Yes!  Sweet, sweet validation twice in one day!

 

Originally posted by Nerd-o-rama:
Spoiler: Everybody dies.  Except Mr. Pink, of course.

Ahem, spoiler tags please. There's some undiscovered native tribes located deep within the Amazon who may not have seen it yet.

Saw II

I liked the first one, but I kept saying to myself, "Boy, that was enjoyable, but it would have been 12% better if New Kids on The Block were in it. Well, this sequel has 20% of NKOTB, so that makes it....2.4% better than the original? That sounds about right.
Jigsaw's puzzles are pretty kewl in this one. The movie's kinda predictable, but that's okay. The ending works, except for maybe the "let's show the whole movie in flashbacks now!" part, which bugs me a bit. The first one had that too, no?
2 (severed) thumbs up. lolz. ...

B

So I just watched The Crow tonight, for the first time in a long time.  I remember skipping school to see this the day it came out.  It was actually better than I remembered in some ways.  It's interesting watching Alex Proyas' direction from so long ago, and seeing an obviously immature technique, derivative where it didn't have to be, and Hollywood edited, but still being able to see a master in total command of style and creating a visual esthetic no one else could approach.  It was exactly like listening to Hellhammer.

In fact, that's a telling analogy, because if this movie had come out two years earlier, the music would have been much better.  But by '94, grunge had broken and crashed already, and the movie played to some cobbled-together post-grunge scene that probably didn't really exist.  But the grunge kids weren't violent, and they did't relate to desperation and arson.

Whereas by 1992 Fantoft had already burnt down, and the violence, darkness, leather, melancholy, and corpse paint had a ready audience in the black metal kids who were already devouring the comic book.

At the time I was into the thrash scene and I had a J. O'Barr t-shirt that was the gothest thing I've ever owned, and I wore it to the movie on opening day.  I must have been 15, and probably owned about 5 other shirts, all with metal band logos on them.  I would have appreciated something on the soundtrack more befitting the film's overall esthetic than the Stone Temple Pilots.

And Brandon Lee should have been a star.  He moved just like his father.  That guy had potential.  Stupid family curses.

 

Originally posted by canned eggs:

And Brandon Lee should have been a star.  He moved just like his father.  That guy had potential.  Stupid family curses.

The only movie of his I've seen is Rapid Fire.  Sure, it's a pretty basic Hollywood martial arts movie, but it's fun as hell to watch.  I haven't seen it in a long time.  I should pick it up on DVD before it goes out of print.

*Charlie and the Chocolate Factory*

A++++++++++
I LOVED IT!!!! I never thought Johnny Depp would ever do some thing like that, or even be able to do something like that! Never underestimate that man, he's great! It was halarious!   

I saw two movies yesterday:

Madagascar
It was funny and cute in some parts but I felt some of it didn't have to be in there. Like the little fuzzy things danceing.B-


Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
I saw Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, I thought that was alot better. The ending to this new one was super lame. The only good parts in the movie were: The squirrels where cuter than the Geese in the 1971 movie and Some newer jokes. I think more people need to see the old movie. D+

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire


A good movie, and a better adaptation than the third.  This time, they actually kept a few of the subplots intact.  They don't conclude any of them, but at least they show up.  Harry and Cho's mutual interest doesn't get played up quite as much as in the book, though the scenes they do have are so excruciatingly lame that that's likely a blessing.  Rita Skeeter gets shunted into the background - unfortunate for such a hilarious character, but expected - and Hagrid's little romance plot never comes to a head, really.

Two omission complaints:
No Quidditch World Cup.  It was apparently nixed to make a longer, more interesting Harry vs. the Hungarian Horntail scene.
No Dobby.

No "training" scenes, but these were pretty much filler anyway.
Also, I forget how it went in the book, but in the movie, it seems Harry completely forgets to inform anyone of the dead Barty Crouch Sr. in the woods.

As long as I'm complaining, the movie did have one or two improvements over the book: Cedric doesn't go out like quite as much of a complete punk, and...err...Dumbledore was bitchier?  No, that's a directing complaint.

Anyway, I'm tired.  Good movie, passable adaptation.

Oh, the award for Most Hilarious and Disturning Scene goes to Harry and Myrtle in the bath.

EDIT: One big thing was excised so completely that I didn't even realize it until now: Fred and George's Joke Shop.  Ludo Bagman ceased to exist entirely, as did their experimental candies and Harry's sizeable loan to them.  This doesn't really matter, as it was just the setup for some bigger events, and they've gotten away without that before - no introduction of Cedric or Cho in PoA, for example.  Just thought I'd mention it.

Newhook_1 Goes to Seaworld

An incredible experience of love, fear, honour, passion. The relationship between Newhook and the sperm whale was one of the most realistic portrayals of human/sea-creature relations ever to be witnessed in a movie. My only complaint is that the climax was highly lacking, and the turtle's lines were completely under-written.

B+

Oh, and I loved Scarecrow's cameo. 

Beamer and Newhook Annoy PEEL
They did it so well... but I still hate them.

F-

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Well it was certainly enjoable enough and the kids acting has improved, which is certainly a good thing.

I was disappointed that Bagman was not in the film. Although depending on how you look at it the lack of Dobby and Winky was probably a good thing. It also seemed like they were trying to play up the Nevile character (I don't remember him being good at dancing in the book).

They also have seemed to add more humour into this one, which I would assume was there to counter balence the darker end of the movie. The sceen with Mertyl and Harry was disturbingly funny.

Well since it is a movie they extened the action sequences quite abit. The dragon sceen actually went on for quite a while and they changed the nature of the maze.

The adult actors were also good thorughout but I did think some bits were odd mainly Dumbledors aggression. Alan Rickman was good as always as Snape.


All in all I enjoyed the film and look for ward to the next.

A-

Oh I want to see it

Walk the Line
I won tickets to an advanced screening of this movie off indie 103.1; great music station. The movie was really good, I highly suggest everyone go watch it. Witherspoon has always been kind of a ditzy actress that doesn't get any 'good roles' - but after this, I see her career taking a turn for the better, even though it wasn't that bad to begin with, just all chick-flicky.

Pheonix did an amazing job portraying Johnny, too. My only gripe is even though it was indeed a long film, I would have liked another half hour or full hour to go further into his life. ::POSSIBLE SPOILER:::
The movie cuts off when he's about 35 years old.

Aparrently (I dont know this for sure one of my mates told me) they just put that Fargo was based on a true story to boost viewing stats? is this right?

Try Big Lebowski next, it's awesome.

Harry Potter GoF

I didn't like it : ( It was too short. What. It needed at least two more hours. At least.

Who wants to win Eternal Glory? 1000 Galleons is much better. They didn't even mention any money involved (unless I was drifting away from a moment there) No Bagman, very very very disappointed... no twins planning on a joke shop... the beginning... I mean, everything was just rushed. Suddenly they were at the Quidditch cup and then two minutes later they are at Hogwarts and then they add parts like ... dancing lessons !? Fleur and Krum hardly talked... and the Pensieve scene, didn't like that at all, what about Bella? Barty jr. pleading to his father not to be sent to Azkaban instead of being totally insane.

I liked Voldy and Cho, and Cedric did a very good job being pretty. And there were some funny scenes, like the bathroom one. Myrtle is great.

Wonder how they'll do the next movie.

I don't think I should grade this, because I coudln't watch it as a movie, I compare it to the book. So. Read the books! Then laugh at the people who only watch the movies.

   

Originally posted by M. Proctor:
It needed at least two more hours. At least.

At a projectionist, let me just go on record as saying: I hate you.

Things in Harry Potter and the Big Burning Cup (American title) that made me laugh out loud (based on 3-ish viewings on the projectionist's viewing schedule):

1. Snape smacking Haryy, Ron, and Hermione around in study hall or whatever that was.
2. Flitwick crowd-surfing.
3. Hagrid feeling up Madame Maxime.

Other thoughts (spoilers ahoy!):

• More Fred and George than the first three combined = good.
• Veela?  What's a veela?
• Apparently *somebody* doesn't think Hagrid's matrilineage is important.
• No house elves? Hot damn!
• Gary Oldman: shafted!
• Maybe Voldemort should have had Wormtail cut off his nose for the revival?
• Reduced role for Rita Skeetworth?  Fine by me.
• The maze was a hell of a lot creepier without sphinxes with crappy riddles, thank you very much.
• I was disappointed that they left out the part where Harry flips out at Ron and hits him in the forehead with a button.  I liked that part in the book.
• Despite the very disjointed sequence in which I've seen it, it seems to have very good flow and smooth transistions.

All in all, it's the best of the 4 so far.  Admittedly, Big Burning Cup is my favorite book, but that's not the point.

Saw it again today. In America (at least every Harry Potter book I've seen) has been  called by what it was entitled by J.K. Rowling, including Goblet of Fire and the movie..

i am still waiting for someone to tell me why every single person is crazy about Harry Potter...

now i barely read the books (i read a few pages of the first one and got bored real fast) so maybe i'm just too ignorant to get it.

oh, saw batman begins last night. not so bad.

Alls I knows is that one of the actresses in Goblet of Fire (the French one, go figure) got her norks out in some other film.

So I'm going to watch that one instead.