The Omen: Not a bad movie, it was more interesting than it was scary. There were a few jumpy parts, but hardly frightening. However, the way they incorporated real scenes of 9/11, the Tsunami, and other things that fit the prophecy was really interesting and those who die in the movie, totally die in the same gruesome manner that the people do in the Final Destination movies. I enjoyed it a lot!! 4/5
RIP: Trailblazer and Deja Vu...heck, even Alien Encounter
Reagarding X3....I enjoyed the movie a lot, and thought it was very well done, and damn was phoenix well done. But i have to say i predicted that Xavier wasn't dead....you can't kill him, if you read comics you'd know what i meant. And with Magneto, as soon as they cured him I figured out that the cure wasn't permanent, you can't cure magneto...it's just not done. Also i did have a problem with the way Erik just stood there when Jean was killing Xavier, because though they fight Charles and Erik will always be best friends, so that bothered me...
I also thought it was cool how the new directer used a lot of stuff from the current comics, that was Joss Whedon's Wolverine, that was Brian Vaghn's Storm, and the Rogue, Kitty, Bobby, Love Triangle was also definatly Brian Vaghn's.
Anyway i'm rambling now...this is what happens when you live with someone who wants to write comic books.
I saw the Omen on 6/6/06. Got in line early (I was first in line), was worth waiting the hour in line for my favorite seat. Overall the Movie was great. I still am scared of the creatures in the Red Robes. The bad thing was everyone got mad because it was exactly like the old one.
I give it a 5/5 PERFECT!
SFGA Bob wrote:I saw DaVince Code and I was so bored I started counting the reels (7 by my count). the acting, aside from McKellen, was horrible. I've seen better acting in my own student films. the music was all over the place, only occasionally hitting the right emotional note. the cinematrography...ugh, I actually saw a difference in either exposure or film stocks between one angle and another. now that problem should have been covered in editing and post production effects, but it was left alone. overall, the directing felt amature instead of something Ron Howard is capable of.
I thought DaVinci Code was pretty good, i guess partly due to the fact that most of what you said about it I have now clue what it meant, or just don't care...I thought the story line was good, and thought the acting was also pretty good...
I saw Cars the last weekend, and let me tell you it does not suck. Owen Wilson is perfect as Lighting McQueen, Paul Newman is perfectly cast as Doc, and Larry the Cable Guy steals the show as the tow truck Mater. I am not going to go through the entire movie, but as always with Pixar, it visuals do not dissapoint. The beginning, and last race, it was hard to tell if you were watching live acvtion, or animation.
If you are fan of Pixar, don't miss this movie, and make sure you stick around during the end credits.
5/5
If it walks like socialist, quacks like socialist, smells like a socialist, .... it's a socialist. Hope, and change we can believe in.
^ yes, the casting in that movie was great, everyone fit the personality of their characters very well, and it was a pretty funny movie and had a very good story line/theme...
Blah, just got back from seeing Nacho Libre. Big disappointment. You could easily tell that the director from Napeloen Dynamite was the director from this one, too. Big time similarities between the two, and the same things I just don't find very funny.
Top 5 wood-5-Goliath 4-Ravine Flyer II 3-Phoenix 2-Voyage 1-El Toro Top 5 Steel- 5-Velocicoaster 4- Maverick 3- Fury 325 2-Steel Vengeance 1-X2 Coaster Count: 444
I just saw Elephant. Here's a plot summary: There's a bunch of teenagers and they all get shot.
Seriously. I didn't leave anything out. You follow around a bunch of highschoolers for an hour or so then you get to watch them all die in the last twenty minutes. Oh yeah, and you get to see two dudes making out in the shower. Some girls throw up. Oh yeah, you watch clouds moving across the screen for ten minutes. You see some guy playing the piano for ten minutes. The camera sits on basically everything in the movie for ten minutes. Gah.
HoffmanMyster wrote:^ yes, the casting in that movie was great, everyone fit the personality of their characters very well, and it was a pretty funny movie and had a very good story line/theme...
5/5 as well
I agree, just saw it today and another hit by PIXAR!
5/5
I still can’t stop thinking about this movie after I saw it at the 10:00 showing last night at Elk Grove Cinema. Before I fell asleep last night, while I drove to work, and even now. Last time that happened was Revenge of the Sith, and that was only because that would be the last Star Wars movie we would see on the big screen. Brandon Routh was great as Clark Kent, and even better as Superman. The opening credits are just simply awesome, and I felt like a 10-year-old watching Superman: The Movie for the first time. I even got goosebumps. At 2hr 34 min, the movie IMHO lasted about 15 minutes too long, but that is just nitpicking. A little knowledge of Superman II is needed to fill in a plot in the story, but other than that, the movie stands by itself. The 777 / shuttle scene is simply the best edge of your seat action sequence that I have seen since the subway scene in Spiderman II. Kevin Spacey is great as Lex, and Kate Bosworth is easier on the eyes than Margot Kidder as Louis Lane. Its got heart, soul, and its even a little heartwarming. When Lex gets his revenge on Superman, I felt a tug at my heart, and boy, Superman gets the s*** kicked out of him in a brutal beat down.
Forget what Ebert says about this movie, heck this is the guy who didn’t like Usual Suspects, and Spiderman, but yet thought Garfield 2 was a good film. Bryan Singer has brought back The Man of Steel, and I for one am glad that he is back after a 19 year absence. I can’t wait to see it again in IMAX 3-D this weekend. Any questions about the movie, just ask away.
5/5
If it walks like socialist, quacks like socialist, smells like a socialist, .... it's a socialist. Hope, and change we can believe in.
Click: Okay, well i know all of the critics smashed this movie, but i was in a group of about ten kids and i was the only one who didn't think it was the best adam sandler movie yet! So obviously, critics are wrong with this one. I came close to shedding the water works, both for jokes and for sad parts. It is another amazing, funny, and touching Adam Sandler movie to add to the collection. The only drawback was that it was slightly wierd at times. 4/5
RIP: Trailblazer and Deja Vu...heck, even Alien Encounter
Nice twists at the end, but I didn't really find it to be all that scary. Even the parts that were suppose to make me jump, I didn't really jump. But it was still a pretty good movie.
I still can’t stop thinking about this movie after I saw it at the 10:00 showing last night at Elk Grove Cinema. Before I fell asleep last night, while I drove to work, and even now. Last time that happened was Revenge of the Sith, and that was only because that would be the last Star Wars movie we would see on the big screen. Brandon Routh was great as Clark Kent, and even better as Superman. The opening credits are just simply awesome, and I felt like a 10-year-old watching Superman: The Movie for the first time. I even got goosebumps. At 2hr 34 min, the movie IMHO lasted about 15 minutes too long, but that is just nitpicking. A little knowledge of Superman II is needed to fill in a plot in the story, but other than that, the movie stands by itself. The 777 / shuttle scene is simply the best edge of your seat action sequence that I have seen since the subway scene in Spiderman II. Kevin Spacey is great as Lex, and Kate Bosworth is easier on the eyes than Margot Kidder as Louis Lane. Its got heart, soul, and its even a little heartwarming. When Lex gets his revenge on Superman, I felt a tug at my heart, and boy, Superman gets the s*** kicked out of him in a brutal beat down. Forget what Ebert says about this movie, heck this is the guy who didn’t like Usual Suspects, and Spiderman, but yet thought Garfield 2 was a good film. Bryan Singer has brought back The Man of Steel, and I for one am glad that he is back after a 19 year absence. I can’t wait to see it again in IMAX 3-D this weekend. Any questions about the movie, just ask away.
5/5
I agree completely, and the effects were really great. Brandon Routh actually turned out to be a really great Superman, even though I thought he wouldn't. Great movie
^ I just have add this little statement about Superman Returns. I saw it again yesterday, but this time in Imax 3-D. If you are going to see this movie, this is definatly the way to go. Its at the Regal Cinema in Lincolnshire. Only four scenes are in 3-D, but in Imax, it was well worth it. Word of advice, book your tickets in advance, because the shows do sell out.
I just saw Elephant. Here's a plot summary: There's a bunch of teenagers and they all get shot.
Seriously. I didn't leave anything out. You follow around a bunch of highschoolers for an hour or so then you get to watch them all die in the last twenty minutes. Oh yeah, and you get to see two dudes making out in the shower. Some girls throw up. Oh yeah, you watch clouds moving across the screen for ten minutes. You see some guy playing the piano for ten minutes. The camera sits on basically everything in the movie for ten minutes. Gah.
I started watching some of it, but they followed this one kid from one end of the school grounds, into the gymnasium. It seemed to go on forever. Like for ten minutes.
If it walks like socialist, quacks like socialist, smells like a socialist, .... it's a socialist. Hope, and change we can believe in.
i know this forum is a lot of guys, but i'll put in my reviews of the following movies....
The Lake House:
I thought this film was completely predictable. I kinda liked the story, but ten minutes into the story, part of the whole idea is given away, which bugged me....
The Devil Wears Prada:
Definetly better. I really liked this film. I loved the story, and meryl streep and Anne Hathaway played good roles. I also though the girl's boyfriend was totally cute to look at, and the actress who plays Lily is in Rent, one of my favorite movies. According to my friend, the middle to end of the story was changed a bit, but both of us still liked it.
^That's actually one I'd like to see. The trailer I saw for it (which seemed to go on forever) was really funny.
Pirates on Friday! Keep a weather eye open, mates. For there be plunderin' pirates lurkin' at every cove. And mark well me words, dead men tell no tales.
Every jumbled pile of person has a thinking part that wonders what the part that isn't thinking, isn't thinking of.
^ I agree. It was amazing, but completely sets you up for the next movie and just leaves you baffled (think it like this movie and the next movie make one long movie, but they cut it into two parts). The beginning is a little confusing at first but then you get really into it.
We went opening day, and it was packed. Couldn't get in until 9:10 pm.
I liked it even though the story seems like the good/bad guys are reversed. Like magento seems like a good guy, I mean he lived through the holocaust and knows what intolorance can do to a race and he sees it starting again as a mutant holocaust, so he fights it for the good of mutant kind. While the x-men seem to be as magento said "trailors to their own cause" when they fight their own kind of people. Plus the way beast stabbed magento with the cure that seemed messed up to me. I dunno. But I HATE how they made cyclops as a little crybaby sissy for his 20 minutes of being in the movie. But overall, I enjoyed it.
Okay, that's called greiving, not being a little crybaby sissy. And Magneto isn't really a bad guy. He and Charles are best friends, they both want the same thing they just go about getting in in different ways. The only reason that he's considered a "bad guy" and the X-men are considered the "good guys" is because magneto doesnt' really care about human life, but the X-men do.
And why was that messed up, if there's a guy killing a bunch of people, you'd think you'd want to stop him. Yeah he was cured but also if you know anything about the comic book industry, A. you can't cure magneto. b. SPOILER You can't kill Xaivier. END SPOILER. and when those things happen i knew that the cure was temporary and that Xavier wasn't dead. So it's really an opinoin quesion, personally i'm on the X-men side.
Binks Drake wrote:Okay, that's called greiving, not being a little crybaby sissy. And Magneto isn't really a bad guy. He and Charles are best friends, they both want the same thing they just go about getting in in different ways. The only reason that he's considered a "bad guy" and the X-men are considered the "good guys" is because magneto doesnt' really care about human life, but the X-men do.
And why was that messed up, if there's a guy killing a bunch of people, you'd think you'd want to stop him. Yeah he was cured but also if you know anything about the comic book industry, A. you can't cure magneto. b. SPOILER You can't kill Xaivier. END SPOILER. and when those things happen i knew that the cure was temporary and that Xavier wasn't dead. So it's really an opinoin quesion, personally i'm on the X-men side.
I know he's "grieving" I just hate how they used his character. He was in movie what? The first half hour, then jean kills him; you know what the worse part is? NO ONE CARES. "scott died omg wait nvm we found jean yay!" Way to piss on a character guys.
I don't know about magento, it's just weird to me for some reason. Plus his lead when the first wave of his rebel mutants attacks and pyro was about to go with them and he said "No the pawns go first" and how he left myqustie (sp) after she was cured which felt like the writers were trying to make him look like he only cares about himself but he wants the mutant race to succeed....it's just confusing.
I don't know I have to side with Magento because the scene where the underground mutants ask where's his mark at and he shows them his holocaust number and said "no ink shall ever touch this skin again" made the idea of trying to stop another wave of intolorance before it gets really out of control a good one.
I saw Lady in the Water last night at midnight. Sadly, I have to say it's not his best...nor is it any better than 'The Village' (although, I liked The Village, it wasn't his best either). I enjoyed most of it, but it was very confusing. Every scene seemed like it was trying to feed us exposition. There was alot less emotion in this one, too. In his other films you could easily feel the emotion of the characters. This one, just seemed to tell a story and gave little emotional involvment.
And where was the Syamalan switcheroo? I look forward to that in each of his movies. Either it doesn't exsist in this one, or it was just way too obvious to be shocking.
Although, this is probably the funniest movie he's made (intentionally, of course). Most of his movies have those great comedic scenes that really make me laugh, like in Unbreakable when he's lifting weights and the kid progressivly moves up the stairs.
If you are a Shyamalan fan, go see it. If you want to get scared, wait until it comes out. There weren't many scary scenes and it's way too confusing, you'll probably want to pause and rewind it to figure out what the hell is happening.
I give it two and a half stars. And yes, even though it wasn't as good as I would have hoped (especially after all of that crazy business with Disney), I'll still be buying it on DVD.
Every jumbled pile of person has a thinking part that wonders what the part that isn't thinking, isn't thinking of.
Clerks II. Holy spit, man. I love the whoe Jeresy Series. Kevin Smith is a brilliant writer. This one, though. This one blows them ALL away. Even Chasing Amy AND Dogma. It totally deserved the four stars and 8 minute standing ovation at Cannes. It's not just funny and vulgar like Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. It's a very heart warming, intellectually stimulating, and just plain fun movie. I strongly recomend this movie to even non Jay and Silent Bob fans.
The geeky conversation about the battle of the two trilogies (Star Wars and Lord of the Rings) is hillarious. The Pillow Pants thing was awesome, especially Randall's reaction. Not to mention the whole musical number. That part made me "fill the cup".
Go see it. Four stars. ****
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