Movies The Movie Thread! - Continuation

[mikkih]

Same here, I watched it last night. I've never read the books but heard a lot of good things about it from friends but I was still a bit sceptic about it. The action scenes where really fun to see and there's even some comedy in it. It also has a very strong cast with Woody Harrelson, Stanley Tucci, Lenny Kravitz, Elizabeth Banks providing support to the main cast. The girl who played Rue(dunno her name) was a really cool character

I finally watched Hunger Game yesterday. The murder scene was more conceptual than visual, and I thought the film was well made considering the majority of viewers are middle and high schoolers. Now that I watched it, I need to rent the Japanese movie, Battle Royale (2000). Has anyone seen both?

 

[Riku]

I guess I'll need to check Hunger Games because of the hype. Since the beginning for me it seemed just a watered down version of Battle Roayle.Thought it kinda annoys me, that in the trailers the people don't really look like people who have been living in famine and bad conditions. I thought that was the idea?

Battle Royale was pretty awesome. I didn't have high expectaions. Just gory well, battle royale. But it was suprsingly neatly working package and cool action flick.

 

[TheMoa]

I'm watching the Godfather now. God, I love this movie and the sequel.

last saturday I watched the 3 movies non stop with some friends.... the quality drop in the third one is so sad

 

[baboysai]

Agreed. Though I haven't read the books, I'm not sure if the third one belonged in the "trilogy" lol.

 

[M3J]

last saturday I watched the 3 movies non stop with some friends.... the quality drop in the third one is so sad

Exactly. The third could have been even better, I liked Andy Garcia's role.

Agreed. Though I haven't read the books, I'm not sure if the third one belonged in the "trilogy" lol.

I don't think it did. I heard that Coppola was planning to use Duvall/Hagen, but Duvall wanted more pay or something.

 

[xi0]

The third could have been even better? Than what?

 

[Organizized]

I always tend to say The Godfather: Part III sucks balls. That's not really true though. It'd be an okay movie if it didn't follow two of the greatest movies of all time, and a completely unnecessary addition to what was already near perfect. It's not a bad movie in itself, but as a Godfather sequel it was pereeeetty bad..

 

[M3J]

The third could have been even better? Than what?

Than what it is now. Now, it's shit. But it could have been much better with Duvall and etc, apparently.

APPARENTLY.

 

[Crude]

I watched American Reunion the other day and it was great! However, this is coming from someone who loved the other movies as well. The movie reminded me so much of the first American Pie which was awesome xD

 

[thornofcarrion]

The Darkest Hour disappointed me. I had high hopes for the movie but it turned out to be the opposite. The story felt lacking and the action scenes weren't exciting.

 

[Heleos]

I watched City Island recently... It didn't provide any sense of great suspense or excitement, but it was an enjoyable ride with a wacky, eccentric humor behind it all.

 

[Doraku]

I just watched The Lady. Good movie, especially if you are interested in politics and such. Michelle Yeoh has dazzling performance in this movie (Duh!).

I'm looking forward to watch the Avengers, even though I'm not a huge fan of Marvel superheroes except Iron Man.

 

[Crude]

I'm also excited for the Avengers, though I have two problems with the movie:

1. No Spider-Man. I get that Sony holds the Spider-Man license, but it ain't no Avengers to me if it Spidey's not in it!
2. Mark Ruffalo replaced Edward Norton as the Hulk. Nothing against Ruffalo (he's a great actor), but Norton's one of my favourite actors and I enjoyed him a lot as the Hulk. I have no idea why they would replace him.

 

[xi0]

Spidey wasn't an original Avenger though, so they have that excuse at least.

 

[Aazholh]

I saw Cabin In The Woods. A pretty intelligent movie and was a driving reason for me to see it. I had my reservations since it was co-written my the guy that wrote Cloverfield, but he redeemed himself with this.

I also saw Casa De Mi Padre a couple weeks ago. I was hoping that it would be an over-the-top surrealist comedy (like Tim and Eric/Eagleheart), but it really fell short. The joke was that Mexican cinema is cheap. But that joke shouldn't stretch the entirety of the film, but it did. Which is sad, because the premise showed a lot of promise.

 

[baboysai]

oh man. I'm taking your word for it. And I had high hopes for Casa de mi Padre. But I'm watching it anyway.

 

[Schabrak]

They might have needed to replace Norton, because of Norton himself, not willing to do the Avengers movie too.^^

Have seen Contraband last week, not as good as I had thought, but nice overall. Also The Grey was a devastating and exciting view, had to look up the "ending" on Youtube for the final scene.

 

[thornofcarrion]

Mission Impossible : Ghost Protocol turned out to be better than I anticipated. The action was decent and plot was entertaining. On the other hand, Underworld franchise is felt like its being dragged. The new installment had nothing much to offer, save some new stunts. It lacked supporting characters and focused too much on Kate. Movie 1 & 2 was far better and I think it is where they should have stopped.

 

[Doraku]

I saw "Wrath of the Titans" yesterday. I already regret watching it. The plot is awful (for my taste), and too much effects that are unnecessary. the prequel is much better compared to this, and I would say that the prequel is an "Ok"movie (6.5 out of 10 according to my personal rating system ) .

 

[thornofcarrion]

If anyone has missed, MH has arranged awards for Manhwa and its sub-sections. You can find the links below. There are plenty of categories to nominate your favorites. We would love to see your participation.

Manhwa Awards
The Breaker Awards
Noblesse Awards
Tower of God Awards

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