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[MassHavoc]

You can't be worse than the guy next to me who halfway through said to the woman next to him, oh that's the hulk.

 

[Ymono37]

You can't be worse than the guy next to me who halfway through said to the woman next to him, oh that's the hulk.

Wow. I don't think there's a faceslap big enough for that.

 

[MassHavoc]

Wow. I don't think there's a faceslap big enough for that.

I couldn't believe it, it was when they were on the shit and banner was talking to stark and they make like the 300th reference to him getting angry. It almost ruined the entire thing for me but the movie is too good for one little dickbag (apparently dickbag is my new favorite word) to ruin it for me.

 

[Ymono37]

I couldn't believe it, it was when they were on the shit and banner was talking to stark and they make like the 300th reference to him getting angry. It almost ruined the entire thing for me but the movie is too good for one little dickbag (apparently dickbag is my new favorite word) to ruin it for me.

Luckily, since I did the AMC Marvel Movie Marathon - most of the people in the theater were geeks like me, so there wasn't that much of it.



But ****, what a loooooooong day at the movies. I was worried the "con funk" would kick in... thankfully, it did not.



Saw MIB 3 last Friday and I have to say it was miles better than the second and might be the best in the series. Josh Brolin does an amazing Tommy Lee Jones impersonation and Bill Hader as Andy Warhol was genius casting. Well done, a good time at the movies.



NOTE: my opinion of the movie may be biased because of my love of time-travel stories.

 

[BlackHawkPaul]

Watched X-Men First Class. Painfully average film. I do like the Magneto and Professor X characters, but the rest of the characters were just boring, uninteresting, and written terribly.

5/10.



Another film I watched over the holiday weekend was Hell and Back Again. I strongly recommend this film. One of the better war documentaries I have seen in a while that takes political bias, and throws it out the window.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Hzz4iTwSsI



8/10.

 

[MassHavoc]

Luckily, since I did the AMC Marvel Movie Marathon - most of the people in the theater were geeks like me, so there wasn't that much of it.



But ****, what a loooooooong day at the movies. I was worried the "con funk" would kick in... thankfully, it did not.



Saw MIB 3 last Friday and I have to say it was miles better than the second and might be the best in the series. Josh Brolin does an amazing Tommy Lee Jones impersonation and Bill Hader as Andy Warhol was genius casting. Well done, a good time at the movies.



NOTE: my opinion of the movie may be biased because of my love of time-travel stories.

I've never been to any con... So I wouldn't know... oh and here's my nerd card. You can hang onto that for a while...



I will not be going to see MIB3. I liked the first one the second one should have never seen the light of day, and the only redeeming quality of the 3rd is Brolin with his spot on Tommy Lee Jones.

 

[TSD]

Watched 2 movies last night.



"Chronicle" Cloverfield style film about a group of kids that find some object in the ground and get telekinetic powers from it and document their abilities. Till one of the kids goes apeshit with them. Entertaining.



"Redtails" again entertaining but im damn sure more than likely lacking in realism. Theres a particular move one of the german and american pilots make, that I am pretty damn sure is impossible without thrust vectoring engines (F-22, F-35, SU-35).

 

[Ymono37]

I've never been to any con... So I wouldn't know... oh and here's my nerd card. You can hang onto that for a while...



I will not be going to see MIB3. I liked the first one the second one should have never seen the light of day, and the only redeeming quality of the 3rd is Brolin with his spot on Tommy Lee Jones.

the "con funk" is the smell a Convention Hall starts to have after about a day and a half of a convention. Since many who attend are young and staying at the hosting hotel, they don't bother with things like "showering" or "deodorant"--- after days of running around and getting sweaty. It can be gross.



I can see why someone would stay away from MIB3, especially with the glut of other movies that are coming out this summer.



I was originally a naysayer... but goddamn, the new Spider-Man looks fan-fucking-tastic.

Watched 2 movies last night.



"Chronicle" Cloverfield style film about a group of kids that find some object in the ground and get telekinetic powers from it and document their abilities. Till one of the kids goes apeshit with them. Entertaining.

Bought Chronicle on a lark - enjoyed it more than I thought I would... seems like it was critically panned but enjoyed by the "nerd" community, so I decided to take a chance. Not for everyone, but definitely a different take on the "found footage" genre.

 

[MassHavoc]

I said the same thing after I saw the preview during the Avengers movie, I think I'm in for the new Spider-Man.

 

[Chief Walking Stick]

Movie was OK.



Got there at 7:10 (movie start time).... movie didn't start til 7:30. No action happened until 8:45... ending was good. Another 15 minutes of credits..... and the "true ending" was fucking stupid.



Good movie, about 45 minutes too long.



Not sure what all the hype was for.



Also.... Captain America is the gayest/worst superhero ever.... what a fucking useless piece of shit.

 

[Bringmepie]

Movie was OK.



Got there at 7:10 (movie start time).... movie didn't start til 7:30. No action happened until 8:45... ending was good. Another 15 minutes of credits..... and the "true ending" was fucking stupid.



Good movie, about 45 minutes too long.



Not sure what all the hype was for.



Also.... Captain America is the gayest/worst superhero ever.... what a fucking useless piece of shit.

I wasn't thrilled by the revelation of Thanos as the next villian, I always thought of him as a cheap rate Darkside and apparently Jim Starlin has admitted as much by the wikipedia entry on the character. ..as far as the "true" ending after the credits, that wasn't the "true" ending, it was an Easter egg.



I agree though that it lagged at times and seemed a little long to me.

 

[Chief Walking Stick]

I wasn't thrilled by the revelation of Thanos as the next villian, I always thought of him as a cheap rate Darkside and apparently Jim Starlin has admitted as much by the wikipedia entry on the character. ..as far as the "true" ending after the credits, that wasn't the "true" ending, it was an Easter egg.



I agree though that it lagged at times and seemed a little long to me.

Yea.... movie wasn't bad at all.



I think it was just over hyped as far as I was concerned.

 

[Ymono37]

I wasn't thrilled by the revelation of Thanos as the next villian, I always thought of him as a cheap rate Darkside and apparently Jim Starlin has admitted as much by the wikipedia entry on the character. ..as far as the "true" ending after the credits, that wasn't the "true" ending, it was an Easter egg.



I agree though that it lagged at times and seemed a little long to me.

How are you not?!?!? This opens up the Infinity Gaunltlet storyline... And sure us fanboys know that Thanos and Darkseid are the same thing - but Marvel still beat DC to the punch as far as the movies are concerned.

 

[MassHavoc]

I assume you guys picked up on the nice, easter egg type inference in the extra scene with Thanos after the credits?

 

[Chief Walking Stick]

I assume you guys picked up on the nice, easter egg type inference in the extra scene with Thanos after the credits?

Yea... I didn't get it.

 

[Ymono37]

I assume you guys picked up on the nice, easter egg type inference in the extra scene with Thanos after the credits?

 

[roshinaya]

Watched Prometheus today. Visually stunning, but lacked in the story department. Felt like a lot of stuff was left on the cutting room floor to make it into a 2 hour film, which made some scenes stick out as not having a point, pacing issues and thin characterizations. It's a slow burn for the first two acts but the third act is jam packed with action and story which made it feel rushed. It asks profound questions, but then decides not to explore or answer them in any meaningful way. It seems that Scott and the writers might have been too ambitious and didn't manage to pull through.



It's by no means a groundbreaking sci-fi movie as Scott's previous forays into the genre, like Alien and Blade Runner were, and if you expect an Alien-movie you are going to be disappointed, although it has similar themes and nods to it's predecessor and by the end it's obvious, but I found it to be more akin to fan-service. It also ends in such a way that it's easy to do a sequel and I hope it will be successful enough that one will be made as despite my concerns about the story, it has potential to explore some of the themes raised already in this movie and further explain the questions asked.



That said it's still a good movie well worth a watch and a good sci-fi blockbuster. Fassbender is excellent in his role and Rapace also does a decent job as the female protagonist and would make Ripley proud. The rest of the cast does a decent enough job with the material they had to work with. Bonus for using sets rather than green-screens and the design of both the Prometheus and the alien structure is top-notch. Only thing to be desired is in the creature design, which was pretty uninspired, nothing like Giger's original designs in Alien. The music was also non-descript. 3D was used tastefully, to give depth and scale, and filmed with real 3D cameras and not some shoddy post-production conversion. All in all an entertaining sci-fi blockbuster, which could have been better considering the themes and I hope that an eventual extended cut will be released that will improve it, the same way Scott's Kingdom of Heaven's extended cut improved over the theatrical cut.

 

[The Mule]

I watched about 3/4 of Faster. I really was sitting in front of the screen watching the movie, but I don't remember anything that happened. Was there a plot? I have no idea. I think some stuff happened and maybe there was a car and a gun or something. I remember The Rock walking around and also Billy Bob had a bad haircut. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that I didn't like it. BECAUSE I DON'T REMEMBER IT!

 

[Bringmepie]

How are you not?!?!? This opens up the Infinity Gaunltlet storyline... And sure us fanboys know that Thanos and Darkseid are the same thing - but Marvel still beat DC to the punch as far as the movies are concerned.

I'd rather see Ultron but it's hard to have Ultron without Hank Pym/Ant-man/Giant-man. Kang would be okay. Masters of Evil? But here's the thing with them, hard to take the name seriously in the real world.. "So why are you Evil?" "Well, we mainly just want to beat up the Avengers, y'know..'because."



Thanos and Korvac are second tier to me. Besides, in a world where Thanos exists so might Starfox, one of the worst Avengers ever.

 

[MassHavoc]

so that is a no. That's not what I said