How to Train Your Dragon.
Honestly the best animated movie I’ve seen in years. The story was fresh (albeit a bit cliché), the pace of the movie was steady and enjoyable, the humour was brilliant, the animation/style was gorgeous and the voiceacting was top notch.
Glad we picked this one over Clash of the Titans.
Sherlock Holmes
The end of Ginger Snaps. No closure.
How to Train Your Dragon, definitely better than Avatar/Clash of the titans.
Spectacular animation, and the dragons are cuter than hell.
i saw my name is khan
I bloody hate those dragons, they look nothing like the mythical beasts! Dragons need snouts.
Derp, they all had snouts apart from Toothless >_>
Saw Gran Torino last night. Different than I expected, and yet very much the same. Very well done.
I quite enjoyed Gran Torino, not the ending you expect for the man with no name 
Just watched Quadrophenia for the first time in years, nowhere near as good as I remembered it 
nigga you trollin’
Way of the Dragon for the first time after buying the Bruce Lee Ultimate Collection set, though it’s only 5 movies.
It was pretty good, Bruce Lee is (was) badass and Chuck Norris can go to hell 
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implying that I’ve seen the film
Sunshine
LOL My sister bought the exact same collection for me.
Anyway, I just saw Law Abiding Citizen, it was pretty awesome.
Ever seen a dragon before?
I’ve been hearing good reviews about the How to Train Your Dragon movie…I had no interest in seeing it because from what I saw on the trailer, didn’t interest me at all, but I might see it now after reading all the stuff on the Internets about it.
I saw Clash of the Titans instead because I absolutely adored the Ray Harryhausen version. The new one was though.
Watched my Gomorrah DVD the other day.
It was released in Italy a while ago, and is basically a collection of 5 true stories about the Mafia in Southern Italy. Apart from the gratuitous nudity as can be seen above, the film portrays a very realistic tale of what it’s like to live in a society run by criminals. This isn’t some glorified ganster film like Scarface or The Godfather, this is a movie that just tells it like it is. A little slow moving at the start, the final half hour or so leaves you with a strange grim satisfaction.
4 and a half out of 5.
We just saw Whip It last night. Nothing special, but good light entertainment.
The reviews compared it to Juno and Nick and Nora’s Infinite Playlist, but it’s probably only compared to Juno because Ellen Page stars in both. I’d probably put it on par with Almost Famous with a hint of Little Miss Sunshine.
3.5 / 5 - Good for light entertainment, would see again and probably even own, but not a headline film.
Finally got around to seeing Terminator: Salvation a couple days ago. On one hand, it’s a decent movie for what it is, on the other, it doesn’t feel like a Terminator movie.
Story: Kinda muddled. Like they were trying to tell three different stories, and couldn’t figure out how to do it right. On one hand, you have John Connor trying desperately to prove to his superiors that he’s right, and he knows his shit. Then you have Marcus Wright, who thinks he’s human, learns he’s not, and trying to figure out why. Then you have Kyle Reese trying to prove that he is worthy of being in the Resistance, and trying to live up to his hero, John Connor. Marcus’ story was the most well-written, and makes the most sense, but it’s the one that, at times, you care the least about. Connor’s story is really very poor…it has it’s moments, but it doesn’t have the level of thoughtfulness needed to make it truly shine. Reese, after he gets separated from Marcus, just kind of falls on the backburner, and he gets ignored. The transitions between these stories are also rather sloppy.
Characters: John Connor is double-edged…first half of the movie, we see him the way he’s been seen in the previous movies. Headstrong, and doesn’t take kindly to authority, but a strong and capable leader. Halfway through, when we meet Marcus, however…Connor becomes this sinister, almost evil feeling guy…for no reason other than “Marcus is machine, so I hate him…but because Marcus is the hero…that makes me the bad guy.” They had something going there, I felt, but they didn’t utilize it. His entire circle of friends and aides, other than Blair Williams, don’t really get fleshed out. It took me half the movie to realize who his wife was, and Barnes had absolutely nothing in the movie.
Marcus, on the other hand, was a very well thought-out character. My only major gripe was that because of the beginning, and showing him being killed, and signing his body to Cyberdyne in the intro…the audience knew he had to be a Terminator of some type when he came back 15 years after his death. If they had trimmed that intro a little, it would have made it that much more surprising when you found out “Holy shit…Marcus is a machine!”
Reese…not much was done with, really. He did an amazing job, and I have to give the writers credit, unlike Checkov in Star Trek (Played by the same person), Reese was much less forgettable. He wasn’t really used enough for the audience to really think of him as anything other than a plot device, though. His sidekick, Star, was awesome, though.
Acting: The acting was…inconsistant. Connor’s voice was way too much like Batman. I wouldn’t have minded if Bale had used even his Bruce Wayne voice…but the gravel of Batman doesn’t really fit, especially when you consider how clear Connor’s voice was in the other two Terminator films he was in. Reese was amazing, one of the best actors in the movie…same with Blair and Marcus, though on a lesser scale. The Resistance Command staff was horrible. Partly due to writing, but their acting was sub-par, as well. Connor’s inner circle, with the exception of possibly Barnes, did an absolutely forgettable job. Barnes wasn’t forgettable, but he wasn’t great, either.
Directing: I liked that, for the most part, the camera stayed still, or had broad movements, rather than shaky camerawork becoming popular recently. This has allowed me to actually see what was going on, rather than fill in the blanks with guesswork. Wish the story could take place more in the city, rather than outside it, as I felt that the city was a much more interesting environment.
Effects: The effects team did a very good job. Most of it was identifiable as CGI, however, so I can’t say that it was perfect. And there was one horrible shot of John Connor at the end of a bridge, waiting for Marcus to signal him. Sweeps down the bridge to a horribly composited and badly colored live shot of Bale as Connor.
CGI Arnie, on the other hand, deserves great praise. It was an amazing effect, one that I rank as among the few times where CGI looked so real that it was, in my mind, perfect. The only other time I would say that for something seen in motion would be in Jarhead (The bloody nose Jake got during the barracks ambush at the beginning was all CG).
Overall, it lacked the “humans vs. Machines” overtone that the rest of the series had, with almost as many fights between humans and other humans (Twice with Marcus, the entire movie with Connor vs. Command) than Humans Vs. Machines (T-600 in LA, HK/Mototerm/Harvister fight, Connor and Marcus vs. Hydrobots, T-RIP ambush in Skynet). It had the potential to be a great film if they had fleshed out Connor and Command more, had more fights against Terminators and HK’s, and smoothed the transitions more. The acting is forgivable (You can only do so much with what you’re given), and a boost in the acting, while desirable, is not as needed as a better script. The effects were good enough, save for that one shot, that if they weren’t changed, no one would care that much.
Overall, I give Terminator: Salvation a 6.5 out of 10.
Saw How to Train a Dragon with some friends before finals. Gotta say, I didn’t think I’d enjoy it as much as I did. Agreed that the dragons are bloody cute.
Saw that Dragon movie also. Was very entertaining. Toothless is like a giant cat.
[COLOR=‘Black’]And I love cats.
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