July Blockbusters

[Mark]

Terminator is out June 3rd in the UK, Russ.

Will you be flying over to watch it with those crazy subtitles?

 

[FunkBGR]

I saw the Hurt Locker already at SXSW. It was pretty good.

It's about a group of army specialists that take care of IED's. It's definitely a suspense-filled movie. The action isn't over the top or anything either - very gritty and realistic.

I think most everyone in the audience liked it, and it was well-attended.

 

[Mark]

I saw the Hurt Locker already at SXSW. It was pretty good.

It's about a group of army specialists that take care of IED's. It's definitely a suspense-filled movie. The action isn't over the top or anything either - very gritty and realistic.

I think most everyone in the audience liked it, and it was well-attended.

Thanks for the report. Do you feel the explosions (which I assume they have in fair quantity) are worthy of Big-Screen viewing? Does it feel it greatly benefits from a Big Screen viewing?

 

[Lazybones]

I had only even heard of one of those. I don't know who's coming up with the definition of "Blockbusters" these days, but I think the summer calendar's been pretty lame thus far.

For a moment I was excited about G-Force, when I thought it might be a new version of this: G-Force: Guardians of Space - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Hamsters, meh.

 

[megamania]

Kids want to see Ice Age and I want to see Potter. However...before that there is Terminator, UP and possible Star Trek and of course Transformers

 

[Darth Shoju]

For a moment I was excited about G-Force, when I thought it might be a new version of this: G-Force: Guardians of Space - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Hamsters, meh.

I thought the same thing and was very disappointed to find out it was about rodents.

 

[FunkBGR]

Thanks for the report. Do you feel the explosions (which I assume they have in fair quantity) are worthy of Big-Screen viewing? Does it feel it greatly benefits from a Big Screen viewing?

Yeah, there's explosions, and while they're grand and great for the movie, they're not what drives the action in any scene. For example - one of the tense moments in the movie is when the main guy is attempting to disarm a IED in a car by a school. The rest of his squad is watching for snipers, and some guy in a building adjacent comes out with a video camera, waving to the American's.

Cue tons of jump shots to build tension, and then things amazingly go right. That's the kind of drama and intensity that drive this film. Usually the explosions happen when something goes wrong, and people die.

Another scene is where there's an Iraqi Civilian with a bomb strapped to him, and you, as an audience member, have to deal with the fact that the soldiers in the movie have no knowledge of whether or not he's an enemy, whether there's a remote detonator nearby, nothing - yet they have to try to help him, because it's the right thing to do.

So I dunno. It's definitely worthy of the big screen, and I definitely recommend it to people who can handle it.

 

[Plane Sailing]

None of those interest me at all

 

[Mark]

Any new info on any of these or others to add?

 

[Lord Mhoram]

Harry Potter. Transformers. That is about it.