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.

[KcMizzou]

Originally Posted by Deberg_1990

It actually looks good to me...same, but different...whatever that means...heres the latest scene from it. The music rocks...at the least it looks very well made.

It'll be impressive if they pull it off. I love the original, but I'm not the type to dismiss the remake without seeing it first.

[Skyy God]

I'm going to enjoy taking a hammer to my malfunctioning router.

I blame it for forcing me to watch The Book of Eli, which is obvious, video game-esque, and about 1/10 the movie The Road was.

[Reaper16]

Watched George Washington, David Gordon Green's first film, for the first time. Damn, damn good. Very nearly great. An unnecessary 3rd act contrivance and a voiceover narrative that begins sort of poetic and abstract and somewhere along the way becomes too on-the-nose and tells the audience things they can glean on their own takes the film down a small notch.

[noa]

Originally Posted by Reaper16

Watched George Washington, David Gordon Green's first film, for the first time. Damn, damn good. Very nearly great. An unnecessary 3rd act contrivance and a voiceover narrative that begins sort of poetic and abstract and somewhere along the way becomes too on-the-nose and tells the audience things they can glean on their own takes the film down a small notch.

Beautiful movie

[Red Brooklyn]

Saw Never Let Me Go. Not terrible. Not exactly what I'd hoped it would be. I'd love to hear from someone who hasn't read the book.

Carey Mulligan kills it. Again. She's a force. Hands down the best young actress working today.

[Miles]

Originally Posted by Red Brooklyn

Saw Never Let Me Go. Not terrible. Not exactly what I'd hoped it would be. I'd love to hear from someone who hasn't read the book.

Carey Mulligan kills it. Again. She's a force. Hands down the best young actress working today.

Easily one of the better books I have read. Seems like the plot would adapt well to film but would be difficult to capture the subtle storytelling and empathy that made the book work so perfectly.

[BWillie]

MOMENTO is probably the best movie I've seen this year.

[KcMizzou]

Originally Posted by BWillie007

MOMENTO is probably the best movie I've seen this year.

Been out a while, but that's a great movie.

[Otter]

Originally Posted by BWillie007

MOMENTO is probably the best movie I've seen this year.

Not to be a spelling nazi but do you mean "Memento" with Guy Pearce as the short term memory problem main actor?

If yes, that's a killer movie.

Haven't been watching much but I'll get back into the Netflix groove once the weather gets cold.

[Red Brooklyn]

Originally Posted by Miles

Easily one of the better books I have read. Seems like the plot would adapt well to film but would be difficult to capture the subtle storytelling and empathy that made the book work so perfectly.

That's exactly right. The movie is beautiful and lovely in it's own way. There are so many things right about it, but a lot of missing pieces. I'd love to hear what someone who has never read the book thinks of the film.

[BWillie]

Originally Posted by Otter

Not to be a spelling nazi but do you mean "Memento" with Guy Pearce as the short term memory problem main actor?

If yes, that's a killer movie.

Haven't been watching much but I'll get back into the Netflix groove once the weather gets cold.

Yeah that's it. Thought it was awesome.

[blaise]

I watched a BBC production of a Shelock Holmes mystery starring Rupert Everett as Holmes. He makes a great Sherlock Holmes, I think. Better than Jeremy Brett.

[irishjayhawk]

The Professional (alternatively Leon) is on Hulu. If you have not seen this phenomenal movie, do so now.

[irishjayhawk]

Theatre wise, I saw Flipped and The Town recently.

Flipped was really, really good until the last 15 minutes when Reiner, as always, shot himself in the face. He completely lost track of some characters leaving their stories in limbo and half told. And the main story had an anti-climactic and cheesy ending. In fact, I'm wondering if they consulted with Michael Bay for the last shot, as we get very, very close to a BayMoment (TM).


The Town was really good. Ben is a director. He should stick with that. The car chases were superbly shot, edited, and polished. Best chase scenes since Bourne series and perhaps even better.


On my radar:

The Social Network
Let Me In
Never Let Me Go
It's Kind of a Funny Story

[blaise]

Originally Posted by irishjayhawk

Theatre wise, I saw Flipped and The Town recently.

Flipped was really, really good until the last 15 minutes when Reiner, as always, shot himself in the face. He completely lost track of some characters leaving their stories in limbo and half told. And the main story had an anti-climactic and cheesy ending. In fact, I'm wondering if they consulted with Michael Bay for the last shot, as we get very, very close to a BayMoment (TM).


The Town was really good. Ben is a director. He should stick with that. The car chases were superbly shot, edited, and polished. Best chase scenes since Bourne series and perhaps even better.


On my radar:

The Social Network
Let Me In
Never Let Me Go
It's Kind of a Funny Story

Ben was better as an actor than I expected. I thought the cast as a whole was very well chosen.