Be Excellent To Each Other

Jennifer's Body is the far superior Diablo Cody screenplay.

What the deuce?

You guys are crazy.

I misliked Juno due to wotsisgob, plus pregnant teenage girls are my dayjob.

Super, for the uninformed, is a sort of indie Kick Ass starring some guy as some guy who is married to Liv tyler because she's a recovering everything addict. She fucks off with dealer Kevin Bacon and he dons a Daredevil-type suit to right this and other wrongs, inspired by Captain Mal Reynolds. The ensuing visceral slapstick violence is FUCKING HILARIOUS and then Ellen Page comes along. And at first you think, uh-huh. Ellen Page. Awesome. And she's rocking this costume:



But it's all just so, so wrong. And you'll have to watch to see what I mean. How does a 22 year old woman manage to simultaneously be all at the same time?


Overall the films pretty good.

That's different. It's considered one of the more average Pixar animations, isn't it?

The first 45 minutes or so form one of the most touching silent love stories in the history of cinema. It's worth it just for that.

Okay, all of that sounds awesome. I shall go rent soon as possible!

Ratatouille is the best.

Though Wall-E to be sure improves a little on subsequent viewings.

I've still not seen Ratatouille. I must fix that.

I thought it was considered above average.

Here's the order of awesomeness of their first ten movies:

http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/list ... -hits.html

What a silly list, putting Incredibles at no.1

Predators!
More than one Predator.
Surprisingly not rubbish, I enjoyed the new setting and plot, especially the spaceship nonsense. All thoroughly predictable and lost a little suspense due to that but certainly worth a watch.

Chronicles of Riddick. Seriously, what a yawn-fest. Obviously not my thing at all this, I know it's a sequel but it all seemed a meaningless and immediately forgettable

Up: Good. Loved the talking dog minions. Would watch again..

The Incredibles is my favourite, too.

I feel the same way, with Up being a close second.

It's a very good film, but at 115 minutes, a bit long, although I'm not a fan of long films generally.

Picked up some more cheap films today -
Firewall (seen before, but enjoyed)
Adventures of Baron Munchausen (which I love, but doesn't seem too popular with others)
Mercury Rising (not seen it, but I like Bruce Willis films)
Skyline (purely bought because it was £2, which seemed cheap for a recent film)

All for £6. I do rather like Cash Converters.

I watched Christmas in Connecticut yesterday. While it isn't massively christmassy, it's a brilliant screwball comedy. Barbara Stanwyck is gorgeous and brilliant in it as she always is. It's the tale of a woman who writes articles for a magazine about being a perfect housewife and her editor has the idea that a war hero should go and stop with her and her husband on her farm over christmas. Oh and he decides to join as well. Except she's not married and doesn't live on a farm and doesn't know how to cook or anything. Fortunately a guy who had been asking her to marry him for a long time steps and gets her to agree to marry him and conveniently he has a farm. They plan to marry on arrival there but things keep getting in the way and of course she happens to fall for the war hero...

Superb laugh out loud funny stuff and decidedly farcical. Loved it.

Nuns on the Run is still awesome.

Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol - A thoroughly enjoyable and well put together action film with some inventive action sequences. Good cast, nice glamorous locations, good script. I even forgot Tom Cruise was a horrible egotistical scientologist idiot sometimes...

Though it really is a vehicle for how awesome Tom Cruise is (in his head)

Kill List is brilliant. I won't say much more as I think it's best enjoyed not knowing what you're in for.

Yep, watched this a couple of days ago. Very impressive low-budget Brit-flick & quite unique.

Also, thoroughly enjoyed "Another Earth" (someone else mentioned it above).
I knew it was a dark drama going in (rather than an actual sci-fi film - I can imagine many sci-fi fans being very dissapointed with it) & thought it was great.
Top quality acting too from actors I've never heard of.

Puss in Boots - A boring unfunny waste of everybody's time.

So, we watched Easy A. It was very good indeed. Someone has suggested that if I enjoyed Easy A, I would also enjoy Mean Girls. Is this true?

I don't know about Easy A but Mean Girls is a very enjoyable film.

Watched this during the hols. Very good.
Also watched Zombieland again, which is still excellent.

And a bunch of other films that weren't.

It was written by Tina Fey, so it's probably good. The wife likes it, though, so it may be awful.

I wasn't expecting much of Kung Fu Panda and Monsters Vs Aliens when I watched them with the kids but I was pleasantly surprised. Much better than some of the other Dreamworks stuff I'd seen.

Kung Fu Panda is awesome.

Apparently, the Chinese Culture Secretary after watching it, asked his staff "Why can't we make movies about China that are this good?"

Allow me to rephrase... are there boobies in it?

Craster scale of zero stars, sadly. It's a chick flick.

The scene where Tai Lung escapes from prison is one of my favourite scenes in any movie, ever.

They are both good, but Easy A is much better. Also: Emma Stone is much better than Lindsey Lohan.

I'd recommend Jawbreaker if you can access it.

Saw jawbreaker many moons ago. Enjoyed it a lot if memory serves.

Emma Stone is in a different league altogether to Lohan. I didn't like Mean Girls at all, I only watched it for the first time a year or so ago and found it incredibly dull.

Ah, sweet as a nut. I actually prefer Get Over It to Mean Girls.

[edit] @flis ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooooooh *tick-tock-you-don't-stop!* I wanna sex you up!
[edit edit] I like being able to delete posts.

Hey, if we are progressing down the chick-flick teen high school movie road, then go the whole hog and watch "Bring it on" too, and "Heathers"...

I bloody love bring it on.

Oh, Bring it On is the peak of the form. I thought that went without saying.

Bring it on again was a travesty though.

More chick flick high school goodness. Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, and the TV series 'Freaks and Geeks' and 'Awkward'.

Bring it on gives me a happy.

Didn't see it. Bring it On: In it to Win it was weirdly good though. Sequel-good, not 'as good as the first one'-good.

FTFY

Some Kind of Wonderful is a high school "chick flick" that hangs around in my movie top ten.

Isn't that the Two Ronnies Quadrilogy?

Went to see Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows last night.

It was good, enjoyable and quite funny at times, but I did feel that the film vastly over-used the "bullet-time" effect. It made sense during the scenes were Holmes is running through what's about to happen in his head, but elsewhere it just seemed to be pointless.

Also, a plot hole:

Mean Girls is quite good.

Wonderful film

Yes, it helps that both of the lead females are rather easy on the eyes (Lea Thompson especially).

The ginger's quite shaggab.... OHMYGODIT'SERICSTOLZ!

Comedy Central's "Live at the Apollo" advert that ends with the voice-over man saying "Damn! He a dude!" always makes me laugh.

I've been puzzling over this 'chick flick' misnomer.

When I think 'chick flck', I think Sleepless in Seattle or When Harry Met Sally. Or Ghost. *shudder*

Teen films are a different kettle of fish, though there is some overlap. Like Twilight or whatever. But they're different things.

Well, they can be both. Pretty in Pink is a chick click and a teen movie. Some Kind of Wonderful isn't really a chick flick (Duncan is far too awesome to be a chick flick character) but the story is straight out of one.
Er, that makes sense in my head.