Escape to the Movies: Monsters
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SO yea I mostly agree with you cause when you make a film with cool effects but no soul you get stuff like Toy Soldiers or the most recent Transformers movies. The kind of thing Monty Python might have been satirizing in The Holy Grail when Tim the wizard spends a minuet just blowing shit up.The_root_of_all_evil said:
Saw a preview for Monsters on the upcoming new films, and it seemed interesting...seems like Saw VII was slightly better than this movie.
I think I was in the same boat as moviebob here. I was really looking forward to this in the same way he was, and I was hoping that it would make up for not having seen District 9 yet. Though in the back of my mind I figured this would be the result. Well I guess I better just go buy District 9 on DVD and watch it instead.
Interesting. I've always wondered in every movie that I've seen like this why the protagonists have to hitchhike quite so far across the country to get out.
For example, if you find yourself stranded in Manchester, why try and make your way across the entirety of Britain to get to Dover and then Calais, instead of heading to Morecambe, where you are perfectly able to get a boat just as functional as one in Dover? (This isn't a situation from a story I've found, just an example.)
Why try and walk to America if Mexico is closer, why try and walk to Mexico if America is the closer border? It smacks of the writers trying to make the story longer than it should be. (Other addendums to this rant include why no one ever consistently drives, why no just pegs it at the first sign of trouble instead of after they've already been stranded and why people continue to make horrible monster/zombie/general destruction movies.)
I don't even know if any of that directly relates to this movie, but I have a feeling it just might. Anyway, haven't heard of the movie, it looks and sounds terrible, and I wouldn't have gone to see it anyway.
For example, if you find yourself stranded in Manchester, why try and make your way across the entirety of Britain to get to Dover and then Calais, instead of heading to Morecambe, where you are perfectly able to get a boat just as functional as one in Dover? (This isn't a situation from a story I've found, just an example.)
Why try and walk to America if Mexico is closer, why try and walk to Mexico if America is the closer border? It smacks of the writers trying to make the story longer than it should be. (Other addendums to this rant include why no one ever consistently drives, why no just pegs it at the first sign of trouble instead of after they've already been stranded and why people continue to make horrible monster/zombie/general destruction movies.)
I don't even know if any of that directly relates to this movie, but I have a feeling it just might. Anyway, haven't heard of the movie, it looks and sounds terrible, and I wouldn't have gone to see it anyway.
I understand how movie bob feels... kinda.
I work at a theatre, so I'm i charged with having to know everything about when movies come out,w hat they'll be about, good or not, who's in it, and this is all stuff that I really have no interest in finding out cause i dont want to know the movie in and out before I see it. Thats probably why I didnt give two shits for Inception and definately a big part of why I felt Avatar was over rated in its highest degree.
Side Note: Hm.... Critics dont get to see SAW 3D ahead of time to review? I wonder what THAT says about the movie.
I work at a theatre, so I'm i charged with having to know everything about when movies come out,w hat they'll be about, good or not, who's in it, and this is all stuff that I really have no interest in finding out cause i dont want to know the movie in and out before I see it. Thats probably why I didnt give two shits for Inception and definately a big part of why I felt Avatar was over rated in its highest degree.
Side Note: Hm.... Critics dont get to see SAW 3D ahead of time to review? I wonder what THAT says about the movie.
Look at how many messages were in that though.Ashoten said:
Chivalry/BDSM : "Naughty Zoot"
Foolhardiness: "Brave Sir Robin"
Trojan Myths: "So, we get out of the wooden rabbit."
Anglo-Gaul Relations: "I fart in your general direction!"
Monarchy : "Well you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!"
Sound Effects: "Are you saying coconuts migrate?"
Quest Guardians: "African or European Swallow?" "I don't know thaAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
Animation/CGI: "When suddenly the animator had a heart attack."
Writing, Quest Givers, Magic Help, Religious Artifacts, Monsters with horrible, nasty, pointy teeth...
Most fantasy survives on its realistic parts, surprisingly. Ni!
So why do you need to start watching "Glee"?
Incidentally I'd never heard of this movie before today and wow! ...but then I always take Bob's reviews with mountainous piles of salt.
Incidentally I'd never heard of this movie before today and wow! ...but then I always take Bob's reviews with mountainous piles of salt.
That's the best way to do it actually.Spinozaad said:
OT: That sucks, was kinda hoping that movie might have been good actually. I like the idea behind it atleast: Outer space samples land in Mexico, local area turns into a nightmare zone and creates this area between the US and Mexico filled with strange alien creatures,plants and the local normal plant/animals before the infection. That would have been an awesome movie if they did it right.
Why not when space dragons starts making a new home in new york on they range from 30-60 meters in length....holy shit! That is gold mine material i got to call James Cameron, it'll stop him from making avatar2 and Movie Bob can watch a real monster movie everyone wins!
