Topic: Movie thread.

Zootopia (2016): Excellent. I really liked it.

I'd have to go with The Matrix. Have you ever been to the movies and been so completely moved by a film that you spend days, and days, and days afterwards thinking about it? Yeah. That's The Matrix for me. And the funny thing is, I haven't seen it in years. I love the entire trilogy (yes, all of it), but The Matrix changed everything in movies for me. Without a doubt, top of my "greatest movie ever made" list. I also love the Bourne trilogy. Passionately.

Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (2010): I've never read the comic but the movie was pretty funny. Nice references too.

I've seen a few films since my last post.

Marvel's the Avengers: Age of Ultron (DVD) - A good time, like most of the other Marvel flicks. The Iron Man VS Hulk fight was one of my favorite parts.

Premature (Netflix) - Pretty much it's a raunchy Groundhog Day. Features a high school senior who's forced to live the same day over again if he umm (look at the title and figure it out) anytime during the day. Of course, there's a lesson he has to learn to fix it all. It was alright, I suppose.

Tokyo Fiancee (Netflix) - French film about a Belgian woman who moves to Japan to find herself (she was born there, but left when she was five), as she sort of has a fairy tail image of the country. She gets work as a French instructor, and quickly gets romantically invloved with her student. It's sort of an "art house" romance film, so there's lot's of nudity, but I thought it was quite interesting seeing how her vision of Japan stacks up against reality, and how she comes to terms with it.

Friday (1995): Great 90's comedy with Ice Cube and Chris Tucker. Very quotable but none of them would be appropriate for me to say here.

Dude Where's My Car (2000): A comedy about 2 friends who wake up wasted and don't remember where their car is. Surprisingly, it even involves science fiction elements (Zoltan!).
The critics panned the movie back when it came out but it has became a sort of a cult classic. I like it, but some of the gags were overused. The director later made Harold & Kumar, which I think was much funnier.

I finally saw Warcraft and for a movie based off of a video game I will say it's the best one. Yeah they did leave some key elements out of the plot which I won't go into here to avoid spoilers, but overall it was done really well. My favorite thing was the settings like Stormwind and the Dark Portal and how much they looked like they did in game!!! The orcs looked really good too and the pacing was terrific. As a fan of the game I was pleased to see how well they made it.

I've seen a couple of films since my last post.

the Hobbit: an Unexpected Journey (TNT) - Absolutely amazing. The world presented was vibrant, full of life, and had some truely awe-inspiring scenery (impeccably crafted in every sense). The journey itself was filled with action, peril, humor, mystery, and more (really a little something for everyone, though I didn't notice any romance). Can't wait to get around to the others.

Ip Man 3 (Netflix) - the Ip Man films have always been great Hong Kong martial arts flicks, and this one's no different. I don't think any of them are as good as the first, but even so, this one was filled with plentiful amounts of expertly choreographed martial arts action that never goes too whacko (you have some typical movie embellishment, but nothing too hoacky looking). I only wish Mike Tyson was in it a bit more. I know his acting performance isn't really good, but I could only think of his portrayal in Mike Tyson Mysteries whenever he spoke, so it brought a smile to my face.

Recently re-watched Spider-Man 2 (2004). It's one of my all time favorite movies! I love the cast, love the characters, love the fight scenes, love the twists, love the costume design, love the 2004-era CGI, love the score and everything else about it was just genius!!!

Also watched Goosebumps (2015) recently. I wasn't expecting much after a certain other Sony pictures action-adventure-comedy about characters from fiction attacking the world, with only some die-hard fans and the creator of the creatures to stop them, but I had a good time watching the film.

Encino Man (1992): Two teenagers find a caveman (Brendan Fraser) and name him Link. He then learns to adapt to this new environment (90's California). The movie has that 90's feel and some very memorable scenes/jokes.

Saw Finding Dory last night and I will say it was as enjoyable as the first one. Another great Pixar movie.

@Tasuki I like all of the Pixar films before 2010, when they were on a consistent homerun with Monsters Inc., Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Ratatouille, WALL-E, Up and Toy Story 3.

Then the sequels game begun to spread to their other earlier films (lack of new ideas?) with Cars 2, Monsters University and the whimsical but somewhat disappointing Brave and The Good Dinosaur.

I personally enjoyed Inside Out, although it was very hard going for the kids. I don't think they quite found the right balance of happy and fun with sad and dreary.

Finding Dory seems to be universally loved at the moment, and I am very much looking forward to seeing the film however, I cannot help but wish for the brimming creativity and imagination of Pixar before 2010.

@Peek-a-boo I agree, I am not too fond of the Pixar sequels except for Toy Story 2 and 3. Wasn't big on Cars 2 its hard for me to explain but it just didn't appeal to me as much as the first one. Monsters U was ok I liked it better then Cars 2 but it wasn't no Monsters Inc.

Still my favorite is still Up, just something about that movie makes me able to watch it over and over again more so then the other Pixar movies.

I've actually never been a big fan of Pixar. That's not to say I don't like their films (certainly better than most of what Dreamworks puts out), it's just that I grew up on all these grand adventures like Beauty & the Beast, the Little Mermaid, the Lion King, Aladdin, Atlantis, & Treasure Planet, so all these stories about the secret lives of toys, cars, monsters, fish, etc., while well made & cute, just don't grab me the same way.

Disney Animation Classics was really in a rut for a long time, following the Pixar model, just not as well (Chicken Little, Meet the Robinsons, Bolt, etc.), but in the past few years they seem to be getting their grove back with Frozen & Big Hero 6 (which I really liked). I also really enjoyed Wreck-it-Ralph, but it's probably just my bias for video games, lol.

Not a big fan of Pixar, but I'm also not a big fan of Disney these days either, other than Bolt and Zootopia. I actually like a lot more Dreamworks movies in the last several years than both Pixar and Disney put together.

It's not either of the 3 studios, but you should watch Ernest et Celestine. It's one of the best movies I've seen in my life.

Saw the new Independence Day a while while ago and...well it is exactally what i expected: An entertaining cheese fest with pretty explosions

@Freelance Ernest and Celestine is such a joyful film. Very funny too!

I especially like the behaviour of the mouse and bear police officers.

It also has an unfinished look, whereby some of scenes with hand-drawn lines or colours don't quite reach every corner of the 'page'. Makes the whole film have a relaxed feel about it.

On the subject of Disney, Dreamworks and Pixar, I like all three!

I will say that Pixar used to be the king of animation however, both Dreamworks and Disney have become a compelling force in the (computer) animation industry.

@Peek-a-boo I'm glad to see another Ernest fan! That movie is rather unknown and I try to get ppl to watch it if possible. I love the watercolour look, and it evokes a sort of joyful, innocent (for lack of a better word) vibe that reminds me of classic animated movies. I am a bigger fan of classically animated movies (what we call the hand drawn art) than CGI movies, and Ernest is the sort of movie that has the feel of a classically animated movie in its artwork, the simpler plot, etc. I recommend this movie to anyone who doesn't like the state of animated movies these days.

I'm also glad to see another person with an interest in Dreamworks. Unlike Disney and Pixar, DW always seem to get a lot more hate, mostly due to their early years in CGI (Shrek, Antz, etc), and their reliance on fart jokes, parodies etc. I used to hate them too, but lately they've been doing really good, and they don't do those fart jokes and parodies nearly as much anymore. Yet despite that, they still get the same amount of hate than before, which I don't believe they deserve now. I've stopped hating them years ago. It's refreshing to find someone else who doesn't despise. All I get are trolls whenever I mentioned I like them in Disney or Pixar forums at IMDB.

Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (Netflix) - I saw the first one for the very first time & loved it, so instantly added this to my que as soon as I knew it was available, lol. The art direction was as fantastic as ever, and the stories were interesting, but it felt like it was missing a little something. I don't think the action itself was as artfully done as it was in the first (while the art style was great, the fights themselves were pretty average, IMO).

Lethal Weapon (Netflix) - I'm not usually one for police movies (they're either too dead serious, or straight up buddy comedies, with some action), but I caught some of this on TV the other day & liked it's vibe, so I gave it a go. It's a pretty serious action flick, but has enough humor to lighten things up just enough. Will be checking out the sequels.

X-Men (2000): The very first first X-Men movie! This one's more focused on the characters and the conflict between mutants than the action. Great story and acting. Hugh Jackman is perfect as the Wolverine.

InuYasha the Movie: Affections Touching Across Time - Well, it's the middle of summer, which means it's time for my annual rewatch of the InuYasha movies (the series is too long to go through every year, though I rewatch that too, every 3-4 years). The first of the films is my second favorite of the bunch, and is well worth a watch for fans of the show.

InuYasha the Movie 2: the Castle Beyond the Looking Glass - This one is not only my favorite of the InuYasha films, but one of my personal favorite films of all time (up there with the Back to the Future trilogy, Jurassic Park, the Lion King, etc). I'd still say only to watch it if you have an interest in the series, but the action scenes are very slick in this one, it's story is based on the Japanese fable of Princess Kaguya (which is cool, from a cultural interest standpoint), and I know it's a bit silly to say as a guy, but that kissing scene always puts a huge grin on my face, no matter how many times I see it.