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'Chaka said:
'jdoggydogg said:
So I am probably going to take some crap for this but here goes. Saw John Carter last night. I don't get the hate I've heard. I thought it was actually not too bad. I have certainly seen way worse. Watched Game of Shadows as well and while I don't remember it getting killed in reviews I don't think it was significantly better. Now it had better actors but overall I don't think I was entertained any more by it and on the pure fun scale I think Carter was a tad ahead.
I call an official ban on mockery. What is this, the NYU film school?(The movie wasn't bad at all.)
That doesn't mean it was at all good. It was just okay.
John Carter - I have never read the book but I was trying to imagine what the biggest flop in the history of film might possibly look like so I watched it. It's not great, not really even very good but this is not the worst film ever made so that's something, right?
Average action flick for 2012, could be worse, not as bad as all that. Although still not something you should go out of your way to see.
In trying to think of recent action adventure films to compare it to the new Conan and Prince of Persia come to mind and I think it was certainly better than either of those. Of course that isn't saying much.
I'm ok with ok.
 
'jdoggydogg said:
So I am probably going to take some crap for this but here goes. Saw John Carter last night. I don't get the hate I've heard. I thought it was actually not too bad. I have certainly seen way worse. Watched Game of Shadows as well and while I don't remember it getting killed in reviews I don't think it was significantly better. Now it had better actors but overall I don't think I was entertained any more by it and on the pure fun scale I think Carter was a tad ahead.
I call an official ban on mockery. What is this, the NYU film school?
This coming from the biggest movie snob on the board. ;)
:grad:
 
Brave

With How to Train Your Dragon, Dreamworks finally showed the world that Pixar wasn't the only studio that could produce beautiful, CGI animated stories. With Brave, Pixar has bounced back from a mediocre effort in Cars 2 to bring us another classic on par with the Toy Story franchise. Spectacular, funny movie. Loved it.

 
Halloween H20:

Been slowly going through old horror series like I stated earlier. Been awhile since I had seen this one, and think that it's one of the stronger ones of the series. They dropped all the curse and voodoo bull####, brought Laurie back, and went back to it's roots. Just like Friday the 13th only had 4-5 worth watching, I think I would recommend people just watch 1, 2, maybe 4, H20, and the remake.

Tropic Thunder:

Upon each rewatch, I think the first 1/2 or so gets funnier for me, and the 2nd part gets too "Stiller-ish" and more annoying for me. Still damn funny, but I could just use a little bit less of Ben Stiller in the movie.

 
Got The Man From Earth based on positive reviews in this thread.

Was completely bored and the acting was terrible. Felt like it was a high school production. I made it through 40 minutes and had to give up.

 
Got The Man From Earth based on positive reviews in this thread.

Was completely bored and the acting was terrible. Felt like it was a high school production. I made it through 40 minutes and had to give up.
never heard of it. reading the summary, i'm sure that i don't much care to watch it. for $200k budget my expectations would be low.
 
'Chaka said:
'jdoggydogg said:
So I am probably going to take some crap for this but here goes. Saw John Carter last night. I don't get the hate I've heard. I thought it was actually not too bad. I have certainly seen way worse. Watched Game of Shadows as well and while I don't remember it getting killed in reviews I don't think it was significantly better. Now it had better actors but overall I don't think I was entertained any more by it and on the pure fun scale I think Carter was a tad ahead.
I call an official ban on mockery. What is this, the NYU film school?(The movie wasn't bad at all.)
That doesn't mean it was at all good. It was just okay.
John Carter - I have never read the book but I was trying to imagine what the biggest flop in the history of film might possibly look like so I watched it. It's not great, not really even very good but this is not the worst film ever made so that's something, right?
Average action flick for 2012, could be worse, not as bad as all that. Although still not something you should go out of your way to see.
In trying to think of recent action adventure films to compare it to the new Conan and Prince of Persia come to mind and I think it was certainly better than either of those. Of course that isn't saying much.
I'm ok with ok.
Yeah I'm Ok with OK. It was good for the dollar I spent.
 
BTW I mentioned Game of Shadows. It was OK as well. At this point Robert Downey seems to be playing the same guy in this and IM to a degree. I expected more from this than Carter. But really it seemed like a bunch of scenes strung together to get us to an end any fan of the books saw coming a mile away so they could get to the third film. For a dollar no biggie but glad I didn't go to the theater.

 
Another problem I had with John Carter is Daryl Sabara; I can't look at him and see Edgar Rice Burroughs because all I see is his character from World's Greatest Dad. It was a little distracting. He's probably a very good actor, he was excellent in WGD but it looks like that character is gonna stick with him.
Never saw WGD so he was fine for me.
I recommend it and I think the consensus in here is that it is interesting and entertaining if odd.
 
Got The Man From Earth based on positive reviews in this thread.

Was completely bored and the acting was terrible. Felt like it was a high school production. I made it through 40 minutes and had to give up.
never heard of it. reading the summary, i'm sure that i don't much care to watch it. for $200k budget my expectations would be low.
Great movie. One of my favorites. Haven't heard a bad word about it from anyone that has watched it... other than offdee.
 
Another problem I had with John Carter is Daryl Sabara; I can't look at him and see Edgar Rice Burroughs because all I see is his character from World's Greatest Dad. It was a little distracting. He's probably a very good actor, he was excellent in WGD but it looks like that character is gonna stick with him.
Never saw WGD so he was fine for me.
I recommend it and I think the consensus in here is that it is interesting and entertaining if odd.
I'll keep an eye out for it.
 
Got The Man From Earth based on positive reviews in this thread.

Was completely bored and the acting was terrible. Felt like it was a high school production. I made it through 40 minutes and had to give up.
never heard of it. reading the summary, i'm sure that i don't much care to watch it. for $200k budget my expectations would be low.
Great movie. One of my favorites. Haven't heard a bad word about it from anyone that has watched it... other than offdee.
Really?? What did you like about it?Did anything actually end up happening other than a bunch of bad actors and bad character cliches sitting around a living room talking?

 
Got The Man From Earth based on positive reviews in this thread.

Was completely bored and the acting was terrible. Felt like it was a high school production. I made it through 40 minutes and had to give up.
never heard of it. reading the summary, i'm sure that i don't much care to watch it. for $200k budget my expectations would be low.
Great movie. One of my favorites. Haven't heard a bad word about it from anyone that has watched it... other than offdee.
Really?? What did you like about it?Did anything actually end up happening other than a bunch of bad actors and bad character cliches sitting around a living room talking?
The entire story was great.
 
Got The Man From Earth based on positive reviews in this thread.

Was completely bored and the acting was terrible. Felt like it was a high school production. I made it through 40 minutes and had to give up.
never heard of it. reading the summary, i'm sure that i don't much care to watch it. for $200k budget my expectations would be low.
Great movie. One of my favorites. Haven't heard a bad word about it from anyone that has watched it... other than offdee.
Yes it's low budget and the acting is only middling - but it worked for me from a mood point and the questions it was asking of the audience.Kind of like The Nines (the one with Ryan Reynolds) in that respect.

 
Got The Man From Earth based on positive reviews in this thread.

Was completely bored and the acting was terrible. Felt like it was a high school production. I made it through 40 minutes and had to give up.
never heard of it. reading the summary, i'm sure that i don't much care to watch it. for $200k budget my expectations would be low.
Great movie. One of my favorites. Haven't heard a bad word about it from anyone that has watched it... other than offdee.
Really?? What did you like about it?Did anything actually end up happening other than a bunch of bad actors and bad character cliches sitting around a living room talking?
The entire story was great.
So, assume that means nothing actually did end up happening. Did the "eccentric professor with ponytail and soulpatch with a young ex-student female on his arm" and his partner in crime "psychologist with scarf and smokes pipe" ever get to the bottom of this ridiculous story!?!?!
 
Got The Man From Earth based on positive reviews in this thread.

Was completely bored and the acting was terrible. Felt like it was a high school production. I made it through 40 minutes and had to give up.
never heard of it. reading the summary, i'm sure that i don't much care to watch it. for $200k budget my expectations would be low.
Great movie. One of my favorites. Haven't heard a bad word about it from anyone that has watched it... other than offdee.
Yes it's low budget and the acting is only middling - but it worked for me from a mood point and the questions it was asking of the audience.Kind of like The Nines (the one with Ryan Reynolds) in that respect.
Haven't seen The Nines.The acting isn't the greatest, the movie doesn't leave the plain old cabin and yet the story completely makes it worth it IMO. Intriguing and thought provoking.

It is the polar opposite of something like The Kids Are Alright or The Kings Speech. High profile actors, great acting/directing and nice scenery but terribly boring stories.

Good story >>> good acting.

 
Got The Man From Earth based on positive reviews in this thread.

Was completely bored and the acting was terrible. Felt like it was a high school production. I made it through 40 minutes and had to give up.
never heard of it. reading the summary, i'm sure that i don't much care to watch it. for $200k budget my expectations would be low.
Great movie. One of my favorites. Haven't heard a bad word about it from anyone that has watched it... other than offdee.
Really?? What did you like about it?Did anything actually end up happening other than a bunch of bad actors and bad character cliches sitting around a living room talking?
The entire story was great.
So, assume that means nothing actually did end up happening. Did the "eccentric professor with ponytail and soulpatch with a young ex-student female on his arm" and his partner in crime "psychologist with scarf and smokes pipe" ever get to the bottom of this ridiculous story!?!?!
Watch it and find out.
 
BTW I mentioned Game of Shadows. It was OK as well. At this point Robert Downey seems to be playing the same guy in this and IM to a degree. I expected more from this than Carter. But really it seemed like a bunch of scenes strung together to get us to an end any fan of the books saw coming a mile away so they could get to the third film. For a dollar no biggie but glad I didn't go to the theater.
If you watched BBC's The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes with Jeremy Brett, Ritchie's movies pale in comparison.
 
BTW I mentioned Game of Shadows. It was OK as well. At this point Robert Downey seems to be playing the same guy in this and IM to a degree. I expected more from this than Carter. But really it seemed like a bunch of scenes strung together to get us to an end any fan of the books saw coming a mile away so they could get to the third film. For a dollar no biggie but glad I didn't go to the theater.
If you watched BBC's The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes with Jeremy Brett, Ritchie's movies pale in comparison.
tried that recently. it felt incredibly dated somehow for me. his performance was very rathbone-y too.
 
BTW I mentioned Game of Shadows. It was OK as well. At this point Robert Downey seems to be playing the same guy in this and IM to a degree. I expected more from this than Carter. But really it seemed like a bunch of scenes strung together to get us to an end any fan of the books saw coming a mile away so they could get to the third film. For a dollar no biggie but glad I didn't go to the theater.
If you watched BBC's The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes with Jeremy Brett, Ritchie's movies pale in comparison.
tried that recently. it felt incredibly dated somehow for me. his performance was very rathbone-y too.
Ok. I don't agree, but that's cool. Well, the new BBC Sherlock is also better.

 
BTW I mentioned Game of Shadows. It was OK as well. At this point Robert Downey seems to be playing the same guy in this and IM to a degree. I expected more from this than Carter. But really it seemed like a bunch of scenes strung together to get us to an end any fan of the books saw coming a mile away so they could get to the third film. For a dollar no biggie but glad I didn't go to the theater.
If you watched BBC's The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes with Jeremy Brett, Ritchie's movies pale in comparison.
tried that recently. it felt incredibly dated somehow for me. his performance was very rathbone-y too.
Ok. I don't agree, but that's cool. Well, the new BBC Sherlock is also better.
i like the new sherlock a lot. benedict, paired with martin freeman, is a winning combination.
 
BTW I mentioned Game of Shadows. It was OK as well. At this point Robert Downey seems to be playing the same guy in this and IM to a degree. I expected more from this than Carter. But really it seemed like a bunch of scenes strung together to get us to an end any fan of the books saw coming a mile away so they could get to the third film. For a dollar no biggie but glad I didn't go to the theater.
If you watched BBC's The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes with Jeremy Brett, Ritchie's movies pale in comparison.
tried that recently. it felt incredibly dated somehow for me. his performance was very rathbone-y too.
Ok. I don't agree, but that's cool. Well, the new BBC Sherlock is also better.
i like the new sherlock a lot. benedict, paired with martin freeman, is a winning combination.
Movies or is there a tv show? I just watched the second movie with Downey, haven't seen the first... It was meh
 
BTW I mentioned Game of Shadows. It was OK as well. At this point Robert Downey seems to be playing the same guy in this and IM to a degree. I expected more from this than Carter. But really it seemed like a bunch of scenes strung together to get us to an end any fan of the books saw coming a mile away so they could get to the third film. For a dollar no biggie but glad I didn't go to the theater.
If you watched BBC's The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes with Jeremy Brett, Ritchie's movies pale in comparison.
Yeah I really like Brett's take on Holmes and I agree the shows are very good. I definitely enjoy them more than I did Game of Shadows.
 
BTW I mentioned Game of Shadows. It was OK as well. At this point Robert Downey seems to be playing the same guy in this and IM to a degree. I expected more from this than Carter. But really it seemed like a bunch of scenes strung together to get us to an end any fan of the books saw coming a mile away so they could get to the third film. For a dollar no biggie but glad I didn't go to the theater.
If you watched BBC's The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes with Jeremy Brett, Ritchie's movies pale in comparison.
tried that recently. it felt incredibly dated somehow for me. his performance was very rathbone-y too.
Ok. I don't agree, but that's cool. Well, the new BBC Sherlock is also better.
i like the new sherlock a lot. benedict, paired with martin freeman, is a winning combination.
Movies or is there a tv show? I just watched the second movie with Downey, haven't seen the first... It was meh
There is a new TV show. Well not new I think this is the second or third season.
 
BTW I mentioned Game of Shadows. It was OK as well. At this point Robert Downey seems to be playing the same guy in this and IM to a degree. I expected more from this than Carter. But really it seemed like a bunch of scenes strung together to get us to an end any fan of the books saw coming a mile away so they could get to the third film. For a dollar no biggie but glad I didn't go to the theater.
If you watched BBC's The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes with Jeremy Brett, Ritchie's movies pale in comparison.
tried that recently. it felt incredibly dated somehow for me. his performance was very rathbone-y too.
Ok. I don't agree, but that's cool. Well, the new BBC Sherlock is also better.
i like the new sherlock a lot. benedict, paired with martin freeman, is a winning combination.
:thumbup:
 
BTW I mentioned Game of Shadows. It was OK as well. At this point Robert Downey seems to be playing the same guy in this and IM to a degree. I expected more from this than Carter. But really it seemed like a bunch of scenes strung together to get us to an end any fan of the books saw coming a mile away so they could get to the third film. For a dollar no biggie but glad I didn't go to the theater.
If you watched BBC's The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes with Jeremy Brett, Ritchie's movies pale in comparison.
Yeah I really like Brett's take on Holmes and I agree the shows are very good. I definitely enjoy them more than I did Game of Shadows.
It feels like Ritchie's version of Sherlock places style above the story.
 
BTW I mentioned Game of Shadows. It was OK as well. At this point Robert Downey seems to be playing the same guy in this and IM to a degree. I expected more from this than Carter. But really it seemed like a bunch of scenes strung together to get us to an end any fan of the books saw coming a mile away so they could get to the third film. For a dollar no biggie but glad I didn't go to the theater.
If you watched BBC's The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes with Jeremy Brett, Ritchie's movies pale in comparison.
Yeah I really like Brett's take on Holmes and I agree the shows are very good. I definitely enjoy them more than I did Game of Shadows.
It feels like Ritchie's version of Sherlock places style above the story.
Definitely.
 
BTW I mentioned Game of Shadows. It was OK as well. At this point Robert Downey seems to be playing the same guy in this and IM to a degree. I expected more from this than Carter. But really it seemed like a bunch of scenes strung together to get us to an end any fan of the books saw coming a mile away so they could get to the third film. For a dollar no biggie but glad I didn't go to the theater.
If you watched BBC's The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes with Jeremy Brett, Ritchie's movies pale in comparison.
tried that recently. it felt incredibly dated somehow for me. his performance was very rathbone-y too.
Ok. I don't agree, but that's cool. Well, the new BBC Sherlock is also better.
i like the new sherlock a lot. benedict, paired with martin freeman, is a winning combination.
i was really disappointed with what they did with Watson in Season 2. Martin Freeman made S1 because he was strong & complimentary, the heart to Holmes' mind. the reason the soulless, new-age Holmes worked is that he found a partner to make sure he didnt add his own layer of bull#### while he was cutting through the bull#### of the cases. S2 didn't cop out like DAbbey2, but they missed out by riding the tightrope of high thought, motive & talk and forgetting about the heart, the core of doing good by being bad. it was fun to watch them try but, when everyone's a foil no one's a foil, making both crime & case mere exercises in sociopathy.
 
finally watched Super 8 - cant anyone in Hollywood do anything halfway anymore to keep the suspense, or will everything be balls-to-the-wall obvious once the tech is out of the bag?! the storytelling was quite compelling in the first half - i love the forlorn sense of family that JJAbrams puts into all his projects - but they couldnt keep the unfolding of the immense scale of developments from poisoning the story & relationships into hero-tragic, soapy nonsense. 2.52/5

 
finally watched Super 8 - cant anyone in Hollywood do anything halfway anymore to keep the suspense, or will everything be balls-to-the-wall obvious once the tech is out of the bag?! the storytelling was quite compelling in the first half - i love the forlorn sense of family that JJAbrams puts into all his projects - but they couldnt keep the unfolding of the immense scale of developments from poisoning the story & relationships into hero-tragic, soapy nonsense. 2.52/5
I liked this movie a lot, but I do agree that the first half is better.
 
Got The Man From Earth based on positive reviews in this thread.

Was completely bored and the acting was terrible. Felt like it was a high school production. I made it through 40 minutes and had to give up.
The entire movie was filmed in one room and it was all a guy telling stories that another movie may have used flashbacks for. I felt that the writing and acting was pretty compelling actually as I was able to watch the whole thing and be able to imagine in my head the stories being told. :shrug:
 
Got The Man From Earth based on positive reviews in this thread.

Was completely bored and the acting was terrible. Felt like it was a high school production. I made it through 40 minutes and had to give up.
The entire movie was filmed in one room and it was all a guy telling stories that another movie may have used flashbacks for. I felt that the writing and acting was pretty compelling actually as I was able to watch the whole thing and be able to imagine in my head the stories being told. :shrug:
I thought it was excellent.
 
watched lena dunham's "tiny furniture" last night. i liked it even if i felt really old watching it. hard to imagine feeling that disconnected and removed from both NYC and my youth but i certainly did. it's funny, clever and very confident first feature. it's very much the wellspring for "girls" (of which i've only seen maybe 2 episodes which i kind of appreciated)though.

 
Got The Man From Earth based on positive reviews in this thread.

Was completely bored and the acting was terrible. Felt like it was a high school production. I made it through 40 minutes and had to give up.
never heard of it. reading the summary, i'm sure that i don't much care to watch it. for $200k budget my expectations would be low.
Great movie. One of my favorites. Haven't heard a bad word about it from anyone that has watched it... other than offdee.
:goodposting: loved it
 
Did anything actually end up happening other than a bunch of bad actors and bad character cliches sitting around a living room talking?
If you mean was there some cool climactic twist where he reveals that he actually lives forever by harvesting the souls of people he's close to and then they have some big laser pistol shootout then no, nothing ends up happening.However, the story does take a pretty big turn in the middle and there are some interesting reveals towards the end.If you didn't like the first half, though, then I doubt it's going to hook you at any point. I loved it all the way through.
 
Got The Man From Earth based on positive reviews in this thread.

Was completely bored and the acting was terrible. Felt like it was a high school production. I made it through 40 minutes and had to give up.
never heard of it. reading the summary, i'm sure that i don't much care to watch it. for $200k budget my expectations would be low.
Great movie. One of my favorites. Haven't heard a bad word about it from anyone that has watched it... other than offdee.
:goodposting: loved it
:goodposting: Outstanding movie.
 
watched lena dunham's "tiny furniture" last night. i liked it even if i felt really old watching it. hard to imagine feeling that disconnected and removed from both NYC and my youth but i certainly did. it's funny, clever and very confident first feature. it's very much the wellspring for "girls" (of which i've only seen maybe 2 episodes which i kind of appreciated)though.
Good movie. Sounds like you enjoyed it - which means you should definitely finish all of Girls.
 
Was thinking of making my wife watch one of my favorite movies as a teen...The Right Stuff.

Haven't seen it in a long time....does it hold up? Is it a guy movie?

 
Was thinking of making my wife watch one of my favorite movies as a teen...The Right Stuff.Haven't seen it in a long time....does it hold up? Is it a guy movie?
I wind up seeing that movie every year or so. If I catch it on cable, it's one of those movies that I will watch through to the end. I *love* it but think it's very much a guy's movie.
 
Was thinking of making my wife watch one of my favorite movies as a teen...The Right Stuff.Haven't seen it in a long time....does it hold up? Is it a guy movie?
Watched it again not too long ago. I think it still holds up."You've got it all wrong, the issue here ain't p####y. The issue here is monkey."
 
Was thinking of making my wife watch one of my favorite movies as a teen...The Right Stuff.Haven't seen it in a long time....does it hold up? Is it a guy movie?
One of my favorites too. I just watched it as well a few months ago, and it holds up, although it makes me realize how old I am when I see how young all those guys look, especially Dennis Quaid and Ed Harris. It's a guys movie, but I see no reason any woman wouldn't like it.
 
Was thinking of making my wife watch one of my favorite movies as a teen...The Right Stuff.Haven't seen it in a long time....does it hold up? Is it a guy movie?
I enjoyed the movie, but haven't seen it in years. I was thinking about re-watching with the wife, as she has never seen it. Post a review...
 
Man On a Ledge- Meh. Wasn't bad, wasn't good. Standard 2 parts heist movie with 1 part 'unjustly imprisoned and need to prove my innocence' movie.

But it gets 10 out of 10 stars from me. Why?

Genesis Rodriguez. Oh.My.Loins. Hottest woman on the planet.

 
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21 Jump Street:

Don't think I loved it as much as others, but I was quite surprised how much I laughed during this one. It was very self-aware and that's what made it such a blast to watch. The stuff from the trailers that made me not want to watch the movie seemed to be over in the first 20mns or so. Really liked the take on what the popular kids in HS are like now vs. a decade ago and how our 2 heroes struggle with that. Also worth it for the scenes of the kids tripping on WTF. Might have lost some points for me because I think skinny Jonah Hill is ####in' creepy.
Similar thoughts. I laughed a lot, but not really the best movie. Those scenes made me laugh so hard, particularly where they get busted for hall passes. Jonah Hill would never, ever, be the popular kid though, sorry. I liked him a lot in this though, and Moneyball before this. Channing Tatum's comedic timing was pretty surprising.3.5/5

 

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