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[lustindarkness]

UP, Pixar does it again, extremely well done movie. Watched it on Fathers Day, reminded me a lot of my Dad and my Father in Law, made me cry. The Disney 3D is great too.

[Neil]

Watching through season 2 of "Torchwood". Best exchange so far:

Gwen: Have you ever eaten Alien meat?
Jack: Yeah
Gwen: How was it?
Jack: Well, *he* seemed to enjoy it.

Faggotry, in sci fi?

Devastating.  Anti-genre.

[BuddhaRhubarb]

Crucified Moose

How did that work? 

nails, rope, cross, moose.

I get that, but a Moose is fucking heavy, how does a preteen boy manage that?

Oh he just sees it. The kid doesn't crucify the moose. That's an adult job, obviously.

[The Larch]

As part of the second day of gorging myself with films, tonight I saw X men Origins: Wolverine.

Holy shit it stinks! A festering turd! The first half is somehow decent, but at some point it nosedives and turns more ridiculous with every passing moment. Characters that are dropped in the story for no particular reason, fat suits worthy of an Austin Powers movie, choppy editing, ridiculous posses, cheap effects (I don't want to imagine how the rough version that got leaked looked like, considering this one had all the CGI and stuff), over the top action scenes and so on and so forth.

3 decapitated heads of mutants destroying cooling towers from nuclear plants with friggin' lasers coming out of its friggin' eyes out of 10.

At least I only had to pay 2€ to see it.

[CountDeMoney]

Army of Darkness is on right now.
God bless Mark Cuban for HDNet.

[Syt]

Saw Terminator 4 yesterday. Expected nothing and that's what I got. Mindless action strung together by a plot touching on topics like what it means to be human, and that the line between enemy and friend can be sometimes blurry, with a dash of Frankenstein's monster. I liked the general visual design of the film - the machines, the wasteland. Reminded me of Fallout 3 where the mutants were replaced by machines. The acting ruined it for me, though; the only passable character was Kyle Reese. The previous movies (T1&2) weren't exactly Shakespearean drama, either, but they were a lot less complex (efficient killing machine hunts protagonists through series of impossible situations), so it was no problem. T4 attempts too much and falls flat (and some hommages to the old movies were just painful), and some scenes, esp. the final scenes with all their pathos were just cringeworthy.

And I expected till the end that the old woman would turn out to be Sarah Connor.

4 Skynet complexes guarded by only a handful of Terminators out of 10.

[Syt]

Also: trailer for Pelham 123 - could be good, but another remake?

[BuddhaRhubarb]

Also: trailer for Pelham 123 - could be good, but another remake?

word on the street is

[jimmy olsen]

Also: trailer for Pelham 123 - could be good, but another remake?

word on the street is

That's too bad, the trailers looked good.

[katmai]

Also: trailer for Pelham 123 - could be good, but another remake?

word on the street is

Depends on what block you live on then i guess

[HisMajestyBOB]

Taking of Pelham 123 - decent action flick. Nothing special.
Night at the Museum 2 - for a Ben Stiller sequel, it was surprisingly enjoyable. Just turn off your brain and relax, and it's not too bad.

[Neil]

Night at the Museum 2 - for a Ben Stiller sequel, it was surprisingly enjoyable. Just turn off your brain and relax, and it's not too bad.

Anything that keeps him from turning out another awful romcom.

[Eddie Teach]

As part of the second day of gorging myself with films, tonight I saw X men Origins: Wolverine.

Holy shit it stinks! A festering turd! The first half is somehow decent, but at some point it nosedives and turns more ridiculous with every passing moment. Characters that are dropped in the story for no particular reason, fat suits worthy of an Austin Powers movie, choppy editing, ridiculous posses, cheap effects (I don't want to imagine how the rough version that got leaked looked like, considering this one had all the CGI and stuff), over the top action scenes and so on and so forth.

I think I saw the rough version. :pinchL Looked like somebody had put it together on their home computer for a couple thousand bucks.

[The Larch]

As part of the second day of gorging myself with films, tonight I saw X men Origins: Wolverine.

Holy shit it stinks! A festering turd! The first half is somehow decent, but at some point it nosedives and turns more ridiculous with every passing moment. Characters that are dropped in the story for no particular reason, fat suits worthy of an Austin Powers movie, choppy editing, ridiculous posses, cheap effects (I don't want to imagine how the rough version that got leaked looked like, considering this one had all the CGI and stuff), over the top action scenes and so on and so forth.

I think I saw the rough version. :pinchL Looked like somebody had put it together on their home computer for a couple thousand bucks.

It was so bad with the CGI on, I don't want to imagine how terrible it must have been without them. 

Tonight it was Angels and Demons' turn:

Entertaining film, even if it had terrible plot holes and unexplained leaps. At least the pace was good, tension was nicely built and the plot twist made for a more interesting ending than the one it seemed. The characters could do with more depth and tension, but the movie could survive without them. Rome was shown in quite a good way, and the prevalence of monuments was a huge plus.

5 antimatter explosions with religious overtones over the Roman sky out of 10.

[Admiral Yi]

Traitor.  Don Cheadle is a ex-Special Forces half Sudanese American who [spoiler] goes deep cover to infiltrate jihadists and joins Yemeni jihadists in a plot to bring bloody Mohammaden vengence to US shores. 

Much like Zohan (nonononono) it's passable as entertainment but more interesting as a cultural artifact.  Hollywood's attempt to draw the line between Good Muslims and Bad Muslims.