Movie News, Reviews, and Discussion Super-Thread

[Momo]

My favorite part of the movie is when

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a seemingly incoherent Daryl Hannah starts doing acrobatics to fight Decard when he finds her and that toy soldiers at the big apartment.

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[ModernBoxes]

My favorite part of the movie is when

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a seemingly incoherent Daryl Hannah starts doing acrobatics to fight Decard when he finds her and that toy soldiers at the big apartment.

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Indeed.

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IVE GOT YOU RIGHT WHERE I WANT YOU. Now check out this triple backflip...

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[TVC15]

7/10

I don’t disagree. It’s a beautiful movie and I love the lack of exposition, but it has major problems. It also introduced me to PKD. I’m willing to forgive a lot.

[Mupepe]

Shit! It's out already?? I'm gonna have to get a pizza tonight. Flanagan and King in one package

[VomKriege]

What if Idiocracy but by mad russian ? Well, if you wondered that, search no more I guess.

Hard to be a God is late Aleksei Guerman last film, based on the sci-fi novel of the same name from the very-popular-in-then-Soviet-Russia-they-also-wrote-the-novel-known-as-Stalker-to-most Strougatski brothers, though "loosely inspired" is maybe more apt as the film is not big on any kind of exposition or conveying details.

It takes place on a small planet populated by human-like people where the society is very reminiscent of feudal Europe and where the equivalent of the so-called Renaissance is being repressed full force, with scholars routinely executed. A small detachment of Earth scientists have been sent 20 years ago to observe (they're forbidden from killing anyone) : the protagonist is one of them, posing as the noble Lord Rumata, a master swordsman (who won 178 duels without killing any opponents... but collected all of their ears) with claims of a divine lineage to the local Yahweh ersatz.

The film doesn't elaborate much on all this and instead is a 170 minutes long nightmarish & apocalyptic vision of the extreme popular conception of the Dark Ages... on steroids. All is damp, full of mud, blood, shit, piss at every turn. The frame is always insanely busy and as a reviewer pointed out, the camera seems to fight for its place in the claustrophobic, squalid settings of each scene. Things always passes in the foreground and background, animals and body parts. Interestingly the sound contrast a lot, it's all very subdued (voices are dubbed even) and eerily quiet. The runtime is intimidating and the plot isn't exactly the sort you'd expect (we basically follow a very tired and jaded Don Rumata, stuck in a semi-drunken stupor to numb the horror of being stuck in a land perpetually ruled by ignorance and violence) but the visuals are so fascinating you sort of enter a zone of apathy, revulsion and fascination.



I also watched (Well... I doozed off a good 20mn of it, not for any fault of the film) the film Guerman directed before that : Khrustalyov, My Car!. It's a great deal like Hard to be a God : it's shot in black & white, it's nightmarish and borderline absurd at points, it's often visually striking and the camera is often navigating claustrophobic & crowded sets. Except it's no longer science fiction but set in the very last hours of Stalin's reign : the protagonist is a high officer & brain surgeon who get caught up in the paranoid repression of the imaginary Doctors's plot. His family is tossed into a communal apartment as the protagonist gets abused in the vilest ways on the road to Siberia, before being unexpectedly transported to the side of the agonizing Stalin for his last few minutes (for a brilliant sequence where shit once again features prominently).

Again, the film is not always very explicit in what's going on (the protagonist is roaming the clinic he manages and suddenly meet someone looking just like him... who in fact is the lookalike the KGB is planning to use to hide his arrest. A sinister convoy of limousine is cruising Moscow by night, etc...) and it's full of short, hard and so mundane-it's-cryptic dialogue that does not really inform on the larger plot. Discourse has borken down while physical abuse permeates everywhere. It's a vivid and chilling evocation of decaying totalitarianism.

On a slightly less grim note, also saw Il Vedovo by Dino Risi, apparently his first major collaboration with comedian Alberto Sordi who is cast here as a Milano business owner called Nardi castrated by his very rich wife who now refuses to bankroll his entrepreneurship. But as it turns out, Nardi really is a first class fool (though the film mentions a couple of time he earned the loyalty of his mediocre assistant in the second world war so maybe he was good at something at one point) and while his wife -who loves to use as his affectionate nickname "cretineti"- is indeed a cold bitch, there's really not much doubt at who's the nastiest piece of work here : instead of accepting the humiliating but worries-free role of a "trophy" husband, Nardi instead will pursue at any cost his delusions of grandeur when it is painfully visible he's terrible at anything and he will of course be hoisted by his own petard as black comedy dictates.

[Raist]

GotG 2. Not sure if I just watched a movie or a 2h long CGI demo.

[TVC15]

Last night I watched two things I had never seen before.

At the Mouth of Madness - I always figured this was past-his-prime Carpenter and ignored it, but I recently saw someone say it was Carpenter's last great movie. It turns out I was right. It's not bad, but it's not so good, either. There's some cool imagery, I guess. Maybe this concept would've seemed cooler in the early 90s. I feel this ground has been tread a lot over the past 20 or so years, and this isn't a particularly good treading of it.

Lord of Illusions - The last movie Clive Barker directed. It's not as good as Hellraiser, but it's probably better than Nightbreed (which is good, but kinda a mess). It's more straightforward than either of those movies. I think Scott Bakula was a pretty bad pick for the lead, but everything else about this movie is pretty enjoyable.

[toku]

shouldn't have listened to your friend on carpenter, every true gentleman knows ghost of mars is the last great carpenter film

bless up

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in all seriousness though the absolute hard cut off point for carpenter direction is 2005. Don't bother with anything after that great Masters of Horror ep he did (though i think he only did like 2 things after anyway so...I think even he knew he needed to call it quits)

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[TVC15]

I think Ghost of Mars is the only thing of his I haven't seen now. I read fairly recently that it was originally going to be the third Escape movie, which has me mildly curious. Is it fun bad like Vampires?

I actually really like his Masters of Horror episode (I ended up re-watching that last night, too). It's probably the best he's done since the 80s.

[VomKriege]

Ghosts of Mars is a fun little action flick. I'd say it's kinda like Vampires, yeah.
To be honest, I'd say the cutoff point is more like 1988 for Carpenter, 1995 if you like In the Mouth of Madness (which I do, a lot, but I'm not sure it's aging very well). I like most of the stuff he did after that but a lot of it is forgettable and Village of the Damned is really, really weak. Was honestly a bit ashamed for Big John he clocked in such a mediocre film esp. considering the source material.

[Madrun Badrun]

Terminator 4 - lot better than I thought it would be.  Better than 3.

[chronovore]

Last night I watched two things I had never seen before.

At the Mouth of Madness - I always figured this was past-his-prime Carpenter and ignored it, but I recently saw someone say it was Carpenter's last great movie. It turns out I was right. It's not bad, but it's not so good, either. There's some cool imagery, I guess. Maybe this concept would've seemed cooler in the early 90s. I feel this ground has been tread a lot over the past 20 or so years, and this isn't a particularly good treading of it.

Lord of Illusions - The last movie Clive Barker directed. It's not as good as Hellraiser, but it's probably better than Nightbreed (which is good, but kinda a mess). It's more straightforward than either of those movies. I think Scott Bakula was a pretty bad pick for the lead, but everything else about this movie is pretty enjoyable.

shouldn't have listened to your friend on carpenter, every true gentleman knows ghost of mars is the last great carpenter film

bless up

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in all seriousness though the absolute hard cut off point for carpenter direction is 2005. Don't bother with anything after that great Masters of Horror ep he did (though i think he only did like 2 things after anyway so...I think even he knew he needed to call it quits)

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I think Ghost of Mars is the only thing of his I haven't seen now. I read fairly recently that it was originally going to be the third Escape movie, which has me mildly curious. Is it fun bad like Vampires?

I actually really like his Masters of Horror episode (I ended up re-watching that last night, too). It's probably the best he's done since the 80s.

I only recently finally saw Ghosts of Mars. It's a silly, postmodern western, dressed up as science fiction. The ghosts are the "savage" Native Americans, the lawkeepers are just the local lawkeepers, and they have to cooperate with a man due for hangin' in order to get past the savages. There's even a train comin' ta town for escape, reminiscent of 3:10 to Yuma. I was pretty unhappy with what a straight up, goofy, thing it turned out to be.

Oddly, I'm considering a re-watch, where I try to embrace what it is, rather than what I expected.

In contrast, it could have been an insanely cool Escape movie, had Kurt Russell taken Ice Cube's part. Man, that could have been fucking great. Snake never would'a had such incompetent flunkies, though.

[TVC15]

Does Ice Cube take his shirt off at all? He was a hottie.

[toku]

I always enjoyed Vampires for how miserable every character is in it. Every human character in it is played like they're coming off a week long bender. It's a silly movie thats also a little mean.

[chronovore]

Does Ice Cube take his shirt off at all? He was a hottie.

Nope.

I think Natasha Henstridge stripped down to some Ripley-briefs at one point. I was paying attention then.

I always enjoyed Vampires for how miserable every character is in it. Every human character in it is played like they're coming off a week long bender. It's a silly movie thats also a little mean.

I liked the idea that the church paid the dues for such an un-pious group of vampire hunters.

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/xtop/status/914627017425014789

[chronovore]

https://twitter.com/xtop/status/914627017425014789

"You're going to need a bigger boat."

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/xtop/status/914627017425014789

"You're going to need a bigger boat."

https://twitter.com/movieator/status/914633058787004416

https://twitter.com/jdl_werewolf/status/914638896314687488

https://twitter.com/kthorjensen/status/914631592756224000

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https://twitter.com/xtop/status/914634763843067905

[toku]

never saw avatar, ppl made a big fuss and i never got to the theater to watch then everyone was like its not worth it if you don't see it in 3d so I just said okay guess I'll never see it then

 

[Momo]

I watched it twice for reasons, cant remember a single thing about it.

[benjipwns]

now that i think about it, i think i actually only watched it with RiffTrax

[benjipwns]

What if Idiocracy but by mad russian ? Well, if you wondered that, search no more I guess.

Hard to be a God is late Aleksei Guerman last film, based on the sci-fi novel of the same name from the very-popular-in-then-Soviet-Russia-they-also-wrote-the-novel-known-as-Stalker-to-most Strougatski brothers, though "loosely inspired" is maybe more apt as the film is not big on any kind of exposition or conveying details.

It takes place on a small planet populated by human-like people where the society is very reminiscent of feudal Europe and where the equivalent of the so-called Renaissance is being repressed full force, with scholars routinely executed. A small detachment of Earth scientists have been sent 20 years ago to observe (they're forbidden from killing anyone) : the protagonist is one of them, posing as the noble Lord Rumata, a master swordsman (who won 178 duels without killing any opponents... but collected all of their ears) with claims of a divine lineage to the local Yahweh ersatz.

The film doesn't elaborate much on all this and instead is a 170 minutes long nightmarish & apocalyptic vision of the extreme popular conception of the Dark Ages... on steroids. All is damp, full of mud, blood, shit, piss at every turn. The frame is always insanely busy and as a reviewer pointed out, the camera seems to fight for its place in the claustrophobic, squalid settings of each scene. Things always passes in the foreground and background, animals and body parts. Interestingly the sound contrast a lot, it's all very subdued (voices are dubbed even) and eerily quiet. The runtime is intimidating and the plot isn't exactly the sort you'd expect (we basically follow a very tired and jaded Don Rumata, stuck in a semi-drunken stupor to numb the horror of being stuck in a land perpetually ruled by ignorance and violence) but the visuals are so fascinating you sort of enter a zone of apathy, revulsion and fascination.

I was looking this up and an article said that while it has a 91% RT with English-language reviewers, Russian-language reviewers are at like 50% or less.

The weird thing is reading the summary of the film, I remember the book having a much more elaborate series of double crosses and triple crosses that make up the plot and explain the whole lack of advancement but like you said this movie seems to have none of that for just endless bleak suffering with some of the same characters. Though reading the Wiki entry on the book it reads like less of a "Russian political thriller" (which are often really weirdly structured books to begin with) than I remember, maybe it was something else I was thinking of. Maybe even from same authors.

Apparently there's a 1989 West German-USSR JOINT PRODUCTION adaption of the book too. That has to be amazing in its own right. It's probably on YouTube. I hope because I am totally looking it up.

It also reminds me of a Dilbert cartoon episode "The Knack" where a satellite gets knocked out and society immediately regresses to the Middle Ages tropes and everyone forgets technology they had literally ten minutes earlier.

There's also apparently a Eurojank PC RPG sequel to the book! That Akella worked on!

I actually like the premise of this. Hell, it's probably been used in parts of Trek episodes yet I'm blanking at the moment. Wait, wait, I've got one, The Ferengi who came through the wormhole on TNG and showed back up on Voyager! There's also the campy but really enjoyable TNG episode where a conwoman sets her self up as a God over people using common TNG technology and Picard tries to show them it's all tricks with technology and they decide he must be a competing God!

there's a Trump tweet for everything and a benji Trek analogy for everything?

[benjipwns]

oh my god, it's on Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/391030/Hard_to_Be_a_God/

Hard to be a God is a role playing game with adventure and espionage elements.
The main hero is a graduate of a medieval secret service high school where he took the course of combat and diplomatic training. He’s strong, sly and intelligent, he is the most powerful person living in Arkanar, but his well-known world still brings surprises to him.
The highly developed Earth race governs the series of unexpected events in Arkanar. The main hero starts his new mission in co-operation with Earth forces. The agent gains access to incredibly advanced technologies. In his native underdeveloped world, he almost becomes a God.
How will it end?

Features:
• Attractive non-liner storyline.
• Story by Russian Sci-Fi writers brothers Strugatsky.
• Interface of medival and alternative future epochs in the game universe.
• Original character development system.
• Interactive game world.
• Real-time combat system with active pause includes many different combos and special attacks (stunning, disarming, etc.).
• Varied managing approach to mercenaries and volunteers of the hero’s party.
• Sci-fi technologies instead of a traditional magic system.
• Free movement through locations and random encounters using global map.
• Environments created in different style and landscape types affecting the movement speed.

Historical Lowest Price: $1.52 at GamersGate on 6/19/2017

SHIT I HAVE THAT MUCH IN BLUE COINS

[benjipwns]

  at the trailer for the 1989 film vs the 2013 one:


also this looks as amazing as i expected

[benjipwns]

will be released on December 18, 2020, and December 17, 2021 respectively; subsequent sequels will start shooting as soon as they wrap filming, and will be released in 2024 and 2025

The sequel release dates were announced as starting on Dec. 18, 2020, for Avatar 2, Dec. 17, 2021 for Avatar 3, Dec. 20, 2024 for Avatar 4, and Dec. 19, 2025 for Avatar 5.

holy shit i thought that first one was coming out next year or something which is still ten years after the original

lol at these dates already in the past:

In April 2016, Cameron announced at CinemaCon that there will be four Avatar sequels, all of which will be filmed simultaneously, with release dates in December 2018, 2020, 2022 and 2023, respectively

In April 2014, Cameron expected to finish the three scripts within six weeks, stating that all three sequels would be in production simultaneously and were still slated for December 2016 to 2018 releases.

In 2012, Cameron first mentioned a possible third sequel.[313] That year, Cameron stated that the sequels were being written as "separate stories that have an overall arc inclusive of the first film", with the second having a clear conclusion instead of a cliffhanger to the next film. Cameron expected to release Avatar 2 in 2015.

In 2010, ... the sequels were originally scheduled for release in December 2014 and 2015.

To pick two totally random examples, Furious 7 and F#8 cost combined as much as the first Avatar and have made more money. Arguably the same thing for The Avengers (especially if you factor in how those operated as marketing for the whole Marvel line) and you can do similar things for Star Wars which TFA and Rogue One have done the same combined and The Last Jedi will annihilate it. It's hard to believe Jurassic World won't be the same situation. Actually if you combine Jurassic World with the first Jurassic Park it's a higher box office.

Wait, Zoe Saldana will have been in three films at minimum of two other sci-fi franchises she started after Avatar and depending on when Avengers 4 and GOTG3 comes out she might make it a total of eight of them, nine if they find out how to put out another Trek*.

*Which if they're still intent on doing that George Kirk story would also be dependent on Disney/Marvel for him.

[benjipwns]

Trek 4 is still slotted by Paramount for 2019 so she could make it to nine, five Marvel and four Trek, before or around when Avatar 2 releases.

Also, movie websites are hilarious garbage that all link to the same things and regurgitate stories and speculation. I know, big surprise, but I've never really looked at them before. Like this Screen Rant set of articles:

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Marvel’s Last Infinity Stone is Hiding in Plain Sight
By Andrew Dyce  09.30.2017 41 Comments

WARNING: This article contains potential SPOILERS for Thor: Ragnarok

Marvel fans have been searching for the MCU’s final Infinity Stone, but Thor: Ragnarok may reveal that it’s been staring them in the eye since the beginning. The mysterious Soul Stone – the only cosmic gem still shrouded in mystery – is set to be revealed in Ragnarok, directly launching the larger Infinity War the entire MCU has been building toward. Most casual fans expect it to be the weapon used by Ragnarok‘s villain Hela, but based on the evidence and clues, the true story of the MCU’s Soul Stone may have die-hard fans kicking themselves for years to come.

But didn't one of the first films already establish there was another one on Asgard and that's why they couldn't put another one there or something? And like, we know Thanos is going to collect them all anyway right because...oops let me copy the article:

Needless to say, there may be SPOILERS ahead, should our theory prove true.

Should my theory and all the promotional material about Thanos collecting the gems prove true, who the fuck cares where it's been considering they've gotten a total of like five minutes screen time other than GOTG where they were the plots MacGuffin? And most of that in mid-credits scenes. About where to hide them until later.

But this is even better:

What Should The DCEU Be Called Now?
By Alex Leadbeater  09.30.2017 38 Comments

The DCEU is no more. Or, rather, the DC Extended Universe name is. And so, with Justice League approaching, we’re forced to ask what we’re meant to call the DC Films franchise now?

It turns out that the title the entire pop culture sphere has been using to describe Warner Bros. shared universe based on DC Comics characters isn’t – and never was – official. Instead, “DCEU” was all the result of a joke made in a 2015 EW column that caught on thanks to an ironically placed trademark sign. Nobody inside WB or DC uses the “Extended Universe” moniker and, by all accounts, actively discourage its proliferation. So what’s the alternative?

Then the article rattles off six alternatives, though I've always been partial to DC Films Universe for the same reason they dismiss it (the acronym) before coming to this mind bending conclusion that's doesn't even make any sense:

THE BEST FIT IS DC FILMS – BUT THAT CAN’T LAST FOR LONG

Instead, how WB and DC refer to the series is, at best, the product DC Films. Yes, we’re back where we started, albeit with no talk of universe and simply the production studio; essentially, a step above no name. And this does work temporarily, although begins to get messy when you consider the future.

DCF will be producing both the Justice League canon movies and the out-of-continuity stories (already known colloquially as Elseworlds, inspired by the comic imprint) that begin with the in-serious-development Joker origin film. That these are separate canons will need to be clearly communicated to some degree; even if movies don’t have conventional shared universe overlap, there’s still an expectation of world-building.

So, officially, we have no indication of what we’re meant to call the Warner/DC franchise. With all this in mind, maybe it’s best to keep with DCEU for now.

Yeah how will people ever figure it out without a grandiose set of labels, it'd be like if they called their comics just plain DC Comics and people read what they liked, nobody could figure that shit out and understand how it all ties together, it'd be a total mess. Actually...bad example?

One of the weirdest parts about the twist that the DCEU isn’t official is that the clues were there from the start. Never, in any statement from Warner Bros. or any wing of DC Entertainment has “DC Extended Universe” been used. That it stuck besides is obviously a banner example of the franchise’s continuing PR problem.

The latter of which links to another screenrant article in which the argument is with Joss Whedon being hired and Junkie XL no longer doing soundtracks fans will be confused and upset.

And nowhere does any of this point out that we're talking about a "universe" that has four total movies released with a fifth on the way this year. (Three of which are direct sequels and another a flashback/origin story.) And beyond that none of them even mention the whole thing happening on TV. Which you think would be the confusing part in all this, how the TV stuff fits with the movies especially with the Flashes, but then people would probably understand that as TV = TV and movie = movie.

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Look what you've done Wrath, you've let me look into the Bobby Roberts looking glass. You were supposed to save me. Let me be content with my Nazi's at RLM but no you got distracted by a woman driving and let me slip into Bobby's World.

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[VomKriege]

I'm not an expert but I've read a couple Strougatski and they can be elusive in their stories... But not to the point of the film. I'm sure the book fleshes out a ton more stuff, yeah. The protagonist get involved in the local civil war but good luck getting the ins and outs...

Like in the film the character wears a weird forefront jewel and there's a lot of shots evoking POV. At the end, you see another earthman with the same jewel while they comment on events that happened to the protagonist. It's apparently suggesting the jewel is a camera the scientists use to record or transmit data, but I probably wouldn't have guessed it on my own (read it in a review). One throwaway piece of dialogue seem to suggest one of the local warlords is aware Rumata and the humans have an APC vehicle (he'd like to use), etc...

I really didn't like Hard To Be A God

Can't say I hated it, or even disliked it. But It's a brand of pretentious filmmaking I find myself annoyed with.

I wouldn't call it pretentious but it's a bit hermetic. The film is really all about the visual experience and the morbid fascination. I'd encourage most anyone to give it a try, at least 20mn or so.

[Stoney Mason]

Watched Gerald’s Game since its been getting a lot of buzz.

It's a very good adaption of a work that is very hard to translate into a movie so good on them for that alone. I think it works better if you are a fan of the book rather than just as a person who has no idea going into what it is. I watched it with someone who had no knowledge of the book and they had some issues with it but as a fan of the book, I enjoyed it.

Maybe not A quality but a solid B.

[VomKriege]

Movie sites are as terrible as most enthusiast press in other field. The money concentration and the enamoration with the glamour films carry make it a tad worse.

[Momo]

I like a bunch of youtube critics, podcasts and documentarians when it comes to movie meta media, written print stuff has been awful for ages though 

[benjipwns]

The best part is I've actually found both these Thor and DCFU stories on now like ten other sites and they all reference how one other site is talking about it and then repeat the same things and do the same speculation even though none of it is actually based off of anything new and could have been written at any time in the last year or more. They aren't even at the level of rewriting press releases, they're rewriting blog speculation from other blogs. It's some kind of actual self-sustaining economy where the currency is website entries that get pitiful view counts but produce high numbers of content pages that others can link to.


And now I'm rewriting their speculation.


Am I becoming a movie writer now? Have I started down the path to greatness? My fortune cookie recently said "wise men make more opportunities than they find."

[benjipwns]

From what I can tell, WARNING POTENTIAL SPOILERS, there may be a huge crossover happening in Avengers: Infinity War.

WARNING MAJOR POTENTIAL SPOILERS MAY FOLLOW

Benedict Cumberbatch has been cast in the film. Now it's unlikely that he'll be playing Sherlock as that's not a Marvel character.

HOWEVER, and this is speculation based on facts that have been released, back in the 1970s and early 1980s, Marvel published Star Trek comics.

And who did Cumberbatch play recently in Star Trek: Into Darkness but John Harrison, an obscure character from The Original Series that some speculated may actually be Khan.

NOW we cannot confirm this but it would be a MAJOR SPOILER IF TRUE, but it's entirely possible that Cumberbatch may in fact be playing Khan in Avengers: Infinity War, setting up a Star Trek/Avengers Crossover film. With Infinity referencing the speed when you achieve Warp Ten and the War being the one that Into Darkness speculates is on the verge of happening.

This could be one of the biggest media crossovers to ever happen. And if that's not enough Star Trek and X-Men have crossed over in the comics! Meaning this could potentially be a threeway crossover between Fox's X-Men Universe, Marvel's Avengers and Paramount's Star Trek.

As Thanos will have the power to literally warp reality there is no reason that he could not bring Khan and the X-Men into the Marvel Cinematic Universe for a grand showdown. And there's another clue, he has the power to WARP reality. Not only how the ships in Star Trek travel, but also a power that many mutants like Proteus have.

A hypothetical situation could happen like this, since we never see what happens to Khan after Into Darkness or to the original X-Men after the end of Days of Future Past, Thanos may open a hole while warping reality that allows them to come through and into the new film universe.

This is incredibly exciting and again, MAJOR SPOILERS ARE POSSIBLE HERE, but if Marvel could pull this off it may be able to make a lot of money. Certainly DC has nothing like this you say. But wait! Chris Pine plays Captain Kirk and after the events of Wonder Woman, CAPTAIN Trevor may need to ride to Diana's rescue in Justice League but on the bridge of the Starship Enterprise. Wouldn't Batman like to play with all those toys??? And just imagine all the cool things that Cyborg could do connected to a Starship? And what better way to get to Apokolips to battle Darkseid?

These potentially blockbuster moves suggest that neither Marvel nor DC are resting on their laurels and are instead planning something HUGE that will SURPRISE AND DELIGHT FANS.

And if that's not enough, WARNING MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD, Rocksteady recently teased this:
https://twitter.com/GazDeaves/status/913418759129456640

Batman: Arkham Universe?!? Set on the Starship Enterprise with Groot and Dave Batista as they head into space to battle Thanos and Darkseid? IT COULD HAPPEN. PEOPLE WOULD DEFINITELY LOSE THEIR MINDS IF THIS HAPPENED.

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[Momo]

As shit as they get though, games media makes them look like Pulitzer prize winners

[ToxicAdam]

I think context will matter for Avatar 2. If it comes out when there are a slew of other Sci-fi movies, and big franchise movies it might not do so well.

But if Avatar 2 came out this past weekend, it would've KILLED. It's been a pretty mediocre summer of movies and August and September were really dry also.

Cameron has this thing about his movies, where people want to see them just to have an informed opinion on it (either love or hate). It's really a rare thing that works in his favor on all his projects.

[Great Rumbler]

I was going to dispute the argument that no one can remember a single quote from Avatar, but then I realized that I can't remember a single quote from Avatar. I can actually only remember a single word: unobtanium.

[Momo]

Avatar: The Last Airbender however ...

[benjipwns]

I was going to dispute the argument that no one can remember a single quote from Avatar, but then I realized that I can't remember a single quote from Avatar. I can actually only remember a single word: unobtanium.

This subject was most of the replies that weren't quotes from something else.

[benjipwns]

Avatar: The Last Airbender however ...

https://twitter.com/barkmouchard/status/914636080065814530

https://twitter.com/gregthelen/status/914644460801273856

[Valkyrie]

^ Just watched that tonight, never read the book so I'm probably in the same boat as your friend. Okay movie, but honestly.. wouldn't really recommend it to others? Unless they liked the book, maybe. Only thing I liked was

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Crypt keeper

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[Raist]

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/sonic-hedgehog-movie-races-paramount-1044819?utm_source=t.co&utm_medium=referral

The studio plans on making a movie that will blend live action and CGI animation as it brings Sonic to the big screen for the first time.

Disgunbegud

[Great Rumbler]

[Joe Molotov]

gotta fast

[VomKriege]

CGI Sonic porking an human girl
Hope the tagline is gotta go fast.

[nudemacusers]

Dunno why everyone is handwringing over the performance of Avatar 2 ‘because nobody can remember the first one’... did anyone remember the avatar move that came out before the first avatar movie? 

[VomKriege]

Yeah it's likely it will do fine. Maybe not to the extent of the first one tho.

[Momo]

Dunno why everyone is handwringing over the performance of Avatar 2 ‘because nobody can remember the first one’... did anyone remember the avatar move that came out before the first avatar movie? 

Titanic is Avatar before Avatar surely and lots of people remember that crap

[Rahxephon91]

Titanic had a lot more impact and is part of the cultural conscience unlike Avatar.

I mean you have.

The song.

I'm the king of the world line and pose.

That it's been 80 years image meme.

and so on.

What things from Avatar are constantly referenced today?

[Mupepe]

And Titanic is good.  Come at me

[toku]

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/hollywood-cheated-millions-at-china-box-office-mpaa-audit-finds-report-1045150

[Bebpo]

Yeah, I watched it too and haven't read the book either. I agree it's a well made adaptation of a book...that doesn't really work that well as a full length movie. Felt closer to a short story/novella like a 45 min Twilight Zone episode. I kinda FFd through a good chunk of the middle tbh. I also thought the end twist was so far fetched it was ridiculous and made the whole thing cartoony. Felt like a made for TV movie, which I guess is sorta what Netflix original movies are these days.

But didn't dislike it and in fact it's kinda stuck with me for a few days. As much as I thought the end twist was dumb, the "You're made of moonlight!" line at the end has kinda reverbed in my mind and creeped me out a bit in the days following, so the movie was alright.

[Freyj]

I almost ate $5 and turned off A Ghost Story 15-20 minutes in, but I’m glad I didn’t.

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Terrence Malick levels of slow lingering shots that felt less like a movie and more like a film school project. About 30 minutes in as Rooney Mara attempts to move on the movie improved tenfold.

At first when I saw the pioneer family and heard the little girl humming Casey Affleck’s song I thought this was some sort of far far far flung future (as overalls guy mentions earlier) where humanity and nature had reset things so to speak. I get that that doesn’t let the Ghost have closure easily and wouldn’t tie in to the piano incident setup earlier in the film, but it was a more interesting thought than the Ghost just suddenly being in the past.

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[TVC15]

I almost ate $5 and turned off A Ghost Story 15-20 minutes in, but I’m glad I didn’t.

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Terrence Malick levels of slow lingering shots that felt less like a movie and more like a film school project. About 30 minutes in as Rooney Mara attempts to move on the movie improved tenfold.

At first when I saw the pioneer family and heard the little girl humming Casey Affleck’s song I thought this was some sort of far far far flung future (as overalls guy mentions earlier) where humanity and nature had reset things so to speak. I get that that doesn’t let the Ghost have closure easily and wouldn’t tie in to the piano incident setup earlier in the film, but it was a more interesting thought than the Ghost just suddenly being in the past.

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I'm not even sure I made it through the trailer for this. It looked like twee mumblecore bullshit on steroids.

[Freyj]

Honestly there’s almost no dialogue throughout the film. There’s maybe three key scenes of dialogue and one is Spanish without subtitles.

[TVC15]

So I see the Next Picture Show (podcast of ex The Dissolve folks) are discussing Mother! and The Exterminating Angel this week. They generally pick two thematically or otherwise related films. Are these two really comparable? I didn’t get that impression from the Mother! discussions I’ve read.

[Mupepe]

Yes

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both have heavy criticism of human nature from the view of mother nature

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[TVC15]

Yes

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both have heavy criticism of human nature from the view of mother nature

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Interesting. Everything I’ve read has focused on the

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religious

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angle. I need to see Mother!

[Mupepe]

You should do it soon! It's probably out of most theaters after this next week.

[Great Rumbler]

Blade Runner 2049 was basically everything that I'd hoped for in a sequel to Blade Runner and virtually nothing that I'd feared a sequel might be. I'm stunned by how good it all ended up being.

[Momo]

I didnt get to watch it last night, everyone bailed on me cause it's school holidays so my older friends are looking after kids and my younger friends are avoiding kids

[Raist]

I didnt get to watch it last night, everyone bailed on me cause it's school holidays so my older friends are looking after kids and my younger friends are avoiding kids

Wouldn't they precisely be avoiding kids by going to the theatre to watch BR2049?