mikidiki
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You can say that again! I was ready to walk out of it 1/2 way through but my friend felt "compelled" to sit through it, even though he thought it was as bad
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You can say that again! I was ready to walk out of it 1/2 way through but my friend felt "compelled" to sit through it, even though he thought it was as bad
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HumphreyB
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I seen two kids movies this week - the one the kids begged to see - How to Train a Dragon (3D) and the one I wanted to see - Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang. Both were very good kids' movies for different reasons.
The Dragon film was a pleasant, cute American film, complete with a lovable dragon and Vikings speaking in broad Scottish accents - except our hero, who is a typical American questioning teenager, reshaping his world. The graphics and detail is awesome and its not awash with these contemporary cultural references that have been overused in most animated films in the past few years.
Nanny McPhee is, however, a more English style of film - gentle social commentary mixed with moral teaching - though with a fair degree of bodily functions, dung and an cartoonish action and plot. But I think it was a better film for kids, because it shows a more real life and how they should act towards other kids. And its screenplay was by Emma Thompson.
The Dragon film was a pleasant, cute American film, complete with a lovable dragon and Vikings speaking in broad Scottish accents - except our hero, who is a typical American questioning teenager, reshaping his world. The graphics and detail is awesome and its not awash with these contemporary cultural references that have been overused in most animated films in the past few years.
Nanny McPhee is, however, a more English style of film - gentle social commentary mixed with moral teaching - though with a fair degree of bodily functions, dung and an cartoonish action and plot. But I think it was a better film for kids, because it shows a more real life and how they should act towards other kids. And its screenplay was by Emma Thompson.
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Goldenberry
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Last night, and this morning, we watched "Twilight: New Moon"
I thought it was very much like the fist film in the series really (even the plot development was similar), though obviously the werewolves played a much bigger role, and they were the best part.
We both thought Bella was a bit self centred and ungrateful, so I guess you could see we are a couple of team Jacob old farts.
So it was watchable, I'd give it 7/10, whereas the first flick is probably a 6.5. Still not in the same league as "Harry Potter", or esepcially LOTR. But I guess the latter is different genre entirely,
I thought it was very much like the fist film in the series really (even the plot development was similar), though obviously the werewolves played a much bigger role, and they were the best part.
We both thought Bella was a bit self centred and ungrateful, so I guess you could see we are a couple of team Jacob old farts.
So it was watchable, I'd give it 7/10, whereas the first flick is probably a 6.5. Still not in the same league as "Harry Potter", or esepcially LOTR. But I guess the latter is different genre entirely,
Karaoke
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I watched 2001 on BluRay last night.
Still a stunning film from so many directions. From the ape-men cowering in the rocks and listening to growls in the distance, to the glorious lunar flights waltzing through space to the Blue Danube, to the emotionally disjointed astronauts dealing with a computer having self competency issues...
There is so much in that damn film.
Over 30 years later, no movie has done "space" better.
The film starts with 5 minutes or so of black screen and powerful mood setting music. It's weird on a TV, but I remember it in the cinema. It cleared your mind of the advertisements and got you into the spirit of what was to come.
Still a stunning film from so many directions. From the ape-men cowering in the rocks and listening to growls in the distance, to the glorious lunar flights waltzing through space to the Blue Danube, to the emotionally disjointed astronauts dealing with a computer having self competency issues...
There is so much in that damn film.
Over 30 years later, no movie has done "space" better.
The film starts with 5 minutes or so of black screen and powerful mood setting music. It's weird on a TV, but I remember it in the cinema. It cleared your mind of the advertisements and got you into the spirit of what was to come.
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Karaoke
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2010 is an okay film. I has some fine moments in it. But it's a conventional Hollywood movie.
It is probably closer to what Arthur C Clarke writes actually. Clarke is a Sci Fi writer. He likes technology and alien civilisations and all that. But his stories are often only on the surface emotionally.
But Kubrick added much deeper layers to the story.
Mud Cake
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2010 is good because we find that the monoliths are living beings of a sort. They turn Jupiter into a 2nd Sun and Euoropa into Earth 2.0..
I liked how there was something moving under the icy waters of Europa and that it was able to kill the probe they sent..... We never find out what it was but it was alive.
2010 wasn't perfect but it was good and there was a fair bit of realism given to the technology in use on the film.
Arthur C. Clarke wrote a follow up to this called 3001
Karaoke
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MC, yeah, the more I think of it, the more I have good memories of 2010. I'll have to borrow it. See how it works in a 2001/2010 marathon.
2012... I went into that with low expectations. I just wanted to see stuff blow up. And I still came out hating it. The Dumbness was just too strong.
2012 was great!
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josephine
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Brothers - a typical drama movie where nothing really happens and the aim of the movie is to provoke emotion. Well it's a pretty basic movie really, married guy goes off to Afghanistan (must be in his second or third stint), gets caputured and held hostage, tortured etc. with a fellow soldier. Only he comes back. Wife and his family are told that he is dead. The start of the movie is where we see the husband pick his younger brother up from jail.
It's explained that the wife has no family, she only has her in-laws and the brother in law. So the brother helps out his sis-inlaw, gets friendly with the kids etc. they just about have a "sympathy root" but don't. Husband comes back, he has mental problems understandably. Nothing much really happens after that. Which is like only about 20 minutes of the movie left. *scratches head*. For me it started off promising, but then died in the arse.
It's explained that the wife has no family, she only has her in-laws and the brother in law. So the brother helps out his sis-inlaw, gets friendly with the kids etc. they just about have a "sympathy root" but don't. Husband comes back, he has mental problems understandably. Nothing much really happens after that. Which is like only about 20 minutes of the movie left. *scratches head*. For me it started off promising, but then died in the arse.
Mud Cake
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2012 was heaps fun for things blowing up..... Yay for that especially the way they depicted Yellowstone National Park going nova..... As you know most of Yellowstone is a dormant caldera (basin of a volcano) and one day it's gonna blow....
Oooh was fun but yeah that movie was full of dumb,, but I forgave it that as it was a popcorn movie..... Now "Knowing" was a daft movie.... The ending totally sucked. You have to see it for the full effect
Oh speaking of Yellowstone here's a photo of "morning glory"
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wynter
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I watched The Time Travellers Wife last night. I can't decide if I liked it or not. It was watchable but not earth shattering. Wouldn't make my top 100 list and I wouldn't recommend it as a must see movie. The only redeeming feature was getting to see a lot of Eric Bana naked.
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Goldenberry
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I remember pestering my parents to take me to that when it was in teh cinema, about 10. That'd be about right, because I just turned 40 last month. Anyways, wonderful pic indeed, my folks hated it, I loved it.
Mud Cake
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I wonder if that whole face thing was intentional or not.
Also happened during Independence Day when they pull into the mothership the dock looks like a goats head satanic kind of symbol..... However I think in this case it was intentional..
Immortal
A weird french film that was made in english. Very odd film that doesn't work. It's set in 2095 and basically does nothing to set up the world it's set in, or anything that's going on. So it's a futristic new york, with a pyramid flying above it. Some medical company is corrupt and doing evil things.. or something.. And it deals with the Egyptian God Horus who has 7 days on earth before he's to die or something... There's a mysterious chick with blue hair and white skin, with no real memory. A lady at the big medical company takes an interest in her as she's unique. Horus then takes over the body of a prisoner he helped escape and has to get the blue haired chick pregnant so he can live on.
It's all just so vague, lots of random things happening and you don't know why. The film gives no access point to the world. Apparently it's meant to be a cinematic graphic novel, and an art film. That doesn't excuse it from being dull. Maybe if you took still frames and wrote the dialogue it'd be good.. who knows..
It was one of the first digital backlot films. It's from 2004 btw. So that means there's very few sets, most against green screens. The films CGI heavy, mainly because a lot of the humans are CG. Very odd how it has real humans and fake humans who are a little too cartoony. It's meant to represent how in this future many humans have altered themselves to the point of not being human. There's also aliens.. none of it really explained.
Yeah wouldn't recommend this film. Some of the visuals are nice but it just seems to be one of those films that is hollow, no character development. No sense of plot or access to it all. No access point at all, to get into the story, characters, just yeah nothing.
It always surprises me with films like this. How did they get made? A lot of work would have gone in to it. So how did no one know that there was no real story, character or sense of anything going on. It was directed by the guy who wrote the series of graphic novels it was based on. Might explain for some of this. Someone working with an intimate knowledge of the universe and characters, then never gave any of that insight, or understood those outside of this would be lost.
A weird french film that was made in english. Very odd film that doesn't work. It's set in 2095 and basically does nothing to set up the world it's set in, or anything that's going on. So it's a futristic new york, with a pyramid flying above it. Some medical company is corrupt and doing evil things.. or something.. And it deals with the Egyptian God Horus who has 7 days on earth before he's to die or something... There's a mysterious chick with blue hair and white skin, with no real memory. A lady at the big medical company takes an interest in her as she's unique. Horus then takes over the body of a prisoner he helped escape and has to get the blue haired chick pregnant so he can live on.
It's all just so vague, lots of random things happening and you don't know why. The film gives no access point to the world. Apparently it's meant to be a cinematic graphic novel, and an art film. That doesn't excuse it from being dull. Maybe if you took still frames and wrote the dialogue it'd be good.. who knows..
It was one of the first digital backlot films. It's from 2004 btw. So that means there's very few sets, most against green screens. The films CGI heavy, mainly because a lot of the humans are CG. Very odd how it has real humans and fake humans who are a little too cartoony. It's meant to represent how in this future many humans have altered themselves to the point of not being human. There's also aliens.. none of it really explained.
Yeah wouldn't recommend this film. Some of the visuals are nice but it just seems to be one of those films that is hollow, no character development. No sense of plot or access to it all. No access point at all, to get into the story, characters, just yeah nothing.
It always surprises me with films like this. How did they get made? A lot of work would have gone in to it. So how did no one know that there was no real story, character or sense of anything going on. It was directed by the guy who wrote the series of graphic novels it was based on. Might explain for some of this. Someone working with an intimate knowledge of the universe and characters, then never gave any of that insight, or understood those outside of this would be lost.