Miscellaneous Movie Musings

[wendybeth]

A little late to the party, but we finally got around to seeing 'Ironman'.


It totally rocked. I'm sure with successive viewings I could find things to pick apart but I don't want to. It is easily my favorite comic book movie, by far. Never have been a Batman/Superman/Spideyman type (although the previews of 'Dark Knight' lead me to believe that may change) and I have never read the series this movie is based on, but on it's own it was great. I'm so glad RDJ got off the shyt and back into life- he really made this movie what it is.

[RStar]

I agree with you, WB! RDJ did do a great job, and I hope he can keep things together and do some sequils.

[innerSpaceman]

Originally Posted by RStar

I agree with you, WB! RDJ did do a great job, and I hope he can keep things together and do some sequils.

Actually, for the sake of more craptastic sequels to good movies remaining unmade, I hope to find him naked all cracked out on the floor behind my local motel sometime before production begins on any of those.




And, um, what the hell is "loudest" movie??? WTF? Close Encounters is many "ests" of cinema, but not the loudest.

[SzczerbiakManiac]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

And, um, what the hell is "loudest" movie???

Off the top of my head, I'd nominate Top Gun.

And also for the gayest (mainstream) movie.

[Alex]

Ugh.

I just saw they are working on Beverly Hills Cop IV. Regardless of the recent record of resuming movies series after long layoffs (Rocky Balboa was decent, Rambo was awful, Indiana Jones and Die Hard were fun enough for single viewings) I'm not always opposed to it. But it is hard to think of a big '80s-'90s series that was more creatively dead by the end than Beverly Hills Cop.

At least Judge Reinhold get to be in one more movie.

And it is a good thing that Gibson has blacklisted himself and Danny Glover looks 80 years old (though he's only 64) or I think we'd be soon subject to Lethal Weapon V.

[flippyshark]

Originally Posted by Alex

And it is a good thing that Gibson has blacklisted himself and Danny Glover looks 80 years old (though he's only 64) or I think we'd be soon subject to Lethal Weapon V.

I officially predict that they aren't going to let any of that stop them.

[Alex]

Saw two older movies this week:

The Piano - Much that I liked about the movie. Wish they'd not had the Holly Hunter voice over and let her truly be mute through the whole movie. She had conveyed things just fine without the exposition. Didn't care for Sam Neil's performance though, thought he threw the whole endeavor off.

Machine Gun Kelly - Charles Bronson's first leading role (so I read) and the 20th directorial effort from Roger Corman (which is a lot since his first job directing was just three years earlier). Boy howdy did it suck. And not in a good Roger Cormanish campy way. Just suck. But then I've never really seen much evidence that Bronson deserved his film career (but admittedly I haven't seen a lot of it).

[Alex]

Not that many here will be reading this and heading to movies this weekend but here's my review of Kung Fu Panda.

I really enjoyed it quite a bit. Now I do have a fondness for the martial arts genre and so if they do absolutely nothing for you I can see this falling flat but it is strong with the animation, strong with the humor, and strong with the martial arts.

[Ponine]

Thanks for that Alex. I have a group of boys from karate class dying to go first thing tomorrow.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Oh yeah, we also watched Kung Fu Panda. Not a bad flick. The story itself is kinda thin, but it wasn't hatefully bad, and it had some very good humorous moments (despite Jack Black) and a couple fantastic martial arts scenes. Pretty good stuff. And, having forgotten it was him, I was pretty surprised when it finally dawned on me that it was Dustin Hoffman's voice I was hearing. Great voice performance.