Merged: The Movies Thread

[mredskins]

Originally Posted by SmootSmack

So I saw Cloverfield last night, and it had its moments. But overall I left the movie feel pretty disappointed, and nauseous (how hard is it to hold a video camera steady?). Shaky camera has its appeal to an extent for me.

Without giving much away, my biggest problem with the movie is that there are so many hidden clues you're supposed to watch out for; even before seeing the movie with all the secret web sites attached to the movie. And that's fine for LOST, where you can DVR the show, watch it online the next day, catch the next episode the following week, and put the pieces together. For a movie, that's just too much work in my opinion.

Overall I wasn't impressed

I've heard Juno is really good. Anyone see that?

SS I agree it didn't do it for me. The problem with "scary" PG-13 movies is that too many people that go are people who have not watched "scary" R movies. So they basically don't know scary.

Some old bag in front of me during Cloverfield was going so crazy I thought she was going to drop.

[DynamiteRave]

Originally Posted by SmootSmack

So I saw Cloverfield last night, and it had its moments. But overall I left the movie feel pretty disappointed, and nauseous (how hard is it to hold a video camera steady?). Shaky camera has its appeal to an extent for me.

Without giving much away, my biggest problem with the movie is that there are so many hidden clues you're supposed to watch out for; even before seeing the movie with all the secret web sites attached to the movie. And that's fine for LOST, where you can DVR the show, watch it online the next day, catch the next episode the following week, and put the pieces together. For a movie, that's just too much work in my opinion.

Overall I wasn't impressed

I've heard Juno is really good. Anyone see that?

Pretty hard when you're doing a lot of running. Even though it's a movie, if there was some alien thing terrorizing the city my first concern isn't gonna be, "Oh hey, lemme back pedal so I get get a steadier shot"

[SmootSmack]

Originally Posted by DynamiteRave

Pretty hard when you're doing a lot of running. Even though it's a movie, if there was some alien thing terrorizing the city my first concern isn't gonna be, "Oh hey, lemme back pedal so I get get a steadier shot"

Even before all that though it was unsteady...and why did the battery never die?

[DynamiteRave]

Originally Posted by SmootSmack

Even before all that though it was unsteady...and why did the battery never die?

I haven't seen the movie yet.. I heard a lot of people got all pukey cause of the shaky camera though and that some people had to walk out of the movie cause they were getting too nauseous.

[BigSKINBauer]

Originally Posted by SmootSmack

Even before all that though it was unsteady...and why did the battery never die?

Yeah i was thinking that but the movie was the entire video. So the video camera only was on for about an hour and a half over the 7 hour period it covered. So its possible it made it through.

They say there might be a sequel from another camera in a different part of the city. I don't know what i think about that.

[SmootSmack]

Originally Posted by BigSKINBauer

Yeah i was thinking that but the movie was the entire video. So the video camera only was on for about an hour and a half over the 7 hour period it covered. So its possible it made it through.

They say there might be a sequel from another camera in a different part of the city. I don't know what i think about that.

Yeah they say you need to stay through the credits

[MTK]

I've heard mixed reviews on Cloverfield. I'd still like to see if for myself.

[mooby]

I saw Mr. Woodcock today, I thought it was pretty decent but kinda predictable. Overall though it wasn't that bad, but it wasn't that great.

Yesterday I went to the theaters and saw Meet the Spartans, honestly that is the biggest piece of crap I have ever wasted 10 bucks on. I mean, not before in my life have I ever seen a movie that I thought sucked as bad as that. They basically took 300 and made it a 90 minute long gay joke with little shitty jokes dispersed randomly in it. The only parts that I thought were a littlet funny were shown in the commercials, which is the entire reason I wanted to see it in the first place despite the fact that the commercial for it wasn't entirely appealing.

Either way the next time I think about going to see a spoof movie in theaters, I'm going to think back to yesterday and tell myself never again. There will never be a spoof movie coming out that I won't be willing to wait for it to make it's inevitable appearance on HBO or one of those channels in a few months.

[DynamiteRave]

Originally Posted by mooby

I saw Mr. Woodcock today, I thought it was pretty decent but kinda predictable. Overall though it wasn't that bad, but it wasn't that great.

Yesterday I went to the theaters and saw Meet the Spartans, honestly that is the biggest piece of crap I have ever wasted 10 bucks on. I mean, not before in my life have I ever seen a movie that I thought sucked as bad as that. They basically took 300 and made it a 90 minute long gay joke with little shitty jokes dispersed randomly in it. The only parts that I thought were a littlet funny were shown in the commercials, which is the entire reason I wanted to see it in the first place despite the fact that the commercial for it wasn't entirely appealing.

Either way the next time I think about going to see a spoof movie in theaters, I'm going to think back to yesterday and tell myself never again. There will never be a spoof movie coming out that I won't be willing to wait for it to make it's inevitable appearance on HBO or one of those channels in a few months.

Are you sure about that? You may wanna rent "Date Movie" and then make a decision about which one sucked more.

[mooby]

Originally Posted by DynamiteRave

Are you sure about that? You may wanna rent "Date Movie" and then make a decision about which one sucked more.

I've seen Date Movie, honestly out of that, Meet the Spartans, and Epic Movie I'd rate Date Movie 2nd, Epic 3rd, and Meet the Spartans first in terms of which sucked more. I probably should've known judging from Date and Epic Movie, but the commercials for Meet the Spartans, even though it didn't look like something I absolutely needed to see, it looked like something that I would probably enjoy or at least call it about normal.

Dmek, I saw Saw 4 in theaters and I really enjoyed it, I liked Saw 3 better but I think Saw 3 was the best one, Saw 4 was probably 2nd though.

[dmek25]

mooby, i feel you. i also saw meet the Spartans yesterday, and really don't think ill ever see another spoof movie. anyone with any intentions of seeing this, forget it. on a side note, my son brought home saw 4. too me, best one since the original. if you get a chance, and like this style, rent it

[724Skinsfan]

I just rented and watched the last Harry Potter movie, Bourne Ultimatum and Munich. All three were very good, I thought, especially Munich.

[BDBohnzie]

My wife and I watched "Epic Movie" the other day, and it was atrocious. So I definitely will wait on "Meet The Spartans".

We watched "Shooter" yesterday, and I thought it was pretty good.

[Beemnseven]

I saw "No Country For Old Men" last week.

I went there with high hopes with all of the awards it's been nominated for. But I guess my expectations were too high. There was pretty good tension in the first 75% of the film, then it just went nowhere. For those that have seen it, please explain Tommy Lee Jones' monologue at the very end. I was completely lost with what he was trying to say.

I'm a fan of the Coen brothers too. I really don't get all the acclaim it's been getting. Just didn't do anything for me.

Two stars out of four.

[mooby]

I saw Breach saturday night on HBO, I thought it was just about one of the best movies I've seen recently, I like the way it went even though some of the stuff was made up just to add to the value of the film.