The Last Movie You Watched

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

The Foreigner

Plot:
A terrorist attack by a group from Ireland/Northern Ireland causes the death of a young Chinese girl. Her father, an aged up Jackie Chan, wants to find out who did this and take his vengeance upon them. It turns out that he is a former American Special Forces Trained Vietnam survivor, and uses his skill to hunt down the bombers. Pierce Brosnan also stars as a Northern Irish minister who also is trying to locate the bombers.

Thoughts:
This was awesome. Not your usual Jackie Chan romp, but a more serious film for Chan to show off his actual acting ability . Brosnan also shines in what seems to be his best role in years. Awesome movie and well worth a watch!

I finally got round to that one.  It was OK for what it was - a violence/revenge flick, but I wasn't nearly as impressed with it as you were.  Maybe it's my background, but I'm uncomfortable with the notion that the answer to terrorism is more terrorism. I quite like Jackie Chan, but I found his character's actions in this film to be nothing short of reprehensible.

That being said, I thought a very good job was done in showing the almost insensate brutality of the IRA as well as that of the British security forces. 5/10

Boru

[Smedders]

Gravity. I must admit I was disappointed after reading all the rave reviews about it, true it had stunning visual effects but it was just an average space disaster will they/won't they get back to earth.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Gravity. I must admit I was disappointed after reading all the rave reviews about it, true it had stunning visual effects but it was just an average space disaster will they/won't they get back to earth.

But they're in easy swim to space stations that haven't been up there for years.

[Rev. Rye]

This week in the Deep Hurting Project: Izzie's Way Home. Basically, it's a mockbuster of Finding Nemo, a film damn near everyone and their grandma loves.
 

• The first line is "It's time." Said repeatedly. It's like that one song from Veggietales where the Israelites celebrated the end of the 40 years of wandering and sing a song starting "It's Time! It's Time! Did He just say it's Time?" Except this goes on for longer and there's no catchy song-and-dance number.
  
• A fish spawn having only FOUR eggs... And they devote the first few minutes to them hatching verrry sloooowlllllyy... And somehow, it's only when the last one hatches that our Not-Marlon finally decides he's a Dad. And they name her Isabella. Isabel for short.
  
• They're talking about hiding Izzie from the humans who own the tank... WHILE THE HUMAN IS CLEARLY VISIBLE IN THE BACKGROUND AND SHE'S CLEARLY IN PLAIN SIGHT.
  
• How do they know the siginficance of the map of the coral reef and volcano?
  
• Is it weird that Izzie's birthmark (which is the reason Izzie's supposed to stay out of sight) is the least ugly thing about her?
  
• Fucking Hell, this water looks hideous. There's a reason it took several years for Pixar to even include it in Monsters Inc.
  
  
  
• Well, this looks like it was going a different way than I was expecting. Apparently, these captive fish are sent into the ocean by a tidal wave... and they were on a boat... THAT WAS RIGHT NEXT TO A FUCKING OPEN WINDOW.
  
• While the lip-sync isn't quite as bad as Kiara the Brave, the actual mouth movements look lazy as all Fuck. This is as much as I should expect from the Asylum, I guess.
  
• You know, if I was that into marine biology, I'm sure I could find a ton of shit to nitpick. Like the fact that there's an anglerfish that lives in normal depths. Or that the seahorse has a massive bulge that makes only sense if you assume she's pregnant... even though seahorses are famous for HAVING MALE PREGNANCIES. Although, to be fair, she's apparently just obsessed with her weight despite having no stomach (So, she's like a Titan with a brain?), talking about losing a few extra ounces... although (and this is a deeper cut) the average weight of a seahorse is 4-10 grams...
  
• "You hit him in the face with your intestines?" And it apparently came out of his... fucking Hell, Chuck Palahniuk wrote a story about shit like this...
  
• Why do they spend so much time ignoring the lionfish when it's heading straight for them?
  
• FISH HAVING FUCKING LUNGS? FISH HAVING FUCKING LUNGS? Yes, I know that there are lungfish, but A) the fish in question is clearly not a lungfish, and B) lungfish are FRESHWATER fish who do not belong in the ocean.
  
• You know, there was a certain level of ignorance I was willing to accept from Izzie, her being an aquarium fish. But the fact that she decided to go and latch herself on a hook WITHOUT BAIT (and not having the courtesy of being named SpongeBob SquarePants or Patrick Star) really pimp-slaps my willing suspension of disbelief. Also, I'm not sure that traditional fish hooks are all that effective in the middle of the ocean.
  
• Why does the scene of these elderly eels take so fucking long? Because they had to stretch it out to 76 minutes and 59 seconds? Fucking Hell, that's why the pacing of the movie was so fucking slow. And why Not-Marlon's scenes seem to have no bearing on the rest of the film.
  
• You know, seeing the dolphins as the bad guys is actually an interesting twist.
  
• Why don't they just move around the fucking volcano?
  

YOu know what, here's a little tidbit for you: while looking for a Spongebob Wiki article on "Hooky" to link to, I discovered this little tidbit:



The fishermen? Famed director Jim Jarmusch and repeated early collaborator John Lurie. It was part of a show called Fishing with John, the only fishing show good enough to make the Criterion Collection (yes, I own the DVD), and this was from an episode where they hunted sharks off the coast of Montauk. Scene in question starts about 17 minutes in:



There are also episodes with Willem Dafoe, Matt Dillon, Dennis Hopper, and Tom Waits. Somehow, I failed to connect the two in my mind until about ten minutes ago.

[OakTree500]

The Flashpoint Paradox

Plot:
Animated movie where The Flash goes back in time, to change history and save his mother from being killed. In doing so, he creates an alternate reality in which things are very different!

Thoughts:
I really enjoyed this. I may be a biased as I'm a huge Flash nerd as well, but the animation was really good, the voice cast was pretty decent as well, and from what I can tell it's a fairly solid adaption of the comic book of the same name. The alternate reality stuff is pretty good as well, which only really makes me wish the TV spent an entire season in the flashpoint world and not just one episode!

Worth a watch

[tonnik]

The Usual Suspects

Kevin Spacey is great as expected, but Benicio Del Toro steals the show with that ridiculous accent. I also love how the Keyser Soze flashback has him possessing this flowing mane of hair. A bit of wish fulfillment there, eh

[Rev. Rye]

This week in the Deep Hurting Project: Daddy Day Camp. It's widely considered one of the worst sequels of all time. I watched the original  film, Daddy Day Care shortly after it came out (it was advertised non-stop on Nick when it came out.) Besides the "I Missed" scene that's been permanently burned into my brain, the only things I remembered about it are preposterous fact that the ONLY options for daycare pre Daddy Day Camp are Victorian Boarding School In All But Name and Glorified Baby Farms and the MILF played by Leila Arcieri. Rewatching the original, I found it decent, at least given that it's a movie for little kids and nobody else. Bur it made a lot of money, so, they made a sequel.

• Common cast and crew: 1 screenwriter, 2 producers, 2 sound people, 1 person in insurance, the four co-writers of The Jackson 5's "I Want You Back" (used in both films) and The Jackson 5 themselves. Not a single cast member reprised their role. Not even that MILF. Hey, has there ever been a sequel with no original cast members that actually did well?
  
• The first few minutes have a kid dropping a cake, a kid peeing into a houseplant, Not-Jeff-Garlin eating a bug, and this is going to set the tone for the rest of the movie, isn't it?
  
• "You're Crazy Morty." Please do not remind me of much better shows while I'm watching something for the Deep Hurting Project.
  
• '77 Olympiad? '77 Olympiad?
  
  
  
• So, wait, does not-Eddie-Murphy like Camp Driftwood or not?
  
• And why is Camp Driftwood still running if it has no kids? Why didn't it just say it closed down?
  
• Bathrooms with dangerous methane. This sounds like foreshadowing.
  
• These have to be the least believable kids I've ever heard in a film. They're either talking in pop culture references that will be dated in a few years, talking in slang nobody has used, being disturbingly sexualised (one kid says "I don't want to go to camp, I want to stay at home and watch nudie movies with you"), or maybe talking in bizarrely expositional dialogue.
  
• Also, one of the kids is seen falling on love with one of the other girls, and he's got a Vertigo shot that he's clearly just been blue-screened into for some reason, and then, as soon as it's over, he just goes back to his PSP. Dafuq?
  
• Wait, is Not-Screech supposed to be Steve Zahn's character? Okay, it's apparently a different character. He just has a similar niche, and they didn't bother to set up that he's a different character. All of a sudden, he's just there, handing out flyers for Daddy Day Camp.
  
• So, Lance Warner is trash-talking Not-Eddie-Murphy without even knowing who he is?
  
• Damn, that was a clean break. One kick to the Snack Booth, and the walls and I think part of the roof falls to the sides and the structure somehow remains intact?
  
• Okay, I was fully expecting the methane explosion in the outhouses to cover everyone in shit. And nobody did. So, I guess that's one thing in its favour. Or a sign that it's too tame to pull off its gross-out.
  
• Why is there so much time devoted to minutiae about money?
  
• Using a ragged American Flag for a background in an office? And just having the tattered edges just bunched on the right? Why do I get the feeling that ANY military man would be reprimanded for shit like that?
  
• So, Not-Jeff-Garlin forgets that he manoeuvered these kids away from Poison Ivy yesterday, only to make the same mistake the next day?
  
• So, Not-Eddie-Murphy is inspired to buy the camp solely because of Lance Warner, and yet, when Warner comes around, he doesn't want to take part in this rivalry. Can they make up their mind about his relationship with Lance Warner? 
  
• Colonel Hinton really fucking sucks at being a Colonel. Why teach samurai meditation when they need to attack around 5? You'd think getting that money 
  
• Why are they calling out Bingo Numbers in the middle of a raid?
  
• How did Warner get locked out of his cabin?
  
• And when his pants were carabiniered to the jeep, his pants just got ripped off immediately? And he wears Hardees-themed underwear?
  
• And why was Not-Eddie-Murphy kept in the dark about the raid on Camp Canola?
  
• And what is with Lance Warner's insistence on antagonising Not-Eddie-Murphy's camp? In the original, Angelica Huston only cared about Daddy Day Care when it started to get big. This time, it's a total clusterfuck, and he's still fucking with Not-Eddie-Murphy for no reason. 
  
• Now it's basically just a paint-by-numbers camp movie.  Fuck it, I'm going to look at a video about the backs to bolo ties:
  
  
  
• Now that we've been educated about the pros and cons of three main types of backs to bolo ties, I have to ask: How the fuck is Warner expecting to get away with Camp Canola cheating so blatantly (starting fires with gasoline, greasing the walls, and setting up trip wires during the three-legged race?)
  

[Silver]

Come to Daddy

A man in his thirties travels to a remote cabin to reconnect with his estranged father.

Better than I expected, but of course anything with Elijah Wood in it tends to not disappoint.

[Rev. Rye]

Come to Daddy

A man in his thirties travels to a remote cabin to reconnect with his estranged father.

Better than I expected, but of course anything with Elijah Wood in it tends to not disappoint.

If only my local library had a copy of North, so I could devote an entire Deep Hurting Project to providing a stunning counterexample to your hypothesis.

So, since I can't find the whole thing, here's the next best thing:





Tizh in particular should prepared to be appalled by this, with its absurdly stereotypical portrayal of the Inuit... particularly the Ice Floe scene. Presuamably, Alan Zweibel did not do the research to find that Inuit Senicide A) hasn't happened since 1939 (80 years ago), and B) was practiced, even before then, almost exclusively in times of famine.

[Peebothuhlu]

At work.

Last night watched "Minuscule Adventure 2".

Just as fun, whimsical and entertaining as the first.

Clever and fun world as well as character building.

Bravo and more please.