[Slow Ben]

Yeah, so KickAss was pretty damn enjoyable.

I dont know what I was expecting, but it sure as shit wasnt that. I really wasnt expecting it to be that graphic, but damn that was fun.

And I was wrong to bash Nick Cage the other day. He was awesome in this.

[Aptorian]

Now go watch Sorcerors Apprentice. He saves this movie from being completely pants.

[Beezulbubba]

He was so horrible in Wicker Man that it was good. Grab a 6'er (or two) and enjoy.

[Aptorian]

Horrible? He made that film good.

[Beezulbubba]

http://www.movieweb....nce/miley-cyrus

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

Saw Inception today, and then watched Men who stare at goats. I liked them both. Inception was very good, but I think a bit overhyped. I've heard it billed as the new Matrix, and while it was a good movie, it was not as impactful.

Men who stare at goats was good, I guess, but not the coen brothers best material. I don't think they will ever get back to the level of Lebowski or Oh brother, but it was worth watching once.

[amphibian]

Raymond Luxury Yacht, on 09 August 2010 - 09:06 AM, said:

Men who stare at goats was good, I guess, but not the coen brothers best material. I don't think they will ever get back to the level of Lebowski or Oh brother, but it was worth watching once.

Minor note: The Men Who Stare At Goats wasn't a Coen Brothers movie.

I enjoyed it too, but I never really connected with Ewan McGregor as the reporter in the beginning and only cared about Clooney, Daniels and Spacey. I think if we'd cared more about McGregor's character, then the movie would have really been a success. Hard to point at something specific though.

I saw Sherlock Holmes the other day. I'm quite familiar with the original stories, the many television series, miniseries and the occasional non-original books. This version was an excellent movie. It entertained, it was rather smart, contained a ton of references to the stories AND it had quite realistic, if somewhat stylized, fighting. Holmes broke a dude's elbow joint with an armbar! Watson RNC'd people (with terrible technique, but he did it)! Downey turned in a very solid performance that was actually quite distinct from Iron Man, Law was very good as Watson, McAdams was also good as Adler and Strong did an admirable job of personifying oily menace throughout.

[Zanth13]

@amphibian

I agree, Sherlock Holmes was probably one of my favorite movies released in the past year, I hope for an equally made or better sequel...

a movie that I thought would only be average but was pretty good was Cop Out... and a movie I thought would be bad ass but was only average was Clash of the Titans..

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

amphibian, on 09 August 2010 - 11:49 AM, said:

Raymond Luxury Yacht, on 09 August 2010 - 09:06 AM, said:

Men who stare at goats was good, I guess, but not the coen brothers best material. I don't think they will ever get back to the level of Lebowski or Oh brother, but it was worth watching once.

Minor note: The Men Who Stare At Goats wasn't a Coen Brothers movie.

Really? Why did I think it was? Where did that come from? Like, wow, man, I think I'm freaking out.

[dktorode]

Maybe you are confusing it with "a serious man" or "the man who wasnt there" or "no country for old men"
Or its the fact that Clooney acts like a loon in it?
or its that the movie has been compared to Coen brothers work.

I can easily see your confusion.

[Ulrik]

Expendables - hell yeah! My wet dream came true! Its not uber-all-breaking action movie, its one massive, nostalgic roar HAIL TO 80´!

[Slow Ben]

Watched Date Night last night. It was just ok. Had some funny parts, most of which were in the trailer. All in all, nothing special.

This may be the first time Steve Carell has failed to impress me.

[Macros]

Watchmen
Finally got around to seeing this.
Meh
apart from batman losing the rag very little of this film appealed to me.

to much philosophising and slowness. Sure maybe that was the films intent but I went into it expecting dark batman on steroids.

[amphibian]

Macros, on 14 August 2010 - 10:33 PM, said:

Watchmen
Finally got around to seeing this.
Meh
apart from batman losing the rag very little of this film appealed to me.

to much philosophising and slowness. Sure maybe that was the films intent but I went into it expecting dark batman on steroids.

Did you miss the comic book entirely? Or not know who Alan Moore is and the general tone to his work?

[Satan]

Trouble is, they don't really succeed in the philosophising either. At least not like Moore does in the comic. No matter how you look at it, Watchmen remains a mediocre movie.

[Morgoth]

Sadly yeah. The main problem I think is that the director has the subtlety of a sledgehammer, both in imagery and choice of music.

Still, Rorschach did a good job but that was more despite than because of the directing I think.

[Satan]

In other words, he should have kept his philosophising to a strict Nietchian school.

[Illuyankas]

So he should have tailored his writing to fit a Nietzsche market?

[Macros]

Never encountered the comic, beyond the beano as a youth I was never a comic booker.

I'm sure a lot was lost on me because of this but alot of the "philosophy" seemed like it came straight out of the depressed drunk's view of the world 101. Sure its supposed to be a thinking mans hero film, but it was fairly obvious from the moment we met him who the dick was, so the climatic discovery was anti climatic to say the least. there was no "wow" factor me, no twists or revaltions that made me give a shit, bar the parental issue I saw it all coming a mile off, and even that one they butchered with too many references, so it was a notion in your head before the killer flashback was played.

Sorry if my ambivalence offends, but this could have been done so much better.

[amphibian]

Macros, on 15 August 2010 - 06:08 PM, said:

Never encountered the comic, beyond the beano as a youth I was never a comic booker.

I'm sure a lot was lost on me because of this but alot of the "philosophy" seemed like it came straight out of the depressed drunk's view of the world 101. Sure its supposed to be a thinking mans hero film, but it was fairly obvious from the moment we met him who the dick was, so the climatic discovery was anti climatic to say the least. there was no "wow" factor me, no twists or revaltions that made me give a shit, bar the parental issue I saw it all coming a mile off, and even that one they butchered with too many references, so it was a notion in your head before the killer flashback was played.

Sorry if my ambivalence offends, but this could have been done so much better.

I mostly wanted you to explain your reaction to the film better, but I agree with you: Watchmen is a flawed film. What I didn't understand is how you got the impression it would be something akin to a Michael Bay movie.

I rather like what they were able to do in the film, but realize that there were some sloppy and/or mishandled elements to it. Some of that is the clunky source material - which plays on fears which are no longer relevant and written by a man who is an enormous, nearsighted jackass - and some of it is that Ozymandias wasn't really given the screen time to become a character the audience could get more invested in, as that would make the ending more satisfying.