Movie thread

[envirotex]

Watched Lockout last night. It was a pretty good rental. Typical guy who was framed rescues president's daughter from outerspace kidnappers kind of movie. Some very funny one liners. The boys liked it.

 

[Wolverine]

Saw "Lockout" with Guy Pierce and Maggie Grace (Taken, & Lost), a film by Luc Besson, the same guy who did Fifth Element and wrote/directed a dozen other action flicks (Transporter, The Professional, La Femme Nikita).

Summary:

If you thought The Fifth Element was too slow, with not enough action, too many love scenes, too nice of a villain, and far too coherent a plot line, then this is the movie for you.

But it has a space prison, explosions, a hot chick, and lots of gunbattles and fighting, so I'm forced to begrudgingly give it 3 out of 5 on the awesomeness scale. It's a very weak 3 though.

So, was I right?

 

[willsee]

I still haven't seen Dark Knight Rises

 

[snickerd3]

^i haven't either...but mr snick did and told me how it ends...

 

[envirotex]

Saw "Lockout" with Guy Pierce and Maggie Grace (Taken, & Lost), a film by Luc Besson, the same guy who did Fifth Element and wrote/directed a dozen other action flicks (Transporter, The Professional, La Femme Nikita).

Summary:

If you thought The Fifth Element was too slow, with not enough action, too many love scenes, too nice of a villain, and far too coherent a plot line, then this is the movie for you.

But it has a space prison, explosions, a hot chick, and lots of gunbattles and fighting, so I'm forced to begrudgingly give it 3 out of 5 on the awesomeness scale. It's a very weak 3 though.

So, was I right?

Absolutely. Like I said, good rental...

 

[Dexman PE PMP]

I still haven't seen Dark Knight Rises

Me neither. I think a lot of it still lies with the fact that my wife refuses to watch it in a theater...

 

[RIP - VTEnviro]

Watched Patriot Games after reading the book... Also watched Clear & Present Danger as I'm 50% of the way through the book now.

I watch Patriot games every weekend during the fall. That count?

 

[engineergurl]

We watched the Hunger Games this week, the entire movie there was comments flying back and forth between me and the hubby about what was different between the movie and the book... but I think they still did a pretty good job.

 

[blybrook PE]

Watched Patriot Games after reading the book... Also watched Clear & Present Danger as I'm 50% of the way through the book now.

I watch Patriot games every weekend during the fall. That count?

Different type of Games. Those that you speak of have better action and the books are never right!

 

[RIP - VTEnviro]

Neither is the score of the Super Bowl.

 

[Supe]

The Hunger Games - 2/5. It was Battle Royale with a crappier love plot, less violence, worse storyline (BR had some interesting twists of betrayal, etc), and a crappier ending. Barely worth a rent, IMO. Oh, and it was full of Fifth Element costumes, only... gayer.

 

[roadwreck]

I finished reading the second Hunger Games book yesterday (Catching Fire). I'm not terribly impressed by the story but each chapter usually leaves you hanging, which makes you want to read the next one and the next one and...

...you get the picture. The book ended rather abruptly, so I'm curious to see how the last one goes. I guess I'll have to request it from the library because I'm not going to pay for this drivel.

 

[Capt Worley PE]

Saw God Bless America, and it was quite a disappointment (unless you want to turn off the sound and watch an extended film homage to the 5th Gen Camaro). It was one of those films where they showed all the good parts in the trailer.

Also saw The Perfect Family, which was OK, I guess, but Kathleen Turner has gotten old and large. It was basically a story of a woman trying to hide her family's imperfections to try and win a Catholic Woman of the Year Award.

 

[Krakosky]

Was BR the one with the school age Asians? I think I saw it in college.

Anyone see World's Greatest Dad with Robin Williams? Not his typical comedy. It's more of a dark comedy. I liked it and would recommend it.

 

[Supe]

Was BR the one with the school age Asians? I think I saw it in college.

Yep.

Watched 21 Jump Street last night. 4/5, had me chuckling through the bulk of the movie, but wasn't uproariously funny. Certainly had its moments, though.

 

[Capt Worley PE]

Chronicle was surprisingly good story about how power corrupts when a group of teens gets superpowers and have to learn how to deal with it. Fight action towards the end got kind of hard to follow about who was doing what.

 

[Master slacker]

So we finished watching The Punisher last night.

To be honest, I wasn't expecting much from this movie. That's one reason why we hadn't seen it until now. However, I was pleasently surprised with how good this movie really is. The plot was pretty straight forward and simply imagining the slaughter of a family like that was eerily disturbing. At a couple of points, I was wondering if the movie was supposed to be morbidly hilarious since neither one of us could stop laughing (scene with "The Russian") or somber action-tastic. It had its cheesy moments (it is a comic afterall) and most parts were highly unrealistic, but it didn't matter. The cast looks somewhat like extras from Jersey Shore... at least the kid. The couple of entire-movie chicks are completely smash worthy.

For those who care not for plot when choosing a movie, I'll summarize it as hot chicks, explosions, cars with big blocks, and guns. Rebecca Romijn is frickin' in this movie. I give The Punisher a solid four stars. It's a good overall movie. As for RR, she gets four as well.

 

[snickerd3]

I remember watching that...and laughing my butt off too

 

[Dexman PE PMP]

Thor was entertaining. I thought it was better than Hulk. But none of the three (Hulk, Thor, or Capt) came anywhere close to the Avengers. Iron Man, on the other hand was pretty good although I wasn't really a fan of the 2nd one.

Second Iron Man was a snooze fest. Wish I hadn't bought the Blu Ray, but I did assuming it was going to be a special effects extravaganza.

Good to know. I'll probably skip IM2 then. Will still check out THOR. Can't wait for Avengers to come out on Blu-Ray.

Hold on there, not so fast; IM2 wasn't all that bad IMHO and has some very good tie-in scenes to Avengers - plenty of action, a little drama, and the second time I watched it, it seemed that I picked up on a lot more subtle depth by Stark.
1st viewing: Stark: "I know what I'm doing." Geez, gotta love that confident arrogance.

2nd viewing: Stark: "I know what I'm doing." Wait a minute, what did that mean? Is there a secret master plan? Maybe he does know what he's doing.

For my money, IM2>Thor (though neither was as good as Going Coconuts with Donny & Marie)

Rewatched this over the weekend. It wasn't as bad as I remembered it being. Forgot about all the tie-ins to the Avengers. Having seen the Avengers before seeing most of the other individual comic-movies helps reveal several of the subtle references to what was coming.

 

[Dexman PE PMP]

MS. fair enough assesment, sounds like a good one to watch with the wife.

I don't typically watch foreign films, but was flipping through the cable guide and stopped on a film called "Sweet Karma" on SHO and started watching it with my wife.

Turns out it's about a slavic girl that leaves home ot go to America to work as a domestic and word gets back to her family that she's dead. Her younger sister "Karma" then follows her path to discover what happened to her. The younger sister is hot and the trail leads to the sex trade. Lots of nekkidness and good action/violence with a twist at the end. Check it out.

Also watched this one over the weekend. I agree the younger sister is hot. Pretty good movie overall although there were a few "huh?" moments where the plot didn't seem to make sense.