Miscellaneous Movie Musings

[mousepod]

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

Like I said, I'm not rereading the entire thread, and there's no good way to search for the posts.

The reviews start at post #2460.

You can go back a little and see the advance excitement, plans etc...

But that's pretty much the best place to start.

I think it got reintroduced again when it came out on DVD.

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

All Imax showings of Batman were sold out yesterday so we saw the X-Files instead. Loved seeing it at the Chinese because the theater is lush and the sound system unsurpassed. Enjoyed the film and seeing them together again despite the obvious plot holes and often bad and repetetive dialogue. I can understand why it has been poorly reviewed but it was still a fun date movie for 2 fans of the series.

[Alex]

My weekend movie watching reviews:

The X-Files: I Want to Believe - Embarrassingly awful. Would have made for an ok made-for-TV reunion movie but only because the standards for made-for-TV reunion movies aren't even as high as for regular series episodes. Not even as high as "we're in the middle of a contract dispute so we're flexing our power with the stars by showing them how much they rely on us for quality by not giving them any quality" episodes.

Unbreakable - Holds up well. I still love what Shyamalan was trying to do with this movie and it really emphasizes how full of himself he has become since.

For Whom the Bell Tolls - I've never understood the appeal of Gary Cooper. The man has a face and acting style like Teflon. Minutes after seeing him I literally can't remember what he looks like and two days after watching this if I try to picture him my memory just has a talking gray blob in it. The themes of manliness, death, and sacrifice are not well defined - at least not in comparison with the book. However, it did spart an interesting conversation with Lani about why it is bad that Jennifer Jones played hapa in Love is a Many Splendored Thing but that it isn't much bothersome that Ingrid Bergman plays a Spaniard here.

Mamma Mia! - Painfully bad at several points and very fun at several others. Pierce Brosnan can't sing but that doesn't match much. Though I wouldn't mind future opportunities to watch Amanda Seyfried running around in a swimsuit.

The King Is Alive - Dogma 95 has produced some interesting movies. This really isn't one of them. The story of some tourists lost in a Namibian-desert ghost town produces a few interesting scenes but is mostly just a slog.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Post #2460 is where people who'd seen it start discussing it.

[Alex]

From a more global perspective searching

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Gets you a good round up of the relevant posts. Not perfect, no. The problem that seems to happen with anything other than the most mainstream of films is that we all end up seeing them at really different times. So the first person to see a movie starts a thread and it dies, then the next doesn't remember it, starts a new one, and it dies.

So people just start dumping all of them into a standing thread where at least there is more walk-up traffic.

[LSPoorEeyorick]

I actually didn't think Mamma Mia was terrible in some places. I thought it was ridiculously camp in almost ALL places, and I found that enjoyable. I really disliked the stage production* but it really jived with me in movie form.

X-Files was surely flawed, but was entertaining to watch. Not the terrible mess it was made out to be - but better than some other procedural movies (Untraceable, I'm looking at you.) I didn't feel the excitement for it that I would've during the first several seasons - but after all, it did break my heart with the last few. It should be happy I gave it the time of day!

*I think is because I am generally frustrated at the lack of original musicals out there. Or lack of opportunity for original composers/lyricists. It came around on the heels of Smokey Joe's Cafe, Movin' Out and the like. Piecemeal plots strung along with existing music which doesn't do much to move the plot forward. For whatever reason, this did not bother me in the film at all, because it felt like a fun exercise in absurdism.

[Alex]

I don't think I had the barest glimmer of being entertained by The X-Files. Maybe it is bad expectations on my part but:

I wanted something bigger than

Spoiler:

"maybe that guy is a psychic of some limited ability" and "ooh, a mad scientist"

But even what was given wasn't well told. It definitely isn't good (for a couple reasons) that the most interesting character in the movie is Amanda Peet.

[Gemini Cricket]

Now I have "Lay All Your Love on Me" in my head. I blame LSPE.

[flippyshark]

So, even after thirty years, there are places where Monty Python's Life Of Brian is still banned. (Including NA's home, I presume.) Amusingly, the woman who played Brian's girlfriend in the film (completely starkers!) is now mayor of a little village where the ban is till in effect.

[CoasterMatt]

I had so much fun at Forbidden Zone last night... but I must say, I almost don't want "Forbidden Galaxy" to be made.

I finally got to personally thank Richard Elfman for making a movie that meant a lot to weirdos like me.