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[Stefancos]

Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief

Amusing film by the director of Harry Potter & The Philosophers Stone and Adventures in Babysitting. This film is a sort of mix of both these earlier efforts.
Rather a clever story with some nice nods to Greek mythology, obvious but fun special effects, cool cameo's and a nice zippy pace. Perfect Sunday night entertainment

**1/2 out of ****

[alicebrallice]

The Horse Whisperer - 7.2/10

Intouchables - 8.6/10 - such a wonderful feel-good film. afterwards we put on earth, wind & fire on the highest volume and danced till we were all sweaty lol. based on a true story too. I highly recommend it.

[Alexcremers]

On the one hand, I feel this is very well done. On the other hand, with the narrative jumping back and forth in time, the countless names, faces and dates, (you know, typical spy stuff) made it too confusing for me to be involved. Maybe I need to see this again to fully appreciate it. The music of Iglesias is one of the more interesting scores I've heard in a long time. Must check it out. 5/10


Alex

[Marc]

Rewatched JFK - director's cut 3h30

[alicebrallice]

On the one hand, I feel this is very well done. On the other hand, with the narrative jumping back and forth in time, the countless names, faces and dates, (you know, typical spy stuff) made it too confusing for me to be involved. Maybe I need to see this again to fully appreciate it. The music of Iglesias is one of the more interesting scores I've heard in a long time. Must check it out. 5/10

5/10?! jesus, you should indeed see it again.

[Chaac]

On the one hand, I feel this is very well done. On the other hand, with the narrative jumping back and forth in time, the countless names, faces and dates, (you know, typical spy stuff) made it too confusing for me to be involved. Maybe I need to see this again to fully appreciate it. The music of Iglesias is one of the more interesting scores I've heard in a long time. Must check it out. 5/10

Sounds like a film for me. I've been interested for a while. I like Alfredson's previous film (it's all I've seen from him).

[crocodile]

On the one hand, I feel this is very well done. On the other hand, with the narrative jumping back and forth in time, the countless names, faces and dates, (you know, typical spy stuff) made it too confusing for me to be involved. Maybe I need to see this again to fully appreciate it. The music of Iglesias is one of the more interesting scores I've heard in a long time. Must check it out. 5/10

5/10?! jesus, you should indeed see it again.

Alex seems to hate plots.

In this case, I have to disagree. This particular film needs to be convoluted. I couldn't exactly follow the story. But it seems to be all about confusion and certain paranoia anyway...

Karol

[Quint]

Chris Nolan plots irritate me most. Convoluted and aggrandized to cover up the wafer thin filmic substance, I wish he'd give it a rest.

[Alexcremers]

Thank you, Quint!

Alex - thinking about Inception

[KK.]

I watched Raging Bull last night. Its been a while since I sat through a good ol' Scorecese film. One of the man's best. A fascinating character study and De Niro's is mesmerizing.

[Chaac]

Chris Nolan plots irritate me most. Convoluted and aggrandized to cover up the wafer thin filmic substance, I wish he'd give it a rest.

Thank you, Quint!

Alex - thinking about Inception

How is Inception convoluted? It's perfectly followable!

[Koray Savas]

All of Nolan's films are, but I can understand how some may find them bloated.

[Quint]

Who said Inception wasn't "followable"? It's perfectly followable, which makes its contrivances all the more irritating.

[Ren]

Lol. I followed it perfectly fine. I liked it a lot actually. Especially the ending

[Matt C]

Mulan

Still holds up really, really well. The songs are okay, but Jerry Goldsmith's score really elevates the film. Animation is still really good, and Eddie Murphy's Mushu is much less grating than his Donkey in the Shrek movies.

[Alexcremers]

Chris Nolan plots irritate me most. Convoluted and aggrandized to cover up the wafer thin filmic substance, I wish he'd give it a rest.

Thank you, Quint!

Alex - thinking about Inception

How is Inception convoluted? It's perfectly followable!

No, the plot is complicated. It's actually celebrated for it.

[BloodBoal]

No, people THINK it is complicated. That doesn't make it complicated.

People are just easily impressed.

[Wojo]

I never saw it and I still don't understand it.

[BloodBoal]

See it, then you'll understand.

[Wojo]

We're getting off topic. This is about the last film we watched, not the last we didn't.

[BloodBoal]

See it, then we won't be off topic!

[Alexcremers]

No, people THINK it is complicated. That doesn't make it complicated.

People are just easily impressed.

If people think it's complicated and they love it for it (a so-called thinking man's action sci-fi movie), then who are we to say it's simple as Sesame Street? Anyway, it's true. Inception does have a complex plot. However, I would've preferred it the other way around, a simple plot but a complex movie.

[BloodBoal]

Wait, do you mean complex or complicated? Be precise, boy.

Inception plot is complex, but not complicated.

[indy4]

You all should watch this lecture on Inception if you have the time. It offers a VERY interesting interpretation of the plot and message (although for all the stuff on the philosophy you have to get the book). Some of this stuff blew my mind. Although I saw the movie again recently and I'm not sure everything holds water.

[Alexcremers]

Wait, do you mean complex or complicated? Be precise, boy.

Inception plot is complex, but not complicated.

It's complexity suggests that it's complicated.

com·pli·cat·ed
   [kom-pli-key-tid]

adjective
1.
composed of elaborately interconnected parts; complex:complicated apparatus for measuring brain functions.

[Wojo]

Whoa, what, wait? Complex is part of the definition of complicated? What's up wit dat?

[Marian Schedenig]

If people think it's complicated and they love it for it (a so-called thinking man's action sci-fi movie), then who are we to say it's simple as Sesame Street? Anyway, it's true. Inception does have a complex plot. However, I would've preferred it the other way around, a simple plot but a complex movie.

The way I see it, Inception doesn't aim for a "deep" plot on the character side, but tries to be entertainingly complex by having a tricky plot architecture. And as such, I thought it did quite well.

[BloodBoal]

Wait, do you mean complex or complicated? Be precise, boy.

Inception plot is complex, but not complicated.

It's complexity suggests that it's complicated.

com·pli·cat·ed
   [kom-pli-key-tid]

adjective
1.
composed of elaborately interconnected parts; complex:complicated apparatus for measuring brain functions.

Yes, but that doesn't make it so!!

By the way, is it really how you pronounce complicated? With "ca" as "key"? Sounds rather fishy to me.

Whoa, what, wait? Complex is part of the definition of complicated? What's up wit dat?

Don't worry, it's just to make it look complicated.

[KK.]

Inception is not as complicated as people seem to lovingly point out these days. It's easily followable and very entertaining.

[Ren]

inception can make any movie sound complicated

[alicebrallice]

lolololol

that was brilliant.

[Ren]

it's very good - they had to adjust a musical phrase though in the middle....

[nightscape94]

Definitely watchable, but I really wanted to love this movie. Starts off very promising, but then meanders a bit. Then basically gets derailed at the end. The characters just aren't fleshed out enough and the action scenes aren't spectacular enough to overlook that The Cate Blanchett character and the three minor villains are cardboard cut-outs an there's nothing all that interesting about them. I really wanted to know more about Hanna (Saoirse Ronan). There's just enough of her to maintain interest.

[Koray Savas]

lolololol

that was brilliant.

I prefer this one:

Definitely watchable, but I really wanted to love this movie. Starts off very promising, but then meanders a bit. Then basically gets derailed at the end. The characters just aren't fleshed out enough and the action scenes aren't spectacular enough to overlook that The Cate Blanchett character and the three minor villains are cardboard cut-outs an there's nothing all that interesting about them. I really wanted to know more about Hanna (Saoirse Ronan). There's just enough of her to maintain interest.

I caught most of it on TV a little whiles back and really enjoyed it more than I expected. I missed most of the set up I think, but I really dug the action and score.

[Alexcremers]

Whoa, what, wait? Complex is part of the definition of complicated? What's up wit dat?

If it's in the dictionary, then it must be true, WikiWojo.

If people think it's complicated and they love it for it (a so-called thinking man's action sci-fi movie), then who are we to say it's simple as Sesame Street? Anyway, it's true. Inception does have a complex plot. However, I would've preferred it the other way around, a simple plot but a complex movie.

The way I see it, Inception doesn't aim for a "deep" plot on the character side, but tries to be entertainingly complex by having a tricky plot architecture. And as such, I thought it did quite well.

True that, but like I said, I was hoping for the opposite. Then again, I do tend to lean towards slow atmospheric movies that make me truly feel what they are showing. Inception went through the landscape like a high speed train, as if going fast was way more important than the journey itself.


Alex

[Joey]

Inception is overrated claptrap. IMHO, it's another overly praised underwhelming effort from Nolan who excels at underwhelming.

[Alexcremers]

Yeah but why, Joey? Why?!

[crocodile]

Whoa, what, wait? Complex is part of the definition of complicated? What's up wit dat?

If it's in the dictionary, then it must be true, WikiWojo.

If people think it's complicated and they love it for it (a so-called thinking man's action sci-fi movie), then who are we to say it's simple as Sesame Street? Anyway, it's true. Inception does have a complex plot. However, I would've preferred it the other way around, a simple plot but a complex movie.

The way I see it, Inception doesn't aim for a "deep" plot on the character side, but tries to be entertainingly complex by having a tricky plot architecture. And as such, I thought it did quite well.

True that, but like I said, I was hoping for the opposite. Then again, I do tend to lean towards slow atmospheric movies that make me truly feel what they are showing. Inception went through the landscape like a high speed train, as if going fast was way more important than the journey itself.


Alex

Yes!

Karol

[Chaac]

Inception gives me goosebumps.

[Joey]

Yeah but why, Joey? Why?!

because I dreamed it that way.