Wanted.

 

I had very low expectations from the film.  I am pleased to say the movie was better than I thought.  Sure you have to suspend disbelief and the movie is filled with so many montages I thought I was watching a CSI episode, but it wasn't too bad for a mindless action movie. 

 

I am giving it 3 out of 5 stars (which is my average movie rating). 

reviewed the assassination of jessie james by the coward robert ford, which I give 8,5/10 because I think it's a quite wonderful character driven movie, and dear lord what cinematography. The shots are thoroughly beautiful and the score is lovely. It does drag along a bit in the middle, but it's still amazingly good. In my opinion.

I'm glad you said that, because I've been thinking of getting it - and now I will. It didn't get very much attention in theaters, but then again a lot of the good movies don't.

We just finished The Wire season 5 which is sad because it is the last season.  I am now ready to put this series at the top of my lists as the best TV series ever.  Yes over Dead Like Me.  Yes over Buffy.  Yes over Firefly.

Excellent Lythnia, I hope you'll enjoy it ( I know I do *nod*)

Fringe....it seems a little over the top conspiratorial....but, what the heck.  ;D

By pure incident I picked up L'Auberge Espagnole last night, even though it came out in 2002 I had not heard of it before. And found it a quite enjoyable movie. Nothing sensational, but perfect for those afternoons when you just want to sit back with a movie and some wine.

Fringe....it seems a little over the top conspiratorial....but, what the heck.  ;D

 

No, no - Fringe is wonderful! I've been watching from the beginning and I love it! I can't wait for January now since it's not airing again till then, but I think all the episodes are online on hulu, if you're interested.

 

As far as me, I've started watching Robin Hood, which is an awesome show, and I'm wondering why I never found out about it earlier.

My sister has a huge crush on the Robin Hood guy.

 

I'm watching my fingers type. I mean, it's really kind of a feat at this point, so it's quite an entertaining show. Better than Grey's, for sure. *nodnodnod*

Lol I watch Grey's every Thursday, but just b/c one of my friend's loves it so I go over to her dorm and we watch it together...it's a but much at times, but it's not too bad, and it has the guys to make up for it :P

 

Speaking of which, the Robin Hood guy is actually adorable - I mean he may not look amazing at first, but he starts to grow on you, and then you notice how wonderful his smile is :D Not that Guy of Gisborne doesn't look awesome too; who cares if he's a bad guy? I actually started liking him when I saw him in "North & South" - ah there's one.

 

For anyone who likes those BBC/A&E miniseries, you the know, the Jane Austen or George Eliot type ones, I definitely recommend North & South. It's one of my favorites, 4 episodes, great characters, and wonderful ending. Netflix it!

Hah, I forgot I posted that. ^_^

 

 

I just bought firefly on itunes.

Saw Animal House on friday, enjoyed it! Nothing like some classic Jim Belushi

 

also, going to watch wednesday's house in a jiffy or two

Hellboy 2: The Golden Army

It was pretty good, and by pretty good, I mean watchable, entertaining, and of course, some funniness, which is always pretty good.

 

Kung Foo Panda

OMFG, this movie was funny, at moments it tries to act serious, then it throws a monkeywrench into the gears, at just the right moment, causing a gut busting laughter. ;)

 

The Visitor

Unlike the above, this movie wasn't a comedy, probably closer to a dramatic movie? Though, there are funny moments... Perhaps unintentional ones?

The movie is basically about a man, who had to go to newyork and present a paper at a confrence. When he went to get into his apartment in new york (the one he's owned for 25 years) he finds a couple living there.

One thing leads to another, and the guy ends up getting detained (illegal Immigrant). It really is a damned good movie, And regardless of any political bias behind it, its still a damned good movie. (Cause unlike some people, I don't think about the 'stuff' people believe exists behind a movie/film/music/ect)

Defenders of the earth(cartoon series)-

Very very 80's I love it

Saw the latest prison break last night

 

was ok, I guess : p

 

entertaining enough, but nothing great and awesome

Told you it was good Sinister.

 

Hellboy 2 - Watched it last weekend and basically agree with Sinister.  I didn't like it as much as he did though... thought it got a bit too cornball for me.  Nice average movie though.

 

Alien vs. Predator 2 - Admitedly, I just finished watching it while working.  So half my attention was on it... which seemed just about right.  Basically a predalien... that has some special ability to impregnate humans with alien babies.  I may have missed something key here... like why the predalien has the ability.  The rest was just humans dying and aliens looking scary.  I love Alien and Aliens.... and I admit, I liked Alien Ressurection... sort of.  I have not liked any of the other ones though. 

Told you it was good Sinister.

 

I completely forgot who recommended that movie, or why it was even on my netflix list. ;)

But it was definately a damned good movie. Best of 2008? Possibly, but I wouldn't hold my breath...

 

Hellboy 2 - Watched it last weekend and basically agree with Sinister.  I didn't like it as much as he did though... thought it got a bit too cornball for me.  Nice average movie though.

Well, when I think of how good a movie is, I ask my self I was entertained, as well as other things, I can disregard bad acting (unless its Sci-FI made for tv movies - bad acting, I mean... UGGH, I think there are some porn stars that are better actors then some of those idiots...)

 

If you look at it like this, there are so many actors out there, who have got 'type cast' into certain roles, Bruce Wilis got type cast as an action hero, And most of those action movies have shitty dialogue/story, and how many action movies since the dawn of time have ever won an oscar? (Probably that one movie empy had a love afair with last year.) He may not be a 'great' actor, but you can't really say he's a 'horrible' actor either.

I say the same thing about Keanu Reeves, most of his movies, he's been type cast as the same guy, act the same as he's done in his other movies. But he does have some damned good movies out there, where he didn't play a robot. ;)

 

But this also means I classify movies that aren't 'omfg awesome, oscar worthy' as 5 star movies, I calssify 'good' movies as a 4, which empy might classify as a 3. And I'd probably rank 'entertaining movies, that don't have very much substance a 3.5, which empy would probably rank a 2. ;)

Its like your the metric system, and I'm the imperial system, your units make sense, mine don't.

I save 3+ for watchable to great movies, and reserve 0-2 for the horrible, bad, worst movies of all time. Where as empy leaves 0-1 for the bad, and 2 for the eh, 3 for the watchable, 4 for the ok movies, and 5 for the oscars. :P

 

Alien vs. Predator 2 - Admitedly, I just finished watching it while working.  So half my attention was on it... which seemed just about right.  Basically a predalien... that has some special ability to impregnate humans with alien babies.  I may have missed something key here... like why the predalien has the ability.  The rest was just humans dying and aliens looking scary.  I love Alien and Aliens.... and I admit, I liked Alien Ressurection... sort of.  I have not liked any of the other ones though. 

 

The predalien, some how goes with/against alien lore (against because theres no other case, with, because it adds some new possibilities...)

But basically an alien put its eggs in a predator, predator died, alien popped out, and took down that GIANT MOTHER SHIP at the end of AVP (HOW THE HELL does a super warrior race on a giant mofo ship, get taken down by 1 alien?!)

The predalien, simply did to the 'babies' what any other alien in the other movies would have done, but tlel me this, how many 'babies' were on an exploration ship in alien? Or on a rescue ship on Aliens? Or in a prison colony in 3? Or let alone on a military vessle in 4?!

 

So yea...

AVP2 wasn't horrible, but it wasn't great either... I've seen worse movies on Sci-Fi... (Turn to it sometime empy and you'll see why I reserve the worst movies at a much 'higher' level then you. They are SOOO bad, they need there own number. ;)

AvP2 is basically one of those movies, you rent because your bored out of your ass, and want to watch something you haven't already seen,

Or

You want to finish off your Alien/Predator Collection. ;)

Rewatched Red Dragon last night, which I think is pretty damn good, better than Hannibal in any case, though nowhere near the silence of th lambs

 

Admittedly, I've always loved Ed Norton and tend to like most things he's in, but hey. I found it to bea good movie

Heh... Hellboy 2 gets a 3 and AVP2 gets a 2.5.  Sinister seems to know my ranking better than I do.

 

For some reason, I just rewatched Spiderman 3.  Maybe it was to validate that this was a bad movie.  This one goes down as a 2.5 as well.  I would have given it a 3 but Parker singing and dancing as his evil self really make me cringe.

Heh... Hellboy 2 gets a 3 and AVP2 gets a 2.5.  Sinister seems to know my ranking better than I do.

Well its obvious you leave the upper 4s and 5s for the awesome movies, and leave the movies under 3 for the shitty ones. :P

 

For some reason, I just rewatched Spiderman 3.  Maybe it was to validate that this was a bad movie.  This one goes down as a 2.5 as well.  I would have given it a 3 but Parker singing and dancing as his evil self really make me cringe.

 

Yea, that scene did suck, as well as emo peter parker... WTF were they thinking? Alien Venom Goo turns you emo?

 

 

Anyways, Last night I watched Wall-e, it was 'okay', no where near as funny as Kung Fu Panda.

 

I also watched, The Dark Knight Again.

Its a little bit better then when I first watched it, but I think I've finally figured out what it is about the movie, That I don't like about it, and that is the pacing.

 

Basically the pacing is jaggy if that makes any sense.

One moment, the pacing is all fluid, then JUMPS to another scene and then becomes fluid again. I don't know about you, but it seems to me like the way they did it in the dark knight, was on purpose, They wanted to go from fluid to fluid as fast as possible, with as little transition as possible, to create that 'jagged' thing between each scene.

 

Plot wise, story wise, character/actor wise, the movie was awesome on all levels, but to put it in terms others would say, that jagged camera work, in many ways broke the 'immersion'.

Thats just me though, and the story/action is like 5x better then Batman Begins. Its probably oscar worthy but that thing I'm talking about might just be the 'only' flaw in the movie for me. ;)

ah, the peter parker song and dance scene

 

such a cringe-inducing scene to be watching in a cinema

 

also, the slow motion spiderman-run infront of the american flag was good for a giggle

 

anyhoo

 

last night, saw george a romero's night of the living dead, which was... spooky, I suppose. Not too scary once seen in the light of today's rather macabre movies, but still pretty good, considering it's historic relevance and all. I give it 7/10!

 

Then A muppet's christmas carol was seen, which was rather entertaining as the muppets tend to be, and Michael Caine as Scrooge :o Good fun, 7,5/10

 

And, after that, The nightmare before christmas was re-watched, a most excellent movies which I consider one of my favourites. 9/10!

Got a rating 4 for you.  Well really 3.75.

 

The Fall

 

It is a film by Tarsem....

 

That guy who did the Cell.  And that makes sense as this movie feels like the Cell and is basically a better version of the Cell. 

 

It is basically about a little girl who finds this man who tells her an epic story of 5 bandits traveling in this beautiful world.

 

Visually this movie was awesome.... well... much like The Cell or Pan's Labyrinth.  The plot in itself was pretty good.  Oh did I mention the guy that tells the story and is the main hero is the Pie Maker?

 

Overall a very good all around movie. 

Flash Gordon - Still awesome in every way possible.

 

Masters of the Universe - Suffers from a lack of Brian Blessed, but still an enjoyable way to waste away an afternoon.

Scary Movie 1&2

Saw Eagle Eye with a friend o' mine the other day

 

it was pretty mindless, yeah

 

The plot is so silly it almost hurts the brain and the acting is so-so, but hey, it's got lots of explosions. Most of the time was spent making fun of the movie.

4,5/10