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2099net wrote:Transformers

So Transformers was one of "the" films of 2007, was it?

This film fails on so many fronts, it's incredible. How can so much money be poured into something which has so little merit? Nothing, and I mean nothing at all in this film could be considered as good as mediocre, let alone above average. I just cannot understand how this car crash of a movie became so popular.

That's exactly what I've been saying this entire time.
Thanks for repeating it- I can never hear The Truth enough times.


More of my viewing escapades:




What a WEIRD movie! You heard me. Happy Feet is downright weird. Okay, we all know it's a big-budget studio film, so they can afford to make it expensive and expensive movies usually look good. So, Happy Feet looks great. The CGI is cool and the weather / locations / settings are very beautiful. Next, some of the music is pretty good. Not the musical numbers, the songs they sprinkle in between big, stupid musical numbers. The musical numbers are stupid...The kind of stupid that makes you embarrassed to admit you watched the movie. As is the entire opening. Not to mention they overused Robin Williams. Too much Robin Williams is a very bad thing. The movie had a really hard time winning me over at any time during the proceedings. It has all the things I don't like- stupid trendy humor, bad covers of pop songs (A LOT of them), bad dialogue, over the top action / chase scenes - all to cover up the fact that the movie has nothing valid to say. But...at one single point in the movie did it look like suddenly all the pointlessness was going to mean something. When Happy-Feet is put in the "observation" of his "aliens." Which of course is exactly what makes the movie weird. But, in the end, all things considered - this is too stupid to be a good movie. It's a bad movie.





Color me SHOCKED! I (sat down to) this one expecting another half-amusing but probably dull romantic comedy type flick. And what to my amazing discovery did I find... Hollywood actually still makes great movies?? The Devil Wears Prada is A Near Perfect Masterpiece! Character, writing, acting, directing, music, style, plot, social resonance - this movie has everything a damn good movie needs. It is tight, smart, fun / funny, unpredictable, classy without dumbing anything down... This is an endangered species - a good movie from Hollywood. Another movie that gives you faith that movies can be good again. When the filmmakers actually try.

Only one problem: the ending. Miranda's slight change/turn of heart is in direct contrast to what she's saying (and the point the movie is making) in that amazing scene in the car. There's no reason for this movie to have this happy an ending. What- did the studio force every character to have a smile on their face before they exit the screen just because the ending is uplifting. The intelligence of the movie is what is uplifting. We don't need every character in the movie to reinforce that. Well- every character, that is, except for the gay designer. It's okay to crush him, but everyone else is allowed to smile...

But all things considered, that is the movie's only fault. The movie itself is still a winning comedy and yet at the same time, a starkly unfunny portrait of the way today's world forces us to choose work over all our personal (lovers / friends) relationships, if we are expected to stay "in the game." Anne Hathaway is extraordinary. I felt at first she was doing her standard "clutz" role from The (awful) Princess Diary films. But, she obviously is at the top of her class now. She is a key ingredient in why this movie works. Anyway, also- if aside from the ending, the movie has any cliches at all- they are used in a way that doesn't hurt the movie at all. And that takes some real talent behind the camera to pull off.



did another re-watch of:


This movie makes it so hard for me to give it the low-rating it deserves. As a film, it's almost garbage. But you can see the cast working so hard... So hard to make these characters more than just stupid stereotypes. It works sometimes. Most of the time, it doesn't. It's also a ridiculously uplifting / back and forth movie. After the first time we see the Elle Woods character triumph over her foes, watching her say "I quit! Harvard was a mistake. I'm going back to L.A.," is more than tiresome and unbelievable. It borders on goofy. But the writing, the dialogue is good. The characters have no resonance, but what they say is clever. And hey, if this movie makes one person feel better about themselves, it helped somebody. But its message was obviously lost in today's world of The Bad Girls Club and various other braindead-women institutions. This movie makes what Elle does look amazingly easy. But I think the audience forgets at every juncture that she is rich. She can have anything she wants, it's only a matter of knowing what she wants. I don't care about her at all. Who would? She was as happy in Sorority-School as she was in Harvard. This movie is all-smiles and real life does not work this way. As good as the acting is, and as amusing as much of the writing is - this movie is still a phony. A pretty-in-pink phony.

Earth Vs. The Flying Saucers (1954), more Sci-Fi fun from the fifties. This one however is more elaborate and and has better writing than your typical alien invasion movie from this decade. Also at the end of it's showing Robert Osborne (because I was watching this on TCM) talked a little bit about Paul Frees mentioning his voice work as Ludwig Von Drake and The Ghost Host at the Haunted Mansion. Stuff I already know about of course but I always like the movie trivia they talk about with the film.

My fair Lady
Four weddings and a funeral

I watched Men In Black last night. I think its pretty funny and the special effects are pretty cool. Its too bad the sequel was mediocre compared to the first film.

Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead, License to Drive, and Overboard. All great movies!

nikki828 wrote:Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead and Overboard. great movies!

Yes, they are.





Yeah- it was a good idea. The Rich and Privilaged Right are aliens that took us over while we slept. Whatever, I think it's a pretty serious issue for a filmmaker to be making sci-fi cracks at. Anyway, John Carpenter seems to lack the true conviction and compassion to make the statement of They Live have any resonance beyond that of an action movie. So, sure- of course we can take a break from the impoverished devastation to watch Rowdy Roddy Piper slam and pummel a guy in the street. Everybody loves that... Anyway, the movie wasn't serious enough, smart enough, well-made enough, and there are too many action scenes that don't mean anything and are not as entertaining as Carpenter seems to think they are. And the music is lame- it's all the same. If only they could have borrowed the score from (the infinitely more fun) Suburban Commando... Exactly what about this makes it a "cult classic"?? The stupid "bubble gum" line? Oh, and, if you've seen Leviathan and Shrunken Heads, you know why they hired Meg Foster to be in the movie. Everyone with a brain knows what side she was going to be on. Plus, she has those wicked, creepy eyes.

Rent

It was great but so depressing.. A-

Ratatouille: It was really cute. A+

Juno

Great movie, I really liked it. It is funny, it has heart and a, uhm, weird story. The dialogue is written pretty well, and the main character is fantastic. Ellen Page does a wonderful job and presents a strong, but also very young and sometimes even child-like character. It just feels real.
The supporting cast is great too, especially Allison Jenney as Bren.
Recommended.

Once again, The Music Man (1962). Although this time I was able to sit through the whole thing in one sitting. It's not that I don't like it (nothing could be further from the truth) I just usually find it hard to sit through a 2 1/2 hour movie (with no intermission) most of the time. However, with The Music Man, it's too good to leave.

The last movies I watched were Little Monsters(haven't seen it since I was little; kind of a weird movie), Teen Witch (absolutely ridiculous but I loved it), and The Outsiders (finally saw it; excellent movie).

Rewatched a couple horror classics: Rabid (1977) and Dawn of the Dead (1978)

nikki828 wrote:Teen Witch (absolutely ridiculous but I loved it)

A classic in every sense of the word.

Elizabeth -The Golden Age

Not quite as good as the first one, but still very good.
Cate Blanchett gives a fantastic performance and the supporting cast is superb as well, especially Samantha Morton as Mary Stuart.
The movie is harder to unerstand than the first one, because it deals a lot more with histrical facts and events, but that is not bad actually.
The fight against the Spanish Armada however was a bit over-done and too "Joanne of Arc"-ish.

I'd give it a B.

It was decent. Great ending. But, I did expect better. I kind of expected a full-on masterpiece. It was hyped up so much. What it is is... well acted. Okay written. Uplifting. But the writing could have been better. I even predicted what would happen several times (most notably, what the son did right after he wrote "I Hate Everyone" on his pad of paper). I don't think they tackled anything interesting or unique with the individual characters. But it's still a slightly smarter movie than most of Hollywood's crap. And less depressing than, for instance, Slums of Beverly Hills. One thing, though - Greg Kinnear has an amazing lower half! I couldn't take my eyes off him. An extra half star for his hottness alone.

Saw four films today. Hello, Dolly! (1969), after watching The Music man I felt like watching another Americana musical. The Last Starfighter (1984), decided to give it another chance and I thought it was o.k., however the ending is VERY anti-climatic. Enchanted (2007) for the third time but this time I went with my great aunt and cousin who had never seen it before and they liked it. And finally, Pride and Prejudice (1940) because I had never seen the ending and I liked it very much.

Took the three youngest grandkids (5, 4, & 3) to see The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A Veggie Tales Movie and was quite surprised. I had heard that it was supposed to be a parody of the PotC series, but it wasn't. It had it's own cute little story, with a great moral at the end. The songs were really memorable, and the characters were really funny (and cute!). Those who haven't seen it yet, don't leave when the credits start rolling or you will miss a great music video. Done to the tune of "Rock Lobster", the B-52's great hit, the song is called "Rock Monster", and will make you laugh clear through the whole 2 minutes of it. Just a great entertaining film for kids of all ages, and even the adult looking for a short entertaining film (78 minutes). I give this one 4/5 stars and will add it to my DVD collection when it is released.

dvdjunkie wrote:Took the three youngest grandkids (5, 4, & 3) to see The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A Veggie Tales Movie and was quite surprised. I had heard that it was supposed to be a parody of the PotC series, but it wasn't.

The script was finished writing in 2002 but because of Big Idea's bankruptcy this and many other projects were set aside for sometime.

JiminyCrick191 wrote:

651 DVDs Owned!

That is a nice start. My collection of both store purchased and DVD+RW movies has just topped the 6,000 mark. You have a ways to go to catch up.

dvdjunkie wrote: That is a nice start. My collection of both store purchased and DVD+RW movies has just topped the 6,000 mark. You have a ways to go to catch up.

First of all I never count my recordable DVDs but I'm sure for the majority of the world (or at least my school) thinks I'm doing just fine.

Juno-Amazing! I loved every second! Going to see it again today.