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shmokes:
Drive, 50/50, and The Guard were all really good. Especially the latter two. I had totally forgot about tucker & Dave. I need to pick that up. The Muppets was interesting. I took my 5-year-old daughter to it. I really liked it, but I could tell that she was bored with at least 60% of the movie. But it didn't surprise me at all either. The movie was made for adults, almost entirely. If you have any question about that, pay attention to the audience at the end when they're finally putting on the Muppet Show at the end. Where are all the children?

ark_ader:
Why the weak Movies?

The actors/actresses are making more money on Television.

Vigo:

--- Quote from: shmokes on January 28, 2012, 09:16:36 am ---The Muppets was interesting. I took my 5-year-old daughter to it. I really liked it, but I could tell that she was bored with at least 60% of the movie. But it didn't surprise me at all either. The movie was made for adults, almost entirely. If you have any question about that, pay attention to the audience at the end when they're finally putting on the Muppet Show at the end. Where are all the children?

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Well, it was much more close to the original vision of the Muppets, The Muppets were always created to be made for adults, but something that the kids could watch along. Jim Henson moved on from sesame street because he believed that puppets could be a form of adult entertainment as well.

TOK:

--- Quote from: shmokes on January 28, 2012, 01:08:23 am ---I just watched Captain America. OMG. With the possible exception of Battle L.A. That was by far the worst movie I've seen from 2011. It was almost bad enough to be good comedy (see: 2012).

By the way, where the hell is Win/Win? That movie was amazing. It was way better than Moneyball. Better than The Descendants, too.

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Wow, really? Its my favorite Marvel adaption. Do you not like/know the source material?
Red Skull is his proper villain, and the humble hero portrayal was pretty much perfect (I thought Chris Evans was going to ruin it), lots of great action, one-liners, and nice tie-ins to other characters in the series. Tony Starks dad was great.

I wouldn't consider it a movie for an Oscar talk thread, but loved it as a hero/action movie.

shmokes:
I only have a passing knowledge of the source material. I never read Captain America. But I loved Hellboy and had never heard of it before the movie. And I know the Spider-man and X-men source material fairly well, but still hated Spider-Man 3 and X-Men 3. It's really more about the quality of the movie than how close it stayed to the source. I thought Captain America was just awful. If it was faithful to the source I suppose I would find the source equally awful, but it wouldn't raise my estimation of the film at all.

Of course, the theme is so stupid to begin with it's hard to imagine anyone making a success out of it. Captain America? It's just embarrassing. Can you imagine how idiotic a Captain France or Lieutenant Canada superhero would be? How about a superhero called General Germany or Sergent Soviet Union (that one would actually be badass--he could fight with a hammer in one hand and a sickle in the other).

But honestly, it was the movie. I felt pretty much the same about the Thor premise (a superhero that is literally a god is a retarded premise). But Thor turned out to actually be pretty good. A bit stupid, but it didn't take itself seriously and turned out to be sort of a fun little movie. But Captain America . . . just every single second of it was torture. So incredibly stupid. And that guy, Chris Evans you say, was terrible. He so reminded me of Nicholas Cage in action films. Awful awful awful. Everything about it, including Agent Smith. Why in god's name did his face look like a lollipop anyway?

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