Movies wot I saw 2010

Aodan · Teiam Member

RE: Movies wot I saw 2010

Truckman · Old. But wise!

Truckman wrote:

I'm watching "Highway Patrol" this week...I'll watch "Thunder Road" again next and let you know if I still like it......Ben

I was right, it was as enjoyable as ever...Robert Mitchum was one of the most underrated actors ever...

...Ben

ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

Except by you, Ben!

Last night, Catfish and I watched Gamer starring Gerard Butler and Michael C Hall. It was an interesting movie.

On one level it was a pretty standard action flick about a guy who's been framed for murder and is on Death Row and can win his freedom by playing through 30 death matches (think The Running Man), but with one twist - whilst on the playing field, he's being controlled by a 17 year old video-gamer. Lots of explosions and flying limbs ensue, while he tried to escape the game and find his wife and child.

Underneath, though, it's trying (not entirely successfully) to be a social commentary on videogaming culture and the evils of mass media. Gerard's wide turns out to be an 'actress' participating in a Second Life style social game - again, being controlled by a gamer, this time an enormously fat, creepy guy .

It doesn't really work as social commentary and I can't help thinking that with a bit more refinement of the script and perhaps some restraint in the 'action movie' stakes, we could have ended up with a pretty decent, thought provoking movie on the nature of free will. WWhat we got though, was a decent, if forgettable, ultra-violent action flick.

Michael C Hall was awesome though; but then, isn't he always?

Aodan · Teiam Member

I just watched Gamer as a straight up action flick. I didn't try to look too much into it. Besides.. Gerard Butler is the stuff my dreams are made of (When you're no in them of course, JDK... wait.. that sounded... yeah nevermind)

Anyway....

I thought it was a decent action flick. I really got a kick out of the making of stuff on the DVD. You know, cuz I'm a Mouth Breathing DVD Extra Watcher.

ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

Heh. Me too. Love those extras. Except when they spend the whole time saying 'yeah, we did that with a computer and that was a digital effect and....'

Hurrrr. Hurrrr. Hurrr.

( that was me, mouth-breathing...)

Henglegert Rinkerdink · Sorry... I must have the wrong street.

I watch Scott Pilgrm vs The World last night. It was ....

pretty terrible.

But the girls playing Romana and Knives were cute so that helped pass the time. The 5 good jokes were evenly spaced throughout so that helped a little too.

These are all the redeeming factors I can muster. I've seen worse films, but I can't really recommend this unless your idea of an hilarious in joke is using Zelda power meters to indicate the need to pee. (That was pointed out to me, so clearly that wasn't my idea of an hilarious in joke)

ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

I'm gonna try and get to see it this weekend. I'm kinda disappointed that you didn't like it, cos I've been looking forward to it for ages. Still... all the other reviews seem to indicate it's damn good, so I'll keep an open mind!

Aodan · Teiam Member

It makes me sad that you did not like it.

I liked it. I liked it a lot.

ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

I also liked it a lot. It's true though, that it was flawed in many ways. For the length of the movie, I think 7 exes was probably a few too many - they could easily have glossed over a couple of the awesome battles to tighten it all up. Scott himself came across as very whiney, which made me wonder why Ramona would be remotely interested in him - particularly as he didn't get any less whiney. Funny, though.

I hadn't read the comic it was based on, but I downloaded the freebie first issue, and it seems to be pretty faithful to it. I dud wonder though if it might have benefited from being a bit less glossy blockbuster and a bit more low budget and indie in it's approach. Then I thought... Nahhhh. It was just awesome anough!

I found the pee-meter expecially amusing when it came up, simply because Hengle had previously mentioned it. I can also concur on the hawtness of the chicks. In a jailbatey sort of way.

JonnyStead · **"I'm Lois!"**

ddvmor wrote:
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I hadn't read the comic it was based on, ...

Thats not a phrase I've heard you say before... ever ! insanity

Truckman · Old. But wise!

I think I'm all set for the weekend...I scored a John Wayne 6 DVD set at Sam's yesterday...20 westerns plus two 12 episode Saturday morning serials like I used to look forward to when I was a kid...All for $10.88...

...Ben

ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

Sweet.

Over the past couple of days, I watched Up and The Boat That Rocked.

Up, in case you dont already know is a heartwarming Pixar cartoon about a creepy old man who kidnaps a boy scout and flies him off to a dodgy south American location to teach him how to fly tip, commit grand theft airship, steal dogs, murder a senior citizen and endanger the local wildlife. I really enjoyed it.

The Boat That Rocked is a pretty damn good movie about pirate radio in the sixties. Also a bit like Titanic with a better soundtrack. It starred peep from the IT Crowd, Spaced and Flight of the Concordes as well as a bunch of other Brit regulars that you'll recognise if you ever watched a dodgy British rom com. I recommend it.

Aodan · Teiam Member

I was surprised at how much I liked Up. I took Sean to see it in the theater and I admit to being totally engrossed. (I also cried a bit during the "when they were young" montage, and when he lost her... I do that)

ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

The other day, I watched the first half an hour of 'Fly Me To The Moon', a cartoon about three flies that stow away on the Apollo 11 mission. Despite having Christopher Llloyd in it, the film was so bad that we turned it off. And deleted it!

Ugh.

Aodan · Teiam Member

Recently we watched Robin Hood 2010 (the Russell Crowe version) the other night. I'm all about men with swords and all that stuff, so I just enjoyed that and tried to overlook that the story was kind of.. not that interesting. I think they were going for the whole "how did Robin become an outlaw thing" but the story was a little too confusing and not interesting enough to care. Crowe looked good though.

On Saturday, maybe Sunday (weekends are a blur), we watched Prince of Persia: Sands of Time. If you've ever played Assassins Creed (or Prince of Persia lol) the whole thing is going to look very familiar. It was action packed, and Jake Gyllenhall looked yummy, but other than that, I folded laundry while I watched. It was a little too Disney'd.

JonnyStead · **"I'm Lois!"**

I watched Warlock starring Henry Fonda from about 1750 last night. It was an old western but it had some good (ish) moments...

Truckman · Old. But wise!

JonnyStead wrote:

I watched Warlock starring Henry Fonda from about 1750 last night. It was an old western but it had some good (ish) moments...

Now we're talkin'...Your timing is off by 209 years, but your taste in films is improving...Warlock was a great western that I haven't seen in many years...In addition to Fonda, The great Richard Widmark, Anthony Quinn and the ubiquitous Whit Bissell were featured also....I guess I'd better check the WalMart bargain box for this one... clap

...Ben

Aodan · Teiam Member

lol Ben

-- Edited by Aodan on Wednesday 20th of October 2010 11:47:23 AM

ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

I think I've seen Warlock. Does it have Dr McCoy in it? (I realise that he's in pretty much every Western in the 50s and 60s...).

Speaking of westerns, the other night I had the dubious pleasure of watching The Good The Bad The Weird with our very own Hengle. It was rubbish.

It's a Korean western about a guy who gets hold of a treasure map and then gets chased by all and sundry across the countryside. There were many overlong shootouts that just weren't very interesting - all the guns sounded like cap guns. there was some clever camerawork going on, but it wasn't enough to save it. We got about half way through before we turned it off in disgust.

Henglegert Rinkerdink · Sorry... I must have the wrong street.

ddvmor wrote:

It's a Korean western about a guy who gets hold of a treasure map and then gets chased by all and sundry across the countryside. There were many overlong shootouts that just weren't very interesting - all the guns sounded like cap guns. there was some clever camerawork going on, but it wasn't enough to save it. We got about half way through before we turned it off in disgust.

The sad thing is that makes it sound BETTER than it actually was.

I watched "Human Centipede {first sequence}" last night. That was ... um ... weird. I won't go into details incase anyone here is a bit sensitive. Look it up if you're REALLY interested.

It wasn't very good mind.

Aodan · Teiam Member

The only reason I would have ever watched The Human Centipede would be to see a picture of the actual thing. And the internets helped me there, so no need to watch the rest of it :)

ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

Hmm.

Yesterday I watched Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. While the film itself was drivel, it was very, very pretty in a bleak, bleached out sort of way. The budget must have been a million times that of the first couple!

Overall, it seemed to be a disjointed confused mess in which not a lot happened apart from that thing at the end which I won't mention in case there's anyone left on the planet that a)doesn't know and b) cares. The preceeding 90 minutes was very much a case of 'Look, everyone wants to do Harry in and by the way Hogwarts is a well zany place? Yay!'

The stand-out moment for me was a special effect. That's probably all you need to know.

Aodan · Teiam Member

I loved it, but I'm a big loser for the Harry Potter franchise hehe

I haven't watched anything at all interesting in a while.. I should remedy that.

ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

Aodan wrote:

I loved it, but I'm a big loser for the Harry Potter franchise hehe

It bugged me more than the others because it didn't actually add anything to the franchise. No-one had any character progression (a problem throughout the whole series) There was no actual plot progrssion apart from that thing right at the end that just comes out of the blue. In fact the 'useful' bits of the movie could have been shown in a little 5 minute segment, maybe at the end of the last one, saving us a couple of hours of nonsense.

At least stuff happens in the other movies. Even if the second one is a clone of the first one (only greener).

Aodan · Teiam Member

It was pretty to look at. The next one come out this moooooonnnnnttthhhhhhhh

ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

It was pretty.

ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

Last night I was inspired to watch Goldeneye. It's my favourite Bond film, if only for the bit 34 seconds into this clip:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVLq-nlic_I[/youtube]

SMASH! Best car chase ever. Yeah, Ben... Even better than THAT one!

My second favourite Bond movie is Goldfinger. Sean Connery is an awesome Bond, even if he does basically spend the whole film c*cking everything up!

Everybody: name your favourite Bond movie!

-- Edited by ddvmor on Sunday 7th of November 2010 03:47:58 PM

Truckman · Old. But wise!

To say the least, that's an innovative chase scene...It's reminiscent of the real life chase here:...

Art often imitates life:...

And if you're a true fan of tank chases, check out "Tank" from 1984 with James Garner:...

II'll admit to never having seen "Goldeneye" or any other Bond flick that did not star Sean Connery with the exception of one or two Roger Moore versions, which were yawners, and the George Lazenby classic, "On Her Majesty's Secret Service"...

...Ben

JonnyStead · **"I'm Lois!"**

Yesterday I saw Jackass 3D with Susan.

It did exactly what it said on the tin and yes there were times where I cried with laughter. It had some great moments -- but you have to be 'in to it' for it to work for you -

Truckman · Old. But wise!

JonnyStead wrote:

Yesterday I saw Jackass 3D with Susan.

That could be interpreted in more than one way...You might consider changing the wording before she sees it... batting

...Ben