Took the kids to see DD last night. I loved it but wish I left the kids at home. Dark, violent and wonderful.
Really? The critics trashed it. I don’t like Ben Affleck anyway, ever since “Chasing Amy” which has to be the worst example of a man with no pride losing it over a lesbian I have ever seen.
He does have a hot girlfriend, though.
dogma was a much better movie. cause angels slaughtering the innocent is cool.
blech at the acting and Affleck playing a superhero
Originally posted by GunnedDownAtrocity
dogma was a much better movie. cause angels slaughtering the innocent is cool.
Though seeing Ben Affleck’s head explode and chest cave in was pretty cool.
Originally posted by fa_jing
Really? The critics trashed it. I don’t like Ben Affleck anyway, ever since “Chasing Amy” which has to be the worst example of a man with no pride losing it over a lesbian I have ever seen.
He does have a hot girlfriend, though.
Oh he finally broke up with that ugly **** Jennifer Lopez?
People, and their shortcommings, even a grudge from pased talkies…But nary a comment on the story.~ (except first comment really liked but not for the young children)~
I haven’t seen it. But from the previews, it looks like pure ass to me. I doubt I’ll ever rent it, but I might not turn the channel in 10 years when it shows on cinemundo on a saturday afternoon. On the other hand, I probably will.
The only thing I wish to see Affleck in is an orange jumpsuit and leg irons.
Rogue,
I thought is was excellent, it had a r-rating twice in a row before they cut it down to a pg-13 and even that was just a tad away, IMHO its the way superhero movies should be, the darker the better.
The action was first class, the suit looked good, the characters were more together, and it was not trashed by everybody at all, siskel and ebert both gave it two thumbs, as well as the Chicago Tribune.
Siskel gave it a tumbs up? These are truly the end times!
(Siskel died a couple of years ago, and was replaced by the biggest idiot I’ve ever seen on TV that wasn’t referred to as “Mr. President.”)
Sorry, not siskel the guy who replaced the dead bloke.
I’ve been a DD fan since I was a kid and I thought they stayed as true to the books as possible. Kingpin was dead on except for skin pigment, Bullseye was better without the silly blue suite and Affleck was perfect as Matt Murdock. I loved all the battle damage they showed that he had taken. It was what the Batman movies should have been.
Ah, I’m just crackin’ yer nuts, Jack. Still, I hate that Roeper hosebag - you know he panned both LotR movies, right?
Heh. Thought this was a thread about me and not about the comic superhero portrayed by Ben Who?leck.
Speaking of Batman, I heard the director from Requiem for a Dream was approached to do a Batman movie, based off of the Year One comics that came out quite a while back.
Originally posted by KC Elbows
Speaking of Batman, I heard the director from Requiem for a Dream was approached to do a Batman movie, based off of the Year One comics that came out quite a while back.
Darren Aronofsky. He and Frank Miller (writer of the Year One series, as well as the Dark Knight Returns) have been working on a script for Batman: Year One for several years now, but the project has yet to be greenlighted by any studio. Thus far, there’s no news on whether it ever will be; it’s pretty much languishing in limbo.
enough about j-lo
What about the kung fu?
Batman Year One
Actually, the next Batman movie coming out is Batman vs. Superman. I think it’s already in pre-production.
I like brown women, but J-Lo doesn’t do it for me.
DD was alright. I wouldn’t pay to see it again, though.
I panned both LotR movies myself. Nothing too original in them. Once The Matrix sequels come out, people will forget all about LotR and gay little hobbits. The true test of a great movie is when other people try to imitate or pun on it. How many movies have you seen with Matrix references? Now, how many times do you think LotR references will be seen in other movies?
[clears throat]
Tolkien fans, who are they?
Pasty white boys with hearts a-flame
for hairy-footed midgets with bright wide eyes
inviting other hairy-fotted midgits to sit by their side.
And why do these midgits run from an eye
that from all appearances looks like a vagina?
Is it because they fear the power of the ring?
Or is it because they have a secret to keep?
They hope against hope and try as they might
to keep the “ring” out of the vagina’s sight.
They are afraid to be married, for that’s what a ring symbolizes
to all the women running around offering vaginas
But gay little hobbits want none of that mess
they’d rather run dirty fingers across bare, broad chests
and rub hairy feet by the light of a fire
and speak in veiled hints of their latent desires.
And does it really come as a great surprise
when Frodo puts on the ring and vanishes from sight?
Like a freshly-wed man who can no longer play
with his bachelor friends on their bachelor days.
And what of the others who aid in his quest?
do they run from the vagina with the same zest?
It’s true that the others are running away
but more out of sport, not because they are gay.
Legolas and Aragorn like the hunt and the chase
they run from the vagina as part of the game
They like vaginas so much they won’t settle for one,
but for gay little hobbits, vaginas are no fun.
They want to destroy the ring and all for which it stands
so that a vagina may not touch any hobbit hands
or vice versa, for that matter, and that’s really the point
what need is a vagina when Hobbit men are so cute?
Gene, I thought the fight scenes were better than most. I also like how Yuen had Affleck use his cain alot rather than just go hand to hand all the time. Jennifer Garner was very cool as Electra even though she didn’t look very Greek. The movie isn’t Gone with the Wind but it was a very good adaptation of a comic book to the screen.
Ha! The Matrix is pure nerdball wish fulfillement power fantasy gobbledegook with a thin, transparent veneer of stoner ‘philosophy.’ Other films have been imitating the special effects of the Matrix, not the substance. Why? Because there is no substance, Keanu! Whoah.
On the other hand, Tolkien’s books are the inspiration for an entire cottage industry of (mostly crappy, I’ll admit) fantasy novels. The imitators of LotR came out years before LotR did, in the form of Dungeons and Dragons: the Movie, Dragonheart, Dragonslayer, Reign of Fire, Star Wars trilogy, etc. etc. etc. And yes, there will be more.
And for a Matrix fan using gay as an insult…well, just count how many times Neo got ‘penetrated’ in the Matrix if you’re interested in homoerotic subtext.