what went wrong? The plot sounded original and insightful, the casting appeared to be perfect... how could it not be great? I mean, they built a plane with artificial intelligence and it got evil and started destroying things. That's pretty unexpected, what a twist!

In depth critique please 

...not to tinker in God's domain. What hath man wrought? 

there are plenty of good insightful and thought-provoking science fiction books just waiting to be made into movies, and they always pick the crappiest crap of rehashed rehash dumbed down 1000x. Sigh.

Maybe it's just because the good ones are not for the big audience, since it would often need actual thinking to get something from the story. Maybe someone like David Lynch should do scifi. 

Maybe someone like David Lynch should do scifi.

Even seen Dune? 

Hey OK I am so ready for X3 I saw the trailer for it on line and when I went to see underworld 2 it was the frist trailer I saw it was so cool to see Daniel Cudmore in the suit walking with the others. when X3 comes out May 26th I am going to be watching the frist two movies then the next day I am seeing X3. have you all been to the trekweb they have some new photos of X3 and when you find the Six photo it scared the living death out of me it's of Peter in his colossus role. That is a scarry photo. 

Hey OK I am so ready for X3 I saw the trailer for it on line and when I went to see underworld 2 it was the frist trailer I saw it was so cool to see Daniel Cudmore in the suit walking with the others. when X3 comes out May 26th I am going to be watching the frist two movies then the next day I am seeing X3. have you all been to the trekweb they have some new photos of X3 and when you find the Six photo it scared the living death out of me it's of Peter in his colossus role. That is a scarry photo. 

I can feel the stealth marketing working already! X3 will have the biggest turnout of illiterate assholes of any movie opening ever!!342414 

yeah so I deserved everything I got, but sometimes I have to watch stuff that I dont want to.

But seriously, if you're going to pump 150 million plus into a movie, at least make it have some decent action sequences. Shots of missiles, then shots of planes, then an explosion. Oh man, I cant wait till I see that in zoomed in slow mo. Oh wait, they've read my mind, oh jesus christ this movie is so fucking cool. 

yeah so I deserved everything I got

That was my thought too! 

when I went to see underworld 2

I think I stopped reading right about there. 

Kate Beckinsale + Leather = HOT. 

metl:Even seen Dune?
Yeah, but it was kinda not finished and had some... not right things. I should watch it with more thought some day.

I like blade runner... and minority report wasn't that bad either. (cut the cheesy Spielberg kids&family inclusion). 2001 I haven't seen since I was a kid and it was kinda slow (pluss it's partly a ripoff of an older Russian film). 2010 or what's the sequel, that was ok although not very "grand". Solarises we've handled here earlier. Matrix had potential but in the end it was just flash and kungfu with the point lost.

Someone could make a big budget series about Lem's Cyberiad short stories book a bit in the vein of Outer Limits, which was sometimes watchable. It's violent and humoristic and the current special effects would rule. Or it could be made as a cartoon in futurama visual style, that would be awesome. Anybody got any connections? Make them read the book. 

I wasn't calling out Dune as an example of a quality scifi -- I was calling it out as an example of a David Lynch scifi, since you we're saying you'd like to see David Lynch take a crack at the genre. 

What I meant that some good and respected person who can communicate their vision, and doesn't need to be too mainstream, could do some decent hardish or philosophish or just a more serious scifi flick. (Or are there much such people anymore, is everything very finely "produced" nowadays?)

I don't know the history of the Dune film very closely, but I understand the director was not happy with it. Cuts and shit.

Maybe they could pick something less ambitious. 

Devil in a Blue Dress - so so modern attempt at a noir with some rather pedestrian direction and a badly miscast denzel washington. There's an art to doing a noir voiceover and denzel was not up to the task in this film. 

XMEN 3 Is Going To Be Awsome

Fucking hell, first the regular spam, then bots and now we're a target for stealth marketing bullshit.

Just my opinion - but maybe now is a good time to disable posting for non-registered users. 

I'd call that bloody obvious marketing.

Just watched Daredevil, and it really was as bad as people said. Avoid. 

i can't see myself liking it; just out of principle for them still not including Gambit at all. I mean, what the hell. Expect a biased review. 

Yeah Gambit rocks hard. I think they have way too many mutants in this one. But I'm looking forward to seeing beast. 

looking forward to it :)

ps : I also saw The Grifters which I found to be far too meandering and uninteresting. 

TO be honest, I did like XMEN2 so I am looking forward to the next one. 

x2 was ok, opening 5 min with nightcrawler were great as were 2-3 scenes with wolverine, but the rest was so so.

As for x3, brett ratner is quite the hack, so Im' not expecting much. 

Spartacus - The Criterion print is spectacular but I found this to be quite underwhelming. It starts off well enough but after Spartacus' escape and the beginning of the revolution, I found it fairly unremarkable.

At 198 min, I also found it to be extremely bloated, especially given the poor writing of many scenes. The acting, like most aspects of the movie, varied in quality with Kirk Douglas quite average in the title role. I enjoyed Peter Ustinov, Lawrence Olivier and the ever reliable Charles Laughton but Jean Simmons single handedly undid their good work with a very weak show. It probably didnt help that her character was not well written though.

The score was also fairly variable, great towards the start but being overly bombastic far too frequently.

And it is also the most un-Kubirck film I've encoutnered thus far, but that in itself is not necesarrily a bad thing IMHO.

5/10 

Get Shorty - Underwhelmed again. Leonard thinks this is the best adaptation of his work but I'd take Out of Sight or Jackie Brown over this anyday.

Not that this is bad, far from it. But it's strictly average and just seems as if everything was by the numbers. Maybe that comes from Barry Sonnenfeld being not much of a director and Soderbergh and Tarantino being far more capable.

5.5/10 

It was hilarious. I'm glad that after the first movie they got the idea to have more fun with the concept, since it was a bit too preposterous to be otherwise. It continues to be in the third installment, but it's always fun to watch Rube Goldberg as Death hatch his little plans and manage to get rid of the latest annoying teen. You've got to admit -- it's better than Chucky.