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| Topic Started: 10 Feb 2008, 20:28 (1,044 Views) | |
| Rigil Kent | 15 Jun 2008, 14:16 Post #61 |
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The Incredible Hulk Using the remaining cash from the withdrawal I made on Friday (when I got the new card), I caught the latest comic movie showing. To preface, I'm not that big a Hulk fan. He's always struck me as a more interesting foil for the other characters - the almost mindless engine of destruction that is both feared and pitied - so I didn't have particularly high expectations. I must admit to actually having liked the previous movie though. To my surprise, this flick was pretty darned good. The homages to the old television show were very well done (including a really subtle one I missed but my roommate caught) and the simple look of the Hulk was better than the older movie. They tweaked the origin somewhat (more closely matching the one in the Ultimate line of comics where Banner was basically working on trying to replicate the super soldier serum that created Captain America back in the 40s) and they did a fantastic job of giving you an overview of how he became what he was in the opening title sequence (which bore more than a slight resemblance to the old one from the television show.) And speaking of Captain America, man ... the hints of the coming Avengers movie were awesome. The main bad guy - Emil Blonsky, aka the Abomination - had a derivation of Cap's serum in him before he got jacked up with the Bruce Banner gamma stuff, and in the scene where they showed the container where said serum is held had the name of the original Nazi defector who injected Steve Rogers with the serum back in the '40s. The fight scenes were pretty good - there's one with Blonsky fighting the Hulk before Blonsky gets gamma induced and it made me giddy with anticipation for the impending Captain America movie ... a movie that is going to be a period 1940s piece! - and I can totally buy that the government wants this dude as a weapon. They even hinted at the villain for the next Hulk movie (should one be made) in the creation of The Leader. And, as you probably know from the advertisements, Tony Stark makes an appearance with another link to the coming Avengers movie wherein he reveals to GEN Ross "we're creating a team." GLEE! The only real misstep in this movie for me was Liv Tyler. Sure, she's hot and nice to look at, but she really didn't convince me that she was actually a doctor in anything, let alone experimental cellular stuff (or whatever her specialty was in this version.) I'll give it 4 gamma-spawned abominations out of 5. If nothing else, this flick definitely whets my appetite for the Avengers movie... |
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| Jedikatie | 15 Jun 2008, 15:19 Post #62 |
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So, definitely better than the last one, then, huh? Maybe I'll go see it after I see Get Smart next weekend, then. I'm certanly going to have free time this week since the only day I work is Friday morning. |
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| Rigil Kent | 15 Jun 2008, 15:33 Post #63 |
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Well, I actually liked the last one but yeah, it's a lot better. |
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| Jedikatie | 15 Jun 2008, 16:01 Post #64 |
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Maybe I can talk Beth into going with me, then... if we go to the one theater, it's only $6 on Tuesdays... |
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| Chris | 19 Jun 2008, 16:46 Post #65 |
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I recently saw Cloverfield. I don't see what the big deal was about this movie. It wasn't awful, but it's not something I could watch more than once. |
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| Rigil Kent | 21 Jun 2008, 20:54 Post #66 |
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While surfing, I happened upon The Seven Samurai on TCM tonight and decided to watch it. Man, that's a good movie, though I must admit, I kept thinking about how cool it would have been if those guys were all Jedi types wielding lightsabers. Heh. Awesome flick. |
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| Rigil Kent | 28 Jun 2008, 19:29 Post #67 |
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Well, despite the fact I really should have been studying, I went ahead and caught Wanted tonight. This flick was really ... odd. Not necessarily in a bad way, just a mediocre way. It was like they took Fight Club, The Matrix and Equilibrium, threw them in a bag and shook it up. Unfortunately, what came out was a mixed up, confused mess. The plot - what little there was - was far too derivative of other, better movies and the comic book "physics" in this thing made even less sense than Star Trek science. At no time did I really care about any of the characters, though I must admit I did laugh at the appropriate moments. The underlying message in this movie is - frankly - disturbing to me: it really seemed like they were urging people to go out and kill some people. For the 'greater good', of course. Still, if all you are is a shoot 'em type of person, this movie might be your cup of tea. For me, I enjoyed most of the action scenes (excepting the very last one involving Angelina which I thought to be so utterly ridiculous it caused me to groan). I can't give it more than a 2 and a 1/2 guns out of 5 and they only got the extra 1/2 because of Angelina's naked ass (though the tattoos irked me.) |
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| Captain X | 29 Jun 2008, 07:29 Post #68 |
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She has all kinds of tattoos now, not sure when she started getting into them either. |
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| Kevin Thomas Riley | 29 Jun 2008, 09:01 Post #69 |
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"Angelina's naked ass" huh? Maybe I ought to go and see this one... :P |
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| Chris | 5 Jul 2008, 12:08 Post #70 |
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I got to see Hulk on Thurs. I thought it was good. Loved the opening sequence of how Banner became the Hulk, and how they paid homage to Bill Bixby when they showed him in a tv clip. They had the music from the tv show and of course the big guy himself, Lou. Like the first movie but think I like this one more. I don't know about the comic, but I've seen the tv show, felt like this one tried to stick closer to the tv show. I didn't recognize William Hurt at first but he did great as Ross. |
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| Jedikatie | 7 Jul 2008, 13:31 Post #71 |
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I went to see Hancock this afternoon. It was okay. Probably not something I'd go and see repeatedly, but it wasn't bad. Will Smith's character was pretty much the way you see on the commercials for the first half of the movie, with his attempts at redemption in the eyes of the public by accepting responsibility for his past misdeeds. For those who think he's hitting on Jason Bateman's wife (Charlize Theron), he isn't really. There's only about two times in the movie where you'd get that impression (and really, the second time is the only time that he actually does anything). Then he discovers something and the last third of the movie is basically dealing with what he learned and the bad guys who are out to kill him, and of course, his overall redemption. Do stay at the end, if you see it, at least partway through the credits, to right before they start listing off the actors' names, because there's another short little scene there. Didn't stay to see if there was anything at the very end of the credits, though. I liked it overall, but if you're expecting lots of superhero smashups, etc., you're going to be disappointed. It's definitely not an X-Men or Batman with lots of big action sequences... |
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| Rigil Kent | 11 Jul 2008, 19:38 Post #72 |
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Tonight was a friend of mine's birthday so a bunch of us went out to eat at this Italian place called Zio's. Prior to that, me and my roommate caught Hellboy II: The Golden Army. I've seen a lot of reviews online calling it vastly superior to the first one and utterly fantastic. Unfortunately, I can't say I fully agree. Oh, don't get me wrong: it was pretty fun and Perlman does another great job as the big red doofus, but there was something ... something blah about the plot. Visually, the movie is gorgeous. Lucas had to be drooling in envy at the Troll Market scene - it was like the cantina scene in ANH but a dozen times better. The elves look unbelievably cool (and I'd pay money to watch a fight between Prince Nuada and Darth Maul since it seemed like they went to the same school of nifty moves as taught by Jackie Chan, Jet Li and a couple of wire fu guys). The movie actually left me wondering if Hellboy & Co. were the good guys or not, which I'm sure was intentional. The elf Prince was like the Magneto of the Fair Folk, now a suppressed minority forced to live in crappy places 'cause Humans are dicks. He'd had enough and wasn't going to take it anymore so he decides - in true Magneto fashion - to wipe out those pesky humans. I'm still not sure what it was that bothered me about the movie overall, only that I left it unfulfilled. Entertained, yes, but not fulfilled. The movie seemed to wander around a little bit in the beginning, hunting for a purpose or goal, and the ultimate manner in which the Prince is defeated was telegraphed so early in the movie it really lost any emotional impact for me. Liz Sherman (played by the always lovely Selma Blair) had more of a role in this, as did Abe Sapien, though ultimately, neither did much but hang around in the background, especially once the Final Battle began. While I liked the goal for Sapien's subplot, it didn't really move me per se and seemed rushed. That said, the scene where he & Hellboy are drunk was hysterical. I'll give it a solid 3 stone fists out of 5. It was fun popcorn fair as fun but not better than the first one.[redit][/redit] |
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| Rigil Kent | 19 Jul 2008, 19:19 Post #73 |
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Watched Rambo tonight. Snakes aside (and man, there were a lot of 'em in the beginning) it wasn't a bad flick if one likes sheer, unadulterated violence. At the beginning of this movie, John Rambo is eking out a living in Thailand (I think - it's one of the nations bordering Burma) as a snake wrangler. He's apathetic about pretty much everything, and when a group of Christian missionaries show up asking him to take them into Burma on his boat, he flat out refuses. Only the personal appeal of a female missionary named Sarah (played by the lovely Julie Benz) sways him. Along the way, they encounter some river pirates (who Rambo is forced to kill in front of the horrified missionaries to keep Sarah from being raped by that scum). To no one's surprise, the missionaries are punked by some Burma pieces of crap military types after Rambo heads back 'home' and the pastor of their church ends up hiring some mercenaries to rescue those who survived. Rambo is enlisted to take the mercs up the river and gets drawn into the rescue attempt. Nice line in there from him: 'Live for nothing or die for something.' Stallone is seriously muscled up in this flick and brings a world-weary apathy to the character that's totally believable. The violence is really violent (I'm talking heads exploding violent when the .50 machine gun is used) but isn't played for laughs or anything. The entire thing seems ground in a grim realism that's rather distressing, especially when one learns that Stallone & Co. did a lot of research into Burma and learned that this kind of crap is actually going on (and has been for something like 60 years now). I can't give it more than a 3 Rambo scenes (because of the snakes!), but it's still a pretty decent action flick if you're into that sort of thing. |
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| Jedikatie | 5 Aug 2008, 10:57 Post #74 |
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Well, I just got back from seeing The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. It wasn't bad. Wasn't great either, but if you like the Mummy movies, you'd probably enjoy it. After we get the backstory of how the Emperor (and his army) came to be a bunch of statues in the beginning of the movie, it cuts between a twenty-something Alex O'Connell, who's on a dig in China, trying to locate the entrance to the Emperor's tomb, and Rick & Evie back in England, who have retired from the British Foreign Office now that the war is over and are trying to live somewhat normal lives (and failing miserably). Once Alex and the rest locate the entrance, they run the gauntlet of boobytraps and discover the Emperor and his army and plan to take him back to the museum. Meanwhile, the Foreign Office asks Rick & Evie to do just one last mission for them--deliver the "Eye of Shangri-la" to the Shanghai museum, which they agree to do after several minutes of saying, 'oh no, we're retired, we couldn't possibly,' etc., because they decide to go visit Jonathan, who's owner of bar/dance club in Shanghai called Imhotep's. So once everyone gets to Shanghai (including Alex), then the movie gets going, with the Emperor being reawakened and the gang have to get to the Tower of Shangri-la before he does so that they can stop him from reaching the Pool of Immortality and being able to call his armies back to life. Naturally, that results in a nice action sequence in the mountains which involves some CGI Yetis, and the Emperor finding out what he needs to know. So once again they're off (though they have another reason to hurry to Shangri-la besides the fact that the Emperor is going there), and yet again they don't succeed in stopping him before he can step into the pool and once again become Jet Li rather than a walking terra cotta statue... The last half hour or so of the movie is one long fight sequence between the Emperor's army and the soldiers he'd conquered and left buried under the Great Wall, along with the O'Connells and their little band, and the handful of Chinese soldiers who raised the Emperor in the first place. Very nice fight sequence between the Emperor and Zi Yuan on the Wall, and of course, everything turns out okay in the end. Pretty standard Mummy movie stuff, but enjoyable enough as long as you're not expecting more than that. |
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| Ms Atoz | 30 Aug 2008, 10:38 Post #75 |
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I saw Death Race last weekend while I was on vacation near Chicago. If you like excessive violence/death coupled with NASCAR racing, then this movie may be for you. :eating popcorn: Set in 2012, Death Race stars Jason Statham as Jensen Ames, a former race car driver who is set-up for a crime he didn't commit and put into a for-profit prison called Terminal Island. The prison is run by Warden Hennessey, played by Joan Allen (I was surprised to see her in this kind of move...). She runs the pay-per-view Death Race. Inmates race custom built cars in this deadly race. Five Death Race wins means the winner gets out of prison. Hennessey makes a deal with Ames - if he races as the mask-wearing, fan-favorite Frankenstein (who had 4 wins before his death), and wins, then he gets out of prison. Naturally things don't go as planned when Ames learns that one of the other Death Race drivers is responsible for him being in prison. And Hennessey doesn't really want to see her star driver leave. Mayhem and carnage ensue. This was an interesting movie, though I think I would have preferred to wait for its DVD release. And after reading the plot summary for Death Race 2000, which Death Race is loosely based on, I think I'd rather be a driver in Death Race 2000. Edited by Ms Atoz, 30 Aug 2008, 10:56.
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| Captain X | 1 Sep 2008, 20:28 Post #76 |
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Meh, the original was better, if nothing else for the comedy value. One of the scenes that always sticks in my mind is when these nurses wheel out a bunch of old people to get plowed over by the racers, and the show's hero swerves and takes out the row of nurses instead. :eviltbbs: |
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| Rigil Kent | 4 Sep 2008, 17:50 Post #77 |
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Watched Doomsday tonight just 'cause. The plot was ... an iffy mish-mash of post-apocalyptic, butt kicking movies but Rhona Mitra ... ohmigod that woman is hot. Story. Right. There's this evil virus that killed a bunch of people in the Scotland area (why Scotland, I have no idea) and Scotland was thus cut off from everywhere else. A state of the art version of Hadrian's wall was erected (on top of that wall) and the sea was mined so nobody could get in or out. Fast-forward twenty some years later. The "Reaper virus" (cool name, BTW) has been rediscovered in London and a team must go into the quarantined Scotland (which the London govt led by PM Alexander Siddig knows has survivors but has kept it secret for three years or so). A team is to go in and look for the cure. Rhona Mitra is to lead the team 'cause she's like the Ultimate Bad Ass (with a cybernetic eye she can take out to peak around corners - yeah, I thought it was a little silly too). So, team of cliched commando types goes in and everything goes to crap. Half the team is wiped out by these rejects from the Road Warrior and Rhona is captured by this bad guy who reminded me of the mohawked bad guy in Road Warrior (not the hockey mask guy, but the other dude.) Rhona eventually escapes, gets a local out 'cause this chick is the daughter of the lead scientist or something, and they all narrowly escape the Road Warrior freaks. From there, they cut across country to find local chick's Dad (Malcolm McDowell) who has sort of become a medieval king type. Turns out, there is no cure. The people who survived did so due to natural selection. Malcolm is also a lunatic so they have to fight their way out. The "team" is now down to the smoking hot Rhona, the native chick and the kinda/sorta doctor type who is the native chick's love interest. Cue car chase scene (they get the car from this underground fallout shelter thing) that seems straight out of the Road Warrior. Big explosions, more butt-kicking. Overall, it was a goofy as hell but surprisingly fun movie of the kind they don't make much of these days. Gratuitous violence and gore, a little nudity (but not the lovely Ms Mitra 'cause she's too much of a bad ass in here). If you like that sort of movie, this might be worth checking out. I'll give it 2.75 cybernetic eyes out of 5. A C+, I guess. Most of the silliness can be forgiven for how hot Rhona is... |
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| Rigil Kent | 17 Oct 2008, 14:00 Post #78 |
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So, I just got back from watching Max Payne and I'm really torn. On one hand, I liked a lot of the stuff they did with it, but on the other, I think the actual plot of the video game it was based on was better. The primary problem with the movie, I think, is that it takes too long for the butt kicking to commence and that there's not quite enough of it. Some of the acting is pretty mediocre as well. 2.75 out of 5. Slightly above average but certainly not enough to write home about. |
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