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but only by a bit. Second season is still very strong. Looking forward to the third now.
Just watched Man of Steel and really enjoyed it. The action should have ended after the vortex thing, not resume with a another ott zod battle that ended [SPOILER] in just a simple fucking neck break that made no sense. So it's okay to let them destroy cities and millions of civilians just because you don't want to break his neck?
Also ditching the classic theme was a bad movie. But otherwise I don't get all the hate. Just goes to show there's too many armchair directors especially on imdb forums. I see lots trolled about too much action in the last hour. It's a Superman movie with indestructible (supposedly) villains!!! It's not likely to end in a punch up at the pub. The Avengers is just as action packed only also full of comedy. At least Nolan doesn't have to entertain the cinemas with Tony Stark wisecracks every 2 mins. Also saw Guardians of the Galaxy, I wasn't expecting to like it that much since it would be cluttered with weird cheesy characters and wisecracks-a-minute, but it kind of fit better in this movie. Never thought Batista would be the funny one though. And I'm a sucker for sci-fi, so I ended up loving it. Want to see more of marvels massive universe ie kree vs skrull etc on the big screen. Star Trek, Star Wars etc has gotten boring. "We are in talks at the moment to figure out a way to bring more Luther back to the TV" -Idris Elba
Watched this on the plane and enjoyed it (I guess I'm a sucker for taking the classic fairy stories and twisting them around, I loved shrek and stardust too). Thought the evil king still being a classic evil king was a bit of a missed opportunity.
I thought the old one was pretty good, with the exception of a couple of actors I find really annoying, to the point where they can wreck something for me just by being in it (whereas some great actors can make something good just by being in it). Can't stand Bruce Willis, but he's hardly in this one so that's good. Clive Owen is replaced by Josh Brolin, a huge improvement. The cast of this is great overall - even those with less screen time (Ray Liotta, Juno Temple) are great. Christopher Meloni was hilarious. Joseph Gordon-Levitt, good as always. Powers Boothe was awesome, so ridiculously evil (and didn't have enough screen time in the first one). Mickey Rourke continues to kill it as Marv. But the best performance was Eva Green, okay maybe she's typecast as villainous characters, but she is so entertaining in this type of role. She was the only good thing about the new 300; she was also the only good thing about the defunct Camelot series that Game of Thrones killed off so quickly (in another universe, she is Queen Cersei in Game of Thrones). Overall, I don't usually like dumb action movies (disliked both 300's), but I can't remember the last time I enjoyed a dumb action movie this much. Maybe because it's just so obviously extreme (and adult), and hilarious (Brolin, Green, Boothe, Meloni, Rourke, all of their characters are arguably very funny since so hyperbolic).
Agreed Bruce Willis and Clive Owen were the weak links in the first movie for me. I much prefer Brolin over Owen. Also I hated Elijah Wood in LOTR (pretty much spoiled the trilogy) but he was really good in SC1.
It's in the role of the tough action star that I don't like him. He's closer to a middle aged father role than the next Arny.
http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/clive-owen-trust-los-angeles-special-screening-dga-west-hollywood-ca-35517532.jpg vs http://www.filmbuffonline.com/FBOLNewsreel/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/SchwarzeneggerCommando.jpg I haven't even bothered to watch series 2 after the fucking cliff hanger ending of the first one. Is S2 providing some sort of ending or is it similar?
Yah - that was awesome. I even got over Bruce Willis normally annoying persona and enjoyed his performance.
Eva Green in Dark Shadows was a hoot, so i guess i'll catch SinCity2 sometime. Saw Show White and the Huntsman. That's a damn fine movie. I thought Snow White was rubbish but hey, it's me.
How to train your dragon 2 on the other hand is as good as the first one. #‎Luther‬ is coming back to where he belongs. Back to London. Back to work. And back to BBC One.
Idris Elba will reprise his role as DCI John Luther in two hour-long specials for BBC One. LUTHER will film in and around London in March 2015 and will be broadcast on BBC One next year. The most gigantic and epic Nolan movie ever, probably too much so; like Inception this could have used some serious trimming (I think the snow base section of Inception could have been removed; here there's at least one plot I think should be removed, compressed, or handled better). Also, an annoyingly sentimental message, ESPECIALLY given the hard sci-fi angle (I love Arthur C Clarke and although I like Ray Bradbury, the latter's sentimentalism cannot work in the science-inspired universe of the former). Some of the roles/performances were a bit predictable (the unpredictable ones were awesome though).
The reason to see this movie, and to see it in theatres, is the intense and colossal imagery of other worlds and spacecraft navigating/landing/docking etc. Some of the imagery is jaw=dropping and there is more than one surreal moment in the movie. Overall, I kind of wish Nolan would dial it back a bit, as The Prestige and The Dark Knight are my favourite movies of his, and his last three movies seem on too huge a scale. But with all the remakes and sequels and retarded shit out there, it's undeniably nice that someone is trying something more ambitious and has a budget to back that. Also, yay more Luther!
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