Watching Spanman and Rocky bicker is, in my opinion, better then watching any movie.

They just need to admit their repressed love for one another and get it over with.

... in wuv.

I’m too good for hearing aids. Obviously.

Sorry, I was actually talking about hearing aids for the elderly, a demographic to which I don’t belong. Much as everyone here would like to believe it.

Look! We agree on something!

The Bum heartily recommends it. In fact, it’s the greatest movie he’s ever seen in his life!

In Humanities we saw half of Life is Beautiful. I absolutely LOVED it, but I missed the end because I was pulled out of class for testing. Now I must rent it and finish!

The big problem I have with it is the theme about Ariel wanting to become human. Sorry, but the idea of a mermaid changing her species, changing her fundamental identity, sounds uncannily like a black person wanting to become white or a homosexual wanting to become straight.

THE PRINCE CAN’T LIVE UNDERWATER. Also, since when does someone’s outward appearance constitute their “fundamental identity”?

I still have no idea why I was allowed to watch that as a kid. There is OBJECTIONABLE CONTENT. Yeah.

Just saw The Little Mermaid Avatar on Youtube. I didn’t like this movie when I was a kid, an adult, and I dislike it even more now that I’ve seen it as an adult. a slightly older adult. The big problem I have with it is the theme about Ariel Jake wanting to become human. furry. Sorry, but the idea of a mermaid human changing her his species, changing her his fundamental identity, sounds uncannily like a black white person wanting to become white a noble savage stereotype that never actually existed or a homosexual nondeviant wanting to become straight. furry. Wouldn’t a better moral have been “be content with who you are”? Besides, it’s not like life on land in America is much better than marine fictional state of nature life. Both the terrestrial civilized and ocean savage worlds have their hardships.

Also, “Poor Unfortunate Souls” is the worst villain song I’ve ever heard.

OK, I’ll accept a mermaid changing her species so she can be with a human prince, but there’s still the problem of how rushed the romance in The Little Mermaid is. Eric and Ariel seem to fall in love in a period of only three days, even though Ariel can’t even speak. They never get to know each other very well at all. At least it takes many days for Jake to fall in love with Neytiri in Avatar.

And I stand by my opinion that “Poor Unfortunate Souls” is terrible.

how rushed the romance (...) Eric and Ariel seem to fall in love in a period of only three days

Dan in Real Life disagrees with you.

Well, I slightly agree with Brandon. I mean, I was totally obsessed with loved The Little Mermaid as a kid, and then I watched it again when I was thirteen and I did find it somewhat silly. On the other hand, I haven’t experienced this with Aladdin or Beauty and the Beast, so it’s not just Disney movies.

(Before you all lynch me, I do still have a lasting fondness for it, and I still want gloriously floating red hair like Ariel’s. And I never saw the Avatar connections till now. The applications just never end, do they?)

Oh, okay then. XP

My brother used to watch those all the time!

But I liked the sequels! D:

I loved The Land Before Time more than I can really express in words when I was a kid. Fortunately, I never saw the sequels(as if such things existed anyway, right?) so my memories remain untarnished.

I actually enjoyed some of the sequels, though the sheer number of them (I believe there are thirteen currently out) is mind-boggling.

Had some spare time this weekend, so went to go see Four Lions. Whilst funny, it wasn’t as funny as Charlie Brooker had promised me.

But it was still brilliant and totally worth London cinema prices.

MOLDORM, go see it. :3

8D The trailer still makes me laugh, it’s been editted so well.

The Land Before Time

I loved the original, and the first three or four sequels I enjoyed also. After that, it got ridiculous.

^^I just looked it up. That’s terrible. I like what they put on her headstone though: “J.E.B. – Our Concrete Angel – Yep Yep Yep”.

I watched Clue on LOGO today. Whenever I watch anything on that channel, I always try to figure out why it’s on that channel (unless it’s blatantly obvious). The only reason I can think of for Clue is that at the beginning, Mr. Green says that he’s gay, but then at the end he really isn’t.

Yes! I have seen it before, several times. I have it on DVD. It’s just so ridiculous that it has to be amazing. I like watching it with all the endings.

Dr Horrible’s Sing-A-Long Blog. Twas hilarious and the songs are quite catchy.

And NPH Is flipping adorable. As soon as I saw him, I went: Awwwwwwww.

And he’s got a really nice singing voice.

I saw Orphan the other day. It was the typical mildly ridiculous creepy kid movie. The twist at the end was pretty unique though. I was surprised.

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is hilarious.

I think my favorite quip was:

Is this it? [referring to a body wrapped in a sheet]

No, this is the corpse from the guy that was living here before.

Woah, Spanman and Rocky agreed on something?

As far as historacal context goes…

And the score was fantastic; Marc Streitenfeld is now on my watch list.

I’m really bad at noticing soundtracks the first time I watch films. However, I did notice the costumes, and found the majority of them, namely Marian’s and most of the male cast’s, to be wonderfully amazing.

They’re showing Aliens on SyFy. They’re actually showing a movie that doesn’t suck on SyFy. That happens less and less these days.

I just watched Moon. It was alright. I’m a bit confused though…It was really interesting and original though. I’m just a little confused. It felt unresolved.

Cloverfield. Interesting.

I enjoyed it, its far better than the other Riddick movie

Oh, indeed. Pitch Black was a good movie; The Chronicles of Riddick was like an awful fanfiction. So, the only reason that Riddick was so awesome was that he was a “Furyan” (retarded name, by the way) and couldn’t help it? Good job taking him down a notch, movie. The Necromongers are worthless villains with their pseudo-Renaissance aesthetic and general ponciness, and the mountains of contrived “mythos” surrounding them make me retch. (“Underverse”? Really?) How come that old lady can turn into wind, but can’t escape the Necromongers by blowing away? Why does Crematoria (real subtle naming there) have such a drastic temperature difference between its hemispheres if it has an atmosphere capable of supporting life? (Such an atmosphere would greatly equalize heat distribution – you know, like the one that we have in the real world.) Riddick’s one-liners are terrible. (“It’s been a long time since I’ve smelled beautiful.”) Most shots of New Mecca and the Necromonger tower-ship-things are unconvincingly shaded and look very much like the computer renderings that they are. Finally, the ending with Riddick taking over the Necromonger army is just ludicrous – if his lost Furyan heritage didn’t already make him look like a bad OC, Riddick’s newfound command certainly does.

So, yeah, I pretty much hated the movie.

...really?

Really. They wear suits of armor, fly around in giant sword handles, drain planets of “life” by impaling them with their spaceships, enslave entire populations by driving “pain spikes” through their necks, worship death and agony, and continually search for a parallel world called the “Underverse” that they can rule. Only a Furyan can defeat them, and Riddick is the last of his kind (another “bad OC” trait that I should have mentioned earlier).

As awful as it sounds here, it’s even worse in the movie itself.

The worst part is that it was made by the same guy who did Pitch Black in the first place. It’s like George Lucas following up A New Hope with The Phantom Menace, only The Phantom Menace takes the place of The Empire Strikes Back, and it consists entirely of midi-chlorians and Jar Jar.

Chronicles of Riddick is entertaining, but really bad nonetheless.

I just saw the new Robin Hood with Russel Crowe.

I want Errol Flynn back.

sighs

Watched a bit of Trainspotting at HIstory class. Not even 20 minutes in, and most of the class was averting their eyes and looking for brain bleach.

I just saw Robin Hood. It was….ok, I guess.

My complaints:

I’m pretty sure King Richard came back home after the crusades and then marched out again to France, where he died. But he did die in France.

John signed the friggin magna carter!

It was a very typical guy action movie. I mean, I do like that it’s a different angle on Robin Hood. It wasn’t that it was cliched, exactlly….just very typical. I think the problem is that there’s not sense of urgence, because we KNOW that Robin Hood, his merry men, and Maid Marian don’t die.

Russell Crowe is a good actor. HOWEVER, He’s a bit too old (and a smidge to fat) to be Robin Hood. I mean, he’s still hot and all, (and I still squeed at his shirtless scene. Much to the annoyance of my brother and dad) but….at least, unlike some Robin Hoods, he actually has an English accent. (except for when it slips and he’s Australian)

Why are the nobles portayed as good, sweet, perfect people who treated their peasants like people? Cuz they didn’t. The Fedual system kind of sucked….

Anyway, it wasn’t a bad movie and I enjoyed it (if only for Russell Crowe being hot…ish.). It’s not something I’d watch again, but definately a good way to waste an evening. My verdict: see it, and then forget about it.

he actually has an English accent.

Ahahah. That’s kind of funny as:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/russell-crowe-walks-out-over-irish-robin-hood-question-1973427.html

Researchers have suggested—and most of the linguistics world agrees— that cultivated (noble) English in the late 1100s would have been closest to a Yorkshire accent. So John’s accent in the movie was probably closest to historical accuracy. The rest of the actors just applied modern accents to over-one-thousand-years-ago.

Of course, now I’m just being pedantic.

Taku, I really love you right now.

Just sayin’

However, I’m finding myself wanting to see it, I’m trying to stay away from it.

Also Taku, Robin of Locksely/Loxley is only a preference/ what version you read. There is the possiblility he was Huntington/Huntingdon- and then his name was Robert. I also rember a version in which he was actually an Earl who defended his wife-to-be(Marian) and ended up accidentally killing a man. He was a taxcollector of some sort, and in the end he was outlawed, and eventually Marian ran away, and they still got married. Butr, Like I said- It depends on the version. :)