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It's an interesting movie, with spectacular performances. Philip Seymour Hoffman and Joaquin Phoenix are extremely gifted and engage on their portrayals, as always.
The way I see it, the film a huge criticism against religions and cults (not only Scientology, as many said), so I enjoy it.
P.S. Of all the massive casualties, structural and environmental damage that occurred in this film, the one thing that bugs me to no end is that THE Pulitzer Prize winning Lois Lane said the word "tinkle." I mean, what the hell is up with that?!
Last film I saw was Thor: the dark world.
What a great film, action packed and a lot of powerful and emotional scenes. This film from the offset looks superior to its predecessor pure from an aesthetic and visual standpoint. You can tell they put money into this. Hemsworth is great as Thor, with this being his 3rd outing in just as many years, he embody the roles with confidence and ease. Hiddleston as Loki is even more magnificent than ever. He IS Loki. There are 2 wonderful scenes that convey a layer of depth to Loki that present him more as just some villain hellbent on royally pissing people off. The action is great and there's plenty of it, in fact, watching the film it's like watching a hybrid movie if Star Wars and Lord of the Rings. It's fantastic. Unlike Man of Steel, the action doesn't feel like it's there for the sake if it without any emotional investment to support it. There's a purpose for all that's going on and an actual sense of urgency. There's a great cameo by way of illusion, you'll know it when you see it and the humour is great too. The score was also fantastic and really added weight to the tragic and emotional scenes.
The film isn't without it's faults though. There were too many characters that were underused, too much exposition that was constantly repeated and Eccleston's Malekith, although menacing just came off as a typical villain who wanted to plunge the universe into darkness for no real reason other than the fact that he's evil and evil people do evil things.
I rank this film as marvel's best yet after the avengers. It's incredibly entertaining.
8.5/10
Forgot gloriously fun it is. Though it did have me thinking of Die Another Day on a few occasions oddly.
-Hero imprisoned early on
-lots of swordfighting
-two fights going on during climax
Zorro was well made though.
I love this film as well. It's a really well directed piece of old school filmmaking.
Last night I also watched The Thing, all in the aim of getting into the Halloween mood. I had never seen this film before, but am a big Carpenter fan because of his Halloween films, and thought I would give it a try after it was recommended to me many a time. While I don't think it is anything on the level of Halloween, I enjoyed the film and thought it presented a clever plot that always had you second guessing, much like the characters in the film. I thought all of the cast were very good, and very naturalistic in their crafting of their roles; none disappointed. There were plenty of great scenes to build the suspense and make you question when the proverbial crap was going to hit the fan, and "the thing" was brilliantly brought to life. In classic Carpenter style,
Here is a cool fact on The Thing, straight from IMDb:
"This movie has become part of the culture in Antarctica. It is a long standing tradition in all British Antarctic research stations to watch The Thing as part of their Midwinter feast and celebration held every June 21."
That's so cool.
I don't think it's nearly as bad as some make it out to be but yeah, Carpenter has been stuck in creativity limbo since the early 90s. I should have gone with his best suited film for this night, the aptly titled Halloween. ;-) Ah well, the night is still young. What's that, mother?
I'm currently writing my own feature length film and I plan to film it on a very tight shoestring budget. I also wrote the theme song for it as Carpenter did for most of his films. :)
It doesn't get much better than his simple yet so effective Halloween score. Absolute brilliance.
@0BradyM0Bondfanatic7, regarding 'The Thing':
It's one of those moments where I would've loved to see what Carpenter did with a sequel, but I didn't want it to get to the point where it ruined his original version by throwing something outlandish at us. If neither of them were infected, how could they progress the storyline with another Thing if the main creature and all of the other humans were shot? Perhaps one of the dogs who escaped did get infected and just didn't take the form of the bigger version of itself to hide suspicions? Who knows. Would've been interesting at the time, but I like the film just the way it is, ambiguous ending at all. Hope you didn't mind reading all of this.
It would have been interesting to see a sequel to this, but like you said, it is great the way it is, leaving you wondering what happens after the film ends. Thanks for being the one that pushed me to give it a shot. :)
I liked The Ward. It does feature Danielle Panabaker, after all. :x
DVD or on TV?
I believe it's the one with The Thing.
;-)
Meaning Halloween, of course, which has scenes from The Thing From Another World on television. :-)
Indeed. Whenever I watch 'Halloween' and the opening credits of 'The Thing From Another World' start up I find myself wishing that there was a special "branching" edition of Carpenter's classic whereby you can carry on and watch the whole of 'The Thing...' before returning to the plot again. Might throw a bit of a spanner in the works of the story, time-wise. You can just picture Michael Myers pacing back and forth, looking at his watch, tutting and muttering "get a move on, will ya".
Lets face it...this film is crap. Terrible acting and a laughably implausable climax with Arnie gunning down anyone in his path. BUT it is a bit of a guilty pleasure for me.
He's great :)) "I'M GOING TO KILL YOU NOWW"
Willow - George Lucas with a great fantasy movie, too bad there were not more of them.
During "Phase 1", I put Thor behind Avengers, Captain America and Iron Man on my list of favourites. Only Iron Man 2 had failed me more. But with this new entry, I'm sold! So far, only two films in, Thor takes the lead in my ranking of "Phase 2"!
I love this film. Everything the trailer promises, the film delivers. It stays loyally within the continuity of the previous films in Marvel's Avengers series, it brings back many if not all of its previous cast members and it widely enhances the spectacle compared to the first Thor film. Seeing that director Alan Taylor is also doing Terminator in '15, I suddenly have more confidence in the latter project.
The fights are good, the chemistry between Hemsworth and Portman works well, London provides a great setting for much of the story, and some special treats for the fans are certainly in the mix too. If you are still interested in where the story of our superheroes goes after The Avengers, see this film. Thor: The Dark World is definitely a film I can recommend!