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I watched RED last night.
It was an action packed shoot em up with bruce Willis.
I liked it, even tho it was a very familiar story line.
 
On Sunday, went to see "THOR"

Went in with average expectations, and it was if anything better than expected. Cool special effects, creatures, frost giants, and though the live action seemed to have gaps in some of the action sequences, the battles worked well I think.

Always like sci fi when the scene changes to different planets or worlds, that is something I liked in recent Star Trek, and the original Star Wars movies.

Chris Hemsworth did well in his part, we didn't have to suffer through a phoney US accent, and the only shame was that when not in his Thor costume, he had his shirt on too often, though you do still get about 30 seconds or so of shirtless.

Stellan Skarsgard i always like, and he was humorous in the right spots as supporting cast, and Portman was innocuous and anonymous enough for my liking. And heck, we even had Tony Hopkins playing the same kind of role he did in Beowulf!

:cool: Go see it, we need more superhero movies, 3.5 / 5.

Also, saw a preview for Captain America, with Chris Evans, so that will be on the cards also. :)
 
Fanboy and I are having a bit of a dvd weekend because it's been AGES since we've been out to the movies and have consequently fallen quite behind on our viewing. So far we've watched:

Devil
5 people stuck in a lift, one of them is The Devil. Better than I was expecting, but not scary by any stretch of the imagination. An interesting idea though!

Monsters
Really, really enjoyed it! Something a bit different and well handled. A pleasant surprise.

Tron Legacy
~ugh~ Monumental silliness, and not even super fun silliness like something like Speed Racer. Every moment of this film was excruciating, I seriously considered putting my eyes out with a cheese flavoured Dorito just to stop the agony.
 
Source Code

Interesting film. Don't know what to say, it's done quite well and very little wrong with it. Enjoyed it. Could have been tenser though. did kind of breeze through it quickly. Cool idea though.
 
dobergirl said:
Monsters
Really, really enjoyed it! Something a bit different and well handled. A pleasant surprise.
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I really liked that movie too. Whenever I hear a Marc Fennell (That Movie Guy on JJJ) review that's good, I get the movie/dvd. I trust his taste.
 
Thor in 3d and Source code with numba1son.

Thor was far more believable (and enjoyable) than Source code, though it certainly didn't need to be in 3d , and I hate how 3d tends to rob movies of brightness and contrast.

The other week I also saw "Paul" with numba1son.

My review/rating submitted to the Hoyts site on that is:


Brit writer actor obviously taking the p!ss of typical USofA movies with the potty mouth talk & bottom "humour". Should stick to appealing to Brit and Oz audiences and leave the low-brow gutter stuff out of things. As for the suggestion that Christians would find little grey men ala 'aliens' some sort of challenge to their faith, the actual opposite is true. The bible is full of details about non human species that can do a whole bunch of stuff we currently can't. IE Angels & demons, etc ...
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Saw Water for Elephants and really enjoyed it, here is Marg & Dave's review -

http://www.abc.net.au/atthemovies/txt/s3206367.htm

Water for Elephants
Rated M
Review by Margaret Pomeranz

One of the most popular books of recent years has been Sara Gruen's 2006 novel WATER FOR ELEPHANTS. It stars ROBERT PATTINSON as Jacob Jankowski a young man of immigrant parents who is just about to sit his final exams in veterinary science at Cornell University when he learns his parents have been killed in a road crash.

The year is 1932, it is the Depression. With no money and no family, Jacob takes to the roads and the railway tracks, lucking onto a circus train. Joining the circus he becomes, because of his background, the carer of Rosie the elephant on which the star of the circus, Marlena, REESE WITHERSPOON, will shine..

Marlene's increasingly unstable husband August, CHRISTOPH WALTZ, is suspicious of the relationship between his wife and Jacob..

This is a most fabulous film, the performances of the three leads are exemplary, I've never seen Reese Witherspoon better and Waltz dazzles, he is just so good. But there's so much more. The sheer magic of the circus - the big top going up is so exhilarating - the performances, particularly of Rosie just make you remember how wonderful that world is.

Of course in the film it has its dark side, but both are well handled by director Francis Lawrence, a music video director who has ventured into film with CONSTANTINE and I AM LEGEND. I was totally entranced by WATER FOR ELEPHANTS from the opening moment to the end.

Further comments
MARGARET: David?

DAVID: It was quite a surprise because Francis Lawrence's previous feature films, as you say, CONSTANTINE and I AM LEGEND, I thought were sort of ordinary.

MARGARET: Yes. Yes.

DAVID: But this, I think, is more than that. I think it's a lovely film. I haven't read the book but I believe that characters have been telescoped and amalgamated so that originally the husband of Marlena was not the same as the circus owner but it seems like a good idea to put those characters together. I think Christoph Waltz is marvellous. Thank goodness for Quentin Tarantino for using him in INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS so that now he's getting all these chances in American films.

MARGARET: Yes.

DAVID: He has such an ability to combine charm and menace in the same thing and he does it so beautifully.

MARGARET: Yes, he's just wonderful.

DAVID: I also like very much the framing story, with Hal Holbrook playing 90-something year old Jacob, who has wandered out of the retirement home because his 70 year old son forgot to come and pick him up and arrives at this circus and is telling his story and the whole thing is told in...

MARGARET: To Paul Schneider.

DAVID: Yes.

MARGARET: It's full of really good performers, this.

DAVID: It's a really good cast, yes.

MARGARET: But there's just something really - maybe old fashioned and lovely about this film.

DAVID: I think that's very true. I think it's a very old fashioned film. Maybe...

MARGARET: Maybe that's why I responded to it so well.

DAVID: I was about to say the same thing myself. I think so.

MARGARET: Look, I'm giving it four and a half stars. Really I loved it.

DAVID: Yes, I think it's maybe the best circus movie since THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH. I'm giving it four stars.
 
I finally saw Love and other Drugs. Wow. I understand why every interview focussed on the sex scenes now.

I didn't love it. Didn't hate it. It was alright. Though I have this new found ahhh...affection... for Jake Gyllenhaal. Oh. Yes.
 
Casino Jack

This came out a year or two ago. About super lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Who went to jail for selling access to politicians in the USA. Guy was a scum bag. Really dishonest guy all about making money, image and show. The odd thing about the film, which is decent, is that you feel it doesn't quite expose how bad he was. This was a guy who knew everyone in Washington. Film shows him bribing congressmen, selling access to George Bush and so forth. All true. Yet it's probably a case of, this is just what is known because really this is what goes on every day in Washington. This guy didn't stay with in the borders of flying under the radar.
Something was lacking, but it was entertaining.
 
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