OT: Movies You Have Seen Lately

[PvK]

Movies I've seen in theatres recently (we have a few interesting theatres in Seattle, and of course a bunch of crappy chain ones, like just about everywhere else):

The French Connection I was already having a hard time finding anything to like about most films. This film was so well done, it has made that even worse. So many films just stink in comparison, especially from a believability standpoint. So much fake unbelievable uninteresting nonsense for stupid people in most films.

The Warriors Heh. This was shown right after The French Connection, and well, I was tempted partly due to it having been mentioned here on the forums. Pretty funny! Pretty weird. Really 70's. Rather unbelievable, but gee... I think despite it being utterly laughable in many many ways, in some limited but worthwhile ways it was actually better than some recent high-budget drivel like Terminator 3 or the recent Star Wars fiascos. Ah well. Yet more reinforcement for my disdain of ... well some might say modern Hollywood style, but I think it's more like modern Hollywood dreck.

Hero A very good film, especially visually.

Alien versus Predator OMG what crap!

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[gregebowman]

Went and saw Ladder 49 Friday night. It is a darn good movie. I liked it better than Backdraft, which was basically a murder mystery with firemen. Ladder 49 uses flashbacks to tell the story of Joaquin Pheonix's character over the past 10 years (ok, I know his real name is Leaf, but couldn't he have found a better first name to use besides Joaquin?). John Travolta has a much better role to act in, compared to what he did in Punisher. A great movie. I highly recommend it. I think Phoenix should be an Oscar nomination, but we'll see. There's still 2 more months of movies to go.

[Atrocities]

AVP - Alien Verses Predator

When I first saw this movie I utterly hated it. I mean I just fricken dispised it. Recently I learned that they are making a sequal to this movie. Aliens and Predators are at war and they bring the fight to a small town in the US and the citizans must fight them both to survive. Sound lame as hell to me, kinda like the abismal plot of Alien 3.

I like Alien. It hought it was a bold, dark, compelling movie that thankfully was skillfully given an exceptional sequal; Aliens.

Aliens was without a doubt one of the most impressive movies I have ever seen. It hold a place as one of my top five most favorite movies.

Alien 3 was just a major unfiltered disappointment on an epic scale of failure. My opinion of this movie and what it did to the Alien franchise became so low that they would have to work very hard indeed to dissapoint me again.

And then comes Alien 4. WTF was this movie about? Answer, put a bunch of semi-good actors on a space station and have them fight it out. Orginally this was going to be an AVP movie but they ditched the Predator parts and re-wrote the movie to be just an alien movie. BIG F'ing mistake. Had they kept the original script as an AVP script, then the movie might have been special.

AVP - As I said, I really hated this movie when it first came out. I have this rule, if I hate a movie I will watch again in a year or so. Well its been over two years and I finally decided to watch AVP again, the extended version.

I have to say that I was wrong about this movie. It was a very good movie and I don't recall why I hated it so. I found that the extended version made more sense than the theatrical version. I like the attention to detail that they had in the movie. The plot was only weak in a few areas, (Such as from the time of face hugger victim 1 to the first full grown alien attack was only about 20 minutes or two changes in the pyramid. Astect time every 10 nimutes.

The were more aliens than there were people, I think 12 aliens overall and only 9 victims.

I like the way they did many of the things in this movie. In retrospect I was very unfair to this movie and just wanted to set the record strait.

[Atrocities]

Behind Enemy Lines 2

Ok here was a movie that I just knew was going to be a bad movie. A real B movie of epic proprotions. I avoided renting it simply because I knew that it was just a B flick with bad actors and a ****ty plot.

Well I finally broke down and watch this movie and let me say this for it, it was one hell of a good movie. I was completely taken back by the qaulity of its production values, solidiness of its story and plot. I especially enjoyed all of the great attention to detail like the fog in the plane as the SEAL team was preparing to drop. That detail is often overlooked in B budge movies. But in this movie they had it.. very cool detail.

The plot is based around the "mysterious" real life unexplained explosion in North Korea.

The writer took that real life incident and made a movie around it. The Players were all named differantly, but you get the sense that they were strongly based off of the current administration. (See the movie and you'll understand.)

There were so many small things, from good dialog to very good dialog. I really enjoyed the North Korean General, the south Korean Ambassador, and US Admiral and General performances. The cast was a great ensamble group of vetetrin actors.

What was really a nice touch was that the movie didn't leave you hanging. It actually had a very good well thought out and conclusive ending. You would expect a movie like this to end with the rescue of the remaining SEAL members from North Korea, but it went far further in detail and for that I am very thankful.

If you haven't yet seen this movie, I would recommend it. It is in the rental stores now and is well worth the price.

I liked this movie so much I am going to buy the DVD.