movies

[Schlich]

I just watched the King of Kong documentary and it made me sad

love that movie. truly great satire, albeit not subtle at all.

[Numbers]

I just watched the King of Kong documentary and it made me sad

love that movie. truly great satire, albeit not subtle at all.

lol, I think I still know a few Billy Mitchell's. It is the best documentary I've ever seen

[MrSaigon]

Oh [expletive] yes!

[SHOW]

[Numbers]

I saw Sanctum tonight. It was ok but pretty formulaic

[G. Keenan]

My only gripe with The Social Network is how obvious it is. "Hey, everyone, Mark Zuckerberg founded this thing that connects friends, but he's a dick and he doesn't have any friends of his own. It's the irony of our cold impersonal age. NEAT, HUH?"

Not a bad movie, though. I don't even really mind the Best Picture nominations it's getting/will continue to get, so long as it doesn't win.

I finally saw The Social Network last week and was highly underwhelmed. I mean, it was alright but I really don't get what everyone sees in it and as you say, it's obvious.

Likewise for The Kids Are All Right which I finished about 15 minutes ago. I appreciate what the film was trying to do but it's all so precious and feel good and ultimately I found it devoid of the very heart it tries to evoke. Honestly I felt like I was watching an extended minivan commercial.

[heyzeus]

Just saw Black Swan. I feel like turning into a bird and dying. Definitely over the top, but in a way that is forgiveable.

[ghostrunner]

Finally got around to Inception and it doesn't quite live up to the hype. Great fun, really enjoyed it, one of the I've seen in a while, but I'm not sure I'm going to be thinking about it a week from now.

I'm glad Nolan will be done with Batman movies soon, but having said that I don't think Inception was even as good as Dark Knight.

[SHOW]

The spoiler tags seem silly at this point but oh well..

I have mixed feelings about the top at the end. If it's just a cheap thrill thrown in there by Nolan, then I'm actually more okay with it. But if you're supposed to question the reality of the movie based on that, it's kind of weak. You're not shown anything in the movie up to that point to suggest that Cobb seeing his kids isn't in reality, or that the movie has moved from reality into dream (outside the dreams we know about) over the course of the movie. I think making a bigger mystery of it sort of cheapens what we did see.

[Schlich]

Finally got around to Inception and it doesn't quite live up to the hype. Great fun, really enjoyed it, one of the I've seen in a while, but I'm not sure I'm going to be thinking about it a week from now.

I'm glad Nolan will be done with Batman movies soon, but having said that I don't think Inception was even as good as Dark Knight.

[SHOW]

The spoiler tags seem silly at this point but oh well..

I have mixed feelings about the top at the end. If it's just a cheap thrill thrown in there by Nolan, then I'm actually more okay with it. But if you're supposed to question the reality of the movie based on that, it's kind of weak. You're not shown anything in the movie up to that point to suggest that Cobb seeing his kids isn't in reality, or that the movie has moved from reality into dream (outside the dreams we know about) over the course of the movie. I think making a bigger mystery of it sort of cheapens what we did see.

[SHOW]

when DiCaprio was drugged to test the sedative, he tried to spin the top when he woke up but it was knocked over before he could see it fall. I'm pretty sure we don't see the top spin after that until the end of the movie. If there was a point in the story line where there was a transfer, that was it.

I'm of the belief that the whole billionaire tycoon thing was just an organized plot made to get DiCaprio somewhere where he could live a happy life for an appreciable amount of time.

[heyzeus]

I watched Best Worst Movie last night. It's a documentary about the cult that has grown up around the movie Troll 2, which imdb has ranked as the worst movie of all time.

It has all of the things that make for a great documentary: An interesting subculture based around a grass roots movement, some oddball characters, and in the end, you feel as though you've learned something about a slice of our culture. To wit, I think it makes some good points about how badly the irony-loving pop culturists want to be cutting edge by elevating something so terrible to "so bad it's good" status, and that just maybe, some of the qualities of that "bad" thing can actually be enjoyed unironically (ghasp!)

[MrSaigon]

Good lord Invictus is boring. Fantastic director, intriguing story, sports action--ought to be great. Really boring.