MyADSL Movie Thread

Claymore said:
Hey, I just relayed what my wife said. She's a serious movie buff though, and talks with knowledge of movies I've never heard of. And she sure as hell knows her movie scores - she has well over a thousand, ranging from the classics, like Leonard Bernstein, to the well-knowns, like Jerry Goldsmith and John Williams, to the best of the best, like Basil Poledouris, up to the new more contemporary ones, like Marco Beltrami and Michael Giacchino. I'll take her opinion over that of someone who liked Transformers 2. :)
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Meh - different strokes. I base my opinion on how the music influences me during the movie and it didn't help much. I mean no type of music can make an awful movie good, but it does lessen the dullness. This didn't ;)
 
Silver82 said:
Has anyone seen Crossing Over? It's the movie that 2004's Crash was supposed to be. It's more about illegal immigrants than racism, but definitely carries similarities. Read my full review here: http://fridaynightfilms.iblog.co.za
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I have not seen your website before and read any of your reviews. I saw “crossing over” and was amazed at how many bad reviews it got, a mere 12% rating on rotten tomatoes. What I could not understand was how many reviewers said that the scenes were contrived. As if movies scenes are not contrived. I liked the loose threads as shown in Babel and Crash. BTW did you see the TV series “crash”? I thought it was really good both this movie as well as the tv series.
 
smokey said:
Meh - different strokes. I base my opinion on how the music influences me during the movie and it didn't help much. I mean no type of music can make an awful movie good, but it does lessen the dullness. This didn't ;)
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Well, surely the movie should be influencing you, not the music? The music can add atmosphere though.

But, that said - you can can have good movies with bad music (I'm racking my brains to think of good examples though - Star Trek IV, maybe?), and bad movies with brilliant music (e.g. Conan the Barbarian, Krull, Farewell to the King).
 
chutzpah44 said:
I have not seen your website before and read any of your reviews. I saw “crossing over” and was amazed at how many bad reviews it got, a mere 12% rating on rotten tomatoes. What I could not understand was how many reviewers said that the scenes were contrived. As if movies scenes are not contrived. I liked the loose threads as shown in Babel and Crash. BTW did you see the TV series “crash”? I thought it was really good both this movie as well as the tv series.
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Yeah, sometimes critics are so far up their own arse that they forget about actually enjoying a movie and instead spend their time looking for flaws. I liked Crash, it was good, but didn't like that it won best Oscar, it didn't deserve that award.

I also think that Crossing Over is less pretentious than Crash, not as many 'in your face' and 'over the top' situations.

Watched Ghosts of Girlfriends Past last night (the new Matthew McConaughey and Jennifer Garner film). As a film, it gets a 0 for originality and effort, but that's not why you watch this kind of film. Entertainment value? 4 out of 5. I had a good laugh at this one.
 
Randhir said:
Duuuuude... i LOVED that movie! Paul Rudd was brilliant..
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He was okay, I just found long periods of boredom inbetween the laughs to be quite distracting. Jon Favreau was the real star though, (plus the relationship between him and his wife) his character was hilarious!
 
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Sorry to sound stupid, but where are you guys whatching these movies ?

At home or on Cinema ?

I went to movies tonight for the first time in a while and paid R 100 for 2 tickets. I couldn't believe it to me that is crazy, usually i just whatch the latest downloaded movies at home.

Is it just me or are cinema movies way over priced ?

Also the series you guys talk about do you wait for them to coem out on DSTV or have them downloaded ?
 
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