What was the last movie you've seen?

[MrPopo]

So I saw Inside Out today and quite enjoyed it. It's cute and has a nice message about the importance of all our feelings, not just the positive ones. And it has a statement that has never been uttered before: "I miss Minnesota".

[CRTGAMER]

The Host (2006)
Monster movie I watched for my daughter's sake. It ended up being above average, but has some real pacing issues and needlessly extended scenes. If this film was 30 minutes shorter, and tried harder to be scary than it does to be campy, I would have enjoyed it more. That said, the younger kids in this movie do a great acting job, I was surprised. If you want to watch a dysfunctional family fight a river monster, go for it. I'm still trying to figure out if this film was a metaphor for USA & South Korea foreign relations though.

Fun movie. I took it as a campy in a good way and entertaining flick. The two disc version offers extras with the Director apologizing every once in a while when an actor or stuntman had to go thru the grinder of certain scenes.

That cover picture showing Song Kang-Ho made me realize. He has been in a lot of Korean movies, recognized him from the Good bad and Weird film. Now there is a fun film to watch, be sure to get the extended Korean version with the epilogue ending.

[jp1]

The Host (2006)
Monster movie I watched for my daughter's sake. It ended up being above average, but has some real pacing issues and needlessly extended scenes. If this film was 30 minutes shorter, and tried harder to be scary than it does to be campy, I would have enjoyed it more. That said, the younger kids in this movie do a great acting job, I was surprised. If you want to watch a dysfunctional family fight a river monster, go for it. I'm still trying to figure out if this film was a metaphor for USA & South Korea foreign relations though.

I love this movie. It is campy in all the best ways. To me it is a real genre mash-up without any glaring failures in any of the included genres, which is hard to pull off. It's not a masterpiece...but for a good popcorn movie, it's just great. I'm a Korean cinema junkie though, so there is some bias in that.

[darsparx]

A little too short for my tastes but decent for what it was....I think Tuesday I'll go see Big Hero 6(3.00 movie theater that gets movies about 10 weeks late, and heck even discounted on tuesdays to 1.50)

[Nemoide]

I've been watching a lot (by my standards) - three movies this weekend.

Road to Singapore - the first "Road" movie with Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, and Dorothy Lamour. I watched Road to Morocco in an undergrad course on road movies (I was a cinema major). The professor was also big into queer film theory and so it's impossible for me to read Hope & Crosby's characters' relationship in this movie as anything but gay. They're constantly swearing off women so it can be just the two of them together. The story in this one is actually that they both went to Singapore to avoid getting married so they could instead live together. OKAY. This movie is a pretty decent example of an early 1940s comedy, but it doesn't really stand out too strongly IMO.

Road to Zanzibar - the second "Road" movie (I got the box set with the first four on laserdisc). Bob Hope & Bing Crosby play different characters but similarly meet up with a character played by Dorothy Lamour and find themselves traveling in some exotic local. This one felt pepped up and I thought it was much more funny than the first one. Hope & Crosby play off each other really well and the movie has a surprising amount of self-referential humor that make it a lot of fun to watch.

The War of the Worlds (1953) - I've never seen this before so as a longtime Mystery Science Theater 3000 fan I was pretty surprised to find that the main character's name is Dr. Clayton Forrester! This movie reminds me a lot of two other old alien invasion movies: The Blob and Day of the Triffids. But that's a good thing because those movies are excellent in their own way! This one really feels like a classic Hollywood B-movie but with an impressively (comparatively) high budget evidenced by its use of Technicolor. That Technicolor aesthetic, combined with the way they obviously used sets for outdoor movies, and the fairly wooden acting really give this movie a certain kind of charm that no modern movie has. The movie is dated in a number of ways and kind of feels cold war-specific; I can't help but assume the pro-religion theme is designed to draw a distinction, between "one nation under God" and the atheist USSR. But the movie still packs a punch and I think the special effects look really cool!

[Luke]

So I saw Inside Out today and quite enjoyed it. It's cute and has a nice message about the importance of all our feelings, not just the positive ones. And it has a statement that has never been uttered before: "I miss Minnesota".

My Sister held this. There's also a great interview with the writer of INSIDE OUT on NPR where they discuss choosing the voice actors, how they decided on six emotions, and much more.

I say "I miss Minnesota" often. I also say "I miss Minneapolis" more than most people too.

[Pulsar_t]

[Luke]

That really sucks.

BLADE
BLADE II
BLADE TRINITY

The first two Blade films hold up pretty well for what they are. The premise of the series is beyond ridiculous, but the writing is clever, the action is fun, and the characters are fairly endearing. It's actually a fun little universe where a vampire invasion is taking place, and not just vampires being vampires. They have an agenda, and they aren't your typical vampires. If you want an alternate take on vampires, watch BLADE and BLADE II, and skip that Will Smith movie. Also skip BLADE TRINITY while you're at it.

BLADE was good, BLADE II was very good, and then it drops off. Big time. It's difficult to watch and relies on its fanbase to like it just because it is another Blade movie. It is desperate and disjointed. It also contains one of the worst choreographed fights I've watched in quite some time. And what makes the fight even worse is that Blade fights Dracula, the baddest vampire of all time.

In Blade's world Dracula dresses like a Ninja Turtle in the daytime, and a Roman warrior at night. He also screams a lot. A lot. He has the ability to turn into a red monster that looks like something out of the Power Rangers series. His nipples can also turn into gills? Maybe? They look like gills.

The fight at the end contains your cliche fight moves like using a windmill kick to get out of a tough spot, and features more wire work than Philippe Petit has ever seen. There's terrible sword fighting, yelling, Jessica Biel running around, more yelling, people destroying a building with their bodies and then shrugging it off, and more yelling.

See the first two, and skip the third one like Snipes skips his taxes.

[Ack]

BLADE TRINITY

What, you don't like two hour long iTunes commercials with Ryan Reynolds and vampires?

[Luke]

BLADE TRINITY

What, you don't like two hour long iTunes commercials with Ryan Reynolds and vampires?

I get the fact I'll never escape product placement, but what was the deal with the iTunes? Was it another way for "the rza" to force himself into another terrible movie? Had to be.