3000 Miles to Graceland. Like most movies I catch on cable I'd stumbled across it before but never the whole thing until last night. It was worth my time though I was doing other things too such as FChattering.
In Time Cool concept, it wasn't as bad as people told me it was, but there were some issues that were just weird.
Moneyball I heard it was phenomenal... but I almost fell asleep. Jumped to the ending, only to still be bored. I guess it's a movie strictly for sports fanatics?
Just saw Act of Valor. I had low expectations for the acting. I don't see why this movie got terrible reviews. I thought it was pretty good. The only bad thing was it ended without closure on one part of the plot.
Anonymous Brilliant movie. 5 stars from me. I simply don't get why this wasn't picked for the Oscars.
I was going to ask if anyone saw "John Carter", .... ... but, judging from the box office, nobody did. I guess those of us old enough to have read "A Warlord of Mars" are old curmudgeons who'd rather wait for cable than deal with the theaters. And, judging from the amount of hype they gave it, the studio must have figured it for a dog. (They don't spend that kind of green promoting a film that'll make it on word of mouth.) I did hear that the ERB fans complained that Dejah Thoris, in the film, had too many clothes on. But it *is* a Disney flick.
I had no interest for John Carter. Looked like the usual crap for kids except that I never heard of this character. Not surprised if it fails.
I was afraid of that. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barsoom A few of us old geezers grew up reading the "Barsoom" series, from the author of the Tarzan series. Quite a few of the scientists involved in the space program were originally inspired by reading of "the hurtling moons of Barsoom". But that was back in the day when video cassettes had pages you had to turn. This year marks the 100 th anniversary of the original publication as a pulp fiction serial. http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search.html/?default_prefix=all&sort_order=release_date&query=edgar+rice+burroughs (Copyright expired in US, but still in force in UK.) The stories contain a lot of obsolete notions about Mars popularized by Percival Lowell, long before the Viking probes. I've heard that the film tries to retain that old perspective. It sounds like you'd have had to have read the books to appreciate the film. The film came too late for its potential audience. Most public school kids have probably never heard of Lord Greystoke, either.
Fascinating stuff which I'm sure is lost on its audience today. Reminds me a bit of the "Saga of the Trigan Empire". A British comic I'd love to see made into a movie. But again the folks watching it could be counted with one hand.
Just saw Bridesmaids. I didn't find it funny at all. I've heard it was a copycat of The Hangover, but it is not even remotely close to that movie.
I saw John Carter last night. It's not a bad movie. It's not a great movie. It's just good popcorn. It can be a little confusing and you have to believe there is life on Mars to accept it but it's not a waste of 2 hours. I do agree it could have been a lot more interesting if Disney weren't involved. The violence is really sanitized. My GF said the Martians looked like someone saw Avatar and changed the characters from blue to green.
In that case I'll give it a shot on Netflix. Now tell me: was it those Martians who built the Pyramids?
All that glitters is not goa'uld. (I'm surprised SG1 never did a schtick on the "Pyramids of Elysium". ) (Dr. Who did.)
