I wonder if Rym would have enjoyed The Avengers more having seen Iron Man first.
No, I would have enjoyed it less due to Stark's character progression backing up. The cell phone moment would have been pointless had I already seen Iron Man.
We just watched Iron Man 2. I liked it alright, but it wasn't my favorite. I liked it about as much as I liked the Avengers, I think. The first one, though, was really well done. It was paced well, the acting was good, and it had a tight enough focus to make it hold my attention really strongly all the way through. I also liked the special effects. The last scene with the scientist during the escape was sad, and I got teared up.
Something interesting regarding Iron Man that was pleasantly surprising if only because it was different. The hero does not kisses the girl at the end, unless I am mistaken.
Yeah, he and Pepper still have that romantic tension, but the first movie resolves other issues rather than their relationship subplot. I really liked how Iron Man 1ends, with the press conference.
I just rewatched Iron Man and I was surprised. I remembered liking it the first time, but I had thought that it would be one of those action flicks that I enjoy once because action and explosions and awesomess, but which would be less satisfactory watched multiple times.
So wasn't the case with Iron Man, I really enjoyed it even the second time. It was actually lot better than I remembered.
I also liked how he interacted with his robots, and I loved when he flies for the first time, I truly felt like a child during that scene. I really missed his robots on Iron Man 2, they just didn't have enough camera time on that one.
A short while back I took my son to an early showing for kids at the theater where they were playing How to Train Your Dragon. Taking him to the showing was a terrible idea, a theater filled with 3 year olds is not so fun.
The movie was way better than I expected, I really liked it. It made me want to know more about the dragons in that universe.
I also recently say the new Ice Age movie. It was meh.
Saw the new Total Recall. The only good parts were the references to the first Total Recall, which I felt were well done and were unnoticeable if you hadn't seen the first one.
One of the most annoying things was that the movie was set in a world were only Britain and Australia The Colony are the only habitable places left on Earth, and yet maybe 2 or 3 people had any accent other than American.
This is especially noticeable and disconcerting in a scene where Colin Farrell and Bill Nighy (both british actors) were talking to each other, but both of them had an American accent.
Its weakest point, in my opinion, was that it didn't really ask the question of whether or not the experience was an implant or reality, as the movie seemed to be forcing the "it was real" standpoint the entire time.
I saw Jiro Dreams of Sushi and the Sound of Noise over the weekend. Two excellent foreign movies. Jiro made me crave sushi so much. I'll have to remedy that this week hopefully.
How did you feel about Sound of Noise in particular. I caught its very limited theater run in NYC by chance and I thought it was great. What did you think?
I saw Jiro Dreams of Sushi and the Sound of Noise over the weekend. Two excellent foreign movies. Jiro made me crave sushi so much. I'll have to remedy that this week hopefully.
How did you feel about Sound of Noise in particular. I caught its very limited theater run in NYC by chance and I thought it was great. What did you think?
I thought Sound of Noise was great. I really enjoyed it. The characters were all well developed and usually funny, the story was incredibly original and really enjoyable. Overall, I liked it a lot.
My one complaint with the movie is that the final two "movements," while cool from an intellectual standpoint, weren't nearly as musically cool as the first two. The operation scene and the bank scene were not only cool, but the music they made was actually awesome. The concert scene and the power lines scenes, while interesting and inventive, weren't really that great from a sound standpoint.
Juliane and I have a "movies to watch" list, and tonight we got to Sunshine Cleaning. I'm not sure how it ever made it onto the list, but it was pretty painful to get through. At the start of every scene, we both said what we thought would happen, and in only one or two cases did we make any wrong guesses.
Not only is the movie predictable on a scene by scene level, but also the overall story. The only thing that we thought might happen and that didn't was grandad dying, as the same character (and actor) did in Little Miss Sunshine. Also the characters kept saying stuff that either didn't need to be said because we were all thinking it, or just blatantly speaking the subtext of each scene.
Needless to say, we were both pretty happy when it ended, and we checked out some Olympic highlights to cheer us up.
"Paul is Dead: The Final Testament of George Harrison" is a spectacularly odd movie. It is a tape from a man claiming to be George bearing all about the death of Paul and ensuing cover-up mixed with news clips and interviews pertaining to the Fab Four. It is a great case sample of what a breeding ground for conspiracy theories the '60s were. Sure, nowadays you can find people who say that Hitler created AIDs and that the Food Channel will cause Barack Obama to force us to eat our children, but no one takes them seriously. People believed this.
If you're not up on your Beatles chronology and lore, you might want to keep Wikipedia handy for some of the more subtle failures (he claims that Paul died in '66, and that Yesterday was John mourning the loss -- Yesterday being off Help which came out in '65) but you don't need that to understand the sheer absurdity of it all.
Shaun of the Dead is very funny throughout, and actually funnier on this second viewing than the first. However, in the last quarter it does get bogged down a bit in silly action. Of course, Hot Fuzz is even worse in this regard, but at least my girlfriend knows what to expect in the a future Movie Education night.
Ruby Sparks was pretty good. Rushmore was pretty great. The Dark Knight Rises was pretty good. Attack The Block I should have liked more. It was good enough. Maybe I need to watch it again.
Watched 2001: A Space Odyssey over the weekend with a few friends.
I love Kubrick, but yeah, that was hard to watch. I loved the visuals but three movies in one and the overbearing sound track made it just difficult to get through.
I have a feeling that someone out there has cut the film down to a more reasonable film.
In light of what I saw recently, I am going to go on a tangent that is related to the topic on hand and I want to have anyone who is interested to participate.
Have you ever seen a movie with your parents in your company and realize "Ooh...we should not be watching this together at all." I'm talking about things that are incredibly disturbing and things that would make your flesh crawl.
And here we come to the movie I saw with my parents, and boy what a pick it was: Perfect Blue.
I don't think I'll ever live down that experience for the rest of my life. Despite the fact that I love it so much (this was my first viewing), my parents were thoroughly horrified by it and it might be a while before we watch a movie together again. It's not my favorite Kon work (that belongs to Milennium Actress) but it is way up there. My favorite scene can be summed up in two words: boombox elevator.
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So wasn't the case with Iron Man, I really enjoyed it even the second time. It was actually lot better than I remembered.
The movie was way better than I expected, I really liked it. It made me want to know more about the dragons in that universe.
I also recently say the new Ice Age movie. It was meh.
One of the most annoying things was that the movie was set in a world were only Britain and
AustraliaThe Colony are the only habitable places left on Earth, and yet maybe 2 or 3 people had any accent other than American.This is especially noticeable and disconcerting in a scene where Colin Farrell and Bill Nighy (both british actors) were talking to each other, but both of them had an American accent.
Its weakest point, in my opinion, was that it didn't really ask the question of whether or not the experience was an implant or reality, as the movie seemed to be forcing the "it was real" standpoint the entire time.
My one complaint with the movie is that the final two "movements," while cool from an intellectual standpoint, weren't nearly as musically cool as the first two. The operation scene and the bank scene were not only cool, but the music they made was actually awesome. The concert scene and the power lines scenes, while interesting and inventive, weren't really that great from a sound standpoint.
Not only is the movie predictable on a scene by scene level, but also the overall story. The only thing that we thought might happen and that didn't was grandad dying, as the same character (and actor) did in Little Miss Sunshine. Also the characters kept saying stuff that either didn't need to be said because we were all thinking it, or just blatantly speaking the subtext of each scene.
Needless to say, we were both pretty happy when it ended, and we checked out some Olympic highlights to cheer us up.
If you're not up on your Beatles chronology and lore, you might want to keep Wikipedia handy for some of the more subtle failures (he claims that Paul died in '66, and that Yesterday was John mourning the loss -- Yesterday being off Help which came out in '65) but you don't need that to understand the sheer absurdity of it all.
And it's on Netflix streaming.
Rushmore was pretty great.
The Dark Knight Rises was pretty good.
Attack The Block I should have liked more. It was good enough. Maybe I need to watch it again.
I love Kubrick, but yeah, that was hard to watch. I loved the visuals but three movies in one and the overbearing sound track made it just difficult to get through.
I have a feeling that someone out there has cut the film down to a more reasonable film.
Have you ever seen a movie with your parents in your company and realize "Ooh...we should not be watching this together at all." I'm talking about things that are incredibly disturbing and things that would make your flesh crawl.
And here we come to the movie I saw with my parents, and boy what a pick it was: Perfect Blue.
I don't think I'll ever live down that experience for the rest of my life. Despite the fact that I love it so much (this was my first viewing), my parents were thoroughly horrified by it and it might be a while before we watch a movie together again. It's not my favorite Kon work (that belongs to Milennium Actress) but it is way up there. My favorite scene can be summed up in two words: boombox elevator.