Yeah, I know, it was good, it was really good, and blah blah blah awards at least it's not as dumb looking as The Fighter.

I just thought the cinematography was annoying, and none of the characters were likable, and I didn't care about what was going on, and 15 seconds of her turning into a bird does not excuse two hours of Natalie Portman's thirty-foot high worried face all over the screen.

But again, I'd prefer it get a shitload of awards dumped onto it rather than The Fighter, because I know Deadly Swan was good. I just didn't like it. At all.

And frankly, considering I've consistently watched at least one new film every week for the past 4 years, I know more fuck than any of you. Yeah, I said it.

I like Natalie~

and the fact that she's shown she's prepared to make out with another woman makes me like her more!

I watched Beowulf last night.


Did not like it. At first the music and design and setting seemed really good, then Grendel showed up and was utterly grotesque. Then I found out Beowulf had been written as a womanizing prideful dick, and instead of killing Grendel's mother he slept with her and lied about it.

To me, Beowulf is about the closing tale of the old legends, about the man who sees off with his sword the last of the old magic. A sort of farewell to myth.
It's not about fucking a snake-lady and fighting your own son which is a dragon or some bullshit.

Ugh.

I thought it was pretty cool when I first saw it, but I was 11 at the time. Snake ladies and dragons were fucking cool when I was 11.

I just saw a movie I hadn't seen in...well, over a decade anyway.

A clue:

I SAW MY BABY...TRYING HARD AS BABE COULD TRY

I watched Journey to the Center of the Earth tonight.

Wasn't terrible. Lots of fun stuff.

Kinda pissed they didn't find Agartha or anything, but I guess they were being accurate to the original book.

Was this the recent one, or the three hour long one with Beau Bridges?

Recent comedy one with that guy from the mummy.

Oh yeah, that one kinda sucked. I liked the old one with James Mason.

I just saw Black Swan. As in I just saw it. It finished less than half an hour ago.

I thought it was fairly good. It wasn't brilliant or anything, but it was worth watching. Some of it made me cringe, though. It would have lost half the effect if those scenes weren't included, but I really felt ill watching them.

Some of the bits were better done than others. The scenes at the dance academy were well done. They captured the feeling of those places and it felt real. Anything outside of that was just uncertainty as to whether she's dreaming or not.

I foresaw the end for most of the movie.

Just saw Resident Evil: Afterlife.

It was very cliche at some points, but overall an enjoyable movie. Liked it better than the first three.

I saw I Am Four (or is it spelt I Am Number Four? whatever), and really enjoyed it, surprisingly. I wasn't expecting much, but it had a nice storyline, some great action, and likeable characters. I'll definitely see the sequel.

The Punisher! Love that movie, it's my favorite Marvel film by far but Captain America looks pretty promising.

The Punisher was a great movie, I thought it had great special effects.

I personally was quite pleasantly surprised by the Punisher's ending. There's no desperate fight, dude just takes care of him stone-cold and walks off. It was refreshing.

I thought that it was going to be a gore ending, but no just takes him out and walks off.

I pos-repped this.

A gore ending...hah.

The Prestige. Damn good film. Features Christian Bale doing acting! Fancy.

Read the book? Read the book.

The film with the magicians? I enjoyed that actually, well, what I've watched of it anyways.

Yes, featuring Hugh Jackman, Andy Serkis, Christian Bale, David Bowie and Michael Caine! Quite the list. You have to watch it more than once to get full enjoyment of it though, since some things you learn at the end of the film put the rest of it into perspecctive.

It's on my films to watch list. Right after Mafia, that film has eluded me for years. I mean, I watched it but I have never seen it on the tele hence so I assumed that I dreamed it. Thankfully my brother has friends that knew that film existed so I'm going to watch that then The Prestige. Maybe Black Hawk Down after that.

i watched that, but i missed some of the start. i fucking knew that bloke was David Bowie, but i kept thinking to myself "nah, can't be."

I saw I am Number Four as well. I thought it was rubbish. It was a house built on cliches. However, all of those cliches did add up to some originality, and the last 20 minutes or so were really entertaining. It was just a bad movie otherwise.

GO GO GADGET JAZZ HANDS

Awh, that looked pretty good as well. :(

I'm not saying it's not worth watching. I just didn't think it was good. I do have really high criteria for what makes a movie 'good', though. The fact that it was essentially Push meets the Draculas makes it pretty silly. Seriously, they're not even that villainous. They're just draculas.

Gothic themed vampires are still better than angst-ridden teenage ones.

I may give it a whirl regardless.

Hence the fact that I was surprised I liked it. I think it was mostly because of those last twenty minutes, but I still thought it was a solid film. One of the better "preteen fantasy/action/drama"'s, I think.

Just finished Watchmen, it was a lot more enjoyable than when I first saw it. Helps when you're prepared for how long a movie is.

I'm going to see Paul tonight,

anyone seen it and is it good?

I fucking want to see it, but it's probably not even coming to Finnish theaters. Fuck.

IMDb claims it is pretty good.

Doesn't Finland have English speaking cities like Ireland and Wales do? They could have a theater.

I don't know.

You don't check these things often, do you?

Derp!



No.

I can't wait to see that! It comes out March 18th here.

Human Planet tonight. On rivers.


This video's not from it, but it depicts something quite amazing that I first heard of on the show. In the Indian state of Meghalaya, one of the wettest places on land, in order to cross the raging torrents that the rivers become every rainy season the people use living bridges constructed over decades from the peculiar secondary roots that grow from the trunks of the Indian rubber tree (Ficus elastica) and maintained for centuries. They still build/grow/cultivate them today, as connecting the roots and passages in the forests is still on going after hundreds of years.



They encourage the roots to grow long through tubs of bark, until they are long enough to reach across the water. Once the end has settled on the other side, the connection is secure and they can begin to grow it into a bridge, weaving the base and the sides, waiting for them to grow hard and strong, and even paving them. The very bridge is living, so it won't require repair or replacing from age and wear. I was enthralled.

Here are some finished bridges.

V series lastly, not any movies. :)

I don't even know what Paul is.

I haven't seen many movies lately, but I saw The Wonder of it All, an independent movie shown at my school about the Apollo mission astronauts. What I learned of them was interesting, but the movie itself could have been done better. I did learn that one of the astronauts is a painter who figured out a REALLY AWESOME gimmick of selling his paintings for tons of money by placing small amounts of the moon dust, that he gathered from his mission, on the surface of the paintings to create texture and HUGELY increasing their value. I got extra credit in my theatre class for just watching it which was a great deal.

I also saw The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle yeah I don't even know