Movies - both new and old

Oooh, that’s cool. If they do end up making a sequel, I would totally go see it.
I would just hope they would stick to traditional animation and not go CGI.

Did you know there are a number of Roger Rabbit animated shorts? There’s a total of three of them, if you didn’t know.
If you’re interested, the names for each cartoon short is: Tummy Trouble, Roller Coaster Rabbit, and Trail Mix-Up. :wink:

I watched the first two Narnia movies yesterday. I really loved them. Both are on my top-ten favorite movie list.

TSS: I really want to see those movies! I can’t believe I haven’t seen them yet; I finished the books a long time ago.

I saw the second half of Beethoven’s Big Break on Disney Channel recently. I lol’d at the end credits…I loved their other movie references! “DOG-E” XD “When Hairy Met Frizzy”…it kept my eyes on the screen through the whole end credits.

I’m trying to convince someone to come and see Star Trek with me on the weekend, or Friday, or even Thursday.

It’s much more difficult than it sounds! Although I am quite looking forward to it, being a casual watcher of the old series.

I just saw the Hayao Miyazaki masterpiece, My Neighbor Totoro. 10/10. This is even better than Spirited Away! :open_mouth: This is probably the funniest, cutest movie I’ve ever seen.

Oh, one big Studio Ghibli film here, TAMATER. You’re right - My Neighbor Totoro is a great film. Although, that said, my absolute favorite is the popular (but still incredibly good) Howl’s Moving Castle, very deserving of that Oscar. It’s on top of my DVD pile, which many Pixar films and my favorite TV shows are in also. Great film to watch over and over - was watching it with a Japanese exchange student I had over at my place and that was quite a moment. :slight_smile:

That is the next Studio Ghibli film that I’m planning to see. Plus it inspried Pete Docter to make Up, so it must be good! :laughing:

Edited. There is no need to quote the entire post. – Mitch

I just saw X-Men Origins: Wolverine. I thought it was really good. I’d recommend it. I think this is officially the start of the summer movie season! :sunglasses:

I saw that movie. It rocked!

I’ve been tempted to see the Wolverine movie, but the terrible reviews and a general dislike of Hugh Jackman have put me off. I might still go and see it next week sometime and see what I think, but if it’s all action and no story I’m not sure if it’s worth it. My dad went to see it last week, and he’s a massive fan of those types of movies and even he didn’t think the story was up to much, so I might just see what else is on.

I saw X-Men Origins: Wolverine for the second time yesterday. Trust me, the second time around was a lot better! :smiley:

I going see it again on Tuesday so my friend can see it.

All of my friends said that it was disappointing because if you knew the minor characters from other comics you would see the miscommunications and wrong parts. They said that the film butchered the other comic players…

Okay, about X-Men Origins: Wolverine

Whenever Hollywood takes a “comic book project” (takes comic characters and bring them to big screen), it’s a given rule that they will “butcher” the product to make it work as a movie. Sometimes, this works…sometimes it doesn’t.

In the case of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, the results are mixed.

Yes, they changed the characters (and in the case of Gambit, Blob, and others…put them in the story even though they weren’t involved in the original Weapon-X storyline, but that’s a different topic). However, I thought the movie wasn’t that bad and I even enjoyed it…

UNTIL we get to the end.

I’ll admit, when I saw the original teasers with Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool, I was thinking “oh crap, he’s going to ruin it”. Surprisingly, he actually did a really good job as Wade Wilson and I thought “Okay, I can buy that…”

Then we get near the end of the movie; the climatic battle, and what happens: [spoil]THEY TURNED DEADPOOL INTO A CHARACTER FROM THE OLD MORTAL KOMBAT VIDEO GAME!!![/spoil]

That made me start screaming for my money back.

Okay, I didn’t scream. It was more of a grumble and annoyed that two super-hero movies failed to live up to their hype this year (Watchmen being the first).

Now, moving on to the next BIG movie that opened up this last week.

The new Star Trek. I’ll confess…never liked Star Trek, never understood the Trekkie phenomenon, never will. Every time I watched any of the shows (particularly Voyager and Enterprise), I felt like I was watching a politically correct message being overly sugar coated and forced down our throats courtesy of Rick “I-love-to-steal-other-people’s-work-and-claim-it-as-my-own” Berman and Brannon “I-have-no-story-telling-ability-but-will-cast-my-wife-as-the-hot-borg-chick-and-well-snag-the-Baywatch-demographic-to-save-our-raitings” Braga.

Or, as some people like to refer to this duo…“Bermaga”.

Thankfully, J. J. Abrams had the decency to distance himself from Bermaga, telling them flat-out to stay away (Hey, this is the guy who gave us Lost. It wouldn’t surprise me if he had brandished a .45 and threatened to shoot them if they so much as tried to approach him with offers of “assistance”).

That being said, I still wasn’t sure what to make of this movie. The stills and photos they leaked out, especially of the bridge shot had me thinking “Oooookay, so the bridge of the USS Enterprise is being furnished by IKEA…not a good sign.”

Then they hinted that the original Spock (Leonard Nimoy) was going to be in it and again, that got a mixed reaction out of me (“Hey, I thought Abrams was going to ‘reset’ or distance himself from the crap of the previous Trek franchise…no offense, Mr. Nimoy”).

Then again, maybe I tend to be anti-Trek because I have a pro-Stargate/pro-BSG bias (it’s hard not to when they filmed down the road from you on a semi-regular basis).

Okay, getting off track here.

The new Star Trek movie…I had some expectations and, well, it failed to meet them.

I was expecting the movie to suck…guess what, it didn’t!

I was actually impressed and I think Abrams has got a good thing here and pretty much makes up for the disappointment of Cloverfield.

Oh,and Abrams, to his credit, managed to carry out his promise and yet did it in the way that even most die-hard Trekkies will appreciate it.

[spoil]Spoiler: The Leonard Nimoy version of Spock is the only survivor of the “original reality (that covers all the previous Star Trek shows)”…this, for all intents and purposes, is an “alternate reality”.[/spoil]

Anyway, that’s as far as I’m going to spoil you on that one.

Here’s my ratings:

X-Men Origins: Wolverine: 3/5 (lost a point when Deadpool turned into a character from an old 90s arcade fighting game)

Star Trek: 4/5 (some cheezy factors prevented me from giving it a 5)

I’m gonna see Star Trek on Tuesday. :slight_smile:

I think something went wrong, cause I never said that. Were you trying to quote off mo?

Yeah, I’ve heard mixed reviews for X-Men Origins: Wolverine so far. The Sydney papers have been giving it 1 1/2 star ratings but my friends who’ve watched it said it’s pretty good. I have a buddy who wants to watch it, but I’m not so much keen for it as Star Trek.

So many great movies are out and coming up! Fortnight ago was X-Men Origins: Wolverine, last week was Star Trek, this week’s Angels & Demons (the book was excellent!), next week’s Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, and the week after that is Terminator Salvation and a certain Pixar film. :wink:

I saw X-Men Origins: Wolverine. The action was decent, but I was disappointed with the movie. I loved the extra characters, but they didn’t get enough screentime. My biggest complaints were Gambit (who didn’t get to throw his cards much, nor did he get a lot of screentime), and Deadpool (who was hilarious and amazing with his katanas in the begining, but not only they didn’t give him a lot of screentime for his action and humor, they ruined his character in the end.)

Yeah, I agree with that. I wish Blob or whatever the fat guy’s name is would of been in a LITTLE longer. Otherwise, GREAT movie.

If you’re looking for a movie to see that’s a lot of fun, Star Trek’s great!

Our consensus was:

Oh, and you might notice that our signature is kind of, (well ok, quite), out of date. Don’t worry! That will change tonight. Computer problems prevented a new one from being created. The newest signature will be for the movies Adoration, Star Trek, and Is Anybody There? (the last one we will have a review of on our site tomorrow, while the other two have been up since last Friday).

EVE,
One Movie, Five Views.