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Forgive me, but I think that looking for too much depth in a Guy Ritchie film is a pretty pointless exercise... ;)

I thought the Holmes film was brainless fun but nothing more.
 
Mariner said:
Forgive me, but I think that looking for too much depth in a Guy Ritchie film is a pretty pointless exercise... ;)

I thought the Holmes film was brainless fun but nothing more.
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Not necessarily - Revolver is a case in point as I haven't found many people that agree with my expert and obviously correct interpretation ;).

However, there wasn't much depth in this one, I agree. And Ritchie made it more brainless than necessary by spelling everything out all the time.
My wife instantly spotted that the hobo was Holmes by his voice, which she pointed out.
I don't miss a lot generally and I appreciated that, but then of course we get every detail explained which disappointed me. Same with the fight scenes - either put some slight variation into the actual execution versus the planning, or leave the actual execution out of it and just show the end result.

But like I said, I think this movie (I use this word on purpose) was clearly aimed at a younger audience, and like I said, I think in that respect it worked.
 
Salt: 6/10. A proper pop corn flick. Good fun and enjoyable. Just don't expect any real depth. Tried to be Bourne like but falls a fair bit short.
 
I was like "heh so I was right, this guy is saying what I was mentioning all this while" then he goes to mention the ring & its here where I say "wow...that's some friggin minute detail he managed to grasp over there"
 
Greenburg 6/10 ... I really took nothing away from this movie, and there wasn't much that was memorable. Well crafted, I guess.

The Runaways 7/10 ... The casting is actually good, which I found surprising. Kristen Stewart makes for a pretty good Joan Jett. The movie seemed rushed, like it dwelled on some parts too much and glossed over other things, so there wasn't enough time to flesh out a full history for the shortly lived band.
 
Clash of the Titans remake: 1/10. Laughably bad. One of the worst scripts is some time. Right up there with Edge of Darkness, Wolfman, Shrek 4 and SATC 2 as the worst movies I've seen this year. I wouldn't it even suggest watching it for the laughs. The action/CGI wasn't the least bit impressive either.
 
I'm watching Inception right now in the cinema, but we have an unscheduled break because they messed up after the break, leaving the lights on and then when trying to fix that turning on the break music. They said they would rewind it but they messef that up too so now I'm rewatching a part we've already seen. Still enjoying it though. ;)
 
So, I've seen it, and I liked it - I had two points where I started noddig off a little, but that also among others had to do with me being tired after spending the whole day looking my own kid in the face. ;) I have an interpretation of most of the details in this story, but its great not to be 100% sure for once.

It's starting to become a recurring theme in movies that while we cannot know 100% if we are really in the reality that we are in, we do know whether or not we are happy enough with the reality that we currently perceive as reality, and, in some movies, that if we are in a reality that we can shape ourselves, that we can shape the reality to suit our own purpose. In this particular case I'm coming away from the movie thinking Dom has been shaping his own reality, and that he needed this 'quest' to rid Mal from his memory, because she was the last thing that reminded him of the existence of a higher plane of reality that he no longer wanted to be in - she kept telling/reminding him that these weren't his real kids, and that's why his vision of the kids stopped him from seeing their faces, and why he 'on level four' didn't want Mal to show him their faces, which he clearly believed that she could or he wouldn't have actively prevented himself from seeing them. While the final scene doesn't show us the spinning top toppling, it does give us the exact same room and exact same pose for the children in the garden, but this time they turn back for him to greet him. I'm not 100% sure though and there are some loose ends (not sure if Saito at the beginning was a failed mission or a success mission, if you know what I mean, and there are the instances where Dom is convinced of doing something he tells others never to do really quickly). May all make more sense tomorrow after I've had a good nights rest - that is, if I'm even awake right now. ;)

At times the move was really going a little overboard though what with the multi-level wake up trigger / falling timing thing - while intended to be climactic, these were actually the points where I was nodding off
 
I finally got around to seeing Toy Story 3 the other day - my first time in an IMAX cinema too.

As expected from a Pixar film (Cars aside), it was excellent so I'll give it a 9/10. The animated short shown before the main event was just rubbish, however!

As for the IMAX screen itself, I can't say that I really found myself getting more immersed in the film because of it so only a mild improvement over a standard movie theatre for me. 7/10. ;)
 
The Losers 5/10 .... Why do action movies suck so much? They're all aiming for the over-stylized ultra-hip feel, and it never works. Michael Bay and the Wachowski brothers have ruined the genre.
 
Pffft, most action movies have always been that way. Commando? Tango and Cash? I could go on and on. :)

The bigger problem isn't that brainless action movies are still being made, it's more than there isn't really many people making intelligent action movies anymore. So all we ever see is brainless teen action flicks like Star Trek, Transformers, etc...

Regards,
SB
 
Inception- 7/10

While an enjoyable watch, I really don't understand the hype people generated around this movie. It was decent. It looked stunning and the concept was creative, but I found myself checking my watch, at times.
 
Scott_Arm said:
The Losers 5/10 .... Why do action movies suck so much? They're all aiming for the over-stylized ultra-hip feel, and it never works. Michael Bay and the Wachowski brothers have ruined the genre.
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Clearly, we're both waiting for The Expendables.
 
Silent_Buddha said:
Pffft, most action movies have always been that way. Commando? Tango and Cash? I could go on and on. :)

The bigger problem isn't that brainless action movies are still being made, it's more than there isn't really many people making intelligent action movies anymore. So all we ever see is brainless teen action flicks like Star Trek, Transformers, etc...

Regards,
SB
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I have absolutely no problem with brainless action movies. I have a huge problem with the way they're filmed. There's way too much slo-mo, way too much shakey-cam. I can't think of a single notable action film director at this point. The colour is always incredibly over-saturated or extremely limited. Generally the characters are all in the anti-hero mold, which has gotten incredibly boring.

I'd watch some of the terrible action movies form the 80s and early 90s before I'd watch most of the movies from the late 90s and 2000s.
 
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