The Movie Thread

Heretical Rants · Joined: 20 Jul 2009 Posts: 5344 Location: No.

The Top Three Super Big-Name Movies of Recent History That I Didn't Like
A List

* The Avengers
* The Dark Knight trilogy
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WheelsOfConfusion · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 13952 Location: Unknown Kaddath

I saw some of the first installment of The Hobbit today. It's pretty dreadful. I actually prefer the old Rankin-Bass cartoon.

Arc Tempest · Joined: 27 Jan 2007 Posts: 5316 Location: Oregon

Trailer for Winter Soldier makes me happy. Curious who the Winter Soldier is actually going to be working for though.
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DeD CHiKn · Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2013 4:43 am Post subject:

Watched the Babymakers.

Wait, before you judge me, it's a Broken Lizard film and they are at least good for a very cheap laugh and many quotable quotes.

It, however, was not.

TIAB · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 719

I watched The Awakening on Netflix this weekend because it showed up under "Halloween Favorites".

It started off promising and then turned into some weird, half-assed Christian-propaganda movie by the end.

eureka00 · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 2065 Location: Pretzel City

Went to see Ender's Game today. It was a pretty solid adaptation. I would have liked to have seen more of the battles in battle school, but they have to cut out something I suppose.
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TIAB · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 719

Watched the Dragon Tattoo trilogy on Netflix this weekend.

Anyone else see this and feel that Lisbeth was largely a prop in the second and third movies?

Yorick · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 12193 Location: Lagrangia

recently saw ...

The Hobbit An Unexpected Journey
and I know all you Middle-Earth fanatics love these Peter Jackson epics and such but they're so overblown and long just get to the damn point of the story already

Transsiberian
the kind of movie that you think there will be a real twist to somewhere in the third act but it actually doesn't really.

A Dirty Shame
just more John Waters weirdness

Predators
'cos why not

Carrie (2013)
I thought the last horror movie remake I saw with Chloe Moretz in it was the most pointless remake ever, but I was apparently wrong, there's another horror movie remake with Chloe Moretz in it that is more pointless

Heretical Rants · Joined: 20 Jul 2009 Posts: 5344 Location: No.

tried watching Highlander because things keep referencing it

couldn't get into it
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Arc Tempest · Joined: 27 Jan 2007 Posts: 5316 Location: Oregon

Highlander has really, really, really not aged well.

(Except the soundtrack.)
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Arc Tempest · Joined: 27 Jan 2007 Posts: 5316 Location: Oregon

Against my better judgement, saw Man of Steel.

So bad, so hilariously bad.
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Darqcyde · Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2014 9:36 pm Post subject:

Arc Tempest · Joined: 27 Jan 2007 Posts: 5316 Location: Oregon

Transformers, the Matrix, Independence Day...

At the end of the day they're just trying so desperately for a grim-dark version of the Avengers and none of it works. Superman is supposed to be the magical protector of humanity, and yet he has no concept of the collateral damage he does. Hell, at the end of the movie he fucking vaporizes a small family but he mourns Xod, not the innocents he crispified.
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TIAB · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 719

Never mind the city he laid to waste in the process of fighting Zod. I'm sure all the people in those buildings had already left for the day, right?

Yinello · Joined: 09 May 2012 Posts: 3453

I saw an ad for I, Frankenstein in the newspaper and immediately knew what movie to avoid.