Gazelam wrote:I took the wife to see 1408 this past weekend, I give it a 3/5 stars.
Strange moment in the film....
The room is messing with him and presents to him a vision of his dead Father. The Father is in a hospital and seems to be lost, possibly suffering from Alzheimers. (It was pretold in the film that he always hated his Father, and the room is presenting this in an effort to cause depression and suicide.)
Anyway, the Father looks at John Cusack and says "As you now are I once was. As I now am you will be"
Pretty odd hearing that old Mormon saying shoehorned into the movie. changed yes, but obvious and strange.
I read the short story when I was much younger. Was the movie worth going for? Wait for the DVD? Hubby and I have been thinking about going out to the movies without the kidlets.
I've totally been slacking....has anyone seem Harry Potter 5 yet (please just Yes or NO and It was great or It sucked general statements please)
"Whatever appears to be against the Book of Mormon is going to be overturned at some time in the future. So we can be pretty open minded."-charity 3/7/07
Bond...James Bond wrote:I've totally been slacking....has anyone seem Harry Potter 5 yet (please just Yes or NO and It was great or It sucked general statements please)
YES! I really liked it. My whole family liked it. I don't know why the critics panned it. Thumbs up from me!
I read the short story when I was much younger. Was the movie worth going for? Wait for the DVD? Hubby and I have been thinking about going out to the movies without the kidlets.
Get a Pay-per-view. I wouldent buy it, but its not bad.
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. - Plato
After the kids had seen the preview to it every half hour on Cartoon network, and gotten their happy meal toys from BK, they were tottaly pumped to go see it. I never even saw that it was PG-13.
The showed the new Adam Sandler movie preview before it started where he grabs Jessica Biels bobs first. Now mind oyu my kids are 9, 7, and the neighbor kid we took was 6.
A little in to the movie we get introduced to all the transformers. My kids tottaly excited to see Jazz, who is the toy that he picked out and plays with. Jazz transforms and we're greeted to "Whats up Bitches!" Nice.
My younger son has the Bumble-bee toy, and that guy at one point pops a cork and "pees" on a guys head. Oh how cute.
And to top it off thers a good three minute conversation in the film about masturbating.
Way to market an adult film to kids hollywood. I was thoroughly disgusted. Not to mention I can no longer feel comfortable sharing that enjoyable memory of my childhood with my kids.
Gaz
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. - Plato
Gazelam wrote:After the kids had seen the preview to it every half hour on Cartoon network, and gotten their happy meal toys from BK, they were tottaly pumped to go see it. I never even saw that it was PG-13.
The showed the new Adam Sandler movie preview before it started where he grabs Jessica Biels bobs first. Now mind oyu my kids are 9, 7, and the neighbor kid we took was 6.
A little in to the movie we get introduced to all the transformers. My kids tottaly excited to see Jazz, who is the toy that he picked out and plays with. Jazz transforms and we're greeted to "Whats up Bitches!" Nice.
My younger son has the Bumble-bee toy, and that guy at one point pops a cork and "pees" on a guys head. Oh how cute.
And to top it off thers a good three minute conversation in the film about masturbating.
Way to market an adult film to kids hollywood. I was thoroughly disgusted. Not to mention I can no longer feel comfortable sharing that enjoyable memory of my childhood with my kids.
Gaz
Sorry that happened to you, Gaz. Every review I've read has said that Transformers is definitely PG 13 and NOT for kids...little kids, at any rate, due to the violence.
My 3 year old loves the toys and wanted to see the movie, but I "nixed" it. He actually DID enjoy Spiderman 3, though.
Does it strike you as being odd that a movie obviously not for kids would be so heavily marketed to them?
And why in the world would they include those scenes anyway? The movie would have been just as good without them. They actually added nothing to the film, they seem to only be there for the shock value (or whatever).
I posted earlier in the off-topic forum an interview with Kevin Smith over his efforts to write a script for a superman film. Its filled with bad language (Kevin being Kevin), but it is an interesting insight into how these films are made.
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. - Plato
1) Once again another solid Harry Potter movie. Not excellent, not jawdropping, but very solid. Totally worth 6.50. IMHO the best yet.
2) Great visuals. The Ministry of Magic looked great, the RoRequirement looked great. Grimwauld Place looked specifically gringy (but sadly we didn't meet Sirius' mum)
3) Above average acting. The kids aren't kids anymore, are they? They actually can act now. Whoever did Luna really nailed the "dreamy nature" I was expecting. The big three were very good. The dude doing Sirius really grew into the role.....too bad they had to kill him.
4) Umbridge was a tad disappointing, probleming being that she was so well written that no one could possibly live up to her standards. Which brings us to the main problem with the books being turned into movies.....
5) THE BOOKS RULE!!!!!! There's a reason they've sold 400 million copies or whatever, it's because they're damn good books. It's really hard to translate excellent books to the big screen, you just don't have enough time.
6) Sadly they can't get all the characters on the screen for enough time. They have great actors for the adults (David Thewlis anyone? The guy who played Snape?) and they just don't get enough screen time. But the book was what 850 pages? They did a good job of dumping that much material into a screenplay.
7) Getting subplots in was difficult and I did hate some of the compromises they made (like making Cho the snitch rather than her pal, and the elimination of the subplot with Percy being estranged from his family, not to mention the last chapter with Dumbledore and Harry talking was boiled down to a few sentences [but they got what was needed into the movie]).
8) I think they really nailed down Harry's frustration/isolation in this movie....and the realization that he has to rely on his friends and love to defeat Voldy. I guess that stage acting really paid off for the guy who played Harry.
9) A couple of great montage scenes happened, where they threw alot of stuff into a few minutes (like the Educational Decrees, and the supression at the school by Umbridge and the gang).....they were quite good at getting alot of things into the movie that they probably wouldn't have gotten in the first couple....the writing/directing team is getting better with each movie.
10) All in all a good film. A-
"Whatever appears to be against the Book of Mormon is going to be overturned at some time in the future. So we can be pretty open minded."-charity 3/7/07