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So I saw 30 days of Night last night and what an average piece of crap it was. The idea is really cool, vampires prey on an Alaskan town that won't see daylight for a month. The execution was.... meh (mainly you could care less about the characters) and the vampires were horrible. They weren't scary, they looked like lost skinheads that banded together with Quakers. The head vampire looked like he was mentally retarded... that's not scary, that's laughable, seriously he had this dumb glazed over look more often than not. The ending sort of redeemed the movie, had everyone died THEN it would have really redeemed it, but no such luck. I recommend watching Into the Wild or Gone Baby Gone (I haven't but will since I've read both books and frankly, just the idea of either one is better than this hunk of hollywood mr. Hanky).
 
I saw Saw IV last night and I must say it was a good movie. I won't give too much away since I don't know how many people are actually looking forward to seeing it, though I'm sure many have seen it since it's been out for a week. At any rate,
like the third installment this one is a mix of flashbacks and the present. The new victims are the SWAT guy who is the only one left alive/untouched by Jigsaw (detective Mathews and Kelly are dead/missing), Jigsaws lawyer and a seemingly innocent cop. We get a whole new bio of Jigsaw by his ex-wife and once again we are all asked to cherish our lives, what are we willing to sacrifice for it, no one can help the broken, they must help themselves and of course, have you learned your lesson? Good movie, good series that actually is consistent in the chronology of events unlike previous horror franchises that come up with cheap ass cop outs. The main twist here is, Jigsaw was the brains, Amanda the "apprentice", but who was the muscle? Dun dun dun!
 
I watched Reign Over Me.  It was a dramatic role with Adam Sandler and Don Cheadle in it.  The premise is great and the storyline is very good.  Cheadle is a great actor.  Adam Sandler still cannot get away from his whining/serious voice.  He is nowhere nearly as bad as his other serious movies, but there are moments are I detected that annoying inability to act.  The movie was fairly good.  It is about a man who loses his family after 9/11 and shuts down, meanwhile his old friend sort of envies this new freedom.  The two help each other through hard times. 
 
Got home from The Seeker: The Dark is Rising. I wouldn't call it a great film, it had some cheesy sections and the plot, though nice is just too compressed in its 94 minutes, there was some lack of character development, and the main antagonist was kind of the more plots than real action. It did have some moments and really reminded me of Harry Potter book 7, If you saw the film you'll no what I mean. I'd call it a fair film, it could have been better.
 
I also saw SpiderMan 3 on DVD.  I heard criticisms of the movie being rushed, and the characters underdeveloped.  Since I never paid attention I cannot comment truly, but they certainly showed three enemies into one movie which sounds like too much.  The action scenes are good, but the general plot is getting predictable.  It was still good to watch, but the next SpiderMan should have some more twists to it.
 
I just saw V for Vendetta for the fifth or sixth time to commemorate the fifth of November. It's amazing how it just never gets old. I think I like it a little more every time I watch it.
 
Helphyre said:
I just saw V for Vendetta for the fifth or sixth time to commemorate the fifth of November. It's amazing how it just never gets old. I think I like it a little more every time I watch it.
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Great flick, but major differences between the comic and the movie.  Especially with the character of V.  In the comic he's an anarchist, but in the movie, he's a...well, a rather heroic democratic hero.  It's quite interesting.  You have to wonder what the Wachowski brothers were trying to say... ... ...
 
LooseCannon said:
Great flick, but major differences between the comic and the movie.  Especially with the character of V.  In the comic he's an anarchist, but in the movie, he's a...well, a rather heroic democratic hero.  It's quite interesting.  You have to wonder what the Wachowski brothers were trying to say... ... ...
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a democratic hero with A LOT of time on his hands. That scene with the dominoes forming the "V"... I just kept thinking, who the hell wastes their time with that?
 
I know what you mean, LC. Out of curisity, have you read Watchmen? It's another one of Alan Moore's better graphic novels. I've been meaning to read it before the upcoming movie, but I can't seem to really get into it for some reason.
 
I'm not a big graphic novel fan, and rely generally on my pal Dan to tell me about the differences.  Which he does.  In great detail.  Ad nauseum.  I usually read the graphic novels after.
 
LooseCannon said:
...who cares, it was cooler than you.

Oh yeah, I went there.
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Cooler than me? Please! I mean, look at the avatar for god's sake! :p, yeah it was cool... still a waste of time hahahaha

Helphyre said:
graphic novels.
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*cough* comic book *cough*
 
Ah, Onhell, don't be so picky. Admit it, you've enjoyed all the inked dramas, illustrated comedies and pictoric love movies that hit the silver screen recently! As for myself, I've been reading an iconographic narrative recently, while drinking darkened, caffeinated water and eating italianised bread. It's all a matter of perspective!
 
Um... I guess so. But since it is the nerd core community that wants to give supposedly credibility/respectability  to comics by calling them "novels" I still say it's PC crap. Nothing wrong with calling it a comic book, which is what it is. Reminds me of that thing in England with "Bah, bah rainbowsheep"...
 
Onhell said:
Um... I guess so. But since it is the nerd core community that wants to give supposedly credibility/respectability  to comics by calling them "novels" I still say it's PC crap. Nothing wrong with calling it a comic book, which is what it is. Reminds me of that thing in England with "Bah, bah rainbowsheep"...
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Well, I do hope you recognised my post was a slightly hidden way of agreeing with you ;)
 
There's a difference between a graphic novel and a comic book. I'm not a big reader of either but from what I understand a comic book is in periodic issues and a graphic novel is a compilation of comic books, or a comic book that tells the whole story in a single volume. Really it's just pure semantics unless you take comics way too seriously, but I thought I might as well point it out since you brought it up.

Also, anyone esle here looking forward to the new Beowulf movie? Cheesy as it looks I hear it's pretty faithful to the original story. Looks like the kind of movie that would be fun to watch no matter how good or bad it is.
 
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