[quote]Professor X wrote:
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.[/quote]
I’ll check out Batman Begins this weekend.
Thanks.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Ledger did a great job. There hasn’t been anyone who has done The Joker better than that as a fleshed out character.[/quote]
One critic said Ledger had done to the max what is humanly possible portraying the Joker. Case closed.
I find it sad that he died so untimely when the very thing he wanted most was respectable leading-man roles. I think this one would have cinched it for him forever.
Saw Gran Torino with Eastwood and The Wrestler with Mickey Rourke.
GT was good, for diff’t reasons. Gran Torino was actually funny as Clint plays the ANGRY OLD WHITE MAN whose neighborhood has changed with an influx of hmongs.
The Wrestler was excellent, and Rourke no doubt is getting an Oscar nomination. If you love pro wrestling, boxing or really any sport that takes its toll on your body the film will affect you.
As a bonus, Marisa Tomei has turned into a fine-ass Milf. She does a few stripping scenes and if you like her or Italian Milfs, definitely check out the movie.
SPOILER*****
Even though the overall tone is sad, I love the ending, which is Randy “The Ram” Robinson realizing who he really is and continuing to do what he loves, b/c its what he’s good at, no matter the toll on his body. He’s lonely, he’s broken down, he’s coming off a heart attack, he’s basically broke, but he says FTW (Fuck the World) and decides he’s going to continue doing what he does best, b/c without he’s nobody, he has no soul and no purpose. He’d rather die in the ring of another heart attack than die a slow death as a has-been working at a deli counter (he doesn’t die btw.) I love stories like this.
Best picture I could find
I spent four days on the set of “The Wrestler”. Glad it turned out so good.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
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.
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.[/quote]
It was all well done. Gyllenhaal did a fine job, it was all in line with the prequel. Everybody bitches about her, I don’t get it. So she slouches more than most apparently? I’ve seen her in many films and I think she’s a pretty damn good actress. She took nothing away from that movie. Nothing at all. Yes, he is out of touch.
[quote]analog_kid wrote:
Molotov_Coktease wrote:
maryjstar89 wrote:
I saw Twilight this weekend which I absolutely loved. It was fantastic. I love all of the books as well. Nothing compares.
I have had the Twilight books recommended to me so many times now, and I have noticed that everybody who loves the books were disappointed by the movie. Which is pretty standard. It’s so cliche it’s barely worth saying, but ppl still feel compelled.
Anyway, if I’m going to read vampire novels, I’m going to start with the Sookie Stackhouse novels, the ones True Blood were based on. It’s just my gut feeling preference right now. I’ve done my share of vampire reading, Anne Rice was queen and I did the rounds there. I’m down, I’m just gonna do it my own chronological way of what I think seems better.
Fuck Twilight and all the sexually frustrated women who read it.
The Stackhouse novels aren’t bad, they are actually weirder than True Blood if you can believe that.
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Thanks Analog, you just confirm my gut instincts. They are hardly ever wrong. I wish I had gotten the Stackhouse novels for Christmas. :o(
[quote]Thomas Gabriel wrote:
skank wrote:
I saw “Dead Man’s shoes” kinda low budget and a bit slow but, man I was watching it on the bus home on my MP4 player and I got so into it I ended up sitting on a bench watching the remaining 30 mins. I just couldn’t put it down and needed to know what it was they ‘did’.
Haha didn’t they get him laid and make him do a bit of acid?
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Dead Mans Shoes was brilliant. “Haha” this and that you say. They did worse than give him a bit of acid and get him laid. That wouldn’t have made a very good film would it? Shane Meadows would know. They fucking brought him out to nowhere on acid and left him and he hung himself, and he was mentally retarded. Hahahahahahahhahahahahah. its a fucking laugh right?
You are just the type his brother would’ve come for in his gas mask to snuff out in a humorous entertaining way. I’ll laugh just like that when you’re dead in a suit case. :o)
Okay, so I need to catch up in this thread a bit with the shit I’ve seen. I was out of town pretty much the whole week of Christmas visiting family, but I did have plenty of time to watch movies. I just didn’t have any computer access. Forgive the length of the next few posts. This is basically everything I’ve watched the past two and a half weeks (in no particular order).
Death Race - No way! A movie with Jason Statham where he’s racing cars. Where have I seen this before? This movie is mindless, but I still thought it was fun enough to watch.
Munich - They were right when they were talking about this movie in Knocked Up. Eric Bana is pretty badass in this. Not sure why I never saw this movie the first time around, because I thought it was pretty interesting from beginning to end.
On The Doll - Disappointing. How can you have a movie about sex that contains no nudity? I hate movies that tease like this.
The Women - Sappy ass chick flick. Not funny either. I think this would have worked better as a revenge flick, rather than the sappy, woman finds herself and turns her life around bullshit overdone story.
Burn after reading - Saw it in the theater and already posted about it in this thread, but I watched it another two times while down at my Grandparents for the holidays. Still love it.
Layer Cake - Seen it before, but I love this movie. The ending is great.
Rob Roy - I liked it. It kind of felt like watching Liam Neeson’s audition to play Qui-Gon Jinn.
White Noise 2 - Another movie I just couldn’t get into. Might have been in the wrong mood for this type of movie when watching it. My friend said it was better than the first one, so maybe it was just me.
Glory Road - Liked it. I’m a sucker for basketball, well any sport really, dramas. Even thought it’s based on a true story, it still felt like it followed the standard sports drama formula though.
Part two:
The Take - Not bad for a straight to DVD movie. Definitely better than I normally expect for a movie like this. I thought John Leguizamo did a good job.
Towelhead - One of those movies where half the people in the movie are fucked up somehow. This leads to some cringe-worthy moments, but they are some of the better moments of the movie. The non-cringy worthy moments were just ho-hum. The movie seemed a bit over the top in parts though and I felt unsatisfied at the end.
Kalifornia - I’m starting to realize that I don’t like David Duchovny outside of The X-Files. Listening to him talk sounds like he’s reading from the dictionary. Another movie I just couldn’t get into. I even tried watching it again, but nothing.
The Man in The Iron Mask - Great cast, lame movie. Although it was funny to see an early appearance by Hugh Laurie in the film. If this movie had been made recently, you’d have to imagine that he’d have played one of the lead roles rather than the role he played in this. Anyway, this movie just didn’t do it for me.
Ghost Town - Even though I love Ricky Gervais, and like the rest of the cast, I wasn’t expecting much from this movie, as I usually think romcoms suck ass. I see the premise and just think it’s going to be terrible. I actually liked this though. I thought it was very funny in parts. Feels like they like Ricky do his thing. While I felt like they still could have done a little more with the story, I felt that Gervais and Kinnear made this worth watching.
Eagle Eye - Movies like this piss me off, because they are based on the premise that we are just supposed to accept that there is technology like this currently available. Shia LaBeouf shouldn’t be in movies like this either. He’s believable in movies where he’s kind a nerd or misfit, but expecting me to believe him as a true lead in an action/thriller is a big stretch. I couldn’t take this movie seriously at all, and I think based on the premise of this movie, that’s a bad thing.
The Dutchess - Keira Knightley seems to really like period pieces. I’m kind of a sucker for them as well. I thought this was okay. Nothing special.
Resident Evil: Degeneration - I thought this was okay. It some parts I thought the animation was amazing and in other parts I thought it looked kind of weird and out of sync. They are getting pretty close to the point where these movies are going to look pretty damn good very soon.
[quote]AngryVader wrote:
Eagle Eye - Movies like this piss me off, because they are based on the premise that we are just supposed to accept that there is technology like this currently available. Shia LaBeouf shouldn’t be in movies like this either. He’s believable in movies where he’s kind a nerd or misfit, but expecting me to believe him as a true lead in an action/thriller is a big stretch. I couldn’t take this movie seriously at all, and I think based on the premise of this movie, that’s a bad thing.
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It was entertaining, but I agree, getting someone with more “weight” as an actor to play the lead could have been the difference between this being a true blockbuster and being something you just rent.
They had him playing a guy who is supposed to be over the age of 25. Shia is still a kid and it shows in how he acts.
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Resident Evil: Degeneration - I thought this was okay. It some parts I thought the animation was amazing and in other parts I thought it looked kind of weird and out of sync. They are getting pretty close to the point where these movies are going to look pretty damn good very soon.[/quote]
You could tell this movie was foreign made. The reactions some of the people had just seemed drawn out in ways that wouldn’t happen if this were made here. It took away from the feel of the movie and there wasn’t one moment where you felt any kind of “dread” due to what was happening.
They also still haven’t gotten skin tones and hair movement down yet. They have, however, perfected the way CG fire looks on screen.
[quote]AngryVader wrote:
Part two:
The Take - Not bad for a straight to DVD movie. Definitely better than I normally expect for a movie like this. I thought John Leguizamo did a good job.
Towelhead - One of those movies where half the people in the movie are fucked up somehow. This leads to some cringe-worthy moments, but they are some of the better moments of the movie. The non-cringy worthy moments were just ho-hum. The movie seemed a bit over the top in parts though and I felt unsatisfied at the end.
Kalifornia - I’m starting to realize that I don’t like David Duchovny outside of The X-Files. Listening to him talk sounds like he’s reading from the dictionary. Another movie I just couldn’t get into. I even tried watching it again, but nothing.
[/quote] Huh, is this related to californication? (DD in both?). Sorry for the rather idiotic question.
Btw, his German voice-actor is actually pretty good. Kind of like with arnie, his original voice-acting is absolutely awful (or at least it was in predator, don’t think I’ve seen his other movies in English), but his German voice actor is very recognizable and pretty good/fitting.
It’s totally weird to hear arnie’s actual voice when you’re so used to that other voice. It’s even worse when you realize that Germany has only like 4 male voice-actors and you end up seeing 120 lb dudes in movies who talk like arnie.
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The Man in The Iron Mask - Great cast, lame movie. Although it was funny to see an early appearance by Hugh Laurie in the film. If this movie had been made recently, you’d have to imagine that he’d have played one of the lead roles rather than the role he played in this. Anyway, this movie just didn’t do it for me.
Ghost Town - Even though I love Ricky Gervais, and like the rest of the cast, I wasn’t expecting much from this movie, as I usually think romcoms suck ass. I see the premise and just think it’s going to be terrible. I actually liked this though. I thought it was very funny in parts. Feels like they like Ricky do his thing. While I felt like they still could have done a little more with the story, I felt that Gervais and Kinnear made this worth watching.
Eagle Eye - Movies like this piss me off, because they are based on the premise that we are just supposed to accept that there is technology like this currently available. Shia LaBeouf shouldn’t be in movies like this either. He’s believable in movies where he’s kind a nerd or misfit, but expecting me to believe him as a true lead in an action/thriller is a big stretch. I couldn’t take this movie seriously at all, and I think based on the premise of this movie, that’s a bad thing.
The Dutchess - Keira Knightley seems to really like period pieces. I’m kind of a sucker for them as well. I thought this was okay. Nothing special.
Resident Evil: Degeneration - I thought this was okay. It some parts I thought the animation was amazing and in other parts I thought it looked kind of weird and out of sync. They are getting pretty close to the point where these movies are going to look pretty damn good very soon.[/quote]
I think they could do it already if they really wanted to. Or maybe Hollywood actually lacks the talented programmers and graphics guys that the game-industry gets? Might just be too time-consuming to animate everything “by hand” for a 90 minute movie…
Oh yeah… Vader, you get bored much on that death star? I mean jesus dude… You watch more movies in 2 weeks than I do in a year lol
I watched a movie called “Bottle Shock” the other day, about the burgeoning wine industry of California in the mid 70’s. Pretty cool movie that is based on a true story. Its amazing to think that several California wines beat out French ones in a blind tasting.
“Slumdog Millionaire” was another really good movie. I’m really impressed by the originality that Fox Searchlight has been coming out with. This movie reminded me a bit of “City of God”…kids from the slums of India being subjected to a lifestyle few Westerners know about.
I agree on Shia, but at least in this one he was kind of thrust into action instead of, say, Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
The Core-The pieces were in place to make this a great movie, but it didn’t deliver. The cast was superb- Aaron Eckhart, Hilary Swank, Delroy Lindo, Stanley Tucci, and the premise of the story was interesting. The execution by the director and other filmmakers was just off throughout the whole movie, especially with the Roland Emmerich-esque anti-climatic climax. Aaron Eckhart and Hilary Swank had such a natural chemistry, but for some reason the director didn’t take advantage of it.
IronMan - fantastic movie; can’t believe I did not see this in the theater; Robert Downey did an excellent job, the effects were great, and storyline just enough to get the character moving
Cloverfield - this was interesting; I liked it enough on my iPod that I would have liked it on big screen; the ending was shocking in that it was … sort of realistic - no fairy tales here
The Incredible Hulk - this was good, but it wasn’t like the previous take was bad either; this was just better; the ending had a King Kong-like feeling to it, “Must save woman …”
Death Race - it was a movie I watched while my wife was in the hospital - not great, but not bad either; I definitely would not have spent money on it
I watched Serenity this weekend, and realized I’d been missing out. I had fallen asleep during it the previous time I’d watched it and missed the ending! I thought it was great.
[quote]AngryVader wrote:
Eagle Eye - Movies like this piss me off, because they are based on the premise that we are just supposed to accept that there is technology like this currently available.[/quote]
Question…what in that movie did you think was completely impossible? We may be 5-10 years from that not only being possible but maybe even likely to occur (excluding the actual computer having the self awareness to pull that off without assistance).
Resurrecting The Champ
I was pleasantly surprised by this movie. Samuel L. Jackson gives a great performance and Josh Hartnett did a good job in his role; and being a sports reporter myself, I could identify with his character’s plight.
They based the movie in CO and they did a really good job of incorporating actual newspapers and locations into the movie.
I saw Gran Torino yesterday and thought it was pretty good. Eastwood does a good job of portraying an old war vet, and has some of the best “pissed off” facial expressions ever. A worthy picture, although might be better as a rental. It takes awhile to get going so be patient.