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Dalton wrote:

Knife wrote:I'll go because they all want to see it and seeing them happy makes me happy but other than that......

You are an honorable man

Yeah, right, just like me seeing the first two was "only because the family was going" is true. An excuse, nothing more.

Anyway, I thought Van Helsing was fun, though it was long. I loved the Q-lab scene though (funny non-spoiler: The Muslim dude in the lab when he threw the explody thing )!

RogueIce wrote:
Yeah, right, just like me seeing the first two was "only because the family was going" is true. An excuse, nothing more.

Anyway, I thought Van Helsing was fun, though it was long. I loved the Q-lab scene though (funny non-spoiler: The Muslim dude in the lab when he threw the explody thing )!

I never said I hate it, just that it doesn't hold that much interest for me. I've read the first four books and they're ok, I suppose. Kinda dorky and ho hum. The movies follow the books pretty close so they're kinda dorky too. Plus, seeing Hermoinie with boobs (this time around) is just wrong.

I liked Van Helsing -- it does go way over the top (someone needs to decafenate Stephen Sommers) and just piles on the action and the effects. I thought it had a lot of nice nods to the old Universal movies, especially Frankenstein and The Wolfman. It certainly wasn't scary but I liked it better than the two Mummy movies.

Hellboy -- was good. I was aware of the comic but had never read it. It's not a great movie but worth a matinee if you like that sort of thing.

Punisher -- I didn't care for this movie much but I will say that it takes a lot from Garth Ennis "Welcome Back Frank" storyline. If you've read and like that you might enjoy this movie. I thought Thomas Jayne made a good Frank Castle I just didn't care for the movie much.

Troy -- I'd like to see this one but may wait until video

Shrek 2 -- I'll probably see this one on video.

Spiderman 2 -- Still haven't gotten pumped over the first movie but I'll still likely see it in theaters.

Harry Potter:tPoA -- plan on seeing it in the theater although that was the book I've liked the least mainly because of how it ends.

The Incredibles: -- just saw the trailer online and being a comicbook fan I thought it looked good. My mother thought it looked stupid.

Sky Captain: -- Parts of it look so cool with the throwback style, the giant robots, but Gwenyth Paltrow appears to be hamming it up badly in the previews and I couldn't see how Sky Captain's plane would really be able to take on the forces it's shown against. I do kind of like Angelina Jolie in the uniform and eyepatch. I still haven't figured out Jude Law. To me he looks like a balding guy with a pointy head. Plus he was dumb enough to break up with Sadie Frost.

The Villiage -- looks good and creepy but I don't like going to movies and being stressed out for an hour and a half and this one looks like it might do that with the suspense. By the way, I heard something today that they may have gone back an reshot the ending because someone had let out the original ending. Anyone else hear that?

I thought that Tom Cruise / Michael Mann movie looked pretty good. Nice to see Tom going with the grey hair and playing a bad guy.

The Chronicals of Riddick: I'm kind of looking forward to this one but I am a little apprenhensive as to how Riddick is going to fit into what already seemed like a cool movie before they threw him in.

Admiral Valdemar wrote:Thunderbirds

Oh no. What have they done to this classic show? I got worried when I saw the teaser last year on the Hulk DVD. I got even more concerned by the fact that the director, a little known Jon Frakes, hadn't seen a single episode of the series until he took the project up.

Erm .. this is Riker from TNG right?

Hellboy and the Punisher definately. What really annoys me is that to the best of my knowledge both have already been released in the US, but i'm going to have to wait another couple of months for them over here!

The Village is looking kick ass, especially since the trailer i saw with Shawn of the Dead gave me the willies.

Alien vs Predator in the words of my friend "looks so good, but is blatently going to be rubbish". I'm hoping it will rock.

HP: Prisoner of Azkaban may be the first HP film i see in cinema but i doubt it. Then again, Gary Oldman as Sirius ...

PackMule wrote:

Admiral Valdemar wrote:Thunderbirds

Oh no. What have they done to this classic show? I got worried when I saw the teaser last year on the Hulk DVD. I got even more concerned by the fact that the director, a little known Jon Frakes, hadn't seen a single episode of the series until he took the project up.

Erm .. this is Riker from TNG right?

Yup

The Villiage -- looks good and creepy but I don't like going to movies and being stressed out for an hour and a half and this one looks like it might do that with the suspense. By the way, I heard something today that they may have gone back an reshot the ending because someone had let out the original ending. Anyone else hear that?

I heard that too. If so this is a good thing, because the original ending I heard about sucks donkey dick.

Oh yeah, The Day After Tomorrow comes out today also. I was thinking of not going to see it to protest the bad science and global warming paranoia, but I'll probably go see it anyway.

Admiral Valdemar wrote: It's not only a lame setup trying to cash in on two well known and respected franchises

Aliens vs Predator is its own franchise, with books, comics, and games. The setup in itself isn't lame.

got Paul Anderson directing. He only went and fucked up the Resident Evil flick

I didn't mind Resident Evil. I'm not a fan of the game, so I really wasn't expecting the be-all-end-all amazing movie that lives up to my personal feelings for that game. It was just another action zombie movie. If you listen to the DVD extras, the director or actors weren't taking the movie that seriously. They were just having some fun, and that's what I had when I watched it. I'm actually looking forward to Resident Evil 2.

Of couse I do have big expectations for AvP... so maybe I won't like it either! In any case, I'm hoping you are completely and utterly wrong about AvP !!!!! lol

Joe wrote:Oh yeah, The Day After Tomorrow comes out today also. I was thinking of not going to see it to protest the bad science and global warming paranoia, but I'll probably go see it anyway.

IMHO, bad science is OK if the movie isn't taking itself too seriously. I don't think that will be the case for this movie.

I'm not seeing it because the compared it to ID4. I really hated that movie. Too many Genuine Hollywood Moments (tm).


EDIT: I basically hate melodrama, which is what I'm expecting from that movie.

IMHO, bad science is OK if the movie isn't taking itself too seriously. I don't think that will be the case for this movie.

No, I believe it will take itself completely seriously.

Joe wrote:

IMHO, bad science is OK if the movie isn't taking itself too seriously. I don't think that will be the case for this movie.

No, I believe it will take itself completely seriously.

Ya, that's what I meant: it would be taking itself too seriously, and the bad science won't be OK. Its going to be a big melodrama, IMHO.

Joe wrote:

IMHO, bad science is OK if the movie isn't taking itself too seriously. I don't think that will be the case for this movie.

No, I believe it will take itself completely seriously.

So? I believe it's a fictional movie this Day After Tomorrow, not a documentary.

If I was going to take offence at the butchering of science in movies, I'd leap on Star Trek and Star Wars first and a load of other films. I think some people are just too damn fussy if they're getting furious over the science of a film. I guess those same people are also sick of gun toting heros taking multiple gun shot wounds and leaping through panes of glass and not dying.

Am I the only one who thinks King Arthur has a shot at being good? Say what you want about Bruckheimer, but Antoine Fuqua is an excellent director and how many movies get set in the 5th century?

I'm mixed about King Arthur. On the one hand you have it being historically based and not legend based, though historians say they fucked the history up still. On the other hand, it looks like it could go a tad OTT and not be anything like we expect.

But it's win-win by seeing Keira Knightley in such a tight outfit.

The Kernel wrote:Am I the only one who thinks King Arthur has a shot at being good? Say what you want about Bruckheimer, but Antoine Fuqua is an excellent director and how many movies get set in the 5th century?

Bruckheimer has produced some very good movies, Pirates of the Caribbean immediately comes to mind. He's not the problem, it's the directors he works with, and Fuqua is like you said one of the most talented directors out there. Not to mention he actually got military tactics right in Tears of the Sun, IIRC.

I'm mixed about King Arthur. On the one hand you have it being historically based and not legend based, though historians say they fucked the history up still. On the other hand, it looks like it could go a tad OTT and not be anything like we expect.

We don't really have a lot of good information on what the real King Arthur was actually like, so it will obviously be mostly speculation. I'm just happy to see Arthurian legend put in its proper historical context.