Last movie you watched......

Watched Elysium - action-packed and fairly entertaining, but also extremely predictable and shallow on character depth.

 

Byzantium.
Sort of a melancholy Interview with a Vampire for female vampires.
I enjoyed it despite a few why-did-they-do-that plot holes.
It moved slow for the first 40 minutes or so, but once they got into the story of their making I literally sat up and took notice.

My biggest disappointment was not seeing Gemma Arterton naked.

 

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is great. Again, the technology of turning comic books to life, has been outstanding. There were a couple of lulls, but overall, a great flick.

 

I tuned out of most comic book adaptations after the debacle that was Spider-Man 3. There are only so many times you need to see people/robots/monsters flying through the air, crashing into the side buildings and sending bricks flying everywhere.

I'll go out of my way to see Nolan's "Dark Knight" movies, but the rest I have no interest in.

 

The Avengers series of movies have been outstanding, so if you're skipping them based on Spider-Man 3, you are doing yourself a great cinematic injustice. (Except for Iron Man 3 - that did suck.)

 

The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug, Jaws and Bull Durham over the weekend.

I thought the Hobbit was pretty good. Not really my thing, but I found it entertaining.

Jaws to me holds up well, although it's hard for me to take the shark seriously knowing its name is Bruce. In any case, it still affects me the same way after all these years.

Bull Durham was on the Esquire Channel, and thus was edited for cable audiences. The ump argument/ejection scene was completely cut out. It loses a little without the profanity, but it's still highly entertaining.

 

Did you stay for scenes during and after the credits? What I read was that there is a teaser for X-Men: Days of Future Past, which was a surprise because they are coming from different movie companies.

 

Somebody lost a card game, I think.

 

Part of a contract agreement. I read it somewhere, can't find the link.
Basically, someone screwed up in signing something before reading it.

 

Nice. The scene has been released online, so I've seen it. It's not the kind of wasted scene that Henry suggests, but it certainly isn't necessary to the plot of the upcoming X-Men movie.

 

Basically, director Marc Webb had a contract with Fox for two movies, the first being "500 Days of Summer." They let him do The Amazing Spider-Man," and after that movie made Sony lots of money, Sony wanted to get started on the sequel right away. To get Fox to delay his next film for them, Sony agreed to promote "Days of Future Past" with "ASM2." Don't know if there was a screw-up involved or if the two studios just worked the deal out because Sony really wanted Webb.

 

Hopefully the first step in combining the Marvel Universe - X-Men, Spider-Man and the Avengers - into one megafilm.