Last night, i watched the third and final movie of 'The Hobbit' trilogy—after having watched the previous two earlier in the week. Entertaining, yes,, but simply not as satisfying as the 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy. Prequels can be that way, sometime….
I had the pleasure of finding Kenneth Branaghs legendary Henry V on blue ray. And I started watching it almost immediately. I love this movie, almost as much as the original trilogy. It has everything. Great acting, great action, a great story with some great dialogue and last but not least. The musical score rivals the best from Mr. John Williams himself.
I liked the original show with Robert Vaughn (1964-1968).... I found this image of the MFU coloring book...
I had the old Aurora MFU model kit a few years ago. Never got around to building it, sold it before the move.
Watched Wyatt Earp last night. I prefer it to the more cartoonish Tombstone, which was entertaining in its own right. The part where Wyatt had Bat and Ed do their first arrest had me laughing and coughing for 5 minutes.
Of all Marvel's properties, there's something about the FF that just won't translate to a stand-alone film and I'm not sure what it is. As part of an ensemble flick, like with the Avengers? That should work.
I think a properly Fantastic Four movie is doable, they just need to find inspiration from the old comics that made FF a great story. Perhaps the story when Mr. Galactus came knocking? Unfortunately that would be too similar to the first Avengers movie Maybe FF would be better on the small screen? It is a complex story when you have four main cast members and in some ways a television show is more suited for complex character development. Looking at the avengers movies which is a similar set up, they had the benefit of building upon the Iron Man, Thor and Hulk movies. They did not need to go into character development and could go straight at the action
If they did a THIRD reboot (why not, there's now four separate movie iterations of Superman), they could better pull off Galactus than they did in the first one. A dustcloud? Really? Anyway, roll the FF in with the cosmic direction the Marvel franchise has taken, and even include Thanos as Galactus' antagonist, and they'd have something interesting.
Caught a couple of movies this weekend; 1) San Andreas Whilst it was "fun" to see your city, San Francisco, being obliterated by earthquakes and tsunami the overall plot of the movie was so thin that it became a rather dull watch. 2) Avengers - Age of Ultron Not too bad. It did feel as if it went on for a bit long but overall I rather enjoyed it.
Also tried, three times, to get through Terminator Genisys but could not make it past 20-25 minutes of it. And I loved T1 and T2....
MI-Rogue Nation— Saw it last night with my son at the theatre. The film is what?—number 5 in a series? Plenty of action, not a lot of depth. Not one I'd recommend. I rarely go out to see movies anymore in theaters as I'm spoiled by the quality, comfort and placidity of home-viewing—but I do miss what once was an enjoyable experience. People constantly talked throughout the movie, some checked their phones regularly. One of the biggest deterrents for me to go to a theater is the barrage of commercials played beforehand. Loud, obnoxious and seemingly endless commercials in a loop as you sit there awaiting the start of a film. I must be spoiled watching Netflix or DVR-recorded shows as I have little tolerance for commercials. Example: lat night's film was scheduled to start at 9:55pm. We got there at 9:45pm. The commercials didn't end until 10:10—followed by another 15 minutes of mind-numbing previews. The feature movie finally started at 10:25pm….Bah! And I pay for this privilege? (Excuse me now, I gotta go chase the neighborhood kids off my lawn!)
