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Post by Simey on Aug 8, 2008 13:42:20 GMT -5
This is a written rather than a spoken forum and there is therefore no need for this:  (  ) (( ;D)) |
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Post by Doomy on Aug 28, 2008 16:44:29 GMT -5
FINALLY got around to seeing the new Batman movie. It's good. I'd recommend it, but I suspect it will no longer be in the cinemas by tomorrow.
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Post by Beowuuf on Aug 28, 2008 16:58:58 GMT -5
IMAX! going tomorrow  |
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Post by Black Cat on Aug 29, 2008 11:19:50 GMT -5
Yeah, me too I saw the new Batman movie. Was very good. Too bad they didn't do like in the previous one, hinting at who would be the villain in the next flick in the series. Hope to see the Joker again in the future even if Ledger is dead.
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Post by Beowuuf on Aug 31, 2008 12:05:41 GMT -5
Ok, this weekend not only saw the IMAX batman (really, you only get the benefit from seeing the watchman trailer LARGE and in the film with the scenic skyscraper bits sadly) but two other films
Babylon AD - meh. My friend loved it up until the end. I liked bits of it but found some things clunked. Both of us really felt slapped by the ending. It's based on a book that seems to get mixed opinions too, so who knows! Basically, in a dystopian future, a mercenery (vin diesel) must get a young girl who belongs to a new widespread manufactured religeon to new york. The dystopian stuff is done very well in some places, feels clunky to me in others. The character beats seemed to not quite work by the end of the film, and the resolution around the ending just suddenly goes weird. Very weird. Like a new director came in at the end with no budget to finish the film, or they suddenly decided that there didn't need to be an explaination of about ten things because people must have read the book. Or that the quick car chase satisfied a need for a satisfactory resulution to all the plot.
Get smart - unexpected really good! As a caveat, I expected it to be brainless, slapstick, explain the ob stuff. I vague remember get smart from old tv, which was a spoof thirty minute series in the bewitched/i dream of jeanie/etc feel, which was like a comedic take on the man from uncle, where instead of uncle and spectre you have control and kaos. Maxwell smart, agent 86, and his female partner agent 99 did...something... I forget.
Basically, the film homages the old series nicely while managing to just move the premise into the current world situation without irony, etc present in any other film versions of old tv. The slapstick and stupid humour is there, but that's the tone of the film. where the film was unexpectedly good for it's type was the fact that the film adopted a very dry tone in the rest of its delivery. Whether a character was being deliberately funny, or bumbling, the jokes usually snapped and moved on. It's not a brilliant movie, it's just a good waste of two hours if you fancied a funny comedy in this vein.
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Post by Simey on Aug 31, 2008 16:55:43 GMT -5
Basically, in a dystopian future, a mercenery (vin diesel) There's your problem, right there.  How did Vin Diesel ever make it on to Hollywood's B list? The Fast and the Furious was excellent, dumb fun - though a complete rip-off of Point Break from start to finish - but how'd he ever get a high-profile career beyond that? He would've made a good Bond baddie or a Terminator in the TV series, but.... Incidentally, there seems to another Fast and the Furious film coming next year, advertised as starring 'the original cast' (what a draw!) - methinks that post-FatF careers haven't gone quite as well as hoped for some people.... Has anyone seen the second and third ones? Are they any good? With apologies to Vin Diesel fans, since I really don't have anything particular against him and seem just to have been very mean to him. |
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Post by Doomy on Aug 31, 2008 17:02:13 GMT -5
Who wants to bet the Watchmen film will be a travesty that will horrify anyone who's actually read it? Y'know, like every other Alan Moore adaptation. I think the films are only being made because Moore wants nothing to do with them and therefore doesn't get royalties.
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Post by Black Cat on Sept 1, 2008 1:30:12 GMT -5
Has anyone seen the second and third ones? Are they any good? In the FatF series, I have only seen the third one, Tokyo Drift. Since I've never seen the first two, I don't know if it was better or worst than the other ones. What I remember is that it wasn't that bad: cool stunts, nice racing, no real story, good fun for a summer movie. Of course, since this American movie is set in Tokyo, they had to prove that their cars were better than their Japanese "crap" by making the final scene with a good old Mustang winning the race. Sorry for the spoiler, but Vin Diesel makes a cameo in this film. About Get Smart, I want to see it, but not because I want to laugh but because I want to guess were they filmed the different scenes. The movie was made in Montreal and its surrounding region, including where I live and work (45 minutes NW of Mtl). In the trailer, I saw that they used the corridors of the Montreal's Olympic Stadium as some high-tech meeting room, and I know that a scene that was supposed to be set in a small town in Russia was in fact made not far from where I live. My boss passed by that place shortly before the shooting and he told me that they had completely modified the place by changing putting signs written with cyrillic letters. |
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Post by Simey on Sept 1, 2008 9:50:22 GMT -5
making the final scene with a good old Mustang winning the race. Were there no corners in this race or something? |
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Post by Black Cat on Sept 1, 2008 12:11:34 GMT -5
Were there no corners in this race or something? It's called Tokyo Drift, and to make drifts, you need corners. But hey, it's an American movie, so everything that is not possible in life is possible in the mind of the writers. |
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Post by Beowuuf on Sept 1, 2008 12:18:59 GMT -5
Heh, it's tokyo drift - you sliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiide aroudn the corners Yeah, I thought tokyo drift was cool, the seond followed the cop as he was less lawful and did...something. Brainless but fun i recall, like the first one |
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Post by Samildanach on Sept 3, 2008 19:44:26 GMT -5
Basically, in a dystopian future, a mercenery (vin diesel) There's your problem, right there. How did Vin Diesel ever make it on to Hollywood's B list? The Fast and the Furious was excellent, dumb fun - though a complete rip-off of Point Break from start to finish - but how'd he ever get a high-profile career beyond that? He would've made a good Bond baddie or a Terminator in the TV series, but.... Incidentally, there seems to another Fast and the Furious film coming next year, advertised as starring 'the original cast' (what a draw!) - methinks that post-FatF careers haven't gone quite as well as hoped for some people.... Has anyone seen the second and third ones? Are they any good? With apologies to Vin Diesel fans, since I really don't have anything particular against him and seem just to have been very mean to him. He was good as Riddick, but those films are really the only things I've seen him in. And Chronicles of Riddick was a fairly weak film. Pitch Black was good though. It'll be interesting if Diesel returns to The Fast and the Furious, since he chose to ditch that and xXx for the franchise he thought had most potential: Riddick. Sadly, the whole Riddick thing seems to have been largely abandoned, aside from the odd game. Presumably the flop of Chronicles is to blame, and no great surprise. Still a shame though; the Riddick saga had potential. |
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Post by Simey on Sept 4, 2008 17:21:48 GMT -5
Heh, it's tokyo drift - you sliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiide aroudn the corners I knooooooooooooooooooooooowwww.... ;D I've seen Initial D - Drift Racer, which I imagine has much the same sort of story except no Americans as it's a Hong Kong film (though I think it's actually set in Japan, though they speak in Cantonese). But the notion of an American car winning a race with corners in it is....unlikely. If you enjoy the Fast and the Furious films then check out Initial D - it began life as a Manga and then an Anime, I think, but I've just seen the film and it's very cool. Meanwhile, I'll have to try and see TFatF 2 & 3. |
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Post by Black Cat on Sept 5, 2008 11:24:43 GMT -5
If you enjoy the Fast and the Furious films then check out Initial D - it began life as a Manga and then an Anime, I think, but I've just seen the film and it's very cool. It's also an arcade game. 2-3 years ago, me and my friends were often going to spend coins in those big machines, and one of my buddies was a fan of Initial-D. That was the first time I was seeing an arcade game in which you could save the data of your character on a small magnetic card, just like you can save your games with a memory card on any console you have at home. |
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Post by Simey on Sept 6, 2008 15:25:30 GMT -5
It's also an arcade game. 2-3 years ago, me and my friends were often going to spend coins in those big machines, and one of my buddies was a fan of Initial-D. That was the first time I was seeing an arcade game in which you could save the data of your character on a small magnetic card, just like you can save your games with a memory card on any console you have at home. I didn't know it was an arcade game, but now that you mention that, I remember being told that it's also a game on some console or other, though whether that game is based on the film or the anime or what, I've no idea. It must've been a long game if they could afford to let you save your game and still make lots of money from it! |
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