OT: Movies You Have Seen Lately

[Will]

Atrocities said:
I rented Hitchhikers Guide to the the Universe and I have to honestly say this: I am very relieved that I never read the book. After seeing the movie, nearly two hours of my life that I will never get back, I am estatic that I never wasted my time to read such a tripely written, contrived, poorly humored, peace of [censored] lititure. If I am alone in my opinion, then so be it. I can live the knowledge that I have been spared the honor of having read such a widely loved book.

I found the movie to be utterly STUPID and demanded my money back from Block Buster and was granted instore credit. I have never before been so utterly put off by a movie that I returned it the same day, within hours of renting it, demanding my money back. I would sit through a 100 xXx State of the Unions rather than watch another second of that movie. I say burn the negatives, the DVD's and the VHS. Hell BURN THE BOOK!

Yeah, the movie wasn't very good. I didn't think it was as bad as you said it was, but maybe that's just because I got more of the 'in' jokes from reading the books.

If you don't like British humour (eg Monty Python), you won't like the books. I think part of the reason the movie wasn't good was because it tried to move British-style jokes into a more American context of slapstick. British humour is not slapstick. So, there wasn't much wit, and the rest of it was subpar anyway, so... bad movie.

[El_Phil]

I would defend the Hitchhikers books, but I don't think AT would like them. They are massively better than the film and an excellent read, but if you hated the film that much it's going to colour your viewpoint so much there's no point.

After the LoTR films I decided I probably should read the books. My god I thought they were terrible, and that was from a film I really liked. But that could just be me.

[Atrocities]

I will conceed that books are ALWAYS better than the movies they spawn, well except for Star Trek V, that was just bad both ways.

[El_Phil]

Dear god alive they did a book of that?

They only good thing about V was Scotty's
"I know this ship like the back of my hand." and then walking into a girder.

[Atrocities]

X-Men 3

All in all this movie was kind of a let down really. Sure it had great special effects and it is always nice to see the actors who play the characters, but even their talent could not save this movie. The quality of writing, direction, acting, and sense of polish just wasn't in this movie as it has been in the previous two.

The story seemed contrived, rushed, and filled with gaps, pot holes, and even a black hole plot fubar called the phoenix.

Sure the phoenix was pure evil incarnate, but given the dilution that this movie has been filled too, no one character got more than about five minutes of combined screen time to explain fill them out.

The bad mutants were devolved into a bunch of leather, tattooed, punk rockers who did little for the movie but add to the overall dilution of the plot.

In the previous two movies you felt for the characters, most of them, because there was a lot of effort put into developing them. In this movie we have none of that. Hell the only characters that seemed worth caring about were only in the movie for about a total of five minutes each.

This movie is certainly darker than the previous two, but no where in league with them. On a scale of 5 stars, this one would only capture about 2. It was a sincere let down given the quality of its predecessors.

[psimancer]

agreed (10 line post deleted by spell check grrrr)

[Kamog]

X-Men 3

Well, I agree X-Men 3 was not as good as X-Men 2, but it was still pretty good in my opinion. By the way, if you stay and watch the end of the credits, there is an interesting little extra scene.

The bad mutants were devolved into a bunch of leather, tattooed, punk rockers who did little for the movie but add to the overall dilution of the plot.

Warning: Spoiler
I agree! Those new mutants were kind of uninteresting and unimportant. No wonder Magneto sends them in to battle first and sacrifices them. "In chess, the pawns go first." Yeah, the audience doesn't care about those guys either. Actually, the only two characters that I really care about are Magneto and Mystique. In my opinion, these two are more interesting than the good guys. It was very sad what happened to Mystique, but I'm hopeful that she'll regain her powers later if a sequel is ever made, just like Magneto didn't permanently lose his power. And some of dead guys will likely come back somehow in future movies. By the way, Kitty Pryde (Shadowcat), the girl who can walk through walls, is the cutest girl in the world. Some more screen time of her would have been nice. Anyway, if they make the Magneto prequel movie, I'd definitely go see that; he's my favorite character.

[jeffel]

I just saw X3 last night and I liked it.

It wasn't quite as good as the other two, but those were both exceptionally good.

The FX was top notch.
The basic story arcs were nicely played out. (but not as well integrated as they could have been)
I really liked seeing all the younger mutants growing into their powers.

One piece of advice to those going to see it. Stay through the credits for a last little scene.

[gregebowman]

As far as the overall effect, I thought X3 was pretty good. At least special effects wise. I think this is one of the best films when it came to superhero vs supervillian fights. The only other movie I can compare this one to would be Superman 2, where Kal-El fought 3 Kryptonians. Most other superhero films in the past didn't have this many opponents fighting in one film. In that respect, I thought it was great. Now, as far as the Phoenix saga, I never read those comic books, so I was completely lost when it came to what Jean Grey was supposed to be. A better explanation of who the Phoenix was would have been nice.

Also saw Poseidon. I love the original movie, and so I had to see this one. I was disappointed in the lack of character development, but once the ship turned turtle, I thought it was a great movie. Better special effects, and I thought the ending when the ship sank was great (in truth, the ship sank in the original novel). Can't wait to watch it on dvd when it comes out.

Went and saw Cars this past Sunday. As with all of Pixar films, this was a great display of computerized animation. I liked the fact that not only was the show a tribute to NASCAR, it was a tribute to Route 66 also. I highly recommend this movie to kids of all ages. Unfortunately, my son wanted to leave at the end of the movie, so I didn't get a chance to watch most of the outtake scenes as the credits were rolling.

[Atrocities]

Superman

Surprizeingly not a bad movie.

"Wheren't there two of them?" - Lex's Girl Friend.
R O T F L M A O

The movie seem really out of place in today time, but overall it was not a bad movie, actually quite enjoyable.