I totally know what you mean. I don't know how people can honestly criticize this movie, Spider man is the Star Wars of super hero movies and they always have delivered the goods. I have never felt robbed after seeing a Spidey flick.

Venom and Sandman were awesome, I actually thought they finally did a quality job on the villains since they kinda of left Dr. Octopus standing at the altar in "Spider man 2". It was balanced with enough action, love, and characters.

But yeah, Peter's "evil side" was just too fun for words, seeing those weird little dances, Maguire sold it so well. I also loved J. Jameson's little "pill" scene.

Spiderman 3. I can't remember the last time I laughed so much. The only thing I was disappointed with was Venom. I wish there was more of him. Oh well, it was fun. :D

Last movie I saw in theaters: The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy. On TV: Dr. Strangelove.

Dr. Strangelove rocks!

Monty was the absolute best. "strange, because they make such damn good cameras." LMAO.

Rush Hour 2

It was like the ending half of it and I was just watching it like minutes ago on TV, they were showing it on TNT.

Good movie, GOOD sequel, hoping Rush Hour 3 will be just as satisfying.

Spider-Man 3.

Amazing. Loved it. Loved every minute of it.

Grumpy Old men

My parents loved this film series and while I can't really enjoy it on the same level they can.

It's still a funny series and it's a shame such fine actors as Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon are gone, they were so great together.

Interesting...

I will say this. There was enough corn in Spiderman 3 to supply a thousand gasoline stations with E85.

Considering it's a comic book movie, I'm not really the least bit surprised. Besides there's much cornier and much worse. I really think people are not giving this movie the credit it honestly and truthfully deserves.

Well, just got back from Spider-Man 3! I'll post longer and more extensive thoughts in the Spider-Man topic so as not to start sidetracking this one, but the short version is that I, uh, didn't like it as much as you guys, to say the least. :P

Spiderman 3? My sister has gone to see that now :'(

Was it awesome?

I don't really think it deserves as much credit as it is getting.

I love corny schtick in movies, but Spiderman 3 is filled with painfully unentertaining corn...
It's corn gone wrong, to borrow a snack-food slogan...

The Departed

I still love this movie. Even if it does feature Marky Mark in plastic booties.

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

I really enjoyed this one. After the exceedingly joyless offering my campus cinema had on last Sunday, it was nice to be able to unwind with 90 minutes of light-hearted fun with a feel-good message. Well, feel-good for everyone except poor Jeffrey Jones, that is. :bendy:

Hey he got a Gummi Bear in the end! It turned out well for him, too! Plus, it was already soft and warm because it had been in a pocket.

Yes, but he rejected the bear. Can't say I blame him. :P

That's a great movie, it never goes out of style.

My favorite parts are when that "special nurse" comes to Ferris's door, and Charlie Sheen's cameo in the police department.

"Drugs?" 8D

X3: The Last Stand

Second time I've seen this movie. It's been almost a year since I've seen it. It's a great action film even if it does seem at odds with the first two films. Still without the expectations I had last June it was an even more enjoyable film than last time.

I must commend the film for its great main theme. It was much more memorable than any of the music in the first two films. I'll have to keep an eye on John Powell.

Brett Ratner also deserves credit for delivering on such an impossible deadline and having to take flack from almost the same amount of people that you get when a Uwe Boll film comes out.

.......*shifty eyes*...........Pokemon the First Movie...........

I dug it out last night cause I couldn't sleep and.....well I actually enjoyed it:wiltshock:

I really miss the old days of Pokemon.:'(

Hey don't feel bad, that was a GREAT anime movie, I bought it back on DVD recently. I too miss the old days of good Pokemon....before it dragged out as insanely far as it has.

It was pretty darn awesome.....I might watch it again....when I'm not sleep deprived8D On the Pokemon subject, Cartoon Network is showing yet another Pokemon movie. Despite the fact that I really dislike May(I have to watch all of the new episodes with my younger siblings) this movie may actually have promise:D

.....Look at me getting off topic.....*hides*

Space Jam

This movie is such a childhood favorite of mine, and very well made for a kid designed film. Excellent soundtrack, actual new characters, and a story that works amazingly well for the movie considering it's about a basketball game.

Granted it's no "Rodger Rabbit", but I love any good human/toon crossover movie.

I would agree Space Jam was a good movie.
it did a good job of preserving the Loony Tune characters personallties.

Monty :-/

Over the Hedge

I'm on a animation roll as of lately, and this is seriously one of my all time favorite animated movies. I totally loved this film. Saw it twice in theaters and even bought an sweet rare movie poster of it with some of the actors signatures.

It's a great, great, GREAT freaking movie :D.

Just want to get in on the Space Jam cheerleading before the moment totally passes...like Mr M. says, it was no Roger Rabbit, but it doesn't deserve the bad rap it's had in recent years. OK, in retrospect I'll admit that the basketball crossover plotline was probably a story decision made more to boost audience appeal than because it was a logical setting to place the Looney Tunes into, but I was a British kid who didn't even know the rules of basketball or, Michael Jordan aside, have a clue who any of the sports stars were, but I enjoyed the heck out of it. Good effects, predictable but effective plot, good turns by the ever reliable Wayne Knight and Bill Murray...heck, Michael Jordan was was decent enough, from what I remember! OK, Lola Bunny was a working definition of "pointless token female character", but otherwise I loved this movie as a kid...don't believe the haters! :D

Pokemon: The First Movie though...I was a Pokemon obsessive back then, but I recall being really disappointed with that. The film started out moody, atmospheric and almost dark, but it faltered badly with its finale, which failed to deliver the expected all-action climax and instead opted to so for an emotional ending that just came off as mawkish and cloying. Maybe it's something to do with the fact that the unsubtle and OTT performances of the 4Kids dub actors, but the show was always at its weakest when it tried to be moving or emotional, and that flaw was magnified ten-fold in the movie's overwrought ending. That, and the fact that the Mewtwo vs. Mew battle that they'd hyped up on all the posters ended up being a total non-event, in which the two of them bounce pointlessly off each other in big coloured balls for about 90 seconds....I didn't buy it. :frankiemad: I continued wactching the show for a while, but didn't see any more of the movies after that...

EDIT: Oh, and I just watched Charlie and the Chocolate Factory again; I do think it's a good film, but I can never help feeling somewhat conflicted about it. On the one hand, it's a Tim Burton movie, and as such is hugely imaginative, visually striking, incredibly idiosyncratic and imbued with a sense of dark humour; on the other hand, it's a Tim Burton movie, and is in no way the faithful adaptation of the classic book that it was kind of sold as. The opening twenty minutes or so come close, recreating the book's key scenes in an offbeat but reverential fashion, but as soon as Willy Wonka himself turns up, Roald Dahl's story takes a complete backseat to the altogether different sensibilities of Messrs Burton and Depp. Dahl's story was mischievous and underpinned by a hinted darkness, but was mostly defined by warmth and wonder; Burton's version, mostly thanks to Depp's reinterpretation of Wonka from a twinkly-eyed yet sly prankster to a detached and emotionally stunted manchild, is bizarre, sinister and a little oppressive. The most prominent new plotline (that of Wonka's father), meanwhile, is sweet enough, but it feels a little out of place both in Dahl's world (the moral of this story was never about the value of famiy) and in Burton's (it's a sentimental strand in an otherwise strangely cold movie). Overall, a curious film, one with many merits, and yet one that I admire more than really like....

I think Burton and more particularly Depp Saw the old Wonka Movie, I would bet, Depp was more influinced by Gene Wilder in this role than reading the book, If he even read the book that is. Personally I skimmed the book about 15 years ago, and I saw Burtons movie about a year ago. I saw the older movie well over a dozen times and I can easily see influences of that movie in this.

On a different note, Was anyone else disapointed with remake of the Producers. particulary when comparing the two version next to one another. I think the new version spent to much time tring to recreate the old version and did not spend any time trying to develop there own take of the story/play.

Monty :-/

Actually it was directed by the same person who directed the musical. It wasn't trying to hard to recreate the original movie, it was trying to hard to recreate the musical. But it actually differed enough from the two of them to actually stand on its own. The problem is it's inferior to both.

You gotta give them a hand though, had it not been for Mel it would've been filmed in Toronto. Ugh! The reason behind that was, well Mel thought Toronto bagels were too mushy. Go, Mel!!

Speaking of Mel Brooks movies becoming musicals, look for Young Frankenstein by the end of this year. Also directed by the same woman who did The Producers.

Gotta throw my hat into the movie talk when it comes to "Space jam", and the only reason I'm saying it here is because there isn't a need for a thread for it because it'll be dead in less then a week. The movie's plot is actually what makes the movie so amazing, that it was bulilt on such a slim concept.

The idea of a basketball game to secure the toons freedom was just as cartoony as they were, but it worked so VERY well. The movie made the plot actually seem like something serious and to do that with such a strange concept, I find it admirable. Plus, i really, really, liked Lola Bunny.

I felt she was a much needed female character, not for Bugs sake, but for the Looney Tunes in general such they have FEW female characters, and none of them are very famous. Yeah more could have been done with her, but she wasn't obnoxious, overly "girl power" and she was pretty hot to boot.

The other thing I loved about this movie were the villains. The Nerdlucks/Monstars were original and creative characters, I thought they were brilliant ideas for bad guys and I LOVED how each Monstar actually looked like each Basketball star they talent swapped.

Bill Murray was brillaint in here, just playing himself, it was such a gas.

Meet the Robinsons. Second time I've seen it, and I still love that movie. I don't think it comes close to capturing the exact magic of the animated Disney flicks from the 80s-early 90s, but it's the closest attempt they've done in years. I really think it's wonderful.

Blood Diamond

Not bad at all. Certainly entertaining. Quite a bit of brutality, but nothing I shouldn't have been expecting, given the setting.

I just watched Jackie Chan's First Strike. A fun movie to help kill the Saturday afternoon lull. I also seen Cars for the fist time a few days ago. I can't believe I let that one go under my radar for so long.

Hot Fuzz

Maybe it's due to the fact that I've been away from the UK for so long, but I've really been going nuts for idiosyncratically British things recently (I ADORED Flushed Away); as such, I had a total blast with Hot Fuzz. :D People describe it as a "cop movie spoof", but that doesn't quite capture it for me, because it's so affectionate towards its target, and plays it so straight at times, that it's really more of a cop movie homage or tribute. Moreover, over the course of the movie it often channels quite a few other genres; British police shows like The Bill, Agatha Christie mysteries, even Wicker Man-esque horror and Scream-style slasher movies (some of the gore in this is so OTT it's actually funny). It sounds like a ludicrous hodgepodge, and to an extent it is, but it actually works, mostly thanks to the great script and perfectly judged central performances by Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, with Timothy Dalton chipping in as an amusingly cartoonish villain. Then there's the Englishness...even leaving aside the fact that almost every role is played by a top British comedy star (I was very impressed with the triple whammy of Martin Freeman, Steve Coogan and Bill Nighy near the opening, and I'm impressed by Bill Bailey in any context :P), I just can't convey how happy it made this homesick expat to see a full-on Michael Bay-style shootout taking place in a branch of Somerfield (one of the UK's least glamorous and mundane supermarket chains, and that's saying something :P), with bullets ripping through jars of Dolmio bolognese sauce and cops smashing villainous thugs through a shelf stacked with Crunchy Nut and Special K cereal. 8D

Heartily recommended, even if you're not English, but particularly if you are. I've not seen Shaun of the Dead, but I feel I probably ought to now...

I also just saw cars last week, it was a good break to watch, but a bit hard to get into. I found it easier to watch a second time.

I also just watched the original Cook and Moore verison of Bedazzled and Living in Oblivion.
Bedazzled was great (as it is every time I watch it.) very British Humor. Living in Oblivion was a bit strange, and one of those independent type movies. I liked it but I would not recomend it. but I would rewatch it some day, its kind of a day in the life type of movie. with the funny looking guy, "you know like funny looking" from Fargo.

Monty

LOL MEET THE ROBINSONS


for the eighth time LOL

omg...

Night At The Museum on DVD.

Another great movie. My mum is watching it now. I just had to watch the tyre scene again. 8D

Children of Men. Good film, very sad though.

28 Weeks Later

I must say what a fantastic film. Rarely does a sequel equal or surpass its predecessor, but 28 Weeks later rose to the challenge. It even survived what is also thought of as a kiss of death for a franchise, full cast and crew change. And just when you think you have the movie pegged it turns on you, and the weirdest thing about it is that even though you expect it you're still surprised.

I recommend that anyone who's a fan of decent horror or the original film check this movie out.

The Grudge 2

A favorite horror series of mine and like "the Ring" is one of the few franchises that actually manage to give me the creeps. I'm one of the few people I know that actually enjoyed this movie, and didn't find it as "terrible" as others saw it.

I enjoyed the mixing storylines and it's always neat for me to find a horror movie that actually does make you think once in a while. Very eye pleasing cast, and while some scenes seemed a bit poorly acted, overall I was satisfied.

Also, the scene with the school principal and "there right here" quote is in my opinion, the scariest scene of the film. I still get freaked out thinking about it and I've never had a movie image burn so deeply into my mind as that one.

Teen Titans Go! Oh, they've gone...
 

Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo

I finished watching this a couple of hours ago, and for reasons I can't fully explain, it's left me feeling really depressed and empty. :( I guess it was unavoidable that I would feel awful about saying goodbye to this universe and these interpretations of the characters, to whom I grew really attached, but the fact remains even on its own merits I didn't enjoy the movie as much as I might have liked. :macwor:

It's partially my own fault, I realise; I've worked my way through the episodes with reckless speed over the last week, and I approached the movie a little burned out, especially given the lacklustre, diluted nature of the fifth season. Even so, the movie just wasn't what it should have been. It was a decent, fun adventure with some nice action and humour (personal fave: Raven and the Happy Twinkle Donkey Gum :P), but this was a series send-off, following on from the complex and melancholy (yet maddeningly unfulfilling) final episode "Things Change"; I would have loved to see them try and attempt something with the maturity and scope of such other WB DC DTV efforts (woah, acronym overload) as Batman: Mask of the Phantasm or Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker to wrap things up properly. That might seem like a big ask for a "kids' show", but people forget that Teen Titans was a show more than capable of intelligent and emotionally involving stories (as episodes like "Apprentice", "Haunted", "Aftershock" and "The End" proved), so to see them settle here for a fairly disposable, run-of-the-mill adventure story that provided very little satisfying closure was disappointing. Even taking it as a routine action-adventure, Trouble in Tokyo still gets trumped on most counts by its WB stablemate The Batman vs. Dracula; generally I take Teen Titans to be the more focused and smarter of the two shows, but whereas The Batman's production team really went for broke, taking advantage of the extended runtime to make a stylish, cinematic film, Tokyo felt uninspired and by-the-numbers, playing like an extended (and somewhat padded) TV episode. Which, again, given the significance of the film, is a big letdown.:(

Then there was Robin and Starfire...now, I concede that this is more of a subjective perception, but even though I had been fairly positive about the idea of those two finally, uh, gettin' jiggy with it :-*, I have to say that I wasn't ultimately that satisfied with the way they chose to realise it. See, I love (loveloveLOVE) Starfire, but for me she was always at her best when the writers handled her with a light, quirky and slightly self-deprecating touch; play her too straight (like they did for much of Season Five), and she starts drifting towards becoming a passive, blank and even bland stock heroine. What I loved about this romance angle in the series is how awkwardly and sweetly humorously it played out, thus playing to Starfire's strengths and bringing out humour and insecurity in the normally stoic Robin (her raging jealousy in "Date With Destiny", his clunking miscommunication in "Stranded", her adorable pining in "The Quest"); whilst there were scenes here that retained that lighthearted spirit (notably Robin and Starfire's copious breathmint consumption before their first aborted kiss attempt), the big final kiss scene, what with the ambient rain, the deep looks and pseudo-soulful dialogue, played too much like any old "guy gets the girl" moment, and lacked the sweet, slightly off-kilter personality that had defined and made those characters and their relationship up to that point...

Oh well...sorry I took so long there, but I feel a little better now that I've got all my thoughts out. It's just that I really grew fond of Robin, Starfire, Cyborg, Beast Boy and Raven; I guess I'm just a bit bummed out that I had to say goodbye to them on terms that I wasn't that happy with. :(

the outsiders

you know, based on the book? its ok, but like everything else, its not as good as the book. it seemed kinda short compared to the story if you ask me.

oh yeah, btw. why were there kids in the ABANDONED church anyway?