You'd rather I went with Barry Aquaman? He's an ichthyologist.Quote:
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You'd rather I went with Barry Aquaman? He's an ichthyologist.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zip Goshboots
Hot Fuzz was funny. Anytime I can see an old woman get dropkicked in the face, I know it was money well spent. Even if I got my ex-girlfriend to pay for the movie, the popcorn, and the pop. I'm such an ass.
Stranger Than Fiction: 8, maybe 9. A chick flick thats not a chick flick. I even got a tad emotional over it. Will Ferrel broke his mold much like Jim Carey did with some of his more recent movies, and did a damn good job of it. The premise is a lil out of whack, but you just have to roll with it. Final word, bought.
9 1/2 weeks: very good movie, excellent for nursing a hangover. think im about to go through rourke's back catalog. pope of greenwich village is next.
Artificial Intelligence
First time I seen it, but heard quite some negative reviews about it. I don't quite get that after watching it. At the very least, the premise is better than that of I, Robot. Imagine, human life carrying on when the human race became extinct.
That kid is a tear inducing agent.
The reason it was critisized is that it was Stanley Kubricks project but he died while they were making it. Spielberg took over and tried to make it 'too ET like'. The talking bear wasnt in the movie until Kubrick died. He wanted to make it a dark movie looking into the future, but Spielberg 'kiddied' it up too much, to appeal to a wider audience.Quote:
Originally Posted by CindyKate
With that said, I dont think it is a bad movie, but that is where most of the hate comes from.
Yeah, what a weird choice to have Spielberg take over the project. He's seriously the exact opposite of Kubrick. In every way.
Kubrick - stark, subtle, fearless. Stayed at the top of his game until right before the end. Watching one of his movies is like having your ass beat by a 25-year-old Muhammad Ali.
Spielberg - weasely, goofy, sentimental. Started to suck right around the time of Jaws and has sucked worse with every cloying, tear-jerking kiddie movie since. Watching one of his movies is like having $10 stolen from you by a precocious child.
Yeah but he made you enjoy your beating and come back for more.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mich & Tele
I have to be in a certain mood to watch and appreciate most Kubrick films, but I will gush at his musical sensibilities. I could listen to most Kubrick soundtracks all day long.
On a completely unrelated note, Kill Zone is one of the better pieces of Hong Kong action cinema I've seen in awhile. You want some guns and chopsocky and a plot that is vaguely sensible and doesn't have a happy-joy ending? This is a flick for you. Sammo Hung rocks as a bad guy. It's not great, but it's a lot better than most.
Most of Donnie Yen's fighting is solid.
I know i been missed out on this but I just saw Ocean's 11 for my FIRST time. Great movie and I loved all the characters. The actors played a good job in their roles in the movie. I heard oceans 12 is shit though. Am going to see that right now
oceans 12 isnt that good. Probably because tehre isnt enough of ocean's 11. It was focused alot on Pitt's love life and the nightfox motherfucker. I wanted to see more action from ocean's 11. I'm going to be expecting big things from 13.
has anyone seen 28 weeks later, I am really looking foward to that one
For classic '80s kickass movies, see Action Jackson. Lines like:
Action's boss: You ripped his arm off!
Action Jackson: He HAD A SPARE.
Babes like Vanity and Sharon Stone at the peak of their babeness.
Action scenes in DETROIT!
OH YEAH...
Spiderman 3 was bleh.
Too long, too many villains at once, Sandman was lame (but it was nice to see Lowell again!).
Putting on that black suit should have done more than turned Parker into a Goth kid.
At first I thought his blonde classmate was kinda hot, but when my wife informed me that she was Ron Howard's daughter, I couldn't stop thinking about Ron Howard when I saw her. Not a good thing.
Also, the movie could have totally done without that kid from "That 70's show". Horrible acting from him. Nice frosted tips, though.
Okay, I suddenly just got more interested in "Transformers".
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I am not a fan of the show at all (I think it's pretty retarded) but this movie was pretty funny. The beginning sequence was the best part by far, but at least there were a good number of funny parts. I would love to see this movie in an altered state.Quote:
Originally Posted by MoTown
Glenn: I have to disagree with you; Topher Grace was one of the best things about Spider-Man 3. I enjoyed his acting.
Last Hurrah for Chivalry is a John Woo film from the late '70s that's well worth watching if you like ancient Hong Kong martial arts swordplay. It boasts a threadbare (but reasonably coherent) plot involving building a team to kick some badguy ass. There's nothing that gets in the way of the action. It's well-shot, amusingly-dubbed, and pleasant if you're wanting some old-school chopsocky.
Any comments on Knocked Up? Thinking about seeing that one.
I'm intending to see that one. That guy's movies are always fantastic.
Saw it on Saturday with my wife and my dad. I really liked it. A good balance of male and female humor. Seth Rogen and his four retarded friends are hilarious, and so is Paul Rudd.Quote:
Originally Posted by WTFchris
One of the things I liked about the movie was the realistic feeling of friendship you get from the guys who share the house together. There was the running snap of "you know what you look like? You look like..." that I thought only my friends and I did. "You look like Bill Gates and John Goodman had a man-baby together, and it had Down Syndrome."
I think I found it funnier than my wife. We saw it yesterday and I think it's one of those movies like Old School that is better watched with buddies than chicks. It wasn't stellar (could have waited for it on DVD), but still funny.
Isn't your wife funny? I'm going to tell her you said that.***Quote:
Originally Posted by WTFchris
***Complete sarcasm alert.
Disclaimer: I do not know Chris's wife, nor do I know anybody that knows her.
That was a funny post until you started worrying about it.
I hate you.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zip Goshboots
J/K, nice play.
BTW, my wife is funny and has a good sense of humor. She likes a lot of silly movies i like (Office Space, etc), but she wasn't big on this one.
V for Vendetta: I initially had no interest in seeing this but it was on HBO and it was awesome. For any 9/11 consipiracy theorists it would be quite interesting for them.
I had to start worrying about it. Wives and mothers are off limits.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fingerbang
But kids, well, fuck 'em.
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Originally Posted by Zip Goshboots
Nice.
Some of you guys are awesome at this. (some not so much) Check out the stickied thread in OT about this show my friend is casting for. Video-blog movie reviews from the comfort of your own room. I can't imagine jobs being much cooler or easier than that. Zip, Fool, and Mxy; you guys have to do it.
Check out Wilderness Survival For Girls. It's a low-key character piece, the story of three attractive teenage girls up at their parents cabin when an intruder comes into the picture. It's sort of an anti-"scream queen" coming of age movie, and could easily be a stage play. The teenage girls are stupid in the way you'd expect teenage girls to be stupid, not "Hollywood stupid". The intruder is menacing but doesn't wear a hockey mask and live hundreds of years. The girls are cute and hot in the way that real girls are, and two take off their tops. The look and sound of the movie is really nice for a $90k budget. It's not a perfect movie, but it definitely got 4 out of 5 stars from me.
can't wait for this movie, Superbad.
Oceans 13 anyone? I liked it and was alot better than 12 but not better than 11.
Don't really want to spoil anything so I'll just keep quiet..
It's now time for another episode of:
Zip Goshboots At the Movies(I haven't seen).
Evan Almighty. Ohh kay. Alrighty.
Not gonna see this one, and there are several reasons why.
First, I'm sick and tired of "Life Lessons From Morgan Freeman". Whether it's Shawshank, and him telling us that getting butt raped by four or five guys is how you spend your days in prison (until you dig a four mile tunnel through concrete with a Q-tip and escape), or telling us that not everyone's prayers can be answered (as if I didn't know that already, I mean, I've still never had that threesome with Jennifer Anniston and Beyonce), enough IS enough. Morgan, who do you think you are? God?.
Steve Carrell. I know this will be blasphemy to the many of the tens of people who hang on my wisdom, but Carrell is about as stiff as a fourteen year old boy who's banging the English teachers prick. He was great in Miss Sunshine, because he played a stilted gay guy who was embarrassed to be himself. Fine. Dustin Hoffman won an Oscar playing a retard.
Carell is not a good actor; He's no Jim Carrey, hell, he's not even as good as Paul Ruud, who carried forty year old virgin on his back.
The story. Unless you completely spoof this doozy of a bedtime story, and I mean lampoon it so bad that you and everyone who sees it will burn in hell, what the fuck you gonna do? Let me guess: Off beat, but pretty much normal boring guy hears "God" talking to him, thinks he's going crazy, then realizes he's not crazy, God is (build a big boat, eh?), builds it, then it looks like he made a mistake, but KABOOM! Morgan Freeman rides a wave in wearing his white suit, and there's rain, and elephant shit everywhere, and in the end one big preachy sappy, "Yes, Virginia, there IS a God" ending. I don't expect a "surprise ending" either, because the last surprise ending I saw was when Judy Garland found out that she just bumped her head and had a really wierd dream.
Fuck this piece of shit. I'd rather see Sin City. Then I'd know I'm watching something realistic.
There are many comic types. There's the Straight man, the Loudmouth, the Ass, the Basket Case, the Rubberface...etc. Steve Carell's comic type is the "No-One's-Home." It refers to a guy who's a blank slate, a guy who might say and do seemingly normal and rational things but you can tell he doesn't understand them. For a comic actor, it's really hard to play against your type.
I think I'd call Steve Carrells type the "Can you fucking beLIEVE I'm making all this money?" type.
Agree with you %100. But the Office is one of my favorite TV shows. I think Jim and Dwight make that show though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zip Goshboots
Son of a B word, I keep forgetting to watch that show. I'd like to see it--is it worth buying the DVD sets?
Or should I just wait till it turns up on channel 932 at 11 PM?
I watched a couple re-runs last night, but they weren't in order. It would be hard to watch it that way since they are not totally independant episodes like Sienfeld is. It's not like 24, where you'd have to watch them in order, but you'd still miss out on a lot of plot watching them out of order. you'd miss inside jokes a lot. I think it would be worth renting/buying the series. I've seen a few of them multiple times and still laughed.
I'm leery of Evan Almighty because it's being marketed specifically to the church-going types. Steve Carell does make me laugh, though, and he stole plenty of scenes in the Ron Burgundy movie(s). God should've been recast -- Ron Jeremy would be ideal if he weren't coaching the Tragic.