Author Topic: The last movie I saw was... (Read 568764 times)

Fiero · « **Reply #1560 on:** Jan 12, 2011, 09:43:26 PM »

Quote from: Dangerous D on Jan 12, 2011, 07:31:01 PM

What? WHAT?

Mila Kunis and Natalie Portman, two of my favorite female actresses (mostly Mila, really), doing naughty lesbian stuff?! FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!

*runs to car and drives to movie theater at mach 1*

In any case I went and saw Tron 3D.

I think the 3D movies are becoming too gimmicky. Too many movies are coming out as 3D, and many of them should have never seen the light of day. Step up 3D was a prime example of why a large group of people in Hollywood should be tortured in a concentration camp. Next thing you know we'll have 3D romance comedies.

That said, the last 3D movie I saw was Avatard, and I figured that this is Tron and deserves to be seen in 3D. Frankly, after seeing it, I think I may have enjoyed it better in 2D. In fact, all the real world scenes were 2D, only the virtual scenes were 3D. And there were some bits where someone shot something at the camera so it popped out at us.
Also the trailers were in 3D. Like POTC 4.

The movie itself was a bit bland. The special effects and visuals were pretty and shiny and interesting. The plot kinda sucked. It was one of those "We have to get to X through enemy territory" kind of things. There was a portal to the real world. There were plenty of enemies between them and the portal. They had to get there to escape and save the world. They never did explain why the portal to the real world was so far. I assume it was so the programs couldn't get to it, but then why was there a TRAIN going to it??? How could the bad guy get to it so easily?!

And then there was the subplot of the villain being a tyrant, and committing genocide of poor innocent programs, and planning on taking over the real world. Explain to me how a program would escape a virtual world and enter the real world? And explain to me how he would rule the world with his tiny ass army?

There was no tension, there was no sense of dread or danger, and the main character was an obnoxious, cocky, typical 20ish character with no flaws and the ability to learn everything in 5 seconds. God damn, Hollywood needs to stop making characters like that.

So yes, the plot and characters failed. Except for that pale ass guy who ran the nightclub at the top of the city. He was cool. Also, Daft Punk was the DJs in that scene, which was awesome.

They did explain why it was so far. It was inside the digital city, which was controlled by young Jeff. Old Jeff escaped the city and lived on a cliff in digital country.

The D · « **Reply #1561 on:** Jan 13, 2011, 08:17:10 PM »

Quote from: Fiero on Jan 12, 2011, 09:43:26 PM

They did explain why it was so far. It was inside the digital city, which was controlled by young Jeff. Old Jeff escaped the city and lived on a cliff in digital country.

Not really. Unless the city encompasses the city and everything around it. The Portal did seem like it was "IN" the city, until they hopped on the train and flew over canyons and mountains to get to it. Not to mention flying an airplane there.

Another thing that bugged me, and maybe Jeff's character acted this way in the first movie, but he acted like a damn washed out hippy the whole movie, with "dude" this and "dude" that all over the place. It got annoying fast.

Fiero · « **Reply #1562 on:** Jan 13, 2011, 09:13:57 PM »

Quote from: Dangerous D on Jan 13, 2011, 08:17:10 PM

Quote from: Fiero on Jan 12, 2011, 09:43:26 PM
They did explain why it was so far. It was inside the digital city, which was controlled by young Jeff. Old Jeff escaped the city and lived on a cliff in digital country.
Not really. Unless the city encompasses the city and everything around it. The Portal did seem like it was "IN" the city, until they hopped on the train and flew over canyons and mountains to get to it. Not to mention flying an airplane there.

Another thing that bugged me, and maybe Jeff's character acted this way in the first movie, but he acted like a damn washed out hippy the whole movie, with "dude" this and "dude" that all over the place. It got annoying fast.

Well, old Bridges said it was in the city.

Rodent of Unusual Size · « **Reply #1563 on:** Jan 13, 2011, 11:14:46 PM »

Dude, you don't know why he says, "dude"? Duuuuuuude.

B E C K · « **Reply #1564 on:** Jan 14, 2011, 12:43:30 AM »

Quote from: Faye Valentine on Jan 12, 2011, 02:06:46 AM

I LOVE YOU'VE GOT MAIL. I have it on dvd and i watch it aaaaaall the time! Oh you reminded me I watched Sleepless in Seattle on the plane :3

Yo did you guys know Mila Kunis was blind from one eye for a loooong time till 2 months ago? I wanna watch Black Swan again just to see if it shows lol

Why was she blind in one eye?

Not a movie, but I watched the Comedy Central Roast of Bob Saget. Stamos frenching Cloris Leachman = hot.

Rama · « **Reply #1565 on:** Jan 14, 2011, 01:45:22 AM »

The A-Team. Still like this movie, don't care what anyone says.

Faye Valentine · « **Reply #1566 on:** Jan 14, 2011, 10:08:09 AM »

Quote from: B E C K on Jan 14, 2011, 12:43:30 AM

Why was she blind in one eye?

Not a movie, but I watched the Comedy Central Roast of Bob Saget. Stamos frenching Cloris Leachman = hot.

Swollen cornea or something like that

Fiero · « **Reply #1567 on:** Jan 14, 2011, 01:25:41 PM »

Quote from: Rama on Jan 14, 2011, 01:45:22 AM

The A-Team. Still like this movie, don't care what anyone says.

I fucking loved it.

Rodent of Unusual Size · « **Reply #1568 on:** Jan 14, 2011, 09:41:45 PM »

I saw it twice in theaters. Haven't picked up the DVD yet, though.

Fiero · « **Reply #1569 on:** Jan 14, 2011, 09:52:16 PM »

Quote from: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jan 14, 2011, 09:41:45 PM

I saw it twice in theaters. Haven't picked up the DVD yet, though.

I also saw it twice in theatres.

While visiting Sacramento for work I decided I'd rather watch a movie than go sightseeing because the place looked and felt just like Dallas. Where's the fun in that?

The second time was with my buddy who actually grew up watching it. I watched reruns only.

Rodent of Unusual Size · « **Reply #1570 on:** Jan 14, 2011, 10:39:59 PM »

Saw it myself on a lark, then I took my nephews and some of their friends after an afternoon of bowling.

Rama · « **Reply #1571 on:** Jan 15, 2011, 12:47:09 AM »

I'm waiting for the Blu-ray to come down in price before I bite, but I do plan on adding it to my rather larger DVD collection in the near future.

blanktoe · « **Reply #1572 on:** Jan 16, 2011, 01:25:06 AM »

Why do you have to mention that you have "larger DVD collection in the near future"? FUCK YOU RAMA!

Rama · « **Reply #1573 on:** Jan 16, 2011, 01:35:55 AM »

To brag?

Rodent of Unusual Size · « **Reply #1574 on:** Jan 16, 2011, 10:46:36 PM »

I used to buy the crap out of DVDs. Then I grew out of the Pokemon mentality and became pretty judicious about what I picked up.

Unfortunately, I don't save much since I started buying around four or five magazines off the newsstand a month, not counting comics.

Rama · « **Reply #1575 on:** Jan 17, 2011, 12:41:02 AM »

I've slowed down in my buying, but mainly because I don't like to pay more then 7.50 for a movie and it has to be wide screen and it has to be something I've seen before and liked. After about 12 years of DVD ownership, that list of movies is getting pretty small. Especially when I only have Wal-Mart and Target to buy from.

I don't waste my money on comics or magazines anymore.

Faye Valentine · « **Reply #1576 on:** Jan 17, 2011, 07:36:59 AM »

Last DVD I bought (in like 2 years) was Ponyo :3

Fiero · « **Reply #1577 on:** Jan 17, 2011, 03:50:50 PM »

I spend way more on comics than DVDs. I only buy a DVD if I really really want it and want to help support the production company (or I find something I like cheap at one of the used stores).

I watch almost everything online. The quality has improved a lot over the years, so if you have a decent connection (haha Rama fail

) then you never need to buy a DVD ever again except to help out the ones you like.

Faye Valentine · « **Reply #1578 on:** Jan 17, 2011, 07:25:10 PM »

True, that's what I never get dvds either (except Ponyo. I want to have the whole collection of Ghibli films. ) I only used to buy dvds too when they were cheap

B E C K · « **Reply #1579 on:** Jan 17, 2011, 11:07:24 PM »

Same here. It has to be something I plan to wear out or really, really want to keep. I spend less money this way and I save on space, which I really want more of and get by getting rid of crap I don't use.

I saw The Shop Around the Corner, the movie that You've Got Mail was based on. (Although both owe their existence to an earlier play, some lines were lifted directly from TSATC and I tend to think they originated in that particular adaptation since I'm not certain the original play was even in English.) Anyway, it actually had some lol moments, but given there's a suicide attempt due to an infidelity and the male love-interest plays a rather mean joke on the leading lady near the end, I have to say it's sure as hell not better than YGM.

jonhammstein · « **Reply #1580 on:** Jan 17, 2011, 11:18:12 PM »

Yeah, I quit buying DVDs when one day I glanced over at my wall of unopened anime that I now hate and will never watch.

Recently I bought Scott Pilgrim because I lurve it so damn much and watched it a bajillion times, and I also grabbed Toy Story 3 on a whim 'cause I hadn't seen it yet.

Toy Story 3 was great but I doubt I'll rewatch it much. Not really worth owning. Hardly anything is. And I mean that on a grand scale, not just DVDs.

I'm gonna join a monastery like Tony Jaa and learn kung-fu and eat rice three meals a day.

Oh holy shit, me and my cousin went and saw Season of the Witch because neither of us could reconcile with the sheer ridiculousness of the trailer. And then at that we saw a trailer for another Cage masterpiece called "Drive Angry" and we were all, "Oh shit, not again!"

But yeah, Season of the Witch is ass.

Rama · « **Reply #1581 on:** Jan 18, 2011, 01:11:39 AM »

Quote from: Fiero on Jan 17, 2011, 03:50:50 PM

I watch almost everything online. The quality has improved a lot over the years, so if you have a decent connection (haha Rama fail ) then you never need to buy a DVD ever again except to help out the ones you like.

You son-of-bitch!!!

Anyway I got this weird thing about actually having something in my hands. I don't read books or comics online either. If I really want to read a comic I usually pick up TPB.

jonhammstein · « **Reply #1582 on:** Jan 18, 2011, 01:28:27 AM »

I know this makes me a bad person, but I download all the comics.

And I mean ALL of the comics. Most of them I don't even read, they get skimmed and chucked in the trash. Man, most comics are terrible.

But there are good ones, and it's so easy to get a hold of them, and I don't why everyone doesn't do it and kill the comic book industry.

I mean, the number of people who read comics, compared to the number that actually pay for them must be a fucking joke. I don't know how the companies haven't collapsed already. I guess it's because they're owned by Disney and Warner, respectively.

Rama · « **Reply #1583 on:** Jan 18, 2011, 01:43:57 AM »

Last comics I read where when Dreamwave had Transformers.

I haven't picked up a Marvel title since the mid-90's and it's been even longer for D.C.

I really want Comics to go back to the like the old pulp paper and like 8 colors...that won't happen though. They'll just die.

Rodent of Unusual Size · « **Reply #1584 on:** Jan 18, 2011, 01:56:52 AM »

I saw the Scott Pilgrim flick the other night. It was...cute. But one-watch-only cute. Don't see what the big deal is, neither the nerd-love nor the Faye-hate.

I download comics, since the only way to know what's going on is to read mass quantities of them. And I can't afford that. I only buy the main IDW Transformers book right now, and occasionally something else, but most comics, like joe says, are terrible now...despite their full color glossy stocked special artist cover variants.

Therefore, like Rama, I wish they'd go back to being simpler (re: less expensive) luxuries. When you pay $4 for a book, you're going to hoard it, and I'm out of money AND room for them at this point. If they were 75¢ like when I was a kid, maybe they could be selling 100,000 of a popular title a week again, instead of the 10,000 they're lucky to get today. And if they were more all-ages, maybe then I could recommend comics to kids...something I can't do nowadays.

You pay for what you get? Don't think so: most of the art sucks, and almost laminated magazine pages don't contribute to a story. I didn't need that crap back then when I got into comics, and I don't need it now. I'd still rather pull out an old Mort Weisenberg or Curt Swan-drawn Bronze-Age Superman book and read it today than the crap that passes for Superman now. And who the hell could beat Neal Adams or Jim Aparo on Batman?

Rama · « **Reply #1585 on:** Jan 18, 2011, 02:06:47 AM »

I do think I comic that was well written and at least decently drawn on that old paper with old coloring method sold for between $.75 and $1.25 would sell well. If for nothing else because of the price people would pick it up and give it a shot. If you could then hook them, and not jump the price to $4.25 with next issue it might do well.

jonhammstein · « **Reply #1586 on:** Jan 18, 2011, 02:35:39 AM »

Bad art is a huge concern. For all I know, all the comics today are brilliantly written, but I can not get past the rush job pencils. A lot of it is just plain disgusting. There are very few artists who take real pride in their work anymore. I am not using that as an excuse to steal comics. I just steal them. If tomorrow I was unable to steal comics, I would not start buying them. I just would not read them anymore.

My apostrophe key is fucked if anyone is wondering about my syntax.

Faye Valentine · « **Reply #1587 on:** Jan 18, 2011, 03:58:11 AM »

Quote from: B E C K on Jan 17, 2011, 11:07:24 PM

I saw The Shop Around the Corner, the movie that You've Got Mail was based on. (Although both owe their existence to an earlier play, some lines were lifted directly from TSATC and I tend to think they originated in that particular adaptation since I'm not certain the original play was even in English.) Anyway, it actually had some lol moments, but given there's a suicide attempt due to an infidelity and the male love-interest plays a rather mean joke on the leading lady near the end, I have to say it's sure as hell not better than YGM.

WAT!! that was actually a movie?? NO WAI. Who's in it?

Fiero · « **Reply #1588 on:** Jan 18, 2011, 03:23:11 PM »

Quote from: Rama on Jan 18, 2011, 01:11:39 AM

Quote from: Fiero on Jan 17, 2011, 03:50:50 PM
I watch almost everything online. The quality has improved a lot over the years, so if you have a decent connection (haha Rama fail ) then you never need to buy a DVD ever again except to help out the ones you like.

You son-of-bitch!!!

Anyway I got this weird thing about actually having something in my hands. I don't read books or comics online either. If I really want to read a comic I usually pick up TPB.

I should mention I watch almost everything legally through the likes of Hulu and Netflix and Crunchyroll.

Fiero · « **Reply #1589 on:** Jan 18, 2011, 03:26:12 PM »

I've most certainly cut quite a few titles out. IDW's Transformers and GI Joe have both gotten around to being disappointing to me and they are about to go.

I've mostly moved on to Green Lantern and his associated books, and I have started on Flash and Green Arrow. Superman and Batman bore me the majority of the time. Wonder Woman I've never really given a chance, I suppose. I've also started picking up R.E.B.E.L.S which is, quite frankly, awesome.