Last movie you watched and your critique of it

[whisper]

Inception. confusing but amazing

[Nominus Experse]

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[BG-57]

Zotz

An absent minded professor discovers a magical pendant that gives him the power to slow time, cause pain, and even to kill. He tries to notify the military but is dismissed as a kook. Eventually he gets drawn into espionage intrigue.

A couple of noteworthy things:

1) The professor does some clearly scatterbrained things like reading a book while bicycling but is also an avid health nut and vegetarian, which seem silly and dated ways to portray someone as eccentric.

2) This movie features perhaps the most preposterous meet-cute in film history. After accidently activating the pendant's power for the first time it somehow (SPOILER)teleports a random woman naked on his doorstep. Ever the gentleman, he lends her some clothes and sends her on her way. Guess who he gets introduced to at a fancy cocktail party later on?

The Tingler

Arguably Castle's masterpiece. Vincent Price plays a coroner who theorizes that everyone plays host to a parasite that lives off of fear, but can be disabled through screaming. Needless to say, he's right and manages to capture a live specimen that later escapes.

The masterstroke was Percepto, where (SPOILER)some of theater seats in each audience were rigged to vibrate and buzz at the film's climax, as if the Tingler was actually loose.

I remember taking in Honey I Shrunk the Audience at EPCOT Center, which used a lot of the same sort of gimmicks. William Castle would have approved.

I'm off to watch the volume 1 of the Last Airbender animated series. The live action movie whetted my appetite for the original source.

[Bunny]

Fantastic Mr. Fox: I just got around to watching this movie (despite wanting to see it when it came out) and it is incredibly bizarre. The cast is amazing, the dialogue is pretty witty, and the storyline is absolutely weird.

Loved it.

[aquatius]

I watched Treasure Planet the other day. After hearing and falling in love with the insert song I'm Still Here I decided to give the film a try because it looked interesting and was one of the lesser-known Disney films. Although it wasn't one of the best, I still thoroughly enjoyed it due to the relationship between the two main characters Silver and Jim, as well as the fluid and, at parts, beautiful animation; and the other awesome characters like Captain Amelia and Morph.

[Clo]

I just saw Oldboy. The dub sort of ruined the watching of it -- and the incest plot points were just... dumb.

[evernic]

The Man with No Name Trilogy and The Expendables
both rubbish.

[Wolf Kanno]

Bubba Ho-Tep - B-Movie flick starring none other than Bruce Campbell. Not what I was expecting but fun as hell regardless. I love the hieroglyphic subtitles for the cowboy mummy (you read that right) and oddly enough, I felt Bruce actually did a fairly good portrayal of Elvis as well as I felt the movie focusing on what a retired Elvis thinking about his career would be like was rather fascinating and surprisingly well done considering the type of movie it was. Pretty awesome movie but I have a weak spot for cheesy B-Movies.

[The Man]

The Man with No Name Trilogy
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rubbish

what

edit: oh you're banned already. I guess we'll never know

[Pheesh]

Romeo + Juliet

Seen it before a few times, watched it again. I'm one of those people who really loved the direction this was done in, I thought all the actors were really good and it definitely did the story justice. Claire Danes looks gorgeous in this movie as well; like... omigod.

[Clo]

Let the Right One In. It was very good, though they didn't characterize the girl as much as they should have. Still, Oskar was adorable and it was a spooky/sad movie.

[Mo-Nercy]

Dogma

When I had watched this last, I was quite a bit younger and a lot of the biblical references went straight over my head. After seeing it again, I can see why it has such a strong cult-like following. Pretty good film, though a bit unnecessarily random at times.

7/10

[Masamunemaster]

The Other Guys

This movie was very entertaining. I laughed quite often throughout. Mark Walhberg and Ferrell are a great match. It's very quotable too!

8/10

I watched this last night with my date(well most of it at least><) and it is funny....Ill agree on the 8/10 with you
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oh and later that night I used the whole lion in the ocean speech....gah that was funny

Romeo + Juliet

Seen it before a few times, watched it again. I'm one of those people who really loved the direction this was done in, I thought all the actors were really good and it definitely did the story justice. Claire Danes looks gorgeous in this movie as well; like... omigod.

I think the modern one was ok.....but still shouldnt have been made lol><

[Unbreakable Will]

Legion:
Eh, it was ok. 5/10. It had an ok plot and the graphics were terrific, but the title bugged me; I realize that they were using "Legion" as more of a reference towards the hordes of enemies rather than anything demonic (I'm referring to the demon in several different movies/books/legends that refers to itself as Legion, you know that famous line "We are Legion, for we are many." and what not.) Sorry, rambling.

[BG-57]

It's sadder when you realise that it's the angels that are possessing people and attacking the humans. Angels don't work by demonic possession.

Avatar: The Last Airbender (animated series)

So I saw the movie and thought it was okay; intriguing characters mired in a plot that feels rushed and overeliant on narration when the characters should be speaking for themselves. It made me want to go back and see the original source of inspiration.

I've seen all 20 episodes of Book 1 and now I can see that:

1) Some of the problems in the movie stem from the animation. The best example is the rushed introduction and unmasking of the Blue Spirit. It was from a 25 minute episode where exactly the same thing happened. Blue Spirit should have been a recurring character.

2) The tone of the animation is alternating lighthearted and serious. The movie gets the grim parts right but misses on the fun. We never get much of sense that Aang is mischiveous in the movie. Iroh is more laid back in the animation.

3) The animators have great taste: both Miyazaki and Gainax as inspiration? Check. In particular you can see a lot of My Neighbor Totoro and Princess Mononoke in the designs. And the latter is also present as a theme; it's not a simple case of good versus evil, but a lot of self-interested people who make moral compromises to survive.

4) I would have liked to see some of the voice actors used in the live action movie. Especially Jason Isaacs and Mark Hamill.

5) Iroh is my favorite character in both versions but the difference in the animation he looks harmless and is anything but and in the live action movie he looks like a cross between Saruman and T.G. Cid, so he looks as tough as he is.

6) Related to that I love that there are several factions within the Fire Nation. It's not all vicious rulers and their sheep. It's amazingly complex for a family program.

So I'm a convert now, I enjoyed this almost as much as Batman the Animated Series, for many of the same reasons. I just hope the live action sequel avoids the show-don't-tell pitfalls.

EDIT: I thought the animated series did a better job of resolving the Fire Nation's seige. In the series, (SPOILER)Aang joins forces with the Ocean Spirit similar to the Night Stalker from Mononoke and repels the enemy. In the movie (SPOILER)he simply upends the ocean on the fleet.

Related to this again I thought the death of (SPOILER)Admiral Zhao was handled better in the animation. (SPOILER)He's dueling Zuko and the Ocean Spirit comes along and grabs Zhao. Zuku actually tries to save the man who tried to have him assassinated, but it's in Zhao's nature to prefer death over accepting help from a hated enemy. In the movie he starts off dueling Zuko, but Iroh convinces him to bow out, and the good Admiral meets his end at the hands of several waterbenders. The first ending is much more poetic and character-driven.