Just watched this…
It was alright. Nothing exactly special.
My boy Ryan was GREAT though. AS ALWAYS.
Just watched this…
I think the reason it didn’t work out is because (even though it’s the story from a book from the year NINETEEN ELEVEN) this story had parts which were then stolen/the inspiration for almost every other movie ever, which THEN meant that the original scenes in THIS movie did not have the “punch” and/or impact that they should have gotten.
Case in point - seemingly; there was an ACTUAL speeder chase, and a gladiator fight, and more than a couple war scenes.
Yet through the entire movie I biggest problem I had with it was:
“There’s no way that a cavalryman from Virginia in 1876 knows how to use a sword like THAT… it’s just unrealistic.”
Literally just got back from finally being able to see this…
ALL MY EMOTIONS
Just watched this…
(it took hours because Sockshare buffers so slowly lately but)
It was pretty good!
It definitely falls apart in the third act though, but that’s only because of the nature of the “found footage” style photography that they went with.
Also, if the powers were shared and if one of them died which would then boost the powers for the other remaining people - it would have made a much better dynamic / plot point.
Just came back from seeing this…
I have to admit, I only saw this movie because I wanted to be with my friends (who wanted to see this movie) therefore I went in knowing nothing and expecting nothing, which ultimately made this an alright movie.
My only knowledge of Edger Allan Poe is from his famous poem (which I own digitally thanks to the iBooks app and I really dug) and what little of Poe is mentioned in the book ‘Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter’ (which is a movie that I REALLY want to see!)
Immediately when it was established that this movie took place in Baltimore, I kept making ‘The Wire’ jokes to myself (which was weird cause I’ve never SEEN an episode of ‘The Wire’ only parts when other shows talk about how good ‘The Wire’ is)
There was a moment when I looked at John Cusack (who’s many, many movies I have loved) and thought that while Cusack was a great deal similar to Poe - the part could have been played by Nic Cage, which then made the whole movie take a weird turn in my head where I imagined what this movie would have been like if Nic Cage was the lead in the movie.
The whole plot is like ‘Castle’, or maybe more like that one ‘Scream’ when someone kills people like they did in a book. Was that in ‘Scream 2’ or 3? There are way too many ‘Scream’ movies…
Anyway. Its decent overall but nothing was ever established to my liking. Poe was apparently a Hugh Laurie “House” type where he was incredibly gifted than most but was a miserable bastard and took it out on everyone else.
For a second near the end, I thought they were going to leave it open for a sequel only with another famous writer/poet as the “hero” to this movie’s “villain”, and they could have done exactly that, if this movie wasn’t so niche.
Just watched this…
And it’s pretty good.
Mainly because I am SO glad that a mo-cap animated feature film was finally handled properly, which means it was nothing like the Zemeckis animated features.
You could really tell that Spielberg worked the camera into places where he WISHED he could in real life. Although, to be fair, this movie *did* drag at times, mostly because Tin Tin has always been boring.
They could have made the exact same movie with original characters, and it might have been even better.
Just watched this…
Yet again inspired by The Nerdist podcast, I decided to see this because of (now) writer/director Bobcat Goldthwait.
And this movie is good!
Goldthwait did a great job of making one character completely unlikable in act one, which then effects the remaining two acts ironially, in a twist (or removal) of truth from act one.
Then, Robin Williams has always been hit-or-miss with his choices of roles in movies, but this one really suited him. I also watched ‘The Best of Times’ earlier in the week which again, was a great role of his.
I’ve been interested in this movie for awhile, but when the teasers were “drip fed” over this week I started thinking “Okay, enough already. Just show me the trailer”
Well, the trailer finally came out today and HOLY FLUX CAPACITOR, I WANT TO SEE THIS MOVIE SO DAMN MUCH
Just watched this…
Since I heard Morgan Spurlock on The Nerdist Podcast, I’ve been on a documentary kick as of late.
Last night I watched Super High Me (the Doug Benson documentary inspired by Spurlock’s ‘Super Size Me’, which I had seen already, and which was mentioned on Spurlock’s episode of The Nerdist) but while it was somewhat entertaining, it doesn’t really need “reviewing”.
I then decided to watch more of Spurlock’s original work instead, and I’m glad I did. This documentary is a peek behind the Hollywood curtain that’s definitely worth seeing.
And I can’t wait for Spurlock’s next one (which was also quickly mentioned on The Nerdist AND the seed of which actually shows up in THIS documentary!)
Just watched this..
I thought it was going to be about hecklers with regards to stand-up comedy (which, I’m being honest here, other than completely dying on stage, is a factor that makes me nervous about ever attempting stand-up) but this documentary is more about criticism in general, which INSTANTLY makes this hard to write about!
The documentary progresses from hecklers at comedy shows, to film critics, then internet bloggers. It’s become pretty standard now for stand-up comedians to have “come backs” to fire at any and all hecklers they have when performing live, which is in itself, a sad thing (the heckling I mean). If something isn’t funny - don’t laugh. Not laughing is the only thing a comedian ever needs to hear to know that he (or she) is not doing a good job.
Jamie Kennedy then takes the reins of this documentary and takes on film criticism, to mixed results. While facing his print/online critics physically in person mirrors the ending of ‘Jay & SIlent Bob Strike Back’ only without the beatings, Jamie Kennedy seems to be trying to defend his work on ‘Son Of The Mask’ which, is seemingly already a losing battle in itself. Sure, Jamie Kennedy has been in some terrible, terrible movies - but that doesn’t make him a terrible person at all. Jamie’s taken the movie reviews to a personal level, as if they were attacks on him and him alone. To be fair, not many of the reviews separate him from the attacks and the vitriol that they use to describe his movies and their option(s) thereof, so in a way, it could be taken personally.
This then got me thinking of all the things that I say about all the movies that I watch and write about right here. I can’t remember specifically singling out PEOPLE, but yeah, I’ve seen some bad movies. That’s not going to stop me from writing about them and the things I write about them (being my own warped opinion) are the very same things that I WOULD say directly to the people involved (if I had to), because I don’t remove what actors do in one movie and carry it to every other movie that they do.
I have NEVER written a bad comment on YouTube. If I don’t like, dislike, or violently hate something that I see on YouTube - I stop watching it. I don’t comment on it, thus spending more time on the thing that I shouldn’t have spent time on in the first place. The only comments I write on YouTube are things that I feel could ONLY be taken as constructive criticism, and if it can’t be viewed only in that way, I don’t write anything at all.
Then suddenly in this documentary, Joel Schumacher tries to defend ‘Batman & Robin’ against the negativity of world by saying that it’s a “comic book movie”… sheesh
Just watched this…
It’s alright.
I’ve never had a problem with Seann William Scott, but the way his character is written in this movie swings from being mentally challenged like ‘Rudy if he was The Waterboy on ice’ to ‘Forest Gump with an anger problem.’
When he’s being silly with regard to the quote/unquote “normal functioning” people, he’s great. But when he somehow phases down to a mess of fists, he’s not. Then the bad guy, played by Liev Schreiber who seemed to have cut his “bad guy” chops right after playing Sabretooth in ‘X-Men Origins: Wolverine’, was not given enough screen time to be portrayed as the “monster” he could have been. He could have been the “Clubber Lang” to Seann William Scott’s “Rocky”, but he isn’t. Instead he’s just the dude we’re “not supposed to like” in the movie, which doesn’t push the point home for supporting the hero.
And Jay Baruchel channeled his inner Ben Affleck in ‘Good Will Hunting’ to pull off the Boston accent.
Just watched this…
I’ve been wanting to see this ever since I saw the trailer, and I’m so glad that I finally did because this movie is a gem.
“He was raped to death?!”
SIDE NOTE: I had NO idea that Giovanni Ribisi was in this movie, and I’m ecstatic he was because he stole the ENTIRE movie in ONE scene! I must have watched the “speech” he does about wanting to do something to his boss, like 8 times in a row and I was laughing each and every time.
And Amber Heard - Y U A LESBIAN ?
Even though A.) I have zero chance to ever get a girl that hot and 2.) She was born that way so all the power in the world to her, etc.
Just watched this…
And its pretty EPIC.
I’ve been a fan of the director Tarsem Singh ever since I saw the movie ‘The Fall’, and while this is a little more “mainstream” than some of his other work - it’s still a crap-ton better than ‘Wrath of The Titans’. As a director, he also has this ability to make scenes in his movies feel like you’re watching theatre, only without the “hokeyness”.
Just got back from seeing this…
So, I remembered my review of the first movie (which I swore I wrote a post about when I saw it, but I just went through my archives and I can’t find it) but basically the first movie was exactly like Star Wars: son of the most bad-ass guy around, raised by an adoptive family, seeks revenge for the death of his “family”, hooks up with a princess, he’s given a glowing sword, he has a tall brown buddy who doesn’t speak english, etc.
Ignoring all of that, going into the second movie I was thinking they would already have the upper hand - they’ve established the “world”, everyone knows the characters, all they had to do now was take the audience on a ride.
But they didn’t.
Less than 10 minutes into this movie, they actually use the classic Han Solo line: “I love you/I know”. SERIOUSLY? Seriously??
You know where that line is acceptable - in STAR WARS: EPISODE V, and in ‘Community’. You know where that line in unacceptable - EVERYWHERE ELSE.
The lead in was that Perseus made the choice to stay at the end of the first movie, but then something happens in this movie which only he can fix. It’s lazy. At one point, he’s fighting one mythical creature but the editing of that entire scene is so terrible that I didn’t even realize that there were in fact TWO of the mythical creatures until they were both on the screen at the same time.
The titans THEMSELVES weren’t even IN this movie!
Eventually, yadda yadda yadda, the end. The plot wasn’t great, the pacing was stop-and-start, the final “battle” was barely that at all.
