Movie thread

[mudpuppy]

Wife thought real steel didn't have enough fighting robots. She said if I take her to a movie about fighting robots she wants more fighting robots.

She's a keeper!

 

[Wolverine]

Saw Real Steel with the kids in the downstairs HT.

I'm pretty sure they were trying to make a retro-toy style movie (ala Transformers or GI Joe) this time based on the "Rock'em Sock'em Robots" but just couldn't call it that because the name would be too long on the movie marquee.

Anyway, they fully succeeded. This movie is everything you could imagine a Rock'em Sock'em Robot movie would be. That's all there is to say about that.

+1 though for fighting robots.

I'm sorry. I like big robots, especially fighting ones, but Real Steel was awful in every capacity. The robot fights were boring, and the story line and acting was so horrifically cheesy it could have made Chester Cheetoh sick.

Oops, sorry, I should have noted that was my deadpan-borderline-sarcastic voice. Where are the "wry sarcasm" quotes?
[wry sarcasm] This movie is everything you could imagine a Rock'em Sock'em Robot movie would be [\wry sarcasm]

 

[Supe]

Got the sarcasm, prefaced with an "I'm sorry" for anyone else that may have actually enjoyed it.

 

[Wolverine]

Are you sure you weren't just a little inspired by the depth of emotion portrayed in the dialogue?

Announcer: "Kid, they're calling this 'The People's Robot'; what do you say to that?"

Kid: "Yeah?" <pregnant pause> "I can live with that." <crowd erupts in furious applause>

<sniff> <tear> How this got passed over at the Oscars, I will never understand.

 

[willsee]

Avengers and GI Joe this summer to look forward to

We actually haven't been going to the movies as much as we used to. We've been renting Criminal Minds from the library and watching that.

 

[pbrme]

Just saw this. Should've been called "$h!t hitting your eyeballs"

 

[snickerd3]

When you watch it as an adult yes, but to a child it is a great movie

 

[goodal]

Yea my little guys loved that and Babys Day Out. The same crap but they laughed. Just watched Chronicle. Not half bad. It was interesting how they made it appear to be filmed by the actors.

 

[Road Guy]

Anyone see the previews for the battleship movie coming out? Looks totally bad ass, the worlds naval fleet versus aliens... I hope it doesn't disappoint!

 

[Capt Worley PE]

Saw Friends with benefits and it was actually pretty funny.

The Help was just flat out awesome. Having lived through the tail end of those times, it was prety accurate and bought back a bunch of memories of the time.

 

[pbrme]

Watched Ninja Assassin last night on blueray. Not too bad.

 

[jeb6294]

Took the boys to see The Lorax this weekend. I guess it was decent, although definitely not worth the $43 it cost for 4 of us (that was a matinee showing in 3-D). The extra for the 3-D wasn't really worth it.

 

[snickerd3]

we thought about taking minisnick to see the lorax on saturday but the only showing that worked timewise was the 3d showing and getting a 2.5 yr old to wear glasses that long would have been impossible.

Our theater is so tiny they switch out the 3d and normal in the same theater. So 2, 7 and 9:30 showings are normal and the 4:30 is the 3d version for any film that comes in 3d. Which is rather annoying since we usually liked the 4:30 time slot and are not fans of 3d movies

 

[Supe]

Took the boys to see The Lorax this weekend. I guess it was decent, although definitely not worth the $43 it cost for 4 of us (that was a matinee showing in 3-D). The extra for the 3-D wasn't really worth it for any movie ever.

Fixed it.

 

[envirotex]

Thinking about taking the family to see John Carter over spring break...and as Jeb mentioned above, it's quite an outlay to take the whole crew, so if anybody sees it before the end of next week, please post a review...

Also, we saw Safe House about a week ago...decent with Ryan Reynolds and Denzel Washington, lots of gratuitous violence.

 

[pbrme]

Saw Horrible Bosses. Four words: Jennifer Aniston brunette olychit.

 

[willsee]

Thinking about taking the family to see John Carter over spring break...and as Jeb mentioned above, it's quite an outlay to take the whole crew, so if anybody sees it before the end of next week, please post a review...

Also, we saw Safe House about a week ago...decent with Ryan Reynolds and Denzel Washington, lots of gratuitous violence.

I definitely need to go see Safe House

 

[engineergurl]

I watched Law Abiding Citizen on Netflix a few weeks back... it kept my interest...

 

[wilheldp_PE]

I watched Law Abiding Citizen on Netflix a few weeks back... it kept my interest...

I love that movie. I always find myself rooting for the "bad" guy and against the "good" guys the whole movie.

 

[Chucktown PE]

I don't go to the theaters very often. I took my older kids to see the Muppets when it came out because my wife was home with our 4 day old baby and I wanted to do something fun with them. That movie was great. About a month ago I took my 4 year old daughter on a date and we went to see Beauty and the Beast in 3D. The only adult movie (and by adult I mean something suited for people older than 10 years old, not porn) I've seen in the theaters in the last 5 years is the King's Speech. That was really good as well.

We're Netflix people mostly. My favorites of late have been "The Pianist" (older but very good) and "The Pacific" (HBO miniseries).