OT: Movies You Have Seen Lately - Page 49

gregebowman · #**481** August 21st, 2006, 07:29 PM

Having a 5 year old, I seem to get to see mostly CGI or just regular animated movies lately. The latest one I just saw was Barnyard. If you can get over the fact that all of the male cows have udders, it's a funny movie. I liked it, and recommend it to all of you who have small children to go see it. A word of warning, however. There are a couple of scenes in the movie that involve coyotes, and the animaters make them look scary. I think my kid was less traumatized from those scenes than he was when he saw Monster House, however.

Kamog · #**482** September 21st, 2006, 10:21 AM

The Protector
This is a great martial arts movie starring Tony Jaa. I was very impressed with Tony Jaa's fighting skills; if you like martial arts movies you'll like this movie. The story is very simple, though: some bad guys steal two elephants from Tony's village and he goes to rescue them, beating up all the bad guys who try to stop him.

Atrocities · #**483** September 21st, 2006, 03:54 PM

Ultra Violet

This wasn't a very good movie. They relied very heavily on fast, very obvious, digital who's quality was exceptionaly poor.

The plot, what plot.. the movie didn't really know what it wanted to do. One moments its a resistance anti establishment movie the next its a hunt the vampire save the children movie. Then it turned into mother son bad dad movie. This thing was all over the place.

It has been a long while since I have had to just stop watching a movie and remove it from my DVD player. This movie was that bad. It is the kind of movie someone spun out on crack would make.

Ever try to watch some crack heads concept of blade runner? Its like watching the channel on your tv flip stations every few seconds; round and round again.

The movie had these complete unbelieveable fight scenes, by unbelieve able, I mean as in complete fake. THe main character could run on ceils and kill dozens of soldier made of glass. Oh wow, glass soldiers... what a great idea that is. She can perform these fantastic feats of physic breaking acrobatics, including running a motor cycle sideways along buses, jumping from the side of a bus to the side of another bus then to the side of building while being chased by a very fake looking CGI helicopter. It was a Mytrix rip off that just makes you shudder.

She fights these huge groups of soldiers yet baucks and gets all freaked out when she has four or five soldiers blocking her path in a mall.. WTF?

The fight and chase scenes were 99% digital and they all looked increadibly fake.

There is no decernable plot to this movie, the story is a jumbalation of confused concepts and bad ideas. Its a vampire movie, its dark anti-establishment movie, hell its even a matrix rip off and a Kill Bill peace. This is simply one very bad, meaning not so good, movie.

Rent or watch at your own risk.

Renegade 13 · #**484** September 21st, 2006, 10:19 PM

I totally agree with your assessment, Atrocities. It was a terrible movie.

Artaud · #**485** September 23rd, 2006, 12:43 AM

We recently went to see "Ant Bully." Very entertaining, very "cute," very funny. Enjoyable for adults and great for children.

Will · #**486** September 23rd, 2006, 01:03 AM

Oh. I just got a rental for Ultraviolet in the mail... so, this brings the question: if I watch it, will my eyes start to bleed? If so, I'll just send it back now.

Atrocities · #**487** September 23rd, 2006, 01:42 AM

Watch it and then let us know what you think. I couldn't watch the full thing. I suspect the ending might be something half baked and slightly predictable but I never got that far. Just couldn't finish the movie.

Kamog · #**488** September 23rd, 2006, 02:20 PM

Fearless
This is Jet Li's latest movie, in which he is Hua Yuanjia, a great Chinese martial artist who fought with many fighters from other countries. He uses a variety of styles: sword, spear, 3-sectional staff, unarmed. The story goes back to how he started training in Wushu as a young boy, and how he grew up to become a powerful martial artist.

Renegade 13 · #**489** September 23rd, 2006, 09:24 PM

Quote:

Will said:
Oh. I just got a rental for Ultraviolet in the mail... so, this brings the question: if I watch it, will my eyes start to bleed? If so, I'll just send it back now.

Your eyes will first bleed, then explode with a shower of green venom.

gregebowman · #**490** September 25th, 2006, 01:53 PM

I think the last movie I took my kid to was How To Eat Fried Worms. It was a cute little film, and we saw this after we ate at a restaurant. It's not too bad, and I didn't feel like barfing (more importantly, it didn't make my son feel like barfing). If you or your children aren't too queasy, check this one out.