Movies wot I saw 2011

Aodan · Teiam Member

Movies wot I saw 2011

Truckman · Old. But wise!

I still watch movies, but I'm also producing parodies now...For those interested, they're located here... wink

...Ben

ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

I keep meaning to check this out, but haven't had a chance yet! I will though, I promise!

Truckman · Old. But wise!

ddvmor wrote:

I keep meaning to check this out, but haven't had a chance yet! I will though, I promise!

No hurry, it's just my poor attempt at video production...It's not in the same league as "Badman"...

...Ben

ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

On a whim, I bought the Back to the Future trilogy on Blu-Ray this weekend. Catfish and I watched the first two on consecutive nights and we plan to watch the third one tonight.

The original is, quite frankly, a perfect movie. Absolutely everything about it is spot on! There is nothing bad about this movie. The cast is awesome, the story and dialogue are awesome and the cinematography is awesome. It simply could not be any better!

The second one is also a great movie, although not quite in the same league. Whereas the first one is a simple story about a guy who goes back in time and meets his parents, this one sets out to be deliberately convoluted and jumps around quite a lot! The ending is bloody genius, though!

I can't for the life of me remember how Marty manages to get to the Old West in the next one. I guess I'll find out tonight!

Along with Star Wars and Indy, this is one of the movies that pretty much defined my early movie experiences.

Jaws and Star Wars were probably the first big summer blockbuster movies. How many since then were actually good enough to be worth watching 20 or more years later? BTTF and Indy, obviously. What else is there?

Aodan · Teiam Member

One Crazy Summer, Better off Dead, Say Anything, a bunch of the John Hughes films, Back to the Future, Ferris Bueller... these are all movies I think of fondly from my childhood and will watch whenever they come on.

The other night we watched The Book of Eli (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1037705/). It was interesting, and I enjoyed the cinematography, but it left some things unexplained and some of it was a little flat. It wasn't a bad film though. Plenty of action to balance out the "we're walking, we're walking" parts, and it brought up a lot of interesting things to think about and that's what a good movie should do.

ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

I have that sitting on my PVR waiting to be watched. I have a lot of stuff sitting on my PVR waiting to be watched. it took me a year to get get round to watching Gran Torino.

Aodan · Teiam Member

Oh yeah, I caught this one the other day as well on Netflix onDemand... it's... interesting.

Netherbeast, Incorporated
n this satire of corporate America, it's business as usual at the vampire-owned and -operated Netherbeast Inc. -- one of the world's largest phone makers -- until the boss contracts vampire Alzheimer's and starts hiring humans. Bodies soon begin to pile up in this office comedy based on the award-winning short The Netherbeast of Berm-Tech Industries, Inc. Darrell Hammond, Judd Nelson, Dave Foley, Jason Mewes and Robert Wagner co-star.

The dude that played Steve on Blue's Clues is in it.

Aodan · Teiam Member

I posted this on Facebook, but here it is for those not reading.

Last night I watched "Let Me In". It was the Americanized (gag) version of the absolutely brilliant Swedish film "Let The Right One In" based on the spectacular book of the same name. Had I not already read the book, and seen the original film, I might have enjoyed this incarnation a little more than I did. Granted, I started watching already not expecting it to be great, and unfortunately found myself comparing it to the book/original film throughout. It wasn't bad. For a remake, it stayed pretty true to the source material (although, it then makes you wonder why they bothered to make another in the first place..oh right.. $$). They did weird things like change the name of the main characters.. Eli became Abby and Oskar became Owen, but they kept other secondary characters named the same, like Virginia. It was an odd mix up. They eliminated a major plot point, yet they kept the dialogue that alluded to it. The original film was subtle, touching, and while a "vampire" movie, the overarching theme was one of the budding friendship/love between the two main characters. The remake tries, but doesn't quite have the same sort of magic. They use cheap looking CGI that's more of a distraction than a help, and the relationship didn't blossom quite as naturally as it did in the original film.

If you haven't seen the Swedish version, I recommend it. I recommend the book even more (naturally). If you hate subtitles, and reading in general, this isn't a bad film, it's just not a great one.

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

Sort of confirms what I suspected then. Shame, the original was a masterpiece ... or as near as damn.

Guess any successful film with subtitles is open for remake though (Girl with the Dragon Tatoo anyone?) because of most English speakers reluctance to read subtitles.

Might watch the original again this week though ... just because.

On a side note, I saw "The Kings Speech" last night. It was ... alright. Beautifully shot and acted, bit plot light and pointless. Last 5 minutes was quite poignant though

ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

Did it have boobs in it?

ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

Zombieland was quite good. It had Bill Murray in it, which contrary to popular belief, does not automatically make a movie aawesome. But it was still quite good.

JonnyStead · **"I'm Lois!"**

ddvmor wrote:
How many since then were actually good enough to be worth watching 20 or more years later? BTTF and Indy, obviously. What else is there?

I have evidence to say that Superman 1 & 2 both still tick the boxes with the kids of today and are also 30 years old. IMO a good movie is a good movie no matter the age. My 'kids' loved BTTF 1,2,3 - Croc Dundee 1&2, all the Rocky's (the oldest being 35 years old now!) and Ferris Bueller - the 70's / 80's was in some ways a golden age.

Aodan · Teiam Member

We watched The Tourist last night (well ok, Kevin was watching, and I was in the room and paid attention to some parts). It was a movie with very little plot or substance who tried to wrap it up with an M. Night Shamalamadingdong twist ending that left you feeling less "WOW!" and more "heh. ok". It had Johnny Depp in it though so that gave it some points.

sha76jam · Cpt Acorn Short of An Oaktree

Watched Unknown at the weekend. The premis being that you were never quite sure what was going on. Problem was that it never drew me in enough to care.

ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

Next Avengers. Yeah, that's right, I watch cartoons. I make no apologies- although I didn't really plan to watch this one, it was just there when I turned the telly on.

Well, I guess if you ever want to know who'd win in a fight between the Hulk and Ultron (or even want to know who Ultron is...), this is the movie for you. Other then that I can't really recommend it.

Oh yeah, and the theme tune rips off Stargate so badly that I found myself humming it for the rest of the day.

JonnyStead · **"I'm Lois!"**

I watched Demolition Man at the weekend. I'm a Stallone fan, and I'm glad - but this film was ropey. Badly made - bad story, terrible acting - even Nigel Hawthorn couldnt save it!

Truckman · Old. But wise!

I like watching "Demolition Man" for what it is, just pure escapism (pun intended)...And Sandra Bullock is always hot......Ben

ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

I've never failed to enjoy Demolition Man. The plot doesn't stack up or anything, but it's lots of fun and I like the swear box. I don't think the principal cast do too badly with what they have to work with.

Why doesn't Sandra Bullock make fun films any more? And what happened to her nose?

ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

Thor was good.

Aodan · Teiam Member

Thor was delicious.

Oh you meant the movie... yeah it was good.

ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

I watched Watchmen again yesterday. I love that movie.

I have every intention of watching all of the pirate/superhero/cowboy/aliens movies this summer. Woohoo!

JonnyStead · **"I'm Lois!"**

I watched The Hangover the other night. It was 'OK' - but didnt blow my mind. Had a couple of good moments but some of it was a bit weak.

I too would like to see lots of films this summer - mostly the stuff the JDK has summarised.

Aodan · Teiam Member

Resident Evil: Afterlife - this movie is so awful (we're in the middle of it now, and I'm doing my best not to pay attention because it's such a load of garbage) that even Milla's smokin hotness cannot save it.

ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

I only watched the first one. It was okay, but not good enough to make me want to watch any sequels!

Speaking of sequels, I found myself watching Iron Man 2 the other day. It was better then I remember it, although it felt distinctly like an 'episode'.

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

Little catch up here cos I dun saw 3 in 3 days ... one on BluRay, if the counts ... in order, Sunday through Tuesday

X-Men : First Class -- utter toss, overblown self important crap. Plot was great in concept but badly executed. The best thing in it was Kevin Bacon, really hammed it up ... clearly saw the film for what it was and ran with it. Be good if you knocked 45 minutes out or filled that time with plot and not mindless meandering.

True Grit (Coen Brothers version) -- loved it. As usual with the Coen's it was beautifully shot with an excellent cast and great, great writing. Seemless transistion between their interpretation into the word-for-word shot-for-shot copy of the John Wayne version then back into theirs again. Won't be to everyone's taste but I absolutely loved it.

Transformers : Dark of the Moon -- best of the 3 IMHO and worth watching in 3D. My initial thoughts of Michael Bay and 3D were "well, everything will be flying out of the screen in a vom fest" but he was remarkably restrained, absolutely none of that really. Kind of took the screen as the opening of a window and worked from there back. Silly, but very dark plot ... lots of explosions ... some good comedy (for a change) ... and some very surprising turns making you wonder how 4 will be made ... if it is. Very cool for a night out.

So ... to summise:

Shite ... brilliant ... awesome

True Grit doubtless the best of the three by a country mile quality wise but for a night out, can't beat the robots!

sha76jam · Cpt Acorn Short of An Oaktree

I watched Pirates 4 & it was fab. The lovely Mr D doing plenty of swashbuckling & a delightful absence of the sappy types who featured in the previous three.

Truckman · Old. But wise!

I'm in the middle of a 16-film Roy Rogers marathon from 1938 to 1948...I'll get back to you later......Ben

Aodan · Teiam Member

JDK - there are currently 5 RE movies out, one or two of them might be animated.. but really.. do we need that many? The first one was ok, the rest were just piles of garbage... the last one especially.

I haven't seen many movies lately, but we got the Green Hornet from netflix the other day. It was meh with a small sprinkle of haha. I am pretty over Seth Rogan. I got Stand By Me in the mail today so I'm going to watch it later. I haven't seen that movie in at least 10 years.

Aodan · Teiam Member

Watched Sucker Punch last night. It probably would have been more impressive on a huge screen, but it wasn't terrible on my television. It's very "Zach Snyder" so if you don't like his style of movies, it's probably not for you, but I liked it. The soundtrack was good - interesting remakes of songs I like the originals of - and the action sequences were fun to watch. The story line was interesting, if a little confusing, but once you got into the swing of it, it didn't really matter too much. It's a fun movie.