Film, general

[silverDistortioN]

the thing i liked least about the matrix was that they didn't explore the whole moral dilemma of... you know... killing innocent people.

but i guess that would have made it less entertaining.

[silverDistortioN]

I finally... uh... I finally saw Saw. The other day.

It sucked.

I don't understand why it was so popular a few years back. And I don't understand how Saw 2 could be "not as good as the first one."

Geez, it sucked.

[Charon]

Saw was awesome O_O What didn't you like about it?

[Marona]

saw is kinda...terrifying :X

[silverDistortioN]

It has the overall feel of a low-budget horror film on the SciFi channel. That is, it's only horror in the strictest sense. It's not scary.

It has a serial killer and brutal murder. Therefore: horror.

I'll give it points for developing its characters to a certain extent, but I take them back for being totally unlikable. The Doctor is so over-the-top good that the whole film gets completely incredible well before the end. And Other Guy is a fucking woman. Combine these two, and the defining moment - Doc sawing his foot off - becomes comedy gold.

"I'm going CRAZY."
"Eeeeek!"

No, I'd have to put this film in the thriller category (if it didn't totally fail at it, anyway). That is, in order to realize how much it sucks, you should compare it to movies like Silence of the Lambs or, if you want to be fair, Hannibal or Seven.

The end was a surprise, but it only adds meaning to whole in the very slightest.

I genuinely do not get the appeal.

[Kilu]

I don't really remember much of what happened in Saw, which might tell you something about the films quality in my books.

[BAMAToNE]

Gore films are the basest form of entertainment.

I saw Taken a few weeks and and it was badass. I want to see Liam Neeson's character go up against Jack Bauer for control of the universe! :evilgrin:

[silverDistortioN]

Gore films are the basest form of entertainment.

No it's not. Pornography is.

And even then, you still have films like Shortbus... which sucked. >.>

[Kilu]

Gore films are the basest form of entertainment.

I saw Taken a few weeks and and it was badass. I want to see Liam Neeson's character go up against Jack Bauer for control of the universe! :evilgrin:

One of the best things about Taken was ballsy sound effects.

[BAMAToNE]

No it's not. Pornography is.I dunno, man. I'd watch porn.

[silverDistortioN]

Just because it's base doesn't mean it isn't awesome.

[Charon]

I love both gore and porn. ^^

[Locke Cole]

I cannot stand gore movies. I am mostly a fan of sci-fi/animated/action .. maybe a little comedy, but not heavy on the whole sex jokes theme. I guess when it comes to movie watching, i'm still kinda a kid lol. Love the kid films, but that could also be because I usually watch movies with my sisters... meh, who knows!

[Zedie9]

Just because it's base doesn't mean it isn't awesome.

:) Seconded. Various types of movies serve various purposes for various people to varying degrees, and as always, beauty (or its various opposites), is in the eye of the beholder. I like gore movies if they have a decent story or clever idea. I like 'kid' movies if they have a good story. Depending on my mood, I'll watch a good drama, thriller, comedy, romance, or whatever, and though porn is not something I partake of often, it serves its purpose as well. :celestial:

[Zedie9]

:blink: Have any of you maroons watched The King of Kong? It's a documentary about a school teacher who sets out to break the world record in Donkey Kong, and was surprisingly good, imo. I recommend it to gamers and nongamers alike! :celestial:

[silverDistortioN]

This is my favorite scene from Fiddler on the Roof: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vvr8AjT0aD0

To Laser Wolf!

[Locke Cole]

I recently watched Marley and Me. It was alright, the kids enjoyed it, but it was a sad ending. Ohnoes! Overall I am not a huge fan of Owen Wilson though, dunno why. The movie still was decent..

[Kilu]

Overall I am not a huge fan of Owen Wilson though, dunno why.
It's because Owen Wilson kind of sucks. And that nose, god dammit.

[Charon]

I just watched "The Children".

Yes, it sucked as much as you are imagining.

[Marona]

So has anyone bothered seeing Dragonball Evolution?The live film?

I didn't.Once I saw the trailer on it I knew it was gonna be bad from the very beginning.

Everyone said it sucked...anyone's input here?

[Zedie9]

I haven't seen it. But I watched Blackout last night, and Let the Right One In a few nights ago. I'm trying to work up the gumption to post a review in the Haiku Reviews Thread, unsuccessfully to date. :spin:

[Pezito]

Seeing as some of you discussed Saw in the beginning of this thread (no, I haven't watched it, nor the 2nd / 3rd / 4th / 5th installments)... I think this movie demonstrates why a very short name isn't always a good thing. So much puns to do ! XD

- Hey man I just saw Saw !
- Yeah ? What's it like ?
- Just saw-saw...
- Heard ya ! So what's it like ?
- Saw-saw.
- !!!

And I should mention that Saw 6 (it's been announced if I'm correct) is pronounced in French the same way as "saucisse", which means "sausage". Who else thinks they'll have to find a clever way to name it here, like "Saw : The Sixth Nightmare" ? :D

Films seen lately :
• Gran Torino. Awesome, it's a simple story that grows on you.
• The Wrestler. Great, although I still don't like wrestling. ^^
• Slumdog Millionaire. Average, feels like an edulcorated City of God.
• A Clockwork Orange. Disappointing ! Time took most of the substance away ; now it's just ugly and boring.

[silverDistortioN]

Films seen lately :
• Gran Torino. Awesome, it's a simple story that grows on you.
• The Wrestler. Great, although I still don't like wrestling. ^^
• Slumdog Millionaire. Average, feels like an edulcorated City of God.
• A Clockwork Orange. Disappointing ! Time took most of the substance away ; now it's just ugly and boring.

I genuinely liked A Clockwork Orange... The warped music, the villain as the protagonist (you don't get that one too often in film), the fact Alex doesn't suddenly grow up in the space between chapters 20 and 21...

And I thought Gran Torino was pretty mediocre. Clint Eastwood was Clint Eastwood, and the acting otherwise was pretty lackluster. And, dear god, the end credits. x_x

[Charon]

Cloockwork Orange rocks. I still love it. How can you not love McDowell's performance?

Haven't seen DBZ yet. I was eagerly awaiting it when it was talked about back in 2002/2003 but after seeing the trailer... Looks kinda sucky. But I'll still watch it.

Watched "The Signal" today. Very good. Confusing, but awesome.

Currently watching "Apartment 1303". It's just weird, like most Jap Horror.

[Pezito]

In fact, McDowell's performance was pretty good (although nothing striking either). :) I just have a problem with the 70's era, everything in it looks so aged now... The music is both well used and boring (when it's butchered with synthetizers)... And most of all, the acclaimed criticism of society through the apology of violence was nothing like I expected. It probably was remarkable at the time, but it was a while ago and we've had plenty of violence on screen and social questioning since then. I don't know... Maybe you'll understand when you show the original Star Wars movies to your granchildren and they'll be clueless as to why you liked it so much when you were young. :p

As for me, I liked McDowell better as Mr Linderman in Heroes. ^^

DBZ movie > I just laughed when I heard of it... :rofl: First, DBZ is old-fashioned everywhere in the world except in the USA, where it reached the shores about 10 years later ; thus the never-ending cycle of games, re-airings, cards, toys and bad movies (it may become trendy again in Japan if it lasts long enough this side of Pacific ocean). Second, mangas and animes become bad movies most of the time (same goes for video games). Third, THIS PROJECT in particular looks like the worst adaptation of DBZ to the big screen that could possibly be done. :D I highly recommend the Thai-Chinese film that was made in the 80's, at least it's funny and more faithful to the manga !

They probably should've named that movie something else than DBZ, so that it wouldn't suffer from comparisons. Just like they should've named differently I am Legend (which wasn't bad at all but nothing like the novel)...

[Zedie9]

Maybe you'll understand when you show the original Star Wars movies to your granchildren and they'll be clueless as to why you liked it so much when you were young. :p

I have run into this, actually, though not with Star Wars. As The Boy has grown, I've rented many movies I liked as a child or young man, and with varying results. Some movies I liked, such as The Shining (which I saw when I was about 9), he detested. Others, like Alien(s), he liked as well.

My personal opinion with movies closely follows my belief with games: a good one will win me over despite any dated appearance in graphics or visuals. The Boy is like that to an extent, but a bit harder to please. To put it into perspective, when I talk to him about grunge or the 90s, he tells me that's ancient history to him and his peers. ;)

I haven't seen A Clockwork Orange in a while, nor ever read the novel, but it was about a decade old when I first saw it, and it didn't bother me then, so I doubt it would now. And since I didn't specify, I liked it muchly.

I watched The Broken last night, and can't decide if I want to rate it 3/5 for predictability, or 4/5 for overall tone. Before that was Blackout, which was pretty much 3/5. :spin:

[Charon]

Watched Pi again today. Still messes with my head. ¬¬

Any, Clockwork Orange. Seen it three times, read the book once (which I own). I love it, so maybe I'm biased. I like the fact that although it looks a little dated, it still impresses me every time. I think it's McDowell's manner of speech. It's perfect Alex and both creeps me out and mystifies me at the same time.

Anyways, read the book. It's pretty cool once you master the Nadsat slang.

[Kilu]

So I watched Into the Blue yesterday. There really is only one reason that movie was made. Well, maybe two, if you like to look at Paul Walkers abs. Well, maybe three, you like undersea scenery (which I do, by the way).

[Charon]

Watched "Ghost Game". It was dire, really. To think someone actually paid for that. ¬¬ I've seen better plots in Hollyoaks. (For those not uk-resident, Hollyoaks is the worst program ever made for TV, which for some reason, everyone except me watches).

[Elhaym van Houten]

Watched Pi again today. Still messes with my head. ¬¬

Pi was a bit disturbed. I was so tired when I watched it, I'm not sure I got the whole thing.

I can't say anything about Saw or Clockwork Orange - though the latter one is still on my loooong list of classics to watch, I'll give you my opinion on whether its age made it lose it's qualities

DBZ movie > I just laughed when I heard of it... :rofl:
And I laughed when I unexpectedly encountered the trailer in the theater before watching Slumdog Millionaire... seriously, that was sooo trashy :rofl:

Anyways, I haven't watched anything much lately... the last movie I saw was Slumdog Millionaire, which was good, but not as good as expected. I liked the way it was filmed, the colors, the camera angles.

[Zedie9]

So I watched Into the Blue yesterday. There really is only one reason that movie was made. Well, maybe two, if you like to look at Paul Walkers abs. Well, maybe three, you like undersea scenery (which I do, by the way).

We know you were really watching the abs, Kilu - don't be embarrased! :evilgrin:

I watched Tell No One a few nights ago, and enjoyed it. I'd likely give it four stars. And then Saturday night The Boy and I watched a MST3K showing of Final Justice. That movie was pretty bad, and even the MST treatment was only pretty good. :spin:

[Pezito]

Pi has been sitting on my hard drive for a few months, I'll watch it one day or another. Everyone tells me it's great, and I know the soundtrack is very good too. :)

Tell No One was good too ; very intriguing and chilling story.

Oh, and I have a question : what's MST3K and the MST treatment ? xD

[Zedie9]

Mystery Science Theater 3000. Basically, a guy is trapped on a satellite and forced to watch bad movies. To retain his sanity, he builds a few robot pals to keep him company, and they watch with him. As the movie is playing, the group watch along and make fun of it, with varying results, often funny at least sometimes. Check Wiki for a better description. :)

[Charon]

Pi has been sitting on my hard drive for a few months, I'll watch it one day or another. Everyone tells me it's great, and I know the soundtrack is very good too. :)

Tell No One was good too ; very intriguing and chilling story.

Oh, and I have a question : what's MST3K and the MST treatment ? xD

Pi's soundtrack is weird, because it really shouldn't fit the mood at all and yet it does. :S It's interesting, personally I wouldn't go so far as to say it's great. >_< It's inaccurate for one and a bit silly with its dual themes of religion and mental disease behind all the numbercrunching. It doesn't flow so well. But it's definitely worth seeing. :P

[Zedie9]

I saw Pi several years ago, and while I wouldn't call it a great movie, I'd certainly classify it as good/pretty good. Interesting, if nothing else. Plus, seems like the director wanted to use some type of camera setup for a shot that he came up with and that I've seen since.

I also saw and enjoyed CJ7, though it wasn't as much overall wacky fun as Shaolin Soccer or Kung Fu Hustle.

Last night I watched Zack and Miri Make Porno. There were many times I did laugh out loud, so I guess I'd give this one 4 stars. :spin:

[Charon]

I watched GP506 (or The Guard Post) yesterday. Pretty interesting. A lot of Jap horror seems to revolve around either ghosts or disease and this was no exception but it was pretty interesting in terms of style if nothing else.

[silverDistortioN]

Machete (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8cCzltPD6Y). An actual movie is in the works. Depending how you define works.

YEAH.

Eh, it's probably going to suck.

[Zedie9]

I watched Kinamand last night, if I've spelled it correctly. A Dutch husband's wife leaves him. In his attempt to cope, he begins eating nightly at a Chinese restaurant and making friends there. He ends up in a relationship with the owner's sister. Good performances, subtle messages, and what some might deem a slow pace. I enjoyed it, though I found it to be just a bit shorter than I would've liked. 4 stars. :spin:

[Charon]

The Bunker.

Fail.

That's all I need to say.

[Pezito]

The Long Kiss Goodnight. I didn't expect much of this film, but my dad told me it was cool and indeed, I liked it. Funny characters duet, solid spy story and furious actions scenes ! It was pretty entertaining and the plot was good. :)

[BAMAToNE]

Just saw X-Men: Origins - Wolverine last night. Midnight showing on a work night... ugh, that was dumb. It was a good movie, though. They didn't screw the timeline up too badly. Definitely worth a see.

[Zedie9]

I wouldn't have thought they could have screwed up continuity any worse than they had in the first three X-Men movies... but I guess I should be glad. :spin:

[Elhaym van Houten]

I saw Underworld - Rise of the Lycans last week.
I must admit, I am a bit spoiled - I've seen so many great movies in the lsat few months, I had completely forgotten there were really bad movies out there.
Predictable, boring, bad camera work, really bad dialogue... nothing in there to save it.
Except the fun slaughtering it afterwards with the girls :D.

Anybody seen "The boat that rocked"? I really wanted to see that one.

[Charon]

They did mess up the Wolverine continuity. >_< But then, they'd already made a hash of it with the X-men films. The Wolverine film was fairly decent though. I admit I only saw the unfinished version missing a lot of special effects and editing so I'm reserving judgement until I've seen the finished product. So far however, I'm bordering on entertaining but inaccurate. :P

In other news. I watched Amusement. It was pretty crappy. Worth seeing perhaps if you're scared of clowns but still largely unfulfilling.

[Charon]

Watched Choking Hazard. It's a Czech zombie flick, the comedy not scary variety. It's pretty interesting really, with some interesting use of split screen it places. Definitely one to watch if you like something a little out of the ordinary.

[Kilu]

I don't mind at all if any of X-Men movies break continuity from the comics. It's my opinion that following too closely any of the comic storylines would make a pretty bad movie.

Plus, they have probably retconned the storylines many times in the comic universes as well. That's what happens when you start at the amazing 60s, you have to rewrite some of that history at some point unless you want your superheroes to, you know, get old. So who can keep up with those. And I'm not really that big of a comic guy anyway, so I wouldn't really know if they screwed some history up in the movie.

All I know is that Wolverine is an awesome character and I'm glad they made this movie, eventhough I haven't seen it yet.

[Charon]

Well, the villain seems a little lacking. But there's some nice action scenes and the ending should be fairly spectacular once all the effects are in place. Well, ok they already are, but I mean when I see them in place instead of people on ropes and half finished cgi. >_< It wasn't even my impatience, someone I know had it and we wanted to kill a little time so there you go. I'll totally be watching the finished product at some point.

I'm in mild agreeance that I accept changes to the story to allow the transition to movie. Still, I was a little confused as to why giving Spiderman webs as an ability made more sense. I guess I'm just used to knowing that Spiderman only has a limited supply of webbing, being man made as it is. Adds a little tension...

[Kilu]

I totally agree, that was an odd change, but it didn't really bother me. Plus there wouldn't have been that silly cafeteria scene in the first movie if they had gone the comic route. :p

[Zedie9]

Still, I was a little confused as to why giving Spiderman webs as an ability made more sense. I guess I'm just used to knowing that Spiderman only has a limited supply of webbing, being man made as it is. Adds a little tension...

Actually, a few years back Spidey had a death and rebirth of sorts and emerged from a cocoon with extra powers, including webspinners and poisonous talons. I found these changes to be interesting, but alas, they are no more. Parker had to make a deal with the devil to save ancient Aunt May (again) and his life was reset to what it would be like if he had never met Mary Jane. That removed his new powers (plus changed many other things); I found the whole thing so distasteful that I let The Boy's subscription lapse. :shame:

As an aside, if I remember correctly, the first time they fought, Wolverine's claws couldn't cut the Hulk's skin. And as fast as Logan heals, he's still slower than Banner. ;) Unfortunately, after the wonderful run of Planet Hulk, followed by the ultimately disappointing (but decent) World War Hulk, the Hulk comic introduced a new character - a red, mean, sneaky, intelligent Hulk... or is he? Sadly, after initially piquing my interest, they started losing me when he started being referred to as... wait for it... Rulk. :shame:

I don't mind some changes in continuity, but when the five founding members of the Xmen are Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Beast, Angel, and Ice Man, but the movies... well, if you've seen them then you can see immediate problems. :p

And one last thing. Ran across a listing for what sounded like an interesting book: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies - sort of a retelling of Pride and Prejudice, but with zombies. I want to read it someday! :D

[Charon]

While we're on the subject...
wolverine also fought the grey Hulk, which was when Banner's cells became hypercancerous. Wolverine actually tore grey Hulk in two only to see him instantly heal back to together before his eyes. I don't recall red Hulk, thank God. But as a point of interest he also fought The Thing. :P

I remember when the five original x-men (when Beast was hairless) tried to recruit Spiderman and ended up having to fight him. :P think he was in the black suit back then.
Age is sadly the biggest continuity flaw in x-men the movie. Iceman is too young. Rogue lost her sexy Texan drawl, Gambit was completely sidetracked, removing one of the best love tales the comics ever saw (imo) and only makes his appearance in Wolverine Origins and isn't quite as cool as I remember him being. Good sure, but not as badass as I remember. :P
No sign either of Dazzler or Psylocke. Nowhere near enough screen time for Colossus, another personal favourite. No sign of Sabretooth in the Wolverine film.

There's probably some other things I found disappointing but I'll finish there.

[Kilu]

No sign of Sabretooth in the Wolverine film.

I don't know which film you were watching, but Victor Creed is Sabretooth, no? And the guy Liev Schreiber plays is Victor Creed.

[silverDistortioN]

And one last thing. Ran across a listing for what sounded like an interesting book: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies - sort of a retelling of Pride and Prejudice, but with zombies. I want to read it someday! :D

I came across this a couple months ago, and I've been wanting to read it too. For some reason, though, I just don't feel like paying for it.

Rogue lost her sexy Texan drawl

I thought Rogue was from Mississippi... totally different drawls! I guess.

But yeah, I blame it on subpar acting talent.

[BAMAToNE]

I don't know which film you were watching, but Victor Creed is Sabretooth, no? And the guy Liev Schreiber plays is Victor Creed.Bwahaha my thoughts exactly! I guess what he meant was there was no reference to "Sabretooth" at all. Victor was always just Victor.

And it's too bad that the Sabretooth in the X-Men films was a hairy idiot, and not the Liev Schreiber character.

[Charon]

My point. He's not referred to as Sabretooth. He doesn't look like Sabretooth. There's nothing to connect him to Sabretooth at all (apart from the name, which only Marvel fans will spot. The masses will have no idea).
This is the Sabretooth I remember (fighting Wolverine in his brown costume :P )
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SpectacularSpidey116.jpg
EDIT: No hotlinking to wikipedia? Poopy. Link is...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SpectacularSpidey116.jpg
So, no sign of Sabretooth. I feel robbed. What you get is just Wolverine fighting a guy named Victor... The other characters in Logan's unit are undeveloped too, as are the freed kids that meet Xavier. Was the fat guy supposed to be Juggernaut? Yes ok, the film is supposed to be Wolverine centric but of the supporting cast there was very little of interest. Gambit was not as flamboyant as I expected him to be and younger than I imagined. The black guy who has a power similar to Nightcrawler? I would love to know more about that guy. :S The female love interest? Barely around long enough for me to notice her. And the gimp at the end? I hope when I rewatch it he looks different. >_<

As for the sexy Texan drawl. I always assumed it was Texan?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0f3vp5FZPU&feature=related

What do you think? :S

[Pezito]

• Underworld 3 : I almost went to watch it with Miss G (she liked the first 2 movies enough) but we then realized that the main girl wasn't Kate Beckinsale. But maybe she just wasn't supposed to be her in the first place ? Anyway, at first we thought she could ; so were kinda disappointed to see she wasn't. Then I looked up for more info about the movie, and comments were all but elogious... So we decided not to see that one, or maybe in DivX one day. :) In the meantime, I've gathered Underworld 1 & 2 and we may end up watching 'em again ! I'm not a big fan but there are some decent scenes here and there (I just wish the werewolves in the first movie looked better :p ).

• The Boat That Rocked : Named "Good Morning England" in France, go figure ! :spin: I guess this name sounds "english but not too much", with three words any frog will understand. Haven't seen that one anyway, but I'll probably be downl... renting it. :D

• Wolverine : I've seen it last week, and pretty much liked it ! ^^ And I've never read any of the comics, so space and time continuity isn't a big issue. Sure there's a lot of action, but they left enough story to make it interesting. The plot was even complex enough to confuse me at a time ; then I used those extra neurons in the back of my head and figured it out. :p As a matter of fact, I've never seen films n°2 and 3 ! But now I have all three X-Men movies sitting here, I guess I'll watch n°1 again and go on with the sequels.

And I'm glad that you mention Victor/Sabretooth ! When we got out of the theater, I asked if Victor here was the same guy as in X-Men ; but my brother didn't think so, saying the guy in X-Men is Sabretooth. Considering the name mentions tooth and not claws, I assumed he was right and both characters were different... But reading you, it seems they're not ! xD Well, they sure look different and Victor looks waaayyy better than Sabretooth... Maybe that's what convinced the producers to name them differently ? ^^; Or just because it's the origins, it could be logical that most super-heroes have no super-names yet ! I mean, they're not born with it - you can even see that for Wolverine, whose official name comes up only after a while.

I liked Gambit enough, although his power is rather unclear in this movie (what is it, how does it work ? :) ). He looks cool, although a bit left behind by the plot. And Charon, the "fat guy" is just The Blob I think !? Not Juggernaut, just The Blob. I remember seeing that character once in the animated X-Men TV series (which must've been the only time I watched it, pure coincidence).

Next movie I'll be seeing - and by then I can probably be called a geek (although I'm not, generally speaking :D ) : Star Trek ! I've never been a fan of the series, only saw a couple of episodes with my brother when I was a kid ; but the trailer got me interested somehow ! Maybe I'm just glad they got rid of those space pajamas. :lol:

[Charon]

The Blob huh? Ok. I was basing the Juggernaut suggestion on the fact that his head is his weakpoint, just like the 'naut.

Can't tell if your Gambit question is rhetorical or not so for the sake of completeness. Gambit's power is the ability to explosively charge anything he holds in his hands at will. In the comics/cartoon this was primarily used to charge the tips of his bo staff (which we see him do in the film) or to charge up the playing cards he loves so much, flicking them with expert precision at his unwary foes. Part of the Gambit/Rogue love angle is that poor old Rogue can't even kiss her love due to her power stealing ability. The one time she does kiss him she immediately starts blowing up everything she touches. This is due to her inability to control newly acquired powers, just like how she destroys a load of buildings after giving Cyclops the kiss of life in one comic and then being unable to switch off the eyebeams.

Sooo, Rogue and Gambit's love was always a "behind the glass" kinda deal. And they usually have to kiss like this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCdb1oKIF8Q&feature=related
Doesn't it just make your heart melt? :P

[Kilu]

There's nothing to connect him to Sabretooth at all (apart from the name, which only Marvel fans will spot. The masses will have no idea).I think I'm part of the masses who supposedly won't have an idea. Yet, I somehow do.

Or just because it's the origins, it could be logical that most super-heroes have no super-names yet ! I mean, they're not born with it - you can even see that for Wolverine, whose official name comes up only after a while.
Quoted for the truth. As said, I haven't seen the movie, but this makes perfect sense to me.


I feel like I should be leaving this thread soon before someone spoils something from the movie. :p

[Zedie9]

:) Any of us who've read the comics - if only for certain runs - can go on all day long about continuity changes! For example, I stopped reading X-Men for a while and thusly missed most of the Gambit stories, but the Rogue I remember was an adult, not a teen, who not only acquired powers but personalities when her skin touched another's. That led to not only uncontrolled powers, but conflicting personalities, with interesting results when the writers used such things correctly. And if I remember correctly, she was a villain with the Brotherhood of Evil (along with the likes of the Toad, Blob, and Mystique) during Secret Wars before joining Xavier's team. Does the new Wolverine movie have anything about his stint with the Canadian superhero team Alpha Flight? Ack - I'll stop. Like I said... one could go on all night... xD

[Charon]

I saw The Uninvited. It was surprisingly good. I won't spoil it by saying anything other than check it out. :)

[pikatsu]

Hmmm, waiting for the announced Deadpool movie now.... :) Will watch Wolvie someday, hope to catch Star Trek in a theatre this summer. I'd see it just for Spock's mom, everything else is gravy...

[Zedie9]

A few nights ago I watched Wristcutters: A Love Story. The plot is basically this: Guy kills himself. Awakens in a world populated by suicide victims. Finds out that his girlfriend offed herself a few months after him. Goes on a roadtrip trying to find her. Meets interesting people and has some surreal experiences.

All in all, I liked it, but I'm not sure I'd recommend it to just anyone. :spin:

[silverDistortioN]

All in all, I liked it, but I'm not sure I'd recommend it to just anyone. :spin:

So who would you recommend it to? What sort of fanbase?

[Charon]

So who would you recommend it to? What sort of fanbase?

People whose middle name is Dave, people who wear green socks on the third wednesday of every month and emos.

[Giea]

So who would you recommend it to? What sort of fanbase?

I saw it myself, and I would recommend it to the more indie - alternative moviegoer. I, am one of those people. :P

[Pezito]

That Wristcutters movie sounds interesting. :)

I saw Outlander today, and it was pretty nice. In fact it's a shame it didn't make it to theaters, because it could beat films like Pathfinder or Beowulf with no effort !

Oh, has anyone seen Southland Tales by any chance ? I haven't yet, but I'm hesitating on whether I should give it a try or not... I've heard both kinds of criticisms about it ; some say it plain sucks, some say it's way underrated. :confused:

[Kilu]

I've seen Southland Tales. I liked it, it's a little cooky.

[Pezito]

Seen Star Trek the other day ; it was cool ! :)

I've never been fond of the Star Trek universe, besides I was too young when it aired. My only memory of the TV series is an episode I saw with my elder brother, where some kind of monster (looking 50% carpet and 50% scrambled eggs) kept killing men in a maze of underground tunnels. All that was left of the victims was there silhouette burnt into the ground... Then Kirk and Spock and others went into the caves, met the monster and figured it was only protecting its eggs (which looked like ping-pong balls).

Fortunately, the movie by J. J. Abrams wasn't anything like that ! :D Quite enjoyable, should please newbies like me and die-hard fans alike (although of course, as for comics, there's no such thing as a perfect translation to cinema).

[BAMAToNE]

My thoughts on Star Trek: http://bamatone.livejournal.com/280814.html

Don't read past paragraph 2 if you don't want to see :spoiler:

[Charon]

Recently watched:

The Machine Girl. - Japanese gore comedy, don't ya just love it? No? Well I do. Think Ichi the Killer but without the philosophical ending. Japanese schoolgirl finds a Yakuza gang have murdered her brother. Trying to seek revenge she gets an arm chopped off, and thus logically, a machine gun attached! Expect limbs being lopped off, decapitations, ninjas, chainsaws and gallons upon gallons of spurting fake blood. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Lesbian Vampire Killers. - Bit of a let down really. Corne and Horden are funny but it wasn't the full on chuckle-fest I expected, nor did it have enough lesbianism to warrant such a promising title. Good effort but just not satisfying enough. Needs more lesbians, more vampires and more killings.

Other things of note:

Last House on the Left. - If you're thinking of seeing this I really must say one thing. See the original first!! Because it's pretty f**ked up. It also has an actor in it named Gaylord which is bonus roffles. Anyway, see the original because the remake likely won't have that shock value or inadvertent comedy moments that come from its age. Didn't Wes Craven direct the original? I can't remember, but it was worth watching I know that much.

Terminator: Salvation. - :S Is this gonna suck? At first I was all like, aha, finally the future T film we were promised. Skynet churning out wave after wave of metal monsters and John Conner leading the humans against them. But then I read that they changed a lot of stuff and even that it would be worse than "the suckiness of T3". Well I liked T3 dammit!! So now I'm wondering whether it will be good or not. That very same article went on to say James Cameron approved whilst simultaneously saying that it was gonna ruin the Terminator franchise. Mainly due to having multiple different types of Terminator at a time when there should really only be the T800 endoskeletons. And then some bizarre human/terminator hybrid...
:'(
It's gonna suck isn't it?
One thing we do know for sure is that the T-101 (The Ahnold model) will be absent. Not necessarily a bad thing I suppose.

[pikatsu]

My bro told me they got CGI Ahnuld into the movie, from bodycasts made for T1.

Also, Star Trek was bloody excellent.

[Pezito]

Well, I saw it and thought it was ok. :) Actually I watched again T1 et T2 the same day, and in the evening went to see T4 in the theater. If you wonder : yes, I think T3 was a mistake and I prefer to think the movie has never existed... :D

The little disappointment in T4, in my opinion, is that they still had to take T3 in account and based the story in the same timeline. So, yes, the John Connor you see in T4 is the same you saw in T1-2-3 ; by that I mean that he is well aware of all that happened in the previous movies, he did meet the T800-T1000-Terminatrix... Yet, we have to face that stupid concept from T3 that nothing done in the first two movies really mattered, that Skynet was still an "idea" bound to take form, and so on.

I still think it sucks to assume that a world-wide militarized network led by a killer A.I., even if it goes live a few years later, would still get the exact same name and do the exact same things and produce machines with the exact same name (and same Ahnuld face !) to time-travel the same way to kill/protect the same guy... Well you get the idea. After T1 and T2, things could never be the same.

So I don't know, seeing John Connor from-the-future is cool enough, but I somehow thought they were gonna show us the war against the machines in a time before T1 and T2 ; I don't know how exactly, but you can always count on the scenarists for that. :) So maybe we could've watched the war when nobody had traveled in time yet, and the discovery of the T800 and all... Some kind of "Terminator Begins" if you see what I mean. ^^

Bah ! Time travel has always been a pain in the ass anyway, as long as you make someone travel back in time and change the future, you enter the horrendous world of time paradoxes and nothing can ever be justified anymore. :D The film was still good ! I just wish the story was a bit more solid.