I saw The Addams Family yesterday. I didn't care for the way they animated it; it's too fake looking and doesn't appeal to me the way the one with real actors did. And yet, Maleficent had an opposite effect on me; it took a cartoon story and put real actors into it, and I just wanted to leave the theater. There wasn't anything about Angelina Jolie that made me think of her as a wicked cartoon witch. However I liked the Downton Abbey movie a lot.
I didn't mind The Addams Family movie. I kind of liked the animation but the acting from the voices wasn't really convincing. I saw Maleficent this afternoon; in the cartoon she was sort of glamorous but more scary, but in the new movie she's too perfectly glamorous to be really convincingly wicked, at least to me. Downton Abbey was okay, but I haven't decided what I think yet. I loved the television series, and I loved looking at the sets and costumes, but it seemed a little stale.
You see, I'm a big fan of the Addams Family films from the 1990s, and it's odd as I didn't think I would like them, but I did. But this new film is just a trick film, and the trick doesn't work, in my opinion. I can't imagine that Maleficent will make much money, I'm angry that I had to pay for a ticket. Downton Abbey, however, I'm thinking I want to go see it again. That Maggie Smith is something!
I won't be seeing the Addams Family film again, however, I think if it goes to television and I don't have to pay extra, I might. For myself, I liked the 1960s TV series better. And if Maleficent goes to television, I wouldn't watch again if it was free. But the writing for Downton Abbey is good enough to watch a few times!
Well these days it's tempting to stay home and wait until movies come to television and skip going to a theater altogether! Isn't it just easier?
Not sure. I think I would really miss the whole theater experience.
I wouldn't give up going out to the movies, I like the feeling of suspense before the movie starts and the experience of seeing them with all the people around me.
Okay, okay; but I always eat too much popcorn and raisinets! But seriously, I have to be really impressed with a movie to go out to see it again. I mean, I saw The Addams Family and Maleficent because the advertising kind of made me want to see them, but for Downton Abbey, I didn't need to see an advertisement, I already knew I would like it.\n\n
I guess I could say the same. Downton Abbey has so many wonderful actors and although it's fiction like the others, it has a lot of believable situations in it. But something like Maleficent and The Addams Family, well you have to really be looking for a fantasy movie.
Well for The Addams Family, it was because I knew who the characters were even though they weren't real. But I felt cheated somehow, even though I knew that. Maleficent was a real fantasy, after all it comes from a fairy tale, but it just fell flat for me after a while and kind of was a disappointment even though it started out all right.
You're taking a chance every time you go to the movies, I guess. After all, not everything is going to be a documentary, or you would only be watching history.
You have a point. I guess my expectations are a little too high. I don't like trash, and I especially don't like when the movie makers seem to want to make a great movie and throw a bunch of money out the window and instead make a trashy one. Like I said, one feels cheated.
You can't avoid the risk. At least if you go see films like The Addams Family or Maleficent, you start out with a mind willing to like them. If you don't like them in the end, it's nothing personal, you know?
There you go being right again! But I'm not going to argue about Downton Abbey. In that case, I already knew what to expect in the general look of it and the method, even though I didn't know what was going to happen, since they were so secretive about the plot.
It's fun to see the reviews after you've gone to see the movie, and have imaginary conversations whether you agree with the reviewer or not.
I try not to look at reviews, unless I see them on television at the end of a news program. After all, I can always talk to you!