Some Movies I've Watched....

[_Rondo_GE The OutLaw]

Ok the SUMMER IS IN FULL SWING...

On the big screen..

Fantastic Four, The Rise of The Silver Surfer...It wasn't as good as the first movie but these characters do come alive.   It was a bit of a cop out though for I read those original comic books about this saga.  Like most movies that deal with remakes of print it was a composite but really I think there was too much of an omission here.  Without spoilers I won't go on.

Harry Potter...Execellent!  The best HP yet.  Saw it with my daughter.  I don't usually like the HP movies but this one really was good.  I guess this is the last one but it actually had me wanting to see more.  Maybe there will be more.

Bridge to Terabithia...Sad but very good.  A tear jerker.  This movie hits ya unexpectedly so if your not in the mood for a tear jerker avoid.   

I've got to disagree with your assessment of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.  I have a few gripes on the matter.  First of all, its too short.  This is the longest of the seven books, yet the shortest of the movies released so far, so as you can imagine, there was a great deal of the book cut out.  The initial scene of the dementors was totally different, but I'll admit I actually liked the movies interpretation better.  After that, it kind of went downhill for me. 

The "special quill" that Umbridge had was only used on Harry in the book.  By using it on all of the DA in the movie, they took away the element of persecution present in the book.  When the Order comes to save Harry toward the beginning, they fly way too low.  There is no possible way that Moody would have allowed this, as it is of utmost importance to the "good wizards" that we muggles know nothing of the existance of the wizarding world.  My biggest concern, tho, was the use of the "Avada Kerdava" curse on Sirius Black by Bellatrix Lestrange.  This never happened in the book.  Sirius was killed by an un-named red curse in the book.  The Avada Kerdava is first green and, more importantly, it kills instantly.  There is an element of not knowing exactly what happened to Sirius other than he fell through the veil and no longer is "living" as we know it that has been removed by the use of the killing curse.

However, I will admit that I enjoyed the movie and think they did a decent job with the time allotted.  Once again, it was just too short.  If Peter Jackson's "Lord of the Rings" trilogy has proven anything, its that a three hour plus movie can and will keep the attention of an audience and make money if it is done correctly.

The movies are actually quite good and keep to the books quite well up to "Goblet of Fire", but these last two have taken a lot of artistic liberties.  I highly recommend reading the books, if you haven't.  Other than the first one, they are most definately not childrens books, though they are aimed at kids.  The ideals, especially the central theme of how different people deal with death, are quite adult in nature.

I am glad that you enjoyed the movie, Rondo, and if you haven't read the books, which I gather you haven't, I agree it was quite good.  You'll be happy to know that this was not the last film.  There are two more and all the principle actors are already signed on for them.

Well...there is always a problem when you read a work then see it translated to the screen.  I never read the Potter books but I did read LoTR.  Consequnetly I was initially very critical of Jacksons screen Trilogy until the Return of the King at the Siege of Minas Tirath when the rider of Rohan come up on the scene and the King gives his rallying speech...

Théoden: Arise! Arise, riders of Théoden! Spears shall be shaken, shields shall be splintered; a sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises!

Ride now! Ride now! Ride! Ride for ruin and the world's ending!
DEATH!
DEATH!!
DEATH!!!
Forth Eorlingas!

I hit me that that I was watching one flippin GOOD movie, book or not book.  I was cured and saw the movies as works in their own right.

[Sirgod]

Well, not LOTR, But I found something Noble in Wild Hogs.

IT's the whole Middle age crises thingie, But in the end, they save many against an army, Ok, 4 against 55, But It's not an A-team type movie how they save small town Midrad.

Def. a rental, or a buyer, if 20 years ago, you held a patch.

Stephen

[Sirgod]

Rondo, Two words.

Peacefull Warrior.

See IT Live IT, Great Movie bro.

Stephen

[Sirgod]

Ok Delta Farce, was actually a pretty smart movie, without a great RedNeck POV. The basic Premis, is that three weekend warriors from Georgia, are sent to Iraq, Except Certain Problems have them and there Sgt. who they think is dead, Land in Mexico.

They take on the mission anyways, and start to Liberate a Village from Insurgentants (read Banditos).

At one point, when the Villagers group together, One of the guys, yells "Remember the Alamo" and the bartender tells him "hush, we are still kinda sensative about that.

While discussing Operation Sombraro, I heard one of the best lines "I'm more nervous then a cub scout at Neverland ranch".

Will Larry the Cable guy, Bill Engval, and DJ Qualls, save the village from Carlos Santana? Watch this one to find out.

Stephen

[AcePylut]

I watched Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer.

My recommendation.  Wait until it's out on Encore.  Don't bother spending money on this pile of crap.

Even the best part of the entire movie - that being Jessica Alba's hotness - was crap.  Seriously.  She had so much face-paint she looked silly.  Her hair looked like it was dyed blonde by a 1$ bargain bin hair color product it was so fake and crappy.  I'd kick her out of bed if she looked like that and tried to jump into it.

This movie was just plain bad.  Really bad. 

Watch it and you'll see.




Well maybe I wouldn't kick Jessica Alba out of bed.

[AcePylut]

Bill Engvall is one of the funniest 'redneck' comics I've ever seen. I worked in a comedy club as a door guy during college, and he came to the club a coulpe of times for shows.  Drop dead funny when compared to other redneck comics.

Larry the Cable Guy?  I don't get his appeal at all.  I've watched his shows... and he's just not funny imho.  Seemed like his shows were all "lame joke, no laugh lame joke, no laugh, lame joke, no laugh, git-R-done, uproariously funny". 

Best comedian EVER imho is Brian Regan.  Dana Gould comes in a close second. 

Best comedy "group" is most definitely those that do not fit into any specific group.  It's like... ok we got a chick coming to the club, chances are that the act is about periods, couch potato men, and shopping.  Most black comics talk about ghetto women, crack, and white racists.  Redneck comics are about hillbillies.  etc. etc.

Then there's those comics who aren't in any one group.  Chris Rock (while he does talk about the ghetto women, crack, and white racists, he also talks about the classy women, peep "high on life", and black racists), Brian Regan, Dana Gould, Jon Stewart. 

Jon Stewart will have my everlasting respect... for what he did when he came to the club.  This was right after his MTV show was cut - so there were lots of little cutie-pie mtv'ers in the crowd during his shows.  After the shows, there were quite a few number of little chickies that wanted to "meet" Jon.  He said that "he doesn't do that.  Lots of people do, but he doesn't do the groupie thing".  Of course he probably has, don't get me wrong.  Sexy boobies is hard to pass when they get flung at you every weekend... but that was pretty cool of him.

[AcePylut]

Went and watched "We Own the Night" with the wife.  'eh....  Mark Whalberg, Eva mendes, Joachim Phoenix, Robert Duvall...  it was ok, nothing to write home about, recommend it as a rental... unless you really want to see Eva Mendes's left nipple on the big screen 

[Don Karnage]

Ratatoille from disney pixard was great. when the healt inspector arrive in the kitchen and see the pack of rats, that was funny 

[The Bar-Abbas Anomaly]

 

Did anyone see "Stardust"...?  It looked half-interesting.

[Hexx]

I liked Stardust, really an "adult fairy tale" as it was described though.

[AcePylut]

Well, Saw "The Brave One" with Jodie Foster tonite and Terrance Howard.  A 'chick vigilante' movie. 

It was, 'eh, ok.  If you're a serious movie buff, you'll see it.  If you're a "wait for video" buff, wait for video.

Jodie Foster is too "intense" of an actress to do this.  I think it was supposed to be some sort of semi-character study about her "losing" her "pre-fiance murder" self and becoming this 'stranger' that was unleashed after the murder, but it didn't do that very well.  It also kinda of dragged there for a bit...  aand... well... I'm a movie guy that wants to see something "believable" if it's supposed to be some sort of "believable" movie.

And with this movie, there were so many holes in the vigilantism that I started doing the "rolleyes, what ridiculous thing will they do next"... oh... I don't know... like maybe have a chick get whacked with a crowbar in the arm, but oh wait, the guy with the crowbar decided to * drop * the crowbar for, oh, I don't know, how about run over to the edge of the building so that when the chick picks up the crowbar and smacks the guy in the head, he falls over the ledge and dies. 

Or * spoiler alert * (can we just go ahead and make this whole thread a spoiler alert)... the last scene... so the good cop "lets the chick off" after she takes out the three guys that murdered her fiancee.  But wait, one of the guys got shot square int he forehead from 2 feet away, one guy got shot in the back three times, and one guy guy a gun planted on his head while he was laying on the ground... now way in hell that scene will match the "story" the good guy cop was going to tell.

Oh well, better luck in the future for me.  I just don't see any movies that grab me, except for that Tom Cruise movie about Count Stauffenbergs July 20th attempt on hitler.... but that's because I'm interested in the time period.  Beowolf?  Blah.  Looks like a cheap LOTR knockoff with bad CG.

[Sirgod]

Thanks for that review Ace, My wife and I have been wondering about that one. I found a trailer to National Treasure: Book of secrets over at http://www.ssupload.com/ and It looks like it might be the X-mas time movie I go see.

It's a shame the guy at tv-Links.uk got busted. Esp. since he was a small time player, compared to the billionaires on google who show the same damn movies.

Stephen

[Soreyes]

It's a shame the guy at tv-Links.uk got busted. Esp. since he was a small time player, compared to the billionaires on google who show the same damn movies.

Ah Hell!!!!!!!  No wonder it wasn't coming up today. When did he get busted? Thats one of my favorite sites.

Ok I found the Story

http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,2195407,00.html

Major pirate website shut down


Katie Allen
Friday October 19, 2007
Guardian Unlimited

 
The site allowed users to illegally download shows like 24
 
One of the world's most-used pirate film websites has been closed after providing links to illegal versions of major Hollywood hits and TV shows.

The first closure of a major UK-based pirate site was also accompanied by raids and an arrest, the anti-piracy group Federation Against Copyright Theft (Fact) said today.


A 26-year-old man from Cheltenham was arrested on Thursday in connection with offences relating to the facilitation of copyright infringement on the internet, Fact said.


The arrest and the closure of the site - www.tv-links.co.uk - came during an operation by officers from Gloucestershire County Council trading standards in conjunction with investigators from Fact and Gloucestershire Police.


Fact claims that tv-links.co.uk was providing links to illegal film content that had been camcorder recorded from cinemas and then uploaded to the internet. The site also provided links to TV shows that were being illegally distributed.


Visitors to the site could get access to major feature films, sometimes within days of their initial cinema release. Recent links took users to illegal versions of the Disney/Pixar animation sensation Ratatouille as well as to most of this summer's blockbusters.


"Sites such as TV Links contribute to and profit from copyright infringement by identifying, posting, organising, and indexing links to infringing content found on the internet that users can then view on demand by visiting these illegal sites," said a spokesman for Fact.


The group's director general Kieron Sharp said TV Links was the first major target in a campaign to crackdown on web piracy.


"The theft and distribution of films harms the livelihoods of those working in the UK film industry and in ancillary industries, as well as damaging the economy," he said.


Roger Marles, from Trading Standards said sites such as TV Links allowed people to break UK copyright law.


"The 'users' are potentially evading licence fees, subscription fees to digital services or the cost of purchase or admittance to cinemas to view the films," he added.


The British Video Association estimates that at least £459m was lost to the video, film and TV industries due to piracy in 2006.

[Sirgod]

Doh! I should have posted that story above, my bad there.

But yeah, IT was a good site, esp. when I missed some tv shows, because of schedule conflicts.

The other sad thing, I s I was making a few friends in there forums over there.

I'll keep a look out for other sites though, and post them in this thread.

Stephen

[AcePylut]

Watched Transformers last night.  If I was 13, the movie would rock.  But I'm not, so I was pretty disappointed in it.  Best thing going for it was the transformers transforming, and some of the one-liners by Megatron (a good guy xformer:  "You want a piece of me?".  Megatron (rips the good guy in two): "No, I want two pieces")

Of course, you've got the super hottie high school chick who... stop me if you've heard this before... "learned everything there is to know about cars in her dad's car shop". 

Overall, this movie was written for a 13 year old kid, and I was kinda disappointed in that.  I figured since the "transformer cartoon crowd" is about 26-30 years old, the movie would have targeted that audience.  But it didn't.  Oh well.

Best part of the movie was in the beginning, before the cheesy kid crap started.  I must say, the first bad transformer made a heck of an entrance.

[Dash Jones]

I have to say I was bored stiff by the first 2/3 of the movie.  The last third was okay, but wasn't all that interesting except it was one big explosion fest.  Don't know what all the hype is about the movie and why people on the internet seemed to love it.

[Dracho]

Well maybe I wouldn't kick Jessica Alba out of bed.

Yeah, I was thinking "Gee, doesn't Ace have a light switch?!?!  Poor Guy"

As for transformers... bah... I want a Mechwarrior movie by the Galactica producers.  I prefer my giant robots with enemy infantry between the toes.

[AcePylut]

hehe, first thought on that plot line was some Japanese monster movie import like "Mechatron vs. Godzilla" or something.

With a purposeful grin an insatiable smile
he pulls those spinning high tension wires down
helpless people on subway trains
scream my god as he looks down on them...

he picks up a bus and he throws it back down
as he wades through the village towards the center of toooowwwwnnnnnnnn.

(or something. However that BOC song went, with my interpretation of it)

[_Rondo_GE The OutLaw]

Well, Saw "The Brave One" with Jodie Foster tonite and Terrance Howard.  A 'chick vigilante' movie. 

It was, 'eh, ok.  If you're a serious movie buff, you'll see it.  If you're a "wait for video" buff, wait for video.

Jodie Foster is too "intense" of an actress to do this.  I think it was supposed to be some sort of semi-character study about her "losing" her "pre-fiance murder" self and becoming this 'stranger' that was unleashed after the murder, but it didn't do that very well.  It also kinda of dragged there for a bit...  aand... well... I'm a movie guy that wants to see something "believable" if it's supposed to be some sort of "believable" movie.

And with this movie, there were so many holes in the vigilantism that I started doing the "rolleyes, what ridiculous thing will they do next"... oh... I don't know... like maybe have a chick get whacked with a crowbar in the arm, but oh wait, the guy with the crowbar decided to * drop * the crowbar for, oh, I don't know, how about run over to the edge of the building so that when the chick picks up the crowbar and smacks the guy in the head, he falls over the ledge and dies. 

Or * spoiler alert * (can we just go ahead and make this whole thread a spoiler alert)... the last scene... so the good cop "lets the chick off" after she takes out the three guys that murdered her fiancee.  But wait, one of the guys got shot square int he forehead from 2 feet away, one guy got shot in the back three times, and one guy guy a gun planted on his head while he was laying on the ground... now way in hell that scene will match the "story" the good guy cop was going to tell.

Oh well, better luck in the future for me.  I just don't see any movies that grab me, except for that Tom Cruise movie about Count Stauffenbergs July 20th attempt on hitler.... but that's because I'm interested in the time period.  Beowolf?  Blah.  Looks like a cheap LOTR knockoff with bad CG.

"chick vigalante movie".... we have come a long way....

[AcePylut]

It's not a 'chick-flick' if that's what you mean.  It's a vigilante movie with a 'chick' as the lead.  Me, I'd recommend Death Wish if you're in the mood for some on-screen vigilantism.

[AcePylut]

Saw American Gangster tonite.  I recommend it.  Was good.  Ridley Scott did a good job mixing the cop and criminal stories together pretty well. 

It's not a "crime-action" movie.  It's crime drama.  The couple sitting next to us "didn't care for it because there was hardly any action".  There was only one shootout in the whole movie. 

Denzel Washington reminds me a lot of Mel Gibson.  In that, when you're watching the movie, you never forget that you're watching Denzel or Mel, but they are such great actors and bring so much to the screen that anything they do is pretty powerful.  Russel Crowe did a good job too, definetly no slouch, but this movie belonged to Denzel Washington.  I don't think I've ever heard him "talk" like a black gangster - and some of the lines he belted out made me go "wow".

Any Deadwood fans out there will notice Sal Star   THat was a nice treat.  And if anyone watched "Oz", Robson from Oz has a part in the movie.

One of the things that - to me - is an indicator of a good movie is if the movie doesn't "feel" like it was 2.5 hours long (or 2 hours, or however long the movie may be).  This movie didn't feel like it was 2.5 hours long, but it was.


Also, get ready to roll back to the '80's.  One of the previews was for a new Rambo movie.  Sly Stallone must need to pay rent or something.  First a return to Rocky a couple years or so ago, now a return to his action-stud character, John Rambo.  There was also a  new Tom Hanks movie coming out... "Chuck Wilson's War" (can't remeber the title).... "based on facts" account of our covert war against the Sov's in Afghanistan.

[Sirgod]

Here you go Ace, http://www.dynaverse.net/forum/index.php/topic,163374855.0.html I had posted the Rambo Trailer awhile back.

Stephen

[Father Ted]

I haven't been to a new movie since "Team America" came out. Seriously, there's been nothing that's excited me since. Afterall, what could match Cartman singing 'Heat of the Moment'?

[Sirgod]

Heck, I go about once am onth to town, But If A movie isn't on sattelite, I don't watch it. Take for example The last FF4 movie, Even with a zit, I still had a craving for Jessica Alba.

seriously, Me and the wife have been watching older movies, Like the quit man with John wayne and Maureen O'hara.

stephen

[_Rondo_GE The OutLaw]

I've been short on change lately to see the big screen.

I DO want to see American Gangster.  I like both leads.

[_Rondo_GE The OutLaw]

O yeah...I forgot.  Saved up a lot of dough and bought a 1080 hi def plasma TV.  42"s....

oooooo   

At long last.  But I need a hi def DVD which i dont have money for yet. 

Anyway saw "Wild Hogs" on DVD.  Funny flick.  Travolta, Tim Allen, Martin Lawrence, and the dweeby guy with glasses (I looked him up..William H Macy)....its a good laugh.  Ray Liotta and a bunch of faces played the heavy.

[Sirgod]

I got a kick out of wild hogs also. I'll go into town on the 4th, and probably pick up Live Free or Die hard, and maybe a few others.

I watched Hostel 2 last night, and was bored out of my mind. I'd miss it to be honest.

Stephen

[KBF MalaK]

Tho' I haven't seen a recent movie (Transformers being the last (yawn), if you want to see a good translation (IMHO) look for Beowulf (2001???) starring Christopher Lambert. Made by the same team that did Mortal Combat I found this film is the most unlikely place- my local public library.

I just wish I could find is for purchase. Looked in every catalog I could find for 3 months- no luck (apparently not released in America), but worth the hunt if your into that kinda thing.

[AcePylut]

Ok, haven't been to the big screen since American Gangsters...

but this weekend, I saw "The Thin Red Line" in the $5 bin at Wal-Mart... looked at all the names in it *(George Clooney, Nick Nolte, John Cusack, John C Reilly, Woody Harrelson, Adrian Brody, John Travolta, the Terminator 3 guy, Jared Leto, Jim Caveziel (SP - Jesus from Passion) ) and picked it up.

It was absolutely horrible.  So fricking horrible that it put me to sleep in about 1 hour.  Yes.  It was that bad.

Not only was the entire plot (whatever that was) terrible imho, but shees... wtf are producers putting the ARMY in Guadacanal?  WTF were P-39's doing on Guadacanal?  WTF were C47's doing on Guadacanal so early in the campaign?

I would write a review about it, if I knew what it was supposed to be about.

Here's AP coming at you, $5 less rich after that mistake. 

Sad thing is that I watched the movie a long time ago and thought it was awful then.  And this movie was up for like 7 Academy Awards including Best Picture?  Shees.

Anyone else watch this movie and think differently?  If so, I'm curious as to why.