Last movie you watched......

It was good. I feel like I didn't get some of the references.

Also saw Mission Impossible this weekend. Good movie, but not terribly memorable except for the scenes outside at the Burj Khalifa. That scene was making my palms sweat!

 

In my experience, the people who talk during the previews also talk during the movie. In my opinion, once the lights are down, you stop talking.

 

There has to be a way to jam cell reception inside a theater, but I would guess it would be pretty expensive.

 

Sounds a little extreme to me. I don't think I've EVER heard someone carry on a conversation on a cell phone while in the theater. I occasionally see the light of someone texting but it happens far less than I would even expect it to happen.

I find the bigger annoyance is people talking to each other in the theater. Cell phones aren't nearly as big a problem as people make them out to be, at least in my experience.

 

Yes. But what did you expect teenagers in the 70s to ride around on, Segways?

 

That's what this was. I've railed about cell phones on here before, and it does annoy me to no end, but the last few times I've gone to the theatre, it hasn't seemed as noticable. They hammer that message. I counted four different PSA-style notices on screen pre-show, and they also have these stickers on the bathroom door that say "This is an Angry Birds-free zone. Please turn off your cell phone." Maybe people are sort of coming of age with what's acceptable and what's not relating to cellys. People talking is an age-old problem.

OK, rant over. We now return you to your normal discussion of movies ...

 

Please, sir? Have some respect. I'm trying to check in on Foursquare.

 

"X-Men: First Class."

Way too many characters. Way too many subplots. Very difficult to "get" if you're not familiar with the comic book and previous movies, which I am not. Lots of eye-roll-inducing on-the-nose dime store philosophizing.

It got tremendous reviews, but I wonder how much of that was due to packing it full of critics' darling actors like Jennifer Lawrence and Michael Fassbander.

 

Crimes and Misdemeanors came on around 3 in the a.m. Had to stay up and watch. Just a heartbreaker for Clifford when Hawkeye shows up at the wedding reception with Mia Farrow. And of course, my favorite line: "The last time I was inside a woman was when I visited the Statue of Liberty."

 

I'm way too cool to know the backstory on all the X-Men crap, but I liked the movie. Didn't seem hard to follow at all. Some of the characters were pretty weak for superheroes, though. Who wants to be the guy that can scream really loud? I'm guessing that gets him nowhere in the bars.

 

It wasn't hard to follow. It was just too cursory. Not enough time spent on a single character or subplot or relationship.

Silly, slight movie.

 

I don't think you needed to know anything about comics or the other movies going in. If anything, it would just leave you wondering how the hell Mystique got to the point that she wouldn't give two shits about Xavier by the first X-Men movie.

Most of the characters were supposed to be minor. That movie is about the relationship between Xavier and Magneto and their philosophical disagreement.