What's the last movie you watched (2010)?

[Evil Agent]

I saw Avatar in 3D for a second time, and it was still pretty cool. Love those creature designs (especially those dog/wolves). Will probably buy it on DVD, as I'm interested to see how it holds up on a 2D television screen.

 

[Tidus]

I same as Evil Agent, last movie I watched Avantar 3D And I must say the special affects of the movie was great! All and All a great movie!!

 

[worldmaker]

Daybreakers

In the same style as "I AM Legend" and all its variations. (The Last Man On Earth, The Omega Man, I Am Legend.)

Moody average vampire romp, but with a good leveling of bloodshed.
Could have done a lot more with the story, but if you enjoy a simple slaughter in Australia's post-viral-apocalypse then you'll have fun here.

5/10

 

[Chuffalump]

Just managed to see District 9.

Great film, although I'd have liked it to have explained more about why the 'Prawns' arrived in the state they did and a couple of other things. However, maybe that's all part of the documentary feel of the film.

 

[Wulfa_Jones]

Just managed to see District 9.

Great film, although I'd have liked it to have explained more about why the 'Prawns' arrived in the state they did and a couple of other things. However, maybe that's all part of the documentary feel of the film.

I finally got around to watching that last night. I enjoyed it, although it took me a while to understand the thick South African accents.

I thought the CGI was very realistic as were the human performances.

I got the feeling that the "Prawns" got shipped off from whatever planet they were from or it was a refugee or slave ship.

There is supposed to be a sequel on it's way at some point in the future so maybe that will explain it more.

 

[worldmaker]

District 9

Just managed to see District 9.

Great film, although I'd have liked it to have explained more about why the 'Prawns' arrived in the state they did and a couple of other things...

Wait for the sequel... if there is one...

Far better than Avatar.

 

[DailyRich]

Just watched Inglourious Basterds on Blu-ray. Entertaining, but I don't know if it's as good as Reservoir Dogs or Pulp Fiction.

 

[Sparrow]

With so many seeming to really like District 9 I was ready for something special. Yet, I just about hated it. There wasn't a single human character you could fall in with and pull for, just about everyone was the very worst humanity has to offer, and even the aliens were unattractive in every sense of the word. Perhaps it's that I really am over the whole "documentary" style of film making. Guess what, people who actually film documentaries for a living, don't get that jiggly-camera-effect. It's because they use digital cameras that correct the problem by dampening quick movements. Heck, the video camera we use corrects the jiggles and it is nothing more than consumer grade off the shelf hardware!

District 9, I give it two stars and even that is pushing it.

 

[PeterWilliam]

Just watched Inglourious Basterds on Blu-ray. Entertaining, but I don't know if it's as good as Reservoir Dogs or Pulp Fiction.

Good to know, since I was considering it. I'll wait to catch on the DirecTV.

With so many seeming to really like District 9 I was ready for something special. Yet, I just about hated it.

I'm with you, Sparrow, for largely the same reasons.

 

[Jop]

I watched 2012 last night - Pretty standard Roland Emmerich fare: over-the-top special effects and predictable storyline, but fun all the same.

 

[Jop]

I saw Avatar in 3D for a second time, and it was still pretty cool. Love those creature designs (especially those dog/wolves). Will probably buy it on DVD, as I'm interested to see how it holds up on a 2D television screen.

I'm hoping that it will still be in the theater in a month - every time I went to see it, it was sold out, and I'm back to this week. Oh well, it'll probably look nice on Blu-Ray.

 

[Sparrow]

I'm with you, Sparrow, for largely the same reasons.

I suppose what I need in a movie is the same requirements I have for any proper novel.
Not that I'm always after the classic protagonist "good-guy", but at least someone who grows in some way as events overtake him. The main character in District 9 begins things off as an asswipe (forgive the language), and as the movie fades to black, he is still that very same asswipe, the only change being his physical transformation.

I also found the technology end of things very contrived. Any alien species that navigate deep space and travel the many light years to arrive on our doorstep would not have their spacecraft so easily marooned as in the movie.
I understand the vague references to the "Prawns" hive mentality and why they are stranded here, but I simply don't buy it. I also found the movie to be a bit claustrophobic. Where in the hell is the rest of the world, as if we would allow South Africa carte blanche to backward engineer alien technology.

I much preferred the last reworking of HG Wells' War of the Worlds with Tom Cruise.

 

[kater]

Re-visited Watchmen, still utterly ambivalent at the ending.

 

[Rob B]

Recently caught the Guy Ritchie/Robert Downey Jr Sherlock Holmes and loved it. Very good story, told well and Downey was very good as Holmes, but Jude Law was equally good as Watson.

I also watched a movie I got for free - Midgets vs. Mascots. I watched it just to see how bad it could be and it surprised me - it was a lot worse than I imagined.

 

[kater]

I also watched a movie I got for free - Midgets vs. Mascots. I watched it just to see how bad it could be and it surprised me - it was a lot worse than I imagined.

I'm not even sure I want to ask. Will Mrs Rob be ashamed of you?

 

[Rob B]

Nah, she gets (and sometimes supports) my warped sense of humor.

 

[Evil Agent]

I thought Sherlock Holmes was pretty good, too. Better than I was expecting, anyway. I'd like to see it again, as certain things happened very quickly and I definitely missed some stuff.

However, as much as I love Downey Jr. as an actor, I still don't think he really felt like Sherlock Holmes to me. I look forward to a sequel, one which is perhaps a little less fast-paced, and which takes the time to build the characters a little more.

 

[Chuffalump]

I suppose what I need in a movie is the same requirements I have for any proper novel.
Not that I'm always after the classic protagonist "good-guy", but at least someone who grows in some way as events overtake him. The main character in District 9 begins things off as an asswipe (forgive the language), and as the movie fades to black, he is still that very same asswipe, the only change being his physical transformation.

I also found the movie to be a bit claustrophobic. Where in the hell is the rest of the world, as if we would allow South Africa carte blanche to backward engineer alien technology.

Now that's not really fair. The main protagonist does start off as an 'bumwipe' but is subjected to the traditional 'walk a mile in another beings shoes' throughout the film. At the end he sacrifices himself to allow Christopher to escape. How can you say he hasn't changed?

As far as allowing SA to retro-engineer alien technology without interference from the rest of the world...... America does this in practically every SF film produced by Hollywood. However, I believe the company MNU is supposed to be global not just SA.

 

[N. E. White]

Okay, ready to enter the fray.

Just watched Avatar (not 3D). I loved the graphics, story was ok (how many movies did it remind you of?), and I had tears in my eyes at the end. I know, I'm a sap.

Saw Up in the Air last weekend: depressing.
Saw Sherlock Homes the weekend before: AWESOME!

In regards to Inglourious Basterds, the first scene is worth seeing a hundred times over, at least, for me.

 

[N. E. White]

District 9

How can you say he hasn't changed?

I agree with your rebuttal Chuffalump, for the most part. But I, too, had the feeling that he didn't really change all the much in the end. He was really just looking out for his own hide (literally ). He let Christopher go in the hopes that he would come back and 'fix' him, no?