40Cent @ the movies

[Staggerwing]

What they really need is an astroturf SuperPAC.

[Bison]

What they really need is an astroturf SuperPAC.

Damned straight.  Dinosaurs have been repress for far too long. 

[Centurion40]

Saw the Entourage movie and it wasn't bad.  I have never been a devotee of the TV show, so I wasn't sure what I was in for; but I enjoyed it. 

30/40

[Windigo]

Saw the latest Mad Max [fury road]... loved it. It was action packed and had a good story line. The acting was really good, and despite the lack of lines, Tom Hardy was very good portraying that special kind of crazy.

[BanzaiCat]

Saw the Entourage movie and it wasn't bad.  I have never been a devotee of the TV show, so I wasn't sure what I was in for; but I enjoyed it. 

30/40

You'd probably enjoy the TV show; it was one of my favorites. Makes me wish I pushed to be an actor back when I was much younger...though I could very easily still be bussing tables at my age had I done that, so who knows.

I think I'm going to go see Jurassic World this weekend, by myself. Family's in Arizona for three weeks so why not. It's not creepy, a middle-aged man going to the movies by himself, right?

[mirth]

Sadly, Michael Crichton is no longer with us to keep the 'Jurassic' films honest.

He didn't do such a great job keeping the first film honest :P

http://dinosaurs.about.com/od/typesofdinosaurs/ss/10-Facts-About-Velociraptor.htm

Crichton's novel was much more scientifically realistic (I know we're talking making genetically engineering dinosaurs) than any of the JP movies. One of the things I loved about that first JP novel was that it sounded so plausible.

[JasonPratt]

I'm pretty sure I recall the raptors in the book being much the same as in the movie. Except the movie raptors eventually got feathers, briefly.  ::) (From the production stills I've seen, it seems the feathers are gone again in JW...? Probably for the best if so. Trends in Paleontology come and go, and the trend has been away from dinos being the ancestors of birds for a while.)

What the movies definitely changed from a more realistic book approach, was the poison-spitting dino (whose name I forget offhand). It ought to be as large as an Allosaur, like in the book, not as small as most raptors were. ;)

I thought the Tell-tale game, which is a direct sequel to the first movie (and takes place partially at the same time as those events), was going to explain them being newly hatched babies, since fresh eggs are found in the area, and show us full sized whatevertheywere; but the writers chose to creatively punt a different direction and put down all the variances to splicing from frog DNA.

[BanzaiCat]

Saw Jurassic World this morning. Was somewhat underwhelemed though there were a few bright spots. Few, unfortunately.

The little kid annoyed me a great deal. I was wishing Smuck would show up and shave his ratty hippy boy hairdo.

The older kid was not so much a character as a cardboard cutout of one.

In fact, most of the characters came across like that. Chris Pratt's character was pretty much the only one with some actual character built in; I thought Jake Johnson's character (Lowery, the one with the dinos all over his desk) had a bit too, but that was about it. Bryce Dallas Howard was by far the most annoying of all of them; she reminded me of one of the housewives from The Stepford Wives. The camera/director was way too preoccupied with her feet in the early part of the film (gross). The high-heels thing was annoying too, but I only thought of it because of what you guys said on here (ha).

The product placement was very annoying too, but at least they kind of poked fun at it.

I did like that this was an extension of sorts of the original film and not a remake. If the characters had something more to them, I might have cared a little more. As it was I was really looking forward to a mass dino slaughter of everyone by the middle of the movie. With 20,000 on the island one would think there would have been a LOT more CGI carnage.

It was nowhere near as interesting or suspenseful as the first film, although it was better than the second or third ones (which isn't saying much). It was also highly formulaic and predictable.

Still, there were interesting moments. I really liked the homage to the original film in the overgrown dome. I liked the T-Rex versus the Indominus Rex battle.

Not bad overall, but certainly not great.

26/40

[BanzaiCat]

Just bought tix to see both Spy and then Terminator Genysis on Sunday morning. Because I can.

I watched Get Hard tonight. Almost universally panned by critics, and indeed it was lame at first, but it got better as the movie went on and had me LOL several times in the second half. A good movie overall. 30/40.

[OJsDad]

Went to see Inside Out tonight with the family.  Good movie.  Not really meant for younger kids, as I'm guessing they would miss the whole last part.  30/40

[BanzaiCat]

Just watched Paul Blart Mall Cop 2. About the same as the first one. Not all that great but it did have some snicker-worthy moments. 24/40.

[mirth]

I've never seen either of those.

[BanzaiCat]

I just vented about Terminator Genisys in its thread so I won't echo how bad a movie I think that is, here. 15/40, tops.

Spy was hardly much better. Melissa McCarthy was her usual fat woman caricature self. There's some good acting that she has to draw from - I happen to think she's talented as long as she doesn't rely on the 'ha ha laugh at me because I'm a fat woman' character acting. These roles of hers are, unfortunately, pretty much the same thing. I guess if that works for her, more power to her - I'm sure she's laughing all the way to the bank. "Ha, I'm fat, but I can fight. Ha, I'm fat, but nobody likes me, woe is me. Ha, I'm fat, and f**k you you motherf**king f**ktard f**kwad f**k." I never have issue with F-bombs being dropped in movies, as long as it is for comedic effect. Melissa dropped one every five minutes at about halfway through the film, as if she was begging the audience to think she's turned from a nobody into a tough strong woman, and using it just made her character more pathetic. Jude Law was pretty good, but the 'twist' he was involved with was so transparent it was non-existent. Jason Statham shows some comedic chops, but rarely were his lines laugh-out-loud funny; his role in this film was the main reason why I wanted to see it, even though Melissa figures prominently on the movie poster, obviously. In any case, this was fairly mediocre. 18/40.

[Windigo]

x men days of future past 33/40

best of the series hands down. Good to see a Lanister still stirring up shit.

[Bison]

Just watched Inside Out in 3D with the kids this afternoon.  Man I hate 3D glasses they give me a headache.  Anyway movie was decent and a real tear jerker for the kids.  I got popcorn and a sip of Sprite for my part.