The Hunchback of Notre Dam Not one of Disney's best movies. John Carter This movie was half turd and half good. It's hard to believe it was released the way it was. I get the feeling that it was originally 3 hours long and then compressed into 2 hours.
I watched V/H/S last night. I was super curious about this movie as the trailer really intrigued me but at the same time, it could've been a huge stinker. Trailer: http://oq.totaleclips.com/mpa/Vhs_%28Movie_2012%29 Watch that and you'll see what I mean. Alot of people said this movie was well done when it came out, but I still was questioning it. Watched it, and woo boy it was well done. It's basically a movie about some punk guys filming themselves doing stupid shit and then sell the tapes to people who buy that garbage. One of them brings up a job he got to break into an old guy's house to steal a VHS tape. They get into the house and there ends up being a whole ton of tapes and they got no direction on which tape it's supposed to be or what was on it. So they end up reviewing the tapes... the movie starts here. The movie is done in segments. The segments are the parts that the punk guys are reviewing on the tapes. Each segment is done by a different director. All of them deal with some supernatural stuff.. except for one. And that one was probably the most disturbing as it felt like a snuff film. There's one glaring issue that's easy to ignore as to not ruin the movie but it's just kind of silly. The segments are pretty much supposed to be on the VHS tape, but why in the hell did they get transferred back to VHS. On one of them, it's video chat stuff. The other one, you can see that they're using a digital camera.. another is also a digital recording since they're recording from a tiny camera embedded in glasses.. stuff like that.
I've been watching movies at a local film festival. Here's what I've seen so far: Starry, Starry Night 8/10 Rising from Ashes 7/5/10 Becker: Not Dead Yet 7.5/10 Cairo 678 7.5/10 Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare 7/10 A Whisper to a Roar 7/10 Trash Dance 6.5/10 The Anderson Monarchs 6/10 In an interesting side note, the director of Cairo 678 evidently won the top prize of the film festival and $100,000. I briefly met him and his wife and young daughter a couple of days ago without knowing who he was until just now. His 1-year old daughter wandered over to me and tried to take off with my empty coffee cup while I was reading my program, which gave everyone a laugh. I just saw his picture and recognized him in the local newspaper. I guess he had $20 in his account prior to that according to an article. I now understand why he seemed to be in such a good mood that day. I wish I had seen his movie and knew who he was when I met him.
The Campaign I don't find Will Ferrell or Zach Galifianakis funny, and this movie didn't do anything to change that perception. I seem to have some disconnect from the rest of society, because my wife seems to think Will Ferrell is hilarious, and everyone loved those Hangover movies, which I thought were pretty lame.
Will Ferrell is hit or miss for me. He plays the same role in every movie and sometimes it fits and other times not so much. Zach G is not at all funny. I don't see the appeal beyond a secondary role in hangover.
Yeah, I think that's a big part of my problem with Will Ferrell, he plays himself in every movie, and it seems like he keeps remaking the same movie over and over again. The Campaign was the same basic movie as Anchorman or Talladega Nights, it just had a political theme.
I hate Will Ferrell. He's not funny in the slightest. He just shouts a lot. I also don't find Zach Galifinakis funny either. I hates the hangover. "Funniest movie of the year", must have been a very slow year for comedies. The trailer gave away most bits that I guess we're supposed to be funny, like Mike Tyson. As soon a I saw him I knew he was going to punch someone in the face, wow, didn't see that coming. It was one of the crappest comedies I've ever seen. I was expecting it to be pure crap, but it was worse than that.
Those hangover movies have too much fog and gamecube punching. At least, that's what I saw in the trailer and convinced myself that's what the whole movie would be - and it was!
Hangover 1 was good. It wasn't setting out to be a cinematic masterpiece. You guys insist upon yourselves. Part 2 sucked. Too much gratuitous cock for my liking.
The first was good, even despite the fact I went into it expecting to be let down because 'everyone' told me how good it was. So I was sort ready to be cynical about it but found it good for what it was despite that. This was back when I was even more cynical about things that are 'popular' than I am now, you guys need to chillax a little methinks.
Looper Saw it last week and I was disappointed. Way too many stupid plot holes and overall it felt undecided as to what it wanted to be. The end result was a bit of a mess to be honest. At the start I had no problem with what they had done with Jason-Levitt's face, but after they did a few close ups it really did look... disturbingly wrong. It still didn't make him look like a plausible young Bruce Willis to me. Overall it felt a lot like inception, but even stupider. The only redeeming factor was the comedy throughout. Bruce is always good for that sort of thing in dumb action flicks. I'll give it a 6/10 mainly for the comedic value.
Ruby Sparks The premise sounds kind of ridiculous, but it works better than you would think. A pretty good movie about relationships.
I just saw honest abe vampire slayer. Good watch. Didn't even realize it was live action. The cgi made the previews like a pixar-ish anime.
Whoah...I'll just drop in this in here for the time being. Apparently they plan to release Episodes 7-9, and then new Stars Wars universe flicks every few years after that.
I had the same reaction as you.. all I could say was woah. Looks like most peoples' kneejerk reaction is that all is ruined.. but really, what did Disney do to gain that reputation? Look at where pixar is now. Also, Disney owns Marvel and they've been doing just fine.
Surely a 7th film has to be a progression of the Luke and Leah story but they are both a bit old now? Maybe a film about rebuilding the Jedi council? Who will be the bad Guy now? Overall sidious was the real bad guy in all of the previous 6 films but he is dead. They made a big deal of the Sith showing up in ep.1 as if it was almost unthinkable so another showing up out of the blue would surely be odd? Maybe they could make a film based around one of the starkiller (force unleashed) clones? Personally I don't mind them making more. 1 was bad, 2 was mediocre but 3 was passable. Surely things can only get better?
Just saw IP Man 2. A truly spectacular martial arts franchise if you all didn't already know. I know speaking to the choir. anyway I found it funny how the highest ranking police man (foreigner) displayed bad chinese language skill and poor english as well. It was truly queer almost as if his few lines were the only ones in the whole movie that were redubbed.
Gut reaction for me was that Disney was probably a good fit. It's not like Lucas has really been hitting on all cylinders lately in terms of what they were doing with the material. I'm thinking there may have been some burnout on his part and he was ready to move on anyway.