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

[Orbison]

I saw Date Night with my partner the other day.... what a load of tripe.

 

[JunkMonkey]

Saw How to Train Your Dragon in the cinema yesterday with the kids - what a great fun film! thanks for the recommendations, guys - and watched Ghost Rider on DVD tonight - why didn't you warn me, you bastards!

 

[DailyRich]

I also saw How to Train Your Dragon yesterday and I simply cannot recommend it highly enough. It's Pixar good. It's not just a great animated film, or a great film for kids, it's just a great film. Loved it.

 

[Orbison]

I give love to How To Train Your Dragon also. If Dreamworks keep that standard up then they'll overtake Pixar as the innovators of CGI cinema, seeing as Pixar's next 3 films are sequels.

 

[Evil Agent]

I give love to How To Train Your Dragon also. If Dreamworks keep that standard up then they'll overtake Pixar as the innovators of CGI cinema, seeing as Pixar's next 3 films are sequels.

I've found the last 4 or 5 Pixar movies incredibly formulaic and boring. However, I loved Kung Fu Panda from Dreamworks. I think I need to check out Dragon...

 

[Orbison]

I thought Wall-E was their best ever, to give them credit.

 

[Lusi]

IT is KICK ASS. It is an average movie. I am rating it as 6/10.

 

[DurzoBlint]

Yeah, went to the theatre and saw Kick Ass. With all the hype surrounding it I expected more. While enjoyable to watch, was not as advertised. 6/10 seems like a proper rating for it.
Should have waited a week or two to pick it up on dvd.

Oh well, Iron-man hits theatres this Thursday so I will be in line for that one.

 

[Seak]

I've found the last 4 or 5 Pixar movies incredibly formulaic and boring. However, I loved Kung Fu Panda from Dreamworks. I think I need to check out Dragon...

Also loved Kung Fu Panda, but Jack Black just makes anything good. I really liked UP though.

Just finished Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day and while it in no way compared to the first, it wasn't bad. It's hard when there's no Willem Defoe, which I thought was his best work hands down.

Still lots of good action, funny scenes and some old characters.

It was nice to see Judd Nelson although only for a bit.

 

[DurzoBlint]

Actually got around to seeing a few movies, girlfriend loves romantic comedies so we watched In the Air. It was not bad, not great but it was an entertaining 2 hours.

Also, had a chance to see Halo Legends, not as good as expected but, it filled in the time that would have been pure boredom.

Tomorrow I am off to see Iron Man 2. Really looking forward to this one.

 

[Orbison]

I watched Avatar yesterday on Blu-ray. I absolutely loved it, even more than the first time I watched it in in 3D. It's just such a beautifully crafted film... this time I could devote my attention to all the little things going on and it amazed me.

After I watched it I compared the quality of the Blu-ray version with the DVD version - there was most certainly a staggering difference between the two. If there's ever been a mascot for the Blu-ray format it's Avatar.

 

[Daddy Darth]

Watched I Love You Man last night. It was pretty damn funny!

 

[JunkMonkey]

A Little Princess (again). I cried (again).

 

[Bond]

A Little Princess (again). I cried (again).

What did you think of The Secret Garden?

 

[Loerwyn]

Iron Man 2.

Great film, but...

Spoiler

OK, Scarlett Johanson is hot but at the same time she isn't. Jon Favreau was brilliant, again, and Robert Downey Jr. was just spot on as Stark. Sam Rockwell proved again that he can play annoying people you just want to punch (Zaphod & that guy in Green Mile)
However, my gripe is with Whiplash and Rourke. He didn't, to me, seem like he really wanted to play that part. I'm unsure if I want to put his unintelligible mutterings down to playing his character or just a bad actor. I don't think full realism is something that really applies to a comic film, so I kinda wished he was a bit easier to understand. And *why* did no one try to shoot him on the race track? Seriously? And my other main problem was that the "final fight" was so poor it was unbelievable. I would have liked to see it made a little longer and for them to have really shown off the Whiplash suit.

I felt the film was really good, and just like the first it's getting me interested in picking up some Iron Man trades. The pacing was a bit all over the place, however.

 

[Hobbit]

Orson Welles and Me. Which was much better than I thought it was going to be. The actor playing Orson Welles is very good indeed.

Mark

 

[JunkMonkey]

What did you think of The Secret Garden?

Never seen it but I have actively not liked the book since I was a child. Even at the tender age of seven or eight I thought Colin was the most god-awful self centred weedy drip and should have been abandoned on some hillside somewhere.

 

[Luke_B]

Caught Iron Man 2 last night. Yeah, it was pretty fun but still a disappointment. It's basically a continuation of the first movie, with the same tone and style, which is fine, but I was hoping they would take it to another level. I could have done without the Nick Fury/Black Widow bits which seemed out of place to me. The final battle was a bit anticlimactic too. But, the banter between the great actors was very enjoyable and the movie had some nice humour. The special effects, as you would expect, were very impressive. Worth seeing but not as great as I'd dared to hope.

 

[Electronic6]

Caught Iron Man 2 last night. Yeah, it was pretty fun but still a disappointment. It's basically a continuation of the first movie, with the same tone and style, which is fine, but I was hoping they would take it to another level. I could have done without the Nick Fury/Black Widow bits which seemed out of place to me. The final battle was a bit anticlimactic too. But, the banter between the great actors was very enjoyable and the movie had some nice humour. The special effects, as you would expect, were very impressive. Worth seeing but not as great as I'd dared to hope.

I liked Iron Man 2 a lot. Very fun and enjoyable movie. Something most super hero movies seem to miss.(Spiderman 3 comes to mind.)

Though I agree that the final battle was meh, and Nick Fury was just to hype the coming "Avengers" movie.

But in the end, this movie contained Robert Downey Jr. and that alone makes it all worthy. ^^

 

[Luke_B]

Sounds like you got more out of it than I did Electronic. But I agree, in the pantheon of superhero sequels it is streets ahead of Spiderman 3 (that movie murdered a wonderful franchise in cold blood). But it was nowhere near as good as something like The Dark Knight for me.

And yes, I appreciate that Nick Fury was there to tie the movie into the eventual Avengers film. But I felt the super-spy stuff was way out of kilter with the tone of the rest of the film. I think what I liked about the first film was it was grounded in reality, although obviously hyperreal and very fantastic. But Nick Fury and Black Widow, especially the wire-fu scene amusing as it was, really took me out of the movie.