Author Topic: The last movie I saw was... (Read 1380950 times)

Rama · « **Reply #2370 on:** Nov 15, 2011, 02:26:22 AM »

Oh no...I love Han Solo. But really Han Solo wasn't the Alpha Male of SW. In A New Hope Obi-Wan Kenobi was, then in ESB and ROTJ Luke was. Actually now that I think about Tygra isn't the Alpha either...Lion-O is, and even if he wasn't Panthro would be. And Flynn...well actually he wasn't either. He was a loner, then he let Rapunzel boss him around. Even that horse made him his bitch.

I guess I just like my Alpha Males more Indiana Jones, and less Right Said Fred.

IDE · « **Reply #2371 on:** Nov 15, 2011, 04:42:16 AM »

I don't care if you take it in the ass from indy or fred, but we're not talking about animals. It's a personality type.

There can be more than one alpha male role in a movie/show.

Chopper Face 69 · « **Reply #2372 on:** Nov 15, 2011, 08:54:19 AM »

Quote from: Rama on Nov 14, 2011, 12:30:18 PM

I thought both Flynn and Rapunzel where both pretty annoying. Flynn just seems like a total douche. I mean I know we get a scene later on that lets us know he acts that way due some deep rooted insecurities (much like IDE), but still the guy needs to be at least kinda like able if we are to believe he is gonna end up with the girl here. I mean that stuff he does is funny, but he needs to at least show some cracks of his later potential. Instead it is all "Here comes the smoulder."

Flynn was your typical bad boy, and I thought it was funny how quick everyone was to forgive a thief.

Rapunzel's hot. Mandy Moore can't be associated with anything and not make it hot.

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And I liked Rapunzel better with short brown hair. I know that short defeats the purpose of a Rapunzel story and I don't care. But really Blond=Magical. Ugh.

Well yeah you can't just make it not be a long blond haired Rapunzel.

And Pascal is awesome!

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I liked Tangled. I was so distracted by the fact that Disney was finally doing CG right that I probably overlooked a lot of problems.

I liked Bolt as well!

Rama · « **Reply #2373 on:** Nov 15, 2011, 03:21:07 PM »

The Christmas Martin. Some of your Canadian fellows might have seen this one as a kid. I was watching it for what is currently being called "Untitled Bad Movie Project starring Vlad". Hopefully that will make sense soon. The movie was exactly the right kind of cheese. Having two problems with this one though. One is tracking down the rights. The video is OOP, but that doesn't mean it is Public Domain in the US. The fact that it is Canadian might though. I know a lot of Italian films are PD just for the fact that they are Italian and the required number of years have passed. The 2nd problem is getting a good copy of it. It has only been released on VHS, and never on DVD. So the copy I have was downloaded and was clearly a rip from a less then stellar VHS copy.

B E C K · « **Reply #2374 on:** Nov 15, 2011, 04:00:29 PM »

Quote from: Adam on Nov 15, 2011, 08:54:19 AM

And Pascal is awesome!

I liked that little critter. Him and Rapunzel. I wish the movie had been more about them and less about the Flynn character and those other losers.

joe · « **Reply #2375 on:** Nov 15, 2011, 05:38:07 PM »

The chameleon was cool, but I constantly found myself wishing he could speak. He'd be voiced by Ludacris, and there would be a rap segment inserted unobtrusively somewhere in the middle of the film. He'd stare at Rapunzel's ass frequently and have various exclamations such as, "Dayum, girl," and "What-what," and at one point he'd ask her if the carpet matches the drapes, "Cuz dat would be nasty!"

B E C K · « **Reply #2376 on:** Nov 15, 2011, 10:18:20 PM »

But we already had a Mushu.

Chopper Face 69 · « **Reply #2377 on:** Nov 16, 2011, 09:52:59 AM »

Quote from: joerammstein on Nov 15, 2011, 05:38:07 PM

The chameleon was cool, but I constantly found myself wishing he could speak. He'd be voiced by Ludacris, and there would be a rap segment inserted unobtrusively somewhere in the middle of the film. He'd stare at Rapunzel's ass frequently and have various exclamations such as, "Dayum, girl," and "What-what," and at one point he'd ask her if the carpet matches the drapes, "Cuz dat would be nasty!"

So a Dreamworks movie?

joe · « **Reply #2378 on:** Nov 16, 2011, 02:20:57 PM »

I guess that would be expecting a little too much.

Bwahaha!

B E C K · « **Reply #2379 on:** Nov 17, 2011, 01:56:43 AM »

Quote from: Adam on Nov 16, 2011, 09:52:59 AM

Quote from: joerammstein on Nov 15, 2011, 05:38:07 PM
The chameleon was cool, but I constantly found myself wishing he could speak. He'd be voiced by Ludacris, and there would be a rap segment inserted unobtrusively somewhere in the middle of the film. He'd stare at Rapunzel's ass frequently and have various exclamations such as, "Dayum, girl," and "What-what," and at one point he'd ask her if the carpet matches the drapes, "Cuz dat would be nasty!"
So a Dreamworks movie?

Wait, why do I hear "All Star" playing in my head now?

joe · « **Reply #2380 on:** Nov 17, 2011, 04:25:35 AM »

It's because you have a secret crush on the lead singer from Smash Mouth.

Chopper Face 69 · « **Reply #2381 on:** Nov 17, 2011, 07:42:17 AM »

Quote from: B E C K on Nov 17, 2011, 01:56:43 AM

Quote from: Adam on Nov 16, 2011, 09:52:59 AM
Quote from: joerammstein on Nov 15, 2011, 05:38:07 PM
The chameleon was cool, but I constantly found myself wishing he could speak. He'd be voiced by Ludacris, and there would be a rap segment inserted unobtrusively somewhere in the middle of the film. He'd stare at Rapunzel's ass frequently and have various exclamations such as, "Dayum, girl," and "What-what," and at one point he'd ask her if the carpet matches the drapes, "Cuz dat would be nasty!"
So a Dreamworks movie?

Wait, why do I hear "All Star" playing in my head now?

http://www.collegehumor.com/video/.../honest-indiana-jones-4-trailer

Anyway... I watched a documentary last night called "Waiting for Superman". It's about problems with the US public school system. Actually it's an anti union movie that makes horrible arguments, uses shit logic and tells the viewers that we should hate the teachers union. I did not care for it...

B E C K · « **Reply #2382 on:** Nov 17, 2011, 08:54:11 PM »

Quote from: Adam on Nov 17, 2011, 07:42:17 AM

http://www.collegehumor.com/video/.../honest-indiana-jones-4-trailer

I got "page not found" so I watched Aladdin's Mistake instead.

blanktoe · « **Reply #2383 on:** Nov 21, 2011, 06:10:57 PM »

Quote from: gwynn on Oct 12, 2011, 10:52:15 PM

Here's my new movie of the year that I've been talking about on my FB, it's hitting DVD on the 18th I think.
Seriously, it's magnificent.

feature=player_embedded#!

sooo, I watched about a third of The Last Circus on the Netflix and I turned it off. Damn you and mostly damn that trailer for making me think that movie was going to be good.

Rama · « **Reply #2384 on:** Nov 21, 2011, 08:12:55 PM »

Horror Express

Fiero · « **Reply #2385 on:** Nov 21, 2011, 10:17:03 PM »

Maverick. Better than expected.

B E C K · « **Reply #2386 on:** Nov 21, 2011, 11:41:35 PM »

Quote from: blanktoe on Nov 21, 2011, 06:10:57 PM

Quote from: gwynn on Oct 12, 2011, 10:52:15 PM
Here's my new movie of the year that I've been talking about on my FB, it's hitting DVD on the 18th I think.
Seriously, it's magnificent.

feature=player_embedded#!

sooo, I watched about a third of The Last Circus on the Netflix and I turned it off. Damn you and mostly damn that trailer for making me think that movie was going to be good.

Oh, yeah, I saw it listed on there. But I watched Motives with Shemar Moore instead.

B E C K · « **Reply #2387 on:** Nov 22, 2011, 12:10:54 AM »

lol, the trailer for Motives not only makes it look like a total piece of shit, it's spoils the fucking movie! wtf.

The D · « **Reply #2388 on:** Nov 23, 2011, 07:29:20 PM »

Hmm, I've been gone for 3 months and can't remember what I've seen so I'll just go by what I saw recently.

At a con a couple weeks ago I saw Last Airbender in their MST4k panel and dear god did I hate the acting in that movie. There was this one actor... one of the firebenders.. that... I just wanted to beat him to death with a brick, he was so wooden he made Keanu Reeves look emotive. I could't even tell WHY the fire nation wanted to destroy everyone else, there was no "grr angry" moments, just "we're bored so let's attack these people. yawn." Gah. Oh, and best commentary paraphrased: "I now know why they chose that kid to play the airbender. His acting blows."

Enthiran
So I'm at the thanksgiving party, the one where we're watching the shitty new Loony Toons that I ranted about in the other thread, and someone decides to put on something better.

Enthrian is a Bollywood movie about a robot. Yes, it's THAT Indian robot movie. The one with the 9 minute video on youtube where the robot does matrix shit on a highway, then replicates and becomes a giant sphere and stuff. And it's GOOD. Well, good in a "it's so bad it's good" way.

My only big complaints were that it was too long. It's 3 hours long, and about 3/4ths of that are either talking scenes or bollywood dance numbers. And it can be slow at times. But there's enough outrageous moments to keep a group of people entertained. Including a bit where the robot talks to a gang of mosquitoes that talk all gangsta. Or a bit where they suddenly start dancing AT Machu Pichu. And the dance numbers were mostly boring, but some of them were over the top enough to be enjoyable.

The really good part of the movie doesn't start until 30-40 minutes before the end. And it's good because it's just so way over the top. I'd say this movie is best watched with friends, and even better watched with friends while drinking. You could even make it into a drinking game.
If they use shitty engrish, drink a shot
if the subtitles are badly translated, drink a shot
if you can practically SEE the wirework, drink a shot
if the audience goes "what the fuck!" or shows signs of shock or awe, drink a shot
if the movie starts a bollywood musical number, drink the entire fucking bottle.

My only changes if I did the movie would be to shorten it and remove the dance numbers.

Rama · « **Reply #2389 on:** Nov 24, 2011, 03:38:35 AM »

Conan The Barbarian (2011)

Not as bad as I feared, but not as good as I hoped as a Conan fan. The one silver lining was I really liked Jason Mamoa as Conan. I was a little unsure about that when it was first announced, but the guy looks and acts like Conan of the books. One bit of casting I didn't like was Ron Pearlman as Conan's father. Not cause I don't like Ron, but just cause every time he was on screen all I was thinking was "That's Ron Pearlman." and couldn't just think "That's Conan's dad." Kinda wish they'd got a lesser name for that role. I didn't have the same problem of thinking "Oh there is Ronan Dex" when Mamoa was on screen...or thinking "Hey it's that chick that use to fuck Marylin Manson." when Rose McGowan was either.

And if you are gonna spend the kinda cash it takes to get Morgan Freeman to be the Narrator, why not just get ,the original Thusla Doom, James Earl Jones to do it? Fuck when he started in with the whole "In the time between when the oceans drank Atlantis...and the rise of the sons of Aries..." I half expected him to start in on the life of Penguins during the Hyborian age.

Another thing I didn't like is that is almost the same story as the first Conan film, but they did throw in some references to the original stories I did like. Like saying that Conan was the one that stole the "Elephant's Heart"(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tower_of_the_Elephant). Also many of the towns and places where taken straight from the stories too. I kinda wish they had based the screen play more on existing stories. Maybe combine several of them into one grander tale. Oh well...

Chopper Face 69 · « **Reply #2390 on:** Nov 24, 2011, 07:28:27 AM »

Watched "The Beaver" with Mel Gibson last night. I thought it would be pretty silly kind of stupid comedy about a man who talks through a puppet. I was wrong. Dead wrong. It's not a comedy on any level, it's a serious drama about depression and it's one of the worst movies I've ever seen in my life.

IDE · « **Reply #2391 on:** Nov 25, 2011, 05:57:28 PM »

The ending of Conan 2011 was terrible.

Rama · « **Reply #2392 on:** Dec 07, 2011, 02:27:09 AM »

Clerks 2.

I think this is my new favorite Kevin Smith movie, replacing Mallrats. In Mallrats defense though when it was my fav. There were only three Kevin Smith movies. Also I saw it like 97 and really all I cared about was doing the kinda stuff Brodie Bruce did, so I could relate to the film. But as time went on and grew up a bit things changed a bit, and by the time Clerks 2 came around I found I related much more to the story in that movie then I did Mallrats. I understood this movie and where it was coming from better, and thus liked it more. Course sadly this was also the peak and shit started going downhill after this one and now I have no desire to see another Kevin Smith movie.

Plus any movie with a Pussy Troll, and two people declaring their love for each other during a donkey show, must be good.

blanktoe · « **Reply #2393 on:** Dec 07, 2011, 06:05:15 PM »

Is that on Netflix? I really need to watch it again to see if I like now. I really hated it the first time I saw it.

Rama · « **Reply #2394 on:** Dec 07, 2011, 06:53:17 PM »

No idea. I own it.

Fiero · « **Reply #2395 on:** Dec 07, 2011, 09:16:47 PM »

Quote from: blanktoe on Dec 07, 2011, 06:05:15 PM

Is that on Netflix? I really need to watch it again to see if I like now. I really hated it the first time I saw it.

Available on DVD only.

IDE · « **Reply #2396 on:** Dec 08, 2011, 11:05:25 AM »

Watching Immortals.

I watch some, then I pause it.

Then I watch some more, then I pause it.

Sort of like dunking your head in a piranha barrel.

Sam · « **Reply #2397 on:** Dec 08, 2011, 04:00:51 PM »

I finally got around to watching the new True Grit.

Good flick.

B E C K · « **Reply #2398 on:** Dec 13, 2011, 12:00:25 AM »

I watched this doc called "Reel Injun" about how Indians/you know, the folks that were here first/Native Americans were fucked over by the film industry in regards to fair portrayals. It's okay, but tries too hard to educate the viewer on native peoples in general which makes like a boring episode of Nature combined with a more interesting discussion about native people in film. I guess you need the background information, but those parts dragged enough to almost make me shut it off a couple of times.

Rama · « **Reply #2399 on:** Dec 13, 2011, 12:38:37 AM »

Deathly Hallows Part 2. I was happy that they showed some stuff that was kinda not explained in the book...but then they changed stuff that didn't need to be changed too. So it was...eh, but a good eh.