The last movie I saw was...

[Fiero]

Oh, this is rich!

http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/12/09/transformers-age-of-extinction-stumps-for-best-picture-oscar-nomination?utm_campaign=fbposts&utm_source=facebook

[Rama]

HaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHa!!!!!!!!!!




Oh...they are serious?

[Rodent of Unusual Size]

Never saw TF4. Probably never will.

So...who's seeing teh third Habbitt movie this week? I'm probably going to wait until the week after Christmas when I'm off-work.

[Rama]

I'll probably see it post Christmas as well. Just because I think I'm getting movie passes for Christmas and this way I don't have to pay to see it.

[Faye Valentine]

Never saw TF4. Probably never will.

So...who's seeing teh third Habbitt movie this week? I'm probably going to wait until the week after Christmas when I'm off-work.

Meeeeeeeeee! It comes out on Friday so Im planning to see it twice on that day, morning and night (the 2nd time with my husband). Im leaving for Germany on Sunday so I def won't have time to watch it again on the theatres, hence why Im going twice on the same day.

[Faye Valentine]

Saw the movie. and Goddamn. It was SO GOOD. I knew how was it going to end and holy fuck it still shocked me and gave me a million feels. Martin Freeman's  acting was gut wrenching at the end, I still get shivers just thinking about it.

Im not going to spoil anything but fuck you Peter Jackson for making the Tauriel+ Kili "thing". I literally shook my head and snorted at a couple of scenes because of these two.

Dain (and his war hog) was BOSS.

20/10

Also I wasn't able to watch it again last night. Hopefully I'll be able to watch it while in Germany but if I can't Ill do so when I come back (one week left of showings when I get back)

[B E C K]

I've been watching a lot of Muppets lately. It's a good thing.

I saw Muppet Christmas Carol.  Well, maybe a third of it.  And then I shut it off.  It was Merla's idea and I told her, "didn't we see this a long time ago and didn't it actually suck" but she couldn't recall.  So we saw it.  And the suckage was great.  Making Scrooge human instead of one of the Muppets was the hugest gaffe imo.  The star of a show with Muppets should always be a Muppet.  I don't know why the concept is so difficult sometimes.

[B E C K]

I may end up watching Hobbit 3 but only when Merla inevitably buys the DVD release.  Kinda like SW and Transformers, I just don't care like I used to.  What I am interested in is someone making all three Hobbits into one solid Hobbit film.  Or even two, I suppose.  If any of you see that shit floating around online sometime, hook me up.  Because somebody has to do it.  So it must be done.  They could even cut that Tauriel bs for Faye-Faye.  I'm totally down for an editted Hobbit.  But bloated-ass films don't cut it for me.

[B E C K]

Also, Frankenweenie's been sitting by my TV for the last two weeks.  I'll probably get to it this week though.

[B E C K]

Welp, I still haven't seen Frankenweenie.  Gonna toss it in right now since I have the day off today.

[Rodent of Unusual Size]

Saw the movie. and Goddamn. It was SO GOOD. I knew how was it going to end and holy fuck it still shocked me and gave me a million feels. Martin Freeman's  acting was gut wrenching at the end, I still get shivers just thinking about it.

Freeman's a good actor, but way too quirky for my liking. But he did nail that part.

Im not going to spoil anything but fuck you Peter Jackson for making the Tauriel+ Kili "thing". I literally shook my head and snorted at a couple of scenes because of these two.

I totally didn't care for this aspect of it and don't understand the genesis of it. Sure, I understand wanting to throw an important female character in there, but why? So she can get saved by Legolas or Kili or whatever? That's totally negating the point of her inclusion.

Dain (and his war hog) was BOSS.

Word! I could watch a whole movie of irritable Scotsmen hollering BUGGAH and riding armored boars through trolls and shit.

I may end up watching Hobbit 3 but only when Merla inevitably buys the DVD release.  Kinda like SW and Transformers, I just don't care like I used to.  What I am interested in is someone making all three Hobbits into one solid Hobbit film.  Or even two, I suppose.  If any of you see that shit floating around online sometime, hook me up.  Because somebody has to do it.  So it must be done.  They could even cut that Tauriel bs for Faye-Faye.  I'm totally down for an editted Hobbit.  But bloated-ass films don't cut it for me.

There are fan cuts of the first two that are allegedly awesome (here's one for instance), but I haven't been able to find out where to download them yet.

All told, this movie was just proof that Hobbit should have been two movies rather than three. Aside from the Smaug attack and people mobilization at the beginning, the whole movie was nothing but slow development of the battle, and the battle itself was far more drawn out than it should have been. And when it's over, Bilbo just...goes home. No stopping by Beorn's, no stopping at Rivendell, no getting treasure at the troll hoard...I guess we were lucky to get him home in time for the auction, and then fading out to Ian Holm. No Gandalf & Balin visit, no showing king Dain and king Bard coming into their own...they're just left behind. Maybe they'll include that in the extended edition; I'm expecting a huge EE for this movie, since excluding the credits it was barely over two hours long.

[B E C K]

That stuff about the Hobbit ending is just... ugh.  That stinks.  Maybe a superior cut will need to be done once the EE for the third one comes out.

Frankenweenie was kinda a bummer.  I just finished rewatching Pacific Rim right now, which is less of a bummer than Frankenweenie but still a bummer in its own way.

[Rodent of Unusual Size]

I figure they got zinged so hard by armchair directors over the ending of Return of the King that they decided to use the KISS principle. I figure, since they added so much bullcrap to the movies as it was, why not show the long, drawn-out ending? The Master of Lake-town just disappeared. The last time we saw the people of said town, they were smarting from getting an army of orcs shoved up their butts and their new (old) home being more-or-less razed. The dwarves were left standing at the gate waving bye-bye to Bilbo...nothing about Balin going to Moria, nothing about Bombur being so freaking fat that three little dwarves had to carry him, nothing about Thorin being buried with the Arkenstone and Orcrist at the base of the mountain, nothing about the restoration of Dale, nothing about the cleansing of Mirkwood, nothing about the carcass of Smaug, nothing about Beorn (despite his divebombing a phalanx of orcs during the Eagle sequence) starting a new race of Beornings that could henshin into motherloving bears...just, screw you guys, I'm going huuuumm to Bag-damn-end!

Again, I expect some elaboration in the EE...sometime late next year. What a load of jackassery.

[B E C K]

Jose Crackers, how the eff did they miss so much when they jumbo-sized the movies?  How annoying.


Merla caught some of Pacific Rim when I watched it the 30th.  She never bothered with it even though I bought the movie when it first came out on DVD.  Yesterday, she was literally watching it all night.  Ha ha.

[Rama]

How can you ignore it....Giant Monsters vs Giant Robots. Nuff said. That should be an instant watch right there.


I saw the last Hobbit movie and it was ok...but bloated. Still better then those SW prequels.

[Faye Valentine]

All told, this movie was just proof that Hobbit should have been two movies rather than three. Aside from the Smaug attack and people mobilization at the beginning, the whole movie was nothing but slow development of the battle, and the battle itself was far more drawn out than it should have been. And when it's over, Bilbo just...goes home. No stopping by Beorn's, no stopping at Rivendell, no getting treasure at the troll hoard...I guess we were lucky to get him home in time for the auction, and then fading out to Ian Holm. No Gandalf & Balin visit, no showing king Dain and king Bard coming into their own...they're just left behind. Maybe they'll include that in the extended edition; I'm expecting a huge EE for this movie, since excluding the credits it was barely over two hours long.

I need more Beorn. Thats all.

I am 100% sure they will show Thorin being buried cause you can see near the end a scene with all the Dale people looking towards Erebor with tears in their eyes and stuff (saw the movie again yesterday :3  ) and a horn being blown.

The Lake-master was on his boat when a dead Smaug fell on top of him (and his boat) and obviously killed him. You probably missed it, it was like a 1.5 seconds scene (i totally missed it the first time I saw the movie).

When Dain called Thranduil a woodland sprite, oh god it was hilarious. Dain was so fucking funny Im still giggling about it. I wish he was my uncle.


Loved  the little Bilbo-Lobelia confrontation and him taking his silver spoons back.


As I said before I loved this movie, even if they didn't show all. Except the Tauriel-Kili shit. OH YES and (spoilers....) the way Kili and Fili died? in the book they died defending Thorin, in the movie their deaths sUCKED.
Also that last talk between Thranduil and Tauriel? Fucking Thranduil going all romantic and shit? fuck you Peter Jackson. Thranduil talking about Legolas' mom ? Like Dain said, OH COME ON.


Didn't like the last thing Gandalf told Bilbo either. Very cold of him and it kinda didn't make sense.


special edit to mention Elrond's BAD-ASS fighting scene. Watch it if only for Agent Smith kicking ass. Hell even Saruman is amazing in that scene. I squealed a little when he said "Leave Sauron to me".

[Rodent of Unusual Size]

The master did not die in the book until a while after the battle.

Here's a text message discussion I had with my nephew about this movie:

Me: Well...they should have stuck with just two movies  12:48 AM
 Me: This thing was barely over two hours long (discounting the massive credit sequence)  12:49 AM
 Me: First fifteen minutes was killing Smaug  12:49 AM
 Me: Next fifteen was Elrond and Saruman ninja-ing Dul Guldurian orcs to death, Galadriel hulking out and beating the Necromancer, and Doctor Birdpoop whisking Gandalf to his love shack long enough for the old fruit to remember he sentenced Bilbo to death by sending him dragon hunting  12:52 AM
 Me: Then it was lake townies getting to Dale, being fed by the moose-borne ninja master of Mirkwood himself, and Legolas and token female elf heading off to Gundabad for some reason. Or to mack, or something.  12:54 AM
 Matthew: Ouch...at least it wasn't the second one, amirite?  12:55 AM
 Me: Then it's a lot of grimacing and threatening until Dain showed up on a freaking ARMORED BO HOG and started whooping head!  12:55 AM
 Me: Easily the coolest part of the hexology  12:56 AM
 Matthew: Besides the rabbit sled, you mean  12:56 AM
 Me: No that was ghey  12:57 AM
 Me: Rhosgobel = faggotry  12:57 AM
 Me: So any way, Thorin gets a cool battle to the death, but they messed it up by having Azog whack Fili and Bolg snuff Kili first  1:00 AM
 Me: None of the other dwarves had any worthwhile part in this show  1:00 AM
 Me: I really liked Bard in this movie...he was a boss  1:03 AM
 Matthew: Please tell me there aren't any more thinly veiled penis jokes  1:03 AM
 Me: OH... Forgot about the Beorn bombardment.  1:03 AM
 Me: No none I remember  1:03 AM
 Matthew: Bard was pretty meh in the last one...glad they redeemed him a bit  1:04 AM
 Matthew: And the wind lance crap in the last one was stupid too  1:05 AM
 Me: But anyway...Beorn rides in with the eagles, jumps off, maximizes into Beast Mode in midair and immediately begins mailing everything in town  1:05 AM
 Me: Wind lands were nowhere to be found... It was actually cool what they did  1:06 AM
 Me: But the freaking war hogs and beast wars air force...I really enjoyed those parts  1:07 AM
 Matthew: Sounds like fun  1:16 AM
 Me: Thorin's use of battle goats was fun, too... just not enough  1:16 AM
 Matthew: And it sounds like it wasn't as ridiculously long and tedious as the first two  1:17 AM
 Me: I could watch a whole movie of nothing but those three thing  1:17 AM
 Me: No, no...you'd be wrong, there  1:17 AM
 Me: It was quite tedious except for this fleeting parts  1:18 AM
 Me: The ending was crap  1:18 AM
 Me: After the battle, Bilbo literally just says later dudes, then he and Gandalf ride home in time for the very abbreviated auction  1:19 AM
 Me: And then it switches back to Ian Holm as old Bilbo in time for Gandalf to arrive for the 111st birthday  1:19 AM
 Me: Tha end  1:20 AM
 Me: No burial of Thorin, no installment of Dain and Bard as kings, no visit at Bagend with Gandalf and Balin  1:21 AM
 Matthew: But I'm sure the extraneous Billy Boyd song at the end made up for all of that  1:22 AM
 Me: It was unobtrusive  1:22 AM
 Me: If I hasn't known it was going to be done, I wouldn't have noticed  1:22 AM
 Me: I figure the armchair directors that bitched and moaned so much about the end of ROTK influenced that  1:23 AM
 Matthew: Yeah after 9 hours of movies, how dare they drag out an ending by making it meaningful  1:26 AM
 Matthew: I hope Christopher Lee got a nice sendoff  1:27 AM
 Matthew: At any rate  1:27 AM
 Me: He was totally ninja  1:28 AM
 Me: Didn't look nearly as crusty add he did in hobbit part uno  1:28 AM
 Me: Then again they might have said screw it let's CGI him up  1:29 AM
 Me: I mean, over half of Legolas' screen time was CGI  1:29 AM
 Me: Going to bed now... I'm so old  1:32 AM
 Me: Hope I dream of armored bo' hogs...  1:33 AM
 Me: And skydiving bears  1:33 AM
 Me: And battle goats  1:33 AM
 Me: http://www-images.theonering.org/torwp/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/OpZ8mZy.jpg  1:34 AM
 Matthew: Legolas kinda looks a bit like Barbie these days  1:39 AM
 Matthew: It's nice that they gave Holm a refit though  1:40 AM
 Me: The war hog was like a Rohirrim low rider  1:40 AM
 Matthew: And oh my, Billy Connolly  1:40 AM
 Me: Holm didn't look so old and decrepit in this as he did in the old LOTR pitchers  1:41 AM
 Me: Scotsmen screaming "BUGGA", swinging war hammers and riding bo' hogs should be a movie by itself  1:42 AM
 Matthew: Oh sorry, Lee not Holm. Dunno why I was thinking Bilbo. Though he could've used a touch up as well  1:42 AM
 Me: Braveheart with souce  1:42 AM
 Me: Lee looked not a day over 70  1:43 AM
 Matthew: He looked pretty grim in part one. They musta done a lotta work given how ancient he looks irl  1:45 AM
 Matthew: He has some videos on YouTube and he looks/sounds a thousand  1:45 AM
 Me: Those were from the EE extras  1:53 AM
 Me: He was pretty feeble  1:53 AM
 Me: Like I said they may have just CG'ed him up this time.  1:53 AM

[Faye Valentine]

too long son

The master did not die in the book until a while after the battle.

I was talking about the movie since you said "he just disappeared". He didn't.

[Rodent of Unusual Size]

Everything I post is worth reading, daughter! I just re-read that and laughed again.

Granted, that part about the master, I might have blinked and missed it, because it was quick.

[Rumble]

Damn I still haven't seen the last part of the Hobbit yet.
Everyone so far has warned me against it, but fuck it I've seen the first two parts might as well finish it.
Maybe I'll see it this Sunday

[Rama]

Dreamcatcher. The movie was adapted from the Stephen King book, which I recently read. It was ok...but some of the changes they made were strange, and they cut a lot of the middle of the book completely out. And the ending....whew. It isn't a good sign when a movie based on a book advertises alternate endings right on the box.

[B E C K]

I saw Belle.  It's about a lady in the 1700's or so.  And I say "lady" as in considered a lady in society, not "lady" as in another word for a "woman".  Except she's half black so she has shit to deal with.  It stars Gugu.  I don't recall the rest of her name but she's cute and she played Martha Jones's sister.  And Malfoy's in it as racist Malfoy with a receding hair line.  It was a good movie.

[Rumble]

I saw Muppets Most Wanted.
Twice.
May see it again tonight, it's a fun movie

[Rama]

Pale Rider
Westworld
Back to the Future Part 2
Abbott and Castello meet Frankenstein
Delivery Man

[Faye Valentine]

Watched Spring Breakers. Piece of crap. Had to double chell to make sure Sofia Coppolla wasn't the director on this one cause it looks very similar to the Bling Ring (also a piece of crap)

[Fiero]

Isn't James Franco in Spring Breakers? I believe they mentioned that a time or two during his CC roast.

[B E C K]

Cap1 was my favorite Marvel movie. Cap2 might top it, but I'll need to watch them back to back to say for sure...they're definitely my top two. Iron Man 1 is probably tied at third with Avengers, which I'd follow with Guardians. GotG being in my personal top five...it wasn't so bad, now that I think about it, but it wasn't great (just like the first Iron Man, basically). Still better than the latter two Iron Men, both Thors, and any Hulks.

Now that I've finally seen Guardians, I have to say I agree with your assessment of it.  It's in the top five just by virtue of being less shit than the shit below it.  And I can't explain where this opinion's coming from right now, but I felt the movie looked sorta cheap-looking and derivative.  It felt too much like I had seen it before.  And I've never seen an ensemble cast like this where so many of the characters are so damn unlikable.  I didn't feel invested in any of them.  I wish the movie allowed me to hate them outright instead of trying to shoehorn in some sympathy for them here and there.  The best thing anyone in this film did was die.

[Rodent of Unusual Size]

My feeling toward GotG has softened...I actually enjoy watching the movie more now than I did the first go-around. I'd put it over Iron Man 1 at this point, but still below the Capflicks. Still think Ronan was totally wasted, though.

[Faye Valentine]

Isn't James Franco in Spring Breakers? I believe they mentioned that a time or two during his CC roast.

Yes, he played the white rapper guy, looked exactly like that one that is kinda famous (can't remember his name right now but he looks trashy af).
I can't believe this movie has a "cult following", wtf

[Rama]

Back to the Future Part 3
Django (the original non-Jamie Fox one from 1966)
Kung Fu From Beyond the Grave (again)
The 5 deadly Venoms

and a bunch of other Kung Fu movies whose titles I can't remember.