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[Sweet J]

Watched the first two episodes of "Once Upon a Time" with my daughter this weekend when we were looking to kill time. Thought they were pretty decent. Is the show still going on?

 

[NCCommish]

Did the first 4 Resident Evil movies in a marathon this weekend. You know when you watch them one right after the other they hang together fairly well. I enjoy this franchise for the most part but then I have a huge crush on Milla Jovovich so I am slightly biased.

 

[Copeman]

I have a huge crush on Milla Jovovich so I am slightly biased.

My all time favorite.

 

[saintfool]

David: Look at us. I'm frozen and you're dead, and I love you.

Sofía: It's a problem.

David: I lost you when I got in that car. I'm sorry.

I know it sounds funny but, I just think that this line is one of the saddest yet most liberating lines in film.Earlier in the movie, when Julianna invites him for "just one more", you can see in his eyes that he knows it's wrong. The day before he wouldn't have thought twice about it but since he spent the night with Sophia his life has changed. But his old self drags him back and he pays an enormous price for it.

The bolded line above should be a mantra of sorts for our modern self-centered and hedonistic world. Don't sacrifice what you want most for what you want now.

you have something against instant gratification, Andy?

 

[Andy Dufresne]

you have something against instant gratification, Andy?

As a lifestyle, yes.

 

[FreeBaGeL]

Watched the first two episodes of "Once Upon a Time" with my daughter this weekend when we were looking to kill time. Thought they were pretty decent. Is the show still going on?

Season 2 just started last night.

 

[JZilla]

Butter

New ensemble comedy about butter sculptures with Jennifer Garner, Olivia Wilde, Hugh Jackman et al. This is another one of those movies that wants to be a family comedy, should have been a family comedy, but they couldn't lay off the filthy stuff so now it really has no audience IMO. Amusing enough to be worth a watch though.

 

[saintfool]

you have something against instant gratification, Andy?

As a lifestyle, yes.

the last 50 years must have really disappointed you then, huh?

 

[Andy Dufresne]

you have something against instant gratification, Andy?

As a lifestyle, yes.

the last 50 years must have really disappointed you then, huh?

Not a big fan of Gen X-ers, no.

 

[saintfool]

you have something against instant gratification, Andy?

As a lifestyle, yes.

the last 50 years must have really disappointed you then, huh?

Not a big fan of Gen X-ers, no.

fact: boomers gave us woodstock, studio 54, and john holmes.

 

[Andy Dufresne]

you have something against instant gratification, Andy?

As a lifestyle, yes.

the last 50 years must have really disappointed you then, huh?

Not a big fan of Gen X-ers, no.

fact: boomers gave us woodstock, studio 54, and john holmes.

 

[Time Kibitzer]

ButterNew ensemble comedy about butter sculptures with Jennifer Garner, Olivia Wilde, Hugh Jackman et al. This is another one of those movies that wants to be a family comedy, should have been a family comedy, but they couldn't lay off the filthy stuff so now it really has no audience IMO. Amusing enough to be worth a watch though.

This is the one where Olivia Wilde dresses slutty and plays a prostitute right? I'm really looking forward to it..

 

[jdoggydogg]

Nick of Time

Here's a Christopher Walken / Johnny Depp movie I'd never even heard of. Terrible. Only worth seeing if you enjoy Walken chewing up the scenery.

 

[NCCommish]

Nick of Time

Here's a Christopher Walken / Johnny Depp movie I'd never even heard of. Terrible. Only worth seeing if you enjoy Walken chewing up the scenery.

I remember this one. Really had an interesting premise. Then you had some pretty good actors so it looked like it might be good. But it wasn't to be.

 

[jdoggydogg]

Nick of Time

Here's a Christopher Walken / Johnny Depp movie I'd never even heard of. Terrible. Only worth seeing if you enjoy Walken chewing up the scenery.

I remember this one. Really had an interesting premise. Then you had some pretty good actors so it looked like it might be good. But it wasn't to be.

Interesting premise - but totally ridiculous without a good script. This was not a good script.

 

[NCCommish]

Nick of Time

Here's a Christopher Walken / Johnny Depp movie I'd never even heard of. Terrible. Only worth seeing if you enjoy Walken chewing up the scenery.

I remember this one. Really had an interesting premise. Then you had some pretty good actors so it looked like it might be good. But it wasn't to be.

Interesting premise - but totally ridiculous without a good script. This was not a good script.

Yeah writing sunk it. But it is kind of fun just watching Walken be Walken.

 

[Mr. Mojo]

The Big Year

I probably come across as cynical sometimes. But really, I just loathe cliche movies - unless they are done well. This is done well. Much like Win Win (a movie I gave a positive review two weeks ago), The Big Year should be terrible. And much like A Dolphin Tale, The Big Year features plenty of cliches. But the birding angle was fresh, and the scenery was fantastic.

Good call.Saw it this weekend.

 

[jdoggydogg]

Nick of Time

Here's a Christopher Walken / Johnny Depp movie I'd never even heard of. Terrible. Only worth seeing if you enjoy Walken chewing up the scenery.

I remember this one. Really had an interesting premise. Then you had some pretty good actors so it looked like it might be good. But it wasn't to be.

Interesting premise - but totally ridiculous without a good script. This was not a good script.

Yeah writing sunk it. But it is kind of fun just watching Walken be Walken.

Jay Mohr (or some other comedian that does a fantastic Walken impression) said that the key to doing Walken is that you need some of your one-syllable words to have two syllables. So, it's not pronounced, "No." It's pronounced, "Nu-oh." Walken did a perfect nu-oh in this movie.

 

[jdoggydogg]

The Big Year

I probably come across as cynical sometimes. But really, I just loathe cliche movies - unless they are done well. This is done well. Much like Win Win (a movie I gave a positive review two weeks ago), The Big Year should be terrible. And much like A Dolphin Tale, The Big Year features plenty of cliches. But the birding angle was fresh, and the scenery was fantastic.

Good call.Saw it this weekend.

I was really surprised to like this movie. I think the key was the photography. It was so beautiful, it made me miss the wilderness.

 

[saintfool]

Nick of Time

Here's a Christopher Walken / Johnny Depp movie I'd never even heard of. Terrible. Only worth seeing if you enjoy Walken chewing up the scenery.

Badham is known to be a suspect director. he wishes he had the good taste of a richard donner but certainly is a cut above the usual hacks that a producer like Joel Silver might use.

 

[jdoggydogg]

Nick of Time

Here's a Christopher Walken / Johnny Depp movie I'd never even heard of. Terrible. Only worth seeing if you enjoy Walken chewing up the scenery.

Badham is known to be a suspect director. he wishes he had the good taste of a richard donner but certainly is a cut above the usual hacks that a producer like Joel Silver might use.

The direction in Nick of Time would have had to be spectacular to overcome this mess of a plot.Badham directed Dracula in 1979 - which I enjoyed. But his resume is rife with some really bad movies.

 

[belljr]

The Big Year

I probably come across as cynical sometimes. But really, I just loathe cliche movies - unless they are done well. This is done well. Much like Win Win (a movie I gave a positive review two weeks ago), The Big Year should be terrible. And much like A Dolphin Tale, The Big Year features plenty of cliches. But the birding angle was fresh, and the scenery was fantastic.

Good call.Saw it this weekend.

I was really surprised to like this movie. I think the key was the photography. It was so beautiful, it made me miss the wilderness.

I got poo pooed earlier in the thread for liking the movie

 

[jdoggydogg]

The Big Year

I probably come across as cynical sometimes. But really, I just loathe cliche movies - unless they are done well. This is done well. Much like Win Win (a movie I gave a positive review two weeks ago), The Big Year should be terrible. And much like A Dolphin Tale, The Big Year features plenty of cliches. But the birding angle was fresh, and the scenery was fantastic.

Good call.Saw it this weekend.

I was really surprised to like this movie. I think the key was the photography. It was so beautiful, it made me miss the wilderness.

I got poo pooed earlier in the thread for liking the movie

It's the kind of movie that people will make fun of you for liking. What can I say? Movies either work or they don't. I thought this one worked.

 

[Mr. Mojo]

The Big Year

I probably come across as cynical sometimes. But really, I just loathe cliche movies - unless they are done well. This is done well. Much like Win Win (a movie I gave a positive review two weeks ago), The Big Year should be terrible. And much like A Dolphin Tale, The Big Year features plenty of cliches. But the birding angle was fresh, and the scenery was fantastic.

Good call.Saw it this weekend.

I was really surprised to like this movie. I think the key was the photography. It was so beautiful, it made me miss the wilderness.

I got poo pooed earlier in the thread for liking the movie

It's the kind of movie that people will make fun of you for liking. What can I say? Movies either work or they don't. I thought this one worked.

I liked that it was funny without going overboard for laughs.The story felt realistic, too,

 

[El Floppo]

Nick of Time

Here's a Christopher Walken / Johnny Depp movie I'd never even heard of. Terrible. Only worth seeing if you enjoy Walken chewing up the scenery.

Badham is known to be a suspect director. he wishes he had the good taste of a richard donner but certainly is a cut above the usual hacks that a producer like Joel Silver might use.

lol... Donner and "good taste", not excatly two things that I'd put together- and I love me some **** Donner (former client and the nicest guy you could ever meet).

 

[El Floppo]

Watched the first two episodes of "Once Upon a Time" with my daughter this weekend when we were looking to kill time. Thought they were pretty decent. Is the show still going on?

Season 2 just started last night.

Oh god. I got caught into this trainwreck of a show. Horrible, horrible writing. Horrible, horrible acting. Horrible, horrible effects. I it.

 

[El Floppo]

David: Look at us. I'm frozen and you're dead, and I love you.

Sofía: It's a problem.

David: I lost you when I got in that car. I'm sorry.

I know it sounds funny but, I just think that this line is one of the saddest yet most liberating lines in film.Earlier in the movie, when Julianna invites him for "just one more", you can see in his eyes that he knows it's wrong. The day before he wouldn't have thought twice about it but since he spent the night with Sophia his life has changed. But his old self drags him back and he pays an enormous price for it.

The bolded line above should be a mantra of sorts for our modern self-centered and hedonistic world. Don't sacrifice what you want most for what you want now.

That car crash off the bridge was filmed right in front of my old place. I watched them film it from my window (with the production crew yelling up at me in the 12th floor to get off-camera... #### them)- they had 4 or 5 of the same car (Ford Mustang?) and crashed every one of them. Pretty ####### cool. I didn't make it into the movie sadly- although my building did.

 

[cosjobs]

Looper

I was excited to see this after reading all the great reviews and t was decent, but certainly not as good as expected. Really pretty pedestrian.

2.75/5 stars

 

[cstu]

Prometheus - I wanted this to be a 10, but I'm hard-pressed to give it a 7. I really can't give it lower than that for some of the background on Alienverse but it wasn't a very good movie. In fact, if it wasn't set in that world it would have been just another cheesy sci-fi flick.

Moonrise Kingdom - Loved this movie - 9.0. I'm not even a Wes Anderson fan and I find his movies good, but inconsistent. This one was solid all the way through, highly recommend.

Hanna - I had stopped halfway through months ago and didn't get around to finishing it until tonight. The second half was much better. 7.5/10

 

[cstu]

Watched the first two episodes of "Once Upon a Time" with my daughter this weekend when we were looking to kill time. Thought they were pretty decent. Is the show still going on?

Season 2 just started last night.

Oh god. I got caught into this trainwreck of a show. Horrible, horrible writing. Horrible, horrible acting. Horrible, horrible effects. I it.

Same here.

 

[cstu]

ButterNew ensemble comedy about butter sculptures with Jennifer Garner, Olivia Wilde, Hugh Jackman et al. This is another one of those movies that wants to be a family comedy, should have been a family comedy, but they couldn't lay off the filthy stuff so now it really has no audience IMO. Amusing enough to be worth a watch though.

This is the one where Olivia Wilde dresses slutty and plays a prostitute right? I'm really looking forward to it..

One of the worst movies I've ever seen.

 

[cstu]

Contact.

Not sure anybody who isn't a Joy Division fan really needs to see this one. But as a huge fan, I found it pretty interesting and thought the casting of the lead was uncanny. I'm no fanboy, so I didn't really know the particulars of Curtis' story outside of the broad strokes, and this filled all of it in in a somewhat satisfying way (based on his wife Debbie's biography). So sad- so talented and so young (23). By the time I really discovered their music as a young teen in the early 80s, I had no idea he and the band were already gone.

i always thought it was kind of weird that the rest of band morphed into New Order.

That firat New Order album made sense in terms of continuity amd i guess thw second did aa well im terms of showing the beginning of the new path. Lol... it was Control, not the Carl Sagan thing.

As far as this movie goes, I think it's highly over-rated. I like Ian Curtis and thought this was an extremely shallow look at his life. A paint-by-numbers biopic IMO.

 

[cstu]

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

I wanted to give this movie another shot. It's pretty much exactly like I remember it: funny, ugly, and often dull.

The good: Thompson's humor shines through sometimes. The bad: Depp's performance is more of a caricature than anything. When Depp's doing Thompson in voiceover, he nails it. But the praying mantis shtick gets old. The ugly: Benicio Del Toro. Drugged out cacaphony is just plain boring in movies. Drugs are always better in real life. So any movie that spends a large chunk of time pretending to trip on drugs gets tiresome. Oh, and there's yet anoth puke scene. You know, the next R rated movie I see without a puke scene gets an automatic extra star bump for originality.

There's a strange, sweet poetry in Hunter S. Thompson's writing. Even when he's describing something dark and twisted, you can hear a wry smile. But Del Toro's character just drags this movie down to something simultanesously terrifying and mundane.

I've seen it a couple of times and find it disappointing. Depp does a pretty good job but it is a caricature - I never once felt like I was watching HST. Benicio's acting is simply over the top and annoying, not at all how I pictured Dr. Gonzo in the book.

 

[El Floppo]

Contact.

Not sure anybody who isn't a Joy Division fan really needs to see this one. But as a huge fan, I found it pretty interesting and thought the casting of the lead was uncanny. I'm no fanboy, so I didn't really know the particulars of Curtis' story outside of the broad strokes, and this filled all of it in in a somewhat satisfying way (based on his wife Debbie's biography). So sad- so talented and so young (23). By the time I really discovered their music as a young teen in the early 80s, I had no idea he and the band were already gone.

i always thought it was kind of weird that the rest of band morphed into New Order.

That firat New Order album made sense in terms of continuity amd i guess thw second did aa well im terms of showing the beginning of the new path. Lol... it was Control, not the Carl Sagan thing.

As far as this movie goes, I think it's highly over-rated. I like Ian Curtis and thought this was an extremely shallow look at his life. A paint-by-numbers biopic IMO.

Overrated by who? Didnt seem like it aspired to be anything more than a biopic to me. Were you expecting something else?

 

[Time Kibitzer]

ButterNew ensemble comedy about butter sculptures with Jennifer Garner, Olivia Wilde, Hugh Jackman et al. This is another one of those movies that wants to be a family comedy, should have been a family comedy, but they couldn't lay off the filthy stuff so now it really has no audience IMO. Amusing enough to be worth a watch though.

This is the one where Olivia Wilde dresses slutty and plays a prostitute right? I'm really looking forward to it..

One of the worst movies I've ever seen.

...but it is the one where Olivia Wilde plays a prostitute right? If you think a terrible film is going to stop me from seeing that role, you are mistaken.

 

[jdoggydogg]

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

I wanted to give this movie another shot. It's pretty much exactly like I remember it: funny, ugly, and often dull.

The good: Thompson's humor shines through sometimes. The bad: Depp's performance is more of a caricature than anything. When Depp's doing Thompson in voiceover, he nails it. But the praying mantis shtick gets old. The ugly: Benicio Del Toro. Drugged out cacaphony is just plain boring in movies. Drugs are always better in real life. So any movie that spends a large chunk of time pretending to trip on drugs gets tiresome. Oh, and there's yet anoth puke scene. You know, the next R rated movie I see without a puke scene gets an automatic extra star bump for originality.

There's a strange, sweet poetry in Hunter S. Thompson's writing. Even when he's describing something dark and twisted, you can hear a wry smile. But Del Toro's character just drags this movie down to something simultanesously terrifying and mundane.

I've seen it a couple of times and find it disappointing. Depp does a pretty good job but it is a caricature - I never once felt like I was watching HST. Benicio's acting is simply over the top and annoying, not at all how I pictured Dr. Gonzo in the book.

I think Depp did well during the narrative parts. But the drug-crazed scenes were just too goofy. As for Benicio, in the books, Thompson's attorney is funny and wild - not so menacing and terrifying.

 

[belljr]

Contact.

Not sure anybody who isn't a Joy Division fan really needs to see this one. But as a huge fan, I found it pretty interesting and thought the casting of the lead was uncanny. I'm no fanboy, so I didn't really know the particulars of Curtis' story outside of the broad strokes, and this filled all of it in in a somewhat satisfying way (based on his wife Debbie's biography). So sad- so talented and so young (23). By the time I really discovered their music as a young teen in the early 80s, I had no idea he and the band were already gone.

i always thought it was kind of weird that the rest of band morphed into New Order.

That firat New Order album made sense in terms of continuity amd i guess thw second did aa well im terms of showing the beginning of the new path. Lol... it was Control, not the Carl Sagan thing.

As far as this movie goes, I think it's highly over-rated. I like Ian Curtis and thought this was an extremely shallow look at his life. A paint-by-numbers biopic IMO.

Overrated by who? Didnt seem like it aspired to be anything more than a biopic to me. Were you expecting something else?

So this is not the Jodie FOster movie, I take it

 

[Yankee23Fan]

Caught Memphis Belle last night. Always liked that movie. The final bombing run was some great drama.

 

[SmoovySmoov]

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

I wanted to give this movie another shot. It's pretty much exactly like I remember it: funny, ugly, and often dull.

The good: Thompson's humor shines through sometimes. The bad: Depp's performance is more of a caricature than anything. When Depp's doing Thompson in voiceover, he nails it. But the praying mantis shtick gets old. The ugly: Benicio Del Toro. Drugged out cacaphony is just plain boring in movies. Drugs are always better in real life. So any movie that spends a large chunk of time pretending to trip on drugs gets tiresome. Oh, and there's yet anoth puke scene. You know, the next R rated movie I see without a puke scene gets an automatic extra star bump for originality.

There's a strange, sweet poetry in Hunter S. Thompson's writing. Even when he's describing something dark and twisted, you can hear a wry smile. But Del Toro's character just drags this movie down to something simultanesously terrifying and mundane.

I've seen it a couple of times and find it disappointing. Depp does a pretty good job but it is a caricature - I never once felt like I was watching HST. Benicio's acting is simply over the top and annoying, not at all how I pictured Dr. Gonzo in the book.

I think Depp did well during the narrative parts. But the drug-crazed scenes were just too goofy. As for Benicio, in the books, Thompson's attorney is funny and wild - not so menacing and terrifying.

In the book, the part where Gonzo attacks the maid while puking in his shoes in the closet had me laughing so hard, I came real close to peeing myself.

 

[Chaka]

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

I wanted to give this movie another shot. It's pretty much exactly like I remember it: funny, ugly, and often dull.

The good: Thompson's humor shines through sometimes. The bad: Depp's performance is more of a caricature than anything. When Depp's doing Thompson in voiceover, he nails it. But the praying mantis shtick gets old. The ugly: Benicio Del Toro. Drugged out cacaphony is just plain boring in movies. Drugs are always better in real life. So any movie that spends a large chunk of time pretending to trip on drugs gets tiresome. Oh, and there's yet anoth puke scene. You know, the next R rated movie I see without a puke scene gets an automatic extra star bump for originality.

There's a strange, sweet poetry in Hunter S. Thompson's writing. Even when he's describing something dark and twisted, you can hear a wry smile. But Del Toro's character just drags this movie down to something simultanesously terrifying and mundane.

I've seen it a couple of times and find it disappointing. Depp does a pretty good job but it is a caricature - I never once felt like I was watching HST. Benicio's acting is simply over the top and annoying, not at all how I pictured Dr. Gonzo in the book.

I think Depp did well during the narrative parts. But the drug-crazed scenes were just too goofy. As for Benicio, in the books, Thompson's attorney is funny and wild - not so menacing and terrifying.

Peter Boyle nailed the part of HST's attorney in Where the Buffalo Roam. WtBR is really a superior HST adaptation on pretty much every level.

 

[cosjobs]

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

I wanted to give this movie another shot. It's pretty much exactly like I remember it: funny, ugly, and often dull.

The good: Thompson's humor shines through sometimes. The bad: Depp's performance is more of a caricature than anything. When Depp's doing Thompson in voiceover, he nails it. But the praying mantis shtick gets old. The ugly: Benicio Del Toro. Drugged out cacaphony is just plain boring in movies. Drugs are always better in real life. So any movie that spends a large chunk of time pretending to trip on drugs gets tiresome. Oh, and there's yet anoth puke scene. You know, the next R rated movie I see without a puke scene gets an automatic extra star bump for originality.

There's a strange, sweet poetry in Hunter S. Thompson's writing. Even when he's describing something dark and twisted, you can hear a wry smile. But Del Toro's character just drags this movie down to something simultanesously terrifying and mundane.

I've seen it a couple of times and find it disappointing. Depp does a pretty good job but it is a caricature - I never once felt like I was watching HST. Benicio's acting is simply over the top and annoying, not at all how I pictured Dr. Gonzo in the book.

I found it insufferable and I am a huge HST fan.mon was in town one evening and I let him pick a movie to watch in my cave and he chose that. I had started it once before and gave up in less than 15 minutes. Being a good host I sat through the whole thing and no amount of spleef and alcohol could make those 100 minutes tolerable

 

[cosjobs]

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

I wanted to give this movie another shot. It's pretty much exactly like I remember it: funny, ugly, and often dull.

The good: Thompson's humor shines through sometimes. The bad: Depp's performance is more of a caricature than anything. When Depp's doing Thompson in voiceover, he nails it. But the praying mantis shtick gets old. The ugly: Benicio Del Toro. Drugged out cacaphony is just plain boring in movies. Drugs are always better in real life. So any movie that spends a large chunk of time pretending to trip on drugs gets tiresome. Oh, and there's yet anoth puke scene. You know, the next R rated movie I see without a puke scene gets an automatic extra star bump for originality.

There's a strange, sweet poetry in Hunter S. Thompson's writing. Even when he's describing something dark and twisted, you can hear a wry smile. But Del Toro's character just drags this movie down to something simultanesously terrifying and mundane.

I've seen it a couple of times and find it disappointing. Depp does a pretty good job but it is a caricature - I never once felt like I was watching HST. Benicio's acting is simply over the top and annoying, not at all how I pictured Dr. Gonzo in the book.

I think Depp did well during the narrative parts. But the drug-crazed scenes were just too goofy. As for Benicio, in the books, Thompson's attorney is funny and wild - not so menacing and terrifying.

Peter Boyle nailed the part of HST's attorney in Where the Buffalo Roam. WtBR is really a superior HST adaptation on pretty much every level.

agree

 

[jdoggydogg]

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

I wanted to give this movie another shot. It's pretty much exactly like I remember it: funny, ugly, and often dull.

The good: Thompson's humor shines through sometimes. The bad: Depp's performance is more of a caricature than anything. When Depp's doing Thompson in voiceover, he nails it. But the praying mantis shtick gets old. The ugly: Benicio Del Toro. Drugged out cacaphony is just plain boring in movies. Drugs are always better in real life. So any movie that spends a large chunk of time pretending to trip on drugs gets tiresome. Oh, and there's yet anoth puke scene. You know, the next R rated movie I see without a puke scene gets an automatic extra star bump for originality.

There's a strange, sweet poetry in Hunter S. Thompson's writing. Even when he's describing something dark and twisted, you can hear a wry smile. But Del Toro's character just drags this movie down to something simultanesously terrifying and mundane.

I've seen it a couple of times and find it disappointing. Depp does a pretty good job but it is a caricature - I never once felt like I was watching HST. Benicio's acting is simply over the top and annoying, not at all how I pictured Dr. Gonzo in the book.

I think Depp did well during the narrative parts. But the drug-crazed scenes were just too goofy. As for Benicio, in the books, Thompson's attorney is funny and wild - not so menacing and terrifying.

Peter Boyle nailed the part of HST's attorney in Where the Buffalo Roam. WtBR is really a superior HST adaptation on pretty much every level.

I like that movie a lot more than Las Vegas.

 

[jdoggydogg]

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

I wanted to give this movie another shot. It's pretty much exactly like I remember it: funny, ugly, and often dull.

The good: Thompson's humor shines through sometimes. The bad: Depp's performance is more of a caricature than anything. When Depp's doing Thompson in voiceover, he nails it. But the praying mantis shtick gets old. The ugly: Benicio Del Toro. Drugged out cacaphony is just plain boring in movies. Drugs are always better in real life. So any movie that spends a large chunk of time pretending to trip on drugs gets tiresome. Oh, and there's yet anoth puke scene. You know, the next R rated movie I see without a puke scene gets an automatic extra star bump for originality.

There's a strange, sweet poetry in Hunter S. Thompson's writing. Even when he's describing something dark and twisted, you can hear a wry smile. But Del Toro's character just drags this movie down to something simultanesously terrifying and mundane.

I've seen it a couple of times and find it disappointing. Depp does a pretty good job but it is a caricature - I never once felt like I was watching HST. Benicio's acting is simply over the top and annoying, not at all how I pictured Dr. Gonzo in the book.

I found it insufferable and I am a huge HST fan.mon was in town one evening and I let him pick a movie to watch in my cave and he chose that. I had started it once before and gave up in less than 15 minutes. Being a good host I sat through the whole thing and no amount of spleef and alcohol could make those 100 minutes tolerable

I don't know why directors decided that on-screen drug trips are interesting - even for five minutes. Stretch it out to an entire film, and it's practically unwatchable.

 

[Time Kibitzer]

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

I wanted to give this movie another shot. It's pretty much exactly like I remember it: funny, ugly, and often dull.

The good: Thompson's humor shines through sometimes. The bad: Depp's performance is more of a caricature than anything. When Depp's doing Thompson in voiceover, he nails it. But the praying mantis shtick gets old. The ugly: Benicio Del Toro. Drugged out cacaphony is just plain boring in movies. Drugs are always better in real life. So any movie that spends a large chunk of time pretending to trip on drugs gets tiresome. Oh, and there's yet anoth puke scene. You know, the next R rated movie I see without a puke scene gets an automatic extra star bump for originality.

There's a strange, sweet poetry in Hunter S. Thompson's writing. Even when he's describing something dark and twisted, you can hear a wry smile. But Del Toro's character just drags this movie down to something simultanesously terrifying and mundane.

I've seen it a couple of times and find it disappointing. Depp does a pretty good job but it is a caricature - I never once felt like I was watching HST. Benicio's acting is simply over the top and annoying, not at all how I pictured Dr. Gonzo in the book.

I found it insufferable and I am a huge HST fan.mon was in town one evening and I let him pick a movie to watch in my cave and he chose that. I had started it once before and gave up in less than 15 minutes. Being a good host I sat through the whole thing and no amount of spleef and alcohol could make those 100 minutes tolerable

I can only speak for myself, but drunkenness is what made the movie intolerable the first time I saw it; it certainly didn't help the nausea I can assure you..

 

[wazoo11]

Dredd 3D

Saw this movie over the weekend. Straight up fun action flick

that surprisingly bombed at the box office.

3.5/5

 

[cstu]

Contact.

Not sure anybody who isn't a Joy Division fan really needs to see this one. But as a huge fan, I found it pretty interesting and thought the casting of the lead was uncanny. I'm no fanboy, so I didn't really know the particulars of Curtis' story outside of the broad strokes, and this filled all of it in in a somewhat satisfying way (based on his wife Debbie's biography). So sad- so talented and so young (23). By the time I really discovered their music as a young teen in the early 80s, I had no idea he and the band were already gone.

i always thought it was kind of weird that the rest of band morphed into New Order.

That firat New Order album made sense in terms of continuity amd i guess thw second did aa well im terms of showing the beginning of the new path. Lol... it was Control, not the Carl Sagan thing.

As far as this movie goes, I think it's highly over-rated. I like Ian Curtis and thought this was an extremely shallow look at his life. A paint-by-numbers biopic IMO.

Overrated by who? Didnt seem like it aspired to be anything more than a biopic to me. Were you expecting something else?

It's rated 7.7 on IMDB.I expected something with a little depth, not just "this is Ian Curtis, he joins a band, stuff happens, he kills himself". This review sums it up for me:

Village Voice

LD Beghtol

50

Despite excellent performances from Samantha Morton, Craig Parkinson, and the radiant Toby Kebbell, along with a noble effort from pretty newcomer Sam Riley as Curtis himself, Control is like a wake where the guests forgot to bring the booze and, for the most part, have nothing very nice or even particularly interesting to say about the deceased.

 

[El Floppo]

Contact.

Not sure anybody who isn't a Joy Division fan really needs to see this one. But as a huge fan, I found it pretty interesting and thought the casting of the lead was uncanny. I'm no fanboy, so I didn't really know the particulars of Curtis' story outside of the broad strokes, and this filled all of it in in a somewhat satisfying way (based on his wife Debbie's biography). So sad- so talented and so young (23). By the time I really discovered their music as a young teen in the early 80s, I had no idea he and the band were already gone.

i always thought it was kind of weird that the rest of band morphed into New Order.

That firat New Order album made sense in terms of continuity amd i guess thw second did aa well im terms of showing the beginning of the new path. Lol... it was Control, not the Carl Sagan thing.

As far as this movie goes, I think it's highly over-rated. I like Ian Curtis and thought this was an extremely shallow look at his life. A paint-by-numbers biopic IMO.

Overrated by who? Didnt seem like it aspired to be anything more than a biopic to me. Were you expecting something else?

It's rated 7.7 on IMDB.I expected something with a little depth, not just "this is Ian Curtis, he joins a band, stuff happens, he kills himself". This review sums it up for me:

Village Voice

LD Beghtol

50

Despite excellent performances from Samantha Morton, Craig Parkinson, and the radiant Toby Kebbell, along with a noble effort from pretty newcomer Sam Riley as Curtis himself, Control is like a wake where the guests forgot to bring the booze and, for the most part, have nothing very nice or even particularly interesting to say about the deceased.

Yeah- pretty spot on.

 

[KarmaPolice]

Prometheus:

Wow, did I not like this movie. Felt the urge to turn it off after the opening sequence, then it gave me a glimmer of hope. Seemed like the writers had something to say, started to set it up, and then got bored and wanted some silly gore and fight scenes. I was 1/2 way on board with it until:

Spoiler

Alien abortion !!!

This ended up being one of the bigger disappointments of the last few years for me as far as movies go.

 

[cstu]

Goon - 8/10

I remember this getting good reviews here overall and I dug it a lot more than I thought I would. While not the greatest actor, Seann William Scott did a good job and he's able to pull off a tricky character to play. Baruchel was over the top but it didn't take away from the movie and I think it actually helped add to the scenes where he was being supportive of Doug. Schreiber was perfect for the character, thought he did a tremendous job with the minor role.