Last movie you watched......

I don't mean the IDEA of the finish, I mean the execution of it.

I know that special effects weren't that amazing back then but, my god, those effects might be the worst I've ever seen. Absolutely terrible.

I feel like this very same ending could be shown on film without it being so terrible but I don't know how. Here's hoping someday they'll remake it and show me how.

 

Has anyone seen Atlas Shrugged?

 

Watched "Hereafter" the other night. The opening tsunami scene was fantastic. I should have shut it off after that and saved myself the time.

 

Due Date. Pretty funny.

 

Yeah, the movie and the book both start to falter whenever they start getting ready to take on Flagg. The first third, where the superflu hits and everything unravels, is awesome and riveting. After that? Meh.
Flagg just sort of loses his mojo and it's never really explained why. One minute he's this all-powerful demon and then a few chapters/minutes later it's all falling apart around him. No real scenes of his followers being unnerved or anything like that.

 

Watched "The Human Centipede" last week.
I'd heard a long podcast review about it a while back, so I was well aware it wasn't a cheesy SyFy-type movie. Even so, it was kind of disappointing. I didn't need it to be totally nasty and gory, but there were definitely a few scenes where they could've pushed the envelope a little and didn't, and I think it makes the movie come up a little short.
Dieter Lazer, however, is freaking awesome.
"Feeeeed her!"

 

Watched Greenberg, with Ben Stiller, the other night. The main character is completely unlikeable, which I guess is the point, but ultimately it made me not care what happens to him in the end.

 

Don't. Made on the cheap, with a script that laughably presumes the rail industry is poised for a big comeback here in four years.

Randians never have updated themselves.

 

The love interest isn't terribly likeable, either.

 

"Clerks" for about the fifth or sixth time, but first time in quite a while. The DVD's been making the rounds in the newsroom.

Line that cracked me up the most this time (I'm getting older): "So she fucked a dead guy. She'll get over it. My mom's been fucking a dead guy for 30 years."

 

I read somewhere years ago that the guy who played Randall was such a terrible actor that they actually pasted pieces of the script inside the newspapers and magazines he's seen holding throughout the movie. So if it seems at times like he's reading his lines ... he is.

 

Actually, something that stood out to me was how much, in 1994, young people actually skimmed through newspapers and magazines. (According to admitted comic book nerd Kevin Smith, anyway).

These days, the Randall actor would be glancing at his lines on an iPhone or some other gizmo.