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I plan on going to see Monster House on Friday. It looks pretty good. A Scanner Darkly still isn't playing at any theatres near me. I might have to wait and catch it on DVD later.

 

I was originally going to see Monster House just because my mom wanted to, and she wanted someone to go with her, but now I think I'm looking more forward to it then Lady In The Water. This is probably just because I really enjoy animated films though...and because I'm really pretty sick of all of the films about talking animals...

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Originally I was skeptical about Monster House (I mean a haunted house, how original) then I found out it was actually about a living evil house. Now it sounds very unique.

 

Yea...well I figure it's not

1. About talking animals, bugs or cars... (no offense to fans of any of the movies that these details apply to)

and 2. It's co-creator is Steven Spielberg...so how bad could it be?

 

It's actually the only animated film I've wanted to see since The Incredibles. And that's sad, because I really do like animation.

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I saw Monster House last night. And yes it was good. It reminded me of Spielberg's older stuff, like Amazing Stories with a bit of Goonies mixed in with it. I saw Chowder as the spiritual succesor to Chunk from Goonies. Wait, was chunk the fat kid or the monster? Hmmm.. I haven't seen that movie in forever but he reminds me of the fat kid. Too bad they made him all goofy. It's a good movie that doesn't come across as being too kiddy or lame. Plus, I love me some Halloween time movies, and this is a great one.

 

I have yet to see Scanner though.

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Yeah me too. Hopefully I'll see it before it goes out of theatres. I thought the animation in Monster House was beautiful. Something my art teacher would appreciate. And it was a lot funnier then I thought it was going to be. Although it was probably a movie they should have put out in October instead of July...being a Halloween movie and all.

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I was thinking the same thing. It might have made more sense to release it October-ish and really pimp it out as THE scary movie of the season.

 

I liked the little bits of adult humor in there too. Like when someone mentioned the word "stash" and Chowder was giggled and said it again.

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Yeah...what age group was that movie aiming towards though? The concept seemed more for kids...like it could have been trying for the Shrek age group, with the adult humor inserted...but about fifteen minutes into the movie I was thinking that that old man physically harassing kids and then collapsing in that way from a heart attack was probably a little dark for a childrens film. It is Steven Spielberg I guess.

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I want to go see Lady in the water and I saw Pirates of the Caribion.

 

I wanna see Pulse, but it's rated R. : (

 

If you go see Lady In The Water, go with the expectations of a child hearing a bed time story...and don't rely on M. Night Shamalans past productions.

 

I saw it yesterday and really enjoyed it...but I liked the Village...which was a film that a lot of people complained about. Lady In The Water is going in about the same direction...except I think it's doing even worse.

 

Oh...and Pulse looks super creepy...are you against going with an adult?

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Pulse looks interesting. I want to check that one out.

 

I'm going to stay away from M. Night Shalaymama's movies from now on. After seeing The Village, I just don't think I like his stuff anymore.

 

As for Superman, it was defiantly better then say X-Men 3. But just seemed alittle dull to me. I heard someone else say "I expected Superman to return from space and kick some supervillan booty. But instead he returned from space and was all emo." Or something to that extent.

 

LoL, how did Garfield 2 ever get a green-light? Didn't the first one bomb?

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