I have not seen it. I wasn’t anxious to in the first place, and some reviews have confirmed that it will probably not be my cup of tea.

At least, not enough to warrant a movie ticket. Unless any imps want to buy mine to force me to go with them. XD

Reading the book did not incline me to see *The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo* at the cinema, but I certainly wouldn't give money to an American remake of something made overseas the year before. Same with *Let the Right One In* -- Chloe Grace Moretz is a fine actress, but I refuse to see her in the remake.

At least with Daniel Craig as the lead, the number of women the character nails makes some degree of sense. As the schlubby middle-aged book version, it’s pretty transparent wish-fulfillment.

I just watched Tintin in 3D, and wow. Just. Wow.
The flashbacks are amazing. I can truly saw that I have never seen a flashback scene so well done. Not in a live action, not in an animation.
The actors and voices are perfect, the music is lovely. My only complaint was that the villain [whatever his name was] was badly done. His part would have worked better with shorter, snappier sentences, and less long, cliched speeches.

Sorry for the double post.

So, I just saw Henry V with Kenneth Brannagh. I must say the following: utterly amazing. Years ago I read the play, but I had never seen it performed. I know Brannagh has the tendency to over-act (come to think on it, it seems a lot of Shakespearean actors have that tendency), but when he gave the Speech on St. Crispin’s Day, I got goosebumps. Beautiful.¹

¹ I know saying that a movie about war is “beautiful” probably classifies me as some sort of psycho, but this truly was. The intensity of the human emotion, the brutality of medieval warfare (although this managed to be relatively bloodless while still maintaining a raw quality), the sense of triumph and of tragedy. Seriously, it was a beautiful movie.

I dragged my husband off to see Tintin. We both really enjoyed it. The chase scene through Bagghar was very impressive.

Did you read the book?

Speaking of movies based on books, what did you guys think of Stardust? It came out in what, 2009? and was based on Neil Gaiman’s novel of the same name. I never read the book myself (a friend did and said it wasn’t as good as the movie and cited reasons I agreed with), but I really, really liked the movie. Especially the final battle, which felt awesome without being silly. But it was a couple years ago that I saw the movie, so shrug.

*Thomas Crown Affair* (the old one with Faye Dunaway and Steve McQueen) is one of those movies where the pictures are really gorgeous and the acting is good, but the story is preposterous and far too difficult to follow. Sometimes the pictures are cool in a way that doesn't serve any purposee, like having Dunaway, McQueen and some other guy have a conversation reflected in a series of shop windows in a way that looks very difficult to photograph but doesn't add anything to the dialogue or the ideas discussed. There's even a scene where Faye Dunaway and Steve McQueen stand in front of a window and her face is cut in half by a pole behind the glass, which in a non-reflected photograph would be ugly.

The blatant symbolism of the chess game was lovely.

EDIT: When I said "with Faye Dunaway and Steve McQueen", I neglected to mention their other co-star, Faye Dunaway's hairpieces. Most excellently ridiculous hairpieces. They deserve third billing.

^^ Ditto.

I’ve had it in my bookshelf for years, but I’ve never gotten around to reading it… maybe I never will. D:

Black Lightning. If possible, it was even more awesome than the hilarious premise warranted: basically it was a Russian crossover of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Spiderman, with absolutely the best of both worlds.

I dragged my husband off to see Tintin. We both really enjoyed it. The chase scene through Bagghar was very impressive.

My godmother and I went to see it together, and we both really enjoyed it too! I have never seen animation that good; they looked like real people, except for the silly noses, hehe :P The music was fun, and most of all, it was very clear that the directors had a lot of respect for the source material. Some of the shots looked as if they had been lifted off the page! But of course, Peter Jackson was involved, so I’m not surprised :P

Speaking of respecting source material…I really hate saying this, but Stardust was one of those very rare situations where the movie was much better than the book. Normally, even if I’ve watched the movie first, I prefer the book…but Neil Gaiman’s ending made me very frowny-faced for the rest of the day. I won’t say anything more, but the ending was possibly the biggest literary letdown I’ve ever encountered, and it turned me off Neil Gaiman for quite a long time.

Banlieue 13. I think I’ve seen it like four times before but every time I watch it I’m more amazed by how badass David Bell and Cyril Raffaelli are.

Spanman, is that the parkour movie?

That was awesome.

In English it’s called District B13, I think. It’s on Netflix Instant, if you’ve got that.

There are trailers and longish clips on Youtube to give you a feel for it.

ALSO Last of the Mohicans is a must-watch R-rated movie. Just sayin’.

^ Well played.

We watched ‘Billy Madison’ in Civics.

Was this because the teacher didn’t have anything planned for the day, or did the teacher somehow tie that movie into Civics? (Please, please let it be the former)

OK, that’s a relief. I’m still sorry you had to suffer through it, though.

Reminds me of when I watched _Clash of the Titans_ for my Mythology class.

My teacher actually quizzed us on what was actual Greek myth and what wasn't.

And useful.

Unlike some of my experiences with movies in class. What exactly does the movie Atlantis: the Lost Empire have to do with a Latin class?

Nice, Rocky. Very clever.

Has anybody seen Hugo? It looks like a really good movie, but I don’t have the time to go and see every movie that looks good based on its trailer.

I saw part of Pan’s Labyrinth in my Spanish class, funnily enough. It seemed good.

Well, it’s in Spanish, so at least that makes sense. But I’m surprised you saw it in school. It definitely merits that R-rating (unless you saw it in college, which is different than high school).

It’s a great movie. I just finished watching it and the end made me bawl.

I remember liking that movie (though I haven’t seen it since I was rather young), so maybe the teacher just wanted to share a good movie/a movie that he or she liked?

bq. Rocky: now you just need to tie in Kevin Bacon and you’ll effectively have a Unified Field Theory.

I'll have to reverse my chain to do so. Latin was spoken in ancient Rome, which was founded by Romulus and Remus, characters upon which the Star Trek species of Romulans were inspired, who share a common ancestry with Vulcans, among whom a prominent example is Spock, played almost exclusively by Leonard Nimoy, who voiced the king in _Atlantis: The Lost Empire_ alongside James Garner as the voice of Rourke, who just so happened to co-star in _Maverick_ with Jodie Foster, who is perhaps best remember for her turn in _The Silence of the Lambs_, which co-starred Scott Glenn as her boss, who was recently seen in _The Bourne Ultimatum_ along with Matt Damon, who was in the recent remake of _True Grit_, which co-starred Josh Brolin who, back in 2000, was cast in a sci-fi thriller called _Hollow Man_ which starred--you guessed it--Kevin Bacon.

Rocky, you have officially blown my mind. Truely, your greatness knows no bounds.

STAR WARS UNCUT IS FINALLY OUT WHOOO!

For those who don’t know, allow me to enlighten you. It’s a fan-made project in which they split up Episode IV into 15-second chunks and then allowed people to recreate their own versions of that fifteen seconds. They’ve now taken the “best” clips and hooked them together to create the full movie, and it is awesome. I’m about halfway through it so far and it is just incredible. There’s been musical numbers, puppets, animals, live action, incredibly intricate hand-drawn animation, Princess Leia with literal Honey Buns attached to the side of her head… you get the picture. Watch it here (or on Youtube somewhere, I guess).

Thought it was sad that although SPOILERS

I’m pro-spoiler tags and all, but literally everybody knows this twist.

Every single person. All of them.

I’m pro-spoiler tags and all, but literally everybody knows this twist.

I had no idea. I thought I was the only spoiled person around, especially since one of the people I watched it with had never seen it before and had no idea.

Banlieue 13: Ultimatum. Not as much parkour as it’s predecessor, and some ridiculous bits, but still awesome.

Superpowered Gauls? Feel free to start a discussion about them. They were my gateway into the comic world.

Watched Lorenzo’s Oil again today. Sarandon’s character is so fierce. In a good way.

Ooh, good, more movies. my list grows ever longer:) [and I have practically no time to watch any of them :( ]

I just watched Spaceballs. I was cringing all the way through, but I think I caught all of the references to sci-fi movies. geeky high five!
And then I watched The Boat That Rocked. Loved it. Hilarious, great soundtrack, stellar actors and all round awesomeness!

Yeah, I need to watch that too :)

Spaceballs sucks. It’s stuck in its own decade, with its few jokes being consumed by a barrage of abhorrent pop culture references.

I AGREE WITH MARQUIS.

I hated that movie. Star Wars is a self-parody sometimes, for crying out loud. It is so corny!

Was that on cracked? That was a good theory. Unfortunately it made the whole movie terribly depressing. Apparently that’s what comes with internally consistent logic. Same deal with Taxi Driver.

bq. Was that on cracked? That was a good theory. Unfortunately it made the whole movie terribly depressing.

It might've been originally, but I read it on the movie's Wiki page.

Last night, I watched High Crimes. It was a confusing movie that forced me to stop and go back so that I could get my story straight. This is definitely a movie that requires your full attention.

So I found a reference somewhere to an ’87 movie called Bestseller, so I went to look it up on netflix. Well, they didn’t have it, but they did have a Korean movie of the same name. The description wasn’t right, but it was so awesome! I really, really fell in love the movie, and the characters broke my heart.

Good thing I didn’t read the reviews first, because I disagreed. 1) I think they wanted to watch something other than what the movie was (which, fair enough, but on it’s own terms its* rather subtle, I think, in some ways) and 2) they wouldn’t use proper grammar or spelling or punctuation. Yes this is the internet, but I AM going to judge you. :P

• hah, I FIXED it!

Ouch.

Naw, I make plenty of typos too. Typos are fun.

If you would have speeled one of those as “typoo” I would have given you mad cred. Alas.

That’s too obvious, you have to be subtIe.

Putting in a typo in my sentence would’ve been super cliche.

I have no plans to see it since it stars everyone’s favorite Australian charisma-void Sam Worthington, but I can’t help but feel Man on a Ledge would be improved if it had Sam Jackson yelling about having had it with this motherfucking man on this motherfucking ledge.