Sparky

But you don't have two kids do you?

can't be spending all your paperboy money on a piece of **** horror when you already owe like a thousand in child support.

Maybe i was looking at the movie too much like gritty reality tv, instead of just a fun look at how hard filmaking is.

Scissorman

It was a little disappointing... It kind of sucked... It was watchable, but I expected more. The acting was OK, the cast was good, but the plot has some major holes and all in all this movie is just one big cliche...

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I seen wolfman on Tuesday but never got around to posting about it.

Let me start by saying I liked it, even though it got a lot of bad reviews from critics. I think its hard to work with werewolf's, I find them easily cheesy but I thought they did a good job with it.

I have never seen the original wolfman... So I dont know how close it follows its story, but the story was something I thought of as being pretty basic, I couldn't nail it down but I felt like I had seen it all before. But their was a few throwback shots I liked... I never seen the original Wolfman but I have seen these iconic shots before.

There was alot the shots were CGI (Go Figure) and the shots of the wolfman in costume were well pretty cheesy looking in parts. Some of the parts were people got gutted I thought were not really great either but there were some scenes where I think they used real guts or did a damn good job.

Also it wasn't as Gothic as the preview let out... Truth is I went in the theater expecting something like Francis Coppola's Dracula style.

It was a mix of gothic style but still had alot of studio elements in it.

Now with me pretty much not saying anything I liked about it yet.... Let me say, it was alot more violent then I expected from the same guy who directed Honey I Shrunk the Kids and Jumanji. I really enjoyed some of the scenes between del toro and hopkins, and I kept seeing Hugo weavings as Mr. Smith but it fit considering it was still the guy hunting the main character.

With all that said... I still walked away liking it so did my date, so I think it was a win that barely pulled it off for me.

boo boo

Johnston directed The Rocketeer, October Sky and Honey I Shrunk the Kids which were all fantastic, Jumanji is a mess but it's fun, he did The Pagemaster which was pretty forgettable. He also did Jurassic Park III, which was just f*cking terrible, I don't know if he deserves the blame or the writters... which btw were Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor... I wish I was making that up.

I still think Johnston is the best possible choice for the Captain America movie though.

As for werewolf movies, it's been done before and this one seems not to offer anything terribly interesting, it's probably best to stick with American Werewolf in London, The Howling, Ginger Snaps and the original Wolf Man.

Mich Nichol's Wolf with Jack Nicholson was pretty good too.

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Really between the Johnston and the screenwriters, I am more worried about the script. The same guys who did Chronicles of Narnia. With Captain America there is a huge cheeze factor you have to avoid.

I don't know why you would say Johnston is the best choice.... Maybe his experience with the Rocketeer will pay off considering the time period it will be in. But they had the whole world to choose from you saying Johnston is the best choice?

Marvel worries me when they make movies... They go way overboard on the scripts. Wolverine was good up until dead pool started shooting **** from his eyes, Xmen3, The first attempt at Hulk, Ghost Rider and fantastic four. Plus they play it way to nice in a lot of comics I remember being brutal.

TheCunningStunt

Anyone seen Shutter Island yet?

The critical response is generally favourable, 67% 'Fresh' rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 126 reviews.

I expected something more 'wow' from the critics

boo boo

Which I liked, there are things about it that are heavy handed but I blame that on the direction.

Johnston is the best choice because his themes have always been based around escapism, nostalgia and staples of American popular culture, he's one of the more accomplished Spielberg/Lucas influenced filmmakers (he actually worked on the first two Indiana Jones films and the first three Star Wars filmas as an art director and visual effects superviser) . The Rocketeer came out one year after that sh*tty Golan-Globus Captain America movie came out and The Rocketeer was basically what Captain America should have been.

I just hope it won't be all CGI and stuff, Johnston works great with real man made special effects but not so great with CGI. Jumanji has some of the most dated CGI I've ever seen.


Yeah, Marvel is very hit or miss in the movie department, sometimes the directors and writers that get involved are bewildering, who thought the guy who directed Barbershop would be a good fit for Fantastic Four? Who thought the guy who directed Simon Birch could do a superhero action movie like Daredevil and Ghost Rider?

But Joe Johnston is a good director AND this is a good fit for him, so I have some faith.

Anyway, speaking of Marvel, rebooting Spiderman and having it be directed by the guy who did 500 Days of Summer and a bunch of sh*tty music videos for nu metal and pop punk bands? Yeah it's gonna be a disaster. It's due to be released in 2012 so maybe that's the cataclysmic people are waiting for, angry comic con nerds rioting in the streets, I can see it now.

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yeah, it was good but not great. It was kind-off predictable, and got sluggish an hour in. The ending is the best part, but it wraps everything up too nice. I don't really know how to critique it without spoiling it.

I'd still say go see it though.

debaserr

i think i am gonna wait for a home copy.

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Yeah I know what you mean, when trying to explain films, it's like you wanna say what you thought about it without ruining it! Difficult job, I'll definitely get round to watch it, but I was surprised with the critics, 67% seems a bit mixed for me, I was expecting 80+%

Then again, I guess when you're a film maker with scorsese's reputation, it's difficult to make a film the critics will really take to