OT: Movies You Have Seen Lately

[Kamog]

I saw Superman Returns today... in 3-D Imax. Well, only some bits of it were done in 3-D, like scenes of Superman flying around.

Not a bad movie. Definitely one of the better Superman movies. Way better than the last movie, Superman IV The Quest for Peace, which was just awful. Kevin Spacey is very good as Lex Luther.

The Kryptonians were a Crystalline race!

[gregebowman]

Reading some of the earlier posts about Joss Wheaton, no matter what else he has done, he helped contribute to the atrocity that became Alien 3. That's when I first saw his name, and I don't think I can ever really like him just because of that. Now, I don't know if he did Buffy the movie, but the series was ok. Not that I've watched too many episodes, but enough to know what was going on. Still don't know too much about Angel. As far as Firefly, either it came on a night I was working, or the wife had control of the remote control on whatever night it came on. I've seen some reruns, but not all 13 or so. I finally saw Serenity last month, and thought it was a good follow-up to the series. Since you all know I don't read the trade magazines, the earlier posts in this thread was the first time I heard anything about Lucas having bad feelings about Wheaton. Too bad. Like I've stated earlier, I think Lucas was at his peak in 1977. He's probably just jealous.

Finally saw Monster House last weekend. My 5 year old son got scared toward the end. I don't know if the producers wanted that effect on young children or not, but it did have on one my son. Other than that, I thought it was an OK movie. Not along the lines of The Incredibles or any other Pixar movie, but worth the view.

[gregebowman]

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]

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]

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]

We warned you!

[Makinus]

Found an old sci-fi movie called "Supernova" and saw that i didn´t heard about it and never watched it (2001)... now i have.... and i want those hours of my life back! What an horrible movie!

The movie simply does not make any sense! More plot holes than swiss cheese!

If you didn´t see it, don´t make the mistake... keep away from it...

[Atrocities]

Supernova was one of the SERIES of movies from Europe that for some reason was the ONLY movie in the series that was made. Kinda like Screamers - one chapter in a much greater story line.

In Supernova the one thing you need to keep in mind is that the bad guy is no longer human, he is becoming DEATH, and with him he is bringing the end of the all. An alien supernova bomb that now activated will destroy the entire galaxy.

[bearclaw]

Last night, my wife and I watched "United 93". Very well done, very strong.

I highly recommend it. In fact, this is something that everyone should see so that something like this is never forgotten. As a movie, it was very good. The fact that it's a true story of what happened on flight United 93 is even more moving.

To me, I got a very strong message of what it means to be an American. Even though I'm a Canadian, I've always had a very strong sense of respect for my southern neigbors. The actions of these few people on this plane, for me, demonstrate why it is that the USA is the most powerful country in the world: you have a sense of the patriotic that NO one comes close to.

Very good. I highly recommend it. And if anyone says that they don't want to see it because they don't want to 'relive' 9/11, then they need to see it.

[Atrocities]

Feast

This Project Green Light movie was never released in theaters but is now out on DVD and is a real cult horror movie for those who enjoy dark comedy horrors.

Its bloody, has no real pot, full of action, has humor, and keeps you guessing.

Good rental movie.