Loved the first half of UP that showed the couple meeting and living their life together. The second half with the balloon flight was just plain weird.
Aw, he's no fun, he fell right over.
Science is Truth for Life. In FORTRAN tongue the Answer.
...so I'm supposed to find the Shadow King from inside a daiquiri?
user wrote: Loved the first half of UP that showed the couple meeting and living their life together. The second half with the balloon flight was just plain weird.
Personally I found it even darker than the average Pixar flick.
In the last two weeks I've had a bit of a movie binge for lack of much else to do up here in NY. I've gone through:
Sherlock Holmes 4/5 stars: good, solid entertainment. Not as intellectual as it could have been.
Invictus 4.5/5: Excellent dramatization of South Africa's coming of age. The first time I've seen Apartheid portrayed seriously outside of a textbook.
Up 4.5/5: The first part with the couple living their life brought me to tears. The remainder of the story was cute, too. Not Pixar's strongest, but certainly not bad.
Star Trek Again. 3/5: I like the movie more each time, but it's still terrible Star Trek. The effects are wrong. The bridge is in the wrong damn spot. The ship is too big. Warping looks wrong. Phasers are supposed to be beams. Starships don't shoot flak. Too many lens flares. Lame alternate universe excuse used to break with canon. Was not a TNG movie that fixed what Nemesis did to Data. On the plus side, Kirk is a cutie pie.
Taking Woodstock 3.5/5: Not really my kind of movie, but it was well-executed. One of the few movies that gives you male nudity as well as female nudity.
Terminator: Salvation 3.5/5: Nice effects. Mediocre addition to the Terminator storyline.
I'm hoping to see Avatar in 3D at the IMAX before I leave Rochester on Sunday. We shall see.
Dan wrote: In the last two weeks I've had a bit of a movie binge for lack of much else to do up here in NY. I've gone through:
Sherlock Holmes 4/5 stars: good, solid entertainment. Not as intellectual as it could have been.
Invictus 4.5/5: Excellent dramatization of South Africa's coming of age. The first time I've seen Apartheid portrayed seriously outside of a textbook.
Up 4.5/5: The first part with the couple living their life brought me to tears. The remainder of the story was cute, too. Not Pixar's strongest, but certainly not bad.
Star Trek Again. 3/5: I like the movie more each time, but it's still terrible Star Trek. The effects are wrong. The bridge is in the wrong damn spot. The ship is too big. Warping looks wrong. Phasers are supposed to be beams. Starships don't shoot flak. Too many lens flares. Lame alternate universe excuse used to break with canon. Was not a TNG movie that fixed what Nemesis did to Data. On the plus side, Kirk is a cutie pie.
Taking Woodstock 3.5/5: Not really my kind of movie, but it was well-executed. One of the few movies that gives you male nudity as well as female nudity.
Terminator: Salvation 3.5/5: Nice effects. Mediocre addition to the Terminator storyline.
I'm hoping to see Avatar in 3D at the IMAX before I leave Rochester on Sunday. We shall see.
For a really great portrayal of what Apartheid did to people, rent Stander. It's also a great crime drama.
Yeah, saw that movie a few days ago. What. The. fiddlesticks. Worst movie I have ever seen. Ended up fast forwarding through big sections of it just to stay awake.
Just watched Pandorum last night. Loved it. Great storyline, great acting, believable characters, the whole nine yards.
"Don't curse the farmer with your mouth full."
Ah, cows. A thousand roast beef sandwiches wrapped in a gorgeous leather coat.
Just watched Heaven's Gate for the first time. Legendary flop. Ruined Michael Cimino's career.
Actually quite liked it, but jumpin' Jesus was it ever long. Intermission shows up -- at 2 hours in! The stories you hear about the self-indulgent directing (tearing down the set of an entire town and having it rebuilt because the buildings were "too close together," shooting the equivalent of something like 9 days of film, on and on) ...
Anyway it's definitely a beautiful movie. Lush, epic. But slow 'n' long. Did I mention long?
justine wrote: I saw The Time Travelers Wife yesterday and i really liked it. Now i wanna get the book.
I read the book before seeing the movie. As usual, the book fills in a lot of the story line and detail missing from the movie version. I liked this book better though its a good movie.
justine wrote: I saw The Time Travelers Wife yesterday and i really liked it. Now i wanna get the book.
I read the book before seeing the movie. As usual, the book fills in a lot of the story line and detail missing from the movie version. I liked this book better though its a good movie.
I agree completely. I read the book shortly after I posted.
"The older i get, the less i care about what people think of me. therefore the older i get, the more i enjoy life."
"Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation."