Zeeky_Santos said:
Chris Nolan is truly and under appreciated director.
What...
The director of Memento, Batman Begins, The Prestige, The Dark Knight and Inception is an under appreciated director???
Are you high?
Anyway...
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Good: In Bruges - No one I knew had seen it, I hadn't read any reviews or heard any comments about it, saw it and discovered it was amazing. The movie had MASSIVE shifts in emotional tone ranging from the murder of a child to a ketamine abusing racist dwarf, and was still a fucking great movie.
Bad: Hot Tub Time Machine - I heard good things about this movie from friends and critics, so was expecting a good time. I guess I was the opposite of what the target audience for this movie was because I didn't even chuckle once. I have no interest and very little knowledge of the 1980's and also am not into the drinking/drugs/party scene, so no part of the movie appealed to me as entertaining or funny.
Shockingly pleasant: Inglourious Basterds was hyped up largely as a shoot 'em up in Nazi Germany, which I was looking forward to, but came out as a heavily dialogue driven retelling of World War 2 with surprisingly little violence (although graphic). Were my expectations met? Fuck no. Was I satisfied? Fuck yeah. The movie was amazing and anybody who says otherwise is an unpleasable cretin.
Shifted equilibrium: The general opinion, I find, is that Alien/Aliens are top shelf horror/thriller/monster movies while Predator is considered a B-class horror/thriller/monster movie, but I thought Predator kicked way more arse than Alien/Aliens did. I guess I just have more interest in schlocky action movies than I do in suspensful movies. I found Arnie more interesting as he engaged in a fist fight with an otherworldly being more interesting than Sigourney Weaver fleeing from a largely unseen terror.
