General Movie Thread

[Noah]

Just going on first impressions, Garfield doesn't look like a peter parker as much as Toby did(however I'm sure once I see the movie, I'm sure he'll grow on me). I love web shooters vs organics. I'm glad they didn't cheap out and do another GG story(the lizard is a great spidey villain). It bothers me that Curt Connors is supposed to be a jerk( Captain Stacey is supposed to be a jerk to, right? That doesn't really bother me as I've not read many stories.with him in it)

[LL!]

Just going on first impressions, Garfield doesn't look like a peter parker as much as Toby did(however I'm sure once I see the movie, I'm sure he'll grow on me).

Actually, neither of them do.

[Dingle]

Not to be a dick, but is this really the thread for spoilers? I avoid any Spiderman threads for this reason.

Watched The Matrix again, the original. It's lost a bit of it's magic for me, which is a shame. Maybe I've played it to death, although it IS still a hell of a lot better than the following two. Was tempted to watch all three beforehand, don't think that's going to happen now. Still, something like a 7.5/10 would probably fit. It's still a good film and anyone that hasn't seen it, should probably get around to seeing it.

[TKz]

Just going on first impressions, Garfield doesn't look like a peter parker as much as Toby did(however I'm sure once I see the movie, I'm sure he'll grow on me). I love web shooters vs organics. I'm glad they didn't cheap out and do another GG story(the lizard is a great spidey villain). It bothers me that Curt Connors is supposed to be a jerk( Captain Stacey is supposed to be a jerk to, right? That doesn't really bother me as I've not read many stories.with him in it)

Connors is played as a man that loses his way. He's not a jerk the entire time, it's fairly faithful to Ultimate Connors. And are you kidding me!?

Garfield is a dead ringer for Spidey.

[Noah]

Well I wouldn't know much about Ultimate Connors but I suppose that Ultimate stuff is what's cool these days, so I guess I can understand catering to that audience.

I'm not even sure I meant actual likeness, just kind of that I look at Tobey and I got that essence of the nerdy loner and I bought into that he was Peter Parker but I look at Garfield and I dunno what it is but I'm just not convinced. However it took me actually seeing Daniel Craig as Bond to realise that he was good and maybe once I see this movie, I'll buy into him as Peter Parker to.

Edit:-No I didn't mean Daniel Craig as Peter Parker.

[Noah]

Sorry to double post but I recall an earlier disagreement on whether this movie was popular critically or not(with someone saying he'd seen a number of postive reveiws and someone else saying the opposite).

Granted Wiki isn't always the most reliable source but I did see this

The critical reaction to the film was generally favorable with the consensus that Webb and the cast deliver thrills despite having similar elements to the 2002 Spider-Man film

.

The Critical reaction section of the wiki page seems to do a good job of coming up with a decent amount of critics who liked the movie(and natuarlly a few that didn't for the balance's sake I guess).

[Dingle]

Wiki is actually quite decent for critical response to films, I use it quite a lot to gauge films I'm unsure on.

[livid]

Would it not just be easier to go here? :/

[Dingle]

Nope, gives me numerous different critics, different links and then, sometimes, reviews that I can click on from different websites. That and I see it gave Katy Perry's documentary 75%, 1% more than Spiderman.

So, thanks for everything, but I'll stick to places where Katy Perry isn't more highly regarded than Spiderman.

[wCwCreator]

Men in Black 3 is better than Spiderman. Go watch!

Edited July 11, 2012 by wCwCreator

[livid]

You do realize that what you just described also describes Rotten Tomatoes right?

And it didn't "give" Katy Perry a 75%, that's the percentage of reviews that were favorable, not the actual rating.

[Dingle]

You do realize that what you just described also describes Rotten Tomatoes right?

And it didn't "give" Katy Perry a 75%, that's the percentage of reviews that were favorable, not the actual rating.

Does Rotten Tomatoes give me a blowjob whilst it does all those things that wiki already does for me?

[Pesci]

Aye, I check Wiki and if it's not on there then I go to RT. That's only after I've seen the film though - I don't like going into films thinking they will be awesome, because I'll naturally be disappointed, or shit, because I'll spend the whole film picking up on anything that isn't perfect.

[livid]

You do realize that what you just described also describes Rotten Tomatoes right?

And it didn't "give" Katy Perry a 75%, that's the percentage of reviews that were favorable, not the actual rating.

Does Rotten Tomatoes give me a blowjob whilst it does all those things that wiki already does for me?

How else did you think Katy Perry got so many favorable reviews?

[Dingle]

You do realize that what you just described also describes Rotten Tomatoes right?

And it didn't "give" Katy Perry a 75%, that's the percentage of reviews that were favorable, not the actual rating.

Does Rotten Tomatoes give me a blowjob whilst it does all those things that wiki already does for me?

How else did you think Katy Perry got so many favorable reviews?

Okay, Fuck wiki. Where do I sign up?

[TKz]

So Godzilla is being remade again. This time with the guy behind Monsters. It basically sounds like what Monsters would be if he'd had the funds to make it feature monsters.

I guess I'm kind of interested. It's kind of hard to be interested because you're watching for Godzilla and that makes it hard to care about characters that aren't Godzilla. I mean King Kong did a pretty good job of it, but with all due respect to the guy, from what I've seen he's certainly no Peter Jackson.

[LL!]

Not to mention Monsters was shit.

[TKz]

It was okay. Needed to be twenty minutes shorter and have actual monsters, but yeah. It wasn't great.

[LL!]

The lack of monsters led us to have to care for two people that have absolutely no chemistry. So I really didn't give a shit about them at all, and it left me incredibly underwhelmed.

[TKz]

I was kind of assuming it'd suck anyway. Especially when Pacific Rim will probably do what a Godzilla film should do but better. And with Charlie Hunman! And Day! And Idris Elba!