Last Film You Saw

#161

The Muppet Christmas Carol

My thoughts about the individual changes in the near-invisible text:
[COLOR=’#151515’]I disliked the fact that they had Gonzo and Rizzo as the “slapstick/comic relief” narrators --they became annoying very very quickly-- and the fact that they had Statler and Waldorf in the role of Marley. If they wanted these Muppets in the story, they should’ve been other characters–Statler and Waldorf could’ve done a lot more at Fozziwig’s Christmas party or otherwise, possibly during the scene where the people were ransacking Scrooge’s house for things to sell…and Gonzo and Rizzo could’ve been participating characters and just let the story be narrator-less or perhaps have Michael Caine as the narrator. The rest of the movie, however, was great and I was surprised at how much emotion you could get out of Miss Piggy and Kermit the Frog during the Ghost-of-Christmas-Yet-to-Come Tiny Tim scene… Wow.

I liked it but it could’ve been better. I still think the Albert Finney version of the story was the best. :slight_smile:

#162

I saw Django Unchained today as well and it was indeed fucking amazing. Can’t really think of anything I could criticize in the movie, but I may be biased. Probably my favorite movie I’ve seen any time recently though. Tarantino seemed to have just used every blood pack he could get his hands on but I think it worked pretty well.

Also watched Lincoln. It was pretty cool as well.

#163

Saw The Hobbit.

Somehow the things that they added reminded me of the additional puzzles and cool new areas that were put into Black Mesa. Not in the original, but not detrimental.

Gonna see it in 3D tomorrow, and then HFR IMAX sometime this weekend.

#164

THE AMAZING SPIDER MAN - ***1/2 - A solid reboot with a darker and more effective tone than the 2002 Sam Raimi helmed film. Personally I didn’t think the franchise really needed rebooting, but this is a hell of a way to do it.

LOCKOUT - *** - Far better than it’s “Escape From New York IN SPACE” trailers would suggest, this solid thriller packs plenty of thrills and laughs into it’s 1 hour 37 minute runtime. The only change I would have made would have been to use the space station setting to greater effect in the action sequences. The sequence in the gravity effect chamber is more of what I wish the film had. If there was a zero-g shootout, my day would have been made.

#165

Good god, you really are a reviewer.

#166

I personally found ASM pretty hard to take seriously in a lot of parts

#167

Spider-Man isn’t meant to be taken dead seriously. It’s about a kid, for goodness sake. He’s supposed to be portrayed kinda goofily. That being said, the Amazing Spider-Man was much easier to stomach than Raimi’s trilogy.

#168

The Hobbit. A little late on seeing it, I know, but daaaammn that was an awesome movie. Too bad we have to wait an entire year for the next part T___T

#169

If you are late to seeing it, than I am in trouble…

#170

It’s not like there are a lot of spoilers to worry about.

#171

I want to see if Bilbo survives his journeys.

#172

I didn’t mean the character, I meant the movie as a whole. Like, it was really poorly edited, and things were skimped on just to avoid being like Raimi’s first movie, entire scenes felt like they were missing, and some of the things in that movie were flat out laughable (such as [COLOR=‘Black’]Spider-man conviently saving a crane operator who happens to be friends with every crane operator that’s convienently placed between him and where he needs to go - also at the fact that he couldn’t just use the buildings right next to the cranes to swing off of

I may not like SM2 and 3 but I way prefer the first raimi movie over then ASM after watching them again, especially the final fight scene in SM1

#173

YMMV, but Lockout was one of the most boring movies I’ve ever seen. I didn’t care about anyone, and Guy Pearce seems to be just phoning it in. Plus it has this bizarre, out-of-place CGI sequence of Pearce riding a motor-unicycle that looked like a cutscene from Final Fantasy VII or something. It’s ultimately pointless, since he just needed to get to the train station. I have no idea how someone didn’t see this thing and say, “Let’s just have him run there instead.” It’s still boggling my mind, because the rest of the CG was fairly decent.

#174

The motorcycle part was pretty stupid, yeah.

#175

Watched Avatar again last night. Love this movie.

Incidentally, the ISV Venture Star is a damn cool starship.

#176

^ Once you get past the wonderful visual design, the plot of Avatar is mind-numbingly average. I wish they’d kept the Earth prologue sequence and all the stuff in the extended cuts, because it helps elaborate on Sam’s character arc. Those extra eight minutes or so really helped sell him as a character much more than the theatrical cut.

#177

ehh avatar seemed like a mess of cliches and stereotypes to me. It was basically pocahantus in space. The military were all gruff and mean and the aliens were peaceful and wonderful. It felt pretty 2 dimensional.

On the other hand just saw Django Unchained. Fantastic film. The acting and pacing was very well done. People might accuse me of being a Tarantino fanboy, but he makes quality films (except for maybe death proof).

#178

One thing that stuck with me was that the fight scenes were very impressive, and remarkably easy to follow. The entire climactic battle was amazing.

#179

Yeah, James Cameron proved he still knows how to make an awesome action scene. It’s unfortunate that he couldn’t have put it inside a better movie. The idea of avatars and of Jake loving it and get lost inside the avatar was good, I liked that. But in the end his story ended up getting overwhelmed by the old Pocahontas/Dances With Wolves storyline. Avatar also perpetuates that weird “white men are better at being other races than those races are” stereotype. Not to mention how perfectly crafted everything in the movie was to maximize its emotional effectiveness without being actually being well-developed.

#180

I watched this the other day too, I don’t even play Minecraft and I enjoyed it.

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