The last film you´ve seen and your thoughts about it

I got some tickets to see a preview of Tropic Thunder tonight. That's the movie with Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jr and Jack Black who play actors playing soldiers, and get dropped into a real war zone. It's also the movie in which Robert Downey Jr plays a black guy.

Anyway, this is nearly a month before the official release date. But I gave the tickets to my daughter. I hope she gets in ok. The seating is not reserved and its on a first-come, first served basis. So I might have something to report later, but I might not.

Went and saw the new X-Files movie. Not too bad. Nothing super epic about it but it was good. Kind of on par with an episode. Pretty good over all.

Fred Buer wrote:As far as I can remember, she wore a knee-length skirt a lot in the early seasons. Those skirts that go just below the knees or whatever. Y'know. Standard issue FBI-wear

-Fred

How soon we forget the very inaugural episode when Scully strips down to bra and panties and has Mulder frantically look at her body for suspicious "marks"??

Please!
As Frohikie has said. "She's hot". Or my favorite... "She's tasty."

I liked it for the most part.

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I could have done without the whole creepy head grafting crap. I think I would have prefered it as simple organ trafficking. And making it a gay guy grafting onto a woman, also raised my eyebrows. Was that Rillly necessary?


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Good to see the Skin Man, and I agree with Stu as it's on par with an episode. Not a Fantastic episode like Clyde Bruckman's Final Respose or Jose Chung from Outer Space, but pretty good.

Did anyone else catch Chris Carter in the hallway holding something?
3.5 out of 5.

BRING ON COLONIZATION!!!!

Fred Buer wrote:As far as I can remember, she wore a knee-length skirt a lot in the early seasons. Those skirts that go just below the knees or whatever. Y'know. Standard issue FBI-wear

-Fred

It's in case she needs to go undercover at a moments notice...

I'm sorry to say that I have nothing to report about Tropic Thunder.

Seating was limited, and my daughter arrived much later than she should have.
No room at the inn!

I just saw Casablanca for the first time. I'll just say that it is as wonderful as everyone says.


Also I just saw the X-Files movie. I had heard a lot of negative things going in, but that didn't really bother me, as I am a huge fan of the X-Files, and it literally could have been Fox and Scully talking about their long weekend and I would have loved it.

So no surprise, I loved it. It felt like home. I don't need there to be action or big revelations. I just like to see more of the lives of these two very interesting characters. Because they are apart of me.

Ahh, Freep. You're a man now, son.

-Fred

Friday night, I went to see Fight Club at a local theater midnight show.

I realize that I'm breaking the first (and second) rule about Fight Club but, you know, rules are made to be broken.

I'm always amazed by how many girls seem to like Fight Club. When I first saw it, I thought, "Don't take your wife or girlfriend to see this or she'll hate you for it." I'm curious as to how our female members here on the Tex Murphy board feel about Fight Club?

freepizza wrote:I just saw Casablanca for the first time. I'll just say that it is as wonderful as everyone says.

Oh yeah it is. One of these films I never get tired of.

I saw Plan 9 From Outer Space for the first time yesterday. My god.

-Fred

I went to a Triple Feature last night... I saw WALL-E, The Dark Knight, and Journey to the Center Of The Earth...

WALL-E was, well, different... A little trash compactor that falls in love and goes on a Journey through Space and ends up finding the Human Survivors that are waiting to return to Earth...

The Dark Knight, well there has been plenty of talk about that already, so I can't really add much... Good movie for the most part...
I don't share the "Absolute Best Movie Ever" frame of mind like most people here, but I'm sure I'll watch it again once it comes out on DVD and TV... I just don't think that the Joker is a Dark Character like that... Very Good Action Movie and all, but I just can't fit it into the whole Batman scene... Batman was never about darkness, even back in the 60s and most of the stuff made afterwards, Batman was just never a Dark type of Comic...

Journey to the Center of the Earth... I expected it to be a bit more Comical than it was, but it wasn't that bad of a movie... If you've seen the Original and you go in trying to compare the two, you probably won't like it... I wouldn't suggest spending 10 bucks or whatever it is to get into the movies in your town, but if you are a Fraser fan you'll want to see it...

I disagree with your phrasing. Batman was very much so a dark character, and especially when Frank Miller took the reins.

And Heath Ledger did the Joker character perfectly. I'm a comic geek. Compared to what I've read (and I've read *a lot*) it was spot on.

Also, Batman in the 60's? That wasn't so much Batman from the comics as it was a very bizzare, surreal show with the dynamic duo as the main characters. Sure, it had the characters, but if you want to compare Romero's Joker to Ledger's, that's like comparing Weird Al Yankovic to whatever he's parodized.

Feel free to get defensive however you like in this discussion, but you didn't claim to show your opinion, you claimed to compare facts. Very different issues.

-Fred

Return of the Joker was darker than Dark Knight, and the Joker even worse so than Ledger's take. As for comics,




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Bane crippling Batman was about as dark as a black hole.

Frank wrote:Bane crippling Batman was about as dark as a black hole.

Agreed.
I remember the vote (OMG was it 15-20 yrs ago?) on killing Robin.

Gritty emotional writing is the BEST !!!!!!!!!!!!! Make me want to throw the book across the room. THAT is magic stuff!