Dashed Expectations

Post about the last movie you saw. Was it in theatres? On TV? On Netflix? Rented? How salty was the popcorn?

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30 Minutes Or Less last night with my roommates. It was funny.

I saw The Expendables yesterday. It was a great action movie, but that's about it.

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I just watched Galaxy Quest, a film parody of Star Trek...

...And I have to say, that was the best parody on anything I've ever seen. It was absolutely brilliant.

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I've seen that.

Wouldn't say it was the best parody, but I found it enjoyable.

I think, its been a while.

Then again ive only seen like one episode of star trek ever

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We saw ParaNorman on Tuesday (wasting time before our flight out of Phoenix). It was a cute story with good effects. It was fun to watch. (Their faces were so translucent and lips so shiny though. O_O Were they made of wax?)

Well it was stop-motion, so probably.

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I just watched the Lorax. Was a really cute movie, I loved it.

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So I watched X-Men First Class yesterday. It was really great. Action packed, thrilling, and judging from my dad's reactions, extremely faithful to the source material.

However, this being a Marvel film, there was just one problem.

Stan Lee didn't make a cameo appearance.

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Men In Black 3 I saw yesterday. Hilarious. I loved the bowling alley interrogation scene and Bill Hader as Andy Warhol.

Watched Memento on Netflix.

Its a really good psychological mystery about a man with no short term memory, the way the story is told is something I haven't really seen in any other film.

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Went and saw Wreck-it Ralph today.

I really liked it! I thought people were overstating how good it was, but it really was a great film.

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I saw it too, a week or so before.

I agree, it was pretty great.

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Here's my short review of Wreck It Ralph copy-pasted from another forum! Enjoy.

Wreck It Ralph probably has the most well-integrated cameos in film history. Seriously, nearly every cameo was meaningful and gave the movie more depth in terms of immersion into the movie's world elements, and ended up enhancing the plot, which took center stage in the movie. It must have been really hard to resist abusing the cameos to lean on the plot but the movie is so much better for it. I think Disney Animated Studio Head John Lassetter's "story first" philosophy really hit home in this movie, seeing as he was the executive producer.

Everything about this movie was amazing. They really payed attention to detail, and they managed to juggle several sub-plots without bogging down the story, and have them all tie in neatly at the end. The animation was amazing, especially the Fix it Felix Jr. citizens, who moved as though they were sprites even though they were in 3D without feeling too out of place. The twist with the Candy King had very subtle and effective lead up that struck the difficult balance of foreshadowing and surprise.

I don't think I have a single complaint about this movie. It capitalized on everything that was great and avoided all the obvious problems most cameo-heavy movies tend to have. Well done Disney, well done.

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Boy Band Catalina. It's a 30 minute film and all of it is on Youtube and everyone should experience it in their lifetime.