Summer Movies 2008 Options

[SJN1279]

I figure we could put all the movie previews/reviews from this summer into this thread. Remember, if there are spoilers in your review, please post a warning first.

Iron Man comes out this weekend. It has great buzz, and an excellent lead actor in Robert Downey Jr. Anyone else as excited as me to see it? I have my ticket for Saturday evening and can't wait to get there! I'll send a brief report after I see it.

[Pokey]

I didn't mind Get Smart, but I couldn't see it as Get Smart, it was just a comedy-action-spy movie with little nods to Get Smart to me ... I like Steve Carrell but it can only be Don Adams in that role, I think everyone did the best they could and it wasn't anyone's fault that they couldn't recapture the magic, just the way it was. There were things I certainly enjoyed about it, loved Bill Murray's brief cameo haha also agreed that Alan Arkin did a great job, pretty much stole any scene he was in.


Now to more important things, new Dark Knight clips:

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=4w96uPYrkAE

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=0Lo578I-HIA

The first clip is amazing ... so many subtlties about it ... Joker grabbing the glass of champaign and spilling it all yet still taking a sip from the empty glass anyways .. the way he rolls his eyes up into his head for a brief second with this look of "god I am going to kill every mother fucker in this room" but then someone coughs and he snaps out of it with his eyes shooting off to where the noise came from. Also cool that Senator Patrick Leahy from Vermont turns up again, he had a cameo in Batman and Robin and also in Batman the animated series, goes to show what a huge fan he is. Ledger is incredible though, it's so hard to believe that this is the same guy that was in "Two Hands" ("Nah Pando's a good bloke, mate"). It's almost not like watching an actor but just a character going about his business ... there is another clip on youtube with spliced film of Ledger's Joker and Nicholson's, and with Jack I'm just so aware that it's him in make up.

Booked my tickets for the advanced screening, Wednesday 16th Gold Class, can't wait!

This post has been edited by Pokey: Jul 5 2008, 10:50 pm

[Liveman94]

I didn't mind Get Smart, but I couldn't see it as Get Smart, it was just a comedy-action-spy movie with little nods to Get Smart to me ... I like Steve Carrell but it can only be Don Adams in that role, I think everyone did the best they could and it wasn't anyone's fault that they couldn't recapture the magic, just the way it was. There were things I certainly enjoyed about it, loved Bill Murray's brief cameo haha also agreed that Alan Arkin did a great job, pretty much stole any scene he was in.
Now to more important things, new Dark Knight clips:

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=4w96uPYrkAE

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=0Lo578I-HIA

The first clip is amazing ... so many subtlties about it ... Joker grabbing the glass of champaign and spilling it all yet still taking a sip from the empty glass anyways .. the way he rolls his eyes up into his head for a brief second with this look of "god I am going to kill every mother fucker in this room" but then someone coughs and he snaps out of it with his eyes shooting off to where the noise came from. Also cool that Senator Patrick Leahy from Vermont turns up again, he had a cameo in Batman and Robin and also in Batman the animated series, goes to show what a huge fan he is. Ledger is incredible though, it's so hard to believe that this is the same guy that was in "Two Hands" ("Nah Pando's a good bloke, mate"). It's almost not like watching an actor but just a character going about his business ... there is another clip on youtube with spliced film of Ledger's Joker and Nicholson's, and with Jack I'm just so aware that it's him in make up.

Booked my tickets for the advanced screening, Wednesday 16th Gold Class, can't wait!

quoted for agreement - you stole my brain