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Post by lurker on Jan 17, 2011 21:53:33 GMT -5
Saw True Grit a couple weeks ago. Good time
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Post by Raven on Jan 23, 2011 21:22:27 GMT -5
Inception.
Weird. I liked it, but whoa. Trippy.
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Post by Raven on Mar 11, 2011 17:19:50 GMT -5
Red Riding HoodIt was kinda good. I hate to admit this, but one of the lead dude was a major hottie. Yes, I must get this out of the way. Shiloh Fernandez plays Peter, one of the guys that wants RRH, a.k.a. Valerie, played by Amanda Seyfried. (We don't care about her, this guy is so smokin'.) Okay, so the movie has some major plot holes. i.e. The werewolf that has terrorized this town for two generations cannot tread on holy ground. Yet even when the werewolf expert preist, the fanatic (psycho) Father Solomon, played by Gary Oldman comes to the village and tells them that, DUH, the werewolf is someone living among you, they do not drag everyone through the church to see who burns. Or refuses. Nor do they take a head count at each wolf attack to see who is missing. "Oh, Bob's never around when there's a wolf attack. Add him to the suspect list..." Idiots. Something that slightly irked me was that the bodies of the victims were completely intact. Wouldn't the wolf have torn them to bits? Or chomped them a little? The first victim didn't have a spot of blood on her. WTF? There was virtually NO gore. Is that to keep with the PG-13 rating? I mean, ZERO realism. Oh, and when RRH confronts the bad guy at the end, the wolf is in human form, going after her savior and she stops the wolf by simply saying, "I have something for you." Uhh, yeah right. After you just insulted the wolf and shit? No. The wolf isn't going to stop killing because you say, "I have something for you." Puh-leeze. In hindsight, the red herring clues were a bit over the top. Not just because it wasn't who I thought it was, but because now the suspicious behaviour makes absolutely no sense. If you can't explain away why your red herring was acting like a creeper when it's revealed who the bad guy really is, then don't do it. I must admit, I was shocked at the revelation of who the wolf really was. I *knew* it couldn't be the obvious choice. Duh. So I can't say it was fan-freakin-tastic. I won't go see it in the theatre again and the only reason I saw it this time was because the kids wanted to and they had a snow day. But it was better than Twilight. Speaking of Twilight, it was directed by Catherine Hardwick, who directed the first Twilight movie, and the Valerie's father was played by Billy Burke, who plays Bella's father in the Twilight movies. Coincidence? But, oh man. Gary Oldman is soooo batshit crazy in this, you just hate him. Want him dead. Man, he's good. RATING: 3 out of 5 wolves
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Post by kiraglade on Mar 15, 2011 4:58:31 GMT -5
I watched Love & other Drugs - it was such a sweet movie and funny as because we get drug reps in our clinic and they always want to leave samples =) 3.5/5
Chain Letter - a few good gory scenes 3/5
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Post by deathlynx on Mar 15, 2011 10:16:16 GMT -5
Saw Megamind the other day...a bit on the predictable side, but it has a great soundtrack!
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Post by Raven on Mar 16, 2011 9:41:41 GMT -5
^Ohhh, I so want to see Megamind and Love & Other Drugs. Glad you guys mentioned those.
Something else that has been bugging me about Red Riding Hood, they showed a severed hand hand from years ago. It was a "I cut off the wolf's paw and it turned back into a human hand" situation. He kept the human hand because it belonged to a loved one, but it remained all fresh. Why didn't it decompose? WTF?
This shit nags at me and makes me think they didn't think things through.
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Post by vampyre on Mar 17, 2011 1:27:41 GMT -5
umm were parts stay fresher longer? glad bags?
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Post by vampyre on Mar 18, 2011 3:37:06 GMT -5
I saw Battle: Los Angeles yesterday. I loved the premise but the delivery was lacking. It's another hot summer day(11AUG11) in LA and there is a meteor shower.
Many coastal cities around the world have these things striking just off shore. We soon find out that they are actually drop ships and there is an alien invasion in progress.
While I like the story and the way they shot the movie, what screws it up is the crappy over the top stereotypical dialog. It's almost like what we heard in Starship Troopers or some 1950s WWll B movie.
3/5 bullets
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Post by Raven on Mar 18, 2011 8:52:43 GMT -5
Ugh. Thanks for that.
No Glad Bags. Just a neat box to make it more fancy. It wasn't explained that were parts don't decompose or anything, so it peeved me off.
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Post by vampyre on Mar 25, 2011 19:26:06 GMT -5
Just saw this and I loved it. I was thinking "VPEEPS the movie!" My favorite part was with the dragon. I think it was one of the best movie dragons ever.
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Post by deathlynx on Mar 26, 2011 9:32:16 GMT -5
I've been seeing those for a while now...I really want to see it, even more once I read the basic plot...quite inventive!
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Post by vampyre on Mar 26, 2011 18:13:06 GMT -5
It was over all very cool. I had a great time and it even made me forget about the idiots that sat right in front of me even though there were about 400 empty seats around us.
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Post by Raven on Mar 27, 2011 8:20:00 GMT -5
I really want to see that. Is it at all kid-appropriate, Vampy? Pre-teen kid, I mean. VPEEPS, the movie? Tell us which characters we are! (Or we'll suckerpunch you instead of bitchslap you.)
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Post by vampyre on Mar 27, 2011 13:22:08 GMT -5
It's PG-13 so it should;d be fine for the kiddlings. There is of course a lot of comic book like violence and some sexual innuendos but no nudity or extreme cussing.
I'm not sure who's who in the movie but it made me think of you all while I was watching it. Go to the web site read the character bios and determine who's who for yourself.
I liked Kick Ass and this movie is better than it was. It has a similar feel to it but it's much more imaginative.
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Post by Raven on Mar 27, 2011 19:30:05 GMT -5
Thanks, Vampy.
I got this:
Babydoll (Emily Browning), The outspoken Rocket (Jena Malone), the Street-Smart Blondie (Vanessa Hudgens), the fiercely loyal Amber (Jamie Chung), and the reluctant Sweet Pea (Abbie Cornish)...
So, Vanessa Hudgens is decidedly NOT blonde, but maybe her nickname is chosen out of irony. I'd like to say I'm street-smart, being born and raised in Detroit, but I'm pretty naive. So I can be the outspoken one, or the fiercely loyal one, methinks.
Just by reading that little description... My vote is that Debi gets to be the street-smart one because she's the wisest of us all. She knows everything and everybody. Oh, and Skitty would be the reluctant Sweet Pea. Not only is she super sweet, but I think she'd be the least likely to wanna get in trouble. (Sorry, Skitts.) I'm just thinking of the RT Vpeeps, here. She was the quietest.
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