AWKWARD ZOMBIE

I have mixed feelings about RotG - I like the part about 'finding your center' (per North's dialogue with Jack), but I always struggle with movies that encourage people to accept their place in the world/their destiny (somehow I picked up on that as one of the film's messages).

Jack brought up the whole thing about North (Father Christmas), the Easter Bunny et al bribing children into behaving well fairly early on - so for me the film wasn't ever really going to be about that anyway - that 'truth' being addressed so early on in the film. I think the film was really more about believing in something - having faith... I suppose; Honestly it's tricky to distill out the film's main premise relying only on partial recall.

I remember I liked the part about believing in - or accepting - the boogeyman, but not being afraid of him.


I got Megamind included as a kind of 'bundle deal' with RotG - I stayed away from Megamind originally because I was put off for a number of reasons (Will Ferrell, yet another 'comedy' spoof superhero movie, etc.), but I actually found it to be quite likeable - Megamind himself was quite a likeable character.

Hahaha, he sure is. Ender's Game is still cool regardless. I just hope this movie doesn't have any sequels...

So I finally saw Silver Linings Playbook

I liked it, I was expecting a bit more but I certainly wasn't disappointed. I wish they did more with the whole excelsior thing though, it was a theme that was introduced and then never really used

Went to see Star Trek: Into Darkness and Iron Man 3 with one of my brothers.

Star Trek: Into Darkness was kinda disappointing - I thought the whole point of 'resetting' the storyline with the destruction of Vulcan in the first movie was so they could avoid just re-doing the Shatner/Nimoy movies over again - except they pretty much cut-and-pasted a lot of scenes from previous Star Trek movies into this one; Also it suffered a bit from the third LotR movie's problem of not knowing when to stop - the film could've ended much sooner (I lost interest in watching starship explosions from different angles a good 45 minutes before the film ended).

So Star Trek: Into Darkness; Lots of flash and bang; Not so much story (I actually have no clear idea what the premise was).


Iron Man 3 was definitely better than Iron Man 2 - I liked the way the film drew attention to things regarding the 'smoke and mirrors' or 'illusions' cast by governments regarding terrorism - i.e: the need for a 'boogeyman'.

Iron Man 3 had a much clearer premise than Star Trek: Into Darkness, for sure.

Also saw Iron Man 3 last night, was pretty idiotic but still entertaining.

I loved Speaker for the Dead a lot, but Xenocide was a punch to the balls.

Agreed. I'd rather read woodgrain lines.

I'll take this as proof that people all have horrible taste in general.

I saw Clue.

I was stunned by how good it was. I wasn't expecting much from a movie based off of a board game

JUST GOT BACK FROM IRON MAN 3

having watched both 2 and 3 in rapid succession, I have to say I liked 3 more

Just saw the trailer for "The purge". Stupidest goddamn premise for a movie I've seen. "Untapped aggression" is not why people commit crimes. Most of the time they don't even know they're going to do it until they're suddenly doing it, and it's usually for some situational motivation. Besides, any crime it would prevent is only going to be made up on that night in increased levels of violence and property damage.

Plus, all it would take is someone high up losing a kid to some maniac for it to be shot down to hell.

Congratulations you are now caught up with everyone else who has heard of the movie and also has a brain.

An unrealistic premise doesn't necessarily make for a bad movie. Jurassic Park made some wild assumptions in the field of genetic manipulation and also that the person who unlocked the technology in the first place would immediately want to build a theme park instead of, say, looking for military contracting or WHATEVER.

I can't take Now You See Me as seriously as they want me to take it.

I mean, a bunch of magicians going rogue and stealing exorbitant amounts of cheddar, the police are helpless against them and can't even interrogate them without them turning the tables on them with ~magic~, and Morgan Freeman is called in to see through their tricks and stop it.

It's so ridiculous, especially the goddamn dialogue they've shown so far, and it's being framed up to be a serious "action" film.

Just watched a movie adaption of The Call Of Cthulhu filmed like a 1927 silent movie. EXCELLENT, one of the best Lovecraft adaptions Ive ever seen

Jurassic park was less focussed on the genetic engineering, though. They focussed more on "OMG DINOSAURS!" which is what made it awesome. This movie just...no.

"We're going to kill you and it'll be legal!"

STOP MILKING IT!