What movies have you seen recently?

[TheSuburbanLetdown]

Wow. Kung Fu Panda was surprisingly RAD.

When I first saw the previews, I thought it looked awful. But the more I see of it, the better it looks. I saw an HBO: First Look segment on it, and I was shocked by how not at all awful it actually looked.

Previews in general tend to make things look awful to me. I thought The Incredibles was gonna suck.

[Yeahduff]

I just watched 'Wristcutters: A love story'.

I'm anticipating this.

[MixedMyth]

Finally saw Juno. Good movie. =D

[RobertBlake]

I watched "Wayne's World" on video about an hour ago.

I actually remember the first time I saw this one. I was 14 at the time, and an SNL fan at the time. My mother took me, my sister, and my little brother to a weekend matinée to see "Wayne's World". We sat in the front row on the right side. It was pretty cool, although at the time I didn't get all the jokes, and my mother had to tell me what "gratuitous" meant.

[Yeahduff]

Man, musta seen Wayne's World 500 times. Great stuff.

I hear Myers & Carvey reprised the roles at the last MTV Awards Thing.

[Tim]

I hear Myers & Carvey reprised the roles at the last MTV Awards Thing.

They did. (Actually, probably the only bit I saw of the MTV Movie Awards.)

Mainly reprising all of their catchphrases, and they did their Top 10 list bit - "Top 10 Movies in 2008 that Sound like Porn Movies" or something to that effect.

[TheSuburbanLetdown]

Wayne's World is on my short list of entertaining movies that never seem to get old. On that list are also Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, Spaceballs, Ghostbusters, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Galaxy Quest and Beetlejuice. All of these are in rotation when I have a long night of inking ahead of me. I mainly just listen to these movies and look up occasionally when my hand hurts since I know the movies so well.

[Yeahduff]

For me it used to be White Men Can't Jump, My Cousin Vinnie, and Class Act.

I recently learned Keith Mars was in Galaxy Quest. I think he was an alien.

[TheSuburbanLetdown]

Yeah, he's the head alien, Mathesar.

I found Galaxy Quest to be a shocking movie. I thought it was gonna suck based on the commercials, but it's quite good. It spoofs Star Trek really well, yet has its own identity and is actually written well. More spoofs should be like this and not like a straight unfunny rip like anything with the word "Movie" in its title (Epic Movie, Scary Movie 4, whatever).

[Rickford]

I just got back from seeing Indy 4.

I have the feeling the film's been done to death in this thread, so I'll just say that I liked it. Sort of.
Apart from the plot. To be honest, whatever the film was about, I'd love it. If it was "Indiana Jones and the slightly rude Dry Cleaner" or "Indiana Jones and the queue at the post office", I'd still love it.

(Spoilers)
And now some random thoughts in no particular order:

I liked the fact that Indy survived being smack bang in the middle of a huge nuclear explosion by hopping into a fridge. I liked that we saw Indy plow through a variety of crates at area 51 in a jeep of some kind, completely destroying many priceless scientific wonders. I liked that one of the smashed crates clearly contains the Ark of the Covenant from the first film. I liked the fact that Indy made some local mayan nutjobs with blowpipes run away when he pointed his gun at them. I liked that Neil Flynn was in the film.
I liked that every car chase in the film involved indy spending more time on top of/climbing the side of/sitting on the bonnet of said cars than actually being in them.

I disliked the "Mutt" character. Well, to be honest I was quite fond of the 'Mutt' character. What I really disliked about him was the constant threat of Mutt being the next Indiana Jones. Stop giving him all of Indy's fight scenes. No, stop making him catch up with the villains by silly Indy style improvisation. No, DON'T YOU DARE PUT THAT HAT ON YOU JUMPED UP LITTLE PRICK! Mr. Spielberg, Mr. Lucas, nobody cares about this stupid little runt of a character knocked together to appeal to the 14 year old girls in the audience. We came to see Indy. Give us more Indy please. No, we don't even want Henry Jones, we want Indiana Jones. That's his name. Stop calling him Henry now.

I think the film could have been improved by the aliens in fact being E.Ts. Hell, E.Ts were in Star Wars, why not make it a hat trick? When the ship rose from the ground at the end, how awesome would it be if it were the same ship from E.T?

I didn't like Mac, not for any in-film reason, but simply because I have my personal hatred of Ray Winstone. He's a horrid excuse for a human being and should be shot.

To summarise, I enjoyed the film, although I can't be entirely sure whether that's because it's a good film, or because I love Indiana Jones.

[CaptainClaude]

how awesome would it be if it were the same ship from E.T?

not at all awesome.

[Killbert-Robby]

Luckily for us, the next Indy is set to be about Mutt, with Indiana being more of a "Sean Connery"


Let us rejoyce....

[Yeahduff]

The Indy hatred in this thread is very silly.

We're not doing Shia any favors by making him measure up to Harrison Ford and Marlon Brando.

[TheSuburbanLetdown]

The only thing silly around here is your face. Especially your use of the word "very." It's either something or it isn't. May as well have said "utilize."

[Joel Fagin]

Just saw Speed Racer. Pure, unadulterated cinematic drama. The sort of movie it's hard not to cheer at the end of. Not to say it was good, mind you - it's hardly great movie history making literature - but for what it was it was very good and an awful lot of fun.

- Joel Fagin

[Yeahduff]

The only thing silly around here is your face. Especially your use of the word "very." It's either something or it isn't. May as well have said "utilize."

There are definitely degrees of things. My face is silly. Jimmy Buffet fans are VERY silly.

[TheSuburbanLetdown]

BOLLOCKS!

[Dr Legostar]

i keep wanting to go see Iron Man but it looks like i'm going to miss out on seeing it in the theaters, oh well. i did see Indy 4 and enjoyed it and my wife took me to Sex and the City because she loves it and the movie was good for what it was. So many movies I want to see, no way to afford the time and money to see them. oh well, I guess I have to wait for video releases.

[Killbert-Robby]

I'm speaking on behalf of Iron Man now, but you may not enjoy the video release. It really was a made-for-cinema movie. I'm not saying GO AND SEE IT NOW, I merely warn you in case you see the release and go "whats the big whoop?"

[TheSuburbanLetdown]

It'll still be good on a tv. But yeah, it's better on screen. Most things are.