Last movie you saw?

[laxx]

Heh, yea, I was talking abotu the movie about Biggie.

[jinp6301]

Because if you're talking about this...

Amazon.com: Notorious - Criterion Collection: Fay Baker, Ingrid Bergman, Wally Brown, Louis Calhern, Ricardo Costa (II), Almeda Fowler, Cary Grant, Donald Kerr, Leopoldine Konstantin, Eberhard Krumschmidt, Tina Menard, Charles Mendl, Alex Minotis, Mo

... we're going to have issues. It doesn't get much better than Alfred Hitchcock, Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant.

I havent watched that in a while. Thanks for the reminder!

[jimmyjames8]

Even though everything I read says this movie starts 5/8/09, my wife swears we have tickets to see it tonight at local IMAX

[jimmyjames8]

I still don't know what the name of this movie is unless it is Star Trek XI. Anyway my review would be: BLUH! Did not live up to the hype. My wife thought it was great. Doubt I will shell out $12 each to go see another IMAX movie or I should say I won't shell out $12 to go see a movie at an IMAX theater that was not shot in IMAX. Forty foot heads with foot wide pours oozing sweat doesn't do anything for me. Some of the action sequences were blurry. The movie is dark anyway in the Romulan ship, bright as the sun in the Enterprise (good vs. evil, I get it). I would have rather spent the money on beer or a Blu-Ray disc of this when it comes out in 3 months.

[laxx]

All of my friends are saying the movie was awesome. =T

[aRc]

X-Men; Wolverine....I enjoyed the film (good fight sequences) and was well acted with a twist on the tail.

[jimmyjames8]

All of my friends are saying the movie was awesome. =T

It was awe something.

The IMAX audience I was with last night laughed at couple of lines that you could see coming from a mile away. I thought the plot was tired and the acting was average. The writer(s) had a great idea...a prequel going back to the days at Star Fleet academy. There is a vehicle for a ton of good stories. This wasn't one of them. The Romulan ship was cool but reminded me of the Shadow ships in Babylon 5. I don't know, I saw this in IMAX and couldn't wait for it to be over. You have been warned.

[catscratch]

Saw Star Trek... eh, it's OK. The intellectual Gene Roddenberry days are completely gone (to be fair, they were gone long before this movie too) and in their place is a pretty average, by-the-numbers Hollywood blockbuster. The fact that this is a major improvement on all things Star Trek and one of the better movies in the franchise is a sad comment in of itself. The plot was tired, the acting was spotty, the script was predictable. However, the directing was actually quite good I thought, at least as good as the screenplay would allow. The effects were nice, and the whole thing was a dynamic and watchable, if predictable and silly blockbuster. B-

Oh, and Spock was cool.

[grawk]

which star trek was intellectual again? I seem to have missed it.

[Dusty Chalk]

Star Trek -- fucking ay! The movie was well-nigh perfect. The visuals were superb, the references to canon were delightful without being obtrusive, and the differences to canon were well-explained, also without being obtrusive (including changes in characters). And the story was fun. Surprising amount of Leonard Nimoy -- I thought he was just going to be a cameo, but he ends up having an actual part.

My movie-watching buddy's only complaint was: not enough Simon Pegg (we're both big fans of Spaced, Hot Fuzz, Shawn of the Dead, etc.). I had zero complaints. Zero.

The Protector -- yes, the Tony Jaa film. Surprisingly good, and I don't mean just kick ass followed by 2 lines of dialog followed by kick ass...although, to be honest, that's mostly what it was. I would go so far as to say that, for a martial arts flick, it was well-directed. What does that mean? It means that every sequence didn't have the same stuff in it. Early on in the film, he's obviously holding back, and fighting defensively, and later on in the film, he's breaking arms and cutting tendons out of rage -- which was exactly what the story called for, what little there was of it.

Tripping the Rift, The Movie -- meh. You know that CGI Porn that's out there? It's kind of like that, except not dirty. And not porn. So the only thing that's left is the production values.

[Salt Peanuts]

Star Trek - I enjoyed it.

[tyrion]

My wife and I saw Star Trek Friday night at the IMAX theater and we both loved it.

[hungrych]

Star Trek was fucking awesome. Some of you guys just have no souls I guess.

I thought the casting was incredibly good, especially, well... everyone. And Simon Pegg was even better than I expected. Hopefully I can see it in IMAX eventually.

[postjack]

thank you Peter and those who came after him. I was getting worried. Me and the girlfriend both just loved Star Trek. Zero complaints. I'm looking forward to seeing Wolverine, which I've heard is better then the last X-Men movie, which is good because I really didn't like the last X-Men movie. Also looking forward to Terminator.

[HeadphoneAddict]

I enjoyed Star Trek too. There were things that happened while they were in Star Fleet Academy that I don't recall being part of Star Trek history till now. I grew up in that era (born 1962, and Star Trek was on from 1966-69 and then re-runs after that - we would build our own phasers and tricorders and communicators and play out the show).

Then it dawned on me that this Star Trek takes place in an alternate parallel universe with a different timeline, after time travelers from 129 years in the future mucked with the past. So, now they don't have to explain away how the altered history in the movie that was different from what we knew before.

[catscratch]

The Protector -- yes, the Tony Jaa film. Surprisingly good, and I don't mean just kick ass followed by 2 lines of dialog followed by kick ass...although, to be honest, that's mostly what it was. I would go so far as to say that, for a martial arts flick, it was well-directed. What does that mean? It means that every sequence didn't have the same stuff in it. Early on in the film, he's obviously holding back, and fighting defensively, and later on in the film, he's breaking arms and cutting tendons out of rage -- which was exactly what the story called for, what little there was of it.

Have you seen Ong Bak (the previous Tony Jaa film)? I really didn't like The Protector but Ong Bak was actually a pretty good movie on top of being a martial arts film. Yeah you have your silly martial arts plot but it's very simple and the action basically takes the director's seat, while everything else just tries to be as simple as possible so as to not get in the way. I thought The Protector ruined it with the dumb storyline and there were quite a few moments I didn't like, but Ong Bak was that much more polished.

Also the fight scene in the club is actually quite a bit closer to actual martial arts technique that you'd normally see. Obviously still all for television and a real fight between people that have power is over in 5 seconds but at least you get to see some somewhat more realistic moves. The rest of the fights though are pure Hollywood.

The Protector did have that 5-minute single-take fight scene, and that was pretty cool. A world's first at the time I believe, and maybe still to this day.

[EdipisReks]

which star trek was intellectual again? I seem to have missed it.

both TNG and DS9 had their moments.

[Dusty Chalk]

Have you seen Ong Bak (the previous Tony Jaa film)? I really didn't like The Protector but Ong Bak was actually a pretty good movie on top of being a martial arts film. Yeah you have your silly martial arts plot but it's very simple and the action basically takes the director's seat, while everything else just tries to be as simple as possible so as to not get in the way. I thought The Protector ruined it with the dumb storyline and there were quite a few moments I didn't like, but Ong Bak was that much more polished.

Also the fight scene in the club is actually quite a bit closer to actual martial arts technique that you'd normally see. Obviously still all for television and a real fight between people that have power is over in 5 seconds but at least you get to see some somewhat more realistic moves. The rest of the fights though are pure Hollywood.

The Protector did have that 5-minute single-take fight scene, and that was pretty cool. A world's first at the time I believe, and maybe still to this day.

I did, but maybe I was in a completely different mood or something, because I don't remember liking Ong Bak much at all.

Yes, the 5-minute single-take was amazing to watch, even though I had seen it before.

But I just enjoyed things like the fight in the church -- 3 different "real" fighters, all with completely different personalities (dancing happy/fun guy, worried guy, and rage/caffeine/testosterone/steroids guy), and therefore with different fighting styles. I realize that in this day and age we take these sorts of things for granted, but I for one applaud the director in that one for meticulously sticking with the "big picture" vision on that.

[laxx]

Star Trek was awesome.

[catscratch]

But I just enjoyed things like the fight in the church -- 3 different "real" fighters, all with completely different personalities (dancing happy/fun guy, worried guy, and rage/caffeine/testosterone/steroids guy), and therefore with different fighting styles. I realize that in this day and age we take these sorts of things for granted, but I for one applaud the director in that one for meticulously sticking with the "big picture" vision on that.

Yeah, there is an extraordinary artistry to fighting, and the more I do martial arts myself the more I appreciate it. It's something that most directors are completely out of touch with. They simply try to outdo themselves and make everything even more flashy, even more over the top, and even more technical, but the actual content is the same, stale and repetitive. But here the presentation wasn't chopped up into little 3-second ADD edits and the star of the show was the fighting, not the presentation, and that made it so much more interesting.

You have to let the content speak for itself. You can have the best content in the world but when it has to be seen through overdone and needless editing and presentation, it starts to lose its impact.

Lots of credit to Tony Jaa as well since there's real personality and expression behind each move. I think he's the most vibrant screen martial artist since Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan.