movies

[JL21]

The only part Deathly Hallows Part II that I didn't care for was the prologue. I rolled my eyes through most of that.

You mean the epilogue? With them all growds up? That sucked in the book too, but I remind myself that the books were written for people who were children and have grown up with these characters. To give them no sense of closure would have been a betrayal on a generational scale. There was no graceful way to do it.

Yeah, my brain misfired there. The epilogue. And that's mostly what I'm talking about re: forgivable flaws.

[clevername]

I had read that they left the epilogue off and it would only be available on the DVD. I guess that changed? I'm seeing it tomorrow.

[MrSaigon]

Teaser is up for the new Batman. Did not realize it would be the last Nolan Batman, but it bills itself as 'The Epic Conclusion.' Dammit moviemakers sure love the word 'epic.'

Not much of a trailer, really.

[cardinalkarp]

I watched The Lincoln Lawyer over the weekend & it wasnt bad at all.

[jim]

I saw the Bad Bosses movie recently and it was kind of blah. Ok I guess, I chuckled a few times, but mostly not very good.

[ghostrunner]

For whatever reason I decided to watch Wolverine the other night. Very odd in that it felt like Liev Schreiber (Sabretooth/Victor) and Danny Huston (stryker) were in a decent serious movie, while Will.I.AM, Ryan Reynolds, Gambit, and that ridiculous Blob character were in some sort of satire. Hugh Jackman seemed to weave his way between the two. And for some reason I can't fathom, a clearly CGIed "younger" Patrick Stewart that looked very much like the regular "old" Patrick Stewart. The CGI in general is some of the worst I've seen. His knives looked animated, like I was watching a Roger Rabbit movie.

Also a couple of really bad cliches:

Hugh Jackman holding his dead GF in his arms, looking up and yelling "NOOOOO!!!"
Hugh Jackman walking away from an explosion without looking back (that he ignited by sparking a trail of gasoline)

[ghostrunner]

On a happier note:

[G. Keenan]

On a happier note:

Amazing.

[Maclowery]

I thought Wolverine was absolutely one of the worst movies I've ever seen. Top 3.

Which is why it's so damned hilarious. I have a pre-release copy of it, where the CGI isn't even done yet, and it makes it even more campy and awesome. It's almost embarassing that the 'final version' also has remarkably shoddy CGI, like even worse than Sci Fi channel SuperWolfDogDolphin vs HorseChipmunkMegaShark etc.

Chalked up yet another screening of Troll Hunter, which continues to be well received by all these folks askin to come over and watch. I gotta take a break, I think that's four viewings now in like 2 months, and it's cool, but not nearly that cool.

[The Third Man]

I watched Julia tonight. Apparently it's based off John Cassavetes' Gloria, which I didn't know until after the fact, but makes me even more interested to see that. It's a really off-kilter mixture of character drama, crime thriller and road movie - and while this occasionally results in a disjointed feeling, it's surprisingly coherent in the end, and very effective. Much of this can be chalked up to the absolutely fantastic performance by Tilda Swinton, one of the best performances I've seen in recent memory, maybe the best female performance since Naomi Watts in Mulholland Drive. She plays an absolute trainwreck of a human being - a promiscuous, destructive alcoholic who spirals out of control when she gets involved in a criminal plot and decides to try to take matters into her own hands. It's worth seeing just for her, but has plenty of tension and interesting plot and character developments otherwise.