What was the last movie you watched?

The Hobbit

I thought it was really well done and it felt like a proper prequel to the LOTR movies.

 

I spent all day yesterday watching The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King. I love all three of these movies. The locations and characters are perfectly Middle-Earth, the music is lovely, the effects for the most part are pretty good (and when the movies were released, I thought they were better). Liv Tyler kind of annoyed me; I'd forgotten how much they tried to push her character into seeming relevant. But aside from that, dunno what I could say bad about these.

 

Shame

This felt very short, and left me feeling like I'm not sure that much actually happened. But I thought the atmosphere of the film was really neat. And it had these scenes without dialogue that had this soundtrack to it, and I dunno, I thought they felt more powerful that way. I also really liked some of the costuming- lots of scarves and one actress had a coat that I'd steal in a heartbeat. And of course, given who stars in this, the acting was well done, especially so, I think, because there really didn't seem like there was a lot of dialogue. Overall this was interesting in that way train wrecks are interesting, but I'm not sure that I'd watch it again.

 

I actually watched a movie the other day.

The Last Airbender

It's the worst movie that I've ever seen next to Dragonball Evolution. The acting was terrible. The kid who played Aang was pretending to cry and he started to drool and you could see it on his lip so he tries to cover it up by biting his lip that was the best part of the movie which has nothing to do with the story. Aside from the worst acting I've seen, the character development was really poor. They jumped from scene to scene. Rarely did the characters truly interact on a deeper level or any level at that. If I didn't watch the animated series, I would've been lost. It followed the animated series to a degree but me; I would have preferred it being exactly the same. I understand that some scenes would have to change but that's just me. The bending of the four elements animation was horrible in spanish. They would say 'horrible'. They change firebending because they thought firebenders were too powerful blasting fire from their hands and feet so firebenders have to bend the fire around them. It won Worst Picture, Worst Director, and Worst Screenplay in 2010. I would continue going on and on but this movie is just too terrible to even describe.

I recommend not watching it. It's not worth 103 minutes of your life.

 

Oz, The Great and Powerful: Eh. I enjoyed the transformation of the wizard from a smarmy bastard to someone more redeemable, but overall, this movie just couldn't do it for me. The women in the movie overacted ridiculously, and I couldn't see them growing to become their Wizard of Oz counterparts at all. And I don't know if it was because of the heavy use of CG which the original movie did not use, or what, but I just couldn't connect to the location as actually being Oz. The movie wasn't dogshit, and there were some good scenes and nods to the original movie, but it's not one I'd go out of my way to watch again.

I also saw Titanic recently. I love this movie so much, because I've always been a history buff and the sinking of the ship fascinates me. I cry every time I see it, though probably not at parts most people would think. And the soundtrack is seriously stunning.

 

The Host: I liked this better than I expected, given the author of the source material, and the fact that aliens give me the skeevies. Some of the characterizations were a little undeveloped and rushed, and there were some characters I couldn't keep straight. But overall, not bad.