[HoosierDaddy]

<------------- Losing all credibility I might have once possessed in 3...2...1...

Those two black kids, the one basketball player and the smart girl have been screaming "couple" since first movie. And, not token characters as well.

This post has been edited by HoosierDaddy: 02 March 2009 - 10:34 PM

[Macros]

Detroit rock city
still as awesome as ever, some great lines

"as the say in the tampon rack, see you next period"

[Mezla PigDog]

HoosierDaddy, on Mar 2 2009, 05:31 PM, said:

And, not token characters as well.

They are so token black kids! Every other character in the movie is white apart from the sidekick best mates of the two pristine main characters!! The only other not perfect white kid in the film is the one token fat chick.

[HoosierDaddy]

Oh, I was talking about the best-friend side-kicks. Haven't seen 3 (praying that I don't...).

It's Disney, what do you expect?

[Aptorian]

I remember watching Highschool Musical 1 a while ago and liking it, the second one was shown the week later and it left me cold.

The thing that has me wondering about those films is the horrible, horrible stereotypes they portray. Maybe danish kids and schools are just different, but we certainly don't have strenge groups that only hang out with themselves and despise each other. There's no jocks or nerds or goths, etc. Basically we just stick to our classmates. There's certainly nowhere near that level of pretentiouness and pride among kids.

America is a weird society.

[Mezla PigDog]

It is the same two kids - the basketball boy and the smart girl. I have seen all of the High School Musical movies (quite by accident, I feel the need to emphasize that point!).

Now, if you would like to continue this debate about High School Musical outside......

@Apt - I wrote the exact same thing from a UK angle but deleted it before I posted! Is everyone in American High School in some form of club?

This post has been edited by Mezla PigDog: 02 March 2009 - 10:52 PM

[HoosierDaddy]

Yes, Apt. Those cliques are present in nearly every American high-school. The only difference in private schools would be that since they all wear uniforms the cliques are rich and poor students. Pretty sad, but it happens.

@Mezla: Yeah, I thought those two were the ones to whom you were referring.

Edit: Pedantry.

This post has been edited by HoosierDaddy: 02 March 2009 - 10:57 PM

[Mezla PigDog]

HoosierDaddy, on Mar 2 2009, 05:53 PM, said:

Yes, Apt. Those cliques are present in nearly every American high-school.

That is why Heathers is the best US High School flick

[HoosierDaddy]

I'd have to disagree. Dazed and Confused is the best US high-school flick. Shortly followed by The Breakfast Club and Weird Science.

This post has been edited by HoosierDaddy: 02 March 2009 - 10:58 PM

[Grimjust Bearegular]

Macros, on Mar 2 2009, 11:41 PM, said:

Detroit rock city
still as awesome as ever, some great lines

"as the say in the tampon rack, see you next period"

Love that movie!

[Slum]

Watched Yes Man - God, how I loathe Jim Carrey. I feel bad for making my parents sit through so many of his movies 9over and over again) when I was a child.

He's actually not that bad in his more serious roles, but I find his comedy style to be terribly annoying anymore.

Role Models - Meh, nothing special. Got some laughs out of a potty-mouthed nine-year-old and picking on LARPing.

Changeling - Couldn't make it through this Angie Jolie period piece. She does some fine acting but the pace was too slow for me.


I still have W., Valkyrie, Miracle at St. Anna, Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, Body of Lies, Defiance, and RocknRolla sitting on my PC waiting to be watched....

What's the most promising one....?

[Macros]

role models is on my watch list.
High school musical is the pits, sister forced me to watch.
Eyes and ears bled.

[Aptorian]

Probably Valkyrie and W. Do not expect anything of Rise of the Lycans. I've heard it is the Highlander Endgame of the series.

[Slum]

Yeah, I've heard W. is pretty entertaining. Prolly give it a look tonight.

Valkyrie I've been putting off because of the Cruise factor....

Defiance, with Daniel Craig, is supposed to be fairly good. Too bad about Rise of the Lycans, I was hoping that one might be fun.

[Morgoth]

During my time in Chicago I got to watch the Wrestler, the Reader, and Coraline.

The Wrestler was brilliant. Truly brilliant. Excellent acting, and a very personal sort of filming that really made you feel you were in the room with the main character at all times. Funny, sad, charming.. I enjoyed myself.

The Reader is based on a brilliant German book, and I've always thought Kate Winslet is an excellent actor. She played very well in this movie too, and though I objectively accept that this movie was very good, it didn't have nearly the same emotional impact on me as did the book, or the wrestler for that matter. The characters are believable, but somewhat frustrating.

Coraline is one of my favourite children's books, and I've bought it for both my siblings and several cousins up through the years. I was more than a little nervous going to see this one, but it did not dissapoint me in the end. The animations were original and very well done, and fit the atmosphere of the book. The voice acting was good and the movie in itself was very charming, though I'd say not scary enough. The problem I found was that this movie was not nearly as dark as the book. In the book, there's something very scary about the other mother right from the very begining. An underlying nastyness if you will. This movie lacked that. There was too much cute and too little scary, though it did have it's scary moments too.

Still well worth it, and at the end I'd say I enjoyed it more than I enjoyed the reader.

[Sir Thursday]

Slumgullion Spitteler, on Mar 3 2009, 06:13 PM, said:

I still have W., Valkyrie, Miracle at St. Anna, Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, Body of Lies, Defiance, and RocknRolla sitting on my PC waiting to be watched....

What's the most promising one....?

RocknRolla is the only one of those I've seen, but I really enjoyed it. It's your standard Guy Ritchie film, certainly, but there's some great scenes in there (the Russian killer chase scene was pure awesome )

Sir Thursday

[Anomander]

W was a great movie, although it ended quite abruptly. My friend remarked that Oliver Stone should have waited until Bush was out of office to finish/release the film, and I agree.

Condoleeza Rice looks like a complete idiot in the film, the guy playing Cheney pulls off 'evil' perfectly (he even sneers!). Colin Powell is the only one coming out of that film that appears respectable.

[Yellow]

Major, major problem for me with W was that most of the actors forgot to act, and just did impressions instead.

Thandie Newton was painful as rice, as was that guy who played Powell. Richard Dreyfuss was alright, but his role was a little lightweight. He was just some kind of bogey man, and offered no real depth to Cheney at all.

Josh Brolin, on the other hand, was brilliant. Voice and mannerisms were great... and he remembered to actually act! He carried the film, really.

Disappointing stuff from the guy who directed JFK, Nixon, Any Given Sunday and Platoon.

[Yellow]

Mezla PigDog, on Mar 2 2009, 10:27 PM, said:

It's no Grease 2, put it that way!

Damn, I missed that off my list of sequels that were better than the original.

I want a cool rider. A coo-oo-oo-o-ool rider. A rider that's cool. Whoa.

Second best film Michelle Pfeifffererer ever did.

[Mezla PigDog]

Yellow, on Mar 5 2009, 02:08 PM, said:

Mezla PigDog, on Mar 2 2009, 10:27 PM, said:

It's no Grease 2, put it that way!

Damn, I missed that off my list of sequels that were better than the original.

I want a cool rider. A coo-oo-oo-o-ool rider. A rider that's cool. Whoa.

Second best film Michelle Pfeifffererer ever did.

You missed a line! It is:

I want a cool rider. A coo-oo-oo-oool rider. I want a rider that's cool, who can burn me through and through. Whoa-oh-ohhhh.

Just for the record *ahem* (slightly ashamed at the speed in which I have replied to this!)

And what is the first best film she did?