What are you watching?

[SinisterDeath]

Heh... Hellboy 2 gets a 3 and AVP2 gets a 2.5.  Sinister seems to know my ranking better than I do.

Well its obvious you leave the upper 4s and 5s for the awesome movies, and leave the movies under 3 for the shitty ones. :P

 

For some reason, I just rewatched Spiderman 3.  Maybe it was to validate that this was a bad movie.  This one goes down as a 2.5 as well.  I would have given it a 3 but Parker singing and dancing as his evil self really make me cringe.

 

Yea, that scene did suck, as well as emo peter parker... WTF were they thinking? Alien Venom Goo turns you emo?

 

 

Anyways, Last night I watched Wall-e, it was 'okay', no where near as funny as Kung Fu Panda.

 

I also watched, The Dark Knight Again.

Its a little bit better then when I first watched it, but I think I've finally figured out what it is about the movie, That I don't like about it, and that is the pacing.

 

Basically the pacing is jaggy if that makes any sense.

One moment, the pacing is all fluid, then JUMPS to another scene and then becomes fluid again. I don't know about you, but it seems to me like the way they did it in the dark knight, was on purpose, They wanted to go from fluid to fluid as fast as possible, with as little transition as possible, to create that 'jagged' thing between each scene.

 

Plot wise, story wise, character/actor wise, the movie was awesome on all levels, but to put it in terms others would say, that jagged camera work, in many ways broke the 'immersion'.

Thats just me though, and the story/action is like 5x better then Batman Begins. Its probably oscar worthy but that thing I'm talking about might just be the 'only' flaw in the movie for me. ;)

[Dunbar]

ah, the peter parker song and dance scene

 

such a cringe-inducing scene to be watching in a cinema

 

also, the slow motion spiderman-run infront of the american flag was good for a giggle

 

anyhoo

 

last night, saw george a romero's night of the living dead, which was... spooky, I suppose. Not too scary once seen in the light of today's rather macabre movies, but still pretty good, considering it's historic relevance and all. I give it 7/10!

 

Then A muppet's christmas carol was seen, which was rather entertaining as the muppets tend to be, and Michael Caine as Scrooge :o Good fun, 7,5/10

 

And, after that, The nightmare before christmas was re-watched, a most excellent movies which I consider one of my favourites. 9/10!

[Emperor]

Got a rating 4 for you.  Well really 3.75.

 

The Fall

 

It is a film by Tarsem....

 

That guy who did the Cell.  And that makes sense as this movie feels like the Cell and is basically a better version of the Cell. 

 

It is basically about a little girl who finds this man who tells her an epic story of 5 bandits traveling in this beautiful world.

 

Visually this movie was awesome.... well... much like The Cell or Pan's Labyrinth.  The plot in itself was pretty good.  Oh did I mention the guy that tells the story and is the main hero is the Pie Maker?

 

Overall a very good all around movie. 

[Babalu]

Flash Gordon - Still awesome in every way possible.

 

Masters of the Universe - Suffers from a lack of Brian Blessed, but still an enjoyable way to waste away an afternoon.

[Samuraiflip05]

Scary Movie 1&2

[Dunbar]

Saw Eagle Eye with a friend o' mine the other day

 

it was pretty mindless, yeah

 

The plot is so silly it almost hurts the brain and the acting is so-so, but hey, it's got lots of explosions. Most of the time was spent making fun of the movie.

4,5/10

[Majsju]

I just watched 15 minutes of Doom...The people responsible for this should be shot!

 

 

[ironcross]

The bucket list.

 

i thought it was relly good.  anything with morgan freeman in it cant all be bad.  kinda a tear jerker too.

 

narnia prince caspian.

ok so i know some (ok a lot) of you probly dident like the first one, and probly dident like the second one any better, but i did.  in fact i thought prince caspian was done a lot better then LWW.  as a fan of the books it was, as always sad to see the plot twisted a little (ok a lot) out of shape and all, but it was pretty much made up for in the battle sceans.  once again WETA has shone why anyone even thinking of doing a fantacy movie HAS to go the them for the spetial efects.  i cant waight for voyage of the dawn tredder.

 

 

and yes i watch most my movies now adays on DVD.

 

 

you try taking a 14 month old to the theater....

 

ironcross,  not been to a theater in 12 months

[Dunbar]

Saw Gran Torino last night and I liked it very much!

 

I pretty much love Clint Eastwood and everything he does, but yeah I likde it. Lovely cinematography with lights and shadows and good acting and an excellent and tragic story! 8,5/10!

[Lythnia Roylin]

Hmm, it looked depressing when I saw the preview...is it worth watching, story-wise? I'm still debating whether I want to see it or not.

 

and ironcross, I really wanted to see the bucket list!

 

As for me, I started watching the first season of Weeds last night because one of my friends was playing it on his laptop. Not gonna lie, if you like dark humor and don't mind some situations that some (OK, most) people would consider inappropriate, then it's a great show. For any of you who don't know, the basic premise of the show is that there's a single suburban mom in a rich neighborhood who is a weed dealer ^^ Between her life and some of the things going on with her friends from various circles, there are some...interesting situations, to say the least ;)

[Emperor]

Watch Season 1 of the Weeds.  It is a great show.  Season 2 slips a little.  After that just give up on it as it jumped the shark.  This last season was kind of bad.

 

Watched Kung Fu Panda last night.  It was cute.  It was occasionally funny.  It was entertaining.  It followed exactly the typical Cartoon formula for an animated movie.  Because of this, I give it 3.5 stars out of 5. 

[Dunbar]

I thought the story in Gran Torino was really good, with pretty good character arcs and whatnot

 

Also, last night I saw Zack and Miri make a porno which was Kevinsmithtastic, meaning I liked it a lot, which I mostly do his movies. Lots of naughty jokes delivered with quite the pace. Two thumbs up!

[Dunbar]

Saw Milk last night, which was a really good movie, or so I thought. Marvelous acting all around, especially from Sean Penn (duh) and Emile Hirsch, who was wonderful to watch in every scene.

 

Also, i saw Max Manus, a new Norwegian film about a WWII war hero and saboteur against the Germans. It was really, really good, though I might just be saying that because of it being so patriotic, but in my eyes this is the best Norwegian made film pretty much ever.

[SinisterDeath]

Sounds like the first-norwegian-film-ever. ;)

[bad company]

Last movie I saw was

But I'm a cheerleader and Brick.

 

Brick was excelent, film noir piece in the old detective story style and very stylish as well as gritty. I recommend!

[Dunbar]

Saw Frost/Nixon yesterday, a film which I enjoyed, sure, but I won't root for it when it comes oscar time. Maybe for acting, Langella did quite brilliantly, but yeah. It wasn't bad though! 7,5/10!

 

Then I saw George A. Romero's Dawn of the dead, which was hilariously awesome in it's old-timey splattertacular zombiefest. 7,5/10!

[Liathiana]

I saw Yes Man, much funnier than I expected from the previews! ;D

[Dunbar]

Saw Batman, the first one by Tim Burton, and was muchly amused by it. The batman wasn't nearly as dark as Bale's, but I found Nicholson's joker a breath of fresh air. 7/10!

[ironcross]

anyone going to see valkirie?  i want to see it and may or may not get a chance too, but ive heard that cruis may have relly over acted. would love to see the opinion of anyone who gose to see it

[SinisterDeath]

Well, I saw

Narnia: Prince Douche Bag

The night before last, It was a 'meh' movie to me.

I'm wondering, wtf don't the kids bring an Uzi with them? They could just take out the entire army themselves! :P

 

The Mummy 3: Jet Li Supersized

Ehh, it was 'okay' but boy, if you thought they butchered history in the first two films?!

The Shows not that great, but I've seen worse (again, sci-fi) If you want to watch something else more, watch it instead, but if you've got nothing better todo, its yoru time, not mine. ;)

 

The Wire Season 1

After hearing so many good things about this show, I picked up the first disk from netflix, I dunno what I think but its definately not that bad.

(Not sure IF I mentioned this one before or not)

 

On a related note, After being slightly bored and not having the kind of time to pick up a game (family was visiting) I started watching the anime D.Gray-Man.

And wow, just wow. I haven't been hooked on an anime like that since Great Teacher Onizuka.

Just to put it into perspective, there are currently 3 seasons with a total of 103 episodes.

I watch ALL 103 episodes in under 3 days.

Yea, I don't know How I got any sleep in there. ;)

The anime in and of its self isn't anything special, but it does some things right.

It has twists, some twists you don't see coming.

Other twists that are pretty obvious.

The anime is Dark. Probably one of the darkest I've seen. (Not THE Darkest, but its in the top 10) and by dark, I mean people die. People you actually give a hoot about. And by Give ahoot, I mean people you don't expect in an anime to die, to die. You expect in an action/adventure style anime, that if the main cast is out to 'save' someone, they usually save them more often then not. This, not so much. ;)

 

Oddly enough the show reminds me a LOT of the anime Innuyasha. (hey, cartoon network used to be my only supply of anime, sue me.)

The soundtrack sounds VERY familiar, and if I dare say, the animes have some commonialities in it. That being the similar formula, and by style I'm talking about demons, magic, action packed, ect. As well as the fact that people have this tendency to 'power up' every 30 or so episodes. :P

 

However, this is different to, it doesn't follow the formula in the exact same way.

IT has fillers, but the fillers actually AFFECT the main plot! (OMG isn't that insane?!)

The fillers have purpose, they have comedy, they have sadness, anger, ect.

Infact, there was one point in the anime right in the middle of an action packed fight, that the two sides (good guys vs bad guys) started argueing for comedic relief. (It was damned funny to)

But the animes also got many questions left unanswered. Questions that will keep you watching just to know those answers.

 

Kinda like in the Wheel of Time.

You may not like it anymore (I still love it, I'm just not obsessed with it. ;)) but you can't tell me you wont' read the last book just to know how it all ends.

 

This is similar. There are boring episodes, there are awesome episodes, but ultimatley you want to know how it ends.

 

So yea, its definately one of the better anime I've seen.

Definately better then Bleach thats for sure. ;) (And I mean this in the terms that they also share the same formula but at least this anime doesn't throw a f*****g 30 episode filler in the middle of an epic battle!!!)

 

 

Oh, and when I went to pay my cable bill today, I had asked the people there why I would need to pay for basic cable, if the digital package has it included... Didn't really get an answer on that, but Apparently I'm now paying about $20 less for Digital/Basic/Internet then I was for just Basic/Internet...

(yea, I'm paying $86 for basic/digital/internet and $106 for basic/internet....)

oh, and somehow I got free HBO/Cinemax/Showtime/Stars, It might be because my building sucks and they just left it 'open' and anyone with a box can get em. I'm not gunna ask 'hey, why do I got hbo?' no piont in risking the loss of HBO dammit!

 

Of course, this happens AFTER True-Blood, Californication, and Dexter have finished. >_<

[Haxorsist]

I also watched Max Manus. I thought it was pretty good, but I wouldn't say it's the best Norwegian film I've seen. I give it a 7/10.

[Dunbar]

oh come on <.<

 

Say Day of the Dead this morning

 

quite zombie-tacular

 

6/10!

 

[Silver]

I just recently had a marathon of Star Trek 2, 3 and 4. Got them as a christmas present.

[Majsju]

Best norwegian movie is of course Slipp Jimmy fri, but only because Bröderna Dal was not made as a movie ;D

[bad company]

Rewatched the goonies!

Man I love that movie definately a favorite!