Movies

[irishjayhawk]

Yeah, so I saw a lot of movies this weekend.

Elizabeth: The Golden Age - Mediocre, at best. Slow and dragged on. Shorten it to 2 hours and it's golden. It's not, so it fails.

Michael Clayton - Amazing. Everything about it is awesome. However, it's VERY complex and mind bending. You have to think, so be prepared. I still feel like I'm missing key details of exactly what happened. Gotta see it again.

Across the Universe - Perfect is one word that comes to mind. It just works. And, contrary to many people I bet, the movie is best viewed sober. Trust me.

[Aries Walker]

Originally Posted by nstygma

the original was pretty cool
went to see skyfall, waste of time really

Disagree. As a lifelong Bond movie watcher, I really enjoyed it.

[Mosbonian]

Went to see "Skyfall" today....I thought it was very good.

[ILChief]

Took kids to see Wreck it Ralph yesterday. Pretty goods kids movie. Plus lots of 80s and 90s video game stuff sprinkled in which was cool

[nstygma]

Originally Posted by Aries Walker

Disagree. As a lifelong Bond movie watcher, I really enjoyed it.

fair enough. perhaps i expected too much. it began to drag on and i couldn't wait for it to end.

[guitarmy21b]

Just saw End of Watch. Best cop movie I've seen in a really long time. Highly recommended.

[luv]

Watched two movies last night.

Magic Mike - After the penis pump scene towards the beginning of the movie, I thought it was going to be a lot more perverted than it ended up being. Channing Tatum is HAWT! He doesn't have to take his clothes off. Just watching him dance did it for me. The stripping part was a bonus.

Moonrise Kingdom - I'd heard this movie described as "quirky but good". I didn't like it. I know it's an Indie film, and it had some good actors, but I just thought it dragged and dragged.

My best friend (a guy) told me I was no longer allowed to pick the movies.

[QuikSsurfer]

Originally Posted by luv

Watched two movies last night.

Magic Mike - After the penis pump scene towards the beginning of the movie, I thought it was going to be a lot more perverted than it ended up being. Channing Tatum is HAWT! He doesn't have to take his clothes off. Just watching him dance did it for me. The stripping part was a bonus.

Moonrise Kingdom - I'd heard this movie described as "quirky but good". I didn't like it. I know it's an Indie film, and it had some good actors, but I just thought it dragged and dragged.

My best friend (a guy) told me I was no longer allowed to pick the movies.

Do you like any Wes Anderson movies?

[luv]

Originally Posted by QuikSsurfer

Do you like any Wes Anderson movies?

Looking him up on IMDb, this is the first of his movies I've seen.

[Pestilence]

Originally Posted by CJizzles

Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter was bad ****ing assed!!!

That movie sucked compared to the book. It should have been SO much better than it was.

[Deberg_1990]

Originally Posted by luv

Magic Mike - After the penis pump scene towards the beginning of the movie, I thought it was going to be a lot more perverted than it ended up being. Channing Tatum is HAWT! He doesn't have to take his clothes off. Just watching him dance did it for me. The stripping part was a bonus.

Great flick. I enjoyed it. Certainly better than it had any right to be.

[ThaVirus]

I've been watching random, obscure horror flicks on Netflix instant stream lately. I finished this one called ATM which wasn't bad. Basically these two dudes and a chick end up at an ATM around 3:00 AM after a night of drinking where they get terrorized by some psychotic asshole. Sounds bland and it was but it was mildly entertaining.

I also attempted to watch Werewolf: The Beast Among Us or some shit like that. It sucked; couldn't even finish it.

I picked up Magic Mike to watch with a lady friend. It was actually bearable but it was shot too dark. It reminded me of AVP 2; I could hardly see anything. But Channing Tatum wasn't completely horrendous and Matthew McConaughey was pretty damn funny. It also wasn't just some raunchy male stripper, **** fest the entire time, which made me thankful.

[ThaVirus]

But the movie I really wanted to talk about was Prometheus. I was extremely interested before I popped it in, and even more so throughout the first 2/3s or so of the film. It was a cool concept and the visuals were great. They did a good job of setting a tense scene and filling your head with questions, but when the final act hit, it did nothing to answer any of them.

Spoiler!

There were so many issues it's tough to even remember them all, but here are a few:

Why would you take your helmet off on an alien world? I don't give a shit if the gaseous makeup is just like Earth. If we could breathe in that environment, then there are bound to be some airborne alien pathogens.

How come the geologist, who brought the damn area-scouting drone ball thingies, got lost inside the structure; but the others of the group, with limited time and under duress, were able to make their way out within 15 minutes before the storm hit? He should have been the one most qualified to find his way out, but they just needed some dumbass plot device to get a couple of them to stay behind and get killed.

How come, on an alien planet with mounds of dead, 9 foot tall humanoids, when the captain notices a "ping" on the machine indicating an active life form, he doesn't seem the least bit intrigued? Hey, guys, you're trapped in a totally unknown structure with unknown origins, surrounded by the bodies of some unknown things who appear to have been eaten alive from the inside (chestbursted); I've been picking up an indication of something alive in there with you, but, uhhhhhhh, sleep tight...

Continuing on with that, why did the one guy decide to play with the mutated worm thing? You're a ****ing biologist, dude! You've found several dead bodies of one species but not a single trace of anything else. It should be reasonable to assume that whatever killed them could still be in there with him, yet he decides to pet the first cobra-like worm he encounters.

What exactly was the black goo and why did it act so inconsistently? It completely disintegrated the engineer at the film's start within seconds but subsequently spawned the human race, turned the maggots into mutated killer worms with acid blood, looked to be slowly killing Holloway, gave birth to the largest, octopussiest facehugger ever in that chick, and turned Fifeld (sp?) into a deranged, psychotic, super-strong, Hills Have Eyes-like madman.

Why did the engineers want us dead? According to the cave paintings dating back to 35,000+ and showing up in different civilizations, separated by continents and thousands of years, it's obvious that they had to have had an active presence on our planet. But why would they draw us maps to find them when they were just planning on coming to kill us anyway? Apparently there was some event that took place 2000 years ago that they never got around to explaining..

WHY COULD NO ONE RUN SIDEWAYS?!?

There's even more that I know I'm forgetting about but whatever. It was entertaining for most of the film, then just kind of got lame when the engineer got woken up and started murdering everyone. I'll watch the second one on Redbox in the hopes that they'll answer these questions but from the looks of it, they may just pile more on top of the ones I already have.

Spoiler!

The alien at the end was kind of cool. It had no tail, a point on it's head, and a second jaw instead of that little mouth so it has to be either some variant of the Aliens or maybe they're going with some sort of ancestor-ish deal. Also, it popped out as a full grown Alien and not the traditional chestburster look so maybe there's something to that too. There's no way it was the first Alien though. When they first went to the tomb with the giant head, their was a mural on the wall that looked just like an Alien so they had to have been around beforehand in some form.

[luv]

Originally Posted by ThaVirus

But the movie I really wanted to talk about was Prometheus. I was extremely interested before I popped it in, and even more so throughout the first 2/3s or so of the film. It was a cool concept and the visuals were great. They did a good job of setting a tense scene and filling your head with questions, but when the final act hit, it did nothing to answer any of them.

Spoiler!

There were so many issues it's tough to even remember them all, but here are a few:

Why would you take your helmet off on an alien world? I don't give a shit if the gaseous makeup is just like Earth. If we could breathe in that environment, then there are bound to be some airborne alien pathogens.

How come the geologist, who brought the damn area-scouting drone ball thingies, got lost inside the structure; but the others of the group, with limited time and under duress, were able to make their way out within 15 minutes before the storm hit? He should have been the one most qualified to find his way out, but they just needed some dumbass plot device to get a couple of them to stay behind and get killed.

How come, on an alien planet with mounds of dead, 9 foot tall humanoids, when the captain notices a "ping" on the machine indicating an active life form, he doesn't seem the least bit intrigued? Hey, guys, you're trapped in a totally unknown structure with unknown origins, surrounded by the bodies of some unknown things who appear to have been eaten alive from the inside (chestbursted); I've been picking up an indication of something alive in there with you, but, uhhhhhhh, sleep tight...

Continuing on with that, why did the one guy decide to play with the mutated worm thing? You're a ****ing biologist, dude! You've found several dead bodies of one species but not a single trace of anything else. It should be reasonable to assume that whatever killed them could still be in there with him, yet he decides to pet the first cobra-like worm he encounters.

What exactly was the black goo and why did it act so inconsistently? It completely disintegrated the engineer at the film's start within seconds but subsequently spawned the human race, turned the maggots into mutated killer worms with acid blood, looked to be slowly killing Holloway, gave birth to the largest, octopussiest facehugger ever in that chick, and turned Fifeld (sp?) into a deranged, psychotic, super-strong, Hills Have Eyes-like madman.

Why did the engineers want us dead? According to the cave paintings dating back to 35,000+ and showing up in different civilizations, separated by continents and thousands of years, it's obvious that they had to have had an active presence on our planet. But why would they draw us maps to find them when they were just planning on coming to kill us anyway? Apparently there was some event that took place 2000 years ago that they never got around to explaining..

WHY COULD NO ONE RUN SIDEWAYS?!?

There's even more that I know I'm forgetting about but whatever. It was entertaining for most of the film, then just kind of got lame when the engineer got woken up and started murdering everyone. I'll watch the second one on Redbox in the hopes that they'll answer these questions but from the looks of it, they may just pile more on top of the ones I already have.

Spoiler!

The alien at the end was kind of cool. It had no tail, a point on it's head, and a second jaw instead of that little mouth so it has to be either some variant of the Aliens or maybe they're going with some sort of ancestor-ish deal. Also, it popped out as a full grown Alien and not the traditional chestburster look so maybe there's something to that too. There's no way it was the first Alien though. When they first went to the tomb with the giant head, their was a mural on the wall that looked just like an Alien so they had to have been around beforehand in some form.

Isn't Prometheus a prequal to Aliens? That would explain why the end of the movie is what it is, wouldn't it?

[listopencil]

Originally Posted by luv

My best friend (a guy) told me I was no longer allowed to pick the movies.

Yeah. I can see why.

[Sorter]

Originally Posted by ThaVirus

But the movie I really wanted to talk about was Prometheus. I was extremely interested before I popped it in, and even more so throughout the first 2/3s or so of the film. It was a cool concept and the visuals were great. They did a good job of setting a tense scene and filling your head with questions, but when the final act hit, it did nothing to answer any of them.

Spoiler!

There were so many issues it's tough to even remember them all, but here are a few:

Why would you take your helmet off on an alien world? I don't give a shit if the gaseous makeup is just like Earth. If we could breathe in that environment, then there are bound to be some airborne alien pathogens.

How come the geologist, who brought the damn area-scouting drone ball thingies, got lost inside the structure; but the others of the group, with limited time and under duress, were able to make their way out within 15 minutes before the storm hit? He should have been the one most qualified to find his way out, but they just needed some dumbass plot device to get a couple of them to stay behind and get killed.

How come, on an alien planet with mounds of dead, 9 foot tall humanoids, when the captain notices a "ping" on the machine indicating an active life form, he doesn't seem the least bit intrigued? Hey, guys, you're trapped in a totally unknown structure with unknown origins, surrounded by the bodies of some unknown things who appear to have been eaten alive from the inside (chestbursted); I've been picking up an indication of something alive in there with you, but, uhhhhhhh, sleep tight...

Continuing on with that, why did the one guy decide to play with the mutated worm thing? You're a ****ing biologist, dude! You've found several dead bodies of one species but not a single trace of anything else. It should be reasonable to assume that whatever killed them could still be in there with him, yet he decides to pet the first cobra-like worm he encounters.

What exactly was the black goo and why did it act so inconsistently? It completely disintegrated the engineer at the film's start within seconds but subsequently spawned the human race, turned the maggots into mutated killer worms with acid blood, looked to be slowly killing Holloway, gave birth to the largest, octopussiest facehugger ever in that chick, and turned Fifeld (sp?) into a deranged, psychotic, super-strong, Hills Have Eyes-like madman.

Why did the engineers want us dead? According to the cave paintings dating back to 35,000+ and showing up in different civilizations, separated by continents and thousands of years, it's obvious that they had to have had an active presence on our planet. But why would they draw us maps to find them when they were just planning on coming to kill us anyway? Apparently there was some event that took place 2000 years ago that they never got around to explaining..Ridley said that Jesus was an Engineer and they were pretty pissed at us for killing him.

WHY COULD NO ONE RUN SIDEWAYS?!?

There's even more that I know I'm forgetting about but whatever. It was entertaining for most of the film, then just kind of got lame when the engineer got woken up and started murdering everyone. I'll watch the second one on Redbox in the hopes that they'll answer these questions but from the looks of it, they may just pile more on top of the ones I already have.

Spoiler!

The alien at the end was kind of cool. It had no tail, a point on it's head, and a second jaw instead of that little mouth so it has to be either some variant of the Aliens or maybe they're going with some sort of ancestor-ish deal. Also, it popped out as a full grown Alien and not the traditional chestburster look so maybe there's something to that too. There's no way it was the first Alien though. When they first went to the tomb with the giant head, their was a mural on the wall that looked just like an Alien so they had to have been around beforehand in some form.