Author Topic: Movie News, Reviews, and Discussion Super-Thread (Read 5380902 times)

HyperZoneWasAwesome · « **Reply #29880 on:** March 30, 2018, 03:12:01 PM »

http://ew.com/movies/2018/03/30/bill-ted-3-face-the-music-keanu-reeves-alex-winter/

Bill and Ted 3 looks like its pretty close to happening. 2019 may yet be the year of Alex Winter's comeback.

TVC15 · « **Reply #29881 on:** March 30, 2018, 03:25:06 PM »

Quote from: Stro on March 30, 2018, 02:37:19 PM

I like Edgar Wright's other works, but that charismaless fuck head with the shitty farmer accent doing all that dancing and shit in the opening pissed me off for the rest of the fucking movie.

You fucking bitchy ass bitch.

Ansel Elgort is a sweetheart (he’s bi). He’s apparently a total piece of shit to women, but really nice with guys, which is really awesome in my book.

Bebpo · « **Reply #29882 on:** March 30, 2018, 04:59:09 PM »

Baby Driver wasn't the best Edgar Wright film but it sure as hell wasn't the worst. Was fun with just a enough style and crazy in the last 20 mins to make it worth production.

TakingBackSunday · « **Reply #29883 on:** March 30, 2018, 05:31:49 PM »

I thought Baby Driver was the best movie I saw last year. Stro is just mad

team filler · « **Reply #29884 on:** March 30, 2018, 05:39:03 PM »

baby driver cinematic universe is going to be great. maybe the next one will be an underwater adventure, baby diver!

seagrams hotsauce · « **Reply #29885 on:** March 30, 2018, 05:39:42 PM »

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #29886 on:** March 30, 2018, 05:46:54 PM »

The sequel, Boss Baby was already pretty great.

BlueTsunami · « **Reply #29887 on:** March 30, 2018, 08:19:10 PM »

Ready Player One

Basically the long form version of this:

What else. Cool set pieces, music was alright. Outside of the club scene it felt like the song choices were pretty boring considering what they could have gone with, pop culture wise.

On to the biggest issue I had. I'm so done with Spielberg sentimentality. I felt like I was constantly assaulted with scene where Spielberg was like, now feel this, and now this. Just corny to this highest order. That rousing speech scene was just as bad as I imagined it would be.

The $12.50 I spent was worth it for

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The Shining sequence and mofucking GUNDAM. That GUNDAM scene gave me 3/4ths chub.

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TVC15 · « **Reply #29888 on:** March 30, 2018, 08:53:33 PM »

Vampire’s Kiss is Nic Cage’s best movie. The end. It’s streaming free on Vudu if you haven’t seen it. Watch it, losers.

ToxicAdam · « **Reply #29889 on:** March 30, 2018, 09:01:16 PM »

Your endurance for bad cinema is astounding. You're like a cinematic cutter.

BlueTsunami · « **Reply #29890 on:** March 30, 2018, 09:29:49 PM »

Quote from: TVC 15 on March 30, 2018, 08:53:33 PM

Vampire’s Kiss is Nic Cage’s best movie. The end. It’s streaming free on Vudu if you haven’t seen it. Watch it, losers.

Thinking about making this my drunk watch for the night

BlueTsunami · « **Reply #29891 on:** March 30, 2018, 10:16:46 PM »

Omfg at the Bat PoV and that awkward fucking laughing as they board the taxi

BlueTsunami · « **Reply #29892 on:** March 30, 2018, 10:30:37 PM »

The problem I had with Baby Driver was it felt like the action sequences were a bit scarce. I was expecting a little more misic sequence meat from the film in that regard.

Assimilate · « **Reply #29893 on:** March 30, 2018, 10:55:32 PM »

Kevin Spacey was the best part of that movie. Too bad he liked one too many little boys.

His acting will be missed.

Optimus · « **Reply #29894 on:** March 30, 2018, 11:02:21 PM »

Quote from: Stro on March 29, 2018, 08:48:47 AM

I, Tonya: I wouldn't have expected to like a bootleg Scorsese movie about Tonya Harding, but I also didn't expect to still be alive at 30 so I guess everything going forward is a surprise at this point. The terrible composite shots of faces on stunt doubles and bad green screening was very distracting, but I'm not even sure if it wasn't intentional. People shit on Margot Robbie a lot, but I've enjoyed her in pretty much everything I've seen her in.

People shit on Margot Robbie? She's an excellent actress imo, I don't understand why. She has impressive range and is very convincing in every role I've seen her.

BlueTsunami · « **Reply #29895 on:** March 30, 2018, 11:11:16 PM »

HyperZoneWasAwesome · « **Reply #29896 on:** March 30, 2018, 11:42:33 PM »

I think Baby Driver surprised some people (it certainly surprised me) in that pretty much all of Wright's career has been about hilariously deconstructing genre movies, and for Baby Driver he made a straight-ish example of one. It was his most technically ambitious film but easily his least challenging (or at least jokey) one, if that makes sense.

Speaking of British dudes making movies, the extremely British Journey's End has a loaded cast of great current British actors, on the frontline of WWI counting down the hours until the Germans advance on their trench. There oughta be way more movies about The Great War, cause this one here is a pretty good. Sam Clafin, Paul Bettany, Asa Butterfield (still looking like pre-teen) and the always great Toby Jones get good showcase parts here to be aggrived but resolute to the horrors of war. Slow, grim, amd purposely unexciting, but you do get a good sense of how much living in a trench must have sucked.

Quaker · « **Reply #29897 on:** March 30, 2018, 11:57:25 PM »

Have you heard anything about this Loveless movie, Hyperzone?

Assimilate · « **Reply #29898 on:** March 31, 2018, 12:09:07 AM »

Quote from: Optimus on March 30, 2018, 11:02:21 PM

Quote from: Stro on March 29, 2018, 08:48:47 AM
I, Tonya: I wouldn't have expected to like a bootleg Scorsese movie about Tonya Harding, but I also didn't expect to still be alive at 30 so I guess everything going forward is a surprise at this point. The terrible composite shots of faces on stunt doubles and bad green screening was very distracting, but I'm not even sure if it wasn't intentional. People shit on Margot Robbie a lot, but I've enjoyed her in pretty much everything I've seen her in.

People shit on Margot Robbie? She's an excellent actress imo, I don't understand why. She has impressive range and is very convincing in every role I've seen her.

Yeah, first time i heard someone say that as well.

She's wonderful.

TVC15 · « **Reply #29899 on:** March 31, 2018, 12:36:36 AM »

BlueTsu-baby, I saw Demon Wind is on Amazon Prime free streaming. It’s a really bad Evil Dead rip-off from the 80s. Let’s watch it in our undies together. It’s a classic.

HyperZoneWasAwesome · « **Reply #29900 on:** March 31, 2018, 05:27:17 AM »

Quote from: Quaker on March 30, 2018, 11:57:25 PM

Have you heard anything about this Loveless movie, Hyperzone?

I suppose you mean that Russian movie that's making the rounds on the high-fallutin movie circuit. Saw the trailer, its probably a pretty solid bummer.

chronovore · « **Reply #29901 on:** March 31, 2018, 10:22:56 AM »

PONTYPOOL. That was fucking great.

Momo · « **Reply #29902 on:** March 31, 2018, 11:46:17 AM »

HyperZoneWasAwesome · « **Reply #29903 on:** March 31, 2018, 02:41:58 PM »

Quote from: TVC 15 on March 31, 2018, 12:36:36 AM

BlueTsu-baby, I saw Demon Wind is on Amazon Prime free streaming. It’s a really bad Evil Dead rip-off from the 80s. Let’s watch it in our undies together. It’s a classic.

I so miss the early days of Netflix streaming. They'd put anything on there to pad their library. Going back to TVC's entitely appropriete Nicolas Cage appreciation I saw Deadfall on there, and oh what a magical night that was.

(my GF)
"But he killed him in self-defense."
(me)
"I think explaining how he melted his face off defensively is gonna be a hard sell."

HardcoreRetro · « **Reply #29904 on:** March 31, 2018, 02:56:56 PM »

I enjoyed the acting in this as well.

Mupepe · « **Reply #29905 on:** March 31, 2018, 03:46:03 PM »

Quote from: Bebpo on March 29, 2018, 08:53:44 PM

Pacific Rim 2 - Went in with low expectations, trailers looked bad, sequel didn't have Del Toro, but...

Uh, Pacific Rim 2 was great! It was everything I wanted the original to be. Story was better, action was cooler, more mechs. Human development got the short end of the stick but it wasn't bad. Cinematography was a step down, but yeah I liked this a lot better. Probably best live action mech movie to date.

Like until the last five mins I was thinking “man, I don’t have a single complaint about this film” but then in the end I have a small complaint:
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the final burning dive attack should’ve pierced through the kaiju with gypsy tearing through it and coming out the other side. Maybe if they were willing to be more unrealistic they’d even have them not eject and it pierced through and lands on its feet in a pose flaming smeared with blood dynamic kill
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But in the end that’s a small complaint,

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I was happy with the burning super saiyan dive attack for a final move
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Like Pacific Rim 1 is a fine movie but I was really disappointed as a mecha fan. Pacific Rim 2 feels like my anime/videogame mecha brought to life. Really enjoyed it and I thought Boyega was fine and likeable. It even had Unicorn Gundam! And Eva robo-alien hybrids! Felt written by mecha anime fan.

They even

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killed some of the kids and fucked up their mechs in the final boss fight. Shit was fucked up like my favorite animes
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Plus it's nice

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seeing the mechs actually use weapons and shit, instead of just punching, lots of missiles and beams and flaming chainsaws and whips and swords, that's what I wanted in PR1.
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Pacific Rim 1 felt like they tried too hard to bring videogame/anime mecha to a more grounded realistic western film. Ended up in the middle and wasn't pleasing. PR2 just feels like a fucking live-action videogame/anime and that's fine, I like mecha videogames and I like mecha anime. Totally satisfied.

Man, i was so disappointed in PR 2. It’s not bad, but just disappointing. I absolutely loved PR1. It took something basic and enjoyable with big monsters fighting big robots and then added beautiful cinematography, incredible designs, insane attention to detail and a lot of heart. The sequel was just big monsters and robots. And only the final fight actually got me pumped up. Everything else felt like it ended prematurely.

The twist was interesting though. And to be fair I have never liked mech anime or games with the exception of armored core.

Momo · « **Reply #29906 on:** March 31, 2018, 06:15:20 PM »

Tom convinced me I want him as bond in The Night Manager

Corporal · « **Reply #29907 on:** March 31, 2018, 06:39:41 PM »

Indie time. I shall now consume "Clear Skies", a short series of three machinima movies "filmed" using Valve Source assets and EVE online footage set in the EVE online universe.

Story is okay, as always with rookie writers the romance bit near the end kinda jumps at you but otherwise it's a cohesive and engaging story, although visuals are kiiiiiiiiiiiinda getting long in the tooth (this was way before source assets could be used in a dedicated movie maker program thing). If anything, it's voice actors that give this grotesque homunculus its charm. Love the accents.

It even has a wiki page. With download links. Hint Hint.

Bonus: The team spent time lipsyncing and animating their voice acting bloopers (Bucket*.wmv).

Pretty fun, all in all.

Nintex · « **Reply #29908 on:** March 31, 2018, 07:14:20 PM »

The Death of Stalin

Such a unique film. It takes a dramatic real life event (the death of Stalin and the chaos afterwards) and turns it into a crazy dark comedy with all sorts of twists and turns. There's nothing like it.

Steve Buscemi should get an oscar for this.

thisismyusername · « **Reply #29909 on:** March 31, 2018, 08:19:37 PM »

Star Wars: The Last Jedi.

Luke's "death."

chronovore · « **Reply #29910 on:** March 31, 2018, 09:55:14 PM »

Quote from: Exodust on March 31, 2018, 10:25:32 AM

Pontypool is fantastic. I hope they get to make their dumb Sin City ass sequel at some point.

Is that what the post-credits scene is leading up to?

Momo · « **Reply #29911 on:** April 01, 2018, 03:10:20 AM »

Watched Insidious The Last Key, wish I didnt

Momo · « **Reply #29912 on:** April 01, 2018, 05:55:30 AM »

Finished Midnight Runners story about two bored young men questioning their path in life when a fateful night puts everything into laser focus for them, reminds me of Judgment Night in later parts. Really liked it, fights were awesome, story is touching, just enough goof. 8/10.

Momo · « **Reply #29913 on:** April 01, 2018, 08:30:51 AM »

Was watching The Villainess, nice action scenes and interesting camera work, but I grew bored half way in. that's it for movies today

TVC15 · « **Reply #29914 on:** April 01, 2018, 08:33:19 AM »

You assholes failed me tonight. I wanted something good and creepy to watch.

Instead I ended up watching Tales from the Darkside eps on Shudder.

Transhuman · « **Reply #29915 on:** April 01, 2018, 09:06:33 AM »

You should watch Memories of Murder. It is a comedy/drama film about the real unsolved serial rape-killings of South Korean women in the 1980's.

Imagine if Fincher's Zodiac was also a comedy. That's how good this shit is.

TVC15 · « **Reply #29916 on:** April 01, 2018, 09:07:18 AM »

I already saw it. It’s an amazing movie.

Corporal · « **Reply #29917 on:** April 01, 2018, 08:58:50 PM »

Watched that Fiji advertisement again. "The Truman Show". Good stuff.

CatsCatsCats · « **Reply #29918 on:** April 02, 2018, 01:11:27 AM »

I watched the new Jumanji movie with the fam, pretty good for what it was

TVC15 · « **Reply #29919 on:** April 02, 2018, 05:26:05 AM »

Just masturbated to True Romance. I imagined BlueTsunami was Christian Slater and that I was Patricia Arquette.

Momo · « **Reply #29920 on:** April 02, 2018, 06:21:25 AM »

Watched Pacific Ripoff, it's so not a del toro movie lol, it's a gundam/mecha/monster genre movie that is what that last Transformers should have been. Enjoyable if you're into Transformers, solid popcorn film.

TVC15 · « **Reply #29921 on:** April 02, 2018, 03:01:12 PM »

Daddy’s bored. should I go see RPO at the fancy Dolby theater with the ass blasting seats? I hear it’s Black Panther for white people.

Nintex · « **Reply #29922 on:** April 02, 2018, 03:08:39 PM »

Another shout-out to the Death of Stalin just so it doesn't get ignored. You should really see that film.

Moving on. Watched Molly's Game yesterday. It was better than I expected and I always enjoy 'real events' that seem too crazy to be true.
Stellar performance from the cast including Jessica Chastain which I think is a very underrated actress

The events have been dramatized a little but stick very close to what actually happened.

naff · « **Reply #29923 on:** April 03, 2018, 01:42:56 AM »

Molly's Game was a fairly by the numbers biopic elevated by some great performances; Jessica Chastain and Idris

Love seeing Michael Cera breaking out of the typecast goofball roles.

TVC15 · « **Reply #29924 on:** April 03, 2018, 11:51:00 AM »

Is there a movie I should go see in theaters today? Not really excited about Isle of Dogs. I heard it’s flat and boring.

Momo · « **Reply #29925 on:** April 03, 2018, 11:57:54 AM »

Pacific Rim is okay if you're into Transformers movies

TVC15 · « **Reply #29926 on:** April 03, 2018, 12:00:31 PM »

The first Transformers movie was one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen. I skipped the sequels. I hated Pacific Rim and I’m generally a GDT fan.

Mupepe · « **Reply #29927 on:** April 03, 2018, 12:01:28 PM »

Quote from: TVC 15 on April 03, 2018, 12:00:31 PM

The first Transformers movie was one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen. I skipped the sequels. I hated Pacific Rim and I’m generally a GDT fan.

I'm not fucking you anymore.

TVC15 · « **Reply #29928 on:** April 03, 2018, 12:02:17 PM »

I don’t want your Transformers junk dick anyway.

Mupepe · « **Reply #29929 on:** April 03, 2018, 12:03:46 PM »

you lying piece of shit. You'd love my robotic third leg to gape you

Raist · « **Reply #29930 on:** April 03, 2018, 01:16:43 PM »

Quote from: TVC 15 on April 03, 2018, 11:51:00 AM

I heard it’s flat and boring.

Well it's a Wes Anderson movie.

Bebpo · « **Reply #29931 on:** April 03, 2018, 01:49:20 PM »

Quote from: TVC 15 on April 03, 2018, 12:00:31 PM

The first Transformers movie was one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen. I skipped the sequels. I hated Pacific Rim and I’m generally a GDT fan.

The first Transformers movie was one of the worst movies I've ever seen. I skipped the sequels. I think Pacific Rim is meh and I'm generally a GDT fan.

And I liked Pacific Rim 2. Just saying.

That being said I also like anime, videogames, giant robots, godzilla films, monster hunter, so YMMV. I don't think you will like PR2 unless you can enjoy a silly popcorn action movie that is a total B film.

TVC15 · « **Reply #29932 on:** April 03, 2018, 02:10:07 PM »

Quote from: Bebpo on April 03, 2018, 01:49:20 PM

Quote from: TVC 15 on April 03, 2018, 12:00:31 PM
The first Transformers movie was one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen. I skipped the sequels. I hated Pacific Rim and I’m generally a GDT fan.

The first Transformers movie was one of the worst movies I've ever seen. I skipped the sequels. I think Pacific Rim is meh and I'm generally a GDT fan.

And I liked Pacific Rim 2. Just saying.

That being said I also like anime, videogames, giant robots, godzilla films, monster hunter, so YMMV. I don't think you will like PR2 unless you can enjoy a silly popcorn action movie that is a total B film.

I trust you, but I think I’ll at least wait until I can see it cheap. It’s not a genre that’s worked for me very well before.

Momo · « **Reply #29933 on:** April 03, 2018, 02:21:51 PM »

TVC, you keep asking for recommendations, but take none

TVC15 · « **Reply #29934 on:** April 03, 2018, 02:36:24 PM »

Quote from: Momo on April 03, 2018, 02:21:51 PM

TVC, you keep asking for recommendations, but take none

You recommended a Pacific Rim sequel!

Momo · « **Reply #29935 on:** April 03, 2018, 02:44:52 PM »

Your criteria was currently in theater, that's a bit limited =P

TVC15 · « **Reply #29936 on:** April 03, 2018, 02:54:07 PM »

Hmmm, The Lost Boys is playing at the Drafthouse tonight.

BlueTsunami · « **Reply #29937 on:** April 03, 2018, 03:30:47 PM »

Sneak in some chinese food

Quote from: TVC 15 on April 03, 2018, 11:51:00 AM

Is there a movie I should go see in theaters today? Not really excited about Isle of Dogs. I heard it’s flat and boring.

Check out Death of Stalin if its near you

TVC15 · « **Reply #29938 on:** April 03, 2018, 03:33:36 PM »

Quote from: BlueTsunami on April 03, 2018, 03:30:47 PM

Sneak in some chinese food

Quote from: TVC 15 on April 03, 2018, 11:51:00 AM
Is there a movie I should go see in theaters today? Not really excited about Isle of Dogs. I heard it’s flat and boring.

Check out Death of Stalin if its near you

Already saw it, gurl. I reviewed it in this thread.

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #29939 on:** April 03, 2018, 03:45:05 PM »

Quote from: TVC 15 on April 03, 2018, 11:51:00 AM

Is there a movie I should go see in theaters today? Not really excited about Isle of Dogs. I heard it’s flat and boring.

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