I saw RED 2 last night. Very entertaining. Right up there with Knight and Day. Score: 9/10
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I saw RED 2 last night. Very entertaining. Right up there with Knight and Day. Score: 9/10
I saw “Hunger Games” and “Gravity” recently. “Gravity” has received generally good reviews, but I didn’t like it. It was beautiful – the Earth looked great from orbit, reminding me of the line describing it in “Journey to the Moon” by Archibald MacLiesh. However, the movie didn’t work as a thriller. It jumped right into the action – so we didn’t get to know the characters at all. Some viewers (perhaps) care about Sandra Bullock simply because she is America’s sweetheart – but that wasn’t enough for me. The film made some futile attempts to doctor up some sympathy for its heroine by informing us that her child had been killed in an accident. The effort seemed forced, as if the screenwriter knew he hadn’t done his job and was stretching for an ex deus machina with which to involve the audience.
The new “Hunger Games” movie was a mess. I’ve read the books (I’m not sure why), so I was able to follow the plot. I doubt non-readers were able to. The movie was simply incompetently done. To me, this is strange. The first movie grossed $200 million (or more). Can’t they hire a director and screenwriter who can tell a simple story in a minimally competent manner? Someone must have spent millions upon millions of dollars for the stars, the special effects, and the book rights. Spend a few grand for a screenwriter, for goodness sake. Every time Donald Sutherland came on the screen playing the evil President Snow I wanted to go out for popcorn, just so I wouldn’t have to see his trite and predictable performance. J Law (America’s new sweetheart) is a good actress, but utterly unbelievable as a Hunger Games’ winner (she’s completely unathletic – she can’t even run, as she proved in her Academy Award winning turn in the horrid “Silver Lining Playbook”). Oh, well. Maybe next time.
Hey, I didn't say I would qualify as a movie reviewer! I've read the book, so, yeah, I could follow the plot. I actually do like some "good" movies, and I know this does not rank as art, but as fun. I had fun, that's all I'm sayin'. :)
Both are completely adorable. "The Princess Bride" is one of my favorites and that line is one of my favorite movie lines of all time.Quote:
Originally Posted by Helga
I watched (again) "Fargo" it is classd es "An American Masterpiece" 10/10
I finished watching the first three episodes of the first series of Dr Who. It is about as much as I can handle in one setting.
This was from the ninth set of episodes with the doctor played by Christopher Eccleston starting in 2005: tardis.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Doctor_Who_television_stories.
I found out about Dr Who a few weeks ago. It was more entertaining that I expected. Score 7/10
Reading mixed reviews about Hunger Games and Catching Fire I am tempted to see them both.
I watched a couple of movies on weekend. Welcome to the Punch was a waste of time; that’s all I have to say about it and it gets 3/10. Yes, I’m too generous! :D
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows was good, though it was more action packed than the first part but personally I enjoyed its previous movie better. 6/10
Really enjoyed "Pumpkin Eater" starring Anne Bancroft and Peter Finch, the closing look the two exchanged was wonderful, not a word needed to be spoken!! 7/10
For an idea of the heights Doctor Who can reach, I highly recommend "Blink" from the third season. If you like low-budget B-movies, you might enjoy much of the original series (1963-1987) as well.Quote:
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Thanks! I was wondering what the best ones were. There are way too many on the list I found.Quote:
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Update: I finished the next three shows in the series I rented and found out how a Dalek climbs the stairs.
Just saw Catching Fire for the third time (I have issues). I think they all did a great job with it. Good acting.
There were a few parts that I feel they should have put in, because they were important and non-readers might have trouble not catching on (like Plutarch's gold watch and explaining D13 more).
9/10.
The World's End: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1213663/
This was about a pub crawl where not only the quantity of alcohol but also aliens kept getting in the way. At the end the heroes save the world, but it depends on your perspective whether the world was saved or not, so I'm not really spoiling the ending by saying that they "saved" anything.
Score 9/10
The latest iteration of Superman. 7/10 It was alright.
Nice to see you're not wasting your time.Quote:
Originally Posted by YesNo
Watching Billie Piper as Rose Tyler made the time pass quickly. I liked the way she'd not pronounce clearly the "t" in many words such as "later". Or at least that's how I heard it. She would say something like "lay-er" and the "t" in "not" would seem to get de-emphasized or combined with the next word to the point of not being there and the "o" sound made long.Quote:
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Serenity, 10/10.
Serenity is the movie conclusion to the short lived, cancelled-in-its-prime Tv show, Firefly. They're both epic and amazing and fantastic pieces of science fiction that reject the classic views of shining spaceshippy utopias or post-apocalyptic dystopias and go for something in between, portraying a 26th century humanity with a huge class division between the haves and have-nots. It's got great dialogue, 9 extremely well written characters, and it's the only movie I've cried at since I was a little kid.