favorite 2005 movie so far

[ticklishfan]

has anyone seen fantastic 4 yet? I heard it was pretty good but not as good as the spiderman movies. What did you guys think of it? I still have to see it

 

[4Pawz]

Boober and I saw Fantastic 4 on Sat night. I thought it was good. But it wasn't as good as Batman Begins. If I had it to do over though, I would go see it again.

Pawz

 

[ticklishfan]

that's cool pawz I'll probably be seing it this weekend. The next big movie is charlie and the chocolate factory, i don't know if I'll see that one, it looks a little weird.

 

[TklDuo-Drew]

We saw "War of the Worlds" last night....o.k. remake, outstanding effects, but the dysfunctional family storyline got tiring after awhile. They use this bit in every disaster movie now. Of coarse it gives Tom Cruise the chance to be - "TOM CRUISE....sensitive and caring father NOW that the earth is under attack!!"


Drew

 

[AphxA]

Also, i thought star wars episode III was really good.

 

[tickleterror]

if wedding crashers is as funny as it looks it should be good has anyone seen it yet

 

[ticklishfan]

not yet, my favorite movies so far is Star Wars, Batman Begins and Fantastic 4

 

[tommytikl]

Batman Begins by FAR...

Great movie, well done, good acting, just a bit over the top action!

See it!

Fantastic Four was ok, but more popcorn movie than anything...oh this movie has SOOO much potential..I wish a Bryan Singer(X-Men 1/2) had done this movie!

 

[ticklishfan]

yea batman was good. Did anyone see Charlie and the chocolate factory yet? From what i heard from the critics and my friends they though it was great. It looks a little weird, but everyone says it's great. What do you guys think?

 

[Tickle Fiend]

Mr. and Ms. Smith and The Longest Yard

 

[ticklishfan]

has anyone seen charlie and the chocolate factory yet? my friends said it was pretty good.

 

[Ignatz]

Well, the only movie I've dragged my old dead ass into a theater to see this year has been The Fantastic Four. It was my favorite comic book as a kid (I got on board with Issue #5...that's how ancient I am) and I was determined to see this. I was pleasantly surprised, especially after reading the savage reviews, at how well they did it. It's not as riveting a story as Spider Man, but it does a creditable job of updating the original. Special effects, of course, are overwhelming.

The biggest changes FF fans will notice involve the characters of Reed Richards and Victor von Doom. In the original story, Doom was not involved in the space flight which led to the heroes' transformation. He showed up months later (in the aforementioned Issue#5, as a matter of fact) as a former university classmate of Reed's who had mixed forbidden science with occult arts and had an experiment literally blow up in his face. Disfigured, expelled and embittered he went off on an unholy pilgrimage and resurfaced as the mad leader of an obscure European kingdom, a sort of cross between Dr. Frankenstein and the Phantom of the Opera. In the film, he's a Trump-like billionaire who finances the space flight and is bombarded by the cosmic rays along with the heroes. Quite a departure, but I can live with it.

More disturbing to me was the emasculation of Reed, although I think I understand why they did it. In the comics, Reed is brilliant and virtuous, but also arrogant and overbearing (imagine Sherlock Holmes in a lab coat). In the film, he is still a genius, but shy and unwordly...an arch geek, in other words. I suspect the writers realized that, since the times we live in demanded Sue be made more assertive and competent, that the quartet couldn't be four type A personalities. Ben is bull-headed and pugnacious, Johnny is a hothead, literally and figuratively. Somebody had to be the Noble Innocent...the Pogo, the Charlie Brown...to provide dramatic balance.

All things considered, I enjoyed the movie and expect the sequel, if it merits one, will be even better now that the origin story is out of the way.

 

[jugner]

Batman was awesome!!!

 

[asutickler]

Well, the only movie I've dragged my old dead ass into a theater to see this year has been The Fantastic Four. It was my favorite comic book as a kid (I got on board with Issue #5...that's how ancient I am)

You know... If you still have that issue sitting around somewhere, I'll give you like five bucks for it. 😉

 

[Ignatz]

You know... If you still have that issue sitting around somewhere, I'll give you like five bucks for it. 😉

No, sorry...I threw all my comics away decades ago. Fact is, they were so well-thumbed and tattered by then that they wouldn't be worth much today even if I had kept them.