I’m glad you finally got to see Legend of the Guardians, TDIT. I’m considering taking my sister to see it this weekend.
I’ve seen a few movies since the last time I posted here. Hmm, let me think…
Chloe: It was okay, but nothing groundbreaking. Excellent performances across the board, though, and it takes place in my home town, so I can’t complain. 6/10 Amélie: A wonderful, beautiful, amazing film. There are no words to describe it, I can’t do it justice. Definitely one of my favorite feel good films. 10/10 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: Extremely slow. To be honest, I found it boring. It was a great movie, but I just couldn’t get into it. 5/10 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: I loved the book, and finally got around to watching the movie. I enjoyed it, but I thought Lisbeth was too out of character. She wasn’t as stoic or quiet as she was in the book, in my opinion. 7/10 The Losers: Other than a suprising opening in which a [spoil]helicopter full of small children gets blown up[/spoil], I found it pretty predictable. Regardless, it was funny, and enjoyable. 7/10
Other than that, both The Social Network and Never Let Me Go, I really liked.
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps I thought was pretty good, but I was unfortunately a little disappointed by Legend of the Guardians…
You Again was ok, Easy A was good - if a little uneven, and Going the Distance was kind of bad.
I’m going a bit far back now (that’s October so far, and September), so I’m going to stop before I paraphrase the year of One Movie, Five Views’ reviews. And I didn’t even start mentioning DVD releases…
So yeah, there are some good ones out right now and, like always, some not so good ones. This weekend, I’d say go with Secretariat or The Social Network, since they’re both strong films and seem to be in fairly wide release…
The first 30 minutes or so are really weird (the aforementioned scene should give you a general idea ), but the film has the most beautiful ending ever.
It’s like 30 minutes of “torture” for the poor audience followed by a ride upwards into movie heaven.
It wasn’t awful, but it felt a bit dull and lacking in every way. It didn’t have the same charm and feeling as Raiders did. Not to mention, Willie was incredibly annoying. Her and Indy’s relationship felt really shallow and forced, especially after Marion in Raiders. I’ll give it credit, though, Short Round wasn’t as bad as I expected and the mine cart chase was kind of cool.
I watched the film adaptation of Starsky & Hutch on Free-To-Air for the second time in years. Love the whole 70s look to it, and I’ll never look at dragons the same way again thanks to Will Ferrell.
On an unrelated note, my bro just got back from watching Legend of the Guardians, and he enjoyed it as much as I did. He laughed when Eglantine [spoil]got moonblinked[/spoil], which was a very strange reaction to what is supposed to be a heartbreaking scene.
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Here’s a movie that should more than please the Conservatives.
Personally, as I have mentioned in the ‘Presidential Election’ thread, I don’t support socialism as I believe in meritocracy and self-sufficiency. A welfare state just encourages ‘dole bludgers’, as the Australians would say.
Oh, and the animated segments are pretty funny. It’s Pixar-level awesome.*
The Social Network is so amazing. It definitely is the best film of the year thus far, soaring high with such talented actors and a brilliant scropt. Plus, I am only one degree seperated from director David Fincher, which is so cool!
Ah, thank you. Do you remember what was happening when you first started watching James? Pretty much it starts with James living a happy life by the seashore with his mom and dad, then the narrative tells us how they were eaten by a loose rhino and he gets sent to live with his evil aunts. They mistreat him, he works long hours, etc. Then he finds the magician in his front yard who gives him the magical crocodile tongues, which he accidentally lets loose by a dead tree, which immediately grows the giant peach. It isn’t too much to miss, I don’t think.
I’m considering taking my sister to see it this weekend.
), but the film has the most beautiful ending ever.
