(06-06-2011 01:32 PM)BlazerJoe Wrote:  

(06-06-2011 12:26 PM)flyingswoosh Wrote:  

(06-06-2011 11:15 AM)BlazerJoe Wrote:  

(06-06-2011 09:58 AM)flyingswoosh Wrote:  

(06-06-2011 08:01 AM)BlazerJoe Wrote:  Yeah, I watched The Hangover, and I was kinda bored with it. I loved whenever Ken Jeong was on camera, but that was about it.

you're one tough cookie. Here's a question, what was the last truly great movie you saw?

Wow, that's a good one; I've never really thought about that. I guess there are three that I could consider truly great for me, and these three are interchangeable:

1. Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
2. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
3. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Those three stand out as movies I can watch ad infinitum, as they each resonate with me fairly deeply. In fact, out of the points that I consider to be a good movie, those three hit all four of them.

wow, so you haven't seen what you consider to be a good movie, in a long time.

I can't believe you put the 3rd Harry Potter on there. Are you a fan of the books? As a rabid fan, that movie was the worst of the 7 and marked a real awful shift from the very good first two movies, to a bunch of movies that took big liberties with the source materials

I haven't read any of the books yet; I'm gonna start after the last movie. I like all of the movies...some a little less than others (I'm looking at you, Chamber of Secrets), but I don't let shifts in source material bother me a whole lot. I realize how impossible it would be to recreate an entire movie based off of the source material. Prisoner of Azkaban had to leave out a lot (like the origins of the Marauder's Map, for instance) to hit a decent running time. Even Deathly Hallows - which is a two part movie - had to hack some parts off here and there.

Now, if I just went a step below truly great - which I guess would be great - I think I'd have to go with either Star Trek, Iron Man, and Transformers. Star Trek blew me away from the opening scene, Iron Man captivated me and didn't let go, and Transformers reminded me why I loved the series so much as a child...then, Michael Bay had to go and ruin all of that goodwill with Revenge of the Fallen.

But - BUT! - there is still hope for Dark of the Moon; I read the novelization yesterday, and it was flat-out fantastic.

that's fair. Like i said, as a crazed fan of the books, i couldn't look pass the bastardization of the source material.

Iron Man and Star Trek were fantastic, but I was never a transformers fan so the movie was never going to excite me