Re: What was the last movie you watched?
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Squid posted a picture on his twitter.
Also Squid you simply must post a picture of your horse costume.
This is quite off-topic, but I shall comply:
It looks like it was produced by Accoutrements.
topitmunkeydog wrote:Also Squid you simply must post a picture of your horse costume.
This is quite off-topic, but I shall comply:
INB4 "Hurr Durr get back on tpoic etc"
Those horses need to be wearing human heads.
WOW that is just beautiful
for halloween i rewatched
Paranorman
totally love this movie. i love it so much. animation's great, storyline's fantastic. totally love the message about tolerance & acceptance. it's like def one of my fav movies for sure. looove everything about the movie like it's like.... the perfect movie in my opinion. the jokes are clever, the visuals are beautiful to look at.. storyline is gripping.. .... very nice. love it
&
Ghostbusters
so good. bill murray is the only thing i live for. bill murray is my everything
Max, most people including me view Ponyo as inferior to Ghibli's other work so don't be reluctant to say you didn't like it, I don't think you'll offend anyone. Of course if you did like it that's cool too.
It is definitely the worst Ghibli film I've seen thus far - but its not awful. It does have some good stuff in it. I just thought Ponyo herself was terrifying, the mother was dangerous, and the way it blends the real world with the fantasy world is incredibly jarring. In Howls Moving Castle we can tell from the start this is a fantasy world, and in Spirited Away there is a clear divide between the real world and the spirit world. With Ponyo, its the real world - but no-one seems shocked when human-goldfish and giant-fish-storms show up.
That didn't necessarily ruin the experience for me, but it stopped me from really enjoying it. Again, I liked how the antagonist just wanted Ponyo back to protect her, and when the balance of the ocean becomes distorted you can really tell that a certain substance has collided with the ceiling fan. I don't think I'll ever regard it as a bad film - but its just to...weird for me to get into. And its not weird as in The Wall or Brazil or Where the Wild Things Are or anything Charile Kaufman has written - thats a very controlled and deliberate kind of weird. Ponyo feels 'accidentally' weird, like if an insane person tried to be a childrens entertainer. He thinks he's being whimiscal and fun, which in a bizzare way is cute, but he can't see that all the children are crying.
I completely agree. Well kind of. THe reason I didn't like the film was that it felt really disneyfied, but as if Disney tried to imitate the quirky elements of past films.
Ender's Game
I came into the film with low expectations and it was better than I expected. I had problems with it, but it wasn't as bad as several other book adaptations I've seen. It could have been better and there were some gripes I had with it, but it could have been worse and there were some things the movie manage to nail.
6/10?
X-Men, X2, X-Men: The Last Stand, and X-Men Origins: Wolverine
I watched all of these within a week, all for the first time. I haven't read any of the X-Men or Wolverine comics so I really don't know much about Wolverine, though I am familiar with his character.
I thought this was a pretty epic trilogy; great acting, great character development for the most part, and I thought the story worked very well. Some things annoyed me, like how fake Wolverine's claws looked every so often, mystique's neutral form (uhh...I would have preferred she at least appeared to have some clothes on), uuuuuuuh DEADPOOL, and how easy it was to see some things coming. It's just like "wow...I called this happening like 20 minutes ago and I was exactly right". Though a lot of the story twists were fairly unexpected and totally awesome, in my opinion.
Because I watched all of these so close together I can't really give each one an accurate rating by itself, they all kind of ran together (and I think that worked perfectly if they do that)
So I'd say:
X-Men Trilogy: 8.5/10
X-Men Origins: Wolverine 8/10
I'd say that's a solid watch 'em all.
'nuff said
Ender's Game
I came into the film with low expectations and it was better than I expected. I had problems with it, but it wasn't as bad as several other book adaptations I've seen. It could have been better and there were some gripes I had with it, but it could have been worse and there were some things the movie manage to nail.
6/10?
Yeah! Just watched it yesterday! Very close to the book, except the didn't cover the subplot involving Ender's siblings' political ambitions. Orson Scott Card had a hand in the development of the plot, which kept it pretty faithful. I loved it! I was kind enough not to tell the surprise ending to my wife beforehand. They even stuck a surprise in for those who read the book.
JonnDthunDer, what about First Class? Is that an official X-Men film?
Mickey, I just haven't seen it yet. I will as soon as I can get it, they just happened to have the X-Men trilogy and X-Men Origins: Wolverine at a place where we trade in our old movies and my mom finally decided to let me watch them.
I'll watch First Class and The Wolverine as soon as I can, I'll also see Days of Future Past when it's out. So yeah, it's an official X-Men film, I just think that the other three are a trilogy and First Class is its own thing...
Oh, yeah! First Class is like my favorite X-Men Film. I wish they'd focus on other characters. I can't believe there's going to be yet another Wolverine movie. I know he's popular and from the '80s and all but to me he's like the most unoriginal character in the series. Shine the spotlight on some others... even one of the villains.
I can't believe there's going to be yet another Wolverine movie.
I know, I mean he's cool and everything but there really needn't be so many movies about him!
Thor: The Dark World
Okay, well I thought it was amazing!
Not that there was anything wrong with the first Thor, for whatever reason something about it felt a bit off to me. That's not at all the case with Thor: The Dark World.
As with X-Men, I'm unfamiliar with the comics when it comes to Thor (actually the only comics that I would consider myself learned in would have to be The Amazing Spider-man) so things that may bug die-hard comic fans usually won't be that big of a deal to me.
I thought Thor: The Dark World was great!
The story was very good and the effects and acting were brilliant. There were some especially clever one liners and great dialog that I really enjoyed. There's quite a few references to New York and the Avengers and Erik Selvig plays a fairly large role in this.
The score by Brian Tyler was superb, where has he come from all of a sudden? I was entirely unfamiliar with his work and then he did these amazing musical scores for Iron Man 3, Now You See Me, and Thor: The Dark World.
Now for the really good stuff...the spoilers! (seriously though, I mean it, don't read this part if you haven't seen the movie, HAVE WILLPOWER!)
First off, Captain America was like the best thing in the entire movie 
Loki...oh Loki, you're so tricky. I'll admit it, I thought Loki would have stayed dead. But Loki's so tricky, you never can know...God of mischief, ya know.
The after credit scenes are, in case you missed them:
The first one has The Collector (who's to be in the GotG film in 2015) getting The Aether from from Sif and Volstag because they didn't want two things that powerful in the same place. Then they leave and The Collector says "One down...five to go..."
The second after credits scene has Jane in the flat with Erik, Darcy, and Ian. Jane's unhappy because Thor is gone again but then he travels there in in the rainbow thingy and stuff, they hug and kiss and that's it. Then you briefly see a Frost Giant chasing after birds (you know why he's there if you actually saw the movie)
Then it says:
Thor will return
So yeah, I loved it!
9/10 (just because I have yet to see a movie that's a perfect 10, I hesitate to give that score.
EDIT 1: Oh yeah, and Loki's like my favorite and the best character ever.
EDIT 2: Also, it's pretty cool seeing Christopher Eccleston in a role like Malekith, he was very good. Speaking of Doctor Who cast-turned-Superhero cast, did you hear that Karen Gillian is set to play one of the main villains in Guardians of the Galaxy?
Last edited by JonnDthunDer (November 9, 2013 (12:59am))
I also saw Thor 2, and I also thought it was epic.
Ghostbusters
Literally just watch it last night, and it was brilliant. So funny and, uh, fun to watch. It was also a little different to how I thought it would be (I wasn't expect all that Lovecraftian Gozer/Zuul stuff), but I really, really enjoyed it.
Beastly
I am so disappointed in Neil Patrick Harris for lowering himself to this level. Thankfully, this god-awful abomination hasn't ruined the Disney Beauty and the Beast, which is probably this film's only positive. I honestly felt like I needed a shower after watching this.
HoldingOurOwn wrote:I can't believe there's going to be yet another Wolverine movie.
I know, I mean he's cool and everything but there really needn't be so many movies about him!
There are so many superhero movies reiterated about the same characters but then there are these characters that haven't even gotten movies yet! (Wonder Woman, Aquaman)
so yesterday Equestria Girls was added to netflix and I was very excited about it so I just watched the whole thing and I
Equestria Girls
to put it simply I loved this!! Possibly more than the tv show (i'm not sure, as I haven't watched any of it recently due to being angry at the brony fandom.) But honestly this was superb. I'm not sure what the complainers were expecting, as the movie (and the show for that matter) are after all intended for girls. And they have to keep that in mind because for the most part that's what the film is. There are moments of campy self-parody in there thrown in there for the most ironic of the bronies ("a talking dog is the weirdest part of all this?") but most of it was like High School Musical. And that's why I think I liked it so much.
Wrong
I've provided a link to the trailer because I doubt very many of you have heard of this film but I think you guys would like it. It is this weird arthouse film they were advertising at south by southwest back in march and I didn't get the oppurtunity to see it until now. But it is really hilarious. It doesn't really make sense until the end of the film but even though it seems like a whole bumch of nonsequiturs it holds together surprisingly well. And while this may be the least believable film I've seen in a while, the characters and their interactions are some of the most sincere (same with Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: obviously no effort was made to make the film realistic but the way the characters were written is super dynamic)
Dr. Strangelove
It may sound odd, but the age of this film is what made it enjoyable for me. The use of dark comedy in an area of politics which at that time was touchy, made it especially funny.
Secondly, Peter Sellers. The man must be a magician of some sort. I had no idea he played three separate parts until I looked up the credits at the end of the film. Needless to say I was amazed.
Overall, it was very enjoyable yet funny in a way that only nuclear war, ex-Nazi scientists, vodka conspiracies, and paranoid army generals can be.
Also, it's great to be back.
-Eddie
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