Movies, Movies, Movies.....

[rosscoe]

Avengers : Age of Ultron what words could describe this film?

 

Excruciating

Dull

Bloated

 

Simply awful beyond words.

[VF15]

Saw Avengers: Age of Ultron last night, and while I liked it overall, it was a little disappointing. There were several boring scenes, particularly in the first half of the movie. Ultron was a relatively weak villain if you ask me. On the plus side, it has plenty of the action you would expect to see in a Marvel movie, it's visually appealing, and it was generally well acted. Overall, another good movie from Marvel, and while not as good as its predecessor, I think it's worth seeing. Rating: 7/10

[rcjp]

^I liked it better than the first one and it was pretty much what I expected: fun and enjoyable but nothing amazing ( I got the feeling that it might have been a little too long, however)

[cfc]

Saw Avengers: Age of Ultron last night, and while I liked it overall, it was a little disappointing. There were several boring scenes, particularly in the first half of the movie. Ultron was a relatively weak villain if you ask me. On the plus side, it has plenty of the action you would expect to see in a Marvel movie, it's visually appealing, and it was generally well acted. Overall, another good movie from Marvel, and while not as good as its predecessor, I think it's worth seeing. Rating: 7/10

 

Personally, I thought Ultron was a good villain--twisted, witty, and well performed by James Spader. Yes, he's no Loki, but he was more interesting than the somewhat generic aliens in the first Avengers flick. I thought they made better use of Hawkeye in this one, too.

[Meteornotes]

While I enjoyed the new Avengers film, I did not like it as much as the first one. I thought there were too many characters, and that there was too much stuff in it that you had to be a fan of the comics to appreciate. One thing that really worked in the first film (and in Guardians Of The Galaxy as well) was that if you never read a comic you could easily follow and enjoy the film. Not nearly as successful with this in the second. I also felt it might have been a bit too long.

 

I did like Ultron, though I have to say the movie would have been amazing if near the end Ultron would have opened up and Red Reddington would have jumped out, yelling "Surprise, bitches!" (only fans of The Blacklist will get this).

 

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[cfc]

^Having "too many characters" is the main problem of these super-hero team-up movies. I kept waiting for the Black Panther to show up.

[Nrthwnd]

...or The Incredibles.

[azza29]

I'm sure they'll figure out a way to shoehorn Baymax into the next one...

[cfc]

...or The Incredibles.

 

Tony Stark would hit on Elasti Girl.

[gerstlaueringvar]

Watched Avengers, it's a fun movie but nothing to be wowed about except for Tony Stark's computer+smartphone system in his lab. It is quite exhausting after two hours+ of fighting, first one is better in this way.

 

Overall, 5/10.

[Meteornotes]

Finally got around to watching Interstellar this weekend, and we both loved it. Not sure why it got so much hate.

 

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[cfc]

^I liked it, too, although neither I nor the friends I saw it with are completely clear on just what happened. The uncertainty isn't a bad thing, though, and the movie never bored me.

[molemaster43]

^Yeah, the ending section is a bit mind-jarring. Watching it again helped a good bit, but I can't say I could explain it. Gives me another reason to watch a great movie again!

[Bag_O_Laughs]

What does everyone think about the character designs for the Suicide squad movie coming out next year?

 

I personally think they're a bit "meh" Joker looks like a teenage kid did the design and Harley looks like a hooker. the rest are just total MEH

[cfc]

^I think it all looks pretty dumb. They probably should've stuck with the Heath Ledger Joker from The Dark Knight. That was a "re-imagining" that worked.

Edited May 13, 2015 by cfc

[molemaster43]

^^I believe that the Joker look isn't the official one for the movie, but was for the 75th anniversary of the character.

 

I think it all looks intriguing...Suicide Squad is a movie that I am very curious about (Would've been more excited if Tom Hardy was still apart of it, but he left for a good reason and a better cause)

 

I can say I am more interested in Suicide Squad than Batman v. Superman

[molemaster43]

Mad Max: Fury Road...is brilliant. Exciting, fun and easily one of the best action movies of the decade. It's pure madness.

[emily67]

i just watched the fault in our stars.

 

2 people meet and fall in love at a cancer support group .

 

anyway as the film progresses, it's clear that they both have 1 wish. they want to visit peter, who is an author they both enjoy.

 

anyway they manage to visit him in holand, but he's not what they thought and actually pretty rude.

 

they still have a great time though, have a good meal and get to see the anne frank museum

 

back in england, they start to hang out together at a park. it's a skeleton where kids play on. actually rather cool

 

1 night, the girl is woken by a call on her phone. she is informed that the guy has been taken to hospital

 

he dies 8 days later, and the girl is devistated

 

at the funeral, their are lots of family and frriends their- including peter

 

she reads out a ulegy she had written for him. afterwards, peter tries to give her the answers to her questions she had before. but she's not interested, and tells him to get out of her car

 

back home, she is told that what peter tried to give her was something that her boyfriend had written.

 

quickly she goes back to the car and unfolds what she was given.

 

she finds that he too, has written a ulegy for her.

 

lovely film

[Meteornotes]

Mad Max Fury Road is insane fun. Wasn't a fan of the first ten minutes or so, where you're basically dumped into the middle of a story with no explanation whatsoever. But once they started driving vehicles, all of that was forgotten. Easily one of the best movies of the year.

 

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[jedimaster1227]

Last week Disney presented Theme Park Review with the opportunity to see Tomorrowland, the new Walt Disney Pictures release starring George Clooney and Hugh Laurie along with newcomer Britt Robertson in a unique narrative about the future—or so we’re led to believe. Directed by Brad Bird (The Incredibles and Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol) the film presents its storyline using paralleled introductions between its lead Casey Newton (portrayed by Robertson) and a young Frank Walker, later played by a skeptical and seemingly-hopeless Clooney.

 

After a brief introduction of the narrative (a storytelling method that won’t be revisited until the end of the film, interestingly enough), the film travels back in time with Frank to the 1964 World’s Fair where a glimpse of the 1964 vision of the future can be seen, albeit briefly. Production photos and panels at the Destination D: Attraction Rewind event at the Walt Disney World Resort previously confirmed that additional scenes were shot and developed for this taste of the notable Flushing Meadows expo but didn’t make the final cut of the film, so it can be expected that more of these scenes will show up on the Blu-Ray, including a scene shot within the Carousel of Progress that I’m dying to see. Attention to detail within this short jaunt back in time is incredible to absorb, with the Unisphere’s dimensions overstated slightly to emphasize how Frank would have perceived the fair from his view (and height). Authentic Greyhound buses, the Bel-Gem Waffle stand and most stunningly, a full recreation of the UNICEF/Pepsi “it’s a small world” pavilion complete with an all-too-short glimpse at the oft-forgotten Tower of the Four Winds sent chills down my spine. Not often during this wonderful tour can you tell that any of the footage is digitally altered—you’d swear as Frank runs through the entrance of it’s a small world that Disney somehow rebuilt the ride in full specifically for this film… And that is partially true. Several days of intensive filming at Disneyland Park in Anaheim where the 1964 World’s Fair attraction was relocated to after the close of the fair allowed for a faithful recreation of the fair version of the Small World experience with temporary awnings and an alternate ride vehicle were added to the trough to allow for the iconic scene to be shot. The rest of the façade was recreated digitally, but you’d never know it if you hadn’t tracked the production closely.

 

In this flashback we are introduced to two main characters, Athena and David Nix (Hugh Laurie), a young girl that seems drawn to Frank’s desire to invent the future and a man seemingly focused on finding inventions that will make the future better, not just fun. Athena covertly presents Frank with a pin and a plan that puts him on the fast track to an extended stay in Tomorrowland, but not before a taking a near-perilous trip off a platform with a jetpack that leads to a powerful introduction to the title realm in which he has entered.

 

Finally able to taste the promised fruit we’ve all come to the theater to see, the film violently shifts to the present day’s Casey Newton, leaving us to wonder what happened to Frank and to Tomorrowland. Casey is the optimistic daughter of a NASA engineer (played by Tim McGraw), equipped with inexplicable smarts that are cleverly shown through a brief series of clips that emphasize that the others around her simply don’t match up. When the topic of her intellect is brought up (only twice), it is simply shrugged off as “she knows how stuff works.” After getting into trouble while trying to influence the future in the best way she can imagine given the circumstances around her, Casey finds a similar pin to the one Frank was given by Athena that when touched, transports her to an active Tomorrowland filled with limitless technology, whimsy and futuristic Chevrolet products pulled straight from the Test Track queue. The pin runs out of power at a pivotal moment in her first tour of the city leaving Casey desperate to find a way back.

 

The next act unites Casey with Frank and Athena (suspiciously the same age as she was at the World’s Fair) in a race to return to Tomorrowland before the ominous but unexplained clock runs out. Nerd humor, robots and the clever use of an iconic world landmark catapult a previously-slow plot into a trans-dimensional jump that finally gives us what we want—Tomorrowland. But the Tomorrowland they find isn’t what Casey visited in her vision, nor the version we saw Frank arrive at in 1964.

 

The third act presents a powerful message about the future and how society today is leading us towards it—and not in the way it should be headed. Some may find the argument to be a little preachy, but the story does a great deal to build up a case in support and Laurie’s David Nix presents a villainous monologue that made most around me nod in agreement. He may be the antagonist in this film, but to say that Nix is the villain isn’t entirely fair as the film paints current society as the catalysts in a fast-approaching future that they have had ample opportunity to change.

 

Casey’s optimism and brilliance of mind lead to a successful change in plan concluding in a powerful final montage of a new plan to build the world a better future. The ending message is a brilliant payoff to the two hour and ten minute film that, despite dragging a little between the first and second act, rounds out a great movie that is well worth seeing at least once. Having seen the film twice now, I can share that the film is full of nods subtle and not towards Disney fans, sci-fi fans and even fans of Brad Bird’s past works. There is something for everyone in this film—heart, action, sci-fi, Disney history. Tomorrowland isn’t a perfect film, but it presents a perfect message that when delivered makes the journey worth the haul.

Edited May 25, 2015 by jedimaster1227

[cfc]

^I'm planning to see it tonight. Tomorrowland is one of the few movies I've been looking forward to this summer.

[azza29]

I checked out Spy last week. Much better film than I was expecting, well written with some decent action sequences to boot. The banter between Melissa McCarthy and Rose Byrne's characters is hilarious. Definitely recommend.

[cfc]

Tomorrowland, to me, was a disappointment. It starts out well in the first half, but loses it in the second, and I found myself playing a game of "Spot the References to Other Movies": a bit of Star Trek: The Next Generation here, a little Terminator there, topped off with some Matrix-fu. There were some interesting ideas, but that script needed work.

[Garet]

Mad Max was really good. We saw it in 4D however since people told us it was a great movie to see in 4D since you'd see all the effects in action. We'd seen Titanic 4D years ago and been really underwhelmed but we were told 4D is even more hit and miss than 3D in how good it will be and Titanic wasn't a good fit.

 

They were right Mad Max had tons of 4D effects: the seats really were violent and timed really well with the movie, water sprays, the seat kicked us at moments, strobes for lightning, wind machine, puffs of air from behind and in front, apparently smells (I didn't notice) and smoke (didn't see it but I did keep hearing a machine go pfft all through the movie)..... and we really didn't like it. The 4D I mean, not the movie.

 

Probably should have known what we were in for considering a lot of the Korean parks have 4D rides which are just motion simulators with a wind machine but we were surprised how much the seats moved here considering their were no seat-belts and people eating popcorn we'd assumed it would be gentle but it really threw us about. The effects were really well timed but the idea it immerses you more in the movie can't be true. Every time my chair kicked me or vibrated or puffed air, it pulled me out of the movie as I was then paying more attention to my chair timing up to stuff than the movie. I didn't suddenly think I rolled through the dirt 8 times, I was pulled out of the movie because I was busy seeing the things my chair was doing.

 

Honestly, the 4D was fun in a way. I know I said we didn't like it but I think 4D works best if you see a movie, you've already seen and can just laugh at the effects timing up to the screen. People were right that Mad Max was definitely 4D cranked up to 11. For Titantic all I remember is my seat tilted a bit and a wind machine (I did like the wind machine blowing during the movie) but this one was just non-stop doing different things for 2 hours. I think we weren't enjoying it because we hadn't seen Mad Max and the effects kept pulling us back out of the movie.

[Nrthwnd]

Avengers: Age of Ultron

 

Busy, busy, busy, BUSY movie! That and throwing in a whole new set of

Avengers.02... impressed, and exhausted when it all ended. And even if

it's only his voice, James Spader always makes a very nice, intelligent, villain.

 

Enjoyable, but not enough to sit through it a second (or more) time. 7/10

 

 

 

SPOILER ALERT

 

 

 

 

SPOILER ALERT - Nice touch at the end, in credits, as to what happened to Hulk.

We think. But......... purple? Hmmm...