Last movie you watched......

One thing to keep in mind for the Marvel flicks is the story timeline. The flicks are released six months or even a year apart, but the stories are somewhat concurrent. For example, during IM2 Coulson leaves for New Mexico because Thor and his hammer show up. Around the same time, SHIELD digs up Cap from Lambeau Field. IM2 was summer 2010 but Thor was summer 2011. But those movies happened in the same week or two.

I think the next Thor and Cap movies will do the same, explaining why they don't show up to help each other: they've got their own shit to deal with.

http://marvel.com/news/story/18766/view_the_full_marvel_cinematic_universe_timeline

 

It still doesn't explain why the Iron Man movies have yet to produce a single villain worth watching.

 

What does that have to do with my explanation of the timeline?

 

This...
But this was also the problem with the Iron man comics, IMO ...
I have always liked Iron Man, but his enemies suuuuuuuuuuuuuucked. The Mandarin. Fin Fan Foom. Modok. Ugh.

 

Saw the new Star Trek flick last week and I was entertained.

Without giving away spoilers, I like how they took the old timeline from the Shatner-Nimoy years and shook it up. A lot of things in this movie is like the old series and movies, but in a slightly different order and details.

Some of the twists I saw coming. . . . others I did not.

It was well worth the time.

 

Didn't understand the hype for Drive either. I must have seen "that movie" at least three times on Cinemax in the 80s and 90s starring Stephen Dorff, Chad McQueen or C. Thomas Howell.

 

As part of my quest to see all of last year's Best Picture nominees, I watched Life of Pi tonight.
Man, what an absolutely stunning visual masterpiece.
The effects of this movie, from the simple majesty of a sunset to a lit up ocean at night had me stunned. This is easily the most beautiful movie I have ever seen, kicking Avatar in the balls for the top spot in that department.
I wish I had seen this in theaters.
As for the story, I really, really enjoyed it. I like that the ending is kind of left up to your interpretation and I feel like I'm going to do a lot of thinking about this flick after the fact and what the movie really meant and was actually trying to say about faith and religion and belief in something more powerful than you.
I found myself looking a little at my watch during it but that's more because I have a hard time sitting still through a movie on my TV nowadays. But, all in all, I'll say that I'm glad I gave this flick a chance and it is yet another movie I would put ahead of Argo for last year's Best Picture Oscar. And that's not a knock against Argo. I liked that flick but it was nowhere close to the Best Picture of 2012.

My rankings (of what I've seen thus far):
1.) Life of Pi "A"
2.) Django Unchained "A"
3.) Zero Dark Thirty "B+"
4.) Argo "B"
5.) Lincoln "B-"

Left to watch: Amour, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Les Misérables, Silver Linings Playbook. I should be able to see Les Mis and SLP this week so hopefully soon I'll finish all the contenders ... which I believe would be a first for me.

 

I'll do the thinking for you: It is Ang Lee's apology to the religious right for "Brokeback Mountain."

Dreunc put forth a pretty thoughtful defense of "Life of Pi" a few pages back, but it doesn't get me all the way there. It felt like feel-good, pseudo-philosophy to me, and any message about the power of storytelling was both muddled and obscured by the relentless and simplistic spirituality.

Other than "Argo," a good old-fashioned fun thriller for grown-ups, and, in particular, "Zero Dark Thirty," which should have won the prize going away, and "Django," I have been underwhelmed by last year's best-picture nominees. In particular, "Silver Linings Playbook," "Beasts of the Southern Wild," and "Life of Pi" do not belong on the same dais as some movies that were left out, including "The Master," "The Sessions," and "Killer Joe."

 

Life of Pi was the best movie of 2012 and the second-best movie of this century, behind There Will Be Blood.

 

Life of Pi is fantastic. Made me forget how much I loathed the book. Lately, I've seen quite a few movies, but I'm hard pressed to find a movie I do not like. That being said, Movie 43 is incredibly stupid. But the mini-movies are really, really funny. Also Pain and Gain is the worst movie I've ever seen.

 

I still never understand why Inception gets beat up for being confusing. I thought it was entirely straightforward and left with an ambiguous ending. Loved the movie.

Blood Diamond was among Leo's best work. Just a powerful movie.

 

Oh, please.