OT: Movies You Have Seen Lately

[Slynky]

wildcard06 said:
Try "Big Fish" if you haven't seen it. Quirky father-son pic from Tim Burton. It's like a different movie... every ten minutes! Good for the short attention span in all of us.

I have to agree though I suspect it's not everyone's "cup of tea". I thought it had a good ending (that I'll not give away).

[gregebowman]

Just picked up THX-1138. Hope to see it in the next couple of days. I saw it once years ago, but this is the Version that George Lucas originally came out with before the studios cut it. Can't wait until next week until the original Star Wars trilogy comes out.

[AMF]

Napoleon Dynamite.

Laughed my a** off...

[Geckomlis]

Just saw the Shogun TV miniseries on DVD. A little grainy for a few seconds here and there, but overall a decent transfer if nothing spectacular. One of the few cases that a story is one of my favorite books and one of my favorite miniseries.

[gregebowman]

Went and saw Sky Captain And The World of Tomorrow and Resident Evil: Apocalypse this weekend. You HAVE to see Sky Captain. It is a great movie, and most reviews I read compared it to Raiders of the Lost Ark. It does have that kind of feel to it. And what's really amazing is that all of the backgrounds and most of the environments you see on teh screen are all computer generated. The only distracting thing for me is that the actors's faces looked kind of faded sometimes, like something you'd see in a black & white film that's been colorized. Just something I noticed and kind of bugged me, but didn't really distract from enjoying this film. The only really annoying thing in the film is Gwyneth Paltrow's acting. Most of it was wooden and forced, as if she's saying I'm just doing this for a paycheck. It wouldn't be so sad, but you know she's an Oscar winner, and expect better from her.

Resident Evil was ok, and kind of expounded on the events in the first movie. Won't give out any spoilers, but you find out why she was awoken from her "coma" at the end of the film, and why the city looked like a war zone. It's an ok film, but not up to the quality of Sky Captain.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

That kinda black&white look is intentional, according to something I read in the newspaper.

[dogscoff]

Last night I finally got a chance to watch "Shaun of the Dead" on DVD. I tell you, it's one of the funniest films I have ever seen- it's good as a horror flick as well, but mainly it's a comedy . It's described as a rom-zom-com on the box, and I can't think of a better description myself. Some of the DVD extras are excellent as well.

It might not be widely available outside the UK, but if you have access to a multi-rigion DVD player and internet shopping anything is possible...

[David E. Gervais]

gregebowman said:
..The only really annoying thing in the film is Gwyneth Paltrow's acting. Most of it was wooden and forced, as if she's saying I'm just doing this for a paycheck. It wouldn't be so sad, but you know she's an Oscar winner, and expect better from her.

You just witnessed the difference between an 'Actor' and a 'Reactor' Gwyneth is a 'people person' she works well with people to interact with. Acting in front of a blue or green screen for the whole movie takes an actor with great imagination. One of these days 'Hollywood' is going to realise that it takes a whole lot of acting talent to act and react to nothing but a blue screen. No matter how good the director is, it's still a reflection of the actors imagination. I think that the actors in big SPFX movies are always underrated. I also think that 'Big Movie Sets' are fast becomming a thing of the past. So the actors better get good at acting in a blue room becase they won't have the splendor of a grand set design to lean on and draw inspiration. Yes indeed, you can see the difference when you place an 'unimaginative' actor into a FX movie.

Anyway, nuf said, Cheers!