Miscellaneous Movie Musings the Sequel

[Moonliner]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

Alas, Raiders won't be playing in the L.A. area at the real IMAX or the two fake IMAX's, but only at the tiny "digital IMAX" neighborhood AMC theaters. Raiders plays often enough in L.A. on much bigger screens. Bah.

Same situation here. I smell a conspiracy.

[cirquelover]

The teen and I are going to Paranorman tonight. I really liked Coraline and am hoping since it's done by the same studio that it will be great too. I just love tightwad Tuesday at our local little theater, we can get tickets, drinks and popcorns for $20!

[cirquelover]

We really enjoyed the movie. I love the claymation style, it gives it life or something. Anyway, it was a lot of fun except for the power going out in the theater. I enjoyed the characters and they made them seem real, maybe because I have known people like them. We even waited after the credits to see how they make a claymation figure, it would have been nice if it was a little slower but was interesting little after piece. It was a fun and funny movie.

[alphabassettgrrl]

"The Bourne Legacy" -

Entertaining, maybe a little thin on plot, and I found a few things inappropriately amusing. As in, normal people maybe wouldn't be amused, but I was nearly laughing. Chase scene at the end had edit-cuts too quickly together. I prefer more of a flow to the scene and this was choppy and broken.

But it was fun, and I'm glad we saw it. I'm glad they went with a different agent, not sticking with Jason Bourne, who I think is pretty well played out. Some of the visual scenes are beautiful, especially in the beginning.

[JWBear]

Sixty Five THOUSAND?!?!

[Moonliner]

Now that's a tad unfortunate.

In the new Bond movie "Skyfall" bond trades his shaken not stirred martini for a Heineken as part of £28million product placement deal.

[€uroMeinke]

Thats a pretty expensive beer

[innerSpaceman]

I'm with Moonie. Raiders may be perhaps my favorite movie of all time that I religiously buy in every format - but I will not be forced to purchase films I don't really like in order to get a slightly better-looking version of one I do. BS indeed.


Oh, and a beer-swilling Bond is sacrelige!

[Alex]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

Oh, and a beer-swilling Bond is sacrelige!

Even less of a deal than I expected. The word Heineken is never uttered. Bond is lounging in a beach resort hotel room after months of inactivity and is seen drinking from the distinctive green Heineken bottle. The name is visible but they never gave it any prominence.

Having him in a tux and drinking martinis wouldn't have really fit the scene.


Anyway, the movie.

It a couple days too long. It relies on the omniscient villain to an excessive degree (I expect that from Bond films but there was one scenes that broke the camel's back).

It has a standing up sex scene against a raw stone wall. Apparently everybody making fun of that in Road House didn't make it to England or Sam Mendes.

The best action set piece is the opening action set piece.

It is better than Quantum of Solace but nowhere near so good as Quantum of Solace, partly because it doesn't really ever let up on the seriousness.

Way above average Bond movie but still just an above average action movie.

[mousepod]

"Heineken - shaken, not stirred."