Last movie seen — Page 9

Just watched a bunch of stuff -

The Kid stays in the picture.

Not bad, it's an autobiography of Robert Evans, an american movie producer. The entire thing is kinda like a motion comic with snippets of footage - and i swear Robert Evans sounds like Marv from sin city...

5/10

Where the wild things are.

Pretty decent, well made. Had a handful of laugh out loud moments. I'd be interested to hear what younger audiences think of it.

7/10

A perfect Getaway.

I was enjoying this right up until the massive flashback / exposition scene towards the end. The story is done well enough that you'd only need a few hints at most but this all happens after a major plot reveal anyway - AND things are summed up definitely at the end. - Would have been a much stronger story without that scene i think.

6/10

Action Jackson.

I only flicked through this one for laughs, it really isn't a movie you can take seriously. And i swear that Carl Weathers was always either shirtless or finding some reason to take his shirt off.

2/10

Maybe we need a Last trailer seen thread?

the last movie I saw (if this counts), was HBO's You Don't Know About Jack.

Changeling.

A solid film if really grueling and depressing at times (especially seeing as it's based on a true story.... though to be honest the true story is even more grim).

Beautiful period details, nice tight script by Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski, plain and straightforward direction from Clint and Miss Jolie giving a fine performance (even if she is rather miscast, she hardly looks like a working mother and always looks like a film star which is a distraction).

Well worth a watch though.

Iron Man 2.

Awesome!

I saw the new Sherlock Holmes movie.   I didn't like it that much.    It just didn't seem like the Holmes I know and love from the books.   Well, atleast it was better than that horrible USA movie a few years ago that tried to depict Holmes as a ladies man.   That was so bad, I had to stop watching it.  Sadly, IMHO, no one has ever done truly accurate version of Holmes.  The early Jeremy Brett years were about the closest anyone got, they were still a bit off(imho). 

they were talking about Close Encounters Of The Third Kind.   C3PX, I do hope you've seen the movie.

C3PX said:

EyeShotFirst said:

I do enjoy the climax, especially when the tuba shatters all of the scientists' equipment.

Hehehehehehe!!! I have no idea what we are talking about, but the above sentence taken out of context is a lot of fun.

Fun?  Do you have any idea how painful that would be?

xhonzi said:

Warbler said:

I saw the new Sherlock Holmes movie.   I didn't like it that much.    It just didn't seem like the Holmes I know and love from the books.   Well, atleast it was better than that horrible USA movie a few years ago that tried to depict Holmes as a ladies man.   That was so bad, I had to stop watching it.  Sadly, IMHO, no one has ever done truly accurate version of Holmes.  The early Jeremy Brett years were about the closest anyone got, they were still a bit off(imho). 

So much of what you and I think of as Sherlock Holmes is not actually in the novels and short stories.  The deerstalker, etc. are additions to the character that Sir Arthur had nothing to do with... and I think we, as modern readers, have a hard time forgetting all of those things when we sit down to read the original books... so we sort of think they're always in there.

i.e. The book might say, "Holmes and Watson walk down the street."  And in our minds eye, we see the classicly dressed Holmes walking down that street.  Or it might say, "Holmes removed his hat."  Sir Arthur might have meant a top-hat, or a bowler, or whatever his minds eye would have seen... but in our mind it is only the deerstalker- despite the fact that that was never his intention...

But on the other hand... I didn't really care for it myself.  I was looking forward to it, but it simply failed to engage me.  My wife asked, "What didn't you like about it?" and I couldn't really come up with anything in particular.  It was an enjoyable way to pass a couple hours, but I didn't rush out and buy a T-shirt.  It left me more "neutral" than anything.  I might have enjoyed it more had it been an original IP as opposed to claiming it was Sherlock Holmes.

My wife later quoted me as "having hated it."  Ah, well...

My favourite "Sherlock Holmes" movie is Zero Effect.  Which I saw 3 or 4 times before I realized it was a Holmes movie.

 As a Holmsian myself, I dug that this film took a somewhat extreme take on whats actually in the book... Holme's manic-depressive nature, his codependence on Watson, Watson's gambling and what not. I dug the conspiracy/mystery and even the vaguely steam-punk flavor.

Two issues bugged me.

• The boxing. I actually LIKED a lot how it showed Holmes visuallize a fight before it happened. But the underground pit-fighting seemed a little forced.
• How do you runn off from the sewers under parliment and end up on the incomplete top of Tower Bridge? Seriously.

I totally loved Zero Effect too. It's a spiritual brother to the new Sherlock Holmes definityl.

How to Train Your Dragon. Awesome, awesome movie. Everything about it was great. visuals, score, characters, humor, story, everything. great for kids too. GO SEE IT! It's actually really good in 3D too, I'd actually recommend it for this one.

9/10

Iron Man 2. Twas' good fun, a very funny and action packed movie on par with the first one I think. Saw it at a midnight screening with some friends

7/10

The Hangover. Some pretty hilarious stuff but honestly I think it's just a bit overrated, was expecting more constant lols. Maybe it's because I watched it with my parents on HBO which is always awkward with these types of movies...

7/10

Kick-ass. it was kick-ass.

xhonzi said:

Warbler said:

I saw the new Sherlock Holmes movie.   I didn't like it that much.    It just didn't seem like the Holmes I know and love from the books.   Well, atleast it was better than that horrible USA movie a few years ago that tried to depict Holmes as a ladies man.   That was so bad, I had to stop watching it.  Sadly, IMHO, no one has ever done truly accurate version of Holmes.  The early Jeremy Brett years were about the closest anyone got, they were still a bit off(imho). 

So much of what you and I think of as Sherlock Holmes is not actually in the novels and short stories.  The deerstalker, etc. are additions to the character that Sir Arthur had nothing to do with... and I think we, as modern readers, have a hard time forgetting all of those things when we sit down to read the original books... so we sort of think they're always in there.

I am well aware of what Sherlock Homes is like in the books.  I've read them.