The last movie you saw...

[dinky]

I bought thirteen</i> and pieces of april</i> a while ago, and I still can't bring myself to watch either one. beginning to think it was a bad investment.

[dinky]

the break up</i>
I guess it was supposed to be serious. it was funny at some points. not funny enough for me to be happy to spend the 2 hours in the theater though. some good actors doing some quality work. the writing and direction, however, were all over the place (although any idiot could direct a romantic comedy - this was apparently trying to do something else)

[spudthedestroyer]

I watched con air because i was bored. lol @ how lame it is, i can't remember it being such a cliche hollywood movie but it really is quite laughable. Like the ending which is a "what can we do that's bad and explosive" scene after another... so the plane crashes on the strip, then they get away on a firetruck, which is then chased by motobikes, they then have a fight on the back of the firetruck, it then crashes through a building and crashes into a van full fo money. Then john Mal. then falls onto a rock crushing conveyer belt and gets crushed.

[maxpayne2409]

but spud how can you hate a movie that has sucha classic line as "i said put the bunny back in the box"

[spudthedestroyer]

Because it has some even worse lines, like cage in an alabama accent trying to say "well viva las vegas"

[maxpayne2409]

well you know alabama man beats up his wife then drinks it off alabama man

[dinky]

happened to catch pulp fiction on IFC last night. was impressed by how much better that movie has gotten with age. when it came out, I was annoyed cuz it was just one quote after another from guys in high school - it was all fad. now though...I'm really impressed. makes me laugh at how pathetic the post- pulp fiction tarentino projects are too.

[maxpayne2409]

makes me laugh at how pathetic the post- pulp fiction tarentino projects are too.

like Hostel for instance? aka Shit-fuck-lame-stel

[dinky]

I was thinking more along the lines of jackie brown & the kill bill shlock. but if you count hostel, then you kinda have to count hero, dusk till dawn and sin city, none of which I am prepared to do.

[maxpayne2409]

hmm ok then i guess thats a pretty good reason not to include hostel (although it really is utter shit), but dusk til dawn and sin city are pretty good, although i have to say i havent seen hero (is it the one with jet li?)

[dinky]

yes, that's the one. sin city is head and shoulders above them all, but even hero isn't bad (it could have been a lot better without all the retarded fight/ballet scenes). it's like they found a way to distill the absolute worst aspect of anime: they retarded slow-mo action scenes.

[dinky]

family matters</i> docu of seymour butts (pornographer & family). iunno...not good enough to watch every ep, but it killed about 30 mins.

[maxpayne2409]

is he related to Hugh Jass?

[dinky]

no, but I'm pretty sure he's a colleague of and collaborator with Ben Dover.

[maxpayne2409]

watched Sci-Fighter last night., another Don "The Dragon" Wilson movie, this time a more recent one (2004), it wasnt too bad although a bit slow in places, perhaps im just used to the rapid martial arts fighting of modern films i dont know but the fights in Don "The Dragon" Wilson movies does seem awfully slow, imagine watching a martial arts/scifi film with crappy final fantashitesy 7 style fighting and you get the idea, although for the final battle it seems like everything moves along quicker then the rest, the effects are pretty decent for a b-movie though which makes a chance

essentially though the film is basically a showcase for champions of different martial arts styles, only 1 character in the entire movie is a non martial arts combatant. At the end it credits the achievements of all the cast but next to him it says "smart enough not to get hit" although from his acting he's not smart enough to attend acting classes before appearing in films, amusingly the skilled fighters do a pretty good job of acting, although most of the roles dont call for much more then a bit of smack talking and brawling, only Don "The Dragon" Wilson, Daneya Mayid (who plays his son), and Cynthia Rothrock (Sally/The White Dragon) really have any form of major acting role in the film

James & Simon Kim as the Double Threat twins are pretty hilarious, especially when one breaks into elvis before attacking Don "The Dragon" Wilson, Michael Matsuda is annoying as the monkey man (champion of Drunken Monkey Style)

Hilariously the "Special computer" that powers the Sci-Fighter Police Training Simulator is in reality just a black gamecube like mine with sci-fighter emblazoned down the side

Worth watching though......... although i suspect no-one here will actually believe me on that one

[spudthedestroyer]

I <s>watched</s> played HL2 Episode 1. Nearest we have to movie-game hybrid, okay I mean cinematic gameplay. Everyone knows Final Fantasy is a freakin FMV sequence for the most part Great addon, and unlike another famous Episode 1, this one didn't suck donkey balls. It was essentially just more HL2, but that's not a bad thing.

I really have to wonder if speilberg lifted from HL2 when he made War of the Worlds. He should have lifted more to be honest I wonder when they are going to stop beating about the bush and make a movie. There's enough to the Gordon Freeman myth and content to go at it for ever. I think that if they do though, they should make Half-Life 1 then Half-Life 2 later. There's far too much content and shoving it all in just because they can is one of the biggest failings of any mistreated adaptation. Comic book/video game/ whatever, see Xmen 3.

Its in the games section btw, standalone.

I also watched Mission Impossible 3. Was a lot better than the last two from what i remember. Still not anything I'm really a fan of, but lots of "fightin round the world".

[maxpayne2409]

fightin round the world

I didn't know Russell Crowe & Tugger were in it

and what do you think, perhaps if they make a HL movie stear clear of using Blue Strike as a basis

[dinky]

I also watched Mission Impossible 3. Was a lot better than the last two from what i remember. Still not anything I'm really a fan of, but lots of "fightin round the world".

mmm...maybe. the john woo one (MI:2) was crap on a stick. completely wrong guy for that kind of movie. but iunno. MI:1 was good - a little too much pulling-off-the-mask shit, but that's part of what MI is</i> (and why I don't really like it anyway).

watched the 2nd disc of robot chicken</i> s1. wow. seth green. and sarah michelle gellar. and freddie prinz jr. and mila kunis. and ashton kutcher.

I liked the big brother, scooby doo and you can't do that on television paradies. I'm told there's a really good one about skeletor in a car or something, must be on disc 1. oh yeah, interviewing the cobra toys & the michael moore thing was funny.

funniest part of the whole thing is the opening credits - and was on me not the show. I made the obvious leap to frankenstein, but then I figured it was just part of the joke that the doctor was hooking the robot chicken up to the electrodes when it was obviously already alive. then by about the 4th or 5th episode, it occurs to me that the doctor is forcing the chicken to watch a buncha tv programs and that the "electrodes" are in fact eye restraints taken right outta clockwork orange.

they're both completely disposable, but I think I prefer aquateen more. irreverence is more original. but props to oz. and yay 80s toys.

[spudthedestroyer]

I liked the big brother, scooby doo and you can't do that on television paradies. I'm told there's a really good one about skeletor in a car or something, must be on disc 1. oh yeah, interviewing the cobra toys & the michael moore thing was funny.

Yeah the car pooling one is absolutely amazing. Episode 5 iirc.

Does Disc 2 have the office parody with Mark Hamill @ cobra command?

[dinky]

uh...yes. but I didn't particularly notice mark hamill in it (he's in a bunch of them on that disc). it was interviews with major bloody guy and the lady...maybe a dif sketch. they seem to use he-man and g. i. joe stuff a lot (the copyright holders must have a sense of humor cuz I'm told you can only spoof the same thing once without getting murky). anyway, I forgot to mention the best one of disc 2: the first one - vader explaining everything to luke. I was rolling when he finally got to the midichlorean shit and luke just walks off the set. heh that was the truest commentary on the prequels I've ever seen/read.

if this baseball game ever ends, I'll have a look at the first disc.

on another note, I bought the 4400 s2 cuz I liked s1 and now s3 is starting on tv. well imagine my surprise when the packaging said it was on USA Network, not scifi channel. the used to be owned by the same company, but it looks like the discs have paramount stamped all over them. anyway...just weird cuz I thought for sure it was a scifi channel series. maybe I was mixing it up with taken (which I haven't brought myself to watch at all)