Box office roundup

[Riggswolfe]

Just saw Smokin' Aces. It was ok. The best parts of the movie for me personally were Ryan Reynolds and Alicia Keyes. Saw that sunshine trailer and wasn't impressed. Saw another 300 trailer and it still looks overdone to me. Saw the Ghost Rider trailer again and I think I'm going to see it. I don't expect much but it looks fun.

[Selby]

Just saw Smokin' Aces. It was ok.

One of the more gory movies I have seen in a while.  It impressed me that the violence was as over the top as it was.  Some editing issues that I felt were a little distracting along with a handful of really unbelievable scenes, but nothing that made me upset that I spent money to see it.  Totally set up for a sequel should they choose to go that way.

[Yegolev]

Just watched The Island.  zomg lolz!  But Scarlett was HOT.

[HaemishM]

Just watched The Island.  zomg lolz!  But Scarlett was HOT.

That movie sucked so bad after the first half, and even worse when I found out Scarlett wanted to show her hooters and Bay wouldn't let her because he wanted a PG-13 rating. Fuckhead. He'll probably show Transformer hooters though.

[Yegolev]

Since you responded... did you wonder why there was a shipment of train wheels being delivered when it seemed that even AmTrak has converted to magnetic rails?  I also thought that the whole problem could have been avoided if Sean Bean had just used a regular prison rather than a poorly-guarded missile silo.  Why didn't the clone that escaped surgery bleed all over the floor?  Shouldn't Sean Bean have put one of those chips in the clones' ears like what we do with dogs now?  Did Digimon go pick up his check before he helped blow up his client's facility?  Why are paid mercenaries such bad shots?  Shouldn't they have used a tranq gun and finished the movie in twenty minutes?  Why would Xbox sponsor a competition for an audience of people who are going to be chopped up for parts?  Didn't any of those clones wonder what the hell an Xbox was?

I like bad movies at times.

[HaemishM]

Unfortunately, the Island has just enough good movie (as in premise) to not be a bad movie you can enjoy for being bad. It was just bad. It was pretty, bombastic and silly. I couldn't analyze it logically because of all the explosions.

[Evil Elvis]

It's by Michael Fucking Bay.

Fixed that for you :0

[Abagadro]

Saw Breach over the week-end. Good movie, especially if you like real-life spy stuff.

[Yegolev]

Saw The Prestige.  Awesome.  Scarlett is too hot.  Bowie was awesome.  Story was awesome.  Thirteen thumbs up.

[stray]

Did ya buy it on Blu-Ray? Hehe.

Seriously though, the PQ is great. My favorite disc so far.

[Evil Elvis]

There's a 5-minute video of 300 up at mtv.com

http://www.mtv.com/overdrive/?name=movies&id=1553704&vid=136403

[Riggswolfe]

Saw The Prestige.  Awesome.  Scarlett is too hot.  Bowie was awesome.  Story was awesome.  Thirteen thumbs up.

You know, I was disappointed in the Prestige. Especially the parts with Hugh Jackman.The big revelation at the end was science fiction and the rest of the movie (except some of the scenes with Tesla) wasn't. It just didn't work for me. And Christian Bale's character made no sense with the constant switching of lives all the time.

[WayAbvPar]

Saw The Prestige.  Awesome.  Scarlett is too hot.  Bowie was awesome.  Story was awesome.  Thirteen thumbs up.

When was that released to DVD? I was scouring Costco for it this weekend and couldn't find it.

[stray]

Came out on the 24th or something, last month.

[shiznitz]

It is a "short wait" at Netflix still.

[Yegolev]

Saw The Prestige.  Awesome.  Scarlett is too hot.  Bowie was awesome.  Story was awesome.  Thirteen thumbs up.

When was that released to DVD? I was scouring Costco for it this weekend and couldn't find it.

Not sure, my mother-in-law bought it from somewhere and we nabbed it.  She would never get it.  I know why the Rolling Stone quote said that you want to watch it again as soon as it finishes.

The movie went somewhere that I did not expect, which is nice.  Also, Bowie and Scarlett.  It's not like a Shamaylan (sp?) twist, really, and my wife saw some things coming from way off, but I still found it enjoyable.  I might have thought that all of the, uh, well not to spoil it... let's just say that if it was about anything other than magicians then it probably would have been mystifying in a bad way rather than a good way.

[Rasix]

I probably didn't enjoy The Prestige as much as I should have due to watching the Illusionist previously.  This is a bit like watching Deep Impact after Armageddon, but with good movies.

Abagadro is correct in that Breach is very much worth seeing. Chris Cooper is a bad ass.

Zodiac was pretty interesting. Kind of a bit long and incredibly anti-climatic.  It's kind of wierd going to a "based on real life" movie, where you know the end is going to disappoint you based on what really happened with the story.  Still, it was well put together, well acted and moved at a decent pace despite the length.  And it got MAULED by that stupid Tim Allen buddy movie, Jeebus save us.

[Ironwood]

Just watched The Island.  zomg lolz!  But Scarlett was HOT.

That movie sucked so bad after the first half, and even worse when I found out Scarlett wanted to show her hooters and Bay wouldn't let her because he wanted a PG-13 rating. Fuckhead. He'll probably show Transformer hooters though.

Red Hawt Arcee for teh win.

[Riggswolfe]

I probably didn't enjoy The Prestige as much as I should have due to watching the Illusionist previously.  This is a bit like watching Deep Impact after Armageddon, but with good movies.

I thought the Illusionist was a much better, if more predictable, movie.

[Morfiend]

The Illusionist was OK. It was entertaining, but that part where scarlet gets stabbed but they only show it in the shadow was so fucking cheesy, and gave away the fact some thing wasnt right. Very predictible.

The prestige was a better movie, but I guessed the plot twist about a quarter of the way in, and also the secondary plot twist. So when it turned out that I was right, it was a bit of a let down.

[Yegolev]

Yes, see, that is why I turn my brain off to watch movies.  My wife, she figured out what was going on, but I was playing the dufus and clapped like a retard whenever I was surprised by something.  Did I mention Scarett Johansson was in it?

[Dundee]

I used to do this every week at another site.  I quit during the post-holiday dead zone, when there was nothing worth writing about, but now I've picked it up again.  Since I've already typed it all out, I may as well paste it here.  Numbers from boxofficemojo.

You should start a blog.


Edit: I just commanded google to search for "box office roundup". Looking at the sites there... I would like to restate the above, but with a more serious, almost stern look.

Your competition is the suck.

[WindupAtheist]

Hmm.  What's a good site to get a free blog at?

[Dundee]

Hmm.  What's a good site to get a free blog at?

I like WordPress

But I haven't checked out Blogger since it updated.

[HaemishM]

I like Blogger for ease of use.

[Dundee]

I like Blogger for ease of use.

/subscribe

If you aren't comfortable with HTML, Blogger requires less of it. Unless it has changed, you have to edit your template in order to add links and such to your sidebar. And every time you change templates, copy that stuff over or lose it. The comment system is a bit of a bother, more for your readers than you, though.

With wordpress, the comment system is nicer, and links are saved separately from templates, so changing templates doesn't require mucking around in the HTML.

But then every wordpress template has some little glitch (or a big one), so you have to muck around in cascading style sheets and sometimes php to fix the damned things.

Copying links over to a new template is much easier (if you even still have to do that).

Nevermind, just checked... Blogger is wicked slick now.

[WindupAtheist]

I've done nothing with the formatting as of yet, and it's under my goofy-ass WoW name just because I've posted roundups under a couple different names on different forums and I couldn't settle on one, but here it is:

http://grimsteak.blogspot.com/

The first entry is up covering this weekend's business.  I'll be cleaning it up and making the whole thing presentable in the near future.

[schild]

That's what we need. More bookmarks.

Edit: Seriously though, this thread has become a catchall for movie numbers. Either crosspost it or don't post. But don't link it. That's not how we roll here. And you know better. And Dundee, shame on you. The last thing the world needs is more blogs.

[naum]

I like Blogger for ease of use.

Another slick thing about using Blogger is being able to use them as a cheap hosting provider with your own domain name (instead of xxxx.blogspot.com). No, I don't mean FTP'ing to your own server… …I mean adding a CNAME record (or pointing your domain directly at…) to point your domain to ghs.google.com. Then, inside your blogger control panel (still at xxxx.blogspot.com), there is an option to change that to your own domain name.

WordPress is popular and all, but the blogger template style IMV is much preferred over the PHP code splattered amongst template code. In Blogger, modifying templates isn't a big deal if you can grasp what the variable and block-variable identifiers mean… …and WordPress comment spam plugins are clunky (i.e., don't notify user) or rely on external server apps (Askimet(sp?)) that eat comments without notification too… …granted CAPTCHAs can suck, but the ones at Blogger are decently legible, unlike others I've seen, and unfortunately Spammers have successfully flooded just about any semi-popular CMS/Blog platform registration and comment submissions…

…Spammers must die. Death penalty for spammers, please…, for gunking up my intraweb…

[Riggswolfe]

That's what we need. More bookmarks.

Edit: Seriously though, this thread has become a catchall for movie numbers. Either crosspost it or don't post. But don't link it. That's not how we roll here. And you know better. And Dundee, shame on you. The last thing the world needs is more blogs.

WUA isn't exactly my favorite poster on f13 but we have other members with blog links in their sigs and who have on occasion referenced their blogs in posts. -f13 poster's name used as an example removed by request-

ETA: I feel I need to clarify. The post isn't meant as an attack or anything. It is really more of a question "Don't we have some precedent for people posting stuff from their blogs as long as they don't abuse it?"

I hope that's alot clearer and less muddy/confrontational sounding.

[HaemishM]

That's what we need. More bookmarks.

Edit: Seriously though, this thread has become a catchall for movie numbers. Either crosspost it or don't post. But don't link it. That's not how we roll here. And you know better. And Dundee, shame on you. The last thing the world needs is more blogs.

WUA isn't exactly my favorite poster on f13 but we have other members with blog links in their sigs and who have on occasion referenced their blogs in posts. Haemish comes to mind. (not picking on you Haem BTW you and Lum were just the first ones that popped into my head.)

Don't mention my name, people get all sandy vagina on me when I mention my fucking blog.

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[Riggswolfe]

Done.

[HaemishM]

I was aiming for teh funney. I missed apparently.

Also, good on you, WindupNutsack. I've bookmarked the blog and added it to my blog's links. The world needs more funny blogs.

[WindupAtheist]

"Here is some stuff about movies."
"Hey, you should make a blog out of it."
"Hmm, how do I make a blog?"
"Here, use this site."
"Okay, I did it.  See, here is a blog."

To some, a straightforward conversation resulting in one more frivolous little blog clogging up the internet.  To others (Schild), some sort of faux pas.  Alas.

[Merusk]

Well, when running a website you'd rather drive people to check it more than link them away from it.  Having others come on your site and say "Hay gusy! Look at my site!" is a bit of a faux pas.  You are, however, being more subtle about it than that.