OT: Movies You Have Seen Lately

Atrocities · #1 January 30th, 2006, 08:24 AM

I have to agree with both of your comments about Serenity and Batman Begins.

The Constant Gardener - Very very boring. Rent at own risk.

The Four Brothers - Better than it looks and sounds. Has a few cool shoot outs and the plot is weak but ok. Nice movie to spend an evening with when you have nothing better to do but clip your toe nails and eat pop corn.

Black_Knyght · #2 February 1st, 2006, 04:10 AM

Just rented "Spanglish", and was actually VERY surprised that I liked it

( it was a "Date" movie, what can I say ? )!?!?!? Good performances by Adam Sandler and Cloris Leachman.

And I hate

Tea Leoni

even more than I did before.....

Kamog · #3 February 11th, 2006, 05:41 AM

I just saw Firewall. I liked it. This is a pretty good, exciting movie, with excellent acting by Harrison Ford.

Kamog · #4 March 4th, 2006, 05:18 AM

I saw 16 Blocks. Not bad, it's OK entertainment. Good old Bruce Willis action movie, simple story about one good guy against lots of bad guys.

Atrocities · #5 March 4th, 2006, 04:45 PM

Bruce likes to play those parts, the depressed cop who everyone hates. It has gotten very old. He is the Clint Eastwood of depressed loner cops.

Kamog · #6 May 16th, 2006, 01:06 AM

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
This was a good movie. The story is slightly different from the book, but it was OK. The appearance of Marvin bothered me a bit because I didn't like the big round head, but I quickly got used to that. I hope they make the sequels, because the story in the books go on much much longer than what happened in the movie.

Kung Fu Hustle
Kind of a stupid movie but very funny. It's a parody of some of the more serious kung fu movies and a lot of crazy silly stuff happens. Many ordinary-looking guys in the movie turn out to be super masters of some sort of weird fighting style with all kinds of silly powers.

Transporter 2
Pretty good action movie, if you ignore the totally unrealistic stunts the guy does with his car. I think the first move was a bit better.

Black_Knyght · #7 May 16th, 2006, 03:06 AM

Rented Doom,The Lord of War, and A History of Violence this past weekend.

Sadly enough I found all three to be a disappointment.

Kamog · #8 May 22nd, 2006, 11:15 AM

DOOM - A mindless and violent movie, not very interesting, shallow story. There's a first-person-shooter sequence in the movie where the guy goes around with a big gun and shooting, with the same point of view as in the game. It was just like watching over somebody's shoulder who's playing the game, and it was kind of boring. In general, it seems that movies which are based on video games tend not to be great movies. This movie is similar to Resident Evil in many ways but even Resident Evil, which wasn't that good, was still better than Doom.

narf poit chez BOOM · #9 May 22nd, 2006, 06:54 PM

That's becuase DOOM had very little story. A movie needs a story; a game, not so much.

TurinTurambar · #10 May 22nd, 2006, 10:35 PM

The Tomb Raider movies were based on a game... I found them entertaining, but then that franchise had already been expanded with comic books and the like too. You are right though, Doom sucked butt big time.