Amph What was the last movie you saw?

Its considered to be Spielberg's only genuine flop.

 

Triage
Drama. Colin Farrel and his friend are professional photographers in Iraqi Kurdistan in 1988. Colin's buddy wants to get back home in time for his girlfriend's child delivery which is due in two weeks. Colin's character wants to stay, so they separate. When Colin gets back home, he finds his friend never returned. From here on, it's primarily a story about guilt, but it's not too depressing and worth watching. Especially as the film doesn't drag on. It's only about 90 minutes long. Colin gives a nice understated performance. The narrative style is thankfully very bare bones; no melodramatic slow-motion shots with muffled sound and sweeping strings here. There's one particular scene in the film that has a bit too exposition-heavy dialogue and, while the information was necessary, it makes the conversation sound artificial. I think you'll recognise it when you see it. Otherwise, I have no complaints.

4 out of 5.

 

Finally got to see the Dredd gritty reboot. Sometimes you need uberviolence in your life. The low budget cg didn't bug me too much. This movie needs a sequel.

 

The cinematography was definitely the best thing about it.

 

'The Da Vinci Code'

A brilliant, complex and pretty intelligent thriller from Ron Howard based on the book by Dan Brown, and followed up with 'Angels & Demons' and hopefully 'The Lost Symbol'.

Tom Hanks is as watchable as ever with great support from Audrey Tautou, Alfred Molina, Sir Ian McKellen, Jurgen Prochnow and Paul Bettany. It's easy to lose track of the cryptic clues and leads, but stick without for a great thriller with lots of twists and turns.

 

Yeah. Awesome movie. Have you seen The Raid: Redemption? Kinda the same concept. Also an awesome movie.

 

$50 million movie made $32 million worldwide, returning about $16 million to studios. But it might have made another $25-30 million in video sales/rentals. Overall, probably still did not break even. Hopefully, no sequel. Ever.

 

Jabbadabbado, you make me wish there was a Dislike option.

 

I'll have to check out The Raid.

More like jabbawocky, amirite? Or slimyjabba.

 

How is it that the incredibly talented Karl Urban became the go-to guy for low budget sci fi/horror/fantasy flops? Star Trek is one of the only movies he's made since LOTR that has come even close to turning a profit.

 

Because he can growl "I am the law"

 

Well.....Curiosity got the better of me...

And last night I watched Battleship.

And. Oh. My. God. Battleship is without a doubt the second-worst alien invasion movie ever. (Shyamalan's Signs beats it by a few points though, by the simple virtue that their aliens were water-soluble.)

1. Rihanna is not Vasquez. She never will be Vasquez. You can't convince me that the producers weren't thinking about Vasquez when they came up with the character.

2. All this crap was started by a microwave chicken burrito. That's it. A. Microwave. Chicken. Burrito.

3. Inept Alien Invasion....okay so....you build ships that can travel across galaxies....yet your windows can be shot out by two guys with 50 cal rifles?
Seriously? All of the rocks and particles and debris in space......and your windows can get shot out? Must have had Union labor building the ships....

4. IAI 2: Okay....and your ships can't really function in water....so you land in water....and KEEP FIGHTING in water......despite the fact that you can't really travel across an ocean and just kind of leapfrog-crash from place to place.

5. IAI 3: These aliens are not the Predator. In Predator, it made sense for the Predator to not shoot an unarmed target ("No sport!" - Arnold)
But these ignorant ***holes....will climb aboard a ship that was just shooting on them....and deem all the humans onboard (you know....FIGHTERS) to be not a threat and leave them alone. Hell if you want to kill these guys all you need to do is stand still, let them walk past you, and then shoot them in the back.

6. And the turd that had me changing the channel....Sucking up to the Greatest Generation via plot device. Don't get me wrong.....I don't hate our WWII vets at all.

However the fact remains that when the technologically-advanced aliens are beaten by a group of Oct- and Nonagenarians, on board a floating museum (which by all means WOULD TAKE AT LEAST SEVEN MONTHS TO BE FULLY BATTLE-READY AGAIN).....yeah you're just kissing ass right there.



At that point I changed the channel to IFC to watch Emilio Estevez fight the Green Goblin.

 

Peter Jackson's King Kong

Ehh not a bad movie, little long though

 

Only thing I remember about Kong was that it was way too long and the killing of the T-rex made me grimace and wonder if it was really necessary.

 

I like what Peter Jackson tried with the movie, but it was the first evidence that Jackson is to self indulgent. Kill a good hour of the movie, and you have a great movie. Jackson is big on character developement. Which is good, but unfortunatly this is a film where everyone has come to see the Monster, not the characters that will be canon fodder. There was some miscasting issues as well. Plus the story of King Kong just isn't EPIC style movie material.

The original is much better, and I like the portrayal of Kong as more of a monster instead of a minunderstood monster. I bought the original on Blu Ray and still love it. Especially the parts where he reeks havoc in NY. Like dropping the chick out the window and bashing the train with people falling out the other side.

Anyway, just watched "THE KILLER JOE." Pretty Awesome film. The last 30 minutes are just gold.

 

Indeed. The T-Rex fight sequence (really, why was it that determined?) and his bullet time typewriter scene were two sure signs of how stupid that movie would prove to be .

 

I still cringe when I think of how the cook died in that movie
Sure hope I don't die that way

 

to be fair King Kong kills the T-Rex the same way in the original. Still, as said, fighting 2(or 3 can't remember) was a little self indulgent. Jackson didn't have to up the stakes that much just to make hte film different.

The Kong and Rex fight was better in the original anyway.

 

The thing is, the fight was about essentially nothing, and went on for a good 37 minutes. What possible justification could there be? Even if it was fighting to undo the whole extinction of the dinosaurs, the T-Rex wouldn't have struggled so hard.

 

That was probably favourite scene out of the whole movie was Kong vs the T-Rex

 

Finally saw Argo last night with friends. They may have overbaked the look and feel of the end of the Carter era. Although I love the phones. Those old Ma Bell phones. And even the CIA guys look comparatively like hippies. My son read the book, so luckily he was on hand to point out every moment the film deviated from it, which apparently was quite a bit. From my son: the movie vastly overstated the drama of the escape, but ignored all the tension of the six moving around Tehran after they were forced to leave the Canadian embassy as well as some of the cool technical spy stuff about getting the Canadian passports into the country, etc. Probably all good choices for a fun movie. Which this definitely was. I wouldn't have given it a Best Picture Oscar, but Affleck certainly deserves to be back on top of the A list.

 

I saw Oz the Great and Powerful on Sunday. It was good,but I found that Theodora's storyline was stupid.She eats an apple and becomes green and evil.I just found it stupid. No offense to the actress or anything, but she wasn't right for the part.I wanted to laugh at the parts where she was being "evil" because it seemed fake. I did like James Franco though.

 

I hate you so much right now!

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