Last movie you watched......

A Good Day to Die Hard

What a piece of shit. At least the last one could be considered Die Hard Lite. This one is just a cartoon with the title Die Hard slapped on it. Director John Moore is a hack who makes Renny Harlin look like Stanley Kubrick.

The series ended after With a Vengeance.

 

I read Marvel comics as a kid. I didn't find any of the Xmen movies or 'The Avengers' hard to follow at all. Some of the weren't any good, including 'First Class,' but it wasn't because they were hard to follow.

That said, I have never read any of the 'Game of Thrones' books nor rewatched any episode nor looked online for expanded content.
It's not hard to follow.

 

You're a better man than I, then. Perhaps I have ADD. Though I've done really well with "The Wire." And sometimes plots aren't hard to follow so much as they are just overstuffed. You can follow everything if you want, but it becomes difficult to figure out what's important and what's not because there is just too much going on - and plot holes happen to drive me absolutely batshit insane.

Anyway ...

"The Perks of Being a Wallflower."

I liked it a lot. It's funny. I knew of Emma Watson before I watched it, but she was famous for being famous to me. She's apparently the Harry Potter girl. The kid from "We Need to Talk About Kevin" is in it, too, and this time he gets material that's up to his acting ability, rather than the steaming stack of snot that was his prior material, one of the worst, most despicable movies made in the last decade.

I couldn't place the year it took place precisely, but it seems like it's around 1994-96 or so. Not sure why - it has the "Super 8" problem of taking place in the past for no real reason. Though it did add some nostalgia value for those of us in our mid-30s, I think.

It's a really relatable coming-of-age movie which hits a lot of very recognizable notes.

 

Taken 2.

Not nearly as good as the first one. Lot of holes in the story. But pretty entertaining and well worth the $1.29 I paid to see it.

 

The Dictator. Sacha Baron Cohen, not to be confused with The Great Dictator with Charlie Chaplin.
Only a few good lines, the trailer was funnier than the movie. It seemed really short, mercifully.

BTW since the Avengers Movies (Thor, Ironman...) does anyone else stay through the credits to see if there are any extras?

When I saw Zero Dark Thirty I didn't get up during the credits. My wife says "Let's Go" I said, "what if there's bonus clips at the end?" She said like what, outtakes of Osama Bin Laden laughing?

 

I've had the same experience. What I have started to do is, before going to see a movie, I Google to see if I should stick around afterwards. If I forget to do that and there is something during the end credits, you can usually find it on the internet, too.

 

I normally like to stay until the end of the credits of any movie, just to decompress a bit and to talk about it with whoever I went with.

 

Leon: The Professional.

Got the extended cut. Cringed through the sexual tension. Great movie.

 

I usually stay until the end of the credits, too, but I bolted for the door after that one. Too flipping long. I could not wait to get out of there.

Toward the end I was ready to walk out. I knew how it ended and I was so uncomfortable -- back hurt, tired, hungry -- that I just didn't care.

Editors are underrated.

 

A Good Day to Die Hard-- to say it was awful would be an understatement. It's one of the worst films I have seen in years. Poor writing, directing and acting with a "plot" that made no sense. Depressing.

 

I saw Side Effects the other day. I love Soderbergh, but what a strange film.

 

Saw Argo last night. Really enjoyed it, but:

SPOILERS

Yeah, it was extremely riveting, especially at the end there, so I was a little disheartened to read today that basically every moment of suspense depicted never actually happened. There was no walk through the bazaar, no confrontation at the airport, no race down the tarmac by Revolutionary Guard personnel. The Alan Arkin character didn't exist, and the whole "this mission is canceled" the night before the operation was supposed to go down never occurred. Now, maybe a lot of you already knew this, and I am just naive, but I was just a little...disappointed. I expected a lot of it to be exaggerated -- especially the airport scenes -- but damn. I guess when they say "based on a true story," they're not fucking around. I was but a ripe fetus when all the fun in Tehran occurred, so I don't know much about that time, just what I've read and seen in old news footage. But for some reason I thought this movie was supposed to be more accurate than it was...

All that shit being said, I liked it. Affleck's a good director and the script really popped. Not sure I loved him in the Mendez role, but he was good enough.