the last movie i saw was taken, i saw it last night at my friends house
I dunno if I'd call Bale one-note anymore, i kinda thought that too but then I saw American Psycho
Gran Torino- I really enjoyed it and no that knew much about it but it surprised me. I really like Clint's style lol
Finally saw Transformers: RotF and it was balls out, carp coool and suffered a lot less than the first from crappy small characters + subplots. Middle lost some steam but I guessed it was a lull before the finale. Man i wasn't disappointed, carp rocked lol
a bit dumb yeah but Fun!
Saying his first major movie was the only deviance from his note doesn't say much for his body of work. ;p
Yeah I guess it is old. The prestige and 3:10 yuma were great too, but i dunno how much they break the mold either. Anyone seen the machinist?
interesting fact that he lent his voice to Pocahontas and Howl's Moving Castle
The last movie I saw was The Avengers, first movie (Animated).
last movie i saw was Boondock Saints!
G.I Joe: Awakening of the something-something, don't remember.
Well, I had heard that critics hated that movie for reasons I didn't quite get and, to this day, I don't get why. It was an okay movie. Sure, characters were plain and stereotypical, but the action was very good and the plot was very interesting. But, of course, they must have a stupid reveal at the end of the movie that almost made me wanna hate the movie. Does a movie really need a dramatic punch at the end? Nope.
The movie was satisfying, at the very least and I don't feel like I wasted my money on something that didn't deserve it.
Dragonball Evolution *Tear* I about died after watching their terrible attempt at this movie.
I saw Obsessed the other night, it was alright.
I watched "Jay & Silent Bob: Strikes Back" a few nights ago.
(Aug. 08, 2009 8:43 PM)IcedOutAkio Wrote: [ -> ]I watched "Jay & Silent Bob: Strikes Back" a few nights ago.
That is by far the funniest movie ever.
I am now watching 21.
Saw the whole My Neighbor Totoro... god I love Miyazaki's style IT JUST MAKES MEH WANNA LIIIVVVEE
Hm. I think it was: The Party, with Peter Sellers. It was pretty awesome
(Aug. 08, 2009 9:22 PM)Seth Wrote: [ -> ]Hm. I think it was: The Party, with Peter Sellers. It was pretty awesome
I love that movie! Peter Sellers is brilliant in it.
lol last movie i watched was "the watchmen"
Paper Heart. It was cute, but really, that's all that can be said about it.
Fast & Furious
Gotta say its been the best of all The Fast and The Furious movies after the original movie...I say its a part 2 of the original movie.
GI Joe: The Rise Of Cobra
If Paramount had some excess money, they should have given that $170 Million to some children in third world countries. That way the money wouldn't have been wasted.
(Aug. 10, 2009 11:44 PM)To Wrote: [ -> ]GI Joe: The Rise Of Cobra
If Paramount had some excess money, they should have given that $170 Million to some children in third world countries. That way the money wouldn't have been wasted.
To be fair to Paramount, there's NO WAY you went into Rise of Cobra expecting a good movie. The trailer made pretty clear what you were getting.
(Aug. 10, 2009 11:55 PM)The_Lumberman Wrote: [ -> ]To be fair to Paramount, there's NO WAY you went into Rise of Cobra expecting a good movie. The trailer made pretty clear what you were getting.
I just can't comprehend how they gave it a $170 million budget. GI Joe isn't a worldwide franchise like Transformers, the brand only holds weight in the US. In the UK the line is scattered and known as Action Man. Not only that, the movie itself doesn't look like it was made on $170 million. It looks like it was made on half that.
And my previous comments implied I knew this movie was going to be bad going into it. I hoped it would be a movie that's bad but fun (like DragonBall Evolution), it's not.
This isn't the first time a movie received a ridiculous budget they had very little chance of getting back. (*cough*Superman Returns*cough*)
I think brand power has very little to do with the success of the Transformers movie. A majority of the people I knew that really enjoyed the film never owned any toys/watched the series as a kid. I hated it, but I don't begrudge it's success. It was a loud frantic action movie with a lot of violence, CGI, simple humor and beautiful women. That's a winning combination for a box office success these days. GI Joe has the same chance of being successful at the box office going by that formula.
But I highly doubt it's going to be $170 million successful...
And BTW, I'm from Canada and I know GI Joe despite being the all-American hero was really popular here. I know growing up all my brothers owned the toys/watched the show/bought the tapes. Probably like every other kid their age.
And look at how many people know the whole 'Knowing is half the battle' line. I know other TV shows in the 80's did this (Transformers did it) but GI Joe made it famous.
Canada doesn't really count. Our cultures are connected by the hip. And as a kid, I never owned a single GI Joe toy. Although to be fair, I'm a child of the 90's, and the GI Joe brand was going through the Action Man "Amp it up" phase (I do own a few Action Man figures). The only real GI Joe figs I own were Sigma 6 stuff I picked up on clearance a while back.
My comment about brand recognition plays vital when you realize that there isn't much that seperates GI Joe from any other generic squad based action movie. Transformers had the benefit of being part of a brand that has been on TV, store shelves, and comic racks for the past 23 years strong, as well as being a movie with giant transforming robots. GI Joe: The Rise Of Cobra has the benefit of having off and on again TV deals, and weak store front powers, on and off again for the past 40-50 years.
Considering you're from Canada, I wouldn't start a post with 'Canada doesn't count'. You don't know who you're going to offend. I've also never heard about Action Man until maybe last week when it was mentioned on The Tonight Show. BTW, look up Action Man. You'll see it and GI Joe have a lot in common/
I was also a child of the 90's (I would be too young to remember the 80s), and I think you're undermining the cultural significance of GI Joe. It's the male version of Barbie basically. It's been around for almost 50 years. That gives is a whole other generation of people who grew up playing with the toy lines.
I also don't think we should continue this in this thread... we should probably start another if you want to continue talking about it.
I grew up in the Middle East and I still had like 45-50 of these buggers (little figures hated the 12 inch ones).
As much as I don't want to I know I am going to watch this. There is nothing I can do, I just seriously have to see how awful this is to put my conscious at ease.
To, I disagree man.
(Aug. 11, 2009 12:34 AM)The_Lumberman Wrote: [ -> ]I was also a child of the 90's (I would be too young to remember the 80s), and I think you're undermining the cultural significance of GI Joe. It's the male version of Barbie basically. It's been around for almost 50 years. That gives is a whole other generation of people who grew up playing with the toy lines.
But Lumberman basically said what I was going to.
I read plenty of "awsome" reviews about it and likely to peep it tommorrow.
The Hangover was recommend like 5 times to me this past weekend, so that too soon.