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

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Dwagginz said:
Secondly, what on Earth happened to Doug Jones' voice? He sounds so different in Hellboy 2.
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I can't remember what the voices sounded like in the animated film (it's been a while since I watched it)... but in the first Hellboy film, Abe Sapien's voice was done by David Hyde Pierce (from Frasier).
 
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I can't remember what the voices sounded like in the animated film (it's been a while since I watched it)... but in the first Hellboy film, Abe Sapien's voice was done by David Hyde Pierce (from Frasier).
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Who also voiced Emperor Zombie in the cancelled Amazing Screw-On Head pilot.

In Hellboy Animated, his voice was deeper and much more "Human", whereas in the second film it was higher pitched and more "Alien". The way he speaks is also different in Animated ;)
 
Robin Hood - didn't see this in the cinema but I am a fan of the Crowester so I rented it on DVD. It was enjoyable enough, quite disjointed tone at times and the story could have been better balanced but plenty of good moments to go with one or two utterly cringe-worthy bits. I thought Cate Blanchett as Marian acted everyone else off the screen, head and shoulders the best bit in the movie.
 
Shutter Island.

Despite an irrational dislike of Leonardo DiCaprio...... not bad. Guessed the twist correctly at about the half way point.:)
 
Kin-Dza-Dza (1986) A very odd, very funny, absurdist Russian SF movie. Recommended to anyone who doesn't think SF starts and ends with Hollywood bullshit like Star Trek and Star Wars.


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Green Zone - not bad, a bit preachy with an ending you can see coming a mile away but better than most of the Iraq related movies that have been released.
 
Saw Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole. Very nice animation and good storytelling but it has the same feel as Babe: Pig in the City. The dark and somber tone isn't exactly kiddie material. Will be interesting to see what people who see it think of it. I'm not sure kids will be pleased by it and fluffy owls might not be that appealing to the demographic that digs this kind of storytelling.
 
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The new Robin Hood.

Appalling accents but otherwise not the waste of time I was expecting. Nice nod to the Magna Carta and a more accurate history than usual. Worth watching.
 
The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus - I thought there was some stunning imagery but I did not really like the movie and I did not get the ending. I was falling asleep during it.
 
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Saw Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole. Very nice animation and good storytelling but it has the same feel as Babe: Pig in the City. The dark and somber tone isn't exactly kiddie material. Will be interesting to see what people who see it think of it. I'm not sure kids will be pleased by it and fluffy owls might not be that appealing to the demographic that digs this kind of storytelling.
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My mom and I just saw this movie last Sunday and we both really enjoyed it. I don't know why people have a such huge problem with owls starring in it. Sure, I know they're not supposed to be the brightest animals on the planet, but people shouldn't worry about stuff like that, because it's just a movie, and they should just try and sit down and enjoy it. However, I also think the little ones will be frightened by some parts of it, even though it was intended for both kids and adults.
 
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Quazie said:
However, I also think the little ones will be frightened by some parts of it, even though it was intended for both kids and adults.
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Good. Speaking as a father of 3 (aged 8,6 and 1) kids need that darkness in their fiction - just like adults. One of the things I hate about 'Family' movies is their formulaic blandness. I'm sure the current fascination with Horror Porn etc. is because the young adults of today were bought up as weans on a diet of Disney Sesame Street non-threatening pap. I have no evidence for any of this other than my own gut reaction to watching TV and movies with my kids and wondering why they weren't getting terrified by anything. I remember being terrified by all sorts of things when I was a kid. I'm not advocating leaving 8 year olds alone with a copy of Saw but a certain amount of 'scariness' is essential in a kid's fictional diet.
 
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Good. Speaking as a father of 3 (aged 8,6 and 1) kids need that darkness in their fiction - just like adults. One of the things I hate about 'Family' movies is their formulaic blandness. I'm sure the current fascination with Horror Porn etc. is because the young adults of today were bought up as weans on a diet of Disney Sesame Street non-threatening pap. I have no evidence for any of this other than my own gut reaction to watching TV and movies with my kids and wondering why they weren't getting terrified by anything. I remember being terrified by all sorts of things when I was a kid. I'm not advocating leaving 8 year olds alone with a copy of Saw but a certain amount of 'scariness' is essential in a kid's fictional diet.
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I agree with you there, even though I was raised on Disney my mom also let me watch the darkest Don Bluth films there were but she said that I wasn't scared of anything I watched when I was kid. Awhile back, though, I was just telling somebody on another forum that I thought it was better when animated movies that were meant for kids got a little darker because it gives adults a better chance to enjoy the film.
 
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I saw Death at a Funeral last night and it had a lot of great laughs. James Marsden running around all pilled up for the most of the movie was definitely a highlight. Who knew Cyclops could do physical comedy? The whole cast was pretty strong overall really. The only exception for me was Martin Lawrence didn't really bring a lot to the table. I always kind of get the skeeves when he's picking up girls in a movie, but it was just flat out creepy how he was hitting on this 18 year old the entire movie. It wasn't really funny it was just cringe-worthy.
 
I saw both version of Death at a Funeral and I very much prefer the Brits original.

Now I'm trying to watch the first season of Spartacus: Blood and Sand - it has some cool plot twists, but the insistence on graphic sex, slow motion effects and blood geysers is bringing it down every time I start to get interested in the story. I could mention that I was also disappointed in 300 for about the same reasons.
 
Not a movie as such, but I've just watched the Animatrix for the second time.

My brain is now a pile of mush.
 
Watched Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps. Okay I guess but I could not be convinced of Gordon Gekko's supposed genius. The examples he used to illustrate concepts are so tired and run-of-the-mill that I could hardly credit anyone talking like that in real life of being anything other than a first year salesman. Anyone of La Beouf's character's supposed precociousness would have heard the stories by the time they were 13 and would have considered Gekko an empty suit right off the bat.
 
Perhaps not a movie as such, but I bought (And watched) Monsters vs Aliens: Mutant Pumpkins from Outer Space today.

Pretty good, I guess. I wish it was a bit longer, though. Ah well, more Ginormica pour moi <3
 
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