Movies - both new and old

Inception: A+: Very repetitive music, but very awesome.

Tangled: A+: Love the songs, characters, and everything.

Gnomeo & Juliet: D-: Um…not very good. In fact, I think it’s one of the 50 worst movies ever.

Yay! :smiley:

So happy to hear you enjoyed Tangled, IV! :smiley:

Inception, Tangled, and Cats Don’t Dance are awesome movies! Not surprised about Gnomeo & Juliet, though I’ll give it a chance on DVD later.

This made me laugh because your grade of the movie and the colon make it look like a sad face…sorry, I’m bored out of my mind tonight. 8D

Looking forward to Brave. :smiley:

Please don’t double-post and link to personal websites, thanks! -TDIT

LOL, that’s all I can see now. 8D

Y’know what? I should finish watching The Thief and the Cobbler. The whole thing in its mostly original, unedited form is on YouTube.

I completely agree. I love all of those. And G&J, well, I’m not impressed. I mean, I know I already said this, but it’s one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen. The entire movie was jokes, and most weren’t funny. I definitely think they could/should have done better. :confused:

Thanks, Leirin and EJE!

Sucker Punch. You should see me at my house. Every time a commercial comes on about that film, I get super hyped. I’m surprised it got a PG-13 rating, though. I thought it would get an R.

Saskatchewan - This is a film from the 1950s. It’s about a Mountie who was reared by Natives, and has to deal with tensions between the RMP and the Cree indians. Very nice.

Nothing in Common - Wow. This is the first time I’ve seen a Tom Hanks movie and been disappointed. But, I don’t like dirty humor, and this was one of his first, so it has nothing to do with him.

Igor - I really liked this movie, regardless of what others might think.

Dark Matter - I really loved this movie and the Chinese students…until the end. Kind of depressing. I expected Lue Xing to overcome his problems, rather than killing himself and dozens of others.

How could they have Tybalt live? I mean, this story’s been read for centuries. Are they really this insulting? :imp:

Are you serious, Tybalt lives? How disappointing, that’s a major part of the story.

I know. The fact that nobody died defeated the entire point. I know it’s a cartoon, but the original story is a tragedy. That’s the point. :confused:

Sorry, EJE, I snickered when I read that line because of a scene I remembered from the Knocked Up trailer.

Naughty jokes aside, I’d really like to find that movie. It really does sound interesting, I like American history films. Have you seen Dances with Wolves? It’s a 4-hour Kevin Costner epic (so long, that on the DVD, they even have an intermission and they divide the film across two discs). I watched the first disc before I had to return the film, but I’m hoping to finish it. It’s a really beautiful tale of how a former American civil war fighter learns more about the Indian natives he’s defending his outposts from, and how he eventually “switches sides” when he falls in love with the “enemy”. Oh, and “Two Socks” is adorable, you’ll know who he is when you watch it. :wink:

As I’ve mentioned before, I’m writing film reviews for my university magazine. I just watched the Rango press screening and sent in my review for publication. My next assignment is… Battle: Los Angeles! Well, hopefully. They sent in my RSVP but it was full, so hopefully there’s a drop-out so I can go watch it before the rest of Australia on Monday (I believe it’s in US cinemas now).

Otherwise, I might be stuck covering… Justin Bieber: Never Say Never.

I saw part of Waiting for “Superman” in English yesterday. My dad’s going to rent it, then I’ll review it. :slight_smile:

IncredigirlVirginia: Waiting for “Superman” is an excellent film which I think should be prerequisite viewing for every American and government official.

I watched it while on my cruise ship a few weeks ago, and like any great documentary, it will get you motivated to do something. In this case, it argues that the government bureaucracy for public schools in America and the lottery system denies low-income kids from getting a good education. The amount of “layers” in the government is ridiculous; there’s local, state, and federal bodies of education that conflict with each other’s motives. Much like how American law-enforcement agencies have got City Police, State Police, U.S. Marshals, FBIs, ATFs, DEAs, NCIS (an investigative team for the Naval Department alone), a “Mint Police”… and then city SWAT, FBI HRT, FBI SWAT, etc.

You’ll also learn how the teacher union in America got so powerful that they have this little thing called tenure. A clip from The Simpsons was used in the film to illustrate this concept. This also leads to another phenomenon called the dance of the lemons.

And then you meet the poor inner-city kids who don’t enjoy the same quality of education as those who go to private schools. It was heartbreaking to watch them cry. :frowning:

In Singapore, there’s only one educational body: The Ministry of Education (the island country is not well-known for being creative with their agency names). The teachers have their own union (Lee Kuan Yew crushed most unions and there’s only one national workers’ union called NTUC), but most of them don’t protest because they are paid well when they perform, and are fired if proven incompetent. There’s only one type of government elementary school (called primary schools), one type of government high school (called secondary schools), and three types of tertiary schools (Junior College, polytechnics, and Institute of Technical Educations), before university.

In America, there’s multiple educational bodies (granted, America is a larger country). There are charter schools, magnet schools, and public schools for the elementary level. Then there’s middle school, junior high, and senior high schools (some high schools combine the last two stages into one). Then, there’s college and university. There are some people who do home-schooling, which is relatively unheard of in the countries I’ve lived in.

And then the film shows the metal detectors at entrances, the dropout rates, the segregation, the loss in competitiveness against foreign students in China and India, especially in maths and science, and the children having their fates decided by a ball in a lottery basket, and then I start to wonder if the American education system can do with some improvement.

To be fair, my home country of Malaysia also faces this problem of poor education system and segregation (due to the medium of instruction being in Malay instead of English, and a focus on “affirmative action” instead of meritocracy).

This is a film which has something very important to say, and I highly recommend anyone of any political affiliation to have a look at it and judge the arguments for yourself.

LOL. I remember that scene from Knocked Up! I should’ve used another word!

And Dances with Wolves is one of my favorites! However, I always tear up when they shoot at “Two Socks” and kill the horse. I love historial epics (Dances with Wolves, Gone with the Wind, Giant). If there are any other good ones I’m unaware of, tell me!

EJE: GAH, spoiler! :open_mouth:

Well, not really. I know that [spoil]“Two Socks” dies[/spoil], but I haven’t watched that part yet. Please don’t tell the ending, I plan to watch it sometime in the future to the end (I mentioned I only watched the first half in that post). :frowning:

Anyway, let’s see… historical epics… have you watched Gladiator starring Russell Crowe? That’s one of my favourites, the music is even used in the Qantas ads!

Saving Private Ryan is also a great one, featuring Tom Hanks and Matt Damon.

Red Cliff is also pretty cool, if you like Chinese war epics. I only watched Part 1.

Dah! Sorry! I thought you had seen it, my bad! I haven’t seen Gladiator or Private Ryan, but they’re on my list! Same with Ben-Hur.