Summer Movies 2012
#1
Posted 25 June 2012 - 10:56 PM
Ill start with Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter. IMO this was a pretty good film. The story was well crafted and depsite never reading the novel, i could see the storytelling resemble that of a novel moreso than your typical summer movie. The action was great and they even sprinkled in a little real history. Basically everything I wanted out this film, I got. Most importantly Abraham Lincoln is now a super hero. If that doesnt make your day, I dont know what will.
#2
Posted 26 June 2012 - 08:04 PM
#3
Posted 29 June 2012 - 04:35 AM
Don't get me wrong - I have a vague idea that a summer movie is supposed to be a blockbuster consumed along with a huge amount of popcorn, and probably one that you attend with all your mates, but beyond that...
Surely a movie like Prometheus qualifies? The Dark Knight Rises?
The whole notion puzzles me - I'm inclined to think that it's more of an American tradition, perhaps?
#4
Posted 29 June 2012 - 07:51 AM
#5
Posted 29 June 2012 - 09:40 AM
Thanks for the explanation! I guess the opening weekend is also the one that counts, and also who attracts the most crowds during public holidays. In some respects I think it's this kind of fierce competition that hurts movies and encourages the tendency towards generic action flicks, rather than originality. I mean to say - how many different ways can you blow something up?
#6
Posted 29 June 2012 - 10:25 AM
#7
Posted 30 June 2012 - 09:02 AM
#8
Posted 30 June 2012 - 03:00 PM
I agree. I must say I was positively surprised. I expected it to be only as good as part 2, but in fact I liked it a lot better. It was a little grittier, too, but still very funny. And the time travel plot worked pretty well.
#9
Posted 01 July 2012 - 08:18 AM
#10
Posted 01 July 2012 - 12:36 PM
Yea, I noticed MIB3 was a little darker. It was a little off putting for me at first because MIB movies aren't supposed to be so serious. It was better than I expected it to be though.
#11
Posted 01 July 2012 - 01:05 PM
#12
Posted 02 July 2012 - 08:06 AM
We saw it yesterday afternoon and rated it highly. A very enjoyable romp coming in at just under two hours. Charlize Theron is an awesome actress - and one that isn't afraid of going from "Hot" to "Not" for a role. I'm really looking forward to seeing her playing opposite Tom Hardy in the new Mad Max movie.
I didn't think she was that bad! LOL! But here again is a case where an actress is chosen by how she looks. She's a pretty girl, but there are actresses out there who could fulfill the appearance requirement and are better actresses, but I think she was cast to attract teens and oldies tend to expect someone who can act. I think all the money went on attracting Theron and the coterie of actors who were morphed into the seven dwarves!! I don't imagine Bob Hoskins of Ray Winstone came cheap!!
I couldn't remember where I'd see Stewart before and I've seen Twilight - which probably tells you all you need to know LOL!
Oh, that is very, very harsh! I'd save that one for someone really poor .... like ... um ...Sienna Miller!
Certainly do!! This has to be 100% better than the Julia Roberts effort - that looks really dumb.
#13
Posted 02 July 2012 - 08:29 AM
Really? I think she looks very common. However she may be falling into the category of "media hot" where a common looking person becomes more attractive the more and more you see her in different projects. Its something I made up btw. I dont think if you lined her up before she became famous with other good looking people, she would be ranked at the bottom end of the spectrum.
#14
Posted 02 July 2012 - 11:47 AM
I found Prometheus beautiful but poorly plotted - and terrible characterisation, to boot. The people, and the events happening to them made little sense. Theron was one-dimensional.
The Avengers was indeed quite a lot of fun. I went in expecting it to have that clinical, detached feel that action movies had aquired over the last decade. While that feel was there, the actors were allowed to shine through the CGI - and I really liked it. It could have done with a boss battle at the end, though.
MIB III was, as others have said, shockingly good! I really didn't expect the series to return to form after the cash-in that was MIB II. Good film, go see it - 'nuff said.
Abraham Lincoln Saves The Universe was ridiculous, badly written, and ridiculous again. It was also absurd. The only entertainment value I got from it was laughing my ass off at terrible story-telling and dialogue, such as the montage that Abe's Voiceover explains in detail. That's not how montages work. Then, after Abe tells us that he told his boss, Mr. Speed, that he was a vampire hunter, we see him and Mr. Speed standing on a boat, and Speed says the cheesiest, most retarded line written since Tommy Wiseau penned "The Room".
"You and me, Abe - Together, we can achieve ANYTHING."
I rest my case. If you didn't laugh out loud at the retarditude of that line, then I don't know - you need more cynicism in your life. Terrible film. I laughed a hell of a lot.
#15
Posted 03 July 2012 - 01:20 AM
#16
Posted 03 July 2012 - 05:21 AM
She reminds me a little bit of Lisa-Marie Presley. I don't know if by "common" you mean ordinary-looking or a bit rough. She's not an overblown beauty certainly, but she's pretty enough.
Ah, but there are an awful lot of men and women who could be put in the same category. What you call "media hot" has been around for a long time - and there is something to be said for "the girl-next-door" and "attainable" feel to people who aren't spectacularly hot. Doris Day is a famous example from the past.
The point of her being cast as Snow White is probably because she was in Twilight and as such became an aspirational actress for the young girls who like that kind of stuff. I think your right that fame does indeed read across projects and boosts someone's stock. Look at her opposite number, Robert Pattinson! The other thing is that being "the fairest of them all" isn't just about being beautiful on the outside, it's supposed to be about "purity of heart" too! Yep, I know - bunkum - but there you are, we don't watch movies like this because they reflect real life!!
#17
Posted 03 July 2012 - 05:30 AM
You may have a point, but this movie is actually a lot better than that and her role in the movie doesn't eclipse all the goodness and action. I would say that if you enjoyed Willow and LOTR, then you would find much to enjoy. It is quite "Gothic" but it isn't too much like Twilight - there are no fey pretty boys in it. It's worth a shot.
I checked my brain in at the door and enjoyed it anyway. I think she was supposed to be cold and one-dimensional. I have always thought the Alien franchise was more about space-gothic than serious sci-fi anyway. The same with Avatar.
Now I wish I'd seen this. A female friend who is an uber-geek has been singing its praises.
The title of this was enough to put me off - I wouldn't even go see it when we had around 6,000,000 Odeon loyalty points and all that was on were wall-to-wall romcoms and Pixar.
I rest my case. If you didn't laugh out loud at the retarditude of that line, then I don't know - you need more cynicism in your life. Terrible film. I laughed a hell of a lot.
I think you invented a new word!! At least you enjoyed it for something.
#18
Posted 03 July 2012 - 09:54 AM
#19
Posted 03 July 2012 - 02:41 PM
I just think it was approached in a bizarre way. When you have an idea as crazy and audacious as this, playing it straight is a very risky thing to do, and when you clearly don't *really* give a toss about the integrity or believability of the story, playing it straight is a retarded thing to do. It should have been an action comedy - that could have made it more palatable.
As it is, it shoehorns in some raggedly-defined offcuts from the history books between utterly mental causally-suspect fight sequences, and runs the whole lot through a classroom full of pre-schoolers writing the dialogue and plotting.
I say "causally suspect" in relation to the source of Abe's vampire slaying prowess... he gains his strength from... truth? Really?
It was silly from start to finish, from inception to production - failing to show any of the respect that the indisputably great man it was based on deserved.
I went in thinking it had the potential to be good, but you hit the nail on the head with "farce".
#20
Posted 03 July 2012 - 03:30 PM
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