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Could someone say to Kristen Stewart to CLOSE her mouth, it's like she's intentionally sporting some kind or retardo look.

In Twilight you have vampires werewolves and her as an undercover zombie.
That blank stare and open mouth, someone should dub her scenes with BRAIIIIIIIN.
Post edited November 13, 2011 by DodoGeo
Here's the soundtrack: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvV_T38HjxI&feature=colike
Got uploaded today ;)
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wodmarach: Seriously is this film supposed to be fetish fuel or something??
erm..
yes.
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Coelocanth: Damn. Kristen Stewart 'fairer' than Charlize? LOL. No matter, I'll go see anything with Charlize Theron in it.
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wodmarach: don't forget it's a naked Charlize Theron being dipped in what looks like white chocolate...

Seriously is this film supposed to be fetish fuel or something??
Well they put a person only known for her role in a fetish fuel movie (i.e. Twilight) in it... so that's a strong "probably".
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Wishbone: No kidding. I saw the trailer for it in a movie theater a couple of weeks ago, and thought it looked like a bad rip-off of Clash Of The Titans. And that movie sucked sweaty donkey balls to begin with. Definitely not one I'm going to watch.
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orcishgamer: Immortals is getting all around good reviews as a gonzo action flick. Anyone who wanted an actual story will be disappointed, apparently. But I didn't go see 300 for its story and I probably won't see Immortals for its story either.
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/immortals_2011/

Well not really, 300 got a pass because of the novelty but it wears off fast.
I really don't see the point of this movie even as an action flick, and I say this as a big fan of Greek mythology (as in I can tolerate anything because I love to see it on the big screen).

As stylized action movies go in this genre 300 was enough.
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orcishgamer: Immortals is getting all around good reviews as a gonzo action flick. Anyone who wanted an actual story will be disappointed, apparently. But I didn't go see 300 for its story and I probably won't see Immortals for its story either.
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DodoGeo: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/immortals_2011/

Well not really, 300 got a pass because of the novelty but it wears off fast.
I really don't see the point of this movie even as an action flick, and I say this as a big fan of Greek mythology (as in I can tolerate anything because I love to see it on the big screen).

As stylized action movies go in this genre 300 was enough.
To me that's sort of like saying I didn't need Tango and Cash or Lethal Weapon because Die Hard was enough...

If it's a good, stylized action movie, why not? It's a director making cinematic, visual porn (forgive the terminology, it's sort of like food porn for movies), most of the time it's awful, sometimes it really turns out. It's this guy's first real shot at making a monster of a movie, this could mean we get some really big stuff from him in the future (because until Immortals, no one gave a shit about what this guy had done).

Also, Rotten Tomatoes is a horrible resource for movies like this because it includes too many of the "old guard" film critics. I'm more interested in what the film critics that grew up enjoying the same things as I did have to say, because this movie is targeted at the geeks of my generation down to the general (mostly male) audience around 18 years old.
Post edited November 13, 2011 by orcishgamer
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shivnz: well the story is clearly being updated for todays 'hip youth', so i assume that in the story, it is no longer 'who is the fairest of all', but most likely who is the most lifeless of all...
"Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who possesses the most teenage apathy of them all?"

I want everyone to notice how even though Stewart plays one of the title characters, her presence in the trailer is reduced to only brief glimpses, and she's not given a single speaking part. It's like the people who made the movie are trying to downplay the fact that she's in it.
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orcishgamer: ...
See your point there, you're just more optimistic then me. Hope we get some good stuff out of it.
Last guy I had hopes for was Zack Snyder, but after Sucker Punch I'm starting to think that making visual nerdgasms with lazy soundtracks is the only thing he's capable of.
Waiting for Superman...

Concerning Rotten Tomatoes I find it the most objective, not all of them are old school you get a decent mix of reviewers and with 100+ reviews you get a decent middle ground.

Don't get me wrong, it's not about the reviews for me, I'll watch anything that sparks my interest, I use it only to scan if anything good came out that I wasn't aware of.
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DodoGeo: Concerning Rotten Tomatoes I find it the most objective, not all of them are old school you get a decent mix of reviewers and with 100+ reviews you get a decent middle ground.
I use RT a lot to get a starting point for how good a movie might be, but I just find the mix of reviewers will kind of "miss" on things that I'll actually like (certain types of movies, essentially). I find that picking a few individual reviewers (for me Movie Bob is one) that will generally "like" the same sorts of poorly reviewed movies I did is a much better tactic for movies like Immortals. Now, with that said, you can still get a miss.

For example, I thought Sucker Punch was amazingly depressing, gorgeous, but so depressing I could barely finish it. I get that there was some self empowerment themes in there, but I just couldn't get past how rotten and unfair shit is sometimes (FWIW, I thought Changeling did a much better job of showing self empowerment).
Post edited November 13, 2011 by orcishgamer
Since you mentioned movieBob, I think he is a poor reviewer. First off he is predictable, everything comicbook/superhero is a must see.
On the other hand his bashing of The Expandables for being a jock movie was more indicating of some serious emotional issues then a review. Things got even worse because it annihilated Scott Pilgrim at the box office, it was just nerd rage that's out of place for a reviewer

After that I read a column by him explaining how bad the first Batman movie was and how it set back comic book adaptations years back. He was expecting it to be faithful adaptation of a 650+ issues. How?!

It's gonna sound like a cliche but if I want to know a bit more I like to read what Roger Ebert has to say. Often I don't agree with the score, but it's an interesting and insightful read nonetheless.
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DodoGeo: On the other hand his bashing of The Expandables for being a jock movie
He bashed The Expendables for being a predictable cash grab... which it was. That doesn't mean I didn't enjoy renting it, I did, but there was nothing whatsoever special about it and lamenting the fact that shit like that gets massive ticket sales for movie geeks is like us lamenting that so many morons love the latest, recycled CoD game.

FWIW the poor box office showing of a movie like Scott Pilgrim does actually affect how many risks the people footing the bill are willing to take (I doubt the Cthulu movie was the only one to get canceled or never even considered due to Scott Pilgrim).

I can understand not liking MovieBob, but he did bash Transformers and The Green Lantern, and rightly so, the latter being a horribly shit movie in addition to a cash grab (imo as a Transformers fan, excuse me, a Decpticon fan, I also thought the Transformers movies were shit in addition to being massive special effects fest). So it's not really fair to say he likes everything comic-book or geek based.

Of course, he really liked Sucker Punch and I was depressed by it, so there ya go, he's no surefire indicator of my tastes either.
Post edited November 13, 2011 by orcishgamer
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wodmarach: show white is supposed to be better looking than the queen and they chose kristen freaking stewart?!!?!? What were they smoking at the time so I can avoid that crap!
To be fair, the mirror says (to the Queen): "You are the fairest, but there is another destined to surpass you."

But I get what you're saying. ;-)

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orcishgamer: I can think of at least two actresses I'd have picked for this role: Zooey Deschanel and Christina Ricci, both have the dark hair and piercing eyes to pull this one off, and their acting isn't so unfortunate as to not be capable of the role.
You have questionable taste in films. :-P But I am fond of Christina Ricci, too. Have you seen After.Life? Despite negative reviews, it's worth watching. It is somewhat depressing, however. Character flaws are not redressed, happy endings are not attained, etc. But it is very interesting. Lots of nudity, too, tho it's appropriate to the situations and not presented in an erotic fashion.

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wodmarach: don't forget it's a naked Charlize Theron being dipped in what looks like white chocolate...
Somehow, when you phrased it like that, it became twice as hot to me. Now if you'll excuse me, I... left a cake in the oven... (Yes, that'll do...)

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wodmarach: Seriously is this film supposed to be fetish fuel or something??
While food fetish stuff doesn't do much for me in general, about Theron in white chocolate... Well, I'll just say that I'd buy that for a dollar! (Anyone? Anyone get that?)

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iDMostwanted: Here's the soundtrack: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvV_T38HjxI&feature=colike
Got uploaded today ;)
Sweet. Thanks!

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Athenvance: I want everyone to notice how even though Stewart plays one of the title characters, her presence in the trailer is reduced to only brief glimpses, and she's not given a single speaking part. It's like the people who made the movie are trying to downplay the fact that she's in it.
To be honest, that seeming downplaying of Stewart worries me a bit. However, it might simply be motivated by the perception of Stewart rather than her performance in the film. You know, marketing and all that. Also, the focus of the trailer is the Queen (and her recruitment of the Huntsman) rather than Snow White herself. Perhaps we'll see a bit more of Stewart in a later trailer.