The Dark Knight.
Can’t believe I hadn’t seen it.
Watched Star Wars: Return of the Jedi with my son last night. Sure it’s an old movie, but it was cool watching it with him. The problem is that he wants to know everything and why certain things are the way they are. During the entire movie.
[quote]TheDudeAbides wrote:
Watched Star Wars: Return of the Jedi with my son last night. Sure it’s an old movie, but it was cool watching it with him. The problem is that he wants to know everything and why certain things are the way they are. During the entire movie.[/quote]
hehe…that’s what happens when I watch any of the Star Wars movies with my nephews (7 and 3). My sister just got them into the movies and now they ask me just about every question imaginable when watching them…or not watching them.
Watched Death Race, pretty sweet
The Invasion starring Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig. It is like a remake of invasion of the body snatchers only done better. There isn’t much CGI at all so those looking for special effects might not like it.
Interestingly, once most humans were taken over, all wars ended and there was no crime.
Four Christmases
Day the Earth Stood Still
Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Thank god the theater by my house has memory-foam seats, otherwise my butt would be killing me after 3 straight days at the movies.
So, there’s a unique impression of your ass on those seats still? 
I saw Benjamin Button and did not like it.
I generally like ‘tall tales,’ but I thought this one did not do a good job of telling a story. Great concept, though. I think it’s worth seeing but does not beat out movies like Big Fish or Forrest Gump.
I also saw Slumdog Millionaire (a few weeks ago) which I thought was very well done.
[quote]humanimal wrote:
The Dark Knight.
Can’t believe I hadn’t seen it.[/quote]
I just recently watched this and felt the same way. The minute it was over, I wanted to start it again.
[quote]pushmepullme wrote:
humanimal wrote:
The Dark Knight.
Can’t believe I hadn’t seen it.
I just recently watched this and felt the same way. The minute it was over, I wanted to start it again.[/quote]
I think I’ve watched that movie about 10 times now. I ahve most of the action scenes book marked.
That music/noise they use when the Joker is in the scene is epic.
I saw I Am Legend and it just reminded me that he is one of the few actors left in this day and age who can really act. He is believable, which is almost non-existent these days. Great plot and story. His performance makes me want to watch 7 pounds.
[quote]MaximusB wrote:
I saw I Am Legend and it just reminded me that he is one of the few actors left in this day and age who can really act. He is believable, which is almost non-existent these days. Great plot and story. His performance makes me want to watch 7 pounds. [/quote]
I think Will Smith is the best actor in Hollywood. He is the only reason I watched 7 pounds, as the trailer seemed fairly ordinary but he really does an unbelivable job and the movie was fantastic.
[quote]PonceDeLeon wrote:
So, there’s a unique impression of your ass on those seats still?
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In three different auditoriums actually :-p
[quote]xb-C wrote:
I went and saw the spirit last night.
I thought it was cool.
I’d buy it on DVD.[/quote]
I thought The Spirit was garbage. The best parts were whenever Eva or Scarlett were in the scene. It was extremely cheesy with a lot of bad one-liners. I don’t recommend seeing it in the theater. Save your money.
Oh, I also watched Quantum of Solace.
You can tell the director is different than the guy who did Casino Royale. The action felt out of place (like they just threw stuff in) and the the microphone did not pick up dialogue well in some of the scenes, a true sign of sloppy production.
Also, they did that stupid pan-camera-fast during action scenes so you get the feeling of action but don’t necessarily get to visually process what the hell just happened.
Shame. The chick is hot but Casino Royale was a much better Bond film.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
pushmepullme wrote:
humanimal wrote:
The Dark Knight.
Can’t believe I hadn’t seen it.
I just recently watched this and felt the same way. The minute it was over, I wanted to start it again.
I think I’ve watched that movie about 10 times now. I ahve most of the action scenes book marked.
That music/noise they use when the Joker is in the scene is epic. [/quote]
I just watched it for the first time last night and liked it. Once they killed Maggie Gyllenhall I liked it a lot more.
I thought it was good, but I honestly don’t understand why everyone thinks it’s so great. Here’s my thoughts:
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There’s never any character development to explain how Bruce Wayne and the Gyllenhall girl know each other, or how Alfred knows the Gyllenhall girl. Are we supposed to know all about their past from another Batman movie?
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Why wouldn’t Batman kill anyone? I’m believing that was his ‘code’ the Joker was trying to get him to break. The fact that he’d maim, beat and cripple people, but not kill them didn’t make any sense to me. Especially when Batman is bearing down on him on the Batcycle with Gyllenhall’s life on the line.
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I don’t understand why Bruce Wayne, or the D.A. would be interested in the Gyllenhall girl. It was like watching Popey and Brutus fight over Olive Oyle. I know I’m dwelling on Gyllenhall, but I just don’t get it. I like her a lot in other movies, espeically Secretary, but she seemed (to me) very mis-cast.
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I didn’t understand Morgan Freeman’s moral dilemma regarding the use of all the cell phones for city-wide sonar. He has had no problems helping Batman up until this point in time using whatever methods possible, but now he is drawing the line for some reason.
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Heath Ledger as The Joker…I don’t get the hype…he was good, but if he hadn’t killed himself, I’m not believing he’d be getting the ‘best bad guy/evil villain EVER’.
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The D.A.'s decision to turn evil because the Gyllenhall chick got killed. She didn’t appear to be that in to him when she was alive…it was only upon pain of death that she told him she’d marry him, but she still had to do it in a gay, cutesy way…I didn’t see anything in the development of the D.A. that would lead me to believe he would kidnap Gordon’s family and put a bullet in his kid.
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The final denouement of chasing Batman and making him the villain made no sense to me at all. Why would Gotham need to pin the D.A.'s evil deeds on Batman when they had so many criminals they could have set up?
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Too fucking long.
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The mafia was made out to be complete idiots. Why would they expect us to believe the guy in the bank would storm out of his office firing all the rounds out of his gun leaving himself defenseless? The Michael Strahan look-a-like also shows complete ineptitude in every scene.
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Did I mention I didn’t like the casting of Maggie Gyllenhall?
Anyway, maybe I’m too fucking old, or too fucking dumb. I didn’t think it was any better than the Michael Keaton/Jack Nicholson version. I remember being 18 when that one came out and all the accolades Jack got for his portrayal as the Joker and how no one had ever done a better job, or ever would. I’ll take Jack over the Emo Heath…and Kim Basinger ten times over the Gyllenhall girl.
[quote]sen say wrote:
Professor X wrote:
pushmepullme wrote:
humanimal wrote:
The Dark Knight.
Can’t believe I hadn’t seen it.
I just recently watched this and felt the same way. The minute it was over, I wanted to start it again.
I think I’ve watched that movie about 10 times now. I ahve most of the action scenes book marked.
That music/noise they use when the Joker is in the scene is epic.
I just watched it for the first time last night and liked it. Once they killed Maggie Gyllenhall I liked it a lot more.
I thought it was good, but I honestly don’t understand why everyone thinks it’s so great. Here’s my thoughts:
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There’s never any character development to explain how Bruce Wayne and the Gyllenhall girl know each other, or how Alfred knows the Gyllenhall girl. Are we supposed to know all about their past from another Batman movie?
-
Why wouldn’t Batman kill anyone? I’m believing that was his ‘code’ the Joker was trying to get him to break. The fact that he’d maim, beat and cripple people, but not kill them didn’t make any sense to me. Especially when Batman is bearing down on him on the Batcycle with Gyllenhall’s life on the line.
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I don’t understand why Bruce Wayne, or the D.A. would be interested in the Gyllenhall girl. It was like watching Popey and Brutus fight over Olive Oyle. I know I’m dwelling on Gyllenhall, but I just don’t get it. I like her a lot in other movies, espeically Secretary, but she seemed (to me) very mis-cast.
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I didn’t understand Morgan Freeman’s moral dilemma regarding the use of all the cell phones for city-wide sonar. He has had no problems helping Batman up until this point in time using whatever methods possible, but now he is drawing the line for some reason.
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Heath Ledger as The Joker…I don’t get the hype…he was good, but if he hadn’t killed himself, I’m not believing he’d be getting the ‘best bad guy/evil villain EVER’.
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The D.A.'s decision to turn evil because the Gyllenhall chick got killed. She didn’t appear to be that in to him when she was alive…it was only upon pain of death that she told him she’d marry him, but she still had to do it in a gay, cutesy way…I didn’t see anything in the development of the D.A. that would lead me to believe he would kidnap Gordon’s family and put a bullet in his kid.
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The final denouement of chasing Batman and making him the villain made no sense to me at all. Why would Gotham need to pin the D.A.'s evil deeds on Batman when they had so many criminals they could have set up?
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Too fucking long.
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The mafia was made out to be complete idiots. Why would they expect us to believe the guy in the bank would storm out of his office firing all the rounds out of his gun leaving himself defenseless? The Michael Strahan look-a-like also shows complete ineptitude in every scene.
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Did I mention I didn’t like the casting of Maggie Gyllenhall?
Anyway, maybe I’m too fucking old, or too fucking dumb. I didn’t think it was any better than the Michael Keaton/Jack Nicholson version. I remember being 18 when that one came out and all the accolades Jack got for his portrayal as the Joker and how no one had ever done a better job, or ever would. I’ll take Jack over the Emo Heath…and Kim Basinger ten times over the Gyllenhall girl.
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I didn’t read all of this yet, but Maggue Gyllenhall was playing the same character of Rachel as in the first movie so we all already know who she is. She grew up with Bruce.
Without even knowing that, I am doubting how correct the rest of your critique is.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Maggue Gyllenhall was playing the same character of Rachel as in the first movie [/quote]
Was the first movie, “Batman Begins”?
[quote]sen say wrote:
Professor X wrote:
Maggue Gyllenhall was playing the same character of Rachel as in the first movie
Was the first movie, “Batman Begins”?[/quote]
Dude, seriously…why write a critique if you didn’t even know that?
Most of your issues seemed to stem from the fact that you didn’t like Gyllenhall. Cool. I didn’t really like her character that much either, but she didn’t make or break the film by any means.
Batman does NOT use handguns and tries to not kill people (even though people sometimes die by accident). That is “his code”. You sort of have to be able to accept that to accept the entire concept.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
sen say wrote:
Professor X wrote:
Maggue Gyllenhall was playing the same character of Rachel as in the first movie
Was the first movie, “Batman Begins”?
Dude, seriously…why write a critique if you didn’t even know that?
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How would I have known that? I never saw anything saying it was a sequel. I thought Batman Begins was supposed to suck and that the one with Heath Ledger was going to save the Batman franchise.
I did like Michael Caine as Alfred, but his work is always solid.
[quote]sen say wrote:
Professor X wrote:
sen say wrote:
Professor X wrote:
Maggue Gyllenhall was playing the same character of Rachel as in the first movie
Was the first movie, “Batman Begins”?
Dude, seriously…why write a critique if you didn’t even know that?
How would I have known that? I never saw anything saying it was a sequel. I thought Batman Begins was supposed to suck and that the one with Heath Ledger was going to save the Batman franchise.
I did like Michael Caine as Alfred, but his work is always solid.
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Batman Begins is considered by most to be the best attempt yet at that character in film…until the Dark Knight.
You seem confused…and out of touch with pop culture.
Ledger did a great job. There hasn’t been anyone who has done The Joker better than that as a fleshed out character.