The last movie you saw...

[spudthedestroyer]

I just read the Marvel Zombies comic / anthology... they should make a film out of that arc for the Fantastic Four. That would be friggin awesome.

Take that you douchey silver surfer!

[dinky]

transformers. well...I'd like to say it wasn't bad. I guess I should say after watching the movie that I see a movie in my mind where I can imagine it not being bad. whenever given the opportunity, michael bay (and I use the name loosely cuz it's not his script) always goes for the lowest possible level of humor.

now I understand that the movie is based on a toy line ffs. I laughed a bit when they ran out the "hasbro" text in the opening titles in a similar fashion as the "marvel" thing for the comic based movies. somehow, a toy maker seems incredibly more lame than a comic or even a video game company doing that.

people are buzzing about ILM winning some academy awards for the transformers. uh...I guess. They looked fine in the few shots where they weren't fighting. but the fight scenes were a complete blur of inarticulate, kinetic wrestling. you can't see shit, and it's very fast - there's a good deal of action, but it's all so fecking inarticulate. what's the point?

so here's where I am now: it wasn't as bad as I feared it would be. it's loaded with stupid, cringe-worthy scenes. the actual visuals of the robots themselves, however, was not the aesthetic problem I thought it was previously - although I still maintain that the faces of optimus and bumblebee are particularly stupid (the chipmunk and the cyber scuba diver. wtf?) it's prolly a movie you have to see if you ever liked transformers, but live free or die hard was a better movie, and that was no gem itself.

[MyK]

...movie you have to see if you ever liked transformers...

Nope

"Alatriste" was good at some parts. Funny they tried to speak archaic Spanish and Portuguese. I say funny cuz even I with my limited knowledge of those two languages know it wasn't even near to what it should sound like. Portuguese sounded more like southern Spanish somewhere round Sevilla. Fighting scenes were good though and events were pictured like I imagined it had to be back then. It's a dark movie of a dark era with a lot of strange, surreal moments in it. Not everyone's cup of tea for sure

[Jynks]

welll i really liked the transformers.... pretty much like dink said... i wasn't expecting much and it delivered in all the ways i think an action movie should.... had some genuine comedy moments... an insanely gorgeous chick in it (NOTE:- looking at the engine scene] and some out of control action.....

all in all a good flick..... only prob i had is that the detail was so fine on the 'bots and they moved so fast that it was hard to see what the hell was going on.... but my mate i saw it with had a good point... he said that it was all filmed from the perspective of the human "ants" underneath them

all i can say is BRING ON ROBOTECH

[dinky]

only prob i had is that the detail was so fine on the 'bots and they moved so fast that it was hard to see what the hell was going on....

do you not see that as a BIG FECKING PROBLEM for a movie that we already know has no script going into it, and the action is all it has to offer?

yeah yeah. meagan fox is hot (looks a bit like jennifer connely). the lebouf kid has some charisma, except he has WAY too many "moments" in the movie. there was this one scene in the middle of the final fight where he basically called timeout to kiss his girlfriend good luck. I watched the movie with three other people and we all just looked at each other like "wtf is this? did someone call 'timeout?' Is hiro fucking with the space/time continuum?"

the ending was retarded too. the way the movie gets resolved is just...just wrong. and impossible. unless the kid is super boy and can pry open megatron's chest with a heat vision stare. and speaking of the decepticons, wtf? is megatron the only decepticon worth a salt? prime mops up bonecrusher like he's a shit stain, and then bumblebee manages to blow the shit outta "devastator"/brawl with the measley weapons on his arm (if he could do that, how the hell are the autobots losing this war?), and he also mops the floor with barricade in an earlier tumbling wrestle scene where we don't even get the privledge of seeing the tumbling wad of mess. instead, we watch a couple humans fuck around with 2ft. tall minicon pos.

it was all filmed from the perspective of the human "ants" underneath them

that's fascinating. actually, it reminds me of how pearl harbor was filmed from the perspective of the bomb as it dropped on the USS whatever. didn't make that movie worth watching either.

sorry. don't mean to jump on you. still a little too close to this movie. I know it's not citizen kane, but it coulda been so much better than this shlock. even the comic book took things more seriously and created some sense of immediacy. this was like waiting for a worthwhile fight that never materializes between a laundry list of jokes I could have written in the 9th grade.

edit: the starscream aircraft battle is cool though. and it's also the only fight you can actually see unfold. some of the megatron stuff is cool too.

[MyK]

it was all filmed from the perspective of the human "ants" underneath them

that's fascinating. actually, it reminds me of how pearl harbor was filmed from the perspective of the bomb as it dropped on the USS whatever. didn't make that movie worth watching either.

[Jynks]

you still mad at me for ragging on PotC?

oh the movie had problems... but not as many as i would have expected. Also when i go see a movie like that it is just for action... expecting character development and decent script writing is just kidding yourself.

Yea the ending with the "oh it is all secret and nobody noticed the giant robots trashing the city" wat a joke har har har...

Still i challenge you to name a action film with more of a out of control exploding buildings, lazes, cars getting thrown at people, rocket launching mayhem of a fight scene than that one... To me what set that movie apart, was that you saw things in it NEVER seen on film so far...

We it could have been more but it was still good imo... .

[dinky]

I assume you're referring to PotC3, not PotC, which was an example of summer cheese done right. every michael bay movie ever made is full of insane explosions. wtf? they still suck balls. how is the fact of mayham, alone, an argument that the movie is good? does that make matrix3 great? cuz I don't think I've ever heard or seen anything like that final battle except maybe in a comic book (superman, hulk and juggernaut come to mind). and that movie still stank to high heaven. you've never seen an alien and a predator square off until AVP</B>. was that movie any good?

there's all kinds of action in a few scenes, particularly the ending. but all you see is (a) army guys getting hammered like its one of the gazillion WW2 movies released in the past 10 years, or (b) transformers rolling around like someone slapped two cars together and rolled them down the street. on top of that, wtf is with bumblebee, who is CRIPPLED at this point, being able to blow the hell out of that much larger decepticon tank (brawl/devastator)? meanwhile, ironhide has twice as many cannons (2) that are twice as big, and he doesn't disable any of said decepticons even with obvious direct hits. what's with all of those new transformers that the cube creates in the middle of the city? where are they in all of this? and why are they all evil/decepticons? why the hell can't we at least get the drop down, drag out battle between optimus and megatron? starscream looked cool fighting the planes (note that's the only fight sequence where you can actually SEE what's happening). blackout's landing looked cool. megatron ripping apart jazz was cool. the battle itself was incredibly LAME. wow. cars and buildings exploded. uh huh. by that logic, godzilla, id4, armageddon, pearl harbor, and the day after tomorrow were great movies when in fact they are flashing lights signaling the downfall of western cinema. they're RETARDED. compare the bayham in those shitty movies to the mayham in t2 or jurassic park or aliens. there is no comparison. watching the goddamn titanic sink was more interesting than seeing two transformers roll around in an indistinguishable blob. balls to the wall, fx ladden movies are not by definition bad. these are some of the best movies of all time. at the very least, I would have expected something like PotC (1st movie) where it's exciting and fx ladden and doesn't take itself too seriously but isn't a pathetic parody of itself (did you SEE the autobots hiding from sam's parents? are you KIDDING? THIS is why you make a transformers scene? to show how well giant robots can avoid being seen by daddy so the kid doesn't get grounded?). I mean shit. PotC was created from a goddamn theme park ride. are you telling me a dozen comic book series and the backs of toy boxes can't top a goddamn theme park ride with no plot AT ALL?

[Jynks]

did you SEE the autobots hiding from sam's parents? are you KIDDING? THIS is why you make a transformers scene? to show how well giant robots can avoid being seen by daddy so the kid doesn't get grounded?)

[dinky]

die hard. I didn't realize how much hair bruce once had. now that's a proper action flick!

[Jynks]

just finished season 1 of buffy..... been a long time... that show is really good eh? Love the comedy in it.

[dinky]

xander is like the rug in lebowski, he really brings the high school seasons (1-3) together.

[dinky]

babylon 5: the gathering and 2 eps from s1. I'd seen the pilot movie before. iunno why I thought the volok or whatever people were scary the first time. maybe I was confusing the memory of b5 with some other series. I don't quite understand how/why they changed the cast around. the dates of the pilot and s1 are pretty close and the pilot was always obviously intended to spin into a series. anyway, it's the alien lady that bothers me. the others are actually different cast members. but the new actress on the series is portraying the same character from the pilot, and she looks about 6" shorter, and her facial colorings are distinctly different. show's...interesting. I bought the whole series and movies and one-offs (except for crusade). I figure if jms did it, it can't be BAD.

[potmunky]

FF4;RotSS.
7/10 imo.
Surfie was quite well(ish) done too.
Still aint XM2 or S3 though...

[spudthedestroyer]

FF4;RotSS.
7/10 imo.

huh?

I've not seen any of the FF movies, but there's been two words that unanimously have been used in their descriptions and that's "f*cking shit", because apparantly just calling them shit doesn't emphasise how shit they are apparantly...

That's the first time i've heard anything positive about either movie

[dinky]

mostly cuz he's trained to ignore me. I was entertained by the first one. although it was stupid. I can't bail you out on the sequel though. that was easily 5 times more stupid from plot to dialog to acting. and believe you me, it's difficult to make a walking turd look WORSE.

F4:ROTSS is good in one respect, though, it's quick and tightly edited (not that there's much to edit). compared to transformers 2.5 hours of mindnumbing idiocy, seeing the killer klowd from outer space is almost worth it.

[spudthedestroyer]

The thing is... i've never read/watched/seen anything fantastic four related before, except for one thing, Marvel Zombies. And that thing is totally mega-tits

The only in-person review i've sen was by my brother who saw two movies at a drive through and found sitting through FF tedious beyond belief

I might watch it, it just looks hella-lame from reviews/trailers/etc. and the silver surfer thing looks completely retarded.

[spudthedestroyer]

oh, forgot what i've been watching.

What i've been watching is what i've been playing; resident evil 4 wiimake and its easily the best version of the game. Its controls are really great, so much so that its a joy to play through on the hardest difficulty and you can actually control and fight your way through at great speed. If i didn't know better i'd suggest that every other version was a port from the wiimake.

However, i've noticed my wii is actually broken and needs sending back to nintendo for repairs. When there's fog effects, there's these little green dots, akin to a graphics card corruption problem on the pc. Seems that the "wiiconnect24" system on the wii has a big bug in it, it doesn't turn on the fan when it gets warm and that means it overheats if you use the "24/7 internet connection feature", 24/7... so my graphics card has overheated and broken i think. I've emailed nintendo with a wtf?, but reading the internet, nintendo need to replace the graphics card.

I got some mii's and 1 VC game, so i guess i can send it off for repairs. The lucky thing is i haven't touched my wii for weeks/months, just got RE4 now and noticed the flaw and consulted google.

Bit of a f*ck up on nintendo's part not to have the fan turn on and wrecking hardware... that means all 3 'next gen' consoles have huge problems with overheating. Lame.

[dinky]

how long have you had a wii?

PA is commending MS on their move to extend warranties and such on their faulty hardware. and supposedly the new black systems are 2nd gen and don't suffer the same defects.

iunno. I"m not paying for anything console related for a long time. I won't even buy a $59 game for the console I already bought. I'll probably FINALLY be able to play CoD4 and Gears of War sometime this december (damn prices aren't dropping and -$5 to -$10 used is NOT a good deal imo.) oh, and I don't give a flying fuck about guitar hero 2. and I'd rather play RTSs on my computer anyway. I should just flash the fecking drive, but that's gonna be a pain in the arse. I'm still trying to get my server box to work properly.

[spudthedestroyer]

how long have you had a wii?

Launch, i bought two and sold one for 2x rrp so decided to keep the "free" one cos i'm a zelda fanboy (and zelda was the best game of last year by a furlong).

So its been on since launch, but i think the problem will be that i played through zelda, a bit of that red steel game... and then only sparingly turned it on since then. Then RE4 came this last week and you can see these green pixels whenever there's a heavy fog effect... its not that noticable but its shown me this problem. Seems nintendo made a f*ckup and need a firmware patch to turn the fan on when it gets hot using wiiconnect24.

Problem i have is that i've got some / a VC game, so i can't switch for a new wii i need it repaired. Or nintendo can give me a refund for the VC game and then i can just get it swapped.


I might not have touched my wii very much ( ), but i haven't played a game on my pc in even longer now. DS gets the most play time, apart from replaying wiimake resident wiivil four this weekend.