The last movie you saw...

[dinky]

I thought chelsea was the superpower team with an ungodly number of superstars that everyone should cheer against simply for the fact that they bought the world's best 22 players.

[MyK]

I don't care much about football either and I only watch UEFA finals, more important matches and WC I watched this one cuz I thought it should be good football but was robbed of that as they ping-ponged that no wrong-doing ball up and down the field for over 120 minutes like some kindergarten teams. I supported Chelsea simply cuz they were playing against Liverpoodles and, as Max said, sadly there's not much to like about them. They also knocked out Barca 2:2 on away goals advantage in first round of the finals and that's another reason for me to hate them They robbed us twice, first for a team that plays salsa and is a delight to watch, and now for a good match. I'd condemn them to hell but since they're stuck in Liverpool, hey - that's even worse

[spudthedestroyer]

I'll join in.... die you scouser bastards!

[maxpayne2409]

now if only we could contact boris "i'll insult and offend any city going" johnson

[dinky]

Spider-man 3</i>. it was good without being great. it falls victim to everything most sequels do. it's bloated. it has more and more villains at the cost of less characterization. and it's as often a parody of the previous films as it is a parallel (and it does consciously try parallel a lot from the previous two movies). there's more camp and campy humor. most of it works well (such as J. Jonah Jameson stuff. but a lot of it needs to be edited down and some of it, involving peter, should be more straight faced. That said, the movie was more good than bad. it's thankfully much better than x-men: last stand</i>, which was a travesty on almost all counts. all in all, the best of the series is spider-man 2</i>. and if you didn't like spidey 2, then you definitely won't like 3.

miscellaneous comments:
Venom was brought to life brilliantly. I thought topher grace played eddie brock fine. the symbiote suit was handled very well. my only complaint is really that it wasn't a bigger part of the movie - as venom is prolly the best (and most potent) enemy for spidey. he was not in the original script.

sandman was fine. they fuxxored his character the most from the comics. it was ok in itself, but his role in the movie should have been eliminated. the actor and cgi were great. it's just that there's so much going on with the symbiote suit and the harry osbourne stuff (and they are thematically related) that the whole sandman thing is kind of superflous. plus, I'm getting tired of A) villains learning who spidey is, and B) villains turning out to be "good".

green goblin/harry osbourne was a good arc, but like the symbiote, it didn't get enough treatment cuz there's a lot of stuff going on between peter and mj, and then the symbiote stuff plus the sandman. the finale was a major departure from the comics, as it had to be since the first movie pretty much faithfully portrayed the harry/goblin jr. arc as it was staged in the comics. and, of course, there's a major twist. the twist is predictable but I think done well.

lastly, there was only one truly annoying moment, and that was near the finale when spidey appears after having shaken off the symbiote influence: he swings in and gets a slow motion / freeze frame shot with the american flag waiving behind him. that was just wrong on so many levels. and the running commentary by a british newswoman in the heart of Manhattan made it more the worse, both for what it says about us hegemony and simply cuz it's so out of place.

[spudthedestroyer]

now if only we could contact boris "i'll insult and offend any city going" johnson

wtf doesn't he run for <s>president</s> Prime Minister? It makes no sense! Instead they have that compelte spanner James Cameron (that i can never remember his first name of so will stay true to that here )

Makes no sense, they need to put someone like Boris Johnson or that fruity fella, Michael Portillo up for Prime Minister... they'd get in for sure

ps... seeing spider-man 3 on wednesday and expecting an out and out lamefest.

[maxpayne2409]

Boris would be an ace PM, gotta be better then "Dave" Cameron i hate global warming, wait everyone loves it now? i love global warming, he just follows what he thinks people wanna hear, course lib dems just enver get anywhere, and now they have a total uncharismatic leader so never will, and labour are just shit full stop

[dinky]

veronica mars. started to watch smallville, but couldn't get into it and fell asleep. VM was refreshingly good. this, of course, disappointed me cuz it's too late to save the show even if anyone would have seen the ep anyway.

/sigh

[maxpayne2409]

i watched lastest smallville yesterday, the ep was fun in so far as they got to piss about pretending they were in movie noir gumshow flicks, but it's something that's been done to death on a host of othr shows, and just kind of felt like filler really, it passed time but thats pretty much all, there have been way better eps.

Watched heroes the other day finally aswell, i swear if i don't get to see the future peter petrelli vs sylar atomic fight in full length before the end of the season then i will be so ultra pissed it will be unbelieveable

[dinky]

heh. you know, they closed the door so as not to have to (pay the cgi bills) to show it, right?

[maxpayne2409]

doesn't suprise me, but it still sucks and i WILL see it, even if i have to go to the offices and slap them all around a bit

[dinky]

lessee...latest tudors</i>, heroes</i>, 24</i>, and most of the 40 year old virgin</i> (already saw it but it was on and nothing else was).

umm...I liked them all. tudors</i> is neat cuz my historical memory is very hazy about the figures surrounding henry 8 and even cardinal woolsey's historical legacy. so you'd think that watching this show would pretty much draw the lines and so one and so forth. but it's kind of surreal. like everyone is kind of "good." there's no villain. like boylen's guys hate woolsey and know he's channeling funds under the table. but at the same time, woolsey is doing everything he can to keep peace and satiate henry. and thomas more has this friend/not friend relationship with henry AND woolsey and catholocism. I guess what I'm really surprised about is that I'm watching this still cuz this is pretty much West Wing shite, isn't it? well...there's lots of boobies too. that's a plus.

heroes</i>, of course, was the cream of the crop. was part 1 of 3 part finale.

40 year old virgin</i> is (not nearly as great as people made it out to be when it was in theaters but) a good movie. somewhat subdued humor that the brits might like courtesy of steve carrell. but prolly too much caricature stuff with the women he runs into. kinda like a very mellow/tame charlie kaufman movie, actually (adaptation, being john malcavich, eternal sunshine?).

[maxpayne2409]

the 40 year old virgin (already saw it but it was on and nothing else was).

i would actually laugh if u were flicking every channel and litterally nothing was on at all, except one channel showing the 40 year old virgin

gonna watch heroes now, also got the walking dead Book 2 earlier so got that to read, and also this months Total Film Mag

[dinky]

heh.

veronica mars</i> was good again. hard not to like an ep with paul rudd in it though. kind of like the working man's john cusack.

[spudthedestroyer]

Watched spider-man 3 and honestly, it was a shambles. It was about an hour too long, a complete mismatch of wildly differing styles and quality, and not a particularly good adaptation. The plot was all over the place, there were too many bad guys with absolutely no development to any effect. Flakey introduction, no action for large portions of the film, and nothing of substance to fallback on in the huge lulls. SFX were as crap as the other two movies, the soundtrack was really lousy. First thing i noticed with the movie was when I saw the score credit at the beginning and thought, wtf?!? I remembered this though:
http://www.dead-donkey.com/modules/news/index.php?id=52

Explains the really shit soundtrack. I have to imagine elfman reaped in nearly a full pay packet on royalties here, the only decent bits were snippets of his standard fanfare.

I have no idea wtf the "twist again" scene was about, unless it was a viral advertising campaign for cooking momma... and the emo spider-man was piss poor. Although i don't know if emo is the style if they are into jazz. Okay the walk was amusing for a couple of seconds, I'll give it that.

The editing was nauseating, wildly varying between overly quick cuts to cover up the now boring fights we've seen in two movies previously, to severely lacking when the (what felt like ten million) endings kicked in one after another. "How come this shit is still going?" was one comment i recall hurled at the screen. The editor did not do a good job, but i think the main problem was really sloppy direction and a poor script. I can't help but think that raimi just hired a stooge or something.

The ONLY real saving graces were extras and bit parts, Bruce Campbell was hilarious, the editor guy was awesome and even Ted Raimi was great, but the film.... poor.

Would like to know what crack dinky was smoking to be so generous to this sporadic mangled tripe. Sounds nice and strong! Its not good when people are taking the piss and making sarcastic comments about how retarded the movie is, and I'm afraid to say there were a great number making their rounds at the cinema for this subpar affair.

There were problems with the other spider-man movies but this one had a heck of a lot of problems on top of the existing annoyances. Its okay; if your generous and extremely tolerant of serious flaws or want more tripe for your tripe sandwich :wacly:

Sam raimi is so far off the wagon now as a director, I don't think he has the basic level of skill to make a great film any more. Hearing he's remaking evil dead is just downright worrying. I know that will annoy dinky because i recall him saying he was a fanboy, but I think at this point its not very credible to claim anything but a distinct lack of style and professionalism, and the movie was another example of a missed opportunity.

Short: not a terrible film, but not a good film in any way that's i'd put effort into seeing. With any luck, you'll have extremely low expectations now so you might get entertainment from it. It worked for me, i went in expecting it to be poor so i wasn't overly annoyed when it turned out to be okay but not really worth the cinema ticket. The first one is still the best movie out of the three, the second and third are largely cathartic nonsense for the pigeons that have been ensnared by the franchise but are ultimately weak films and nothing but inferior extensions of the basic glossy, populist spider-man adaptation you see in the first.

With heavy editing this might have been a lot better. The director's cut should be about an hour shorter.

[dinky]

to which I would respond: you didn't like the first two. of course you didn't like this one. why would you go see it except to piss on it?

venom looked great. and the sfx were very well done with the symbiote. you're the one balls deep on the crack pipe with that one.

the flying shite and glider-snow board was silly. the story behind it was not. although none of the villain arcs were treated with any kind of completeness. I said that already.

and the symbiote suit/identity crisis/venom plot IS the most engrossing of the three movies (i.e., it had the most potential). I was disappointed by it as I was by the movie on all counts BUT it wasn't a completely shite film. x3</i> was absolutely horrible. this was mediocre. of course, I don't quite hold to your opinion about raimi either. the editing was annoying but I think that's just part of the parody the film was trying to pull off in relation to the other two movies, and it was very much overcooked.

anyway...I came on here cuz I finally got through the latest ep of smallville</i>. stupid and a waste of an ep. I also thought dick tracy and sky capt. and the world of tomorrow were shite too. so I wasn't predisposed to liking that faux noirish type of thing anyway.

[Jynks]

i liked the first one, i liked bits of the 2nd (in fact made my own edit about 40 min shorter) but the 3rd was a fuckn disaster!!!

They spent so much time with charicters bullcrapping about that they had no time for the bad guys.... so little infact that they had to resort to the worst movie technique for storyline ever... a NEWS report!!.... The wwasted so much time on melodramic "days of our lives" type momnets that they simply ran out of time to have them do anything.. so BANG a news report saying.. bad guys are doing this.. spiderman meets them.... there was like hardly any interaction between them.

Then if this wasn't bad enough, in the middle of the finally fight the bad guy and spidy have a little cry together (not joking) and spiderman forgives him... WHAT IN THE FUCK!!!

This movie was crap crap crap.

[maxpayne2409]

see i preferred spidey 2 over spidey 1 as it was more action and less blah blah gubbins, but then i love 80s arnie, explosiothons, so i guess that might be why, haven't esen spidey 3 yet, i don't go to the cinema for anything american, only brit films so will go see 28 weeks later when it's out (tho i have a feeling it has been taken from it's original vision and turned more hollywood), so will see spidey 3 when it's on dvdrip

[ewokmic]

28 Weeks later - great stuff. My review -

http://www.post-apocalypse.co.uk/28weekslater.html

[maxpayne2409]

just watched Season Finale of Jericho, and i have to say i really enjoyed it, engaging, well acted, i wish they hadn't

Spoiler:

killed off Johnston Green, as he was one of the best characters

, it must've been well written because for once since i was about 4 i actually cared for the characters and what they had to face. The final scene was especially good, and somewhat Blackadder Goes Forth-esque in the way

Spoiler:

Jake Shouts NOW! and the screen goes black and all you can hear are the screams of injured people, and gunfire

Can't wait for season 2