...ok, Edmund is kinda hot (though old!Edmund from Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe was hotter). Also, Lucy is still fricking adorable.

Thirded. ;P

Really? I find Peter rather boring.

I saw it too. It was pretty cute and had a lot of action, but it still wasn’t up to par with the first one. But you know me; I’ll get teary-eyed on anything. And Spanish Buzz was pretty lulzy, too.

I loved Dawn Treader, I can’t wait to see it.

I was bored last night, so I watched DOA: Dead or Alive.

And despite all the gratuitous shots and the under-developed plot, I really, really enjoyed it. Then I found out it was based on a game :)

Nathan Fillion should be in every movie. So should Samuel L. Jackson.

Slightly off-topic comment: I was watching Independence Day the other day, and it struck me that Will Smith looks exactly like the Green Lantern John Stewart.

Pics:

I’m not denying that Ryan Reynolds as Hal Jordan will be pretty cool, but… I’ve never been a huge Hal Jordan fan anyway, so why not start with John Stewart? (it comes of watching too much of the Justice League cartoon and only starting to read JLA after Hal was already, you know, semi-dead.)

@ swenson: Because Hal Jordan is the human Green Lantern. Jordan was the first GL from Earth (Golden Age GL doesn’t count – he wasn’t part of the Green Lantern Corps). He’s the one they used in every DC direct-to-DVD movie. I’m pretty sure the only reason they went with John Stewart in Justice League was to be PC. (/end geek rant)

Anyway, I think the point is to drag in some of the older geeks. I watched Justice League too, but going with Stewart in the film would be kinda like making a Batman film in ten years with Dick Grayson as Batman.

Also, a movie with Dick Grayson as Batman would be AWESOME!’

I could see it. Batman, too old and feeble (or dead) to carry on the mission, leaves his uniform to Robin, who takes up the mantle to keep striking fear into the hearts of criminals…

Yeah, but Batman Beyond didn’t have Dick Grayson as Batman.

@Apep

Yeah, but Batman Beyond didn’t have Dick Grayson as Batman.

True; I was just thinking of the similar concept.

Guys, it’s already been done. Like, ten years ago. Batman Beyond.

See the picture I hotlinked above. That’s Bruce Wayne in Batman Beyond. Considering the level of technology Gotham has in that series (as coimmonplace), he must be nearly 200 years old at least.

Yeah, I always wondered how technology got advanced that fast, because Bruce was only supposed to be about 80.

Best in a long, long line of wonderfully mis-interpret-able lines from the Justice League cartoon:
Amanda Waller: Bruce left his DNA all over town.
Terry: O.o…
Amanda: Not even remotely what I meant!

Eh. Fair point.

Plus, I keep looking at all these movies I liked as a kid, and they’re all pretty dark…

That means you have substance, kid. Look on it as a good thing. puts on cool sunnies

And those cool sunnies are there for more reasons than one. I just saw the last Matrix movie, and I’m sorry to all those who don’t think so but it was EPIC! Like, EPIC! with a double K. And ‘epic’ doesn’t even have a double K. That’s how epic it was.

Alice in Wonderland was pretty…. And just about nothing else, but I still liked it. <3 Mad Hatter. :D

What are these “sequels” you talk of? The Matrix was a brilliant movie, but the Wachowski siblings both suffered terrible heart attacks shortly after its release in 1999.

Talking about a Matrix sequel is almost as silly as the thought of a live-action Transformers movie. Simply ridiculous.

Indeed. I wouldn’t mind a gritty reboot of the Beast Wars saga, but the original Transformers aren’t bad.

On an unrelated note, everybody talks of the Wachowski Brothers as the minds behind The Matrix, but actually it is one man and one girl. Lana (or Larry) Wachowski apparent left her wife for a professional dominatrix (who in tern left her husband for Lana).

Aha! All the shiny skintight leather Trinity wore has been explained.

What? What? NOOOO, Howard, don’t go to the dark side!

I just watched The Haunting in Connecticut. It was a run of the mill horror movie, nothing special, and not really scary either IMO. The acting was pretty good, I’ll them that, but the “scares” were just loud noises and ghosts popping up suddenly. There was some disturbing imagery, but not really scary. I was disappointed. I didn’t think I’d like it, but I figured it would be scary.

The Illusionist was the awesomest. Loved it. :D Oh, and the fact that Edward Norton was in it helped. :D

I thought that The Illusionist was okay, but Jessica Biel bugs me.

So… you’re one of them.

If you come back and tell use that you like 1-3 and didn’t like 4-6 then I will have to put you in the group of people who think Star Wars is about lightsabers.

Revenge of the Sith wasn’t as bad as the other prequels, but Hayden Christiansen’s acting managed to still ruin everything. Then again, I don’t like Return of the Jedi all that much either. Empire Strikes Back is awesome, and A New Hope is nice too…but those Ewoks. shudders Way to cheapen your space opera, Lucas.

Moving away from Star Wars, saw the end of the Pacino version of Scarface...very bloody. At least now I know where ‘Say hello to my little friend’ comes from.

Rather, and I adored the Twins. Dang! want to watch it again now, it’s been so long.

then I will have to put you in the group of people who think Star Wars is about lightsabers.

raises hand

The Illusionist was the awesomest. Loved it. :D Oh, and the fact that Edward Norton was in it helped. :D

Loved it so much! I have it on DVD and watch it at night so my siblings don’t groan about how much I watch it. Because it’s awesome. And I’m usually not surprised by endings, but that one surprised me. Also, young!Eisenheim is cute.

Away From Me. Sooooo sad, but soooooo good. ;.;

You can’t blame Hayden Christensen for everything wrong with the Anakin character. Most of his lines were so ham-fisted and terrible they made the corniest eye-rollers from the OT(lines which I still love, by the way) sound like dialogue from The Wire.

I saw Eragon in Tesco the other week for only £3. I was so very tempted. Can you imagine the drinking games? It would be rad.

:D Well, I’m not going to get the DVD for free anytime soon. And it is so very, very, very funny.

I almost want to hear lines like “I HAVE SKILLZ” again.

YEAH. How can you dislike the movie with such magical lines like that?

...Ok, you guys have convinced me, I’ll go back and buy it.

I should know. I was a rabid fan at the time.

Ditto this. I was really pissed off by the movie when it came out. Now that I am no longer a rabid fan, I could probably enjoy the unintentional humor in it.

I was never a fan, but I was one of those twats that bitched about a book or a movie before ever reading it.

I watch it for the lulz as well.

BUT SHUTTER ISLAND IS THE WIN.

I knew halfway through, but my mind is weird like that. I can call plots really easily.

But it’s REALLY good.

There is one explosion, but it makes perfect sense in context.

Well, explosions are okay when mixed with a real story. I think I read something about how a lot of people were confused by it, so they didn’t like (or that could’ve been about Seven Pounds), but that makes it seem more appealing to me because that means you actually have to pay attention.

I don’t remember the trailers…. I probably didn’t pay very close attention.

Sigh. This is what happens when you live on the other side of the world.

If you come back and tell use that you like 1-3 and didn’t like 4-6 then I will have to put you in the group of people who think Star Wars is about lightsabers.

Um, no. I liked 4, didn’t like 5-6, haven’t seen 1-3. I’m abandoning all caution to the wind and saying “Make of that what you will”.

Why does nobody like Revolutions? makes sad face

I guess my main complaints with the movies was that they were so slow, you could skip three chapters at a time and still know what was going on, and nobody on the bad side (you know, soldiers who were actually trained for this) seemed to be accurate with their shooting, whereas Princess Leia could kill like five guys in five shots, River Tam style. It didn’t make sense.

It sucks, because I really wanted so much to like it.

The Starfighters is the worst, most boring movie I have ever seen ever. It was on the Myster Science Theater 3000 that I was watching on Hulu. Even with the commentary, which was hilarious at times, it was still boring. The commentary only served to keep me from screaming and generally losing my mind. Nothing happened in the whole damn thing. Nothing! I had never seen that show before. I’ll watch another one tomorrow. I made a poor choice in selecting a first episode. The refueling jokes were pretty good though.

What Spanman said.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Trailer

Ooh, I watched one trailer yesterday (don’t know if it’s the one you’re talking about), and I want to see it RIGHT NOW... both parts.

That is the trailer that I saw. I’m not sure about the 3D thing though. I might have to see it in both.

Personally, the fifth movie annoyed me the most. They cut out all the Quidditch stuff. And six, while entertaining, changed/left out some stuff too. And the ending of six really pissed me off…

I liked one and two also, and they were true to the books, even though I read the books after I saw those two movies.

STOP MAKING CRAP UP!

I agree. Enough happens in the books that is left out to fill in all the parts that are full of stuff that didn’t happen the books. They shouldn’t have to make up filler. Regardless of not being completely true to the books, I still love the movies because they haven’t been untrue enough to make me not love them, just enough to mildly annoy me and induce after movie bitching about how “that’s not what happened in the book.” Then I buy it on DVD when it comes out anyway.

I missed a bunch of stuff in six because I didn’t remember the book that well. I need to reread them before watching seven, so I’ll know all the butchering that is taking place, but with two movies, there shouldn’t be as much butchering as usual.

@NeuroticPlatypus

I had never seen that show before. I’ll watch another one tomorrow. I made a poor choice in selecting a first episode.

My favorites are Pumaman, Manos: The Hands of Fate, Prince of Space, Hercules againt the Moon Men, and Pod People. You’d do well to watch them.

@Dan
I will keep those in mind.