What was the last Movie you saw... Part III

[Charger]

INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL

The great adventure returned 20 years after the original trilogy with a whole new myth and villains.

This time Indy is facing a new mystery and new enemies during the cold war. The Evil nazis have gone away giving room to the evil communists and their search of power. One not of biblical origin but of something even greater. Professor Jones is teamed up with a young gun Mutt Williams who turns out to be a closer relations than he ever thought to find the lost city of Akator better known as El Dorado or The City Of Gold located in the Amazons that houses the greatest treasure known to man kind. But it might not be gold or jewels but something far more important and dangerous.

Harrison Ford rediscovered his greatest character with ease and Karen Allen also reprises her role from the first Indy movie. New guest stars inlcude Shia LaBeuf as Mutt, Ray Winstone as the devious Mac, John Hurt as Oxley and sadly the always appalling Cate Blanchett as the Communist Colonel Irina Spalko. But luckily what Blanchett destroys Karen Allen rescues. There is a chemistry between her and Ford that has remained all these years and that makes a great foundations to the movie.

The opening sequence is bit daft but entertaining and same goes for the ant sequence in the Amazons. But rest of the action is guaranteed Indy quality with narrow escapes and crazy stunts. Everything was done bit bigger and outragious (for better and for worse) than on the original trilogy.

The interdimensional mythology is no more out there than the biblical and was a valid plot point for an Indy movie...and to tie it into the El Dorado mystery was quite ingenious really. The crystal Skull was a great looking artifact and a good center piece of the movie. The ending sequence lacked the graphical nature of the previous movies which was rather disappointing but also it proved that there is such a thing as too much knowlage. We are NOT meant to know the secrets of the universe...not yet anyways.

All in all this does not quite manage to capture the magic of the original trilogy but was it ever really suppose to...I think not. It tied the past to the "present" quite well and Harrison Ford still proved he IS Indiana Jones to the bone. The ending gave the possibility of another movie and ofcourse now we know there will be one. Maybe that one will finally put Indy on the search for the lost city of Atlantis...now that would be a mystery worthy of the greatest adventurer of the movie world.

* * * ½

[Tyr66]

Good action movie . 7/10

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

I saw Ready Player One yesterday and it was thoroughly enjoyable. I should qualify that by saying I have not read the book... a friend of mine who has read the book was dissapointed because it was so different from the book. To some extent that will have been because they couldn't get permission to use certain property rights and Spielberg didn't want to reference any of his earlier films. But still the story is quite different from the book.

But the story as far as I am concerned was very good, great special effects and solid (but not spectacular) acting. 8/10

[Thelemech]

An incredible movie  8.5/10

[Typhon]

^^^^^^
Is in my top 50.   

[Zzzptm]

Re-watched "Stalker", a great, psychological Russian sci-fi movie directed by the great Tarkovsky.

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

Originally Posted by KiloDeltaCharlie View Post
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I've just watched Resident Evil: Degeneration on rental.

It's an animation from about 10 years ago and uses motion capture. As such the movement of characters is pretty realistic but the one draw back is the facial expressions look like everyone has had a stroke . Some of the scenery and visuals are actually pretty good for what I guess is a low budget production.

The film itself is typical RE fair... virus outbreak in airport... blah blah.. rescue of dodgy senator...blah blah... all seems to lead to a hi-tech research facility... blah blah.. sectret dealings... blah blah... big battle against mutant etc.

It's enjoyable enough, better than several of the live action films 7/10. Now looking forward to the imminent release on DVD of Resident Evil: Vendetta.

EDIT: One thing I should add, the way the CGI is done it does make it look like you're watching someone playing a video game.

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Just quoting myself here as I've just watched Resident Evil: Vendetta, which uses very similar technology to the earlier Degeneration film... i.e. animation using motion capture.

This time the plot involves an arms dealer with a grudge who has access to the virus and the race to stop him from releasing the virus and develop a vaccine. It's okay, the graphics are slightly more refined than the earlier film, but that doesn't make up for a slightly predicatble plot and weak villain. 6/10

Just posting a message I placed on BSO last September, so that I don't have to repeat myself!

I've just watched the 2nd of the Resident Evil animations Resident Evil: Damnation (2012), and much like the two mentioned above it is a motion-captured animation, and the visuals are as good as the other two.

The plot involves Leon S Kennedy infiltrating an imaginary Eastern European country torn with civil war. The resistence are fighting the government and both sides seem to have access to B.O.Ws (zombies/monsters!). The plot is probably the weakest of the three films but the atmosphere is good, and some of the set-peices are nice. 6/10

[Tyr66]

[Thelemech]

What did you think my friend? I enjoyed it as special effects blockbuster but the story was a little weak.

[Typhon]

From 1969

[Thelemech]

From 1969

  that looks awesome - big Edgar Allan Poe fan here.

[Typhon]

^^^^^^
It is a good one, Thel.  Have you seen it?

[Thelemech]

^^^^^^
It is a good one, Thel.  Have you seen it?

No - unfortunately I have seen very few of Vincent Price's movies. What I have seen I have loved especially one I saw when I was young that was a Poe adaption as well. Cannot remeber the name for some reason.

[Zzzptm]

^^^^^^
It is a good one, Thel.  Have you seen it?

No - unfortunately I have seen very few of Vincent Price's movies. What I have seen I have loved especially one I saw when I was young that was a Poe adaption as well. Cannot remeber the name for some reason.

Cask of Amontillado, perhaps?

[Billy Underdog]

Utøya 22 Juli (or U - July 22 as you would call it)

First in a string of upcoming movies and docus about this tragedy (Netflix is making one, amongst others).

Pretty damn intense (though could've been even more intense for my liking).
It's a 80 min. no cut handheld exercise following a girl looking for her sister in the mayhem, and all the horrible scenes she encounter. No pre-story exept archive clips of the bombing of the government quarter, it begins just a few minutes before hell breaks loose on the island. You don't even see the monster exept two very short moments from a distance, the focus is the kids' experience.

Pretty well made to make 80 mins. of non-stop filming without a hitch, and very impressing acting from kids, esp. the main character who's on screen the whole movie, where other characters come and go.

And first time i've ever experienced a cinema audience sitting in perfect silence all through the credits until the lights came on. That was somewhat eerie, but it had to be that way.


As far as i know, the one Netflix is making will focus more on Breivik, which will also be an interesting, though complete opposite angle.