Movies in General

Well I don't think it was a horrible movie. They just hyped it up too much they made it sound big but it was actually intimately small. They said all you liked about James Bond was back. Maybe from the original source material from the Ian Fleming books. I enjoyed the depth of the characters but please not at the expense of everything else. They could've had a much better story and still have all those elements. Back in Casino Royale the bad guys were suppose to be SPECTRE. It would've be nice to see them follow up what SPECTRE is like in Daniel Craig's James Bond world. Javier Bardem could've been working with them but still had his angle in this movie being played out. You brought up the palm print gun. Like I said it's another example of lazy. It was just a gimmick maybe throwing a bone to James Bond fans who like the gadgets. James Bond's faux death didn't really serve a purpose either.

I knew that Judi Dench was soon retiring because she's suffering from debilitating eventual blindness. I just didn't know how she was going.

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In 2012 I have seen the following movies, all of which I can heartily recommend, seperated into two categories.

Kids Movies (with my Grandkids):

The Rise of the Guardians
Wreck it Ralph
Ice Age Continental Drift
The Odd Life of Timothy Green
Brave
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days
Lorax
Madegascar 2: Europe's most wanted
Here Comes the Boom
The Pirates: Band of Misfits


Action/Thriller/Sci-Fi Movies:

007: Skyfall
Twilight: Breaking dawn Part two
Red Dawn
The Hunger Games
Battleship
Acts of Valor
The Avengers
Prometheus
Expendables 2
Total Recall
Taken 2
The Bourne Legacy
The Amazing Spider Man
John Carter
Batman: The Rise of the Dark Knight
Men in Black III
Chronicle
Red Tails
The Wrath of the Titans
Snow White and the Huntsman
War Horse

We'll see, The Hobbit, and Zero Dark Thirty this month before the year's out.

Jeff Head said:

In 2012 I have seen the following movies, all of which I can heartily recommend, seperated into two categories.

Kids Movies (with my Grandkids):

The Rise of the Guardians
Wreck it Ralph
Ice Age Continental Drift
The Odd Life of Timothy Green
Brave
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days
Lorax
Madegascar 2: Europe's most wanted
Here Comes the Boom
The Pirates: Band of Misfits


Action/Thriller/Sci-Fi Movies:

007: Skyfall
Twilight: Breaking dawn Part two
Red Dawn
The Hunger Games
Battleship
Acts of Valor
The Avengers
Prometheus
Expendables 2
Total Recall
Taken 2
The Bourne Legacy
The Amazing Spider Man
John Carter
Batman: The Rise of the Dark Knight
Men in Black III
Chronicle
The Wrath of the Titans
Snow White and the Huntsman

We'll see, The Hobbit, and Zero Dark Thirty this month before the year's out.

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Skyfall and Prometheus rocks! I still want to see Batman: The Rise of the Dark Knight and Total Recall. The Hunger Games was great too, surprised me because I thought it would be another teeny Twilight love story type of movie.

Equation said:

Skyfall and Prometheus rocks! I still want to see Batman: The Rise of the Dark Knight and Total Recall. The Hunger Games was great too, surprised me because I thought it would be another teeny Twilight love story type of movie.

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I thought Batman: The Rise of the Dark Knight was the best one. I thought MIB III was the best one two, and Spdier Man as well.

I heartily recommend Acts of Valor, and for Naval technology, see Battleship...it was great.

Equation said:

Skyfall and Prometheus rocks! I still want to see Batman: The Rise of the Dark Knight and Total Recall. The Hunger Games was great too, surprised me because I thought it would be another teeny Twilight love story type of movie.

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man! you've seen a LOT of movies! you must be a rich guy Jeff!

I've seen many of those myself albeit from Redbox! LOL

Have to disagree with you on some of your choices though. I thought Red Dawn was terrible! and Battleship? seriously? the effects were good but the movie reeks of 'made for TV' type SyFy show but with worst acting. It was totally unrealistic and I don;t mean the plot! I mean the actual technical/operational aspects of it!

There is NO WAY a dozen folks can operate an Iowa class Battleship NOT to mention how did they manage to make it operational in a few hours since it was already turned into a museum? also the aliens despite their superior technology for some strange reason decided to skip having superior weapons and went with what can only be describe as chaff launchers!!

You would think that a civilization that have mastered travel insterstellar space travel would at least have awesome direct kinetic energy weapons or lasers and their spacecraft can actually fly instead of bopping around the sea surface like a frog LOL hehehehe! and the 'hero' would've been court marshalled, dishonorably discharged and sent to the brig for what he pulled earlier in the movie long before he could have even attempt to be reinstated.

This movie made the USN looked like a bunch of clowns.

Anyone see Red Tails? I didn't watch it in the theater like everyone else. I just saw it when it premiered on HBO recently. I thought the battle scenes were fun but the sound effects came straight from a Star Wars movie. George Lucas made a big stink about how the studios rejected the movie suggesting racism. I don't know if that was true but I thought what made it not as great as he was promoting it was because all it was were the stereotypical character storylines, not racial, of a WWII movie. Back in the 1980s, Hollywood would recycle scripts from previous TV shows for new TV shows. TJ Hooker with William Shatner was notorious for doing this. I can barely remember the TV show, The Rookies, but a lot of the TJ Hooker scripts were swiped from the Rookies. I remember when I was a kid saying didn't I see that on The Rookies? That's what Red Tails felt like.

AssassinsMace said:

Anyone see Red Tails? I didn't watch it in the theater like everyone else. I just saw it when it premiered on HBO recently. I thought the battle scenes were fun but the sound effects came straight from a Star Wars movie. George Lucas made a big stink about how the studios rejected the movie suggesting racism. I don't know if that was true but I thought what made it not as great as he was promoting it was because all it was were the stereotypical character storylines, not racial, of a WWII movie. Back in the 1980s, Hollywood would recycle scripts from previous TV shows for new TV shows. TJ Hooker with William Shatner was notorious for doing this. I can barely remember the TV show, The Rookies, but a lot of the TJ Hooker scripts were swiped from the Rookies. I remember when I was a kid saying didn't I see that on The Rookies? That's what Red Tails felt like.

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Dang, I forgot to add that one to my list! VERY GOOD movie. Well worth watching for anyone liking action and historical aspects of WW II. Another I just remembered that I did not have on there was War Horse...another great movie.

My twitter Account it exploding right now because the the new trek movie STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS is going too launch it's preview this week.

Jeff Head said:

I thought Batman: The Rise of the Dark Knight was the best one. I thought MIB III was the best one two, and Spdier Man as well.

I heartily recommend Acts of Valor, and for Naval technology, see Battleship...it was great.

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Yep Acts of Valor was amazing, those Navy SEALS tactics really now how to make people disappear. Battleship was cool as well because of the graphics, plus Rhiana was in it.