Wall of Mouths

Fully agree with Auto-Surgery.
Storyline thin but great special effects in 3D ( saw it last Sunday ).
Not too good with heights and when your one flew down off that big tree riding that bird-yoke thing I actually got that feeling in my belly.

As for kids , most 9 year olds these days have seen worse and are used to playing the likes of Call of Duty : Modern Warfare 2 on the XboX they got from Santa. If they can monster that then this movie’s great and they will love it.

don’t really get why EVERYONE goes on about how the story is clichéd, shallow, whatever. I think the story was okay, but the whole thing was too long and overblown.

the whole movie was solid, but the long production and the movie’s ultimate success blows everything out of proportion. this holds no candle to Terminator 1 & 2, Aliens and even Titanic. I really don’t want this to be the most successful of all time, dammit.

James Cameron directed my fav film of all time - Aliens.

Thats why I can forgive him for shit like Titanic. I’ve not seen Avatar, sounds a load of old balls but I’d like to see the 3d stuff work.

I’m with Simon. But I will never watch it as it just doesn’t interest me enough. Kids stuff.

Saw Emmanuelle 4 in 3D about twenty years ago (or more) when you were still able to smoke in London cinemas. Soft porn and 3D do NOT work together…

Yeah - I’d heard something about them doing that.

I really hope they do the series justice. and no fucking stoopid cgi :(

Is it OK for 9 year olds to hear words like “shit” in a film?

In the UK the film is rated as a 12A which means that a child under twelve can see the film when accompanied by an adult. This of course means it is up to the responsible adult whether their child sees the film.

I am not a parent, but having noted the certification of the film, I was surprised by a couple of the expletives used - they weren’t essential to the dialogue and could have been replaced with “softer” words. Also, I am all for a lack of censorship, except when it comes to kids. I believe (to a small degree) it does influence the behaviour of kids. A 9 year old may well know the word “shit” from the playground, but seeing it on the silver screen can only enforce the use of that word upon them, and personally, I don’t think that is a good thing.

If you can cope with the expletives, then, absolutely, yes, do take your child to see the film! :)

Alex wrote:

Is it OK for 9 year olds to hear words like “shit” in a film?

In the UK the film is rated as a 12A which means that a child under twelve can see the film when accompanied by an adult. This of course means it is up to the responsible adult whether their child sees the film.

I am not a parent, but having noted the certification of the film, I was surprised by a couple of the expletives used - they weren’t essential to the dialogue and could have been replaced with “softer” words. Also, I am all for a lack of censorship, except when it comes to kids. I believe (to a small degree) it does influence the behaviour of kids. A 9 year old may well know the word “shit” from the playground, but seeing it on the silver screen can only enforce the use of that word upon them, and personally, I don’t think that is a good thing.

If you can cope with the expletives, then, absolutely, yes, do take your child to see the film! :)

He informs me that he knows all the swear words although I suspect he’s wrong on that, but yes, certainly the minor ones aren’t new on him, but I’d agree with your point on reinforcement. My main worry though, is more the level of violence - he’s seen the likes of Spider-man, Pirates, Lords of the Rings and X-Men/Wolverine and loved them but hasn’t seen The Dark Knight, mainly because I thought both the violence (and I know the pencil scene was ‘off-screen’, but it was very strongly implied) and the unrelently dark tone (that’s a pretty bleak ending) should have justified a 15.

CHeers :-)

I had no idea they were doing a prequel! :-)~ With Ridley Scott! Squee!

deadsetgav wrote:

Have you ever seen the directors cut of Alien 3? I think it is a much better version (some scenes are completely different).

I read that David Fincher became so sick of the studio’s over involvement that he no longer includes it on his bio, and washed his hands of it.

Yeah, the alternative cut is not even technically the director’s cut. Definitely a much better version, though.

I have to put my hand up and say that I actually quite like AvP2. Not a patch on the originals, of course, but so much better than avP1.
Talking of which, I’m also really looking forward to the new AvP game (from the makers of the origanal game; it’s not based on the films at all).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeFeqE-JK7E&annotation_id=anno … feature=iv

I pre-ordered AvP for the 360 yesterday :)

I didn’t mind the AvP2 film the first time I saw it - then I tried watching it again over xmas and thought it was fucking terrible.

I think I had prepared myself for the absolute worst (i.e. worse than the first) and when it wasn’t, it must have caused me to remember it favorably…

I think I got about half way through second time. utter fucking dogshit.

deadsetgav wrote:

I think I had prepared myself for the absolute worst (i.e. worse than the first) and when it wasn’t, it must have caused me to remember it favorably…

I think I got about half way through second time. utter fucking dogshit.

Low expectation was definitely a factor the first time I watched it. Mind you, after enjoying it the first time, I fully expected to hate it on a second viewing, so maybe expectations played a part there, too? Hehe.
Preordered the game today (for pc). :)