'Shindig'
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.
Amy, the movie is really bad. I cannot believe they are making a sequel. I think the best part of the movie is the first 5-10 minutes. After, there is no point. Even the original Girl with the Dragon Tattoo couldn't make that a good movie.
Not even Idris Elba.
I bet the Muppets could have.
Apparently the new thing is to put the extra scene between the "enhanced credits" just after the movie ends and the "regular credits" that just scroll, instead of at the very end. Also apparently, Fox has started using them to link the X-men movies the way Marvel does with the Avengers. (A little less Gandalf voice would have been good there.)
Oh, the movie? Eh, it was Hugh Jackman being Wolverine. If that's your thing, you'll like it. Fans of whump may also find things to enjoy. It does pass the Bechdel test -- in fact the strongest relationship that survives the movie is arguably the one between the female leads.
Why am I unable to turn off Red: Werewolf Hunter and go to bed? I own the damn thing on DVD!
Does it have Helen Mirren snarking and wielding silver knives? 'Cause I'd watch that no matter how late it was.
No, although the Grandmother actress is quite good and kind of reminiscent of her. Really, all the major actors in the movie are pretty good except for the one playing Felicia Day's younger brother (his postmortem dummy was more talented and expressive than he). It has some gorgeous locations, but the director and/or cinematographer couldn't film an exciting action sequence to save their lives, and the budget limitations really have an effect in that it's very claustrophobic and the werewolf effects might as well be kindergarteners acting out the scenes with felt puppets.
I'd love to have the chance to remake it with a $5 million budget so we could get the sense of these characters in context of a larger world and hire someone capable of good practical werewolf effects.
Chaila, who is an awesome vidder, got ahold of a copy of Pacific Rim, and made this: [link]
It's pretty awesome. If you like Mako and Stacker, anyway.
Who...who doesn't?
Saw Pacific Rim. Fun, and I unexpectedly teared up about five times, some really good emotional beats throughout. One of them was quite random as it reminded me of my grandfather's funeral when we let his ashes go from the bay house in the south shore of Long Island (when the asian peeps were holding hands witnessing the destruction near the beginning of the film).
Even if the movie had sucked, I'd be grateful for the amazing amount of fusion fic it has inspired, at least from what I've seen in SPN and Avenger fandoms.
I spent today in Memphis watching indie films. The Girl Most Likely is sad but pretty good, occasionally funny, and Darren Criss is hot like the sun in it. really, just getting me to enjoy Kristen Wiig after having what I thought was my lifetime fill of her on SNL a year ago was a victory.
I don't know exactly how to describe The Way Way Back, but it's easily the best quality movie I've seen at the theater since The Artist right around last year's Academy Awards, and immensely enjoyable/emotionally satisfying to boot. I've been really entertained by all the summer action movies this year, but it's nice to see some smaller films that make me feel good about the artistry as well as the showmanship.