Movie Review Thread

**The Spartan (Returns)** · 08-08-2006, 23:34

it sounds really cool, but the teasers are stupid (the one where you get a call from Samuel Jackson)

**Alexanderofmacedon** · 08-09-2006, 17:53

I eat snakes.

**edyzmedieval** · 08-11-2006, 18:35

Anyone seen the following movies:

Click
Cars
Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man's Chest
Garfield 2: The Tale of the 2 Kitties

I really want to see them all, so I wonder what are your opinions about them.

**Geezer57** · 08-14-2006, 18:09

Originally Posted by edyzmedieval

Anyone seen the following movies:
Click
Cars
Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man's Chest
Garfield 2: The Tale of the 2 Kitties
I really want to see them all, so I wonder what are your opinions about them.

The only one I've seen is Pirates, which I didn't think was up to the original. It's non-stop, frantic action - with little or no time for characterization, etc. There's no concession given to the time lapse between the 1st and 2nd films, so it starts out assuming you remember many details of the first episode. The movie is still fun, but take time to watch the first film just before going to see the second - otherwise, you'll just be confused by what's happening so fast on-screen.

**Quid** · 08-24-2006, 11:00

Originally Posted by Geezer57

The only one I've seen is Pirates, which I didn't think was up to the original. It's non-stop, frantic action - with little or no time for characterization, etc. There's no concession given to the time lapse between the 1st and 2nd films, so it starts out assuming you remember many details of the first episode. The movie is still fun, but take time to watch the first film just before going to see the second - otherwise, you'll just be confused by what's happening so fast on-screen.

Watched that one too. It's a typiacal 'second' in a trilogy. No particular beginning and no particular ending. Just have to watch it so that you know what the third partis going to be about.

The whole was more of the same, really. Almost slapstick parody, very hectic and Ms. Knightly has lost too much weight.

Overall, on ok film.

Anyone watched Miami Vice? If you haven't, don't.

Quid

**The Spartan (Returns)** · 08-25-2006, 02:23

really? heard Miami Vice wasnt bad.

**Sasaki Kojiro** · 08-25-2006, 02:43

I heard it made 62% less it's 2nd weekend...a very bad sign.

I watched Good Will Hunting again, it really is an excellent movie.

**Quid** · 08-25-2006, 09:50

Originally Posted by The Spartan

really? heard Miami Vice wasnt bad.

Naturally, you're free to invest money into seeing it but my advice is, don't. It really isn't worth it. I went to see it on the opening in England and it's simply boring. I would have left the cinema (I never do that) if it hadn't been for summer course students I was looking after.

Sad to say, none of them enjoyed it either and that is generally a bad sign...

Quid

**The Wizard** · 10-01-2006, 19:51

Originally Posted by The Spartan

really? heard Miami Vice wasnt bad.

It isn't. Great movie, but beware if you prefer your action movies with as little talking as possible and as much as possible explosions and flying bullets. But the camera work is wonderful, as well as the pacing and the way in which events were grouped.

Just don't expect the Miami Vice you knew. The director said in an interview that he made "the Miami Vice as I saw it" in the first episodes (which he directed). It's not a remake, but more a reinvention.

Also, snakes. On a plane. Sixteen Oscars. Easy.