I Have Just Seen... III

[MeechMunchie]

The Men Who Stare At Goats.

What an odd little film.

Not 'intentionally quirky' odd, just 'does things that don't mesh with the others' odd.

[OANST]

No. It was definitely intentionally quirky. Not a great film, but it was amusing enough.

[OddjobAbe]

I thought that it started out well, but when the helicopter came and took them to the centre, it seemed to go no-where.
I originally watched the film after reading the book, which is not a whole lot like the film, but the film doesn't really pretend to be a lot like the book.

[MeechMunchie]

I'm aware that the quirkiness was intentional. I just wanted to make it clear that that wasn't what I was referring to.

It had a good soundtrack, and a nice message, but some of the scenes just seemed unnecessary or out of place. Maybe it was trying to recreate the jumbled, cluttered memories that are put into memoirs, but some bits, like the bit where the journalist goes through the wall at the end felt like they had been injected at the last minute.

[OANST]

But.....it's not really a memoir, and it's just supposed to be silly.

[MeechMunchie]

Bildungsroman. Whatever.

I got the silly, I really did. But then the 'feel-good' (hate that term) ending implies that they weren't silly after all.

The film itself can be silly, sure. But stop trying to inject some kind of message at random intervals. Dun't work that way.

[OANST]

Not trying to be a dick, but I honestly have no idea what message you are talking about.

[ziggy]

I think MeechMunchie is basically saying that The Men Who Stare at Goats wasn't very cohesive, which it wasn't. It didn't all work. The message: war is bad.

[OANST]

I'm not even sure that was the message. I thought it was just supposed to be a silly movie.

[MeechMunchie]

I'm happy for it to be that. I like silly. Silly is good.

So here I am enjoying my silly movie and rockin' out to Boston and occasionally snorting at something George Clooney says. Then after they make it to PSIC I see Bill all despondent and downtrodden, and then the Cloonester starts dying of cancer, and I'm like, what the funk? Then they free all the prisoners and the goats and fly off into the sunset, and the message seems to be, 'It doesn't matter if what you believe in is crap, sometimes it's just the belief itself that's important'. Woah, what happened to the silly movie I was enjoying? Why is it all happy and meaningful? If it was going to be that could they have told me at the start so I could be in the correct state of mind by the end? Then Reporter Guy starts running towards the wall and I think, 'Oh, it's cool. I probably just read the scene wrong. Look, it's all right, they're going to do a big joke for the finish. He's going to hit the wall, tumble backwards, the pictures will fall on his head and he'll say 'Ow'. The end. Oh, he just went through the wall. Wait, what? I thought the entire movie was about the Jedi stuff being bollocks?

Obviously I'm exaggerating slightly for comic effect, but you get the idea. If you think I'm overreacting, rest assured I'm as surprised as you are.

Ziggy, thanks for summing up my posts so eloquently. It wasn't cohesive.

[OANST]

Yeah.....but......it's not as if it was the first time they showed the stupid Jedi shit working. So, it didn't surprise me. It just seemed like more silliness.

[Strike Witch]

I watched The Green Hornet.

Kicked ass, loved it.

[Elmatto753]

Bit late on that front... but yeah, as I said it was pretty cool.

[Emesdee]

Speaking of late, I caught The A-Team. Nice and action packed throughout, but I was disappointed at the lack of a needed cameo. Of course, after finishing the movie I found out he turned down a cameo role, so I enjoyed it a lot more the second viewing.

[Dixanadu]

Watched The Host.

Them Koreans aren't bad movie makers.

[OANST]

This obviously isn't something that I've just seen, but I heard some interesting news about the upcoming Dark Tower movies that Ron Howard is making. Apparently he just offered the role of Roland to Javier Bardem, and I'll say this: seeing Javier Bardem playing Roland is about the only thing that could drag me to a theatre to see this movie after the travesty that was the final four books of the series.

[Wings of Fire]

Blah blah blah Wizard and Glass was really good.

Until the Wizard of Oz thing.

[OANST]

Wizard and Glass would have been fine if it wasn't one giant revision of the past. Also, if it wasn't a Dark Tower Hardy Boys story.

[Mac Sirloin]

I watched a bunch of episodes of The Ricky Gervais Show last night. It gets really, really uninteresting upon repeat viewings of episodes I watched before Autumn.

[MeechMunchie]

The Curious Case of Bejamin Button.

Now that's a f***ing good movie.

[T-nex]

Watched "The Fourth Kind"... I dunno what to say about it x_x Kinda trippy I guess.

[Dixanadu]

The alien's voices in Fourth Kind fucking terrified me.

[Dynamithix]

I'm gonna go rent a movie today, Fourth Kind interests me a bit. Should I rent it?

[Dixanadu]

Sure, it's pretty good.

Better than Paranormal Activity anyway. How it surpassed Fourth Kind in popularity is beyond me.

[Dynamithix]

Ok, thanks. Gonna go rent it now.

[Bullet Magnet]

I saw The King's Speech. The fuss is justified.

[Dynamithix]

Just finished watching The Fourth Kind and honestly, I didn't really like it. The 'scary' parts were actually pretty scary, but that's about it. I don't even want to imagine what Paranormal Activity is like if it's much worse than this. It was an ok film. Needed more action imo.

[T-nex]

Paranormal Activity is pretty bad... X_x

[Dixanadu]

Yep.

Dude, it wasn't meant to be an action film. Just people getting paralyzed by Sumerian aliens.

[T-nex]

It was meant to be one of them paranoia movies since it's somewhat based on somewhat real happenings.