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Resurrecting the Movies thread...
Ellemeno:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on April 26, 2009, 12:54:30 pm ---The personable marketing professional of Hancock. This time he's an unpersonable marketing professional.
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Ah. Thanks for the clarification. :) You did make the movie sound good. Now the two top movies on my wish list are I Love You, Man and State of Play, both 'cause a you.
serious crayons:
Well, today a friend asked me to see 17 Again with her and her 8-year-old son, and I am SO glad I went.
Now I am not only feeling cheerful and upbeat, I also am drawing "Mrs. Serious Crayons Efron" on all of my notebooks, with a big heart dotting the "i."
Ellemeno:
I saw State of Play tonight. I mostly thought it was very good. Russell Crowe and Jason Bateman were very good. Helen Mirren could have been better, if they hadn't made her character such a One Note Johnny. Jeff Daniels looked like Tom Brokaw. Robin Wright Penn is aging gorgeously. The last few minutes were a disappointment. I was watching for a while when I suddenly realized that the person on the screen I'd been watching was David Harbour. He doesn't seem to make much of an impression on me.
delalluvia:
X-Men Wolverine
7 out of 10
Very entertaining movie, not at least for all the Hugh Jackman contractually obligatory shirtless scenes (and almost naked scenes!). ;D Lot of story told in less than 2 hours.
Points take off for normal comic-book movie plot holes, cliches and unexplained talents of mutants (like how almost everyone can jump around like frogs - except when it's part of the script that they can't).
Otherwise, recommended!!
P.S. Stick around for credits and end of credits for extra scenes. They're showing alternate ones in different theaters.
delalluvia:
Angels and Demons
7 out of 10
Very good. Not excellent, but overall, a well done movie. Enough suspense to keep everyone in the sold-out show dead silent and unmoving - no one left for the bathroom or popcorn - and a friend of mine who had already read the book and knew what was going to happen, biting her nails and riveted the entire 2.5 hours of the movie. The production quality was amazing, you couldn't tell you weren't actually in the Vatican. It stuck fairly close to the book - some of the bad parts of the book were thankfully left out. (see below for some of them)
Acting was well done by professional international cast, some of the actors however, didn't have much to work with, their parts however pivotal, were smaller than expected. The weakest character was the woman. Not that she wasn't convincing, but that there wasn't much to her. The whole movie/book could have been done without her. This is Landon's chase.
SPOILER!!! SPOILER!!! SPOILER!!
In the book, the characters were driven by fanaticism of all kinds. In the movie, this fanaticism was toned down, one character was money-driven, another driven by political power, religion seemingly a lesser concern for them when in the book, it was the main impetus for their actions.
The movie does not delve into motivations as deeply as it should have. The book's characters were driven by deep feelings which made you empathize with them, both the good and bad characters, but the movie made their motivations more 'secular' you could say and less emotional which I feel is a great loss. Another character does not have the public death that was so important to the whole point of the book.
They did leave out some lame parts of the book - the whole woman-running-around-the-Vatican-in-tight-t-shirt-and- bicycle-shorts thing, the soap-opera-y immaculate conception thing (though they could have done more with the father/son thing than they did), the helicopter fall and the romance.
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