Movies! Movies! Movies! (Non-Japanese)

Astro Boy,Teaser Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Shz79sHoXs8

I saw Slumdog Millionaire. It was a great movie. The beginning was brilliant, and then the quality sort of diminished as the plot progressed. Overall I'd say it was "very good", and I can see why it will be up for an oscar.

I saw "Australia" over the weekend. I can't quite understand why the critics don't like it. It's a great story and mostly well-acted, although Nicole Kidman was hiding behind her looks, as usual. It also featured a number of well-known Aussie actors who spent the movie trying to "out-Aussie" each other :sweat: but overall it was pretty good.

I saw two great films over the holidays. One is Milk, and the other is Gran Torino. Surprisingly, I think Gran Torino had more people take it the wrong way because the the slurs and stereotypes used in the movie (which is completely missing the movie's intended point IMHO). Although during the showing of Milk that I saw, some people left the theater during the brief love scenes.

kitakaze wrote:Although during the showing of Milk that I saw, some people left the theater during the brief love scenes.

Hmm.

I know some people who did the same when I saw She's Gotta Have It in the theater...

I've watched SO many movies recently, but the one I am looking forwards to seeing is Valkyrie! I can't wait for that to come out over here on the 23rd or sommet :: bounce :: I also wanna see the Moonacre one but we won't go into that :P

Recently I have been to the cinema to see 'The Spirit' 'Tales of Desperaux' and 'Beverley Hills Chihuahua' (yes well... we got free tickets! XD)
Before Christmas I saw 'Twilight' the day it came out! Because I am in love with the books =D well the 1st 3 anyway the 4th is ... ok.

Anyway what I am really waiting for is 'The Fall' it was a film festival movie and it is released on DVD here on the 26th, I found out about it by accident when looking for a DVD for my sister's Bday. I got side tracked looking at the fantasy section :P and saw the cover of 'the fall' which caught my attention, watched the trailer and it looks amazing! Visually stunning but then it is done by the director of 'the cell' which let's face it wasn't an amazing film but it was visually beautiful. So yeah ^^

I won't go into the many DVDs I've been through ^^;

^ Valkyrie looks interesting... Don't know about The Spirit, though: looks stylish/noir-ish, but that's about it...

I bought a 50-pack of Sony DVD+R's yesterday. It was a special deal: It came with a free DVD copy of Casino Royale (The James Bond flick) :victory:

Anime Dad wrote:I bought a 50-pack of Sony DVD+R's yesterday. It was a special deal: It came with a free DVD copy of Casino Royale (The James Bond flick) :victory:

Cool. :victory:

Hope you like the movie. :sweat:

The Spirit was visually appealing, but the script and acting were terrible IMO. It was supposed to be hammy and over the top, but they way over did it instead of making it work with the story like Sin City. The material might be too dated or something.

kitakaze wrote:The Spirit was visually appealing, but the script and acting were terrible IMO.

As I said. :mrgreen:

I saw Doubt that a boring movie. :shakehead:

I enjoyed the Spirit, it wasn't my favourite movie ever at all but I didn't leave feeling totally bored. I'm usually easily interested in super hero movies tho so maybe I am a tad biased... well... then again I wasn't a fan of Daredevil or Elektra or Fantastic Four.

Casino Royale is good, love that film and I saw it for the first time AFTER I saw the new one! That was probably a good thing as the new one was pretty disappointing in comparison.

I watched a film called 'Gabriel' last night... it was terrible ÊÊ I mentioned it to my friend Joe on the way back from a Sushi bar. I told him I'd watch it and he was like 'it's not the film about blah blah blah' is it and I was like 'yea why?' and he was like 'oh no, Ashlea what have you done? It's really awful' I was like :( nyoooooo so yeah I wasted ’10 on that rubbish... Maybe I can flog it on eBay ^^; XD

ScrappedShinigami wrote:then again I wasn't a fan of Daredevil or Elektra or Fantastic Four

Was anyone? :bleh:

bmwracer wrote:^ Valkyrie looks interesting... Don't know about The Spirit, though: looks stylish/noir-ish, but that's about it...

mmm not sure if i can take tom seriously anymore and as for 'the spirit' after 'sin city' no thanks. :mrgreen:

I watched 'The Fall' yesterday, I really loved it ^0^ being a film festival movie it doesn't have anywhere near as much attention as it deserves! I only stumbled across it by chance when browsing upcoming Fantasy titles on Play.co.uk
It's done by the director who did 'The Cell' so I knew it was going to be visually beautiful and it had an interesting story. I liked =D

saw Taken... Liem Neeson is no Matt Damon and this is no Bourne, but I think that's a good thing. It's a good popcorn flick, the plot is fairly decent which is a plus

krim wrote:saw Taken... Liem Neeson is no Matt Damon and this is no Bourne, but I think that's a good thing. It's a good popcorn flick, the plot is fairly decent which is a plus

I saw that recently too. Good movie!

yeah, if it had zombies, it would've been even better.

I think the wife getting the flesh wound was an awesome part, you hardly ever see that in movies. :mrgreen:

krim wrote:saw Taken... Liem Neeson is no Matt Damon and this is no Bourne, but I think that's a good thing. It's a good popcorn flick, the plot is fairly decent which is a plus

I thought it opened this Friday....?

I was thinking about checking it out.... :victory: