I'll second the recommendation for Zombieland. Make sure you stay through the credits, too.
I'll second the recommendation for Zombieland. Make sure you stay through the credits, too.
Oh noes.... I was going to stay, but we were in a rush to bolt out. What did I miss??
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Cloudy with a chance of meatballs - saw it with my kid, awesome frikken movie. Sony Animation is very good.
I will third ZombieLand. Too many funny parts in that movie. I was literally laughing and flinching from being startled at the same time.
The movies I want to see are Where the Wild Things Are, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, and The Toy Story 3-d 1&2 revival.
My wife saw some Blockbuster movies on sale so she bought five of them over the weekend. Here's what we saw:
Duplicity (Clive Owen & Julia Roberts) - I didn't see it, but she loved it and said I would to, so I'll give an assisted recommendation.
Push (guy who played human torch from the FF movies and Dakota Fanning): Another X-men/Heroes "people with powers/government's after them" type of movie, not the worst but better than what I thought it would be, so slight edge to "recommendation".
(intermission: I swear I just heard somebody on the TV in the background talking about "sticky butt syndrome", WTF????)
Revolutionary Road (Leo & Kate from Titanic): Very good movie, but depressing as hell. Recommended, but make sure there aren't any sharp objects nearby.
Saw X-Men Origins : Wolverine over the weekend. Some of the action scenes were the best I've ever seen, especially towards the beginning, however there's a lot of "cheese" factor in the movie, the kind that make you feel like a total nerd when watching it with other people after you recommend watching it (like Wolverine going a little overboard trying to be a bad-ass)
You'd think with the cast line up that the acting would be good. Liev Schreiber is an awesome actor, but didn't deliver (to me) a great villian, I think he just looks too likable to have the animal/killer behaviors of Sabertooth.
Another huge let down was the terrible acting of Will I am (black eye peas) as John Wraith or Greg Burger (blog) - really lame makeup on the blob too...
Chris Edgerly (Gambit) was a refreshing surprise though, he had awesome moves and was one of the more impressive actors in the cast.
The story was great, very comic-book like, a little over the top with homages to the comic line and preceeding and following stories/ideas.
Speaking of comic book movies, did anybody else like Punisher: War Zone? The guy who played Jigsaw was horrible, and there was some atrocious dialogue, but damnit, this Punisher was MEAN. The last movie missed out on that, and that's the thing about the sequel that made me love it, despite it's flaws.
Originally Posted by frenzy_rumble
I agree, it's worth watching for the action scenes alone, but other than that...X-Men 3 had better dialogue & acting, and that's sad.
YES! The guy who played Punisher was also Titus Pullo in the HBO series "ROME" and if you haven't seen it, go see it now! I enjoyed the two seasons of ROME just as much (if not a little better) than the entire run of Sopranos.
I second your slight-recommendation because a truly bad-ass Punisher will overcome all flaws.
Also, for those of you with bluray capabilities, Best Buy has The Watchmen bluray on sale for 18 bucks. Get it!
Or a month from now (Nov. 03) you can get "The Ultimate Cut" (but the point of the story: Get it in any form, because it kicks ass!!)
http://www.amazon.com/Watchmen-Ultim.../dp/B002IYEQR4
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