Movie Review Thread

**Alexander the Pretty Good** · 01-18-2010, 05:01

I saw A Matter of Loaf and Death the other day. It's the latest Wallace and Gromit short (though a good 35 minutes long) from Nick Park. It was a wonderful return to form after the disappointing full-length Curse of the Wererabbit. The sad thing is watching the "how it was made" feature on the DVD and seeing how old Nick Park looks these days. :(

**Snite** · 01-18-2010, 07:56

Avatar

is a silly silly movie. Nothing made sense, even down to those spinny lizards. I liked the concept of the planet being one big nueral network that the natives could plug into - and with animals as well - but that was it. Everything else was.... silly.

**Fragony** · 01-18-2010, 12:26

This one is for you Lemur https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOrcIyvW5Rk

No actual children were harmed.

**rajpoot** · 01-18-2010, 18:31

Seconded on canning the director, since violence and loads of action does not make a good Sherlock Holmes movie.

I watched it today and maybe I'd just gone with the wrong mindset, expecting a true to the book movie for once....I had heard that this was more like an action flick...but come on, I mean anyone remember the Sherlock Holmes series with Jeremy Brett? Those more or less stuck to the books and were pretty nice.

This movie was fine....I mean nice action flick and all, but it certainly did not seem like I was watching Sherlock Holmes....more like some standard modern day detective movie....

Jude Law was good as Watson though......better than RD Jr. was as Holmes.

**Strike For The South** · 01-19-2010, 23:24

The Book of Eli

I need a machate, KFC wet naps, and an ol' beat up ipod.

9/10

**Kralizec** · 01-20-2010, 12:15

Slumdog millionaire
8/10

**Major Robert Dump** · 01-23-2010, 05:39

Bored in a motel I just watched Watchmen again, on one of the pay channels. It was the theatrical version. It didn't have the Death of Hollis Mason scene........it was in directors cut.....beautiful, bittersweet scene.....what do film editors think? How did cutting these 4 minutes make the movie better? I said in a previous thread it was my fave scene of the movie, seeing an old dog go down fighting, and I watch in in this motel and the film is butchered.....many other scenes gone, no wonder people didnt like....Here, Mason (night owl I) is mistaken for night owl 2 and some gang bangers go to kill him:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVeg78Yfp7g

Also, they cut a scene where the night owl II sees that the Knot Tie gang killed Mason and he beats the tar out of a Knot-Tie gang member and Rorschauch has to pull him off

**Scienter** · 01-23-2010, 16:15

Originally Posted by Strike For The South

The Book of Eli

I need a machate, KFC wet naps, and an ol' beat up ipod.

9/10

I saw it last week and thought it was a fun movie. I was a little wary because the reviews on rottentomatoes were so poor. I wasn't expecting something intellectually profound, I just wanted to watch Denzel Washington kill people with a machete.

**Crazed Rabbit** · 01-23-2010, 19:21

Saw 500 Days of Summer recently - an enjoyable movie, definitely not a standard rom-com chick flick.

Then I watched Transformers 2. And the whole thing can be summed up by a robot humping Megan Fox's leg; great special effect set pieces strung together with the flimsiest plot, terrible dialogue, and numerous stupid attempts at humor that failed to make me laugh once throughout the whole movie.

CR