'Heart Of Gold'
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.
Iron Man = Also LOVE. RJJ is absolutely perfect in that role. I had some issues with the character of Pepper, but not enough to mar my enjoyment overall.
I loved it so much, we saw it in the theater twice (okay, the second time was the cheap theater, but still). I didn't even do that with The Dark Knight.
t edit I asked for Iron Man for Christmas (and got it); I still don't want to re-watch TDK (and don't have the DVD).
Oh, I can't wait to see TDK again. I'm sure we'll get the DVD, too, because I know Ben will want it.
But ... Cloverfield, Tep! ::takes Teppy by shoulders and shakes her in disbelief:: It was so, so bad! I'm just ... stunned by the badness.
Amy, that's why I avoided Cloverfield! (Well, no; I can't handle horror movies in that general vein. They stay stuck in my brain and I can't ever get them out. So I have to just not see them. But I *do* remember hearing how bad it was and thinking it was just as well that I avoid horror flicks.)
I'm glad I saw Cloverfield but I wouldn't recommend it.
We're screening Watchmen right now and I can't sit in there because I still have work to do. pout.
I just caught the opening sequence. I'm still cheesed as hell for this picture.
(Well, no; I can't handle horror movies in that general vein. They stay stuck in my brain and I can't ever get them out. So I have to just not see them. But I *do* remember hearing how bad it was and thinking it was just as well that I avoid horror flicks.)
This is my problem with super-creepy/suspenseful movies. Or TV shows; if I think about two certain episodes of Carnival (the Babylon episodes, with the town full of ghosts who kill one of the hootchie girls so they'll have company forever) , I get freaked out and have problems sleeping.
Amy, Cloverfield was very, very dumb. I kept cheering for the monster. The big, stompy monster, not the spidery/tick things that FREAKED ME RIGHT OUT, THANKYOUVERYMUCH. Because the main characters were all too stupid to live.
That episode of Carnival really messed with me too, Jilli.
That ep was creepy, especially when we see the daughter in the window at the end. t shudder
The only good thing in Cloverfield was that the HUD was named Hud. And that's my attempt to damn with faint praise, because otherwise I would have just repeated what Jilli said.
That ep of Carnival was just fucked UP. That bothered me too! I turned to Beau afterward and said, "what kind of twisted shit are we watching?"