Originally Posted by jackhammer

I agree about The Shining too which may surprise some people but the film's greatest strength - emotional detachment, isolation etc is the very thing that put's me off the film plus Shelley Duvall just annoys the hell out of me. Even Stephen King didn't like this version so it's vindication!

As for Drive I can totally understand why some may not like it but the cause and effect of the violence in the film is brilliantly realised and it's like a breath of fresh air amidst all the usual banality that is offered up in terms of action.


Why oh why. The script is B movie fodder dressed up in major studio backing. It's directed and acted well but everything is so telegraphed that if you watched this with B movie actors on a late night cable channel you would dismiss it as a six pack beer movie and nothing else.

Originally Posted by Conan

The draw is taking a serious, talented actor like Neeson and plopping him in an action revenge film. He gives the hero a real emotional draw in the beginning, making him quite a likable guy. From the scene where his daughter is kidnapped onward, he is punching throats like nobody's business, while almost stoically continuing his search for his daughter. Not to mention he makes one of the most bad ass threats ever and completely delivers. He's practically unstoppable in that film and it's cool to see him rampage through France.

The sequel was pretty shit, however.

Originally Posted by FRED HALE SR.

Did I miss something? Who was talking about Taken? Great movie though. Thats a shame I wanted to see the sequel.

Originally Posted by Conan

Jackhammer asked what the fuss about it was. And yeah, the sequel gets into generic action film territory and hits a load of cliches.

Originally Posted by FRED HALE SR.

One that I can't quite get around is LOST IN TRANSLATION. Bill Murray is about as awesome as they come. Scarlet Johansson is a bombshell. This movie was tedious and slow moving. It seemingly had no plot either, but people seem to think this movie is a revelation. I just can't comprehend what made this movie so popular. Obviously there must be some hidden meaning or plot line I missed. I'd watch it again if there was even one redeeming quality in it besides the actors.

Originally Posted by Plankton

It's more of a "Feeling" movie. Kind of a bitter sweet feeling. I'm one of those people that like it.

The Twilight series.

My daughter read all three (3?) books and gushed about them when she was in high school. I watched all three movies, and didn't really "get" what all the hype was about. Now that my daughter is going on 19, she's got the attitude of "Why did I like that stupid crap?". I'm thinking she's coming around. This is coming from a girl who liked Brit Spears and Jeff Beck equally when she was about 8.

Originally Posted by FRED HALE SR.

UGH Twilight is extremely repulsive on every level. Granted I only watched the first installment, but short of Kristen Stewart giving me a blowjob to watch the second too, it just ain't gonna happen. I like Britney Spears at 41, Hit me baby one more time is about as outstanding as it gets.

Originally Posted by FRED HALE SR.

One that I can't quite get around is LOST IN TRANSLATION. Bill Murray is about as awesome as they come. Scarlet Johansson is a bombshell. This movie was tedious and slow moving. It seemingly had no plot either, but people seem to think this movie is a revelation. I just can't comprehend what made this movie so popular. Obviously there must be some hidden meaning or plot line I missed. I'd watch it again if there was even one redeeming quality in it besides the actors.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.

Originally Posted by The Batlord

I love, love, love that movie. It does a great job of using the isolation one must feel in a foreign country where one doesn't speak the language to illustrate the isolation you feel when you feel like life is crushing you down. And Murray and Johansson's friendship/chaste affair is just sweet and adorable. I never thought that an old man and a twenty something having a (non)relationship would ever not be creepy, but there you go. It doesn't make you laugh in the way that a normal comedy does, it just uses humor to disarm you and make the drama less heavy.