Recommend (or don't) a movie thread v2

[FireGilbert]

I watched these Christmas movies this year:


The Muppet Christmas Carol: Not only the best adaptation but probably my favourite Christmas movie that gets a watch every year. It perfectly blends the source material with muppet humour that is a lot of fun. Michael Caine is great. 10/10

Klaus: I loved this one. Has some beautiful animation while telling an engaging Santa origin story with interesting characters. Just a cute heartwarming film that deserves a spot in the yearly rotation. 10/10

Noelle: This is a safe Disney Christmas movie that has some enjoyable moments. Anna Kendrick is adorable despite kind of ripping off Buddy from Elf. Bill Hader as Santa is the highlight. It's fine. 6/10

Iron Man 3: I wanted something more action packed and I guess this is a Christmas movie. It actually works better as a Christmas movie, following a damaged man learning to be less selfish, before losing any resemblance to a holiday film in the over the top action packed third act. I wasn't a fan of this when I first watched an watching at Christmas doesn't change much. 5/10

[Cali Panthers Fan]

Originally Posted by Locke

If I'd been forced to watch that film at gunpoint I'd have begged them to pull the trigger.

Okay, so then if that's a 2/10, what's your zero?

[ResAlien]

Originally Posted by Cali Panthers Fan

Okay, so then if that's a 2/10, what's your zero?

I'd reckon a film about Trudeau joining an urban cyclist union would do it

[Locke]

Originally Posted by ResAlien

I'd reckon a film about Trudeau joining an urban cyclist union would do it

**Faaaaart Noise**

[Cheese]

Went to see the new Avatar flick.
As usual it's all about the visuals, really fantastic for the eye candy. Not much of a story, similar to the first 2, but I didn't go see it for the story. Overall pretty decent. 7/10

[SportsJunky]

We saw Weapons last night. Fun, creepy movie. My teenage daughter had her eyes closed for some of it. My boy loved it. It's good. Not really scary but a pretty well crafted movie.

[Hemi-Cuda]

Originally Posted by Cheese

Went to see the new Avatar flick.
As usual it's all about the visuals, really fantastic for the eye candy. Not much of a story, similar to the first 2, but I didn't go see it for the story. Overall pretty decent. 7/10

This one was frustrating for me. I went in with the same mindset as the first 2 like you mention, but the first 2 hours actually setup an engaging story that's not the usual Avatar fare

Spoiler!

Evil Navi, Quaritch turning full native, Jake's family falling apart, human/navi hybrid. But then Cameron just gets lazy in the last hour and recreates the entire ending from the 2nd movie with a few bits from the 1st one sprinkled in. And the one great new character he has with the crazy Navi bitch gets completely sidelined into a henchman role. The visuals are still amazing, the final fight between Jake and Quaritch in the magnetic tornado is one of the coolest things I've ever seen in a theater, but the movie could have been so much better if Cameron had just taken the time to write a proper ending

To me the Avatar series really feels like what happened with Lucas and the Star Wars Prequel trilogy, Cameron is so big that no one challenges him and forces him to cut things and tighten the story. Avatar has a lot of building blocks of what could have been a great sci-fi world, but Cameron needed someone to help with the writing so he could just focus on the visuals