, and it was really cool. In Quantum of Solace they make it look like someone is jumping around by cutting quickly from shot of someone starting to jump to a shot of them landing. No one is actually jumping from one balcony to another.
All in all Quantum of Solace was okay. I enjoyed it, but I didn’t have my hopes set very high.
[quote]Uncle Gabby wrote:
Went and saw Quantum of Solace. It was alright. The plot was really fucking stupid, I’m not going to give anything away, but if you thought the bad guys plan was genius, please PM me so I can lay out how fucking stupid you are.
The action scenes were thrilling but cheap. What I mean is, if you watched The Bourne Ultimatum you remember that scene where Bourne was chasing that guy through the apartments in Algeria and he jumped from one window to the other and the camera followed him?
Someone actually did that, that was a real stunt, and it was really cool. In Quantum of Solace they make it look like someone is jumping around by cutting quickly from shot of someone starting to jump to a shot of them landing. No one is actually jumping from one balcony to another.
All in all Quantum of Solace was okay. I enjoyed it, but I didn’t have my hopes set very high.[/quote]
Can’t really argue with this assessment much…though I think I enjoyed it more than you did.
BTW, Craig got into great condition for the movie. He’s not carrying a ton of muscle mass, but it looks like he lost ~10 lbs. of fat since Casino Royale. I think this may be the first legitimately athletic looking Bond.
His interview in Playboy said he did some ring training and can do an iron cross.
I don’t doubt that. He got pretty ripped.
Maybe the first bond with abs too. I wonder how long-time fans feel about that.[/quote]
I don’t mind the Craig Bond. He is grittier like you said, more of a badass than the other Bonds. I think the James Bond character always had those traits, the writers have just chosen to focus on those rather than the suave, cool, pimp daddy Bond like Brosnan and Connery.
As for the abs, I think they are warranted considering the action stunts. If they had Roger Moore do that scafolding fight scene I would have probably walked out of the theater.
I also saw Zack and Miri Make a Porno and Rock n Rolla. Zack and Miri was funny, I laughed my ass off at some of the dialogue. That’s all Kevin Smith has ever been good for. He makes me laugh with extremely vulgar dialogue.
But underneath the veneer of funny dialogue the the story is loathesomely sweet and sentimental. Pretty much all of his movies have been that way since clerks. Funny dialogue, insultingly bad plot. There is absolutely no reason to see this movie in the theater.
Rock n Rolla was good. Typical Guy Richie stuff, nothing new or different but it delivered what it promised.
Made of Honor - Watched this with the wife and her sister. Typical chick flick, very predictable. There were some pretty funny lines that made the movie entertaining though. Nothing great but I didn’t hate it.
Prince of Darkness - I really liked In the Mouth of Madness so I thought I would watch this as well, and I thought it pretty much sucked. I was annoyed through the entire movie by the crappy music, bad acting, and cheesy effects. Maybe it would have been better if I had watched it when it came out, I was 7 then, but I doubt it.
[quote]p-dubs wrote:
Prince of Darkness - I really liked In the Mouth of Madness so I thought I would watch this as well, and I thought it pretty much sucked. I was annoyed through the entire movie by the crappy music, bad acting, and cheesy effects. Maybe it would have been better if I had watched it when it came out, I was 7 then, but I doubt it.[/quote]
A lot of movies are era-relevant (I just made that up!). I thought Goonies was the best movie ever made when I was a kid. I watched it again a couple of years ago and could barely make it all of the way through. The cultural effects, however, of that movie are still wide spread. Everyone who was a kid back then remembers key scenes in that movie.
Prince of Darkness is the same. It has a cult following because there weren’t that many movies made then that went as “dark” as that movie did.
Just think, your kids are going to be trying to figure out just how retarded you were for actually spending two seconds on Pokemon, and if I hear one more 20 something year old making a “Snore-lax” reference, I am going to fucking scream.
Go see it!