movies

[TimeForGuinness]

Squeezed in 3 movies this weekend...all amazing.

Seven Samurai
Senna
Moon

I honestly can't believe I've waited this long to get into Kurosawa...I also can't believe how much I love Toshirō Mifune after one viewing. Senna was a great documentary on F1 racing, and Moon was a great sci-fi flick, but the ending could have been a little stronger.

[Maclowery]

I thought Moon and Sunshine were similar films, if only that both were exceptionally strong sci fi ideas that started off awesomely, then had a hard time keeping together after their respective plot reveals. Moon held up better, and I enjoyed it more in general than Sunshine. Agreed re: the last half hour or so.

I re-watched Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade last night. Good times. So many people, myself included, hate on that Crystal Skull debacle for being so craptastically corny, but I had forgotten how absurd the plot of Last Crusade was as well. Ford is just so damn charming, though. Hard to imagine the Indy movies with any other actor.

[cpebbles]

[TimeForGuinness]

I thought Moon and Sunshine were similar films, if only that both were exceptionally strong sci fi ideas that started off awesomely, then had a hard time keeping together after their respective plot reveals. Moon held up better, and I enjoyed it more in general than Sunshine. Agreed re: the last half hour or so.

I re-watched Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade last night. Good times. So many people, myself included, hate on that Crystal Skull debacle for being so craptastically corny, but I had forgotten how absurd the plot of Last Crusade was as well. Ford is just so damn charming, though. Hard to imagine the Indy movies with any other actor.

Moon was overall better, just tried too quickly to wrap it up. I still really liked it.

[SHOW]

Good concept, iffy ending...really liked the twist of the AI not being evil, but helpful. I smiled when hearing Sam's voice in the background during the clone's phone call to his daughter.

Sunshine might have been one of the best Sci-fi films made in the last 10-15 years if the last 1/3 of the movie was like the first 2/3s of the movie.

[JL21]

I liked Sunshine better when it was called Event Horizon.

[Maclowery]

Yep, exactly. Which is why the two films are so similar to me. Isolated people way out in space, tremendous first 60 minutes, letdown finale. Sunshine's last half hour was so crappy that I actively recommend to people mentioning it that they simply stop the movie after 60 minutes. Moon didn't have such a disappointing drop-off in tone and quality, but I definitely was kind of bummed that it lots its legs.

[Vidor]

From my experience watching films he has directed (a list which includes The Town and nothing else), he directs pretty much the same way he acts.

"Gone Baby Gone" got raves. "The Town" wasn't quite as much a critical smash but was still successful as a thriller. "Argo"--well, the premise is hard to screw up.

[TimeForGuinness]

I liked Sunshine better when it was called Event Horizon.

lol

[lukethedrifter]

Turned on the TV looking to watch an episode of The Wire with my wife and ended up watching Taking Chance. I really had a mixed reaction to it. Was it a military procedural with a heavy dose of patriotic propaganda or was it an intimate and subtle story? I'm still not sure.

[cpebbles]

Avengers about to start. I'm hoping it's really bad so I can unload on it.