40Cent @ the movies

[Bison]

Monsters Inc.  rocks.   This is the type of family movie that the need to make more of these days.  Good, clean fun and humor.

[eyebiter]

Batman: Year One (animated movie) is an excellent version of the graphic novel.  34/40

[mirth]

The Dark Knight Returns - Part 1 is also an excellent adaptation. 35/40.

[Bison]

I'm very behind on my super hero movies.  I'm pretty stoked about the upcoming Man of Steel movie though.

[Martok]

The Dark Knight Returns - Part 1 is also an excellent adaptation. 35/40.

Never heard of this one.  Is it an animated film? 

[mirth]

The Dark Knight Returns - Part 1 is also an excellent adaptation. 35/40.

Never heard of this one.  Is it an animated film? 

It is an animated film. It's an adaptation of the Frank Miller comic series that was done in the 80s. Part 1 of the film version was released a couple of months ago. Whether or not you ever read the comic version, the movie is well worth watching.

[mirth]

IIRC Batman Year One was a follow-on (prequel) to Dark Knight Returns and also done by Frank Miller. Elements of both Year One and the Dark Knight Returns were adopted for the Christopher Nolan trilogy.

[Bison]

IIRC Batman Year One was a follow-on (prequel) to Dark Knight Returns and also done by Frank Miller. Elements of both Year One and the Dark Knight Returns were adopted for the Christopher Nolan trilogy.

This has crossed into realms of geekdom I didn't know you frequented Mirth.

[Martok]

The Dark Knight Returns - Part 1 is also an excellent adaptation. 35/40.

Never heard of this one.  Is it an animated film? 

It is an animated film. It's an adaptation of the Frank Miller comic series that was done in the 80s. Part 1 of the film version was released a couple of months ago. Whether or not you ever read the comic version, the movie is well worth watching.

Hmm, may have to check it out.  However, one question must be answered first:  Is the title character still voiced by Kevin Conroy? 

IIRC Batman Year One was a follow-on (prequel) to Dark Knight Returns and also done by Frank Miller. Elements of both Year One and the Dark Knight Returns were adopted for the Christopher Nolan trilogy.

This has crossed into realms of geekdom I didn't know you frequented Mirth.

The man has hidden depths! 

[OJsDad]

Took the wife and kids to see Parental Guidance last night.  Story lines were predictable, but a good funny movie.  A friend of ours went along, and as she said, it's good to see that Hollywood can still make a good movie with our cursing, nudity or blowing things up.  J is 9 and O is 12 and they both liked it.  Theater was just about sold out.

Lots of laughs.  I'll give it 31 out of 40.

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

I went to see Jack Reacher last night.  I wasn't expecting much but I was pleasantly surprised.  Pretty standard alpha make action hero type main character but some of his one liners were pretty damned funny and the story moved along at a decent clip.

7.5/10

[Longdan]

If it don't have cursing, nudity or blowing things up I ain't going.
I can live without cursing since I can do it myself but the others
are pretty much essential in a movie.  I do think it is wrong to
present nudity as artful or essential to the plot line or to keep
it from kids.  Some people just look better naked than others
and I find naked actresses hold my attention better than the ones
with clothes on who are talking and stuff.  As for explosions, what
were movies about before they had explosions?
You are right if you said nothing because they never made any
movies before they could make explosions.
Even back in the days of Lord of the Rings they had lots of explosions.

[eyebiter]

Skyfall was a decent James Bond film.  Much improved over Quantum of Solace.  Good action sequences, a few interesting locations.   Long movie though, could have used some editing in the second act.  34/40 

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

I saw Zero Dark Thirty last night.

On the one hand, I liked the (mostly) detached approach it took to examining the events from 2001 to 2011.  There was little in the way of moralizing or rationalizing of the events portrayed in the film.  They did stray a bit from this approach when they decided not to recreate or show any of the footage of the 9/11 attacks but opted for 911 call voice recordings played over a black screen but didn't show the same restraint when it came to the 7/7/7 attacks or the Marriott hotel bombing in Islamabad.

On the other hand, I did not like the fact that they felt they had to create a fictional CIA agent to personify the single-minded drive to get OBL.  Worse, they chose to make her into a kind of Erin Brockovich feminist wet dream type who's constantly butting heads with stupid men who just won't listen! 

It was OK but I think that it'll be another Hurt Locker type film in that a bunch of self-styled experts who don't actually know much about the actual subject matter will loudly proclaim it to be sooooo realistic and it'll become the accepted version of reality.

[Longdan]

And that is how Hollywood makes history.