Movie News, Reviews, and Discussion Super-Thread

[chronovore]

Tasty Meat, one of these days you and I will disagree about a movie, and it will be a dark time.

BUT UNTIL THEN...!

[Tasty]

Haha, it's pretty damn eerie how close we are on everything movie-wise. We should do a podcast.

[Madrun Badrun]

Call it 2 men 1 tought

[Stoney Mason]

Speaking of  comedy "sequels", saw the new Ghostbusters movie tonight.

I had no dog in this fight. I like the original but I've only seen it twice in my life and I don't have a slavish devotion to it as a piece of 80's nostalgia. I also definitely thought the overt sexism towards the movie pre-release and in some cases post-release was disgusting.

All that being said the movie is a mess and pretty bad. The script is terrible. It barely makes sense and spends almost no time trying to characterize these people as real people. Some people are completely miscast. The "bad guy" I've seen be funny in other things but he's completely out of his element here.  Kristen Wiig is kinda all over the place and never really lands her character either. And the Chris Hemsworth character is just a complete disaster. The special effects suck. There are too many special effects. The cameos are embarrassingly bad.

It basically feels like one of those lazy snl movies they use to crank out in the 90's and early 2000's on the regular. It's unfortunate. The movie has a lot of individually talented people. But they've all been brought here in service of something so forgettable.

[chronovore]

[toku]

[Great Rumbler]

Shin Godzilla

Just what you'd expect from the master!

[chronovore]

Without spoiling Tony Stark was justified.

Tony was wrong about basically every single thing in the movie.

About having to register for government regulation? sure. That wasn't what I was talking about.

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Tony was justified in wanting to murk Bucky. Oh OK Cap he's your friend but say a few random russian words and he's back to trying to kill you.

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Uhh no

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He wanted to kill Bucky for killing his mommy. And he was wrong for that. He was 100% OK working with Bucky in the Hydra base at the end until the video.

Even if he was logical and clear-headed about Bucky's potential danger, he never bothered to seek out a solution - like the one Cap eventually found. Hell, Black Panther was technically on Tony's team!

He was wrong about Steve just doing it for Bucky too, and he was wrong about the super soldiers plotline (he copped to both these in the movie, of course.)

As for Sokovia Accords, having the gov't in control worked so well in The Avengers when the World Security Council wanted to nuke New York. Or in The Winter Soldier when they had been Hydra pawns the whole time.

Wrong wrong wrong wrong. Especially about Bucky.

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I will say that the writing and RDJ make Tony's actions seem plausible and justified until you think about them, a vast improvement over the comic version

One other thing: This movie would have been the PERFECT opportunity to show Tony Stark's alcoholism as another contributing factor to his UTTER WRONG-NESS. He's moved more by emotion than logic in his decision to back the Accords. He's so short on staff, he decides to recruit a superpowered high school student, pull him to Germany on a combat operation, and puts him in a death-threatening situation. He uses repulsor beams on Falcon. And it sure as hell would explain all the spoilered, final-reveal, last-big-fight stuff in a more believable and even more sad context.

[Madrun Badrun]

[Phoenix Dark]

[Cerveza mas fina]

Finally saw Warcraft last night, was expecting an absolute disaster but the movie was surprisingly fun, looked the part too.

Definately had more fun watching it then any lf the Hobbit movies. Obviously it helps Ive been playing and reading Warcraft for like 20 years,  but my wife with no knowledge whatslwver liked it too.

Hope we get more as the universe deserves it.

[Dickie Dee]

Hype level starting to hover just past cautiously optimistic (even with all the production fuckery)

[Dickie Dee]

Still the GOAT product placement

[Phoenix Dark]

oh boy another Star Wars movie about blowing up a planet sized super weapon 

[Great Rumbler]

oh boy another Star Wars movie about blowing up a planet sized super weapon 

Spoiler: they don't blow up any planet-sized weapons in Rogue One.

[Kara]

My favorite part of The Accountant was that the titular accountant also brings a dented thermos to work every day like I do. The writers really nailed the nitty-gritty details of my life with this one.

[Yeti]

Really there's more Star Wars movies where they don't blow up planet sized superweapons than ones where they do, and most of the "bad" ones are ones where they don't.

[Cerveza mas fina]

How does it feel to have your life reduced to such banal details Kara?

[Great Rumbler]

How does it feel to have your life reduced to such banal details Kara?

When you're an accountant, what else is there?

[Joe Molotov]

The modern field of Accountancy is a serious and honorable profession. Many human beings have spent their lives toiling over the hard science of numbers. Thousands have died so that we may get to the level of understanding that we have today.

[chronovore]

Really there's more Star Wars movies where they don't blow up planet sized superweapons than ones where they do, and most of the "bad" ones are ones where they don't.

Naw, there are only three SW under Lucas, and one under Disney, so you're only talking about Empire Strikes Back, right? How could you be so far off the mark?

:burnsprequelDVDs

[benjipwns]

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/captain-planet-movie-leonardo-dicaprio-938852

Paramount and Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way Productions are teaming to recruit Captain Planet to take pollution down to zero.

The studio is in talks for the rights to the 1990s cartoon series, and is eyeing Jono Matt and Scream Queens star Glen Powell to write the script.

If the deal is made, Jennifer Davisson Killoran and DiCaprio will produce the project via Appian Way, which signed a first-look deal with Paramount in March, along with Powell.

[bork]

oh boy another Star Wars movie about blowing up a planet sized super weapon 

[Great Rumbler]

Can't wait!!

[Momo]

[helios]

Like everyone has been saying, it looks like Marvel's The Last of Us. I'm looking forward to it. It looks great.

[Momo]

I really dig it, was hoping they would go darker than it appears there but fuck i'll take it.

[Tasty]

ohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygod

[Dennis]

[Dennis]

[Steve Contra]

I like The Wolverine and this looks like it could be close.  No threat to the entire world bullshit, just a tight comic storyline and we're done.

[benjipwns]

Is that the first superhero (or any similar film) trailer to use Cash's cover? Would have thought it'd been used for twenty of those or more by now. Like "Mad World" after Gears.

EDIT: Prototype 2 "live action trailer" i guess lol

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[Dennis]

Just saw Suicide Squad. It was alright.

Not great but perfectly watchable and not at all the complete turd people made it out to be.

Am I wrong?

[toku]

Just saw Suicide Squad. It was alright.

Not great but perfectly watchable and not at all the complete turd people made it out to be.

Am I wrong?

It's not a Marvel cape film so it's trash plz fix your opinion.

[Dennis]

Margot Robbie was great as Harley Quinn and Will Smith was a good Deadshot. Didn't hate Jared Leto Joker in small doses.

The rest of the cast did OK too. Didn't like the villain much. Bar scene was a highlight.

Suicide Squad > BvS >>>>>> Age of Ultron

Now Age of Ultron, there is your piece of shit. I could see myself watching SS again. Age of Ultron? You would have to pay me.

[Momo]

SS got a lot of character stuff wrong (NEEEEERD) in order to mould it into a super 'hero' movie and that annoyed me (especially in the case of the joker since he'd, i assume, form part of the larger DC universe soon). The character motivations are suspect, some of the char developments were awful and they werent even close to being cutthroat and raw enough. DESPITE all my nerdery, it was an enjoyable film worth paying a few bucks for a cinema ticket and some popcorn. I just wanted a stupid 90s popcorn Will Smith movie from all of this, and I feel I got enough of that to scratch that itch for a while.

[Momo]

[Mupepe]

Margot Robbie was great as Harley Quinn and Will Smith was a good Deadshot. Didn't hate Jared Leto Joker in small doses.

The rest of the cast did OK too. Didn't like the villain much. Bar scene was a highlight.

Suicide Squad > BvS >>>>>> Age of Ultron

Now Age of Ultron, there is your piece of shit. I could see myself watching SS again. Age of Ultron? You would have to pay me.

I've tried to sit through Age of Ultron a few times.  I've only ever made it like 45-50 minutes before I find that I completely zoned out and I end up surfing the net on my phone or something.  I really enjoyed Avengers 1 too. 

[VomKriege]

Like everyone has been saying, it looks like Marvel's The Last of Us.

You mean a try-hard derivative serious drama with old men & long faces?
The trailer was painful to watch. Mangold is a decent director so it will not be that terrible, but man, the studio brief is soooo transparent it hurts.

Give me Batman & Robin any day over that shit.

[HyperZoneWasAwesome]

Tim Miller is off of Deadpool 2.

Well, shit. That's deeply unfortunate. 'Creative differences' are cited, but Deadpool is pretty much the best recent example of a lead actor and director working in sync. I'll bet Fox is screwing the pooch on this.

[benjipwns]

Apparently they aren't with FOX:

After a series of creative differences between Deadpool director Tim Miller and star Ryan Reynolds, Miller has exited Deadpool 2. He hadn’t formally signed a deal to continue, but he was developing the script and by all accounts had planned to return behind the camera for a film Fox will release in 2018.

I’ve confirmed from studio insiders this exit was over mutual creative differences, but this all ended amicably and the studio is very high on Miller and the expectation is the filmmaker will jump right into another big Fox project: Influx, an adaptation of the Daniel Suarez novel that has a Mark Bomback script and is expected to launch a film trilogy.

[benjipwns]

I've tried to sit through Age of Ultron a few times.  I've only ever made it like 45-50 minutes before I find that I completely zoned out and I end up surfing the net on my phone or something.  I really enjoyed Avengers 1 too.

It's okay, like practically all the good parts are in those 45 minutes anyway.

[CatsCatsCats]

Finally saw the new ghost busters, it was pretty good. Better than 2

[Great Rumbler]

The quality of a superhero movie is directly proportional to how much of Ryan Reynold's face you see on average. [See: Green Lantern and Deadpool]

[chronovore]

The quality of a superhero movie is directly proportional to how much of Ryan Reynold's face you see on average. [See: Green Lantern and Deadpool]

That's a very small sample for testing, but the theory holds up.

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You forgot X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

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[bork]

Bad Moms: Was an OK comedy.  Mila Kunis as a mom of 11 year old kids was just not very believable...she looks and acts way too young.  Had some laughs, but this is one of those movies you watch and then quickly forget about.

Tango & Cash: Had never seen this before.  An incredible slice of 80s cheese- I see that Jon Peters had his hand in this movie and it shows.  Read that before he was involved, it was supposed to be much more serious.  Instead what we got was a like a live-action cartoon, in particular the scenes with Jack Palance acting like the stereotypical evil Mr. Big type character and making monologues saying he'd get Tango and/or Cash next time, while watching them on video screens.     I kept thinking that Kurt Russell was trying too hard to be Patrick Swayze in this movie and surprise!  Swayze was originally supposed to play his part.

[VomKriege]

Tango & Cash is decent, yeah, good casting (Brion James, Geoffrey Lewis, James Hong...). The whole prison escape with Z'dar is OK too and the whole incongruity of Stallone playing the preppy cop. You could do a lot worse looking for a 80-90 buddy movie.

[bork]

Finally saw the new ghost busters, it was pretty good. Better than 2

Nah, I'll still take GB2 over GB 2016. 

[Cerveza mas fina]

Thorgal is getting a movie adaptation 

The only comic book that matters

[chronovore]

http://ghettoblastermagazine.com/2016/its-alive-ogre-and-dallas-campbell-rescore-night-of-the-living-dead/

[Tasty]

It felt fresh, and the fourth wall breaking was new to the superhero genre. It wasn't about saving the world, it was about saving his girlfriend and getting revenge. The jokes were hit and miss but they hit more often than not for me (and others, I assume.) And the action was pretty well directed (plus the R-rated gore helped differentiate it.)

Overall, just a nice lean comic book movie, which is what the world wanted after Avengers 2, BvS, Suicide Squad, Civil War, etc.

Logan looks to be in the same mold, just a stripped down story that happens to have comic book characters in it. Fox killing it with their X-verse (Apocalypse was good.)

[Tasty]

Yeah it'll be interesting to see where it goes. They already confirmed Cable and already my "IT'S GONNA BE ABOUT SAVING THE WORLD/FUTURE" alarm is ringing.

I'm sure it'll be more watchable than DC's continued output, though.

[bork]

It felt fresh, and the fourth wall breaking was new to the superhero genre. It wasn't about saving the world, it was about saving his girlfriend and getting revenge. The jokes were hit and miss but they hit more often than not for me (and others, I assume.) And the action was pretty well directed (plus the R-rated gore helped differentiate it.)

It also nailed the character down perfectly.  Ryan Reynolds did an amazing job of bringing him to life on-screen.

The Wolverine was not very good, and it sucks because the story it was based on was perfect for a movie adaption, but they still fucked it up- it's from the original Wolverine limited series and was just about Logan in Japan romancing Mariko and fighting against her yakuza father.  No superhero bullshit.  No dumb losing the healing factor shit or mecha samurai crap.  Why the hell did they deviate from the formula so much? 

I hope Logan is a good movie but I don't have the highest of hopes for it.  I assume the girl is X-23 and I guess will take over his role since this is supposed to be Jackman's last film.  Kind of surprised they didn't base it on Old Man Logan but maybe it is and I'm not seeing it from the trailer?

[Great Rumbler]

Deadpool was a fun, funny comic book action movie, nothing more and nothing less, and that's just fine.

Kind of surprised they didn't base it on Old Man Logan but maybe it is and I'm not seeing it from the trailer?

Looks like it's loosely based on Old Man Logan, or at least some of the elements of that comic. Not a straight adaptation, though.

[Tasty]

There's not much they can take from Old Man Logan without the MCU and there's not much I'd want them to.

Hulk's mentally challenged incest grandchildren

Mark Millar

Logan, like Civil War before it, looks to be a vast improvement on the source material.

[bork]

There's not much they can take from Old Man Logan without the MCU and there's not much I'd want them to.

Hulk's mentally challenged incest grandchildren

Mark Millar

Logan, like Civil War before it, looks to be a vast improvement on the source material.

Easy enough to switch out those MCU characters for others.  Which I guess probably is what they've done...with X-23 lumped in for...reasons?



Anyway, that was a good story.  I'm not always one for Millar but it was a fun read.

[toku]

The Wolverine >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Apocalypse

[Tasty]

The Wolverine >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Apocalypse

🤔

I loved The Wolverine to bits but I'm unsure here. Apocalypse was schlocky sure but there was a competent story there and lots of fanservice, and suffers mostly because of the "end of the world" plot getting abused so much. The Wolverine was great until it's ridiculously stupid ending. For me they're about equal.

Of course, my love of Apocalypse's Quicksilver scene and Nightcrawler might be blinding me.

[Dennis]

The only good thing about Apocalypse was the mall scene and that was way too short.

Wolverine was OK, but yeah, that ending sucked ass.

[Madrun Badrun]

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/doctor_strange_2016