Movies you've just seen (Pt. II) - Page 49

GrayMouser · 02-19-2010, 11:17 PM

Well, certainly any post-apocalyptic film, at least, from "The Road Warrior" on down- "Hey, let's deal with a total collapse in the fuel supply by tearing all over the desert at high speed in souped-up buggies that get four miles to the gallon."

Or "The Road", where the hero's response to a countryside crawling with maddened starving cannibals is to push a shopping cart full of supplies down the middle of the highway- (hence the title).

And as I mentioned earlier, all zombie movies depend on the survivors acting in the dumbest ways possible...have to give the brain-dead undead an even chance.

hectorberlioz · 02-19-2010, 11:23 PM

GM, I can tell you've seen the pretty terrible but well-done-terrible film with Kevin Costner, "The Postman"

.

I never understand why these kinds of movies always concentrate on the same thing: chaos, bandits, good guy comes to save village. It's just a Western, put in the future.

At least "Reign of Fire" had dragons

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**Mari** · 02-24-2010, 04:32 PM

Just saw Josie and the Pussycats. That has got to be the worst film ever. Though it was fun spotting all the commercials and advertisement in it

***Earniel*** · 02-24-2010, 06:58 PM

Just saw The Court Jester which is a lovely old(-fashioned) comedy that can still outclass a good deal of today's movies. Great fun.

Gwaimir Windgem · 02-24-2010, 07:48 PM

The vessel with the pestle?

***Earniel*** · 02-24-2010, 07:54 PM

No dummy, the chalice from the palace!

leonred · 03-05-2010, 06:11 AM

I watched Shutter Island .. The story line really rocks

***Tessar*** · 03-05-2010, 10:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Eärniel

No dummy, the chalice from the palace!

NO NO! The dropped the chalice from the palace! They replaced it with a flagon with a figure of a dragon....

I watched Return of the King last night. I cried. A lot.

I dearly lurve (parts) of that movie in particular, although I think maybe the best overall one was FOtR.

Gwaimir Windgem · 03-06-2010, 12:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tessar

NO NO! The dropped the chalice from the palace! They replaced it with a flagon with a figure of a dragon....

I can replicate in my mind the exact measure of foreboding with which Griselda said, "with a figure of a dragon." Which probably means I've seen this movie too often.

Also, Glynis Johns was just GORGEOUS in that movie.

***Earniel*** · 03-06-2010, 11:16 AM

I still can't get the title track out of my head.

"Life can not better be..."

Gwaimir Windgem · 03-06-2010, 12:18 PM

A nose is hard to replace.

Insidious Rex · 03-15-2010, 01:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by katya

So I know everyone's been saying this already, but Avatar is totally Pocahontas. And now I want to watch a bunch of Disney movies. Been wanting to watch Beauty and the Beast for a while now.

Im thinking it was more Dances With Wolves meets the Matrix with aspects of Aliens and Return of the Jedi in there. All Disneyfied. Definitely strong Pocahontas parallels in there as well. And maybe even some Lion King.

Grey_Wolf · 03-15-2010, 04:12 PM

This Saturday I watched The Storm, Public Enemies and Julie & Julia.

The Storm was about a company developing an emp-weapon to direct weather to a selected spot on Earth. This goes haywire and threatens to destroy mankind. Very cool effects.

Public Enemies is about the infamous bankrobber John Dillinger (Johnny Depp) and his life and "career". His adversary Melvin Purvis (Christian Bale) is at first not ready to go full out and kill off JD - just arrest him. But in the end he listens to Hoover and one after another Jd's gang is killed - leaving JD completely alone.

Julie & Julia is a 2009 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Nora Ephron. The film depicts events in the life of chef Julia Child in the early years in her culinary career, contrasting her life with Julie Powell, who aspires to cook all 524 recipes from Child's cookbook during a single year, a challenge she described on her popular blog that would make her a published author.

Ephron's screenplay is adapted from two books: My Life in France, Child's autobiography, written with Alex Prud'homme, and a memoir by Julie Powell. In August 2002, Powell started documenting online her daily experiences cooking each of the 524 recipes in Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking, and she later began reworking that blog, The Julie/Julia Project.[2] Both of these books were written and published in the same time frame of 2004 to 2006. The film is the first major motion picture based on a blog.[

Gwaimir Windgem · 03-16-2010, 08:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Grey_Wolf

Julie & Julia is a 2009 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Nora Ephron. The film depicts events in the life of chef Julia Child in the early years in her culinary career, contrasting her life with Julie Powell, who aspires to cook all 524 recipes from Child's cookbook during a single year, a challenge she described on her popular blog that would make her a published author.

Ephron's screenplay is adapted from two books: My Life in France, Child's autobiography, written with Alex Prud'homme, and a memoir by Julie Powell. In August 2002, Powell started documenting online her daily experiences cooking each of the 524 recipes in Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking, and she later began reworking that blog, The Julie/Julia Project.[2] Both of these books were written and published in the same time frame of 2004 to 2006. The film is the first major motion picture based on a blog.[

You forgot to mention that it's awesome.

Grey_Wolf · 03-17-2010, 12:14 PM

indeed, Gwai! It was very funny and awesome.

04-07-2010, 01:59 AM

I watched The Lightning Thief. I really like the character of Percy Jackson he is cute looking . The move is based on gods, nice movie to be enjoyed.

Gwaimir Windgem · 04-07-2010, 08:09 PM

Good for you.

Acalewia · 04-10-2010, 11:24 PM

Clash of the Titans ~ If you've seen the orginal, don't compare this with it. t is completly different and you'll see that from the get go. There is a few nods to the orginal in it. But in all a very awesome movie.

Gwaimir Windgem · 05-07-2010, 07:17 PM

The movie version of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. Elizabeth Taylor is about 20 years too young for Martha and starts off rocky, but she quickly grasps the role and embodies it very strongly. Bouncing from place to place detracted from the extreme claustrophobia of the play, but it's a work of such raw potency that it was still awesome, despite all flaws; Richard Burton was also a terrific George.

**Mari** · 05-09-2010, 04:55 PM

The imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus. Totally weird film, but nice to watch. It took me 2 character switches to figure out Tony was played by more than 1 person: by Johnny Depp, Jude Law, Heath Ledger and Colin Farell...

02-19-2010, 11:17 PM	#961
GrayMouser Elf Lord Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Ilha Formosa Posts: 2,068	Well, certainly any post-apocalyptic film, at least, from "The Road Warrior" on down- "Hey, let's deal with a total collapse in the fuel supply by tearing all over the desert at high speed in souped-up buggies that get four miles to the gallon." Or "The Road", where the hero's response to a countryside crawling with maddened starving cannibals is to push a shopping cart full of supplies down the middle of the highway- (hence the title). And as I mentioned earlier, all zombie movies depend on the survivors acting in the dumbest ways possible...have to give the brain-dead undead an even chance. __________________ Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep. Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come when you do call for them? "I like pigs. Dogs look up to us, cats look down on us, but pigs treat us as equals."- Winston Churchill

02-19-2010, 11:23 PM	#962
hectorberlioz Master of Orchestration President Emeritus of Entmoot 2004-2008 Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Lost in the Opera House Posts: 9,328	GM, I can tell you've seen the pretty terrible but well-done-terrible film with Kevin Costner, "The Postman" . I never understand why these kinds of movies always concentrate on the same thing: chaos, bandits, good guy comes to save village. It's just a Western, put in the future. At least "Reign of Fire" had dragons . __________________ ACALEWIA- President of Entmoot hectorberlioz- Vice President of Entmoot Acaly und Hektor fur Presidants fur EntMut fur life! Join the discussion at Entmoot Election 2010. "Stupidissimo!"~Toscanini The Da CINDY Code The Epic Poem Of The Balrog of Entmoot: Here ~NEW! ~ Thinking of summer vacation? AboutNewJersey.com - NJ Travel & Tourism Guide

02-24-2010, 04:32 PM	#963
Mari Elf Lady Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In the lands where mountains are but a fairytale Posts: 8,588	Just saw Josie and the Pussycats. That has got to be the worst film ever. Though it was fun spotting all the commercials and advertisement in it __________________ Love always, deeply and true ★ Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer. ★ Friendship is sharing openly, laughing often, trusting always, caring deeply. ...The Earth laughs in flowers ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Hamatreya"...

02-24-2010, 06:58 PM	#964
*Earniel* The Chocoholic Sea Elf Administrator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: N?n in Eilph (Belgium) Posts: 14,363	Just saw The Court Jester which is a lovely old(-fashioned) comedy that can still outclass a good deal of today's movies. Great fun. __________________ We are not things.

02-24-2010, 07:48 PM	#965
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	The vessel with the pestle? __________________ Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis. Nulla talem silva profert, fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulce clavo, dulce pondus sustinens. 'With a melon?' - Eric Idle

02-24-2010, 07:54 PM	#966
*Earniel* The Chocoholic Sea Elf Administrator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: N?n in Eilph (Belgium) Posts: 14,363	No dummy, the chalice from the palace! __________________ We are not things.

03-05-2010, 06:11 AM	#967
leonred Sapling Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 2	I watched Shutter Island .. The story line really rocks

03-06-2010, 11:16 AM	#970
*Earniel* The Chocoholic Sea Elf Administrator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: N?n in Eilph (Belgium) Posts: 14,363	I still can't get the title track out of my head. "Life can not better be..." __________________ We are not things.

03-06-2010, 12:18 PM	#971
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	A nose is hard to replace. __________________ Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis. Nulla talem silva profert, fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulce clavo, dulce pondus sustinens. 'With a melon?' - Eric Idle

03-15-2010, 04:12 PM	#973
Grey_Wolf Elf Lord Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Mirkwood, well actually I live in North-west Scania, Sweden Posts: 9,481	This Saturday I watched The Storm, Public Enemies and Julie & Julia. The Storm was about a company developing an emp-weapon to direct weather to a selected spot on Earth. This goes haywire and threatens to destroy mankind. Very cool effects. Public Enemies is about the infamous bankrobber John Dillinger (Johnny Depp) and his life and "career". His adversary Melvin Purvis (Christian Bale) is at first not ready to go full out and kill off JD - just arrest him. But in the end he listens to Hoover and one after another Jd's gang is killed - leaving JD completely alone. Julie & Julia is a 2009 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Nora Ephron. The film depicts events in the life of chef Julia Child in the early years in her culinary career, contrasting her life with Julie Powell, who aspires to cook all 524 recipes from Child's cookbook during a single year, a challenge she described on her popular blog that would make her a published author. Ephron's screenplay is adapted from two books: My Life in France, Child's autobiography, written with Alex Prud'homme, and a memoir by Julie Powell. In August 2002, Powell started documenting online her daily experiences cooking each of the 524 recipes in Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking, and she later began reworking that blog, The Julie/Julia Project.[2] Both of these books were written and published in the same time frame of 2004 to 2006. The film is the first major motion picture based on a blog.[

03-17-2010, 12:14 PM	#975
Grey_Wolf Elf Lord Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Mirkwood, well actually I live in North-west Scania, Sweden Posts: 9,481	indeed, Gwai! It was very funny and awesome.

04-07-2010, 01:59 AM	#976
mycoolgirl Guest Posts: n/a	I watched The Lightning Thief. I really like the character of Percy Jackson he is cute looking . The move is based on gods, nice movie to be enjoyed.

04-07-2010, 08:09 PM	#977
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	Good for you. __________________ Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis. Nulla talem silva profert, fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulce clavo, dulce pondus sustinens. 'With a melon?' - Eric Idle

04-10-2010, 11:24 PM	#978
Acalewia Halfelven Daughter of the Dunedain, President of Entmoot Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: In trouble. As usual. Posts: 4,674	Clash of the Titans ~ If you've seen the orginal, don't compare this with it. t is completly different and you'll see that from the get go. There is a few nods to the orginal in it. But in all a very awesome movie. __________________ "Acaly und Hektor fur Presidants fur EntMut fur life!"~ inked Don't meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup. "Don't be such a sour wolf" Stiles ~ Heart Monitor http://www.wattpad.com/user/IceQueenofMitera

05-07-2010, 07:17 PM	#979
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	The movie version of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. Elizabeth Taylor is about 20 years too young for Martha and starts off rocky, but she quickly grasps the role and embodies it very strongly. Bouncing from place to place detracted from the extreme claustrophobia of the play, but it's a work of such raw potency that it was still awesome, despite all flaws; Richard Burton was also a terrific George. __________________ Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis. Nulla talem silva profert, fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulce clavo, dulce pondus sustinens. 'With a melon?' - Eric Idle

05-09-2010, 04:55 PM	#980
Mari Elf Lady Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In the lands where mountains are but a fairytale Posts: 8,588	The imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus. Totally weird film, but nice to watch. It took me 2 character switches to figure out Tony was played by more than 1 person: by Johnny Depp, Jude Law, Heath Ledger and Colin Farell... __________________ Love always, deeply and true ★ Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer. ★ Friendship is sharing openly, laughing often, trusting always, caring deeply. ...The Earth laughs in flowers ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Hamatreya"...

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