'Bring On The Night'
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
I'm ready for chapter two of The Tragic Love Story of Erik and Charles now. I'll have to settle for watching chapter one again, won't I?
One thing confuses me. If Erik grew up in Germany and Michael grew up in Ireland, why does Magneto sound kinda Welsh?
I heard Irish, not Welsh.
Oh I'm such a dork. I was thinking he sounded like Dylan Moran and for some reason I thought Moran was Welsh. Oops.
I am sad about the GL reviews.
Another blistering (but funny) GL review (from IO9):
*****
Ryan Reynolds' disembodied face spends large chunks of Green Lantern floating around in an ocean of computer-animated cheese. Because Reynolds' face tells the entire story, he works overtime to try and convey what's actually going on. Reynolds' face looks freaked out, or determined, or sometimes kind of constipated, as he tries to summon up reserves of willpower.
And the battle between Hal Jordan and the film's villain, a sentient cloud named Parallax, is largely psychological. Parallax is a creature of fear, so Hal has to defeat the monster by getting past his own emotional hangups. This is kind of hard to convey on the screen, and it doesn't help that the green power of Hal's ring often comes across as a collection of abstract computer polygons, against a background of other computer polygons. The whole thing feels like a really bad group therapy session where someone spiked the water cooler with magic mushrooms.
If I had to sum up Green Lantern in one phrase, it would be: "Abstract art about daddy issues."
I enjoyed it! It was weaker than XMen First Class, but I might have had an equivalent good time to Thor, although Thor was a stronger movie. GL has a better female lead (damning with faint praise, but she was written with stuff to do, unlike Natalie Portman's character or even Mystique, and the less said about January Jones the better).
Ryan Reynolds is ridiculously charismatic and easy on the eyes. It wasn't deep, but I'm fond of it.
And I wasn't the most dorktastic person there! Some kids showed up in masks, at which point my GL t-shirt is bush league.
I really liked Super 8 ! It was totally a throwback movie, and although I did appreciate that the bulk of the movie was focused on the characters, and the alien wasn't actually driving the human drama, I was also glad that there was quite a bit of alien action in the latter half.
Outtakes from Bridesmaids. Very funny but NSFW.
I really liked the sex scenes with Jon Hamm, and the woman improv-ing on man-smells.
Just read that Benedict Cumberbatch is voicing the Necromancer as well as Smaug.