Rented these two:

Captain America: The First Avenger. Good, somewhat predictable fun, and not as flag-waving as I had thought it to be. Chris Evans made a convincing hero (better than Fantastic Four, anyway), Hugo Weaving made an excellent villain. Had all the right aesthetics, a decent story and some cool action scenes. The way it ties into The Avengers is also pretty nifty. One of Joe Johnston's better directorial efforts.

Green Lantern.



There was a reason I put off seeing this film. So much potential and talent behind it, and so much legend to work with. I suppose the added story in the extended cut helped a bit, but still. Pretty much everything that could have gone wrong with this film did. That said, I didn't think the special effects were entirely terrible (some of them were ok), and Peter Sarsgaard made a fairly compelling villain. I just don't think it warrants another viewing.

I saw The Matrix for the first time yesterday. watwatwat
Even though I enjoyed it, I don't know if I fully understand what happened. Especially the very end. I'm not sure why I didn't get it, maybe I just didn't pay enough attention. I don't know, but I really liked it.
It was very different from what I expected. I hadn't really looked at trailers or anything beforehand, I thought it was about Neo stopping time and dodging bullets all the time. Boy, I was wrong.

I saw The Matrix for the first time yesterday. watwatwat
Even though I enjoyed it, I don't know if I fully understand what happened. Especially the very end. I'm not sure why I didn't get it, maybe I just didn't pay enough attention. I don't know, but I really liked it.
It was very different from what I expected. I hadn't really looked at trailers or anything beforehand, I thought it was about Neo stopping time and dodging bullets all the time. Boy, I was wrong.

Hm.... I haven't seen it since I was 14... and that's all I can remember.

I saw The Matrix for the first time yesterday. watwatwat
Even though I enjoyed it, I don't know if I fully understand what happened. Especially the very end. I'm not sure why I didn't get it, maybe I just didn't pay enough attention. I don't know, but I really liked it.
It was very different from what I expected. I hadn't really looked at trailers or anything beforehand, I thought it was about Neo stopping time and dodging bullets all the time. Boy, I was wrong.

^Ah, that sort of explains.

[swervedriver]

Also, stop there. Don't bother with the other 2 films.

[EphelDuath666]

Also, stop there. Don't bother with the other 2 films.

I think he should watch them. It'll make him appreciate the first one even more!


I watched several movies over the past week. Let me get the ones that will make me feel the wrath of the movie police out of the way first
Watched the extended cut of Avatar on Blu-ray as well as Transformers 3 on Blu-ray. Yeah I know, OMG, holy hell, rrrrrooooooarrr, bad writing, bad scripts blab blab. If you watch movies like that and expect great writing then you might as well watch p

Strange Days in my Science Fiction class. My god, what a pile of shit, and yet another reason for me to hate James Cameron. Guy could not write a good script if his life depended on it. I know: Terminator 1 and 2. But even those, isn't the idea of the film and the action the real draw of the movie, and it pretty allows you to ignore that is under a pretty crappy screenplay? Case in point: Sara Conner's speech at the end of Terminator. Some of THE worst writing I've ever heard, which I know is part of the camp factor that makes the films likeable but still... it's bad.

All that being said, fuck you so hard James Cameron for making me sit through 2 and 1/2 hours of your bullshit in this painful disaster of a film. At the core of it the idea of the film is good: a virtual reality machine that lets you live through others' memories that they record on the same machine. Ok, cool, I'm along for the ride. First half of the film: ok, Ralph Fiennes (who dear god was wasted talent in this shitfest) running around, establishing what the machine is and going through the motions of a pretty forced and cliche I-lost-the-love-of-my-life story; I'm still in. Some sort of crazy murderer and racial tensions going on, ok, still game.

Second half of film, James Cameron: "You know, I got something half decent going here; why don't I royally fuck it up by making all these disparate plot lines converge stupidly, make the film an hour too long, and make the series of "twists" at the end unbelievably predictable and at the same time motivationally confusing? Yup, that sounds like something I would do. And while I'm at it, I'll get my wife to direct and take her down burning with me. Woo hoo!"

Can you tell I'm bitter? Anyway, this movie was just painfully awful, and Cameron should never be left near a screenplay again. I don't argue the guy has good ideas; just let someone else write them so they're not a steaming hunk of shit. It was seriously so painful near the end I started rocking back and forth holding my head repeating "make it stop" in the middle of my very quiet college class.

Anyway, diatribe over, as much as I could write many more pages bitching about it. But I've vented, and the sky is blue and pretty again.

underworld awakening

what a massive piece of excrement

[JuZ]

Rocky Balboa.

Nothing happened for most of the movie. Then Rocky had a fight.

The end.

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Some film... Slow-burning, but a really gripping watch. And the cast is jam-packed full of awesomeness. Gotta love Gary Oldman.

[EphelDuath666]

just got back from watching The Avengers. And I LOVED it. Starts out a little slow but once it gets going it kicks massive ass. The Hulk totally stole the show, watching him/it cause all sorts of mayhem was a lot of fun. The 3D was not too impressive, I assume that's because it was only converted to 3D and there were no real depth and no noticable pop outs. So I think I'd enjoy it even more in 2D. But I had a blast anyways. And all my friends loved it too.

[Octillus]

just got back from watching The Avengers. And I LOVED it. Starts out a little slow but once it gets going it kicks massive ass. The Hulk totally stole the show, watching him/it cause all sorts of mayhem was a lot of fun. The 3D was not too impressive, I assume that's because it was only converted to 3D and there were no real depth and no noticable pop outs. So I think I'd enjoy it even more in 2D. But I had a blast anyways. And all my friends loved it too.

This makes me so happy to hear. I know it's not highbrow cinema, but I'm all for a good fun summer action movie. It won't be the next Batman, but who cares?

I've been out of the movie loop for a bit

just got back from watching The Avengers. And I LOVED it. Starts out a little slow but once it gets going it kicks massive ass. The Hulk totally stole the show, watching him/it cause all sorts of mayhem was a lot of fun. The 3D was not too impressive, I assume that's because it was only converted to 3D and there were no real depth and no noticable pop outs. So I think I'd enjoy it even more in 2D. But I had a blast anyways. And all my friends loved it too.

This. Seriously loved it as well, except for the 3D, which we had to go and see cos they didn't have it in 2D. I found with the glasses on everything was way to dark and murky but then when I'd take them off to try and see what was going on everything would be so blurry that the brighter colours didn't help at all... So yeah, everyone should totally go and see this movie, but if you do, go and see it in 2D.

(This review contains Scarlett Johansson asset-related bias. God DAYUM.)

[EphelDuath666]

except for the 3D, which we had to go and see cos they didn't have it in 2D. I found with the glasses on everything was way to dark and murky but then when I'd take them off to try and see what was going on everything would be so blurry that the brighter colours didn't help at all... So yeah, everyone should totally go and see this movie, but if you do, go and see it in 2D.

this. Everything was way too dark indeed, alas that is the really bad side effect of 3D glasses. And in this case 3D didn't really look like 3D. There was no real depth, everything looked like paper cuts. And fast moving stuff just appeared super blurry where you had a hard time seeing what was going on. It didn't stop me from enjoying the movie as it was way too awesome for that. But I think it would be much more enjoyable in 2D, not that I had any other choice today than seeing it in 3D.