All About Movies Thread: 8 Tweets & a Funeral.

ProjectX2 said:
What was one of my most anticipated films of the year is apparently one of the worst: Roger Ebert's review and The Playlist's review of Battle: Los Angeles.

Damn.
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"Here's a science-fiction film that's an insult to the words "science" and "fiction," and the hyphen in between them."

Yikes.:lol:

The overall description given by both reviews seems to be what I was worried about. Dry pointless nauseating CGI action overload. I think my general mantra for this shotgun-approach-to-alien-invasion-movies year is going to be "There's still Super 8, There's still Super 8...."

I really want to go watch Spielberg's War Of The Worlds now but my household is about to wake up.
 
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Planet-man said:
"Here's a science-fiction film that's an insult to the words "science" and "fiction," and the hyphen in between them."

I really want to go watch Spielberg's War Of The Worlds now but my household is about to wake up.
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:lol::lol:

I thought like this movie just looked like this generation's Independence Day. An alien invasion film, not that great, but with visuals that surpass anything we've seen before.

War of the Worlds was painfully mediocre.
 
Langsta said:
:lol::lol:

I thought like this movie just looked like this generation's Independence Day. An alien invasion film, not that great, but with visuals that surpass anything we've seen before.
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I find it hard to believe that ANY blockbuster effect film will surpass previous ones in scope the way Independence Day did, because there's been a sort of plateau effect with CGI overload. Independence Day was an amalgamation of record-breaking(literally) model work and the biggest single CGI breakthroughs that have yet been made. I think there's less of a leap between the effects we have now and something that looks 100% realistic than there was between the Jurassic Park/Independence Day years and what came before. Battle: Los Angeles was only ever going to be just another modern outing for the genre, but it's a shame it couldn't have at least been good.

Also, I think if I polled all my friends I'd find four or five who could tell me what Battle: Los Angeles is. Independence Day made the cover of TIME magazine. It revitalized the entire disaster movie genre for the first time in decades. It went on to become the second-highest grossing film in history, and it wasn't all just about the effects, but the giant swath of all-purpose, Will Smith-faced, action, family and comedy that the '90s were addicted to. I know this is going on a bit of a tangent(although I think the level of hype does tie into how impressive the final product looked), but it always gets me how much I seem to see Independence Day written off these days by anyone even a year younger than me(which makes sense - at 7, I was probably among the youngest people to see it in theaters, on average). It wasn't just the new bar for effects at the time, it was utterly huge and everywhere. Avatar is more comparable than Battle: LA or Skyline.

War of the Worlds was painfully mediocre.
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WOTW is ****ing. Awesome. The lightning storm and the first tripod attack are two of the most effective science-fiction/horror scenes of all time.

Edit: Sorry for the essay post and all, I just had a coversation with two people yesterday who basically dismissed the entire world of post-Star Wars effects films and insisted that Steven Speilberg, quote, just isn't a good director, so I'm currently in a state of non-amusement.
 
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Langsta said:
Steven Spielberg is a great director, but War of the Worlds is one of his worst movies.
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The first two-thirds are up there with his best. One of the most effective disaster films ever.
 
After watching WOTW last night I went downstairs to discover the news of the giant earthquakes. That was strange.

Speaking of tsunamis, I watched Hereafter this past night. It was a decent movie but one of the main plotlines revolves around a pair of twins who are played by two of the worst child actors I've ever seen in a big film. In almost every scene it was like they were reading their lines off an invisible script, for the first time ever, in a school play. I can't believe that was allowed to make it to film. Also, Matt Damon's character pissed me off, as characters like that usually do. Selfish *******. His acting was good though.
 
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My sister is 10, and she loves THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS and CORALINE, the latter of which she first saw when she was 8, I think (and NIGHTMARE way before that). She really loved RANGO, too, saying when it ended that it's one of the best animated movies she's ever seen.
 
ProjectX2 said:
I would say it's the same kind of "not for kids" that The Nightmare Before Christmas and Coraline might be.
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Explain?

My kids love The Nightmare Before Christmas but Coraline kind of creeped them out. Content-wise I thought they were OK for them.
 
I love Spielberg but I never understood why he bothered to remake a masterpiece. Pal's version is league's better but I more of an old cinema buff. You youngsters and your HD and the bluray with the HD and the *spine crack*
 
E said:
Explain?

My kids love The Nightmare Before Christmas but Coraline kind of creeped them out. Content-wise I thought they were OK for them.
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People get shot and killed and there's the odd moment that may disturb them or they won't understand but I personally think kids will enjoy it. The kids in my theatre seemed to love it.
 
The Hobbit has officially begun production and here's the official synopsis:

The Hobbit" follows the journey of title character Bilbo Baggins, who is swept into an epic quest to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor, which was long ago conquered by the dragon Smaug. Approached out of the blue by the wizard Gandalf the Grey, Bilbo finds himself joining a company of thirteen dwarves led by the legendary warrior, Thorin Oakensheild. Their journey will take them into the Wild; through treacherous lands swarming with Goblins and Orcs, deadly Wargs and Giant Spiders, Shapeshifters and Sorcerers.

Although their goal lies to the East and the wastelands of the Lonely Mountain first they must escape the goblin tunnels, where Bilbo meets the creature that will change his life forever … Gollum.

Here, alone with Gollum, on the shores of an underground lake, the unassuming Bilbo Baggins not only discovers depths of guile and courage that surprise even him, he also gains possession of Gollum's "precious" ring that holds unexpected and useful qualities … A simple, gold ring that is tied to the fate of all Middle-earth in ways Bilbo cannot begin to know.
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And picture of Jackson on set
 
So I finally saw Ponyo today and I completely loved it from beginning to end. AMAZING. I can't wait to watch it again. I give a 5/5.
 
Planet-man said:
127 Hours was awesome. I ate a bunch of spicy breaded peanuts while watching it and then refused to take a drink for the rest of the film to enhance the authenticity.
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I've heard of method acting but this...
 
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