Nautilidae wrote:

My review of THE AGE OF ADALINE.

I think you spelt "Ultron" wrong.




:tehe:

Shawshank awesome. No complaints from me re the short story.
They kinda mauled The Stand for the TV mini-series/movie. It had some good parts though. Stu, Frannie, and Mr. Bateman were good. Nadine-mom was good too. I don't think that alternate name for Nadine made it into the movie.

Animavore wrote:

scott1328 wrote:

aban57 wrote:Hum... The Green Mile, The Stand, Under the Dome, Apt Pupil, there's been a few successes. But the problem is not the source material, it's the movie's ambition.

Christine, Pet Sematary, Cujo, The Langoliers, Firestarter, Children of the Corn, sleepwalkers, Dreamcatcher, Lawnmower Man, Needful Things, Desperation.

Most horrible of all: under the dome

No mention of Shawshank.

It is films like Shawshank, the Green Mile, Stand by Me, Misery that make me say that Steven King movies are a mixed bag. But on the whole, the bad outweighs the good. And each new adaptation leaves me quite skeptical. I suspect the anomalous cases are more due to director and screenwriting choices than source material.

Consider Rose Red. It was written as a TV miniseries. King took an active role in its development it was so derivative, I actually wondered if King merely ripped pages directly out of the scripts of Hell House and House on Haunted Hill and then threw in characters lifted directly from his other works.

Animavore wrote:

Nautilidae wrote:

My review of THE AGE OF ADALINE.

I think you spelt "Ultron" wrong.




:tehe:

Unless there's someone I'm missing, Blake Lively is more luminous than anyone in Ultron. I am, however, very open to being proven wrong.

Animavore wrote:

scott1328 wrote:

aban57 wrote:Hum... The Green Mile, The Stand, Under the Dome, Apt Pupil, there's been a few successes. But the problem is not the source material, it's the movie's ambition.

Christine, Pet Sematary, Cujo, The Langoliers, Firestarter, Children of the Corn, sleepwalkers, Dreamcatcher, Lawnmower Man, Needful Things, Desperation.

Most horrible of all: under the dome

No mention of Shawshank.

Or Creepshow... Or Maximum Overdrive... Or The Mist...

The Mist destroyed me. The scene where the spiderlings come bursting from the gentleman's body is one of the most physically unsettling I have ever seen. Plus, the ending is like a kick to the shin.

Great story telling and wonderful soundtrack. I'll watch this once again with better quality.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0783522/

Nautilidae wrote:The Mist destroyed me. The scene where the spiderlings come bursting from the gentleman's body is one of the most physically unsettling I have ever seen. Plus, the ending is like a kick to the shin.

The Mist is the quintessential shoot the shaggy dog story.

Yeah . I mean why? WHYYY???

I think the ending makes sense. You see, it's a moral story. So what the film ending does is tell us about the dangers of guns. The moral is: if you have a gun you'll kill all of your family and friends, and then the fog will disperse and all the monsters will be gone and, oh hey isn't that Carol from The Walking Dead?

And she's left her liddul gurl at heum. Her liddul gurl's heum aleun.

I just finished watching Noah. I feel defiled.

I was hoping that the drunk Noah scene would show off some nice Crowe dangly bits, but no such luck.

I had also hoped that Hermione would have gone on to do better movies. Alas.

Yeah, sad that. (The second bit, no interest personally in dangling Crowe bits. )

I'm still not sure what I think of Age of Ultron. As a comedy it works.

I'm off to see Age of Ultron later today....

You will laugh, that's guaranteed.

Watched Free Men last night. Told the story of an Algerian immigrant in Paris during World War 2 and German occupation and how he becomes embroiled in the politics of situation. Good movie; it's on BBCi if anyone's interested.

Animavore wrote:You will laugh, that's guaranteed.

I certainly did that!
I enjoyed it. Thoroughly.
It was flawed however. Unclear and disjointed at times. I feel they tried to cram far too much in there. I wasn't convinced by the portrayal of the Vision.I also wonder how people who don't know the characters well would take it. It seemed to rely on prior knowledge (which is fine for me as I grew up a huge Marvel fan) and also the Marvel movie series has become rather complicated. I feel I need to write off a weekend sometime and re-watch the whole lot as homework. Still, perhaps not a bad idea...

I don't know anything about The Vision to be able to tell you what I think of him. He did sort of come out of no where, though, I'm not even sure what his powers are.

Did the deus ex machina bother you?

smudge wrote:

Animavore wrote:You will laugh, that's guaranteed.

I certainly did that!
I enjoyed it. Thoroughly.
It was flawed however. Unclear and disjointed at times. I feel they tried to cram far too much in there. I wasn't convinced by the portrayal of the Vision.I also wonder how people who don't know the characters well would take it. It seemed to rely on prior knowledge (which is fine for me as I grew up a huge Marvel fan) and also the Marvel movie series has become rather complicated. I feel I need to write off a weekend sometime and re-watch the whole lot as homework. Still, perhaps not a bad idea...

This movie, as all the previous ones, are meant to be part of a serie. A "cine show", as opposed to a TV show, each movie beeing an episode. Every post-credits scene introduces the next movie. Same goes here, the very last scene we see in Captain America : Winter Soldier is pretty much what happens right before the first scene of Avengers 2.

I'd really like to know what's the percentage of people who watched Avengers 2 without having seen the previous movies. Pretty sure it's mot that much.