Movies! Movies! Movies! (potential spoilers)

[maddjack]

The Eagle Story about the loss and recovery of the standard of Rome, good flick

Secretariat   Story of the race champion horse, excellent film, great if you want to family watch it.  

[Bounce]

The Big Year: Steve Martin keeps Jack Black under control for a humorous slice of life with a heart warming ending. A family movie if your kids are old enough for such story lines.

[Mac]

John Carter: (iMax & 3D) Very good. Not exactly like the book and smooshed in some of book 2 & 3 into this story but what they did differently still worked and worked well.

I saw it last Sat. I thought it was quite good as well.

I have not read the books yet, so I cannot comment on storyline.

I've heard it got poor reviews, but I do not endorse any.

[Bounce]

Senna: About 3-time F1 world champ Ayrton Senna.  Excellent.

One take away... don't say anything bad about Ferarri. Prost (a 4 time winner) was fired as one of their drivers for one infraction and had to set out the racing season until he could get another ride.

As for John Carter, Burroughs books are in the public domain now and available as e-books for free. "The Princess of Mars" was published about 95 years ago and there's a reason Burroughs earns a place amongst the Sci-Fi pantheon.

[Mac]

If anyone is interested, I have the entire Barsoom series in PDF.

Send PM for files.

[rbwilliams2]

In Time - a sci fi flick about a future era when the currency is time - as in "Buy a cup of coffee. it will cost you four minutes". The time is deducted from your lifespan. When your time runs to zero, you die. Grade b movie, but pretty well done, considering.

[Tyrroneous]

In Time - a sci fi flick about a future era when the currency is time - as in "Buy a cup of coffee. it will cost you four minutes". The time is deducted from your lifespan. When your time runs to zero, you die. Grade b movie, but pretty well done, considering.

My wife and I watched In Time this past weekend.  We were both disappointed.  I think the story line had a lot of potential but the movie was just a big let down.Definitely a B Grade movie.  

[Mrs. DantesDame]

The Gray - caught this streaming online so we decided to watch it. Not a bad flick, but a tad too much "getting to know the characters" fireside chats for my liking. Having recently (re-)watched The Edge, I have to say that I prefer the older film.

Real Steel - a neighbor brought over his copy so we had no excuse not to watch it. I admit, it was a lot more entertaining than I expected it to be. The kid was slightly obnoxious (but then again, most of them are   ).

Iron Man (I) - Dan had it playing twice over the weekend. Still a great flick  

[hig4s]

Senna:

As for John Carter, Burroughs books are in the public domain now and available as e-books for free. "The Princess of Mars" was published about 95 years ago and there's a reason Burroughs earns a place amongst the Sci-Fi pantheon.

I believe it was actually first published 100 years ago, in 1912.  

[Bounce]

I believe it was actually first published 100 years ago, in 1912.  

i came up with 1917 when i did my "The Princess of Mars" search. still impressive.

[UFO]

A Princess of Mars was serialized (popular in those days) before it became a novel.

It was first serialized in 1912.  So it's 100 years old.



You can also find a free audio version of the book at librivox.org

I've not seen the movie yet (got sick this weekend).  I browsed the movie tie-in book at the story looks like it had a major re-work.  To be expected I guess, but it looked like the meat of the Barsoom mythos was there.

[Mac]

I saw somewhere that the movie release of "The Lorax" was to coincide with the 100 year aniversary of the Dr. Suess story.

[Bounce]

A Princess of Mars was serialized (popular in those days) before it became a novel. It was first serialized in 1912.  So it's 100 years old.

Thanks. That explains it. As for the movie, they brought in the Therns and made their roll completely different, the white apes were blind (no eyes and hunted by smell and sound), that sort of thing. On the other side, they filled in the gaping holes in the original story about HOW Carter transported to Mars (which is only vaguely glossed over in the original). It's been ages since I read them all but I re-read the first 3 in anticipation of the movie release. They mention Issus in passing and the river Iss is a plot complication that never reaches the Valley Dor. The Black Pirates never make an appearance.  Maybe, if it makes enough to offset production costs, the sequel will dig more into that.

[miles]

I saw somewhere that the movie release of "The Lorax" was to coincide with the 100 year aniversary of the Dr. Suess story.

They're delaying release until 2071?  

[pcrdude]

Hanna

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/hanna/

I liked it both times I watched it.

YMMV

 

[Bounce]

21 Jump Street: We went because that's about the only thing that looked even halfway interesting. EVERYONE walked out surprised. It was much better than any of us expected. During interviews, Jonah Hill admitted he didn't want to write/act in the thing when first approached. Clearly they let him have a lot of flexibility in the story development. When Ice-T starts ragging on the idiots who lack any creativity of their own and dig up old, played-out ideas because they have none of their own (supposedly talking about the undercover project of the story, but "we" all know he's talking about the whole movie industry [wink. wink]), Hill's writing starts to win over the skeptical audience.

[sagerat]

Drive C-, They should've titled this thing Neutral, although Albert Brooks as a mob boss was incredibly good.

Safe House A solid B+, think of the Denzel of Training Day

John Carter Another B, dialog got laughably bad at times and the movie needed editing as several of the battle scenes felt like they were just stuck in to show what the CGI guys could do.  But it was a fun popcorn movie.  I told the GF that the wedding dress that the Princess was almost wearing was approriate bridal attire.  

[jay547]

absolutely do not watch "alien armageddon."   quite possibly the worst movie ever that i've watched all the way through. horrible acting, horrible writing, horrible effects, cheesy in everyway except the good way. not even funny unintentionally.

[Bounce]

The Rum Diaries: Really liked this one.

In Time: I've seen worse. Even as a rental it's not something I'd go out of my way to see again. Wait for it to show up on TV.

[motomem]

John Carter - was excited to see it.
Left me wondering why I went. I'm usually in agreement with this bunch of folks so I'm hoping one I saw was a Chinese copy.