Oh, dear. Rock: It’s Your Decision.

That’s the one!

brilliant piece of cinema.

....then what about Christian rock groups? Or are they just trying to infiltrate the genre from within and thus destroy it?

CHRISTIAN ROCK IS INFLUENCED BY THE DEVIL.

They are in the service of Satan!

Just watched a terrible, terrible Christian film about how rock music is evil.

Couple films I have seen since December.
Hugo Who know a movie about movies would be interesting. I quite enjoyed the story, but the history lover in me was absolutely fascinated and I spent some time after reading around to see how much was about the film-maker was true.

The Descent Meh.

So unfortunately, I was a little distracted when watching, but I feel it was just kinda average. I am willing to watch some pretty fantastically flawed films if there is something in it I find intriguing (Dreamscape for instance- clearly technically limited, but there is something in it that allowed me to ignore its limitations and simply enjoy the story.) This one- Just kinda whatever.

William Tyndale God’s Outlaw. This is no major block-buster with slick production, but I felt it was competently and simply told. I rather enjoyed this one- only an hour long.

MirrorMask Yes! Neil Gaimon is perhaps my favourite storyteller that I have never read a single book of his (also watched Coraline.) This is one of those films that has something intriguing about it that carries me all the way through. Maybe there’s flaws in it, I don’t know. But I really like being carried away into another world with bizarre rules, dream-like or otherwise just a little on the psychadelic side (Brazil amongst others.)

Rear Window. How I love that movie. (And now my dormmates love it too!)

Finally got up my thoughts on Brave, sorry for the delay.

Just watched a terrible, terrible Christian film

Isn’t that redundant? (nah, j/k, there are SOME that are starting to improve, but i still offends me how often people think the “right religion” can cover for things like “plot” or “story” or “quality”)

It’s now officially confirmed that JJ Abrams will direct Star Wars: Episode VII.

Hmmm… so the death star’s beam will now shoot from an apple logo? (actually, not sure how I feel about it yet)

Finally watched Time Bandits on Netflix. Seems like a lot of the movie was an excuse for cameo fodder (that was awesome – at least Sean Connery was in one decent sci-fi movie*). Although the final battle did show a lot of imagination and how good practical effects really can be. Didn’t find it as funny as some people implied it was. I don’t know, Terry Gilliam is just like Tim Burton (or at least, classic Burton) to me. I don’t regret watching the movies, but they never affect me emotionally.

Oh, and on Chuck’s recommendation, watched the Hogfather tv movies. (aka the British do Nightmare before Christmas) I did enjoy that a lot (helped that Death’s granddaughter is freakin’ hot) and… yeah the match girl bit may be a little cheesy, but it still works, dammit!

Ho Ho Ho

*highlander is canceled out by highlander 2.

No, but based upon SF Debris’ recommendations, I may have to add Prachett to my 2-read list.

we’re going to get either John Williams or Michael Giacchino for the score. Maybe both.

I’m okay with this.

What I’m concerned about isn’t the visuals. We all know Abrams can do gorgeous visuals, and no matter what you think about the prequels, the designs did look like Star Wars. So that stuff’s all fine. I’m purely worried about the story. It just needs to be great, is all.

I first heard about 7-9 several years ago and always thought it was a pity that, you know, they never were going to actually get made. It does seem very surreal to be told that yes, they really are getting made.

And now a word from cracked.

But it’s from Cody Johnson! (lol j/k, he’s totally right)

You know, I used to be kind of cold to Wall-E.
Leave it to SF debris to change my mind:
http://blip.tv/sf-debris-opinionated-reviews/wall-e-review-part-1-6516184
http://blip.tv/sf-debris-opinionated-reviews/wall-e-review-part-2-6516198

Lucas has always said EU wasn’t quite canon. I doubt they’re going to make much effort to make them align… sadly.

On the plus side, all this discussion has gotten me to reread the Thrawn Trilogy. Which I maintain is great.

KYLE KATARN FOR THE WIN!!! (seriously I loved the dark forces series)

His beard destroys planets.

Actually I’m hoping they would do the Star Wars Legacy route and just have the stories take places a generation or two after the first 3. (in SW:L case, it’s story is with Cade Skywalker, Luke’s grandson and luke shows up as a force ghost)

Rocky….

I endorse your ideas.

I feel like we did, and then it fell into obscurity.

Go with Hansel and Gretel. SLP is . . . well, it’s almost good.

It’s the “indie drama with funniness derived from interactions” type genre. Which is odd, because all the trailers and the poster make it look like a film about a stalker or something.

Going to try and get to a movie this weekend: Hansel & Gretel, or Silver Linings Playbook?

Everything I’ve heard says you’ll get exactly what you expect out of H&G.

Which is why I’d love to go see it.

And look, this is SLP in 10 minutes. There, I saved you a twenty.

I’m really interested in both, honestly. SLP has Jennifer Lawrence, who I’ve heard very good things about but never yet seen. H&G looks absolutely hilarious, plus has hunky Jeremy Renner (yes, I dragged a cousin and his friend to see Bourne Legacy for this reason. Shush, they thought it was because I was being considerate and taking them to a movie with car chases).

I heard SLP was pretty stupid and involved less Jennifer Lawrence and more Bradley Cooper. Bradley Cooper is only average on the Hollywood scale of Hunkdom (almost unattractive), but Jennifer Lawrence is gorgeous and a better actor. His character also sounds like a self-involved moron who shouldn’t take up so much time in the movie, but his bullshit makes the heroine do stupid things.

EDIT: It also features Robert De Niro in another one of his stupid old men roles. When is he going to be in something halfway decent again?

Dear god…

It makes Twilight seem watchable.

Because Jesus + music = Supposedly wholesome?

I finally got around to seeing V for Vendetta.

It was okay.

WOW. Seriously? How/why is naked for so long???

No, not seriously. I was exaggerating for effect. I probably should’ve picked a bigger number, though. Romeo’s ass is still onscreen for an uncomfortably long time, though. It’s Roadhouse-esque.

As my English teacher put it, “Don’t worry, it’s not frontal nudity. Just really ugly man butt.”

My freshman English teacher said he had a cute butt. Most of the teachers at our school day fast-forwarded through the butt, but not mine. I believe that movie is still only PG because PG-13 was not around yet.

...We’ve discussed this scene before on here.

Really? Oh, that’s nice to hear. I was concerned it’d be stupid by trying to add all sorts of things to make it more “adult” or something that wouldn’t work at all.

Haha, that sounds pretty good.

I bought it because Mila Kunis made me buy it.

I finally saw Pulp Fiction.

Just watched Wreck-It Ralph and loved it. Laughed a lot, and the plot, while cheesy and formulaic, was good. (A lot of the laughs were slapstick, though I like slapstick—especially one scene in particular with Calhoun that still makes me giggle. Though I do wonder what my opinion on it would be if I wasn’t able to recognize 90% of the characters from real video games; I had to explain a few to my girlfriend, like the use of:

I was surprised they went through with the Detective Essen subplot.

Did they really? I thought that was an important part of the original story, to be honest (it adds a lot of depth to Jim—he’s no more an angel than anybody else, just he takes responsibility for his misdoings), but it seems like the first thing to be lost if things were being cut.

I did hear it was a good adaptation, though, so I guess what they thought was important was the same as me. :) And a ruination of suspense is almost inevitable when it comes to any direct adaptation.

lilyWhite, I just watched Wreck-It Ralph too! I was expecting good old cheesy comedy, but…wow. Nobody told me that it would break your heart. I can add this one to my “almost cried” list.

Also, I totally agree that if you don’t understand the references, it’s not funny. My friend’s not a gamer, so she didn’t get many of the references.

I saw it last week. I’d never heard of it before watching it and had no idea what it was about, but I ended up really enjoying it. It’s quite long and difficult to see any significant relationship between the separate storylines until nearly the very end, but each of the threads is interesting and thought-provoking in it’s own way, and the characterization is super interesting considering the six or eight main actors were recycled into an amazing variety of roles in each respective time period. I’d recommend it.

Note – I watched a Russian bootlegged version of it with Korean subtitles, so I feel like maybe I missed some of the storyline that might have actually had English subtitles in the American version (the parts where someone’s speaking a foreign language and the parts set in the future where the English dialect is super super hard to understand). So you’ll probably be better off.

They are better than anything else you’d be seeing instead.

Really? (Not being sarcastic, I’m just curious).

Most probably. Kurosawa owns.

To Netflix I go.

But did you see the… BAT CREDIT CARD???

First review of The Host I’ve come across. In short, it’s shit. But you already knew that – it’s based off a Stephanie Meyer book.

I watched Up in the Air last night.

It was very disappointing. It reminded me of The Life of Pi in that it tried to use its “quirkiness” and “life lessons” to distract you from how lackluster, empty and flat the plot and story is. George Clooney was excellent, of course, as was Anna Kendrick, but the story was boring and the ending just felt like a slap in the face.

Would not recommend.

I saw the newest Die Hard movie last night. At first, I was confused about what was going on plot-wise, and then things started blowing up and everything made sense again. But I’ve never seen so many cars destroyed in such a short period of time.

I think I have a new favorite website.

(now if I can just get my internet fixed)

It felt kind of awkward and clunky in chunks, but overall liked it. Much better than the book.

Yeah… i complained about how there were a few culture notes that really should have been ironed out first. It’s not a bad movie, but some plot details needed more work.

But I’ve never seen so many cars destroyed in such a short period of time.

You’ve never watched Blues Brothers?

Ah.

103 cars were wrecked during filming. At time of release, this was a world record, not beaten until 104 cars were wrecked in filming ‘Blues Brothers 2000 (1998)’.

source

I was just having a conversation about that movie today, coincidentally enough, and the very thing I mentioned was that I hoped the 3D would be done well! Glad to hear it was. :)

Awww, I’m glad it’s good. My brother went to see it yesterday and he was really excited about it, because he used to be OBSESSED with dinosaurs.