[Closed] Recent Viewing Part III

You're going to see it tomorrow, I saw it tonight:

And in one word: The Avengers is a THRILL RIDE

Ow man, rarely have I been jumping of sheer adrenaline in my chair then just an hour ago. Each character has his part to play, and even though they've all been given their own movies, they still have something to say. Plus the humor's great (Loki and the Hulk made the audience go nuts at the end of the movie )

But the biggest advantage is the action packed finale. It's basically Tranformers 3 revisited (even the alien ships look just the same), but what Bay neglected to insert was the thrill. And that is here alright, man the visual shots are AMAZING here and the several sequences where the music plays its part, you receive some of the most thrilling action I've seen since, well Inception and Avatar.

Ow man, what a truly fun movie. Good character development, great humor, a totally berserk sound mix (ow man, are you gonna love it in your home cinema Gilles) and as said mind blowing action and visual effects

Definitely an 8, but I have this feeling it will go even higher the second time I see it. So much better than Captain America, and that one I even liked a lot

You'll have fun Tim, I swear it

knowing what I know now, you'll be in the ride of your life
have fun man

you really don't see it coming eh
pff, still full of energy, how many movies can do that?

STOP TALKING ABOUT IT OR TIM SMASH!!!

I liked it, nothing too special, but I liked the theme and its heroic versions, and when I was paying attention at it, I heard the typical (today) Silvestri style. As said, I'll take this over any Tyler effort easily

Difficult to tell what kind of rating I would give it, perhaps the same as CA

And much better than CA? I think so

JS: WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN (2012)

Lynne Ramsay's most recent film, a spellbinding study of a young, sociopathic son who manipulates his mother (played wonderfully by Tilda Swinton) untill the inevitable tragedy occurs. Still, it problematizes who's to blame; it's not necessarily the boy as evil incarnated. There's an eerie actuality to this film here in Norway, in light of the Anders Behring Breivik case.

Beyond that, the film is really a masterpiece of visual storytelling and symbolism, especially the use of red and yellow as recurrent colour tones with lots of significance.

Yes. There were a few bits I could moan about but I won't because I had too much fun.

And now it was my turn:

JS: THE AVENGERS

I liked it! Some flaws here and there (esp. the forced disagreement between the heroes in the air fortress ship thingie....and also the over-explicit background stories for those who have not seen the individual Marvel movies), but great use of integrated, narrative 3D. The action sequences were stupendous. Plenty of humour too. And Hulk kicks ass!

JS: THE WAY (2010)

Emilio Estevez' film starring his father Martin Sheen as a....well, father who loses his son (played by Estevez himself) on the Kamino and then walks it to honour his memory, and spread his ashes throughout. It's a 'walk movie' (equivalent of 'road movie') and it's quite good. I'm very fascinated by the Kamino, especially after I saw a Danish 8-hour documentary about it last year. Something I'd like to do myself one day. Of course, this is a fiction film, so it doesn't give an accurate picture of it....in reality, there are far more walkers (pellegrinos) along the path. But it's not a documentary and it relays its themes perfectly fine. Also an excellent, lowkey score by Tyler Bates.

I enjoyed this film, quite touching with well written characters and lovely scenery, a very gentle film.

no, not really

it's more a feeling of "haha, cool, they reprise their same roles" or "oh excellent, they're back". You will not enjoy the movie less if you haven't seen the other movies, but I think you'll enjoy it slightly more knowing who returns and why? Just like a sequel, you already know the characters and so you laugh at them a little more because you know what makes em tick

meaning Thor, Captain America, The Incredible Hulk (slightly) and Iron Man is fun to see beforehand, but not necessary

you'll enjoy it because it's a different story, they just put them all together for the first time

I completed watching the 6 hour special of Prohibition from Ken Burns and it was truly a learning experience if you could filter out some of the historian opinions, one I couldn't believe. She said that the failure of prohibition was to be blamed on the anti-saloon league and women's temperance movement. If they had not been so inflexible it would have succeeded. Sure can't agree with that. I'm sorry it is legal because of all of the innocent people it kills and a lot of the time the drunk driver walks away. To me it is manslaughter plain and simple and there should be no flexibility at all.
Tom

Yeah the disagreement scene didn't make too much sense, I thought the same thing, but it's just a minor negative in an otherwise positive uber-superhero flick. No drawn out action scenes, just the right amount of those and talky ones. Shame didn't get Edward Norton though. Even though he was a bit skinny for his green alter ego he did a good job in The Incredible Hulk.

Physically he's more convincing, no doubt about that.

JS: HAYWIRE (2011)

Steven Soderbergh's latest. It's a slick agent action/thriller, a kind of female version of Jason Bourne. Of particular interest is the smooth action sequences, very stylized to the extent that sound is muted out and Holmes' music is allowed to shine. Downtempo uptempo, if you will.

JS: TYRANNOSAUR (2011)

I LOVE films from gritty, rough working class environments in Britain. This is well told, lots of intensity and layers. Fantastic acting performances too.