As it's been a long time since I posted, here's a big list of some of the movies I've seen in the last couple of months:
- Beowulf: Saw it this weekend in IMAX 3D. The movie is pretty decent, much better than the trailers made it look, but the IMAX 3D made the actual experience absolutely amazing. It made a 7/10 movie a 9/10 movie - on a normal screen, or at home on DVD it would have been nowhere near as much fun.
- Deck The Halls: Is a big pile of poo. Would be poor for a direct to TV movie, how this thing ever made it into theatres I don't know. Avoid like the plague.
- Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror: Does exactly what it says on the tine - it's a Creepshow/Tales from the Crypt style anthology of 3 pretty bad horror stories linked with scenes of Snoop Dogg as a soul-collecting pimp as the host. No. Really. Some inventive deaths/gore, but forgettable scripts with no real twists or surprises.
- Rescue Dawn: I was expecting more, but this turned out to be a pretty pedestrian tale of Vietnam-era POWs. Adds nothing to the genre you haven't seen before, a guy is captured, tortured and eventually escapes through the jungle. No surprises and an unusually flat portrayal by Christian Bale.
- Resident Evil - Extinction: Bad. Makes no sense. Bad. Makes no sense. Bad. Bad. Bad.
- Futurama - Bender's Big Score: Not the amazing, hilarious return I was hoping for, but basically more of the same (and not in a bad way, it's still funny, just not the best Futurama ever).
- Simpsons Movie: See above - like an averagely good Simpsons episode, not 'the funniest movie ever.'
- Meet the Robinsons: Very, very, good. Surprisingly complicated time-travel storyline for a kids CGI movie. One of the better non-Pixar CG movies out there.
- Ratatouille: The first Pixar movie that has left me flat out bored. I really didn't find it that funny or interesting...
- Death Proof: Tarantino's half of Grindhouse fails to be either an entertaining movie or a successful tribute to the genre it is trying to emulate. Outside of the final car chase and the obligatory cool music and dialogue, it's dull as dishwater.
- Planet Terror: What Grindhouse was supposed to be: this is just pure gross-out, ridiculous fun. To use a cliche it's like John Carpenter on drugs. If you don't like those old movies, you will probably be totally bored/confused, but great for fans of the genre.
OK, there was supposed to be 10, but I guess the list goes up to 11.