Movies - General Discussion

[jaadam4]

Is the Bruce Willis film Surrogates worth a look? The trailer doesn't grab me.

I wasn't too impressed by it.

[jaadam4]

I never liked any JAMES BOND movies until the last 2 where the camera work (in HD) and action seemed worthy of a look see. I enjoyed the past two movies.

The cam work has been amazing on the new Bonds but the stories have been horrible. I know Casino Royale was a remake but the only cool part to the movie was the opening scene (which was AWESOME). The rest of the movie was blah. The new Bond just doesn't fit the mold. He's not cool at all.

[SeattleLionsFan]

Really jaadam? I think Craig is awesome. He's much rougher, but absolutely cool and in charge!

[jaadam4]

I think he's a great actor and like the stuff he's been in but he just plays things too tough. The Casino scenes fro Casino Royale were down right horrid.

[Panoptes]

The casino game was indeed excruciating to sit through.

I've only done it once though.

I bought the 1st JB (Casino Royale) blu-ray solely for the opening sequence and a couple other cool scenes.

[-Deborah-]

As a woman, I have no issue with him at all.

[jaadam4]

I bought the 1st JB (Casino Royale) blu-ray solely for the opening sequence and a couple other cool scenes.

That opening scene was money...

[jaadam4]

As a woman, I have no issue with him at all.

he always looks like he's gonna cry.

[WingsFan]

Im always a few months late to the party b/c I order off PPV.


Seen Inglorious Basterds last night. A bit long (dialog was sometimes drawn out) and a warning - its a quite graphic violent movie - as to expect from Tarantino. If you want to see a funny 'dirty dozen' remake, I recommend it. It's not for everyone, it can be offense to some. This is not a historic movie and it does not pretend to be one.



I thought Brad Pitt was absolutely hilarious as Basterd leader Lt. Aldo Raine, nasty, impractical, bloodthirsty, stupid, the real standout though is Christoph Waltz as the vile Col. Landa. He's both hilariously funny, compellingly human, monstrously evil.

[jaadam4]

I still haven't seen it. I always hoard a few movies to make sure I have something to watch when I really wanna watch something good and Inglorious is in the que. Glad to hear it was good.

[romster]

I saw Avatar in 2D the Saturday before the Oscars. I waited too long to catch it in 3D. It was awesome!

I wasn't too surprised The Hurt Locker won Best Picture over Avatar. While Avatar was a technical masterpiece, the story and the characters weren't exactly layered. But they were both excellent movies in their own ways.

At work Monday I talked to a guy who was dumbfounded over the The Hurt Locker win. He thought it was a terrible movie.

Amazing how two people can see one thing so differently.

[-Deborah-]

Rom, did you see District 9? My Dad thought it was so bad that he called me just to tell me NOT to see it. I was surprised to see it mentioned a few times during the Oscars considering how terrible he found it. Seems like similar disparity as you found with The Hurt Locker.

[romster]

You know, I haven't seen it and after reading your post I deleted it from my queue. I only added it because it was nominated for Best Picture. I thought surely with a Best Picture nod there must be something good about it. But I only know 2 people who've seen it including your Dad and neither liked it. The trailers don't grab me either.

Anyone here seen it?

[romster]

Did a search and found this post from speedracer in another thread:

Just got back from seeing District 9. I thought it was a damn good movie (keep in mind i'm easy to please). Had a Cloverfield feel to it minus the shaky make you want to puke camera work. Not a lot of promotion behind it so you may or may not have seen a trailer for it. I vaguely had an idea of the plot, but liked the storyline very much and thought the acting was superb. All in all I would say well worth the money to go see it at the theater.

[romster]

Netflix thinks I'll only give it 3 stars though the average of 550,592 ratings gives it 3.5 stars.

Edit: I've rated so many movies at Netflix, they pretty much have me pegged though they make the occasional gaffe.