Movie thread

[Road Guy]

I got dragged to see Parental Guidance against my will last weekend... another story.. but the only redeeming part of that movie is that the (excuse my stereotype) the Asian guy that was in 16 Candles (Long Duck Dong) has a side part in this movie where he owns a Chinese restaurant that the family eats at.. it took me a while to figure out who he was.. but then I looked him up on IMDB.com and this was basically the first movie he has been in since 16 candles (in 1985 or something).... I generally like Billy Crystal but he was just "trying to hard" to make this movie...

 

[Dexman PE PMP]

^^^ I've read several reviews that said basically the only people who really "get" that movie are grandparents...

 

[pbrme]

No, ...dragons..., but that inspires me to amend the rules just slightly:

Wolverines Movie Rules: rev. 010913

Item #1 - The awesomeness of a movie is directly proportional to the number of helicopters and explosions in it. [no change]

Item #2 - For "helicopters" in rule #1, the following words may be substituted: alien space craft, giant robots, Bruce Willis, pirates, boobies, or dragons.

Item #3 - For "explosions" in rule #1, the following words may be substituted: swordfights, Kung Fu, Batman, gratuitous violence, or Mixed Martial Arts.

So I take it you were a fan of the Rambo reboot, and the expendables? Atta guy.

One sunday a few years ago, I invited one of my bro's over and we watched the new Rambo, drank scotch, smoked cigars and used power tools to build something. It was a fine day.

 

[Capt Worley PE]

Campaign was the funniest Will Ferrell movie I think I've ever seen.

 

[MA_PE]

My wife and I saw Bridemaids for the first time over the weekend. Pretty funny movie.

 

[ALBin517]

Les Miserables - I was told that Wolverine was in it and that there was a war or something, so there might be some explosions. Armed with those two facts and being aware that it takes place in the 1800's, I was able to waive my normal "Helicopters and Explosions" requirement for good movie watching.

Wrong.

Worst movie ever. All they did is sing stuff and run around France, and then when it came time to blow something up, the dude just threatened to blow it up, but didn't actually blow it up. Oh, and spoiler, the hot chick dies. Worst movie ever.

Great chick flick though. I would have scored some points if I could have squirted a few tears there near the end, but I just couldn't do it.

I dunno, maybe some people will like it.

The trailer for "Oblivion" and "Pacific Rim" were awesome though - flying things and explosions galore!

Wife is probably going to see Les Mis over the weekend. I will be going to see Gangster Squad.

We saw Gangster Squad over the weekend. It was not an epic. I was hoping for more Godfather and less Untouchables.

 

[Wolverine]

"Jackie Chan's The Myth" - watched it with the kids.

Another forcible rewrite of the rules:

- The awesomeness of a movie is directly proportional to the amount of helicopters, explosions, and/or Jackie Chan in it.

Highlight: Jackie Chan, reliving a dream as an ancient Chinese warrior, saves the princess from falling off the cliff in a carriage by tying himself to it with a rope, THEN HAS A SWORDFIGHT, WHILE THE CARRIAGE IS ON FIRE. Rarely does one see that epic level of awesomeness. Then there are helicopters, explosions, Kung Fu, more swordfights, and good looking women martial arts fighting.

If you cried during Les Miserables, or if you're a generally sober person, this move might not be for you though. Also, I think they computer generated the mouths on the movie to sort-of-match the poor overdubbing, which might be a put-off to some cinemophiles.

 

[cement]

^ not that there's anything wrong with that.

I went to see Life of Pi with the wife this weekend, the cinemetography was amazing. The credits at the end (yes, we have to sit through those) said that 16,000 people were employed in the filming. I was too distracted calculating the force of a whale jumping to pay attention to much else.

 

[engineergurl]

bunch of movies this weekend...

50/50 was not a funny movie... it made me cry... I did not expect that... however, it was a good movie... just not what I expected (kinda like Adam Sandler's Reign Over Me, it was pretty much a bad movie just because you expect humor from Adam Sandler but once you got over the fact you weren't going to laugh, then it wasn't such a bad movie)

Nobel Son was interesting, however somewhat slow...

30 minutes or Less was funny but I'm sure the explosions in it do not qualify to meet Wolvie's criteria of a good movie... something just tells me exploding teddy bears and watermelons just aren't going to do it for him...

Bridesmaids was funny, but mostly with one liners rather than anything else (still enough to make it a funny movie)... however I can't picture the bride as any other character other than a prostitute with a pimp named Upgrayedd...

Let's go to Prision, Duce Bigilo and random other movies were on, however at some point in time I started reading a book and tuned the television out...

yeah, I'm pretty sure the only movie I watched this weekend that meets Wolvie's criteria was Training Day... a classic that just doesn't get old...

 

[Capt Worley PE]

Hope Springs was a pretty boring movie. You saw the best bits on commercial.

Savages was not nearly as good as I expected. They had to tack on a happy ending for some reason, but the real ending is still there...

 

[Wolverine]

Tropic Thunder was actually pretty funny (I kept my expectations low, what with it being a Ben Stiller movie and all). I laughed a good bit. Lots of A-list actors hamming it up with decent results.

I read somewhere that Robert Downey Jr becoming a black man to portray an Australian white man to portray a black man was one of the highlights, and it was true. He gets stuck in character and the real black man starts busting on him, but he can't bring himself to break character as he defends the honor of Crocodile Dundee. Pretty funny.

Tom Cruise as a fat, bald studio executive is pretty good too.

 

[envirotex]

^^^Tom Cruise dancing at the end is one of the funniest things I've ever seen in a movie.

We watched Looper with Bruce Willis...It was very good. Can't really say anything else though because of spoiler potential...

 

[knight1fox3]

wife and i went and saw This is 40 last night, for anyone with a kid 12 or over I think this movie is for you.

What was odd is that I think the wife and I were the only people in the theater actually any where closely to being actually 40.... I think we were the only people laughing through the whole thing..

I do have to say I think this movie was a pretty close reflection on my marriage, family life, relationship with parents, etc.. we laughed our asses off but thought on the way home that either someone made a movie about just our life, or maybe the RG family isnt as fucked up as we thought we were! and the rest of the world has similar issues...

Finally got around to seeing this with another couple this past weekend. Absolutely hilarious! Definitely bounced around a lot though going from funny to sad and back around again. For me it certainly made me appreciate the fact that I'm not in over my head financially.

 

[Supe]

I can't stand Liam Neeson, but I watched Taken last night and really liked it. Good plot, enough action, and plenty of sweet spy combat moves. 4.5/5

 

[roadwreck]

do you now have a particular set of skills?

 

[MA_PE]

I watched a 2004 movie with Jason Stratum last night called Cellular. Typical action/drama with truly unbelievable story line. I'd give it a meh at 2 stars.

 

[engineergurl]

was that based off the book?

 

[MA_PE]

was that based off the book?

I don't know. It was about a woman that gets abducted and there is a smashed telephone in the room where she's locked up in. She randomly calls some kid and gets his cellphone....then the drama kicks in.

 

[engineergurl]

hmm, I think I've seen that movie... but now I must go thru the books to determine if it was based off one or I am connecting things in my mind that have no relation... the issues that come from watching way too many movies and reading way too many books in my lifetime...

 

[Capt Worley PE]

was that based off the book?

I don't know. It was about a woman that gets abducted and there is a smashed telephone in the room where she's locked up in. She randomly calls some kid and gets his cellphone....then the drama kicks in.

IIRC, there was an awesomely cool green firstgen Bronco in that movie.