**Rerun's Movie Reviews**

[Poppylicious]

Last weekend we saw Evil Dead.  I quite enjoyed it even though it made me cringe, jump and have to look away in equal measures.  It's been so long since I saw the original that I can't even compare the two, which made it better.  No false expectations.

This weekend we saw Iron Man 3 (3D) in a very crowded cinema (we're usually the only people who go to the cinema at 10.30 on a Saturday morning which I like because busy confined places make me feel uncomfortable, so I was a tad 'grrr, who are all these people invading my cinema-goer pleasure time?') We were treated to a Daft Punk video (I missed most of it because I was having a wee) and (quite a long) snippet from Fast & Furious 6. Is it wrong that I want to see this film even though I haven't seen the other five in their entirety? 

 

[Chris]

Hmm is Iron Man 3 even out in the US yet? Thought they just started to advertise it that it is coming out.
 
Fast N Furious 6 I want to see, I have all 5, but Tokyo Drift is the odd one out in sequence of movie order. I won't spoil it for you Poppy. They are already going to do #7, I guess that's because that's all they can get jobs for?
 
Well I finally watched Gangster Squad and it was ok, not great in part because of Josh Brolin. I saw Men In Black 3 and all I could think was that he was doing Tommy Lee Jones impression, also something just didn't click with me. Sean Penn tho was good, could not tell it was him in looks and voice. I'll have to watch it again to maybe get a different perspective. I preordered Oblivion on Amazon and maybe something else I can not remember.

[Poppylicious]

Hmm is Iron Man 3 even out in the US yet? Thought they just started to advertise it that it is coming out.
 
Fast N Furious 6 I want to see, I have all 5, but Tokyo Drift is the odd one out in sequence of movie order. I won't spoil it for you Poppy. They are already going to do #7, I guess that's because that's all they can get jobs for?

Yep, the rest of the world got Iron Man 3 a whole week before the US.  Not sure why, and it's highly unusual for that to happen so it's quite nice when it does ... 

I've actually seen quite a bit of Tokyo Drift, but not the whole film and rarely in sequence!  When I was working in the School for Naughty Teenagers one of our students watched it constantly.  Another watched Holes constantly.  It's amazing how easy it is to calm the most gangster-ish of gangster boys down with a film!

 

[Chris]

Poppy, watch Tokyo Drift and watch to see what happens to Han or Hon (sp?) then ask why he was in 5 and  6.

[Chris]

Since timing was off for movies, we saw Jack The Giant Slayer at the $1.50 theatre. Couldn't  see the movie to well, but good time killer. A $1.50 worth spending to watch, own DVD I'm not so sure.

[Rerun]

I saw the "Life of Pi"  I know he was in search of God.  What did the 2 different stories of what happened to him at the end have to do with God.  He said something about the 2 different stories and "That is what God is about"?   Anyone have some insight into that?

     

[MooseMom]

Hubby and I both like sci-fi, so we went to see Oblivion over the weekend.  I had seen the trailers but wasn't all that sure about it.  As it turned out, it was terrific!  Very well written and quite creepy.  Really enjoyed it.

Last week I went to see "The Place Beyond the Pines".  The trailers had made it look like some sort of New Jersey gangster film, which I didn't like, but the cast looked like it would be really good.  Then I started hearing rave reviews about it, so I decided I'd like to see it after all.  Hubby wasn't interested, so I went alone.  Another really, really great film whose story has been haunting me for days now.  It's probably no longer playing now that the summer blockbusters are out, but I'm sure it will be coming out on DVD fairly soon.  It's essentially a story about fatherhood.  Recommended!

[Chris]

The Place Behind The Pines is coming to the discount theatre soon here and I have no idea what it is about or heard about it. My friend wants to see it, I'm not so sure till I research it on IMDB. MooseMom, isn't there a discount theatre near you? I do not know if Fox Valley Mall has one anymore, but maybe Bloomingdale Mall does.$1.50 for older films is not bad, but there is a difference between a $1.50 theatre and new release theatres.
 
I pre-ordered Oblivion nad Olympus Has Fallen on Amazon, both with Morgan Freeman and he has another movie coming out already.

[Poppylicious]

I saw the "Life of Pi"  I know he was in search of God.  What did the 2 different stories of what happened to him at the end have to do with God.  He said something about the 2 different stories and "That is what God is about"?   Anyone have some insight into that?

     

I can't explain it myself so have found this handy link for you!

http://screenrant.com/life-of-pi-movie-ending-spoilers/2/

Read the book - it is so much better than the film.

 

[cariad]

I apparently have not yet mentioned that I saw Hysteria, based on the story of the invention of the vibrator. It had such potential but never realised it. I did not find it particularly amusing nor engaging.

[cariad]

We've been watching some British television comedies on LoveFilm, too.

I'd never seen Only Fools and Horses so we watched the initial episode and I fell asleep. Now, that's not as bad as it sounds because I'm usually pretty exhausted by the time we sit down to some telly, but still, it was so dated and jokey. Not my thing.

Then we tried Teachers. Less than five minutes in I was muttering "I hate this show, I hate everyone in it" over and over. It got marginally better as it established the characters, but I would still never watch another episode unless Gwyn really wants to see it.

Finally, we decided to give IDEAL a go because it stars Johnny Vegas and he was nothing short of amazing as Mr. Crook in Bleak House. He has that voice and that accent that really lends itself to seedy, quirky characters. Here, he plays a small-time, none-too-bright marijuana dealer. I found it genuinely funny in quite a few places and we are going to continue on viewing the series.

[okarol]

My daughter Becca suggested seeing a movie on Mother's Day night. She, Jenna and I decided not to see The Great Gatsby, like everyone else in town seemed to be doing, and we saw Ironman 3 instead. We chose to see the non-3D version, as I find 3D's to be distracting and sometimes I feel like I am getting motion sickness. The movie was quite good, kept my attention and we had a good time together. 

[Chris]

The Great Gatsby looks good and I kinda want to see itbut,   since I was forced to read it in high school I also have a distaste for it. To Kill A Mockingbird the book was better than the movie from the 50's. Iron Man 3 I have on pre-order and that I am more inclined to see.

[MooseMom]

The Great Gatsby looks good and I kinda want to see itbut,   since I was forced to read it in high school I also have a distaste for it. To Kill A Mockingbird the book was better than the movie from the 50's. Iron Man 3 I have on pre-order and that I am more inclined to see.

I hated that book (Great Gatsby).

I really enjoyed IM3.  I confess to being a bit of a cinema snob, but I love those summer blockbusters!  Can't wait for the new Star Trek!!

[Emerson Burick]

I hated that book (Great Gatsby).

I hated that book too. The problem is that it's such an icon that nobody has the guts to just flat-out admit that it's dreadful. If I were a teacher I'd swap out pretty much any Sinclair Lewis novel for that tripe.

[Poppylicious]

We've been watching some British television comedies on LoveFilm, too.

I'd never seen Only Fools and Horses so we watched the initial episode and I fell asleep. Now, that's not as bad as it sounds because I'm usually pretty exhausted by the time we sit down to some telly, but still, it was so dated and jokey. Not my thing.

Then we tried Teachers. Less than five minutes in I was muttering "I hate this show, I hate everyone in it" over and over. It got marginally better as it established the characters, but I would still never watch another episode unless Gwyn really wants to see it.

Finally, we decided to give IDEAL a go because it stars Johnny Vegas and he was nothing short of amazing as Mr. Crook in Bleak House. He has that voice and that accent that really lends itself to seedy, quirky characters. Here, he plays a small-time, none-too-bright marijuana dealer. I found it genuinely funny in quite a few places and we are going to continue on viewing the series.

Only Fools and Horses is terribly dated now.  Funny in parts, but quite cliched and stereotyped now.

Teachers is brilliant.  I have every single episode on DVD.  As a qualified (but non-teaching now) teacher (who was teaching back when it was on) I was able to relate to it really well, which may have helped.  Not that it's true to life, but it had its moments where I could say, "Yep, I've had that happen!" It was also my introduction to my former crush Mathew Horne, who played the RE teacher (RE is my specialism too) but he's only in series 4 (the last series) I think.  I can't believe it's been nine years since it was on the tellybox.  Where does time go?!

Can't comment on IDEAL because I haven't even heard of it.

 

We're seeing Star Trek this weekend ... Benedict Cumberbatch ... WooHoo! *drools*

[MooseMom]

I nearly fell out of my chair when I saw that Benedict Cumberbatch was going to be the evil bad guy in Star Trek.  What an inspired choice!  Can't wait!!!

[cariad]

Teachers is brilliant.  I have every single episode on DVD.  As a qualified (but non-teaching now) teacher (who was teaching back when it was on) I was able to relate to it really well, which may have helped.  Not that it's true to life, but it had its moments where I could say, "Yep, I've had that happen!"

I really wanted to see a different angle, I guess more true to life. I didn't recognise any of the characters and they all seemed about the same, at about the same place in life. I would love to be a fly on the wall at my children's primary school, there is so much scandal and choas there, so I was hoping for more of a 'backstage' look at teachers I already knew. So some of the teachers have sex with each other and everyone else and they don't behave perfectly in their personal lives, sort of sussed that already. I wanted more of the "here's what we really think of you and your annoying children".

Can't comment on IDEAL because I haven't even heard of it.

Perhaps it's made for LoveFilm, I don't know, but it is produced by Steve Coogan and so far it has been genius from start to finish. Sometimes the humor is too crude for me, but less often than I feared. Hate to wreck one of the jokes, but one of the recurring characters wanted to open a childcare facility and she had picked out her name: "Creche Bang Wallop". G and I are still laughing about that one and it's been days!

The Onion has a series made just for Amazon, but I found it mostly disappointing.

There's really nothing in the cinema that I want to see right now. No interest in Star Trek, no interest in Iron Man, what else is out there?

[CebuShan]

I did a movie audit over the weekend for "The Great Gatsby". It was alright. I liked the original better and the book the best. I did like Tobey Maguire as Nick Carroway.

[Poppylicious]

Benedict Cumberbatch didn't disappoint in Star Trek.  I did drool.

 

[Poppylicious]

So far this month we've seen The Purge (it was okay, I liked it) and Man of Steel 3D (it was okay, I liked it.) Tomorrow evening we're going to a 'secret screening'.  We won't be told what film it is till we get there.  Very exciting.  We're hoping for Despicable Me 2 ... *fingers crossed*

[Chris]

Poppy, was Man of Steel better than Superman Returns?
 
So what movie did you see?

[cariad]

Saw The Croods at the Kids AM showing (£2/ticket, £3.80 if it's 3D) on Dyl's birthday. I can barely remember it and that was less than 2 weeks ago. Needless to say it did not make much of an impression.

[Lexxtech18]

The last five movies I saw in theater were...

Iron Man 3 - amazing, amazing, AMAZING! My (now ex) boyfriend kept complaining that it didnt follow the comic book lore, which it didnt. But I didnt care too much because RDJ is hot and it had some great action scenes! Funny parts, too, (Ben Kingsly as The Mandarin... HILARIOUS!)  But that's just smart-assy Tony Stark for ya! If you dont know anything of Iron Man or the Avengers (comic wise) other than the movies, you probably won't even noticed the continuity issues. There were a few things that bothered me, but they are so minute I forgot them after the movie anyway. haha It was not as good as 1, better than 2 and I would so see it again. Definitely recommend it!!

The Hangover Part III - Don't waste your money. It wasn't nearly as funny as the last two and the plot was a little all over the place. Wait til it comes out on Netflix. I can't really say much about it other than... it was just bad and predictable, I think. You might like it if you like dumb humor, d**k and fart jokes, etc.

Star Trek Into Darkness - another AMAZING summer movie, but then again I'm kind of a Trekkie. lol It was every bit as good as the first, in my opinion. Lots of action and cute guys to stare at. hehe You get to see the friendship between Spock and Kirk blossom and I really adored that they did that. Kahn. Just wow... awesome job Cumberbatch! And I was overjoyed to see Simone Pegg as Scotty again! And like I said TONS of action scenes right from the start. It had funny moments and definite sad moments (my sister cried at one point, I think. lol) Great movie. I give it two Spock ears up! See what I did there?

The Purge - If you're a fan of suspense, you might like this movie. There are some definite suspensful moments throughout, but it's also pretty predictable. And the way the annual Purge was broadcasted in homes across America in the movie only reminded me of The Hunger Games. Sick and twisted. I'm not an Ethan Hawke fan, he always seems to be typecasted as the good-but-could-be-bad guy. There were so many times I was literally screaming at the screen 'STUPID PEOPLE! DONT GO IN THERE!' etc, etc. (Good thing it was just me and some friends in the theater! lol) The only redeeming thing I found was the actor who played the main villain was amazing. He sent creepy shivers down my spine each time they showed his face. That kid is gonna go far.

Man of Steel - Okay, let's get one thing straight, I'm a big comic book nerd but I am NOT a Superman fan. Like at all. I hate Superman with a passion. But I agreed to see this movie with some friends who are big Superman fans. So keep that in mind. lol Anyway, it was okay. Tons of action... in the last 15 minutes. Everything else it felt like was building up to it. The guy who played Superman/Clarke Kent did a great job! Amy Adams as Lois Lane? Uhh... no. Didn't like it. And it had a serious lack of Lex Luthor, who is literally the only person I like in the Superman franchise. The good... Russell Crowe as Jor-El did a good job, but after watching Les Mis for the millionth time I half expected him to break out into song. And Michael Shannon as Zod is just creepy enough you can believe he's a power hungry alien who wants to destroy mankind. If you like Superman you'll probably love it, I'll admit it was way better than the last couple Superman movies put out though. Sorry to be biased, I just dont like Superman. xD


Next month, I can't wait to see The Wolverine!! ^_^

[CebuShan]

We just saw

Henry's Crime with Keanu Reeves. Very funny!

December Boys I know it's an older one but I had never gotten around to seeing it. My husband & I both liked it.

Footloose(The remake) Was pleasantly surprised at how much I liked this one (watched it twice before I returned it!) It was updated but followed the original very closely!