Movie talk

That was a great movie. I totally cried at the end. Great book, too (Between a Rock and a Hard Place).

Me too!

Prometheus

What the hell just happened?

I watched two films this weekend - War Horse and My Sister's Keeper.

Both were pretty corny but I found My Sister's Keeper surprisingly enjoyable for a Hollywood weepie. The Daily Mirror gave the film only 1 star, which was overly harsh.

Watched Hanna again. Still great.

Yeah, me three.

I thought it was pretty straight forward. It just doesn't answer every question. What do you expect from the guy who wrote the last season of Lost.

Some of it was just dumb, though. SPOILERS FOLLOW...

Oh look the giant horseshoe space ship coming my way...I think I'll run in a straight line in front of it!

Hmm, first contact with an alien snake thing...let's pet it and talk baby talk to it!

I did enjoy it, though. I liked the effects but the plot was just meh.

Saw the Edith Piaf biopic La Vie en Rose (La Môme). Superb performance by Marion Cotillard (supported by an All Star cast), but the biggest tearjerker I ever saw.

If I'd have seen the first death scene as a child I'd have had nightmares.

My kid got a little squeamish during the surgery scene, poor guy. I thought the opening scene was wicked cool.

I loved the Alien movies and I know movies aren't supposed to be believable but some of the shit(like the scene you pointed out Alecia) they showed in Prometheus really got on my nerves. I also kept guessing what was going to happen next and that killed it for me too. I felt that each time the storyline started to pick up they would resolve the drama right away and the times they didn't resolve it it was like "Oh my god, are you fucking serious? He's right behind you!". Felt like a slasher movie that was pretending to make you think about the meaning of life. Personally, it was annoying. I think I may have to rewatch it once it's on cable to really formulate a final opinion.

It was a wonderful film, but at some point it becomes unbearable. When she goes crazy it's almost too painful to watch. Marion was wonderful in it and I think this is the role she got the Oscar and all those other awards for.

Have you seen Coco avant Chanel?

Is it the one with Audrey Tautou ? No, we haven't seen it, Barbara is allergic to her

Yeah, that's it. It was a good film, though.

I don't know if i've ever seen a French film except for La Femme Nikita and i didn't finish watching that one yet. They seem cool.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WTM8eO1Oec

Thoughts on the teaser for the upcoming Paul Thomas Anderson movie?

Moonrise Kingdom was amazing. Definitely in the top three Wes Anderson films. That is all.

Me and my boyfriend will hopefully be ordering tickets to see The Dark Knight Rises at the movies around the end of July. The premiere is on a Tuesday at 23:59, which is too unpractical for me, but we definitely want to go see it that Friday or Saturday.

I can't wait for Batman Rises and I'm actually looking forward to The Amazing Spiderman movie.

Oh, and I've also been on a Batman kick recently. I bought the Batman Anthology a few years ago and I decided to watch them earlier this week and I'm watching the rest now. Batman Returns (out of the anthology) is my favorite. The lines and scenes in that movie always seem to amaze me as cheesy, crude, and simple as they may be they get me every time.

I finally saw Prometheus. Fucking... awful.

*SPOILERS*

First off, if you're gonna make a sci-fi with an interesting alternate theory to existing consensus, at least make an effort to explain the obvious flaws in it. Seriously. No mention of the fact that humans naturally fell perfectly into the evolutionary timeline on Earth? Stupid. And if they "engineered" us... what did they engineer? Aren't we just them? If they're really all that different, why did the DNA match up perfectly? And if the DNA matched up perfectly, wouldn't this movie just be about racism?

Ridley Scott's obviously never even met a scientist. Oh, the engineers are all dead, so they can't figure out why they made them? Aren't some of these people, including the guy drinking himself silly from sadness due to aforementioned "issue", fucking archaeologists? Since fucking when does an archaeologist need to interview people from an ancient culture to know something about them? They just went willy nilly through the ruins as if absolutely nothing about it was significant, not even asking David, the obvious expert, to give his opinion. Morons. And what real biologist uses the term "Darwinism" to refer to evolutionary theory?

The twists were obvious from a mile away, there was zero reasoning behind any of the aliens' actions, and then the fucking scene at the very end. Really? So this DID turn out to be a prequel? I guess it does explain why they HAD to make this take place within this century, as if our technology is anywhere near making a human replicant or discovering interstellar travel (2 years... wow...).

The dialogue was stiff, forced, and unnatural, along with every characters' actions. Oh, the old guy's your dad? Uuuh... so? I really didn't need the script to explain why you're acting so bitchy. And if you're going to, then please be a little more deep than that.

I was laughing through most of it, especially with that surgery scene. Oh, the thing exploded into your open wound? No need for any sort of disinfectant. *staple staple staple*

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Okay, okay, I'll stop there.

The effects were cool, though. I'm glad I saw it in 3D.

Oh man, I'm really not critical enough when it comes to movies. I enjoyed Prometheus and thought it was quite beautiful. I did have some problems with the script and some of the obvious stuff as well, but it didn't ruin it for me.

My boyfriend and friends and I all discussed those things, except the time it was set in because we don't care about that, it is fiction after all. In spite of all those problems (and a few more) I didn't feel bored once during the film, which is rare for me in the cinema, and I loved the way it looked. One of the big things I didn't understand at all was why David poisoned that guy in the first place. Was it just because the guy was being a dick to him? Wy was he so crafty about it? It didn't make sense for him to do it.

All this being said, I had didn't have high expectations for Prometheus. It didn't look like Alien so I just figured it was going to be a snooty sci-fi film that would bore me to death, so I was pleasantly surprised.

Why would you make a surgery machine just for men and stick it on a ship with a female captain? Irritating.

So many flaws I hadn't thought about before!

I like this post. So. Very. Much. I may do the same.

Looks awesome to me.

Guise.

Seriousely.

Brave.

For allllll the jellybeans.

Really Tuffy? Really?

Brave was pretty awesome.

Yeah, bitch. Really.

Hahaikiddontbanme!

Welcome to modhood.

Boo you whore!

I want to see it but I'm gonna be one of those that waits to see it at home.

Dude, Madagascar 3 was funny as fuck!!

It's really beautifully drawn (rendered?), so large screen is totally worth it. We didn't see it in 3D and I don't think we missed anything thereby, but the scenes are very - the only word I can think of is "lush".

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Thanks. What movie was it?

I can't find a trailer or a release date (either September 2011 or next fall??) for this Violet and Daisy movie but it sounds cool as shit.

What's it about?

Teenage girl assassins in Brooklyn. It's from the guy who wrote Precious and it has the girl from Sin City and Gilmore Girls and the girl from Hanna.

That sounds interesting. I liked the girl from Hanna in The Lovely Bones, but I haven't seen Hanna. I imagine I'd like her in that, too.

She has an accent in Hanna.

I'm sorry, female co-worker, but I really can't believe you asked me if I was going to go see Magic Mike. This is like that time you asked me if I'd read The Help. I mean, really. Who are you talking to?

Magic Mike looks like the gayest gay to ever gay.

I just finished watching WIN WIN. It was a lot better than I expected. Paul Giamatti is the main character who plays a lawyer that end up taking on guardianship of one of his client's to make some extra commission but ends up becoming more involved than he expected.

Saw new Spider-Man today. Kind of disappointed. But I maybe expected too much. Because it was another origin movie, they had to do a lot with the time they were given. That and The Lizard is a boring villain. But I love Gwen Stacy. I like her dad's character too. Denis Leary may not have been my choice but he did a great job.

Given what every self respecting Spider-Man fan knows about what happens, I wonder if The Green Goblin will be the next villain and after that The Chameleon.

********very vague comic spoilers. Nothing about this movie************

Goblin for Gwen. Chameleon for Peter's parents.

*SPOILERS*

Considering Carnage killed Gwen Stacy in the Ultimate series, and the fact that they haven't done that yet, I'm freakin' hopin' he's the next villain.

I really want to watch Spiderman today but I think we're gonna watch Savages because it's the only movie we can agree on to watch. I don't know why but I refuse to watch Ted.