What Film have you just watched Options

[Drork]

(3 is the last one right?)

I'm afraid not.

[Rip]

I'm afraid not.

If it's not a generic vampire vs werewolf movie featuring Kate Beckinsale then I don't want to know.

I can't stand all this Twifag hype.

[chorlton]

Inception - Simply stunning.

[Lysara]

If it's not a generic vampire vs werewolf movie featuring Kate Beckinsale then I don't want to know.

Kate Beckinsale in tight latex > Sparkly pale emo

[Banky]

Inception - Yo, dawg, we heard you liek dreamz so we a put a dream in your dream so you can dream while you dream.

9 out of 10 tho.

[Lysara]

Inception - Yo, dawg, we heard you liek dreamz so we a put a dream in your dream so you can dream while you dream.

9 out of 10 tho.

[Shaw]

Inception - Well, as great as it was to watch something at the cinema that required concentration for longer than an average action scene, I found that I didn;t actually care for the people in it. Which made it quite emotionally distant as an experience. I didn;t really care about Cillian Murphy's future decisions or DeCaprio and his oddball wife or Ken Whataname,considering he just spends 3/4 of the film lying against various walls gurgling alot.

It all made sense overall, except why things weren;t alot wierder in their dreams, mine are mental and I spent more time trying to figure out which TV show one of the cast were in. Is that Screech? No no...was he in Family Ties? No, no...However, easily one of the better films of the year, can;t see how 3D would enhance it at all or even just waiting and watching it when it comes out on DVD. I also found the closing scene particularly annoying.




Avatar - 

A bored Saturday afternoon mood made me succumb to actually watching this. I didn;t so much feel like I was watching a film as being experimented on. Everything just a manipulation to try and get me to feel one way or the other. A lot of films do this (obviously, that is kind of the point) flawlessly without you noticing, however Cameron just comes right at you clobbering you over the head, good guys, bad guys, you no like bad guys they do bad things for absolutely no reason whatsoever because they are just bad. It got to the point that I was actually looking forward the the War Machine starting up and bulldozing that swamp.

I'm glad I didn;t go see this in the cinema as I would of actually stood up and cheered when they brought down the big tree. Aside from that aye, looked spectacular especially the flying sequences. 

[H. Dawg]

I also found the closing scene particularly annoying.

Me too. It made me want to punch the director.

[Sandrock]

Avatar - 

A bored Saturday afternoon mood made me succumb to actually watching this. I didn;t so much feel like I was watching a film as being experimented on. Everything just a manipulation to try and get me to feel one way or the other. A lot of films do this (obviously, that is kind of the point) flawlessly without you noticing, however Cameron just comes right at you clobbering you over the head, good guys, bad guys, you no like bad guys they do bad things for absolutely no reason whatsoever because they are just bad. It got to the point that I was actually looking forward the the War Machine starting up and bulldozing that swamp.

I'm glad I didn;t go see this in the cinema as I would of actually stood up and cheered when they brought down the big tree. Aside from that aye, looked spectacular especially the flying sequences. 

Can't imagine it being very awesome on blu-ray/DVD. Was mostly a great 3D experience =)

[Tatsiki]

Watched 2012 lastnight.

SFX were awesome but the storyline and some of the action scenes were a tad unbelievable!

7/10 though cos as far as disaster movies go, it was good.

[Ziggy]

Clash of the Titans

Nothing happens in this film.

Well, that's not strictly true. Sam Worthington glares a lot, Liam Neeson gets angry, there are some big scorpions at one point, and a series of frankly not very impressive set pieces are strung together with a loose interpretation of a greek myth.

But thats all that there is going on. It's a two hour trailer that makes little to no attempts at characterisation. Perseus's only personality trait is mildly angry at events (angry that they killed his da' (until the end, when he's suddenly fine with it), angry that he's sort of a god (until the end when it turns out that it was quite useful, which makes it ok) and angry that they killed the women he loves (which is only implied after the event in order for him to be even angier, and frankly only seemed to be in the film because he was the protagonist, she was female and that's just what happens in films))

As much as I like pete postlethwaite, his drowning and an apparent absence of fish are the only evidence we're given that gods are pretty shitty to people and on this basis we should support the mortals in their quest to stumble from one CGI monster to the next. Again, I'm big on fish, but I needed slightly more than that to empathise with this pack of faceless gibbons.

This post has been edited by Ziggy: Aug 1 2010, 11:28 PM

[Ziggy]

Everything just a manipulation to try and get me to feel one way or the other. A lot of films do this (obviously, that is kind of the point) flawlessly without you noticing, however Cameron just comes right at you clobbering you over the head

I think the film would have been vastly superior if they'd thrown out the script and literally announced the subtext.

"Hi everyone, I'm the overly zealous military commander who dislikes the natives on the basis that the film needs an antagonist."

[Lysara]

It got to the point that I was actually looking forward the the War Machine starting up and bulldozing that swamp.

I liked Avatar, but I agree with you on that. In fact, lots of people were rooting for Colonel Badass rather than the Arrogant Blue Man Group.

Clash of the Titans

Nothing happens in this film.

I've seen it described as "All the rousing speeches of 300 but without the action scenes".

[Ziggy]

I've seen it described as "All the rousing speeches of 300 but without the action scenes".

300 had some decent, if horrifically cheesy lines (an odd film that I found only really worked once you starting thinking of it like a moving comic). I don't remember much that was said in Clash. Oh wait, wait, just before they kill Medusa (if thats a spoiler you need to read more) he makes this great speech that is pretty much "Before today I only knew one great man, my father, now I know three more", only he doesn't make it clear who they are. That was good.

[Zarf]

Watched 2012 lastnight.

SFX were awesome but the storyline and some of the action scenes were a tad unbelievable!

I know, right - Who the hell would hire the worlds only Antonov AN-225 to move a handful of cars? Total overkill.

This post has been edited by Zarf: Aug 2 2010, 12:55 AM

[Rip]

Watched 2012 lastnight.

SFX were awesome but the storyline and some of the action scenes were a tad unbelievable!

I know that in action movies realism is completely thrown out of the window to create drama but seriously how many times can an amateur pilot dodge shit that a dogfighter would have trouble pulling off on a good day.

It's stuff like that and scenes like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYHHQzan2NM that have made me sit in the cinema and say "are you fucking serious?..." out loud without realising.

[Crunck]

i dont know, ollie into a fakie nose grind ... fairly technical

[Asriell]

I know that in action movies realism is completely thrown out of the window to create drama but seriously how many times can an amateur pilot dodge shit that a dogfighter would have trouble pulling off on a good day.

It's stuff like that and scenes like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYHHQzan2NM that have made me sit in the cinema and say "are you fucking serious?..." out loud without realising.

I hated 2012

I generally like films that are big on the fx. But this one totally failed to suspend my disbelief.

Outrunning a pyroclastic flow in a winnebago and then getting into a a plane to escape a Supervolcano eruption that they were literally standing on top of.. I mean SERIOUSLY.. and that's just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the utter ridiculousness of it.

Talent like Woody harrelson totally wasted in this film. One of the worst disaster movies ever made - particularly since it was based on complete superstitious unbelievable nonsense.

Anyway I had a good weekend watching movies:

Clash of the Titans 3/10 - agree with what is said above BUT what you miss is that obviously this is a remake. Therefore you would think they would seek to improve on the original Ray Harryhousen. But NO! The only similarities are that there are giant scorpions and medusa has a rattlesnake tail. It ends there. The film completely dismisses the original Ancient Greek legend in favour of some kind human struggle against the tyrannical gods. WTF? Aren't Ancient Myths that form the basis of the history of one of the most important periods of Western European history good enough for the Americans that they must remake it into complete and utter bollocks??? People should be shot for 'retelling' the story and making it fucking useless. I was very angry by the end of the film. It had SO LITTLE of the original story / legend in it that it was just pointless. THe CGI is pretty crappy too. Some things I liked though: Gemma Arteton playing IO (I mean IO ffs had nothing to do with Perseus for chrissakes...and she wasn't cursed with agelessness she was turned into a COW!) .. I also liked the medusa.. the CGI as I mentioned was pretty lame but they had a nice effect where you could see that Medusa was actually this pretty girl underneath the snake hair and horryfying stone stare. There's a bit where a character that is a Djinn who can resist her stare confuses her. You see up close as she goes from evil hideous monster to confused bimbo. Hahah. I then thought 'awww they're going to fall in love'.. then the Djinn exploded FOR ABSOLUTELY NO REASON...so yes things I liked about this movie..did I mention Gemma Arteton?

Anvil 7/10 - well worth watching..especially anyone who is into their 80's rock. Anvil were the band that did it first and inspired bands like megadeath and anthrax to follow in their footsteps. Except that apart from a brief glimmer of 80's stardom they completely flopped. This is a 'where are they now' type documentary and is just a brilliant compilation of interviews from some heavy metal/thrash greats.. as well as the insight into the minds of these guys now boring dull lives as they live in snowy Canada having never really tasted the level of stardom that the bands they inspired achieved. They got pretty fucked over by the industry in many ways but they really really do themselves no favours lol. It's well worth watching and is a touching movie.

Hot Tub Time Machine - 8/10. I loved this movie. It had 80's snowbunnies with some great ass in it. It's pretty funny if you like your crude animal house style humour (love it!).. some great cameos by Chevy Chase (every time he's on screen he's just so awesome lol) and Crispin Glover and just everything in general I loved about this movie. I HATED the 80's but this film was great!

Green Zone 8/10. Not much to say other than this was a really good little conspiracy yarn with some adrenelin pumping scenes and great pacing. Really liked it and was kept glued to the screen. Good to see this kind of thing from somewhere in the USA since it's particularly critical of it's own guys. Nevertheless the 'all american hero' is still there which is it's weakest point - Matt Damon does a good job but you could easily imagine someone like Will Smith scoped into the role..

The Hangover. 6/10 Enjoyed this - not massively but was a fun quick comedy about a bunch of blokes on a stag do who can't remember what happened the night before.

This post has been edited by Asriell: Aug 2 2010, 07:43 AM

[Sandrock]

Weird double post O.o

This post has been edited by Sandrock: Aug 2 2010, 11:55 AM

[Sandrock]

I know that in action movies realism is completely thrown out of the window to create drama but seriously how many times can an amateur pilot dodge shit that a dogfighter would have trouble pulling off on a good day.

It's stuff like that and scenes like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYHHQzan2NM that have made me sit in the cinema and say "are you fucking serious?..." out loud without realising.

Hmmm. It's funny actually. At first I was the same, im like, this shit is so unbelievable and over the top what the hell is going on. But then I saw all the reactions of the people around me who were laughing at what would normally be serious action scenes. Which allowed me to take it all with a pinch of salt and laugh at it too and I enjoyed the rest of the movie like that

I guess it's a lot like From Paris with Love. I heard a lot of people complain how they disliked it cause it was way over the top. But I actually enjoyed that in a comedic(sp?) way =)

This post has been edited by Sandrock: Aug 2 2010, 09:43 AM