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.

[Bump]

Originally Posted by Jerm

One of the most depressing movies I've ever watched lol...one of the reasons it's a good movie.

I read the book and the movie did it justice. Honestly, it would totally be just like that if we were ever in that situation.

['Hamas' Jenkins]

Originally Posted by Bump

I read the book and the movie did it justice. Honestly, it would totally be just like that if we were ever in that situation.

Not in a nuclear exchange.

[Bump]

Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins

Not in a nuclear exchange.

I'm talking about the way people would be. All of the good people would be in hiding and the shitty people would band together and kill/eat/rape anybody they could find. There wouldn't be any communities of decent people you could join because you wouldn't be able to find them. It would be a trust no-one situation and fend for yourself.

[mikeyis4dcats.]

Originally Posted by blaise

I thought The Road lost quite a bit from the book. I didn't feel like you could ever feel the despair and fear the way you could with the book.

agreed. Great book, better than average movie.

[blaise]

Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins

Not in a nuclear exchange.

The reason for the disaster is left a little ambiguous, though. They never say the dust is radioactive in the book, just that it's dust. There's one point where the clocks stop as something hits the Earth, but he never says whether it's nuclear or not.

[patteeu]

Originally Posted by blaise

I thought The Road lost quite a bit from the book. I didn't feel like you could ever feel the despair and fear the way you could with the book.

Originally Posted by Bump

I read the book and the movie did it justice. Honestly, it would totally be just like that if we were ever in that situation.

LOL This would be great if Bump was a blaise alt.

[BWillie]

Bangkok Dangerous was alot better than I expected. Not great, but good. Then Leaving Las Veags, which I thought would be good, was terrible. My quest to watch all Nicholas Cage movies is en route.

[kysirsoze]

Originally Posted by Vanilla Thunder

We watched Insidious last night. We both liked it a lot. A pretty good horror flick that had some dudes screaming lol

Glad you enjoyed it, but I thought Insidious was weak as hell. Awful script and almost nothing but cliches. It should be a rental at best.

[kysirsoze]

Originally Posted by BWillie007

Bangkok Dangerous was alot better than I expected. Not great, but good. Then Leaving Las Veags, which I thought would be good, was terrible. My quest to watch all Nicholas Cage movies is en route.

Wow. I set a low bar for that movie and it managed to slither under it. It wasn't even funny bad, which I usually appreciate. I saw it in a bad movie double feature with Death Race. (Which actually ended up being pretty entertaining.)

[Buehler445]

Originally Posted by BWillie007

Bangkok Dangerous was alot better than I expected. Not great, but good. Then Leaving Las Veags, which I thought would be good, was terrible. My quest to watch all Nicholas Cage movies is en route.

Raising Arizona FTMFW!

['Hamas' Jenkins]

Originally Posted by blaise

The reason for the disaster is left a little ambiguous, though. They never say the dust is radioactive in the book, just that it's dust. There's one point where the clocks stop as something hits the Earth, but he never says whether it's nuclear or not.

What I'm speaking of is the lasting effects of a nuclear winter. You wouldn't have a prolonged nuclear winter of almost 10 years even if every single nuke available in the 1980s were used.

I know that it's left ambiguous, but if we are to apply rationality to the text, assuming that this wasn't happening in an advanced civilization, then it would have been some other cataclysm.

However, I'm not saying that was the author's intent.

[Bump]

Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins

What I'm speaking of is the lasting effects of a nuclear winter. You wouldn't have a prolonged nuclear winter of almost 10 years even if every single nuke available in the 1980s were used.

I know that it's left ambiguous, but if we are to apply rationality to the text, assuming that this wasn't happening in an advanced civilization, then it would have been some other cataclysm.

However, I'm not saying that was the author's intent.

there was no mention how the apocalypse happened in the book.

[Branden Albert's Huge Balls]

Black Death is some dark shit.

Loved it.

Use of grainy stock and a preference for special effects rather than visual or CGI effects gives it a pleasingly retro feel, as does its willingness to explore uncomfortable moral ambiguities.

[Branden Albert's Huge Balls]

The Town is probably the best crime drama I've ever seen.

Heat with a happy ending. And a ****ton of awesome action.

"JAMES COUGHLIN. YOU ARE SURROUNDED. THROW DOWN YOUR WEAPONS AND SURRENDER."

"FAAAHK YOU."

[Over-Head]

Hoodwinked Too
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvLpPJs15rU


Bought the first one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kx0ss7z184o

in Walmart in teh discount bin as a lark for the lil guy....Laughed all the way through. Can't see this one being a dissapointment either.

If ya got kids and want another Disney styled film that grown ups can ejnoy, I suggest these ones.