Master and Commander was brilliantly done given the world wide scale of the conflict and the casting was excellent.

BTW the 21 book series it is based on is one of the most enjoyable reading experiences in English literature....the guy is both knowlegeable and AND a super story teller and character developer.

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Interstellar - despite giving it the best chance...excellent seats at a full sized iMax...it just didn't cut it. Long muddled and maudlin, over ambitious and frankly a stupid premise in the first place....
Grapes of Wrath meets Armageddon...at least WIllis is funny.

Some cool sequences but spend your money on Guardians of the Galaxy ....much MUCH more fun.

Seems I'm not alone

A bombast-and-crisis megamovie, rocket-fuelled by gobbledygeek. The pummelling of plot turns and ratcheting of emotion-wrenches rarely relent. Forgets that we mere humans don't yet possess infinite patience for hyper-epic hokum.

Sucker Punch. Man, that was a bunch of balls. I fast-forwarded though so much of it.

Ironclad wrote:Sucker Punch. Man, that was a bunch of balls. I fast-forwarded though so much of it.

Not familiar with it, so I looked it up on IMDB and there's two of them - one from 2008 with a bunch of guys and one from 2011 with a bunch of girls. Which one did you fast-forward through?

Girls

Ok, so back to IMDB . . .


Hmmm . . . ummm . . . okay . . .

Alright, I just fast-forwarded through it too.

It was stylish, i'll give it that. But a tad ..abusive, perhaps? It was the emptiness that got me, dull.

Aw, you poor dear.

Ironclad wrote:It was stylish, i'll give it that. But a tad ..abusive, perhaps? It was the emptiness that got me, dull.

Oh I actually enjoyed Suckerpunch. I just took it as a sausagefest film and went with it.

A double bill of awesomeness last night:

Housebound


The Babadook

"Fight Club". It was years since I saw it, and I had intended to check it again before finally getting around to do it. Brilliant movie; even if I remembered the plot twist, I had forgotten so much of the story and dialogue.

Mazille wrote:Bad Words is a good movie. That is all.

Watched it on Friday. Good recommendation

Man, the 1980s were bad. I've just finished with The Punisher, Dolf Ludgren's 1989 showing. Now that was cripplingly woeful. Made me wonder, why did they bother.

Probably for the same reason they/he bothered with He-Man.

Didn't stop me from watching it repeatedly when I was a kid, tho.

"CARL!!"

Not bad. 7,5/10
Better than the last two at least and no 3D.

Had to sit through another trailer for The Hobbit. A Peter Jackson Fanfiction first though.

I sure liked that second installment of How to Train Your Dragon. Good storytelling, standard excellent DreamWorks animation.

If you like dolph lundgren, zombies (28 days later variety), and squads of rogue killer robots that appear out of the blue half an hour from the end for no fucking reason whatsoever then you might like Battle of The Damned. A bit.