Surrogates:  Pretty good. Good plot twists. Far fewer actual explosions than 
you'd expect from a Bruce Willis film.  Decent acting, even.

G.I.Joe: It's sort of like Hasbro said "Go make a movie about out line of 
toys" and the director did as best he could to make it a real movie. There 
were a few funny lines, a couple of surprises, lots of slow-motions CGI 
soldiers jumping around, each person gets a little bit of backstory in 
flashbacks, etc. But mostly stuff blowing up. :-)

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   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   I ordered stamps from Zazzle that read "Place Stamp Here".

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Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> G.I.Joe: It's sort of like Hasbro said "Go make a movie about out line of
> toys" and the director did as best he could to make it a real movie. There
> were a few funny lines, a couple of surprises, lots of slow-motions CGI
> soldiers jumping around, each person gets a little bit of backstory in
> flashbacks, etc. But mostly stuff blowing up. :-)

Just like Transformers, which I couldn't stand.  I'm waiting for a decent
Thundercats or He-man flick though... :)

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nemesis wrote:
> Just like Transformers, which I couldn't stand. 

I thought the second Transformers was at the same time both mind-numbingly 
stupid and highly entertaining.

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Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> nemesis wrote:
> > Just like Transformers, which I couldn't stand. 

> I thought the second Transformers was at the same time both mind-numbingly 
> stupid and highly entertaining.

  I liked both Transformers movies, but in the second one the camera work
and editing bothered me. Way, way too many close-up shots of (often really
blurred) action scenes, making them really confusing, almost to the point
of causing a headache and dizziness.

  I think I know what the director was trying to do with that style of
filming (ie. make the viewer feel like being in the middle of the battle
rather than a ghost spectator floating somewhere, watching the battles
from afar), but that style just didn't work very well, at least not in
this case. It worked well in films like Saving Private Ryan, but the
execution was rather poor in this case (perhaps because the action is
*too* fast-paced to be filmed from so close), so it just didn't work.
A more traditional approach at filming action scenes could have made the
film better, IMO.

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Warp wrote:
> *too* fast-paced to be filmed from so close

Yeah. I attributed it to not having any good idea what the combatants were 
supposed to look like. Is that a weapon? A missile?  A face?  A hand? A vehicle?

At least in Saving Private Ryan, you can tell what's the machine gun and 
what's the soldier.

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   I ordered stamps from Zazzle that read "Place Stamp Here".

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nemesis wrote:

> Just like Transformers, which I couldn't stand.  I'm waiting for a decent
> Thundercats or He-man flick though... :)

...so who remembers the old Transformers movie? (The one with cell 
animation.) I used to watch that quite a bit.

[Worrying fact: We had a VHS with a pirate recording of Transformers 
followed by a pirate recording of Care Bears II. I used to enjoy both 
equally.]

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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> [Worrying fact: We had a VHS with a pirate recording of Transformers 
> followed by a pirate recording of Care Bears II. I used to enjoy both 
> equally.]

Not so worrying; I still enjoy both of those :)

...Chambers

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Orchid XP v8 wrote:

> ...so who remembers the old Transformers movie? (The one with cell 
> animation.) I used to watch that quite a bit.

Haven't seen that since I was a kid ...

> [Worrying fact: We had a VHS with a pirate recording of Transformers 
> followed by a pirate recording of Care Bears II. I used to enjoy both 
> equally.]

That /is/ worrying ...


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~Mike

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Chambers schrieb:
> Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>> [Worrying fact: We had a VHS with a pirate recording of Transformers 
>> followed by a pirate recording of Care Bears II. I used to enjoy both 
>> equally.]
> 
> Not so worrying; I still enjoy both of those :)

Had to google that up, to find that "Care Bears" were marketed under a 
totally different term over here...

um... well...

Yeah, everything's ok.

Please lie down and assume the party escort submission position, hands 
at your sides, while we send the party escort team to escort you to the 
pary room, where there will be cake and rubber-clad walls. Your Weighted 
Companion Care Bear will await you there.

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