what was the last movie you watched?
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Add me to the list of folks who saw the new Mummy flick.
Sigh.
The cheese factor was high, and not always in a good way. Despite their goofiness, I was a big fan of the first two in the series because they managed to maintain a certain amount of charm. And, while I overall enjoyed a lot of this film, that charm is officially gone. I normally like Maria Bello, but she was horrible here. Whoever the kid was who played the son? He should never, ever work again. Ever. He may actually be a worse actor than the bastard lovechild of Paul Walker and Hayden Christiansen. Also, I missed the somewhat nerdy/librarian puzzle solving aspect of the first to films.
There's enough fun to recommend it to anyone prepared to turn their brains off for a couple hours, and my completely nonsexual crush on Michelle Yeoh is still raging (she's just pure awesomeness), but it didn't quite feel right.
Lastly, a note to Hollywood. There's a reason that fight scenes have been filmed in long, wide shots for decades and decades: it's not because people lacked the technology necessary to throw a camera over their shoulders, it's because *** kicking is much easier to appreciate when you can actually see what's going on.
Sigh.
The cheese factor was high, and not always in a good way. Despite their goofiness, I was a big fan of the first two in the series because they managed to maintain a certain amount of charm. And, while I overall enjoyed a lot of this film, that charm is officially gone. I normally like Maria Bello, but she was horrible here. Whoever the kid was who played the son? He should never, ever work again. Ever. He may actually be a worse actor than the bastard lovechild of Paul Walker and Hayden Christiansen. Also, I missed the somewhat nerdy/librarian puzzle solving aspect of the first to films.
There's enough fun to recommend it to anyone prepared to turn their brains off for a couple hours, and my completely nonsexual crush on Michelle Yeoh is still raging (she's just pure awesomeness), but it didn't quite feel right.
Lastly, a note to Hollywood. There's a reason that fight scenes have been filmed in long, wide shots for decades and decades: it's not because people lacked the technology necessary to throw a camera over their shoulders, it's because *** kicking is much easier to appreciate when you can actually see what's going on.
OK, so you really have to stop just listing the movies and go into some detail. Kinda like the draft threads. 
Anyways, it was entertaining although not as entertaining as the first 2 Mummy movies. And I have to agree with GGG, I didn't like Maria Bello as the co-star. I missed seeing Rachel Weisz. I thought her and Brenden Fraser had alot more chemistry than Maria Bello and Brenden Fraser did.
The X Files - I want to Believe
I really want to believe that this was an excuse to start up the series again in a new way, but I know that's not going to happen.
I went expecting exactly what I got..an almost 2 hr episode, would have made a great pilot for a new series.
Anyone expecting anymore than that is going to be disappointed.
But this xphiler was very happy. Even though I apparently still have issues with the whole Mulder/Scully relationship thing.
I really want to believe that this was an excuse to start up the series again in a new way, but I know that's not going to happen.
I went expecting exactly what I got..an almost 2 hr episode, would have made a great pilot for a new series.
Anyone expecting anymore than that is going to be disappointed.
But this xphiler was very happy.
Even though I apparently still have issues with the whole Mulder/Scully relationship thing.
I saw Death Race tonight.
I loved it (not surprisingly), but that was a pretty bad choice on my date's part. Between Jason Statham and Natalie Martinez, I kept forgetting that I was even in a theater, let alone with another human being. I was entirely too lost in my own little world. My own wonderful little world.
Sigh.
Overall the movie was pretty bad, to be honest, but... at times it felt like they made it special, just for me.
I loved it (not surprisingly), but that was a pretty bad choice on my date's part. Between Jason Statham and Natalie Martinez, I kept forgetting that I was even in a theater, let alone with another human being. I was entirely too lost in my own little world. My own wonderful little world.
Sigh.
Overall the movie was pretty bad, to be honest, but... at times it felt like they made it special, just for me.
Reign Over Me -- not as good as Sandler fanboys or everything 9/11 = great types try to make it sound, but solid. Weakest point was the over the top nuttiness of Sandler's character, who quite clearly should have been institutionalized and who no rational human being would have wanted to be around for more than 30 seconds. Bonus points for portraying an upper middle class black family as a) the main characters; and b) an actual normal upper middle class family with normal issues as opposed to screeching stereotypes.
Unearthed -- crappy horror. Somebody find the scriptwriter and shoot him please.
Hills Have Eyes II -- just what you would expect. Half notch up for people actually fighting back for once.
Jane Austen Book Club -- drowned in the estrogen, had to abandon after about half an hour
The Last Winter -- gaia fights back movie mired halfway between interesting and pretentious/boring
My Super Ex-Girlfriend -- largely sucked, which was no surprise. Way to have a weak premise, and then get even less out of it than you should have.
The Ruins -- frustrating. Good setup. Only one annoying character early, get into the mess wihtout too many reaches. And then...nobody does anything. Solution to being in hyper-perilous life or death situation? Lie down and take a nap in a tent. That'll fix it.
Unearthed -- crappy horror. Somebody find the scriptwriter and shoot him please.
Hills Have Eyes II -- just what you would expect. Half notch up for people actually fighting back for once.
Jane Austen Book Club -- drowned in the estrogen, had to abandon after about half an hour
The Last Winter -- gaia fights back movie mired halfway between interesting and pretentious/boring
My Super Ex-Girlfriend -- largely sucked, which was no surprise. Way to have a weak premise, and then get even less out of it than you should have.
The Ruins -- frustrating. Good setup. Only one annoying character early, get into the mess wihtout too many reaches. And then...nobody does anything. Solution to being in hyper-perilous life or death situation? Lie down and take a nap in a tent. That'll fix it.
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Sigh. Well, I did see them, so...:
Jumper -- sigh. Just dumb. And starring Darth Vader too, who apparently thinks cornering the market on selfish teenage moodiness and absolutely atrocious line deliveries is the key to a secure future in the biz. Rapidly becoming a least favorite "actor". Hey at least Rachel Bilson looked really cute in it -- knew I should have bumped her up in my queue in the babe draft.
Walking Tall -- sigh again. anybody who knows anything about the original knows that it was a hard edged, dark, and downright nasty piece of 70s cinema -- this remake starring the utterly unintimidating The Rock however is none of the above, and again is just dumb. Dumb. Dumb. Dumb. Dumb. Dumb.
Jumper -- sigh. Just dumb. And starring Darth Vader too, who apparently thinks cornering the market on selfish teenage moodiness and absolutely atrocious line deliveries is the key to a secure future in the biz. Rapidly becoming a least favorite "actor". Hey at least Rachel Bilson looked really cute in it -- knew I should have bumped her up in my queue in the babe draft.
Walking Tall -- sigh again. anybody who knows anything about the original knows that it was a hard edged, dark, and downright nasty piece of 70s cinema -- this remake starring the utterly unintimidating The Rock however is none of the above, and again is just dumb. Dumb. Dumb. Dumb. Dumb. Dumb.
Wow, what a run of garbage flicks. I can only assume you (A) have infinite time on your hands, (B) have already watched every worthwhile film in existence, (C) lost another bet to a girlfriend with questionable taste, or quite possibly (D) all of the above. I saw the jumbled mess that was Babylon AD (Dad picked it, I wasn't about to spend my movie $$$ there on my own) - one of those movies where they don't tell you what is going on for a while, when they do they aren't really very clear on what's going on and why (especially "globally" in the film), then you kinda have an idea on why something major in the film might be important, then they kinda drop off the ending and leave you scratching your head.
Really, don't bother....
Really, don't bother....
Apparently the director didn't like it either
http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/babylon-director-badmouths-film.html
http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/babylon-director-badmouths-film.html
Apparently the director didn't like it either
http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/babylon-director-badmouths-film.html
http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/babylon-director-badmouths-film.html
Also, it is one of those movies where the fight scenes are filmed close and choppy, so you can't really see how bad the fighting really is, I guess.
Oh, and one of the most visually arresting scenes in the movie (and also is in the trailer, so no "spoiler" with this) is the scene where there is an explosion right in front of the female hero (Aurora) and the fire and shockwave flow around her and seemingly don't affect her at all.
Problem is:
they don't explain what it was that protected her and how! She is pregnant with twins (apparently a virgin pregnancy - fits in with the religious portion of the movie) and they insinuate that the babies did it. Um, OK. And soon thereafter the movie flashes to later and she is apparently dead and the babies are maybe 4-5 years old. There was some babble earlier in the film about Aurora having been genetically altered and learning from a "suercomputer" as an infant/in the womb (I can't remember right now), as if that explains everything.
Pretty much it. No further explanation, no feeling of where the characters are headed after the film ends, no showing what happened to the powerful "bad" character in the film chasing them trying to get the girl and the babies, nothing.
Pretty much it. No further explanation, no feeling of where the characters are headed after the film ends, no showing what happened to the powerful "bad" character in the film chasing them trying to get the girl and the babies, nothing.
Apparently the director didn't like it either
http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/babylon-director-badmouths-film.html
http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/babylon-director-badmouths-film.html