The Not-So-New Movie Thread

by SBF Sun Jun 14, 2009 9:39 am

I know a lot of us don't get time to go and see movies in the theater, we just wait for them to come out to dvd or tv and then watch them. So this thread is for anyone who wants to post their thoughts on a not-so-new movie.

I just saw The Incredible Hulk with Ed Norton and Liv Tyler. I never followed the comic, so I don't know how accurate it was, but I have to say it wasn't a bad movie at all. The special effects weren't bad either.

Also saw Iron Man (must be my week for comic book movies). Another comic I never followed, but was a good movie. Robert Downey Jr. was pretty funny. Definitely can't wait for the next movie.

Speed Racer - Now I know when this movie first came out, I really didn't want to see it and I figured the Wachowski Brothers just fucked up the idea of the original show and blah blah blah. Well I watched it and I have to say I liked it. It was really a live action cartoon which I think the Wachowski's did extremely well. I won't lie have have watched it a few times.

Shooter - I generally like Mark Wahlberg movies and this adds to the list. I really liked this movie, I think mainly because Wahlberg is such a know-it-all badass in his movies.

by Honor Sun Jun 14, 2009 12:21 pm

They made Hulk into too much of a pussy. He was too easily hurt by stuff and was almost struggling to pick up that 3 ton Humvee. >\

If you're a Hulk fan you should play the original xbox game "Incredible Hulk:Ultimate Destruction" :hail:

by Spinal Sun Jun 14, 2009 1:08 pm

I'm glad I'm not the only one that liked Shooter. It's fun watching the good guy kick some ass, in a totally bad ass way.

ass.

by SBF Sun Jun 14, 2009 3:27 pm

honor man wrote:They made Hulk into too much of a pussy. He was too easily hurt by stuff and was almost struggling to pick up that 3 ton Humvee. >\

If you're a Hulk fan you should play the original xbox game "Incredible Hulk:Ultimate Destruction"

Which one are you talking about? The newest one or the retarded one from few years back? In the newest one he wasn't hurt by anything and he wasn't having a hard time throwing shit around, for christ sake he smashed a Crown Vic into two pieces and used both ends for boxing gloves.

by Honor Sun Jun 14, 2009 3:44 pm

The newest one. Remember when they were shooting the sound waves at him and he was laying on the ground holding his ears for like 2 minutes? GAY. And they got the metal boxing gloves idea from the game I referenced.

by JaysonAych Sun Jun 14, 2009 11:11 pm

Shooter was a fun movie, though the ending kinda dragged out a bit. Less talky and more badassery, please.

Iron Man was pretty good...better than I expected it to be.

by Aristotle Sun Jun 14, 2009 11:50 pm

out of those choices, i only saw iron man, and i thought it was awesome.

by SBF Tue Jun 16, 2009 10:41 am

honor man wrote:The newest one. Remember when they were shooting the sound waves at him and he was laying on the ground holding his ears for like 2 minutes? GAY. And they got the metal boxing gloves idea from the game I referenced.

Yeah, but he has to have some sort of a fucking weakness, every superhero does, plus if I remember correctly, he figured out how to destroy those Humvees with the two pieces of iron that he had.

by thewalrus Tue Jun 16, 2009 11:17 am

JaysonAych wrote:Shooter was a fun movie, though the ending kinda dragged out a bit. Less talky and more badassery, please.

Iron Man was pretty good...better than I expected it to be.

I'm pretty sure they got the law wrong in Shooter though. The DOJ could have totally charged with international crimes domestically.

Totally put me off.

by Talon Tue Jun 16, 2009 11:38 am

I really liked Shooter. All those big guns. :hail:

That chick was damn hot in that tight, white shirt.

I just watched the whole Rome series (well, the first season) that was on HBO a few years back. It was pretty good... I enjoyed it.

I just DVR'ed the new Rockey movie so I have to watch it sometime.

by Honor Tue Jun 16, 2009 12:51 pm

Just saw Gran Torino. OK movie, but alot of the acting and dialogue seemed cliched and forced. It just wasnt very convincing. Dirty Harry was better.

by SBF Tue Jun 16, 2009 5:11 pm

Just watched 3:10 to Yuma. Holy fuck what an awesome movie. Haven't seen a good western in a long time.

Russell Crowe and Christian Bale were both good.

by Honor Tue Jun 16, 2009 5:32 pm

3:10 to Yuma was quite good. I love westerns.

Spoiler:

by Honor Tue Jun 16, 2009 5:39 pm

Rob, did you ever see Open Range with Kevin Costner and Robert Duvall?

by SBF Tue Jun 16, 2009 6:13 pm

A long time ago, to be honest I don't remember it.

by Aristotle Tue Jun 16, 2009 6:43 pm

oh, yeah, 3:10 and open range were both awesome.

by thewalrus Tue Jun 16, 2009 7:06 pm

I liked that Western with Billy Crystal.

by thewalrus Tue Jun 16, 2009 7:06 pm

City Slickers.

by Aristotle Tue Jun 16, 2009 7:09 pm

by zdc_LarryRX Tue Jun 16, 2009 7:22 pm

City Slickers 2 was da shit too.

by Honor Tue Jun 16, 2009 11:09 pm

zdc_LarryRX wrote:City Slickers 2 was shit too.

fixed

by xtine Wed Jun 17, 2009 1:45 pm

"W" came in my Netflix. It was actually pretty good --- and funny. It even portrayed the pretzel incident. :lol:

by Turbojett Sat Jun 20, 2009 1:29 pm

I've been renting older (70's, 80's, 90s') movies lately. I saw Blade Runner again recently. Still don't get any more of it than i did the first seven times around...fucking unicorn...
I also rented Batman and Robin for some reason, which I will readily admit was a huge mistake.

by Omni Sat Jun 20, 2009 2:02 pm

I wasn't overly impressed with 3:10 to yuma. It was pretty forgettable for me and honestly I can't even remember how it ended. One of my favorite westerns is Pale Rider.

by Talon Sat Jun 20, 2009 3:45 pm

I didn't like 3:10 either. Not enough action. Too much of Crow and Bale just bickering at each other.

Saw Wedding Crashers yesterday. Meh. Not very funny.

by Honor Sun Jun 21, 2009 1:53 am

wedding crashers sucked.the only parts i liked were with will ferrell.

by Honor Sun Jun 21, 2009 1:54 am

Omni wrote:I wasn't overly impressed with 3:10 to yuma. It was pretty forgettable for me and honestly I can't even remember how it ended. One of my favorite westerns is Pale Rider.

yeah nobody tops old clint :dualwield:

by Talon Sun Jun 21, 2009 11:26 am

honor man wrote:wedding crashers sucked.the only parts i liked were with will ferrell.

I think Ferrell is so overrated. I don't find him funny at all.

by Talon Sun Jun 21, 2009 11:27 am

Watched Yes Man also. It was okay. Plot was pretty stupid and maybe a three on a scale of 1-10 on funny. It was better than Wedding Crashers, though.

by Honor Mon Jun 22, 2009 12:04 am

he is definitely overrated, and most of the time i dont find him funny, but i liked his role in wedding crashers. i never got into the whole anchorman craze at all and talladega nights was pure garbage. all of his movies are pretty much the same.

by Honor Mon Jun 22, 2009 12:07 am

but the two worst comedians are dane cook and carlos mencia. cant stand those guys. especially mencia..

by thewalrus Mon Jun 22, 2009 12:34 am

honor man wrote:he is definitely overrated, and most of the time i dont find him funny, but i liked his role in wedding crashers. i never got into the whole anchorman craze at all and talladega nights was pure garbage. all of his movies are pretty much the same.

I find that most new comedies don't really do much for me. I feel old, but the stuff I find the funniest are shows like Seinfeld, Frasier and MASH (TV and film).

by Honor Mon Jun 22, 2009 12:40 am

Frasier and Seinfeld are awesome. I've never really seen MASH though.

by Honor Mon Jun 22, 2009 12:43 am

And it's not you being old or anything, Hollywood is just churning out more garbage nowadays then they ever have. I swear, if they make one more idiotic parody like Meet the Spartans, Epic Movie, etc. im going to lose it. New movies that are actually good are starting to get pretty rare. :undies:

by thewalrus Mon Jun 22, 2009 12:54 am

honor man wrote:And it's not you being old or anything, Hollywood is just churning out more garbage nowadays then they ever have. I swear, if they make one more idiotic parody like Meet the Spartans, Epic Movie, etc. im going to lose it. New movies that are actually good are starting to get pretty rare.

Yeah, those ones aren't good. The format worked when Leslie Nielson was in them - Naked Gun, Spy Hard, Wrongfully Accused and Airplane! but the new parodies don't do it for me anymore.

by JaysonAych Mon Jun 22, 2009 1:37 am

thewalrus wrote:
honor man wrote:And it's not you being old or anything, Hollywood is just churning out more garbage nowadays then they ever have. I swear, if they make one more idiotic parody like Meet the Spartans, Epic Movie, etc. im going to lose it. New movies that are actually good are starting to get pretty rare.

Yeah, those ones aren't good. The format worked when Leslie Nielson was in them - Naked Gun, Spy Hard, Wrongfully Accused and Airplane! but the new parodies don't do it for me anymore.

The new ones have moments, but for the most part aren't very well written and have poorly-timed jokes. And with the advent of the intArwebs, movies that have more topical humor contain jokes that have already been done on YouTube or Cracked.

by Aristotle Tue Jun 23, 2009 5:34 pm

honor man wrote:but the two worst comedians are dane cook and carlos mencia. cant stand those guys. especially mencia..

i haven't actually seen a dane cook performance, save for a 30 sec clip here or there. mencia sucks and joe rogen made him look like a fool.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7841918711943453918

by Talon Tue Jun 23, 2009 7:18 pm

Aristotle wrote:
honor man wrote:but the two worst comedians are dane cook and carlos mencia. cant stand those guys. especially mencia..

i haven't actually seen a dane cook performance, save for a 30 sec clip here or there. mencia sucks and joe rogen made him look like a fool.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7841918711943453918

lulz yea, Rogan pwned Mencia.

A buddy of mine gave me some some comedy CD's a few weeks ago: Jim Gaffagon, Dane Cook, and Katt Williams. All were about an hour long. The fore-most, and aft-most were hysterical. Middle, not so much. I think I laughed three times during that hour of Dane. ffffffffffffffuck that guy

by Aristotle Tue Jun 23, 2009 8:03 pm

hate the dane!

by JaysonAych Tue Jun 23, 2009 11:17 pm

I'll admit that I like some of Dane Cook's stuff. Certainly no comedic great by any means, but he makes me laugh, especially his older stuff. He gets more intolerable as the years go by. Mencia, however, can suck a dick.

Joe Rogan is absolutely hilarious, though. It's a shame he's mainly known for Fear Factor, because in real life he's nothing like he was on the show. His stand-up act is great.

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