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Re: General Movie Thread
« Reply #1020 on: April 19, 2010, 08:02:54 PM »
Also saw Kick-Ass, and it stunk to high heaven. Tom if you happen to read this, you are correct to avoid it. Stick to your guns!

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« Reply #1021 on: April 19, 2010, 09:11:55 PM »
I saw Date Night and it was a great movie to see with a group of friends. I think if I had been watching it alone it still would have been funny but I would have been more bothered by the less quality parts.

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« Reply #1022 on: April 19, 2010, 09:50:59 PM »
I saw Date Night and it was a great movie to see with a group of friends. I think if I had been watching it alone it still would have been funny but I would have been more bothered by the less quality parts.

That movie saddened me because somewhere in there is a decent domestic comedy about a marriage about two people who obviously love each other but it's just okay. Occasionally the movie has flashes of that better movie. Then Mark Wahlberg shows up shirtless and starts using Tony Stark's computer.

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« Reply #1023 on: April 20, 2010, 01:43:12 AM »
I saw Date Night and it was a great movie to see with a group of friends. I think if I had been watching it alone it still would have been funny but I would have been more bothered by the less quality parts.

That movie saddened me because somewhere in there is a decent domestic comedy about a marriage about two people who obviously love each other but it's just okay. Occasionally the movie has flashes of that better movie. Then Mark Wahlberg shows up shirtless and starts using Tony Stark's computer.

Yeah, I was not a fan of that computer business. Or the exteeeeeended cars hooked together material.

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« Reply #1024 on: April 20, 2010, 03:41:18 PM »
I saw Clash of the Titans in 3D this weekend. Nice 'n' stupid. Pretty much like the one I watched on cable constantly as a kid, but with everything turned up several notches.

This was also the first 3D movie I have seen, too. I mean, this current technology ... not the kind where you have one red lens and one blue lens type of 3D.

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« Reply #1025 on: April 24, 2010, 02:34:16 PM »
I've got an unlimited movies card, so I go to the cinema most weeks and see almost everything, even if most of it is stuff I would never considering paying for. Sometimes it pays off, like with How to Train Your Dragon, sometimes it plain stinks, like Clash of the Titans. As a reviewer said, "How can you make that story boring?"

Most recent highlight was Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's debut as writers/directors, Cemetery Junction. Nice little coming of age story, perfect length, just enough jokes to offset the melancholic undercurrents, and quite different in tone to what you may have expected from the creators, nearer to the dramatic peaks of The Office than an out and out comedy. Deserves to do very well, although seeing that it's dropped off multiplex screens in its second week of release means that this might be more of a 'cult hit' than it should be.

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« Reply #1026 on: April 24, 2010, 02:35:43 PM »
Also saw Kick-Ass, and it stunk to high heaven. Tom if you happen to read this, you are correct to avoid it. Stick to your guns!

I quite enjoyed it, although it is very much of its time, I doubt I'll be buying the 4 disc Legacy Edition 3D Blu-Ray in a decade.

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« Reply #1027 on: April 25, 2010, 02:26:47 AM »
I'm sure it'll be out of theaters by next weekend but I recently viewed Diary of a Wimpy Kid and it was a charming little family movie.

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« Reply #1028 on: May 09, 2010, 11:03:33 PM »
Just watched "In The Loop" again.  God, that is one funny movie.

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« Reply #1029 on: May 10, 2010, 01:31:26 AM »
Just saw Iron Man 2. It was exactly as enjoyable as the first one. The first Iron Man may have effected me a bit more because I wasn't expecting much.

Robert Downey Jr. plays Tony Stark so well. I probably enjoyed his civilian scenes more than his armored up parts.

My only complaint would have to be the cookie-cutter soundtrack. (a problem with every big budget blockbuster) I could go my entire life without hearing another AC/DC song.

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« Reply #1030 on: May 10, 2010, 03:35:57 AM »
I just saw I love you man on cable

pretty fun
why doesn't Tom like Rush again?

they have some wicked tunes.

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« Reply #1031 on: May 10, 2010, 09:02:41 AM »
I just saw I love you man on cable

pretty fun
why doesn't Tom like Rush again?

they have some wicked tunes.

I was very upset that I didn't know about that Rush concert scene.  I would've LOVED to have been an extra in that scene.

Just saw Iron Man 2. It was exactly as enjoyable as the first one. The first Iron Man may have effected me a bit more because I wasn't expecting much.

Robert Downey Jr. plays Tony Stark so well. I probably enjoyed his civilian scenes more than his armored up parts.

My only complaint would have to be the cookie-cutter soundtrack. (a problem with every big budget blockbuster) I could go my entire life without hearing another AC/DC song.

My thoughts exactly, with exception to your thoughts on AC/DC.  I fully understand your opinion, but I think there's just something in the water of my hometown that turned us all into AC/DC fans for life.  May God have mercy on us.
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« Reply #1032 on: May 11, 2010, 01:39:03 PM »
Just saw Iron Man 2. It was exactly as enjoyable as the first one. The first Iron Man may have effected me a bit more because I wasn't expecting much.

Robert Downey Jr. plays Tony Stark so well. I probably enjoyed his civilian scenes more than his armored up parts.

My only complaint would have to be the cookie-cutter soundtrack. (a problem with every big budget blockbuster) I could go my entire life without hearing another AC/DC song.

I didn't even see the first movie, but caught so many trailers for Iron Man 2 that I couldn't not watch it.  Had a lot of fun, and laughed a lot. A quality popcorn movie.

My favourite part though was near the beginning, when a shot of the racist Russian stereotype, Jeff Bridges, panned back to reveal a bottle of generic looking vodka, and the three Polish guys behind me chorused in with the brand name.

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« Reply #1033 on: May 12, 2010, 01:55:11 PM »
...I could go my entire life without hearing another AC/DC song.

i don't mind AC/DC (at all,really) quite as much as Ozzy's, "Iron Man" intro.  i want to throw my television out the window.

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« Reply #1034 on: May 12, 2010, 02:27:46 PM »
I fully understand your opinion, but I think there's just something in the water of my hometown that turned us all into AC/DC fans for life.  May God have mercy on us.

AC/DC music in the city of Buffalo is like romantic accordion music in bad movies set in Paris... even though you never see anyone playing it, it seems to drift from every window and waft through the air, omnipresent.   It's like white noise here. It's possible that I could even be hearing AC/DC right now without realizing it, as I'm typing this.
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