OT: Movies You Have Seen Lately

[tesco samoa]

just rewatched canadian bacon

[Kamog]

I just came back from watching Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.

It was good. Very good. As good as the Last two. I will definitely go see it again.

*** WARNING: SPOILERS ***
So... Judgment Day was not averted because of the events of T2. It was only delayed. Now, T-X has been sent back in time to kill John Conner and his future lieutenants, and another T-800 sent back to protect him. T-X is beautiful, very beautiful, I like her! She is also a very dangerous and efficient killing machine, more advanced than the T-1000, with new abilities. Lots of destruction, explosions, and wrecked cars and buildings, as T-X and T-800 battle each other. The scary thing is that the story of Skynet taking over computers, AI- controlled military drones, and the nuclear missiles sounds disturbingly plausible. The surprise ending was rather dark and not very happy... I wonder if they will make a T4?

[narf poit chez BOOM]

and i think i forgot...Mousehunt!
really weird and funny. a good movie. you could even cut some peices out and it would still be a good movie on what's left. see it.

[Kamog]

Tomb Raider II: The Cradle of Life

***Warning: Spoilers***
That Lara Croft character is so unrealistically skilled at everything. Is there anything that Lara Croft COULDN'T do super well? She's an expert in hand-to-hand combat and is good with all sorts of weapons. She's an excellent shot with guns. She can drive all sorts of vehicles. She can ride horses, do stunts with a motorcycle, do all sorts of acrobatics, skydive off skyscrapers, and know everything about archaelogy, speak 10 different Languages, have powerful friends in every country of the world, and be super smart at solving ancient archaelogical puzzles. In addition, she's also incredibly rich. For some reason, she has to go to all sorts of locations in different countries like Khazistan, China, Hong Kong, Kenya, Greece, etc. It's similar to a James Bond movie in which the main character is super good at absolutely everything and travels around from location to location throughout the movie.

The story doesn't make a whole lot of sense. The bad guy specializes in creating genetically engineered super-diseases, and selling them to rich criminals around the world. He doesn't care what these guys use the diseases for, or who dies from them; he just wants money. Well, there's an ancient artifact called "Pandora's Box" which, for some reason, contains a deadly, very contagious disease for which there is no possible cure. The bad guy's goal is to find the box, get the disease, and sell it to different criminal guys for $100 million dollars from each person. Apparently, these guys don't care if everybody in the world dies, including themselves! There's no explaination as to why this Pandora's box exists, or why there's a disease it in, or anything like that.

Anyway, Lara finds the magic orb that is the map to finding Pandora's box, but the bad guys take it away from her, and she has to go and get it back, and there's lots of fighting and shooting and stuff, and then finally when she gets the orb back and find out where the box is, she goes there, the bad guys also find out and go there, there's more fighting and stuff, and finally Lara gets the box, everybody else dies, and in the end she decides to leave the box in its secret hiding place.

Some fancy technology Lara has. She's in China taking digital images of the orb, which has marking on it, and she's talking to the computer guy back at her mansion in England, sending the images to him, and on the computer at the mansion, the guy instantly maps the pictures onto a rotation 3-D model of the sphere to decode it. By the way, it seems that there's only 3 people who live in the huge "Croft Manor". There's Lara, who's out traveling and adventuring most of the time, the very smart computer geek guy, and "super butler". He's "super butler" because apparently he single-handedly takes care of the entire mansion and grounds of the manor, cutting the grass, cleaning everything, looking after the whole place, anytime Lara isn't beating him up with a stick. I guess there's only 2 guys that live in the manor, because whoever works for Lara usually ends up getting killed by her enemies, or at least gets themselves into extreme danger.

Anyway, it was OK. I don't like Angelina Jolie that much; I don't find her attractive, even though most of the guys I talk to do think she's cute. Why does she have such big lips?

[Rollo]

I just came back from T3. Not very good IMO. It certainly didn't give that totally blown away feeling that T2 gave.

Of the movies that I recently saw I can only recommend Charlies Angles. Now that was just pure fun to watch.

Rollo

[tesco samoa]

just watched pirates .

Fun movie... Good for the whole family.

Johnny Dep what ever he plays. He plays it well

[Kamog]

The Medallion

It was pretty good. I try to see every Jackie Chan movie that comes out, and this one was better than the Tuxedo. But Shanghai Knights was better than this one.

*** Warning: Spoilers ***
This movie was unusual for a Jackie Chan movie in that it had supernatural stuff in it. The ancient magic medallion has the power to bring dead people back to life and make them immortal. Jackie's character is a Hong Kong police officer, and he drowns when the bad guys trap him in a shipping container and drop him in the ocean. But he is brought back to life by the medallion, and now he can jump really high, survive big falls, run really fast, get shot and still be OK, and so on. Well, the bad guy knows about the magic medallion, and he gets half of it, and gets the same powers, and of course they have to have a big fight in the end. Like all Jackie Chan movies, this one is not a serious movie. There's all sorts of rather silly stuff in there. Some of it's not very funny - like his incompetent partner - but there are lots of other stuff that is. Some nice fights, but they aren't as long or complex as they used to be in his older movies.
**** End of Spoilers ***

Has anybody seen Shaolin Soccer? I have no idea what it's about; I just saw the poster of the two kung-fu type people kicking a soccer ball. Is this movie any good?

[deccan]

Originally posted by Kamog:
Has anybody seen Shaolin Soccer? I have no idea what it's about; I just saw the poster of the two kung-fu type people kicking a soccer ball. Is this movie any good?

Shaolin Soccer was *the* Hong Kong blockbuster of 2001. This is another Stephen Chow vehicle, and for those who don't know him, this means silly slapstick comedy.

The story is about a group of Shaolin disciples who find that their martial arts abillities are useless in the modern world. Then however, they get the idea of setting up a soccer team and use their martial arts abilities to kick everyone's ***.

So Stephen Chow uses his Iron Leg kungfu to kick the ball to stratospheric heights at ballistic missile speeds, the goalkeeper uses 'magic fingers" kungfu to cover the entire goal area simultaneously, the fatty with flying kungfu sails over the entire football pitch etc.

Some people hate Stephen Chow's stuff, some people love them. I happen to have a weakness for them myself, but I admit that this is probably around the lowest forms of entertainment there is. Also, unless you speak Cantonese, many of the gags will probably go right by your head.

[deccan]

Originally posted by Rollo:
I just came back from T3. Not very good IMO. It certainly didn't give that totally blown away feeling that T2 gave.

I just watch T3 myself. It looked very cheap in my opinion. The T1000 in T2 had a lot of very cool effects and scenes, and the cinematography in general was much, much better than T3. T3 also reuses too many gags and scenes from T2. A really disappointing movie that fails to live up to T2 in any way.

[tesco samoa]

well a weekend of football and movies.

My wifes football team won their league and playoffs

Movies for the weekend

House of 1000 corpes -- The Rob zombie horror flick.... It was ok... ( if you like horror movies then you will like it ) Jeepers Creepers was a little more moodier .

Signs - Liked it. Good theme and good acting. Very good mood settings.

Brotherhood of the Wolf. - That movie was great. The Last two movies that I have seen from France were fantastic. I wish i could listen fluent french... As I had to follow the subtitles ( i know a bit of french but it is french canadian not over the pond french )

And I re watched Amores Perros