Last movie you watched......

"Gene's a hack!"

"I'm Gene."

 

Had to wait for my wife to go out of town for a few days, so I watched some gory flicks the past two...
Sunday -- Sweeney Todd
Monday -- Pan's Labyrinth.

ST sucked, in my opinion, while Pan's kept me up for a few extra minutes when I turned off the lights.

 

Oh, you are so dead to me. Sweeney Todd ruled. (Pan's was better). I may have to put you on blast for that

I saw Wolverine tonight. I was most disappointed. Start with the timeline not matching up (or at least the ages of characters) to the other flicks, too many mutants and an incorrect accent by Gambit and you wind up with a big mushy movie.

 

I haven't seen Wolverine yet, but the word on the street is that the Comic Books fans have all been disappointed. Me, I just like good movies.
Oh, and I can see others' appeal with Sweeney Todd, I just didn't think it was that good. I guessed the ending 20 minutes in and just felt like the gore was shock-and-awe and little else.

 

Sweeney Todd sucked ass, at least to anyone familiar with the source material. Kind of like Wolverine apparently sucks to comic book fans.

 

I like the source material too. The movie soundtrack's not as good for dancing around the apartment, but I still loved it.

 

Just got done with The Express (got tired of counting the anachronisms and blatant b.s.). Still a good story though. Quaid's third football movie (Everybody's All-American, Any Given Sunday).
Hardest thing to believe about the story was to think Syracuse was ever good in football.

 

Actually had a dude ask me -- because well, as a sports writer I apparently know everything about every sport ever (sigh) -- if that story was really based on Syracuse football.

 

A buddy of mine who is very familiar with the source material on Sweeney Todd loved the movie. He's also usally a tough critic, finds it a hobby to nit pick movies to death. I thought it was good. I have no background with the source material.

That being said he is also a huge comic book guy and will probably hate Wolverine. He's hated just about every comic book movie so far, I think with the exception of Iron Man, and I don't believe he was a big fan of the Iron Man comics. Myself (saw it tonight), not a comic book guy in the very least, but I enjoyed Wolverine.

 

Saw The Alamo with John Wayne. What a mess.

 

When Billy Bob makes a better movie with the same title as yours ... ouch.

 

Saw No Country for Old Men last night. Liked it better than the first time I saw it. Great cast.