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"Catching up on movies"

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.

He is conforming to be a non-conformist, conforming to the belief that he is a non-conformist.

HUH, and Rumsfeld won the sentence that made the least sense. Pfft

"The Hulk
Fantastic. Loved this one."

I'm sorry... But Hulk is just a terrible, terrible film. We had to see it at college. One person, ONE, out of around 30 enjoyed it, and that was only because he'll sit through anything.

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.

Once again, Goatboy likes to be different... CONFORM, damn you, CONFORM!

Goatboy wrote:
> Gandalf is good though, as is the blue naked chameleon chick.
******

Bling bling!

I think my favourite bit in "Rules" at the moment is Victor's tour of Europe - the whole voiceover with no stopping for breath at all for over 2 minutes. Genius editing.
Not too sure I needed to see Dawson pinching a stink-loaf quite so blatantly though.
Eric Stoltz should be in more movies, he's good. Except when he's in Mask, even Sam Elliot's moustache can't rescue that flick.
And X-Men 2 is a silly film.
It lacks the sarcasm, speed and coolness that the first one had. Where's Wolverine calling Picard "Wheels", or Gandalf being smarmy?
The only bit that made me chuckle was the "That's a pretty dorky looking helmet" comment.

The rest was Bryan Singer making a movie that in no way at all whatsoever is an allegory for being homosexual.
No sir, not even slightly is the movie a subtext for acceptance in the "straight" society for gays.
Because, and I'd like to state, Bryan Singer completely isn't in any way shape or form a big bummer.
Is that clear?
X-Men is not a thinly veiled exploration of what it is to be queer, the shunning by society, the need for underground hangouts, the sense of isolation and shame at being different.

And when Flameboy struggles to tell his parents what he is?
I don't know *why* you'd read anything else into that. Honestly, why would you draw parallels with a young man having to sit his parents down and explain to them why he is "different", and to ask if they still love him? The anger and revulsion from his younger brother, the confusion and bewilderment from his parents and the dad saying "it's your fault" to the mother...in no way could you possibly read anything else into this scene.
Nope.
And draw no conclusions from Flaming Boy going off with Gandalf at the end. Because as we all know, Gandalf is not, just as Bryan Singer isn't, gay.

Glad we sorted that out.

I thought the Hulk was terrible. It tried to be above an action film, but was uninteresting, badly acted (except Nick Nolte), had no humour whatsover and was simply falt when there was no action. The action was great, but there wasn't enough of it. X2 was better, it had more power than the first but was much stupider. If that makes sense. And speaking of comic book movies, I still don't understand the huge popularity by the recent Spider-man flick, that film is terrible.

Oh yeah, a film you should make time to see is Igby Goes Down. Superb film I saw at our student cinema on Thursday. Obvious connection to Ferris Bueller, but Igby's a far better film in it's own right.

"Now that she's dead I feel a strange affection for her."
"But you beat up her corpse."
"No, after that."

The Rules of Attraction is the best film I've seen for ages. I liked the little A Pyscho references, like the Bateman Street sign on the tour of Europe monologue, and when the gay guy calls The Dawson, he answers the phone with "Patrick?". Brilliant film.

Charlie’s Angels 2 was great. It just took the p*ss out of itself the whole time. I think.

If you go into this expecting a “serious” action movie you will be disappointed. However, if you go in to it wanting to see scantily clad woman performing hilariously stupid stunts then you will have a good laugh.

I mean, it has Cameron Diaz in a bikini, helicopters and big explosions. What more could you want?

A plot? Don’t be greedy!

Goatboy wrote:
> Gay Mutant lovefest.

monkey_man wrote:
> But she turns herself into a man. Several different men.

Wooo ...
Count me in

Hear?
Oh the shame of it.