Posted on 07/23/2010 6:21:38 AM PDT by Kaslin
The Last Airbender was an excellent movie too, with a great message :)
If you have an older male child that was a fan of the cartoon, I recommend. My BF’s 9yo LOVED it.
Great action scenes and the 3D effects were killer. Best thing out of M. Night Shyamalan yet.
Brokeback - I have gay friends that thought it was the worst movie they have ever seen. So much for intended demographic.
Passion - I really thought it was a good movie. Painful to watch, but I’m not so sure it was kid appropriate bc it was SO graphic.
10 Commandments - One of the best movies I have ever seen, and not just from the older years.
Pulp Fiction and The Red Violin - My personal two favorite movies.
Maybe parents and their teens can escape seeing the movie but they can’t escape having the trailer run over and over in front of them.
There is one called Pixar. They have an unbroken string of good, family oriented blockbusters, including the #1 movie so far this year.
Why more companies don’t emulate then, I don’t understand.
I personally liked Last Airbender. And it’s deeper than one would think, too.
It was based on a kid’s cartoon, and when I took my bf’s son to see it, I was the only female in there. Mostly pre- and pubescent young men in there. Might have something to do with less than rosy sales.
I compare it to a meld between LOTR and Mortal Kombat, but def 8-13 yo appropriate.
Where are they seeing the trailer? I haven’t seen it, I saw two movies last Saturday, one at an arthouse, and the only way I’ve heard about it is people griping about it on FR. Arthouse movies usually don’t have their trailers shown before megaplex movies, they only like to show trailers for movies they’re actually going to show (no reason to advertise for somebody else), the distribution company gets to put one trailer in but Focus doesn’t have anything in the megaplexes currently.
and I thought that too was a good movie... a very sad discourse about our youth.
I haven’t seen it, and probably won’t. I don’t like anime and I’ve lost all confidence in M. Night, so it’s way off my list.
Kids are All Right hasn’t gotten anywhere near Tucson yet. I probably won’t see it, again not in my wheelhouse. Gonna go see Winter’s Bone tomorrow though, that looks great.
Charlotte, being the queen city, will probably get it. LOL I probably won’t see it though, unless I get bored with Netflix in a few months.
See my #60 this thread, disc. It’s playing all over the TV.
I don’t watch anything on TNT or USA. I do watch some NBC and lots of SyFy though and their owned by the same guys as USA. Haven’t seen trailer 1 for the movie.
We have all the movies made by the folks that made “Facing the Giants”. I believe the first one if “Flywheel”. That one was produced on video.
You can see the production value get better with each film and even the acting seems to improve, but most of the on-screen talent is non-professional. But all that is ok because the stories are absolutely fantastic and some of the characters are quite rich and likable. And that is something completely missing from movies like “Little Miss Sunshine”.
Any movie that makes my sob like a little girl is good. And they do it without any “Ronin” car chases. ;)
Interesting. I can’t even scroll by NBC and SyFy mostly bores me (I can only endure so many CGI bugs the size of VOlkswagens, youknow? :D ). Do you like forensic drama or policiers? That’s what I watch: Bones, NCIS, Burn Notice, even The Closer on occasion. Never anything by Dick Wolf.
Try watching TV.
As FReeper BelegStrongbow posted earlier:"BTW, I can't seem to escape the trailer. TNT and USA show it endlessly."
And last night It was shown on another channel I was watching.
There’s good stuff on SyFy just not on Saturday nights. No CGI bugs in Eureka, Haven, or Warehouse 13. I like Burn Notice but I didn’t get into it until late, so I mostly Netflix it or randomly watch one at a friend’s house. I hate forensic drama, I like my cop shows to not have bad Star Trek technobabble, which from the commercials seems to be a big part of them. It could just be the demographic of the shows I watch doesn’t synch up with who they think will watch the movie, and they’re probably right because Kids are All Right sounds like a very boring movie to me.
I watch plenty of TV, but apparently not the programs they think share a viewer demographic with that movie. Maybe you should watch better TV.
I laughed hard and long at the remake of “The Day the Earth Stood Still.” The original is a seminal, untouchable film, made in two months on a budget of $ 1.2 million. The remake is a hideously bad film with an illiterate script, made over two years with an estimated budget of $ 120 million, including marketing.
LOVE NCIS and Burn Notice, and White Collar is super witty.
Have you seen Covert Affairs yet? It’s produced by the guy that did the Bourne trilogy.
I'm enjoying the heck out of Covert Affairs. I like the casting, the plots seem really tight, I suspect some serious unstorying to be going on. They've already hinted at it.
And of course it has nothing to do with the fact that I think the blind dude is completely awesome! LOL
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