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snickerd3
Taking suggestions
necrophilia all the way!!
Master slacker
Something awesome.
Saw Interview with a Vampire last night. I understand why it was filmed in San Francisco... :laugh:
Wolverine
Uncanny Pompadour
"All Good Things", with Ryan Gosling and Kirsten Dunst.
Odd... Not bad, but odd. Chick flick mostly (zero helicopters, zero explosions) about an unsolved missing person, but it was watchable.
Guy goes off the tracks over time, but it takes a looong time for the train to derail, and then when it finally does, it goes waaay off the tracks and you get left with a mild case of "Okay...wait a minute...wha'...?? ". Not a bad rental and supposedly based on a true story. They put a lot of effort into the details and the story is good, just a little slow and I think Gosling doesn't do sinister very well. Dunst is good though. Very good.
Odd... Not bad, but odd. Chick flick mostly (zero helicopters, zero explosions) about an unsolved missing person, but it was watchable.
Guy goes off the tracks over time, but it takes a looong time for the train to derail, and then when it finally does, it goes waaay off the tracks and you get left with a mild case of "Okay...wait a minute...wha'...?? ". Not a bad rental and supposedly based on a true story. They put a lot of effort into the details and the story is good, just a little slow and I think Gosling doesn't do sinister very well. Dunst is good though. Very good.
Capt Worley PE
Run silent, run deep
^And she got nekkid.
Kephart P.E.
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Saw "Drive" a couple weeks ago. I loved it! If you are into that whole, Grindhouse retro type of thing. Of course with a new baby, I don't get out much anymore.
Redeemed Ryan Gosling in my mind, that guy had a bunch to make up for The Notebook.
Redeemed Ryan Gosling in my mind, that guy had a bunch to make up for The Notebook.
Wolverine
Uncanny Pompadour
The Devils Double:
Helicopters - check
Explosions - check
Hot chicks - check
Gratuitous violence - check
Gratuitous nekkidness - check (minus 1 point for sausage though)
Car chases - check
Historical significance - check
Edge of your seat action - small check (some of the action was predictable)
Based on a true story - myeh, no, no check...I'm pretty sure it's a complete fabrication
So it's the (supposed) story of Uday Hussein's body double, pretty much Scarface meets Caligula meets Bourne Identity, with lots of subtle and not-so-subtle (er, graphic) references to bad stuff the Hussein Boys were famous for. Great acting. Kind of slows down and starts to get lost near the end, but comes back with an exciting (but almost certainly fictitious) finale. A fair amount of blood and guts, some disturbing images, and a little bit of plagiarization from other Super-Evil-Guy movies, but overall I liked it. The only thing that would have made it better is if they had led off with "This is the story of Latif who claims to have been Udays double, all though there are no living witnesses". Presented as fact, it's a little thin.
One brilliantly subtle part: Fake Saddam tells Fake Uday to go give a fake rally to the troops while the coalition is humiliating them in Kuwait during Gulfwar 1. The eye rolling by Latif as the only one who gets the irony is Oscar worthy.
Helicopters - check
Explosions - check
Hot chicks - check
Gratuitous violence - check
Gratuitous nekkidness - check (minus 1 point for sausage though)
Car chases - check
Historical significance - check
Edge of your seat action - small check (some of the action was predictable)
Based on a true story - myeh, no, no check...I'm pretty sure it's a complete fabrication
So it's the (supposed) story of Uday Hussein's body double, pretty much Scarface meets Caligula meets Bourne Identity, with lots of subtle and not-so-subtle (er, graphic) references to bad stuff the Hussein Boys were famous for. Great acting. Kind of slows down and starts to get lost near the end, but comes back with an exciting (but almost certainly fictitious) finale. A fair amount of blood and guts, some disturbing images, and a little bit of plagiarization from other Super-Evil-Guy movies, but overall I liked it. The only thing that would have made it better is if they had led off with "This is the story of Latif who claims to have been Udays double, all though there are no living witnesses". Presented as fact, it's a little thin.
One brilliantly subtle part: Fake Saddam tells Fake Uday to go give a fake rally to the troops while the coalition is humiliating them in Kuwait during Gulfwar 1. The eye rolling by Latif as the only one who gets the irony is Oscar worthy.
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Master slacker
Something awesome.
Let's get this thing rolling again. There are a million movies we've seen since the last post. Well, maybe more like five. Had to review the latest and most awesome movie I have seen in a while.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo... No, not the new American-made flick which, I'm sure, has lots of unnecessary special effects and explosions, but the Danish / Swedish version made in 2009. I didn't read the book and don't plan to, but this is a pretty damn good story. It's not one of those crime / murder / mystery / whodunnit movies where you get lost in the details. It's straight forward enough for me to follow AND it's subtitled (Swedish folk typically don't make movies in English). Foreign, subtitled movies should make it a more difficult movie to follow, but, again, it's straight forward. The chick is pretty attractive for punk / weirdish chicks, though my moobs are bigger than her boobs by a HUGE margin (I'm not a big guy, BTW). Yes, I had to review the boobs. I give the movie 4.5 stars. I give her boobs 0.5 stars.
Jackass 3... sucked. Sucked real bad. Abomination. This movie is just dumb. My wife followed Jackass in its EARLY days and those were funny. Even the first movie was decent. It all went downhill fast after that. Avoid Jackass 3 unless you hate your life and want to hate it more for two hours.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo... No, not the new American-made flick which, I'm sure, has lots of unnecessary special effects and explosions, but the Danish / Swedish version made in 2009. I didn't read the book and don't plan to, but this is a pretty damn good story. It's not one of those crime / murder / mystery / whodunnit movies where you get lost in the details. It's straight forward enough for me to follow AND it's subtitled (Swedish folk typically don't make movies in English). Foreign, subtitled movies should make it a more difficult movie to follow, but, again, it's straight forward. The chick is pretty attractive for punk / weirdish chicks, though my moobs are bigger than her boobs by a HUGE margin (I'm not a big guy, BTW). Yes, I had to review the boobs. I give the movie 4.5 stars. I give her boobs 0.5 stars.
Jackass 3... sucked. Sucked real bad. Abomination. This movie is just dumb. My wife followed Jackass in its EARLY days and those were funny. Even the first movie was decent. It all went downhill fast after that. Avoid Jackass 3 unless you hate your life and want to hate it more for two hours.
Wife and I saw The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo earlier last year and both really enjoyed it (Swedish version).
I saw Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol last weekend and enjoyed it. Had car chases, Cruise climbing the Burj Dubai, and chicks. It was an action movie and similar to the other Mission Impossible movies.
I saw Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol last weekend and enjoyed it. Had car chases, Cruise climbing the Burj Dubai, and chicks. It was an action movie and similar to the other Mission Impossible movies.
I watched all three of them probably a little over a year ago now. I thought they were all pretty good although the first was probably the best.
I seem to recall the second a third movies had the option for an English dubbed audio track and watching like this was just to distracting. After watching about 5 minutes of the movie I couldn't take it any longer and switched it back to the subtitles.
I'm curious to see what the remake will be like.
snickerd3
Taking suggestions
that book was horrible...there might be a few scenes that would be worth a big screen view if they included them...
My wife read the books and said they were terrible to read (which is why I didn't bother). She thought there must have been something lost in the translation because they didn't flow very well.
Why she continued to read them if they were that bad I don't know. If I start a book and don't like it I stop reading it. If she starts a book and doesn't like it she feels compelled to finish it anyway, and in this case she felt compelled to read the whole series. Explain that to me. :dunno:
Why she continued to read them if they were that bad I don't know. If I start a book and don't like it I stop reading it. If she starts a book and doesn't like it she feels compelled to finish it anyway, and in this case she felt compelled to read the whole series. Explain that to me. :dunno:
Master slacker
Something awesome.
Forgot about this little gem we saw last week - Troll Hunter.
No, I'm not kidding. We watched this movie. Don't believe the quoted review on the movie print. It passed an hour and a half of our time and was entertaining, I guess. Being on Netflix instant, the image wasn't that large, so we didn't pay much attention to it. It's a "documentary" and starts with statements wanting you to believe the movie is real and indisputable. Ok. Whatever. Even if you were the firmest of believers in that, you disbelieve around 15 minutes into the movie. Again, another foreign movie with subtitles. I won't go on any more. Below tells the story of this diamond in the rough:
Budget
NOK 19,900,000 (estimated)
$3,500,000 (estimated)
Opening Weekend
$5,585 ( USA ) (12 June 2011) (1 Screen)
Gross
$252,652 ( USA ) (18 September 2011)
No, I'm not kidding. We watched this movie. Don't believe the quoted review on the movie print. It passed an hour and a half of our time and was entertaining, I guess. Being on Netflix instant, the image wasn't that large, so we didn't pay much attention to it. It's a "documentary" and starts with statements wanting you to believe the movie is real and indisputable. Ok. Whatever. Even if you were the firmest of believers in that, you disbelieve around 15 minutes into the movie. Again, another foreign movie with subtitles. I won't go on any more. Below tells the story of this diamond in the rough:
Budget
NOK 19,900,000 (estimated)
$3,500,000 (estimated)
Opening Weekend
$5,585 ( USA ) (12 June 2011) (1 Screen)
Gross
$252,652 ( USA ) (18 September 2011)
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Wolverine
Uncanny Pompadour
I just finished watching "Cowboys & Aliens".
OMG. What can I say? This movie is everything you could possibly imagine it could be.
It has cowboys.
It has aliens.
It has cowboys fighting aliens.
It has Good Guys. It has Bad Guys. It has bandits. It has Apaches. It has Good Guys fighting Bad Guys fighting Bandits fighting Apaches, and then everybody teams up to fight aliens. HOW FLUFFING AWESOME IS THAT? Nevermind, don't answer, the answer is that it is pretty fluffing awesome.
The only flaw I can find with tnis movie is that it only shows 25% of Olivia Wilde nekkid, and it's not the woohoo 25%; it's just the 25% that makes you wish you could see 100%; or maybe just 75%. I would settle for 66%: maybe just 47%.
In summary, if you like Cowboys, and you like Aliens, you will LOVE Cowboys & Aliens.
OMG. What can I say? This movie is everything you could possibly imagine it could be.
It has cowboys.
It has aliens.
It has cowboys fighting aliens.
It has Good Guys. It has Bad Guys. It has bandits. It has Apaches. It has Good Guys fighting Bad Guys fighting Bandits fighting Apaches, and then everybody teams up to fight aliens. HOW FLUFFING AWESOME IS THAT? Nevermind, don't answer, the answer is that it is pretty fluffing awesome.
The only flaw I can find with tnis movie is that it only shows 25% of Olivia Wilde nekkid, and it's not the woohoo 25%; it's just the 25% that makes you wish you could see 100%; or maybe just 75%. I would settle for 66%: maybe just 47%.
In summary, if you like Cowboys, and you like Aliens, you will LOVE Cowboys & Aliens.
My life sucks. We can never get a babysitter, so all we see anymore are kids movies.
That said, I saw my first 3-D movies this past thanksgiving (Happy Feet 2 and Arthur Christmas), while on vacation. We enjoyed it, and simultaneously were in the market for a new TV, so we ended up buying a new 3D TV, and we've been enjoying them in our home for the past couple of weeks. Fortunately our local video store has a stock of 3d Blu Rays, and we are just about the only ones renting them so far.
That said, I saw my first 3-D movies this past thanksgiving (Happy Feet 2 and Arthur Christmas), while on vacation. We enjoyed it, and simultaneously were in the market for a new TV, so we ended up buying a new 3D TV, and we've been enjoying them in our home for the past couple of weeks. Fortunately our local video store has a stock of 3d Blu Rays, and we are just about the only ones renting them so far.
Master slacker
Something awesome.
To continue the Scandenavian movie experience, we watched The Girl Who Played with Fire this weekend.
It lives up to the expectations of sequels. Most notably for not being as good as the first movie. It was pretty good, but was a bit off in the whole plot organization thing. It started out being about girl trafficking and then the focus turned to a single person. I know movie plots evolve as movies go on. It's just that this plot transition felt odd. Other than that, the soft core lesbian action is noteworthy except for the fact that Lisbeth still has boy boobs. In the end, it is an alright movie - 3.5 stars. Soft core lesbo action, 4 stars.
It lives up to the expectations of sequels. Most notably for not being as good as the first movie. It was pretty good, but was a bit off in the whole plot organization thing. It started out being about girl trafficking and then the focus turned to a single person. I know movie plots evolve as movies go on. It's just that this plot transition felt odd. Other than that, the soft core lesbian action is noteworthy except for the fact that Lisbeth still has boy boobs. In the end, it is an alright movie - 3.5 stars. Soft core lesbo action, 4 stars.
Capt Worley PE
Run silent, run deep
The only Scandanavian movie we've seen was Let the Right One In, which was far, far better than the American remake, Let Me In. Great take on the vampire story.
