Last movie you watched......

Watched Warriors with the family last night. Not a bad movie. I'll likely have to watch it again to get a full understanding of the back-story.

Nick Nolte and Tom Hardy put together quite a performance.

 

Wonder if we're in the same family Kevin...Saw Warriors with my family too. Men seemed to like it a lot..women not so much.

NEAR SPOILER ALERT..Seemed a bit contrived with the finals as well as the Rocky type Russia-US pairing, but movie worked for me.

 

Saw TinTin with the family yesterday in IMAX 3D. I was very pleasantly surprised. Really well done animation, outstanding action scenes and some clever writing. A few things didn't connect very well but overall, I enjoyed it.

 

This is becoming a huge problem -- not just for kids-get-off-my-lawn guys like me, but the general ticket-buying public.

I was talking to a good buddy the other day -- he's a very well known box office analyst -- and the told me that the theater owners association is quietly forming a task force to figure out a way to stem the tide of cell-phone surfing/texting during movies, as well as the usual talking, etc.

 

People were pretty good about their phones. A couple next to us lost something and they spent a couple of minutes using their phone's light to look under the seats, but they were pretty discreet about it and gave up quickly. I saw them afterward and they were going back in to look after the movie was over. Not ideal, but I can live with it. What really pushed me to the edge was the lady behind me who would not stop talking. I looked back during the previews and said "ma'am please," and she stopped for a few minutes. I understand people are going to occasionally laugh or scream or give an involuntary emotional response to what's on the screen, but to sit there and yak the whole time, that really eats at me. Is it that hard to be considerate of the people around you? I paid to hear Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law's dialogue, not hers.

 

I saw "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" today. It was very long and slow, but my friends and I enjoyed it, even if we weren't 100% sure what was happening all the time. Gary Oldman gave a very quiet, but good performance.

 

I was underwhelmed. The animation was pretty good although I'm not sure the 3D really enhanced the experience that much. Every character seemed to have a really annoying quality and the sense of mystery was pretty much a joke. I'm not sure how a kid would enjoy it, but it seemed like the majority of them in my screening were focused on the dog.

 

During previews? in your own words..."ma'am please"
If you get upset with people talking during previews...stay at home.
Unless it's a "must-see, first-time showing" preview and many people are glued, then yeah...maybe get pissy. But if you had turned to me during a preview to shush me. I would have told you to find a new place to sit...then be extra loud until the movie started.
Previews are just commercials...would you bitch if I talked to my wife during a M&Ms spot?
A movie is one thing...a preview is another.

 

I finally saw Super 8, and I cannot believe anyone liked this film. Sorry to the people who liked it, but this is my synopsis...

It's too much like E.T., but really violent and scary, and the alien is not likable at all. In fact, the alien is pretty much scary as hell, and no pre-teens should watch it.

That will be $10 please.

Seriously, how did this get made?

This was too violent and scary for kids, and it was too much a blatant rip off of E.T. (they rode around on bikes for Christ's sake) for any adult to take it seriously.

In the movie pitch, does J.J. say this movie has a lot of people getting killed? That there is no real reason to like the alien? That we will do some "cute" kid swearing? How about the "pyro" kid? That's "cute," right?

Jesus, just make the same damn movie without a monster that kills people, just a misunderstood alien. Not a homicidal, misunderstood alien. Yeah, and lets also do a lethal injection on the school teacher. Great idea.

You have kids as your main characters. You are probably going to have kids watching this.

The ending of Lost was more understandable.

But everyone is right, that girl can flat out act. No doubt about that.

 

HC & I watched "Midnight in Paris" tonight. Best Woody Allen movie in a long time.

 

"Super 8" joins "Inception" in my overrated Hall of Fame, but for vastly different reasons than you. I did not find it morally repugnant whatsoever. In fact, I didn't find it scary whatsoever. The alien was a joke. The CGI scenes were ridiculous. The military plot was an utter cliche. The action sequences were just going through the motions. The big sentimental moments at the end were completely unearned. Basically, my issue with the movie was the opposite of yours: There was no tension whatsoever. No thrills.

Well, check that. The interactions between kids, particularly the awkward adolescent romance, was breath-stopping for anyone who remembers being 13. And the scene in the camera store, where the friend confronts the friend about the girl, was heart-wrenching.

Tell me: Do you want to ban "Lord of the Flies"? Grimm's Fairy Tales? I also think there are some hard checks in "The Mighty Ducks." Burn, baby, burn!

 

Ebert said in a review that this was a great movie up until a point. He still liked it overall, but I could not get over the decision to make the alien into a blood thirsty monster. Even at the freaking end, they had a chance to pull this out, and these are major fucking spoilers, but at least have the monster become sympathetic to people at the end. But no, lets just kill off two people just for the hell of it. And while we are at it, let's throw in a compound leg fracture on a kid just for shits and giggles.

No, I do not want to ban books or stories, but this had nothing for adults. You are correct, it was not scary or cute, and it is unwatchable for younger children or pre-teens.

This really could have been a great, great film. The interactions between the kids and pretty much everything up until the train wreck was really damn good. Well, except for the funny pyro kid. Why didn't they just add the lovable child molester as well? All it takes would be one person with a some commons sense to stop all the bloodshed. There was no reason for this to be a PG-13 film. None.

Maybe they were going for this in seriousness, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092005/, but missed badly.