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Finally got around to getting a new DVD player after a few months of not being bothered, and went to Blockbusters to catch up on movies I've missed.
And there ain't that many of interest to be honest.
Anyways:
Narc
Worthy, hard-hitting, gritty. And dull.
Another movie for Jason Patric to grow a mini-beard and act tortured for 2hrs, Ray Liotta be tubby and goateed and everybody to stumble through rainy, filtered cityscapes trying to uncover the facts of some distant murder yadda yadda yadda. It's just one of those movies that shouts for 2hrs "LIFE SUCKS! BEING A COP IS HARD! FAMILY LIFE CAN SUFFER! DRUGS ARE BAD" etc etc. Not a bad film, just not very interesting. Good opening though.
X-Men 2
More of the same.
Gandalf being slightly campily bad and a bunch of mutants conveniently being in situations where their powers are of use.
Nightcrawler. The stupidest waste of a superhero character ever.
"I shall attempt to assasinate the President and be menacing. Then I shall sit in the Xman jet for an hour and look slightly huffy, with zero exposition about how or why I became the way I am"
Wolverine doing his thing, but with almost none of the arrogance of the 1st film. Captain Picard spends 85% of the movie with his eyes closed and a rubbish helmet thing on.
I loved the 1st one, and this just seemed like a 2hr trailer for bits I didn't catch in X-Men 1.
The Hulk
Fantastic. Loved this one.
Nick Nolte being shabbily insane, Sam Elliot's moustache making another appearance, Jennifer Connolly taunting me from inside my tv screen, pretending she can't see me and doesn't want me...you little minx you...And Chopper being green and mental.
Excellently edited, split-screen type stuff.
And Hulk Poodle. A massive, hulked out French Poodle.
And shut up about CGI blah-blah, you haven't done anything better so get back to your college courses and act all Trauffaut in the refectory ok Orsen?
Rules of Attraction
Good stuff. Didn't really enjoy Killing Zoe and have no other comparison for Roger Avery's stuff.
However, this is a top film. Dawson being a badass and a bunch of others all being young Americans.
Trivia note: Dawson's character, Sean Bateman, is the brother of Patrick Bateman. Same author, same characters.
Fantastic, innovative opening of a party from 3 different perspectives and a very cool split-screen thing when Dawson and Goth Virgin meet up.
And Eric Stoltz getting a "hummer" from Goth Virgin.
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There you go.
Couldn't bring myself to watch Charlie's Angels 2 or Terminator 3 because they look like ass.
And there ain't that many of interest to be honest.
Anyways:
Narc
Worthy, hard-hitting, gritty. And dull.
Another movie for Jason Patric to grow a mini-beard and act tortured for 2hrs, Ray Liotta be tubby and goateed and everybody to stumble through rainy, filtered cityscapes trying to uncover the facts of some distant murder yadda yadda yadda. It's just one of those movies that shouts for 2hrs "LIFE SUCKS! BEING A COP IS HARD! FAMILY LIFE CAN SUFFER! DRUGS ARE BAD" etc etc. Not a bad film, just not very interesting. Good opening though.
X-Men 2
More of the same.
Gandalf being slightly campily bad and a bunch of mutants conveniently being in situations where their powers are of use.
Nightcrawler. The stupidest waste of a superhero character ever.
"I shall attempt to assasinate the President and be menacing. Then I shall sit in the Xman jet for an hour and look slightly huffy, with zero exposition about how or why I became the way I am"
Wolverine doing his thing, but with almost none of the arrogance of the 1st film. Captain Picard spends 85% of the movie with his eyes closed and a rubbish helmet thing on.
I loved the 1st one, and this just seemed like a 2hr trailer for bits I didn't catch in X-Men 1.
The Hulk
Fantastic. Loved this one.
Nick Nolte being shabbily insane, Sam Elliot's moustache making another appearance, Jennifer Connolly taunting me from inside my tv screen, pretending she can't see me and doesn't want me...you little minx you...And Chopper being green and mental.
Excellently edited, split-screen type stuff.
And Hulk Poodle. A massive, hulked out French Poodle.
And shut up about CGI blah-blah, you haven't done anything better so get back to your college courses and act all Trauffaut in the refectory ok Orsen?
Rules of Attraction
Good stuff. Didn't really enjoy Killing Zoe and have no other comparison for Roger Avery's stuff.
However, this is a top film. Dawson being a badass and a bunch of others all being young Americans.
Trivia note: Dawson's character, Sean Bateman, is the brother of Patrick Bateman. Same author, same characters.
Fantastic, innovative opening of a party from 3 different perspectives and a very cool split-screen thing when Dawson and Goth Virgin meet up.
And Eric Stoltz getting a "hummer" from Goth Virgin.
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There you go.
Couldn't bring myself to watch Charlie's Angels 2 or Terminator 3 because they look like ass.
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Goatboy wrote:
Spiderman,
******
*Twitches*
Spiderman,
******
*Twitches*
Meh, goatboy you should forget it is a terminator film, it has an entirely different atmosphere to the other two, an almost entirely different storyline, and totally new characters - the only two who remain are arnie (obviously) and that doctor silberman (or whatever he was called) who makes a brief appearance.
You can't expect films to stay the same, they have to change for each sequel or they'd become boring very quickly.
It's like when people compare the matrix films - you can't and shouldn't try to. They are three separate films with different atmospheres, goals and events. People get far too caught up with the whole "Well, the first was better because ....." stuff, when they should judge each film on its own merits.
If star wars episode 1 was the first of the series to be released, everyone would be saying "That was great, I can't wait for the next" rather than "It wasn't a patch on the other 3".
You can't expect films to stay the same, they have to change for each sequel or they'd become boring very quickly.
It's like when people compare the matrix films - you can't and shouldn't try to. They are three separate films with different atmospheres, goals and events. People get far too caught up with the whole "Well, the first was better because ....." stuff, when they should judge each film on its own merits.
If star wars episode 1 was the first of the series to be released, everyone would be saying "That was great, I can't wait for the next" rather than "It wasn't a patch on the other 3".
On The Hulk, I saw the ad when it was on in the cinema, and it all looked so fake (the CGI etc) it was laughable, so I haven't gone anywhere near it, and don't intend to.
"I liked it.
You didn't.
You are clearly wrong and expected large muscly men in little torn shorts to fight each other on top of buildings before having 1342 pints of beer and a curry."
No, I heard what it was like, so I expected the film you described. Only it wasn't. It was dull and boring. I've seen it three times (it was on my flight from Bangkok to Doha) so you can't say I watched it once and dismissed it.
I wanted to enjoy it, I really did. But the film wouldn't let me, by being so crap.
You didn't.
You are clearly wrong and expected large muscly men in little torn shorts to fight each other on top of buildings before having 1342 pints of beer and a curry."
No, I heard what it was like, so I expected the film you described. Only it wasn't. It was dull and boring. I've seen it three times (it was on my flight from Bangkok to Doha) so you can't say I watched it once and dismissed it.
I wanted to enjoy it, I really did. But the film wouldn't let me, by being so crap.
monkey_man wrote:
That bit with the poodle dogs was crap though!!!1111111
It was fantastic. I've always wanted to see the Hulk punch a mutt in the nutts. It was a great film and perhaps the best "superhero" adaptation I've seen.
That bit with the poodle dogs was crap though!!!1111111
It was fantastic. I've always wanted to see the Hulk punch a mutt in the nutts. It was a great film and perhaps the best "superhero" adaptation I've seen.
It's David Lynch.
You either like his movies or you don't.
I do.
You either like his movies or you don't.
I do.
Don't know why anyone would enjoy Panic Room. It's just trying to be a typical early nineties "gonna getcha" movie. I was bored the whole way through and the ending was just dumb.
Saw Mulholland Drive the other week, and what a feeble effort that film was.
Ooh this, ooh that, isn't this wierd...? Not buying it? Here LOOK!! LESBIANS!!!
Ooh this some more, can you keep up? The end.
Toss.
Saw Mulholland Drive the other week, and what a feeble effort that film was.
Ooh this, ooh that, isn't this wierd...? Not buying it? Here LOOK!! LESBIANS!!!
Ooh this some more, can you keep up? The end.
Toss.
MoJoJoJo wrote:
> Boring, tedius scenes. Nolte coked up to his eye balls. Crap action
> scenes. In short, just a bad film. Most films have something to pull
> them up from being totally crap... this doesn't.
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Which scenes were those?
I saw an intimate story about a guy unable to accept his past, difficulties relating to people around him because of issues and an uncomfortableness around new people.
There were some scenes when he hulked out and gave vent to his repression etc, but mainly it was an intelligent, thoughtful, prosiac study of isolation, abandonment and unhappiness.
Did anybody really expect Ang Lee to serve up some BIF! KAPOW! type of summer blockbuster? Sam Raimi does that with Spiderman, Singer does that with X-Men.
Ang Lee has never done that, he presents dramatic studies of repression, detached emotions and people trying to deal with situations and feelings they aren't fully understanding about.
The Ice Storm is basically The Hulk without the enormous green bloke smashing tanks.
Crouching Tiger is the same, albeit with kung-fu delivered in the traditions of Chinese mythology (people were all "They can fly???" when I saw that at the cinema with them).
I expected The Hulk to be a quiet, thoughtful film about people trying to come to terms with issues and feelings stemming from childhood trauma (The Ice Storm again), and that's what I got.
I also got Hulk Poodles, Nick Nolte being Electric Nolte Madman, Sam Elliot's moustache, Jennifer Connolly wanting me secretely and some of the most ingenious editing/presentation this side of an Aranofsky movie.
I liked it.
You didn't.
You are clearly wrong and expected large muscly men in little torn shorts to fight each other on top of buildings before having 1342 pints of beer and a curry.
> Boring, tedius scenes. Nolte coked up to his eye balls. Crap action
> scenes. In short, just a bad film. Most films have something to pull
> them up from being totally crap... this doesn't.
--------
Which scenes were those?
I saw an intimate story about a guy unable to accept his past, difficulties relating to people around him because of issues and an uncomfortableness around new people.
There were some scenes when he hulked out and gave vent to his repression etc, but mainly it was an intelligent, thoughtful, prosiac study of isolation, abandonment and unhappiness.
Did anybody really expect Ang Lee to serve up some BIF! KAPOW! type of summer blockbuster? Sam Raimi does that with Spiderman, Singer does that with X-Men.
Ang Lee has never done that, he presents dramatic studies of repression, detached emotions and people trying to deal with situations and feelings they aren't fully understanding about.
The Ice Storm is basically The Hulk without the enormous green bloke smashing tanks.
Crouching Tiger is the same, albeit with kung-fu delivered in the traditions of Chinese mythology (people were all "They can fly???" when I saw that at the cinema with them).
I expected The Hulk to be a quiet, thoughtful film about people trying to come to terms with issues and feelings stemming from childhood trauma (The Ice Storm again), and that's what I got.
I also got Hulk Poodles, Nick Nolte being Electric Nolte Madman, Sam Elliot's moustache, Jennifer Connolly wanting me secretely and some of the most ingenious editing/presentation this side of an Aranofsky movie.
I liked it.
You didn't.
You are clearly wrong and expected large muscly men in little torn shorts to fight each other on top of buildings before having 1342 pints of beer and a curry.
Last night I rented Panic Room, and K-Pax.
Both were excellent films since I am into both Sci-fi and Horror/thrillers.
I spent all of last night watching them with sweets and a can of cold Carling which last the entire 4 hours. Parents were away at their work's christmas party so as it has and always has been for quite a few years i was allowed to rent 2 films and watch them on my own (usually I would have my sis but she's at Uni) at home.
I had the lights off and a few cushions on the floor for my elbows (my carpet isn't exactly a long duration of comfort sorta thing) and a cold one by the remotes.
I watched K-pax first as it got me in the mood for excellent film watching and I was not disappointed at all, very moving at times and very believable.
Then Panic Room, now that was brilliant, Jodie Foster's character was very brave and even though she had claustrafobia but didn't show it when she was inside the Panic Room. Her daughter was a diabetic so we had to watch how that unfolded as well the 3 crooks, where there was the smart one, the greedy one, and the dangerous one.
Both were excellent films since I am into both Sci-fi and Horror/thrillers.
I spent all of last night watching them with sweets and a can of cold Carling which last the entire 4 hours. Parents were away at their work's christmas party so as it has and always has been for quite a few years i was allowed to rent 2 films and watch them on my own (usually I would have my sis but she's at Uni) at home.
I had the lights off and a few cushions on the floor for my elbows (my carpet isn't exactly a long duration of comfort sorta thing) and a cold one by the remotes.
I watched K-pax first as it got me in the mood for excellent film watching and I was not disappointed at all, very moving at times and very believable.
Then Panic Room, now that was brilliant, Jodie Foster's character was very brave and even though she had claustrafobia but didn't show it when she was inside the Panic Room. Her daughter was a diabetic so we had to watch how that unfolded as well the 3 crooks, where there was the smart one, the greedy one, and the dangerous one.
Wasn't an action movie though...well it was, but it was about Banner being all angry and his Dad and that bird who's name I can't remember and love and stuff....oh my, I've gone cross eyed.
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