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| Jedikatie | 20 Feb 2010, 14:19 Post #141 |
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Well, I saw Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief today. It was okay. Not great, but okay. If you know the myths, you can guess what's going to happen to the kids before it does (ie, "Auntie Em's Garden Emporium" has a lot of stone statues). Some nice special effects in it, though. They chopped out easily half the book it was based on (which is the first book in a five book series), including a rather important bit that relates to the other books in the series, so if they actually do make all five books into movies, someone's going to have to do some explaining for those who haven't read the books. I've only read the first two books myself, yet that bit which I mentioned was cut out of the movie was prominent in both of those, and has to do with why exactly Percy is so important. Anyway, my friend (who hasn't read the books) figured out who the thief was fairly early on, just like I had done when I read the book a month ago. I also didn't care for the one reference to Obama in the movie--Grover the satyr says something to Percy about other demigods and how he can't name names, but some of them are famous, "like White House famous," which just made me :rolleyes: because I know that wasn't in the book either. On the other hand, Bonita Friederecy, John Billingsley's wife (and one of the scientists from the Borg episode of Enterprise), had a small part in the movie. I saw her and I kept trying to figure out where the heck I knew her from, and didn't realize who she was until I saw the credits at the end... |
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| Kevin Thomas Riley | 20 Feb 2010, 19:34 Post #142 |
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But it makes perfect sense! Didn't you know he's The One! :rolleyes: |
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| Kevin Thomas Riley | 25 Apr 2010, 11:23 Post #143 |
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I spent the weekend watching the two American civil war movies Gods and Generals and Gettysburg. Truly awesome films, especially the latter. It's a shame they never got round to making the third movie (they're from a trilogy of novels). What a remarkable and tragic time in American history. And to think that the actually filmed Gettysburg at the real location. The most touching thing, I think, was when old friends like Union General Hancock and Confederate General Armistead wound up on opposing sides, in the case of the battle of Gettysburg quite literally. |
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| Jedikatie | 25 Apr 2010, 13:26 Post #144 |
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These movie adaptions are getting a little out of hand, I think: Ridley Scott on adapting Monopoly And yes, he does mean the game... |
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| Kevin Thomas Riley | 25 Apr 2010, 15:36 Post #145 |
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I can't wait until they make a movie about Trivial Pursuit... :rolleyes: |
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| Jedikatie | 25 Apr 2010, 15:39 Post #146 |
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Well, let us not forget that there's that movie in development starring the Viewmaster too, for the :wtf: are they thinking award? But yeah, they're really scraping the bottom of the barrel for ideas. |
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| Kevin Thomas Riley | 25 Apr 2010, 15:48 Post #147 |
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They'll probably make the View Master movie in 3D! :lol: :wtf: |
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| Jedikatie | 26 Apr 2010, 09:28 Post #148 |
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^ LOL. Well, at least that would make sense. Sort of. I'm still trying to figure out what they heck they can do with a ViewMaster to make a movie about it in the first place (unless they're going the Jumanji route, and there's one special ViewMaster which sucks you into other worlds or something like that). So, who's planning on seeing Iron Man 2 when it opens in a few weeks (7 May in the U.S.)? And are you planning to see the regular version or the 3D version if you go? I'm going to have to wait til at least until the Sunday (and maybe later) after it opens to see it, thanks to work. Most likely I'll go sometime during the week of 9 May, because the following weekend is our Adopt-a-thon and I know that I'll be scheduled to work both of those days (after all, I'm in charge of it, so it stands to reason I should be there, LOL). |
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| Jedikatie | 26 Apr 2010, 09:31 Post #149 |
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Okay, now they've gone too far... MTV remaking The Rocky Horror Picture Show |
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| Jedikatie | 26 Apr 2010, 09:47 Post #150 |
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Not so much movie news, but: Batman begins... its transformation to a stage show |
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| Chris | 26 Apr 2010, 11:09 Post #151 |
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My dad bought the Iron Man dvd when it first came out but I never got to watch it because my brother 'borrowed' it for a year. I finally got it back recently to watch it for the first time and only got half way through the movie. For some reason I couldn't get into it. I thought I'd try again since #2 is coming out soon. I definitely want to see Robin Hood when that comes out May 15th or is it the 22nd? Edited by Chris, 26 Apr 2010, 11:10.
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| Jedikatie | 26 Apr 2010, 11:35 Post #152 |
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^ I want to see that one also. It comes out on 14 May, so it's another movie I'm going to have to wait and watch during the middle of the week probably (since there's no way I'll be able to go that weekend). |
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| Kevin Thomas Riley | 26 Apr 2010, 14:00 Post #153 |
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How much does a movie ticket cost in the U.S.? If it's cheaper than here then I might go see something when I'm in Orlando. |
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| Chris | 26 Apr 2010, 16:05 Post #154 |
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In my area of Virginia it's up to $10 now. I think that's the average everywhere in the U.S. these days. That's why I only go if it's something I really, really want to see, like Robin Hood, or something that should be seen on the big screen. |
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| Jedikatie | 26 Apr 2010, 18:49 Post #155 |
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Also, it depends on whether you're going to a matinee or nighttime showing. The matinee showings at the closest theater to me is $7.75 now (which covers any movie that starts before 6 pm), while the nighttime showing is $10.75. Though that theater is nice, they have a bargain deal on Tuesdays where it only costs $6 to see a movie no matter which showing you go to see. But not all theaters offer a deal like that. If you go to the 3D version of a movie, expect to pay another $3 or $4 on average on top of either the regular matinee or nighttime price. And if you opt to go for the IMAX version, it will probably cost you around $2-$4 more than the 3D version would. |
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| Captain X | 26 Apr 2010, 19:51 Post #156 |
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News of board games being made into movies makes me want to make Truth or Dare into a cheesy horror movie along the lines of Saw. |
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| Kevin Thomas Riley | 27 Apr 2010, 14:04 Post #157 |
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Movie tickets in Sweden are around 100 SEK ($14), so your prices are a bit cheaper. |
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| sipovic | 29 Apr 2010, 11:49 Post #158 |
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Tickets prize in here is about 3-8$. |
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| Rigil Kent | 29 Apr 2010, 14:32 Post #159 |
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Forgot to mention: Saw "Kick Ass" last week even though I had no real time to spare. It wasn't quite what I expected, but certainly wasn't as bad as I'd feared. Based on a comic written by the same guy who wrote "Wanted" (which bears almost no resemblance whatsoever to the movie with Jolie in it apart from a couple of names), so I was halfway expecting the same sort of contempt for actual comics that always comes across with Mark Millar's (the writer) stuff (don't get me started on his anti-military tripe that showed up in the otherwise fantastic reboot of Marvel's Avengers, "The Ultimates"), but it was absent in the movie. Basically, this is a flick about a bunch of people wanting to be super-heroes in a world where they don't exist. The titular hero "Kick Ass" decides to don tights and fight crime ... but gets knifed on his first outing before he's hit by a car. Thanks to some nerve damage (he doesn't feel pain, I guess - the movie didn't do a good job explaining that), he's slightly more competent ... but not by much. His rescue of a guy kicking the crap beat out of him by thugs is captured by cell phone cameras and he becomes a YouTube sensation. This inspires a whacked out former cop (Nicholas Cage, whom I generally loath) who is training his daughter to be a frightening sociopath to avenge themselves against a drug dealer who framed said cop for drug running, which resulted in this guy's wife suiciding. They have costumes themselves - Big Daddy and Hit Girl, respectively - and honestly? Both of them were more interesting than Kick Ass, who I was actually bored by. Anytime Hit Girl is on the screen, she steals the show with her astoundingly foul mouth (she's like 11) and her killing prowess. Overall, it was an ... okay movie. Not fantastic by any stretch, but amusing at times, boring at others, wicked cool at yet others (always when Hit Girl is present for this.) If you're not a comics person, or over-the-top, gratuitous violence in movies bothers you, skip this one. |
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| Kevin Thomas Riley | 1 May 2010, 07:17 Post #160 |
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An eleven-year old with a foul mouth? Isn't that the norm these days, or am I just jaded? :wink: |
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