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I'm sure though he's nothing like our Mr Page ;-) :D
Well, Candie is a very loud and proud man, so it's easy to understand why Leo handled the role like that at times. Still, I wouldn't call him the villain of the film either.
After seeing Unexpected Journey, Desolation was everything I expected: a good action-fantasy film, or well second part film. It's entertaining and the visuals are amazing. But is not LOTR, partialy because the original source material is very different.
I agree it is a little too long and that it could've been made in just two parts.
Some specific things I want to comment:
While I prefer the greatest accuracy with the book, I surprises me that Tauriel didn't bothers me very much, perhaps because she is beautiful but also because they keep it simple, I mean they didn't try to overfitted her to the story like saying she discovered the secret door or has something to do with the ring. She just was a good archer and guardian and that's ok. The scene with the Necromancer was the best, as someone pointed out before.
I feel the mood of the film lacks consistency. On one hand, sometimes it tries to be too solemn (like the LOTR) but it fails because of the true nature of The Hobbit the book. On the other hand they add unnecesary comedy because it is already comical (I mean, a story of a wizard, a halfling and 13 dwarves!) The worst of times, it just had too much cheesy-action movie lines like "not if I kill him first".
I think the music was better in part 2, more original themes and less of LOTR, but it was weird they didn't repeat the "Misty Mountains" theme as I thought it was like the "company" theme in The Hobbit.
I thought Stephen Fry was hilarious, Beorn was good even if he wasn't as I imagine to be while reading the book and Bard wasn't bad but they forced him to be another Aragorn...
While most people in the cinema couldn't believe it finish there, I left at easy knowing what happens next and just expecting another year to see Peter Jackson's vision of the last chapters. But on the whole, I'll always prefer my imagination taken directly from Professor Tolkien's words.
As great as ever but I can't help but think that the makers of The Big Bang Theory have slightly ruined the experience for me ;-)
It most definitely makes my list of the Top Five Worst Films of 2013. Bland, mediocre acting, dull love angle just shoehorned in, not imaginative or inspiring, all leading up to a very bland finale. Terrible stuff.
10000 BC - it entertains on Christmasday.
I thought this film was really entertaining and a worthy sequel to the first one. I enjoyed the fight scenes, Jim Carrey blew me away, and I loved the Mother Russia character, thought she was very scary and intense on screen.
'The Family'
Been a fan of Luc Besson's for years, and I thought this film had some great casting, a fun plot, some great dark comedy at times, and hilarious quotes. Seemed to end abruptly, but other than that, it was good, no major complaints.
'Out Of The Furnace'
Wow. This film blew me away. So far, it's in my top three films of this year. Superb casting and acting, phenomenal cinematography and plot development, everyone just played their roles at 120%, I loved it. Really gripping and emotional. If you have yet to see these, go check it out.
". My daugher gave me the DVD as a gift, so, I watched it last night. Huge dissapointment. No useful dialogue whatsoever, absolutly no action sequence worthy of the name, lame storyline, it's a wonder how on earth people came back to see "The wrath of Khan".
And I thought Die Anther Day was bad...
(Actually, I love ST:TMP, it's a great SF movie, if not the rollicking adventure of some subsequent installments)
What a thrill ride. I just let the film take me wherever it decided to go and had no clue what to expect throughout. Tense, emotional, superb acting, some very unique twists, and one killer ending.
'Rush'
I thought it was quite a good film, though not as excellent as I was expecting it to be. I suppose I just overhyped it. I thought both Hemsworth and Bruhl looked the part and their rivalry was well displayed on-screen. The races were pretty intense, and since I wasn't 100% certain on the history between the two, I wasn't sure what was going to happen or how it would all end, so it was an interesting surprise. The film was pretty good; not fantastic, but not terrible, either.
Average film from jackie chan.
I've been a huge fan of Mads Mikkelsen since CR, trying to watch everything he's in, and I've been anticipating this movie for quite some time. Finally got around to watching it tonight, and it was one emotional, yet aggravating film, giving you such a broad view of how alienated and hated a man can become by friends and family, all starting from one little white lie. I wish the ending had taken a different route, but still, it was great, looking forward to seeing if it wins at the Oscars next year.
I consider ST-TMP the '2001' of the series and since I love - adore! - 2001, I am very fine with TMP too. ;-)
Several complaints I constantly hear, deal with how 'slow' the film gets from time to time.
Well, for starters, I love slow paces in space. The opening scene of Gravity takes its time to develop as well. The space waltz of 2001 is 'slow'. Even Alien begins by showing us some pretty slowly paced scenes. So when we fly past the Enterprise whilst listening to Goldsmith's fabulous score, I'm impressed. Maybe I'm a just a space ship geek. ;-) Remember also that by the time of TMP's release, it had been approximately a decade since the old TV series. It all felt like a reunion. Reunions deserve a bit of time, no? ;-)
And flying into V'ger is this film's own time/space tunnel sequence from 2001. Once again, I'm impressed. The grandeur of it all, the mystery of what lies ahead. Had this moment been over in 10 seconds, I'd be complaining about how little of the moment we were allowed to absorb. Now, we get the whole package.
Aesthetically, I think TMP is a very pleasing film. As for the characters and the story, I see something that would have been part of the TV series. And in fact, hadn't they planned a new TV series with TMP's story a something of a pilot, before they decided to go theatrical and feature length?
It's rather proposterous and recycles stuff from the first film but I think this is slightly better than Die Hard 2, thanks to less gunfire, better acting and more emphasis on suspence (even if things flag a little towards the end). As over-the-top as he is I do enjoy Jeremy Irons as Simon Gruber and the "Johnny Comes Marching Home" Sequence is great.
Also, this is probably Bruce's best performance as McClane overall.
7.5/10
Bain123, I like Die Hard with the Vengeance the best of all five. It has a fun supporting cast of characters "Larry Bryggman as Inspector Walter Cobb", "Graham Greene as Joe Lambert" etc
I agree, @Bradford4. Sam Jackson rocks in that film and I love what Michael Kamen did with When Johnny Comes Marching Home. Great fun, this film.
I heard nothing but mediocre to bad things about this movie. I decided to rent it out of boredom and I'm glad I did. I found it to be hilarious and it had a great story to go with it. I'm not into the overly raunchy, sex and drug filled movies and I thought this was going to be just that (even though the movie is about drug smuggling).
It really surprised me, too, I thought it would just be generic and bland with maybe a laugh or two thrown out, but I thought it was hilarious.
Are there 5?? I always thought there were simply 4. That generic crap set in Russia doesn't count IMO ;)
My thoughts were the opposite for the last hour. Will it ever end? Every scene with orks are exciting and the Necromancer is a hoot, but otherwise it is just the same same same over and over. Walking and talking. Some dramatic speech here and there. People fawning over the courage of hobbits and so on. At the end of part 2, we are exactly where we were at the end of part1, as far as I can recall. Also, that filming technique(40 frames a second or whatever) looks terrible on the big screen. A lot better on bluray, in fact. However, glad you liked it. My son did, too. And we will of course see the next.