What Movies Have You Seen Recently?

Spider-Man said:
I watched Harry Potter and The Philoshphers again the other day
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Harry Potter and the Philoshphers is not a real movie.

Latula Pyrope said:
I saw Scott Pilgrim vs. The World through DVD again, love that movie
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hell yeah man
 
I saw Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol with my mom and dad last night. It was fun. I had my Pokemon Emerald game to play through the boring parts.
 
Gideon Gordon Graves said:
Smashgoom202 said:
I had my Pokemon Emerald game to play through the boring parts.
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srsly
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Specifically, I felt that, if the movie was getting slow, I could do some grinding on that game, while watching/listening to the movie. Double-tasking, it works.
 
Team America: World Police

F*ck Yeah!
 
Smashgoom202 said:
Specifically, I felt that, if the movie was getting slow, I could do some grinding on that game, while watching/listening to the movie. Double-tasking, it works.
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Do you do this every time you watch a movie with your parents?

Salt (again)
 
That's an incredibly insensitive thing to do, Smashgoom. Your parents are there to spend time with you and enjoy a nice film with you, and you're just playing your games instead. How completely rude.

The Avengers (2012)

first time my parents have seen it, and they enjoyed every second of it. Good night, all-around.
 
Byakuya Togami said:
Smashgoom202 said:
Specifically, I felt that, if the movie was getting slow, I could do some grinding on that game, while watching/listening to the movie. Double-tasking, it works.
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Do you do this every time you watch a movie with your parents?
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Not every time. In fact, this was probably the first time I did it. I think I'll probably bring my Pokemon game and do some grinding with all the movies I'm unsure about. At home, anyway.
 
Pink Panther(1964)

Good movie had some funny parts. Not as good as the 06 movie though. But still this part is the best.
 
Gideon Gordon Graves said:
Spider-Man said:
I watched Harry Potter and The Philoshphers again the other day
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Harry Potter and the Philoshphers is not a real movie.
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Stick a "stone" on the end and you do.

Granted, that doesn't explain the hideous spelling of "philosophers", but I can't win.
 
Just saw Hotel Transylvania. Actaully, not that bad of a movie, entertaining and fun with all the monster references, plus you'd expect at least SOMETHING decent from Genndy Tartakovsky, creator of Dexter's Laboratory, Samurai Jack, and Sym-Biotic Titan, as well as a writer for The Powerpuff Girls. Being his first theatrical-released movie, I was kind of worried how it would turn out, and while I admit, I won't blame anyone for not being immediately enthralled, I still think it's it's an entertaining movie with a sweet story about a father and his daughter...

And the father happens to be Dracula... Played by... Adam Sandler... Well, actually, Adam Sandler's Dracula is very good, quite convincing, in my humble opinion. His character is also sympathetic, yeah, most dads are overprotective of their daughters, but here you GET why he's so paranoid about the human world and WHY he wants to keep her safe. It's like Finding Nemo (which, incidentally, the 3D version was also playing in the theater my mom and I went to), only here it's more about Dracula keeping one big secret from both his daughter and everybody in Hotel Transylvania.

The animations style, I'll admit, I have mixed feelings about. I don't think it's bad, per se, but it definitely gives off that "zany" vibe you get from non-Pixar/Dreamworks movies like Ice Age, Despicable Me, or those Dr. Suess adaptations. That said, I can still see Genndy's style in terms of pyshical comedy and character movement through the CG, and while I do kind of like it, I get the feeling it might have been better if it was traditionally animated... Ironically, the beginning of the credits IS traditionally animated, with all the major characters drawn in Genndy's trademark style! I DID notice, though, that they move a lot slower in comparison to their CG counterparts... not that it matters, since it was only for the credits. Still, I loved it, and I actually applauded when Genndy's name came up (my mom stopped me because I was the only one in the theater to do so).

Some other highlights I'd like to mention are the Twilight reference, Uncle Frank (hard to say what I like about him, I just have a thing for big, friendly guys), and Quasimodo. I found that every scene with him was hilarious to some degree, even though I found it weird that he was considered a monster, even though he's technically a deformed human... But then again, he was supposed to have DIED in The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and besides, they even gave him a French accent, that's not usually something you see in depictions of him... or the depictions I've seen at least.

I don't want to oversell it, though, this movie is, at most, just a good movie and not much beyond that. Hard to say anything about the other characters other than they're okay and they get a good laugh every once in a while, since the focus is more on Dracula, Mavis, and Jonathan. Still, since this is October, and if you're looking for a good, fun movie with monsters in it, check it out.
 
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