Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by cfraser (A) on March 29, 2015 at 08:44:08

In Reply to: RE: more reflection posted by user510 on March 28, 2015 at 17:11:29

Seems a lot of people here liked Oblivion. Me too! I do agree it's not exactly ground-breaking or great acting or...anything great really. Just a movie that I liked and will definitely watch again. The BD is good, and looks good enough that I almost wished I lived in the place/world depicted, in some ways...

Also liked Looper much better than others seemed to. Thought I'd hate it, didn't. Actually thought it was more clever than Inception in its premise. Hey Nolan: being obtuse doesn't make things deep. But I liked Inception too.

Elysium: I wanted to see more of the Elysium world. Just because, maybe for the same reason I liked Oblivion. Otherwise Elysium seemed like a re-tread of District 9 except off-world this time, not bad, but kinda uninspiring.

Edge of Tomorrow: Anything with Blunt is pretty fine by me, and Cruise is good (in Oblivion too). I thought the movie was good enough, but highly over-rated. Another expanded one-idea movie, would have been a Twilight Zone episode back in the day, in half an hour.

Enders Game: liked the book, but the movie seemed aimed at 13-year-old boys. OK, but not what I expected.

Snowpiercer: train movies are usually good! I don't know why...maybe I just like trains. Decent movie, odd premise.

Gravity: Fictional, for a start, and possibly even sci-fi because of it: no astronaut as untrained (outside her academic field) and apparently as unsuited to decision-making etc. as what Bullock portrays would be part of a shuttle crew. Kind of belittles all the women who *have* been astro/cosmo-nauts. In my view.

Oh yeah, I have the BDs of all these and most of the movies others mentioned so far, if they're available...that's how I watch these days.