What was the last movie you watched?

[Edward J Grug III]

From what Ive heard the movie sucked like a Hoover, so keeping the original name probably wouldnt have saved it from being a steaming turd.

Half of the problem is that people went by what they heard and didn't watch it themselves.

More than half. Groupmind.  People were so eager for this to fail that it made it a self-fulfilling prophecy.  I don't know anyone who saw the movie who disliked it.

Same, though I know few who saw it.

Same with The Lone Ranger, most people I heard talk about it said some variation of "Depp plays a Native American, it's stupid" but anyone who looked beyond that seemed to say it was decent if too long.  I never saw it myself but a possibly dumb casting choice rarely defines a movie for me

I couldn't make it through Lone Ranger and haven't had the experience of any one telling me it was anything but awful.

Chappie is an example though. I know a lot of people who loved it. Enough that I will give it a watch when it comes out on Netflix/Hulu.

[RVR II]

Yesterday I watched Twister and The Day After Tomorrow on Blu-Ray (no noticable improvements that I could see from the original)..

And watched Spaceballs on Blu-Ray today. Bought it on ebay brand new for under $7 dollars as Netflix has had it on a 'Very Long Wait' for over 4 months. Got tired of waiting..

[Edward J Grug III]

Yesterday I watched Twister and The Day After Tomorrow on Blu-Ray (no noticable improvements that I could see from the original)..

And watched Spaceballs on Blu-Ray today. Bought it on ebay brand new for under $7 dollars as Netflix has had it on a 'Very Long Wait' for over 4 months. Got tired of waiting..

My youngest brother was obsessed with Twister. The movie would stop and he would rewind it and watch it again. And we're talking at a very young age.

Sorry you had to watch Spaceballs, or the movie-that-is-much-better-as-a-foggy-memory-from-you-childhood.

[RVR II]

Yesterday I watched Twister and The Day After Tomorrow on Blu-Ray (no noticable improvements that I could see from the original)..

And watched Spaceballs on Blu-Ray today. Bought it on ebay brand new for under $7 dollars as Netflix has had it on a 'Very Long Wait' for over 4 months. Got tired of waiting..

My youngest brother was obsessed with Twister. The movie would stop and he would rewind it and watch it again. And we're talking at a very young age.

Sorry you had to watch Spaceballs, or the movie-that-is-much-better-as-a-foggy-memory-from-you-childhood.

I watched it a lot when it came out on VHS back in the day

I was not allowed to watch Spaceballs when it came out (Just a week after my 17th birthday) but got to see it a couple years later when I was in the Navy

[MartyS (Gromit)]

or the movie-that-is-much-better-as-a-foggy-memory-from-you-childhood.

Mel Brooks movies can be that way, I thought Silent Movie was hilarious when I was little, then watched it again when I was around 20 and didn't find it funny at all.

[Edward J Grug III]

Still, he gets a lifetime pass for Young Frankenstein.

I really should rewatch that. I haven't dared due to, well almost everything else he's done.

Although I still find the Get Smart TV series entertaining.

[MartyS (Gromit)]

The ones I can watch often and they don't lose anything for me are: The Producers (1967), Young Frankenstein, and usually Blazing Saddles.    High Anxiety holds up if you wait about 10 years between viewings (and if you have seen a lot of Hitchcock films).

[Quirk]

I have tried twice to watch The Producers and have never made it twenty minutes in. I find it insufferably annoying.

I liked Spaceballs as a kid, and still think there are some great jokes, but yeah... it's pretty juvenile.

[Edward J Grug III]

I have tried twice to watch The Producers and have never made it twenty minutes in. I find it insufferably annoying.

Ditto.

[ScottotD]

Yesterday I watched Twister and The Day After Tomorrow on Blu-Ray (no noticable improvements that I could see from the original)..

And watched Spaceballs on Blu-Ray today. Bought it on ebay brand new for under $7 dollars as Netflix has had it on a 'Very Long Wait' for over 4 months. Got tired of waiting..

My youngest brother was obsessed with Twister. The movie would stop and he would rewind it and watch it again. And we're talking at a very young age.

Sorry you had to watch Spaceballs, or the movie-that-is-much-better-as-a-foggy-memory-from-you-childhood.

I watched it a lot when it came out on VHS back in the day

I was not allowed to watch Spaceballs when it came out (Just a week after my 17th birthday) but got to see it a couple years later when I was in the Navy

You weren't allowed to watch a movie when you were 17?!  Wow, isn't it PG?

I'd encourage you to check out Kevin and Bill's riff of Day After Tomorrow, I think it's one of the best

[Darth Geek]

Spaceballs is really only half good. Most everything with the villains is brilliant. Especially Darth Helmet. But the heroes...just doesn't work or me anymore. And that says a lot, considering one of them is John Candy!

[ScottotD]

Spaceballs is really only half good. Most everything with the villains is brilliant. Especially Darth Helmet. But the heroes...just doesn't work or me anymore. And that says a lot, considering one of them is John Candy!

I tend to skip the Yoghurt bits which even dragged as a kid and I still enjoy it

[Darth Geek]

Avengers: Age of Ultron - Really good! Not as good as the first Avengers, but still damn good. Too long and overly complicated. Could have used some trimming, like the Hawkeye home stuff, and Banner and Natasha's relationship. But the fights were amazingly good. Except the fight in Andy Serkis' factory, oddly enough, they didn't do as good a job with letting you keep track of where everybody was in that one. The rest were great! And while in my mind I know plotwise the Hulk vs. Hulkbuster fight went on a little long, I could have watched another hour of that! I also loved the fact that Tony was in the Iron Man suit IN the Hulkbuster suit.
  The humor was well done. Just like the last Avengers movie, when it's there it's done well and very funny, but the movie is certainly not a comedy.
  Ultron was an interesting villain, but only because of the performance. He was certainly better than the savagely boring villains in Thor 2 and Guardians of the Galaxy. But he still felt like a placeholder as we just waited for Thanos. Ultron's plan was stupid, and made no sense. Although I think a lot of that is it seemed like he kept changing his goals.
  Why the hell does an arms dealer keep selling weapons to make money when he apparently has BILLIONS of dollars of Vibranium on hand?! Ad why does Ultron need Vibranium specifically, just to lift up a big makeshift rock?
  But the one thing that I really could not stand was Scarlet Witch. HER POWERS MAKE NO SENSE! She can just do any damn thing she needs to at the time. And people complain Superman has too many powers? This is a far bigger example of bullshit deux ex machina, pull powers out of your ass, type bad writing. If they wanted to do the mind manipulation thing, they could have used a different character, or simply limited her powers to that.
  There is only one extra scene near the beginning of the credits. And it's not really important, because we already know Thanos is going to be in the next one. There isn't another one after the credits, so you don't have to stay.

[Edward J Grug III]

I've put most of that behind a spoiler since you get pretty specific about a movie the day it launches. If you want to talk specifics, probably best to take it to the Avengers 2 thread.

[Edward J Grug III]

Meanwhile:

Could have used some trimming, like the Hawkeye home stuff, and Banner and Natasha's relationship.

Interesting - In my opinion those scenes are essential to making the movie work. You need those slow down, character moments to make a packed, fast paced movie work.

But the one thing that I really could not stand was Scarlet Witch. HER POWERS MAKE NO SENSE! She can just do any damn thing she needs to at the time. And people complain Superman has too many powers? This is a far bigger example of bullshit deux ex machina, pull powers out of your ass, type bad writing. If they wanted to do the mind manipulation thing, they could have used a different character, or simply limited her powers to that.

She had telekinesis and hypnosis. That's not so hard to follow is it?