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Post by onlyaworkingtitle on Sept 21, 2011 9:26:21 GMT -5
I saw Zombieland again last night, to show it to a friend. Definitely one of my favourite movies. Can't stop laughing while watching. (Also, WOODY HARRELSON. UNF UNF UNF.) LOVE THIS MOVIE. The laughing. The side-splitting. It is a thing. But oh goodness, I can't even remember the last movie I watched. Something awful on television, I'm sure. |
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Post by Dodger Thirteen on Sept 21, 2011 21:47:44 GMT -5
Watched most of The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood yesterday. I actually enjoy that movie, but I like Sandra Bullock. I've decided that you either love her or you hate her.
My brother hates her.
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Post by KatjevanLoon on Sept 22, 2011 4:02:17 GMT -5
I saw Zombieland again last night, to show it to a friend. Definitely one of my favourite movies. Can't stop laughing while watching. (Also, WOODY HARRELSON. UNF UNF UNF.) LOVE THIS MOVIE. The laughing. The side-splitting. It is a thing. Right? I think I nearly peed myself at the cock-blocking robot line. Both times I watched the film. |
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Post by KatjevanLoon on Sept 22, 2011 4:03:06 GMT -5
Watched most of The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood yesterday. I actually enjoy that movie, but I like Sandra Bullock. I've decided that you either love her or you hate her. My brother hates her. I love Sandra Bullock, but I haven't seen that film. Mainly because I loved the book and my Oma and Mom said the film was a horrible adaptation. |
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Post by onlyaworkingtitle on Sept 29, 2011 0:31:35 GMT -5
Finally got around to watching A Knight's Tale, and it was every bit as awesome as it was recommended. Huzzah, naked Chaucer!
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Post by Dodger Thirteen on Sept 29, 2011 8:32:09 GMT -5
Finally got around to watching A Knight's Tale, and it was every bit as awesome as it was recommended. Huzzah, naked Chaucer! Gods damn I love that movie. |
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Post by onlyaworkingtitle on Oct 3, 2011 1:20:30 GMT -5
Oooookay, watching a lot of movies this week...
Just finished Thor, and, despite all the hatred it got, I honestly thought it wasn't terrible. I mean, it wasn't anywhere near the caliber of the other Avengers prequels, but not as bad as it was made out to be. I mean, I'm not a super-expert of the mythos, so I wasn't as bothered by it as, say, Dodger. Though I do have a question on that front: Is Thor supposed to throw Mjolnir? I mean, daggers can be thrown. Axes can be thrown. Spears, harpoons, javelins, boomerangs, shuriken, Xena's frisbee-thing -- all of these weapons can be intended for throwing. But hammers? All of his fight-scenes involved him chucking the fucking hammer at them, and I just wanted to yell at him, you're doing it wrong.
But I heard lots of complaining when the movie came out about how it "spent way too much time on the romance," so I was sort of expecting a romance-movie-with-some-superhero-shit-in-there-just-for-funsies. But seriously, people? There was one scene with him and the chick sitting around the campfire talking about feelings. And even that was plot-based and information-driven. There were hardly any warm-fuzzies. Certainly less than there have been in other superhero movies. The real problem with the romance was actually that there wasn't enough of it -- in movie-time, I mean, not necessarily screen-time. These folks spend a week together, tops, and now they're doomed to be stuck in different realms, pining? Nuh-uh. I'm not buyin' that.
Also, is it wrong that I found Loki the most sympathetic character...?
To end: This is why I shouldn't type up my thoughts on a movie just after seeing it. I haven't had time to forget them, and they all come out in big long BLAHs. Sorry for length.
Anyone else have thoughts?
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Post by Dodger Thirteen on Oct 3, 2011 7:48:38 GMT -5
Though I do have a question on that front: Is Thor supposed to throw Mjolnir? I mean, daggers can be thrown. Axes can be thrown. Spears, harpoons, javelins, boomerangs, shuriken, Xena's frisbee-thing -- all of these weapons can be intended for throwing. But hammers? All of his fight-scenes involved him chucking the fucking hammer at them, and I just wanted to yell at him, you're doing it wrong.Mjolnir is enchanted to always come back to Thor. From the Prose Edda: "... would be able to strike as firmly as he wanted, whatever his aim, and the hammer would never fail, and if he threw it at something, it would never miss and never fly so far from his hand that it would not find its way back, and when he wanted, it would be so small that it could be carried inside his tunic." |
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Post by onlyaworkingtitle on Oct 3, 2011 13:05:08 GMT -5
Though I do have a question on that front: Is Thor supposed to throw Mjolnir? I mean, daggers can be thrown. Axes can be thrown. Spears, harpoons, javelins, boomerangs, shuriken, Xena's frisbee-thing -- all of these weapons can be intended for throwing. But hammers? All of his fight-scenes involved him chucking the fucking hammer at them, and I just wanted to yell at him, you're doing it wrong.Mjolnir is enchanted to always come back to Thor. From the Prose Edda: "... would be able to strike as firmly as he wanted, whatever his aim, and the hammer would never fail, and if he threw it at something, it would never miss and never fly so far from his hand that it would not find its way back, and when he wanted, it would be so small that it could be carried inside his tunic." [ Quote stolen from Wikipedia as I don't have my copy of the Edda easily available.] They were probably riffing on that. Just because it can be thrown doesn't mean it should be thrown. Especially not in every fight scene ever. It seriously bothered me. I can get around that by imagining it all as Alternate Universe FanFiction. What if the "gods" all came from some other realm?, What if Loki were a frost giant?, etc. I just need the universe within the film to hold together, which I'll be pointing out a flaw in... after the next quote from Dodger. Well, that's reassuring. I mean, he would've made a better king than Thor, hands-down. A sly, clever, evil king who wants to be revered throughout history as a great one is generally the best for the kingdom at large -- better, in any case, than a bumbling-but-well-intentioned musclebrain. But I also noticed a continuity issue Re: Loki -- we saw when the humanfolk were doing their research on Norse mythology (which, really, you'd think they'd do first upon meeting a crazy named Thor) that Loki already had the reputation of being a sly trickster-type god -- looking at the scene in another window, honestly, I can't read the text in the book (beyond "shape shifter," "spiteful,", "trouble would be created because he loved playing with...," and "his quick wit and honey tongue [something] caused the [something] to forgive him"), but the picture of him was practically copy-pasted from the D&D Player's Handbook's example of a Thief. Anyway, if the human world knows Loki to be dishonest, why does he have such a reputation on his own? Why is he so closely trusted by Thor and his little buddies, when he's spent centuries playing tricks on them? Why are they so shocked by his betrayal? IT JUST GOT LONGER AAAGH. |
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Post by Dodger Thirteen on Oct 3, 2011 14:41:04 GMT -5
Mjolnir is enchanted to always come back to Thor. From the Prose Edda: "... would be able to strike as firmly as he wanted, whatever his aim, and the hammer would never fail, and if he threw it at something, it would never miss and never fly so far from his hand that it would not find its way back, and when he wanted, it would be so small that it could be carried inside his tunic." [ Quote stolen from Wikipedia as I don't have my copy of the Edda easily available.] They were probably riffing on that. Just because it can be thrown doesn't mean it should be thrown. Especially not in every fight scene ever. It seriously bothered me. True, but it's Hollywood. They do what they want. And Thor was in 3D, too? I think. I imagine it was. Welcome to the realm of 3D nonsense. Well, that's reassuring. I mean, he would've made a better king than Thor, hands-down. A sly, clever, evil king who wants to be revered throughout history as a great one is generally the best for the kingdom at large -- better, in any case, than a bumbling-but-well-intentioned musclebrain. But I also noticed a continuity issue Re: Loki -- we saw when the humanfolk were doing their research on Norse mythology (which, really, you'd think they'd do first upon meeting a crazy named Thor) that Loki already had the reputation of being a sly trickster-type god -- looking at the scene in another window, honestly, I can't read the text in the book (beyond "shape shifter," "spiteful,", "trouble would be created because he loved playing with...," and "his quick wit and honey tongue [something] caused the [something] to forgive him"), but the picture of him was practically copy-pasted from the D&D Player's Handbook's example of a Thief. Anyway, if the human world knows Loki to be dishonest, why does he have such a reputation on his own? Why is he so closely trusted by Thor and his little buddies, when he's spent centuries playing tricks on them? Why are they so shocked by his betrayal? IT JUST GOT LONGER AAAGH. Loki is a tricksy tricksy. He does whatever he wants and gets away with it or doesn't. They played on that, but they also made him whiny and that, to me, is boring. I liked Loki, but I wanted him to be more BAMF-y, not this whiny kiddish guy that seems useless and then suddenly BAM! said the lady, he's an evil dude that NO ONE UNDERSTANDS WOE IS ME. It was boring. I nearly left, but they wouldn't let me.  |
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Post by andreaisabbbw on Oct 17, 2011 17:41:08 GMT -5
I went to see 50/50 last week. I laughed through my tears, but it really isn't as funny as it was advertised. It was really, really angsty. Joseph Gordon-Levitt did a phenomenal job in the film. I definitely recommend going and seeing it.
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Post by tosney on Oct 19, 2011 13:18:10 GMT -5
I've been wanting to see that! Now I really need to  |
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Post by Dodger Thirteen on Oct 26, 2011 14:09:11 GMT -5
I just bought
on DVD.
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Post by Marina on Oct 26, 2011 14:51:40 GMT -5
I watched Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Swedish version. I skipped all the explicit scenes though... I just couldn't...
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Post by onlyaworkingtitle on Oct 26, 2011 15:20:20 GMT -5
I just bought on DVD. YEEEEEES. |
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